Stack parking, pictured atop the Quad Parking Structure, is back in two locations for the 2017-18 academic year..
A vanpool information meeting is scheduled for next week — just as stack parking starts up again.
Stack parking — It resumes Monday (Sept. 25) in the Quad Parking Structure and Lot 47 (off La Rue Road near the Tercero residence halls) and will continue all this academic year, according to Transportation Services (TAPS).
The system allows an additional 120 cars in the garage and 100 more in Lot 47, by directing drivers to park in the aisles after all the regular spaces are filled. You leave your keys with an attendant, who may move your car throughout the day as other drivers need to leave. There is no additional charge for stack parking.
Transportation Services is using stack parking while exploring strategies to avoid the very expensive cost of building another parking structure.
Stack parking hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. If you return after 6 p.m., you can get your keys from a TAPS employee in the Quad Parking Structure entry kiosk (off Dairy Road) until 9:30 p.m. Miss that deadline and you'll have to pick up your keys in the morning from an attendant where you originally parked. TAPS suggests bringing a spare set of keys if you know you'll be returning to your car after 9:30.
More information is available on the TAPS website.
Vanpool — The information meeting is for people interested in vanpooling from Natomas. Kawami Evans, interim associate director of the Center for African Diaspora Student Success, is the organizer, and she is working with the North Natomas Transportation Management Agency.
The meeting is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, at the Center for African Diaspora Student Success, 270 South Silo. A light lunch will be provided.
Evans said the purpose of the meeting is to gauge how many people would be willing to be part of a Natomas vanpool, and to discuss its hours. A meeting flier touts vanpooling as a better, more environmentally friendly way to get to work, while cutting your commute stress and gas costs.
UC Davis has only two vanpools operating at this time: The El Cerrito "Poolbusters" van, on campus 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and the Placer County van, starting from Newcastle. Both have full- and part-time and casual seats available.
More information on vanpooling is available online.
We can finally tell you that Hillary Clinton is bringing her book tour to UC Davis, on Monday, Oct. 9. The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts launched the presale at noon last Friday, giving first shot to donors and subscribers, as well as faculty, staff and students, and planned to open the event to the general public on Sept. 21.
But, guess what? Jackson Hall reached capacity within 4½ hours Friday, marking the Mondavi Center's first sellout during presale, said Rob Tocalino, marketing director.
"Ticket availability may change as the event date approaches, but demand remains very high," the Mondavi Center states on the Hillary Clinton event page. Some tickets may be returned or canceled, Tocalino said, but he does not expect there will be very many. Thus, the Mondavi Center has no waiting list for this event.
However, people are welcome to check the event page or call the ticket office, 530-754-2787, to inquire about availability.
Tickets cost $50 to $250 ($25 for students), and every paid admission includes a copy of Clinton's book, What Happened, about her failed run for the presidency in 2016.
All staff are welcome to Staff Assembly's next general membership meetings, Tuesday, Sept. 26. General membership meetings are held from noon to 1 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of every month (exception: no meeting in December) in 2005 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.
UC Davis is introducing a medical amnesty protocol to encourage students to call for medical help in an emergency related to alcohol or drugs. Under Aggies Act, neither a student calling for medical help nor a student receiving it would be subject to the university's formal student conduct processes if certain conditions are met.
The new protocol, in some places called a 911 good Samaritan policy, is part of a trend at colleges toward safeguarding instead of punishing students who misuse alcohol or drugs. And, at UC Davis, it builds on recent efforts that encourage students to care for their peers in critical moments.
The protocol becomes effective Monday (Sept. 25), the first day of the fall quarter.


Deirdre Kane and Dora Walmsley are lifelong Pittsburghers with a commitment to providing fair and just food. They opened their neighborhood market in 2014 in Upper Lawrenceville to serve a community lacking easy access to affordable, wholesome food. The 52nd Street Market offers a terrific mix of organic bulk-items such as green lentils, rolled oats and chickpeas, locally produced foods such as canned goods from Penn's Corner Farm Alliance and Goat Rodeo cheeses, fresh produce and pantry staples. It carries a small selection of dry-goods, too.
Roger Li, the former chef of now-closed Tamari, opened his Umami izakaya in April above Round Corner Cantina in Lower Lawrenceville. I love the clean, sleek design of the space. Because the vast majority of items on the menu cost $10 or less, I suggest visiting Umami with an open mind and a willingness to experiment. My favorite dishes so far include karaage (Japanese-style fried chicken with gravy) and the chawanmushi (savory egg custard with mushroom dashi and aged soy). Izakaya food is meant to go hand-in-hand with drinks, and there are plenty of options for that at the full bar.
Girasole was one of the first restaurants that caught my attention when I moved to Pittsburgh in 2010. The subterranean Italian-American eatery opened in 2000, and the kitchen, led by Executive Chef Jennifer Gerasole, consistently has delivered high-quality meals since then. I like coming here for the classics, such as escarole and beans or potato gnocchi with fresh mozzarella, and the nightly specials such as the braised lamb shank.
I'm always game for a food trip. So when Kristin A. Butterworth (Lautrec) told me she still has a soft spot for one of the first kitchens that she worked in — Luigi's in Clymer — a friend and I motored to this old-school, Italian-American red-sauce joint. It's worth the drive, especially if you stick to the classics such as lasagna, stuffed hot peppers and meatballs.
My favorite plates at the North Side soul-food restaurant are the fabulous side dishes. Mixed greens, a long-stewed dish of collards and kale, hits all of the right notes: it's rich, savory, sweet and, best of all, really good for you. Candied yams have the texture of chunky applesauce and a nuanced flavor of earthy tubers and holiday spice. Cornbread stuffing takes already tasty cornbread and adds deep, rich notes of sage, celery and onion to create a satisfying bite.
Bar Marco, the Strip District restaurant that abolished tipping, navigated a series of changes over the last year, including the departures of both back- and front-of-house staff. Late last year, co-owner Justin Steel returned to the kitchen as the restaurant's executive chef, and after a few months of honing his chops, he's cruising with an Italian-focused menu inspired by his mentor Marco Enrico. The restaurant, always a favorite of mine, feels as though it once again has found its soul.
Trevett Hooper is the 41-year-old co-owner and executive chef of Legume and Butterjoint. Hooper opened Legume in Regent Square in 2007, and in 2011 moved the restaurant to its current location in Oakland. In 2012, he opened Butterjoint in the bar adjacent to Legume. Now, with a third restaurant — Pie For Breakfast — and a book in the works, he's set to enter the next phase of his career.
What prompted the opening of a new restaurant?
It's convenient that it's next to Legume. I can have my hand in everything without having to drive across town. When Sarah (Hooper, his wife and business partner) and I have opened restaurants it's because we want to do things that we want to see in Pittsburgh. With Legume in 2007, it was because we wanted to add more fun to fine dining. Butterjoint was supposed to be focused on casual food, but it's turned much more into a bar with good food. We're missing that midsection of food here: ambitious and upscale, but also at a reasonable price point and in a comfortable setting.
More and more, it's becoming important for chefs and for restaurants to communicate what it is that they're doing. The platforms of social media aren't the best way to communicate what we're doing. Our food isn't focused on being photogenic, and it's hard to distill our culinary philosophy in a quick moment.
What can readers expect in the book?
[Right] now we're organizing it by lessons learned, what it means to cook in a market like Pittsburgh, things like that. There will be some recipes — though a lot of what we're doing at the restaurant is different than what people want to cook at home. It's becoming less of a cookbook, and more of a coming-of-age story now.


