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2009-05-15: Double Healing
Summary: Addison goes to check on the kid in the medbay. Calls for a physical healer, and wings it. It works.
Double Healing
Xavier Mansion - Medical Bay
The Medical Bay contains the latest medical equipment to patch up students and X-Men with the smallest and worst injuries. Six beds line the walls for injured patients. Equipment lines the walls, medicine in the cabinets, and more serious medical supplies locked in cabinets. One this about this room it screams sterilization.
After two days spent in the medical bay, the boy made of ice has not switched from his ice form yet. The boy made of pure ice lays in his bed, right now he's in the middle of taking a nap. His UM suit was luckily on before he had changed to ice. The med bay is adequately cooled now that he's been the independent air conditioning unit.
Having heard of something strange in the medbay, Addison has decided to come and check it out for himself. His powers may be of a mental nature, but he's seen a lot in his few years, so maybe he has some kind of idea what can be done. Nobody knows for sure. WAlking into the medbay, he glances around and moves towards the sleeping ice child with a pondering expression on his face.
If there is any such thing as a 'cute sleeping teenager' it certainly isn't the case this time. Max is laying on his side, his head looking upwards, and his mouth partially open. If it weren't for Kael's moving of him before he left, Max would also be having his legs draping over the side of the bed as well. He is having a dream at the moment, it's vivid but it shows up like a fast moving scrapbook. Images of fire, the X-Men plushies set ablaze, signs screaming 'DIE MUTANTS DIE' and 'Keep America Human!', raised fists in the air. And a little then thirteen year old boy who looks very much like Max running away from the fire. Max soon wakes up with a short yell. There aren't more overnighters in the medbay right now, so no one is shaken up from the outburst. The blonde teen looks up and sees Addison, giving something of a smile and sitting up. "Heya."
"In your dreams, you don't have to run away and be scared." Addison says softly. "You're strong enough to master your mind." He offers, moving to sit next to Max with a half a grin. "Of course, I say this and sometimes I forget to control my own dreams." He winks, shrugging lightly. "So, Max… I've heard there's something strange going on."
Max's smile fades as Addison mentions his dream. "I, uhh." He doesn't know if he should explain, but it soon becomes a faded memory. "Something strange?" The iced mutant looks to the bed he's in. "Oh…" He looks back up at Addison. "I started to forget things." He explains…very haphazardly, he's not exactly one for details right now.
Addison shakes his head softly as he notes the forgetting. He takes a moment, to think through a few things. "Max, would you like me to look inside and see if I can get you a temporary fix? I don't know if I can." He admits. THough, there is the possibility that he can, for a bit. At least long enough to let a healer fix him. A body healer… most telepaths can be mind healers. He could create a mental link to things in Max's mind. Maybe. IF it works. OR at least help him shift back to normal.
Max continues to look at Addison, questioning what it is he wants to do. He does know that Addison wants to help, and Kael and Eddie want Max to get better. "Okay." He replies, looking to himself, and the iced uniform that is on him.
Addison can't help a mental sigh that may track through. His pity definitely will reach through as his mind touches the other's. "Just relax. I'll see what I can do from here. If nothing else, I CAN shut your power down, but I'm going to try to help you remember how to do it on your own, ok?" He tries to explain it again. Poor kid.
Max lies back, letting Addison into his head. Max memories of the past six months are more than holed. And where there are solid memories, there are switched details. Even one where Iceman is the headmaster of this school, and not Cyclops. The iced boy is in his New Mutants uniform, having iced up with his body three days ago. The past two days have been somewhat hellish for Max and his most treasured friends here. "I tried to change back already though." He says, after Addison explained what he's trying to do.
There's a muttering from Addison. "Right. But I can turn your power off. Completely. That'll bring you back to normal, but I don't know if I can completely fix your memories without someone to fix your head. I need a healer." He says simply, sighing. He thinks for a moment before sending out a mental call. He knows there's at least one healer in the school, maybe two. Between them, working in tandem, they might be able to do it. Sure, Jean has done it on her own before, but she was Phoenix, too, when she did it. Addison is NOT phoenix, though he is powerful.
Jared's brother's luck is starting to wear off on him, its the only explination he has for the way odd things keep happening to him. LIke the fact that he has decided to come down to check on Max to see how he is doing, and opening the door jsut as he gets the mental call from Addison. "Um..Hello?" He calls out as he comes through the door looking around first to see who is about before walking over to where Max is.
The iced boy looks to the healer coming in the room. He's has enough contact with him that there is at least one memory of him visiting Max. "Hi Jared." He bids before going quiet again. Letting Addison do his thing. Though the connection between Jared and his power doesn't quite happen in that mind of Max's.
"Perfect." Addison says, looking over to Jared. He takes a mental eye and sees what the boy can do. He smiles. "I need your help. Together, we may be able to bring Max back to himself. I can fix his mind, but his body is beyond me. I think we need to do it in tandem." He says, looking to Jared. "Are you up to the task?" Addison is no nonsense when he's got a goal in sight. Many people already know that about him.
Jared gives Max a small smile, "Hi, I just stopped in to see how you were doing, but if your buisy…" Jared blinks and nods at Addison as he speaks to him. "I…I can't exactly control my powers, or at least the healing part, but I am willing to try." Jared does not know Addison that well, other than what he has heard form others, but can understand the no nonsense attitude given that half his child hood involved his mother's work full of nurses and doctors.
"Oh, okay. I think Kael went out to class, or something." He offers up. The patient in this situation does not say anything else, just keeps observing the other two as they do their thing, of course, he'll do what they ask him to if they have instructions for him.
"Alright. Since you're here, I'm going to link our minds. Then, I'm going to deactivate his powers. You fix his body… it can be done naturally, it'd just take along time. I'll try to reconnect his memories as best I can." Addison offers. HE's never really done this, but there are things that he can use as references. He may make a mistake or two, but it's better than doing nothing. And with that, he brings Jared into the mind-set. "Just say when you're ready…"
Jared nods to Max, and does not say anything but is kinda glad Kael had stepped out because nervouse loved ones always make things more tense. To Addison he gives a thumbs up and steps up to put a hand on Max's shoulder. "I'm ready when you are sir. Don't worry Max, this shouldn't hurt at all…although your probably gonna be really hungery when I am done."
The boy looks to Jared and Addison, his eyes, even though they are ice, are hopeful, and for lack of a better word, desperate. "Okay." He says, simply. He's just wanting to have this over with. He's completely trusting of the two older mutants in this room.
"Alright." Addison says with a nod as Jared is able to mentally see exactly what Addison is doing. There, in the corner of his head, is a brightly glowing spot. That spot seems to be controlling a lot of things. Addison reaches out and wraps a mental hand around the glowing spot, dimming it to near nothingness. Of course, doing so will bring Max's power to hand, stopping the ice and hopefully converting him back to flesh and blood. He does it slowly, so if it doesn't work, he can stop himself. Afterwards, he begins searching for memories and holes, but waits to see the other start first.
