Dr. Lingle is a Fellow in the ICOI and an Associate Fellow of both the American College of Oral Implantology and the American Association of Osseointegration. He lectures extensively on implantology and bone grafting. Having developed and taught numerous hands-on workshops, Dr. Lingle was awarded the 2005 Outstanding Service Award by the Minnesota Dental Association. He currently maintains a private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dr. Malin graduated from Marquette University in 1991. He maintains a private practice in LaCrosse, WI, where he has been utilizing occlusal based dental concepts since l998. Early in his career, he discovered that the implant placement techniques used could not deliver a standard, predictable result. Therefore, with the help of other experts in the fields of radiology and occlusion, Dr. Malin developed an implant placement technique which focused on occlusion (and cosmetics) for implant placement and crown restoration. This technique has led to five patents pending along with exceptional implant results. Dr. Malin lectures throughout North America on full-mouth reconstructions and implant placement. Dr. Malin is the Director of Implantology at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies (LVI).
Dr. McGarry received his DDS from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and his Certificate of Prosthodontics from UCSF/VA San Francisco. In addition to being Board Certified by the American Board of Prosthodontics, Dr. McGarry is currently a fellow of the American College of Prosthodontists where he served as president from 2000-2001. He is the founder of the Oklahoma Society of Prosthodontists and the Director of the McGarry Implant Institute. Dr. McGarry maintains a full time Prosthodontic practice in Oklahoma City, OK.
co-editor of the textbook, Implant Site Development. He currently is a Guest Lecturer at New York University School of Dentistry in their international dental program.
Dr. Kan is a professor in the Dept. of Restorative Dentistry at Loma Linda University and maintains a private practice in Prosthodontics and Implant Surgery. In 1997, he received the Best Research Award at the Academy of Osseointegration. He received the Judson Hinckey Scientific Award from the Journal of Prosthetic dentistry in 2003 and the Robert James Achievement Award in 2005 for his contributions in the field of implant dentistry. He is on the Periodontology/Implantology Editorial Board of the Practical Procedures & Aesthetic Dentistry and the European Journal of Esthetic dentistry. One of the few clinicians worldwide trained in both the surgical and restorative discipline of implant dentistry, he provides both lectures and surgical demonstrations worldwide and has published more than 50 articles with a focus on anterior esthetics.
Dr. Keeney received his DDS with honors at the Medical College of Virginia in 1984 and obtained an early externship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The Jackson Memorial Hospital Trauma Center in Miami, FL. He completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 where he served as Chief Resident. He maintains a practice in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a concentration in implant surgery. As a cofounder of the Implant Forum of Virginia, Dr. Keeney has worked to bring advanced implant techniques to the Richmond Dental Community. He is a Diplomate in the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a Fellow in the American Association of Oral Surgeons and American Society of Dental Anesthesia and became the first active Board Certified Oral Surgeon in Virginia to become a Diplomate in the International Congress of Oral Implantology. He is a frequent lecturer and active in the use of 3-D CAT scan technology in implant treatment.
Dr. Michael McCracken is a Professor and prosthodontist at the UAB School of Dentistry. The former director of graduate prosthodontics and director of the implant training program, he has is now involved in research at the university, and also directs a safety-net community dental clinic in Bessemer, Alabama, which sponsors an AEGD training program. Dr. McCracken lectures internationally on dental implants and complex oral rehabilitation.
Co-Creator of "The Implant Consortium" she has trained implant teams nationally as well as throughout the global dental community. Kathi is a credentialed and charismatic international speaker offering both clinical and implant coordinator development programs that are always cutting- edge, engaging, informative and high energy! She is a Fellow and a founding Certified Educator for the Association of Dental Implant Auxiliaries (ADIA) and was the recipient of the ADIA's Educator of the Year Award in 2008. Kathi has contributed to and co-authored several implant training manuals.
Mr. Carlson is a Certified Dental Technician with over 30 years of dental experience. For the past 20 years has been focused on dental implants in the area of education and technical support, on a national and international basis. Mr. Carlson is the primary author of a 300-page, fully illustrated "cookbook" for restorative doctors and co-developer of a restorative base training program for doctors and auxiliaries called Support Plus, which has been attended nationally and internationally by over 11,000 dental professionals. Jeff has lectured nationally and internationally and has provided "chairside coaching" to hundreds of clinicians. He is the co- creator of "The Implant Consortium" a patient centered group of dental professionals dedicated to the advancement of tooth replacement therapy.
Dentures & Overdentures. What They Didn't Teach You!
Dr. Russo is a diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. He is in private practice in Sarasota, FL and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in the Department of Periodontics. He is an author and an international lecturer on bone grafting and dental implant surgery.


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Back in his den with the cocoa he settles into the beanbag chair bequeathed to him by a departing student the year before. It is a garish neon green in its natural state, but Zachary draped it with a tapestry that was too heavy to hang on the wall, camouflaging it in shades of brown and grey and violet. He aims the space heater at his legs and opens Sweet Sorrows back to the page the unreliable library lightbulb had stranded him on and begins to read.
He wonders if it will return and loop back to the previous part. Then it changes again.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins's hands begin to shake.
Because while the first part of the book is a somewhat romantic bit about a pirate, and the second involves a ceremony with an acolyte in a strange underground library, the third part is something else entirely.
The third part is about him.
The boy is the son of the fortune-teller.
A coincidence, he thinks, but as he continues reading the details are too perfect to be fiction. Sage may permeate the shoelaces of many sons of fortune-tellers but he doubts that they also took shortcuts through alleyways on their routes home from school.
When he reaches the part about the door he puts the book down.
He feels light-headed. He stands up, worried he might pass out and thinking he might open the window and instead he kicks over his forgotten mug of cocoa.
Automatically, Zachary walks down the hall to the kitchenette to get paper towels. He mops up the cocoa and goes back to the kitchenette to throw away the sopping towels. He rinses his mug in the sink. The mug has a chip he is not certain was there before. Laughter echoes up the stairwell, far away and hollow.
Zachary returns to his room and confronts the book again, staring at it as it rests nonchalantly on the beanbag chair.
He locks his door, something he rarely does.
He picks up the book and inspects it more thoroughly than he had before. The top corner of the cover is dented, the cloth starting to fray. Tiny flecks of gold dot the spine.
Zachary takes a deep breath and opens the book again. He turns to the page where he left off and forces himself to read the words as they unfold precisely the way he expects them to.
His memory fills in the details left off the page: the way the whitewash reached halfway up the wall and then the bricks turned red again, the dumpsters at the other end of the alley, the weight of his schoolbook-stuffed backpack on his shoulder.
He has remembered that day a thousand times but this time it is different. This time his memory is guided along by the words on the page and it is clear and vibrant. As though the moment only just happened and is not more than a decade in the past.
He can picture the door perfectly. The precision of the paint. The trompe l'oeil effect he couldn't name at the time. The bee with its delicate gold stripes. The sword pointed upright toward the key.
He goes back and rereads the pages about the boy. About him.
About the place he did not find behind the door, whatever a Starless Sea is supposed to be. His hands have stopped shaking but he is light-headed and hot, he remembers now that he never opened the window but he cannot stop reading. He pushes his eyeglasses farther up the bridge of his nose so he can focus better.
He doesn't understand. Not only how someone could have captured the scene in such detail but how it is here in a book that looks much older than he is. He rubs the paper between his fingers and it feels heavy and rough, yellowing to near brown around the edges.
Could someone have predicted him, down to his shoelaces? Does that mean the rest of it could be true? That somewhere there are tongueless acolytes in a subterranean library? It doesn't seem fair to him to be the solitary real person in a collection of fictional characters, though he supposes the pirate and the girl could be real. Still, the very idea is so ludicrous that he laughs at himself.
He wonders if he is losing his mind and then decides that if he is able to wonder about it he probably isn't, which isn't particularly comforting.
He looks down at the last two words on the page.
Those two words swim through a thousand questions flooding his mind.
Then one of those questions floats to the surface of his thoughts, prompted by the repeated bee motif and his remembered door.
Is this book from that place?
He inspects the book again, pausing at the barcode stuck to the back cover.
Zachary looks closer, and sees that the sticker is obscuring something written or printed there. A spot of black ink peeks out from the bottom of the sticker.
He feels mildly guilty about prying it off. The barcode was faulty, anyway, and likely needs to be replaced. Not that he has any intention of returning the book, not now. He peels the sticker off slowly and carefully, trying to remove it in one piece and attempting not to rip the paper below it. It comes off easily and he sticks it to the edge of his desk before turning back to what is written below it.
There are no words, only a string of symbols that have been stamped or otherwise inscribed onto the back cover, faded and smudged but easily identifiable.
The exposed dot of ink is the hilt of a sword.
Above it is a key.
Above the key is a bee.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins stares at the miniature versions of the same symbols he once contemplated in an alleyway behind his mother's store and wonders how, exactly, he is supposed to continue a story he didn't know he was in.
The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern
The magical new bestseller from the author of The Night Circus
More extracts
The Sisters Grimm
All souls are special. Son or daughter, Grimm or not, Life touches her spirit to every one of her creations.
And I could only have seen her there on the stone bridge, a dancer wreathed in ghostly blue, because that was the way they would have taken her back when I was young, back when the Virginia earth was still red as brick and red with life
Year of the Orphan
There were a heat. Air hotter'n blud. Baked her skin as she moved.
Blue Ticket
It began with the allocating of luck, our bodies pinballs inside a machine. It was the year of overlapping adolescences, when the girls started to faint and grow tall.
Two thirty a.m., and no signal yet. The American was waiting in his cramped little room; waiting for a pulse that would tell him London was calling.
Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified.
Frankissstein
Reality is water-soluble.
It was religious yearning granted hope, it was the holy grail of science. Our ambitions ran high and low – for a creation myth made real, for a monstrous act of self-love.
The Second Cure
The space between was the worst.
Nadia once told me that she was kept awake at night by the idea that she would read about the end of the world on a phone notification.
Margot closes the door of the bedroom softly.
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

