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Congratulations to the 2005 "Protect Wild Dolphins" grant recipients and thank you for your good work.
Recipients are all NC graduate students doing research on bottlenose dolphins. The grants are to help them defray the cost of presenting their work at the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium March 18-20, 2005 in Wilmington, NC. Below is a list of the recipients with a short paragraph on how their research will help us protect and learn more about bottlenose dolphins. These grants are funded by the sale of the NC Maritime Museum's "Protect Wild Dolphins" license plates.
Michelle Barbieri – UNCW
An assessment of seasonal changes in the dorsal fin surface temperatures of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Sarasota Bay, FL, USA
The goal of this study was to investigate the physiological and behavioral responses of resident bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota, Florida to seasonal changes in water temperature. Dorsal fin surface temperatures of free-swimming dolphins were measured across seasons using infrared thermography. This direct physiological measurement was paired with an assessment of how water temperature and dolphin distribution changed seasonally throughout the study area. Assessment of how these physiological and behavioral mechanisms interact is important in understanding bottlenose dolphin thermoregulation. These data describe the ability of dolphins to respond to environmental fluctuation, and can provide insight into thermal stress as well as the implications of global climate change for resident and migratory marine mammals. Seasonal distribution data may also be used to inform local management decisions, specifically in areas with rapidly developing coastlines, such as the Sarasota Bay region.
Victoria Thayer – Duke
Effort to disentangle a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) calf in Beaufort, North Carolina
Entanglement is an important conservation problem for marine mammals in many parts of the world. In January 2005, we sighted a bottlenose dolphin calf swimming with an odd surfacing posture alongside its presumed mother in the waters near Beaufort, North Carolina. The mother was known from ongoing collaborative studies in the area by North Carolina Maritime Museum and the Duke University Marine Laboratory. Photographs taken that day and the following day confirmed suspicions that the animal's swimming ability was severely hampered, likely by fishing gear not visible at the surface. The decision was made to intervene and capture the pair. Unfortunately, the calf died while restrained; post-mortem examination revealed extensive entanglement of 40 lb test monofilament line that had cut deeply into the mandible and caudal peduncle, and fungal sinusitis. The female was released and has subsequently been photographed with other dolphins. This case study reinforces the threat posed by discarded recreational and commercial fishing gear to marine wildlife. We hope to educate fishermen in North Carolina about appropriate means of discarding unwanted line by instituting a program similar to the Monofilament Recovery and Recycling Program in Florida.
Erin Meagher – UNCW
Seasonal differences in heat flux across multiple body surfaces in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
The work I will be presenting describes how wild bottlenose dolphins regulate their body temperature across seasonal changes in environmental temperature. Understanding these mechanisms may provide insight into their seasonal distributions and will hopefully provide baseline information that will be useful for monitoring populations of dolphins as global warming changes their coastal ecosystem.
Ari Friedlaender – Duke
Historic and recent mass stranding events of short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) on the US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts
Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) are known to mass strand along both the US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts. These events offer scientists unique opportunities to gain insight into the biology, physiology, ecology, behavior, and social dynamics of the species. The Smithsonian Institution has compiled over 50 mass stranding event records from 1896 to 2005, ranging from 3 to 140 animals. Mass stranding events are most common in the Gulf of Mexico in August, while February and October have the highest incidence along the US Atlantic coast. The average group size of mass strandings is higher along the US Atlantic coast (23.86) than the Gulf of Mexico (17.57), as is the average number of mass stranding events per year (0.42 versus 0.22). The most recent mass stranding event in January 2005 in North Carolina highlights the ability of marine mammal stranding networks to mobilize from various institutions and collect the highest quality tissue samples from a large number of animals. These samples will be used for myriad research projects to, in unprecedented detail, investigate both the cause of the stranding event and learn about the biology of short-finned pilot whales.


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T ime for a reality check: Tax season doesn't stop just because you no longer have an employer writing you a paycheck. Each year, my retired clients still have to take a step back from enjoying their retirement to pay Uncle Sam. Paying taxes in retirement can get a little more confusing when you start tapping into your traditional IRA or 401(k) tax- deferred accounts. As we get into tax season, here are the three biggest tax areas in which retirees need to be informed. Social Security When it comes to Social Security, your benefits can be taxed depending on your income. If your Modified Adjusted Gross Income —"MAGI" —is less than $25,000 for single filers or $32,000 for married filers, your Social Security benefits are tax-free. However, if you are filing a single return with MAGI ranging from $25,000 to $34,000, you'll include up to 50 percent of your benefits as income. Filing on over $34,000 in MAGI? You could include up to 85 percent of your benefits as income. For married couples filing a joint return, they could include up to 50 percent of their benefits in income if their MAGI ranges from $32,000 to $44,000 and 85 Investment Advisory Services offered through Retirement Wealth Advisors (RWA), a Registered Investment Advisor. Wolf Retirement Navigation LLC and RWA are not affiliated. Investing involves risk including the potential loss of principal. No investment strategy can guarantee a profit or protect against loss in periods of declining values. Opinions expressed are subject to change without notice and are not intended as investment advice or to predict future performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Consult your financial
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The USPTO and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ("TTAB") joined the rest of us in attempting to improve with a New Year's resolution. However, instead of already giving up on gym membership plans, the USPTO has taken 2017 by storm with an emphasis on digital efficiency, some rule changes, and everyone's favorite, increased fees.
Whether you are a seasoned practitioner, or an individual navigating the trademark tickets yourself, you should bookmark this page for reference now that January 14, 2017, rule changes are in effect.
It's not very often that one hears the words "efficient" and "government" uttered in the same breath. But come January 14, we should have fewer action items when dealing with the USPTO and TTAB in general.
Thanks to the USPTO's 2017 resolution to save the environment, or in the alternative, settle a grudge with the paper industry:
- E-Filing is no longer preferred, but expected and mandatory with the TTAB.
- This requirement appears to only be waivable via petitioning the office.
- This includes correspondence between the parties (i.e., say goodbye to the 5-day snail mail grace period and hello to composing, even more, e-mails).
- The TTAB is taking service requirements off our plates.
- This thankfully relieves us of cancellation and opposition service duties for initial pleadings, replacing first-class mail with a link embedded in an e-mail sent to other parties to the matter.
- This is also an opportunity to make sure that all of the contact information you may be responsible for is up-to-date.
- You and/or your clients get to give the government more money!
- A total of 10 TTAB-related fees will be adjusted. Six fees for initiating a proceeding will increase, depending upon whether filed electronically or on paper.
- After an initial request for extension, there are now four new fees established for electronic and paper-filed requests to further extend time to file a notice of opposition.
- There are fees for extensions of time to oppose billed per application rather than per class.
- Moreover, the per-class fee for an initial application for registration filed on paper is going from $375 to $600 per mark, per class (supporting anti-paper conspiracy theorists).
- A full list of fee changes is provided here by the USPTO.
