Have you ever had that situation where you say something, and you know what you meant, and you think it was right and good, but then you realize, that maybe it needs more explanation? Because left to itself, it could actually do something other than what it was intended to do? Okay, maybe that doesn't happen to you, but it happens to me.
This last Sunday, I mentioned that when others share their hope with us, it is encouraging and it increases our hope/faith. And I mentioned that the inverse is true-that when we experience a lack of hope or faith, that it discourages our own. I think that's true, we have all experienced that. But I think this is what needs to be attached to it–this doesn't mean that when our faith and hope is lacking that we should hide it or keep it to ourselves or that our wrestling with lacking faith and hope is a bad thing. The intent was to highlight the pulling away that results from it, the shrinking back, etc. We all have doubts, our faith and hope waiver and we need to express that and we need to allow others to express that to us. And we need to listen with empathy, encouragement and support. It gives us an opportunity to share the load, to share some of our hope and faith with the other. And if we are the ones struggling with hope or lacking faith, we need to feel free to be vulnerable about that, with a desire to have our hope restored. This is the opposite of pulling away, it is a moving towards. It is hard work, but it is beautiful work and in it, we discover the hope of the Gospel.
I apologize to anyone who may have felt confused or troubled by that statement and I hope that this helps you to see my heart.


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Allah is not a Politician!
FEMEN opposes political Islam during the speech of the Muslim Brother Tariq Ramadan at the Annual Meeting of Muslims of France organized by the UOIF.
FEMEN protest against the visit of fundamentalist preachers at a rally to politicize Muslims in France under the aegis of the Muslim Brotherhood! FEMEN claims that political Islam is totalitarianism, and a face of fascism!
FEMEN shouts loudly Allah, like any divine creation, is not a politician! The Quran is not a source of constitution! The totalitarian project of the Muslim Brotherhood is not compatible with our values of emancipation! FEMEN believes in gender equality, the rights of sexual minorities, and denounces this form of incitement to hatred under the pretext of uniting the Muslims of France!


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Day 1: This was meant to be a simple trip to the TanZen convention, but I believe the directions that guy gave us at the last gas station were inaccurate. After wild Pentanimals trashed our cars, we were forced to run away on foot, my mom clutching her most valuable possessions. We seem to have stumbled into a cavern filled with cube-like, hollow colored rocks. Mom wants to make this our camp. She already started unpacking her porcelain little white bear collection, so there is no stopping her now.
Day 2: A red cube rock fell from the ceiling, nearly crushing Mom. She placed the block onto a column with two other red blocks and they disappeared.
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The Atlantic Schooners
The Atlantic Schooners was a proposed Canadian Football League (CFL) expansion team which was to start playing in 1984. The team, which was to be based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia failed to materialize however because of the team ownership's inability to get funding for a stadium.
Eventually the league withdrew the team's franchise application.
How did the Atlantic Schooners Begin?
In May, 1982, The CFL board of governors unanimously approved a conditional expansion franchise which was granted to the Maritime Professional Football Club. The group was head by former Montreal Alouettes general manager J. Albrecht and John Donaval, a truck executive from Mississauga, Ontario. Even before the franchise was officially awarded the duo was already on the prowl for a head coach, with John Huard, the Acadia Axemen Head coach at the forefront of potential candidates.
Huard was appointed head coach the same day that the franchise was finalized. The team would be required to pay a $1.5 million expansion fee within one year and find a suitable stadium that could seat at least 30,000 spectators. The new team was projected to begin play in 1984 provided they met the CFL's conditions. Robert Cameron, an industrialist from Nova Scotia bought a 50% stake on august 30, 1982, to join the owners group.
The group initiated a name-the-team contest in which fans were encouraged to send potential names for the team. The owners wanted the team to be a regional team which would represent the four Atlantic provinces, so it was important that the names reflected that. Some of the names that were floated include Atlantic Storm and Atlantic Windjammers. On November 3, 1982, Albrecht announced Atlantic Schooners as the winning selection, reflecting Dartmouth's heritage as a sailing town.
The Schooners would wear silver, white, nautical brass and maritime blue uniforms, with a stylized A in the shape of a schooner riding on four waves, each of which represented the four Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Islands and New Brunswick.
The Schooners planned an expansion draft to be held after the 1983 CFL season, with the team projecting to get a maximum of 38 players drawn from the existing nine member clubs to form a roster. Each team would contribute 4 players to the Schooners, using a formula developed by the CFL Governors, allowing each team to protect ten imports and 10 non-imports from their roster from the 1983 season.
The group initiated a name-the-team contest in which fans were encouraged to send potential names for the team. The owners wanted the team to be a regional team which would represent the four Atlantic provinces, so it was important that the names reflected that. Some of the names that were floated include Atlantic Storm and Atlantic Windjammers.
On November 3, 1982, Albrecht announced Atlantic Schooners as the winning selection, reflecting Dartmouth's heritage as a sailing town. The Schooners would wear silver, white, nautical brass and maritime blue uniforms, with a stylized A in the shape of a schooner riding on four waves, each of which represented the four Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Islands and New Brunswick.
What Happened to the Atlantic Schooners?
The schooners proposed to build a 34,000 capacity stadium on a leased parcel of land in the city of Dartmouth. The team's home was projected to cost $6 million. The ownership group was however unable to meet the financial obligations for the new stadium, with both the federal and local governments refusing to contribute funds.
Ultimately, the Schooners were unable to meet league's deadline for the stadium and on June, 1983, the ownership group was compelled to withdraw their franchise application and refund season ticket purchases. Ultimately, the Schooners were unable to meet league's deadline for the stadium and on June, 1983, the ownership group was compelled to withdraw their franchise application and refund season ticket purchases.
The group had hoped to lodge another application in the near future but that dream never came to fruition. Talk of reviving the franchise has been rife in the recent past, with the CFL reportedly eager to expand to at least ten teams.
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How will rising interest rates impact our finances?
by: Melanie DaSilva
Updated: Sep 22, 2022 / 03:46 PM EDT
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates another three-quarters of a point in an effort to cool down the high cost of living.
The Fed's move boosted its benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since early 2008.
Fed escalates its inflation fight with another big rate hike
Jeff Massey from Jeff Massey and Associates joined 12 News live in studio to share how the latest rate hike could impact our finances.
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Cadillac STS / Overview
The 2008 Cadillac STS, featuring refreshed signature styling inside and out; a new, standard 298-horsepower (222 kW) V-6 engine; and a host of new vehicle technologies, debuts at New York Auto Show, April 6-15, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.
"For the past two decades, the Cadillac STS has been a showcase of luxury, performance and technology," said Jim Taylor, Cadillac general manger. "The new 2008 STS extends that heritage with a bold new look, the debut of a new, high-tech standard engine and some of the industry's most advanced safety technology."
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Emileigh Rohn ist eine Musikerin aus Detroit im US-Bundesstaat Michigan. Ihre CDs werden von COP International vertrieben. Sie ist Betreiberin des von ihr 1998 gegründeten Elektronik-Musikprojekts Chiasm. Der Projektname (von ) ist der englische Begriff für die dem Menschen das räumliche Sehen ermöglichende Sehnervenkreuzung (das Chiasma opticum).