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In Linux and Unix there is a "touch" command which will update the timestamp of a file without modifying the contents. You can also create an empty file without having to open an application among other actions. In Windows there isn't a direct equivalent, but you can get close by using the "copy" command with a "+" at the end of the filename while specifying no destination file. The + symbol points the copy operation back to the source file. This will update the timestamp while not modifying the contents of the file.
This process was helpful for my customer testing out automated CI/CD processes with Azure DevOps and Git. Hopefully this will be useful to someone else. Enjoy.
If you have any feedback or suggestions on the blog series please reach out to me or the rest of the team. We look forward to hearing from you.


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NOW THERE ARE FOUR SOURCES: Officer Darren Wilson Suffered Fractured Eye Socket
by Jim Hoft August 22, 2014
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On Tuesday The Gateway Pundit reported from two local St. Louis sources that police Officer Darren Wilson suffered facial fractures during his confrontation with deceased 18 year-old Michael Brown. Officer Wilson clearly feared for his life during the incident that led to the shooting death of Brown. This was after Michael Brown and his accomplice Dorian Johnson robbed a local Ferguson convenience store.
Michael Brown robbed a Ferguson convenience store the morning of his death.
Local St. Louis sources said Wilson suffered an "orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket." This comes from a source within the Prosecuting Attorney's office and confirmed by the St. Louis County Police.
On Friday CNN refuted the report:
The Daily Mail also ran with CNN's repoort:
Now this…
The Gateway Pundit confirmed from a third local source close to Wilson that Officer Darren Wilson did indeed suffer a broken eye socket.
I tweeted this out late last night before I went to bed.
"People of integrity expect to be believed. And when they're not, they let time prove them right" #Ferguson #DarrenWilson
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) August 22, 2014
This morning The Washington Post also reported that Officer Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket–
A spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said he would not comment on reports that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson suffered a fractured eye bone during Wilson's confrontation with Michael Brown that ended with the officer shooting and killing the unarmed teen.
"We do not comment on any evidence in the case, and that would include the officer's injuries," said Ed Magee.
Magee said that prosecutors have not received any medical records relating to Wilson so far. But he said that since Wilson was taken to the hospital, they assume there are medical records and they just haven't received them yet.
A family friend of Wilson's told The Washington Post that Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket. Ferguson police have said that Wilson's face was injured and he needed medical treatment, but they did not go into any detail. On Wednesday night, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III told Fox News that he could not confirm reports that Wilson suffered a fractured eye bone.
CNN really needs to be more responsible with such sensitive information.


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Der Film Heiraten verboten (Alternativtitel: Der Glockenkrieg oder Hochwürden greift ein – Heiraten verboten!) entstand 1957 unter der Regie von Heinz Paul und ist eine Verfilmung des Romans Der Glockenkrieg von Ernst Wolfgang Freissler aus dem Jahr 1927. 1983 entstand mit dem Fernsehfilm Der Glockenkrieg eine weitere Adaption des Stoffes.

Handlung
Die Bewohner der Ortschaften Summering und Schellenberg streiten sich um den Sauwald, der zwischen den beiden Gemeinden liegt. Nachdem der Wald jahrhundertelang zur Gemeinde Summering gehörte, wurde er nun gerichtlich Schellenberg zugesprochen. Der Streit eskaliert, als die Summeringer behaupten, die Nachbarn würden ihnen mit den Kirchenglocken die Gewitter zutreiben. In diesem Glockenkrieg werden in Summering die Kirchenglocken gegen Kuhglocken ausgetauscht.

Den Summeringer Mädchen wird es untersagt, sich mit Schellenberger Burschen zu treffen. Schließlich rebellieren die Schellenberger Junggesellen und die Summeringer Mädchen. Nur die Liebe und die Ortspfarrer können den Konflikt noch schlichten.

Kritiken

Literatur
 Ernst Wolfgang Freissler: Der Glockenkrieg. Roman. Cotta, Stuttgart 1957, 226 Seiten.

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Filmtitel 1957
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Newark, News
I'm Celebrating How Newark Took Charter Schools From the Fringe to the Center
(Michele Mason is executive director of the Newark Charter School Fund, founded in 2008 to help provide all Newark students with access to great schools in collaboration with district efforts to improve the quality of Newark public education.)
All parents deserve access to a high-quality school that nurtures and supports their children. But despite best intentions, many Newark parents continue to struggle finding great schools in the neighborhoods where they live.
Many children fall victim to failing schools simply because of the ZIP codes they call home. Far too often, where children live can either propel them toward their destiny or block their blessings altogether.
My educational journey began with a tough decision that required my parents to make significant sacrifices.
You see, my twin sister and I failed kindergarten. The teachers decided they were going to put us in a pilot program for "special needs" kids. But our parents decided on a different educational path. They enrolled us in Catholic school, and that decision made all the difference—not just in my education, but in my attitudes toward education.
This is why I believe in parent choice.
The charter movement started with education entrepreneurs who desired to start public schools that were innovative and independent, different from traditional public schools.
Like pioneers on the frontier, this goal instilled a can-do attitude and rugged individualism that defied the odds to offer truly great choices to families and children, especially those previously underserved. But, over time, the frontier becomes the heartland, and the charter movement, once on the edges of education reform, is now at its center.
This natural evolution in the movement demands fresh thinking beyond rugged individualism to collective action that benefits all.
This has been our experience in Newark. In 1997, two pioneer schools—Robert Treat Academy and North Star Academy—opened their doors to students. By 2007, 10 charter schools served 9 percent of public school students in the city. That first decade saw limited interaction among charter schools in the city, and even less with the district. The focus was appropriately inward, each school working on its own program.
As more parents turned to charters, school operators, supporters and advocates began to recognize an opportunity beyond individual schools serving discrete Newark neighborhoods. By sharing resources and coordinating activities, the charter movement could accelerate systemic change in Newark's public schools, ultimately benefiting all.
In that context, 10 years ago this month the Newark Charter School Fund (NCSF) was conceived as an intermediary to spark collaboration among charters, with advocates and funders—and ultimately with the district—to leverage the charter movement into transformational education reform.
By reframing the charter movement in Newark from isolated innovation to systemic change, the fund itself attracted over $50 million to Newark charter schools. This work set the stage in 2010 for a $200 million investment in both district and charter public schools from Mark Zuckerberg and other matching partners. With these additional resources, the number of charter operators almost doubled in the second decade to 19, and enrollment share more than tripled to nearly a third of all students.
Beyond supporting quality growth, the Newark Charter School Fund became the primary platform to convene charter leaders and connect them to their district counterparts. This led to several joint initiatives which have dramatically improved educational opportunities in Newark.
In 2013, this resulted in a joint district-charter strategy to turn around some of the district's lowest-performing schools by restarting them under the management of charter operators. As the portfolio of charter and district options grew, NCSF partnered with the district in 2014 to develop a common enrollment system to provide equitable access to all public schools.
Early on, there was considerable resistance among charter operators to join with each other and the district on enrollment. Each charter saw other public schools as competition, and did not want to relinquish control to admissions, a key driver of funding and growth.
But the fund helped convince most charters that an enrollment system where parents had to submit separate applications to multiple district and charter schools, particularly as options grew, was neither sustainable nor equitable. Today, common enrollment, in addition to being parent friendly, represents the largest and most successful collaboration between Newark charter and district schools, with over 95 percent of public education seats in Newark served by the system.
Most recently, the fund has been organizing Newark charter school collaboration toward better serving students with special needs. Early efforts at informal collaboration evolved into the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, a membership organization that provides support services for schools not only in Newark but across the state.
I hope the Newark experience inspires parents and educators across the nation to find more ways to work together, and with other public education partners, to find innovative solutions that not only help your own school but transform public education system for your city or state as a whole.
Every child can go to a great school, with exceptional leaders and inspiring educators who believe in them and encourage students to dream big.
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ANZ bank has confirmed head of consumer marketing, Carolyn Bendall, as its new group marketing chief.
The announcement came as the banking group's former general manager of marketing, Karen Donaldson, re-emerges in her new role as general manager of loyalty and financial services marketing at Coles Group.
Donaldson resigned from the chief marketer's post at ANZ in January after three years with the Australian banking giant. Bendall, who had been reporting directly to Donaldson, was chosen as the interim CMO last December, and will now assume the post permanently, effective immediately.
Throughout her career with ANZ, Bendall has held roles in institutional, corporate, commercial and retail market segments in both Australia and New Zealand with broad responsibility across a number of marketing disciplines.
An ANZ spokesman said no decision has yet been made on a permanent replacement as head of consumer marketing.
It is understood Donaldson started at the Coles Group this month. A Coles spokesperson sidestepped questions on her appointment, but confirmed the supermarket giant is expanding its financial services division.
"We are employing a number of highly experienced senior people at Coles to support our growing financial services business," the spokesperson stated.
Prior to joining ANZ, Donaldson worked briefly as CMO and partner at Springboard Marketing, and also held several marketing positions within GE. Her resume also includes stints at Diners Club Australia as marketing director, and group product marketing manager at Rowntree Hoadley.
Coles Group also announced that its current managing director, Ian McLeod, will move to a senior role within the wider Wesfarmers Group from 1 July this year. He will be replaced at Coles by current chief operating officer, John Durkan.


