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On the territory of the municipality of Westerlo (Westerloo, using the old spelling) there are several castles.

Castle of the Princes de Mérode

Locals call it "Oud Kasteel" (Old Castle)  () to discern it from the new castle built for Jeanne de Merode in 1910-12 (see below). The castle has been the home of the House of Merode for more than five centuries. The central keep or Donjon has walls of more than 2 m thick. I was built by the lords of Wesemael in local brown stone in the late 14th century. It probably replaced an older fortress on the same spot. Other parts of the building are believed to date from the 15th and 16th century. The castle was adapted, extended and renovated several times. From the 16th century onwards it was transformed into a more luxurious noble dwelling and gradually lost its fortified character.
Several restorations in the 19th century gave it back a more 'romantic' medieval appearance.

The sumptuous interiors contain fine furniture, paintings, tapestries, Córdoba leather wall hangings and objects collected by the Merode family throughout the centuries. The most important rooms like the entrance hall, the "ridderzaal" (knight's hall), the large drawing room, the dining room and the chapel can be visited during the 'Kasteelfeesten' in the first weekend of July.

An English landscape park of 12 hectares surrounds the castle. The ponds in the park are connected with the moat of the castle. Across the Nete river there is a larger formal park (60 hectares) in the French tradition with a rectangular pond forming a large perspective. It was commissioned by Fieldmarshall Jean-Philippe-Eugène de Mérode-Westerloo at the beginning of the 18th century and was inspired by Versailles.

Castle of Countess Jeanne de Mérode

Locals call it "Nieuw Kasteel" (New Castle) (). It was built between 1909 and 1912 in a neogothic style by architect Pierre Langerock as the residence of one person, Countess Jeanne de Mérode. Jeanne de Mérode was born in Paris in 1853 as a daughter of Charles-Antoine Ghislain de Mérode-Westerloo, Marquess of Westerlo and Princess Marie-Nicolette d'Arenberg. She remained unmarried and devoted her life to religion and charitable works. To provide employment for the population of Westerlo (especially for young girls and women), she founded a carpet factory in Westerlo. She also financed a church, a school and a monastery in Heultje, and a home for the elderly in Westerlo. She lived with her parents and siblings in the 'old castle' until the death of her brother, Count Henri de Mérode, in 1908. At that time, she decided to move out. She planned to reside in the castle of Grimbergen, which she had inherited from her father. As she was very popular with the local population, the people of Westerlo begged her to stay in the region.

From 1909 onwards, the vast castle was constructed hardly a kilometre away from her paternal residence. The architecture of the facades was inspired by the early 16th-century late Gothic wing of the nearby abbey of Tongerlo. A more aristocratic appearance was achieved by adding four small and one large tower, as well as a bell tower in the form of a crown. Although both interior and exterior were executed in a historical style, the building contained many modern features that were very rare on the countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. The cross-beams supporting the roof were in steel, and the building had electric lighting, an electric elevator, central heating, running water, WCs and bathrooms.

As Jeanne de Mérode was very devout, the Castle also had its own private chapel. On the altar she kept her most important treasure, the famous Mérode Altarpiece by the 15th century painter Robert Campin. After her death, it was acquired from her heirs by the Metropolitan Museum in New York for the Cloisters collection.

When German troops invaded Belgium in 1940 the castle was confiscated and used as a local headquarters by the Nazis. Countess Jeanne moved back to the 'old castle' of Westerlo where she died on 1 July 1944, a few months before the liberation of Belgium.  She left the castle to a monastic order of sisters. The building was used by the church as a home for retired priests until it was sold to the municipality of Westerlo in the 1970s. It has served as the Town Hall of Westerlo ever since.

Castle of Baron de Trannoy
In nearby Tongerlo built during and after the First World War by a noble family. Now owned by the noble de Meeûs d'Argenteuil family. The name of the castle is now Castle de Meeûs d'Argenteuil.

Castle of the Naets family
Built in the 1920s by a wealthy family of notaries and local administrators.

See also
List of castles in Belgium

Sources

Evrard Op de Beeck,Vijfhonderd jaar familie de Merode te Westerlo, Heemskring Ansfried, Westerlo, 1982.
Henri Vannoppen, Het kasteel van Westerlo en de Prinsen de Merode, Heemskring Ansfried, Westerlo, 1989.
Kris De Winter, Westerlo, land van Merode, Heemkring Ansfried, Westerlo, 2000.

External links
 Official website of Castle "de Mérode" in Westerlo
 www.kasteelfeesten-westerlo.be in Dutch

Castles in Belgium
Castles in Antwerp Province
Westerlo

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Q: Expressing an formula in term of another one I have this formula
$$-\frac 1\lambda\left[\lambda D+1+W_{-1}\left(-r\exp(-\lambda D-1)\right)\right]$$
with $r$ , $\lambda$ and $D$ >0.
Where $W$ is the Lambert W function http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_W_function
I have some reason to believe that this expression is somehow equivalent to a simple:
$$\gamma+\alpha x^\beta $$
where $\beta<0$, $\alpha$  and $\gamma >0 $.
I believe this just because from numerical simulation I can almost perfectly fit the second equation starting from the first one, treating $\lambda$ as $x$, as shown in the figure
The blue circles represent the first equation, the solid black line represent the second one, fitted over the first one. The fit is not perfect, but it is pretty good, and it is still good when I play around with the different parameters.
So, I am wondering: are these two equations the same? If so, how can I prove that?
Thank you very much.

A: Like Thomas says, it would be nice to have an approximation of $W_{-1}(z)$ to replace it in the final function and have it over with.
Unfortunately the plain Taylor series expansion of the -1 branch of the Lambert is unsuited for this case, because the domain of the OP's function exceeds its radius of convergence.
If however, we use the compound expansion of $W_{-1}(-\exp(-5x-1))$ around approximately half the range of 0..8, we are in business (note that $-\exp(-5x-1)$, for $x\in(0,8)$, falls inside the domain $(-1/e,0)$ of the branch $k=-1$ of the Lambert, so such an expansion is valid).
The original function:

W:=LambertW;
f := proc (lambda) options operator, arrow; -(5*lambda+1+W(-1, -exp(-5*lambda-1)))/lambda end proc;

Using Maple and expanding the Lambert term around x=3, using $\mathit{only}$ 2 terms:

s := series(W(-1, -exp(-5*x-1)), x = 3.0, 2);
s := -18.94134722-5.278685871*(x-3.0)+O((x-3.0)^2)
p := convert(s, polynom);
sp2 := unapply(p, x):

Now substitute the series found in place of the Lambert term:

g2 := proc (x) options operator, arrow; -(5*x+1+sp2(x))/x end proc;

Let's try it now:

p1 := plot(f(x), x = 0 .. 8, 0 .. 6, color = red):
p2 := plot(g2(x), x = 0 .. 8, 0 .. 6, color = green):
display(p1, p2);

The approximation is now revealed as:

simplify(g2(x));
expand(%);
.2786858710+2.105289610/x,

which can easily be seen as being of the form $\gamma+\alpha\cdot x^{\beta}$, with $\beta=-1<0$ and $\gamma,\alpha>0$.
Tweeking these constants a bit may make the match even better.

