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Part II – Opening scene picks up right where the last episode left off. Very cool opening with the sound, gets the blood pumping right away.
Ahsoka is surrounded. Darth Maul starts in on how he’s never heard of Ahsoka and that he is super disappointed that Obi Wan and Anakin didn’t show up. He seems to understand. He has apparently had some sort of vision that has made it more clear what Darth Sidious is actually up to.
His point of view is interesting, because you can tell he thinks Darth Sidious is super powerful and that he fears him. He also sees an opportunity to maybe take Anakin from him, through murder or other means. So, it’s like he wants to mess with him, but he knows he really doesn’t stand a chance against him.
Darth Maul and Ahsoka fight for a brief moment, but Darth Maul gets away and Ahsoka and some clones make chase. Ahsoka loses him. Next scene gets you back at command on Mandalore, Bo Katan is there as well as Rex and Obi Wan by hologram. Ahsoka mentions that Darth Maul said something about Darth Sidious. Obi Wan tells everyone that Darth Sidious is the Sith that has orchestrated this whole deal with the Clone Wars and that he has played both sides since the beginning.
Obi Wan says that he first heard the name Darth Siddious from Count Dooku (when Obi Wan was captured in Attack of the Clones, Episode II) but that would no longer would help since Anakin just killed Dooku (Which happened in Revenge of the Sith – Episode III).
Obi Wan asks to speak with Ahsoka alone for a moment and tells Ahsoka of Anakin’s special assignment of keeping an eye on the Chancellor, so you are seeing more events play out from Episode III. Obi Wan asks Ahsoka to speak with Anakin because he can tell things have gone off the rails. Ahsoka is basically like “How am I supposed to speak with him on the council’s behalf. It’s not even possible”… There is an odd exchange right at the end. “Ahsoka says tell Anakin…” and Obi Wan says, “I will” and Ahsoka shoots him a side eye. I assume foreshadowing here.
Ahsoka gets back to the battle. They come upon a group of clones who had been ambushed. Ahsoka finds out Maul took Jesse, one of the older arch troopers to get info on Ahsoka, or in general, to draw her out.
Darth Maul threatens Jesse a bit. He lets on a little more about knowing the plan that is happening. Everyone else is just hearing about it from him, so they are like what the f…
Darth Maul does some force stuff pulling the info he needs from Jesse. The Mandalorians that are there are kind of grossed out by it, but whatever.
Rex, Ahsoka and Bo Katan go to the one Leader of Mandalore’s cell where he is in holding and ask what Maul’s plan is. The one red Mandalorian totally shoots him. They make chase. He tells Ahsoka about Maul’s vision, and how it is Skywalker that he is after.
Bo Katan and the one red Mandalorian have a pretty good fight but he gets away. When he gets back he sees Darth Maul telling some Syndicate leaders to go into hiding because of what is about to go down.
Darth Maul takes this opportunity to say the galaxy is about to change and that we must grab what we can as the chaos ensues. He is using this as a rallying cry.
Bo and Rex and Ahsoka walk into their throne room and Darth Maul is there. Bo takes a few shots at him, but nothing phases him. The battle starts outside, Bo and Rex head out and the battle is chaos.
Darth Maul takes his stab here and attempts to get Ahsoka to join him to defeat Darth Sidious. She seems to play into it for a minute but him and Ahsoka are soon at each other’s throats. It is interesting to see Darth Maul does see the whole thing playing out. He tells Ahsoka that the Republic has already fallen, you just don’t see it yet.
Maul also tells Ahsoka that Anakin is Sidious’s new apprentice. She thinks it’s a lie, but Maul already knows Anakin is his.
Darth Maul says he orchestrated this whole thing just to get Anakin and Obi Wan here so that he could kill Anakin and deprive Sidious of his new pupil. Ahsoka definitely doesn’t believe any of this. She believes in Anakin. This is where their fight begins.
The fighting and the action here flipping back and forth between Ahsoka and Darth Maul and the Mandalorians fighting outside. Ahsoka ends up kicking Maul out of a window in a very cool way.
These scenes fight what I love about the Star Wars universe. There is a battle going on all around them and Ahsoka is chasing down Maul right through it all. It’s so awesome. The tide really starts to turn and the red Mandalorians call Maul for back-up and his response is epic. He’s like, no, I’m good. Die well Mandalorian.
Then, Ahsoka vs Maul in the rafters. Seriously epic lightsaber battle. Maul tries to run for his ship.
Ahsoka looses her lightsabers. She does this spin move on Darth Maul, takes his light saber and catches him with the force while he was falling. The clones and the Mandalorians tie Maul up.
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Here’s continuing my DK Old School Series. In the last post about Okro Peppersoup (recipe HERE), I reminded you guys that at the beginning of the year, I asked for anyone with old classic recipes to send them my way. I am using this post to remind you guys again. Dishes your mum taught you, your grandma, your Aunties, share with me and I will try it. Hopefully not 3 months after. This was provided to me by Tega Ojabo, all the way from New Zealand. Can you Imagine? New Zealand!!! This is an excerpt from her email, again this was sent in January. Thanks Tega
Just asking though…have you heard of “egun bobo”? Well, I don’t know the literal English translation of this but I know it’s an itsekiri (a tribe in Delta State) food. It’s made by preparing starch (with palm oil as usual), then boiling over ripe plantain a bit, take out the black seeds from the middle of the plantain then combining the starch and slightly boiled plantain in a mortar…using a pestle..lol..Well, I guess a food processor can be used as well..dunno.This delicacy is a bit sugary, very yummy and goes too well with banga or owho soup..that’s if one doesn’t eat up the egun bobo by itself anyway..lolIt’s a delicacy dad made us love..simply delicious!!!
#thedooneyskitchenexperience #bespokeorder. I even make Starch too. The real one not Farina. I wanted to remind myself that I can still do this manually. To be wrapped and packed with Okro Peppersoup. I loooove out of the box requests. The kind you rub your hands with glee and say thank you to your Grandma, who made you learn. You know if you want this Starch and Banga or Okro peppersoup or Ogwoh soup and you live in and around London or Essex, send me an email [email protected] If you are a #DeltaPikin, come and mark register. Present Ma
I knew I wasn’t going to be pounding nada in a mortar, and with the thought of something going wrong, I wondered if the plantains could be cooked with the starch from scratch rather than added later. I am aware of the Boiled plantain and Eba version. It is a dish shared by Deltans and Igbos alike. At least our Igbo neighbour used to cook it. Eba is made separately, and then pounded with boiled plantain. Anyways, this is Starch. Google doesn’t disappoint sometimes and thanks to Sarah of Sapele Honey, I was relieved to see that my thoughts on how to cook both from scratch was a possibility. So here goes
- ½ cup Starch - you can use Tapioca starch or Farina
- 1 teaspoon Palm Oil
- 1 Slightly overripe plantain
- ½ - ¾ cup of water
- Boil the plantains till soft, peel the skin off and blend or puree in a food processor until smooth.
- Dissolve starch in water, transfer to a pan and add a little palm oil
- Add the pureed boiled plantain to the starch in the pan
- Stir continuously on medium heat, until the starch starts to thicken. The day before, as the first video in this post shows, I did this very well manually, even though I have successfully done this using a hand mixer. When things were beginning to go awry, and my starch is too precious to waste by developing lumps, I poured straight into a bot, whipped out the hand mixer, and it was fine. Smooth, no lumps, just perfect
- This picture was taken while it was still cooking. It firmed up in the end, to the consistency of starch, but slightly softer, because of the plantains. See the Instagram video below
Still feeling the #DeltaPikin vibes. Yesterday was Starch for a meal pick up service, today it is Starch and overripe Plantain for me. The Urhobo's call it Eguoo. I started it in a pan and when things wanted to get out of hand, I poured it into a pot and got out the hand mixer, straight. You can also use a hand mixer to make Fufu and Amala. I have a video on this page and also on the blog. No lumps, stress free. Loving this Kitchen Aid already. #theNewNigerianCookery. #UrhoboandItsekiriPikins come and mark register. Wa do o
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Sending wheelchairs to Katrina refugees
Nearly 100 wheelchairs filled a warehouse-sized building in a Silverdale-based company early this week. The freshly refurbished chairs awaited a truck to load them up and wheel them down to Houston, Texas for Katrina victims. But Hurricane Rita put the breaks on the project.
Two local moving companies, that volunteered to ship the wheelchairs, are on standby.
If theres an immediate need we can cover it in a heartbeat, said Lisa Murphy, vice president of The Mobility Project.
In preparation Monday, a warehouse that normally would be the welding shop of Holmes Mechanical Industrial Construction was full of wheelchairs and spare parts. Jeff Murphy, Lisas husband and also of The Mobility Project, gave a tutorial there to a handful of volunteers in the early afternoon.
The mobility project, an 8-year-old Bremerton-based non-profit organization, distributes wheelchairs in impoverished areas abroad.
Its almost impossible to live in the United States and not get a wheelchair (when you need one), Jeff explained to the six volunteers. In a foreign country there aint just no way. Thats why we started distributing wheelchairs in third world countries.
When Katrina hit, he added, the electrical parts of many power wheelchairs were damaged beyond repair, rendering them useless.
A power wheelchair can cost between $15,000 and $20,000, Lisa said.
And while insurance will usually cover the cost of a replacement wheelchair, the paperwork trail can stretch on for a long time.
We just want to address the immediacy and the need, Lisa said.
And that is why The Mobility Project is sending the truck-full of chairs as well as 12 local volunteers, including four staff members, to Houston.
We dont need translators (this time) and thats great, Jeff said. Were just thrilled to be able to do this.
And while in some ways this trip will be easier, in others, it proved rather challenging.
Lisa, who stayed in the office while Jeff coordinated volunteers working on the refurbishment, tackled red tape and touched base with several organizations in Houston, including the Bar Association there which houses some 10,000 hurricane refugees and was the first to put the call out for wheelchairs.
A Texas church is setting up distribution centers and securing lodging for the volunteers. Jeff said the team will utilize the set up.
When you start unloading the truck it gets really, really confusing, he said. We are real particular about how we do it and dignity is a real big thing.
Innerfaith Ministries of Houston has offered to store the wheelchairs and take over the distribution should the process prove too slow and The Mobility Project-organized volunteers need to return to the Pacific Northwest.
The Murphys are not sure what to expect when they get to Houston. The hurricane season, still in full swirl, may still derail the wheelchair project.
(They say) if you want to make God laugh, make a plan, but at least were ready, said Jeff, gazing at the warehouse of wheelchairs which local volunteers refurbished last weekend. The Mobility Project usually sends the donated wheelchairs to another non-profit organization that does the refurbishment. There was no time to do that on this short notice.
It would have taken two trained people with power tools two weeks to get as many chairs repaired, said Jeff who co-owns Sound Mobility, a local wheelchair business.
Probably every bit of this came from Seattle and Kitsap, he said, referring to the chairs, a handful of oxygen tanks and a few piles of canes, walkers and crutches gathered from nursing homes and rehabilitation centers in the county and greater Puget Sound area.
Several plastic bags full of clothes are labeled with womens or mens or boys or girls signs. Those are going on the truck to Houston as well, presorted for more efficient distribution once on site.
Joni Smiths daughters Emily, 13, and Sarah, 9, had worked on separating the donated clothes during the weekend. The girls, who are home-schooled, were at the warehouses again Monday, helping assemble wheelchairs, while other local students were still in class. Joni said the project had warranted shifting their school schedules around.
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Mobile browser usage is increasing every day. According to StatCounter, phone and tablet usage accounts for about 30% of web traffic. This means that consumer expectations for mobile websites are higher than ever. Even with smart techniques like mobile-first responsive design, testing a site before delivery is critical due to the overwhelming variety of mobile devices that are available to consumers.
There are many different ways to test websites on mobile devices, but they are not all created equal. Here are five different methods to test a mobile site, ordered from the most ideal to the least favorable.
1. Test on Real Mobile Devices
It’s always best to test a website on real devices, because there are many parts of the experience that simply can’t be emulated or faked. The user experience contains many factors like variable network conditions, pixel densities, the relative size of tap targets, and real page load times. In a perfect world, every website would be tested on every mobile device that it might be viewed on.
Of course, comprehensive testing is not practical, because time and money are always a factor on any project. However, it’s still a smart idea to invest in a mobile device test suite. If you’re running a client business that’s any larger than just you, this is essential. A mobile device test suite typically consists of a few of the most popular web browsing devices. This enables physical testing under real-world conditions and allows near 1-to-1 parity with what a user will actually experience. Brad Frost wrote an excellent article about which mobile devices to test (the article is a few years old now, but the general principles should remain the same).
If a mobile device test suite is out of your budget, the next best thing is to use your own smartphone and mobile devices. Most likely, you’re using an iOS or Android phone, which will at least give you some idea of what a large portion of the population will see. If you have some friends or family members that are using other mobile platforms, then you can probably quickly check it out on their devices, too (ask nicely).
2. Use the iOS Simulator and Android Emulator
There’s no substitute for the physical hardware, but software emulators are still pretty decent. The emulators for iOS and Android are mostly designed for testing native apps, but they also include the default web browsers for each device which will show you a very good approximation of how pages will be rendered. I say approximation because they still won’t show real network conditions, page load times, the relative size of tap targets, and other details that can be gleaned from physical devices. However, the rendering engines will still be functionally equivalent which can help you spot cross-browser issues.
The iOS simulator is a tool available within Xcode. First, install Xcode from the Mac App Store. Then, go to the Xcode menu and select Xcode > Open Developer Tool > iOS Simulator. Unfortunately Xcode is Mac only, so if you’re on Windows or Linux, you’ll have to test with another method.
The Android emulator is included with the Android SDK. You can read more about the Android emulator here.
3. Test on BrowserStack
If you can’t get your hands on a device testing suite and installing the iOS and Android software emulators doesn’t work out, there are still more options. BrowserStack is a web service that provides access to desktop and mobile devices so that web professionals can test their sites.
It is a paid service, so for completeness, I should mention that this is not a paid endorsement. However, I have spotted a few free screenshot services over the years, and as the idiom goes, you get what you pay for. BrowserStack is more than just screenshots, because they also make it possible to interact directly with web pages on test devices. Even if you do have a device testing suite, BrowserStack is still pretty great to fill in any holes that you might have missed.
4. Check using Responsinator
You should always strive for testing on real devices or at least an accurate simulation of those devices. However, if for some reason that’s not possible, the solutions start to open up quite a lot, because it basically just involves resizing a desktop web browser. There are many fancy tools that will do this, but one of the most straightforward tools in this category is Responsinator.
Simply visit the Responsinator website, type in your own URL at the top of the page, and it will generate live previews for you that are resized to the same resolutions as many popular devices. This can be helpful for a quick “sanity check”, but remember that this is not a substitute for real device testing or even using a simulator, because it’s using the same rendering engine as your browser. In other words, it doesn’t magically render sites using mobile browser rendering engines. Rather, it’s just the same as resizing your browser to a specific size.
5. Resize the Browser
While developing a site, it’s very common for designers and developers to quickly check responsive behavior by resizing a desktop browser. This works perfectly fine while coding and should be encouraged. However, it’s the most basic form of testing and really shouldn’t be called “testing” at all. While it can be helpful for quick checks when making responsive code changes, it doesn’t even begin to compare to all the other testing methods. The browser sizes are arbitrary, the rendering engines are different, there’s no network delay, and so on. There’s too many differences for this to be substituted for real-world rigor.
How do you test?
This is not a comprehensive list. While this covers most of the major categories of mobile website testing, there are still a few in-between that I may have missed, and certainly a huge number of responsive testing tools that were not mentioned. If you have a unique way of testing mobile sites or you test in a way that’s not mentioned, I’d love to hear about it in the comments! | <urn:uuid:e06aa23e-0502-4f1d-b206-5e98c2acc03c> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to-test-a-mobile-website | 2021-09-25T17:01:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057687.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925142524-20210925172524-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.937227 | 1,278 |
The little tent pitched on the lawn at Encanto Park is quickly filling up with noisy children who have dragged their parents to yet another circus. It's getting crowded and hot, but the kids seem only to notice that the Center Ring is so close they can almost touch it. The predictable canned circus music is blaring from the back of a truck poking into the tent. Inside the ring, a motherly-looking woman in denim coveralls and remarkably heavy make-up is giving pony rides for a buck apiece. Suddenly, she and ponies disappear. Inexplicably, the orchestra swings into a bluesy version of "Kansas City." The Ringmaster bounds in, dressed in a red cutaway embroidered with red-sequin stars. He booms a welcome for "Miss Heidi Wendany and her Hollywood Doggy Revuuuuue!"
Miss Heidi--my God, the pony woman--prances into the ring and no matter how many circuses you've been dragged to, you're not quite ready for this. Her Rubenesque form is now encased in a startling, shiny red stretch jumpsuit. She's wearing see-through plastic spike heels. The lights bounce off her matching rhinestone choker and ankle bracelet. Her Hollywood Doggies burst into the ring and it takes but a moment to recognize they're a half-dozen mutts she's rescued from the dog pound.
But today they're having their fifteen minutes of fame as Miss Heidi snappily presents each hound executing improbable canine stunts. This one rolls a barrel with his front paws; that one climbs a ladder using all fours; the smallest balances between two ladders. Her panting devotees run dizzily between props garnished with gaily colored feathers. All the while Miss Heidi vamps like the star of an Andy Warhol movie.
Finally she retakes center stage and opens her arms triumphantly as the last pooch completes its trick more or less successfully and rejoins its distracted companions in more or less a straight line. The audience roars back in delight.
Those old enough to recognize high camp are helpless with laughter. But the considerable number of children who dominate this audience sees it for exactly what it is--good old-fashioned entertainment. For them it matters not that the "orchestra" is a pair of retired nightclub musicians enjoying a second childhood or that the props are decorated with common household feather dusters.
It is opening week of the 1990 tour of the combined Culpepper & Merriweather Circus, Arizona's very own real live (not to mention "Magnificent, Moral and Stupendous") circus, ladeez and gentlemen.
RINGMASTER Robert "Red" Johnson grew up loving old-fashioned tent circuses long before life swept him into the direct path of one. And when the opportunity finally came to start his own six years ago, he vowed to create a circus connected to its sawdust-and-canvas roots--something he says the huge, Las Vegas-influenced shows lost the moment they moved indoors.
So if the first few shows of this year's tour seemed just a leetle loose, the stagehands so clumsy they seemed to be wearing shoes one size too big, no matter. The tour sailed majestically forward, buoyed by the enthusiasm of fans who are young enough to understand what's important here: Plenty of animal acts, stars who are friendly to persons shorter than themselves, and the freedom to scoot forward on their bellies until their noses nearly touch the ring--these are the true measures of circus greatness.
And judging from the reception among young fans, this year seems destined to vindicate Robert Johnson's faith. "Mom, can we go again?" "I want to meet Miss Heidi and her dogs." "Geez, the best part was . . . "
As for adults, welllll, the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus isn't P.T. Barnum's idea of the Greatest Show on Earth. But it could well be the funniest. Only part of its comic appeal is intentional and you're never sure if they know the difference. Did they really not notice that the blue-velvet noose used by the aerialist would be perversely humorous to anyone who's seen the twisted cult movie Blue Velvet? Was it just thriftiness that prompted them to try disguising a collapsible laundry hamper, embellished with metallic letters, as a stage prop? But the most delicious moments come when fate's devilish hand tugs a feather loose here or a string there to confound the best-laid plans. Whether by design or accident, the undercurrent throughout the show is hilarious camp. It's almost as if the crew of a tramp steamer woke up one morning and decided to run away and join the circus or, failing that, had started its own. And then hired Warhol with his peculiar perspective on American culture to be artistic director.
The Culpepper & Merriweather Circus, in short, is the perfect prescription for a city stewing in recessionary gloom.
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So. Microcasting. Taste tribes. What's next?
I know a lot of people who give away their material free, in the hope that the people who like it will buy it as a data object, like a CD. This can work very well, of course -- if you've got a CD burner, if you have a record deal, if you have a publisher, whatever. Selling bits -- an mp3, a PDF, a Flash file, a GIF sequence -- is something different.
There's a crucial hesitation point in using a credit card on the web. It's not one-click, it's real money, suggests a significant purchase and can be a real pain in the arse to set up, even with middlemen like CCBill. This is why Nicholas Negroponte spent the 90s banging on about micropayments, and why Scott McCloud took up his banner. Spending small amounts of money in a quick manner invites a far smaller hesitation point. PayPal was one step in this direction -- a quick, simple Internet bank. A pig to set up if you're not in America, but it's doable, and still probably easier than becoming a credit-card vendor. eBay did a huge amount to popularise PayPal. LiveJournal, always very aware of its massively under-30 demographic, made its paid system PayPal friendly very quickly.
Magnatune is a record label using PayPal. You can stream the music on their site. Like it? Buy the album as mp3 downloads with PayPal. This system does beg the obvious -- that people will download it and put it on KaZaA, or zip it up and Bit Torrent it. But you know what? These are bands and acts that no-one's ever heard of before. You're not going to find them on a P2P service any way other than accidentally, because you're not going to be looking for them, because you don't know their bloody names.. Hell, even if you decide you like the stuff and aren't going to pay, not enough people will have them in their P2P folder for you to lay your hands on them quickly (if at all). It's a calculated risk on Magnatune's part, and I think it's probably a sound call.
PayPal leads to BitPass, which could be the way of the future. BitPass lets you buy a token with a one-step PayPal system, and that token lets you issue micropayment fractions of its total value. Again, with a quick prodecure. Make with the clicky and you've given Patrick Farley twenty-five cents to read the latest chapter of his crazed Biblicanime spin on Revelations, APOCAMON.
Twenty-five cents. In Britain, that's all of thirteen pence right now.
If Patrick Farley had a well-managed internet community behind him right now, you'd all know his name. Because that, I (currently) feel, is very much the next step. Because none of these things will go anywhere without word-of-mouth, or whatever the internet version is called. Word of clicky, I dunno. This comes back to Josh's taste tribes. Not fan groups -- simply the net's ability to allow people with shared aesthetics to cross networks. This is the use for friend-of-a-friend networks that Tribe.net fell on -- the ability for people to find intersecting tastes in other users and create an unlimited amount of small message boards to serve and connect them.
The currency of the net is conversation. It's what the die-hard bloggers live for -- counting their Trackbacks, scanning their stats and checking their incoming links on Technorati. In the commercial arts, conversation is money. If no-one's talking about it, no-one bought it. And if no-one's talking about it, no-one's going to buy it. But if people are talking about it, more people are going to buy it. It's the simplest thing in the world. The hard part is getting it to happen.
When BitPass first came out, a lot of people were aggressively negative about it. Some people were blindly positive about it. I didn't see many people making the only important point -- perfect or not, it WORKS. It works and it can conceivably help the creative population on the internet. It works and I can pay for art with it, very easily, in small denominations. And I want to be able to pay for art because it means people can make more art. | <urn:uuid:90ed09c5-c7e8-416b-9657-55d63b6021b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://artbomb.net/brainpowered.jsp?col=34&more=true | 2013-05-23T12:29:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703306113/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112146-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966767 | 938 |
UFC 170 co-headliner and soon-to-be-certified light heavyweight Daniel Cormier describes the past week of his life as like being on a airplane that can’t land.
“It goes up and down, and it’s shaky and rough; you’re reaching for the oxygen mask and strapping in your kids,” Cormier told MMAjunkie. “It’s been nuts.”
Of course, you might feel the same if you spent several months of your life shedding pounds to reach a weight you haven’t registered since your youth for a fight that could win you a title shot, and then seeing that fight nearly canceled. No competition, no belt, and no money.
Cormier’s original opponent, former champion Rashad Evans, was forced to withdraw from Saturday’s pay-per-view event with a serious knee injury that could keep him on the bench for six months.
For 14 hours, Cormier said, he waited on pins and needles to hear whether he would still be able to fight.
Cormier (13-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC), a former heavyweight, is now set to fight former wrestling training partner Patrick Cummins (4-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) on the event’s pay-per-view main card, and already, the booking has provided some more turbulence for the bumpy ride to Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center. He’s thankful that his toil didn’t go to waste. But he’s under no illusions about how the changing circumstances of the short-term could affect his long-term goals.
A victory over Evans might have put him on the short list of title contenders at 205 pounds. But now, he today told MMAjunkie Radio, “I think it moves back now because I’m not fighting Rashad.
“If I was fighting Rashad and I was able to win that fight, I’d be very close to fighting for the championship. Whereas now, I think a win over Patrick doesn’t move me any closer.”
A loss to Cummins, meanwhile, would be purely devastating to the momentum he’s built in five years as an Olympic wrestler turned MMA fighter. Cormier blazed through the heavyweight ranks in the now-defunct Strikeforce promotion, winning the organization’s world heavyweight grand prix as an alternate before crossing over to the UFC and beating high-profile opponents Frank Mir and Roy Nelson.
While Cummins is decorated as an amateur wrestler, where he met Cormier at the Olympic Training Center and had several encounters he recently used as promotional fuel for his short-notice UFC opportunity, he is a 4-0 fighter and unknown to most casual MMA fans.
“If I lose to him – there’s no reason to lose this fight,” Cormier said. “I can’t lose this fight. If I win, all it does is it allows me to get down to 205, show everyone that I can make this weight and compete the way I’m used to competing, and show me that I can compete at the level that I’m used to competing at, and start to chase that belt.”
It might also help Cormier get over the anger he carries about Cummins’ statements to the media in the buildup to the fight. He said he might have pursued a win that was less painful for his former teammate, such as a submission, but might now instead go for a knockout.
Regardless of the outcome, he said, he will have a conversation with Cummins “about why he crossed the line. Why would you do that? I understand you’re trying to make yourself real. I get it. But you knew what I was going through at this time. You understood my situation. You saw me sitting with a sports psychologist every day.
“Those are things that should have stayed in the room, among the people that were there to experience it.”
The details of the encounter are now public, and Cormier is pressing on as the fight nears. He’s currently within striking distance of meeting the 206-pound cutoff he must hit to make Saturday’s bout official. The diet he employed is working in tandem with his body to make him shrink at the right time.
The frustrations he’s encountered in getting to his destination are soon to be in his past.
“[Cummins] will learn, and in his next UFC fight, he may win because he’s a good competitor,” Cormier said. “He may go beat somebody down the line, and he’ll learn on Saturday night that building a fight is different than making a fight personal.”
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Spring 2020 - FNST 401 C100
Aboriginal Peoples and Public Policy (3)
Class Number: 8933
Delivery Method: Distance Education
Course Times + Location:
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Apr 14, 2020
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Prerequisites:FNST 101 and 201W. Recommended: POL 221.
An examination of First Nations and Aboriginal peoples' perspectives on political, social and legal issues involving their rights as first citizens of Canada and North America, and the practical and political relations with various levels of government. Issues examined include: Aboriginal rights and title questions, self government models and concepts, constitutional matters, the impact of federal government policies, including their impact on women's lives, and Aboriginal community and First Nations politics.
- Assignment 1: Standpoint Reflection 10%
- Assignment 2: Current Events Assignment 10%
- Assignnment 3: Critical Book Review 20%
- Assignment 4: Research Essay 30%
- Final Exam 30%
Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (2014), Coulthard.
Dickason, Olive Patricia, and William Newbigging. Indigenous Peoples within Canada: A Concise History. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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|This biographical article relies on references to primary sources. (September 2010)|
|Birth name||Amy Pearson|
|Born||19 July 1985|
Pearson was born on 19 July 1985 in Birmingham, England. Whilst signed to a production company called P.O.E.T Productions run by ex Take That Session musician and songwriters Neil Oldfield and Neil Evington, Pearson was introduced to and began working closely with SonyBMG Australia's future A&R director, former Australian Idol judge Jay Dee Springbett. As a result, Pearson moved to Australia and signed to SonyBMG in 2004 at 18 years of age. Pearson commenced work on her debut album, which was recorded across 2006 and 2007.
In 2006, Pearson recorded a song with the first Australian Idol winner, Guy Sebastian titled "We Both Know", which was featured on Home: Songs of Hope & Journey to raise funds and bring attention to beyondblue. Pearson also recorded a cover of Joy to the World for the compilation The Spirit of Christmas 2007.
In late 2006, Pearson began working on her debut album Who I Am, originally set for release in late 2007, but was pushed back to early 2008. Three singles were released from the album; "Don't Miss You" and "Not Me" in 2007, and "Ready to Fly" in 2008. "Don't Miss You" was a top 20 hit and certified Gold.
Pearson attended the world premiere for Lord Richard Attenborough's film Closing the Ring, for which she sings the main single "Lost Without Your Love", which she stated will be released in 2008. Pearson is also featured on Seany B's single "B Good 2 Me".
In early 2008, Amy starred in television commercials on Australian network 7 singing "Ready to Fly". The advertisement digitally places her atop the Great Wall of China, endorsing the commencement of the 2008 Olympic Games. An alternate version of Ready to Fly, a duet with Indonesian singer Rio Febrian, is available with a music video on YouTube.
The album, Who I Am, was released in Japan in late 2008, with Pearson travelling there to promote it.
According to her Twitter account, she has currently been in LA working with producers The Heavyweights and Rodney Jerkins, who recently worked on Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Anastacia's fourth studio album Heavy Rotation, and Sheppard Solomon, who has worked with Natalie Imbruglia and Kelly Clarkson among others. So far two tracks have been confirmed "Doctor Love" and "Aftershock", co-written with production team Dreamlab consisting of singer-songwriter Leah Haywood and her husband Daniel James.
In 2010 Amy wrote the club number 1 and ARIA top 10 smash Freefallin with Denzal Park. Performed by Zoe Badwi. Freefallin earned Amy and Denzal Park APRA Dance Work of 2011 award in June 2011 and ARIA nomination.
In December 2011 Amy joined forces with Sony/ATV publishing signing a worldwide contract and beginning a new career in the UK and most recently wrote Good Love with DEVolution and performs vocals on the track.
Also, along with Klaus Derendorf and Tom Nichols, Pearson also shares a writing credit in British singer and actress Dani Harmer's debut single Free, which was released in the UK on 25 May 2009, taken from Harmer's upcoming album. The song was originally recorded by Pearson herself and was made an iTunes-only B-side of her single Don't Miss You in 2007.
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|2008||Who I Am||39|
|Year||Song||Australia||ARIA Australian Chart||ARIA
|2007||"Don't Miss You"||19||2||Gold||Who I Am|
|2008||"Ready to Fly"||40||12||Uncertified|
- "Free Amy Pearson MP3 download". Sunday Herald Sun. 10 August 2008. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2008.[dead link]
- "Pearson attends the world premiere of Closing the Ring".[dead link]
- Amy Pearson Promoting Debut Album In Japan Popdirt.com Retrieved 5 February 2009.
- Un. "Amy Pearson | Gratis muziek, tourneedata, foto's, video's". Myspace.com. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
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I'm back with an update on my 5K challenge!
I starting hanging around active.com which was a site Weight Watchers said to go and meet others and get active by walking....then go do something wild like sign up for a 5K walk!
So I did! I met alot of great people and 1 person in particular from my area. Although we played email tag more than we got to walk together, we DID sign up for a 5K walk in the beautiful town of Idyllwild, Ca. It was their Idyllwild 5K and 10K Run and Fitness Walk.
There was also another wonderful gal from Palm Springs who took it further by doing her own 5K walk to which she made not only the route, but also complimented it with a tour of famous homes we would be walking by as we enjoyed the cool morning! It was fantastic! (Thank you Jan!) This walk was May 30, 2009 and I walked this one with my husband and twins. It was a great way to start off the weekend and prepare for the big 5K the following weekend!
Here is a recap of my 1st real 5K walk in Idyllwild this past Saturday...
This is the beautiful owner of the Taqhuitz Inn at Idyllwild! We stayed overnight here and loved it!
The best part for me was the wonderful smell of the towels...(bear with me...) it brought back memories of coming home from college and smelling mom's laundry. Mine never smelled as good, even though I used the same stuff....the towels just were so fluffy and heavenly smelling! But if you end up in Idyllwild, make sure you stay here...cute place with a full kitchen, fridge, plenty of hot water, and tons of sleeping space!
This is my new friend Susan in her cool race shirt ready to go the morning of June 6th. We were very excited and I will admit I was very nervous as well.
Need to register? These are the gals you want to see. It was amazing how many people waited until the morning of the race to register! My stomach would have been in knots if I had waited till the last minute. Brave people...either that or they have done this before.
*special note-what was so great about these ladies is that they were so full of energy and spunk! They were there last night when we picked up our registration packet Friday night and were so nice and answered my millions of questions.
My son demonstrating just how cold it was...you could see your breath...it was a very chilly 36 degrees at 7:00am.
I was saying how cold it was, that is was just freezing, but the announcer heard us and clarified that is was only 36 degrees, which clearly is not freezing...as you know, freezing is 32 degrees which clearly isnt 36 degrees...it got a laugh out of everyone.
Susan and I had our feet ready and in position for the start of the race. I am on the left, Susan is on the right.
We had to laugh because all the serious runners were going to trample us once it started. We survived without so much as a scrape or scratch.
Here Susan and I are at the beginning of the race. Notice we are all smiles. I think I was still thinking at this point, "What the heck am I doing?"
And we are off!!!!!
Susan and I started off arm in arm in case we got knocked over by someone....LOL
We literally had a cheering section on our route! It was so great!
This is where we walked through the campground and I felt sorry for all the campers who were sleeping as we noisily walked through chatting away....
Luckily the path was marked well....as I am very much directionally challenged. These arrows were fabulous and helped my tired brain by telling my legs where to go.
Yes I had to make a pit stop...but I wasn't the only one...LOL
Wait! Is that the...YES!!!! It's the FINISH LINE!!!!! He is showing me where to go-probably because I am close to dragging my arms on the ground and my tongue is hanging down a foot out of my mouth! I did it! I really did it!
Here is my sweet family that got up so early to be at the finish line when I came in! Yeah Family!!!!
Here we are going through the finish line!
We were so ecstatic that we finished it!!!!!
If you go to the results page, you will find us at #59 and #60! I am sooooooo happy I made the effort and had such a great pal to do it with!
Here are some other highlights...my children entered the 1/2 mile kids' fun run.
And THEY ARE OFF!!!!!! (the two kids in long sleeve brown shirts # 94 and #95)
Cope coming across the finish line!
I just love this picture! He is sooo cute!
Here is Tierney....I was gonna push the others aside so I could get a good picture of her, but I thought that wouldnt be too good...(just joking)
She is the third one in the brown shirt.
We ate at different restaurants around town...
Jo'Ann's is smack dab in the middle of town center....
and this place is so much fun for all ages-
old candies and toys long forgotten...
Remember When... Toys
54225 N Circle Dr
Idyllwild, CA 92549
All in all it was a very enjoyable weekend and I would definitely do it again! Look and see when our next 5K is in Palm Springs, email me and we'll hook up and walk it together! I am challenging you to sign up for one! What have you got to lose? :)
Starting a MoyaMoya Blog
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- 1 Who owned New Mexico before it became a state?
- 2 Why did it take so long for New Mexico to become a state?
- 3 Why is there a state called New Mexico?
- 4 What was the 1st state?
- 5 What is the nickname for New Mexico?
- 6 Why was it difficult for New Mexico to become a state?
- 7 Why did Arizona split from New Mexico?
- 8 Is New Mexico a US territory?
- 9 What did President Taft’s comments when New Mexico finally became a state mean?
- 10 Is New Mexico safe?
- 11 What is considered New Mexico’s number one problem?
- 12 Is New Mexico a pretty state?
Who owned New Mexico before it became a state?
The area that is New Mexico was claimed by Spain in the 16th century, became part of Mexico in 1821, and was ceded to the United States in 1848 (through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo).
Why did it take so long for New Mexico to become a state?
National issues that had little to do with New Mexico took priority over statehood at key moments, often delaying New Mexico’s goal of statehood for years at a time. -New Mexico proved its loyalty to the country in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Why is there a state called New Mexico?
The Spanish settlers named the lands Nuevo México (New Mexico) after the Aztec Valley of the Rio Grande River in Mexico. New Mexico was admitted as the 47th state of the US in 1912 after breaking from being a province in Mexico.
What was the 1st state?
In Dover, Delaware, the U.S. Constitution is unanimously ratified by all 30 delegates to the Delaware Constitutional Convention, making Delaware the first state of the modern United States.
What is the nickname for New Mexico?
More than 50 years after Coronado, Juan de Oñate came north from the Valley of Mexico with 500 Spanish settlers and soldiers and 7,000 head of livestock, founding the first Spanish settlement in New Mexico on July 11, 1598. The governor named the settlement San Juan de los Caballeros.
Why was it difficult for New Mexico to become a state?
We Faced Major Hurdles. In fact, New Mexico faced a major hurdle to become a part of the United States because we were viewed as outsiders. Each time the idea of statehood was introduced, many Americans and lawmakers were skeptical that New Mexicans were loyal and worthy of becoming official American citizens.
Why did Arizona split from New Mexico?
In 1848, under the terms of the Mexican Cession the United States took possession of Arizona above the Gila River after the Mexican War, which became part of the Territory of New Mexico. In 1863, Arizona was split off from the Territory of New Mexico to form the Arizona Territory.
Is New Mexico a US territory?
Colonized by Spain, the land that is now New Mexico became U.S. territory as part oft he Gadsen Purchase in 1853, though New Mexico did not become a U.S. state until 1912.
What did President Taft’s comments when New Mexico finally became a state mean?
What did President Taft’s comments when New Mexico finally became a state mean? President Taft declared, “Well, it is all over. I am glad to give you life. I hope you will be healthy.” His comment seemed to acknowledge that it had taken a very long time.
Is New Mexico safe?
New Mexico has some of the highest crime rates in the US. Among all 50 states, New Mexico had the second-highest violent crime rate (behind Alaska) and the second-highest property crime rate (behind Louisiana).
What is considered New Mexico’s number one problem?
The most intractable problem New Mexico faces is poverty. From low birth-weight babies to violent crime, poverty is either a cause, an effect or a complicating factor in the state’s many dysfunctions.
Is New Mexico a pretty state?
New Mexico is a truly beautiful state. After all, it’s nicknamed the Land of Enchantment for a reason. Also known as the Bisti Badlands, this desolate area was once a delta of the Western Interior Seaway; an ancient sea that covered most of New Mexico 70 million years ago. | <urn:uuid:425abc23-ee7f-40ec-8d0b-6d9550819853> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://plazagaleria.com/new-mexico/how-did-new-mexico-became-a-state.html | 2022-01-22T22:23:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303884.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122194730-20220122224730-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.979437 | 927 |
Primary equity markets in emerging Europe received an unexpected fillip in April with the news of a big IPO from the Czech Republic. GE Money Bank, ranked the country’s sixth largest by assets, will come to market in early May. The listing, which could raise up to $1.7 billion, is set to be the largest in central Europe since June 2011 and the largest from the Czech Republic since before the financial crisis.
The deal should attract healthy demand, say bankers.“Investors are fairly positive on central Europe,” says Chris Laing, head of emerging markets ECM at Deutsche Bank. “The region offers growth rates that are reasonable by emerging market standards and above average for the European Union without the currency risks associated with developing economies at present.”
General Electric is selling GE Money Bank as part of a $200 billion strategic divestment of non-core financial holdings. The US group has already successfully disposed of one of its main bank assets in central and eastern Europe (CEE), having sold Budapest Bank to the Hungarian government for $700 million last year, while it is also set to sell BPH Bank to fellow Polish lender Alior Bank.
|Tomas Spurny, |
GE Money Bank
The latter deal had been mooted 12 months earlier but was delayed due to concerns over BPH’s large Swiss franc mortgage portfolio and management changes at state-controlled insurer PZU, which owns 25% of Alior, following the ousting of Poland’s Civic Platform government in October. Tomas Spurny, GE Money Bank chief executive, confirms that it was also considered for a strategic sale. “Based on very positive feedback from institutional investors, however, the shareholders evaluated that now is a good time to list on the public market,” he says.
The IPO will follow the same model as GE’s successful $1.7 billion listing of its Swiss financial subsidiary, Cembra, in 2013. The US group will initially offer 51% of its holding in GE Money Bank, with a view to selling down the remainder following a six-month lock-up period. GE will retain two seats on the bank’s supervisory board during the sell-down, which is expected to take two years.
The US group’s track record with European IPOs should boost demand for the Czech listing, say bankers. “The GE brand will appeal to investors who did well in Cembra,” says one senior ECM banker.
HeadwindsConsumer lenders such as GE Money Bank are facing headwinds in the Czech Republic in the form of ultra-low interest rates and competition from challenger banks, as well as new consumer protection legislation and restrictions on interchange fees. Spurny is confident, however, that GE Money Bank, which will be rebranded as Moneta Money Bank following the IPO, can achieve growth “in the high mid-single digits” and a return on equity of 14% over the medium term.
