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Iowa Park baseball, Henrietta softball tournament schedules
Henrietta ASC Tournament
At Henrietta
Nocona vs. Archer City, 9 a.m.
Henrietta JV vs. Haskell, 11 a.m.
Henrietta vs. Sanger, 1 p.m.
Bonham vs. Haskell, 3 p.m.
Henrietta vs. Petrolia, 5 p.m.
At Iowa Park
Iowa Park vs. Seymour, 9 a.m.
Vernon vs. Bonham, 11 a.m.
Nocona vs. Seymour, 1 p.m.
Pampa vs. Vernon, 3 p.m.
Iowa Park vs. Pampa, 5 p.m.
At Bowie
Windthorst vs. Sanger, 9 a.m.
Bowie vs. Petrolia, 11 a.m.
Windthorst vs. Burkburnett, 1 p.m.
Bowie vs. Burkburnett, 3 p.m.
Henrietta JV vs. Bland, 5 p.m.
Nocona vs. Windthorst, 9 a.m.
Bonham vs. Sanger, 11 a.m.
Burkburnett vs. Sanger, 1 p.m.
Burkburnett vs. Bonham, 3 p.m.
Henrietta vs. Pampa, 5 p.m.
Seymour vs. Haskell, 9 a.m.
Petrolia vs. Henrietta JV, 11 a.m.
Iowa Park vs. Nocona, 1 p.m.
Vernon vs. Archer City, 3 p.m.
Iowa Park vs. Petrolia, 5 p.m.
Bowie vs. Bland, 9 a.m.
Bowie vs. Archer City, 11 a.m.
Windthorst vs. Pampa, 1 p.m.
Seymour vs. Bland, 3 p.m.
Henrietta vs. Bonham, 10 a.m.
Nocona vs. Henrietta JV, 12 p.m.
Henrietta vs. Bland, 2 p.m.
Seymour vs. Henrietta JV, 4 p.m.
Iowa Park vs. Windthorst, 10 a.m.
Petrolia vs. Vernon, 12 p.m.
Pampa vs. Burkburnett, 2 p.m.
Vernon vs. Sager, 4 p.m.
Archer City vs. Bland, 10 a.m.
Bowie vs. Haskell, 12 p.m.
Archer City vs. Haskell, 2 p.m.
Iowa Park Invitational
Bridgeport vs. Burkburnett, 10 a.m.
Bridgeport vs. Stephenville, 12:15 p.m.
Amarillo Tascosa vs. Stephenville, 2:30 p.m.
Amarillo Tascosa vs. Iowa Park, 4:45 p.m.
Snyder vs. Iowa Park, 7 p.m.
At Hoskins
Decatur vs. Brownwood, 12:15 p.m.
Abilene Wylie vs. Decatur, 2:30 p.m.
Canyon vs. Brownwood, 4:45 p.m.
Canyon vs. WFHS, 7 p.m.
Canyon vs. Decatur, 10 a.m.
Decatur vs. Snyder, 12:15 p.m.
Bridgeport vs. Iowa Park, 2:30 p.m.
Stephenville vs. Snyder, 4:45 p.m.
Stephenville vs. Iowa Park, 7 p.m.
Amarillo Tascosa vs. Abilene Wylie, 10 a.m.
Amarillo Tascosa vs. Burkburnett, 12:15 p.m.
Brownwood vs. WFHS, 2:30 p.m.
Abilene Wylie vs. Canyon, 4:45 p.m.
Bridgeport vs. WFHS, 7 p.m.
At Burkburnett
Brownwood vs. Burkburnett, 7 p.m.
Bridgeport vs. Brownwood, 10 a.m.
Canyon vs. Iowa Park, 12:15 p.m.
Decatur vs. Amarillo Tascosa, 10 a.m.
Snyder vs. WFHS, 12:15 p.m.
Stephenville vs. Burkburnett, 10 a.m.
Abilene Wylie vs. Burkburnett, 12:15 p.m.


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Facebook finally adds calendar view to your events
A group of clever Facebook engineers have finally brought us a way to see upcoming events in a calendar-style layout. So you can view everything you've been invited to in a given month at once, which is usually how calendars work…
Facebook's new Events Calendar feature allows you to flick between a list or calendar view and not only do you see the events you've been invited to, but you can see suggested events, events that friends are attending, photos of people who have a birthday coming up soon and even take a look at things going on at places you've checked-in to before and events pages you've liked are holding, whether it's a venue or a band. Wow, we're all going to be REALLY busy once the new feature kicks in.
You click on any event to be taken through to the dedicated page set up for it and can move back through months too, just as you would with a regular calendar. It's not particularly exciting or innovative, especially if you're good at organising your commitments elsewhere, but it's handy for Facebook social butterflies and will probably make us more likely to turn up to things.
Facebook product engineer Bob Baldwin told Digital Trends:
"A few of us created a Facebook group called "Social Calendar Dreamers" to spark discussion around making Events more visual. At the next hackathon, engineers from the events, photos, messages and other teams hacked through the night to build a better way to view events. By 6 a.m., we had a prototype that worked."
Some users have already noticed the added feature once they click through to Events Calendar, but if it's not been rolled out to you yet expect it in the next few weeks.
[Via Shiny Shiny Via Digital Trends]
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6fears7music says:
15th July 2012 at 2:09 pm
when is there going to be a Facebook page calendar where you can share other peoples events as well as your own ?
15th July 2012 at 10:09 am

