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Yes, I have been gone but now I’m back and so is Versus Tuesday. Yayy today is an awesome one.
We have Ryuko Matoi from Kill La Kill vs Akame from Akame Ga Kill.
Both are great at cutting down someone with their weapons and both are skilled fighters.
Now Ryuko does have a bad attitude which I love. Very angry. Haha When her and Senketsu (her blue uniform) synchronize through the life fibers her appearance and power changes. She becomes even more powerful.
Akame is a silent killer. She is part of an elite assassin group called Night Raid. She is also known as Akame of the Demon Sword Murasame. She is def opposite of Ryuko, she is pretty quiet and deadly. She gets power from Mursame (the demon sword) and becomes much stronger.
Now who would in in the field, I am not sure because when you think Ryuko is down and Inexperienced her Senketsu helps her and she wins fights. But Akame also has a trump card up her sleeve. It really depends on whose trump card would win. I’m at a tie here.
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Ghosts! In the Archives! We Thought You Ought to Know
By Marie Pellissier, Omohundro Institute Apprentice, William & Mary
Welcome back to our Georgian Goodies blog series, where we highlight interesting, timely, or just plain nifty documents from the Georgian Papers Programme!
It’s almost Halloween! We may or may not have found some ghosts in the archives… but we shall leave the final determination about whether or not there are specters in the stacks up to you, dear readers.
King George III and his wife, Queen Charlotte, had fifteen children. George III was an attentive, loving father, and enjoyed having his children around him. He and the Queen were devoted to their children, making sure that they had the best tutors, toys, and healthcare that money could buy.
Prince Octavius, born February 23, 1779, and Prince Alfred, born September 22, 1780, were the King and Queen’s eighth and ninth sons, respectively. Prince Alfred died in August 1782, before his second birthday, after a smallpox inoculation weakened his already delicate health. The King and Queen mourned the death of their youngest, and lavished even more affection on Octavius after the death of Alfred.
In the spring of 1783, Octavius, whom all described as a happy, cheerful, and good-natured four-year-old, was taken with his sister Sophia to be inoculated with the same smallpox virus that had killed his brother Alfred. Sophia recovered, but Octavius did not. He died on May 3, 1783.
His parents, particularly his father, mourned his loss deeply. Three days after Octavius’s death, on May 6, 1783, George III wrote to the Bishop of Worcester, asking him to lead a private service in Octavius’s memory. “The blow is strong…” the King wrote. “Though greatly grieved, I feel…great thankfulness for having enjoyed for four years that Dear Infant.”
Three months later, George III wrote to General Jacob de Bude, sending him a likeness of Octavius, whose absence the King felt more and more each day. (To learn more about the King’s connection with de Bude, read Jim Ambuske’s blog, “The Admiral and the Aide-de-Camp.”)
Octavius’s presence lingered after his death. The King and Queen continued to grieve for months, and Octavius’s image was included in a family portrait by Thomas Gainsborough completed after his death.
The King dwelt on the death of his two young sons for much of his later life. As George III began to grow ill and exhibit bouts of madness, his son Octavius returned to him. On Christmas Eve 1788, the King was seen rocking and nursing a pillow, which he told observers was his son Octavius, born again.
Ghost or no ghost, the loss of his son haunted the King for years, and reminds us that even for royalty in the eighteenth century, death was ever-present.
Hibbert, Christopher. George III: A Personal History (New York, 1998).
George III to General Jacob de Budé, October 23, 1783. Royal Archives, GEO/ADD/15/0472
George III to the Bishop of Worcester, May 7, 1783. Royal Archives, GEO/ADD/2/89
“Princes Octavius and Alfred,” English Monarchs, c. 2018.
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Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss recent (October 12, 2018) vote of The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors to approve substantive revisions to Bar Rule 4-7.14 related to the use of “expert” and “specialist” and to approve proposed ethics advisory opinion 17-2, which addresses payment arrangements between lawyers and lawyer referral services (now called qualified providers). The ethics opinion has been renumbered to 18-1 and the Bar’s notice of the approval of the opinion and requesting comments with a link to the opinion is here: https://www.floridabar.org/ethics/etprop-advisory/
With regard to the proposed revised Bar Rule 4-7.14, the Board considered a new proposed amendment that is designed to remove the portions of the rule which were found unconstitutional by the federal court judge in 2015. The proposed revised rule adds new subdivisions to comply to the federal court’s order and also to address the concerns of the Florida Supreme Court, which rejected the Bar’s previous proposed revised rule.
Revised Bar Rule 4-7.14 would allow non-certified attorneys to call themselves “expert” or “specialist” if they can objectively verify that claim based upon the lawyer’s education, training, experience, and “substantial involvement” in the area of practice. The amended rule would also allow law firms to call themselves “experts” or “specialists” if that claim can be objectively verified for at least one lawyer in the firm. The law firm making the claim would be required to have a disclaimer stating that not all firm members meet the same standards, if there are lawyers who do not qualify.
With regard to Ethics Advisory Opinion 18-1,the Board considered an opinion drafted by the Board Review Committee on Professional Ethics provides that whether a particular payment method between lawyers and qualifying providers f/k/a lawyer referral services is permissible must be determined on a case-by-case basis. The opinion sets out criteria for determining whether a payment plan is proper and ethical and the ethics opinion is discussed and summarized in the Bar News article here: https://www.floridabar.org/news/tfb-news/?durl=%2Fdivcom%2Fjn%2Fjnnews01.nsf%2F8c9f13012b96736985256aa900624829%2F06fb4fe9ad6425748525830f004fc60b
The Board considered and approved the ethics opinion at its meeting on October 12, 2018 and will consider any comments at its December 14, 2018 meeting in Naples, Florida.
Bottom line: The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors has taken further steps to address the issues related to the use of “expert” and “specialist” (and the federal court’s ruling that its application was unconstitutional and issuing an injunction) and also the payment arrangements between lawyers and lawyer referral services/qualifying providers.
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The History of Hanukkah
The first day of Hanukkah is celebrated on the 25th of Kislev. Hanukkah is celebrated in either November or December, depending on the cyclical nature of the Jewish calendar. Although Hanukkah is often celebrated around Christmastime, it was first observed more than 150 years before Jesus was born!
A Brief Hanukkah History – The Rise and Fall of Leaders, Empires, and Civilizations
The true story of Hanukkah is obscure. The historical context in which the holiday of Hanukkah was born is one of war, mass-murder, torture, kidnapping, slander, and assassination (and those are just the happy parts!) Now add to the mix a dizzying array of leaders coming and going into and out of power. Entire empires and civilizations came and went during this turbulent period of 300 or so years, which saw the rise and fall of Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and the Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt.
Few Historical References of Hanukkah
Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Old Testament. It is barely acknowledged in the Septuagint (the Old Testament translated into Greek during the third through first centuries BCE). Only The Apocrypha includes descriptions of the events surrounding Hanukkah in the books 1 Maccabee and 2 Maccabee. The only other source that talks about these events in any detail is the Jewish/Greek historian Josephus, who lived in the first century CE, and he is written off by many historians as a traitor and an apologist.
As a result, even casual research will reveal that historians and researchers are often deeply divided about what really happened during that time in history. And because it is in the nature of the Jewish people to ask questions, even the smallest details are hashed over and over, and alternate explanations often find their way into the Jewish canon.
How Do You Spell That? Hanukkah, Chanukah, Hanukah, Hanuka, or Hanukka?
As an example, there is disagreement about the simple question of how to spell the name of Hanukkah. Some spell it Chanukah, or Chanukkah, some prefer Hanukah or Hanukkah, some use Hanuka or Hanukka – you get the idea.
Nor does everyone agree on what the name means. To most Jews, the name means either “Festival of Lights,” or “Dedication.” But it fact, the name comes from the Hebrew word Chanu, which means 'they rested,’ and the Hebrew letters “kaf” and “hay," which are respectively the 20th and 5th letters in the Hebrew Alphabet. Together, they make “They rested on the 25th.”
This, of course, raises the question, “The 25th of what?” Hanukkah is traditionally celebrated starting on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev, the 9th month of the Hebrew year, making it a winter holiday. It is probably much more than a coincidence that the 25th word in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word for light, and Hanukkah is, at its heart, a festival of lights.
Symbolism of Kislev and Keshet
Kislev, a 29 or 30 day month, is associated with the idea of trust – the active trust Jewish freedom fighters had that G-d would help them overcome their enemies, and passive trust that G-d would always protect the people of Israel. Interestingly, the astrological symbol associated with Kislev is Sagittarius – the archer - who wields a bow and arrow. And the Hebrew word “keshet” which means bow, as in bow and arrow, also means rainbow, as in the sign of the covenant the Lord made for us after He sent the rains to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Menorah – The Centerpiece of the Hanukkah Celebration
For most Jews, the centerpiece of Hanukkah is the menorah, a nine-branched candelabrum, also sometimes called a Chanukiah. As you look at a menorah, you will notice that one candle is set at a different level from the other eight. That one is called the Shammash, or helper candle. Jewish law states that the regular candles are for viewing and spreading the word of the miracle only, so the Shammash is used to light the others, and for any other purpose, such as for light to read by.
The menorah itself may be made in almost any manner - glass, aluminum or other metals. Menorahs may be sleek and contemporary, or flowery and ornate, and incorporate naturalistic themes such as the Tree of Life.
The menorah should be placed in a doorway that is as visible as possible to the public, to publicize the miracle of Hanukkah. If you are unable to put the menorah in a doorway, then use a window or some other place that will be highly visible.
The Three Hanukkah Prayers
On the first night of Hanukkah, place two candles in the menorah, a Shammash, at its separate level, and a single candle in the rightmost holder of the Menorah. Light the Shammash, and after using it to light the first candle, recite the following three prayers:
THE FIRST PRAYER:
'Baruch Ato Adonay Eloyheynu Melekh Ha-olam, asher kiddeshahnu b' mitsvotov, vitsivonu, lehadlik nehr, shell Chanukah.”
The translation of this prayer is:
Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us by His commandments, and has commanded us to kindle the lights of Hanukkah.
THE SECOND PRAYER
Baruch Ato Adonay Eloyheynu Melekh Ha-olam Sheh ahsa neeseem lavoyteynu bayameem, hahaym, bahzman ha zeh
The translation of this prayer is: Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who wrought miracles for our fathers, in days of old, at this season.
THE THIRD PRAYER
Baruch Ato Adonay Eloyheynu Melekh Ha-olam Sheh-hecheeyahnu, ve-kiyemahnu, ve-heegiyahnu bahzman ha zeh
The translation of this prayer is:
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has kept us alive, and has preserved us, and enabled us to reach this time.
On the second through eighth nights, only the first two prayers are recited. Also, on the second through eighth nights, place the candles in the menorah from right to left, but light them from left to right.
Jews also recite additional prayers during regular daily services and at Shabbat services. These prayers are thankful in character. While many Jewish holidays involve us beseeching G-d for favors, this particular holiday is meant to thank G-d.
Lighting the Menorah
Over the centuries, many cultures have evolved different traditions for lighting the Hanukkah menorah. However, there are still rules that are observed regarding the lighting and use of the candles:
The History of Hanukkah – The Beginning; The Rule of Alexander the Great
To understand the origins of what came to be known as The Miracle of Light, history goes back to the reign of Alexander the Great. When Alexander the Great and his armies rolled through the Persian Empire in the latter half of the third century BCE, the lands on which the Jewish people lived came under his control. During his short lifetime, Alexander left the Jews mostly alone. Under his rule they were an autonomous people, free to practice Judaism without interference.
The roots of the story of Hanukkah reach back to that time, especially the year 323 BCE – the year Alexander the Great died. Because he left no children able to lead his empire, Alexander divided it among four of his Generals. But the generals all fought among themselves for control, and in the end, two dominant generals emerged – Seleucus III and Ptolemy I.
Bible scholars believe that these events were all predicted in 8 Daniel 21:22, when Daniel speaks of his vision of a ram and a goat.
The Jews In Between
By the year 301 BCE, The Persian lands (now called Iraq) of Alexander were split in two empires, with the Seleucid Dynasty controlling the North and the Ptolemies controlled the south. Sitting in between – the Jews.
For the next 125 years, the Jews lived more or less on their own in Jerusalem and Judea, which were controlled by the Ptolemies, with little or no interference. Of course, during that 125 years, Seleucids and Ptolemies were fighting over Jerusalem. In the year 199 BCE, the Seleucids finally won.
The Reign of Antiochus III
Antiochus III took over the Seleucid empire at the tender age of just 18 and immediately set about trying to destroy the Ptolemies. While he didn't accomplish that, he did manage to gain complete control of Palestine, and with it, the Jews.
The Jews thought times might now improve. The constant battle over their land had ended, and they welcomed the young King Antiochus. But, they were very wrong. While things were better for a little while, they never bargained for the troubles that would be brought by Antiochus' successor.
The great general Hannibal, having been defeated by the Romans, went to Antiochus to recover and lick his wounds. While he was there, he advised Antiochus on how to fight the Romans. He convinced Antiochus to invade Greece. When the invasion failed, the Romans declared war on Antiochus, which culminated in a loss in 190 BCE. As was common practice in those days, the Romans made Antiochus pay a great deal of money, both as war reparations and as punishment, because Antiochus had allied himself with Hannibal. To make sure that Antiochus paid, they took a hostage, whom they held for 12 years - Antiochus' son Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
Taxing the Jews
Three years later, Antiochus III died and was succeeded by Seleuces IV, who still had to pay the Romans, so he taxed the Jews. The Jews were divided about paying the taxes. The High Priest Onias III objected to paying the taxes, saying it would be a sin to pay money to the Seleucid Empire. Onias' brother, Jason, disagreed, and slandered Onias to the King in order to become High Priest, a position he coveted. (There is some dispute about whether or not Jason was Onias' brother.)
Many of the finer details are unclear about this aspect of the Hanukkah story, for the reasons mentioned above, but also because over the years, translations from language to language may have changed what were very similar names.
The Allure of Greek Culture
In 175 BCE, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, having returned after being a hostage to the Romans for 12 years, killed Seleuces IV and took the throne. He was not nearly so gracious as far as the Jews were concerned. He wanted to Hellenize all of his people to create a single, hegemonic empire.
There were now two sets of powerful forces working against the Jews.
Greek culture was very alluring to many Jews. Greek philosophy, art, architecture and culture were very seductive to the Jewish people. Many of them began to adopt Greek modes of dress, speech and manner. They also became enamored of the Greek notions of physical beauty and health, to the point where some actually tried to reverse their circumcisions so they would be admitted to Greek health clubs. Just as has happened in the United States during the last hundred or more years, Jewish people became assimilated.
In addition, Antiochus really placed enormous pressure on the Jews to abandon Judaism.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes Outlaws Judaism
Meanwhile, Antiochus IV Epiphanes was exerting extraordinary pressure on the Jews to abandon their faith: He outlawed all observances of Judaism, circumcision and reading and studying Torah and implemented horrific punishments for anyone who disobeyed his edicts. If soldiers found a circumcised newborn child, they publicly executed both the baby and the mother.
He required all citizens to worship the Greek Gods and to eat pork – something to this day forbidden to Jews. Those who refused were tortured and killed.
Hannah and Her Seven Sons
An interesting story is told of Hannah and her sevens sons. The King ordered that they be brought before him. He asked Hannah and her children to worship an idol and eat the meat of a pig. Each refused, and each was tortured and put to death in front of the remaining family members. One by one the enraged Antiochus slaughtered all of Hannah’s sons. As the last one lay dying, Hannah, praying to G-d that she be considered worthy in the afterlife, killed herself.
The King built idols to the Greek Gods in the Temple and then sent his officers to have sex with prostitutes in the sanctuary, which he then further defiled by slaughtering a pig there.
The Maccabeean Revolt
It was only a matter of time until the Jews rose up and started a revolution. In 166 BCE, they finally did, in the person of Judah “The Hammer” Maccabee.
Judea itself was, and still is, rough territory, with deserts and rocky elevations as high as 1,000 meters. As the Kings armies extended their terror tactics to areas outside of Jerusalem, devout Jews who defied the King’s orders fled to the only place they could be even a little safe – the mountains.
When soldiers arrived in Modiin, a small Jewish village west of Jerusalem, they encountered a priest named Mattathias the Hasmonean, and his five sons. The soldiers built an altar in the town marketplace and demanded that Mattathias, as the town's religious leader, sacrifice an animal to the Greek Gods. He refused. When another of the villagers agreed to do it in hopes that this would appease the invaders, Mattathias grabbed a sword and killed him. He and his five sons attacked, killed, or drove away all the invading soldiers and started what would become known as the Maccabeean revolt.
Mattathias and His Army of Jews
Mattathias and his sons hid in the hills of Judea. Together with others that dared to defy Antiochus, he created an army of Jews who refused to give in to Antiochus. They had all fled and left behind all their possessions, vowing to die in battle rather than allow Antiochus to continue. They formed legions of soldiers and used guerrilla warfare techniques to attack Antiochus' forces.
Mattathias, who was already an old man when he started the war, died in 166 BCE, less than a year after he started the war. His middle son, Judah, took over, and proved to be a masterful tactician and leader. He continued to wage war against the Syrian armies, defeating ever-more powerful attacks against the Jews.
The Origin of the Word, “Maccabee”
Judah acquired the name “Ha Maccabee.” There are two schools of thought about the meaning of the word “Maccabee.” One maintains that it is derived from the Aramaic word 'maqqaba', which means hammer. The other school of thought holds that it comes from the first letters of the Old Testament passage Exodus 15:11 “Mi kamokha ba'elim YHVH” (Who is like unto thee, O Lord), the first letters of which are MKBE or Maccabee.
The Miracle of Light
Over the next three years, Judah consolidated his forces and fought a series of battles against increasingly large Syrian forces. Eventually, Judah drove the Syrians out of Jerusalem and in 164 BCE, they reclaimed the city and the Temple for the Jewish people!
It is during the course of the cleansing of the Temple, after the abominations of Antiochus, that the miracle leading to Hanukkah came to pass. Inside the Temple was a lamp called the Eternal Light (Nehr Tameed). The Jews are supposed to keep it burning all the time. But Antiochus had destroyed or defiled all the oil in the Temple except for one vial, which still had the seal of the High Priest. The problem was that the bottle held only enough oil to last one day, and the Jews needed eight days to create new oil for the lamp.
So the Jews lit the lamp and the oil, and through a miracle of G-d, it lasted eight days until new oil could be made.
And so it was declared that a holiday shall be celebrated, and the Holiday shall last for eight days, and it shall be marked by the lighting of candles, the chanting and singing of prayers, and joyous songs.
Today, more than 2,000 years after these historic events took place, Jews the world over still recall and give thanks to G-d for his strength in our time of need.
Photo by Blahmni National Menorah - Washington, DC
Photo by Steveslep Gold Menorah
Photo by DrGBB Taken on "Bible Land Tour"
Photo by Laszlo Buday Original copper sculpture in Palm Beach, FL
Photo by Antmoose Arch of Titus Relief. In this part of Titus' triumphal procession, the treasures of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem are being displayed to the Roman people.
Photo by A.M. Kuchling Arch of Titus. View of the reliefs on the inside of the arch. Note the menorah visible in the lowest relief; this arch was built to commemorate Titus's conquest of Judea in 70AD, and the menorah was taken from the Jewish Temple as part of the spoils.
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Your research underpins and supports your assignment - just like a plate supports a sandwich. Your references are the visual evidence of your research.
When you are thinking about your assignment, you should always have the references in mind - build your essay on your references like you would build you sandwich on the plate (or cutting board, or table... let's not stretch this metaphor too far).
Think about writing your assignment backwards.
When you make a sandwich, you put down the plate first, then the bottom piece of bread, then the filling, and then the top piece of bread. "Build" your assignments the same way. Lay down the research you want to draw on (your references), then the conclusions you came to, then the body of the assignment where you discussed and elaborated on the evidence and the conclusions you made. Then top it all off with the introduction, which guides people through what they are about to read.
You don't have to write your assignment in that order, but it does help if you think about it in that order.
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I changed things a bit (ok, a lot!) and did not place “Home” as title of this page though. Instead, I placed “Love and Hugs” because along with welcoming you into my world (I got a welcome message for you on my first post, Hello and Welcome to Living a Soulful Life) I also want to give you tons of love through virtual smiles and hugs. You might not feel their actual warmth, but know that they are from the heart. Giving away these beautiful gestures of friendship and caring is one of the many things I want to do every day, whether in reality or virtually. 🙂
So, feel free to come by any time you want a warm bear hug and a great sunshiny smile. I never run out of them. While you are at it, please do read some of the stuff I’ve posted here. I would love to have you become a part of my daily journey of knowing my soul deeper as I try to live a life of imagination and enchantment.
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Village of Richmond Community Development Committee met May 14
Village of Richmond Community Development Committee met May 14.
Here is the minutes provided by the committee:
The Regular Community Development Committee meeting held at the Village Hall, 5600 Hunter Drive was called to order by Chair/Trustee Robert Elliott at 5:30 PM.
Present: Trustees: Robert Elliott (Chair), Gina Garbis and Frank Peiler.
Members Absent: None.
Others Village Officials/Staff Present: Code Enforcement Officer Mike McAlevy.
Approval of Minutes: The committee reviewed the Regular Community Development Committee minutes for March 19, 2019.
Trustee Peiler moved, seconded by Trustee Elliott to approve the Regular Community Development Committee minutes for March 15, 2019 as presented. The motion was approved by voice vote.
Unfinished Business: None. Public Comments: None.
New Business: The Code Enforcement Officer provide photographs of all off premise signs located within the Village. The committee discussed off premise signs and billboards. They will recommend to the full Board for the Code Enforcement Officer to proceed with removal of off premise signs. The CDC will further investigate off premise billboards.
CDC will recommend to the full Board to not grant a variance and removal of the off premise sign for the Mobil Gas Station in Genoa City.
Additionally, the committee will recommend to the full Board the removal of advertising signs from the Village “Welcome to Richmond” signs and refund money back to the businesses occupying spaces.
The request to install awnings on the existing brackets was reviewed for Finery & Finishes located at 10315 Main Street. The committee will recommend approval to the full Board.
Adjournment: There being no further business to discuss, Trustee Peiler moved, seconded by Trustee Garbis to adjourn the May 14, 2019 Regular Community Development Committee meeting. The motion was approved by voice vote.
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It seems I’ve taken quite a long time off from the blog (but not Guild Ball). More than I ever expect. I’ve had the math done for the errata’d captain Ox finished since right after he came out, with every intention of writing this blog between now and then (closer to then), but just haven’t found the time and motivation, at the same time at least. That has given me plenty of time to play captain Ox in the meantime. And play him I did. I may not have played Fillet since Ox was changed. Full disclosure: Fillet is still probably a better captain if you want to win, but Ox does have game. I feel, even after playing him, that he was buffed in the wrong areas. Ox’s strength, for me, has always been in how good he was at supporting his team. Instead of making that part of him stronger, we got an Ox that can do more damage himself.
I’ve had fun with Ox. I think it is primarily just a willingness to give him a try again (because they changed him) than the change itself. I got to do a lot of things I used to do with him again, but I didn’t feel like the changes made caused me to play any different. The problems I have had with Ox before, I still had. Mainly, this is a susceptibility to counter attacks. This is a team-wide problem for the Butchers, not just an Ox issue. I hoped while testing the GICs that they would help with this problem, and they did (to a lesser and lesser extent as we went through updates), but with what I’ve heard about the new Game Plans deck I feel like it’s less likely that the GICs will become a normal part of the game, like I thought they would originally.
In the time since I last wrote there has also been a playtest of Alternate Pitch Formations. I liked those for the Butchers since it put players in place to get into the fight immediately. From my experience with them overall I would like to see them made the normal part of the game. It feels more like soccer set up, it puts players in a position to start the game immediately instead of jockeying for position the first turn, something I’ve never really enjoyed. I think the people who say that some of the distances for models would need to change to make this work are probably right. Mist can score from the starting line already, if he starts at the halfway line he will have no trouble. So I think it will be season 4 before we see these changes added to the game if they are going to become the norm. If not the normal way of playing, they will at least be an alternative.
Math Note: I have now factored into my calculations the fully spoiled teams that have come out since the last time I wrote and article, namely the rest of the farmers and the blacksmiths. So now the weighted averages take that into account.
Now, let’s get on with some math for Ox. First, the thing most changed, he damage output:
When I wrote the original Ox article I wasn’t doing as much math as I am now, so its not easy to directly compare the numbers from before and after, but Ox basically gained an additional .5 damage per swing to the models with 4 or 5 defense. Over 6 attacks this is an extra 3 damage. This is an increase from 12 damage on 6 influence to 15 damage on the 6 influence. That’s not an insignificant change. Remember: this is expected, but you won’t get it every time. Dice happen. Also a problem I normally have is a counter attack negating the rest of the stack after making one attack. But, as I said before, that’s a problem in general with the team, not just an Ox problem.
Under legendary Ox does even more damage:
This used to be about the only time I made attacks with Ox. Go first, legendary and then make some attacks into a model, hopefully one Ox could just take out. This stopped working as well when the player to go second got a momentum to counter attack his first attack. I still usually do this, but I plan to use the rest of the influence for character plays if it doesn’t go well.
A good way to stop that counter attack is with a KD on the model you are attack, so lets look at Ox’s chance to get that counter attack:
Chance on Attack
Chance on Charge
Sadly, a lot of the models that have health levels in the range that Ox can take them out in one go, which is the kind of thing he wants to do, have high enough defensive stats that he’s not likely to knock them down when they declare a counter attack. He is more likely on a charge to knock them down, but that severely limits the amount of damage he can do, putting him just short of the takeout. (This is where the GIC to give extra TAC if they declare a counter would be very helpful. If those become a regular part of the game, expect me to revisit this math to include that.)
Something I am doing now that I didn’t before is figuring out momentum gains by taking results you want. In the case of Ox (and butchers) that is usually damage. Ox is fortunate to have a momentous damage result on 1, which makes it likely he will always get at least 1 momentum.
On a charge against a low defense model he is likely to wrap and actually be able to earn two momentum (or one momentum and do a non-momentous result).
Really, Ox only got a slight buff to his damage output. His support suite is the same it has always been, which I would like to have seen get better. Something like a lower KD so he can go in, legendary and knock down a few models to set up the team would be more interesting to me. He played (or plays) so different than the other captains it’s a shame they made him more of a super-solo captain than more of a buff your team with the latest change.
As anyone that knows me personally could tell you: I am super excited for ratcatchers. I have always enjoyed rats being used in fantasy settings and have played rat armies in other games. I plan on doing write ups of each of those players, and probably end up with new articles on Bonesaw and Vet Graves on how they work within the guild. I’ve been playing Morticians with Bonesaw and Skulk lately (I cannot bring myself to play Vet Graves and Vileswarm, even with a love of rats) and having a good time with them. Pelage will be fun to play, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of the players soon. | <urn:uuid:3850e789-ca8a-42b2-8f27-2c929d1c101d> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://mountaineersguild.com/wp/?m=201801 | 2019-07-22T16:01:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.972982 | 1,435 |
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You and Your Pharmacist
Canada’s most trusted health care professional, pharmacists are the medication experts. They have the most in-depth knowledge of drug therapies compared to all other healthcare professionals.
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Magico LLC, has just announced their first two subwoofers – the QSub-18 and the QSub-15. These two new subwoofers are based on their proven loudspeaker Q platform. Setting the QSubs apart from their competition is their capability to deliver a claimed 136 dB of sound pressure level at 20 Hz with less than 1% total harmonic distortion.
The QSub-18 weighs over 550 lbs. and has massive power handling capability of 8,000W. The QSub can reach an internal sound pressure level of to 175dB – the equivalent of a commercial jet at takeoff – with less than 1% displacement of common enclosures. Two massive woofers, each capable of 34mm of linear excursion and handling power of 8,000 Watts, are mounted in 2″ thick aluminum baffles and fire adversely in phase to cancel out driver-borne resonances and lower the tremendous internal pressure.
