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Fiona is here today from Celtic Thistle Stitches. I'm always so happy to feature a quilter from places I would love to visit but may never have the chance.
I am a Scot married to an Irishman, who until recently worked for an Irish company, so nearly everyone we met through my husband's work assumed straight off that I was Irish too. It was bad enough when we lived in England but at least most people realised their mistake as soon as they heard my accent, but when we moved abroad a few years ago my attempts to convince anyone that being Scottish was not the same as being Irish fell on deaf ears. So when I started my blog whilst I was living in Riga in Latvia, I was determined to ensure that my Scottish background would be to the fore.
Celtic Thistle fitted the bill perfectly; it is Scottish without being too twee and I added the stitches because I dabble in lots of things and stitches seemed to cover most of them.
I really can't remember the other names I considered although I do remember having a blank sheet in front of me and listing a number of possible names. Obviously none of them were particularly catchy or I would have remembered them!
Now that you are recognized by Celtic Thistle Stitches, are you happy with it, or do you wish you could change it to something else?
I am really happy with my blog name, most people including me, forget the stitches bit so I could probably have missed that off but it feels a bit like my Sunday name, which is what we call it in our family when someone is referred to by their full name! For my sons it generally means they are in trouble but fortunately I haven't had to face that with my blog name so far :) So I think I will hang on to my Stitches for now.
Thanks, Fiona, for playing along this week.
Please stop by at Celtic Thistle Stitches and say hi to Fiona, and while you are there spend some time looking around.
It was so nice to meet Fiona and see some of her wonderful work. I love the doll quilt and that wonderful log cabin!
Park your keys here tray is so clever - we could use it around our house!
Yay! Another wonderful Name Game post!! Keep them coming. Fiona's creations are fabulous! I love that pillow.
I've only fallen for one prank - years ago when living in Vancouver, the radio station announced that the President's jet had to make an emergency stop over at Vancouver airport to refuel, etc. They even gave the time, etc of arrival and so I booted down in my little car to the cool viewing area in a field by the airport to see the majestic plane arrive. On my way, they announced it as an April Fools joke. I was so disappointed!!
Well Fiona, you know I'm a fan already!! It's always fun to read how blogs got their name!
Very fun to hear a bit more about Fiona!


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On this page, you will find information about the climate and the best time to visit Papua New Guinea. We created climate tables and charts for the locations of Port Moresby und Madang. These contain details about temperatures, precipitation and more.
Furthermore, we analyzed all climate data and provide a recommendation about which months are best to visit Papua New Guinea for your holiday.
4. When to travel to Papua New Guinea?
Papua New Guinea is the third largest island state in the world in terms of area and has about 7.5 million inhabitants.
Geographically it belongs to Australia and is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Papua New Guinea consists of the eastern half of the island New Guinea (the west belongs to Indonesia) as well as several offshore island groups.
The landscape is very mountainous, highest point of the country is Mount Wilhelm with about 4500 meters height. Papua New Guinea has a very diverse landscape. The mountains are characterised by great differences in altitude, there are valleys, glaciers, volcanoes, forests and rainforests.
The regions between the mountains and the coast are extremely fertile. On the north coast of the island of New Guinea there are large coral reefs and a breathtaking underwater world.
Together with other islands such as the Mariana Islands and Palau, the country formed a colony of the German Empire (German New Guinea) until the end of the First World War. However, the official German language was quickly replaced by Australia, and today English is the official language in Papua New Guinea.
Travel to Papua New Guinea is generally by Air Niugini from Australia, Singapore or Bangkok.
A tropical, humid and hot climate prevails on the coasts of Papua New Guinea. The hottest months are December and January with peaks of up to 39 °C. In the mountains of the island the temperatures are noticeably lower than on the coasts. The climate changes from an altitude of about 1500 meters from the tropical to the temperate climate and at night it can even come to frost in the high altitudes.
An alpine climate begins at an altitude of over 2,000 metres, with snow on some of the peaks of the mountains in Papua New Guinea all year round. Generally there is much higher rainfall on the islands from December to April, spring is considered the main rainy season. From May, the rainfall will decrease significantly, in the south of the country it will remain particularly dry between the end of May and November.
When to travel to Papua New Guinea?
The best time to travel to the island state of Papua New Guinea is the dry season between May and mid-November, with the travel season between June and September providing ideal travel conditions for the whole country.
Especially at the southern coast it is very sunny, there is little precipitation and the temperatures are mostly around 26 °C.
A trip between December and April is generally not recommended, as tropical cyclones can occur in addition to torrential rainfall and roads that are difficult to pass.
Find the best time to visit the regions (Papua New Guinea) in the following overview.
In the following, you will find some climate tables for Papua New Guinea, containing information about Temperatures, Precipitation, Water Temperatures, and Hours of Sunshine.
The annual average temperature in Port Moresby is 26.9 °C.
The maximum water temperature in Port Moresby is 29 °C. You can take a bath at these temperatures.
You cannot expect snow in any month in Port Moresby.
As our climate table shows, November is the sunniest month with an average of 8.1 hours of sunshine per day. Over the year, there are 6.8 hours of sunshine per day on average. For comparison: London has 4.1, NYC has 7 and LA has 8.9 hours of sunshine per day on average.
The annual average temperature in Madang is 26.5 °C.
The maximum water temperature in Madang is 30 °C. You can take a bath at these temperatures.
You cannot expect snow in any month in Madang.
As our climate table shows, September is the sunniest month with an average of 7.6 hours of sunshine per day. Over the year, there are 6 hours of sunshine per day on average.
Recommended highlights in Papua New Guinea are for example the Kokoda Trail, a trekking route with historical background and exciting impressions. A visit to Kitava Island and diving in Skull Cave on Dioni Island are further sights of the country. Port Moresby is home to the National Parliament House, Port Moresby Nature Park and various art, cultural and historical museums.
Other highlights are the Bomana War Cemetery, the National Orchid Garden and the Adventure Park PNG. The typical way of travelling, however, is adventure and discovery trips with passages through the rainforest and encounters with the primitive peoples, past thunderous waterfalls amidst breathtaking flora and fauna. Due to the high crime rate, guided tours with experienced tour guides are recommended.
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Muhammad Ali was a local legend in southwest MI. The former heavyweight champion moved to Berrien Springs, MI towards the end of his boxing career in 1975. He owned an 85 Acre estate on just under a mile of the St. Joseph river. I currently live about 7 miles from the Ali home. When I was a kid, I think I may have been in first grade, maybe second, around 1992, Muhammad Ali came to our school during a large assembly for the dedication of the new gym that was built for our school district. He talked and joked around with the kids and signed a couple boxing gloves that were given out to a student who won them in a drawing. Why did Muhammad Ali choose to live in a small farming community of under 2,000 people far away from the big cities that most celebrities choose to live in?
Why Did Muhammad Ali Live in Southwest Michigan?
When looking at real estate, your money goes a LOT further in the Midwest. farming acreage tends to go for around $3,000 per acre. Although there is a premium to be paid for riverfront property, the premium was much lower in the 70s. It is believed that Ali originally paid $400,000 for the property. The St. Joseph river is no Lake Michigan, but the peninsula that Ali’s home is on provides privacy, water access, and stunning views. In 2003 Ali listed his home here in southwest MI for sale and started working on moving to Arizona to help with his Parkinson’s disease. He listed his property for $3.2 Million. According to current property records in our county the home is still owned by his wife.
In an attempt to verify the original purchase price of the Ali home I looked up the deed in our county records. Unfortunately, the deed has the purchase price listed as one dollar, so this was no help. I then searched for the names of the people he purchased the property from and found this newspaper article from 1975 confirming the $400,000 figure. $400,000 in 1975 adjusted for inflation would be $1,778,892.
The St. Joseph river is approx. 206 miles long and drains into Lake Michigan in St. Joseph, about 7 miles from Ali’s home. The river’s average width is around 300′. Michigan has beautiful summers and falls, and the sunsets over Lake Michigan can’t be beat. Some of the best fruit grown in the world comes from Berrien County, MI, and property prices are fairly inexpensive. If it wasn’t for our harsh Winters, southwest MI would be one of the most ideal places in the world to live.
The 3 lots the Ali’s own have a total 2016 assessed value of $1,150,100. In Michigan the assessed value is half of the presumed market value, meaning the local assessor believes the property to be worth around $2.3 Million. Because of the limitation of Prop A, which limits yearly property tax increases to 5% or the rate of inflation, the Ali homestead has a total taxable value of $809,754. With a local millage rate for Oronoko township of 24.76 the Ali’s tax bill for this year would be $20,500 if it were their primary residence. Since they moved to Arizona, it is most likely not homesteaded, which would then add another 18 mills to their property taxes, bringing their yearly total to $34,650. For someone reported to be earning $4 million to $7 million per year, the property tax expenses for this property are very low.
This is a very nice property, but not what you would expect from a celebrity of his status. His home would look very modest compared to the athlete’s homes we saw on the MTV show Cribs. By living in a low cost area he enjoyed a very nice secluded property, which afforded him a private life and the yearly fixed costs of it are much lower than what a higher cost home would be. Even though Ali was one of the biggest celebrities in American history, he was able to live a normal life here. After a while when everyone in a small town knows you, it is easy to live a normal life. In a larger city, I don’t think he would have had that option.
I came across this article from 2007 when the Ali’s were moving to Arizona. The article shows some of the work they did to support our community.
In reading articles about Ali in order to write this post one of my favorite quotes was published by our local radio host.
Muhammad Ali demonstrated as much strength battling a debilitating disease as he did battling opponents in the ring.
Keep in mind just because a fighter won that much money, doesn’t mean he gets to keep it. Adjusted for inflation, it looks like his highest payday was the 1975 Thrilla in Mannila fight, which would today be worth around $35 million. Boxers also pay a large cut to their managers and promoters. It’s highly likely that after paying those people and his taxes Ali walked away with somewhere around 25% of his winnings.
I found a full list of prize fight money on an old message board, but I could not double verify its authenticity. The numbers appear to match up with the above totals I found in newspaper archives and clippings.
I was unable to find exact figures on how much money Ali makes (or has made) from each individual deal.
In the 1970’s Ali starred in a couple movies and made a few TV appearances. His two movies were the autobiographical The Greatest in 1977, and Freedom Road in 1979.
Muhammad Ali received royalties from several books he has co-written or written, including his autobiography, The Greatest: My Own Story .
Ali also gave paid speeches for a while, his profile is still on AthleteSpeakers.com advertising rates in excess of $100,000, the highest tier they have for speakers. Both his high celebrity status and his low frequency of speaking appearances help to increase the going rate. Both public speaking and endorsement deals were I’m sure hampered by his illness. I think if Ali had been in great health for the last 30 years he would have made a ton more money.
While publicly refusing to be drafted to the Vietnam War Muhammad Ali was banned from boxing and stripped of his titles. The ban lasted for 3 and a half years in the prime of Ali’s boxing career. During this time period the prize fighter still need to earn some income. What would you do if suddenly your main stream of income dried up? Muhammad Ali gave speeches at colleges and even performed in a short lived Broadway musical. The really surprising source of income during these times was from Joe Frazier. Joe Frazier reportedly gave Ali financial help during this time period in addition to his help in publicly advocating for his reinstatement to boxing, despite their rivalry.
Muhammad Ali is reported to be worth between $50 million and $100 million. His endorsement and licensing deal net between $4 million and 7 million per year. This does not include his 2015 deal with Under Armour. Ali managed all of his revenue from the use of his name, likeness, and trademarks through his company GOAT Inc., which was an abbreviation for ‘The Greatest Of All Time’. In 2006 Ali earned $50 million by selling 80% of GOAT Inc. to CKX. As with most celebrities tracking down their true net worth is fairly difficult because it is all private money. With CEOs and business owners it is much easier because the vast majority of their wealth is in publicly traded stocks and the amount of stock they own is a matter of public record.
Muhammad Ali has struggled with Parkinson’s disease for over 30 years. He has been married 4 times and has several children. Although it is still too soon to know, I am hopeful that Ali did proper planning and that there is a will to guide what happens with all his wealth. It is also important that while we are living to sit down and let everyone know what they are getting and the rationale behind it. Such planning is the best gift any of us can give to our loved ones. It’s amazing to see how bitter and angry people get over even small amounts of money multiple parties feel entitled to when someone passes, I can’t imagine how bad they get when there are millions of dollars at stake. Multiple news articles are already anticipating a fight over his estate.
If you were worth $100 million and world famous, what type of home would you own and where would you live?
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If I had that money and that fame, I would buy a house in my girlfriend’s hometown with enough acreage to support her extended family with some out-buildings.
I hear ya! It’s unreal how much he made for that one fight. I bet if they decide to do a rematch he will make even more.

