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Bill H.3986 189th (2015 - 2016)
An Act authorizing the city of Medford to use certain land for any municipal purpose
By Representative Donato of Medford and Senator Jehlen, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3986) of Paul J. Donato, Patricia D. Jehlen and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Medford be authorized to use a certain parcel of land in said city for municipal purposes. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]
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2/3/2016 House Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
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3/3/2016 House Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
3/3/2016 House Rules suspended
3/3/2016 House Read second and ordered to a third reading
4/27/2016 House Read third
4/27/2016 House Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted
4/27/2016 House Amended by substitution of a bill with the same title, H4246
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An Act to support the equitable utilization of third party consultants in land use determinations
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An Act regarding mandatory land use board training
An Act encouraging the use of renewable energy on agricultural land
An Act relative to streamline the judicial review of local land use decisions


In Central Florida, when someone mentions the simulation industry, the image of a pilot or astronaut likely comes to mind. While not actually soaring into space, Joseph and Eugenia Sefcik and their team at Employment Technologies are helping organizations reach new heights with award-winning simulations for employee hiring and development. their product? EASy Simulations® talent prediction systems.
Just like flight simulators for pilots and astronauts, the company's EASy Simulations® help businesses identify and hire top talent by immersing job candidates in the same real-life challenges that employees face on the job every day. This highly realistic approach creates an engaging "test-drive" for job candidates while giving employers unparalleled accuracy in predicting future job performance and success.
A pioneer of simulation-based talent prediction, Joseph Sefcik spearheaded efforts to combine simulation and employment assessment technologies in the mid-1980s, notably designing the inaugural simulations for major organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, and the New York Police Department.
Joseph Sefcik, Cofounder and President recalls, "We were confident that simulation would enhance employment testing, but even our design team was surprised by the overwhelming results." Their research quickly revealed the superiority of simulations in reducing test bias, improving the applicant experience, and delivering unparalleled accuracy in predicting job success.
The team's landmark study sparked the entrepreneurial spirit of Joseph Sefcik and his wife, Eugenia, inspiring them to launch Employment Technologies Corporation in 1995 and focus exclusively on simulation- based talent prediction under the brand name, EASy Simulations®.
From the beginning, Joseph and Eugenia Sefcik have partnered with local business development groups such as the Florida SBDC at the University of Central Florida, Vistage, and GrowFL to help ensure the company's growth and success. Leveraging the expertise and counsel of business leaders within these groups resulted in the creation of improved financial forecasting, a strategic marketing plan, and a vibrant online presence.
One of the greatest challenges the company faced was navigating the Great Recession of 2007-2009. In 2008 and 2009, the U.S. labor market lost 8.4 million jobs, or 6.1 percent of all payroll employment, which meant a dramatically reduced demand for pre-employment tests. "Those were difficult days, looking at how we were going to keep our team together and keep the company moving forward," said Joseph. The company's ability to withstand the economic storm was supported by their products, continued investment during the downturn, new sales incentives, and a clear focus on their customers. As a result, company revenue has almost doubled in the past few years.
Now entering their 21st year of business, they have caught the attention of several leading organizations that monitor business development in our community. The Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission named Employment Technologies as one of William C. Schwartz Industry Innovation Award recipients in 2013, and in 2014, they were selected as one of 50 leading second-stage companies from more than 500 nominations statewide, as a Florida Company to Watch, presented by GrowFL. In March, 2016, they were named a Top Ten Winner in the Small Business Division for Bright House's annual Regional Business Awards.
First and foremost, Joseph and Eugenia stress, "Our staff is the source of our success." The majority of the company's 22 person staff has been with Employment Technologies 10 or more years, so it's not surprising that the company has been named to the Orlando Business Journal's coveted Best Places to Work list for the last two years.
Employment Technologies has a deep commitment to community service, leveraging its products and expertise to encourage others. Company CEO, Eugenia Sefcik, founded and directs an outreach program which sponsors at-risk inner city Orlando youth to attend a life- changing summer camp.
The company also enjoys long- time partnerships with educational and workplace readiness programs such as Junior Achievement, The Jobs Partnership of Florida, and Goodwill Industries. By sharing their simulation expertise with these progressive organizations, students and underemployed adults have access to the latest technologies for building critical job skills and expanding their career opportunities.
"When we first realized our simulations doubled the accuracy of predicting job performance, we knew we had something extraordinary," Joseph Sefcik, Cofounder and President, said.
Employment Technologies actively sponsors internships and joint research opportunities at the University of Central Florida and Florida Southern College. The company hires many of its professional staff through these programs.
Today, Employment Technologies has grown to be the world's leading developer of workplace simulations. For future growth, they are looking to come alongside an industry well rooted in central Florida– Hospitality and Amusements – with their award- winning EASy Simulations® Virtual Customer. This interactive simulation, available on mobile devices, immerses applicants into real-world customer situations that enable them to prove their abilities to deliver superior customer service. The simulation quickly and accurately predicts top performers who will greet customers with warmth and enthusiasm, resolve issues, confidently promote products and services, exceed expectations and build customer loyalty. Most recently, they were a second-year exhibitor at IAAPA (International Attractions and Amusement Parks Association) Expo held at Orange County's Convention Center.
In addition to their EASy Simulations® for hospitality, restaurants and attractions, Employment Technologies also has developed the industry's most extensive offering of simulations for banks, financial services, and call centers.
To remain on the leading edge of research and development, Employment Technologies invests a percentage of total revenue each year on research. This enables them to anticipate industry trends and strategically develop and launch breakthrough technologies ahead of the competition. "What is exciting to us is the convergence of technology and the science of talent prediction," said Joseph.


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SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY WITH A HYPHEN
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The Social-Democratic Federation (SDF) was the first organisation in Britain to promote Karl Marx's socialism. Yet it was as much latter-day Chartist as Marxist. Its predecessor, the Democratic Federation, began its programme with a demand for 'Adult Suffrage' and the SDF programme soon featured proportional representation and direct democracy; a total transformation of the political system..
In 1911, as many of the 'Old Guard' very much regretted later, it merged with others on the Left to form the British Socialist Party (BSP). The SDF was already divided over Hyndman's 'German menace' warnings and after the outbreak of war the irreconcilable 'pro-Ally' and 'internationalist' BSP factions became irreconcilable. When the latter achieved control in 1916 the former- largely made up of the self-described 'Old Guard of the SDF' – left. But they kept control of the weekly paper Justice.
In the 20th century, interest inevitably focussed almost exclusively on the continuing BSP which went on to form the largest segment of the Communist Party. This book explores the politics of their uncompromising rivals - largely the 'Old Guard' -who adamantly rejected the notion that the Bolsheviks had accomplished any sort of socialist revolution. They insisted that socialism could only be achieved via democracy. Nothing worthy of being called socialism was possible without it.
While relatively few on the Left were prepared to throw their lot in with Communism, even those most critical of Communist autocracy and oppression tended to acknowledge that at least 'private capitalism' had been abolished. But the revived SDF became the most ardent rejectors of everything Lenin and Co stood for from the forcible crushing of the Constituent Assembly onwards. But it failed to recruit many younger people as the 'Old Guard' began to die out. They had many shortcomings, made many serious mistakes and missed many opportunities. It is time now to re-examine its politics, critically but not totally dismissively.
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Editors Note: Best practices change—so does this blog. This article was originally published February 22, 2017. It's been updated for accuracy and usefulness February 9, 2018.
Cart abandonment is the most frustrating way to lose money.
