Welcome to our Summer Newsletter. I hope that you had a wonderful festive season with you family and friends. Beach trips and BBQ's has been the order of our summer so far. For those of you who have taken some time off I hope you are feeling rested and are ready for another busy year. For those of you who have yet to take some time off I hope the weather remains fine with cool periods.
This newsletter features a few profiles of people who have contributed significantly to the journey that Midland has taken over the last 10 years. Roz Sorensen, Klare Bray, Sally Whitelaw and Karen Cheer have influenced the way Midland has developed its thinking, providing subject matter advice or strategic thought leadership. We thank them for their contribution and look forward to continuing the relationship over the coming years.
The Mental Health Inquiry report: He Ara Oranga was released in December 2018. It calls for change in the current way services are configured with services being closer to the community. This report will bring many challenges as the sector moves forward on the recommendations. We look forward to working together as a region to progress the recommendations. Click here to access a copy of the document.
There are several feature articles on pockets of innovation across the region. Please do not hesitate to contact any of the providers if you require additional information.
Finally, I would like to congratulate Robyn Shearer on her appointment to the Ministry of Health, Deputy Director-General, Mental Health & Addiction.
Robyn has a vast range of sector experience having been the CEO for Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui for the last ten years. During her time Robyn has grown Te Pou to be internationally recognised for evidence based workforce programmes in mental health, addiction and disability and has created strong sector partnerships to enhance people's lives through service improvement. Robyn comes from a clinical background, beginning her experience with nursing and has worked in front line mental health services and leadership roles in district health boards. She has also worked in the Health Research Council and Ministry of Health in workforce development, policy and leading the Mental Health Group.
The Midland region wishes you well as you embark on the next phase of your journey.


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Russia and China Are Now Building Weapons Together
March 30, 2018 Topic: Security Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: RussiaChinaMilitaryTechnologyWorldWeapons
Should America be worried?
by Dave Majumdar
Russia and China are drawing closer together as Moscow faces further isolation from the West. Indeed, the two great powers are starting to co-develop new weapons systems. One such example is a new drone that would be launched from a multiple launch rocket system.
"Joint experimental design work with the Chinese side is underway," Tecmash Research and Production Group deputy CEO Alexander Kochkin said at the ArmHiTec-2018 exhibition on Friday according to the TASS news agency.
While cooperation between Russia and China is booming, Moscow is very much a junior partner to a fast-rising Beijing even if the two sides present it as an alliance of equals.
"Both countries present this as a partnership of equals. But yes, for now, its still Russia selling advanced weapons to China," Sam Bendett, a researcher at the Center for Naval Analyses, told The National Interest.
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China, for example, is more advanced in the development of unmanned aircraft than Russia. However, it is still Moscow that is selling its hardware to Beijing.
"What is interesting is that we have not seen any Chinese sales of their UAVs to Russia - even though China is ahead of Moscow in using combat UAVs," Bendett said. "This particular partnership again reinforces the flow of weapons to China, not the other way around."
Indeed, as Kochkin noted, the Russian military has no interest in the company's drone. That is mostly because the Russian defense ministry has not developed a concept of operation (CONOPS) for these machines. The fact that the Chinese are interested suggests that Beijing is ahead of Moscow in developing a combat doctrine for UAVs.
"This also indicates that China is experimenting with various CONOPS for the use of unmanned systems in combat, and this particular delivery of UAV appeals to them," Bendett said.
It is possible that the Kremlin might eventually adopt the system itself, but right now, concepts are often developed by Russia's defense industry well before the military considers adopting them.
"This points to one of the biggest problems that the MOD [Ministry of Defense] and its military industrial complex have to overcome," Bendett said. "A lot of unmanned systems development was driven by the manufacturer, not by a military requirement handed down from the MOD."
In effect, the developmental process in Russia is being driving by industry.
"Often, a manufacturer will exhibit a system that was not necessarily required by the Russian military," Bendett said. "So today, the MOD is trying to reverse this trend and marshal its bureaucracy to take control of unmanned weapons developments that are actually needed by the military and will be used by its forces."
In this particular case, given Russia's experiences in Syrian and Ukraine, Moscow might eventually adopt the system for its own use.
"Yes, perhaps down the line," Bendett said. "The Russians have learned a great deal from Syria and Ukraine and will base their future CONOPS on these conflicts."
Dave Majumdar is the defense editor for The National Interest. You can follow him on Twitter: @davemajumdar.

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This Paris 2 bedroom apartment for rent is located in the beautiful Le Marais district, next to the City Hall and the Seine rive, Rue de la Verrerie, on the second floor (no lift) of a historic building. The flat offers spacious rooms with typical wooden beams and large windows. It is bright and sunny. There is spacious living room with an equipped kitchen corner.
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Crafters, florists, poets, photographers, ceramicists, illustrators, creative business owners, bakers, bloggers, stylists, copywriters, designers, performers, artists... you're our people.
If you'd like to join us at Dinner No. 12 this spring (Date and Details coming soon!) in Los Angeles, tell us who you are and what creative offering you want to bring to our table. Once all submissions are reviewed, we'll select attendees. Responses will be sent out as quickly as possible to all who apply, and formal invitations containing all dinner details will be sent out to selectees one month prior to the event.
While the evening's admission ticket is your talent, we'll kindly ask for a $30 contribution to compensate our chef.
Dinner attendees are chosen based upon each dinner's specific needs. The more you can tell us about yourself and what you'd like to bring to our table, the better! If you're a business who'd like to partner with us, tell us about your desired event and we'll get back to you ASAP.
Thank you! We're already feeling inspired by your creativity.


Independent teaching artist, Carol Rusoff, will be teaching an exciting, intensive and free teen theatre program this summer at the library. The program, "Page to Stage", will run July 10 – August 3, Monday – Thursday, 5 – 7pm with evening performances on August 2 & 3 and a morning performance on August 4. Participants will adapt children's stories as interactive theatre pieces and will perform their original "Pajama Plays" for families with young children.
This program is for teens of all levels of experience. Students will have the opportunity to learn theatre exercises, and practice improvisational and rehearsed theatre and scene work. They will choose from their favorite childhood stories and will create original plays to perform for audiences in the library's community room.
Ms. Rusoff has taught and directed extensively in London, Los Angeles and New York. She founded and directed "The Atlantic Crossing Theatre Project" which originated works at the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival. Her work has been seen on BBC and the ROYAL Festival Hall in England, as well as many repertory venues in Los Angeles. Ms. Rusoff is best known in Hudson for her work at the Hudson Opera House as the director of the highly successful Hudson Teen Theatre Project and for her abilities to inspire teens and develop their theatrical skills and talents. Carol has a unique rapport with teens and works well with young people of diverse experience and interest levels drawing out the best in each participant.
This program is made possible in part with public funds from the Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation. It is free and open to all teens 13 – 19. To register or for more information please call 518-828-1792 x101, email brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, or stop by the front desk.
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Awesome and definitive as Mark Hamill's performances as the Joker have been, the trivia lover in me can't help wondering what happened in an alternate universe where Tim Curry stayed on as the Clown Prince of Crime in Batman: The Animated Series. If you remember, the legendary actor had been originally cast as the Dark Knight's greatest foe when the show was first getting off the ground – before being fired, that is.
Of course, there have been multiple stories circulating as to why Curry had been canned, with the most prevalent one being that his voice for the Ace of Knaves had been too scary for children's programming. On the flip side, Tim himself has said his abrupt exit was due to his contracting bronchitis when recording sessions were just starting to heat up.
To be honest, I think there's truth in both explanations, but the recently released Batman: The Animated Series Blu-ray set has shed even more light on the situation. You see, at one point during the highly informative and educational "Heart of Batman" documentary, it was revealed that a key producer on the show wasn't exactly the biggest fan of Curry's, therefore he was shown the door due to studio politics.
What's more is that we learn how Curry recorded for a total of three episodes before Hamill replaced him. Based on how it was said the latter had to take on the difficult task of dubbing over footage that also already included singing, it's probably safe to say one of them was "Christmas with the Joker." I'd also hazard a guess that "The Last Laugh" and "Be A Clown" were the other two, though I can't say for certain.
Personally, I think it'd be cool if Warner Bros. were to re-release even one of those episodes with Curry's original dialogue restored, but there's no guarantee of that happening – or if they even exist anymore.
For more on Batman: The Animated Series' Blu-ray set, be sure to check out our review.


