Dental anxiety and fear can be a significant barrier to dental care, with symptoms ranging from feelings of unease to avoidance of care. The management of anxious patients is essential to improve their oral health. Triggers include sights, sounds, sensations, and smells of the equipment used in restorative procedures, and management should focus on controlling these factors. Recommendations for controlling these triggers include distraction and pharmacological interventions. In medicine, distractions include animal-assisted therapy, which proves an effective means of reducing anxiety levels. Studies have shown that interactions with live animals reduce self-reported anxiety more than distractions by either humans or magazines. The media also addresses the valuable role of emotional support by animals in boosting health and enhancing lives. In the past year, numerous news stories have reported regarding the use of certified therapy by dogs to comfort anxious patients in dental practices across the United States. Dogs serve to distract patients, drawing their focus away from dentistry, and generate a positive energy that enliven both the staff and the patients. The positive impact that therapy dogs have had on patients«SQ» dental experiences cannot be overstated. The incorporation of pet anti-anxiety therapy is a safe, effective, and inexpensive approach to easing dental anxiety and has profound potential for improving oral health.
Despite improvements in patient care and technological advances in modern dentistry, patient anxiety persists as a widespread challenge that every dentist must face at some point in their career. The typology of dental anxiety is on a spectrum from minor to severe, where some patients express feelings of unease, whereas others experience an intense, unreasonable fear that can be so strong it prevents them from receiving routine dental care. Manifestations of dental anxiety in the dental office include muscular tension, crying, and aggression,  whereas outside the dental environment, individuals may experience negative or fearful thoughts, exhibit avoidance behavior, suffer sleep and eating disturbances, or resort to self-medication.  Furthermore, highly anxious patients tend to take longer to treat, which not only heightens patient anxiety but may also serve as an economic risk to the practitioner.
Dental fear and anxiety is a significant barrier to dental care, and is associated with the avoidance of dental treatment, and hence poorer oral health and related quality of life. A study in 2007 reported that 41% cases of irregular dental attendance was attributed to high dental fear, and thus, those who attended the dentist irregularly were more likely to be afraid of going to the dentist than those who attended regularly.  In addition, high dental fear has been significantly associated with more decayed and missing teeth, but fewer filled teeth,  which is supported by another study that reported that dentally anxious individuals had eight to nine decaying teeth compared with only one or two in the general population.  These studies emphasize the importance of identifying and reducing dental fear in an attempt to improve oral health.
No single variable is exclusively responsible for the development of dental anxiety, which makes it a complicated phenomenon to manage appropriately.
While individual personality characteristics contribute significantly to the experience of anxiety or phobia, studies reveal numerous factors that are consistently linked with a greater incidence of dental pain and anxiety, including (1) previous painful experiences, (2) a belief that painful treatment is inevitable, (3) feelings of helplessness and loss of control, (4) a fear of the unknown, (5) exposure to fear-provoking portrayals of dentists in the media or anecdotal stories of bad experiences, (6) an experience of depersonalization, and (7) embarrassment.  Furthermore, studies have shown that restorative procedures encompass the most powerful triggers known as the "4 S's;" sights, sounds, sensations, and smells of needles and drills.  In addition, the amount of time spent in the waiting room has been reported to be anxiety provoking allowing time to worry about what is going to happen. Thus, management of anxious patients often aims to reduce these triggers.
Current recommendations for easing anxiety range from meditation to medication. Several non-pharmacological factors have been shown to play a significant role in alleviating dental anxiety, including, but not limited to, having a calm dental office ambience, inhalation of pleasant scents to improve mood, visual and auditory distraction (such as background music, television sets, and computer games),  and hypnotherapy.  Though many of these interventions require further study in randomized trials before conclusions regarding their efficacy can be made, a randomized controlled clinical trial found that a brief relaxation method was significantly superior to music distraction in reducing dental anxiety level.  On the pharmacological level, management of dental anxiety includes benzodiazepine and diazepam (valium) premedication, local anesthetics (lidocaine and mepivacaine), topical anesthetics, nitrous oxide sedation, conscious sedation, and general anesthesia.  Society as a whole depends too much on prescriptions rather than the natural, wonderful, calming benefits of other means.
Animal-assisted therapy is a complementary medicine intervention that is often used to sense negative emotions and offer comfort to anxious or injured patients. Researchers at UCLA quantified effects from a friendly dog visit and found that anxiety levels were 9 points lower after a dog visit, compared with the control.  Furthermore, these studies demonstrate that the benefits from therapy dogs exceed those from spending time with a friendly human volunteer, and even endure beyond the time of the dog encounter. In 2003, Shiloh et al. showed that only petting a live animal and not a toy animal reduced self-reported anxiety, whereas Barker et al. demonstrated that a 15 minute interaction with an animal significantly reduced anxiety and fear compared to the control group which read magazines.  Interestingly, there are numerous studies that support animal-assisted therapy as an effective means of reducing the experience of pain, pain related symptoms, and anxiety in the medical field, supported by hemodynamic measures and neurohormone levels, however, there appear to be no studies that evaluate its value in the dental field.
The incorporation of a therapy dog must take into account the infection control guidelines and potential health risks. Dr. Weiss says he avoids this problem by only bringing the dental dog in during "clean procedures" including simple restorations and prophys.  As previously mentioned, restorative procedures have been shown to deliver the most potent triggers of dental anxiety, which would mean the addition of a therapy dog for these procedures would pose few issues but potentially profound benefits. As such, through volunteer services, pet anti-anxiety therapy visits offer an effective and inexpensive strategy for easing anxiety and pain, and its role in the dental office should be further explored.
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4 Armfield JM, Slade GD, Spencer AJ. Dental fear and adult oral health in Australia. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2009;37:220-30.
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6 Bare LC, Dundes L. Strategies for combating dental anxiety. J Dent Educ 2004;68:1172-7.
7 Appukuttan DP. Strategies to Manage Patients with Dental Anxiety and Dental Phobia: Literature Review. Clin Cosmet Investig Dent 2016;8:35-50.
8 Lahmann C, Schoen R, Henningsen P, Ronel J, Muehlbacher M, Loew T, et al. Brief relaxation versus music distraction in the treatment of dental anxiety: A randomized controlled clinical trial. J Am Dent Assoc 2008;139:317-24.
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10 Sanburn, J. Creature Comforts. Time, Inc., Animals and Your Health: The Power of Pets to Heal our Pain, Help us Cope, and Improve our Well-Being 2016:8-13.
11 Marcus DA. The science behind animal-assisted therapy. Curr Pain Headache Rep 2013;17:322.
12 Beetz A, Uvnäs-Moberg K, Julius H, Kotrschal K. Psychosocial and Psychophysiological Effects of Human-Animal Interactions: The Possible Role of Oxytocin. Front Psychol 2012;3:234.
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14 Prichard D. Dogs Take a Bite Out of Dental Office Anxiety. Spear Education. 2012. Available from: https://www.speareducation.com/spear-review/2012/12/dogs-take-a-bite-out-of-dental-office-anxiety. [Last accessed on 10 July 2016].