This catechism for the instruction of children was prepared in 1563 by Zacharias Ursinus, at the request of the ruler of the Palatinate in Germany. It soon became the principle catechism used by Reformed Churches on the continent of Europe. It was the only doctrinal standard used by the Reformed Church in the United States, one of the three doctrinal standards used by the Evangelical Synod of North America, and also one of those same three used by the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Because it was used as the basis of instruction in preparation for Confirmation, it was studied by everyone who became a member of the Reformed Church. It therefore had a powerful and unifying influence on the doctrine and piety of the Reformed Church. The full text can be found in Living Theological Heritage, 2:329-358.


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Unabridged Highlights: Global Read Aloud Books
Quick Summary: In this episode, we discussed three of the choices for Global Read Aloud this year. If you're unfamiliar with Global Read Aloud, it is a movement focused on connecting classrooms around the world through shared reading experiences. Below are the summaries we wrote for each of the novels we discuss in the podcast.
Samira Ahmed's Love, Hate and Other Filters: Maya Aziz is an aspiring filmmaker, a senior in high school who is balancing determining her own future with pleasing her traditional Indian immigrant parents. This novel addresses her crush on a white classmate, Phil; her potential relationship with Kareem, a boy from her own Muslim culture; and the prejudice that follows an act of terrorism that has a huge impact on Maya's (and her parents') consideration of her identity.
Aisha Saeed's Amal Unbound: Amal is a twelve-year-old girl in a small village in Pakistan. As the oldest sibling with a new baby on the way, she has many responsibilities to her family. As those pressures build and her time in school, a place of refuge for her, decreases, she feels increasingly distraught. A momentary loss of composure in the village marketplace causes a major shift in her life circumstances, forcing her into a life of indentured servitude for the local landlord who oversees the village. As her world spirals out of control, she has to struggle to decide who she will be and how she will move forward.
Alan Gratz's Refugee: This story examines the lives of three different refugees coming from different time periods and circumstances-- Josef is a Jewish boy fleeing from Nazi Germany, Isabel is a Cuban girl fleeing the Castro regime in 1994, and Mahmoud is a Syrian boy escaping war-torn Aleppo in 2015. Refugee is the story of the journey each of these young people take with their families in search of refuge from political persecution in their own countries.
My Take: While I enjoyed aspects of all three of these novels, I loved Refugee the most. I found all three of the story lines totally captivating, and I love a book with multiple narrators. What I most appreciated is the way that Gratz uses the different storylines to break down some misconceptions and negative attitudes that people seem to have toward refugees. I also loved Amal Unbound and so appreciated the insight Ahmed gave into life in a Pakistani village. I appreciated the way Ahmed revealed the complex cultural dynamics that lead toward girls being uneducated and the way she highlighted the brave steps girls around Pakistan are taking to change the culture and their larger world.
My conclusions:
Love, Hate and Other Filters - 3 out of 5 stars
Amal Unbound - 5 out of 5 stars
Refugee - 5 out of 5 stars
Teaching Tips: All three of these novels would work well in the classroom. Love, Hate, and Other Filters would be a great lit circle book and could be taught with other books about hate crimes, terrorism, or second generation experiences. Amal Unbound is a quick, powerful read and could definitely be read whole class as it is fascinating and moves quickly. We're planning to teach Refugee whole class with our tenth grade students. However, having done some read aloud with them so far this year, we've realized that Refugee is likely going to be too much to get through with read aloud alone. We're planning to get enough copies for the students so that we can read parts aloud but then let them read by themselves in between the sections we'll read together.
Podcast Highlights: It was so fun to discuss all three of these books with Jen and Sara, and I loved hearing their perspectives.
Unabridged Podcast Episode 29: Blake Crouch's DARK MATTER
Quick Summary: In this episode, we're discussing Blake Crouch's Dark Matter. It is a story about Jason Dessen, a physics professor, husband, and father, whose life is turned upside down when he is kidnapped and transported to a different world--one where his wife is not his wife, his son is not there, and he is profoundly successful as a physicist and has accomplished seemingly impossible things. As Jason struggles to figure out what is real, he works to find his way home. The protagonist must face the fragile nature of his reality as he struggles to reunite with his family and his world.
My Take: This was a fast-paced sci-fi book that grabbed me and kept moving. There are parts that were truly mind-blowing. Some of the details of the plot itself left me a bit perplexed, but it was a good read overall.
My verdict: The premise of this captivated me. As things unfolded, I found myself a bit skeptical of some of what came, but it was really enjoyable and fast-moving. 3/5 stars.
Favorite Quotes: There were lots of quotes I enjoyed in this fast-paced novel.
"It occurs to me that if I do survive, I'll carry a new revelation with me for the rest of my days: we leave this life the same way we enter it--totally alone, bereft. I'm afraid, and there is nothing Daniela or Charlie or anyone can do to help me at this moment when I need them more than ever. They don't even know what I'm experiencing." -- This novel really makes you think about what it means to be your true self and what reality really is. There are many moments of isolation and alienation that make the reader ponder existence.
"It's like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was new country." -- One of the things I loved about this novel is the gratitude that the narrator feels for his life and all of the tiny, simple moments that make reality what it is.
What I added to my TBR list: I'm dying to read Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng that Sara recommended! As I mention on the show, I LOVED Everything I Never Told You so very much, and I look forward to Ng's next novel. That one keeps getting pushed down the pile a little bit because of more pressing reads, but I can't wait to get to it!
Teaching Tips: While I would not teach this whole class, it could work in lit circles. It could also work well in a creative writing class since the narrative structure is fascinating!
Podcast Highlights: I loved/ felt mortified by listening to us try to work through some of the theoretical physics that are completely foreign to us! It's always humbling to discuss something completely outside of one's field of expertise. My cheeks are burning now just thinking about it!
Making a Podcast Live on iTunes (and elsewhere): Things I Wish I Had Known
Getting our Unabridged podcast started has been an amazing adventure, and I've loved being part of the journey as we took something we loved, book discussions, and transformed it into a real recording podcast. We began recording back in June of 2017, but we did not launch our podcast until February of 2018. Here are a few things we learned along the way as we made our podcast live.
iTunes does not determine your release day. We spent a lot of time trying to pace things so that we'd have the best chance of getting a "good" release day for our podcast. While there are no terrible days/ amazing days, it is true that podcasts that release in the middle of the week seem to be statistically better received, whereas podcasts that release on the weekends are not as well received. We wanted a Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday release day. We strategized and plotted and planned to try to achieve this goal, and it turned out (after our podcast was approved with iTunes, which only took a day) that WE push the podcast out whenever we post from our host, Podbean (more about that below)--this happened rather unintentionally the first week (we thought we were supposed to be posting for a Friday release), but we wound up with a Wednesday evening release schedule, which has been great!
You need to choose a host. We work in the tech world, so we were considering hosting it ourselves, but that seemed very complicated and not reliable, so we wound up taking the plunge and paying for a year subscription with Podbean. I did extensive research to try to figure out which platform would be best. I got down to Buzzsprout and Podbean. In the end, a major reason that I chose Podbean, where our Unabridged podcast now lives (see our Podbean link here), is because they offer a crowdfunding service, but we will be using Patreon instead, so that wound up being a moot point. Still, I have been pleased with Podbean. I'm glad we took that route.
Once you have music, a logo, a recording (or two or three), and a host, go ahead and set up your release on iTunes. Once you have the essentials in place and think you can sustain a systematic release (we try to record at least three times each month, and we release every Wednesday), go for it! We released six episodes up front, but I'm not sure it's totally necessary to release extra content. There were a lot of things we couldn't know until our podcast was in action, and we're learning as we go.
Be sure to sign in to iTunes using your podcast login information. You'll upload your podcast on iTunes Connect, but you'll need to use the Apple ID you created for that on your other iTunes app in order to access the full dashboard within iTunes Connect. It's easy to do, but it took me a long time to figure out that was the issue when I was ready to upload our content.
Whether you are considering podcasting as a hobby or as a way to promote ideas from an organization or school, it's definitely doable, and it's a lot of fun. Contact me on the contact page if you have questions, and I'll do my best to help.
Unabridged Podcast Episode 27: Robin Benway's Far from the Tree
Quick Summary: It is a story about 3 siblings, separated at birth by either adoption or being placed in foster care, finding each other in their teens and navigating the complicated relationships in their lives: both adoptive and biological. The book is told through multiple perspectives, alternating through each sibling's point of view. Grace just gave up her own daughter, after getting pregnant at 16, and discovers that she has two biological siblings she's never known about. She reaches out to Maya, who is dealing with her own parents' struggles and always feeling a little bit on the outside. Together, they find Joaquin, who has spent his life bouncing through the foster care system. As the book progresses, these three siblings discover each other while also learning more about themselves, their biological mother and the connections they never expected to experience.
My Take: Benway did an amazing job of exploring so many different angles and perspectives on what it means to be family. She integrated some hard truths about adoption, racial dynamics, and tensions between adopted children and both their birth mother/ parents and their adopted parents, but she houses those truths in tenderness and compassion. It's a powerful story, and I love the narration from three different, distinct siblings.
My conclusion: Overall, I absolutely loved this novel. Benway took on so many issues with her characters, and each narrator's voice was unique and so lovable. I did struggle a with the plausibility of some of the events, but that did not stop the overall impact of the novel. 4/5 stars.
What I added to my TBR list: Jen's pick, Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert, sounds like an awesome book, and it sounds like it hits on issues of family and race dynamics that I find fascinating and important to consider in our society.
Teaching Tips: This would work so well as a lit circle choice. It's a powerful read for students but would be a little long to move through whole class. However, the issues this book raises (such as what constitutes a family, why mothers opt to give up babies, and how to navigate relationships) would work so well with a wide array of other complementary books.
Podcast Highlights: I so loved the points that were made about adoption and the difficulty of giving up a baby because I think that highlights the issues that Benway raises about why mothers have to make those hard choices. I also loved the discussion we had about siblings and the amazing dynamics of sibling relationships.
Unabridged Episode 17: Siobhan Fallon's The Confusion of Languages
Quick Summary: This novel depicts two women who are army wives stationed in Jordan. The book comes from both of their perspectives, and it revolves around the challenges of dealing with life in a country in which daily life centers on a different culture. Cassie, who has lived in Jordan for years, tries to advise Margaret, a newcomer on how to live successfully. Fallon reveals the truth of their stories through Margaret's journal and Cassie's own reflection on their time together.
My Take: Phew, this one was not what I had anticipated. In a lot of ways I wound up feeling disappointed and frustrated, but there were some things I enjoyed -- the language was lovely in places, and the characters' strong personalities really resonated.
My conclusion: While I appreciated some aspects of the novel, and I definitely found myself wanting to find out what was going to happen, I found myself disappointed by the end. I wanted to like both of the main characters a bit more (though I so appreciated something Roxanne Gay says in Bad Feminist -- we shouldn't (I'm paraphrasing here) be reading books to find characters that are likeable! I this that is an excellent point, but I couldn't relate to either of the women in this story enough.) 3/5 stars.
"We depend on this give-and-take when living abroad. You can't exile yourself from your homeland and not always feel that tidal pull of return. Those minor details, the commercial jingles and pop songs, the chain restaurants and decade-defining shades of our blue jeans, are details you don't even think about until you are face-to-face with a society that has very little to do with your own. Suddenly those one-hit wonders become a secret language, the very vestiges of American culture." - I so appreciate the commentary in the novel about being an expat and being in a foreign land. There is a truth to those experiences that the women have that really resonated with me.
"Only a man could separate his life into that sort of divide and choose to put Work in the important category and family in the not. That's why men rule the world." - The male/female dynamics in the book were fascinating, and it was painful and striking to see how the men in their lives really ruled the choices that both Margaret and Cassie made throughout the novel.
What I added to my TBR list: I've heard so many great things about Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand, and I loved what Jenni had to say about it. It's now a definite yes on my (ever-growing!) TBR list.
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K. Ashley Dickson-Ellison is a former high school English teacher (who is now an instructional technology teacher) interested in exploring the integration of trending young adult literature into the English classroom experience. Ashley is also a member of the podcast Unabridged; check out the podcast site below.
Ashley's books
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Dana Huff
David Levithan
Double Entry Journals
Eudora Welty
Everyday Edit
Fate And Choice
Film To Text Comparison
Global Read Aloud
Isabel Quintero
Jandy Nelson
Julia Alvarez
Karen Finneyfrock
Kid Lit
Kristin Cashore
Latin@ Lit
Lit Circles
Luhrmann
Marissa Meyer
National Book Festival
Nina Lacour
Peter Heller
R J Palacio
Rudolfo Anaya
Socratic Discussion
Source And Note Cards
Student Led
Teen Lit
The Age Of Miracles
Zeffirelli
Somewhat Infrequent Writing Blog
Please note: All ideas and opinions are my own and do not represent my current or past employers.


Ascension Hall is an location in Tyranny.
After entering the Ascension Hall via the Citadel Barracks, you will have a dialogue with Tarkis Arri, the commander of the Vendrien Guard forces at the Citadel. There are Athletics (43), Subterfuge (43) and Lore (43) checks during this conversation. If you pass the Atheletics check you will gain some xp and cause one archer to flee, making the battle easier. If you pass the Lore check, you will gain xp and cause the Sage to flee, making the fight easier. If you pass the Subterfuge check you will gain only xp.
After the battle with Tarkis Arri, depending on which side you chose to lead the forces either Fifth Eye or Iron Marshal Erenyos will arrive. You can gain or lose favor with your chosen allies depending on what you say OR you can betray your alliance. If you don't betray the alliance you will gain favor with both the Scarlet Chorus and Disfavored and lose favor with the Vendrien Guard. After declaring the Edict finished you will instantly be ported to the Mountain Spire.
this isn't correct at all. if you betray alliance EVERYONE hates you, if you don't betray alliance everyone but one faction hates you.


