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Phase II Clinical Trial of Celecoxib in Persons with Ge
Lynch, Patrick M.
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
Search 8 grants from Patrick Lynch
Search grants from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chemical and Structural Biology Program (CSB)
Single-cell sequencing of peripheral blood cells in SLE patients
Renal Sinus Fat, Hypertension, and Altered Kidney Function
Fresno State and UC Merced Bridges to the Doctorate Program in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
Civamide Nasal Spray for the Treatment of Postherpetic Neuralgia of the Trigemina
Variant Hemoglobin and Cardiorespiratory Regulation in Humans
Preservation and Vascularization of Cardiac Extracellular Matrix after Myocardial Infarction
Genomic and Phenomic Architecture of Heart Failure
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an inherited susceptibility to diffuse colorectal adenomas and to colorectal carcinoma, occurring in close to 100% of unresected colons and is caused by a germline mutation in the APC gene. Most subjects who develop FAP show evidence of early adenomas between ages 10 and 15. The mutated APC gene also predisposes to duodenal polyps and to periampullary carcinoma. Although the standard of care has long been considered to be colectomy at diagnosis, practitioners and patients have been increasingly willing to undergo surveillance until there is evidence of progressive polyp burden. A recent trial demonstrated the activity of celecoxib in regressing prevalent adenomas in FAP patients with advanced adenomatous disease. This study will examine the natural history of the colorectal mucosa in young, asymptomatic carriers of APC mutations, and explore the role of celecoxib in suppressing emergence of the adenomatous phenotype. In addition, a number of ancillary evaluations will examine the relative impact of this potential preventive approach on the psychosocial status of patients.
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Lynch, Patrick M; Ayers, Gregory D; Hawk, Ernie et al. (2010) The safety and efficacy of celecoxib in children with familial adenomatous polyposis. Am J Gastroenterol 105:1437-43
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Tori Amos, właśc. Myra Ellen Amos (ur. 22 sierpnia 1963 w Newton) – amerykańska piosenkarka, autorka tekstów i piosenek, pianistka.

Śpiewa, grając na fortepianie, przy akompaniamencie sekcji rytmicznej, elektrycznych gitar i niekiedy sekcji smyczkowej. Jej utwory charakteryzują się metaforycznym przesłaniem i osobistym wydźwiękiem.

Do 2005 sprzedała ponad 12 milionów albumów na całym świecie. Była nominowana do wielu nagród muzycznych, w tym np. osiem razy do nagrody Grammy.

Była pierwszym rzecznikiem, utworzonej w 1994, amerykańskiej organizacji "Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network" (RAINN) – darmowego telefonu zaufania łączącego osoby dzwoniące z najbliższym lokalnym centrum kryzysowym dla ofiar przemocy na tle seksualnym.

Życiorys

Kariera muzyczna
Gdy miała dwa lata, wykazała talent muzyczny, potrafiąc samodzielnie odtworzyć na fortepianie zasłyszaną melodię. Mając trzy lata, skomponowała swoje pierwsze piosenki. W latach 1968–1974 była uczennicą Konserwatorium Muzycznego "Peabody", gdzie uczyła się gry na fortepianie klasycznym. Po sześciu latach przerwała naukę w konserwatorium. Mając 13 lat, zaczęła grać koncerty w klubach gejowskich i barach z fortepianem. W 1977 wygrała lokalny konkurs talentów, wykonując piosenkę "More Than Just a Friend".

W wieku 16 lat wraz z bratem Mikiem napisała piosenkę "Baltimore", która powstała na potrzeby konkursu organizowanego przez włodarzy miasta Baltimore. Dzięki utworowi zwyciężyli w konkursie, sama piosenka w 1980 została wydana w małym nakładzie jako debiutancki singiel Amos. W międzyczasie stworzyła i nagrała kilka innych kompozycji, które jej ojciec wysyłał do różnych wytwórni muzycznych. Jedno z demo muzycznych odsłuchał producent Narada Michael Walden, który zaproponował jej współpracę; pomimo realizacji kilku wspólnych nagrań, nie ujrzały one światła dziennego. Ofertę wokalistce złożyła też wytwórnia Atlantic Records, która po przesłuchaniach nastolatki podpisała z nią kontrakt na nagranie sześciu albumów.

W 1984 przeprowadziła się do Los Angeles, by rozwijać karierę muzyczną. W 1986 założyła zespół Y Kant Tori Read, z którym 6 stycznia 1988 wydała debiutancki album studyjny, również zatytułowany Y Kant Tori Read. Płyta nie była sukcesem komercyjnym, co skłoniło Amos do rozwiązania grupy i skupienia się na działalności solowej. W 1990 rozpoczęła pracę nad materiałem na pierwszą solową płytę. Album, zatytułowany Little Earthquakes, miał swoją premierę 6 stycznia 1992. Materiał został ciepło przyjęty przez krytyków i słuchaczy, dzięki którym dotarł do 14. miejsca brytyjskiej listy bestsellerów i otrzymał status platynowej płyty w Stanach Zjednoczonych, gdzie ukazał się 25 lutego 1992. Kilka miesięcy później przeprowadziła się do Nowego Meksyku, gdzie nagrała drugi solowy album pt. Under the Pink, który miał premierę 31 stycznia 1994. Płyta zadebiutowała na pierwszym miejscu UK Albums Chart.

Po sukcesie albumu Under the Pink regularnie wydaje kolejne płyty: Boys for Pele (1996), From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998), To Venus and Back (1999), Strange Little Girls (2001), Scarlet's Walk (2002), The Beekeeper (2005), American Doll Posse (2007), Abnormally Attracted to Sin (2009), Midwinter Graces (2009), Night of Hunters (2011), Gold Dust (2012), Unrepentant Geraldines (2014) i Native Invader (2017).

25 września 2013 w Lyttelton Theatre (Royal National Theatre) w Londynie odbyła się premiera musicalu The Light Princess, będącego adaptacją szkockiej baśni autorstwa George'a MacDonalda. Tori Amos jest autorką muzyki i tekstów piosenek, a Samuel Adamson – scenariusza (adaptacji) i tekstów piosenek. Widowisko reżyserowała Marianne Elliott. Za choreografię odpowiadał Steven Hoggett.

Życie prywatne
Jest córką Mary Ellen Amos (z domu Copeland) i Edisona Amosa, doktora teologii. Ma dwoje starszego rodzeństwa, brata Edisona Amosa juniora i siostrę Marie Ellen, z zawodu lekarkę.

