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Google Sheets is by far the most popular spreadsheet app online, with good reason: free with any Google Apps account, it's both powerful and easy to use. But even the best organized data collection can turn into a confusing eyesore. That's why we're pleased to share the Lucidchart add-on for Google Sheets.
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Enough! Prince Harry Says Leave New Love Meghan Markle Alone!
Enough! Prince Harry Says Leave New Love Meghan Markle Alone! I am absolutely thrilled to see that Prince Harry has found love across the pond with gorgeous American actress Meghan Markle. Prince Harry is a stand up guy it seems as he has acknowledged their relationship and spoken out against the racist and sexist hate against his new love. Everyone does have a right to their opinions, but at the end of the day the only opinions that matter belong to the two love birds.
From The UK Daily Mail:
Prince Harry has today finally confirmed he has been dating Suits actress Meghan Markle for 'a few months'.
In an extraordinary statement on his love life, Harry, 32, said he is 'worried about Ms Markle's safety' following the 'wave of abuse and harassment' she has faced since rumours of their relationship first surfaced nine days ago.
He lashed out at media intrusion and the 'sexism and racism of social media trolls' in a statement which said 'this is not a game – it is her life and his' and that he is 'deeply disappointed that he has not been able to protect her'.
The royal's secret love affair with the 35-year-old actress was revealed less than a fortnight ago on Sunday, October 30 after they were given away by matching friendship bracelets they have both worn for months.
A lengthy and strongly-worded statement issued by Kensington Palace said there had been a 'line crossed' in the abuse and harassment she has faced and it was 'not right' that his girlfriend 'should be subjected to such a storm'. (continue reading)
If this super cute, happy couple are in it for the long haul, Meghan has to know what she is in for here. She most likely has had criticism as no matter how good you are, someone will always have something negative to say. But now she needs to prepare for trash talking trolls 2.0, paparazzi Intrusion 2.0 and maybe even bitter, jealous or backstabbing family and friends ready to sell her out for a few tabloid dollars (or Euros). Thankfully, Meghan has a man like Prince Harry who has shown the world that he will protector his girl. Leave her alone and they will be fine. I say the possible future princess did good. True Cinderella story and the glass slipper fits perfectly!

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Where the Wild Things Are
Posted by gauloises1 on January 3, 2010
It's the time of year where we always get photos of players posing with animals in the run up to the Australian Open. Don't ask me why, it just happens. So far we've had Jelena Dokic with koalas and kangaroos …
… Ana Ivanovic with a – what is that, a sea lion?
… Flavia with a horse …
… and Pavs with Baggy. (Don't tell me he's not a wild thing.)
But it's not all fun and games and cute animals. There is also Serious Cultural Learning going on, as evidenced by Virginie Razzano and Francesca Schiavone with members of a Maori group in Auckland …
… and Maria Sharapova hanging out with some monks in Thailand.
I don't even know any more.
And that completes your lightning round-up of recent WTA promotional activities.
7 Responses to "Where the Wild Things Are"
January 3, 2010 at 8:53 pm
"and Pavs with Baggy"
total capationage! 😆
January 3, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Pavs gets the best animal of all!! 😛
So disappointed in Ana that she is wearing a tennis top outside the court…..LEARN TO DRESS PROPERLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 3, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Maoris are so clear about their feelings regarding female looks.
January 4, 2010 at 3:53 am
snort snort snort guffaw.
- January 4, 2010 at 3:53 am
January 4, 2010 at 6:46 am
Odd observation — JD's face lights up so much with those (pearl?) earrings she's seen wearing here. She could wear one on court. And find clothes that fit her.
January 4, 2010 at 7:11 am
laughing too hard at the Masha pic – don't know if it's just the camera angle or what but she's on her knees and as tall as a regular-sized monk.
January 4, 2010 at 1:31 pm
I can assured you that Marsha on her knees could be taller than typical Thai people
(She's 1.88m. minus her leg being folded say 0.38 m. = 1.50 = my height!)
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Promoted by the Undersecretary of Economic Development through investBA, Investment & Trade Promotion Agency and the ENTUR, the Law, brings tax credits for the hospitality industry, to promote investment, job creation and consequently the economic development of the City.
Through tax incentives to the local hotel sector, the Law presents a system of incentives to encourage the development, remodeling and upgrading of the existing hotel square:
For new establishments: up to 27.5% of the investment.
For existing establishments: up to 60% of the investment.
In each case, the invested sum will be computed on the local turnover tax of the establishment.
In this way, we seek to be the gateway to Latin America by targeting more demanding tourism and attracting investors who had not yet focused on the City.
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I have to be honest, I am 3 posts behind and tomorrow is our photo blogger luncheon. Now I find myself in a mad rush to get caught up. This is just the motivation I needed to get myself focused… 🙂 I have the photos taken I just need to make the time to write my posts!
This bridge is in Indiana near one of my childhood homes. I can remember going to the Covered Bridge Festivals as a kid. I can vividly remember when the bridge turned 100 years old in 1973. Wow, I feel old when I start to do that math!
I visited Indiana a few weeks ago and I made sure that I took the time to stop by the bridge to take photos with this blog post in mind. I was also reminded while taking the photos just how friendly the people are in Indiana. As people approached the bridge they all stopped before entering to make sure they weren't getting in my shot. One nice man even rolled down his window to see if I needed any help. Such a nice place to have spent my childhood…
This bridge is located in Spencerville, Indiana. It was built in 1873. It is the only remaining covered bridge in DeKalb County. It was placed on the National Historical Registry in 1981.


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April 2016
Helping residents in the private rented sector
Betsy Dillner
Over the past decade, the housing market has undergone an earthquake. With house prices out of reach in much of the country and a shortage of social housing, increasing numbers of people have no option but to rent from a private landlord. As a result, the population in the private rented sector has doubled in the past decade, and now outnumber social tenants.
The response of local authorities to this trend has been mixed. Some have long recognised the challenges facing increasing numbers of their residents, from rents costing more than half a household's income to chronic negligence of landlords towards the condition of their properties. A number of pioneering councils have introduced landlord licensing to streamline the enforcement process, and are thinking creatively about how to build more housing at social rents.
But conversations Generation Rent has had with councillors and tenants reveal that some in local government still have a lot of catching up to do. Often we get the impression that the only people they're interested in are council tenants and leaseholders, despite the fact that more of their constituents rent from a private landlord – including many on council estates.
This is understandable given that local authorities have a lot more power and responsibility over their own stock, but it seems easy for them to forget that it's also their job to enforce standards in private rented housing. One tenant told us that after months of trying and failing to get her landlord to fix a leak in her bedroom she, quite reasonably, called the council's housing department. Instead of passing her on to environmental health, they just advised her on how to apply for social housing.
Another tenant related a conversation he'd had with a council candidate who was out canvassing. Asked what he would do for the 1 in 3 local people who rented privately, the candidate rambled enthusiastically about "staircasing". He didn't win. [NOTE to councillors: of you say this word to private renters, they're more likely to think you're talking about the landlord finally fixing that loose bit of carpet on the way to the first floor].
To be fair to councils and their members, they might not have taken notice of private renters because we're not a loud presence in local politics. Private renters have no idea whether they'll still be living in the same borough – let alone the same home – in a year's time, so they are less likely to be engaged in their local community, and less likely to coalesce into local renter groups in the same way that social tenants have.
This has been changing over the past few years, with groups emerging in boroughs that have seen rapid change in the housing market; including inner London, Oxford and Brighton. Generation Rent is a national group giving these local groups a voice in the national debate, and nurturing campaigns where tenants need representation.
One activity we have on a local level is research into letting agents and the fees they charge through the website www.lettingfees.co.uk. Local authorities have responsibility to ensure that letting agents publish their fees, so we hope that this will be a resource for them as well as local flat-hunters. The research will also help bring together local activists, and help develop a relationship between the council and its private renter population.