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Paper documents take up large amounts of storage space and for archive documents that are needed only infrequently it is often much more cost-effective to store them off-site in a secure storage facility than take up valuable space in an expensive office location. A storage container is suitable for temporary or permanent document storage but you might want to consider specialist climate controlled storage if you anticipate documents being stored for many years or if they are very valuable.
Storing your documents off-site will release valuable office or warehouse space that will have rental costs far in excess of the cost of a storage container. In addition, the process of removing a document archive to storage will help in the organisation and cataloguing of the documents so that they are accurately filed for future use. On-site document archives that have simply grown over time are rarely well-organised. As the documents are sorted and prepared for off-site storage an efficient tracking system can be put in place that will allow easy retrieval of archive documents should they become necessary in the future. This will free up staff for more important work.
Archiving documents in this way will also ensure that a company is complying with all legal requirements. You do not want to find 5 years from now that documents that you should have been storing for this time have gone astray. A whole range of different types of business need to comply with regulations concerning data retention, for example, solicitors, accountants, insurance companies, healthcare organisations and publishing companies.
Some documents naturally contain highly sensitive data so you will need state-of-the-art security at the off-site facility but an added advantage of using an off-site facility is that the data is removed from the office environment where security measures may not be as stringent.
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A $39 million disaster relief package will fund services for the emotional and psychological well-being of Queenslanders affected by cyclone Yasi and the recent floods.
"We want them to know they're not alone," Premier Anna Bligh said in Parliament today.
Ms Bligh announced another $10 million for mental health services, $20 million for community recovery, $5.8 million for financial counselling services and a $2 million disability care plan.
The use of the $20 million over two years will assist in community engagement including support for community groups and events, particularly ceremonies and memorials to "offer closure".
Ms Bligh said the coming Easter break would be difficult for those living in temporary accommodation and who are financially distressed.
She urged people who are doing it tough to take heed of the funding available for them.
She said the package would include $20 million to support community planning and engagement activities in the worst affected communities.
"Part of the healing process for some of those very traumatised communities will be ceremonies and memorials that mark the event and allow people some closure and an opportunity to move on in their lives," Ms Bligh said.
In addition, $2 million will be distributed to non-government organisations to provide crisis accommodation and respite care for people with a disability.
"We need to always remember that bricks and mortar are only part of the equation. Right at the heart of our recovery and rebuilding effort is people. It is people who will put us back on our feet and we need to support them in that process," she said.
Minister for Community Services Karen Struthers emphasised the concern for the mental well-being of disaster affected Queenslanders, particularly on top of regular financial stress such as household bills.
"We're here to help, and we're here for the long haul", Ms Struthers said.
In the quest to "Make Queensland stronger", mental well-being must be accounted for, she said.


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Jaya Jones is back in this gripping fast-paced page turner that will have you guessing till the end. With twists along the way you won't be able to put this one done.
MICHELANGELO'S GHOST is a thrilling read that I thoroughly enjoyed from first sentence to last.


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(Far-Flung Adventures, #2)
by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
The second magical, funny, and fabulously illustrated story in the Far-Flung Adventures from the authors of Fergus Crane and the Edge Chronicles.
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed that anything is wrong, but Corby is highly observant and has a lot of time for note-taking and eavesdropping. Onboard, among the odd passengers and eccentric crew, there is a strange group of men in bowler-hats who call themselves The Brotherhood of Clowns. There's also a melancholy wailing sound coming from the hold. It's strictly out of bounds but Corby can't help investigating. What could be inside the crate she discovers down in the hold? As the ship arrives at its destination, Corby must enlist the help of some very well mustachioed locals to uncover the contents of the crate and the dark secrets of the menacing Clowns...
About the Author :: Paul Stewart
Paul Stewart (born 1955) is a writer of children's books, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance (A Knight's Story) novels and the Far-Flung Adventures series among others. Many of his books are illustrated by Chris Riddell. Paul Stewart lives in the Seaside town Brighton with his wife and children.
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The snow has stopped falling, leaving much of the area under at least an inch of the fluffy stuff, but freezing temperatures overnight will leave some roadways slick with ice.
WASHINGTON — The snow has stopped falling, leaving much of the area under at least an inch of the fluffy stuff, but freezing temperatures overnight will leave some roadways slick with ice.
Most of the region received between 1 and 2 inches of snow. As cars tread over the roadways, that snow will warm up, only to refreeze as temperatures remain in the teens and 20s overnight.
Some school systems offered early releases and canceled evening activities due to both the snow and the still-extreme cold, which is not expected to let up until early Saturday afternoon. Then some much warmer days are ahead.
With cold air and freezing surface temperatures, any roads that were left untreated will be slick and dangerous during the evening commute. Snow coated most roads in the area by the early afternoon Friday, and the accumulation is expected to keep roads damp and subject to refreezing until late Saturday morning.
Patches of fog will also make visibility difficult early Saturday morning.
Local transportation authorities reminded drivers to take it easy on their way home for the weekend.
"Sidewalks and streets are pretty snow-covered. If you're going to be on a side road, you're probably going to end up sliding around a little bit," WTOP's Nick Iannelli reported from Silver Spring.
Stinneford reminded listeners that the extreme cold will last through the early afternoon on Saturday, but a major warm-up is ahead. High temperatures could reach 60 by Tuesday. However, he said, on Friday night, beware of a re-freeze, as roads that may have turned slushy due to treatment and passing traffic could turn hazardous as temperatures drop into the teens.
The snow started early Friday, as Reagan National Airport started reporting light snow at around 7 a.m. and Martinsburg and Winchester reported light to moderate snow reaching the ground around 7:30 a.m. Snow started moving into western Maryland, and far northwestern Virginia shortly before 5 a.m.
By 5 p.m., most of the snow was out of the District, but snow could remain an issue north toward Baltimore during the evening and toward the eastern part of Maryland. When it's all over, up to 3 inches of accumulation is possible from Winchester to Martinsburg to Hagerstown and Frederick, Maryland.
Clouds will give way to sunshine by Saturday afternoon with highs reaching the low 40s, Stinneford said Friday evening. Even milder air arrives for Sunday with most areas getting reaching into the 50s. Dry weather will continue into Monday with highs in the mid 50s.
Monday: Partly sunny and warmer. Highs of 55 to 60.
Tuesday: Morning shower, but warming. Highs near 60.