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Handicapping the Oscars: Lots of sure bets
By Robert Horton Herald Movie Critic
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 5:26pm
LifeGo-See-Do
Rarely has there been a year when the Oscar nominations felt so pre-ordained. Spoon-fed, you might say.
Oh, the movies are mostly good. 2013 was a decent year in film and the nominees are actually an admirable lot.
But with all the second-tier events like the Golden Globes and the Broadcast Film Critics and the SAG awards, not to mention a slew of critics groups around the U.S., the nods seemed already set in stone by the time they were announced on Jan. 16.
And not just because of the repetition of awards. The campaigning this year — magazine ads, talk-show appearances, endless interviews — resulted in the people spending the most money getting the most nominations.
Can nobody else but Cate Blanchett win for best actress? Could we possibly spread around the supporting actor nods to someone other than Jared Leto? Does anybody even remember seeing "August: Osage County"?
No wonder Robert Redford sounded miffed when he said the Oscar nominations are largely dependent on money and campaigning. He should've been nominated for his turn in "All Is Lost," but found himself outside the final five.
That bellyaching (mine, not Redford's) out of the way, we can settle in and see that indeed, some very good movies are spotlighted this year. It figures to be a year in which the winners are spread out, rather than a single title sweeping the board.
"Gravity" will win a batch of technical awards (no argument there), the Academy will pay proper tribute to "12 Years a Slave," and "American Hustle" will likely pick up a couple of wins from its 10 nominations.
It would be cool if the Oscar voters went their own way and chose some wild cards. But — except in the foreign-language and documentary categories, where voters must actually see the movies in question — that doesn't happen often.
One thing we do know. If host Ellen DeGeneres comes out and falls flat on her face, she will still do a better job than last year's master of ceremonies, Seth McFarlane.
With that, here are some predictions for the 86th annual Academy Awards. These choices are what I think will win, not necessarily what I think should win.
BEST PICTURE. "12 Years a Slave." From its first appearance at film festivals, this movie was tabbed as a likely best picture: a blunt-impact treatment of an important subject, slavery. It's the kind of year where a surprise could happen — "Gravity" and "American Hustle" are the likeliest alternates — but this is the kind of movie most Oscar voters go for. There are nine nominees in total; the others are "Captain Phillips," "Philomena," "Her," "Nebraska," "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Dallas Buyers Club."
BEST ACTRESS. Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine." Stunning performance in Woody Allen's sour character study. I'd vote for Amy Adams in "American Hustle" myself, and she and Sandra Bullock ("Gravity") are the only nominees with any chance of a surprise here. Also included: Judi Dench ("Philomena") and Meryl Streep ("August: Osage County").
BEST ACTOR. Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club." Everybody's in love with the story of McConaughey's turnaround as an actor, and his fine performance as a feisty 1980s AIDS patient was uncompromising. The runner-up might be Chiwetel Ejiofor, excellent as the freeman bound into slavery in "12 Years a Slave," but McConaughey's been winning everything in sight. Also in the running: Christian Bale ("American Hustle"), Bruce Dern ("Nebraska"), Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Wolf of Wall Street").
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS. Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave." The main competition for this newcomer is Jennifer Lawrence ("American Hustle"), who won an Oscar last year — and yet Hollywood seems besotted by her, so who knows. This is probably not the year for Sally Hawkins ("Blue Jasmine"), Julia Roberts ("August: Osage County"), or June Squibb ("Nebraska").
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR. Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club." Oscar voters tend to favor elaborate transformations over quieter performances, and Leto certainly sank himself into the role of a transsexual addict. The most likely surprise would come from Michael Fassbender ("12 Years a Slave"), who has established himself as an exciting presence in recent years, but he'll probably get another chance or 12 to win an Oscar. Less likely: Barkhad Abdi ("Captain Phillips"), Bradley Cooper ("American Hustle"), Jonah Hill ("The Wolf of Wall Street").
BEST DIRECTOR. Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity." An astonishing movie — and while movie directing constitutes many facets (vision, passion, all that stuff), it also requires a gift for problem solving. "Gravity" sets up one technical problem after another, and Cuaron solves them all. Steve McQueen definitely has a shot for "12 Years a Slave," and maybe David O. Russell is in the running for the raucously entertaining "American Hustle." But probably not Alexander Payne ("Nebraska") or Martin Scorsese ("The Wolf of Wall Street").
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. "American Hustle," Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell. A logical spot for this barn-burner to take a prize, even if one could argue that the script was its least exciting element. Some people have been touting "Her" in this slot, although that's another movie weaker in its script than in other departments. Also tabbed: "Blue Jasmine," "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Nebraska."
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY. "12 Years a Slave," John Ridley. A probable win for the best picture designate — in fact, close to a lock. If the award should go to "The Wolf of Wall Street," expect an uptick in the number of f-words in next year's Hollywood movies. Also up: "Before Midnight," "Captain Phillips" and "Philomena."
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE. "Frozen." Yeah, there probably won't be any surprises here — Disney's cartoon musical has garnered acclaim and hot box-office. The snowman probably deserved a supporting actor nomination, but never mind. Also on the list: "The Croods," "Despicable Me 2," Ernest &Celestine" and "The Wind Rises."
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM. "The Great Beauty," Italy. This is a tough one, because the voters can be whimsical. The eye-filling Italian film simply seems like the sort of thing most loved by Oscar in the past.
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My house was clean three weeks ago. Sorry you missed it
Sticker-shock quotes from housecleaning businesses inform a mom just what her labor is worth.
Fine-tune your coping skills for when life gets difficult
Here are four ways to develop healthy ways to deal with the stress that inevitably comes our way.
Poland's milk bars dish up memories and cheap eats
You can eat well there for just $5, making them perhaps the best legacy of the communist era.
Trainline charges a $43 change fee after train was canceled
When Neale Gonsalves' train trip from Stockport, England, to London is canceled, he rebooks on another train. But Trainline, his ticket agency, charges him a $43 ticket change fee. Is that allowed?
Music, theater and more: What's happening in Snohomish County
Village Theatre's production of "Cinderella" closes Jan. 29 in Everett.
Fruit tree season is upon us. Choose wisely
Unlike growing veggies, fruit trees are a long-term investment, so make sure you start out on the right foot.
This injury changed me from a 'human-doing' to a 'human-being'
A painful torn calf muscle doesn't require surgery — just a LOT of rest. So pass the Advil and the TV remote.
Great Plant Pick: Giant snowdrops
This bulb flowers early — as in right now. It also rewards gardeners with a honey-like fragrance.
How do we teach our children to be mindful consumers?
A few ground rules, on screen time especially, will help adults raise kids with the capacity to amuse themselves.
These are a few of Rick Steves' favorite things to do in Dublin
Visiting Trinity College, Kilmainham Gaol and more in Ireland's capital city.
With a hurricane on the way, are these tickets now worthless?
Char Collins has to cancel flights from Minneapolis to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after a hurricane threatens her destination wedding. Will she have to throw away her airline tickets, or can she reuse them?
2023 Cadillac XT4 is handsome, roomy and agreeable on the road
The compact luxury SUV has two new paint colors and adds some driver assistance features as standard.


A super basic shipping module for store pickup. This module supports Fixed handling fee or Percentage. No real bells or whistles!
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This is a Store Pickup Module for magento, it offers basic options for allow a customer to get your store address & store hours so they can schedule a time to pickup their order. Let's begin! 1. You must have FTP access to your server. 2. Extract the archive to your local computer. 3. Open the Magento root folder, upload the app folder. 4. Ensure when uploading that you do not overwrite your copy if you needed to apply a patch.
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Home Food & Culture Fightin' Frauen
Fightin' Frauen
This March 8, celebrate International Women's Day. Said to go back all the way to 1857 with real socialist roots, it's still celebrated in left-conscious Berlin to this day. How are you going to celebrate your power of Venus? Or show that men can be feminists too by taking part? Here are Exberliner's tips for having a fierce Frauentag!
Want to celebrate in the most literal way possible? Head to northwestern Schöneberg – aka Berlin's gay male ground zero – and you'll find BEGiNE, the city's one and only female-only watering hole. On the ground floor of a once-derelict building taken over by a group of female squatters in 1986, the place is still going strong – even if it is a bit of a time warp upon entry. Red velvet, dark wood and cork noticeboards crammed with ads give this Frauenkneipe a certain "traditional" feel, as do the guests, many of whom have been regulars since the bar first opened 30 years ago. As for the question on everyone's lips: no, it's not technically a lesbian bar, although L Mag is for sale on the counter. Basically, any woman craving an escape from Berlin's 100mph party scene can rock up here – whether you want to find out more about the dance classes and self-help groups run by the BEGiNE non-profit women's support centre, or simply enjoy Friday night with a few drinks (small tap beer, € 2.40) and some Shakira classics.
BEGiNE, Meeting Point and Culture for Women, Potsdamer Str. 139, Schöneberg, U-Bhf Bülowstr., Mon-Fri from 17:00, Sat from 19:00
Not just for girls
Opening on the day, the third edition of the Berlin Feminist Film Week promises yet another well-rounded programme that not only raises awareness of wide-ranging gender-related issues, but offers insights and solutions as well. The eloquent, fluid documentary CODE: De-Bugging the Gender Gap, for example, dissects the phenomenon of a male-dominated tech industry, asking "why?" all the way. While You Weren't Looking, meanwhile, delicately dramatises the relationship of a South African mixed-race lesbian couple and that of their adoptive daughter with a ghetto tomboy. There's also a mid-week bash and a feminist film quiz.
BERLIN FEMINIST FILM WEEK | various venues, see berlinfeministflimweek.com for programme
Wanna see something international on International Women's Day? Then the Gallery For Good's pop-up exhibition Planet Her is the place to go. The exhibition comprises mainly portraits, showcasing women of all ages and representing a total of 20 countries, from Vietnam to Tanzania to Uzbekistan. The photos capture different levels of femininity – from sisters at a wedding to a striking image of a young Masai girl, this event celebrates the independence of women in cultures the Western media overlooks. Out of the six photographers exhibited, three are women: the works of Berlin based Audrey Scott (Uncornered Market), Oana Dragan and Shereen Mroueh (both Canadian based, G Adventures) all highlight the way travel can change stereotypes.
Planet Her, Mar 8-13 | Gallery For Good, Linienstr. 148, Mitte, S-Bhf Oranienburger Str.
Party for your right to fight
And of course, there's the demonstrations and parties (they tend to be one and the same here). True to how we do it, there are two in Berlin, with Frauen*kampftag, the official nationwide demo, actually happening a few days earlier on March 6, 11am at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. If you're looking to show more solidarity on the actual day, Kottbusser Tor will host its own on March 8 at 6pm, complete with celebrations at Möbel Olfe and Südblock afterwards.
Frauen*kampftag, Sun, Mar 6, 12:00 | Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Mitte, U-Bhf Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Kreuzberger Demo zum Frauen*kampftag, Tue, Mar 8, 18:00 | Kottbusser Tor, Kreuzberg, U-Bhf Kottbusser Tor
Women demo Exhibition Demonstration International Women's Day film drinking


