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What is your dream job and why?
I love the saying about, "Your dream job doesn't exist. You have to create it." If that is the case, I think I would jump around to different things, as long as it allowed me to be creative and to express the stories/lessons I want to share with the rest of the world. I've always love the arts--Acting, singing, drawing, writing...If I ever had an opportunity to do any of those, I would feel like I was exactly where I belonged.
In strictly sticking with something that correlates with my major, then I would definitely say my dream job would be with E! News or Headline Country. What draws me to Hollywood and the entertainment industry in the first place is the people that make it up. Each and every artist and actor has a story to tell, not only through their music and film, but through everything that they've gone through. They've all had to face adversity, trials, setbacks, and road blocks to get to the path they're on today. I have always wanted to sit down and talk with those people who inspire me most for those very reasons, because I know that those things don't just happen and they don't just make it. A lot of divine intervention has to take place to get the ending it deserves.
I want to be able to talk to them about the experiences that made them who they are, how they stay set on their mission, rather than the fame, the method that goes into their craft, and whatever else comes up at the time. I want to focus on the good of the industry, rather than someone else who decides to "twerk" in a video or someone else who cheated or got a divorce. Maybe if we didn't give so much airtime to the people that need help, they'd fight the "fame" thing and just get the help they need.
What are five passions you have?
*Music/singing (especially country music...Tugs at my heart strings the most)
*Helping teen girls with self esteem issues
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RR Donnelley, Jefferson City's 12th largest employer, told its employees Thursday that the Jefferson City operations will be shut down later this year.
In notices to state and city officials, required by federal law, the company said 475 people will lose their jobs "during a 14-day period commencing on Oct. 1, 2013."
The facility was established in Jefferson City in 1964, as a part of the Von Hoffmann Press company. RR Donnelley acquired the plant, 321 Wilson Drive, just south of Industrial Drive, in 2007 for $400 million.
The company specializes in printing and related business services, including print and digital publications. It has operations around the world, including other Missouri plants in Owensville and Liberty.
Calls to the Owensville and Liberty facilities indicated they are not affected by Thursday's Jefferson City announcement. Repeated calls to the company's corporate offices in Chicago for comments about the Jefferson City closing were not returned.
In February 2009, the company laid off approximately 200 employees in Jefferson City.
Longtime employees and family members of employees were shocked by the news. They asked that their names not be used in this story, for fear of possibly losing benefits.
"We knew something was coming, but it's still hard to take," said a 31-year veteran of the plant. "There were hints because things like parking lots not being paved and other things not being taken care of made you think something was coming down."
But the wife of a 15-year Donnelley worker said they had been working overtime and on weekends, so they had not seen a cutback in production.
"He got the news in a mass meeting with the rest of the third-shift workers," she said. "He was told the closing would be October 1st or sooner.
"We were shocked. We knew it would come someday, but didn't know it would be this soon."
The 1988 federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act generally requires companies with at least 100 employees to provide 60 days advance notice of plant closings and mass layoffs.
In the WARN letters to Jefferson City Mayor Eric Struemph and to Cheri Tune, the state's Rolla-based Regional Workforce coordinator, Donnelley's human resources office said the plant closing was "due to changing market conditions."
Randy Allen, president and CEO of the Jefferson City Area Chamber of Commerce, said Thursday: "We will do everything we can do to help.
"We will kick in along with Missouri Department of Economic Development and their rapid response team to work with employees on other opportunities."
Amy Susan, the Economic Development department's spokeswoman, said Thursday: "We are working very closely with the HR individuals at the company to establish an Employment Transition Team meeting, and we don't have a date because we just learned about this today."
The "Employment Transition Team" is a streamlined version of what the state used to call a "Rapid Response Team," Susan said.
Allen said the situation might have at least one positive result.
"We have requests all the time from businesses that need rail access, and we currently don't have those," he explained.
But, with Donnelley's closing plans, "We now have something to market, if they follow through with the closing."
The plant has a rail spur that is serviced by Union Pacific Railroad.
"This is not unusual in the corporate environment," Allen said. "We talk to them all the time.
"Just a couple of months ago, the leaders of the local Donnelley plant were saying how contracts were looking good."
In 2011, the company invested $6 million in the Owensville operations, with more than 100 jobs being generated.
At that time, RR Donnelley company officials said the expansion was prompted by substantial growth in the educational and health care markets.
The Owensville plant produces textbooks and workbooks for elementary and secondary education; educational testing manuals; trade books; business-to-business catalogs; health care manuals; and federal and state government publications.
As of 2011, the company reported their Jefferson City operation provided print services, photography, digital asset management and logistics.
"These are good-paying jobs," Allen said. "I believe it's about $20 an hour, plus benefits," Allen said. "Even with two months notice, there will have to be some cleanup, so I don't think there is any way they'll be able to get all the plant shut down - so some workers will be on past the two months notice."
Allen said the plant covers 700,000 square feet and might be the largest manufacturing facility in Jefferson City.
Earlier this year, Donnelley announced plant closings in Ohio, affecting more than 200 employees, and an operation in Green Bay also was shuttered.
Company officials cited changing market conditions as the reason for those closures, as well.
Jefferson City's state senator and two state representatives issued a joint statement of their disappointment in Donnelley's decision.
"We will join Cole County, Jefferson City, the Jefferson City chamber and others to determine if RR Donnelley can be persuaded to remain in Jefferson City," Sen. Mike Kehoe and Reps. Jay Barnes and Mike Bernskoetter - all Republicans - said.
"If not, we will ensure that state and local job-training and employment services are prepared to assist affected employees who are not ready to retire."
Editor's note: The above story updates and expands upon a previous version of this story posted Thursday.

