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Meryl Streep is an American actress who has actually worked in numerous functions. She is a nominated performer and is understood for her flexibility and accent adaptability. Her best-known performances include her role in the film "The Postman" and her function in "The Artist" with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Among the most well-known and respected starlets of the modern age, Meryl Streep has had a remarkable profession. She started her acting profession at the age of twenty-one and has gotten various elections for the Academy Awards. A leading contender for Best Actress, she has actually also starred in a number of hit films.
During her time in the public eye, she has become a role model for millions of ladies. Known for her versatility and grace, she has actually been able to depict a wide range of characters in her profession.
Streep began her acting career on the stage in the 1970s. Her acting in "Julia" (1977) brought her to fame. From that point on, she has actually continued to appear in a number of hit movies and TV shows.
In addition to her acting on the screen, Streep has been included with lots of charitable companies. She has actually acted as a spokesperson for the National Women's History Museum and has actually donated countless dollars to the museum.
Streep has likewise functioned as a juror for the Berlin International Film Festival. Although she has actually appeared in a number of Hollywood blockbusters, she has maintained a prolific acting career in independent films. Given that the 1980s, she has appeared in a number of popular films, consisting of 'Out of Africa' (1985 ), 'The Bridges of Madison County' (1990 ), 'The Devil Wears Prada' (1995 ), 'The Iron Lady' (2011 ), and 'Florence Foster Jenkins' (2016 ).
As a skilled starlet, Meryl Streep has actually won numerous awards, consisting of the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has been chosen for an extra sixteen Academy Awards, making her the most chosen female star in Academy history.
One of the most identifiable actresses of all time, Meryl Streep has actually dealt with both television and film. She is popular for her performances in films, however has likewise voiced characters in numerous television programs. Here are a few of her most remarkable roles
Born in Summit, New Jersey, Meryl Streep studied drama at Yale University. After finishing, she transferred to New York City. Her early career onstage consisted of a number of Broadway productions.
She later appeared in an Anton Chekhov play. From there, she went on to star in various theatrical films. In the 1990s, she was known for her performances in The House of Spirits, Dancing at Lughnasa, and The River Wild. Later on, she played Aunt Josephine in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
For her performing in the film adaptation of Angels in America, she won a Golden Globe and an Emmy. She was likewise nominated for an Oscar. Other noteworthy films consist of Julie & & Julia, The Prom, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Iron Lady.
Streep also voiced a character in an episode of the Simpsons. She has appeared in other films, including The Homesman, Ricki and the Flash, and Mamma Mia! There have been several tv roles for Meryl, but none as remarkable as her portrayal of the character Ethel Rosenberg in the HBO miniseries Angels in America.
She has been nominated for 21 Academy Awards, winning three. Most just recently, she was granted an honorary reward by the American Film Institute in 2004. A few of her other significant movies include Julie & & Julia, The Giver, Into the Woods, and the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate.
Very few people understand that Meryl Streep has likewise been operating in the television field. She has been included in different series, such as The House of Spirits, August: Osage County, and The Post.
Meryl Streep has made a career out of playing a variety of different functions. Whether she is playing a tormented woman, a well-known author, or a nation's very first female newspaper publisher, she shows to be an impressive actress.
Although she has actually gotten a number of awards throughout her career, Meryl Streep has actually likewise had to face criticism. While she is a wonderful performer, lots of critics have actually grumbled that her performances do not have empathy. However, Streep has actually gotten significant regard from both audiences and critics alike. In 2010, she was chosen to the honorary American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Throughout her profession, Meryl Streep's function has actually frequently been that of a tormented or ambitious woman. Her efficiency in "The Iron Lady" (2011) was no exception. For this efficiency, she made a third Oscar.
Amongst the many other movies that Meryl Streep has actually starred in are the romantic comedy Mamma Mia!, the action-adventure The River Wild, and the action-adventure film The French Lieutenant's Woman. She has also belonged of the ensemble of HBO's Big Little Lies.
She made her stage debut in 1975, but her very first considerable movie function can be found in "The Deer Hunter" (1978 ). This film was a three-hour drama about the Vietnam War. It featured John Cazale and Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep provided a powerful efficiency.
Meryl Streep is known for her exceptional acting skills, and she is among the most prominent actors on the planet. She has actually played a range of characters, and has made many awards and elections for her work. Her stage and screen credits cover more than a decade, with functions in numerous classics. Here are some of her most memorable performances
After studying at Vassar College, Meryl Streep began her profession as a starlet. In her early career, she starred in a couple of television series. Then, in the mid-1970s, she starred in the stage play "Happy End" and made her Broadway debut. This was followed by a function in the film "Happy End" and "Happy Days".
While at Yale, Streep participated in drama school. By her junior year, she was taking voice lessons. She also studied opera. Although she studied drama, she was initially interested in musicals. Among her teachers was a famous singer, and she became so captivated with the art that she later signed up with the Yale Drama School.
Throughout the 1980s, Meryl Streep started taking up roles that included more serious subjects. These included the drama "Julia" (1977) and the Holocaust movie "The Deer Hunter" (1978 ).
She likewise starred in the comedy "Silkwood" (1983) and the musical "Mrs. Henderson Presents" (1998 ). Other significant films include "The Homesman" (1983 ), the western "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981) and the funny "The Devil Wears Prada" (2003 ).
For her function in "The Iron Lady", Meryl Streep won her third Academy Award. Aside from her movie efficiencies, she has been known to sing onstage, consisting of cover variations of tunes. Among her other phase credits are Mamma Mia!, "Let Them All Talk", "Marvin's Room", and "Big Little Lies".
Streep also won her 8th Golden Globe award for her function in The Iron Lady.
Meryl Streep is one of the most decorated stars in movie history. She's won two Academy Awards, and has actually also received numerous elections for numerous other awards. With 21 Oscar nominations, she's no stranger to the competition.
Her first Academy Award came for her performance in the 1979 film "Kramer vs. Kramer". It's one of the best efficiencies ever put to movie. The chemistry in between Meryl Streep and Robert Redford is extraordinary.
Meryl Streep plays the no-nonsense principal of a New York Catholic school. Her character is implicated of molestation by a priest. After speaking with a fellow nun about the abuse, she sets out to learn the reality.
Meryl Streep has taken on a lot of unusual roles, however she's constantly been a wonderful starlet. She's known for her romantic efficiencies, and she's won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher. Other Oscar nominations have come from films with more standard storylines, such as Frozen River and Central Station. However the actor has actually likewise played the matriarch in a bitter household, the author of a screenplay, the nation's very first female paper publisher, the ex-wife of an unstable television author, and the terminally ill homeless woman.
Her latest chosen function was as the matriarch of a bitter, scheming family in the film "Miranda Priestly." This is a fictionalized version of Lauren Weisberger's novel. In addition to a starring role, Streep also made a supporting starlet Oscar for her role.