Prababka Amos ze strony matki, Margaret Little, wywodziła się z plemienia Czirokezów i była jedną z osób, które uciekły z tzw. Szlaku Łez. Jej wnukiem był David "Poppy" Copeland, z którym Amos była silnie związana. Zmarł, gdy miała 9 lat. Zdaniem rodziny, wokalistka nigdy nie pogodziła się z jego śmiercią. Ojciec Amos wywodził się z konserwatywnej i religijnej rodziny irlandzkiej. Jego matka, Addie Allen Amos, była kobietą wykształconą – ukończyła studia na Uniwersytecie Wirginii, co nie było powszechne wśród kobiet w jej czasach. Byłą osobą silnie wierzącą, a jej religijność była konserwatywna. To za jej sprawą ojciec Amos został pastorem metodystów, rezygnując z marzenia o karierze lekarskiej. Wokalistka w wywiadach opowiadała o konflikcie z babką, przede wszystkim z powodu wyznawanych przez Addie Amos konserwatywnych poglądów na seksualność.

W 1998 poślubiła inżyniera dźwięku i realizatora, Marka Hawleya. Mają córkę Natashyę "Tash" Lórien Hawley. Mieszka w małej wiosce w Kornwalii, gdzie ma prywatne studio.

Dyskografia

Albumy studyjne

Albumy koncertowe

Kompilacje

Minialbumy

Ścieżki dźwiękowe

Oficjalne bootlegi

Single

Wideografia

Nagrody i wyróżnienia

Koncerty w Polsce
W Polsce była osiem razy, dając dziesięć koncertów:
 16 grudnia 2001, 9 marca 2005, 12 października 2011 (retransmisja 15 października 2011) i 24 sierpnia 2017 (transmisja na żywo) wystąpiła na kameralnych koncertach w Studiu im. Agnieszki Osieckiej w Trójce.
 24 stycznia 2003 roku zaśpiewała dla publiczności zgromadzonej w poznańskiej Hali widowiskowo-sportowej Arena.
 19 czerwca 2007 roku w ramach trasy koncertowej "American Doll Posse Tour" Tori Amos wystąpiła w Sali Kongresowej w Warszawie.
 9 października 2009 w Domu Muzyki i Tańca w Zabrzu oraz 10 października 2009 w warszawskiej Sali Kongresowej podczas trasy "Sinful Attraction Tour"
 13 października 2011 – dzień po w/w koncercie w Studiu im. Agnieszki Osieckiej – wystąpiła w Warszawie w Sali Kongresowej w ramach trasy "Night of Hunters".
 13 października 2012 wystąpiła w Warszawie w Sali Kongresowej z towarzyszeniem Polskiej Orkiestry Radiowej w ramach trasy promującej album Gold Dust.
 12 czerwca 2014 wystąpiła w Warszawie w Sali Kongresowej w ramach trasy "Unrepentant Geraldines".

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Strona oficjalna
 Toriphoria – strona fanowska m.in. z wywiadami z artystką

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Amerykańskie mezzosoprany
Amerykańskie wokalistki rockowe
Amerykańskie wokalistki popowe
Urodzeni w 1963
Zdobywcy platynowych płyt
Muzycy związani z Los Angeles

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When Debora Simcovich visited Buenos Aires four years ago, she wasn't looking for anyone to perform her tango compositions, but a chance encounter with famed Argentinian orchestra Orquesta Victoria led to their current collaboration. Now they are travelling throughout the Bay Area on their "El Mundo is the World" tour, performing Simcovich's tango compositions from her new album.
Though Simcovich was born in Buenos Aires, she has been living in San Francisco since the mid 80's. She studied spanish language and literature at SF State and stayed on as a lecturer for six semesters after she graduated in 1994.
"I was a lecturer while I was finishing my master's degree at State, but I left after that because I was looking for full-time work and they weren't offering that," Simcovich said.
Simcovich has been writing poetry since she was a teenager, and until recently, was unaware that her work would evolve into tango lyrics and compositions. Her songs, which she says are influenced by everything around her, can come to her at any moment.
According to Simcovich, finding new material in tango music is difficult and finding new composers is uncommon. So when she met Orquestra Victoria while visiting a music hall in Buenas Aires, they jumped at the chance to work with one another.
Joseph Ostos, a physics major and a lifelong musician, was excited to hear about her work and how prominent her music has become.
Working with Orquesta Victoria has been very rewarding for Simcovich. The 12-piece tango orchestra is well-established in the tango music community and their world tours have made them a name known worldwide. Simcovich said she has great respect and admiration for the group.
Orquesta Victoria was also interested in Simcovich because of her role as a female tango composer. Tango music is primarily male-dominated with the majority of lyricists, arrangers and composers being men. As a woman in this field, Simcovich often encounters resistance and skepticism.
According to Ostos, it's rare to hear success stories about former students succeeding in the arts, which makes Simcovich's story is an inspiration for students who hope to make their art into a career.
21-year-old Trevor Phillips is an anthropology major, but he dreams of doing theater professionally someday. Though he isn't a musician, he still draws hope from Simcovich's story.
For Simcovich, this tour with Orquesta Victoria is only the beginning. She wants to continue writing and composing. She aspires to help tango music reach a wider, more mainstream audience and ultimately create music that will last beyond a lifetime.


You thought 2019 started tough?
Will fill in as more are released. Big change with North Dakota coming in is that someone will be off every week so our bye week could be anywhere. 2020 is an 11 game season.
I hope we buy that Idaho State game out and replace it with a home game.
Is it too early to complain about the 2020 schedule? Because I am prepared to.
Indeed. Even I agree with dumping the ISU game in 2020!