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Indian scientists unveiled an affordable vaccine (a dollar a vaccine) against a deadly diarrhea-causing virus, Rota virus that kills some 100,000 children in India every year. Rota virus is globally responsible for some 453,000 deaths annually. Rota virus is blamed for causing up to 884,000 hospitalizations a year in India, at a cost to the country of 3.4 billion rupees.
K Vijayaraghavan, Secretary of India's Department of Biotechnology said it was a product of international cooperation. For the first time Indian scientists have taken a vaccine from the earliest discovery to every stage of development.
The vaccine named Rotavac will be manufactured by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. Each vaccination consists of three doses.
Each dose of licenced vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline and Merck costs around 1,000 rupees.
Dr M K Bhan pioneered the project after local scientists discovered a localized rotavirus 23 years ago in a New Delhi hospital.
This vaccine would prevent 25 percent of all diarrheal admissions. More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes.
NIH has also congratulated the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Bharat Biotech International, Ltd., and the scientists, government and people of India on the important results from the ROTAVAC rotavirus vaccine study.
An oral vaccine, Rotavac will be administered to infants in three dose course at the age of 6, 10 and 14 weeks. It will be given along with routine immunizations recommended at these ages.
Rotavirus is the single most important viral cause of severe gastroenteritis in children.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, and the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, recommend universal immunization of infants against rotavirus disease.
The two currently available oral vaccines for the prevention of rotavirus disease are pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine (RV5, PRV, RotaTeq) and attenuated human rotavirus vaccine (RV1, HRV, Rotarix). These vaccines have different doses and schedules for administration.
Whenever possible, the rotavirus vaccine series should be completed with the same vaccine product, but vaccination should not be deferred if the product used for previous doses is not known. This problem will not come once the Indian vaccine is available.
Rotavirus vaccine is contraindicated in infants who are allergic to any of the ingredients of the vaccine, those who had an allergic reaction after a previous dose and those with a history of intussusception.
The vaccine should not be administered to infants with immunodeficiency.
RV1 is contraindicated in infants with a history of severe hypersensitivity reaction to latex, but RV5 may be administered to such infants.
Conditions that are precautions for administration of rotavirus vaccine include acute moderate or severe illness, preexisting chronic gastrointestinal disorder, and receipt of blood products.
Rotavirus is a virus that can infect the intestines and cause diarrhea and vomiting.
In children, rotavirus is the most common cause of viral gastroenteritis.
Children can get a rotavirus infection if they touch an infected person or a surface with the virus on it, and then do not wash their hands or when they eat foods or drink liquids with the virus in them.
If people with a rotavirus infection don't wash their hands, they can spread it to food or liquid they touch.
Adults can also be infected, but rotavirus infection is much more common in children.
A rotavirus infection commonly causes vomiting, diarrhea that is watery (but not bloody) and fever.
If the child has vomiting or diarrhea, his or her body can lose too much water leading to dehydration.
Symptoms of dehydration can include fewer wet diapers, or dark yellow or brown urine; no tears when a child cries; a dry mouth or cracked lips; eyes that look sunken in the face and a sunken fontanel (a fontanel is a gap between the bones in a baby's skull).
When babies are dehydrated, the fontanel on the top of their head can look or feel caved in.
Most children do not need any treatment, because their symptoms will get better on their own.
It is important to make the child drink enough fluids so that he or she does not get dehydrated. You will know that you are giving your child enough fluids when his or her urine looks pale yellow or clear, or when the baby has a normal amount of wet diapers.
Give your baby or young child an "oral rehydration solution (ORS). You can buy this in a grocery store or pharmacy. If your child is vomiting, you can try to give him or her a few teaspoons of fluid every few minutes. Oral rehydration solution works better than juice, because juice sometimes makes diarrhea worse.
Continue to breastfeed your baby, if he or she is still breastfed.
Do not give your child medicines to stop diarrhea (anti-diarrhea medicines). These medicines can make the infection last longer.
If the child has a severe infection and gets dehydrated, he or she might need to be treated in the hospital.
All babies are given a vaccine to prevent the rotavirus infection.
If your child has a rotavirus infection, you can prevent spreading the infection by: washing your hands with soap after you change your child's diaper; not changing your child's diaper near where you prepare food; putting diapers in a sealed bag before you throw them out and cleaning the diaper changing area with alcohol or with a bleach and water mixture.
IJCP Book of Medical Records is the first and the only credible site with Indian Medical Records. The records cover the first or the maximum in the health field.
If you feel any time that you have created something which should be certified so that you can put it in your profile, you can submit your claim to us.
The rules for submitting the records are available on our website.
12 workshops to train 500 paediatricians and health professionals under Safe Injection Environment campaign in six months.
In view of creating a safer environment for children across the country, the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) is launching a nationwide Safe Injection Environment (SIE) Campaign. The campaign aims at training over 500 paediatricians and health professionals from across the country in safe injection practices and protect children from infectious diseases. Injections are the most commonly used procedure of administering vaccines, medicines and other related medication across the world. A child is introduced to injections when he is only a few days old by means of immunisation, which accounts for only about 5 per cent of the total number of injections a person is administered with. The rest 95 per cent are for therapeutic reasons. Healthcare professionals often re-use syringes or needles, assuming that they are safe. They also recap the needles after use and throw the bodies of the syringes into a single container. Such practices need to be rectified. They need to be trained in sanitisation and other safe practices.
According to WHO estimates, 42 per cent of the Hepatitis C and 33 per cent of Hepatitis B cases can be attributed to such unsafe practices. Under the SIE campaign, IAP, which is the premier association of pediatricians in the country, will be conducting city-based training workshops in 12 locations across the country. The nationwide campaign will represent IAP members from five zones — East, West, North, South and Central. On May 12, the safe injection environment module was rolled out nationally.
Sexual abuse occurs primarily in preadolescent children.
It is more often in girls.
They are known to the victims.
Most of the complaints that are possible indicators of sexual abuse are nonspecific.
When was the last time you were free of pain for a month or more?
In the last month, has this pain interfered with your daily activities?
Have you had pain anywhere else in the last month?
Cynicism is one of the recognized major risk factor for causation of coronary artery disease (blockages in the channels supplying blood to the heart). And anger, jealousy and irritability form the triad responsible for this.
A gestational carrier is an option for women who have had a hysterectomy but still retain their ovaries, or for women who should not become pregnant due to medical reasons. If you use a gestational carrier, your eggs are fertilized by your partner's sperm and the resulting embryo is placed in the uterus of the carrier. You and your partner will be genetically related to the child, but the carrier will not. She will give the baby to you and your partner at birth.
One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia, USA. Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get some shelter for the night.
The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh. As they drove away, the elderly couple agreed that the helpful clerk was indeed exceptional, as finding people who are both friendly and helpful isn't easy.
Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the incident when he received a letter from the old man. It recalled that stormy night and enclosed a round-trip ticket to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit.
The old man met him in New York, and led him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He then pointed to a great new building there, a pale reddish stone, with turrets and watchtowers thrusting up to the sky. "That," said the older man, "is the hotel I have just built for you to manage." "You must be joking." the young man said. "I can assure you I am not." said the older man, a sly smile playing around his mouth.
The older man's name was William Waldorf-Astor, and that magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young clerk who became its first manager was George C. Boldt. This young clerk never foresaw the turn of events that would lead him to become the manager of one of the world's most glamorous hotels.
Don't be afraid to reach and touch someone's life, you never know whose heart you may be touching.
What are the situations where RIG is indicated?
Bites by all wild animals viz. by mongoose, jackal, fox etc.
Category III exposures after bite by vaccinated pet animals.
RIGs can be used in pregnant women and lactating mothers.
Situation: A 39–year–old male with community–acquired pneumonia came for OPD treatment.
Dr Bad: You need admission for IV ceftriaxone therapy.
Dr Good: Take levofloxacin 500 mg orally.
Lesson: A prospective, randomized, multicenter trial of 599 adults with community-acquired pneumonia who could be treated as an outpatient or in the hospital compared the efficacy of levofloxacin (500 mg IV or orally daily) to ceftriaxone (1 to 2 g IV once or twice daily) and/or cefuroxime (500 mg orally twice daily) with or without erythromycin or doxycycline. Clinical success at 5 to 7 days after treatment was superior with levofloxacin (96%) compared with either cephalosporin arm (85%). Levofloxacin eradicated 100% of the most frequently reported respiratory pathogens and provided a >98% clinical success rate in patients with atypical pathogens. (Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1997;41(9):1965–72).
Situation: A patient with suspected heart attack with blood pressure of 40 mmHg with warm peripheries died?
Reaction: Oh my God! Why was a diagnosis of anaphylaxis not considered?
Lesson: Make sure all patients with warm shock are managed on the lines of sepsis or anaphylaxis. Heart attack will present as cold shock.
i. It is a waste of time.
ii. It affected my quality time with my family.
iii. I did not find it interesting.
iv. There no added advantage of doing LLM.
v. For a doctor it is better to study medical laws by self-study than by doing LLM.
There is not much time spent (and, hence, wasted) because it is a distance learning course and the only time spent is on reading books and not on travel etc.. The time spent on acquiring knowledge cannot be regarded as waste of time.
The benefit-cost ratio is very high. The cost of the distance learning course may be Rs. 30,000/- but the cost of doing a full time 2-year LLM course in India may be Rs. 15 to 30 lakh including loss of wages.
The LLM degree will help in career advancement and increase in your prestige and income in several ways.
If it affects your quality family life, that is your personal outlook. But be reminded that professors of medicine have often to spend so much time on clinical work that their family life is often under stress. Nothing comes without sacrifice.
If you are not interested in the subject, that is your personal issue. But that is not so because you have never stated that you were not interested in law and yet completed LLB. Being a professor, it should not be difficult for you to appreciate the importance of a PG degree in any subject.
It is a questionable statement that "For a doctor it is better to study medical laws by self-study than by doing LLM". A doctor does not have to study law if he wants to stick to medicine all the time. If he intends to move to legal medicine, he must learn law at a deeper level. I don't really know what you mean by medical laws. The only ones I can think of is the MTP Act and the PNDT Act and the organ transplantation Act. The CPA is not basically a medical law, nor is IPC or CrPC etc. Even the MTP Act and the PNDT Act and the organ transplantation Act cannot be understood by a medical man if he does not have thorough grounding in general laws and legal principles. Studying for LLM provides a bit of grounding in general laws and legal principles.
SUMMARY - You should seriously consider continuing your LLM.
After trying to conceive for a year, a couple consults an infertility specialist. When obtaining a history from the husband, Nurse Jenny inquires about childhood infectious diseases. Which childhood infectious disease most significantly affects male fertility?
Yesterday's Mind Teaser: Nurse Claudine is reviewing a client's fluid intake and output record. Fluid intake and urine output should relate in which way?
Dr Pankaj Agarwal, Dr Vineeta Pande, Dr Sushma Chawla, Dr K Raju, Dr Thakor Hitendrsinh G, Muthumperumal Thirumalpillai, Dr Jainendra Upadhyay, Dr Sushma Chawla, Dr Jayashree Sen & Dr Bitaan Sen.
Answer for 14th May Mind Teaser: c. Bacteria are absent on urine culture.
Correct answers received from: Muthumperumal Thirumalpillai, Dr Jainendra Upadhyay, Dr Sushma Chawla, Dr Jayashree Sen & Dr Bitaan Sen.
A blonde woman is terribly overweight, so her doctor puts her on a diet. "I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least five pounds."
"Why, that's amazing!" the doctor said. "Did you follow my instructions?"
The blonde nodded. "I'll tell you though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day."
"Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt by means of any instrument for shooting, stabbing or cutting, or any instrument which, used as weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire or any heated substance, or by means of any poison or any corrosive substance, or by means of any explosive substance or by means of any substance which it is deleterious to the human body to inhale, to swallow, or to receive into the blood, or by means of any animal, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both".
It is the duty of the attending doctor to record all injuries, their dimension as much as possible and the body parts where the injuries are located; the nature of injury whether simple or grievous, whether caused by sharp/blunt object, age or duration of injury and vital parameters like blood pressure, pulse, respiration along with the mental status of the patient.
When an investing officer comes to the hospital, he needs some specific answers for his legal investigation and to book a case under the law of land.
Are the injuries present self–inflicted or fabricated? If yes, please mention the forensic justification.
Are there any signs/symptoms or smell of alcohol or any drug intoxication? If yes, please opine about the mental status due the influence of intoxication. Also, preserve the sample of blood.
Please opine if the injured or intoxicated patient is fit to give statement? If no, please give due reasons and an approximate time interval for medical re–evaluation for his/her fitness for statement.
Is the condition of patient critical, severe or serious? If so, the dying declaration must be recorded by attending doctor before one or two witnesses.
Orally ingested ova of Trichuris suis, the porcine whipworm, has been found to be active in an open-label study of Crohn's disease, and in a small scale, placebo-controlled trial in patients with ulcerative colitis said Padma Shri & Dr. BC Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India & National Vice President Elect IMA.
Administering eggs from the porcine whipworm T. suis to patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis is a safe and possibly effective treatment for inflammatory bowel disease according to a report published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. In the open-label trial, 29 patients with refractory disease, and a Crohn's disease activity index (CDAI) of 220 to 450, ingested 2,500 T. suis ova in a beverage every three weeks for 24 weeks. By week 12, 22 patients (75.9%) experienced a decrease in CDAI of more than 100 points, or had a CDAI of less than 150. Another 18 patients (62.1%) were in remission. (Four patients withdrew early because of disease activity or pregnancy.) They observed no adverse effects or complications. In the treatment a single dose of 2500 live T. suis eggs are given orally.