Video clip synopsis – A broadcast studio at Radio Redfern in the late 80s. Christina Spurgeon talks about the importance of providing media services to remote Indigenous communities to the culture, identity and language of Aboriginal Australians.
Broadband MP4 caama_bb.mp4 (8.6MB), suitable for iPods and computer downloads.
Radio Redfern is an excerpt from the film 88.9 Radio Redfern produced in 1988 by the Film Australia National Interest Program. 88.9 Radio Redfern is a portrait of Sydney's Aboriginal radio station. This video clip is on the From Wireless to Web website, produced in 2005.
The interview with Christina Spurgeon was recorded for the website.
write an imaginative short story.
Writing Standard: students write sustained and cohesive narratives that experiment with different techniques and show attention to chronology, characterisation, consistent point of view and development of a resolution. They compose a range of other texts, such as feature articles, webpages and workplace texts. They proofread and edit their own writing for accuracy, consistency and clarity.
The activities in this digital resource are relevant to the Interdisciplinary Learning strands of Level 6 Communications (Listening, Viewing and Responding standard; Presenting standard), and Thinking Processes (Reasoning, Processing and Inquiry standard; Creativity standard).
In 1972 the first Indigenous-produced community radio program went to air on 5UV in Adelaide. Two years later ABC Radio started broadcasting in several Indigenous languages to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders in Far North Queensland.
At the same time in Alice Springs, two Aboriginal people and their non-Aboriginal associate – John Macumba, Freda Glynn and Phillip Batty- helped to establish the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA). Their goal was that Aboriginal voices be heard throughout the world and for Aboriginal people to take ownership and control of their own future through a strong, vibrant media centre. That goal became a reality in 1980 when the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) was established.
Today CAAMA's radio network broadcasts on 8KIN FM.
From the Radio Redfern archival clip, comment on the ways in which community radio helps Aboriginal people, and explain whether the spoken commentary presented in the clip would be likely to be broadcast on ABC and commercial network mainstream radio stations.
Comment on whether Aboriginals as a community are given a 'voice', and how you believe they are presented in the mainstream Australian media (radio, TV, newspapers).
Research then prepare, draft, edit and proofread an illustrated, informative two-page article for a magazine aimed at teenagers, about the history, growth, activities and importance of CAAMA. Format the article using word-processing or desktop publishing software.
Write an imaginative short fiction story in which either Radio Redfern or CAAMA plays an important role in the plot, setting and the lives of the characters.


Bring these gluten- free and vegan crunchy Mini Cookies for a lunch treat, an after school snack or a sweet treat wherever you go!
Ingredients: Flour Blend (Brown Rice, Sorghum, Buckwheat), Raw Cane Sugar, Palm Shortening, Water, Natural Flavor, Salt, Vanilla Extract, Xanthan Gum, Leavening (Baking Soda), Konjac, Rosemary Extract.
These were horrible. I usually like Enjoy Life's products, but I had to spit these out.


Each month, our members bring their latest works for display. Here are the latest from our November 2017 meeting, courtesy of John Currie.
Models from past meetings, and pictures from contests and special events, may be found in our gallery archive.


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Report: In Yemen, Trying to Save People Without Selling Out In Yemen, Trying to Save People Without Sell...
In Yemen, Trying to Save People Without Selling Out
Yemenis desperately need hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid being offered by Saudi Arabia. But relief workers are wary of taking the money while Saudi airstrikes continue.
By Lara Jakes
Update, May 4, 9:15 p.m.: This article was updated with information from a statement released by the Saudi Embassy in Washington after this article was first published.
Humanitarian aid groups that have been a lifeline to millions of desperate people in Yemen are considering rejecting a $274 million donation from Saudi Arabia as long as Riyadh continues bombing Houthi rebels in the Mideast's newest war.
The conflict — which is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran — presents an ethical dilemma for aid workers who need the funds to help hungry, sick, and homeless civilians in Yemen but are wary of appearing complicit in the devastating air campaign that is believed to have killed more than 1,000 people.
The Saudi Arabian donation may be unprecedented in its scope: It is believed the first time in recent memory that a single nation has paid 100 percent of a so-called "flash appeal" emergency fund that is managed by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Flash appeals are usually funded by multiple donors.
One Western aid worker, who was recently evacuated from Sanaa and spoke to Foreign Policy on condition of not being identified, called the Saudi donation "guilt money" for moving ahead with its bombing campaign instead of aggressively pushing for a cease-fire. Another aid worker from a different organization urged colleagues to "avoid [having] the KSA fund the humanitarian response in Yemen," according to emails obtained by FP that were sent to at least eight relief agencies, including the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, CARE International, Oxfam, and Save The Children.
KSA stands for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On Monday night, hours after FP published this article, the Saudi Embassy in Washington released a statement saying Riyadh and other Arab coalition members will consider a cease-fire in specific areas in Yemen to give relief groups necessary access to deliver aid. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir nonetheless warned in the statement that Houthi rebels likely would "try to exploit the ceasefire and prevent the people of Yemen from receiving aid." Jubeir said Saudi Arabia will resume bombing rebels who violate the cease-fire. Until last month, Jubeir was Riyadh's ambassador to the United States.
The dilemma is nearing a decision point: Aid groups will have to decide in the next few weeks whether to accept the Saudi donation, which was given to the United Nations humanitarian affairs office to be parceled out to relief organizations. Top officials with U.N. and Red Cross humanitarian aid missions will meet May 13 with international relief groups to discuss the Yemen funding appeal.
At least one major aid organization — which declined to be identified until a decision is reached — is leaning against taking the money, and others are wrestling with whether they should also reject it, according to emails and interviews with a half-dozen humanitarian workers and advocacy missions. Nearly all spoke to FP on condition of anonymity as their organizations consider whether a perceived stigma of allying with Riyadh outweighs the urgent need of ministering to the war's civilian victims.
"It is an uncomfortable situation," said Joel R. Charny, vice president for humanitarian policy at InterAction, a Washington-based alliance for aid and advocacy organizations worldwide. "Of course it raises questions as to whether this is a way [for Riyadh] to wash [its] hands or distract attention from the humanitarian impact of the war to date. There's bound to be a little bit of discomfort, I think, given the fact the entire pool of money is coming from a single donor that's a belligerent."
The U.N. will keep the money available for other aid organizations that will try to distribute it in Yemen.
InterAction represents about 10 aid groups that have been working in Yemen, including Oxfam and International Medical Corps, which suffered employee injuries or damage to warehouses storing medicine, food and other relief supplies in mid-April airstrikes they believe were ordered by Riyadh. Charny said most, if not all, aid groups have pulled their international staff from Yemen, leaving the daunting mission to local workers.
Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world, and one of every five of its people is undernourished, according to the U.N. Humanitarian aid missions in Yemen for years have been severely underfunded, and had by late March collected only 8 percent of an emergency fund appeal by the time Saudi airstrikes began, according to the U.N.
As many as 16 million Yemenis were reliant on international aid before the war began, and up to 12 million are in immediate danger of going hungry, according to a senior Western aid worker who recently left Yemen. And if fuel cannot be shipped into the country within two weeks, he said, it's likely that many relief efforts will shut down.
The U.N. has demanded a cease-fire in Yemen, and the U.S. has called for a political solution to the unrest, although Washington supports a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states determined to shut down the Shiite Houthi rebels. Riyadh shows little sign of stopping: Human Rights Watch on Sunday reported evidence of banned cluster munitions being used in airstrikes along the Saudi border in mid-April.
Cluster munitions are banned by the U.N. and 91 countries — but not the U.S., Saudi Arabia, or most of the Mideast — because they are imprecise weapons that leave unexploded but still operational bombs in conflict areas that can be picked up or otherwise detonated by civilians. The Human Rights Watch findings put new pressure on the U.N. and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which generally accept donor funds from belligerent nations so long as efforts are made to protect civilians and make sure they are not confused with combatants.
On April 17 — a week before Riyadh pledged to wind down its bombing campaign but continued to attack — Saudi King Salman donated the full amount of a new, three month $274 million U.N. appeal for a Yemen-focused program that aid groups had helped design. It followed more than $850 million Riyadh has given to refugee, emergency health, and other humanitarian crises in the Mideast and West Africa since last July.
"The significance of this money cannot be underplayed," said Kieran Dwyer, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. He called the situation in Yemen "desperate and getting worse."
"All humanitarian organizations are committed to delivering life saving aid, but to do this they need resources," Dwyer said. "And resources for Yemen at this scale are very, very difficult to get from alternative sources."
Dwyer also said the Saudi government has put no conditions on how the funds are spent or who they will go to help. Charny called that "very rare in this day and age of emergencies" and said that should ease the aid groups' concerns they are talking sides, in the war, which would cast doubt on their neutrality.
The U.N. and world powers like the U.S. have long pressured nations in the Mideast to take the lead in helping victims of war in their own region, often to little or no effect. "So you can look at this and say, 'Wait a second, from a Saudi perspective, they're stepping up; they're doing exactly what we're asking them to do,'" Charny said.
But aid groups that have been working in Yemen say there's little point in accepting the funding if it cannot get to the people who need it most.
A Saudi airstrike last week hit an airport runway in Sanaa, blocking aid planes from landing. Riyadh said it was trying to stop an Iranian plane suspected of carrying assistance to Houthi rebels. Most of Yemen's main seaports also have been shut down, either by the Houthi-controlled government in Sanaa or in what Charny called a Saudi blockade to further cut off the Shiite rebels from Tehran's assistance. Saudi officials, meanwhile, say it's the continued attacks by Houthis that are preventing aid from reaching civilians in Yemen.
One senior Western aid worker who was forced to flee Sanaa for safety said Yemen depends on 350,000 tons of food each month and 144,000 barrels of oil daily to keep its people fed and hospitals, transportation, and other vital infrastructure up and running. That aid is "stuck outside Yemen at the moment," he said.
And the few local relief workers who are still in the country find it increasingly dangerous to distribute what aid is available due to the ongoing violence.
Airstrikes last month that hit relief agencies' warehouses has further spooked aid workers who fear they will become the war's next victims. Those airstrikes were widely believed to be ordered by the Saudi government.
The State Department is working with Saudi officials to "ensure safe conduct of humanitarian operations" in Yemen, said spokesman Daniel Langenkamp, and a USAID adviser is in Riyadh to help guide coordination with aid agencies in battle zones to avoid similar strikes going forward.
On Friday, White House counterterror czar Lisa Monaco met with new U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to discuss how to speed access and delivery of "badly needed food, medicine, and other supplies to the people of Yemen who are suffering."
But that is of little assurance, and no comfort, to the relief organizations.
"With all the bombing going on, how will we be able to spend that money if you can't actually get access?" said the senior Western aid worker, who remains in the Mideast and refused to be identified, in part for fear of the safety of his local staff still in Yemen.
His organization is leaning against accepting the Saudi donation, especially as the bombing campaign continues.
"It's guilt money," the worker said, and "it doesn't seem like they're feeling all that guilty."
Photo credit: MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images
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Is 'Skyward Sword' the Best 'Zelda' Game Ever?
The Legend of Zelda released a new game yesterday to commemorate the series' 25th anniversary. There's only one question Zelda fans buying it want to know: Is this the best Zelda game of all time?
A little background: Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time in 1998. It wasn't the first game in the series, but when it came out, everyone knew that it would be a benchmark not just for the series, but for all games to come after it. It was, in the truest sense of the word, a revelation. It was the first time a 3D system had ever built a true, living, breathing, changing world for the player to explore. It was a coming-of-age story both literally and for the games industry as a whole. It exploded the idea of the art and majesty that games were capable of. It's hard to talk about because it wasn't a game defined by its story, its setting, its characters, its architecture, or its gameplay. It had all these things at once. It occupied that place in between pure games and pure stories: neither something to be played nor watched, but lived.
Since then Nintendo has made eight Zelda games and an ill-advised crossbow-centric title. Some of these were good games. In fact, by anyone else's standards, they were excellent games. The kind of game any developer would be proud to hang their hat on. But there was always Ocarina.
When Twilight Princess, the series' first title for Wii, came out in 2006, the game community looked forward to it as the first true successor to Ocarina of Time, and the greatest Zelda game ever. When it came out, they were so excited they could hardly be have been wrong.
"The debate that has waged for decades over which Zelda game should stand as the series' best will at long last come to a satisfying conclusion, as this is unquestionably the greatest Zelda yet," read Game Informer.
"The greatest Zelda game ever created," said IGN.
Twilight Princess looked a lot like Ocarina, except grander, more detailed, and darker. It was a great game, but it was missing the indefinable, epic magic that had bound all of Ocarina. Over the years, the game community cooled, and in the buildup toward Skyward Sword, we went back to wondering if this game could finally dethrone Ocarina. The tacit understanding was that Ocarina had never been dethroned.
Six years after Twilight Princess, the reviews for Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword are in, and the raving continues. "Ocarina of Time has met its match," proclaims game website IGN. It's understandable: We as gamers have such as deep abiding love for The Legend of Zelda that we want to see it succeed against all odds.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, is an amazing game. It is certainly better than Twilight Princess. Shigeru Miyamoto and team have given us a brilliant, fresh world demanding to be explored at every corner. They've eschewed many of Zelda's hallowed traditions for new items, characters, locales, and puzzles. The end result reminds the player that there was a time when everything that was Zelda was new, and can be new again. It also comes the closest of any game yet towards integrating motion controls into a traditional—but the game is so complete that this feature actually ends up feeling like an afterthought.
Twilight Princess failed for trying to become a better version of Ocarina of Time, because that was impossible. Skyward Sword is content to be itself. It rejects the open-world gameplay that it pioneered in 1998 for a more linear story, and the result is a title with something of the gentle forward motion of an old Mario game, pushing the player on his journey rather than letting the hero take his own pace. It isn't a better or a worse structure, but it is different, and that's important for a series that has stuck to the same basic idea for two decades: explore the land, find items, go into dungeons, use items, fight bosses, collect sets of different items, find the Princess, save the world. Grow from a plucky young adventurer into the storied Hero.
What's different is whether or not by the end, the player feels like the Hero. Ocarina had that. Twilight Princess, for all its striving, couldn't manage it. Skyward Sword brings it back. The game is an origin story, set before every other game in the series. Hyrule—the land that we've come to love by saving it in Zelda games countless times—is different now. It's wild, uncolonized, and brimming with secrets. From the moment the hero descends from the clouds onto an alien and hostile land, the sense of exploration and wonder that made the series stand out when it was first released 25 years ago returns.
But it's not Ocarina. That's okay. Only Ocarina is Ocarina. This is Zelda, and there will be more Zelda to come.


