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American observational stand-up comedian with dark humor, comedic violence, and excitable, high-energy stage presence.
I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the "Death Star." I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
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When you don't have love, it's like there's a party going on, and everybody was invited, except for you. And you just happened to be walking by that house in the rain... (sigh) "I wasn't invited to this party." But then, once you're IN love, that's like being inside that party, going "Where's my jacket? I wanna get outta here. where's my jacket? I been to this party six years and I wanna see other parties! Where's my jacket. Someone shit on the coats. I think someone shit on, about, or around the coats."
I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy 15 times 'cause they thought he was holding a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR!! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like "AHHHHHH!" *throws pear* "THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!"
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We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.
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I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny.
So I'm hanging out with all my buddies and um... I realized something. Think of the group of people you've known the longest in your life. Think of the group of friends that you've hung out with the most. Maybe you are all here tonight. And this is what I've realized. I had an epiphany and here it is right here. There's one person in every group of friends that nobody fucking likes. You basically keep them there to hate their guts. When that person is not around your little base camp, your hobby is cutting that person down. Example: Karen is always a douchebag. Every group has a Karen and she is always a bag of douche. And when she's not around you just look at each other go: "God Karen, she's such a douchebag. Until she walks up and then you're like: "Hey what's up Karen? Kaaaaren, what's up Karen?" There's always that one person and I'm looking out and some of you guys are like: "Hmmm, I disagree." Well you're the person...you're the person nobody likes."
By the way, I say God bless you when someone sneezes.. I never say bless you. Do you want to know why? Because I'm not the Lord! I can't do that . . . I'm just a messenger for the big guns up stairs. And I never say gesundheit, who even says that? If I say gesundheit, I'll feel like I'm honoring Hitler or something. GESUNGHEIT!!! ...yes .I'll end up on the History Channel because someone sneezed.
Just go to an airport, stand in front of a person who is waiting for their flight, and stare at them until they notice you are there. When they look at you, just say "Don't get on the flight" and walk away. You know they're sitting there going "I don't think I should get on this fucking flight.. I think an angel just told me not to get on this flight.. Thank you angel wearing jeans!"
Now let's fight for three days because I'm bored!
I've heard on the news that they are thinking of putting microchips inside babies so that if they ever get kidnapped that you can track them on Google. But what if technology fails? Well here is my solution: next to the microchip, put a fucking detonator. Listen, if I can't have my baby, nobody can!!!
You know I am glad he is an atheist. Because wouldn't it be great that while he is doing his little tree thing, i know they do a lot of work with breezes, through the woods a huge sweaty guy with an ax comes long, sees him " chop-chop", puts a chain around him, drag him through the mud and the muck, throws him into a sawmill and grinds him up " NEEEEEEEEEEE", then you pound him down into paper, and once he's paper, you print the Bible on him.
"You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?" "She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home."
You ever do a little delete game? Do you like to do that? You go through, you take your contactlist, sometimes you're just in the doctor's office right? You start scrolling through, you're like...who don't I need? Who don't I need in my life? Where can I get a megabyte of space back right now? And it's kinda fun right? You just scroll through...er Peter, Peter, yeah fuck Peter, BOOM! And you really hit that delete button like you're deleting Peter from existence. Peter is sitting half way around the world eating a steak and the second you hit that button he just turns to vapour: VVVVVVVV!! The fork falls: Tingtingtingelingtingting! The person that's sitting across him is like: "PETER!". Peter is gone. Poof!
Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."
Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass *smack* I'M YOUR SON FROM THE FUTURE!! AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! *smack* I'M FROM THE FUTURE!! I'M YOUR SON!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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has maintained a full-time private practice since 1980 as a Certified Music Therapist and a Licensed Massage Therapist since 1978. Over the years he has integrated a wide range of somatic and psycho-therapy practices including shiatsu, Neuro-Muscular Technique, Polarity, Ericksonian Hypnosis and Gestalt. Using the energy principles (primarily from Ayurveda) of Polarity Therapy as a basis, his work combines bodywork and psychotherapy with theoretical and technical understandings from the field of music therapy. This has resulted in the creation of an approach he calls "Elemental Music Alignment" for which he offers sessions and training. He is the co-founder/director of Sound Health Studio, a center in New York City that offers studies and services including a variety of music therapy approaches, psychotherapy, and bodywork. Professional affiliations include: New York University, the Foundation for Human Enrichment, American Music Therapy Association, and full membership status in the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy.
Since 1981 Frank has taught many classes relating to Polarity, bodywork and music healing, including a course called "Energy Concepts in Music Therapy" for music therapy graduate students. Currently, he is an adjunct faculty member at NYU where he has been leading music therapy group process classes for over 25 years. In addition to working with his above mentioned approach to music therapy he also practices "Somatic Experiencing" (an approach for "renegotiating" traumatic experiences) and theory based Gestalt therapy. He is actively exploring, writing, and professionally presenting on the subject of integrating the above fields of interest.
is a music-psychotherapist who has been in practice since 1982. She is the senior music therapist, coordinator of music therapy programs and clinical training and supervision at the Harlem Center for Child Development and Learning of the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services. She is a founding co-director of Sound Health Studio, a multi-disciplinary center for body-mind therapies and education in NYC where she teaches and maintains a private practice. She provides individual and group supervision for music therapist . She is a co-founder of Pre-K music play an inclusive music program for children and their caregivers. Her writings on Story Song approach to working in early intervention and trauma have been included in various publications.
She was one of the core music therapist for the New York City September 11th Relief Project's Caring for the Caregiver's program She is adjunct faculty, program administrator, academic advisor and clinical supervisor for New York University's Graduate Music Therapy Program and adjunct professor in the music department of Queensborough Community College. She has recently been certified as a children's yoga teacher. Judi has taught and lectured across the country since 1982.


The assignment was to create a sustainability meme. This poster creates a memorable graphic and statement to connect the true value of oil with our "disposable plastic economy" and unsustainable habits. It then suggests the reader has the choice to refuse and reuse their plastic items.


No that is not a funny looking banana! One of the bee hives in the big butternut swarmed tonight and ended up in the smaller butternut by the deck. A local bee keeper says they have sent scouts out looking for a new home. Hope it is one of the hollow old fruit trees. Time will tell. Was a bit of a shock to look up while having dinner and see them. We had seen them earlier and wondered what was going on with all the bees flying around. Now we know. Happy 4th!