Jared gives Max a reassuting smile, or at least what he hopes is a reassuring smile, and puts a hand on his shoulder and another on his chest. Jared closes his eyes a moment and drops the part of his mind he uses to concentrate and block out his power to feel life energy so that he will be able to feel what is physicaly wrong with Max as his powers go out. OPenine his eyes he watches to see where Max is injured and moves his hands to touch him where he seems injured or at least not fully well to heal him.
The cryokinetic's powers are suppressed, slowly from the top of his spikey hair, all the way down to his toes. Though with the turning off of his power, his body also starts to return to a normal bod temperature. Max shifts as he lays down, it's uncomfortable for him, as he feels as if he is baking. The kid turns red as his blood flushes into his capillaries, trying to cool down. He gives a moan and tries to be as still as he can, but he can't remain completely still. The spot where he is injured is his brain. There's minor, but enough trauma to have ill effects on his brain. Luckily, only his memories were affected.
Addison begins finding things and maneuvering them back into position as he can, trying to link things back where they belong. "It's alright. I know you're uncomfortable, but it'll be ok in a few minutes. I promise." He whispers. It shouldn't take too long, really. But, it feels like forever to him.
Jared's right hand goes to Max's head, in order to focus as much of his healling poewr as he can on the brain damage that Max has sustained, and his left hand goes to the boy's heart since his circulatory ssytem is taking a certain amount of stress trying to cool him down from his sudden raise in body temperature. "Mister Addison knows what he is doing, don't worry this wont take long."
Max's heart is racing, trying to circulate as much hot blood as it can to the cool air-exposed skin as possible. The contact and reassurance from both mutants is comforting, but will not make the process go along any faster. "Okay." Is all the reply he gives to his healers. He can tell that memories are coming back, so the outlook is good at least.
The first replaced memory is how Max's powers work, so that he can release that hold and let his body flow back to normal. "When you're done, Jared, you can step back if you like. I'm still connecting things I can." Of course, he's probably missing something in there, somewhere, but he thinks he has everything important.
Jared nods as he keeps his hands where they are. "His heart is racing, trying to cool off his body and I want to make sure he does not develop any problems there, and I think I have most of the brain damage but I want to make sure all of that is compleatly healed before going. Although, if Max gts to where he can use his powers again and cool himself I can always step back and let the aura of healing energy around me take care of the rest without touch…"
The cryokinetic has the hold on his powers removed, his body temp then going back to one closer to freezing. Though the transition to that is better, it's still a shock to his system. He starts to shiver, though while bad at first, it gets better and better. His breath, still warm from earlier, is fogged. "That was way too hot." He says, though it was technically 'normal'. Max's memories are back, and most of the brain trauma fixed. He gives a sigh, not of relief, of disappointment. He remembers now when this all started, not from the first time he couldn't remember something. The incident that started it.
"Feel better, MAx? Did I miss anything?" Addison says as he slowly seperates the minds of the three again, slumping a little as he relaxes. That was… interesting. He feels a little weak, himself.
Jared grins as he keeps his hands on Max a little longer to try and help with the small amount of shock the sudden changes in temperature have put his body through. "Yeah too hot, now your back to your normal hypothermic self. Are you feeling well enough to need anything like food, or something to drink?" JAred really wants to ask if Max remembers what happened, but wants to get the other important things out of the way first.
The cryokinetic looks to Addison. "Yeah. I think you got everything. I uhh. wish I didn't remember one thing though." He offers up, giving a slight grimace. "Thank you so much." He says, remembering what Kael and Eddie went through to get him down here, he still hates this one place in the mansion. "You two are awesome." He is about to answer Jared's question when his stomach rumbles loudly. "Umm, yeah. I think I am hungry."
"Thank goodness." Addison says with a chuckle. "What would you want to forget, Max?" Addison says, with a tilt of his head. "Everything that you remember helps make you who you are. Remember that. Taking away parts of your own mind and memory will make you lose some of who you are. Don't you want to be you?"
Jared nods and does not say a thing about what Max might want to forget. Instead he grins and laughs a little at the sudden stomach rumbling. "Alright, tell you waht since your just about physically all healed I will sneak out and grab you something decent to eat. That way you can tell Addison all about what happened in private while I am out gathering something for you to eat as well." That said Jared gives Max a pat on the shoulder and moves to leave the room so that the others can talk.
"Okay, Jared. Thanks so much." Maximillian looks to the Grey King. "I remember what happened before I started to forget things." He says. "That is what I didn't want to remember." Plain and simple, though what exactly happened is still in question.
"There are things I wish I could forget, but at the same time, forgetting them would take away a piece of myself. Like… my memories from control. When the Shadow King controlled me. He forced me to do things I'd never do. I saw my body do them with no way to stop it. But, though I want to forget it, I know if I didn't, I wouldn't be the man I am today." Addison explains lightly, nodding to Jared as he goes. "Why would you want to forget it?"
"I want to forget it cause it was so stupid." He says, probably the first thing that he's ever done that he's called stupid. "I..hit my head skateboarding." He's fallen on his head before and ended up being perfectly fine, but this time it was one too many. "I feel like a dumbass over it."
"And I'd like to forget feeling someone touch my mind, and my letting them in like a dumbass." Addison says, shrugging. He doesn't think of language in the terms that some people here do. Words are just words. "But, if you forget you did it… you might do it again. Now that you remember, you'll know not to do that again, right? You learned something."
Max gives a sigh again. "I guess you're right." Now that he's flesh and bone again, Max is relatively happy. "Still, I think I'm gonna get yelled at about it soon."
"Alright then. Well, since everything is good now, I'm going to head out." Addison says with a smile as he leans a hand out to pat Max on the head.
"Okay. I'm staying here until they say I can leave. I made a promise to someone." Max mentions to Addison. As he moves in to pat Max on the head, Max moves to give a big hug to Addison. "You two were awesome."
"It's alright. I'll let the doctors know what we did. So, they'll check you out." Addison says with a laugh, blushing as he's suddenly hugged. The only other person to hug him in the past… seven years… has been Brian.
It is as Max is hugging Addison that Jared returns with a tray of food. Through cunning, guile, and the big puppy dog eyes look he has managed not otnly to snag a cheese burger for Max, but a pile of french fries, a bottle of Strawberry YooHoo and two fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookies. "You know it is amazing what you can get away with when you act like you know what your doing and can come up with a decent BS response."
The cryokinetic looks up at Addison. "Thanks." He says, leaning back into his bed then he sees Jared come in. "Sweet!" Is the first thing he says when he sees that bottle of pink liquid he loves so dearly. "You're awesome, Jared." He says, hungry enough now that he's flesh and bone.
"Ain't that the truth?" Addison asks of Jared with a laugh. He reaches out to brush Jared's mind. ~~Considering that's what I just did. And look how it turned out~~ He laughs, shaking his head. "You boys have fun. I need to go see someone."