While her best-known movies are the ones she's made with Spielberg, her other functions have been rather memorable as well.
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That is until she meets another man, a healer, and suddenly the two worlds, once so clear, begin to blur, forcing her to realize that maybe, just maybe, she is part of something much bigger than herself.
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Happy Easter from our family on the gravelly road to yours!
I know the blog has been very quiet lately. But Easter means a family picture all dressed up that I wanted to share with you (we tell the kids they must smile their best before they get their Easter baskets). While our Easter Sunday family picture tradition has little to do with the actual holiday, its a tradition my parents started when I was little and it slows up down to be in front of the camera together. Slowing us down as we get ready to go to church to celebrate the glory and hope of the resurrection. Something worth slowing down for in my book.
And maybe getting a little of our crazies out before we have to sit in church??
Treasuring the moments of blessing of holiday traditions together here on the gravelly road.


Pleasant. Typical travel memoir, girl moves to foreign country, deals with the bureaucracy, the locals, the new experiences, falls in love, etc., etc. A nice escape from serious reading, I'm a sucker for this genre every once in a while. Clears your head and allows you to dream. Like I said, a pleasant book, nothing earth-moving, just pleasant.


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Ladies Justice and Liberty, Lesbians
Ten years ago, illustrator Mirko Ilic combined three visual cliches to create a fresh, enduring emblem for gay marriage.
Steven Heller
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At the end of February 2004, New York illustrator and graphic designer Mirko Ilic had an assignment: come up with a meaningful image about gay marriage and the legal battles that were beginning to foment. Minh Uong, then the art director of the Village Voice, commissioned him to design and illustrate a cover because he had recently seen a cover that Ilic created for the New York Times Book Review, when I was art director, showing a personification of lady Justice. He requested that Ilic, who is well known for his symbolic acuity, create something with Justice as the focal point.
The title of the article was "I'd Leave the Country, but My Wife Won't Let Me," and it was about a lesbian couple and their lengthy travails prior to the time when legalizing gay marriage was gaining momentum. "I didn't think the Justice image was enough because the issue was also about freedom," Ilic recalled in a recent email. "I was thinking I needed to incorporate the Statue of Liberty as well, to represent the freedom part of it."
The Evolution of LGBT Symbols
Inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt's 1945 V-J Day Life photograph capturing the moment a sailor and nurse kissed during the revelry in Times Square, Ilic thought that "having an image of two ladies—Liberty and Justice—kissing seemed right." He positioned statues in a similar pose to the one in that famous photo, which has had its fair share of parodies and homages, and voila! Transformation.
The editors of the paper ended up opting to put a simple photo on the cover and use Ilic's image instead as an opening, full-page illustration to the article. But that didn't stop it from going viral among gay institutions and pro-marriage-equality groups.
"I got calls from many organizations and individuals asking for permission to use the image for different purposes from websites, to posters, t-shirts, sculptures, even cakes," Ilic said. "And of course they would ask my fee for usage. If it was not for resale I gave permission to use for free. Sometimes, as in the case of t-shirts, I'd request a sample or two."
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For Ilic it was satisfying to take three iconographic clichés—the Statue of Liberty, Statue of Justice and Eisenstaedt photo—and make a brand-new, positive symbol. "And it's a nice feeling," he added, "watching on TV, a gay pride parade and seeing the image appearing among the crowd."
Like many indelible images, including Grand Wood's American Gothic, Munch's The Scream, and Milton Glaser's "I HEART NY," Ilic's original concept has been borrowed and reinterpreted many times. Last week, Nate Beeler, talented editorial cartoonist for The Columbus Dispatch, was awarded the recent Fischetti Editorial Cartoon competition honor for his response last year to the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. While Beeler's image is drawn in a more comic idiom than Ilic's sculptural rendering, the influence in the basic concept shows that the Ilic's original has become part of the symbolic vernacular.
Steven Heller is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, the co-chair of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, and the co-founder of its MFA Design Criticism program.


I was asked if the Hasselblad camera, my H4D-40 would keep up shooting flying at the Palm Springs Air Museum. The answer is yes as you can see in these photographs. I will say that my experience has shown me that any camera system is challenged when you are shooting objects coming at you, flying by close and leaving in the 300 mph range. I have shot with most and still the leader has been my Canon cameras. However for pure image quality, especially when shooting more general photographs, the Hasselblad is just amazing. I am now looking forward to getting more in the air for some shooting with it.
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To those who doubted me!
You may have seen some bad newspaper articles about me or things that look like a smear campaign and today I want to clear all that up in this article.
I want to tell you exactly where it all stems from because there's been lots of different people that seem to have written stories about me but it actually stems from one place.
I've never done this before but I'm going to give you the facts and the evidence and the story of how it all started and why I started picking up so much negative attention and honestly this is going to completely shock you.
A little bit of context, so that you can get to know the back story.
I bought my first house at the age of 17, no money down deal, I then became pretty successful in property, became financially free at the age of 21, was in bible college, traveled, did some charitable projects and set up a training kids business network.
In 2015 I really started scaling the business and started aggressively deal packaging and selling deals as I sold hundreds of property deals and made a lot of money, started aggressively investing that money into property and I had also people ask me to teach them about property, started running events and I did put myself out there on the map.
Vanessa Warwick's Story
I remember a few years back I saw a little thread written about me on a forum called property tribes which is owned by Nick Tad but his wife Vanessa Warwick kind of runs the show as she's the face of the forum.
Vanessa Warwick was questioning me and basically trying to imply that I wasn't really wealthy and she was saying look at his companies on company's house and I'm thinking you don't know me this is crazy like we've never met who's this person? is she a journalist?
I thought maybe I should respond and maybe I shouldn't respond because I didn't feel like I owed any answers to anybody but I thought you know what as I've put myself on the map maybe I'll respond.
So I went on and explained that the reason that you can't find my wealth on my companies is because my wealth is earned in property and I buy properties in my name as you can't see that in company's house.
I explained everything and I ended this by saying to Vanessa Warwick and everybody on the thread come down to my office if you want, this is the office address and look at everything such as the paperwork as I've got nothing to hide.
Now what happened was that, the thread began to run into this campaign of questions and questions steered by Vanessa where they wanted to see receipts for everything and I thought you know what I didn't sign up for this, I got nothing to hide, you didn't come down to my office and I don't really want to be spending my time showing receipts to strangers because they just think they have a right to know everything.
I didn't really sign up for this and my wife Amanda was pregnant at the time and I just thought let's have a quiet life.
I was successful in property because my training company at this point wasn't making any money and it was years before my training company started making money and therefore me and my wife moved into a lovely little barn conversion and we just enjoyed our profits from property.
I started aggressively growing my property business again and I was getting a massive demand of people saying can you run some more training and can you do this and have you got deals and I thought forget it I'm going to do this thing.