What did you like about the Generate Ideas Materials List?
How would you improve the Generate Ideas Materials List?
What questions do you have about the Generate Ideas Materials List?
Did the Generate Ideas Materials List make you think of anything you'd like to share with us?
Have you completed the Define an Opportunity Workshop? Do you have a HMW question you're excited about solving? Is your group ready to spend about 2 hours coming up with some great ideas?


Melbalina the Turtle is our first Diving For A Cause story. It relects the adventures of Melbalina the Turtle, her friend George, Sammy the Sailfish and Marvin the Marlin. Beautiful underwater photos captured by well known videographer, Terry Maas, illustrate the fun-filled adventures of Melbalina and her friends! 28 pages of story fun, activity pages, drawing and writing! Fun for every child!
Diving For A Cause story books is a new concept for DFAC that we created to share with all the children in the various communities we serve on our travels.The story book reflects our experiences in the ocean, as spearfishermen and videographers, and the beauty we observe on each single dive we take.
Subsequent versions will include our travels with DFAC over the last 6 years, and printed in English and in Spanish.


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The Thing * * * 1/2
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr
Screenplay: Eric Heisserer.
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Paul Braunstein, Trond Espen Seim, Kim Bubbs, Jorgen Langhelle, Jan Gunnar Roise, Stig Henrik Hoff.
John Carpenter's "The Thing", released in 1982, is one of my all time favourite Sci-fi/Horror movies. It would have been lunacy to attempt a remake and thankfully, they haven't. This is a prequel to the Carpenter classic and has similar ingredients. What it lacks though, is the level of terror that Carpenter could achieve.
Palaeontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) recieves a rare summoning to a Norwegian base in Antarctica to investigate a discovery they've made: an alien ship, buried beneath the ice for thousands of years, and its sole survivor. When it awakes, though, Kate realises it's a shapeshifting monster that won't stop until it's assimilated the entire crew…
One of the intriguing parts of John Carpenter's "The Thing" (which was a remake of the 1951 film "The Thing From Another World" and based on short-story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr) was the mystery surrounding the origins of the alien organism. Set three days before the opening of it's predecessor, this sheds light on what actually happened, and how the marooned Norwegian scientists met their fate before the arrival of MacReady (Kurt Russell) and the American team in the 1982 production. The setting is captured perfectly with the Antarctic outpost recreated, from Carpenter's vision, with meticulous detail but the intrigue of Carpenter's production is the main ingredient that's lacking and the atmosphere isn't nearly as threatening. However, it's still a competently handled horror flick by first time director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr, who, like director's Ridley Scott or James Cameron uses a female as the strong central character. This doesn't compete on the same level as the aforementioned directors' science-fiction work but by using a female character – instead of treading similar ground with a Kurt Russell type hero – it brings a new vision that give this film a feel of it's own. Winstead delivers a believable performance, with a bit of testosterone back-up from the reliable Edgerton. Between them, an able cast of unknowns and good attention to detail, this just about achieves what it sets out to do.
If you're a fan of Carpenter's film, then the chances are you'll be interested in seeing this – if only, to get some backstory. If you don't compare or expect too much, then you might just find that this works on it's own terms. Nowhere near in the same class as Carpenter but it's a decent attempt.
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3 Responses to "The Thing * * * 1/2"
Nice review, Mark! I'll be skipping this, though. Not my cup of tea.
Just watched The Thing last week. Still to post a review of it. I liked it more than I thought I would. Reviews had been a bit negative when it was released, especially Mark Kermode. I thought it was pacey and kept me engaged even during the totally left field last act.
Some excellent reviews on here. Thanks for the likes on my reviews. 25 done so far, still finding my way.
As a massive fan of the original, i went into this expecting to dislike it but I can honestly say, it was rather good. It had the look down perfectly, which still allowed you to imagine Carpenter's version to take of from. Keep posting my friend, I'm new to this also but I had amassed a lot of reviews on Flixster, which I copied and pasted onto my blog. It's a slow process, but worth it. It's more personal.


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In 2011, a simple surgical procedure went wrong for Gaelyn Cokayne (now 28), leaving her with a partially paralysed left foot. As a result, Gaelyn needs to wear a leg brace whenever she wants to walk or run - a painful activity that she is determined to learn to deal with on her road to Ironman 70.3 in 2014!
RtR: Where do you usually train?
GK: I run around my neighbourhood with our beautiful pit bull Zeus. I also run at my local Virgin Active on the treadmill, which I find easier than on the road. I would LOVE to run on the beach, but unfortunately I have to wear takkies with my brace, so it's not really practical.
RtR: Any tips for men and women out there who want to start running?
GK: I have had multiple surgeries, which have left me bed bound for months. I have had to relearn to walk, and drive and run. If you set your mind to something, just decide that you will not stop until you reach that goal! I have lost 35kg, I have learnt to walk and I am learning to run! I have set myself a BIG GOAL and I will not stop until the day that I reach it. Research as much as you can, learn as much as you can, and try every day to be the best you can be. Last but not least, believe in yourself and your abilities - believe that you deserve success!!
*Gaelyn has the blessing of her physician to be running and training for Ironman 70.3. Always get the go-ahead from a qualified physician before you embark on any physical training programme.
Thanks so much, Gaelyn, for sharing your inspirational story. Wishing you all the best for your 70.3 journey - you can do this!
Thank you so much for interviewing me Karien!
My pleasure, Gaelyn! Behind you all the way for 70.3 2014!!
Thank you so much, I appreciate the good luck!!
Really inspiring! Thanks for sharing this. All the best to Gaelyn!
Thanks for your kind words Hailey, really appreciate it and am glad I could share my message with you!


