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Drug Interactions With Amoxicillin and Clavulanate Potassium
Oral Anticoagulants
There have been rare reports of amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium interacting with oral anticoagulants such as warfarin, causing a high international normalized ratio (INR), which may indicate an increased risk for bleeding. Your healthcare provider may need to monitor you more closely if you must take these two medications together.
Oral Contraceptives
Despite the longstanding belief that antibiotics interact with birth control pills, several studies have shown that almost all antibiotics do not increase the risk of pregnancy in women taking birth control pills. Nevertheless, there have been reports of birth control pill failure in women who have taken antibiotics. Ask your healthcare provider about whether you need a backup method of birth control while taking amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium.
Oral Typhoid Vaccine
Amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium may decrease the effectiveness of the oral typhoid vaccine. If you have taken the antibiotic recently or are currently taking it, your oral typhoid vaccine may need to be postponed for at least a day after taking amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium.
Probenecid can decrease the body's ability to remove amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium from the blood, potentially leading to high amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium blood levels. Talk with your healthcare provider before taking these medications together.
It is possible that not all drug interactions with amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium were discussed in this article. Therefore, you should talk with your pharmacist or healthcare provider about any drug interactions that may apply to you.
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Spring break. Two words that send a joyous surge through my body. Getting these ten days off feels like a glass of water after a journey across the desert. I really need the break and I am going to put the time to good use. I plan on recharging in the Mexican sun, playing a little golf, reading a few books and enjoying the time with my wife and a couple of great friends. It has been a long 7+ months in my new job and I hope to refuel before the 3 month homestretch.
Part of this week is going to be spent going through a very important process. I really need to "turn the page" on a few things. I need to move past some difficulties and allow myself to let them go. I have had a few situations that didn't go as well as I wanted them to. I have also had a few situations or conversations where I found people either disagreeing with my decisions or alluding to my inability to deal with things as they thought I should. I have also had to listen to a few naysayers who don't believe in the success of our building the way I do. In the spirit of professionalism I have no interest in even identifying which particular stakeholder groups this feedback has come from, let alone specific examples, and for the purpose of this post these specifics are unnecessary. The point is I have had to deal with some skepticism and even negativity pointed in my direction.
While I don't believe I have handled everything perfectly, I do believe I have based my decisions on my principles and I have firmly believed in each instance that I was doing the right thing. I also know that people often form judgments based on limited information or a biased perspective, and that I can't expect everyone to fully understand what has gone into each decision or even all the factors involved. To sum it up, I am ok with how I have handled most of the decisions I have had to make, regardless of the feedback.
So the question is how do I move forward and how do I allow myself to get past this. In George Couros's post yesterday he spoke about the "Hard Teaching", and it reminded me of the hard lessons I had to learn during my time in Behavior Education. These hard lessons will be valuable to me in this process:
Leave My Work At Work
There were many days as a Behavior Education teacher in an alternate school that really tore me down. Whether it was difficult exchanges with students who had a lot of anger to deal with, or helping a student with a really tough home life, or even when we had students clearly battling an addiction, there were days I had difficulty eating or even sleeping. My principal saw quickly that I needed to learn to compartmentalize. I took my stress and worry home with me on a daily basis and it took its toll on my relationships and my mental and physical health. With his guidance, I learned to do my best to walk out the door of my school and leave as much as I could behind. I need to do this during my break as I have found myself taking more and more home and it is not healthy.
Its Not About Me
A lot of the time I would deal with students after they had made one or more poor decisions and I would need to deal with them in a discipline situation. As many of our students had difficulties with conflict resolution, anger management and emotional control, often these situations would break down and would end with the student verbally attacking me, our staff and our school. It was hard not to take the comments personally, especially from those bright kids who really knew how to cut deep with their words. I remember dragging myself into my principal's office to review the day and him often amused by the stories. He tried hard to explain to me the importance of remembering where the anger was really coming from. Our students struggled with poor adult role models at home, broken and detrimental peer relationships, substance abuse, emotional issues and stress. He would often, and I mean OFTEN, remind me "It's not about you". He would remind me that if I let the situations get to me I wouldn't do the job I was hired to do, I wouldn't provide the modeling and stability that the rest of my students so desperately needed. I needed to show my students how to deal with adversity and how to move forward. In these situations I am currently dealing with, I need to remember that the negativity I have been receiving from people may be shaped or affected by far more than just me. I also need to remember that if I spend time focused on myself and having a pity party, I won't be doing the job I was hired to do.
Don't Lose Sight Of The Goal
In my role in the alternate school, I quickly learned about altering my expectations. In a traditional classroom I had found my success rate with students to be well over 90%. In a class of 30, I may have 1 or 2 students fail my class, but never more than that. In my role as a behavior educator, I realized I could not set the same goals for myself. I was lucky to have our amazing Assistant Superintendent visit me in my first few months and we had a great conversation about my goals for the class. I was struggling to find the time to teach all the core classes and work in time for all the other life lessons I wanted the kids to receive. He told me "We didn't hire you to teach curriculum, we hired you to teach kids. If you spend a whole day on relationship building or limiting risk taking then so be it. You are here to help them learn to be good people." After that conversation, I no longer measured myself based on student marks (I wish I learned that in University) but rather on helping my students grow as individuals. Now, my goal is to help run a school that provides quality learning opportunities for our students, that treats its students with respect and that challenges them everyday to be better, to learn and to grow. When I make decisions with these goals in mind, it will make it a little easier to allow myself to get past the difficulties.
As educators we are going to have situations that don't go as we planned. A parent who rips into us, a student who tries their best to break us down, or even a colleague who doesn't agree with what we do. Carrying the weight of those difficulties can't possibly help us. Yes, getting past those difficulties is hard, but it is necessary for us to be everything we can for our students and for ourselves. Turning the page is part of allowing yourself to make mistakes, to learn, to grow, to reflect and to continue on your journey. Turning the page in the next week will allow me to come back with the energy, positivity and dedication I need to continue. Mexico seems like as good a place as any to turn my page.

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You are responsible to secure that the visual expression of the store is in line with the IKEA manuals so the IKEA Concept is fully implemented. You achieve the time plans and budgets for each project set by the Comm-in Manager.
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You have the ability to prioritise and organize work and the work of others in order to make the most efficient use of time available. You have the commercial and visual competence with a keen eye for aesthetics. You want to lead, inspire and build a strong team. You want to create a better life for many individuals at their homes.
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Imagine that you are in a reality show and you are only allowed to bring only one cosmetic item along in your handbag and you are about to meet someone for a date, which item would you bring? Mascara, lipstick, eye shadow, blusher or what? (Pls let me know in my comment box below)
No prizes for best answer.
