Newspapers had a field day when the Queen visited Australia in 2011.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard chose to bow to her, while the Governor General, Quentin Bryce AC CVO, curtseyed instead.
This Q+A clip explores several perspectives on this event. Note how each panellist's non-verbal language reflects their attitude toward this topic.
Things to think about
- 1.Should women still curtsey in this day and age? Is the controversy over the PM choosing to bow instead of cursteying really a gender issue, or just an opportunity to criticise her leadership?
- 2.Tanya Plibersek indicates her disgust, labelling this controversy 'a storm in a teacup'. How does her body language reveal this attitude? How does Judith Sloan show she's being humorous when she says the Governor General 'did a great curtsey'? What does the use of humour suggest about her attitude? Comment on what Christopher Pyne's spoken language and gesturing reveals to you about his attitudes.
- 3.Make a list of the key features of spoken language that convey a speaker's attitudes. Now add to this list all the key non-verbal features that can reveal such attitudes.
- 4.Find out more about the practice of curtseying. Next, record yourself, perhaps via webcam, for a vlog or vodcast, presenting your perspective on whether curtseying is still relevant in the 21st century. Get someone else to record you if you have no webcam. To convey your attitude clearly, make sure you carefully consider both your verbal and non-verbal language. Play back your recording to judge your performance!
Date of broadcast: 24 Oct 2011
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Their words say “no,” but that’s not enough to stop the presidential speculation surrounding certain Massachusetts politicos. And as the monthslong speculation over the political futures of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Secretary of State John F. Kerry continues unabated, this week a third familiar name is generating buzz: Mitt Romney.
Less than a year ago, the prospect of a Romney comeback seemed as likely as Miley Cyrus entering a convent. Suddenly, after the release of a documentary that presented a warmly humanized version of the GOP’s last pick for president and an accompanying media blitz by the former governor, it seems that Romney is back — and folks are wondering if he could give the race for the White House another go.
Romney, for his part, answered the question with an adamant “No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.” But yet, there he is, popping up on television shows discussing everything from the Netflix film about his presidential campaign, to the upcoming Sochi Olympics, to Gov. Chris Christie’s political prospects. He even showed up on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show Friday to “slow jam” the news, creating one of the best comedic moments from a GOP personality since John McCain appeared on “Saturday Night Live” on the eve of the 2008 election.
As Christie continues to deal with the massive scandal that placed a roadblock on his path to the GOP nomination, and as the Republican National Committee put new rules in place to make it easier for the party’s next presidential nominee to emerge from the primary less politically and financially battered, Republicans are scrambling for a Christie alternative. Could Romney be drafted by his party to try again?
“A year ago I would have laughed at that question,” one strategist told me. “Today I’m not laughing.”
So what is it that gives local candidates such perennial appeal? Maybe it’s just force of habit. After all, in the last quarter-century, only one presidential election cycle — 1996 — has been devoid of a potential candidate from Massachusetts, despite the fact that the last Bay State resident to actually win the White House was John F. Kennedy. What the state lacks in electoral votes it makes up for in the level of sheer presidential ambition.
Maybe it’s the fact that the actions of the current group of speculative Massachusetts prospects seem to belie their repeated denials. It’s not just Romney: Warren has been traipsing the country stumping and fundraising for Democratic candidates, and raising her own profile, while Kerry has taken a turbo-charged approach to international diplomacy not seen in recent history. Maybe they just love their jobs — or lack thereof, in Romney’s case. Or maybe they’re quietly planning for something more.


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10 feared dead in bank robbery in Edo
No fewer than 10 persons were killed following a robbery attack at two banks in Igarra, Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The incident occurred at about 5 p.m. when the robbers invaded the community in attempt to rob the two commercial banks in the town killing 10 persons including security officers attached to the banks.
A resident of the community, Mr Ofei Obende, said the robbers attacked the police station in the town before attacking the banks killing four security men at the bank premises.
The Secretary to the Otaru of Igarra, Chief Folorunsho Dania, confirmed the incident to NAN in an telephone interview and said 10 persons were feared dead and the police station set ablaze.
“This is a serious case, armed robbers have besieged Igarra so many lives killed, 10 persons have been killed.Three people were killed and in the banks too,” he said.
Many persons were killed. It is a calamity. In all, ten lives have gone.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Edo, Mr Chidi Nwabuzor, said information about the attack was still sketchy and would release details later.
NAN reports that six persons were killed in a similar attack in November 2015 when armed robbers invaded the community.

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FOI Online Liturgy
Sybil, Oracles of the Goddess
By: Olivia Robertson
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PART IV. THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND OURSELVES
20. THE GODDESS HERTHA OF THE NORSE-LANDS
The Earth: Joys of the Earth.
PRIESTESS: Holy Earth Goddess Hertha, too late we honour Thee. We poison Thy creation, polluting Thy seas and rivers. We defile Thy land. Forests fall and deserts invade Thy green pasture-land: we destroy Thy creatures of the wild. Yet many of us repent totally of our human contempt for Thee. Help us before it is too late. What may we do, who feel so weak, faced with man's greed and folly to save the Earth?
ORACLE: Whenever the longing heart turns to the Mother, there I take up My abode. I am the Hearth Fire, the Heart of Life, and the secure earth that is your home. And this My hearth is one, and yet manifold throughout the galaxies. Honour your home, the earth, not for its greatness, but for its littleness. For in this matrix is your protection. Be as My children the animals, the birds and the plants. For they die not but live forever in My everlasting home. Their existences of birth and struggle and death are to them but dreams. Pity yourselves. Only humans believe they die. And through this delusion they suffer. Turn to My deeps and you will find my jewels. These many-coloured gems are concealed in your own bodies! My rubies, sapphires and emeralds glow in your red Tree of Life: My veins of Gold and Silver flow in your blood: My Poles of Balance are fixed within your bones. Turn to your roots. Despise not touch nor smell nor taste. These bring you into communion with Me and with all My children.
Know Me as the Earth Mother Who bringeth forth all things that breathe and move and have their being. My Body holds all the elements. So My children are of My substance! I am in them all. And I am immortal.
21. THE GODDESS ARTEMIS OF GREECE.
The Moon: Regaining Our Psychic Gift.
PRIESTESS: Divine Artemis of the Golden Bow, Whose silver arrows shoot into the brow of artist, poet and lover: under Whose powerful protection live stags and hinds, bears and wolves; bestow on us Thy inspiration. Give us understanding of all living creatures: bring us in harmony with Thy glorious Nature: remember us, though we have neglected Thee.
ORACLE: You have done well. You have heard My demands. At the eleventh hour you turn to My ways. Be confident and walk forth in hope! For thousands of long earth years which to the Deities is but the passing of a moment, you have turned away from Me in the pursuit of your own artifacts. And this was intended, that you should learn the skills of Hephaestus the Smith; and the high thoughts of My twin Brother, Phoebus Apollo. But now, sated with your own mechanical toys, frightened by the Nemesis of your own acts, you turn to Me. In your wanton destruction of your fields and woods, you destroy yourselves. In the death of wild creatures, you injure your own existences. In your proud separation from Nature, you alienate your souls. But you have turned to Me. Know that Nature also has a soul: that the earth is a living being too mighty for you to understand: that every creature, every stick, each atom, has its true being in the psychic realm over which I preside.
