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Bradley v. Bowen, 660 F. Supp. 276 (W.D. Ark. 1987)
US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - 660 F. Supp. 276 (W.D. Ark. 1987)
660 F. Supp. 276 (1987)
Barbara BRADLEY, Plaintiff,
Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant.
Civ. No. 86-1064.
United States District Court, W.D. Arkansas, El Dorado Division.
May 8, 1987.
*277 Larry W. Chandler, Magnolia, Ark., for plaintiff.
Larry McCord, Fort Smith, Ark., for defendant.
RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation.
This is a petition for judicial review under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) of the final decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The plaintiff, Mrs. Barbara Bradley, had applied for social-security benefits as a disabled widow under 42 U.S.C. § 402(e). An Administrative Law Judge determined that she was not entitled to benefits, and her request for review of that decision was denied by the Appeals Council on March 10, 1986. The decision of the ALJ therefore stands as the final decision of the Secretary. Before the Court are the administrative record and cross motions for summary judgment.
In order to qualify for social-security benefits as the widow of a wage earner, a person: (1) must be the widow of a wage earner who died fully insured; (2) must not be remarried; (3) must be at least 50 years old; (4) must be under a disability as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 423(d); and (5) must have become disabled within seven years after the latest of the date of death of the wage earner, expiration of mother's benefits, or expiration of previous widow's benefits. 42 U.S.C. § 402(e).
Mrs. Bradley is over 50 years of age, is the widow of a fully insured wage earner, and has not remarried. She last received mother's benefits in September of 1983, and therefore is well within the seven-year period. The only matter in dispute is whether she is disabled within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 423(d).
Mrs. Bradley bases her claim on two ailments. One is a focal-seizure (localized) form of epilepsy; the other is arthritis of the neck and lower back.
Because the Court concludes that Mrs. Bradley has successfully carried her burden of proving that she is disabled on account of her epilepsy, it will not be necessary to discuss whether she would also be considered disabled because of arthritis.
Mrs. Bradley has suffered for a number of years from a localized form of epileptic seizure. She was first diagnosed in 1978 as having "focal seizures" which affected her left arm and the left side of her face. When first diagnosed, she had such episodes about once a week. She was prescribed a combination of anti-convulsive drugs (Tegretol, Dilantin, and Phenobarbitol). This combination effectively controlled her seizures, but had the unfortunate side effect of causing "marked sedation to the point that the patient is not able *278 to take care of herself." Administrative Record (A.R.) 101. In order to minimize this effect, her treating physician limited her medication to a combination of Tegretol and Phenobarbitol. As a result, he stated: "we have been content to let her have the focal seizure more frequently, hoping that we have prevented some of the more generalized tonic-clonic seizures." Ibid. Despite medication, Mrs. Bradley's seizures had increased by 1985 to a frequency of about three per day. A.R. 100.
Mrs. Bradley described a typical seizure pattern as follows: "I get weak and there is a pounding in my head like a big heart beat. My left arm starts jerking and then it goes to my head. I have to cough and my mouth jerks so that I can't talk for 3-5 minutes...." After one of these episodes, she is "weak and shaky" for some time. A.R. 69. Mrs. Bradley's medical history shows that her epileptic condition is aggravated by stress and exertion. When she experiences emotional stress or physical exertion, she is prone to suffer clusters of seizures despite her medication. On occasion, she has as many as thirteen or fourteen seizures in one day. A.R. 103.
Mrs. Bradley underwent a series of tests in 1978, when she was first diagnosed as having epilepsy. The tests included an electroencephalogram (EEG), the results of which were apparently within normal limits. A cerebral arteriogram, confirmed by a pneumoencephalogram, disclosed the presence of a mass lesion on the right side of her brain, accompanied by "marked edema" (swelling). Computerized axial tomography (CAT) scans revealed numerous calcifications (hardening of brain tissue due to the deposition of calcium) in both hemispheres of the brain. A.R. 78. Subsequent CAT scans done through 1985 have shown areas of calcification, particularly on the right side of the brain. A 1981 report stated that several electroencephalograms had been normal. The record, however, does not include any reports of such tests.
The several physicians who have treated Mrs. Bradley have agreed that there is a relationship between her abnormal CAT scans (showing lesions and calcifications in the right hemisphere of the brain) and her left-sided focal epileptic seizures. One report refers to a "prior neurological injury," A.R. 101, although Mrs. Bradley is unaware of any head injury which might have caused brain damage.
In addition to the increased frequency of seizures, Mrs. Bradley is reported by her personal neurologist as having a progressive weakening of her left arm and leg, accompanied by a loss of coordination, and a possible developing speech defect, all attributable to her repeated seizure activity. Mrs. Bradley and her daughter testified as to subjective complaints of weakness, nervousness, and feeling "druggy and draggy" because of the medication. She is unable to do yard work, to cook, or to do heavy housework requiring the coordination of both hands. She does drive her car for short distances, and walks about three miles per day (as directed by her physician), but will not walk unaccompanied because she falls.
On August 29, 1985, Mrs. Bradley was seen by Dr. Charles W. Armistead, a neurologist, for a consultative examination requested by the Social Security Administration. Dr. Armistead reviewed her medical history and interviewed Mrs. Bradley, performing an office examination of neurological functions. No EEG or CAT scan or other tests were done. The neurologist reported no localized motor weakness or other objective neurological deficit, but concluded that Mrs. Bradley suffered from a
[h]istory of focal motor seizures involving the left upper extremity and face, poorly controlled with Tegretol and Phenobarbitol, occurring almost daily and sometimes multiple times per day lasting about three minutes, not associated with alteration of consciousness or loss of postural control, etiology undetermined, but associated with abnormal Cat Scan showing multiple intracranial calcifications and with subjective complaints of weakness in the left upper extremity.
A.R. 104. Mrs. Bradley was also seen on September 3, 1985 by Dr. Robert S. Bell, an orthopedist, at the request of the Administration. Dr. Bell reported "definitive objective *279 evidence" of left upper extremity and left lower extremity weakness, attributable to her history of seizures. A.R. 106. He estimated her left-side strength at 50 per cent. of normal. Id., at 105.
The only question before the Court is whether there was substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole to support the ALJ's decision that Mrs. Bradley was not disabled on account of her epilepsy.
The standard of review of an administrative adjudication is whether it is supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole. This is somewhat more probing than the "substantial evidence" test which is used by an appellate court when reviewing the fact-finding of a jury. Gavin v. Heckler, 811 F.2d 1195, 1199 (8th Cir. 1987). While this Court will not second-guess a reasonable choice between two fairly conflicting views of the evidence (even if the Court, proceeding de novo, would have preferred the other choice), it will canvass the entire record to ensure that the ALJ in fact made such a reasonable choice. Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB, 340 U.S. 474, 488, 71 S. Ct. 456, 464-65, 95 L. Ed. 456 (1951). Thus, it is not enough for the reviewing court simply to search the record for some evidence which will support the ALJ's conclusion. Parsons v. Heckler, 739 F.2d 1334, 1339 (8th Cir.1984). The Court must also review that evidence which "fairly detracts" from the ALJ's conclusion. Universal Camera, 340 U.S. at 488, 71 S. Ct. at 464. The weighing of conflicting evidence is generally a matter of fact-finding for the ALJ, and will not be disturbed on review if the result is one which "`a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'" Richardson v. Perales, 402 U.S. 389, 401, 91 S. Ct. 1420, 1427, 28 L. Ed. 2d 842 (1971), quoting Consolidated Edison Co. v. NLRB, 305 U.S. 197, 229, 59 S. Ct. 206, 217, 83 L. Ed. 126 (1938). But there are occasions when the bulk of the evidence is transparently one-sided against the ALJ's decision. In those instances, the reviewing court must reverse the administrative determination on the ground of unreasonableness. See Gavin, 811 F.2d at 1199-1201, and see generally, Deuter v. Schweiker, 568 F. Supp. 1414 (N.D.Ill.1983).
"Disability" is defined for present purposes in 42 U.S.C. § 423(d):
(1) The term "disability" means
(A) inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months ...
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1) (A)
(A) ...
(B) A widow ... shall not be determined to be under a disability (for purposes of section 402(e) or (f) of this title) unless ... her physical or mental impairment or impairments are of a level of severity which under regulations prescribed by the Secretary is deemed to be sufficient to preclude an individual from engaging in any gainful activity.
(C) ...
(3) For purposes of this subsection, a "physical or mental impairment" is an impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques.[1]
*280 The regulations referred to in the statute are found in 20 C.F.R. § 404.1578. They read as follows:
(a) We will find that you are disabled and pay you widow's or widower's benefits as a widow, widower, or surviving divorced spouse if
(1) Your impairment(s) has specific clinical findings that are the same as those for any impairment in the Listing of Impairments in Appendix 1 or are medically equivalent to those for any impairment shown there; [and]
(2) Your impairment(s) meets the duration requirement.
(b) However, even, [sic] if you meet the requirements in paragraphs (a) (1) and (2) of this section, we will not find you disabled if you are doing substantial gainful activity. (Emphasis supplied.)
Appendix 1, referred to in the regulation, provides a standard for determining whether a claimant is sufficiently disabled to qualify for benefits. A relevant portion of the descriptive standard reads as follows:
11.03 Epilepsy minor motor seizures (petit mal, psychomotor, or focal), documented by EEG and by detailed description of a typical seizure pattern, including all associated phenomena; occurring more frequently than once weekly in spite of at least 3 months of prescribed treatment, with alteration of awareness or loss of consciousness and transient postictal manifestations of unconventional behavior or significant interference with activity during the day.
20 C.F.R., Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1.
In concluding that Mrs. Bradley is not disabled, the ALJ was persuaded in part by the fact that the standard in Appendix 1 requires that epilepsy be documented by EEG tracings of typical abnormal brain activity. The record does not show that any EEG's have been done on her since at least 1981. Those done before that time apparently revealed no abnormalities. But while EEG documentation is an important means of demonstrating that the seizures are caused by an identifiable abnormality in the brain, it is not the only means. In this case, Mrs. Bradley's medical records consistently show that CAT scans and other tests located calcifications and lesions in the right hemisphere of her brain. All the physicians who treated her, including the consultants for the Secretary, linked these physical changes in brain tissue to her seizures. The condition which is disabling under the standard is epileptic seizures, not abnormal EEG traces; here, the fact of recurring seizures has been established, and their severity, frequency, and characteristics are described in detail. While abnormal EEG traces have not been obtained, the objective diagnostic function of the EEG has been provided through other objective means.[2] The ALJ placed undue stress on the absence of a particular diagnostic measure, while disregarding the overwhelming weight of evidence of an actual disabling condition.
The disability standard specifies that seizures, in order to be disabling, must be accompanied or augmented by "alteration of awareness or loss of consciousness and transient postictal [post-event] manifestations of unconventional behavior or significant interference with activity during the day," app. 1, sec. 11.03. The ALJ concluded that Mrs. Bradley does not meet this standard.
The Court agrees that Mrs. Bradley does not lose consciousness during a seizure and *281 does not experience unconventional behavior manifestations afterwards. But the evidence is substantial that she suffers an "alteration of awareness." The ALJ relied specifically on the flat statement of Dr. Armistead (the consulting neurologist requested by the Secretary) that Mrs. Bradley suffered from no "alteration of consciousness." His conclusion was based on a single office visit and a review of her medical file. Tending to contradict that conclusion, however, is Mrs. Bradley's testimony (not expressly discredited by the ALJ) and the reports of her treating physicians, which span a period of several years. This evidence shows that during a seizure she is unable to speak and experiences alterations in her sense of hearing. Immediately after a seizure, she is so exhausted and "shaky" that she is unable to resume her normal activities for a period of half an hour or so. Even those normal activities are severely limited because of nervousness and weakness which she attributes to the effects of the medicine which she takes to mitigate the seizures.
The evidence is also substantial that Mrs. Bradley's day-to-day activities are significantly interfered with, due to the combination of effects of the seizures, the medication, and the progressive weakening and loss of motor control resulting from the disorder. The disability standard states that "[w]here adequate seizure control is obtained only with unusually large doses, the possibility of impairment resulting from the side effects of this medication must be also assessed." App. 1, sec. 11.00 A. Mrs. Bradley's treating physicians have been faced with a Hobson's choice: either they mitigate her epileptic disorder through the prescription of combinations of powerful drugs, with the result of incapacitating her through the combined sedative effect, see A.R. 101; or they avoid the drug effect and allow her to endure many seizures daily. Ibid. Either of these courses would no doubt be disabling under any standard. Instead, her doctors have attempted to follow a middle course of conservative medication. As a result, Mrs. Bradley avoids the extremes of constant sedation and multiple seizures, but experiences some of both.
Mrs. Bradley's seizure disorder, considered by itself, may not in every respect meet the standard, strictly construed. However, the standard is not a checklist; it is rather a guide to the exercise of administrative judgment. A claimant can be deemed disabled either by meeting the standard or by proving a disability which is equivalent to one described in the standard. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1578. The ALJ did not expressly take into account the combined effect of her seizure disorder along with the impairments resulting from the mitigating medication. When all the record is considered, it is clear that Mrs. Bradley suffers from an impairment equivalent to the epileptic disorder described in app. 1., sec. 11.03.
The motion of the Secretary is therefore denied, the motion of the claimant is granted, and the cause is remanded to the Secretary for computation and payment of benefits.
[1] The standard of disability for widows is stricter than that for primary wage earners. A wage earner is disabled if, on account of the impairment, he or she can no longer perform his or her former job and also cannot do any other substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy. The worker's age, past work experience, and education are considered. 42 U.S.C. § 423(d) (2) (A). A widow, on the other hand, must show that she cannot perform any gainful work (whether or not it is substantial or present in the national economy), and must make this showing through medical evidence alone. 42 U.S.C. § 423(d) (2) (B).
[2] Disability standard 11.00 A, which provides guidance for the evaluation of all convulsive disorders, including focal seizures, stresses that the key to diagnosing disabling epilepsy is the detailed description of a typical seizure; documentation through EEG, while recommended, is apparently not a prerequisite. The standard states "[a]t least one detailed description of a typical seizure is required," while "[d]ocumentation of epilepsy should include at least one electroencephalogram (EEG)." 20 C.F.R. Pt. 404, Subpt. P, App. 1, Sec. 11.00 A (emphasis added). Since seizures are transient phenomena, the abnormal electrical activity associated with them may not show up on an EEG if the patient is not having a seizure when the trace is done. See Deuter v. Schweiker, 568 F. Supp. 1414, 1421 n. 6 (N.D.Ill.1983).