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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine study halted after 'potentially unexplained' illness
(APNews) Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate are on temporary hold while the company investigates whether a recipient's "potentially unexplained" illness is a side effect of the shot.
In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the company said its "standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow review of safety data."
AstraZeneca didn't reveal any information about the possible side effect except to call it "a potentially unexplained illness." The health news site STAT first reported the pause in testing, saying the possible side effect occurred in the United Kingdom.
An AstraZeneca spokesperson confirmed the pause in vaccinations covers studies in the U.S. and other countries. The spokesperson provided the following statement to NewsNationNow.com:
"As part of the ongoing randomized, controlled global trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine, our standard review process was triggered and we voluntarily paused vaccination to allow review of safety data by an independent committee. This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials, while it is investigated, ensuring we maintain the integrity of the trials. In large trials, illnesses will happen by chance but must be independently reviewed to check this carefully. We are working to expedite the review of the single event to minimize any potential impact on the trial timeline. We are committed to the safety of our participants and the highest standards of conduct in our trials."
Late last month, AstraZeneca began recruiting 30,000 people in the U.S. for its largest study of the vaccine. It also is testing the vaccine, developed by Oxford University, in thousands of people in Britain, and in smaller studies in Brazil and South Africa.
Two other vaccines are in huge, final-stage tests in the United States, one made by Moderna Inc. and the other by Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech. Those two vaccines work differently than AstraZeneca's, and the studies already have recruited about two-thirds of the needed volunteers.
Temporary holds of large medical studies aren't unusual, and investigating any serious or unexpected reaction is a mandatory part of safety testing. AstraZeneca pointed out that it's possible the problem could be a coincidence; illnesses of all sorts could arise in studies of thousands of people.
"We are working to expedite the review of the single event to minimize any potential impact on the trial timeline," the company statement said.
It's likely the unexplained illness was serious enough to require hospitalization and not a mild side effect such as fever or muscle pain, said Deborah Fuller, a University of Washington researcher who is working on a different COVID-19 vaccine that has not yet started human testing.
"This is not something to be alarmed about," Fuller said. Instead, it's reassuring that the company is pausing the study to figure out what's happening and carefully monitoring the health of study participants.
Dr. Ashish Jha of Brown University said via Twitter that the significance of the interruption was unclear but that he was "still optimistic" that an effective vaccine will be found in the coming months.
"But optimism isn't evidence," he wrote. "Let's let science drive this process."
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York, tweeted that the illness may be unrelated to the vaccine, "but the important part is that this is why we do trials before rolling out a vaccine to the general public."
During the third and final stage of testing, researchers look for any signs of possible side effects that may have gone undetected in earlier patient research. Because of their large size, the studies are considered the most important study phase for picking up less common side effects and establishing safety.
The trials also assess effectiveness by tracking who gets sick and who doesn't between patients getting the vaccine and those receiving a dummy shot.
The development came the same day that AstraZeneca and eight other drugmakers issued an unusual pledge, vowing to uphold the highest ethical and scientific standards in developing their vaccines.
The announcement follows worries that President Donald Trump will pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine before it's proven to be safe and effective. The FDA has said it would authorize a coronavirus vaccine so long as it is safe and at least 50% effective.
The U.S. has invested billions of dollars in efforts to quickly develop multiple vaccines against COVID-19. But public fears that a rushed vaccine is unsafe or ineffective could be disastrous, derailing the effort to vaccinate millions of Americans. Fauci has been quoted saying, "The chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach."
Representatives for the FDA did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday evening.
AstraZeneca's U.S.-traded shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading following reports of the trial being paused.
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Verrucosa opon  è un ragno appartenente alla famiglia Araneidae.

Etimologia
Il nome della specie deriva dal fiume colombiano di rinvenimento degli esemplari: il Rio Opon.

Caratteristiche
L'olotipo femminile rinvenuto ha lunghezza totale è di 12,50mm; la lunghezza del cefalotorace è di 9,50mm; e la larghezza è di 4,35mm.

Distribuzione
La specie è stata reperita nella Colombia settentrionale: l'olotipo femminile è stato rinvenuto lungo il corso del Rio Opon, nel dipartimento di Santander.

Tassonomia
Al 2015 non sono note sottospecie e non sono stati esaminati nuovi esemplari.

Note

Bibliografia
 Lise, A.A., Kesster, C.C. & Silva, E.L.C. da, 2015 - Revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Verrucosa McCook, 1888 (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa n.3921, (1), pp.1-105. [l'articolo di Zootaxa n.3956, (4) contiene l'errata corrige] PDF (pp.83-85)

Collegamenti esterni

Verrucosa
Taxa classificati da Arno Antonio Lise

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This paper presents an approach to portfolio selection using fuzzy decision theory. The approach is such that a given target rate of return is achieved for an assumed market scenario. If the assumed market scenario turns out to be incorrect, the portfolio is guaranteed to secure a given minimum rate of return. The methodology is useful in the management of assets against given liabilities or in forming structured portfolios that guarantee a minimum rate of return.


This was published by Origin in 1996 and is now in the downloads. It starts off with the first 48 pages in colour before dropping off to black and white for the rest of the book. The colour pages are for the most part, a load of images from the movie sections of the game with a brief caption underneath detailing the story. I'm not sure what purpose these are supposed to serve and it's almost wasted pages as far as I'm concerned. I suppose the pictures are better quality than the original release of the game but anyone who owns the DVD version of the game would be better off watching that. There are full colour images of all the ships from the game with specs after this. These are the full detail ship models from the movie portions of the game and are a better use of the pages as you never got to see them in this much detail in the game.
After this is a brief history of the story so far. This goes through each game and mission pack, and surprisingly each of the novels to that point is also mentioned.
The third section gets into the mechanics of the game. This is more or less than same thing as the WC3 guide although it's interesting that a lot of it got simplified down for WC4 with the morale system all but removed with only 3 characters affected by your choices. This section also has backgrounds of all the pilots including the more minor characters that you never actually meet outside of a cockpit and are all based on people who worked on the game.
Most of the second half of the book is devoted to the mission details themselves, with rundowns of every mission in the game and how the branching works + a few hints and tips. I only skimmed over this section as there didn't seem to be much of interest for anyone who has already played all these missions.
The final section is a short series of interviews with a few of the developers. There isn't a whole lot in here that stood out either. You definitely get the message that they were concentrating on gameplay for this having being bogged down with technicalities in WC3.
I didn't get a lot out of reading this guide. There is nothing wrong with it as such but a lot of the tactics are straight out of the WC3 guide and I already knew the mission structure fairly well.
The one thing I did learn is that there is an alternate ending if you sympathise with Hawks point of view and blow up the superbase when trying to get to Earth. It doesn't actually tell me what this ending is but implies that my choice of career would be different. I've never made that choice when playing the game but I must have seen this other ending at some point when watching the VOB's on the DVD version. I don't remember it at all so I'll have to dig out the DVD and have a look.


