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Q: How to get a access token in OAuth + Websphere? (After checking) I am using OAuth in Websphere. I get an access token and validate the access in my path. The validation is working but, later that, I call to a WebBean and I need to get de access token. I tried to take the parameter from Request but returns null.
Some suggestion?
Regards
Emiliano

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*This is the preferred and recommended way to get the access_token out of current process.
String accessToken = null;
Subject subj = WSSubject.getRunAsSubject();
Set<WSOAuth20Token> credentials = subj.getPrivateCredentials(WSOAuth20Token.class);
if (credentials != null)
{
    WSOAuth20Token oauth2token =  credentials.iterator().next();
    accessToken = oauth2token.getTokenString();
}

*If you really want to read it again from request parameter, you could follow this instruction which may work, but I do not want to recommend it and did not test it. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/rweb_custom_props.html#enablemultiplereadsofpostdata

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Dr Colette Kelly is Director of the Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway. She is also a lecturer in Health Promotion and served as the Director of the BA Social Care programme for seven years. Colette is the current Vice Dean for Graduate Studies in the College Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She joined NUI Galway in 2005 having worked in nutrition research and practice in the UK and Ireland. Dr Kelly is a registered Public Health Nutritionist and her research interests include child and adolescent health, food and nutrition, food environments, vulnerable groups and participatory methodologies.
Professional Activities: · Registered Public Health Nutritionist (RPHNutr.) · Member of the Nutrition Society · Member of Association for Study of Obesity Ireland, Member of the Children's Research Network.
(2015) Making our voices heard: young people's views.
(2015) The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2014.
(2014) Participation of young people in a national research project: identifying new priorities for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study 2014.
(2012) HBSC 2010 Middle Childhood Study: Socio-demographic patterns in the health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people's lives.
(2012) HBSC 2010 Full Variable Report: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland study 2010: Socio-demographic patterns in the health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people's lives.
(2011) Cross-national case studies of children's data systems.
(2011) Documenting Health Promotion in Irish Youth Work: current status and recommendations.
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(2011) Key issues for conisderation in the development of a Data Strategy for Children in Ireland: a review of the literature.
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Written by Scott Rollans on 26 January 2018 .
Kokopelli welcomes newest exchange chorister
Kokopelli Choirs are thrilled to welcome their 16th exchange chorister. Sokhi Mfenyana will be living in Edmonton and singing with Kokopelli and Òran until mid-July 2018, representing her home choir (and Kokopelli's South African sister choir) University of Pretoria Youth Choir (UPYC). We look forward to introducing Sokhi to Edmonton audiences, and to providing her with an eventful and fulfilling exchange experience. Welcome, Sokhi!
Stroll from choir to choir along Edmonton's historic Church Street
Journey, the Kokopelli "choir crawl," is back by popular demand! In a one-of-a-kind musical event, all six Kokopelli Choirs (plus our traditional guests the Brail Tones) will spread out Saturday, May 27 along Edmonton's Church Street Heritage Area. It's a literal choral journey, as audience members travel from venue to historic venue along 96 Street. Along the way they'll enjoy 15-minute sets by each of the choirs.
"We introduced this idea two years ago, and the audience absolutely loved it," said Kokopelli Artistic Director Scott Leithead. "It created a real festival atmosphere, with people strolling up and down the street to explore buildings and hear choirs. Church Street has so many lovely old venues, and most Edmontonians have never been inside them."
The afternoon wraps up with a raucous African massed-choir singalong in the park.
Audience members can check in at Sacred Heart Church (10821 96 St.) before 3:00 p.m. Saturday, May 27, pick up a map and program, and then choose their own paths through the various performance venues—all within easy walking distance. Tickets ($20, $15 students) are available from individual choristers, from Tix on the Square (tixonthesquare.ca) and at the Sacred Heart door.
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Written by Scott Rollans on 03 April 2017 .
Kokopelli welcomes Rajaton (Winspear Apr 12)
Kokopelli is thrilled to welcome (and sing with!) world renowned Finnish vocal ensemble Rajaton, Wednesday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., at the Winspear Centre.
The concert marks the latest chapter in the long-standing friendship and collaboration between our choir and this stunningly talented sextet. Kokopelli has connected with Rajaton for numerous workshops over the years, and has commissioned and premiered several original choral works composed by Rajaton members.
Read a review from a 2014 Rajaton concert at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center
Written by Scott Rollans on 01 June 2016 .
Alumni profiles: Aidan Ferguson
Aidan Ferguson
Kokopelli 00-03
'Nuf Sed 00-02
In 2000, I was a member of the Edmonton Youth Choir that Scott Leithead was conducting at the time. In the spring of that year I went through an extremely trying time in my life; I felt lost, depressed and alone. I remember being on the phone with Scott on a Sunday night explaining what had happened and he asked me to come to a Kokopelli Choirs rehearsal. I didn't know how that would change my situation, but I knew well enough to trust Scott.
On Wednesday, my mom drove me to the rehearsal. I was sure I would step into the room and be instantly viewed as the outsider, with questions of "Who is this new girl, we have enough sopranos." Instead I was greeted with hugs, acceptance and words of excitement that I was there.
That day my life changed.
Music became my way of connecting to people, my way of expressing myself. Scott's love and support is to this day a driving force in my life. At 18, after only two and a half years in Kokopelli (a short time for most Kokopelli members), I moved to Paris to be a nanny. Before I left, Scott gave me a journal and wrote in the first two pages. Scroll down to view a picture of the second.
I have brought this journal with me all over the world: to Paris when I was a nanny, to Montreal when I moved for University to study music, to countless Opera/Singing gigs around the world, to Africa when my cousin got married, to Switzerland last year when I sang with Theater Basel's Opera company for a year and now it is here with me in Calgary. I always had intentions to write about my journeys, but of course failed as I am horrible at keeping a journal.
I have read those two pages from Scott hundreds of times, and they always remind me that, even though I am far from those I love, they are supporting my journey and are always there to lean on whenever I need them.
Scott Leithead is more than just a choral conductor; he has an ability not only to see talents, strengths, and beauty in people, but to then guide those people to see those things in themselves. I know my story is just one of the thousands of lives Scott has changed.
He is an inspiration and I am so lucky to have him in my life. Love you, Scooter.
Alumni profiles: Rathi Kumar
Rathi Kumar
Kokopelli 1998-2002
Òran 2002-08
'Nuf Sed 1999-2008
I started singing in Kokopelli when I was 14 years old. Looking back, I could never have foreseen the impact this organization would have on my life.
I found out about the choir during the Fringe in the summer of '98. I was there with a couple of friends I grew up with and an a cappella group made up of current and past singers from Kokopelli/Vic were performing (I think they were called 'The Polyesters'... I'm sure Jenica will remember!). That was the first time I'd really heard a cappella music in that format and I just knew that I wanted to sing like that in harmony with people. I had a chat with Jason St. Laurent (former Polyester and Kokopelli alumnus) after their performance and he told me about Kokopelli and how to sign up for an audition.
I still remember how badly I wanted to be a part of this group, even though I had yet to hear the choir perform. It speaks to the way each member of the organisation really draws you in and makes you feel like you are a part of something bigger than anything you could have previously imagined. Of course, much of that has to do with Scott Leithead and his willingness to be excellent and inclusive at the same time (an attitude he passes along to everyone fortunate enough to cross his path). The music education I received while singing in his choirs fuelled my passion to study music in university and gave me the skills to marry the emotional aspects of music with the technical.
I now live in London, England and work in an amazing venue called the Roundhouse, which puts on music, circus and theatre productions in a historic 1847 railway building. The Roundhouse also subsidizes creative projects for young people aged 11–25 and gives them exclusive use of the studios beneath our main space.
I am a project manager by day, but by night I am the assistant director of the Roundhouse Choir, a project run through the Paul Hamlyn Roundhouse Studios for 16–25 year olds. Through my involvement in the Roundhouse Choir, I have been fortunate enough to work with popular music stars such as Imogen Heap, Mark Ronson, Boy George, Heaven 17, Sam Lee, Spiritualized, Jamie Cullum and now most recently Camille O'Sullivan, as well as conductors and composers such as Eriks Esenvalds, Steven Layton and Hugh Brunt. I am confident these opportunities would not have presented themselves had I not gained a monumental amount of choral experience singing in Kokopelli and Oran.
I currently sing (and serve as treasurer) in a choir called Sound. I also sit on the board of directors of an organization called Voices Now, which puts on choral festivals every other year and is promoting a movement in the UK to get as many people singing in choirs as possible. Through these avenues I have heard countless choirs from across the country, and I can say with confidence that what is happening in Edmonton, Alberta in the Kokopelli Choir Association is a very rare and precious thing. I feel privileged to have been part of it.
I truly believe that this organization made me the person I am today and for that I am grateful. It has also given me a community of friends like no other, who I miss dearly and can't wait to be reunited with at the 20th anniversary.

