So, yeah, a freakin 'HUGO nominee recommeded ME for ArmadilloCon – yeah, good thing I accepted that invitation.
before or abaft the beam.
spanker or driver of ships.
the barge, and, like it, carvel-built.
cargo, ammunition, or implements of war.
ask for something fu dining-room service.
I settled on the Klein Bottle shape. Here's a patch that forms the shape with a fun visualization and sonifies it, allowing you to tinker with parameters like # of points and size of the cube at each point.
These texts make for interesting juxtapositions. For one thing, Post describes good manners for society, while Dostoevsky's narrator is an outcast from society. The Sailor's Word Book is a dictionary, but its definitions of sailor's words are the most poetic of my three source texts—especially when taken out of context. The admiral who wrote this book in 1867 refers to ships as female (i.e. "her head") and officers as male (i.e. "steersman") which makes everything sound like an analogy. Likewise, Post and Dostoevsky use plenty of gendered pronouns. They also use proper nouns like "Mrs. Worldly" and "Simonov." These texts refer to people—whether they are objects (such as a ship), individuals or society as a whole. As a result, when I feed these three texts into my program, they often seem to be talking about the same thing.
My Markov object creates a dictionary of probabilities for transitioning from one word to the next, but I added some special features. Its "generate" function takes a starting word as an argument. If the starting word exists in the source text (Sailor's Words + Dostoevsky), it will generate text based on its dictionary of probable transitions from that word to any other word.
This allowed me to create a generate_question() function that starts a Markov chain with What When Where Why or How. The questions are part of my poetic structure.
I used TextBlob to generate a list of noun phrases from Etiquette and Sailor's Words.
Originally, I created a Noun Phrase List object, but this was time consuming to generate every time, so I just saved them as a text file using the NPLC object I created in my nplc module.
# a Noun Phrase based on whether it is plural and based on its starting letter.
## This function takes a word an changes it to another word that rhymes or has the same # of syllables.
## rhyming_word is in a separate file, the rhymebot module.
## This function iterates recursively through a line, three words at a time.
## It transforms the last word each time by calling the changeWord function.
I originally developed this function for my midterm project. Here, I use it towards the end of the poem to iterate through the poem's three noun phrases and the poem's opening line.
I'm building a collaborative discussion forum for Dynamic Web Development. This is also a project for Hacking Higher Ed where I've been researching the social conditions that facilitate learning, and what types of discussion forums might lead a community to adopt these social norms.
Input any word. My program will turn it into another word that has the same number of phonemes. Then it will find an example of that word in use via the Wordnik API. Then it will recursively run through four bit chunks, starting from the end, modifying the last word in each line using the CMU phoneme dictionary. I got a bit carried away parsing the CMU pronouncing dictionary and this includes some functions that I didn't wind up using, but would like to use in the future.
JOSEPH BAST, president of the Heartland Institute, whose unshaven face beards a very similar resemblance to the president of another country on this Earth — no, not the Czech Republic, but go head and guess!
PEIFER: My wife is the one who always wanted to go to Africa.
I've missed some really good shows lately, walked right past them in fact, simply because there's so much going on in NYC.
So I've starting to make an app that pulls in all the local venues from Songkick, plots them on a Google Map, and lists the upcoming events. Actually, I've decided to parse event data to find out which artists are playing, and I'm planning to use that as the basis for venue inspired radio stations.
Browse other people's venue-based playlists.
This might become a project for Dynamic Web Development, we'll see! I had fun with Google Maps and music API's way back at Music Hack Day 2012, happy to get back to it.
Jayati, Jerllin, Tarana and I came up with some interesting ideas for our Hacking Higher Ed presentation.
One key point is that education is social, and that's an aspect that is missing—or at least very different—in online education. The combination of Clay Shirky, my fandom class with Zoe Fraade-Blanar, and my previous experience trying to facilitate conversational spaces has inspired me to bring this approach to education. I'm interested in building a discussion forum tool/toolkit for a community of learners. I want it to be social because I believe that learning is socially motivated. I want to facilitate the type of community where people who have just learned something are motivated to turn around and share it with their fellow learners. This is both to cement what they've just learned and to teach in a way that experts often cannot. I think this decentralized community could be integrated into a teacher-student 'class,' but could also serve independent learners.
2. Browser extension for sharing and discussing online resources with a class, either public or private. Learners would tag resources with comments that are automatically posted to a discussion forum.
–> After presenting this idea in last week's class, we learned that Mimi Yin has been working on a project kind of like this—a browser extension called http://ponder.co that allows classes to discuss web content.
3. "Am I Doing This Right?" — a Stack Exchange-inspired forum based around video Q&A's. I'm having second thoughts about this because text has so many advantages over video, and Stack Exchange has already covered so many topics. But a video option for chat and discussion could be very valuable for certain topics.


According to Tim Sullivan, Brian Bowen has hired�Miami attorney Jason Setchen in an effort to play this season for UofL. As of Sunday night, Brian is still on campus but is not permitted in any team activity or practices. This is a developing story, stay with CSZ as more details are released.


We love gardening and it shows!
Over the past few years, the Vallarta Garden Club has donated and planted tens of thousands of new plants along the busiest streets in the Centro and Emiliano Zapata neighborhoods. For the 100 year anniversary of Puerto Vallarta, we completely re-landscaped the main plaza of Vallarta, located directly in front of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the iconic landmark of this beautiful city.
All of our projects are funded by annual private donations, and all of our plantings are done by experienced volunteers. If you walk along Basilio Badillo, Olas Altas, the Pier street (Francisca Rodriguez), Insurgentes, Avenida Mexico and many other streets in the area, you will see all of our many bougainvilleas and hundreds of donor-supported planter boxes.
Throughout the year, we post many images of our work (and other beautiful garden photos) on our Facebook Page. You can search for us (Vallarta Garden Club) or access the Facebook page here.
Vallarta Garden Club is one of the largest and most active member-based organizations in the city, with many events and gatherings throughout the year. If you would like to receive invitations to our meetings and socials, or to volunteer with a garden project, please send us your email address using Contact Us/Volunteer. We also have an Events Calendar of public meetings, our holiday event and annual Gala.
We have 4 annual giving levels, as outlined below, and all donations are welcome. Benefits of each level can be found by highlighting the appropriate image under Donate/Membership Payments.
If you have questions, please send us a message via the Contact Us/Volunteer link.