You got a prospect to your site! You got them to browse! They selected an item (or many!) and threw it into their cart!
So why. didn't. they. just. press. buy. already?
Allow us to demystify it for you.
An abandoned cart is created when a customer adds items to the cart & then leaves the purchase. And according to Baymard, the average online cart abandonment rate is a whopping 69.23%.
There are multiple reasons, at different steps in the funnel, which could cause this to happen. Sometimes, the customer leaves for "life reasons." They forgot they needed to go get groceries, or they're just too busy to dig out their credit card right now.
Now reasons like those we, as shop owners, have little control over. But there are plenty of reasons why a customer may bounce, that we could easily do something about.
The above stats are based on a study by Invesp.
There are solutions to tackle each of the problems mentioned above. The solutions mentioned below can reduce your cart abandonment rate & also help you recover some of the abandoned carts.
This is actually applicable to your website, and not just checkout page. Your website starts making an impression on the customer right from the 1st page they land on. From there on, the impression either gets stronger or weaker depending on your website content & security practices.
The fact is that customers are uncomfortable about sharing their payment information on a checkout page. As per a recent study done by Baymard, 18% of users leave a purchase because they do not trust the merchant with their credit card information. That's not a small number by any means.Your page has to be secured by practices like installing a SSL certificate, security seals and also it has to visually appear secure to your customer.
Your page has to be secured by practices like installing a SSL certificate, security seals and also it has to visually appear secure to your customer.
On many websites, merchants require you to create an account before you can proceed with placing an order. I know of some websites who don't even let you view their products without giving an email address. Meh!
What happens here if the customer is not interested in creating an account with your website? If it is a new customer, the most likely outcome is that the customer will choose another alternative over yours. Simply because the customer is worried about their privacy as much as you are worried about your sales. You should always leave a window open for guest users to place an order. If they do need a product from you again, they will come back on your website if they are satisfied with the last purchase & service.
Capturing abandoned carts & following-up with them can give a tremendous boost to your conversion rates. Based on your eCommerce platform, there are various tools that allow you to capture abandoned carts. Some of them are even free.
One such freemium plugin available for WooCommerce is Abandoned Cart Lite. WooCommerce is the go-to Ecommerce plugin that is available for WordPress. It's hugely popular & has gained a lot of traction in the last 3 years due to its freemium model & easy-to-get-started advantage.
The Abandoned Cart Lite plugin captures abandoned carts & allows you to follow-up on customers with different email campaigns. It allows you to recover 30% of the abandoned carts without spending a dime!
You should find a relevant tool or extension available for your platform & implement it on your website. Remember, it's always easy to convert a customer who has tried to purchase from you once instead of converting an unknown customer.
This often happens to us. Out of a set of fields that are needed to proceed, you miss out on a field or fill out a field wrongly. Now it's a good practice to validate your customer's information & show them appropriate messages if the information is not as desired.
Here's how to create persuasive forms to ensure your customers don't abandon their carts.
If you dish out form after form (as is the case in many surveys), customer will either go away or only give you dummy information in order to speed up the purchase process. It makes more sense to only ask minimal information during purchase, and then probably ask them the details in their Edit Profile section.
During purchase, a buyer's journey is self-driven. Upselling during checkout is the last thing you want to do!
The customer loses focus from the current purchase & either will get distracted by the upsell or will leave your website for the want of a smoother experience elsewhere.
You should pause your upselling & cross-selling during checkout. It's even a good idea to completely hide your navigation menu.
And the list goes on! It doesn't matter if you are selling pizza or software or flowers. You're losing revenue that was at your doorstep!
Here's what we'd recommended doing in the past, if you wanted to recapture leads that haven't converted.
Separate your checkout process into multiple steps, so that prospective customer submits their name and email first.
If that same prospect doesn't finish their checkout process, follow up with an automated email—reminding them that there are items in their cart waiting for them.
Using Google remarketing, or facebook retargeting—show ads to anyone who made that far in the checkout process. They are, after all, your most qualified potential buyers.
Sounds like a solid way to follow up, no?
But, GDPR—or, General Data Protection Regulation—has been passed, and will be implemented in May of 2018. Along with it are a boatload of new rules as to how you can use personal data.
Anyone who's online store is based in the EU, or anyone who collects any data from any data subject in the EU. Even if that's not you—it's a good idea to start following GDPR rules for compliance. India, the United States, and just about everywhere else is working on similar legislation.
How does it affect Ecommerce?
For an in-depth explanation, head here. But what you really need to know is: to use personal data of any kind, you now need to ask for consent. Data subjects have to opt-in actively, and explicitly, for you to use or store their data in anyway. And the definition of personal data is, essentially, "anything that could identify a person"—and that includes a lot. Cookies, IP addresses, names, emails, etc.
Meaning: all the fun ways we used to retarget cart-abandoners—are getting a lot harder to legally implement. Email addresses require consent. Google and Facebook retargeting is likely to require consent. And getting consent to contact is just one more "ask" to throw in your visitors path pre-conversion.
So when someone gets to your checkout process, and bounces—well, they've more or less slipped through the marketing ether.
Which makes tightening up that checkout process, and reducing cart abandonment, matter more than ever.
Apart from these, there are some other reasons as well which contribute to cart abandonment like showing prices in a foreign currency, better pricing on other sites & so on.
Mitigating these can result in an overall higher conversion rate for your website. It also reduces your cart abandonment rate.
Cart abandonment is at a stage where we need to educate the business owner about it. If the business owner is unaware about it, then it's our role, as service providers or consultants, to educate them about it & ask them to take appropriate actions.
Vishal is the Founder & CEO of Tyche Softwares, a leading WooCommerce plugins provider that has carved a niche for itself in the WordPress plugins space. Vishal has been building web solutions since 2001. He has worked on a wide range of platforms like C++, Flash, Symbian & Linux with core expertise in PHP. He is the author of a dozen plugins for WordPress & WooCommerce. Apart from steering his team through different situations, Vishal has a very sharp focus on Customer Service. He wants to ensure that every client has a delightful experience while interacting with his team.


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If you are serious about your health and fitness, you need to enjoy your programming plan! To help you along the way, Susan provides you with factual information, proper guidance and a component of fun into your sessions. She takes pride in cultivating programming options that provide you with continual enjoyment and satisfaction for consistent commitment to your success.
Susan Iverson is very professional, personable and a hands on personal trainer and wellness coach. She is sincerely concerned about the well-being of her clients. She listens very attentively to her clients' goals and aspirations and designs a plan specifically for them. Susan checks in with you on a regular basis so you stay motivated and accountable to your goals. I have made rapid weight loss progress on plans designed by Susan.
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Poirier bloodies Holloway, wins UFC interim lightweight belt
Dustin Poirier, right, punches Max Holloway during an interim lightweight title mixed martial arts bout at UFC 236 in Atlanta, early Sunday, April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Zarrilli)
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Published Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:30AM EDT
ATLANTA - Dustin Poirier bloodied Max Holloway and won a unanimous decision for the UFC interim lightweight title on Saturday night, denying Holloway his chance to become only the fourth fighter to hold two belts at the same time.
Holloway, the UFC featherweight champion, moved up to the 155-pound class for the first time, attempting to gain the second belt. He also was trying to avenge his loss to Poirier in his first UFC fight in 2012.
Holloway had Poirier in trouble in the third round but couldn't overcome Poirier's relentless barrage of punches.
Holloway was bleeding heavily by the fourth round. There was so much blood on his face in the fifth and final round that it appeared he had difficulty seeing at times as he wiped his eyes.