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Jacqueline Fernandez Gives A Sneak Peek Into Her New Workout Regime
BusinessofCinema News Network 2019/04/18 in BOLLYWOOD Tagged bollywood - 1 Minute
One of the fittest actors in Bollywood, Jacqueline Fernandez never gives a miss to workout and her recent Instagram post is proof to it. The actress keeps on treating her fans with insights to her routine.
Currently in New York City, Jacqueline Fernandez treated her fans with a new 20 mins workout regime which includes ice patches as part of the routine. The actress took to her social media and shared videos explaining the regime. Jacqueline shared, "The regime included cycling with major ice packs attached to us"
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It's not the first time that the actress has given the fans a sneak peek into her fitness regime, the actress treats her fans and followers with tips related to fashion, skincare, fitness, dance and many more whenever she can which makes her fans intrigued and interested in what Jacquline is going to share next.
One of the most active celebrities on Instagram, Jacqueline Fernandez time and again treats the audience with insights from her life. From sharing pictures of her everyday phenomenon to giving major fitness goals, from treating the fans with her oh-so-hot pole dancing.
Jacqueline Fernandez is not only a sought-after name in films but the actress is also popular in the brand circuit.
Jacqueline's popularity not only translates into box office collection but a testimony of the same seen on social media with the actress enjoying a huge fan base across platforms.
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Marijke Gilchrist's The Luminous Landscape at the Form Studio is a 'milestone' for the artist
By Peter Haynes
September 8, 2014 — 10.10am
The Luminous Landscape. By Marijke Gilchrist. Form Studio and Gallery. 1/30 Aurora Avenue, Queanbeyan. Weekdays 10am to 3pm. Weekends 10am to 4pm. Until September 14.
"Assured work": Ruination of Salt by Marijke Gilchrist in The Luminous Landscape. Credit:Rob Little
This is Marijke Gilchrist's second solo exhibition at Form Studio and Gallery (the first was in 2012) and the first that showcases her creative explorations into the medium of encaustic painting. Broadly, encaustic involves the mixture of pigments into molten wax. The process is labour intensive but the results offer, among other things, durability and stability of surface. The process was widely used in the pre- and early Christian eras with the enigmatically beautiful mummy portraits from second-century Faiyum in Egypt exemplifying the high levels of achievement reached by ancient artists. Its use in contemporary art is rare and even rarer in an Australian context.
According to a text accompanying the exhibition the artist has been investigating the medium for the last 18 months or so. These investigations as currently displayed show the artist testing the medium and her control of it through the theme of landscape. The results vary and overall it would be fair to say that there is an uneven quality in the exhibition. That said there are a number of works in which the artist clearly demonstrates her control of her chosen technique and its appropriateness to her own aesthetic evaluation of the Australian landscape.
"Expressive power": Moonlight by Marijke Gilchrist in The Luminous Light. Credit:Rob Little
Ruination of Salt is an assured and pleasing work. Gilchrist uses the medium to great effect. The image is small (34cm square) but encompasses the character of the Australian bush under pressure. Here, as the title states, the bush is assailed by salt deposits. The land under attack occupies almost two-thirds of the picture plane. The whiteness of the salt offers a canvas for the artist's accumulation of graphic marks that represent the dried trees and sere vegetation struggling against the effects of the salt. The high horizon line of scraggly bush breaks into the horizontal band of the sky. The latter's palette, a sort of golden honey, provides restful contrast to the harsh brightness of the land, and is particularly effective. The layered construction of this work is another effective aesthetic device; one that reflects the means of making, namely multiple layers of worked sheets of wax, as well as expressing the complexities of the natural world. The small scale concentrates the expressive content and subsequent effect and marks this work as a possible model for future exploration by the artist.
A very different work from the preceding but also carrying within itself a confident expressive power is Moonlight. It is the same size (34cm square) as Ruination by Salt but presents an entirely different aesthetic argument. While the latter is about the harsh realities of nature, Moonlight is a subtly persuasive rendition of a moonlit landscape. Its quietly beautiful palette (mostly blues) has an almost musical quality to it (Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata springs to mind) and the overall dreamlike character of the image evokes the landscape reveries of 19th-century Symbolist painters.
A series of works – Landscape 1 to 6 - offers another way of viewing the landscape. Each work suggests the fugitive qualities of the Australia bush. The palette is limited to a range of greens, grey-greens and yellows. This limitation is effective in the hands of the artist and provides a comforting environment for Gilchrist's sketchy, almost schematic renderings of the elements of the bush landscape. Forms here are indicative and hint at the underlying structures of the natural world rather than define them.
Treescape and Strength have trees as their central motif. The former has a screen of pale trunks dispersed across the front of the picture plane. The whiteness of the trunks is not quite subsumed into the dense bush behind, a density randomly pierced by the filtered light of the sun. Strength takes a single tree, centrally placed, pushing up towards the top of the picture plane. The V-like configuration of trunk and branches is a dynamic foil to the russet bush background. In both these works Gilchrist deftly exploits the qualities of her medium and the aesthetic efficacy of formal and tonal contrasts.
"Contrast efficacy": Strength by Marijke Gilchrist in The Luminous Landscape. Credit:Rob Little
The above discussions exemplify some of the best of this exhibition. Other works reveal a degree of tentativeness, a reluctance to assert artistic identity, a lack of assurance to continue the positive expressive richness referred to. This is especially visible in, for example, Fingerlings and Pink Lake. In these works the motif is barely present, absorbed into the over-insistent presence of the encaustic medium, difficult to read and devoid of structure.
This exhibition may include some problematic works, but the predominance of work demonstrating the artist's understanding of the aesthetic possibilities of her new medium marks it as an important milestone for her. The lessons learned provide a strong base for further exploration and discovery.
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If you are going by private group the last day for application is somewhere around the 20th of Ramazan.
Compare the different Haj groups and most importantly find out their reputation from people who have gone for Haj with them before. Go through their offerings and itinerary to the minutest detail.
You only need 2 copies of your CNIC and about 10 passport size photographs with blue background. Separate passport used to be issued exclusively for Haj. From 2009 you will need a regular machine readable passport.
Prepare for by learning a few basic Dua for each Rukan and Talbiyah.
Walk for about 6 kms each day for atleast 15 days before proceeding.
Take about 5 sets of comfortable clothes for a trip of 20days. Men should consider taking track suit lower/bottoms (cotton) or comfortable baggy cotton pants and full sleeve T-shirts.
Men should take 2 towel type Ahraams. Small blocks of towel and plain material (Not full towel).
Take atleast 2 comfortable Hawai chappals.
Take strap-on heal pads if available otherwise look for them at Makkah. They will be very useful for performing Tawaaf. Otherwise you will get really soar heals from getting hit from behind.
Take unscented petroleum jelly for applying to your feet.
Take a reasonable sized lightweight backpack for carrying necessary items(Sleeping bag, extra Ahraam if necessary, extra chappal, water bottle, chocolates, some fruit) to Arafat and Muzdalifah. Wheelers or hand carry bags are not recommended.
Small bag(cloth) for pebbles for stoning of Jamaraat.
Take your medicines including any Anti-Biotics, Anti-Allergy, pain killers, Vitamins, etc. to Haji camp in order to have them properly sealed. Otherwise you will not be allowed to carry them.
Get vaccinated for Meningitis and Polio at Haji camp. A yellow card will be issued to you which should be kept with your passport.
Flu vaccine is also recommended well before leaving for your journey.
Take only 1 medium sized suitcase and 1 wheeler. Keep backpack inside for now.
Sabar is the key word from here on.
If you are going to Makkah first, on the day of your journey bathe, do wadoo and wear your Ahraam and offer 2 raqaat nafal for your journey. Niyaat will be done in the airplane just before reaching Mikaat, which will be announced.
Offer Talbiyah as much as you can till you reach the Haram.
Once you reach Jeddah airport, you will be taken to an arrival hall of the Haj terminal. Polio drops will be given to you.
Barcode stickers will be applied to your passport and your yellow vaccination card will be checked.
Now you will be taken to the Passport control/Immigration counter.
After that you will pick up your luggage and go through customs scanners.
Then you will go to another counter for passport checking.
After that you will go to another counter for applying Maktab related stickers to your passport.
Then you will put your luggage into large trolleys according to your country.
Now you will go to the Pakistan open hall, where you will wait for your Maktab wise buses arranged by your Muallam.
Maktab wise buses will be announced and then you will board the buses, make sure your luggage is placed on the same bus as you are going to board. Your passports will be handed over to the Muallam's representative/Bus driver at this point.
After arrival at Makkah you will be taken to the Muallam's office, where you will receive identity bands and tags. Your passports will be handed over to the Muallam and now the bus will take you to your destination/hotel.
It is recommended to rest for awhile and eat something and then go for your Umraah (Tawaaf and Sayee both).
Always keep a meeting point / time at the Haram to easily locate your partner.
Carry your chappals in the cloth bag while at the Haram. You can keep them between your legs while offering Namaaz/Salaat. You can carry them in your hand or tie the bag to your belt while doing Tawaaf.
Always be courteous to others and keep all manners of a mosque in mind while at the Haram. Don't follow bad examples at the Haram. Do not cross in front of others while they are offering Salaat, especially between their Sajdah spot/Musalah area.
Reach the Haram atleast half an hour before every Salaat. Otherwise it will be very difficult to find a spot for offering Salaat.
There are separate areas for women to offer Salaat and it is recommended for women to offer Salaat in those areas. Women are not allowed to offer Salaat close to the Kaaba (sometimes not enforced), so they should find a spot in the designated area well before time. Just keep a meeting point / time after Salaat to find your partner.
On 8th Zilhaj, one day before Haj day right after Fajr prayer; bathe, do wadoo and wear your Ahraam and offer 2 raqaat nafal for your Niyaat for Haj.
Now you will be taken to Minnah tents well before Zuhar prayer. Check exact schedules with your group manager.
You will offer Zuhar, Asr, Maghrib, Isha and next day's Fajr prayer at Minnah. Take time to find out the exact location of your Maktab and the path you will take to reach back from Arafat and Muzdalifah.
After Fajr prayer you will leave for Arafat on the 9th Zilhaj (Haj day) by bus which will be arranged by your Maktab. You have to reach there before Zuhar. Make sure you are inside the Arafat boundary clearly marked by large yellow sign boards. You will be taken to the South Asia allocated area to your assigned Maktab's tent. If you plan to go to Masjid-e-Nimrah (although its far and difficult to reach) for listening to the Haj Khutaba make sure you are inside the Arafat boundary since more than half of Masjid-e-Nimrah is outside the Arafat boundary.
Zuhar and Asr prayers will be offered together. However if you are at your tent you will not be able to listen to the Khutaba unless you can tune your mobile's FM radio. You will offer Zuhar (qasr) and Asr (qasr) prayers separately in your tent.
Pray to Allah for your bukhshish as much as you can.
After Maghrib time you will leave (by Bus or by foot, which is quite far and difficult) for Muzdalifah WITHOUT offering Maghrib prayer.
Once you reach Muzdalifah parking lots, offer your Maghrib (qasr) and Isha (qasr) prayers together.
Pickup around 70 (7+21+21+21) Pea sized pebbles for stoning of Jamaraat and keep them in the cloth bag.
Spend the night at Muzdalifah under the open sky in your sleeping bag. Men have to make sure they don't cover their face and feet.
After offering Fajr prayer on the 10th of Zilhaj (Eid day), leave immediately for Minnah tents. You will probably have to walk since the traffic gets jammed if you are a little bit late to move. Make sure you know how to reach your Maktab and the best path to take.
Go for stoning of the big Jamaraat preferably after Zuhar or even after Asr prayer to avoid large crowds. You can stone till late.
Now offer Qurbani which could be in the mode of token already purchased from Makkah or Medinah.
Men will have their heads shaved and women will cut some hair off.
Now you can take off your Ahraam.
It is recommended to go for Tawaaf-e-Ziyarah (Tawaaf and Sayee both) at odd time on the next day (11th Zilhaj) preferably, since you will be very tired.
You will stone all three Jamaraat on the next 2(11th and 12th Zilhaj) or 3(11th, 12th and 13th Zilhaj) days.
Leave Minnah before Maghrib on the 12th or 13th of Zilhaj.
Alhamdolillah your Haj is complete.
Now you only have to do Tawaf-e-Widah (Tawaaf only) before leaving Makkah. Expect traffic jams if you are staying away from Haram especially if you are staying at Aziziyah which is 5km from Haram and nearer to Minnah.
Pack up your bags on the day of your return. Only carry essentials, throw/give away any unwanted stuff/clothes that you don't need.
You will be taken to the airport atleast 4 to 5 hours before your flight and your passport will be handed over to you.
Check-in your baggage. Have your Zam Zam water container sealed in a plastic bag provided at the airport. Zam Zam water container is checked-in separately.