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20 Games Like Empire: Wargame of the Century()
In Quantum Siege you fight deeply strategic battles in a bid to free the world from the threat of the mysterious Architects. Using your Quantum Gate, you will summon unstoppable armies led by the Chosen Heroes to prove your might against Architect forces and competing player armies alike.
Peace is the final prize, but to save humanity’s future, you must live for war.
Quantum Siege is based on unrelenting action and real time 3D single- and multiplayer battles, played in breathtakingly high fidelity. Do you have what it takes to lead your freedom fighting army to victory and rid the planet of the Architects?
In Destiny 2, the last safe city on Earth has fallen and lays in ruins, occupied by a powerful new enemy and his elite army, the Red Legion. Every player creates their own character called a “Guardian,” humanity’s chosen protectors. As a Guardian in Destiny 2, players must master new abilities and weapons to reunite the city’s forces, stand together and fight back to reclaim their home.
In Destiny 2 players will answer this call, embarking on a fresh story filled with new destinations around our solar system to explore, and an expansive amount of activities to discover. There is something for almost every type of gamer in Destiny 2, including gameplay for solo, cooperative and competitive players set within a vast, evolving and exciting universe.
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Sudden Strike is back! The beloved Real Time Strategy series returns, this time with bigger battlefields, more units, better graphics, new scenarios and legendary commanders with individual abilities – all of which makes Sudden Strike 4 more tactical and realistic than ever before!
Developed as a fully-fledged series entry and not a remake or reboot, Sudden Strike 4 sends you off on three extensive campaigns set amongst the battlefields of World War II. Commanding the British and American, German or Soviet troops, you will lead over 100 different units into battle, including the German bomber Heinkel He111, the Russian T-34 tank, the British Hawker Typhoon fighter plane and the notorious German Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger. In a first for the Sudden Strike series, you can now choose from one of nine individual commanders, such as George Patton or Bernard Montgomery, who will each allow for different approaches to combat and boast unique abilities.
Prove your tactical expertise in over 20 demanding single player scenarios, the challenge-focused skirmish mode, and the competitive multiplayer mode. A new reward system rewards clever and tactical play, awarding the player with skill points and bonus content, such as historical film footage of the era.
Sudden Strike 4 offers countless ways to vanquish your opponents. Exploit the weak spots of tanks, set up an ambush, occupy buildings with infantry, outmanoeuvre the enemy with clever positioning or unleash devastating air strikes – how you approach each mission is up to you!
A sci fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller.
RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.
Manage colonists' moods, needs, thoughts, individual wounds, and illnesses. Engage in deeply-simulated small-team gunplay. Fashion structures, weapons, and apparel from metal, wood, stone, cloth, or exotic, futuristic materials. Fight pirate raiders, hostile tribes, rampaging animals and ancient killing machines. Discover a new generated world each time you play. Build colonies in biomes ranging from desert to jungle to tundra, each with unique flora and fauna. Manage and develop colonists with unique backstories, traits, and skills. Learn to play easily with the help of an intelligent and unobtrusive AI tutor.
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Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core.
Featuring deep strategic gameplay, an enormous selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has a deeply challenging system that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels.
Etch your name across the cosmos by uncovering remote celestial outposts,and entire civilizations. Will you expand through war or walk the path of diplomacy to achieve your goals?
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In Endless Space you play the role of the leader of one of the many intelligent beings of a galaxy at the beginning of the space age. Very quickly, you discover the remnants of an older civilization. That civilization called themselves the Endless, among their ruins, a matter called Dust with amazing proprieties is found. It shapes into whatever its user thinks of, it gives a reality to dreams… dreams that lead to the extinction of the Endless.
Since then that matter became the most precious matter of the universe, and therefore the universal currency… but in front of the power of the Dust it is hard, even for the purest beings, not to fall under its charm…
We want the players to live an experience that goes beyond just strategy. You will live your own story of space conquest, with your own randomly generated galaxy full of civilizations, lifeforms, technologies and unknown worlds for you to conquer.
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Rise of Legends is a real-time strategy game released in 2006 and a spin off of Rise of Nations. While it reuses many concepts from it's predecessor, it is not a historical game, but instead set in a fantasy universe with three entirely different factions.
The Long Journey Home combines the endless freedom of space with a new open questing system that always leaves you in command. Deliver the stranded Glukkt to his homeworld as he asks, or to your new slaver friends? Attempt to make allies with everyone, or pin your hopes on the tougher races, and hope they never turn on you? Jump by jump, make hard decisions and live with the consequences, in a universe that is never the same twice.
Codename: Panzers is an incredible real-time strategy thrill ride. Nerves of steel are required when you're a tank driver. One direct hit and you're done for, but you must throw yourself into the battle, because without your support, many will die. You are the tank commander - make the hard decisions that win wars! Collect prestige points to use for new units, equipment or repairs Wild multiplayer mode on 4 unique interactive battlegrounds If you're new to real-time military strategy, go into Training Mode for fun practice with each bomber, plane and fighting unit
Shock Tactics is inspired by the space western style of Firefly and games like Jagged Alliance and X-COM. The game is set on an ancient alien homeworld, procedurally generated each time you start a new game. Shock Tactics will be released later this year on Steam for PC and be available as a digital download.
As the commander of a Strike Team, fighting for the Space Pioneers, you are the trailblazer for the first wave of explorers on a harsh and ancient alien homeworld. Other powers are trying to uncover the secrets of the planet, the ruthless Mega-Cooperation “Consortium” has already sent their mercenary forces – future conflicts are inevitable.
Your first task is to establish a base of operations, gather resources and expand your base in order to research advanced weapons or healing facilities. Lead your strike team into intense and tactically demanding turn-based fights and choose from a large variety of different skills and tactics.
Order drone strikes or demand emergency reinforcements from an orbital dropship, use explosives, cloaking devices, or even short-range teleportation. Between combat, explore the procedurally generated planet, find alien artifacts and learn how to use them, unlock unique abilities for your fellow soldiers and expand your territory to gain control over the new world.
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
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Experience the ultimate WWII RTS platform with COH2 and its standalone expansions. This package includes the base game, which you can then upgrade by purchasing The Western Front Armies, Ardennes Assault and/or The British Forces. More info in the "About This Game" section below.
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Aven Colony is a city-building and management sim that tells the story of humanity’s first settlement of an extrasolar world. Land on exotic Aven Prime, where you must construct and maintain the infrastructure and ensure the well-being of your citizens, all while dealing with the often harsh realities of an exotic alien world.
On top of this, you’ll face the greatest challenge of all — keeping your people happy. How will you feed your people? Will you be able to provide them with enough jobs, entertainment, retail outlets, and other services while protecting them from the planet’s many dangers? What social policies will you enact to influence your people? The future of the colony rests on your decisions.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a single- and multiplayer top-down, party-based role-playing game with pen & paper RPG-like levels of freedom.It features turn-based combat, a strong focus on systematic gameplay and a well-grounded narrative.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Divinity: Original Sin, winner of over 150 Game of the Year awards and nominations.
Basement is a strategy game, where you play as a desperate scientist who chose the wrong path in his life. That path seemed easy, but turned into a deadly one. You have no choice but to build the most effective enterprise and stay alive in a cruel world of illegal business.
Homeworld Remastered Collection updates and introduces the landmark space strategy games to modern audiences. The collection includes Homeworld and Homeworld 2, painstakingly remastered by Gearbox in cooperation with key members of the original development team and members of the series’ passionate fan community. As a free bonus, this collection also includes the original versions of Homeworld and Homeworld 2 with compatibility updates, preserving the purest form of the original releases. Anyone who purchases Homeworld Remastered Collection will also receive free access to the Homeworld Remastered Steam Multiplayer Beta when the collection releases on February 25, 2015.
The Homeworld series has a long legacy and is regarded by many as one of the best strategy series of all time. Following its release in 1999 by publisher Sierra and developer Relic Entertainment, Homeworld received several Game of the Year awards and redefined the RTS genre. Its sequel, Homeworld 2, launched in 2003, and was similarly praised by critics for its innovative controls and changes to multiplayer. Brian Martel, Gearbox Software's Chief Creative Officer, has great love and respect for Relic's brilliant, fun and innovative franchise and personally spearheaded Gearbox Software’s acquisition of Homeworld from THQ in 2013.
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Become a hero in Star Wars Battlefront II. Experience rich and living Star Wars multiplayer battlegrounds across prequels, original trilogy, and the new era. Customize and upgrade iconic characters such as Yoda or Darth Maul, starfighters, or troopers. Plus, play an emotionally-gripping single player story.

