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Last updated : 28 October 2011 By John Secker
The Blackpool side for this home game against Colchester showed five changes from the team beaten so badly by Tranmere - and not all the changes were forced by injury. Jaszczun and Collins were unfit, but John Murphy was starting a game on the bench for the first time in his Blackpool career. Also dropped were MacKenzie and Thompson, the latter to make way for loan signing Caldwell, who played alongside Reid in defence. Parkinson was at right back, with Coid on the left; midfield was Bullock, O'Kane, Jamie Milligan and Simpson, with Fenton alongside Ormerod at the front.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, it took a long time for a team changed so radically to find its shape, and with Murphy missing there was very little competition for high balls. Fenton lost out to the referee's whistle a great deal early on, and was later reduced to standing off the centre half and hoping to pick up any poorly directed headers. O'Kane and Milligan are not in the same class as Wellens and Collins in the centre of midfield, and opportunities were few for Blackpool in the early stages. Most interest was coming up the left wing, where Simpson had a good game, Coid was linking well, and Ormerod was coming over to add his pace. Unfortunately when long crosses did come over, there was often literally no-one there in the box for Blackpool.
In fact it was Colchester who were looking the more dangerous, and inside ten minutes they thought they had taken the lead. A diagonal high ball came over from the left; Reid competed with an attacker, and the ball flicked on to another forward, centre of the box and all alone. He smacked the ball into the goal, but the flag was up and it was ruled out. Twice more in the first half Colchester should have scored, both times from balls up the middle, when the attackers outpaced the defence and ran into the box, right of centre. One of these resulted in a shot/cross from a sharp angle, which ran across the goalmouth with no-one able to get a touch. The second attack ended with a cross to the far post which was headed away. In both cases Pullen covered the angles well, but the attackers should really have done much better.
At the other end Blackpool were probing, but failing to find any way to build an attack. When Fenton was pushed from behind they won a free kick, a little left of the middle, a fair way out from the area. Simpson tried a left-foot bender around the wall, but it was always going much too wide. Another good chance went begging, following good work on the left. Several attempts were made to get the ball across to someone in position to shoot, and eventually it found its way over to Bullock, on the edge of the box on the right. He beat his man well, but finding himself in the clear with space in front of him, he chose to shoot immediately and drove it well wide of the left hand post. Blackpool's best attempt of the first half came from Simpson - after a neat pass he had a fine shot from the edge of the area, which the keeper did very well to get a hand to, and turn over for a corner.
Blackpool started the second half kicking towards the home supporters at the South end. After a couple of frustrating offside decisions, Ormerod finally created the breakthrough. One of his finest talents when he is playing well is his ability to pick up long balls, even under pressure from defenders - he has strength and the ability to know where the ball is going to drop, and he can turn a difficult pass into possession nine times out of ten. He did this up the right wing this time, and beating the defence he ran into the box. When he got to the byline he looked up and saw, once again, no Blackpool shirts in the area. He blasted the ball across the goal, hoping perhaps for a deflection, but it travelled straight across the goalmouth, about a yard out, and continued to roll towards the corner flag. Simpson did well to retrieve it just before it went for a throw - he turned and then, instead of playing a simple cross into the box, he hit the ball diagonally back to Milligan, who was well outside the area. Milligan then hit a first time cross from an angle the defence were not expecting, and the ball dropped onto the head of Ormerod, only a few yards out, and still the only Blackpool player in a scoring position. He took it well, powering it past the keeper.
In the next half hour Blackpool should really have buried Colchester, as they ran almost at will up both wings, but they could never turn the wide possession into scoring chances. Again and again a cross from a promising position found nobody inside the area to profit from it. Coid made one run towards the box, but kept hesitating instead of shooting, and was tackled. Another run by Coid led to a pass to Fenton, who took the ball into the box, on the left. He was nudged, and could have gone down, but he went on and got into a position to shoot, but then hit it tamely at the keeper. At the other end it was only Colchester's poor finishing that kept Blackpool ahead, although the defence was not as bad as it has been. Caldwell made one fine saving tackle, and Reid did well, scrambling with two attackers around him, to hack the ball away for a corner.
With about 15 minutes to go Blackpool made a double substitution. Fenton went off to good applause, replaced by Murphy, and Thompson came on for Bullock, a very defensive move. However in the next ten minutes Blackpool had a stream of attacks. First Simpson drove a shot in from outside the box. The keeper got behind it and held on well, with Ormerod and Murphy bearing down on him. Both Ormerod and Murphy had chances with the ball at their feet in the box, but could not turn to get an effective shot in. A cross from the right bounced free, only a few yards out, but O'Kane, who was closest, was looking the wrong way. Then came the moment which could have sealed it in style. Blackpool had been under pressure, and made a clearance up the right. Ormerod won it from two defenders, and set off towards the area. He ran through the defence, into the box, by which time he was well to the left of the goal. As the keeper came out he fired in a fine shot, across his body. It struck the underside of the bar at the right hand side of the goal, bounced down on the line and out. Oh for a Russian linesman at that moment. As it dropped down Murphy, following up, tried to volley a shot, but the keeper had got back and made the save.
By now the defence was playing very weakly, standing off and allowing the Colchester players to get in their crosses instead of closing them down and competing. Several times they did this and got away with it, although on one occasion an attacker was clean through on the left, but managed to miss both the goal and his team mates with the ball past Pullen. However, with less than five minutes left, Blackpool once again paid the price for weak defending. This time it was Parkinson who stood back and let his man put in a cross. It was headed out, but only as far as the edge of the box where a Colchester player hit a shot which beat the unsighted Pullen into the corner of the goal.
"Not again" was the thought from the home crowd, and the atmosphere in the ground was very dead. However the players kept trying, driving the ball again and again up the left wing where Coid, Simpson and Ormerod were working hard to make something happen. Four minutes of injury time were announced, and almost all four had been played when Coid once again got the ball from Simpson up the left, and turned towards the box. He hit a cross into the middle, about twelve yards out, which landed on Murphy's head. He knocked it down perfectly to Ormerod, a few yards to the side, and Ormerod turned and fired the ball past the keeper's left hand. The goal was so late that Ormerod had already been announced as Man Of The Match before he scored it.
A win is a win, and Blackpool can be happy with their three points from this game. There were some good things to take away, but also some worrying aspects. Caldwell looked good, especially in his first game at the centre of defence. However the defence still looked uncertain, and they really do need to learn to close the opposition down. Up front I do not believe the experiment of playing Fenton and Ormerod together was a success. It's not that either played badly, but they both like to get out wide, and far too often there was nobody at the centre of the Blackpool attack. There is also very little competition for the high balls, and the Colchester centre-backs had an easy time in the air. Blackpool's second goal was a classic combination, with the big target man knocking the ball down for his partner to finish, and I believe that this is still Blackpool best striking partnership.
Team (4-4-2): Pullen, Parkinson, Caldwell, Reid, Coid, Bullock (Thompson 76), O'Kane (capt), Milligan, Simpson, Fenton (Murphy 76), Ormerod
Subs not used: Barnes, Clarkson, MacKenzie