Leben

Kindheit und Schulzeit

Im Alter von fünf Jahren nahm Rohn erste Klavierstunden bei ihrer Kirchenorganistin Mildred Benson. Mit 13 bekam sie ein Casio-Keyboard und begann, mit elektronischer Musik zu experimentieren. In der Junior High School und High School war sie in Musical- und Theater-Gruppen aktiv und schrieb Stücke für die jährliche Vaudeville-Aufführung ihrer Schule. Im letzten Highschool-Jahr gründete sie zusammen mit anderen die Künstler-Gruppe Inter Animi, die über mehrere Jahre Experimental-Industrial-Performances in den Clubs Michigans aufführten.

Studium

Nach dem Highschool-Abschluss studierte Rohn Molekulargenetik und belegte Zusatzkurse in Poetik, Holografie und Fotografie. Sie versucht, all diese Felder in ihre künstlerische Arbeit einfließen zu lassen. Sie wirkte während des Studiums als Schauspielerin am Schwarzweiß-Film Extinguish von Brian Sullivan mit, der die Problematik des Selbstmordes behandelt und 1997 bei einer Kunstausstellung in Detroit Premiere feierte. Im Oktober 1997 trat sie der Band Dragon Tears Descending als Keyboarderin bei, allerdings verschoben sich ihre musikalischen Vorlieben immer mehr in Richtung Electronic und sie trat daher schnell wieder aus der Band aus und startete stattdessen zusammen mit Shane Terpening ihr eigenes Musikprojekt namens Electrophoretic Transfer, das nach einer Demo-CD namens Post Coitum allerdings aufgrund eines Wohnortwechsels Terpenings schnell ein Ende fand.

Chiasm

Im Oktober 1998 veröffentlichte Rohn ihr Chiasm-Debütalbum Embryonic. Im Frühjahr 1999 folgte der Track Bouncing Baby Clones auf dem Electronic-Kompilation ''D[elEcTROnIc]T''. Im März 2001 veröffentlichte sie ihr erstes Album unter dem COP Intl.-Label, Disorder, dessen Track Isolated Jahre nach dessen ursprünglicher Veröffentlichung durch die Einbindung in das Computerspiel Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines und die Fernsehserie Navy CIS Berühmtheit erlangte. Eine Crossover-Remix-Version des Albums unter Mitwirkung von TL5 wurde 2003 veröffentlicht. 2008 erschien ihr neuestes Album Reform. Ihre Songs wurden außerdem auf insgesamt 11 Samplern veröffentlicht.

Diskografie

 Embryonic (1998)
Tracks: Enemy; Embryonic; Bouncing Baby Clones; Reliance; Chiasm; Fight; Incubator; Sterben; Someone; Fake Smile (in Zusammenarbeit mit J. C. Slaughter erstellt; Bonus-Track)
 Disorder (2001)
Tracks: Formula; Chiasm 5.0; Transparent; Disorder; Fight; Liquefy; Isolated; Cold; Enemy; Someone
 Divided We Fall: The Remix Collection (in Zusammenarbeit mit TL5 (Threat Level 5); Remix von Disorder; 2003)
Tracks: Disorder; Formula; Isolated; Transparent; Liquefy; The System; Images; Rivethead; Inside; The Light That Burns
 Relapse (2005)
Tracks: Embryonic; Surrender; Delay; Rewind; Still; X-Ray; Incision; Phobic; Needle; Chosen Fate; Rewind (Floating Tears Mix von ZIA; Bonus-Track); Surrender (Dark Techno Mix von TL5)
 Reform (2008)
Tracks: Deny; Soulprint; Unity; The Caffeine Cycle; Reform; A Section of Time; Deceivers; Won; Incubate; Extinguish
 11:11 (2012)
Tracks: Petals; Angry Tree; I Want Some More; The Sea; Hideaway; So Lost; Draw A House; Answer In My Mind; Reliance; Obligatory; Space