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Adult Limnephilus caddisflies average 13-15 mm in body length length (LaFontaine 1981). Limnephilus pallens (formerly Zaporata pallens) has a fore-wing length of 7-8 mm, grayish and transparent in the male and reddish-brown in the female. Overall coloration is grey-brown, becoming darker at the sutures (Nimmo 1991). Limnephilus larval cases can be up to about 50 mm in length and made from a wide range of materials including pebbles, sand, leaves, and wood. Larvae of this genus grow up to 29mm in length, with numerous branched gills covering the body segments. In some species, the dorsal side of the head and thorax is marked with alternating dark and light bands, while others are characterized by dark spotting in this area (Wiggins 1977).
Other than a single record from the Michigan shore of Lake Huron, this species is only known to inhabit tundra ponds of the far north (Wiggins and Parker 1997).
As little published information is available specific to Limnephilus pallens, research into the habitat requirements, biology and distribution of this species will help to guide future management. As it is currently known to inhabit cold northern ponds during the larval stage, protection of high quality sites will be beneficial. Additionally, temporary pools provide important habitat to a number of Limnephilus species (Wiggins and Parker 1997), and should also be protected. General caddisfly management calls for high water quality and healthy aquatic habitat structure through reductions in point and non-point source pollution, siltation prevention, and maintaining unobstructed and well buffered waterways.
Adult caddisfly sampling methods include using light traps or aerial nets. Larvae can be collected through substrate sampling using an Ekman or Petersen grab, d-frame net, or naturalists' dredge. Gathering of river stones by hand is another successful method. Collected samples are then rinsed through a series of sieves and specimens hand-picked using forceps (New 1998).
LaFontaine, G. 1981. Caddisflies. The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT. 324pp.
Nimmo, A.P. 1991. Seven new species of Limnephilus from Western North America with description of female of L. pallens (Banks) (Tricoptera, Limnephilidae, Limnephilinae, Limnephilini). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 93: 499-508.
Wiggins, G.B. 1977. Larvae of the North American Caddisfly Genera (Tricoptera). University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 401pp.
Wiggins, G.B. and C.R. Parker. 1997. Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the Yukon, with Analysis of the Beringian and Holarctic Species of North America. Pp 787-866 in: Danks, H.V. and J.A. Downes (Eds.). Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa. 1034pp.