So I really pressed hard and started packaging deals, set up a training company, became more successful as my wealth started increasing and what I noticed is as my wealth started increasing and my success started increasing this little forum on property tribes was getting more and more rattled and the haters began to get more and more obsessed and at this point to be honest everybody loved me as it was just property tribes and occasionally some people saying have you seen property tribes though and I believe I learnt to ignore them.
If somebody in property tribes was a genuine customer of mine and had paid me money and have got a concern or a gripe, I would have offered to meet with them, talk with them and deal with it but if it's just someone just speculating and has never met me, that's never done any training, then to be honest I'm just going to ignore that.
There was one lady who was part of property tribes and she was bickering and saying how bad I was and it really surprised me at the time because this lady was called Diane Granville.
I don't normally like to name people but as she has publicly on TV and in the newspapers said a lot about me, I'm going to name her.
So Diane Granville started saying bad things about me on property tribes which really surprised me because she came to the training and she really liked it and she left me a video testimonial then paid for further training.
She left me a video testimonial for the further advanced training and was really happy and took me to court by demanding her refund and an additional five hundred pounds for transport and hotel costs she incurred.
She did take us to court and this is the very first time that I'd ever been taken to court ever and it's the very last time that I've ever been to court.
I had a witness with me as well who was also on the course and Diane Granville's case got thrown away by the judge but of course I wanted to know what pressured her to do so and when I met her in the courtrooms hallway, I offered to refund her money back provided that she signs a confidentiality agreement which she agreed to.
I refunded her money back due to compassion, the thread was pulled down but later resurfaced and Diane started saying bad things about me again despite getting her refund.
I think that's when I really realized that sometimes no matter how much you give, no matter what you do, there's some people that you are just never going to please and sometimes you can't even try and reason with unreasonable people and I should be spending my energy not trying to talk to Diane Granville, not trying to talk to Vanessa Warwick and answer on the thread because these are unreasonable people but I should be spending all of my time and all of my energy on my students who are paying for training, who are actually implementing and putting their energy into themselves and into their businesses, who are investing their resources into winning as I'm going to help them win and not try and fight off these people that I'm never ever going to please.
Since Vanessa gets paid to run stories on her forum by advertisers, I now understood why she wanted to use my name since writing fake stories about me boosted her number of views.
Mike Winnet's Story
Someone tagged me on a LinkedIn post where a guy called Mike Winnet was trying to expose Grant Cardone.
I thought that's a little bit unfair and I could see what he was saying about Grant Cardone and other trainers and a lot of what he was saying was really good and I enjoyed his material and I thought that's really good but I thought it was a little bit unfair in what he was saying about some other trainers and so I actually messaged him on LinkedIn and said Mike I'd love to interview you on my show to talk about training courses and standards as I'd love to get your input.
Could we do an interview but mike declined because he said that he was too busy and then shortly after that he said let's meet up so we ended up meeting up and I don't know how this happened but I ended up going on his channel even though initially I wanted him to come on my channel but you know what, I didn't really see the difference because I thought being on his channel or whatever as long as we get to chat and as long as it's filmed, there's no big deal.
Now maybe at the time I was a little bit naive because I didn't quite realize how this sort of thing works and how people edit stuff and after going on Mike's channel, we actually had a really good chat I really enjoyed it.
I quite liked him and loved the fact that he was challenging things with a really healthy and great conversation and I left thinking that was really great!
We took a selfie and I went back.
In the interview we spoke quite a lot about his property journey as well because I asked him what's he doing and how he made his money and he talked to me and explained how he'd made money in property and he talked through the figures and I thought that's great because that shows that not only am I making money in property, but what I'm actually teaching is valid because even Mike Winnet is doing exactly what I'm teaching.
I then had a few suspicious thoughts and thought I wonder whether he's going to edit this interview in such a way to try and fit his agenda and I messaged him and we talked back and forth and I was like look Mike please can you send me the footage because I want the raw footage in case you edit it you've got it?
Mike did not want to send me the footage and when it was released, it was indeed edited and took out the bits where he said about how much he's making in property and how he's made his money.
He also edited a few bits in my opinion I think it was deliberate but maybe it wasn't such as when I said that I'd only met Grant Cardone once in London and then he had me saying that with b-roll footage of me with Grant Cardone in Miami and everyone's commenting that I'm a liar when in the real sense, I was with Grand Cardone in Miami months later after doing the interview.
Paul Water's Story
Paul is a very successful student I'd taken him to see Robert de Niro, he'd met up with Robert Kiyosaki, I'd paid for taking him to Barcelona where he'd become very successful doing a lot of deals.
He said to me you can't be the best training company and the biggest you know, you need to just be the best don't jump and I was like what? Why?
He told me just keep it to a few hundred like it was back in the day.
I said no that's not my intention as my intentions is to go really big and to help as many people as I can and in the same way that I've helped you become successful.
To be honest the fact that in my family, and in my life, most people that knew me and talked to me absolutely were wonderful in fact I've only ever once had somebody in real life but she's seen me face to face say to me I don't agree with your training or I don't only once all this nonsense all this bad stuff it's all online and nearly all of it's on property drives anyway and the only once that it happened in real life and it was it was a little bit awkward because I was actually out at Starbucks with a celebrity and we were chatting about business and this person came over to an author and started talking acted like he was a friend and stuff was oh wow sat down and then slowly started getting a little bit bitter and said actually Samuel I don't think you're good at that and I was thinking this has never happened before and it turns out I said what do you do though? what's your occupation?
What does he do of course? he is a property mentor.
All these people have got an issue when it all comes down to money and it's just like they're either trying to compete with me or they don't want me to teach more people because they're competing with my students but despite all this, I genuinely just wanted to help as many people as I could and I thought for every time you get a hater, you're going to have probably helped 10 or 100 people and I just continued teaching and most of our students were coming from London and we're in Wolverhampton and they were traveling down and people were flying in from all over the world and often coming from London so I thought you know what, I want to continue growing and I want to continue helping people and I'm going to scale and systemize the training business as well as continue to grow my property business and we moved to London but of course that upset a lot of people as well.
My Final Take
People are asking me to tone down my teachings but I'm just going to continue with it regardless of the consequences.
I mean Vanessa already had the police interview me and tried to create a story out of that and the hate group on Facebook are like trying to create stories and I'm a bit thinking about the government but of course I'm creating my own self-regulation plan which I'll share soon and continue teaching my students on financial freedom no matter the cost.
Playlist of Samuel Leeds Rebuttal Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
More info on the BBC: https://www.property-investors.co.uk/…
Voluntary Police Statement: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder…
I talk about Vanessa Warwick from Property Tribes who speaks about me all the time but won't meet me Dianne Granville who makes out she took me to court and won, when really her case was thrown out.
I also respond to Simon Zutshi and the question the true agenda of the Property Investors Bureau which has extremely questionable people associated with it.
Thanks to those who never doubted me.
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It's Liberty's birthday and Fomar and Caz have lured her to England with the promise of a great birthday present. You play as Libby who must search Fomar and Caz's layer defeating enemies and searching for treasure.