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Operations Team: Mark Altstadt
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Mark joined the Bay Corporation team in 1992 as a Sales Technician and was promoted to Assisted Sales Manager in 1998. He led our Sales team as Vice President of Sales & Marketing from 2001 to 2017. In January 2018, Mark became our Vice President of Operations & Business Development. In this role, he leads our Production, Inventory, Purchasing, IT, and Marketing teams. He also remains active in our business development activities.
Mark earned his BS in Marketing & Management at Ashland University and his MBA at Cleveland State University. At Ashland, he played for the Division 2 Eagles basketball team, where he earned all-academic honors. Mark is married to Jennifer and together they have two adult children, Jacob and Nathan. In his spare time, he enjoys the theatre, traveling, cooking, fishing, hunting, watching sports, and reading.
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Capital Allocation Trends At National Vision Holdings (NASDAQ:EYE) Aren't Ideal
If we want to find a potential multi-bagger, often there are underlying trends that can provide clues. Firstly, we'll want to see a proven return on capital employed (ROCE) that is increasing, and secondly, an expanding base of capital employed. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. Having said that, from a first glance at National Vision Holdings (NASDAQ:EYE) we aren't jumping out of our chairs at how returns are trending, but let's have a deeper look.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?
For those that aren't sure what ROCE is, it measures the amount of pre-tax profits a company can generate from the capital employed in its business. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for National Vision Holdings:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.045 = US$88m ÷ (US$2.3b - US$337m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to October 2022).
Therefore, National Vision Holdings has an ROCE of 4.5%. In absolute terms, that's a low return and it also under-performs the Specialty Retail industry average of 18%.
See our latest analysis for National Vision Holdings
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Above you can see how the current ROCE for National Vision Holdings compares to its prior returns on capital, but there's only so much you can tell from the past. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free report on analyst forecasts for the company.
The Trend Of ROCE
In terms of National Vision Holdings' historical ROCE movements, the trend isn't fantastic. Over the last five years, returns on capital have decreased to 4.5% from 6.0% five years ago. On the other hand, the company has been employing more capital without a corresponding improvement in sales in the last year, which could suggest these investments are longer term plays. It's worth keeping an eye on the company's earnings from here on to see if these investments do end up contributing to the bottom line.
Our Take On National Vision Holdings' ROCE
Bringing it all together, while we're somewhat encouraged by National Vision Holdings' reinvestment in its own business, we're aware that returns are shrinking. Unsurprisingly, the stock has only gained 22% over the last five years, which potentially indicates that investors are accounting for this going forward. As a result, if you're hunting for a multi-bagger, we think you'd have more luck elsewhere.
If you'd like to know about the risks facing National Vision Holdings, we've discovered 1 warning sign that you should be aware of.
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King Charles has reportedly asked the Archbishop of Canterbury for help with Prince Harry. The 74-year-old monarch hopes Justin Welby can help strike an agreement with the Duke of Sussex to attend his coronation in May, but is concerned about opposition from his older son, Prince William, who is said to be fearful his estranged sibling - who has launched a series of attacks on his family and the royal institution in his memoir 'Spare' and interviews to promote the tome - would use the opportunit
Priscilla Presley has contested the "authenticity and validity" of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley's will. The 'Naked Gun' actress has expressed concern about a "purported 2016 amendment" to her late offspring's Promenade Trust, which named the singer's daughter Riley Keough a co-trustee, and questioned whether the star's signature on the document was genuine. Priscilla filed legal documents in Los Angeles on Thursday (26.01.23) which challenged the amendment naming Riley and her brother Benjam
Dame Joanna Lumley was starstruck working with Leonardo DiCaprio. The BAFA-winning actress played the role of Aunt Emma in the Hollywood actor's 2013 film 'The Wolf of Wall Street' - in which he portrayed the real-life fraudulent stockbroker Jordan Belfort - and she admitted her heart was fluttering at the thought of working with the heartthrob but she was amazed by how down to earth and "humble" he was. She told Heat magazine: "My heart did beat a little faster at the thought of working with Le
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Logan Johnson had 14 points and freshman Aidan Mahaney scored all 10 of his points, including a fade-away jumper just before the buzzer, in the second half and No. 22 Saint Mary's (Cal) escaped with a 57-56 victory over short-handed BYU on Saturday night. Mitchell Saxen had 11 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and two blocks for Saint Mary's (19-4, 8-0 West Coast Conference). Alex Ducas scored 12 points and Augustas Marciulionis added 10.
Precious Achiuwa scored 27 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in place of the injured OG Anunoby to lead the Toronto Raptors to a 123-105 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday night. Pascal Siakam scored 24 points and Gary Trent Jr. added 19 against his former team for the Raptors, who led by as many as 23 and never trailed. The Raptors were without Anunoby after he injured his left wrist Friday against Golden State.


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MultiGen-Paradigm Inc., a San Jose, Calif., provider of real-time, 3D, visual simulation software, has created prototype night-vision-goggle simulation software for the F-16 Mission Training Centers for the Air Force.
MultiGen-Paradigm's software lets pilots simulate using night vision goggles in the virtual training system. Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Mission Training Centers provide high-resolution virtual training environments for pilots. MultiGen-Paradigm software correlates with the training centers' visual databases and display software. It also works with video processor for real-time simulation, producing head-tracked video to the helmet mounted display.


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Q: How to prevent the execution of getter setter methods of inherited properties in javascript Scenario 1:
//create a parent object
var parent = {}

// define a property prop1 on parent
parent.prop1 = 'value1'

parent.prop1 // will print 'value1'

// create a child object with parent as the prototype
var child = Object.create(parent)

child.prop1 // will print "value1"

// create prop1 on child
child.prop1 = 'value updated'

child.prop1 // will print 'value updated'

parent.prop1 // will print "value1"

Here the prop1 on child will shadow(or override) the prop1 on parent
Scenario 2:
// define parent
var parent = {}

//define setter/getters for prop1
Object.defineProperty(parent, 'prop1',
    {
        get: function () {
            console.log('inside getter of prop1');
            return this._prop1;
        },
        set: function (val) {
            console.log('inside setter of prop1');
            this._prop1 = val;
        }
    });

// define prop1 on parent
parent.prop1 = 'value1' // prints: inside setter of prop1

//access prop1
parent.prop1 // prints inside getter of prop1 and "value1"

// create a new object with parent as the prototype
var child = Object.create(parent)

// access prop1
child.prop1 // inside getter of prop1 "value1"

// update prop1 on child
child.prop1 = 'updated value'// inside setter of prop1

In the last step, just like in scenario1, I want prop1 on child to override the prop1 defined on parent.
How to achieve this?