Michelle, Gail and Lauren raised over £600 with their challenge enabling the charity to help more families who lose a young adult.
The trio really enjoyed it.
Lewis' Mum Vonney thanked Gail at the Coffee shop this weekend.


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Brittany Lupton: Here's What I Eat in a Day
From day one, Fit Body trainer Brittany Lupton has always loved to cook. Growing up, her mom provided her — and her siblings — with a healthy and practical outlook on food. Family meals included plenty of veggies, carbohydrates and protein.
In 2018, after having lifted weights for over two years, Brittany felt like she wasn't seeing the definition and results she truly wanted. Despite her healthy habits, she realized she needed to focus more on nutrition so she could see the gains she was training for.
Educating herself on how to eat so she could best support her fitness goals led Brittany to becoming a certified personal trainer and the "Let's get this lift" fitness pro we know today.
Let's check out what a day of eating looks like for Brittany:
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Brittany describes her food philosophy as "single ingredient whole foods." To start off her day, she'll have oatmeal with almond milk, natural peanut butter, honey, chia seeds and a banana or some sort of frozen fruit, such as raspberries.
There may be days where she and her son, Vinny, make waffles instead of oatmeal. She will usually follow this sweet meal with some scrambled or fried eggs and sourdough toast with butter — sometimes an hour after her oatmeal, sometimes straight away!
"I kind of have two breakfasts. Especially when I work out!" she revealed. She'll also include a protein shake two or three times a week.
Breakfast: Oatmeal with almond milk, natural peanut butter, honey, chia seeds, fruit followed by eggs on buttered sourdough toast.
"Lunch is the hardest meal for me!" says Brittany. Lately, she's focused on making extra food at dinner so she can have leftovers for lunch the next day.
"Sometimes it's a grilled cheese and tomato soup if I'm low on time. Sometimes it's peanut butter and jelly! I do snack plates a lot too," she explains. A typical lunch snack plate may incorporate cheese, tuna, apples, avocado, crackers and yogurt.
Lunch: Grilled cheese and tomato soup or a snack plate with cheese, tuna, apples, avocado, crackers and yogurt.
Dinner for Brittany will include a protein which is usually salmon, ground turkey or chicken. But she will change up the flavor profile for variety. For example, one night, the chicken may be in a coconut curry sauce. Another night, it may be cilantro lime chicken.
Her protein will usually be served with rice or potatoes, and some type of vegetable, either steamed or roasted. Her veggie go-tos are broccoli (her absolute favorite!), Brussel sprouts, zucchini and squash.
"We love to roast those (vegetables) with onions and bell peppers!" she says.
Dinner: Cilantro lime chicken with rice and roasted vegetables such as broccoli, onions and bell peppers.
Brittany typically has a snack before dinner but she prefers to have bigger, more filling meals so that she isn't snacking during the day. When she does opt for a snack, she might have a yogurt, like Oikos, and a green smoothie.
"I'll be honest," she says, "sometimes my snacks are cookies! I love to bake. Vinny and I will bake at 3pm, and we'll have a couple of cookies, cookies and milk, so that's our snack!"
She also enjoys pretzel thins, apples and cheese with peanuts, cottage cheese with ranch dressing and vegetables, as well as tuna on cucumber slices.
Snack: Oikos yogurt with a green smoothie and the occasional cookies and milk.
Dessert depends on the day and, she jokes, that time of the month! If she does feel like having dessert, cereal is the treat she craves. When asked which cereal she likes, she laughs and says "Oof...all of them!" And she isn't joking! She likes Rice Krispies, Crispix, Frosted Mini Wheats and every once in a while, she'll get Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Cocoa Puffs. "I could never sit down and eat a chocolate bar."
Favorite Indulgence
While Brittany loves sushi, she says she can't commit to one particular food or indulgence (totally understandable). As a foodie, she's a lover of all foods and is excited to try anything and everything, especially when out at a restaurant with her husband Darian. "I always love to order a dessert. I love everything though!" she grins.
The answer is simple. Candy. "I just don't like candy. I don't! The sour ones, sometimes that will be good. But I could never eat a piece of candy and not be upset about it."
Our Registered Dietitian Analysis
Here's what Kylie Morse, Fit Body's Registered Dietitian has to say about a typical day of eating for Brittany:
"Brittany's typical day of eating is the epitome of intuitive eating. She focuses on eating mainly whole, unprocessed or minimally processed foods, but also indulges when she feels like it. Brittany has openly said on her social media channels that she does not track calories or macros and simply makes adjustments to her intake based on her fitness goals."
Morse continues to say that "it is clear to see that she equally prioritizes the quality of her food as well as variety and taste. Brittany includes a variety of color within all of her meals and includes foods from each food group daily! Because Brittany's fitness goals tend to be focused more on muscle growth and weight maintenance, eating in a caloric deficit is not a priority for her at this time, and she is using nutritious foods to support muscle growth and recovery."
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How Medical Providers Can Fight the Spread of Misinformation
By Annie Hafner Haarmann
The spread of medical misinformation is an age-old problem with devastating consequences in the digital age.
In the pandemic era, nearly three out of four Americans have been exposed to medical or health-related misinformation, and of those exposed, nearly half are unable to discriminate between true health information and misinformation, according to new research from GoodRx. The research further identifies social media as the top source of misinformation – a reality that was underscored recently when Twitter recently rolled back its COVID-19 misinformation policy.
How can healthcare providers fight the spread of misinformation? Part of the solution is fighting fire with fire: using digital, including social media, to identify when medical disinformation is spreading and then combat it.
The State of Medical Misinformation and Disinformation
The U.S. Surgeon General defines misinformation as information that is false, inaccurate, or misleading according to the best available evidence at the time. Misinformation becomes disinformation when it is used to serve a malicious purpose, such as to trick people into believing something for financial gain or political advantage.
Medical disinformation is an American tradition. The well-known phrase "snake oil salesman," which refers to the sale of fake remedies to cure medical ailments, dates back to the 19th Century American West. At the turn of the 20th Century, heroin-laced aspirin was believed to be an effective treatment for children suffering from sore throats, coughs, and colds.