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DOVIZIOSO: AFTER WRC RIDE, MotoGP IS NOTHING!
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DUCATI Corse MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso is no stranger to speed and excitement, but even he was blown away by a ride alongside World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier this week in the lead-up to Rally Italia Sardegna.
“You have no idea of how extreme it is, how fast they go in the narrow roads and how powerful these cars are,” an excited Dovizioso exclaimed later.
Ogier had been on Sardinia testing with the Polo R WRC before the start of this weekend’s sixth round of the WRC. Dovizioso is currently third in the MotoGP driver standings for Ducati Corse.
Ducati is part of the Volkswagen Group, so in effect both he and Ogier have the same employer.
Replacing Julien Ingrassia in the co-driver seat, Dovizioso got his thrills as Ogier cranked the Polo up to race speed on the gravel roads around Olbia in the northeast of Sardinia.
Divizioso is not the first MotoGP star to experience WRC. World Champion Valentino Rossi is a renowned rally fan and since 1998 has competed in a string of Subaru, Ford and Toyota WRC cars.

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It’s hard sometimes to not be afraid.
But it’s much harder to always live in fear. Faith means to believe something is true, sometimes without any proof at all. Have faith in yourself and the proof will follow.

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Nubia enjoys traveling, hiking and spending time with her husband and family. Go Dodgers!

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I can best minimize these costs by striking first and killing you at the first opportunity. When such theorists say that agents act so as to maximize their utility, they want this to be part of the definition of what it is to be an agent, not an empirical claim about possible inner states and motivations.
For reasons to be discussed later, limitations in their mathematical framework initially made the theory applicable only under special and limited conditions. I do have some concerns about how some of these things work out; not evolved past all those attachments just yet. Non-psychological and behavioral game theory have in common that neither is intended to be normative—though both are often used to try to describe norms that prevail in groups of players, as well to explain why norms might persist in groups of players even when they appear to be less than fully rational to philosophical intuitions.
Consider a person who adores the taste of pickles but dislikes onions. We can represent the problem faced by both of them on a single matrix that captures the way in which their separate choices interact; this is the strategic form of their game: I stopped caring today because a once noble profession has become despised, hated, distrusted, and mostly unwanted.
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Understand the context of mass immigration of Italians to New York in the s. Other feminist psychoanalysts and feminist theorists whose contributions have enriched the field through an engagement with psychoanalysis are Jessica Benjamin Jacqueline Rose Ranjana Khanna and Shoshana Felman.
Once we decide to treat rationality as a technical concept, each time we adjust the axioms we effectively modify the concept. Carolyn Steedman on Unsettling History: Figure 9 This game is not intended to fit any preconceived situation; it is simply a mathematical object in search of an application.
These will contest our conception of a macro claim.
Long before game theory had come along to show analysts how to think about this sort of problem systematically, it had occurred to some actual military leaders and influenced their strategies.
So perhaps you must take your chances with the cobras; that is what she must least expect. This is a persuasive solution concept because, again unlike the refinements of Section 2. The interest of philosophers in game theory is more often motivated by this ambition than is that of the economist or other scientist.
One major psychological theory, relational-cultural theoryis based on the work of Jean Baker Millerwhose book Toward a New Psychology of Women proposes that "growth-fostering relationships are a central human necessity and that disconnections are the source of psychological problems".
Suppose first that you wish to cross a river that is spanned by three bridges. This will often not be true of other games, however.
We can draw trees from the top of the page to the bottom, or from left to right. This is a doctrine of a preexistent being assuming a human body, but not being fully transformed into a man, just looking like one".
We should perhaps not be surprised that NE analysis alone often fails to tell us much of applied, empirical interest about strategic-form games e. That also includes the political and technical, especially as relates to health care.
Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Myth in History, Philosophy of History as Myth: As previously noted, games of perfect information are the logically simplest sorts of games.
In general, a strategic-form game could represent any one of several extensive-form games, so a strategic-form game is best thought of as being a set of extensive-form games. Includes extensive contextual links to other Arthur Miller works.The table below presents an abbreviated geologic time scale, with times and events germane to this essay.
Please refer to a complete geologic time scale when this one seems inadequate. Literature Guides - A View From The Bridge. This Web page has been designed to assist students to: Compare and contrast the life described in Italy and the promise of the American Dream. By Lt Daniel Furseth.
Today, I stopped caring about my fellow man. I stopped caring about my community, my neighbors, and those I serve. I stopped caring today because a once noble profession has become despised, hated, distrusted, and mostly unwanted. FAITH | LEARNING | COMMUNITY.
In Between Facts and Norms, Jürgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in This new work is a major contribution to recent debates on the rule of law and.