Relevant to a smaller segment of readers but important nonetheless, there has been some tweaking to evidentiary procedure. One huge takeaway in this department is that witness testimony can now be submitted by affidavit alone. The hassles of live depositions should subside, however:
- Live depositions are still an available cross-examination tool for opposing parties in examining a witness affidavit;
- Notices of reliance have had their capacity expanded to record registrations and introduce supporting digital content;
- Of concern is that the efficiency seemingly sought after by the USPTO may be undermined by overwhelming amounts of evidence likely to now be submitted, delaying proceeding considerably.
Gone are the days of unlimited requests. We now have the number "75" restraining our decision making when it comes time to talk document production and admission strategy, and further (likely in the name of efficiency), the discovery period is now a bright line six-month ordeal.
As always, you should carefully read or ask your local counsel about the new rules which can be found here in their entirety.
With the digitalization and constant technological progress of society, new and interesting trademark requests will continue to appear and challenge existing definitions and requirements. We at W. R. Samuels Law will continue to keep our ears pressed to the ground in order to detect new trends in trademark law before they have an impact on our clients. For more information, contact us.
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Hello dear blog. And dear blog readers. How I've missed you!
Even though the title of this post claims "catching up", there is no way I can catch up on all that has happened since July.
So, in short: we have moved!
We made it. All seven of us and (almost) all our junk stuff belongings are in our snug little seminary rent house. I say "little" but it's actually bigger than the home we left, and here on campus it's referred to as "the big house". Reserved 'specially for large families.
It sat empty for at least 3 years before our arrival. Waiting, although unbeknownst to us, just for our little herd. There's that "little" again. We're obviously not too little if we qualify for "the big house."
Pictures to come eventually, but our internet isn't really squared away just yet. I'm crouched on the back step, getting eaten up by mosquitoes just to get this post done. I didn't know I was so desperate for computer internet access!
So, long story short, we are here. We're meeting lots of nice folks, and Greg's classes have begun. Most (over half?) of our stuff is unpacked, and while some areas still need work we aren't overwhelmed with boxes or anything.
The kids and I will start school Monday, a full 5 or 6 weeks later than I normally like to start. That's ok though. With homeschooling you are never behind. :)
In other news, my poor Dale has a stomach bug. He got sick just as we were going to bed last night and had a pretty yucky morning, but has improved steadily throughout the afternoon.
Y'all know how I like to play "this day in history." Well today I pulled one on him. He commented on what a way this was to spend his last day being 9. I agreed with him, and then the thought struck me: August 22 10 years ago was a pretty crummy day for me. I told him I threw up on that day, and my tummy hurt really, really bad. :) Of course, that's because I was having a baby. 50 minutes after midnight we welcomed our firstborn into this world.
"You aren't having a baby are you?" I think he was amused. It was hard to tell.
Hopefully he'll be good as new tomorrow and no one else will fall with the yucks. We have big birthday plans for the weekend!
Now that I've found the internet sweet spot (completely legally, I promise) perhaps I can brave the mosquitoes and get the ol' blog rolling again. I don't know what I'll do when it rains. We'll cross that bridge when we get there. ;)
Love to all, and to all a good night!


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Top Examples of Slip and Fall Injuries
Slip and fall accidents may sound like no big deal to some people. The truth is, some slip and falls result in broken bones, head injuries, and in rare cases, even death. Learn about the most common types of injuries sustained in slip and fall accidents and how to get the compensation you and your family deserve for your suffering.
Head Injuries
Head injuries are arguably the most common of all slip and fall accident injuries. Typically, these are closed head injuries. They occur when the victim slips on a liquid or uneven ground and hits their head on a shelf, counter, or floor. Most head injuries from slip and fall accidents are concussions. However, some people may have more going on, such as a brain bleed.
Broken Hip
Slip and fall accidents are highly likely to result in a broken hip, especially in elderly individuals, because of the way the human body naturally falls. It's normal to twist the body to land on the rear or the hip to protect the face and back. However, this exposes the hip and in most cases of a broken hip, surgery is required to stabilize the bones. In some cases, a hip replacement may be necessary.
Sprains and Strains
Sprains and strains on the joints are common in slip and fall accidents, particularly in the ankle and wrist joints. It's not uncommon for victims to "roll" or sprain their ankle before their fall as they're slipping or tripping, and they may sprain their wrists if they are able to brace their fall by putting their hands out towards the ground.
No matter what type of injury you received in a slip and fall accident, two things are crucial.
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2) You must contact a slip and fall lawyer when you are able in order to begin piecing together a claim for compensation. Medical expenses and lost wages add up fast to put a family in financial crisis, and an attorney can help lessen this likelihood by putting pressure on at fault parties and insurance companies.
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In a 21st century, the idea of a digital workspace becomes more and more popular. In the U.S. alone about 45 percent of the entire workforce, telecommutes at least as a part-time. Still, no matter how enticing this idea may sound, there is a reason why so many people prefer working in an office. With this in mind, here are few important considerations you need to keep in mind when deciding whether your startup needs an office in the first place.
1. How Big Is Your Staff?
The first question you need to ask yourself is how big of a staff your startup needs. Most commonly, you need HR, IT and finances departments, all of which would require separate office spaces. Furthermore, you need enough room for your sales department, which is probably going to take most of the floor. Of course, there is always an option of outsourcing some of the non-vital functions of your startup, like the aforementioned IT, which would free up some more office space. Either way, you need to determine the minimal amount of people you would have to place in the office.
2. Future Expansion
In order to save money, a lot of new business owners decide to take the smallest office they possibly can. Still, once their company starts growing and they start hiring more and more people, they might be forced to relocate. In this situation, they would also have to ponder on the price of the move and all the additional expenses that it brings.
To make the long story short, you need to figure out whether it would be cheaper you to rent a bigger office right away (and thus pay more for the time being) or to eventually pay for relocation. Even though there is no general rule here, with average Australian prices of movers and storage, most startup owners eventually opt for the second option.
3. Better Teambuilding
One of the greatest advantages of establishing an office is a much more efficient teambuilding. You see, making your employees into teams is much harder, although not impossible, to do online. First of all, seeing how a lot of them may be in different time-zones, you might have a hard time coordinating between them. Furthermore, face-to-face interactions and watercooler chats can on their own act as a powerful catalyst for this kind of corporate bonding.
4. Subjective Benefits
In the end, one of the things that not a lot of people talk about is the question of how efficient work from home actually is. Even in this day and age, one may have a hard time explaining to their parents, roommates and friends that the fact that they are at home doesn't mean they are idle. Additionally, everything in your household is there for your own comfort, which means that you will be surrounded with a myriad of distractions. Because of this, a lot of people find it much easier to focus in the office, which in turn leads to a much greater overall productivity.
In Conclusion
Finally, getting an office has some downsides as well. For starters, it costs your company quite a bit on a regular basis. Furthermore, you have to buy supplies, pay for furniture and even decorate for better productivity. Even though these investments are far from insignificant, they usually result in better productivity, sadly, not every startup has this kind of initial funding.
