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If you have a damaged tooth, always use tooth extraction as a last result. At the end of the day, it is always better to keep your natural teeth as opposed to choosing other, more permanent solutions. This might mean more visits to the dentists office, but you and your teeth will feel better about it.
To help protect your children from swallowing too much toothpaste supervise their brushing. Use only a small amount of toothpaste. Dentists generally recommend using a small pea sized amount of toothpaste for children under six years old to help protect their health. During your child's tooth brushing routine, explain the importance of brushing each tooth properly.
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Taking the Measure of the Creative Campus
Four years ago, while still at Princeton University, I started teaching a course on the social conditions of creativity in art, science, and business. Teaching about creativity is a lot like teaching about health and nutrition—it has certain spillover effects outside the classroom. Nutritionists see "bad health" all around them—in grocery stores, in restaurants, and in their cupboards. Likewise, I started seeing obstacles to creativity all around me—especially on campus.
During this time, I was asked to help plan an American Assembly public affairs forum focusing on the creative campus. The meeting was intended to highlight the important role that colleges and universities play in the larger arts ecology—as commissioners of new work, as employers, as training institutions, and as presenters of performing arts. Rather than just celebrating and promoting the arts, I felt it was important that the assembly raise questions about whether campuses were truly creative places. And if they were, how would we know? My article for the Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Creative Campus: Who's Number 1?" explored this question—focusing on the arts, but examining the conditions for creativity in other disciplines as well (Tepper 2004). Creativity thrives on those campuses where there is abundant cross-cultural exchange and a great deal of "border" activity between disciplines, where collaborative work is commonplace, risk taking is rewarded, failure is expected, and the creative arts are pervasive and integrated into campus life.
Beyond examining the conditions for creativity, it is important to think about how to explore and assess these conditions. What would a research agenda on the creative campus look like? In the absence of an established research community, what ideas, methodologies, and approaches might be useful in pursuing such an agenda?*
Underlying Social Dynamics of the Creative Campus
Every April, the MacArthur Foundation awards $500,000 "genius" grants to twenty extraordinarily creative people—artists, scientists, and social entrepreneurs. The awards come with "no strings attached," giving individuals the freedom and resources to pursue their talents and ideas. It is a remarkable program. But, from a sociological perspective, it reinforces the dominant myth of the individual creative genius (the scientist alone in her lab or the artist in his garret) and ignores the social structure that underlies creative work. It is important to recognize and support the creative luminaries, but it is equally important to understand the often invisible pathways along which creative work flows.
As it turns out, the methodology that is most in vogue right now in the social sciences—network analysis—is well suited to help figure out the underlying social dynamics of the creative campus. Network analysis is used to map relationships or ties between people, ideas, organizations, products, or just about any other part of social life. Such analysis has been used to understand such diverse phenomena as microbrew pubs, terrorist cells, and the friendship circles of high school teenagers as well as a variety of creative enterprises, from Broadway theatre to astronomy. These efforts to describe the linkages that lead to creative breakthroughs can identify important nodes in a network, such as the creativity brokers who connect artists and scholars who might not otherwise collaborate or even know of one another. Network analysis can also identify the gaps in a network, or the presence of multiple clusters of independent creative groups.
A rigorous network analysis of the creative activity of our campuses would reveal, I am sure, fascinating and unexpected patterns of activity. We would find robust creative work in unforeseen places, and creativity brokers who were not immediately obvious—a new assistant professor working in a nontraditional field or a campus "arts presenter," for example, rather than a seasoned department chair or associate dean. In a well-known essay in the New Yorker, "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg," Malcolm Gladwell (1999) demonstrates that the self-effacing seventy-year-old grandmother and former cultural commissioner of Chicago is in the middle of a dense network of creative people as diverse as Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Isaac Asimov, William Saroyan, and Lenny Bruce. Lois Weisberg is a creative "connector" who belongs to many different social worlds and, consequently, has been directly or indirectly involved in the development of literally hundreds of creative enterprises and the success of dozens of creative careers. Ultimately, network analysis can not only help identify the Lois Weisbergs on our campuses, it can also help university leaders identify the deep structure of creative activity so that they can better leverage resources to support and foster this work.
Student Engagement
We want to understand broader patterns of creative work, but it is also important to understand the individual experiences of our students. Are they engaged in creative pursuits? Do students leave campus having had a meaningful and important artistic experience? And, perhaps most importantly, do they develop a heightened curiosity about the world during their years as undergraduates?
When I arrived in Nashville last year, a colleague asked what I thought of the Vanderbilt students. I was teaching a freshman seminar on the culture wars and I remarked that I was impressed by the poise, curiosity, and engagement of these eighteen-year-olds. He told me to wait until I taught a class of upperclassmen, explaining that most students quickly lose that heightened inquisitiveness and begin to look for the shortest means to their intended ends—the least they need to do to get the "A." By their senior year, students have been socialized to keep their curiosity in check. Moreover, they have filled their schedules with an overwhelming amount of cocurricular activity and part-time jobs. In short, many have lost their intellectual focus and creative passion.
This pattern, of course, is not unique to Vanderbilt. In an effort to get a national picture of student engagement, scholars at the Center for Postsecondary Research at the University of Indiana have been examining the extent to which U.S. college students are engaged both inside and outside of the classroom. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which is administered each year by the center to more than 300,000 students across several hundred campuses, provides insight into how students spend their time (whether attending arts events, playing sports, or volunteering), whether and how often they interact with faculty, and whether they talk about school material outside of class. These are extremely important questions, and schools can certainly make better use of NSSE in assessing the creative climate of their campuses. But are there other ways of measuring less tangible student outcomes—like creativity, curiosity, and a passion for learning?
It turns out that a group of educational psychologists at James Madison University's Center for Assessment and Research Studies, led by T. Dary Erwin, have created a new measure called the "curiosity index." The index consists of sixteen self-reported items that measure both breadth (seeking out new information from multiple sources) and depth (exhibiting sustained inquiry about a certain topic). Curious students would likely rate high on such statements as "I find myself fascinated by lots of different things" (breadth), or "When learning something, I try to gain the fullest possible understanding of the phenomenon" (depth).