“Growth has been de-emphasized recently as GE moved away from retail banking,” he says. “Being publicly listed will allow us to make broader inroads into the fast-growing Czech mortgage market.” The bank will also continue to focus on its other core market, SMEs, while looking to grow fee income through increased activity in bancassurance and wealth management, adds Spurny. “In the medium term, we are developing a digital strategy where we will position the bank more as a challenger to the incumbent large banks in the Czech Republic,” he says. “I have a dream of becoming a local champion one day.”
ECM bankers hope that, if the listing goes well, more companies from central Europe could be tempted to come to market. They admit, however, that potential supply remains limited. “Historically there hasn’t been much issuance out of these countries, with the exception of Poland, and that’s unlikely to change dramatically,” says Laing.
Plans for a second big Czech IPO were cancelled at the end of April. The listing of a minority stake in gas storage and distribution unit EP Infrastructure, which was announced the day after GE Money Bank, had been expected to raise up to $1.3 billion. The company’s parent, Czech energy group EPH, was reported to have found a strategic buyer for the stake.
Further supply from the financial sector could, however, be on the cards. Leading Slovenian lender NLB is due for an EU-mandated privatization this year and is expected to opt for an IPO. Raiffeisen is also obliged to list a 15% stake in its Polish unit in the coming months under the terms of an agreement with the local regulator. The Austrian group’s subsidiary filed an IPO prospectus at the end of April but reports suggest the original June deadline for coming to market may be missed.
Meanwhile, Hungarian officials have mooted the possibility of listing Budapest Bank. ECM bankers, however, are sceptical. “Budapest Bank still has significant issues,” says one. “The government will need to turn it around before it can start thinking about privatization.” | <urn:uuid:01abf1b2-fccc-4403-ad2d-c78db3f3867f> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.euromoney.com/article/b12knv1d9krd68/ge-czech-bank-sale-revives-ecm-hopes | 2017-10-21T19:17:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824894.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021190701-20171021210701-00337.warc.gz | en | 0.96862 | 1,085 |
Friday, 1 February 2013
The 8 Best Multiplayer Xbox Games To Play!
play games with people that are not in the room with you, and not just one or two other players, but many. This adds a social element that was previously missing from gaming much of the time. Not all Xbox games are suitable for multiplayers, however. And others might not be worth playing. So the question remains which Xbox multiplayer games are truly the best?
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare:
This 2007 Activision game is the fourth in the Modern Warfare series. It is a 1st person shooter game set in modern times (unlike previous versions of Call of Duty). The 2011 setting takes place when the president of a Middle Eastern country gets assassinated and civil war breaks out in Russia. The conflicts take place in The United Kingdom, The Middle East, The Russian Federation, The Ukraine, and Azerbaijan and are seen from the perspective of a U.S. Marine and a British Commando. This is a very poplar game with users and critics alike. It ranks at 94% on Metacritic and GameRankings. It consistently ranks best out of the Call of Duty line. It also won Best Xbox 360 Game from IGN. When played as a multiplayer Xbox game, there are a variety of game modes and players earn more weapons, attachments, and camouflages. Also, each player’s performance is recorded with experience points. Players can earn them by killing players from the other team, winning challenges, meeting objectives and by finishing rounds and matches. Players get various perks from earning experience points.
Halo 3 is another first person shooter game from 2007, this one by Bungie. The game takes place during an intergalactic war in the twenty-sixth century. The war is between humans and the alien race of the Covenants. There are vehicles and weapons involved in the warfare. When played on Xbox Live, the game can be played with up to sixteen players. Players can decide which map and rules to use during the game. Players can choose between the various playlists to decide how they want to play the game.
Dark Souls by Namco is a game for more mature players, but well suited for multiplayer mode. Rather than being a very competitive game, players help each other beat this Japanese game. The game is really for serious gamers as it challenges you to play it and mocks you along the way. The enemy bosses can kill players easily, but it makes it more exciting when you kill one of them. During this exciting game, players can leave messages, warnings, and hints for each other throughout the game boards. Of course, these messages can also be left to try to trick other players. To make it more challenging, players are not able to communicate via headphones during the game. It is a very different Xbox Live Multiplayer game, but exciting none-the-less.
Hitman: Absolution by Square Enix is another in the Hitman series. In this instalment, the main character, Agent 47, is being hunted by the police and has been forsaken by all those that he previously trusted. Players take on the role of Agent 47 while he is on his most important mission ever. A special feature for this version of the game is called “Contracts Mode.” In this multi-player mode, the players can create challenges for each other. They get to set the target, difficulty level, weapons allowed, time limits, and so on of the contract. Players can earn game currency to buy weapons and other things for Agent 47 to use during the main game. The Contracts Mode really adds an extra level of excitement to this awesome multiplayer X-box game.
Portal 2 is another one of the best multiplayer Xbox games out there. Electronic Arts released this first person puzzle-platform game in 2011. The game is made up of a series of puzzles where the player needs to teleport around to solve them. The players travel around using portals. This version of the game includes new features like: tractor beams, laser redirection, light bridges and special power gel paints. The multiplayer mode allows players to control “infinitely respawning robots.” There are now four portals rather than two and the multiplayer mode works on the co-op split screen principle.
Star Wars Battlefront II:
In this LucasArts game players can choose to be one of dozens of characters. The game is based, of course, on the epic Star Wars series. This version of the game offers 13 new battlegrounds. Players can also now roll forward and sprint. The multiplayer mode can accommodate up to 36 players. Players can select to be in a ground battle with vehicles and foot travel or they can choose a battle in the air with starships and other air vehicles. This game is rated very high by users for fast paced multiplayer Xbox fun.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas:
UBI Soft’s game is full of action and one of the best to play in multiplayer mode. This game is set in Las Vegas where the streets are in the middle of a hostile terrorist take over. The whole future of global securities is on the line. The player(s) must save various landmarks in Vegas. Those familiar with Vegas will recognize places like Freemont Street, the Casinos and The Strip. The characters in the multiplayer experience change as you play online and players can unlock more equipment as they complete tasks and challenges.
This 2008 Nameco game is the fourth in the Soul series. This is a fighting game series. An update to this version is that three Star Wars characters are available to be playable fighters. The story of this game is focused on the ancient King Algol and his connection to a spirit sword called Soulcalibur. Most characters in the game are motivated out of a desire to get the sword, destroy it, or defend it. During the multiplayer mode, players can flip to other members of the group of fighters in the middle of a battle.
Xbox has such a diverse offering of games that there is just truly something for everyone. One of the true innovations in recent years is the ability to have multiplayer games through Xbox Live. Adding to the competition, comradery, and social aspect of the games, multiplayer versions add much to the Xbox game experience. These games are some of the very best multiplayer Xbox games that can be played! | <urn:uuid:41796555-0f3e-48c9-a8f7-5cfdd8d49d2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://xboxplusconsoles.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-8-best-multiplayer-xbox-games-to.html | 2017-02-23T16:47:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171176.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00041-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961436 | 1,295 |
Thanks to the fact that it's a household name and has been around since 1850, many investors think American Express (NYSE: AXP ) has no room for future growth. But recent remarks from one of its executives show it is just scratching the surface of what it could be.
The important question
At the recent Sanford C. Bernstein conference, the first question asked to Ed Gilligan, the president of American Express, surrounded the possible opportunities for growth, which were ahead for his company.
With all of the rumored speculation about what the future of payments may be, it was a great place to start. Much has been made about the possible expansion of technology firms into the payments industry.
After all, it was Gilligan's boss, Ken Chenault, American Express' CEO, who himself admitted Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) , Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) , and others could change everything about the payments landscape as it shifts to be more oriented around mobile commerce.
Gilligan himself agreed, saying there has clearly been change in the industry, and much is up in the air as it relates to the evolution of the payments landscape. He himself noted, "those things will get ironed out in the next few years, whether it's Google or Apple or whoever is going to come into the space."
But it turns out, that pales in comparison to two areas where American Express is just "scratching the surface," of the opportunities to come.
The surprising answer
What are they?
While they may not grab headlines -- and are often a common refrain of many businesses -- Gilligan believes small business and international expansion are massive areas of untapped potential for American Express. And while the possible international growth was fascinating, the small business opportunity stood out to me.
The massive opportunity
Gilligan began by noting American Express is "the largest player for charge and credit cards to small businesses by a wide margin, yet there's huge opportunity to do even more."
Gilligan highlighted upwards of $4 trillion is spent by small businesses in America each year. But surprisingly, less than 10% is on cards. With that in mind, American Express is doing everything it can to expand that number.
Through its OPEN business unit, it is providing solutions for small businesses to help them manage expenses, earn rewards, and simply "run their company." He notes the rewards earned by using an American Express card can in turn be reinvested back into the business, or used to pay bills.
American Express also partnered with Intuit to provide small business owners the ability to seamlessly and easily sync up their actual spending with software that tracks it. It's also ensuring its client managers are speaking with owners of these small businesses to ensure they're aware of the benefits its products provide. And it's meeting with more merchants to allow small businesses to use their cards at more places.
Gilligan concluded his remarks on small business by saying:
It's not an overnight success story. We've been doing this since the 1980s, but lately we've really perfected the business model and I think we're making real progress. When I look at where growth is going to come in the next 5 or 10 years, small businesses loom large for American Express.
The key investor takeaway
While the data to determine just how well it is executing on these iniatives is difficult to find, we have seen the growth in spending on small business cards has recently outpaced all other growth in the U.S.:
While more clarity would be preferred, charts like the one above reveal actions by American Express to expand its small business efforts don't just sound good, the company is executing on them as well.
At times, we can think established companies like American Express have exhausted all of the possibilities for growth. But in reality, 90% of a $4 trillion world remains unclaimed in the U.S., which proves just how massive the opportunities awaiting it are.
Your credit card may soon be completely worthless
While American Express is doing the right things, it, and many others understand the plastic in your wallet is about to go the way of the typewriter, the VCR, and the 8-track tape player. When it does, a handful of investors could stand to get very rich. You can join them -- but you must act now. An eye-opening new presentation reveals the full story on why your credit card is about to be worthless -- and highlights one little-known company sitting at the epicenter of an earth-shaking movement that could hand early investors the kind of profits we haven't seen since the dot-com days. Click here to watch this stunning video. | <urn:uuid:6b8a3098-09a5-4034-817a-b25e155a4575> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/07/19/1-massive-opportunity-for-american-express-company.aspx | 2015-04-01T04:36:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131303466.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172143-00288-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976023 | 964 |
Tiffany & Co. (NYSE:TIF) showed investors once more the power of its 150-year-old brand, said to be worth $5.16 billion, when it reported robust third-quarter results on Nov. 26. A sterling earnings per share figure of $0.73 cents, combined with roughly $95 million in net earnings, caused its shares to rise more than 8%. The latest market rally has helped to consolidate Tiffany's position as one of the best performing luxury companies this year, well above Coach's (NYSE:TPR) 0.1% year-to-date return.
Given the luxury goods industry's highly competitive nature and strong sensitivity to macroeconomic cycles, Tiffany's ability to sustain its pricing power and find new markets will remain a central issue for investors. Although the industry has seen innovative competitors such as Michael Kors Holdings (NYSE:KORS) emerge quickly, Tiffany's strong brand, built over 150 years, could protect the jeweler from potential challengers. To assess Tiffany's economic moat, we will dig a little deeper into the company's history and filings.
How to build pricing power in a highly competitive space
It all started in 1837, when Charles Lewis Tiffany borrowed $1,000 to open a small pottery and umbrellas store in New York. The company went on to become a multinational luxury jewelry and retail empire, selling silver, china, fragrances, leather goods, and the dream of ultimate taste and style in fashion.
It's no secret that whenever a crisis is near, consumers first cut their discretionary budgets. After all, few people can afford diamonds, and fewer still in times of crisis. However, over its long history Tiffany has managed to survive more than one recession thanks to its amazing pricing power. This pricing power allows the firm to enjoy a 59% profit margin, far above most retailers. This is possible because most consumers see Tiffany as a high-value brand. In more than 150 years of accumulated marketing expenditure, the company has ingrained in our minds the idea that its blue boxes are the ultimate expression of romance and happiness. Moreover, to protect its exclusivity, the company has maintained high price points.
Tiffany and Asia
In the latest quarter, the company's revenue came in at $911 million, surpassing most analysts' estimates by a wide margin. Given its large scale of operations, to continue improving its top line performance the company needs to maintain its wide share in mature markets, like Japan -- which contributed $128 million to Tiffany's third-quarter total revenue. It will also need to strengthen its position in emerging markets, particularly those within the Asia-Pacific region where increasing nominal per-capita income promises to become a growth catalyst for most luxury brands.
Coach, for example, is capitalizing on China's middle-class aspirations and projecting $530 million in sales for 2014. This is a massive improvement since 2010, when the company reported only $100 million in sales. Expansion in China also means more scale advantages and lower operating costs, and therefore Coach is likely to benefit from higher margins in the coming years.
Aware of the importance of this region, Tiffany is set to continue its geographical expansion. Its presence in the Asia-Pacific region is still limited. The company has 68 stores in the whole ex-Japan Asia-Pacific region, four more than last year. This figure is still low, as just in Japan there are 54 Tiffany stores. A wider presence in the region could help Tiffany improve its top-line performance, and offset the negative effect of a weaker yen.
Compared with Tiffany and Coach, Michael Kors is in a very early stage of expansion in Asia. According to Reuters, the company had only four stores in greater China last year, operated by licensees, and ten stores in the entire southeast Asian region. Because luxury goods sales in China are expected to hit 74 billion euros by 2020, with sales of high-end watches leading this growth, Michael Kors is also expected to open more stores in this region.
Foolish bottom line
Tiffany just delivered a great quarter, showing investors that its 150-year-old brand remains as powerful as ever. Further expansion in Asia, combined with strong pricing power, should help the company remain a cash generating machine in future quarters.
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Father’s Day is a hard day for me. Which is weird because I’m not a father. It’s hard because of all the drama and sadness that fathers endure and have caused in my life.
Don’t get me wrong my dad isn’t one of them! The fathers I’m talking about are the fathers of my children. Yep, I said fathers as in plural.
My oldest three children have another father other than Shane. It’s not something I talk about often, or really at all, because it involves a bad time in my life. I moved several times to different towns and different states for him, for his school, and his job. We were together for eight years total and married less than two when he died. Layla was 3, Lincoln was a day shy of his 1st birthday, and I was a few months pregnant with Logan. Yes, death is hard. Losing a husband is hard. Finding your husband dead because he killed himself is harder. But, telling your children their dad is dead and never coming back is by far the hardest. The story of his death and opening up about his suicide will be a story for another day. What is hard for me isn’t that my children don’t have a father, because they 100% do! Shane stepped in and stepped up to a role that was left behind by choice. When he chose to be with me he also chose my children, without a second thought. He loves them fiercely and absolutely like they are biologically his own. My problem is that my kids know they have another dad that died, but have zero memories of him. Although on Father’s Day were celebrating Shane I think to myself what if in the back of their minds Father’s Day sparks thoughts of their other dad? I dread the day that the brief discussions of him will become more involved, and more questions are asked. I never want them to feel like they weren’t enough, or not worth staying on this earth for! I pray for wisdom, and patience, and guidance to say the right things when that time comes.
Shane is the father of Lucy and Luna. He is also the father to Slaid, my stepson. I don’t usually call him my stepson. One, because I don’t believe in “step” and two because I’m not allowed to call him that or consider him to be that according to Shane’s family. Shane and Slaids mom, Courtney, weren’t together when she got pregnant. Since they weren’t together she chose to not tell him she was pregnant until she was 7 months along. Shane had already volunteered to deploy with the Army again when he found out. Slaid was born and shortly after Shane deployed. A few months later Courtney decided she didn’t want to be a mom anymore and left Slaid with Shane’s parents. It was getting very dangerous on deployment and there were a lot of deaths. Shane’s mom said it would be best for Slaid if they adopted him just until Shane made it home safely. Shane agreed to that, knowing it was only temporary. The only problem was that when he DID come home they wouldn’t let him adopt Slaid back. He was made to live with his parents and prove he was “able” to be a dad while coparenting with them. After years of this he was finally told they were NEVER going to let him adopt Slaid back and that Slaid was now their son and Shane needed to “accept” that. Slaid now refers to Shane as uncle and tells people his grandparents are his mom and dad. He is also hardly allowed in our life. Now I won’t go into details because we could be here all day with horrible things that were said, and done, and lies that were told. Nobody on either side is or was perfect in this sad story. But I DO know that Shane is an AMAZING father. Period. He has never done anything so terrible to make stripping his role as dad away from his own child valid. He has been a wonderful dad to Lucy. Watching him be able to father a baby from birth and not miss a single minute has been amazing to watch. It makes me sad for Slaid, he will never be allowed to know how loving and fun his dad is! Although he is only allowed to consider Lucy his sibling, all of my children consider him to be their brother. It makes me sad that he won’t grow up making memories with them! I hope and pray when he gets older he asks questions, and is given the truth. I hope he knows he was ALWAYS part of our plan, and was loved despite the distance. It makes me sad for Shane who can never have all of his children together to celebrate things like Fathers Day. I’m just praying he at least gets a phone call this year, but know that won’t be the case yet again.
Now you might be thinking: Sara how is Father’s Day hard for YOU, neither of those involve you. You’re right, they don’t involve me. But they do involve my kids and my husband. But watching someone you love hurt or even think about them hurting is hard for me. So this Father’s Day I’m loving on those around me who are dealing with and will deal with things most won’t ever have to.
I’m also so thankful today for Shane, who is the REAL father to all of my babies and sees no difference in them biological or not. I’m thankful for my dad, who is the only involved grandparent my children have. Lastly and most importantly I’m thankful for my Heavenly Father, who loves me despite my shortcomings and is always there for me even when I can’t see it.
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!
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Evolution of Online Calculators In Solving Geometry
In mathematics, geometry is a branch that deals with very important subjects including:
- Relations of points and surfaces
- Angles and their derivations
- Triangle theorems
- Laws related to trig ratios
And the list goes on.
In the past, it was a very difficult approach for students to get accurate measurements for angles and whatever calculations they had to face regarding geometry. But nowadays, the situation is totally opposite to that. The evolution of online calculators has made tasks get done in seconds. Not only this, but these tools assure you 100% accuracy which is a great benefit on its own.
Simply put, online calculators have made it easier for scholars to understand and visualize their geometrical shapes better than before. And for sure, the credit goes to the intelligent minds behind the coding.
Need of Calculators:
Gone are the days when calculations were a daunting chore for every student. Now you can get instant and perfect solutions for your entered problems with the advent of geometrical tools available online.
As you know geometry is a blend of complex theorems, formulas, and identities that can be frustrating sometimes. It is just like you may get exhausted dealing with such complicated concepts all the time. But with the help of calculators, the difficulty automatically reduces to less than half.
Top Geometric Calculators:
Geometric tools let you visualize a problem through a dynamic approach, thereby making you capable of visualizing the graphical interpretations as well.
The following are the most trustworthy tools in the category:
Are you stuck in defining or understanding the actual relationship between the angles and sides of a triangle? Do not worry if you do! This tool can make you feel like you are doing trigonometry waving through the mathematical ocean. For example, the freely available Desmos scientific calculator can be used for trigonometric calculations.
The calculator helps you to better learn the way you can apply trig identities to a specific problem and yield the solution of interest. It is more than a learning tool, it makes you command trigonometry firmly.
How To Use?
- Just enter the measure of angles or sides depending upon your selection
- Choose the trig function that you want to perform on the inputs
- Tap Calculate
- Accurate measure for angles or sides
- Step-by-step solutions that help you understand the problem better
- Graphical interpretation of the result that makes your concepts clear
Scale Factor Calculator:
Design is the sub-branch of geometry that requires utmost precision and accuracy. Most of the time, architects or such students have to deal with such calculations for designing a map or something like that.
This is where the scale factor calculator comes in handy. It simplifies the process of scaling images so that you can better design 2D or 3D maps of the buildings.
How To Use?
- Enter the current dimensions of the figure
- Now enter the desired dimensions
- Hit the Calculate button
- A properly scaled image of what you entered
- Proper solution about how the image has been scaled
Surface Area Calculator:
In geometry, determining the surface areas is a daunting task. But with the help of the surface area calculator, the task becomes like nothing. Yes, it helps you get a proper area calculation for any kind of surface so that you can better decide on purchasing sufficient material to pour the surface.
How to Use It?
- Make a selection for the surface from the given list
- You will have to enter certain dimensions including
- After that, you can initiate your calculations and get the following outcome.
- Proper calculations for the surface area
- Breakdown of each calculation into daughter steps that assist you in getting a firm grip on the understanding of the problem
- It might be possible for you may get a 3D visualisation of the problem
With the help of this geometry calculator, you can learn the basic concept of trigonometry. In actuality, the tool makes your trigonometry base stronger. It helps you simplify the right triangles in a matter of minutes.
How To Use?
- According to the given and required values, select the trigonometric function
- Now you need to enter at least measure for one side or angle
- Tapping Calculate button will give you results that include:
- Accurate calculations for the sides of the triangle
- Perfect measure for angles for the triangle under study
- A drawn triangle with calculations labeled properly
Calculators available online have made geometry into a subject that can now be understood with relative ease. They provide answers that are both quick and accurate to difficult problems that require a significant amount of time and effort to resolve.
Learning has grown less daunting and more interactive due to the availability of tools that cover every facet of geometry, from angles and surfaces to 3D visualizations. These calculators do not just crunch numbers, they also break issues down into easier steps and provide clear visual aids.
As a result, geometry becomes more intelligible and interesting for everyone, regardless of whether they are learning it in a classroom setting or working on real-world applications.
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The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies (“mirrors”) of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours (you may be able to use traceroute to determine which is logically closest if it’s not obvious from the transfer rate). Trans-ocean TCP/IP links are very expensive and usually very slow.
The following hosts mirror GNU files. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu. Electronic mail addresses of administrators and Internet addresses are given for some hosts.
Original list (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu/GNUinfo/FTP).
Australia: archie.au, archie.oz, archie.oz.au
Brazil: ccsun.unicamp.br (188.8.131.52, )
Europe: archive.eu.net (184.108.40.206)
Finland: ftp.funet.fi (220.127.116.11, gnu-adm)
France: irisa.irisa.fr, ftp.univ-lyon1.fr ()
Germany (ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/), (ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/), ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/).
Israel: ftp.technion.ac.il ()
Japan: utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp
Korea: cair.kaist.ac.kr (18.104.22.168)
Netherlands: hp4nl.nluug.nl, ftp.win.tue.nl (22.214.171.124)
Norway: ugle.unit.no (126.96.36.199)
South Africa: ftp.sun.ac.za
Sweden: isy.liu.se, ftp.stacken.kth.se, ftp.luth.se, ftp.sunet.se, , sdi.slu.se.
Switzerland: ftp.eunet.ch, nic.switch.ch
Thailand: ftp.nectec.or.th (188.8.131.52, [email protected])
UK: src.doc.ic.ac.uk (184.108.40.206, , [email protected] also sun cartridge or exabyte tapes); [email protected] (); [email protected] (also qic-21 and qic-24 tapes); ftp.mcc.ac.uk (220.127.116.11); Unix.hensa.ac.uk; ftp.warwick.ac.uk (18.104.22.168, ).
USA: louie.udel.edu, ftp.kpc.com (Silicon Valley, CA) ftp.hawaii.edu, f.ms.uky.edu, ftp.digex.net (Internet address 22.214.171.124, run by ), wuarchive.wustl.edu, col.hp.com, ftp.cs.columbia.edu, vixen.cso.uiuc.edu, mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu, jaguar.utah.edu, gatekeeper.dec.com, labrea.stanford.edu, ftp.cs.widener.edu, archive.cis.ohio-state.edu, and ftp.uu.net.
Western Canada: ftp.cs.ubc.ca ()
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The U.S. Post Office in Deale, Maryland, in March 2010
Location of Deale, Maryland
|Country||United States of America|
|• Total||5.9 sq mi (15.4 km2)|
|• Land||5.3 sq mi (13.7 km2)|
|• Water||0.7 sq mi (1.7 km2)|
|Elevation||7 ft (2 m)|
|• Density||936/sq mi (361.2/km2)|
|Time zone||Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)|
|• Summer (DST)||EDT (UTC-4)|
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Deale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 4,945 at the 2010 census. It has a scenic view of Chesapeake Bay and is popular with boaters. Sudley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Deale is located at (38.791766, -76.538933).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.9 square miles (15.4 km2), of which 5.3 square miles (13.7 km2) is land and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2), or 11.01%, is water.
Deale is a waterfront fishing village located on the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay. Four tidal creeks are located in Deale that flow into the bay: Rockhold Creek, Parker Creek, Carrs Creek, and Broadwater Creek. Rockhold Creek is the most commercial of the creeks and is home to several marinas and most of the charter fishing boats. Happy Harbor Restaurant, one of Deale's most famous landmarks, is located on Rockhold Creek.
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,796 people, 1,778 households, and 1,313 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,105.0 people per square mile (426.7/km²). There were 1,942 housing units at an average density of 447.4/sq mi (172.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 91.89% White, 6.01% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 1.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.06% of the population.
There were 1,778 households out of which 35.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.4% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.1% were non-families. 19.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.11.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 32.7% from 25 to 44, 25.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 98.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.3 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $66,016, and the median income for a family was $73,708. Males had a median income of $41,219 versus $32,708 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $26,214. About 1.9% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.6% of those under age 18 and 2.7% of those age 65 or over.
Deale is home to WRYR-LP, a low power community radio station owned and operated by the South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development (SACReD). The station was built by numerous volunteers from Deale and around the region in February 2002 at the first Prometheus Radio Project barnraising. WRYR broadcasts music, news, and public affairs to listeners at 97.5FM.
- "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Deale CDP, Maryland". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
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At Halfway Houses Primary School we aim to create a stimulating literacy environment in which children are actively encouraged to enjoy books, and are motivated to want to read independently from an early age. We believe that pupils should be taught to read effectively for different purposes, acquire key phonics skills and understand the rules governing the structure of language. We also believe that reading for pleasure is imperative if a lifelong love of reading is to be gained.
Reading is initially taught alongside ‘Letters and Sounds’. This promotes the teaching of synthetic phonics to aid the teaching and learning of reading. As part of this scheme the children will be taught to:
• discriminate between different sounds in real and pseudo words;
• learn the letters and letter combinations most commonly used to spell sounds;
• read words by sounding out and blending their separate parts;
• study written representatives of a sound and how it looks;
• recognise on sight vocabulary identified as ‘ tricky words’
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Children are taught to read in the Foundation stage using letters and sounds. They are introduced to 'Letters and Sounds' (Phases 1-3) throughout their time in the EYFS, which will give them good foundations for learning to read. The Reception high frequency words are introduced alongside reading books for children to develop a good sight vocabulary. Reading books go home everyday from the start of the year and guided reading sessions are introduced from the start of Term 3. We provide continuous opportunities to apply new phonic knowledge and integrate phonics in to our play on a daily basis.
Key Stage One (KS1)
Teachers continue to build on the children’s reading skills by modelling good reading and teaching the remaining phases from Letters and Sounds. Phonics is taught for 20 minutesper day in differentiated groups and the children are then tested on their phonic knowledge at the end of Year 1. Children then work in differentiated phonics groups in Year 2 where they focus on spelling, punctuaition and grammar. Reading is taught for 30 minutes per day. A weekly objective for reading sessions is selected by the teacher and this guides the children’s learning with activities and questioning being set at appropriately differentiated levels. Each child will read with a teacher at least once per week as part of a guided group.
Children who are not making the expected progress in reading will be identified as part of progress reviews and suitable interventions will be put in place to help them.
Children are introduced to a range of text types including multicultural stories, poems, rhymes, fairy tales, traditional tales, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, non- fiction texts, picture books and stories by significant authors. Children are taught how to read for meaning and answer questions about texts looking at characterisation and plot.
Key Stage Two (KS2)
Teachers are responsible for continuing the phonics programme with the children who need extra support in reading. For children who are working beyond phase 5 of Letters and Sounds, teachers will teach spelling strategies and give weekly quizzes during SPAG sessions. Children are given opportunities for silent reading and reading is taught in a similar way to KS1. A range of genres are introduced to older children including autobiographies, letters, diaries, short stories, poems and play scripts. Through shared reading and weekly guided reading sessions, children are taught how to analyse texts and comment on authors’ techniques.
Accelerated Reader has been introduced to the children and weekly high scores are announced in assembly as well as displayed in the library. Children choose their own reading books and any AR book they read they will complete an online quiz and be given a % out of 100% depending on the answers they give to the question, all their quizzes are listed in their own 'library' and parents can log in to 'Home Connect' to see the scores and which books their child has read.
At Halfway Houses Primary School our children have access to a large stock of library books. The library has become a hub of excitement and we are running early morning children sessions every day. The Library system enables all the children to be able to access information on our library stock from home. The pupils have a timetabled sessions as well as being able to visit anytime during the school day where they can choose reading books and levelled Accelerated Reader books. The library is also used across the curriculum for research. The children are encouraged to choose AR books set around their level of reading and are able to log books in and out on our child friendly system, we see this as a very important way in which to develop and promote independent reading. | <urn:uuid:c92f1749-3151-4c48-bbb3-da0eff39b171> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://www.halfwayhouses.kent.sch.uk/reading-and-phonics/ | 2019-06-27T04:47:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000613.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190627035307-20190627061307-00128.warc.gz | en | 0.964389 | 943 |
An invitation to explore the historical discipline. Students will be grounded in the meaning and interpretation of history, methodology, research techniques and career opportunities. Should be taken no later than the first semester of the junior year.
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
This course will introduce students to what it means to be an historian. The student will not only learn the specifics of how to write a research paper but also the process of studying history. The student will also be introduced to the biblical foundation for the study of history, career opportunities in history, and the value of the studying history.
Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each discussion. Each thread must demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. For Discussion: Christian Worldview, the student is required to submit video posts for both the original thread and replies. The thread must be 60–120 seconds of student audio and 30–60 seconds for replies. For Discussion: Preparing a Career, the thread must be at least 300 words, and each reply must be at least 150 words.
The student will write research proposal (up to 2 pages) in current Turabian format that focuses on a topic he/she may wish to research in a future course. The student is not required to write a research paper; rather, this assignment is meant to equip him or her with the skills to write research papers in later courses. The proposal should identify the topic, provide a summary of the key historiographical works, explain the significance of the argument, and provide a brief overview of the research process. The bibliography needs to include five primary and five secondary sources in the proper format. While scholarly internet sources are encouraged, please use internet sources with discretion, avoiding general, non-peer reviewed sites. After each source, the student must provide a brief description (20-30 words) of the source and its importance to the paper.
The student will conduct an oral history interview with a parent, grandparent, aunt, or uncle about his or her family. The student will create a set of at least 10 questions based on a group of topics provided in the course and will write a 300-word summary of the interview in current Turabian format. The student will also video record the interview and submit the recording with the written part of the assignment.
Using Ancestry.com, the student will complete his or her family tree as far back as possible but at least back to a generation living in 1880. The student will also submit a 400-word summary in current Turabian format about his or her genealogical research. The summary must focus on what sources were used (minimum of 3), research issues that arose due to poor or absent sources, and what new things he/she learned about his or her family. Students should be able to use the free trial of Ancestry.com that company provides, but might need to acquire a subscription.
Using a provided website and evidence gleaned from the Family Tree Assignment, the student will examine the events in the state (or adjacent state) during the week 1 of his or her ancestors was born, prior to 1922. Once located, the student will write a 150–175-word description of the local events and their significance for the area in which his or her ancestor was born.
The student will select a book of based on some aspect of his/her family history. The student will write a 600-700 word analysis of this selection. This is NOT a book report. This paper should NOT simply summarize the book. Rather, a book review should assess the argument of the book, its strenghts and weaknesses, its sources, and it contribution to the literature in the field.
To integrate biblical worldview and history, the student will use a key event in the history of his or her family to highlight an important biblical passage of his or her choosing. The student will submit the Bible passage (a maximum of 4 verses) as a 250-word devotional connecting the passage’s meaning to his or her family history event. The assignment must be in current Turabian format.
The student will submit a bibliography of 5 primary sources (diaries, newspapers, letters, political debates, speeches, etc.), 5 secondary sources (books), and 5 secondary sources (articles) using current Turabian format citation methods. The sources must directly relate to a subject important to the student’s family history.
The Digital Presentation constitutes the culmination of the student’s genealogical research. The student must create a narrated presentation using Adobe Creative Cloud Express that focuses on important historical events directly related to his/her family history. The presentation must have at least 15 minutes of student-spoken audio. The presentation must also include a video introduction stating a thesis, an analysis of primary source evidence, references to secondary sources, and a concluding slide listing a complete bibliography of at least 10 sources.
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Just curious on what the recovery and pain will be like for an extended tummy tuck? Is it much different than a regular tummy tuck?
What Expectations Should One Have for the Recovery Process for an Extended Tummy Tuck?
Doctor Answers 5
Standard versus Extended Tummy Tuck Recovery?
Thank you for the question.
I do not find a significant difference in the recovery between standard and extended tummy tuck procedures.
I do however have a word of advice for you. Patients who are about to undergo tummy tuck surgery spend a lot of time thinking about the physical preparation for the procedure (for example weight loss issues) but do not spend a lot of time thinking about the emotional aspects.
It is not uncommon for patients who undergo the procedure to experience severe “mood swings”. These emotions may range from depression ( “why did I do this to myself”) to elation (which may lead to over activity). I think it is helpful to be aware that these emotional swings do occur postoperatively.
Suggestions I have for patients undergoing this procedure: 1. Make sure you have a strong support system in place who have time/patience to take care of you. 2. Be patient with the healing process, understanding that it will take several weeks to months to feel “normal” again. 3. Be prepared to distract your mind with things of interest such as books, magazines, and movies. 4. Expect less of yourself; do not go back to work too early and let others take care of you (for a change). 5. Keep in close communication with your surgeon and do not hesitate to communicate questions/concerns and the emotional swings that you may experience. 6. Keep in mind the end result!
I hope this helps.
Extended Abdominoplasty/Tummy Tuck Recovery
The short answer is that the recovery is the same for a typical full abdominoplasty
and an extended tummy tuck. Surgeons often like to say that incisions heal from
north to south not east to west. In other words an incision will heal in the same time
period regardless of the length. The only difference is that the drains will probably in
a bit longer depending on how much they drain afterwards.
Here are some general guidelines:
Within a few hours following surgery, abdominoplasty patients will walk in a slightly bent-
over position. Strenuous activity and lifting of more than 10 pounds should be
avoided for six weeks after surgery. Most patients are able to return to work and
daily activities within two weeks of surgery.
It may take several months for a tummy tuck patient’s scars to soften, for sensation
to return, and for relaxing of the tight sensation in the abdomen.
Tummy tuck recovery
Because a tummy tuck tightens loose or stretched abdominal muscles and a lot of excess skin is removed, the recovery for this surgery is notably long, but you can generally return to work in 2 weeks. This surgery takes about 3 hours and can often can be performed as an outpatient procedure under twilight sedation, instead of general anesthesia, and you will be able to go home shortly thereafter. After surgery, you may walk and sit a little hunched over for a few days and should not even try to stand up straight during this time because you risk separating the incision. You will have drains in place that will be removed 3 days to a week after surgery. During your healing, you should minimize the strenuousness or suddenness of exertions such as coughing, sneezing, laughing, and bowel movements. There is a special technique--a pain pump-- that speeds up the recovery and minimizes postoperative discomfort by releasing pain medication in the abdomen during the first few days after surgery. You should ask your doctor if they use this because it can make a big difference in the speed and ease of recovery.
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Recovery of tummy tuck and extended tummy tuck
An extended tummy tuck simply involves an incision which is slightly longer than a traditional tummy tuck incision. This allows removal of more skin and tissue laterally (toward the sides). The recovery and pain is essentially the same as a traditional tummy tuck with most patients taking one week off of work with no heavy lifting for 4-6 weeks.
Consult with a board certified plastic surgeon to determine which procedure you are the best candidate for.
Extended and regulary tummy tuck recoveries similar
The recovery from a regular tummy tuck and an extended tummy tuck where more skin is removed are very similar. Most of the pain from a tummy tuck comes from the muscle repair which is usually done in both procedures, therefore, there isn't that much difference in the discomfort. It is possible that your drains may stay in a little longer but these typically do not cause any discomfort.
One thing that can be done to reduce your pain with surgery is to have tumescent fluid injected into the abdominal area before the start of surgery. This contains a dilute concentration of local anesthetic which can dramatically reduce your pain when you wake up and can significantly decrease the amount of pain medication that you need in the long run.
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I don’t know what came over me last night.
Was there an earthquake somewhere?
Did the heavens shift?
Was there a full moon?
Because out of NO WHERE I made this.
That’s right people, I done did made that cute little Noel pillow. And I even pulled out this.
Something that had been rotting in my basement for YEARS.
And I blame ALL of this out of character unlaziness and creativity on one little ol’ sweet person. Traci Romine.
Traci writes Decorating the Lazy Mom Way every other Wednesday on this here blog.
This here one.
(Let me just pause here a minute to say, if you aren’t following Traci on her blog yet, I’m gonna smack you!… go follow her already! Just click on the “join this site” button on the sidebar. She’s such fun!)
I mentioned a while back that for our MOPS group in November we Skyped Traci in to give us decorating ideas for the holidays. She had displays set up for us, she had a tutorial for us, she even walked us around her WHOLE house and showed us all the fabulous (and thrifty!) ideas she had implemented in her home. It was FAB. U. LOUS. (I highly recommend her for your events!)
During her walk-through that night, she showed us some pillows she had made. We all Oo’d and Aw’d over how cute they were, but y’all, these weren’t some fancy dancy pillows she slaved over for hours on end. NOOOOOO. Not the brilliant Traci Romine. These pillows of hers were made out of three dollar fabric PLACEMATS. Seriously! She simply opened one of the seams, stuffed the inside and sewed it up! Instant adorable pillows!
We all died.
We were all totally inspired.
We couldn’t stop talking about her ingenious thrifty idea for a pillow.
The next day I got a text from one of the moms in our group with a picture of her brand spankin’ new place mat pillows that Traci inspired.
SooOOooOOoo, I too had been thinking about making some placemat pillows. Especially with all the cute little Christmas placemats laying around stores everywhere these days. But I just couldn’t find some I truly loved. And there’s this funny thing about me… I have to TRULY love it, if I’m going to buy it.
THEN! I had a stroke of genius! While we were decorating the house for Christmas, I came across our table runner that matches our tree skirt.
The table runner isn’t long enough for our table, so every year while pulling out Christmas decorations I pull it out, remember how cute it is, remember it isn’t long enough for our table to hang properly, look around for somewhere else to put it, can’t find anywhere else that will work, and stuff it back in the bin to do all over again next Christmas. Poor little neglected table runner.
BUT NOT THIS YEAR.
This year I remembered Traci’s fabulous place mat pillows and wondered if I could use the same idea on my table runner.
And so I inspected it. It did in fact have fabric on both sides of it. So it could be stuffed!
And so I cut it to the size I wanted.
And so I stuffed it. (okay, my son did.)
And so I sewed it up.
And so viola’!
A cute little Noel pillow for Christmas!
Actually, I made two of them… each end of the table runner had Noel on it.
And so I threw them around my house in various places.
And I’m all proud of myself.
And Lazy Dad checked me for a fever when he got home and saw what I had done.
And alas! I was fever free!
This, my dears, is a true Christmas miracle. The Lazy Mom, fever-free, did something crafty!
And it’s all Traci’s fault.
In fact, I’ve started a pin board on my pinterest entitled, “Stuff Traci Romine Made Me Do.”
Cause I’m sure she’ll strike again!
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Ilorin varsity hospital ends woman’s 20 years of childlessness
With these words Tuesday, a 47-year-old woman, Muinat Oladipo, expressed her deepest joy and welcome her first child into the world at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Kwara State after 20 years of marriage without conception.
The university delivered the woman of a baby girl through its third successive Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART).
Oladipo, married to a 62-year-old man, Asimiyu Oladipo, is a resident of Agugu in Ibadan Oyo State and a seller of variety of products at Agbeni, Ibadan.
After the delivery via a caesarian session at about 10:45 am by a team of gynaecologists led by the Chief Medical Director of the UITH Prof. Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, the mother, gazing at the baby weighing 3.2kg, said sobbing, “so I can be a mother at last.”
