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Raven Symone Net Worth, Biography, Personal Life , Career and Other Wiki
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A well-known children's artist, Raven, has also been named one of VH1's 100 Greatest Child Stars of All Time. Her success and money have earned her the nickname "phenomenon." In addition, she has received numerous distinctions, including the NAACP Image Award, the Kids' Choice Award, and more. Raven-Symone has released four full-length albums and numerous singles during the course of her career. Many films and television shows have made her extremely popular as well.
Actress/singer Raven-Symone has a net worth of $40 million and is an American celebrity. "The Cosby Show" was where Raven initially gained fame as a kid performer. Then as an adult, she established a lucrative acting career. Through her profitable licencing company, she has also made millions of dollars, Actress and film producer Symone was the most well-known American celebrity.
The Cosby Show cast her as Olivia Kendall when she was just a child. Even on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, she played the role of Nicole Lee. Dr. Dolittle and Dolittle 2 were her first two film roles. She is well-known as a member of the girl band The Cheetah Girls and for her many acting jobs. She has a strong desire to sing and write music. Over the course of her career, she's been dubbed Raven, Rave, and Rae quite a bit.
Early Life and Childhood
Raven Symone was born on Dec. 10, 1985, in Atlanta, Georgia (United States). Because she begins her profession as a young actress, she learns a lot of talents along the way. As a result, she starred on The Cosby Show from 1989 through 1992 as Olivia Kendall. Tiffani Thiessen and Maine Mendoza have both made it through a harrowing life's journey.
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper featured her as Nicole Lee from 1992 until 1997. She has Lydia and Christopher Pearman as parents. They want his daughter to be a well-known actress, and he is really proud of her. Blaize, his younger brother, felt the same way about him and likes spending time with him. She was born and grown in the United States of America, together with her parents and older brother.
Subsequently, his parents signed up for a programme called Young Faces, Inc (modeling agency). Most popular actors in the world are King Bach and H.Jon Benjamin. As a toddler, she was so adorable and she began working for Ford Models, an American modelling agency based in New York City. Several corporations used her in their commercials, including Ritz Crackers and Cool Whip.
Webb Bridge Middle School was the first school she attended, but she then transferred to Ossining's Park School. She earned her high school diploma from North Springs High in 2004 with a master's degree. She was the finest student in her early years. She also likes to sing and listen to music, which she does a lot.
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Raven-Symone's personal life is equally well-known. At a 2014 press conference, she refused to identify as either African-American or gay. An American and a person who cares about other people were her self-descriptions. When she spoke up for what she believed in, she received the support of the LGBTQ community in America.
AzMarie Livingston, an actress and model, was Raven-girlfriend Symone's from 2012 to 2015. They broke up five years later, and she started a new relationship. My name is Miranda Maday and I am Raven Symone's wife. On her own initiative, Raven Symone married Miranda, and the occasion was well publicised. Raven-Symone has never been married before, according to speculations.
She has only ever been married once, and it was to a female. A social media manager, Miranda Pearman-Maday, is Raven's wife. On June 18, 2020, in the presence of close friends and family, the couple tied the knot. It was said on her Instagram profile that she married the woman who "understands me from trigger to joy," as well as "from breakfast to midnight snack," and "from stage to home," respectively."
In 1989, she was invited to join the cast of "The Cosby Show" after applying for a role in "Ghost Dad" opposite Bill Cosby. Her role as Olivia on the sitcom made her a household name in its final two seasons. She had a starring role in a film a number of television and film productions, including "Queen as a teenager:
The Story of an American Family," in which she was cast as the younger version of Halle Berry's role. At the tender age of seven, Raven began her musical career. She had a recording contract with MCA Records and trained with Missy Elliot for two years. "Here's to New Dreams" was Symone's first album, published in 1993. That's What Little Girls Are Made Of and Raven is the Flavor, her two top-charting songs, were not very successful. In 1995, her contract with the record company was terminated to a lack of deals.
Her album has only sold less than 100,000 copies in the United States. In the fall of that year, Raven was cast as Nicole Lee in the film "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper.". In 1997, she appeared in the final episode of the show. For her big-screen debut, she starred as Stymie's girlfriend in "Little Rascals" in 1994. The film's global box office take was $67.3 million. RayBlaze Records was formed by Raven and her father in 1996, and Raven released her second album, "Undeniable," through the label.
In May of 1999, the record sold little over 2,000 copies in the United States. In 1998/99, she toured with 'N Sync as their opening act. In 1998, "Dr. Doolittle," Symone's second feature film part, was cast, and she had a big role. She played Eddie Murphy's character's eldest daughter in the film. $294.5 million was earned around the world from the success of the film. She also appeared in the sequel in the same capacity.
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Symone auditioned for a Disney Channel part in 2001 about a teen girl with psychic skills, and she was cast in the show. She was cast in the lead role of the Disney Channel's "That's So Raven" in 2003. In the history of Disney Channel, the show was one of the most popular. In addition to the television series, it spawned other spin-offs, including a soundtrack album, a collection of dolls, a DVD, and a video game series.
More than $400 million has been made in sales from "That's So Raven" merchandise alone since its debut in 2010. Two Emmys were nominated for "That's So Raven." Symone went on to play Kim Possible's best friend, Monique, in the Kim Possible TV series. Symone appeared in both of the films based on that television series. Aside from "Cheetah Girls," Symone has appeared in several more projects. Raven attempted a music career for the second time in 2003.
For "Cheetah Girls," she recorded an album with Hollywood Records. At No. 33 on the Billboard chart, it sold 2 million copies in its first week, earning the album the status of Double Platinum. It was 2004's second most popular soundtrack. She released her third studio album following the success of the soundtrack. "The Princess Diaries 2," starring Julie Andrews as her co-star, was released later that year and was her first appearance in a Walt Disney picture.
Raven made her acting debut on the Lifetime Movie Network in 2006 with the drama "For One Night.". She also starred in the second instalment of "Cheetah Girls" and worked as an executive producer. It was Disney's most-watched film with an opening night audience of over 8 million people. Music from the film debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard chart and was certified platinum shortly after it was released in theatres.
First leading part: "College Road Trip," No. 2 at the box office in the U.S. and Canada in 2008, was Raven's breakthrough role. Raven's fourth studio album was released in 2008, and she went on tour to promote it that summer. Raven took a break from acting in 2013 to attend the Academy of Art University to pursue a degree in fine arts. Between 2015 and 2016, she worked as a co-host on The View while finishing her degree.
Symone continued to appear in minor roles after graduating from high school, including on more mature sitcoms like Empire and Black-ish. Despite the fact that she hasn't published an album since 2008, she's continued to release music and has starred in films and on television, including "The Masked Singer."
Raven-Symone is an extremely well-off woman with a slew of property to her credit. In addition, she is the proud owner of a sizable number of property holdings. Both her Atlanta estate and her Beverly Hills mansion are stunning. There are a few other properties that Raven owns as well, including an apartment in New York.
She is one of the most recognisable faces in the United States. There are a lot of stunning and exotic cars owned by Raven-Symone. For example, she has a Porsche Cayenne turbo, Chevrolet Camaro GT, Mercedes Maybach, Cadillac Escalade and a few other high-performance vehicles. She's a big fan of high-end automobiles.

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Wonderful Radio (, also known as Love On-Air) is a 2012 South Korean romantic comedy film, starring Lee Min-jung and Lee Jung-jin. It is about a has-been pop star who is now a radio DJ struggling to boost listener ratings. It was released in theaters on January 5, 2012, by distributor Showbox/Mediaplex, and ran for 120 minutes.

Plot
Shin Jin-ah (Lee Min-jung), a onetime lead singer of popular girl group Purple, works as the DJ of the radio show "Wonderful Radio" on SBS station Power FM while also trying to restart her career as a solo singer-composer under her goofy manager Cha Dae-geun (Lee Kwang-soo). However, the ratings have been dropping, so when the show's producer leaves to have a baby, station manager Im (Kim Byung-ok) assigns the ambitious Lee Jae-hyeok (Lee Jung-jin) to her job with a brief to bring in some fresh ideas. Jae-hyeok is appalled by Jin-ah's casual, diva-ish work attitude and the two don't hit it off. When he challenges her to come up with a new segment for the show, she finally gets an idea from her restaurateur mother (Kim Hae-sook) in which members of the public come into the studio and sing a song to their loved ones. She calls the segment "The Song I Sing to You". The initial broadcast, involving a serving soldier, goes disastrously, but subsequent attempts, involving a brattish schoolgirl (Jo Jung-eun) and a taxi driver (Jung Man-shik), are a big success. Jin-ah and Jae-hyeok start to bond. However, In-seok (Kim Jung-tae), the manager of TV drama actress Yoon Mi-ra (Seo Young) and a major supplier of talent to the radio station, is plotting to bring Jin-ah down and replace her with Mi-ra, who still hates Jin-ah for leaving Purple at the height of its fame and causing the group's break-up.