All the nature that you perceive is a mirage of My true Nature. You gaze at that which is before your eyes: yet this is a phantasm of that which truly lies behind you. You would follow My ways? Shut your eyes that you may see. The future you will know when you gaze upon the past - and so walk backwards to the future! Use your right hand for the day and the left hand for the night. Turn to the right for the gifts of My brother Phoebus of the Sun: turn to the left three times with your eyes closed if you would travel to My Moon! For My Moon is not the moon you see. And My arrows are not only moon-beams, but rather are the shining radiations of the Spirit. Treat My children of the Wild with care and respect: not as pets, but as your equals. So you will be the friends of bats and toads: of deer and wolves: of foxes and badgers: of owls and snakes: and of My aetherial creatures that exist in the sphere of My Moon, and are seen by your young children, who are not yet blinded and deafened by your ephemeral world. The key to My sphere is through reflection.
22. THE GODDESS KUNDALINI
The Sun: We Awaken the Inner Serpent Power.
PRIESTESS: Awe-inspiring Goddess of liquid Fire, Whose serpent doth coil Herself round the Tree of Life, harken to our prayer! Bring us the seven apples of Power; the Power to know, to love, to take, to live, to rejoice, to grow, to join in the Dance of Creation! Yet protect us, weak as we are, from the consuming fires of Kali, lest we be unprepared for Thy Awakening from the Depths.
ORACLE: You do well to invoke My Power, for without Me, though you have thought, feeling and existence, yet you dwell in the delusion of sloth and death. Fear Me not! I would that all beings should enjoy the fiery breath of My serpent, that brings ecstasy and eternal bliss. Not from ambition, nor from endseeking, nor from desire to probe My secrets shall you come to Me: for wrong motives will inevitably lead to your destruction, until you learn more wisdom, and tread the path of the Virtues.
To draw My Power from the Great Deep, revere the earth your Mother through the senses. Touch the earth with the palms of your hands and kiss the ground. To bring down My Power from the heavens look upwards and wonder at the sun and the moon and the stars. So by your gaze shall you feel their harmonious influence call Me to you. But understand that no prayers, nor virtuous activity, no meditation, no aspiration, no self-inflicted penances, not even adoration will call me forth from the Mystic Cave. For I come through My Will, to the foolish, to the wise, to the prepared, to the unprepared, to the Saint, to the criminal. None may tell the hour of My Coming, nor to whom I will come. Nonetheless the wise prepare themselves, lest their habitation be destroyed by My Fire. Whether through the rushing of a Powerful wind; through thunder and volcano; or through the song of birds and the dance of butterflies, or through Silence; I must come that you may awaken and live.
23. THE GODDESS MORRIGAN OF EIRE.
Mars: We Control the Passions.
PRIESTESS: Triple Goddess Who are Maid and Queen and Enchantress: red-robed Wife to the Dagda, fiery God of Mars: raven-tressed Prophetess with the river of life and death flowing about Thy feet: come to us with Thy Power.
ORACLE: Seek the prophetic gifts and all else will be added to you. For in My future lies both My present and My past; for the greater contains the lesser: and in my great age of aeons lies My youth and My Queenship. To hold the Sword of the Ruler is good, but it is wisdom that declares how the sword should be used. And it is the compassion of the Virgin that sheathes the sword. The hollow of the scabbard contains the sword, as the womb of the Mother contains the Kingly warrior. So if you would be great, look before you into your future, for there you shall be in your fullness and completion, ruler of many selves. And fore-knowledge even of Doom teaches the inevitable sequence of cause and effect, the results of good and evil actions: so that you will learn to pursue a virtuous and honourable course in life. Knowledge of My secret of sudden death brings understanding of your own immortality. My Right Foot stands firm upon the earth, as I stand over the dividing river of Life and Death; and My Left Foot is rooted in the Land of the Sidhe and the world of spirits: yet I am ever the same.
If you see Me in my innocent youth washing your clothes from all stain and sorrow, do not be afraid, but cross by the stepping stones of My ford to the other world: know that those who accept Me may return again safely to earthly life. Return because you must, as I call you to arduous service in the world, where I am Queen. As such I am both wife and mother, and desire that the earth should be replenished with My children.
But when I appear to you as the Ancient One, your Initiation is nigh. Then you too will feel the inner Fire and shall prophecy. And people will flee from you as they flee from Me, for the children of men fear enchantment more than they fear pain and death. But for you, enchantment will draw forth your greater being which is immortal. Remember: my messenger is the blue-black Raven.
24. THE GODDESS VENUS OF ROME
Venus: We Learn how to Love.
PRIESTESS: Glorious Venus, Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, awaken in our hearts. All long for thee. We cannot live without Thee.
ORACLE: The time has come when true marriage is being manifested on earth. Until now, men have depended emotionally upon their mothers, and have dominated over their wives and children. The patriarch has retained earthly rulership entirely for himself; but has surrendered the domain of the emotions to his mother. So men have dominated the world through military and political power, wielded through use of technology, from sword to gun and bomb. But behind the scenes the mothers have ruled their sons' hearts, and kept them emotionally childish, and have chosen their wives for them. And the veil that concealed their hidden power was superstitious ignorance.
This was understandable in past ages, when humanity was at a childish level. But now a catastrophic stage has been reached. The development of scientific technology has outstripped emotional development. It is as if children in a nursery during a fight had discovered a loaded pistol!
Through the ages the Deities have watched and sometimes aided the free development of human consciousness, in relation also to other life forms. We have occasionally projected symbolic Mystery Dramas, using willing actors and actresses on the earthly arena. For to the Deities this world is a shadow of reality, a story woven on the loom of time and space. To help each progressive stage, differing Dramas have been given. Deities are the parents of all beings on earth, and in humanity's childhood, the story of sorrowing Mother and slaughtered Son was enacted. The myths of Cybele and Attis, of Venus and Adonis, of Mary and Jesus, taught through catharsis. Those who felt the tragedy in their hearts saw the wickedness of wars and persecutions. This is the education of the heart, to instill good emotion through empathy.
Now new Mysteries are being presented by the Deities, so take heart! Humanity has, after an unduly protracted childhood, reached adolescence. Art and nature are at last properly respected. Dreams of twin-souls, of ideal marriages of God and Goddess, Knight and Princess, are awakening in many souls not as fairy-tales, but as possibilities. Visionaries are gazing upon the twin-stars of Sirius, of star-ships from thence, and of the ideal marriage of Isis and Osiris.
I come when you invoke Me, rising from the sea of the galaxy! I am the morning and evening star, and I am the Milky Way for from my breasts sprang your universe. I am within all beings so I am shown as a woman surrounded by winged children. Ideal union of Goddess and God, woman and man, animal with animal, throughout-all life, produces creativity.
Such manifestations may be works of art, new ideas - a reborn better humanity. All creative unions are divinely ordained, a reflection of the Divine Marriage of Lakshmi-Venus and her Husband Vishnu-Eros.
25. THE GODDESS SOPHIA OF BYZANTIUM
Mercury: We Develop Intuition.
PRIESTESS: Divine Sophia, Triple Goddess of Wisdom, Who art the Holy Spirit of Truth, descend upon us with Thy white wings of the Dove, and give us Thy Diadem of Stars! We seek Thee, for all must seek for Truth. Thou are concealed from us by the veil that divides Reality from its reflection. Divine Bride; help us to be born again, that we may know our immortality.
ORACLE: It is not easy to penetrate My veil. The second birth is preceded by the second death, the ending of ignorance and delusion. All that you see and hear and feel are but the phantom senses of my counterpart, My Daughter, who is My Soul. Cunning Mercury, however, will teach you to reach My Sphere through his wit and speed! He steals upon Me when I turn My back; but when I face Him, he stands immobile, with downcast gaze. For to reach My Bourne, the curved path is the straightest way to reach Me. It is the heresy that conceals the Truth: and the backwards journey that will bring you forward. The spiritually proud rush towards Me - and are blinded by My Light. The clever ones, who follow the deviating path of Mercury, the Psychopompos, reach Me when My eyes are closed! The ways of night are the safest; the low path more sure than the lofty way upwards to the mountain peak.