UITH is the third public hospital in Nigeria after National Hospital in Abuja and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) with the services of the ART unit.
Olatinwo, in whose tenure spanning about five years now, the Renal Unit of the hospital had also performed the first kidney transplant in a male patient, said arrangement had been concluded for the first Open Heart Transplant (OHT) of the UITH by June this year.
The elated Olatinwo, a professor of gynaecology, disclosed how the hospital had sponsored to India on training a team of gynaecologists led by Dr. Lukman Omokanye, to learn the skills of the IVF.
Already, the IVF as a unit of the hospital, has become a much sought after centre by the patients and their relatives just as it has equally become a financial autonomous section.
The CMD noted: “We don’t need to travel outside Ilorin for what can be done here. The IVF, depending on its type, can be done here with a paltry sum of about N600,000. We even give some rebate, through the hospital revolving funds, to some indigent patients.
“But we are canvassing more of private support for the unit, especially in the area of adoption of some couples in need of its services. Today, we are training doctors from other hospitals on the IVF. Very soon, we shall be receiving patients from outside the country paying us hard currencies to strengthen the nation’s exchange rates capacity.”
He promised greater rewards for any staff of the hospital who excels in his daily activities, just as he sounded a note of warning to “those pulling down the efforts of the government at improving the health status of Nigerians. “We will not stop our works until the UITH becomes a one stop hospital.”
Speaking on her ordeal, the woman said: “I had lost every hope of having my own baby again in life. I had been to many hospitals, visited countless spiritualists, to no avail. But today, looking at this baby, I know that there is nothing God can’t do. I thank God and all the health workers who took very good care of me here at the UITH.”
Although not the only wife of her husband, she said she was married to him some 20 years ago without any issue. Muinat recalled how she was 12 years ago diagnosed of Fibroid (Myomectomy) in a private hospital in Ibadan where the growth was also promptly removed.
When all efforts at conceiving failed even after the operation, the woman with many medical terminologies, apparently due to her ordeal, said she was referred to the UITH for more investigations on her reproductive system. This, according to her, was five years after her last menstruation.
“The UITH doctors told me of the need to make my womb active because a woman of my age and who had last seen her menstrual period some five years ago would practically be having a dead womb.
“They commenced treatment with me by first placing me on medication. When it was time, they fertilised my eggs with the semen of my husband. On the third day, they transferred three embryos into my activated womb. After three weeks, they conducted a pregnancy test on me and it was positive.
“It was like a dream to me when the doctors asked me to commence ante natal at the sixth week of the pregnancy. My husband asked me to hide in Ilorin putting up with my brother, Alhaji Ajibade Suleiman, until I was delivered of this miracle baby today (yesterday). I never thought that a woman at her menopause stage could still have a baby.”
According to Omokanye, the reproductive medicine clinician of the UITH, “we always emphasis on the issue of age in IVF procedures, because early ages make women to have the ability to produce fertilisable eggs.”
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“Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music.”
The above excerpt is taken from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s speech during the opening of the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival.
Although he was a civil rights activist and fought for racial equality, Dr. King understood the significance of jazz and its profound impact on society. He also influenced many jazz musicians, including pianist Dave Brubeck, who wrote the religious concert work “Gates of Justice” shortly after Dr. King’s death.
That cantata, which focuses on the struggles and bond between African Americans and Jews, is rarely performed, but The Detroit Jazz Festival Community Series will be presenting Brubeck’s sacred piece during its annual Black History Month concert on Sunday, February 16 at the Fillmore Detroit, at 3:30 p.m.
The event, “Jazz Speaks for Life,” -the title is taken from Dr. King’s Berlin Jazz Festival speech- will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act and will feature renowned jazz pianist Jason Moran and his trio, The Bandwagon.
The performance is part of the Community Series’ year-round initiatives that present social and cultural events designed to educate and enlighten youth and adults about the legacy of jazz. The culmination of these events is the annual Detroit Jazz festival, which takes place during the Labor Day weekend and presents hundreds of local and national jazz acts who perform in downtown Detroit.
For the past three years that Detroit Jazz Festival Artistic Director Chris Collins has programmed the Community Series, he has focused on incorporating themes within the music that need to be heard.
“The festival is in a unique position to really focus on a message through the art of jazz and to represent the depth of the art form,” Collins said.
“Gates of Justice is considered one of Brubeck’s most important works, which brings together all these different cultures and religions and races and musical genres mixed within the jazz element.”
During the performance of “Gates of Justice” Moran will be joined by international Jewish cantor Alberto Mizrahi, who was the featured vocalist on the original interpretation of Brubeck’s piece.
The cantata will also consist of a plethora of Detroit musicians, including the Detroit Brass and Percussion Ensemble, conducted by Norah Duncan IV, associate chair and professor of music at Wayne State University, and the Ensemble’s featured baritone soloist Emery Stephens, as well as a 65-voice choir composed of the Detroit Choral Society and WSU’s Symphonic Choir.
The piece is comprised of vocal performances, the citing of biblical scriptures, and powerful segments from Dr. King’s speeches.
In addition to performing Brubeck’s work, Moran will also be covering a broad collection of pieces that were inspired by moments in the Civil Rights Movement and that focus on freedom and equality.
Collins handpicked Moran, one of the foremost jazz musicians in the country, to lead this concert and to fully showcase the depth of Brubeck’s message.
“I wanted to give some real time to Jason Moran and his Bandwagon. He is such a forward-thinking artist, a creative individual and was the one artist I wanted to bring from outside of Detroit and to integrate with our artists so we can hear how he interprets things,” said Collins.
The Community Series’ historical concerts have a common theme of presenting larger works by jazz artists that are not often performed in a concert setting. Last year, the series presented Duke Ellington‘s symphonic work “Black, Brown, and Beige,” which featured Detroit-born saxophonist James Carter and composer David Berger.
This year, the series continues its thematic tradition by presenting a powerful composition that was written in an effort to inspire unity across all cultures.
Collins promises that this will be an event all attendees will remember.
“When people come to the event on February 16, I can guarantee that between Jason Moran’s musical uniqueness and what his trio will do in the first half and the piece ‘Gates of Justice,’ it will be something that they will likely never hear in their lives outside of Detroit,” said Collins.
“This music is not about guys behind the microphone playing and singing and entertaining. While that’s part of it, this music is woven into the very genetics of who we are as Americans and Detroiters.”
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Many health issues, including hypothyroid disease, metal deficiency anemia, and supplementary syphilis, can cause hair loss. When thyroid bloodstream assessments as well as other laboratory tests, such as a full blood count up (CBC), on individuals who have common hair loss are generally regular, it is very important leave out treatable causes of hair thinning.
The losing of locks may be abrupt, building with a couple of days or during a period of several weeks. There might be irritation or burning in the area prior to baldness. Your hair follicles will not be wrecked and so hair can re-grow in case the swelling in the follicles subsides. People who expertise just a couple spots of hairloss often have a impulsive, full healing without having any kind of treatment method.
Alopecia areata has an inclination to take place most often in produced-ups 30 to 60 yrs old. Even so, additionally, it can have an impact on old people and, almost never, youthful young children. Alopecia areata isn’t infectious. It needs to be notable from your hair dropping that could arise after a quitting of bodily hormone oestrogen and progesterone remedies for contraception or even the head of hair losing linked utilizing the finish for being expectant. There are a number of treatable conditions which might be incorrectly known as alopecia areata.
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Top media investment forms in India are working to refresh their teams with future-ready talent. According to industry estimates, media agencies in India are increasing their workforce strength by about 12-15 percent this year. A quarter of these recruits will be on-boarded to drive new capabilities from content to commerce.
Marketing is rapidly transforming on the back of evolved consumers, believes Ajay Gupte, CEO – South Asia, Wavemaker, a WPP group company. “Instant access to information and products/services has put the consumer purchase journey on steroids. Ability to access, enhance and activate data in ways customized to cater to every individual need of our massive consumer base is key to success,” he says.
Today, the GroupM-owned agency is looking for data analysts, audience scientists, content specialists, and more performance marketing experts to augment teams. The company wants its talent to be entrepreneurial to keep up with the scale and speed of work today. Much like the mainline creative and digital marketing companies, media investment agencies are also ideating in real time for several brands and are no longer just crunching weekly viewership numbers or strategising one big project at a time.
The talent quest
Homegrown company Madison World has been hiring more freshers from various academic streams to increase the agency’s bench-strength, says the company’s executive director Lara Balsara Vajifdar. She adds, “We are hiring for more thinking roles as doing roles are getting automated. We are also looking at more specialized roles to boost domain expertise across categories.”
Madison World also wants its talent to “be happy”. The agency uses Happyness.me, a proprietary tool that measures the happiness quotient of corporations and its people. Happyness.me is a part of media veteran Raj Nayak’s company House of Cheer. Vajifdar says the agency is setting up periodic surveys to keep a check on employees’ happiness quotient.
Last year, Omnicom Media Group India launched ‘OMG Bootcamp’, with a focus on training and developing aspirants for the future. This paid internship program focuses on helping young graduates hone their craft and not only tests their mettle but also gives them the opportunity to work full-time at OMG and its agencies.
Anju Kurien, talent head at Omnicom Media Group – India, is looking for “problem solvers and integrated thinkers”. OMG India is also invested in adding new skill sets to its existing team members. Kurien shares, “With transformations in the advertising ecosystem, brands today are turning to media-agnostic professionals with a keen understanding of integrated thinking. It plays a key role in having a larger understanding of the brand and consumer needs.”
Identifying the roadblockers
Attracting and retaining the right talent is the biggest challenge facing ad companies today. Gupte points to the increasing level of competition agencies are facing from companies in other industries looking for similar profiles and fishing in the same pool. “Apart from media agencies, today we compete with marketers, consultants and even tech companies for talent. As industry leaders, the onus is really on us to add to the talent pool,” says Gupte.
The agency is building a steady supply of talent suited for the roles that are opening up. Wavemaker India regularly hires freshers from colleges and gets them on board after grueling classroom and on-the-job training. The agency is also upskilling its current workforce to keep them future-fit.
Kurien notices another trend that’s proving to be a challenge for recruiters at agencies.
“The challenge faced during the courtship journey from recruitment to joining is a new phenomenon. Candidates are on the lookout for opportunities, sometimes even while they are in the courtship period. Today, it is more important than ever to keep potential candidates engaged until they are fully assimilated into the system.”
The advertising industry is grappling with one of its worst talent crises ever. The problem isn’t that there aren't enough talented people. It’s that many people don’t want to join agencies these days. Making matters worse is the exodus of talent to brands’ side, with new-age companies like D2C firms and streamers attracting the best of the lot with bigger paychecks and better work-life balance.
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Westbury, NY – July 23, 2019 – BioIVT, a leading provider of research models and services for drug and diagnostic development, today outlined several scientific contributions that it will be making at the 12th International ISSX Meeting. This conference will be held from July 28-31 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR.
“We are excited to have this opportunity to showcase some of the research advances being made using our hepatic products and research services. They span research areas as diverse as investigating the impact of HIV integrase inhibitor drugs on folate transporters and the potential for clinically-relevant botanical-drug interactions (BDIs) with Boswellia serrata, which is used as an anti-inflammatory supplement,” said Dr. Chris Black, BioIVT Senior Vice President ADME-TOX. “BioIVT is a leader in developing in vitro hepatic modeling solutions and we are delighted to share our knowledge and experience with our peers.”
During a BioIVT-sponsored symposium, Amy L. Roe, PhD, DABT, Principal Toxicologist, Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs at The Procter and Gamble Company, will discuss a published BDI study (Roe et. al., 2019 AIVT) that she conducted with BioIVT Vice President – ADME-TOX Dr. Kenneth R. Brouwer and other BioIVT researchers. Their work compared two in vitro methods – conventional pooled human liver microsomes and a more physiologically-relevant sandwich-cultured human hepatocytes (SCHH) model – to evaluate the inhibitory effects of B. serrata on CYP enzymatic activity. CYP enzymes play an important role in drug metabolism, so inhibiting them can change the effectiveness and safety of some drugs.
This work is particularly important because the use of botanical supplements is highest amongst the elderly, who are more likely to have comorbidities and take multiple medications. SCHH is an effective model for studying complex mixtures and can be used to evaluate both BDIs and drug-drug interactions. Entitled “Potential Benefits of a Physiologically-relevant Whole Cell Model to Assess CYP Inhibition with Complex Mixtures,” this session will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30.
BioIVT will also play an active role in the 15th annual assembly of the Hepatocyte Research Association (HRA), which will provide “Perspectives on Comparisons of Different In Vitro Hepatic Models,” from 5:30-9 p.m. on Monday, July 29. Interested parties can register for this meeting at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-annual-assembly-of-the-hra-tickets-60124844027.
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Monday, 29 July
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- P235: In Vitro Development of Folate Transport And Endocytosis By Proton-coupled Folate Transporter (PCFT), Reduced Folate Carrier (RFC), and Folate Receptor α (FRα) in a Transwell System
BioIVT ADME-TOX experts will be available to answer questions at booth #301. Booth visitors will also have the opportunity to enter to win “Experimental Cholestasis Research” a new textbook co-authored by Dr. Brouwer. This book, which was edited by Mathieu Vinken, is a compilation of pertinent protocols for the experimental study of cholestasis.
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Letslunch launched in Italy with explosive media coverage! We had mentions on national television, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Millionaire Magazine, and received thriving social buzz all over Italy.
Here are the lessons from our experience.
Sometimes you get overwhelming demand to launch your startup internationally. Postpone it! Do not attempt to launch at a location foreign to you until you have gained traction in one city/country, and thus, avoid the hassles of extra paperwork, managing human capital, exploring the unknown territories, etc. But startups are all about exceptions and breaking the status quo, sometimes you should and can launch internationally in the early stage of your startup. The biggest challenge is how to handle paperwork and risk trusting people who may have the potential to ruin your startup with a badly managed launch.
Note: I am not advocating that you should launch internationally and lose the focus locally. However, I am talking about the possibility of adding 2 extra work hours a day and result in having a great international launch under your resume.
When a potential country has lot of cultural fit for your product, you will definitely receive a lot of inbound requests from people there interested in helping you bring your startup over.
Don’t dismiss any of those emails and requests.
At this moment, check for two things from these individuals...1: Altitude and 2: Attitude
Altitude is pretty easy to gauge. I used a template of 5 questions to ask [mostly from Paul Graham's essays] and emailed every one of them saying we would love to have them get involved.
- Any ideas to help users find us?
- Why are you the right person to do this?
- What’s your marketing plan with targets, goals, and deadlines?
- What are the promotional strategies you have in mind? PR campaigns ideas, community outreach, manage local social media, etc.
- Will you be recruiting people to work with you and then manage them?
Ask those questions nicely and the response you get will give you insights on how smart they are. They need not give you all the perfect answers but it will give you an idea of how they think and if you can work with the person. Later on you can throw in your own plan, insights, and guidance accordingly.
Now is where their trust towards you comes into play. You trust them to launch and execute your business abroad, and they agree to be temporarily working without pay and taking the risks is necessary. This type of deal will only be accepted by those who believe in your idea enough to take the risk. They’re the cream of the crop. You wouldn't have this luxury if you are funded and are paying someone to do it. The strength of their belief in your vision will not compare to the person who passes the test above.
Once they pass these filters, it’s the time to discuss money, bring in paperwork, title task, ect.
I always tell them that we can do a simple revenue sharing agreement for that market, consider legal paperwork, register the local company in the situation of earning more than 100k revenue abroad, or discuss the potential of local investors coming in.
After this, give them a business card, company email, access to local social media accounts, and setup the first goal. For us it was 2000 signups before the launch through our coming soon page. That will be the end of most of the work for you and from now on you just need to email them about their progress [not of signups], watch for local media articles, and mid way through the progress, come up with an official launch date. Only do this after you’ve seen great progress, otherwise inform the country manager that you might not even launch and the shared effort will bring nothing if it doesn't meet the launch goals.
Once the rubber meets the road and you see the progress.
Motivation slightly goes down here so i often send couple of videos () and have them look at eveything top down : why are we doing the startup> to make a million dollar> how do we get it-by having 100,000 paying customers> how do we have those customers by having a million non paying customer> how do we get them> ..... by Alec Baldwin
There are various things you can do to keep them motivated, top down analysis, bottom down, beginners eye, going fast vs going in the wright direction, short terms vs long term > 10,000 ft view vs daily grind.
Have them also work on getting additional people involved to delegate some work and gain new leverage.
When we were launching in Italy we had 4 people working for us. They even found an incubator who agreed to give them an office space. Thanks to the booming incubator culture you will be able to find one in every city of the world. And the smaller the scene, the more the help they will provide.
If you follow the above and with a bit of luck, you will have a booming launch. Now the work will start post launch towards reaching those xxxxxx no of users. Whatever your goal or the revenue may be.
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The port of Tripoli in northern Lebanon wants the world to know it’s ready for business.
British safety managers are training local hires to operate heavy machinery and Chinese technicians are running diagnostics on two new container cranes that tower over the harbor, just 28 kilometers (18 miles) from the Syrian border.
After six years of civil war in Syria, markets across the Middle East are anticipating a mammoth reconstruction boom that could stimulate billions of dollars in economic activity. Lebanon, as Syria’s neighbor, is in prime position to capture a share of that windfall and revive its own sluggish economy.
Battles still rage in Syria’s north and east, and in pockets around the capital, Damascus, but the survival of President Bashar Assad’s government now appears beyond doubt.
That is introducing an element of stability into forecasts not seen since 2011, when the war broke out. The Damascus International Fair, a high-profile annual business event before the war, is to open on Thursday for the first time since war broke out, with participants from 43 countries.
The World Bank estimates the cost to rebuild Syria at $200 billion.
For Lebanon, that could be just the stimulus it needs — the tiny Mediterranean country’s growth rate has hovered around 1.5 percent since 2013. And though the capital, Beirut, has grown visibly richer over the years, Tripoli and the impoverished north have lagged behind.
“Lebanon is in front of an opportunity that it needs to take very seriously,” said Raya al-Hassan, a former finance minister from northern Lebanon who now directs the Tripoli Special Economic Zone project that’s planned to be built adjacent to the port.
Ahmad Tamer, the port manager, estimates Syria’s reconstruction will create a demand for 30 million tons of cargo capacity annually.
Syria’s chief ports, Tartous and Latakia, also on the Mediterranean Sea, have a combined capacity of 10 to 15 million tons, he says. He wants Tripoli port to be ready to step in for a portion of the rest.
“We could provide up to 5 or 6 or 7 million tons,” he says.
The port is nearing the completion of the first phase of an expansion project first drawn up in 2009, then revised with an eye on Syria in 2016. Capital investment has reached around $400 million, according to the port manager.
On a map, Tamer pointed to a vacant quadrant where 7/8preparations are underway to build silos to hold grain destined for regional markets.
Syria’s conflict has decimated its food production, which included an average of 4.1 million tons of wheat annually before the war, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
In 2017, it managed to produce just 1.8 million tons.
Lebanon’s businessmen and politicians have always maintained close relations with Syrian counterparts. Syria is among Lebanon’s largest trade partners, and arguably its most reliable supplier of cheap labor. Lebanon, in exchange, is the banker to many of Syria’s enterprises and its wealthy elites.
These ties give Lebanon — and Tripoli in particular — an edge over competitors vying for the Syrian market.
The city’s location is also attracting foreign investment. Tripoli port signed a 25-year lease with the Emirati port operator Gulftainer in 2013, to manage and invest in the terminal.
“Our aim was to invest here in anticipation of Syria’s reconstruction,” said Ibrahim Hermes, the CEO of Lebanon’s subsidiary of Gulftainer.
Lebanon is now a fixture on itineraries of prospective investors. Hermes said he has seen delegations arriving from Europe, Asia and especially China, to scope out trade opportunities.
Before the war in Syria, goods coming through Lebanon’s ports used to transit as far afield as Iraq — saving ships from having to take the sea journey through the Suez Canal and around the Arabian Peninsula.
There is talk now that Tripoli could even be a terminal in China’s trillion-dollar new “Silk Road” project, carving a trade route from east Asia to Europe.
The Chinese firm Qingdao Haixi Heavy-Duty Machinery Co. sold the two 28-story container cranes now at the port. Safety signs inside the structures are posted in English and Mandarin.
“Tripoli can be a main transshipment hub for the eastern Mediterranean,” said Ira Hare, a sunburned British manager working for Gulftainer.
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By Keli‘i Akina
Oahu residents are keenly aware of the yearslong saga in which leakage from the U.S. Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Moanalua has been contaminating the island’s water supply, sickening residents and forcing thousands of people out of their homes.
The situation became so bad that the Pentagon last year committed the Navy to decommissioning the Red Hill site and moving all its fuel to other locations, including Kalaeloa on the western tip of Oahu and elsewhere throughout the Pacific.
But who knew the protectionist federal maritime law known as the Jones Act would become part of the Red Hill discussion?
U.S. Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii, that’s who, and I’m glad he brought it up.
The 1920 Jones Act limits the shipment of goods between U.S. ports to only ships that are U.S. flagged and built and mostly owned and crewed by Americans — which means the Navy is supposed to use Jones Act vessels if it is going to move fuel from Red Hill to other points within the U.S.
So what’s the problem? Two things. First, Jones Act ships cost significantly more to use than internationally flagged vessels. And second, there really aren’t any Jones Act vessels available to use anyway.
Recognizing this, Case this week urged U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to grant a waiver of the Jones Act.
He said “as a practical matter, Jones Act ships are functionally unavailable for this timeframe and prohibitively expensive due to the very limited number of fuel tankers in the Jones Act fleet, which are fully committed elsewhere.”
Case also requested a waiver of the federal government’s “military cargo preference” mandate because any fuel moved from Hawaii to overseas bases would be “government-impelled” cargo and must be moved on U.S.-flagged vessels, though not necessarily U.S.-built Jones Act ships.
He said complying with this law would be “administratively complicated and similarly prohibitively expensive.”
In his letter to Mayorkas, Case explained that the current defueling plan will require one Jones Act tanker — assuming any are available — and nine cargo preference tankers to ship the fuel from a pier at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to the other locations.
He said that without the two waivers, it would cost $66 million, whereas with the waivers about only $36 million at current international charter rates.
In addition, lining up the tankers will take time, he said, so obtaining the waivers now would give the U.S. Department of Defense “the fullest possible range of options to contract internationally available fuel tanker transport on a predictable and cost-effective basis.”
Case didn’t mention this in his letter to Mayorkas, but all Jones Act waivers requested must be considered necessary in the interest of national defense and require final approval by the president.
Waivers requested directly by the U.S. Secretary of Defense have a high priority. So considering this is an issue involving the U.S. Navy, perhaps Case should have called on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin as well to recommend the waivers to the president.
In cases involving non-DOD requests, the Secretary of Homeland Security has the authority to grant such waivers, also subject to presidential approval, but, again, only if it considered to be in the interest of national defense. However, since resolution of the Red Hill crisis involves moving 100 million gallons of U.S. Navy bulk fuel, that sounds like a national security issue to me.
Either way, I am optimistic we will see a Jones Act waiver issued, and I commend Rep. Case for pushing this cause.
However, I am also left with a question: Why should we need a waiver of the Jones Act at all?
Whether it’s a natural disaster, a fuel shortage or some other crisis, the Jones Act always turns out to be a barrier to our safety and security, not a help.
We know that it hurts Hawaii and other parts of the U.S economically, has failed to ensure a strong shipbuilding industry and merchant marine, and has put our national security at risk.
Today it is hindering reasonable and cost-effective efforts to resolve the Red Hill crisis. What will be the next disaster that requires a Jones Act waiver?
It’s time we update the Jones Act for the 21st century.
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Birmingham Professional Firefighters Association
1037 2nd Court West
Birmingham, AL 35204
Welcome to the Birmingham Professional Firefighters Association (BPFA) weare the local affiliate of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters (IABPFF).
The Birmingham Professional Firefighters Association is a non-profit organization formed in 1982 by themembers of the City of Birmingham Fire Department. Our purpose is to address issues relevant to our membership, such as promotional opportunities, testing procedures and hiring practices, etc. While these issues remain a part of our focus, we recognize the need to broaden our scope to include community service.
The Birmingham Professional Firefighters Association realizes the importance of community service. To that end, three years ago we established “The Burn Victims Assistance Program” to provide some of the much needed items lost by our citizens in house fires. Each year our organization assists hundreds of families in the City of Birmingham and surrounding areas with much needed clothing, furniture, food and monetary donations.
The Birmingham Professional Firefighters Association recognizes that our organization is only as strong as those that we empower to carry on the vision. We also realize that the empowerment process starts while we are young and impressionable and continues through adulthood. In keeping with this idea, the Birmingham Professional Firefighters Association has instituted an “Adopt-A-School” program through which we provide our members the opportunity to interact with Students fromschools in the community that we serve. We present ourselves as positive role models helping the students with problems that they face from day to day.Our pilot school that we adopted was Hemphill Elementary School. After our first year working with Hemphill Elementary school we were chosen as the "New Partner of the Year" at the Birmingham Board of Education Partners in Education Banquet.Thementoring program has been well received bystudents and teachers alike.
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|Mon. Mar 22nd 2010|
|Thank you to everyone that came out to ride on saturday. Our event was a huge success, thanks to beautiful weather and everyone that showed up to participate in our relief effort. The event was covered in depth by local news stations and really shed positive light on our efforts. Again thanks to eve...|
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|Wed. Feb 17th 2010|
|The Birmingham Professional Firefighters Association will be sponsoring a Bike Ride to raise funds for the Haiti Relief Effort. The ride will take place on March 20, 2010 at 09:00am. It will begin at Birmingham City Hall and end at BPFA Headquarters (1037 2nd Court West) Refreshments will be served ...|
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|Tue. Feb 9th 2010|
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|Please join us in congratulating BPFA member -A.O. Catina Williams on her appointment to Seat 7 of the Board of Managers for the Retirement and Relief Pension System. Catina has worked for years to help make our organization a success. We are happy that she has chosen to represent the interest...|
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This is the full extent of my vocabulary for the past three days. I have a rip roaring ear infection. I don't believe I've had one since I was a kid. Thank goodness not, because the only thing that hurts worse, my friends, is labor. No epidural for this kind of pain, either. I have been eight kinds of miserable these last few days. It started on Wednesday, after the Bean (finally) got his 6 month (!) shots. Coincidentally (or not) he was also diagnosed with an ear infection. That evening, I heard a rubbing noise in my right ear, followed by an immediate sensation of fullness that did not resolve. I took and antihistamine and a decongestant and woke up the next morning at 4 am with severe pain. As I lay in bed, trying not to move, lest the fluid crackle and make my ear hurt even worse than it already did, the pager went off signaling the arrival of a labor patient. Grudgingly I got up and showered, finding my movement extremely limited. I couldn't even bend over to wrap up my hair in a towel without twinging my ear so badly it wrought a stream of curses.
I arrived on labor and delivery, caught a very fast baby about 10 minutes later, and started to move slowly through my hospital rounds. I stopped a kindly family med doctor, whom I begged to check my ear. (You see, I must relate that ears completely squick me out. The fluid, the hair cells, the little bones that *articulate*, the membrane...ick, ew, and gross. Funny, I know, coming from a specialist in one of the arguably more gross professions around. To each their own.) I was just *convinced* some wandering spider had laid eggs in my ear and they were getting ready to hatch. My colleague allayed my fears, but told me that, indeed, my ear was "cherry red" with fluid bulging behind the TM. Great. I got an Aug.mentin script called in, finished rounds, and did a post-partum tubal on my morning delivery patient. Then I headed to the office, where I proceeded to throw a minor hissy fit because I had 21 patients scheduled in roughly 3 hours (of which there were at least 3 new patients, 3 problem patients, and an I&D of a perineal abscess on the list). My hissy fit was for naught, however, as about 10 patients later, I was called to attend another delivery. I happily canceled the rest of the day and rushed back to the hospital.
As I sat waiting, my ear pain kept escalating, throbbing, and ringing. The nurse caring for my labor patient was forever messing with the electronic charting and not helping the patient (a primip) to push in any significant way. The baby kept deceling and the nurse kept ignoring the strip and focusing on the computer, and my ear kept twinging. I did the best that I could to encourage the patient. Her family stood stock-still, lined up against the farthest wall of the labor room, and her nurse hadn't even turned on the baby warmer. At last, in just a hour of pushing (would have been less, had my nurse been more patient focused and less documentation focused) I delivered the baby through a triple nuchal cord and placed her on her momma's belly. Then, I handed her a sterile towel to start drying the baby, since the nurse was still ignoring us both in favor of the computer. Thankfully the baby pinked right up and no resuscitation was needed. I finished sewing the lacerations, and held my ear and moaned all the way home.
Flash forward 'till today, I have had over 48 hours of antibiotics, have been living on m.otrin and sud.afed, and I still don't feel any better. The whole right side of my head is clogged, my ear feels full of fluid that shifts and crackles, and oh, the pain is still there. No real fever, just hovering around 100.0, and I still have to hold my head perfectly still or pay the consequences. Now I'm googling Mastoid.itis and generally being a hypochondriac about the whole thing. Oh yes, and I am also on call. I can only pray that the call gods are kind to my suffering soul.
In other news, I updated my CV and sent it out to a few "backup plan" opportunities. Mr. Whoo says my health is suffering because of the lifestyle I have been living the last 3 years. Maybe he is right, because I feel 100 years old right about now. Hope you all are having a wonderful, spring-like weekend, wherever you are. I'm going to hold a hot pack to my ear and whine about it some more. | <urn:uuid:650acd45-b1b8-46ce-b160-38f0fc3be567> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://obgynkenobi.blogspot.com/2008/03/ow-ow-ow-ow-ow.html?showComment=1205800200000 | 2015-02-02T00:14:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122122092.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175522-00162-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977413 | 1,013 |
Good works have been prepared in advance for believers to do. (Eph. 2:10). No amount of good works will save a man. “If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. What does Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.” (Rom. 4:2-5).
How are the good works which are prepared by God to be carried out by the believer? “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.” (Rom 8:14). If we are the children of God, we are dear to our Father with whom we have a vibrant relationship. “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” (Rom. 8:28-30).
The will of God is what we do as we surrender to His authority. There is a vast difference in doing good works though our will and that done through obedience to God’s Holy Spirit. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ “. (Matt. 7:21-23).
“Then they asked him, ‘What must we do to do the works God requires?’ Jesus answered, ‘The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.’ ” (John 6:28-29).
Upon what basis and authority do those who constantly speak critically, that more deeds are needed. If we loved God, we would do more. Why have we not loved more, done more, gone to more places, reached more people with the gospel, helped the poor more — “Why was this not sold and the money given to the poor.” This is the enemy’s voice, a worldly voice, a task master’s voice.
“Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” (John 14:12-14).
It is God’s authority that we are to respect and honor in our obedience to His Spirit. “I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?” (Gal. 3:2-3,5).
It is the Spirit of God by which and through which we are enabled to do anything of eternal significance. (Eph 4:11-13). God has no needs; He is fully able to accomplish His will without our help. It is God who works in and through us as we will submit to His Authority. (Phil 2:13; Heb. 4:9-11). “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” ( Gal. 5:25) . “And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.” (1 John 3:23-24). | <urn:uuid:04a86ce6-b8e4-403f-8780-4663c90c85da> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://conservativechristianapologist.com/2017/02/15/the-works-of-god/ | 2019-05-20T23:40:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256163.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520222102-20190521004102-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.982485 | 1,012 |
Stirling Council is calling on local residents to get themselves ready for winter before severe weather strikes.
The Council is already well under way with its own preparations with 7,000 tonnes of salt in stock. This will be used to treat Stirling’s road network’s priority areas during severe weather, with the remainder of the roads being treated as the weather conditions and capacity dictate. The responsive service will operate for 25 weeks until mid-April.
In addition, the Council teams will once again be out in force in mini-tractors enabling them to treat the footpath network in a more efficient manner, and operate for far longer periods without ongoing maintenance.
The Council also provides local residents with 475 salt bins at various locations of identified difficulty throughout the Council area. These will be replenished during or following spells of adverse weather conditions.
Residents can get ready for winter by checking the Council website to identify where their nearest grit bin is, and see if their street is likely to receive regular gritting so they know what to expect (http://my.stirling.gov.uk/gritters). There is also a ‘Live Gritters Map’ which shows where each gritter vehicle is in the area.
Stirling Council’s Environment Convenor Jim Thomson said, “We can’t control the weather but Stirling Council is well prepared to respond to it and keep our roads and residents moving as much as possible. As well as the roads, we have plans in place relating to our footpath network that will allow us to prioritise which routes receive the appropriate treatment during adverse weather.
“Our teams use the latest weather forecast technology to monitor conditions and respond 24 hours a day throughout the winter period. We’ll also be posting any information about disruptions to travel and bin collections on our website and social media channels so I’d ask residents to join myStirling or like and follow our Facebook and Twitter accounts.
“I would also ask that our residents be neighbourly by checking on older or vulnerable neighbours and helping less able neighbours to clear their paths.”
Environment Vice-Convenor Danny Gibson added, “It is important to highlight to residents that we have continued to protect the budget and policy for our winter service. We recognise the importance of keeping major roads and pavements as safe as possible. That said the Council can’t treat all its road network, which spans over a thousand kilometers, at the same time and we will focus on getting our gritting team on the busiest roads first.”
Trunk roads and motorways which run through the Council area are treated by both BEAR Scotland and AMEY.
Community councils and local volunteers also play an important role in the Council’s winter response. Many have already prepared their own winter resilience plans and Stirling Council has issued Community Councils with snow shovels and safety vests so local volunteers can take action to help vulnerable neighbours and other residents if conditions become severe.
Top Tips for Working Together This Winter
• If you are able, try to clear your own path and pavement in front of your home – or any other building you are responsible for – before the snow can become hard-packed ice, and be aware of where you pile it so it doesn’t block someone else’s property.
• It’s not just grit that can prevent ice forming – ordinary table salt, dishwasher salt, sand or ash will work too.
• Never use hot water to clear ice – the ice will melt at first but if it turns into black ice it can cause a bigger hazard.
• Don’t take unnecessary risks on the road – ice and snow makes it difficult to brake quickly, and wear visible clothes with suitable shoes or boots if you’re walking.
• Check Stirling Council’s website – www.stirling.gov.uk – and social media channels – @StirlingCouncil or facebook.com/StirlingCouncil – regularly for the latest news about any disruptions to service.
• Keep wheelie bins off the road so they’re out of the way of snow ploughs and, if possible, move your bin or recycling box as close as you can to a cleared road for collection – but only if you can do this safely.
• Please be aware that in poor conditions our bin and waste collection service will slow down – we will be aware of the homes that have been missed and will endeavour to collect them as soon as possible. Please be patient and only call our Contact Centre if your bin really has been missed out.
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It doesn’t take a ton of time to get well-prepared for teaching math, but spending a little time now will make you much more effective and efficient once you start your school year. Here’s how to invest an hour now that will pay dividends all year long. Grab a cup of coffee, and let’s go!
30 minutes: Get to know your curriculum.
You’ve opened the box and oohed and aahed at all the pile of new, shiny books. Now, it’s time to get to know your math curriculum.
- Read the introduction in the Teacher’s Manual. This will give you the big picture of how your math program works and what it’s trying to accomplish. Authors pack a ton of information in here, so make sure you read it!
- Look over all the books that came with your math curriculum. Make sure you know what each component is for. Scan the teacher’s manual and student books to get a sense of how each lesson is laid out.
- Count up how many lessons there are in the year. Then, make a (very tentative) plan for how many lessons you’ll do each week. Kids sometimes need to stop and practice a skill longer than the textbook expects, so make sure to allow for a little extra leeway. If the book has more lessons than you think you can cover in a year, think now about whether there are chapters you might want to skip or condense.
15 minutes: Make a “cheat sheet” for what your daily lessons will look like.
I find it really helpful to have a quick “cheat sheet” that reminds me of the most important parts of my kids’ lessons. This little index card is super-simple, but it’s very handy for keeping on track during all the multi-tasking of a typical homeschool day.
Look over your teacher’s manual and make an outline of the key components that you want to make sure to hit each day. Then, jot these most important items on a post-it or index card. I keep my cards clipped to the front of my kids’ math books so that I can’t miss them. (Make sure to include correcting your kids’ work on your cards, since kids make the most progress when they can immediately correct their errors.)
15 minutes: Decide how you’ll keep papers and manipulatives under control.
Papers and math manipulatives can quickly overrun the entire house if they’re not kept in check. If your math program is workbook-based, papers may not be a big problem. But if you’re using a textbook, it’s easiest to have your child do her work in a spiral notebook so that it’s all in one place. Graph paper notebooks (like this one for younger kids or this one for older kids) are especially nice for helping kids keep their numbers lined up neatly.
For one-on-one teaching, my kids and I love using a small whiteboard rather than paper. There’s just something about colorful markers that makes math more fun, and it’s so easy to wipe away mistakes.
When it comes to math manipulatives, less is more. You’ll need any manipulatives that your curriculum requires, but beyond that, keep it simple. (Download my Minimalist Math Manipulative Guide to learn how to make your own free, DIY manipulative kit.)
To store math manipulatives, don’t worry too much about finding the perfect containers. I personally use these cheap plastic shoeboxes and Ziploc bags. As you can see, it doesn’t make for a beautiful shelf of materials, but it works!
When you understand the curriculum, have a “cheat sheet” to guide you on a daily basis, and know where you’ll put all the stuff, you’ll feel confident and well-prepared to teach your kids math this year!
5 thoughts on “Homeschool Math Prep Power Hour: How to Gear Up for a Great Year of Homeschool Math in Just 60 Minutes”
Thanks, Kate! Helpful!
Seriously —- I’ve been homeschooling for HOW MANY YEARS, and I’ve never taken the time to do these things????
Many of my math woes would have been solved a long time ago by this common sense advice. Thanks, Kate!
Glad you found it helpful!
This is very helpful; thanks!
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Scratching the surface: how microbes adhere to worktops
Posted on June 5, 2017 by Anand Jagatia
Have you ever noticed when cleaning a sink or a saucepan that certain spots get tougher to clean over time, and the harder you scrub them, the worse it gets?
This sometimes happens when we clean things with abrasive products like scouring pads. In an effort to shift the stubborn stains or dirt, you scratch the surface you are cleaning and make it rougher. This in turn means that dirt gets lodged more easily in the scratches – so next time, you have to scrub even harder to get rid of them, and the cycle continues.
Professor Jo Verran is a microbiologist at Manchester Metropolitan University researching the science behind this kind of phenomenon – how microbes interact with surfaces and what that means for hygiene. Jo gave a talk on her work at our Annual Conference last month.
“A hygienic surface needs to be smooth, hard, inert and easy to clean,” she says. “Stainless steel is a good example of that – but stainless steel will scratch. So how does scratching or cleaning or scrubbing affect its clean-ability?”
Surfaces like stainless steel are used widely in places where hygiene is key, such as professional kitchens, food factories and hospitals, so studying how they retain microbes is important. This involves creating realistic models for surface wear, and how that affects any interaction with micro-organisms.
Initially, Jo’s group used a fairly simple way to quantify roughness. You take the profile of a surface along a cross-section, and measure how flat or bumpy it is. A totally smooth surface would give you a flat line, while a rough one would give you a series of ‘hills’ and ‘valleys’, like a landscape.
Taking the average distance of these peaks and troughs from the centre gives you a single number (Ra), that represents roughness. A rougher surface has more nooks and crannies where microbes can get lodged, so lower Ra values are considered more hygienic.
“We started asking questions – what about the type and degree of roughness? What about the size of the cells, the presence of organic material?” says Jo. “Does it matter if you have loads of bacteria that are easy to remove? Or is it worse not to have many bacteria but you can’t get them off?”
The group soon moved beyond Ra values. For one thing, it only tells you about roughness along a particular line. And because Ra is just an average, it also reveals nothing about the shapes or the properties of the features on the surface ‘landscape’. To study the effect of those, you need a 3D representation of the surface – which an atomic force microscope (AFM), provides.
“The AFM has a nano size probe, and it scans across the surface in a series of parallel lines,” Jo explains. “It goes up and down as the surface goes up and down, and the movement of the probe is captured by a laser, so you get an indirect image of the surface.”
The AFM allows you to look at surface features on a nanometre scale (billionths of a metre) rather than a micrometre scale (millionths of metre). Once the team began to look at surfaces in this way, it was possible to look at different kinds of roughness (pits or scratches, for example), and see whether they had an impact on microbial retention. But it also meant the team could start to mimic real world surface wear patterns in the laboratory.