Each judge scored the fight 49-46 for Poirier (17-4).
"This feels great," Poirier said. "I feel like I'm in a dream right now."
Holloway (20-4) had his streak of 17 consecutive wins end. He hasn't ruled out a return to the featherweight class.
"I'm not going to take nothing from Dustin," Holloway said in the octagon, looking at Poirier. "You beat a world champ and you're a world champ."
In the other headline fight of UFC 236, Israel Adesanya earned the interim middleweight title with his domination of Kelvin Gastelum in the fifth round.
Adesanya (17-0) wore the gold championship belt immediately after the unanimous decision was announced.
Gastelum (15-4) appeared to have Adesanya in trouble at times. Adesanya's corner treated a cut under his right eye after the fourth round, but the rising star from New Zealand had a decisive finish in the fifth, when Gastelum was bloodied for the first time and knocked down three times.
Gastelum was obviously groggy after being floored for the second time, and he quickly went down again. Just when it appeared the fight might be stopped, Gastelum was saved by the final bell.
Adesanya landed 135 strikes, almost twice Gastelum's total of 68.
"I was ready for a five-round war, but it is not what I expected," Adesanya said. "... I will say Kelvin did well to land the jab. That was unexpected and I was surprised to let him get that jab."
Poirier's possible reward for his win is a chance to face undefeated Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov.
The retirement of Conor McGregor, who was the sport's most popular fighter, leaves a void in UFC. McGregor held featherweight and lightweight titles but hasn't won a fight since November 2016.
Nurmagomedov said this month he would like to fight again in September, two months after the end of his Nevada State Athletic Commission ban for his team's brawl with McGregor's team following their fight in October.
"Right now I'm the champ," Poirier said, adding he hoped Nurmagomedov could return for a unifying fight that would remove the interim tag on his title.
"We've got a belt to fight for," Poirier said.
Poirier's hope was shared by UFC President Dana White. When asked about a possible unification bout following Poirier's win, White said "Yes, that's the fight."
For now, the interim title is worth celebrating for Poirier. Fans chanted for Holloway at times, but Poirier also had his share of fans.
"It's cool to prove it in front of all these people, but I had to prove it to myself," Poirier said. "This means everything to me."
The near-capacity crowd at State Farm Arena included Shaquille O'Neal.
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If you are living in or purchasing a home built before 1978, there is a chance that lead based paint may have been used. Lead may also be found in the plumbing, fittings and solder of these homes.
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There are a few different types of lead inspection techniques, but the most commonly used and least invasive way uses an x-ray to detect lead in the walls, even deep under multiple paint layers. This information is very important to know if you are planning on renovating, sanding the walls or any other activity that may release lead contaminated dust.
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Horoho takes oath as first nurse, female surgeon general
By Rob McIlvaineDecember 8, 2011
1 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army chief of staff, and retired Col. Ray Horoho, her husband, pin the three-star epaulets on the shoulders of Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, the 43rd surgeon general and commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Command, in Dec. 7, 2011, ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va., (Photo Credit: Rob McIlvaine) VIEW ORIGINAL
2 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho enjoys Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno's remarks before getting her third star. (Photo Credit: Rob McIlvaine) VIEW ORIGINAL
3 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho speaks to the crowd after getting her third star and being named 43rd Army surgeon general. (Photo Credit: Rob McIlvaine) VIEW ORIGINAL
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ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, Dec. 8, 2011) -- Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, the first nurse and first woman appointed, became the Army's 43rd surgeon general Dec. 7 in a ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.
She was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama May 10 and was later approved by the Senate.
She succeeds Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, who will retire in January.
"Over the past decade, Army medicine has led the joint health effort in the most austere environments." Horoho said. "As part of the most decisive and capable land force in the world, we stand ready to adapt."
A decade of this war, she said, has left a fighting force with both physical and psychological scars.
"We are dedicated to identifying and caring for those Soldiers who have sustained psychological and physical trauma associated with an Army engaged in a protracted war," she said, adding that the war fighter does not stand alone.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, who passed the U.S. Army Medical Command flag to Horoho in a ceremony Dec. 5 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, promoted her to lieutenant general and administered the oath to swear her in as the Army's top medical officer.
"The Army cannot provide trained and ready forces to the nation without our talented medical professionals and leaders. In everything we do, we rely on medical command and the surgeon general to set the vision for this community and have the courage to carry it out," Odierno said.
Horoho has commanded the Army Nurse Corps since 2008, when she received a rare two-grade promotion from colonel to major general.
As Army surgeon general, she will direct the third-largest healthcare system in the United States, behind the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Hospital Corporation of America.
With an annual budget of $13.5 billion, the surgeon general manages more than 480 facilities and 29 executive agencies, many of which lead groundbreaking research efforts. She also oversees 140,000 military and civilian employees, and more than 3.5 million beneficiaries, globally.
The Army surgeon general's impact, said Odierno, extends far beyond the Army to the national and the international level, collaboration and partnership with other public and private entities on research, standards of practices, national leadership in areas such as brain injury, concussive disorders, mental health promotion and pain management.
"This position requires a special officer who can lead change and achieve unity of effort in a dynamic, joint interagency and also in a multi-national role, working with our allies and partners around the world," Odierno explained. "For these reasons, it's important to pick the right person. And we are absolutely, incredibly lucky to have Lieutenant General Patty Horoho as the 43rd Army surgeon general."
"She's earned this extremely important leadership position, not only because of her incredible past performance and achievements, but more importantly her outstanding potential, as she will lead Medical Command and lead as the Army surgeon general," Odierno said, adding that her 28 years of experience and education will prove to be "an inspiration for many others."
"Army medicine," Horoho said, "has a responsibility to all those who serve, to include family members, and our retirees who have already answered the call to our nation. We will fully engage our patients in all aspects of their healthcare experience at each touch point, starting with the initial contact.
"We will make the right care available at the right time by demonstrating compassion to those we serve and value to our stakeholders. The collective healthcare experience is driven by a team of professionals partnering with the patient, focused on health, health promotion and disease prevention to enhance wellness.
One of Army medicine's greatest challenges over the next three to five years, she said, is managing the escalating cost of providing world-class healthcare in a fiscally constrained environment.
"I see these challenges as windows of opportunity for us to shape the future of Army medicine and I am confident, regardless of the environment or the landscape, we will meet all challenges in true Army medicine fashion -- with innovation, dignity and strength. Together, we will usher in the new era of possibilities.
While deployed to Afghanistan, Horoho remembered asking a young medic how he would describe Army medicine.
"He replied, 'We carry healthcare on our backs.' As we sit here today there are young men and women willing to put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. Thank God we have young medics who are carrying innovative quality and precision healthcare on their backs, regardless of risk to personal safety. This is our privilege. This is our honor, and this is why Army medicine will face all challenges with strength, resolve and dedicated focus," she said.
As a Registered Nurse, Horoho earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina, her Master of Science degree as a clinical trauma nurse specialist from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a resident graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where she earned a second Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy.
Other military assignments include: Sstaff nurse on a multi-service specialty ward, staff and head nurse of a level III emergency department, Evans Army Community Hospital, Fort Carson, Colo.; nurse counselor, 1st Recruiting Brigade (Northeast) with duty at Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Recruiting Battalions; head nurse of a 22-bed emergency department, Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, N.C.; chief nurse and hospital commander of a 500-bed field hospital, 249th General Hospital, Fort Gordon, Ga.; assistant branch chief, Army Nurse Corps Branch, United States Total Army Personnel Command, Alexandria, Va.; assistant deputy for Healthcare Management Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Pentagon, Washington, D.C.; deputy commander for nursing and commander of the DeWitt Health Care Network, Fort Belvoir, Va.; and deputy commander for nursing, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and North Atlantic Regional Medical Command, Washington, D.C.