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iPhone 4 falling in water - issues after fixing
Two months ago, I accidentally dropped my iPhone 4 into water (for 3 seconds or so). Immediately I turned it off and put it in a bowl of rice. After two days, I took it to a repair shop, in which it was dried and fixed (headphones didn't work after the accident).
It was "fine" after that, but since then I've been experiencing some weird issues:
GPS isn't working well for navigation (can't seem to locate accurately, tell speed or direction).
When the battery is less than 1/4, it suddenly turns off. I have to wait like 10 minutes before turning it on again, and then it turns on normally.
The battery drains way faster than it used to.
A little blue stain has appeared on the screen.
What I want to know is if it is possible that all these issues are related to the accident I had and if/how it can be fixed.
MeryoviMeryovi
Yes, it is possible, even likely, that one or more of these issues was caused by immersing the iPhone in water. You should seek repair quotes from Apple or other repair sources, but you'll most likely find that replacing the phone is the most economical solution. Check Craigslist and similar places for people selling their iPhone 4's after upgrading to a 4s.
If you're of a DIY mindset, iFixit provides repair information, parts and tools for fixing portable electronics.
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Do you know if its possible to fix the GPS at least? I don't really understand how that kind of thing can "break". – Meryovi Mar 9 '12 at 19:32
Water, or more accurately mineral deposits and contaminants contained in the water, create an electrical short circuit allowing power or signal to flow along paths it isn't supposed to. The GPS is part of the 3G radio chip so my best guess–as a person who hasn't seen your phone and is not at all qualified to make a complex diagnosis–is that a failure of the GPS is indicative of major problems and, as I stated in the answer, that unit is most likely BER (beyond economical repair—unless you can DIY) or, as we tech-types say colloquially, toast – jaberg Mar 9 '12 at 19:45
I'm sorry that I didn't have a more optimistic answer. Also, I now see you're not here in the US, so I apologize for providing such a US-centric response, but it's really the only point of reference I have. Best of luck getting this sorted. – jaberg Mar 9 '12 at 20:20
Somehow I knew that would be the answer, so don't worry. Thanks for your time! – Meryovi Mar 9 '12 at 20:24
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, gratitude for archives preserving histories of post-WWII war crimes trials
LOS ANGELES – On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am honored to be spending this month at the USC Shoah Foundation, reviewing testimonies of persons who did their part to set right one of history's terrible wrongs.
Seventy-three years ago today, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration camp located about 45 miles west of Kraków, Poland. Liberations of other camps by other Allied forces soon followed; among them, the U.S. liberation of Buchenwald on April 11, 1945, and the British liberation of Bergen-Belsen 4 days later.
Sixty years later, a 2005 U.N. General Assembly resolution set this date aside for commemoration of World War II atrocities (image credit); to quote the resolution, of
"… the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities …"
The resolution further:
honored "the courage and dedication shown by the soldiers who liberated the concentration camps";
rejected "any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event";
envisaged the Holocaust as "a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice";
denounced "all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur"; and
encouraged initiatives designed to "inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide."
Among the many such initiatives are memorial centers and foundations throughout the world – 2 of which have helped me in my own research into the roles that women played during postwar international criminal trials at Nuremberg.
In December, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, located in Glen Cove, New York, opened its archives to me. Special thanks to Helen Turner, archivist and Director of Youth Education, for her assistance.
This month, as the inaugural Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow, I am in residence at the University of Southern California, examining documents in USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive. It has been a fruitful and moving scholarly experience, and I look forward to sharing my research at a public lecture on campus at 4 p.m. this Tuesday, Jan. 30, video available here (as I was honored to do last week at UCLA Law's Promise Institute for Human Rights; video here). Special thanks to all at the foundation's Center for Advanced Research – Wolf Gruner, Martha Stroud, Badema Pitic, Isabella Evalynn Lloyd-Damnjanovic, and Marika Stanford-Moore – and to the donors who endowed the research fellowship. (Fellowship info here.)
As reflected in the 2005 General Assembly resolution, the work of such institutions helps to entrench – and to prevent backsliding from – states' promises to ensure and respect human rights and dignity norms, set out in instruments like the 1945 Charter of the United Nations, the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. To this list I would add the many documents establishing international criminal fora to prosecute persons charge with violating such norms – from the Nuremberg-era tribunals through to today's International Criminal Court.
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Them Crooked Vultures Come to Rock Band
By boblybob
November 14, 2009 in Pre / Post-Zeppelin Forum
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Them Crooked Vultures' "New Fang"will be available Nov. 17 for the Xbox 360, Nov. 24 for the Wii andDec. 3 for the PlayStation 3 in both the Rock Band Music Store and LEGORock Band Music Store.
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) H.E. Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and some members of the Party's National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday met with the Party's candidate for the Anambra State Governorship election, Dr. Tony Nwoye and aspirants who contested the APC primaries for the election.
The meeting which was convened and presided by the APC National Chairman also had in attendance former Senate President, Ken Nnamani. Aspirants at the meeting included: Chief George Moghalu; Engr. Bart Nwibe; Dr. Patrick Nwike; Dr. Chike Obidigbo; Engr. Johnbosco Obinna Onunkwo; Dr. Obinna Uzoh and Barr. Nonso Madu.
Comments by the APC National Chairman at the meeting.
"We have an incumbent government in Anambra state. We have all been through a most exciting period of campaigning for the primaries. The primaries are over, we have by God's divine mercy a candidate. But a tree does not make a forest. We are in politics and we recognise that each and everyone of those who aspired for the office of governor of Anambra State has a constituency. Each and everyone have something significant to contribute in our goal of winning the Anambra State governorship election from an incumbent. So it is very important that we manage to hammer together not just a patchwork of peace, not a make believe kind of camaraderie, but a very serious unity of purpose between all those who aspired for that office, to act as a serious guarantee that we are indeed also serious in winning the Anambra governorship seat. That is why I have called you today and our Party's elderstatesmen and leaders in the South East zone to act as guarantors of whatever we agree to do today.
"It is my hope and expectation that by the time we leave here, we will have one single fighting force of twelve persons, each of whom could have made us proud as governor of Anambra State. The state is very significant to us. For us, it is the gateway to the South East. It is important we do everything we can fair and square to bring Anambra State into the progressive fold for a lot of reasons. Until we manage to bring a few states into the mainstream of progressive politics, this continued cry of marginalisation, we may not see the end of it. So it is important, Anambra State being a critical state in the South East geo-political zone, it is most important that we work and work hard and work with unity of purpose to break through to the south east in a major way through Anambra State."
Comments by the former Senate President, Ken Nnamani
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"Our national chairman has summarized the purpose of this meeting and he has touched on very critical issues pertaining to the aspirations of the Party to make very strong inroad into the South East. I totally agree with him especially on the issue of marginalization that you don't stay under the rain when it is pouring heavily and start crying because nobody will observe. Unless you go into the ruling party and make meaningful contributions, you will then have moral standing to ask why don't we have this or that?
"I will like to congratulate Mr. Chairman for initiating this peace move and bringing together those that aspired to govern the state. It requires courage to offer ourselves for service. It is not everybody that has that courage to contest election. It is like wrestling, when the umpire signals, it is not every able-bodied person who throw in the towel would like to contest. I congratulate each and everyone of you and hope you harken to what the National Chairman had to say. I spoke out of the experience, observation and interest. We have people who have gone through the crisply of planning in Nigeria's electoral planning. The chairman talked about unity of purpose but I want to add that we need unity of action.
Comments by an aspirant, Engr. Bart Nwibe at the meeting
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"We have been looking forward to this meeting and I think that at the end of the meeting we will build the necessary synergy to help deliver our Party in Anambra State. We are all willing to do our very best but I also think that our Party both at this level and the executive will do the needful so that we will be empowered enough to return and deliver Anambra state and by extension South East into the APC . We are optimist that we will do our very best. We are on ground and if we do the needful there is no reason we cannot win our state. We have a candidate who is a very young fellow and I am certain he will bring certain kind of freshness but I think our Party and the presidency will have to step in to help us achieve this."
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Opening a pet grooming business is a big step and, unlike most businesses, introduces you to two tiers of clientele: your biped customers and your fluffy, quadruped clients. Clients who can walk and talk have an easier time communicating, so, for this installment of GroomPro POS' blog, let's talk about the four-legged clients. How our fluffy clients communicate with us – and how well we understand them – is critical to achieving success as a pet groomer. Author's note, knowing your pet parents is equally important, so our next post will speak exclusively to them.
Just like people, pets have different personality types and quirks. Understanding who you are grooming from one day to the next will give you a good gauge of how to handle them for an optimal experience. So imagine it is morning. You and your hot cup of Joe have walked in to your grooming salon. Lights get turned on; any equipment and the front computer get booted up. You flip the sign in the window to open and await your first client. Will it be a frightened dog, a wild and crazy puppy, an aggressive dog or perhaps a 'mushy' puppy (as we call them at our home) who wants to snuggle instead of take a bath. Wait, you can easily find out when you log into your pet groomer software and check the file on Fluffy. You read the client file and now know it is a nervous dog – with an equally nervous pet parent. You are now armed with the knowledge that a soft hello to both, with a gentle pat on the head for Fluffy, will help calm her down. This, in turn, will calm her mom. It also allows you to pre-emptively tell mom that you are going to handle Fluffy's grooming in slow, steady phases so she can calm down after each. It takes a touch longer, but Fluffy will be more relaxed, cooperative and, in the end, have a better experience.
Knowledge like this means happier clients – both kinds. Happy clients return for follow up appointments. They book more frequently and are more likely to tell their friends about your salon. They are also more likely to post about their experience.
Pets have as much personality as people. Knowing how the various personalities react in certain settings will enhance your ability to do your job and do it well.
At GroomPro POS, we are firm believers that knowledge is key. Having information on not only the type of breed you are grooming, but also the personality type of the dog and the grooming preferences of the owner helps make for a better experience for all. Though keeping details on an index card can do the trick, operational software, particularly pet grooming software like GroomPro POS, can fine tune your process and keep your information as current as possible. Having your back end software feed your front end process will position you as both a caring and professional groomer – one who truly cares about your clients' experience.
Remember, stay ahead of the competition. Be prepared for all contingencies. Take steps toward success and live a life you can enjoy!