Gameplay wise the game is a boss rush with 8 boss fights.
Liberty can freely switch between upto four stances.
Liberty only has access to buffing skills and will have to use them accordingly to survive the enemies she encounters.
This game was made in two days for Libby's actual birthday, it should take around 15 minutes to complete.
Hopefully people will get the "down under" joke.
I doubt this will end well for Libby.
Even the enemies are "down under."
Wow, someone really makes a game for Liberty, and this ungrateful little runt doesn't even thank the developer here. On the other hand, it's probably a crappy game anyway.
Looks so bad, but it's the thought that counts.


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Higher education drives STEM diversity, but is the change fast enough?
For more than a decade, Keith Harmon has helped to overlook a rare history of success in higher education.
Harmon is director of the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program, an initiative that began 30 years ago at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County. She has helped the university to make serious progress and close the equity gaps in STEM education.
The idea behind the program is simple. With the right support, ie the feeling of community and regular counseling, students who are not well represented in the STEM can continue their education and career. "We hope they expect a lot from themselves," Harmon said. "There are high expectations, but they also have many resources."
So far, it works with the program, which has more than 1,300 alumni, so Harmon, and studies, which show that participants complete 5.3 times more frequently a master's or doctoral studies in STEM areas and complete. (The program, which is open to applicants from all fields, enrolls the majority of students with low representation).
The Meyerhoff program is just one of many that aims to increase diversity in STEM. Efforts like these have been crucial to attracting more Hispanic and black students in these areas, but further progress is needed. According to a recent report by the American Council of Education (ACE), black and Hispanic students are still far behind their peers when completing STEM programs.
The black students face obstacles especially when graduating, the researchers said, as they were among the least-qualified students and graduated from STEM. Only 12.6% of black students who graduated in 2016 did so with a STEM specialization compared to 34.7% of Asian students and 20.5% of white students.
The graduate program showed similar differences: 6.2% of black students graduated with a master's degree in STEM in 2016, compared to 22.9% for Asian students and 10.7% for white students. In the same year, black students were also under-represented in the STEM doctoral programs, with 13.8% graduating in these areas, compared with 51.9% of Asian and 35.5% of Asian students. white students
The Hispanic students were doing a little better, although they were still behind other groups. In 2016, 16.7% of the beneficiaries of the study and 9.2% of the beneficiaries of the Master's degree program earned a STEM degree. In the doctoral programs, the STEM performance of Hispanic students was much higher at 30.7% in these areas.
It is noteworthy that students who identify themselves as Indians from America, as well as natives of Hawaii or other Pacific Islands, had a lower level of achievement in all areas.
The reasons for these gaps are many, but the main reason is the lack of access to quality education. The data shows that K-12 schools, which service a larger number of minority students, tend to receive fewer resources than those that serve primarily white students. This can have lasting effects as many students leave these schools without preparing for the rigors of STEM programs at the university.
Black and Hispanic students also face well-established stereotypes which groups of students in the STEM are good, possibly leading to less expectation among teachers. To reinforce this problem, there is a lack of black and Hispanic trainers in MINT training.
Faced with these issues, universities and organizations across the country recognize that higher education is failing Hispanic and black students, and that STEM programs need more support to meet them.
A sense of belonging
The configuration of some STEM introductory classes stacks cards against minorities that have little representation since the beginning of the university.
On the one hand, a record number of students are flooding the introductory computer courses to meet the high salaries of the needs area. This led to a shortage of qualified instructors to teach these classes, which spurred some universities to run them as "excretion courses" rather than providing more support to students.
Many introductory courses also assume that college students were already involved in computer science in high school, which may not be the case with some underrepresented students, said Michael Ellison, CEO and founder of CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization developed a computer curriculum for colleges and students in the United States
Such expectations may cause minority students considering STEM specialization to change their minds and change their program or fail altogether. In fact, the retention rates in such programs may be low because most students leave under-represented groups before they graduate, according to CodePath.org.
The completion of the university, regardless of the specialization, is also an area that needs to be improved. According to the ACE report, less than half of black students (44.5%), Hispanics (42.5%), and Native Americans or Alaska Natives (37.1%) completed a bachelor's degree, compared to 57 , 2% of students white and 63.7% of Asians.
To address these issues, CodePath.org has developed computer science courses that complement the existing university curriculum and provide underserved students with skills built on the needs of leading technology companies.
The company has designed the courses to be turnkey, so instructors do not have to be technical experts to run the courses, Ellison said. So far, the nonprofit organization has partnered with more than 25 colleges, including the University of Arizona, Virginia Tech, and Mount Holyoke College, to provide students with project-based training ranging from preparation for interviews to camps. Technician to the design of mobile applications.
Universities have made similar efforts to link the industry to the curriculum to enhance the success of STEM students. For example, Howard University is part of the Google in Residence program, which is leading technology giant software engineers to teach introductory computer courses at historically black colleges (HBCU).
Harry Keeling, a professor of computer science at Howard University, said that the program has encouraged many students to stay in computer science and has asked other students to switch to specialization.
The university also ran a pilot program called Howard West in 2017, which sent 26 students to Google headquarters in California for three months of hands-on learning. If successful, it has been upgraded to a program called Tech Exchange, which will host 65 students and several faculty members from HBCUs and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) for a full academic year on the Google campus.
This kind of experience can be crucial for students to feel they belong to the STEM fields, Keeling said.
"The students do not feel ready to cope with the rigors of the race," Keeling said. "When they work with individuals on Google and realize that these people are not smarter than they are (and) not more professional than they are, they begin to understand that they deserve good jobs and are more motivated."
Congress also plays an important role in closing gaps in STEM student achievement.
Under the Higher Education Act, for example, some higher education institutions may receive competitive grants to create better transfer channels for community colleges interested in 4-year colleges in STEM disciplines. This has contributed significantly to increasing the number of Hispanic students seeking graduation, said Antonio Flores, president and CEO of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
In addition to permanently consolidating the program and increasing its resources, the HACU is urging Congress to allocate more funds to the HSI. The HACU argues that HSI receives about two-thirds of the funding received by other universities from state sources per student, although it serves more than 2 million Hispanic students who are disproportionate in the first generation and low-income.
"That's a big gap if you only get two-thirds of what others get when the people you serve are among the most needy," Flores said. "We just want them to equate the pitch."
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Synthol – How Big is Big Enough!
This compound is a perfect example of the extremes that some bodybuilders will go to be the "biggest". Not content to have 20 or 22-inch arms, bodybuilders found a way to push the limits up to the 27-inch barrier. Yes you read correctly there are freaks walking around now sporting thigh-sized arms from their shoulders!