Surely Mercury knows Me, for am I not his Mother, Maia? I am the shy Goddess in the dark cave which is the Matrix of the Light. If you would find Me, look over your left shoulder; move against the path of the sun; look at symbols upside down, and walk backwards into the future! I hide my wisdom in the stories I tell children before they sleep. The sciences tell the facts clearly: but, inner Truth is concealed in fable and paradox.
Students of the occult mysteries are the hidden children of the veiled Sophia. Yet remember, as you pursue your circuitous journey through the labyrinth of conceptual thought and mystic symbols, that without Love and without Law, all your knowledge is not only meaningless but dangerous. For the Universe is based on the foundations of the Law, and the Father God enforces the Law. My Son and The Bride, the Pneuma, offer Love and Truth. With the Union of Truth, Love and Law you will find Wisdom. You will have also regained the happiness of the butterfly and the flower.
26. THE GODDESS HATHOR OF EGYPT
Jupiter: We Love All that Is.
PRIESTESS: Adorable Hathor, Kindly Mother of all creatures, Goddess of love and laughter, we are orphaned of Thee! We have turned away from Thy joy which calls us through all Nature to return again to Thy beautiful bounty. Bestow on us happiness and love; health and abundance.
ORACLE: Because you ask Me for these gifts, you shall receive them! For long hard centuries you, my dear human children, have sought knowledge and authority, strength and sanctity, believing that these hardly won gains will make you as the Deities! But though it is well to be powerful, without love and happiness you are as nothing. And this love is not some strange and terrible passion that could tear you assunder, as it does when suppressed or misused: rather it is the kindly benevolence that not only seeks the good for others - but also for oneself! For who would be the victim of another's immolation? True friendship and marriage are to share good things such as abundance, laughter and peace. For in the past you clever and hard-working ones have travelled the earth making converts to your puritanical civilization, but have made millions wretched and uprooted them from their own way of living.
It is not for nothing that I am depicted with the solar disc between the horns of a cow! Do not despise me in this form, for as a cow I have four legs and can stand in my sleep, whereas the walking two-legged human suffers from unbalance! I give my milk generously and have the wisdom to stay where I am, either eating grass or meditating, which is what you call chewing the cud! You run around too much in your minds and with your bodies. Be peaceful. Be happy. And in this way you will, through gentleness, find power; through stillness, achieve progress, and by living fully each moment, gain abundance for all time. Know that Jupiter Himself appears as a bull, as does Osiris as Serapis. Yet neither of these Gods nor I myself manifesting in this animal form derive Our strength and health from killing and eating our fellows. You petition Me for health. Do likewise. Be Happy! For if you are happy now - you are happy forever. To rejoice in the Eternal Now is my secret. My Love abideth, for it is the Love of the All-Mother.
27. THE GODDESS ASHTORETH OF PHOENICIA
Saturn: Hard Work Brings Self-earned Reward.
PRIESTESS: We offer incense to Thee, Ashtoreth, Queen of Heaven. Oh Virgin of the Sea, Blessed Mother and Lady of the Waters, stay the waves of adversity! Goddess of the Moon, bring us to know Thy Mysteries. Beautiful Lady, Goddess of Love, without Thee the cruelties of life, the tedious work, the harshness of changing time, bring us to despair. Who may live joyfully without hope of a spiritual life to be enjoyed beyond the confines of the severe laws of this material world? Aid us to reach Thy Heaven, now and beyond the grave.
ORACLE: You children of earth deplore the severities of Saturn, whose Golden Age sprang from justice rather than compassion: from the sciences rather than the arts: and from the riches of the material world rather than the angelic beauty of visions. You invoke me as you invoke sleep, weary from struggles and suffering - in the hope of receiving dreams more lovely than earthly life.
And I welcome you to my realm! Yet to reach it you need to study and to work: to see my face behind the veil you have to learn to obey the rigorous laws of my Husband Saturn. Know that I am the Goddess Ashtoreth, the hidden Shekinah of Jehovah. Who dares gaze upon Ashtoreth, Who, guarded by Him, may neither be called by Her Inner Name, nor seen by impious men? Know that I am the Hidden Power behind the God of cause and effect: of law and time: I am His concealed joy and reward and His everlasting love. When you have learned to obey the outer laws guarded by the God, naturally you will mature and be brought to understand My Mysteries, that are only to be experienced by those ready to receive them.
Beware! There are those who think that, discovering My psychic Powers they may with impunity break the outer laws that bind others. These should remember the fate of Icarus, who tried to reach My Heaven with artificial wings held together with wax - which melted as he flew too near the sun! And so he fell as have many others. For truly you cannot reach My starry heaven without Love and the Law. Love brings you the entry to my sphere: but Wisdom gives you the ability to stay there! Ambitious seekers may find themselves in heaven: but without love or law they cannot see, hear, think or feel, in a divine sphere beyond their capacity of enjoyment. And so they say there is nothing there and are disillusioned. So they bar the way to their return to heaven, and prevent others from making the attempt. So if you would find Me, use both the imagination and the intellect: love and the law: creativity and loyal endurance. So will you be holy, and be able to accept My psychic gifts with both hands.
28. THE GODDESS SARASVATI OF INDIA
Uranus: We Discover the Law of Cycles.
PRIESTESS: Wise Goddess Sarasvati, Mother of the Vedas, Deity of all arts and sciences, White Goddess, Tongue of Fire, The Golden Eye, inspire us with your secret learning and esoteric wisdom. With You is the peacock with his spreading tail, whose golden eyes are the spheres of being shining in the curving tides of space. You ride upon the swan, who sees her reflection in Your river, and who rises into the sky, white wings outspread in freedom. From Your river of creation come the lotus flowers of suns and planets, and You play the vina with the Rhythm of the Universe.
ORACLE: Well have you listed my attributes and gifts, so that it would appear that you have left me little to add! However, not always in profound if obscure symbology nor in abstruse magical and occult practices are the inner mysteries of being to be found. It is as simple to experience the Cosmic Rhythm through the fast beating of one's heart at the unexpected arrival of a lover than to sit for hours in meditation counting the intake, holding and expulsion of one's breath! Admittedly such techniques produce revelation of other spheres, by inhibiting the intrusion of the senses. But you are invoking a Goddess, not Siva nor any other God! And the way of a Goddess is more likely to be the expansion of consciousness through the awareness of what is under one's nose, rather than by contemplating its tip for many hours! A pregnant woman aware of her unborn baby is as open to divine consciousness as much - or indeed more - than a Yogi in the Lotus position meditating on his navel. I say to you look, listen, hear, smell and touch with full attention during one day. If you clean a room, write a letter or dig in a garden with total attention, without the clouding of worries, hopes or fancies, you will, through awareness of the present, pass through seconds into Eternity. For Eternal Reality is experienced Now - not in the past or future. Through this doorway of "Now", the juxtaposition of your consciousness and time and space, you will gain not only full consciousness of your past and of your future: you will also gain some experience of greater spheres of Divine Being.
You are through your aura centre of your own universe, if only you will allow yourself to enjoy it! However, do not permit any success in attaining wider consciousness make you selfish or spiritually proud. The true mystic becomes increasingly sensitive to the auras of others, whether human, animal or plant, and honours and loves them all as part of our universal family.
29. THE GODDESS NGAME OF AFRICA
Neptune: We Penetrate the Spheres.