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Tracy Anderson, Community High School English teacher
April 25, 2016 AAPS News Editor "Exceptional" profiles, Features, High School News, Latest news, Staff in the Spotlight, staff spotlight
Tracy Anderson was walking out of the Ann Arbor District Library in 2000, balancing a stack of books for her thesis research, when she stopped by the job posting board and saw the opening at Community High. She had a job that she loved in Pinckney, but couldn't pass up the chance to work at Community High. It was her dream job, so she applied.
Anderson has worked at Community for 16 years now, and during that time she has taught a wide-range of classes: Introduction to Literature, The Writer's Way, Writer's Workshop, Pop Lit, Women's Lit, Poetry, French, Journalism I, Advanced Journalism, Forum, and more. She believes that she is a learner in her classroom, and is always involved in teacher research.
During the summers, Anderson works for the National Scholastic Press Association and Journalism Education Association, judging journalism from around the world. She also teaches a journalism course at the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association summer camp at Michigan State University. In addition to journalism activities, she finds time to vacation with her family and find an open tennis court.
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What was your career path to Community High? When I was 10, I started cleaning the Plymouth Arts Council office. Cleaning the office taught the value of hard work, and I was ecstatic when my pay jumped from $1.25 to $1.50. I worked there for three years on Saturdays. My work experience also includes a wide-range of jobs: Burger King (two years), night security guard (one year), night DJ (one year) au pair in Paris (seven months), truck driver for water delivery company (one year), manager at Espresso Royale (three years), waitress at Ashley's (two years), research assistant (one year), varsity tennis coach (two years), and teacher (19 years). I use skills from these jobs every day in my classroom.
Describe an average workday: This is what a production day looks like: My first class of the day is Poetry, which I co-teach with Ellen Stone, ILC teacher and accomplished poet. We have a guest poet visiting and she talks to students about poetry and her writing life. The poet answers questions from students and has them work on their own poems. Class ends with students sharing their poems. During lunch, I meet with a parent. In my Pop Lit class, students read and then write analysis papers focusing on rhetorical devices. In Forum, we work on Career Cruising. At 3:00, I meet with students in the computer lab to start production for "The Communicator." Pizza comes at 6:00 and students gather in the hallway to eat and take a break from their work. Around 8:00, we watch the sun set from the third floor. As the night goes on, more and more pages are complete, the music gets louder, and there is spontaneous singing and even dancing. By 9:30, we turn off the lights in the lab and walk out the door.
What's the most important thing you've learned about teaching? About learning? The most important thing I've learned about teaching and learning is that I always need to be a student in my classroom.
Which apps and websites would you recommend to other teachers? Google Docs/Google Groups and SNO.
What is the most rewarding part of teaching? It is definitely the students. My students have amazed me from everything to exclusive interviews with David Sedaris and Macklemore, to press passes issued directly from The White House to cover Obama's visit. Students also amaze me with the powerful stories that they tell about people who influence their lives every day.
Do you have a favorite moment of teaching? There are many favorite moments with my students. If I had to choose one moment, though, it is a moment that is shared across all of my years at Community. I'm the adviser for "The Communicator," which requires hours after school with students. My favorite moment throughout the years is calling students out of the lab and watching the sunset. I believe it is one of the best place in Ann Arbor to end the day.
What was always written on your report card in grade school? "Tracy tries hard."
What has surprised you most about the profession? The job never gets easier; it gets harder. The more I understand about teaching and learning, the more there is to do.
Do you have a mentor? Cathy Fleischer, my education professor from Eastern, from over 20 years ago, helped me develop my pedagogical philosophy. Cathy also serves as a mentor and inspiration for my teacher research. I use qualitative and quantitative research to guide my teaching practices, and have co-authored two books and co-authored numerous professional articles. Cathy leads an amazing teacher research group out of her home. Teachers come from all over Michigan to discuss their research on Thursday evenings once a month. I always leave inspired. It is a true PLC.
What do you wish everyone realized about the work of a teacher? Teachers work incredibly hard. Sometimes decisions are made about public education without talking to the teachers who are working in classrooms every day.
What would you tell a college student considering becoming a teacher? Always be a student in your classroom.