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We offer students the opportunity to complete a voluntary internship and to spend the second half of their one-year compulsory internship (in accordance with Section 4 of the Ordinance on the Licensing of Pharmacists) at Bayer. At our company, you can gain a unique insight into research, development, manufacturing and quality control at a global leader in the life sciences sector and gather a great deal of valuable experience.
You will essentially have access to all areas of our pharmaceutical business during your internship at Bayer – from research and development to analytics, production, regulatory affairs, market access and marketing. We are also happy to take your personal interests and strengths as a pharmacist into consideration during the internship. In your application, you can specify your preferred area of employment plus up to two alternatives. During the course of the internship, you will generally be working on a project independently, and at the end of your time with us, you will compile a report on the results of your work.
Ideally, you have completed your first state examination with a good academic performance and are now looking to build upon your theoretical knowledge with practical experience. Some initial practical experience in the fields of research, development, manufacturing and quality control, as well as a basic knowledge of pharmaceutical legislation, would be advantageous.
You are also an excellent team player with strong communication skills and the ability to work extremely flexibly. A strong working knowledge of common MS Office programs and very good German and English language skills are essential.
Worldwide, Leverkusen is one of the principal sites for Bayer AG's Pharmaceutical Division. Every year, Supply Center Leverkusen produces, packages and distributes approved medicinal products for the global market: 450 products and more than 1,500 different articles. These include popular medications such as Xarelto, Nexavar and Adempas. The number of tablets it produces alone – around 10 billion per year – is staggering.
Our mission is to manufacture medicines for the global market. The most important therapeutic areas for the pharmaceutical products produced in Supply Center Leverkusen are cardiovascular diseases, oncology, diabetes, antibiotics and hematology.
As a sales and marketing company for Bayer, Bayer Vital GmbH markets the medicinal products of the Consumer Health and Pharmaceuticals divisions and the veterinary medicinal products of the Animal Health business unit in Germany. Bayer Vital offers around 10 pharmaceutical internships every year, giving you the opportunity to gain wide-ranging insights into various company units. During an internship, you can work in the Pharmacovigilance unit and focus on drug safety and drug approval, carry out your own project in regulatory affairs or quality management, or familiarize yourself with the medical departments. These medical departments might include the Scientific Affairs department, where you would busy yourself with creating, assessing and interpreting studies; the Medical Information department, where you would handle miscellaneous queries from customers, doctors and pharmacists; or the Medical Science Liaison department (MSL), in which you would support the MSL managers in their daily work alongside experts and at congresses. We also offer internships in various marketing and sales positions.
If you want to gain unique insights into the manufacture, filling and/or packaging of our products or into quality control at a global leader in the pharma sector during the course of your pharmaceutical internship, and to come away with a great deal of valuable experience, apply for a place at one of our many locations using the online application form.
In their post on the career blog Carlotta, Sajra, Birk und Mara offer interesting insights about their practical year at Bayer Vital in pharmaceutical marketing, scientific affairs and medical liaisaon.
Jacqueline Schwarz was a pharmaceutical intern in Clinical Supply Management at Bayer AG in Berlin. Here she tells us about the wide array of tasks for which she was responsible, together with other valuable insights that she gained during her time there. Read her blog article here.
If you have any questions about the application process, have a look at our application guide or feel free to contact us.