Cast
 Lee Min-jung - Shin Jin-ah
 Lee Jung-jin - Lee Jae-hyeok
 Lee Kwang-soo - Cha Dae-geun, Jin-ah's manager
 Kim Hae-sook - Mrs. Lee, Jin-ah's mother
 Kim Jung-tae - In-seok, head of Mi-ra's agency
 Kim Byeong-ok - Director Im, Power FM station manager
 Han Yeo-woon - Ji In-yeong
 Seo Young - Yoon Mi-ra
 Jeong Yu-mi - Nan-sol, show scriptwriter
 Jung Man-sik - Ji-hyeong, taxi driver
 Jo Jung-eun - Yoon Da-hee, schoolgirl
 Kim Tae-won - Music bar owner (cameo)
 Lee Seung-hwan - Dream Factory owner (cameo)
 Dal Shabet - Cobi Girls (cameo)
 Cul Two - guys in the elevator (cameo)
 Jung Yup - (cameo)
 Kim Jong-kook - taxi passenger (cameo)
 Gary - taxi passenger (cameo)

Production
The director of Wonderful Radio is Kwon Chil-in, who previously directed Singles (2003), Hellcats (2008) and Loveholic (2010). The film's script was written by Lee Jae-ik, producer of SBS Power FM's "Cultwo Show," who incorporated his own experiences in the movie, thereby giving viewers a realistic glimpse at the behind-the-scenes workings of a radio program.

Lee Min-jung said she enjoyed playing both a singer and radio DJ, basing her performance on popular idol groups in her schooldays such as S.E.S. and Fin.K.L. She also said she drew inspiration from her own childhood experience as an avid fan of radio shows, when she would laugh and cry at hearing peoples' stories broadcast over the airwaves.

Soundtrack
The instrumental score was composed by Jung Soo-min and Hwang Seong-je. Along with various K-pop artists, the film's lead actors Lee Min-jung and Lee Jung-jin also contributed tracks.

 Wonderful Radio (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 Again - Lee Min-jung
 참쓰다 "Write the truth" - Lee Min-jung
 You're My Angel - Lee Min-jung, Seo Young, Ahn Mi-na
 Get Out Boy - Cobi Girls (Dal Shabet)
 That's When I Feel Love - Seo Mi-rae
 Black Star - Yoo Keun-ho
 Stay - Kim Kyu-won
 Blind By Love - Kim Ho-yeon
 사랑의 시작은 고백에서부터 "Love begins with a confession" - Lee Jung-jin
 The Moment (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je
 위로 "Comfort" (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je
 지각 "Late" - Hwang Seong-je
 4% (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je
 글래머 인영 "Glamorous In-yeong" (Inst.)
 Reminiscence (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 계절이 바뀌며... "Changing seasons" (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je
 아직도 기다려요 "Still wating" (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 1부 Opening (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je
 Ending Signal (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je
 전화통화 "Phone call" (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 마지막 콘서트 "Last concert" (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je
 로비에서 "In the lobby" (Inst.) - Hwang Seong-je, Lee Seung-hwan, Jung Soo-min
 Namaste (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 그대에게 부르는 노래 "The song I sing to you" (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 미라라... "Mirara" (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 2부 Opening (Inst.) - Jung Soo-min
 뚬바뚬바 메들리 "Ttumba Ttumba medley" - Kim Kyu-won
 Island - Lee Do-woo

Reception
The film sold 400,000 tickets in its first week of release and was the third local film after Dancing Queen and Unbowed to achieve one million admissions in 2012. It ranked second and grossed  in its first week of release and grossed a total of  domestically after three weeks of screening.

Lee Kwang-soo received a Best New Actor in Film nomination at the 48th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2012.

References

External links

2012 films
2012 romantic comedy films
South Korean romantic comedy films
Films about radio people
Showbox films
2010s South Korean films
2010s Korean-language films

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UND Sports
Summit League MBB
By BarnWinterSportsEngelstad, March 13, 2018 in Men's Basketball
teamsioux
Article regarding the Summit League BB tourney being played in Sioux Falls.
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/columnists/stu-whitney/2019/03/08/home-court-advantage-summit-league-tournament-south-dakota/3092433002/
CMSioux
Location:Near Lake Wobegon
Was considering making the 200 mile drive, but teams are weak and weather is iffy. Do they still have a ticket system that favors SD fans?
kiyoat
20 minutes ago, CMSioux said:
Yes and no. I mean, the fact that the tournament has been in Sioux Falls for 11 years certainly is more convenient for SD fans. Some Summit fans like to complain about that, and I would say too bad. SF has supported it, and it's $ucce$$ful.
Some might complain that the Jacks fans have taken it over, providing an unfair advantage, and I'd also say that argument is BS. The Jacks fans have had the same access to tickets as anyone else, and they have chosen to commit to it. Too bad.
The thing that I would argue is that All-session pass holders having first option on renewal, and also the selling of 2-year passes with first option renewal has had a chilling affect on any fan base that wants to try to grow a presence at the tournament. That's not the Jacks fans' fault. They are just supporting their teams and supporting the tournament. I don't know if that ticketing model is used at other conference tourneys or not. Someone on here said that was how the Hockey tourney is.
I'm sure that strategy is wildly successful at making money. I just wish the Summit would make an effort to involve out-of state fan bases more, and get them to grow their presence at the tournament. partition off some lower bowl sections for each team, Make it easier to get there with travel packages, or something. To me, the more out-of-state fans you can involve, and get to travel to SF the better. Like a tourism thing.
Us Yote fans really have no excuse to not have a large presence there, but it's still a struggle. Mostly because you have to plan ahead and commit to the all-session passes if you want to get half-decent seats. Just my two cents.
For those of you that have purchased all-session passes, but would like to improve your location, I believe you can ask to be placed on a waiting list, FYI. There are some pass-holders that choose not to renew every year. Also, there are a lot of individual game tickets on the secondary market (Craigslist et al.), but they go fast for some sessions.
Good info, no problem with location, Big Sky has struggled with crowds at neutral sites. So Craigs List, Brookings might be a source for single game tickets?
SiouxVolley
This is a smart move, for once.
https://brookingsregister.com/article/horizon-league-summit-league-showdown-to-start-in-2020
Since the Horizon-Summit showdown can start next year, the Big Sky schools can be moving over this spring.
W Illinois will be retained for at least a year and then replaced by Augie. PUFW and Robert Morris to the Horizon for a 12x12 challenge. ORU to the WAC as a travel partner for UMKC.
WIU to the OVC when Augie comes in.
WIU up 29-18 on SDSU with 6 minutes to go in the 1st half
WIU up 38-28 at the half.
Once again, WIU is thinking upset like they did last year. Will they pull it off this time?
A fan of ladder brackets like the WCC has. A #1 seed shouldn't be playing the #8. Winning the regular season should mean something.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_West_Coast_Conference_Men's_Basketball_Tournament
51-40 WIU with 14 to go
53-42 WIU with 1140 to go
59-50 WIU
823 to go
FargoBison
29 minutes ago, SiouxVolley said:
Well they get a night off if they win and play on what is pretty much a home court....SDSU is getting plenty.
nodakvindy
It does. It means you get to play the worst team. And get an extra day of rest against you semifinal opponent. That's plenty.
The one benefit of this could potentially your #1 seed getting a better chance of getting to the Dance.
1:14 to go and they are at the line
missed both
now SDSU to the line
they missed both!
46.9 to go
A mid major conference absolutely needs a strong team to represent it. The would double the money for everyone.
That said, SDSU has won a few that they shouldn't have lately.
This would be massively disappointing for SDSU, especially with the giant expectations they came in with.
29.6 left
WIU ball and going to the line


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a href="http://singaporelocalfavourites.com/1.bp.blogspot/-mpCc0srk4mc/TWDBlhl4oGI/AAAAAAAABxw/fu2WrNVvo20/s1600/teh tarik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; Teh tarik (literally pulled tea in English) is a hot, sweet tea beverage which can be commonly found in Indian restaurants, Indian hawker stalls and kopi tiams in Singapore.
Its name, "Teh tarik" is derived from the pouring process of "pulling" the drink during preparation.
Teh Tarik is made from black tea, condensed milk and some ginger juice; may be added which is commonly called "Teh Sarbat" or "Teh Halia" (Ginger Tea).
This drink is also consumed together with roti prata and spicy Indian Dishes!
In a teapot or other non-reactive container, pour boiling water over tea leaves. Steep 10 minutes (this makes a wickedly strong brew).
Strain tea into a large vessel with an easy-to-grip handle (such as a large measuring cup) containing the sweetened condensed milk.
Tarik or "Pull" the tea by pouring it back and forth into another container in a long stream to generate froth. The longer the stream, the frothier the brew (at least 12 inches / 30 c.). Take your time and be careful, splatters from this can burn.
Serve the Teh Tarik quickly, before it deflates.