The first joint meeting of Eminent Persons' Group (EPG), a bilateral committee formed to review the agreements and treaties between Nepal and India including the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1950, will take place in the last week of June.
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has said that projects such as the China-led One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative "should be governed by commonly agreed international norms and practices and should reflect" the interest of all the concerned parties.
Nepali Congress President and former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Thursday met Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi and discussed Nepal's political situation and post-quake reconstruction efforts among other issues.


Mayor Jay Dean's Ice Bucket Challenge - Mayor Jay Dean accepts the "ALS ice bucket challenge", but he got a little surprise in the process. He challenges the other Gregg County mayors.
Mayor Jay Dean accepts the "ALS ice bucket challenge", but he got a little surprise in the process. He challenges the other Gregg County mayors.
In the list: "green", "Yellow", 'Brown', and "Lion" - how many animals are there?


I have one disclaimer to make before I get on with my post: blogger hates me! Well maybe just my pictures, but anyway it has done terrible unlovely things to my photos due to some "compressing" and formatting mumbo jumbo. Anyway just thought I'd get that out in the open now on to the post.
Can I just say I could do a complete post on the reception alone. There was so much detail put into it. Everywhere I looked there was something more cute or clever than the last. But I won't bore you with too many pictures. These are all you get.
Thanks again Alex and Raquel for allowing me to be a part of your wedding day. It was a great first experience!
I loved the pictures erica. Simply fabulous!
I love your photography, I am a self taught photographer as well, It has become my passion and would love to be able to stop working full time to just concentrate on photography, some day!
WOW! I love this wedding, every detail and all the pictures you took are so amazing. Love the decorations.


Enhanced performance for fluorescent materials: The new LUTM luminescence sensor from SICK features a novel miniature housing combined with an IO-Link function. The LUTM is ideal for all applications where fluorescent marks need to be reliably detected in confined spaces. Even when the level of luminescence is low, the LUTM detects the relevant marks using its enhanced system sensitivity. This mini luminescence sensor can be set using a straightforward teach-in method. The innovative IO-Link function enables enhanced, intelligent diagnostics and visualization of sensor parameters, as well as provide quick and easy format changes. Thanks to an increased switching frequency of up to 6 kHz, the LUTM is also suitable for high machine production capacities.
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M.S. (Michael Stephen) Hund is the author of the historical/paranormal fantasy series, The Dreambetween Symphony, as well as a number of standalone short fictions and novels. He primarily writes science fiction and fantasy, though the line between the two often gets blurry. Someday he hopes to live in a hobbit-hole with a well-stocked library and an equally well-stocked wine cellar. Until that happy day, you can make his acquaintance online.


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Just another awesome patent pending project...!
Apple and Microsoft and Google Should Watch Out!
Sometimes innovation is so powerful it can take on the "big dogs" and beat them at their own game.
We will be releasing more information about DAES™ in the coming year so be ready for a very cool surprise!


Stolen Childhood in Conflict. North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
For Save the Children UK.
Rolling hills in Masisi Territory, North Kivu Province. The province is home to dozens of armed militias and rebel groups.
Sarah* was 15 when she was raped on her way back home from a visit to the hospital, in a vicious attack that left her pregnant.
Alice*, 16, in North Kivu, DRC. Alice* was gang-raped on her way home from school and then forced to marry one of her attackers.
Three young former child brides and victims of sexual violence walk together through an IDP camp in North Kivu.
Nzitonda*, 14, a former child soldier. He was made to fight in bloody field battles against the Congolese armed forces. These scenes are embedded in his memories, and he frequently has nightmares that bring them back to life in his head.
Emily*, 16, was in her final year at primary school when she was abducted by an armed group, raped and forced into marriage.
Former child bride Amani* with her young child, at an IDP camp in North Kivu.
Anita*, 16, was kidnapped and forced to marry a fighter when she was 15.
Uwase*, 17, was ambushed in the bush and raped. She receives medication and support in the IDP camp she resides in from Save the Children.
A former child bride at home with her mother in an IDP camp, North Kivu. Young survivors of violence often face stigma and issues reintegrating.
A group of mothers wait for appointments at the clinic in an IDP camp in North Kivu.
Settlements of persons displaced by conflict in North Kivu.
Kikandi*, 14. A commander welcomed Kikandi* into his armed group. He was subjected to a mystical initiation ceremony involving rituals and juju potions. He was told that he would be invincible.
A demobilised child soldier looks out from his home in an IDP camp in North Kivu.
When conflict broke out, Nsii* was recruited by friends to join the local armed group. Having learnt to load and fire a rifle, Nsii* was sent into battle, where he witnessed many of his friends killed.