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"The HSG Odyssey: A Retro Sci-Fi Experience!" December 14, 2013
"The HSG Odyssey: A Retro Sci-Fi Adventure", the school's 2013 show was staged last December 14 at the UP Film Center. The HSG Odyssey tapped on the element of fantasy to convey a world beyond imagination: exploring the wonders of the universe by fusing art, music, dance and costume play into a unique theatrical experience.
Inspired by renowned filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and his legendary "2001: A Space Odyssey", the HSG Odyssey captures its grand vision, awe and spectacle to remind the world what it was like to dream like what Kubrick did during his time. Through the discotheque music that emerged in that era, the audience was brought back, in a fun and exciting way, to that momentous time in history.
Grade 1A - The Mercurians
Nursery/Kinder1 - The Sunnians
The HSG pupils represented inhabitants from the different formations that compose the solar system, showing what life would have been like in there. The Nursery and K1 Classes were the sun inhabitants, or the Sunnians, who danced to "Disco Inferno" and "September". The Grade 1A Class danced to the tune of "Stayin Alive" as Mercurians!
Grade 2B Class - from Earth, the "Funky Town"!
Grade 4 Class - The Martians
Grade 5 Class - Venusians
Grade 2A - Earthlings
The Grade 5 class presented a swing number ("Xanadu, Can't Help Myself and Heaven Must have Sent You") donned in unique fish-like costumes. Meanwhile, the Grade 2A class represented planet Earth and danced to the tune of "Funky Town" and 'Shake Your Groove Thing"! The Grade 4 Class came in Martian soldier uniforms and danced to Village People hits. The K2 Class looked like robots as Asteroidians, dancing to Blondie's "One Way or Another"!
Jupiter became a "Boogie Wonderland" when the Grade 2B class came in psychedelic costumes and danced to the beat. The Saturnians, or the Grade 1B class, presented Abba hits and came in glittery attires!
Grade 2B as Jupiterians in Boogie Wonderland!
K2 Class as Asteroidians
Grade 1B as Saturnians
Grade 3B as Uranusians
Grade 6 students doing a swing number
In the meantime, the Uranusians (Grade 3A) class and the Neptunians (Grade 3B) class presented Jackson 5 numbers and various seventies hits! The grade 6 class, as Plutonians and Dwarf Planet Inhabitants, capped the performances with a swing rendition of "Can't Take my Eyes off You" and "Last Dance".
Grade 3B as Neptunians doing a Jackson 5 medley
Grade 6 students: Plutonians and Dwarf Planet Inhabitants
HSG Music Mentor Justine Pena, who plays Cinderella in Newport Theater at Resorts World, serenaded the HSG families together with her students from the Music Opportunity class.
It was indeed a magical night for the HSG community! Thanks to all HSG families, relatives and friends for making this event possible!