At the heart of the QSub is a revolutionary new digital amplifier equipped with a 7,000VA power supply and regulated output stage. Designed to operate in two channel music or theater systems, the QSub has an onboard digitally-controlled active crossover for seamless integration with main loudspeakers. The controller can also be bypassed for home theater use.
The QSub is a fairly compact unit that will not invade the listening environment, and can be ordered in Magico’s M-CAST range of satin colors or their signature hard black anodized finish. Magico will be demonstrating the QSub-18 at CEDIA 2013 in Denver, Colorado at Booth 3812 from September 26 – 28.
Driver complement: 2 x 18” QSub-18; 2 x 15” QSub-15
Impedance: 4 Ohms
Frequency Response: 15 Hz – 150 kHz
Dimensions QSub-18: 25.4”H x 37”D x 25.4”W (65cm x 94cm x 65cm)
Net Weight: 570 lbs. (258 kg.)
Dimensions QSub-15: 22”H x 27”D x 22”W (56cm x 69cm x 56cm)
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Moderate Stance from Spain’s Podemos Infuriates Chavistas
EspañolThe recent offer by Pablo Iglesias, secretary general of Spanish political party Podemos, to act as a negotiator with Venezuela ahead of a prospective visit by former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González, has infuriated the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
The controversy emerged last Sunday when, in an interview with Spanish daily El Mundo, Iglesias was asked if he was “willing to appeal to the Maduro government to let Felipe González enter.”
“It’s well known that I have no sympathy with Felipe González,” Iglesias answered, “but it definitely seems to be a healthy thing for him to enter Venezuela, speak to conferences, and take a political position.”
Following Iglesias’s statements, an article appeared on pro-government Venezuelan news website Misión Verdad titled “The Indefinition of Podemos,” criticizing the European member of Parliament and the supposed “drift” of his party.
According to the article, the popular Spanish party has been in decline since “the moment that it decided to distance itself from Venezuela and throw itself towards the illusory political center ground.”
It also accused Podemos, which currently has over 350,000 members, of suffering from the “typical fear that the left goes through when it sees real power right in front of it.”
According to digital newspaper Vozpópuli, the Maduro regime is railing against the Spanish political movement for “not continuing its role as second-rank collaborators with Chávez,” and treating its ideological and political links with Venezuela as “a heavy load, a weight on its back.”
Iglesias has sought in recent months to distance himself from the Venezuelan government, and has moderated his previously radical tone as Spain’s legislative elections approach this December. However, this change of course has generated disagreements within the party, provoking the departure of Juan Carlos Monedero, one of the founding members of Podemos and former secretary of its Constituent Process.
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[This is a review of Legends of Tomorrow season 2, episode 7. There will be SPOILERS.]
Throughout its second season of time-travel adventures, Legends of Tomorrow has weaved its visits to various historical time periods in with a number of mysteries -- including the disappearance of Rip Hunter, the murder of Rex Tyler, and the endgame of the burgeoning Legion of Doom. Furthermore, thanks to the loss of Rip and the addition of new crew members aboard the Waverider in Nate Heywood and Amaya Jiwe, Legends of Tomorrow experienced a cast shakeup that provided for a fresh perspective in season 2.
However, although last week's sojourn to the Old West offered little to the overarching storyline -- despite being an entertaining detour that featured Jonah Hex (Johnathon Schaech) -- 'Outlaw Country' did see the team gather enough dwarf star alloy that Ray Palmer could create a new Atom suit. That suit has come in handy this week as Ray and his fellow Legends returned to Earth to help their friends from Supergirl, The Flash, and Arrow battle against the Dominators in a massive three-hour event.
The crossover concludes in this week's Legends of Tomorrow episode, 'Invasion!' -- with a story by Greg Berlanti, teleplay by Phil Klemmer and Marc Guggenheim, and directed by Gregory Smith. In the episode, the team of superheroes learn of the Dominators' plan for their Earth and they must figure out a way to defeat the alien race once and for all. However, Professor Stein is distracted by an aberration he created while the Legends were in 1987.
A Star Spangled Idiot in 1951
Legends of Tomorrow's 'Invasion!' features plenty of characters from its fellow DC TV series -- though Supergirl is relegated to an exceptionally small role with the thin explanation that having an alien on the team is too weird for Oliver Queen. Still, the members of the Legends team run point on the various missions in the early part of the episode. Nate, Amaya and Mick take Cisco and Felicity along to 1951 in order to capture a Dominator and question it about the aliens' intentions.
The storyline features Nate's Citizen Steel suit in action -- with Mick offering the surly quip that he looks like a "star-spangled idiot" -- as he, Vixen and Heat Wave take down a Dominator. Though they're waylaid by a younger version of Agent Smith (introduced in The Flash's 'Invasion!' episode), they're saved by tech support, otherwise known as Cisco and Felicity. Before escaping, the group decides to help free the Dominator as well, saving him from torture at the hands of the U.S. government.
However, the adventure to 1951 is relatively short-lived, which epitomizes how Legends of Tomorrow compromised much of the show's ongoing storylines for the sake of the mega-crossover. Certainly, each series within the crossover was forced to abandon their larger season arcs in order to come together and focus on the heroes fighting aliens. And, with the influx of characters, 'Invasion!' also attempted to juggle a number of character arcs, some of which were more successful than others.
With so much going on in 'Invasion!', it's no wonder the trip to 1951 was relatively brief, and it's certainly commendable that the Arrowverse writers were able to include a time travel element within the larger crossover story arc in order to stick to the Legends of Tomorrow premise. Plus, with the addition of Cisco and Felicity, who are both newcomers to the Waverider and experience time travel for the first time, this aspect of 'Invasion!' is one of the more entertaining storylines.
It All Comes Back to Flashpoint
In the season 3 premiere of The Flash, Barry had been living in an alternate timeline he created by saving his mother -- what has been dubbed Flashpoint. But, when he tried to set the timeline back to the way it had been, Barry ended up changing certain aspects of his and his friends' lives. Although Oliver warned Barry in The Flash's 'Invasion!' that the assembled superheroes could only deal with one sci-fi problem at a time, Legends of Tomorrow's 'Invasion!' revealed the problems were one in the same -- the Dominators had come to Earth in 2016 as a result of Flashpoint.
Overall, the reasoning for the Dominators' arrival on Earth and the winding path the heroes are forced to travel to figure it out is convoluted and, eventually, only explained through a few lines of dialogue. Additionally, as is pointed out by Cisco within 'Invasion!', the Dominators' reasoning doesn't make much sense: The Dominators are afraid that metahumans will destroy Earth and extend that destruction to other worlds, despite the cruelty they're shown by humans and the heroism of metas like Cisco and Barry. It's a wave of the hand explanation in order to position the Dominators as villains without offering the aliens much character depth.
Of course, an underdeveloped villain isn't necessarily a new issue within live-action superhero media, especially in the Arrowverse -- though it is no less frustrating. Still, while 'Invasion!' may not have provided a compelling villain, the crossover does conclude in a somewhat exciting battle sequence and a fanservice-filled after party for the heroes once they've won the day. Between the battle featuring the main heroes from all of The CW's DC TV series and a party sequence showcasing various fun character interactions and on the nose in jokes, 'Invasion!' provides something for every fan.
Stein’s Aberration & Cisco's Time Travel Lesson
Acting as the grounded character arcs of 'Invasion!' are Stein's relationship with his newfound daughter Lily (Christina Brucato) and Cisco's continued bitterness toward Barry for Flashpoint. Stein's distance from Lily and his revelation to Caitlin that he believes his daughter to simply be a an aberration are well-acted by Garber, who carries the arc well. However, with so much else going on and Stein's daughter only tangentially related to the mission at hand, this particular storyline falls victim to an overstuffed episode. But, with Jax now in on Stein's secret, it's clear Lily's existence will be revisited in later episodes.
Meanwhile, Cisco learns through his trip to 1951 that anyone can create problems in the present or future by changing the timeline trying to do the right thing. The revelation gives him much needed perspective on Flashpoint and his own bitterness toward Barry for altering the timeline in a way that meant Cisco lost his brother. Certainly, Cisco's arc struggles within the confines of the crossover episode but, more so than Stein, his storyline fits well into the overarching narrative.
Of course, with the Dominators defeated at the end of 'Invasion!', and the heroes from Supergirl, The Flash, and Arrow returning to their home cities while the Legends depart in the Waverider, Legends of Tomorrow will return to its regular season 2 storyline. With the midseason break looming, it remains to be seen how Legends of Tomorrow develops and capitalizes on its ongoing narratives -- like the Legion of Doom.
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What can I say? I don’t think I’d ever use Sesame Street iDevice gear, but I can imagine quite a few adults who will use this because it’s cute and it reminds them of their childhood.
There are a number of cases and covers available in the collection. There’s also some travel headphones, which are quite colorful. Kids will probably love them. The cases include plush cases and skins for your iPods and iPhones. The case for the iPad is rubberized so that should help protect it.
I’ve seen a lot of kids use Apple devices. The touch-based and motion-based games are definitely an easy way to keep your young kids occupied. At least this way, maybe your iGadgets will be protected from their little kid exploits. Check out Dreamgear for more details. | <urn:uuid:882fab1b-951e-491e-826e-f842438cc527> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://technabob.com/blog/2011/01/31/elmo-cookie-monster-iphone-ipad-cases/ | 2019-07-22T17:22:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.959971 | 176 |
Philadelphia’s Bartram High School won last year’s Aspen Challenge with a 1000-crane origami movement to raise awareness of the schools to prison pipeline. At The Citizen’s inaugural Ideas We Should Steal Festival, they wowed the crowd with a moving declaration of their intent: To change the story of their neighborhood to “Coronation Over Incarceration.”
If you missed the panel, or simply want to hear it again, listen on CitizenCast below.
Or, watch their presentation below.
Idea We Should Steal: Now, they want to use their work to create a scholarship for someone previously incarcerated, and to launch an after school program.
Read more about the Aspen Challenge winners in The Citizen:
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To get started, all you need to do is join the association and order your first Video or one of the sets (free membership included) and JKD manual and you are on your way.
To learn Jeet Kune Do in our DVD program. You order the DVD’s and practice what is taught. Each DVD is setup to be just like a private lesson with Professor Hargrave President of the World Jeet Kune Do Federation. The Original JKD Training Manual follows along with each DVD level and lists the rank requirements Level 2 (the first level, as level 1 is like a white belt) through Level 12.
Once you have the moves down that you have seen on the DVD, send us a video of you doing them just like in our DVD and we grade them and contact you to let you know if you have passed the level test or what you need to work on. You then send us your video of you doing the moves just like you learned on the DVD. You can send us a video file, DVD or we send you a link where you can instantly upload your video to our select servers at no cost for postage.
Our expert DVD’s are easy to understand and you work out at your own pace. There are no time limits as to how often you can test. Your skill level is all we are concerned with. This is the most successful DVD program in JKD, and our students have excelled.
No previous martial arts experience needed. Student rank testing fees with certificates Level 2-6 $50 each level, Level 7-8 $60 each level, 9-10 $80 each level, 11-12 $100 each level , Black Sash $400.
You can order your tests online then send us your video, or you can mail the fee with your test. Your results are emailed directly to you from Professor Hargrave, and he will advise on what you need to work on and answer your questions one on one. Looking forward to having you train with us.
World Jeet Kune Do
8086 S. Yale Ave. #133
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Learn how to create an aspirational resilience program for students with mental health concerns.
In today’s higher education landscape, a growing number of students are struggling with decreasing resilience, which frequently harms their academic performance and collegiate experience. As this trend continues to prevail, there is a growing realization that student resilience must be discussed holistically, with special focus on mental health. Well-being and resilience should be considered as critical components of a student’s academic and vocational success.
In response to this issue, a handful of institutions are leading the way in creating and implementing innovative programs that address the relationship between mental health and resilience—by helping students improve skills related to emotional fortitude, grit, and social support.
Join us for this webcast to learn how UMass Amherst has developed a new evidence and strengths-based healthcare program to enhance students’ resilience skills and help them flourish even in the face of mental illness. Participants will learn both short and long-term ways to implement a similar program on their respective campuses.
Who Should Attend
Leaders who are looking to bring a resilience building program to their campus to support students with mental health concerns will benefit from this online training.
- Academic Deans
- Deans of Students
- Wellness Center Staff
- Directors of Counseling Centers
- Case Managers
- Athletic Coaches
This webcast will be hosted by Dr. Genevieve Chandler from UMass Amherst who will explain the key components of constructing and launching a successful resilience building program on campus:
- Why Focus on Resilience Building?
- What research tells us
- Student participant testimonials
- Applicable data from student participants
- Outcomes of Course Syllabus – “ABCS” of Resilience
- Active coping
- Building strength
- Cognitive awareness
- Social support
- Short-Term vs. Long-Term Action Plans
- One month from now
- Six months from now
- One year from now
- Tips from the expert
Genevieve “Ginny” Chandler
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dr. Chandler’s passion is understanding how to build resilience to interrupt the effect Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) have on health risk behaviors, hard-to-treat symptoms, and chronic disease conditions. Her resilience model is the framework for strength-based interventions to develop the capacity to bounce back from stress to promote young adult health and wellbeing. She is a leader in promoting trauma informed care to eliminate seclusion and restraints and create a safe environment for patients and staff on inpatient mental health units. Mentoring as strategy to empower students, nurses and faculty, is the focus of Dr. Chandler’s educational research which has resulted in two books, the award winning Ultimate Guide to Getting Into Nursing School and the New Nurse’s Survival Guide as well as two Robert Wood Johnson New Careers In Nursing awards.
Questions About the Event? Email this event’s Program Manager, Rabia Khan Harvey.
What’s included in your purchase?
- Webcast recording – a recording of our live session that you can access anywhere, anytime.
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Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
The septum is the wall that separates the left and right sides of the heart. The wall that separates the two lower chambers or the ventricles is called the ventricular septum. If there is a hole in the wall between the two ventricles, it is called a ventricular septal defect (VSD).
How common are VSDs?
VSD is the most common heart birth defect. It can occur alone or with other congenital heart defects (CHDs). About 1 in 500 babies is born with a VSD. About 20%-30% of all heart defects are isolated VSDs. They vary in location, symptoms, other defects, and history.
RA - Right Atrium
RV - Right Ventricle
LA - Left Atrium
LV - Left Ventricle
SVC - Superior Vena Cava
IVC - Inferior Vena Cava
MPA - Main Pulmonary Artery
Ao - Aorta
AoV - Aortic Valve
TV - Tricuspid Valve
MV - Mitral Valve
PV - Pulmonary Valve
1. Conoventricular, malaligned
Image Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Some people born with VSDs have other heart defects, such as leaking or narrowing heart valves. A VSD can also be a part of other more complex heart defects, like tetralogy of Fallot. If you have a more complex defect in addition to VSD, the more complex defect is your primary diagnosis.
In the womb the heart starts out as a single tube. As this tube loops, the two bottom tubes lie side-by-side and a wall (septum) develops to complete the division of the heart into left and right sides. The right side pumps blood to the lungs, and the left side pumps blood to the body. Sometimes this wall does not grow completely and a hole remains.
No one knows exactly why a VSD forms. Genes and environment may be a factor. As we learn more about human DNA, we may understand more about what causes this heart defect. A VSD is common in children with other genetic problems, such as Down syndrome.
Most ventricular septal defects are found shortly after birth. By listening to your heart, a doctor can usually hear the rumble of blood as it goes through the hole. This is called a murmur. Sometimes you can even feel the rumble by putting a hand on your chest. This is called a thrill. Some VSDs are not found until later in childhood or adulthood. Tests to confirm the presence and effect of a VSD may include:
- Chest X-ray, a picture to look at the heart and lungs to see if they are too big or have fluid in them.
- Electrocardiogram, a tracing of the heart's electrical system.
- Echocardiogram, a picture of the heart to look at its parts and how they work.
- Cardiac MRI, a special scan looking at the heart.
Most women with a small or repaired VSD will do well during pregnancy, but there is a small risk of heart-related problems. If you have been told you have a VSD, repaired or not, you should see an adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) doctor before getting pregnant. If you have a larger unclosed VSD, and/or additional heart or lung problems, you should get care by experts in heart defects and pregnancy. If you have pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in your lungs) or Eisenmenger’s syndrome (low blood oxygen levels), most ACHD doctors say that you should not become pregnant. In one study, up to 50% of mothers in this situation did not survive.
All adults with CHDs are more likely than the general population to have a child with a heart defect. The defects may be the same or different than the parent’s defect. As we learn more about what causes CHD, we may find that each individual’s risk is higher or lower.
Many small VSDs never require treatment. Women with large VSDs that were not closed at a young age have a high risk of developing other heart, lung, and blood problems. These would include high blood pressure in the lungs and low blood oxygen levels. If this happens, VSD closure may no longer be an option.
If the hole between the two sides is too big, blood will go from the left side of the heart into the right side. This means that extra blood is pumped to the lungs, making the heart and lungs work harder. This can cause high blood pressure in the lungs, which over time may lead to permanent damage in the lung's blood vessels. Increased blood flow in the heart may also lead to heart failure.
No, some children and adults have a small VSD that does not affect the way the heart works. Instead of closing these VSDs, doctors may watch the heart closely to make sure that treatment does not become necessary. If you have a VSD, it is important that you see an ACHD doctor as recommended to make sure your heart stays healthy.
People with a small or repaired VSD and no other problems usually have no exercise limits. It is important for anyone born with a heart defect to ask their ACHD doctor before taking on any new physical activity.
If you have other problems, such as a heartbeat that is too fast, too slow or not regular; high blood pressure in your lungs; low blood oxygen levels and/or valve problems, you should ask your ACHD doctor about what kind of exercise is right for you.
VSDs were one of the first heart defects to be repaired. The first surgery to close a VSD was done in 1954. Some children who had an early repair are still alive today. Over the years, VSDs have been closed using different materials and approaches. How your VSD was closed may affect your long-term health.
Most VSDs are closed by placing a patch or plug into the hole during open heart surgery. Some clinical trials are using a catheter to put the patch or plug into the hole. A catheter is a long, thin tube that the doctor guides into the heart through a blood vessel.
The oldest survivors of VSD closure are now in their 50s and 60s—or older if operated on as adults. We do not know what the lifelong impact of VSD closure is nor do we know how long people with repaired VSDs will live. If surgery was done early, before serious heart and lung problems developed, the outlook is excellent. Adults with closed VSDs are expected to have a normal lifespan. A small number have needed re-operation. The most common reason was to close small leaks around the original patch.
Even if you have a repaired VSD, you do not have a “normal” heart. Everyone born with a VSD has a lifelong risk of other heart problems. Some can occur many years after the original repair. One risk is endocarditis, or infection of the lining of the heart and the valves. It is very important that you ask your ACHD heart doctor about how to protect yourself from endocarditis. People with a repaired VSD can also develop a slow, fast or irregular heartbeat. This is sometimes caused by scars in your heart created by your previous surgery. Other possible problems include valve problems, stroke and heart failure.
Experts recommend that all adults with CHD be seen once at an ACHD center to make sure that the diagnosis is correct and the repair is still working. Patients who have a small unrepaired VSD are still at risk of developing narrowing under the aortic or pulmonary valves, leaking of the aortic valve, or an infection of the lining of the heart and valves.
If you have other heart defects or complex CHD, regular care by a specialized ACHD clinic is recommended. This is also true if you have problems with lung or heart function. If you have high blood pressure in your lungs or low blood oxygen levels, you should also receive regular care at a specialized ACHD clinic. It is important that you see doctors who know about your special needs and can help keep you feeling your best.
Thank you to Lisa Kirkland, MD, and Karen Kuehl, MD, MPH
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Alaska attorneys provide a variety of free legal services for the Anchorage community. One program, free legal clinics around Alaska planned annually on Martin Luther King Day, has continued for a decade and assisted more than three and a half thousand Alaskans. Partners in this effort include the Alaska Court System and Alaska Legal Services Corporation, a private nonprofit law firm established in Alaska in 1967.
On the near horizon, free legal help following the Nov. 30 earthquake is imminent through FEMA. That program will offer pro bono guidance on:
- help with insurance claims for doctor and hospital bills, loss of property or life
- drawing up new wills and other legal papers lost in the disaster
- help with home repair contracts and contractors
- advice on problem landlords
While the state budgeting process is only beginning, the 2020 budget proposal currently zeroes out state funding for Alaska Legal Services Corporation, an agency that provides free civil legal services to low income Alaskans.
Who are the constituents for all these services? Why do attorneys work for free to provide them? We’ll talk about that and more on the next Justice Alaska on Hometown Alaska. Your questions and comments are welcome throughout the program.
- Krista Scully, pro bono director, Alaska Bar Association
- Russell Winner, founder of MLK Day free legal services, attorney owner, Winner & Associates
- Leslie Need, MLK Day free legal services core member, partner at Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP, member of NeighborWorks
- National Disaster Legal Aid website (went live Feb. 26, 2019)
- National Disaster Legal Aid Hotline: 1-855-743-1001
- MLK Day: Not a day off for Alaska attorneys giving free legal help, Anchorage Daily News 1.16.2016
- MLK Day clinic one of few options for affordable legal advice, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 1.18.2018
- Alaska Legal Services Corporation, website
- NeighborWorks Alaska,website
- Alaska Bar Association, Facebook page
- Alaska Bar Association, website
FEMA ASSISTANCE LOCATIONS, ALASKA EARTHQUAKE:
- Spenard Community Recreation Center
2020 W. 48th Ave.
- University of Alaska Anchorage
University Center Mall
3901 Old Seward Hwy, Room 153
- Community Covenant Church
16123 Artillery Road
Eagle River 99577
- Christ First United Methodist Church
2635 S. Old Knik Road
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THE EXPANDABLE VERTICAL WAREHOUSE
Masterlift is an automatic storage and refilling system, characterized by a simple construction.
Through the addition of vertical modules you can expand it, allowing a remarkable storage of the products in the drawers and a quick, computerized collection of items.
- Flatpack system: it extracts and inserts the trays on the brackets supporting the involved levels, and serves the work bays. An automatic machine manages the translation and lifting movements.
- Handled load units: the drawers are made of metal sheet with slotted walls for the division into compartments and/or provided with plastic containers for small parts.
- Drawers compartment: it is guaranteed by a reading, in the loading bay, of the encumbrance in maximum height, which determines dynamically the storage location of the drawer.
- Integrated safety in the bay/operator: photocells system of intrinsically safe barrier.
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Designing a complete yeast chromosome
November 10, 2014
When news came in April that a team of researchers from John Hopkins had created in a lab an entire yeast chromosome — piece by piece, gene by gene — the whole world took note. The synthesis of an entire chromosome is seen as a major step toward a future of streamlined and easily modifiable designer yeast that can be programmed to perform any number of important tasks.
“From car parts to clothing, so much around us has been synthesized through organic chemistry that we’re kind of used to it, but now we’re doing the same thing with biology. It might allow us to someday do amazing things like clean up toxic waste or improve human health,” says Joel Bader, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Bader is a computational biologist who led development of the software that helped design and assemble all the various genetic pieces into a complete chromosome.
Though others have previously synthesized simpler bacteria and virus chromosomes, this was the first time anyone had synthesized an entire chromosome of the more complex forms of life — known as the eukaryotes — that include all plants, animals, and fungi.
Getting to this single chromosome was no easy task, and there is much work still ahead. The resulting paper, published in the journal Science, was the culmination of five years of work.
“My group writes software that allows researchers to edit the genome, and then the software guides the production and assembly of the pieces into a chromosome,” Bader says. He notes the software also includes stringent quality control steps.
“We don’t want any mistakes to creep in. So, after every stage there’s a check that tells us, ‘So far, so good,’” Bader says.
Not only did the team create a complete and functioning chromosome, but it is a very efficient one at that. Bader’s software helped create a chromosome with repetitious and nonfunctional sections removed. The result is a third chromosome that is actually 20 percent shorter than that of natural yeast, yet more stable.
“We’ve taken out any extraneous genetic information, removed destabilizing elements, and eliminated redundancies,” said Srinivasan Chandrasegaran, PhD, a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins and a senior author on the study.
“Much like a synthetic organic chemist 100 years ago would have been floored by the thought of synthesizing something like Kevlar, the benefits of biological synthesis will take shape in ways we can’t even imagine yet. This is like science fiction,” Bader says.
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Investigation Update on the Sea Princess
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Cruise Line: Princess Cruises
Cruise Ship: Sea Princess
Voyage Dates: 05/30 – 06/09/2011
Number of passengers who have reported being ill during the voyage out of total number of passengers onboard: 144 of 2128 (6.77%)
Number of ill crew who have reported being ill during the voyage out of total number of crew onboard: 8 of 840 (0.95%)
Predominant symptoms: vomiting, diarrhea
Causative agent: Norovirus
Actions: In response to the outbreak, Princess Cruises and the crew aboard the ship have taken the following actions:
- Dispatched additional health and housekeeping staff to the ship from the corporate office to supervise prevention and control measures,
- Increased cleaning and disinfection procedures according to their outbreak prevention and response plan,
- Made multi-language announcements to both notify passengers and encourage case reporting,
- Conducted red level cleaning and delayed embarkation to permit a thorough disinfection,
- Collected stool specimens from ill passengers and crew for submission to the CDC lab, results positive for Norovirus,
- Distributed a pre-boarding health advisoryExternal to incoming passengers for the incoming passengers directly through email, telephone calls, text messages, and indirectly through travel agents and the company website, and
- Made daily reports of gastrointestinal illness cases to the VSP, and
- Consulted with CDC on plans for:
- Providing additional staff and time for thorough public and accommodation red level cleaning and disinfection during the extended period between disembarkation and embarkation,
- Disembarkation plans for active cases, terminal and transport infection control procedures,
- Additional management monitoring, documentation, and
- Contingency plans.
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The legislative session ended last week, with two new environmental laws: an Environmental Bond Bill, authorizing the expenditure of $2.4 billion for climate change adaptation projects, and a Clean Energy Bill, that passed without the anti-pipeline tax provision.
Despite that absence, the Clean Energy Bill mandates augmentation of the annual increase in the percentage of renewable energy that utilities must offer as part of basic service. The percentage, which currently totals 13% and increases 1% per year, will now increase by 2% per year, starting in 2019 (before dropping back down to a 1% annual increase).
So, by 2030, basic electric service will be 35% renewable, (and more in many communities that have chosen a “greener” mix). This is another blow to new fracked gas pipeline proposals: as renewables become a larger part of our energy mix, the “need” for new fracked gas pipelines shrinks.
The 2016 Supreme Judicial Court opinion thus stays in force: it remains illegal for Eversource and the pipeline companies to require Massachusetts electric ratepayers to pay for gas pipelines.
But the fight is not over: the pipeline companies are planning to introduce legislation next session, so we will be calling on you to help again! We’ll update you soon.
In case you haven't read, here is a very thoughtful article by Emily Norton, who is leaving as head of the MA Sierra Club to run the Charles River Watershed Association. Emily is a powerful advocate for the environment, and for public health. and we look forward to working with her in her new role. | <urn:uuid:14afdd1d-2eed-4313-a0a8-b3bb9bd4efb2> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.consumersforsensibleenergy.org/blog/2018/8/7/end-of-the-legislative-session-what-happens-next | 2019-07-22T17:08:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.944684 | 330 |
You Are My Sunshine Candle (10 oz.) - Seasonal
"You Are My Sunshine" is one of those songs families sing in the car on a long road trip. It has also been declared a state song of our neighbor state of Louisiana. Imagine the scent of a beautiful sunny day in a candle. Available seasonally.
Fredericksburg Farms candles are available in either 10-ounce or 20-ounce glass canisters with tight-fitting lids to preserve the life of the fragrance. Our candles are smokeless and long-lasting, with burning times of 40-55 hours for the small size and 75-100 hours for the large size. | <urn:uuid:1ddd984e-477d-4da4-9828-2f48be2fdcea> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.fbgfarms.com/products/you-are-my-sunshine-candle-10-oz-seasonal | 2019-07-22T15:56:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.905891 | 133 |
Published December 4th, 2015 at 2:55 PM
China is set to build a massive cow cloning facility with an eye toward eventually cloning human beings. Isn’t China making enough human beings the old-fashioned way?