Empathy – Sympathy?! And can empathy be learned?
We talk about being sympathetic and empathetic, but do we use them correctly and can we all be empathic? I wondered about this some time now and decided to dig a bit deeper.
To understand this fine line let me give you some definitions I came across.
Showing sympathy means we have feelings of sorrow, pity for someone else's misfortune. It is an understanding and support between people, based on the feeling that one cares about somebody's trouble or grief. But we do not need to be deeply involved.
So, I may say that sympathy is kind of an acknowledgement of the others person's feeling whereas empathy goes a step deeper, to be emotional involved with the other person's feeling. Both happening when the other person experiences something bad.
And it may be easier or more natural to show empathy if you had similar experiences. Yet such a situation has to be treated carefully as we may experience the same but have different feelings and emotions about it!
Having those definitions, do you think empathy can be learned or developed?
I would leave it with a yes and no as this very much depends on the person itself. The theory and definition is an easy way to understand empathy but it takes more to really be empathetic.
It is easy to say that if everybody would just be more empathetic we would all be at a better state. But we cannot forget that sometimes we need to protect ourselves, too. Not everybody can or wants to be empathetic all the time. At times we decide to close ourselves off for our own protection, and that needs to be accepted. Being empathetic can be overwhelming at times. It is ok to have an 'empathy on-off switch' as self-protection is important, too!
Then you have certain personality traits that have problems to be empathetic or to receive empathy. And that is a tough one as especially those personalities often see themselves as being very empathetic and say that want to feel it from others. Yet the reality looks different and both side may end up feeling hurt and misunderstood. But once we come to understand the personality trait of a person we may be able to change our expectations and just accept that empathy is not their strength, for neither giving or receiving. And that is ok, too, but both sides have to find a way how to deal with it.
And some personality traits are simply empathetic by nature and do not see what all this talk about empathy is about. And they may be envied by some and misjudged by others.
But either way, empathy is a good thing! And bringing our 'empathy-awareness' back into our daily life is the right way to go. See it like planting a seed and hoping to see it grow and spread. Therefore I leave you with a few simple ideas on how to use empathy in the day-to-day life as found under mindtools.com. A simple way to learn to be more aware of empathy around us!
– the other person reacts to a situation with the knowledge they have – not your knowledge!
– are you more concerned with getting your way, or being right? Or is it your priority to find a solution, build relationships and accept others?
not putting your shoe onto the other person!
I invite you to join me in planting the seed of empathy, today and everyday!
Understanding yourself, your goals, intentions, responses behaviour and all.
Understanding others and their feelings.


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New Details About Anthony Bourdain's Last Days and Death
Jess Bolluyt
After Anthony Bourdain died by suicide, many of his fans realized they'll never fully understand why the celebrity chef's life was cut short. But fans of Bourdain and his CNN series Parts Unknown can understand more about Bourdain's last days as authorities release new details.
Read on to learn the latest details that authorities, friends, and family have shared about Anthony Bourdain.
1. There was no evidence of foul play
Chef Anthony Bourdain | Mike Coppola/Getty Images
The Associated Press reports that according to a French prosecutor, authorities found no evidence of foul play or violence in Anthony Bourdain's death. Christian de Rocquigny, the prosecutor of Colmar in France's eastern Alsace region, said, "There is no element that makes us suspect that someone came into the room at any moment." A medical expert also concluded that there were no signs of violence on Bourdain's body. Authorities are carrying out toxicology tests to find out whether he took any medications or drugs prior to his death.
Next: Bourdain ate one of his last meals here.
2. Bourdain ate 1 of his last meals at a Michelin-starred restaurant
L'Auberge de l'Ill | L'Auberge de l'Ill via Facebook
The Associated Press reports that Anthony Bourdain ate one of his last meals at the Michelin-starred Auberge de l'Ill in Illhaeusern. The restaurant's sommelier, Herve Fleuriel, said Bourdain sampled goose liver, frog's legs, fish, and pigeon. And while at the restaurant, Bourdain and his longtime friend chef Eric Ripert had a "lively exchange" about the wine and food and how to pair them. According to Fleuriel, "They looked like they were pretty happy."
Next: His mother said this about Bourdain's mood in his last days.
3. His mother didn't notice any warning signs
Anthony Bourdain | Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The New Yorker
The New York Times reports that Anthony Bourdain's mother, Gladys Bourdain, said she had noticed no indication that the celebrity chef was thinking of suicide. "He is absolutely the last person in the world I would have ever dreamed would do something like this," she told the Times. She said Ripert told her that "Tony had been in a dark mood these past couple of days," but she didn't know why he killed himself.
Psychology Today reports that though risk factors are often confused with warning signs of suicide, they are very different. Experts say that eight out of 10 people considering suicide give some sign of their intentions.
Next: This is what he was doing in France.
4. He was in France filming Parts Unknown
Anthony Bourdain filming | Anthony Bourdain via Instagram
As The New York Times explains, Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in France. He had traveled to the Alsace region, near France's border with Germany, with a television production crew to record an episode of his CNN show, Parts Unknown. He was staying at Le Chambard, a luxury hotel in the village of Kayersberg. The village has two Michelin-starred restaurants, as well as famous vineyards. Ripert had appeared on numerous episodes of Bourdain's show and was traveling with him at the time of his death.
Next: He skipped this activity the night before he died.
5. Bourdain skipped dinner the night before he died
Bourdain's meal in Alsace | Anthony Bourdain via Instagram
As Today reports, Anthony Bourdain remained active on social media just days before his death, posting an Instagram shot of his "light lunch" of choucroute garnie, a traditional dish from eastern France.
But Maxime Voinson, a waiter at the Winstub where Bourdain had dined almost every night with Ripert while staying at Le Chambard, told The New York Times that Bourdain didn't show up for dinner on June 7, the night before he died. "Mr. Ripert thought it was strange. We thought it was strange," Voinson said. "Mr. Bourdain knew the chef, Monsieur Nasti; he knew the kitchen. Maybe he went out and ate somewhere else, we said, but we didn't think much of it."
Next: Ripert also waited for Bourdain the next morning.
6. Ripert also waited for Bourdain at breakfast the next day
Good friends, Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert | Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival
The New York Times reports that Bourdain and Ripert had also had breakfast together at the Winstub during their stay in Kayersberg. On the morning of June 8, Bourdain didn't show up for breakfast. "His friend was waiting at breakfast, and waiting and waiting," Voinson told the Times.
Ripert tried to reach Bourdain on his cellphone, according to the hotel staff. A hotel receptionist then went to Bourdain's room, where his body was discovered. According to the Times, French prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny said that authorities "suspect that not much preparation and premeditation went into the act."
Next: Investigators are waiting for this.
7. Investigators are waiting for the results of blood tests
French police at the hotel where Anthony Bourdain committed suicide. | Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images
According to The New York Times, investigators await the results of blood tests screening for toxic substances and drugs. However, they don't expect those results to change the outcome of the investigation. As de Rocquigny explains, "This is solely to give the family more information about the motivations and the cause of death. We have no indication that he was consuming alcohol the days before his death or changed his behavior."
As Vox reports, experts explain that suicide, and the growing rates of suicide in the United States, are not caused by a single factor. The causes are much broader than mental health conditions, and rising suicide rates constitute a serious public health issue.
Next: A friend of Bourdain's girlfriend said this about the chef's death.
8. Rose McGowan says fans shouldn't blame Asia Argento — or Anthony Bourdain
Chef Anthony Bourdain and actor Asia Argento | Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Rose McGowan released a statement imploring fans not to blame Bourdain's girlfriend and McGowan's friend, Asia Argento, for the celebrity chef's suicide. As The Daily Beast reports, McGowan wrote that Bourdain sought help for mental illness but "did not take the doctor's advice." McGowan wrote, "His depression won."
But the actress also wrote that "it is in no way fair or acceptable" to blame Argento or Bourdain. "We are asking you to be better, to look deeper, to read and learn about mental illness, suicide and depression before you make it worse for survivors by judging that which we do not understand, that which can never fully be understood."
How to get help: In the U.S., call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Or text HOME to 741-741 to connect with a trained crisis counselor at the free Crisis Text Line.
Read more: Anthony Bourdain's Suicide Comes Just Days After Kate Spade's Tragic Death — And Suicide Rates Are Only Going Up
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U.S. Paralympics names 14 athletes (nine men, five women) to represent Team USA in snowboarding at the Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.
Four Paralympic medalists and eight world medalists highlight U.S. roster.
Team USA will compete in snowboard-cross on March 12 and banked slalom on March 16.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Team USA will bring a star-studded roster of 14 athletes to the Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, including returning Paralympic medalists Evan Strong (Maui, Hawaii), Amy Purdy (Silverthorne, Colorado), Mike Shea (Castaic, California) and Keith Gabel (Ogden, Utah).
U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, announced nine men and five women today who will compete in snowboard-cross and banked slalom, taking place March 9-18, in South Korea. The sport debuted four years ago in Sochi where the American trio of Strong (gold), Shea (silver) and Gabel (bronze) made history with the first-ever men's U.S. podium sweep at the Winter Games.
The U.S. Paralympic Snowboarding Team will aim to build on its successful four-medal showing in Sochi with the addition of eight more medal events and a new discipline: banked slalom. The 2018 Winter Games will also present athletes with the opportunity to compete in head-to-head snowboard-cross. Since 2014, the International Paralympic Committee has introduced expanded sport classes that includes the split of lower limb classes and an upper limb class.
Also highlighting the roster is an impressive group of athletes poised to challenge for medals in their Paralympic debut. Brenna Huckaby (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) and Mike Minor (Waymart, Pennsylvania) have quickly established themselves as the ones to beat in their respective classes. At the 2017 World Para Snowboard Championships, Huckaby won back-to-back world titles in 2017 while Minor collected his first world title in snowboard-cross and silver in banked slalom.
Mike Schultz (Saint Cloud, Minnesota), who won his world championship medal with silver in banked slalom, comes off his best season yet after having won the crystal globe alongside Huckaby in both disciplines. Mark Mann (Woodbury, Minnesota) will also compete in his first Winter Games after capturing bronze for his first world championship medal.