In some extreme cases, it happens that people rent bigger offices than they initially need and burn through their budget before expanding enough. If something like that happens, these startup owners usually tend to look for smaller offices and relocate in order to reduce expenses, which is a viable option. If you were to hit a hurdle like this consider saving the excess equipment from the bigger office in one of the many storage solutions Melbourne has to offer. This way you save money on equipment should you move back into the bigger office again.
Overall, you will probably get the answer you expected from the very start. Does your startup need an office? It's situational.


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Learning the strong character of House Cleaning
Learning the strong character of House Cleaning
There isn't a single house that will not need cleaning. Even houses that are not inhabited collect airborne dust. For that reason, nobody can escape from house cleaning. As a house owner, you will be employed to work in a feverish job which barely provides you with time for other activities. Moreover, you can find people who attend weekend and evening courses after work. Houses that are dirty work as breeding areas for microbes. The only real choice here is to use a cleaning company. When the company you want to make use of is selected by you but, you have to be quite cautious.
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Storing food can at times be a challenge, and it can be difficult to determine if the food in your fridge or your pantry is still safe to eat or if it has already seen its best days. While the avocado that has begun sprouting hair, or the ground beef that has turned gray, is an easy problem to spot, other safety issues can be more subtle. It is important, therefore, to use some basic food safety guidelines when storing and using the food you buy.
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2010 keeps getting better
So much has happened since my last blog and it has only been a few weeks, about a month to be more accurate. Life for me has been pretty busy but I have been to some exciting events so it is great to reflect on them.
The World Championships were enthralling. Being British, I must admit to finding myself on my feet shouting at the tv pictures at Nicole Cooke, Emma Pooley and David Millar. Nicole Cooke is such a talented bike rider and has had some difficult times since her world and Olympic double. To see her fighting it out and getting caught on the line made for a stunning if not anxious finish. Emma Pooley was majestic in the time trial and David Millar deserved his medal to set him up for Commonwealth Games gold.
The men's road race seemed to have a different pattern with no race radios. Brian Smith and I commentated on it for Eurosport. The 3 hours of live coverage went in an instant and we both admitted to being drained at the end. The action was non stop and you had to have your wits about you to know who was attacking. I had Gilbert down for the win as you know and he so nearly pulled it off. However, Thor Hushovd will be a superb World Champion. He is a real ambassador for cycling and we have been lucky enough to get to know him working with the Cervelo TestTeam and he was a guest at the annual Braveheart Dinner in Scotland last year. We are lucky to follow Cadel Evans with another rider who will do the rainbow bands justice.
Jonathan Vaughters must be counting his lucky stars having 2 world elite champions in his team after the link with Cervelo. This time last year he was having a less than fun time dealing with Team Sky, now he has payback in luck and karma.
Last week I went to a screening of Chasing Legends. In the UK, it was screened to 50+ cinemas simultaneously with a live Q and A at the end to all venues. This was hosted by Phil Liggett and included Mark Cavendish, Brian Holm, Rolf Aldag and the Director Jason Berry. My verdict? Beautiful. What a stunning film capturing the sport in a unique way. Brian Holm and Rolf Aldag were witty, the team came across as a great unit and there were moments of emotion, adrenaline and excitement. I would recommend it to anyone.
Finally at the weekend, I travelled to Scotland for the annual Braveheart Dinner.. For those of you who aren't aware of the Braveheart Fund, it is a charity to fund young Scottish riders in furthering their careers in cycling. In 7 dinners the fund has raised over £210,000 and assisted riders such as Charline Joiner who won silver in this years Commonwealth Games. The dinner has a reputation for being an end of season let your hair down affair and this year was no exception.
On Friday we took some of the star riders Go Karting. Lizzie Armitstead, world track champion and Garmin Cervelo rider showed that she is a speed fiend and beat us all to take the fastest lap title. On Saturday 400 riders took part in a ride with Sean Kelly before we took a few riders to see a Premier League Scottish Football match. Adam Blythe, Lizzie and Mark Cavendish seemed to enjoy the banter of scottish football!
In the evening, myself and Dave Harmon were MCs at a dinner for 400 guests. The star guests at the dinner were Sean Kelly, Hendrik Redandt, Charly Wegelius, Lizzie Armitstead, Matt Brammeier, Adam Blythe, Russ Downing, Mark Cavendish, and finally to the surprise of Dave and I, David Millar turned up unannounced on stage in a kilt and with his commonwealth gold medal. All in all, a stunning night.
Next on the horizon for me is commentary on the World Cup Track meeting from Poland for Eurosport. Thanks for reading, keep getting the miles in!


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Miss Wonderly
Miss Wonderly is a fairly straight-forward knit despite the complex appearance of her lace. The lace pattern is worked on every round but there are only six rounds to the repeat. The lace is kept to the front of the sock at all times so you have a quick, easy passage for half of every round. The lace makes this sock quite stretchy and it will fit a good range of adult foot sizes. As usual, the pattern lets you tailor the length of the foot (and the leg) to your specific requirements. A picot hem finishes everything of nicely and provides a soft, stretchy finish to the top.
Miss Wonderly is named after the pseudonym used by the character Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (most famously brought to the silver screen in 1941 with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor).
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Slowly I turn… step by step… inch by inch….
Slowly I grow… step by step… inch by inch…
A newly published report from Dell'Oro Group reveals that IP PBX shipments will reach 28 million lines in 2006, surpassing TDM shipments. According to the Dell'Oro Group IP Telephony Enterprise 5-Year Forecast Report, IP Telephone shipments have entered a period of sustained growth. Dell'Oro tells us that the IP Telephone market will expand from simply a PBX handset business into emerging IP Centrex and Residential Voice-over-IP (VoIP) markets. Consumer wireless LAN (WLAN) phone introductions in 2005 will stimulate IP Telephone sales to residential VoIP subscribers.
According to Steve Raab, Director of IP Telephony Research at Dell'Oro Group, "The transition from PBX to IP PBX is happening faster than the transition from Traditional Key Systems to PBX."
In other positive news this week, AltiGen announced in its earnings report that the company posted record revenues for Q1 05.
And, discussing this week's earnings announcement from Avaya, and the fact that much of the company's profits may have come from companies it acquired recently, analysts suggested that lower sales in the company's traditional telephone business could be offsetting higher revenue from Internet telephone systems.
Let's review: HIGHER REVENUE FROM INTERNET TELEPHONE SYSTEMS.
So, step by step, inch by inch, the enterprise telecom market is becoming the enterprise IP telephony market.


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SEBI has notified a stricter set of insider trading norms Sebi (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 on 15th January 2015 to check illicit transactions in shares of listed firms by management personnel and 'connected persons'.
Two simple English words come together to create devastating consequences for Indian and Global Companies.
Thousands of crores of penalties are levied by SEBI for non compliance to Insider Trading, besides ban from capital markets, de-listing, criminal proceedings are more.