Firstly I had a think over the last few days….Would I put the post live? Would I not? And you know what after 98% of your reaction to my Insta Stories last night, I said SURE LOOK we all think it. Before I continue writing I want to make this VERY clear that I adore quite a lot of the people nominated and even some are my friends. I am not targeting anyone nominated at all, so I just want to set that straight before I keep going. I admire the hard work of a lot of people who are up for awards also from businesswomen to influencers etc. I also want to address that I am in no way 'gutted' to not be up for nomination as you'll see why below.
To me it's the same people year after year. The same faces. The same categories. Is it not just a total made up awards ceremony to make people feel 'fab' or is it just me? You are hardly winning an Oscar. For example I feel there are so many much more worth people who should be nominated in certain categories. Where is Michelle from Needs Not Wants or Laura's Views? Two of my absolute favourites. Where is Sarah Hanrahan from I Come Undone? A person who writes amazing content. Where is Anouska? One of the most talented influencers there is. Why are these girls not nominated for anything? There are so many other hugely talented influencers, bloggers and extremely interesting people that have never been invited over the years so why choose the same people?
This was honestly only a few answers I had. I was intrigued to get your feedback. Were we all thinking the same or was it just me?
The whole aim of the ceremony is to gain more publicity for the website through picking the people they think would be of value in terms of publicity. I personally don't think it's anything to do with anything else. Who has the most followers? Who will give us a shout out on their Insta Stories every second day? Another thing I noticed was a lot of companies involved have certain individuals from that company nominated for an awards also? How does that work or how is that right? As people looking from the outside in, is that not conflict of interest.
The prices of the tickets are absolutely extortionate too. 164euro which includes a 38euro booking fee? Would you actually be well? I nearly spat out my coffee when I found out. I paid nearly that much for my Spice Girls ticket and I'm getting a night with the SPICE GIRLS?
I don't go to a lot of events so even if I ever was nominated which I most certainly will not be I wouldn't go anyway. Why wouldn't I go? Why wouldn't I just LOVE to get all dolled up and go to a 'glitzy' ceremony? I spoke about this back in October after going to another 'influencer awards ceremony'. Going to that awards confirmed that I will never attend another 'awards' ever again. I absolutely hate nothing more than being surrounded by people who honestly could not care about talking to you at all. They are looking past you or over your shoulder to see who else they can talk to or who they can get a selfie on their Insta stories with? They only care about who will be of 'benefit' to them. I personally find a lot of events like this very fake and it's just not me. I've spoken to other bloggers and influencers about it and they agree with me too.
Bloggers Unveiled revealed a LOT of things last year. Some I completely agree had to be said and I feel it opened up a lot of peoples eyes in Ireland. This is not a secret. I don't agree with everything that that person done in ANYWAY or how out of hand or nasty it became, I merely think that some things had to be said. Some people that came up on the Instagram page last year are now a year later nominated for an awards and I just have to roll my eyes to heaven.
I want to make one thing very clear before I end this. I would honestly watch paint dry quicker than go to this 'ceremony' or be nominated. Having a baby made me realise what was really important in life and it certainly isn't being nominated for something like this. It made me realise more than EVER that social media can be so amazing on one hand but so unbelievable fake on another. I do me on social media. It's my space and if people like it great, if not that's fine. I am just me and don't hold back regardless and as you can imagine writing a piece like this will no doubt ruffle some feathers but so what……….what am I going to loose? A few free products sent to me? I think I will live.