What do you get when you combine one of the most iconic race circuits in the world, and a unapologetically loud Trans Am Series car from 1969? Pure bliss. Jessi Lang takes a 1969 Camaro Z/28 Trans Am built to historic specs around Laguna Seca. Spoiler alert; it is loud. Below is a video from J-Turn on MotorTrend. Its a great show if you're unfamiliar check it out.


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This article reviews what is currently known regarding the specific features of acute alcohol-induced memory dysfunction, particularly alcohol-induced blackouts, and the pharmacological mechanisms underlying them.
Aaron M. White, Ph.D., is an assistant research professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about alcohol, memory blackouts, and the brain. It is appropriate for introductory to intermediate levels of participants' knowledge.
Describe the effects of alcohol on memory.
Explain how alcohol impairs memory.
Identify the brain regions involved in alcohol-induced memory impairments.


You are here: Home / Taxes / When are Estimated Taxes Due?
If you haven't already sent in your estimated payments you have until next week to get them submitted. Estimated taxes are due on an almost quarterly basis. This is because our tax system is pay as you go – when you work as an employee your taxes are deducted from your paycheck each time. Those self-employed have to take care of this themselves.
It's really hard once you done it a couple of times. You just need to stay on top of your business and keep solid records.
There are several ways to take care of your estimated taxes for your 1040.
Mail- Check the IRS to see which location is correct one for you.
I personally prefer to pay online as it's quick, free, and easy.
How many of you have already taken care of your estimated taxes for the first quarter? How's business going this year?