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After the Welfare State: Reconceiving Mutual Aid
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
The 2020 Annual Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference
Deutsches Haus at New York University
Keynote Speaker: Catherine Malabou, Kingston University and University of California, Irvine.
Conference Description
Feeling (Un)American: Race and National Belonging in the African American Literary Tradition
North East Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
In his 1903 The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois poses a question at the heart of the African-American literary tradition: "How does it feel to be a problem?" We see the question's precursors in Walker's Appeal, Douglass' address on the Fourth of July, and Harper's anti-slavery poetry. It reverberates in Hurston's "How It Feels To Be Colored Me," Ellison's "black and blue," Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Rankine's Citizen. Taking up the affective relationship between race and national belonging, these texts ask us to contend with what it feels like to be black in a nation founded on anti-blackness. Indeed, as Baldwin and Coates make clear, the problem lies ever "between the world and me."
FEW HOURS LEFT_Avant-Garde Humor and Political Aesthetics
PAMLA, San Diego, CA
This panel explores the interconnection of avant-garde humor with forms of political action that defied conventional art and lifestyles. Literally meaning "advance guard" in French, the term holds a military sense that applies to artists and works characterized by their combative nature and their tendency to question the acceptability of norms and traditional aesthetic genres. Avant-garde artists made use of humor as a political weapon that destabilized the status quo by challenging moral values and promoting radical reforms on a sociocultural level.
Thirty Years Since The Fall of Communism: Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture
Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, the Faculty of Letters, and the Cross-border Faculty of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galati
http://fift.ugal.ro/30years/
A joint project of the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, the Faculty of Letters, and the Cross-border Faculty of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galati, the conference is intended as a cultural forum for imparting knowledge and research on the textuality and representation of recent, lived history, from different yet interrelated angles:
Diva: Hip-Hop, Feminism, Fierceness
Centre for Film, Media, Discourse & Culture, University of Wolverhampton
The shift from the margins to the mainstream has occurred simultaneously, over the last few decades, for two groups that now jointly exert a central influence over contemporary culture and politics: female r'n'b and hip-hop artists, and feminist thinkers and activists. The coming together of these two groups and sensibilities has redefined contemporary popular music (in all senses of musics of black origin), and wider culture and politics, in the West – from the banlieues to the White House, from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, from Betty Davis to Neneh Cherry, TLC to Aaliyah, Alicia Keys to Iggy Azalea, Beyonce to Ariana Grande, and all points in between.
Rethinking Peer Review: Theory and Practice
Friday, June 7, 2019 - 1:36pm
Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, 2020
This call is for roundtable proposals for NEMLA's 2020 conference taking place in Boston.
Teaching South Asia outside the English Department
South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Conference, Seattle, WA 2020
How does pedagogical strategizing work in teaching Global South Asian literatures in majority serving institutions located in areas where the student body is mostly white, or lacking in South Asian immigrant groups? How does South Asian literature find a place in general education core courses? What are some current practices and challenges that scholars of color specializing in and including South Asia as a text, experience in their classrooms? We are interested in sharing experiences on teaching, planning courses, writing curriculum development projects including South Asia centric courses both for the major and the general education classes that embrace the inclusion of literatures from the global South, especially from South Asia.
Constellations: Connections, Disruptions, and Imaginations in Cinema and Beyond (A Conference in Three Clusters)
Friday, June 7, 2019 - 10:33am
Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
First Forum 2019 Graduate Student Conference
Division of Cinema and Media Studies
Thursday, October 10, 2019 and Friday, October 11, 2019
Constellations:
Connections, Disruptions, and Imaginations in Cinema and Beyond
(A Conference in Three Clusters)
Narrative Poetry Panel
This panel seeks poets writing in the narrative tradition whose poems capture the personal and the public, recording and reflecting on our world by summoning the language and creating the identity of our culture. Panelists will read from their original work and then take audience questions. The Northeast MLA conference takes place March 5-8 in Boston, MA. Submit a sample poem and a short description of your narrative work by September 30. Must submit via link on NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18130
American Literature Before 1865
Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association
Please consider submitting a proposal for the 2019 PAMLA Conference to be held in San Diego, CA Nov 14-17. To learn more about the conference, please go to https://pamla.org/2019.
Games 2019. Games and Literary Theory 2019
Games and Literary Theory Presidency University Kolkata
Videogames have grown into a global socio-cultural phenomenon and are now a primary concern of Literary and Cultural Studies as well as the Social Sciences. In a medium that sweeps across geographies (including virtual ones), however, the discourse usually privileges a certain section when it comes to the representation of identity. In a medium, where roleplaying and playing in character is of prime importance, such an ignoring of the marginal and the diverse is indeed problematic.
The Victorian Caribbean
NeMLA, March 5-8, 2020 (Roundtable)
This roundtable will convene at NeMLA in March of 2020 in Boston:
Excellent work on the African-American writing of the 19th century has appeared within Victorian studies in recent years and brought a new appreciation for the presence and significance of contemporaneous transatlantic slave writing with the British novel. This roundtable hopes to extend this work by bringing the Caribbean slave narrative (and other aspects of Caribbean writing and culture) into closer contact with Victorian studies and will consider how we might re-examine the conventional canon in respect to these topics.
If you would like to submit a proposal to participate in this roundtable, please do so through the NeMLA website:
Consumption and the Literary Cookbook
Roxanne Harde / University of Alberta
In the 1960s, long before there was Julie & Julia, an aspiring writer named Nora Ephron cooked her way through the holy trinity of cookbooks: Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Michael Field's Cooking School, and Craig Claiborne's New York Times Cook Book. In a New Yorker column from 2006, titled "Serial Monogamy: My Cookbook Crushes," Ephron describes her relationship with the authors of these books: "as I cooked, I had imaginary conversation with them both [Claiborne fell out of favor early on]. Julia was nicer and more forgiving. … Field was sterner and more meticulous; he was almost fascistic.
Special Issue of Canadian Review of American Studies on "New Television"
Canadian Review of American Studies
There is a gathering consensus that television began to undergo a marked transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Two decades into the twenty-first century, an ever-increasing number of cable and streaming series imaginatively conjure the emergence of a world liquidated of normative authority, saturated with media-technological developments, and struggling to find its bearings in the fray. In New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre, Martin Shuster refers to this still-unfolding genre as "new television" on account of both its relatively new narrative coordinates and its efforts to think through the bewildering contours of a rapidly changing world.
Poetry in Film, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA)
Shabnam Piryaei, San Francisco State University
PAMLA Conference, Thursday, November 14 - Sunday, November 17, Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel, San Diego, CA
Identity and Language in Latin American and Caribbean Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction
NEMLA
Language has always played a key role in the shaping and sharing of identities. Not only does it have the power to create community among people coming from different geographical locations, but most importantly it influences the way we perceive and make sense of the world. For these reasons, the use of language in science fiction —a genre that offers a critical space for "registering tensions related to the defining of national identity and the modernization process" (Ferreira, 2011)— is important as it enables readers to explore alternative realities. This could also be said about speculative fiction. Thus, this panel addresses concerns over reinvented identities through science fiction and across historical periods.
A Taste of France: Exploring Identity through Gastronomy (NeMLA)
Carrie O'Connor / NeMLA
NeMLA 2020 Panel:
A Taste of France: Exploring Identity through Gastronomy
NeMLA 2020: New Materialist Readings of 19th-century Writers
Dewey W. Hall, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
This session engages in a matter-oriented approach, raising questions about the ontological status of the autonomous writing subject by joining it to the vast network of relations to objects within an area—ecozone, bioregion, biome, or ecosystem. Though the contributions by science-based writers are important (e.g., Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, George Perkins Marsh, John Muir, etc.) New Materialist Interpretations of 19th-century Writers focuses on a different trajectory, accentuating less detectable and unacknowledged contributions to natural history writing offered by literary writers.
Poison on the Early Modern English Stage
Lisa Hopkins / Sheffield Hallam University
Poison on the Early Modern English Stage: Plants, Paints and Perfumes
Contributions invited for an edited collection of new essays on poison in early modern English drama. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to): whether the use of poison is gendered; what kinds of ingredients are used in the preparation of poisons and/or the means by which they are administered; how the ingestion of poison is acted, and the dramatic affordances of poison more generally; poison and emotion; and whether poison is ever a metaphor, and if so for what.
Please send abstracts of c. 250 words, together with a short bio and full contact details, to
Series Books and Science Fiction (National PCA Conference)
National PCA Conference
Call for Papers: Series Books and Science Fiction (National PCA Conference)
This call for papers for the national PCA Conference looks to interrogate the intersection of two distinct genres: juvenile series books and science fiction.
Liminality and Beyond: Conceptions of In-betweenness in American Culture and Literature
University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Recent theories explain that any cultural encounter engenders the particular and, more often than not, peculiar condition of in-betweenness. Even in the past, when the immigrants faced the assimilative pressures within the American society, their identity could hardly be discussed in essentializing terms. The condition of in-betweenness affected political, cultural, emotional, familial, professional, and many other spheres of life. A number of social critics and cultural theoreticians have coined variegated terms regarding the condition of in-betweenness experienced by the representatives of certain cultural groups in attempt to redefine their identities in American society.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe: Examining a Post-Endgame World
Lindsay Bryde / Northeast Modern Language Association
This roundtable will be looking holistically at perspectives on the first 22 films in the MCU. This arc will be brought to completion with Avenger's Endgame. Now would be a good time to look back and assess which gambles have worked and/or failed now that a narrative arc has been completed. Participants are encouraged to consider the MCU both as a whole as well as specific franchises under the overall banner.
The conference is through the Northeast Modern Language Association and will take place March 5-8th, 2020 in Boston, MA
Submissions are due: September 30, 2019
CFP: "Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World"
Lucas Gworek DE GRUYTER
for a topical issue of Open Theology
"Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World"
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle (University of Glasgow)
Sarah Nicholson (University of Glasgow)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference CFP, Comparative Media
Derek Price, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, November 14, 2019 to Sunday, November 17, 2019, Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel, San Diego, California
Conference Theme "Send in the Clowns"
CFP: Information Management and Digital Information (third call)
Adrienne Muir
The journal Open Information Science is seeking papers for a special issue on Information Management and Digital Information to be published in December 2019.
Deadline for extended abstracts: 31 May 2019 extended deadline: 30th June 2019
Notification of acceptance to authors: 15 June 2019 15th July 2019
Deadline for full articles: 30 September 2019
Publication: December 2019-Spring 2020
Topics might include, but are not restricted to:
CFP: Experience in a New Key (second call)
for a topical issue of Open Philosophy
Experience in a New Key
(second call)
Open Philosophy (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue "Experience in a New Key", edited by Dorthe Jørgensen (Aarhus University).
Pedagogical Approaches to Creating Safer Spaces in the Classroom
One of the biggest challenges for LGBTQiA students is the fact that there's a constant question about regarding their need to "come out" and how to determine who is "safe" (a term with many definitions) to do that with on college campuses today. This panel will look at pedagogy approaches to fostering an inclusive environment and what to do when a student needs guidance and services due to their orientation. Participants are encouraged to present pedagogy methods for educating audiences (questioning, out, ally, and general) and fostering safer spaces. Papers can address approaches/lesson plans in the classroom, as well as resources for instructors in their service activities to the campus.
[UPDATED] Special Session: Teaching for the Post-Anthropocene
Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 7:45pm
PAMLA: Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
Analyzing the Anthropocene, or the "Age of Man," poses unique challenges for the classroom context. How does one "teach" the Anthropocene? How might we use the lenses of Rob Nixon's "slow violence" or Christian Parenti's "catastrophic convergence" to add a critical dimension to current teaching? Can we envision ways to work around administrative and standardizing obstacles – and even transcend that physical and ideological place we call classroom? This is essential, for, as Paulo Freire asserts, "critical consciousness is brought about not through an intellectual effort alone, but through praxis – through the authentic union of action and reflection."
11th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
The 11th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 20-21, 2019 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. The 2019 conference theme, "Becoming Louisiana," is dedicated to exploring the ways in which Louisiana's cultures, peoples, and histories have evolved over time. Presentation proposals on any aspect of this theme, as well as creative texts and performances by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year's conference.
Decolonizing the Victorians
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
Org. University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES-CEAUL), in collaboration with the Centre for Indian Studies
Jyotsna Singh, Professor of Renaissance Literature, Michigan State University, USA
Neilesh Bose, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in History, University of Victoria, Canada