PRIESTESS: None is greater in the Universe than the Triple Moon Goddess Ngame. Lost in fear and despair at the ill effects of man's follies, we watch our fair home this earth being poisoned by our wars and greed. So after aeons we again invoke Thee, the Goddess Ngame, once worshipped in the lost continent of Lemuria. The Akans of Africa and the Lybian Berbers adore Thee. The peoples of Africa are awakening and remember their lost heritage! The Builders of Zimbabwe call to them from the world of Spirit and Dogons and other tribes once more draw strength from their ancient religions. Divine Ngame, with Thy silver rays transmute our deadly existences into beautiful lives of everlasting joy!
ORACLE: With my White Light I make the occult manifest: and with My clarity I draw hidden knowledge from the depths of the Ocean of being into your consciousness. That which materialists term unreal is real: and that which they call real is unreal. Nothing devoid of love or truth or beauty is real. Immortality is the unfailing test of reality.
You gaze into My Crystal which I hold in My hands and see beautiful scenes within it. These pictures are reflections of My lovely spheres. My first sphere is that of nature spirits and faeries, the Sidhe. Here all who love nature find their home. You have lost the key. This silver key is the Innocence of Childhood. My second sphere is beloved of artists and poets and all who are creative. It is Elysium, and is glorified with many coloured rays shining upon beautiful palaces and sublime landscapes. You have lost the key. The lapis key is Understanding. My third realm is that of Great Space which some call Olympus and others Devachan; and here dwell the Goddesses and Gods who reign over stars and planets. You have not yet the key. The golden key is Love with Wisdom.
To reach Me, invoke Me with reverence and good intention, by one of My Divine Names, such as Ngame. Anoint your brow with pure water, and drink some. Now gaze upon water in cup or pool, or into a crystal or mirror. First you will only see your own face. As you continue to scry, clouds will veil your own reflection, and visions come, first as shadows, then filled with colour. With perseverence you will learn to project yourself into the scene. You will experience that which was, and is, and shall be. Always end with giving thanks, for I give the experiences for your good. Use your knowledge wisely. Work to make the earthly realm a clearer reflection of the greater spheres of Eternity! For you can lose Heaven in a second: but only regain it through years of constant struggle.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Monday morning, the American Association of University Women, the Women’s Foundation and Kansas City Mayor Sly James made an announcement regarding a new initiative to close the gender pay gap in the region.
American Association of University Women Kim Churches, Women’s Foundation President Wendy Doyle, along with James, spoke on the initiative.
The initiative will be a pilot program that will train one million women in both Kansas and Missouri on how to negotiate salaries and benefits.
Through this partnership with AAUW, the Women's Foundation and Mayor Sly James, this training will be the first phase of the initiative.
"That will be part of a multi-pronged approach in terms of working with employers, and with the right policies and laws at a local, municipal state and federal level to really close that pay gap once and for all," said AAUW CEO Kim Churches.
According to AAUW, women nationwide are paid 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man.
Here in the Kansas City Metro region, it's 78 cents.
Churches says this training will not only be a confidence builder, but it will help women to better understand the marketplace.
"Sadly today, men negotiate four times as much as women do," Churches said. "So what we're trying to do is level that playing field so you get the soft skills, the confidence building skills coupled with the hard data and analysis of what your skills and abilities can bring to the place."
This announcement comes after the city council recently voted to ban salary history to join the workforce in the city.
Women's Foundation President Wendy Doyle says it's that step and the negotiation training that are steps in the right direction for a complex issue.
"Now we recognize that closing the pay gap is not going to be completely resolved with salary negotiation training it's a very complex issue but it is a solution and a step forward to making that happen," Doyle said.
It's so complex that 2030 is the target date to close that gender pay gap.
"It seems like 2030, although a realistic goal, seems an awfully long time to wait to do the right thing," Mayor Sly James said. "It's another critical skill set that women will have and take greater control of their careers and to get the pay that they deserve."
To learn more information on these training workshops, click here.

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Mackay’s boom players making it on world basketball stage
MACKAY basketballers have been paving their way onto the international circuit this month.
Mackay's Clint Steindl travelled with the Australian Boomers on Monday to finish the Sino-Australian Challenge against China.
He made his first appearance with the Boomers at the weekend, when they played China in Perth.
Meanwhile basketball superstar Mackay-born Marianna Tolo, 23, has returned from a successful first season in France and was named yesterday in the Australian Opals squad, which will take on China in three games later this month.
The Opals will face China in a three-game series on June 19, 21 and 23 in their bid to get to the 2014 FIBA Women's World Championship in Turkey.
Steindl's father, Mal has been keeping a close eye on the Boomers' performance and has the remote in hand ready to tune in when the Boomers play China for the third time today, and the fourth and final game on Friday.
The Boomers went down 61-55 to China in their first game in Perth on Friday night. However, they came back in the second game to win 85-50 on Sunday.
"Their game on Sunday was a lot better than their first and I think their offensive effort was very good," Mal Steindl said.
He said his son, who normally plays with the Cairns Taipans, is working towards trying to get into the World University Games later this year and this was certainly a step in the right direction.
"He would like to spend more time playing in Europe; going to China just gives him wider exposure, and moving from there onto the World University Games hopefully.
"We're always happy, that's his life. He sets his own goals and lives the dream."
He said his son didn't get nervous.
"He just takes it in his stride and does what he can do."


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Location of Sighting: Naples, Florida
Date of Sighting: 2004
Description: I also saw this Red Orb when I was about 15 years old. I went outside and I was looking at the sky. I stood up on top of little green shed that we had. I saw the red orb shoot from one side of the sky to the complete other side in less than a second stop. Then it shot straight up into the sky and disappeared. I jolted turned around, forgot that I was on top of the shed and fell flat on my f****** face. I went inside to go get a family member. When I came back out it was gone, but I did see two craft what look like fighter jets flying through the sky. This thing was way too fast to be man-made. I have no idea what it was.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found in nematode worms that having a little bit of extra fat may help reduce the risk of developing some neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
When they perturbed the powerhouses of the nerve cell, the mitochondria, in a strain of the nematode C. elegans that mimics Huntington' s disease, which is caused by aggregating proteins inside brain neurons that ultimately lead to motor dysfunction, personality changes, depression and dementia, the researchers saw their worms grow fat.
Tracing the effect to increased production of a specific type of lipid that prevented the formation of aggregate proteins, according to a study published online on Thursday in the journal Cell, they found the fat was required to turn on genes that protected the animals and cells from Huntington' s disease, revealing a new pathway that could be harnessed to treat the disease.
"We found that the worms and human cells were almost completely protected from the Huntington' s aggregates when we turned on this response," Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research in UC Berkeley' s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was quoted as saying by a news release from UC Berkeley.
After treating worms and human cells with Huntington's disease with drugs that prevented the cell from sweeping up and storing the lipid, called ceramide, and seeing the same protective effect, the researchers have begun experiments in mice with Huntington's disease to see if the drugs result in a better outcome.
"If we could manipulate this lipid pathway, we could go after Huntington's disease, because in our studies the drugs were really beneficial," Dillin said. "This is poised to take to the next level."
The protein aggregates - called Huntington's aggregates - have been linked to problems with the repair system that nerve cells rely on to fix proteins that fold incorrectly: the cell' s so-called protein folding response. Misfolded proteins can make other proteins fold incorrectly, creating a chain reaction of misfolded proteins that form clumps that the cell can't deal with.
In the same issue of Cell, Dillin also reported that stressing neurons in the brain makes them release a hormone, serotonin, that sends alert messages throughout the body that the brain cells are under attack, setting off a similar stress response in cells far from the brain. In diseases like Huntington's, mental decline is also associated with peripheral metabolic defects and muscle decline.