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Star Trek The Next Generation - "Men in tights"
This one has been inspired by having watched the Mel Brook's movie with the same title once too often. I just thought the title perfect for
this little scroll here. I've also tried giving it the look of some old movie with the partially faded odd colors, just like some colored
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Pick up from any hotel within Kuala Lumpur, Damansara or Petaling Jaya at 9am and proceed to visit FRIM.
FRIM, also known as Forest Reserve Institution of Malaysia is a protected forest reserve located in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur. The signature activity while visiting this rainforest is its canopy walk that stands at 30m above ground with 4 viewing platforms. By standing on the platform, the view over the tropical floras and faunas from the top is absolutely fantastic. There are also herbs garden, library & forest museum awaiting for your visit, with different species of tropical wood and information on different type of forest system in Malaysia being exhibited, it is definitely a good experience for visitors who likes to learn more about the Mother Nature.
After the FRIM forest reserve visit, proceed to visit the 400 million years old limestone cave, Batu Caves. The tallest Lord Muruga Statue in the world with a height of 42.7 m will sure to catch your attention.
The KL FRIM Canopy and Batu Caves tour ends at around 3pm.
- Free transfer within Kuala Lumpur, Damansara and Petaling Jaya area.
- Private transfer with driver.
- Entrance fee to FRIM and canopy walk.
- Travel insurance (strongly recommended to purchase)
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- Itinerary and package content is subject to last minute changes due to weather or operational issue.
- Activity stated is provided on complimentary basis, no refund will be made for cancellation of activities due to weather or operational issue.
- Minimum 2 guests to start the tour.
- Canopy walkway in FRIM is closed on every Monday and Friday.
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When you get your to start with period, you start out noticing variations in your human body. In the same way, when you cease menstruating, your skin starts displaying some indications. Suitable from your skin getting to be dry to acquiring extra age spots, you commence seeing and emotion the improvements at the time you enter the menopause section. Anti-ageing items could begin seeming a lot more attention-grabbing, but never slide for them with no being totally mindful what your pores and skin desires. It’s very best to observe a menopause pores and skin care routine that will make your pores and skin healthful and glowing.
You can be 45 or 55, when you step into the entire world of menopause. It’s all around that age that girls normally knowledge menopause symptoms like rare menstrual cycles, scorching flashes, troubled sleep, night time sweats, vaginal dryness and excess weight obtain. Since it is inevitable, you can usually get ready your entire body for menopause.
You also begin noticing alterations in your skin, and you wonder if you ought to make improvements in your pores and skin care schedule. For some menopause skin treatment guidelines, Health Shots got in touch with Dr. Ankur Sarin and Dr. Jushya Bhatia Sarin, who both equally specialise in dermatology, venereology and leprosy.
Changes in pores and skin that take place all through menopause
There are a lot of skin treatment suggestions to reduce wrinkles in your 20s, but as you develop older, ageing will have results on your skin.
Right here are some of the improvements in your skin that materialize all through menopause
• Skin results in being drier
• More age places
• Under eye dim circles
• Lessened pores and skin elasticity
• Effortlessly inclined to rashes
• Pigmentation on skin due to hormonal improvements
Why does menopause lead to changes in pores and skin?
Loss of collagen and lessened new collagen synthesis direct to wrinkles and decline of pores and skin elasticity, explains Dr Jushya. This is also the purpose for eye baggage, lowered therapeutic potential of skin as perfectly as quick bruising. As for age places and pigmentation, it’s all prompted by cumulative sun publicity. You truly feel your pores and skin having dry due to the fact of atrophy of sweat glands and oil glands. Dr. Ankur shares that some of the improvements in skin take location because of to reduction of estrogen. When there is estrogen insufficiency, it decreases protection versus oxidative pressure. And so, pores and skin turns into thinner with a lot less collagen, there is diminished skin elasticity, improved wrinkling and improved dryness.
Can you prevent these pores and skin variations from taking place?
If only we could have soft and easy pores and skin all our life, which is a wish that a ton of us make. You can use sunscreen before menopause far too, but Dr Ankur states that these modifications can not be prevented completely as we can’t defy ageing totally. Having said that, you can observe a skin treatment program for nutritious skin.
Guidelines for menopause skin care
Some of the skin care suggestions will remind you of what you did in your 20s and 30s, but there are a number of additions as nicely.
• Take shorter showers and keep away from applying hot h2o tub (how does bathing with incredibly hot drinking water influence your skin).
• Maintain an oatmeal or ceramide-wealthy moisturiser useful at all periods. Continue to keep hydrating your facial area and fingers that are most uncovered to ecosystem.
• Use hyaluronic acid-primarily based lotions. Hyaluronic acid retains water to collagen and offers a plumped up visual appearance.
• Use a tinted sunscreen with SPF 50 and PA +++ (large UVA protection). Use it even when indoors to steer clear of skin damage thanks to sun’s rays.
• Indulge in facial massages to cut down puffiness and enhance blood circulation.
• Add Vitamin C in your serum and your diet plan, as this boosts collagen output.
• Chill out, as tension can worsen most of these grievances.