Weblinks

 Webauftritt von Chiasm (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Musiker (Vereinigte Staaten)
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Dark-Music-Musiker
US-Amerikaner
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
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Carcinogens - Eight Substances Added To The List
Published	 Sunday 12 June 2011	 Published	Sun 12 Jun 2011
By Christian Nordqvist
Eight substances have been added to the list of carcinogens by the HSS (US Department of Health and Human Services) today. The Report of Carcinogens has added formaldehyde, aristolochic acids, o-nitrotoluene, captafol, cobalt-tungsten carbide (in powder or hard metal form), riddelliine, certain inhalable glass wool fibers, and styrene to the list of carcinogens.
There are now 240 carcinogens in the list.
Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of both the NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) and the NTP (National Toxicology Program), said:
"Reducing exposure to cancer-causing agents is something we all want, and the Report on Carcinogens provides important information on substances that pose a cancer risk. The NTP is pleased to be able to compile this report." John Bucher, Ph.D., associate director of the NTP added, "This report underscores the critical connection between our nation's health and what's in our environment."
The NTP prepares the Report on Carcinogens for the HHS Secretary. It is a congressionally mandated document. It identifies substances, agents, mixtures or exposures in two categories:
Those that are known to be human carcinogens
Those reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens
A substance which is included in the list in the Report on Carcinogens does not in itself mean it causes cancer. There are many factors which cause cancer, including how long the human is exposed and a person's susceptibility to a particular substance.
As soon as a substance is put forward by the private or public sector and is chosen for consideration, it is extensively evaluated with several opportunities for scientific and public contributions. On each substance, the HHS says there were at least six opportunities for public input.
For each candidate substance under review, the NTP used established criteria to evaluate the scientific evidence. Several federal agencies were involved in the evaluations, including the CDC, NIH, FDA, EPA, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Ruth Lunn, Dr.P.H., director of the NTP Office of the Report on Carcinogens, said:
"The strength of this report lies in the rigorous scientific review process. We could not have completed this report without the significant input we received from the public, industry, academia, and other government agencies."
Aristolochic acids - people with kidney disease who consumed botanical products which contained aristolochic acids were found to have a higher risk of developing bladder cancer and cancer in the upper urinary tract. Some plant species naturally have amounts of aristolochic acids in them. Even though the FDA in 2001 recommended that people stop using any botanical products with aristolochic acids in them, they are still for sale online and abroad. Several herbal products contain aristolochic acids, such as those for the treatment of inflammation, gout and arthritis.
Formaldehyde - it was initially listed in the 2nd Report on Carcinogens as a substance that was reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen, after it was found to cause nasal cancer in laboratory rats. There is now compelling evidence from human studies to demonstrate that people with higher exposure to formaldehyde have a greater risk of developing nasopharyngeal cancer, sinonasal cancer, and myeloid leukemia.
Formaldehyde's chemical formula is CH2O. It is a colorless, flammable, pungent chemical that is extensively used to make resins for composite wood products, synthetic fibers, textile finishes, and paper product coatings. It is also used as a preservative in mortuaries, medical laboratories, some hair straightening products, and other consumer goods.
Captafol - a fungicide used to protect fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants and grasses. It is also used as a seed treatment. The USA banned it in 1999, but previous exposures may continue to affect health today. Laboratory experiments showed that dietary exposure caused tumors to develop at several different tissue sites in mice and rats.
Cobalt-tungsten carbide (in powder and hard metal form) - used to make dies, cutting and grinding tools, and wear-resistant products for several industries. Cobalt-tungsten hard metals are often referred to as cemented or sintered carbides in the USA.
Some inhalable glass wool fibers - some fibers were included in the list following results from experimental animal studies. The HHS stresses that only some glass wool and man-made fibers were included in the list of carcinogens, not all of them. In this latest report, the glass wool fibers that have been redefined include only those that had been previously mentioned and can enter the respiratory tract, are highly durable, and are stay in the lungs for a long time (biopersistent).
There are two main categories of glass wool fibers, as far as consumers are concerned:
Low-cost, general purpose fibers - mainly glass wool used for home and building insulation. This type is less durable and less biopersistent.
Special purpose fibers (premium)
o-Nitrotoluene - laboratory studies on rats and mice showed tumor formation at many different tissue sites. This substance is used as an intermediate when preparing azo dyes and some other dyes, including magenta and several sulfur dyes for paper, leather, silk, wool and cotton. o-Nitrotoluene is used in agricultural chemicals, pesticides, petrochemicals, rubber chemicals, explosives and pharmaceuticals. American workers are susceptible to o-Nitrotoluene exposure by breathing it in or through the skin during production and use. This substance has also been found in water and near munitions facilities, as well as near military training facilities.
Riddelliine - animal laboratory studies linked this botanical to a higher risk of developing liver cancer and leukemia in rats, and lung cancer in mice. Riddelliine must not be confused with the ADHD medication Ritalin. Riddelliine is found in some plants of the genus Senecio, which is a member of the daisy family, and grows in sandy areas in the western USA. Examples of plants include groundsel and ragwort. At least 13 Senecio species have been detected in herbal medications. Human exposure can occur by consuming teas, honey, herbal medications, or foods from animals that have been fed on the plants.
Styrene - a synthetic chemical used globally in the manufacturing of plastics, insulation, fiberglass, pipes, food containers, carpet backing and car parts. Human exposure can occur by inhaling styrene from tobacco smoke, building materials and other products. Limited evidence points to a higher risk of lymphohematopoietic cancer and genetic damage in lymphocytes among workers exposed to styrene.
"12th Report on Carcinogens"
National Toxology Program, Department of Health and Human Services
Written by Christian Nordqvist
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Q: Update constraints on changing the window size of application in Split Mode Screen I have an application which works fine in iPhone and iPad. But when the app is running in split mode I want to update the constraints for the view whenever we change the split mode window size from 1/3,2/3 and so on. How we can know that the app is working on these screens and update constraints accordingly. In the case of split mode changing the view is not updating with the constraints.
I have used below code to recognise the orientation change and update constraints successfully and its working fine.
override func viewWillTransition(to size: CGSize, with coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {

          if UIDevice.current.orientation.isLandscape {
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              NSLayoutConstraint.activate([containerWidthConstraintForLandscape])
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          else {
             containerWidthConstraintForPortrait = NSLayoutConstraint(item: containerView, attribute: .width, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: view, attribute: .width, multiplier: 0.7, constant: 0)
             NSLayoutConstraint.deactivate([containerWidthConstraintForLandscape])
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It would be great if someone could tell me how i can update these constraints while changing the window size in Split Mode/ Slide Over in iPad.  Thanks in Advance

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The new US Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie .S. Sullivan, has called on ex-president John Dramani Mahama.
The former Ghanaian leader on Thursday, February 7, 2019, granted audience to Stephanie, who called on him to formally introduce herself on assumption of office. The two discussed matters of mutual interest to Ghana and the US and recounted their encounter many years ago when Ambassador Sullivan was a Political Officer in the US Embassy, here in Accra.
Acting account to the law contained under section 243(d) of the Immigration and National Act (INA), the secretary of homeland security, Kirstjen Nielsen informed Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state that Ghana has unnecessarily delayed in accepting its deported citizens, Homeland Security reports.
But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has expressed disappointment over visa sanctions on Ghana by the United States of America.