"If you begin to shut down the periphery and stop using the limited resources it utilizes, then more of those resources can be shifted to brain metabolic activity," he said. "This might be a very clever way to try to save the brain by having the body waste away."

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Can something as negative as loss also be a positive, transformative experience?
Is it possible that not only individuals but also societies can be developmentally arrested by problematic mourning?
On Deaths and Endings brings together the work of psychoanalytic scholars and practitioners grappling with the manifold issues evoked by loss and finality.
The book covers the impact of endings throughout the life cycle, including effects on children, adolescents, adults, those near death and entire societies. New psychoanalytic perspectives on bereavement are offered based on clinical work, scholarly research and the authors' own, deeply personal experiences. The contributors present compelling, often moving, enquiries into subjects such as the reconfiguration of self-states subsequent to mourning, the role of ritual and memorials, the tragic impact of unmourned loss, modern conceptualisations of the death instinct, and terror-based losses.
In that much psychotherapy is conducted with people who have suffered some form of loss, this book will be an invaluable resource for all mental health professionals. The emphasis on the potential of working through the vicissitudes of these experiences will provide inspiration and hope both to those who have endured personal loss and to anyone working with grieving patients.
Brent Willock is President of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a member of the faculty of the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program and the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology.
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Acetaminophen has been always considered as a safer alternative to Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs), and their use regarding blood pressure and cardiovascular health.
This medication is widely used as first-line therapy for chronic pain because of this perceived safety and the assumption that, unlike NSAIDs, it has little or no effect on the blood pressure (BP).
Now, in a recently published study, researchers from the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland have evaluated the use and safety of acetaminophen in patients with hypertension. The study was published in the journal Circulation.
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The study was a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study in which 110 participants were included and were randomized to receive 1 g of acetaminophen 4 times daily or matched placebo for 2 weeks followed by a 2 week washout period before crossing over to the alternate treatment.
At the start and end of each period, 24-hour ambulatory blood pressures were measured. The primary outcome was the comparison of the change in the mean daytime systolic blood pressure from baseline to the end of the treatment in both arms.
A total of 103 participants completed the study. The researchers found that regular acetaminophen use resulted in a significant increase in mean daytime systolic blood pressure of about 5 mm Hg when compared with placebo, which can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
According to the researchers the blood pressure increase is similar to that observed with NSAIDs and it could be expected to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease by about 20%, which led to the researchers to question the safety of regular acetaminophen use and its possible long term effects.
Dr. Rob Hicks. (2022, Feb 17). El uso prolongado de paracetamol aumenta la presión arterial.. Medscape. Retrieved from:
Iain M. Maclntyre, et al. Regular Acetaminophen Use and Blood Pressure in People With Hypertension: The PATH-BP Trial. Circulation. 2022;145:416–423. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056015

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Once everyone is settled, the event begins. After a brief introduction the series' writers are introduced: Tim Long, Matt Selman and Matt Warburton take the stage. They talk for a few minutes about the experience of writing the original script for the game, close to an hour of original cinematics, and 8,000 lines of dialogue define the game as an extension of the show itself.
After the writers fisnish talking, the demo begins. We see the first glimpse of the game. A level entitled, "Around the World in 80 Bites," showcases Homer as he runs through the Duff Brewery, eating everything from tacos to Chinese takeout. As never before, the game looks like just the show, bringing familiar characters like Barney Gumble and The Bumblebee Man to life.
As the demo concludes, Matt Groening enters the room and speaks enthusiastically about the game alongside the writers. He tells the press about the unique experience of playing an original season of the Simpsons, and the writers speak about the title as a rebirth of Simpsons as an interactive experience. Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, shows up as well to show her support.
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Thanks everyone. The bag says to cook for 1.5 - 2 hours. I did the 1 hour " soak ", now just need to cook them.
12/2/13 11:03 A
I don't know if that's an old wives tale...but waiting has worked for me.
You can also cook then with garlic, onion, celery, rosemary, ham hocks, etc. for the beans to absorb more flavour. The acidity in tomatoes can impede cooking (softening), so add them at the end.
12/2/13 10:24 A
if you add salt too early, it can cause the outer membrane to toughen up. so you don't want to add it until the beans are already softened.
12/2/13 9:54 A
I've always subscribed to the "do not salt until the beans are 3/4 of the way cooked", but there are so many different methods, you need to experiment what works best for you. A slow simmer does work best; beans boiled are beans spoiled.
Some people also suggest salting the water for the overnight soak (if you go that route) to brine them.
This week I am working with dried split peas and dried lentils, but neither of those require soaking.
I have a batch of beans (mixed varieties) I'm planning to precook in my slow cooker. I read somewhere that either adding or not adding salt to the precooking water will make the beans more tender. I wish I could remember which way to go! Does anyone know?
12/1/13 5:51 P
You would need to cook them for probably about an hour (at a simmer, not a boil). It's hard to give an exact time to cook them, as it can be quite variable. Drain off the water, replace with fresh water to cover the beans by an inch or two, bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer, set your timer for 45 minutes. Then test one... is it squishy and soft, easily mashable with a fork? Tastes like a cooked bean? Then it's done. If it's still hard or chalky or raw tasting, leave for another 15 minutes and test again. Repeat until desired level of doneness is reached. Great northerns will be done somewhere between 45 minutes and 90 minutes, most probably. NOW they are ready to be added to your chili or stir fry or salad or whatever.
It's a simple process, but a LONG process. Honestly if I were you, I'd batch-cook these, then freeze whatever you won't be eating over the next couple days into individual serving-sizes for quick-and-easy use later. It's hardly worth taking all that time for just one serving (not to mention not very energy efficient).
do you have any cookbooks? i have a ton of vegetarian cookbooks and all of them have bean cooking charts. when i was learning to cook beans, this was the best place to start as it broke down everything rather neatly. after using that as a guideline, i generally cook beans this way. i dump half a cup into some warm water to cover before i go to work and leave them on the counter. this takes the place of the boil and let sit an hour. the great part about this is that you can wait til the next morning if you need to. either way you choose you drain the water from the first soak. then dump the beans into a pot, cover with water and boil until tender. that is the cook. the bean chart is the best place to start with how long that's going to take, but i find that beans just have a done smell and are tender. it's at this stage that beans are going to be like beans from the can. once you get the hang, this is where you want to freeze the beans or use them as if you had just opened a can. until you get the hang of cooking with beans, don't throw rehydrated but uncooked beans in a recipe that doesn't call for them that way. you want fiber, but not that way. and unless your recipe has a ton of extra water and a really long simmer time your beans will end up uncooked and nearly inedible. the bean chart in the first cookbook i grabbed says that for the actual cooking [not the soak], 1 cup of great northern beans should be places with 3.5 cups of water and should be cooked for 1.5-2 hours. the book has water listed as between 3 and 4 cups and cooking times from 35 minutes to three hours. so great northern need a little more water than some beans and they need to cook for a little longer. i will say that when you cook smaller amounts, the time does go down a little, so start to check the beans at the halfway mark if you aren't using the full cup.
I planned to just use a 1/4 cup dry serving. Along with some vegetables, and 2 chicken thighs. Kind of a stir fry.
After my one hour "rinse ", would I need to cook them for another hour in more water, or can I proceed like I do canned beans, just cook them in the dish I am making? If they need to be cooked MORE separately, what would I cook them in ( water ? ), and how long. I'm guessing until tender, which may necessitate cooking them separately? So it is arbitrary, not a set time?