While there are plenty of variables and speculation in the men's and ladies' events at U.S. Nationals, the pairs and ice dance seems to be much more straightforward.
In pairs, Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim have earned the one U.S. spot. After a horrific year of injuries/illness last year (plus a few this year, too, with his knee problems), they are still working their way back to the top form that earned them a spot in the 2015 Grand Prix Final. They showed off a quad twist on Instagram recently and said on Ice Talk that they plan to add it back into the program for Nationals, so they are definitely getting there.
Scimeca Knierim and Knierim have the highest placements and scores of any U.S. pair team in any event of the three tiers, and are still the only U.S. pair to break 200 points internationally. While side-by-side jumps can be a problem, their pair elements are stunning. It won't be enough for them to figure into the medal conversation, with the international pairs field as stacked as it is, but they could help the U.S. in their quest for a team medal. Hopefully they make it an easy choice and take their U.S. title back at Nationals, because a rough performance there could throw all of the above into question for casual viewers (a la the Wagner-Nagasu controversy of 2014).
In ice dance, Madison Chock/Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue, and Maia/Alex Shibutani are, without a doubt, the U.S. Olympic team. I listed them in alphabetical order here because I think it is anyone's game at Nationals. Yes, the Shibutanis had the most successful fall campaign, with two golds on the Grand Prix and a bronze at the final, but they didn't have to skate against the two Olympic favorites, Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir or France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guilluame Cizeron, on the Grand Prix, like their U.S. counterparts did. And the three teams were separated by less than a point overall at the Grand Prix Final. The Shibs beat Hubbell and Donohue by 0.6, and Hubbell and Donohue were only 0.25 ahead of Chock and Bates.
I enjoy all these teams and think it will be an exciting dance event at U.S. Nationals — though I must say I'm pulling for Hubbell and Donohue this year, after their impressive rebound from disappointment at Worlds last year. Their skating is the best it's ever been and it's time for them to move up from that bronze medal position. I can't wait to watch it all unfold in San Jose!
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I've made my picks for the U.S. men's Olympic figure skating team, and now it's time for the ladies. Unfortunately, the American ladies were underwhelming on the Grand Prix this year, and didn't have anyone in the Final, an important tier 1 selection criteria. Nationals is going to carry extra weight for all of them.
While Ashley has had a bit of a bumpy road since the end of the Grand Prix series last year, she is still the leading U.S. lady in my mind. She'll be putting out a new (old) free skate at Nationals, her original "La La Land" program, choreographed over the summer and then scrapped at Champs Camp. In 2014, she put together a new (old) free skate to "Samson and Delilah" and skated it clean in Sochi, so I have faith that a little extra pressure and excitement will bring out her fight and motivation.This title is hers to lose, and she said as much when she withdrew during the long program at Skate America. She needs it to check a tier 1 box, after missing this year's Grand Prix Final and the subpar finish at Worlds last year. Plus, she didn't compete in any events that fit tier 3, and only has her Skate Canada bronze for tier 2 credit. Anything off the podium at Nationals will put her in major jeopardy, but a fourth U.S. title would be an excellent statement to the selection committee. Here's to the ones who dream, right?
Even though Mirai had some iffy results on the Grand Prix, she is looking more fit, strong, and confident this year than she ever has. Earning a 2018 Olympic spot would be sweet redemption for her after missing the 2014 team (which was the right call, and let's not redo that conversation, guys). Her gumption in trying the triple axel and pushing herself to be a better skater, 10 years after she first won a U.S. Senior National Championship, is impressive and inspiring. Her bronze at last year's Four Continents Championships checks a tier 2 box, while she earned a silver on the Challenger Series this year for tier 3. Imagine if she won a second U.S. title in 2018, 10 years after her first in 2008? The NBC promos people would be ALL over that, as would the loyal Mirai fans.
I've been calling this one since November, people. Though Bradie only competed in one Grand Prix event, she grabbed a bronze medal and the highest international score of any of the U.S. ladies this season. She's been skating consistently and calmly at competitions since the summer and has really solid jumps. Her artistry might not match the likes of Ashley Wagner, but her consistency is unparalleled in the current U.S. field. She needs to have a strong Nationals to cement an Olympic spot, but I think she can do it.
It's really tough to imagine leaving Karen Chen off the Olympic team, since her 4th place finish at Worlds last year clinched the three spots for the U.S. ladies. But that said, she hasn't had a strong outing at a major event since Worlds and Nationals last year, and those were her only strong events of that season (granted, it's pretty ideal to save your best stuff for the biggest events of the year, but still). Switching her free skate four times since the summer certainly hasn't helped matters, and she has also gone back to last year's short program. Both were signature pieces for her, and maybe the comfort level with those programs will lead to a strong showing at Nationals. If she defends her title, she should go to Pyeongchang. Anything other than that leaves a question mark in my mind.
I absolutely adore Mariah's skating, and when her jumps are on, they are excellent. This is not the first time that I've typed on this blog that her "East of Eden" free skate made me tear up at 2016 Skate America. She has great personality on the ice. But unfortunately, she hasn't capitalized on last year's momentum and had a difficult Grand Prix. Unless she blows everyone away at Nationals, it seems like an uphill battle for her to make the Olympic team. She had a rough outing at 2017 Worlds, which is a tier 1 criteria. She was 6th at Four Continents last year, with a career-best short, so that could gain her some points in the tier 2 category. I'll be rooting for her to put it all together at Nationals.
Next up: pairs and ice dance!
An important distinction to note, which began with World Team selection in 2017, is that the U.S. Champion is no longer guaranteed a berth to the Olympics or Worlds.
Nathan will likely defend his U.S. title and become the 2018 U.S. Champion. While that doesn't guarantee him an Olympic berth, as it did for champions in previous years, it will check all the boxes in tier 1: 2018 U.S. champ, 2017 Grand Prix Final champion, top six at 2017 Worlds. He has three gold medals for tier 2 (two on the 2017 Grand Prix Series and the 2017 Four Continents Championship), plus his 2017 national title for tier 3. There is no way he won't go.
Adam would have been my sentimental favorite for the Olympic team no matter how his fall campaign went, but he came back from his broken foot with a vengeance and proved that he deserves to go to this Olympic Games. Two silver medals on the Grand Prix and a spot in the Grand Prix Final, with nearly clean, solid performances each time. The quad lutz is still eluding him, but how great would it be if he pulled it off at Nationals? He checks boxes in tiers 1 and 2, plus a bronze from Finlandia Trophy for tier 3. Adam has earned his spot with calm, consistent skating, not to mention breathtaking performance quality.
Jason was the third U.S. man in the Grand Prix Final, and though he made it after an injury withdrawal by Boyang Jin, it still checks off an important tier 1 box, which has the most weight. He also grabbed 7th at World last year, helping the U.S. earn three Olympic spots alongside Nathan Chen. He was lacking some of his usual consistency on the Grand Prix (tier 2), but did earn two medals in the tier 3 Challenger Series this fall. While the consistency issues are a bit unusual for Brown, I still think his steadiness and resume based on this criteria should be enough to punch a ticket to his second Olympics — provided that he medals at Nationals. Anything off the podium at Nationals could be his undoing.
If Max Aaron delivers at Nationals and gets on the podium, it will make the selection committee's decision a bit more complicated. He won the free skate at Cup of China, ahead of Mikhail Kolyada, Boyang Jin, and Javier Fernandez, none of whom were able to deliver their quads that day. Despite the hiccup of a 5th place finish at Rostelecom Cup, he also earned two Challenger Series medals this fall (tier 3). His only chance to check a box in tier 1 will be Nationals, and I'm definitely rooting for him to have a great performance. His skating has made huge strides since his 2013 U.S. title and his last Olympic campaign in 2014 — the spins, basic skating, and presentation have really improved and, if he hits his quads, Max could be a surprise medalists at Nationals.
Vincent has incredible potential, but really struggled to land his quads and put out solid performances on the Grand Prix this year. It's good to remember that he's only 17, and this is his first full senior season. I listened to his interview on Ice Talk, and he was mature, thoughtful, and well-spoken. He's candid about the mistakes he's made and his goals of making this Olympic team. It's a tough one to call, because of the potential he has with the quads, but I think he needs to get some more experience and consistency before taking the Olympic stage. But watch out in 2022.