Jared blinks and gives Addison his patented Spock raised eyebrow look at the brush against his mind and laughs. Turning to Max he finds a table set to swing over the bed he is in to set the tray on. "If double helpings of french fried and an extra cookie is all it takes to be dubbed awsome then you have low standards…but I am not gonna argue."
"Or when who you are getting food for hasn't eaten in two days." He says, Max's standards in food were low, but not too low. "You got me cookies?" He asks, not really believing it. First bit into the burger is heavenly, and he could only be happier if Kael was here too.
Jared shrugs, "Not that big a deal, at least not on my side I guess. Its not like anyone around here would leave ya starving." Jared grins a little and sits down in a chair next to Max's bed. "Yes I got you cookes, why wouldn't I? They taste good, and are a comfort food. Its not like your allergic to the chocolate…your not are you?"
Max shakes his head between bites of cheese burger. "No, but people say I shouldn't have sugar, cause of my ADHD." He is probably one of the children that do benefit from medicine for it, and not one of the many children overly diagnosed with ADHD.
Jared sighs and shakes his head. "Wells see the problem with that is ADHD is not effected by sugar intake any more than normal kids are, and Sugar does not lead to hyperactivity in normal people. At best there is a short upsurge in energy with a quick crash down the line. Now, if I were a Doctor and had to admistier any kind of stimulant or depressant I might worry because ADD and ADHD efect the way certain ones of those effect the brain, but lucky for me I don't need drugs to help me heal." Jared…is an odd wealth of knowledge some days. He blames it on getting bored easy and that his mom used to leave professional journals everywhere.
Max looks uneasy, he's never heard something like this. His parents never did either. Though he is not a knowledgeable guy on the subject. "So, it doesn't matter?" He says, wondering if there are any 'what ifs'.
Jared Shrugs a little, "Well there is always the placebo effect, you think that sugar is gonna make you hyper and so you work yourself into an excited froth. Sorry, got bored a lot and read some of Mom's trade magazines and stuff at times. Funny story about those really, I once asked her why an ER doc had so many copys of profesional magazines with articles about ADHD and child psychology. We ended up staring at each other for about five minutes before the answer dawned on me."
Max looks back down to his tray. "Ahh, I think I get it." He honestly doesn't mind being as active as he is. But who knows. He is happy, at least. He continues looking at his food before looking up. "Wait, so that means you have it too?" Before he takes another bite of the burger.
Jared shrugs again, he can honestly say he does not know if he does or not. "NEver diiagnosed with it or anything. I was a pretty hyper kid, one of the reasons mom liked putting me in Gymnastics so I would use up al lmy energy, and I get bored way too easy. Not so hyper any more, but half the time the only way I can focus much is to bend myself into a pretzel or flip around on a mat. MOm was always one of those that hated pideon holing kids by diagnosing them with stuff like that, and really hated the idea of drugging kids with ADD just to get them to stand still."
Max gives a nod to Jared, even now his legs are swaying. He's been in here for two days stuck in bed, not leaving cause he basically had alzheimer's. "My parents didn't want to at first. But I really couldn't focus on anything for very long."
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Feedback is an event that occurs when the output of a system is used as input back into the system as part of a chain of cause and effect. This alters variables in the system, therefore resulting in different output and consequently different feedback as well, which can either be good or bad. In the case of a system which requires knowledge of the output in order to improve or deliver on a specific output, then feedback is essential and good. But for a system that does not require feedback, such as an audio system, then feedback is often bad. Take for example a microphone and speaker system, when the sound from the speakers (output) is picked up by the microphone (input) it creates a negative feedback that produces a very high pitched sound.
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Feedback is basically the concept of taking output and using it as input, either to further drive the system or produce a desired output. A good example is feedback used in an assembly line, when an output does not meet the minimum quality or quantity set by the system, it adjusts itself either to ramp up the production speed or even automatically stop if there are major deviations in the output.
In electronics, feedback is often used to get a desired result from a circuit. The simplest example would be an operational amplifier which uses feedback to vary the characteristic output of the op-amp, hence changing its "operation." The output of the op-amp is basically fed back into one of its two inputs, and depending on the configuration of the feedback loop, the feedback can control the gain of the op-amp or make it act as a kind of signal conditioner, filtering out signal distortions from the system. In this case, feedback is used as a purely quantitative element with predefined mathematical equations.
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You can disable some iCloud settings that you don't use. We suggest you to toggle off everything that you don't necessarily need to be stored in the cloud. Keep in mind that if you use multiple Apple devices, it is better to leave most of the iCloud settings on.
Another way to improve the battery life of your iPhone device that runs on iOS 9 is to go to Settings->General and disable the "Background App Refresh". You can stop this for all applications or for some individual ones.
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Chris Stapleton brought out the crowds all across America, as the country music superstar recently surpassed 2 million tickets sold in his career.
Stapleton was able to achieve this mark with the final dates of his 2019 All-American Road Show Tour, according to Billboard. From Oct. 3 to Nov. 2 Stapleton played the final 13 shows on the tour, which were all sold out. The total gross from these shows was a whopping $13.5 million, with 169,290 tickets sold. Stapleton's 2019 tour in its entirety grossed $30.9 million with 417,604 tickets sold.
Stapleton's first show was on Jul. 9 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., while his final show was on Nov. 2 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. The "Nobody to Blame" singer earned his highest grossing night of the tour when he played to 15,748 people in Louisville, which earned him $1.395 million.
The country singer's tour was relatively short, having played 33 shows in 33 markets across the U.S. However, Stapleton made up for the shorter tour by landing in maximum-capacity arenas and amphitheaters in the cities that he visited. His previous tours in 2017 and 2018 played to smaller, more intimate venues, where Stapleton doubled up his appearances.
With each tour that Stapleton has embarked on, his earnings have steadily increased. In 2017 the country singer earned an average of $637,000 per night; while the next year in 2018 he earned $903,000 per night, and this year he earned $937,000 per night according to Billboard.
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The Olympian detailed three terrifying incidents in a recent Instagram post.
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On January 17, Olympian Lolo Jones revealed in an Instagram post that she has been stalked. On three separate occasions in 2022, male stalkers attempted to reach Jones through criminal means.
"One guy broke into the Olympic training center and stayed over night in hopes to find me," she wrote. "Another guy has continued to harass my friends in attempts to reach me."
Finally, one man was caught stalking Jones' house on her front-door Ring camera. The man lied to police officers, saying "he knew me from Instagram and I invited him to come live with me."
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"I'm DONE. If there was any confusion here is me being very f------ clear: I'm not interested. EVER. This is not the way to go," Jones wrote.
Jones originally made a name for herself on the track, where she won multiple world championships golds. In 2012, she was named to the U.S. national bobsled team and competed in the 2014 winter Olympics. Jones has also appeared on reality shows such as Dancing With the Stars and Celebrity Big Brother.