Escanaba, MI — (April 30, 2015) — With support from sponsors, fans, racers, the Upper Peninsula State Fair and volunteers, the Upper Peninsula International Raceway is preparing for its' sixth race season in Escanaba, MI. The 2014 racing year provided some of the most exciting and memorable moments both on and off the UPIR dirt track with 127 racers from Michigan and Wisconsin slinging dirt. The 2014 season was kicked off in a big way with NASCAR driver Ken Schrader racing his Federated Auto Parts modified in the season opener. Schrader would win the event, racing from the back to the front in the 25 lap race. In the following months the action picked up with three and four wide racing and many races being decided on last lap passes.
Returning to action this year are the same six racing divisions; the Junior Micro-Sprints, 500 Micro-Sprints, 600 Micro-Sprints, Sport Fours, Street Stocks and Modifieds. Each respective division had many moments to remember, and many different winners in 2014.
Race dates are June 6, 13, 20 and 27; July 18 and 24; August 1, 7, 22 and 29; September 18, 19 and 20 features the 6th Annual UPIR (Yooper) Fall Classic. July 18 is the 5th Blast from the Past with the Milwaukee Vintage Modifieds, Art Richer Memorial Race and honoring local racing legends. The July 24 race is being held on a Friday at the request of the Holiday Ramblers national camping group so campers can enjoy the watching the UPIR dirt warriors. Over 300 camping rigs from across the United States are expected to enjoy a week at the Upper Peninsula State Fairgrounds. The August 7 race is also being held on a Friday to kick off two days of motorsports entertainment with the Armageddon on Wheels thrill show on August 8. www.armageddononwheels.com UPIR grandstand admission will continue with family affordable prices of $5 with children 10 and under admitted free.
One thing that won't be returning this year is the old clay track surface. A new racing surface with donated clay will improve conditions for racers and fans.
On May 2 from 11AM to 2PM EST the 5th Annual Revvin' It Up For Racing Car Show sponsored by and held at the Island Resort and Casino will give fans a preview of the 2015 race vehicles from UPIR, Bark River International Raceway, Three Fires Off Road Park and Norway Speedway. Fans can visit with drivers, take advantage of specials from the casino, vote for their favorite driver in each division and register to win tickets to the Michigan International Speedway NASCAR race. A general membership meeting for UPIRA will be held at 3:00 PM in Club 41 after the car show.
The engines will roar to life twice in May, with two practice sessions scheduled for May 9 and 16 from 12 to 5 PM EST. Pit passes for practices are $10 with free grandstand admission. Visit www.upirtrack.com for updates.