“We were able to take the AFM into food factories, look at in situ surfaces, and get images,” she says. “Then, back in the lab, we would recreate the different types of surface topographies. This meant that we had lots of replicate ‘worn’ surfaces for further studies.”
The team also studied the attachment of microbes as well as their retention – so, not only how many cells ‘settled’ onto different surfaces, but how firmly they stayed there. By increasing the force of the AFM probe as it moved across the surface, they could measure how easy it was to remove individual cells.
By doing this kind of work, Jo’s team has been able to look in incredible detail at what makes some surfaces more hygienic than others, and what the best cleaning regimes are. They’ve also been able to test the properties of different coatings – for example, adding a titanium coating to stainless steel discouraged the retention of E. coli, and made it easier to remove.
“What we were trying to do was quantify, measure and visualise phenomena that everyone takes for granted,” Jo says. “We weren’t making massive advances in general understanding of scientific principles, but we were providing a more scientific underpinning for it. I think this is really important!” | <urn:uuid:48fd41ae-048b-40a0-a179-d231d3f37671> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://microbiologysociety.org/blog/scratching-the-surface-how-microbes-adhere-to-worktops.html | 2019-09-22T04:44:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514575076.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190922032904-20190922054904-00412.warc.gz | en | 0.959974 | 1,055 |
I have my answers, or at least some of them. But I did receive the most needed answer - one that has been lingering for the past month and a half. And I couldn't believe the answer she gave me.
Out of all the scenarios I was thinking of, the most simplest and ridiculous of them all, had come true. No, it wasn't that she was cheating on me and went to live with someone else. No, she wasn't smart enough to just rent a room like a friend of mine did while working in the city. And no, it wasn't because she was seeing someone in London and in the process, lost interest in me. Although, all of these scenarios would have seemed more worthwhile and riveting for me to accept.
Instead, it was about a measely, insignificant computer that can be easily fixed. For her, that was the deal-breaker.
I know that I most certainly am. But of course, underneath that were all the problems we were having - the total package of discord. That, I can understand. Either I'm completely blind or that I tolerate so much of what we had been through, the result of it was that I was still willing to work through our relationship.
I'm pretty much through feeling sorry for ourselves, especially for myself. I'm no longer whining (as she so callously put it) about our failed relationship. A failed marriage would have been worse. And besides, it's normal to have certain feelings when someone abandons another person. It's been studied only recently.
I've read through nearly a third of the book. I'm about to finish the second section about Withdrawal and have glanced a little bit of the third section, Internalizing. I have a feeling that I'm already into that phase, given the new information provided.
I've also come to discover that I already intuitively know of the Akeru excercise prescribed by the author and its adaptation with the Zen philosophy. That, to me, is a good indication that spirituality cannot be obtained from a book - it is inherent in the experiences we go through.
I only hope that the next person I fall in love with has enough insight to realize the same things (if not, more so) I do.
The past weekend was somewhat eventful for me. My friends and I finally got around to going to the Helium
night club in downtown Toronto
. We had to get there almost an hour before 11pm to get into the place. It was jammed-pack as usual. The beer was cheap and the music, awesome! This place housed one of the better DJ
's playing a mix of Techo, House, Down Tempo and Trance. The thing is, because of the relationship, I wasn't able to go out with my friends as often as I would have like to. It's just one of those things
that naturally happens. And now:
I'm happy that I'm single.
Well, after reading the daylog by codic
, the one just below my own, I've come to realize that I have a profuse amount of anger
towards my ex. Of course, I question whether I was right or not to have shown such emotions - especially when she did what she did in the way she did it. Perhaps it's not a question of right or wrong, but rather that it was natural for it to happen. But, would a more enlightened person harbour such feelings of resentment
and hostility? Probably not, but even to question that, it doesn't sound to me that I'm anywhere near the level of evolution I'm suppose to be at. In that case, let me start over
There's one line that I really do feel that hit home with me:
"You can tell a lot about how much a boy/girlfriend really loved you by the steps he/she took to play damage control on your bruised ego."
Now that's the most eloquent statement I've ever run across in a long time.
It also blatantly indicates how much she really cares for me - which is nothing, zilch, nada, zero. And what do I do? Well, even though I'm the one with the bruised ego, I also tried to bruise hers by attempting to retaliate with words. That tells me how much I love her - which is also nothing, zilch, nada, zero. Okay, I must admit, I still feel sorry for her due to her current situation. But the fact remains is that she chose to put herself into it. There were other options she could have excercised. And it wasn't as if I didn't want to do something that could better the situation. I pleaded with her to discuss the matter, but she totally ignored me. She was set in her ways.
So as a constellation, I suppose taking her to small claims court might not be a good idea. I'm not cruel enough to seize her assets when she's already suffering. And taking into consideration what codic stated made it so clear to me now.
Thanks, codic! :-) Because of your writeup, I shall cool! you!
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December 14, 2011 – The Austrian Mint will issue the first coin of 2012 today. The coin celebrates 200 years of the “Society of Music Friends, in Vienna”.
This coin also marks the return of the classic coinage metal of copper, which was used for many centuries around the world. Pure copper was the choice of many minters because it was so malleable and allowed for precise design details and deep relief. Copper will be used for the circulation versions of the 5 and 10 euro circulation coin series from Austria, starting with the 2012 coins.
The change to copper for the circulation versions of the 5 and 10 euro coins series was made because of the high price of silver. The silver metal content of these coins when struck in silver was higher than their respective face values. Therefore in 2011, no 5 and 10 euro coins were struck for circulation in Austria.
The first coin dated 2012 will be available as of December 14, 2011 and be in 2 metals and 2 versions. The 300,000 copper versions will be uncirculated coins that are only available through the Austrian banking system. The 50,000 special uncirculated versions will be available from the traditional outlets for Austrian commemorative coins.
The reverse design of the 5 euro coin, which is the same for both the copper and silver versions, features the Musikverein’s main concert hall, the Golden Hall and its impressive organ. The obverse designed by the Mint’s Chief engraver Thomas Pesendorfer (who is also the designer for the Vienna Philharmonic bullion coin issued since 1989) highlights the intricate details found in the Golden Hall. Most famous of these are the caryatids. These female draped figures seem to carry the weight of the magnificent building on their heads. In the upper background can be seen a portion of the complex faceted ceiling with frescoes. As well the mighty pipes of the famous organ are noted in the design. Mr. Pesendorfer has achieved great depth of field on this coin with his clever design that uses the corner of the Golden Hall, the ceiling, and the chandelier to allow one to feel like they are in the hall.
The obverse of the nine-sided coin is the standard 5 euro design, with the denomination encircled by the shields of the nine federal provinces of Austria. In the center is the face value of 5 euros. The obverse was designed by mint engraver Helmut Andexlinger.
The Musikverein celebrates its 200 anniversary in 2012. It started as a small group of friends of music and grew rapidly and soon had its own concert hall. Prior to building the performance hall it currently owns, they had a small hall that only seated 700 listeners. It was much too small to satisfy the demand from the public who wanted to enjoy great music on a regular basis.
Today’s Musikverein concert hall was built and is owned by the Society of Music Friends on land given to them by the Emperor Franz Joseph. The opening day was January 6, 1870. The concert hall is considered by experts to be one of the finest in the world, which is truly amazing considering it was built at a time when the science of acoustics did not exist. The Golden Hall is world-renowned because it is from here that the annual New Year’s concert is broadcast. Some estimates state that more than a billion listeners tune in for this annual broadcast.
Reiger, a famous organ builder with Czech/Austrian roots and exports throughout Europe and to the USA, renowned for the exacting tones of this complex instrument, built the famous organ in 1907. Since then, the inner workings have been replaced and updated four times in order to continue to guarantee the exquisite sounds for which it is so well known.
The Wiener Musikverein Hall (or Viennese Music Association Hall), usually shortened to Musikverein, was designed by a well known architect of the central area of Vienna, Theophil Hansen. Hansen was a Danish born architect who had studied in Athens for some time and was greatly influenced by classic Greek architecture. The Musikverein incorporates many of the classic Greek flourishes both inside and on the outside of the building.
The ceiling frescos of the Golden Hall were painted by August Eisenmenger and feature a serene scene of Apollo and the nine Muses. Around these are intricately facetted ceiling panels. The hall is lit by brilliantly sparkling chandeliers.
The Musikverein can hold more than 2,000 concert goers – some 1,700 seated and more than 300 standing. Several other smaller music halls were also built in the original building. In addition, at the turn of the last millennium the Musikverein began an extensive expansion underneath the original property and four new subterranean halls were added. In stark contrast to the original classical Greek architecture, the new halls are sleek and modern with highly engineered acoustics. One of the highlights is the Glass Hall, which presented a particular acoustical challenge given its many hard glass surfaces. The goal was achieved by installing a complex series of glass panels on the walls to enhance the acoustics. These new halls are used for workshops, experimental music, lectures, chamber concerts and the like.
The silver coin is available in special uncirculated quality and will have a maximum mintage of 50,000. Each of these coins is vacuumed sealed in a colourful and informative blister pack, with a gold-colored sleeve and bilingual text in English and German.
Collectors in the United States and Canada may purchase the “Society of Music Friends” coin for 24.95 US each by calling Euro Collections International toll-free at 1 877 897 7696. The coin may also be ordered on-line at www.eurocollections.com
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Everything we know so far about Far Cry 5
| Deb 23, 2018 | By: FEARIUN
Far Cry 5 is the game that has a lot to live up to. Not only is the game very hyped due to the previous success that the other titles had, but at the same time it also strives to come up with something new. Far Cry games always had a new setting, and this one is actually quite interesting. Montana is a great location for any video game, and adding it here does make a lot of sense. One thing you should keep in mind is that this game is designed to be very intense, just like the others.
But they also integrated some new notions such as religion for example. That does make plenty of sense, but as a whole it does cover a huge range of new ideas as well. Dealing with a cult that’s spread all over the game world isn’t ideal. But it does get to be fun, since you have new ways to conquer locations and so on.
The Far Cry 5 release date is March 27. They basically pushed the release date a little bit, initially it was on February 27. Ubisoft always tries to bring in more quality and value with its games, so it’s easy to say that the new Far Cry will be pretty much polished and ready to go. Recently Ubisoft gas worked really hard to deliver games that don’t have a lot of bugs, and AC Origins is a great example. So yes, we can expect some great things from Far Cry 5, not to mention that it’s really close now.
rewarding as possible. And it does that with great results. The best thing about it is that it doesn’t rush you into anything either, which is a plus.
The story is obviously about a cult that’s run by multiple brothers and they are running the entire region. They are stopping all ideas of freedom, so people are very limited in regards to what they can say, feel or enjoy. That’s why Far Cry 5 makes a lot of sense here, because it offers ideas and stuff that people want to talk about. It’s very interesting and fun, but at the same time the game is very political. Which may not be the first intention of the developers, yet it does work quite well in this context.
The major change here is that the game doesn’t have the tower mechanic anymore. That’s really different, as it basically became an icon for the game. In addition, they are adding in cooperative multiplayer. Your friends can drop in or out as they see fit, and that can be quite a great experience to be had.
You can also call your allies in order to join you in battle, and that on its own is very interesting as well. They offer you a multitude of options, not to mention that the developers also include mini games and other cool stuff. So, the location named Hope County is set to have quite a lot of fun moments.
Unlike the other games that had a rather linear story, here you can choose to free roam as you see fit. The idea here is that you get to play whenever and however you want. It’s a lot easier because you have multiple different headquarters for the same cult, and they are run by a specific boss. So, you can do missions for that one, and if you’re bored you can go to the next one. It makes sense, and it definitely offers a great range of new opportunities for you to enjoy and explore.
The fact that you have guns for hire is interesting, and it does open up some new gameplay opportunities. In addition, the cooperative gameplay is a lot more interested. People wanted to have Far Cry coop for a while, and this is the first one that will finally deliver on that promise. It’s a nice change of pace for sure, and you can easily interact and cooperate with the other players to enjoy the game as you see fit. It’s certainly a great idea and an enjoyable one for sure.
Far Cry 5 isn’t a huge departure from the series, and it doesn’t try to be one either. Instead, it tries to bring in as much fun and excitement as possible. Honestly, it does that, but it also brings in some really good questions and challenges along the way. People that love unique gameplay mechanics will love Far Cry 5, as it does feature some new stuff, including a pet that can be used in combat. Not only that, but you also have airplanes, something that went missing from the other games.
The arsenal is bigger, the game world is very good and intense, and the overall gameplay mechanics are just a pleasure to enjoy and use. It’s easy to see that Ubisoft cares about the Far Cry franchise. Of course, the premise is a bit controversial, but the entire experience and gameplay as a whole are well worth your time, you can rest assured of it! | <urn:uuid:1a6506f4-b3a1-455a-90a4-77c1246ad8ce> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.feariun.com/everything-we-know-so-far-about-far-cry-5.html | 2018-05-26T08:19:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867374.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526073410-20180526093410-00248.warc.gz | en | 0.977258 | 1,031 |
Incapacity – Snow White and the Seven Steps
CunninghamLegal – The Living Trust Lawyers
Incapacity is generally defined as lacking the ability to make decisions for oneself. This can occur due to a mental impairment or a physical disability or illness, which prevents a person from having the ability to communicate their reasonable decisions to others. Like most people, Snow White did not know that she would become incapacitated. However, she did understand that proper estate planning doesn’t merely focus on transferring assets upon a person’s death. She knew that an estate plan should also prepare for the possibility that a person may become incapacitated and provide for control of assets and guidance for health care decisions during that time.
Snow White had been warned that the evil queen was out to get her. Despite the warning, she still took a bite of a poisonous (and possibly non-organic) apple. That one bite led to Snow White’s incapacity. She lay unconscious in the forest surrounded by non-CPR certified dwarves, while her real property and financial accounts seemingly had no guidance and medical professionals feared that there was no one who could speak on Snow White’s behalf.
Fortunately, Snow White had a thorough estate plan and she had taken the proper steps to ensure that during her period of incapacity, she didn’t lose control of her assets or medical decisions. The steps she followed were to:
1) Have a Revocable Living Trust: Snow White visited a qualified estate planning attorney who drafted a Revocable Living Trust as the cornerstone of her estate plan. The person she selected as her successor trustee will be guided by the provisions of the trust during Snow White’s period of incapacity.
2) Have a Durable Power of Attorney: A durable power of attorney allows for a person to act as the agent, or attorney-in-fact, on behalf of a person who is incapacitated. Snow White named the successor trustee of her trust to be her attorney-in-fact, thus this person has the power to manage assets that are inside or outside of the trust.
3) Decide When the Durable Power of Attorney Will Be Effective: The durable power of attorney can be effective immediately, upon the signing of an authorization by a person who still has capacity, or upon the occurrence of an event that causes a person’s incapacity. Snow White preferred that her durable power of attorney be effective immediately upon the signing of her estate plan, which means that her attorney-in-fact could act in her best interest anytime thereafter.
4) Create a List of Assets, Obligations and Accounts to Guide Your Successor Trustee and Your Attorney-in-Fact: It can be daunting to assume responsibility for another person’s assets and finances. It is recommended that you keep a current list of assets, obligations, and accounts to allow the people that you have nominated to seamlessly act on your behalf.
5) Have an Advance Health Care Directive: Also referred to as the “medical-power-of-attorney”, this document allows a person to be named as the health care agent and empowers them to make decisions on behalf of an incapacitated person.
6) Thoughtfully Select Who is Best Suited to Make Medical Decisions: It is important to select a health care agent who is comfortable speaking with medical professionals and advocating on behalf of the incapacitated person. Snow White selected the dwarf named Doc as her health care agent. His name indicates that he has a medical background and therefore would be comfortable discussing possible treatments and procedures with Snow White’s doctors.
7) Name People to Receive Medical Information (HIPAA Authorization): The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires that information relating to a person’s medical condition only be released to named “HIPAA agents.” Although Snow White wanted only one health care agent to make decisions for her, she authorized a handful of dwarves and family members to receive information related to her medical condition.
By following the steps listed above, Snow White’s assets were managed during her period of incapacity by people she had previously selected. Additionally, her health care agent was able to discuss and authorize her treatment. The experimental “kiss-by-a-prince” therapy proved successful and Snow White regained her capacity and her ability to control her assets and make her own health-care decisions. And by avoiding poisonous, non-organic apples, she was able to live happily ever after.
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PussFoot is stoked to bring you The Chattanooga Skydiving Company, make sure to add this one to your bucket list for sure. Located just outside the city of Chattanooga, around a 20 min drive. Chattanooga Skydiving Company is a Smaller drop zone with a wicked fun feel. A From the moment you arrive you will be surrounded by an amazing staff and fun jumper base. Tennessee Charm is not lacking on this dropzone. Don't forget to check their website for upcoming events and deals. So pack your car and make sure to check them out. I hope you enjoy this DZ as much as we do, Did I mention that Chattanooga is one of my fav places to visit, The food the people mhmmm.
The closest airport to the Chattanooga Skydiving Company is Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. This can present a problem as it is only a regional airport and flight might be tough to find and might be expensive. Other airports are over 90 miles away.
second star to the right
* If flying in check rates, I have found a few good deals if booked in advance.
Address: 1001 Airport Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37421
Phone: (423) 855-2200
*31 miles to the East it's around a 30 min drive
As always we recommend Delta
*If flying in we recommend renting a car
** You are going to want a car at this DZ **
You are going to want to get out and explore trust me
We at Pussfoot love taking road trips. Road trips give us the opportunity to meet amazing people and visit new drop zones. Having our own car on a skydiving adventure gives us a sense of safety and an additional place to store belongings. So if you are like us and are going to drive there are some things to know.
*Use Waze - this will route you around traffic and show you all of the police. This app should save you some time on your journey.
*If you are coming from the NE let's say New York - trust me stay on the highway unless Waze tells you to exit. Just like Mom Waze knows best!
*Do you really need to bring that? Pack light, you are still in America and can stop to get whatever you need.
*Get a BP rewards card. You will earn money off every time you fill up. * There are BP gas stations all over the country. This last trip I saved over $50.00 in fuel using one. ( I cannot stress this car enough! I have saved thousands of dollars over the last five years. Link https://www.mybpstation.com/bp-driver-rewards )
*Remember to take breaks, switch drivers and stay hydrated and fueled up. The most important part of any road trip is enjoying the journey, no need to rush!
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ARRIVING AT DZ:
So you made it! Do you know where you are staying? Do not forget to check in to Manifest when they are open so you can fill out your waver and be given an orientation. If you will be arriving after hrs, remember that they will be closed and you can not camp on the premises. Please plan ahead and make sure you have accommodations prepared.
No Camp For You !!!!
No camping on DZ
This is a public airport and the powers that be have deemed camping to be a no go. However, there are a few campgrounds just a few min away.
Link to campgrounds
Not bad at all
*Be kind and clean up after yourself. We are all adults and being a slob is just not cool for the next person who needs to use the facilities :-)
9.8 miles away / around a 13 min drive
Open until 8pm
Address: 225 Wilson Carter Drive, Kimball, TN 37347
Phone: (423) 837-8088
Supercenter open until 11pm
Food, Beer and hygiene
9.4 miles away/ around an 11 min drive
Address: 1525 Kimball Crossing Dr, Kimball, TN 37347
Phone: (423) 837-6732
Below you will find a map of Chattanooga Skydiving Company. Remember there is no camping, if you decide to camp down the road and need a tent and or camping supplies, don't forget that an unnamed large have it all store is located nearby and has an unconditional 90 day return policy.
* The Food - Go eat at Main st Meats and get the burger - it's the best I have ever had . Yup I said it again !
FYI the landing area is huge
And what a city it is
25 Min. Drive to the NW
Chattanooga is epic, the vibe is steller. This is one of my fav cities to visit. From the people, history, bars and the FOOD - Chattanooga is sure to not disappoint. Make sure to check out the historical district.
Yup this is real
20 miles and 25 min drive
Address: Scenic Hwy., Chattanooga TN
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ALROSA 2018: Dialogue in the new format
On March 13, the city of Mirny hosted a general event of 2018 - a meeting of the economic management of ALROSA. The meeting was attended by more than 500 delegates from structural divisions, subsidiaries and affiliates.
ALROSA 2018: Interest in New Technologies
Technology development - a guarantee of quality
ALROSA adjusts the terms of the auction for gas assets
The Supervisory Board of ALROSA in absentee voting on January 18 amended the notice of an open auction for the sale of the Company's gas assets.
ALROSA agrees to outsource small business in Yakutia
Businessmen of Yakutia are ready to supply goods and services for the needs of industrial enterprises of the ALROSA group of companies, Minister of Investment Development and Entrepreneurship of the region Anton Safronov told ALROSA President Sergey Ivanov at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2017.
ALROSA Aikhal transfers to compressed natural gas
In 2017 the Aikhal Mining Processing Plant will spend more than 1 billion rubles on technical re-equipment, including putting into operation of cars of a higher environmental class.
ALROSA Airlines replenishes the flying stock with Boeing 737-700
The aircraft already carried the first passengers of the airline. Another Boeing 737-700 is expected to arrive at the disposal of the carrier until the end of April.
This will allow to start phased decommissioning of physically obsolete aircraft, improve the efficiency of transportation and the quality of customer service.
ALROSA Airlines: Over 446.5 thousand passengers in 2017
The airline summed up the results for 2017
ALROSA among Top 3 for Environmental Responsibility
PJSC ALROSA ranked among the top three in the environmental responsibility rating of the Russian mining and smelting companies. The rating results were announced by the UN Office in the Russian Federation on Monday, December 11.
ALROSA and AWDC signed a new cooperation agreement
On April 24, ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, and Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) signed a new extended cooperation agreement in Moscow. The agreement continues positive cooperation experience between the parties and expands bilateral interaction in line with new challenges of the market.
ALROSA and DMCC Discuss Cooperation Prospects
Moscow, June 14, 2017 – ALROSA President Sergey Ivanov and Executive Chairman of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) Ahmed Bin Sulayem agreed upon enhancing cooperation in diamond trade.
ALROSA and Profalmaz: Everything for working man
Following the results of 2018, 80% of ALROSA employees are members of Profalmaz. It is worth noting that the trade union has more than a thousand unemployed pensioners, more than 400 people - students aged 18 to 22 years.
ALROSA announces an open call for proposals to resume production at the Mir Mine
ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, announces an open tender for projects to resume mining operations at the Mir Mine. Authors of the best project will receive a reward of 1.5 million rubles, and the total prize fund of the contest exceeds 3 million rubles.
ALROSA announces sales results for April and January-April 2017
Moscow, May 10, 2017 – Public Joint Stock Company ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, has announced rough and polished diamond sale results for April and the first four months of 2017.
ALROSA announces sales results for December 2016 and interim results for 2016
Moscow, January 11, 2017 – PJSC ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, has announced rough and polished diamond sale results for December 2016 and interim results for 2016.
ALROSA announces sales results for February 2017
Moscow, March 9, 2017 – Public Joint Stock Company ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, has announced rough and polished diamond sale results for February 2017.
ALROSA announces sales results for January 2017
Moscow, February 7, 2017 – Public Joint Stock Company ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, has announced rough and polished diamond sale results for January 2017.
ALROSA announces sales results for March 2017
Moscow, April 10, 2017 – PJSC ALROSA, the global leader in rough diamond production, has announced rough and polished diamond sales results for March 2017.
ALROSA appoints Jim Vimadalal as Director of Mumbai representative office
Jim Vimadalal, who previously worked at Indian offices of Rio Tinto and Swarovski, was appointed as Director of ALROSA’s representative office in Mumbai.
ALROSA appoints the date of the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
Moscow, April 25th, 2017 – Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of PJSC ALROSА, the world leader in diamond mining, will be held on June 30, 2017.
ALROSA automates drilling in underground mines
ALROSA will test the technology that allows to increase the accuracy of drilling operations and minimize the participation of people in underground mines
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The 13th of June 2007
Article and pics by Arto Lehtinen
Suicidal Tendencies has once again reactivated after a long silent period. The latest full length output titled FREE YOUR SOUL…AND SAVE MY MIND from this legendary band led by Mike Muir saw the light of day back in 2000. Occasionally the band has toured and then suddenly vanished leaving no traces behind.
Therefore the announcement of the gig booked to the Tavastia club definitely came out of blue to most of people as the band hasn’t been seen up here in Finland for ages. Frankly most of people had seen Suicidal Tendencies in 1993 when opening up for Metallica in a huge outdoor stadium gig. But ST’s first visit to Finland is definitely remembered best amongst the older metal generation as ST arranged one hell of a memoberable gig with Anthrax in a huge outdoor metal festival back in 1989. That gig was truly insane. The show got delayed as the bassist at that time Rob Trujillo got a bottle smashed on his head and some poor and obviously nonguilty guy got beaten up by Muir because of that. The gig was brutal, brutal pits, stage divings etc…
Well back to the present moment when the legendary five piece from West Coast California arrived at Finland after a huge break. The Tavastia club was entirely packed by all kinds of freaks, metal heads, punks, hard core people who were about to arrange a real ballistic chaotic and violent moshpits. The traditional ST dresscode was quite obviously in sight as people had dug up old head scarfs and ST caps. Before Suicidal unleashed their 90 minute of pure aggression, the atmosphere in the Tavastia was like a volcano before a massive blast as people were anxiously waiting and shouting ST.
The band kicked the night off with “You Can’t Bring Me Down” followed by a bunch of other songs picked up from several albums. The whole crowd went totally apeshit. The brutal insane pit was burning the floor up with the tremendous furious and aggression thru the whole show. That kind of wild raging chaos hasn’t been seen at Tavastia since the last Machine Head show.
The band, well actually Mike Muir was in the extreme tight condition and still is a real relentless and possessed wildman running on the stage like some sort of maniac. The insane non-stop running and Mike’s maniacal raging and headbanging proved the man hasn’t lost any inch of his incredible drive in the performance on the stage that was known and seen in the 80’s.
Although the whole show was like a punch direct to the face, Muir turned out to be a real comedian, communicating with the audience and making them laugh. The extreme talented young looking bassist Steve Brunner got a chance to show his dancing skills. The temporary drummer gave a basic lesson on how to do a break dance on the stage at Tavastia.
The guitarist Dean Pleasants instead appeared to be rather uninterested in the whole gig as the man was leaning against monitors when other guys were joking with the audience. Rocky George definitely needs to make a return to the ST rank.
As for the set, it was mostly based on the older material from the 80’s. Of course some newer stuff such as “Cyco Vision” from FREEDUMB belonged to the set. The classic ones such as “Possessed To Skate”, I Saw Your Mommy” and “I Shot The Devil” concluding the gig got a real wild reception in the audience.
Even though the pits and circle pits were going insane and looked damn wild all the time, Muir asked the crowd to get on the stage during “Pledge Your Allegiance”. The security guys were heavily overworked when dozens of people got the stage and some kids were pushed back as the stage was getting entirely overcrowded. It was pretty hilarious to see when some kid tried to dive back to the audience, but jumped direct toward the security fence ahead first. There are a few real cool looking dives though.
The gig was definitely a kick ass, no single peaceful moment from the audience’s side, nor from the band. Above all Mike Muir was the most energetic frontman seen for a while. Hopefully Suicidal Tendencies will be seen on the soil of Finland soon again.
1. You Can’t Bring Me Down
2. Trip At The Brain
3. War Inside My Head
5. Send Me Your Money
6. We Are A Family
7. Won’t Fall In Love Today
9. Possessed To Skate
10. Cyco Vision
11. I Saw Your Mommy
12. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
13. Pledge Your Allegiance
14. Ain’t Gonna Take It
15. I Shot The Devil
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The past few months have been a time of “big vision” in the search business. Google and Microsoft shared announcements about their respective visions for enterprise search, and Elastic made an IPO offering that received a strong commitment from the investment community.
In all three cases it is indeed about vision rather than current technology, but a critical barrier stands in the way of their achieving these visions that no one seems to have considered.
Google: Convincing Companies to Make the Switch
Google announced a cloud enterprise search solution that will offer a range of connectors to facilitate a federated search across multiple applications. Technically, this is a very elegant one-stop approach, but the big unanswered question is what the pricing model is going to be. The Google enterprise search appliance offered a notionally transparent per-document pricing model, but many users found the definition of “document” somewhat idiosyncratic. At present, pricing appears to be something agreed upon on an individual basis, probably linked to the publicity value of the customer. I’ve lost count of the number of Workplace by Facebook presentations I have seen recently where no money has yet changed hands!
Google’s major problem will involve displacing existing applications, mainly in SharePoint. Proving that one search solution is better than another on a “proof of concept” test is no guide as to how it will perform in a production environment. The inevitable change in the user experience alone will pose a significant challenge.
Related Article: Google Search Appliance Fades Away
Microsoft: Unraveling a Complicated Search Legacy
Microsoft acquired FAST Search and Transfer 10 years ago and then buried it after stripping out some elements that ended up in FS4SP. In particular, Microsoft discontinued the content processing pipeline. At present, Microsoft has a complex range of search applications, including “classic” and “modern” search, Azure (which is Elastic under the covers) and Bing for Business. Complicating matters, Microsoft’s announcements often lack clarity on whether it is a product or a promise. It took Agnes Molnar 40 minutes to explain the current situation at the IntraTeam meeting in Stockholm while the audience was frantically making notes.
Recent announcements about a more coordinated Microsoft strategy mention enterprise-wide solutions being available in 2019, but this refers to the Microsoft enterprise. How third-party applications are going to be implemented remains to be seen. I am curious to see how or if the underlying graph search technology will cope with indexing non-Microsoft applications. Unlike Google, Microsoft has to support a substantial legacy market and that limits its ability to throw bits of its technology stack away.
Elastic: Strong IPO, But Is it Sustainable?
Elastic recently completed a very successful IPO, with the stock currently trading at almost double the offer price, valuing the company at around $5 billion. The NASDAQ description of Elastic (which is well worth reading) positions Elastic as a search company. However, the company seems to focus primarily on the log analysis market. There is a difference. Euan Jones shared a good analysis on Seeking Alpha of the market potential for Elastic that suggested the $70 pricing is not sustainable for a company with revenues of $200 million.
Related Article: Enterprise Search Has an Open Source Secret
The Major Barrier to Growth
All of this technology is only as good as the people who can use it to deliver a satisfactory user experience. The problem, however, is there are not enough of these people. Only a small number of search integration companies and a few Microsoft channel partners have the skills to manage complex search environments. With the dramatic increase in complexity and the positioning of “personalized search” as the ultimate vision, there is an urgent need for search specialists inside the organization. Managing relevance ranking needs to become a profession, ideally with some form of competence certification.
It is remarkable that the only person providing a range of training courses is Agnes Molnar through her Search Explained business. The highly successful conferences such as Haystack in the US and the UK, developed by OpenSource Connections and Flax, clearly prove the demand for training. Unfortunately, there’s a lack of people with the expertise and experience to lead training courses. Information Schools also ignore enterprise search, but again who would lead the courses and the tutorials?
A Search Academy?
The only solution I can see is for vendors to appreciate how the lack of search skills will impact their bottom line and come together to support the development of search academies in the US, Europe and the Far East, which teach search management on a vendor-neutral basis. Between us, Molnar and I have developed all the course material — we just need someone to come up with some funding and an ability to promote them.
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Lenses with an anamorphic element squeeze the image horizontally, allowing a wider field of view to be captured. The images are restored to their correct proportions in post production, but depth of field, bokeh (out of focus areas), barrel distortion and lens flare all retain different characteristics to those obtained with traditional spherical lenses.
“Director Jamie Childs suggested we shoot on anamorphic lenses to give it a more filmic look,” says Doctor Who DP Denis Crossan. “You get really nice background fall-off and out of focus ellipses on light sources.”
While most viewers will not be able to identify these visual characteristics specifically, they will certainly be aware of a more cinematic feel to the show overall. This is because we associate anamorphic images - even if we do not consciously know them as such - with the biggest of Hollywood blockbusters, everything from Die Hard to Star Trek Beyond.
It’s not just the BBC who is embracing anamorphic. DP Ollie Downey contrasted spherical glass with vintage anamorphics to deliberate effect in The Commuter, an episode of the Channel 4/Amazon sci-fi anthology series Electric Dreams.
The story revolves around Ed (Timothy Spall) whose mundane but difficult life turns upside down when he discovers Macon Heights, a town that seems to exist in an alternate reality. “Tim Spall’s character is torn between his real life and the fantastical world of Macon Heights,” Downey explains on his Instagram feed. “We shot Crystal Express Anamorphics for his regular life, and Zeiss Super Speed Mk IIs for Macon Heights.”
The most recent series of Doctor Who uses anamorphics. Image - BBC
The anamorphic process was invented as a way to get a bigger image from the same area of 35mm negative, but in today’s world of ultra-high-resolution digital sensors, there is no technical need for anamorphic, only an aesthetic one. In fact, they can actually complicate the process, as Downey notes: “We had to shoot 8K on the Red to be able to punch into our Crystal Express to extract 16:9 and still deliver 4K to Amazon.”
Back at the BBC, the John le Carré adaptation The Little Drummer Girl uses anamorphic imaging to cement its late 1970s setting. The mini-series revolves around Charmian, an actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence via the mysterious agent Becker. The truth is distorted throughout, just as the wide anamorphic lenses distort every straight line into a curve.
Reviewing the show for The Independent, Ed Cumming notes that director Park Chan-wook: “…does not aim to be invisible but to remind you constantly that what you are seeing is a creation. Take the scene at a beachside taverna in Greece, where Charmian and Becker start talking properly to each other. The camera stays still, the focus snaps between him and her.” Such focus pulls are more noticeable in anamorphic because the subject stretches vertically as it defocuses.
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The Little Drummer Girl is slavish in its recreation of the period, in-camera style as well as production design. Zooms are used frequently, their two-dimensional motion intricately choreographed with the actors who step in and out of multiple planes in the image. Such shots were common in the 70s, but have since fallen very much out of fashion. When once they would have passed unnoticed, a standard part of film grammar, they now draw attention.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a Netflix Original, also draws attention with its optics. Charting the trials and tribulations of a teenaged witch, the show uses different makes of lenses to differentiate two worlds, just like The Commuter.
According to DP David Lazenberg’s website, he mixed modern Panavision G series anamorphics with “Ultragolds”. Information on the latter is hard to find, but they may be related to the Isco Ultra Star adapters which some micro-budget filmmakers have adopted as a cheap way of shooting anamorphic.
The clean, sharp G-series glass is used to portray Sabrina’s ordinary life as a small-town teenager, while the Ultragolds appear to be used for any scenes involving witchcraft and magic. Such scenes display extreme blur and distortion at the edges of the frame, making characters squeeze and stretch as the camera pans over them.
Unlike the anamorphic characteristics of Doctor Who or The Commuter, which are subtle, adding to the stories on a subconscious level, the distortion in Sabrina is extreme enough to be widely noticed by its audience. “Numerous posts on Reddit speak highly of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s content and cinematography,” reports Andy Walker, editor of memeburn.com, “but a majority have a collective disdain for the unfocused effect.”
“I hate that blurry s*** on the side of the screen in Sabrina,” is the more blunt appraisal of Twitter user @titanstowerr. Personally, I find the effect daring and beautiful, but it certainly distracted me just as it has distracted others, which forces me to wonder if it takes away more from the story than it adds.
And that’s what it all comes down to in the end: are the technical characteristics of the lens facilitating or enhancing the storytelling? DPs today, in both cinema and long-form series, have tremendous freedom to use glass to enhance the viewers’ experience. Yes, that freedom will sometimes result in experiments that alienate some viewers, but overall it can only be a good thing for the expressiveness of the art form. | <urn:uuid:decf23a6-bc3b-4e96-979b-283bd8ebf913> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/5954-anamorphic-lenses-are-becoming-the-new-normal-in-television-drama | 2018-12-10T13:56:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823339.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210123246-20181210144746-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.941938 | 1,216 |
The Alliance recommends constructing a limited access corridor extending the Route 234 Bypass between I-66 in Prince William County and Northstar Boulevard north of US Route 50 in Loudoun County. This new corridor would provide a much needed direct north-south connection between the two fastest growing counties in the region, Loudoun and Prince William Counties, and Dulles Airport.
Recent government data shows that the D.C. metro area added 81,100 jobs for the year June 2014-June 2015, more than any other region in the Country. Most of this job growth occurred in suburban Northern Virginia and Maryland not the region’s central core. This job trend reflects regional population growth over the past several decades […]Read
Transportation progress in Northern Virginia is seldom easy or quick. It’s not by accident that today, travelers in this area waste more time in traffic than in any other part of the nation. Tuesday evening, four Prince William County Supervisors (Ruth Anderson, Maureen Caddigan, Peter Candland and Jeanine Lawson) took advantage of the absence of […]Read
Today being April 1st, a small group of public officials long opposed to the Bi-County Parkway apparently felt it appropriate to try to fool the public into believing that the Bi-County Parkway is dead. The source of their claim is a VDOT letter, which unfortunately for them, says nothing of the sort. Instead, the letter […]Read
Bi-County Parkway Overview
The Bi-County Parkway’s (BCP) need and benefits are well-documented by the 2005 Draft Tri-County Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Location Study as well as several local studies. Over the next 30 years, Loudoun and Prince William Counties will add 300,000 new jobs and have a combined population of 1.2 million. Today, there are 200,000 north-south vehicle trips a day in the region, which will grow to nearly 400,000 trips by 2040.
The 2005 Draft EIS and Location Study said, “This (bi-county) corridor affects the largest decrease in hours of delay over the no build alternative.” It also ranks second in alternatives studied in reducing vehicle miles of travel.
The Bi-County Parkway also:
- Was selected in November 2005 by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) as its preferred alternative.
- Has appeared on Loudoun and Prince William County master plans for decades.
- Appears in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority’s TransAction 2040 regional plan, the National Capital Regional Transportation Planning Board’s (TPB) 2040 fiscally Constrained Long Range Plan, and the Commonwealth of Virginia’s statewide long range plan.
- Is located within and is a key component of Northern Virginia’s North-South Corridor of Statewide Significance created and designed by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in 2011. You can read the CTB resolution here. You can also read the North-South Corridor Master Plan Study here.
The Bi-County Parkway commands broad support with Northern Virginia’s private sector, which recognizes its importance in connecting Northern Virginia (and Virginia’s!) second and third largest counties as well for the improved access it provides to Washington Dulles International Airport. The Bi-County Partnership is a coalition formed to increase public awareness of the importance and benefits of the BCP. The Partnership consists of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce, Prince William Chamber of Commerce, Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce, Committee for Dulles, Dulles Area Transportation Association, Dulles South Alliance, Washington Airports Task Force and the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance.
The Bi-County Parkway was approved by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in November 2005. The Parkway is a new 10.4-mile north-south transportation link would connect Prince William County and the City of Manassas with Loudoun County and the Dulles Corridor. The location of the Bi-County Parkway would be north of Interstate 66 in Prince William County, from the I-66 and Route 234 interchange, to Route 50 in Loudoun County.
The Bi-County Parkway study process is awaiting sign-off of the environmental impact statement and a favorable record of decision by the Federal Highway Administration and review by Virginia’s new HB 2 project evaluation process. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement was essentially completed in 2005 and has been a political football for ten years.
Despite strong evidence showing the future demand and benefit of a Bi-County Parkway, on March 15, 2016 the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted 4-3 to remove the roadway from the County’s comprehensive plan. This is not the first time a Northern Virginia locality has taken action to delay, downsize or defeat and run-up the cost of badly needed transportation improvements. Read more about why it’s not by accident area residents lose more time and money stuck in congestion than just about anyone in the nation here.
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Education has long been the primary pathway to social mobility in the United States. The American Dreamthe idea that ones family origin is no barrier to economic successis plausible to the extent that we believe that our schools provide all students with equal opportunity to develop skills that will enable them to succeed in our complex society. Without such opportunity, hope for social mobility dims.
So when we ask whether America is becoming more or less equal, we should ask not only whether income and political power are becoming more unequally distributed (they are), but also whether the opportunity for social mobility is declining. We should ask whether children from all backgrounds have equal opportunities to succeed in life.
Increasingly, the answer seems to be no.
It is well known that economic inequality has been growing in the U.S. since the 1970s. Less well known, however, is the fact that inequality in educational success has also been growing. The difference in average academic skills between high and low-income students is now 3040 percent larger than it was 30 years ago. Indeed, the difference in average test scores between high- and low-income students is now much larger than the difference between black and white students. Likewise, the college completion rate for children from high-income families has grown sharply in the last few decades, while the completion rate for students from low-income families has barely moved.