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Review Articles| June 01 2011
Prenatal or Early-Life Exposure to Antibiotics and Risk of Childhood Asthma: A Systematic Review
William Murk, MPH;
William Murk, MPH
aCenter for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut; and
Kari R. Risnes, MD;
Kari R. Risnes, MD
bDepartment of Public Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Michael B. Bracken, PhD
Address correspondence to Michael B. Bracken, PhD, Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, 1 Church St, New Haven, CT 06510-3210. E-mail: michael.bracken@yale.edu
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.
Pediatrics (2011) 127 (6): 1125–1138.
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-2092
William Murk, Kari R. Risnes, Michael B. Bracken; Prenatal or Early-Life Exposure to Antibiotics and Risk of Childhood Asthma: A Systematic Review. Pediatrics June 2011; 127 (6): 1125–1138. 10.1542/peds.2010-2092
The increasing prevalence of childhood asthma has been associated with low microbial exposure as described by the hygiene hypothesis.
We sought to evaluate the evidence of association between antibiotic exposure during pregnancy or in the first year of life and risk of childhood asthma.
PubMed was systematically searched for studies published between 1950 and July 1, 2010. Those that assessed associations between antibiotic exposure during pregnancy or in the first year of life and asthma at ages 0 to 18 years (for pregnancy exposures) or ages 3 to 18 years (for first-year-of-life exposures) were included. Validity was assessed according to study design, age at asthma diagnosis, adjustment for respiratory infections, and consultation rates.
For exposure in the first year of life, the pooled odds ratio (OR) for all studies (N = 20) was 1.52 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.30–1.77). Retrospective studies had the highest pooled risk estimate for asthma (OR: 2.04 [95% CI: 1.83–2.27]; n = 8) compared with database and prospective studies (OR: 1.25 [95% CI: 1.08–1.45]; n = 12). Risk estimates for studies that adjusted for respiratory infections (pooled OR: 1.16 [95% CI: 1.08–1.25]; n = 5) or later asthma onset (pooled OR for asthma at or after 2 years: OR: 1.16 [95% CI: 1.06–1.25]; n = 3) were weaker but remained significant. For exposure during pregnancy (n = 3 studies), the pooled OR was 1.24 (95% CI: 1.02–1.50).
Antibiotics seem to slightly increase the risk of childhood asthma. Reverse causality and protopathic bias seem to be possible confounders for this relationship.
AAP Awards
asthma, asthma, childhood, prenatal care
Infant antibiotic use and asthma risk: the chicken or the egg causality dilemma.
Marina Bianchi
To the Editors:
In the article describing their systematic review, Murk et al. (1) suggest that a weak association between antibiotic exposure early in life and childhood asthma exists, but methodological and protopathic bias seem to make this relationship difficult to determine. Three different study designs were considered and, as in the systematic review by Marra et al. from 2006 (2), the authors found that retrospective studies had higher pooled risk estimate for asthma than database and prospective studies. As in the recent systematic review by Penders et al. (3), the authors took into account studies from a few countries in which the prevalence of antibiotic prescriptions to children, especially broad-spectrum antibiotics, is wide (4). We compared these data with our analysis of a large Italian population. In a cohort of 48,020 Italian children born in 2000-2001 in the Lombardy Region (the most important and populated Italian region) and followed up to 7 years of age, 2,518 potential asthmatic patients at 6 years of age were identified through a validated strategy (5) using anti-asthmatic drug prescriptions as a reliable proxy of disease (sensitivity 90%, specificity 98%). A total of 5,036 non-asthmatic controls were randomly selected from the same cohort and matched for gender, year of birth, and local health unit of residence. A case-control ratio of 1:2 was chosen to detect an OR >=1.2, with a power of more than 0.90, based on the following assumptions: an alpha error level of 0.05 and an expected incidence of antibiotic use among controls during the first 6 months of life of 25%, calculated on the basis of a previous study (6). In all, 29% of cases and 27% of controls received at least one antibiotic drug prescription during the first 6 months (OR 1.13, 95% CI 1.01-1.26, p=0.02). A slight trend in the association was therefore found also in our database study, comparable to database designed studies that took into account later asthma onset, commented in Murk et al's article. Some considerations should be made: first of all, in some studies children were selected based on the physician's diagnosis of asthma, while in others (as with our methodology based on anti-asthmatic prescriptions, and with other methodologies based on anti-asthmatic prescriptions or hospitalizations for asthma, or medical claims for asthma) patients with actual symptoms requiring drug treatment or hospitalization were retrieved. In other words, asthmatic children whose disease was under control and who were therefore not under therapy, or who did not undergo a doctor's visit or hospitalization, were not considered as asthma cases. Another consideration, as made by Penders et al (3), is the time of asthma onset. The age of asthma diagnosis seems to be a very important point, as demonstrated in the Celedon et al., Marra et al. and Martel et al. studies (7-9), which observed the greatest OR in preschoolers. Diagnosis of asthma in children younger than 6 is difficult to make because they may wheeze without ever developing asthma (transient wheezers). It is very possible that prolonging the time of the follow up, even though this would not exclude a reverse causation in persistent wheezers, would help to exclude transient wheezers, since many of them, at 6-7 years of age are no longer wheezing. The third point is the following: if antibiotic use alters intestinal flora in infants and leads to atopy, the fact that only an association with asthma is found and not an association with hay fever or eczema (10) also raises the doubt of a reverse causation. In conclusion, we found that in the Italian setting exposure to antibiotics in the first 6 months of age slightly increases the risk of asthma at 6 years, but we are not able to exclude confounding biases which, when taken into account, weaken the association "early antibiotic treatment-later onset of asthma". After three very well performed systematic reviews (1-3) and many studies, we now believe that only a large, prospective, multi centered, international study would solve the question. In such an ideal study, only children with asthma diagnosis made at >5 years, as in a recent article (11) or, in the case of database prescription studies, only children who never received anti- asthmatic prescriptions for wheezing before their 6th birthday, should be enrolled. Furthermore, a group of children in whom there may be an association between antibiotics and atopic diseases other than asthma should be included.
REFERENCES 1. Murk W, Risnes KR, Bracken MB. Prenatal or Early-Life Exposure to Antibiotics and Risk of Childhood Asthma: A Systematic Review. Pediatrics 2011 May 23. [Epub ahead of print] 2. Marra F, Lynd L, Coombes M, Richardson K, Legal M, Fitzgerald JM, Marra CA. Does antibiotic exposure during infancy lead to development of asthma?: a systematic review and metaanalysis. Chest. 2006; 129:610-8. 3. Penders J, Kummeling I, Thijs C. Infant antibiotic use and wheeze and asthma risk - A systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Respir J. 2011 Jan 13 [Epub ahead of print] 4. Rossignoli A, Clavenna A, Bonati M. Antibiotic prescription and prevalence rate in the outpatient paediatric population: analysis of surveys published during 2000-2005. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2007;63:1099- 106. 5. Bianchi M, Clavenna A, Sequi M, Bonati M. Asthma diagnosis vs. analysis of anti-asthmatic prescriptions to identify asthma in children. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2011 Mar 25. [Epub ahead of print] 6. Clavenna A, Berti A, Gualandi L, Rossi E, De Rosa M, Bonati M. Drug utilisation profile in the Italian paediatric population. Eur J Pediatr 2009;168:173-180 7. Marra F, Marra CA, Richardson K, Lynd LD, Kozyrskyj A, Patrick DM, Bowie WR, Fitzgerald JM. Antibiotic use in children is associated with increased risk of asthma. Pediatrics. 2009;123:1003-10. 8. Martel MJ, Rey E, Malo JL, Perreault S, Beauchesne MF, Forget A, Blais L. Determinants of the incidence of childhood asthma: a two-stage case- control study. Am J Epidemiol. 2009;169:195-205. 9. Celedon JC, Fuhlbrigge A, Rifas-Shiman S, Weiss ST, Finkelstein JA. Antibiotic use in the first year of life and asthma in early childhood. Clin Exp Allergy. 2004;34:1011-6. 10. Sobko T, Schiott J, Ehlin A, Lundberg J, Montgomery S, Norman M. Neonatal sepsis, antibiotic therapy and later risk of asthma and allergy. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2010;24:88-92. 11. Risnes KR, Belanger K, Murk W, Bracken MB. Antibiotic exposure by 6 months and asthma and allergy at 6 years: Findings in a cohort of 1,401 US children. Am J Epidemiol. 2011;173(3):310-8.
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When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her, and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world's most popular children's books since its first publication in 1913. In Pollyanna Grows Up, the only sequel written by Porter herself, Pollyanna finds that that, despite being cured of her health problems, adulthood brings fresh challenges to be overcome.
This book is suitable for children aged 10 and up. Poor Pollyanna. Her father has just died and now she has to go live with her Aunt Polly. But even her Aunt's unfriendliness won't get Pollyanna down. No matter what goes wrong, she always finds something to be glad about. But when a horrible accident leaves her crippled, will Pollyanna still be so glad? Join Pollyanna as she makes all new friends, cares for the sick and teaches everyone around her how to love again. This handsome, unabridged edition of Pollyanna, with striking illustrations by Scott McKowen, joins Sterling's beloved classics line and is sure to find a treasured place in any family's library.
When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky to have an aunt at all. The truth is that her dear father, before he died, taught her a trick for life - the 'Glad Game' - the aim of which is to find the good in every bad situation.
"...there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it." When Pollyanna Whittier's father dies she is sent to live with her Aunt Polly in Beldingsville in Vermont. A clash of personalities ensues as Pollyanna's sunny disposition sits ill with her aunt's need for quiet, her passion for shutting windows and her obsession with quietly shut doors. The key to Pollyanna's happiness is The Glad Game - originally invented to deal with disappointing missionary boxes - and is applied to all parts of life. No matter how dark the situation it is always possible to find something to be glad about. Any attempts to discipline the child fail helplessly in the face of The Glad Game. A bread and milk supper in the kitchen is greeted with rapture; a puritan attic bedroom with sparse furnishing is seen as valued for its rapturous views - better than any decoration could ever be. As Pollyanna becomes acquainted with other inhabitants of the town, her infectious personality continues to spread: one by one, the cantankerous residents fall victim to her charms: Mrs Snow and Mr Pendleton being the hardest cases to crack.However, the arrival of a motor car in town heralds a tragic change in Pollyanna's life which not even Pollyanna looks likely to be able to overcome. A timeless classic that has spawned many spin-off novels, films and television serials and truly entered the folklore and consciousness - 'Pollyanna' is now a byword for, sometimes naive, optimists. With this new edition Hesperus hopes to bring the tale to a new generation.
New addition to the series.
Large Format for easy reading. A children's classic, still immensely popular. The sequel to the story of a girl who goes to live with her Aunt and transforms the dispiriting town in which she lives.