My ladies picks will be up next! Special shout out to the website Skating Scores for making it really easy to fact check everyone's placements this season.
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Home WORLD UN Human Rights Council votes to probe Philippines drug war deaths
UN Human Rights Council votes to probe Philippines drug war deaths
The UN Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to set up an investigation into mass killings during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called war on drugs, a step activists said was long overdue.
Duterte's government says police have killed about 6,600 people in shootouts with suspected drug dealers since he was elected in 2016 on a platform of crushing crime. Activists say the death toll is at least 27,000.
The first resolution on the Philippines, led by Iceland, was adopted by a vote of 18 countries in favour and 14 against, including China. Fifteen countries abstained from the vote, including Japan.
"This is not just a step towards paying justice for the thousands of families of victims of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, but it is also a message that we collectively send out to those who have praised President Duterte," said Ellecer "Budit" Carlos of the Manila-based rights group iDEFEND.
"This war on drugs, as we have repeatedly said, it's a sham war."
Philippine activists say tens of thousands of people are being killed as police terrorize poor communities, using cursory drug "watch lists" to identify suspected users or dealers, and executing many in the guise of sting operations.
Police deny that, saying all the killings were in self-defence.
Myca Ulpina, a three-year-old girl killed on June 29 near Manila, was among the latest and youngest known victims. Police say her father, Renato, used his daughter as a human shield.
'Maliciously partisan'
Duterte's spokesperson, Salvador Panelo, questioned the validity of a resolution not backed by the majority of council members, saying Filipinos overwhelmingly backed the president's unique leadership approach.
"The resolution is grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan," Panelo said in a lengthy statement.
"It reeks of nauseating politics completely devoid of respect for the sovereignty of our country, even as it is bereft of the gruesome realities of the drug menace."
Asked by reporters in Manila whether he would allow UN rights officials access to investigate, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said, 'Let them state their purpose and I will review it.' (Bullit Marquez/The Associated Press)
The delegation from the Philippines, which is among the council's 47 members, had lobbied hard against the resolution, which asks national authorities to prevent extrajudicial killings and co-operate with UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who is expected to report her findings in June 2020.
Philippines Ambassador Evan Garcia said the Duterte administration was committed to upholding justice, adding, "We will not tolerate any form of disrespect or acts of bad faith. There will be consequences, far-reaching consequences."
Laila Matar of New York-based Human Rights Watch criticized his comments.
"It was quite clear that they threatened consequences for those who had supported the resolution, which in turn makes us concerned for the many human rights defenders, civil society activists and journalists on the ground," she told the briefing.
Duterte, asked by reporters in Manila whether he would allow UN rights officials access to investigate, said, "Let them state their purpose and I will review it."
If Duterte allows the investigation and it proceeds impartially, Panelo said, "We are certain its result will only lead to the humiliation of the investigators, as well as of Iceland and the 17 other nations."
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Al Terranova, Mary MacDonald and Rich Cohen joined in a 5-2-1 majority to defer action on an invoice for inspection services.
Williamstown resident Matt Sheehey asks the committee to take no action on payment for inspection services.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Building Committee on Thursday decided to defer action on an invoice from the town for inspection services and instead ask Williamstown's town manager to come before the committee and explain the basis for the bill.
At issue is up to $300,000 in fees that the school building project has incurred over the life of the addition/renovation at the middle-high school.
The town has provided the district with documentation that the project actually has run up $309,554 worth of fees already, based on the published fee schedule for inspection services. But in keeping with prior communications between the town and district going back to 2015, the town is offering the district a discount on those fees.
Williamstown resident Matt Sheehy encouraged the committee to gather more information before deciding to approve the expenditure, a course also pushed by committee member Richard Cohen.
"I think further conversation needs to be had by the Williamstown Select Board," Sheehy told the committee during its public comment period. "It is a political issue. … There are a number of questions that need to be asked, including how the town is calculating the numbers.
"Don't take action on it. The town of Williamstown is not going to suffer. [Town Manager Jason Hoch] will do just fine without the money. Take the time to consider it before we pay interest on something we shouldn't pay interest on."
Cohen urged his colleagues to consider the examples of other regional (i.e., multi-town) districts that have received more significant waivers. Cohen cited, among other projects, one in the Concord-Carlisle district where the town's published fee schedule would have amounted to $700,000 in charges but the district actually was charged $90,000.
"It seems like the customary procedure is not to have one town dictating [the charges] by fiat," Cohen said. "No one is saying we should refuse to pay it. The motion is to defer this … until we get a full accounting of the actual costs."
Cohen made much of a pair of December 2016 emails by Hugh Daley, then the chair of the Williamstown Select Board and still a member of that board and the School Building Committee. In it, Daley refers to "50 percent of the fee schedule price as the budget for our fees."
Daley said in a separate email on the same December day that the expenditure ultimately would be "based upon the cost of services provided … which would be a savings compared to the published fee schedule." Cohen, who provided the long email thread to the committee at its last meeting, read excerpts again on Thursday night.
Daley attempted to put that email into context on Thursday.
"The original number from the [owner's project manager] was $600,000 or $800,000," Daley said, referring to the OPM's estimate of projected fees associated with the $64 million building project. "The fees as presented by Jason with a cap of $300,000 represented a 50 percent reduction."
In other words, Daley said his "50 percent" number was based on 50 percent of the estimate the district had from Dore & Whittier of Newburyport, the owner's project manager, and did not refer to half of what the actual charges ended up based on the fee schedule.
"I have to admit, I never calculated the fees," Daley said. "I was relying on information provided to us by the OPM.
"It appears the fees are slightly higher than $300,000, so they are coming in under that. I'm not sure what we can do to reduce these fees as a committee."
Of the eight members present for Thursday's vote on the invoice, Cohen was joined by four of his colleagues in a 5-2-1 decision to defer. Thomas Bartels and Mount Greylock Principal Mary MacDonald, both of Williamstown, joined Cohen, Al Terranova and Chairman Mark Schiek, all of Lanesborough, in voting to defer.
"Some people are asking for a complete waiver of fees," Cohen said. "I don't think that's to be expected. But I expect and many of us expect that fees would be based on actual cost, not the published fee schedule. We have not gotten information on what the actual costs are. We have no idea what reasonable hourly fees would be and reasonable overhead."
Daley and Mount Greylock Superintendent Kimberley Grady voted against the deferral, and Williamstown resident Caroline Greene -- like Terranova, a member of the school committee -- abstained.
After the motion to defer succeeded, Daley suggested but stopped short of making a motion that the committee form a working group to gather more information.
Cohen stressed that the information must be presented to the full deciding body, the School Building Committee, and not a subset or working group.
That led to Greene moving that the committee invite Williamstown Town Manager Jason Hoch to its Wednesday, Oct. 10, meeting at Mount Greylock to present the rationale behind the bill. And she accepted a friendly amendment from Cohen that the invitation include a request that Hoch provide documentation to the committee in advance of the meeting so members can review the numbers before the session.
"I really think we need to be mindful that [the Oct. 10 meeting] should not be another public debate," Greene said. "[Cohen] used the word negotiation, and that's fine, but I don't want to be part of a knock-down, drag-out with the town manager. We need to be respectful.
"I do want us to commit to resolving this at the next meeting. We need to put this thing to bed. We can't keep deferring it. We can't ask other bodies to address it."
Cohen agreed that the conversation needs to be respectful. As to the "commitment to resolve" the issue at the next meeting, he noted, "That's an opinion, not part of the motion."
The committee voted 7-1 to invite Hoch to its next meeting with Terranova demurring.
What was the exact amount budgeted for in the tax override passed by Lanesborough and Williamstown?