This rising gap in academic skills and college completion has come at a time when the economy relies increasingly on well-educated workers. Largely gone are the manufacturing jobs that provided a middle-class wage but did not require a college degree. In todays economy, young men and women without college degrees are increasingly consigned to low-wage jobs with little opportunity for advancement. So family background has become increasingly determinative of educational success, and educational success, in turn, has become increasingly determinative of economic success. The American Dream has moved farther out of reach for lower-income children.
Stagnant incomes have left the children of poor and working-class families without the resources that the children of the rich enjoy.
What has caused this rise in educational inequality? Contrary to popular rhetoric, our schools are not worse than they used to be. Indeed, the average nine year old today has math skills equivalent to those of the average 11 year old 30 years ago. Nor have test scores or college completion rates for students from low-income families declined; they simply havent risen nearly as fast as those of high-income students. Although there are striking inequalities in the quality of schools available to children from low- and high-income families, these inequalities do not appear larger than in the past. Furthermore, if schools were responsible for widening educational inequality, we would expect that test-score gap to widen as students progress through school. But this does not happen. The test-score gap between eighth-grade students from high- and low-income families is no larger than the school-readiness gap among kindergarteners. The roots of widening educational inequality appear to lie in early childhood, not in schools.
So what has been happening in early childhood? Rising neighborhood segregation by income means that low-income children are more likely to grow up in poor neighborhoods [PDF] where they have less access to high quality child care and pre-school. High-income families, by contrast, increasingly invest more of their income in their children. They spend more on preschool and early childhood education than they used to, more on tutors and lessons, on private school tuition, and on college. This is a reasonable response to an economy where educational success is increasingly important in securing a middle-class job. The problem, of course, is that lower-income families have not seen their income grow at the same rate as have upper-income families, and so they have not been able to increase their investment in their children. Stagnant incomes have left the poor and working-class without the resources to give their children the improved educational opportunities and supports that the children of the rich enjoy.
What can we do about this problem? The most effective way of narrowing the academic achievement gap would be to ensure that all children have access to secure, stable, and cognitively stimulating environments in early childhood, both at home and in child-care or preschool settings. And the best way to do that is ensure that we have an economy that provides families with stable incomes at a living wage. We need jobs, we need affordable health care, and we need a social safety net to support families through the hard times between jobs. We also need high-quality child-care and preschool programs for low- and middle-income children. We need programs like the Nurse-Family Partnership, in which nurses make home visits to help low-income first-time mothers develop effective parenting skills.
These do not sound like education policies, perhaps, but the best way to reduce inequality in educational outcomes is to ensure that all students start school on a more even footing. Schools alone are unlikely to remedy the very large disparities among children entering the kindergarten door. We canand mustdo more to improve our schools, of courseparticularly those schools that enroll low-income students. But schools alone cannot save the American Dream. | <urn:uuid:14fa742f-7355-4345-8c37-5e0f111175e2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://cepa.stanford.edu/news/education-and-inequality | 2023-10-02T17:05:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511002.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002164819-20231002194819-00523.warc.gz | en | 0.974497 | 1,057 |
Game Fifty-Five – Cubs 6 Cardinals 9
The Cubs had not swept a 3-game season series in St. Louis since June of 1988 and the drought still stands. The Cardinals got 5 RBI’s from Scott Rolen and Jim Edmonds on a day that Greg Maddux had trouble getting out of the 1st inning. Maddux was not sharp from the beginning of the game and allowed 3 runs on 2 walks and 2 hits while throwing 26 pitches in the 1st inning alone. Maddux left too many balls out over the plate and the Cardinals took every advantage. The Cardinals scored 6 off of Maddux and 3 off of David Aardsma to avoid the sweep at the hands of the Cubs. Despite the win, this was the Cardinals first series loss at the new Busch Stadium.
The Cubs had plenty of opportunities to put the game away against Jason Marquis but were unable to take advantage of two bases loaded situations and left 12 runners on base Sunday afternoon. The Cubs also committed 2 errors in the game, but there were more of the mental variety that led to extra opportunities for the injury strapped Cardinals. For the ninth time in ten games the Cubs pounded out double-digit hits but were only 5-15 with runners in scoring position and 1-5 with RISP and 2 outs. Carlos Marmol was impressive in his Major League debut. Marmol faced 6 batters, allowed a hit and struck out 3 including the 1st of his career against Hector Luna and Scott Rolen looking in the 8th. Greg Maddux only threw 76 pitches, 48 for strikes, in 5 innings but gave up 6 runs on 9 hits with 2 walks and no strikeouts. Sunday’s outing was the fourth time since May 3rd that he has allowed at least 6 runs in a game. Maddux could not find his usual pinpoint control and that allowed to the 3 runs the Cardinals put up in the 5th. With the Cardinals down 5-3, So Taguchi singled to center with 1 out, stole his second base of the day and went to 3rd when the ball bounced off of his leg; Barrett was given an error….the first of the series for the Cubs. Scott Rolen singled to center to score Taguchi, the injured Jim Edmonds (3-3 with 2 runs, 2 RBI’s and a walk on the day) doubled to score Rolen and Juan Encarnacion doubled to left on a ball just out of the reach of Matt Murton.
The Cardinals put the game out of reach in the 6th against David Aardsma. With 1-out Aramis Ramirez could not handle a bouncing ball to his left and pinch hitter Chris Duncan reached on an infield single. David Eckstein singled to center and Taguchi singled to right to score Duncan, both runners advanced on a throwing error by Jacque Jones. Scott Rolen hit a sacrifice fly to right center and on bad communication by Pierre and Jones, Eckstein scored and Taguchi moved to 3rd and scored on a single by Edmonds. The mental errors and physical errors cost the Cubs the game….the Cardinals did not beat the Cubs they took advantage of the Cubs’ mistakes….like the Cubs did in the first two games.
The offense played well but the lack of execution with runners in scoring position was troublesome from the beginning of the game. The Cubs loaded the bases twice in the first inning but only scored 1 run. Matt Murton was the only position player in the game without a hit and left 7 runners on bases while striking out three times. Murton is 2-28 this season against the Cardinals. The Cubs did score 4 of their 6 runs in the 3rd and led in the ballgame twice.
Tony Womack singled to start the 3rd, Barrett followed with a single to right and Womack scored on a single to right by Todd Walker. Ramirez blooped a single into shallow left to score Barrett and Jacque Jones hit a ground rule double into the stands in center to score Todd Walker. Murton struck out, Cedeno was intentionally walked and Greg Maddux hit a soft grounder to David Eckstein to score Ramirez. Juan Pierre popped out to left field on the first pitch he saw to end the inning. The Cubs scored again in the 7th on a single to center by Ronny Cedeno that scored Jacque Jones who had doubled with 1-out.
The Cubs are really hitting well as of late. Cedeno has a 9 game hitting streak and is hitting .303 on the season. Jacque Jones had a huge series (8-13) and is hitting .306. Michael Barrett is at .304 after going 8-13 in the series. The Cubs are playing good ball right now and it was not for the fact they dug themselves such a huge hole every game would not be as critical as it is. They have won back-to-back series for the first time since April 14th – April 19th (Pirates and Dodgers) and 4 of their last 6. They have started out the road trip 2-1 and with the possibility of a 3-game series in Houston without facing either Roy Oswalt or Andy Pettitte could not come at a better time.
The next week will play a major role in the rest of this season….Carlos Zambrano takes the hill on Monday night against the Astros. The Astros have not announced who will start on Monday. Roy Oswalt was scheduled to pitch on Sunday in Houston but was scratched at the last minute due to back spasms after leaving his last start with a strained right hamstring…Fernando Nieve started in place of Oswalt against the Reds. Nieve was scheduled to pitch on Monday against Zambrano and the Cubs. | <urn:uuid:42a4cf91-7f39-4f23-95d2-20fe880b79bb> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://chicagocubsonline.com/archives/2006/06/cubs_cards_55.php | 2021-01-21T14:15:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703524858.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20210121132407-20210121162407-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.979813 | 1,176 |
PPF and FD plans are considered to be safe investment option among financial institutes in India. Both the options help investors save for long-term goals, and are invested in an easily accessible mode and with guaranteed returns over time. But choosing between the two can be confusing as each one has its own benefits and drawbacks. In this article, we will compare PPF versus FDR to help you determine which one is better for your personal needs.
Fixed Deposits and Public Provident Fund are two popular options for investment. Let’s see the difference between them and which one is a better option for you to invest in.
What is a Fixed Deposit (FD)?
Fixed deposits are a conservative form of investment. The interest rate on these investments is fixed by the Government of India, hence there is no market movement associated with them. Fixed deposits are safest if you do not need access to your money for a specific period. Fixed Deposits have been popular over the past few years due to their high returns, competitive interest rates and growing demand from investors.
Benefits Offered by Fixed Deposits
The following are the benefits offered by the fixed deposit scheme:
Fixed deposits would be the safest investment option for someone looking for fixed returns on investments. The interest rates applicable are not dependent on the market fluctuations and remain fixed at the rate at which an individual has booked or fixed his FD. Always use a fd calculator to have better insight.
Fixed deposits are stated-income investments. They involve a lump sum amount and don’t bear interest as they mature over a fixed period of time. You can invest in either short-term or long-term fixed deposits based on your risk appetite, investment objective, and term preferences.
Continuous Deposit (Cumulative FD) is a safe and secure way of meeting your financial needs for the long term. The interest rate on this account increases every time the accumulated amount reaches the value of one lakh, thus guaranteeing higher gains on your principal amount.
Benefits for Senior Citizens:
Savings account is a good way to help a senior citizen accumulate larger savings, while maintaining the fixed interest rate. Most banks offer a higher fixed rate of interest to senior citizens compared to other age groups.
Regular Source of Income:
By providing the option of a monthly payout, many FDs can act as an additional stream of income for people. This can be a steady source of money and allows investors to set aside funds for future financial needs.
Investors have an option of investing in tax saving fixed deposits in order to save tax liability. There are mainly two types of fixed deposit schemes available. Tax-Shielded FDs offers a lock-in period of 2 years and a higher interest rate. Tax-free FDs do not offer any lock-in period but you can make withdrawals at any time after the completion of 15 days from the date of deposit.
What is a Public Provident Fund (PPF)?
PPF, also known as the Public Provident Fund scheme, is a long term savings instrument for individual and corporate accounts. PPF is a hybrid instrument designed to encourage savings with safety and liquidity. The rate of interest varies every year. It is linked to the government bond rates and therefore fluctuates based on the same. Investing in PPF provides tax benefits under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act of 1961.
Benefits Offered by Public Provident Fund (PPF)
Let’s take a look at the benefits offered by Public Provident Fund (PPF):
A PPF account is a long-term investment instrument of the government of India. This has a tenure of 15 years and provides a lock-in period of 7 years. After the completion of 15 years, an individual can extend it indefinitely in blocks of 5 years.
Anyone can invest in a PPF account by opening it through the bank for a minimum deposit of Rs 500. With no upper limit, you may deposit as much as Rs.1.5 lakhs per financial year in a PPF account.
Wrapping it UP!
People who are looking for a long-term option of investment along with the benefit of tax saving should consider investing in PPF. On the other hand, those who want to accumulate a fund for a short period of 5-10 years should consider investing in FDs. The decision whether to invest in FDs or PPF entirely depends on the objective and future goals of an individual.
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10 Reasons MxPx Is Still Relevant
Pop-punk legends MxPx are playing two sold out shows at the Observatory this weekend (Friday and Saturday). That may come to a surprise for some, as the Washington-based band hasn't toured in a few years (these shows aren't part of a bigger tour either) and has only released one full album since 2007.
Nonetheless, MxPx remains as relevant today as ever, so here are 10 reasons you should still care about them.
10. MxPx was never super mainstream. Considering the band obtained relative success in the punk world throughout the '90s and into the 2000s, they never got as big as some of their contemporaries. While everyone from NoFX to Green Day was blowing up in the West Coast '90s punk explosion, MxPx always stayed just a little smaller. Sure, they had some radio play and chart success, but the band never seemed to get too big for their scene.
9. Secret Weapon has to be among the best chart-topping Christian albums in history. MxPx's 2007 album (as well as their earlier albums) were technically categorized as "Christian Rock" for the purpose of the all-powerful Billboard charts. There might've been some Christian undertones, but every album was certainly better for skating than it was for praying. When Secret Weapon topped the Christian charts, it was no doubt one of the best rock albums to ever hold the position. Of course, with the competition being bands like Creed, that's like being the tallest midget.
8. The band distanced itself from the "Christian" genre. Eventually, MxPx got tired of being considered a "Christian" band (Christian punk is just kind of a weird concept) after they released a Christmas album in 2009. Did it change their music all that much? Not really. But good for them for getting rid of the somewhat cheapening label.
7. Mike Herrera always seemed responsible. One of the band's biggest hits ("Responsibility") is about not wanting/being ready for the responsibility of adulthood. That's kind of funny, because Herrera never seemed like he'd be the friend to get you into trouble than pretty much any other '90s punk frontman. Just looking at '90s punks named Mike, Herrera seemed way less likely to be the friend who lands in jail with you than Mike Ness, Mike Dirnt, or Fat Mike.
6. Skate-punk is forever. If you skated as a teenager, you almost definitely listened to skate-punk (unless you were one of those kids who only listened to rap, in which case there's no reason to read a list about MxPx anyway). If you skated as a teenager, you probably still listen to skate-punk sometimes (except when your girl is around, because she probably thinks it's stupid and immature unless she too listened to skate-punk). One of the beauties of skate-punk is that it pretty much never changes. Bands come in and out, but they all sound awful similar. Today's teenagers can appreciate MxPx's brand of the genre as much as those who skated before the band even existed.
5. Every album sounds different. Yeah, every MxPx album sounds like an MxPx album, but that's true for most bands. Each individual record has its own vibe and personality. Some are a little more old school punk, some are more skaterish, while there's those couple of CDs that got shamed for being pop-punk when everyone else was doing pop-punk. Which brings us to...
4. Their "selling out" albums were actually still good. The Ever Passing Moment and Before Everything and After were both considered to be pop-punk albums more than the band's classic punk style. As often happens in the punk community, some fans were unhappy about that and criticized them for "selling out." Unlike many artists who "sell out" and put out terrible albums, both of those records are still plenty good. They might be a little more poppy than the earlier (and later) stuff, but that also led to some of their biggest commercial success. MxPx's heavily pop-punk phase might be the only reason they're still around today.
3. "Punk Rawk Show" is an absolute classic. No really, go listen to it. MxPx has a lot of singalong punk songs, but "Punk Rawk Show" is one of the best ones of the '90s. That's coming from someone who thinks it's ridiculous when bands intentionally spell words wrong.
2. They never toured/promoted themselves too much. Aside from the fact that MxPx never took themselves too seriously, they also avoided the deadly mistake of shoving their music in people's faces too much. In their prime, they toured as much as any band (and they did the Warped Tour circuit with the best of them), but their decision to not release albums/go on tour every year helped their fans look forward to actually seeing them live. Instead of being a punk band you can see twice a year at any number of local venues, their fans know that missing a live set means possibly never seeing them again.
1. Pop-punk is back. If you haven't noticed, emo/pop-punk from the early 2000s is back in full force. Maybe MxPx doesn't fit perfectly into the Emo Revival of 2015, but they're rooted in a similar enough background that they could still play Taste of Chaos and fit in just fine. How long will it be back for? Who knows? But every mildly successful alternative band from the time period should be looking to capitalize on it right now.
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Case Study: Traeger Grills
When Traeger wanted to remove foam and plastic from their packaging, they turned to Billerud Managed Packaging for a revamped customer experience and scalable savings.
When it comes to pellet grilling, Traeger is the top of the line. They patented pellet grilling in the mid-1980s and created a subculture of barbecue purists that has grown for decades. Their heavy-duty grills are featured extensively in barbecue cook-offs and YouTube videos from meat-smoking enthusiasts around the world.
Ultimately, Traeger’s packaging did not match the innovation of its products so they sought to step up their packaging without hurting their bottom line.
To begin with, Traeger had little to no control over their packaging. Original Equipment Manufacturers sourced packaging that was inconsistent between factories, relied on foam, poly-bags and other low cost low quality materials to protect and contain the smaller components of the grills. Traeger wanted packaging that impressed customers as much as their product does, without sacrificing performance or driving up prices.
With underwhelming and inefficient packaging, they were paying up to double their packaging costs when selling through Amazon. To be compliant with Amazon’s strict policies, Traeger was forced to put their package inside a second box. As it was, their packaging was underwhelming to the customer and costly for the accounting department.
Traeger wanted a packaging solution that eliminated foam, reduced damage in transit, enhanced customer experience while lowering prices and remained Amazon compliant. These issues are what led them to reach out to the packaging experts at Billerud’s Managed Packaging division.
Traeger’s packaging presented some challenges and opportunities, especially related to the consumer experience. The grills were held in place by huge blocks of foam, with a mess of poly-bagged parts placed haphazardly into the barrel of the grill.
“There were not a lot of opportunities to improve freight density, but the packing was very chaotic and disorganized,'' says Matthew White, International Sales Executive at Managed Packaging in Portland, USA.
The Billerud Managed Packaging team began development on a packaging solution that matched the premium quality and user experience of Traeger grills.
In order to eliminate foam, enhance the customer experience, improve efficiencies in the supply chain and maintain Amazon compliance, Billerud turned to their packaging designers and engineers.
The Billerud design team utilized high performance materials to maximize the strength of the package for transit, and corrugated inserts replaced EPS foam to absorb the shocks and impact. Additionally, these corrugated inserts brought attractive design elements and ensure ergonomic flow throughout the supply chain.
The new packaging incorporated bottle holders for beverages to enjoy during assembly, delightful design features for better brand presentation and the interior of the box is printed with graphics, giving the packaging a second life as a playhouse for the kids . This new package design architecture proved effective, and is easily adaptable for application to multiple grill product lines and sizes.
Over the next months, Billerud conducted a battery of tests to ensure the packaging would meet the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) 1A, 3A, 3B and 6A standards, while maintaining target weights and aesthetic appeal.
The new packaging design was a resounding success. The corrugated materials and methodical design created an ideal packaging solution that achieved each of Traeger’s goals.
The new design had the following results:
- Over one year, approximately 156,000 pounds of non-biodegradable polymer have been transitioned to sustainable corrugated materials
- The new packaging passed the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) 1A, 3A, 3B and 6A Test Procedures
- The corrugated materials allowed designs and features that enhanced the customer experience
- The cost of packaging met Traeger’s target
- Traeger has expanded Billerud's packaging redesign to other grill lines in their portfolio
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In the closing months of a nearly 11-year mission, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has arrived in its final orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres and is obtaining the sharpest views yet of the king of the asteroid belt.
Dawn switched off its ion engine June 6 after reaching an elliptical orbit taking the spacecraft as close as 22 miles (35 kilometers) from Ceres on each 27-hour loop. At its highest point, the orbit takes Dawn to a distance of around 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers).
The spacecraft is now flying 10 times closer to Ceres than ever before, allowing its science instruments to better resolve surface features and composition, with the new orbit designed to take Dawn low over Occator Crater, where bright salt deposits have garnered the attention of scientists and space enthusiasts.
Dawn is running low on hydrazine maneuvering propellant, and the spacecraft can no longer rely on spinning momentum wheels for pointing, but engineers stretched out the probe’s fuel lifetime to get an extra two years of science observations at Ceres.
NASA last year approved a final mission extension, and planners at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory crafted a new trajectory to take Dawn closer to Ceres. A series of ion engine burns, using electrically-charged xenon to continuously generate low levels of thrust for weeks at a time, guided Dawn into the lower orbit over the past few months.
Dawn paused in an intermediate orbit to take detailed images and infrared spectra of Ceres’ southern hemisphere in summer, when sunlight shines brighter. The improved illumination, and greater spectral coverage, will allow scientists to better compare the southern hemisphere with Ceres’ northern regions, which Dawn observed in summer earlier in the mission.
The Dawn spacecraft is the first to visit Ceres, which was previously studied exclusively through telescopes. Dawn arrived at Ceres in early 2015 after orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta in 2011 and 2012, making the robotic mission the first to orbit two objects in the solar system besides the Earth and the moon.
Ceres is the biggest object in the asteroid belt, a zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Measuring about 590 miles (950 kilometers) across, Ceres is about 40 percent the size of Pluto but comprises about one-quarter of the total mass of the objects in the asteroid belt.
The dwarf planet orbits the sun in a slightly elongated orbit, and it reached the closest point to the sun — called perihelion — in its 4.6-year-long year in April 2018 at a distance of around 238 million miles (383 million kilometers).
Dawn will consume more of its life-limiting hydrazine fuel in its new orbit. The spacecraft relies on its hydrazine-fueled thrusters to keep its instruments pointed at Ceres, and faster passages over the dwarf planet at low altitude require more propellant usage.
Three of the solar-powered craft’s four rotating reaction wheels, which pointed the probe using momentum, failed earlier in the mission, leaving Dawn’s rocket jets as the only means to control its orientation.
Dawn’s ultra-efficient xenon-fueled ion engines produce little thrust, and are used for large orbit adjustments, not for fine pointing.
After arriving in its new perch, Dawn resumed science observations June 9. The spacecraft has already beamed its first images from the low-altitude orbit back to Earth.
Dawn was built by Orbital ATK — now part of Northrop Grumman — and launched from Cape Canaveral in September 2007 aboard a Delta 2 rocket with nearly 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of hydrazine fuel in its 12-gallon (45-liter) tank.
Ground controllers do not know exactly how much propellant remains in Dawn’s tank because fuel measurement on-board spacecraft are imperfect. Engineers have tracked propellant usage by carefully cataloging every thruster firing and subtracting the estimated fuel burned from the quantity loaded into the spacecraft before launch.
Using the subtraction method, engineers have calculated that around 1.8 gallons (7 liters) of hydrazine are left in Dawn’s tank. But there is still some uncertainty in that estimate, and nearly a liter of Dawn’s hydrazine is classified unusable once pressures inside the craft’s propulsion system drop too low to push the fuel the probe’s 12 small rocket thrusters.
Taking into account all the uncertainties, engineers say Dawn likely has enough hydrazine to keep the spacecraft going for three months in its new orbit, meaning the mission will most likely end in September. But it could be August or October, according to Marc Rayman, Dawn’s mission director and chief engineer at JPL.
“The team will continue to guide Dawn in squeezing as much out of its time at Ceres as possible, acquiring new data until the spacecraft is unable to comply because it has expended the last puff of hydrazine,” Rayman wrote in a May 31 blog post on JPL’s website.
Once Dawn is out of fuel, its power-generating solar panels no longer point toward the sun, and its high-gain antenna will lose its lock on Earth.
“When the last of the hydrazine is used up, the spacecraft will actuate valves and try to fire thrusters to control its orientation, but hydrazine will no longer flow, so the torque it wants to exert will not be achieved,” Rayman wrote. “The spacecraft will be impotent, its attempts to point correctly futile. The struggle will be brief, as it will soon run out of electrical power, and the central computer will cease operating.”
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Cross-dock warehousing makes it possible to distribute your products directly to a customer or retailer while minimizing the amount of handling and storage time. This has the potential to streamline certain supply chains and increase the opportunities to grow your business and get an edge on the competition.
How Does Cross-Docking Work?
The goal of cross-docking solutions is to keep your products moving as efficiently and smoothly as possible.
Essentially, incoming products are sorted and processed right on the receiving dock and then loaded onto an outgoing truck to continue the journey. This means that your goods do not have to spend any more time at the warehouse than absolutely necessary, which cuts down on your storage costs and speeds your shipments.
Depending on your products or your route, some of your goods may be staged at the warehouse, but the overall goal is to keep things moving in and out with minimal storage and handling.
Most cross-docking can be handled with the same equipment used for traditional warehouse storage (pallets, forklifts, containers, loading docks, etc.), which allows us to:
- Streamline the movement of products through the supply chain
- Maximize throughput
- Manage peak flows and avoid bottlenecks
- Find more effective ways to use our resources
At Calex ISCS, our cross-docking system allows us to quickly unload and reload your products onto our outbound trucks so your shipment reaches its destination with minimal interruptions.
Cutting Edge Management Software
Effective warehouse management software (WMS) is crucial in any successful cross-docking operation. This provides the necessary data on any inbound and outbound goods while tracking and reporting what’s happening to our managers.
We also use our WMS to efficiently schedule tasks and personnel to avoid overlap and bottlenecks that might otherwise occur.
The Benefits of Cross-Docking
As products are unloaded from one truck, sorted, and directly reloaded onto the next truck, companies can experience several important benefits.
- Products going to the same destination can be consolidated onto fewer trucks and larger shipments can be broken down into smaller groups for more efficient deliveries.
- There need for storage space or pick and pack services is reduced, which means lower supply chain costs. This can free up a lot of capital for many companies.
- Improved efficiency and delivery times. By simplifying the sorting and loading process, you can see quicker turnarounds on each shipment.
- Minimize product movement and handling. Every time a product is moved, it increases the risk of incurring some kind of damage. Reducing or eliminating extra storage and handling helps keep your goods safe.
There are, of course, some other considerations for cross-docking. First, if your products are perishable and require refrigerated shipping, it will require some very precise cross-dock scheduling to ensure your goods spend the minimum amount of time outside of a refrigerated environment.
Second, this is an effective solution when the final destination is within comparatively close proximity to the warehouses since a cross-country journey will likely not be as impacted by a little more time in storage.
Full Supply Chain Integration
Cross-dock and warehousing services are important parts of our full supply chain management solutions. Our warehousing facilities are all company-owned and operated, which means we can quickly implement the necessary tasks and plans to keep your products moving as efficiently as possible.
These warehouses are all conveniently located near to major metropolitan areas, so these types of deliveries are a great option for many companies.
But it’s not just about where you load and unload products. You can combine this service with our shipping solutions to see even more benefits, including:
- Better ability to meet customer demand
- Lower overhead
- Higher ROI
- Cash flow improvements
- Risk management
- Reduced inefficiencies
- Better demand prediction
Working with Calex ISCS
Calex is committed to the safe and efficient delivery of your products and can use resources and experience to make sure that our cross-docking services contribute to your bottom line.
Our commitment to our customers is to always “Say what you can do and do what you say.”
We provide clear, honest, and direct information about our supply chain solutions and how we can provide warehouse storage solutions that meet your needs so you can reduce your costs while streamlining your operations.
A Professional Approach to Shipping and Handling
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Summer vacations are meant to be a time for relaxation and rejuvenation. For those in recovery, though, vacation can be stressful and present potentially dangerous situations as they are confronted with temptations or triggers that could make them vulnerable to a potential relapse. We reached out to Caron’s clinical experts and alumni for their insights on how to manage recovery during vacation. What resulted are these practical tips for healthy vacationing.
1. Plan ahead.
- Start with short vacations: One alum shared that the first trips he took while in recovery were short, weekend getaways. Once he felt comfortable safely managing his recovery while away from home, he began to go away for longer periods of time.
- Look for healthy settings: It’s not always possible to choose your vacation spot if you’re attending a large gathering. However, when you can choose your destination, select a spot with an emphasis on wellness. For example, many hotels offer spa services that focus on healthy approaches to relaxation. Today’s apps also make it easy to rent a vacation home, which may be a safer option to support your recovery than an all-inclusive resort.
- Seek local support: Before you go, know what meetings are available and when. One alum said she developed a second home group in the area where her daughter’s family lives. Another alum said it was comforting to attend meetings on cruises or in other travel destinations where peers in recovery could relate and support each other. In many cases, you can call in advance to let the 12-step group know you’re planning to attend and have a point person to ease your participation.
- Remove obstacles in advance: One alum calls hotels and requests they remove the mini bar. You can also ask a concierge to recommend fun activities that don’t revolve around alcohol.
- List your coping strategies: In advance of your trip, make a list of healthy coping skills and strategies you can access when needed, and always keep it with you. It can be difficult to think of strategies in a stressful moment – so having one with you gives you several options in a pinch.
2. Care for yourself while traveling
- Make sure you don’t get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired: These feelings are all considered relapse triggers. To ward off unhealthy behavior, make sure you prioritize sleep, keep healthy snacks with you and pay attention to your mood. If you feel irritable, for example, you may need to excuse yourself from a gathering to rest, take a walk or call a trusted love one.
- Distract yourself: Bring your own videos to watch or books to read. Immersing yourself in engaging content can help you avoid the distraction of bars – which are now rampant in airports and even on planes.
- Ask for help. If you’re struggling, you can go to the ticket counter or concierge and ask for a friend of Bill W. – as many vacation spots, including airports, have someone in recovery available to lend support.
- Take advantage of technology: Download inspirational books, music, meditation apps and podcasts that will be soothing and can redirect you if you feel triggered.
- Hold yourself accountable: If you’re not traveling with a friend in recovery, make sure to let a sponsor or other support person know where you’ll be and confirm they will be available to check in during the trip and when you return home.
3. Socialize Safely.
- Practice safety first: It’s okay to say no to an activity if you feel it’s going to be emotionally unsafe. The bottom line is that your recovery must always be a priority.
- Have a strategy for handling dinners and events: If you’re attending a function, such as a wedding or bar-mitzvah, you can turn your wine glass over, so the wait staff knows not to fill it. Keep a glass of sparkling water with you so people don’t offer you drinks. Always have an exit plan – including a meeting you can attend after the event or a person you can call.
- Share caregiving and other responsibilities: Non-stop parenting, caring for an aging relative, cooking or cleaning while you’re away can be exhausting and detract from the purpose of a vacation. If you’re going with a group, discuss strategies in advance so you don’t have to bear the burden. Many places also have caregiver services that provide a much-needed balance and the opportunity to keep your self-care front and center.
There are many ways to access support while you’re away to keep your recovery going strong. The good news is that many alumni report enjoying family vacations or new experiences more in recovery than before because in recovery they are truly present and able to appreciate everything. | <urn:uuid:604d4ca4-a4ad-46e5-ae5f-e4506bb09d1d> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.caron.org/blog/2019/07/traveling-tips-to-support-recovery | 2019-08-17T23:37:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313501.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190817222907-20190818004907-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.946622 | 996 |
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Pakistan was the primary state to acquire recognized formal diplomatic relations Using the Men and women's Republic of China, and the connection continues for being heat due to the fact China's war with India in 1962. From the 1960s to eighties, Pakistan drastically assisted China in reaching out to the planet's key countries and served facilitate US President Nixon's state take a look at to China. Despite the improve of governments in Pakistan and fluctuations inside the regional and international predicament, China coverage in Pakistan proceeds to generally be a dominant variable at all times. In return, China is Pakistan's biggest investing lover, and financial co-Procedure has flourished, with considerable Chinese investment decision in Pakistan's infrastructural expansion like the Pakistani deep-h2o port at Gwadar.
From there he traveled to Tohana. Sharaf advert-Din Ali Yazdi mentioned the inhabitants of that city were robbers. They tried to resist but were defeated and fled. Timur's Military pursued and killed two hundred Jats, when taking numerous additional as prisoners. He then despatched a detachment to chase the fleeing Jats and killed two,000 of these. Meanwhile, their wives and children have been enslaved and their residence plundered. From there he proceeded to Kaithal; the inhabitants ended up massacred and plundered and each of the villages alongside how were destroyed. On the next day, he reached Assandh which was deserted. Afterward, he subdued Tughlaqpur's fort along with the city of Salwan in advance of besieging Loni's fort and in the long run marching on Delhi.[seventy three]
The working day the Taliban federal government in Kabul fell to US-led coalition forces in the fall of 2001, Maulvi Akbar (he asked that his genuine name not be utilized) was standing in front of what had been the US embassy. The radio in his hand crackled into existence and the voice of The top with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, arrived on, commanding his followers to leave town. “I remember the point out lender, there have been stacks and stacks of pounds, euros, pounds, even gold, but I just went household,” stated Akbar. He had served to be a senior bureaucrat in several Taliban-federal government ministries and the commander of brigades in Kandahar and Kabul, but on November fourteen, 2001, Akbar climbed into his pickup truck and still left the state he experienced adopted a decade earlier without funds in his pockets. Once the arrival of Soviet troops in Afghanistan in 1979, Akbar, like numerous other youthful students at seminaries in northwestern Pakistan, joined the mujahedeen insurgency against the Communist federal government in Kabul. As many Afghans fled the war into Pakistan, Arab nations, The us, and Pakistan pumped many millions of dollars and plenty of weapons into your war hard work. Away from arrive at of most overseas media and civilian authorities in Islamabad, the tribal places grew to become the staging ground for tens of 1000s of mujahedeen, who came from throughout the Muslim world to hitch the fight in opposition to the Soviets.
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Like quite a few while in the tribal locations, Rahman would really like the autonomy granted on the tribesmen to be replaced With all the very same laws as in the remainder of Pakistan. “That outdated technique, the thought of the tribes having the ability to protect themselves and having this good romance with Pakistan…it absolutely was worthless.”
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The regulation enforcement in Pakistan also contains a Motorway Patrol which is liable for enforcement of website traffic and basic safety laws, security and Restoration on Pakistan's inter-provincial motorway community. In Each individual of provincial Law enforcement Company, In addition, it maintains a respective Elite Law enforcement units led via the NACTA—a counter-terrorism law enforcement device together with providing VIP escorts.
Hardest hit are actually users from the Hindu community who have been robbed in their lands and outlets, systematically slaughtered, and in some places, painted with yellow patches marked 'H'. All this has long been formally sanctioned, purchased and implemented beneath martial regulation from Islamabad."
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In Assam, associates in the principally Christian Hmar ethnic team have placed bloodstained-crosses in temples and compelled Hindus to convert at gunpoint.
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The following items can be brought into Australia duty-free: An unopened packet of cigarettes containing a maximum of 25 cigarettes or an unopened 25g pack of other tobacco products (persons aged 18 and over); and an opened packet of cigarettes. 2.25 l alcoholic beverages (persons aged 18 and over); cosmetic products for personal use and personal clothing, except furs. Note: Travelers do not need a permit to bring tobacco products into Australia. E-cigarettes, liquid nicotine and vaporizing nicotine do not contain tobacco and therefore do not require an import permit. Gifts (cameras, watches, souvenirs etc. ) and personal effects up to a total value of A$900 can be imported duty-free for persons aged 18 and over (A$450 for persons under 18). Attention: Business travelers require an import permit for the import of some merchandise and sample parts, regardless of their value. Business travelers must declare personal items with a total value of A$1000 or more.
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Staff Photo: John Bohn Duluth third baseman Junior Fernandez warms up between innings during a game against Lanier.
DULUTH -- From many people, moving to Georgia from out of state can be a major life change.
That includes Duluth High School senior Junior Fernandez, who was faced with plenty to adapt to when his family moved in from New Jersey last summer.
But as tough as adjusting to a new school, new friends and new classmates has been, it's nothing compared to what he's experienced in his first season of high school baseball in Gwinnett County.
"The baseball's different down here -- the (level of) talent, how often you guys play, it's different," Fernandez said. "The (quality and depth of) pitching and the fact that it gets hotter sooner. That's a big difference. And the season starts a month earlier.
"The biggest adjustment was the pitching," Fernandez said. "It's a lot different. There's a more game planning. There's a lot better, tougher pitching. Everyone's out there trying to strike you out. In New Jersey, it's not as hard to hit the ball. ... There's really only one or two pitchers that can really shut you down."
Despite the culture shock of adjusting to baseball in Gwinnett and Georgia in general, the Duluth senior third baseman is doing just fine, thank you.
Through the Wildcats' (9-9, 2-4) first 18 games, Fernandez is among the team hitting leaders with a .345 average (20-for-58), two home runs and 18 RBIs.
And his steady play in the field has also been a factor in helping Duluth stay in the hunt for one of the four state playoff bids from Region 7-AAAAAA.
"I'm more comfortable, definitely, now than I was as the start (of the season)," Fernandez said. "I started really slow, but I picked up as quickly as I could."
As tough as it's been for Fernandez, the one advantage as he's had is that so far, he's been as much of an unknown commodity to Duluth's opponents as they've been to him.
Even Wildcats coach Matt Champitto admits he wasn't exactly sure what he had in Fernandez when the two first met last summer.
"We had no idea who he was," Champitto said. "We were actually up here for a summer tournament, and he and his family stopped by on the way out after meeting with the counselors at the school. You get that a lot when a new kid comes in. They say, 'Hey, we're moving in,' and all that, but we had no idea. I did a little bit of research, just to check up on him. So, I knew he'd done some big things in New Jersey, but I had no idea how he was going to fit in or where he was going to fit in or how he was going to fare against Georgia pitching."
Indeed, Fernandez had a built up a solid resume during his junior season at Edison High School last year, hitting .405 with eight doubles, three stolen bases and a team-high 22 RBIs in 89 at bats to earn All-Middlesex Conference honors and help the Eagles (14-13) to a berth in the New Jersey state tournament.
Champitto said it didn't take long to figure out that Fernandez would become a key member of the Wildcats this spring.
"During conditioning, he came out and really worked hard, ... but you still don't really have a good inkling of his skill on the baseball field," Champitto said. "I'd say the first couple of practices during (batting practice), he was hitting some balls really, really hard and had a good idea of what he's doing at the plate. And he was a plus-guy defensively. So we knew for sure right off the bat, I'd say, before his hitting, we were sure he was going to help us in a big way."
It also didn't take opposing coaches and players long to figure out Fernandez could be a force, which has forced a whole new round of adjustments for him to make.
But he says the support he's gotten from his new teammates has helped him with the chess match that comes with staring down Gwinnett County pitchers.
"The whole team is really nice and awesome when it comes to baseball," Fernandez said. "Everyone takes the game as seriously as I do when it's game time. It was kind of hard to become close friends with them at the start because I wasn't sure who was going to be on the team. So, it was tough.
"Definitely one of the things I wanted to do was make an impact. In New Jersey, I was trying to be an impact player for my team, which I did fairly well last year. This year, I hope to do even better."
The one downside from Duluth's standpoint is that Fernandez will only be around for the remainder of this season before he graduates.
But Champitto says the Wildcats will gladly accept whatever he can contribute for as long as he's there.
"We'll take it," Champitto said. "He's transitioned very well. It's hard for a kid to move in and fit in and know what my expectations are. ... But he's done everything. He's a really coachable kid, and he's done a really good job." | <urn:uuid:115e6655-3f2b-42e5-b0a6-8c147d8f56e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/apr/09/juniors-achievements/ | 2013-12-07T15:06:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163054867/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131734-00072-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993267 | 1,122 |
Unification – That’s the Name of the Game
The more things change, the more they stay the same. So the saying goes. But is the opposite also true: the more things stay the same (or are made to be the same), the more they change?
That has been the case with Dorna at the helm of MotoGP, directing technical regulations that are effectively stagnant, but for minor refinements year on year.
The dumbing down—or more accurately saming-down – for 2019 is the introduction of a control inertia platform. This is yet another one-size-fits-all electronic component designed to deny any advantage to the bigger spenders. An approach that has been very effective by the example of the control ECU and software, at least in making the racer closer—though not in stopping Honda from winning.
Electronics is a topic both abstruse and tedious. Suffice it to say (as far as my own understanding and interest goes), an inertial platform (IMU) is one of a range of sensors feeding information to the ECU. But the IMU does more than measure acceleration, deceleration and attitude. By its nature, it goes beyond the role of a straightforward sensor. It is itself programmable, adding another layer of sophistication to its information. And increasingly as development goes ahead, it can be customized, thus opening the way to the bigger spenders to take a step ahead.
Which, of course, they must do to circumvent the restrictions of the unified software. And until now could do so, apparently, without hindrance, for at this level the electronics are complicated, and difficult to police, requiring more time and expert man-power than is reasonable, thus the ban on free IMUs, and the introduction of another item of “unified” hardware.
This approach has in the past stuck in the throat. Shouldn’t the highest level of racing also be the highest level of research and development? But this argument has lost considerable force in the last couple of years, with record close racing the direct consequence of doing the opposite.
The show is more important than the go. And it’s certainly been a lot of fun for all involved.
Last year’s Assen race was a shining example. The MotoGP guys were all over one another like manic Moto3 mobsters. At half distance, though Zarco had dropped out of the gang, there were still half a dozen bikes across the line within one second. Just to illustrate the opening point, however, Marquez was better than two second ahead at the finish.
The start of the 2019 testing season suggested more of the same, with different leaders over the first couple of days, and close times. At least until the Ducati’s smashed it on day three. Although tests are a notoriously unreliable way of predicting the outcome at the far end of a 19-race season. Last year’s Sepang tests saw a dominant Jorge Lorenzo set a new all-time record, but it took a lot longer before the Ducati rider became a real threat.
If the fans have taken the benefit of the saming-down, so too have some of the teams. Honda has managed to stay more or less where they were all along, at or near the very top, with their greatest weakness being their own enthusiasm for experiment in such matters as firing intervals, vee-angle and crank direction and inertia—an approach that shows tremendous confidence and daring.