With a kefiyeh (checkered headscarf) wrapped around his forehead to prevent sweat from getting in the way of his work, Abu Berri treats a clean bullet wound. He introduces a catheter with serum to clean up the injury as a woman's shrieks echo in the humble room that serves as operating room, stabilization unit and even morgue of the Baba Amr field hospital. This neighborhood, and the entire city of Homs, has been under military siege for months, and under the snipers' indiscriminate shots, like the ones that tear ripped cries from the patient.
"Don't take pictures of me, they will kill me!", she repeats when she sees a camera man as she receives emergency medical treatment, clinging to the hand of a relative who looks at her helplessly. Next to the stretcher, which is laid out on the floor, Leila translates whispering while she prepares a shot of local anesthesia that she quickly administers to her leg. "She had not left her house in three days, but she needed to go buy diapers. A sniper shot her on her doorstep", she explains.
Meanwhile, Sleiman brings a new victim out of a van that is covered in blood on the inside. He puts tourniquets on the injured and digs in the drawers looking for the right medicine. He is not a nurse: he is Abu Berri's cousin and Abu Sleiman's son, a stout man in charge of cleaning and embalming the corpses.
Sleiman is a deserted soldier who decided to put down his weapons at the beginning of the revolution to save lives, instead of taking them in the name of the dictatorship. He is also a vital to the rescue of injured people, to medical assistance, to cleaning up blood and to any other task the hospital may require.
Laila is not a nurse either, but a lab technician. Abu Berri is the only doctor dealing with war injuries in the neighborhood, which has a population of 28,000, but he never went to Medical School. Before the revolution he was a mere construction worker, who installed tiled floors and carpets, but when the protest began, he talked to a doctor friend.
"I asked him to let me go with him for a week, in the operating room, treating injuries… He, and the experience of this war, have taught me everything I know", he says as he prepares an improvised cast to immobilize the patient's leg. He fears that it is broken, but he does not have an X-ray machine to confirm it. "Now I take care of everything. Yesterday we received 100 victims of the bombings. But god is with me. That is the only thing that can explain that only 10 of them died in these rooms", he says, referring to last Saturday, when heavy artillery fell onto Baba Amr with all its harshness.
Along with several civilian volunteers, Laila, Sleiman, Abu Sleiman and Abu Berri are the only ones who run the Baba Amr field hospital, the biggest one in Homs. Its rooms are never empty: neighbors and friends help out in all sorts of tasks: from preparing injections and bandages that are always hanging from the walls waiting to be used, to taking the injured to the hospital.
In the two other rooms the improvised healthcare center has lay the patients who have just been stabilized; as soon as they can be moved, Sleiman and Omar drive them to their homes in the middle of the bombings. The bathtub is full of saline bags, the old storage room is now a pharmacy that they calculate could only have assisted the hospital for three more days if the impregnable siege that was put on the neighborhood last Thursday had not been lightened with the arrival of the Arab observers, allowing the entrance of supplies and medicine, even if it was counterfeit.
Only a miracle can explain what goes on in these rooms. "We have not slept in three days, and we eat when we can", explains Abu Berri. The meals and the scarce periods of sleep take place in the same room where two injured victims lay: at the moment this article was written, a woman that had been performed a tracheotomy by the improvised doctor, and a man with his stomach ripped open by grapeshot and a leg riddled by nails. This type of ammunition is banned and indiscriminate, because when it goes off it fires nails in every direction, causing many victims and a serious health weakening.
Nothing compared to the day before, when the Syrian mortars and snipers did their best attacking the population of Homs. "Out of the hundred or so wounded people that came in, 15 were children. A lot of them women. Two of them died", continues Leila. "When we saw the situation we were shocked, we were overwhelmed. Since there is no place to put them, they were on the floor, we did not even have room to work". The next day, last Tuesday, the staff went through the same anxiety: 23 people died of gunshots and bombings; the number of wounded was well over a hundred.
A few days ago, a pharmacist who used to perform as a doctor also came to help out in the clinic, fearing that the number of casualties would be very high due to the harshness of the attacks. "His name was Mohamed al Awad. He used a halt in the attacks to take medicine to a family that had been moved a few hours before. When he left his home, a sniper shot him in the chest. His friend tried to recover his body, but the shots made it impossible. He was out on the street for half an hour, until they could bring him in", Leila explains as one of the volunteers who dedicate their lives to the hospital shows a video on her cell phone of Al Awad's body already on the hospital stretcher, in the hall. Their eyes well up with tears.
That Saturday, between seven in the morning and ten in the evening, the injured kept coming in non-stop. Monday was even worse, when the floor of the hospital was permanently full of blood. It is not the first time Abu Berri goes through a similar experience; in the previous offensive, in early November, the worst day he saw 70 wounded people. "Whenever there was a halt in the arrival of victims I went to the mosque across the street to pray. I did it with my bloody shoes under by arms because I knew that at any moment I would hear a car brake and I would have to race out to treat injured people".
Abu Berri has been living at the field hospital for two months. Before that, he took the hospital into his own home. "For three months, before setting up this center, last October, my relatives were my nurses. I took the victims there and when I finished with the emergency treatment they took care of them, washed the, fed them… We treated no less than 2,000 people". That is where he, his uncle and his cousins got the experience.
According to the regime's propaganda, the civilians that succumb to their mortars and bullets are terrorists, and young Abu Berri is, of course, wanted by the Security Forces. "In November, when the Army came into Baba Amr, they found the clinic. They destroyed everything. But they did not find him", tells the lab technician. Abu Berri remembers how his mother was arrested for fifteen days, his uncle for two months: all of it just to find him. They were freed, and now they work with him at the field hospital.
The paramedic acts with impressive skill. He introduces catheters in wounds, cleans them up, extracts bullet shreds –he keeps dozens of bullets taken out in the last two days in a jar- and uses a pair of forceps to take a needle with suture thread from a hermetically sealed envelope to stitch wounds. Around him, the volunteers help him like professionals. In spite of the fact that, like the 29 year old construction worker, the experience of military aggression is their only source of knowledge.
"How much longer can we go on like this?", Leila complains. "We need saline, antibiotics, anesthesia, blood…", lists Abu Berri, who explains his system to gather supplies. "When the attacks decrease, the neighbors come down voluntarily to donate blood. We analyze a sample to determine their blood type and write down their names and numbers. When we run out of blood, I call them so they donate again". If the hospital is overwhelmed by the number of wounded people, the mosques ask for donors through the speaker system.
The medical staff's imagination makes up for the necessities. "Once we did not have catheters to clean up the blood form the wounds. We cut narguile tubes (water pipes) and sterilized them. That worked for a few days". Tracheotomies and amputations are performed with a knife, but they are so successful that people from other neighborhoods come to Abu Berri's field hospital, which has become the most prestigious in Homs. During the worst days of the Ramadan offensive, he remembers a surgery that took him three hours. "A woman had her stomach torn open. Four days later the siege loosened up and a doctor came in from Homs to help. He was amazed by the surgery".
During the first months of the repression, when they ran out of bandages "we used shreds of clothes", explains Leila. The moments of calm during the attacks are used to gather supplies. During this time, Abu Berri has had to treat all kinds of wounds, except when they affect the patient's head or chest. "Then there is nothing we can do, we have to send them to public hospitals", he explains, despite the risk of the patients being arrested by the Security Forces that are in control of them, according to the population and confirmed by an Amnesty International report.
The hospital does not keep figures, but in November they decided to make an exception with the children. "We have counted more than a hundred dead kids", says Abu Berri. Three private cars are now ambulances , driven beneath the bullets by Sleiman and Omar, and Abu Berri uses a motorbike to go around town when the attacks stop to change bandages and watch over the patients' evolution. In this period he has delivered five babies, four of which needed a Caesarean section. The last one was on Christmas Eve. "80 people have died at my hands for now. But while some lives go, others come", says the doctor with a bitter smile. "I just do what I can. But I'm well aware that every life I save is a miracle".
One day after this article was written, Baba Amr suffered one of the worst attacks since the start of the revolution. The injured and the corpses piled up at the field hospital; Abu Berri, Laila and other volunteers multiplied while Sleiman left new victims in the stretchers before leaving in his van to look for more people in need. Half an hour after leaving the hospital for the last time, he came back with the help of two people: he had been shot in the leg. While they lay him down on the stretcher, he gestured to me trying to say "It's nothing".
The paramedic did his best, and a few hours later Hussein came back out to look for injured people, this time in the adjacent neighborhood of Inshaat. A new bullet pierced through his stomach. All Abu Berri could do was stabilize him before sending him to a public hospital. "It was a bad injury, it is a very complicated surgery", explained Abu Berri with bleary eyes. "He will most likely not survive". The nurses cried hidden in the infirmary. "Before coming out, he told us not to cry, that death was a natural thing and that he was willing to die", moaned Leila. An hour later his death was confirmed. The hospital of miracles could not save his life.
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Q: ExtJS4 - Ext.dom.Element and fireEvent I'm testing ExtJS4, but need some help here...
I have this HTML code:
<input type="button" value="Click" id="sendButton">

<input type="text" id="tbox">

And this script code:
Ext.addBehaviors({
    '#sendButton@click': function (){
        alert("Test");
    }
});

Ext.get('tbox').on('keydown', function(e){
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        //Ext.select('#sendButton').fireEvent('click');
        //Ext.get('sendButton').fireEvent('click');
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I just want to, when you press enter on a textbox, it will act like you clicked the button.
Can anyone help?

A: Ext.get('tbox').on('keydown', function(e){
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Though i'd suggets wrapping the above code with Ext.onReady(function(){...})


This is just the basics to help you get started. Here are a few suggestions to make meal planning more efficient as well as save you extra money, but if you are just getting started start with these steps first. You can always add the other tricks in later when you feel more comfortable with the whole process.
Sit down with cookbooks or the internet and write down recipes (including your tried and true favorites that you don't even use a recipe for). Include 5 or 6 different recipes. Try to think of some "go to meals" that you can make without having to put too much thought into it. For instance, I make egg muffins every week. They may have different ingredients in them but I know for breakfast the kids will have muffins as they run out the door. For me my go to meals are egg muffins, oatmeal or a protein shake.
Some meal planners recommend a 5-day meal plan, because if people "overplan" the plan tends to fall apart. Set aside at least two days a week for eating out or leftovers. Be realistic and don't overwhelm yourself with getting it right all the time.
I personally can't afford to eat out several times a week if I meal prep, so I plan a 4-5-day meal plan so that there's the wiggle room for eating out or having leftovers. Something always tends to come up during the week, so I find at least 4 days of meals works well for us. This has helped tremendously with time management and me no longer feeling guilty about not being the kind of mom that gets us early to make the kids a hot breakfast before school.
If you have a certain day of the week that you go grocery shopping (for example Saturday) then you will want to make sure you have enough meals to get you through to that day. We are flexible with what day we go, so my grocery day never falls on the same day of the week – we just go when we run out of meals.
I also have an idea of places I can go for lunch or dinner that won't cause too much mental guilt if I eat there. Panera Bread and Wendy's are my go to places for now.
What do you have in the cupboards, freezer, fridge, etc.
Put only ingredients you DON'T have on your shopping list.
Add to your grocery list other essentials that may not be part of your recipes – milk, bread, lunch stuff, etc.
Buy ONLY the ingredients on your grocery list – try not to get distracted! ( I am still working on this but I have gotten much better!) Try to avoid impulse buying! To help with impulse buying, eat before you get to the store and shop the outer edges of the store.
Hang a piece of paper on the fridge with your 5 or 6 meals for the week and what they are.
Each day (or the night before) you can take out the meat you need for the meal you've chosen that day.
Cross items off your list as you make them.
Keep in mind this is only the basics of meal planning. If you have never done meal planning or meal prep this is a good place to start. Work on building with baby steps. Don't make your meals too busy or too time consuming or you will stop before you even get started good. Only try new recipes when you are in the mood to try something new or you have the time. Meal planning should help decrease stress not increase it. If you start by adding too much for yourself to do, you will get overwhelmed and stop doing it completely. Planning ahead will definitely make your life easier.
And guess what??? This will free up time for you to exercise!!!!!
If it seems like too much, just stick with these basics for a little bit until you feel more comfortable with the whole process. You will get the hang of it and then be looking for those ways to make your job more efficient. Your family will start to depend on your meal plans and meal preps. It's also a great way to get the family involved.
If meal planning to too much for you, at least have an idea of what you plan to eat. During breakfast, plan for lunch. During lunch plan for dinner. During dinner, plan for breakfast the next morning.
Make plans to be successful but be sure it suits your lifestyle.
There is not right or wrong way…..just work towards finding the best way for you.