In addition to survey research, there are other methods for assessing creative engagement on college campuses. For example, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) has advanced a very influential theory of creative activity based on the notion of "flow"—the sensation that individuals feel when they are fully engaged with a task in which they experience a sense of exhilaration and deep enjoyment while working through a challenge or puzzle with poise, skill, and some level of mastery. Scholars have attempted to measure flow among students, scholars, and artists. The technique typically involves giving a sample of individuals beepers that go off at random intervals throughout the course of day. When their beepers sound, these individuals record in a diary or journal what they were doing at the time of the beep and reflect upon the perceived challenge of the activity, their sense of efficacy, and the emotional and intellectual "affect" resulting from the activity.
To the extent that colleges and universities are interested in fostering more "flow-like" experiences among their faculty and students, it might make sense to employ Csikszentmihalyi's journal technique on a regular basis among a sample of faculty and students. What types of experiences lead to heightened intellectual and creative engagement? In what contexts and under what conditions? Do students achieve a state of flow when listening to music, watching a theatrical presentation, talking to classmates, or listening to a lecture? Like network analysis, flow diaries can, over time, begin to identify where the creative synapses of campus life are firing and where they are not.
If we look beyond the walls of the academy, we will find that management scholars and consultants have been trying to measure the climate for creativity and innovation within such industries as aerospace, high-tech electronics, consulting, information systems, and engineering, and at other "creative economy" firms. These studies, using a variety of methods, have much to offer those of us interested in the creative campus. Perhaps the best known instrument is KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity, which was developed by Harvard professor Theresa Amabile (Amabile et al. 1996). KEYS, along with several other similar assessments, examines whether an organization encourages risk taking, whether creativity is adequately recognized and rewarded, whether resources are available to move new ideas forward, whether there is unhealthy internal competition or a negative political climate, and other environmental factors. Many instruments also measure the "creative vibe" of an organization, capturing such attributes as the liveliness or dynamism of a place, or levels of playfulness and humor. In fact, some of the most interesting recent work attempts to measure the "creative energy" in an organization by first mapping all interactions between workers (network analysis) and then figuring out which of those interactions produce feelings of high energy and which are energy detractors (Cross, Baker, and Parker 2003).
The Nature of Art and Creativity
I would like to argue that the arts provide a particularly useful window into the creative campus. The arts have long been recognized as important catalysts for creative work across domains. I believe that a network analysis of the artistic life of the campus will reveal artists, artistic brokers, and arts enthusiasts working in unexpected places throughout a campus. In fact, the relationships formed because of and through the cultural life of a campus may well serve as conduits for other types of creative flows and ideas. Likewise, I think a study of student engagement, "curiosity," or "flow" on a college campus will be intricately connected to artistic and expressive activity. And certainly the arts create the dynamism, playfulness, humor, and "high energy" that organizational scholars have been searching for and measuring in the world of business.
Of course, the "big research agenda" would not only look at the conditions for creative work, but would also examine how the creative or artistic life of a campus contributes to the educational and social life of a university or college. How does artistic and creative expression produce social capital, build trust, increase tolerance, and produce a sense of community? In what ways do the arts (or other creative outlets) help students forge a sense of identity and develop their own unique worldview? There are also questions about the link between the creative life of universities and the larger cultural, social, and economic milieu. How do the artistic and creative skills learned in college help train future knowledge workers for the creative economy? And in what ways do college campuses serve as catalysts in the larger arts ecology—as incubators of new work and as sources for the diffusion of new artistic or aesthetic ideas?
The creative campus is not just a fashionable alliteration. Universities and colleges have established task forces on creativity (the University of Alabama is one example); hired arts "czars" (as at Columbia University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); created new trans-institutional or cross-domain centers and institutes (as at Vanderbilt University and the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign); and adopted courses, fellowships, or learning experiences focused on creativity (as at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Ball State University). These actions are predicated on the belief that creativity may be an underappreciated and underutilized asset on college campuses. If the right social conditions, institutional structures, personal relationships, and opportunities for personal expression can be created, stimulated, and nurtured, then we can make our campuses more invigorating places to work and learn. But we must match our entrepreneurial zeal to create new programs and new structures with an equal commitment to use our campuses as laboratories to learn more about the nature of art and creativity—both the conditions that foster it and its consequences for our intellectual, social, emotional, and political lives.
Amabile, T. M., R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby, and M. Herron. 1996. Assessing the work environment for creativity. Academy of Management Journal 39 (5): 1154–84.
Cross, R., W. Baker, and A. Parker. 2003. What creates energy in organizations? MIT Sloan Management Review, 44 (4): 51–56.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. 1990. Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper and Row.
Gladwell, M. 1999. Six degrees of Lois Weisberg. New Yorker, January 11: 52–63
Tepper, S. 2004. The creative campus: Who's no. 1? Chronicle of Higher Education 51 (6): B6.
Steven J. Tepper is the associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.
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SC bars Musharraf from contesting election after refusal to return to country
LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday took back a conditional permission earlier granted to General (retd) Pervez Musharraf to contest the upcoming general election after his counsel informed that the former president will not return to the country today.
The former president's counsel informed a five-judge bench headed by Justice Nisar that Musharraf will not be able to return to the country today.
"Musharraf wants to return to the country but cannot owing to the current situation and Eid-ul-Fitr holidays," the former military chief's counsel told the bench during the hearing of a case filed by Musharraf in 2015 against the rejection of his nomination papers in the 2013 general election at SC's Lahore Registry.
The chief justice had earlier today inquired about Musharraf's intention to appear before the court.
"Find out if Musharraf will appear before court or not," the chief justice ordered the deputy attorney general, adding that an update regarding the former president's appearance should be submitted in court at the earliest.
"The hearing was scheduled for 2:00pm today but we can wait if Musharraf will appear [before court]," Justice Nisar said. He observed that the court staff had to leave for Eid-ul-Fitr holidays.
A day earlier, the apex court had directed Musharraf to return to the country by 2:00pm today.
On Wednesday evening, in a turnabout statement made five hours after the initial claim of Musharraf returning to Pakistan anytime during the next 24 hours, All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Secretary-General Dr Amjad said the former president was unlikely to return to the country on Thursday (today).