What do you think my answer will be?
On a lazy day, it would be my Estee Lauder Crystal Lipstick in Crystal Coral
On a non-lazy day, it would be an eye shadow palette
|The colour is a nice coral/peach colour that looks a bit pink here
My review:
The texture is lightweight and buildable
The lipstick is mositurising enough that I do not need to use a lip balm
I love the colour very much. I do own another colour which I reviewed earlier.
I love the colour very much. I do own another colour which I reviewed earlier.
Rating: 4/5
Have you tried this lipstick before?
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Devils Go Back to 1995
The Devils got a new face lift these past months, and what could be more exciting to talk about a dominant team? As the previous Rangers article was done by a Devils fan, I would like to do the same.
Let's start with the depth up front.
No, those are not the lines that you will see, well maybe, but I just listed the original forwards. Gomez and the Devils are far appart from signing a new contract, so you could take Gomez out of that list. Madden is the 2nd line center? Berglund? Or, who else? From Holik to who?
The Devils are deeply poor at center are would be forced to have a winger like Brylin or Friesen move down and play the 2nd line center position, which means that the 1st line is weaker.
Having 36 year old Jow Nieuwendyk as your first line center isn't that bad, but definitely not great. Nieuwendyk is an injury prone player as well, and if he faces an injury, the Devils will have little to work with.
Elias is one of the best Lw'ers of the game. But, how will he do without his old line-mates? He dropped by 35 points and 11 goals this past season. If he can't produce as many goals, then the Devils are nothing more than a defensive team. Jeff Friesen is expect to regain his 25 goal game, but can he after two seasons of no show in Anaheim? I think he should explode this season with 30 goals, but that's just my thinking. Realistically, can he score 25 goals again?
Langenbrunner is a solid player, but he never scored more than 25 goals, and has only reached the 50 point mark once in his career. Langenbrunner scored 4 points in his first 4 games with the Devils, but scored none in the next 10 games.
Christian Berglund will be popular if he stays as a full time Devil. He is physical, sneaky, annoying, and could always score. He stands 6'3 and weighs 190 lbs. I think he is their future "Holik-type" player. Maybe he can reach his full potential this season and be the 2nd line player. He is a top prospect on my list, and probably will be a fan favorite.
Brylin only reached the 20 goal mark once in his career and has yet to play a full season. The Devils can't expect much scoring from Sergei, but the best he could do is net 20 pucks.
The rest of the players are 3rd liners at best. The Devils have no offensive punch that can blow a team away. Look for the Devils to perform as they did back in 95, which won them a Cup, but they had a younger team of future stars.
The defense is not even superb, because superb is not even strong word for this defense. Does anyone know a better and stronger word than superb? It is a perfect defense. Three skaters, and three stay at homes. Perfect set. However, Scott stevens is getting older, slower, and is getting $7 million a season. He is the most overpaid stay at home defenseman of this season, but who cares. He is the captain. Is he worth $7 million? No, but in a way he is for the Devils. Stevens is not performing as well in the playoffs the way he used to. Now, young players like Cole are getting by him and shutting him down. It's time to give less ice time to Stevens.
Brodeur plays many games, but doesn't face many shots, especially this upcoming season. With a brick wall infront of him, all he has to do is patrol the area where pucks that are heading close to the net. Brodeur would be second to Roy on my fantasy goalie rankings since he should win at least 30 games, and will play 70 games with not many goals against.
The coaching staff is still incomplete and Lamoriello has already chosen Larry Robinson as his assistant coach, but Larry has different plans right now. Burns is known for his defensive strategies, therefore the 2002-2003 Devils will be very similar to the 1994-1995 Devils. Very boring to watch. Defense does win games, but with no offense, the games could easily be lost. The Devils were competing against a Lemieux-less Penguins team, the "what is offense?" Lightning, and the "we'll fight it for Koivu" Canadiens in the first half of the season. The offense was scoring as many goals as the no offense Nashville Predators, and finished 20th overall in GF.
They are not the team to fear anymore in the Division, in the Conference, and in the NHL. They lack a lot of depth up front and the scoring power is weak. This team will rely on their defensive system, their defensemen, and Brodeur for the wins.
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devils fans, when will people learn?? i dont know, i like the 4th line center, anyone else agree??
Must be a rookie playing that line.
Great article, as usual!
Even though I am not a fan of the Devils, this is the team that I am the most excited about (not counting the great Panthers!). There D has to be #1 in the league. I am also going to try and draft Broduer in all two of my Yahoo! leagues this year, because I am expecting big things out of him, like a Vesina trophey. Serious Cup Contenders here folks.
Well, only two reasons why i'd pick Brodeur after Roy.
1) He will play 70 games
2) He will get at least 30 wins, even if the Devils don't make the playoffs.
Go for the goalies who play 65-70 games on winning teams. Cujo could also be after Marty. The sleeper is Turco but he is also risky.
Elias is moving to center so Madden or Gomez will probably play wing.
That would kill Elias offensive skills. He will have to do more work and all the sudden the Devils are relying on him. Gomez is not on the line up. Madden, 2nd line winger? OUCH……
I think you are underating Madden. This kid is going to superb! I have heard many hockey minds rave about him. If he lives up to potential he might become a lesser Forsberg. He is gritty and has touch. With the possiblity of getting more ice time this season, he could have a banner year. The Devils will still be a force to recon with……
I've always liked John Madden but a "lesser" Forsberg is a stretch. He's plays well in both ends, is a solid PK man and has speed to burn, unfortunately he's got hands of stone.
He reminds me of Russ Courtnall, except Madden plays D.
The "kid" is almost 30 years old. He is just fast and a back-checker and PK, nothing more. He had a fluke season when scoring 20 goals. He'd have to be 5 times better to just become a lesser Forsberg.
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Collaborating is a word we're all more than familiar with. A process we undertake to diversify and grow, often reaching new ground, creatively speaking. Sometimes, you start on a path with an idea or concept and what you end up with is exponentially different to the original vision. However many turns you take, it's always a journey and hopefully, an exciting one at that. If the relationship is new or the concept is out of your comfort zone, the risk for something to go awry is arguably greater but then, surely creativity should be about risk-taking, pushing boundaries and making waves? So how do you ensure, that when you set out on a new studio project, time and energy aren't wasted and that the final piece is successful for all involved? We hope to give our insights by reviewing the collaborative process on our latest piece La Perruque Puissante.
Our studio works within advertising, healthcare and children's media. For over 13 years we've produced imaginative and original animation, character design and illustration and whilst the industries vary, we always receive a brief and ensure we have a pre-production meeting before we start. We have stringent processes every project goes through from initial meet to final delivery and we treat our own work in exactly the same way. Planning work that isn't commissioned is challenging and prioritising it alongside commercial projects even more so. For our studio though, promotional work is essential; we must invest the time to it, as we would with Research & Development; it is key to our continued creative and conceptual development as a studio.