Recognitions include being selected in 1993 by "The Great 100" as one of the top hundred nurses in the state of North Carolina. In the same year, she was selected as Fort Bragg's supervisor of the year. She deployed to Haiti with the Army's first Health Facility Assessment Team.
After she co-authored a chapter on training field hospitals that was published by the U.S. Army Reserve Command surgeon in 1998, Horoho was honored Dec. 3, 2001, by Time Life Publications for her actions on Sept. 11, 2001, at the Pentagon.
She was among 15 nurses selected Sept. 14, 2002, by the American Red Cross and Nursing Spectrum to receive national recognition as a "Nurse Hero." In 2007, she was honored as a University of Pittsburgh Legacy Laureate. In April 2009, she was selected as the USO's "Woman of the Year," and in May 2009, she became an affiliate faculty with Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing, Tacoma, Wash.
"And most recently, she was deployed to Afghanistan as a special assistant to the commander of International Security Assistance Force Joint Command -- incredible, impeccable credentials,' Odierno said.
"With Soldiers deployed, taking care of families, taking care of wounded warriors -- exactly the kind of leader we want to be our surgeon general," he added.
On Aug. 29, 1898, Dr. Anita Newcomb broke new ground for the Office of the Surgeon General by becoming the first woman to hold the office of acting assistant surgeon, Department of the Army. She was assigned to the Surgeon General's Office as superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, which she organized.
Another nurse, Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, served as acting Army surgeon general from March through December 2007, temporarily filling the post after Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley was relieved as a result of aging facilities at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But Horoho is the first nurse and first woman to be nominated for the position and confirmed by Congress.
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Previously, the police confirmed that the complainant Ms. Lee has dropped her charges against JYJ member Yoochun.
According to the reports, Ms. Lee revealed her thoughts as to why she withdrew her charges by saying, "There was no force during the sexual contact with Park Yoochun. However, I filed the claim since I felt that he and his group saw me as an easy person."
The police also reveal that they plan to continue their investigations on the case. A representative from the police station explains, "The sexual assault charge has been withdrawn. However, the investigation about the incident will still continue. The investigation will be made so that we could come to a definite conclusion about the suspicions against Yoochun. It is also likely that Yoochun and the complainant will be called if needed."
The police also referred as to how the law does not require for the alleged victim to press sexual charges for the police to investigate a case.
Following the news of the withdrawal of charges, Yoochun's management agency C-JeS Entertainment reveals that they will be cooperating with the police for any investigations in order to prove his innocence against the sexual assault accusations.
Meanwhile, Yoochun was seen returning to his post as a public service personnel at the Gangnam-gu Ward Office Station in Seoul. He enlisted for his mandatory military service since August of 2015.
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Strap Fruits and Pots on Your Head to Beat the Helmet Law?
Written by Staff January 31, 2009
If you've read any of my previous articles regarding my personal take on helmet laws, you probably know I'm a big proponent of having the right to choose. Although it's obviously much safer to wear a helmet than not, I normally chose to not wear a helmet when riding in helmet-free states.
With that being said, I thought you might find it interesting to see what motorcyclists in other parts of the world are doing in an attempt to 'comply' with their own helmet laws. In Kano, Nigeria, motorcyclists; including motorcycle taxi riders are apparently strapping calabashes — dried shells of pumpkin-sized fruit usually used as a bowl, pots, pans, and pieces of rubber tire to their heads with strings to dodge the rules. The law, which came into effect on January 1, 2009, pits two groups against each other; motorcycle taxi riders who are notorious for road-rage, and the corrupt bribe-hungry traffic police.
I've never thought of replacing my brain bucket with a piece of watermelon, pumpkin (during Biketoberfest), or maybe a nice non-stick pan from the kitchen, but hey…I'm willing to try anything once. I guess this would give a whole new meaning to the terms 'Potheads' and 'Panheads.'
The regulations have apparently caused major chaos in Africa's most populated areas; not that they don't have enough chaos already; where motorcyclists are complaining that helmets are too expensive, and many of their taxi passengers are refusing to wear them because they are afraid the helmets could be laced with magic spells so as to knock the wearer unconscious and make them easier to rob, while others feared they would pick up skin disease or infections. 'The story is that people who have scabies, craw-craw, ringworm, dandruff and all other such diseases would easily infect others with them through the helmets,' Steve Nwosu wrote in the Daily Sun. 'They ironically forget that the same diseases are also deposited on, and generously transferred from, car seats and their headrests.'
I'm not sure what the average pay for motorcycle taxi riders are; however, I'm seeing a huge opportunity for shipping a few of my old skid lids and football helmets overseas with helmet stickers attached that say 'Disease Free' and 'Non-Black Magic Spell Approved.'
Apparently, construction workers have also set up their own lucrative trade renting out their safety helmets for around 500 naira ($3.60) a day. 'They use pots, plates, calabashes, rubber and plastic as makeshift helmets,' said Yusuf Garba, commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission in the northern town of Kano. 'We will not tolerate this. We gave them enough time to purchase helmets. Six months ago the price of helmets was below 800 naira, so complaints about non-availability and high prices are no excuse,' he said. Garba claims that only 28 arrests had been made in Kano, and newspapers have reported more arrests in other cities. Those detained are fined and their bikes impounded until they buy helmets. And we thought the helmet laws here in the states suck!
Although 800 naira seems like a reasonable price to me, helmet prices are apparently on the upswing as opportunistic sellers are cashing in on the demand. There are tens of thousands of motorcycle taxis buzzing around Lagos, a chaotic city of 14 million people, many of them given to unemployed and illiterate youths as part of poverty reduction programs. And to make matters worse, most have never been taught traffic rules.
I've got an idea. I say we make all states here in the good old U.S. helmet free and ship all of our helmets over to those who can't afford them. Deal?
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Materials researchers micromanage atoms in hard metal
(Nanowerk News) Drilling bits in the mining industry and cutting tools for metalworking in the manufacturing industry are often made of hard metal – a material nearly as hard as diamond. Researchers have long tried to control the manufacturing process for the material to be able to steer in detail the hardness and other key properties to make it more durable. By combining theory and experiments, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have now taken a crucial step toward being able to micromanage the performance of the material, down to the level of the atom.
"The size of bore can vary, from a diameter of 10 meters for large tunnel bores down to three hundredths of a millimeter, thinner than a human hair, for applications in the electronics industry. This places great demands on the manufacturing process to attain precise properties. The results of Sven Johansson's and Jonathan Weidow's research are of great interest to industry, and what they have managed to do is unique," says Göran Wahnström, professor of physics.
Hard metal is a mixture of a hard carbide phase, wolfram carbide (WC), and a tougher metal phase, cobalt (Co). It is produced by sintering, whereby fine powders of WC and Co are heated up so the cobalt melts and the material is pulled together by capillary force. The result is a solid material consisting of a hard skeleton of wolfram carbide grains surrounded by the tougher cobalt-rich cement phase.
The size of the wolfram carbide grains is key to the hardness of the hard metal. The great challenge is to be able to control the growth of these grains during the sintering process. By combining experimental and theoretical methods, the researchers now understand how they can control the structure of the material in detail, down to the level of the atom, during the production process. The work was carried out as a twin doctoral project with funding from the Swedish Research Council and the industry (Sandvik and Seco Tools) and in collaboration with a research team in Grenoble.