Dr Amjad cited "difficulties in purchasing tickets back home" as the reason for low odds of the former military chief returning to the country.
The ex-president's passport, on the other hand, was still blocked as of reporting time, making his return today unlikely.
Musharraf was trying to get new dates from the courts, Dr Amjad added.
Earlier on Wednesday night, the party's secretary-general had said the APML leader's travel preparations were in the final stage. "We are reviewing the flight schedules," he said.
The Supreme Court on June 7 had ordered the former president to appear before it and assured he would not be arrested upon appearance.
Chief Justice Nisar had remarked that the apex court would pass an order ensuring authorities to not arrest Musharraf before his appearance in court.
"He [Musharraf] should come [to the court] if he is a commando. Like politicians, he should not keep claiming he will return."
The chief justice had further observed that the scrutiny of Musharraf's nomination papers for the upcoming General Election 2018 would not be allowed if he failed to return to Pakistan.


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How To Get The Best Features Of Mac, Linux & Co On Windows
Do you suffer from operating system envy? I know I do. While I'm mainly a Windows user, I can appreciate a lot of the features available on Mac and Linux. Windows is pretty boring, so wouldn't it be nice if those features could be transported over somehow? If that sounds like something you want, then check out these awesome tweaks and tools.
Want a dock instead of a taskbar? How about multiple virtual desktops for improved productivity? Or even something as simple as theming your computer with a Mac skin? You're in luck. Get ready to pimp out your Windows computer.
Replace The Taskbar With A Dock
The most immediate change that you can make to Windows is to install a multifunctional dock. The taskbar is good for what it's meant to do, but it might be a bit too simple for those of you who want some power and flexibility. Even if simplicity is all you need, a dock is often more aesthetically pleasing than the taskbar.
You can choose from several different dock programs. Each has its own pros and cons, of course, and it's hard to establish any particular one as "the best" since it really depends on your needs and your preferences. However, I would recommend starting with one of the following:
- RocketDock: Simple, easy to use, with a quick setup. A favorite for many.
- Winstep Nexus: Lots of power, customization, and performance. Free version available but full version retails for $25 USD.
- Circle Dock: An untraditional dock that forms a ring around the cursor. Great for productivity and the uniqueness factor.
For a deeper look, check out our article on replacing the Windows taskbar with a dock 3 Multifunctional Docks To Replace Your Windows Taskbar Docks take what the taskbar does and make it better: beautiful, effective, and fun to use. Once introduced for the Mac, docks have long been available on Windows. Let me show you the best ones. Read More .
Manage Multiple Desktops For Better Workflow
One desktop is not enough. There just isn't enough room to elegantly handle multiple windows and the constant flipping back-and-forth can cause a serious slowdown in productivity. On top of that, there's the issue of desktop file clutter 3 Better Ways to Store Your Files Than on the Desktop The Windows desktop isn't meant to be a folder for your files. Here are some of the better options to store your files. Read More and the mental burden it brings.
So what's the solution?
Some people solve it with multiple monitors. A dual monitor setup is the fastest way to maximize screen estate and minimize productivity leak due to constant alt-tabbing. If you can't afford two monitors, or don't have the physical space for them, you could try using Actual Multiple Monitors (our review Finally Get Two Functional Desktops With Actual Multiple Monitors Once you have tried working with a dual monitor setup, you'll never go back. While two monitors give you double the workspace and boost productivity, I found the setup is never perfect. In the end,... Read More ) for a virtual version of it.
But we can also look to Mac and Linux, both of which offer an awesome feature called virtual desktops. With a program like Dexpot (our review Expand Your Desktop Workspace With Dexpot - Cool Virtual Desktop Software [Windows] I was talking to one of my friends, who is an avid Linux user. He told me that one of the Linux features he simply can't do without is "virtual desktops". I can now tell... Read More ), you can set up multiple versions of your Windows desktop and switch between them at will. Specialize each virtual desktop for its own purpose (e.g., browsing, work, games, etc.) and watch your productivity skyrocket.
Note: Actual Multiple Monitors costs $25 USD and Dexpot costs $34 USD. For free alternatives, try VirtuaWin (our review VirtuaWin - A Lean Mean & Free Virtual Desktop Manager [Windows] When I covered Dexpot some time ago, readers Colugo and Mick were quick to point me in the direction of VirtuaWin as a lightweight, fast alternative virtual desktop software. Encouraged by their feedback, I decided... Read More ) or Microsoft's own Desktops (our review How To Use Four Desktops At Once & Boost Productivity [Windows] Read More ).
Improve Window Management With Mac-Like Exposé
I've always been jealous of the Exposé feature on Mac computers. With a single keystroke, you can view the entire landscape of your computer and quickly navigate to the window that you need. It's a much better alternative to the alt-tab cycle that Windows forces upon its users.
For those who don't know, Exposé basically "zooms out" and spreads all of the currently open windows out on the screen. All it takes is one glance to spot the relevant window, and once you click on it, it becomes the window of focus. It's a simple mechanic, but extremely useful.
With BetterDesktopTool (our review Bring Mac's Best Window Management Features To Windows Bring Mac-style window management to Windows. If you've ever been jealous of features like Expose and Spaces, BetterDesktopTool is here to bring them to your PC. Read More ), you can do the same on Windows. In fact, BetterDesktopTool combines the Exposé mechanic with multiple virtual desktops, allowing you to see ALL of your desktops and ALL of the windows on each desktop. Plus, it's entirely FREE for private use.
Skin Windows to Look Different
If all you care about is making your Windows look like Mac or Linux, then you really don't need to do anything other than install a new theme. Will you be able to transform Windows into a perfect replica? No, but you can get close enough.
Check out these awesome Windows 7 themes Get A Windows 7 Makeover With These Awesome Themes Read More and these amazing Windows 8 themes Amazing Windows 8 Themes You Need To See Windows has always had an active community of enthusiasts who customize everything about it, including its desktop theme. Although Microsoft tries to prevent this, Windows 8's desktop can be themed just like Windows 7's. We've... Read More to find one that best represents the aesthetic of your favorite operating system. The theming system is different between Windows 7 and Windows 8, so if you find a theme that you like, but it's for the wrong version, you're out of luck.