Oily Skinned beauties have to deal with the ever shining skin. But the greasiness on the skin makes it look dark and dull. Owing to their over productive Sebum glands which keeps secreting and produces more sebum than required making the skin look oily and greasy. The oils on the skin act as a feeding ground for bacteria which leads to acne. So, proper cleansing is important for oily skin but the oils appear again in few hours. That means skin needs more the just cleansing. So, one has to follow a proper skincare regime and the deep cleansing treatment, facials once in a while.
You can get the facials done at parlors but there are hygiene issues. And sometimes they use the products that don't really work for your skin types. So getting these At home facial kits could save you some money. Pick the facial kits having ingredients which are suitable for oily and combination skin.
It's easy to get the facial done at the parlors but there multiple benefits of doing Facials at Home. Let's see what all benefits you can enjoy with these Home facial kits for Oily Skin.
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With Home facial Kits you need to follow dew simple steps with the products provided in the facial kit to get a rejuvenated skin. The whole process will take around 45-50 minutes and I am sure you can spare that much for yourself in a month. Facial kits are beneficial for home facial for your oily skin or any skin type for that matter.
Quality Control: While doing facials at home you can control the quality of the ingredients and the products used. While the quality is usually for a toss in parlours.
The best suited facial kits for Oily skin are the one with Fruit Enzymes and Pearl facial Kits. Fruit facial Kits for Oily skin contains Aha's which will detoxify the skin and bring back its glow and luminosity while pearl facials curb the oil production and make skin look more radiant.
Let's get started with the best facial kits for oily skin In India.
VLCC has a huge range of facial kits including Gold and diamond facial kits which can bring back the radiance of dull and ageing skin. The facial kit contains Pearl Bhasma or ash is a natural moisturizer.
It contains proteins which renew the skin cells, and vitamin B complex and Polysaccharides which strengthen and improve the metabolism of the skin. This facial kit promises brighter, younger and radiant complexion instantly by harnessing the benefits of Pearl Bhasma and other nature actives. It is one of the most affordable facial kits for Oily Skin in India.
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Aroma Magic Skin Glow Facial Kit is a 7 step facial kit includes face cleanser, exfol gel, skin serum, nourishing cream, face pack, hydrating gel and sunscreen. The kit contains natural ingredients that work on improving the complexion and bringing back the radiant glow. The facila kit is also effective in reducing acne marks and fine lines. If you are looking for a natural Facial Kit for Oily Skin in India, tis would be the best pick.
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Shahnaz Husain White Pearl Facial Kit contains only 2 products Shahnaz Husain Pearl Cream and Shahnaz Husain Pearl Mask. The pearl is a natural whitener, rich in nutrients. Pearls reduce the transfer of melanin to the skin, preventing tanning, while fading away dark spots. Shahnaz Husain Pearl Cream, pearls filter the ultra violet rays ensuring a natural even lightening of the skin. The pearl is potent with powerful age control nutrients. It also keeps oil secretions under control.
This concludes my list of Top 10 Facial kits in India for Oily Skin. I hope you can now pick the right facial kit for your skin. Even you want to try some luxurious products, have a look at O3+ facial Kits, the O3+ Seaweed facial kit is quite effective for Oily acne prone skin. These are some of the best facial kits in India for Oily and acne prone skin which will reduce acnes and help clearing out the skin with their natural ingredients.
Have you tried any of these Top 10 Facial kits in India for Oily Skin? Which is your favorite facial Kit?
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The Robber of Memories
A River Journey Through Colombia
By Michael Jacobs
November 12, 2013 | Hardcover | 6.1 x 9.1, 273 pages | ISBN 9781619021969
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Magdalena, a river that courses through the heart of Columbia, connects a violent past with the country's uncertain present. British writer Michael Jacobs struggles to reconcile his love for the land and its people with the dangers that both still present.
Determined to eliminate modern conveniences from his journey, he begins traversing the river by tugboat. He makes an exception for a cell phone that maintains a sporadic signal at best, in efforts to keep in touch with his mother suffering from deteriorating health. Jacobs cannot help but notice the irony of his mother's dementia and his travels through Colombian townships with the world's highest incidence of early-onset Alzheimer's.
While navigating the mysterious river and unfamiliar territory–both emotionally and geographically–Jacobs comes across Gabriel Garcia Márquez, whose own faltering memory shows a growing obsession with the Magdalena River of his youth. When Jacobs and his companions are apprehended by FARC guerillas who turn out to be as quirky and affable as they are intimidating, life begins to imitate the magical realism of Márquez's signature works. Shortly after being released from captivity, the FARC camp is bombed by the Colombian air force, leaving no likely survivors among his oddly likeable captors.
Exploring themes of adventure, endings, and "the utter pointlessness of it all," Jacobs can only forge onward in his reflection of the mystical river.
About Michael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs was born in Italy and studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute in London. He is the author of several travel books, including Andes and The Factory of Light: Tales from My Andalucían Village, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He lives in Spain and London.
"An acclaimed travel writer's eerily hypnotic journey deep into the heart of Colombia's most mysterious river... A well-rendered travelogue and a profound excursion into what it means to remember and forget." --Kirkus
"The erudite and graceful travel writer Jacobs takes us down Colombia's longest river, the Magdalena, and it is a thrilling and fearsome ride...Jacobs delivers not only an adventure story and a travel narrative, but also an excursion into memory itself...a text that stands with Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin, and, even, in some ways, Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi."--Mark Levine Booklist
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UPDATE: In my original post, I mistakenly referred to previous endorsements by some of the state's major newspapers, and I have corrected the errors.
This election has all the earmarks of being one of the strangest ever. First, as I have opined before, this is the weakest ticket the Republican party has put forward in decades. There is just no appeal to it, from top (Abbott) to bottom (Paxton). Second, the Democrats have better down-ballot candidates than the Republicans. Mike Collier, the Democratic candidate for comptroller, is a CPA. His opponent, Glenn Hegar, knows next to nothing about state government finance, and what he does know he learned from the current comptroller, which is hardly a recommendation. The R's candidate for attorney general, Ken Paxton, has pled guilty to violating state securities laws. His Democratic opponent is Sam Houston, a real lawyer and litigator. The Republicans' candidate for agriculture commissioner is Sid Miller, one of the churliest lawmakers ever to set foot in the Capitol. Jim Hogan, by contrast, the Democratic candidate for ag commissioner, is a salt-of-the-earth fellow.
The point is, this is a much weakened Texas Republican party, and there is not much that is appealing about the ticket. What appeal it did have was pretty much wiped out by Wendy Davis's attacks on Greg Abbott's character. Is Davis competitive enough to throw a scare into Abbott? I doubt it. This is still a very red state, and I don't think it can turn around in one election cycle.
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Patrick v. Van de Putte By brian sweany and Paul Burka
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Q: Can I pass a parameter to ISessionFactory in NHibernate? I am very new (i.e. an hour or so) to NHibernate.  I've followed a tutorial which gave me the following class:
public class ContactNHibernateHelper
{
    private static ISessionFactory _sessionFactory;