We took three months to think about La Perruque Puissante, from initial concept, to reaching out to a collaborator, to starting pre-production. We almost always schedule this length of time in to preparing a new promotional piece and whilst priorities can change and new work has to be scheduled, we cannot impress how important allocating time to conceptualisation is if you want the process to be smooth when it comes to production.
If you were to ask for our advice on collaboration, we'd say:
Define the aim for your project and have a brief that is clear enough for a collaborator to bounce off from conceptually and input into.
Find the right creative partner for you, someone with common ground where a creative relationship can be developed; someone with a similar approach to their work. Beer helps.
Structure your process taking into account your collaborator's schedule and availability.
Schedule the project in, structure in feedback rounds and project manage, ensuring clear lines of communication all the way. Collaboration can be a trial and error process so do account for this when you're scheduling.
It's not rocket science but for us, underpinning creativity with solid processes and strong project management is the foundation to a successful studio, commercially speaking, and the same structure should apply here too.
The aim with La Perruque Puissante was to engage the beauty industry with digital concept-ualisation; how CG can work as part of a brief, outside the traditional re-touch, post production application it's known for in beauty photography. It had be a demonstration of both our creativity and technical flair, creating a dialogue with our intended audience, to inspire future work, ideally with our studio!
Hair is not playing safe in CG, especially when the material is composited in a photograph of a real person. When the model is real, the hair has to be, at least to the viewer, so we felt this would be a good starting point for the subject matter and very much in context to the beauty industry. We also wanted a transformational element, giving visual and creative depth to generate a response and bring further narrative.
Hair as a material is flowing, has shape and body. We felt paint would be a complimentary material that would achieve what we wanted; a bold and striking effect in contrast to the subtly of the CG hair. This was our starting point, our brief.
Our studio has the pleasure of being represented by Trayler & Trayler, agents to an array of talented visual artists. The team have an outstanding level of experience and dedication both to creativity and to their artists, so it was natural to pick up the phone and establish the best partner for this particular project. Herein lies our next point; choose your partner wisely. If you don't have agency representation; use your contacts, get referrals and talk to those who know your craft. You have relationships with plenty of external creatives, copywriters, photographers and so on. If you haven't set out with a collaborator in mind, utilise your relationships to find one. Ultimately choosing a collaborator can be a process in itself; ensure you give yourself the time to search and select if you don't have an agent to help you. Our choice was shaped by the project's aim and direction. We needed a reputable beauty photographer who could do a bespoke shoot and work conceptually with us throughout our entire process.
Elise Dumontet was the natural choice for the project, with a style that's all about femininity and sophistication within the beauty industry. Elise has shot high profile campaigns for L'Oreal, Pantene, Tony & Guy and Urban Retreat, as well as featuring regularly in magazines such as The Observer, In Style and Vogue. Happily, Elise was up for working on a digital concept around CG hair and so the process began. We met, we talked, we sketched, coffee was consumed and, voila, the beginnings of a beautiful relationship ensued.
Elise's aim was to capture a retro pin-up look, with soft lighting, warm tones and with model and make-up echoing the 1950s. The model's hair would be pinned back so we could completely build it in CG. Elise provided us with a prepared image, with full colour re-touching ready for us to start pre-production. When designing the hair, we looked at shape and form to compliment Elise's composition and ensured there was a good level of contact and review stages as part of our process. After a review and approval stage the design process then continued into 3D production, using the Hairfarm plug-in for 3DS Max to create the hair effect. We created the paint effect through sculpting Mudbox; taking the hair mesh and collapsing it in an editable poly before manually sculpting in 3Ds Max. We then assembled these renders in Photoshop to assess how the 3D renders sat together, as well as doing some early colour passes, with which we achieved a lo-res 3D image that was approved and ready to move into hi-res for final composition. The hi-res renders were then composited together in Photoshop, adding shadows and blending the 3D into the photo.
Working with Elise and Trayler & Trayler on La Perruque Puissante was a great experience and was not without its learning curves but that's also what is great about collaborating. With each piece, you take something new away, develop new relationships and hopefully create something that everyone involved can be proud of.
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Baker & Taylor has spent decades building strong retail relationships around the world for its wholesale business. The company wants to monetize their extensive network and created the Global Publishers Services. This will allow publishers to reach multiple sales channels, including traditional retail, online retailers, schools, libraries and consumers through e-commerce platforms. The big selling point is that it has a strong international reach, something that is very compelling for small and medium sized publishers.
GPS will collaborate with Baker & Taylor's international wholesale team. "Baker & Taylor's international wholesale sales can benefit as customers who have tended to order only directly from publishers can now add Baker & Taylor to their supply chain and order a wider range of titles through the wholesale channel," noted John Bacon, VP of International Retail for Baker & Taylor.
The new program will be spearheaded by Chitra Bopardikar, Vice President & General Manager, who brings over 20 years of global sales experience. In her previous role at PGW and Perseus, Chitra helped build an international sales and client service offering for one of the US publishing industry's largest group of independent publishers.
Chitra spoke with Good e-Reader in an exclusive interview and told me why GPS was launched. "We developed GPS to fill a gap in the distribution options available to independent publishers. With GPS, publishers receive global sales and marketing expertise, coupled with Baker & Taylor's rapid supply chain solutions. Because we are boutique, we will aim take on a client publishers who fit the category verticals we know appeal to international customers. Ours is a unique solution that provides publishers with a high level of attention to their sales, strategy and development. Additionally, GPS is the only group providing an integrated approach between direct sales and wholesale, ensuring we optimize opportunities in each market for our publishers.
In comparison, major publishers who provide client distribution are often doing so to fill excess capacity. Plus there is internal competition from house imprints. Other distributors have hundreds of publishers, and may not be able to provide the same level of sales and marketing attention as we do.
Sourcebooks is the first notable publisher to buy into the new Global Publishers Services platform. It will allow them to expand their offerings in all territories outside of North America and the United Kingdom. Sourcebooks also agreed to partnerships with Copia and Vearsa. Copia will help the publisher bring ebooks to market in Australia, and Vearsa will help in South Africa, Germany and Poland.
"Sourcebooks has experienced double-digit growth for the past 10 years, and that's coming from our historic strongpoints of nonfiction and fiction, as well as brand-new areas like our white-hot young adult program," said Dominque Raccah, CEO and publisher of Sourcebooks. "We have identified a sizable international opportunity to improve service for our books and authors around the world. As we considered potential partners for upgrading our global sales and distribution capabilities, it was clear that this set of organizations is the best equipped to help us walk into this significant global opportunity."