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Mark Eramo currently leads the Fuels, Chemicals & Resource Solutions (FCRS) business line, one of five businesses that make up the newly formed S&P Global Commodity Insights division (formerly S&P Global Platts). The new Commodity Insights division was created upon the completion of the merger of S&P Global and IHS Markit on March 1, 2022. In his current role, Mark has P&L responsibility for the FCRS business and manages a global team of nearly 500 research colleagues. His team is located in more than 30 countries across all major regions and delivers information, insights, and forecasts regarding energy, refining, chemicals, agriculture, shipping, metals, and various related industries. Prior to the merger closing, Mark served as Senior Vice President, Energy & Downstream Markets, as a member of the leadership team for the Energy & Natural Resources division of IHS Markit. In that role, he held the P&L responsibility for the Oil Markets, Midstream, Downstream & Chemicals (OMDC) business, leading a team of over 400 research colleagues.
Based in Houston, Texas, Mark joined IHS in May 2011 following its acquisition of Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI). In his first role at IHS as Vice President, IHS Chemical Market Research, Mark led a global team that provided in-depth market research, analysis, and forecasts on nearly 300 chemical and derivative markets. In 2015, following his leadership role in research, he served as Vice President, Global Business Development for the OMDC business line. In that role, he was responsible for leading a global team that worked with existing and new clients to develop and strengthen business relationships at the executive level.
Mark worked at CMAI for more than 13 years and was responsible for CMAI's olefins market analysis and forecasts. In his last role as Executive Vice President, he was responsible for CMAI's global market advisory services. He also served on the Board of Directors for CMAI for several years. Before joining CMAI, Mark worked for more than 12 years in the chemical industry with Vista Chemical Company holding positions in technical sales, customer service, and product management. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University, where he also enjoyed playing football for the Big Red.
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Reveal of ultimate track-concentrated McLaren Road car date confirmed
14.11.2017: McLaren Automotive, the British creator of luxury sports and super cars, confirmed today at the Dubai International Motor Show that
McLaren Automotive, the British creator of luxury sports and super cars, confirmed today at the Dubai International Motor Show that its next Ultimate Series model will be revealed online on December 10, 2017, at 00:01 GMT.
With daily usability sacrificed to give the most intensive driver experience around a circuit, the new Ultimate Series car will be the ultimate track-concentrated McLaren.
Designed as the most extreme road-legal McLaren ever, it is the third of 15 new models or derivatives due by the end of 2022 under the McLaren Track22 business plan.
It will be delivered ahead of a second future Ultimate Series model codenamed BP23, which aims to be the world's first Hyper-GT.
Positioned above McLaren's core Super Series, the Ultimate Series has previously comprised the McLaren P1™ and McLaren P1™ GTR. Like these two cars, the new generation of McLaren Ultimate Series models will be available in strictly limited numbers.
A second image that further hints at the track focus of the car has been issued in the build-up to the December online reveal and is available from cars.mclaren.press. The public debut of the new McLaren is scheduled to place in March, at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show.
-Dave Eden, photo McLaren
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Explore the roads of North Creek on this Adirondack route!
The North Creek ride begins and ends in the old Adirondack railroad town of North Creek.
The ride begins at the North Creek Ski Bowl before heading into the backwoods, running through the village of Olmstedville and along Trout Brook. Before long, riders will cycle around the Vanderwhacker Wild Forest before returning through the hilly hamlet of Irishtown on smooth, swoopy Route 28N.
This route is a 30.7-mile round trip ride.


From a Mickel Therapy perspective anxiety is a sign that emotions that come from the emotional part of the brain separately to our thoughts, have been missed. Imagine a pot in our stomach and as the emotions stack up over time, the last few emotions that mean the pot overflows triggers the anxiety, the body's way of warning us that something needs to be done.
This can be scary when it happens but we can help understand and deal with this.
How can Mickel Therapy help?
Mickel Therapy uses a range of tools to examine all the emotions that may have built up, not just the ones that trigger the anxiety. By doing this, we can empty the pot & therefore the anxiety no longer needs to be there.
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Kendall Jenner is receiving online backlash over her new Pepsi commercial.
The ad shows the model and reality star joining a protest rally on the streets that promotes love and peace.
Kendall then offers a canned Pepsi to one of the officers holding the protest line. The officer responds by accepting and breaking a smile in their tense formation after taking a sip.
The ad seems harmless enough and actually tried to send a good message across but apparently not everyone was happy.
Some netizens pointed out how it was unethical for Pepsi to capitalize on using the concept since similar protests that decried police brutality against black people recently occurred.
Others found it disturbing that such a big issue was seemingly trivialized and easily solved with a can of Pepsi.
The issue of the ad being racist was also brought up since the use of Kendall—a white and privileged member of society—as the central figure of what was deemed a black movement sparked outrage.
Pepsi recently announced Jenner as the new ambassador of their brand with this ad being her first major project with the soda giant.