If you have to remember that your Annual Accounts are to be submitted to the Stock Exchange, it is easy to remember. If you were to be listed on 20 stock exchanges, you will find it hard, but still remember since it is just one compliance across geographies.
Now, take the example of hundreds of rules and compliance for each of your business unit in each country and for each month in the calendar year. Numbers can quickly multiple and easily cross more than 5,000 to 10,000 compliance points during the year.
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Pathology - diagnosis and management of pathological conditions, such as, cysts of bone; benign bone tumors; osteomyelitis; osteoradionecrosis; metabolic and dystrophic bone diseases; soft tissue cysts; benign and soft tissue tumors; vascular malformations of soft tissue and bone; mucosal diseases; salivary gland pathology, infections, local or systemic. Surgical procedures include, but are not limited to maxillary sinus procedures, cystectomy of bone and soft tissue, resection of head and neck tumors, reconstruction of complex head and neck defects, sialolithotomy, sialoadenectomy, management of head and neck infections; and trigeminal nerve surgery. Learn More
Reconstructive Surgery - includes harvesting of bone and soft tissue grafts and the insertion of implants. Sites for harvesting may include, but are not limited to the calvaria, rib, ilium, fibula, tibia, muscle, mucosa, and skin. Reconstructive procedures include, but are not limited to vestibuloplasties; augmentation procedures; TMJ reconstruction; management of continuity and maxillectomy defects; insertion of implants; facial cleft repair; and other reconstructive surgery of the oral and maxillofacial region
Trauma Surgery - includes fractured and luxated teeth; alveolar process injuries; mandibular angle, body, ramus, and symphysis injuries; mandibular condyle injuries and dislocation; maxillary, zygomatic, orbital, and nasal bone injuries; naso-orbital-ethmoid complex injuries; frontal bone and frontal sinus injuries; auricle and scalp injuries; oral/perioral, periorbital, perinasal, and facial soft tissue injuries; airway obstruction; cricothyroidotomies; and tracheotomies
Orthognathic Surgery/Sleep Apnea Surgery - includes the surgical correction of functional and aesthetic orofacial and craniofacial deformities of the mandible, maxilla, zygoma, and other facial bones. Surgical procedures include, but are not limited to ramus and body procedures; subapical segmental osteotomies; LeFort I, II, and III procedures; and craniofacial operations
Temporomandibular Joint Surgery - includes treatment of masticatory muscle disorders; internal derangements; degenerative joint disease; rheumatoid, infectious, and gouty arthritis; mandibular dislocation (recurrent or persistent); ankylosis and restricted jaw motion; and condylar hyperplasia or hypoplasia, arthroscopy, arthroplasty and total joint replacement
Cleft and Craniofacial Surgery - includes correction of primary cleft lip and palate; velopharyngeal incompetence; residual cleft lip and/or nasal deformities (secondary); maxillary alveolar cleft; residual maxillofacial skeletal deformities (secondary); craniofacial deformities; orbital and naso-orbital deformities
Dentoalveolar surgery - includes management of odontogenic infections; erupted, unerupted, and impacted teeth, including third molar extractions and defects and deformities of the dentoalveolar complex. Dental implant placement and site preparation for dental implants. Pre-prosthetic surgery including vestibuloplasty, frenuloplasty/frenectomy, soft tissue grafting around implants, osseous recontouring such as alveoloplasty, tori removal
Facial cosmetic surgery - includes, but is not limited to genioplasty; lipectomy; dermabrasion; scar revision; and correction of maxillofacial contour deformities
Anesthesia - includes administration of conscious sedation, deep sedation, and general anesthesia as the operating surgeon for oral and maxillofacial surgery patients
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Still Image (2007-11)
Owen Underhill
string quartet, and clarinet
Commission: François Houle with support from the British Columbia Arts Council
string quartet, and clarinet
Commission: François Houle with support from the British Columbia Arts Council
Still Image was commissioned by François Houle in 2007. Composed in three movements, it utilizes selective extended effects for the clarinet including quartertones in the first movement. The second movement, which includes an improvised cadenza, is entirely based on 'duotones' (rather beautiful two-part multiphonics) that François introduced me to. The final movement is an energetic and compact dance with a slow introduction.
Although the title references still life painting and photography, the piece is at times in full motion. It is as if the frozen two-dimensional visual image comes to life as the aural microscope reveals the myriad of detail inside the sound world. As the magnification increases, the tone splits and the rhythm comes into full animation. Still Image was premiered by François and Quatuor Bozzini. I revised the first and second movements in 2011, simplifying the structure and bringing into relief the clarinet part.


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Criticism: Let's be constructive about it!
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Jeez, that colour looks a bit gaudy on you!
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Judge your self-worth by yourself
Negative bias in self-assessment is the root for despair. Self-regard is the backbone of survival. It is what preserves the self from extermination; else many would deem this life truly not worth the pain and suffering it occasionally forces one to endure. A downward spiral of gloom is created when you perceive yourself as unworthy. There are good times as well as bad ones for everyone. Failure is not permanent, neither is there a lifetime warranty for success. It is wise to accept strength and weakness, success and failure, praise and criticism; and put your best foot forward at all times.
If it's your own self-respect, how come it's impacted by what others think?
Appraise and reappraise
No one looks as good in reality as they do on their Facebook profile pictures! Of course nobody looks as bad as they do on their driver's license either! Reality is what it is; it cannot be masked and doesn't require unveiling either. It is what makes it real. No one is as undeserving or as brilliant as they consider themselves to be. Verdict on self-worth can never be absolute. None of us are perfect and none of us are horrible either. Every aspect about us changes ever so often, so does the world's view on our performance. We feel we need constant appraisal and reappraisal of self-worth to truly know where we stand on the path to self-growth.
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The Nest app will ask you to update your phone's settings if there's something you can do to improve how Home/Away Assist works for you. Here's more information and how to change your phone's settings.
1. Turn off Airplane mode
Airplane mode can help save battery charge since it disables Wi-Fi, cellular and Bluetooth, but you may have forgotten to turn it off. Make sure the airplane icon is dimmed and crossed out.
2. Turn on Wi-Fi
This is one of the most important settings because it can affect Home/Away Assist accuracy so much. Make sure the Wi-Fi icon is highlighted in Control Center.
Note: If your device is running Android OS 4.3 or later, you don't need to have Wi-Fi switched on. Instead, location services can periodically use Wi-Fi even if Wi-Fi isn't on. Make sure you've set Location Scanning to use Wi-Fi. Full instructions are in step 4 below.
3. Turn on Location services and set to High accuracy
Go to Settings and select Location. Make sure that the switch is green to show that it's set to on. Next, check that the Mode is set to High accuracy.
4. Set Location Scanning
This is one of the most important settings because it can affect Home/Away Assist accuracy so much. In Location, tap the menu icon in the top right corner and tap Scanning.
Make sure that Wi-Fi scanning is set to on. This will let your phone use Wi-Fi to narrow down your location even if you have Wi-Fi turned off.