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Accuracy comparison of three different electronic apex locators in single-rooted teeth — an in vitro study
April 9, 2018 by Endodontic Practice US Team
Drs. Amil Sharma, Gregori M. Kurtzman, Sandeep Gupta, Shivanshu Bhardwaj, and Poorvasha Dhanare discuss accurate determination of the location of the working length
With many new inventions entering the dental field each day, endodontics has risen to a new level. Previously, root canal treatment was directed by "biomechanical preparation" and has shifted toward a "chemo-biomechanical preparation" methodology. Root canal treatment should be dependent on not only proper cleaning and shaping procedures but also access of the endodontic irrigants to the working length during treatment. The determination of correct working length is a very important factor leading to clinical success in root canal treatment. Numerous studies have demonstrated that when instrumentation and obturation reach the apical foramen, endodontic treatment provides predictable clinical results. Yet radiographic determination of working length with an endodontic file in the canal is an inaccurate method of deciding where the instrumentation and obturation needs to terminate. Therefore, accurate determination of the location of the working length is a very important factor in successful root canal treatment.
Electrical resistance between the mucous membrane and periodontium can be considered to have a constant relationship, so a method for measurement can be developed. Therefore, measuring the length of the canal by electrical resistance would be possible.1 Working length (WL) determination is a very important factor in the success of root canal treatment. Failures in determination of WL such as measuring short or beyond the apex may cause failure of the root canal treatment due to placement of obturation material beyond the confines of the anatomic root. Therefore, clinicians need to obtain accurate measurements during WL determination to yield predictable clinical results.2
Numerous studies have demonstrated different histological results after root canal treatment and have shown superior results when instrumentation is performed as well as obturation to the apical constriction (apical foramen). Thus, determination of the accurate WL by locating the minor apical diameter is very important for successful root canal treatment.2 Yet radiographic determination of working length with an endodontic file in the canal is an inaccurate method of determining where the instrumentation and obturation needs to terminate. The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of three different electronic apex locators in single-rooted teeth.
Sixty extracted human single-rooted permanent teeth with completely formed apices were used as study samples. The teeth were extracted for periodontal, prosthetic, or orthodontic reasons. After extraction, the teeth were placed in 5% sodium hypochlorite to remove the periodontal ligament. Stains and calculus were removed with the help of hand scalers and curettes. Selected teeth were stored in a container containing 2% thymol crystals in distilled water until needed for the study. Endodontic access was prepared with burs using a high-speed handpiece. The study samples were analyzed for actual working length with the aid of a stereo microscope under 40x magnification by multiple observers, with a mean value of three observers set as the actual working length. A size 15 K-file was inserted into each study sample to access the root canal working length. Care was taken that each sample was placed properly on the tray of the stereo microscope so that complete working length was analyzed. The apical exit of the inserted endodontic file was noticed (Figure 1), and the file was removed from the canal without changing the placement of the rubber stopper. The working length was measured with an endo gauge; the procedure was repeated for each study sample 3 times by each observer, and the mean value as actual working length was set. The 60 extracted teeth were then divided into three groups.
Each tooth was placed in a container poured with alginate that was mixed with a saline liquid to replicate the conduction of electricity to simulate an oral environment. The lip clip was placed into the alginate, and the wire from the apex locator was connected to the file.
Group I Containing 20 extracted human anterior single-rooted teeth whose working length was taken by using RAYPEX® 6 electronic apex locator (VDW®, Munich, Germany) (Figure 2, left).
Group 2 Containing 20 extracted human anterior single-rooted teeth whose working length was taken by using ROOT ZX II electronic apex locator (J. Morita Corp., Osaka and Tokyo, Japan; J. Morita USA, Inc., Irvine, California). (Figure 2, center).
Group 3 Containing 20 extracted human single-rooted teeth whose working length was taken by using Propex II™ electronic apex locator (Dentsply Sirona, York, Pennsylvania) (Figure 2, right).
The observers then recorded three readings for each sample by reinserting the No.15 K-file, and measurements were obtained with the three Electronic Apex Locators: Root-ZX II (J. Morita), Propex II (Dentsply Sirona) and Raypex 6 (VDW). (Figure 3) These values were then compared with the actual working lengths previously obtained.
Figure 1: Microscopic working length reading with file at the apex
Figure 2: Electronic Apex Locators (EAL) used in the study
Figure 3: Apex locators recording working length on specimen samples
All the statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 18 and MedCalc® Version 14. A p-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Statistical analysis was performed using paired t-test and Kruskal Wallis ANOVA with post-hoc Conover test. Statistical readings were considered significant when p < 0.001.
The mean value of working length for group 1 was 23.11 mm, and the standard deviation was 1.86 as measured with the microscope. The mean value of this group's working length with the apex locator was 22.7 mm, and the standard deviation was 1.8.
The mean value of working length of group 2 was 20.98 mm, and the standard deviation was 1.76 as measured with the microscope. The mean value of working length for group 2 was 20.19 mm, and the standard deviation was 1.47 with the apex locator reading.
The mean value of working length of group 3 was 21.33 mm, and the standard deviation was 2.45 as measured with the microscope. The mean value of working length of group 3 was 20.52 mm, and the standard deviation was 2.22 in apex locator reading.
The absolute agreement among the readings of the three apex locators was checked by intra-class correlation coefficient (0.93).
The absolute agreement among the three microscope readings was checked by intra-class correlation coefficient (0.92).
Correct working length determination is the main factor leading to success in endodontic treatment. Studies have shown the histological results after endodontic treatment to be superior when instrumentation and obturation are limited to the apical foramen and not beyond this anatomical landmark. Therefore, accurate determination of the location of the apical constriction is a key factor in successful endodontic therapy.3
In 1918, Custer was the first to report the use of an electric current to determine working length. In 1962, Sunada reported that there is a constant value (6.5k ohms) of electrical resistance between the mucous membrane and the periodontium and stated that it is possible to use this value of resistance in the estimation of root length. Additionally, he demonstrated that if an endodontic instrument is connected to an ohm meter — introduced into the canal and advanced until the ohm meter shows the value of 40 ohms — the tip of the instrument has reached the periodontal ligament at the apical foramen. The device utilized by Sunada in his research became the basis for electronic apex locators.3
In the study presented here, three different electronic apex locators were utilized (Root ZX II, Propex II, and Raypex 6) whose electronic working length was compared to the actual root length using a stereo microscope to determine the actual working length. The results demonstrated that the accuracy of the Raypex 6 EAL was more accurate than the Root ZX II EAL, which is similar to a study conducted by Samadi, et al.4 Additionally, the Propex II was not as accurate as the Raypex II as reported by Demiriz, et al.5 The data collected in the study presented here found a statistically significant difference between the Raypex 6 EAL and the other two units evaluated by up to 1 mm between the samples studied. Comparison of accuracy between the RootZX II and Propex II demonstrated near equal accuracy between these two EALs.
Lucena-Martin, et al., conducted a study to evaluate several apex locators and found that the Root ZX II was more reliable among the apex locators he evaluated.6 Haffner, et al., also conducted a study comparing apex locators with a microscope and confirmed that apex locators are very reliable in determining working length.7 D'Assunção, et al., evaluated two apex locators and found that apex locators are reliable in locating the apical foramen, thus confirming prior reported studies.8 Sadeghi and Abolghasemi compared apex locators with the conventional radiographic method in straight and curved root canals and found apex locators are reliable in determining working length, regardless of the curvature or lack of curvature of the root.9
Studies also have stated that the use of an electronic apex locator for working length determination is a much easier procedure and more accurate than taking the working length measurements with a radiograph and a file within the canal. An added benefit is minimization of radiation exposure to the patient. Thus, we can conclude that electronic apex locators are more accurate then alternative methods to clinically determine working length, saving chair time, and decreasing patient radiation exposure.
The study was performed to compare the accuracy of three different electronic apex locators in single-rooted teeth in vitro, in which the following key points were concluded:
The use of an electronic apex locator is a reliable and accurate method in determining working length.
There is a minor difference between actual working length taken by a stereo microscope and working length taken by electronic apex locator.12
The Raypex 6 electronic apex locator is most reliable in the determination of working length, followed by the Propex II electronic apex locator and the Root ZX II electronic apex locator.
The use of an electronic apex locator is an excellent adjunct to the practice of endodontics, provided accurate working length and clinical results can be obtained consistently with time savings during treatment. A perceived disadvantage of electronic apex locators has been the concern in use with patients who have implanted pacemakers or defibrillators. Yet multiple published studies have found the EAL has no negative effect on these implanted devices, and they are safe to use in these patients.15-17
Amil Sharma, BDS, MDS, has a BDS from Jiwaji University, Gwalior M.P. India, and a MDS from Madhya Medical Science University in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (MPMSU).
Gregori M. Kurtzman, DDS, MAGD, is in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Sandeep Gupta, BDS, MDS received a BDS RGHUS in Karnataka and MDS from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Shivanshu Bhardwaj, BDS, MDS, received a BDS from Barkatullah University Bhopal M.P. India and a MDS from Madhya Medical Science University in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (MPMSU).
Poorvasaha Dhanare, BDS, MDS, received a BDS from Barkatullah University Bhopal M.P. India and an MDS from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sunada I. New method for measuring the length of the root canal. J Dent Res. 1962;41(2):375-387.
Saglam BC, Çiek E, Kocak S, Kocak MM. Comparison of low versus full battery/charge conditions of electronic apex locators. J Dent Fac Atatürk Uni. 2015;181-184.
Ebrahim AK, Wadachi R, Suda H. Electronic apex locators — a review. J Med Dent Sci. 2007;54:125-136.
Samadi Y, Harandi A, Soleymani A, Khafri S, Tavanafar S. Evaluation of the accuracy of two apex locators in endodontic treatment and retreatments: an ex vivo study: Caspian J Dent Res. 2016;5(1):21-28.
Demiriz L, Kocak MM, Saglam BC, Kocak S. In vitro evaluation of the accuracy of ProPex II, Raypex 6, and Ipex II electronic apex locators in primary molar teeth. J Health Res Rev. 2016;3(2);37-40.
Lucena-Martín C, Robles-Gijón V, Ferrer-Luque CM, de Mondelo JM. In vitro evaluation of the accuracy of three electronic apex locators. J Endod. 2004;30(4):231-233.
Haffner C, Folwaczny M, Galler K, Hickel R. Accuracy of electronic apex locators in comparison to actual length–an in vivo study. J Dent. 2005;33(8):619-625.
D'Assunção FL, de Albuquerque DS, de Queiroz Ferreira LC. The ability of two apex locators to locate the apical foramen: an in vitro study. J Endod. 32(6): 2006;32(6): 560-562.
Sadeghi S, Abolghasemi M. A comparison between the Raypex5 apex locator and conventional radiography for determining working length of straight and curved canals. Iran Endod J. 2008;2(3):101-104.
Ebrahim AK, Wadachi R, Suda H. In vitro evaluation of the accuracy of five different electronic apex locators for determining the working length of endodontically retreated teeth. Aust Endod J. 2007;33(1):7-12.
Bernardes R, Duarte AH, Vasconcelos BC, et al. Evaluation of precision of length determination with 3 electronic apex locators: Root ZX, Elements Diagnostic Unit and Apex Locator, and RomiAPEX D-30. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2007;104 (4):91-94.
Plotino G, Grande NM, Brigante L, Lesti B, Somma F. Ex vivo accuracy of three electronic apex locators: Root ZX, Elements Diagnostic Unit and Apex Locator and ProPex. Int Endod J. 2006;39(5):408-414.
Thomas M, Acharya S. A comparative evaluation of the accuracy of third generation electronic apex locator (root zx) and conventional radiography to determine working length — an in vivo study. Endodontology. 2008;14-21.
Vatkar N, Sathe S, Hedge V. In vitro evaluation of the efficacy of five apex locators. Endodontology. 2008;36-42.
Garofalo RR, Ede EN, Dorn SO, Kuttler S. Effect of electronic apex locators on cardiac pacemaker function. J Endod. 2002;28(12):831-833.
Idzahi K, de Cock CC, Shemesh H, Brand HS. Interference of electronic apex locators with implantable cardioverter defibrillators. J Endod. 2014;40(2):277-280.
Sriman N, Prabhakar V, Bhuvaneswaran JS, Subha N. Interference of apex locator, pulp tester and diathermy on pacemaker function. J Conserv Dent. 2015;18(1):15-19.
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Presumably stones were one of the first items here, man laid his hands on, when organizing the land, regarding the huge amount of walls made out of stone there is nowadays.
Stone walls. It is probably one of the most bespoke subjects, at least for the ones who visit Inis Meáin. And of course it is very likely to speak about them; you just cannot ignore them let alone think them away. You cannot put them out of your mind either, because they simply are. They are a vital part in the landscape as a whole. One is hardly able to overlook them for they cannot be overlooked really. Actually, this very ingredient gives all of the three islands body and structure. Through them the appearance of the islands are immediately shown to the visitor who comes in for the very first time. And with them, they will put one or another impact on him.
I love to walk the roads. As soon as I set my feet on them I feel the good company of the stone walls on either side of me. At times of rough weather they provide me a lovely shelter and on a cold, wintry day there is a lee for me in stock. Not only at those moments though am I grateful to the islanders, long before our time, who used their creativity and energy to metamorphose a huge amount of stones into a variety of artistic and functional walls. It is due to their presence as well I feel moral support is given to me while I am going my way.
The other day a part of a stone wall at my place spontaneously had been fallen apart. Seeing the various stones lying beside I thought of just picking them up and placing them back. Well… it was not easy at all. Apart from the heavy weight there was something else which made it for a layman like me virtually impossible to replace them I realized at once. With my innocent attempt I had tried in one step to bridge the gap of a long history of deep and innate knowledge passed on by many generations to the next. With this experience of awareness I was happy though.
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Thank you for your wonderful article and beautiful photographs. I visited the Aran Islands for the first time last September. The beauty and soul of the stones and wells, the glistening sheen of the healthy cows and horses, the friendliness of the people and the majesty of the cliffs meeting the sea remain in my heart.
Thank you for writing and sharing. I'll come here often to bring the Aran Islands close to my life in Los Angeles. Please, write on!


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To use Ricket's D16 Propelled Delivery Device, all you need to do is talk to Ricket and tell her you're ready to go.
The destination of the trip is the Grom'arsh Crash-Site (36,49), north-northeast of the Temple of Storms.
EDIT: At least that's the destination for Horde.
I have cold weather flying and can't get it. I have unlocked the Overstock quest which is apparently unlocked the same way as this one.
I just wanted to mention that you have to have done A Flawless Plan given by Gino in order to be given this quest.
I had missed Gino entirely and was very confused by the fact that Ricket didn't offer this quest to me. Once I completed Gino's quest this quest and Overstock both became available.
If you ever wanted to find out what your character looks like riding a Nether Rocket but weren't lucky enough to get the loot card, here's your chance.
You don't need to ride one of these rockets. I was busy taking care of other quests to bother riding the rocket. When I finally got to Temple of Storms and talked to Thorim, I was right nearby this place so I went over to turn it in.
So yeah, you can just fly over and talk to the guy instead.
I've done every quest in K3 and I am unable to get this quest, even now that I have cold weather flying. I suspect that once you get the Grom'arsh Crash-Site flightpath, then it is no longer offered to you. However, I cannot be sure as I have never been able to get the quest.
The D16 reminds me of the rockets that Wile E. Coyote uses to try take out the Road Runner.
I thought I'd post this in case anyone else finds themselves in this position. When the rocket ride completed, my Tauren hunter found herself stuck in the "rib cage" of the crashed zeppelin that makes up the inn. Not wanting to have to hearth and return, after several attempts at wiggling free, I used Disengage and was able to free myself.
That looked painful. It was a pretty grand entrance though.
Are you here to help us find a path into Icecrown? As you can see, our first foray in that direction didn't end too admirably. I'm thinking we might be better off breaching the place from another side.