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This is the real problem with India's employment data
A serious issue with jobs data in India is that official classifications can make low-paying, insecure jobs seem like robust employment
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Official classifications in jobs data can make low-paying jobs seem like secure employment. A file photo of migrant workers leaving cities for their homes in villages during the covid-19 lockdown in 2020. (HT_PRINT)
Faced in February 2019 with a leaked report that showed record high unemployment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech to Parliament declared that the problem was that jobs in the new economy were not being captured by the data.
It is true that some employment is not adequately understood yet by the National Sample Surveys, but the problem isn't exactly that the government is missing people in the gig economy. A bigger issue is that official classifications can make low-paying, insecure jobs seem like robust employment. Among the codes in the National Classification of Occupations that India follows is this one—Code 121: Directors and Chief Executives. By official data, this is the most common occupation for urban men and the third most common occupation for urban women (after domestic cleaners and garment workers). Sounds high-skilled and well-paying? Not so much, labour economists find; it might just be a fancy-sounding way of describing people who run their own small one-person enterprise.
Also read: Why the manufacturing sector needs more women
Of the women workers described as directors and chief executives, 99 per cent were actually self-employed, of which around one-third worked as unpaid family workers. These women were mainly engaged within self-help groups and co-operatives as 'partners', and had thus been recorded as directors or working proprietors, even as their activities for the most part remained confined to food processing and textile and garment manufacturing. A large proportion of self-employed women workers were also engaged in outsourced manufacturing work, typically characterised by low earnings, long hours and lack of any form of social protection.
Cover of Whole Numbers and Half Truths by Rukmini S, published by Westland.
The gulf between the jobs that people want for themselves and for their children and the jobs that are actually available is enormous, and widening. Across age, location, caste and class—in fact, even more so for upper castes and the rich—the first preference of Indians in terms of employment is a government job.
Also read: What drives the dreams of women factory workers?
In addition to some stability, these jobs also offer better pay. At all levels, but particularly at the lowest education and skill levels, private-sector salaries are below public-sector salaries. Due to a guaranteed minimum salary in government service, a cleaning worker in a government office is likely to earn far more than a domestic servant doing the same work in a private home or business, the IHDS shows. In 2012, a rural agricultural wage labourer could expect to earn about ₹17,500 per year, while the urban non-agricultural labourer could expect to earn about ₹60,000. But an illiterate male working in a salaried government job could expect to make ₹144,000 per year.
Government or public-sector employment also serves as a moderating influence on other forms of social inequalities that market forces exacerbate. While women earn lower salaries in both public and private sector, the ratio of female to male salaries is considerably higher in the public sector than in the private sector. Similarly, salary inequalities among various social groups are larger in the private sector than in the public sector. Regardless of the sector, forward castes have higher salaries than OBCs, Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims. But the differences in government salaries by social group are lesser in the public sector at both lower and higher skill levels.
For the most prestigious category of white-collar jobs, caste hierarchies have remained largely static over the past five decades. The share of men who are in professional or salaried jobs is already by far the highest among Brahmin, and then non-Brahmin forward-caste men, even with reservation in place for those from backward castes and no reservation for upper castes, on account of the disproportionate access historically high levels of education and income give to the upper castes.
Much of this can be explained by the difference in educational attainment. But this is not a full explanation. In a classic experiment, the economists Sukhadeo Thorat and Paul Attewell found that Dalit respondents to job advertisements were less likely to be called than upper-caste respondents with the same qualifications.
Since 2011-12, the government has not published a full Employment and Unemployment survey, as the NSSO reports are called, but has moved from 2017 to the PLFS. This aims to provide higher-frequency (quarterly) employment and unemployment data, but statistical aims are at the mercy of political forces. The first PLFS annual report was expected in December 2018, but the government delayed its release until after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, presumably because the numbers were bad.
The NSSO could do a better job of collecting data from the informal sector (just as it should do a better job of obtaining data on the professions of the superrich). The NSSO has itself constituted numerous committees which have come out with dense reports on ways to improve its informal-sector data. The PLFS, which the government had largely ignored thanks to its unflattering numbers, was supposed to be one step in this direction. Once the 2019 elections had come and gone, the government went back to quietly releasing the PLFS reports regularly and without much fanfare or controversy.
All of this was pre-pandemic. Although the PLFS was meant to be quarterly, there was no labour data available right through 2020 up until August 2021, as the pandemic threw not just lives and jobs, but also administrative systems out of gear. As a result, many economists have turned to the CMIE, a large sample panel survey that is private, paid and closed. Modi and his administration, on the other hand, have chosen to point to administrative data like payroll statistics.
Modi is right—there is a problem with jobs data. But it isn't the one he claims, that the data doesn't capture jobs. The problem is that the government is neglecting its own data mechanisms, which can capture all the data about real Indian jobs, and suppressing them when they prove inconvenient. India's jobs crisis is two-fold—not enough jobs and suppressed data.
Excerpted with permission from Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India by Rukmini S., published by Context, an imprint of Westland Publications.
Also read: 100,000 women left the workforce in 5 years, only 2% rejoined


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El Puig de Missa es un pequeño núcleo urbano y conjunto arquitectónico situado en la localidad española de Santa Eulalia del Río, en la isla de Ibiza. Cuenta con una iglesia fortificada del siglo XVI en el punto más elevado del montículo de 52 metros de altura.

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 Puig de missa en la web del ayuntamiento de Santa Eulalia

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Santa Eulalia del Río
Entidades de población de Ibiza
Bienes de interés cultural de las Islas Baleares
Iglesias de las Islas Baleares