For maximum flexibility in customizing the look of Windows, however, you'll be better off using a dedicated product like WindowBlinds. It works on both Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems. The only downside is that the free trial lasts 30 days. The full version costs $10 USD.
Use Command Line With An SSH Terminal
One of the defining features of Linux is the command line terminal. For times when you want to interface with a remote SSH server, Windows doesn't offer any built-in tools to get the job done. Thinking about using Telnet? Don't. It's too insecure.
My personal recommendation is to use either Xshell or PuTTy.
Xshell is a wonderful terminal program with a lot of features, such as multiple session tabs, sending commands to multiple sessions at once, interface customization, and more. It's not as daunting as a straight terminal, making it easier for newbies to pick up. For personal use, it's free. Otherwise, the de facto standard for Windows SSH is the PuTTy client.
If neither of the two above works for you, check out Chris's list of SSH clients for Windows How to Use SSH in Windows: 5 Easy Ways SSH is an encrypted network protocol used for remote access. Here's how to use SSH in Windows using native and third-party apps. Read More .
In a lot of ways, Windows is not an innovative operating system. Not that Windows is bad, but it does lack some of the nifty features of Mac and Linux. The good news is that features were ported over by people recognized the lack. With the programs above, you can take your Windows experience to the next level.
Know of any other cool programs that fit the bill? How else have you transformed Windows into something better? Share your thoughts with us in the comments!
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ST. LOUIS — Police say a Missouri man fatally shot another man who tripped over a barbecue and fell into the alleged shooter's door.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday that 30-year-old Thomas Clement of University City was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action for the Sunday shooting.
St. Louis County police say 31-year-old Larry Neal Jr. of Florissant was walking in a St. Louis County apartment complex when he tripped on a barbecue. He fell into the door of the apartment where Clement was.
Police say Clement came out with a gun and fired about 11 times at Neal, who was unarmed and later died at a hospital.
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The Bend Bulletin Editorial Board
The race to fill state Rep. Knute Buehler's spot representing Bend in the Legislature has had one candidate stop campaigning and another opposed by his party, but voters will still have three choices on the ballot.
Vote Cherie Helt for House District 54. She is the best candidate for the job and the only reasonable choice left.
Helt, 48, owns two restaurants in Bend — Zydeco Kitchen and Bistro 28 — and has been on the Bend-La Pine School Board for 8 years. She's been active in other ways, helping to support the Kids Center and raising money for scholarships for high school students.
Because of the way her opponents floundered, voters have been denied an opportunity in this race to have a debate on the issues. So let's look at some of what Helt would like to accomplish.
Her top priority is to improve the state's education system. Plenty of students in Oregon get a good education. The state, though, lags far behind in critical performance measures, such as the dropout rate. With her experience on the school board, she is well prepared to fight to make a difference in the Legislature. She knows how school districts must make difficult choices with limited budgets. Should a district offer high school students more options or focus more on keeping class size down? She has pushed for more options — particularly at the high school level — to help keep students in schools. If elected, she also wants to see the career and technical training that voters asked for in Measure 98 fully funded.
She is proud of the efforts the Bend district has made to make school entrances secure, and she wants to ensure every school district in Oregon is able to do the same. She would like to see the state offer a program to make that happen.
Helt has also been an advocate for making changes in the state's Public Employees Retirement System. She knows pay and benefits are important to attracting good state employees. PERS costs, though, are undermining the ability of schools to put resources in the classroom. She wants to look at ways to lower costs, moving forward.
The two business she operates with her husband give her great insight into how state policies can make life difficult for small business. It's notable that her businesses offer both retirement and health plans, which is not something every restaurant makes a priority.
Helt is a Republican. She is not particularly partisan. She's fiscally conservative and socially moderate. That's what a diverse district like Bend needs.
Bend deserves better than her opponents, Amanda La Bell and Nathan Boddie. In the Voter's Pamphlet, Working Families Party candidate La Bell awarded herself a bachelor's degree from Valdosta State University that she never received.
Democratic Party leaders attacked Dr. Boddie, a Democrat, in a very underhanded way. They trotted out vague allegations of sexist behavior and use of a homophobic slur without any details. Various left-leaning groups dumped their support. At that point, how was Boddie supposed to defend himself? What were voters to believe? But when a Bend woman came forward with an allegation of Boddie groping her in a bar, the way Boddie attacked her showed a wholesale lack of judgment and class. He doesn't deserve your vote.
Vote for Helt.
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I cannot believe that I haven't blogged in so long. Almost 6 months. Goodness. It's a sign of how busy we have been, and catching up with the backlogged 'would like to do' list has been put on the backburner for too long! I started off this admin Monday with a determination to properly file/organise some of my images from over the years- and it's been a bit like opening the family photograph album! I've ended up reminiscing and remembering the many wonderful times we have spent cooking and prepping for the most fabulous couples imagineable.
So, finally writing this blog post is testament to the amount of fun I have had this morning looking back, in the knowledge that we are lucky enough to be preparing for all of the fabulous weddings that are still to come. I hope that you enjoy looking back with me as much as I have!
|loin of lamb, bramble gravy, potato dauphinoise
|Kasia at The Cowshed adding the finishing touches to one of our bare naked cakes - this one filled with buttercream and raspberry and cucumber jam.
|Aleksandra moddeling our handmade vegetarian haggis 'baws'!
|Crayfish cocktail with chicory, tomato concasse and avocado. Went down a storm!
|Vegan main - wild mushrooms with griddled polenta cake. Served one of our lovely Churchill Crockery plates
|Raspberry cheesecake with lime crumb
|Ola adding some finishing touches to desserts
|Roast beef with spinach Yorkshires and orange spiced red cabbage
|Jack setting up at one of my favourite Glasgow venues - Pollockshields Burgh Hall
|Grazing table outside on a beautifully sunny day at the fabulous Comrie Croft
|grazing table for Twinning of Levenmouth with Bruges in France
|A drawerful of chocolate brownies - what's not to like!
|wee chocolate doughnuts on a dessert table
|Wee chocolate mousses (vegan) in our lovely vintage glasses. Looking good on the dessert ladder.
|Doughnuts. Minus the chocolate.
|One of our crudite boards. So popular in the summer months.
|It reads. If you would really like to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with them. The people who give you their food give you their heart.
|Handmade buffalo Scotch eggs.
|The edible essence of summer!