A: As @dandavis suggested, re-defining the property on the child is overriding the parent's property.
Object.defineProperty(child, "prop1", {value: 'updated value'});

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HONORING THE ANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL
HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask the House of Representatives to join me in recognizing the Anacostia Coordinating Council (ACC) on its 25th anniversary and the retirement of its chairman Arrington Dixon, for his service to the ACC and the District of Columbia.
Arrington Dixon took his 25th boat ride down the Anacostia River while retiring as chair of the ACC on Saturday, September 30, 2017.
A boatload of District of Columbia residents proudly celebrated the silver anniversary of the ACC boat ride and, particularly, the service of Arrington Dixon as chair of the ACC.
Arrington Dixon has led not only the ACC, but also the ACC's annual boat ride on the Anacostia River. This year's boat ride provided a unique opportunity to celebrate Ward 8 and the one-of-a-kind fellowship offered by the boat ride.
The boat ride also proudly celebrates its sponsoring organization, the ACC. The ACC has been deeply embedded in the life and work of the Ward 8 community since 1983, when it was founded to organize support for the Anacostia Metro.
Arrington Dixon was born in Anacostia. Unlike many civic leaders, Arrington Dixon has held important elected offices in the District of Columbia. He was a member of the first D.C. Council of the District of Columbia (1978- 1979), representing Ward 4; chairman of the Council (1979-1983); and at-large member of the Council (1997). In 1995, he was appointed to the National Capital Planning Commission and remains on the Commission. After such distinguished service, most leaders often believe they have done their work. However, Arrington Dixon has continued to serve without portfolio. His service as chair of the ACC is among his most notable civic achievements. He has built the ACC into a formidable organization much-admired for its leadership and many contributions.
Arrington Dixon's decision to retire on the silver anniversary of the ACC boat ride offered an appropriate occasion to recognize his many distinguished contributions to his hometown and to his Anacostia community as well as the contributions of the ACC for its annual boat ride.
Therefore, I ask the House of Representatives to join me in recognizing:
Arrington Dixon for his outstanding official and civic contributions to the District of Columbia;
The ACC for its civic and financial contributions to the District of Columbia; and The silver anniversary [Boat Ride] of the ACC.


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Gregg Harris and John Pepper met again while living in San Francisco. They were both fans of the Mission District taqueria scene and the early wrap concept restaurants popping up throughout the city. They talked about how the rest of the country needed wraps as well. Gregg gave John the book "How to Open a Restaurant" (although John never read it).
Gregg and Adam also reunited in San Francisco and both quit their jobs to work at burrito shops (they were friends at this point). They met Jason Hutchinson at one of those burrito joints – night after night, the trio whispered over the grill about their future restaurant dreams back East. Gregg and Adam decided that, while Jason's culinary skills were welcome, his taste in music was not.
John headed back to New England to get his MBA at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Early on, he befriended those in his class from the Bay Area, so that he could talk endlessly with them about the country's desperate need for more burritos and wraps.