Note: If your device is running a version of the Android OS earlier than 4.3, it may not have a setting option for Location Wi-Fi scanning. As an alternative, you should try to keep Wi-Fi turned on for optimal Home/Away Assist performance.
5. Turn on cellular data
Go to Settings and select Data usage. Make sure the Cellular data switch is green to show that it's set to on. This will help ensure your home switches as quickly as possible when you leave or come back.
Important: If you have also set a cellular data limit to prevent additional charges, Home/Away Assist won't be able to use cellular information after you have exceeded your data limit.
6. Set Nest app settings
Note: The following steps (6, 7, and 8) only apply to Android Marshmallow 6.0 or later.
In addition to general Android OS settings, each app you have installed has individual settings that you may also need to change. In Settings, select Apps and scroll down until you see the Nest app. Tap it and check the following settings in steps 7 and 8:
7. Don't restrict background data
Tap on Data usage and make sure that the Restrict app background data is off.
This is an essential setting to make sure the Nest app can help control your home even when the Nest app isn't running.
8. Enable Location permissions
Go back to the App info screen and tap Permissions. Make sure that Location is on. This will let the Nest app get data from Android's location services.
Note: The Nest app uses the standard location services built into Android. These services use a combination of cell tower signal strength, Wi-Fi network information, and occasionally GPS to narrow down your location if needed.
9. Restart the Nest app
In some cases force quitting the Nest app can disable Home/Away Assist. If you notice that your home isn't switching between Home and Away modes when it should after force quitting, simply quit the app and restart it.
Note: Some Nexus phones (5, 5x, 6 or 6p), and possibly other Android phones, may report your location incorrectly on occasion, so cameras in your home might switch on or off unexpectedly. If this happens, you can remove your camera from Home/Away Assist and set a camera schedule for it to follow.


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DH Workshop in memory of Emanuele Pianta
As part of the activities of Digital Humanities group in FBK, we are organizing a one-day workshop on "Digital Humanities: Current state and Future challenges". The event will include invited talks from prominent scholars and experts from the Digital Humanities area, especially those active at the intersection between humanities and human language technologies. We would like to know more about past successful experiences and ongoing projects all over Europe.
The event will also be held in honor of our colleague Emanuele Pianta, the founder of the DH group at FBK, who passed away tragically one year ago.
There are no registration costs. The event is open to students and researchers for free.
Check out tweets and pictures of the workshop!
Sara Tonelli,
9.30 - 9.45: Andrea Simoni, Paolo Traverso: Welcome
9.45 - 10.15: Oliviero Stock (FBK-irst): "Digital Humanities ante litteram at IRST"
10.15 - 11.00: Antal van den Bosch (Centre for Language Studies, Faculty of Arts, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): "Did it really happen? Discovering events and motifs in historical narratives" [Slides]
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00: Francesca Di Donato (Net7, Pisa): "DH @ Net7" [Slides]
12.00 - 12.30: Andrea Bozzi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli", CNR, Pisa): "Computational Philology at ILC-CNR: methods, applications, results" [Slides: coming soon]
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
Afternoon session. Chair: Bernardo Magnini
14.00 - 14.30: Sara Tonelli (DH-FBK): "Developing a platform for the analysis of historical sources: The ALCIDE project" [Slides]
14.30 - 15.15: Caroline Sporleder (Cluster of Excellence MMCI / Computational Linguistics, Saarland University): "NLP for the Humanities: From Assisted Curation to Knowledge Discovery" [Slides]
15.15 - 15.45: Paolo Ciuccarelli and Giorgio Uboldi (Density Design Lab, Politecnico di Milano): "Design+humanities: (re)thinking communication design in the digital humanities" [Slides]
15.45 - 16.15: Coffee break
16.15 - 16.45: Fabio Cavulli (Laboratorio Bagolini, Univ. of Trento): "AIS, Archaeological Information System: webGIS, databases and archaeological information extraction" [Slides]
16.45 - 17.15: Andrea Bolioli and Riccardo Tasso (Cross-Library S.r.l., Trento): "Exploring the Betrothed Lovers and other literary works" [Slides]
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3 Stone Diamond Wedding Rings
Buying a diamond engagement ring is quite a worthy purchase every man should be fortunate enough to make. Some who do not really know too much about jewelry and diamonds may feel as if they should just go to a store and pick out a ring which looks attractive to them. Although this may do the trick, there are better ways to choosing the best possible type of diamond engagement ring for your loved one. The following will list the top 10 secrets to buying a diamond engagement ring.
Shop Around
Perhaps one of the best secrets to keep in mind if you remember nothing else from this list is to shop around. Buying a ring of this type on a whim will most likely not lead you to the best deal or the best diamond. Therefore, take your time when shopping for an engagement ring, shop around and see what is out there to be purchased.
Buying Online Is an Option
With today's technology, you can purchase almost anything online and the same is true for diamond engagement rings. For those who like the idea of an online purchase, there are plenty of websites which offer diamond rings for sale and may offer quite a good deal as well. Just be certain to get documentation stating the true quality of the ring. The online business should have a 30 day money back guaranty with no questions asked.
Buying the Ring with Wedding Bands Can Save Money
You may also find that if you are in the market for not only an engagement ring but wedding bands as well, purchasing all of these items together can save you money. Certain ring designers will produce engagement rings with matching wedding bands which you can purchase as a set.
White Gold Looks Like Platinum But Is Less Expensive
If your loved one likes silver-tone jewelry but you are unable to afford a platinum diamond engagement ring, consider buying one made of white gold. White gold is a good alternative as it looks like platinum but is much less expensive.
Jewelry Retailers Often Have One or Two Sales Throughout The Year
Another secret to buying a diamond engagement ring is that many jewelry retailers offer sales during the year. Some are holiday sales whereas others are a way for the jewelry store to get rid of the old inventory to make room for new products coming into the store.
Most Beautiful Gold Heart Necklace With Diamonds
You have been dating the person of your dreams for quite some time now. You may or may not be staying together as a couple, either of the two has its own relationship problems; if you do not live as a couple, the feeling of loneliness that surges through your heart every time your partner says the words "good bye" after a lovely day well spent together inspires you to do more and every time you turn mistakenly to share with him or her your feelings, the empty space that greets you, quickly turns your inspiration to do more into a resolve to do more now! For those who have taken their relationships a step further by moving in together.
Due to the loneliness felt each time a partner says good bye, different forms of pressures and feelings set in they could be the need to make your love official for the whole world to see or you both want to start a stable family. Whatever motivates you into finally making the first step to the most important commitment you would ever make in your entire life might not be off importance but the symbol which you must provide while taking this step is of the utmost importance – "The Engagement Ring".
Today purchasing an engagement ring has now become the status quo of identifying yourself as one who is already taken and ready for marriage but have you ever played with the rock or band on your hand and thought about its history? Since it's not specified in the bible or the oldest documents that give detailed accounts of practices before marriage in time passed.