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LAS visit to Ribchester on 6th June 2015
Led by professional archaeologist and LAS member John Trippier.
Ribchester is a beautiful little village with many old and pretty stone cottages. It lies on the banks of the Ribble, which has moved across the flood plain quite considerably since Roman times and now cuts the corner of the Roman fort site. It has probably been continuously settled since Roman times and possibly even earlier. In the 17th and 18th century, Ribchester was a centre for the cotton weaving industry. Many of the houses have date stones from then and incorporate Roman stones and even Roman pillars robbed from the fort.
The Roman fort was originally built of timber in 72-73 AD and later rebuilt in stone and occupied until the 4th century AD and probably beyond. It was called Bremetennacum and later Bremetenacum Veteranorum. It was a large fort of about 6 acres, garrisoned by cavalry and then later occupied by veterans. The foundations of the granary are exposed for visitors to view on the site. The remains of the extensive bathhouse are a short walk away.
St Wilfrid's church is in the middle of the fort site and dates from the 13th century, with many additions and restorations since – someone commented that it was the only church they had ever seen with dormer windows!
The most famous artifact discovered in Ribchester, dating from the Roman period, is the elaborate cavalry helmet. Part of the Ribchester Hoard, it was discovered in the summer of 1796 in the remains of a timber chest. It is now in British Museum but a replica is in the delightful little Museum, run by local volunteers.
We also visited St Saviour's church which stands in the nearby settlement of Stydd. This was possibly a remnant of a Knights Templar or Knights Hospitallers establishment in the 12th or 13th century.
During the First World War, archaeological excavations of the area were carried out by staff and pupils of nearby Stonyhurst College. Although evidence of buildings surrounding the church was found, identification of their use and date were inconclusive though some were of red sandstone and may be of Roman origin.
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The rate of diabetes in Native Americans is 15 percent, more than for any other race. And why is this?
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Been rainy & racing won't start for a while so I took my all-time favorite (and first) RC boat off the shelf for a little detailing. This was an original Midwest product which re-appeared in a few other marketplaces but this is the first version as far as I know.
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VTH3 run #589
Long Hai Mountains: from telegraph pole #8 to lookout rocks at Minh Dam Base
Some new and some "old" faces this week among the 36 intrepid Hashers who boarded the ageing Hashmobile outside OSB1 at 2.30 pm: including Terminator's family friends, UXO's sister, former GM Golden Finger, his partner Cricket, and returnee Panty.
All were entertained by a session of "dueling coaches" as we met another bus on a bend in the access road to Minh Dam Base car park, but order was soon restored and our somewhat lighter bus continued to grind its way up the hill – "somewhat lighter" because some Hashers decided they preferred leg power to horse power, and walked/ran up the hill!
After that exciting start to the trip, what else was in store, we wondered? It didn't take long to find out after we'd turned off the road at telegraph pole number #8 and plunged into undergrowth so dense that Hash Flash couldn't take any photos for quite some time!
"On On and Up Up" was the cry – until we encountered "forward scout" Hard Drive directing traffic to a lookout spot off the main trail. And some lookout spot it was, too – boulders piled high on top of the peak, with strong wind gusts from the approaching rainstorm threatening to blow some of the more adventurous climbers right off the top (we were reminded at this stage that Hashers run "at their own risk"!).
A spot of first aid from the "duty medic" for some lost skin, and we were off again – back to the main trail which eventually led to steps in the mountainside taking us down, down through several photo opportunities, across a bridge and up into the Minh Dam Base car park.
Time for a relaxing chat over snacks courtesy Mother Teresa and drinks courtesy San Miguel, then we were ready for the Circle, where former GM Golden Finger entertained everyone with an exuberant display that showed he's lost none of his skill over the years.
Terminator awarded Hares Falcon and Hard Drive a favourable run score of 9 (1 point deducted because the trail was so enjoyable we all wanted it to last longer!).
Virgins welcomed, sinners penalized, and Yuri will forever more be known as – no, not Gagarin as you might expect, nor Space Pilot – but the somewhat "out there" Space Cadet!
Then the rain arrived – leaving time only for Panty to Down Down several beers to pay for wearing a "condom" in public (and a spotted one, at that!).
And so we journeyed home, albeit tentatively at first because of suspected "faulty brakes" (no, not our GM), and the need to pick up some Hashers who preferred to walk/run down the hill!
A new song was introduced by GF: "Nick, Nack, Paddy Whack" (see "VTH3 Songs" on our new website http://vungtauhash.com . It was to no avail, however, as OXO had prepared song sheets (seriously!) for the Moscow Mixed Choir and they took the honours in a canter – even old favourites Maggie May and Ho Chi Minh couldn't get a look-in this week!
An excellent day, by all accounts – thanks to Hares Falcon and Hard Drive, former GM Golden Finger, and everyone else whose collective participation added to the enjoyment!
Next week will be another Mountain Goat Special on Big Mountain. More details to follow in Hashflyer #590 midweek (and http://vungtauhash.com "Next Run" box today).
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.
Malcolm Gladwell is also the author of the #1 bestselling Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. He was a reporter for the Washington Post from 1987 to 1996, working first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.


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Can 'Ideological Vacuum' explain nascent issues in Tanzania…?
Today, as President Barack Obama is visiting Tanzania, he, together with the former U.S.A President George Bush, will lay a wreath on the memorial of the August 1998 US Embassy bomb victims' memorial in Dar-es-Salaam. Although the terrorist attacks were carried out in Tanzania and simultaneously in the U.S.A Embassy in Nairobi KenyaRead more ›


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Keywords: Go term
An insei, a Japanese go term, is a student studying at either the Nihon Ki-in or the Kansai Ki-in to become a professional player.
The Korean equivalent is called Yeonguseng, the Chinese student is called a Yuansheng (院生 yuànshēng or yuan4 sheng1)
Nihon Ki-in Professional Examination
Results available at http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/saiyo/index2005.htm, but it's in Japanese of course.