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Home » Single mom-of-two becomes a doctor at 50
Single mom-of-two becomes a doctor at 50
By January 25, 2022 No Comments4 Mins Read
Because we're all caught up in the rat race, society conventions mandate a specific schedule for each life milestone. You're expected to know your ABCs by a certain age, complete high school in a particular number of years, marry before your "eggs dry up," have children before your "eggs dry up," and spend the rest of your life making sure your progeny follow the same routine. However, given the nature of life, things do not always go as planned. Is this, however, a sign that you've failed? Certainly not. Just ask this gorgeous mom-of-two!
Stephanie M. Jackson, a 50-year-old single mother of two, recently left Twitter in awe of her after her daughter used the platform to brag about her mother's accomplishments. When Nya Syndab, Jackson's daughter, shared a photo of her bombshell mother in a lovely red jumpsuit last week, she was every bit the pleased daughter.
"My mom became a doctor at 50! Dreams always come true. Congratulations, beautiful," she wrote. "She's truly amazing! My fave." The message soon gained traction on the microblogging platform, with many people seeing Jackson's narrative as the motivation they needed to pursue their dreams.
"As a 22-year-old college drop out who feels like his life is shit this at least gives me a little motivation and realization that this is not the end and I got time to rebuild myself," commented Twitter user @marcusbell334. Syndab responded with words of encouragement for the young man, revealing that it had taken her a few extra years to finish her undergraduate. "It's never the end. It took me 6 1/2 to finish undergrad and I finished this year. You're on the right track… don't you worry about a thing," she wrote.
"I appreciate the encouragement [because] for the longest I was like damn it's kids my age with career jobs already and I'm still working a dead-end 11.50/hour job. But I'm in the process of paying off the balance I owe right now so I should be re-enrolled in the spring if it's paid by then," @marcusbell334 wrote back. Another Twitter user, @LeotheLion25, had a similar story to share as they shared how Jackson's achievement has inspired them to finish college. "I was the same. Seeing this topic made me very happy and it shows that age is just a number. I like to return back to college one day myself and finish my degree," they wrote.
With so many people interested in learning more about her mother's story, Syndab responded in a follow-up tweet, explaining that Jackson had raised her and her brother on her alone. "Quit her job as a high school teacher to move to Atlanta to complete her doctorate," she tweeted. "She put me through Spelman College & my brother just started at Morehouse. Took her 6 1/2 years to complete her Doctor of Chiropractic degree while raising us."
She also shared a few words of motivation for those who "feel like they are too old to pursue medicine (or any other goal)" and that it's too late to fulfill those dreams. "I would say to you that because you have a passion/a desire to become a doctor, it was meant for you. Whenever we have a desire for something, it's the universe and our intuition telling us that that's the path for you. No matter how much you feel like you're off track from your goal, our life has a funny way of bringing us back to where we wanted to be the whole time," she wrote. "I encourage you to pursue medicine again, no matter how old you are. The world needs your healing hands."
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MURDER ON HIS MIND SERIAL KILLER-Anne Penn
Murder on His Mind Serial Killer is the true crime story of the Original Night Stalker aka East Area Rapist who first terrorized Rancho Cordova/Sacramento areas in Northern California as a serial rapist. Moving on to Southern California he became the serial killer and rapist he had worked to become. The Original Night Stalker carried out the murders of at least 12 people in and around Southern California. This serial rapist and murderer moved about freely as law enforcement has been unable to catch a break and have to this date been unable to apprehend him. A very deadly criminal this man was prepared to do whatever it took to be free. Many active and retired law enforcement still work the case that had become cold. The FBI has once again joined in the chase. It has been 40 years since the first known attacks in Northern California. It has been 30 years since the last senseless murder of a young woman in Irvine California. How much longer will the families have to wait for justice in this case? Will we ever match his DNA to a name? Will we ever see who has been under the mask? MURDER ON HIS MIND SERIAL KILLER: Anne Penn
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5C D&D Club embraces sELF-expression, welcomes new players
By Eliza Powers 747 Views 5C Clubs, Club, Clubs, Clubs and Organizations, Creativity, D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Games, Geeks, Nerds, Roleplaying Games, Self-Expression, Student clubs, Student Creativity
(Clare Martin • The Student Life)
In a harshly lit Pomona College classroom on a warm Tuesday evening, three goblins and an excommunicated monk plot to overthrow a corrupt vampire mayor.
"Suddenly, you fall through the painting into an abandoned hallway," says Julia Qin HM '25, the "Dungeon Master" and a member of the 5C Dungeons and Dragons Club. She leads the game with narrative prowess, the kind of campfire or ghost story lull reminiscent of conspiratorial looks by a candlelit pub in a blizzard.
Qin's campaign is meticulously plotted, from teenage ghosts who whiz by the players on broomsticks on the street, to the detailed teenage angst of a human the players find in the Haunted House. She gives away just enough, but not too much. A clue, but not a key. A nudge, but never a golden ticket. The rest is up to the players.
D&D is, at its core, a role-playing game. But instead of choosing a character, players create one. Each "campaign," or continuing storyline, is unique, with three to six people meeting with pre-planned characters. Different "species" come with special talents and powers, such as Religion, Deception and Animal Handling.
"For me, a lot of fun comes with playing someone different than my normal personality," Qin said. "… It's kind of like theater: you're trying out different roles. And so I might be someone more outgoing or someone who's older or younger."
Qin's favorite character to date is a little more eccentric.
"Playing someone who might turn into a pigeon while drunk," she said. "Completely silly, does not make sense, but that's kind of the freedom D&D gives you."
D&D allows players to explore a different gender, an opportunity Max Cui PO '25 found surprisingly accessible. He played as a female-identifying tiefling.
"It feels a bit strange, but I wouldn't say that ultimately it ended up affecting things too much," Cui said. "After the initial weirdness wore off, it was just kind of normal."
It is through this individuality that D&D expands on the two-dimensional game pieces of other games. Players must contend with each other's differences and know when to act, when to listen or when to watch.
Yet D&D is a game that is often stigmatized.
"I think a major stereotype [of the D&D community] is the geeky nerd," Qin said.
But the 5C community, built with geeky nerds, works to dismantle these stereotypes by celebrating them.
"I think it really depends on who you talk to in terms of what sort of perceptions you might get," Qin said. "In my high school, [D&D] wasn't really a thing, but I think part of it is the bias of Harvey Mudd … it's a lot more normalized [here]. And so it seems like everyone's heard of it."
Another main stereotype is the preconception that players must have significant experience to participate.
"I definitely think it can be a little intimidating to get into," said Barbara Norton PO '25, a new player this year. "I had this misconception that you had to be really good and really experienced to join the D&D club at the 5Cs."
But Norton insists that the game isn't as impenetrable as it looks.
"It is complex but also at the same time is quite a bit easier than it looks, and it's just a really great opportunity to have a lot of fun with some interesting people," she said.
And for the social justice-motivated 5C community, the political parallels are fruitful.
"I think [games usually fall] into the classic trope of you're some sort of rebel against some sort of government," Qin said. "In general, I think the underdog story does really well in D&D."
The 5C D&D club encourages new players to join, with campaigns set aside for beginners.
"My campaign is for beginners, and I'm with my friends who have also never played — and that makes it even more fun," Norton said. "So I definitely recommend it to people, even if they don't have any experience. I 100% recommend it."
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President Rousseff cites reports that the US National Security Agency eavesdropped on her government's communications.
The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, has called off a state visit to the US in October after the US spied on her personal communications and those of other Brazilians.
Rousseff's decision came on Tuesday despite a 20-minute telephone call from her US counterpart, Barack Obama, on Monday night in an attempt to salvage the trip.
In a statement, Rousseff's office said: "The two presidents decided to postpone the state visit since the outcome of this visit should not be conditioned on an issue which for Brazil has not been satisfactorily resolved.
The White House and Rousseff's office both said a state visit could take place at a later date.
Jay Carney, White House spokesman, said an eventual state visit "should not be overshadowed by a single bilateral issue, no matter how important or challenging the issue may be".
Relations were hit after the National Security Agency snooped on emails, text messages and calls between the Brazilian president and her aides, as well as the Brazilian state oil giant Petrobras.
The revelations came from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a US intelligence contractor, and prompted a political uproar in Brazil.
US officials said the spying was aimed at tracking suspected terrorist activity and did not pry into personal communications. Rousseff was not convinced, and said she would act to protect her country.
The trip was expected to be a platform for deals on oil exploration and biofuels technology, and Brazil's potential $4bn purchase of 36 F-18 fighter jets from Boeing.


**Note: this article started out with talking about free ambassadorships, but I'm realizing that a second article needs to be written on the integrity of ambassadors. Watch for this post in the coming weeks. With the rise of social media, companies and brands have caught on to the fact that they can now advertise their product for free. For small and new brands this is fantastic.
For small entrepreneurs (such as me) that have branding, marketing, advertising, PR companies, it's not good news.
These days everyone is an ambassador. Everyone. Or "sponsored". I get it. Companies want to get their product into peoples hands, talk about it online. But as an entrepreneur who does branding, marketing, digital and social for a living, free doesn't put a roof over my head, food on my plate and resources to support the 2 children I sponsor in Africa with Compassion and World Vision.
On a weekly basis I receive countless responses from brands and companies that "we have ambassadors that will do it for free". While that's great for them, it's frustrating for me. And others out there who do this for a living, it's a slap in our face when brands won't pay for the expertise that I and others have to offer.
When everyone and their brother and their cat and their dog become an ambassador for free, it hurts all of us. It hurts the small entrepreneur do does this for a living. And it hurts the company because they never vetted their ambassador (you can't claim to be dairy-free and promote whey powder).
Right now there is an influx of ambassadorships (thanks in part to a recent company that shall remain nameless for the time being). In exchange for gazillions of hashtags (annoying), maybe some photos (bad lighting), definitely some tweets (out of context), blog posts (to fulfill "ambassadorship" requirements) and Facebook posts to round things out. They can "test" shoes (and keep them), wear some shirts and post photos of them in some awkward pose, eat a food bar, drink some protein powder and Instagram it....and bam. The brand has an army of ambassadors across the country-or world for that matter-talking about their product. For free. These ambassadorships are misleading to say the least.
Companies range from startups to large corporations (think Under Armour or Nike or Puma). Do you really think they can't afford to pay people?
People who are just getting started in the health/wellness/fitness field (since this is my area of expertise, I'll stick with this category) and are just looking for ANY free thing that comes their way. They want to "grow" their social following, website hits, Facebook likes, Twitter following count. They have a "day job" and see free product only as free product with a few posts on social media platforms. Shouldn't ambassadors be people who have embraced a healthy lifestyle for some period of time not just because it's a buzz word or because they want free stuff or because they did 5 pushups for the first time?
But if the campaign is only based on free product to anyone who will promote it, integrity is out the window.
I understand free word-of-mouth. But when it comes to marketing and PR small businesses, free just doesn't cut it.
For brands and companies, put a sustainable strategy plan into place. Something more than hashtags (that will annoy the crap out of people). When brands pay for a smart and sustainable strategy, a long-term relationship is made.
For ambassadors, what are you promoting? Are you researching the company? Are you looking at the product and what's in it? Very few nutrition products that claim to be "healthy" are rarely healthy. Are you an ambassador just for what it will do for you?
One of my passions is helping small brands find their voice in a very noisy world. My job is to help them find their voice in the noisy world. How can I help your brand? You can work with me to create a sustainable partnership together.
P.S. I'm thankful for the brands that I have worked with who have seen the value I can offer them.