Yamaha has shown a similar willfulness in relying on their own resources for the electronics, instead of shopping in to the Magneti Marelli hierarchy, but it didn’t work out the same. Their own deviations have cost them dear over the past couple of years, leaving them on the back foot.
Aprilia and KTM are in any case still playing catch-up, so this fresh restriction, along with all the others, is just a step to make that task a fraction easier.
The biggest beneficiary of all the restrictions has been Suzuki. This is not to cast aspersions, for the GSX-RR is a machine of delicate strength and character that can teach the M1 Yamaha a few lessons. But it is without doubt that the enterprise has been helped by the rules. And not only because of the concessionary status that they regained after losing race-winner Vinales, and have now managed to lose again by strong progress in 2018.
Now we wait and see if their two young riders Mir and Rins can take the next step. Another appetite-wetter, among so many: Will Zarco be competitive on the KTM? Will a change of management up Yamaha’s prospects? Will Lorenzo take Marquez to pieces?
And will the further electronic restrictions help any of these things to happen?
And what would MotoGP be like if Dorna hadn’t applied these curbs?
Intriguing. That’s why we keep coming back for more. CN | <urn:uuid:a50406db-6ccd-439d-a141-02a226317938> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.cyclenews.com/2019/02/article/in-the-paddock-column/ | 2019-06-17T23:15:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998581.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20190617223249-20190618005249-00245.warc.gz | en | 0.95804 | 1,034 |
VIO FIRMWARE 2.0 is the must-have upgrade for all speakers in the VIO series.
Since the first VIO releases a few years ago, dBTechnologies engaged in a constant dialogue with the worldwide, ever-growing community of VIO users. This allowed us to collect countless data, case studies, stories from the world of touring and sound integration, as well as invaluable contributions from top sound engineers.
This priceless feedback is the foundation for the development of VIO firmware 2.0, which is now available to bring countless advantages to all VIO users.
Redefining four essential aspects of each VIO cabinet (phase response, latency, frequency response, and sensitivity) Firmware 2.0 aims at increasing acoustic compatibility among all VIO speakers, and dramatically speeds up setup operations of combined VIO systems.
UNIFORM PHASE RESPONSE
OPTIMIZED FREQUENCY RESPONSE
ENHANCED LOW-END EXTENSION FOR VIO SUBS
ONBOARD DELAY BOOST
COMMON VOICING ACROSS DIFFERENT VIO CABINETS
SEAMLESS MIX-AND-MATCH OF DIFFERENT VIO TOPS, SUBS, AND TOP+SUB
MASSIVE TIME-SAVING FOR PA ALIGNEMENT AND TUNING
BATCH UPGRADE AVAILABLE VIA AURORA NET 1.1
Thanks to firmware 2.0, every VIO cabinet makes the most of its onboard DSP featuring linear phase FIR filters, resulting in a perfectly consistent phase response when assembling various VIO products in one single setup. Moreover, the freshly designed DSP workflow brings all VIO systems’ phase responses to the same page. For example, the behavior of all VIO line arrays in the low-mid area has been standardized, to the great advantage of hybrid arrays coherence. Also, firmware 2.0 drives phase response uniformity across all VIO subwoofers, resulting not only in a more consistent performance of combined VIO subwoofer models but also in the smoothest coupling with any VIO top.
Firmware 2.0 standardizes latency across the entire VIO series, regardless of speaker type, acoustic loading or DSP build. This way, users don’t need to bother about the inherent latency of a single cabinet, and they will be able to align the PA very quickly, even by simply using a rangefinder to measure the distance between speakers.
Thanks to a perfectly identical latency, users also get a coherent sum out of a line-array or point-source speaker stacked on any VIO subwoofer, avoiding any additional processing or verification.
Firmware 2.0 uniforms the input sensitivity of every VIO speaker, enabling a precise, predictable, and consistent behavior of the limiters across the entire PA, from little front-fills or delay speakers, up to the main arrays, and it will be very easy for users to keep headroom under control.
Plus, FW 2.0 also enables an extended onboard delay capability on some selected VIO systems (equipped with Digipro G4 amp module) up to a whopping 560ms (194m / 637ft).
This is extremely useful for delay systems very distant from the main PA.
Among the products eligible for this upgrade: VIO L212, VIO L1610, VIO S218, VIO S118, VIO S118R, VIO C Series, and VIO W15T.
Since the different VIO systems have come into existence at different moments over a considerable time frame, given the technological advances, and the precious market feedback, it was time for a refreshing of the voicing of some VIO cabinets. Firmware 2.0 operates on the frequency response of single cabinets to get a uniform and distinctive voicing in all VIO family.
One of the main focuses of this voicing update concerns the subwoofer series: in fact, Firmware 2.0 extends the low-end response of most subs and optimizes their overall performance, resulting in a tighter, fuller, and more precise sound reproduction.
All new VIO systems will be shipped with Firmware 2.0 by factory default setting.
VIO Firmware 2.0 is also available for free download for all VIO users.
Each VIO cabinet can be upgraded individually via USB cable or, alternatively, users will be able to update simultaneously all VIO cabinets connected via RDNet using the latest Aurora Net release (version 1.1 or later is necessary).
The upgrading process is intuitive and safe from any risk: in case of power loss or other failures, the speakers will automatically fold back to the previous release.
N.B. Speakers with Firmware 2.0 are not compatible with the ones installing previous firmware releases. Users must update all older VIO products (firmware 1.x) if they wish to deploy them together with products equipped with Firmware 2.0.
Firmware 2.0 is available for free download for all VIO users.
Click the DOWNLOAD section in the menu above
Download VIO Firmare 2.0 Installer for Win or Mac and launch it
Launch Aurora 1.1 or newer USB Manager 184.108.40.206 or newer to update your systems' Firmware.
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Story by Jamie Oliver
A few years ago, in Rotherham, I met a man called Jeff. He was 83 years old and he’d never cooked a fresh meal in his life. Jeff’s wife had done all the cooking for over 50 years but, sadly, she’d become ill and so Jeff was left to do all the food preparation.
He and his wife had been living on tinned food for a few months when Jeff decided that it wasn’t the best of diets for an elderly couple – he needed to learn to cook. Jeff visited the local Citizens’ Advice and asked if they could suggest somewhere for him to attend cooking lessons. They couldn’t. There was nowhere. Jeff and his wife were destined to end their lives eating tinned and reheated food.
Luckily, Jeff became part of the Ministry of Food project in Rotherham and I taught him to cook, along with Dan the doorman, Mick the Miner, mums Tash and Clare, and a handful of other great people of all ages who had never been taught to cook but who desperately wanted to learn.
After the Channel 4 TV cameras left town, the Ministry of Food centre which I’d set up in Rotherham’s main square, remained open, funded by the far-sighted local council to the tune of £130,000 a year. In two years, this has become one of the busiest shops in the town centre providing what is, in my opinion, incredible value for public money.
Last year, the Rotherham Ministry of Food centre taught 6,500 people how to cook using fresh ingredients. These included everyone from firemen to teachers, care-home workers to school kids – when the centre put up a poster in the window advertising summer holiday classes for kids, the places were filled within 24 hours. Classes are consistently booked out for months in advance.
This is not merely successful, but a fantastic community resource which works.
Of the 6,500 people taught by the Rotherham Ministry last year, almost all will have a story to tell about how it’s changed their lives, taught them to think about the food they eat, helped them lose weight, helped them save money on the weekly shop, and helped them gain confidence.
So you would think that local councils would be falling over each other to open their own Ministry Centres – and indeed Bradford council in late 2009 and Leeds Primary Care Trust earlier this year, did just that. Various other councils and PCTs expressed keen interest – until they were told that budgets needed to be slashed.
Now, I’ve heard that the Ministry in Rotherham could be a victim of funding cuts. The local council there is doing everything it can to keep the Ministry open and I hope it will succeed but I can’t understand why keeping it open should even be in doubt at all. Each Ministry of Food Centre is booked up at least three months in advance so the demand is there. It’s abundantly clear that this is one of the few strategies that is actually working that helps people overcome their problems with food.
Obesity and its related diseases cost the NHS upwards of £4bn a year. I read recently that the number of people having gastric band operations has increased massively in the last 5 years. And yet here we have a practical solution, proven to work, which costs a fraction of £4bn.
If I opened a Ministry of Food centre in every local authority in this country, I reckon it would cost around £140,000 a year to run each one – that’s just over £32m for all of them. That’s £32m a year for a place that people like Jeff and Tash and Dan and Clare all over the UK can go and learn to cook. We could teach around 3 million people a year – that’s 3 million people who would learn to cook well, eat well, shop well for fresh food. Can you imagine what that would do to the £4bn NHS expenditure on obesity? I believe you’d see it come down rapidly within 18 months.
I understand that cuts need to be made. I understand that these are difficult times. But I can’t understand why something that can save billions of pounds in the long term can be at risk because of a few million quid. In my opinion, cutting the funding for local projects which directly empower and transform thousands of lives is both foolhardy and a false economy, particularly in a country which is spending billions on obesity-related diseases.
So here’s the plea. If the local councils can’t afford to set up and keep running these inspiring, revolutionary, socially vital places, then it’s up to local businesses to get involved.
I’m talking to businessmen and women up and down the country – some of them in charge of huge multi-national companies, some of them running smaller but successful local firms. All of them appreciate the need to do something about our obesity problem and all of them also understand that being involved with a community project like a Ministry of Food centre, is good for business.
But I need more help. I’m ready to work with pretty much anyone, within reason of course, to get more of these cooking centres up and running. I hope that the coalition government is aware of the important role that these places play in everyday life and I hope that they will show the willingness to invest in them, although in true “Big Society” style, we may have to do it ourselves.
My team is ready to work hard to make a difference so please join us.
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Exercise Those Bags Away Exercise is a natural way to reduce the signs of aging and can promote a youthful glow to the skin, but the area around your eyes will benefit from special facial exercises. Using light pressure from your fingers as resistance, the exercises involve various facial expressions and pressure. The inverted poses, such as shoulder stands and back bends, can help increase circulation to the face, which carries away excess fluid and helps relieve swelling. Sleeping on your back can prevent gravity from causing fluid buildup around the eyes. Consider adding an extra pillow under your head as well, but make sure it is a pillow that is effective for good sleep — for if you can’t sleep, that can add to the problem of dark circles under the eyes. This is an ancient remedy that you can do as part of your daily routine to help combat those puffy eyes. Originating in India in Ayurvedic medicine, a neti pot looks like a small teapot and can be found at most health food stores or online.
It can help flush out all that extra moisture in your sinuses from seasonal allergies, colds or infections. Simply pour salt water into one nostril and let it drain out the other. I usually just do this over the bathroom sink. It feels odd at first, but it is actually very cleansing and refreshing. Remove Your Makeup Before Going to Bed Leaving your eye makeup on can irritate your eyes, causing them to water and and get puffy. Make sure to gently remove your eye makeup before hitting the hay to help eliminate any added irritation around the eyes.
Limit or Eliminate Alcohol Alcohol dehydrates your body and skin. This dehydration can cause the delicate area around your eyes to appear sunken and dark. Also, alcohol can cause bloodshot, tired eyes. Take it easy on the alcohol by having no more than one glass per day. Did you know that smoking cigarettes dries out and weakens the skin on your face as well as your whole body? It also causes premature aging around the eyes in particular.
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[DAISIES screens Sunday December 28th at 1:30 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
The absurdist, positively dadaist feature was a minor cause celebre at the time, being banned at home and leading to a long-term blacklisting of directorial newcomer Vera Chytilova, who had to get gigs for a while afterwards under her husband’s name (feminists thus considered her quite the martyr, though Wikipedia informs me she bounced back and now teaches at FAMU). DAISIES has little tangible plot to speak of but does boast two striking leads, blonde Julie (AKA Jarmila, I think, or Marie) and a brunette also named Marie, sexy nymphets who determine in the first scene that the whole world is spoiled, so why shouldn't they be spoiled in return? That would seem to be the point of departure for a lot of odd proto-psychedelic antics and nonsense dialogues in and around Prague.
The duo wear a variety of skimpy outfits and, from time to time, get wined and dined and courted by smitten men, whom they tease but abandon, as the girls are photographed in a variety of trick lenses and varicolored/mismatched film stock and interposed with grainy stock footage of war. There are also montages of locks and doors, and a few truly striking juxtapositions of shapes and op-art patterns. Nobody can call DAISIES behind the times; visuals anticipates the MTV music-video aesthete, as well as the notorious “head” pictures of the hippie era. And what looks to me like computer-graphics digital f/x filters are insinuated into the re-release. Much as Adobe AfterEffects have rendered a service to humanity, I was more charmed by the low-tech Georges Melies whimsy trick shot when the heroines decapitate each other with scissors, their heads still floating around and conversing a la Big Chuck and Little John. Cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera – the director’s abovementioned husband – did know his stuff.
More than I know, I confess, on how to appreciate DAISIES. At feature length the thing tended to frustrate me more than anything else, and I admit, made me sympathize somewhat for those Soviet biggies sitting in the Kremlin, having exported lots of roubles to their Czech ally for hydroelectic dam-building or weapons or something, and happening to get DAISIES back instead. I'd be sorely tempted to send at least a few Red Army divisions in there to ask WTF, comrades? Or at least to see if Czech girls really look like this. I wouldn't be surprised if DAISIES played the old Heights Art Theater in Coventry, back when it teetered between racy foreign imports and outright porn (anyone actually go there, to the Heights Art, in those days? Just the ads in the old Cleveland Press made my childhood self in Mayfield Heights resolve not to leave the house).
At its initial release, DAISIES got compared by Time Magazine to the Marx Brothers (Harpo in particular), and other commentators have invoked the anarchy of Max Sennett and the Keystone Kops. Well, that’s fair, I guess. At my most open-minded it made me think of a sort of Eastern European riff on the Monkees. But not as linear, and without the great music. On the plus side, the Monkees never would have looked this good in lingerie. But really, folks, compared to DAISIES, Yugoslavian Dusan Makavejev and his infamous, avant-garde contemporary W.R. - MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM is ACT OF VALOR.
There's a "dedication" at the end of the film that I won't ruin for you because it doesn't much mean anything, except maybe to celebrate chaos or something. I guess deep down I’m just a Thomas Kinkade guy. Though such is my mistrust of artists in general it wouldn’t surprise me if Kinkade too had a secret stash of Extreme Cubist he’d done that he couldn’t show anyone because it poked eyes out. (1 3/4 out of 4 stars, more if you are stoned) | <urn:uuid:39cb9c31-5c2d-4fd5-b46b-a6024a760a69> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | http://www.clevelandmovieblog.com/2014/12/repost-daisies-december-28th-at.html | 2021-06-22T05:28:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488507640.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20210622033023-20210622063023-00220.warc.gz | en | 0.954373 | 921 |
Admittedly, I’ve always loved Halloween. As a kid, I didn’t just “kinda like” Halloween, I LOVED Halloween (it probably bordered on unhealthy). I had countless costumes, masks, decorations and books on how to scare others. I was so nuts over the holiday that annually I designed, orchestrated, and hosted a neighborhood haunted house. Friends, family and neighbors would converge, decked out in their creepiest attire and would attempt to scare the life out of our guests. When the spooky night was over, everyone would take off their costumes and go back to their “normal selves” for the next 364 days until our next fright night. It was an annual tradition that we looked forward to each and every year.
While that sounds like a fun once-a-year event, no one (including me) wants to be stuck in a haunted house every single day. And for many of us, that’s exactly what going to work feels like. It’s as if we are stuck making our way through all of the unpredictable turns and startling surprises present in any good haunted house. Speaking as an expert, I can attest that what makes a haunted house particularly effective is the monsters that live within its walls. As a result of the workplace monsters that sneak up on us throughout the day, working in a workplace haunted house feels unpredictable, nerve-racking and unsettling.
Common Workplace Monsters
There are a whole host of workplace creeps that may haunt us on any given day at the office. Consider the following (thanks to all of my colleagues who have contributed some of these wonderful examples!):
- Workplace Witch – The workplace witch is a dangerous visitor to any workspace. She / he will be pleasant to you in person and seem quite harmless when a request is made, but if they don’t get what they want, you’ll be secretly cursed. This witch’s curse can take any of the following forms: office back-stabbing, passive-aggressive behavior, work product sabotage, office politicking and damaging rumors. Best to give them what they want (if you can).
- The Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Boss – One minute, your boss is a wonderful gentle soul. The next minute, he or she has lost her mind, raging on you and berating your efforts publicly. If this is true for you and you’ve got a Jekyll and Hyde boss, there is not much you can do other than keep as much distance as you can and monitor their moods (see: workplace werewolf for complementing strategies).
- Ghostly Coworker – The ghostly coworker seems to suddenly appear out of thin air. One minute you are alone, the next minute he or she is right on top of you startling you with his / her presence (and often an urgent request). If you find yourself being haunted by a ghostly coworker, your best move might be to find another “home” in which to get your work done. They like surprising others so work some other place (ex: coffee shop, conference room, cafeteria, home, etc…) if you can!
- Invisible Man (or Woman) – Similar to the ghostly coworker, this coworker is difficult to spot. The difference between the invisible coworker and the ghostly coworker is that you can never find the invisible coworker when you need him or her. They seem to suddenly disappear when a project is due, when a fire occurs or when they desperately hold information that everyone else needs. Tracking their movements and regularly throwing powder in the air are your best tactics.
- Frankenstein – Lumbering and slow like our office zombies, the office Frankenstein comes by our workspace, mumbles an unintelligible and/or cryptic request and then leaves. If we don’t “guess” correctly on what they wanted from us and we under deliver, they let us know by raising their booming voice and knocking things over. Be brave and ask him / her to repeat their request in the beginning. Don’t let them stagger out of your site without a crystal clear understanding of what is expected. Guessing is never a good strategy at work, particularly when monsters are involved.
And of course, don’t forget our workplace werewolves, emotional vampires and office zombies we’ve already tackled this month. All are scary to work with and in combination can be downright paralyzing at work.
Consider Organizing Tours
If your office feels more like a haunted house, consider orchestrating tours. After all, the funny thing about us as human-beings is that unlike any other creature on earth, we’ll seek out and even pay for others to scare us. If you are going to suffer that badly, who says you can’t turn it into something profitable. In the unfortunate event that office tours are outside of the realm of possibility, looking for a less haunted workplace is your next best bet.
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The Best Rolloff Dumpster Rental Prices in Doral FL For Construction or Residential Dumpsters
- What size do you need?
- How much will it cost?
- Do you need a permit?
- What about recycling?
A good plan is the key to the success of any endeavor. Call us so we can guide you through the whole process of renting a dumpster Dumpster rentals can be a cost-effective way to get rid of the unwanted waste of a renovation, or leaves, and trash. You don’t have to be there when we haul the dumpster and throw the contents into the sanitary landfill.
Jux2 Dumpster Rental, can send the dumpster to your location in the Miami, FL area. However, you have to settle on the right size for the dumpster to be rolled into your property. Our dumpsters are available in different designs, shapes, and sizes. And we’re happy to provide answers to these three common questions. Keep reading.
To Help answer any roll off rental questions you may have we’ve put together this Guide to Renting a Dumpster, we hope you find if helpful:
- Choosing The Best Dumpster Size For Your Project
- Understanding Dumpster Rental Prices in Doral
- When Do You Need a Dumpster Permit & When Don’t You
Size Does Matter in the Dumpster?
10 Yard Dumpster
20 Yard Dumpster
30 Yard Dumpster
40 Yard Dumpster
If you rent a large dumpster when your garbage is not as considerable, you will have paid for the space that you are not using. Most of them come in different dimensions, and you will have to look for the one that accommodates all the things you want to place in it. Minor projects usage involves cleaning out garages or basements whereas major projects include extreme kitchen makeovers and renovations. This process is important because it is the only way to know the scope of your requirement. You need to know exactly which type of dumpster meets all your needs, so it’s a good idea to research about it and find as much information as you can until you figure out which one to rent. Afterwards, the disposed of trash is recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.
See, it is important that you know what the right size of dumpster for your needs is. While it is important not to overestimate your trash, it is equally important not to underestimate it. No matter what your project is, debris will always be present. That’s a better picture of the volume of trash our containers can hold rather than just enumerating numbers. When deciding on a size, we suggest that you consider the type of project that is being done as well as the type of content that will be placed in the dumpster.
To tell us more about your needs, please give us a call at 305-508-4158. Not sure which roll-off dumpster size will work best for your project? Don’t worry. So, better have our experts look into your requirements. Our roll off rental services are suitable for all types of sites, such as distribution and manufacturing sites, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, construction sites, and much more.
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Cost of Hiring a Dumpster Rental Service
Picking the appropriate dumpster size not only defines the price figure of these services, but it also defines how efficiently you can get rid of the waste from your home. We cannot provide an estimate without first talking to you and finding out some basic information. There is the size of the dumpster, for one thing. These are different types that can affect your cost:
- construction job sites
- remodeling projects
- roofing projects
- landscaping jobs
- home cleanouts
- just about any kind of debris removal
Dumpster pricing also changes with what goes into the dumpster. Read on to find out about the different price tags:
- roofing & shingles
- dirt & yard waste
- construction debris
- household junk
Call us at 305-508-4158 to get accurate pricing. The costs will depend on the type of trash that you will discard. Finally, you should not dispose of any hazardous waste into the dumpsters. Fines and extra charges may result in case of such an attempt If you want to know the exact cost of your rental, consider the rental feel, landfill fees, permits and other extras in the total price.
My Neighbor Says I Don’t Need Permit for Dumpster Rental , Is He Correct?
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By Jason Cruz
Northwest Asian Weekly
Any guess as to what the word means? More importantly, how do you spell it? For 14-year-old Gokul Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri it meant either sharing the glory of being the champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee with 13-year -old Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas or the unfortunate national recognition that he had failed to spell a word that many of us will never use in our lifetime.
Based on the somewhat-reliable internet source, Wikipedia, Nunatak is an “exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier.”
Nunatak was the last word on the list of 11 championship words made to test the mettle of pre-teens that had studied for countless hours the correct spelling of most of the words in the dictionary.
Without flinching, Venkatachalam, looking down as if not to look out in the audience to engage in eye contact with his parents to heap more pressure on his already hunched shoulders, began to spell the word. “N-U-N-A-T-A-K” he said into the microphone with more confidence than it seemed from the previous words that he had to spell to get to the final word. “I just didn’t want to keep everyone waiting,” he told the Associated Press about the reason why he did not pause to query about the pronunciation or origin of the word as he had done with other words earlier in the competition.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee has grown into a national curiosity. The organizers and sports network ESPN have made the event into a “sport” of sorts as it airs the national finals on ESPN each June. Taking advantage of the lull between the NBA and NHL playoffs, the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets a prime time evening spot on Thursday. In the past, offshore gambling sites have had odds on potential winners. There was even a Broadway play written about the pressures and idiosyncrasies of a spelling bee. What makes a spelling bee so compelling? Almost one million people tuned in to ESPN this year to watch Venkatachalam and Shivashankar engage in the final round. Surely, they could not have confused this with a baseball game. Although some might argue that both produce the same excitement level.
The “sport” is dominated by Indian Americans. Past champions have included many child prodigies from India including the co-champions this year. 12 of the last 16 Scripps National Spelling Bee winners have roots in South Asia. Shivashankar may have had added pressure to winning as her sister was the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion.
Shivashankar appeared to struggle with the word “zimocca.” She questioned the judge as to the origin of the word and whether there were alternative pronunciations. She mimicked having a piece of paper with one hand and a pen in the other as she wrote out the word as a method of recall to guide her through the process of spelling it. She was successful. Zimocca is a sponge of the Adriatic sea which is used as a bath sponge.
For these spelling masters, the championship is the culmination of many hours of study over the course of months and years. There is also the added pressure that the event is now a now unique television event. With the lights, cameras, and audience watching, spelling in front of everyone is much more daunting than a spelling bee contest amongst your peers in a classroom.
“This is a dream come true,” said Shivashankar, ”I’ve wanted this for such a long time,” said the 14-year-old. Of course, a “long time” is relative for a teenager with the rest of their life ahead of them. She dedicated her win to her grandmother that had passed away.
“I’m finally happy to have success,” Venkatachalam said after the contest. Certainly, he will have many more successes down the road.
For their efforts, both winners this year will earn more than $30,000 in prizes from sponsors of the contest which include Scripps, Words with Friends, Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica.
Not to criticize the prizes but haven’t the winners already mastered most of these prizes?
Shouldn’t they receive money toward college or perhaps a down payment on their first car?
These type of prizes would certainly get many more kids willing to put in time to spelling.
In a world where we have autocorrect on our computers and text using a variety of acronyms that are hard to decipher as well as purposefully misspelling words to make the 140 character limit, it is nice to see that the art of spelling words correctly is still practiced. (end)
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I’ve decided on what interfaces the Pi-Dalek will mounted on the rear of the case.
- USB-B socket to accept power for chrging the internal battery (a mobile phone emergency charger. Internally the socket offers a USB-A socket which is connected to the Pi with a short USB-A-to-microUSB-B cable, then the emergency charger, then another short USB-A-to-microUSB-B cable.
- USB-A socket for memory sticks etc. Connected to the UTG socket with a short UTG cable.
- HDMI socket. Connected to the miniHDMI socket on the Pi with a short adapter cable.
These will be mounted on the arse-end of the Dalek. Two on the 3rd row up of the Dalek-bumps on the rear panel (both USB ports), with the HDMI socket on one of the rear flank quarters (3rd row up).
Ideally I’d like them all on the back, but the bumps on row 1 are blocked by the motor housing, while rows 2 and 4 have far too many structual bits behind it.
This still leaves me with the issue of mounting the camera. While I’d love to have the camera mounted to the eyestalk, this is impractical. Mainly as the eyestalk is missing, but also because the camera module is a huge square blob that wouldn’t look right.
The best I can hope is to mount the camera on the Glacis, between the Whisk and Plunger, just above the top of the skirt. It will still mean that some cutting will have to be done, but it will probably not look as awful.
I’ve also decided that instead of mounting the Pi and Motozero directly to the base chassis, I’ll mount them upside down hanging from the internal ceiling at the top of the skirt. This shortens the distance to where I want the camera to be, and means only 6 wires need to be run down to the base (motor power +/-, motor left +/- and motor right +/-). Everything else will be skirt mounted. So the 40pin GPIO header connection twixt Pi and Motozero forms the split in the arrangement.
A sort of split between the head and body, if you want to make up some sort of analogy up.
I’m sure there’ll be some photos of it when its done.
There is so simple way to do this. I’ve tried several times and failed each time. So here is my idea to make things easy.
- Download your prefered Raspbian Jessie version from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ be it Lite or with Pixel.
- Get and install Etcher, and use that to burn your image to the microSD card.
- Remount the SD card and create a file on it called “ssh”. Create another file called “wpa_supplicant.conf” with contains:
- This should enable you to boot the Zero-W. It should then get an an address for your LAN via DHCP. All you have to do is check you router, or use Fing (or something like it ) to find it.
IT DOESN’T WORK!
Ah. Do you have another Pi with a wired connection somewhere about the place? Good.
Pop your microSD card from your new Pi-zero into an adapter and boot your other Pi (in my case one of my KODI boxes) and boot it.
Find the machine on your network and login (“pi” and “root” have the password “raspberry”).
As root, run
And, while you have a wired connection, install Apache2 and PHP5.
apt-get install apache2
apt-get install php5
Set your new hostname in /etc/hostname now, so you’ll ne able to identify it later.
After thats done, shut it down, pop the card into the Pi-Zero W, and it should come up and appear on your network.
From Fing or your hub you should be able to get the MAC address and add the to your DHCP.
And it should all work.
Additional note concerning #3 above. If you are planning to use it on more that one WiFi network (example: I use my home network, and also the hotspot on my phone if I’m working on it anywhere but at home), your wpa_supplicant.conf file can contain multiple network entries. Thusly:
Put the entries in order of preference.
At last I can paraphrase a Doctor Who serial title again.
This time I’m going to be using a Raspberry Pi-Zero W with MotoZero control board. Gone are the attempts at bashing by own circuitry (which are already in the Model Railway control system anyway), and this time IT WILL WORK!
So, the ingredients for *this* incarnation of the Dalek are:
For now I’ll forego the distance sensors, as I’ve already bashed them into a sort of thermin idea.
Anyway, the key stages for this project are:
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Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH)
Today, medications are the most common method for controlling urinating symptoms of BPH. The following section describes the types of treatment that are most commonly used for BPH.
- 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors
Finasteride (Proscar) and Dutasteride (Avodart), inhibit production of the hormone DHT, which is involved with prostate enlargement. The use of either of these drugs can either prevent progression of growth of the prostate or actually shrink the prostate in some men.
- Alpha blockers
Terazosin (Hytrin) , Doxazosin (Cardura), Tamsulosin (Flomax) and Alfuzosin (Uroxatral) .All four drugs act by relaxing the smooth muscle of the prostate and bladder neck to improve urine flow and to reduce bladder outlet obstruction.
- Combination Therapy
The use of both alpha blockers and 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors result in better symptom management and long term benefits than using only one type of drug. However, this may be associated with more side effects.
Most doctors recommend removal of the enlarged part of the prostate as the best long-term solution for patients with BPH. With surgery for BPH, only the enlarged tissue that is pressing against the urethra is removed; the rest of the inside tissue and the outside capsule are left intact. Surgery usually relieves the obstruction and incomplete emptying caused by BPH.
- Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP)
In this type of surgery, no external incision is needed. After giving anesthesia, the surgeon reaches the prostate by inserting an instrument through the urethra.
An instrument called a resectoscope is inserted through the penis. The resectoscope, which is about 12 inches long and 1/2 inch in diameter, contains light, valves for controlling irrigating fluid, and an electrical loop that cuts tissue and seals blood vessels.
During the 90-minute operation, the surgeon uses the resectoscope's wire loop to remove the obstructing tissue one piece at a time. The pieces of tissue are carried by the fluid into the bladder and then flushed out at the end of the operation.
Transurethral procedures are less traumatic than open forms of surgery and require a shorter recovery period. One possible side effect of TURP is retrograde, or backward, ejaculation. In this condition, semen flows backward into the bladder during climax instead of out the urethra.
- Transurethral incision of the prostate (TUIP)
Instead of removing tissue, as with TURP, this procedure widens the urethra by making a few small cuts in the bladder neck, where the urethra joins the bladder, and in the prostate gland itself. Although some people believe that TUIP gives the same relief as TURP with less risk of side effects such as retrograde ejaculation.
- Open surgery (Prostatectomy)
In the cases when a transurethral procedure cannot be used, open surgery, which requires an external incision, may be used. Open surgery is often done when the gland is greatly enlarged, when there are complicating factors, or when the bladder has been damaged and needs to be repaired. Open prostatectomy for BPH is also performed for a prostate that is too large to remove through the penis. An incision is made in the abdominal wall from below the belly button to the pubic bone. Once the surgeon reaches the prostate capsule, he or she scoops out the enlarged tissue from inside the gland.
- Robotic surgery (prostatectomy)
Robotic prostatectomy combines the best aspects of open prostatectomy (complete removal of obstructing tissue) with the minimally invasiveness of a robotic approach.
Four small incisions are used to insert instruments which the surgeon controls from a console. This differs from robotic radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer in that when done for BPH we do not remove the whole gland, we only shell out the obstructing prostate tissue.
- Holmium Laser Treatment
Holmium laser treatments use laser energy to remove obstructing prostate tissue. A less invasive treatment option, holmium laser treatment provides immediate symptom relief and improves quality of life with little risk of complications.
Holmium laser treatment uses a thin flexible fiber to transmit the laser energy to the prostate with a very high degree of precision.
Your doctor controls the direction and delivery of laser energy by moving the fiber back and forth in a sweeping or 'painting' motion. The laser energy instantly vaporizes the obstructing tissue. The laser also seals the area, resulting in little if any bleeding during and after the procedure. Most patients experience little or no bleeding, and go home without a catheter after a few hours or overnight stay. Pain medication is rarely needed and you can be back to normal activities soon after going home.
- GreenLight Laser Therapy
GreenLight™ Laser Therapy is a procedure performed with a small fiber that is inserted into the urethra through a cystoscope. The fiber delivers high powered laser energy which quickly heats up the prostate tissue, causing the tissue to vaporize. This process is continued until all of the enlarged prostate tissue has been removed. GreenLight Laser Therapy can be performed in a hospital outpatient center, surgical center, or specially equipped physician’s office.
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Reforms to pathology services according to the Carter Report are still doing poorly. The cover-up of the failures is working better:
Dr Cathy Street, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, offered a unique personal insight into Pathology Services in England. She outlined the key themes of the Carter Independent Reviews (both 2005/2008) based on consolidation of Pathology services in England. The aim of this consolidation of Pathology services was to provide improved service quality, responsiveness and cost effectiveness.
She indicated how the transformation of pathology services has moved quite slowly with issues surrounding; differentiation of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ work, logistics between the ‘hub and spoke’ laboratories, underestimation of costs associated with development/reconfiguration of Pathology Networks, and the unrealistic models for delivery of Pathology services which have been devised. These issues have impacted on staff morale within laboratories leading to the loss of many experienced staff members.
Dr Street also highlighted the pathology related concerns raised by Royal College of Pathologists in their response to Lord Carter’s independent report, ‘Operational productivity and performance in English NHS acute hospitals: Unwarranted Variations’. The RCPath had indicated that the instruction to consolidate is ‘unlikely to save money and is likely to cost more in the long-term, put the lives and well-being of patients at risk and increase litigation’.
She questioned if the transformation of Pathology services has truly been clinically led and asserted that the establishment of managed Pathology Networks has resulted in greater losses than gains with a diminished quality of service providing no tangible benefit to patients and staff.
Dr Chris Fourie, of LTS Consulting, provided a very different perspective, as a consultant supporting consolidation and transformation of Pathology Services in England. LTS works with NHS Improvement for a number of Trusts and private Pathology service providers. LTS are supporting the NHSI to define the roadmap for Pathology through a summary of the current state of Pathology services and by setting a clear set of benchmarks. He suggested that finance and clinical input can be the key enablers or constraints to service delivery with major opportunities in the operational aspects of Pathology service delivery.
He outlined the recipe for success in terms of Pathology Service Consolidation which includes; Clinical Leadership, which plays a key role, Executive Participation, Logistics, Integration of Technology and Change Management Support. He also introduced PinpointBPS which is a performance management system that provides Laboratory Management with detailed analytics and structured process documentation.
Dr Pat Twomey, Consultant Chemical Pathologist (in the absence of Dr David James, Clinical Director, Southwest Pathology Services, SPS), provided a succinct overview of how Pathology services can be delivered through a public private partnership. SPS, formed in 2012, is a joint venture between Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Integrated Pathology Partnerships (iPP). SPS delivers full laboratory services to a population of 500,000 patients and over 100 GP practices in Somerset. Dr Twomey outlined the key ingredients for a successful Pathology Network and the co-operation that can be achieved in a public-private partnership.
Dr Mike Ryan, Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Northern HSC Trust, completed the session with a highly engaging overview of Pathology Networking in Northern Ireland and its progress to date. He outlined the challenges that laboratories face such as rapid advances in technology, the changes in the QA and regulatory environment, unnecessary risks associated with variation in practice, the clinical demand for more effective ICT and constrained resources.
He presented the three proposals for modernising Pathology services in Northern Ireland currently in the public consultation domain. They include; consolidation of ‘cold’ testing activity, infrastructure development in terms of IT and logistics and an integrated management structure. He asserted that a ‘root and branch’ change is required to the way the Pathology Service is delivered and stressed that ‘there is no right answer but there is a wrong answer: that we do not change!’
Change will come anyway; it doesn’t have to be the big, bad change brought to other hospitals by the command and control management that pays your salary.
Read more about how bad management survives common sense in this brilliant post from Thinkpurpose who really knows his onions: The secret management model that must not be named…
He even explains to NHS managers where performance management comes from.
Lessons from recent history
The collapse of UKAS-accredited, ISO-compliant pathology partnerships brought about by supposedly inevitable change should be more widely known. Labs were doing so much more with so much less that they couldn’t function any more. Leading to expensive waste when a functional service had to be re-established.
UKAS won’t do much that might upset the inflow of cash from public services that will pay for whatever UKAS demands. Nobody blames them for blessing the mistakes of others.
Here is an expensive management failure, accredited but not caused by UKAS, passed off as restructuring:
Wikipedia explains the multi-million pound deficit a little more fully:
The HSJ explains in more detail for those with a subscription,
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Ocean City Family Fun
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Ocean City Adult Entertainment
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Ocean City Sunsets and Date Nights
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Iffat , Saeed (2010) Daily Stressors ,Coping Strategies and Adjustment of Adolescents. PhD thesis, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad .
This study was initiated to identify the daily stressors, coping strategies and adjustment of adolescents. It was a two phased study.In Phase I, a pilot study was conducted on thirty two adolescents who were between 14 to 18 years of age, to establish the applicability of the instruments to be used for the final study and also to have a preliminary sense of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the research. In Phase II, two studies were conducted.In Study A, Situational COPE (Carver & Scheier, 1982), was used to identify daily stressors and coping strategies. Perceived Self Efficacy Scale (Jerusalem & Schwarzer, 1979) was used as an indicator of adjustment. 435 (249 females, 186 males) school/college students participated in this study.Their age ranged between 14 and 19 years (M= 16.84). Content analysis of reported stressors revealed four major stressful domains: Academics, Interpersonal, Intra personal and Socio-environmental.Religious Coping, Planning, Positive Reinterpretation and Growth, Focus on and Venting of Emotions emerged as the most dominant coping strategies.The less opted strategies were Substance Use and Humor. Problem-Focused coping dominated over Emotion-Focused or Dysfunctional coping types.Frequency of stressors demonstrates that females were more stressed in the domains of academics and interpersonal relations and males were more stressed in socio-environmental domain.Intrapersonal stressors were reported equally by both genders. Likewise, intrapersonal stressors were less in early adolescents and high in mid adolescents; interpersonal stressors were reported equally by all age groups. Similarly, academic stressors were more pronounced in early adolescents and less in older adolescents; socio-environmental stressors, however, increased with age. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted, to see the main effects of gender on different COPE scales.Significant gender differences were found on four sub-scales: Religious Coping [F(1,434)= 3.86, p< .05], Humor [F(1,434)= 6.45, p= .05], Behavior Disengagement [F(1,434)= 5.95, p< .05], and Substance Use [F(1,434)= 4.49, p< .05].Females scored high on Religious Coping and Behavioral Disengagement and males scored high on Humor and Substance Use.ANOVA was also computed to see age effects and significant differences were found on three COPE sub-scales.On Focus on and Venting of Emotions, adolescents in their mid years vented off their emotions more [F(2,434)= 3.35, p< .05], Denial [F(2,434)=3.45, p< .05] was more among older adolescents and Acceptance [F(2,434)= 4.34, p< .05] increased with age. The perceived Self-efficacy among adolescents was also high and it was positively correlated with Problem-focused coping. In Study B, thirty participants (15 males, 15 females), 17 to 19 years of age were studied repeatedly for six weeks.Initially Dispositional COPE (Carver & Scheier, 1982) was given to them to see their usual coping pattern.Then, diary method was used to identify their daily stressors and Situational COPE was used to assess coping.A qualitative analysis was carried out, individual patterns emerged and each pattern did not match largely with the reported dispositional style coping of those individuals, hence preference for certain coping strategies did emerge. Gender comparison was also done and both males and females exhibited coping with stressful situations in a variety of ways.Active coping, Planning, Acceptance, Religious Coping, Mental or Behavioral Disengagement, Focus on and Venting of Emotions were the most dominant coping strategies for stressors related to academics, interpersonal, intrapersonal and socio-environmental domains.
|Item Type:||Thesis (PhD)|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Relations, Participants, Stressors, Strategies, Adolescents, Daily, Coping, Adjustment, Academics, environmental, Religious|
|Subjects:||Social Sciences(g) > Psychology (g16)|
|Deposited By:||Mr. Javed Memon|
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The Bernards Township Smoking and Tobacco Organization Program
In 1989, the Bernards Township Health Department responded to legislation requiring public school buildings to be smoke-free by developing a tobacco education program for students in violation of the state law. This alternative to out-of-school suspension guides students through an evaluation of their own tobacco use patterns while familiarizing them with tools for smoking cessation. The program seeks to move students in a pre-contemplative state toward contemplation, contemplative students toward a first quit attempt, and those who have previously attempted to quit toward continued abstinence.