The popular engagement ring of the modern age had its beginning as recent as the 19th century and wasn't always a symbol of undying affection, it was more or less the first part payment of the bride price to be paid to the bride's family but handed over and worn by the bride. It was a kind of insurance provided for the woman, in case the prospective partner which was always the man at that time disbands the marriage thereby compromising the woman's virtue and appeal to other men.
The true meaning and symbol of the engagement ring started shining through in the 20th century, when men gave their fiancées a band that symbolized their love and intentions for a marriage union, the engagement ring signified that she had been taken, out of limits and ready to be married to her true love and it was placed on the fourth finger of the left hand, for that finger was believed to have a vein running through it which came directly from the heart therefore symbolizing the finger as a "heart finger". Earlier rings could just be a piece of silver or an iron band without any adornment, which the woman inserts into her fourth finger on her left hand, this was the practice for a short time till commercial rings and the media took over the engagement scene. The Adverts shown on engagement rings in the middle of the 19th century suggested that men should spend no less than 2 months of their monthly income to purchase the perfect ring for his precious bride to be and just with an advert the definition and style of the engagement ring took a new direction. The modern engagement ring is a symbol that shows that a person is engaged to be married with style. The cut, pricing and make of the engagement ring although not all important, adds a certain flavour to your engagement day or ceremony and has spurned a new jewellery market all on its own. The Engagement ring now comes in different designs; it could be a band made of precious materials such as Gold, Platinum or Silver or it could be a band laced with gem stones to provide an irresistible beauty to the ring. The different major designs of engagement rings shall be discussed below.
Different Types of Engagement Rings
Solitaire rings; these are the quintessential classic engagement rings, the solitaire ring consists of a band and a gem stone; the band could be made from any material of your choice ranging from gold to platinum while the gemstone should also be chosen to fit your peculiar characteristics, it could be diamonds or sapphire cut in different ways that would be explained below.
Engagement Rings with Side stones: These exquisite rings are made with gemstones inserted into the sides of the band, which can be made of any metal material depending on your taste. Some side stones ring also come with a central stone at the middle. The popular gemstones used for this design of rings are usually diamonds but you can personally customize your gemstone to the taste of your love.
The Three Stone Rings or the Trinity ring: this is a ring design with its own romantic history, it is believed that each stone in the three stone ring symbolizes the past, present and future of the time in which a couple has spent together and the ring would bind them together for all eternity. The ring design is that of an immaculate platinum band with three exquisite gemstones; one at the middle with two place strategically by the sides. The gemstones are usually mad of diamonds but you are allowed to customize yours into three different types of gemstones if you so desire.
The Matching Bridal Set: this is a beautiful combination of both the engagement ring and the actual wedding band, there is no set design on how a matching bridal set should look like but it is generally good to have either the engagement ring or the wedding ring accentuating the other and vice versa I.e. an exquisite platinum engagement ring with a gemstone should be paired with a simple Gold classic wedding band, providing the bride with a touch of colour. Tension Rings: let the name not act as a barrier to you when considering the tension ring for it is one of those designs we call simple but indefinitely classy, it consists of a band made from any material of your choice, tightly holding a gemstone in its grip with pressure i.e. the gemstone is not held by prongs but clasped in between the two sides of the band material you chose. The band material serves as its holding support. It is highly recommended you go for two contrasting colours for the band and the gemstone to bring out the true beauty of the tension ring.
The Different Cuts of Gemstones
The Cushion cut: this method of cutting a gemstone, gives the stone a classic shape that is between a rectangle and an oval, it is one of the most popular jewellery cuts and it's also known as the antique cut.
The Marquise cut: the method employed in cutting the shape of the marquise cut gives the gemstone an oval shape in the middle with ends. This ring has a classic elven or should I say earthy look that brings out the supernatural beauty in your bride.
The Emerald cut: the emerald gem naturally has its own defined shape and this cut method clearly mirrors it, the emerald cut is a rectangular cut with cropped corners protruding at its four ends.
The Asscher cut: this method of cutting the gemstone gives it a shape people say is similar to the emerald rectangle but it is more octagonal in shape than rectangle, the octagonal shape helps it catch light and reflect it in different directions. It's a perfectly beautiful cut for a rings gemstone.
The Princess cut: this is one of the most used cuts on gemstones, it is square in shape and helps bring out the beauty of the gemstone used quite demurely. The Round cut: this cut general looks round but its more than that for it has different spikes added to its surfaces making it one of, if not the most shining gemstone cut of the lot, it is known amongst women for its ability to blind the eye (sparkle).
The Heart cut: perfect for the romantics at heart and shaped to belly their hearts, it is a simple and classy cut that is quite popular amongst women. After giving a general expose on engagement ring designs and cuts, the next step is to bring to your notice the leaders in the industry that provides you with the best and most expensive rings- in some cases- out there.
Bill Barnes: the producers of some of the most exquisite and expensive engagement bands out there. Tiffany: everybody knows the name Tiffany this designer house also provides customers with top of the range rings and prices defer. Tacori: the Tacori design is also one of the most sought after engagement rings in the jewellery industry the cut and arrangement of its designs are always a joy to behold.
In choosing a ring your budget must also come into play so either you purchase Tiffany's or an average engagement ring, it's the thought that counts.


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Cartoon Network USA Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race To Premiere Monday 7th September: Total Drama Travels Around The World!
Cartoon Network USA will premiere a new animated installment of the Total Drama franchise called Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race on Monday 7th September at 5pm ET/PT. Unlike previous seasons of Total Drama; The Ridonculous Race will feature 18 contestant pairs in a race around the world. Each pair will face difficult challenges in each country and will need to stay together until the end as there is a $1 million prize for the winning pair. Like previous seasons, the show will feature contestants with diverse personalities and will be a parody of a reality TV series, but this time, The Ridonculous Race is loosely based and was inspired by the popular show, The Amazing Race which has the same theme.
Episodes of The Ridonculous Race can be accessed on the Cartoon Network App the morning before the official premiere on the Cartoon Network TV channel.
Good Luck Contestants!
Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race is produced by Fresh TV in Canada and is distributed by CAKE Entertainment.


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A nice parallel of Dat Dude BP. 2011 Bowman Green #'d/450. Goes nicely with a few other colors I have of this one.
2011 Bowman Chrome Prospects Blue Dave Sappelt #'d/250. Sappelt played a little with the Reds, then the Cubs. He's now with the Phillies.
2011 Topps Sparkle Paul Janish
2009 Topps 206 Bronze Brandon Phillips
2005 Bowman Gold Tyler Pelland
2010 Bowman Chrome Prospects Green Xfractors Dan Tuttle
2013 Topps Chrome Refractors Jay Bruce
2008 SP Authentic Achievements Insert
2008 Allen & Ginter


text: MTV Movies contributes a piece of news that should prove absolutely heartbreaking to anyone holding out hope for a new "Police Academy" sequel…and that includes Steve Guttenberg: "Producer Jerry Weintraub, whose 'Ocean's Twelve' opens next week, is no longer interested in reviving the 'Police Academy' series and will instead focus his energy on his 'Oh, God!' remake starring Ellen DeGeneres. 'I made the first one in 1976, and I've been trying to figure out how to do another one since then…And then Ellen just came to me and said, 'I'd play God if you would take a chance and do that.' I said, 'Take a chance? That's the best idea I've heard! Let's go for it.'" Somewhere Michael Winslow is making a sad (yet oddly funny) sound with his mouth.