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Short Journey Upriver toward Oishida
By Roo Borson
About Short Journey Upriver toward Oishida
In Roo Borson's new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always "the line bends as the river bends," a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho's famous journey to the far north, Borson's "short journey" reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.
Also by Roo Borson
See all books by Roo Borson
About Roo Borson
ROO BORSON has published fifteen books of poems, including Rain; road; an open boat, Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar, and Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of the Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Griffin… More about Roo Borson
Published by McClelland & Stewart
Mar 16, 2004 | 96 Pages | 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780771015915
Roget's Illusion
Linda Bierds
Paul Vermeersch
The Symmetry of Fish
Su Cho
Song of the Closing Doors
Patrick Phillips
Against Paradise
Shawna Lemay
Karl Kirchwey
On a Stair
Ann Lauterbach
Strange Attractor
Anne Simpson
The Wrong Cat
Lorna Crozier
Mary Jo Salter
"Roo Borson invites us to embark on a meditative, imaginative and spiritual journey. This book has a profound inner life. It is resonant and whole, moving with quiet, apparently easy steps into the depth of human experience."
–Jury citation, Governor General's Award
In poetry, few things matter so much as a hungry eye, a fresh way of responding to the world… Roo Borson is a true original."
"She's become one of the best-known Canadian poets of her generation. She's a clear writer, clear-minded, with a dark and musical imagination."
"She absorbs one totally, dissolving the conventional distinctions between body, mind, and heart."
"To read her poetry is to make an exhilarating discovery."
Governor General's Literary Award – Poetry WINNER 2004
Griffin Poetry Prize WINNER 2005
Trillium Book Award FINALIST
Author Essay
This book was written over a number of years, much of it while walking along a stretch of the River Torrens in South Australia, where, with my friend, Kim Maltman, I'd been spending months at a time on successive trips. It was the middle of my life, and as I walked I thought about whatever came to mind – events of the day, memories, various personal preoccupations – all the while accompanied (or so it felt) by presences: works of music and literature that had been so important to me it was as though they had never left my side (the book's title derives from one of these). As each day's musings were worn away in the rhythms of walking, those same rhythms gave rise to another kind of thinking, attentive to the near-at-hand. The Torrens is overhung in places with willow, eucalyptus, and acacia, and many kinds of birds can be seen coming and going along its banks. It was this, I thought – a direct awareness of being in the world – that remains in the works we love, at once public and intimate, just beyond or beneath the words.
Washington Post profile by former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass
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Caspian is a rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts, a seaside town 20 minutes north of Boston. Nobody sings. Most of the time we play heavy, other times quite soft. We always try to play with heart. So far we have recorded four albums. The process is always evolving - Thanks for exploring it with us.
Since 2004, CASPIAN have performed over 650 concerts, bringing their music to 40+ countries stretching over 4 continents. They released their fourth studio album, "Waking Season" in 2012, and a companion EP "Hymn For The Greatest Generation" in November 2013.
The band just released their fourth studio album "Dust & Disquiet".