Synthol has its origins in the 1980's when a drug called Esiclene was all the rage. For those who missed the 1980's, Esiclene, was not used to build muscle mass like traditional steroids but instead was used as a quick fix to bring up weak bodyparts before a contest. The drug acted primarily by causing a localized swelling. Bodybuilders found it very useful in bringing up such small muscles as the calves, rear shoulders, and arms. The only drawbacks were that Esiclene was very painful to use and very short-lived.
In the mid 1990's a researcher took the next logical step and invented an oil-based compound that could be injected directly into the muscle. The initial name he chose was Synthol, but he later learned that this was already registered and trademarked by a pharmaceutical company. So he renamed his product Pump N' Pose, but as with steroid trade names the first name stuck. It has now reached the point that Synthol is as well known as such bodybuilding compounds as creatine, Dianabol, and whey protein.
Chemically the drug is composed of 85% medium-chain triglyceride oils (a fatty acid), 7.5% lidocaine (painkiller), and benzyl alcohol. The oil is injected straight into the muscle where it becomes trapped between the muscle fibers. With each injection, a larger volume of oil builds up, and the muscle swells up just like a balloon. It is estimated that about 30% of what is injected is broken down by the body while the remaining 70% breaks down slowly over three to five years. Users report incredible muscle pumps during training, but this could be a result of the extra pressure generated by the trapped oil.
Although some bodybuilders consider Pump & Pose relatively safe to use, there are numerous health issues to consider. Injecting any amount of fatty-acid material intramuscularly can be dangerous. This is compounded by the fact that most bodybuilders have any medical training. It's very easy to hit a major nerve and if you do hit one by accident you can easily cause permanent paralysis of muscle fibers in that area.
The repeated injections cause other problems. As bodybuilders have discovered from long-term steroid use, sticking a needle into the same are results in the build up of painful scar tissue that may require surgery to remove. And it gets worse. Should you inject into a vein or artery by mistake the fatty acids could be carried to the lungs and cause a pulmonary embolism. They may also reach the heart and induce a heart attack. They might even make it to the brain and lead to stroke. As you might guess all three cases are potentially fatal. Oh and did we mention that if you strike a larger artery such as the femoral artery you could bleed to death in minutes!
The safe and legal way to build muscle mass!
Hopefully we've convinced you about the many perils to using Synthol. That short-term fix may put you in the big training gym in the sky. We don't think a few extra inches are worth risking your life over; certainly not when there are safer ways to do it. Unless you've been training for decades, odds are you've haven't given natural training a chance to maximize your genetic potential just yet. You don't build 20-inch arms in three or four months. It takes years. There is also a good possibility that you haven't explored the many facets of healthy eating yet. The late Vince Gironda said bodybuilding was about 90 percent nutrition. While Vince's number may be high, he was definitely on to something there.
Finally have you tried any of the legal steroid analogs yet? These powerful compounds are safe, legal, and highly effective.
Don't fall for the quick fix. Play it safe!


Paul Natale was born on Thursday, July 18th, 1929 in Italy. He entered into eternal rest on Monday, March 5th, 2018 in Temecula, California. Please check back soon for an updated obituary.
Denise Knee, born in Cincinnati passed away July 27, 2015 at Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar California.


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Dad and I are relative newcomers to officially collecting antique tractors, although not to farming with "vintage" farm equipment in Northern Rock Island County, Illinois. The family's first tractor in the 1920's was a locally built Heider C that was sadly, long ago scrapped (story's are told of great grandpa going down to Rock Island on weekends and a friend letting him into the factory to pick up parts). The tractor that followed was a Rock Island G2 which left the family farm sometime in the 70's to a collector in the lower portion of the county (we would like it back). Growing up I heard dad frequently wish we still had those tractors. Grandpa, I think, was less enthused.
The day after dad's retirement sale from farming we went to a small auction near Rock Island and purchased the first Rock Island the family has owned since the G2; In this case an H5. A lucky break on a Heider C soon followed and just like that we were in business. Sad to say, but we soon found information on the Rock Island Plow Company and Heider to be somewhat sparse. I soon started digging deeper into company history and before long the suggestion of compiling my findings into a website was made. Now, here we are.
Our tractor collection includes a 1917 Heider C 12-20, D.U. 18-30 a pair of Heider motor cultivators (M1 & M2), a Rock Island early model '27 F short fender, '28 G, early '29 G2 gas only w/pto, a later model G2, an FA, two H3's, H4, H5 and an H22. We also have a Heider 9-16 D currently being restored. We are actively hunting for tractors to round out the collection and parts tractors. We also collect implements and have a diverse collection of Rock Island gas engines including very rare Haish built 4 and 6 hp's, as well as a Great Western.
Our home show where we hope to be displaying our pieces of local history is the Geneseo, IL Antique Engine & Tractor Association which now takes place in Joslin, a mere few miles from Rock Island (just up I-88). We usually have a major portion of our collection at the show. We also have recently expanded into Moline Plow Company and are currently on the planning committee for the 2019 Moline Universal tractor reunion.
I have also been writing a series of articles on early Quad Cities area tractors company's for Vintage Tractor Digest and have had a couple of articles in Antique Power magazine.
Below is our card (for anti spam purposes an image).
I wish to thank everyone who helped contribute to this site and those that may no longer be with us but helped save so much of our history, without whom this site would not be possible.
I hope you found this site useful, and if you have information, stories, photos, ads, a correction to this site or even are parting with a tractor; please, contact us. I am also on Smokstak under this name as well as facebook.
special acknowledgement needs to be made to the following people who have helped make this possible:
Jeff J. Marshall – JacobHaishMfg.org
David Parfitt – Steel-Wheels.net
Randy Kvill – Reynolds-Alberta Museum
Rick Mannen
Kenny Bush
special thanks to Antique Power, Pat Ertel and Heritage Eagle's R.E.Hoffman for use of the research from previous articles.
And to all the others who have provided information, photos and history to make this site possible.


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How to Make Maintenance Part of Customer Service
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The maintenance plans and the revenue generated by those maintenance plans is very important to a lot of customer support organizations. Make maintenance part of customer service with help from a seasoned executive and entrepreneur in this free video clip.