See Also:
- Western Ex-Insei - Non-Asian players that used to be insei for some time
- Korean-style Insei League - Korean-style league on KGS for 10k-9d players
- Studying Go in Japan


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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Serious, successful businesswomen banding together as "girlie girls" to help end gender inequality in the workplace?
The notion makes some professional women recoil. But Shelley Zalis, the former chief executive of a Hollywood research firm, who is leading an effort to advance corporate women, says pour on the pink.
"I've always been told to hold back my feminine characteristics, that there's no room for that in the boardroom," Ms. Zalis said recently over coffee at Cecconi's here. "I totally disagree. A woman who tries to be a man is a waste of a woman." She added, giving my arm several hard taps for emphasis: "It's not about leaning in. It's about standing out — as women."
Ms. Zalis, 53, is the loquacious, iron-willed founder of the Girls' Lounge, which started four years ago as a hastily arranged gathering spot for women at the International Consumer Electronics Show. This year, Ms. Zalis will take the Girls' Lounge to 10 major business events. She was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January; on Friday, the Girls' Lounge will arrive at the South by Southwest music, film and technology festival.
In the most basic sense, the Girls' Lounge is a free space — a hotel penthouse, for instance — where businesswomen can relax and mingle between meetings and seminars. There is fruit to snack on. Hair, nail and makeup experts offer mini-makeovers. Ms. Zalis, assisted by four full-time staff members, sometimes brings in a "confidence coach" to give pep talks. Pink flowers, throw pillows and plush sofas add to the slumber-party feel.
Girls' Lounge attendees — roughly 5,000 by now, Ms. Zalis estimates — are also encouraged to network and explore business deals, both with one another and with any men who find themselves in their midst. Gail Tifford, for instance, was unable to find a spot at a 2014 convention to discuss business with Stephen Quinn, who was then Walmart's chief marketing officer, so she asked him to meet her in the Girls' Lounge.
"There were women in robes with their hair in towels," Ms. Tifford, vice president for media and digital engagement at Unilever North America, recalled with a laugh. "Stephen and I went out to the terrace and had a very productive one-hour meeting."
Mr. Quinn, who recently retired from Walmart, wrote in an email that it taught him something important about how women must feel when they are surrounded by men. "It was kind of uncomfortable for me," he said. "I clearly didn't fit in and distinctly had a feeling of a lot of eyes on me. Voice in my head: 'What is he doing here?' Probably wasn't true, but my mind went there."
He added: "Also, it was loud — really loud. Everyone talking, big laughter, hair dryers, music. It was interesting to see how women behave when they're with each other with no men around." Ms. Tifford, he said, was "very gracious as always."
Ms. Zalis, who is married to a surgeon and has three grown children, is a qualitative media researcher by trade. (Her sister Rachel Zalis reports on style for "Access Hollywood" and other shows.) In 2000, after an early career spent at Nielsen, she founded a research company called Online Testing Exchange to assess consumer interest in planned movie trailers and related 30-second television spots. Before long, every major studio was a client and her findings were influencing the allocation of billions of dollars in movie marketing money.
"All of these men take the credit, but I was the one who saw the Internet's potential for this kind of testing," Ms. Zalis said. "The movie business is online because of me." (I gave her a look: Wasn't she overstating things a tad? She stared back, not budging.)
She sold OTX to a French company in 2010 for roughly $80 million. Since then, by her estimate, she has spent $1 million of her own money on the Girls' Lounge and related efforts, and raised another $3 million from sponsors.
As the Girls' Lounge has grown, landing partners that include Visa and Google (and, at some events, The New York Times), so have Ms. Zalis's ambitions. Early on, she said, she was simply interested in "the power of the pack": making women feel like less of a minority at heavily male business events. (Men outnumber women at Davos by more than five to one.) But then she noticed that Girls' Lounge attendees were having meaningful conversations about sexism at work and how to combat it.
"Pairing and sharing," said Ms. Zalis, who has a fondness for catchphrases.
Now the Girls' Lounge offers more formal talks. Recent participants have included Rosie Rios, the treasurer of the United States, who is working to put a woman on the $10 bill; Adam Bain, the chief operating officer of Twitter, which has its own issues with diversity; and the ever-present Arianna Huffington. Ms. Zalis has started to include more men, in part because she believes that the sexes must work together to solve gender inequality in the workplace — "fe-'MEN'-ism," as she spells it.
"I'm a big supporter of what Shelley is doing," said Michael Roth, the chairman and chief executive of the Interpublic Group of advertising agencies. "She's a real leader, in part because she's got an infectious enthusiasm. She hit Davos this year, for example, without a lot of planning, and it was a great success. Initially I'm sure that the officials there were taken aback by it all." (To emphasize America's gender pay gap, the Girls' Lounge staff sold chocolates for $1 to men and 75 cents to women.)
The Girls' Lounge definitely has its detractors. While reluctant to publicly criticize another woman, especially one working toward an admirable goal, a half-dozen women I approached — senior media executives, a retired state judge, lawyers — told me that they thought Ms. Zalis was hurting professional women by using the "G word." "A girl is a juvenile, someone who isn't ready, and I've fought my entire career to avoid being perceived as that," one Warner Bros. executive said.
Among the other comments: "It sounds like a bathroom"; "Anything that makes us separate from men is harmful"; "I embrace my femininity — I wear dresses to work, I shop on business trips — but if I told my male colleagues that I was headed for the Girls' Lounge, it would only cement in their minds that I'm not as good as them."
Even several of Ms. Zalis's supporters conceded that the Girls' Lounge took some getting used to. "It's an unlikely name for what is really going on there," said Joanna Barsh, a director emeritus at McKinsey & Company. Ms. Barsh added: "Shelley is not making a difference because she's timid. She's brazen. This woman is a force of nature — an extraordinary, energized bundle."
Ms. Zalis, who sometimes describes herself as "chief troublemaker," knows that she offends some people by using the world "girls" to describe grown women, especially businesswomen. And she doesn't care.
"A lot of us have never really had girlfriends in business, because we've been alone," she said. "It's called the boys club. Why can't I have a Girls' Lounge?"