Friday evening has always been the most magical experience for me at Camp Ramah in New England. The whole camp convenes in a beautiful grove surrounded by towering trees, and everyone greets each other dressed in their celebratory clothing. The evening begins with performances of songs and dances by the different age groups and is followed by Shabbat blessings, tefillah, and other camp traditions. As my Nivonim summer (my last as a camper) came to an end, I never thought I'd ever encounter such special Shabbat traditions anywhere else.
Nevertheless, when I arrived at Camp Ramah Yachad last week, I had hopeful expectations for the upcoming Shabbat. Friday evening, all the campers and staff gathered in courtyard with a 360-degree view of the picturesque Carpathian Mountains. To my surprise, I encountered the familiar experience of each age group, or edah, getting up on stage and performing songs and dances for Shabbat. Then the campers helped their counselors light candles, and the whole camp recited the bracha to bring in Shabbat just as the sun began to set. It felt like home.
In that moment, I felt arms embracing me in a warm hug, and I looked down to find my camper smiling up and saying "Shabbat Shalom" in her perfect, yet heavily Russian-accented Hebrew. Pleasantly surprised, I looked around, and saw everyone embracing and wishing one another a "Shabbat Shalom." I received hug after hug from my campers, followed by hugs from my co-counselors, and then hugs from other people— some whom I knew, and many whom I didn't. It didn't matter who you were, the whole community embraced one another in preparation for Shabbat. Finally, I hugged my American Ramah friends. All in all, we spent 15 minutes greeting one another as we welcomed Shabbat.
This struck me as such a strong example of community and love—ideas very familiar to me from my own camp experiences, but now displayed in a new setting. I felt truly welcome. The language barrier disappeared and I found my place in this community that felt so foreign to me only a few days ago. To my delight, the combination of old and new Shabbat traditions created an exceptional experience that built bridges between communities across the world.
Liat Shapiro, 17, is a rising senior at Meitarim High School in Ra'anana, Israel. She has spent five summers at Camp Ramah in New England and loves to read, work out, and volunteer with children.
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Fancy yellow diamond heart ring.
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Lassi is an excellent option to consume during summer days and it is nothing but the blend of yogurt with spices and water. Fruits can also be added to make it yummy and in my today's recipe, I have included healthy veggie beetroot. Instead of cooking the beets, I have roasted it in an oven by wrapping it using aluminum foil and made it as a savory lassi. The color itself makes the drink appetizing and absolutely nutritious. Green chillies can also be added while grinding beets to make this a spicy beetroot lassi.
Wash beetroots and wrap it in an aluminum foil.
Brush it with olive oil and seal it tightly.
Roast it for 50 minutes at 180 degree C or until the beets turn firm.
Once done, remove from the oven and cool it.
Peel the skin and chop them into pieces.
Add the chopped beets along with mint leaves, cumin powder, salt and water in a blender.
Blend it to a fine paste and strain the juice.
Add thick curd to the strained juice and churn it using manual or automatic churner.
Transfer it to a bowl and refrigerate it to serve chilled lassi.
Serve it in a tall glass with hot samosa.
Best drink for summer. Beetroot is loaded with nutrition.
Looks amazing. What a great idea. Good way of making children eat beetroot which is so healthy for you.
Perfect for this season priya.. Roasting the Beetroot is a brilliant idea..


The 4 STAR quality grading awarded by VisitScotland (formerly the Scottish Tourist Board) to this annually inspected property allows us officially to describe it as "Excellent" accommodation.
(Inspected and graded on 18/12/17, Steading Cottage scored 78%, which is within the 75 - 86% Quality Assurance range for 4 STAR Scottish Tourist Board accommodation).
Car parking right beside entry door.
No steps at entry or on ground floor.
Level wooden / tiled floors throughout.
Grab rails beside shower, toilet and handbasin. Wheeled shower chair available.
2 ground floor bedrooms with wheelchair access, one double, one single.
Space in porch for mobility aids, hoist etc. if needed.
Owner/ Manager "G" has completed VisitScotland's Accessible Tourism Customer Service Training.
This is the cottage for those happy to be at the heart of the farm. Creatively transformed in 1998 from dereliction into a wonderful home, it is white, light, spacious, inviting and warm with its multi-fuel stove and oil-fired central heating.
Set back from the main road with a small front garden, this detached cottage nestles right beside farm buildings and a field. The reduced rental reflects the possibility that despite thick walls and double glazing you may hear some road traffic, tractors, cattle or perhaps experience the odd farm whiff outside! Curiously enough this farm activity has proved to be somewhat of an attraction rather than a negative, especially to youngsters.
The property has entrance gates. This means that it can be totally enclosed if you have small children or pets.
Two storey with an upstairs family bedroom but also ground floor accommodation, a double and single bedroom, equally suitable for the able-bodied, but also for disabled wheelchair users or those with mobility problems.
Entry is through a roomy porch / utility room. Large enough for all your fishing or golf gear, bicycles, or car-roof rack, or disability equipment, it's just as ideal as a temporary home for your dog for just a few hours as it can be shut off from the rest of the house.
To the left is an open plan lofty living / dining area with a granite-topped island unit dividing this area from the fully integrated, red alder kitchen, as shown in the photos within the Steading Gallery Page. A focal point at the far end of the living area is the multi-fuel stove for those who love the ambience of a real fire in addition to the oil-fired central heating. The other focal point adjacent to this is the 2011 upgrade to a 32" LED flatscreen TV.
To the right are a double bedroom with a kingsize bed, and ensuite shower & w.c. Beside this is a small single bedroom. Both have space for a cot. Opposite is a wheel-in shower-room. This bathroom with power shower, bath, W.C, basin and rail grabs is ideal for a wheelchair-bound guest. The floor is non-slip.
Wide stairs lead up to a small gallery, above the kitchen and overlooking the living area. Beyond, behind the door, is a spacious dormer / attic with two single beds and one double. A child's paradise with plenty of floor space to play on. And you can pop into an adjacent room with toilet and handbasin to spare nocturnal trips downstairs!
Steading Cottage lends itself particularly well to 2 couples sharing as the two double bedrooms are quite well apart, affording family privacy. And there is a single bedroom beside one and two singles in the family room upstairs.
As this is a detached cottage, with no neighbours except for cows, this is an ideal cottage for budding musicians, howling babies, and those who like their music at concert pitch! The roomy, quarry tiled, porch area is also particularly useful for storing all your fishing or golfing tackle or disability equipment including a hoist which can be hired in. It's also an ideal room for leaving your dog (s) for short periods as it is separated by a door from the main house.
The garden is on the small side and though screened by shrubs lacks privacy being bordered by the farm and the passing traffic. Not ideal for footballers for this reason but fine to sit out in.
However, a big bonus in 2015! A wonderful play area just a two minute walk across the road to the woods behind Crosswoodhill farmhouse. A perfect setting for the garden playfort and slide, swings including a large family basket swing, sling and toddler swings, a trapeze bar and rings, a see-saw, sandpit and balancing logs. Whoops of delight confirm this robust equipment ( but we do ask for adult supervision, please ) was well worth the investment. This play area is large enough to be shared by more than one family and offers guests from Orlege, the Wing and Steading Cottage the possibility to meet up with other children staying at Crosswoodhill.
it had the most impressive amount of holiday information I have ever seen filed neatly away in dozens of folders.
We found the cottage on the Internet and it was everything it said it was, and more. The owner, G, went above and beyond to make our stay comfortable. The cottage was darling and had everything you could imagine, right down to a sewing kit!
You may wish to study the layout of Steading Cottage and the other properties in case one suits your particular needs better than the others. Within each of the named Cottage Pages you'll find its own individual layout plan.
Still Unsure? You can view our other properties or visit our Which Cottage? page to find out more about which cottage would suit you best!
Dates shown here in green are still available in Steading Cottage. Click on your preferred arrival date and you'll be passed through to a SuperControl screen. If your dates meet our booking criteria, please re-select the start date on the Steading Cottage line to progress your booking.