And with local authorities set to gain powers and resources from the Housing & Planning Bill, we hope they start giving local renters in the private sector the attention they need.
Betsy Dillner is Director of Generation Rent
For more information about Generation Rent visit www.generationrent.org


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Got Milk?
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Ever since I got here, we've had countless of discussions about tainted milk incident that happened here in China, some of my team members have babies, and fortunately they didn't consume chinese produced milk, but they all share the same distraught and scare
and disbelief of what could happen to their babies. This incident is really shaking everybody in CHina, there were incidents in the past that affected consumers outside of China, but this time when the incident strikes home, it really makes everybody think twice about how much is too much. To make matters worse, most parents only have one baby thanks to the one child policy imposed by Chinese government.
I was told that chinese farmers were very "creative", they were trying to include a certain chemical that is supposed to increase the amount of protein in the milk, and at a glance it does seem to increase the protein level, but if you examine that closely it's actually not the case. And this has affected nearly all milk products made in China. This is very terrible to the core, but on the bright side, I do hope that by this incident, manufacturers will realize that they cannot mess with consumers and get
away easily, trust are really hard to earned, and so easy to lose.
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As a Roman Catholic I have an interest in church policy and tradition. These articles are all from over a century ago containing information on Catholic Cemeteries, their care and conditions.
From the New York Courier and Enquirer
And there-in silence till the judgment day-
the orator, whose all persuading tongue
had moved the nations with resistless sway."
According to time-honored custom, the Catholic cemetery was yesterday the scene of solemn and interesting observances. The friendship and affection of the living, showed themselves in a thousand appropriate phases for the dead. Here burned tall tapered candles, typical of inextinguishable love; there were festoons of flowers, indicative of the youth and beauty of the departed one, over whose tomb they were wreathed. Here was a tomb arbored over with cypress, grief's insignia; and there another shrouded over with a dark mourning pall. A father might be seen, with tearful eye, bending over the grave of a beloved child; a wife weeping for him to whom her life and love had been plighted, or a child with the impress of youth and innocence on his fair face, offering up its orisons for a fond parent.
Was not such a scene calculated to elevate our opinion of the living, and to cherish with more ardor our affection of the dead?
The colored servants of the ancient population always form a considerable proportion of those who on All Saints' Day throng the cemetery; their conduct on such occasions is highly creditable to their feelings and to the kindliness of their nature. They remember with an intense affection, which only terminates with their lives, the master who in sickness succored them; the mistress whose goodness made life's burdens light; and the child, who, from infancy till the time of its premature demise, they nursed and watched over with little less than a mother's care. They deem it a duty, and esteem it a privilege, to repair to the cemetery on All Saints' Day, and dress and deck out the graves of those to whom they held such relation, which they do in a manner that does credit to their untutored taste, and to their innate affection.
But while the great majority of tombs in the cemetery bore evidence of the lasting remembrance of the living for those whose remains were inured beneath them, there were still many over which no lamp burned-before which no flowers were strewn. These graves were namesless-they were the graves of strangers.
If friends their tenants have, they are far away.
A Burial Made by the Order of the Courts in a Catholic Cemetery
Source: New Haven Register (New Haven, CT) March 3, 1884
Strange Encounter between Two Funeral Parties in the Catholic Cemetery at Ansonia
Ansonia, Conn., July1-In the Catholic cemetery yesterday, a scene was enacted that probably never occurred before. It was humorous and still pathetic and bid fair to become a warlike scene.
Max Terle, a young German, died Sunday and yesterday the funeral occurred at 2:30 p.m.
It happened that the body of Rinardo, the Italian who was drowned down the river Saturday, was brought to the same cemetery for burial. Their grave was unfinished, the German's was completed. the Italians reasoned that one hole inn the earth was as good as another and proceeded to lower the body of their comrade in the German's grave. At this state of proceedings the German funeral filed into the yard and found the prepared resting place for their dead occupie4d by a son of Italy. They demanded an explanation. The Italians did not explain very readily, and for a few moments it looked as though a riot would be the outcome. Finally the more cool-headed Germans persuaded the others to take the matter philosophically, and wait until the grave intended for the Italian was finished and bury their companion, which they did. The Italians remained in the yard until every German had departed.
Claim Jumpers After Catholic Ground in Leadville, Col.
Leadville, Col., June 28-The Catholic cemetery here is surrounded by a guard of heavily armed men placed there for the purpose of keeping claim jumpers at a distance.
Some time ago the pastor of a Catholic church applied for a patent for the cemetery ground as a placer, but owing to some defect, the papers were returned, and as the matter stands now, the land is open to location.
Priest Refuses to Permit Burial of Suicide in Catholic Cemetery.
El Paso, Tex., March 9.-The refusal of a cemetery agent to honor an injunction issued by Judge James R Harper to prevent interference with the burial of a 16-year-old Soledad Armendariz, a Catholic girl who committed suicide here Sunday night, almost precipitated a riot at Evergreen cemetery this afternoon and resulted in the presence of deputy sheriffs during the ceremony.
When Father Pinto of a local church served notice on Faulstino Armendariz that his daughter could not be buried in the Catholic portion of the cemetery, the father went to the burial ground, presented a deed to
his family plot and prepared the grave for his child. He was ejected by D. H. Anderson, agent at the cemetery.


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The swoof planet is an alternate area to the village accessed by building the rocket ship at level 22, three area expansions are accessed by building bridges, another few are accessed by using the magic bird and stardust. There are many swoof planet only items and plants e.g. Candy corn, star fruit and moon cheese.
Swoof huts are available to build after completing constelotions in the obsevertory hut.
Similar to the mountain, you can excavate craters for stardust, complete stars ( to fill constellations ) mystery eggs and mystery seeds as well as xp and coins.
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Bob Arnold
Vice President Logistics & Field Support
Bob Arnold's nearly 20 years of service to the firm covering various strategic leadership roles, positions him ideally to provide various requirements supporting the growth and expansion of Topps' U.S. operations. His respected knowledge and proven professional approach that he brings to business, including product knowledge, supports our needs to meet a wide range of challenges and provide smooth transition associated with Topps continued growth. Bob is "home grown", having joined Topps in 2000 as a Sales Manager. He grew through the ranks to become Vice-President of Sales, was promoted in 2007 to VP and General Sales Manager, and now serves this important role overseeing logistics and support to field activities which are fueled by sales growth and expansion of distribution.


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Dint cho mamma teach u nuttin?
posted December 14th, 2018 at 8:52 AM
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Thank you for posting
Dec 14, 2018 at 9:23am
Ditto on that, what are people thinking?
I love the folks with the super long, extended yawn with their gaping hole wide open for 5+ seconds.
Good grief!
E. Post
Dec 14, 2018 at 1:16pm
Not to mention smelling bad breath. Covering one's mouth when yawning is just being considerate of others -- not to mention good manners.
Heh heh heh
Dec 14, 2018 at 6:45pm
Sarlacc! Aw yiss
And the sneezing too
Dec 15, 2018 at 12:49am
Good God, how much snot do you need to launch into the air or spray across the computer screens? Other people have to use them too
Dec 15, 2018 at 5:59pm
It's good to know there are folks out there who have so little going on in their lives that they have to find an annoyance so petty. Good thing you're not living in Syria!
@ thanks
Dec 17, 2018 at 7:27pm
Pot, meet kettle lol


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By Paul Ellis, managing director at Wax Digital
Traditionally, formalising procurement was something more akin to the world of larger enterprises than smaller businesses. But as any finance director in a growing business will know, keeping control of costs as the business rapidly gets bigger and more complex is difficult to do. Purchasing processes can suddenly become more time-consuming and the number of suppliers can grow. Not only that, more people and approvals get thrown into the mix, leading to lengthy and costly procedures which then end up back on finance's to do pile. A formal approach to procurement can help get a firmer grip on spending that stops it from being a heavy burden. If fact our research shows that many smaller high-performing businesses are deciding to reap its benefits too.