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New Revolution by Simple Radicals
The Simple Radicals is a retro/alt-rock band based in the United States from Chicago, Illinois's great blues and rock city. The band was founded by John Malkin (Lead Vocals/Guitar and John Griffin (Lead Guitar/Vocals) and also includes James Page (Bass) and Griff Johnson (Drums). Together, they capture their collective musical experience's passion and energy, with different tastes, sounds, and styles. The music they create is pure, visceral rock 'n' roll poignant, from the heart, topical and direct.
We're a retro/alt-rock band that combines sounds and styles from some of our favourite classic/alt-rock bands like Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Pink Floyd and Cheap Trick. If you like those bands, then I think you will enjoy our sound.
Our latest release 'New Revolution' reflects the sentiment of many people across the globe. People want to change for the better, and they are more anxious than ever to make it happen by using their voices and platforms. Not bullets and bombs. It's a new revolution. My writing style is very visual. I see a lot of images and moods when I write. Certain chord progressions, finger pickings and riffs often direct me on how the song is constructed, and then the lyrics start to flow. It's a bizarre process, but it works for me. I write my songs on an acoustic guitar. I feel that if it sounds good on an acoustic, then it's going to sound even better when it's plugged in.
The lyrics on this album are about the need and desire for change for the better and self-reflection. The song 'The Optimist' really hits home for me. With all the shit going on today in society and our personal lives, it's a song about trying to remain optimistic about things and looking at the half-full side of life. The lyrics "I've got the rest of my life, and I'm not going to stop 'til I get it right" is a statement about not giving up when things look dire. There's no rush. You're in charge of your destiny. Get it right the best you can. But just do your best to get it right.
The artwork for the album and the band is the black and white yin/yang symbol representing balance and how we try to operate in complementary rather than opposing forces. The two sides interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the parts' sum. I just thought this was the perfect image to project for my songwriting and how I view life in general. The symbol tells a different story for everyone who looks at it, which is very cool.
Life as we see and know it inspires me. When you distil it down to the basics and just take a look around, you'll see that it's so dynamic and malleable. Things develop and change right in front of your eyes. The opportunity is to capture that energy and decide what you want to do with it. It's an open book with so much to write about. The challenging part is how to capture it all and put it into lyrics and music. But that's also the most rewarding part.
We grew up listening to classic rock and still do so to this day. While we're creating our style, we can't be happier having such a treasure trove of incredible music at our disposal to listen to from bands like Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, etc. that influence us. Eddie Vedder is my musical hero. I'm mesmerised with his writing and try to capture the messaging, passion, and energy he does in his songs. If I can even come within a million miles of that, I'd consider it a success. Probably the most talented, electrifying and inspiring band in the last 30 years.www.facebook.com/thesimpleradicals
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Donald Trump says it's a 'very hard thing to concede' election but admits he WILL leave the White House when the time comes although he won't say if he'll attend Joe Biden's inauguration
President Donald Trump said it's 'very hard thing to concede' but admitted he would leave the White House when the time came
He wouldn't say if he would attend Joe Biden's inauguration
'It's going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud,' Trump said
'Certainly I will. And you know that,' Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if he'll leave on Inauguration Day in peaceful transition of power.
He took his first questions from the media since the election was held.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said it's 'very hard thing to concede' the election but admitted he would leave the White House for Joe Biden when the time came.
He wouldn't say if he would attend his rival's inauguration.
'It's going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud,' Trump said at the White House.
But he said he would leave if the time came.
And he said it would be a 'mistake' for the Election College to elect Biden when they meet on December 14.
'If they do they made a mistake,' the president said.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said it's 'very hard thing to concede' the election but admitted he would leave the White House for Joe Biden when the time came
He warned that 'a lot of things happening between now and January 20th' and the election results have a 'long way' to go.
The president has refused to concede the election even as his legal cases challenging the results in battleground states have gone nowhere, his campaign has turned up no evidence of major voter fraud, and states have begun to certify Biden's victory.
The current tally of the popular votes stand at: 80,045,066 (51%) for Biden and 73,897,658 (47%) for Trump. Additionally, Biden has 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232.
The president spoke to reporters after he made a Thanksgiving teleconference call with troops serving overseas.
He played coy when asked about his own Thanksgiving plans for his last one at the White House, saying he 'can't say what's first or last.' He added that it might be the 'first one of a second term.'
And he criticized Biden for moving ahead in forming a new government.
'I think it's not right he's trying to pick a Cabinet,' Trump said of Biden.
He also refused to talk about the next presidential contest, which associates have said he's considering running in.
'I don't want to talk to 2024 yet,' he said.
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Review by Shezma for Enslaved - Below the Lights (2003)
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Over Produced Blackened Avant-Garde Metal
Enslaved is an early starter in the scene forming in 1991 amidst the Black Metal revolution in Norway. Now I haven't heard any of their earlier stuff, only later. These guys definitely stand out to that sound. At least on this record, it does not sound like a Norwegian Black Metal band from then. This album did release in 2003, and my late 90's- early 00's black metal is a weak game and I know that many of the older acts who release during this time also had some weaker albums. This is not a bad album but I won't be coming back to this. This is too avant-garde, or progressive, for a black metal mood and it's too black metal for a progressive metal mood for me.
For a black metal album, this is way too cleanly produced. I miss the time of old when the records were made in a cold dirty basement with sub-par equipment. At this point, they're so glossy and overproduced the instrumentation is so clean at times I wonder if it was done by a computer. Listening to this as I write, Queen Of Night, begins and it feels like Opeth or another folk/prog metal band. I'm into it, but then the black metal screams come in with completely different battling instrumentation going on in the background. I hear a lead guitar giving a solo while a rhythm guitar is giving a really cool progressive melody that eventually becomes repetitive and grading. And now an almost Depeche Mode like gloomy singing. Then back to fast beating guitars with the black metal vocals. This is a perfect song to talk about this album really, as it's all over the place and I am not a fan.
It's like a mash up of 3 or 4 good songs being played at once, if I focus one aspect at a time I enjoy it quite a bit. They're vocals keep me involved, the guitar work is super fun, the drums are driving, but together they don't feel like they belong. I would give this album an even worse rating, but I feel there is still talent and worth listening to. I can imagine there are those that find this to be one of the best, but for me it's talent wasted on overproduction and bad songwriting.