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Q: High pass filter to opamp buffer causing an offset (op-amp specs) I'm currently building a filter circuit that is required to remove an DC offset from the raw signal and then amplify the gain. The rest of the circuit (not shown) is a 2-stage LPF with extra gain.
My problem is that when I add a HPF (fc = 0.002Hz) (or any HPF for that matter) at the output after the buffer, I get an offset of -10V. I've tried other op-amp models (LM741, LM324, etc) and the offset occurs but of a much lower value depending on the model. What opamp specification should I look at in the datasheet to determine why this is occurring?
The opamp I'm using is the THS4012.
The input is at 100Hz  and is shown as the yellow signal.
The green and red signal are the respective outputs after the buffer.

A: Dwayne is correct.  Because you want a very low frequency filter, the resistors and capacitors have to be very large.  All real op amps have currents that flow into or out of  their input terminals. The large resistors cause this current to create a DC offset on the op amps.  You want to use an op amp with a CMOS, or perhaps JFET input stage, so the input current is small.  Lowering the resistor value is good, too, although then the capacitors get even bigger.  It is possible that adding a resistor of 3.6 meg in series with the (-) terminal of the op amp would help, but that is not always the case, and the big resistors add noise.
   In summary, you have chosen a very inappropriate op amp for this application: it has large input currents because it uses bipolar transistors (it is designed for high bandwidth.)  Choose an op amp with the adjective "precision" in its marketing description, this will be more appropriate for low frequency work.

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Perfumes and colognes are always popular gifts because they are easy to carry and they more often than not can be bought in gift sets where you get a lot of useful bonus items. Ulta sells a variety of Kate Spade perfumes. Viktor & Rolf's Bonbon and Flowerbomb fragrances are sold individually and both are also available in gift boxes that come with body cream and shower gel. Proenza Schouler's Arizona two-piece gift set contains a fragrance and body oil that carries a scent that brings the beauty of the Sonora Desert to mind.
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There is no shortage of handbag designers but most of them are not well known. Baggalini, Deondra Jeree, Laudi Vindi (individual spelled backwards), and Be Brilliant (bebrilliantbags.com) make clutches, wallets, and handbags in various sizes and price points.
Indiana-based Vera Bradley has been around thirty years and became well-known for its patchwork-styled cloth totes. The company has expanded into leather pocketbooks, duffel bags, backpacks, as well as women's ear muffs, gloves and scarves.
Finnish company Marimekko sells bags, purses, and backpacks in all sizes and price ranges. The company also sells a wide array of women's clothing.
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A lot of Major League Baseball players wear Oakley or Nike Wraparound sunglasses and so it's natural that their fans want to emulate them. The quality of those big names in the athletic performance eyewear market is terrific but if you want to get wraparound shades without breaking the bank you should check out Tifosi (tifosioptics.com). They can sell them for far less because they don't have expensive endorsers. A new player in the sports wraparound shades biz is Dragon Alliance.
Harry & David's (harryanddavid.com) has long been a major player in the gift basket industry. Their Grand Christmas Gift Basket contains pears, fruitcake, and arguably its most famous product, Moose Munch Premium Popcorn. You can add a bottle of wine for an extra price. The company also has a subscription Fruit of the Month and Veggie of the Month club fort hose who want a healthy surprise arriving in the mail a dozen times a year.
Savannah Bee and Stonewall Kitchen make a variety of upscale bath products and they also have great gift baskets.
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Woodside native Jim McCann is the founder and CEO of the most successful floral retailer in the world, 1800-FLOWERS. This year the company is promoting a Night Before Christmas Holiday Flower Tree which is an arrangement of roses and white carnations that is sculpted to resemble a small Christmas tree as the name indicates. There are many, many other floral options at 1800Flowers.com.
Decorative scented candles have become a popular domestic item. Chesapeake Bay Candle and Yankee Candle both have a wide array of jar and pillar candles that will freshen up any room.
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Getting a good night's sleep has become crucial for maintain good health. Bedgear (bedgear.com) makes numerous ergonomically correct pillows that maintain their shape and stay cool during the night. The Long Island-based company also sells premium mattresses, sheets, and blankets. The Hollywood Silk Solution sells silk pillowcases which the company claims is better for both your hair and quality of sleep.
You can't sleep well if there is dust and other irritants gathering in your bedroom. Black & Decker, Bissell, and Dyson all make cordless vacuums and sweepers that allow you to clean tough places without impediment.
Athletic apparel and equipment make for great gifts and they tie into everyone's New Year's resolution of exercising more.
Franklin Sports, best known for its batting gloves, makes sports equipment, apparel, and indoor games for all ages.
TaylorMade (taylormadegolf.com) is one of the largest players in the golf industry and it manufactures drivers, wedges, and putters for everyone from the novice duffer to the scratch golfer. It also makes the bags for lugging your clubs around. Interestingly, Bed, Bath & Beyond has a furniture stand in which you can place your golf bag out inside your home so that you don't have to use up valuable closet or garage space for it. Don't forget to use their ubiquitous 20% off coupons!
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St. Jude Hospital in Memphis treats children with serious diseases without ever charging one cent to their families. One of the ways that the hospital sustains itself is by selling a variety of items which are all made by well-known manufacturers.
I can't think of a place that has more to offer both its residents and visitors than New York City. A great way to enjoy the beauty of our area as well as take in a great meal with top-notch entertainment is to sail with either Spirit Cruise or World Yacht.
CityPASS (citypass.com) is a ticket booklet that allows you to see a lot of New York attractions (including a boat ride around NYC on the famous Circle Line) for one fixed price. The catch is that you have to do it all within nine days. CityPASS is available for other American cities.
New York Sports Tours (newyorksports.tours) is the Gray Line of the Big Apple for sports fans. It began operations this year and it transports guests on a small chartered bus to various historic locales that have had a great impact in sports history. After the tour concludes guests can enjoy a dinner at Keen's Steakhouse, which itself possesses a ton of sports memorabilia while chatting with a sports celebrity such as former Yankees outfielder Mickey Rivers, sportscaster and Douglaston native Mary Carillo, and former New York Cosmos goalie Shep Messing.
While it's nice to travel to warm climes, air travel and hotels during the holiday week tend to go through the roof in most places that have palm trees. There are bargains however at many nearby places.
The Sands Casino & Hotel in the Lehigh Valley town of Bethlehem offers both gaming, nightly entertainment, and many gourmet restaurants.
Philadelphia, located just 100 miles southwest of Queens, obviously has many historic sites but the City of Brotherly Love now rivals New York when it comes to being a foodie destination thanks to its many hip restaurants in Center City. The National Museum of American Jewish History, located a block from Independence Hall, is a great way for all to learn about the Jewish experience in the USA from even before the birth of this country until now. Be sure to visit Philadelphia's newest museum, the Museum of the American Revolution which is a block away from the NMAJH.