"Here is wisdom. Let him who understands calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666" (Revelation 13:18).
This is not the number of man in general. No, this beast is a persecutor of faithful men.
The name is to be "calculated". This same word is translated "count" in Luke 14:28. One should understand that the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, which originated in India c. 500 A.D., was not used in the first century by the Romans, Greeks, Hebrews or anyone else. Letters from the languages were commonly given an assigned value.
Which languages assigned numerical value should be used to calculate this name? (1) English? No, it did not exist. (2) Hebrew? This book was not written in Hebrew. (3) Latin? This book was not written in Latin. (4) Greek? This is the language in which this book was written. Moreover, the Greek alphabet is mentioned four times (Revelation 1:8; 1:11; 21:6; 22:13). This seems the most reasonable system to use.
In the Greek the number 666 is written out (hexakosioi hexekonta hex). However, what names would equate to this number? Irenaeus (130-202 A.D.) suggested Lateinos (the Greek spelling of the Roman Latinus, the reputed founder of the Latin race). David Vaughn Elliot writes, "Latin is a designation of a people, a kingdom, individuals in the Kingdom, a language, and a church… For over fifteen hundred years, Latin has been a distinguishing mark of the Catholic Church. Roman and Latin are two ways of identifying the same thing. Roman identifies the location; Latin the language" (Nobody Left Behind, p. 216 – 218).
Remember, the best from the beast from the earth is a false or corrupt religious system (Revelation 13:11-12 cf. 16:13; 19:20; 20:10). Moreover, it appears to be connected with Rome.
"He caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Revelation 13:16-17).
Some understand this figuratively. David Vaughn Elliot writes, "Behind the forehead is the brain, the mind; the hand is the action member of the body. The symbolism seems to contemplate the ability to think and the ability to do. It is a matter of belief and action. The mark is a representation of those who yield their minds and bodies into service of the beast, of those who accept the teaching and obey the commands of the beast" (p. 220). The Israelites were to have the law on their hand and between their eyes (Deuteronomy 6:6, 8; 11:18; cf. Proverbs 3:1, 3; 6:20-21; 7:2-3).
Others have understood this to be a literal mark. (1) Some think this had to do with emperor worship and the trade guilds in Asia associated with such. (2) Others have tied this to the Catholic sign of the cross made on the forehead by the right hand.
Whatever the mark, do not miss the greater point. There would be great pressure to submit to the beast (Revelation 13:15-17). The warning is don't. "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wrath of God… and the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have not rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name" (Revelation 14:9, 11). In contrast – "Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus… Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord… they may rest from their labors and their works follow them" (Revelation 14:12-13). Never compromise the truth. Never serve error.
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Our management team has a wealth of professional, managerial, and technical expertise, and invaluable experience across the private and public sectors.
Nigel Fenny MBA: Chief Executive & Director
Prior to joining Community Ventures Leeds in 2005, and subsequently creating the Community Ventures Group in 2008, Nigel gained extensive NHS experience as an Executive Director working in community, mental health and acute Services.
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As a member of the Community Ventures team she is involved in all aspects of the development, management and delivery of the company's projects to meet specific client needs.
Together with strong programme and project management skills, Karen has significant knowledge of strategic planning in the NHS. This is supported by strong corporate, organisational and interpersonal skills, together with a delivery focus and broad experience of working in partnership with clients to deliver the required outcomes.
Graham Frankland BEng (Hons), C.Eng, MICE: Senior Project Manager
Graham is an experienced Chartered Engineer with strong corporate, organisational and interpersonal skills. He has strong project and strategic planning skills and extensive experience in asset management, construction, FM and procurement at both corporate and service levels.
Graham was the lead for the BSF programme at Hartlepool Borough Council where he was also a local authority member on the DTCV LIFT Strategic Partnering Board.
He led the Council's property rationalisation programme achieving savings of over £0.5million in five years and £2.5million of capital receipts.
As a member of the Community Ventures team Graham is involved in all aspects of the development, management and delivery of the company's projects to meet the specified needs of the clients.
Trish Hewitt: Senior Project Manager
Trish has undertaken a number of roles in Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCHT) and has over 40 years of experience, primarily in the estates and strategic development sectors.
Working on three major developments for the acute sector, namely the Bexley Wing, Jubilee Wing and Chapel Allerton Hospital, she has developed skills in project management, design and commissioning new facilities.
For the past 12 years, she has provided a property management role at LCHT and is now part of the Estates Team primarily negotiating leases on behalf of the Trust, as well as supporting the Team strategically and operationally.
Trish enjoys this strong team approach and brings significant experience of working with other partners and the inter personal skills necessary to agree the best solutions.
Wahjed Jamil BSc (Hons): Business Analyst
Wahjed Joins the team with a background in Banking, IT and project management.
He graduated from the University of Bradford in 2013 with a degree in Computing, he has experience of IT in Digital Banking (Lloyds Banking Group) where he worked in IT Project Management. He also has experience in working on Commercial business banking (Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank). Over 5 years' expertise in finance management, Process management and stakeholder management.
Wahjed enjoys generating management information reports and managing data which is an essential function for Community Ventures. He is passionate to improve processes and having an efficient approach to make the clients journey easier. As a Business Analyst at Community Ventures, Wahjed has a key role within the Consultancy Team supporting project managers in a range of commissions.
Lisa Shaw: Project Support Officer
Lisa brings a diverse range of experience from both the public and private sectors to her role at Community Ventures. This includes 10 years in acute care with the NHS and 6 years with former Regional Development Agency One North East together with client-facing roles across the private sector delivering primarily to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.
As part of the Community Ventures team, Lisa's varied experience and strong organisational skills allow her to support the business in the delivery of key projects, successfully meeting client's strategic objectives.
Lisa Craib ACMA, CGMA: Finance Manager
An experienced Chartered Management Accountant, Lisa has provided technical and practical accounting support to Community Ventures for the last five years through Galliford Try Investments Consultancy Services Ltd.
Prior to that, Lisa held various accounting roles over the preceding 20 years, mainly in Financial Services and the Oil Services industry.
Lisa's varied and extensive practical experience along with strong technical accounting, process improvement and organisational skills have allowed her to be involved in various new projects and developments as well as leading the team providing the day to day operational accounting support to Community Ventures.
Mark Dolan BA(hons): Operations Manager (North East)
Mark manages an extensive portfolio including six LIFT buildings in the Tees Valley South Durham area; 50 properties within the NHS PS (Tees) contract and 21 properties within the NHS PS (Durham) contract. Mark oversees all aspects of the supply chain across his portfolio, ensuring tenants receive the highest standards in hard facilities management. He organises and chairs review meetings with key contacts to ensure ongoing satisfaction with overall service provision.
Mark gained valuable private sector experience in the hospitality industry, carrying out roles in business and financial analysis, project support, acquisition and re-financing before moving into an operational role. Joining the LIFTCo private sector shareholder for the financial close of Tranche 2 schemes, Mark then assumed management responsibility for the operational buildings before transferring to Community Ventures.
Stuart Verry DMS, MBIFM: Operations Manager (Yorkshire)
Since 2005 Stuart has managed the Leeds portfolio of eleven LIFT buildings, acting as the principal point of contact for tenants and partners. His expertise in managing multiple service providers ensures that tenants receive the highest standard of hard facilities management service, leaving them free to concentrate on their own service provision.
Stuart is also part of the Estate Management team at Leeds Community Healthcare Trust in the role of Senior Estate Manager. He has led the team in the delivery of all the Trusts Estate and Property matters since the partnership with the Trust began in 2015.
Prior to joining Community Ventures Stuart gained valuable experience through estate management roles in the NHS as well as contractor roles in the private sector. As a result, he has considerable technical experience in engineering, building maintenance and PPM services, as well as soft facilities management services such as grounds maintenance, security and waste management.
John Watson BA (Hons): Senior Property Manager
John has a diverse background, having worked for a variety of organisations undertaking roles in estate management over 25 years, mainly in the public sector. This experience includes a decade working within senior leadership roles in the NHS in a variety of sectors including primary care, community services and commissioning. John has great relationships within the sector, particularly across the Yorkshire region, given the variety of roles that he has undertaken and his communication style, which is proactive, customer focused and inclusive.
John works in our Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust team as Estate Manager, where he supports the trust by delivering minor works and capital schemes, undertakes strategic reviews of the portfolio and has responsibility for the Premises Assurance Model.
John thrives on finding solutions to complex challenges, especially those property issues where there is a need for a people focus, and ensuring a deliverable solution that creates maximum benefit.
Lilian Dalton: Property Manager
Prior to joining Community Ventures, Lilian gained over 25 years of experience working within the estates, property and facilities management environment of the NHS mainly within Leeds, including the role of Head of Property Management for the former Leeds PCT.
Most recently Lilian has worked within the estates team at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust where she has focused on developing occupancy agreements for third party tenants.
As Property Manager with Community Ventures, Lilian will continue to develop third party occupancy agreements as well as providing support in the overall property management services within the company which includes dealing with leases, legal issues and other building related matters with financial consequences.
James Massey MSc, BA(Hons): Estates & Property Assistant
James has a diverse background in business management, having worked for a variety of organisations in business development, support and analysis for e-commerce businesses roles. This experience includes strategic development for business processes and providing project support, with a focus around customer experience and retention.
James has also completed his studies for his MSc Building Surveying at Nottingham Trent University. Through this he gained practical experience in an assistant building surveying role for an independent chartered building surveying practice, covering both the residential and commercial sectors.
James is a key member of the embedded Community Ventures team who are supporting the Estates functions for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
Dominique Owen: Estates Officer
Dom has considerable experience of Total Facilities Management of complex properties including Healthcare residences at operational and strategic level. His role as Estates Officer at Community Ventures (Leeds) Ltd, Dom provides support, advice and guidance across all aspects of Estate/Facilities management.
He has pragmatic experience which enables him to identify potential obstacles, at planning stage, in the delivery of projects and strategic objectives and the resourcefulness and resilience to identify potential solutions.
With considerable knowledge of relevant Health and Safety legislation in relation to healthcare property services, Dom has " competent person" experience in relation to medical gas pipeline services (MGPS) and water hygiene management. He has a good awareness of the latest CDM legislation in relation to CAPEX estate development projects and recurrent refurbishment projects.
Dom's experience makes him adept at working effectively alongside multi discipline colleagues in clinical environments and is effective in garnering opinions and suggestions in order to successfully facilitate initiatives and remedy operational issues.
Chris Pipe: Associate MTP, BA(hons), MRTPI - Town Planning Associate
Chris has a wealth of experience in the Town Planning industry and as former Head of Planning for a Council and UK Planning & Land Director for a large PLC property company she knows her way through the planning system from a unique perspective. With extensive experience in handling complex Health Care schemes, such as a £500million super hospital, Chris can provide expert advice and support for any town planning proposal.
With a passion for town planning which began through seeing the decline of the coal mining community where Chris lived, evolved an amazing career built from a love of people and places and how they influence one another.
Chris provides independent planning consultancy based in North East England, services cover a wide range of planning matters, and specialises in residential development. Through her experience and by understanding client needs Chris ensures that the right approach is taken for each project providing no-nonsense, realistic support and advice for clients through a personal service ethos.