POWERS/ABILITIES: see individual entries below. The Chain Gang's powers only exist when they are connected by the Chain.� If the Chain is broken, they lose their abilities.� Because they are a particularly intelligent bunch, they make certain to tell their weakness to anyone they fight.
By holding the Chain together, they can regain a fraction of their power.� However, because of their incessant infighting, one of them always knocks the Chain fragments apart, causing their powers to fade at a crucial moment.
HISTORY: The group who would become THE Chain Gang were A chain gang in a prison in upstate New York.
They repaired the chain and headed off to Manhattan, coming up with clever "chain" code names for each of them, and finding more destruction along the way.� In the city, they decided to go on a rampage, which was halted by Sleepwalker.� After a short battle, Sleepwalker opened a portal to the Mindscape, brought the Chain Gang there, imprisoned them each within separate boxes, and left them trapped there.
(Sleepwalker#19, 20) - Missing Link succeeded in teleporting himself and the other three out of the boxes in which they had been imprisoned.� They planned to return to Earth and kill Sleepwalker, but the Mindscape demon Cobweb captured and tortured them, until they agreed to return to Earth and kill Sleepwalker.� Cobweb sent them back to Earth, but they could only exist there by traveling through the mind of a sleeping creature.� They traveled through Rick Sheridan's dog, Rambo, and confronted Sheridan.� Rick attempted to release Sleepwalker, but instead turned into a hybrid version of himself and Sleepwalker.� In this form, he briefly battled them, but then Rambo woke up, and they were sent back to the Mindscape.
Cobweb next sent them through the mind of Alyssa Conover, a friend and romantic interest of Rick's.� They again attacked Sleepwalker, but they were wise enough to blurt out their weakness, and he broke the chain, eliminating their powers.� Alyssa woke up, and they were pulled back into her mind.� Rick and Sleepwalker succeeded in splitting up, but had exchanged minds somehow.
(Sleepwalker#21-23) - Within the mind of Alyssa, the Chain Gang figured out that if they held the broken ends of the chain together, they could access a portion of their powers. Uplink used this to take control of Alyssa's mind. He had her seduce Rick Sheridan (who, unbeknownst to them, had Sleepwalker's mind), and planned to have her kill him. However, they needed to do it when Rick was awake, to be certain that Sleepwalker would be trapped within his mind at the time of death. Alyssa struggled against Uplink's commands, but the Chain Gang overpowered her will by combining their thoughts and focusing them through her. However, she resisted enough that Rick was able to escape from her. They forced her to chase after him. Sleepwalker (in Rick's body) meditated to determine a solution to the role reversal, unwittingly leaving himself open to attack from behind by Alyssa. Rick (in Sleepwalker's body), saw this through the Mindscape and materialized on Earth. Unused to Sleepwalker's powers, he used his warp vision on her, badly contorting her body and causing her to pass out.
(Sleepwalker#24) - With Alyssa unconscious, the Chain Gang rematerialized on Earth and then attacked Sleepwalker. After a short battle, in which the chain kept becoming separated, they teleported away. They went to a garage, where they fused the chain ends back together. Now back at full power, they went after Sleepwalker again. As they struggled, a portal to the Mindscape opened again, threatening to pull them all into it. Sleepwalker correctly determined that Uplink's power to access various energies also caused him to disrupt them. Uplink's power had been the cause of the disturbances between Sleepwalker and Rick. When Sleepwalker/Rick grabbed Uplink, the further disruption opened the portal. Under Sleepwalker's guidance (and the threat that the rift would continue to grow and engulf all of Earth), Uplink repaired the disrupted connection b/t the two, shrinking the rift. Sleepwalker then broke the chain and bound the Chain Gang with its fragments.
COMMENTS: Chain Gang created by Bob Budiansky (writer) and Bret Blevins (artist).
Anyone see "Shakes the Clown,"?� Bobcat Golthwaite (I don't know how to spell his name--it's the guy who screams a lot) plays an alcoholic clown in the town of Palookaville.� There's a star-studded cast, including Robin Williams, Florence Henderson, Adam Sandler, Julie Brown, Tim Kazerinsky, and the woman who used to play "Aunt Esther" from Sanford and Son.� It takes a few beers to be able to enjoy it, and even then, that last half hour is quite a struggle to sit through.
What's that got to do with the Chain Gang?� Nothing. It's just more interesting to talk about.� I'd rather sit through that drunk clown beating up mimes than see the Chain Gang again.
These guys not only had stylized letters on their shirts to match their names, but they also had individualized belt buckles as well.
Willis Hayworth gained superhuman strength to an undetermined level.� He did not get along well with the racist Ernie Mills, Weak Link.
Ray Morgan gained the power to teleport himself and others.� He was very insecure and had a difficult time making a decision.
Hector Fuentes gained the power to access and manipulate various forms of energy.� He could pick up transmissions via radio or other means.� He could access and manipulate the mind of a person, but apparently only if he was linked directly to their unconscious mind (as with Alyssa).� He had potential to access and disrupt energy sources of almost any kind, but didn't fully appreciate his power.� It was his abilities that disrupted the energies of Sleepwalker, affecting the link between he and Rick Sheridan, as well as opening a portal to the Mindscape.
Hector liked to speak in half-English, half-Spanish, like most Latino stereotyped characters in comics.
Ernie Mills gained the power to drain energy from other living things.� It's not clear whether this increased his own power, but he seemed to really enjoy it.� He is an uneducated racist, and served as a point of friction on the team.� The only other teammate he got along with was Ray, Missing Link--the other white guy.
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ANOTHER MAJOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ENHANCEMENT THAT THE TOWN JUST IMPLEMENTED—RAPID FLASHING HIGH VISIBILITY CROSSWALK ON E HARTSDALE AVE---WE'RE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE YOU SAFER!
In December of 2014 a pedestrian was struck and seriously injured in an accident on East Hartsdale Avenue in Hartsdale. Police Chief Chris McNerney and members of the Town Board promised residents that we would look for ways to improve pedestrian safety on E Hartsdale Ave. Last week we were able to finish the installation of the new Rapid Flashing High Visibility Crosswalk Beacon in front of 140 East Hartsdale Avenue. It took a while, but this a great pedestrian safety improvement. It could not have been done without a team effort- Greenburgh Police, DPW and Radio Shop personnel.
We plan on handing out literature and speaking to the residents and commuters that utilize East Hartsdale Avenue this week, in our campaign to improve pedestrian safety. I was driving on E Hartsdale Ave a number of times this past week and am very excited about this new safety improvement. Speaking personally, the flashing lights at the crosswalk definitely caught my attention and I slowed down. And, so did other drivers. What other locations should we consider placing the flashing high visibility crosswalk beacon at?
The unit with all accessories (poles, sidewalk pad and electrical) totaled $6000. All installation was done by DPW and the Radio Shop.
This high visibility crosswalk is the most recent initiative we have taken to address pedestrian safety. We placed stop signs on North and South Road (South Road had a fatal hit and run accident earlier this year). We have built or are close to building 1.6 miles of new sidewalks around town. And—plan more sidewalks next year! And…we have purchased a digital speed sign that highlights the number of tickets issued on given streets during the week. We will take advantage of technology and plan additional safety enhancements next year.