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Q: Change SVN Path Entirely We have an SVN at http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/ - and the first two folders of the SVN are like http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/abc/filefolder/
The problem is we want to move the entire svn to get rid of /abc/filefolder/ as the entire project sits under /abc/filefolder/ [created long ago and never bothered to change] (que stupid yes yes)
How would we could about fixing this so we dont loose logs etc? We dont want to have to export and create a new svn, since then we lose all our log files. But we want to "move" the svn root so for example it becomes:
From: http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/abc/filefolder/documents/
To: http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/documents/

Any help appreciated? [ps - yes had to remove http:// due to link restriction]

A: How about you just move the folders you want at the top level, working on the repository, for example:
svn move http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/abc/filefolder/documents/ http:/XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:1111/svn/AB/

Back up your repository beforehand, of course.

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Biden picks John Kerry for climate envoy on national security council
Alex Woodward
President-elect Joe Biden has selected former Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as a "special presidential envoy" for the climate crisis as part of the incoming administration.
Mr Kerry will serve in the role as part of the National Security Council, which the president-elect's transition team said will reflect his administration's "commitment to addressing climate change as an urgent national security issue."
The work we began with the Paris Agreement is far from done. I'm returning to government to get America back on track to address the biggest challenge of this generation and those that will follow. The climate crisis demands nothing less than all hands on deck. pic.twitter.com/xxfakodQ6d
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) November 23, 2020
The former Secretary of State under Barack Obama, and a former Democratic presidential candidate who lost to George W Bush in 2004, was among the architects of the landmark Paris climate agreement, from which Donald Trump has withdrawn the US. Mr Biden intends to rejoin the accord.
Mr Kerry's position is not a part of the Biden cabinet and won't require Senate confirmation.
He joins several Obama-era state department officials potentially returning to the White House as part of the former vice president's incoming administration.
In a statement announcing his latest slate of administration appointments, including his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who previously served as a deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser under the former president, Mr Biden said "we have no time to lose when it comes to our national security and foreign policy."
"I need a team ready on Day One to help me reclaim America's seat at the head of the table, rally the world to meet the biggest challenges we face, and advance our security, prosperity and values," he said.
Vice president-elect Kamala Harris said that "the moment we walk into the White House, we will inherit a series of unprecedented challenges."
"These crisis-tested national security and foreign policy leaders have the knowledge and expertise to keep our country safe and restore and advance America's leadership around the world," she said.
America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. I'm proud to partner with the President-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate movement to take on this crisis as the President's Climate Envoy.
Following the transition team's announcement, Mr Kerry said "America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is."
"I'm proud to partner with the President-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate movement to take on this crisis as the President's Climate Envoy," he said.
In 2019, the former Massachusetts senator and one-time face of the Democratic party launched World War Zero, a bipartisan coalition focussed on raising awareness of the climate crisis.
The president-elect also has selected Alejandro Mayorkas to run the Department of Homeland Security, Avril Haines as Director of National Intelligence, Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, and Jake Sullivan as his national security adviser.
In a transition team statement, the incoming administration said: "These experienced, crisis-tested leaders will start working immediately to rebuild our institutions, renew and reimagine American leadership to keep Americans safe at home and abroad, and address the defining challenges of our time – from infectious disease, to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, cyber threats, and climate change."
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