We've come a long way since then – for the worse. Over the past decade, social media has made it possible for misinformation to spread more rapidly than ever. The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic saw misinformation running the gamut from the treatment of the virus to the efficacy and side effects of authorized vaccines. Unfortunately, Americans have been exposed widely to various falsehoods concerning the vaccines.
Even healthcare professionals have participated in the spread of disinformation about vaccines and the virus, which has compelled the American Medical Association to adopt a policy addressing health-related disinformation spread by health professionals.
Americans continue to pay a horrible price. As the U.S. Surgeon General points out, during the pandemic, health misinformation led people to decline vaccines, reject public health measures, and use unproven (and often dangerous) treatments. Health misinformation also led to harassment and violence against health workers and other frontline workers tasked with communicating evolving public health measures.
In addition, misinformation creates one more distraction for medical workers as they respond to patients' concerns and questions fueled by faulty information they found on the internet.
The problem isn't going away anytime soon. Even when social media platforms try to moderate medical disinformation – and let's face it, we continue to see evidence that they are not doing so – they are playing a constant cat-and-mouse game with parties who spread misinformation.
Algorithms that reward engagement on social media continue to help medical disinformation go viral. We've seen the phenomenon continue even as the pandemic has waned in recent months. For example, a recent wave of misinformation surrounded the drug Ozempic, which is intended to treat Type 2 diabetes. A false rumor that Ozempic can assist in weight loss circulated on social media, causing market shortages for Type 2 diabetes patients who need it for more serious health purposes.
What Can Providers Do?
For medical providers seeking solutions to combat the problem, facing the limitations of the individual is an important factor. The reality is that while no singular individual will completely stop the spread of misinformation, a measurable impact is possible. Closely monitoring healthcare trends and ensuring accuracy in self-published content are low-investment actions that all medical providers can take immediately.
First, medical providers can use social media monitoring tools and online reputation management software to detect misinformation as it spreads. No single human or even a team can monitor all misinformation. But a social listening tool or even an online reputation management company can help by using artificial intelligence to spot misinformation as it bubbles up to the surface. Additionally, these tools often spotlight posts going viral among specific communities and offer providers the opportunity to report these to the platforms for review and possible removal.
Second, providers can drown out false information by developing, publishing, and sharing accurate, compelling health information content with the communities they serve. Several health systems are known for sharing high-quality health education content. For instance:
The Mayo Clinic, like many providers, devotes a section of its website to answering commonly asked questions about COVID-19 and vaccines. The posts are written in a friendly, accessible style designed to dispel misinformation by providing good-quality information.
The Cleveland Clinic on Twitter is a constant source of useful, accurate tips on healthy living. The Cleveland Clinic does not explicitly attack misinformation. Trying to call out harmful tweets and responding to them would be a full-time job, and a futile one. Instead, the Cleveland Clinic, like the Mayo Clinic, reinforces accurate information with its posts.
Every healthcare consumer deserves access to safe, reliable healthcare – and that includes health education. By addressing the social media misinformation crisis head-on, providers can help support consumers along the entire patient journey, from awareness to care access.
Annie Hafner Haarmann
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Annie Hafner Haarmann is Head of Consumer Experience Strategy, North America at Reputation where she counsels leading healthcare brands, including Banner Health, Advocate Healthcare, Sutter Health, Kindred, KootenaiHealth, and Stanford Health care.
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I was a complete space cadet and forgot to take pictures of this week's highlights. How could I do that?! It started with a great first birthday for my niece, Hadleigh. Hopefully I will get some pictures and share them, but am completely disappointed in myself for not taking a single one of my own! Worst Aunt ever! Other than that I guess this week was pretty low key. Nothing super fun happened, but sometimes those are the best. I would go to work and come home, make dinner, and catch up on our TV shows. It really doesn't get much better than that!
I did however, have a few other fun high five's I thought I'd share!
This was such a surprise and definitely the highlight of my week! My sister and mom pitched in and got me an embroidery machine! I have been lusting over them, but never thought that I would get one anytime soon, much less now! I was dropping mad hints to Christopher for my birthday but now it looks like he's off the hook! Can't wait to start embroidering anything and everything I can get my hands on!
Christopher got a new desk chair and Milo now thinks his old one is his. How can I say no to that face?!
This was my Thirsty Thursday. I can't say no to a bottle of Loosen.
As you all saw yesterday, I made this terrific pom pom necklace! Make one for yourself with my tutorial!
Like I said, I was a bit of a space cadet this week so when I was stranded 20 miles from home by my work because I had no gas OR my credit card to get gas, Christopher had to come out to me to give me the card I forgot at home. So to make a bad situation bearable, we went to dinner at Il Fornaio. We had some gift cards to use, so it beat sitting in traffic!
I hope everyone had a GREAT week and are ready for a spring-like weekend. We are finally getting some good weather just in time for Easter!
I love the "Saw it. Pinned it. Did it." link up because it forces me to actually make the things I pin on Pinterest and stop pretend pinning. This week's inspiration came from Little Miss Momma for her Pom Pom Necklace. I absolutely fell in love with it and realized I needed a red one for my wardrobe!
One of the most annoying things about doing a craft off Pinterest is having to buy all the supplies. Luckily for me, this necklace didn't require much, in fact I had everything except the chain which I picked up at Michael's for a whopping $2.
As you can see this project doesn't require that much of either fabric so I used scraps I had laying around the house.
The first step is to cut 5 circles from the felt about 1-1.5 inches in diameter. As you can see below, they do not have to be perfect.
Next, I used a felt circle as my template for the red ones and cut about 10 at a time. I made one pom pom first and found that it took 10 for each circle. I continued to cut all 50 red circles.
Once all your circles are cut, take each individual circle and bunch it. Then glue the tip and place in the center of one of the felt circles. You will continue to do this for all 10 of the red circles you cut.