Surveying 260 UK business, we found that the procurement 'tipping point' – the stage when a business decides to implement procurement – actually happens when a business is still early on in its quest for growth. The results were as follows:
- 75% said procurement was required once a company reaches £50M turnover
- 77% claimed to need procurement by the time a business has 100 supplier contracts
- 72% said once 500 invoices per month are being processed, procurement was essential.
Given that procurement is mostly introduced while a business is in its earlier stages of expansion, the findings indicate that it isn't a by-product of success but an enabler. Many smaller businesses aren't afraid to take action when they need to manage finances better, and they see how procurement can help.
Looking at what businesses aim to achieve in rolling out procurement, making their increasing spend more efficient is high on the agenda. This is illustrated by two of the immediate priorities that businesses cited being spend analysis and integrating procurement and finance systems. Managing spend isn't the only thing high on their procurement agenda however. Two other important areas were contract management and supplier relationship management, showing that businesses in this position are also looking at working with suppliers more efficiently.
But while many smaller businesses aren't letting their size stop them introducing procurement, it's not always an easy ride. The function being new to some employees might mean that many are cynical about its need resist the change. The barriers to look out for include not gaining senior management buy-in, cited by 35%, followed by managing cultural changes and a lack of internal knowledge, scoring 27% and 19% respectively. But those identifying the need for procurement should argue a case for it, even before the need has led to crisis-point. 48% of businesses say that they rolled it out in response to a negative situation, compared to 31% who said it was a pre-planned move. Embracing the tipping point as a smaller business isn't enough unless it's tackled early in order to prevent the hindrances of no procurement.
A business experiencing fast growth may simply not have the resources to expand without hitting some obstacles along the way. Given that fast growth often means a rise in spend and more suppliers and invoices, it's often the finance team that feels the pain. But if it takes a more formal approach to procurement that improves activities such as spend and contract management, growth can mean a much more smooth transition. It's a positive step forward that procurement is no longer seen as a function for the larger business with hundreds of suppliers and thousands of invoices. It means that finance teams in smaller businesses can now focus on growth thanks to procurement processes being less complex.


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Problems When Painting Human Hair
|How to Paint Human Hair
Rachel Shirley
- Using the same brown, white, beige or black colour to represent a whole head of hair.
- Trying to illustrate every strand of hair with fine linear brushstrokes.
- Painting the hair in accordance to an idealised root pattern, such as one that converges from one point at the top of the head.
- Treating the hair as a separate entity to the rest of the portrait.
- Using the same tone or colour to represent whole strands of hair from roots to tip.
- Using only white to represent the highlights on hair.
- Trying to illustrate eyebrows and eyelashes in a purely linear fashion or using the same colour throughout.
- Using black dots to represent stubble or shaved hair.
Whether the artist is painting from a photograph or from life, it is important to make sensitive observations when painting hair. This means not making assumptions about how hair should look like and to paint what the eye sees. In order to paint convincing hair in portraits, the artist can make improvement by the following tips.
- Not every strand of hair will be visible from root to tip. Some will tuck under or undulate at various points. Others will stray from the head, due to static.
- Human hair often contains strands of different shades and even colours. Blond hair, for instance often contain darker strands in the lower layers. Dark hair will often appear bleached on the upper layers due to sun exposure. Some heads of hair contain flecks of salt and pepper.
- Hair will often contain the most unlikely colours. Black hair, for instance, may appear blue at the highlights. Brown hair often contains crimsons or even violets. Blond hair often contains honey shades.
- The tonal value of hair will often appear to vary according to the thickness of the hair layer. Areas around the hairline, edges of the eyebrows or at the nape will appear paler than where hair is thicker.
- Good photographic reference will help when painting hair. This means working from a sharp photo in order to maximise realism.
Techniques for Painting Hair
If realism is the goal, picking out selected areas of the hair and illustrating them will help give the impression of overall detail and avoid the hair becoming an unwanted focal point. After glazing, drag neat paint over a selected area with a fine sable. This can be used to illustrate flyaway hair or hairs that stray over the face.
Oil Painting Materials for Painting Hair
I personally use the following oil colours for hair: burnt umber, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, pthalo blue, permanent rose, cadmium red, cadmium yellow and white. Fine sables sizes 6 for applying glazes and 1 or 3 for detail are ideal. Linseed oil or alkyd medium is ideal for thinning the paint for glazes. Of course, good photographic reference or a patient model is essential.
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Action – Community – Transformation – Change It Now!
Social Justice Learning Community
1st Annual
Social Justice Conference – Movement as/towards Social Change
March 13, 2015
Chabot College – Hayward, CA
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Register by March 3: www.chabotcollege.edu/cin
The Change it Now! Social Justice Learning Community at Chabot College is an interdisciplinary, developmental – transfer pathway with a social justice lens. To deepen our community involvement and understanding of social justice issues, faculty and students are launching a 1-day professional development conference: ACT-CIN! (Action, Community, Transformation, and Change it Now!) Our aim with ACT-CIN! is to invite community leaders, activists, educators, and artists to facilitate workshops and performances on social justice issues impacting our community. Our end goal is to increase our understanding of social justice issues and to increase our skills to build community and take action. We invite you to join us in our first annual conference!
For the 2015 ACT-CIN! Social Justice Conference, we are focusing on the theme Movement; exploring the realm of dance, movement, and nonverbal communication as/towards social justice work.
Spotlight presentation by NAKA Dance Theater, The Anastasio Project.
**The Anastasio Project is a multimedia dance/theater performance which focuses on race relations, state brutality and border violence**
We invite panel discussions, teaching activities (GIFTs), performances, workshops, and presentations from colleagues in Education, Social Justice Activism, Dance, Theater, Communication & Performance Studies, and other relevant disciplines.
We are particularly interested in work that
*informs transformative pedagogies,
*explores cultural complexities of movement,
*uses movement as/towards social activism in the community.
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Looking for a bank in Washington, GA? The Wilkes branch is located at the intersection of E Robert Toombs Avenue and South Jefferson Street, across from Fievet Pharmacy in Wilkes County.
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A Pilot Study of Oral Clindamycin and Pyrimethamine for the Treatment of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in Patients With AIDS
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00000674
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : May 18, 2012
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|Condition or disease
|Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral HIV Infections
|Drug: Pyrimethamine Drug: Leucovorin calcium Drug: Clindamycin
|Not Applicable
Toxoplasmic encephalitis (encephalitis caused by Toxoplasma gondii) is the most frequent cause of focal central nervous system infection in patients with AIDS. If untreated, the encephalitis is fatal. At present, it is standard practice to give a combination of pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine to treat toxoplasmic encephalitis. The high frequency of sulfonamide-induced toxicity in AIDS patients often makes completion of a full course of therapy difficult. There is some information that high doses of parenteral (such as by injection) clindamycin used with pyrimethamine may be as effective as pyrimethamine plus sulfadiazine in the management of the acute phase of toxoplasmic encephalitis in patients with AIDS. Administration of parenteral clindamycin for prolonged periods of time, however, is costly, requires hospitalization, and is inconvenient for the patient. There is some indication that treatment of AIDS patients with acute toxoplasmic encephalitis with oral clindamycin may be effective. Leucovorin calcium is useful in preventing pyrimethamine-associated bone marrow toxicity.
Amended: Projected accrual increased to 50 patients. Original design: Patients receive study medications for a total of 6 weeks unless there are intervening events that require the discontinuation of study therapy. Patients are initially treated in the hospital (minimum of 7 days). Patients who are considered responders at day 7 may complete therapy on an outpatient basis. Nonresponders at day 7 may also be managed on an outpatient basis when it is medically appropriate.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|30 participants
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Study of Oral Clindamycin and Pyrimethamine for the Treatment of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in Patients With AIDS
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 1992
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Concurrent Medication:
- Erythropoietin.