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https://celticswire.usatoday.com/2017/12/07/kyrie-irving-basketball-art-form-boston-celtics/
Boston Celtics' Kyrie Irving describes basketball as an art form
Jared Weiss
Throughout his career, Kyrie Irving has blown away his audiences and opponents with his remarkable dexterity, flexibility and elusiveness. Everything he does is just a little bit out of the norm, but is always beautiful.
He is a maestro, caving up the defense with the most delicate strokes to paint a masterpiece. For him, the ball is his brush and the floor is his canvas. When asked if the game is an art form, Irving lit up.
"Oh yeah it is, for sure." Irving said. "It's just a lot of movement, a lot of thoughts that we have to put into action. The responsibility you have to put in other people, the responsibility you have to put in yourself and demand it every single possession, and the energy that it takes out of you in order to do that for your teammates on both ends of the floor."
Irving constantly preaches perfecting his craft. He's never clarified which craft he's talking about…
"It's just a constant masterpiece that you have to paint. Sometimes it's going to be all scribble and stuff like that. It's okay to get out of the lines. That's the way I think of it sometimes or, excuse me, most of the time when I'm describing it and watching it. Just watching so many different details that I need to do in order to think about the best way to get a win."
Watch: Boston Celtics' Kyrie Irving on scuffle with Dallas Mavs' Dennis Smith Jr.
Kyrie may be all over the place, but he tends to color inside the lines with the game on the line. Like any great impressionist, his little dabs on the canvas look like blobs and blurs of abstract wandering, with each crossover, hesitation and drive looking like it could end up nowhere.
Then you take a step back at the very end and see that masterpiece. Irving truly is the Monet of the Midrange. The Pollock of the Paint. The Rembrandt of the Rim. The Dali of the Dribble. The Carvaggio of the Clutch. The van Gogh of the Guards. The Banksy of Ballin'. The Ai Weiwei of Wet Jumpers.
Or quite simply, the Warhol of Winning Time.
Looks can be deceiving, and while the Boston Celtics may be at the top of the Eastern Conference standings with an 8 - 4 record, in truth the team is a couple of lucky plays, tip-ins and near-misses from being a .500 team.
When asked what he thought of his own team and also in contrast to the Philadelphia 76ers -- who, despite their early struggles, have crept back into the top of the East as well -- the former Butler chief did not pull any punches. Instead, speaking to the media post-practice Tuesday, he offered some...
Boston Celtics Week 5 power rankings: Kemba Walker's return
The Boston Celtics had a mixed bag of a week, blowing out one team and getting blown out by another as they slowly return to a mostly available roster from one without the minimum number of players required to play an NBA game.
And even with the lopsided loss to the New York Knicks on Sunday, the return (and healthy-looking play, if not efficient) of starting point guard Kemba Walker seems to have offset the negative in a lot of weekly power rankings -- if not improved their standing. And while it may be early in the...


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class Spinach::Features::DashboardTodos < Spinach::FeatureSteps
  include SharedAuthentication
  include SharedPaths
  include SharedProject
  include SharedUser
  include Select2Helper

  step '"John Doe" is a developer of project "Shop"' do
    project.team << [john_doe, :developer]
  end

  step 'I am a developer of project "Enterprise"' do
    enterprise.team << [current_user, :developer]
  end

  step '"Mary Jane" is a developer of project "Shop"' do
    project.team << [john_doe, :developer]
  end

  step 'I have todos' do
    create(:todo, user: current_user, project: project, author: mary_jane, target: issue, action: Todo::MENTIONED)
    create(:todo, user: current_user, project: project, author: john_doe, target: issue, action: Todo::ASSIGNED)
    note = create(:note, author: john_doe, noteable: issue, note: "#{current_user.to_reference} Wdyt?", project: project)
    create(:todo, user: current_user, project: project, author: john_doe, target: issue, action: Todo::MENTIONED, note: note)
    create(:todo, user: current_user, project: project, author: john_doe, target: merge_request, action: Todo::ASSIGNED)
  end

  step 'I should see todos assigned to me' do
    page.within('.todos-pending-count') { expect(page).to have_content '4' }
    expect(page).to have_content 'To do 4'
    expect(page).to have_content 'Done 0'

    expect(page).to have_link project.name_with_namespace
    should_see_todo(1, "John Doe assigned you merge request #{merge_request.to_reference}", merge_request.title)
    should_see_todo(2, "John Doe mentioned you on issue #{issue.to_reference}", "#{current_user.to_reference} Wdyt?")
    should_see_todo(3, "John Doe assigned you issue #{issue.to_reference}", issue.title)
    should_see_todo(4, "Mary Jane mentioned you on issue #{issue.to_reference}", issue.title)
  end

  step 'I mark the todo as done' do
    page.within('.todo:nth-child(1)') do
      click_link 'Done'
    end

    page.within('.todos-pending-count') { expect(page).to have_content '3' }
    expect(page).to have_content 'To do 3'
    expect(page).to have_content 'Done 1'
    should_not_see_todo "John Doe assigned you merge request #{merge_request.to_reference}"
  end

  step 'I mark all todos as done' do
    click_link 'Mark all as done'

    page.within('.todos-pending-count') { expect(page).to have_content '0' }
    expect(page).to have_content 'To do 0'
    expect(page).to have_content 'Done 4'
    expect(page).not_to have_link project.name_with_namespace
    should_not_see_todo "John Doe assigned you merge request #{merge_request.to_reference}"
    should_not_see_todo "John Doe mentioned you on issue #{issue.to_reference}"
    should_not_see_todo "John Doe assigned you issue #{issue.to_reference}"
    should_not_see_todo "Mary Jane mentioned you on issue #{issue.to_reference}"
  end

  step 'I should see the todo marked as done' do
    click_link 'Done 1'

    expect(page).to have_link project.name_with_namespace
    should_see_todo(1, "John Doe assigned you merge request #{merge_request.to_reference}", merge_request.title, false)
  end

  step 'I should see all todos marked as done' do
    click_link 'Done 4'

    expect(page).to have_link project.name_with_namespace
    should_see_todo(1, "John Doe assigned you merge request #{merge_request.to_reference}", merge_request.title, false)
    should_see_todo(2, "John Doe mentioned you on issue #{issue.to_reference}", "#{current_user.to_reference} Wdyt?", false)
    should_see_todo(3, "John Doe assigned you issue #{issue.to_reference}", issue.title, false)
    should_see_todo(4, "Mary Jane mentioned you on issue #{issue.to_reference}", issue.title, false)
  end

  step 'I filter by "Enterprise"' do
    select2(enterprise.id, from: "#project_id")
  end

  step 'I filter by "John Doe"' do
    select2(john_doe.id, from: "#author_id")
  end

  step 'I filter by "Issue"' do
    select2('Issue', from: "#type")
  end

  step 'I filter by "Mentioned"' do
    select2("#{Todo::MENTIONED}", from: '#action_id')
  end

  step 'I should not see todos' do
    expect(page).to have_content "You're all done!"
  end

  step 'I should not see todos related to "Mary Jane" in the list' do
    should_not_see_todo "Mary Jane mentioned you on issue #{issue.to_reference}"
  end

  step 'I should not see todos related to "Merge Requests" in the list' do
    should_not_see_todo "John Doe assigned you merge request #{merge_request.to_reference}"
  end

  step 'I should not see todos related to "Assignments" in the list' do
    should_not_see_todo "John Doe assigned you merge request #{merge_request.to_reference}"
    should_not_see_todo "John Doe assigned you issue #{issue.to_reference}"
  end

  step 'I click on the todo' do
    find('.todo:nth-child(1)').click
  end

  step 'I should be directed to the corresponding page' do
    page.should have_css('.identifier', text: 'Merge Request !1')
  end

  def should_see_todo(position, title, body, pending = true)
    page.within(".todo:nth-child(#{position})") do
      expect(page).to have_content title
      expect(page).to have_content body

      if pending
        expect(page).to have_link 'Done'
      else
        expect(page).not_to have_link 'Done'
      end
    end
  end

  def should_not_see_todo(title)
    expect(page).not_to have_content title
  end

  def john_doe
    @john_doe ||= user_exists("John Doe", { username: "john_doe" })
  end

  def mary_jane
    @mary_jane ||= user_exists("Mary Jane", { username: "mary_jane" })
  end

  def enterprise
    @enterprise ||= Project.find_by(name: 'Enterprise')
  end

  def issue
    @issue ||= create(:issue, assignee: current_user, project: project)
  end

  def merge_request
    @merge_request ||= create(:merge_request, assignee: current_user, source_project: project)
  end
end

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It's been an emotional day, at least for this old cracker who remembers the "I Have a Dream" speech from childhood.
* WaPo's Milbank mulls the high level of southern Republican subscription to Obama conspiracy theories.
* TNR's Alec MacGillis discusses the massive money pouring into both sides in the gun-policy-driven recall election of two Colorado state senators on September 10.
* At Ten Miles Square, Mark Kleiman speaks derisively to conservatives complaining about the "politicization" of the MLK legacy.
* At College Guide, Daniel Luzer finds, in the University of Liberia, a college more selective than Ivy schools: a zero-percent acceptance rate this year.
* After finding no evidence he benefitted personally from autographs sold by collecters, NCAA gives Johnny Manziel slap on wrist–a suspension for the first half of Texas A&M's opener with Rice. A&M is a 26-point favorite in the game.


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News National 2016 10 19 Youth groups extend donation drive
Youth groups extend donation drive
19 October 2016 Khai Zem Mat Sani National 1 minute, 27 seconds
THE youth groups of Jame' 'Asr Hassanil Bolkiah will continue receiving from members of the public donations for its charity project until Sunday.
The community service, which is jointly organised by the mosque's Syababurroja Youth Group and Muslimah Group, is part of the second phase of the project dubbed 'Mulianya Berbagi', which aims to help underprivileged families as well as fire victims.
Today, the Syababurroja and Muslimah group will begin to receive donations from the public at the Muqaddam and Quran administration building of Jame' 'Asr Hassanil Bolkiah.
In an interview, Mudim Hj Suhaili Hj Kalong, the project coordinator, said that for the second phase, they hope to get more groceries.
"We received a lot of clothes previously and this time we are hoping to collect more basic necessities or groceries like canned goods, bags of rice, cooking oils and food for babies," said Mudim Hj Suhaili.
In the first phase of the project, the youth groups managed to collect more than 10,000 items of basic necessities and distributed them to hundreds of unfortunate families.
"Alhamdulillah, previously we managed to distribute the donated items to more than 200 families in three districts. We will distribute the items (we can collect) in Temburong within this month," he said, adding that last night, around 10 families also received donations.
"We hope this project will attract more people and companies to come forward and help us. Besides helping people who are in need of assistance, this project will also train the young committee members to have empathy towards unfortunate people in the country," said Mudim Hj Suhaili, also the mosque officer of Jame' 'Asr Hassanil Bolkiah.
The committee welcomes the public to donate starting today from 9.30am to 4.30pm.