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Secret Service is a hot mess. According to a scathing report released on Thursday, the agency has seen at least a half-dozen previously undisclosed security breaches since 2013. Like when a man walked into a secure backstage area at an awards dinner and somehow managed to speak with President Obama. Or when two people walked past a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House. Or when an agent was arrested for sexting an underage teen girl. Or when several agents from the president’s elite team were caught partying in Amsterdam. Or at a booze-soaked romp in Cartagena, Colombia, where agents were caught hiring prostitutes.
This country desperately needs to address issues at the Secret Service before something truly awful happens. At the very least, these guys need a name change. Because they’re really, really bad at keeping secrets.
Mark Zuckerberg won huge praise for announcing that he and his wife Priscilla Chan would “donate” 99% of their Facebook shares — worth around $45 billion — to fund the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an organization to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.” Yeah. What Zuckerberg actually did was create a Limited Liability Company, providing himself a number of fat, juicy legal and tax benefits.
Donald Trump made controversial remarks while speaking before the Republican Jewish Coalition. Trump must have decided that he had already pissed off everyone else and it would be rude to not offend Jewish people as well.
Speaking at the same conference, Ben Carson repeatedly mispronounced “Hamas,” the militant Palestinian political movement, as “hummus.” Either that, or Ben Carson thinks that Israel is fighting a war on dip.
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Since her admission, Zoe has gained experience working across a broad range of public liability, professional indemnity, employment and worker’s compensation matters.
Zoe regularly appears in various courts and tribunals on behalf of her employer, self-insured organisation, government and insurer clients, including the Supreme, District and Magistrates Courts of South Australia, and the South Australian Employment Tribunal.
Zoe has acted on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in workers compensation claims and public liability claims, providing advice on matters of indemnity, liability, quantum and strategy. She also advises in recovery actions including insured and uninsured losses.
Zoe brings an innovative, pragmatic and cost effective approach to matters. She adopts a targeted and outcome driven approach to the resolution of her client’s legal problems. | <urn:uuid:e18ccc79-315c-4d1f-92b1-f1c720f221a9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.gclegal.com.au/people/zoe-dempster/ | 2019-07-22T15:53:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.962799 | 161 |
A non brokerage firm offering research services in real estate to leading banks, uses geospatial platform as one of the main cruxes in its feasibility studies
Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt. Ltd. is a Mumbai, India-based non brokerage firm, offering research services in the field of real estate to leading banks. Its services include best use analysis, valuation, project monitoring, and rating.
Real estate being a specific point on geography, the company embarked on the use of location information and geospatial platforms to enhance its services. Geospatial platform forms one of the main cruxes of the company’s feasibility studies. Starting with the very basics such as geographical coordinates, terrain, altitude; the brokerage firm also incorporates satellite mapping, and competitive projects topography. GIS was found to have capability to integrate complete information base of population, population profile, real estate, land use, development plan etc with strong data base in geo reference platform.
The firm uses the geospatial platform in the following ways:
Topographic & land use: Corporation development plans can be laid on a map that is geo referenced.
Population, demographic and spatial mobility: The data comprises of census circle level population, with approximate socio economic classification, their trends of spatial mobility, etc.
Improvement to infrastructure, existing and proposed: Complete information of existing infrastructure, proposed development as per development plans, special projects and as per Development authority can be laid down on map.
Real estate development: Complete data of real estate development, their pattern, dynamics, demand and supply etc, comprising of residential, retail and commercial, can be laid down on map.
Geopatial platform is a useful tool to represent the data on map through thematic maps and charts. Various utilities like rastering, heat map, distance calculator, coordinate extractor, database management.. etc are important invention in the field of data science. The firm expects further more development in geospatial platform in near future on various fields of science and technology. | <urn:uuid:f0d9ab00-a859-404d-ba1b-f8543ed17940> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.geospatialworld.net/article/banking-on-geospatial/ | 2019-07-22T17:29:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.913936 | 412 |
Gilson offers ASTM test sieves in all mesh sizes. These sieves meet ASTM E11 and AASHTO M92 requirements for Compliance Test Sieves, and are serial numbered and supplied with certificates of manufacturing conformance. Please note that 6in, 18in and 10in ASTM Test Sieves are nonreturnable.
Test sieves are available with stainless steel frames and mesh, brass frames and mesh, or combination brass frames with stainless steel mesh. Stainless steel sieves feature the highest quality and longest service life, and are often required to reduce specimen contamination. Brass sieves are prone to wear and distortion, and generally more expensive than stainless steel or combination sieves, which have brass frames and stainless steel mesh.
8in (203mm), 12in (305mm), and 3in (76mm) are the most commonly used frame diameters, and are stocked and ready to ship in the most popular mesh sizes. Frame diameter sizes of 6in (152mm), 10in (254mm), and 18in (457mm) have slightly longer lead times. Test sieves are manufactured with full height or half height frames, and many 3in and 12in diameter sieves are available with intermediate height frames. Using half or intermediate height sieves with finer material sizes allows more sieves in a stack.
Selection of frame diameter and height is based on specimen volume and particle size. A sieve with more surface area processes material much more accurately and efficiently, and also reduces “blinding”, the clogging of mesh openings with particles just slightly too large to pass. Ideally, a sample fraction should cover the surface of a given sieve in no more than a couple of particle thicknesses deep. The height of the frame must be great enough to allow particles to roll, bounce, and reorient to the mesh during agitation. No. 35 stainless steel backing cloth is optionally available to reinforce Test Sieves of any diameter with primary mesh #70 or finer. Backing Cloth extends service life and prevents sagging and tearing of fine mesh
All ASTM Test Sieves are supplied with a Certificate of Compliance. Users requiring further verification of opening sizes can upgrade to either Inspection or Calibration sieves. The optional verifications are available from all U.S. manufacturers and increase the acceptance confidence level to 99.0% for Inspection, and 99.73% for Calibration.
Master-Matched Services is also an optional upgrade for 8in stainless steel or combination sieves from No. 8 (2.36mm) to No. 325 (45μm). The upgrade guarantees uniformity for multiple sieve sets that are being used at different locations, or can be part of a QCQA program.
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A fully illustrated guide to the science and benefits of kindness from leading kindness expert, Dr David R Hamilton.
Scientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain, impacts the heart and immune system, is an antidote to depression, improves relationships and even slows the ageing process. Yet, more than this, kindness can power real and lasting change in the world.
This little guide shows how the practice of kindness can increase our happiness, improve our health, help us to forge stronger connections with others and positively affect the world we live in.
In The Little Book of Kindness, kindness expert Dr David R Hamilton reveals the science of kindness and teaches us how, by using easy-to-follow tools, strategies and exercises, we can harness its power to improve all aspects of our lives and the lives of the people around us.
Dr David Hamilton has a PhD in organic chemistry and spent four years working in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Inspired by the placebo effect, he left the industry to write books and educate people in how they can harness their mind and emotions to improve their health. He is the author of nine books, including How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body and The Five Side Effects of Kindness. David is the 'Kindness Tsar' for Psychologies magazine and writes for Soul & Spirit Magazine and the Huffington Post. He has appeared on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch in the UK and CBS Sunday Morning in the USA. An advocate for kindness, David is working passionately to help inspire a kinder world. | <urn:uuid:c33a4a11-a6f6-45d5-a934-df5ab7913b81> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.hachette.com.au/dr-david-hamilton/the-little-book-of-kindness-connect-with-others-be-happier-transform-your-life | 2019-07-22T17:05:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.927581 | 313 |
Tax Matters Policy
Among others, companies have an corporate social responsibility to appropriately honor their tax liabilities in the countries and areas in which they conduct their business activities. Therefore, we have determined and subsequently implement the "JXTG Group Tax Matters Policy," as follows:
- 1.we comply with the relevant tax laws and regulations in the countries and areas in which we conduct our business activities;
- 2.we conduct our business activities in accordance with the purposes of the rules regarding international tax matters (such as the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations and the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project);
- 3.through continuous training concerning tax matters and other relevant training, we make efforts to maintain and improve our awareness of tax compliance;
- 4.by using the Advance Pricing Arrangement and other relevant systems, we attempt to obtain agreement with tax authorities, and make efforts to reduce risks and optimize costs; and
- 5.at the request of tax authorities, we timely and properly provide them with necessary information. | <urn:uuid:b367fc31-89be-4e51-b92c-f9037cd0c676> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.hd.jxtg-group.co.jp/english/company/system/tax.html | 2019-07-22T16:27:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.95167 | 214 |
100% refund if canceled at least 14 days before arrival date. 50% refund if canceled at least 7 days before arrival date.
Good Accommodation, terrific location
We were 3 old friends meeting up, and the owner kindly made up 2 singles and a double for us. The cottage was lovely - immaculately presented- and with all we needed. Super Nespresso machine and fluffy towels - all within easy walking of the old town centre. Chester had lots of cafes and restaurants- great place for a weekend stay, with lots to do and see. Well recommended! | <urn:uuid:380f632b-d0cb-489e-a7b1-e83f51c5446d> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p8659953?noDates=true&petIncluded=0 | 2019-07-22T17:18:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.933468 | 118 |
Crock Pot Peach Cobbler Recipe
3/4 cup of all-purpose baking mix
1/3 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 can of evaporated milk
2 tsp of melted butter or margarine
3 large, ripe, mashed peaches
2 tsp of vanilla
3/4 tsp of cinnamon
Lightly coat crock pot with non-stick cooking spray. In a seperate bowl, combine sugar, baking mix, eggs and vanilla. Mix in margarine/butter and milk. Finally, add peaches and cinnamon, make sure to incorporate fully. Pour entire mixture into crock pot.
Cook on LOW for 6-8 hours or HIGH for 3-4 hours. Serve warm on top of vanilla ice cream. | <urn:uuid:08677921-d98f-49fb-b8b4-77098f43ec08> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.homestyle-recipes.com/peach-cobbler-recipe.html | 2019-07-22T16:43:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.852872 | 160 |
Canada’s Express Entry system trims the cut off score by 5 points in the latest drawExpress Entry Program came up with the new draw on June 12 inviting a total of 3,350 candidates to apply for Canadian permanent residence. The cut-off went to 465 this time, with a decrease in 5 points from the previous score which was 470.Express Entry System is the most economical class of Canada Immigration that manages the pool of candidates under the three economic-immigration programs – the Federal Skilled Worker Class, Federal Skilled Trades Class, and Canadian Experience Class.Candidate’s eligibility depends on a score known as the Comprehensive Ranking System or CRS, which helps in evaluating the rank of the candidates in the pool of candidates. Factors like age, education, work experience, and proficiency in English/French plays an important role in the scoring of candidates.Eligible candidates for each program are issued with a score under what is known as the Comprehensive Ranking System, or CRS, which determines their rank in the pool.Candidates who score high-points are offered with an invitation to apply (ITA) for Canada permanent residence on regular draws from the pool that takes place after the span of 14 days and the application process of Canada permanent residence for Express Entry candidates takes place in the span of 6 months or less.A total of 38,450 ITAs have been issued to the Express Entry candidates by IRCC in the year 2019. This intake is 6,250 more than the previous year’s intake at the same point, a year that has 89,800. Number of Invitations to apply have seen a drastic growth. Last year was the witness to the highest number of ITA issued in a calendar year and already this year has witnessed a huge growth. As of now, the number stands at staggering 6250 more than what it was last year.Canada is to welcome huge number of immigrants for the year 2019 and 2020 under three programs managed by the Express Entry system. For availing more information, feel free to reach our Immigration experts via official helpline +91-7042184185 or send your queries.
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Setting The Record Straight
Campus Watch corrects false allegations made against it.
Campus Watch Responds:
In his article attacking critics of recently-tenured Barnard College anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj, Morgan Strong makes two errors: he mischaracterizes Campus Watch and our treatment of Abu El-Haj, and he is wrong in his depiction of CW founder Daniel Pipes's role in El-Haj's tenure battle.
Regarding Campus Watch, Strong, a former professor of Middle East studies at Mercy College and SUNY, wrote:
Campus Watch is not a "right-wing organization" that "attacks" professors, and we didn't "attack" Abu El-Haj. We critique Middle East studies without regard to the politics of the professors in question. We commissioned work on Abu El-Haj, and we took a critical view of her scholarship. But our critiques were fact-based and reasoned, and our concern was with the tendentious and inaccurate nature of her scholarship about the Middle East, and not with her personal politics, left or right.
Additionally, per Campus Watch policy, we did not take a position on the question of whether or not Abu El-Haj should have received tenure.
Which leads to Strong's second error. In discussing Dhaba "Debbie" Almontaser, former principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy, Strong writes:
In fact, Daniel Pipes did not lift a finger against Abu El-Haj. His involvement was limited to commissioning--in 2002--a review of Abu El-Haj's book, Facts on the Ground, for the Middle East Quarterly. That review appeared in 2003, years before Abu El-Haj's tenure battle erupted.
(Posted by Winfield Myers)
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Combined firm now has $18 billion in equity capital behind its traditional investment banking muscle.
When it comes to growth strategies for companies going public and staying ahead of the financial game, BancAmerica Robertson Stephens (BARS) makes its mark on Wall Street and with its investors. In a year of big mergers and acquisitions, Bank America Corp. bought Robertson Stephens & Co. in June for $540 million to become BancAmerica Robertson Stephens. The merger combines Robertson Stephens' investment knowledge and BankAmerica's capital and blue-chip clientele.
The San Francisco-based firm was established in 1978 and presently has over 900 employees after the 1997 merger. BARS is one of the nation's leading underwriters of emerging growth companies in the technology, healthcare, retail, consumer products and real estate sectors. Investor interest in the real estate industry, as well as BARS' involvement has been increasing with improving real estate market fundamentals and what BARS believes to be long-term uptrends in real estate values.
In most major metropolitan markets, BARS expects demand for multifamily, office, retail, self-storage, warehouse and manufactured home sites to increase in the face of limited new construction. BancAmerica Robertson Stephens' real estate specialists foresee a combination of falling vacancy rates, rising rents and limited new construction leading to a trend of rising property values.
In 1996, the firm completed 125 equity offerings (IPOs, follow-ons and convertibles) valued at $8.6 billion. Also, BARS completed 50 advisory transactions valued at more than $9 billion and 15 private placements valued at $180 million. Since the merger, BARS has moved forward to increase its role in debt and equity financing through the consolidation of the two financial giants.
"Now that the acquisition is complete, there is simply no other banking company in the nation that has more to offer clients in the growth industries," says Sanford R. Robertson, founding partner of Robertson Stephens. "We look forward to developing other industries together. As a leading investment banking firm in a number of emerging industries, BancAmerica Robertson Stephens together brings a team of experts in equity and convertible securities underwriting, industry research, industry-driven merger and acquisition advice, and experience at bringing equity issues to the public and private sectors. The firm's suite of mutual funds recently ranked in the top 2% of all funds based on one- and three-year performances."
The merger gives BARS an extensive database of clients and a higher volume of finance to place deals into the public and private sectors. Prior to the merger, BankAmerica Corp. had a significant market capital base of more than $45 billion, a global network in 37 countries, strong debt raising capabilities and investment strategies. The move integrates BARS into the nation's third-largest bank aiming to boost its earnings and develop new markets.
"With the consolidation of capital resources, the acquisition gives us a major source of capital to do business with. The company has approximately $18 billion of equity capital that it can use to commit to transactions for real estate companies," says Jay P. Leupp, a principal and senior research analyst at BARS. "For us, it helps us as an investment bank; we can commit more capital to transactions, be they institutional investors or pension funds. Before the merger, we had worked with an equity capital base of about $100 million, today we work with a base of approximately $18 billion. This has made us tremendously more competitive in our marketplace."
At present, BARS has a handle on new sources of financing that it did not possess prior to the merger. "There's not just a reliance upon the equity capital, but upon debt capital. And when we were trying to compete, prior to the merger, this was competing with one hand tied behind our back, because we could not compete for debt," says Donald H. Ankeny, a principal and head of the real estate investment group at BARS. "So, I think a huge competitive advantage has come our way with this transaction and the ability to do both debt and equity."
At the core of BARS is an extensive research department, with more than 45 senior research analysts covering 525 companies. With BARS' demanding selection criteria, constant education of its sales force and quality dialogue with investors, the firm is able to provide good valuation for clients and returns for investors.
"On the research side, we follow office, industrial and apartment sectors heavily and we feel that gives us a leg up on following companies in those sectors. We also draw on our securities analysis expertise, as we follow some non-traditional real estate categories, such as self-storage, golf course and manufactured home REITs," says Leupp. "We also follow diversified REITs with a focus toward both growth and total return with some cases value investing."
The REIT market is hot in 1997 and BARS is an expert in this arena. What does the firm see for this segment of the financial realm? "The REIT industry will both expand, from a securitization standpoint, as well as consolidate. In other words, the equity capitalization market is about $120 billion today, up from about $10 billion less than five years ago, and I think in the next 2.5 years probably will reach the $400 billion to $500 billion mark," says Ankeny. "It's a natural evolution to get into a couple sectors of the REIT arena that we have not been in historically. I think you'll see more involvement by our firm in the retail, hospitality and healthcare REITs. We now have more resources to grow with since the merger, so you'll see more bankers and research analysts at BARS."
BARS has been successful with initial public offerings for highly fragmented markets such as golf courses, self-storage facilities and manufactured homes. "We like those areas and will continue to seek opportunity in them because they are all highly-fragmented industries, where the top 10 owners own 15% or less of the properties in the sector. And they're also unsecuritized. In other words, a very small percentage of the assets are owned by REITs," says Leupp. "We think the opportunities for all these property types are extremely promising, and we think these will be the consolidators in these businesses. But at the same time, we will also have a focus where we have a research edge in the office, industrial and multifamily sectors, as we have done all along."
As an innovator in investment banking, BARS has developed a relationship with Palo Alto, Calif.-based E*TRADE Group to offer its clientele information about wealth-building tools, opportunity for ground floor investment in IPOs and secondary offerings, and in-depth equity research for understanding high-growth companies, industries and market developments over the Internet. "We intend to use the power of the Internet for the benefit of our client companies while remaining dedicated to the firm's core business," says Michael G. McCaffery, president and CEO at BARS. "This strategic alliance will complement the growth opportunities created by the transaction with BankAmerica."
Since the merger, a separate branch has been developed within BARS that handles mutual funds and venture capital: Robertson Stephens Investment Management (RSIM), headed by G. Randy Hecht. Combined assets under management total approximately $68 billion. As for mutual funds, RSIM has more than $5 billion under management with $3.2 billion in public funds and $1.8 billion in private funds. The firm manages eight venture capital funds totaling nearly $600 million while investing in more than 250 companies in several emerging growth industries. | <urn:uuid:b340b32f-a53b-4236-bbec-b6181d32221f> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.nreionline.com/mag/bancamerica-robertson-stephens-raises-bar | 2019-07-22T15:55:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.960942 | 1,566 |
The Greek OAL is located in the prefecture of Sterea Ellada. It is the basin of Spercheios river, which springs from the mountainous parts of the catchment, mainly from Tymfristos mountain in the West, as well as Vardousia and Oiti mountain ranges in the Southwest and South respectively. The River is recharged by many streams of permanent and periodic flow and discharges in Maliakos Gulf. The steep slopes, which are present within approximately 2/3 of the total length of the river course, form a rather mountainous topography (streamy with crucial flooding peaks and very intense sediment yield). Only in the last downstream part of Sperchios course, the topography gradually changes into a lowland relief. The catchment area has an extent of approximately 1700 km2 and a mean altitude of 640 m with a maximum height of 2285 m. Half of the basin is plains and hills, with an elevation lower than 600 m, whereas a 20% is semi-mountain (600-900 m) and 30% mountain (above 900 m).
Region of Sterea Ellada
MOTIVATION FOR CHOICE ACCORDING TO HAZARD EXPOSURE AND ASSET VALUE
– Flooding, droughts
– 18 special environmental sites of the region (NATURA 2000)
– Special Protection Areas: Spercheios river, valley and delta
– Aquatic and coastal-marine ecosystems at risk
– World-renown hot springs and spa, essential for the economy of the region
POSSIBLE NATURE-BASED AND HYBRID SOLUTIONS
– Enhancement of water storage by maintaining the capacity of ditches, embanked reservoirs, channels
– Increasing soil infiltration, potentially reducing surface runoff, by free-draining soil
– Slowing water by increasing resistance to its flow, for example, by planting floodplain or riverside woods
– Reducing water flow connectivity by interrupting surface flows, by planting buffer strips of grass and trees
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Video Message From Laurie To All PJTN Watchmen
The past several weeks have proven to be a crucial time in getting PJTN’s messaging out to the world.
Certainly through our messaging, “replacement theology” has been exposed for the vile form of anti-Semitism it is and our generation of Christians now have the choice of deciding what they will believe about Israel—the lie of heresy or the truth.
Your support of PJTN makes our position on the frontlines possible and our ability to have a voice on crucial issues heard around the nation and the world. Please share our messaging with your friends and family. Become a “PJTN Watchman” today.
Your efforts are invaluable!
Shalom and blessings,
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Hobo Euro Slide. Graphite.
A slim credit card case is crafted from lightly textured leather and features a convenient ID window. A convenient back pocket is just the right size for your passport, making it perfect for travel.
- 5 1/2" x 4"
- Exterior zip and currency pockets; five card slots; ID window; passport pocket.
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You hear us talk a lot about the magic of SeaMeal, so we’re going to try to stay quiet and let Laura share her transformational experience with this supplement!
“In March, 2017 I noticed a small bump on the head of my 8 year old cat Jasmine. Since she regularly plays with my other cats I assumed she had been on the receiving end of some active cat play. But instead of healing the bump slowly grew and I made an appointment to see the vet. Our appointment was scheduled for July 5. I began taking pictures of the bump to hallmark its progress for the vet. Eventually the bump became flesh colored and the size of a pea. The vet thought it was a sebaceous cyst and he wanted to do a biopsy and then remove it because he said the cat is only 8 and I wouldn’t want a disfiguring cyst on her head for the rest of her life. Those words shocked me and I could not imagine putting my Jasmine through all of this. I declined further services from this vet and decided to seek an alternative approach to treating the cyst.”
“I had read about the powerful healing benefits of turmeric and I immediately started adding organic turmeric to Jazzy’s food, and applying a paste of organic turmeric/organic coconut oil topically to the cyst. I also applied a drawing salve to the cyst several times a week. While all this helped to reduce the size of the cyst somewhat, the cyst remained, so I continued searching for solutions. On August 16 I saw a display for Solid Gold SeaMeal at a local store. I was impressed with the packaging, marketing and online reviews and I purchased the product. Walking home from the store I called Solid Gold and spoke to a wonderful young woman who answered my many questions about the product. I liked what I heard and started Jazzy and my 5 other rescue pets on SeaMeal that evening. Within days I noticed their fur was softer and silkier. Next, Jazzy’s cyst appeared to be changing from flesh color to whitish and eventually to blackish. Once the cyst turned black the top began bleeding and flaking off. Please know that at no time during this process did Jazzy appear to be in pain or discomfort. I upped the amount of SeaMeal in Jazzy’s food and continued documenting the progress of the cyst through pictures. On September 27 the cyst was completely black and appeared to be hanging by a thread. On September 28 it fell off into a tissue as I was examining it.”
“As of today, October 4, the cyst is gone, all my babies have bright eyes and luxurious, silky fur and my 14 year old pup appears to be getting younger. All my babies love their SeaMeal. I sprinkle it on their food and mix it in and they lick their bowls clean. I am so grateful to Solid Gold for providing pet parents with a healthy, natural way to keep our fur babies healthy and happy. Thank you Solid Gold!” | <urn:uuid:ed39e1c4-f71b-4ee5-bd58-1275bbf9e78e> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.solidgoldpet.com/solid-gold-supplement-success/ | 2019-07-22T16:14:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.97754 | 645 |
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Harman's Studer Demonstrates Industry-Leading Broadcast Audio Systems and Customer Speaker Schedule at NAB 2015
April 13, 2015
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – At NAB 2015, HARMAN’s Studer is showcasing an array of world-class solutions designed to streamline workflow, maximize efficiency, and simplify system operation and management.
Studer is showing its Vista X and Vista V digital consoles, whose Infinity Core CPU-based processors provide huge numbers of DSP channels for large-scale, high-resolution audio processing and mixing. Infinity Core is truly the first of its kind, providing a scalable system, faster development of new signal processing designs, huge channel counts, full system redundancy without a single point of failure and the possibility of running third-party algorithms. Studer will also show the OnAir 3000 networked radio system running the latest software offering AoIP.
Offering a digital audio interface that features higher capacity than any other such product in the industry, Studer is also highlighting A-Link, a fiber-based interface that uses a 3Gb data rate to offer 1,536 audio channels per connection. A-Link technology makes the Infinity processing core possible, by connecting the huge number of audio channels into and out of Infinity Core. A new PCI express card has been designed to fit into the Vista X and Vista V consoles’ server board, and the card is fitted with 12 A-Link interfaces capable of over 10,000 inputs and 10,000 outputs. The A-Link interface also provides direct connection to the Riedel MediorNet distributed router, allowing many Infinity systems to be connected together with router capacities of 10,000 square or more.
In addition, Studer is hosting special guest speakers - are leaders in the broadcast industry, who will discuss their experiences and best practices. These include Andy Tapley, Sound Supervisor at t BBC Studios and Post Production, and Brad Duryea, Head of Audio Production at Lakewood Church.
BBC Studios and Post Production provides premium studio space and uses Studer technology at its studios at Elstree where Vista X, Infinity Core and OnAir 3000 digital consoles are installed. Tapley will provide an overview of the infrastructure at Elstree and will talk about how the Studer systems are used for the broadcast of shows including Strictly Come Dancing.
Lakewood Church has recently added a Studer Vista X digital console, featuring Infinity Core processing technology, for the television broadcasts of its worship services. Duryea will present an in-depth description of the Studer system at Lakewood Church.
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Community Impact Across Borders
The Planning Council serves as a regional resource by helping communities throughout Hampton Roads implement effective strategies for those issues that cut across jurisdictional boundaries. We administer a variety of local, state and federal programs to bring the highest quality of care to children and families in our communities and advocate for initiatives that benefit the region.
- We offer training to over 600 childcare providers; help parents locate quality childcare; and advocate and support safe, affordable and quality care for all children.
- By facilitating the USDA’s food program, we ensure that each year approximately 16,000 children across Virginia, Maryland, and DC have nutritious meals while they are at day care.
- We also implement the screening of newborns at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital to identify behavioral health risks and help those families find the support services they need to raise safe, healthy and happy babies. Last year we consulted with 665 families that resulted in 815 referrals for home visiting and other community services.
- We continue to expand our Military Respite program, which connects nearly 700 special needs children each year with in-home respite care.
- Our experienced staff trains nearly 500 people annually in suicide prevention and other mental health first aid programs.
- Each year we help between 130 and 150 at-risk families avoid homelessness by providing short-term prevention funding.
- Our housing broker team identifies rental units in the region that are affordable to those with extremely low incomes. Last year we found nearly 4,200 units available to those most in need.
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Farm2Childcare (F2CC), our new program, is grant funded by the Obici Healthcare Foundation and services the Suffolk and Western Tidewater areas of Virginia. The goals of the program are to get more preschool aged children eating fresher, local produce which will decrease childhood obesity and hunger while increasing the local economy. It is our goal to create connections between local produce farmers and local childcare programs. Each program’s F2CC activity is established on an individualized basis.
If you’re interested in learning more about how to get involved please email at Farm2Childcare@theplanningcouncil.org.
In 2012, The Planning Council, with support from the Virginia Department of Health and Virginia Commonwealth University, was selected as one of four pilot sites across the state to improve access to maternal, infant, and childhood home visiting programs. The centralized intake system better coordinates linkages to a variety of services across South Hampton Roads for expecting and new mothers.