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The Saab 35 Draken or more commonly known by its nicknames like "the Kite or The Dragon" is a Swedish aircraft that was developed by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab in between years 1955 to 1974. The Saab 35 Draken is regarded a one of the first fully supersonic aircraft to have been deployed in Western Europe.
The Saab 35 Draken was developed in order to replace the first generation Swedish fighter jet aircraft the Saab J29 Tunnan and the Saab 32 Lansen.
The aircraft was developed with an innovative design of double delta wing that allowed the Swedish engineers to test out the previously untested aerodynamic feature in the Saab 210. The aircraft was deployed for the Swedish air Force service back on March 8th, 1960. The aircraft was developed to be one of the most capable dogfighters of its era.
The Saab 35 Draken is one of the most effective supersonic fighter jets during the Cold War era. The era of this aircraft was supposed to come to an end back in 191980s when it was replaced by the more advanced and capable fighter jet Saab JAS 39 Gripen. The Saab 39 was expected to enter service within 20 years but its service deployment was delayed. This resulted in the Swedish Air Force to make use of Saab 35 Draken until December of 1999. The aircraft was also exported to many of the following countries who last operated this aircraft as a training one for the test pilots.
For our readers today we have gathered a bunch of amazing facts about the Saab 35 Draken which are as follows.
The Dragon:-
One of the nicknames the Saab 35 Draken has been given to is "The Dragon" the name derived from the word Draken in its name which is a Swedish word that translates into Dragon.
Production and design:-
The aircraft's designing started way back in the late 1940s to late 1950s. The aircraft was initially designed with a purpose for replacing the old first generation jet fighter of Swedish Air Force like Saab J29 Tunnan and Saab 32 Lansen. This was the reason that it took more time than any jet fighter to complete its first prototype for flight.
First flight:-
The aircraft was ready by the end of the year 1955 and was ready for a test flight. The aircraft took its first flight back in October of 1955.
Second nickname:-
The aircraft was given a second nickname "The Kite". The reason for giving it this name was because the aircraft was designed with Double Delta Wings which had never been designed before. The aircraft allowed the Swedish engineers to test out the previously unexplored aerodynamic feature. This aircraft was the one that led to the design of this predecessor the Saab 210.
Superiority over other European Jets:-
The Saab 35 Draken was one of the first fully supersonic fighter jets in Europe and during the Cold War ear it proved out to be a great asset for the Swedish Air Force as the aircraft had two main features.
Built for defense purposes only:-
The Saab 35 Draken was designed not for taking an active part in the combat; instead, it was designed by the SAF to serve defense purpose.
This means that the aircraft was used to defend the country in case of an invasion. The aircraft was agile enough to counter any kind of enemy fighter jet in dogfights.
Broke the speed record:-
The Saab 35 Draken which flew for the very first time back in 1955 broke the speed record. It was the first European aircraft to have broken the speed record when it reached the supersonic speed mark of Mach 1 which is equal to the speed of sound.
The aircraft did not stopped at the speed of sound at 768mph but even went on further to hit the needle at the mark of 1200 mph which is over 1 and half times the speed of sound.
Entering Service:-
The aircraft although flew back in 1955, the first operational fleet of this aircraft only entered in service five years later in March of 1960.
The rate of climb:-
The Saab 35 Draken was able to reach the speed of sound during its climb. The aircraft which was able to climb at the speed of sound straight up was regarded as one of the prized assets of SAF as the Saab 35 Draken was able to intercept enemy bombers during the life and death dogfights.
Speed:-
Over the years, newer and improved moles of Saab 35 Draken were developed by the SAF and that aircraft in its final variant form was able to reach the maximum speed of Mach 2 and over.
Rear landing Gera:-
Due to the thrusters of the aircraft being modified so far back, engineers decided to add rear landing gear to make the landings smoother. In addition to this, a chute was also installed that was deployed in case the aircraft had to make shorter landings.
Weapons:-
The Saab 35 Draken was equipped with following weapons.
dual 30mm cannons for close encounters
4 air-to-air heat-seeking Sidewinder missiles
ability to fire 75mm rockets from duel pods
135mm rockets from duel pods for striking ground targets
Total manufactured Saab 35 Draken:-
A total of 651 of these aircraft were built by Saab and many of them were also exported to foreign air forces of the following countries.
Retirement:-
The Saab 35 Draken was planned to retire from service way back in the 1980s by Saab JAS 39 Gripen. However, the Saab 39 Gripen's manufacturing was delayed due to Cold War and Saab 35 Draken served the SAF until December of 1999.
Conclusion:-
The Saab 35 Draken served for an impressive nearly 2 decades for not only Swish Air Force but also for the countries like USA, Austria, Finland, and Denmark with its high speed and maneuverability features. The aircraft is regarded as one of the best second generation fighter jets of its era. The countries to which it was exported to mainly sued it after its combat service for test flights.
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This Army Special Forces veteran was nominated for the Medal of Honor three times
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This article by Blake Stilwell was originally published by We Are the Mighty
On Dec. 30, 1968, Robert Howard was the platoon sergeant for a joint unit of U.S. Army Special Forces and South Vietnamese forces. Their mission was to rescue soldiers who were missing in action behind enemy lines. As they moved out onto their objective, they were attacked by what had to be two companies of enemy troops. 1st. Lt. Howard was wounded by an enemy grenade almost immediately. He lost his weapon to the explosion, and his platoon leader was down.
His luck only got worse from there.
This is how Robert Howard earned his Medal of Honor. It was one of three for which he was nominated. The men who fought with him fervently believed he deserved all three. The battle for which he received the nation's highest military honor was one hell of a slugfest.
At Kon Tum, South Vietnam, that day in 1968, things went awry from the get-go.
"We took casualties on the insert," Howard said. "I finally got with the platoon leader and said we need to secure this LZ… I got three men behind me, I remember being fired at and I fell backward and they killed three men behind me."
One of the helicopters had even been shot down with troops still aboard it. The platoon began taking fire from the flanks, and Howard knew he had to tell his lieutenant the landing zone was hotter than they thought. Just as he got close to his officer, however, the unit was ambushed.
"When I come to, I was blown up in a crump on the ground," Howard recalled. "My weapon was blown out of may hand, I remember seeing red, and saying a prayer hoping I wasn't blind. I couldn't see and I was in a lot of pain."
When he got his vision back, he realized he was seeing blood. All he could see was flames, and all he could hear was people screaming. He realized the enemy was burning his friends with a flamethrower. His lieutenant was down. For reasons unknown, the flamethrower didn't burn Howard or his platoon leader, he just walked away.
His hands hurting and bleeding, Howard moved to help get his leader out of there. As he drug his platoon leader out, a round struck his ammo pouch, detonating it. He was hit 15-20 times as he worked to get his lieutenant out. He fought off charging Vietnamese soldiers, dodging bullets and bayonets while protecting his leader.
His platoon was in complete disarray, and he knew he had to get everyone back in order, lest they be overrun and killed.
He dragged his officer out of the area, and once under cover, reorganized the whole unit. Once a firing line was set up, he bounded from position to position, aiding the wounded and directing their fire. For four hours, his effort kept them from being surrounded and killed.
Soon, friendly aircraft were able to join the fight and rescue the wounded. Then the Americans were hit with another wave of attackers. Robert Howard had to direct the U.S. Air Force to strike his own position. As the Air Force hit his position, Howard watched as the aircraft rounds hit the area around him. Thankfully, the attack craft eventually faded into rescue helicopters.
Lieutenant Howard personally kept overwatch until everyone else was aboard. Out of 37 friendly troops, only six survived unharmed.
In all, Robert Howard fought in Vietnam for 54 months, where he was wounded 14 times. For eight of those wounds, he received a Purple Heart. He also earned the Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, and four Bronze Stars. When he retired, he was the most decorated soldier in the Army and was the most decorated of the entire Vietnam War. He remains the only soldier to be nominated for the Medal of Honor three times for three separate actions, all in a 13-month span.
The only thing that could kill Robert Howard was pancreatic cancer, to which he succumbed in 2009, one of the lesser-known heroes of the war in Vietnam.