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The Dining Table Napoleon
Refighting Napoleonic era battles on a dining table
My Aims
Bloody Big Battles goes to Waterloo
30 June 2015 Games & rules, Newsadmin
Alas the rest of my life intrudes and my wargaming projects proceed at the pace of a snail. When my friend Rob suggested that we celebrate the bicentennial of Waterloo in the only way you really can, I was unready. My rules are still in pieces, untested, and probably unfit. Even my French army was off its bases as part of an overhaul and rebasing exercise (Rob provides the Allies). The house was entering chaos as a major kitchen rebuild was just starting.
But these challenges help to focus the mind. I could get a reasonable number of French infantry ready. In spite of the domestic chaos I could get a temporary 3ft by 4ft table up for a day. But with limited numbers of figures available, and an even smaller table than usual, what rules to use? I thought of doing a tactical game, representing part of the bigger battle, another encounter or some wholly made-up scenario. And then I remembered Bloody Big Battles. This set of rules, written by Chris Pringe, is meant for a later era – the European conflicts from the Crimean War to the Franco-Prussian war. I had bought them because we considered their use for an 1866 game (Austro-Prussian War), but rejected them as we preferred the less abstracted feel of Bruce Weigle's 1866. I had read on TMP that they could be used for the Napoleonic wars, which were not at such a technological distance from Crimea after all. These should fit the bill nicely – designed as they are for such large scales. I could even bring in my newly painted Prussians. We were on!
Apart from the scramble to get enough of my French ready, the two big challenges were to get the rules and table ready. On re-reading BBB there seemed a serious deficiency in its treatment of cavalry. They used the same figure scale (1,500 per base), but were treated in much the same way as infantry, except with more mobility and limited firepower. This might be appropriate for the later era, when cavalry's role was somewhat peripheral, and where they were dominated by firepower. But the Napoleonic era was different – the rules would not produce anything like the seminal Waterloo events of the charge of the Union Brigade, or the French cavalry charges. A major aspect of Napoleonic warfare was lacking. A second deficiency was the lack of any rules that would cater for the fortified outposts of Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte, so important to the actual battle. To rectify these gaps, and fix one or two other things, I put together some house rules. These weren't my finest hour, as things proved, but more of that later.
So far as the table was concerned, the challenge was harder. I have struggled to produce adequate representations of relief for my games. The more games I play, the more important I think this part of a simulation is. Terrain is a wonderful, complex thing that does not follow standard shapes. Dropping standard hills and other items onto a flat tabletop does not work. The gentle, rolling terrain of the Waterloo campaign are a big challenge. This folds in the terrain may not be big, but they are vital to an appreciation of the battles. How to create terrain quickly?
The solution I opted for this time was to buy 60cm by 40cm by 10mm cheap sheets of styrofoam, sold for packaging (not the denser insulation material) and a hot knife. I then built the table up in contours, representing about 10m relief (ignoring the edges), fixing everything in place with masking tape. This took a few hours the day before – longer than I had hoped. Over the styrofoam went the standard felt blanket, with the help of some pins and water spray to help it conform more closely. The rivers, roads, woods, etc were hastily added using masking tape, green flt and a few stock items of 10mm and 6mm scenery (in spite of 15mm figures!). You can see the result in the picture above of the start of the game. The non-relief bits (especially the rivers) looked awful, but they are a work in progress. The relief looked fine though, and was the best I have produced for any of the games I have hosted. My main learning is that it would have been better to build up modules, of say 30cm by 60cm, rather than build the whole table up with interlocking bits of foam. This makes dismantling, storage and reassembly much easier – and may even be quicker to put together – as working on such a large canvass can do your head in a bit.
And so the 18th June arrived and we were set.
The course of the battle
The game started at 11am in game terms, and about the same in real time, with the historical start positions and using Napoleon's battle plan. My memory of the exact sequence of events is a bit vague, but this is my general recollection.
On the French left things got off to a bad start when Jérôme refused to move. Foy attacked Hougoumont in his place, and suffered a -5 dice difference on the assault, which left him retreating with a base loss. Subsequently Jérôme did move in and capture Hougoumont, which proved much easier under my rules than I intended. There was a counterattack by the Guards, but Jerome held on. But he made no headway. He lacked support on the ground to his right, which was dominated by the British artillery. French artillery reinforcements did help reduce the British artillery, and an attack by the cuirassiers on the Guards as they counterattacked was beaten off. The French dithered a bit, though managed to take La Haye Sainte after d'Erlon's failure there. But as the British threw all their horse artillery in to create a 3 unit grand battery (supposedly over 100 guns), Bachelu and Foy were thrown into the centre in an attack right along the line. The cuirassiers took on the newly arrived artillery. But this attack failed, apart from disrupting the British artillery. Foy and Bachelu were wiped out, leaving Jérôme isolated.
On the French right things went worse still. Although the initial French bombardment made some headway, the leading French division in the centre was disrupted by long range artillery, meaning that the attack was severely weakened, and failed across the line. At one point the British conducted a vigorous counterattack with Picton and Bijlandt, which attracted a cavalry charge, which bounced off. As the battle progressed three of d'Erlon's divisions were destroyed. One by cavalry, another by a good throw on combined artillery and infantry fire, and the third from a double draw in an assault which took out 2 bases. Durutte managed to take the Papelotte complex and hold it for a while, but was eventually ejected with loss. Eventually the French threw in the cavalry and the Middle Guard in a general attack across the front (as already referred to). The Middle Guard made some headway, but in the end the attack failed, and the Middle Guard was destroyed. The British lost Picton and Best and a light cavalry unit. They brought in their heavy cavalry and the Brunswick division to shore things up.
The French did quite successfully keep the Prussians at bay though. The Prussians were as aggressive as they could be, and drove the French back some distance, causing some losses on Lobau. But by 7pm they had not got beyond the Papelotte complex. The Prussians had overwhelming numbers, but found it difficult to advance quickly enough.
It was about this point that I threw in the towel as the French player. I had very little infantry left. Reille was reduced to an isolated Jérôme. D'Erlon had a weakened Durutte, drawn into holding the Prussians back. That left two Guard units. The British infantry was a bit battered but still looked very robust. The French cavalry was faring much better though – but there was little it could do against all that infantry!
This was how things looked at the end:
Overall verdict on the battle
The game followed the overall historical path – except that the British did not suffer as heavily, the French cavalry fared better, and the Prussians did not advance as quickly. My performance as Napoleon was a bit tired – I needed to fight a tighter, more vigorous game in those early moves.
The game was affected by the rules. My rule modifications on outposts and cavalry both worked badly. The former were much too easy to take, but cavalry had very little ability to make much headway against infantry – though did not suffer heavy losses.
Also I was a bit generous with the British. On the right they had two big, six base units, rated as veterans. The French mainly had three base units, rated as Trained. The big units had a lot of stamina, while the smaller units disappeared after their second base loss.
We were unfamiliar with the rules – and the tactics that were needed to succeed. We didn't play them accurately either. We weren't recovering losses until very late in the game, or reducing fire from disrupted units.
For the attacker the best tactics seem to be to create disruption and then take advantage using fresh troops before the other side had the opportunity to recover. By and large that disruption comes from Defensive fire and assaults resolved in the enemy's previous phase – or a failure to recover from disruption inflicted in your previous move.
With 1,500 men per base (750 cavalry in my adaptation), against the recommended 1,000 for the ground scale, I was expecting it to relatively uncluttered. It wasn't. True, Reille looked a bit spread out at the start, and there was room enough to deploy the British – but the French reserve areas were very congested. And as the forces closed it got very crowded. Similarly with the Prussian attack – though Lobau did look a bit challenged to defend his front, that worked out OK in practice.
I think 1,000 per base might just have worked. It would certainly have reduced the number of three base units – which lacked stamina. But with my DTN rules have 750 infantry or 250 cavalry per base – and that adds up to a major design problem. A shame because the distance scale worked fine for Dining Table brief – in what was a historically compact battlefield. I want to leave four foot tables for bigger battles so changing the distance scale isn't really on.
Unfamiliarity didn't help us – but I was struck by the strength of the core design, reducing complications to the minimum. The temptation is often to add details, but further thought often suggests that the concern is met within the rules. Overall they fitted the dining table brief rather well. They gave a decent two player game in a relatively confined space. The core mechanism, adapted from the ACW Fire & Fury rules, is quite an elegant one, if a little abstract.
Still there are frustrations:
Firing was very hit and miss – by and large needing high scores to inflict disruption and very high ones to inflict base losses. Mostly it was a lot of dice throws to no effect. The heavy lifting in the combat rules was done by the Assault. This was the main reason, I think, that cavalry got away with so few losses. This is partly a common problem with representing small but cumulative losses on such granular units – a bane of many rules that are designed to play fast. It may be that the original rules are too harsh on smoothbore muskets – it is less easy to criticise the artillery rules.
The Assault was rather unsatisfactory process. I remember my friend George complaining about it when we rejected it for an 1866 scenario. Looking back at his emails I think the rules as written are not as bad as we feared – apart from the cavalry v infantry problem. I didn't think that there was anything inherently unsatisfactory with the way the factors were calculated, apart from the special situations covered by the house rules. Two things jarred. First was that the process of comparing the difference between two dice scores and then modifying is quite hard work, especially if the modifiers work in two directions. Second the "draw" result results in two lost bases, which is a very severe result, especially if it repeats, when dealing with typically quite small units.
Command and control works purely through an activation step with a modifier for being within radius of a leader. I prefer something more hierarchical and based on PIPs.
There seems quite a serious advantage for larger units. Smaller units are liable to disappear as they hit the minimum unit size. The two 6-base veteran British units (Alten and Clinton) proved very hard to make headway against.
"Low on ammo" is a particular irritant to many with this rules system. It is interesting that Chris retained it. You need some kind of mechanism to ensure that artillery especially doesn't just fire forever – but since an 11 or 12 was required for any decisive result, it immediately posed a penalty. It's quite hard to reconcile this with historical narrative.
Charges against artillery. What happens? The rules are unclear about what happens when they are disordered and compelled to retreat – do they limber? Subsequent close reading gives the result that losing artillery are silenced – which means limber up and disappear. My feeling is that unsupported artillery should be a bit more vulnerable.
Silencing artillery. Sound in principle, but making them limber up and retreat doesn't feel right – though this may just be the easiest play mechanism to get the right overall outcomes.
Artillery is dealt with very abstractly, with each unit representing 36 guns. I don't think this approach worked too badly overall – but the frontage of 150m for a unit would take many fewer pieces. So it is possible to build a very compact grand battery, able to deliver a huge weight of fire on a single unit. When Wellington did just this in the game by bringing forward his horse artillery reserves.
Overall I think some of this is because of poor calibration for the Napoleonic era, since we used the original fire factors, for example. A bit of recalibration and tweaking could accomplish much. .
A bit of a disaster, which rather spoiled the game. A lesson to be learned there! Always play test.
I think halving the number of men per base worked OK for cavalry. I'm not sure that reducing their vulnerability to firing was right. The big trouble was that it was much too hard for cavalry to overcome infantry. The new Square mode proved largely irrelevant – but cavalry also needed to suffer more (I had assumed that defensive firing would do the trick – but this did no damage in multiple attacks). This needs recalibrating.
The outposts proved quite easy to take. The terrain plus points were matched with depth formation and numerical superiority – even as I limited the latter to one point. Attacker occupation was unclear.
I added an artillery bounce-through rule which worked OK, though I hadn't defined whether it affects the low on ammo rule. However there was nothing stopping the British engaging in offensive fire – to quite good effect. Wellington didn't do this in the historical battle because it made his artillery more vulnerable to counterbattery fire. I had deliberately not created a rule to reflect this, as it would be another bit of complexity.
I also incorporated a horse artillery rule, since both sides were able to deploy it on a grand-tactical scale – this worked quite well.
If you are interested in using BBB yourself for Napoleonic battles, or want to look in closer detail on how I set up the Waterloo battle, then I have posted resources here, under Waterloo. The rules have been revised to take account of many of the issues mentioned above, though I have not had the courage to recalibrate the firing rules. BBB is available from a variety of dealers, like Caliver Books here in the UK
Unfortunately the one thing that is missing is the table map. This is on a very non-digital piece of squared paper with pencil and crayon markings on it – with features other than contours only vaguely represented. Doing a digital version would not be impossible, but would take more time than I'm prepared to give! On contact I can email a scanned version though.
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Allows you to send your own site or receive a friend's site via Sharepoint or Share Share Location.
You can create groups or chat groups, such as a group of friends, family, work, and so on.
Works on most phone operating systems such as iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian, and Windows Phone 7 only (and on iPad unofficially).
You can download WhatsApp, the latest version of Android from Google Play Store, or APK format through a direct download link without the need for Google Play Store.
Type the name of the app "Wattsab" or "WhatsApp Messnger" in the search box.
Once the app appears in the search results, click "Install."
You can go directly to the app download page on the Google Play Store from here.
You can download the wattp app in the APK format through a direct download link without the need for a Google Play store here.
Wait for the activation code or confirmation.
Enter the confirmation code manually if the application asks you to do so, but will usually recognize it automatically.
The application will start syncing contacts from your phone, so that you can communicate with your contacts that use Skype.
You will see QR Code.
Open the application on your phone.
In the upper right corner you will find 3 horizontal points. Click on it.
The camera will work through the application, check the code on the computer screen through your phone as if you will take a picture of it.
Now the application has confirmed that you are the owner of the account and will work on your computer without problems.
Note: You can use WhatsApp Web only on your computer in text messaging, and you can not make voice or video calls.