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NYU Physician, NYU Physician Spring 2016
The Hidden Curriculum
David Stern, MD, PhD, Vice Chair for Education & Faculty Affairs, on the Science of Teaching Students the Unwritten Rules of Medicine
By David H. Freedman
David Stern, MD, in his office at the Manhattan VA Medical Center.
Photo: John Abbott
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, David Stern, MD, PhD, was among a handful of doctors in the U.S. pursuing a doctoral degree in education, having become determined to conduct rigorous research into how to improve medical education. But the doctorate program, at Stanford University, had gotten off to a slow start for him. "I was listening to the lectures on how children learn, and wondering what it could have to do with medicine," he says.
Things suddenly perked up for Dr. Stern when he found himself pondering a question: How do first-grade students learn to raise their hands in class? "When the teacher asks what one plus one equals, students don't just blurt out 'two,'" explains Dr. Stern. "They know they have to raise their hands and be called on before answering. But raising hands isn't part of the explicit curriculum. Where do they learn it?"
Dr. Stern, now professor of medicine at NYU Langone and chief of the Medical Service at the Veterans Administration New York Harbor Healthcare System, learned that the answer lies in what educators call the "hidden" curriculum. In the case of medical school, the term refers to the many ways students learn the unspoken rules and culture of medicine, not through textbooks and formal lectures but through everyday exchanges in informal settings such as hallways and hospital cafeterias. It was an insight that inspired a long-standing fascination with how doctors learn.
Now, Dr. Stern's journey is starting to change the way medical residents at NYU Langone learn and work, to the benefit of patients. Part of his role at the Medical Center, in addition to his more traditional clinical and managerial responsibilities, is to introduce new routines for residents that subtly teach the hidden rules and culture of medicine. One of those new practices took hold this past summer during the monthly rotation in medical-resident assignments, when hundreds of NYU Langone patients were introduced to the incoming residents taking over their cases by the outgoing residents, who briefed their replacements on the nuances of their care.
"Interns and residents learn values in hospital hallways and elevators and cafeterias, during rounds and breaks," says Dr. David Stern. "The lessons can be far more powerful than learning about values in the classroom."
Though most of the patients wouldn't have known it, incoming residents normally introduce themselves and pick up the case details guided only by a written summary from the previous resident. The "warm handoff," highly unusual in medical centers, was a first for NYU Langone.
"It's a change to the structure of the residency program, and it teaches important lessons to residents about teamwork and making a personal connection with patients," says Dr. Stern. "Those are values that are hard to communicate in a classroom."
The hidden curriculum that transmits these subtle lessons is usually informal and ad hoc, but it's critical to medical education, insists Dr. Stern. "It's how physicians learn professional values, like responsibility for patients, and respect and collaboration," he says. "We add material about these values into medical school courses, but lectures are not really effective. Interns and residents learn values in hospital hallways and elevators and cafeterias, during rounds and during breaks. It happens in the 'interstitial fluid' of daily work. And the lessons can be far more powerful than learning about values in the classroom."
After his PhD, Dr. Stern, then on the faculty of the University of Michigan, set out to prove the importance of the hidden curriculum and pin down examples. He spent hundreds of hours shadowing interns and residents in hospitals in the 1990s, listening for informal teaching moments. He found that what doctors heard and saw on the job tended to override what they were told in classrooms and handbooks.
"You can tell medical students until you're blue in the face that they need to have 15 minutes of open-ended bedside conversation with each of their patients," says Dr. Stern. "But if they see the attending physician talking for only five minutes from the patient's doorway, that's probably what they'll end up doing, too."
The warm handoff is just one of the ways in which educators at NYU School of Medicine are working to change the environment to promote professional values. Another is a "geographic ward" program that assigns residents to specific wards.
"Residents used to live, eat, and sleep near the patients, doctors, and nurses in a single ward, until the practice was lost to the drive for efficiency," says Dr. Stern. "But staying with one ward means patients don't have to wait for nurses to hunt down the on-call physician, reinforcing a sense of the urgency of patient needs, and it fosters interprofessional collaboration and respect."
Dr. Stern notes that the NYU Langone community has expressed only excitement for these new routines. "Everyone here is looking for an opportunity to be innovative and to nurture professional values that lead to even better safety, quality, and value," he says. "Now I'm looking for more ways to enhance the hidden curriculum. That would be a beautiful thing for patients and for medicine."
David T. Stern, MD, PhD
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Spring has sprung, and that means it's time for some home maintenance. But there's so much to do: where do you start?
We've created this handy spring maintenance checklist for Toronto homeowners so that you not only know where to start, but you get 100% ready for the rest of the year.
Sump pumps are crucial for homeowners with recurring wet basement issues or flooding, particularly if you live in an area that is prone to high water levels. If you don't want a soggy basement and potentially thousands in repair costs, you should have your sump pump inspected by one of us to ensure it's working properly.
Another great device for preventing flooding is a backwater valve. This prevents any hazardous wastewater from coming back up your main drain from the sewer system.
It's hard to make an up close and thorough inspection of the outside of your house when snow is piled up around it. Once the ground is clear and there's no more temperatures below freezing, get up close and look at your foundation and siding for any cracks, damaged parging, or even mold. If you find anything, have it fixed right away.
We're not saying you should get up on the roof and start climbing around, but you should take some binoculars and do a visual survey of your roof to look for any broken, shifted, or missing shingles. If you see anything that looks amiss, have a roofing professional come in and take a closer look.
The smallest leak could not only cost you a lot of money in wasted water, but it could cause serious damage to your home's flooring, walls, and fixtures. Now is a perfect time to check all your faucets and taps for any puddles or drips and have them fixed.
We know it's yucky, but the last thing you want in the rainy season is to have your gutters overflow with water. The water drips spills over right to the ground by your foundation, increase your risk of basement leaking.
When you go to clear your gutters, make sure you use an extension ladder situated away from power lines and higher than the gutter (that way you won't be at the very top). You should also always have someone with you holding the ladder, and wear protective gloves.
It's dirty work, but you'll feel better knowing you avoided a much more expensive problem.
If your windows aren't properly sealed, your cool AC air will slip out, and the sticky-hot summer air will seep in, meaning your paying for almost nothing. Avoid any extra costs by inspecting the seals around your windows – and your doors, too!
Your plumbing is important to your home's health – so why not treat it to a checkup this spring? When you book an appointment with Trouble Shooters, we'll complete a thorough inspection, recommend any repairs and maintenance, and perform the service on the spot if necessary. Your plumbing will be humming along like new by the time we're done.
Spring is the best time to have your air conditioner serviced. You'll find any potential operating problems before it gets hot, and you'll beat the summer rush of service calls. When it's warm enough for AC, you'll be completely ready.
It may seem like there's a lot to do, but we can help with some of it! Make an appointment with Trouble Shooters today, and we'll get started on your spring maintenance checklist for you.
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Reflection of a skiff in Button Bay, Churchill. Water clear and pristine. Katie de Meulles photo.
Polar bear swimming in the bay near Churchill. Katie de Meulles photo.
Close up of a polar bear swimming in the bay around Churchill. Katie de Meulles photo.
Polar bear resting on the rocks on Eskimo Point. Katie de Meulles photo.
Button Bay is the secluded little cove just around Eskimo Point where Fort Prince of Wales rests as the iconic outpost of the long-lost fur trade in the north. The rocks of Eskimo Point are resting areas for polar bears seeking some quiet and solitude during the summer months. Quite often groups of travelers can see and photograph polar bears on these rocky shores. These shots by Churchill photographer Katie de Meulles were captured this week and show the happenings around Button Bay.
Once in Button Bay there are sometimes bears swimming across to the beach or coming in from the northern shore to congregate in Churchill and await the ice pack of November. From there they will venture out to hunt seals all winter then return in the spring again!
Incredible wildlife sightings and bursting wildflowers have made this an awesome Churchill Arctic Summer so far! Moira LaPatourel has been guiding Natural Habitat travelers in the Churchill region and the surprises keep coming for the groups both on the water and out on the tundra.
This magnificent common loon and chick was spotted on a thermokarst pond out by the Churchill Wildlife Management Area. These majestic and haunting birds will often circle their water surroundings and give their haunting call to announce the arrival of their offspring. Always an incredible experience to see these in the sub – Arctic.
Common loon and her chick on the water in Churchill. Moira LaPatourel photo.
With the Cape Merry battery looming in the distance, a beluga sow and calf frolic in the Churchill River. Whale interaction has been off the charts this season with pods of belugas all over the waters surrounding Churchill. Snorkeling and kayaking have been particular highlights for groups as well this season.
Beluga whales in the Churchill River with Cape Merry in the background. Moira LaPatourel photo.
A rarely seen bald eagle made an appearance and perched atop this krumholz spruce on the open tundra. A perfect spot for eyeing lemmings scurrying across the ground.
A bald eagle perched on a spruce tree in the open tundra of Churchill. Moira LaPatourel photo.
A group of travelers gets more of a birds – eye view from the deck of the Sea North I on the Hudson Bay. This vessel provides more of a view above the beluga whales for slightly better photo opportunities. Venturing over to Button Bay or further into the Hudson Bay is another facet this larger jet propulsion craft provides.
Viewing beluga whales in the Churchill River from the Sea North I vessel. Moira LaPatourel photo.
Natural Habitat travelers enjoy the versatility of a zodiac excursion on the Churchill River. The small craft often can cruise the coastline and discover a gem like this resting polar bear on the Precambrian shield! Seeing polar bears in Churchill Arctic summer is such an awesome experience and often more of a thrill than seeing the king of the Arctic in polar bear season!
Travelers view a polar bear from a zodiac in the Churchill River. Moira LaPatourel photo.
Fireweed has consumed the landscape at this point of the season. The purple injects a swath of color to the landscape that blends the blues of the water and rocks with the subdued earth colors of the tundra.
Fields of wildflowers across the tundra in Churchill. Moira LaPatourel photo.
We walked across the Churchill Airport tarmac towards the waiting plane, heading back to Winnipeg. The most incredible Churchill summer experience had played out for our little band of Natural Habitat Adventurer's over the past five days. I have been travelling to Churchill with tour groups and enjoying the sub-Arctic wonders of this area for the past three years, but I had never had an experience quite like this one.
Snorkeling with the beluga whales in theCHurchill River. Moira la Patourel photo.
Our trip started off with an early morning flight from Winnipeg to Churchill in the sunshine. Over the next five days, our group enjoyed absolutely incredible encounters with belugas; in zodiacs, the Sea North II (a larger jet-drive vessel), in kayaks and even through a snorkel mask! We were able to watch belugas exhibiting playful behavior, feeding behavior, calm-day and stormy-day activities and listen in on their incredibly active social lives in the Churchill River and the Hudson's Bay.
Beluga whales in the Churchill River.Moira LaPatourel photo.
We were also extremely lucky to spot not one but FOUR polar bears on our five-day adventure as well! Two lone individuals, one resting on Eskimo Point and one swimming about a mile off shore in Button Bay, and one mother and cub-of-the-year onshore. I couldn't believe our luck! The wildflowers were bursting with colour all across the landscape, with more purples and creams than I have ever seen before; it was quite a sight to behold. The bird life was also out in full force; we enjoyed sightings of Sandhill Cranes, Tundra Swans, Arctic Terns, Parasitic Jaegers, Pacific Loons with young, Snow Geese and an American Golden-Plover, to name a few.
Polar bears on the rocks at Eskimo point. Moira LaPatourel photo.
As we were headed to the airport for our departure, we were lucky enough to receive a tip from a local that the Polar Bear Holding Facility was open for tours for the next couple of hours. We only had 15 minutes to squeak in a look at the inside of the Holding Facility, but what a view it was! The Polar Bear Holding Facility has an open-house once a year, and we were just lucky enough to be there at just the right time!
As the Churchill River and the Hudson's Bay faded out of view from the airplane windows, obscured by cloud, I looked around and could see the broad smiles on the faces of my travelling companions. This had truly been the trip of a lifetime in Churchill for all of us!
Natural Habitat Adventures guide Moira LePatourel and her last group of travelers in Churchill's Arctic summer had a full compliment northern phenomenon. "We had the full sub-arctic experience on our final trip" Le Patourel stated. Two nights of aurora viewing and the first arctic fox sighting of the season gave this trip a unique personality shared by a very excited group of travelers. Northern lights become prevalent late at night in August and it's always a thrill when groups see them in summer. Memories that will burn forever!
Natural Habitat Group in Churchill. Moira LePatourel photo.
The group also had the fortune to spot and observe four polar bears over the week. One polar bear was swimming in the Hudson Bay and another resting peacefully on the smooth, rocky Precambrian shield. Another mom and her cub were seen over in Button Bay lounging on the beach getting suntans.
Polar bear mom and cub on the beach at Button Bay. Moira LePatourel photo.
Polar bears resting on the beach. Moira LePatourel photo.
An incredible bounty of belugas crowded the Hudson Bay and Churchill River all week as the last stage of summer plays itself out. "We also got to hear the cello being played on the explore.org research boat and saw the whales come swimming over in response to musician Rob's music. All that and the sun shining for most of our trip too! Couldn't have asked for a better finale." expressed LePatourel.
Belugas in the Churchill River. Moira LePatourel photo.
Who Found Button Bay-Was It Lost?
If you have been to Churchill you probably have heard of Button Bay. If you have been to Churchill in the Summer you might have even ventured by boat to the bay itself.
Sow and cub in the rocks off Eskimo Point. Stefanie Fernandez photo.
Button Bay lies northwest of Churchill just a short spin by zodiac around the tip of Eskimo Point and Fort Prince of Wales. From the fort you can gaze across the thickets of willows and wildflowers to the often glassy surface of the secluded inlet. It's also possible to look across the Churchill River past Fort Prince of Wales on the point and see the glimmering surface of the bay.
In Button Bay the water is crystal clear and belugas are quite visible under water. Steve Selden photo.
The bay was commemorated by Sir Thomas Button in 1612 when he and the crew of the Resolution ventured to "New Wales", as he named it for England. He is credited with securing the lands along the west coast of the Hudson Bay for England. The Nelson River estuary and Port Nelson within those lands, were named after the Master of the Resolution who perished on the journey and is buried there.
On May 15, 1912, 300 years later, when Manitoba's boundaries were extended, Port Nelson was included in the new territory designated to the province. Thomas Button is therefore known to be the first white man to visit this area in Manitoba.
Polar Bear along the coast of Button Bay. Natural Habitat Adventures photo.
Button Bay is a well known beluga whale hot spot in the summer. On the fairly rare occasions when whales are scarce in the Churchill River and mouth of the Hudson Bay, the 20 minute motor over to Button Bay usually produces pods of whales following the capelin run. On the journey by boat or zodiac, there's always the chance of spotting a polar bear or two nestled along the rocky coast. I have often seen bears dipping paws into the bay or pulling up onto the rocks after a swim.
Button Bay is a little secret gem of the region. the bay itself is considered part of the Nunavut territory.
Come see the whales and bears of Button Bay! Arctic summer trips are still available.