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Take a short walk through the city streets and you will quickly appreciate the centuries old architecture which make up much of Treviso's allure. A part of the city popular even amongst the locals is La Restera (The Remains), a historic and picturesque series of old narrow streets population with outdoor cafes and eateries. For a look at the local art history, the Musei Civici di Treviso (Civil Museum of Treviso) has plenty of paintings and sculptures created by local artists. For a scenic tour around the city, you can rent a bike and travel along the La Strada Ciclabile (The Cycle Road), which is a guided tour through some of the most idyllic sights in the area, or enjoy an afternoon picnic in Parco dello Storga (The Park of Storga).
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Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de barrio, la serie, o simplemente Mariposa de barrio, es una serie de televisión biográfica producida por Telemundo Studios para Telemundo, basada en el libro Inquebrantable: Mi historia, a mi manera, escrita por Jenni Rivera antes de su muerte en 2012, y publicada en 2013 con autorización de la familia Rivera.

Está protagonizada por Angélica Celaya, Gabriel Porras, Rosalinda Rodríguez y Samadhi Zendejas, junto a un reparto coral.

Reparto
 Angélica Celaya como Jenni Rivera
 Gabriel Porras como Don Pedro Rivera
 Rosalinda Rodríguez como Doña Rosa Saavedra de Rivera
 Samadhi Zendejas como Jenni Rivera
 Tony Garza como José "Trino" Trinidad Marín
 Regina Orquín como Jenni Rivera (joven)
 Enrique Montaño como Pete Rivera Saavedra
 Adrián Carvajal como Pete Rivera Saavedra
 Adriano Zendejas como Gustavo Rivera Saavedra
 Enmanuel Morales como Gustavo Rivera Saavedra
 Xavier Ruvalcaba como Lupillo Rivera
 Raúl Sandoval como Lupillo Rivera
 Mauricio Novoa como Juan Rivera
 Uriel del Toro como Juan Rivera
 Vanessa Pose como Chiquis Rivera
 Ana Wolfermann como Rosie Rivera
 Stephanie Arcila como Rosie Rivera
 Karla Peniche como Brenda Martínez
 Carlos Acosta Milian como Mafioso de El Farallón
 Alma Matrecito como Jackie Melina Marín Rivera
 Pepe Gámez como Juan Manuel López
 Christopher Millán como Fernando Ramírez
 Ricardo Kleinbaum como Esteban Loaiza Vega
 Julio César Otero como Mikey Marín Rivera
 Gabriela Sepúlveda como Jenicka López Rivera
 Gael Sánchez como Jhonny Ángel López Rivera
 Yrahid Leylanni como Fabiola Llerandi
 Julio Ocampo como Pedro Rivera
 Adriana Bermúdez como Rosa Rivera
 Braulio Hernández como Pedro Rivera Saavedra
 Noah Rico como Lupillo Rivera
 Nicholas Forero como Lupillo Rivera
 Martín Fajardo como Juan Rivera
 Kevin Cabrera como Juan Rivera
 Mauricio Novoa como Juan Rivera
 Orlyana Rondón como Rosie Rivera
 Luz de Sol Padula como Rosie Rivera
 Ana Wolfermann como Rosie Rivera
 Maya Idarraga como Chiquis Rivera
 Paola Real como Chiquis Rivera
 Dariana Fustes como Chiquis Rivera
 Fabiana Lion como Jackie Melina Marín Rivera
 Samantha López como Jackie Melina Marín Rivera
 David Hernández como Trino Marín Rivera
 Miguel Cubillos como Trino Marín Rivera
 Christian Alfonso como Trino Marín Rivera
 Isabela Hernández como Jenicka López Rivera
 Giana Deftereos como Jenicka López Rivera
 Daniel García como Jhonny Ángel López Rivera
 Thamara Aguilar como Ramona Suárez
 Gabriel López como Carlos
 Gabriela Borges como Patty
 Eduardo Antonio como Jaime Terriquez

Referencias

Series de televisión de Telemundo
Series de televisión de Estados Unidos de los años 2010
Series de televisión basadas en cantantes y músicos
Series de televisión en español