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catalog at the back of that same book might be one from 1937.
So my question is: How reliable is the catalog at the back of the book?
when they were completely unreliable?


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On May 14, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou fulfilled a campaign pledge by signing the ratification instruments of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The legislature had, shortly before, incorporated the content of the two covenants into Taiwan’s domestic law. These significant acts deserve greater appreciation than they have received.
Mr Ma’s predecessor, Chen Shui-bian, and his Democratic Progressive Party had several times tried to ratify the covenants, but Kuomintang legislators had refused to co-operate. Their rejection reflected, at least in part, a fear that the Chen administration would invoke the two covenants’ endorsement of the right of self-determination to support a referendum on Taiwan’s independence, thereby creating a crisis with the mainland. That fear dissipated once Mr Ma and the KMT took charge and relaxed cross-strait tensions. This cleared the way for approving both covenants and focusing attention on their protection of the rights of individuals.
In 1967, the Republic of China had been among the first signers of the covenants. That was part of Chiang Kai-shek’s attempt to convince the world that his dictatorial regime in Taiwan was actually “Free China”, in contrast to Mao Zedong’s China, which was then convulsed by the Cultural Revolution. The ROC failed to ratify either covenant before its loss of China’s seat in the United Nations in 1971. Since then, Taiwan’s government has been excluded from UN human rights arrangements, although this does not preclude it from implementing their content.
Of course, it was total hypocrisy for the brutal KMT of the Chiang era to sign onto ICCPR human rights standards. But the end of martial law in 1987 initiated the long and still unfinished struggle for legislative and administrative reforms. Because of this impressive progress, Taiwan’s implementation of the ICCPR does not confront the huge obstacles that discourage Beijing from ratifying the ICCPR, which it signed in 1998. Although the mainland ratified the ICESCR in 2001 and its recent Human Rights Action Plan lists ICCPR ratification as one of its goals for this year or next, its leaders merely speak of working “to create the conditions” for ratification.
To be sure, implementation requires Taiwan to address many detailed issues. The most immediate and difficult concern is criminal justice, particularly the right of a suspect or defendant to be released from detention pending conclusion of his trial and the related right to freely consult defence counsel. The ongoing prosecution of former president Chen has brought both these basic rights into the spotlight.
The relevant provisions of the ICCPR are deceptively simple. Pre-trial detention must be the exception, not the rule. Every accused must have adequate time to prepare his defence, consult counsel and interview witnesses. Even the UN Human Rights Committee, the ICCPR’s monitoring body, does not offer clear-cut interpretations. Yet these principles reinforce the push for reform.
Meaningful implementation requires not only detailed revision of many laws and regulations but also training for officials, education for the public, a time frame and benchmarks for evaluating progress, and an impartial monitoring body.
The Ministry of Justice, many other agencies, the bar associations, scholarly organisations, the Judicial Reform Foundation and other civic and human rights groups must work with the legislature to make the most of the two years the legislature has given them to apply the ICCPR to contemporary, democratic Taiwan. Perhaps their example will stimulate the mainland to follow.
This article is published in the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) for May 28, 2009.