Once all your pom poms are made, you will want to arrange them on the remainder of the felt you have. Then one at a time, you will glue them bottom three down. Do NOT glue the top two yet.
Take your chain and glue it to each of the top pom poms about an inch down to make the necklace more stable. Once that is done you can glue these to the felt just as you did for the other three.
If for some reason you don't have the time or desire to make one yourself, I will be giving one lucky reader their very own pom pom necklace as a special thank you for reaching 100 followers! (Just need a few more followers before I host the giveaway!
As for now, I'm linking up with Stephanie @ Beautiful Mess and Katie @Keep Calm & Carry On for SPD! Happy Crafting!
Made it through one of the hardest weeks, in my opinion, for dieting: week one. This is the week that you go from eating whatever you want when you want it to actually counting points and making conscious decisions to eat the right thing.
So here it goes, the scale says I'm down 3 lbs and that is more than I could have hoped for! Every pound lost is one step closer to getting where I want to be.
Since week one is traditionally the hardest week for me because I suffer withdrawl from the things I love, sugar, soda, and fatty foods I decided to not start a work out regiment until week two. Now that I have the eating thing down I can start running and lifting weights again.
All-in-all I'm happy with how this week went and hope for some big numbers again for week two!
I promise this will be the last time you have to hear about Fish Extenders (at least until I go on another Disney cruise)! But ever since I've been back, I've had people asking me how it went. And I must say, my experience was WONDERFUL! I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to be associated with for my first time!
If you have kids and are going on a Disney cruise, then this is a MUST! We don't have kids, but even my husband (who didn't understand what I was doing this when we started) was getting into it. Nearly every time we came back to our cabin we had gifts waiting for us and it was so much fun to see what everyone else did. So much creativity!
Here is a quick glimpse of everything we received. I still can't believe the thought and time that was put in to each and every one of these gifts!
This Minnie Mouse pot holder was hand made! Above it are coffee cup sleeves that resemble Mickey's outfit.
We got a collection of bookmarks and CDs as well as notebooks. Another thoughtful and useful gift was the laminated index card that served as a quick reference guide for main areas of the ship. SUPER helpful for first time cruisers for sure!
Here are some trading pins, flashlights, key chains, tissues, sanitizer and a variety of other useful things that I actually ended up using while on board!
We decorated our door with this awesome dry erase board and magnets. I was bad and forgot to get a picture of our door on the last day of the cruise with everything on it!
We got three awesome pre-made scrapbooks that are only missing our pictures from the week. Talk about making it easy on us to document the trip. I thought this was a GREAT idea!
My only regret would be not having the means to properly thank everyone. Contact information such as an email address would have been nice to be able to send personal notes back. Hopefully some people will read this and see how truly grateful I am for all the goodies we got!
What did I give? In case you missed it from previous posts, here is what made!
Happy Monday everyone! I'm linking up with Molly @ still being Molly for YOLO Monday's!
I had so many things to high five about over the last few weeks, but wanted to try and share some things I haven't shared yet.
This is my second time flying into Vegas and you really can't beat the view. I'm so used to flying on the east coast over water that this mountain view was truly breathtaking.
I know this photo was on yesterday's post, but it was so nice to get my HDR editing software (Photomatix) up and running on my new computer! Gave me some inspiration to take more HDR pictures!
Can't beat a good view of the Vegas strip. Again, I've only been twice so it still amazes me.
This was the last night of our cruise and I FINALLY got a picture with Minnie in her cruise outfit! LOVE!
I literally just realized St. Patrick's day is Sunday and I have no plans! Must find an Irish Pub and drink a beer at the very least. Good luck to all my friends who are running any races this weekend! I'm going to be back out there soon!
I am finally getting back to reality this week from vacation and a quick work trip to Vegas. I apologize for the lack of posting this week. As promised, I am going to dedicate this post to pictures of our trip! We had such a great time and would recommend a Disney cruise to anyone and everyone, whether you have kids or not.
These first few photos are some HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos that I took while on the trip. What is HDR you ask? The easiest way to explain it is that I take 3 quick pictures of the same object at 3 different exposure settings (my camera allows me to auto set up my exposures. I use -2, 0 and 2). Then you upload them to an editing software (I use Photomatix) and it will layer the 3 photos on top of each other to give it a real nice enhanced effect. I will post a tutorial maybe later, but for now here are some of my favorite HDR photos I did real fast. Please note: I am by no means a professional photographer and do not put these pictures up claiming I am. This is just a fun hobby.
I forgot to take an HDR photo of the Fantasy ship so this is from our last cruise on the Disney Dream.
Isn't she adorable?! I LOVED that this was the main lobby statue!
The lobby bar was a perfect subject for an HDR photo because of the lighting.
Castaway Cay is Disney's private island.
We went to see the Mayan ruins in Costa Maya and they were truly amazing. I don't think I've ever seen something that old!
Now on to some other photos from our trip. These aren't even close to all of them, but figured it was a good sampling of our trip!
Large portholes big enough to sit in and nap or read a book are everywhere on this ship! Even some rooms have them!
This deck always reminded me of the scene from Titanic where Rose takes a stroll on the deck to ask about the life boats. I love the design of Disney ships because they model them after the Transatlantic ships like Titanic with the large portholes and wooden deck chairs.
In Costa Maya they fly the Mexican flag and then the Disney Cruise Line flag.
I couldn't get a good picture with Ariel for the life of me! This blurry one will just have to do.
On the Mayan Ruins in Costa Maya!
Christopher taking a rest during our tour of the ruins.
The Aqua Duck is the only water roller coaster on a cruise ship. I road it 6 times!
The top deck at night is so pretty all lit up!
At the start of dinner one night we were told to draw little characters. During dessert they animated them to music and made them a cartoon! Mine is the 3rd one from the left!
I love these giant lizards!
Our cabana while we were at the private beach as part of our excursion.
Disney is the ONLY cruise ship that does fireworks! Of course they do! Pictures don't do it justice.
Found Jack Sparrow on Castaway Cay!