This is the University of Birmingham's festive aluminium 3D laser printed reindeer. The process involves using lasers to fuse thin layers of metal powders sequentially spread on a substrate to build the reindeer bottom upwards based on a computer geometrical model of the reindeer. The process is commonly known as selective laser melting, direct laser metal sintering, or laser powder bed. The complex features in the body of the reindeer is a special mesh-like structure that has unique mechanical properties that can be applied in a wide range of applications such as medical implants and structural parts in aeroplanes.
The reindeer was made in the Advanced Materials and Processing Lab at the University of Birmingham by Dr Hany Hassanin, Dr Nick Adkins and Dr Luke Carter.


Should all Canadians have access to broadband? The answer these days is almost invariably yes, but the more specific questions that follow are: How do we connect those without access (whose responsibility is it, who should pay for it), and what counts as broadband anyway?
The latter question results in different definitions or 'targets' for connectivity, most often as upload/download speeds, which can be mandated (hard targets) or 'aspirational' (soft targets). These targets often lag behind how people actually use the internet, presuming some 'basic' form of connectivity that doesn't involve streaming media or uploads. The CRTC just revised such a target, from 2011's measly 1 Mbps up and 5 Mbps down, to ten times that (10 & 50 Mbps), under the rationale that this level of connectivity is currently vital for Canadians. This is also presented as a forward-looking approach for a gigabit world, since the CRTC asserts that "the network infrastructure capable of providing those speeds is generally scalable, meaning that it can support download and upload speeds of up to 1 Gbps".
The CRTC's revised broadband target was the result of the basic service hearings (see previous post), which also led to a number of other decisions within a new regulatory policy (2016-496). These include forthcoming targets for latency, jitter, and packet loss, a new funding mechanism for extending broadband networks, and accessibility requirements for Canadians with disabilities. But while the specifics of these policies are important, the broader shift that has taken place was signaled by Chairman Blais' decision to interrupt the hearings with a statement about just how vital broadband has become for Canadian "economic, social, democratic and cultural success". This sentiment is echoed in the newly-written policy — Canadians require broadband to participate in society, even if this society tends to be characterized as a "digital economy", with "social, democratic and cultural" dimensions getting less emphasis. Still, around twenty years after the arrival of the public (commercial) internet in Canada, the CRTC has finally declared that broadband is a vital need for all, and not some optional luxury.
All of this has happened in the same regulatory policy that signals a movement away from what was once considered a vital need for society — universal telephone access. In today's world, differentiating digital networks from POTS (plain old telephone service) is increasingly pointless, but the CRTC's decision works to "shift the focus of its regulatory frameworks from wireline voice services to broadband Internet access services", creating a new "universal service objective" for broadband.
Universal telephone service was a great twentieth-century achievement in Canada, although there seems to be some controversy among telecom policy folks whether this resulted from regulation or the initiative of private industry. Positions on the matter seem to depend on whether one wants to credit industry or public policy, because for nearly all of the twentieth century (particularly since 1905) the two are hard to distinguish. Whether it was formalized or not, universal service (achieved by using urban networks to subsidize rural ones) was a key pillar of the monopoly era. Once the telephone ceased to be a luxury good, telephone companies were expected to honor the principle of universalism, and extending twisted copper to every home became part of the great nation-building project. However, the internet arrived at the close of the monopoly era, and the old telephone network was inadequate for what we would consider to be broadband today. As with telephony, internet access was initially seen as a luxury. Now that it is basic and vital, the existence of populations without access to broadband is a problem that cannot be ignored.
And so, we have a new universal service objective for broadband in Canada, we will soon have a new pot of money that can be awarded to companies to work towards it, but on the bigger issues of connectivity and digital policy, we are still waiting for coherence.