I was planning to use them to get more fiber, so a serving every day. One 1/4 cup has 15 grams of fiber, which would push my fiber to 27-28 grams a day. I don't think I could handle 30 g of fiber at one setting. Plus this pushes my daily carbs to 80 grams, which is a big step for me.. not ready for 100 yet.
I may cook up a cup at a time, and keep it in the fridge for those 4 days, in 4 small bowls. This is dry weight , which is how it is measured on the label. Hopefully that comes up to about 1/2 a cup cooked for each serving.
Once I get the hang of cooking them, I will see if I can freeze larger quantities for easier meal making.
Canned beans are a lot easier..lol, but I was surprised to see 15 grams of fiber per serving. Is this from not being canned, or just this one kind of bean has more. Canned kidney beans have 7 g of fiber per 1/2 cup, or about half the fiber. The other option is that the label is in error. Hopefully that isn't it.
I never trust labels on beans, popping corn, and pasta---always so confusing.
It depends somewhat on the type bean. An estimate: 1 pound dry = about 2-3 cups dry = 5-7 cups cooked Do you plan to have a 1/2 cup cooked portion or a 1 cup portion? The cooked beans will be good for about 1 week in refrigerator. You can also freeze for months and use in soups, stews, etc. So use that to determine how much to make based on how you plan to use them.
Hope this helps some Becky Your SP Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
12/1/13 1:41 P
Sorting the beans just means taking a look over them and picking out any bad ones. I rarely find anything untoward in my dried beans but... just glance over them and remove any non-bean bits or shrivelled nasty ones, if there are any.
Ok if you boil for 2 minutes and cover for 1 hour - that does NOT cook the beans. This is just a "quick presoaking method" (an alternative is to soak overnight in cold water). The measurement of water in this step is not crucial in any way. The idea is, enough water to cover the beans AND allow for soaking-into-the-beans. As long as your beans are covered by a couple inches of water when you set them to stand, it's fine. And then once this hour has gone by, you drain off that water and proceed to cook the beans (probably another hour of simmering, at a rough guess).
I don't have any comment on the measurements. I usually just try to measure by dry weight, wherever possible.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Lorenzo Alexander admitted that good teams usually finish off games like the one the Bills played Sunday a lot sooner.
It may have taken a longer, but the Bills still found a way to finish off their first 3-0 start since 2011.
Frank Gore scored on a 1-yard run with 1:50 remaining in rallying the Bills to a home-opening 21-17 victory over the winless Cincinnati Bengals.
Tight end Dawson Knox set up the score by bowling over two Bengals for a 49-yard gain. And cornerback Tre’Davious White sealed the win by intercepting Andy Dalton’s tipped pass on third-and-5 from Buffalo’s 28 with 12 seconds remaining.
“It’s really hard to win in this league,” Sean McDermott said. “It’s hard to win when the momentum has changed like it did and we talked about heart. That’s what we talked about. It’s great to have heart, isn’t it? Great to have heart. You win with heart, and I’m proud of those guys, man.”
The Bills squandered a 14-0 lead and were forced to rally back after the Bengals scored 17 points to take the lead on three consecutive possessions.
A Josh Allen interception on a horrible decision with the Bills up 14-0 jumpstarted the Cincy rally.
“There’s a lot of things to learn from, especially in that 3rd quarter. The interception happened, and that’s something that can’t happen,” Allen said. “A lot of things to learn from. At the end of the day, we got the job done and I’m super proud of our guys for how resilient they were and how we fought back and how we played until the final whistle.”
The Bills were extremely high on the crowd. Micah Hyde said he and Jordan Poyer couldn’t hear each other five feet apart.
On the final interception, White said he was in the wrong coverage because he couldn’t hear what to do. Instead, he simply heeded a message he’d heard often from McDermott.
“Micah made a great play by tipping it and tried to tip it to himself,” White said. “I did a good job or running to the ball. That’s something Coach McDermott preaches every day. Run to the ball and good things happen.”
Hyde said both teams were gassed after four quarters in 80-plus degree heat. “I was able to get a hand on it and my dog Tre’Davious came down with it. Just big, man.”
Buffalo improved to 3-0 for only the third time in 26 years. The Bengals fell to 0-3.
Gore also scored on a 1-yard run and finished 76 yards rushing.
Allen finished 23 of 36 for 243 yards with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Knox and the one costly interception, which set up the Bengals’ first touchdown. Allen was nearly picked off two more times and almost lost a fumble before the recovery was ruled out of bounds.
He also led his second fourth quarter comeback of the season–throwing for 56 yards and rushing for 21 more on the go ahead touchdown drive.
“Josh is special and Josh is in the position he’s in for a reason,” Dion Dawkins said. “Our management, our coaches, all of them, they know exactly what they’re doing. They put a “C” on that kid’s chest for a reason and we’re all rolling behind him.”
Buffalo’s defense dominated much of the game, forcing four turnovers. White finished with two interceptions.
Andy Dalton went 20 of 36 for 249 yards and two interceptions.
Dalton and the Bengals’ offense overcame a dreadful start by coming alive midway through the third quarter — and after Cincinnati got the ball on Buffalo’s 22 following Darius Phillips interception.
Dalton scored on a 1-yard run three plays later to cut Buffalo’s lead to 14-7.
On the Bengals’ next possession, Dalton capped an 11-play, 82-yard drive with a 1-yard pass to Joe Mixon.
Cincinnati then went ahead 17-14 when Randy Bullock hit a 43-yard field goal with 4:54 left.
“We’re never panicking,” Lee Smith said. “We work too many situations. There’s too much attention to detail. Sean talks about his process every day. It’s a very clear message. We’re not up and down and emotional and losing our minds. It’s ‘Hey, next play. Next play. Next play. Doesn’t matter if we’re up by 50 or down by 50, it’s next play mentality.”
Alexander said he wasn’t sure if he’s ever been 3-0 in his career. He says the Bills won’t celebrate this win too long. Not with mistakes to address and the mighty Patriots now less than seven days away.
Getting an ugly win over the Bengals might be a great thing for the Bills. They can learn and grow while still winning at the same time.
“It’s not like we were blowing them out by 30. Two touchdowns is not a big lead in this league,” Alexander said. “What we didn’t do is add on to that lead. They made enough plays to get back and then we finished it off.”
And sent a raucous crowd in Orchard Park home happy.
The Bills honored late superfan Ezra “Pancho Billa” Castro during a pregame ceremony. Castro, a mortician from El Paso, Texas, regularly attended Bills games at home on the road, and died in May after a lengthy battle with cancer. Shortly after being diagnosed with cancer, the Bills honored Castro’s wish by bringing him to Dallas to announce their third-round selection of defensive tackle Harrison Phillips at the 2018 NFL draft.
Phillips paid tribute to Castro by wearing a Bills-colored sombrero, which Castro made famous for wearing at games.
Bengals: none reported.
Bills: Starting right guard Jon Feliciano did not return after sustaining a neck injury in the first quarter.
Bengals: prime-time matchup at Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 30.
Bills: host New England Patriots on Sept. 29.


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This week has been rough on everyone. The number of positive coronavirus cases has increased, and sadly, so has the number of people who have passed away during the pandemic. Everyone is on edge and panic is spreading like wildfire. The Egyptian government has been pleading citizens for months to be cautious and it seems that the next step is co-existing with the virus, whether we like it or not.
During an interview with Sherif Amer, the Minister of Social Solidarity, Nivine El-Qabbage, stated that special needs nurseries will operate with the implementation of extreme precautionary measures. Mothers should expect all nurseries to be fully operating within the next two weeks. However, if the coronavirus situation does not improve until then, the decision will be postponed. El-Qabbage further explained that Egypt is closely monitoring other countries’ experiences with the lockdown and co-existing with the virus for guidance.