Since Baker & Taylor launched in August a number of other companies have signed on. This includes Glitterati, Arcadia & The History Press, and Sellers Publishing.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
I got my first taste of history in the 1950s. The Great American Narrative was well established. Firmly set. Elementary school texts told the story. Our nemesis, Russia, was a dark place where citizens dutifully reported their comrades for the slightest infraction. Freedoms of speech, religion and the press were non-existent over there on the other side of the world. Dank prison cells were the destiny of those who dared criticize their totalitarian government. Our great American heroes fought for our liberty, and wrote the texts we memorized. "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…" George Washington never lied. Thomas Jefferson authored that Declaration. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
It would be later that I would grasp the concept of legend. We embellish our stories. Our heroes become, as a matter of course, larger than life. We don't think of them as saints, but almost. It is the role of higher education to find history in the myths. Historians base their expositions on hard data. Some would rather that the mythologies remain in place, unchallenged. Scholars frequently deal with the angry charge of idol smashing. When a biographer strays from the generally accepted version of a popular story, some will call it heresy. If the facts contradict the folklore, a scholar risks ridicule or worse, censure. Some of us prefer the bronze image to the flesh and blood human being that occupied real time and space. We would rather have Thomas Jefferson the architect of freedom of religion than Thomas Jefferson the slave-owner. We like our legends to be tidy.
So I learned all about George Washington crossing the Delaware and Thomas Jefferson's feather pen and John Hamilton's oversized signature but not much about the second President of the United States. I knew his name; and confused it with the sixth President with the odd middle name of Quincy*. But it took David McCullough's "John Adams" to transport me back to a period in American history I thought was familiar. McCullough spent years pouring through the letters of Mr. and Mrs. Adams, a Massachusetts couple who would leave their indelible mark on the best of American history.
McCullough's book is more than a story of a great American hero; it is the story of a great American marriage. John and Abigail Adams were both raised on the classics. They studied language and literature and poetry and philosophy and science. From the beginning, they wrote long letters. Their elevated prose, their cherished original phrasing and their passionate precision filled pages with perceptive recollection and keen observation. The letters are rich. They left behind a treasure of insight, informative and fascinating and entertaining, prized even more now, two hundred years after they were written. But most compelling is their devotion to one another. Their engagement continued throughout their life. John's considerable contribution to the birth of a nation can not be understood apart from Abigail's perspective; her conscience, her tenacity, her discernment, her wisdom. Their collaboration moved the Congress and the people toward not just independence, but liberty.
I was not aware of Adams' rise to national prominence, from Boston to Philadelphia. It was a combination of vision and verbal acuity that informed his oratory, tempered by Abigail's sagacity. He fully engaged the debate on the floor of that Philadelphia conference. He answered the Federalists. He demanded a declaration. He recruited Jefferson to write. He articulated the essence of that great document. He and Benjamin Franklin edited Jefferson's draft. He had no care for credit. Only outcomes. He negotiated the necessary alliance with the Louis XVI in Paris by Franklin's side. (Adams despised the excesses of the French, and Franklin's feckless accommodation.) Adams, Franklin and Jefferson collaborated together in Paris, engineering the constitution of the newly independent colonies. And when the Americans won their freedom, John Adams would be the first to have audience with the defeated His Majesty King George, after a costly war, mending the relationship of the two nations as first ambassador to Great Britain.
So I listened to the McCullough's audio book while traveling up and down the state. A good book is spiritual food; a sheer delight. The miles pass with purpose. And then I learned that Tom Hanks made the book into a series, starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. The two exceptional actors breathe life into the characters, animating the story; living up to the standard set by McCullough's prose.
Why don't we write long letters anymore? It is our loss.
And maybe history's loss, too.
Copyright 2010 Kenneth E. Kemp
* John Quincy Adams was John and Abigail's son. Also, thank you Mary Strauss. I made the correction… Washington indeed crossed the Delaware… not the Potomac (well, maybe when he went to visit Arlington).


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The world's most-anticipated event took place yesterday (February 26, 2017), which seemed to blow everyone's minds away. Assuming you aren't living under a rock, we are talking about the beloved and overrated Oscars/Academy Awards. The award ceremony took quite the amazing start with host Jimmy Kimmel using his amazing sense of humor and comedy to lighten up the show and reduce the tension of who wins the Best Blah Blah award.
If you haven't already guessed it out, this article definitely does not speak highly of the Oscars. In fact, we will prove to you that Oscars is indeed irrelevant for every true film lover and everything from the massive tents and red carpet laying is a bunch of crap that doesn't matter. While we do support the notion of directors, producers, and actors being rewarded for their hard work and efforts to give remarkable and entertaining performances, we disapprove over the "Best" choices.
Through years of decline, Oscars has become virtually worthless. They are overblown, overly politicized commercials for DVD releases and fashion. Why? Because those who truly deserve to win, never do. There's just too much predictability and politics. Most importantly, there are too many rich white dudes running the Oscars who care nothing more than gaining huge profit margins. Nobody truly appreciates movies for what they really are or what they show.
If you're an actor or actress with any amount of fame playing a famous person, disabled, or terminally ill, you get an Oscar. If you are famous director who is known for producing hardcore action movies with great destruction, well hello another Oscar. Meh… it's just too common. The results are too common. This year was perhaps a little different with Moonlight winning the "Best Picture" award. However, if you look at past examples, you can tell Oscars doesn't really value new ideas.
Everything is redundant. Awards are given to the same repeated scripts and ideas that have been tuned countless of times to create something new, which utterly disappoints – but just because of excellent marketing – manages to generate quite the amazing attention. So, while we aren't exactly saying the Oscars sucks big time, we would like to say their taste is unchanging. The awards are supposed to credit excellent performances and scripts, which sadly, in reality, go unnoticed.
Therefore, if you are a true lover of the cinematic universe who likes exploring the various genres and experimenting with different tastes, then don't trust the opinion of the Academy Awards. Don't trust the critics either. Majority of the times a good movie is only put down, because they are paid to put it down. Why? So that another movie that isn't that deserving gets into the spotlight of the audience. A true movie lover doesn't let others opinion affect theirs.
If you consider yourself a true movie lover, don't base your opinions on others, especially the Oscars. Analyze each movie by giving it a watch. What may appeal to you, may not appeal to others.


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Thanks for everything, Dad.
Harold E. ("Hal") Guard, Ph.D. retired award-winning scientist with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for achievements in environmental programs, equal opportunities for minorities and women; and with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, died March 16, 2014, at Carlton Plaza Assisted Living in San Leandro, CA, after several years living with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease.