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Warnock, Abrams Dodge Addressing Braves' Name Change
(Newsmax)
By Nick Koutsobinas | Tuesday, 27 September 2022 08:33 PM EDT
Georgia Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams dodged taking positions regarding an Atlanta Braves name change after the White House on Monday said it supports having a "conversation" about it.
According to Breitbart, an aide for Warnock said that the Georgia senator "knows the Braves organization is in touch with the Native American community and he trusts them to work together on this matter."
Aside from Warnock, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Abrams dodged the question entirely after she "said through a spokesman she is rooting for the team to repeat its championship run."
Both Warnock and Abrams are in tight midterm races. Reporters pressed the two Democrats after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday responded to questions regarding the "controversial" Braves' name and the "tomahawk chop."
"We believe that it's important to have this conversation, and Native American and indigenous voices, they should be at the center of this conversation. That is something that the president believes," Jean-Pierre said. At the time of the press secretary's response, President Joe Biden was hosting the Braves following their World Series win.
Speaking on the president, Jean-Pierre added that "he has consistently emphasized that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. You hear that often from this president. The same is true here and we should listen to Native American and indigenous people who are the most impacted by this."
Herschel Walker, who is vying to unseat Warnock as a Republican, said changing the name would be "ridiculous" and that the Georgia Senate Democrat was complacent amidst Major League Baseball's decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta.
"Suggesting the Braves change their name is just as ridiculous as a sitting U.S. Senator not standing up for his state's businesses and economy in the face of a woke mob," Walker said.
"Raphael Warnock failed the people of Georgia last year by not fighting to keep the All-Star Game in Atlanta, and it looks like he is going to sit by and let yet another made-up controversy distract from the real problems of inflation, grocery prices, rising crime, and an open border. Just another day in the life of Georgia's Do Nothing Senator."
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Tuesday, 27 September 2022 08:33 PM
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House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has begun following through on her pledge to hold Democrats ac . . .


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Alternative Titles: Kawasaki Jūkōgyō KK, Kawasaki Shipyard Company
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japanese Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Kk, major Japanese manufacturer of transportation equipment and machinery and an important member of the Kawasaki group of industries. The company maintains head offices in both Kōbe and Tokyo.
Kōbe: Kawasaki shipyard
The Kawasaki shipyard in Kōbe, Japan.
The original enterprise was a shipyard established by Kawasaki Shōzō in 1878. In 1886 Kawasaki established another shipyard in Kōbe and, upon the merger of the two in 1896, formed the Kawasaki Shipyard Company. Its present name was adopted in 1939, after it had expanded into the manufacturing of railroad equipment, steel plates, aircraft, and machinery. The company's production of freighters was augmented by that of submarines during World War II and of supertankers in the postwar decades. After World War II the company was broken up by the U.S. occupation authorities, but, after its merger with two of its previous subsidiaries in 1969, it again became a major corporation. Kawasaki remained one of Japan's leading shipbuilders until the 1970s, after which its machinery, aircraft, and rolling-stock divisions became more important.
The Kawasaki motorcycle, sold throughout the world, is its best-known consumer product and represents a significant portion of total sales. Kawasaki also manufactures all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and Jet Ski watercraft.
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The Gemological Institute of America's Gem Trade Lab (GTL) and the American Gem Trade Association's Gem Testing Center (GTC) have announced progress in identifying bulk-diffusion-treated sapphires coming from Chanthaburi, Thailand. It now appears that much of this new material can be identified with standard gemological tests.
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In addition, heated inclusions may be indicators, and the visible spectrum also might offer clues. Meanwhile, other gemological tests are being investigated. Infrared spectrum analysis may be useful in finding an indication of treatment, says Scarratt, who noted that infrared is "standard gem testing equipment" for the professional gem lab.
The stones can be identified by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), but that can cost $500 to $700 or more per stone. Labs use SIMS analysis to look for beryllium, which has been identified as the coloring agent.


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Q: Let $\lambda_n$ be the location of the $n^{th}$ positive root of $x = 1/\sin(x)$. Evaluate $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(\lambda_n - n\pi\right)$ Consider the set of positive intersections between the functions $x$ and $1/\sin(x)$. These are shown as red dots in the image below:

Let $\lambda_n > 0$ be the $x$-coordinate of the $n^{th}$ such intersection, where $n$ starts at $0$ for convenience. There are a number of things which can be proven about this set of numbers (I can furnish proofs of these upon request):
1) As $n$ increases, $\lambda_n$ grows ever closer to $n\pi$. This follows from inspecting the graph.
2) $\lambda_n$ alternates which side of $n\pi$ it is on. First it is greater than, then less than, etc. (Also follows from the graph.)
3) As $n$ increases, $\lambda_n$ rapidly converges toward $n\pi + \frac{{(-1)}^n}{n \pi}$.
4) $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{{\lambda_n}^2} = 1$
5) $\lambda_0$ is very close to $\frac{1+\cos(1)}{\cos(1)+\sin(1)} \approx 1.114$
I wish to evaluate the sum
$$
S = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \left(\lambda_n \;-\; n\pi\right)\, .
$$
By the alternating series test and the conditions above, this sum converges. Numerically (Mathematica), I find that this converges to about $S \approx 0.837$. I'm wondering if there is a nice analytic solution. We shouldn't necessarily expect there to be one... but there is that solution for $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{{\lambda_n}^2}$, and we wouldn't necessarily have expected that, either!

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Brandon and I both graduation from Saint Louis University in 2007 and we have always been big Billiken fans. Until they changed the entire way he looks and now I'm terrified of him. Twitter was not amused with the change either, but I will say the new SLU President is pretty hilarious on his personal twitter account.
I was so excited to be sent the newest PopSugar #MustHaveBox to try out! I'm not sure I'm a hat person (besides STLCards hats) but maybe you'll see me sporting this one sometime this fall! I'm really excited to try out that hair mask though! You can save $5 off your first Must Have Box using the code SHOP5 here.
And here's a cute photo of the boys just because!
Cheers to the weekend friends! Let's hope it finally cools down in STL so we can have some outside fun this weekend!


Auxiliary Services and vending partners recently updated most of the vending machines on campus to include more payment options. Users can now pay using bank cards, mobile payment, cash or their 49er account.
SoVi2Go also has a new vending machine, OZZI®, which is a patented reusable container system designed to promote a zero waste dining experience. Users purchase an O2GO container, fill it with food and then return the dirty container to this vending machine for a token. The token then gives the user an opportunity to trade it for a clean container during their next visit.
Read more about each of these updates on the Auxiliary Services website.