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Black Steel Curved Bars with Black Steel Shimmer Balls in 1.6mm gauge with 4mm or 5mm balls on either end, in lengths from 8mm to 12mm (10mm is standard). Often used as an eyebrow bar, this bar can be used in many parts of the body, including the navel. Also available in other material colours.


Buoyed by beautiful weather and lower fuel prices, more Florida boaters took to the water this holiday season compared to last year, according to Sea Tow International.
Sea Tow franchises in the Sunshine State reported a 38 percent increase in on-water assistance calls between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day, and nearly all locations reported a general increase in boating traffic.
Sea Tow's national 24-hour call center saw a 53 percent rise in calls for assistance over 2007.


One of the main questions we get asked by our Jersey Beauty customers is how to deal with open and enlarged pores. There are some skincare products that boast the ability to shrink pores but how possible is this? Understanding what causes enlarged pores, why they are open and what makes them more visible is key to knowing what you can do to treat your pores.
The first thing to say is that all pores are open. This is really important for healthy functioning skin. Your pores allow sebum produced by the sebaceous glands to leave the skin to form the lipid barrier. In fact when your pores are clogged up or blocked this can cause issues.
So it isn't open pores that are the issue. It is when some pores are larger or more visible than others. Why does this happen?
There are two main reasons as to why your pores size changes as your skin ages.
Firstly, your cell turnover slows down. When you are younger, your skin cells renew themselves roughly every thirty days. This is a process call demasquation. As you get older, this process naturally slows down, meaning it takes longer to get rid of dead skin cells. This can result in pores getting clogged up more easily with oil and dead skin cells. This can enlarge pores and also make them more visible, with more blackheads.
Secondly, as you age your collagen and elastin levels naturally decrease. Collagen is what keeps your face looking plump and elstain is what keeps your skin taut. When these decrease due to a slower turnover of cells, your skin can start to sag and look hollow. This can make pores look larger and more visible.
What can I do about my visible, enlarged pores?
At Jersey Beauty we are all about healthy, happy skin. When it comes to pores, there are some steps you can take to treat open, enlarged pores. They will not only help to reduce the visibility of pores but will also help your skin to be healthier.
As you age and your cell turnover rate decreases naturally, your skin needs some help with resurfacing. This is the process of shedding dead skin cells, oil and debris and encouraging renewal.
Depending on your unique skin, you may want to use a daily exfoliator - like Dermalogica Daily Superfoliant which has activated binchotan charcoal to draw junk out of the pores.
For a leave on exfoliant, Dermalogica Daily Resurfacer has a powerful combination of beta hydroxy acid Salicylic Acid, to resurface the skin by exfoliating surface stratum corneum cells and alpha hydroxy acids Apple Fruit Extract and Sugar Cane Extract, to stimulate cell renewal and turnover while gently helping to slough surface cells.
Sometimes we misunderstand face masks - thinking they are just an occasional treat and a way to destress. But the truth is the right face mask can be a key part of your regular skincare routine, boosting the treatment of specific skin concerns.
For open pores, Sand & Sky Brilliant Skin Australian Pink Clay Mask is a great choice for refining pores, with deep cleaning action. Australian pink clay, also known as kaolin, is a magnet for oil and impurities, drawing them out of your pores. The difference over time is that this mask can refine your pores, making them appear less visible as the gunk is cleared out.
Steam can be a really effective tool for your skin but only if you know how to use it right, and what its purpose is! A lot of us wrongly think that steam opens up pores - actually it works to loosen dirt in your pores. Which can be great for open pores that have gathered dirt.
How do you steam right?
Cleanse first - you should steam skin that has already been cleansed to get maximum benefit. Remove any makeup and surface dirt with your regular cleanser before steaming.
Only steam once a week for five to ten minutes - you can over-steam, which can dry out the skin. So use this method once a week after cleansing to loosen dirt in the pores.
can use steam to open your pores to extract dirt and then follow with cold water to seal.
RInse with cold water - this helps to remove the dirt that has been lifted from your pores and also the cool water will help to seal the skin again to avoid any water loss.
Do you wish you had a healthy skin glow? You need to make sure you're cleansing properly. Radiant skin is a sign of skin health, dull skin, on the other hand, is often a sign of ineffective cleansing.
When it comes to living with enlarged pores that may seem visible to you, using a primer can be a brilliant way of disguising open pores and making your complexion look more even.
Dermalogica HydraBlur Primer can be used either underneath makeup or as an alternative to foundation if you don't often wear makeup or want a lighter look. It has a micro-encapsulated tint which provides an even coverage to every skin tone, like an Instagram filter in a tube, and also has mushroom extract, a natural astringent which can help pores appear less visible.
It can be really tempting… when you have breakouts… to squeeze or pick spots. But this can cause lasting damage to the skin and can also push the bacteria inside the pore further into the skin. Instead of squeezing, try a targeted treatment - like Dermalogica Clear Start Breakout Clearing Booster, which has a combination of salicylic acid, which helps to clear out the infected area, and Thymol and Terpineoil (TT) Complex and Phytoplankton Extract, which works with the skin's natural microbiome to reduce breakout-causing bacteria while preserving 'good' bacteria.
Dermalogica Clear Start Blackhead Clearing Fizz Mask is a targeted treatment for blackheads and blocked pores. Its unique fizzing formula allows the active ingredients to get deep into pores to cleanse effectively.
If you have been tempted to squeeze spots in the past and have been left with inflammation marks and deeper inflammation, using a product with Vitamin C can help to reduce the visibility of open pores.
One of the problems with Vitamin C is that it isn't the most stable active ingredient and can start to destabilise as soon as it is exposed to the air. This can make it hard to get enough of the goodness from Vitamin C for your skin. Dermalogica Biolumin C Serum has a ultra stable form of Vitamin C at 4.7% , making it a really potent source of this skin healing and protecting ingredient.
When it comes to open pores, one of the mistakes a lot of us make is to skip moisturiser. We can wrongly think that this will clog pores and make the problem worse. But the thing is - a great moisturiser is a key to skin health. It's all about choosing the right one for your unique skin.
If you have open, enlarged pores you need a lightweight moisturiser that is brilliant at hydrating your skin. This will make it appear glowing, by feeding it with nutrients. If you continually skip this step, over time your skin's structure will begin to deteriorate. Open pores and sagging skin are one of the results of deteriorating skin.
When it comes to treating open pores, it is really important to first understand what causes your pores to enlarge and the best ways to treat your skin. Whilst some beauty companies offer 'miracle' solutions to what is actually a natural occurrence, we believe that the most important thing is to have happy, healthy skin. Your pores may be enlarged but they don't need to be full of gunk or causing breakouts. You can have remarkable skin whatever your age and skin concerns, once you know how to treat your unique skin!
Learn more about your skin by downloading our free Ultimate Guide to Skincare - with sections for every age and skin concerns, you'll find answers to your questions and great product recommendations.


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Lucha Underground Season 3 has begun! The Final Say has got you covered with a full review of the Season Premiere! Jay Baca also joins in to discuss CM Punk's MMA debut at this upcoming weekend's UFC 203 event, and Handsome Dan takes a brief departure from pro wrestling to rant about all the social justice talk on social media. We've got all your bases covered on this week's edition of The Final Say!
"Handsome" Dan explains the exchange he had with Dave Meltzer on Twitter that he hinted at last week, exposes the dirty tactics of wrestling dirt sheets, and makes a comparison between pro wrestling and music all in one episode. Come expand your IQ!
Handsome Dan encourages wrestling fans to take The Pepsi Challenge and switch to Lucha Underground for a week and see if they don't fall in love with wrestling all over again.
In a SPECIAL presentation of WLW Studios, The Smartest Man Not In Professional Wrestling is back and in light of Global Force Wrestling's recent roster reveal, he's calling on all promoters to look to an underutilized talent pool to revolutionize the industry and it's not who you might think. Time to go to school!