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A case for the defence
NFFC
Nottingham Forest head coach Philippe Montanier says his side must fix their defensive frailties ahead of tomorrow night's visit of Fulham.
Having conceded 19 goals in the league so far this term, Montanier knows where The Reds must improve but he believes their current problems are down to a lack of concentration rather than tactical issues.
He said: "In the last few matches we've had one or two moments where we have lost concentration, either through positioning or marking, and we've conceded a goal. We have to correct that quickly because we are losing points in every game.
"We have to be more disciplined and efficient at the back. At the moment we are not taking up good positions and we are opening the door for our opponents. We are working hard to make this right but now we have to go and prove it on the pitch.
"The tough thing in football is to score goals but we have the capacity to do that with the squad we have. Now we have to make sure we improve defensively and stop conceding because you cannot expect to win matches if you keep conceding two or three goals a game."
Forest now go in search of a morale-boosting home win against a Fulham side who were beaten 4-0 at home by Bristol City on Saturday but Montanier insists Slavisa Jokanovic's side won't be travelling to make up the numbers.
He said: "It won't be an easy game because Fulham lost at home on Saturday so we know they will be motivated to pick up points at The City Ground. But after two consecutive defeats in the league, we need a victory and we need to put in a performance in front of our supporters.
"During October and November the games don't come as quickly which will give us more time to work on the training ground but we will need points before then. We want to get back to winning games and get back into the top half of the table.
"We didn't pick up any more injuries in the game on Saturday and hopefully we will welcome back Damien Perquis into the squad for tomorrow. He has recovered well and we'd like to bring him back to provide good competition for places in the back four.
"I hope that Britt Assombalonga will be back after the international break. It's been very frustrating because it is not a big injury but he is feeling much better and will be training with the group soon. Of course we prefer to have our best players available but football throws these things at you sometimes."
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In Shinjuku
Yang Sok-il
Translated by Alfred Birnbaum
'I found myself sitting on a bench in Shinjuku Central Park, dazed like a junkie, when the wind plastered a sports tabloid to my legs and an advertisement jumped out at me'
How did I get here? February traditionally marks the beginning of spring, but the worst of winter was yet to come. Failed at business and saddled with massive debts, I fled Osaka twelve years before, leaving my family behind to cast about from town to town before finally landing in Tokyo. No place to stay, much less anything to eat, too sapped of strength even to despair, I subsisted on water for three days straight. Another day and I'd have been rummaging through garbage bins for sure.
I found myself sitting on a bench in Shinjuku Central Park, dazed like a junkie, when the wind plastered a sports tabloid to my legs and an advertisement jumped out at me.
Taxi drivers wanted. Earn 100,000 yen or more a month. Training and lodging available for Class One licence holders with three years' driving experience. 3,000 yen daily allowance during training period.
I didn't have to think. I grabbed the paper and made for Shinjuku Station. As I walked, a doubt crossed my mind: would the company even hire a Korean? I figured I'd better ring them up first. But no sooner did I come upon a public phone and reach in my pocket than I realized I didn't have a coin to make the call.
I went to pawn my overcoat, but the guy at the shop wouldn't take it. In those boom years, who wanted a pawned overcoat? My scruffy stubble and weeks without bathing didn't help matters. The pawnbroker eyed me with disdain, like I was some kind of bum begging for bus fare, but I kept insisting so shamelessly that he eventually gave me eight hundred yen. Pathetic. A measly eight hundred yen for an English twill overcoat that cost a hundred thousand new not four years before. Still, eight hundred yen was a lifesaver at the time. I rang up the company and they told me foreigners were OK, so I hurried to a stationery store and bought a blank résumé form, then visited the offices near Tokyo Tower.
There were three other interviewees ahead of me, all about my age or maybe older, but I looked the most dishevelled. I tried to put on a semblance of calm, as if they wouldn't see through me. I wanted a cigarette like crazy. The simple ten-minute interview was excruciating. Although everything in my résumé was true, I'm sure they thought I made it all up.
Whatever, I got taken on as a trainee, and that's how I became a taxi driver. Honestly, I have to confess, while I never scorned the lowly hack, neither did I harbour any goodwill toward cabbies and certainly never wanted to be one.
My friend Han, former firebrand turned loan shark, is one of the few who remembers.
We swim into a maze of back-alley bars and izakaya and grimy little eateries all waiting for people to stumble along. The quarter is a miasma of piss cascades, vomit, blood and broken teeth. Long-haired hippie rejects and androgynous creatures, tricked up in the latest fashions, jounce to the rhythms of Soul II Soul. Good citizens drift about aimlessly. A gigantic totem pole belches flames, neon spatters like firecrackers. 'You there, sir, tonight's our grand opening, so our girls aren't wearing panties. C'mon in, they'll do you special,' spiels a young rake in a bow tie, his chameleon tongue making quick work of mirror-thralled drunks.
Suddenly, from the shadows of a love hotel hedge comes a gut-wrenching moan. Down on the ground clutching her belly, a woman unleashes a throaty screech as a yakuza grinds his shoe into her bleeding lips. Passers-by gather to watch the spectacle from a safe distance as she clings to the yakuza's legs and he dumps the contents of a plastic rubbish bin onto her face. 'Whad'yall think this is, a show?' he growls at the crowd, 'Go piss off somewhere!'
'Bullies like that really burn me up. Time was we'd never let a chimpira get away with those antics,' notes Han. 'We must be getting old.'
Passing by Koma Theater, we stop and examine movie stills in the showcase. A pageant of suggestive expressions and self-mortified contortions. 'You ever get it on acrobatic? When I was new at it, I tried all sorts of ways out of curiosity, but nowadays I'd just throw my back outta whack. Not that I care what all headstands or underwater positions they go in for. Me, I'm too lazy. Too much trouble to even take off clothes. Pretty soon it'll be no more sex for me,' Han is saying, when his eyes rivet on to a fresh young trout tail who wriggles by. 'Seeing arse gives me a hard-on. Nothing to do with personality, can't do a thing about it. The more I fight it, the more it wants to explode. Kinda like a popular uprising against repression.'
Drawn in by a display of dozens of crabs and skewered prawns roasting over charcoal, we enter a shop where hand-clapping grill chefs in headbands shout a vigorous welcome. We find seats at the counter and look over the menu. I order a beer to lubricate my throat, but before I can even raise my mug, Han starts to yammer. 'Tonight is on me, so dig in,' he insists as each new dish arrives – tuna toro, squid sashimi, bonito tataki, lobster on the half-shell, salmon hotpot, paper-thin slices of flounder – though just the sight of the spread is enough to stay my meager appetite.
Han, meanwhile, clicks his tongue in distaste. 'What is this? Doesn't look a thing like the samples,' he complains to the shop staff. 'Back on Cheju Island, nobody'd look twice at rotten fish like this. Never been to Cheju? Unlucky you . . .' He extends token sympathy, then launches into his usual reminiscences of boyhood in Korea. Legions of bright red crabs at ebb tide, Mt Halla rising taut as a strongman's sinews, springs bubbling along the coast, schools of leaping silver sardines calling whole villages to wade out with sieves and buckets and shovels in hand – he sometimes still dreams about them scooping and scooping no end of fish, drying or salting them, using the rest for fertilizer. Big monster pumpkins and gourds, watermelons and aubergines. No wonder Cheju Island men are so lazy – who needs to work? All they got to do is kick back and drink local brew, play chess and nap. Let the industrious womenfolk plough the soil and dive the sea and bear children. Even now, decades later, his first love still figures in memories of home, her face framed deep inside as if everything since has been an illusion.