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Notes to Ayn Rand
1. For concerns about the accuracy of the published version of Rand's journals, see Sciabarra 1998 and Burns 2009.
2. Michael Shermer discusses the cultish features of Rand's followers, but also writes that many of her ideas, including her defense of reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, are powerful and insightful (Shermer 1993).
3. True, they owe their existence and nature—their function—to human purposes, and do not care if they are harmed. But in this they are no different from black tulips. At best, Rand's argument supports her claim that the genesis of value is life.
4. Kelley (2015) seems to be moving towards the eudaimonist position, but complicating this interpretation is the fact that his essay begins and ends with the claim that life (survival?) is the standard of value.
5. Kira (We the Living) loses everyone and everything she loves to a vicious totalitarian system, but retains her passionate love for life. Roark (Fountainhead), condemned to work in a quarry, perhaps forever, never succumbs to bitterness or hatred towards those who have deprived him of his life-blood—building—treating his pain as an adversary to be vanquished. Francisco's house in Galt's Gulch (Atlas Shrugged) serves as a metaphor for the virtuous hero's ability to affirm life in the face of sorrow: the "silent, locked exterior" of the house bespeaks the sorrow and loneliness of Francisco's years of painful renunciation of the woman and the work he loves, but the interior is filled with an "invigorating brightness", the sorrow overcome by his affirmation of life (Rand 1957 [1992]: 710).
6. In "Philosophy and Sense of Life" (Rand 1966b), however, Rand argues that (i) we start forming our emotional outlook on life—our "sense of life"—long before we have acquired conscious convictions about the world, and that (ii) most people's sense of life is closer to the truth than their conscious convictions. In her fiction, too, Rand often indicates that emotions can sometimes be more trustworthy in apprising us of the truth than reason, a view that has recently gained support from cognitive, evolutionary, and social psychology. Time and again she shows her heroes justifiably accepting the evidence of their emotions, without quite understanding why. Thus, in an early scene in Atlas Shrugged we read that Dagny is convinced that Francisco has become a worthless playboy and that she ought to grant him no personal recognition; but when during their conversation she realizes that she still desires him, we are told that she neither fights it nor regrets it (1957 [1992]: 117–18). In The Fountainhead, we see Dominique telling Gail Wynand, a man whose principles she despises, that it will take her "years to understand" why she has started feeling loyal to him, for it "contradicts everything" she's done and thought—but she knows she owes it to him to warn him against Ellsworth Toohey (1943: 499–500).
7. McConnell's (2010) oral history of Rand's life contains many examples of people who attested to Rand's generosity. One example comes from June Kuriso, née Kato (86–107). Kuriso was attending college in Los Angeles, where she lived in a church-sponsored hostel for Japanese people who had been interned. On Saturdays June would go to Rand and Frank O'Connor's ranch in San Fernando, spending the weekend typing pages of Atlas Shrugged as Rand wrote them. Rand paid her enough for those two days ($48, the equivalent of between $485 and $524 in today's dollars) to enable June to support herself through the week and pay for her college expenses. Rand was also very kind and friendly towards her. "When you get right down to it, I'm talking about extreme fondness, love. She was so good to me" (104). Another example is Rand's persistence over a period of three years in rescuing her first English teacher and her mother's close friend, Maria Strakhow, from a Displaced Persons' camp in Austria, paying for her passage and putting her up in her own home for a year (94; and Berliner, 1995a, pp. 301, 360, 362, 367, 369, 376, 377, 401, 406, 409, 426).
8. Nor are these examples of out-of-character behavior; we are clearly meant to believe that Roark, Dagny, Rearden, and Rand's other heroes and heroines have kind and generous characters. Thus, we read that when Mallory looks up at Roark, he sees "the calmest, kindest face"—though "a face without a hint of pity" (1943: 321), and Keating tells Roark that he is "the kindest man" he knows for not dredging up the past and throwing it in his face now that he is down and out (1943: 574–75). Kelley (1996) and Smith (2006) give instrumentalist arguments for elevating the status of the virtues of benevolence in the Objectivist ethics.
9. This is not to say, however, that Rand cannot recognize the positive obligations and correlative rights created by contracts, parenthood, and so on.
10. Marx's labor theory of value and worker-exploitation led him, famously, to use the same argument from self-ownership to reject private property rights in The Communist Manifesto.
11. The only exception is Anthem's Golden One, who has her hands full as the prospective first mother of a new generation of people in a new world. In addition, although The Fountainhead's Dominique is a successful journalist, she is not interested in it as a career: her only project is to remain free of all ties to the world.
12. See, for example, the story of the young man who is saved from despair by seeing Roark's Monadnock Valley Resort:
He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life … Let me see that in one single act of man on earth … the final, the fulfilled, the innocent of pain. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it … show me that it is possible—show me your achievement—and the knowledge will give me courage for mine…. [T]here it was before his eyes … [Roark] did not know that he had given someone the courage to face a lifetime. (1943: 503–6)
13. Rand's position bears some resemblance to C.S. Lewis's self-refutation argument against naturalism, famously critiqued by G.E.M. Anscombe. See C.S. Lewis, Miracles, ch. 3. London & Glasgow 1947, revised 1960; and G.E.M. Anscombe, "Reply to Mr. C.S. Lewis's Argument that 'Naturalism' is Self-Refuting", Socratic Digest 4 (1948), 7–15; reprinted in The Collected Philosophical Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, Vol. II: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford 1981), 224–232.
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An anti-gun/anti-Second Amendment publication, The Trace, reports that a group of Canadian and U.S. nuns and other Catholic activists want gunmakers to actively monitor violence committed with their product. That's not all, they plan to make them engage in corporate governance. To make this happen, they bought stock – enough to make them bend to their will.
It's another ploy meant to make gunmakers the means of their own destruction.
We don't make car manufacturers keep lists of everyone who dies in a crash and then provide governance.
According to SEC filings, these anti-Second Amendment activists bought stock in gun manufacturing companies to force them to do it and more. This was in response to the Parkland school shooting.
After the Parkland school shooting, the activists, including the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and the Catholic Health Initiatives network of clinics, bought stock in the American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC), which owns Smith & Wesson.
They did the same with Sturm, Ruger, the other major publicly traded gun company. The activists then used their status as shareholders to ask fellow investors to join them in demanding that the gunmakers publicly report on public safety risks caused by their products.
Now, Ruger's is considering the leftist nuns' proposal because their shareholders voted for it with 69 percent of the vote, The Trace reports.
No gun company has ever before had its shareholders order a company to consider people harmed by the misuse of their product.
The activists are also out to get American Outdoor Brands Corporation to do the same. They are even going further, and are asking the company to engage in corporate governance. The nuns want them to begin the process of destroying themselves. It opens the way for lawsuits holding gunmakers responsible for the misuse of their products. The expense of the suits will eventually destroy these companies.
The Catholics, of which I am one, want to disarm the law-abiding citizens. I want my church to get out of politics and stick to religion.
This information was also published at The Patriot Chronicles.
Thanks Nuns, but we got this. Why don't y'all clean up your own backyard first. OK?
Oh the Catholic church nuns. Don't they have some children to beat up, or some priests to give hummers to and engage in threesomes with young boys?
Let's take a closer look at this. First it's Michael Bloomberg's 'The Trace' reporting it, Nope no bias there and highly questionable that any of it is actually true given all the lies Bloomberg's groups have told in the past.
Next if memory serves Nuns take a vow of poverty like Brother's in the Catholic church (Priests don't by the way), so where is all this money coming from?
I thought that nuns were supposed to help others, instead of taking away their rights.
If they have this kind of money to waste they no longer need my financial support.
1)- Matt 7:5 "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." With the intent to hold establishments accountable to the individuals they've injured, shouldn't they focus upon each child the Church of Rome has abused??? List the names, parishes and pedophiles. Ladies, clean your own damned house first!
2)- These are nuns. HOW MUCH is Rome paying them in order to purchase controlling amount of Smith and Wesson???
There is no such thing as "gun violence". And there are virtually no nuns around so who is financing this?
Operating on Humanism not Divine mandates, actually doing the will of Marxist doctrines.
Reparations to all the young children sexually abused by Catholic priest would be a better use of the money.
Doctrine teaches us that people do evil things, not objects.
The nuns should set up a "mission" in South Chicago and stop some of the slaughter that goes on there every day.
Hmmm. I wonder if these nuns are holding the stock personally or if it is in some form of group account.
Wouldn;t it be a hoot if the stock were part of the pay out for priest abuse?
I own many rugers, I can stop buying them if need be, I will starve them out or they will act according to the buyers will.
How about they use that money for the homeless or less fortunate? Not too keen on the church or their clergy/nuns investing in arms companies no matter what the intent. Wouldn't that make them seem complicit?
Of course, they could just pave the way for other gun companies to start up and replace the ones they bought, causing them eventually to go broke and be unable to do squat.
Wouldn't that be getting involved in politics and isn't that illegal for these nuns who get the benefit of all sorts of tax breaks from the taxpayers?


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Israeli, Greek and US warships concluded a joint two-week Mediterranean naval exercise codenamed "Noble Dina" on Thursday, the Israeli military said.
"The exercise, which took place in the Mediterranean Sea, was conducted in order to assess the level of operational coordination between the three navies," it said.
It said that participants were drilled in "search and rescue, immediacy and efficiency of the response to maritime emergencies, maritime evacuation, navigation and fire drills."
The exercise wound up as US President Barack Obama paid a three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank.
For several years, Israel and the US carried out naval manoeuvres with Turkey, but Ankara in September 2011 expelled Israel's ambassador and suspended military cooperation with the Jewish state.
Once-warm ties reached a low point after Israeli commandos raided a Gaza-bound Turkish aid flotilla in the Mediterranean in May 2010, killing nine Turks on board.
Relations with traditionally pro-Arab Greece have since been warming, with Israel joining it in naval and air exercises.
Athens is keenly interested in Israel's economic rapprochement with traditional Greek ally Cyprus to develop offshore gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean.
Media said of last year's Noble Dina exercise that it was designed in part to practice defending offshore gas rigs.
In November, Israeli and US troops concluded a major missile defence exercise lasting more than three weeks and involving 3,500 personnel from the US European Command and 1,000 Israeli troops.
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Reform School Girls é um filme estadunidense de 1986, dirigido por Tom DeSimone, que traz no elenco Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast e Sybil Danning. Ele mostra um reformatório para garotas que é dirigido por uma diretora cruel e sadista, chamada Sutter, e por Edna, sua parceira.