Allows plugins and themes to be updated using the standard WordPress plugin or theme update process.
without having to delete the existing plugin or theme.
Tested with WordPress 4.7 and WordPress MultiSite.
Do nothing until you want to update another plugin or theme.
Activate the allow-reinstalls plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
Upload the plugin or theme you want to replace.
Does this work on WordPress MultiSite?
Yes. Use it as a super administrator.
Can I downgrade a plugin or theme?
You'll be able to do it, but whether or not the system works afterwards depends on the plugin or theme.
Can I leave the plugin active?
Why doesn't WordPress allow this anyway?
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Photophonie by Luc Ferrari "To celebrate the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari's birth, Transversales Disques announce the release of Photophonie - Bandes magnétiques inédites, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, revelatory collection of commercial, commission, and secret music by electroacoustic music pioneer Luc Ferrari. "Photophonie" (1989) features music for the photographic exhibition of Alain Willaume; "Il était une fois" (1973) was Commissioned by the G.M.E.B.; "Trans-Voices" (1992) was curated by the American Center, Paris; and "Leica" (1977) was used in advertisement for the Leica camera. Affiliated with French Radio's Groupe de Musique Concrète, co-founder of the GRM with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) was a major figure of musique concrète and electroacoustic music, broke away to pave his own path of individualistic expressions of minimalist music, musical theater, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks." - Transversales Disques .
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After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we've reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We'll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently "sold out" items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we'll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
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Why Parenting Is (Too Much) Like A Silicon Valley Start-Up
On June 25, 2015 July 11, 2015 By Tamarah RockwoodIn Uncategorized
This article originally appeared on Ravishly.
Why Parenting Is Like A Silicon Valley Startup
Contributed by Tamarah Rockwood | 07.3.15 4:00am
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Jared has diaper duty. Forever.
I am going all nerdy on y'all tonight.
We have been watching Silicon Valley from the very beginning of the show.
Naturally, at first with dubious and skeptical expectations, since geeks are naturally dubious and skeptical of other geeks, particularly actor nerds passing themselves off as geeks. I will gladly admit that this show actually does an accurate representation of what living through a Start Up is like. From the subtle in-fighting, to the khaki pants, to the sloppy button-up shirts, they look like Start Up geeks. Plus, the emotional ups and downs of software vs. hardware, hitting project goals and yet still making $0, if you're lucky. The endless hours spent at the keyboards, 20 hour workdays, dealing with odd landlords and nosy neighbors. Plus: Ever wonder how these guys have health insurance? lol…health insurance in a Start Up.
The thing is, the more I watch this show, and the more I think back to the endless years in Start Up culture that we experienced, the more I keep thinking: "This is way too similar to parenting."
Endless nights working? check.
Emotional toil? check.
Your clothes don't match/fit anymore? check.
Everyone has a completely unhelpful, and most likely arbitrary piece of advice for you at the worst times: check.
You set the living room on fire by overloading the servers that had the worst cabling on the face of the earth? well, no.
But I have set the oven on fire by trying to reheat biscuits. #fireextinguishers #everythingisokay
Follow me on this nerdy venture:
5 Ways Parenting Is Like Surviving a Silicon Valley Start Up:
1. Inexperience does not negate your position as the CEO
If you have never had experience as a parent before, but read about it in a book once, then congratulations! You are perfect parenting material!
And you have the job.
Start Ups were notorious for putting the one person who couldn't code as the head of the company, just to give them something to do. Sometimes it worked out and they did actually rise to the occasion to lead their company to something great…like being acquired. Probably by Oracle.
But as a parent, you have no out. You are in this ship for the long haul, and you better make the most out of naptimes by either actually relaxing for an hour…or you make a game plan for your new position.
"Today, you may take the bottle, my son. But tomorrow, you take the world." check.
2. Complete lack of "domain knowledge."
If you have ever had the pleasure of getting conflicting information on key components to raising your infant "correctly," then you have "lack of domain knowledge."
"In software engineering domain knowledge is knowledge about the environment in which the target system operates…" Basically, it's when you know your stuff with what you're doing.
For example. Let's say you and your spouse have a baby who gets fussy in the afternoon. You guys can't figure out what on earth is going on, because the baby is fine for the rest of the day, but right around 2pm she just loses her little mind. And you guys are just at your wit's end about this…until you realize that around 2pm, you have been feeding her mashed peas, and those peas were giving her gas! Problem solved!! *high 5s*
You have now acquired domain knowledge.
3. Everyone else wants to give you their domain knowledge too.
What works for one Start Up will probably not work for the next. What worked for Facebook and Twitter will absolutely, totally not work for an app that remotely checks your tire pressure.
In the same way, what works for one baby will probably not work for another. I have 5…I have had to change the game so many times, I don't even remember where I started.
But try bringing up your ideas about cloth diapers, breastfeeding vs. bottlefeeding, when to start them on solids, or bigger topics like circumsicion and vaccinations.
You will find a circus of domain knowledge which somehow finds its way to you, tout de suite.
4. Companies who ignore revenues in order to keep striving for the "Perfect Product."
This just is a recipe for failure in any company.
When the ideal of the product overshadows the realities of finance/growth/customers/lack of customers, then the only thing that will survive in the company is the ideal.
I know the image of Norman Rockwell's paintings of happy, quiet children reading 500 page classical novels in front of a fireplace somewhere in Connecticut is the ideal we have been given for parenting…but it is a big load of idealized hogwash.
Real start ups are messy, in an uninsulated garage, underfunded, overworked and definitely hitting the wine bar after dinner. Before going back to fix code that you just realized was buggy during your hamburger.
Similarly, real parenting is long, arduous, emotionally taxing, euphoric, defeated and….worth it. Completely.
We can't strive for the "ideal parenting" or the "ideal child," and expect it to turn out the way we think. What we have is a beautiful child, who is ours to love, and the time available to create a relationship with them to last a lifetime.
5. "The Team Behind It"
Bill Gross, the founder of "Idealab," has had many brilliant things to say about how companies live or die.
One thing he said about the teams that make up companies was fantastic:
"Gross said, "I never thought I'd be quoting boxer Mike Tyson on the TED stage, but he once said, "Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face." And I think that's so true about business as well. "So much about a team's execution is its ability to adapt to getting punched in the face by the customer."
If this doesn't summarize parenting, I don't know what does.
Things are going to come out of the blue and hit you in the face before you know it even existed, and your ability to adapt to those punches to the face is going to determine how you adapt to parenting.
When our first daughter was 3 months old, our pediatrician said she was a little "concerned" about a clicking in her hips. So off we went to xrays and experts, only to find out that she didn't even have a hipjoint on her right side, and the left was a little meager as well. Hip dysplasia took us to doctors, harness fittings and xray technicians for years. But we took each doctor's visit as another bold step in making sure our beautiful daughter had a fully functioning hip socket that would never give her trouble, ever again.
Parenting is never like it says in the pamphlets and books people give you while you're pregnant.
Parenting is a wild roller coaster of emotions and experiences.
But parenting has been the biggest thing I will ever do, and I look forward to every defeat and every euphoric moment, because I will be spending those moments with the only team I have ever wanted. And if that isn't succeeding in life, I don't know what is.
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Well said, and bravo! I feel like the weird 20-something that actually understands this stuff (for the most part). I admire you as a mother and think you do an excellent job doing what you do.
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Thank you so much Larissa!! You are a good friend to have 😉
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"People are always trying to make us something. Why won't they accept us as being four people?" — Bono
Numb Karaoke Lyrics
"'Numb' was a left-over from 'Achtung Baby' called 'Down All The Days.' The song didn't really work but the instrumental backing was interesting. Brian added some fantastic keyboards. Then when we were trying to get a final running order together for 'Zooropa,' we had this backing track but we didn't know what to do with it. Edge took off into another studio to demo a few ideas, and, within a few hours, had worked out this way of almost rapping over it. I think it is a sonic masterpiece and Edge's delivery is fantastic." - Adam Clayton, U2 By U2 2006
The highschool crowd hasn't been very happy with our product lately.
I can't blame them. They want new material. Our stuff's been repeated too many times. You can't sell the same thing to the same crowd forever.
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Gimme what you got
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Gimme some more
A piece of me, baby
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'Harry Potter' & Angst – How To Use It Properly
August 3, 2021 Tucker Watkins
In June of 1997, when Harry Potter's first outing was published and the Wizarding World entered our lives, everything was much simpler. I, for one, was much less stressed than I am now (mainly because I wasn't quite born yet). In the years following, the series bloomed with multiple subsequent books and a hyper-successful movie franchise.
However, sometimes people just don't know when to give up, and the series has sadly gone on to be nothing but mediocre installments. I think it's about time we go back and revisit why the Harry Potter films worked so well, and analyze how the Fantastic Beast films have managed to take such a significant misstep.
Why Did The Original Series Work So Well?
While watching the Harry Potter series, you often forget just how quaint and almost adorable the first film is. In the grand scheme of things, it almost comes off as a parody of the idea of a "wizarding world." The first film was almost something that the rest of the franchise made fun of and laughed at as if to say "yeah we wish that the wizarding world was really that magical and fun."
Given how quickly and abruptly the tone changes with the second film — where a plot is included that has a racist snake compelling innocent children to murder other children based on their parentage — you might assume that the franchise gives tonal whiplash. However, they never lose the charm of the first film, and that's all thanks to the characters involved with the story.
By the time the 5th film, Order of the Phoenix, comes around and Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has finally returned, the series has made a full sharp turn into darkness. The entire story revolves around Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) being abandoned by his mentor, and then the film caps off with the death of his parental figure. The story is heavy by every standard of the word, but the cast of characters is a beaming light of hope in the dark and grim setting and style.
The film's opening almost acts as a metaphor for the entire franchise. Having Harry fight off a Dementor, a creature of darkness, by using the spell that brightens his surroundings so much that the darkness has no option to back away from the light. Not to mention it's also a lovely moment that has Harry saving his cousin, someone who has been nothing but mean to him his entire life.
Harry is a beacon of hope and happiness for everyone around him, and I think no film represents that better than Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. After an entire film about traveling around, trying to stop Voldemort, Harry finally returns back to the overrun Hogwarts. After revealing his return to the members of Dumbledore's Army, everyone is visually excited. The room that was once filled with lifeless and hopeless children, is now overflowing with happiness and confidence. So much so, that the following scene has the characters revealing their return to Headmaster Snape (Alan Rickman) and running him out of the building. Leading to them finally recapturing Hogwarts as the safe haven for all good wizards that it was always supposed to be.
Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, and that directly leads to a high point and creates momentum enough for the people to overturn the war and eventually win. Harry is THE standard for "characters that imbue others with hope and confidence." His mere existence and presence as the legendary "chosen one" is enough to win the war for the goodness of the entire world.
I know that something like that seems like an obvious choice. Having the main character be the "chosen one" or the person who changes the tide of the story IS an obvious choice. But then why didn't the Fantastic Beast movies follow suit?
Fantastic Beasts And Its Fantastical Misstep
My history with the Harry Potter franchise is a short one, having only seen the movies all the way through rather recently, but that doesn't mean the series was anything new to me. As a matter of fact, my aunt is easily the biggest Harry Potter fan I've ever seen. There's even an area in her house that is entirely devoted to Harry Potter, so it's safe to say that my exposure to the franchise is nothing new. But, being even slightly removed, I had gone until quite recently without having seen the Fantastic Beasts films.
I wish I could've gone a little longer without seeing them.
The first film is fine. The idea of a story that delves into the world of the Harry Potter franchise by way of their unique creatures is a fun idea. They also have a nice enough lead character (Eddie Redmayne) who's kind of enigmatic, but his sidekick is way more likable. But by the end of the film, they've abandoned all that. The truth is revealed that we're actually seeing a story involving Grindlewald (Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp), a character that's just a thinly veiled metaphor for wizard Nazism. Then they get rid of the fun side character (Dan Fogler) right before the credits roll.
All of the time throughout the first film where I enjoyed seeing the two lead male characters grow together are just forgotten because by the end they've completely abandoned it. But they only had to do that because of the unnecessary Grindlewald wizard Nazi-like stuff that I didn't want anyway. This film fails because it stopped being what it was supposed to be. By the time the credits roll, you're too busy thinking about the fact that Ezra Miller just blew up in a subway to remember that the original plot of the film was to chase down animals and creatures in early 1900s Wizard NYC. And that version of the movie was way better anyways.
But then you get to the second movie, and it's a whole new can of worms. They weren't brave enough to lose the SEO and recognizability of "Fantastic Beasts" so every once in a while they have to go on a side quest to hunt for animals, but by and large, this film is more about its subtitle than otherwise. We spend most of the runtime following an embarrassing excuse for a narrative as we weave in and out of convoluted soap-opera-esque plot points, eventually climaxing with the reveal that Credence (Miller) was actually Dumbledore's (Jude Law) brother, who was kidnapped and baby swapped with Zoe Kravitz family, whose original baby then died in the crash of the ship they were on (which might have been the Titanic).
Sounds like fun, right?
And that sentence kind of sums up my issues with the Fantastic Beasts films. They aren't fun. In the same way that Harry was a beacon of hope for the characters in the story, the characters in that story were a beacon of light for the audience. The characters we were rooting for were never bogged down by the drab reality of the world they lived in, but they always triumphed and did so with a smile and hug.
But the characters of the Fantastic Beasts films never act as a beacon of light. Instead, they seem like a magnet for the darkness, always just accidentally stumbling into the bad story and at times absurdly dark narrative. They just act as receptacles for the bad story to hit the screen, as if the screenwriter or director couldn't think of anything else better to do with them.
How To Fix The Fantastic Beast Films
If for some god-forsaken reason I was given a say on the future of the Fantastic Beasts film series, I'd say stop making them. But, if for some reason they persisted in making these boring and low contrast films, I would tell them to simplify. Pick a lane — you either get to make the movie about the Wizard's getting involved in a war, or you get to make a movie with Newt going around and visiting fun countries and places finding their respective unique creatures with a gang of bright and lively characters that add depth to the world. But you don't get to have both AND make a good movie. They've made that evidently clear.
Their lack of clarity on how this franchise needs to go is what has led to this crossroads. When you create a franchise with one singular purpose and then abandon that purpose before the end of the first movie, you end up with a confused crowd that will eventually just get displeased and gives up. I want nothing more than to visit the Wizarding World in new installments where I can be confident that I'll have a good time, but at this point, that's not likely.
It's not because Mads Mikkelsen replaced Depp, or because of any behind-the-scenes drama — it's just because the movies aren't good. And for some reason, people forgot about what makes the Harry Potter films work in the first place. I hope I did a good job reminding you.
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I've learned something new every day since moving to this state.
I learned that when the sirens go off, it's not a call for volunteer firemen, it's a tornado warning. I've learned how to attach a front license plate holder on my car. I've learned that a state without limited tort options equals higher car insurance. I've learned that an "at will" employment state means they can fire me for looking unhappy, and that I don't have a case for wrongful termination.
Oh, Today I learned that this is the ONLY STATE IN THE UNION THAT HAS NOT RATIFIED THE 14TH ADMENDMENT TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
What kind of Back-water po-dunk state is this? Well, being it's our bicentennial and all, it's a good time to ratify this, wouldn't you think? Some Ohio Republicans don't.
"We now have a system where there's some misapplication. I don't want anybody to misconstrue our re-ratification of the 14th Amendment as also ratifying those cases where it's misapplied," said state Rep. Tim Grendell, R-Chesterland.
Drop this guy an email. Let him know it's time that Ohio moves into the 19th century.
Thanks Atrios for catching this.