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Mikyoung Kim is an award winning international landscape architect and founding principal of Mikyoung Kim Design. She is known for culturally significant designs that serve as a powerful tool to celebrate the beauty of the collective human experience. Her innovative design approach emphasizes an interdisciplinary research and design process in projects that range from regional scale urban waterfronts to sculptural installations.
Mikyoung was named as an AD innovator by Architectural Digest and has been awarded with design excellence honors from American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architect, the General Services Administration, and the International Federation of Landscape Architects. Mikyoung is a fellow with the American Society of Landscape Architects and her work is part of the Smithsonian Museum’s “American Voices” Collection. The work of MYKD has been highlighted in numerous publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Architectural Record, Dwell Magazine, Surface Magazine, Garden Design, and the Chicago Tribune. Current projects include the Tanja Waterfront in Tangiers Morocco, 515 West 18th Street Complex in New York, the Prudential Plaza and Roof Garden in Boston, the Chicago Botanic Garden Learning Center, and the Boston Children’s Hospital Green Masterplan and Garden Design.
Mikyoung is an alumna of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she was awarded the Jacob Weidenman Prize and the Norman T. Newton Award. Trained as a pianist at Oberlin College and Conservatory, she infuses performative and interactive experiences into the work of her firm. For nearly two decades she was a tenured Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and as department head received the RISD Dean’s Leadership Award where she currently serves as Professor Emerita.

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The Herb/Veggie garden is really taking off.
The nasturtiums are starting to bloom, evil looking things aren't they?
Can you believe I chopped the Lavendar back 2 days ago. It's huge!
These are the Lemon Boys....mmmmmmmm tasty in 1 month. Buds many many buds on my 6 tomato plants. Watch all the tomatoes ripen in August while we are away. Who is volunteering for tomato eating duty?

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State officials say a group that lobbied for a $168 million referendum at College of DuPage violated election rules by failing to identify itself as the source of campaign signs.
The Illinois State Board of Elections ruled this week against Supporters of College of DuPage, a political committee headed by former college trustees and funded in part by companies that sought contracts with the college.
Mark Stern, a referendum critic who filed the complaint against the group, said he hopes the board's decision will awaken voters to "pay-to-play politics" on the local level.
"One of the reasons we have our current corruption problem in Illinois is lack of disclosure and people not paying attention," he said. "This committee got their money from contractors of the college, and I think that's very important for people to think about. One reason the referendum succeeded was because more than half a million dollars was spent."
An attorney for Supporters of College of DuPage declined to comment.
Voters granted the $168 million tax extension for campus improvements after an election season that saw the referendum group generating tens of thousands of dollars from companies with ties to the college. According to campaign finance disclosures, the committee approved spending $250,000 on voter education and advertising.
Among the notable donations was $10,000 from the J. Legat Family Partnership following the college's hiring of Legat Architects to design its Homeland Security Education Center. Another $5,000 came from Gilbane Building Co., which oversaw completion of the college's Health and Science Center.
The state board's decision Tuesday has no bearing on official election results. But each committee member could be fined up to $5,000 for any future violations, officials said.