I haven't visited many of the places on your list, but highly recommend the Ukranian Cultural Heritage Village and Fort Edmonton. Hopefully some others will be able to give you guidance on the other sites.
There's a quirk with small prairie towns you may not be aware of. Many of them have the biggest "something" in the world. For example, Vegreville has the world's largest Easter egg.
If you want to see some of the "things" you could view on your trip, this is a good site.
We used this company to organise our two week trip to Canada a couple of years ago and everything went to plan (although not as complicated as yours looks).
Since then lots of our friends have also booked through them and I would definately recommend giving them a go.
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Broadway Streetcar Stick-up | A Memory
February 24, 2010 By Doug in Broadway Streetcar, Memories, Old Photos Tags: Broadway Streetcar	Leave a comment
Here's a neighborhood memory that brings together a couple of favorite topics we like to wonder about: The open spaces of the early unbuilt neighborhood, and the Broadway Streetcar.
Long-time Alameda Tuesday Club member Terry O'Hanlon checked in with us recently to share these memories. Part of her growing up years – and most of her adult life – has been spent right here in the Alameda neighborhood. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, she and her family lived in the bungalow at 4016 NE 28th. Here's a picture:
4016 NE 28th, taken about 1932. Photo Courtesy of Terry O'Hanlon.
The house, built in 1921 by the Wickman Building Company, looks much the same today. As a very young person, Terry remembers playing with the neighbor kids, romping out front with her little white dog, and adventuring around the open spaces and empty lots nearby.
She also has an enduring memory of the night her living room provided a convenient stake-out location for the Portland Police.
A spate of robberies had been plaguing the Broadway Streetcar. As AH readers know, 29th and Mason was the end of the streetcar line, where the conductor stepped outside to switch the overhead electrical connection, flipped the seats so they'd be facing forward, and then took a break before the inbound trip back downtown to Broadway and Jefferson. 29th and Mason was a quiet, somewhat out of the limelight spot – perfect for a motorman's momentary pause. But also perfect for a stick up. The car, and its accumulated collected fares, was a sitting duck out there in the dark at the end of the line.
That's where Terry's living room came in handy: at the time, it provided a perfect view to the end of the line—about one block east—so the good guys could keep an eye out for the bad guys. Look back at the photo: See that empty lot to the left (north)? 20 years later, Kenny Birkemeier would build a house on that spot, filling up that open view to the end of the line.
Here's something to think about: Watching out your window as all around you a neighborhood is being built up. Elder Alamedans remember this phenomenon well, and some have even lamented the loss of their favorite empty lot, hiding spot, or fort location. It was one of the defining experiences of growing up in Alameda up until the late 1940s. A topic for some future post. But back to the living room and the streetcar stick up…
Terry remembers coming downstairs to a darkened first floor, into a room filled with cops all craning their necks to watch the streetcar when it finally came to a stop. The shock of it all seared that image into Terry's memory banks for these many years. But don't ask if her if Portland's Finest got their man…she's never been sure about that. The image of her darkened house filled with police soaked up all available memory-making bandwidth for the very young person she was at the time.
We've seen news stories from 1920s editions of The Oregonian about a burglar operating in the neighborhood, but have never come across any official telling of the streetcar stick-up to help us know how it all turned out. Chances are the Portland Traction Company, which operated the Broadway car during those years, would have wanted to keep a lid on the whole thing anyway so as to not put every carline in jeopardy.
There are other memories about the end of our car line: about the old man and his German shepherd who used to nap on the lawn of the house at the southwest corner of 29th and Mason, watching streetcars come and go. And the enterprising teenager who "hijacked" a driver-less streetcar parked momentarily at 24th and Fremont. And, what it felt like for some on the last ride of the last day.
So many memories to explore, so little time…
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History Completed in May 1941 for Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) as catapult armed merchant (CAM), which launched the first aircraft from this ship type in May 1941. The catapult was removed later.
At 07.57 hours on 26 July 1942, U-607 (Mengersen) attacked convoy ON-113 about 300 miles east of Cape Race and observed two hits on a freighter and heard one detonation further away.
At 08.11 hours the same day, U-704 attacked the same convoy and saw one detonation. It seems that both U-boats had hit Empire Rainbow (Master John Kenney). The master, 38 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by HMS Burnham (H 82) (Cdr T. Taylor, RN) and HMCS Dauphin (K 157) (Lt R.A.S. MacNeil, RCNR) and landed at St. Johns, Newfoundland.


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HomeSportsKanaya, Nakajima following footsteps of Hideki Matsuyama
Kanaya, Nakajima following footsteps of Hideki Matsuyama
HONOLULU: The Monday morning (Tuesday in Manila) of the first Japan Golf Tour event of the year was no time to be anywhere except in front of a television.
That's where Takumi Kanaya and Keita Nakajima could be found in Nagoya last April, each captivated by images of Hideki Matsuyama winning the Masters to become the first Japanese player in a green jacket.
"I was simply watching the telecast and cheering him on in the hotel prior to the tournament that I was playing in, and I was very inspired by his win," Kanaya said through an interpreter at the Sony Open.
"No sleep," Nakajima added in English with a smile. "Very excited."
That week after Matsuyama became a Masters champion, Kanaya certainly played inspired golf. He won the Token Homemate Cup for his second title as a pro in just his sixth start on the Japan Golf Tour. Nakajima finished one shot behind.
Kanaya previously won in Japan when he was the No. 1 amateur in the world.
Nakajima was a sophomore in college when he finished second to Kanaya, and now he is the No. 1 amateur in the world. Nakajima also won on the Japan tour as an amateur, at the Panasonic Open, before capturing the Asia-Pacific Amateur.
Both are at the Sony Open this week on sponsor exemptions, and both consider Matsuyama a major source of motivation.
"First and foremost, his playing is second-to-none, and not only me but a lot of the Japanese players have been inspired to play well on US soil," Kanaya said.
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Sleek, Smart & Modern Magic: That's David Gerard, who's been a magician since the age of 6. Now, at age 28, he performs his theatrical illusions and mind reading to sold-out audiences in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. On stage, Gerard dazzles with mind reading, influence and predictions. One minute the audience is erupting in applause. The next they are stunned into silence. Be prepared to participate in his highly interactive shows from your seat and the stage! His shows are so "astounding" he's now sought after to perform at corporate events and private parties.
This new show is better than his previous one...and they were great. He has totally revamped his performance, but everything he does is still uniquely amazing. He does mind-blowing stuff I have never seen before. This is a total MUST-SEE show!!!


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Zomebazam produced by Hoechst is a pyrazolodiazepinone derivative drug with anxiolytic properties. It is structurally related to  razobazam and zometapine.

Synthesis

The catalytic hydrogenation of N,2,5-trimethyl-4-phenyldiazenylpyrazol-3-amine CID:136203602 (1) over Raney Nickel gives 4-amino-1,3-dimethyl-5-methylaminopyrazole, CID:10219477 (2). Treatment with methyl malonyl chloride [37517-81-0] (3) gives 4-a-ethoxycarbonylacetylamino-1,3-dimethyl-5-methylaminopyrazole, CID:20561101 (4). Base catalyzed lactamization gives (5). The Goldberg reaction completes the synthesis Zomebazam (6).