    private static ISessionFactory SessionFactory
    {
        get
        {
            if (_sessionFactory == null)
            {
                var configuration = new Configuration();
                configuration.Configure();
                configuration.AddAssembly(typeof (CRMData.Objects.Contact).Assembly);
                _sessionFactory = configuration.Configure().BuildSessionFactory();
            }
            return _sessionFactory;
        }
    }

    public static ISession OpenSession()
    {
        return SessionFactory.OpenSession();
    }
}

In extending my application, I now have another class for a different object.  I'm trying to rewrite the above class so that I can pass in the assembly type as a parameter and return the _sessionFactory.  So, for example, I would have a variable passed in to the method called assembly.  The code would then be:
public class GenericNHibernateHelper
{
    private static ISessionFactory _sessionFactory;

    private static ISessionFactory SessionFactory(System.Reflection.Assembly assembly)
    {
        get
        {
            if (_sessionFactory == null)
            {
                var configuration = new Configuration();
                configuration.Configure();
                configuration.AddAssembly(assembly);
                _sessionFactory = configuration.Configure().BuildSessionFactory();
            }
            return _sessionFactory;
        }
    }
}

This is giving the error 'Cannot resolve symbol 'get'' - presumably because I cannot pass any parameters in this way.
I am probably missing something very simple - any ideas?

A: You don't need to make any changes if your other class is in the same assembly as CRMData.Objects.Contact.
But if you want to pass in a parameter you need to convert the SessionFactory property to a method or create a constructor that accepts the parameter.
private static ISessionFactory SessionFactory(System.Reflection.Assembly assembly)
{
    if (_sessionFactory == null)
    {
        var configuration = new Configuration();
        configuration.Configure();
        configuration.AddAssembly(assembly);
        _sessionFactory = configuration.Configure().BuildSessionFactory();
    }
    return _sessionFactory;
}

A: we dont have parameter properties in C# other than indexers.That is the reason you are getting the error.change your code to use a method.
But i still dont understand why you need to pass an assembly to the method.

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After about a minute of Trump's dissembling, the reporter followed up by trying to get him to be specific about the extent to which he'd like to see the U.K. withdraw from the European Union.
But Trump was barely familiar with what the term means.
Trump finished his "answer" with complete non sequiturs about his 2016 electoral win, and his popularity in the U.K.
"What would you like him to say to [Putin], especially given Assad's gains in the country recently?" the reporter said.
Trump was unable to cite a single specific concession he wants from Putin on Syria. Instead, he rambled about the dangers of nuclear weapons, bragged about how smart his uncle was (the implication being that Trump is smart too), and complained about the Mueller investigation. The only thing Trump said about Syria is that he would "bring it up" during his meeting with Putin.
The reporter followed up by asking Trump to be more specific.
"Can you spell out in terms of Syria what eactly you would like to hear from [Putin] and what you would like Russia to do?" he said.
Trump immediately started bashing former President Obama.
"Well that was another one — I mean, the red line in the sand was a problem, for us," he said.
Trump, however, was still unable to cite a single specific thing.
"Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do, I'm going to talk to him about that before I talk about you, and if something happens it'll be great, and if it doesn't happen…" Trump said, tailing off.
Trump concluded by talking about the "sprit" of NATO, bashing Hillary Clinton, and praising himself.
Trump has embarrassed himself while trying to discuss health care and tax policy, but there's a straightforward reason why he has particular trouble with foreign policy.


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Q: Are there alternatives to FileDataModel? I'm new to mahout and this field of big data.
In general data doesn't come as a (long, long, Double) all the time.
So are there alternatives to FileDataModel?
DataModel model = new FileDataModel(new File("Ratings.csv"));

A:
Users and items are identified solely by an ID value in the framework.
  Further, this ID value must be numeric; it is a Java long type through
  the APIs. A Preference object or PreferenceArray object encapsulates
  the relation between user and preferred items (or items and users
  preferring them).

I have recently faced the same issue. I had user id UUID type. But I had to add additional table with numeric user id and original UUID user id. Later checking the documentation i have found this explanation. According other implementation of DataModel :

A DataModel is the interface to information about user preferences. An
  implementation might draw this data from any source, but a database is
  the most likely source. Be sure to wrap this with a
  ReloadFromJDBCDataModel to get good performance! Mahout provides
  MySQLJDBCDataModel, for example, to access preference data from a
  database via JDBC and MySQL. Another exists for PostgreSQL. Mahout
  also provides a FileDataModel, which is fine for small applications.

A: You can build DataModel from Database.
Here is a example for PostgreSQL:
Intercafe looks like this:
PostgreSQLJDBCDataModel(DataSource dataSource, String preferenceTable, String userIDColumn, String itemIDColumn, String preferenceColumn, String timestampColumn)

Initalization:
source = new PGPoolingDataSource();
source.setDataSourceName(properties.getProperty("DATABASE_NAME"));
source.setServerName("127.0.0.1");
source.setDatabaseName(properties.getProperty("DATABASE_NAME"));
source.setUser(properties.getProperty("DATABASE_USER"));
source.setPassword(properties.getProperty("DATABASE_PASS"));
source.setMaxConnections(50);

DataModel model =new  PostgreSQLJDBCDataModel(
                            source,
                            "mahout_teble",
                            "user_id",
                            "item_id",
                            "preference",
                            "timestamp"
                            )
                    )


Want to know how to dress up a plain glass cylinder vase? Simply buy some decorative paper from your local craft store or download and print a vintage wallpaper image from the web. Then cut to size and slide it inside the vase. Your done! Obviously this only works when you are arranging dried flowers. No water needed for this beauty!
This arrangement features craspedia, brunia, thistle, hypericum berry and scabiosa.
This is going to be a quickie post but I wanted to share my latest creation. Today I whipped together two giant arrangements like the photo above using only free floral bounty I could collect locally — no store-bought flowers here! And no, I didn't break any laws.
In a galvanized bucket, I arranged hydrangea, anemone, red wheat-head celosia and crab apple.
If you're in need of a fast, simple and classy centerpiece for your table, try using vintage bottles. My cobalt blue bottles look perfect with some ferns and hosta leaves from my garden.
You can group all colors and sizes together on a tray or keep it simple by creating a small grouping. Either way, you can't go wrong and it's sure to impress.
Creating unique floral arrangements doesn't necessarily mean a trip to your florist or grocery store. It may simply mean you take a little walk to your garden or farmers market to collect the makings of a stunning centerpiece. This sage and pine cone arrangement is perfect in its simplicity and would be amazing on any table whether it be summertime or winter.