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Q: Vacuum pair-production and energy conservation As far as I have seen it is assumed that the universe's energy is conserved or at least every reference agrees that pair production doesn't violate the conservation of energy as there is,  ultimately, some reckoning to account for it.
Now, consider the following example which seems to avoid this reckoning and appears to violate the energy conservation law.
Suppose that near a black hole horizon there is pair production due to vacuum fluctuations such that the formed entities end up on either side of the horizon. Now, it is clearly impossible for them to ever result in pair annihilation. So it appears that a particle seemingly came out of nowhere flouting the energy conservation law. Furthermore, the only way to reconcile things (at least as far as I can think) would be to have some random correlation which absolutely forces some amount of energy to suddenly disappear and this correlation could very well be a very very long range correlation but I don't think there is any evidence to show for it.
This clearly depends on the frequency of pair production near horizon of the kind mentioned above but it doesn't look like it should be so rare as to go undetected till now.
Could someone please shed some light on this issue?
Edit : For clarification -
Suppose that the energies before pair production were $x$ for BH and $y$ for the rest of the universe. Now, pair production (with energy of pair being $p$) from vacuum fluctuations resulted in the total energy $x+y+p$ which in normal case, due to pair annihilation, would have again become $x+y+p-p=x+y$ but due to the separation because of horizon does not come about immediately. It might happen that after the BH radiates some energy and that vacuum fluctuations of that energy eventually take care of the $p$ energy excess but it could very well take a really long time (which might even be corresponding to $\mathcal{I}^{+}$ in a Penrose Diagram). But as far as I have read such energy conservation violations are only allowed for very short times. Anyhow, the question is : if there is no fault in my argument then is is possible to detect such energy conservation violations?

A: As far a Feynman diagrams go, the best I could do is the Schwinger Effect (pair production in a strong electric field):

If you focus on the far left diagram, which is the one-loop pair production and annihilation, returning back to the vacuum, what makes you think energy conservation is violated? Four momentum is conserved in Feynman diagrams, and all possible 4-momentum must be summed over. What ever $p^{\mu}$ is running forward over the top is balanced by $-p^{\mu}$ running back on the bottom.

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Story: Hollow Body is a struggling rock band led by Jimmy (David Arquette) who makes a deal with Rick (Luke Wilson) a shady record executive. Unfortunately, the band's shy lead singer Rachel (Allie Gonino) suffers from severe stage fright and cannot play in front of a live audience. The band breaks up and as Rachel's controlling stage mother Barb (Perrey Reeves) drives her home, they are struck by lightning and killed. Rachel comes back to life, now able to give electrifying performances, but at a terrible cost. Jimmy and bandmate Scott (Ryan Donowho) must decide if they are willing to pay the ultimate price for success.


When I look back at the girl I was in high school — no let's be real, sixth grade — my heart breaks for her. She had absolutely no love for herself. Eventually, I grew up and found room in my heart for the woman God created in me. Now that I've gotten to know her, I'm never letting her go. I admit, I still find imperfections in menial things, but nevertheless, my cup overflows with self-love. As we step into February, a month dedicated to overly romantic acts of love, I feel it's important to remember to shower ourselves with affirmations — and, while we're at it, chocolates and flowers too.
For the month of August, Crowned Chics is taking a step back to question society's idea of beauty and instead, replacing it with a refreshing message — embrace you and all of your flaws. Founder, Nikki Michelle Charnstrom sits before the camera makeup-free to introduce this new series to you in a real, heartfelt conversation.
No matter how introverted you can be, you need relationships. At the very core of who we are, is this need for community, fellowship and belonging. As humans, we cannot fully exist without the connection another human brings to the soul. Yes, most of us are very capable on our own but after some time, we need to feel the love of another. Whether it's a romantic interest you've sought after or simply a stranger you hit it off with at the supermarket, you and I need relationships.


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It's the start of a new semester for the performing arts department at Manhattan College. The department is composed of students who can sing, dance, act or play an instrument.
Andrew Bauer, director of music and coordinator of performing arts, said that the groups expect to hit the ground running and continue with energy and enthusiasm throughout the year.
"Our jazz small groups will continue to represent the college proudly in professional engagements off and on campus. One of the major events for the small group this semester is to provide music for the DFI Educational Trust Gala, an organization that provides scholarships to engineering majors. Our small groups are held to very high standards by our extraordinarily talented director, Geoff Mattoon. We are fortunate to have a musician of his stature leading our jazz program," Bauer said.
MC also has other music groups like the Orchestra and Pep Band.
"Orchestra will be also be hosting a fall concert as well as assuming an integral role in our annual Festival of Lessons and Carols in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers. The Pep Band, and director Jake Robinson, are pumped for cheering on the Jaspers for our home men and women's basketball games in Draddy. They are looking forward to kicking off the season by putting on a great show at Manhattan Madness on Thursday, Nov. 1," Bauer said.
In addition to these groups, there are multiple choral groups on campus, including Singers, Manhattones, and Music Ministry.
Senior Erin Plitt, a performing arts scholar at MC, is the president of Singers.
"My typical week is pretty packed musically. Singers rehearse Wednesday night and Music Ministry is every Sunday night. I also try to put on Coffee House once a month and that takes about a month's worth of planning. I also work for Andrew Bauer, so even if I am not in a music group I am helping them prepare, hanging out, and working to make the department great," Plitt said.
"Because its my last year I really want to make sure that the department, particularly Singers, is left in a place where they can continue to improve and grow," she said.
In addition to Singers, MC has Music Ministry, which performs every Sunday during mass.
"Music Ministry says farewell to David Cartolano, who magnificently presided as president over an explosion in our roster over the past two years. Naomi Uy is our new president. She looks forward to growing music ministry further, continuing to expand our repertoire with contemporary engaging music at Sunday evening masses," Bauer said.
Alexis Salerno, a sophomore scholar talked about her experience with performing arts.
"A typical week for me is pretty straight forward, I go to class during the day and only have singers once a week on Wednesday nights which is great because since most of my online deadlines fall either on Tuesdays or Thursdays. The weekends are where it gets a little tricky because I visit home, so I have to make sure I take an early enough train out of the Ronkonkoma station to make music ministry rehearsal at 6 p.m.,and with construction always being done on the LIRR it can get a bit stressful, but I love music ministry so much so I always try my best to get there on time," Salerno said.
Performing arts also includes the MC Players, who perform shows in Smith Auditorium each semester.
"Players and director Marty Marchitto is pleased to offer a wonderful show for the fall, Present Laughter, a delightful comedy written by Noël Coward, along with a late semester cabaret" Bauer said.
Performing arts is very present on MC's campus, and has an even bigger impact on both Salerno and Plitt.
Plitt said, "I can say without a second thought that I would not be the person I am today without the performing arts department and the people I have met here. When I think of home on campus I think of hanging out in Andy's office talking about our next big project. I have learned to be a leader here, how to relax a bit, and most importantly I have discovered more about myself; who and what I want to be.