Hi, I'm Robert Johnson, and we're gonna talk today about how to make maintenance a part of customer service. The maintenance plans and the revenue generated by those maintenance plans is very important to a lot of customer support organizations, and in fact in many cases is very profitable revenue. The key to ensuring maintenance revenue though is to make sure that your customers see value in that. If they don't see value in a customer support maintenance plan, they're not gonna renew that plan. So, make sure they see value in that. And to ensure that, you need to measure their satisfaction, because that is really the key measurement to them. If they see value and they see satisfaction in the maintenance plan, they will renew, and they'll keep that revenue stream going. When looking to lock that revenue stream in, a lot of companies will actually try to lock their customers in for long-term maintenance plans, and I don't personally think that's a great idea. While that may help short-term revenue, it has a down side of really upsetting customers and making them see they're forced into buying a plan they may not need or may not want. So, in my opinion it's better to see that they see the value in that plan, and that they renew that plan. So when you're looking at renewals of maintenance plans, you need to have somebody in your organization who is in charge of that process, that renewal process. It really is a sales process. So you need to be careful about where that sits in the organization, and that really shouldn't sit with the agents, there should be a dedicated sales person who's gonna go there and talk to them about their revenue, or about their renewal plan for their maintenance. You also need to have agent tools in place to make sure your customer support agents have what's called an entitlement database so that they know which one of their customers have a support contract and which ones don't, because if they're, if they're providing support to a customer who doesn't have a support plan, doesn't have a maintenance plan, then they're really giving away service for free. But on the same lines you really need to have a plan in place to make sure that if a customer calls who's not entitled to service, who does not have a maintenance plan in place, that they're dealt with on a consistent manner. You need to give the agents tools to both ensure that they are, their customers are on a maintenance plan, but also a plan in place of what to do when somebody calls and their not on a maintenance plan. So customer support and maintenance revenue is an absolutely important thing to many customer support organizations, and by following these handful of tips, you'll be able to make sure you maximize that revenue.
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What is squamous carcinoma of the conjunctiva?
What is a dermoid cyst?
What is adenoid cystic carcinoma of lacrimal gland...
What is pleomorphic adenoma?
What is xanthelasma?
What is seborrheic keratosis?
What is cavernous hemangioma?
What is epithelial downgrowth?
What is a forceps injury to the cornea?
What is sebaceous carcinoma?
What is an oncocytoma of the caruncle?
Oncocytoma
Definition: Oncocytomas are benign tumors that arise most commonly in the caruncle or canthal conjunctiva but may also occur in the lacrimal glands (including accessory glands) and lacrimal sac.
Incidence/Prevalence: Oncocytomas are considered rare tumors.
Etiology: Oncocytoma are believed to arise from oncocytic metaplasia of ductal and acinar cells of lacrimal epithelium or perhaps conjunctival epithelium.
Clinical Findings: Oncocytomas most commonly present in women of middle age or older (>50 years) as a red-yellow mass (arrow 1 in the clinical photograph). In this case the mass is red to pink in color, located in the caruncle and has a cystic appearance. Note the yellow lesion, a pingueculum near the limbus (arrow 2).
Histopathology: Oncocytomas are characterized by large eosinophilic cells that form glandular or ductular spaces (number 1 in the low mag photomicrograph). Between the ducts there are solid trabeculae of cells. The abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and the relatively small round to oval nuclei that are located in the middle of the epithelial cell (arrow 2) are key features. The cells may contain small nucleolar organizer regions (nucleoli) and their may be clearing of the nuclear material in some cells. Electron microscopy shows numerous mitochondria.
Treatment: Excision is usually curative.
Prognosis: It is believed by some that malignant transformation may occur to produce oncocytic adenocarcinoma, although this mode of transition has not been proven.


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2020 NFL Draft: How Jonathan Taylor stumbled upon football
Published: Apr 14, 2020 at 06:40 AM
Brooke Cersosimo
Original Content Editor, Talent Development
NFL.com's "Why I Play" series provides a thoughtful peek into the minds of the next generation of NFL players to better understand what drives them to make it in the league. Other prospects included in this series: TCU DT Ross Blacklock, Auburn DT Derrick Brown, LSU CB Kristian Fulton, TCU CB Jeff Gladney, Florida edge Jonathan Greenard, USC OT Austin Jackson, Utah CB Jaylon Johnson, Michigan LB Josh Uche and Minnesota S Antoine Winfield Jr. This edition's featured prospect is ...
Jonathan Taylor, running back, Wisconsin
2020 NFL Draft standing: Taylor is projected to be an early-round pick and sits at No. 35 in NFL.com draft expert Daniel Jeremiah's top 50 prospect rankings.
Prospect bio: Taylor had a wildly successful career in his three seasons at Wisconsin. As a true freshman 2017, he earned unanimous first-team All-American honors after logging 299 carries for 1,977 yards and 13 TDs in 14 games. He followed up his breakout campaign with back-to-back seasons of 2,000 rushing yards, with that two-year total (4,197) ranking third-best in NCAA history, behind only fellow Badger Melvin Gordon and Iowa State's Troy Davis. Taylor scored a total of 55 touchdowns as a collegian.
This interview, conducted via phone call on April 9, was condensed and edited for clarity.
How I started
I used to play outside with my cousin, Amani Justice, when we were little, but that stopped for about a year. I learned that he had signed up for football and his practices made it so we couldn't play. I asked my mom to sign me up in sixth grade so we could both play football together. Honestly, if Amani never had stopped coming outside, there would have been no reason for me to play football.
I never played any organized sports until football, and once I got into high school, I started to play football and run track. I played on special teams my freshman year, gained a larger role in the offense my sophomore year and I was RB1 as a junior. I started getting recruited by Division I schools after that season, and that's when I got the notion that I could play after high school. I was surprised to receive that kind of attention from good football programs because it was my first year carrying the load. I was just having fun up to that point, but when it set in that I could play at the next level, I started to do a little extra to make sure I was constantly getting better.
Honestly, I'm trying to see how far I can go. How can I develop myself into the best football player I can be? Football started as fun, then developed into a passion. I missed out on a lot of information when I was younger, just getting a later start -- I didn't know what a three-point stance was -- and there's so much you have to learn. I want to push myself to see where I can get to.
I love to play this game, and it's exciting to see how one person, one play or a team can develop. You see guys like Ezekiel Elliott, Melvin Gordon, Saquon Barkley, and how far they've come. I want to emulate what they've done and see how far I can take it. To push myself to the limit and break through boundaries.
My biggest challenge
I think one challenge is coming from a small town, playing against small schools, which people think don't have "athletes." Coming out of high school, there were questions about the level of competition. What is legit? Or is this kid just better than the "low-level" competition? I had this stigma going into college, coming in as fourth on the depth chart. I didn't have a problem with that because college is a whole new ballgame, but I had to break those labels. Even on a team level, there were limits around us about what people think we can do or can't do. The best thing you can do is work hard, show appreciation to those who do believe in you and continue to prove others wrong. That will always be a challenge in life.
I'm inspired by the people who came before me. Those in the Wisconsin RB room like Alan Ameche, Ron Dayne, Melvin Gordon, and those in the league like Zeke, Todd Gurley, Saquon and so many others. I look up to those guys, but my favorite running back is Arian Foster. He never wanted to be put in one lane in football and life outside of it. Even as a bigger back, everything he did was so smooth and natural. I actually met him after my final year of college. I didn't want to ask too many things because I wanted to respect him, but also you don't know how many times you'll get this chance. But we've kept in touch, and I'm glad he's in my corner.
Follow Brooke Cersosimo on Twitter @BCersosimo.