When there comes to a woman a sudden necessity to become self-supporting, if she is living in one of the smaller cities, she often finds that positions for women are not easy to find, and the large cities seem so alluring, so full of golden possibilities – until she personally investigates and finds that for every vacancy there is a long "waiting list" and sees many other applicants at the door when she arrives.
Some women, however, have stayed at home in the smaller towns and earned comfortable incomes in unusual ways. There was one who came to be known as the "Little Biscuit Woman," because she so excelled in making beaten biscuits, and which she disposed of through a woman's exchange.
They don't stop to think of the amount of womanly skill, hope, determination and energy that went into every one of those biscuits. She succeeded because she made such good biscuits that everyone wanted them.
A teacher's health became so seriously impaired because of the strain of her duties in an overcrowded country school that she was ordered to give up teaching and live an outdoor life. But how to do it, that was the question. Her widowed mother was dependent on her, and though they owned and lived on a small farm, they could not make it pay.
One afternoon in the early spring, while walking about the big front yard, she noticed a quantity of hyacinths sprouting, and found that they had so multiplied that they were springing up in the barren fields. It suddenly occurred to her, why not have a hyacinth farm and raise the bulbs for sale.
After discussing the possibilities of such a business with a number of florists, she undertook the raising of bulbs, and so shrewdly disposed of them that she now has a comfortable income and meanwhile has regained her health.
A little old woman in the West supported herself by the combined efforts of raising lilies-of-the-valley, sewing a little and taking a few lodgers.
She had been thrown upon her own resources early in life. She was a dressmaker, and, longing to own a home, she had sewed early and late, and had denied herself many comforts, and after long years of unceasing toil had saved enough to buy an old, weather-beaten two-story frame house on a side street. It looked rather gaunt and spare, like its toll-worn mistress, but all within was so cozy and clean and homelike that she never lacked for lodgers. She raised quantities of the lilies with loving care, which she shipped to a florist in a nearby city.
She only sews three days in the week now, for old patrons, and said that left her plenty of time to rest and take life easy.
Two sisters make shirtwaists and neckties so well that they command large remuneration and have time to go out and enjoy themselves.
Another young woman, whose mother had her taught to do beautiful needlework when a schoolgirl, because she thought it such a womanly accomplishment, now makes infant wardrobes (all hand sewing), and her skill commands large prices.
A girl trimmed her own hats so becomingly that neighborhood friends asked her to trim theirs, as they found they often "looked like frights" in hats some milliner persuaded them to buy.
One who achieved simple and modest dresses for herself from inexpensive muslins and ginghams was besought by her friends to make them duplicates. This she finally consented to do.
July 4th Fireworks in Kentucky was not what you would expect!


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Nita and Mukesh Ambani's IVF story
Isha Ambani, daughter of the richest man in Asia, Mukesh Ambani, recently disclosed about her birth via IVF to Vogue magazine. Even the people who seem to be blessed with a perfect family, might have had trouble trying to put it together. Here's what Isha revealed about her parents Nita and Mukesh Ambani's IVF story:
"My parents had us after eight years of marriage—my twin Akash and I were IVF babies," Isha told Vogue. "When my mother finally had us, she wanted to be a full-time mum initially. Later, she went back to work when we were five, but she was still a tiger mom."
Isha Ambani recently wed her beau, Anand Piramal (also a billionaire's son), in a grand wedding, which was attended by dignitaries and leaders from around the world. Among the guests were former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Former US First Lady, Hillary Clinton, and the attendees were entertained by a special performance by none other than Beyonce.
Isha Ambani is not just the Reliance heiress, she's an Ivy-league graduate, the brains behind India's fastest growing telecom network Jio, who sits among the boards of directors of Jio and Reliance Retail.
Talking to Vogue, she revealed intimate details of her childhood, her father Mukesh Ambani, and Reliance, one of India's top industries, which boasts of over $57 billion in annual revenue.
Her candid interview, especially the talk of infertility, was highly applauded as it is still considered a taboo topic.
Nita Ambani shattered by infertility diagnosis
Infertility is a mental and physical struggle for anyone who is diagnosed with it. The fact that Nita Ambani underwent IVF was not widely known until recently.
This gives an idea on the emotional upheaval a person goes through during these procedures, and the amount of time it takes to come out to the open to talk about it.
Many women are now coming forward to talk about their struggles and experts are stressing on how getting your fertility tested in time can help you get a better grip over the situation.
The first time Nita disclosed about her pregnancy issues was seven years ago, in an interview with NDTV Good Times.
She had received the news of her infertility when she was 23.
"Even when I was in school, I would write long, copious essays titled, 'When I'll be a mother…' Here I was at the age of 23 being told that I would never conceive. I was shattered," she said.
However, she went on take help from Dr. Firoz Parikh in Mumbai, and luckily conceived twins—Isha and Akash, both now 27.
She also talked about the difficulties she faced during the pregnancy and the premature birth of the twins which put her in a situation of medical emergency.
Recalling the premature birth of her twin children, Nita said, "I was in the US and Mukesh had just left me and returned to India. As soon as he landed, he got a call saying, "Get back to the US." Mukesh, Mommy, and our doctor got onto the flight. On the plane, the pilot gave the news – "You've been blessed with twins –a boy and a girl!"
"After a long eight-year wait, I did get pregnant. It was a traumatic pregnancy, but no amount of pain deterred me…"
Three years after their birth, she conceived her youngest son Anant Ambani, naturally.
Nita Ambani has often talked about her love for children, which probably started while she was a teacher at school. Today she is an active businesswoman, a socialite, a sports-team owner, and as we have often seen, a caring, loving mother to her three children.
She also runs the Dhirubhai Ambani School in Mumbai, which she had founded back in 2003.
Receiving news about infertility can be hard-hitting and difficult to cope with for anyone. The best way to deal with it is to talk openly, educate yourself, understand your body and your fertility, and if required, seek medical guidance and perhaps employ a technique like egg freezing in good time.
Celebrities have a stronger influence on people and at Infertility Aide we laud all the women of influence who are coming out and sharing the stories of their infertility struggles.
Many women of prominence are speaking about the importance of being transparent in such situations.
Recently singer Jessie J revealed about her infertility while performing on stage during a concert; she even dedicated a song to the condition.
Infertility can be isolating; such acts from celebrities help provide sense of comfort to people all around the world seeing that they are not alone. The goal is to find acceptance in your own feelings and be motivated by receiving understanding from other couples who have been there.


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package org.apache.camel.component.wordpress.api.auth;

import com.google.common.base.Strings;

abstract class BaseWordpressAuthentication implements WordpressAuthentication {

    protected String username;
    protected String password;

    BaseWordpressAuthentication() {

    }

    BaseWordpressAuthentication(final String username, final String password) {
        this.password = password;
        this.username = username;
    }

    @Override
    public final void setPassword(String pwd) {
        this.password = pwd;
    }

    @Override
    public final void setUsername(String user) {
        this.username = user;
    }

    public final String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    @Override
    public final String getUsername() {
        return username;
    }

    protected final boolean isCredentialsSet() {
        return !Strings.isNullOrEmpty(username) && !Strings.isNullOrEmpty(password);
    }
}


Dada never sees anyone's faults."
If someone was to insult me and ask me for forgiveness, I would tell him that I do not have to grant forgiveness, forgiveness is an inherent quality that flows naturally. No matter what anyone does to me, my forgiveness is always the reward he will get in return. This is one of the Gnani's inherent attributes. That is not the attribute of the Self.
From these attributes one can measure the degree to which the Self within has manifest, and yet, these are not the attributes of the Soul. The inherent quality of the Self remains with it, but these qualities manifest as virtues in worldly interactions. If you slap a person and he responds with a smile, you can understand that forgiveness is a spontaneous quality within him.
I know all your weaknesses. These weaknesses are inevitable and that is why my natural forgiveness is there. I do not have to grant you forgiveness; it is always there. Natural forgiveness is an attribute of the final stages of enlightenment. There is spontaneous forgiveness, and not only that, there is constant love for you; this love never increases or decreases. The love that increases or decreases is infatuation. The love I have is pure love. It is the love of the Supreme Lord.
1) To know more about spiritual master Param Pujya Dadashri, read Autobiography of Gnani Purush Dadabhagwan.
2) There is a book named Pratikraman - Asking for forgiveness, read on to know science behind it.