- Aerosolized pentamidine for prophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP).
- Immunoglobulin therapy.
- Alpha interferon.
- Patients entering study on isoniazid (INH) may continue INH therapy.
- Use of corticosteroids is discouraged. If corticosteroids are needed for the management of intracranial hypertension or cranial mass effect, use of dexamethasone is encouraged (4 g orally 4 times daily for 3 days and thereafter tapered over the next 10 to 14 days).
Patients are admitted into the study if they have:
- Laboratory evidence of HIV infection or if they have an undetermined HIV infection status if they belong to a high-risk group for HIV infection.
- Either a definite or presumptive diagnosis of toxoplasmic encephalitis. Patient or appropriate family member, or legal designee must be able to understand and sign a written informed consent.
- HIV encephalopathy.
- Allows patients who have relapsed. Patients with a previous diagnosis of toxoplasmic encephalitis based on histopathology or documented neuroradiological response to pyrimethamine and sulfonamides or pyrimethamine and clindamycin and who have relapsed toxoplasmic encephalitis. Relapse must be documented by definite progression of lesions or appearance of new lesions compatible with toxoplasmic encephalitis.
Prior Medication:
Allowed if liver enzymes stable for 6 weeks prior to study entry:
- Rifampin.
- Isoniazid.
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following are excluded:
- Infections of the central nervous system.
- Malabsorption syndrome (3 or more loose stools a day for at least 4 weeks associated with an unintentional weight loss of at least 10 percent of body weight).
- History of sensitivity to the study medication.
- Malignancies requiring the use of cytotoxic chemotherapy.
- Coma.
- Diffuse central white matter lesions.
- Negative serology for Toxoplasma as performed at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (unless biopsy is positive).
- Lymphoma of the central nervous system.
- Cerebral Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis or active bleeding disorder.
Concurrent Medication:
- Erythromycin or other macrolides.
- Sulfonamides.
- Immunomodulators.
- Cytotoxic chemotherapy.
- Amphotericin.
- Dapsone.
- Rifamycins.
- Ganciclovir.
- Allopurinol.
- Antifolates.
- Azidothymidine and other antiretrovirals and investigational agents not specifically allowed.
- Folate supplements.
- Isoniazid (INH) therapy may not be started while on therapy.
Concurrent Treatment:
- Lymphocyte replacement.
Patients with the following are excluded:
- Negative HIV antibodies by a federally licensed ELISA (as determined at or after study entry), unless there is documentation of a previously positive HIV culture or p24 antigen.
- Coma.
- Diffuse central white matter lesions.
- Negative serology for Toxoplasma as performed at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (unless biopsy is positive).
- Lymphoma of the central nervous system.
- Cerebral Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis or active bleeding disorder.
- Unable to take oral medications reliably.
- Any medical or social condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, would adversely affect either participation and/or compliance in this study.
Prior Medication:
- Treatment for toxoplasmic encephalitis.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00000674
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|Johns Hopkins Adult AIDS CRS
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|Cornell University A2201
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|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr.
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|Remington JS
|Study Chair:
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|Responsible Party:
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|Other Study ID Numbers:
11052 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
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|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
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|Last Verified:
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Protozoan Infections
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Lai, Roberto (2011) Dinamica spazio-temporale della respirazione eterotrofa del suolo in un sistema agrario mediterraneo. Doctoral Thesis.
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This study focuses on the relationship between land use and soil heterotrophic respiration (Rh) in a Mediterranean agroecosystem under different long term managements: tilled vineyard, grass covered vineyard, rotation of haycrop-pasture with scattered trees of cork oak. Within management we distinguished between microenvironments under or out tree soil canopy influence. Autotrophic respiration was excluded by trenching method. Rh, soil temperature (T) and soil water content (SWC) were measured at the same time, within an year with a frequency between once a week and once a month depending on weather variability, from 9:00 to 14:00 (solar time). Rh was measured with a portable and closed chamber connected to an IRGA. There was a strong seasonal variation in Rh with maximums in spring and autumn. Rh values were averaging higher in haycrop and pasture and lower in the tilled vineyard than in the grass covered vineyard. Moreover, in the pasture and haycrop, the dynamics were affected by positions with respect to woody plant canopy soil vertical projections. In fact, in spring, higher values were observed out tree canopy than under, while in autumn the opposite trend was observed. Rh seasonal variation was correlated to SWC and soil T, except at the maximums. Spatial variation in Rh was found to be correlated to soil organic matter content.
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It is important to know what to do in an emergency and for all involved in an activity to be on the same page with what is going to happen. It is also important to have clear processes for reporting of incidents, both locally, nationally and where appropriate to other agencies.
Chapter 7 of Policy, Organisation and Rules (POR) lays out the procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency involving a member of The Scout Association.
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In this multi-social-digital-media age, significantly fewer people seem prepared to go out to watch bands 'on the off chance' any more. Instead, artists are far more likely to be systematically socially stalked way before any potential gig-goer will even lift that pudgy, swiping-finger off their glossy, black smart phone and actually heave themselves out of their custom gaming chair to venture into a venue.
However, plenty of people do still enjoy just rolling up at some random location to take the 'band lucky dip' challenge. Unfortunately, they are often at a disadvantage because they do not know who the bands are and there is largely a lack of sufficient evidence to inform them.
Ask yourself this: how many times in your glittering sub-career as an audience member has this happened to you? You turn up at a venue, knowing they have a 'band night' and as soon as you walk through the doors, the swelter and sound slap your senses like a whiskey-soaked, wrestler's towel to the kisser. The place is rocking and the band on stage is awesome. You want to know more and begin desperately searching like Sherlock for juicy clues.
Why do venues insist on using secret message grade, dark purple chalk on advertising blackboards?
With the band's name scrawled two inches high in some plum-coloured, Bohemian-esque script (which is nigh on illegible by default and definitely cannot be read from ten feet away) you find yourself repeatedly shrieking into other peoples' already-ringing ears: "What's this band called?" Eventually (after three time checks and a proposal of marriage) someone will cotton on and yell a splash-cymbal-punctuated response which you can never make out – although it is probably "I have no idea, mate!" After the statutory 'three repetitions and I start looking like a dick' timeout, you give up and think to yourself: "If only that awesome band had got a backdrop with their (probably awesome) name on it."
Bands/artists: put your virgin audiences out of their misery and get yourselves a stage backdrop!
The tried and tested combination of a white bed sheet and a can of black spray paint will always work but that said, it is neither difficult nor prohibitively costly to get a professionally made band backdrop. Most printing/promotional accessory outlets will be able to craft a durable, weatherproof banner that will double up as a backdrop. They work well and will absolutely pay for themselves because, if an act has a clearly legible backdrop then nobody will walk away from their gig not knowing who that awesome band was. With lightweight, portable display frames available as well, bandmates are no longer obliged to form a wobbly human pyramid to be able to string their backdrop up.
Our PVC banner/backdrop was made by local company, Pinders; we are more than happy with it and it attracts plenty of positive comments. Homemade frames will not break the bank and there are a plethora of ideas/resources out there, depending on the type of backdrop. This video from Julio La Rosa shows how to make a frame for a banner style backdrop like ours (a future project for us – we are still at the wobbly human pyramid stage…)
In his video, Julio offers a lot of tips (including how not to kill your drummer) and also mentions using Vistaprint for banners. Whilst we do use them for our business cards we have not tested the quality of their banners but the one in Julio's video looks pretty good.
A 'backdrop back-up plan' may also be advisable because sometimes, displaying a backdrop is not viable. Maybe the venue will not allow it, perhaps someone forgot to pack it in the van or it blew away at a festival over the weekend and the last time anyone saw it, it was wrapped around a naked, muddy hippy's shoulders.