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These Wedding Guests Were Asked to Pay $100 for Their Reception Meal
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Alexis Hobbs is an experienced social media professional who sometimes writes.
Brides, we get it—weddings are expensive. From the jaw-dropping costs of a live band to those pricey peonies you just have, have, have to have, that wedding bill can rack up real quick. And with more and more brides and grooms taking on the financial burden themselves, it's getting harder for couples to pay for that "dream wedding" they've always envisioned. Luckily for you, we've created a Pinterest-worthy guideline on how to throw a wedding for 15K or less! But we digress. What this article is really about is how not to cut costs for your big day.
Reddit user bootsmegamix was taken aback when he received a legitimate bill for one of his friend's weddings. He asked the social media community, "How many of you have paid for your meal at a wedding? My girlfriend and I are expected to pay $80-100 each for our meals at an upcoming wedding, [and] the bride says it's an 'unspoken tradition.' I've been to a few weddings and never heard of such nonsense. I asked my uncle and he said that that was ridiculous, but the bride's family insists that it's a tradition and that's how it's supposed to go. I've never paid to go to a wedding reception and I'm definitely not about to start."
Needless to say, Reddit users were equally appalled. ProbablyNotWorking wrote, "Hell no. You feed me, I give you a bread maker. That's the tradition." Another user, jgmerek said, "I am actually a caterer. I have catered weddings for almost 20 years, literally hundreds if not thousands of weddings. I have never heard of this being done even once."
Id_rather_boating even offered a solution for couples struggling to pay for such an expensive soireé by saying, "I used to film weddings for a living. I have been to several hundred events. If they can't afford dinner for everyone they have a late evening wedding with finger foods at the reception. Then they have a cash bar as well. Don't pay for your dinner at 80-100 per plate. If they did want to charge for dinner and didn't want to make a profit they would do something more affordable like ask you to bring a casserole, dessert, or salad. People are more than happy to pitch in to make the day special, but not if you ask like that. Come on!"
With a general consensus of "aw heck no," bootsmegamix decided to stick with his tradition—giving a present and leaving it at that. He wrote, "If we have to pay for a meal, I'm sure there's a McDonald's nearby." Sure beats the $100 price tag!
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Rachel Eddy House Concert, with Jam Session to follow
Mountains to the Sea 510 West Ashley Avenue Folly Beach, SC, 29439 United States (map)
Lowcountry Friends of Old Time Music is proud to present an evening of Old Time tunes and songs performed by West Virginia musician Rachel Eddy. With vocals, fiddle, banjo, and guitar Rachel's music offers a rich sampling of traditional old-time music. In 2011, Rachel was a winner of the Traditional Stringband contest at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival at Clifftop, WV. Rachel played for many years in old-time string bands in West Virginia. In 2008, she moved to Nashville, TN, to make her solo record, "Hand on the Plow," backed by Tim O'Brien, Mark Schatz, and more. She began receiving international attention with its release in 2009 and was described by Pete Peterson of the Old Time Herald as, "a dynamic old-time singer and banjo player with a strong artistic vision."
Rachel was born and raised in rural WV near Morgantown, where her father got her started playing the fiddle as a little girl. Pretty soon she realized that it was more fun making old time string band music than just about anything else. Rachel now performs on fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. She lived in Sweden the past few years, traveling with Uncle Earl, the popular American all-girl old-time supergroup. In addition to being a performer, Rachel is passionate about teaching. She has taught fiddle, banjo and guitar at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins WV, at Sore Fingers Summer school in the UK, and different various weekend workshops from the hills of West Virginia to Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, London and Wales. She enjoys teaching future generations about the unique music that she loves so much.
Rachel's love of music comes from the heart and she loves every part of her job, from performing to educating dedicated students, and the electrifying charge of leading large jam sessions around the world! Over the years, she has had the honor of sharing stages, workshops and recording sessions with the likes of Tim O'Brien, Erynn Marshall, Dirk Powell, Adam Hurt, Rayna Gellert, Russ Barenberg, Bruce Molsky, and Mark Schatz, She has four full length albums : The Morgantown Rounders (2006), Hand on the Plow (2008 solo), Chilly Winds (2010 duo with Kristian Herner), and Nothin' But Corn (2014 solo).
Admission for the Concert will be $15.00 per person, paid at the door. Doors open at 7 PM.
Since seating will be limited, please RSVP with your contact information and the number of seats you would like to have held for you and your party. RSVP using the Contact Form on this website, or by email to olinhamrick@windstream.net by Saturday March 3rd.
A Jam Session will follow the Concert, from 9 PM to 10:30 PM.
Rachels CDs will be available for purchase.
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Api är det högsta berget i Yoka Pahar-delen av det område av Himalaya som kallas Gurans Himal och är 7 132 högt. Berget ligger i nordvästra hörnet av Nepal, nära gränsen till Tibet, i ett område av Himalaya som sällan besöks.