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The incredible amenities alone will make this exquisite Manson vacation rental a destination spot to add to the rotation, but add in the incredible lake views and perfect location, and you've got the best home for your family reunion.
Back and forth from the lake to home for a home-cooked meal, and then back to the lake is likely to be your routine when you stay here. Although there are numerous attractions and shops nearby, everyone will easily stay entertained with the expansive yard for lawn games and picnic, the pool and hot tub, the basketball court, and the indoor game room with a pool and Foosball table. Spend true quality time together in this peaceful lake home.
You'll have tile and wood floors, two full (and gorgeous) kitchens, and enough space for privacy, while still being in the same vicinity, you'll feel right at home in this Willow Point home. There are four bedrooms, including a loft with bunk beds for the kids and a seating area with an exercise machine and beautiful views of the lake.
Light the fireplace and cozy up on the sectional or either of the two armchairs in the living room. Have a family movie night on the large flatscreen TV, or read a book while enjoying stunning lake and mountain views through the expansive windows.
The main (middle) level has a gourmet kitchen, complete with major appliances, lots of counter space, a microwave, dishwasher, and coffeemaker. There is also a second full kitchen located on the lower level that also has all of these great amenities. Guests have a place to sit at the two dining room tables, or you could take your meal outside to grill up hamburgers and sit on the patio chairs.
With so many sleeping options, you won't have anyone fighting over beds - this home can sleep up to 10 guests. In the main home, the loft has a set of queen-size bunk beds, and two other rooms feature single queen beds. The master bedroom is a retreat within itself, featuring a king-size bed, a double-sided fireplace, access to a private balcony, and a relaxing jetted tub right in the bedroom.
Two and a half more bathrooms are available throughout this home for everyone's convenience, as is a washer and dryer! WiFi is even included so you can post epic photos of your dream lake getaway for family and friends to gawk at.
Sip your morning coffee out on the huge deck overlooking the lake before heading out yourself to ski and wakeboard. Take a tour of nearby wineries (like Tildio Winery), hike through the gorgeous green mountains, and take a bike tour in Chelan. White water raft, rent boats, fishing, gear, and jet skis, or visit Slidewaters in Chelan for thrilling rides.
Year-round fun can be found with Mission Ridge less than 60 miles away and Echo Valley Ski & Tube just nine miles away.
Whether you're playing on the lake or admiring its beauty from the comforts of this Lake Chelan vacation rental, you'll find yourself happy you chose this as your home base.
We very much enjoyed this home! It had everything you could possibly need, including RV parking so my parents to visit!
We loved the view, the space for everyone, the swimming pool, the hot tub, the proximity to Manson, the games (pool, basketball, foosball), the location, the cherry trees, the nearby park.
Stayed here for the weekend for a girls trip and absolutely loved it!!
We apologize if this guest was not made aware of the change occupancy and sleeping arrangements. Due to county requirements we have lowered the maximum occupancy from 14 to 10 and have removed some of the beds. Thank you!
Everything about his house was perfect for our needs, we rented this for all the bridesmaids in my daughters wedding and it worked out perfectly. Definitely will rent this house again in the future when visiting friends in Manson.
We loved the house and the game room. Enough to do for adults and kids, it was wonderful!
Lovely house, would definitely stay again. Only down side was at midnight when i went to bed, i had to strip my bed down and find new sheets because the sheets were not clean (crumbs, hair and a cracker) also the fireplace in the master bedroom didn’t work and neither did the jets in the jetted tub :( so that was a bummer. Everything else was great.
Visited over the Christmas holiday with family. The house was perfect with a terrific view, amazing kitchen and game room. Would recommend this for families or large groups.
The house was just perfect, there we 10 of us and we didn't even need the whole space. Perfect view of the lake. A little tricky to find, but only I think because we got there after dark. But no complaints at all!
Plenty of room to relax, play games, chill by the pool, party in the guest house, you name it. Beach /park is 5 minute away. Magnificent views, love enjoying the morning coffee on the sunny deck. Everything was just perfect. Definitely coming back here!
The home is in a great location, close to Manson and only 20 minutes away from Chelan. Close to wineries and beach access right up the road. The view is wonderful, pool was fantastic - sun all day long!
4 Star Reason: The only thing I would caution people on is not to expect "4 bedrooms" there are three full bedrooms and one loft that comes off the living room, completely open to the downstairs - so anyone sleeping there will be subject to any noise below. That was a little frustrating since we came with 4 couples/families expecting their own rooms. Other than that, it was a great stay.
We loved our stay in this home! Would definitely stay there again!
The pool service person turned on the water to the pool and it overran for hours until we could get someone to turn it off. Very incompetent service.
We apologize this incident happened and appreciate this guest's patience.
Myself and the group that stayed at this property was very impressed with the home and the property. The home was well suited for visitors and had cleaning supplies, towels, kitchen utensils, etc... It was a nice weekend and we spent a lot of time out at the pool. It was nice there was so much patio furniture and several other things for enjoying our time outdoors including floaties for the pool, basketballs, and lawn games. Would definitely be interested in staying here again!!
We enjoyed the home. Great amenities and view. Close to Blueberry Hills.
Beautiful home with an awesome view. We had a great girls weekend! Front stairs and walkway between garage and main house need to be fixed.
The house and the view were amazing. There was snow everywhere and a great view in a quiet neighborhood. There is a park by the lake with plenty of room to play and sled just a 5 minute walk away. The house is spacious and well equipped to handle large parties. A couple of things to watch out for are the ice that forms around the heating unit between the buildings. We were able to get both the upstairs and downstairs gas fireplaces to work but not without 20 minutes of of trial and error on each. When on they improved the mood of the house very much. Figuring out the TVs was another matter. With 3 remotes for the main TV and multiple inputs to cycle through it takes a bit to get used to. We were able to figure it out but again some detailed instructions would be helpful. Beyond those small nuisances everything else exceeded our expectations.
The house was very nice and well kept up.
It was our first time gather big family on a vacation together. We loves this house, very relaxing. Great view and lots of room to sleep with total 16 people. Definitely be back and plan annual vacation.
The house was great in every way. The main kitchen was extremely well stocked for all of our needs. The beds and all the bedding were very comfortable, as was all of the furniture. Everything was very well decorated and perfect!!!!
My family came here as a getaway, this home comes with everything you need, except groceries.. ???? we even found a much needed portable baby crib. The teens loved the 2nd home/game room. The pool area and hot tub was a hit with kids and adults. Roomy, beautifully furnished, excellently maintained ..can't wait to book this home again.
This property was absolutely amazing!! The house was very well appointed with everything we wanted and needed. We will definitely be back!
Group of 10 old guys on 32nd annual golf outing. 10 guys so guy with recent knee replacement got the honors to sleep on top bunk. Great setting and facility. Overall a fun time.
We will definitely will be back to this house. We had family fly in from Alaska for my daughters wedding at Big Pine, right up the road, barbecued, hung by the pool, wedding party got ready at the house so they had a blast! Vew is outstanding. Thank you!
This is a beautiful home. Its very comfortable and suited our girls weekend perfectly. We plan to rent it again for next year!
Houses (2 separate buildings) were nice but kind of a pain to go back and forth with supplies. Additionally, pool was not ready for use which sucked since it was ~80 degrees the weekend we stayed. We were told upon arrival that the pools are typically not made ready until May which should be listed in the ad - the ad made it appear as if the pool was available for use now. When I called to ask for a discount due to this amenity not being available, I was told they could refund the amenity fee of $20 which doesn't seem sufficient considering the main reason I booked this property was for the pool.
We are disappointed to see that this guest was dissatisfied with the pool situation and will make the use of the amenity more clear.
The house is amazing! So nice, a great veiw, but also cozy.
The house is amazing, we had 12 people and it was spacious and perfect for large groups. We were disappointed with the bathrooms and the fixtures as most were not in working order. Overall a great place for our group, make sure you have a handyman with you.
We are sorry to see that the bathrooms were not in good working order for your stay and will be sure to get any maintenance items taken care of.
I really enjoyed staying at Willow Point. I was in awe our entire trip. The property looks exactly how it does in the photos and my friends and I were well accommodated. I look forward to staying at willow point again. Actually, with any Vacasa home!
Finding this vacation home was a real treasure for us! Thank you for making your beautiful home available for others to use! We had two families - 4 adults & 9 children ages 4-16. The bunk beds were amazing - they were double or queen beds instead of twin size, so the children felt completely spoiled! The home is very spacious and beautifully appointed. It's a wonderful place to relax and play. Our children enjoyed running around outside and playing in the game room. Despite the warm winter weather, we were able to go sledding one day! But we were content just hanging around the house too - lots of space for everyone to spread out and play board games; the fireplaces created a warm and cozy atmosphere; the big windows brought in lots of light and made it easy to enjoy the spectacular view, even when it was raining. The furniture is very comfortable and the house is nicely decorated - everywhere you look is pleasing to the eye, both inside and outside the home. We're already dreaming of our next vacation here!
The house itself is in a great location and fulfills all promises made in the description. It was stocked well and was very clean upon arrival. The "game room" with pool, foosball and ping-pong is a separate building on property which you must leave the house in order to access. This was more of an annoyance as it's assumed from the description and pictures that it was part of the home.
Unfortunately we also had no gas to the house for the duration of our stay. This meant we could not use the fireplaces or beautiful kitchen as the upstairs stove was gas. Thankfully the second kitchen downstairs had an electric range, it just meant we needed to carry all supplies downstairs in order to cook. I called the Vacasa staff each day and between the property manager, plumbers and the gas company, no one was able to rectify the problem. The property manager and Vacasa staff were unaware of the issue even though the gas company had shut the gas off to the house due to a leak. Made us wonder how long this has been going on.
Overall our stay was good, however it certainly would have been nice for these issues to have been sorted out before we arrived.
Thank you for your review. We apologize that the home was without gas for your stay; we were not informed that the tank was taken apart due to a leak when it was filled. This problem has been rectified and the home is all ready for future guests!
Stunning views come with this beautiful home. Even in the late fall, there is plenty to do at this home. A comfortable and well appointed home, everyone in your party is sure to have a great time.

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Next, we need to build the compilation module that can be loaded into the compilation. So we create an empty class library, and install the StackExchange.Precompilation.Metaprogramming package (contains all the required base types).
The modified build script forwards the project’s config file to the compiler (this is especially useful when it needs to actually precompile razor views, but this is out of scope of this post). Also, be sure to add the precompilation module as a project reference to the console application.
The sources for this demo, along with commits reflecting the described steps, can be found on GitHub.
P.S. a useful trick for debugging your compilation module is to add a Debugger.Launch() call to attach your current VS instance to the currently executing compilation.
This looks like a promising shortcut to implementing AOP with Roslyn.