A mixture of cool celery, sweet and succulent chicken, and crunchy almonds, nothing tastes more refreshing on a hot Summer day.
It's been so hot and humid here in Cleveland, I've been looking for meals that won't heat up my kitchen, so I decided to make a quick and easy chicken salad sandwich's for lunch. Delicious chicken salad topped on a fresh and flaky croissant is the perfect Summer lunch time treat for the whole family.
Combine chicken, Hellmann's Light Mayonnaise, celery, almonds, onions and chicken base in medium bowl. Season with salt and black pepper if desired. Spoon chicken salad onto croissants. Enjoy!
I'm always looking for a new chicken salad recipe! thanks!
Thanks for sharing... I am gonna try is soon and will let you know how it turned out to be!
Karen this sounds delish! I'm going to try it soon. It's been really warm here as well.
We make a similar version but instead of onions, we use grapes! It's super good and you are right, perfect for summer!
I have never thought to use a Chicken Base in a chicken salad. Now I finally have something else to use the big jar of it that I have. Genius!
Yum! I am definitely going to try those!
Sounds quick and easy. I've never bought a chicken base. What is that?
This looks quick, yummy, and easy. It would be just right for a summer supper.


Highly industrialised Kanpur is among the most polluted cities in the country. Sewage and industrial wastewater being important polluters.The rapid rate of urbanisation, ageing distribution network, unscientific ways of industrialisation and incorrect sewage disposal have collectively resulted in acute water problems.
Kanpur's railway station. The busy metropolis is extremely water stressed.
The rapid rate of urbanisation, ageing water distribution network, unscientific ways of industrialisation and incorrect ways of waste disposal, whether industrial or sewage have collectively resulted in acute water problems in all Indian cities. We examine Kanpur today.
In a city with an area of 1,050 sq km and populace of 60 lakhs the supply of water in Kanpur is just for 30 per cent. What is worse is that 40 per cent of the hand pumps are lying inoperative and the ground water level has dipped considerably to leave the people high and dry.
Such is the crisis that people are pooling money to pay for water tankers or covering miles on hired rickshaws to fetch water. Rioting over water is common in most places in the city. But for those who still expect some relief, there is bad news. The Kanpur Jal Sansthan hasn't the funds or the resources to narrow down the gap in supply and demand.
At present Kanpur Jal Sansthan (KJS) supplies 350 million litres per day (mld) of water from the available resources - Bhairon Ghat Pumping station which gives 200 mld, 50 mld from hand pumps and 100 from the total 109 tube wells. But with the soaring mercury before the onset of monsoons in the state (in the months of May and June), the demand of water has gone up to 650 mld or minimum 150 litres per head.
The crisis had increased further as the major source of water supply, the Lower Ganga Canal has not been in use for long. The canal that caters to a major slice of the population in South City is full of silt and the cleaning isn't possible for weeks.
Similarly, the pumping station at Bhairon Ghat is not consistent in water supply because of power crisis and absence of dredging. That hasn't been done properly for months as the employees were attacked by criminals.
In fact the 14 hours dredging a day is required to feed Bhairon Ghat pumping station 200 mld water everyday. But nowadays the employees are running dredgers for just three to four hours only to compound the crisis.
The residents of South City seem destined to bear the brunt for some more time with the delay in making the much-hyped pumping station at Gujaini operational. The KJS claims that the station would bring down the demand considerably.
Experts contradict the claim saying the station would supply just 28 mld instead of demand for 350 mld. At present the southern parts are getting somewhere between 65 to 70 mld. The frightening crisis is welling up despite the Kanpur Municipal Corporation having made a provision of Rs 1 crore in the annual budget to tackle the problem.