Building Youth is an initiative for positive community change headed by the Bernards Township Health Department and Municipal Alliance Against Substance Abuse. The Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets TM form the framework of the Building Youth movement because these positive experiences and qualities are proven to help raise healthy and successful young people.
Girls On Track
Girls On Track® is a 501(c)3 positive youth development program which combines an interactive curriculum and running to inspire self-respect and healthy lifestyles in pre-teen girls. The core curriculum addresses many aspects of girls’ development - their physical, emotional, mental and social well-being. Lessons provide girls with the tools to make positive decisions and to avoid risky adolescent behaviors.
Girls on Track takes place from March - June at William Annin Middle School.
For more information about Girls On Track, contact the Bernards Township Health Department at (908) 204-2523 or e-mail: [email protected].
Neighborhood Coffees is a nationally award-winning initiative that brings neighbors together to discuss the roles adults play in helping today's youth successfully negotiate the difficult challenges of everyday life. These forums create opportunities for dialogue between adults and young people, and create supportive relationships throughout neighborhoods in Bernards Township. Simply put, they bring folks together to meet each other, share their wisdom and experiences, and talk about ways to help to make Bernards Township a better place to live.
The Neighborhood Coffees program was developed by the Bernards Township Health Department in collaboration with the Municipal Alliance to deliberately promote the health and well-being of all people in the community through dialogue about the salient social issues that they face. Specifically, the program has three main objectives:
- • To foster supportive relationships in neighborhoods throughout the community;
- • To encourage productive dialogue between adults and teens; and
- • To present a unified language that all residents can use to promote a healthy, nurturing community for all young people.
LMTI & R.A.A.D.
The Lindsay Meyer Teen Institute & Ridge Against Drugs
The LMTI Summer Leadership Conference kicks off with a five-day Summer Leadership Conference at YMCA Camp Ralph Mason in Hardwick, NJ. Throughout the week, participants hear from dynamic speakers and work with others to gain the tools necessary to develop and successfully implement peer-focused prevention strategies to reduce the risk factors associated with substance abuse in their communities.
The program continues over the following ten months with RAD, as students work together over the school year to implement prevention activities in Bernards Township.You may know them from the Teen Volunteer Fair, Youth Summit Day, DARE Letter Writing Campaign, and Sticker Campaign! Look out for RAAD in Bernards Township.
The Pleasant Valley Twilight Challenge 5K To Prevent Underage Drinking n is an annual event that has been held on the first Sunday of June for over 25
years. Along with more than 100 5K runners in past years, the public can participate in the One-Mile Health Walk and the children’s Lollipop Loop. The event is sponsored by the
Municipal Alliance and the Bernards Township Health Department.
For more information about this exciting event please call the Bernards Township Health Department at (908) 204–2523 or email [email protected]
The annual "Choices & Decisions – Living Up To Your Potential” Youth Summit Day, are two half-day conferences for 8th grade students at William Annin Middle Schooll. The purpose of the Youth Summit is to provide a forum to discuss the issues that young people are faced with every day. The goal is to provide students with the information, resources, and inspiration to assist them to make positive decisions now and later in their lives. The program is in the format of a professional conference with dynamic motivational speakers followed by breakout sessions, and small group discussions.
For information about the 2015 Youth Summit please contact the Bernards Township Health Department at: (908) 204-2523 or e-mail: [email protected].
Project Graduation is a year-long series of activities which provides drug and alcohol-free events and promotes class cohesiveness for Ridge High School Seniors. Culminating in June is "The BASH" -- an all-night drug and alcohol-free graduation celebration that is supervised by school personnel, parents, and community volunteers. Project Graduation first began in Bernards Township in 1986 because of the many local tragedies associated with drinking and driving on graduation night. The program was created as an alternative to the post-graduation parties that brought so much concern and grief to families in our community. Because of Project Graduation, local parents sleep better on graduation night, knowing that their children are in a safe place.
The Bernards Township SCOP Team (pronounced "scope") oversees the program. The SCOP Team (State Community Organization Program) is a committee that includes representation from parents, school administration, school faculty, police, local clergy and the health department.
The major activities organized by the SCOP Team include:
- • Senior tailgate party / Senior night
- • Senior breakfast
- • Market day fundraiser
- • Poinsettia fundraiser
- • Mystery bus ride
- • 100-Day countdown to graduation celebration
- • Alcohol education assembly
- • Ice cream social
- • The graduation night BASH
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It would be difficult for even a casual observer to miss the uproar caused by the 11th Circuit’s decision in TOUSA upholding a bankruptcy court decision that (i) liens granted by subsidiaries of TOUSA, Inc. to secure loans to TOUSA were avoidable as fraudulent conveyances, and (ii) the value of the liens could be recovered from a third party that received payment funded by the financing secured by the liens. What may be less clear to those watching from the sidelines is exactly what was going on and what this means for future transactions.
Although there are a myriad of convoluted facts, key points are:
- The old lenders, referred to as the “Transeastern Lenders,” made unsecured loans to TOUSA guaranteed by some of its subsidiaries to provide financing for a joint venture.
- Things did not go well. Eventually the Transeastern Lenders sued TOUSA, resulting in a settlement that required TOUSA to pay more than $421 million to the Transeastern Lenders.
- TOUSA obtained financing from the “New Lenders” to fund part of the settlement payments that was secured by first priority liens on the assets of some of its subsidiaries.
- Fast forward six months. TOUSA and its subsidiaries filed bankruptcy.
In the bankruptcies the unsecured creditors committee sought to avoid the liens granted by the subsidiaries to the New Lenders as a fraudulent conveyance, and to recover the value of the liens from the Transeastern Lenders.
In addition to proving actual intent, a fraudulent conveyance can be established by showing that (1) (i) a debtor was or became insolvent, (ii) was left with unreasonably small capital or (iii) was unable to pay its debts as they became due, and (2) did not receive “reasonably equivalent value.” The crux of the TOUSA fraudulent conveyance decision is whether the subsidiary debtors received reasonably equivalent value for granting liens to the New Lenders.
The bankruptcy court first noted that “value” is defined as “property” or satisfaction or securing of a present or antecedent debt, and then determined that the subsidiaries “could not receive ‘property’ unless they obtained some kind of enforceable entitlement to some tangible or intangible article.” None of the purported benefits met that test.
However, the bankruptcy court went on to issue findings in the alternative that, even under the broadest definition of value proposed by the Transeastern Lenders, the benefits were “well short” of reasonably equivalent value. Benefits proposed by the Transeastern Lenders included the opportunity to avoid bankruptcy, receiving control of certain property, tax benefits, avoiding the negative effects of continued litigation between Transeastern Lenders and TOUSA, TOUSA corporate services, and an enhanced revolving credit facility. The bankruptcy court was not persuaded that these benefits provided sufficient value.
The district court was the next stop. It quashed the bankruptcy court decision as it related to the Transeastern Lenders, holding that the bankruptcy court defined value too narrowly. The required value did not have to be tangible property or marketable financial value, and could include indirect economic benefits. It found that the transaction gave the subsidiaries an opportunity to avoid bankruptcy and continue as going concerns, which did not need to be quantified to establish reasonably equivalent value.
Now enters the Eleventh Circuit, reversing the district court. The court did not address the definition of value and whether the bankruptcy court’s narrow view or the district court’s broader view was the correct approach. Instead it relied on the bankruptcy court’s alternate finding that the almost certain costs of the transaction far outweighed any perceived benefits, determining that the bankruptcy court was not clearly erroneous in this finding. Unfortunately, this leaves the issue of what can constitute reasonably equivalent value totally up in the air.
Under Section 550 of the Bankruptcy Code when a transfer has been avoided, it can be recovered from an “entity for whose benefit the transfer was made.” A second important issue in TOUSA was whether the bankruptcy court properly found that the value of the liens granted to the New Lenders could be collected from the Transeastern Lenders as the “entity for whose benefit the transfer was made.” The Transeastern Lenders argued that the grant of the liens was made to the New Lenders, and the Transeastern Lenders were only subsequent transferees, not entities that benefitted from the initial transfer. However, the documentation required the subsidiaries to forward loan proceeds to the Transeastern Lenders for application to the settlement payments. Under these facts, the Eleventh Circuit agreed with the bankruptcy court that the value of the liens could be properly recovered from the Transeastern Lenders.
This state of affairs has caused substantial anxiety, both because there is now greater uncertainty about what can constitute reasonably equivalent value and because a lender (or anyone else, for that matter) receiving payments that are only indirectly involved in a fraudulent conveyance through the financing that funds the payments may be liable for a clawback.
Stay tuned for future developments. In the meantime, do not be surprised at the elaborate strategies people begin to dream up to reduce the risks of a clawback in the context of receiving a payoff of a loan or other payments from a financing that involves upstream guarantees or grants of security.
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Seed stored for more than six weeks must be protected against insect damage. Seed should only be stored when 'dry', as grain of high moisture causes temperatures to rise and mould to develop. High temperatures reduce the efficacy of grain protectants, allowing insects to multiply. Cooling of grain (below 15 degrees C) helps to suppress insect activity.
Insecticides applied to uninfested grain will protect against pests developing and damaging the grain (for a specified duration). Application of seed treatment insecticides after infestation and their over-use is discouraged. Such management facilitates the development of resistance to the chemicals within the insect population. Additionally if an infestation is current, seed treatment insecticides will assert little control.
Some Hannaford seed treatment products contain cypermethrin or triflumuron insecticide. Both insecticides protect against a range of insect pests of stored wheat, barley, oats and other small grains. Existing adult insects will die after ingesting cypermethrin; while triflumuron, an insect growth regulator, will kill any emerging larvae. Triflumuron will not destroy adult insects. Infested grain will therefore suffer insect damage before triflumuron acts upon the larvae as the insect life cycle proceeds.
Granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius)
Adults are dark brown and range from 2.0-3.5 mm in length. They are easily distinguishable from the borers and beetles by their long snout, characteristic of the true weevils.
Females produce from 200-300 eggs in their 2-3 month lifespan. Adults cannot fly and feign death if disturbed. Eggs are deposited in whole kernels of grain; emerging larvae feed on whole grain.
Adults feed in and on whole and broken grain.
Rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae)
As for the granary weevil, although distinguished by the four orange-reddish patches on its body.
Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella)
Attacks oilseeds and cereals.
Adults have a wingspan of 20 mm; the outer portion of the forewing is reddish-brown and the inner portion creamy-white. Eggs are laid on the surface of the grain.
Larvae spin webs on the surface of the grain and consume kernels within the webbing.
Lesser grain borer (Rhyzopertha dominica)
This pest is capable of infesting all small grain and develops more rapidly in damaged than in whole grain.
Adults are dark brown and range from 2.5-3.0 mm in length. Females produce between 200 and 400 eggs in their 2-3 month lifespan. Eggs are laid on the surface of the grain and larvae burrow into the kernels. Adults can fly, and also feed on the grain.
Rust-red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum)
Capable of infesting both whole grain and oilseeds, but a more serious problem in stock feed and processed grain (i.e. flour).
Adults are reddish brown and range from 2.3-4.4 mm in length.
Females produce from 10-20 eggs per day, and over a lifetime of 200 days – 2 years, produce more than 1000 eggs.
Larvae and adults feed on broken grain and flour.
Sawtoothed grain beetle (Oryzaephilus surinamensis)
Infests a wide range of commodities, but does not readily breed in whole grain. However, most samples of grain contain enough broken fragments for the beetle to become established.
Adults are brown and 2.5-3.5 mm long with characteristic tooth-like projections on either side of the thorax.
Adults may live for several years and females produce an average of 375 eggs.
Larvae and adults feed on broken grain and flour.
Tropical warehouse moth (Ephestia cautella)
Attacks cereal grain and oilseeds.
Adults are grey with a dark band across the middle of the forewing. They have a wingspan of 15 mm.
The moths live for only two weeks, but during this period females may lay up to 250 eggs on the surface of the grain.
Larvae spin webs on the grain surface and consume kernels within the webbing.
Seed stored for more than six weeks must be protected against insect damage.
Control of these insects by seed treatments is reliant on either the adults, in the case of cypermethrin, or larvae, when triflumuron is used, feeding on the treated grain and hence the insecticide. When feeding on treated grain, insecticide is ingested and the insect is killed. Eggs and larvae feeding exclusively within the seed are not controlled by this method, as there is no intake of chemical. However, when they emerge, insecticide is ingested from the surface of the seed and control is achieved.
Only the larval stages of the moths consume grain. Therefore, adult moths may be present in treated grain, which is protected from larval damage by the insecticide. Further, the life cycle of the insect is interrupted and multiplication does not occur, as all larvae are killed by the protectant.
In order to be effective, grain protectants are developed and formulated to maintain their toxic properties for an extended period.
By contrast, a major stored grain insect of field peas, the pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum) is not controlled by seed treatments. Pea weevils infest the seed before harvest and do not ingest the seed during storage. Thus, multiplication can occur, uninhibited.
Stored grain insects may also be controlled by:
- Cooling stored grain through aeration
- Treating grain with an insecticide powder such as Dryacide® or liquid residual chemicals
- Treating infested grain with dichlorvos
- Fumigating grain with phosphine
- Controlled atmosphere such as carbon dioxide in a gas-tight silo
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With the spread of the coronavirus, Iran’s regime brought death and darkness for the people in the hope to suppress their fury against it. But despite its imagination an inverse reaction it is now facing the fierce reaction and angry of the people.
And in the search for the culprit and the decision-maker who has bred this situation, state media in different expressions are pointing to the regime’s supreme leader.
By speaking about the “accountable”, “government officials” and “bosses”, these media all indirectly point to the supreme leader. One blames “ideological views” for the expansion of coronavirus, one “officials’ betrayal to words”, one “officials’ view of domestic and foreign policies” and one “lies” to the people.
But at least all of them are attacking indirectly the supreme leader Ali Khamenei. This is a confession about the uncontrollable situation.
On August 15, 2021, the state-run Sharq newspaper wrote the following about the priorities and views of the regime towards the coronavirus, which has caused such a situation, according to the “Letter of 357 University Professors to Government Officials”:
“Accept the priority of public health over political and economic considerations. / In dealing with this disease, avoid unscientific, ideological, and political views.”
Playing with words away from their true meanings they have committed the greatest betrayal to the Iranian people. From Ruhollah Khomeini to Ali Khamenei this is a policy of hypocrisy and demagoguery. Now the situation is so bad that its media is pushed to attack it.
“Our officials betrayed them by playing with words and stripped them of their original meaning. Today, with the help of cyberspace and awareness of the situation in the country, people know that when a person uses all kinds of immorality and lies to quell the lust for power and fame to reach high positions, the word “serving the people” has no meaning other than deception and hypocrisy.
Officials know that if they create hundreds of new words and terms every day, they can no longer gain the trust and legitimacy of the people.” (State-run daily Mostaghel, August 14, 2021)
Another example of this mumbling of meaningless words is their astronomical lies about the production of the coronavirus vaccine. Arman government newspaper on August 15, 2021, wrote:
“Mr. Mokhber, the Chief Executive Officer of the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO), has made different statements at various times regarding the production of vaccines:
- Mass production facilities have been provided and within the next two to two and a half months we will no longer have to worry about mass production (March 9, 2021).
- By September, production will reach 30 million doses (May 11, 2021).
- The cumulative production of this vaccine will be more than 50 million doses by the end of September (June 16, 2021).
- Mokhber in the position of First Vice President: ‘We issued an order to import 20 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of September. (August 12, 2021)
As before said the aggressiveness of the coronavirus pushed many officials and media to attack this policy while understanding that the virus will not make any exception and all of them are in danger too. Once they exposed the lies of the regime’s vice president and on the side, they are exposing the lies about the import of the coronavirus.
“Officials have repeatedly lied that those domestic vaccines will be mass-produced by the end of February or the end of spring and will even export surplus domestic vaccines abroad.
In one case, the Red Crescent returned 150,000 doses of vaccine donated by Iranians abroad from the airport. Authorities prevented the entry of about 23 million doses of vaccine into the country by the end of March.” (State-run daily August 14, 2021)
Such events have become a habit for the regime, which is addicted to brewing crises, one of them being the coronavirus, which originated from the ‘way officials look at domestic and foreign policies.’
“As long as the attitude of officials towards domestic and foreign policies turns on the same heel; Undoubtedly, from the day after the end of the coronavirus, whenever it is over, another tragedy will be created for the people.” (Hamdeli, August 15, 2021) | <urn:uuid:1ad0ec0b-132c-4ce5-828a-c27283218615> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://irannewsupdate.com/news/general/irans-untrustworthy-officials/?amp | 2022-08-16T22:57:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00680.warc.gz | en | 0.950328 | 951 |
Dr. Dimitrios Iliopoulos’ laboratory studies the inter-complexity between chronic inflammatory diseases such as ulcerative colitis, obesity and cancer and identifies common regulatory circuits and novel drug targets.
The molecular events governing the onset and progression of malignant transformation involve the inactivation of tumor suppressor genes and the acquisition of oncogenic mutations. In addition, the progression to cancer is influenced by environmental conditions and extracellular signaling pathways that affect the activity of tumor suppressors and oncoproteins. Clinical and epidemiological studies have revealed that patients diagnosed with inflammatory and auto-immune diseases show increased incidence and aggressiveness of tumor formation. For example, patients with chronic ulcerative colitis are at increased risk of developing colorectal cancer, while patients with systemic lupus erythematosus have increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. These data suggest the inter-complexity between chronic inflammatory and auto-immune diseases and carcinogenesis; however the molecular bases of these links among diseases are poorly understood.
A major focus of Iliopoulos’ research is to identify how extracellular and intracellular inflammatory stimuli contribute to the transformation of normal cells into cancer cells. In particular, he strives to understand how perturbations of the tumor microenvironment contribute to oncogenic transformation and potentially formation and maintenance of cancer stem cell populations. Furthermore, he is planning to develop novel genetically engineered mouse models of inflammatory-induced carcinogenesis. In addition, microRNAs, a novel class of short non-coding RNAs, seem to play an essential role in the pathogenesis of several human diseases. His laboratory is interested in identifying microRNA-gene networks that are essential in human inflammatory diseases and cancer, through integration of genomic and proteomic data using novel bioinformatic algorithms.
Selected Cancer-Related Publications:
Hatziapostolou M, Polytarchou C, Aggelidou E, Drakaki A, Poultsides GA, Jaeger SA, Ogata H, Karin M, Struhl K, Hadzopoulou-Cladaras M, Iliopoulos D. An HNF4alpha-miRNA inflammatory feedback circuit regulates hepatocellular oncogenesis. Cell. 2011 Dec 9;147(6):1233-47. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.043.
Piskounova E, Polytarchou C, Thornton JE, LaPierre RJ, Pothoulakis C, Hagan JP, Iliopoulos D, Gregory RI. Lin28A and Lin28B inhibit let-7 microRNA biogenesis by distinct mechanisms. Cell. 2011 Nov 23;147(5):1066-79. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.039.
Iliopoulos D, Jaeger SA, Hirsch HA, Bulyk ML, Struhl K. STAT3 activation of miR-21 and miR-181b-1 via PTEN and CYLD are part of the epigenetic switch linking inflammation to cancer. Mol Cell. 2010 Aug 27;39(4):493-506. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.07.023.
Iliopoulos D, Lindahl-Allen M, Polytarchou C, Hirsch HA, Tsichlis PN, Struhl K. Loss of miR-200 inhibition of Suz12 leads to polycomb-mediated repression required for the formation and maintenance of cancer stem cells. Mol Cell. 2010 Sep 10;39(5):761-72. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.08.013.
Iliopoulos D, Hirsch HA, Struhl K. An epigenetic switch involving NF-kappaB, Lin28, Let-7 MicroRNA, and IL6 links inflammation to cell transformation. Cell. 2009 Nov 13;139(4):693-706. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.10.014. Epub 2009 Oct 29. | <urn:uuid:d193eb61-c698-4efc-85df-dbb265a3a46a> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.cancer.ucla.edu/index.aspx?page=243&recordid=686 | 2015-03-03T20:24:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936463411.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074103-00257-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.808797 | 851 |
WCH celebrates 35th anniversary this month
Published 10:30 am Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Wind Creek Hospitality is celebrating its 35th anniversary this month, according to a release.
The gaming entity of the Poarch Creek Indians (PCI or the Tribe) opened its first gaming facility, Creek Bingo Palace, in Atmore on April 13, 1985.
Thirty-five years later, WCH is an international gaming and hospitality operator with 10 properties around the world.
PCI became Alabama’s first and only federally recognized Indian Tribe on Aug. 11, 1984.
Federal recognition ensured PCI the promise and the right of self-governance – something it has done for 573 tribes around the United States, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Lacking the education and money needed to fund their newly recognized government, PCI (like many tribes before) looked to gaming as a viable, smart investment for its future.
When Creek Bingo Palace opened its doors – just eight months after the Tribe received federal recognition – the facility drew patrons throughout the Gulf region and provided 130 jobs. The building was not flashy and was often crowded, but employees and guests created a strong community around paper bingo. By 2003, PCI was operating electronic bingo gaming at three locations in Alabama. It was a monumental accomplishment for a small, rural Tribe with few resources and no experience. It was a testament to hard work and the shared belief that success in gaming would create much-needed opportunity for all.
Three locations in less than 20 years was not only a mountaintop – it was the beginning of a new climb and a taller mountain. Tribal and PCI Gaming leaders charted a path for responsible growth that surpassed expectations:
- January 6, 2009 – PCI opens Wind Creek Casino Atmore to the general public
- January 31, 2009 – PCI opens Wind Creek Atmore Hotel
- June, 2009 – PCI opens Spa, Cooking Studio, Fitness Center, Resort Pool and Amphitheater at Wind Creek Atmore
- June, 2009 – PCI purchased interest in Pensacola and Mobile racetracks
- December, 2011 – PCI purchased interest in Gretna racetrack
- October, 2013 – PCI opens family entertainment center at Wind Creek Atmore
- December, 2013 – PCI opens Wind Creek Casino Wetumpka
- February, 2014 – PCI opens Wind Creek Wetumpka hotel
- November, 2014 – Tribal Council met with PCI Gaming and challenged PCI Gaming to diversify and generate significant new revenue sources
- December, 2015 – PCI opens Wind Creek Casino Montgomery
- January, 2016 – PCI opens Wind Creek Montgomery Hotel
- May, 2016 – PCI partners with Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada to open Wa She Shu Casino in Gardnerville, Nevada
- Spring, 2017 – PCI approved to purchase Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino
- October, 2017 – PCI approved to purchase Renaissance Curacao Resort & Casino
- May, 2019 – PCI approved to purchase Sands Bethlehem Resort & Casino and rebrand it to Wind Creek Bethlehem Casino & Resort
Between January of 2009 and May of 2019 (only ten years), WCH built and/or purchased a total of ten gaming facilities around the world! WCH now provides nearly 6,900 jobs; that number is higher when vendors and contract workers are factored in. WCH has never wavered in its commitment to giving back and creating opportunities for all. WCH has donated millions to deserving nonprofits, schools, first responder units and organizations who are making our communities better places to live, work and play.
PCI is a prime example of the progress federal recognition can lead to. The Tribe has a stable government that provides for education, recreation, public safety, healthcare and economy. The Tribe would not be where it is today if its leaders of yesterday had not invested time and energy to make gaming a success. | <urn:uuid:20939e29-4fc5-4afe-bbed-42fde74b1004> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.atmoreadvance.com/2020/04/15/wch-celebrates-35th-anniversary-this-month/ | 2022-06-26T11:48:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103205617.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626101442-20220626131442-00464.warc.gz | en | 0.94464 | 790 |
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Caplansky faves include the Leo, a brunch that includes smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and schmaltzy onions.
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The famous smoked meat sandwich served with a kosher dill pickle.
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NOW’s film writer Norman Wilner (centre) and Kate Atherley chow down while Zane Caplansky proudly looks on.
It's a lovely October evening in 2007. My wife Kate and I are trying not to mark the anniversary of a death in the family. We don't want to stay home with our thoughts, and we've heard about this guy selling smoked meat out of the Monarch Tavern. We know that if that doesn't distract us, nothing can.
So we walk the 20 minutes or so to the Monarch, talking about everything but the thing in the back of our minds, and then we get there and find a table. This is before Zane Caplansky hired proper help, so he's doing everything himself.
He's a whirlwind of activity, making sandwiches, cycling through baskets of fries and baking that knish thing he makes that's exactly the midpoint between the potato-ball Toronto variant of the dish on which I was raised and the pastry-shell New York version. The knish thing is fantastic.
As it turns out, a smoked meat sandwich and a pint of beer can paper over a hole in your heart, at least for an hour or so. And though we don't really get to talk to Zane that night, we make sure to say hi on the way out and tell him how much we liked the food.
Over the next few months, we return to the Monarch whenever the mood strikes - always making sure to walk there and back, even in winter, in order to convince ourselves we're burning off enough calories to justify the meal. (Hey, everyone lies to themselves about something.) And we get to know Zane, who tells us about his plans to open his own place - a real deli, like the ones he grew up with.
Zane and I are around the same age, and grew up going to many of the same places with our parents and grandparents. Coleman's Delicatessen at Bathurst and Lawrence was one we both loved, and I've always believed that Zane modelled his College West delicatessen after it. Caplansky's is what Coleman's would have become had it moved with the times instead of staying fixed in its 1950s aesthetic.
It's a bright, welcoming space built to invite people into the deli experience whether or not they share the cultural reference points. (Caplansky's has more windows than any other deli I've ever visited.) And unlike other delis, Caplansky's has already shown a willingness to evolve. He's remodelled it once already, shifting the bar to the back of the house to make room for a deli case.
(Oh, right, the bar. Name another deli that has four craft beers on tap along with the seltzer and Vernor's. One of them, Deli King, is a bespoke collaboration with the Barley Days brewery. The day I finally convince Zane to import Cel-Ray, I may achieve nirvana.)
The menu keeps expanding, Zane broadening his offerings to include non-meat choices that aren't just lip service to the concept (Kate and her mother both swear by The Leo, an all-day brunch option composed of lox, scrambled eggs, onions and a perfect bagel), while the more deli-centric dishes just keep getting more and more interesting. Smoked meat led to smoked turkey, and from there to the sliced salami known as versht (served with mustard and red onions; insist on challah instead of rye).
I have consumed it all. Beet borscht, meat loaf plates, massive tuna salad sandwiches, the Caplansky Burger (80 per cent ground chuck, 20 per cent smoked meat). My current usual is the Honest Lawyer - smoked turkey and kishka (don't ask) piled on toasted challah, doused in gravy and accompanied by more fries than is probably necessary.
You become a regular in stages. (Unless you're Geddy Lee, in which case you get a dish named after you, like, the second time you come in.) I've brought family there, conducted two different Hot Docs interviews there, been part of a National Post panel about Jews and baseball - with apologies to my brother Mike, who knows a lot more about that particular Venn diagram than I do - and insisted that a bunch of film critics decompress there when it turned out we all had a couple of hours free during TIFF.
I met the author David Sax there, buying my (second) copy of his excellent book Save The Deli, in which Zane figures somewhat. I've hung out at the Sunday-night storytelling sessions started up by Michael and Marilla Wex to reconnect the deli with its function as a communal hub. I knew I was a regular the time I was enlisted to tally up the points for one of Zane's latke cook-offs. That's trust.
And somewhere along the line, Zane achieved his goal. The deli - his deli - has become an essential element of my neighbourhood. He himself has become a proper player in the city's Jewish culture, from his enthusiastic TV presence to his principled decision to sponsor a screening at this year's Toronto Palestinian Film Festival in response to the latest ugliness in Gaza.
That October evening's desperately needed distraction has become a regular fixture in my life. His move out of the Monarch let me put away the sadder associations. Caplansky's on College is a place I only associate with happiness and being stuffed to bursting.
There is only one flaw. The new place is much closer to the house - five minutes' walk instead of 20 - so the calories don't burn off the way they used to.
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Hello and happy Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month 2023! I can’t believe it 2 months since I’ve posted a blog! Recently, life has got pretty hectic therefore, I have a lot of goals I need to set. Goal setting works for me. Yet, I realised most of my goals were about work which are needed and will… Continue reading Managing My A-Z Occupations With Cerebral Palsy!
As a student occupational therapist I am always reflecting and here are some reflections I wanted to share about my life as a disabled OT student.
4 Years of Not So Terrible Palsy
Happy New Year and happy 4 years of Not So Terrible Palsy, I know, 4 years! Although starting to write a blog was not a New Year’s resolution in 2019, I do enjoy starting the New Year off with a blog. The process of writing motivates me to be more creative for the year ahead… Continue reading 4 Years of Not So Terrible Palsy
Georgia the Occupational Therapist or Just Georgia?
Just like that, we’re at the end of the year. This year has been a really big one for me yet, it feels like it’s gone by in the blink of an eye and I feel as though I haven’t appreciated it as much as I should have. Recently, I’ll be honest, my mental health… Continue reading Georgia the Occupational Therapist or Just Georgia?
Am I Too Open About My Cerebral Palsy?
I’m always up for a bit of positive disclosure and I am quite open about my disability. Yes, I don’t owe anyone my medical history, but I like to think that as an occupational therapist my experience of disability shapes my practice to add authenticity. As well as also making sure that I am using… Continue reading Am I Too Open About My Cerebral Palsy?
Exploring my Disabled Activism as a Meaningful Occupation
Last week I attended the BAMEOTUK Symposium, and I loved every minute! Although I am a white person I did relate to a lot of what the speakers were saying about activism. This made me think about my activism and activism as a meaningful occupation. I’ve been wanting to write this blog for a while… Continue reading Exploring my Disabled Activism as a Meaningful Occupation
100th Blog Post on Not So Terrible Palsy
100th blog post, can you believe it? There are now 100 blogs post of me waffling on and yet I’m still here with a growing audience. It amazes me and I am so pleased that you are here with me - it means a lot! I honestly didn’t think I’d be here, having the different… Continue reading 100th Blog Post on Not So Terrible Palsy
Am I as Disability Confident as I Think I Am?
As promised I am writing about my confidence in asking for help that I unpicked in my last blog. It’s a bit of a ‘typical’ blog I know, I know. But it is Disability Pride Month after all so if it’s got to be done, what better month to do it in? I always say… Continue reading Am I as Disability Confident as I Think I Am?
A Year Into Being an OT With CP
It’s been a while, at one point I was debating if they’d be a blog at all this month! The thought of not posting a blog for more than a month does not sit well with me. Therefore I thought why do not a general life update seen as it’s a year since I finished… Continue reading A Year Into Being an OT With CP
How My Personality Is Shaped by My Disability
My disability is who I am, I am not trying to overcome my disability nor I am trying to define my disability as it certainly defines me. I am an occupational therapist, blogger and activist all because I am disabled so to say that my disability doesn’t define me would be a lie. My disability… Continue reading How My Personality Is Shaped by My Disability
Using My Blog Purposely With Cerebral Palsy
In my last post I touched upon disrupting, what that actually means and exploring the power of a blog when disrupting. This made me think about blogging as an occupation. Of course, as occupational therapists we all know about creativity, writing, by extension blogging and how meaningful this can be. When I first started blogging… Continue reading Using My Blog Purposely With Cerebral Palsy | <urn:uuid:47529122-833d-45e2-b425-31756ef3fec9> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://notsoterriblepalsy.com/tag/reflections/ | 2023-06-03T13:45:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649293.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603133129-20230603163129-00185.warc.gz | en | 0.947122 | 967 |
Being a new mom and having so many friends that are moms, the subject of getting your kids to eat their veggies comes up a lot. I haven’t had to experience it yet as my little one is still breastfeeding, but I’m noticing that it’s a common challenge.
This summer I read “Bebe Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting” by Pamela Druckerman. It’s a guide-book based on her non-fiction book “Bringing up Bebe,” the story of Druckerman’s experience raising her daughter in Paris. While living in Paris, she notices a marked difference in French vs. American parenting styles. Her motivation to write the book stems from an experience in a Parisian restaurant. Her daughter is screaming, throwing food while the French children are sitting quietly eating lunch with their parents. There are so many great tips in this book, but the section on food interested me the most.
One major difference that Druckerman noticed between French and American kids is that they eat their vegetables with very little resistance. In fact, they start every meal with a vegetable course. There’s no song and dance involved, or coming up with multiple ways to hide vegetables amongst tons of cheese. The French children know they’re eating vegetables and they’re fine with it. How is this possible?
1. There are no “Kid” Foods
French kids don’t get chicken nuggets and French fries on a regular basis. They eat what their parents eat, ie. vegetables, fish, chicken, cheese, eggs or soup.
2. There’s One Snack a Day
French parents aren’t chasing after their children with containers full of cheerios or Goldfish. Kids get one afternoon snack, called a gouter. It’s common sense really – if kids don’t snack as much, they’re more likely to be hungry at dinner and eat what’s being served, like vegetables. I would suggest the same rule for adults.
3. Don’t Solve a Crisis with a Cookie
By not rewarding an outburst with an Oreo, you’re teaching your child two valuable lessons:
a. Outbursts don’t get rewarded
b. To not eat when you’re upset (a habit that many adults can’t break)
4. You’re the Keeper of the Fridge
In France, kids don’t have the right to open the fridge and grab whatever they want, whenever they want. Again, this cuts down on snacking and ensures they’re hungry for dinner.
5. Let Kids Cook
When kids get involved in the cooking process, they are more invested in what they’re eating. Perhaps if you let your 5-year-old make the vinaigrette, she will be more interested in eating the salad. Other tasks like peeling vegetables, mixing muffin batter, tearing up spinach or peeling eggs are all kid-friendly kitchen tasks.
6. Serve Food in Courses, Vegetables First
A bowl of peas in a pod, some cut-up cherry tomatoes with olive oil and salt or sauteed broccoli. Your child is hungry because they haven’t been snacking all day. Put the veggies on their plate, and wait.
7. Everyone Eats the Same Thing
There are no choices or customizations. When your child tries something new, or eats a vegetable, don’t freak out and start cheering. Produce a neutral reaction, and instead ask them questions about how it tastes.
8. You Just Have to Taste It
My parents always said this to my sisters and I growing up: just try it. We did, and most of the time I liked it, and now I’ll eat anything.
9. Keep Foods in the Rotation
Even if broccoli isn’t a hit, keep re-introducing it. It may not be her favourite, but she will come to regard it as normal.
10. Don’t Pressure Them to Finish
Leftover food can be saved for a snack or lunch the next day. I think one of the major causes of weight gain in our society is the notion that we have to finish all the food on our plates regardless of if we’re full or not. We were never taught to listen to our inner hunger cues. It’s important to teach your child to be an independent eater and regulate her own appetite. Start with a small portion, and let them tell you if they want more or if they’re done.
Like all parenting advice, it’s important to take a few tips that you like, and leave others, and make them work for you. And, now that I’m a mom, I’ll never judge someone’s parenting style – do what works for you. I personally love these tips and when my little one is old enough to start eating solids I’m going to give them a try the best I can! I’ll let you know how it goes in a couple months 🙂 | <urn:uuid:ff7d6f3e-0223-498c-984c-6e7ff60b6083> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://laurenfollett.com/dont-hide-veggies-kids/ | 2018-09-21T05:50:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156857.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180921053049-20180921073449-00050.warc.gz | en | 0.944216 | 1,086 |
Cosmetic Stem Cells
At Docere Medical, we take skin rejuvenation very seriously and offer our patients several different options for creating youthful, healthy, glowing skin using the power of regenerative medicine.
Skin aging takes place on a cellular level so it makes sense to fight those changes at the same level – that’s where regenerative therapies like Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), Adipose Derived Stem Cells (ADSC’s), and exosomes come in to play.
Platelet rich plasma (PRP) uses growth factors in your own blood to signal your skin’s stem cells. PRP is made after collecting a small amount of blood from the patient and then spinning it down to isolate the potent growth factors found within the platelets. All of our cosmetic regenerative therapies at Docere Medicine use PRP.
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) has been shown in clinical studies to…
Increase collagen production in skin
Improve wound healing and health of skin
Improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
Decrease appearance of dark circles and hyperpigmentation
Improve texture and firmness of skin
Improve blood supply to the skin
Adipose Derived Stem Cells (ADSC’s), obtained from the patient’s own fat by a mini-liposuction procedure, can be added to the PRP to further enhance skin rejuvenation. Adipose Derived Stem Cells are rich in Mesenchymal Stem Cells, which have the ability to bring about diverse regenerative changes in the skin.
Studies in skin rejuvenation show that stem cells (ADSCs) can...
Increase collagen production
Improve blood flow to the skin
Provide photo-protection to the skin (protects again damaging UV rays)
Improve skin hydration and decrease water evaporation seen with aging
Increase the thickness and density of the skin dermis
Improve wound healing and appearance of scars
Our skin rejuvenation procedures are done in our office with topical numbing cream given prior to the procedure.
For more information about harnessing the healing power of your own cells for skin rejuvenation, please contact us today!
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✧ ALL ABOUT MORGAN ✧
Morgan Lily is an American actress, print model and aspiring musician born April 11, 2000 in Santa Monica, California.
Morgan is best known on the silver screen for her stellar work in hit blockbuster films such as: X-Men: First Class for her role as Young Mystique; 2012 for her spot as “Lily Curtis”; her performance in He’s Not That Into You and her role in the film alongside Luke Wilson, Henry Poole Is Here as “Millie Stupek.”
Before she hit the big time working in Tinsel Town, Morgan was a prolific child model. It started early, when at three months old she graced the cover of Talbots catalog.
She also took the fashion world by storm—all before the age of four. Morgan topped the fashion world appearing in the pages of world-famous fashion magazines like: Vogue, GQ, Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Amica.
Morgan caught the attention of top ad agencies, where she garnered work modeling for various Macy’s, Sara Lee and Disney publications and later went on to land a Burberry London clothing ad and the cover of American Girl Magazine.
Morgan’s early success in print led to her first acting job in a Hallmark Mother’s Day commercial. Future commercial work included appearances in national spots for Nabisco, Kellogg’s, Jif Peanut Butter, Dodge, Continental Airlines and a Hallmark Christmas ad.
Morgan made her big film debut in the poignant project, Shards. The narrative follows the return of an Iraq war veteran to his family in the United States.
After Morgan’s performance in Shards, she was cast for the lighthearted made-for-TV comedy, Welcome to the Jungle Gym, where she co-starred with actress Jennifer Aspen (“Party of Five”, “Rodney”, “The Closer”) as “Kylie.” She then moved on to add Love’s Everlasting Courage, another made-for-TV title to her repertoire where she appeared as “Missy,” the daughter of a man struggling to raise his family in the days of the early West after losing his wife.
Morgan made her network television debut in 2007 on an episode of the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Morgan did all of her own stunt work for the show, which included falling from an elevated tree house.
Her Sundance debut broke out in 2008 in Henry Poole is Here, starring Luke Wilson. The film follows a man who finds out he only has six weeks to live. He decides to retreat from his normal life and live out his last days in indulgent isolation. In this quirky dark comedy, Morgan played “Millie Stupek,” daughter of actress Radha Mitchell (“Silent Hill,” “Finding Neverland”).
That same year, Morgan appeared as a crying 5-year-old in the star-studded hit romantic comedy, He’s Just Not That Into You. Here, Morgan worked with top-level actors including Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and Ben Affleck.
In 2009 Morgan moved on to work on the action-packed blockbuster 2012 where she played the role of “Lilly Curtis,” the daughter of John Cusak and Amanda Peet. Morgan and her family were relocated to Vancouver for the filming
Morgan had a busy 2010, starring in an episode of Criminal Minds and to film the movie Flipped in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She also was part of the cast of The Ugly Life of a Beautiful Girl a film that explored the porn industry and the lives people lead to obtain power, sex and fame.
Her 2011 release, X-Men: First Class, involved international travel and eight hours a day in the makeup chair for her role as Young Mystique where she worked alongside top A-listers like Jennifer Lawrence and smashed box offices. Morgan loved every minute of it.
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Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
Claim to Fame
The Partridge Family
Profile Bio Text
Shirley Mae Jones was born 31 March, 1934 in Smithton, Pennsylvania. She was named after Shirley Temple. Her father owned the local brewery. When she was 20, she went to New York with her parents and within a week became the first and only actor signed to a personal contract by Rogers and Hammerstein. She was in the Broadway chorus of "South Pacific" and then was offered the part of Laurie in "Oklahoma!" After that, she continued with the European traveling stage production with Jack Cassidy and they fell in love. She came back to make Carousel (1956), originally cast with Frank Sinatra in the male lead but later recast with Gordon McRae, her costar in Oklahoma! (1955).