Correspondence to: Mattias Neyt. Jan Burssensstraat 23, 9850 Merendree, Belgium. Email: mattias.neyt@me-ta.eu.
Background: A health technology assessment (HTA) of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) as destination therapy in patients with end-stage heart failure was commissioned by the Dutch Health Care Insurance Board [College voor Zorgverzekeringen (CVZ)]. In this context, a systematic review of the economic literature was performed to assess the procedure's value for money.
Methods: A systematic search (updated in December 2013) for economic evaluations was performed by consulting various databases: the HTA database produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD HTA), websites of HTA institutes, CRD's National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), Medline (OVID) and EMBASE. No time or language restrictions were imposed and pre-defined selection criteria were used. The two-step selection procedure was performed by two people. References of the selected studies were checked for additional relevant citations.
Results: Six relevant studies were selected. Four economic evaluations relied on the results of the REMATCH trial to compare a pulsatile-flow LVAD with optimal medical therapy (OMT). These evaluations were performed before the publication of the HeartMate II (HM-II) Destination Therapy Trial which compared a pulsatile-flow with a continuous-flow LVAD. Two more recent economic evaluations combined the results of both trials to make an indirect comparison of a continuous-flow LVAD with OMT.
In all studies, the largest part of the incremental cost was due to the reimplantation cost of an LVAD, with a device cost of €58,000-€75,000 and about €55,000 for the surgical procedure. The survival gain was highest with a continuous-flow LVAD, up to about three life-years gained (LYG) versus OMT in the most optimistic study. Quality of life (QoL) was improved but measures with a generic utility instrument were lacking, making estimates on quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained more uncertain. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of the two most recent studies were on average €107,600 and $198,184 (ca.€145,800) per QALY gained.
Conclusions: Although LVAD destination therapy improves survival and QoL, it remains questionable as to whether it offers value for money. This conclusion may alter if the price of the device/procedure decreases sufficiently, in combination with further improved outcomes for mortality, adverse events and QoL.
Submitted Feb 03, 2014. Accepted for publication Aug 25, 2014.
Mechanical circulatory support through left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) is increasingly being used as a bridge-to-transplantation (BTT) in patients with end-stage heart failure (1). As the number of patients with end-stage heart failure is growing without an accompanying increase in available donor hearts, LVADs are also being used as destination therapy as an alternative to heart transplantation.
A systematic review revealed two randomized trials which investigated LVADs as destination therapy, in patients with end-stage heart failure who were not candidates for cardiac transplantation (1). In 2001, the REMATCH trial (2), comparing a pulsatile-flow LVAD with optimal medical therapy (OMT), demonstrated improved one-year survival after LVAD support and was the basis for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve destination therapy in the United States. The relative mortality risk was 0.52 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.34-0.78; P=0.001]. Survival at one year was 52% versus 28%, in favor of the pulsatile-flow LVAD over OMT (2). At two years, this was 29% versus 13% (3).
The second trial, published in 2009, compared a pulsatile-flow LVAD with a continuous-flow LVAD [HeartMate II (HM-II) Destination Therapy Trial] (4). The relative mortality risk was 0.54 (95% CI, 0.34-0.86; P=0.008). Survival at one year was 68% versus 55%. Survival at two years was 58% versus 24% in favor of the continuous-flow HM-II over the pulsatile-flow LVAD (4). Survival after implantation of a continuous-flow LVAD was thus significantly better than with an older pulsatile-flow device.
Partly based on economic considerations, the Dutch Health Care Insurance Board [College voor Zorgverzekeringen (CVZ)] concluded in 2007 that pulsatile-flow LVADs as destination therapy for end-stage heart failure could not be included in the basic healthcare package (4). Because of technological advances with smaller and better performing continuous-flow LVADs, a new health technology assessment (HTA) report was requested, including a systematic review of published economic evaluations and a primary economic evaluation of these LVADs as destination therapy in patients with end-stage heart failure. For this special issue of Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, an update of this systematic review of economic evaluations was performed.
In December 2013, a systematic search for economic literature on the cost-effectiveness of LVADs was performed by consulting various databases. First, reviews on this topic were searched by consulting the HTA database produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD HTA) and websites of HTA institutes mentioned on the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) website (www.inahta.net). Websites of non-member HTA institutes such as NICE (www.nice.org.uk) were also checked for relevant analyses. Furthermore, the CRD National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), Medline (OVID) and EMBASE databases were searched to retrieve both full economic evaluations and reviews of full economic evaluations of LVADs as destination therapy. No restrictions on publication date and language were imposed. Details of the original search strategy performed in January 2011 are available in the appendix of the full HTA report (1). The search strategy in these databases was performed by one researcher, transparently reported, and validated afterwards by a second researcher. The update in December 2013 was performed with a similar approach.
All retrieved references were assessed against pre-defined selection criteria (Table 1). The selection was restricted to patients with end-stage heart failure receiving an LVAD as destination therapy. Patients with an LVAD as BTT were excluded. Only full economic evaluations were included, i.e., the comparative analysis of at least two alternative interventions in terms of both costs and outcomes. Partial evaluations such as cost analysis were excluded.
The selection of relevant articles was performed in a two-step procedure: initial assessment of the title, abstract, and keywords, followed by a full-text assessment of the selected references. This procedure was in first instance performed by an economist (MN). To improve the quality of this procedure, a physician (JV) checked the medical selection criteria. In case of doubt, the opinion of a third researcher (AV) was asked. Reference lists of the selected studies were checked for additional relevant citations. Figure 1 provides the flow chart of this process. Most articles were excluded due to not being a full economic evaluation (design). In the end, seven relevant studies were selected (5-11). Two studies represented the same analysis and were discussed as one study (5,8). These full economic evaluations were summarized by a health economist in an in-house developed structured data extraction sheet. These working documents provided the basis of this overview, in which the models' input variables were compared with the systematically identified evidence and with real-world data from the Dutch University Medical Centre Utrecht.
Figure 1 Selection of relevant articles. *For this special issue on LVADs, the original search performed in January 2011 was updated in December 2013. Of the seven identified references (5-11), two (5,8) presented the same analysis and were discussed as one. LVADs, left ventricular assist devices; HTA, health technology assessment; CRD, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.