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SNIPER: SPECIAL OPS (DVD Release Netherlands 2016)
Sniper: Special Ops has a terrific title but does not deliver on the title. Most of the challenge revolves around portrayal of story line. Steven Segal does not assume his character role well nor do the rest of the cast. The supporting cast has the brawn, but do not have the acting ability to put the story across well on screen. It seems not enough budget has been allowed for special effects so that some of the fault in the movie could be partially redeemed in outstanding effects.
Special Ops team disobeys orders and returns to a village to rescue soldiers.
Thank you to Director Fred Olen Ray for directing effort. Thank you to Executive Producers Zelma Kiwi and Steven Seagal for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: Jake (Steven Seagal), Vasquez (Rob Van Dam), Vic (Tim Abell), Janet (Charlene Amola), Rich (Daniel Booko), Tyler (Jason-Shane Scott), Bashir (Anthony Batarse), Marcus (Gerald Webb), Doc (Jeff Bosley), Miller (Matthew Anderson), Charlie (Paul Logan), Cooper (John Henry Richardson), Jackson (Dale Dye), Jada (Rita Khori), and Abdul (Shary Nassimi).
No. Try the movie Sniper (1993) instead. Sniper allows deeper insight into the life of a sniper and the grit it takes to execute this occupation.


Happy Tuesday! Last week I showed you everything you should be doing with your IMDb profile. This week we're continuing our series on actors' online presence by going over one of the most important tools an actors needs: An Actors Access profile!
When a Casting Director posts a role, they used Breakdown Services, and release it to Agents and Managers, and sometimes Actors. From there, your agent or manager submits you, but they use your Actors Access profile to do it! It is vital that you maintain and update your profile because this is the first thing Casting sees when they see your submission.
You want to make sure you have performance footage (clips or a reel), a SlateShot, an updated resume, and the right photos. I explain each and why you need them in the video, so be sure to watch below!
I know that you have lots of questions, and I want to make it easy for you to get them answered. Do you have a burning question that you want me to answer in Guru Tips For Actors? Email us your questions and we'll address it in a future #GuruTips episode!
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Thanks again for the VERY helpful pointers, Ajarae!
But I am going to get my SlateShots done when I re-do my head shots shortly. Thanks for the headsup!
thank you so much for all your helpful videos. Above is my profile. I always want to edit to be proficient & proactive. As for slate shots, I just heard from a very prominent casting director that if you have media, it is unnecessary to have slate shots. She said it could actually give someone a reason to say no. She said any media moves you up & that slate shots are for moving those without media up. I would like to poll those out there on the other side. Any thoughts on that?
I am yet to do a slate shot and I have heard some differing opinions about them – do you think that having a slate is very important?
Hey there, Esther! I think performance video is more important for sure… but a slate shot is helpful because of the default viewing order that I mention in the video. One is free, so why not?


A staple feature from this season's Air Max 1 releases this iteration of the 1987 footwear icon draws the attention in a subtle Desert Ore colourway with white contrast detailing. Keeping to the original silhouette this version sees the upper drawn up using a combination of breathable textile teamed up alongside nubuck panelling. Sitting on top of an Air Max midsole with visible air bubble at the heel and a rubber outsole the model is completed with a lace up fastening system, swoosh detailing to the both sidewalls, embroidered Nike Air branding to the heel and a woven Nike Air Max label to the tongue. Easy to wear throughout the season try combining with a pair of worn in denim from the likes of Profound Aesthetic for an authentic finish to a street-wear look over the coarse of the coming months.


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By Monica P. Hawkins
It has been a difficult month for the United States and for the world. Over the past weeks, protests at the University of Missouri and Yale University have raised tensions about deep-seated race issues. In France and Lebanon, terrorists have killed dozens of innocent people. Across Europe, refugees are fleeing from life-threatening situations to find peace and safety.
The world is hurting. While they are immensely complex, these problems stem, at least in part, from a clash of differences. Nations, religious groups, racial groups and cultures have failed to understand or empathize with each other. At the same time, the world is becoming smaller, and people are clamoring to be heard and respected. We seem to be at a crossroads, and the ways we act and react will shape our world's future.
Too often, people respond to these kinds of tragedies with hatred and discrimination, the same problems that have led us down this road. Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, Poland's government announced it would no longer take part in the EU's refugee resettlement plan. In the U.S., a number of politicians have similarly rejected refugees. Some have even suggested admitting only Christian refugees.
Ted Cruz argued there is "no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror," while Syrian Muslims pose a risk to the United States. His argument, which ignores the acts of terror committed by Christians, perpetuates an "us vs. them" mentality based purely on religion.
In times of fear and hardship, it can be easy to reject people who fall into an oversimplified "other" category. These kinds of responses are all too common. Today, we may want to look back to Martin Luther King Jr., who, in the face of massive discrimination and fear, consistently promoted unity.
In his famous final speech on April 3, 1968, King proclaimed his belief that people of all colors are children of God. He stated, "Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee — the cry is always the same. … We've got to stay together and maintain unity."
He continued that we must fight for each other, and we must try to bring other people out of oppression, even if we ourselves are not oppressed. King advised, "Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together."
In troubling times, it's natural to feel afraid. It's natural to want to put our security first and to minimize any possible threats. However, we shouldn't let our fears compromise our values, and we shouldn't allow fear to take away our compassion for fellow humans. King recognized the importance of standing up to fear. In fact, as he prepared to give his April 3 speech, his life was under threat. On his way to Memphis, his flight had been delayed by a bomb threat. In his speech, King acknowledged those threats and called the white men who had threatened him "brothers." He called on everyone listening to stand unified and to "rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering." The following evening, King was assassinated while standing on his hotel balcony. He died holding onto a conviction that the world was moving toward equality and harmony; that we were moving toward the promised land.
These times of fear will test our values. If we claim to value freedom, equality and compassion, we must exercise those values and extend those rights to others. Poverty, oppression and discrimination will breed crime, anger and division. We can't fix all of these problems with good will alone, but we can all participate in the fight to lift others out of oppression and suffering. We can open ourselves up to compassion and empathy instead of closing ourselves off with fear and misplaced hatred. We must recognize that diversity strengthens, not weakens us.
As global leaders, we can take the lead in promoting these positive values. On an organizational level, we must recognize the importance of diversity, and we must enforce the necessity of respect for all. We also have the opportunity to work internationally and build bridges of trust. Both within your organization and outside of it, extend yourself beyond your familiar networks to engage with others and form new connections. Engage in open conversations about your observations about the world. You may want to speak in particular about the challenge of conflict and how it might affect your organization.
Keep in mind that you, as a global leader, have a unique and informed world perspective. You can share your knowledge with others, and you can also stay open to continuously learning from other leaders around you. Within your community, recognize that you are a leader. As a leader, your voice matters. Use your impact to promote compassion, empathy and respect. As always, you can use your position as a global leader to positively shape the world around you.
The night before he died, King said, "I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars." Amid all this darkness, let's all strive to see the stars.
Monica P. Hawkins is CEO of PPDG and is an adviser to Fortune 1000 C-suite executives across the globe, focusing on alignment of business objectives with talent management systems and learning agendas.
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Tekke in urban Nandyal of Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, is home to a population of 1,720 persons. Residents mostly belong to a single community of the Malas, who are registered as a Scheduled Caste (SC) group in Andhra Pradesh. Telugu is the main language. 89 percent of the households lie below the poverty line.
Daily wage work is the primary livelihood option of the residents settled here. Domestic work is more common among the women. This community is well-connected to a Primary Health Centre and a hospital.
Magic Bus began working in this community since 2014. There are 89 children on our programme here.
Magic Bus' work in this community is made possible with the support of our donor, Jayshree Patel.