Under his leadership as Head, Warfighter Performance Department at ONR, the department became known for delivering vital research-based technologies and resources to Marines and Sailors. Most notable for saving lives in Iraq is QuikClot, a hemostatic agent that stops bleeding from extremities. Other successes include, Virtual-at-Sea Training for surface fire support that eliminates the proverbial "Bathtub Effect" in training; the SpeechGear language translator, also used in Iraq; the DYNET computer model of dynamic networks for the Joint Forces Command; and engineered enzymes for explosive production reducing toxic waste.
Dr. Guard received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Purdue University in 1964. He completed his Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Chicago, 1969-71, he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley, as an environmental chemist in a multidisciplinary marine science group.
At Berkeley, he advanced to chair the Environmental & Marine Science Department of the Naval Biosciences Laboratory in the School of Public Health, where he managed a team of chemists and marine biologists investigating the fates and effects of chemicals in estuarine environments. His environmental consulting experience includes work for the U.S. Coast Guard, Association of Bay Area Governments, The Council on Economic Priorities, and the San Francisco Bay Marine Research Foundation.
In 1983, Dr. Guard joined the Chemistry Division, Office of Naval Research, where he established the first national program in molecular recognition. He was instrumental in the development of basic and applied environmental research at ONR in the early 1990's.
A passionate and dedicated supporter of minority academic institutions, Dr. Guard served as vice-chair of the Historically Black College and University Council at ONR and received their Headquarters and Command Awards for achievements in the field of equal employment opportunity. Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral William C. Miller said in 1992 commendations of his work in this area, "Your efforts have significantly contributed to increasing the opportunities for minorities and women to receive a quality education in the science and engineering field. This achievement at a time when America is seeking effective education methodologies is a credit to you, OCNR, and the Department of the Navy."
In 1995, Dr. Guard assumed management of the Department of the Navy's programs in Environmental Quality Applied Research and Environmental Requirements Advanced Technology. In this capacity, he supported development of non-toxic fouling release coatings for ship hulls and an underwater hull-cleaning robot for the current copper-containing hull coatings.
He is a recipient of a Navy, Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his work with environmental programs and with the historically black universities. For leadership of the ONR Biology Division he was awarded the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award. In 2003, he received a Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive as Head, Human Systems S&T Department, ONR.
Dr. Guard was equally as proud of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington's (UUCA) 'Volunteers of the Month' award bestowed upon him and his wife Terry Lang in 1999 for their pioneering work in anti-racism at UUCA, particularly a powerfully effective experiential workshop on Grieving Racism which culminated in a Sunday sermon on the topic by members of his
mythopoetic men's group at Rowe Camp & Conference Center in Massachusetts. "Hal's understanding, commitment and encouragement around our becoming a more authentic multicultural community were valuable to me," says a current leader of the church's racial justice group. Also a member of the Labyrinth Committee, he was part of the group who helped to create the first labyrinth at UUCA in the mid 1990s.
Survivors include his wife and partner of 35 years Terry Lang, his sons David Guard, of Hayward, CA, and Jason Guard, of Richmond Virginia, his sister Evelyn Stallings of Carrboro, NC, five grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Forever held in his heart was his daughter Michele who died far too young in a car accident during her first year of college at UC Santa Cruz.
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From Terry Lang, my mother, Hal's wife:
In honor of how much joy he received from music throughout these years, we request anyone seeking to make a tax deductible donation do so to an organization doing creative and important work using music with Alzheimer's people. Their website makes it easy to do so with a little blue button on the left side of screen.
It's www.songwritingworks.org
Or checks can be mailed to them at:
Songwriting Works
2023 E. Sims Way #271
Port Townsend, WA 98368
I talked with the director at length before coming to this choice and am so impressed as i know Hal would have been. If I felt better I would go into more detail about them, but you can learn a lot on their website which I hope you can take the time to visit. We need so much more of this kind of work and Hal and I always liked to get money to the organizations that have to fight so hard to keep going. Hal was a very "out of the box" thinker and this group seems to be the same.


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Winery: The Mendel Winery embodies the union of Roberto de la Mota – one of Argentina's most respected and experienced winemakers – with an established Argentine family. Together they are dedicated to producing wines of unquestionable superior standard, expressing the quality and character of their Malbec and Cabernet vineyards in Luján de Cuyo.
They choose the best grapes from their almost 80-year-old vineyards, paying rigorous attention to every detail of the artisan winemaking process; from carefully sorting bunches, to fermentation in small tanks, to ageing in the finest French oak.
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Their vineyards are located in Perdriel (Finca de los Andes) and in Mayor Drummond (Finca M) between 900 and 1,100 metres above sea level, on the highest well-irrigated land in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza.
The grapes are harvested by hand in the early hours of the morning and taken to the winery in small recipients of 18 kg. After careful selection of the bunches of grapes and berries, the grapes are placed in small tanks of 12 to 80 hectolitres to macerate. The maceration, which lasts for three to five weeks, is done by hand (piegage manuel), smoothly sinking the skins into the liquid, ensuring an important, selective extraction of aromas, tannins and polyphenols – the elements which will give the wine body, volume, and structure of the highest quality.
Vineyards: Mendel's vines are planted on espaliers with a north-south orientation, in high density with 5,555 plants per hectare. Careful pruning, together with controlled irrigation during the cycle, gives excellent exposure to the sun, a reduced number of grape bunches, and medium sized berries. This ensures an excellent concentration, intensity and quality of grape. Harvest time is determined after many tastings of the grapes in the plots. The ageing is done in new French oak barrels for 14 to 16 months for Mendel Unus and for a similar period in new, first-use and second-use barrels for Mendel Malbec. During the ageing, the wines are tasted assiduously, to follow the evolution of each of the barrels' contents. After the "blend", the wines are bottled, avoiding filtrations and treatments that limit their intensity and complexity.
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"I Am a Ukrainian" is an Internet viral video, first posted on YouTube in 2014 featuring a young Ukrainian woman supporting the protestors in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. It was directed by documentary maker Ben Moses. By late March that year the video has been viewed about 8 million times...The professional production values have led some to suspect that the project is an outgrowth of an American think tank or the CIA.
The video has received a mostly positive reception, with the majority of the tens of thousands of comments in support. A February 21 count on YouTube gave the video about 70,000 "likes" and 4,000 "dislikes." A minority of voices, primarily those opposed to the revolution, argued that it is too one-sided.
I'll defer any commentary and hope for some comments from the Ukranian readers of this blog (139 visits in the past month, mostly from Kyiv city and from Ternopil's'ka, Lviv, and Odessa oblasts).


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With Christmas just around the corner, I've decided to be organised with my Christmas shopping. I thought I would share my ideas of the Top 5 entertainment presents that any man in your life would love.