In the following paragraphs, we provide an overview of all input variables, results and conclusions from the published economic evaluations. Initially, the data are provided as published in the economic evaluations. This information will then be critically appraised in our discussion.
The evaluations were conducted for the UK (2), the Netherlands (2), Italy (1), and the US (1) (Table 2). Four studies (5,6,10,11) used a Markov model to perform a cost-utility analysis (CUA). The other two evaluations applied an alternative method. The study by Girling et al. (7) identified thresholds for survival parameters which would allow the intervention to be cost effective. The Italian study (9) calculated the value of the intervention based on the additional survival in combination with the societal economic counter value for each month of life saved. All models included a lifelong time horizon. Adang et al. (6) mentioned a three-year horizon, but after 35 months, all patients in the model were deceased. Clegg et al. (5) applied a five-year horizon and all patients were deceased in the 21st quarter. The discount rate for costs and effects usually reflected national guidelines and varied between 3-6% for costs and 1.5-3.5% for effects.
The economic evaluations can be divided in two groups. First, four economic evaluations were performed before the results of the HM-II Destination Therapy trial were published and compared a 1st-generation pulsatile LVAD with OMT. Second, two more recent studies were published afterwards and compared a 2nd-generation continuous-flow LVAD with OMT. The populations reflected the characteristics of the underlying clinical trials (Table 2).
Table 3 provides an overview of the most important cost items and their valuation. The economic evaluations were mostly carried out from a healthcare payer perspective. To reflect a broader societal perspective, Neyt et al. (11) also included travel costs. However, these costs were so small relative to the medical cost that they could be neglected. All analyses included direct medical costs.
The cost of the device ranged between £48,000 (ca.€58,000, exchange rate January 9, 2014) and €75,000 (Table 3). One analysis varied this price between offering the device for free and €80,000 (7). The cost of the initial surgery (excluding the device) was about €55,000 in the most recent Dutch evaluation and £39,877 (€48,300) in the UK studies. The study of Girling et al. (7) made a distinction between successful implantations [£27,821 (€33,700)] and failures [£63,989 (ca.€77,500)]. Messori et al. (9) only included the cost of the device in the baseline scenario. In a sensitivity analysis, costs for the surgery were also included and approximate €50,000. As such, the total cost for the initial hospitalization including the device cost ranged from £85,000 (5) (ca.€102,900) to US $193,800 (10) (ca.€142,600).
The cost of outpatient visits and rehospitalization was expressed in different ways: a quarter (5), up to one year after discharge from hospital (6), per month in hospital (7) or per event (10,11) (Table 3). These costs varied across countries and are difficult to compare. The Italian study did not include these costs. For an overview of other included cost items, we refer to Table 3.
The four economic evaluations published between 2005 and 2009 (5-7,9) relied on the results of the REMATCH trial, which compared a pulsatile-flow LVAD with OMT, to model outcomes. The Italian study (9) did not mention this explicitly, but based on the description of LVAD implantations in 68 patients it is very likely that the authors also referred to this trial. Trials have a limited follow-up period and extrapolation to a lifetime horizon is necessary to calculate the number of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained. The study of Clegg et al. (5) showed that the largest part of the total survival benefit is already achieved within the trial follow-up period. In this study, the survival benefit in the LVAD arm versus the comparator was 6.8 months, of which 90% (6.2 months) was already achieved within the trial follow-up period.
The two most recent studies (10,11) noticed that no direct comparison between a continuous-flow LVAD and OMT has ever been performed in a trial. Both studies made an indirect comparison between OMT and a continuous-flow LVAD. The survival for the OMT arm was also based on the results of the REMATCH trial, while the outcomes for the continuous-flow LVAD were based on the HM-II Destination Therapy Trial. The indirect comparison was performed unadjusted because of the comparable inclusion criteria and similar outcomes with the pulsatile-flow LVADs in the two trials (11).
The survival gain with continuous-flow LVADs was much higher than with pulsatile LVADs. Whereas the survival gain of pulsatile LVADs versus OMT was 6.8 months per person in the study of Clegg et al. (5), this was already almost two years and more than three years in the two most recent studies evaluating continuous-flow LVADs (Table 4). The relatively large difference in survival gain between these two studies lies within the extrapolation period. Rogers et al. extrapolated survival beyond 24 months based on an exponential survival curve using the constant hazard rate observed within 24 months. In contrast, Neyt et al. used the monthly mortality during the second year for extrapolation purposes. The reason for the latter is that mortality is very different when comparing the 30-day, one-year and two-year survival after continuous-flow LVAD implantation: 10.1% 30-day mortality (1,15), and 32% and 42% mortality after one and two years (4) respectively. These numbers indicate that the first month is critical and surviving this period and the first year is the biggest hurdle for LVAD patients.
Clegg et al. (5) reported that utility weights were measured in the REMATCH trial. Unfortunately, these results have not been published. As an alternative, the utility weights were estimated using an expert panel. Data from the REMATCH trial were linked to the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ), which contained 21 items across five domains and is specifically designed to measure the impact of heart failure on QoL. A summary score of 105 can be achieved with a lower score indicating better health. The REMATCH MLHFQ trial reported an average score at the beginning of the study (75/105), and after one year for both the LVAD (41/105) and the OMT arm (58/105). A panel of 12 members allocated utility weights to these scores. The median value for QoL was 0.655, 0.7 and 0.925, respectively at baseline and for the OMT and LVAD group (Table 5).
The study of Adang et al. (6) combined the probability that patients are in NYHA class III/IV or I/II and a utility weight for these states. The probability of being in a NYHA class was taken from the study of Samson et al. (12). Utility weights of 0.55 and 0.81 were assigned to NYHA class III/IV and I/II, respectively, based on the study of Moskowitz et al. (16) (Table 5). Girling et al. (7) assigned these utility weights of 0.55 and 0.81 to the OMT and LVAD group, respectively. Messori et al. (9) did not take QoL into account in the baseline analysis.
The two most recent publications also did not identify good measures of QoL in the relevant patient group. Rogers et al. (10) mapped NYHA classes with utilities and Neyt et al. (11) applied the results from the study of Moskowitz (see Table 5). We will address this limitation again in our discussion.
Most input parameters are surrounded by uncertainty and can be described by a probability distribution, rather than a point estimate. Guidelines for economic evaluations require the use of probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA). In this approach, applying Monte Carlo simulation, the parameter uncertainty is translated into the imprecision around the cost-effectiveness. Only a couple of studies applied this technique. For example, the most recent study included probability distributions for mortality, QoL and cost variables in which transition probabilities and utilities were modelled as beta distributions and cost variables as gamma distributions (11). On the other hand, all studies performed one- or multi-way sensitivity analysis changing, e.g., cost of an LVAD device, the discount rate, utility weights, rehospitalization probabilities, life expectancy and extrapolation scenarios. The most determining variables are mentioned in the results section.