Growing up, Aviva Goldfarb felt most connected to her family when they gathered at the dinner table. It was usually the only time of the day when all four of them were together. While they enjoyed her mother's home-cooked meals, each family member came out of their own private corners for just a little while to have engaging discussions, catch up on happenings in each others' lives and really feel connected—even if just for half an hour or so.
When Goldfarb, who is a member of the JFE® Advisory Council, had a family of her own, she planned to make family dinners a priority. However, while her mother had made it look so easy to plan and cook dinners, she found that it was actually incredibly stressful.
Life is so busy with work and children; dinnertime can sneak up on us. It takes planning to have all of the ingredients for a recipe and to allow enough time to prepare it. "Oops…I was supposed to marinate that for four hours? The kids are about to have a meltdown. This is not a good time to bundle up them up for a last-minute trip to the grocery store during rush hour." The alternative, take-out or frozen foods, is often high in salt, fat and processing, with few fresh vegetables or whole grains, and more expensive.
It dawned on Goldfarb that she was doing everything backwards. Instead of looking inside her refrigerator for dinnertime inspiration, she needed to decide in advance what she was going to cook so that she could go to the grocery store once a week and be fully stocked. In 2003, she turned her simple solution into an online business by creating the meal planning service, The Six O'Clock Scramble, to help other busy parents make healthy family dinners a reality.
The Six O'Clock Scramble's website has over 1,000 recipes, with Goldfarb developing two to three new ones each week. Members receive a weekly menu plan with eight suggested seasonal recipes (including side dishes). They can create a customized menu plan, including special diets such as gluten-free, vegetarian and kosher, and adjust recipe sizes for bigger or smaller families. A grocery list is automatically generated based on members' selections.
While working with the producers of the film Fed Up!, Goldfarb discovered that added sugars appear in many surprising places—ketchup, low-fat and fat-free salad dressings, whole-grain crackers, pasta sauce and flavored yogurt, to name a few—and Americans are eating way too much of it. She has created homemade recipes for these kid favorites and started a Facebook group to help people kick sugar cravings.
After 17 years of developing and sharing healthy recipes, including writing three previous cookbooks, it was natural for Goldfarb to team up with the American Diabetes Association for her newest cookbook, released earlier this month, The Six O'Clock Scramble Meal Planner, which includes 160 delicious recipes that require 30 minutes or less to prepare, and 32 weekly menu plans complete with main dishes and sides, as well as a weekly grocery list.
"What I've learned in the course of writing this book is that the same healthy eating strategy that benefits people with diabetes and can reverse pre-diabetes is the way all of us should be eating. The recipes in the cookbook are ideal for anyone who wants to enjoy delicious meals with plenty of fruits and vegetables, fiber, whole grains and lean protein and few refined carbohydrates. Not only can it help those of us who want or need to lose weight or keep excess weight off, it can also help reduce our chances of getting diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Plus, the recipes are family-friendly, easy to make and super delicious," says Goldfarb.
Prior to its release, dozens of early testers and reviewers shared their valuable feedback on the book. Two early testers had recently received upsetting pre-diabetes diagnoses, and both succeeded at returning their blood sugar levels to normal using Goldfarb's cookbook.
Catch Aviva Goldfarb at a cooking and meal-planning demo at the Real Food for Kids Expo in Fairfax, Virginia, on March 12.
Linda Wolpert is a food photographer and works for The Six O'Clock Scramble, an online recipe service that specializes in healthful food that is quick to prepare. When not walking her dog or playing tennis, she is cooking for friends and family and searching for fun new recipes.


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I don't think Madeleine's extra weight is a negative thing.
IMO she looks so grown up now... she lost her girly-look during the last time.
I think she looks very beautiful; very glowing.
Wow wow all photos more beautiful and dress best tonight dinner!!!
No. The Swedish royals wore Brazilean Orders. The Order of the Southern Cross for The King, the Queen and the Crown Princess. Lower Orders for Prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine.
It appears as though Carl Philip and Madeleine were given the Order of the Rio Branco.
The ladies are absolutely gorgeous! I like Victoria's sense of style. I bet Queen Sylvia is very pleased with this visit.
Wonderful pictures, Anna. Is this sort of state-visit to the Nordic countries mentioned in the Brazilian newspapers?
It was mentioned about the economic aspect of the visit, the ethanol production and the number of Swedish industries in Brazil, nothing about gala dinners. Maybe the gossip magazines will show something in their next editions.
Do CP Victoria, P Madeleine, & P Carl Philip know how to speak portugese?
No not very much I belive. Victoria once said in an interview that she knows some Brazilian childrens songs, but thats about it.
In an interview for a Brazilian magazine some years ago Silvia has said her children don't speak Portuguese. Maybe they learned since then but I don't believe it.
Shame on anyone who comments on Madeleine's weight in a negative way. HRH looks perfectly healthy so what's it matter if she's put on a few pounds...hardly a concern.
Just as beautiful, just as splendid and just as royal.
I think Madeleine looked really good than Victoria. She's really beautiful and her gala dress suited her. Victoria's dress for me is not very elegant.
I think they all looked great. I noticed madeleine's weight too. I know its hard to loose weight, but i'm almost concerned. I'm going to be nice and say its her time of the month. I'm going to be a doc and every lb overweight you are is bad for you. It's even worse to go up and down, I don't think i'm the only one thats noticed that, but thats what she does. Its a huge strain on anyones heart.
I also want to state I don't want her to look like Mary Kate Olsen. I'm just saying she needs to be in her BMI and Madame Royale, she does not look like it. She looks good, but not at her top.
Beautiful pictures of a wonderful State Visit hosted by one of the Best current Royal Families who have seldom put a wrong foot forward. The Royal ladies all looked tops in their gala dresses. For the two young princesses, I especially like Madelaine's dress. I like the pleated skirt of Victoria's gala dress, the waist but the halter-neckline looks slightly too casual, IMHO.
I really enjoyed these pics. I dont think that Madeleine looked overweight in the least! CERTAINLY she has not gone out of her BMI!!!! I think both girls look lovely, as usual, and their mother, as always is stunning.


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Smart Cities for All – New Inclusive Innovation Playbook
Cities around the world are undergoing a dramatic digital transformation. They are using technology products and smart solutions in creative ways: to allow people to report issues like potholes and broken traffic lights; to create direct and personalized communication channels with residents; to facilitate digital or contactless payments for city services. But according to global studies by Smart Cities for…
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Smart Cities Could Be Lousy To Live In If You Have A Disability
Cities sometimes fail to make sure the technologies they adopt are accessible to everyone. Activists and startups are working to change that. Victor Pineda travels the world to make speeches and advise governments on urban planning and development. But when he encounters a touch-screen kiosk, he's stymied. For people like him, who use wheelchairs and have limited use of their…
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Video: Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff at CityLab Detroit
Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff at CityLab Detroit Sidewalk Labs is building a prototype for the urban future on Toronto's Eastern Waterfront. This project asks us to re-think relationships between governments, the private sector, and residents. Dan Doctoroff, Founder and CEO, Sidewalk Labs joins Jennifer Bradley, The Aspen Institute at CityLab Detroit. Timed Transcript: Please see video option. Transcript: (Archived…
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The Promise and Peril of Smart Cities
The Promise and Peril of "Smart" Cities Technology can help us govern better, but at what price to urban life? Technology can help us govern better, but at what price to urban life actual article chapter content Last year, American newspapers published more than 800 stories about "smart" cities. Readers could learn how municipal governments are deploying sophisticated technology to…
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The Future of More Accessible and Inclusive Smart Cities
Watch the Video! In our third public talk, author and community organizer Jane Farrow will moderate a conversation with three accessibility experts who are challenging cities to incorporate principles for inclusive design and ensure accessibility for all: Luke Anderson – Founder & Executive Director – StopGap Foundation; Consultant – AccessAbility Advantage Darren Bates – Founder – Smart Cities Library™;…
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Inside Google's Plan To Build A Smart City Neighborhood In Toronto
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Citizen Engagement: Join or Watch Sidewalk Toronto Smart City Public Roundtable
The only way to make the neighborhood of the future a more sustainable, livable, and equitable place is by hearing from Torontonians of all backgrounds and perspectives. That's why we couldn't be more excited that more than 1,000 people have said they'll attend the first Sidewalk Toronto public roundtable next Tuesday, March 20. To help us hear from everyone, we've…
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The Partnerships Enabling Disabled City Residents To Better Explore Their Surroundings
As cities work to add technologies to improve residents' lives and mobility, many are putting a renewed focus on inclusivity and equitable innovation distribution. Yet despite this inclusivity push, experts say people with disabilities remain an overlooked group, especially during city planning processes. "Very few [cities] are thinking about all of their citizens, including specifically, citizens with disabilities," said…
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Smart City People-Centric Urban Planning
Sidewalk Toronto is a joint effort by Waterfront Toronto and Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs to create a new kind of mixed-use, complete community on Toronto's Eastern Waterfront, beginning with the creation of Quayside. Sidewalk Toronto will combine forward-thinking urban design and new digital technology to create people-centered neighborhoods that achieve precedent-setting levels of sustainability, affordability, mobility, and economic opportunity. Transcript ________________…
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Humans Not Technology Key in Smart City Toronto
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close story-meta TORONTO — For a city striving to become a major technology center, it was a prize catch: A Google corporate sibling would spend the coming year planning a futuristic metropolis in a derelict part of Toronto's waterfront. When announcing this fall that the company, Sidewalk Labs, would create a city of tomorrow, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada…
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Smart City Questions We'd Like @SidewalkLabs to Answer
There is a lot of interest in the project, both locally and globally, and many questions about how it will unfold. As a lead-up tool for the November 1 public meeting, Torontoist and friends have organized a starting draft list of questions and concerns, collected from a range of contributors and viewpoints. There are undoubtedly perspectives and questions missing here,…
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SmartAustin.org – #SmartCities start with Austin
Hello SmartCities Startup Aficionados: With the end of the year approaching, we thought it would be a good time to take a moment to reflect on the past year's accomplishments and provide a glimpse into some exciting thing to come. 2017 was a great year for SmartAustin and we appreciate all of your support. Some key highlights for the year included:…
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Smart communities need smart governance – The Globe and Mail
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The nascent plans for a smart neighbourhood on Toronto's eastern waterfront may sound exciting from an urban-planning perspective, but the high-tech project poses fundamental governance problems that we need to solve now.
Smart cities are largely an invention of the private sector – an effort to create a market within government. They offer tech companies opportunities to generate profits by assuming functions traditionally carried out by the public sector and by selling cities technologies they may or may not need. The business opportunities are clear. The risks inherent to residents, less so….
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Bluetooth iBeacons Making Smart Cities More Accessible
Bluetooth Beacons are small devices that send Bluetooth signals to nearby mobile devices. These can trigger actions on these mobile devices, for example sending a marketing message at the right time and place. They are especially helpful for helping the visually impaired navigate indoors where GPS can't reach phones. A number of projects use beacons in this capacity in a variety of sectors.
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Alphabet, Google, and Sidewalk Labs Start Their City-Building Venture in Toronto | WIRED
Google has built an online empire by measuring everything. Clicks. GPS coordinates. Visits. Traffic. The company's resource is bits of info on you, which it mines, packages, repackages, repackages again, and then uses to sell you stuff. Now it's taking that data-driven world-building power to the real world. Google is building a city.
Tuesday afternoon, public officials gathered in Toronto to announce that Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary under the Alphabet umbrella that also houses Google, will pilot the redevelopment of 12 acres of southeastern waterfront. Today the area hosts a few industrial buildings and some parking lots. In just a few years, it will be a techified community going by the name of Quayside. Sidewalk Labs has already devoted $50 million to the project, and Google will move its Toronto headquarters to the neighborhood. Once the company has proven out its concept, it plans to expand its redevelopment to the entire 800-acre waterfront area.
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Google's Sidewalk Labs Signs Deal For Smart City Makeover
December 2, 2017 April 1, 2018
The partnership between a U.S. urban-innovation lab and a government agency could bring a bold experiment in city-building and high-tech to Toronto, Alex Bozikovic explains More below • An illustrated primer on how Sidewalk Toronto would work An artist's illustration shows Sidewalk Labs's Quayside redevelopment of the Toronto waterfront. ILLUSTRATIONS COURTESY OF sidewalk labs Published October 17, 2017Updated November 12, 2017 A unit of…
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Urban Disruption, Sidewalk Labs and Social Inclusion in the Public Realm of Future SmartCities
OP-ED in Reply To: "Reimagining cities from the internet up" by Daniel L. Doctoroff Dear Daniel L. Doctoroff, Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! I applaud and appreciate your efforts and the efforts of your team at Sidewalk Labs for demonstrating the importance of listening, learning, and putting all people first. Like yourself, I understand the urban public realm and am eager to see…
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Can Google Finally Create a Successful Smart City
Many have attempted, and failed, to integrate technology into urban planning. and now Sidewalk Labs is trying it again in Toronto. tml-version="Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation start-up owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, has announced a partnership with the City of Toronto to develop a new waterfront precinct. Time to ask Google: Can you build a city? The Quayside precinct,…
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Top US digital cities announced
November 14, 2017 May 9, 2018
The Centre for Digital Government recognises those cities that are using technology to improve citizen services, enhance transparency and encourage engagement add
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Google's Sidewalk Labs signs deal for #smart city makeover of Toronto's waterfront – The Globe and Mail
November 14, 2017 January 22, 2018
A unit of Google's parent company, devoted to urban innovation, has signed a deal to map out a new kind of neighbourhood on Toronto's waterfront that could demonstrate how data-driven technology can improve the quality of city life. This is the first such project for Alphabet, and for Sidewalk Labs. If the initiative proceeds, it would include at least 3.3 million square feet of residential, office and commercial space, including a new headquarters for Google Canada, in a district that would be a test bed for the combination of technology and urbanism
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The 2019 Buddha Day/Hanamatsuri service was celebrated on April 7 at Lihue Hongwanji. The service was sponsored by the Kauai Buddhist Council. As always, it was a beautiful celebration of the Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, who became The Buddha, The Enlightened One.