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The long awaited and most propitious festival of Diwali was celebrated on October 22, Wednesday, at Compare’s office with great enthusiasm and show. The aura of festivity dazzled all with its joy and filled everyone with gusto and zeal. In order to enliven the spirits of all, many fun-filled activities were organized, such as ‘Deck-Up your Bay’, ‘Tambola’, and last but not the least ‘Lucky Draw’ with five amazing prizes was like the apex of all the events and brought the day to a splendid end.
Since food is an indispensable part of any festival and it is often said that ‘Food and Festivity go hand in hand’, so for that very reason special lunch was organized that graced the Diwali celebration even more.
Therefore, the excitement was at its peak and people decked up and beautified their workplace, on the most auspicious time of the year, with several decorative and creative items. People spent considerable time to illuminate every nook and corner of the office. The office was adorned with bright and colorful rangolis, diyaas, wall hangings, and flowers. The radiant and jubilant atmosphere literally made the workplace as the epicentre of all positive vibes.
As the day drew close, everyone eagerly awaited the visit of the jury to judge the deck-up of every work station, which was followed by Tambola, a fascinating game of numbers, played in a set of two games. There were cash prizes to be won in the game. So no one let slip this opportunity and assembled on the third floor for fun and frolic. Many won cash prizes and it created cheerful environment everywhere.
Thereafter, announcement was made for the winners of ‘Deck-Up your Bay’. First prize (Rs. 1,500) was given away to people from the first floor and second prize called for a tie between the two teams (Diwali Dynamite and Tech Team) from the fourth floor.
The ceremonial occasion was then brought to an end by ‘Lucky Draw’ unraveling five exciting prizes – Hidesign bag, Charzon portable charger, Canon printer, Targus bag, and Timex wristwatch. Interesting indeed! And, as per the rules, everyone could try their luck for two of the gifts. But there was a twist to the story, as anyone reluctant to play the draw due to lack of trust over one’s luck could take cash prize of Rs.200/- by returning their lucky draw tickets, which some of them did. Then, the game proceeded and eyes of everyone were glued to the gifts. Everyone held their breath every time the name of the luck winner got announced.
This is how the celebration of Diwali came to an end and everybody was exhilarated by the day’s games and events. The festival of Diwali is not just about lighting diyaas and candles, and illuminating our workplace and homes. But it is also symptomatic of illuminating our hearts and souls, instilling positivity with a sense of togetherness and Compare and its Diwali celebration proudly showcased all of that!
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text: Negotiation is a fundamental part of most legal practices. Yet, few attorneys have received formal negotiation training or understand basic negotiation approaches. Mark Fucile of Fucile & Reising LLP and other speakers to be announced will cover many key concepts in legal negotiation, applicable for litigators and transactional attorneys alike. Learn about different negotiation styles, how to credibly advocate for your clients and maximize their outcome by making timely demands and offers, and how to respond to common problems arising in various types of negotiations.


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Mentor Monday ~ Luke Reynolds – Be someone's hero. No cape required.
Ernest Hemingway once claimed, “All you need to write is one true sentence.” I have often wondered if the Nobel-Prize winning author meant for us all to take that literally—just write one authentic, amazing, drop-dead-spot-on TRUE sentence, and you’re done. Finished. You’ve reached the peak of what it’s all about as a writer. Or, did Hemingway mean for us to take it as a sort of challenge, an invitation, to let our hearts sweat as we try to craft the stories that need crafting, realizing that we can only ever write one true sentence at a time. If we keep at it long enough—devote ourselves to it passionately enough—then eventually we’ll move to another sentence.
Caption for photo: John Robinson and Luke Reynolds, in Room 106 at Hamilton-Wenham High School, 2003.
When I think of my life nine years ago, a wet-behind-the-ears Senior at Gordon College, aspiring to be a great teacher and a great writer, I have to chuckle. Because I didn’t have the slightest clue what it took to even be decent at either of those two lofty endeavors. All I knew was that ever since I was about five years old, I knew I wanted to write books and teach other people to write, too.
But a funny thing happens when you’re twenty-two and just getting ready to leave college: stuff gets hard. Everything, really. Electric bills, heating bills, considering how to find a job, considering how to find a soul mate, considering how to live out writer Frederick Buechner’s exhortation to go where your greatest passion meets the world’s greatest need.
Into this wow-life-is-getting-hard-and-complex last semester of my college life came my supervising teacher, Mr. John Robinson. I would be paired up with John as a part of my Secondary Education program, and it would be in Room 106 at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School that I would learn to become both a high school English teacher and a writer. It would be under the tutelage of John that I would learn what it takes to make dreams become realities.
Then, the wide smile. The smile that said, essentially, just wait until you see what we can do together, man. It was—and is—a smile that welcomes people in: everyone from waiters and waitresses at diners John frequents to students he inspires to aspiring teachers and writers like myself.
I said, “Yes,” and so began a nine-year mentorship program with no flippant paperwork and requirements, but instead incredible love and instruction.
In our semester together, I watched John’s passion for literature inspire his students, and I learned from him how to teach from the center of one’s heart—not according to soul-less rubrics but according to those greater standards: passion, belief, authenticity, clarity.
But I also received an education easily worth a four-year college degree—it would have been called Writing and Publishing, and John Robinson was one heck of a Professor.
After our school day would end and the students would leave, I would watch as John checked his e-mail, and there would be messages from the Fiction editor of The New Yorker, telling John that his work was powerfully composed; or there would be a note of reply from a lit mag where John’s writing had been accepted. I began to see how one goes about sending work into the world, and I was grateful even to be a part of the drive to the local post office, occasionally, after teaching when John would send of a novel to an agent or a requesting editor.
John worked with me on my own writing, as well. Even as, by day, he taught me to inspire students and line edit their works with the kind of precision one would expect from a production or copy editor at a New York house, by early morning or evening, John would share wisdom and advice for my own fiction.
Occasionally, I woke early enough to meet him at the Agawam Diner, where John ate each morning on his way to school. He knew everyone and they knew him. And I could sit at John’s booth there, listen to him talk about every great writer from Hemingway to Gore Vidal to Andre Gide to a thousand others. John could quote lines from their work as if he’d had them written on the back of his hands; he could recall their counsel to other writers; and he could deliver their moments of triumph and despair with such emotion and conviction that I felt as if John knew these writers.
And he did. John had travelled his own long road to become the published author of novels, short stories, plays, and essays—and amidst fighting his own battles, he learned how to speak knowingly and movingly of the battles all writers face.
I graduated college, became a high school English teacher, and started writing my first novel. Every time I hit a wall—whether in teaching or in writing—John was there. I would call him or e-mail him with my current dilemma and, as appropriate, John would encourage, challenge, or probe. He was always ready with sage words that came from his soul—yes—but also from that great cloud of witnesses: other writers whose words were etched on his own heart, his own life.
Years passed. I met the love of my life—Jennifer—and John was there. At our Rehearsal Dinner, the night before the wedding, John read a speech he had composed which included literary allusions galore, and as he shared the words, there was that smile.
I started a Creative Writing program after three years of teaching. And John was there—still that smile, offering guidance on writing, publishing, revising.
As life continued, John was always there, whatever the case might be. He was ready to share his own stories of success and failure, and he was always ready to point out that whatever I faced in my own life, some other writer had been through something similar and survived it, had grown from it, had used it to fuel creation and creativity.
Before this most recent adventure in my life—for my family and I to move to England—John and I met at the historic Plough & Stars pub in Boston, where the gorgeous literary journal Ploughshares was first inspired (a journal in which one of John’s short stories, “Centipedes on Skates” once appeared). It would be our last face-to-face meeting before we left for the UK.
John talked with his usual wit, wisdom, and warmth. The meal was lovely, and when it was time to say goodbye, John wrapped his arms around me and wished me well. He encouraged me to keep writing, and told me that great stories were in store for me.
When we separated, I looked at him and had one of those rare moments where you realize the full worth of someone’s love in your life—and you realize it while they’re right in front of you.
I looked at John, but I had no word to explain just how deeply his guidance, concern, and care for me as a writer and teacher had affected me. So I said the only two words I could say, which really said it all.
And today, I say those words over and over and over again. As John and I e-mail, on a daily basis, we connect about writing and teaching and creativity and passion. And the gratitude I felt the day we hugged goodbye is ever-present.
When Hemingway told us that all we needed to write is one true sentence, maybe this is what he meant: that when you, the author, craft one single sentence in which every word fits with the next—in which there is no guise, no fear, no short-cuts and no cheap forgery—then maybe you’ve taught yourself what matters most. You’ve taught yourself how to write the way we long to live. You’ve taught yourself that writing well is about working harder than you ever thought you could, believing when it feels impossible to believe, and trying again when it seems as though the line (or the paragraph, or the story, or the book) just won’t ever be right. And you do it anyway. You go at it again. You choose to believe again.
In writing one true sentence, you teach yourself how to live the life of a writer.
And with Hemingway’s sage words in mind, I think of the love and wisdom of my mentor, John Robinson, and that wide smile.
And my heart writes the words One True Life in the space between that smile and me. Thank you, John.
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Do you have a Certificate of State Examination “Nurse Licensure Examination” by the Board of Nursing, also known as grading certificate or rating board.
Do you have a Certificate of state exams as Nurse from Registered Nurse Board of Nursing with Number of Certificate.
Do you have hands on experience in clinical or nursing facilities for at least two years?
Do you already have experience with the German language and would be willing to be tested?
You have no experience with the German language but are willing to attend a one-year intense language course in your home country?
If your skill set is currently incomplete and does not meet German standards/ the professional requirements you will then have the opportunity to be further trained to obtain those abilities and certificates. We have established training facilities as well as cooperatives in the Philippines to give you the opportunity to align your competency with any German requirements to successfully start a nursing career in Germany.
A curriculum vitae in tabular form and a description of your training, academic history, and previous employment.
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University degree certificate, Bachelor or Master of Science or in Nursing.
A Certificate of State Examination “Nurse Licensure Examination” by the Board of Nursing, also known as grading certificate or rating board.
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The will-she-or-won’t-she question on Clinton’s turn to the left.
Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing crowds of thousands at campaign events and gaining momentum at a pace that suggests there is a real Democratic hunger for more populist and progressive—or, as Sanders calls himself, “Democratic socialist”—policies. That means Hillary Clinton, long presumed to be the front-runner in the fight for the Democratic nomination for president, needs to sharpen her rhetoric on regulation and income inequality.
Despite sounding an increasingly populist note during her campaign, Clinton is hardly known as a foe of the financial industry. She has given many lucrative speeches at the likes of Goldman Sachs, and her early denouncements of hedge funds and big banks were met with amusement and rolled eyes on the Street.
Some on Wall Street think powerful populist pitches from former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley and Sanders, coupled with the heavy influence of noncandidate Elizabeth Warren, could force Clinton to come out harder on issues including breaking up the nation’s largest banks, imposing a financial transaction tax, putting individual bankers in jail, cracking down on executive pay, and otherwise beating up on an industry that six years after the financial crisis still suffers from rock-bottom public-opinion ratings.
Clinton is expected to continue to ratchet up the tone she debuted during her “listening tour” of Iowa, when the candidate bemoaned the influence of money in politics and said that low-income truck drivers shouldn’t pay more taxes than hedge-fund managers. Few, however, expect her to go as far as O’Malley, who has called for the prosecution of big bankers, or Sanders, who has openly pushed for breaking up the country’s largest banks.
It’s almost refreshing how open nearly all parties are about their belief that Clinton would never argue for reining in the financial industry if she didn’t absolutely have to in order to make her way to the White House. Presumably waiting to see whether she can overcome that perception are Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York mayor Bill de Blasio, both of whom are progressive champions and have yet to endorse Clinton.
On the other side of that calculus is Clinton’s donor base, which is richly populated with folks who work on Wall Street. Clinton is struggling to raise the type of money that Bush has already raised before declaring his candidacy, and the Democrats have far fewer donors willing to write checks in the six to eight figure range than the Republicans do.
All of this makes for an ugly, rather dispiriting balancing act—one that we can all look forward to watching unfold over the more than 500 days left between today and Election Day.