Overall, the program ensures that comprehensive services and benefits programs are identified that improve the quality of life for both parents and children.
Find out more: Call 757-622-9268 or email HVCI@theplanningcouncil.org
A family of five came to the Homeless Prevention Program through Virginia Beach’s coordinated assessment and referral center – Connection Point. The family encountered a crisis when they had to take immediate custody of their young grandchild. They couldn’t afford childcare and free care though Head Start wasn’t immediately available. So, this two-income household dropped to one in order to care for the child.
The other parent was able to subsidize the loss of full-time income with a part-time, evening job, but it wasn’t enough. Their finances became much more difficult to manage, substantially impacting their housing stability. The family fell behind in paying essential bills, ultimately putting them at risk of homelessness.
The Planning Council’s Homeless Prevention Program stepped in with short-term financial assistance and case management services, helping the family overcome the immediate crisis and avoid homelessness. In just a little over four months both adults are working full-time, their grandchild is in daycare, and they live on a budget they can afford. And, while they still struggle, the immediate risk of homelessness no longer threatens their family.
The Planning Council's Annual Report
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It's easy to grow tired of seeing the same people day after mundane day. Say hi to the neighbors. Ask your cubicle mate what they did over the weekend. Try not to stare at that guy on the train with a cat sitting on his shoulder like a parrot.
Frontier Airlines has a sale going that will allow to you break free from that routine. The sale touts one-way flights for $24. Though, those lowest prices are reserved for members of the airline's Discount Den. Outside of that, you can find one-way tickets for $34, and round-trip fares for as little as $66.40.
Often deals like this involve flights that are basically Milwaukee to Chicago, but the current routes have some longer options. The below-cited flight from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas is among the cheapest available. At the time of publication, 76 routes had one-way tickets for less than $50 and had return flights at the same price point. Each route has different sale dates, but most are from late September into early December.
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Of course, know what you're getting into with a budget airline. Frontier charges higher than average prices for bags and charges to reserve most seats. (Some less desirable seats can be reserved in advance for free.)
Frontier's luggage fees can get a little complicated, but you save money by paying for your bags online at the time of booking. That will cost you $30 for a carry-on (personal item is free) or $25 for a checked bag.
It's not for everyone, but if you can deal with being assigned a seat, and you're capable of packing light, fares this low can still be a cheap trip after the fees. Either way, it's certainly better than going to work.
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Guide to Elective Surgeries
These days it's important to know what you are paying for, and veterinary medicine is no exception. How can the veterinary client determine how much a surgery is "worth" when the procedures appear to be the same everywhere? Why does one place appear to be cheap and another pricey?
You should know what is included in the "surgery" price, as this can make an enormous difference to your pet's experience and will allow you to compare apples to apples. Following are some question for you to consider and some suggested questions for the veterinarians who might be putting your beloved pet "under the knife".1. Will your pet get pain medication before the surgery starts? All pets deserve good pain management. Animals experience much better analgesia when there is pain medication on board before any pain is inflicted. A tranquilizer or sedative does not deal with pain, just anxiety.
2. Will your pet get blood pressure support and emergency IV access? Anesthetics and sedatives can cause very low blood pressure, which is partly countered by giving IV fluids. As well, an IV catheter allows the administration of drugs in an emergency. We hope that anesthetic emergencies never happen, but in the rare case that we do need to give emergency drugs an IV catheter is vital.
3. Will your pet get analgesics during surgery? Some veterinarians run an infusion of pain medications during surgery, which help make the pet more comfortable on awakening.
4. Is there a person dedicated to looking after your pet? An animal under anesthesia is hovering in a very dangerous place. It is vitally important that a trained person be monitoring your pet's parameters. It also is common sense that the person monitoring anesthesia is not the one performing the surgery!Registered Animal Health Technologists (RAHTs) are the best people to monitor anesthesia, in my opinion. RAHTs have had 2-3 years of college learning to do exactly this job and are highly skilled. Ask whether there is anyone monitoring the patients before, during and after surgery, and what kind of training and experience they've had. Ask to see a copy of the forms for anesthesia monitoring, and an example of a completed one.
5. What kind of beeping and pinging machines are used to monitor your pet's anesthetic experience? Nothing can replace the human factor of an RAHT, but what kind of equipment is available to determine whether you pet is in trouble? Is blood pressure monitored? Audible pulses? Blood oxygen? ECG? With the exception of blood pressure, which is vital for all situations, not all of these machines are indicated or useful in all surgeries, but clinics doing good anesthesia will do good monitoring.
6. Is a new, sterile instrument pack used for each and every surgery? In some clinics, especially those doing high volume, an instrument pack is shared between two or more patients. Your pet deserves the safety of an autoclaved instrument pack of his own
7. What kind of analgesics will be sent home with your pet? Any? Remember, a "spay" surgery sounds minor until you understand that it is a hysterectomy and removal of the ovaries. Does that sound like something you'd like to have done without any kind of pain control? How about a castration? (Didn't think so!)
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A University of Wolverhampton professor has been selected to lead a national project focused on unlocking the hidden history of women’s football.
Professor of Sport Jean Williams has been chosen as the academic lead for the National Football Museum’s project, which is the largest of its kind in the world.
The ‘Unlocking the Hidden History of Women’s Football’ project will involve cataloguing, digitising, and writing exhibition content on an estimated 20,000-25,000 individual items including tickets, programmes, small statuettes and fine art.
The first big task is to establish and lead a research network which will coordinate academic and community research and connect related collections on women’s football.
There are many museums and archives containing women’s football, and Professor Williams has worked with several of these including the British Library, The Imperial War Museum and The British Film Institute.
There are also collections at various places such as Lyons Tea Houses and Marks and Spencer, and some public history work funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund on the women’s team in Coventry, circa 1921. The project will also engage the LGBTI communities and a number of equality and diversity groups in and around football.
Professor Williams, from the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, said: “This is a very exciting project as it draws together, for the first time, an unprecedented collection of women’s football memorabilia dating back to 1869, just six years after the formation of the Football Association which saw the codification of modern football as a sport. We have football kit and clothing, art, toys, and collectibles as well as posters. Should you know any women with memorabilia or scrapbooks of their playing career, particularly before 1993, please do ask them to get in touch with the museum.”
A second major piece of the work is to host what is hoped will be the largest international academic conference on women’s football from 8-10 March 2018, to coincide with International Women’s Day. It is hoped this will feature speakers from the US, Canada, Europe, and Brazil, as well as a wide range of UK speakers.
The role will also involve researching and preparing content for an extension of the Museum’s permanent gallery to include women’s football. Jean has curated and written exhibitions before. In 2016, she helped the museum to obtain funding for Memories of 1966, and in 2014 Jean co-curated The Road to Rio: History of the World Cup in 24 Objects.
There will also be an international element as Professor Williams has worked in archives in China, USA, Australia, Namibia, as well as FIFA, UEFA and the International Olympic Committee collections in Switzerland.
Images courtesy of the National Football Museum
For more information please contact the Media Relations Office on 01902 32 2736 or 01902 518647.
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All high school students should know there are more options for life after high school than going to college.
While college may be right for some people, it is not right for everyone. Even the best and brightest students may not find the idea of an additional four years of higher education appealing. Furthermore, the prospect of going tens of thousands or even more than one hundred thousand dollars in debt from student loans can be extremely unappealing. If you like working with your hands and spending some time outdoors, then college is not for you.
Additionally, many college students do not find work in their field. Those who do get a job in their field of study usually earn less money and receive worse healthcare and retirement benefits than a first-year I.B.E.W. journeyman.
There is an alternative to college, where you can avoid costly debt and begin a rewarding career. A career as an electrical worker will pay you more than most jobs that require a bachelor’s degree. By applying for an apprenticeship with the York Electrical JATC, you will have the ability, with some careful planning, to save up enough money to purchase a new car or truck or even buy your first home. You can begin living your life and come out ahead of your college friends, who will find themselves burdened with costly student loans and making less money than you. While your friends with degrees are forced to move back home with their parents, you can enjoy living in your own place.
A career as an electrical worker is not for everyone though. Potential applicants to the York Electricians JATC must be able to physically perform the work, be detail oriented, pass a drug test and show up to work and class on time, every day. High school students are urged to take math and science (particularly physics) courses to help them prepare for the apprenticeship program. | <urn:uuid:a5571982-b49d-4a07-b9d8-1288a590a48f> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://yorkelectricians.org/become-a-member/high-school-students/ | 2019-07-22T16:48:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528141.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722154408-20190722180408-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.97046 | 379 |
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Louise E. Freeburg, 94 of Elkhorn, NE, formerly of Petersburg, NE, died Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at her home in Elkhorn. Funeral services were conducted Monday, June 29, 2009 at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Albion, NE with Fr. Stan Schmit officiating. Burial was at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Petersburg
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The Hanimex 35HL is a camera for 35mm film. It is fixed-focus, has no exposure settings, and has a built-in flash. It has manual film advance and rewind. Along with being available in black, a blue version was also available. It was made in China. The flash requires two AA batteries, otherwise the camera can operate without batteries.
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A video look at Windows 10 features #InHomeComputerSetUpHonolulu
Presently, for those running Windows 8 or 8.1. In the lower right hand corner of your screen there's a window icon (picture). If you click on it you can get a free copy of Windows 10 when it's ready. DO NOT download it from any other source. Windows 7 users, at this time I'm not recommending the upgrade. Going up two upgrades with a new system could cause some problems. | <urn:uuid:3d282da2-9ad3-44af-bd7e-f2121e0b09d2> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://computerhelphi.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-video-look-at-windows-10-features.html | 2019-07-23T23:24:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.903933 | 101 |
Also miss Windows XP? History of the wheel roll forward, released nearly two years of Windows 10 has occupied the global 1/4 of the operating system market, XP as a classic can not escape the fate of abandoned. However, if you are a nostalgic party, try the Great God TurrboSwagg share the way to recall XP.
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Among them, for wallpaper (Download the original image) And modify the taskbar color can be done in the system, but modify the start menu button icon will need to use a lightweight tool Classic Shell (download) And XP style button material (download:Baidu) With the solution.
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NEWS ADVISORY: Officials to Commemorate Opening of Sand Canyon Undercrossing
WHAT: Officials from the Orange County Transportation Authority and the city of Irvine will commemorate the opening of the new Sand Canyon Avenue undercrossing, which separates car traffic from the busy LOSSAN rail corridor that will now run above. The $64 million project was funded by a mix of Measure M, the half-cent sales tax approved by Orange County voters, and local, state and federal dollars.
WHEN: 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 11
WHERE: Sand Canyon Avenue and Burt Road in Irvine, CA 92618
WHO: Scheduled speakers include:
OCTA Vice Chairman and Irvine Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Lalloway
OCTA Director Todd Spitzer, also the county’s Third District Supervisor
Irvine Mayor Steven Choi
OCTA CEO Darrell Johnson
WHY: The project is among eight being built along Orange County rail lines as part of the OCTA’s O.C. Bridges program. The Sand Canyon Avenue undercrossing is the only such project being built in South Orange County. The other projects are being constructed in North Orange County along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line. Separating car traffic from rail traffic improves quality of life for residents, ensuring that they spend less time idling in cars waiting for trains to pass, while also enhancing safety.
For more information, visit www.octa.net/ocbridges.
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Many of us the favorite holiday season is summer time because the best thing about summer is the nice weather condition. The weather is usually hot and sunny, with longer days. Moreover, the usual summer attire consists of tank tops, shorts, slippers, sandals for the boys and for the girls is also sexy shorts, spaghetti strap tops, two piece swimsuit designs and also more in the profile by gottex swimwear 2013 design and styles of the best summer outfit. It’s nice to be able to wear light clothing instead of jackets, pants and long sleeves.
Anyhow during summer season, this is the best time to go to the beach with family and friends. Many people are out-of-town to go to the different beautiful places in parts of the world. Like our family every summer season we go to the beautiful places here in the Philippines. Aside from that summer time is very fun and relaxing season.
Since I was a child I like to wear accessories and jewelries. I don’t know why but I really love to wear the accessories because for me it looks beautiful, fashion and good-looking. Actually, when I ransacked my accessories box I saw the old accessories that were given to me by my friend. I remember all the happiness of my friends since high school and college life, because of the accessories souvenir. I also find the bracelet silver as birthday gift that given to my by my best friend. The design or style is like the sterling silver cuff. It is a bangle design and very important to me because this is given to me the special person in my life. Aside from that I also wear it only to go some occasions and party.
Some people think that putting up a garage band is an easy feat but there are actually a lot of things to consider especially in choosing the right equipment and instruments for your type of music. You need to ensure you have proper sound proofing so that your neighbors will have tolerable sounds and would not complain about the noise that you make. You also need to check out different instruments such as the guitars, amplifiers, drum set and midi keyboard at musicians friend. You also need software that can mix up all these music and sound into one great composition.
Hubby, Vince and I were attending Sunday mass in Kamay ni Hesus located in Lucban, Quezon. The place is very familiar to everyone because it is the place of healing church. Anyway we attending the Sunday mass at 11:30–12:30 pm and after the mass I decided to visit my friend house in Lucban, Quezon. She is my friend since elementary school. Well, the house of my friend is bungalow type and I also attracted the lights in the living room area, it looks like a beautiful swarovski crystal chandelier. I really like the design of the living room; it is very attractive and eye-catching to the visitors.
Actually my friends and I were talking to each other about our life, jobs, personal life and many more. Although we are talking everyday via facebook :-). I just want to say thank your Lord for the great time that you gave to us.
Today is Sunday and I woke up early in the morning. I also cooked our breakfast. The breakfasts that I was cooked are fried hotdog and egg, together with sinangag or fried rice. But anyway, I did not capture the photo because I also prepare right away our clothes to wear to go to the church at Kamay ni Hesus in Lucban, Quezon to attending the Sunday mass. I think it’s almost 2 months that we did not attending Sunday mass there. And we were almost attending Sunday mass here in the near area. Well attending mass every Sunday is give me a good vibes and feel happy and blessed for the whole day.
Have a blessed Sunday everyone :-)!
Drum is very important instrument of the band. It’s give everyone the beats of a song. Aside from that, drumming is an excellent way for children to learn self-awareness, listening skills, coordination of breath and movement, cooperation and patience. Like my nephew Vince he loves to play his drum toys even he don’t have real drum. But he feels that it is true every time he plays the drum he accompanied the song. The music is very important to us and if my nephew have a kids drum set at musicians friend I am sure that he also delivered a good beat of song and trains his knowledge the kinds of instrument. Vince also loves music sometimes he used broom as a guitar, and I told to his mother about that. The mother told me that the father of Vince is a band member during college life. Exactly because Vince loves music, he loves to sing a song even we don’t understand the lyrics but the tune is good.
Today the crime is endemic to the different parts of the word. They have many kinds of crime that you will encounter. Like my high school friend she had experienced the hold up crime while she walking along the street. And then the suspect was took her bag quickly and she doesn’t know what to do. This is the one crime happened in the world, that there are no quick solutions about this problem. I just thought that if somebody have a right to use taser gun as self-defense for fighting the criminals and I know that it is very helpful to all the victims. And for sure that the kind of hold up suspect is easy to detect.
Anyway, the important documents of my friend, cell phone and wallet are instantly lost. That’s why she tried to blotter the suspect but there’s no result at the long time she waiting. It’s terrible experience that will happen to her.
My sister was celebrating her civil wedding last July 5 at Balai Sadyaya Resort province of Pagbilao, Quezon. As her eldest sister, I am proud to her because they have also own house. And aside from that my sister was 4 months pregnant. According to her they need to buy some furniture and appliances to their new house. And I also asked her to buy a quality and good furniture’s and appliances at SM because this is a popular and we know the quality of goods. The sister asked me where she find the good and feel comfortable kinds of dhop royal teak miami reclining chair. We know that they have many kind of furniture store here in our hometown. But I also told her to find via online store. Because they have many choices and aside from that they have a lot of styles, design and colors to choose what she wants to buy.
Music is a very important part of our life. While most people are limited to listen to the radio, there are parents that get really involve when their children starts music subject in school. They encourage their children to learn and play different musical instruments such as the piano, guitar or violin. A small portion of these parents would suggest learning the trumpet though it is the oldest wind instrument in history, but will surely promote learning the flute or saxophone because of its soothing sounds. Many wind and brass instruments at musicians friend will fit your child and make them more eager to learn music and different musical instruments. | <urn:uuid:6cca4182-71a9-4cfe-b3d5-30e84505f461> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://mothaqf.com/category/general-2/page/3/ | 2019-07-23T22:27:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.981316 | 1,625 |
The Estonian teacher and composer Heino Eller (1887-1970) wrote some two hundred works for piano and this is Toccata Classics’ second in a projected seven-disc series devoted to them (see review of Volume 1
). Handsome is the devotion they are showing Eller.
The music in this disc ranges – just - over six decades, spanning the
early genre pieces of 1909 to the Sonatina of the 1950s. His style is difficult
to place. It’s immediately approachable, unacademic but is not frivolous;
there are hints of Grieg and of Chopin, and there is a small but slight folkloric
inheritance too. It’s the fresh Sonatina
, composed at some
time in the late 50s, that reveals the lyric freshness of his writing and
the hints of folklore. There’s no development section as such, but this
easy-going work is an ideal introduction to Eller, for whom nothing was doctrinaire.
Light and bright characterises the Eight Pieces
, written in the dangerous
year of 1948. Short and pithy, most were newly minted but the Waltz
from the set dates back to 1913. The Rondino
is very much the longest
and least festive but it too has a warm central panel and some wispy harmonies.
No.6 of the set is based on an actual folk piece, the only one that is, whilst
No.7 is decidedly Grieg-like.
It’s valuable to hear the run of early pieces written between 1909 and 1917. Some are somewhat generic – in fact the Furioso
and the Allegro con fuoco
are essentially the same side of the coin, only one is fierier than the other. Clearly Eller was channelling Lisztian virtuosity in this period and in the more reflective ones, Chopin. One piece stands apart, the big, brooding Episode from Revolutionary Times,
a large-scale funeral march that opens like Liszt’s Sonata and offers a brief moment of reprieve along its gloomy process. It’s impressively sustained.
The third book of his Preludes
contains four brief pieces, largely lugubrious – indeed No.2 is marked Lento, lugubre
– composed over the period 1921-32. Things do lighten in the pleasing third piece, but the first is the one that contains the most hints of Eller’s tersely lyric and emotionally unreadable state of mind during this period of his life. Clearly Moderato assai
is not as good a title as Theme and Variations
, as Sten Lassmann’s notes agree, though in the composer’s defence this work has never been published and this is its first recording. It’s playful, sparkling and terpsichorean in places, and foists an amusing Canon in its sixth variation. To finish this enterprising and well-programmed recital there’s a bold Estonian Dance
, a kind of highly compressed rhapsody.
Lassmann proves a faultless guide throughout this volume, relishing the opportunities for crispness and geniality provided by Eller. | <urn:uuid:9a3557e0-e417-4cd8-88c9-4bf8aadd5e0c> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Apr14/Eller_piano_v2_TOCC0132p.htm | 2019-07-23T22:32:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.948479 | 689 |
The Workings of Solar Panels
Solar panels are a device that collects photons of sunlight, which are very small packets of electromagnetic radiation energy, and converts them into electrical current that can be used to power electrical loads.
Using solar panels is a very practical way to produce electricity to power many applications. The obvious would have to be off-grid living. Living off-grid means living in a location that is not serviced by any main power electric utility grid. Remote homes and cabins benefit nicely from power systems supplied by solar panels. No longer is it necessary to pay huge fees for the installation of electric utility poles and cabling from the nearest main power grid access point. Solar panel electric systems are potentially less expensive and can provide power for upwards of three decades if properly maintained.
Besides the fact that solar panels make it possible to live off-grid, perhaps the greatest benefit that you would enjoy from the use of power from solar panels is that it is both a clean and a renewable source of energy. With the advent of global climate change, it has become more important that we do whatever we can to reduce the pressure on our atmosphere from the emission of greenhouse gases. Solar panels have no moving parts and require little maintenance. They are ruggedly built and last for decades when porperly maintained. Last, but not least, of the benefits of solar panels and solar power is that, once a system has paid for its initial installation costs, the electricity it produces for the remainder of the system’s lifespan, which could be as much as 15-20 years depending on the quality of the system, is absolutely free! For grid-tie solar power system owners, the benefits begin from the moment the solar panels system comes online, potentially eliminating monthy electric bills or, and this is the best part, actually earning the system’s owner additional income from the electric power company.
The solar panels you would have seen on satellites, caculaters etc are photovoltaic cells or modules (modules are a collection of solar cells electrically connected and joined together in one frame as solar panels). Photovoltaics, (photo = light, voltaic = electricity), convert the energy of sunlight directly into electricity. Originally expensive and only used in space, photovoltaics (PV) are now finding many applications on countless devices, buildings, lights etc were ever remote or free and environmentally sustainable electricity is required and produced through solar panels.
Solar panels contain lots of photovoltaic (PV) cells that are made of special materials called semiconductors like silicon, which is currently the most commonly used. Basically, when light shines on the solar cell a percentage of this solar energy is absorbed into the semiconductor material. This energy now inside the semiconductor knocks electrons loose allowing them to flow freely. PV cells also, all have one or more electric fields that force electrons freed by light absorption to flow in a certain direction. This flow of electrons is an electrical current. Metal contacts on the top and bottom of the PV cell draw that current off to use to power external electrical products such as lights, calculators etc. This current,combined with the cell’s voltage (which is a result of its built-in electric field or fields),determines the power (or wattage) that the solar cell can produce.
Solar panels collect clean renewable energy in the form of sunlight and convert that light into electricity which can then be used to provide power for electrical loads. Solar panels are comprised of several individual solar cells which are themselves composed of layers of silicon, phosphorous (which provides the negative charge), and boron (which provides the positive charge). Solar panels absorb the photons and in doing so initiate an electric current. The resulting energy generated from photons striking the surface of the solar panels allows electrons to be knocked out of their atomic orbits and released into the electric field generated by the solar cells.
An average home has more than enough roof area for the necessary number of solar panels to produce enough solar electricrity to supply all of its power needs. Assisted by an inverter, a device that converts the direct current (or DC current), generated by solar panels into alternating current (or AC current). Solar panels arrays can be sized to meet the most demanding electrical load requirements. The AC current can be used to power loads in your home or commercial building, your recreational vehicle or your boat (RV/Marine Solar Panels), your remote cabin or home, and remote traffic controls, telecommunications equipment, oil and gas flow monitoring, RTU, SCADA, and much more.
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Phew what a change in the weather and I was well caught out when I wore my jacket for my walk this morning. The chilly night progressed into a glorious warm sunny afternoon and after walking a couple hundred meters it was jacket off time.
Some really good highlights with my alternative walk today. First off there were hundreds of Swallows, House Martins and a few Sand Martins feeding along the whole length of Penns Weare. Then I came across a Clouded Yellow and then at long last I found not one but 3 colonies of Ivy Bees.
Also recorded was a strange alarm call of a raptor/owl in Penn's Weare just below The Cuttings. Try as I could, using Xeno-canto, I couldn't find anything remotely similar to the calls. Odd. And another oddity here was what I presumed was a Goshawk. Certainly by its size it could have been, but having spoken to Martin Cade (the Warden at Portland Bird Observatory), it is most likely a large Sparrowhawk. The main feature being the outer-corners of the tail feathers. Goshawk's would have more rounded corner whereas like this individual the corners are "squared-off". There's a great Blog which shows the characteristics of both birds Here.
Other than the masses of hirundine there were several Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps about, whilst overhead lots of Meadow Pipits were passing through.
Here are a few images from today.
An Ivy Bee
And one more.
My first colony of Ivy Bees, this one along Penns Weare.
Close to The Cuttings I found two more colonies.
Here's a close up of the 2nd colony.
It has taken me awhile, but today I found my first colony of Ivy Bees. In fact I found 3 colonies, this one along Penn's Weare and the other two close to The Cuttings
As a comparison this is a Honey Bee. A lot larger than an Ivy Bee.
One of the bumblebee family a Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Not a bee but a Pied Hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri)
I cant figure out whether this is a fly or a hoverfly.
It certainly has an odd look about it!
A Speckled Wood
A very distant view of Painted Lady.
A Common Field Grasshopper
These corvids are not happy about this Sparrowhawk being on their patch.
In fact more reinforcements arrived to see it off.
Here it can be seen soaring.
No confusion with this raptor...........
........a Kestrel at The Cuttings.
And a little later one by Bumpers Lane.
A Cormorant strikes a nice pose.
Whilst this Robin is about to fly off as it realises I'm pointing the camera at it.
A Wall Lizard basking in the warm sunshine.
A nice close up.
Church Ope Cove
Looking north across Weymouth Bay
A couple of new plants for me today this one is........
..........Goldenrod, Solidago virgaurea
......and Common Hawkweed, Hieracium vulgatum.
..........which I first came across on 11 Oct 17 Here.
Butterflies Recorded: Clouded Yellow, Red Admiral, Peacock, Painted Lady, Speckled Wood, Comma, Large White, Small White and Green-veined White.
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We have all been in your shoes many, many times. Please don't beat yourself up over the binge. It won't change anything. My suggestion is to tell yourself exactly what you would tell your best friend if she had binged. You wouldn't condemn and criticize her, you would support and encourage her. You did nothing "wrong." You didn't kill someone or hurt anyone. You didn't do something illegal or immoral. You simply ate too much. Your attitude of getting back OP now, is WONDERFUL!!!! That is exactly what to do. You fell off the horse and now you are getting back on. Simple as that. No need to make a mountain out of a mole hill. This was a little detour in your WW journey and now you are back on the road. More power to you for fessing up and moving on. We have all been there and done that and I know how guilty you feel. I have beaten myself up many times, but the fact is, it didn't change a thing. It just made me feel worse about myself.
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(Please note, I am not actually Choctaw... but I am, in fact, part Cherokee... and a fan of For Your Consideration, wherein, John Michael Higgins' character calls attention to his Native American ancestry to the point of exploitation and immense awkwardness, seeing as how he is, quite possibly, whiter than me. And the way he enunciates "Choctaw?" Fantastic movie.)
Yesterday, my dad and I went to a plant nursery and found this amazing rose called a Don Juan. Hable de sexy plant? Si. It smells like an Italian pastry shop on a Swiss mountaintop surrounded by... roses. Aka, it smells fantastic. My rents picked one up for me today and I transplanted it to a pretty little pot on my back steps. I have one of the flowers in an Orangina bottle on my desk right now... and I smell it compulsively. I think I've smelled it at least three times since starting this entry. If I could post smells, I would. But perhaps, Man is not ready for such technology. | <urn:uuid:0780ff5c-e76d-4e55-a07e-879258b6d9fa> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://rantinghooligan.blogspot.com/2007/05/meatmorial-day.html | 2019-07-23T21:54:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.95324 | 222 |
I went to a networking meeting a while back and learned about something called FaceBook custom audiences. It has taken a while to grow the list to a level that I could actually test it, but it has finally happened and now I have some stuff to share with you all about what I have learned.
I hear from people all the time that they are spending x amount of dollars a month on facebook ads and I always wonder if they are using the tools that make facebook ads so great. I want to help demystify the marketing world in this area so that you, as a small business owner, can feel comfortable doing this on your own. Or at least talking intelligently to the person you are going to pay to do it for you. Just spending money on facebook doesn’t make a lot of sense, spending it wisely is great and very fruitful (and not very time consuming) from our experience.
The basic idea behind custom audiences is that you can track or tag people who have been to your website and even specific places on your website so you can market facebook ads to them at a later time. Have you ever had that item you looked for on amazon follow you to Facebook? It isn’t magic and it is something you can do for your stuff too.
The best thing about facebook ads is that you can specifically pick who you are going to advertise to and with audience selection know they are somewhat predisposed to want what you have because they have filled out some interest items in their profile. What makes the custom audience thing even better is that they not only are interested in your industry, they are actually interested enough in you to have visited your webpage.