If you are looking for both warm weather and value during Christmas to New Year's week then forget Florida and think about Southern California instead. This is a very slow time of the year for hotels there. If you want to be in the heart of everything in Los Angeles, then stay at Ramada Suites in West Hollywood located right on Santa Monica Boulevard, Just down the road in San Diego, the Hyatt Regency La Jolla located in the bustling University Town Center neighborhood right off Interstate 5, has a heated Olympic-sized pool and Jacuzzi among many other amenities. Queens' hometown airline, JetBlue, offers frequent service from JFK to both Los Angeles and San Diego.


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Barack Obama, Facebook, G. Gordon Liddy, Mitt Romney, Political Dirty Tricks, Richard M. Nixon, Soma Coffee
"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." — G. Gordon Liddy
NIXON WOULD BE PROUD
Before I even begin this particular howl, I'll remind readers that both the Republicans and Democrats have long, storied histories of stealing votes and even whole elections.
The Ballot Box That Put LBJ Over The Top
That caveat out of the way, I can barely control my indignation over the latest GOP dirty trick.
It's getting personal now.
A little background: Saturday morning, the Boys of Soma were sitting around reminding each other through unverifiable anecdotes how clever, strong, and sexually potent we are. By and by, it sank in that if we continued to lie to each other loudly, some outside observers might begin to consider us liars. And that wouldn't do.
So we settled into a brief quiet. And then Saunders piped up.
"I'm very disappointed in Nicole (not her real name)," he said, dolefully.
The rest of us glanced at each other. Nicole is an honorary Boy of Soma. Some consider her, in fact, the leader of the B of S because, well, she could probably kick the hell out of most of us. Okay, any of us.
Nicole is cherished for a variety of reasons. She's smart, athletic, outspoken, direct, and one or two of the Boys has been known to become dreamy-eyed while watching her exit the coffeehouse. There is a general agreement within our ranks that her husband, Rod (again, not his real name) is a man to be envied.
No one has ever uttered a discouraging word about Nicole. That is, before Saunders piped up Saturday.
"What is it?" Tough Guy Mac demanded. "What's the matter with Nicole?" I may be wrong but I think he may have balled his fists.
"Didja see who she's going for in the election?" Saunders countered.
"No, who?" Mac and Irish Pat said as one.
Saunders dropped the bombshell. "Romney," he said.
No, No, Say It Ain't So!
We uttered a collective gasp. Even Barista Jericho's iPod, heard over the room speakers at the time, stopped playing.
"Naw!" Tough Guy Mac said, waving Saunders off.
"Can't be," Irish Pat said.
"Whaddya talking about?" I said.
Saunders shrugged. "Look at her Facebook page," he said.
So I pulled out the old machine and logged in. Sure enough, there it was, in a pretty display of electrons: "Nicole Magnuson Likes Mitt Romney."
Can It Be?
Again, we fell silent. Gloom settled over our corner of the place.
"Well," I said, "I'm gonna have to have some words with that young lady."
"Somebody's gonna have to," Irish Pat said.
"I wish she was here right now so we could find out what the hell's goin' on," Tough Guy Mac said.
"In fact, I'm gonna send her a message right now," I said. Nicole at the time was out of town, in Cincinnati visiting her dear old mother. I clacked out a message telling her I was heartbroken that she'd disappointed us so.
Bang, a return message came back within seconds. "What? What'd I do?" she'd typed.
After a brief discussion during which the three of us at Soma marveled that even so backward a hamlet as Cincinnati now has the Internet, we agreed on the wording of our indictment.
Cincinnati Has Entered The 20th Century — Who Knew?
"We're sitting here with our faces in our hands, weeping unashamedly," I wrote. "None of us can believe it. You…, you…, you like Romney! There. I've said it!"
What followed was a long, outraged recount from Nicole of the dirty trick that'd been played on her. It seems someone's busy these days hacking into people's Facebook accounts and making them "Like" Mitt Romney.
Apparently, Mitt Romney is trying to get 8 million Likes. I suppose it's some kind of weird political penis envy, considering that Barack Obama's page has some 30 million Likes.
In any case, a dark, as yet unindicted soul within the Romney camp is behind this outrage.
Funny how one of Mitt's talking points is that Barack Obama has been trying to turn people against each other. His own campaign almost came between Nicole and us.
When all was said and done, Nicole zinged me with this one: "I'm the one who should be disappointed with you. You should know me better than to think I'd go for Romney. I thought we were friends."
ART ◗ Ivy Tech Waldron Center, outside WFHB Studios — Public participation in creating a ten-foot sculpture called "The Angel," Rain or shine; 9am-5pm
SALE ◗ IU Morrison Hall — Kinsey Institute Library Book Sale; 9am-5pm
STUDIO TOUR ◗ Brown County, various locations — The Backroads of Brown County Studio Tour, free, self-guided tour of 16 local artists' & craftspersons' studios; 10am-5pm, through October
CLASS ◗ Monroe County Public Library — Dating Your Old Family Photos; 4pm
CLASS ◗ Purdue Extension, 3400 S. Walnut St. — 2012 Monroe County Citizens' Academy, Learn how county government works; 6-9pm
CLASS ◗ Monroe County Public Library — Lights, Camera, Write: An Introduction to the Art of Screenwriting, 8-session course; 6:30-8:30pm, through November 28th (except November 21st)
MUSIC ◗ Muddy Boots Cafe, Nashville — Lloyd Wood; 7-9pm
MUSIC ◗ Cafe Django — Tom Miller; 7pm
LECTURE ◗ Monroe County Public Library — "Money in the 2012 Elections," presented by Marjorie Hershey of the IU Political Science Department; 7pm
VARIETY ◗ Buskirk Chumley Theater — IU's Got Talent; 7pm
PERFORMANCE ◗ Unity of Bloomington Church — Auditions and rehearsal, Bloomington Peace Choir; 7pm
MUSIC ◗ IU Ford-Crawford Hall — Faculty Recital: Carl Lenthe on trombone, Kimberly Carballo on piano; 7pm
CLASS ◗ IU Lilly Library — Lifelong Learning Series: We're Off to See the Wizard, On the life and work of L. Frank Baum, 3 weekly sessions through October 17th; 7pm
FILM ◗ IU Cinema — "Gun Hill Road," with personal appearance by actor Esai Morales; 7pm
FILM ◗ SoFA, Room 102 — "The Cove," Part of the Animal Behavior Film Series; 7pm
FILM ◗ IU Memorial Union, Whittenberger Auditorium — UB Films: "Turn Me On, Dammit!"; 7:30pm
MUSIC ◗ Max's Place — Open mic; 7:30pm
MUSIC ◗ The Player's Pub — Sarah's Swing Set; 8pm
MUSIC ◗ IU Musical Arts Center — Philharmonic Orchestra, David Efron, conductor, performs Mahler; 8pm
GAMES ◗ The Root Cellar at Farm Bloomington — Team trivia, new night; 8pm
DANCING ◗ Harmony School — Contra dancing; 8pm
MUSIC ◗ IU Ford-Crawford Hall — Doctoral Recital: Ilya Friedberg on piano; 8:30pm
ASTRONOMY ◗ IU Kirkwood Observatory — Open house, public viewing through the main telescope; 8:30pm
MUSIC ◗ The Bluebird — The Main Squeeze; 9pm
MUSIC ◗ The Bishop — Wilder Maker, Hotfox, Bonesetters; 9:30pm
Paintings by Contemporary Native American Artists; through October 14th
"Ab-Fab — Extreme Quilting," by Sandy Hill; October 5th through October 27th
"Street View — Bloomington Scenes," by Tom Rhea; October 5th through October 27th
"From the Heartwoods," by James Alexander Thom; October 5th through October 27th
"The Spaces in Between," by Ellen Starr Lyon; October 5th through October 27th
Abortion, Ashford House Restaurant, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, Donald Segretti, G. Gordon Liddy, James Carville, Jimmy Carter, Joseph McCarthy, Karl Rove, Lee Atwater, Michael Dukakis, Michigan Militia, Minutemen, Newt Gingrich, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Armey, Rodney King, Ronald Reagan, Sutherlin Brothers, Thomas DeLay, Thomas Foley, Tinley Park Attack, Walter Mondale, War Room
"Can we all get along?" — Rodney King
♢
BELTIN' BIRDS
The alarm hadn't even rung this morning. It was about a quarter past five. Yet I was awake.