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by Mackensie Henderson.
On Nov. 19, 2014, Rolling Stone magazine published an article exposing a young female’s personal experience of a horrific campus-related rape at the University of Virginia.
To give a brief synopsis, the article, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, was comprised of a detailed account of what a rape victim named “Jackie” suffered one night during her freshman year in September 2012.
To Erdely, Jackie was unquestionably a reliable source, as the two were connected through a UVA staff member. However, throughout the seven-interview process, Jackie refused to disclose the gang-rape organizer’s name. Though this concerned Erdely, she had no doubt that Jackie’s story was credible and decided to continue with publication once Rolling Stone fact-checkers validated the integrity of the article.
Nov. 19 came and Rolling Stone published the article, which collected more than two million views.
“I was shocked to have a story that was going to go viral in this way,” Erdely said in the Rolling Stone Magazine written report by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Once the article was published, Erdely contacted Jackie again to determine the rape leader’s name. Jackie confessed his name but oddly enough could not spell his last name. Anxious, Erdely frantically researched the name given to her, but couldn’t verify the information.
Slate writers questioned Erdely’s article, stating that she should have tried harder to get in contact with this potential gang rape instigator. This was the start of a PR nightmare for Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone received a lot of backlash from various online publications and from UVA. The fraternity accused of organizing the alleged gang rape plans to sue the famed music magazine, according to a report in April 2015. The unfortunate truth is that painstaking research and fact-checking could have prevented this entire situation.
*Learn from its mistake*
In journalism, public relations or any communication-related profession, it is imperative to have credibility and transparency, especially if you are writing about a life-altering issue, such as rape. Public relations professionals can learn from Rolling Stone’s mistake. Here are a few techniques PR pros can use to guarantee credibility in their writing:
1 – Consider the feelings of a trauma victim, but stick to journalistic integrity to ensure that their fragile story is factually accurate. For insightful tips on how to interview an individual who has endured a form of trauma, review the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s “Journalism & Trauma” article.
2 – Don’t be lackadaisical with fact-checking. Even the most minute details matter.
3 – Conduct thorough research before your interview. When you have excess knowledge on the topic, you will have better questions to ask the interviewee, and you can easily correct factual errors your article may contain.
4 – If you have questions or concerns, always follow up with your source. Failing to do so may result in a PR nightmare.


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This list offers a variety of resources on digital skills for individuals, schools, and organisations. Find self-assessment tools, training curricula to support teaching and learning, and other material to support your upskilling journey and enhance your digital competence.
- The e-CF Explorer is an initiative of IT Professionalism Europe (ITPE) with the aim to increase visibility and accessibility of the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF). The e-Competence Framework provides a reference of 41 competences as applied...
- Discover DigComp, the European digital competence framework by the JRC which is a tool to improve citizens’ digital competence.

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virus does not cause disease in healthy people. Because the virus remains in the body for life, it can cause disease if the immune system becomes severely damaged or suppressed by drugs. While CMV can infect most organs of the body, persons with AIDS are most susceptible to CMV retinitis (disease of the eye) and colitis (disease of the colon).
Also known as stavudine. An antiretroviral drug in the class of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). Used to treat HIV/ AIDS.
An antimicrobial drug. Used to prevent Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients intolerant to use of sulfa-containing drugs. Also used to treat leprosy, an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae.
The use of two drugs to treat a disease such as HIV/AIDS.
An antiretroviral drug in the class of nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs). Used to treat HIV/AIDS.
A disease that spreads rapidly through a demographic segment of the human population, such as everyone in a given geographic area; a military base, or similar population unit; or everyone of a certain age or sex, such as the children or women of a region. Epidemic diseases can be spread from person to person or from a contaminated source such as food or water.
The branch of medical science that deals with the study of incidence and distribution and control of a disease in a population.
The internally coded, inheritable information carried by all living organisms. This stored information is used as a blueprint or set of instructions for building and maintaining a living creature. These instructions are found within almost all cells (the internal part), they are written in a coded language (the genetic code); they are copied at the time of cell division or reproduction and are passed from one generation to the next (inheritable). These instructions are intimately involved with all aspects of the life of a cell or an organism. They control everything from the formation of protein macromolecules, to the regulation of metabolism and synthesis.
Gross Domestic Product:
A measure of the output produced by factors of production located in the domestic country regardless of who owns these factors.


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Lionsgate has released the final poster for their upcoming film, Kick-Ass. The movie is directed by Matthew Vaughn and is an adaptation of the Mark Millar comic of the same name. This is the fourth character banner that’s been released following, Aaron Johnson’s Kick-Ass, Christopher Mintz-Plasse‘s Red Mist, and Nicolas Cage’s Big Daddy. Now it’s time for Chloe Moretz to get her time to shine as the junior assassin, Hit Girl…
Over at IGN, they just premiered the poster and it’s very…..purple. Following in the footsteps of its predecessors it also has an interesting tagline that states, “I Can’t See Through Walls. But I Can Kick Your Ass.” I can’t wait to hear someone actually say one of these lines in the movie. Hit Girl is by far the best character in the film. She’s a trained martial artist and a master in modern and ancient weaponry. There’s a reason they saved her poster for last. She’s the best out of the bunch.
The film centers on a group of vigilantes who fight crime in the real world. They include an ex-cop, his young daughter, and two high school students. The film is described as a kid version of Wanted, so of course it will be rated R.
Here’s her poster:
Kick-Ass hits theaters on April 16, 2010.
What do you think of Chloe Moretz’ Hit Girl Poster?