I don’t know about you, but when I see numbers on our website in the thousands for visitors but I only get a couple form submissions I go crazy. First of all, if my conversion isn’t great I must need to do something on my site to improve that, but how can I get back in front of all those people that came the first time and didn’t convert to customers or subscribers. Custom Audience from FaceBook is how.
Recently at the golf course we ran an ad for a promotion we were doing and we used the same ads but served them to two different groups. Both groups were targeted, but one was just to area golfers and things that golfers tend to like (Rory McIlroy, TaylorMade, The USGA, etc…) and the other was to the people we targeted from using our custom audience pixel from FaceBook.
This is a screen shot of the results we got using the custom audience we created. Our cost per result (a click to our landing page in this instance) was $0.20 with a click through rate of 3.16%. We may have only reached 1,800 people, but we got almost 300 results. One of the things to point out here is the diminishing returns you see on the graph. The list for this particular item was relatively small and so it didn’t take long for the ad to work its way through everyone on the list have a high frequency. Once that happens the click through rate will begin to decline because you are beginning to serve the ad to people who have already seen it multiple times. When you reach this point it is time to give it a break or redesign your ad (really you should be split testing something like this anyway…we’ll talk about that in another post…).
Here are the results from the other audience. Again, the ads themselves were the same, the only difference was the audience. The spend was the same because we set that parameter, but the reach was almost 4.5 times as many people, but we only got 83% as many conversions. You will also notice that the lines are flatter. In other words the results were remaining a bit more consistent or a longer period of time. The other way to look at that trend is that if we hadn’t run the ads for as long (read: spent as much money) we would get even better results comparatively speaking using the custom audience feature.
So now the real question…how do you do it? Pretty easy as long as you have control over your website or direct access to the person that does. At the golf course we have more flexibility because I designed, built and maintain the website using wordpress so we can put the tracking code anywhere and on any page that we want it. At Elements, we are not so lucky and can only track visits to the site and we are not able to know where they went once they got there.
First off I think it is good to have a general idea of what we are doing in this process. We are putting a little bit of code on your website that tells Facebook they were there and to add them to your custom audience.
Go to your ads account manager page in facebook. I use the business.facebook.com interface and select “Tools” in the manage ads section. From the drop down choose “Audiences”
Under “Create Audience” choose “Custom Audience”.
Choose “Website Traffic” from the list. (Customer List is pretty cool too, you can upload a list of email addresses that you have to facebook and it will match them to facebook users and then you can remarket to them…but that is also a discussion for another day)
At this point you get to choose how in depth you are going to go with your targeting. For our purposes today and for just starting out we are going to choose just people who have been to our website by selecting “Anyone who visits your website”. I also like to choose the longest time to keep them on the list, 180 days. If you are going to be marketing something that is much more time sensitive, or something that only applies to recent visitors then you may want to shorten the time in this section. For now we are trying to get the biggest and most comprehensive list of people that have spent the time and effort to come to our website.
Once you give it a name you will have your new custom audience. But we aren’t done yet…
Your audience will now be listed but you need to get the tracking pixel to put on your site. Check the checkbox next to the name of your new audience and then in the drop down menu for “Actions” choose “View Pixel”. You will then see something like this…
This is where the little bit of technical stuff comes into play. You have to paste this code in the <head> of your site. If you are using wordpress there are plugins you can use. I use one called “Insert Headers and Footers” by wpbeginner. It is certainly nothing fancy but for the golf course site it seems to get the job done and hasn’t caused me any problems so far.
If you are not the one managing your site, you will need to email the code you just created to your web designer for him or her to put in the site for you.
Now you wait for the list to populate. The more people visit your website, the faster the list will grow.
When you run facebook ads now you can use this audience specifically by choosing “Browse” on the “Custom Audiences” field and choosing the audience you created when you are choosing an audience for your ad.
You still need a good offer, ad copy, images, etc. when running an ad, but when you are delivering it to people who have already been to your website at least once in the last 180 days you can dramatically increase your chances for success.
The problem with advertising is that half of the money is wasted…the problem is we don’t know which half! In the age of digital marketing we have a ton more analytics to help with that question. Tools like this one make it much easier to make sure we are getting our message in front of the people that want to see it.
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We’re off the road for the remainder of 2016, but we have lots of exciting news for the new year: We have a new CD coming out on February 10, our 2nd for the Mountain Home label. Look for the first single release and downloadable tracks sometime in January. The title will be “Made to Move,” and will be our first featuring our new banjo player Gina Clowes. The new project will feature even more songs co-written by me and our bass player Jon Weisberger, as well as other songs of mine and Jon’s, plus original instrumentals by Gina and our mandolin player Mark Stoffel.
We’re excited about some new tour dates just added for 2017, too, including a Saturday slot at Merlefest, a May European tour, a January California tour, and a Missouri/Arkansas early spring tour, Winfield in September.
We have two Tennessee CD release shows planned, The Station Inn in Nashville on February 10th (the official date) and the East Tennessee version at The Down Home in Johnson City on Feb. 11th. Details are on our tour dates page, with more dates to be added soon!
One of our last shows for the year was at the Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, NY, kicking off their 35th season of bluegrass concerts.
This one was special for me, because I had played there with my first bluegrass band, Horse Country, when I was in my late teens (see photo and hair [!] below).
We had big news within the band, as Mark Stoffel, our mandolin player for the last decade, became an American citizen a few weeks ago. This was a big step for him and his family, and we’re awfully proud of him. The first noticeable effect is that he watched the Cubs win the World Series and had a pretty good idea of what was going on. He assures us, this will not affect his pretzel-making skills at all. | <urn:uuid:a0317f0a-b81c-4495-a006-77484e3f8677> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.chrisjonesgrass.com/new-cd-new-dates/?replytocom=62 | 2019-07-23T22:45:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.979982 | 417 |
Have you ever noticed how kids react to music? Correctly! Their feet just beg to dance. And, as the kids are older and very young kids, the sound of the music begin stomping feet, trying to get into the music. All of this suggests the appeal of music. That's why kids are so fond of music outdoor games for children.
These games help to reveal the talents of kids, because at the time music outdoor games for children can be seen dancing the makings of some children, and the thrust of their dancing. And it will determine the choice of the section, with the choice of what kids want to do. These games are much more useful than you might imagine. Unconditionally can say that musical outdoor games for children give kids the opportunity to express themselves creatively. Dance games help kids open up, become less squeezed, more sociable, contact, to help solve the serious problem of child's communication with the team.
Continuing the theme of the usefulness of mobile music games for children, it should be noted that these games help develop musical ear in children, they develop musical memory and sense of rhythm. In addition, the mobility of these games help develop motor function, sense of balance. Develops fine motor skills and that a positive effect on the brain activity of young lovers dance. These games promote the aesthetic development of children, awaken the imagination of kids and a large open field for their work. This is very useful, because the child during the game itself can be a butterfly or a duck, then there will be a study into the role of developing the talent of reincarnation.
On the Internet in great abundance, you can find and download music playing the whole disc of songs based on a unique technique of children
. Lyrics to these games are kind of clue to the actions of the kids, they can easily fall on the ears, and children is very easy to repeat them, which helps to improve pronunciation guys
. And besides babies develop hearing and speech takes working out the correct rate of speech
. Cheerful moving songs, among other things, are a great joy kids
. The kids catchy lyrics and provocatively dancing to the tunes fun these games
. Doing this is very simple, because you need only to repeat the action, uttered while playing music
. These rhyming clues based on simple movements, the same as running, walking, jumping or arm movements, as well as sit-ups and turns heads
. Each mobile music game for kids is the plot-like character
These games are very suitable for the preparation and holding matinees or concert performances of group of kids. Most kids spend all these games with the help of a teacher who demonstrates his basic movements and attempts to achieve synchronous motion toddlers. Speech therapists can use the audio material for their classes. Dance games require a lot of energy from the kids, and so do not carry them more than once a day and no more than 30 minutes for children of preschool age. Health to your children! | <urn:uuid:b98d92fa-f2f2-4d75-940d-ccad5dd65e8d> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.comfortistyle.com/beauty/music-mobile-games-f16418_16418.html | 2019-07-23T22:42:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.961479 | 610 |
Thanks to @phoebebright for reminding me to post an update. When I did version 1 of the gas meter it was crude to say the least. I was posting the pulses and handling everything on the server. Then I had fun with apparent bugs in the Ethernet Shield and lost interest for a week or two. On the plus side it at least allowed me to make some savings by fine-tuning the heating programmer.
Looking at Electricity and Temperature now. Got bored with trying to optically sense the meter’s rotating wheel (not enough contrast) so have ordered another meter which will hopefully have a pulse output. (This would have been a cheaper move if the beast I have was older.)
I have not ruled out using CurrentCost if I ever get one. However, a pulse output meter approach has quite a lot of advantages, not the least accurately predicting your energy bills. I have the Owl which is great for the popular game of “hunt the watt”. I also looked at a box for converting the Owl’s output – available but mega expensive.
I want to change the interface so I can use standard protocols to the server. The original problem was lack of accurate time on the Arduino. Once I bothered to read the ATMega spec I discovered the spare timers and then added the ISR code to generate a time trigger for transmissions to the server. Now it’s time to refactor everything.
I’ll need to do some code cramming to get everything into a standard Arduino’s memory space. It should be doable. Next report when I get my new meter, hopefully before the next homecamp. | <urn:uuid:c81b761b-7bc6-41ee-b960-44c620a5a5e5> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.e-ssociation.com/blog/?m=200901 | 2019-07-23T22:12:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.951874 | 340 |
Affordable HousingPosted March 29th, 2018
Today in the Dáil we spoke about affordable housing. You can read my comments below.
At the outset, I wish to address the February homeless figures that I published yesterday. This latest report repeats what we saw in January and would seem to indicate a worrying trend since the beginning of the year in relation to the number of families presenting to our homeless services.
However, I want to reassure the House that we are putting a huge amount of time and resources into helping people in homelessness, every single day and night of the week.
These efforts are having an effect:
- -the number of single adults in homelessness did fall last month, by 84;
- -the number of rough sleepers is dramatically down – 50% on last year. People would have seen the huge efforts made around Storm Emma;
- -in January and February almost 300 families have been prevented from entering emergency accommodation or have exited it.
- -of the more than 100 families that presented in Dublin in February, only 20 were accommodated in hotels. During 2017, more than 2000 families left hotels into sustainable tenancies, the majority into homes.
- -last year more than 4,700 adults exited homelessness.
So a huge amount is happening and it’s thanks to our partner organisations whom we fund through tax payers’ money – people like Peter McVerry Trust, Simon and Focus Ireland, working with our own teams.
To continue reading, go here.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysicists at University of Rochester are working on answering questions about the formation, evolution, and deaths of stars, planetary systems, black holes, and galaxies.
The astrophysics group is working on improving our understanding of these astrophysical phenomena using observations with modern astronomical telescopes, developing instrumentation and detector arrays for more powerful future observatories, and improving our theoretical understanding both analytically and through computer simulations.
These advances have impacted the fundamental studies of the origins, dynamics, and emission for all scales of astrophysical phenomena -- from large-scale structure in the universe, to galaxies, to stars and planetary systems.
Astrophysics Group Resources:
Observational Astrophysics and Astronomical Detector Array Development
Department faculty conduct research in astrophysics that embraces both the development of astronomical technology and the interpretation of its results. Professors Forrest, Pipher and Watson are members of instrument science teams on the fourth of the NASA Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope, which has contributed crucially to all of the "origins" studies. They specialize in observational studies of Galactic and extragalactic star formation, of planetary system formation through the evolution of the disks surrounding young stars, and in the development of sensitive infrared detector arrays and instruments for astronomy.
Professor Watson is primary investigator of the Spitzer IRS Disks team, and co-investigator of the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS) team, using the Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory, respectively to investigate the chemistry and dynamics of protostellar accretion and evolution of protoplanetary disks.
Professor Quillen, carries out space and ground-based observations, as well as analytical and numerical modeling, in studies of the origin, structure and evolution astrophysical disks -- spiral galaxies, active galaxy nuclei, planetary and protoplanetary systems.
Infrared Detector Group
The Infrared Detector Group (faculty Judy Pipher and Bill Forrest; engineer Craig McMurtry; and their students) has been exploring several different technologies. After the depletion of cryogens, the two InSb detector arrays developed by our group for the Spitzer Space Telescope, sensitive from 1-5 microns are still working well. Based on this success, we have a continuing program to develop HgCdTe arrays for space astronomy, sensitive out to 10 microns, requiring only passive cooling.
The group has recently succeeded in producing space-worthy devices for astronomy. Our hope is to fly these on several missions, including NEOCam, the Near Earth Object Camera experiment. We hope to extend the wavelength of operation of the HgCdTe devices to 15 microns in the future, and to demonstrate 2-color arrays for astronomy. We have also demonstrated the utility of Si arrays in THz detection, together with colleagues in ECE, Optics and at ITT Exelis and RIT.
C.E.K. Mees Observatory
The C.E.K. Mees Observatory is operated by the department and supports the activities of the observational group, including observing projects for undergraduate courses and public outreach. The University of Rochester astrophysics group also belongs to the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS) consortium, which provides access to the 1.5-meter telescope and other telescopes at Cerro Tololo in Chile.
The Theoretical Astrophysics Group explores a wide range of phenomena in astrophysical sources from the Sun to the most distant active galaxies. As many of the sources in the universe contain magnetized fluids or plasma, the themes of hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and plasma astrophysics have played a role in the theoretical research programs of professors Blackman, Frank, Helfer and Thomas.
Professors Quillen, Blackman and Frank also investigate planetary system and circumstellar disk evolution. With both computational and analytical approaches, the group explores such issues as the origin of magnetic fields, solar and stellar dynamos, the physics of sunspots, interstellar clouds and galaxies, accretion disks, the roles of mass outflows and magnetism in the formation and death of stars, and the physics of active galactic nuclei. The development and evolution of turbulence in astrophysical environments is a key area of research for the group.
The theory group also leads efforts in astrophysical computational studies. Professor Frank leads an effort in advanced code design and application with the development of the AstroBEAR adaptive mesh refinement multiphysics code which has been applied to a wide range of studies from star formation to evolution of the interstellar medium. Quillen’s group has developed new algorithms using GPUs for modeling the evolution of proto-planetary disks.
The plasma astrophysics/physics group and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have also combined their resources and talents to continue a program in High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics. The use of high energy density devices, like Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) lasers for investigations of cosmic environments is a new development in astrophysics, which holds great promise.
Increased collaborations between astrophysicists and plasma scientists are essential for progress in this new field and together UR astro/plasma physicists and LLE scientists are pushing the frontiers of recreating the Universe’s most exotic phenomena.
The Paleomagnetism Group, led by Professor Tarduno, studies the nature of Earth’s early magnetic field and the implications for Earth evolution, from core to atmosphere. Unique facilities allow Professor Tarduno and his students to measure the magnetization of individual silicate particles.
The group is also investigating the magnetic signature of meteorites as probes of parent body history, giving scientists a unique window into the assembly and thermal history of the protoplanets in the early solar system.
To facilitate its research activities, the department has its own in-house technology group called the Barnes Computing Center (BCC). The BCC provides students, faculty, and staff with expert assistance and support for their hardware, software, programming, and networking needs. In addition the university itself offers world-class computational clustering resources for groups that require heavy parallel processing work via the Center for Integrated Research Computing (CIRC).
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Have you ever wondered how a tornado forms? Well, conditions have to be just right to get a tornado.
When you look at a strong thunderstorm, there are wind patterns that come together to make the storm stronger.
First, you have a warm inflow of moist air that fuels the storm itself. In a strong storm, you have cool air rushing out of the rear of the storm called the rear flank downdraft.
When these two wind patterns come together at the right alignment, a wall cloud can form. A wall cloud is a lowering of the cloud base where the air is rising up into the thunderstorm.
That wall cloud will rotate if the wind field is favorable for it to spin. If that rotation tightens up, a tornado could form from that wall cloud.
But again, the wind pattern has to be just right to get a tornado to form.
Which is worse: Watch or Warning?
Where are you safest from lightning?
What is a microburst?
What is an outflow boundary?
How does a tornado form?
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Producing dopamine-making neurons from stem cells for transplantation into Parkinson’s disease patients remains challenging. Differentiating stem cells into dopaminergic neurons is not as efficient a process as we would like it to be. While several laboratories have managed to make pretty good batches of dopaminergic neurons, reliably producing large and pure batches of dopamine-making neurons from pluripotent stem cells is still somewhat problematic. Secondly, transplanting dopamine-making neurons into either the midbrain or the striatum of the brain represents another patch of problems because the production of too much dopamine can cause unwanted, uncontrollable movements. Preclinical assessments of stem cell-derived dopamine neurons in laboratory animals have produced positive, but highly varied results, even though the transplanted cells are very similar at the time of transplantation.
“This has been frustrating and puzzling, and has significantly delayed the establishment of clinical cell production protocols,” said Malin Parmar, who led the study at Lund University.
To address this issue, Parmar and his colleagues used modern global gene expression studies to gain a better understand the molecular changes that drive the differentiation of stem cells into dopamine-making neurons. Parmar conducted these experiments in collaboration with a team of scientists at Karolinska Institute. In their paper, which appeared in the journal Cell Stem Cell, Parmar and his colleagues used single-cell RNA seq to construct the neuronal development of dopaminergic neurons.
These neurons are characterized by the expression of a gene called LMX1a. However, it turns out that LMX1a-expressing neurons includes not only midbrain dopaminergic neurons (see below at the substantia nigra), but also subthalamic nuclear neurons.
These findings reveal that markers used to identify midbrain dopaminergic neurons do not specifically isolate midbrain dopaminergic neurons, but isolate a mixture of cells. Is there a way to separate these two populations?
Indeed, there is. Parmar and his colleagues in the laboratory of Thomas Perlmann showed that although dopaminergic neurons from the midbrain and subthalamic nuclear neurons are related, they do express a distinct profile of genes that are specific to the two cell types. The authors argue that the application of these distinct marker genes can help optimize those protocols that differentiate dopaminergic neurons from pluripotent stem cells.
See Nigel Kee and others, “Single-Cell Analysis Reveals a Close Relationship between Differentiating Dopamine and Subthalamic Nucleus Neuronal Lineages,” Cell Stem Cell, 2016; DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.10.003.
The Australian government has recently given its approval for a clinical trial of what is almost certainly a medical first. The Carlsbad-based stem cell company, International Stem Cell Corp. (ISCO), a publicly traded biotechnology company, has developed a unique stem cell technology to address particular conditions.
The clinical trial that has been approved will examine the use the ISCO’s unique stem cell products in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Twelve Parkinson’s patients will receive implantations of these cells sometime in the first quarter of 2016, according to Russell Kern, ISCO’s chief scientific officer. The implanted cells will be neural precursor cells, which are slightly immature neurons that will complete their maturation in the brain, hopefully into dopamingergic neurons, which are the precise kind of neurons that die off in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects voluntary movement. PD develops gradually and sometimes begins with a slight tremor in only one hand, but PD may also cause stiffness or slowing of movement. PD worsens over time.
PD patients suffer from tremor, or shaking of the limbs, particularly when it is relaxed and at rest. Over time, PD reduces the ability to move and slows movement (bradykinesis) which makes simple tasks difficult and time-consuming. Muscle stiffness may occur and this limits the range of motion and causes pain. PD patients also suffer from stooping posture and balance problems and a decreased ability to perform unconscious movements. For example, they have trouble swinging their arms while they walk, blinking, or smiling. They might also experience speech problems that can range from slurring of the speech to monotone speech devoid of inflexions, or softer speech with hesitations before speaking. Writing might also become problematic.
PD is caused by the gradual death of neurons in the midbrain that produce a chemical messenger called dopamine. The drop in dopamine levels in the system of the brain that controls voluntary movement leading to the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Several different animal experiments with a variety different cell types have established that transplantation to dopamine-making neuronal precursors into the midbrains of laboratory animals with artificially-induced PD can reverse the symptoms of PD. Dopaminergic neurons can be derived from embryonic stem cells (ESCs), mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and NSCs (see Petit G. H., Olsson T. T., Brundin P. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 2014;40(1):60–67). Also, since the 1980s, various cell sources have been tested, including autografts of adrenal medulla, sympathetic ganglion, carotid body-derived cells, xenografts of fetal porcine ventral mesencephalon, and allografts of human fetal ventral mesencephalon (fVM) tissues have been implanted into the midbrains of PD patients (Buttery PC, Barker RA. J Comp Neurol. 2014 Aug 15;522(12):2802-16). While the results of these trials were varied and not terribly reproducible, these studies did show that the signs and symptoms of PD could be reversed, in some people, by implanting dopamine-making neurons into the midbrains of PD patients.
ISCO has derived neural precursor cells from a completely new source. ISCO scientists have taken unfertilized eggs from human egg donors and artificially activated them so that they self-fertilize, and then begin dividing until they form a blastocyst-stage embryo from which stem cells are derived. This new class of stem cells, which were pioneered by ISCO, human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs) have the best characteristics of each of the other classes of stem cells. Since these stem cells are created by chemically stimulating the oocytes (eggs) to begin division, the oocytes are not fertilized and no viable embryo is created or destroyed. This process is called parthenogenesis and parthenogenetic stem cells derived from the parthenogenetically-activated oocytes, are produced from unfertilized human egg cells.
Why did ISCO decide to do this trial in Australia? According to Kern, ISCO chose to conduct their clinical trial in Australia because its clinical trial system is more “interactive,” which allows for better collaboration with Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration on trial design. This clinical trial, in fact, is the first stem cell trial for PD according to the clinical trial tracking site clinicaltrials.gov. The test will be conducted by ISCO’s Australian subsidiary, Cyto Therapeutics.
The approach pioneered in this clinical trial might cure or even provide an extended period of relief from the symptoms of PD. If this clinical trial succeeds, the stem cell clinical trial dam might very well break and we will see proposed clinical trials that test stem cell-based treatments for other neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), frontotemporal dementia, or even Alzheimer’s disease.
ISCO has spent many years developing their parthenogenetic technology with meager financing. However the company’s total market value amounts to something close to $11.1 million, presently.
hpSCs are pluripotent like embryonic stem cells. Because they are being used in the brain, they will not be exposed to the immune system. Therefore an exact tissue type match is not necessary for this type of transplantation. In their publications, ISCO scientists have found their cells to be quite stable, but other research groups who have worked with stem cells derived from parthenogenetically-activated embryos have found such cells to be less stable than other types of pluripotent stem cells. The stability of the ISCO hpSCs remains an open question. The lack of a paternal genome might pose a safety challenge for the use of hpSCs.
Rita Vassena and her colleagues in the laboratory of Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA examined the gene expression patterns of mesenchymal stem cells derived from hpSCs and found that the overall gene expression patterns were similar to MSCs made from embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells. However, upon further differentiation and manipulation, the gene expression patterns of the cells began to show more variability and further depart from normal gene expression patterns (Vassena R, et al Human Molecular Genetics 2012; 21(15): 3366-3373). Therefore, the derivatives of hpSCs might not be as stable as cellular derivatives from other types of stem cells. The good news about hpSCs established from parthenogenetic ESCs were reported to be morphologically indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells derived from fertilized embryos, and seem to show normal gene expression or even correct genomic imprinting in chimeras, when pESCs were used in tissue contribution (T.Horii, et al Stem Cells, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 79–88, 2008).
For those of us who view the early embryo as the youngest members of the human community who have the right not to be harmed, hpSCs made by ISCO remove this objection, since their derivation does not involve the death of any embryos.
The ISCO approach to Parkinson’s is similar to that of a San Diego group called Summit for Stem Cell, which is going to use induced pluripotent stem cell derivatives. This nonprofit organization is presently raising money for a clinical trial to test the efficacy of their treatment.
Both groups intend to transplant the cells while they are still slightly immature, so that they can complete their development in the brain. Animal studies suggest that implanting immature precursors are better than transplanting mature dopaminergic neurons into the midbrain. The precursors then differentiate into dopamine-making neurons, and other cells differentiate into supportive glial cells, which support the dopamine-making neurons.
“It’s a dual action,” Kern said. “Also, neural stem cells reduce inflammation, and inflammation is huge in Parkinson’s.”
Summit 4 Stem Cell will also take a similar approach, according to stem cell scientist Jeanne Loring, a leader of the Summit 4 Stem Cell project. The cells make proper connections with the brain better when they are still maturing, said Loring, who’s also head of the regenerative medicine program at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. This is all provided that Summit 4 Stem Cell can raise the millions of dollars required for the clinical trial and secure the required approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Loring said she views ISCO as a partner in fighting Parkinson’s. One of her former students is working for the company, she said. “The whole idea is to treat patients by whatever means possible,” Loring said.
ISCO’s choice of Australia for its streamlined regulatory process makes sense, Loring said. Her team, with U.S.-based academics and medical professionals, doesn’t have the same flexibility as ISCO in looking for clinical trial locations, she said.
For the first time, German stem cell scientists from the University of Bielefeld and Dresden University of Technology have used adult human stem cells to “cure” rats with Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s disease results from the death of dopamine-using neurons in the midbrain, and the death of these midbrain-based, dopamine-using neurons causes a loss of control of voluntary motion. Presently, no cure exists for Parkinson disease.
In this study, which was published in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, the German team produced mature dopamine-using neurons from inferior turbinate stem cells (ITSCs). ITSCs are stem cells taken from tissues that are normally discarded after an adult patient undergoes sinus surgery. The German team tested how ITSCs would behave when transplanted into a group of rats with a chemically-induced form of Parkinson’s disease. Prior to transplantation, the animals showed severe motor and behavioral abnormalities. However, 12 weeks after transplantation of the ITSCs, the cells had not only migrated into the animals’ brains, but their functional ability was fully restored and significant behavioral recovery was also observed. Additionally, none of the treated animals shows any signs of tumors after the transplantations, something that also has been a concern in stem cell therapy.
“Due to their easy accessibility and the resulting possibility of an autologous transplantation approach, ITSCs represent a promising cell source for regenerative medicine,” said UB’s Barbara Kaltschmidt, Ph.D., who led the study along with Alexander Storch, M.D., and Christiana Ossig, M.D., both of Dresden University. “The lack of ethical concerns associated with human embryonic stem cells is a plus, too.”
“In contrast to fighting the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease with medications and devices, this research is focused on restoring the dopamine-producing brain cells that are lost during the disease,” said Anthony Atala, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine and director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. These cells are easy to access and isolate from nasal tissue, even in older patients, which adds to their attraction as a potential therapeutic tool.”
This is certainly a very exciting animal study, but treating chemically-induced Parkinson’s disease in rodents and treating Parkinson’s disease in aged human patients is two very different things. Thus while this study is important, work in human wild require more testing and studies in larger animals.
Living Cell Technologies (LCT) is a Australasian biotechnology company with offices in Australia and New Zealand. One of the products pioneered by LCT is NTCELL; a capsule coated with alginate (a porous compound extracted from seaweed) that contains clusters of choroid plexus cells from newborn pigs. NTCELL transplantation allows them to function as a biological factory that produces growth factors and other small molecules that promote new central nervous system growth and repair disease induced by nerve degeneration.
The choroid plexus is the structure in the brain that produces cerebrospinal fluid. These cells also filter wastes from the brain and keeps the brain free of debris and other potentially deleterious material. Choroid plexus cells not only produce cerebrospinal fluid, but also a range of neurotrophins (nerve growth factors) that have been shown to protect against neuron (nerve) cell death in animal models of disease.
Several papers have reported on the use of implanted NTCELL capsules in animal model systems. Luo and others used NTCELLs in nonhuman primates that suffered from chemically induced Parkinson’s disease. This paper reported that the transplanted encapsulated choroid plexus clusters significantly improved neurological functions in these monkeys with Parkinson’s disease (J Parkinsons Dis. 2013 Jan 1;3(3):275-91). An earlier paper also showed that implanted improved the neurological function of rodents with a chemically induced form of Huntington’s disease (Borlongan CV and others, Cell Transplant. 2008;16(10):987-92).