Not everyone likes dragons. They've fallen slightly out of favor of late, with a number of writers and readers pointing to them as the chief example of overused classic-fantasy stock characters that the genre as a whole should move beyond. That a fair number of fantasy writers are laying dragons aside and seeking out less well known yet no less fascinating mythical beasts to include can only help the genre stay fresh and inventive. Yet dragons aren't going away anytime soon. They'll be a fantasy staple as long as readers like me exist. I can sympathize with the reasoning of those who dislike dragons, but darn it, I love them. And while, with their great, strong wings and fiery breath, they make splendid villains, I have a soft spot for those who use their awesomeness for Good.
Yet I have a quibble. While heroic dragons are fairly plentiful in the current fantasy landscape, it seems at least 80% of those dragons are male.
Who are the most recognizable dragons in the Disney cinema canon? The big, clumsy, loyal, lovable male Elliott of Pete's Dragon, who protects a young boy from danger, and the monstrously evil shapeshifted female Maleficent of Sleeping Beauty, who threatens to decimate a valiant hero. In her famous Temeraire series, Naomi Novik pits her magnificent though child-like dragon hero Temeraire against the vengeful dragon villainess Lien. In Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton's The Elvenbane and Elvenblood, good-hearted male dragon Keman must do battle with his wicked sister, Myre, and has to goad his ice-cold mother into doing the right thing. Lackey's series The Enduring Flame, co-written with James Mallory, also juxtaposes a heroic male dragon (or at least, an ally of the heroes) with a villainous female. Melanie Nilles does the same in her novel Legends. Diana Wynne Jones' entertaining Dark Lord of Derkholm also features a male and female dragon, and again, the male plays a major heroic role, while the female, though not out-and-out evil, is depicted as vain and unlikable and gets very little page time.
Then, of course, we have quite a few paranormal romances that feature dragon shifters, as this Goodreads list makes clear. In at least nine out of every ten — probably even more than that — the shifter is male, and his love interest is a human woman. Then we have stories that leave female dragons out of the picture altogether. With only one exception I can think of, and that exception lamentably bad (the screen adaptation of Christopher Paolini's Eragon), the "last dragon" in movies and television shows is invariably male. In George R.R. Martin's famous saga A Song of Ice and Fire, all dragons are male, as if the very idea of the dragon were inherently masculine.
Where are the dragon heroines?
There are a few, but you have to sift through an ocean of heroic males in order to find them. Anne McCaffrey's Ramoth (Dragonflight) and Zaranth (The Skies of Pern) certainly deserve mention. The most enjoyable is probably Kazul, the female who fights to claim the title of King (not Queen) of the Dragons, and proves a loyal friend to a wayward princess, in Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles (beginning with Dealing with Dragons). E.E. Knight also presents readers with a dragon heroine, the complex Wistala, in his Age of Fire series. Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Chronicles and Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters series also feature sympathetic female dragons, but unlike Ramoth, Zaranth, Kazul, and Wistala, they are strictly animal in intelligence. Saphira in Paolini's Inheritance Cycle may be impressive, but Paolini's work lacks the polished prose and the creative world-building that would draw me to it. Rachel Hartman does a better job in her YA novels Seraphina and Shadow Scale, particularly the latter, in which two dragon heroines play significant supporting roles. Kitten, the female dragonet who features in Tamora Pierce's Immortals series, is also engaging. Yet despite good examples, dragon heroines are so vastly outnumbered by dragon heroes that they have a lot of catching up to do.
As a long-time dragon lover, I'm doing my part in my own writing, telling my own stories of dragon heroines. At DragonCon 2013, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company gave the premiere performance of my play In Need of a Bard, which features a female dragon in a heroic role; formerly a princess, she was bewitched into her current form by a jealous stepmother, but she loves the change, calling it the best thing ever to happen to her, since she can battle the evil forces that beset her world far more effectively than before. In "Firegale at the Festival," my offering for Gilded Dragonfly Books' Legends of the Dragon, Vol. 1, the dragon heroine is tasked with learning everything humankind has to say about dragons, so every year she assumes human shape and goes to DragonCon. She may not battle evil on a large scale, but her generous spirit shines through as she takes a couple of Con-going newbies under her (ahem!) wing.
At a couple of points in her story, Firegale contemplates writing a novel. I think of my brand-spanking-new project All Color as the novel she might have written, the story of a dragon who loves humans (female) and a human who loves dragons (male), friends who must venture beyond their mutual comfort zone when the theft of a talisman traps the dragon in human form. I can't say more, since I am just beginning the first draft and untold twists and turns may lie ahead. But I look forward to the time I'll spend in my heroine's head.
I never really paid much attention to people's teeth until I got braces in the seventh grade, at which point I found I couldn't stop noticing people's teeth. Similarly, when Meliroc, my eight-foot heroine of The Nightmare Lullaby, rose in my mind to demand I bring her to life, I started to notice the treatment of height in fantasy characterization — specifically, how common it is for villainesses to be described as tall.
Most men are taller than most women, so tallness is coded as masculine. Pronounced height is practically a requirement for a hero involved in a romantic plot, Lois McMaster Bujold's diminutive adventurer Miles Vorkosigan notwithstanding. Yet in a woman, tallness may be written as suspect, even scary. It seems almost obvious: how do you make a female character intimidating at first sight? Make her tall! Jadis the White Witch, from C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, is described as breathtakingly beautiful but also seven feet tall, her height serving as a sign of her "unnaturalness" as a woman. Plenty of fantasy novelists follow Lewis's example, using adjectives like "towering" and "statuesque" in their descriptions of femmes fatale. This turns up in quite a few stories I enjoy. The unsympathetic women of Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, with one possible exception, are tall contrasts to the short, plucky heroine, the most nefarious of them all being another seven-footer. In Django Wexler's The Shadow Campaigns, we have a wide range of female characters, but the most important ones we are clearly meant to like — the disguised soldier Winter, the active princess Raesinia, a Khandarai mage, and another disguised soldier — are all petite, while the tall women are, perhaps not out-and-out villainesses, but not quite trustworthy. The most evil of the women in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Cersei and Melisandre, are both described as tall, Melisandre unusually so; the big female knight Brienne at least gets to be heroic, but her height is presented as one of several factors that make her "freakish" and generally despised by most of the other characters with whom she comes into contact.
The contrast between the petite heroine (whose smallness automatically makes her an underdog to root for) and the statuesque villainess is also very common, and more literally visible, in movies and television: The Man from UNCLE, 50/50, Defiance, Galavant, Scandal, House of Cards (US version), Paddington, Tangled, Easter Parade, Singin' in the Rain… there is scarcely a genre in which this doesn't turn up. Even when the tall woman isn't depicted as petty or evil (e.g. Sif in the Thor films), her loss in love to a smaller rival seems inevitable. The enduring omnipresence of the small heroine/ tall villainess contrast can have some interesting real-life ripple effects, as an article I read not long ago makes clear: when the defense attorney for accused child murderer Casey Anthony first met her, he was struck at once by how tiny she was, and he decided thereby that she could not possibly be guilty. So, apparently only a tall woman would murder her toddler daughter.
I am not calling for a decline in petite heroines. It's wonderful to watch them decimate those who would dismiss them as "easy pickings," as any fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer can attest. But for every petite girl who is tired of being underestimated, there is a tall girl who is tired of being perceived as "unfeminine" because she may have a few inches on many of the boys around her. In our understandable zeal to represent the former, how often do we ignore the latter? Perhaps we can do better by her if we break the knee-jerk association of female tallness with villainy and give petite ladies an occasional crack at being evil.
Tall heroines aren't too hard to come by, especially if you're a fan of Barbara Hambly, Patricia McKillip, and the great Kates, Elliott and Forsyth. Small villainesses are a bit trickier to find, but particularly good ones feature in Teresa Edgerton's The Goblin Moon and The Gnome's Engine, Zoe Marriott's The Swan Kingdom, and Elizabeth Bear's Eternal Sky trilogy, beginning with Range of Ghosts. The villainesses in these books are fun to watch because while they may appear delicately and harmlessly feminine, they use this perception to their advantage. Much like the petite heroines, these villainesses make their enemies regret underestimating them.
"Five Things I Love" will return, yet whenever I conduct an interview for this blog, one of my questions is always, "What would you like to see more of in fantasy/sci-fi/speculative fiction?" It's only right and proper that I answer the same question, and here is the first of my replies.
Female leads who aren't princesses.
What exactly is wrong with princesses? The biggest problem can be summed up in a single word: over-representation. Princesses are such a fantasy-fiction staple that it seems as if every other fantasy novel, or at least one of every three, features a princess as its most significant female character.
Sometimes a princess can indeed be a remarkable heroine. Two that stand out from my recent reading are Raesinia in Django Wexler's The Shadow Throne and Ysandre in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart. Yet both these princesses are headed towards queenship. Knowledgeable and capable, they're readying themselves to take hold of the reins of power, and much will depend on the wisdom of their decision-making. If this were more often the case, perhaps the overabundance of princesses would bother me a little less.
Yet most fantasy princesses aren't preparing to rule as queens in their own right. Rather, they're defined chiefly, if not exclusively, by their relationships to others — Kings' daughters or Kings' wives. Entirely too often, their main goal is to evade the politically advantageous matches into which their families would force them and find True Love far away from the houses of power. As in fairy tales, heroes' bravery is rewarded with these princesses' hands in marriage. They're the door prize through which plucky commoners come up in the world. Great deeds are done in their names, yet they themselves do very little, serving as the passive embodiment of some ideal worth preserving or pursuing. It's little wonder that the word "princess" itself conjures images of the helpless imperiled damsel with neither the wit nor the strength to act on her own — that, and flawlessly beautiful animated women in shiny voluminous ball gowns. Even take-charge heroines like Leia Organa from the original Star Wars trilogy can be diminished a little by that title.
Maybe princesses could become more interesting if they were fewer in number, and more of us fantasy novelists sought out other roles for heroines to play. I don't propose "warrior" as the automatic alternative, even though I love a good warrior heroine. Between "warrior" at one extreme and "princess" at the other, there lies a wide spectrum of possibilities too rarely explored. Why, for instance, can't we see a few female bards, minstrels, storytellers? Skilled healers are always welcome, as are artists, poets, scribes, herbalists, blacksmiths, cooks, weavers, seamstresses — characters who may not be as high-ranking as the princess but who actually do things. This web page is a possible resource for writers to consider when devising roles for their female characters, both major and minor. All I ask, as I've said before, is that whatever the heroine ends up doing, let her be good at it.
If we readers could have one wish, it might be that their favorite writers would always outlive them. We would love to enter our twilight years still eagerly expecting the next book in a really cool series we discovered fifty years ago. But of course that can't happen. We're bound to see authors we love pass on, and the stories of characters we love come to a permanent close. Now that Terry Pratchett has left us, and his final book, The Shepherd's Crown, has appeared in bookstores, there will never be another novel of the Discworld. The regrettably mediocre Snuff is the last we'll see of Sam Vimes, my favorite policeman in all literature. The last time I can recall being quite as sad about the departure of a pop culture icon was back in 1990, when pneumonia claimed the life of beloved Muppeteer Jim Henson.
His heroes are as interesting as his villains.
How many of us are tired as heck of the oft-repeated contrast between dishwater-dull heroes and charismatic, funny villains? (Raises hand) I suspect the difficulty a lot of fantasy writers have with bringing their good characters to vivid, complex life is partially responsible for the rise of Grimdark, a fantasy subgenre in which basically decent, admirable characters are left out of the story altogether. But you won't find this irksome contrast in Pratchett's best work. He doesn't go for the anti-hero, like Mark Lawrence or Joe Abercrombie. Rather, he goes for the unexpected hero, the shlub we don't see coming. Alcoholic misanthrope Sam Vimes will stand up for the mistreated and do the right thing even when he suspects it's pointless. DEATH (if you don't know why I've written it like that, please read Reaper Man and follow it up with Hogfather), in his efforts to comprehend humanity, becomes their champion as well. Those two make wonderful heroes precisely because they're stuck in "dirty" jobs, and their efforts to do those jobs with integrity are a source of admiration as well as humor. Then we have the faultlessly pure-of-heart Captain Carrot, a staunch believer in the good in everyone. Plenty of comic writers would go for the easy laugh by holding him up to relentless ridicule and shattering his idealism again and again. Not Pratchett. He likes this character, and we like him too.
He writes splendid female characters.
I've only read two Pratchett novels — Moving Pictures and Pyramids — in which I didn't love the heroine. Most of the time, his women are as quirky and complicated as his men. They're funny in ways women don't often get to be. His "Coven of Witches" series, beginning with Wyrd Sisters, features the formidable Granny Weatherwax, who would rather be a bad witch but turns out to be a good witch in spite of herself. (She's as close as we get to a female Sam Vimes.) In the "Night's Watch" series, starting with Men at Arms, we get Constable, later Sergeant, Angua, a werewolf who shows us that the monstrous feminine can also be the heroic feminine. In Guards! Guards!, really the first of the Night's Watch novels, we meet Sybil Ramkin, a towering, big-boned woman who becomes Sam Vimes's wife. (How awesome is it to see a big woman as a romantic heroine?) Sybil occupies a more "traditional" space than either Granny or Angua, yet she still surprises us with moments of awesomeness, proving as much a champion of the underdog, in her own big-hearted aristocratic way, as her husband; her simple but world-shaking actions at the end of Snuff actually make that distinctly-lesser-Discworld novel worth a read. These are just my three favorites. There's also Eskarina Smith (Equal Rites), Renata Flitworth (Reaper Man), Susan Sto Helit (Soul Music, Hogfather, Thief of Time), Adora Belle Dearheart (Going Postal, Making Money), and most of the cast of Monstrous Regiment. Feet of Clay, the follow-up to Men at Arms, also features a wonderful female character that I can't talk about because… Spoilers.
His Young Adult work is as funny and insightful as his work for adults.
In fact, it's not all that easy to tell a clear difference between the YA novels that feature young witch-in-training Tiffany Aching (The Wee Free Men, etc.) and the novels that center on Granny Weatherwax and her coven. Perhaps there's less sexual innuendo, but that's about it. In both his YA and his for-adults work, Pratchett respects his audience. The capable, hard-working Tiffany is ten times the heroine that any we'll find in the pages of Twilight and its imitators could ever be. Also worthy of attention from readers of every age is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, a weird ribbing of the Pied Piper legend. It has a rat heroine! Of course I love that.
He played well with others.
By "others" I mean specifically Neil Gaiman, with whom he wrote Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. (Pratchett is one of the best at writing witches.) I put off reading this one because it isn't set in the Discworld; it's a contemporary fantasy, and I generally don't care for those. A friend had to talk me into reading it, and for this he has my eternal gratitude. To give you an idea, Good Omens concerns an angel and a devil (who are besties), a witch, a witch-hunter, and a quartet of mischievous youths led by the Antichrist himself, who must find a way to stop the end of the world because humans are fun to have around. A funnier take on the Apocalypse has never been written and isn't likely to be. It also features a car stereo that transforms any song into a hit by Queen. It makes sense when you read the book.
He blends satire with humanism.
That tells you much of what you need to know.
Guards! Guards!, where we meet Vimes, Sybil, and Carrot.
Feet of Clay, in which the humanity of golems becomes an issue, and dwarf alchemist Cheery Littlebottom joins the Night's Watch.
The Fifth Elephant, in which Sam and Sybil Vimes travel to the wilds of Uberwald, and werewolf cop Angua confronts her wild side.
Reaper Man, in which DEATH takes a holiday as hired hand for farmer Renata Flitworth, and we meet the zombie Reg Shoe, a Dead Rights activist who sports a "Glad to be Gray" badge.
Hogfather, in which DEATH plays Santa Claus, and his eminently practical and badass granddaughter Susan pursues an assassin.
Wyrd Sisters, in which Granny Weatherwax, Gytha Ogg, and Magrat Garlick take on Macbeth.
Good Omens, already discussed in some detail.
If you haven't read these yet, what are you waiting for?