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Reading Between the Wines | Poet Jillian Weise & Writer April Ayers Lawson
November 21st 2019 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us on Thursday, November 21 at 6 p.m. for Reading Between the Wines with writers Jillian Weise and April Ayers Lawson!
Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. Her first book The Amputee's Guide to Sex was reissued in a 10th anniversary edition with a new preface. The Book of Goodbyes won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2013 Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Her speculative novel The Colony features Darwin, James Watson and Peter Singer.
Weise's essays have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, The New York Times and Tin House. Her work has been anthologized in About Us, The Writer's Presence, The Manifesto Project, Disability Studies Reader, Please Excuse this Poem and elsewhere.
Praise for Cyborg Detective
"Jillian Weise is simply among the small league of my favorite poets on earth. With Cyborg Detective she's even more so." — Eileen Myles
"Populated with a variety of voices that speak with a sort of sly candor that can only be prompted by the most intimate inquiries, this book is a true ventriloquist act," writes Cate Marvin.
April Ayers Lawson is the author of Virgin and Other Stories, which was named Best Book Of The Year by The Irish Times and Vice, and Best Foreign Book Of The Year by Spain's Qué Leer Magazine.
April's fiction has appeared in Paris Review, Granta, Die Welt, ZYZZYVA, and Oxford American, among others, and has been cited as notable in Best American Short Stories, featured by Huffington Post, and anthologized in The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in Der Spiegel, Granta, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung Magazine, and has been named a Most Popular Read Of The Year by Granta.
She teaches at Clemson University and at Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing Workshop.
Praise for Virgin and Other Stories
New York Times calls it "confident" and "unnerving" | Los Angeles Times says "filled with heart and breath and life" | NPR: "Against a background of suppressed passions and sublimation, Virgin And Other Stories zeroes in on the hard-won, highly charged moments of awakening in these conflicted lives" | Kirkus Review: "a meaty, satisfying tales of a substance that suggests Lawson would make a fine novelist."
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An urban land-cover classification of the 900 km2 comprising the UK West Midland metropolitan area was generated for the purpose of facilitating stratified environmental survey and sampling. The classification grouped the 900 km2 into eight urban land-cover classes. Input data to the classification algorithms were derived from spatial land-cover data obtained from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and from the UK Ordnance Survey. These data provided a description of each km2 in terms of the contributions to the land cover of 25 attributes (e.g. open land, urban, villages, motorway, etc.). The dimensionality of the land-cover dataset was reduced using principal component analysis, and eight urban classes were derived by cluster analysis using an agglomeration technique on the extracted components. The resulting urban land-cover classes reflected groupings of 1 km2 pixels with similar urban land morphology. Uncertainties associated with this agglomerative classification were investigated in detail using fuzzy-type analyses. Our study is the first report of a quantitative investigation of uncertainty associated with a classification of this type. The resulting classification for the UK West Midland metropolitan area offers an impartial basis for a wide range of environmental and ecological surveys. The methods used can be adapted readily to other metropolitan areas where generic urban features (e.g. roads, housing density) are gridded.


Never rush back to your dorm in a panic ever again.
Because one man's misspelling is another's favorite tote bag.
Put your wine knowledge to the test in a 5 part wine course.
Learning to love food again after a family tragedy.
This NYT food critic and Penn alum shares his thoughts on Rhode Island cuisine, viral restaurant reviews, and the greater meaning of food.
Street's Chinatown bakery, crafts, bubble tea and restaurant picks.
Coffee may be your go–to for studying or staying up late, but tea has its own charms.
Comfort food worth crossing the road for.
A peek behind the activity within Hungry Pigeon, Philly Mag's best restaurant winner.
Add a little aesthetic balance to your caffeine addiction.
Free food, with a dose of Foucault.
This Chinatown Speakeasy has strict rules, stiff drinks, and a whole lotta atmosphere.
Sad seniors plate a three–course dinner at 1920 Commons.
This Peruvian spot is serving up fresh, colorful seafood with style.


Deportivo La Coruna coach Gaizka Garitano claims Real Madrid are given an unfair advantage from officials when they play at home.
Garitano's charges enjoyed a 2-1 lead over Zinedine Zidane's side on Saturday, but then conceded an equaliser from Mariano Mejia in the 84th minute before Sergio Ramos netted a winner in the dying seconds to deny the visitors a point.
Los Blancos were able to maintain their six-point lead at the top of La Liga thanks to the win, and a disillusioned Garitano didn't mince his words after the 3-2 defeat, insisting that an unfair amount of stoppage-time was tacked on.
"[Madrid] have a lot of power at the end, when five minutes are added on when there was almost no time we knew we'd play until they scored," Garitano said in a post-match interview.
"In the Bernabeu, there is more added time, until Real Madrid score the final whistle doesn't blow."