This is where a name/logo works well on a bass drumhead. Bespoke drumheads, like these from Custom Skins, might not fit a fledgling band's budget but are worth saving up for. Meanwhile, a professional-looking result is achievable with a custom sticker which can usually be bought from the same suppliers that provide the aforementioned vinyl backdrops.
No drummer? Just buy a second hand bass drum for a stage prop (far less trouble).
There are many other inventive, DIY ways that any act can deploy to ensure their name at least is visible when performing live; the key point here is being identifiable to as many people as possible. For example, social media sites are littered with photos from live gigs; many of these snaps will have been uploaded in a surging, intoxicated semi-darkness and as such, artists cannot rely on their name being mentioned and/or spelled correctly but they can guarantee that a lot of those images will have their backdrop in them, if they have one.
Go ahead and add a website URL and/or incorporate social media links but remember, all of the text on a backdrop must be legible from a distance so follow the 'less is more' approach; try and cram too much on there and it will look more like a word search puzzle than a promotional aid.
Oh and keep that backdrop away from other bands. Putting a banner up 'for the duration' is not cool and if it has to be in place while other acts take the stage, it should be rolled/folded it back on itself until ready so that the audience is under no illusion who they are watching/listening to. We once did this by accident (forgot to roll our banner back) and it was a very uncomfortable experience; sorry City Phasers (go check them out, they are good and, not us).
This may also seem like a no-brainer but, make sure backdrops have suitable fixings and/or grommets/eyelets (or at least holes poked with a penknife); they are not going to be very useful if they cannot be attached to anything or, incidentally, if there is nothing to attach them with. Gaffer Tape, string, cable ties and a sturdy pair of scissors are essentials in the gigging toolbox.
When transporting a banner, remember to roll it rather than fold it; you can wrap it around a piece of thick dowel and/or house it in a length of drainpipe to keep it clean, safe and uncreased.
Finally, remember to clean up at the end of every gig and do not leave redundant fixings lying on the floor or still attached to walls/stage scaffold; recycle trashed cable ties and leave the space as you would expect to find it but, upon leaving do pilfer the venue's entire supply of violet chalk. Consider it a mercy theft; one that is doing them (and everyone else) a massive favour.


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Publisher Modus Games and developer The Balance have released a new trailer for Override: Mech City Brawl introducing the game's key features.
Here is an overview of the trailer, via Modus Games:
The new video displays in detail the enormous devastation players can unleash playing solo or in online and local multiplayer, as well as a wide range of epic and legendary skins players can earn and equip in the Garage.
The Garage offers players the chance to customize their mechs with shiny skins that can be earned and equipped across all mech heroes. These skins vary in rarity and style, from animal stripes to shining metal in every color under the sun. Additionally, players can select from different accessories to make their mech truly one of a kind.
Today's Features Trailer also highlights the brawler's story campaign that will see players fighting fellow mechs and hordes of grotesque alien invaders through sprawling cityscapes and exotic locales. Thankfully, each mech is armed with a multitude of combat abilities, including a spectacular Ultimate attack that can be activated in especially hairy situations.
Override: Mech City Brawl is due out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on December 4.
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Inasmuch Foundation Awards $5.4 Million to Oklahoma Nonprofits
The Inasmuch Foundation in Oklahoma City has announced grants totaling $5.4 million to thirty-two organizations working in its focus areas of education, health and human services, and community enhancement.
In the area of education, the foundation awarded grants of $470,000 to the Cristo Rey Network in support of start-up operating costs at Cristo Rey Catholic High School; $100,000 to Lighthouse Academies of Oklahoma City in support of the organization's efforts to prepare students for college through; and $25,000 to Community Action Project of Tulsa County to provide English language instruction to low-income, non-English speaking parents of very young children.
Grants in support of health and human services organizations included $1 million to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma for continued development of food resource centers across the state; $450,000 to ReMerge of Oklahoma County in support of a year-long program that provides an alternative to incarceration for non-violent female offenders with minor children; and $350,000 to the Oklahoma City Family Justice Center for start-up operating costs and for Camp HOPE, a camping and mentoring initiative focused on children who have been exposed to domestic violence. Community enhancement grants included $1 million to the Oklahoma City Boathouse Foundation; $250,000 to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; and $45,000 to Executive Service Corps of Central Oklahoma.
"Inasmuch Foundation is proud to support so many wonderful organizations as we celebrate [founder] Edith Kinney Gaylord's hundredth birthday year," said the foundation's president and CEO, Bob Ross. "These grants honor Edith by continuing her legacy of giving to improve the lives of everyone in our community."


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Friday, 19 November 2010
new baby card
i would like to enter it into the following challenges
charisma cardz- babies
hodgepodge- anything goes
digidoodles- anything goes
meljen designs- sparkle and shine
simon says- sparkle
stampavie- monochrome
ellephantastic- christmas/ butterfly
thank you for looking
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Very pretty card and fab sentiment.xReplyDelete
Lovely card, the colours are fab! beautiful sentiment xReplyDelete
Gorgeous card with a lovely sentiment. I love gingham for baby cards too xxReplyDelete
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such a nice card.. gorgeous.. Thank you for joining us this week on the MelJens challenge. Good Luck!ReplyDelete
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That is a great stamp! Love your card. Thanks for joining us at the Hodge Podge Shop. Shelley :)ReplyDelete
alee this is gorgeous!! Thanks for joining in the challenge this week at over at Charisma! Gemma :)ReplyDelete
I love butterflies and I love using them on cards. They just light up a card. Your card is gorgeous and so sweet with the sparkle and butterfly on it. Thanks so much for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.ReplyDelete
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such fabulous work thank you for joining us at SAM.ReplyDelete
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Fabulous card! I love the butterfly.ReplyDelete
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What a sweet new baby card! Thanks for sharing your talent with us this week at The Hodge Podge Shop! Hope you join us again soon. BTW, I have candy on my blog if you're interested!ReplyDelete
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The payment gateway at Stewarts Garden Centres crashed as 10,000 customers tried to book a visit to Santa – forcing chairman Martin Stewart to issue an apology in the local press.
After failing to book online, people swamped the group's switchboard, and many visited one of Stewarts three garden centres as a last resort.
"What went wrong was completely out of our control," Martin Stewart told the Bournemouth Echo. " We increased capacity in our website but the payment gateway we use was unable to cope with the traffic.
"I know that many of you have had a really tough day," the article continued. "We don't host Father Christmas and work so hard to do something special for this to happen. Even if things went well we would be unable to satisfy everyone, we know demand outstrips supply.
"Everyone here has had a tough day too because they have had to cope with many very frustrated people. As always the vast majority have been amazing, understanding that what happened was beyond our control."
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Back to Men's Basketball coverage
Taylor continues his hot streak
2230 total votes.
82 total votes.
Marcus Morris admits he was inspired by a lie.
Kansas coach Bill Self told his big men in the halftime locker room that Cal had outrebounded KU by two in the opening 20 minutes.
Turns out that wasn't entirely accurate. The Jayhawks actually had outrebounded the Bears, 23-21, in the first half.
"I was looking at him like, 'Down two? I feel like we out-rebounded them by a lot,'" Marcus said after KU's 84-69 victory on Tuesday. "At the end of the game, he just joked about it."
Marcus said he was glad the coach fibbed on the stats to prove a point.
"Yeah, definitely, because when he tells us stuff that's wrong, and when he tells me I'm not on the boards, I've got to get on it," Marcus said. "I make a drastic effort the next half to get on the rebounds."
KU's four big men — Marcus, Markieff Morris, Cole Aldrich and Thomas Robinson — gathered together before the second half, encouraging each other to fight for every rebound.
KU ended up outrebounding Cal, 39-33. The Bears came into Tuesday's game averaging 7.1 more rebounds than their opponents.