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Local students designed ads, earned money for the classroom and other Bits & Pieces…
We hope our readers are enjoying the imaginative and creative designs by Francis S. Grandinetti Elementary School's budding advertising designers.
The student-designed advertisements have appeared on the pages of The Ridgway Record's Friday editions published over the last few weeks, and the last set of the students' artwork is in today's newspaper. The Design-An-Ad classroom project was conducted with the FSG Elementary School in cooperation with our advertisers and involved almost 50 well-behaved 11-year-olds from two or three classes.
A few weeks ago, I was invited up to Mrs. Raubenstrauch's class [she is quite inspiring]. The kids were so excited to spend a few hours talking about how someone in the newspaper field uses the skills they are just now learning — math, English and the art of design. I drew all kinds of pictures, did some math, explained how creative writing can be fun and used to bring a community together on a wide variety of topics. I told them all about how my co-workers place ads in the paper, how the ads are thought up, sold, designed and crafted, then printed on our pages next to the news as messages in a mass media form [fun stuff indeed].
We offered to let the students design real ads for real local businesses. We explain how our salesperson Aimee Coder would sell their ads and print them in the newspaper. We told the kids that we would donate money to the classroom from local businesses that paid for the ads so they could benefit from the little workshop.
They got quite busy talking about local stores and commercial plants and what products they knew about. They made drawings, sketched logos and wrote clever descriptions about their favorite stores and service providers. They even Googled and/or called some of the local shops for relevant information.
The first class lasted about two hours. Then I returned a week later for an hour or so to see all the amazing ads they were working on and to offer more ideas to help them along. After the students created the ads, Aimee Coder took them out to the local advertisers' shops. During this past Tuesday's visit, Aimee told the class "The business community here in Ridgway really embraced the project, they were so excited about all the ads." From the feedback Mrs. Raubenstrauch gave Aimee and I, this was a valuable language, business and graphic arts lesson for the combined classes.
I would like to make a comment here and share an observation; be proud of your local children. I have taught this little "newspaper classroom workshop" in a few other cities so I have been around quite a number fourth and fifth grade students in these two- and three-hour classes. The kids here at FSG and the kids at the Johnsonburg elementary school [I taught this same class there last year] are so respectful and very well behaved for those hours — that really and truly speaks volumes about the quality of the teachers and you local parents [smile].
How can you get this program in your school? I'm glad you asked [laughing]. If you are an educator and have some interest, just call me, we can make a plan [my cell, 509-770-6598].


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Why? "RaTaTam, Reykjavik's 2017 Artistic Group of the Year, challenges audiences with a fascinating combination of serious issue and comic packaging. An exciting contribution well in line with the wave of Icelandic culture currently sweeping the world."
HUSH! is based on interviews with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. The interviews made it clear to RaTaTam that tough times call for both tears and laughter. That became a guiding light staging the play and the hope is that it heals and entertains the audience as well as being thought provoking. The set of SUSS! is a reference toLouise Bourgeois' work "Cells" portraying human pain and fear. Sometimes home is a prison surrounded by invisible bars.
RaTaTam, awarded the Art Group of Reykjavik 2017, use the stage as a platform to burst the bubbles of society and give wings to beauty. SUSS! aims to break the overwhelming silence that surrounds domestic violence.
This event is in english
- Charlotte Bøving (Director)
- Þórunn María Jónsdóttir (Scenographer)
- Helgi Svavar Helgason (Sound Designer)
- Arnar Ingmarsson (Lighting Designer)
- Guðmundur Ingi Þorvaldsson (Actor)
- Guðrún Bjarnadóttir (Actor)
- Halldóra Rut Baldursdóttir (Actor)
- Hildur Magnúsdóttir (Actor)
- Laufey Elíasdóttir (Actor) RaTaTam (Playwright)
Teater V i Prøvehallen
Porcelænstorvet 4
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On the heels of Janet Reitman's splendid 2011 book INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY comes another superbly reported work on the world's newest religion, GOING CLEAR by Lawrence Wright. This is the man who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE LOOMING TOWER, the single best source for anyone who wants to understand why 9/11 happened.
A staff writer for The New Yorker, Mr. Wright published "The Apostate," a major piece in the magazine's February 14, 2011 issue, on the Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis, who left Scientology after 34 years of membership. The magazine is highly regarded for its meticulous fact-checking procedures, and the church is infamous for its extreme litigiousness. Thus, in September 2010, two Scientologists and their four attorneys met with a New Yorker team and brought with them "forty-eight three-ring binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet, to respond to the 971 questions the checkers had posed." Mr. Wright looked at this material and realized he had just been handed the equivalent of years' worth of research, albeit from the church's point of view.
GOING CLEAR presents a different perspective than Ms. Reitman's book, also the expansion of a magazine piece (hers in Rolling Stone), which benefited from impressive access inside the organization. Mr. Wright has three stories to tell: the history of Scientology, its attachment to Hollywood, and what he calls "the prison of belief," which Paul Haggis finally escaped after spending more than half his life there. Like THE LOOMING TOWER, it attempts to answer very basic questions. How did this come to be? How can otherwise rational people believe in something so zealously? What is the attraction, and how is it preserved and nurtured?
Scientology is of course the creation of pulp-magazine author L. Ron Hubbard. It evolved from "Dianetics," "the modern science of mental health" whose auto-psychoanalytic properties intrigued people like legendary science fiction editor John W. Campbell (who, to be Clear, also believed in mental telepathy and other psionic powers). A resulting work, DIANETICS, which Scientologists call "Book One," was published in 1950 and became a mammoth bestselling sensation, enriching Hubbard beyond compare. But the scientific community was aghast, often vocally, which fanned in Hubbard a resentment of traditional psychiatry, quickly rising to hatred, an aspect still evident among the faithful that you can observe when, say, Tom Cruise confronts Matt Lauer on the TODAY show.
Out of curiosity, I've tried to read DIANETICS more than once. I can't get past thirty pages or so, because I always see before me a bit of verbal jujitsu that makes me recoil. As it begins, we are advised to have a reference book nearby, because we should never read past an unfamiliar word without immediately coming to understand it. That's very good advice. Helpfully, DIANETICS provides footnoted definitions for potentially difficult words. But soon the footnotes become self-serving: for instance, we get only one particular connotation. And before long, Hubbard starts making up words. Now our trusty reference book is useless. All that's left is DIANETICS.