1. Gran Turismo 5 – The 5th game in this ever popular franchise features more tracks, more visual effects and more cars to race. The game will also feature an online mode for the first time in the franchise's history.
2. Inception DVD – This years popular science-fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan is being released on December 6th, just in time for Christmas. With many interesting bonus features, it will make the perfect stocking filler.
3. Karl Pilkington: An Idiot Abroad DVD – The hilarious series in which Karl Pilkington visits the Seven Wonders of The World and provides his cynical view of different cultures. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant also appear in the series.
4. Call Of Duty: Black Ops – Having sold more than 1.4 million copies in 24 hours in the UK, this franchise's popularity shows no sign of slowing down. Set in the Cold War and released on many game platforms it would be a great present for any gamer.
5. Top Gear: The Stig Travel Mug – Another nice stocking filler that is a must-have for a man with early morning starts as it keeps drinks heated. Get it on play.com.
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Happy G.O.O.D Friday… on Saturday. Either way, enjoy!
Download: Kanye West – The Joy feat. Pete Rock, Jay-Z, Charlie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield & Kid Cudi
Happy G.O.O.D Friday… on Saturday. Either way, enjoy!
Download: Kanye West – The Joy feat. Pete Rock, Jay-Z, Charlie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield & Kid Cudi
Mash ups are very popular these days, but because they are so easy to make there are a lot of bad ones out there. I have come across a few mix tapes that truly stand out. These beats and samples are chopped up perfectly and make cool new songs. Check them out:
Wu Tang Clan Vs The Beatles- Got Your Money, from the mixtape Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers DOWNLOAD THIS ALBUM:
Notoroius B.I.G Vs Grateful Dead- Nasty Boy, from the mixtape Gratefully D.E.A.D:
Jay-Z Vs Funk- The Party Life, From the mixtape American G-Funk:
Happy G.O.O.D Friday (yes on Saturday). Great new track. Check it out.
Download: Kanye West – So Appalled (feat. RZA, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Swizz Beats CyHi Da Prynce)
New, new, new! Here's the second track off Kanye's and Jay-Z's new album, Watch the Throne. Kanye and Jay-Z obviously bring it and even though I'm not much of a Nicki Minaj or Rick Ross fan, this is a pretty good track. It'll be interesting to see what kind of magic Kanye and Jay-Z can make together. Check it out.
Download: Kanye West – Monster (ft. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, & Nicki Minaj)
When I first heard power, I thought it was alright. It's going to be hard for Kanye to make a full comeback after 808, which was definitely not his best work, and his recent mishaps, but I have to hand it to him, Kanye goes in hard on this track. He spits a pretty sick verse and Jay-z adds that little bit of flair the track needed. We'll have to see what Kanye does next before he's fully "back". Check it out.http://s0.wp.com/i/support/content-unavailable.png
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Haiku Poems
The children looked at some examples of Haiku poetry. They identified that the lines in the verse followed a pattern of syllables.
They then chose their favourite predator bird. After that they created a list of adjectives to describe its features and movement.
The hard part was then to choose words which followed the 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern and complete the 3 lined Haiku poem.


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Take care of yourself and your beloved ones."
To actively cooperate with the government's epidemic prevention requirements, the store is closed till May 4, 2020.
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28 February 2010
Have Fork will Travel?
Will Write for Food?
Have Fork will Travel?
Sound like you?
Dear Readers,
Are you already a food blogger or do you just like to share your opinion? Do you know good food, have an eye for detail and a passion for good service? Then this could be right up your alley.
The Mystery Dining Company is looking for people to anonymously assess their restaurants so that they can maintain a high standard of food and service.
They are currently recruiting for "Eaters" in Brisbane, Perth and Canberra locations – as well as Sydney airport. So regardless of whether you are a regular diner - flying, dropping off or picking up – this could be a gig for you.
If you like the idea of being reimbursed for your meal in return for completing a questionnaire and sharing your thoughts – you should apply here . After all – as foodies – isn't this our passion? To eat? To get it for free should just be the kicker!
To be a successful Mystery Diner – you need to give fair, well rounded and objective feedback. They will provide initial training and a detailed brief before each outing.
I've just signed up… and am waiting with bated breath for my first assignment – I can't wait! If this is something that rings your bell - you should too!
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One of the greatest stars in cinema today from Bollywood is the world famous "hero of hearts" Shah Rukh Khan. On the scale of performance as an actor he is still very much on top of the list and as a human being even higher. SRK, a true example of a successful survivor of insurmountable obstacles talks about "love" as the purest and most necessary of ingredients in all relationships.
His life-story is no secret but it his iconic rise to fame that continues to catapult him to greater heights each day that makes him so special in the hearts and minds of people around the world.
SRK is the epitome of a good human being who knows how to harness his humility as his strength and this is his magic mantra to success both as an award-winning actor and a pioneering world-class businessman.
Here is a link from a recent speech at #DhirubhaiAmbaniInternationalSchool https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2016/06/shah-rukh-khan-speech/


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Garden Your Way To Self-Confidence
Garden and Grow
It all begins with a seed, one seed. You plant it, add water and sit back to watch it grow. If it does, that is great; you plant another and on it grows.
If it does not grow, you plant another and watch it grow. You may want to make a few notes the first time you plant a seed to record what you did and this enables you to repeat the same process or to make changes.
What is important here is not whether the first seed springs into life, but that you plant the second seed and the third.
One of the major faults in our society is to focus on mistakes and doing things wrong. We grade people rather than encourage them. We can only learn by doing and if the first time we try something and it does not work and we get a failing or poor grade we are not encouraged to try again.
What is needed is to change this grading approach to a learn by doing approach; an approach that rewards effort and activity. We must also see the doing as a learning experience that is neither right nor wrong but is education in action. Do this and much else changes.
Our education system, both formal (school) and informal (family, friends), often makes people afraid to step forward and come to the blackboard for fear of being ridiculed and laughed at; this is simply wrong and will not build confidence.
Confidence in yourself is an integral part of self-esteem or how you view you in comparison/contrast to others around you.
When you are confident in yourself you can embrace risk and by doing so learn and grow.
Gardening can assist this process. How?
Gardening is a learn by doing experience that requires the gardener to take a chance and observe and record the results. Careful observation and interaction will allow the gardener to see what works and what does not so that the gardener can learn from the experience and make necessary changes to improve the process.
You cannot fail.
Not all you plant will grow but you will always get positive results if you know your garden, yourself and put the right plant in the right place.
To improve you self-confidence through gardening, start small. Pick three herbs that you like and use in your cooking and pot them up and place them either indoors or out, depending upon where you live and the time of year. Make sure they are placed where they get six hours of sunlight each day and water them as needed.