In 1956 Shirley married Jack Cassidy and became step-mother to 6-year-old David Cassidy. In 1958, she gave birth to son `Shaun Cassidy (I)` followed in 1960 by Patrick Cassidy and Ryan Cassidy in 1966. In 1960, she won an Oscar for her role in Elmer Gantry (1960). In 1970, she won the part of Shirley Partridge in the TV show "The Partridge Family" (1970). Little did she know that her 20-year-old step-son was going to be the oldest Partridge child, Keith. From then on she would always be considered David Cassidy`s mother. In 1974 the Partridge Family went off the air.
Jack`s mental illness worsened and manic depression deepened. In 1974, after years of abuse, Shirley divorced Jack. Jack died in an apartment fire in December of 1976. In 1977, Shirley married comedian Marty Ingels. In 1990, Marty and Shirley wrote a book about their life and their romance and marriage. The book is called Shirley and Marty: An Unlikely Romance. Shirley continued to act and was recently on "The Drew Carey Show" (1995). In 1999, after almost 25 years of marriage, Shirley and Marty separated for six months due to tensions with her sons. Fortunately, Marty and Shirley reconciled and are still one of Hollywood`s happiest married, if not odd couple, around.
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Full Name at Birth
Shirley Mae Jones
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Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Love Story (Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels), Hollywood Songsters, A Biographical Dictionary (James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts), Funny Ladies, Sitcom Queens (Michael Karol)
Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story , The David Cassidy Story
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Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress. In her six decades of show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–74), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
Shaun Cassidy (Son), Patrick Cassidy (Son), Ryan Cassidy (Son)
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South Huntingdon High School, Ruffs Dale, PA (1952)
Talent Agency (e.g. Modelling)
Edward Lozzi & Associates , Edward Lozzi, Publicist, Kazarian/Spencer/Ruskin & Associates, Inc.
TV commercial for everything4less.com (1999), (1998) Print ads for America's Dairy Producers' "got milk?" milk mustache campaign, alongside fellow TV moms Marion Ross and Florence Henderson (1998)., Print ads for Luster Creme shampoo (1963)., TV commercial for Luster Creme hair shampoo (1962), (1972) TV Commercial for Kellogg's Rice Krispies (w/ "The Partridge Family" (1970) co-stars)., (1971) TV Commercial for Kellogg's Rice Krispies (w/ stepson David Cassidy).
Music Genre (Text)
Pop, Traditional pop, Gospel, Adult contemporary music
Columbia, Rca, Bell, A&m, Diadem Records, Stage Door, Encore Music Presents Records
The Partridge Family, Jack Cassidy, Pat Boone
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==Shirley Mae Jones== (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as [[Oklahoma!]] (1955), [[Carousel]] (1956), and [[The Music Man]] (1962). She won the [[Academy Award]] for [[Best Supporting Actress]] for playing a vengeful prostitute in [[Elmer Gantry]] (1960). She played the lead role of [[Shirley Partridge]], the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series [[The Partridge Family]] (1970–74), which co-starred her real-life stepson [[David Cassidy]], son of [[Jack Cassidy]].
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Quick guide to south metro races on Tuesday's ballot
- October 30, 2012 - 4:25 PM
The 2012 general election is Tuesday. Most polling places open at 7 a.m., and all close at 8 p.m. To find out where to vote, see pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us.
Many county, city and school board races, as well as all state House and Senate seats, are on the ballot. For a complete sample ballot for your area, with links to candidate profiles, check out the Star Tribune's MyVote feature at www.startribune.com/a1844. Check the same page for customized results after the election.
Following is a list of city and county races in Dakota and Scott counties. An (i) denotes an incumbent.DAKOTA COUNTY
District 1 (includes Hastings, Farmington and rural southern Dakota County): Christy Jo Fogarty; Mike Slavik.
District 3 (includes Mendota Heights and most of Eagan): Thomas Egan (i).
District 4 (includes southern Inver Grove Heights, southeastern Eagan and most of Rosemount): Bill Klein; Nancy Schouweiler (i).
District 5 (includes Burnsville): Dave Giles; Liz Workman (i).
District 6 (includes Lakeville): Paul J. Krause (i).
District 7 (includes Apple Valley and a sliver of western Rosemount): Chris Gerlach; Victoria "Vicki" Swanson.
Note: District 2, which includes West St. Paul, South St. Paul and northern Inver Grove Heights, is represented by Kathleen Gaylord. The seat is not on the ballot this year.
City Council (elect 2): Tom Goodwin (i); Ruth Grendahl (i); Michael Holsten; Wilma Ruppert; Nicholas Stepka.
Mayor: Elizabeth B. Kautz (i); Jerry Willenburg.
City Council (elect 2): Steve Cherney; Bruce Johnson; Suzanne Nguyen; Mary Sherry (i).
City Council (elect 2): Cyndee Fields (i); Meg Tilley (i).
Mayor: Todd Larson (i); David Pritzlaff; Jerry Wear.
City Council (elect 2): Douglas Bonar; Terry Donnelly (i); Kirk Zeaman.
Mayor: Paye Flomo (i); Timothy Skog.
Council Member (elect 2): Amanda Jensrud; John Knetter (i).
City Council, Ward 1: Anthony "Tony" Alongi (i); Michael "Mike" Grady.
City Council, Ward 2: Joe Balsanek (i).
City Council, Ward 3: Brian Meek; Tony Nelson (i).
City Council, Ward 4: Danna Elling Schultz (i).
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS
Mayor: Scott Cornelius; George Tourville (i).
City Council (elect 2): Tom Bartholomew; Paul Hark; Paul Mandell; Jim Mueller.
Mayor: Mark Bellows (i); Matt Little; Laurie Rieb.
City Council (elect 2): Doug Anderson; David Bares; Kerrin Swecker (i).
Mayor: Ultan Duggan; Sandra Krebsbach (i).
City Council (elect 2): Steve Norton; Mike Povolny (i).
Mayor: Dana S. Graham; Rhonda Pownell.
City Council (at-large member): Betsey Buckheit; David L. Ludescher.
City Council (Ward 2): Frank Balster; David Delong.
City Council (Ward 3): Jon Denison; Erica Zweifel (i).
City Council (elect 2): Vanessa Olson Demuth; Joe Kurle; Jeff Weisensel (i); Joseph P. Zanmiller.
SOUTH ST. PAUL
Mayor: Beth A. Baumann (i); Donald Madland.
City Council (elect 3): Lori Hansen (i); Chris Lehmann (i); Michael Marschinke; Shawn Meck; Dan Niederkorn (i); Nicholas J. Schaefer.
Mayor: Molly Park; Richard A. Williams Jr. (i).
City Council (elect 2): Steven M. Bulach; Ingrid Conant (i); Cathy Decourcy; Bernard Tuohy.
City Council special election: Joanne Wahlstrom.
WEST ST. PAUL
Mayor: John Zanmiller (i).
City Council, Ward 1: Pat Armon.
City Council, Ward 2: Jenny Halverson; Jim McKie.
City Council, Ward 3: Darlene Lewis (i); David Joseph Napier.SCOTT COUNTY
District 1 (includes Belle Plaine, Jordan, New Prague, part of Shakopee and western townships): Jerry Kucera; Joe Wagner (i).
District 2 (includes Elko New Market, part of Prior Lake and eastern townships): Brent A. Lawrence; Tom Wolf (i).
District 3 (includes most of Shakopee): Debbie Barber; Dave Menden (i).
District 4 (includes most of Prior Lake and part of Shakopee): Barbara Marschall.
District 5 (includes Savage): Jon Ulrich.
Mayor: Timothy P. Lies (i); Michael Pingalore.
City Council (elect 2): Cary G. Coop (i); Kurt Laabs; Gary Trost (i).
Mayor: Dan Elke; Pete Ewals (i); Mike Shaw.
City Council (elect 3): Beth Fournier; Michael Griffin; David Murray; Nancy Murray; Sally Schultz (i); Terry Stier; Tanya Velishek (i); Jeffrey Will.
Mayor: Chuck Nickolay (i); Joel Wollin.
Council Member (elect 2): Mark Bartusek (i); Pat Scripture.
Mayor: Ken Hedberg.
City Council (elect 2): Richard Bump; Warren Erickson (i); Richard Keeney (i); Monique Morton; Gene Tremaine.
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Below is the full, uncut version of the Aeros feature running in Friday’s paper.
With the Aeros in the midst of a franchise-record 11-game road trip, they’ve been faced with having a revolving-door roster due to many NHL recalls to the Minnesota Wild and have seen their lineup decimated by being bit by the injury bug.
Despite those hardships, which included even playing a game with just 16 skaters, the Aeros have a 2-4 record heading into the last stretch of a trip that includes back-to-back games at Cedar Park against the Texas Stars starting Friday and a stop in San Antonio to take on the Rampage before wrapping it up with a two-game set in Abbotsford against the Heat.
“We haven’t gotten off to the start we wanted,” coach John Torchetti said. “We are 2-4, we should be 3-3. So, we have a big weekend ahead of us.”
The Aeros hold favorable records this season against the Stars and Rampage, which includes going unbeaten in regulation at Texas (3-0-0-1) and going 4-1 at San Antonio. The Heat pose the biggest challenge, as the Aeros are 0-2 at Abbotsford and 0-3-0-1 overall against the Heat. Back in town for a few days to practice, the team got a chance to recharge its batteries before the final leg of the trek.
“We’ve had a lot of times in between games to practice and prepare and get in the proper rest you need,” captain Jon DiSalvatore said. “Even though we are technically still on a road trip, we get to come home for a few days and practice before we get over to Austin. “
Fourteen Aeros have either seen action with Minnesota or received call-ups this season, as the Wild lead the NHL in transactions. Six Aeros played in Minnesota’s 2-0 win over the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins last Sunday. For the Aeros, these recalls couldn’t come at a worse time. But the team has looked at the influx of new talent during the road trip as a positive, despite the challenges.
“It is difficult on the team, but is just situation everyone goes through,” Torchetti said. “I’m sure others have gone through it, but not with the numbers we’ve had. Basically, we’ve had 11 guys out of the lineup, so the guys are getting pushed to a level where they know they have to play a pretty good game every night and count on and trust each other a little bit more.”
The team has used the time on the road with the new players as a bonding experience and getting to know each other away from the rink. New players have also gotten a chance to show they belong with the team, just as some of the players have gotten the time in Minnesota to try to impress the NHL brass.
“It’s been tough, here and in Minnesota we’ve had a lot of injuries,” said forward Cody Almond, who has seen time with the Wild this season. “ There has been a lot of opportunity, same in Minnesota. I think guys are doing a good job filling in their roles and making the best of it.”
Even with their adversity this season, the Aeros have a 25-16-3-9 overall record with a mark of 16-9-3-0 on the road. Part of their success on the road, and in general, can be linked to adjusting their style of play and the solid goaltending of Matt Hackett and Darcy Kuemper, according to veteran forward Jeff Taffe.
“We’re a different road team; we play a little bit harder and don’t try to run-and-gun with teams and try to make pretty plays,“ Taffe said. “We got guys in here who play hard every night, no matter who they are recalling. The biggest thing for us has been our goaltending. They’ve been here all year for the most part and have been a saving grace.”
No one on the team will directly blame the Aeros’ slow start on the road trip to outside factors. Instead, the Aeros look at the remaining five games on the road as chance to tweak some things in their game and finish the trip with at least an even record.
“Excuses all aside, we don’t look at any reason other than our play in particular,” DiSalvatore said. “I think at times, there were a few details we could have looked at and could be a little closer to .500. What we want to do is get above .500 by the end of the road trip all together.” | <urn:uuid:e4ad36b5-3368-4681-87e0-b2ca7612c0b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/02/aeros-on-the-road-again/?gta=commentlistpos | 2016-07-28T14:36:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257828283.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071028-00284-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973874 | 1,033 |
Tony Tannoury, M.D.
Dr. Tony Tannoury is Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine & Director of Spine Services at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Upon completing his residency training at Georgetown University in Washington, DC he headed to Charlottesville, Virginia for a spine surgery fellowship at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Tannoury is a pioneer in spine surgery, specifically through minimally invasive procedures. Through his vision, skill, and expertise Dr. Tannoury makes minimally invasive spinal surgery possible and he is constantly working to create simpler more effective means to treat patients.
Dr. Tannoury is a teacher. He is devoted to educating residents, fellows, and colleagues alike on the exciting world of less invasive spinal surgery and its possibilities. His academic involvement enables him to share his knowledge with surgeons from around the world through multiple research papers, presentations, and publications.
Dr. Tannoury’s research focus and clinical interest covers minimally invasive spinal surgery, safety and efficacy in the treatment of acute traumatic conditions and all aspects of degenerative disc disease such as stenosis, disc herniation, spondylolisthesis, and scoliosis among others.
As a pioneer, teacher, and researcher in his field, Dr. Tannoury seizes opportunities to educate others. In addition to his multiple publications and lecture appearances, he is the Founder and President of the Spinal Progress and Innovation for the Near East, a founding member of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery (SMISS) and serves as an Editor and Reviewer for The Spine Journal.
Dr. Tannoury takes his work seriously but with great heart and his accomplishments are numerous. However, he is most proud to be called husband to Vivian and father to Jasmine, Tamara, and Mark.
Boston Medical Center
818 Harrison Avenue, Dowling 2 North
Boston, MA 02118
Phone 617-414- 5212
Boston University Orthopaedic Surgical Associates
725 Albany St.
Shapiro 4th Floor, Suite 4B
Boston, MA 02118
Please call (617)-414-4865 to schedule an appointment
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After seeing the Emilio Pucci in American exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art, I was curious about the relationship between Pucci and swimwear maker Rose Marie Reid. To my surprise I found that a biography of Reid had been published, so I promptly ordered a copy.
Unless the designer is Coco Chanel or maybe Yves Saint Laurent, designer biographies are actually quite rare. Some are written as exhibition catalogs, such as the wonderful Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism which was published in 1998 to go with an exhibition of McCardell’s work at the Museum at FIT. There are quite a few autobiographies from twentieth century designers, some good, some bad. But a biography of a ready-to-wear designer in a niche market is a rarity.
In reading about the life of a fashion designer – or any important person for that matter – the thing that interests me most is that person’s work and the influences on the work. There are a few designers, again, Coco Chanel, whose work was so important and so entwined with the time in which she lived that her private life and political and religious views are an important part of the narrative.
Rose Marie Reid, An Extraordinary Life is actually more about Reid the mother, the Mormon, and the woman with whom people had difficult relationships. Not that the details of her design career are not present, as they are, but the timeline is fuzzy and confusing. To a person like me who likes to examine the when of things, it was a bit frustrating. For instance, the book tells a great story about how Rose Marie first started making bathing suits. Her new husband, Jack Reid was a swimming instructor who hated his saggy wool trunks. Rose Marie took a piece of cotton duck to which she added lacing on the sides to make for a good fit.
The design was so successful that Jack took a copy to the local Hudson’s Bay Company store, where the buyer there asked for a women’s design. From that order the business was formed, and within a year Rose Marie was overseeing a factory with thirty-two sewing machines. But the book never says exactly when this all took place.
Of course I realize that history is not always measured in dates. However, when you are studying design it helps to know when such innovations actually took place. The best I can figure was sometime between November 1935, when Rose Marie and Jack were married, and 1937 when it is mentioned that Rose Marie’s suits were used in some 1937 games.
Interwoven into the story of the formation of the business are the details of the birth of their children, the disintegration of their marriage, and how Rose Marie prayed through it all. The theme and the timeline constantly changed and at times I was left shaking my head.
I guess it is important to let you know that one of Rose Marie’s daughters, Carole Reid Burr, was the co-author. There were endnotes that gave sources, and from that it is easy to see that this book is mainly a compilation of oral family stories. Numerous interviews were listed as references, and from that I could begin to see why the telling seemed so disjointed.
There were actually sixteen different people interviewed for the book, and along with old letters and newspaper clippings, they seem to be the source for most of the information. Company records did not seem to be used at all, but that is not surprising since Rose Marie sold the business and franchised her name starting in 1962. Subsequently there are more details about the many lawsuits in which Rose Marie was involved than there were of the actual business of making swimsuits.
Near the end of the book I finally spotted the name of Emilio Pucci, and began to take notice. Unfortunately the anecdote was about how he had bought some Rose Marie Reid swimsuits for his staff, and had given one to fashion journalist Ann Scott James. And that was the end of Emilio, with no mention of the collaboration between him and Reid.
A great deal is made of Reid’s Mormon faith, and I suppose that is understandable considering that the book was published by a Mormon company. In some ways her faith was important to her design story, as the dictates of modesty by the Mormon Church led her to strongly reject the bikini. And it was probably this rejection that led Rose Marie to sell the company in 1962.
Besides the fuzzy storytelling, there were quite a few factual mistakes. The book refers to, but does not explain a relationship with White Stag. Unfortunately, it is consistently spelled “White Stagg.” There was also a big discussion of the great success of rival swimsuit maker Cole of California. The authors refer to Cole’s Scandal Suit as a bikini, which it was not. (There was a version that resembled two pieces connected by mesh, but even it was not a true bikini.)
It’s such a shame that the story of a company that was the world’s largest producer of women’s swimwear in the late 1950s should be told in such an off-putting way. Between the preaching of Mormon principles and the accolades of Reid’s mothering ability, I’ve found it hard to go back through and try to establish just the story of the swimsuit company. Maybe someday I’ll be stranded on a desert island with just this book and a pencil and I can figure it all out. | <urn:uuid:096c368d-9c8f-4abf-bbd3-4985e8d70e7f> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | https://thevintagetraveler.wordpress.com/category/summer-sports/ | 2015-08-04T21:55:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042992201.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002312-00168-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987123 | 1,132 |
What an amazing chapter this is! Like the Samaritan woman in chapter 4, we see an ordinary, simple person beset by the trials of life, who is found by Jesus, healed and brought to faith in Him. Karen and I both loved this lesson. We hope you do too.
I remember when I was a child, how my sisters and I would blindfold one another and lead each other around, trying to understand what it must be like to be blind. I remember how often we would trip over small stones along our path, or feel disoriented as we walked blindfolded. Remembering this simple play acting has led me to think a long time about this particular story in the Gospel of John.
Those of you who have been around infants know that babies are not born with an ability to see perfectly. When a child is born, she sees only black and white and shades of grey. Color comes later. Most of the baby’s vision is blurred. A baby learns to focus by studying the faces of those closest to her. Eventually, a baby will notice bright moving objects, and at about two to four months, follow the object by moving her eyes instead of her head. A baby must learn to use both eyes together, and her brain must learn to ”translate” the information sent by the eyes into usable information, which helps the child interact with and understand the world.
The miracle of Jesus with the man born blind becomes even more spectacular than we may first think, as we reflect on this information. It was not just a matter of the man’s eyelids being closed, or the man having cataracts. No matter why the man’s eyes did not work, the man’s brain was not functionally connected to his eyes. I am astounded when I think about this. Jesus opened the man’s eyes and connected all those neural pathways, so that when the man washed the mud from his face, he looked around and understood what he was seeing. At least, that is how I interpret the miracle.
Who was the blind man? What was his life like before he met Jesus? Using our imaginations we can visualize a little about him. He was poor and unable to work – we know this because he had to beg. He lived with his parents, for he could not take care of himself. He had probably never been inside the Temple, as he would be considered a sinner and unclean. Though his religious education was likely provided by his parents, when speaking with the Pharisees, he was sure of who God was and how He acted. He knew that sometimes prophets were given the grace and power to heal others. He says that God does not listen to sinners, but He listens to those who do His Will. The man born blind was likely dirty to look at, often knocked about by the crowds which milled around the Temple, pushed out of the way by those who considered beggars a nuisance. The man born blind was totally dependent on the good will of others.
Did Jesus need to use mud to heal the man? No, of course not. As the Navarre Bible comments, “Jesus works through the medium of matter to produce effects which exceed anything matter can do. Like the Sacraments, Jesus confers on matter the power to spiritually regenerate man.”
Though the Pharisees question the blind man and others about him at length, this poor and simple man knows what has happened to him. He repeats his story over and over again – “I was blind, but now I see”. The man born blind knows that no one has ever cured someone like him. The man born blind will not deny the fact of his healing, even though the Pharisees banish him from the Temple. The man born blind will not deny the gift of God that has been given to him.
The man born blind has been found by Jesus – not once, but twice. His life will never be the same. He has been given freedom to be the man God created him to be. He has been given knowledge of the reality and love of the Son of God. The man born blind has made his choice – to believe in and worship the Son of God.
After the extended investigation the Pharisees, too, are left with a choice – to see Jesus as He truly is, or to continue to be blind to the Glory which has come into their midst. And what about me? Can I see myself in the man born blind or even the Pharisees? Are there times when I have tried to hide the truth about myself or others? Does this story shine light on my own spiritual journey? Who or what has God used to open my eyes to His incredible love? How can I allow the love of Christ to reach out and heal me? There was so much to be found and reflected on in this Gospel story.
“I will lead the blind on their journey; by paths unknown I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These things I do for them, and I will not forsake them.” Isaiah 42:16
Remember if you have any questions, call Karen or me. We welcome your calls. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.
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From better mental health to a longer life, the benefits of exercise are seemingly endless. But with so much information out there about how much you should be exercising, it can be hard to figure out the sweet spot—and it's easy to assume that more is always better. The good news? You probably need to move less than you think to reap the health benefits, says Edward Phillips, M.D., founder and director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-host of WBUR’s Magic Pill podcast.
“People have heard the message that you need 30 minutes of exercise, five days a week [according to federal guidelines]. If you get that, you’ll get 85 percent of health benefits we talk about. However, the misconception is that if I don’t do that, or if I don’t do it all at once, it’s all or nothing,” he says. Phillips also points out that the guidelines call for moderate-intensity exercise, which means you don’t have to be killing yourself with long runs, boot camp, or spin class five days a week in order to relish the rewards.
“A lot of people think exercise means you have to hit the point where you’re completely out of breath and panting after you’ve finished,” says Phillips. “You can do that, but for the majority of health benefits you don’t need to.”
And while your fitness goals probably go beyond lowering your risk for disease, it’s nice to know what research actually shows when it comes to how much exercise you should be doing each week for better health. Here’s how the numbers break down.
Even a little exercise can help keep your ticker strong, studies suggest. For example, research published in the American Journal of Hypertension found that 61 to 90 minutes of exercise a week was more effective at lowering systolic blood pressure (the top number) than 30 to 60 minutes a week. But exercising for more than 90 minutes a week didn’t have an increased benefit when it came to lowering blood pressure or the heart risks associated with it. And a new study published in The Lancet found that heart patients who met the guidelines of at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times a week saved $2,500 in healthcare costs compared to those who didn’t, suggesting exercise helped stave off complications.
Thirty minutes a week of interval training could be just as effective as longer, steady-state workouts for lowering your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study published in the journal, PLOS ONE. Three days a week, participants completed either a 10-minute interval-training cycling workout (with a warm-up, cool down, three 20-second all out sprints, and recovery periods) or cycled for 45 minutes at a continuous, moderate pace. After 12 weeks, both groups had similar improvements in insulin sensitivity, a marker of how well the body regulates blood sugar, which can impact the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes.
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Exercise has been found to lower the risk of breast, colon, and endometrial cancers, and the American Cancer Society recommends 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week, or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity, to lower overall cancer risk. One study from the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment journal found that for every hour per week spent running at a 10-minute mile pace—or every four hours per week spent walking at a 30-minute mile pace—breast cancer risk decreased by 3 percent.
All it takes is a quick sweat session after a long day to notice how exercise seems to melt stress away. And of all the health benefits, that’s one that can be achieved almost instantly, says Phillips.
“The thing that gets people to exercise and sustains them is not saying, ‘Oh my gosh, I have to exercise because I need to [prevent disease],’ but because it feels good,” he says. “It’s the immediate feedback that compels people, and one of the most immediate things people report is that their stress levels are reduced when they exercise.”
Beyond day-to-day stress, exercise can help relieve depression symptoms, too. In one study published by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, women who were experiencing depression who completed 200 minutes of walking a week (or 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise) had improved mental health, social functioning, physical health, and vitality over time. Other research from the Harvard Special Health Report discovered that walking briskly for 35 minutes a day, fives time a week (or 60 minutes, three times a week) can significantly improve mild to moderate depression, while walking only 15 minutes a day, five times a week, or stretching three times a week are less effective.
Sure, it sounds like a lot, but exercising for 450 minutes is basically the key to the fountain of youth (kind of). In one 2015 study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, people who met the guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week had a 31 percent lower risk of dying prematurely than those who never exercised. But the biggest benefit was for those who worked out for three times the recommended amount (450 minutes), which lowered their risk of premature death by 39 percent compared to those who did not exercise.
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For countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change—especially developing countries—the lack of urgency in the recently ended United Nations climate talks failed to reflect the reality back home. In many of these places, the effects of climate change are already taking their toll on social and economic development, not to mention human lives. So it’s no surprise that throughout the halls and meeting rooms of the 18th Conference of the Parties in Doha, Qatar, the most vulnerable countries made it abundantly clear that—for them—adaptation, not mitigation, is the number-one priority.
The impacts of climate change are mounting. Shifting rainfall patterns are already affecting Kenya’s agricultural sector, and the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events are necessitating rebuilding in numerous Caribbean countries. But unfortunately, both adaptation and energy, a critical area for development, are consistently shortchanged in climate negotiations. Of the “fast-start financing” provided by Germany in 2010 and 2011, only 28 percent was allocated for adaptation projects, while mitigation received 48 percent of the funds (the rest went to REDD+ and multipurpose activities).
Meanwhile, the energy sector’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and the emission reduction opportunities that the sector presents, hardly made it into the recent discussions. When renewable energy is brought up, it is most often in the context of mitigation, highlighting how a shift away from fossil fuel-fired power generation can reduce emissions and slow further climate change.
Yet for the most vulnerable countries, the focus is increasingly on how to continue social and economic development in the face of an already changing climate. And this is where renewable energy can contribute. Numerous synergies exist between distributed renewable energy systems and adaptation efforts, with renewable energy development providing both development benefits and adaptation services.
Recent events demonstrate the adaptation benefits of renewables. As Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc in the northeastern United States last month, it was the wind and solar power plants that weathered the storm and were back online quickly. Nuclear and fossil fuel plants, having been shut down for precautionary safety, took days or even weeks to resume operations. In countries with less-developed emergency response procedures than the United States (such as some of the Caribbean countries pounded by Sandy before she touched down in New Jersey), this rapid response time would be crucial for making sure that critical institutions like hospitals and water treatment facilities have power to continue operating.
In addition to adapting to the destructive power of hurricanes and severe storms, renewable energy can temper some of the impacts of prolonged, severe drought. In a 2009 analysis, the Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa (AFREPREN/FWD) examined the effects of ongoing drought on Kenya’s electricity sector, which relies on large hydropower (typically not considered a form of sustainable energy) for more than 60 percent of generation.
The drought caused a 25 percent reduction in hydropower capacity, prompting the government to turn to expensive thermal generation to cover the resulting power deficit—at the cost of US $442 million, or nearly 1.5 percent of Kenya’s GDP. AFREPREN calculated that this $442 million could have built 295 megawatts of renewable energy generation, or twice the generating capacity lost from reduced hydropower. In the face of more severe, prolonged droughts due to climate change, regions that invest in renewable energy systems today could avoid some of the more devastating economic and social effects of such catastrophes.
Renewable energy provides benefits for water-scarce regions as well. Fossil fuel generation consumes vastly more water than electricity from wind or solar photovoltaics—both in the extraction and refining processes for the fuels themselves and in the actual power plant operations. In the United States, thermoelectric power plants withdrew as much water as the entire agricultural sector in 2005. This water is needed mainly for cooling, and if it is unavailable, thermoelectric plants have little choice but to shut down. Wind and solar photovoltaic systems, in contrast, use negligible amounts of water in operation and have no fuel-extraction processes upstream.
It’s true that some renewable energy sources, such as biofuels and geothermal, are also water intensive, but these technologies can be implemented when and where it makes sense. The bottom line is that, given its high water demand, fossil fuel power may be a short-lived investment. In water-scarce regions, and with the prospect of increasing water scarcity, shifting to low-water-consuming renewable energy as opposed to fossil fuel power could be the difference between frequent blackouts and reliable energy access, while continuing to ensure the availability of adequate water resources.
The benefits of providing energy access to underserved populations have been well documented. But it is critical to remind ourselves that the way in which we provide energy will affect our future as well. In the face of a changing climate, renewable energy offers the prospects of both the energy access that everyone deserves and a stronger buffer against the global effects of climate change that many are already experiencing.
For the countries already dealing with the impacts of a changing climate, adaptation and development are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Smart investment in clean energy development can provide benefits toward both goals.
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If you are a newbie at Steuby this year, you don’t want to miss out on these 7 tips!
1) Don’t Be Afraid to Have a Glass of Mountain Dew With Your Breakfast
This may be your first experience eating at a college dining hall. After you see all the options, you’ll want to eat until you pass out . First of all, don’t actually eat until you pass out! Secondly, be sure to eat all you take, and don’t be wasteful. Finally, don’t be afraid to have a glass of Mountain Dew with your breakfast: it’s something your mom would never let you do at home, but the caffeine will help your energy levels.
On another note, enjoy the dining hall while you can. Trust me, a few weeks into college you’ll be tired of it and craving a good home cooked meal from mom.
2) Go Exploring
MSU has a beautiful campus and serves us by being a great host. Respect the facilities and be courteous guests, but feel free to lie down on a blanket and star gaze in the courtyard, take a selfie with Boomer the Bear, and kick a ball around on the soccer field. Just remember to be back in your dorms by midnight!
3) Reconciliation Is Worth the Wait
With 3,700 people attending week 1 and 4,100 attending week 2, the line for the sacrament of Reconciliation can get kind of long. Don’t be intimidated by it though. Reconciliation is worth the wait. Rather than complain, view the line as a blessing. It provides the opportunity to do a thorough examination of conscience and (quietly) meet the strangers waiting with you.
4) Actually Get Some Sleep
Everyone knows that there are times to pray and times to play at Steubenville. However, a little known fact is that there’s also time built into the schedule to sleep! And no, this time isn’t during the sessions or Mass. While it’s fun to stay up and have life-chats with your new friends, balance it out with a good night’s sleep so that you can stay active and don’t end up “resting in the spirit” during programming, cause we know you’re actually sleeping!
5) Go To Small Groups
After the sessions, people do a variety of things. Once programming is done for the night, you may want to go play, run to get a good spot in the Reconciliation line, or order some pizza. However, another little known fact about Steubenville is that there’s also time built into the schedule for small groups. During this time, you have the opportunity to share a little bit about yourself, your faith life, and experiences throughout the weekend with people in a quieter setting. It’s an opportunity to listen and learn from your peers, and an opportunity to share your own wisdom with everyone else. So while you wait for your Domino’s to arrive, actually go to small groups.
6) Pack the Essentials, and Only the Essentials
Steubenville is not a month-long vacation in the Alps (although that would be cool too). Unfortunately, it’s just a weekend, so you do not need to pack up your whole bedroom. Instead, try to pack with a mindset of simplicity and challenge yourself to live with less this weekend. When we free ourselves from our lives’ noise, gadgets, and distractions we can become more attentive to God and to those around us. So leave your laptop at home, and bring only the essentials– like a comfortable pair of shoes, a sweater/sweatshirt for the notoriously cold arena, and deodorant.
7) These Nuns Won’t Hit You With a Ruler
As I already mentioned, there will be around 4,000 people at this conference. That means you have the potential to make 4,000 new friends by the end of the weekend. First of all, be kind to everyone you encounter. After all, we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. Secondly, try to get to know someone new. That person could be from your parish, but Steubenville is also a great opportunity to meet people from across the Midwest. Thirdly, there will be plenty of people in the religious life at the conference. I encourage you to have at least one conversation with a priest, seminarian, or a sister. They have tons of cool experiences to share and can give you valuable tips on how to discern your own vocation. Don’t be afraid to approach them and say hi. I promise these nuns won’t hit you with a ruler! | <urn:uuid:78a151d5-acad-4974-8ada-7c32fc36fe69> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://steubystl365.com/7-tips-for-the-newbie-at-steuby/ | 2020-02-25T17:43:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146127.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200225172036-20200225202036-00138.warc.gz | en | 0.949706 | 991 |
Going Mobile with SAP HANA Cloud Platform – What you need to know
In today’s digital world, users are expecting more from their mobile investments with quick access at all times to the information, process and the systems they access. This is more so, when organizations are more dependent on enterprise mobile apps that are designed to address the specific business processes of any organization. A one step ahead is the constant push to create SAP mobile apps to meet myriad enterprise domains. This is in contrast with the scenario a few years ago, wherein mobile devices in the workplace was somewhat rare. This is no longer applicable, as most organization are enforcing the bring your own device (BYOD) trends. Earlier, mobile devices used to serve just simple tasks, but users are demanding mobile access to much more complex business functions to enhance productivity and add value to their organizations.
However, mobilizing ERP systems and data is not that as simple as it seems. As users’ expectations have increased manifold, they are expecting much more from enterprise applications. SAP has been leading this new found demand in mobilizing ERP systems and is innovating the ways mobile apps can be developed and deployed. Just a couple of years, on premise applications were ruling the roost and most of the applications developed has been channelized to take care of this aspect. But, with the advent of cloud computing, things have changed drastically and most of the enterprise applications are deployed on the cloud vis-à-vis cost-benefit analysis and other operational considerations. Thus, it has become imperative for organizations involved in mobile app development to slowly migrate their apps to a cloud platform that offers a plethora of advantages, compared to on premise deployment.
Realizing the high potential of cloud and the way it can quickly mobilize enterprises, SAP has developed a new cloud based mobile platform – SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services (HCPms). This platform serves as the foundation of SAP’s mobile app development strategy that drives mobile innovations in the cloud. SAP HCPms enables enterprises to securely develop mobile apps, providing enhanced integration, ease of deployment and tighter security. One of the basic objectives of SAP HCPms is to drive mobile business innovation to new heights with ease to connect people, devices and business networks using SAP’s unique end-to-end capabilities – comprises development, staging and secured mobile apps’ deployment.
Why SAP HANA Cloud Platform?
SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering to enable cloud-based application development for both SAP and non-SAP customers. SAP HCP integrates the power of SAP HANA along with the flexibility of the cloud to help you build new industry and line of business (LoB) solutions, while helping you extend existing SAP solutions. It is also an in-memory-Platform-as-a-Service that helps both customers and developers to build, extend and run applications on SAP HANA in the cloud.
SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services (HCPms) offers authentication, secure on-boarding, native push notifications, and reporting capabilities for enterprise mobile applications. Mobile Services Cockpit provides a single comprehensive web administration and monitoring portal for configuring and managing mobile applications.
Simply stated, SAP HCPms provides the following benefits such as:
- Complete offline support
- Notification services
- Best-in-class back end integration support
- Enterprise grade security
- Push notifications
- And much more…….
Digging deeper – what HCPms can mean for you?
Now that you had got an overview of what HCPms is all about, let’s get into deeper aspects and what it can exactly do for you from a business perspective.
- Helps you deliver enterprise-grade native and hybrid mobile apps
SAP HCP mobile portfolio offers key capabilities that include multiple authentication methods, secure access to on-premise & cloud based systems, offline synchronization, push notifications and remote logging control.
- Provides seamless integration capabilities
SAP HCPms integrates with existing on-premise applications and at the same also works as a mobile channel for SAP HAHA Cloud Platform based solutions.
- Quick App Development
With SAP Mobile Platform software development kit (SDK) that includes a harmonized API, you can simplify development of both online and offline applications, translating to enhanced developers’ productivity. Moreover with SAP Web IDE, it provides a web-based development environment, helping you to build and extend applications with SAP Fiori using SAP HCPms.
- One-click deployment from mobile services to mobile place
This feature offers an easy and quick discovery, download and provisioning of apps on both managed and unmanaged devices, similar to commercial app stores.
Innovapptive’s role in capitalizing the SAP PartnerEdge program
In line with the SAP PartnerEdge program, Innovapptive has leveraged SAP HCPms to offer its entire pre-packaged mobile solutions (over 100+) on the cloud, reducing infrastructure costs, enhancing information visibility, saving time and adding value to mobile use-cases. This helps its broad range of customers and partners to simplify their mobile business and easily create a multi-channel and context aware mobile applications on the cloud.
- Minimizes implementation timelines by over 50%.
- Aligns perfectly with any organization’s long term SAP Fiori strategy.
- Is offered on a flexible per user build annually option.
- Offers valuable business insights of the data with a seamless operational intelligence strategy.
- Minimizes infrastructure costs – just deploy and run.
If you would like a demo of Innovapptive’s portfolio of Native or Web based mobile solutions, please click on the link. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with an Innovapptive solution expert, you can reach out to us by emailing us at [email protected] or you can reach a sales representative at (713) 275-1804. | <urn:uuid:35d4398c-7e4c-488d-92b7-8ae0e7c29a5f> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://www.innovapptive.com/blog/going-mobile-with-sap-hana-cloud-platform-what-you-need-to-know/ | 2017-02-27T15:51:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501172902.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104612-00079-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925535 | 1,232 |
Though Ted Cruz held onto his Senate seat for a second term, Republicans in Texas and the Houston area in particular saw tremendous losses in the 2018 elections. The Harris County Republican Party blamed straight-ticket voting for the “Beto Wave” in a recent statement.
“I am mad,” says Communications Director Vlad Davidiuk. “Mad at the avoidable losses wreaked across Texas by the Beto Wave of straight-ticket votes. That straight-ticket wave turned Fort Bend County Democrat, defeated Republicans on appellate courts across Texas, elected Democrats across the state to Congress and the Legislature, and swept every countywide vote in Harris County. Despite the largest and most ambitious campaign the Harris County Republican Party has ever run, we fell woefully short.”
This election was the last year Texas will offer one-touch straight-ticket voting. Governor Greg Abbott, who also won re-election, signed a law in 2017 ending the practice, but not until the 2020 election. In 2016, 65.3 percent votes cast in Harris County used the straight ticket option, with Democrats being 17 percent more likely to use it than Republicans. There was some Democratic opposition to HB 25, but the law was ultimately passed with only three Democratic votes. Included in the Republican-sponsored bill was an amendment that delayed implementation until after the midterms.
“Sadly, this straight-ticket Beto Wave was once avoidable,” says Davidiuk. “Texas is one of only eight states that still have straight-ticket voting. In 2017, other grassroots conservatives and I championed legislation to end straight ticket voting in Texas once and for all. But, to the detriment of Republicans across Texas, straight-ticket voting was left in place for one last election.”
The complaint seems odd considering that there were widespread reports during early voting of straight-ticket Democratic voters seeing their ballots changed from challenger Beto O’Rourke to Cruz. The Texas Secretary of State blamed operator error rather than malfeasance or malfunction on the instances, saying that voters were “hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering.” The office reported fewer than 20 instances of the phenomenon, all of which it said were properly corrected to reflect the voters’ true wishes. Cruz narrowly defeated O’Rourke by 2.6 percentage points, a significant decrease from when he won his first term against Paul Sadler in 2012 by double digits.
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Nonetheless, the case can certainly be made that straight-ticket voting combined with the high-profile O’Rourke campaign may have done significant splash damage to Republicans in the Houston area. John Culberson was defeated by Lizzie Fletcher in District 7 after having served there since 2001, Lina Hidalgo toppled Harris County Judge Ed Emmett and Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart was ousted by Diane Trautman. Though all of the high offices remained in Republican hands, Democrats won more than 50 judicial elections and four spots on the Board of Education.
“There was no substantive Democrat countywide candidate, yet they all won,” says Davidiuk. “Consider: did all of those 500,000 straight-ticket Democrat voters turn out planning to oust County Judge Ed Emmett? Did the straight-ticket Democrat voters who gave Commissioner Jack Cagle’s opponent 46% of the vote know they were voting for a Communist? The questions answer themselves.”
The idea that Penny Shaw, who ran against Cagle, is a Communist appears to be a right-wing conspiracy theory. There is no evidence that Shaw, a Democrat, is a member of the Communist Party of Texas. The idea seems to be based on Shaw's attendance at events the Houston Communist Party attends, such as the state Democratic convention this past summer. Sources "proving" her link to communism are either broken or do not actually contain the quotes that some alt-wiki authors contend they do.
Vaporous scaremongering nonsense aside, neither party will be able to blame the simple one-touch system for losses when the new law takes effect. | <urn:uuid:16b8cf66-317d-46aa-b61d-d290afb7bd6d> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-last-year-of-straight-ticket-voting-hurt-republicans-says-gop-11025566 | 2018-11-17T04:34:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743282.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20181117040838-20181117062838-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.96194 | 891 |
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