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Obama Undermined Anti-Hezbollah Task Force To Secure Iran Deal
Barack ObamaForeign Affairs
By Nancy Hayes	 Last updated Dec 20, 2017
Well, what do you know!? For all of us that knew the Iran Deal was a very, bad, no good deal….now the real truth surfaces and it's not pretty.
It turns out that the truth is Obama railroaded a U.S effort to dismantle a Hezbollah drug-trafficking scheme so he could make his own dirty nuclear deal with Iran.
How stupid can he be?!
From an original Politico report by Josh Meyer Fox News reports,
The Obama administration gave a free pass to Hezbollah's drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations — some of which were unfolding inside the U.S. — to help ensure the Iran nuclear deal would stay on track, according to a bombshell exposé in Politico Sunday.
An elaborate campaign led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, known as Project Cassandra, reportedly targeted the Lebanese militant group's criminal activities. But by tossing a string of roadblocks holding back the project, Obama administration officials helped allow the 35-year-old anti-Israel criminal enterprise to evolve into a major global security threat bankrolling terrorist and military operations, the report added.
"This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision," David Asher, who helped establish Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst in 2008, told Politico. "They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down."
When Project Cassandra leaders, who were working out of a DEA's Counter facility in Chantilly, Virginia, sought an OK for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, Justice and Treasury Department officials delayed, hindered or rejected their requests, according to Politico.
The red tape halted Project Cassandra's efforts to curtail top Hezbollah operatives, including one of the world's biggest cocaine traffickers who was also supplying conventional and chemical weapons used by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad against his own citizens. That operative's code name: the "Ghost."
Former Obama administration officials told Politico anonymously that their decisions were guided by improving relations with Iran, stalling its nuclear weapons program and freeing four Americans prisoners held by the country. They also denied they "derailed" actions against Hezbollah out of politics.
"There has been a consistent pattern of actions taken against Hezbollah, both through tough sanctions and law enforcement actions before and after the Iran deal," Kevin Lewis who worked at both the White House and Justice Department during the Obama administration, responded.
Asher said the closer the U.S. got to finalizing the Iran nuclear deal, the more difficult it was to conduct Hezbollah investigations. After President Obama announced the deal in January 2016, Project Cassandra officials were transferred to other assignments.
"The closer we got to the [Iran deal], the more these activities went away," Asher 49, who speaks fluent Japanese and earned his Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University, told Politico. "So much of the capability, whether it was special operations, whether it was law enforcement, whether it was [Treasury] designations — even the capacity, the personnel assigned to this mission — it was assiduously drained, almost to the last drop, by the end of the Obama administration."
So, the Obama administration protected members of notorious terror group Hezbollah from prosecution to save the Iran nuclear deal. Hey Obama…was it worth it?! What the heck!
A team at the Drug Enforcement Administration had been working for almost a decade to bring down the Lebanon-based militant organization's sophisticated $1 billion-a-year drug ring — which it found was smuggling cocaine into the US and laundering the profits by buying used cars stateside and shipping them to Africa for resale.
This sounds a lot like the Awan brothers who were connected to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz doesn't it?
Imran Awan, a congressional aide was arrested by the FBI after wiring $300,000 to Pakistan and misrepresenting the purpose, had previously wired money to the Muslim country and was frantically liquidating multiple real estate properties on the day he was arrested.
You remember!
The Awan brothers made millions by using Blackberries to spy on members on Congress, blackmail them and then use information against them to get them to vote the way Democrats wanted and to try and keep Clinton in power. I mean these scumbags used ratlines and stole cars, and got away with a lot of crime while they bragged about being treated like royalty back home.
Drugs. Power. Money. Sounds like another Hollywood movie in the making doesn't it? … I can see it now….Hezbollah: The Gambino Crime Family On Steroids…..Thanks Obama! Nice work!
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Elizabeth King, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Odum School of Ecology and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, helps students appreciate the connectedness and complexity of human-environment interactions.
I earned my bachelor's degree in biology from Reed College in Oregon and my master's degree and Ph.D. in population biology from the University of California, Davis.
I teach general courses on ecology and on natural resource conservation in the university's Odum School of Ecology and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, as well as restoration ecology and graduate courses to students in both schools and from all over campus.
I conduct research in two main areas of sustainability science. One area focuses on challenges faced by livestock-herding societies in rural Africa. In many regions, these people are struggling to secure sustainable livelihoods in the face of drastic environmental and social pressures. My work combines ecology and social science to gain a more holistic view of livelihood vulnerability. I'm particularly interested in which households in a community are able to successfully adapt to changing conditions, and what kinds of assets, knowledge and social arrangements give them that ability.
The other sustainable science area is restoration ecology here in Georgia. I study how—and why—we repair damaged and degraded ecosystems. Some of this work is on the beautiful barrier islands of Georgia's coast, and other projects are focused on urban forests right here in Athens. For instance, I've had great fun getting involved with UGA's Chew Crew, which uses goats to remove overgrown and invasive vegetation.
I came in 2012, after over five years as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Princeton University. My teaching and research there was the beginning of my journey into highly interdisciplinary research focused on sustainability challenges in African drylands. I was working with scholars in fields ranging from political science to ecology to engineering and hydrology. I didn't know what I would do next, but I was amazingly fortunate to find a position at UGA that welcomed my passion for integrative, sustainability-focused research and teaching. In addition to stellar colleagues in Odum and Warnell, I also was attracted by UGA's notable strengths in environmental anthropology as well as the newly founded Integrative Conservation (ICON) Ph.D. program, where I knew great collaborations would arise. Last but not least, I'm from the Southeast and really wanted to be back with family, friends and Southern sunshine.
Each class I've taught has been a rush, a challenge and ultimately a rewarding experience. I teach two large classes, and I love getting into the "it's showtime" spirit of captivating the attention of a large auditorium and also stimulating genuine curiosity, which then makes learning so much easier. Because of the complexity of ecosystems and multiple human values regarding environmental issues, ecology and natural resources courses are many students' first exposure to science where there is no single "right answer." I love facilitating students to see and ask big, hard questions about the world, and to realize that they each have a unique opportunity to answer them.
The course in restoration ecology that I designed and teach is great fun, because it is at the nexus of all the things I love about teaching and science. It attracts both graduate and undergraduate students—from Ecology, Warnell and beyond. There is rich scientific theory to learn, yet we also need to learn about the human contexts in which ecological restoration is undertaken, which are studied in social and behavioral sciences. History and aesthetics are interwoven into people's motivations for ecological restoration, so we bring in artistic and humanities perspectives as well. We talk about everything from plant population models to theories of cooperation in society, because you need to appreciate all those things in order to plan and conduct ecosystem restoration. Each student's horizons are thus broadened by a course's interdisciplinary approach.
The first large project I embarked upon at UGA has certainly been a highlight. I had recently met Laura German, associate professor in anthropology, and we saw a great opportunity to work together, investigating the ecological and social changes that were unfolding in a community of livestock herders in Kenya. We recruited a stellar Ph.D. student who took the project to new heights, as well as a terrific postdoc who probed deeply into the reasons why people's lives were changing and the strategies they used to cope and adapt. The experience solidified for me the value of integrating different ways of looking at problems, despite how challenging it can be.
The Sustainability Science Symposia that the Center for Integrative Conservation Research hosts have been some of the most rewarding events I've experienced at UGA. Seeing how many scholars are focused on sustainability, from incredibly diverse perspectives, makes it very exciting and inspirational to work at UGA.
My work helps reveal the ecological cause-and-effect relationships that explain different forms of ecological degradation, with the goal of finding key leverage points to intervene and promote restoration. My work also studies critical social dimensions—"upstream" drivers, and "downstream" consequences—of land degradation and restoration. By looking at the ecological problem in its social, economic and political context, we see the broader landscape of barriers and opportunities for restoration in a much more holistic light. Many efforts to restore ecosystems and re-establish sustainable human-environment relations often fail because of social factors that were not accounted for. By coupling ecological and social science research, we can better avoid those pitfalls.
Whichever class I teach, I hope that students gain the ability to see the complex cause-and-effect relations that underlie the patterns and trends we see around us. I also hope that students learn to appreciate that everything happening in the world today is governed on some level BOTH by scientific principles and by human values and actions. The connections may be indirect, but they're there, and they're important to grasp in order to think about sustainability. By teaching in a way that shows my own enthusiasm and wonderment for learning about complex relationships, I hope that students are excited and empowered as they develop their abilities to discern those connections.
One of my favorite quotes is by John Muir: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." I'm endlessly fascinated by the connectedness and complexity of ecosystems and human-environment interactions. So I particularly appreciate students who also get excited by the complexity we discover as we examine the world around us, and who like to look at problems from different, new perspectives. When students are open to different perspectives, they can learn so much more about any place, creature or situation, which makes teaching and mentorship exciting and fun.
A stroll or lunch in the Founders Memorial Garden. It's serene, harmonious and always gracefully reflects the season. The phrase "Southern charm" comes to mind whenever I visit. What a treat to have such an oasis nestled into campus, to visit for a minute or an hour. I like to meet with students outdoors—sitting, walking or having coffee—if we're catching up on life or thinking broadly about new ideas. And the Founders Garden is an ideal spot to calm the mind and get creative.
Travel! Seeing new landscapes and new cultures is my greatest pleasure. It's rewarding in terms of seeing new beautiful things, but it's also deeply rewarding as a learning experience. Seeing and learning how different the world is in different places is for me a profound source of inspiration, wisdom and humility. Whether it's right around the corner in Georgia or on another continent, there's always something new and different to appreciate. Travel is my most treasured source of learning.
Since 2013, I've been working with the UGA Chew Crew, a project that uses goats to clear out overgrown invasive vegetation on two campus sites. I've helped coordinate the citizen science efforts to monitor the effects of the goats on vegetation. Interestingly, the most rewarding part of this has not been the ecological changes that goats bring about, but the human changes that they bring about. Volunteers love working around the goats. The goats make restoration fun, they stir up new feelings of environmental care and stewardship in the volunteers and get kids, college students and community members excited about playing an active role in improving their environment.
In a way, I hope to never have a single favorite book or movie! There are many at the top of the list, and in keeping with my academic tendencies, they are wildly diverse. But the most recent addition to the favorite book pile, which I read this summer and still get swept away thinking about the beauty of many of its ideas, was "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The author is a botanist and a Native American. Her essays reveal fascinating complementarities between indigenous and scientific ways of knowing and how they have shaped her as a scientist, a mother, a teacher, a learner, a citizen and an environmental steward. She is a remarkable storyteller, and in her stories the plants are themselves the teachers. As we learn about them, we also learn about ourselves. The book was full of ideas I had never heard articulated before; it was lyrical, personal, scientific and inspirational. And then, totally different, I also love Carl Hiaasen novels, which are like kaleidoscopes of hilarious, edgy, completely absurd, "only in Florida" escapades.
A few months after arriving, I was a marshal during the spring Commencement ceremony in Sanford Stadium. That afternoon, I learned a lot about my new home and community, and kind of fell in love with UGA. First, on the walk over to the stadium, I saw some parents and grandparents tailgating graduation! They were cheering on the seniors in their robes as they passed by. I thought that was just awesome. Then, when I walked alongside the joyous, cheering graduating seniors onto the field, I got pretty choked up when I saw the thousands and thousands of family members and friends in the stands, beaming with pride, excitement and love. I think of that moment frequently, because it's an important reminder that—even though I meet hundreds of students—each person's experience at UGA is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime journey. It's humbling to think about the role that I get to play in many of those journeys.