They will grow.
Make notes of what you did so you can repeat the process or make changes. I always suggest that people keep a garden journal. It does not have to be elaborate. A notebook will do for a small garden. Record what you plant where and when and add regular updates based upon your observations.
You can gradually expand your garden dependent upon your time and available space.
If it is winter where you are when you begin, you can expand you herb garden indoors, or work with houseplants. Keep notes as you go and save seed packs so you know what you plant. The seed pack contains all the information you need to plant your seeds properly.
If you take the first step and plant that first seed and you continue to plant, care for, harvest and record you will notice a often subtle change in your daily behaviour. You have accomplished something and continue to do so on a regular basis.
Over time as you knowledge and skill grows you will also become aware of the wonder of Nature and all that comes together to make a seed become a plant. This is a humbling experience and an essential one as this experience is what prevents confidence from becoming arrogance.
Plant a seed and grow.
great hub pop' keep going' flag up!
what a great hub..thanks for such a nice information...u r good going
What a greaty perspective! Thanks. You made me smile.
Thsi is all good advice, because plants make our environment healthier in many ways. Thanks!
Hi Bob, I can feel so much of your passion for gardening through this hub...and how you have related it to us and our growing. I love your life's philosophy and right now, I just want to give you a great big warm hug to say thank you for being a gardener and planting seeds of love and inspiration to me. :-)
Excellent hob, Bob. I like your notion of learning from experience, and building mastery in something meaningful, rather than learning for grades. I made the switch from "teaching school" to "teaching kids (and later adults)" many years ago -- and it was the best thing I ever did. Mastery and meaning are the two things that may save us from drowning in our own material excess. Thanks for this!
Great Idea Bob, I think I'll make mine too!
I prefer the learn by (doing approach) over the (grading approach) simply because I am a visual learner. I think I'll try your garden journal approach this year. Sounds like a good idea. Thank you.
Great hub, Bob.


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"Brevity is the soul of wit"
– William Shakespeare.
Do you know the best part of making a quick quip? When the other person gets all worked up, you get much ado about nothin'. Wah wahhhhh. :D
Thanks to The Sceptical Prophet for the quote. (Shameless plug for inundating his inbox with random comments!)


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This week baby has reached about the size of a large apple (I did not eat apples this week). Baby's legs are growing longer than the arms and baby can now move ALL of his/her joints and limbs. Although the eyelids are still fused shut and will not open until nearly the end of second trimester, baby is already sensitive to light – most important development milestone of this week!
Yet again I would like to say 'not much is happening', but our bodies are ever growing, so it would be better for me to say 'not much is changing' except for maybe I've begun to feel fatter and fatter by the day. Week 15 was one of those weeks which were fairly easy in the pregnancy sense that it just flew by and I kind of just skipped it! I personally didn't find out the sex of the baby this week but I know many mothers do around this mark. Did any of you?


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A cup of confidence, of energy, a gulp of pure desperation.
Waiting for that synthetic hit, to give me motivation.
A simple substance, yet, with so much power.
Will it finally make me shower?
I drink too fast, it scorches my throat.
My body screams 'NO', but it doesn't get a vote.
I get on with my day, 'how are you?' 'Yes, I'm fine'.
Can they tell I'm barely alive?
I'm fuelled by numbers, C8H10N4O2,
How accurate is my world perception, through this stimulated view?
I can study, I can work, I feel mentally strong,
But there's a time limit on coffee, before it all starts to go wrong.
The confidence, the energy, it's soon stolen away.
Replaced by dissociation, my world's turning grey.
I'm disconnected, I'm numb, I just want to quit.
This cycle is so torturous, was this drink really worth it?
Then, just wait, it's not over yet,
The anxiety comes flooding in, everything is a threat.
My OCD emerges, it starts a war.
'COUNT!' It says. 'COUNT!' ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR.
I end the day, dazed, just lying in bed.
Why do I do this to my stupid head?
The chemicals, the stimulants, is there any point?
For a false sense of determination, that will inevitably disappoint.
The morning comes, I awake, time to face a new day.
I'm tired, I need energy and I know there's a way.
So, here I am, stuck, in a state of affliction.
I'm paralysed, faced again, with the coffee contradiction.


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The latest news from the best sport fishing boat in Gran Canaria!
Thursday 23rd September 2004
Both Boats have had some good fishing last week
Dorado has continued to do trolling and has raised 5 Blue Marlin, Albacore Tuna, Dorados and Bonitos.
Cavalier is shallow water fishing for the rays and has had some excellent catches of good size rays up to 75kilos / 150 lbs.
So Not a bad weeks fishing last week
Will let you know how this week fishes so visit our online news next week
Sunday 12th September 2004
This week has produced mostly good catches of Bonito Tuna and Dorados (mahi,Mahi)
Cavalier has had a nice catch of a good sized Wahoo and also a 70 kilo / 156 lbs Big Eye Tuna
Dorado yesterday was unfortunate and lost a Blue Marlin.
Next week Dorado will continue to do Trolling and Cavalier will start shallow water bottom fishing for the Rays.
I will be on holiday for 1 week so I will update you on our fishing exploits on my return.
Saturday 4th September 2004
Monday & Wednesday seemed to be the most productive days for Marlin both boats hooked up-Dorado having 2 in a day & Cavalier losing one estimated at 300kilos/700lbs.
The rest of the week saw Wahoo good size Bonitos up to 20lbs and some Dorados.
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Like many young women, first-year ORU student Brianna Griffith has dreamed of becoming a teacher since she was a little girl.
But at as a teenager she wasn't sure that dream would come true. Griffith was born with three extra electrical pathways in her heart, a congenital defect called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Like many people with the condition, Griffith did not experience symptoms until adolescence. At age 11, she started having frightening episodes at gymnastics practices.
"My heart would stop, and I would get dizzy and black out," she recalls. When her heart restarted, it was at the incredibly rapid rate of approximately 300 beats per minute. This required doctors to shock her heart back into a healthy rhythm.
Because physical activity brought on the episodes, Griffith's heart defect caused her to quit gymnastics and dance. She ultimately had surgery at age 13 to fix the problem. She calls the experience one of the defining moments of her faith.
"I needed to rely on God during that time, especially going into the surgery that day, because I was scared to death," she says.
Before and after the procedure, Griffith says she found strength from the story of Christian missionary Bruce Olson. In his autobiography, "Bruchko," Olson writes about his experiences living in South America and sharing the Gospel with an indigenous tribe known for its violence and killings.
"He had to do so many difficult things," says Griffith, now age 18. "I knew that if he had to go through that, then I could do what I had to do."