Curious to know what an academic thought, I called Nancy Rothbard, a professor at the Wharton School. "Her approach is very colorful, but there is research to support what she's doing," Ms. Rothbard said. "For women to be successful in the workplace, research shows, we need to exhibit both competence and warmth, and feminine qualities are warm."
Ms. Rothbard also supported the salon atmosphere. "Without some kind of psychological safety, it is often very difficult to have these conversations," she said.
Ms. Zalis is certainly talkative. During our nearly two-hour coffee (and subsequent phone chats), she barely let me get a word in, veering from serious to informal and back to serious. One minute she was listing plans for the future — Girls' Lounge "boot camps" for companies, a bus tour with Ms. Huffington, a partnership with Barneys New York — and the next she was recounting a "signature Shelley moment" involving an airborne bra.
"We were driving to the airport in Las Vegas, when the trunk popped open and my suitcase fell out," she said. "It was run over by a tour bus, and then every car started dragging my things across the highway. There goes a bra. Here comes a blouse."
She laughed and adjusted her two necklaces, each adorned with a pair of jeweled lips. "Oh, well," she said. "It gave me an excuse to go shopping."


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Bents Green Secondary Community Special School year 9 art classes have been spending Friday afternoons at the CLC to work on David Hockney-inspired portraits. The pupils have been looking at Hockney's photo collages (examples here), in particular those of his mother. They then came to the CLC to create their own versions using photographs of themselves.
As a starter activity they used the fantastic Hockneyizer tool at Big Huge Labs to create automated collages of famous people. You upload a single image and the tool turns it into a Polaroid collage – you can see an example of the CLC on the right.
The students then took photographs of each other and uploaded them to the computers. To create their collages we initially used Photoshop Elements to edit the photos, add frames and arrange them, but this was quite tricky to do.
With later groups I directed them to Picnik, a very simple free online editing website. Here they could crop their images to focus on a particular feature, add frames, effects and change the colours if they wished. They then added all the edited images to PowerPoint, to arrange them for the final picture. I suggested PowerPoint as it is very easy to manipulate images on a slide, and the whole project is one that can be repeated back at school without the need for expensive software or expert knowledge.


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NEW YORK: Telecommunications company AT&T has launched 25 solar-powered charging stations across New York City as part of a US$500,000 pilot project with the city council.
The stations are located in prime New York City locations such as Union Square, Metrotech Plaza, Coney Island and Rockaway Beach. Each station has the capacity to completely charge smartphone devices in two hours, or the public can opt for a 30% charge in 30 minutes.
The structures, which are designed by Pensa with the expertise of solar power start-up Goal Zero, are architecturally unique. A single 12.5 foot steel pole stretches to the sky with three oblong solar panels resting on top, creating an intriguing sight.
Although the emphasis is on solar energy, three 15-watt panels and a 168-watt-hour lithium ion battery pack can keep the stations running during the night and over five consecutive cloudy days.
New York provides an ideal platform for testing the project, as despite the wide expansion of free wireless networks, little prior attention had been given to customers' charging needs. AT&T recognized this gap in the market and quickly began discussions with the city council as to how best to meet citizens' demands.
"We view this as a commitment to being a part of the New York community as a corporate citizen but also as a way for New Yorkers to continue to engage with their technology as they continue to consume more and more data", Marissa Shorenstein, president of AT&T's New York division, elucidated.
AT&T have highlighted this as major area of business growth and are hopeful that the sustainability initiative can be rolled-out to other cities.
If you would like to learn more about clean energy and climate change impacts in New York and beyond, and are interested in attending both public-facing and high-level events in NYC, don't miss this year's Climate Week NYC. It takes place this year from September 23. Find out more at: ClimateWeekNYC.org
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Thanks for participating in our first session it was great to meet all of you and get our year started off on a great foot with some in-depth grammar instruction conversation.
In this first session we went right into the MAISA Grammar Units that are available for us to explore. In this exploration we reviewed what standards are covered and are not covered in the Grammar Units. We also then discussed and explored the specific tools created in this work:
- The Grammar Glossary
- The Grammar Calendar
- The Grammar Mini-Lessons
We also explored and discussed the structure of our book Mechanically Inclined. Please come prepared to our next session having at least tried one of the grammar mini lessons from the MAISA units or from our book so we can share what worked and didn't work in our first attempt at embedded grammar.
Here is the PPT we worked through: http://bit.ly/1FgjDff
Homework for next Session: Please come prepared with some thinking around facilitating or trying a grammar mini-lesson either through the MAISA Grammar Units or an idea out of our book Mechanically Inclined.


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Joan Burton is sorry the Web Summit people are leaving with their backpacks and satchels
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The Spanish King is abdicating after 39 years on the throne
King Juan Carlos's abdication brings an end to a 39-year reign that ushered in democracy but ended in a string of scandals.Share80 Tweet18
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IT'S A MONTH since the launch of the HSE's new Covid-19 contact tracing app.
Since then, the app has had well over one million downloads, with the take-up rate heralded as being "the most successful launch" of the app anywhere in the world, said HSE CEO Paul Reid last month.
The app is intended to help contact tracing, particularly with people who aren't family and friends, and uses Bluetooth technology to determine whether you've been a close contact of someone who's tested positive for the virus.
As cases begin to rise again – particularly in Kildare, Laois and Offaly – health officials fear that transmission could once again spread within the community.
Of the 174 cases reported yesterday, around 50 of them were reported outside of the three counties now under new restrictions.
With that in mind, we want to know: Are you still using the Covid-19 tracker app?
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On the 75th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The International Committee of the Red Cross says we must now work collectively stop the development of nuclear weapons.
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Do You Have the Right Car Insurance?
Car insurance is inherently tricky to navigate because you don't find out just how well it works (or doesn't) until you have an accident. And if you're lucky, that doesn't happen too often. So how do you know if you have the right kind of car insurance for your budget and lifestyle?
U.S. News interviewed a handful of car insurance experts to find out what you should do before making a final decision on your policy in order to get a good deal and decrease the chance of being surprised by unexpected costs after an incident. Here's their best advice:
When choosing a policy, start by asking friends for recommendations. "It always makes sense to first ask people who you respect who they have auto insurance with, and if they were happy when they had a claim," says Jeanne Salvatore, spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group.