"Our work has focused on characterizing and understanding the interfaces in the material, on the one hand between the wolfram carbide grains, so-called granular interfaces and, on the other hand, between the wolfram carbide grain and the cementing phase, what are called phase interfaces. The theoretical part made use of quantum mechanical density-functional theory to describe and understand how the electrons in the material bind together the material," says Göran Wahnström.
By doping the material (adding another substance in tiny portions) scientists have known that the growth of the grain can be dramatically limited. A tiny addition of vanadium can limit the growth of the grains to one tenth, from a particle size of one thousandth of a mm down to one ten-thousandth mm. But they did not know why.
In the doped materials, the research group in Grenoble found, using high-resolution electron microscopy, that an extremely thin layer, only two atom layers thick, of a cubical structure can be built on the wolfram carbide grains. At Chalmers, Jonathan Weidow used atom-probe tomography, a technology unique in Sweden, to analyze the interfaces atom by atom.
"These films can affect the growth, but the question is whether they are there during the actual sintering process when the WC particles are growing, when the experimental microscopy technology cannot be used. The theoretical prediction is that these films can also exist at the high sintering temperatures. Large grains with the composition of the film are then thermodynamically unstable, but the thin film is stabilized by strong bindings on the interface between the film and the cementing phase," says Göran Wahnström.
Sven Johansson's dissertation is titled "A computational study of interface structures and energetics in cemented carbides and steels".
Jonathan Weidow's dissertation is titled "Effect of metal and cubic carbide additions on interface chemistry, phase composition and grain growth in WC-Co based cemented carbides".
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Second, Emma Schachner, who also graduated inhas just published a paper that shows unidirectional airflow in the lungs of Savannah monitor lizards. This was unexpected, as unidirectional airflow was known before only in birds. September - Crocodiles in the age of dinosaurs New research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has revealed the hidden past of crocodiles. While most modern crocodiles live in freshwater habitats and feed on mammals and fish, their ancient relatives were extremely diverse - with some built for running around like dogs on land and others adapting to life in the open ocean, imitating the feeding behaviour of today's killer whales.
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September - Palaeobiology's th MSc graduate sparks first reunion The University of Bristol's Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research Group is celebrating the fact that students have now completed its MSc in Palaeobiology, with its first reunion event for former and current Bristol palaeobiologists.
The reunion weekend was a chance to welcome new members of staff, Dr Davide Pisani and Dr Jakob Vinther, and included talks from staff, students, and alumni, a CPD programme of new numerical methods, a tour and display, and a field trip.
September - Palaeontology student receives prestigious Fulbright award Rachel Frigot, who has just finished the MSc in Palaeobiology programme forhas received a Fulbright Award to enable her to study at Johns Hopkins University in the US on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programmes operating world-wide.
Rachel funded her Masters studies in Bristol over the past two years by working as a tutor. April - MSc project on giant marine reptile with a gammy jaw Imagine having arthritis in your jaw bones A new study has found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived million years ago. Such a disease has never been described before in fossilised Jurassic reptiles.
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The animal is the pliosaur Pliosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of Westbury, Wiltshire, and the new paper, published today in Palaeontology is the core of Judyth Sassoon's research thesis which she completed while studying for the Bristol MSc in Palaeobiology.
April - Former MSc student publishes the textbook Steve Brusattewho completed the MSc in Palaeobiology in Bristol inand went on to work for his PhD at the American Museum of Natural History, has just published the most authoritative and up-to-date textbook on dinosaurs, with the title Dinosaur Paleobiology. The book covers all aspects of dinosaurs, from classification, phylogeny, and palaeobiology to their extinction and the origin of birds. This is the first in a new series of advanced palaeontological books, published worldwide by Wiley-Blackwell, and edited by Mike Benton from the Bristol group.
They were asked by BBC learning to create a number of short animations about maths for primary school Key Stage 2, and it ran on BBC2 as a 45 minute programme. The British Academy Children's Awards celebrates the very best in children's film, television, games and online media of the past year and the talent behind their successes. December - More scientific publications by Bristol MSc students has been marked by more top-level publications by former Bristol Palaeobiology Masters students.
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We count a further eight papers, bringing the running total, sinceto 91 papers. Highlights of include a paper in PNAS, one of the world's leading scientific journals, from Philippa Thorne, presenting her work on ichthyosaur evolution. The Bristol Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research group overall published a total of 70 papers inof which the contribution by Masters students is 11 percent.
She shows that the evolution of ichthyosaurs, important marine predators of the age of dinosaurs, was hit hard by a mass extinction event million years ago.
Ichthyosaurs are iconic fossils, first discovered years ago by Mary Anning on the Jurassic coast of Dorset at Lyme Regis. The new study uses numerical methods to explore rates of evolution, diversity, and range of body morphology through the crisis. December - Record number of scientific publications by Bristol MSc students has seen the the largest number of publications by Bristol Palaeobiology Masters students, totalling 20 - one 'public understanding of science' contribution, and 19 scientific papers in journals ranging from Science to Palaeontology, and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society to Biology Letters.
This brings the total of original refereed scientific papers by MSc and MSci students to 81, since the MSc began in The Bristol Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research group overall published a total of 80 papers inof which the contribution by Masters students is 25 percent.
November - New prize announced for best MSc thesis A new prize for the best project from students enrolled for the MSc in Palaeobiology, to be called the David Dineley Prize, has been launched.
The first award will be made in earlyfor the best MSc thesis in the cohort, as judged by the teaching staff and the external examiner for the programme. May - MSc student wins prize for thesis Nick Crumpton, who completed the MSc in Palaeobiology in Bristol in Septemberhas just been awarded the Geologists' Association prize for one of the best earth sciences Masters theses in the UK in Nick worked on adaptation and morphometrics of the teeth of tiny Triassic and Jurassic mammals, and the prize was awarded for his application of innovative numerical imaging techniques and comparisons with analogous extant forms.
April - Former MSc students get permanent palaeontology positions Former students of the Bristol MSc have achieved excellent careers in palaeontology - in museums, universities, publishing, and the media. We normally do not highlight their new posts, but keep a list of current jobs of former students where we can. Many congratulations to them all! The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution's museum holds a unique spectacular collection of exceptionally preserved fossils from the late Lias of Ilminster, Somerset, that show exquisite 3-dimensional detail, and many have soft tissues.
The funding supports essential curatorial work at the BRLSI and development of a substantial new research programme by Bristol MSc students, beginning with the October intake. Their work shows that diatoms, a form of planktonic algae, have been key to the evolution of the diversity of whales. The fossil record shows that diatoms and whales rose and fell in diversity together.
Whales do not eat diatoms, but the giant baleen whales feed on krill, small crustaceans that themselves feed on diatoms. December - Another bumper year for publications by Bristol MSc students The year has seen the publication of a further 11 scientific papers by current and former Bristol MSc and MSci palaeontology students.
The funding will pay for a preparator, and an Education Officer. MSc students can be part of this educational initiative. The project is planned to include outreach to schools and laboratory skills training for MSc students. MSc student Judyth Sassoon assisted with the launch of the award, and her tastefully varnished finger nails left have graced countless photographs worldwide. October - Why giant sea scorpions got so big Palaeozoic eurypterids were remarkable for their huge size.
It had been thought that these predators became ever larger in an 'arms race' with their prey, the heavily armnoured fishes, or that their size increase was enabled by extra-high levels of oxygen in the atmosphere at the time. The work is published today in Biology Letters. September - Fossil water scorpion was ancestor of giant sweep-feeders New finds of a fossil water scorpion that lived in rivers around Bristol some Million years ago have shown Bristol palaeontologists what the animal looked like and how it was related to other eurypterids.