Sinopse
O filme é uma sátira ao filme Women in Prison e acaba também trazendo complemento de vários outros filmes. Partes como a cena explicíta de nudez no chuveiro — por controvérsia incluindo a atriz Linda Carol, a protagonista, que ainda era menor de idade na época — cenas de briga e uma relação amorosa entre uma das presidiárias com um administrador. A sinopse toda envolve um novo influxo de garotas indo para o reformatório. Elas, imediatamente, se confrontam com Charlie Chambliss (Wendy O. Williams) que é a líder das delinquentes do reformatório e tem uma forte relação com Edna (Pat Ast).

Jenny (Linda Carol) vai para o reformatório após se envolver em um tiroteio. Ela tenta se livrar do reformatório após ficar amiga de um motorista mais velho, com o qual ela tem um encontro amoroso na parte de trás de seu caminhão. Lisa (Sherri Stoner) é uma fugitiva que é capturada e levada para o reformatório. Ela sofre diversas perdas enquanto está no reformatório, incluindo a perda de seu bichinho de estimação e de um gato, que as garotas do reformatório encontraram. O gato é descoberto por Edna, que acaba matando-o. Lisa é punida com isolamento. Após a morte de seu gato, Lisa corre para a parte de fora do reformatório e começa a subir em uma torre. Edna a segue. Quando Lisa chega ao topo da torre, se assusta com a presença de Edna, se desequilibra e cai do alto da torre, morrendo.

O filme termina com um protesto das garotas do reformatório após Doutor Norton, o psiquiatra, forçar os administradores a comparecerem em uma reunião para discutir as condições e o tratamento das presidiárias. Durante a reunião, Jenny bate em uma guarda e rouba as chaves. Dessa forma, ela liberta todas as garotas que fazem uma marcha. Edna, no entanto, pega uma arma e começa a abrir fogo contra elas. Edna atira em Charlie e sobe na torre de rádio que, Sutter, a diretora do reformatório, usava para transmitir mensagens religosas para as presidiárias. Charlie, apesar do tiro, pega um ônibus escolar ali perto e o investe contra a torre em que estava Edna, matando-a. Charlie rasteja pelo chão e, pouco antes de morrer, grita para Edna: "See you in hell!". A cena final mostra Jenny sendo libertada do reformatório.

Elenco

Linda Carol - Jenny
Wendy O. Williams - Charlie Chambliss
Pat Ast - Edna
Sybil Danning - Warden Sutter
Charlotte McGinnis - Doutor Norton
Sherri Stoner - Lisa
Denise Gordy - Claudie
Laurie Schwartz - Nicky
Tiffany Helm - Andrea "Fish" Eldridge
Darcy DeMoss - Karen "Knox" Charmin
Andrea Darnell - Paula
Robin Watkins - Kelly
Winifred Freedman - Terri
James Staszkiel - Motorista do caminhão
Fred D. Scott - Juiz Carter
Lorrie Marlow - Shelly
Daniel Arthur Wray - Doutor Fisher
Alicia Shonte - Stella
Jon H. Epstein - Billy
Terri Lynn - Garota ruim #1
Sylvia Dohi - Garota ruim #2
Victoria Fischer - Garota
Lila Waters - Clerk

Linda L. Rand - Guarda
Don Pugsley - Motorista do ônibus
Susan Cheng - Secretária
Micki Varro - Enfermeira
Leslie Rivers - Guarda
Dharvi Darrell - Enfermeira-chefe
Archie Lang - Juiz
Justine Lenore - Enfermeira-chefe
Vance Valencia - Guarda do portão
Lavelle Roby - Guarda
Mary Brando - Garota #1
Jennifer Sophia - Garota #2
Kristi Hayden - Kate
Katherine Hittleman - Enfermeira
Lisa Sanderson - Guarda
Michelle Bauer - Garota no chuveiro (não creditado)
Leslee Bremmer - Garota no chuveiro (não creditado)
Brooke Morales - Garota no chuveiro (não creditado)
Karen James - Dotty (não creditado)
Kathy Lee Kennedy - Guarda (não creditado)
Sheila Lussier - (não creditado)
Julia Parton - presidiária (não creditado)

Trilha Sonora
"Reform School Girls" - Wendy O. Williams
"So Young, So Bad, So What" - Etta James
"Bad Girl" - Wendy O. Williams
"Crime of The Heart" - Girl's Night Out
"Nowhere To Run" - Girlschool
"Love Slave" - Screamin Siren
"Goin Wild" - Wendy O. Williams
"It's My Life" - Wendy O. Williams
"Three Blind Mice" (Three Stooges Theme) - Arranjo de Spud Murphy

Filmes com órfãos
Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1986
Filmes de drama dos Estados Unidos
Filmes em língua inglesa


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Ви́льяр Ва́лдурович Ло́ор (, 1 октября 1953, , Эстонская ССР — 22 марта 2011, ) — советский волейболист, игрок сборной СССР (1975—1986). Олимпийский чемпион 1980, двукратный чемпион мира (1978 и 1982), двукратный обладатель Кубка мира (1977 и 1981), 5-кратный чемпион Европы, 8-кратный чемпион СССР. Центральный блокирующий. Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1978).

Биография
Волейболом начал заниматься в 1963 году в ДЮСШ г. Тарту.

Тренировался под руководством отца Валдура Лоора, который сам был волейболистом и судьей. В 1970 году Лоор дебютировал в чемпионате Эстонской ССР и выиграл с юношеской командой Эстонской ССР чемпионат СССР среди юниоров. В 1971 году он был назначен капитаном юношеской сборной СССР, с которой он выиграл титул чемпиона Европы в 1971 и 1973 годах.

Выступал за команды:
 1971—1973 — «Калев» (Маарду);
 1974—1975 — «Калев» (Таллин);
 1975—1977 — ЦСКА;
 1977—1978 — «Калев» (Таллин);
 1978—1983 — ЦСКА;
 1983—1985 — «Калев» (Таллин).

8-кратный чемпион СССР (1975, 1976, 1978—1983), обладатель Кубка СССР 1982, обладатель Кубка чемпионов ЕКВ 1982. В составе сборной Москвы стал серебряным призёром Спартакиады народов СССР 1983.

В сборной СССР в официальных соревнованиях выступал в 1975—1983 годах. В её составе: олимпийский чемпион 1980, двукратный чемпион мира (1978 и 1982), двукратный победитель розыгрышей Кубка мира (1977 и 1981), 5-кратный чемпион Европы (1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983).

Награждён орденом «Знак Почёта» (1980).

После окончания активной спортивной карьеры работал в качестве заместителя директора Агро Тарту, в совхозе,

С 1977 года изучал экономику в Таллинском университете.

После отделения Эстонии от Советского Союза Лоор был совладельцем строительной компании, которую основал вместе со своим братом Хельдуром Лоором.