"I think I told them they were getting outrebounded (at half)," Self said with a grin, "but I think we were plus-two, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I challenged them. ... We didn't rebound the ball unbelievable, but we didn't rebound it poorly, either. I thought we did a decent job on the glass."
Marcus, meanwhile, contributed his second consecutive strong performance.
After scoring a career-high 23 points to go with 10 rebounds against Michigan on Saturday, Marcus posted 14 points and seven rebounds Tuesday.
Perhaps more importantly for Marcus, he registered his second straight, 30-plus minute game. He played 31 minutes against Cal after playing 32 against Michigan.
"That does mean a lot. That means that (Coach) trusts me more," Marcus said. "I feel like he trusts me a lot more to leave me in there for 32 minutes.
"It's not just this game. He does it all the time. That's where I've got to earn my trust with him, and I feel like during practice and during the beginning of the year, I have earned my trust with him that he can leave me in there."
Self's confidence in Marcus was evident Tuesday, as Marcus was subbed out after letting Cal's Theo Robertson by him a couple times on defense.
The sophomore was subbed back in a few minutes later.
Marcus made the proper defensive adjustments on Robertson in the second half. After scoring 12 before halftime, Robertson mustered just one point on 0-for-4 shooting in the final 20 minutes.
go Twins!!! keep it jammin', keep it pumpin', guys!!! we love you!!! go Bigs!!!
Totally agree njjayhawk!!!
Marcus has been all over the floor the past two games. I actually think this team showed something last night. That was their first real test. I don't want to count Memphis as it was too early in the season.
Next big test......on the road at Tennessee. KU desparately needs to win that game to show the nation that we truly are the best team. Beat them by 20 in their own house!
Don't look past Temple. They beat Villanova by a good margin.
Great job Marcus. Bill Self does not recruit kids who he believes cannot contribute and are not tough. You've improved tremendously in both categories since your freshman year. Keep up the dedication and good work.
Don't get it twisted guys: Next big test = Temple on the road.
uh coach, hope your boys trust you next time you tell them they are being out rebounded. The story of the boy who cried wolf comes to mind.
I love this vote... 7 for misery as our toughest home game this year. They are quite miserable. It will be great to clock those clowns.
showing the rest of the country that we are number 1 means little to nothing for me. I'm confident I know more about this team than any of the national pundits and I love our chances in any game. Even if we don't play get we will never be out of the game and will be able to give ourselves a chance to win.
temple scares me more the Tenn for some reason. Probably because I think the SEC is overated and I find it ironic that if you take out Calipari's team the SEC is way worse than conf USA this year.
the big12 is going to be brutal this year. We will be in for a dogfight just about every night, so don't get accustomed to blowing teams out. Winning by a bunch is overated anyway, it teaches you that you can get away with a lower effort level and isn't something we need to be in the habbit of doing. When tournament time comes around then it will be nice to beat teams by 50!
It's alot of fun seeing Marcus and others develop in their game. It's very apparent that Marcus is really going after the boards.
For Christmas, I would like to see the bigs go up strong to the basket - it seems they are a little tentative when they have defenders on them. For me, this was one of the biggest improvements in Sasha Kaun's game - making him a force to reckon with.
BTW - Please change the title of this article - "Lie" is a very strong word, and I don't think that is what Coach Self was doing.
Have a Safe and Joyous Christmas Jayhawks!
okiedave, I was thinking the same thing. Marcus, great job so far this year, keep it up. I, too, am concerned about Temple, but I worry about all of our games from this point on, but we truly do seem to play to the level of our competition.
I agree--lie is a strong word. How 'bout, just a little white lie," which sounds a tad better.
Man, Timmay97, how can you look past Temple. They beat Villanova comfortably, for Pete's sake. I remember the Jayhawks made a trip to Temple, in a snowstorm, no less, and got thumped. I believe Roy boy was in charge, at the time. Can't look past Temple--they're legit.
You have to hand it to the twins. They really took that loss to Michigan State seriously last year. I loved the article about how they went straight to Andrea Hudy and committed themselve to getting stronger. Not only do they physically seem faster and stronger, but their basketball IQ has dramatically improved. They are making getting their own shots and have shown some nice moves in the low post. Of course, it's also a testament to Danny Manning and Bill Self. Is there a better program for a big man to go to? Guys like Kaun, Jackson, Aldrich and the twins came here with tons of potential but very rough games that needed to be refined and I'll be damned if our staff didn't transform them all into beasts down low.
Liar, Liar, gets team on fire! It worked that time!
I wonder if Coach Wooden ever used that trick?
Calipari has his kids drinking so much Kool-Aid that he could tell them they're behind when the scoreboard shows otherwise!
Bobby Knight wouldn't stoop to trickery, he'd just tell them they'd have to sleep on the team bus if they fell behind in a given stat category!
Andrea Hudy--what a celebrity! They have talked about her during Jayhawk games. She's getting a lot of credit for the players success. I think that great!
Man, who is this bill self? Telling T Rob he has a nice body, lying about boards to the Morris twins...
Just kidding. I love me some HCBS.
The Super Morris Bros have been my favorite players to watch this year. Which is saying a lot considering Sherron is doing what he does best, Cole, even with bronchitis, is a beast, and Tyshawn has been regularly putting up ankle-breaking crossover highlights. Oh, and can't forget X.
Sounds like it worked, but I don't know if that's something he should be doing all the time. Don't want to be second guessed at 1/2 time of the NC Game.
Motivation comes in so many different varities, kinda like ice cream. Thats why Baskin Robins is so popular.
Thats why Coach Self Coaches and we read the paper the next day.
Love the Twin Towers and glad they are at KU. Have to admit that Marcus Morris is my favorite Jayhawk. Last year when they got their jersey numbers I was beside myself. My twin brother and I grew up practically on KU's campus and spent most of our free time as kids training to be Jayhawks. We moved to the East Coast but never lost our passion for KU and when MM and MM became Hawks and their numbers were 21 and 22 that was something. My identical twin was born on the 21st of Feb and I was born on the 22nd of Feb.
More importantly then the numbers is the fact that in the last five seasons we have had three sets of brothers play at KU. Hope this trend continues. Merry Christmas.
Rock Chalk
Twin Towers rock, watch tape last year, their arms went up like the Pisa Tower, more front than up, then they made face, like I didn't foul him, when they did.
This year, both of them have much better arms up, 90 degree up and much improved players in shape and in better mental shape.
Love the twins.
Ok kustrong, I'll bite. We know the Henry's and Morrisses. Who are the third set of brothers to play at the same time in a season?
Actually, I hope we "sink" to number two before we play Texas just to take the chip and put it on our shoulders instead of theirs. I don't want to lose, but I think it would be great to go into that game as the number two team and come away as number one.
Agreed Marty, instead of having a bulls eye on their backs, better to be aiming at one!
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Our convention made the front page of the Elko Daily Free Press today and was also featured on their website:
The reaction from the attendees so far has been overwhelmingly positive. Everyone seemed to have a great time and the presentations received a lot of praise across the board. The guest speaker on Saturday was Mike Kessler, retired WP engineer. He was very popular with the attendees and brought not only items from his personal railroad memorabilia collection, but also several friends who were also former WP employees.
On Sunday, 28 attendees took a trip to Ely and the Nevada Northern were they received a 2+ hour chartered steam ride with two photo runbys. After the trip, the train pulled up to the Ely Enginehouse and Machine Shop and the group received a guided tour of the facilities. The day ended with a stop at the Nevada Northern station of Currie.
We have been given a special invitation to do the 2016 Convention in Lodi, California. Planning has already begun and we hope to announce details within two months.


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Project Homeless Connect is all about innovation and, when there is a need in the community, doing everything we can to make that service available to those in need.