Many mothers will definitely be obliged to send their children back to nurseries. Some of these ladies are the sole providers of their families and losing their jobs is not an option. We kindly expect women to be kind to one another and refrain from judging and shaming those who cannot keep their children home.
Stay safe everyone.
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|Born:||Nancy Jean Cartwright|
October 25, 1957
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Nancy Jean Cartwright (born October 25, 1957; age 62) portrayed Jeannie Tyler, Morris O'Brian's former Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor during Season 6 of 24. She is most famous for portraying the voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons since 1987, a role she won an Emmy Award for in 1992. Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub guest starred on an episode of The Simpsons called "24 Minutes," which parodied 24.
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Nancy Cartwright was born in Dayton, Ohio, but grew up in the nearby town of Kettering. She has six siblings. From an early age, she discovered her talent for voice acting, and won a speech competition in fourth grade for her performance of Rudyard Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump. Cartwright attended Fairmont West High School, and was part of the school's theater and marching band.
After graduating from high school in 1976, Cartwright attended Ohio University. At the same time, she landed a part-time job doing voice-overs for commercials on local radio. A representative from Warner Bros. Records heard her, and put her in contact with people in the animation industry. One of them was Daws Butler, who voiced characters like Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, and Yogi Bear. Cartwright and Butler met, and he agreed to be her mentor.
Cartwright later transferred to UCLA to be closer to Hollywood and Butler. While training with Butler, Cartwright started working officially as a voice actress. During her early years, she worked in shows like Ri¢hie Ri¢h, My Little Pony, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Pound Puppies. In 1987, she went to audition for the role of Lisa Simpson, but decided to audition for the role of Bart instead after reading his description. Creator Matt Groening gave her the role on the spot.
Aside from The Simpsons, Cartwright has worked on countless of TV shows like Animaniacs, Rugrats, and The Critic. She also had a brief role on the 1998 live-film Godzilla, along with Doug Savant, Glenn Morshower, Burt Bulos, Al Sapienza, and Al Leong.

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Dana C. Peters is Associate Professor (with Tenure) in Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale and responsible for body and cardiac MR at the Magnetic Resonance Research Center, with a secondary appointment in Biomedical Engineering.
She received her undergraduate degree in Physics at the Johns Hopkins University, her PhD in Physics at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she first demonstrated the utility of undersampled radial imaging. Her postdoc was at NIH, NHLBI, working in the laboratory of cardiac energetics. Since then, she was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Havard Medical School, working at the BIDMC Cardiac MR Center. Her expertise is in cardiovascular MR, obtained during the last decade years working with cardiologists to improve detection of heart disease. This work has led to new frontiers in the application MRI in electrophysiology, through demonstrating that scar can be visualized in the left atrium, due to RF ablation, or due to structural remodeling pre-ablation.
Continuing in these directions, the cardiac MR group develops new MRI tools for evaluating cardiac function, strain, flow, pressure, and tissue characterizations, with research to investigate the arrhythmic substrate in the left atrium in patients with atrial fibrillation, or who are likely to develop atrial fibrillation. She has also worked to develop new MRI methods to characterize liver disease.
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- PhDUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON (2000)
- BSJohns Hopkins University, Physics
- Assistant ProfessorHarvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess


The Wisconsin State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 189, led by State Rep. Scott Allen, (R-Waukesha), on Tuesday, sending it to Gov. Tony Evers for signing.
The bill is intended to streamline credit transfer between the University of Wisconsin system, Wisconsin technical colleges, private colleges and universities, and tribal schools. Currently there are two credit transfer models that the bill is looking to address: The course-to-course model, which allowed students transfer up to 30 credit hours depending on course guidelines, and the program-to-program model, which allowed for transferring the entirety of learning outcomes.
The Alliance’s Education Policy Committee publicly supported the bill via letters of support to legislators and committee chairs, and in-person testimony during a public hearing in Madison. Click here to review the bill.
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Prairie Creek Redwoods Big Loop is a 4.9 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located near Orick, California that offers the chance to see wildlife and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round.
I like Big Trees, especially Rhody and Foothill is ok but Prairie Creek Trail for me is the parks worst. I will only be on it when I need to use it as a connector to other trails close by.
Nice easy trail that parallels the parkway so there is occasional car noise. There are several other entrances and passes the Big Tree. Can be part of several loop hikes.


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Bollywood has lost two legendary actors, Irfan Khan, & Rishi Kapoor, and the news left everyone amazed. All the celebrities across the globe pay tribute to the late stars. While veteran Bollywood actress, Karishma Kapoor pays tribute to his late uncle, Rishi Kapoor.
Rishi Kapoor, who passed away on Thursday morning at the age of 67 due to cancer. All his heartbroken fans expressed their grief over the death news of a veteran actor. Social media has flooded with heartwrenching posts after the loss of two legendary icons of the Bollywood film industry.
All their fans, friends, fellow stars including celebrities around the world poured condolences for their departure. This is indeed a big loss for their families and cinematic arts.
While Karishma Kapoor expressed her sorrow over the death news of his beloved late uncle Rishi Kapoor. The actress took to her Instagram and shared a throwback photo in the memory of late star. Also, she penned a heartfelt caption for uncle Rishi.
Karishma Kapoor pays tribute to his late uncle, Rishi Kapoor. Check out her post!


Sandhya Roy is perhaps one of the most under-rated actresses in Bengali cinema in spite of having given some truly memorable performances from the end 1950s to the early ’80s. She began acting in an era when acting schools were still non-existent and directors were the only guiding factors. It was also, fortunately, a time when one did not need to show skin or do item numbers to keep afloat. Those were the days when Bengali cinema drew generously from the huge melting pot of Bengali literature and Roy was not only one of its fortunate beneficiaries, but also a rich contributor, who almost always vested her characters with a spirit of their own.
Roy’s entry into films happened purely by accident. Born in 1945 (?) and orphaned by the time she was nine, she had to leave her schooling and shift to Kolkata to live with her elder sister and brother-in-law. In Kolkata, she had gone to Radha Studio to watch the shooting of Mamlar Phol (1957) when she was around eleven. A crowd scene was being shot that day and director Pashupati Chatterjee asked her to feature as one in the crowd – as an ‘extra.’ She did not even understand the word but she was in the film. Noted filmmaker Rajen Tarafdar then offered her a role in his Antariksha on a princely honorarium of Rs 150 perday. This was followed by films like Nagini Kanyar Kahini (1958), Brindabon Leela (1958), Ganga (1959) and many more box office successes that established her in a niche of her own. In particular, Roy’s riveting performance in Tarafdar’s Ganga is a milestone in her career. The film was based on a path-breaking novel by Samaresh Bose with Roy playing Gamli Panchi, a young girl who is infatuated with a man, Bilas, who does not love her back. With Ganga, Roy became the sweetheart of every Bengali filmgoer of the time investing her portrayal with an infectious charm that followed in most of her films.
The other big turning point in Roy’s career came with Maya Mriga (1960). The film is a family melodrama directed by Chitta Bose with a screenplay by Moni Burma that was adapted from a story by Nihar Ranjan Gupta. The film pairs Roy with a dashing young actor, Biswajeet, the popular pairing sticking together over the next decade. The film is counted among the 100 biggest hits in the history of Bengali cinema with an an ensemble cast that featured some of the biggest stars of the Bengali film industry at that time – Uttam Kumar, Bikash Roy, Sandhya Rani, Sunanda Bannerjee and others. But even in that formidable crowd of actors, the romantic scenes of Biswajeet and Sandhya Roy stand out as highlights of the film.