Table 6 provides an overview of the results of the identified economic evaluations. The study by Clegg et al. (5) presented a base case incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) for LVADs as destination therapy of £170,616 (€206,600) per QALY gained, i.e., 0.6 QALYs per person at an additional cost of £102,000 (€123,500) per patient over a period of five years. Comparing this with the ICER threshold in the UK of £30,000 (€36,300) per QALY, the authors concluded that LVADs as destination therapy does not appear to be cost-effective for patients with end-stage heart failure. This ICER was not sensitive to changes in the discount rate, costs or changes in the utility assumptions: the cost per QALY remained well above generally accepted norms (5).
Adang et al. (6) obtained an ICER of about €112,000 per QALY gained (Table 6). Based on their cost-effectiveness acceptability curve (which showed the probability that an intervention is cost-effective compared to alternative interventions, depending on decision-makers' willingness to pay for a QALY), LVAD as destination therapy had a zero probability of being cost-effective when the maximum threshold is below €90,000 per QALY. The authors concluded that a survival benefit has been demonstrated for patients with LVAD as destination therapy compared to drug therapy; however, the additional cost was considerably higher in comparison to other accepted interventions.
Girling et al. (7) calculated ICERs depending on device cost, proportion of LVAD failures and median survival under LVAD. Using UK established thresholds (£30,000/QALY), cost-effectiveness probabilities of LVAD were found to be very low. Moreover, sensitivity analysis showed that the intervention could not represent a cost-effective therapy at current UK QALY valuations at any positive value of the device cost. The future cost-effectiveness will mainly depend on the improved survival achieved with next-generation devices.
The alternative study of Messori et al. (9) calculated an average value of €82,426 for LVAD as destination therapy, which was close to the price of the HeartMate device of €75,000. However, this value was not sufficient to cover the costs for the surgical procedure of about €50,000.
The study of Rogers et al. (10) revealed a significant reduction in the ICER/QALY, from US $802,700 (€590,800) with a pulsatile-flow LVAD to US $198,184 (€145,900) with a continuous-flow LVAD when comparing with OMT. The authors mentioned that this change is explained by significant improvements in survival and functional status and by the reduction in implantation costs. However, although this improvement is encouraging, they also remarked that this ICER is still significantly higher than the traditionally used threshold of US $50,000 when considering therapies to be cost-effective.
Finally, the most recent study (11) calculated an average ICER of €94,100 per life-year gained or €107,600 per QALY gained (Table 6). Sensitivity analyses showed these results were robust. The authors concluded that although LVAD destination therapy improved survival and QoL, it remained a relatively expensive intervention, which renders the reimbursement of this therapy questionable.
In general, none of the identified economic evaluations calculated a favorable ICER.
Treatment with the continuous-flow HM-II results in a significantly better survival and QoL in comparison with optimal medical treatment. From a medical point of view, the improvements are significant and clinically relevant. Unfortunately, from an economic point of view, published economic evaluations of 1st and 2nd generation LVADs as destination therapy show that the ratio of incremental costs versus incremental benefits is relatively high. One of the aims of policy makers might be to create as much value as possible for society. Choices have to be made given the limited resources. Based on the opportunity cost, i.e., the value of the best alternative forgone, spending money on relatively expensive interventions might do more harm than good for society as a whole, by not being able to provide other interventions that give a higher value for money.
Next-generation LVADs will become smaller and require less energy, which may have a positive influence on the durability of the device and life expectancy of the battery. Technical improvements, like transcutaneous energy transfer, may also result in a lower risk of adverse events such as infections, bleeding, and neurological events (17).
Next to these outcomes, further research should also try to capture the impact of LVAD implantation on QoL and functional recovery (11,18,19). Several studies relied on data from a single study (16) that dates from 1997. This study included only a small group of patients (n=29) with an LVAD as bridging therapy, and could not measure QoL in the most debilitated patients (i.e., informative missing values) (1,11). Other studies mapped NYHA classes to utilities. However, this indirect approach is subject to major weaknesses. First, assigning a NYHA class II or III is very subjective. Second, QoL is very dependent on co-morbidities, and similar changes in NYHA class may result in very different changes in QoL depending on the presence of these co-morbidities (11). Applying a generic utility instrument in clinical studies, in addition to disease-specific instruments, should be encouraged to support QALY calculations for future economic evaluations (20).
Future research should be performed in an appropriate research setting, preferably a randomized controlled trial, and try to avoid undue financial burden on patients, hospitals or the general healthcare system. A major challenge might be to finance this research. Governments might provide support without increasing their health care budgets by bearing the costs of the alternative interventions that would be provided to these patients if they did not participate in the trial. In exchange for this partial contribution, further agreements could be made, such as on the trial design, the comparator, price of the device, measurement of outcomes, patient follow-up. In one of the economic evaluations, the authors anticipated that continued refinement of patient selection criteria, technological advances, and improvements in management strategies will ultimately result in the demonstration of LVADs as an economically effective treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure (10). Evidence is needed to confirm or refute this prediction. The described 'partial coverage with evidence generation' might be a possibility to stimulate further research.
Disclosure: This work was supported by the Dutch Health Care Insurance Board (CVZ, College voor zorgverzekeringen) with project number 660/012/2010 to Mattias Neyt, Ann Van den Bruel, Yolba Smit, and Joan Vlayen. One of the included studies is performed by the authors of this review. The other authors report they have no potential conflicts of interest.
Neyt M, Smit Y, Van den Bruel A, et al. Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) toegepast als bestemmingstherapie bij patiënten met eindstadium hartfalen: ME-TA, medical evaluation and technology assessment, 2011.
Adang E, Groenewoud H, van Hees F, et al. eds. Invoering van kunst-en steunhart als bestemmingstherapie voor patiënten met eindstadium hartfalen- Gevolgen voor ziektelast en kosten van behandeling. Nijmegen: Universitair Medisch Centrum St Radboud, 2006.
Messori A. Methods for meta-analysis: reconstructing individual survival times through the analysis of Kaplan-Meier graphs. eBMJ 2008.
Endpoints used for relative effectiveness assessment of pharmaceuticals: health-related quality of life and utility measures. EUnetHTA—European network for Health Technology Assessment, 2013.