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Novelist Gail Godwin (1937- ) has often been labeled as a feminist and Southern writer for her portrayals of women and themes common in the South. She has published 16 books over a span of 40 years of writing and in these works addresses broad questions about relationships between women and men, family, art, and spirituality.
Godwin was born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, on June 18, 1937, to Mose Winston Godwin and Kathleen Karahenbuhl Godwin. After her parents divorced, Godwin, at the age of two, moved with her mother into the home of her grandparents in Asheville, North Carolina. Soon after, her grandfather died, and the three women became what Godwin has described as a "small man-less family."
Godwin's mother made her living in multiple ways, but all of her professions related to language and writing. She taught poetry, drama, and creative writing at the Plonk School for the Creative Arts; instructed in Spanish and composition at St. Genevieve Junior. College; was a reporter for the Asheville Citizen-Times; and published romance fiction under the pseudonym Charlotte Ashe.
Her mother was also a story teller, her work ranging from personal anecdotes to completely fictionalized tales. In a 1989 essay, "My Mother, the Writer: Master of a Thousand Disguises," Godwin notes her debt to her mother's writing career and explains how she learned to manipulate autobiographical elements into fiction and create a disguise for herself as a storyteller. Godwin's grandmother was active in her life as well and also provided valuable help with her Kathleen's writing. Critics have noted how both women in this matriarchal household shaped Godwin's career and life, with her grandmother's conventional Southern womanhood and her mother's more unconventional, ambitious, and dynamic nature.
In 1948, Godwin's mother married Frank Cole, with whom she had three more children: Franchelle Cole, Tommy Cole, and Rebel Cole. After the marriage, her family began to move regularly. She attended five high schools in four years and graduated in 1955 from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia. At her graduation. Godwin was reunited with her father, and she moved in with him in Smithfield, North Carolina. Godwin attended Peace Junior College in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1955-1957 and then attended University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC). While in Chapel Hill, Godwin's father committed suicide.
Godwin graduated from UNC in 1959 with a BA in Journalism. She then moved to Miami, Florida, where she was hired as a reporter for the Miami Herald; she was fired within the first year, however, by a bureau chief who felt that she had not developed into a strong reporter. While in Miami, Godwin married Douglas Kennedy, a photographer. They divorced in 1961, and she moved to London, England, and worked for the U.S. embassy's travel service. While taking writing classes, she married her second husband, psychotherapist Ian Marshall, but the marriage also ended in divorce. In 1966, after returning to the United States, Godwin enrolled in the University of Iowa's famed Writers' Workshop, where she studied under Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving; she completed a master's degree in 1968 and a PhD in English in 1971.
Since that time, Godwin has primarily earned her living as a writer, only intermittently taking on teaching and research jobs at universities. Godwin's writing reflects her experiences, and her fiction often deals with women from the South, relationships with mothers, suicide, the step-family dynamic, divorce, and the artist. Her early novels center on women seeking independence from dominating husbands. The Perfectionists, her first novel, was her dissertation at the University of Iowa and was published in 1970. It tells the story of the dissolving marriage between an American journalist and a British psychotherapist and was reviewed as a dark psychological novel. Her follow-up work, Glass People, centers on Francesca Bolt, who separates from her husband and takes a trip to the South in an attempt to forge her own independence and identity. Works like these have led to Godwin's reputation as a writer who deals with women's identity as a theme. Critics focused on her feminist messages about women's victimization. At the time these works were published, Godwin felt both claimed and limited by the women's movement, believing that readers were missing other important themes in her work.
In the summer of 1972, Godwin spent two months at Yaddo, an artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. There she began a long-term relationship with New York composer Robert Starer. After leaving Yaddo, Godwin taught writing at New York schools, including Vassar College and Columbia University. In this same time period, she began collaborating with Starer on musical works, beginning with The Last Lover, a chamber opera composed in 1975. The couple moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1976.
Godwin's subsequent novels continued to center on women as protagonists but also dealt with the relationship between the artist and her art. In Violet Clay (1978), the title character explores herself and her identity through art, making something of her past memories through her own art. Godwin's eighth novel, The Finishing School (1984), centers on Justin Stokes, an actress who similarly learns to channel the trials of her life into her dramatic performances onstage. The audience is left with a complicated picture of how art and life blend, along with a portrait of how memory and art are linked.
Godwin has also been labeled a "southern" writer. Although initially wary of writing about Asheville because of its association with writer Thomas Wolfe, she eventually overcame that pressure and wrote about the city in which she'd been raised. Asheville and the South more generally became central to her work but she never intended to be a "Southern Novelist." Many of her works, in exploring the protagonists' identities, tell stories of women in complicated relationships with mothers and grandmothers, women who flee the South, and the idea of Southern womanhood. Ultimately, however, the women always return to confront and sometimes embrace that aspect of their personal history. A Southern Family, published in 1987, is Godwin's first use of multiple points of view. In the novel, Theo Quick has killed his girlfriend and then himself. Readers follow the reactions of the Quick family, struggling with blame and the question of Theo's identity. Critics have applauded the range of voices in the work, voices that cross gender, class, generational, and regional barriers.
Beginning in the 1990s, Godwin's work remained centered on her female characters' identities but also explored their relationships with God. Her 1991 novel, Father Melancholy's Daughter, takes place over the span of a liturgical year and follows Margaret Gower on a spiritual quest as she tries to understand the meaning of her mother's life while looking after the "melancholy father" referenced in the title.
In 2001, Robert Starer died of congestive heart failure. Since then, in addition to her novels, Godwin has published the non-fiction work Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings (2002), which focuses on the archetypal symbol of the heart, combining discussions of medicine, the arts, myth, religion, and philosophy. In 2007, inspired by writer and diarist Virginia Woolf and encouraged by friend and fellow author Joyce Carol Oates, Godwin published her personal journals from 1961-1963 under the title The Making of A Writer. These journals provide an understanding both of her writing process and of the events that shaped her fiction. Some critics have noted just how closely the journals followed plot elements of Queen of the Underworld, a novel that came out the same year. Godwin continues to live and write in Woodstock, New York.
Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood. "Gail Godwin Talks About Southern Storytelling." Southern Quarterly 32 (Spring 1994): 11-24.
———. "Gail Godwin." American Short-Story Writers Since World War II: Third Series, edited by Patrick Manor and Richard E. Lee. Dictionary of Literary Biography 234. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.
Xie, Lihong. "Gail Godwin." The History of Southern Women's Literature, edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
———. The Evolving Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.