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How to Call Deer During the Rut
Should you grunt, bleat, snort-wheeze, or rattle? This noted whitetail calling expert has the answers
By Scott Bestul | Published Oct 22, 2020 12:14 PM
Mark Drury of Drury Outdoors works a grunt call. Drury Outdoors
Whitetail bucks are rarely more visible than they are just before and during the rut. This creates a common problem: You see a good buck in the distance, with no way to know whether it will move in for a shot. Do you call to this deer? If so, what calls do you make?
No one is better able to answer these questions than noted whitetail calling expert Mark Drury of Drury Outdoors. "Over many years of observing whitetails' reactions to every type of calling, I've found that the mood and personality of an individual buck have a huge influence on how he'll respond," Drury says. "Being able to see the deer you're hunting is a big advantage, but only if you take a moment to judge its demeanor and let that dictate if and how you call."
How to Call to Hot Bucks
Bucks exhibiting aggressive rutting behavior are particularly susceptible to calling. When Drury sees a buck come charging into a field, chasing other deer around, he knows he stands a good chance of calling him in. With a buck like this, he'll start with light estrous-doe beats or tending grunts. If that doesn't get the buck's attention, he'll increase volume by going to the rattling horns or to a snort-wheeze call, a loud phh-phh-phhht sound that bucks use to challenge one another.
How to Call to Hungry Bucks
If Drury spots a buck acting less aggressively, such as one that enters a field and begins to feed, he tones things down. "This buck may just need to fill his belly, so I'll let him eat. After a while, when the deer's head comes up and he starts looking around, I'll hit him with some soft grunts and bleats." The key is to just get this buck's attention. If you can manage to raise his curiosity even a little, he may change his mood in a hurry. He may not, of course, but what have you lost by trying? You're not going to spook the buck with soft calling, but you just might pull him in.
How to Call to Tending Bucks
Aggressive rattling can sometimes pull a tending buck away from his mate. Drury Outdoors
A buck that's tending a doe is one of the most difficult to call in. When paired up, a buck isn't likely to move toward you on its own. If the doe happens to lead her mate toward you, there's no need to call. Otherwise, once again, you have nothing to lose, and only aggressive calling will do the trick in this situation. Sometimes a challenging, in-your-face call is more than even a tending buck can stand. If you see a mature buck with a hot doe, especially if the pair is surrounded by lesser bucks, hit him hard with snort-wheezes and/or rattling.
How to Call to Shy Bucks
Some bucks frustrate even the most skilled callers. "If I see a clean-looking mature deer—one with no marks on his coat or broken tines from fighting rival bucks—and he's just slipping through the timber, I assume he's going to be difficult to call," Drury says. "Some bucks are just shy. I think they are either non-breeders or just afraid to challenge other bucks." They might come to a call out of simple curiosity, Drury notes, but they're almost certain to circle downwind of you en route. Here, it may be best just to cross your fingers and hope the buck moves into shooting range on its own. "Most of the time, I won't even call to a buck like this," Drury says. "I don't see any point in educating a deer. They're smart enough as it is."
Scott Bestul
Trained as a high school English teacher and coach, Scott Bestul left that lucrative field to pursue another—as a full-time freelance writer in 1990. He sold his first story to Field & Stream a few years later and has been contributing to the brand ever since.


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After The NHL Trade Deadline
by hockeyguy13
Well the dust as finally settled after another frenzy of a trade deadline. Once again there were winners, losers and some casual swaps this year. Now that we've had some time to process the trades, let's take a look at how some of the teams and players where affected.
The Winners:
Montreal is already riding 2nd in the Atlantic division, has a strong team and is looking to parlay goaltenders Carey Price's Olympic gold medal into a Stanley Cup win. There only problem? They don't score many goals. In fact at this time, they have just as many goals as they do goals against. Thus bringing in Thomas Vanek from the Islanders might just be there missing piece of the puzzle. Vanek, a gifted goal scorer might just be the rental player to help Montreal pick up their scoring game. They didn't have to give up too much to get him and if he ends up resigning in Montreal after this season, Montreal will be a true contender next season and this trade will have really paid off.
Florida has no chance on making the post season this year, but that didn't stop them from laying down a top trade. They already had a great goaltender in Tim Thomas, but instead of thinking about the present, the Panthers thought of the future and decided to acquire Roberto Luongo. Luongo has been plagued by controversy in Vancouver for some time now and Floridia capitalized on that controversy by obtaining Loungo at rock bottom prices. They now have a premier goalie for the next several years, didin't put up much to get him and Vancouver will still be paying part of his monster salary. A win for the Panthers and a big move forward in rebuilding their team into future contenders.
St. Louis pulled the trigger on a monster trade bringing in Buffalo cornerstone Ryan Miller. Already in 1st place in the Western conference, St. Louis became a team to be reckoned with by bringing in an elite goaltender to round out their team. This team was already on fire and Miller is going to put them over the top.
The Losers:
Some teams became a bit stronger, some picked up draft picks to improve their future and some teams just filled in the missing gaps that their team needed. Except Vancouver was the only team that fell apart after this trade deadline. Last year Vancouver's problem was having 2 of the best goalies in the NHL, now their problem is they have none. As well they are still picking up some of the tab on Luongo's salary. Don't be surprised if you find Canucks GM Mike Gillis looking for a new job next season.
Tit for Tat
Tampa Bay Lightening and New York Rangers
No-one seems like a winner or a loser in this trade that swapped Martin St. Louis and Ryan Callahan for each other. Both players are highly skilled forwards and great players and on paper, no one benefits from this trade. The only thing that seems to stand out from this deal is that St. Louis might have had some problems playing for Steve Yzerman's Tampa Bay after St. Louis was initially snubbed by him on the Team Canada Olympic roster. This is a morale trade and that's it.
Of course there where lots of other trades that happened at this years deadline, but these were in my opinion the most important. Now onto the last part of the season. Let's get these playoffs started!
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Joe Thornton Snubbed By Team Canada
No Joe? Say it ain't so!
First of all, let's face it, Canadian Hockey talent runs so deep in this country that we could legitimately send two Team Canada squads to Sochi and be serious contenders. There are just so many players for Team Canada GM Steve Yzerman to choose from, it's outrageous.
While I can't argue with the selections Yzerman made, I can safely say, "WHERE THE HELL IS JUMBO JOE?"
Obviously there are going to be Team Canada players that end up getting "snubbed", but Joe Thornton is one of the great playmakers in hockey right now. He is consistently in the top 10 for points year after year and is an assisting machine.
But Steve Yzerman had to make some tough decisions. He even didn't give another great player Martin St. Louis a roster spot and St. Louis plays for his Tampa Bay Lightening. The team that Yzerman is the General Manager of during the NHL season. (Can't wait to see the animosity and backlash that decision creates!)
At age 34, Joe Thornton is at the height of his career and when the winter Olympics come around again in 2018, he'll be 38 and probably too old to play at a competitive level for Olympic hockey so really this is his final chance and Yzerman blew it.
As long as you put a half decent winger beside him, the goals will come. Let's hope this roster omission doesn't end up coming back to bite Canada in the butt. We don't need a repeat of the Turin Olympics!
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I am sure all of you bloggers can understand this. I seem to be going through a time where I just don't seem to have a lot to write about. Not a lot is going on, and I seem to have a lack of inspiration on what to write. I don't want to leave my blog blank so that no one comes, but at the same time I don't want to post just for the sake of posting.
So, is there anything that you would like me to write about? I really would love some ideas.
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CONSULTANT BREAST SURGEON MB CHB BSC (HONS) FRCS
Michelle Mullanadmin2021-04-01T16:45:01+00:00
Miss Michelle Mullan MB ChB BSc (Hons) FRCS
Miss Michelle Mullan qualified from the University of Bristol in 1995 and underwent her surgical training in Bristol and the West Midlands. She has always been interested in breast disease, and undertook research at The Royal Surrey County Hospital in sentinel lymph node biopsy, as part of the Medical Research Council ALMANAC Trial. Michelle has been appointed as an Ordinary Trustee for the Association of Breast Surgery and sits on the Clinical Practices and Standards Committee.
Her advanced surgical training in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery was in the UK and the United States, practising at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Henry Ford Institute in Detroit. She was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2006. In 2008 Miss Mullan won the European Society of Surgical Oncology Travelling Scholarship and spent her time at the Nottingham Breast Institute. Her first consultant appointment was in Worcestershire in 2008, where she was Lead Cancer Clinician for the County. Currently she is an Oncoplastic Breast Consultant at North Bristol NHS Trust and Clinical Digital Lead for Outpatient Transformation at NBT.
Her clinical interests include breast cancer surgery using oncoplastic techniques, sentinel lymph node biopsy, lipofilling of breast defects (Colman fat transfer), breast reconstruction, nipple reconstruction and nipple tattooing. She is also fully qualified to perform breast ultrasound.
Michelle has specialist interests in breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, surgery (including reconstruction), benign breast disease and breasts disorders in teenagers. She has been a Consultant Breast Surgeon for over 11 years and personally treats around 150 women with breast cancer a year. She leads her multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists and breast care nurses, to ensure her patients receive state-of-the-art surgical and compassionate care.
Moreover, with an additional First Class honours degree in Psychology, Michelle is able to advise women about their diagnosis and to help them understand treatment options and recommendations, providing medical facts, debunking myths, and offering coping strategies.
"I understand the psychological impact a breast cancer diagnosis can bring. It affects not only the patient but also everyone around her. When treating a patient, I aim to take into consideration treatment recommendations from an oncological cancer perspective, but more than that, I take a holistic approach to the whole person as I understand the emotional and psychological impact a breast cancer diagnosis can evoke.
Naturally women feel very vulnerable when they come to a breast clinic. I truly believe it is such a privilege to work with my courageous patients and treat them at this time. Occasionally patients say it must be difficult to do my job, but I always reply that I know I make a positive difference to fellow women every day.
Outside of work I find time to relax with my family, swim regularly and am a member of a book club. I love entertaining and can often be found baking bread at the weekends. I am currently brushing up on my French, as well as teaching my sons to ski, but know it won't be long before I am the last one down the mountain! "
Dear Michelle. It is difficult to express how deeply grateful I am for the exemplary care you have given me over the past few weeks. I am sure you are well aware how angry, scared and isolated women with breast cancer can feel. Your understanding and compassion have genuinely helped alleviate this for me. If you had not suggested that further investigations were a valid route considering my history, then my position, in the not too distant future would have been far bleaker. It feels so inadequate to thank you again but it is sincerely meant.
Dear Miss Mullan, I just wanted to say "Thank you" for the care and central role you have taken in my very successful treatment. There are not really any words that can explain how grateful I (and my family) are. I know that you are "Just doing your job" but as a patient and fairly frightened lady, the clarity of explanations, genuine/honest conversations enable me to feel fully aware of my treatment. Above all else, I could trust you and knew "it would be done". With very best wishes, Sarah.
With all my very grateful thanks for all the kind and caring treatment I've met with. You truly set the Gold Standard of care, to which all in the medical and caring professions should aspire to. With my kind regards
Dear Miss Mullan, Simply I'd like to thank you very sincerely for the attention you gave us earlier in the year, when you took time from your busy schedule to arrange, at short notice to operate on my wife. We didn't have the opportunity at the time to thank you, but we were much relived by your response and remain appreciative of your help
Dear Dr Mullan, I would like to thank you most sincerely for all the loving care you showed to my daughter, R. The care and empathy shown was amazing. I know she appreciated the good humoured banter between you and herself. Sincerely yours
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Researchers at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, based at UOW, have made another major discovery in their search for ways to prevent diseases involving chronic inflammation such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
In a paper published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, IHMRI researchers, Dr Amy Wyatt and Professor Mark Wilson, together with collaborators at the University of Cambridge (UK), provide exhaustive evidence that hypochlorite, a type of 'oxidant' produced by immune cells, can be used to activate a helpful 'chaperone' protein which targets damaged proteins for disposal.
Molecular chaperones are vitally important in repairing or clearing damaged proteins known to accumulate in disease. Several years ago the team discovered that the alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) protein is a chaperone particularly important when the body is in an inflammatory state.
In this current study they show that, by chemically modifying A2M with hypochlorite, they could dramatically increase its activity. In the future, it may therefore be possible that this effect could be harnessed to protect the body from serious inflammatory pathologies.
"When hypochlorite is produced, the body sustains 'collateral damage', particularly to proteins," explained Professor Wilson, one of the world's leading experts in the emerging field of extracellular protein quality control.
"This accumulation is a hallmark of inflammatory processes in Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis [vascular disease], arthritis and many other debilitating disorders.
Given the large number of diseases in which damaged proteins and inflammatory pathologies coexist, the significance of the findings may be far-reaching and, to the researchers' knowledge, no comparable mechanism for mammalian chaperone activation has previously been described.
This is the third major discovery reported by IHMRI researchers in the past three months following the establishment of a new Proteostasis and Disease Research Centre (PDRC) at IHMRI, led by Professor Wilson and 10 other senior researchers.
Dr Wyatt is a PDRC member and a recipient of a prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship. She has spent the past two years working with Professor Christopher Dobson (joint corresponding author with Professor Wilson) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
"Dr Wyatt originally identified the unique relationship between hypochlorite and A2M chaperone activity and was provided with invaluable intellectual guidance and practical support in Cambridge by Professor Dobson," added Professor Wilson, who also at UOW's Centre for Medical & Molecular Bioscience.
The team will now develop new collaborations with a view to developing drugs suitable for use in humans "to switch on the chaperone activity of A2M when needed to treat disease".
"This work is likely to take several years and, with luck, will attract funding from sources such as the National Health and Medical Research Council," concluded Professor Wilson.