[See: 10 Unexpected Costs of Driving.]
Strangers can also offer useful advice. People often take their complaints about car insurance to social media, blogs and other websites. Search for posts on Twitter using the hashtag for the company you are considering. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the Center for Insurance Policy and Research makes it easy to find formal complaints that have been lodged against companies as well.
State buyer's guides are another resource. States release detailed guides for purchasing auto insurance that explain the ins and out of property damage as well as collision and comprehensive coverage. "Get the buyer's guide – don't just go to some agent," recommends Bob Hunter, director of insurance at the Consumer Federation of America. Those buyer's guides also outline the minimum required coverage and what factors influence your insurance rates, from driving records to how you use the vehicle.
When comparing policy prices, be sure to compare similar policies, cautions Phil Reed, senior consumer advice editor at Edmunds.com. Auto policies vary by length of time, level of service and an array of add-ons, he says. Instead of just searching the Internet to compare quotes, Reed recommends getting on the phone with companies and asking questions, too. Certain car safety features, such as alarm systems or anti-lock breaks, can help lower your rate.
[Read: Blue-Collar Workers Pay More for Car Insurance.]
At the same time, there's no need to obsess about constantly chasing a better deal. Jeff Blyskal, senior writer at Consumer Reports, says when the magazine asked readers to try to get a better deal with a competing insurance provider, only 12 percent of respondents were able to do so. That's despite the slew of auto insurance advertisements that would have you think a better deal is always just around the corner.
Once you've settled on an insurance provider, you'll have the chance to consider various add-ons to your policy. In general, the more you pay upfront, the greater the coverage you'll have. For example, you can opt for a higher deductible in order to minimize your rates – probably a good move for anyone who considers themselves a careful driver and can afford the higher deductible in the event of an accident.
You might also want to consider rental coverage. Auto insurance policies often allow you to add on coverage for renting a vehicle while your car is getting fixed after an accident, and if you only have one car, that kind of coverage can pay off. "Every customer who didn't have rental coverage wished they had it," says Richard Arca, senior manager of pricing at Edmunds.com and a former insurance adjuster. It typically adds about $20 for six months to a policy, he says.
On new and leased cars, GAP insurance can also make sense. You've might have heard that when you buy a new car, it loses value as soon as you drive it out of the lot. Leased vehicles also often carry a lower fair market value than what you owe on the vehicle. That means in either of those cases, if you total the car, the insurance company will only reimburse you for the car's fair market value – and you could be out a lot of cash. GAP coverage, which stands for "guaranteed auto protection," safeguards people from that problem. "It's highly recommended for people who lease vehicles," Arca says.


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You Get Norovirus
Influenza gets blamed for a lot of ailments that it doesn't actually cause; for example, the "stomach flu." There really isn't such a thing as stomach flu. The flu doesn't involve vomiting or any other gastrointestinal distress -- it's a respiratory illness that's caused when you come in contact with a human influenza virus. Noroviruses, however, do cause stomach flu symptoms; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain are all classic norovirus complaints -- and you may also have a fever, headache or general body aches (which might make you think you have influenza). Norwalk, Snow Mountain and Hawaii noroviruses account for an estimated 90 percent of all cases of so-called stomach flu worldwide -- and about 20 million infections annually among Americans [source: Nordqvist].


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Enhanced light to electric power conversion efficiency of photovoltaic cells with a low absorbance was achieved using waveguide integration. We present a proof of concept using a very thin dye-sensitized solar cell which absorbed only a small fraction of the light at normal incidence. The glass substrate in conjunction with the solar cells reflecting back contact formed a planar waveguide, which lead to more than four times higher conversion efficiency compared to conventional illumination at normal incidence. This illumination concept leads to a new type of multi-junction PV systems based on enforced spectral splitting along the waveguide.
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The Tea Party's Raison D'etre -- [if there is such a thing] is probably this:
To Keep the USA from paying principal and interest to its T-bond holders ...
I don't know if I would go as far as saying "Helping the US into a sovereign default sooner that normal" -- but broad probability political trend analysis suggests that some possibility of this exists.
I get the impression that if [mainly governmental] non-US bond holders don't kill off all the people involved in this imaginary imitation non-movement that they will find themselves holding billions of USD in worthless T-bond paper. Many people say there is a global finance war going on, so large scale killing is to be expected in many 'off fronts'. The "Tea Party" is a classical 'off front' -- much like the Emden in 1914 in the Indian Ocean.
On the other hand, if the Democrats were wanting to be real sovereigns and put thru real policy -- anything short of a large scale use of the presidents power [with respect to unlimited liquidations of US nationals] to clear away and totally erase from existence this palace coup movement.
Mathematical guesstimates suggest that probably 5000 people will need to be killed off in the US over the creation of Tungsten bars being masqueraded as Gold bars row.
The guesstimates for Silver Market manipulations are partly included in this number.
It's not my job to interfere here -- I am only observing nature and commenting on it. The non-US T-bond holders, and the Democrats (if they are acting as sovereigns) are on there own here.
It will be interesting to see how it all unfurls however...


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I have got a bit of a thing about Arum Lilies and Kowhai Buds at the moment so they are appearing on some of my carvings. I am quite pleased with the outcome of this one as the wood worked easily and took the fine detail without crumbling. Driftwood was used and the colour is natural. I don't know what would give such a rich chocolate colour other than Walnut and Pururi. The chance of finding either lying about on beaches near me is pretty slim. Never the less I will go with Walnut in the absence of a better idea.
The carving was straightforward using the knives I make. The hardest part is getting a 3 dimensional face on a flat-ish piece of wood. Its half carving in the round and half flat carving.
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Over 80 employees in administrative positions are set to lose their jobs following the transfer of King Faisal Hospital Kigali to private management.
The Minister of Public Service and Labour, Anastase Murekezi announced this yesterday at the official ceremony to announce the transfer which will also see the hospital's name changed to King Faisal Hospital Rwanda.
Murekezi also said the hospital would bring in other 110 expert medics from other countries.