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Why Investors and Multinationals Should Push The U.S. for Public CbC Reporting
By Ryan Gurule
By: Ryan Gurule, FACT Policy Director
In light of global developments, such as tax transparency measures progressing in Australia, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission should use its current authority to advance a notice and comment rulemaking to require large public companies to engage in public country-by-country tax and operations reporting in line with international best practices to best inform investors and other stakeholders of relevant risks. These efforts can and should occur alongside efforts at the Financial Accounting Standards Board to require greater disaggregation of tax information in financial statements filed in conformance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
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Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam is an American author of fantasy fiction active since 2012. According to Stufflebeam, her last name "might mean 'stump leg' ... or 'one who resides behind a stump'," characterizing both as "somewhat accurate."

Biography
Stufflebeam is a native of Texas, where she currently resides after two years in Oregon. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine in July 2013. She coordinates the annual Arts & Words Collaborative Show in Fort Worth, Texas.

Stufflebeam's work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld Magazine, Hobart, Lightspeed, The Masters Review, Monster Verse, Nebula Awards Showcase 2018, and The Toast. With Peter Brewer she has collaborated on Strange Monsters, an audio fiction-jazz collaborative album.

Bibliography

Audio album
Strange Monsters (with Peter Brewer, 2016)
"The Stink of Horses"
"Mrs. Stiltskin"
"Skeletons"
"No Eyes"
"Selected Poems"
"Where You Came From"

Short fiction

"They Come In Through the Walls" (2012)
"The Wanderers" (2013)
"The Siren" (2013)
"An Exodus of Wings" (2013)
"The Integrity of Broken Buildings" (2013)
"Mrs. Stiltskin" (2013)
"The Mammoth" (2013)
"Spiders" (2013)
"Old Boys" (2014)
"The Damaged" (2014)
"Killing Time" (2014)
"Sleepers" (2014)
"The Flight of the Red Monsters" (2014)
"Scars" (2014)
"The Foster Child" (2014)
"Hero" (2014)
"Skeletons" (2014)
"Tea with the Titans" (2014)
"They Come with the Carnival" (2014)
"The Centaur's Daughter" (2015)
"He Came from a Place of Openness and Truth" (2015)
"Nostalgia" (2015)
"Everything Beneath You" (2015)
"Blight" (2015)
"Six Ways to Break Her" (2015)
"Doors" (2015)
"Trickier with Each Translation" (2015)
"The Girl with Golden Hair" (2015)
"The Devil's Hands" (2015)
"Sisters" (2015)
"Sleeping with Spirits" (2015)
"A Careful Fire" (2015)
"Something Deadly, Something Dark" (2016)
"The Orangery" (2016)
"The Maneaters" (2017)
"Needle Mouth" (2017)
"Secret Keeper" (2017)
"Ghost Town" (2017)
"The Black Thumb" (2017)
"The Greatest Discovery of Dr. Madeline Lightfoot" (2017)
"Angry Kings" (2018)
"So Easy" (2018)
"The Men Who Come from Flowers" (2018)
"The Crow Knight" (2018)

Poetry

"The Werewolf" (2013)
"Strange Monster" (2013)
"Kites" (2014)
"The Santa Monica Prophecies: A Collaborative Triptych" (with Layla Al-Bedawi, Holly Lyn Walrath, 2017)

Nonfiction

"Stepping Through a Portal" (2014)
"A World of Queer Imagination" (2015)
"Best Short Fiction of 2014" (2015)
"Editorial: Braving the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape" (Interzone no. 276, 2018)

Awards
"Everything Beneath Your" received an honorable mention for the 2015 James Tiptree Jr. Award. "The Orangery" was nominated for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. She has also placed or been short- or long-listed for the 2016 Selected Shorts/Electric Lit Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, the 2015 British Science Fiction Association Awards, the 2016 Texas Observer Short Story Contest, and the 2015 Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review's Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.