Hi My name is Zoe and i am 2 Weeks away from starting another course of Roaccutane.
I have suffered from Acne since the age of 14-15 and i took a course of Roaccutane at 20 which helped for a couple of years, since then then my Acne has varied in harshness from not too bad to its current state - pretty bad, i'd say my face is currently 50-69% covered in acne .
Some weeks these are little puss filled spots some days they are larger and feel like a pea under the skin, some days they itch some days they hurt and the one's around my eye area give me headaches.
Also the one place i have never had the Acne is my forehead and now their even popping up there, I stopped taking the oral contraceptive to see if that made any difference - it didn't and have now 4 weeks ago gone back on Dianette (this is a contraceptive designed to help acne as well as provide contaception) as i said it's only been for weeks but its made no improvement so far to my skin but this is a requirement in England if you wish to take Roaccutane that you are also on the pill.
I went to the dermatoligist at the Hospital to enquire about Microdermibrasion but was told that was more to eliminate my scars then to treat the acne itself and a course of Roacccutane was needed.
I have to take 4 months worth - which i know from previous experience may well increase my Acne until the course is finished.


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Q: Trouble Routing in Flask I have a static HTML file (But one in which I want to add dynamic template variables to once I get it working.)
My html file is in the templates directory.
My Flask code looks like this:
@restServer.route('/mypage/', methods=['GET'])
def func(self):
    return render_template('mypage.html')

I then try opening the page in a browser by going to
localhost:5000/mypage

And I get an HTTP 500 Error. Can someone please provide some insight? Thanks.

A: Flask provides automatic redirection from the non-slash route to the slash route by default to ensure that there is only one canonical URL for a resource.  Quoting the docs:

Take these two rules; @app.route("/projects/") and @app.route("/about")
Though they look rather similar, they differ in their use of the trailing slash in the URL definition. In the first case, the canonical URL for the projects endpoint has a trailing slash. In that sense, it is similar to a folder on a file system. Accessing it without a trailing slash will cause Flask to redirect to the canonical URL with the trailing slash.
In the second case, however, the URL is defined without a trailing slash, rather like the pathname of a file on UNIX-like systems. Accessing the URL with a trailing slash will produce a 404 "Not Found" error.
This behavior allows relative URLs to continue working even if the trailing slash is omitted, consistent with how Apache and other servers work. Also, the URLs will stay unique, which helps search engines avoid indexing the same page twice.

A: I was really getting an HTTP 500 Error. The reason for the error was accepting self as a parameter to the function. Once I removed the reference to self and changed the code to
def func():
     return render_template('mypage.html')

Everything worked as it should.

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It is true,by improving your page rank,you can increase the value of your blog!
PageRank is a measure used by Google Search to rank websites in their search engine results. It varies from 0 to 10 which mean if your site gets a higher value, better. Although, there is no recent update from Google for PageRank and although there are rumors telling that there will be no PageRank updates in future, still PageRank is an important measure when deciding a blog's value. Most of the time, sponsored post rate and advertising rates depend on PageRank value.
Even if there will not be any PageRank update in future, there will be other measures. Currently, most advertisers use Domain Authority and Page Authority too to consider the rank of a blog.
Therefore it is important to pay attention to improve your PageRank. If there will be another PageRank update, it will benefit you. If there will not; then on the other way these tips will improve your Domain Authority which is another measure for blogs.
Anyway, you may probably familiar with Google Page Rank. So what is your PageRank? Did you check it recently? You can check your PageRank using this tool.
Do you know what to do to improve it?
Most of the advertisers look for blogs that are PR2 or higher. Also the higher your page rank the more will pay to be on your site.
Although frequent posting is helpful, be considerate about your readers too. Frequent post doesn't mean that you need to post every few hours. Instead try to post at least once a week, though daily posting is still better. As I found, Google's algorithms look for a minimum of one new post per day.
Google loves Google! Some may say that this is a useless point. But seriously, use Google's tools on your site. What are the tools you can use? Use Google Analytic in your site and make sure you have a Google +1 account tied to your page. Did you notice the fact that those posts which get more +1 rank high in search results? It seems Google absolutely favors +1's.
How to become an authority? While writing quality content frequently, include links to Wikipedia pages and other popular sites in your niche. This makes your own site appear more legit and trustworthy.
Above are a few important things to do to improve your site PageRank. Do you have any more facts? Please share and join the conversation.
Next Next post: Is your Site Mobile Friendly?Get ready for the next Google update!
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Home Grand slam Wimbledon. Caroline Wozniacki lost in the third round
Wimbledon. Caroline Wozniacki lost in the third round
The 19th World No. Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, in the third round of Wimbledon, lost to China's Zhang Shuai, who ranks 50th in the world ranking, – 4/6, 2/6.
For 1 hour and 20 minutes of the match, Caroline made three breaks and never made a mistake when serving. Whereas Zhang realized five break points, making three double faults.
Score in the personal meetings, opponents became 2-1 in favor of the Chinese woman.
In the fourth round of the "Slam" Shuai will play with the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska.
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A Transfiguração é uma pintura, considerada a última e uma das mais importantes obras de Rafael Sanzio (1483-1520), baseada na Transfiguração de Jesus, descrita no Novo Testamento da Bíblia, no livro de Mateus, capítulo 17, versículos 1 a 21. Foi encomendada em 1517, pelo Cardeal Giulio de Medici, posteriormente Papa Clemente VII. A obra desvia de seu estilo sereno e apresenta uma nova sensibilidade de um mundo turbulento e dinâmico, tende em direcção a uma expressão chamada de Barroco.

Rafael morreu em Roma no dia do seu aniversário de 37 anos, segundo seu biografo Giorgio Vasari, Leão X pensou em nomea-lo como cardeal. Seu corpo repousou por um certo tempo em uma das salas na qual ele havia demonstrado sua genialidade. Foi honrado com um funeral público e foi sepultado no Panteão de Roma.

Ver também
 Pinturas de Rafael
 Pintura da Renascença Italiana

Pinturas com temas bíblicos
Pinturas de Rafael
Museus Vaticanos
Representações culturais de Moisés
Representações culturais de Jesus

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Kucinich Hires Critic of Israel for Hill Panel
By DANIEL W. REILLY and PATRICK O'CONNOR
Democratic Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio has hired an avowed critic of Israel to work on his subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), who is Jewish and a staunch supporter of Israel, chairs the full panel.
Kucinich, who is again seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, hired Noura Erakat, a former grass-roots organizer, to work on the domestic policy subcommittee that he chairs.
Before coming to Capitol Hill, Erakat, a Palestinian, served as the national grass-roots organizer and legal advocate for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a group that seeks "to change those U.S. policies that both sustain Israel's 39-year occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and deny equal rights for all."
Republicans and Democrats alike maintain hawkish diplomatic and financial support for Israel. But Democratic calls to withdraw from Iraq concern some members of the pro-Israel community.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received a mix of boos and applause when she denounced the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a failure during her remarks to the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
Kucinich, an anti-war liberal, defended Erakat on her merits, saying he chose her from among many applicants.
"She has a tremendous background," Kucinich said. "She's brilliant."
The congressman's domestic policy subcommittee oversees issues related to energy, labor, education, criminal justice, the economy and national drug policy.
U.S. support for Israel has always been a sensitive political issue on Capitol Hill, where questions about support for Palestinians often spark heated debate.
Asked whether he believed his hiring of Erakat would raise such questions, Kucinich pointed out that his subcommittee's chief of staff is Jewish, as are his staff attorney in Cleveland and the aide who handles arts and education issues.
"This rounds out my balanced approach to the Middle East," Kucinich said of Erakat's hiring.
Waxman said he had not spoken to Kucinich before he hired Erakat, but Kucinich assured him later that she is "highly intelligent and an excellent researcher."
"I don't think we have a litmus test for her views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even if they may or may not agree with mine," Waxman said.
Erakat is an outspoken opponent of U.S. foreign policy in Israel. During an appearance last year on the "O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News, host Bill O'Reilly asked Erakat if she wanted to "destroy Israel." And she replied: "I want to ensure stability, security and freedom for all people, and that is not going to happen with occupation," but she added that she does "not want to destroy any nation."
Her former group likens the Israeli occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem to apartheid in South Africa. Its members are organizing a rally in Washington in June to "protest the 40th anniversary of Israel's illegal military occupation" of the disputed territories.
In a farewell letter to members of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Erakat pledged to help organize the rally and encouraged members to make the trip.
"I hope to see you all in Washington, D.C., in June to tell the world that international law and human rights must prevail in this conflict and that Israeli Apartheid must, and will, end," she wrote.
Erakat has appeared at numerous rallies to protest U.S. policy toward Israel, according to videos posted on YouTube.
At last summer's Rally in Support of Lebanon outside the State Department, she yelled, "Stop placing Israel above international law."
The Web site of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation touts former President Carter's most recent book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which sparked a controversy over a passage in which Carter seemingly justifies violence by Islamic terrorists. The group also sells black T-shirts that read: "End the Occupation."


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Q: How to run and install Protractor E2E tests in Docker container for Laravel? I have my LAravel AngularJS application developed in dockervel .
I have to test AngularJS with e2e test in Protractor and after it I have to deliver the application including e2e tests.
In this dockervel I have
Containers included
Nginx 1.8.0 & PHP 5.6 running in Alpine
MariaDB 5.5 running in Alpine
Redis running in Alpine
Composer PHP running in Alpine.
Artisan running in Debian (alpine is missing some PHP packages)
NodeJS with gulp, grunt and bower -g installed in official node:4.2.2-slim base image
Volumes mounted as containers

Aliases in dockervel:
alias dbuild='docker-compose build'
alias dup='docker-compose up -d'
alias dstop='docker-compose stop'
alias drun='docker-compose run -d --service-ports nginx'
alias dcomposer='docker-compose run composer'
alias dcomposer-create='docker-compose run composer create-project laravel/laravel /var/www --prefer-dist'
alias dpermit='chmod -R 777 www'
alias dartisan='docker-compose run artisan'
alias dnodejs='docker-compose run nodejs'
alias dgulp='docker-compose run nodejs gulp'
alias dgulp-watch='docker-compose run -d nodejs gulp watch'
alias dps='docker ps'
alias dpsa='docker ps -a'
alias dstats='docker stats $(docker ps -q)'
alias dkill='docker stop $(docker ps -q)'
alias drm='docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)'
alias dunit='docker-compose run  php php /var/www/html/vendor/bin/phpunit'

Is there any way I could install and set up PRotractor to run inside his environment?