Metatronia Therapy® is a light energy healing system of the highest order and is brought through Archangel Metatron at this time to assist humanity in moving into our next stage of evolution. It is not a new healing modality, but an ancient, sacred resonance. This is not like Reiki. It is of a completely different light frequency and vibrational patterning. As the frequency and vibration of the Earth increases and up-shifts, so too are our own physical bodies and energetic fields surrounding the body. In order for this process to be done smoothly and effectively and for us to hold more 'Light', our own bodies and fields must first be cleared of the density we have accumulated over time. In essence, what is occurring for us is that we are moving out of the density of our carbon based bodies to becoming Light-filled beings. Simply put, Metatronia Therapy is 'Alignment to Source - the Pure Light of the Creator'.
In a healing session which usually lasts from 45-60 minutes, Metatron brings through the purest Light through the human vessel and surrounding energy fields using Light Codings, colour and sacred geometric symbols bringing through a healing frequency that brings re-alignment on many, many deep levels helping us to shift and raise our energy signature, bringing in new and more uplifting ways of being, doing and thinking.
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Regulatory Focus™ > News Articles > Australia's TGA Reduces Timelines for GMP Clearance Applications
Australia's TGA Reduces Timelines for GMP Clearance Applications
Posted 03 September 2015 | By Zachary Brennan
Although the Australian regulator admits that it's still seeing extended processing timelines, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) says that it has cut the average time taken to evaluate a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) GMP clearance application by about 10 weeks since June.
Back in May 2011, TGA began mandating that Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) clearance applications were required for all medicines supplied in Australia. As part of that process, TGA put out two guidance documents for sponsors who rely on overseas drug manufacturers in order to provide more information about what is an acceptable form of evidence to confirm GMP compliance, and how to submit such an application.
TGA lays out a number of requirements in the guidance and said it expects sponsors to "remain vigilant" in ensuring the regulatory compliance of the overseas manufacturing sites they use.
Between 2011 and 2015, the number of overseas manufacturers increased dramatically and TGA says the number of GMP Clearance applications has more than doubled. In 2014-15 a total of 5,384 applications were received, which compares with 4,222 applications in 2013-14 and 2,418 in 2010-2011.
"This has created a backlog of applications and has extended processing times. To address this, we have focused on reducing the largest part of the backlog, namely applications for manufacturers located in countries with whom Australia has Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA applications)," the TGA said.
And now TGA is reaping the rewards of those efforts as the average time taken to complete an MRA GMP Clearance application has fallen from 16 weeks in June 2015, to an average of six weeks as of 14 August 2015.
Furthermore, analysis of the GMP Clearance applications processed shows that 90% of the MRA applications finalized in the week of 12 to 17 June 2015 were completed within 24 weeks of payment receipt, whereas 90% of the applications finalized in the week of 13 to 17 July 2015 were completed within 19 weeks of payment receipt. And as of 14 August 2015, 90% of the MRA applications are being completed within 11 weeks of payment receipt.
"To allow tracking of our progress on reducing the backlog, we have started gathering data relating to the total processing time (from the date payment is receipted to the date GMP clearance is issued) for each MRA application finalised since mid-June 2015," TGA says.
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Blood spot tests set to replace costly vials
Blood spot tests set to…
By Belinda Willis, The Lead South Australia
Blood testing technology developed by South Australian medical researchers is poised to transform the nutrition industry.
Adelaide-based Trajan Nutrition is starting to market its new nutrition testing globally after proving the technique can replace costly and time-consuming vial blood testing with a simple finger prick.
The team is looking to break into the United States, European and Asian markets targeting five key customer groups: researchers, pathology labs, vitamin supplement companies, health insurers and corporations.
"After preparatory work we are now at development stage, we're almost ready to start training our global team to start promoting," Trajan Nutrition chief executive officer Marco Baccanti said.
Baccanti said the technique would have a major impact on the nutrition industry by cutting testing costs, improving efficiencies and reducing the need for invasive blood testing for patients.
He said the blood spot testing had numerous potential income streams.
Vitamin supplement companies for example could provide customers with a testing kit where they could make a blood spot at home, dab it onto specially created paper, then send it to a lab for testing before they bought their products.
"This could offer people the opportunity to first see if their diet is imbalanced," Baccanti said.
"Pathology labs can also now start using this methodology with far less invasive collection of blood of patients and using faster analytics and more cost effective techniques."
The breakthrough includes the development of special contaminant-free paper to protect the specific blood compounds being tested. Solvents have also been developed to help transfer the dried blood samples from the paper to testing instruments.
University of Adelaide Professor of Functional Food Science Robert Gibson began work on the technology 10 years ago with Professor Maria Makrides.
Prof Makrides is one of Australia's leading research experts into the nutritional needs of mothers and their babies, she leads the Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children Theme of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) in Adelaide.
Both professors now also lead Trajan Nutrition, after making the breakthrough while overseeing large clinical nutrition trials of mothers and babies throughout the Asia Pacific Region.
Prof Gibson said the work was sparked by the mothers and babies trials initially relying on costly and invasive blood vial sampling.
"Measuring blood samples for thousands of babies is costly in transporting traditional blood in vials, it needs to be frozen and then sent back via special dry ice post to the lab," Prof Gibson said.
"And imagine a pre-term baby is very small, many only weight 500g and have very little blood, now we don't have to take large blood volumes, we only take a drop.
"It's more efficient, less painful and that means lower cost in training blood-taking nurses, now it can be done with this little automatic lancer that pricks the top of a finger."
Melbourne-based Trajan Scientific and Medical established the joint venture with Prof Makrides and Prof Gibson in 2017 and since then the technique has been trialled and tested in the Australian market.
Trajan Nutrition chief executive officer Marco Baccanti and University of Adelaide Professor of Functional Food Science Robert Gibson.
A recently signed Memorandum of Understanding with SAHMRI was expected to accelerate moves into the global market as the company leveraged expertise from the SAHMRI nutrition lab, recognised as one of the largest and best equipped in the Asia Pacific region.
"We are one of the leading labs now at developing the new dry blood spot tests for a variety of nutrients and compounds," Prof Gibson said.
Baccanti was previously chief executive of the state's Health Industries SA, where he was responsible for economic development in the life sciences sector.
Over his four-year tenure, Baccanti oversaw the establishment of 23 companies with more than 600 new direct jobs, clinical research investments from 10 overseas biotech companies and numerous university-industry collaborations.
He said this world-leading blood testing research needed to be matched with a company to commercialise – and creating Trajan Nutrition with Trajan Scientific and Medical meant it now had capacity for manufacturing and distribution.
Trajan was founded in 2011 and operates in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia with around 450 employees and customers in more than 100 countries.
Baccanti said the new blood spot testing kits and associated analysis would meet growing demand around the world for blood tests to move away from hospitals and dedicated blood test sites.
"In future we will stay at home and will receive modern technology posted to the home, we will use the test and post the paper back to the lab," he said.
"This type of need is global and it has started with an invention and solution at SAHMRI for nutrition testing."
This article originally appeared at The Lead SA.
By Editor February 20, 2020
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