An almost ridiculously prolific author with a galloping imagination, Hubbard sold fiction by the pound in the heyday of pulp magazines. He uses the same method for the official recounting of his own life, which is replete with verifiable falsehoods. So most non-Scientologists assume that the bizarre intergalactic cosmology which Hubbard concocted (it makes Philip K. Dick look like a Mennonite) was the cynical output of a space-opera aficionado. Certainly when Dianetics morphed into Scientology, and this "scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment" took on the trappings of a religion, great riches appeared which needed to be sheltered from taxation. Attaining higher and higher "OT" levels (Operating Thetan; don't ask) costs hundreds of thousands of dollars: the next rung on the spiritual ladder is always just out of reach. Yet if "Commodore" Hubbard retreated to a sea-spanning yacht to avoid landlubbing lawmen, he still spent thousands of hours refining Scientological techniques, and Mr. Wright suggests this was unnecessary labor if the Founder only wanted to sit back and count the dough. It's quite possible that Hubbard believed that with "auditing" and the "E-meter," he was really onto something.
When Hubbard "dropped the body" on January 24, 1986, Scientology was at a crossroads. There were several senior members capable of moving the church ahead, but the most ambitious of all was David Miscavige, who used strategy, cunning and betrayal to seize power. As with Hubbard's life and military record, nearly every unflattering assertion Mr. Wright makes about Miscavige is denied by the church in a flurry of footnotes, which are so numerous that it's obvious lawyers placed them there: of course the church denies everything.
Miscavige is content to let others be the "face" of Scientology, perhaps still smarting from a disastrous 1992 appearance on ABC's NIGHTLINE that won host Ted Koppel an Emmy, and that Mr. Wright describes in excruciating detail. (Miscavige has never gone on "secular" television since that public humiliation.) But, even more lavish and imperious than the Commodore, he has been instrumental in making real the Hubbard dictum that celebrity endorsements were the key to legitimizing Scientology. And the best place to find tender, self-doubting egos, hungry for any possible perceived advantage? Hollywood.
Miscavige and his colleagues cobbled together an A-list so broad that one aspect of their pitch actually became, look at the network you can tap! Though they're not immune from financial solicitation, celebrities are treated quite differently from the rank and file, especially the pitiful souls working for subsistence in the central "Sea Org" under billion-year-contracts. The Scientology experience of such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta – and, once he made it in the movies, Paul Haggis – takes place in posh Celebrity Centres around the world. Most mundane members are cut off from outside friends and family, and if they "blow," not only do they face huge unpaid bills for "auditing," they're also cut away from any family that remains within the church, inside the "prison of belief."
Hubbard's spacefaring story of the Galactic Confederation sounds like gibberish, and it may well be. But as Mr. Wright suggests, it takes a leap of, yes, faith to believe the underlying origin tales of any religion, from Joseph Smith and the angel Moroni to the Judeo-Christian oceangoing vessel that supposedly held two members of every single species on earth. Regarding the top of a faith-based hierarchy living in splendor and opulence, as did Hubbard and now Miscavige, look no further than the Catholic Church. As Mr. Wright notes, it doesn't matter whether you think Scientology is a religion. The IRS does, and thus endeth the issue.
Paul Haggis says he's amazed that he bought in for so long. But nearly every Scientologist has had a very human reason to join the church, like most spiritual seekers in other faiths. (One common cause, as with other religions, is being born into it.) Most of Mr. Wright's on-record sources are former members who "blew," therefore they must be apostates and liars; this never-changing knee-jerk reaction by the church is what makes Scientology seem like the insular cult many believe it to be. But unlike most other faiths, the truth here is slippery, even on something as mundane as membership. Mr. Wright reports that the church claims 8 million members worldwide. They'd better be worldwide, because the Statistical Abstract of the United States estimates there are only 25,000 Americans who call themselves Scientologists, and as our very brave author wryly notes, "that's less than half the number identifying themselves as Rastafarians."


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Green Valley Home inspections is NACHI certified to inspect Log Homes
If you are buying a log home in Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear, Wrightwood, or surrounding areas, make sure you have a certified log home inspection. Most home inspectors are not certified in inspecting log homes. Log homes have some characteristics that are very different from conventional
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Its that time of year again when we make a trip down to Kagami's hometown and visit the shrine where she works at to celebrate her birthday.
We made our way down to Washinomiya pretty early from Akihabara, and took the first train.
Since the first train didn't go all the way to Washinomiya, we had to make a change at Kita-senju.
Once we arrived, the old Eagle's Palace was just the way we left it.
There was a little event going on. The main event was on Sunday the 5th where the voice actors came, but frankly I wasn't the least bit interested in the 3D section. I instead came on the actual day itself. There were 77 pieces of cake left for today. An auspicious number indeed.
I got ticket number 2! Hurray for twins on Tuesday.
We met up with other Lucky Star fans, and had some awesome birthday cake for Kagami and Tsukasa.
The other guys brought some of their 1/4 statues too for photography. I made sure to take advantage of the very good lighting conditions.
They are extremely cute yes. But Kagami is cutest.
Also there was this awesome Kagami cushion sitting conspicuously on a table nearby in the cafe.
The cake was awesome, and Kagami agrees. We had some good noms.
As usual since it was Tanabata as well, a whole lot of people put their wishes up to be sent to the star-crossed lovers to be granted.
Many people were wishing for a second season. Since Altair is about 16 light years away, it'll probably take a while for this wish to be granted.
More wishes for a second season. I put one up too.
Some random Russian guy cheering for Aikatsu. The text reads (based off my broken understanding of Cyrillic):
"Daisuki na Natsuki Mikuruga, Aikatsu 8 ni tousen shimasu youni!! Aikatsu Saikou!"
Even more second season wishes.
At this point the laws of physics might as well go to hell and let the wish come true.
This being a shrine, there was no lack of emas with wishes written on them.
A nice 4-combo of great ema art.
This one seemed to have come on last month.
Of course, due to the latest Kagami cosplaying Kaga from Kancolle craze, we get some great crossover art as well.
Someone sends wishes to Washinomiya town too
More Aircraft Carrier Kagami art.
Kagami as a Miko art as well. You can see the Washinomiya shrine fields in the background.
More Kagami. This one says his circle finally got into Comiket and hopes he gets his stuff out in time for Summer.
Lots more great emas with the main cast from Lucky Star
This one deserves some mention as one of the most coloured ema tied up today.
My buddies Matt and Jes also put up a great ema earlier this year, its still there because its awesome!
We left pretty early since I had to go to work, but after a bit of chit chatting and enjoying the little celebration, it was a great start to the day.


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B-Brixx - That Life Feat. Chevy Woods (Prod. By Ricky P) [Unsigned Artist]
This is the first video off of B-Brixx's upcoming mixtape Addicted II the Life. The song features Chevy Woods of Taylor Gang and was produced by Ricky P of Taylor Gang. http://youtube.com/412brixx
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Graphene ultracapacitor firm Skeleton Technologies has appointed Wolfgang Breme as the company's chief financial officer.
Breme (pictured) was appointed to help the Estonia-based firm take advantage of an "upturn in the interest for ultracapacitors", as the company positions itself to gain a foothold in the ultracapacitor energy storage market.
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