In 2004, the retail price of gasoline in Japan skyrocketed.
Behind this sudden price rise was the soaring price of oil. The factors contributing to this were war in the Middle East, supply problems as a result of Texas being hit by a hurricane, and the rising demand for oil in regions such as China undergoing rapid industrialization. The circumstances being experienced in oil producing countries and the growing threat of depletion of oil resources have combined to create a renewed interest in coal. Specifically, liquefied coal.
Oil producing regions are spread unequally across the globe, with a particular concentration in the Middle East. By contrast, coal deposits can be found throughout all regions of the world. Oil reserves are estimated to last no more than thirty or forty years; current estimates on coal, on the other hand, suggest that there is enough to sustain a stable supply for more than 130 years. This clearly indicates that coal will play a central role in solving the energy problems that humankind will face in the 21st century.
There are demerits to coal, however, in comparison to oil, in particular the fact that it is solid. This makes transportation and refinement inefficient, and results in a very large waste gas yield when burned. There has long been a demand for the development of new technology to solve these problems associated with coal as fuel.
The coal liquefaction technology we introduce here is just that kind of new technology, one that provides an answer to very contemporary needs.
In fact, Japan was not first on the uptake of research and development in this field, but in the short time it has been engaged in coal liquefaction and has produced outstanding results, and today boasts internationally top class technology. Now, it is on the brink of commercializing that technology, exporting it to coal-producing nations and regions that are looking for methods to more effectively utilize their natural resources.
In 1973, having been hit by the effects of the oil shock, Japan initiated measures to develop a large-scale coal liquefaction pilot plant. At the time, the United States and then West Germany already had advanced coal liquefaction technology, and the Japanese project aimed to overtake this technology in terms of targets for efficacy and commercialization.
Japan was trying to achieve under peaceful conditions, the world's highest level of liquefied oil yield.
The New Energy Development Organization (today the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)) of Japan was established in order to spearhead the development of this new technology. Three technologies were initially developed: direct coal hydroliquefaction, solvent extraction liquefaction, and solvolysis liquefaction. These methods were then integrated to maximize the merits of each, resulting in the NEDOL Process.
The NEDOL Process is used to liquefy bituminous coal, the most popular type of coal available, and is a world-leading technology unique to Japan.
Today, the pilot plant has achieved a continuous operation time of 80 days (1,920 hours) with standard coal. It has a cumulative operational time of 445 days, and has achieved a liquefied oil yield of 58 wt%. It has also achieved impressive results in the liquefaction of multiple types of coal and the production of high density coal slurry; these achievements totally overshadow those of current European and American technology.
Japan's coal liquefaction technology, now packaged, boasts an efficacy much higher than other currently available technologies and is also low cost. It is also rapidly adaptable to fully-fledged commercialization.
The merits of liquefied coal are multiple: as previously mentioned, it is easy to establish a more stable supply in comparison to oil, and importantly it can be handled in the same way as oil. Specifically, liquefied coal is either a light or a middle distillate oil, and as such can be used in existing oil refinement and oil product distribution channel; there is no need to establish new infrastructure.
Moreover, it is also possible to use liquefied coal that has been refined in vehicles normally powered by gasoline. This is certainly an advantage when compared to electrical vehicles and methanol vehicles, which require the development of entirely new engine technology.
Under severe conditions of high temperature and high pressure, handling the three phases of solid, liquid, and gas is a field that has rarely been tackled by the chemical engineering industry. Expectations are now high, however, for the development of multiple derivative technologies.
On March 11 2011, Japan was hit by an earthquake of almost unprecedented scale, and this Tohoku Pacific Earthquake caused significant damage to nuclear power facilities located along the affected coast. The aftereffects are likely to result in a rapid and widespread power shortage throughout Japan. This has resulted in renewed interest in the utilization of liquefied coal as an alternative source of fuel.
The entire world is feeling the effects of population growth and of advancing technology, and there is no question that the demand for new sources of energy will continue to rise rapidly. Humankind needs to find safe and secure energy sources, for the benefit of the global environment and human society alike, that can be available in a long-term, low cost, and stable supply.
The commercialization of Japan's coal liquefaction technology is surely something of great interest to coal-producing nations, such as China, Indonesia, and India. The introduction of Japan's outstanding technology into these countries will doubtless lead to rapid and interesting developments in this field.


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Can you explain the exact problem you're having? The Zotero Connector doesn't really have anything to do with Word.
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this keeps happening that I am able to click on the add/edit citation and biographies on word document and it looks like its active but an error message keeps popping up that redirects me to Zotero troubleshooting each time i try to access it in and I can't seem to find a solution.
and on chrome the connector for Zotero says that it is offline.
Let's start with the Word issue. What's the exact error message you're getting?