The din outside my window was, considering the hour and my state of unconsciousness just moments before, deafening.
I should have been mad, no?
I wasn't.
A countless variety of birds was whistling, clattering, gargling, hooting, chirping, yipping, and otherwise letting the world — and this no-longer-sleeping beauty — know they were alive.
It was the most beautiful cacophonic symphony imaginable. Like the birds, I was glad to be alive.
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TOO TOUGH FOR OUR OWN GOOD
During the dark days when the Republicans seemed to be the only party in this holy land with guts, with a vision (albeit repulsive to me), and with exciting candidates (at least to fellow Republicans), I longed for my Dems to, well, wake up.
I mean, honestly, Michael Dukakis?
Y'Wanna Vote For Me? Okay.
The late 80s was the nadir of the party. The GOP was constantly prowling and attacking and my Dems were always cowering in a corner. The tone was set when, during the 1980 presidential debates, Ronald Reagan listened patiently to incumbent Jimmy Carter (I mean, honestly, Jimmy Carter?) read off his list of particulars, accusing Reagan of being, you know, a Republican, and then, when it was his turn to speak, gave a sad little shake of his head and said, like a headmaster, a camp counselor, a disappointed father, "There you go again."
Now You Listen To Me
Reagan needn't have said another word. Carter was deflated. Defeated. Finished. He knew it. Reagan knew it. And America knew it.
The Republicans, particularly Reagan, had a way of withering the Dems with a single phrase.
I was embarrassed to be a Democrat back then. It was almost as bad as being a Cubs fan.
I longed for the day my party would rear up and fight back.
The Republicans through the years had had their Joe McCarthy, their Donald Segretti and G. Gordon Liddy. By the 80s, they had their Lee Atwater. All tough, no-nonsense guys who'd stick a shiv into the belly of any Dem at any time.
Tough, Albeit Deranged
Why, I wondered, couldn't we have a guy or two like that?
Would we always be so touchy-feely, so accepting, so forgiving, so ready and willing to bear our necks and let the predators of the world go for our jugular?
It got so that the Republicans turned our passivity into their own campaign asset — they would argue, Do you want these softies "protecting" you against the commies and the brown-skinned people of the world?
And, really, who would want Walter Mondale, to be the wingman in an alley fight?
Don't Worry; I'm Right Behind You
But the Dems were learning. In 1989, Lee Atwater floated the rumor that Speaker of the House Tom Foley lived in a "liberal closet" (wink, wink). Barney Frank, the advance guard of the nascent fighting Dems, came out swinging.
Frank announced to the press that if the Republican innuendos about Foley's sexuality didn't cease forthwith, he'd release the very next morning a list of five prominent Republican congressbeings who were secretly gay and do the same thing the next day and the day after that until all the GOP closets were empty.
The Republicans jumped like scalded rabbits. Atwater instructed the White House operator to track down Foley immediately so he could tell the Speaker the attacks were history.
Hello, Tom? C'mon Man, You Can Take A Joke, Can't You?
And then, a miracle. Bill Clinton came out of the nowhere that is Arkansas. He was tough. He was ready and willing to throw some thumbs. Not only that, he had a snarling dog on a long chain next to him, one James Carville, a guy who could make even Liddy take a deep breath.
Clinton's campaign headquarters became know as a War Room. The gloves were off. The fight was on. The Dems won the White House, woo-hoo!
The Republicans, of course, eventually came back with a series of rabid curs: Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Dick Armey, and Karl Rove. They snatched away first the House of Representatives then the White House.
Then came Barack Obama with his own carnivore, Rahm Emanuel.
By the 2008 presidential election, it seemed the Democrats had reached parity with the Republicans in terms of toughness.
Still, the Republicans had their lunatic fringe fighters, the so-called Minutemen along the Mexican border, the abortion clinic bombers, the murderers of doctors who provided abortions, Michigan militias, and other terrifying creatures.
Now these really were people who could make the sane among us cower in a corner.
Somehow we always knew the guy flying the plane into a government building or the loner purchasing tons of fertilizer-based explosives would be a right-winger.
White Makes Right
And even if the Republican establishment tut-tutted these folks, I always got the feeling that puffy, paunchy chicken hawks like Rove secretly wished they too could bring a sidearm to a political debate.
We Dems could proudly say, Yeah, we're tough now, but we aren't psychotic.
That is, we could say it until now.
And the newest psychos come from right here in good old Monroe County.
You may have heard about the brutal attack on a gathering of white supremacists (perhaps the first time those words have ever been written together) in a Chicago suburb over the weekend.
See, a gang of five Bloomington-area men barged into a family restaurant in Tinley Park Saturday and beat the bejesus out of a bunch of old men gathered there to eat club sandwiches and tell each other how fabulous they are for being descendents of Eastern Europeans.
Attack Scene
The five were under the mistaken impression that the old men were part of a white supremacist organization.
It's not known what feelings the old birds have in their heart of hearts for brown-skinned people, or even if they consider brown-skinned people people at all, but they swear up and down they're not part of a Klan-like gang.
But let's assume for a moment that they are, just for the sake of argument. Let's assume they despise people who aren't blessed by god with pasty skin. Let's assume they met at the Ashford House Restaurant to discuss among friends how the darker people of this land are ruining it.
Even if that were the case, the five men who exploded into the restaurant carrying billy clubs, knives, hammers, and other instruments of mayhem are jerks.