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Gold medalist Shericka Jackson, of Jamaica, walks the track after the women's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Shericka Jackson, of Jamaica, wins the final of the women's 200-meter run ahead of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, of Jamaica, at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Gold medalist Shericka Jackson, of Jamaica, poses during a medal ceremony for the women's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Shericka Jackson, of Jamaica, celebrates with fans after winning the final of the women's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)


A month to the presidential elections in Angola infighting has intensified within the main opposition party UNITA.
"Angolans wanted peace and then oil enabled Angola to earn large sums of money.. Angola could have diversified is economy. Unfortunately, our government does not have the best vision.
After oil, Angola will have to take another track… That is why, as a young Angolan I said no I said no, it is necessary that I commit myself politically so that I can also give my modest contribution to change this country,"Angolan opposition party leader, Rafael Savimbi said.
After a long war for positions, the party has finally found stability to engage in the fight.
The ruling party hopes to win big during the August election. But, nothing indicates that the retirement of President Dos Santos, after 38 years in power will change the established order.


There's no doubt; Paris is ALWAYS a good idea. It has been five years since Paris stole my heart for the very first time, when one of my best friends decided to change Belgium for the French capital and moved there for a while. Ever since visiting her over there Paris has my weak spot. So you can easily imagine the excitement when I received this 'Weekend in Paris' Wonderbox. - one night with breakfast in one of the 18 3-star hotels available. Yay! Exactly two weeks ago we grabbed our beloved Samsonite Firelite Spinner and headed towards the hotel of our choice, Hotel Aiglon in the heart of Montparnasse. The validation of our Wonderbox was surprisingly easy by the way; simply register your coupon on their website and you can 'pay' with it when checking in at your hotel. Ours was a true must visit. From the warmest welcome and excellent service to the stunning design of the rooms - Missoni chairs always do the trick! - and the delicious breakfast that was offered in our room for free. I tried to capture the highlights of our Weekend in Paris in pictures. Don't hate me for the Santos Cartier that suddenly popped out of my boyfriends pocket, I can assure you that I am well aware of my blessings.


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Paperback Fanatic Issue 45
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Devils Coach Horse
Paperback Fanatic Issue 45 Jan 17, 2022 11:07:12 GMT
Post by rob4 on Jan 17, 2022 11:07:12 GMT
www.amazon.co.uk/Paperback-Fanatic-issue-45/dp/B09PM9NVQ5/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1642417441&refinements=p_27%3AJustin+Marriott&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Justin+Marriott
Janitor Of Lunacy
Hail Horrors, Hail
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Paperback Fanatic Issue 45 Jan 20, 2022 9:43:25 GMT
Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2022 9:43:25 GMT
Justin Marriott [ed.] - Paperback Fanatic #45 (Jan. 2022).
Am*z*n Blurb:
A Visual Guide to Belmont and Tower paperbacks of the 1960s.
300+ covers of vintage 1960s paperbacks reproduced in colour, with information about the author, cover artist and subject matter.
Sleaze, horror, thriller, occult, sexy spies and more.
Books by Harlan Ellison, Bob Tralins, Gardner Fox, Peter McCurtin and more.
Covers by Robert Maguire, Edward Gorey, Catherine Jeffrey Jones and more.
A Marriott solo effort/ labour of love. A three page 'Fanatical thoughts' by way of introduction and into the fray. Six full colour cover scans to a page, running commentary throughout.
'Review' to follow ASAP.
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There's a new Battling Britons, too.
From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty. - Christine Campbell Thomson
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Post by andydecker on Jan 20, 2022 9:50:23 GMT
Jan 20, 2022 9:43:25 GMT dem bones said:
I will hopefully get it tomorrow oder the weekend. Belmont Tower is interesting. So many different books, often all over the place. Harlan Ellison and Gardner Fox, more different you can't get.
Scans are from my personal collection if not noted otherwise.
Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2022 17:01:19 GMT
Swiped from around the board; A mini-gallery of horror/ SF covers is best I can manage. A far more representative selection would include such titles as Memoirs of a Harem Girl (" ... a supposed long lost erotic autobiography, with a suitably cheesy cover photo); Gavin Cunningham, Gay Power: The Homosexual Revolt; Naughty but Dead, an Erik March mystery by the creators of Honey West; Morton Cooper, The Private Life of a Strip-tease Artist ("... a Hollywood actress dogged by rumours of a past in stag movies and multiple husbands"); Frank Long's The Horror Expert ("a poor attempt, with a bitchy publisher hated by everyone, shot dead in her office"); 'Sean O'Shea's Invasion of the Nymphomaniacs "A squeeze play in a 'falsies' factory might bust it for Valentine Flynn"); Gil Scott-Heron's The Vulture; Badger books legend Pel Torro's Beyond the Barrier of Space (Belmont also reprinted at least two A. J. Merak novels from same source); The Long-suppressed Erotic Tales of Sacher-Masoch; Jacqueline, Daughter of the Marquis de Sade, and Malcolm Kent's The Terror Above Us (according to the author; "The world's first account of two men abducted by aliens and forced to have sex with a beautiful girl, who may well be a robot. Even more frightening and sexy because it is non-fiction.") All of the above and hundreds more feature in this latest, very gorgeous Fanatic. Justin writes: "If this issue proves to be a success, then I plan to repeat the exercise for Panther books, Pinnacle books, Daw books and to revise the New English Library Guide."
Dashiell Hammett [ed.] - The Red Brain, 1961.
Michael Avallone - Tales of the Frightened, 1962.
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AMRAM BEN SHESHNA or SHUSHNA (known as Amram Gaon or Mar-Amram):
By: Louis Ginzberg
Head of the Sura Academy; died about 875. He was a pupil of Naṭronai II., Gaon of Sura, and was exceptionally honored with the title of Gaon within the lifetime of his teacher. Upon Naṭronai's death, about 857, the full title and dignities of the gaonate were conferred upon Amram, and he held them until his death. He is the author of about 120 responsa (the greater part published in Salonica, 1792, in the collection entitled "Sha'are Ẓedeḳ") touching almost every department of Jewish jurisprudence. They are of great value in affording an insight into Amram's personality as well as into the religious conditions among the Jews of that period. The following decisions will serve in illustration: Interest may not be exacted even from non-Jews, nor even such minor profits as the Talmud designates as ("thedust of interest"), these being allowed only when customary in non-Jewish business circles ("Sha'are Ẓedeḳ," iv. 2, 20, 40). It is characteristic of Amram's method to avoid extreme rigor; thus he decides that a slave who has embraced Judaism, but desires to postpone the necessary circumcision until he feels strong enough for it, is not to be hurried (ib. iv. 6, 11). He combats superstition, and places himself almost in opposition to the Talmud, when he protests that there is no sense in fasting on account of bad dreams, since the true nature of dreams is not known (Ṭur, OraḦ Ḥayyim, § 568). Amram's rules concerning the methodology of the Talmud are of considerable value (Mueller, "MafteaḦ," p. 123).