A: yes it is headless, if you want to run your scripts with browser open. you just have to ignore the protractor.sh file and give the protractor conf.js command directly in the console.
It would launch your browser as usual!


The Representative Payee Program started in 1993 as a partnership between Mental Health America of Greenville County (MHAGC) and community mental health centers. Our collaboration helps individuals with chronic mental illness manage their disability checks to pay their bills, including rent, utilities, medication, food, and other basic needs. Individuals, who are clients of the local community mental health centers, have eligibility determined by a physician and who are actively involved in their treatment programs are eligible. The Department of Mental Health recognizes the value of this service and encourages all mental health centers across the state to work collaboratively with nonprofit agencies to provide this service.
MHAGC works closely with an individual's case manager to complete intake forms and develop a realistic monthly budget. Each month MHAGC prioritizes the payments for a person's rent, utility and medicine bills. With case management support MHAGC gives regular checks to program participants for food and personal expenditures. MHAGC must comply with Social Security Administration (SSA) audit guidelines and complete SSA annual reports. A record of each individual's funds is kept and MHAGC provides a copy of income and expenses on a regular basis. This gives individuals the opportunity to see their expenses and learn independent budgeting skills. Rep. Payee helps keep individuals with chronic mental illness in housing and allocates their funds so that they have the financial resources to comply with mental health treatment plans. This places less demand on emergency rooms, shelters, soup kitchens, and other emergency services.
The Representative Payee services help to promote positive mental health and independent living. Individuals' bills are paid to ensure stable housing opportunity. Funds are budgeted and dispersed to purchase food and other basic needs through each month. Some participants have been able to improve their housing situation and safe for emergencies or special needs i.e. high power bill, medical expenses, clothing, gifts (including Christmas). Providing the financial management also allows individuals to focus on their treatment trusting that funds will be budgeted for treatment and medication. This allowed the 185 participants in 2011 to focus more on their recovery and mental wellness.
If you would like to learn more please call 864-467-3344.


How did you come up with the idea for the CONNECT Series?
The idea for 'The CONNECT Series' began from seeing pots and pans hung from a makeshift pot rack made from a bicycle rim. It inspired me to make a mobile made from a bike rim, bike tube, and bike gears. The result was lovely but too simple and it was the semantic mistake of calling it a bike 'chandelier' and not a mobile that led me to make a proper chandelier.
I source my material from up to 60 different bike shops within 50 miles of LA.
Your chandeliers must weigh a ton! Do they?
You'd be surprised to learn that these chandeliers are comparable in weight to traditional crystal chandeliers. Glass is heavy too. Of course metal is heavier, but not by much. As with your crystal chandelier, you will need to hang these from a sturdy and secure support structure.
I love your chandeliers but can't afford one. Would you consider a trade/ barter arrangement?
I do barter in exchange for my chandeliers in select situations. The trade has to be comparable to the time and effort that goes into making a CONNECT piece. In the past I've traded a two-year membership to a yoga studio and even got a designer to make this website in exchange for a chandelier. If you're interested and have something you think would make a good trade, feel free to email me at caro@facaro.com.


> following questions back to my company's "decision makers."
> base enough to be able to contribute a significant patch?
> support into the stable version of Subversion?
> sponsorship of this feature?
> contractor to the Subversion project would be competitive with those costs?
the public Subversion, so you don't have to maintain a patch, though.
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Become a member of the Sovrin Foundation: In celebration of Data Privacy Day, the Sovrin Foundation launched a new membership program for individuals and organizations that want to support efforts of the Foundation and self-sovereign identity.
Blockstack PBC successfully completes Milestone 2 for network growth: "Milestone 2 was defined as the Blockstack network succeeding in registering one million Verified Users, where a "Verified User" is defined as a user account on the Blockstack network with at least one form of Acceptable Attestation indicating that the user account is owned by a human and not owned and operated by a computer program or bot."
Medici Ventures and Vibranium ID back global digital identity network: Medici Ventures and Vibranium ID are the newest Stewards of the Sovrin Network.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Top apps invade user privacy by collecting and sharing personal data, new report finds: "The NCC report shows that a huge surveillance industry has built up around us. Instead, we need a user-oriented tech ecosystem that does not treat user data like a free resource to be exploited."
Microsoft CEO: Data privacy must be thought of as a human right: "It's not just 'privacy' and 'oh, I give away my data'. I should be able to control in a much more finer-grained way how my data is being used to create utility for me and the world and the causes I care about."
Reimagining digital identity: A strategic imperative: "This paper showcases innovative approaches to digital identity that are unlocking new business value for companies while empowering customers with control of their data and protection of their personal freedoms. It highlights the risks of not getting identity right, and the need for collaboration across companies and industries to realize new value. It offers models and considerations for executives to rethink how to approach digital identity in their businesses." —World Economic Forum
Guidance for decentralized identity and verifiable claims: "Decentralized identity will disrupt identity management by enabling privacy-enhanced verifiable identity data exchange over the internet. Security and risk management technical professionals should identify relevant use cases and prepare for applicable adoption scenarios." —Gartner
It's time to redefine how data is governed, controlled and shared. Here's how: "Global standards for data rights and obligations could be embedded in the very fabric of the internet through rules and protocols around data exchange....The Sovrin Foundation, a private-sector, international non-profit, is currently taking a first step in examining the merits of this approach. It is developing a system to allow individuals to manage their digital IDs online through open-source, self-sovereign identity." —World Economic Forum
Everest Group releases enterprise blockchain readiness report, explores 12 platforms including Ardor & Multichain: "Such moves feed into the general narrative, with forecasts suggesting that global blockchain tech revenues will surge in the coming decade. Indeed, the market is predicted to exceed $23.3 billion in size by 2023." —Coinspeaker
What's ahead for digital identity in 2020?: "Whereas identity data, to date, has been centralized, with data sovereignty being in the hands of the issuing authority, typically a government, self-sovereign was all about putting the user in charge of their data." —CSO
Businesses must work together to protect users' digital identities: "Meanwhile, collaborative efforts show how trusted digital identity systems can lead to increased user confidence. For example, collaborative, bank-led digital identities could help reduce the $60 million spent on customer verification globally each year. In the health care industry, seamless and secure sharing of medical information between organizations can save 50% of US GDP. And with the gig economy expected to grow to $335 billion in revenue by 2025, digital identity can enable trust in the legitimacy and credentials of workers, especially on gig and sharing economy platforms." —World Economic Forum
How the global refugee crisis is also about identity: "Self-sovereign identity uses 'zero-knowledge proofs', cryptographically securing everyone's data. No personal identifiable data stored on databases. Individuals can prove that they are who they claim they are without revealing their personal identifiable data." —Mariana Dahan, Founder and CEO, World Identity Network
Gartner predicts for the future of privacy 2020: "By 2023, 65% of the world's population will have its personal information covered under modern privacy regulations, up from 10% today." —Gartner
Women in blockchain tech at ETH Lagos: Ese Mentie: "On the uPort platform, you own the rights to the data that makes up your identity, and you can share and revoke access to that data at will. Rethinking identification structures could have many positive implications for the African continent, as an estimated 500 million people have no official identification." —Ese Mentie, Director of Quality Assurance, uPort
Just Go Grind Podcast: Brittany Laughlin, Blockstack: "Blockstack is built for developers to easily build on top of blockchains. So with the Blockstack technology, if you are a developer and you know Javascript, in as little as an hour you can learn how to build an application on Blockstack." —Brittany Laughlin, Investor Relations at Blockstack PBC and Founding Partner of Lattice Ventures
First pillar of an SSI network: Governance: "Governance is critical to universal interoperability in an identity metasystem because all participants must be able to make their own decisions about who and what to trust. Governance gives assurances by providing process and accountability." —Phil Windley, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Sovrin Foundation
Blockchain Summit Latam
Panama City, Florida | March 12-13
Blockchain Summit Latam is a conference that seeks to unite companies, entrepreneurs, institutions, and regulators around the development of blockchain technology in Latin America. One of SSI Incubator's graduated startups, Xertify, will be attending the conference represented by Sebastián Farfán, Co-founder & COO. If you would like to meet up with the Xertify team while there, feel free to reach out to Sebastián on Twitter.
Become an SSI Incubator sponsor. The SSI Incubator hosts a number of digital identity events in San Francisco. By becoming a sponsor of the SSI Incubator, you will be recognized as an advocate for SSI adoption and innovation among industry leaders.


Project Erebus by Darwin PC is the ultimate 4K gaming PC with trifire R9 290X graphics. X99 chipset on the MSI X99S SLI Plus motherboard, with Intel i7-5820K CPU and 16GB Corsair DDR4 RAM.
This purple PC build has a full rigid watercooling loop with all water blocks and components from Alphacool including dual D5 pumps and two huge 480mm radiators.
The theme for Project Erebus is finished by cables custom-sleeved using Teleios from E22, with the purple matching sprayed Corsair SP120 fans and custom purple pastel coolant provided by Mayhems.
Thanks to Alphacool for displaying the finished computer system at Insomnia Gaming Festival 55.