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Fastän Api är låg i jämförelse med 8000-metersbergen i området reser den sig på ett exceptionellt sätt över omgivningen, där de omgivande dalgångarna är markant lägre än i närheten av de högre Himalaya-topparna. Södra sidan av Apis topp reser sig 3 300 meter ovanför bergets fot.

Närmaste högre topp är Gurla Mandhata på 59 kilometers avstånd i nordväst. Api ligger i Yoka Pahar-delen av Gurans Himal-området, på den västra sidan av Seti-floden där det är högst med sina 7 132 meter tillsammans med Jethibahurani (6 850 meter), Bobaye (6 808 meter) och Nampa (6 755 meter).

Api med omgivning är avrinningsområde till Ganges och därigenom till Bengaliska viken.

Klättringshistorik
Trakterna runt Api besöktes av västerländska klättrare 1899, 1905 och 1936, men något toppförsök gjorde inte förrän 1953. Det var den skotske bergsklättraren William Hutchinson Murray tillsammans med John Tyson. Toppförsöket fick avbrytas liksom försket 1954 av en italiensk expedition. Vid detta försök omkom två av klättrarna.

Den första lyckade toppbestigningen genomfördes 1960 av den japanska Doshisha-expeditionen, bestående av ledaren Yasusuke Tsuda och medlemmarna Katsutoshi Hirabayashi, Yasushi Egami, Motoh Terasaka och Takeshi Uenishi samt sherpas Sirdar Gyaltsen Norbu, Lhakpa Gyelbu, Ila Tenzing, Dawa Tenzing II och Temba Tenzing. Expeditionen besteg berget via nordväst-rutten, precis som den italienska expeditionen 1954.. Klättrarna som nådde toppen var Katsutoshi Hirabayashi och Gyaltsen Norbu, vilket de gjorde den 10 maj 1960. Dagen efter nådde även ledaren för expedtionen, Yasusuke Tsuda, och Motoh Terasaka toppen.

1980 gjorde en brittisk expedition ett försök att bestiga berget från den södra sidan. Expeditionen fick ge upp bara några hundra meter från toppen.

Den 24 december 1983 genomförde de polska klättrarna Tadeusz Piotrowski  och Andrzej Bieluń den första vinterbestigningen.

American Alpine Journal har 17 toppbestigningar noterade fram till 2001.