Roy’s career is dotted with unforgettable roles in memorable films where she broke the stereotype within what deceptively appeared to be conventional. The best among her films are those directed by Tarun Majumdar, who she married in 1967, though they later went their own separate ways. Roy, being a very private person, never went public about her personal life. Some of the outstanding roles of her career are in Palatak (1963), Suryatapa (1965), Monihar (1966), Baghini (1968), Nimantran (1971), Kuheli (1971), Thagini (1974), Phuleshwari (1974), Sansar Seemantey (1975), Ganadevata (1978) and many others that remain archived in the history of Bengali cinema.
Roy stole the hearts of the audience as Chhutki in Satyajit Ray’s Ashani Sanket (1973), as a young wife in the village whose husband is not around. Unable to bear the pangs of hunger when a man-made famine strikes the village, she surrenders to a trafficker for food and migrates to the city. Roy perfectly brought out the pathos of the character that offers a counterpoint to the priest’s wife, Ananga, who persuades her not to go away, in vain.
Roy’s career resume comprising around 400 films covers every genre one can imagine from thrillers (Kuheli), literature-centred adaptations (Nimantran, Ganadevata, Deeper Naam Tiyarong), musicals (Amargeeti (1983), Khanaa and Monihar), light romance (Ektuku Basha (1965)), costume dramas (Jhinder Bandi (1961) frothy comedies (Bhranti Bilash (1963)) and mythologicals (Baba Taraknath (1977), Harishchandra Shaibya). Even during her peak years, she had no compunctions about doing character roles and supporting characters. Among these are films like Balika Badhu (1967), Palatak, Teen Adhyay (1968), and Sriman Prithviraj (1973). The range of characters she portrayed is endless though people tend to label her as perfect only for village backdrops. In Sansar Seemantey, she portrayed a cheap prostitute living in a red-light area in Kolkata opposite Soumitra Chatterjee, a thief. In Kuheli, she plays the the ghost-wife of a zamindar who haunts the mansion and tries to mesmerize the daughter. In Suryatapa, the original Bengali version of Shakti Samanta’s Kati Patang, she portrays a woman forced to step into the role of a young widow with a child to restore the child to the family it belongs to. In Thagini, she played a young girl trapped in her father’s fraudulent manner of trapping young men to marry his daughter and then running away on the wedding night with all the gold. Trouble brews when she falls in love with the man she marries the last time. In Baghini, Sandhya Roy gave a brilliant performance as a young woman who is involved in a bootlegging racket and brews the liquor in her own home with her sisters. She kills a young man who tries to rape her and confesses to her crime.
Roy worked with practically every leading man of Tollygunge during her time beginning with strong and successful pairings with Biswajeet and Anup Kumar and followed by a string of outstanding actors like Soumitra Chatterjee, Uttam Kumar, Samit Bhanja and many more. She retired from the big screen once her days as a leading lady came to an end and was seen later in senior character roles in films like Debipakshya (2004), Nabab Nandini (2007), Maa Amar Maa (2009) and Aarohan (2010). Her trump card lay in her typically Bengali looks that fit into the mould of the simple Bengali girl with a rounded face, lovely smile, petite frame and naïve demeanour. She could chop and change her appearance and her style according to the demands of the role set against a rural or an urban backdrop.
Roy also worked in some Hindi films such as Asli Naqli (1962) directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Tarun Majumdar’s Rahgir (1969), the Hindi version of his runaway Bengali hit Palatak, Shakti Samanta’s Jane Anjane (1971), and AVM’s Pooja Ke Phool (1964).
Roy won the Best Actress Award for her work Nimantran and Sansar Seemante, besides the Best Supporting Actress Award for Teen Adhyay, all from the BFJA. In 2012, The West Bengal Government bestowed upon her the special Chalachitra Award.
It is one of the tragedies of the Bengali film world that one of its finest performers, Sandhya Roy, is today living a life of forced retirement with little work coming her way.


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We interviewed a professional theatre designer who worked in theatre, film and television since 1990.
What attracted you to production design?
I fell in love with theatre design when I saw my first production and when I knew I had a natural ability with art.
What problems did u encounter?
It’s a highly competitive industry, you have to be really skilled and have ambition to succeed. You work on a free lanced self employed basis and have to be highly disciplined with your cash flow.
What qualifications have you achieved?
Art and design, also interested in history and 3D design, I did a bachelors degree in theatre design and then a masters in Film and TV. Overall it took me six years to achieve all my qualifications.
How is the pay as a production designer?
The pay is very good in Film and Television especially commercial work. In commercial work the designer can get in excess of £500 a day. It is a freelance job so you only get paid when you work.
How do you deal with finding work?
You can hire a agent and they will look for work and organise things for you but they will take a certain percentage of your fee. You should also network with other people in the industry this will help you incase any of them have a job opening.
What do you like and dislike about being a production designer?
It is varied and extremely creative and the pay is good, also a lot of travelling. The challenging things are a very high level of responsibility and stress, dealing with tight budgets and deadlines.
What is it like showing your work to the audience?
You have to make sure your work is scene by the whole audience in the theatre. It is very exciting especially when you get a positive audience reaction. You realise you have a significant impact on how much the audience enjoys and understands the performance. It’s demanding a full time commitment.
What is the most important skill?
Visual and communication skills are vital as you need to communicate with a wide audience.
Have you ever had a bad review?
Yes but only once, a member of the audience complained about not being able to view my production properly because of the stage setting.


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As 2018 inches towards a close, we’d like to extend our sincere gratitude to each and every volunteer who has joined us in the library’s mission to serve our community. If space allowed, we would happily list the name of all 250+ volunteers, from youngsters to retirees and everyone in between. Continue reading Volunteer Gratitude
Thank you to all our wonderful teen volunteers who helped us all this summer! We had over 45 teens who made life so much easier with Summer Reading, Reading Buddies, Studio 775 Makerspace, Storytimes, and other library related projects. Continue reading Thank You Summer Teen Volunteers
The Teen Collection Connection volunteers created some awesome collages about what the library, the community, and being a teen means to them. Check out their artwork below or stop by the Teen Zone to see it.
What is the TCC? TCC is a volunteer group of teens that love to read and discuss books, movies, and music. Every month they get together to pick books for our teen collection and write short book reviews. Want to join? Then apply today!
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I never install a CD/DVD device in this mainboard, and I can't update the BIOS, because I can't boot from a flash drive, even though everything is set to boot from the flash drive in the BIOS
Your board does have recovery mode.
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Again, what bios DID the board have, and what bios do you have on you usb stick? This is very important!
Also, for boards this old, make sure that you are: (a) NOT using a USB 3.0 flash drive and (b) NOT using a USB 2.0 flash drive larger that 8GB.


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CHENNAI, INDIA: Networking company Dax Networks today announced the extension of its hands-on technical training program on routing, cabling and switching to 25 cities in the country.
Dax has been running the technical training program every month for more than four years in Chennai. Over 1,500 engineers across India have been trained during this period.
Dax has also conducted this programme in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata and Ahmedabad.
This year, Dax’s program will have a two-day hands-on technical training program and a half-day sales orientation program on Dax networking solutions.
“By reaching out to 25 cities this year, we are happy to contribute to India’s connectivity infrastructure,” said Sudha Jagadish, COO, Dax Networks.
As part of its 25-city plan, Dax has conducted its training program in Coimbatore, Bhubaneshwar and Dehradun.