This August, we added a new service to help individuals experiencing homelessness to move forward! In partnership with The Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California, we held a free hearing screening workshop where on-site hearing levels were given 100% diagnostic testing with a qualified audiologist. If hearing loss is detected, participants are given guidance on next steps. All this is made possible by the Mayor's Office on Housing and Community Development and support from our individual donors.
According to The Hearing and Speech Center's Program Manager, Steven Lopez, hearing tests and aftercare are some of the most ignored services. At Project Homeless Connect, we know first-hand that when you give someone the tools to move forward, such as prescription glasses, dental care, or in this case hearing care or hearing aids, that person can focus on other goals and address other priorities in their lives. We are proud to be a part of this program and service.
Project Homeless Connect will be offering this amazing service again soon… you can check our Calendar or call us at (855) 588-7968.
Your community group or organization can host a free Hearing Loss 101 presentation and screenings by The Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California; which includes prevention methods of hearing loss, resources and technology for hearing support, hearing-related mental health and social support, and answer your questions regarding hearing loss. You can contact Steven Lopez, Program Manager at The Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California for more info at (415) 921-7658.


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Saturday, August 9, 2014
saturday night movie: charly
Charly is a full-grown man with the mental capacity of a child. But with the help of his night school teacher, played by Claire Bloom, he gets to participate in a trial operation to improve his capacity for learning. While the initial operation is a success, it has a huge side effect that Charly never saw coming.
This film is definitely a heartbreaker. But while the overarching storyline is sad, it's a few poignant scenes and Cliff Robertson's earnest portrayal of Charly that will make your eyes well up.
In the beginning, Charly never understands when he is the butt of a joke, because it's beyond his comprehension. When his co-workers fill his locker with bread dough, then gather around laughing when Charly can't figure out what's going on, he laughs too.. not understanding that they are laughing AT him, not with him. But after his surgery, when his intelligence begins to grow, he says, "I was wondering why the people who would never dream of laughing at a blind or a crippled man would laugh at a moron." His realization that his "friends" were actually making fun of him all these years is one of the saddest moments in the whole film. Sure, intelligence enables him to understand physics, chemistry and history.. but it also opens up a world of hurt that he never even knew existed.
Cliff Robertson does such an outstanding job of portraying Charly throughout all of his mental stages in the film. His progression from innocent childlike wonder to mature, adult understanding is so natural you hardly notice it's happening at first. Even his facial expressions and body movements reflect his current intellect. I'm not the least bit surprised that Cliff Robertson won best actor for this role.
You can get Charly on Amazon here, or it's also on youtube here.
This post was orginally published on my movie blog, Silents & Talkies.
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Arabic: 'imām
The term "imam" is used in many different contexts, and with different meanings. Five different ways of understanding the term are explained below, but there has never been any attempt to create a consolidated system for the different usages. It differs from group to group, from sect to sect and sometimes even from mosque to mosque.
In Shi'i Islam the theological concepts related to the imam are the very foundations upon which the rest of the theology rests. In Sunni Islam the term "imam" is used principally as a title, and has minimal importance in theology.
In the mosque
Shi'i Islam. The highest leader
Due to his close relationship to God, he is the only one who fully understands all aspects of Islam, the infallible and only one who can give interpretations of the Koran and the hadiths. Hence, he is the only one who can rule Muslim society on a day to day basis.
Moreover, among many Shi'is there is an idea that there are two types of imams: The true and the false. The false imams are the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, while the true imams are the ones in the list to the left.
According to the Twelver Shi'is the largest Shi'i group there were 12 imams, of which the last went into occultation around 941 CE and is expected back in the form of a Mahdi (a saviour character with many similarities to the Messiah in Judaism and Christianity).
Along the line of the 12 imams, there were many disputes over who was the right one. Records show that there were more than 40 Shi'i sects growing out of these disputes. The first group, the now extinct Saba'iyya, thought that Ali had become divine, and went into occultation instead of dying.
With all imams, save Husayn, groups differed over who was the right imam. Most of these groups have since long disappeared, but a couple of them still exist.
After the 4th imam (died in 712 or 713 CE), one group claimed that Zayd was the rightful new imam, and from this the Zaydis emerged.
Some years later (in 765 CE), another group claimed that Isma¢il was the rightful 7th imam, and from their point of view the Isma'ilis developed. At a later stage they either became absorbed by a non-Muslim faith or came to incorporate other belief systems, thus creating an independent religion. In the times when Isma'ilism was still part of Islam, the Druze faith would emerge from within their ranks.
The Zaydis believe that there can be more than one imam at one time, and that there can be periods when there are no imams at all.
Shi'i Islam. Modern reinterpretations
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With regard to Wisdom, the Apostle Paul shares his experience of being a wise master builder. Jesus Christ was the best builder who ever lived. Before one starts anything significant, he is advised to consider the cost. A wise person will move deliberately while ever increasing the necessary components of structural integrity (character), load (r
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The Testament of Mary
Colm Toibin, 2012
386 pp.
Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.
In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel. They are her keepers, providing her with food and shelter and visiting her regularly. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples.
Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died—she fled, to save herself), and her judgment of others is equally harsh. This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. Toibin's tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed. (From the publisher.)
Author Bio
• Birth—May 30, 1955
• Where—Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland, UK
• Education—B.A. University College, Dublin
• Awards—Costa Award
• Currently—lives in Dublin, Ireland
Colm Toibin is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.
Toibin is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was hailed as a champion of minorities as he collected the 2011 Irish PEN Award. In 2011, he was named one of Britain's Top 300 Intellectuals by The Observer, despite being Irish.
Early Life
Toibin's parents were Bríd and Michael Toibin. He was born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland. He is the second youngest of five children. His grandfather, Patrick Tobin, was a member of the IRA, as was his grand-uncle Michael Tobin. Patrick Tobin took part in the 1916 Rebellion in Enniscorthy and was subsequently interned in Frongoch in Wales. Colm's father was a teacher who was involved in the Fianna Fail party in Enniscorthy. He received his secondary education at St Peter's College, Wexford, where he was a boarder between 1970 and 1972. He later spoke of finding some of the priests attractive.
In July 1972, aged 17, he had a summer job as a barman in the Grand Hotel in Tramore, County Waterford, working from six in the evening to two in the morning. He spent his days on the beach, reading The Essential Hemingway, the copy of which he still professes to have, "pages stained with seawater." It developed in him a fascination with Spain, led to a wish to visit that country, gave him "an idea of prose as something glamorous, smart and shaped, and the idea of character in fiction as something oddly mysterious, worthy of sympathy and admiration, but also elusive. And more than anything, the sheer pleasure of the sentences and their rhythms, and the amount of emotion living in what was not said, what was between the words and the sentences."
He progressed to University College Dublin, graduating in 1975. Immediately after graduation, he left for Barcelona. His first novel, 1990's The South, was partly inspired by his time in Barcelona; as was, more directly, his non-fiction Homage to Barcelona (1990). Having returned to Ireland in 1978, he began to study for a masters degree. However, he did not submit his thesis and left academia, at least partly, for a career in journalism.
The early 1980s were an especially bright period in Irish journalism, and the heyday for the monthly news magazine Magill. He became the magazine's editor in 1982, and remained in the position until 1985. He left due to a dispute with Vincent Browne, Magill's managing director.
Toibin is a member of Aosdana and has been visiting professor at Stanford University, The University of Texas at Austin and Princeton University. He has also lectured at several other universities, including Boston College, New York University, Loyola University Maryland, and The College of the Holy Cross. He is professor of creative writing at The University of Manchester succeeding Martin Amis and currently teaches at Columbia University.
The Heather Blazing (1992), his second novel, was followed by The Story of the Night (1996) and The Blackwater Lightship (1999). His fifth novel, The Master (2004), is a fictional account of portions in the life of author Henry James. He is the author of other non-fiction books: Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1994), (reprinted from the 1987 original edition) and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994).