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Noter

Berg 7000 meter över havet eller högre
Bergstoppar i Himalaya
Berg i Nepal

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Renishaw plc RSW as announced in the half year results on the 31st January, Renishaw experienced a slow down in demand in Asia for its encoder products and from large end-user manufacturers of consumer electronic products.There has been no improvement since then and based on recent order trends and customer feedback, the company now expects these conditions to continue through the remainder of this financial year. Rest assured though that despite this early warning the Board remains confident in the future prospects of the Group.
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I don't like Thanksgiving.
Not Thanksgiving, probably Easter 1985, from left to right: (a grumpy me), Bever-leigh, Stevie, Mom holding a carrier with a kicking-baby Jos, and a very goofy Joe.
At least not like I did as a kid.
Every year, until I was 12, my family tradition was Thanksgiving at my godbrother Stevie and godsister Bever-leigh's house. Their mom, Elaine, would cook up a feastly meal with greens, yams, turkey with stuffing and gravy, baked mac and cheese and plenty of brewed sweet tea. There was a ridiculous amount of deserts- pies, cakes, ice cream, custards and cobblers.
Actually, Thanksgiving kicked off on Wednesday. After a half day of school (which was really nothing but a potluck party), Dad would pick us up and drive us over to Stevie and Bever-leigh's house in Newark, where they'd be waiting with overnight bags to sleepover at our house. There was Thanksgiving service at our church (where Papa was the pastor), and then we were back home for a night of laughter and play, and eventually, reluctantly, sleep.
We were up early the next morning in our PJs to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and eat a bowl of cereal. None of us five kids ever made it through the whole thing- the boys had remote controlled cars to crash and we girls would get busy playing house with our Cabbage Patches.
Time would fly, and before we knew it, we'd be packed up in the 1984 Dodge Caravan, headed north on the Parkway, to dinner, to feast, to fun. Stevie and Bever-leigh were older than me- Stevie about a year older than Joe, Bev, two years younger than him, but two years older than me. They seemed to know about the whole world. Stevie had giant posters of LL Cool J and Big Daddy Kane on his wall, while Bev had Whitney Houston and Salt-N-Peppa. They both collected Garbage Pail Kids cards, and had small TVs in their bedrooms. Stevie had both an Atari and Nintendo, later a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, while Bev had a VCR and an extensive collection of movies- "E.T., "Indiana Jones", "Back to the Future"- that would keep us entertained for hours.
Dinner took place in a perfectly polished, buffed and shined dining room, with washed and startched tablecloth, placemats and napkins. There was no kid's table- we kids knew how to act. There was also no Mister to the Miss Elaine- she was a single mom who had worked at New Jersey Bell with my dad and became a close family friend back before there was me. I don't know when Miss Elaine had split with my godsiblings' dad, but it didn't really ever seem to register to me as a kid that he wasn't around. My dad got the head of the table, and we'd all stand and hold hands and bow our heads while he'd lead us in a somewhat long, perhaps a bit superfluous prayer. Once completed, we were all expected to recite something for which we were thankful, and Joe could be counted on to give an answer that was silly and heartfelt, while the rest of us kids just wanted to get it over. Dad would carve the turkey, and he'd make a small show of it. Finally, there was the food, some salty, some buttery, some sweet, all savory. My favorite was the creamy spinach casserole and the homemade double layered yellow cake with the rich chocolate frosting.
After dinner, the grownups would gather in the living room to drink coffee (my parents, the teetotalers) or some other, adult beverage (Miss Elaine and any other of the work friends who'd come to feast) and watch movies that were rated PG-13 or even… R. There was cursing and sex and violence in some, so we were to stay in the kids' rooms in the back. No matter, there were Power Pad races and Duck Hunt battles and "Gremlins" to watch for the zillionth time. We were good.
It all ended when Miss Elaine had a heart attack and died when I was 12 in 1994. She was only in her 40s, and both Stevie and Bever-leigh were still in high school. My dad tried to help them adjust as they moved, I think, to Miss Elaine's best friend's, a woman they considered an aunt, who also worked at New Jersey Bell. She lived right upstairs from them (it was a multi-family home), so they'd stay in the same schools, too.
Throughout my teens, I began having nomadic Thanksgivings, going from my Grandmother's, to one uncle's to another uncle's homes, one right after the other, until I returned home to eat some of my mom's famous baked mac and cheese. Papa passed in '95, and my parents split in '96.
One by one, the strings that held together the tapestry of my childhood- and it's Thanksgivings- became undone. Traditions died when people did. In '99, my father, newly remarried, spent Thanksgiving weekend moving in his bride from her home in Milwaukee. Joe and Jos went and helped. I, 17 and a college freshman, stayed home with my mother, balking at what I thought would be disloyalty. In subsequent years, Dad began holding his own Thanksgivings, and my stepmom, Kathy, would be joined by her family from the midwest. I attended some years, only staying for a short period of time before making the rounds to other family members.
Those years I would always eat a lot, and wind up feeling full. But never happy.
Jos and I on Thanksgiving in 2010.
When K and I married in '08, we had Thanksgiving at our place. Joe and his family came, along with Jos and her family. It was fun. In 2009, we tried a repeat, but me and Jos had an argument about something so stupid I can't remember, and it was a fail. In 2010, we tried again, and we had a full house. Dad and Kathy even came, along with a few of K's student workers he managed, and Jos and Joe and their families. Only Momm was missing. It was too many people for a one bedroom apartment, but I felt connected to my siblings in a way I hadn't since childhood. I don't even know why, exactly. Maybe it was the way our dad commandeered the TV to watch football and we wound up in my bedroom, but I had them, and even Dad under one overcrowded roof, and that was something.
Jos, her kids Justin and Sophia, and me, on Thanksgiving 2010.
It would be the last year ever to happen. In 2011, there was just K and me, and our new baby Z. Jos would go to her in-laws, Joe would be with his family. The following year, Jos was found dead two days before Thanksgiving. In 2014, Dad had a massive stroke, and was hospitalized, his nourishment came a liquid diet. He passed this year a little before Easter, and Kathy is in Milwaukee with her family for Thanksgiving.
She needed a bottle, lol. Z, me and K on Thanksgiving in 2011.
Again, it's K, Z, and I, our little trio, observing Thanksgiving. K comandeered the kitchen, infusing this very American holiday with his Trinidadian roots. He jerked the turkey, made macaroni pie, Spanish rice and pitchers of sorrel. He's got a new video game to play- "Destiny: The Taken King"– and will do so after dinner, playing remotely with Joe's and Jos' sons (Jos' son Justin is being raised by my brother and his wife) using the PS3 and the Internet. Z and I played earlier, making a little Thanksgiving dinner for her doll, Little Zoe, and Curious George plush. She's on her laptop now, playing an "Arthur" game on PBS Kids. K, in between oven checks, has jumped onto his computer, while I am on mine, writing this.
It doesn't feel like Thanksgiving should, not like it once did. We'll have the same basic ingredients- good food, video games, entertainment- but it's not even close. What was, is not. Hopefully, some how, I'll be able to find a way to stitch together the threads of my present and create some new traditions… and feel some of that old happiness.
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Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956.

Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (Tz'u Hsi in Wade–Giles), who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing dynasty until her death in 1908 (before which the novel ends).

Plot Overview
Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China, born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become one of hundreds of concubines. But her singular beauty and powers of manipulation quickly moved her into the position of Second Consort.  Tzu Hsi is feared and hated by many in the court, but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power (even during her husband's life) parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to the modern way.

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1956 American novels
Historical novels
Novels by Pearl S. Buck
Novels set in the Qing dynasty
Novels set in the 19th century
Novels set in the 20th century
Cultural depictions of Empress Dowager Cixi
Novels set in Beijing