It is published this week in the journal Palaeontology. September - Reptiles stood upright after mass extinction Having studied fossil tracks of reptiles from below and above the end-Permian mass extinction boundary, Prof Mike Benton and former MSc Palaeobiology student Tai Kubo found that medium- and large-sized reptiles changed from walking with a sprawling gait, to walking with their legs tucked under their bodies.
This happened across the crisis boundary, whereas evidence from skeletal fossils had previously suggested the transition took some million years, through much of the Triassic. September - No universal driver for plankton evolution During his MSc project, Bristol Palaeobiology student Ben Kotrc, now undertaking a PhD at Harvard, analysed the relative importance of abiotic versus biotic effect on the evolution of marine plankton.
The results of the work, supervised by Dr Daniela Schmidt and recently published in PNASshow that both competition with other organisms and long term climatic changes influence evolutionary change in radiolarians. June - New research on early mammals Two MSc Palaeobiology students in the Department of Earth Sciences have had notable successes in their work on the habits of some of the earliest mammals to have lived, some two hundred million years ago.
Nick Crumpton and Kelly Richards are studying the fossilised remains of animals from the Triassic and Jurassic periods, found in ancient caves in the Bristol area, applying innovative new research techniques. Nick has been honoured with a 'best paper' prize, and Kelly has raised funding for her advanced CT-scanning work.
This is one of several awards she has accumulated during her year in Bristol: The GSA award was made in Octoberand is reported here. November - Bristol MSci student publishes study on fossil whales Felix Marx, a final-year MSci student in the Department of Earth Sciences has just published his first paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, a journal of international significance. Felix looked at the fossil records of whales, seals, and sea cows, and compared the fossil data to the availability of appropriate rock; he finds evidence for some geological control of the fossil record signal, but enough of a biological signal emerges to be used for evolutionary studies.
September - Mass extinctions and the slow rise of the dinosaurs Dinosaurs survived two mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems, according to new research published this week. Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, in his last blast as an MSc student in the Department, together with colleagues, show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their rise was a slow and complicated event, and driven by two mass extinctions.
September - Bristol MSc student sheds new light on dinosaurian origins A new study shows that the dinosaurs originated in two steps, and that they did not compete in a straghtforward way with precursor groups. Steve Brusatte, while an MSc student in the Department, worked with Mike Benton, Marcello Ruta, and Graeme Lloyd to investigate the disparity and morphospace occupation, or overall variability, of dinosaurs and their main competitors, the crurotarsans, through the Late Triassic.
The dinosaurs took over some herbivore niches, but then remained at low disparity for 25 million years, before the majority of crurotarsans died out. July - Was it a bird or was it a plane? Interdisciplinary studies involving Bristol's departments of Earth Sciences and Aerospace Engineering have given a better understanding of the way that kuehneosaurs - a group of extinct reptiles - used their ribs to fly.
Koen Stein built models and tested them in a wind tunnel whilst he was studying for an MSc in Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences. The paper, in Palaeontology, has attracted a great deal of interest because of the bizarre concept of a Danish parrot, and obvious parallels with Monty Python's famous 'dead parrot' sketch, featuring the Norwegian blue parrot who was lying on his back because he was 'pining for the fjords'.
February - Bristol MSc student names two new dinosaurs from North Africa MSc student Steve Brusatte, and his former supervisor, Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, describe two new dinosaurs, Kryptops, the oldest abelisauroid theropod, and Eocarcharia, the oldest carcharodontosaurid theropod, both from Niger in the Sahara, and both indicating the origins of their respective groups in Africa and surround lands.
December - Another bumper year for publications by Bristol MSc students The year has marked a record, with 14 publications by current and former MSc and MSci students. The Bristol Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research group published a total of 61 papers inof which the contribution by Masters students is 21 percent. Steve Brusatte, who has just completed the Bristol MSc in Palaeobiology, has described a new species of Carcharodontosaurus, a huge predator from Morocco.
Carcharodontosaurus roamed North Africa million years ago, and it was larger than Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Out of Dublin by Ethel Rohan
Posted on September 1, 2014 by TC Editors
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Compelling is the first word that came to mind when I began reading Ethel Rohan's 10,000-word memoir, Out of Dublin (Shebooks, 2014). Her story begins with images from her childhood—plastic bags filled with belongings carted across country, summer camping by the sea, ice cream cones with "sticks of chocolate" and fizzy drinks, watching planes take off from the top of the family sedan, and good night kisses "laced with smoke and the tang of hard spirits."
Rohan's story is a non-linear narration. She time-travels back and forth, allowing the reader to see the chronology of her life through glimpses and remembrances: "As a girl I often danced alone, usually to the music in my mind, my moves stolen from TV and ballerinas inside music boxes. I was helium. Stardust." Vivid scenes showcase characters that are rich and rotund, dressed and addressed and seen through lovely turns of phrase and metaphor.
"[Y]our tired, shaky, blue-veined hands serving up bowls of the steaming chicken soup to my sisters and me, and as we'd finished eating, … you said you'd put poison in the soup, that we'd all be better off dead…" Moment-by-moment and scene-by-scene, Rohan peels back the layers revealing the darker side of a loving family living, coping, and surviving their mother's mental illness and more.
Motifs of skeletons and lost bones flow organically throughout the story alluding to fleeting moments of fragility and innocence lost— "Waiting through the days and nights for you to come home, for you to be found, I shook so hard I felt sure my skeleton would come undone, terrified you would kill yourself…" and later, "I tried to tell Dad the secret picking at my bones."
The narrator's voice is credible throughout the entire story and is especially heart-cut when she recalls the descent of her father into illness. "I yearned to hear certain things from him, like I love you. I'm proud of you. Thank you. I couldn't bear the thoughts of a tracheostomy taking away his ability to speak, of the hope of his ever saying those things of the heart gone forever."
Yet her story is hopeful. For this family happiness might be fleeting, but it abounds in moments captured with a beautiful cadence that transcends and small moments tantalizingly shown like the narrator's father teaching her how to sweep a floor.
Dad had always said if you were going to do a job, do it right. He had taught me to sweep a floor, had maintained there was only one right way to do the job. Start in this far corner, he instructed, and work your way around to the last corner, tackle every inch, and a broom is better than a brush. He had also taught me how to waltz and to drive a car. Every time I went wrong at sweeping, waltzing, or driving, I would apologize and he would say, "Don't keep saying sorry."
I would never be great at the waltz and proved much worse at the driving, but I can sweep a floor like I've licked every inch. I have always loved to sweep floors, especially with a broom, savoring the sure feel of the wooden handle in my hands, the rhythmic scratch of the straw needles, the gathering pile of dirt, the making clean.
And not a word is wasted. "For a long time I didn't sleep, thinking how I hadn't sang, how I hadn't gotten heard." Rohan's selections are alluring in their brevity, pulling in theme (such as isolation and silence) and emotion between the spaces.
Also noteworthy is how the language also changes throughout the course of the memoir. There are times when the narrator yearningly addresses a second person—her mother in flashback. Other moments are realized through a stream-of-consciousness style where Rohan narrates her backstory in a page-long sentence as if she is speaking her remembrances aloud in a hurried and held breath.