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NY Women's & Children's January BLOG
A Successful Start To 2019: NY WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S CLUB Recap
NY WOMEN'S and CHILDREN'S CLUB were the kick off events of the 2019 season; brands and buyers alike came together to create a successful and busy first show. Exhibitors were able to catch up with their old customers, meet new ones and showcase the quality of their new collections from the upcoming season. While buyers got to travel through the endless aisles of six unique shows, each offering an extended presentation of apparel and accessories.
The January NY WOMENS & CHILDREN'S show allowed thousands of retailers to replenish their shelves from the holidays, explore new designs, and get a taste of what's to come for their industry. A-List stores like Bloomingdale's, Urban Outfitters, Barneys, and Nordstrom were among the many that shopped the show floor.
EXCITING EVENTS FOR BRANDS & RETAILERS
VIEW MORE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SHOW
The UBM FASHION team put together highly curated events and happenings to facilitate the overall success and relationships between the brands and buyers. Lab 38, a new health and wellness brand, kicked off the show adding an energizing high-performance gourmet coffee and hot chocolate bar. Retailers were eager to get their caffeine early in the morning to begin searching the show floor for that next best thing to woo their customers with. In addition to the super food enhanced coffee bar, retailers and brands took advantage of the complimentary, DIY show bag which could be customized with patches, pins, and embroidery showing off so much creativity.
FAME favorite, DJ Quiana Parks, electrified the floor with live music throughout the day and into the evening for a happy hour on the main concourse of the Javits Center, where show presidents got to mingle with exhibitors and retailers for a celebration of a successful first day. On day two, Nicky Hilton (yes, that Hilton) joined the Tolani booth in ACCESSORIES THE SHOW. Retailers, and even some exhibitors, crowded the booth to get a chance to meet the fashion icon who spent the day showing off the vibrant Tolani collection.
BRANDS THAT MADE AN IMPACT ON THE SHOW FLOOR
Read on to learn about some of the brands that were making an impact on the show floor this January.
Photos provided by JoJo Maman Bebe
If you were perusing through the aisles of the CHILDREN'S CLUB show, you would not have missed JoJo Maman Bebe. From the second buyers walked through the registration doors, JoJo's booth was teeming with buyers holding order forms. The U.K.-based company has been designing quirky yet practical children's clothing, and more, for over 25 years. From pregnancy to pre-school, JoJo's clothing follows you throughout it all, just ask the Royal Family. Both Kate Middleton and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, were seen sporting JoJo's, suitably named, "Cream Princess Coat" and Peter Pan top.
Expanding into the U.S. has allowed JoJo to showcase the quality of their collection in front of new and existing customers and CHILDREN'S CLUB has helped facilitate that relationship. "We're here meeting all of our customers to take orders today, but also hoping to get new business from the traffic. It has been extremely busy, so we've been struggling to greet new customers at the moment, but it's a good problem to have! We've had a pretty successful show so far," said Laura Atkinson, JoJo's international trade commercial manager.
Learn more about JoJo Maman Bebe: www.jojomamanbebe.com
Photos provided by Jofit
As a first-time exhibitor at PROJECT WOMENS, Jofit was looking to make a statement and give retailers a reason to put their pens to paper and write orders. Presenting their innovative ordering kiosk, Jofit made an impact among buyers on the show floor. The women's golf apparel brand designs their clothing to make the customer look phenomenal and inspire confidence. Modifying the everyday sporty look, Jofit created shirts with back darts to slim the figure, golf tops that have scoop hems in the back, pants engineered to have a smooth appearance and implemented rear patch pockets which revivifies the rear-end. The advanced design of Jofit's garments comes from the mind of a determined and forward-looking founder, a gym teacher in her passed life, Joanne Cloak's addiction to golf was matched by her relentless grit. "She can wake up one day and say I want to be an astronaut and she will become an astronaut," said Samantha Gould, Jofit's senior account coordinator at PROJECT WOMENS, speaking on her founder's determination.
Fighting their way to the top, Jofit is in 5,000 golf shops throughout the country and No. 1 in private clubs. To help sell their apparel in the digital age, Jofit's new kiosk allows retailers to sell their clothes without the hassle of having a surplus of inventory piling up in the back room. Customers can find the Jofit kiosk in retail stores, hotels, airports, and resorts where they can try on selected clothing in a range of sizes and order them to be shipped to their homes on the spot through the kiosk. Rolling out a totally new business model, Jofit needed a totally new audience to sell to, so they found their way to PROJECT WOMENS, which offers the diverse attendees to satisfy the new age of fashion, both in trends and innovation. "We wanted to get away from green grass roots of selling and wanted to branch out into a different audience that would be more accepting of the idea. The feedback has been great. Everyone said this is the way of the future and it really is," said Gould.
Learn more about Jofit: www.jofit.com
Susan Hanover Designs
Photos provided by Susan Hanover Designs
Featured in ACCESSORIE CIRCUIT, Susan Hanover Designs' booth showcased their elegant event jewelry which are all made with real semi-precious stones traced in sterling silver. The niche accessories brand is designed to make their customers confident enough to be center of attention when they walk into any important event. With an impressive following from power-personalities like Beyoncé, Oprah, and former first lady Michelle Obama, it is clear that Susan Hanover Designs' accessories appeal to today's woman who doesn't want her professional achievements to overshadow her impeccable taste.
What started out as a hobby for this South African-born, NY-bred former lawyer, Susan found early success selling to friends and family. She soon moved into a few local shops before eventually finding her way into iconic retailers such as Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, and Henri Bendel. She attributes part of her incredible growth to exhibiting at shows such as ACCESSORIE CIRCUIT. Susan is a veteran of the shows, returning time and time again to connect with the industry's best retailers. Susan said her customers are what keeps her coming back. "I've done so many shows and I feel like if I don't come then I just lose touch with them. It's a good platform to show our new collections," she said. ACCESSORIE CIRUIT allows for this unique relationship to form between brands and their buyers that you can't get through emails or the Internet.
Learn more about Susan Hanover Designs: www.susanhanoverdesigns.com
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ORION, Bataan – The Grand Innovasia Concept Corporation (GICC), in coordination with the local government here and Barangay Capunitan, on Tuesday (February 5, 2019) visited the displaced families temporary housed at the Bataan School of Fisheries here and distributed Php 1 million worth of relief items.
GICC President Sheryl Xiaojing Luo led the distribution efforts along with GICC Vice President Manson Pan, Engr. Brexio F. Gonzales, and GICC Properties Corp. Chairman of the Board (Ret.)Navy Capt. Benjamin M. Tancio.
GICC as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) donated relief items such as solar panels, bags, tents, slippers, towels, and other goods to the evacuees.
Orion Municipal Mayor Antonio Raymundo Jr. personally accepted the donation.
GICC is a registered enterprise at the Freeport Area of Bataan in Mariveles town engaged in the diverse field of online/interactive gaming related activities such as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) operations, franchise management, software development, travel, training, manpower, international events, telecommunications services and real estate development within the FAB.


A little bit of Southern Hesse never hurt anyone!
Two weeks after our Copenhagen trip (posts are in the making) it got a little bit boring again and we decided to make the best of one of the last summer weekends of the year by making a day trip to Southern Hesse.
The plan: Seeing Michelstadt, Schloss Auerbach (Auerbach Castle) and the Felsenmeer in the Odenwald ('Rocket Sea'). Not in this order, but who cares.
Maybe we'll delete this post sooner or later. I just noticed we haven't done a general Hesse post summarizing the awesomeness of this little German federal state. But we'll see. We like overviews ourselves. Fort he inspiration, you know!
These ruins of a castle are under a preservation order and as you can see in the picture, this place is also used as a wedding location. Personally, we think it's a cool idea. We'd love to be invited.
The view over the surrounding from the top of the ruins is amazing. There's also a restaurant up here if you're feeling hungry.
What might also interest you: Schloss Auerbach is near Bensheim, a little town known for being a half-timbered houses dream. In Auerbach itself, there's also the Fürstenlager, which they say is worth seeing aswell.
This is a cute beer garden offering good food and we think it's worth mentioning. We were familiar with the little bit rough, but friendly welcome of the staff from our home in Bavaria. Therefore, it couldn't put us off the delicious, heavy meal.
The beer garden itself is really beautiful. Even on sunny days, you can enjoy the calmness of this little town.
Sometimes Mother Nature is in a good mood and makes some beautiful surprising magic for us people. For example the Felsenmeer in the Odenwald. It's all boulderer's dream.
But everyone else will love this place aswell. There's definitely not a lack of visitors here which surprised us a lot. During our five years in Frankfurt now, this place got never mentioned anywhere in our surrounding.
Anyway. The Felsenmeer is really impressive and the walk through the forest a benefit for our city lungs.
Between Darmstadt and Heidelberg there's a little beautiful town called Michelstadt. A small town with half-timbered houses and my personal highlight: the historical town hall built on stilts. It's attention and camera seeking and we came to do the favor. It was built in 1484 and is basically the star of the town.
There are a few more things to see in Michelstadt. For example the city wall and (not far from the town hall) the thief tower, which was once used as a prison.
Which we couldn't see due to time reasons was Schloss Fürstenau with the Schmucktorbogen (a castle with a beautiful arch at its entrance).
At the end of our trip, we wanted to see the sunset from the Hafentreppe in Offenbach. This city is actually not known to be the prettiest. Nevertheless, the investment at the harbor area was a good one as you can see.
Next, to the stairs, there's a Pizzeria which also offers take away. So we added Pizza to the beautiful sunset and the romance was real. We liked this place a lot and you should definitely pay it a visit.