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Python 3 dictionaries have ``.keys()``, ``.values()``, and ``.items()``
methods which return memory-efficient set-like iterator objects, not lists.
(See `PEP 3106 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3106/>`_.)

If your dictionaries are small, performance is not critical, and you don't need
the set-like behaviour of iterator objects from Python 3, you can of course
stick with standard Python 3 code in your Py2/3 compatible codebase::

    # Assuming d is a native dict ...

    for key in d:
        # code here

    for item in d.items():
        # code here

    for value in d.values():
        # code here

In this case there will be memory overhead of list creation for each call to
``items``, ``values`` or ``keys``.

For improved efficiency, ``future.builtins`` (aliased to ``builtins``) provides
a Python 2 ``dict`` subclass whose :func:`keys`, :func:`values`, and
:func:`items` methods return iterators on all versions of Python >= 2.6. On
Python 2.7, these iterators also have the same set-like view behaviour as
dictionaries in Python 3. This can streamline code that iterates over large
dictionaries. For example::

    from __future__ import print_function
    from builtins import dict, range

    # Memory-efficient construction:
    d = dict((i, i**2) for i in range(10**7))

    assert not isinstance(d.items(), list)

    # Because items() is memory-efficient, so is this:
    d2 = dict((v, k) for (k, v) in d.items())

On Python 2.6, these methods currently return iterators but do not support the
new Py3 set-like behaviour.

As usual, on Python 3 ``dict`` imported from either ``builtins`` or
``future.builtins`` is just the built-in ``dict`` class.

Memory-efficiency and alternatives
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If you already have large native dictionaries, the downside to wrapping them in
a ``dict`` call is that memory is copied (on both Py3 and on Py2). For
example::

    # This allocates and then frees a large amount of temporary memory:
    d = dict({i: i**2 for i in range(10**7)})

If dictionary methods like ``values`` and ``items`` are called only once, this
obviously negates the memory benefits offered by the overridden methods through
not creating temporary lists.

The memory-efficient (and CPU-efficient) alternatives are:

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- to construct an empty dictionary with a ``dict()`` call using
  ``builtins.dict`` (rather than ``{}``) and then update it;

- to use the ``viewitems`` etc. functions from :mod:`future.utils`, passing in
  regular dictionaries::

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    for (key, value) in viewitems(hugedictionary):
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For Python 2.6 compatibility, the functions ``iteritems`` etc. are also
available in :mod:`future.utils`. These are equivalent to the functions of the
same names in ``six``, which is equivalent to calling the ``iteritems`` etc.
methods on Python 2, or to calling ``items`` etc. on Python 3.

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El término Sverdlovski  puede referirse a:

Sverdlovski (Kémerovo), localidad del óblast de Kémerovo, en Rusia.
Sverdlovski (Krasnodar), localidad del krai de Krasnodar, en Rusia.
Sverdlovski (Kursk), localidad del óblast de Kursk, en Rusia.
Sverdlovski (Moscú), localidad del óblast de Moscú, en Rusia.
Sverdlovski (Oremburgo), localidad del óblast de Oremburgo, en Rusia.

Nombres relacionados

en:Sverdlovsky (inhabited locality)


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My Blue World is the fourth studio album by German band Bad Boys Blue. It was released on 10 October 1988 by Coconut Records. The record includes three singles: "A World Without You (Michelle)", "Don't Walk Away, Susanne", and "Lovers in the Sand".

Background
All the songs were performed by Trevor Taylor and John McInerney. Starting from this album, John McInerney has secured himself a position as the band's new leader and vocalist. My Blue World album was the last one with Taylor. Track "Till the End of Time" was at the beginning designed to be a title song for this album, but producers changed their mind, and the record was released under the name My Blue World.

Track listing
"A World Without You (Michelle) (Radio Edit)" – 3:32
"Don't Leave Me Now" – 6:10
"Bad Reputation" – 3:36
"Don't Walk Away Suzanne" – 3:50
"Love Don't Come Easy" – 3:42
"Lovers in the Sand" – 3:46
"Till the End of Time" – 4:22
"Lonely Weekend" – 3:38
"Rain in My Heart" – 4:12
"A World Without You (Michelle) (Classical Mix)" – 3:30

Personnel
Bad Boys Blue
John McInerney – lead vocal (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Trevor Taylor – lead vocal (3, 5)
Andrew Thomas

Additional personnel
All tracks written by T. Hendrik/K.van Haaren except 5 written by T. Taylor, Hans Steingen/T. Taylor
Produced by Tony Hendrik and Karin Hartmann; 1 and 10 produced by Tony Hendrik
Arranged by Tony Hendrik, Klaus-D. Gebauer, Claus-Robert Kruse, Hans-Jürgen Fritz, Günther Lammers
Recorded and mixed by Gary Jones, Klaus-D. Gebauer, Claus-Robert Kruse, Günther Kasper, Helmuth Rüssmann and Andreas Martin at Coconut Studio, Hennef; Sound Studio "N", Köln; Cool Cat Studio, Hamburg; Tonstudio Rüssmann, Hennef.

Chart performance
In 1988, My Blue World reached #48 in German music charts.

References

External links
ALBUM – My Blue World

1988 albums
Bad Boys Blue albums


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The Autumn Republic is the third book of The Powder Mage trilogy written by American author Brian McClellan. It is the sequel to Promise of Blood (2013) and The Crimson Campaign (2014) and was released on February 10, 2015.  The audiobook was narrated by Christian Rodska.

Plot
Field Marshal Tamas has returned to Adro after being chased for months behind enemy lines. For the first time in history, the capital of Adro is in the hands of a foreign invader. Reinforcements are weeks away, and friends and foes have become indistinguishable of each other.

Inspector Adamat, still searching for his kidnapped son, finds himself drawn into the very heart of the action, struggling to keep up with the mutiny that has turned the Adran army against itself.

Meanwhile, Taniel Two-Shot is hunted by men he once thought his friends, and finds himself the only hope for Adro.

Pre-publication
On February 21, 2014 McClellan wrote on his blog that he had almost finished the third book. The cover, made by Gene Mollica and Lauren Panepinto of Orbit Books, was revealed on McClellan's official website on February 24, 2014.