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Review of The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg
Review of The Four Profound Weaves
Jeremy Brett
R.B. Lemberg. The Four Profound Weaves. Tachyon, 2020. Paperback. 189 pp. $14.95. ISBN 9781616963347.
"This tale must be told four times", said Uiziya, as if reciting a lesson. "Stitched with wind, stitched with sand, stitched with song, stitched with bones. Change, wanderlust, hope, and death. Only then will the ultimate secret become known (66).
Sadly, because of space, I cannot tell this review four times. This is a pity, because a typical review does not and cannot serve the utterly atypical R.B. Lemberg well. They are such a singular writer, their writing rich in both deep strangeness and lyric beauty, such as to be expansively beyond a typical work of fantasy. No writer I know of so populates their fantasy world with so many genderqueer and/or autistic characters (both sorely lacking in most standard SF&F). Their prose greatly resembles the graceful, stunning, nearly intangible carpets that feature in both this novella and its Nebula-nominated predecessor, "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds." Like those carpets, Lemberg's fiction, particularly their Birdverse in which Weaves is set, is constructed of countless threads of bright color in the woof and threads of darkness and grief and suffering running crosswise in the warp. The latest Birdverse chronicle, The Four Profound Weaves, is likewise a beautiful piece of craft.
"The first of the Four Profound Weaves is woven from wind. It signifies change". (19) Change, transformation, shifts in identity – these are at the heart of Lemberg's story. In fact, it is the heart of most of their stories. Intangibles such as wind and hope are woven into graspable objects, from something unseen into something that can be felt, touched, admired. Bones are made into cloths that robe assassins. In Lemberg's Birdverse magical cosmology, the abstract concepts of geometry, are changed through the mystical use of special naming into usable works of protection and healing. Things and peoples and individuals are always changing in Birdverse.
Yet, the most noticeable and outstanding characteristic of Lemberg's Birdverse work is the acceptance and commonplaceness of genderfluidity. Moving between and among genders as a matter of course is a practice that generally escapes comments – to switch genders is much more the norm than the exception, despite some cultural differences on the subject. One of Weaves' protagonists, nen-sasair, is a trans male who was originally introduced as the woman Bashri-nai-Tammah in "Cloth of Winds" but who transitioned before the beginning of Weaves. At one point he muses about his fellow protagonist, the weaver Uiziya e Lali, thinking:
I did not know that she was a changer like me. I never thought anyone was. I had never met others who went through the change in Iyar. They were banished or imprisoned or hiding or dead. But here, in the desert, changing one's shape was a matter of ritual, of love, not of desperate secrets. (29)
Nen-sasair is a member of the Khana people (a rough Birdverse cultural analog to the Jews), among whose women both queerness and polyamory are accepted as a matter of course (as they are elsewhere in Birdverse). However, trans people are not. Change for nen-sasair is a psychological necessity and part of the natural order; his native Khana are lacking. They are less, in many ways, for not embracing the fluid nature of ongoing change. Uiziya's aunt Benesret (the master crafter who creates the eponymous weaves) snorts at the notion that changing gender is foreign to the Khana, or indeed, to anyone. "That's what he says. Changing is always and forever done. Everywhere, it is done; in open, in secret. He has gone through the change and so, I assure you, have others". (59) And Uiziya herself notes, "It is not hard to be a changer among my people. I know that it is not true everywhere, but in the great Burri desert, changing your body to match your heart is not a thing to bleed over". (27)
For Lemberg, change is a beautiful thing, a regular and welcome part of life and the human condition. Early in the novella, they describe nen-sasair's transformation into what he calls his "true life" in the most poetic way.
But now I was here, far east and away from Iyar, in the great Burri desert. It was here, at this very place, in this dust, on the outskirts of the snake-Surun' encampment, I had stood in my cloth made of winds, the weave of transformation my friends and my grandchildren had woven for me out of love. I'd lifted my arms to the sky and the sandbirds had come to me, sent to me by the goddess Bird and summoned by the cloth of winds. They were birds of bright fire that fell from the sky and cocooned me, until I could see and hear nothing except the warmth and the feathers enveloping me and the threads of the wind singing each to each until my whole skin was ignited by the sun, my body changing and changed by the malleable flame. And when it was done, I sang.
I sang as the wind and the feathers dissolved into sand under my feet; I sang because my transformation was complete. I sang the dawnsong – the sacred melody that the men of my people sing, standing on the roof of the men's quarter every morning. (26)
The opposite of change is stasis, and stasis is unnatural. Uiziya and nen-sasair are travelling to the latter's home city of Iyar to retrieve Benesret's weave of hope from the Ruler of Iyar ("The Collector") who hoards the beautiful and rare within his dark coffers in an attempt to stop time like an insect in amber. As he explains, "I want things to remain, sacred and sovereign and unchanging. I want to preserve what is best. It is a noble purpose". (143) It is to rescue beauty and change from this dark imprisonment (albeit for their own purposes) that motivate the two protagonists to make the journey.
And as it turns out, the Ruler's actions are even darker than at first supposed. In his behavior he stands in opposition to every one of the Four Profound Weaves: he refuses to embrace the natural inevitability of change, which he calls "a lie". Rather than experience or trust wanderlust he would rather stay entombed within his palace. "Change is the world's greatest danger…You rebel, you wander from place to place, you chafe at my rule, thinking that something else, somewhere else, would be better. It isn't. But I save you. I am the one who is centered and stable, anchoring the whole world from my rainbow-tiered court, unmoved by world's wildness, contained in my birdcage throne". (120-121)
Rather than welcome hope and make it free to all, he warps it by offering it as a scrap of bait. As nen-sasair notes of him, "Hope. Hope has been perverted here, in your Rainbow-Tiered Court, into a thing only you can possess". (145) By contrast, nen-sasair understands hope as a necessity of life, speaking of it in terms that any Jewish person—such as Lemberg themself—would find familiar:
It [the dawnsong nen-sasair hears] was hope. My hope, and the hope of all others of my people who sang it throughout the landmass. The hope that wherever we wandered, exiled, and unwanted, the dawn would still come for us. We had only to hold on. (107)
Finally, the Ruler fails to understand death, the final Weave. He seeks the carpet of death that is woven from bones, but only as a prize and a symbol of power. To that end he slaughters countless rebel woman and stores their bones in his dungeons, ready to have them used as mere tools in the crowning of his great and sterile collection. In the name of stability and a world where the frightening nature of change can never take hold, he acts supremely unnatural in trying to subdue hope and death. But in this, the Ruler must ultimately fail, because Lemberg knows that what is natural, what is true to nature and to oneself, cannot be suppressed. Towards the end of the novella, nen-sasair sings before the Ruler the truth:
"Bird's feathers made the threads that Benesret wove into her great carpet of song; and the bone-threads Uiziya had made from the women you killed will now sing. Hope and death; the siblings are intertwined, and this is the mystery of the ever-changing desert. Hope cannot be given away, to you, or to anyone. Hope is the song which arises from silence where all our voices had been; all those locked away against their will one day will surge again, come forth with great exuberance, sweep the world in a reverberation of rainbow more true than your Rainbow-Tiered Court." (168)
Lemberg ends the novella with hope, hope at the promise of renewal and the excitement of new adventures. This is of a piece with the rest of The Four Profound Weaves, which is remarkable in its truths about the changing nature of life, poetic in its prose, and profound in its understanding of humanity.
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Is this an end of age reward thingy?
Noone else seems to have it so I'm thinking maybe its for being king..?
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Маячный — посёлок в Кувандыкском городском округе Оренбургской области.

География

Расположен на левом берегу реки Алимбет (приток Урала), на высоте 305 метров над уровнем моря. Расстояние до районного центра г. Кувандык составляет 58 километров. В 15 км от поселка проходит трасса Оренбург—Орск. Рядом находятся следующие населенные пункты: на севере п. 4 ферма, на востоке п. Айтуар, на юге п. Ольховка, на западе п. Урал (Кувандыкский)

Климат
 Среднегодовая температура — +5 C°
 Среднегодовая скорость ветра — 5,5 м/с
 Среднегодовая влажность воздуха — 68 %

Климат умеренный сухой, Зимы суровые и многоснежные, лето жаркое и сухое.

Этимология
В советскую эпоху поселок Маячный был совхозом Загорный. Назван в связи с тем, что населенный пункт с 3-х сторон окружают холмы.

История
В 1966 г. Указом Президиума ВС РСФСР поселок фермы № 5 совхоза «Кувандыкский» переименован в Маячный.

Население

Деятельность
С начала основания населенного пункта было развито животноводство, в основном мелкого рогатого скота в мясном и пуховом направлении. Численность МРС в советское время достигала порядка 35000 голов. Кроме этого, обширные посевные земли позволяли собирать неплохой урожай зерновых, подсолнуха. В селе функционировала пилорама и центральная ремонтная мастерская. В населенном пункте имеется средняя школа 9 классов. Директор Посвалюк Татьяна Николаевна.
Рынок труда : СПК "Загорный " ПОГЗастава « Маячная», участок ЖКХ, Маячная средняя общеобразовательная школа, Айтуарская начальная школа, Маячный ФАП, Айтуарский ФАП, 3 частных предприятий торговли, но вакансий практически нет.

Достопримечательности
В 10 километрах от п. Маячный находится она из территориальных частей «Оренбургского» заповедника «Айтуарская степь»

Состав
Улицы поселок Маячный:
 Зелёный пер
 Мира пр-кт
 Мирный пер
 ул. Молодёжная
 ул. Набережная
 ул. Новая

 ул. Октябрьская
 ул. Парковая
 Первомайский пер
 ул. Первоцелинная
 ул. Советская
 ул. Степная

Примечания

Населённые пункты Кувандыкского городского округа


With its signature vertical curvatures, thick foamed grille, and ergonomic metal handles, the studio-tuned iSK Active Deluxe loudspeaker establishes itself as the new segment benchmark. The 18" Wing-Guide horn provide exceptional bass response helping to round out low-end audio in any setting. The iSK series is equipped with a thick 1.6mm steel grille with acoustically-transparent foam. Engineered for an unsurpassed audio response, sensational power handling, and extensive mounting possibilities, the iSK establishes a new benchmark.


This beautiful tungsten carbide ring is inlaid with Koa wood.
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