I don't have anything like that. No house, no homeland. Han's talk sweeps over me like a wind from the steppes. His words spin and perplex. As long as we live here, we resident Koreans just better make money. Nobody's going to help us out. Everyone's got to stick together, I argue, that's the only way we'll shore up our group safe and secure.
'You call yourself a taxi driver. That's nothing you can do forever, you're an octopus eating its own tentacles. Like I been saying, you oughta come on board with me. Seems you look down on money lending, but financing is a respectable trade. No one refuses money because it's loan profits. Money comes first in capitalist Japan. Without it, everything's just painted rice cakes. If you ask me, the whole idea of achievement without getting your hands dirty is petty bourgeois opportunism. Koreans lack self-sacrifice.' It always unnerves me to hear him mention self-sacrifice. Not that I have anything against his notions of pouring capitalist profits into socialist programmes. No, I'm all for it. I'm simply amazed that this same Han, who suffered such a setback when the Japanese Communist 6th Plenary Congress opted away from socialist struggle, can still drum up self-sacrifice into a strange brand of catharsis.
The shop is packed to near capacity. Diagonally across from us camp two students from a notoriously rowdy college. Baggy school uniforms and high collars accentuate a loutish swagger; their hair is coiffed high in pompadours, and in their eye sockets glints not a fleck of intelligence. And up on the tatami mat seating, a contingent of girls, decidedly better-looking than the boys, are puffing cigarettes and getting wild with the sake.
From a table by Han I hear an elderly man and a middle-aged gent comparing how nice and diligent Taiwanese and Korean women are, how good in bed. The usual sex tourism talk. As if discussing some secret business deal, they whisper in each other's ear and chortle obscenely – which seems to rub Han the wrong way. 'Did I ever tell you,' the elder assumes a nostalgic tone, 'I was stationed in Korea during the war, in Kyongnam Province.'
Han's ears prick up.
The older man was in the 184th Regiment, but all they ever did was polish their Murata rifles, bathe in the nearby stream and play hanafuda cards. A lazy summer idyll, quaint and pastoral. They kept five or six pigs, a few chickens and goats in a pen. The regiment also had a Korean coolie to feed the animals. Scarcely dressed in ragged trousers, his sunburnt torso was the colour of saddle leather. The Japanese soldiers with nothing better to do hung out around the livestock pen, joking and smoking. One time, a soldier proposed why not make the coolie screw a female goat? To which all the bored soldiers heartily agreed and immediately convinced the coolie to do it for three packs of Hikari cigarettes. It seems the coolie always scrounged up the soldiers' discarded butts or else smoked grass clippings wrapped in newspaper, so he couldn't resist the temptation. Soon everyone crowded the makeshift outdoor theatre to witness the spectacle, as the coolie managed with great difficulty to subdue the she-goat, push in his member from behind and begin pelvic thrusts.
'And then?' The other man leans forward, his curiosity piqued.
'It was brilliant. The goat squinted, kneeled down on her forelegs and began to ba-a-a.'
'Oh-ho, so it felt good,' says the gent with a lascivious gleam in his eye.
'Who can say? Maybe it did,' scoffs the elder.
At this point, Han breaks in with an irked expression. 'Then what happened?'
'And then?' stammers the elder, a little flustered though oblivious to Han's intent, 'Oh, about the goat? Then, uh, nothing special. That was the end of it.'
'No, that wasn't the end. There had to be more,' presses Han. 'A follow-up.'
'More?' the elderly man puzzles at the leading question. 'What sort of follow-up?'
'Say, gang-raping and slaughtering the village women, cutting off children's heads with samurai swords, you know, that sort of thing . . .'
The elderly man is taken aback. 'What are you implying? Why would we do that?'
'Well, it was all the rage in China and Korea at the time, wasn't it?'
'I beg to differ, sir. Our regiment never fired a shot.'
'I see, you never fired a shot, so there was no harm in forcing a poor coolie to perform bestial acts. Well as a Korean, I can't forgive you treating one of my fellow countrymen like that. I consider that just as evil as gang-rape and massacre, though obviously you don't.'
The elderly man falls remorsefully silent at this unforeseen rebuke from an irate Korean, prompting the embarrassed middle-aged gent to make excuses for his friend. 'I realize from where you stand it wasn't a very pleasant topic, but must you get so bent out of shape at casual remarks over drinks? Japan is at peace now, we coexist with you.'
'We do not coexist. You Japanese always look down on us "unclean" Koreans, you hate us.'
'No, I do no such thing,' says the gent, sitting up straight as if to prove his innocence.
Having observed the entire exchange between Han and the next table, the two delinquent students now raise a cobra hiss. 'Oy, Kimbo, 'stead of talking your crap, why don'tcha jus' go home to your country? Like we need your swelled head over here, huh?' Putting on attitude, the one bro' raises a sake cup to his thin lips, cocks his head and shoots us a snide glare. Then the other chimes in, 'Like my man said, you all got a problem, we be glad to straighten you out. Any time, yeah?'
Their provocation only riles short-tempered Han even more. 'Swell, then, let's have a go, punks!' He stands up, breaks the nearest beer bottle at hand, and wields it like a dagger.
This piece consists of extracts taken from two novels: Taxi Rhapsody (Chikuma Bunko, 1987) and Taxi Driver Diary (Chikuma Bunko, 1986).
Photograph © Old Tokyo
Yang Sok-il (b. 1936, surname Yang) is a second-generation Korean-Japanese novelist. He first drew major acclaim in the 1980s with semi-autobiographical tales of a taxi driver from the gritty underbelly of Tokyo. He followed this in the 1990s with award-winning period pieces set in the lawless 'Apache territory' Osaka – including his best-selling Blood and Bone (Chi to Hone). A champion of the oppressed and alienated everywhere, Yang's fictionalized exposé Children of the Dark (Yami no Kodomotachi), about child prostitution in Thailand, was also made into a major film.
Alfred Birnbaum's translations include Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Natsuki Ikezawa's A Burden of Flowers and The Navidad Affair, and Miyuki Miyabe's All She Was Worth. His co-translation of Murakami's Underground won the 2001 Sawagawa Foundation Translation Award, and his co-translation of Nu Nu Yi's Smile as They Bow was short-listed for the 2007 Man Asia Literature Award.
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CSC Sees Jan. Revenue Hit One-year High of NT$32.313 Bn.
Mainly fueled by surging shipment, Taiwan-based China Steel Corp. (CSC), the island's largest steelmaker by size, scored consolidated revenue of NT$32.313 billion in January, up 11% from NT$29.11 billion a month ago as an annual high, according to the firm's latest financial report.
In the month, CSC's steel shipment significantly soared from 749,100 tonnes in December 2013 to 791,400 tonnes. Driven by downstream manufacturers' restocking demand, the company's shipment is likely to continue growing in February.
Considering CSC's banner shipment and stable international prices of iron ore, institutional investors said that the firm's pretax profits for January are estimated at about NT$1.5 billion, or NT$0.09 per share, and likely to hit NT$5 billion, or NT$0.32 per share, for the first quarter of this year, compared to NT$5.168 billion earned a quarter ago.
As to outlook in the second quarter, institutional investors generally believe that CSC will enjoy rosier performance than in the first quarter, primarily because seasonal booms will hit downstream manufacturing sectors, which, in turn, will likely motivate the industry-leading steelmaker to raise prices of domestically sold steel during April-May after deciding to raise nominal prices by 1.2% on average for March.
A brighter prospect for Taiwan's steel market in the second quarter, in fact, can be predicted from the latest price trends. According to insiders, domestic price of cold-rolled steels has steadily risen to NT$21,000-21,200 per tonne recently without signs of reversing, while that of hot-rolled steels has been stable.