On the strength of these successful animal studies, LCT launched human clinical trials in patients with Parkinson’s disease. On December 15th of last year, LCT announced that the final patient had been successfully implanted in its Phase I/IIa clinical trial of regenerative cell therapy NTCELL for Parkinsons disease. These implantations required a minor surgical procedure, which took place at Auckland City Hospital
This Phase I/IIa clinical trial is being led by Dr. Barry Snow, and is an open-label investigation of the safety and clinical effects of NTCELL in Parkinson’s patients who no longer respond to current therapy. Dr. Snow is the leader of the Auckland Movement Disorders Clinic at the Auckland District Health Board but is also an internationally recognized clinician and researcher in Parkinson’s disease.
These patients will be carefully tracked for improvements in the control of movement and balance. LCT hopes to present the results on this clinical trial, which will last 29 weeks) at the 19th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders in San Diego in June 2015.
Dr Ken Taylor, chief executive, notes that the success of the implant procedure means that the time scale for the LCT clinical program remains intact.
“The treatment phase of the trial has been completed on schedule. We believe NTCELL has the potential to be the first disease-modifying treatment for patients who are failing the current conventional treatment for Parkinson’s disease,” said Dr Taylor.
Even though this Phase I/IIa clinical trial is meant to test the efficacy of NTCELL in Parkinson disease patients, NTCELL also has the potential to be used in a number of other central nervous system indications such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and other types of diseases that affect motor neurons.
Let me emphasize that the huge number of posters and talks at the SfN conference made it impossible to attend all of them, so my recollections here are some of the high points that I was able to take in. There is a lot of terrific science going on out there and these conferences are windows into it.
One poster described a feeding study in rats. One group of rats received a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fish oils and soy. Another group was fed a standard laboratory diet that tends to skim on the omega-3 fatty acids. In the brains of the omega-3-fed rats, the expression off the gene that encodes Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor or BDNF increased significantly.
This is significant because BDNF promotes the survival of nerve cells (neurons) by playing a role in the growth, maturation (differentiation), and maintenance of these cells. In the brain, BDNF protein is active at the connections between nerve cells (synapses), where cell-to-cell communication occurs. The synapses can change and adapt over time in response to experience, a characteristic called synaptic plasticity, and BDNF regulates synaptic plasticity, which is important for learning and memory.
When these researchers examined why the BDNF gene was unregulated in rats fed the omega-3-rich diet, they discovered that the starting point of the gene, which is called the promoter was nice and clear. In the standard diet rats, the promoter of the BDNF gene was chemically modified with methyl (-CH3) groups. In the absence of the methyl groups, the transcription factor CTCF was able to bind and increase the rate of transcription. If the promoter was chemically modified with methyl groups, then a protein called MeCP2 bound to the promoter and prevented expression of BDNF.
This group looked further and discovered that the omega-3-rich diet seemed to influence the expression of BDNF by means of the balance of reduced and oxidized versions of electron carriers in cells, in particular, the ratio of NAD+ to NADH. NAD is a major electron carrier in cells and the ratio of NAD+, the oxidized version of this molecule, to the reduced version of this molecule, NADH, is a measure of the energy charge of the cell and how well-fed the individual is. More importantly, NAD is a substrate for another regulator of gene expression called Sirtuins.
Sirtuins are protein deacetylases, but they are unusual deacetylases since many of them they do not simply hydrolyze acetyl-lysine residues. Instead they couple lysine deacetylation to NAD hydrolysis. This hydrolysis produces O-acetyl-ADP-ribose, which is the deacetylated substrate and nicotinamide, which is an inhibitor of sirtuin activity. The dependence of sirtuins on NAD links their enzymatic activity directly to the energy status of the cell via the cellular NAD:NADH ratio.
The fact that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids affects the NAD/NADH ratio is significant for Alzheimer’s disease because the sirtuin, SIRT1, deacetylates and coactivates the promoter for the gene that encodes the retinoic acid receptor beta gene, which subsequently upregulates the expression of alpha-secretase (ADAM10). Alpha-secretase is able to suppress beta-amyloid production. ADAM10 activation by SIRT1 also induces the Notch signaling pathway, which is known to repair neuronal damage in the brain. All of this begins with a dietary factor that actually protects the brain from Alzheimer’s disease by profound changes in gene expression.
Another poster from an Italian group used the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease to test a growth factor called “painless Nerve Growth Factor” on mice with protein plaque formation in their brains. The growth factor was given by placing droplets of the growth factor in the noses of the mice while they were anesthetized. The results were stunning. Normally, 5XFAD mice get plaques quickly in their brains and lots of them. However, the growth factor was able to rescue the onset of behavioral deficits and reduces, although not eliminate, plaque formation. Other brain-specific pathologies found in these mice were reduced, such as astrocytosis. The wandering white cells in the brain known as microglia did a better job of gobbling up protein aggregates and clearing them from the brain, and the markers of inflammation were significantly reduced. I asked the investigator if there were plans to try to move this to clinical trials, and she said that she was unable to do so because of a lack of funding. Maybe someone will collaborate with this dear lady to make it so?
In another poster, the overexpression of an enzyme called heparanase in the brain decreased the burden of protein aggregates in the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s disease. I was not able to get into the details of this poster because of time.
In another poster, a very energetic young man told me about his very interesting work with a Parkinson’s disease model in rodents. If mice are administered a drug called MPTP (short for 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine), the dopamine-using neurons in the brain will specifically take up this drug in high concentrations and it will kill them. Therefore, this drug is an excellent model system to study Parkinson’s disease in mice.
Prokineticin-2 is a gene that is expressed in high quantities in the surviving dopamine-using neurons that came from the brains of Parkinson’s disease patients after their deaths. When Prokineticin-2 was overexpressed in cultured dopaminergic neurons, they unregulated a protein called Bcl-2. Bcl-2 is one of the group of proteins can protect cells from dying. Therefore, Prokineticin-2 is a prosurvival protein.
Next, this chap switched from a culture system to a “in a living animal” system or an in vivo system. By using genetically engineered viruses that overexpressed Prokineticin-2 in the brains of mice, he discovered that this viruses did not adversely affect the mice and he did in fact achieve high levels of Prokineticin-2 in the brains of mice with this recombinant viruses. The overexpression did not affect the mice in the least. When he did the same experiment with MPTP-treated mice – oh, just to be clear, he overexpressed Prokineticin-2 first and then administered the MPTP because it takes about 30 days for the viruses to properly upregulate Prokineticin-2 – he saw decreased inflammation in the brain, and increase in Bcl-2 and Pink1 expression in the brain (both of these genes are pro-survival genes), and the behavioral problems of the mice never emerged with the severity of the MPTP mice. When he examined TH – an enzyme that makes the neurotransmitter dopamine, he saw that levels of this enzyme were up too. This means that the dopamine-using neurons were surviving. Is this cool stuff or what?
According to the Japan Times, Kyoto University’s Jun Takahashi and his team have plans to launch a clinical study for Parkinson’ disease patients that will utilize cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells made from the patient’s own cells.
In an interview with Takahashi, the Japan Times reported on Wednesday of this week that he hopes to develop the induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSCs) treatment as soon as possible so that Kyoto University Hospital can provide this treatment by fiscal year 2018 as a designated advanced medical technique that can be used in combination with other conventional treatments and medicines already covered by various insurance policies. Takahashi also expressed his hope that by fiscal year 2023, public health insurance will pay for his treatment.
For this clinical study, Parkinson’s disease patients whose conditions have progressed to the point where their medications are no longer effective will be the primary targeted group. “It will take a long time” to establish an effective treatment for the progressive disorder, which is incurable at present, Takahashi said, stressing the importance of maintaining a positive attitude toward development and not losing hope.
Parkinson’s disease causes the nerve cells in the brain that utilize the neurotransmitter dopamine to die off. The death of these dopaminergic neurons adversely affects voluntary muscle movement.
The design of this clinical study will include the production of iPSCs from adult cells collected from participating patients. These stem cells will be differentiated into neural stem cells that make dopaminergic neurons. These dopaminergic neuron precursor cells will be transplanted back into the midbrains of the donors before they develop into nerve cells, according to Takahashi. This way, all injected cells will still have the capacity to divide and migrate once implanted into the brain, but they will still have the capacity to form dopaminergic neurons.
Takahashi’s team will also seek to develop a method for producing a nerve cell drug created from cells taken out of healthy people, to ease the financial burden on patients, he said, since the derivation of iPSCs remains prohibitively expensive.
Takahashi also said he aims to being clinical trials by March 2019.
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are made from mature adult cells by means of genetic engineering and cell culture techniques. These cells have embryonic stem cell-like capacities and can, potentially differentiate into any adult cell type. Because neurons made from iPSCs have sometimes not shown instability, the ability of neurons derived from iPSCs to stably integrate into brain has been questioned.
Schwamborn and Hemmer showed that six months after implantation, their iPSCs-derived neurons had become fully functionally integrated into the brain. This successful integration of iPSC-derived neurons into lastingly stable implants raises hope for future therapies that will replace sick neurons with healthy ones in the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s chorea, for example. This work was published in the current issue of Stem Cell Reports.
The LCSB research group hopes to bring cell replacement therapy to maturity as a treatment for neurodegenerative diseases. The replacement of sick and/or dead neurons in the brain could one day cure disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. However, devising a successful therapy in human is a long, arduous process, and for good reasons. “Successes in human therapy are still a long way off, but I am sure successful cell replacement therapies will exist in future. Our research results have taken us a step further in this direction,” declared Schwamborn.
In their latest tests, the LCSB research group, in collaboration with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute and the University Hospital Münster and the University of Bielefeld, made stable neuronal implants in the brain from neurons that were derived from reprogrammed skin cells. They used a newer technique in which the neurons were produced from neural stem cells (NSCs). These NSCs or induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) had, in turn been made from iPSCs that were made from the host animal’s own skin cells, which considerably improves the compatibility of the implanted cells. Mice who received the neuronal implants showed no adverse side effects even six months after implantation. The new neurons were implanted into the hippocampus and cortex regions of the brain. Implanted neurons were fully integrated into the complex network of the brain and they exhibited normal activity and were connected to the original brain cells via newly formed connections known as synapses, which are the contact points between nerve cells.
These tests demonstrate that stem cells researchers are continuing to get a better handle on how to use cells derived from something other than human embryos in order to successfully replace damaged or dead tissue. “Building upon the current insights, we will now be looking specifically at the type of neurons that die off in the brain of Parkinson’s patients – namely the dopamine-producing neurons,” Schwamborn reports.
In future experiments, implanted neurons could provide the neurotransmitter dopamine (which is lacking in patients with Parkinson’s disease) directly into the patient’s brain and transport it to the appropriate sites. Such a result would herald an actual cure for the disease rather than a short-term fix. The first trials in mice are in progress at the LCSB laboratories on the university campus Belval. | <urn:uuid:3ad0db29-d056-49a0-88aa-984a15d95130> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://beyondthedish.wordpress.com/tag/parkinsons-disease/ | 2019-07-23T23:06:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.94865 | 6,398 |
Guest Contributor: Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins, Senior Professional Educator, TeamUP Cengage Learning Peer-to-Peer Faculty Development.
Not again! Your professor has decided it’s time to “hear from you” and make class more active, and you automatically think “Why can’t I just sit and listen to the lecture?!”
They’re not trying to make you uncomfortable or fill class time because they have nothing to say. There’s a definite method to the madness.
Educators engage in activities such as attending conferences, reading articles, and chatting with colleagues about what works in the classroom, and as such, they have specific, research-based reasons for wanting to move their students from being passive to active participants in course proceedings.
So what’s in it for you? Why should you turn yourself into a willing participant when, in the middle of a lecture, you hear the words “Let’s get into groups!”
Here are five reasons students should wholeheartedly engage in in-class formative assessment activities:
1. It feels like the professor cares that you learn!: You’ve been in classes where it feels like the professor is standing at the podium for the sole purpose of plowing through an hour (or more!) of material with little regard for what you think and whether you understand. When your professor takes the time to actually create and institute in-class activities that allow you to understand, analyze, and ask questions about the course material, take advantage of it! It means he/she is interested in ensuring you actually learn.
2. You no longer have to wait until the night before the test to see if you know it!: When your professors perform formative assessments in class; that is, when they have you engage in in-class activities such as asking you questions about the lecture, readings from the textbook, or other course material and then having you hold conversations with your classmates, jot down comments, or move around the room in search of answers to those questions, doing so gives you the opportunity to process the information and actually reflect on how well you understand the course content. Instead of just sitting in class each day hoping you get it, engage with your classmates and walk out each class session knowing you get it.
3. You know exactly what to study!: And in those instances where you engage in formative assessment activities in class and find yourself having not performed so well, you can use that as a mental cue for what to study when you prepare for the next class meeting or your next test. As opposed to studying everything, you have an idea of those topics that require merely a quick review and those that require more in-depth attention. You know where to focus your energies, so studying is no longer a shot in the dark.
4. You’ll find out your thinking is not totally off!: Sometimes it doesn’t have to be a foreign language class for the material to sound Greek. If only you could lean over and ask your neighbor “WHAT WAS THAT?!” without feeling embarrassed. Engaging in the formative assessments your professor provides lets you discuss the content with others; not only will you see you may not have been alone in your thinking, but you’ll also have an occasion to kibitz with your classmates and gain some clarification.
5. It makes class more interesting!: In larger classes, it’s easy to mentally and physically hide or totally checkout, but that can make for a pretty boring existence, especially if that’s not your personality. (And would you really want to do that every class every week for an entire term?!) It’s no secret time flies when you’re having fun, when you’re in a state of flow. Engaging in the activities your professor plans for the class makes learning more interesting, and it might even serve an unintended purpose by giving you an intellectual conversation piece for that cutie across the room on which you’ve had your eye!
Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins is a Senior Professional Educator with TeamUP at Cengage Learning, and she teaches for the Associate’s Program at the University of Phoenix.
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Here’s the first recipe in my series showcasing the produce of Cahir Farmers Market. This market is close to my home in Tipperary and one packed with produce from local farmers, producers, bakers, creators and fish from neighbouring County Waterford.
When I was travelling, I sought out local markets, roadside stalls and street vendors like nobody’s business. I found these were the best places to buy small amounts of really good quality produce. Sometimes the food was described in extremely bad Spanish by me throughout South America but a taste and a smile never needs translation! I found I easily lost these habits and returned to supermarket shopping once I returned to Ireland.
Don’t get me wrong, I still shop in supermarkets but endeavour to buy at least some of my weekly shop from independent stores, farmers markets or direct from the producers themselves where possible. Not only will you be able to purchase products that are produced only a few miles or metres away but also get to know the person behind the item. Learn their why in life for producing food and some of the best cooking tips I’ve ever received!
Let’s be honest crispy spuds (potatoes for anyone not from Ireland!) are one of life’s simple pleasures!!
When the spuds are literally grown only a few miles out the road from where you buy them, they taste even better as they are so fresh and you get to meet the people who planted, cared for them and picked them. Pat O’Brien who sells his spuds every Saturday at Cahir Farmers Market is an expert at growing the fluffiest potatoes and this Crispy Spuds recipe is simply delish.
Serve these crispy spuds alongside grilled meat, any kind of an egg dish or with some salad for a quick and easy meal. They would also be a great side for a brunch feast.
Keep your eyes peeled for a Cahir Farmers Market recipe popping up in my weekly recipes over the coming months!
Serves 6 as a side.
- 400g golden wonder potatoes from Pat O’Brien
- 6 cloves of garlic, skin on
- 3 tbsp Emerald Oils rapeseed
- 3 tbsp Greek-style yoghurt/creme fraiche
- 1 tsp curry powder
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Halve the potatoes and cook on high in the microwave for 8 minutes or steam until tender. This gently cooks the potatoes which allows a much more crispier but still fluffy finish in the oven.
- Preheat an oven to 220°C/200°C fan/475°F and place the garlic cloves and oil in a large baking tray or ovenproof dish.
- Once tender, chop the potatoes into chunks and add to the ovenproof dish.
- Combine all the ingredients together and cook in the oven for 20-30 minutes or until crispy. Stir the potatoes once or twice to ensure an even colour.
- Before serving, squeeze the garlic cloves from their skin and return to the dish.
- For the curry mayo: simply whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl and serve on the side for dipping.
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One in the chamber is a pretty simple round, you have a pistol and 1 bullet. If you hit your shot you kill the player and gain 1 additional bullet. If you miss your shot you will have to resort to your stunstick.
> Round length is 5 minutes.
> Gameplay takes place on the surface, elevators down to the facility are locked.
> No items, just your gun and your stunstick.
> Players are split into 2 teams. One team is MTF and spawns at Gate A, other team is CI and spawns at Gate B.
> The 2 gates in-between Gate A and Gate B cannot be opened until the round has started.
> Each player has one life only, so make it count!
> The game ends when all of one team has been eliminated or the time runs out.
It's a pretty short round but i think it would be fun to play.
Since the gameplay takes place in an open space objects such as boxes or vehicle props should be added so players can hide behind them if needed.
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Earlier this week on Instagram, Swedish singer Zara Larsson at only 17-years-old is defaming tired comments like “condoms don’t fit me” that any heterosexual woman has rolled her eyes at. Larsson took a picture of her foot wearing a condom, and it almost reached her kneecap!
Such statements debunked! And while obviously physical tension and friction is what makes condoms more restrictive during sexual intercourse, there are plenty of condoms and brands out there to practice safe sex with. #letsdobetter
She quickly won praise and points for modern feminism with her IG post, and later wrote on her blog how surprised she was that what was meant to be funny came across as another big step for modern feminism. She appreciated the attention but believed (as translated in English) “I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism. It’s kind of just been so for unknown reasons. I am fully aware that there are many, many girls who are better than me at this so extremely many ways and who receive little attention.”
Remember Sophie Grace, the little girl that rapped with Nicki Minaj to the rapper’s track “Super Bass” on The Ellen Show? Well, the aspiring pop-rapper-singer is back with a new track called “Best Friend.” I don’t know where she got those pretty hard sounding beats primed for the clubs, but her vocals sound pretty decent against them! It’s a cute song and something appropriate for her fanbase. It promotes sisterhood amongst friends and is super girly at that with its non-stop color schemes of shades of pink and smiles. Hey, is her hype girl Rosie in the video too? | <urn:uuid:559d6914-95f3-4e19-856a-b11c412f2df9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://lavishrebellion.com/2015/01/10/saturday-night-shenanigans-sophie-graces-party-song-best-friend-and-singer-zara-larsson-proves-no-condom-is-ever-too-small/ | 2019-07-23T23:23:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.972375 | 368 |
I'm gonna do it!
Mork & Mindy meet Robin Williams. This and the "final report" scene were real...
How to make preserved lemons. This guy is brilliant. - Uri Tuchman.
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Under a new directive proposed by General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the General Staff, future army leaders could be recruited direct from ‘civi-street’ rather than rising up through the ranks as is traditionally the method.
The British Army is considering hiring direct from industry and the boardroom to get civilians who have already had established careers in areas such as: cyber technology, aviation technology and logistics – bringing with them a vast amount of experience from outside the military and plugging a skillset gap.
Sir Nick stressed his scheme would not apply to the Army’s frontline fighting combat arms and that the concept was “a year or two away”.
He said: “As an institution we are bottom fed. In other words we recruit people who are youngsters and then grow them through a career. I think that the modern way of working suggests that as we embrace a lot of the specialisms that we have got to embrace, we are going to have to offer different career structures”.
“I suspect that nearly as much as 30 per cent of the Army will be specialists in the future”.
“How we supply those specialist career streams, often probably with lateral entry and maybe sharing people with industry because all of us are struggling with the so-called science, technology, engineering and maths skills, is something we will have to think about in the future”.
It is believed that the first recruitment will likely to be to ranks such as captain, major or non-commissioned officers, but in future it could extend to positions as senior as brigadier.
The personnel holding these senior positions would not undergo ‘basic-training’ as is presently the norm for anyone who joins the military and would not be required to pass annual Basic Fitness Tests (BFT).
Sir Nick said the Army was “probably a year or two away” from the move, which would need profound changes to careers structures and the way the Army recognises status. The Army may need to bring in new senior non-commissioned officer ranks he suggested.
He said: “We may need to adopt a more American-style approach. They have these people called chief warrant officers. A chief warrant officer is typically a pilot or avionics officer who moves up through this different system of status and I think that the British Army is going to have to think about doing that sort of thing as well.”
But he predicted the Army’s combat arms would remain unchanged in his lifetime.
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ANU LLB Result 2019 Acharya Nagarjuna University LLB 2nd Sem Exam Result 2019 www.nagarjunauniversity.ac.in LLB 4th Sem Exam Result 2019 ANU LLB 6th Sem Result 2019 ANU LLB 8th 10th Semester Result 2019
Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) has conducted the 2 4 6 8 10 semester exam for the LLB courses in the month of Apr/ May 2019. A large number of candidates participated in the even sem exams. The candidates attempted the semester exam can download the ANU Result Degree 2019 from the main portal after the declaration of the result. The students waiting for the ANU LLB Sem 2 Exam Result 2019 is going to declare in the month of May 2019. When the LLB 4th Sem Results of ANU is declared we will issue on our main portal. The applicants the use the below steps and link to find out the ANU LLB 6th Sem Exam Result 2019. In this page, we are declaring the details about Nagarjuna Univ LLB 8th Sem Online Result 2019 such as result download process, supplementary exam details, revaluation/ rechecking process & etc.
ANU LLB Result 2019 Information
Recently the university has declared the undergraduate examination for the old and new batches on the official web link. The University is prepared to organize the even semester exam in the month of Apr/ May 2019. Those who are studying in the LLB 2 4 6 8 10 semesters have to appear in the semester wise exam of Law Degree courses. Participated students can check Acharya Nagarjuna University Result of LLB Sem 8th Exam 2019 in the month of May 2019. We also request you to keep checking the official main portal at ANU. The ANU LLB 10th Sem Result 2019 will issue by the university according to the semester. All the notification related to ANU has releases on the web portal. Participants can need to stay connected with this web portal for the latest information.
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ANU LLB 2nd 4th 6th 8th 10th Result 2019
The ANU LLB 2nd Sem Result 2019 declared in the official web portal after the declaration of the result. The aspirants who have attended the even sem exam need to have the patience to check the result on the official web portal. The university is planning to publish the result in the month of June/ July 2019. The contenders can check their result can download by using roll number and date of birth from the web portal. Postulants must not waste their time by searching here and there for the ANU LLB IV Exam Result 2019 is updating you the step by step procedure of checking the result. With the help of these steps, candidates can easily check their ANU LLB 6th Sem Result 2019. The result download process is given below here.
How To Download ANU LLB Exam Result 2019
The candidates participated in the even semester exam can download the result from the web portal after the declaration of the result. Here we are providing simple steps to download the result.
- Candidates need to visit the official site address given above.
- Find the ANU LLB 2nd Sem Result 2019 tab which is on the top of the homepage.
- Then choose ‘Results’ from the list display on the screen.
- Select the required link which matches your courses like course name and semester.
- Put your roll number & date of birth, and required fields
- The ANU UG 10th Sem Result 2019 will display on the screen.
- Download the mark sheet & take a printout of further references.
The participants appeared in the even sem exams for LLB courses can check the above-mentioned link to check the result. The candidates need to qualify in all the subjects as it enables to get appear for the next semester exams. The ANU will declare the exam dates for backlog students results get declared. The applicants who couldn’t pass the sem examination need to appear in the Re-appear/ Backlog exams.
Revaluation/ Reverification Process of ANU LLB Exams 2019
After checking the even semester results, candidates who get low marks in any of the subjects can apply for the ANU LLB Revaluation Process 2019. The Rechecking is exam process where the officials of the University will check the exam paper of the students once again. By this, the students had the chance to increase marks in the exam. The university will start the revaluation exam process a few days after the completion of the exam. Aspirants need to apply through a proper channel and as per the University norms in a specified time period. The ANU UG Rechecking Result 2019 declare after the few months of the applying process. The interested candidates need to fill the revaluation application form and pay the application fees according to the subject.
The Revaluation/ Reverification details will intimate in this article. For more details of Acharya Nagarjuna University, LLB Semester Result applicants need to visit our web portal regularly.
ANU LLB Sem Supply Exam Dates 2019
ANU LLB Sem II Supply Exam 2019 starts in the month of March/April 2019. The candidates failed in the sem exam can apply for the supply exams. In supply exam, the aspirants can clear their subjects by writing the exam once again. The exam schedule of the supply exams will release in the month of July 2019. Aspirants can download the ANU LLB Supply Time Table 2019. The university will start the supply exam process a few days after the announcement of the result. Even contenders will get a notification for the supply exam. The students need to go through ANU LLB Supply Notification 2019 to know the supply application dates, exam fee etc details. Postulants need to pay the application fees according to the subject and fill the application form.
The students will get supply applications in the month of Aug 2019. To get more details about supplementary exam details such as supply exam dates, application form, fees & details announce. The applicants who are searching for the supply exam details will upload shortly in this article so, participants need to stay in touch with us.
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I am still in the land of the living, but have been doing other things, and have not had a great deal of time for crafting. Yes, I know, that is a terrible admission.
Recently, I ordered some little magnets and decided that I would jazz up a jotter with them. These jotters can be bought very reasonably at stationary shops and make perfect little gifts.
I have a bit of a thing for Pool Party, it is such a pretty shade of blue, and Flowering Fluorishes is one of my favourite stamps. I think that they work vey well together, so I decided to use them for the jotter makeover.
This jotter is made of 9cm (3.5″) squares of paper in a stack 5.5cm (2 1/8″) high. Once the card was cut, scored and stamped it was simply a case of getting out the Tombow and attaching the card to the base of the stack. Using the Label Love punch I made and stamped a tag closure, stuck this to the front of the stack and used tiny little magnets to close. Simples!
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An unpretentious wild bird cherry is consideredSlavic symbol. She is sung in verse and pictures, always excites with fragrant color and pleases with taste. The bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, vitamin, and fortifying properties of this plant are well known.
On grocery counters and storefrontshealthy food, you can almost always see small bags with the inscription "Flour bird flour". For some, their contents are exotic and unknown, and for others - kind greetings from childhood.
Flour from bird cherry is dried and groundtogether with the bones of the berry of this tree. It has a dark color, an amaretto smell and a sweet, slightly astringent, taste. It is a useful and tasty product, rich in vitamins, trace elements, tannins.
At home, bird cherry flour is obtained with a good mill - solid bones of dried berries are difficult to grind - the grinder knives can suffer.
Like whole berries, bird cherry flour goes for the preparation of kissels, liqueurs, vitamin drinks, it is good to make a basis for cakes, rolls, cakes and stuffing for sweet pies.
For many Siberians, one of the memories of childhood- an open pie from yeast dough with a thick layer of bird cherry filling, greased on top of a dense rustic sour cream with sugar. A spicy, yellowish egg base, a thick dark purple berry mass and gradually colored white creamy tenderness - an amazing dessert delighted the eye and asked in the mouth!
The Siberian cherry was harvested and dried in large quantities and transported to a mill to grind.
A cake of bird cherry flour baked on a large baking tray could be stored and even frozen for future use, only sour cream to spread on the table.
Most of the usual recipes for sweets, we begin to revise and modify, motivating it not only for the high cost of products, but also for the purpose of reducing calorie content or to prepare for fasting.
So, yeast dough in milk, with lots of eggs, butter and sugar, is, of course, delicious. But you can try other recipes. Flour bird flour is great for these purposes.
Yeast pie cake
For the test, sift 450 grams of flour, dissolve20 g of pressed yeast (or 8 grams of dry) in 250 ml of warm water, add 1/3 teaspoon of salt, 2-3 tablespoons of sugar (you can increase the amount to 0.5 cup). When the yeast disperse and lift up the "cap", pour in the flour and add a few spoons of vegetable oil.