In Out of Dublin, Ethel Rohan lays it all out—bare and unflinching in its humanity. Monsters do exist in different forms and danger is everywhere "even in the smallest of things." She keeps the reader on a need-to-know basis, curiously omitting the details of ordinary life milestones, as her story seems to be about her own childhood closure. With a quiet gratefulness, Rohan recalls the best and brightest and the worst moments of her coming of age, of the people and places she loves and the cement that binds family. She sifts and salvages the lost and gleaming pieces, the scattered and broken parts and leaves the reader totally engrossed until the very end.
Ethel Rohan was the winner of Ireland's 2013 Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award. Her work has or soon will appear in The New York Times, World Literature Today, PEN America, Tin House Online, The Irish Times, BREVITY Magazine, The Rumpus and Toasted Cheese. She is also the author of the chapbook Hard to Say and two story collections, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone, named a 2010 Notable Story Collection by the Story Prize. Rohan was a former book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books and received her MFA in fiction from Mills College, CA. Rohan was raised in Dublin and presently writes in San Francisco. She is a member of The Writer's Grotto and PEN America.
Website: ethelrohan.com
Twitter: @ethelrohan
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The waitress brings Elizabeth a glass of water with lemon. She wants red wine. It's too early for wine. She returns to her book—The English Patient, which only adds to her longing—and waits.
He arrives at the restaurant dressed in a yellow raincoat. She checks the sky; it won't rain for hours yet. If he can look like that then she can have wine. She signals the waitress. He places his keys on the white tablecloth, and gives her that disapproving look. Her gaze jumps to his germ-laden keys, and back to him. His face is milky pale and eyes cold. She recalls him sucking her nipples, and looks away. He doesn't remove his raincoat, yellow as mustard.
Beyond the window, an Alsatian as big as a baby bear is tied by its leash to the bus-stop pole. The dog sniffs passersby and whimpers low in its throat. She returns her attention to her lunch guest. He's come straight from the Botanic Gardens where he tends the tropical plants and he smells of earth and green. His fingernails are caked with dirt. Once, they made love inside the Gardens' greenhouse, secreted inside the forest of potted plants. It takes all her strength not to tell him to remove his coat and go wash his hands.
They discuss the sale of the holiday cottage, the only thing they legally share. It is white-washed and covered in green moss and is the only place that's ever felt like home; she wishes she could afford to buy him out. His dirty fingernail pushes his lemon-rind into his soda. She winces. The previous night, mosquitoes feasted on the backs of her legs and she struggles not to scratch, not to order another glass of syrupy, plum-flavored wine.
He sucks on his lemon rind. They met at a friend's fortieth birthday bash, a casino on a boat in the bay. She beat him at poker with a Queen of Hearts. Outside, a woman appears next to the Alsatian, feeding it from a greasy brown paper bag. The dog's tail thumps the ground like a jump-rope, its eyelids drooping with pleasure. They ended when she found out about his affair with some skeletal twenty-nothing intern at the Gardens.
When the waitress returns to take their lunch order, she asks for the check.
"I can't do this," she tells him.
The waitress brings the check on a white plate with three tiny chocolate chip cookies. His dirty hand paws all three. Down the back of the nursery is his tools trunk—if he still keeps it there—and inside is a manicure set she gave him, used on him. Once, she thought she could die for him.
She pays, and hurries into her coat. He's still sitting, chewing.
"Call me," he says. "Let's get this finished."
The bells of a nearby church ring out for noon, their peals echoing like a gong. Overhead the storm clouds gather. Used to be, she'd think that meant something too.
Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Ethel Rohan received her MFA in fiction from Mills College, California. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from such journals as elimae, PANK, DOGZPLOT, Storyglossia, Word Riot, mud luscious, Ghoti Magazine, Anemone Sidecar, The Los Angeles Review, and (So New) Necessary Fiction, among many others. Her blog is Straight From The Heart In My Hip. E-mail: ethelrohan[at]gmail.com
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Quiz: Only A Word Wizard Will Know The Meaning Of These 35 Words: HowStuffWorks
Only A Word Wizard Will Know The Meaning Of These 35 Words
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Which of the following might a person find ineffable?
A dinner menu
A newly born puppy
When something is ineffable, that means it is overwhelming, most often in a positive way. The reaction, such as one might have to thoughts of space exploration or ocean voyages, literally translates into something that cannot be expressed.
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When you practice hypergamy, you:
Marry into a higher social or economic class than the one in which you were raised
Share your crops and animals with your neighbors
Become a patron of an individual artist or musician
Raise another person's child
Hypergamy is the act of marrying up. While society today is less considered with titles (though not necessarily less with money) historically it was challenging to move between social classes and this would have been considered an admirable feat.
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Which decision would be considered capricious?
The choice to spend weeks preparing for an exam
The choice to propose to a partner
The choice to learn a new hobby
The choice to go to the airport and buy the first available ticket
When a person or character is capricious, they tend to act on impulse or whim. Their actions are often difficult to predict and appear to come out of nowhere. Weather patterns are often considered capricious.
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How would you use the word "foofaraw" in a sentence?
She was full of foofaraw and he didn't believe her.
There was a lot of foofaraw when planning the wedding.
Please pick up the pile of foofaraw.
He never learned how to foofaraw
Foofaraw has several definitions with common themes, but most often refers to "much ado about nothing." For instance, when something is overblown in the media or if a large wedding is causing everyone stress, that would be an example of a foofaraw.
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If a person is a somnambulist, that means they:
Are a violin prodigy
Walk or perform other motor skills in their sleep
Have been either to the highest or lowest point on earth
Believe they are reincarnated
If you walk or otherwise perform motor acts in your sleep like putting on your glasses or taking books off a shelf, you may be considered a somnambulist. It can also be written as an adjective or adverb.
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When might a syzygy occur?
When there are three sets of double letters in a word.
When a person receives a degree
During a lunar or solar eclipse
When the temperature drops below freezing.
A syzygy refers to the configuration of three celestial bodies into a straight or near straight line. During a solar or lunar eclipse, that would be the earth, the sun and the moon.
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When something is pyroclastic, what kind of natural phenomenon does it relate to?
A volcano
A tidal wave
A blizzard
Pyroclastic flow is most often the result of a volcanic eruption and is thick movement of gas and volcanic matter after the eruption. It can sometimes reach speeds of more than 400 mph and can be very dangerous.
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How does a person perambulate?
They travel on foot.
They navigate using the stars
They eschew modern technology.
They eat only what they grow.
When you perambulate, you're just as focused on the journey as the destination. The walk is both pleasurable and leisurely, and almost always done on foot, like wandering a marketplace or park.
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What position would you be in if you were supine?
Standing on your hands
Fetal position or curled small
On your stomach
Lying on your back with your face upward
If you do yoga or pilates, you may have heard of the supine twist, a twist performed while lying on your back and looking up. Supine may also refer to someone who spends all of their time lazing about.
If you are engaged in a logomachy, what are you fighting about?
Political movements
Vocabulary and words
Technical discoveries
Issues of universal suffrage
The word logomachy literally translates into "word" and "to fight" from the ancient Greek "logos" and "machesthai." It first went into recorded use in the 1500s and covers any argument about words.
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A licentious person is someone who:
Disregards morals and rules
Mocks their opposing political party
Publishes seditious materials
Fights against an unjust society
When a person is licentious, they go against the moral or legal code of their society, often in an explicitly promiscuous way. Licentious may also refers to someone who goes against the rules of a community, for instance, if a writer were to ignore grammar.
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In which sentence is "calamitous" used properly?
The forest was calm and calamitous this morning.
I like to read in a calamitous environment like the library.
She always kept her apartment neat and calamitous.
The storm at sea was calamitous. Several men were thrown overboard and the mast broke.