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Recording of the 6th Groovy Uncle album began last year and will continue during 2017 at Ranscombe Studios. Here is a brief taster of what is in store. Suzi Chunk is on lead vocals here with the “The Scheme Of Things”. Happy New Year!
Here’s a clue… Suzi Chunk at Ranscombe Studios, Rochester recording her third single “Got Up And Gone” b/w “Find The Morning” on 11th June 2016
‘GOT UP AND GONE’ b/w ‘FIND THE MORNING’ A BRAND NEW SINGLE RELEASE FROM SUZI CHUNK ON LIMITED EDITION 7″ ORANGE VINYL! Once again in collaboration with Groovy Uncle songwriter Glenn Prangnell, the new, groovy single from Suzi Chunk- recorded earlier this year at Ranscombe Studios – follows on from the highly acclaimed ‘Look Back And Laugh’ (2012) and ‘Barefoot In The Car Park’ (2014). Release date: 1/9/16 Label: Trouserphonic Cat No: … Read more
Glenn Prangnell of Groovy Uncle says: “Wow! That is fantastic. I really didn’t see that one coming! This is an honour, indeed.” BEST SINGLE 2014 – Groovy Uncle – Barefoot In The Car Park


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It’s getting harder each year to find an airline that doesn’t reach into your pocket over and over again for extra handouts when you’re buying a flight ticket. Naturally, that makes people angry and we start looking for ways around the problem. There are different tiers of anger though: some of the most hated airline fees get people more worked up than others.
This year United Airlines has been busy pissing off as many people as possible again. First they made it much harder for normal mortals to ever achieve elite status no matter how much they fly. You have to spend at least $4,000 on tickets or pay to upgrade to business class a lot. Then since making a billion dollars a year by charging people extra fees wasn’t enough, they raised their fee to check a bag up to $35 each way.
They weren’t the first: JetBlue announced the highest bag fee in the USA a bit earlier. (Remember when JetBlue was the cool airline everyone loved? Now they’re another Spirit Air wannabee.)
This bag fee is just one of many, of course, since these days you can get squeezed for everything from seat selection to when you board the plane.
The Airline Fees We Hate the Most
A recent survey from FinanceBuzz shed some light on which airline fees really get passengers riled up the most.
While a majority have paid some kind of bag fee, this is also the type of airline fee that people hate the most. It’s also a big driver behind Southwest’s continual success and why most savvy flyers will pick an international carrier over a U.S. one when they get the chance. Here are the fees that survey respondents dislike the most:
1) Carry-on bag fee
2) Checked bag fee
3) Seat selection fee
4) Onboard WiFi fee
5) Priority boarding fee
I have to say #4 doesn’t bother me in the slightest since I hardly ever use it. It’s kind of nice to be offline for hours and ignore the chatter. I read a book, watch a movie, or do some photo/video editing. (If there’s room to, I write, but that’s getting tougher and tougher with the lack of legroom in economy.)
I can often get around three of these five with the right credit card in hand, but that’s because I also avoid “Basic Economy” tickets like the plague. These fake-out tickets are basically Spirit Air tickets on a legacy airline. All they get you is a cramped seat in the worst part of the plane and you will pay for everything else. On Kayak and some other online agencies, go to “Filters” and then “Cabin” to uncheck a box and avoid even seeing those.
Which Airlines Are the Worst for Baggage Fees?
In the survey, fliers called out American Airlines, Spirit, and United as the worst for fees. Indeed, American made more than any other carrier last year by reaching into your pocket again if you dared to not travel light. They raked in $1.2 billion last year just from baggage fees.
When you take passenger volume into account though, the fees leader Spirit Airlines is ahead by miles, with the other budget carriers racing behind them. “Spirit Airlines, the patron saint of baggage fees, takes the top spot with an average of almost $25 in baggage fees per passenger. Following closely behind are Sun Country ($20/passenger), Frontier ($19/passenger), and Allegiant ($18/passenger),” says FinanceBuzz.
What Are We Doing About All These Airline Fees?
The survey asked passengers what steps they are taking to get around all these hated airline fees that just keep coming and keep going up.
As any economist will tell you, increase the economic penalties and you impact spending behavior. As any behavioral psychologist will tell you, increase the pain and people will start taking steps to avoid it. We see both in play when travelers are confronted by increased fees.
The most obvious step—if you’re not on a super budget airline or buying a dreaded Basic Economy fake-out fare, is to pack lighter. I’ve got my own strategies to accomplish this and I have even flown on Allegiant Airlines without paying any baggage fees. It’s not easy, but it can be done. If you don’t have to check a bag, most of the time you can avoid baggage fees. If you do have to check one, flying on Southwest is almost always the best choice. More than 1/3 of respondents said, “I try to avoid airlines that charge for carry-on bags.”
Also, as you’ve probably seen from the mayhem these days during the boarding process, the airlines’ decision to charge for checked bags means nearly every passenger is bringing a carry-on now. So overhead luggage bin space is crammed full on every non-Southwest flight. As the survey revealed, this is a popular reaction to the fees. Nearly 40% said, “I carry on a bag that I would have checked if it were free.”
If you also make them pay for that carry-on, they’re really going to hate you. More than 42% said, “I try to avoid airlines that charge for carry-on bags.”
People also resort to all kinds of other tactics though, including some underhanded ones. One question asked, “Have you ever lied or engaged in deceitful behavior to try to avoid airline fees?” Around 24% said yes, they had, while another 8.5% said, “I’d be open to it.”
A Few Ways to Ease the Airline Fees Pain
If you only fly a couple times a year, the only viable solution to this pick-pocketing are to fight it or to give in. If you fight it, then you pack light, fly a better carrier, or find a different way to get to where you’re going. Otherwise, you suck it up and assume the real price of your flight is going to be $70 to $150 more than what the airline first shows you. Assume every price you see is a bait-and-switch and be ready for it.
If you fly more often, you have more options. I have four different airline credit cards, which the average person would think is nuts I’m sure. I easily get more in benefits than what I pay for the annual fee though. That’s because the ones from the three main legacy carriers all give you one checked bag on your flights if you pay with that card, plus they give you priority boarding so you’ll always find overhead bin space. Some also let you check a companion’s bag, so it doesn’t take long to make up for that annual fee.
In addition, the sign-up bonuses they give in mileage can be enough to get you to the other side of the world and back. See details here on several premium cards or follow these links to see the sign-up bonuses from United, Delta, or Southwest (for the points, not the bags).
Some of the premium credit cards will give you a flight credit back you can use for bags. So essentially you’re handing them $450 and they’re handing you back $200. Obviously you want to make sure you’re using the other perks enough to justify the difference.
If you are going to spend four grand or so with one airline, then your loyalty will actually be rewarded. Even then though, you probably won’t get a free checked bag. You have to spend double or triple to get that kind of status. Meanwhile, the hated airline fees will keep coming.
For the most part, loyalty doesn’t pay anymore. Have a calculator ready and figure out the best deal after all fees. Factor in the seat selection scam if you’re a family traveling together. This is the new normal now, unfortunately, so every flight is a fight—between you and the airlines doing everything they can to keep charging you and charging you as you move through the booking process.
How about you? How have you avoided paying hundreds of dollars in extra hated airline fees?