References

External links

Living people
21st-century American women writers
American speculative fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)

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Electric Daisy Carnival Announces Virtual Rave-A-Thon
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Coldplay, as Los Unidades, shares Global Citizen – EP 1: Stream
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From an upcoming Global Citizen EP featuring the British band's new identity collaborating with a number of artists.
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Plus: Weezer, Jane's Addiction, Michael McDonald, Alanis Morissette, and a Led Zeppelin covers band.
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Ultra Music Festival reveals 2017 lineup: Underworld, The Prodigy, Justice to headline
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Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, and 1,000 other artists petition EU over YouTube copyright practices
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Tradition is rather understood as the fullness of divine truth proclaimed in the scriptures, preserved by the apostolic bishops, and expressed in the life of the Church through such things as the Divine Liturgy and the Sacraments (Eucharist, baptism, marriage, etc.), the Creed and other doctrinal definitions.
"Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move towards the same goal."40 Each of them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ, who promised to remain with his own "always, to the close of the age".41
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This new partnership between SkillSurvey and vCandidates.com allows candidates to provide a more viable presentation of themselves to recruiting professionals.
SkillSurvey Analytics Team will share new results on measuring students' career readiness and why job references respond at the 2019 SIOP Conference.
New enhancements to SkillSurvey Reference make the reference checking process more accessible to job candidates.
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This feature article in the member magazine of CUPA HR discusses the importance of embracing gig employment in higher ed.
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ATLAS TWP, MI -- The Disney movie "Frozen" and a viral video of her singing at a thrift store have steered 19-year-old Genavieve Linkowski to an appearance on "American Idol," which has offered her a chance to turn her passion into a career.
The Atlas Township resident's audition is set to air on the 8 p.m. Monday, March 19, episode of the rebooted show on ABC, an opportunity that came after a casting producer spotted a May 2017 video of Linkowski playing the piano and belting out "Better Man" by Little Big Town at the Volunteers of America store in Burton.
Linkowski wasn't so keen on going to the store, but her mother, Tamara, felt they needed to go inside. She didn't like the way she sang and began to cry at home, but the video took on a life of its own on social media.
Thinking the first message she'd received from the producer was a joke, Linkowski ignored it.
But a second call came and then a Skype audition, followed by traveling to Dallas for an audition, and a performance in front of judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, where she sang Jason Mraz's song "I Won't Give Up."
Mraz is one of Linkowski's favorite singers, along with Tori Kelly, whom she admires for taking her own path in the music business and not changing her sense of self.
Linkowski hasn't always been into singing. She picked up the art form when she was 14 years old after watching the movie "Frozen" and hearing the oft-played song "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel.
"I listened to Idina Menzel sing that and I thought 'Oh my gosh, is she going higher? She's going higher, she's going to hit that note,'" said Linkowski. "Oh my gosh, how did she do that? How is that humanly possible?"
Having played the piano, harp, violin and focusing on classical music, Linkowski set up a karaoke playlist and began to belt out a variety of songs -- including Celine Dion and Mariah Carey -- setting up a routine and practicing for up to 90 minutes each day.
She's had auditions for the NBC singing competition "The Voice," but Linkowski felt she could be more of herself on "American Idol," in getting to choose her own songs, decide her own wardrobe, and feel more natural in the environment.
"I am about being myself and being true to who I am," she said Monday afternoon at her family's home where Linkowski helps home-school her siblings and sings in a small studio in the garage where she films videos for her YouTube page.
In deciding on the Mraz song for her audition, Linkowski noted the song means a lot to her for personal reasons.
"I love the lyrics to the song because I'm all about sticking it out and making it through hard times together with each other," she said.
Linkowski said she had sacrificed her time to help out her family around the house after her mother recently suffered heart failure.
"That song is totally up that alley."
Genavieve Linkowski, 18, is the star of the viral video.
She's felt the support from her parents and siblings along the way, never any jealousy or envy for the attention received of late.
"Whatever she does, she's good at it," Tamara said. "She's a big help. I always said God knew what he was doing when he gave me her as a first-born."
Linkowski has also leaned on her faith through the ups and down.
"I can say that God has led every single step of this journey," she said.
With some self-doubt creeping in as her YouTube videos signing covers weren't doing well, her faith held strong.
"I know at that moment, me being a Christian, I knew God was telling me you are on this Earth to sing. I put you there to sing and that's what you are going to do," said Linkowski. "It's really hard work and there are going to be those times in any one's life, in any one's career that they're going to really doubt themselves because I've been there so many times and I just have to say don't give up."
She had to hold strong on the day of her audition, one that began at 5 a.m. and didn't end until close to 11 p.m. as Linkowski performed, interviewed, met new people, filmed promotions for the show and met the judges.
"I didn't think it was real until I actually walked in the room," she said of the audition. "I wasn't star-struck probably because I don't usually listen to their music. I think that was a blessing in disguise though because I wasn't overly fangirling or getting nervous. I actually just surprised myself I was just super calm and laid back."
The most jarring part of the experience for Linkowski was performing in front of people, something she hasn't done.
"Going to the show, that's what I was most nervous about, having a stage presence, having everyone there watching me in the audience, and want to make them have a great time," she said. "I want to make them want to hear it again."
One of the judges helped put those nerves at ease.
"When I went into the audition room and I sang my song, Katy was saying how I was polished and I was like, 'Polished? What, um, no,'" laughed Linkowski. "It must be naturally something."
She could not reveal how far into the competition she was able to progress, but the Linkowski family will be holding a viewing party at their home for relatives and friends on Monday.


Although Chinese literature has a history dating back two thousand years, its dynamism has never waned. By popularizing vernacular prose in the early decades of the last century, Lu Xun, Lao She, Ba Jin and others of the New Culture Movement revolutionized modern Chinese literature. Chinese writings today also reflect vibrant changes in modern society, offering us a distinct and creative insight into the political, social, economic, and demographic transformations that are taking place in present day China.
On May 29, the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution will host three accomplished contemporary Chinese writers: Zhao Lihong, born in the 1950s, is a gifted Shanghainese poet, author and literary critic; Su Tong, born in the 1960s, is bestselling author of "Raise the Red Lantern" (Penguin Books, 1996); and Feng Tang, born in the 1970s, is China's popular jack-of-all-trades writer. The discussion will center on the generational differences of writing in—and about—a rapidly changing China.
Questions will be taken from the audience following the discussion.


The company alleges Facebook destroyed its business when it changed its data use policies in 2015 to restrict third-parties from accessing data of their users' friends. Six4Three reportedly alleges that the documents seized by Parliament include communications from Zuckerberg, along with evidence that Facebook knowingly created and promoted the privacy loophole that was eventually used by Cambridge Analytica.
Through its lawsuit, Six4Three has made numerous other explosive allegations against Facebook, including the claim that Facebook accessed and monitored the microphones of some Android users without their permission; that Facebook monitors the photo albums of iPhone users without explicit permission; and that Facebook remotely turned on users' Bluetooth without their permission to gain access to their location.
In his letter, Facebook public policy chief Richard Allen denied Six4Three's allegations and asked Parliament to refrain from using the documents in a hearing Tuesday that Facebook is slated to appear at.
"The court that sealed the documents is due to consider these latest developments as early as tomorrow. It will be helpful for all of us to see Six4Three's explanation and any directions given by the judge in this case as we consider their legal status," Allen wrote.
3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence from UK ParliamentBritish MP Damian Collins reportedly led the effort to seize the documents.
After Collins' initial request, a Parliamentary officer was reportedly sent to Kramer's hotel, where he was given a two-hour deadline. After failing to meet the deadline, Collins was reportedly escorted to Parliament where he was warned that not surrendering the documents could result in fines or imprisonment.
The document seizure comes ahead of an "international grand committee" set for Tuesday that will address fake news, disinformation, and election interference, which Allen is scheduled to appear at.