Detecting Alzheimer's disease early on is crucial, as behavioral intervention may help thwart the progression of this degenerative disease. As such, dementia research has reached a high point, with scientists discovering new avenues for determining one's risk of the condition as well as methods for treatment. A new study has found one new approach to early detection: skin testing.
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of San Luis Potosi in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. They collected skin biopsies from 20 participants diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, as well as 16 with Parkinson's, another 17 with other forms of dementia and 12 without any cognitive conditions.
The scientists then analyzed the biopsies to determine whether certain types of altered proteins (tau proteins) found in people with Alzheimer's were present in the skin samples. The results revealed that people with Alzheimer's as well as those with Parkinson's had levels of such altered proteins seven times higher than patients with no cognitive condition.
As the study confirmed the researchers' theory, the skin test serves as a possible future biomarker that would let doctors identify and diagnose Alzheimer's earlier on and develop a treatment plan to slow or halt the progression of the disease before more irreversible cognitive decline occurs.
What does this mean for the future of Alzheimer's detection?
While more exhaustive studies and testing are required, the findings may mean a revolutionary new way to detect dementia early on is in the near future. According to Rodriguez-Leyva, the study's findings may lead to a less invasive and faster detection procedure, and it may open the door to detection of other cognitive conditions.
The study will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 67th annual meeting, held in late April. The researchers will seek support for further investigation of the use of skin testing to detect Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other forms of dementia.
Speak to one of our healthcare professionals to learn more about Alzheimer's and other dementias.