Возглавлял Ассоциацию эстонских олимпийцев.

Покончил самоубийством из-за тяжёлой болезни.

Примечания

Источник
 Волейбол: Энциклопедия / Сост. В. Л. Свиридов, О. С. Чехов. — Томск: Компания «Янсон», 2001.

Ссылки
 Свет былых побед. Вильяр Лоор

Волейболисты СССР
Игроки ВК ЦСКА Москва
Олимпийские чемпионы по волейболу
Олимпийские чемпионы от СССР
Чемпионы летних Олимпийских игр 1980 года
Волейболисты на летних Олимпийских играх 1980 года
Чемпионы мира по волейболу
Чемпионы Европы по волейболу
Чемпионы СССР по волейболу
Похороненные на Лесном кладбище Таллина


The City of Cottage Grove seeks highly motivated and hardworking individuals to apply for this 6 month position. The position will start mid-April and end in October. The employee will work directly with the Golf Course Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent. This position will assist in the maintenance, construction, equipment maintenance and irrigation of the River Oaks Golf Course.
Minimum qualifications include: 1) 18 years of age2) Valid driver's license. 3) High school graduate or equivalent.
Desired qualifications include: 1) Formal education or practical experience in mowing and/or landscaping and turf maintenance.
a. Knowledge of the standard practices, methods, tools, materials and equipment of golf course maintenance activities.
c. Ability to take initiative and work independently.
d. Working knowledge of automatic irrigation systems including electric valve and control systems.
e. Ability to plan, direct and participate in golf course construction and maintenance.
f. Ability to obtain a pesticide applicator license.
g. Ability to calibrate chemical and fertilizer application equipment.
h. Ability to perform a variety of assigned maintenance duties.
i. Ability to understand oral and written instructions.
j. Ability to perform strenuous physical labor and heavy manual tasks for extended periods when required.
k. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with elected officials, City employees and the public.
Applications are available here or at Cottage Grove City Hall,12800 Ravine Parkway South., Cottage Grove, MN 55016 or www.cottagegrovemn.gov Please indicate which position you are applying for on the Job Application.


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You're such a goober, Uber: UK regulators blast hushed breach
MP: Funny, you managed to contact customers when TfL put your licence on hold…
Rebecca Hill Wed 22 Nov 2017 // 15:15 UTC
Brit regulators, security agencies and MPs have slammed Uber for covering up the massive data breach of 57 million customer and driver records.
The company – already in hot water in London for its failure to toe the regulatory lines required of a taxi firm – has been widely condemned for concealing the 2016 breach.
The UK's data protection watchdog said that yesterday's revelations about the breach "raises huge concerns around [Uber's] data protection policies and ethics".
Uber has yet to break down the numbers of affected customers on a country-by-country basis – other than to say that 600,000 US drivers' information was leaked – so it isn't clear how many UK employees or customers are at risk.
Deputy information commissioner James Dipple-Johnstone said that if UK citizens had been affected then his organisation "should have been notified so that we could assess and verify the impact on people whose data was exposed".
Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson echoed his concerns about the way the taxi biz handled the breach, saying it raised questions about Uber's "culture and internal practices".
In an open letter to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, shared on Twitter, Watson lambasted Uber for failing to notify customers, observing that it seems perfectly capable of contacting them when it benefits the biz.
"I note that when Transport for London announced that they would not be renewing Uber's licence to operate... Uber emailed its customers to ask them to protest against this decision on the very same day," Watson wrote.
He also posed a list of questions drilling into who was aware of the breach, in addition to the two employees that have been jettisoned from the firm.
I'm shocked at news that Uber concealed a data breach that affected 57 million customers and drivers. I've written to their CEO. pic.twitter.com/7dDbUYV0f1
— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) November 22, 2017
The ICO, the National Crime Agency and the National Security Centre said they were working together to investigate how the breach has affected UK customers.
The agencies pointed out that firms have a duty to 'fess up to breaches so they can work together to tackle the breach and limit the harm to customers.
The ICO also indicated that deliberately concealing breaches "could attract higher fines". Although, as many have noted, the revelation from Uber has come before the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation – and its maximum €20m/£17m fine – kicks in next year.
Uber could not immediately offer any more information on the number of UK users or drivers affected; who was responsible for ensuring Uber complied with UK data protection law at the time of the breach; or when UK regulators and customers would been contacted. ®


Elgin Energy entered a four year partnership with Generation Science in 2017. Generation Science is the interactive STEM education branch of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. They bring unique and inspiring science lessons directly to classrooms all over Scotland with a programme of highly interactive shows and hands-on workshops. Our sponsorship focused on schools in the remote Moray area where we are developing two large projects – Speyslaw 20MW and Milltown Airfield 50MW.
In 2018, Generation Science brought workshops to 10 primary schools in Moray. Over the next three years, Generation Science aims to visit every primary school in the area. Read the full report on the 2018 roadshow below.
For mobile devices, please view the report here.