If you recognize the word calamity, you'll know that the last sentence is correct. A calamity or calamitous situation is one in which disaster occurs and there are great loss and destruction, like a storm at sea. Calamities tend to cause lasting damage.
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In order to practice defenestration, what do you need?
A door
A cross
Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of the window, in its most literal sense. It may also metaphorically refer to the quick ouster of a person, namely from political office.
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If you are adroit, how do you handle a situation?
You panic and worry and struggle.
You act calmly and cleverly to work your way through.
You let others take the lead.
You have an out-of-body experience.
A person who is adroit is particularly skilled at using their resources and clever thinking skills to manage tough spots and keep themselves safe. While they may encounter difficulties, they are usually successful.
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In what historical profession would you use a portolan?
A portolan, often called portolan charts, dates back to the 13th century, where early sailors exploring the Mediterranean needed new maps and directions to safely navigate. It is based on the Italian word "portulano" related to ports and harbors, and the artifacts are considered accurate even by today's standards.
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What kind of animal is known to bombinate?
A penguin
A bee
A turkey
Bees bombinate! To bombinate is to produce a droning or buzzing sound. Word nerds may agree that it sounds like the word bombastic, which is a loud, high sound or statement that has little meaning.
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What part of the world does thalassic refer to?
The seas
In both its Greek and French origins, thalassic is related to the inland seas. The modern version of the word dates back to the 19th century and it is rarely used in today's world.
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Where would you find a discobolus?
At a circus or traveling fair
At a Renaissance or Medieval reenactment
In a science lab or place of discovery
At an Olympic game
Discobolus comes from the Greek and Latin terms for both "disc" and "throw," which makes it easy to see why the word literally translates to "disc thrower" as you would find in the early Olympics.
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What is an incunabula?
The Gutenberg Bible
"Pride and Prejudice"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
"A Tale of Two Cities"
An incunabula is a book or pamphlet printed in Europe before 1501. Specifically, it had to be printed, not written by hand as most manuscripts were, because this era refers to texts printed in the early days of the printing press, though the year is up for debate among historians.
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Which of the following is a trouvaille?
A horseshoe over the barn door
Artifacts found in the walls of a new home
A sword used in battle and never cleaned
A first edition book from Medieval Europe
A trouvaille is a lucky windfall or find. Its original is literally the French word to find and it can relate to artifacts like the kind found in a newly purchased home, oftentimes biblically related.
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What does an orrery display?
The most advanced mathematical equation currently known
The levels of the ocean
The passage of time
The celestial bodies moving in the solar system
Orreries are beautifully designed mechanical models that show the solar system in motion. They were used to make predictions or estimate where bodies in space would be at certain times of year before modern astronomy tools came into use.
Who is most likely to come across a cacophony in their job?
An elementary school teacher
A local librarian
A watercolorist
A botanist
A cacophony is the coming together of mixed and incongruous sounds so the final effect is loud, uncomfortable and difficult to control. A busy classroom might easily turn into a cacophony of noise.
When you ensorcel someone, you:
Get your revenge
Enchant and bewitch them
Insult their lineage
Challenge them to a fight or duel
Ensorcel shows up a lot in classic fairytales and lore and it's not hard to see why it. It refers to bewitching or enchanting someone and can even translate literally into hexing or charming, with roots in witchcraft.
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What famous landmark might be called catawampus?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
When something is catawampus, that means it isn't straight. This can refer to anything from how the Leaning Tower of Pisa leans to simply walking diagonally across a field or lawn.
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What kind of ideas would a quixotic person have?
Political or seditious ideas or ideas related to rebellion
Artistic ideas, particularly in the fields of writing or poetry
Mathematical and scientific ideas
Rash and impractical ideas that might be romantic or chivalrous
The term quixotic comes from the character of Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes. The character has impractical and romantic ideas and is known for "tilting at windmills" because his ideals are not rooted in reality.
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True or false: This quiz can help you to become more sesquipedalian.
A sesquipedalian is either a word or phrase consisting of many syllables or a person who uses many long words. When you read, write, and take quizzes like this often, you'll become more sesquipedalian.
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An agelast is someone who:
Never laughs
Won't perform in front of an audience
Refuses to grow up
Can memorize long numbers at a glance
The term agelast is rooted in the Greek language and refers to a person who does not laugh. It also has roots in middle French and generally refers to a person who is gloomy or grave.
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What might a cryptozoologist study?
Dueling History
Animals in captivity
A cryptozoologist is a person interested in legendary animals, who studies and tracks them with the intent to prove that they exist. The most common of these animals is Bigfoot (or Sasquatch) but others might include the Loch Ness Monster or Jersey Devil.
What does "parlance" mean?
A formal debate or mode of speech
The act of parrying a sword attack
The movement of a word out of common circulation
A location where scientists and artists gather
Parlance is used to refer to forms of communication. According to one definition, it is a formal, organization debate. According to other definitions, it is industry jargon or vocabulary specific to a group of people, e.g,: ironworkers' parlance.
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Which is an example of a gasconade?
"I couldn't have done it without the help and support of my friends and family."
"You're incredibly talented."
"I don't know which choice to make."
"I was the best one on my team. I led them to the championships. They couldn't have won without me."
Like quixotic, gasconade also has its roots in literature, this time in the classic Three Musketeers stories by Alexandre Dumas, which features the town of Gascony in France, where the citizens were prone to bragging and boasting. Thus, the word refers to bragging and boasting today.
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Which of the following is the color vermillion?
An eggplant
A sunset
Vermillion sounds like it should be the color green (maybe something to do with chameleon?) but it's actually a bright red or orangish-red color. It can sometimes refer specifically to a pigment made with mercuric sulfide but is also a reference to that color scheme outside art as well.
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When something is draconian, that means it refers to:
Laws or rules, particularly harsh ones
The process of achieving a higher degree of education
Draconian means severe or particularly harsh, specifically as it refers to laws or rules. It was written after a 7th-century B.C. legislator named Draco who wanted to make even minor infractions punishable by death.
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What tool would you need to practice catoptromancy?
Herbs and salves
A cauldron
A mirror
Catoptromancy occurs when divination is practiced with a mirror or crystal ball. It is also known as catromancy or enotropmancy and appears in both Greek and Roman mythology and religion.
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If a moment is ephemeral, that means it:
Feels like it goes on forever
Doesn't exist on a linear timeline
Lasts for a very short amount of time
Exists in the past.
When something is ephemeral, that means it is fleeting or passing. It is often something pretty or enjoyable that is made more so by its short-lived nature, like the blooming of a flower.
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How many years are in a chiliad?
A chiliad is actually the same as a millennium, though the word chiliad has been around for longer. Both refer to "a thousand," millennium based in the Latin root and chiliad in Greek.
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How many words do you know?
The book reviewer James Nicoll once said, "We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifled through their pockets for new vocabulary."
English is comprised of unique and exciting words, phrases and idioms from many different languages and parts of the world. While there is no true count of just how many words exist in the English language, some believe the number to be as high as one million, with something like 200,000 in modern circulation. Many of those words come from other languages or have been appropriated for the English tongue, and that is even before the conversation on types of English can start. (For instance, are "grey" and "gray" considered two different words?) English differs vastly from country to country, region to region and even year to year, which makes for an exciting journey of communication and creativity that never comes to an end.
Whether you're a lifelong scholar of English or a voracious reader, it's still challenging to come across all the unique and beautiful words English has to offer. Put your knowledge of vocabulary to the test and see if you can't identify some of these unique words. Then test your friends!


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