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The researchers decided to find an alternative stain which is less expensive and less hazardous to the health. The study utilized a randomized posttest only experimental control groups to determine the potential of Alugbati (Basella alba) fruit and Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) pericarps extractives as substitute for Crystal Violet and Safranin in Gram staining technique. Ninety-five percent (95%) ethanol was used to extract juice from 200 grams of Mangosteen pericarps and 150 grams of Alugbati fruit. Eight slides were smeared with Staphylococcus aureus and eight slides were smeared with Escherichia coli. When using the Gram staining procedure, none of the slides were stained with Alugbati (Basella alba) as an alternative for Crystal Violet and Mangosteen pericarps (Garcinia mangostana) as alternative for Safranin. However, when extracts of Alugbati fruit and Mangosteen pericarps were used solely, it faintly stained both Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.
The findings of the study were presented, analyzed and interpreted in this chapter in four (4) sections; the number of slides of Staphylococcus aureus stained with Alugbati fruit extractive as compared to Crystal Violet, the number of slides of Escherichia coli stained with Mangosteen pericarps extractive as compared to Safranin, a significant difference between the proportions of slides positive for staining of Staphylococcus aureus using Alugbati fruit extractive and Crystal Violet, a significant difference between the proportions of slides positive for staining of Escherichia coli using Mangosteen pericarps extractive and Safranin. No slides were stained with Alugbati fruit extractive and Mangosteen Pericarps extractive.
Based on the findings, Alugbati fruit extractive and Mangosteen pericarps did not have the potential as staining agents on bacteria. The researchers also recommend that modifications to the Gram staining technique should be considered when using alternative stains.
8. Forbes, B , Sahm, D , Weissfeld, A . . Bailey & Scott’s Diagnostic Microbiology (12th ed.). St. Louis, Missouri: Mosby, Inc., 2007.

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Winds variable at 2 to 10 mph through the morning becoming S 4 to 13 mph in the afternoon, evening with gusts up to 16 mph.
Cloudy through the morning, and then overcast becoming mostly cloudy into the evening. Chance of rain in the afternoon.


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Breakfast is so good! The room 1106 that i lived is big enough with private balcony! Staff are very helpful and friendly! Also free shuttle bus to city center! Two swimming pool and overlooking the forest! Really,everything in this hotel are perfect, we will stay here again if we back in Ubud!
My husband Terry and I thought the staff was the strength of this hotel. Very happy people, always smiling and willing to help make your stay as comfortable as possible. We would especially like to acknowledge our gratefulness to Krishna who definately went out of his way to make our experience in Ubud memorable. We want to thank Dea at the front desk and the girl who showed us how to make the small baskets for offerings and of course, thank you to all of the kitchen and restaurant staff. We thought your breakfast was marvellous, lots of variety, tasty and welcoming atmosphere. I loved the coffee! Best we had in 21 days in Bali. We had a few days of rain so we couldn't enjoy the pool but the surroundings and the settings at the pool were very inviting. It's always difficult to say goodbye and we miss the staff already. Thank you for a wonderful 5 days in Ubud..
Room was clean, The staff is very friendly and helpfull. We had a really nice Time !
Super helpful staff throughout, from cleaners to front desk to restaurant. The location is about a kilometer from a main Ubud shopping street - easy to get to but far enough away to feel quiet and tranquil.


text: This is a time-lapse video of my process of installing my empathic post-its in the lobby at MassArt. At the beginning of the video you will see me copying entries from an online survey I conducted in order to prime the installation wall - it's always better to have to some existing entries at the beginning in order to combat fear of the blank page. In the second half of the video, you will see my process of photographing the post-its and hanging them in the space. The music selection is "Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou) by Sufjan Stevens for The Roots.

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What allows a wine to age?
Carignane – I just can’t carry on, or can I?
Who was asking me where to find Carignane (care-i-nya-on) in class last week?
When I worked for Randall Graham of Bonny Doon Vineyards , several Carignane wines came and went (mostly through the DEWN wine club.) A particular favorite was “The Ugly Duckling”, eluding to the lowly status but definite potential of Carignane.

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Guest access should make Microsoft Teams an even more versatile collaboration tool for growing organizations.
As Office 365 continues to grow its subscriber account, a new feature for Microsoft Teams should only help to cement the popularity of this chat-based collaboration tool. If you’re new to Microsoft Teams, read on to learn more about this cloud-based tool that’s included in Office 365 and learn about a new feature that allows guests to communicate and collaborate with your team members.
Microsoft Teams offers a place where work can get done, regardless of location. Microsoft Teams offers four key features, which are extremely useful, especially for distributed teams.
Chat. Microsoft Teams offers fully threaded chat support. Chats are visible to the entire team, but the app also features the ability to create private conversations as well. Thanks to Skype technology, Microsoft Teams also offers full support for voice and video conferences.
World-class security. Microsoft Teams includes the robust security features that Office 365 users are sure to expect. All data is encrypted while in transit and at rest. Also, Microsoft Teams offers full support for a variety of compliance standards including HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and more.
Integrates with other Office 365 apps. Microsoft Teams gives users full access to other Office 365 apps from within the Microsoft Teams interface. Popular apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, OneNote, OneDrive, Planner, and more are all built into Microsoft Teams so that you’ll always have access to your critical files and information.
Fully customizable. Microsoft understands that no two organizations are going to use Microsoft Teams in the same way. For this reason, Microsoft Teams offers a wide array of open APIs that make communicating easier. Microsoft Teams can integrate with popular third-party SaaS apps like GitHub, Twitter, and Trello so that notifications from these external apps can be shown in real time within the program.
One of the only complaints of Microsoft Teams users in the past was that guest access was not easily available. This meant that organizations were only able to use the Microsoft Teams app for in-house communication. While this alone is extremely powerful, with the global workforce changing, and becoming more distributed, Microsoft quickly realized the need to build guest access to the program. Thanks to this new functionality, guest access is now available for external users to participate in chats, share documents, and attend voice or video meetings.
While guest access will be turned off by default, administrators can enable it by using the Office 365 Admin Center portal. Guest access was quietly added in September 2017 but was only available to users with Azure Active Directory managed identities. Now all users, even those with non-Office 365 email addresses can collaborate with Microsoft Teams.
One thing to keep in mind is that any user who wants to collaborate with an organization through Microsoft Teams will have to set up a Microsoft account.
What can guests do inside a Microsoft Teams account?
While guests can utilize many key features within Microsoft Teams, IT admins still have full control over these privileges. IT admins can revoke guest access and control which permissions are available.
Have you tried Microsoft Teams within your organization?
If you’re looking for one tool that can help to streamline communication within your organization, you should try Microsoft Teams. We have helped many of our clients boost productivity by using this tool that’s built into your Office 365 subscription. For more information, don’t hesitate to contact us by phone at 877-788-1617 or through our online contact form.


