Mixed Blessing

I've just been asked to serve on a review panel. + I've made enough of a name for myself that I'm getting asked to do this sort of thing + I get to see the review side of the grants process before I need to win one of my own - Lots of work It'll be a good experience. In the sense that it'll be a huge time suck and will no doubt make me miserable. Maybe "learning experience" is a better term.

Talk to the Newsroom: Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally

... Photo News in 1977. Ms. McNally has judged numerous photography contests, including Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, White House News Photographers, American Photography and Best of Photojournalism, Getty Grants. She was chairman of the World Presss Photo jury in 2007. She was on the Pulitzer photo jury in 2008 and 2009. She has participated in many workshops, including The Flying ...

#23 -- Mercy

...“Robin, please… please…” he whimpers. “I… n-need you…” In an instant her hands are moving over him again, tender and worshipful and possessive and forceful all at once. With expert hands she grants to him the release he’s sought, then leans down to kiss him with slow, intense precision, before finally drawing back to look into his eyes with surprising warmth and vulnerability in her own. ...

The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules

..., similar conferences stopped inviting him to speak. Colleagues no longer sought him out for collaboration. Grants dried up. High-visibility journals shunned his papers. It's not that Hirsch wasn't ... measures, hub/authority metrics. Schools and labs use such ratings to help them make grants, bestow tenure, award bonuses, and hire postdocs. In fact, similar statistical approaches have become ...

The Dean/Castiel Co-op Swap: The Info Post

...the person you granted the wish for if it's okay for others to use, especially if the icon/header was customized. Q: Oooh, I really want to grant this wish. Can I claim it to make sure no one else grants it before I do? A: No. We don't want to run the risk of someone losing inspiration to grant a wish before that wish is fulfilled. We realize this is a lot to ask since some wishes may wind up ...

do pell grants count as income?

... uni account summaries so they could factor in my grants and scholarships. This makes enough sense to me. ...sense to me is that they factored my pell grants as income, and that added income disqualified me. ... right, because I only received $x in pell grants because I had a much larger bill to pay... that there was something somewhere that stated pell grants could not legally be counted as income. The ...

California weighs ending Welfare

... the magnitude of the state's fiscal problems and the politics in Sacramento are such that we have to take every proposal seriously." An earlier state budget proposal called for a 6 percent cut in CalWORKs grants, on top of a 4 percent cut scheduled to take effect July 1. It would have eliminated aid to children whose parents are being cut off because they've reached their 60-month time limits ...

... bull case for this sector is that as people lose their jobs, they go back to school. But the bear case says that the Obama administration may be targeting the group, as they take government loans and grants and use that money largely for marketing, not educational, purposes. Enter Bridgepoint, a stock that just had a IPO in April, and one that hasn't seen the big rally of its peers. The stock is...

Fan-Fiction

Title : Dolente: Chapter 31 & Epilogue Author : Me Pairings : Byakuya/Hisana Rating : PG Spoilers : SS arc Summary : Byakuya grants Hisana a dying wish. Links : Chapter 31 ; Epilogue

Toast in skillets, petrified wood, hail, and tacos

... of evolution. You heard it here first. -Anyhow, we got on the road and drove from Holbrook, AZ to Grants, NM. In between, there was a bit of a sudden rainstorm complete with startling hail, and we might have almost died. We did not die, however, and instead we got to have a rest stop in Grants. -Grants may be a charming town, but as far as I can tell, it is a festering pustule in the ...