Thought Police
They went into the place with murder in their hearts (trust me, when you carry a hammer into a brawl, you're looking to kill someone), aiming to punish human beings for their thoughts.
Thought crime.
I thought it was a fictional conceit.
But the Sutherlin boys and their two pals from Bloomington, Indiana, have made it real.
Now, we of the left side of the spectrum have our own fringe fighters. We'd better do more to distance ourselves from our psychos than the Republicans did.


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Could Tree Of Life Premiere At Fantastic Fest 2010?
At this point, nothing would shock me.
Over the weekend, we found out, thanks to the Telluride Twitter account, that one Brad Pitt was taking in the sights and sounds of the beloved festival. However, with no film to promote, at least on the list of films showing, people began to postulate as to why he would be there, and one film kept coming up: The Tree Of Life.
Apparently the film has screened for attendees at a 'secret screening,' and according to reports, the film is in fact complete, and still clocking in at 3 hours in length. A shorter cut of the film has been rumored, but nothing has yet been confirmed.
However, that didn't come to fruition.
Well, according to the Austin Chronicle, don't be shocked if the film premieres at this year's Fantastic Fest.
The outlet rightly connects the production of the film, held in Smithville, which is a hop, skip and a jump away from Austin, where Fantastic Fest is held, to the festival, which isn't new to premiering massively hyped epics. The festival may not be as hyped as those like Venice, Telluride, Toronto or Cannes, they have played home to rather big films, like There Will Be Blood, which held its world premiere at the festival. Toss in the fact that Malick has his home in Austin and Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles as the festival's programmer, and anything is really possible.
Personally, while I don't know if I would go so far as to say that the film will for sure end up showing at the film, it is not out of the realm of possibility. Malick has a lot of love for Austin, and if Knowles wants to make his festival the talk of the cinematic landscape, after both Telluride and Toronto, he makes sure that this happens. This is far and away the biggest film of the fall season, and one that doesn't seem to have a certified release date yet. It looks more and more likely that the film will hit this year, but when, is up in the air.
Do you think Tree Of Life will hit at Fantastic Fest?
Source: Austin Chronicle


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from django.db import migrations

def forwards_func(apps, schema_editor):
    """Migrate all data from versions to builds."""
    Build = apps.get_model('builds', 'Build')
    for build in Build.objects.all().iterator():
        # When the build is saved, the fields are updated.
        build.save()

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('builds', '0031_add_version_fields_to_build'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunPython(forwards_func),
    ]

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My name is Heather Piedrahita and I work (and play!) in San Diego, CA. I work for an online high school and play as the Event Director for Pit Bull Rescue San Diego. Jack is three years old, a "purebred shelter mutt" as I like to call him. They sold him to us as a "German shepherd mix" but who knows what that means?! No matter what he is, we love him!
I've taken to exploring Coronado Island quite a bit more now that my husband is stationed down here and I've just come to love it. This time we stopped at Cafe 1134 so I could read the second book in the Hunger Games series. It actually turned out to be such a wonderful day that there were lots of people on the street and we spent most of our time visiting and chatting. Oh well, I read the whole book the next day instead!
Today I enjoyed a nonfat Cafe au Lait. Delicious!
Any treats for you or Jack on this occasion?
Yes, of course! I brought along a Natural Balance roll for Jack to munch on but it turns out my yogurt was pretty appetizing for him as well. Besides the yogurt I also had a hardboiled egg and a banana. The best part? For all of my snacks plus my coffee, I didn't spend more than $7! Yeah, and in Coronado that's unheard of. Score!
How were you and Jack united?
I have wanted a dog since I was very young but my brother's allergies gave my parents an easy way out on that one. After going to college I moved in with my then boyfriend [now husband] and started looking for a dog. People, by this time I'd wanted a dog so badly I'd gotten a fish and named it dog. Twice. OK, so boyfriend and I went to the county shelter to do our part and rescue some needy little thing. On Christmas Eve we walked around once and weren't caught by any particular dog. It was rainy and we had to get to a family party but we decided to take one more lap. There, in the second row, was my little ball of fur! He hadn't been there on our first lap but once I saw him, I knew the teeny whiny little rascal had to be mine! I ran up to the front desk to put a "hold" on him but they had literally just brought him in as a stray so he wasn't even in the system yet. We waited, got our playtime, and fell in love. We officially adopted him a week later!
How did he get his name? Any nicknames?
That's a good story! I was taking Italian classes when we adopted a dog and I mentioned to Steven [the then-boyfriend] that I loved the name Giacomo if we were ever to have a boy child. It's pronounced "jauck-a-mo" so I figured we would call the boy Jack for short. His face didn't exactly light up at the idea and he so nicely suggested that we use the name on the dog. So Jack is technically Giacomo but yelling that mouthful at the dog park isn't exactly convenient so most of the time he's Jack. He's also Scout for the way he peeks over our balcony, and he's been known to be called Dingo, monkey boy, love muffin, Mom's best friend and sweetie baby. Yeah, if it's possible, he's over-loved.
Who is Jack's best pet-pal?
You mean besides me? Haha! Jack's best friend is nine-month old Lilah, another rescue mutt. [Jack and Lilah, photo left] She's a handful but he's been very good and helping her learn the ropes. Lilah's mom keeps a blog too.
Does Jack have a favorite place to go for walk?
His favorite place to walk is probably anywhere busy where he can meet many people and dogs. He's a little social butterfly!
Yeah, he's not such a fan of large, high energy dogs. Funny enough he is exactly that but he likes to be big man on campus, so to speak. However, with some gentle corrections he eventually settles in with whomever he is around. He's ultimately just a lovebug.
What is Jack's best quality?
I'd say he always knows how to have fun. He's always up for a game of catch, he loves kids, and he can have an hour of fun with just the cardboard roll from the paper towels. He reminds me every day that life doesn't always have to be so serious.
If Jack could change one thing about you, what would it be?
He probably wishes I could be home more!
What is Jack's proudest moment so far? His most embarrassing?
If Jack could speak in a movie about your life, what actor should do his voice?
Whenever we make Jack's voice it's a little bit Yogi Bear and a smidge of Fred Flintstone. Neither of those are real actors but it would give us a jumping off point for a casting meeting right?
Oh one more thing! We highly recommend Cafe 1134! They had dog treats and water out for visiting pets and the crowd was very welcoming.
That puppy picture of Jack is adorable! What a cutie.
jack is so cute, and that puppy picture is to die for. i'll definitely be checking out the blog.
Lilah is lucky to have Jack as her best friend and role model!


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Ebrahimain, A., Nabifar, N. (2015). The Effect of Three Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Word-part, Word-card and Context-clue on Iranian High School Students' Immediate and Delayed English Vocabulary Learning and Retention. Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 8(17), 42-63.
Abbas Ebrahimain; Nessa Nabifar. "The Effect of Three Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Word-part, Word-card and Context-clue on Iranian High School Students' Immediate and Delayed English Vocabulary Learning and Retention". Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 8, 17, 2015, 42-63.