Cyclist injured following high-speed chase on 95, 460
PETERSBURG — State police say charges are pending against a motorcyclist who crashed his bike after a pursuit Wednesday that began on Interstate 95 and ended on U.S. Route 460.
Nicholas K. Labriola, 23, of Colonial Heights, was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries, state police Sgt. Keeli Hill said.
Hill said a trooper saw Labriola driving his 2007 Yamaha motorcycle erratically southbound on I-95 near the Washington Street-Wythe Street exit. The trooper signaled for the cyclist to stop, but he continued at a high rate of speed.
Hill said the pursuit left I-95 at the Wagner Road interchange and continued east on Wagner Road to its intersection with Route 460. With the trooper following, the cyclist turned left on Route 460 back toward Petersburg.
It ended when the motorcycle struck a sedan in the left lane of 460 near North Stedman Drive. Hill said the car was attempting to turn when it was hit.
Labriola was wearing a helmet. The driver of the car was not injured.
Hill said Labriola did not have a motorcyclist’s license, and the bike was also improperly registered.
An investigation continues into the chase.


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Six Dr. Seuss books are no longer published due to their use of offensive imagery, according to the company overseeing the children’s author and illustrator’s estate.
In a statement on Tuesday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises that it decided last year to end the publication and licensing of the books by Theodor Seuss Geisel. Titles include his first book, published under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss was written, “And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street” (1937) and “If I Ran the Zoo” (1950).
“These books point people in hurtful and wrong ways,” said Dr. Seuss Enterprises in the statement. The company said the decision was made after working with a group of experts, including educators, and reviewing the catalog of titles.
Mr. Geisel, whose bizarre stories have entertained millions of children and adults worldwide, died in 1991. The other books that are no longer published are “McElligot’s Pool”, “On Beyond Zebra!” “Scrambled eggs great!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer”.
Mr. Geisel’s stories are loved by fans for their rhymes and fantastic characters, but also for their positive values, such as taking responsibility for the planet. However, in recent years, critics have said some of his work is racist and presented harmful depictions of certain groups.
In “And Thinking I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” a character described as “a Chinese” has lines for his eyes, wears a pointy hat, and carries chopsticks and a bowl of rice. (Issues published in the 1970s changed the reference from “a Chinese” to “a Chinese”.) In “When I Run the Zoo”, two characters from the “African island of Yerka” are portrayed as shirtless, shoeless and ape-like.
A school district in Virginia said over the weekend that it had advised schools to contact Dr. Seuss books on “Read Across America Day”, a national literacy program that takes place every year on March 2nd, the anniversary of the birth of Mr. Geisel, no longer needs to be emphasized.
“Research over the past few years has found strong racist overtones in many of the books written / illustrated by Dr. Seuss,” said Loudoun County Public Schools.
The decision to publish some Dr. Discontinuing Seuss books is helping to reinvigorate a debate about classic children’s titles that do not positively represent minority groups. In France, the latest in a series of beloved comics, Lucky Luke features a black hero and narrative that reinterprets the role of the cowboy and criticizes the book for indulging in an America-inspired obsession with the breed.
Before becoming a giant in children’s literature, Mr. Geisel drew political cartoons for a New York-based newspaper, PM, from 1941 to 1943, including some that used harmful stereotypes to caricature Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Decades later, he said he was embarrassed by the cartoons, which were “full of the hasty judgments any political cartoonist must make”.
Random House Children’s Books, which the Dr. Seuss books, stated in a statement that it was Dr. Respect Seuss Enterprises and the work of the body that reviewed the books.