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Giant Birthday Cake Made In Honor Of Azerbaijani President
Giant Cake For Azerbaijani President
A giant 52-meter long cake, baked in honor of the Azerbaijani president's 52nd birthday, has finally been presented to the public, five days after Ilham Aliyev's big day.
Officials in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgayit said that the cake appeared in public five days after Aliyev's December 24 birthday "because it was not ready on time."
The annual giant-birthday-cake-making event is organized by the local governor, Eldar Azimov, who started the tradition a few years ago in the city of Ganja, where he served as a governor.
Opposition activists in Azerbaijan say such events are an example of the increasing personality cult surrounding the president's family.
Aliyev inherited power from his father Heydar Aliyev in 2003. Across the country, there are statues and museums dedicated to Heydar, who died in 2003. Many public spaces are either named after the former president or adorned with his image.
In another event, launched on December 24 in Ganja, 52,000 trees will be planted in the coming months.
In Azerbaijan, governors head regional administrations and are not elected but appointed by the president.
-- RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service
The Week Ahead: December 16-22
December 19: International Human Solidarity Day.
The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, December 16:
Azerbaijan/Goorgia: Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili visits Baku (to December 17).
EU: Foreign Affairs Council opens in Brussels to discuss Iran, Eastern Partnership, Russia, Western Balkans, and other issues.
EU/Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Brussels to meet with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
Kazakhstan: Independence Day.
UK/Russia: Chatham House in London hosts a discussion titled "Russia's Strategic Overhaul."
U.S.: Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies hosts release of EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2014.
TUESDAY, December 17:
EU: Brussels hosts a General Affairs Council meeting.
Iran/Turkey: Iranian President Hassan Rohani is scheduled to visit Ankara.
Azerbaijan: Baku hosts the signing ceremony of the agreement on the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project, which suppose to secure natural-gas deliveries to Europe.
UK/Iran: Chatham House in London hosts a discussion titled "Iran Sanctions: After the Geneva Agreement."
WEDNESDAY, December 18:
UN: International Migrants Day.
Czech Republic: Vaclav Havel Day.
Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to address the Russian parliament about the country's foreign policy.
Russia: The State Duma intends to announce an amnesty to mark the 20th anniversary of the constitution.
THURSDAY, December 19:
EU: European Council meeting opens in Brussels (to December 20).
Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin holds annual press conference in Moscow.
Russia/CSTO: The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretariat hosts a roundtable to discuss the interaction between the authorities and the public in the prevention of foreign interference and "color revolutions."
UN: International Human Solidarity Day.
FRIDAY, December 20:
Syria: UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi meets in Geneva with Russian and American officials to prepare for the Geneva II international conference on Syria, which is scheduled for January 22, 2014.
SATURDAY, December 21:
UK: The 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster, which claimed the lives of 270 people, to be commemorated in Britain and the United States.
World: Crossword puzzle marks its 100th anniversary.
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So, I presented some of my ideas in a slide show for the combined boards. Here are the key slides.
This question from Grace Lee Boggs, the Detroit activist, should start all of our strategizing.
Everybody talks about MISSION. Coming to consensus on mission statement words is a waste of time. Everyone should state the understanding of our mission in their own words. There will be enough commonality to move ahead. This is what I say is UUism's mission.
The most important word in a mission is the verb. So what's the verb that describes the leading that regional leaders should be doing. Same as our mission: INSPIRE.
All the good stuff that we get from our congregations: spiritual development for children, sexuality education, opportunities for worship, contacts into the wider community, chances to engage in justice making action. These are not the Benefits of belonging to a UU community; they are the services we offer to everyone in the community. All the good stuff is on the inside in our congregations -- we have to turn them out. Think of this concrete example: OWL for ALL.
I think that it is clear that lots of people want what we offer; they just don't like the form in which we are offering it. The spiritually hungry are not going to join our churches. So, we have to find ways to use what we have to offer what we have and they want in a form that works for them. Congregations and churches cannot do that themselves. They are too inside the old form. Leaders at other levels have to learn how to encourage the growth of new forms of Unitarian Universalist groups.
Are we, the people of all of our New England communities, becoming more reverent, more open, more just and more loving? Our end goal is the transformation of souls and the transformation of society. Everybody has their own take on exactly how those are related, but we know that they are. Religious Liberals are no longer in survival mode. Our time to awaken the many is now.
A congregation is a social network. It is one node in a much more complex and wide-ranging social networks. Imagine all the Facebook friendships within your congregation. Now imagine all the FB friends of those FB friends and how they cluster into other networks. How do we operate in all those networks to inspire people to lives of reverence, openness, justice and love?
Hi Tom! My name is Jessica Ferguson and I'm from the UU Media Collaborative. Many of the images used in this presentation are works I did for the UUMC. Its so fantastic to see you guys using them!! I'm so excited!
One request - could you please add something to the presentation giving myself and/or the UUMC credit for the works that belong to us? We want them to be free for use by all - but would also like to retain some credit for doing them, both to help support the hard work of our designers/artists, and also to help market the group itself so we can continue to create amazing works. Thank you!