See also
Benzodiazepine

References

GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators
Lactams
Pyrazolodiazepines


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Diamonds to Dust
By Paul Parcellin	| October 17, 2018
In 1977, British punk band The Motors ran an ad campaign in the NME that featured celebrity photos with acidic headlines. One ad featured a shot of peroxide Hollywood legend Jayne Mansfield with the caption, "I Lost My Head Over The Motors."
For all you trash-tabloid deprived folks, the backstory is that she left this mortal coil a decade earlier in a gruesome auto accident. The car she was riding in drove into the back of a truck, and the three front seat passengers got extremely close haircuts, Jayne included.
Why bring this up? Considering the lurid picture painted by the Mansfield biopic Diamonds to Dust, the sick advert seems like an honest, albeit nasty, take on the media's exploitation of her, and in turn, she of it.
"…Mansfield salivated over press and TV attention and became a pro at grabbing headlines."
Throughout her career, Mansfield salivated over press and TV attention and became a pro at grabbing headlines. But underneath the celebrity gossip, garish photos and breathlessly titillating scandals lay a disdain — our's and the media's — for an unremarkable actress whose chief talent was self-promotion. The Jayne in Diamonds to Dust is a self-proclaimed sex symbol who cannot get enough of anything she craved be it press coverage, partying, or simple attention. Perhaps her most memorable achievement took place when she photobombed another star when she barged in as a cameraman is snapping pics of Sophia Loren at a restaurant. Jayne leans into the frame and lets her top slip most of the way off — a boob bomb, if you will. The rest is history.
But apart from her obsession with self-promotion she was apparently a holy terror. The film portrays her as a pill-popping, booze-chugging sex maniac who bullies her several husbands, taunting them as she committed adultery right under their noses. Her oldest daughter, Jayne-Marie (Lisa Marie Henricks), was on the receiving end of a healthy portion of abuse but had the guts to stand up to the old gal. At one point, when Jayne spirits away a 16-year-old hotel employee for a little rumpus in her room, Jayne-Marie reprimands her. He's my age, she reminds her morally challenged senior.
"What's tragic is that she left behind three children and a string of husbands and lovers…"
That she died in such a horrific manner was just the tantalizing pièce de résistance for what must have been an immensely troubled life. I say must have been because the film gives a smidgen of background on Mansfield barely before she became Mansfield, the poor man's Marilyn Monroe. It's a shallow chronicle of her exploits as she leaps from one man to another, obsessed with success and reminding everyone around her that she's the breadwinner, so they'd better toe the line.
In short, she's a monster, and part of the thrill we're supposed from seeing an abusive megalomaniac on screen is watching her get hers. And boy, does she ever. What's tragic is that she left behind three children and a string of husbands and lovers, some genuinely caring of her, and others just as cold-blooded as she.
Diamonds to Dust holds together as a narrative, probably because it was adapted from a book. Each section of the film is broken down into chapters. Call it an accurate portrayal of the facts, or cheap exploitation, it's overly long, running a bit under two hours. The acting is spotty and stiff, the production values are strictly low rent. Hailey Heisick's Jayne is passable in a role that requires little depth. Trash culture addicts may get a charge out of Diamonds to Dust. Just don't expect it to be much better than many of the clunkers that Mansfield starred in.
Diamonds to Dust (2014) Directed by Rob Villano. Written by Frank Ferruccio. Starring Hailey Heisick, Adrian Gorbaliuk, Rocco Palmieri.
They are NOT Jaynes actual dresses Connie Florida recreated all of the clothing for the film but Frank didn't give her any credit she recreated the dresses from Jaynes old publicity shots none of that wardrobe was actually Jaynes
Lisa Pollitt says:
I think that this is a truly remarkable film that does exactly what it set out to do–portray Jayne as not just a movie star but a real human being who had struggles but really made the most of her life. It really needed to be made considering how tragic it is that no one knew how remarkable Jayne really was and perhaps she is remembered for all the wrong reasons. This film made me understand why Jayne is an inspiration. And as a woman I can relate to some of the struggle she faced. Despite being a low budget film Hailey's performance is absolutely captivating and she makes Jaynes life an even more dramatic and truly entertaining ride. And the costumes and makeup are so well done–did anyone know that all of Hailey's wardrobe were Jaynes actual dresses?! This really takes the film up a notch. At times funny, sad, inspiring, & captivating I think Frank Ferruccio did the best job of telling Jaynes real story–a story that needs to be heard.
I cannot believe the above reviews for this film…. The people that reviewed d it must be a part of the production. …it looks like something that a small rural town public access channel threw together…. Complete with curtains as walls in some of the sets….. The acting is simply terrible….. The script is laughable….. And I am going to keep the DVD I purchased for 16 dollars on Amazon for when friends come over so we can all have a great laugh….. I loved Jayne Mansfield and I bet her family and friends are horrified about this bio film…..i dobt think I have ever watched anything so awful.
Janet E says:
Yes it's the film maker upping the reviews completely I obvious he also sells fake memorabilia on EBAy under mymothersjunk2013 claiming fakes belonged to stars profiting off the deceased fooling unsuspecting fans he writes all the COAs and receipts himself Frank Ferrucio is a crook
Peter LePore says:
This film is not perfect but if you consider how hard it is to make a period film on a tight budget it is really brilliant. Is the acting weak at times? Yes! Are there details that are slightly off? Yes! Was it entertaining? Very much so! Looking for a feel good film about the glory and glamour of being a star in the latter fifties and sixties? This IS NOT THAT! This is a gritty backstory about a woman who marketed her limited talent into being an international superstar. All while supporting ex husbands, children and touring all over the world. Hailey Heisick doesn't look like Jayne but her acting makes you believe it's her. She gives a really great layered performance emanating enough of Jayne to make you empathize with her even though she seems to be making life hell for everyone. Adrian Gorbaliuk is perfect as Mickey Hargitay. He sounds like him, he's built and really easy on the eyes. The powerhouse performances come from Mike Funk as Jayne's third husband Matt Cimber, T.J. McNeil as Poet Jan Cremer, Patti Ivy as Jayne's mother and Lisa Henricks as Jayne's oldest daughter. Not for the young because of sexual situations and not for the squeamish because it does show Mansfield's actual death scene photos which are graphic.
Frank Ferruccio says:
There are two ways to take this film. Either as a truthful empathetic film or a trash fest. I love Jayne Mansfield she has been a big part of my life. I didn't mean to "Trash" her but to show the public the struggles she went through. Jayne was an Incredible woman ahead of her time. A woman who made her mark on the world and had a very successful career while being the mother of five. She was mostly a single mom and had to support EVERYONE in her life from agents, maids, secretaries to ex husbands, children and family. Jayne paid the bills and had to go where the work was paying premium. It was the sixties and for a woman who basically got paid to show her curves that was a lot of pressure to be under. Diet pills, Pregnancy Hormones and Alcohol are a volatile mix and she was human that's what i wanted to show. She was married and a mother at 15, never had a chance to date so after her marriages failed it became her time to play the field. People talk about Jayne as a washed up mess but she was the opposite. She went where they PAID her well, and if that was a nightclub in the deep south or in Europe she went. I always tell people Marilyn Monroe was the # 1 Star in the world and when she tragically past she was only worth about 150K in 1962. When Jayne was tragically killed in 1967, she was worth about 2 million dollars! To be an International star and sex symbol, marry three times, have 5 children , make 29 movies and countless television roles and appearances and be one of the first women in Vegas to make 35K a week Jayne Mansfield was a Superstar!
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Bradley Farms Preserve is a 372-acre U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wetland and stream mitigation bank in the Lower Chattahoochee Service Area. The project is located in the floodplain of the Chattahoochee River adjacent to Walter F. George Reservoir and Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge. The Bank contains 300 acres of wetland restoration and enhancement, 85 acres of wetland buffer, and 10,000 linear feet of stream and riparian buffer restoration.
The steam and wetland restoration provide numerous ecological benefits within the watershed, such as water supply, sediment removal, and improved aquatic and terrestrial habitat. All agricultural practices will cease and connectivity with Eufaula Wildlife Refuge is improved providing habitat for many critical species, especially migratory waterfowl.