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This is Mirembe Chat Bot, Uganda's first Artificially Intelligent health adviser
John Ivan Kisekka 12/10/2018 12/10/2018
An apple a day, keeps the doctor away. But what if it's time to find a doctor's advice? Introducing Mirembe chat bot, an artificially intelligent health adviser that helps you make health decisions based on your symptoms. It offers free triage and care advice to health symptoms in Facebook Messenger
Mirembe chat bot is the first of its kind in Uganda and the entire African continent. Made by The Medical Concierge Group (TMCG), the new chat bot is custom-made as a female personal health adviser named "Mirembe". 'Mirembe' directly translates to "Peace" in Luganda, a widely used language in the Central area of Uganda. It offers free triage and care advice to health symptoms in Facebook Messenger.
In 2017, Facebook challenged developers in Africa to create innovative bots in the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. Chat bots possess an interactive ability and are programmed to process natural language. When someone interacts with a chat bot, it scans their message for a trigger and responds with predefined messages.
Mirembe's AI is crafted to process the health symptoms provided against a user's age, gender, symptom severity and any known medical problems to provide a triage recommendation and advice.
How to use the Mirembe chat bot in messenger
To interact with Mirembe chatbot, a user must open Facebook Messenger, type "Mirembe" in the search tab and then search or by simply following the direct link http://m.me/mirembebot.
When you click open Mirembe in Messenger for the first time, select the "Get Started" button. For users that have already interacted with the bot, just say 'Hi', and Mirembe will be at your service.
After introducing herself briefly, Mirembe will get straight at what she does best. Checking Symptoms. She will then ask the user a few questions to provide the best advice. Just like Human doctors, she expects the user to answer them accurately.
After establishing who the checkup is for, the user's age, sex and location, Mirembe will then ask them to tell her about their health issues in their own words. This can be brief for example "I have a face rash" or detailed for example "I fell down and hurt my wrist and now my wrist is very swollen."
Like a pro, Mirembe Chat bot will instantly determine what the user's health issue is and will then ask them further questions regarding that health issue. The next couple of questions will help Mirembe make a report that answers three main questions. "Do I need to see a doctor? ", "How serious might this be?" and "When and where should I go for care?".
After asserting that she's not meant to replace the users doctor or your doctor's medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, Mirembe Chat bot gives her recommendation. Her recommendations show the level of emergence on how soon you should see a doctor. It's a gradient that turns from Green, to yellow and to Red if the matter is very severe.
For further assistance, a user can request a callback from qualified and licensed Medical Doctors at The Medical Concierge Group (TMCG).
We talked to some personnel at TMCG about how many people use the messenger-based service currently. However, he could not establish the numbers right now since it is still early days for such comments. Nonetheless, he noted that the company has more plans this year of furthering the integration of advanced AI into their tele-medicine offerings. "We know that so many people spend a lot of time on social media platforms. Mirembe will provide faster and more accurate clinical decision support to reach even more people in Africa." he said.


Visit our new salon in the Arcade for all your hairdressing and beauty needs. We stock a wide range of hair and beauty treatments/products to suit all tastes.
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Made by the industrial standard. It supports all major brands of photo equipment such as reflector, soft box, different lights, umbrella, background, etc.
Spigot: 1/4″ (need adapter to convert to 3/8″).
The light stand is made of aluminum alloy, making it strong for heavy duty work. It is also of light weight and can be folded into a small size, making it portable and easy to store after use.
Its solid locking capabilities makes your lights safe.
Made by the industrial standard. It supports all major brands of photo equipment such as reflector, softbox, different lights, umbrella, background, etc.
It is perfect for photo studio and on site photo and video shoots!
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Spinal Twist:Cross your right leg over your left. Reach your left elbow over your right knee. Twist your chest to the right and reach your right arm behind your chair. Look over your right shoulder and take three deep breaths. Repeat on the other side.
Hip Lube: Sit tall and take your legs as wide as you can, shifting weight onto your sit bones. Press the palms of your hands against the inside of your thighs, forcing the hips to open further. Extend your arms straight and lift your chest. Stay there for three deep breaths. Lift the toes, keep your heels on the ground, and move your knees inward and outward.
Lifting light weights with more reps builds muscle.


Understanding the exact differences between the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C can be tricky. The color of the phones is obvious, but all the other differences are in the guts of the phone — and those are hard to see. Check out these seven key differences between the 5S and 5C to understand how the two phones differ from each other and to help you pick the right model that's right for you.
Both the iPhone 5S and 5C have been discontinued by Apple. Read up on the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR to learn about the latest models before you buy a new phone.
The iPhone 5S has a faster processor than the 5C. The 5S sports an Apple A7 processor, while the heart of the 5C is an A6.
The A7 is newer and more powerful than the A6, particularly because it's a 64-bit chip (the first in a smartphone). Because it's 64-bit, the A7 can process chunks of data twice as big as those handled by the 32-bit A6.
Processor speed isn't as big a factor in smartphones as it is in computers (many other things affect overall performance as much as, if not more than, processor speed), and the A6 is fast, but the A7 in the iPhone 5S makes that model speedier than the 5C.
The iPhone 5S is the first iPhone to include a motion co-processor. This is a chip that interacts with the iPhone's physical sensors — the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope — to provide new feedback and data to apps.
This includes much more detailed fitness and exercise data in apps, and the ability to know whether the user is sitting or standing. The 5S has it, but the 5C does not.
One of the iPhone 5S's headline features is the Touch ID fingerprint scanner that's built into its Home button.
This scanner lets you tie the security of your iPhone to your unique, personal fingerprint, which means that unless it's you (or someone has your finger!), your phone is very secure. Set up a passcode and then use the fingerprint scanner to unlock your phone, enter passwords, and authorize purchases. The scanner is available on the 5S, but not the 5C.
When compared based on the specs alone, the cameras in the iPhone 5S and 5C don't look very different: they both max out at 8 megapixels for still images and 1080p HD video.
But the subtle details of the 5S's camera really stand out. It offers two flashes for truer-to-life colors, the ability to record slow-motion video at 120 frames per second in 720p HD, and a burst mode that takes up to 10 photos per second.
The 5C's camera is good, but it doesn't have any of these advanced features.
If you want a colorful iPhone, the 5C is your best choice. That's because it comes in many colors: yellow, green, blue, pink, and white.
The iPhone 5S has more colors than previous models — in addition to the standard slate and gray, it now also has a gold option — but the 5C has the brightest colors and the biggest selection of them.
The iPhone 5S has the same maximum amount of storage as last year's iPhone 5: 64 GB. This is enough to store tens of thousands of songs, dozens of apps, hundreds of photos, and more. If your storage needs are big, this is the phone for you.
The 5C matches the 16 GB and 32 GB models that the 5S offers, but it stops there — there's no 64 GB 5C for storage-hungry users.


Similar to Tai Chi, Qigong is a system of exercises that have been in use by millions of people for at least 2000 years. Qigong is a group of slow moving exercises that help to move energy throughout your body and involves using breath work and mindfulness to help you concentrate on your activity. It is accessible to virtually everyone including the very young and very old and no prior experience is needed to participate.
The class will cover a brief history, the benefits, and will include performing the exercises and meditations together.
Participants will learn about this ancient system, how it differs from Tai Chi, and how simple it is to practice everyday for its many health benefits.
Would you like to learn how to relax but don't know where to begin? Stress can have a powerful impact on your state of mind, body and relationships with those close to you. In this class we will teach you how to manage emotional triggers, which could be dominating your mind, or at the very least, disrupting it. We invite you to invest in your well-being and experience the depth of true inner-peace. The class meets for a half hour and the program fee is $25. Registration is required.
Are you being held captive by repetitive thoughts, uneasy worries, or endless lists of the unaccomplished? Meditating proactively can help you transform three forms of awareness—mental, sensory and emotional—so that you can learn practical tools to make positive changes on all levels of consciousness. Come join us for peace of mind, ease in the body and all that supports your well being. The class meets for a half hour and the program fee is $25. Registration is required.
Whether you're preparing meals for the young or the young at heart, you'll love these playful, veggie-rich foods!
Your body is exposed to toxins, pesticides, and chemicals no matterhow much you try to limit or avoid them from your everyday life. It's critical to clean up your diet and detoxify your body yearly. The Spring is the perfect time to detox!
• Feel tired or achy in your joints and want to experience increased energy.
• Have brain fog, headaches or mood swings and want to feel clear-headed.
• Want to jumpstart weight loss and break the chains of carb cravings.
• Want to prevent illness, stay healthy and reduce your body's toxic load.
• Want the power of community to help you succeed.
We'll help you eliminate your toxic load in our health, safe and easy-to-follow detoxificationprogram!
Session 1: Live with Dr. Blum: Evaluate your toxic load, understand the Whole Detox Food Plan and Supplements and learn everything you need to detox safely and effectively.
Session 2: In-depth review of the cosmetics industry and the everyday toxins found in your home, many of which are right under your nose. Plus, next steps!


As it stands, I have produced over 300 book and magazine covers in the past 10 years. Everything from nationally-known authors to local writers. My work can be found in all major booksellers and outlets across the United States and Europe. Below is a very small sample of some of those covers.