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The structures located at the southeastern corner of Mound E consists of a complex of massive baked brick/mud brick walls and baked brick drain complex.
Using interpretations presented in Meadow and others (1995), a reconstruction of the bastion/gateway area was completed in EarthVision. The computer reconstructions were based on an artistic rendering completed by HARP archaeologists.
No "Great Bath" like that in Mohenjo-daro has been found in Harappa, and it is not known if one existed among the miles of ruins carted off for railway construction in the early 1850's.
These doorways in modern Harappa show how a town grows into a mound. Dust and dirt in streets slowly collect and cover doorways. Ultimately they are abandoned and new doorways and buildings are constructed above them.
This bathing area in Harappa today is identical to ancient bathing areas.
The surviving town of Harappa provides many clues to ancient times.
In the distance, the modern town of Harappa survives on another set of mounds. During ancient times they were separated from Mound AB in the foreground by a river channel.


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New antitumoral drug release strategy created for breast cancer treatment
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Researchers from the CIBBIM-Nanomedicine Drug Delivery and Trageting of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) and CIBER-BBN with Dr. Ibane Abasolo at the head, have studied the viability of the bacterial inclusion bodies as a method of distribution of two antitumor proteins, p31 and Omomyc, against breast cancer. The study, published in Advanced Science, has been coordinated by Dr. Esther Vázquez, a researcher from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the CIBER of Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), and researchers from the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia and the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO).
The local release of antitumoral drugs through bacterial proteins in the treatment of breast cancer can mark a before and after in precision medicine. In this sense, researchers have created Escherichia coli cell structures to produce non-toxic bacterial amyloids.
Inclusion bodies or amyloids are nanostructured protein aggregates produced inside a cell, frequently found in specific bacteria and with interesting biomedical applications such as protein drug release, as is the case here.
These protein structures act as antitumoral drug secretion granules and since they are administered locally, they have a sustained therapeutic effect throughout time. Although this research is still in the first stages of development, the cross-cutting principle described in the study opens a broad experimentation field for the generation of new therapeutic biomaterials produced within bacteria for precision medicine aimed at breast cancer and other high incidence neoplasms.
According to Esther Vázquez, "although this technology still has a long way to go before being applied clinically, the results obtained in this study, which has lasted over three years, pave the way for a new therapeutic technology based on bacterial products which have not been clinically explored yet".
The study is based on a directed release of CD44+ tumour cells in animal models of human breast cancer, of two antitumoral proteins (Omomyc and p31) in the form of nanostructured materials. The main novelty of the study lies in the use of toxic-free bacterial amyloids as a reservoir for these therapeutic proteins. The local administration of this material fosters a sustained release of the drugs and the necrosis of tumour tissue in a relatively short period of time. One of the main advantages of using these types of materials is a sustained protein drug release, which lowers the frequency of administration in relation to the current standards for conventional drugs.
The results in crops showed how "protein aggregates with p31 and Omomyc proteins have toxic effects on tumor cells in culture, especially those with CD44 expression", says Dr. Abasolo, principal investigator of CIBBIM-Nanomedicine Drug Delivery and Targeting reserach group of the VHIR. "In animal models (mouse) with breast tumors, the inclusion bodies with Omomyc and p31 showed an effect at the cellular level, increasing necrosis and apoptosis, respectively, although apparently the size of the tumors did not diminished", she adds.
The project also included the collaboration of the lead researchers at the CIBER-BBN group Antonio Villaverde, from the UAB, expert in the development of bacterial materials of biotechnological interest based on amyloid structures, also known as inclusion bodies, and Simó Schwartz Jr, director of the CIBBIM-Nanomedicine (VHIR) and expert in nanomedicine and the molecular biology of cancer.
This research project, funded by the TV3 Marathon Foundation.


We require a fluent level of Spanish. Besides the languaje certificate, we might need to have an interview via Skype. This is mandatory by institutional rules in the Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social, the reason is patients rarely speak english fluently and unfortunately also part of the hospital staff.
In Costa Rica we can ensure academic quality by having very well qualified tutors, who like to teach and train new doctors, everyday, 8 hours per day. They are nice, kind and super friendly with the students.
We place the students in the best hospitals of our national social security heath system, we also take into account that the tutors and doctors love teaching. The working hours per day can vary depending on the chosen department.
You might be invited to participate in a nightshift, if that happens you could accept or decline. Remember, you are here to learn.
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It is the most important working area of the country, which brings in more than a million people daily. According to studies in Latin America, San José is still one of the safest and least violent cities in the region.
Also, San José it is near to every place in Costa Rica, for example, it is 2 hourse away from puntarenas beach, two and a half hour away form Arenal Volcano, and 30 minutes aways from Irazú volcano.
There are public transportation to every place that you might want ot visit.
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We always try to accept the first option that students choose. However, in some occasions we have to change the department, therefore the student willbe informed so that he/ she can make the changes he/she needs in his/her university.
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Returning ticket to your country.
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It is really important check the list of countries that needs a visa to come to Costa Rica.
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We don't ask for Travel Insurance because this depends on the incoming student, it's his/her responsability.
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The Curriculum Vitae is requiered in spanish with a photo of the student.
Health insurance must be valid in Costa Rica during the period requiered by the student.
Spanish Language certificate must warrant a high spanish language proficiency.
Vaccination Card must warrant vaccination against Hepatitis B, Influenza, Chickenpox and pneumococcus besides the basic vaccination protocol.
Every motivation letter (1,2,3 and 4) is requiered to be in spanish and signed by the student. It is handed to the tutor previous acceptance in the service.
We accept graduate students up to 6 months after graduation.
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John Stonestreet on the Simulation Hypothesis as a Secular Religion
The scene is movie legend: Morpheus sits with Neo beside a fireplace while a storm rages outside, and tells him that the world he calls reality—what he sees when he looks out the window or turns on the television, when he goes to work—it's all an illusion. If he takes the blue pill, Neo can remain comfortably in the illusion—you know, "The Matrix." But if he takes the red pill, he will wake up to a very uncomfortable real world.
It's a cool movie, but some scientists are entertaining an idea almost exactly like its premise. The "simulation hypothesis" proposes that the world around us, our bodies, and even our own minds might not be real. Instead, they could be the illusions of a sophisticated computer program created by a super-intelligent being or beings.
In fact, writing at NBC, Dan Falk quotes top scientists and philosophers who think that it's not just possible, it's likely. They think we could exist in some version of the Matrix. "If we are living in a simulation," writes Oxford philosopher Nick Bostram, "then the cosmos we are observing is just a tiny piece of the totality of physical existence." The world we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell, may not be "located at the fundamental level of reality."
Before you laugh: This idea is surprisingly hard to disprove—at least on secular assumptions. One M.I.T. scientist and author of the book, "The Simulation Hypothesis," recalls playing a virtual reality game and forgetting he was alone "in an empty room with a headset on." The game was just so realistic, it became his reality.
If it's that easy to get lost in a simulation we've designed with our limited technology—or so goes the thinking—what must it be like in a simulation designed by an advanced race? We could live our entire lives in such a simulation, and never know it.
And what would be the purpose of such a virtual-reality reality? The answer in "The Matrix" was sentient robotic overlords who kept us distracted so they could use humans to generate energy to survive. Believe it or not, some who seriously argue for the simulation hypothesis have similarly outlandish guesses as to the identity and intent of the programmers.
Some suggest a race of extraterrestrial beings running a kind of experiment on us. Rich Terrile of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the programmers could be us—that is, future, highly-advanced (read: further evolved) humans who have decided to create a simulation of an earlier stage of their own civilization.
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Q: Outlook invites being deleted I send invites through Outlook.  Some of the people do not use the Calendar feature and are not the most tech savvy.  When they accept the invite the email goes away.  Is there a way to set it on my end so the email doesn't go away.

A: Based on my understanding, this thread is not duplicated with the above links as OP is seeking options on the meeting organizers' side.
As far as I know, it is the setting on the recipients' side ("Delete meeting requests and notifications from Inbox after responding.")that controls whether the meeting requests will be removed from the Inbox after responding. So I am afraid there is no way on the organizer's end to control this behavior.
As an workaround, you may refer to the comment of Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 to send a regular email in addition to the meeting request.
Or you may train the users to uncheck the option via File > Options > Mail > Delete meeting requests and notifications from Inbox after responding:
(Note: This works for all meeting requests received by the user.)