LEICESTER — The Summer Alive! Camp at Leicester School held their first ever baking championship on Tuesday, July 31. Inspired by Leicester alumni Adam Young, who won Best Baker in America this spring on the Food Network show of the same name, the camp decided to hold its own baking show.
Three teams of four to five campers on each, aided by a junior counselor, had a station equipped with everything they needed plus access to a pantry of ingredients, microwaves, and mixing station. The theme was cookies. Each team had 75 minutes to mix, bake and decorate the cookie of their choosing. The twist was that they were each given a mystery box of ingredients that they had to incorporate into their recipe.
They were each given passes – one pass they could use was if they wanted to trade an ingredient with another team, one pass for three minutes of internet time, and one pass was for help by either calling a friend, asking an adult, or three minutes with the chef. Brenda Trombley and Michael Joyce, both staff at Leicester School, and Chef Tim from Blueberry Hill served as judges.
The teams were judged on teamwork, presentation and taste. Everyone had fun, worked together and made three tasty and very different cookies. The judges were impressed.


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import * as React from 'react';
import { IconBaseProps } from 'react-icon-base';
declare class IoAndroidCamera extends React.Component<IconBaseProps> { }
export = IoAndroidCamera;

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import Tile from './Tile.js';
import TilePosition from './TilePosition.js';

export default class TilePuzzle {

    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    constructor() {
        this.tiles = [];
        this.rows = [];
        this.win = false;

        this.TILES_PER_ROW = 4;
        this.TILES_NUMBER = 15;

        this.switchTiles.bind(this);
        this.init.bind(this);
        this.get.bind(this);
        this.toRows.bind(this);
    }

    /**
     * Initializes TilePuzzle game.
     */
    init() {
        for (let i = 1; i <= this.TILES_NUMBER; ++i) {
            let tile = new Tile(i);
            tile.addOnSwitchListener(this);
            this.tiles.push(tile);
        }
        this.tiles.push(new Tile(null)); // Empty tile

        this._shuffle();

        let rowNumber = 1;
        let rowPosition = 1;
        this.tiles.forEach((tile) => {
            tile.setPosition(new TilePosition(rowNumber, rowPosition++));
            if (rowPosition > this.TILES_PER_ROW) {
                rowPosition = 1;
                rowNumber++;
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Shuffles the tiles.
     * @private
     */
    _shuffle() {
        var j, x, i;
        for (i = this.tiles.length; i; i -= 1) {
            j = Math.floor(Math.random() * i);
            x = this.tiles[i - 1];
            this.tiles[i - 1] = this.tiles[j];
            this.tiles[j] = x;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns array of all rows containing Tiles.
     * @returns {Array}
     */
    toRows() {
        let rows = [];
        let currentRow = [];
        let currentRowNumber = 1;
        this.tiles.forEach((tile) => {
            if (tile.tilePosition.rowNumber != currentRowNumber) {
                rows.push(currentRow);
                currentRow = [];
                currentRowNumber = tile.tilePosition.rowNumber;
            }
            currentRow.push(tile);
        });
        rows.push(currentRow);

        return rows;
    }

    /**
     * Returns tile with given rowNumber and rowPosition.
     * @param rowNumber
     * @param rowPosition
     * @returns {number|null}
     */
    get(rowNumber, rowPosition) {
        let index = this._getIndexForPosition(new TilePosition(rowNumber, rowPosition));
        return index < this.tiles.length && index >= 0 ? this.tiles[index] : null;
    }