Toibin has written two short story collections. His first Mothers and Sons which, as the name suggests, explores the relationship between mothers and their sons, was published in 2006 and was reviewed favourably (including by Pico Iyer in The New York Times). His second, broader collection The Empty Family was published in 2010.
Toibin wrote a play, titled Beauty in a Broken Place: this was staged in Dublin in August 2004. He has continued to work as a journalist, both in Ireland and abroad, writing for the London Review of Books among others. He has also achieved a reputation as a literary critic: he has edited a book on Paul Durcan, The Kilfenora Teaboy (1997); The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); and has written The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 (1999), with Carmen Callil; a collection of essays, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar (2002); and a study on Lady Gregory, Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002).
He sent a photograph of Borges to Don DeLillo who described it as "the face of Borges against a dark background—Borges fierce, blind, his nostrils gaping, his skin stretched taut, his mouth amazingly vivid; his mouth looks painted; he's like a shaman painted for visions, and the whole face has a kind of steely rapture." DeLillo often seeks inspiration from it.
During Desmond Hogan's sexual assault case he defended him in court as "a writer of immense power and importance who dealt with human isolation."
In 2011, The Times Literary Supplement published his poem "Cush Gap, 2007".
Toibín works in the most extreme, severe, austere conditions. He sits on a hard, uncomfortable chair which causes him pain. When working on a first draft he covers the right-hand side only of the page; later he carries out some rewriting on the left-hand side of the page. He keeps a word processor in another room on which to transfer writing at a later time.
Toibin's work explores several main lines: the depiction of Irish society, living abroad, the process of creativity and the preservation of a personal identity, focusing especially on homosexual identities — Toibín is openly gay — but also on identity when confronted with loss. The "Wexford" novels, The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, use Enniscorthy, the town of Toibín's birth, as narrative material, together with the history of Ireland and the death of his father. An autobiographical account and reflection on this episode can be found in the non-fiction book, The Sign of the Cross. In 2009, he published Brooklyn, a tale of a woman emigrating to Brooklyn from Enniscorthy.
Two other novels, The Story of the Night and The Master revolve around characters who have to deal with a homosexual identity and take place outside Ireland for the most part, with a character having to cope with living abroad. His first novel, The South, seems to have ingredients of both lines of work. It can be read together with The Heather Blazing as a diptych of Protestant and Catholic heritages in County Wexford, or it can be grouped with the "living abroad" novels. A third topic that links The South and The Heather Blazing is that of creation. Of painting in the first case and of the careful wording of a judge's verdict in the second. This third thematic line culminated in The Master, a study on identity, preceded by a non-fiction book in the same subject, Love in a Dark Time. The book of short stories "Mothers and Sons" deal with family themes, both in Ireland and Catalonia, and homosexuality.
Toibín has written about gay sex in several novels, though Brooklyn contains a heterosexual sex scene in which the heroine loses her virginity. In his 2012 essay collection New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families he studies the biographies of James Baldwin, J. M. Synge and W. B. Yeats, among others.
His personal notes and work books reside at the National Library of Ireland. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Book Reviews
Unlike other writers who, in rendering the historical past, leave their poetic and image-making gifts at the door, Toibin is at his lyrical best in The Testament of Mary.... A beautiful and daring work. Originally performed as a one-woman show in Dublin, it takes its power from the surprises of its language, its almost shocking characterization, its austere refusal of consolation. The source of this mother's grief is as much the nature of humankind as the cruel fate of her own son.
Mary Gordon - New York Times Book Review
This novel is the Virgin's version of the life of Christ. After a lifetime listening to everyone else's versions of that life, she is angry and frustrated because they are all questionable.
John Spain - Irish Independent
The Testament of Mary is an important and persuasive book: Toibin's weary Mary, sceptical and grudging, reads as far more true and real than the saintly perpetual virgin of legend. And Toibin is a wonderful writer: as ever, his lyrical and moving prose is the real miracle."
Naomi Alderman - Observer
With this masterly novella, Toibin has finally tackled the subject of Christianity—and he has done so with a vengeance.... Nowhere in this beguiling and deeply intelligent, moving work is Mary's attention to detail more instrumental (and more like a novelist's) than in her account of her son's death.... In a single passage—and in a rendition, furthermore, of one of the most famous passages of western literature—Toibin shows how the telling and the details are all-important.
Robert Collins - Sunday Times (UK)
Toibin (Brooklyn) has chosen Jesus' mother as the narrator of his poignant reimagining of the last days of Christ. Mary doesn't think her son is the son of God; in fact, she's convinced that he's simply running with the wrong crowd, "Something about the earnestness of those young men repelled me... the sense that there was something missing in each one of them." But when she recounts the story of Lazarus's return from the grave, she presents no other explanation than that of his sisters, that Jesus was the one who brought him back. At the wedding at Cana, she sees Lazarus for herself and finds that "he was in possession of a knowledge that seemed to me to have unnerved him; he had tasted something or seen or heard something which had filled him with the purest pain...." This beautiful novella turns on who or what Mary should believe about her son's life and death—and on a mother's grief: "I saw that once again he was trying to remove the thorns that were cutting into his forehead and the back of his head and, failing to do anything to help himself, he lifted his head for a moment and his eyes caught mine." .
Publishers Weekly
Toibin's Mary is nothing like you'd expect, especially if your religious views run to the traditional. She doesn't think Jesus was the Son of God, that his death had any significance, and that the motley men surrounding him (her "keepers" now) are holy disciples. She also blames herself for abandoning her son on the Cross to save her own life. Tóibín is one of the few authors I can imagine shaking Mary loose of two millennia of prayer, chant, and painting so that we can see her afresh
Library Journal
A stunning interpretation that is as beautiful in its presentation as it is provocative in its intention.
A novella that builds to a provocative climax, one that is as spiritually profound as its prose is plainspoken. At the outset, the latest from the esteemed Irish author (Brooklyn, 2009, etc.) seems like a "high concept" breather from his longer, more complex fiction.... What follows the crucifixion gives a whole new dimension to the testament, for Mary and the reader alike. A work suffused with mystery and wonder.
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10 Breathtaking Supercars That Never Got Made
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This was actually intended to be the new NSX all the way back in the late 2000s. But then the recession hit and Honda saw the demand for a new supercar go away. The road car project was immediately cancelled, but it lived on as a JGTC race car.
Before the Gallardo, Lamborghini thought of building a smaller car with a V10. That car was the Cala, but it was killed even after some journalists drove it.
A series of experimental rotary-powered supercars from Mercedes, they ran and drove, but they never went on sale.
Envisioned as a road car and GT1 racer, the Speed 12 had a 7.7 liter V12 and was the scariest car to drive in Gran Turismo 2. It was cancelled due to changing GT1 regulations and the fact that it was just too damn hard to drive on the street.
It looked production ready, it was tested at Nardo where it set records, and it looked like people would be buying it. But VW never put it into production. Instead, it, along with other concepts from Bentley and Audi, serves as inspiration for the Bugatti Veyron.
As part of 2010s concept onslaught, Lotus showed a new Esprit supercar that would debut two years later. As all the other concepts were cancelled, the Esprit stood alone as the one that would be built. But after years of delays, it was finally canceled.
What started as a turbine hybrid ended up being a heavily boosted four cylinder hybrid. A handful were built, but Jag ultimately decided against series production when they realized the market for their million dollar car just wasn't there.
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A mid engine, quad turbo, V12 powered 850 horsepower supercar from Chrysler. Sounds too good to be true, but this one seems to have come close. Chrysler built running prototypes that they were track testing, and the upper crust within Chrysler wanted to make it happen.
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Lamborghini's first hybrid, this would have been built if the Urus SUV didn't get the green light. Also, our interview with CEO Stefan Winkelmann seems to show a boss that wasn't interested in building a hybrid. At all.
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