Besides, if your purpose is to keep attendees from missing your meeting, you may consider setting a reminder for the meeting so that the recipients will get a pop up alert before the meeting.

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Ok, this is a bit of a rant, but also a genuine question. Why has there not been a mini-doll as the 'giveaway' with the friends magazine so far?
I don't have an exact count but the Chima one must have dished out 3 or 4 figures to date, the Nijia Magazine 1, so that is 5 figures for the boys to play with and 0 for the girls... Doesn't seem fair somehow.
I know the lego on the front of the magazines is pitched as a free item, but given the cost of the magazine it really isn't free, it's all part of the price. So come one, maybe the girls can forgo another bit of furnature one month and actually get a figure that can use the many desks and dressers we have had so far.
It is a problem with Friends and Disney Princess sets too that there are never really enough figures for the size of set.
That would be nice, my grumble is only part serious but I really do think more figures should be included in the magazines for girls, well even one would be nice.
As for the sets I do agree, I found it odd that we got Jasmin without Aladin or Genie or that the underwater palace had no King Triton or Ursula. I do understand that the production cost of mini dolls might be heigher than standard figures but I can't imagine it is by much.
i would love a Snow White and dwarfs etc. etc. (big disney fans here).
Not a debate, totally agree, kids can play with whatever they like, I am merely pointing out imbalance between the magazine offerings, which are clearly gender targeted, which again, is fine. In my families case it is also correct, my daughter loves friends lego, princess and now elves, my son love ninjas and chima (the both love super heros and Star Wars, but that's another topic), so the magazines are spot on for them and they both enjoy reading what is on offer, but my daughter is always a little disapointed that a figure is never present in her magazine.
It could be that mini-dolls are more expensive to produce individually than minifigures. Wouldn't entirely surprise me. Minifigures not only have simpler molds and decorations a lot of the time, but LEGO has been producing minifigures for decades so needlesss to say I'm sure they have that down to a science.
Alternatively, it could be that LEGO is trying to overcome the stereotype that Friends is "dumbed down" by focusing more on actual buildable models in the Friends magazines than in the Chima and Ninjago magazines.
I do not think it is about trying to counteract the dumbed down rumor.
Most Friends/Princess/Elves sets suffer from far fewer minidolls compared to comparable minifig sets.
My assumption has been the first item mentioned... The issue is cost. Who knows if it is cost of molds, more complex figures, or research costs.
I buy my daughter the Friends Mag every month and she's never complained of not getting a mini-doll. We have groaned at a set being very lacking/not much thought put into the parts or construction, but generally she will take whatever the build is and put it into her Friends story when she plays. When she's bored the parts go into the parts bucket.
Just a thought on the lack of a mini-doll, unlike Chima and Ninjago, LEGO only has a small number of characters released for the Friends line they do a good enough job at having the same characters included in numerous sets with just slightly different outfits. If my daughter does have a complaint about the Friends sets, it is the lack of new characters. She makes her own by changing the hair around but gets a little frustrated when some of the painted torsos and legs are identical thanks to their inclusion in different sets with just different heads/hair.


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Nazanin Aghakhani (; * 22. April 1980 in Wien, Österreich) ist eine Dirigentin und Pianistin. Von 2010 bis 2012 war sie die musikalische Leiterin des Akademischen Sinfonieorchesters München.

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Aghakhani wurde in eine persische Familie geboren und erhielt seit ihrem achten Lebensjahr Klavierunterricht. Zur Schule ging sie ans Musikgymnasium Wien. Ab dem zwölften Lebensjahr studierte sie klassisches Klavier am Wiener Konservatorium bei Karl Barth und Meira Farkas. Ab 1992 studierte sie Kontrapunkt und dirigieren bei Thomas Christian David und setzte diese Studien zunächst an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien bei Erwin Acel und Leopold Hager, dann in der Königlichen Musikhochschule Stockholm bei Jorma Panula fort. In Stockholm beginnt Nazanin Aghakhani mit der Komposition von elektroakustischer Musik unter der Leitung von Bill Brunson und Fredrik Hedelin. Im Jahr 2008 beendete Aghakhani ihren Master of Arts an der Sibelius-Akademie, wo sie bei Leif Segerstam dirigieren studierte.

Aghakhani hat finnische, österreichische und schwedische Orchester und Ensembles dirigiert. Sie hat schwedische Jugendorchester unterrichtet und eigene Kompositionen in ganz Europa aufgeführt. Sie debütierte als Dirigentin beim Musica Nova Festival 2007, einer jährlichen Veranstaltung für zeitgenössische Musik in Helsinki, wo sie 2008 und 2009 erneut eingeladen wurde.

2008 hat Aghakhani Kompositionen junger europäischer Komponisten bei Wien Modern, den Wiener Festwochen für zeitgenössische Musik, uraufgeführt, ist Mitglied der Jury des Ung Nordisk Music Festivals für junge skandinavische Komponisten und war stellvertretender Dirigent für Mozarts Don Giovanni bei den Salzburger Festspielen in Österreich.

Im Jahr 2010 war Aghakhani die erste weibliche Dirigentin, die im Iran mit dem Teheran Symphony Orchestra auftrat.

Neben der Leitung und Erziehung von Kindern trat Aghakhani weiterhin als Pianistin auf und nahm mehrere Alben ihrer eigenen Kompositionen auf, die vom österreichischen Klavierbauer Bösendorfer gesponsert wurden.

Im Jahr 2018 trat Aghakhani mit dem Orchester und Chören des Musikgymnasium Wiens, ihrer ehemaligen Schule, im Goldenen Saal des Wiener Musikvereins auf.

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 TV-Dokumentation über Nazanin Aghakhani (Farsi mit englischen Untertitel)
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Home > Stories > With Pam > A Holiday Gift from 3MC!
A Holiday Gift from 3MC!
When family and friends discovered that our book—Three Many Cooks: One Mom, Two Daughters; Their Shared Stories of Food, Faith, and Family—would not be published until Spring 2015, many expressed slight disappointment. They were hoping to give the book as a holiday gift to all the mothers and daughters, grandmothers and aunts, cousins, friends and coworkers on their list.
Though our book is available for pre-order, we know that it's no fun to give only the promise of a gift. (Who doesn't love a little something to unwrap?) So, we created a holiday sampler to put under the tree now, before the bigger gift arrives in April.
As our gift to the first 250 pre-orders of THREE MANY COOKS before 12/17—and as a way to give you a taste of what's to come—we'll send you a FREE holiday themed booklet featuring 3 stories, 6 new recipes, and a signed bookplate you can adhere to your copy of THREE MANY COOKS come April. The next 250 who pre-order the book will also receive a signed bookplate with each of our signatures as well as the holiday booklet digitally as a PDF!
Once ordered, email your proof of purchase and mailing address to preorder@threemanycooks.com. We will send as many booklets and book plates as the number books you order to one address of your choice. If you've already pre-ordered the book, you are part of that first 250 pre-orders, so send us your receipt to get your holiday booklets!
From the three of us, thank you for all of your support over the years and in our latest endeavor. Best wishes for a rich and joyful holiday season.
Just want you to know that I forwarded your order to preorder@threemanycooks.com. Someone will be in touch to get your address.
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Hey everyone, Heba here to share a traveler's notebook layout using the new Kelly Purkey Winter Is Coming Traveler's Notebook Kit & Stamp sets. I will be using a variety of stamps from this new release to document how cold it's been here in Georgia.
It usually doesn't go below freezing this early on in the season. But let me tell ya it's been so cold, I feel like Winter has already begun. Yes, it's very cold but I still love documenting it. So when I saw the new Winter Is Coming Travelers Notebook kit I knew I wanted to document this picture of my favorite cozy socks. These guys always make an appearance on those cold winter days.
To start my layout I used some of the beautiful patterned papers from the kit to give my layout a bit of color. I also used the same papers to layer my photo and add some depth. Another great way to add depth to your layout is by stamping on a label and tucking it under your picture. Just by stamping the phrase (Warm Heart) on a label and adding it to my layers made my photo pop even more.
Because the left side of my spread is busy with all the pretty patterns, I decided to keep the opposite side simple. I ended up stamping this adorable girl from the Stay Warm Stamp Set right in the center of my spread. Then used the Cobble Hill Alpha stamps to stamp out my title. Of course my layout isn't complete with out stamping a few snow flakes to surround this adorable stamped girl.
I hope I was able to inspire you on how you can use your new Kelly Purkey kits and stamp sets.