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text: The article analyses the contexts and practices of head doctors regarding childbirth, whether reproducing or challenging the gender regimes. The research sheds light on men’s practices and representations of masculini- ties in hospital maternity wards and links the personal practices and structural mechanisms reproducing men’s positions of power in the Czech organization of childbirth. It is based on data from research interviews and the public speeches of senior Czech obstetricians and head doctors of maternity wards (15 in-depth interviews and 3 panel discussions). Two basic topics are taken into detailed consideration when discussing the patterns of men’s practices and their discursive representations: (1) defence of the status quo (compliance with the lege artis approach) in contrast to alternative approaches to childbirth by some head doctors and (2) the living paradox of the hospital setting presented as being a formal institution par excellence, while at the same time being an environment for the very informal, individual authority of head doctors.


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We at Selectec are a curious (nosy) bunch, so when we received two requests in a matter of a few days regarding using PaperCut with JumpCloud we needed no excuse to jump up and start our JumpCloud adventure.
For those that have never heard of it, JumpCloud is DaaS (Directory as a Service) and basically allows you to take your traditional on-site User directory (think MS Active Directory) and stick it up in the cloud. As with many other traditionally on-site services this potentially frees up the need for hardware and associated support on site, while at the same time allowing admins control over their users, infrastructure, and client systems regardless of type. There are numerous features and benefits of using a system like this, but for our purposes, we will be particularly interested in the LDAP as a service functionality.
Once synced, this information can then be used by various parts of the PaperCut system, in places like Integrated scanning for automatically filling in user email or home folder locations, or for sending users notifications via email.
As we soon discovered, although setting up the connection to sync to JumpCloud was relatively simple, the basic information made available did not include custom attributes, rather just the basic username, email and group details. At this point… In steps our integrations team, and with their wizard-like mastery of all things API they proclaimed “We can make an integration for that!” This essentially meant some of the other information which was not previously available could be accessed and pulled into PaperCut via the JumpCloud API (cool huh).
Ok so if you’re still reading after this point then it probably means you have a bit more than a passing interest in this, and so you might like to see some details of how and where to put in the details within PaperCut for the JumpCloud sync.
We’re going to assume that by this point you have your users setup within the JumpCloud system including an LDAP binding user account and that PaperCut is installed and you are ready to set the user sync source.
The User/Group Sync page is displayed.
In the Sync Source area, under Primary sync source, select LDAP.
Under LDAP Server Type select Standard (Unix/Open Directory).
The organisation ID can be found on your JumpCloud admin console.
Under Admin password enter the password for the LDAP binding user.
Click Apply and Test Settings, or if you’re feeling brave skip right to the Synchronise Now button.
All being well, when you check your Users section in PaperCut, you should see a list of the users synced from JumpCloud at this point. So…. Now you should be able to sync usernames, email addresses, and groups from the cloud. What if you want to sync the extra custom attributes we mentioned at the beginning of the article?
Edit the config.toml file, this contains all the settings you need. Use your favourite text editor. Oh, Authtoken is the value set under “auth.webservices.auth-token” within PaperCut.
Run the application using a cmd prompt.
Set up a schedule using Windows scheduler to create a Cron job. We suggest you set this to run after PaperCut’s nightly maintenance/sync, we would go with 2am.
This application will loop through all of the users in PaperCut then check JumpCloud for them and if they exist it will pull down the attributes from the fields set in the config file.
Consider using SSL/TLS, our setup was a test and not production.
Need help or looking for us to make something new? just get in touch.
Movie buff, electric car enthusiast and a bigger pizza fan than your average hero in a half-shell, Matt is part of our caring pre-sales and professional services squad. When he is not thinking about his next deep pan, triple cheese, dough based Italian meal he can be found onsite or in front of a reseller delivering a first class install or training experience.


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Make a difference in the life of a UT pharmacy student today by serving as a career contact.
Career contacts are UT Pharmacy alumni who have volunteered to offer their perspective and advice to current Pharm. D. and graduate students. This is a dynamic list, so check back for updates. Please visit our listing of career contacts by specialty or career contacts by alphabetical order.
Every day, our graduates are making the difference in the world through their professionalism and expertise. The career contacts program serves to bridge the gap between our alumni and our students. Pharmacy alumni who are interested in serving as career contacts submit a career profile. Career contacts must be currently licensed to practice pharmacy. Students who are interested in connecting with career contacts may peruse this list to identify alumni who have relevant professional interests. For example, students interested in health system pharmacy can look for alumni in this field; students interested in talking to alumni who did specific residencies can search for such information.
Once students identify people who they would like to contact, students are asked to send a message to the Development Office to make this request. Alumni office staff will notify the alumni to get permission to share phone and/or email with the interested student. At that point, students and alumni will make connections, which may lead to an email exchange, phone conversation, or in-person meeting. Often, these relationships can develop into mentorships. Please note: alumni contact information is kept private. Once a student expresses interest in connecting, someone from the pharmacy alumni office will contact the alum who will decide whether to release his/her contact info. Likewise, students will be informed that College of Pharmacy staff will not provide alumni contacts any personal or academic information regarding the students. The only information disclosed will come directly from the students themselves, and will be held in confidence by the alumni career contact.
Are you interested in serving as a career contact? Email Susan Brown for more information.
Do you see a person or people who interest you professionally? Contact the Development Office to let us know so we can begin setting up the connection.


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“Write what you love and know.” That’s the advice given to writers.
I fell in love with the Rhodesian Ridgeback the first time I saw one at a dog show. I love their temperament, their intelligence, and their personalities. I’ve shown them, bred them, whelped them, cried when I sent a puppy off to a new owner, and been as proud as a motherwhen one won at a dog show.
I also love living in the country. I have childhood memories of catching pollywogs in the creek that ran by our two acres in Walnut Creek, California; being able to pick ripe peaches from the tree (also almonds, pears, English walnuts, apricots and more); and sitting in my “thinking” tree making up stories.
We’ve now moved close to Lake Michigan (so my husband is near his sailboat), and we spend our winters in Florida, not far from the Gulf Coast. Both locations feed my love of being near water (remember that creek I played in and Santa Barbara) and are ideal places to nurture my desire to write. Whether I’m writing a romance, a mystery, or a combination of the two, I’m probably going to include an animal or two and there’s a good chance the characters will live in the country, the mountains, or near water. I’ve often used Michigan and California as settings, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Florida shows up in a future book. I’m sometimes asked if the characters in my books are based on me or someone I know. My answer is: Maybe bits and pieces, but my protagonists are always braver and smarter than I am (along with younger) and the antagonists are always nastier than the people I’ve known.
My wife and I moved to S. W. Michigan from San Leandro, California 8 years ago.
Our story is about Our Journey with Alzheimer’s. I’m looking forward to your next blog.
Richard, thanks for checking out the press kit blog I wrote in 2015. I’m going to email you directly.


text: Bunco admission $10 per player. Christmas crafts for sale. Activities for children.

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text: A fashion-forward piece with classic details, Moriann counter height upholstered barstool walks the line between interesting contrast and perfect complement. Comfortably cushioned seat and backrest don a sophisticated fabric combination that simply works. Backrest is upholstered in a linen-style striped fabric with a "gently washed" effect, while the seat sports a marbled faux leather that feels every bit as good as it looks.


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Stresscrete Group - K804 Coronet Sr.
The K804 Coronet Sr. is a solid looking pendant designed to increase roadway performance while providing superior spacing. Suitable for off roadway applications as well, this time-less design can be used in both contemporary and historical settings. A 3/4 scaled version of this fixture is also available in our K700 Series of pendants.