Dough to knead, cover, let rise. Roll out on a baking sheet, lifting it at the sides.
(This same dough with less sugar can be used for lean buns and pies with any unsweetened stuffings: cabbage, potatoes, fish, mushrooms and even pickles!)
For toppings flour floury brewed with a small amount of hot wateror milk. You can not add sugar. Thickened stuffing put on the dough a layer of 1 - 2 centimeters thick, bake at 180 degrees until browning the sides of the dough.
For fudge, grind sugar into powder, drip some lemon juice and spoon add boiling water to get a mass that can be smeared or put in a grid on the cooled stuffing.
For such a pie, you need at least a glass of ground bird cherry.
If you have a bag weighing 50 grams, you can make a variation of the American "Crazy Cake", taking bird cherry instead of cocoa.
Light black cake
For him it is necessary to take:
300 g of flour;
150 g of sugar (can be less);
50 g of bird cherry flour;
0.5 tsp. soda;
a pinch of salt.
Mix loose ingredients. Add:
200 ml of water (juice or milk);
50-100 ml of refined vegetable oil.
Stir well, pour into a mold, bake until ready (check with a toothpick).
A cake of bird cherry flour can be cut into two layers and glued together with sour cream and sour cream. Put for a few hours in the refrigerator to soak.
On top of the finished cake pour sweet or sprinkle with powdered sugar. Enjoyment is guaranteed!
Sweet cherry roll with cottage cheese filling
A gentle, fragrant, black and white roll will delight any sweet tooth.
For him, you need to beat 2 eggs with 100 grams of sugar and 200 grams of sour cream, add 50-60 grams of bird cherry flour and a pinch of soda.
Pour 100 grams of flour, mix well and pour the dough on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Smooth and bake for 12-15 minutes. It is important not to overdry.
As a filling use soft curd with cream and sugar powder, cream cheese or sweet curd mass.
Smear the baked biscuit and carefully roll the roll. Decorate with sugar, powdered sugar and / or coconut shavings.
And still from bird cherry you can cook raw jam, but for this you have to work hard.
Piquant taste of this jar is given exactly to the crushed bones, although to an unusual person this consistency may seem rude.
Berries at least two times to scroll throughgrinder, using first a large, and then a small grate. If desired, you can additionally wipe through a sieve to remove large fragments of bones. Then mix with an equal or a little more sugar, stir well and put them into jars. Keep the jam in a cool place.
A thick, viscous mass is good in and of itself, and as a filling. From it you can make mors or jelly.
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Over the past years, fishtail braids hairstyles have become a staple not only when people are on the beach but also when artists attend some events. Even some models have sported various types of fishtail braids when they are in the runway. This has inspired a lot of people, probably including you to wear the right fishtail braids. How do you think will you be able to do the type of braid that you want?
Being skilled in doing the fishtail braid is needed in order to continue on with the different fishtail braid styles that you are going to try. If you do not know how, remember that although it may seem hard in the beginning, it is not too hard anymore as long as you would watch tutorial videos and practice doing it on yourself. After some time, you would have the fishtail braid you have always wanted.
Some of the fishtail braid styles that you will see below are easy to do and some may not be too easy but as long as you are determined to try out that look then do not be discouraged. Make this great change so that your hairstyle will go beyond the usual ponytail.
40 Amazing Fishtail Braid Hairstyle For Women 2019
1. Thick Fishtail Braid
This fishtail braid is done to perfection! We absolutely love the thickness behind this one really giving it a lot of volume braided into such tight and silky fishtails all the way to the bottom securing the braid by wrapping strands of hair around the top of the braid and bottom which is a great way of hiding any elastics used on this hairstyle.
2. Pigtailed Fishtail Braids
Hey ladies why not switch it up we are seeing more and more cool braid ideas and this pigtail hairstyle where both pigtails are turned into beautiful messy and voluminous braids looks totally awesome.
It’s such a great look for any women who like cute braided hairstyles but don’t want to over do it, this style is such a great casual look and can easily work for any formal even as well.
3. Cute Fishtail Braid
How cute is this amazing fishtail braid? With the new hunger games on the verge of coming out I know we are going to see a lot more celebrities and women tossing up their hair into gorgeous messy fishtail braids and all kinds of other eccentric braided hairstyles.
Shailene looks gorgeous no matter what she does with her hair but this messy look suits her to perfection. A great style to mix up with a formal wardrobe just to off balance the entire look and give it a little something different.
4. Cool Colorful Fishtail Braid
Hey ladies why not switch it up with some cool colors next time when braiding your hair, just like this stunning and cool multicolored fishtail braid.
A great way to achieve this look without getting streaks and a whole bunch of colors done is to simple just buy some colored hair extensions and put them in before you braid or throw your hair up into a cool colored bun.
Great thing about hair colored extensions is that you are not stuck with it for too long just pull them out when you are fed up of the look. Let us know what you guys think by leaving some comments below!
5. Long Ombre Fishtail Braid
Michelle looks hot as hell on her shoot for her new single fire for her upcoming album. The long ombré fishtail braid suits her amazingly and the flat hat gives her such a seductive and mysterious look! Needless to say Michelle is on fire!
6. Lovely Fishtail Braids
Check out this cool pigtail hairstyle turned into two lovely fishtail braids, to top of this cool look the subtle brown highlights in the blonde hair just works great.
7. Mini Fishtail Braids
What a creative rendition of a ponytail which was braided at the center into a gorgeous mini fishtail braid. This cut is beautiful and has such a nice elegant vibe to it.
8. Top Fishtail Braids
An amazingly cute hairstyle, what is great about this look is that not only are the use of fishtail braids creatively done but we love how she started with a smaller fishtail at the top flowing into a beautiful bigger one.
9. Long Brown Fishtail Braid
Young pop singer Selena Gomez looks astonishing with her beautiful long brown mane pulled back into a gorgeous and elegant fauxhawk braided down into a fishtail braid!
10. Fishtail Braid on Long Brown Hair
This adorably huge side swept fishtail braid, looks stunning on this young woman. What makes this fishtail braid really stand out and different from all the others is that she has gorgeous long and thick hair all around.. including her bangs, which entirely falls into that side swept braid as opposed to having long hair with short bangs which you cannot throw into the whole body of the braid. Ladies.. time to grow out your bangs! 🙂Long thick voluminous hairLight brown
11. Two Fishtail Braids
How cute are these 2 fishtail braids casually dangling on both sides, giving this hairstyle such a cool and summery feel.
12. Awesome Fishtail Braids
What makes this braid so awesome is the fact that the 3 strands used to braid the hair were braided into a separate fishtail braids prior to making the main one.
13. Casual Classic Fishtail Braid
Well needless to say fishtail braids are a little longer to do than your normal braids but once you get the hang of it it get quicker and it doesn’t need to be perfect to looks good, I actually often prefer to have mine looking a little messy like this one.
14. Fun Fishtail Braid
This summer try twisting in some colored strings into your braids. We love how she braided a variety of colored strings before throwing her hair into a beautiful colored fishtail braid.
15. Gorgeous Side-Swept Fishtail Ponytail Braid
The perfect fishtail braid garnished with flowers for that special wedding day.
16. Stunning Fishtail Braid
Beautiful hairstyle idea! We love how this hairstyle started off with the fringes halo braided all the way to the back into a gorgeous fishtail braid. Spicing it up with hints of brown through her lovely blonde hair.
17. Sweet Long Black Hair With a Great Fishtail Fringe
Sexy long dark hairstyle from Sherri Jessee. Complete with a great fishtail braid in place of a fringe. Super sexy.Long and layered with bleached streaks.Black and Blonde streak.
18. Long Side Braided Fishtail Hairstyle with Side Swept Bangs
This beautiful messy fishtail braid is nothing but classy and eye catching! I love how she is wearing her bangs to the same side of her braid giving her braid a lot more weight and prominence.
This hairstyle is perfect for an evening out with the girls or even your man 😉Long layered towards the front hair.Dark brown with lighter blond streaks
19. Long and Beautiful Straight Blonde Hair Woven Into Fishtail
Long, warm honey blonde hair with lighter highlights and ends provides the perfect base for a lovely fishtail braid. The braid starts low with a loose ponytail at the back of the head, and is draped over one shoulder, showing off the lighter blonde of the ends.
The main body is casually sectioned into three, with most of the back and half of the crown going into the braid. The forelocks are mostly pulled out of the braid and sport a casual side part. Most of this chin-length fringe is waved into the side opposite the fishtail. The look is ultra-soft, ultra-feminine, and plays up the hair colors.
20. Half Up, Half Down Fishtail Braid
If you would like to look enchanting without having to make a lot of effort into your fishtail braids, you know that this is the perfect style for you to try. It is easy to do and can fit any type of occasion.
- You simply need to make fishtail braids with some small sections on each side of your head.
- Make sure that the ends will meet in the middle.
- You can then choose if you would like your hair to be curly or straight but either way, this can emphasize the fishtail braids you have placed.
21.Natural Fishtail Ponyail Braid
If you would like to go beyond the usual ponytail but you still want to integrate it into the type of hairstyle that you have on your hair then you may choose to have the fishtail ponytail. You can expect that this will emphasize how thick your hair looks and will make it look perfect for different occasions especially your prom.
- Braid your hair in a fishtail braid style.
- Pull your hair from all sides of the hair to make it look more relaxed rather than tight all over.
- Make sure to secure the braid with the proper ponytail or elastic.
- Secure some sections of your hair with bobby pins.
22. Fishtail Braid Around Low Bun
Do you want something that is interesting and can take you from your prom straight to the party? You know that you will be able to do this easily as long as you know how to do both the low bun and the fishtail braid.
- Before creating your low bun, decide on the strands of the hair that you will be making into a fishtail braid.
- After you have made the decision, put your hair up in a low bun.
- Braid your hair.
- Wrap the braid around the bun and secure with pins.
23. Double Fishtail Braid for Prom
The thing about this hairstyle is that you may not immediately see where the other fishtail braid is since this will require you to have a tight fishtail braid situated on one side of your head. The surprise here is that before the start of your fishtail braid, there is also a small sized fishtail braid that will be placed on the side of your head.
- You would have to do the small fishtail braid first.
- After you have done it, do the big fishtail braid until it reaches the ends of your hair.
- Secure the braids with elastics or pontails.
24. Halo Crown Fishtail Braid Braid
Just imagine if you would have the right gown for the prom but you were unable to choose the proper hairstyle? This can be hard for you mainly because it will make your whole outfit look drab. With the various fishtail braid styles available, you can complete your overall look. If you need to put your hair up, this halo crown fishtail braid will be perfect.
- Depending on your hair part, you would pick up a section of your hair from the side that is thicker.
- Do the usual fishtail braid.
- Make sure that you will be getting some hair strands on the back portion of your hair until you are able to create a dutch fishtail style braid.
- Finish in a regular fishtail if all portions of the hair are already included in the braid.
- Secure the hair with pins.
25. Relaxed Fishtail Braid
The hair that you are going to wear to the prom does not necessarily have to look too stuffy and hard. What you can do instead is to choose something that looks relaxing. This relaxed fishtail braid can be perfect for gown styles that will make you look like a garden nymph instead of a princess that is stuck in the castle for a long period of time.
- Instead of starting your braid from where you usually place your ponytail, you may start a bit lower than that.
- Do the usual fishtail braid that is situated on one side of your head.
- It is best if you would choose the side with thicker hair for greater results.
- Secure the ends with the elastic.
- Since this is a relaxed style, you do not need to have hair products to keep it intact.
26. Fishtail Braid All Over Updo
If you still want a fishtail braid that will seem like your whole head has a fishtail braid then this is the perfect style to try. Do remember that this will only look great on those with naturally thick hair as thick hair is needed to achieve the effect that you are going for.
- Make a fishtail braid from one side of your head up to the very last strands.
- Once you have reached the ends of your hair, you will then start wrapping the fish tail braid that you have created similar to a head gear all over your head.
- This may be a bit tedious to do as you have to wrap your hair in a slow manner to ensure that everything will be fixed thoroughly.
- Secure the different sections with pins so that they will not fall off.
- You may need to use hair products to let the hair stay for as long as you need it for your prom night.
27. French Fishtail Braid
Do you want to have something that looks different and unique? You will not have any trouble with doing this as long as you know how to do french twist ponytail. Incorporate it into your knowledge of doing the french braid and you will surely have a nice looking hairstyle that will make other people at your prom give you compliments for your unique hairstyle.
- Start twisting hair for the french twist.
- When a certain portion of the hair has been twisted, the top portion may have to be loosened a bit.
- Do the usual french braid style.
- The ends of the hair would also have to be placed on a french twist to complete the overall look.
28. Tight Fishtail Pony
If you want something that is simple but looks complicated to make then you can have this hairstyle easily. Just imagine sporting it together with your amazing gown. It will make you look cool. It is girly enough but not too much that it will make you look sweet. If this is the effect that you are going for then you should choose this hairstyle for your hair.
- Secure your hair into a low ponytail.
- Start doing the fishtail braid.
- Make sure that you are doing the fishtail braid tighter than usual so that each portion of the hair will be emphasized.
- Secure the ends and you are already good to go.
29. Messy Fishtail with Bangs
If you would like to have a hairstyle at your prom that will not make you look intimidating but will make you look amazing at the same time, you can expect that this is the right fishtail braid for you to try. Not only will it look amazing on you, this is also a type of hairstyle that you can wear again when you are just going out with your friends.
- Make sure to separate your bangs from the fishtail braid.
- Continue with the fishtail braid you are going to place on the side of your hair.
- Secure the ends with elastics.
- You may add some appliques to your hair if you would want to but keep your bangs perfect to make the whole look different from the usual fishtail.
30. Stunning Waterfall Braid and Fishtail Braid
31. Long medieval knotted braid with a crown of leaves
32. Beautiful messy fishtail braid ponytail
33. Close up of a beautiful fishtail braid
34. Simple and clean fishtail braid
35. Gorgeous and huge fishtail braid ponytail
36. Massive and intricate fishtail braid with red hues
37. Beautiful hairstyle with side fishtail braid and fringe
38. Massive and messy fishtail braid hairstyle
39. Massive and beautiful fishtail braid
40. Fishtail braid ponytail hairstyle with green highlights
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- Compare Emma, Constant Contact, iCOntact, GetResponse, and MailChimp
Buying Advice for Above Email Marketing Campaigns
Few marketing efforts in today’s world have a greater return-on-investment than email marketing. Especially when you partner with the right company or provider, you will find that email campaigning is both effective and highly affordable. You can reach out to thousands or even tens of thousands of customers with just a few clicks and a low monthly or annual email marketing service subscription fee.
Whether you are trying to get the word out about a special deal or promotion you’re offering, sharing a unique piece of information you think would be of value to your customers and clients, or simply publishing a fun, regular newsletter to keep your audience engaged and your business in the forefront of their minds, email marketing is your most affordable option. Here are a few things you should know when choosing an email marketing service to help boost your brand.
Make certain you can create surveys, runs SPAM tests, and schedule emails to run when you want for best open rates.
Prepare Your Email List for Effective Marketing
Email marketing services are great at helping you get the information you want to the people your marketing efforts are targeting. Some of them can even help you determine who to target, how to target hem most effectively, and figure out how successful your email blast efforts are compared to others in your niche. One thing email marketing services generally can’t do, however, is help you create a list of specific, active email addresses belonging to individuals in your target demographic.
Before you are ready to fully utilize an email marketing service, you’ll need an email list to market to. An existing list of customer and client email addresses is typically the best place to start, especially if they’ve “opted in” to receiving the type of information and materials you have planned for your e-mail campaigning. If you don’t have such a list or are looking to expand it with other potential customers, you can purchase email lists from marketing service brokers or do your own legwork in finding appropriate groups and individuals to receive your email marketing.
Your email marketing list is a major part of your email marketing campaign’s foundation, and is a must-have before engaging with your email marketing service provider.
Email Marketing Subscriptions vs. One-Time Campaigns Review
Most businesses trying to take advantage of all that email marketing has to offer will benefit from a subscription to an email marketing service. Email marketing service subscriptions typically allow users to send a certain number of emails per month and/or to maintain lists with a certain number of recipients, all for one low monthly or annual fee. This allows email marketing service subscribers to send steady “drip” campaigns and keep in regular contact with customers, the affordability of which is a significant benefit of email marketing.
Many services also provide options for one-time email marketing campaigns. These can be more cost effective for businesses that only rarely send emails regarding special events or for one-time list use after an initial sign-up drive.
However you decide to use your service, be sure to poke around and see what options are available in terms of email design, scheduling, list management, and analytics, as well as email/recipient limits and pricing. Your customers are out there and waiting to hear from you, so don’t delay!
More Items To Review For Email Campaigning
- Remove Unsubscribed Opt-Out Contacts
- Automatically Find Duplicate Emails
- Require Opt-in
- Sharing Tools and Social Media Features
- A/B Testing
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Erecting Tombstones (4)
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There was a map of Vietnam on the wall of my apartment in Saigon and some nights, coming back late to the city, I’d lie out on my bed and look at it, too tired to do anything more than just get my boots off.
That map was a marvel, especially now that it wasn’t real any more. For one thing, it was very old. It had been left there years before by another tenant, probably a Frenchman, since the map had been made in Paris. The paper had buckled in its frame after years in the wet Saigon heat, laying a kind of veil over the countries it depicted. Vietnam was divided into its older territories of Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China, and to the west past Laos and Cambodge sat Siam, a kingdom.
That’s old, I’d tell visitors, that’s a really old map. If dead ground could come back and haunt you the way dead people do, they’d have been able to mark my map CURRENT and burn the ones they’d been using since ’64, but count on it, nothing like that was going to happen.
It was late ’67 now, even the most detailed maps didn’t reveal much any more; reading them was like trying to read the faces of the Vietnamese, and that was like trying to read the wind. We knew that the uses of most information were flexible, different pieces of ground told different stories to different people.
We also knew that for years now there had been no country here but the war. The Mission was always telling us about VC units being engaged and wiped out and then reappearing a month later in full strength, there was nothing very spooky about that, but when we went up against his terrain we usually took it definitively, and even if we didn’t keep it you could always see that we’d at least been there.
At the end of my first week in-country I met an information officer in the headquarters of the 25th Division at Cu Chi who showed me on his map and then from his chopper what they’d done to the Ho Bo Woods, the vanished Ho Bo Woods, taken off by giant Rome ploughs and chemicals and long, slow fire, wasting hundreds of acres of cultivated plantation and wild forest alike, ‘denying the enemy valuable resources and cover’.
It had been part of his job for nearly a year now to tell people about that operation; correspondents, touring congressmen, movie stars, corporation presidents, staff officers from half the armies in the world, and he still couldn’t get over it. It seemed to be keeping him young, his enthusiasm made you feel that even the letters he wrote home to his wife were full of it, it really showed what you could do if you had the know-how and the hardware.
And if in the months following that operation incidences of enemy activity in the larger area of War Zone C had increased ‘significantly’, and American losses had doubled and then doubled again, none of it was happening in any damn Ho Bo Woods, you’d better believe it . . .
Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. I never saw the need for them myself, a little contact or anything that even sounded like contact would give me more speed than I could bear. Whenever I heard something outside of our clenched little circle I’d practically flip, hoping to God that I wasn’t the only one who’d noticed it. A couple of rounds fired off in the dark a kilometre away and the Elephant would be there kneeling in my chest, sending me down into my boots for a breath.
Once I thought I saw a light moving in the jungle and I caught myself just under a whisper saying, ‘I’m not ready for this, I’m not ready for this.’ That’s when I decided to drop it and do something else with my nights. And I wasn’t going out like the night ambushers did, or the Lurps, long-range recon patrollers who did it night after night for weeks and months, creeping up on VC base camps or around moving columns of North Vietnamese.
I was living too close to my bones as it was, all I had to do was accept it. Anyway, I’d save the pills for later, for Saigon and the awful depressions I always had there.
I knew one 4th Division Lurp who took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it. He told me that they cooled things out just right for him, that he could see that old jungle at night like he was looking at it through a starlight scope. ‘They sure give you the range,’ he said.
This was his third tour. In 1965 he’d been the only survivor in a platoon of the Cav wiped out going into the la Drang Valley. In ’66 he’d come back with the Special Forces and one morning after an ambush he’d hidden under the bodies of his team while the VC walked all around them with knives, making sure. They stripped the bodies of their gear, the berets too, and finally went away, laughing.
After that, there was nothing left for him in the war except the Lurps. ‘I just can’t hack it back in the world,’ he said. He told me that after he’d come back home the last time he would sit in his room all day, and sometimes he’d stick a hunting rifle out the window, leading people and cars as they passed his house until the only feeling he was aware of was all up in the tip of that one finger. ‘ It used to put my folks real uptight,’ he said.
But he put people uptight here too, even here. ‘No man, I’m sorry, he’s just too crazy for me,’ one of the men in his team said. ‘All’s you got to do is look in his eyes, that’s the whole fucking story right there.’‘ Yeah, but you better do it quick, ’someone else said. ‘I mean, you don’t want to let him catch you at it.’ But he always seemed to be watching for it, I think he slept with his eyes open, and I was afraid of him anyway.
All I ever managed was one quick look in, and that was like looking at the floor of an ocean. He wore a gold earring and a headband torn from a piece of camouflage parachute material, and since nobody was about to tell him to get his hair cut it fell below his shoulders, covering a thick purple scar. Even at division he never went anywhere without at least a .45 and a knife, and he thought I was a freak because I wouldn’t carry a weapon.
‘Didn’t you ever meet a reporter before?’ I asked him. ‘Tits on a bull,’ he said. ‘Nothing personal.’ But what a story he told me, as one-pointed and resonant as any war story I ever heard, it took me a year to understand it:
‘Patrol went up the mountain. One man came back. He died before he could tell us what happened.’ I waited for the rest, but it seemed not to be that kind of story; when I asked him what had happened he just looked like he felt sorry for me, fucked if he’d waste time telling stories to anyone dumb as I was. His face was all painted up for the night walking now like a bad hallucination, not like the painted faces I’d seen in San Francisco only a few weeks before, the other extreme of the same theatre.
In the coming hours he’d stand as faceless and quiet in the jungle as a fallen tree, and God help his opposite numbers unless they had at least half a squad along, he was a good killer, one of our best.
The rest of his team were gathered outside the tent, set a little apart from the other division units, with its own Lurp-designated latrine and its own exclusive freeze-dry rations, three-star war food, the same chop they sold at Abercrombie & Fitch.
The regular division troops would almost shy off the path when they passed the area on their way to and from the mess tent. No matter how toughened up they became in the war, they still looked innocent compared to the Lurps. When the team had grouped they walked in a file down the hill to the lz across the strip to the perimeter and into the treeline.
I never spoke to him again, but I saw him. When they came back in the next morning he had a prisoner with him, blindfolded and with his elbows bound sharply behind him. The Lurp area would definitely be off limits during the interrogation, and anyway, I was already down at the strip waiting for a helicopter to come and take me out of there.
‘Hey what’re you guys, with the USO? Aw, we thought you was with the USO ’cause your hair’s so long.’ Page took the kid’s picture, I got the words down and Flynn laughed and told him we were the Rolling Stones. The three of us travelled around together for about a month that summer.
At one lz the brigade chopper came in with a real foxtail hanging off the aerial, when the commander walked by us he almost took an infarction. ‘Don’t you men salute officers?’‘ We’re not men,’ Page said. ‘We’re correspondents.’ When the commander heard that, he wanted to throw a spontaneous operation for us, crank up his whole brigade and get some people killed. We had to get out on the next chopper to keep him from going ahead with it, amazing what some of them would do for a little ink.
Page liked to augment his field gear with freak paraphernalia, scarves and beads, plus he was English, guys would stare at him like he’d just come down from a wall on Mars. Sean Flynn could look more incredibly beautiful than even his father, Errol, had thirty years before as Captain Blood, but sometimes he looked more like Artaud coming out of some heavy heart-of-darkness trip, overloaded on the information, the input! The input! He’d give off a bad sweat and sit for hours, combing his moustache through with the saw blade of his Swiss Army knife.
We packed grass and tape: ‘Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadows’, Best of the Animals, Strange Days, ‘Purple Haze’, Archie Bell and the Drells, ‘C’mon now everybody, do the Tighten Up . . .’
Once in a while we’d catch a chopper straight into one of the lower hells, but it was a quiet time in the war, mostly it was lz’s and camps, grunts hanging around, faces, stories. ‘Best way’s to just keep moving,’ one of them told us. ‘Just keep moving, stay in motion, you know what I’m saying?’
We knew. He was a moving-target-survivor subscriber, a true child of the war, because except for the rare times when you were pinned or stranded the system was geared to keep you mobile, if that was what you thought you wanted. As a technique for staying alive it seemed to make as much sense as anything, given naturally that you were there to begin with and wanted to see it close; it started out sound and straight but it formed a cone as it progressed, because the more you moved the more you saw, the more you saw the more besides death and mutilation you risked, and the more you risked of that the more you would have to let go of one day as a ‘survivor’.
Some of us moved around the war like crazy people until we couldn’t see which way the run was even taking us any more, only the war all over its surface with occasional, unexpected penetration. As long as we could have choppers like taxis it took real exhaustion or depression, near shock or a dozen pipes of opium to keep us even apparently quiet, we’d still be running around inside our skins like something was after us, ha ha, La Vida Loca.
In the months after I got back the hundreds of helicopters I’d flown in began to draw together until they’d formed a collective meta-chopper, and in my mind it was the sexiest thing going; saver-destroyer, provider-waster, right hand-left hand, nimble, fluent, canny and human; hot steel, grease, jungle-saturated canvas webbing, sweat cooling and warming up again, cassette rock and roll in one ear and door-gun fire in the other, fuel, heat, vitality and death, death itself, hardly an intruder.
Men on the crews would say that once you’d carried a dead person he would always be there, riding with you. Like all combat people they were incredibly superstitious and invariably self-dramatic, but it was (I knew) unbearably true and close exposure to the dead sensitized you to the force of their presence and made for long reverberations; long. Some people were so delicate that one look was enough to wipe them away, but even bone-dumb grunts seemed to feel that something weird and extra was happening to them.
Helicopters and people jumping out of helicopters, people so in love they’d run to get on even when there wasn’t any pressure. Choppers rising straight out of small cleared jungle spaces, wobbling down on to city rooftops, cartons of rations and ammunition thrown off, dead and wounded loaded on. Sometimes they were so plentiful and loose that you could touch down at five or six places in a day, look around, hear the talk, catch the next one out.
There were installations as big as cities with 30,000 citizens, once we dropped in to feed supply to one man. God knows what kind of Lord Jim phoenix numbers he was doing in there, all he said to me was, ‘You didn’t see a thing, right Chief? You weren’t even here.’
There were posh fat air-conditioned camps like comfortable middle-class scenes with the violence tacit, ‘far away’; camps named for commanders’ wives LZ Thelma, LZ Betty Lou; number-named hilltops in trouble where I didn’t want to stay; trail, paddy, swamp, deep hairy bush, scrub, swale, village, even city, where the ground couldn’t drink up what the action spilled, it made you careful where you walked.
Sometimes the chopper you were riding in would top a hill and all the ground in front of you as far as the next hill would be charred and pitted and still smoking, and something between your chest and your stomach would turn over. Frail grey smoke where they’d burned off the rice fields around a free-strike zone, brilliant white smoke from phosphorus (‘Willy Peter/ Make you a buh liever’), deep black smoke from ’palm –they said that if you stood at the base of a column of napalm smoke it would suck the air right out of your lungs.
Once we fanned over a little village that had just been airstruck and the words of a song by Wingy Manone that I’d heard when I was a few years old snapped into my head, ‘Stop the War, These Cats Is Killing Themselves’. Then we dropped, hovered, settled down into purple lz smoke, dozens of children broke from their hootches to run in towards the focus of our landing, the pilot laughing and saying, ‘Vietnam, man. Bomb ’em and feed ’em, bomb ’em and feed ’em.’