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Using AI and social media to promote healthy conversations
By Katy Togeretz | September 20, 2018
When Alexandra Philp-Reeves wanted to support a friend who had been diagnosed with an eating disorder, she turned to Google. Unfortunately, most of the advice was unhelpful, conflicting and sometimes even disturbing. An enterprising teenager, Philp-Reeves looked to other technologies for help (namely chatbots), pairing Facebook Messenger with general health and wellness advice for teens. The result: emojiHEALTH, precursor to conversationHEALTH, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to drive conversations about wellbeing.
Over the coming week, as part of the Health track at Elevate (Canada's largest tech and innovation festival), conversationHEALTH's Chief Product Officer, Lexi Kaplin, will share how her company personalizes healthcare to help people of all sorts.
"We really try to look at the person," Kaplin says. "Not just as a number or a demographic, but who they are and how we can bring conversation to them at their time of need."
conversationHEALTH does this is by adopting a core principle from the consumer space: "don't wait for users to come to you; bring content to the places where your users are already spending time." And that, of course, means leveraging existing social platforms. Instead of navigating unwieldy forums or downloading new apps, conversationHEALTH users can interact on platforms they like Facebook Messenger, Kik, Alexa, webchat and SMS.
conversationHEALTH's is enabled on the back end by powerful AI technologies like natural language understanding and machine learning to create a user experience that feels natural. And to ensure the information being provided is accessible and accurate, the company works with a team of advisors made up of healthcare practitioners and regulators.
When it comes to the stigma surrounding certain diagnoses, or the discomfort of asking personal health questions, chatbots provide an ideal solution. "It's amazing to see the kinds of emotional questions that our bot receives," Kaplin says. "The kinds of things people ask our tech ('Am I alone?' and 'How do I cope?') are very different from the ones they ask humans since there's no fear of judgment." Bots also receive questions about personal topics like sex or mental health.
conversationHEALTH is all about facilitating dialogue. The startup offers support and confidence to patients, while also delivering key data to healthcare companies and providers looking to improve the wellness experience.
With an eye to the future, the company plans to develop specific emojiHEALTH bots for conditions like diabetes, epilepsy, depression and IBD.
It's all about empowering users to make healthy decisions. Regardless of age, everyone deserves a platform to be heard – real or virtual.
Kaplin and Philp-Reeves (as well as many more inspiring entrepreneurs) will are speaking at Elevate in Toronto from September 21-27.
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4 Ways 'Super Grandparents' Can Stress Less
Tom Merton—Getty Images/Caiaimage
By Chris Taylor / Reuters
Sharon Kotzen is a 73-year-old retiree, but she is hardly taking it easy.
The former guidance counselor from Wallingford, Pennsylvania spends her days helping look after her three grandkids (including toddler twins), taking music and history classes at a local college, and whisking her extended family away for vacations.
Kotzen is part of a new generation of hard-driving "Super Grandparents" that is spending their golden years looking after everyone around them, financially and otherwise.
"I love it, but it is exhausting," said Kotzen.
It is not surprising that Super Grandparents are pitching in so much, since baby boomers are America's wealthiest generation.
By 2020, the wealth of those currently 52 to 70 will peak at more than 50% of the nation's assets, according to the Deloitte Center for Financial Services.
While Kotzen and her peers do it all with a smile, the burdens can take their toll. There are questions about whether we are overloading this generation with responsibilities, just as bodies and minds tend to start slowing down.
Indeed, some 61% of grandparents financially supported adult children in the previous year, according to the "Family Support in Graying Societies" report of the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center.
During the same time frame, 39% helped with errands, housework and home repairs, and 33% pitched in to look after the grandkids.
"We found all kinds of support flowing across generations," said Kim Parker, Pew's director of social trends research. "The numbers are high – and they get even higher in difficult economic times."
The vast majority of those surveyed say it is "rewarding" to be helping out their kids and grandkids in myriad ways. Still, 30% said providing so much help was "stressful," and 14% said they were being asked to do "too much."
"I'm seeing way too many cases where grandparents are being asked to shoulder the burdens of their adult children," said Edward Vargo, a financial planner in Westlake, Ohio.
Keeping that in mind, here are some coping tips for stressed-out grandparents:
Practice saying 'no'
It is okay to say it, and in fact, your adult children would want to know if you are getting overwhelmed. After all, if you go bust supporting various family members, who will have to support you in the years to come? Those same family members.
"They never give their children any indication they are stressed or the burden is too great," said Vargo.
Avoid recurring costs
There are different ways to help, some more punishing to your 401(k) than others. Try to avoid "recurring" expenses, things like covering the monthly mortgage, which 38% of grandparents report in the Pew survey.
Instead, make occasional contributions depending on your financial capacity. If your investments have had a good run in 2016, for instance, decide over the coming holidays whether you have more breathing room to be generous.
Retain asset control
If you want to make sure your financial contributions are going to the right place, set up college savings plans for the grandkids. In fact grandparents are the account owners of 13% of the almost 13 million 529 accounts as of June 2016, according to research firm Strategic Insight. As the account owner, you also have discretion over which investment options to select within those funds.
Non-financial help
If your retirement savings are a little skinny, work on preserving those but assist in other ways.
"Some grandparents may be able to do more in terms of contributing financially, and others might be able to help with things like carpools and homework," said Marguerita Cheng, a financial planner in Potomac, Maryland.
As for Sharon Kotzen, her words of advice for other Super Grandparents like herself are about attitude: "Number one, you need to be in good health, because it is physically stressful," she says.
"Number two, you have to want to do it. If you do it resentfully, it is not going to work."


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Sean Bellah
bellah@fyiplaw.com
Sean graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Sean attended Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University from 2008 to 2011 graduating cum laude in May, 2011. While attending SMU, Sean served as the president of the Intellectual Property Organization and technology editor and associate managing editor of the International Law Review Association. Sean also served as an intern for the Honorable Jorge Solis of the U.S. Northern District of Texas as well as serving as a member of the John Marshall Moot Court team.
Sean was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in November of 2011. In May 2012, Sean joined Fletcher Yoder as a fulltime associate. His practice focuses on signal processing, web interfaces, computer hardware and software, electronic displays, mechanical and electromechanical systems and controls, data communication, and payment systems.
B.S., Southern Methodist University, 2004, Electrical Engineering
J.D., Southern Methodist University, 2011