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Stealey Mountain North - Via Owl Creek Pass Trailhead
Take the Owl Creek Pass Road (County Road 10) 12.9 miles from Highway 550. At this point there is a short side road (the old Owl Creek Pass Road) to the right and a sign post indicating the Stealey Mountain trailhead as being down that road at its end (0.1 mile).
Caution: 0.5 mile down the trail (roadbed) an ATV trail enters the road and parallels the road below the roadbed. That ATV trail IS the trail. There is a carsonite stake marking the point where the trail leaves the roadbed. Stay on the ATV trail for about a mile and then it becomes another road. There is a hunter's camp at that location.
The trail follows an old pack trail south and west down into the Owl Creek gorge and then south up a side fork of Owl Creek. The trail crosses this fork about halfway up the gorge and then switchbacks and meanders upwards to near the top of Green Mountain. At 4.0 miles the trail reaches its closest point to Courthouse. There are great views of Chimney Rock and Courthouse and also the Sawtooth/Needles. At 4.3 miles the trail reaches its highest point at 9,920 feet. There is a cattle guard and fence line there. 0.4 mile further on, the trail forks. Take the right fork. Another 0.1 mile and it forks again. Take the left fork this time, uphill. At 4.5 miles, views of the San Juans can be seen through the trees, and at 5.6 miles there are some house sized boulders. Then at 5.9 miles, just before entering the Uncompahgre Wilderness area, there is an awesome view of Courthouse. Once the trail drops off Green Mountain to the south, it then proceeds at a fairly level grade to its junction with the Courthouse Trail (6.1 miles). An option at this point is to turn right on the Courthouse Trail to its Cow Creek trailhead (2.1 miles). However, you may also follow the Courthouse Trail 1.3 miles to the left to the next Stealey Mountain Trail junction. At this point one can continue left on the Courthouse Trail to the West Fork (Cimarron) Road (2.7 miles) or turn right on the Stealey Mountain Trail to its Cow Creek trailhead (5.4 miles).


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For instance, višnevského masť search Google for "weather Orlando", without the quotation marks, and see what you get. At the time of writing, this service is available only to cities in the USA (I presume Americans get more weather than other people.). Yes, the find-everything search engine has added weather to its repertoire.
At the time of writing, this service is available only to cities in the USA (I presume Americans get more weather than other people.). For instance, search Google for "weather Orlando", without the quotation marks, and see what you get. Yes, the find-everything search engine has added weather to its repertoire.
Throw in the full-scale integration with the popular online automation service IFTTT, and the fact that Netatmo was recently included during the announcement of , and you're suddenly looking at one of the most well-connected weather trackers available to consumers. Its two modules are capable of monitoring things like temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, and even noise levels both inside and outside of the home. A Wi-Fi connection means that you'll be able to monitor all of it on your phone, tablet, or computer. The $180 Netatmo Weather Station wants to take armchair meteorology to a whole new level.
Yes, the find-everything search engine has added weather to its repertoire. For instance, search Google for "weather Orlando", without the quotation marks, and see what you get. At the time of writing, this service is available only to cities in the USA (I presume Americans get more weather than other people.).
Read on and we'll show you how to customize the way your iPhone's home screen icons look, give them completely different names and change their size and color — without rooting or jail-breaking your iPhone or running skins and launchers.
Throw in the full-scale integration with the popular online automation service IFTTT, and the fact that Netatmo was recently included during the announcement of , and you're suddenly looking at one of the most well-connected weather trackers available to consumers. Its two modules are capable of monitoring things like temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, and even noise levels both inside and outside of the home. The $180 Netatmo Weather Station wants to take armchair meteorology to a whole new level. A Wi-Fi connection means that you'll be able to monitor all of it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
Its two modules are capable of monitoring things like temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, and even noise levels both inside and outside of the home. Throw in the full-scale integration with the popular online automation service IFTTT, and the fact that Netatmo was recently included during the announcement of , and you're suddenly looking at one of the most well-connected weather trackers available to consumers. The $180 Netatmo Weather Station wants to take armchair meteorology to a whole new level. A Wi-Fi connection means that you'll be able to monitor all of it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
But Kuwaiti women are pushing the boundaries of their society, considered one of the most open in the Gulf region, and where a law against harassment exists on the books, but where discussions about gender-based violence remain taboo.
Asked about that report, which described the policy as an "amnesty", a government spokeswoman said: "Coronavirus vaccines will be offered to everyone living in the UK free of charge, regardless of immigration status.
Feb 8 (Reuters) – The best defense against the evolution of COVID-19 and the emergence of variant strains is getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible, top U.S.
infectious disease doctor Anthony Fauci said on a Monday media briefing.
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A Glimmer Of Normalcy In Chicago As Customers Return To Small Businesses And Massive Venues Alike
May 1, 2021 / 5:30 PM / CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) -- This first weekend of May was a first crack at normalcy for many businesses welcoming back customers – from small businesses to massive operators such as Navy Pier and Arlington Park racetrack.
As CBS 2's Chris Tye reported, improving weather and an improving COVID-19 trend line were a perfect blend at Navy Pier on Saturday, as many pandemic restrictions disappeared. The Navy Pier Ferris wheel is moving again, and so is Chicago's economic engine – all around the city.
Georgia Utendahl is the owner of Georgia's Food Depot, a soul food restaurant at 7352 S. Halsted St. in the Englewood neighborhood. Life's menu has served Utendahl 50 years of challenges – from nurse's assistant to the GM factory floor.
But keeping her eatery afloat during pandemic? Utendahl described that as "tougher than anything I've ever had in my life."
With the help of the Englewood Community Development Corporation, Utendahl, 76, celebrated the grand reopening of Georgia's Food Depot on Saturday.
While she doesn't feel out of the woods, she is confident things will improve.
"I have to believe that," Utendahl said. "I invested my life savings in here, so I have no choice but to believe it's going to get better."
Around Chicago and the suburbs, things are getting better.
One year ago Saturday, the iconic music venue Ravinia in Highland Park announced its summer series of concerts was scrapped because of pandemic.
This summer, the music will be back. With restrictions loosened, their schedule will be released Thursday.
Also one year ago this weekend, Arlington Park racetrack was silent.
Not only did pandemic restrictions preclude visitors - they also forced Kentucky Derby weekend to slide to the Fall.
This Derby Day, it was a sellout at the park – though there was a limited capacity.
But with all these small signs of normalcy, there is still a long way to go before taking that deep breath and putting pandemic in the rearview mirror.
"It's not over. This is the beginning," Utendahl said. "We still have problems, but I feel that I'm going to make it. Every day, I tell myself I'm going to make it."
Utendahl said part of getting small and large businesses a shot in the arm of feeling like there is stability is seeing customers showing up.
She said in her 76 years, it has never been more important to get out and support the businesses that still living day to day.
And meanwhile at Navy Pier, the fireworks are back at 9 p.m. Saturday.
First published on May 1, 2021 / 5:30 PM