Flying over jungle was almost pure pleasure, doing it on foot was nearly all pain. I never belonged in there. Maybe it really was what its people had always called it, Beyond; at the very least it was serious, I gave up things to it I probably never got back. (‘Aw, jungle’s okay. If you know her you can live in her real good, if you don’t she’ll take you down in an hour. Under.’)
Once in some thick jungle corner with some grunts standing around, a correspondent said, ‘Gee, you must really see some beautiful sunsets in here, ’and they almost pissed themselves laughing. But you could fly up and into hot tropic sunsets that would change the way you thought about light for ever. You could also fly out of places that were so grim they turned to black and white in your head five minutes after you’d gone.
That could be the coldest one in the world, standing at the edge of a clearing watching the chopper you’d just come in on take off again, leaving you there to think about what it was going to be for you now: if this was a bad place, the wrong place, maybe even the last place, and whether you’d made a terrible mistake this time.
There was a camp at Soc Trang where a man at the lz said, ‘If you come looking for a story this is your lucky day, we got Condition Red here,’ and before the sound of the chopper had faded out, I knew I had it too. ‘That’s affirmative, ’the camp commander said, ‘we are definitely expecting rain. Glad to see you.’ He was a young captain, he was laughing and taping a bunch of sixteen clips together bottom to bottom for faster reloading, ‘grease’.
Everyone there was busy at it, cracking crates, squirrelling away grenades, checking mortar pieces, piling rounds, clocking banana clips into automatic weapons that I’d never even seen before. They were wired into their listening posts out around the camp, into each other, into themselves, and when it got dark it got worse.
The moon came up nasty and full, a fat moist piece of decadent fruit. It was soft and saffron-misted when you looked up at it, but its light over the sandbags and into the jungle was harsh and bright.
We were all rubbing Army-issue nightfighter cosmetic under our eyes to cut the glare and the terrible things it made you see. (Around midnight, just for something to do, I crossed to the other perimeter and looked at the road running engineer-straight towards Route 4 like a yellow frozen ribbon out of sight and I saw it move, the whole road.) There were a few sharp arguments about who the light really favoured, attackers or defenders, men were sitting around with Cinemascope eyes and jaws stuck out like they could shoot bullets, moving and antsing and shifting around inside their fatigues.
‘No sense us getting too relaxed, Charlie don’t relax, just when you get good and comfortable is when he comes over and takes a giant shit on you.’ That was the level until morning, I smoked a pack an hour all night long, and nothing happened. Ten minutes after daybreak I was down at the lz asking about choppers.
A few days later Sean Flynn and I went up to a big firebase in the Americal TAOR that took it all the way over to another extreme: National Guard weekend. The colonel in command was so drunk that day that he could barely get his words out, and when he did, it was to say things like, ‘We aim to make good and goddammit sure that if those guys try anything cute they won’t catch us with our pants down.’
The main mission there was to fire H&I, but one man told us that their record was the worst in the whole Corps, probably the whole country, they’d harassed and interdicted a lot of sleeping civilians and Korean Marines, even a couple of Americal patrols, but hardly any Viet Cong. (The colonel kept calling it ‘artillerary’. The first time he said it Flynn and I looked away from each other, the second time we blew beer through our noses, but the colonel fell in laughing right away and more than covered us.)
No sandbags, exposed shells, dirty pieces, guys going around giving us that look, ‘We’re cool, how come you’re not?’ At the strip Sean was talking to the operator about it and the man got angry. ‘Oh yeah? Well fuck you, how tight do you think you want it? There ain’t been any veecees around here in three months.’‘ So far so good, ’Sean said. ‘Hear anything on that chopper yet?’
But sometimes everything stopped, nothing flew, you couldn’t even find out why. I got stuck for a chopper once in some lost patrol outpost in the Delta where the sergeant chain-ate candy bars and played country and western tapes twenty hours a day until I heard it in my sleep, some sleep. ‘Up on Wolverton Mountain’ and ‘Lonesome as the bats and the bears in Miller’s Cave’ and ‘I fell into a burning ring of fire’, surrounded by strungout rednecks who weren’t getting much sleep either because they couldn’t trust one of their 400 mercenary troopers or their own hand-picked perimeter guards or anybody else except maybe Babe Ruth and Johnny Cash, they’d been waiting for it so long now they were afraid they wouldn’t know it when they finally got it, and it burns burns . . .
Finally on the fourth day a helicopter came in to deliver meat and movies to the camp and I went out on it, so happy to get back to Saigon that I didn’t crash for two days.
Airmobility, dig it, you weren’t going anywhere. It made you feel safe, it made you feel Omni, but it was only a stunt, technology. Mobility was just mobility, it saved lives or took them all the time (saved mine I don’t know how many times, maybe dozens, maybe none), what you really needed was a flexibility far greater than anything the technology could provide, some generous, spontaneous gift for accepting surprises, and I didn’t have it.
I got to hate surprises, control freak at the crossroads, if you were one of these people who always thought they had to know what was coming next, the war could cream you. It was the same with your ongoing attempts at getting used to the jungle or the blow-you-out climate or the saturating strangeness of the place which didn’t lessen with exposure so often as it fattened and darkened in accumulating alienation. It was great if you could adapt, you had to try, but it wasn’t the same as making a discipline, going into your own reserves and developing a real war metabolism: slow yourself down when your heart tried to punch its way through your chest; get swift when everything went to stop and all you could feel of your whole life was the entropy whipping through it. Unlovable terms.
The ground was always in play, always being swept. Under the ground was his, above it was ours. We had the air, we could get up in it but not disappear in to it, we could run but we couldn’t hide, and he could do each so well that sometimes it looked like he was doing them both at once, while our finder just went limp. All the same, one place or another it was always going on, rock around the clock, we had the days and he had the nights.
You could be in the most protected space in Vietnam and still know that your safety was provisional, that early death, blindness, loss of legs, arms or balls, major and lasting disfigurement –the whole rotten deal –could come in on the freakyfluky as easily as in the so-called expected ways, you heard so many of those stories it was a wonder anyone was left alive to die in firefights and mortar-rocket attacks.
After a few weeks, when the nickel had jarred loose and dropped and I saw that everyone around me was carrying a gun, I also saw that any of them could go off at any time, putting you where it wouldn’t matter whether it had been an accident or not. The roads were mined, the trails booby-trapped, satchel charges and grenades blew up jeeps and movie theatres, the VC got work inside all the camps as shoeshine boys and laundresses and honey-dippers, they’d starch your fatigues and burn your shit and then go home and mortar your area.
Saigon and Cholon and Danang held such hostile vibes that you felt you were being dry-sniped every time someone looked at you, and choppers fell out of the sky like fat poisoned birds a hundred times a day.
After a while I couldn’t get on one without thinking that I must be out of my fucking mind. Fear and motion, fear and standstill, no preferred cut there, no way even to be clear about which was really worse, the wait or the delivery.
Combat spared far more men than it wasted, but everyone suffered the time between contact, especially when they were going out every day looking for it; bad going on foot, terrible in trucks and APCs, awful in helicopters, the worst, travelling so fast towards something so frightening. I can remember times when I went half dead with my fear of the motion, the speed and direction already fixed and pointed one way. It was painful enough just flying ‘safe’ hops between firebases and lz’s; if you were ever on a helicopter that had been hit by ground fire your deep, perpetual chopper anxiety was guaranteed.
At least actual contact when it was happening would draw long raggedy strands of energy out of you, it was juicy, fast and refining, and travelling towards it was hollow, dry, cold and steady, it never let you alone. All you could do was look around at the other people on board and see if they were as scared and numbed out as you were. If it looked like they weren’t you thought they were insane, if it looked like they were it made you feel a lot worse.
I went through that thing a number of times and only got a fast return on my fear once, a too classic hot landing with the heat coming from the trees about 300 yards away, sweeping machine-gun fire that sent men head down into swampy water, running on their hands and knees towards the grass where it wasn’t blown flat by the rotor blades, not much to be running for but better than nothing. The helicopter pulled up before we’d all gotten out, leaving the last few men to jump twenty feet down between the guns across the paddy and the gun on the chopper door.
When we’d all reached the cover of the wall and the captain had made a check, we were amazed to see that no one had even been hurt, except for one man who’d sprained both his ankles jumping.
Afterwards, I remembered that I’d been down in the muck worrying about leeches. I guess you could say that I was refusing to accept the situation.
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Nursing, Vanderbilt University, School of Nursing, Nashville
Certifications and Special Training
National Certification Corporation, Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner
good experience. it is never fun to go to get a pap done. and they know this. so she was funny, friendly, and nice. the nurse was really friendly too. I appreciate them working with me (I am deaf) and making sure that I understood everything that was going on and further at home instructions, medication changes, and so forth.
very helpful and kind staff, and Kate was great.
Very nice experience.
This office is amazing! Everyone is so nice, always a great experience!
This was my first time to see Kate for my annual as Dr. semi retired. I was very pleased with her expertise in the field & familiarity with my records. Very impressive young woman!
Obstetrics & Gynecology
UK Good Samaritan Medical Office BuildingFax 859-323-0790125 E. Maxwell St.
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Lexington, KY 40508
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Levi’s, CoverGirl Experiment With New Store Concepts in Times Square
New York’s Times Square might be one of the most recognizable shopping intersections on the planet. So it’s little wonder why retailers often use the iconic locale to debut their latest shopping innovations.
“Times Square is a testbed globally for new products and new technologies and experiences,” said Jedd Nero, an executive managing director at the New York City office of brokerage firm Avison Young, where he leads the retail real estate division. “It is one of the few retail markets that consistently maintains a draw of visitors and always will.”
Those visitors are often treated to the new and different.
As an example, CoverGirl, a national makeup line familiar to pharmacy shelves, has dived into retail real estate with its first global store at 30 Times Square . A defining feature of the 10,000-square location is its embrace of augmented reality, a technology that mixes computer-generated images with what people experience in the real world. Across two floors of immersive space that bring to mind a backstage Broadway show or a movie set, visitors can play with makeup styles digitally through the use of the technology. | <urn:uuid:7517cbf6-92f2-487e-bfc7-99117f4a19c3> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://whartonproperties.net/wharton-property-advisors/discovering-a-retail-testbed-in-the-city-that-never-sleeps/ | 2019-07-23T22:48:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.929758 | 247 |
Floor Eight, Studio Cafe
Friend, Patron, Circle, Fellow, Sponsor, and Contemporaries members
Enjoy a casual, members-only evening hosted in Studio Cafe, the Whitney’s indoor/outdoor rooftop restaurant from Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. Each evening features a thematic menu of beverages and shareable small plates, specially selected by the culinary and beverage team at Untitled and Studio Cafe, led by Executive Chef Suzanne Cupps and Wine Director Michaël Engelmann MS. All menu items are available for purchase.
Special performance by Ensō Tangensè, an experimental and improvisational performance ensemble founded in 2015 by collaborators Alexander Steinberg, Nicholas Lenchner, and Dylan Shumaker. Initial inspiration arose from the Zen calligraphy tradition of drawing Enso, wherein the artist practices a “way of Zen through the brush" by quieting the mind and creating with the body. Ensō Tangensè performances welcome both performer and listener to unwind the mind and attune to the body’s natural inclinations to intuit, create and follow tangents of the unencumbered mind.
Calder: Hypermobility will be open during the event. All other exhibitions will be closed.
This event has reached capacity. Reservations for dinner at Untitled can be made online.
MENU: GREAT AMERICAN WINES
Paumanok, Blanc de Blancs, North Fork of Long Island 2012, $18
Riesling, Keuka Lake, Estate, Finger Lakes 2014, $12
Chardonnay, Hanzell, Sebella, Sonoma 2014, $18
Gramercy Cellars, Olsen Vineyard, Washington 2016, $15
Syrah, Piedrasassi, PS, Central Coast, California 2014, $12
Pinot Noir, J.K. Carriere, Provocateur, Willamette Valley 2014, $16
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What is Backflow Prevention? How to Tell If You Need It for Your Woodbridge Home.
Water is a crucial component in making your home welcoming, livable, and functional. If it ends up in the wrong places, though, those benefits turn into hazards and damage that can impact the structure, safety, and state of your home. Backflow is a common problem that occurs when water begins to travel in the opposite direction of its intended path through your plumbing. The results can impact the safety of drinking water and the efficiency of household tasks. From flushing the toilet to filling the pool, backflow is an avoidable problem that can be prevented with assistance from an experienced Woodbridge plumber.
Learn more about backflow and how prevention can keep your water clean:
- Common causes of backflow. Backflow usually occurs when there is a differential in water pressure and often happens at cross connections. The result is an unclean, used, or treated water source being drawn back into the water supply, impacting potable water and leading to damage.
- Common places where backflow happens. Cross connections in your plumbing and water system are vulnerable to experiencing backflow because of the multi-directional areas and different requirements for water pressure. The kitchen, including the dishwasher and major appliances, toilets, showers, whirlpool baths, faucets inside and outside the home, swimming pools, ponds, sprinkler systems, and hoses are all typical spots where backflow can occur.
- Risks associated with backflow. The biggest negative outcome that happens when backflow occurs is contaminated drinking water. Vapors, odours, chemicals, and other hazardous materials can be drawn back into your water supply and get circulated throughout your plumbing system. This can cause sickness and other health problems, especially if it is left unattended. If you have a backflow problem, get assistance from plumbers in Woodbridge as soon as possible.
- Best ways to prevent backflow. Different solutions are available that can address water pressure and limit backflow at connection points in your plumbing system. They are not all inexpensive, but the investment pays off in peace of mind that you will not require extensive plumbing services in Woodbridge to address bacteria, chemical, or otherwise contaminated water from backflow. House bib vacuum breakers can be used on faucets and hoses, while dual check valve assemblies can be installed to eliminate back-siphoning and back-pressure throughout your plumbing system.
Get backflow prevention installed in your home’s plumbing in Woodbridge from Aaron & Son Plumbing & Drain Services. Find our location near you and get answers to your questions about backflow and plumbing by contacting us online. | <urn:uuid:b75dc37c-1343-46fc-86ed-ebc0aab98bba> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.aaronsplumbing.ca/b/what-is-backflow-prevention-how-to-tell-if-you-need-it-for-your-woodbridge-home | 2019-07-23T22:04:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.935148 | 551 |
Tuesday is Free Cone Day at Dairy Queen
Tuesday is Dairy Queen's annual Free Cone Day fundraiser to help Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
Donations will be collected at DQ locations.
All donations will stay in the communities in which they were raised.
Last year, a total of $140,000 was raised during Free Cone Day.
Customers can get a free small vanilla soft-serve cone at participating Dairy Queen locations.
You can find a full list of participating locations by going to Dairy Queen’s website. | <urn:uuid:5c76ea47-de19-49ea-a58d-06a420abdfd8> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.abc57.com/news/tuesday-is-free-cone-day-at-dairy-queen | 2019-07-23T22:31:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.949189 | 114 |
When Jorge Posada finally decides to call it a career, many will argue that he deserves a spot in the Hall of Fame. But right now, many are wondering if he even deserves a spot on a big league roster.
Among players that have at least 100 plate appearances this season, Posada's .165 batting average is the worst in baseball. He does have six home runs. But unfortunately for him, he only has 12 other hits all year.
Posada is now a 39-year old catcher-turned-designated hitter making $13.1 million in the final year of his four-year, $52.4 million contract. And with such a sharp decline in production, it is worth wondering if we are witnessing an ugly end to a great career.
To try and answer the question, let's compare Posada's career production levels to a few other modern-day catchers with similar offensive numbers. We will use Weighted On Base Average (wOBA), a stat similar to OPS that looks at the overall offensive production of a player. One nice thing about wOBA is that it is on the same scale as On Base Percentage (OBP), so it is easier to recognize how well a player is doing (.335 is average).
All four of these catchers were excellent hitters in their own right. When we compare their wOBA by age, we see an interesting pattern develop late in their careers.
In each case, we see production jump back up a tad at age 37 before a very steep decline at ages 38 and 39. For Mike Piazza and Lance Parrish, the decline marked the end of their careers. But in the case of Carlton Fisk, we see him fight through the decline to put up several more productive seasons past age 38.
So far, Posada's career mirrors these other great hitting catchers. But if you are a fan of Jorgie, you better hope he can find a similar late-career surge that Fisk experienced.
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1 Westmoreland Street Kawana QLD 4701
- Hotel / Leisure
- 400 m²
- For Sale, Expression of Interest
Rare offering with BIG opportunity
A rare opportunity for buyers, offering the possibility for a home for the largest of families or prospect for an astute investor.
Subject to council approval, it presents the possibility for an investor offering share housing, a business seeking employee accommodation or potential for redevelopment into multiple dwellings.
Low Maintenance brick home equipped with air conditioning, dishwasher & ample storage space
Ideal for the largest of families with the communal & special open plan kitchen, private courtyard & entertaining area
Secured on a 1,110m2 fenced allotment
Only a short walk from major shopping centres and minutes from the Central Queensland University, Primary and Secondary Schools
Close to public transport
This property is being sold without a price and therefore a price guide cannot be provided. The website may have filtered the property into a price bracket for website functionality purposes.
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- Instant Download: No Waiting!
Every so often in Hip-hop a new comer comes along and alters the game. In this case, Mark Hall's "Anti-them" will do just that. This mixtape is Nothing short of a Classic!!! From the theatrical "Intro" to the controversial " Ruffle Feathers" on down to the classic verses over some of hip-hop's most legendary tracks (see 400 Degrees and Renegade). This mixtape is very refreshing considering the lack of substance in today's climate. Mark Hall has a voice that commands attention and is backed by production from the most talented new comers @Bassnpurp, Razor Ross and Mark Hall himself. This will definitely be one of the most exciting mixtapes of the summer and many years to come. The Game will never be the same...Dont say we didn't warn you! #AntiThem | <urn:uuid:1d1d78bc-1063-48c5-9fb5-581ecce0e1c9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.datpiff.com/Mark-Hall-Anti-them-mixtape.605474.html | 2019-07-23T22:45:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.940447 | 186 |
According to the Statistics on the Swiss Abroad compiled by the Federal Statistical Office, in 2018 around 760,200 Swiss citizens were registered with Swiss representations abroad. The Swiss community abroad has grown in recent years. If it were a canton it would be Switzerland's fourth largest in terms of population.
Swiss nationals living abroad
Alongside various Swiss associations abroad, the OSA promotes relations among Swiss nationals and between the latter and their home country. It represents their interests in Switzerland, publishes the periodical «Swiss Review» and provides a broad range of services (e.g. youth exchange programmes, emergency assistance fund).
Organisation of the Swiss Abroad
CSA Oceania is part of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad (OSA). The CSA Oceania consists of a team of six elected council members. Together they work on behalf of the Swiss Abroad in Oceania and defend their interests. | <urn:uuid:341bb064-5d01-4b85-a827-369aa4753b42> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/new-zealand/en/home/living-in/swiss-nationals-living-abroad.html | 2019-07-23T23:01:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.965171 | 189 |
CINCINNATI - Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that function much like natural human tissues when transplanted into mice, according to research published June 22 in Cell Stem Cell.
The study is believed to be the first time human colon organoids have been successfully tissue engineered in this manner, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center who led the project.
The technology allows diseases of the colon to be studied in unprecedented detail in a human modeling system. It also comes with the potential to one day generate human gastrointestinal (GI) tract tissues for transplant into patients, according to James Wells, PhD, senior study investigator and director of the Cincinnati Children's Pluripotent Stem Cell Center.
"Diseases affecting this region of the GI tract are quite prevalent and include ailments like colitis, colon cancer, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Hirschsprung's disease and polyposis syndromes," Wells said. "We've been limited in how we can study these diseases, including the fact that animal models like mice don't precisely recreate human disease processes in the gastrointestinal tract. This system allows us to very effectively model human diseases and human development."
Building the GI Tract
In a series of studies published since 2009, researchers in Wells' laboratory used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow embryonic-stage small intestines with a functioning nervous system, and the antrum and fundus regions of the human stomach.
The researchers - including Jorge Munera, PhD, first author and postdoctoral fellow in the Wells laboratory - note in their current paper the colon has been more difficult to generate than other parts of the GI tract.
Part of the challenge to identifying the correct genetic and molecular programming to coax hPSCs in to colonic organoids has been a lack of data about embryonic development of the organ, according to the authors. They addressed this by conducting a series of molecular and genetic screens of developing hindgut tissues in animal models. The hindgut is the portion of the developing gut that gives rise to the entire large intestine - which includes the cecum, colon and rectum.
They also mined public databases (GNCPro, TiGER, Human Protein Atlas) to identify molecular markers of the hindgut in the adult colon.
Frogs and Mice at Forefront
To develop a model for generating the human colon, scientists first identified SATB2 (special AT-rich sequence-binding protein 2) as a definitive molecular marker for hindgut in frogs, mice and in humans.
SATB2 is a DNA-binding protein that facilitates structural organization of chromosomes in the nucleus of cells.
The protein sequence of SATB2 is remarkably similar between frogs, mice and humans. This led the authors to the hypothesis that molecular signals regulating SATB2 in frogs and mice could be used to make human colon organoids that express the protein.
The authors also noticed that signaling from the growth factor BMP (bone morphogenetic protein) was highly active in the SATB2-expressing region of the gut tube. The researchers learned during their analysis of frog, mouse and human stem-cell derived intestine that signaling by BMP is needed to establish SATB2 in the developing hindgut. With SABT2 as a marker, the researchers show BMP signaling is required for development of tissues specific to the posterior gut region of frogs and mice where the colon develops.
When BMP protein was added for three days in human pluripotent stem cell-derived gut tube cultures, it induced a posterior HOX code. HOX includes a critical set of genes that help control the embryo's development plan from head to toe. Researchers report the posterior HOX helps control the formation of SATB2-expressing human colon organoids.
Testing Translational Potential
To see how human GI tissues perform in a living organism - and to test their future therapeutic potential - the research team included collaborators from the Division of Surgery, led by Michael Helmrath, MD, a pediatric surgeon and director of the Surgical Research program.
The tissue-engineered colonic organoids were transplanted into the kidney capsules of immunocompromised mice for six to 10 weeks. During observation and analysis of the now in vivo organoids, study authors looked for signs of posterior region enteroendocrine cells, which make hormones found in naturally developed human colon.
Researchers report that following transplant, the human colonic organoids assumed the form, different structures and molecular and cell properties of the human colon.
Munera, study first author, pointed to a number of new ways that human colon organoids could be used study disease.
"By exposing human colonic organoids to inflammatory triggers, we can now learn how the cell lining of the colon and the supporting cells beneath cooperate to respond to inflammation," Munera said. "This could be very relevant for patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. And because the microbiome, the organisms that live in our guts, are most concentrated in the colon, the organoids potentially could be used to model the human microbiome in health and disease."
Like other parts of the GI tract grown by the researchers, the human colon organoids also create a potential new platform for testing new drugs before the start of clinical trials. Most oral drugs are absorbed by the body through the gut.
Funding support for the research came in part from National Institutes of Health grants: R01DK092456, U19 AI116491, U18EB021780, R01DK102551, U01DK103117, NIDDK070858 and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
A multimedia slideshow about the research can be found under private view on YouTube at this link, subject to the same media embargo as stated above. | <urn:uuid:39995383-6630-4532-bb9d-1e1d2b30e3d0> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/cchm-lgh061917.php | 2019-07-23T23:20:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.920223 | 1,219 |
Read and writing values
In most case, interacting with the Registry is simply reading and writing values. Reading from the Registry is done
with the RegistryValue function and writing to the registry is done with the WriteRegistry command.
Let us look at writing to the Registry first:
This example is from the General how to examples page
, where the
information about the user is set in the Registry for Microsoft Office 2007/2010. If this was put
in a logon script, it wouldn't matter if the user edited the initials or full name in Microsoft Office,
because it will simply be set at every logon. Often the information is wrong to begin with and if
information is changed in the Active Directory, this will automatically be enforced in Microsoft Office.
You may have noticed that the hive name in the example was HKCU. Generally speaking, FastTrack supports
abbreviated hive names, which is a proprietary naming. It is up to you, if you prefer HKCU over HKEY_CURRENT_USER
and HKLM over HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and so forth. All examples on this website use the abbreviated versions, because
it is the opinion of FastTrack Software that full names have no value in itself and thus just takes up space.
Reading values from the Registry is just as easy as writing values using the RegistryValue function.
The script below is an advanced script from the SmartDock
the custom value named "LastBackup" is kept in the Registry to store when the last SyncDir backup
was performed. Note how in the second line, it is checked that the Registry key that holds the value exists,
because if it does not, the SyncDir backup has never run.
If Portable And Alive AcmeProxy Then
If Not RegistryKeyExists HKCU\Software\Acme
If Ask "You never backed up your
documents.[Return][Return]Would you like to do this now?","Backup
Notice","Harddrive" Then DoBackup
If [RegistryValue HKCU\Software\Acme
Corporation\LastBackup]<[SubtractDays 3] Then
If Ask "You
have not backed up your documents for over 2 days.[Return][Return]Would
you like to do this now?",_
Notice","Harddrive" Then DoBackup
32-bit and 64-bit
One of the major pain points to most scripters is the fact that writing to the 32-bit and
64-bit Registry on a 64-bit machine are completely different. If you install a 32-bit
application on a 64-bit machine, it is not stored in the "normal" 64-bit registry, but in
a separate hive and emulated for 32-bit applications. This means that you would normally need two
different scripts, one for running on 32-bit and one for 64-bit. FastTrack
handles this differently. All Registry and Path functionality have two versions.
One that is postfixed with "x86" and one that is not. What is great about that is that on
a 32-bit machine, the x86 version behaves the same as the one without
the x86 postfix, but on a 64-bit machine, they behave differently. And the reason why this is
great is that you never need two versions of your scripts.
Said in another way, if you need to extract a Registry value of an application that is always 32-bit
(meaning installed in the x86 version of Program Files on 64-bit),
you can just use the RegistryValuex86 function and you can ignore the fact that your script may run on a 32-bit
or 64-bit machine. This same logic applies to path functions, as shown here
Microsoft Office does exist in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. If you install the version
that matches the operating system bits, the example further up will work on all operating system versions.
If you for some reason always install a 32-bit version on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines,
the modified script below will work for the 32-bit version, regardless of the operating
If you need to import a .reg file that was exported with regedit.exe, you can use the ImportRegFile command to do so.
For other Registry functionality, please look under "Registry" in the Script Editor's Engine Browser,
where you will find functionality for all other operations
like creating keys, deleting keys and values and looping through keys and values. | <urn:uuid:b43928ae-c934-4233-bf28-832da548bb83> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.fasttrackscript.com/Registry | 2019-07-23T23:48:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.852624 | 955 |
If you've been a citizen of the internet during the last three years and/or you're a fan of wholesome stuff, you've probably heard about everyone involved in this story—though you may not know their names.
Three years ago a woman sent a text to a number she thought belonged to her grandson. Grandma Wanda wanted to confirm Thanksgiving plans, but ended up sending the text to a wrong number.
On the other end of the texts sat a very confused (but hungry) 17-year-old named Jamal Hinton.
Jamal asked who it was, to which Grandma Wanda replied: "your grandmother." Jamal knew something wasn't right so he asked for a selfie for confirmation.
He got Grandma Wanda's selfie and responded with one of his own. Yeah... it was definitely a wrong number situation.
The two both thought it was hilarious and Wanda jokingly invited Jamal to join them for Thanksgiving anyway. The screenshots made their way to the internet and the pair had dinner together for real.
They were expecting to get a funny little story out of the situation, but what ended up happening was even better. Their families ended up absolutely adoring one another.
What started as an internet joke turned into a legitimately close friendship. They have dinner together every few months and have kept their Thanksgiving tradition alive.
This was their third year together!
Jamal shared photos from each year on Twitter.
And yes, they plan on doing it again next year because that's just what family does. And they have decided that's what they are: one big family.
Next year, though, Jamal and his girlfriend Mikaela are hopeful that they may have their own place and maybe they can host dinner instead of Wanda.
Twitter is so in love with this story of random loving friendship.
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