Griffith credits Mrs. Vance, one of her most impactful teachers, with introducing her to Olson's book and solidifying her desire to become a teacher herself.
A high-achieving homeschool student, Griffith enrolled at ORU with 28 credit hours already completed, both at ORU and Tulsa Community College. She is pursuing an elementary education degree with a concentration in English Language Learner.
After graduating, her goal is to teach third grade while slowly working toward her master's degree in education, a plan she hopes will increase her career opportunities.
Oklahoma is experiencing an unprecedented teacher shortage — a problem largely due to education budget cuts and low teacher salaries — but that won't deter Griffith, who hopes to teach near her hometown of Tulsa.
"Teaching is what I feel I'm supposed to be doing," she says. "I just have a passion for kids and for people." As an undergraduate, she shares that passion through ORU's ARISE Leadership Program, which encourages spiritual formation, community activism and servant-leadership development. Programs like this are one of Griffith's favorite things about attending ORU.
"I love that there are so many outreaches and opportunities to get involved within campus and outside of campus," she says.
The second-oldest of five children, Griffith says she was always drawn to ORU but prayed about the financial help she would need to attend. Today she is more than grateful God answered her prayer.
"The Quest Whole Person Scholarship is helping me to become a teacher — what God has called me to be," she says. "It's helping me help others and impact the next generation."


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Ive been playing with the LucidWorks for Solr distribution of Solr 1.4, and wanted to share some of things I had noticed about it. The LucidWorks distro is Solr 1.4 with patches and enhancements from Lucid added in.
The first thing youll notice is that an installer (and uninstaller) is provided that walks you through the basic steps of installing Solr. Now Solr itself is pretty darn simple to work with already, but you do need to compile the code, which means you need Ant to be installed. The Lucid installer avoids that need, and  adds support for running Solr in Tomcat as well as Jetty. And, assuming you have a support agreement with Lucid, it supports downloading plugins from Lucid to extend your Solr platform. Right now the only free plugin is the Reference Guide PDF. Having an installer available definitely checks a box for the systems type folks who may be installing Solr, but it doesnt really do anything crazy special. Also, one nit is that if you install into
/opt/dirA, and then want to install into
/opt/dirB, you have to delete
~/.LucidWorks/ directory as the install dir is cached! Â But it does demonstrate what might be coming from Lucid in future updates!
Another enhancment from Lucid is a Tray Application for managing your Solr instances. However, this turns out to just be a basic (on OSX at least!) menubar application that allows you to start/stop a local Solr server. There doesnt seem to be any options to stop and start remote servers, or monitor the health of running Solrs, so I think this is something you use once and never again! Hey Lucid, it would be great though if the Tray App integrated stoplight monitoring of Solr instances and popped open web pages to admin pages to perform various tasks on your collection of Solr servers!
Directory Layout
The directory that youve installed Solr into should look very familiar. In fact, too familiar to me! Ive gone back and forth on the way that Solr is distributed with source code as well as compiled jars. While Solr used to be a tool that only Java centric shops would look at, its now gone mainstream, to where many, if not most, organizations that use Solr are not traditional Java shops! I really wish I could download a version of Solr that didnt have the
src directory, was just a stripped down ready to go application. Admittedly, the example application that is part of the source functions as a template, but it has been bemoaned by myself and others that folks just use and abuse the configuration of what was meant as an example app, to their detriment!
So I was hoping that the LucidWorks distros Installer would function as that smart template by walking me through including/excluding various extensions like DIH, Clustering, and Extraction. But at least in this first version, no such luck. The support though for for picking either Tomcat or Jetty as a container shows what could be in the offing though!
While the LucidWorks distro still ships with the hoary old example directory is still there, there is now a lucidworks directory. When you run the new toplevel
start.sh shell script it starts Solr with
solr.solr.home=lucidworks/solr directory. Something to note is that the
start.sh has complete paths defined in it from the installer:
It really should at least have a single variable at the top that you can changing depending on what environment you are in.
The lucidworks project is also setup as a single index project. Â Since the future is multicore configurations, Id like to see that as the default in more examples. Â (The example app needs a bit of work as well to better show off multicore as a first class feature!)
Doing a diff on the example and lucidworks versions of
solrconfig.xml shows its pretty much the same as the one from the example app, but with the correct configurations for DataImportHandler and the Velocity based search UI called Solritas. Solritas is a nice tool for helping you "wedge" Solr into places by providing a simple Velocity template based translation layer, and even build a GUI, within your Solr environment. Solritas hasnt received a lot of buzz, so its nice seeing it turned on by default! The clustering functionality is also specified, but not sure if the
solr.cluster.enabled=true startup parameter is actually required or not.
The other oddity is that the Lucid monitoring product for Solr, SolrGaze, isnt enabled by default! Doesnt seem like the most ringing endorsement for the software. Im excited by the prospect of better visiblity into the internals of Solr, so I enabled it.
Diffing the two schema.xml files reveals the addition of the Lucid KStemmer
com.lucidimagination.solrworks.analysis.LucidKStemFilterFactory for fast non-aggresive text stemming. According to Lucid it provides:
Large field performance shows a 220% performance increase, while small fields show a 1140% increase compared to the original UMASS code.
SolrGaze promises to make it easier to see what is going on inside of Solr. Anything that makes it simpler for operations folks instead of developers to manage Solr is good in my book. I ran into one nit which was I opened up SolrGaze using the url
http://localhost:8983/gaze/index.html. It barfed connecting to Solr to display gathered metrics, but if I used
http://127.0.0.1:8983/gaze/index.html then everything was fine.
I havent had to chance to really play with Gaze yet, so Ill post a more in-depth review soon.
All in all, the Lucid distro would be what I would recommend for a first timer to download, or someone doing a spike of development and needing a quick install of Solr. Â Not requiring Ant to be installed is a wonderful thing, and being pre-configured for Clustering, DIH, and Solritas means you get to see a working Solr install, complete with a full featured GUI, right out of the box. Â In terms of using for a production deploy, there is less to recommend it since youre going to want to strip down to just the bits and bobs that your require for your specific needs. Â I havent delved down into what SolrGaze provides, so that feature may be the tipping point for deciding to use the Lucid distribution.


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Well, another class of high school graduates are killing time until they begin their college experience. In four, five, or six years, many of them will graduate from college, and move to Dallas County so they can work as temps at Wells Fargo.
Meanwhile, town squares across Iowa are emptying out. I've spent some time exploring small towns in rural Iowa, and there are common threads that threaten to further damage the prospects of the young, and may even threaten the existence of many towns across the state.
And so it goes; young people leave to try and buy jobs that don't matter (and often don't exist in large numbers), buildings stand unused, and eventually the towns just collapse into stagnant malaise.
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