What about the emergence of geriatric spots? In 4 ways, pay you back a clean, flawless face.
Once a person is old, there will be an age spots on the skin. Age spots can be said to be the most obvious skin problem after people are old. When they enter old age, the body's ability to metabolize cells is reduced, and body fat is easily oxidized, thus forming ageing pigments. When these pigments accumulate in the body for a long time, they are not excreted by the body. Over time, they will precipitate on the cell body, forming a lipofuscin pigment plaque, which is an age spot. But there are also some very young people who have age spots on their bodies. What is going on?
Scientific research has found that age spots have a certain heritability. For the family, parents or older generations have many age spots, and this gene will be passed on to the next generation. When the next generation is old, or the skin health level is reduced, it will be more prone to age spots than other peers. Or more than the same age.
Age spots are a natural occurrence of human aging, but medical research has also found that age spots are caused by viruses. When skin resistance is reduced, it is very susceptible to infection by this virus and age spots appear. For the risk of bacterial transmission, young people should pay attention to skin cleansing work as much as possible, do daily skin care, and improve the skin's resistance to germs.
In life, we are increasingly inseparable from computers and mobile phones, as well as TVs, refrigerators, and many other household appliances. These appliances will bring more or less radiation to our bodies, especially for long-term use of computers and mobile phones. When the sun goes out, the ultraviolet radiation of the sun, long-term radiation will also cause damage to the health of the skin, leading to the occurrence of age spots.
In addition, the long-term work and life pressures of young people in their lives have affected the body's metabolic function, which is one of the causes of the decrease in skin resistance. Early age spots appear.
What should I do with age spots?
First, eat more vitamin C high food. Vitamin C has a good effect on improving the antioxidant capacity of cells. Foods with high vitamin C content such as cauliflower, hawthorn, lemon, kiwi, etc. can help prevent and eliminate age spots.
Second, eat more grains and animal offal. Vitamins B1 and B2 are added to repair skin damage, help smooth wrinkles, and eliminate pigmentation on senile plaques.
Third, eat more seafood. Such as seaweed, kelp, etc. can help supplement copper and manganese, helping to alleviate the formation of age spots.
Fourth, medicated diet conditioning. Medicinal conditioning can choose Polygonum, Codonopsis, or ginseng and other medicinal materials, and it has a good effect on relieving age spots.
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