But the most important work of Amram, which marks him as one of the most prominent of the geonim before Saadia, is his "Prayer-book," the so-called "Siddur Rab Amram." Amram was the first to arrange a complete liturgy for use in synagogue and home. His book forms the foundation both of the Spanish-Portuguese and of the German-Polish liturgies, and has exerted great influence upon Jewish religious practise and ceremonial for more than a thousand years, an influence which to some extent is still felt at the present day. For Amram did not content himself with giving the mere text of the prayers, but in a species of running commentary added very many Talmudical and gaonic regulations relating to them and their allied ceremonies. His "Prayer-book," which was made familiar by the many extracts quoted from it by the liturgical writers of the Middle Ages, and which served as the model for Saadia's and Maimonides' own prayer rituals, was published complete for the first time in Warsaw, in the year 6185, by N. N. Coronel, under the title, "Seder Rab Amram Gaon." The work as published is composed of two parts. The second part containing the seliḦot (propitiatory prayers) and pizmonim (liturgical poems) for the month of Elul, for New Year and the Day of Atonement, is certainly not the work of Amram, but appears to belong to a much later period. Even the first portion, which contains the prayers proper, is full of interpolations, some of which, as the "Ḳedushah" (Sanctification) for private prayer, are evidently later additions in the manuscripts. But not much weight can be attached even to portions of the book which are specifically given under the name of Amram; many of the explanations are certainly not by him, but by the academical copyists who appended his name to them, speaking of him in the third person. These explanations of the prayers make no reference to any authorities later than the following: Naṭronai II., Amram's teacher (17 times), Shalom, Naṭronai's predecessor in the gaonate (7 times), Judah, Paltoi, Zadok, and Moses, geonim before Amram (once each) Cohen Ẓedeḳ (twice), Nahshon and ẒemaḦ, contemporaries of Amram (twice each), and Nathan of unknown date. The only authority mentioned of later date than Amram is Saadia (p. 4b). This indicates that the additions to the text of the prayers must have originated in Amram's time. Certainty on this head, however, can only be obtained by a comparison of the printed text with the manuscripts; that of Almanzi, according to the specimens given by Luzzatto, varies considerably from the printed text. Israel ben Todros (1305) mentions some azharot as having been composed by Amram; but no trace of these can now be found (see Neubauer, in "Jew. Quart. Rev." vi. 703).
Sculptured Slab Showing Efflgy of Hammurabi or Amraphel.
(From Ball, "Light from the East.")
Rapoport, Bikkure ha-'Ittim, x. (1829) 36, 37;
Einleitung zum Parchon, xi. note;
Reifmann, Zion, ii. 165;
Luzzatto, in Literaturbl. d. Orients, viii. 290-297, 326-328;
Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2619;
Grätz, Gesch. d. Juden, 2d ed., v. 249, 478;
Joel Mueller, MafteaḦ, pp. 121-129, and Halakot Pesuḳot, p. 4;
Is. Halevy, Dorot ha-Rishonim, pp. 243-259;
I. H. Weiss, Dor, iv. 117-122.
L. G.


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Partners, Blue Cross tackle high premiums
By Robert Weisman
Globe Staff / October 6, 2011
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A new pact between the state's largest health insurer and its biggest hospital and doctors network could boost efforts to contain health care costs, both sides said yesterday.
But for now, the three-year agreement between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Partners HealthCare System Inc. - owner of Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals in Boston - will only slow the rate of premium increases for about 200,000 patients of Partners physicians covered by the managed care insurance plan known as HMO Blue.
The two parties confirmed they had approved an understanding - reported last month by the Globe - that would pare anticipated Blue Cross reimbursements to Partners by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars between 2012 and 2014. The parties renegotiated the third year of an existing contract to reduce anticipated payments by $80 million next year and agreed to similar trims in payments during the second and third year of a new contract, for a total savings of $240 million.
The money represents about 3 percent of the insurance reimbursements Partners could have been expected to receive - more than $2.5 billion a year. Under the deal, annual rate increases that were projected at 5 to 6 percent for the next three years will be lowered to between 2 and 3 percent.
"We're getting substantially less than we anticipated getting,'' said Gary L. Gottlieb, Partners chief executive. "In a broader sense, this is a sign there's a pretty dynamic market in health care right now, and the market is working. The effect will be to help slow the growth of health care costs for employers and their employees and their families.''
Barbara Anthony, the state's undersecretary of consumer affairs and business regulation, who had called on high-cost health care providers - such as Partners - to reopen contracts to reduce premiums, said Patrick administration officials want to examine the contract and make sure savings are passed on to individuals and employers. "What we want carriers and providers to wrap their minds around is no increases, or even decreases, in premiums,'' she said.
Under the agreement, Partners agreed to participate in Blue Cross's alternative quality contract, a so-called global payment that gives health care providers a budget for patient care and incentives for healthy outcomes rather than billing for each visit and procedure. Gottlieb said the new contract will give Partners hospitals the flexibility to experiment with different ways to provide medical care, such as more in-home care for older patients.
With the Partners contract in place, Andrew Dreyfus, chief executive of Blue Cross, said about 613,000 members - two-thirds of those in its HMO plan - are now treated by primary care physicians covered by the global payment plan.
Dreyfus acknowledged, however, that the new contract won't end payment disparities between top-paid providers and struggling community hospitals, which also are being asked to accept smaller pay increases.
"These savings are substantial, but we still have a long way to go,'' Dreyfus said. "There's a real and appropriate impatience by our customers to moderate premium increases.''
Amy Whitcomb Slemmer, executive director of Boston consumer group Health Care for All, said her organization would monitor the new contract to make sure the anticipated savings get passed on to individuals, families, and small businesses. While she applauded the Partners-Blue Cross deal as a step in the right direction, Whitcomb Slemmer said Health Care For All has called for a temporary freeze in insurance premiums.
"We appreciate that these rate increases are lower than they have been, which makes a difference,'' she said. "But we know that people are struggling to pay for the coverage.''
Partners, based in Boston, had been the largest hospital system in Massachusetts not using a global payment system. The new contract, while giving fresh momentum to efforts to overhaul how health care is paid for, covers only about 25 percent of the Partners patients insured by HMO Blue. While it applies to patients treated by Partners physicians or affiliated doctors, patients referred to Partners or those covered through Medicare and other contracts will still be part of the conventional fee-for-service system.
The contract also makes it more likely that Partners could reach agreements to accept smaller payments from two other Massachusetts insurers with which it has been negotiating: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan. And it could stem the rise of costs in the future through a provision that Partners' current reimbursement rates with Blue Cross not be automatically extended to new doctors groups that join the Partners network.
Partners last year made a commitment to contribute $40 million to help reduce health care premiums for small employers and individuals. But by reopening its contract with Blue Cross and accepting lower payments than the contract with the insurer originally called for, Gottlieb said the commitment was fulfilled.
Robert Weisman can be reached at weisman@globe.com.
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