    /**
     * Switches given tile with empty tile in its neighborhood.
     * If there isn't the empty tile nearby, nothing happens.
     * Checks for win conditions after switching.
     * @param {Tile} tile
     */
    switchTiles(tile) {
        let otherTile = null;
        let otherTilePositions = [
            new TilePosition(tile.tilePosition.rowNumber + 1, tile.tilePosition.rowPosition),
            new TilePosition(tile.tilePosition.rowNumber, tile.tilePosition.rowPosition + 1),
            new TilePosition(tile.tilePosition.rowNumber - 1, tile.tilePosition.rowPosition),
            new TilePosition(tile.tilePosition.rowNumber, tile.tilePosition.rowPosition - 1)
        ];
        while (otherTilePositions.length > 0 && !otherTile) {
            let otherTilePosition = otherTilePositions.shift();
            otherTile = this.get(otherTilePosition.rowNumber, otherTilePosition.rowPosition);
            if (otherTile && !otherTile.isEmpty()) {
                otherTile = null;
            }
        }
        if (otherTile) {
            let otherTilePosition = this._getIndexForPosition(otherTile.tilePosition);
            let tilePosition = this._getIndexForPosition(tile.tilePosition);
            this.tiles[otherTilePosition] = tile;
            this.tiles[tilePosition] = otherTile;
            tile.switchPositions(otherTile);
            this._checkWin();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Return index in tiles for TilePosition.
     * @param {TilePosition} tilePosition
     * @returns {number}
     * @private
     */
    _getIndexForPosition(tilePosition) {
        return (tilePosition.rowNumber - 1) * this.TILES_PER_ROW + (tilePosition.rowPosition - 1);
    }

    /**
     * Checks win conditions.
     * If all the tiles are in numerically ascending order, the player wins.
     * @private
     */
    _checkWin() {
        let lastNumber = 0;

        for (let i = 0; i < this.tiles.length; ++i) {
            let tile = this.tiles[i];
            if (tile.number != null) {
                if (tile.number > lastNumber) {
                    lastNumber = tile.number;
                } else {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
        this.win = true;
    }

}


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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Generate PDF with PHP</title>

 Please download  your results in PDF Version .

<form action="index.php"  method="post" class="registration_form">
  <fieldset>
    <legend>Personal Information </legend>

      Name :
      <input type="text" name="name" value="Hyder Bangash" size="25" />

      E-mail :
      <input type="text" name="e-mail" value="admin@youhack.me" size="25" />

      Address :
      <input type="text" name="Address" value="Henrietta Rd" size="25" />

      City  :
      <input type="text" name="City" value="Vacoas" size="25" />

      Country  :
      <input type="text" name="Country" value="Mauritius" size="25" />

  </fieldset>

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    <legend>Results  </legend>

      <input type="text" name="subjects[]" value="Maths" size="25" />
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        <input type="hidden" value="submitted" />
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HDR welcomes Kevin Spady as a vice president and healthcare principal in the Los Angeles architecture studio. As a healthcare principal, Kevin is responsible for expanding HDR's healthcare practice in Southern California, which includes developing new business, market development and strategic outreach, maintaining client relationships, and managing project teams. He says he is excited to join HDR and have the opportunity to utilize his knowledge and skills in such an exceptional organization.
Kevin's eclectic portfolio includes healthcare, science and technology, and higher education projects, as well as laboratory planning and programming. While he enjoys participating in organizations such as the AIA and DBIA, Kevin is most proud of the leadership roles he has had throughout his 39-year career, especially when he has been able to mentor staff and help with staff development.


I have not seen you around in a looong time!! Miss ya!
We are having a BIRTHDAY party in the COUNTRY PORCH thread in the NH forum, for NICOLE M. & "WANNA COME HOME" AKA Judy! Please stop by for some BIRTHDAY CHEER & CAKE!
HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS & AN AWESOME 2019!!!
Please stop by the COUNTRY thread, in the New Hampshire forum.
He is having a BIRTHDAY!!
We have CAKE & DRINKS!!!
PLEASE COME BACK TO THE FORUM!!
We have another BIRTHDAY PARTY!!
We are having CAKE, pies, drinks, come on over!!!
It is NH2NCMom SPECIAL BIRTHDAY!!!
I hope all is well! PLEASE COME BACK TO THE FORUM!!
"WANNA COME HOME" 2 BIRTHDAYS!!!
Thanks for everything!! I always enjoy your posts!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU & YOURS!!!
and help us CELEBRATE our DEAR "NH2NCMom's" BIRTHDAY!!!
our DEAR FRIEND, VALERIE C.
As you know, the COUNTRY PORCH/THREAD is inside of the NEW HAMPSHIRE forum!!
PLEASE STOP by the "COUNTRY" thread in the New Hampshire forum for a special BIRTHDAY party !!
We are celebrating our DEAR FRIEND "LOL"!! Please help us celebrate him!
Thanks for coming to WANNA's BIRTHDAY PARTY!!
Now, PLEASE join us for "NICOLE M"'s BIRTHDAY PARTY!!
Please come back to the COUNTRY thread/PORCH in the New Hampshire forum!! Another BIRTHDAY PARTY, this time it is NICOLE's DAY!!
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Students reflect on the main concepts of the Reformation. In this World History lesson plan, students view several paintings and images from the Reformation, then answer questions about each of them.
High schoolers identify problems and potential improvements for U.S. public school education. They research and debate the pros and cons of the "No Child Left Behind Act".
Students explore the views of Catholics, Lutherans and the Reformed Church. In this reformation lesson, students participate in a class discussion of the three religions, then complete an activity.
Young scholars investigate what the Canadian Senate does and what reform would do to the power relationship between the Prime Minister and the Senate.