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Flow Measurement - Orifice Plate Installation
The insertion of straightening vanes in the straight run of pipe that is available ________________ from the orifice plate can be used to obtain reasonably accurate metering with a _____________ length of straight pipe, in a run where the recommended length of pipe cannot not be used.
A - upstream, longer
B - downstream, shorter
C - downstream, longer
D - upstream, shorter
In theory, vena contracta taps provide the most accurate measurements. The vena contracta is the:
A - Point of greatest turbulence
B - Point of maximum pressure
C - Point of minimum pressure
D - Point of minimum temperature
Flange taps are the most widely used means of measuring differential pressure across an orifice plate. The taps are placed within the orifice mounting flanges, exactly:
A - 0.254 m upstream and downstream of the respective faces of the plate
B - 2.54 mm upstream and downstream of the respective faces of the plate
C - 254 mm upstream and downstream of the respective faces of the plate
D - 25.4 mm upstream and downstream of the respective faces of the plate
Liquid flow pressure connection should be made at the __________________ of the line and the sensing lines sloped __________________ the transmitter to allow accumulated gas to migrate back into the pipe.
A - Top, away from
B - Side, toward
C - Top, toward
D - Bottom, away from
If the recommended length of pipe cannot be provided upstream of the orifice plate, straightening vanes may be used to:
A - Reduce swirl or vortices in the flow
B - Decrease the beta ratio and the severity of the flow disturbance
C - Avoid errors caused by elevation changes
D - Increase swirl or vortices in the flow
Bevelled orifice plates must always be installed with:
A - The flat side upstream and the bevelled side downstream
B - The face of the flange extended beyond the end of the pipe
C - The flat side downstream and the bevelled side upstream
D - A recess between the end of the pipe and orifice plate
The type of differential pressure connection (tap) that is designed to measure the greatest pressure differential in the flow run is:
A - Flange taps
B - Vena contracta taps
C - Pipe taps
D - Corner taps
Prior to operating the orifice plate changer, it should be:
A - Dismantled and thoroughly cleaned
B - Pressure tested
C - Lubricated through the grease fitting
D - All of the above
A slide valve plate changer allows for the:
A - Changing or removal of orifice plates without shutting down or opening the flow line
B - Orifice plates to be cleaned more regularly
C - Changing of orifice plates without shutting down plant production
___________ flow pressure connections should be made at the _________________of the line so that sediment and condensate will not enter the transmitter sensing lines.
A - Vapour, bottom or at the side
B - Gas, top or at the side
C - Liquid, top or bottom
D - Steam, bottom
Of the types of pressure connections discussed, the only connection that may be made at the top or at the side of the line is a:
A - Liquid flow pressure connection
B - Vena contracta tap
C - Steam or other vapour flow pressure connection
D - Gas flow pressure connection
The type of differential pressure connection (tap) that is used for pipe sizes less than 50mm (2in.) nominal pipe diameter with low beta ratios is:
A - Pipe taps
B - Corner taps
C - Flange taps
D - Vena contracta taps
__________________ flow pressure connections should be made at the __________________ of the line.
A - Steam, side
B - Gas, bottom or the side
C - Liquid, top
The type of differential pressure connection (tap) that is used to measure the permanent pressure loss that results whenever a fluid flows through a restriction is:
A - Corner taps
B - Pipe taps
C - Vena contracta taps
D - Flange taps
To install an orifice plate with an orifice plate changer, the first step is to depressurize the upper chamber by opening the bleed valve.
A - False
B - True
Orifice plates:
A - should be cleaned with a suitable solvent.
B - must be clamped so that the orifice bore is concentric with the pipe.
C - should have the upstream side of the handle marked ?inlet?.
Fluid should enter the orifice plate with a fully developed velocity profile, free of vortices to allow for:
A - increased beta ratio and flow disturbance
B - the elimination of "rattle" in the pipes
C - the highest degree of measurement accuracy
D - the installation of straightening vanes
If the orifice plate is greasy, it should be cleaned using sandpaper or emery.
A - True
B - False
Both types of straightening vanes (fin-type and flanged-type tubular vane) are bolted or welded to the pipe to allow for:
A - The thickness of the gasket
B - Movement of both ends of the vane
C - Expansion without distortion
D - Valves and fittings
Date: 2015-12-17; view: 937
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Brexit guidance
Future of accountancy
Students – general
Pensions and payroll
AT magazine
By AAT Comment
Everyone, irrespective of age or background, should get the skills they need
The Government is helping to improve the nation's skills, support careers and provide a talent pipeline for business, writes Conservative MP Gillian Keegan, Minister for Apprenticeships & Skills.
The pandemic has shone a light on some of the acute skills gaps that exist across the country. According to recent research by Hays recruitment, four out of five accountancy and finance employers say they have experienced some form of skills shortage within the past year.
Accountancy firms are the bedrock of our financial sector and the industry has long faced the challenges of skill shortages. In this country, businesses and public sector organisations are crying out for more accountants and financial analysts.
Apprenticeships are playing a key role in attracting new talent from all walks of life, helping to make sure employers of all sizes have access to the skills they need to grow. There are a range of apprenticeship opportunities available within the financial sector – everything from accounting technician to senior compliance and risk specialist.
It is great to see employers like BDO and KPMG embracing the benefits of apprenticeships, providing people with the chance to gain a professional qualification and earn a salary – all at the same time.
Another great example in the accountancy sector, is RSM UK, who have continued to invest in their apprenticeship programme giving more school leavers the opportunity to have successful careers in audit, tax and consulting professions. Since 2016, their school leaver intake for their AAT apprenticeship programme has increased by more than 35%.
I know first-hand the power apprenticeships can have. They can transform lives and open doors to careers you didn't think were possible. This government's apprenticeships, which have all been designed in partnership with leading employers, are longer and higher quality, ensuring apprentices get the valuable skills they need to progress.
Ensuring more people can access high quality further education and training, and secure a good career, is central to this government's mission of levelling up opportunity across the country and helping to rebuild and grow our economy after the pandemic. The Prime Minister recently announced the 'Opportunity Guarantee', giving every young person the chance of an apprenticeship or an in-work placement.
To help boost the number of apprenticeship opportunities available, as part of the Government's Plan for Jobs, employers are being offered £2,000 for each new apprentice aged under 25 they hire, and £1,500 for each new apprentice they hire aged 25 and over, up to the 31st January 2021. This includes taking on an apprentice who has been made redundant.
On top of this, we announced an £111 million boost to triple the number of traineeships available across England – the largest-ever expansion of traineeships – to help even more 16-24 year olds prepare for apprenticeships and work through sector-focused skills development and work experience.
Last week the Prime Minister also announced a new 'Lifetime Skills Guarantee' including offering adults without an A Level or equivalent qualification a free, fully-funded course, to provide them with the skills valued by employers. We will also make it easier for adults and young people to study more flexibly – allowing them to space out their studies across their lifetimes, transfer credits between colleges and universities, and enable more part-time study. We will also provide finance for shorter term studies, rather than having to study in one three or four year block.
Technology is also playing a greater part in all our lives, so we need to ensure that everyone is able to gain the tools they need to navigate the digital world, particularly in the workplace. That's why we have committed £8 million to expand digital bootcamps this year in the West Midlands, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Liverpool City Region. These will be led by local employers and will be followed by additional camps in Leeds, the South West, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire early next year. We have also expanded The Skills Toolkit – an online platform which now offers over 70 free to access online courses in a wide range of subjects including everyday maths, tools for using email and social media at work.
We want people to learn about all available careers – including exciting opportunities in the accountancy industry – so they can choose a path that is best suited to their skills and talents. We invested a further £32 million to ensure The National Careers Service can provide high quality, personalised advice and guidance to more young people and adults.
I know it has been a challenging time for the entire country, but the wide range of support we have developed is designed to help us to build back better after Coronavirus. We are working to make sure everyone, irrespective of their age or background gets the skills and experience they need to progress, to have rewarding careers and give businesses the talent pipeline they need to prosper, not just for today, but for the future.
Gillian Keegan is Member of Parliament for Chichester and the Government's Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships & Skills.
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While taking time away from the office for vacation can be a very healthy endeavor for the body and mind, eating healthy while traveling can be a challenge for our physical health. Before leaving for a 15-day trip to Europe, thoughts swirled into my head, "what am I going to eat?" and "will there be vegetables?" alongside Google searches such as, "how do you say almond milk in French?" In the land of endless pastries and macaroons (not hatin'), we were a little concerned about getting our greens in, keeping our gut healthy, and fighting the hanger on long train rides.
First and foremost, pack snacks. This is our #1 rule for a reason. Before we even left the US, I went to Whole Foods and stocked up on items like jerky, protein bars, portable packets of peanut butter, and trail mix. This saved us in the Paris train station in which the only options were whole baguettes stuffed with cheese. Look for snack items that have a good blend of all 3 macronutrients (protein, fat, carbs) to help with satiety and fullness.
Secondly, turn to social media. Instagram was incredibly helpful in finding restaurants and cafes with healthy options. There are whole IG accounts dedicated to "Gluten Free X city" featuring all of the best choices. We were able to use these resources as a jumping off point for planning our meals!
The third tip is to read the menu ahead of time and/or ask the server if there are gluten free or allergen friendly options. Europe is becoming more accommodating in this regard as we saw many menus that had items specified as "sans gluten" or "V" designating vegetarian or vegan. It can be a challenge if you don't speak the language, but look up the word for "without" before asking about gluten-free items.
The fourth tip is to add a salad to every meal! Yes, every meal. When we knew we were going to eat pizza for dinner, we made sure the restaurant had a green salad as well. For lunch most days, we ordered whatever greens were on the menu with a side of protein. Not only are the greens giving you the micronutrients that you need, it helps to avoid the dreaded traveler's tummy (we all know what that means…).
Finally, don't deprive yourself! When traveling to another country, it's so important to fully embrace the culture and enjoy your experiences there. Knowing there would be boundless macaroons and croissants, we opted for healthier options for the main meals so that we could indulge, GUILT-FREE. There is no shame in treating yo'self and we do not believe in deprivation. Choose what treats are most important to you and enjoy them fully (for me, that was skipping the bread and saving room for dessert).
Go ahead... eat one, or five.
With some planning ahead and a little bit of research, eating healthy abroad doesn't have to be a complete disaster. What ways have you found to honor your health while traveling? Share them with us!