Ebrahimain, A., Nabifar, N. (2015). 'The Effect of Three Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Word-part, Word-card and Context-clue on Iranian High School Students' Immediate and Delayed English Vocabulary Learning and Retention', Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 8(17), pp. 42-63.
Ebrahimain, A., Nabifar, N. The Effect of Three Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Word-part, Word-card and Context-clue on Iranian High School Students' Immediate and Delayed English Vocabulary Learning and Retention. Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 2015; 8(17): 42-63.
The Effect of Three Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Word-part, Word-card and Context-clue on Iranian High School Students' Immediate and Delayed English Vocabulary Learning and Retention
Article 3, Volume 8, Issue 17, Summer and Autumn 2015, Page 42-63	 PDF (631.19 K)
Abbas Ebrahimain; Nessa Nabifar
Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
The present study was an attempt to compare the effect of three VLSs, namely word-part strategy, word-card strategy and context-clue strategy on immediate and delayed English vocabulary retention of Iranian third grade high school students. To this end, 90 students, studying at three high schools in Tabriz, in three intact groups, were considered as the participants of the study. In order to ensure their homogeneity, the researchers administrated a Preliminary English Test (PET). Based on the results, 20 students in each class were selected as the participants of the study. These three intact classes were then randomly assigned to three experimental groups, each receiving one type of vocabulary learning strategy. Then, 60 words were given to the students as a pretest in order to sort out 40 unknown words to teach. At the end of the last session of the treatment, an immediate posttest and after four weeks a delayed posttest were given to each group, and then, their mean scores were compared through ANOVA. The analysis of the results revealed a significant difference in the efficacy of context-clue strategy in contrast to both word-part strategy and word-card strategy in the delayed posttest. The findings of the present study can have important implications for EFL teachers and learners.
vocabulary learning; word-part strategy; word-card strategy; context-clue strategy; Vocabulary Retention
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A 'portal' to the world will open in Daley Plaza in October
By Sara Freund Posted: Wednesday September 21 2016, 9:00am
Photograph: Courtesy of Chicago Ideas Week
A golden portal is opening in Daley Plaza in October—and no, it doesn't lead to the Upside Down. The portal is actually a shipping container equipped with technology to connect people across the world in Mexico, Palestine, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Myanmar and now here in Chicago.
The portal program, created by Shared Studios, sets up shipping containers with immersive audio and video technology so that it feels like you're face-to-face with someone who is thousands of miles away. It's like Skype on steroids.
Chicago Ideas will curate sessions, such as a live collaboration between artists in Mexico City and Chicago. One-on-one time slots with people at other portal locations will also be available for reservation. Each individual session will be limited to three people in the portal at a time, so that it remains an intimate experience.
The portal in Chicago is hosted by Chicago Ideas and will be open to the public during Chicago Ideas Week, from October 17-23. A full calendar of Chicago Ideas Week events and the curated sessions can be found here.
"Chicago Ideas Week is all about connecting people to inspire action," Sona Jones, marketing director for Chicago Ideas Week, told Time Out Chicago. "It's so remarkable to walk into a box and be connected with someone so intimately across the world."
Some of the curated sessions will include live readings of true stories from people in Yangon, Myanmar and Chicago entrepreneurs will lead a workshop for university students in Herat, Afghanistan. Another session to look forward to is a blues concert in which Chicago musicians will play for an audience in Kigali, Rwanda. The only other portal in the U.S. is located in Milwaukee—and if you're dream is to have a dance party with Milwaukee residents without leaving Chicago, well, now you can.
The portal is an opportunity to gain global perspective but also a way to change the way people perceive our city. "It's an amazing opportunity, especially for Chicago. There is so much negative news about Chicago, and this is a chance for us to share who we are beyond the headlines," Jones said.
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During the British Raj, Jaipur was the capital of a Princely state of the same name. Jaipur state, which existed from the twelfth century until Indian Independence in 1947, took its name from the city. It had a total area of 15,579 square miles (40,349 km²) in 1900. The maharajas of Jaipur belonged to the Kachwaha clan of Rajputs, claiming descent from Rama, king of Ayodhya. The state is said to have been founded about eleventh century or 1097 by Dulaha Raya, who hailed from Gwalior; he and his Kachwaha kinsmen are said to have absorbed or driven out the local Meenas and Bargujar Rajput chiefs. In which the Meenas were to become a key ally of the Kachwahas. Their original capital in the Dhundhar region was Dausa, then Jamwa Ramgarh then Amber before the shift to Jaipur. The ruling dynasty of Jaipur provided the Mughal Empire with some of their most distinguished generals. Among them were Raja Man Singh I, who fought and governed from Kabul to Orissa and Assam; Jai Singh I, commonly known by his imperial title of Mirza Raja, whose name appears in all the wars of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb; and Jai Singh II, or Sawai Jai Singh, the famous mathematician and astronomer, and the founder of Jaipur city. "Sawai" was a title bestowed upon him by Aurangzeb which meant "one and a quarter times superior to his contemporaries".
Throughout the disintegration of the Mughal Empire, the armies of Jaipur were in a constant state of warfare. Towards the end of the 18th century, the Jats of Bharatpur and the chief of Alwar (Also a Kachwaha) declared themselves independent from Jaipur and each annexed the eastern portion of Jaipur's territory. This period of Jaipur's history is characterized by internal power-struggles and constant military conflicts with the Marathas, Jats, other Rajput states, as well as the British and the Pindaris (Jaipur's former mercenary allies).
Nevertheless enough wealth remained in Jaipur for the patronage of fine temples/palaces, continuity of its courtly traditions and the well-being of its citizens and merchant communities. A treaty was initially made by Maharaja Sawai Jagat Singh and the British under Governor general Marquis Wellesley in 1803, however the treaty was dissolved shortly afterwards by Wellesley's successor, Cornwallis. In this event, Jaipur's Ambassador to Lord Lake observed that This was the first time, since the English government was established in India, that it had been known to make its faith subserveint to its convenience. It was later in 1818, that the Jaipur state entered into subsidiary alliance with the British. In 1835 there was a serious disturbance in the city, after which the British government intervened. The state later became well-governed and prosperous. During the Revolt of 1857 when the British invoked the treaty to request assistance in the suppression of rebellious sepoys,the Maharaja opted to preserve his treaty, and thus sent in troops to subdue the uprisings in the area around Gurgaon and the out-skirts of Delhi.
The Jaipur forces also secured and kept open the strategic Agra-Ajmer highway, and shelter was given to Europeans fleeing from the menace of the mutineers in the Nahargarh Fort. Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II (1922-1949), in 1948, shortly after India's independence, acceded the state of Jaipur to the Government of India, and Jaipur became the capital of Rajasthan. Jaipur's current (albeit titular) Maharaja is H.H. Maharaja Sawai Bhawani Singh Bahadur. He has no official powers, but is seen as a Father-figure by the people of Jaipur.