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Saint Diego de Alcalá
Didacus of Alcalá (Spanish: Diego), also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served as among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. The confusion in names results from the fact he was born in the small town of San Nicolás del Puerto, in the province of Seville, but died at Alcalá de Henares on 12 November 1463.
San Nicolás, in its demographic and urban insignificance, has a place in history, for having been the birthplace of one of the men who figure in the saints of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the fourteenth century, without being able to specify the date more, the boy who was to take along with his name in royal documents and papal bulls was born from a humble village family the name of the place where he was born: San Diego de San Nicolás.
Diego was canonized by Pope Sixtus V in 1588, the first after a long hiatus following the Reformation, and the first of a lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor. Diego is the saint to whom the Franciscan mission that bears his name, and which developed into the City of San Diego, California, was dedicated. He is thereby the patron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego.
Gifts - levitation
Diego was essentially a healer, but there are also stories and paintings that show him levitating. As such he had a number of gifts. The Spanish painter Bartolomé Estéban Murillo is noted for painting several representations of Didacus of Alcalá and in some he shows him levitating. The Louvre Museum has/had a painting by Murillo, called the Miracle of San Diego in which he is levitating and he is also shown levitating in Saint Didacus in Ecstasy Before the Cross by Murillo, 1645-6. The painting The Miracle of Didacus of Alcalá by Bernardo Strozzi, also shows him levitating.
His is just one of many paintings of levitating saints. Nicola La Piccola represented Saint Martin de Porres, who was of the order of the Friars Preachers, rushing through the air to a crucifix placed on the altar. Saint Martin de Porres also often showed the phenomenon of bi-location. [Ribet, Mystique, II, 188]. Saint Peter of Alcantara and Saint Jacinta were also painted rising to a crucifix. Saint Thomas of Cora rose up at the moment when he gave communion. Brother Humile de Bisignano (1582 - 1637), of the Order of Reformed Minors of the Province of Calabria, was a levitator. Eight different plates of an engraving representing Pope Pius II in levitation are known, with this inscription:
PIUS VII, BRIDGE. MAX. - Savonae in ecasim iterum raptus, die assumptionis B. Mariae V. XIII Kalendas septembris 1811.
‘I know’, said Césaire d'Heisterbach (v. IX, c. 10), ‘a priest of our Order, who by a favour of God, whenever he says Mass with devotion, is lifted up with one foot in the air throughout the Canon until Communion; if he says Mass more quickly or less devoutly, or if he is disturbed by the noise of the assistants, this favour is taken from him."
Paintings do not count as evidence in this context as the artist uses his imagination to paint these pictures – especially of course when there is a gap of 200 years between the death of the saint and the painting. But many painters did use now lost accounts of the incidents to do their paintings, as such, the paintings have great interest value.
Very little is known about his early years. The safest of his biographies, due to the pen of Don Francisco Peña, lawyer and promoter in Rome of the saint's cause of canonization, and that he must, therefore, have the best information about Diego's life, as well he recognizes it. Don Cristóbal Moreno, translator in the sixteenth century into the Castilian of the Latin work of Peña, also records this insufficiency of data on childhood and the early years of San Diego. And even the History of the glorious San Diego de San Nicolás, written by the one who was the guardian of the convent of Santa María de Jesús, in Alcalá de Henares, where the Saint lived and died, is 'materialized' [sic] for this time of Diego's life.
Diego was born c. 1400 into a poor but pious family in the small village of San Nicolás del Puerto in the Kingdom of Seville. His parents gave him the name of Diego, a derivative of Santiago (St. James), the patron saint of Spain. As a child, he embraced the hermit life and, later, placed himself under the direction of a hermit priest living not far from his native town. He then led the life of a wandering hermit. Feeling called to the religious life, he applied for admission to the Observant (or Reformed) branch of the Order of Friars Minor at the friary in Albaida and was sent to the friary in Arruzafa, near Córdoba, where he was received as a lay brother.
During his years living in that location, he journeyed to the villages in the regions surrounding Córdoba, Cádiz and Seville, where he would preach to the people. A strong devotion to him still exists in those towns.
Diego was then sent to the new friary of the Order in Arrecife on the island of Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands. That island had been conquered by Jean de Béthencourt about 40 years earlier and was still in the process of introducing the native Guanche people to Christianity.
In 1445, Diego was appointed as Guardian of the Franciscan community on the island of Fuerteventura, where the Observant Franciscans soon founded the Friary of St. Bonaventure. There, though it was an exception to the ordinary rules for a lay brother to be named to this position, his ‘great zeal, prudence, and sanctity justified this choice’.
Recall to Spain and healing work
In 1450, Diego was recalled to Spain, and from there he continued to Rome to share in the Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope Nicholas V, and to be present at the canonization of Bernardine of Siena. In addition to the vast crowds of pilgrims arriving in Rome for Jubilee Year, thousands of friars had headed to Rome to take part in the celebration of one of the pillars of their Order.
These travelers brought with them various infections, which broke out into an epidemic in the city. Diego spent three months caring for the sick at the friary attached to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended through his ‘pious intercession’.
He was then recalled again to Spain and was sent by his superiors to the Friary of Santa María de Jesús in Alcalá, where he spent the remaining years of his life in ‘penance, solitude, and the delights of contemplation’!
There he died on 12 November 1463 due to an abscess. A chapel, the Ermita de San Diego, was built in Diego's birthplace between 1485 and 1514 to enshrine his remains in his native town.

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