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If you've ever been lost in an unfamiliar city or tried to walk around in the dark, then you may have found yourself wishing you had the eyes of a cat or the echolocation abilities of a bat. But have you ever wished for the navigation abilities of a sea turtle? While many animals are known for their superb sensory perception which make them better navigators than humans, it may surprise you to hear that sea turtles are among the elite navigators of the animal kingdom. Sea turtles are able to cross entire ocean basins (covering distances of thousands of miles) surrounded by seemingly featureless, dark water in order to return years later to their original nesting grounds. This behavior is as perplexing as it is impressive: while we know that sea turtle navigation has something to do with sensing Earth's magnetic field, the mechanism which enables them to sense and interpret magnetic fields has not yet been identified.
To compare, humans have five senses. Each of these senses is linked to some kind of receptor which converts the environmental stimulus into a signal which our brains can interpret as either an image, a sound, a taste, a texture or a smell. For example, our eyes contain photoreceptors which convert light into electrical signals that travel to our brains and are interpreted as images. Sea turtles have another sense: they are able to sense magnetic fields. This means they must have some magnetic receptor which converts the magnetic field into a signal which is interpreted by the animal's brain. However, scientists don't know what these magnetic receptors are or where they are located within the body of a sea turtle. This is a crucial step on the path to understanding the impressive navigation abilities of sea turtles.
Working in collaboration with biologists who study sea turtle navigation, my research project is to design and build a special imaging system which is able to locate these magnetic receptors in sea turtles. This project can be broken down into three parts: design the imaging system, develop a method for detecting magnetic particles, then build and test the hardware.
Designing an Imaging System
You may wonder why it's so hard to find these magnetic receptors if we know they must exist. It's difficult because these magnetic receptors are extremely tiny, thought to be smaller than the size of a single cell, and they may be located anywhere inside the body of the sea turtle. The smallest species of sea turtle is roughly the same size and weight as a Labrador, with some species being several times larger, making the search for a cell-sized particle challenging. For an imaging system to detect these magnetic receptors, we need the following conditions:
High resolution- Because these receptors may be very small, we need high resolution to locate where they reside within the tissue.
High magnetic sensitivity- If we want to detect very small magnetic particles, then our system has to be very sensitive to small amounts of magnetic material.
Fast- Because we have to search through large volumes of tissue, we need a fast imaging system to do this in a reasonable amount of time.
Non-destructive- Many existing imaging methods require the addition of dyes and other contrast agents which irreversibly alter the tissue. We would like to avoid this because sea turtles are endangered and finding dead sea turtle tissue to image can be challenging.
So why can't we use an imaging system that already exists? Although there are several imaging systems which are able to detect magnetic particles, none of them meet all four of our requirements. For example, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is very sensitive to magnetic material, but the resolution is not high enough for our aim. A microscope has really good resolution, but it can only image a very small section of tissue at one time, so the overall imaging speed is slow.
In order to meet all four imaging system requirements, we use a relatively new optical imaging system called Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). OCT is very similar to an ultrasound, the same technology used to produce fetal sonograms. Rather than using sound waves to form an image as in ultrasound, OCT uses light waves from a laser to create an image. By using light instead of sound, we shrink the scale of the imaging down so that our resolution is much better than that of MRI or ultrasound. By its nature, OCT is also non-destructive.
OCT works by illuminating the sample we want to image with light waves. When the light hits the sample, it can either pass through the sample or it can bounce away (we call this scattering). OCT captures the light that is scattered back in the direction from which it came. We record this light on a camera along with light that was reflected from a stationary mirror in a process called interferometry. By comparing the light reflected from the mirror and the light back-scattered from the sample, we can tell how far the light travelled after it was scattered from the sample. This allows us to create 2D images of the sample.
Developing a Method for Magnetic Particle Detection
To get the desired magnetic sensitivity, I designed and built an electromagnet which can produce a sufficiently high magnetic force. We place this magnet over the tissue we want to image. By applying a current with a sinusoidally varying amplitude to the electromagnet, we create a magnetic field with a sinusoidally varying amplitude. This variation in the magnetic field strength causes the magnetic force felt by a magnetic particle to vary sinusoidally as well. Therefore, any tiny magnetic receptors in the sea turtle tissue we are imaging will oscillate up and down in sync with the applied magnetic force. As the magnetic particles oscillate up and down, they will cause the surrounding tissue to deform. This deformation causes a measurable change in the back-scattered light. We record a series of images while applying the oscillating magnetic force. We can then compare consecutive frames to identify any pixels whose intensity is varying in sync with the applied magnetic force and by doing so, locate the magnetic receptors (see Fig. 2). An OCT system combined with this method of magnetic particle detection is called magnetomotive OCT.
Fig. 2 Schematic Diagram showing that when the magnetic receptors (black spheres) feel the oscillating magnetic force, they oscillate up and down creating a measurable change in the light reflected from the surrounding tissue.
Testing the Magnetomotive OCT System
After designing and building the magnetomotive OCT system, we first had to test the system to ensure it met our requirements for resolution, speed, and magnetic sensitivity. We measured the resolution by imaging small, highly scattering particles and confirmed that we achieved our desired resolution. To test the imaging speed, we imaged human bronchial epithelial cells. These are the cells lining our airways which contain cilia and secrete mucus. The mucus layer acts like a shield preventing the bacteria we breathe in from entering our bloodstream. The cilia beat to propel the mucus (containing all those trapped bacteria) out of our airways and are a vital component of a healthy immune system. Therefore, the ability to image living, beating cilia is helpful to doctors who study respiratory diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis. Our collaborators in the Cystic Fibrosis Center at UNC provided us with a sample of these cells, and we were able to image the beating cilia. This was a very exciting result. Not only did we confirm that our OCT system has a fast imaging speed, but we also discovered that this novel imaging system may be useful for helping to diagnose and research respiratory diseases.
Future Research: Turtles and Beyond
Our imaging speed experiment using epithelial cells demonstrates a vital point in the scientific process: often, by setting out to answer one question, you may open avenues of investigation you had never considered. We demonstrated with this experiment that our OCT system has the best combination of high resolution and high-speed of any OCT system to date. We will next measure the magnetic sensitivity of our system by imaging tissue phantoms, silicone-based samples which mimic the light-scattering properties of biological tissue, containing increasingly small concentrations of magnetic particles. Once we are sure that our system has the desired magnetic sensitivity, we can begin imaging animal tissue. If we are able to locate the magnetic receptors, it would be a huge breakthrough in the study of sea turtle navigation. If we are able to find these receptors, biologists can study them to understand exactly how they are used to sense magnetic fields and how the turtles use that information to navigate. Building this novel imaging system is just one step toward finally understanding sea turtle navigation. In addition, we have also discovered that our technology may have other uses, as our preliminary work with the cilia suggest. We will continue toward our goal of detecting magnetic receptors in sea turtle tissue while also investigating the system's applications in respiratory disease research.
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