See also
 Promise of Blood (2013)
 The Crimson Campaign (2014)
 Brian McClellan

External links
 Official website of Brian McClellan

References

American fantasy novels
2015 American novels
Orbit Books books


Something new is stirring in the quick-serve restaurant industry. A "yogurt war" is heating up, with new and existing competition set to expand rapidly.
Frozen yogurt companies are not new, with chains such as Yogen Früz becoming mainstays of shopping mall food courts since the 1980s.
The self-serve trend was taking hold and Mr. Serruya wanted to capitalize on what appeared to be a growing appetite for the same frozen yogurt products he'd been selling all these years, but with a twist.
Now chief executive of Yogurty's, Mr. Serruya is embarking on a major expansion through a franchise model. The brand is owned by Markham, Ont.-based International Franchise Inc., the company that acquired Yogen Früz in 2005, and also owns CoolBrands International's franchises division.
While Yogen Früz, which has more than 1,300 locations in 35 countries, has found success in big malls, Yogurty's is how Mr. Serruya plans to tap into main street customers.
"Yogurty's is strictly on the street — in nice communities where we can get the families, the teenagers hanging out, the mothers during the day," he says, touting the "healthier lifestyle" element that's integral to the brand's success.
Yogurty's has 19 locations, mostly in the greater Toronto area, as well as elsewhere in Ontario, and in Mexico, Dubai and soon Costa Rica. It will open another 14 locations in the next few weeks, with plans to have 50 in operation by the end of this year and 200 to 300 locations in Canada alone within three to five years.
Not to be left out in the cold, U.S.-based Menchies, is plotting its expansion in the self-serve, frozen yogurt market. It plans to have 500 stores open by the end of 2013, up from the 185 locations it now has in Canada, the United States, Japan and Australia. With 400 locations in development, Menchies projects 300 will be open by the end of this year.
"We have redefined the world's frozen yogurt experience," says Amit Kleinberger, chief executive of Menchie's, adding that its format will "set us at the forefront of the frozen dessert industry." In addition to its do-it-yourself, weigh-and-pay menu, Menchie's locations offer interactive chalkboards, party rooms, music, arts and crafts, and indoor and outdoor seating.
Yogurty's had been operating through corporate stores, one of which sparked Vicky Dombrower to buy its first franchise location, which opened last month in Toronto.
"I wanted to try something new, something a little more challenging and fun," says the former high school teacher, stay-at-home mom and entrepreneur (she owned a children's gymnastics club).
"I walked in and thought, wow, this place really works in many ways," she says of the Yogurty's her daughters frequented. She says with people increasingly becoming more conscious about their health, the frozen yogurt industry has a leg up on its rivals in the snack sector.
"The public is a lot more educated," Mr. Serruya agrees. He says Yogurty's differentiates itself by using a locally sourced, probiotic, gluten-free, zero-fat, low-calorie, natural product line to appeal to customers who would prefer to indulge in a healthy dessert snack, rather than ice cream or doughnuts. Consumers choose from toppings that include healthy fresh fruits and nuts as well as less-healthy candy pieces.
While Yogurty's is pursuing the franchise model mainly to fuel growth, the model has inherent advantages. "When you have an owner-operator that has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in something, they make sure everybody has a great experience," Mr. Serruya says.
Starting a business is always a lot of work, whether or not it is a franchise, but she says the back-end support and proven systems attracted her to Yogurty's.
Mr. Serruya, meanwhile, just secured a location in Calgary and another in Quebec. Even as competition in the frozen yogurt market heats up, he is confident the formula will prove a lasting success because of "the control the customer has [and] the better-for-you lifestyle," he says.


Bonnie Fast met her daughter Nera Fast of California at the home of Galen Fast in Colorado. Nera is spending the summer with her mother in Hillsboro.
Wilbur and Florence Hett visited Brennen and Christy Riffel at Sterling on July 3.
Norman and Dot Ensz were dinner guests Father's Day of Terry and Joni Ens in Wichita. Their granddaughter Jasmine Ensz of Georgia and other family also were there.
Irma Groening was a dinner guest July 4 at the home of Jerry and Sherry Groening in Marion. Other family members were also present.
Tim and Vera Isaac spent the July 4 weekend in Oklahoma City visiting their son Michael and his fiancé Heather Brand.
Eddie and Jan Meisinger and Dan and Paula Perry visited Dave Lancaster on July 4 and ate ice cream.
Family members and neighbors of Lois Nuss gathered at her farm home July 4 for a potluck dinner and ice cream.
Paul and Arlene Pankratz visited Jay and Luella Burkhart and Dorothy Seibel on July 6 in Newton.


This safety harness training Hucknall course enables students to identify and select the correct form of safety harness and lanyard which is applicable to their role in the work place. They will be able to inspect, maintain, monitor, fit and use them effectively.
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Q: Fuel API (Python) Starting an Interaction (Program) I'm currently in the research phase of which API will suite our needs, one of which is starting a Program (which will likely contain a transfer step, import step, user initiated send step).  In a previous implementation (prior employer) we accomplished this with the SOAP XML API (Perl) without issue.
In reading through the documentation of the Fuel API, I fail to see this specific Interaction supported, but I would have thought this to be one of the first to be implemented.
Can anyone advise if I'm simply overlooking this in the documentation, can it be done, or should this be filed as an enhancement request?

A: It is indeed supported. The correct URL is
/interaction/v1/interactions/{id}

There was a bug in the official documentation which should now be fixed. Refer this thread for more details.


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With a familiar Fast and Furious theme to it, the visuals of last year's title but with some sunshine, collectable classic cars to find like in Forza Horizon, the crash sequences of Burnout, and a little of the track events last seen in Split Second, Need for Speed Payback looks to be incorporating some of […]
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By Greg Giddens | Published: June 7, 2017
Welcome to the new This is Xbox Podcast. Join Greg Giddens, Damien Ashley and Adrian Garlike for a new season of the This is Xbox Podcast. This episode is the first in a new format for the TiX Podcast. After a 9 month break, Greg is back with a new co-host, Damien, to discuss E3 […]
Ubisoft teases their E3 2017 plans
By Dave Moran | Published: June 2, 2017
We are into June, which means we are in the month of E3 2017, Ubisoft have released a teaser trailer showcasing their plans for this year's show, go on, watch it! Ubisoft's E3 2017 Conference takes place on Monday, June 12, starting at 21:00 UK time. A 40 minute pre-show starts at 20:20 UK time. The […]
Twitch announce E3 schedule
By Dave Moran | Published: May 31, 2017
With E3 2017 only days away, Twitch have revealed their schedule. It will start with EA Play. Of course Xbox fans will be keeping a close eye on June 11 for the Xbox show. We'll be covering as much as we can on the day, there will be podcasts and livestreams to keep you all amused. […]
Bethesda tease their E3 showcase with an image
By Greg Giddens | Published: April 29, 2017
Much like last year, Bethesda have gone and released a tantalising image to tease their E3 showcase this year. The image tells us it'll al kick off on June 11 at 1830 PT (0230 June 12 for us Brits), but otherwise the image doesn't offer many hints. We see Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Prey, Quake, Doom […]
Xbox FanFest for E3 2017 announced
By Dave Moran | Published: April 18, 2017
If you want to get your hand on Project Scorpio then you'll be pleased to hear that Xbox FanFest for E3 2017 as been announced. Xbox FanFest will give 500 lucky fans a one-of-a-kind, up-close-and-personal experience to the gaming industry's biggest showcase. Xbox FanFest: E3 2017 kicks off Sunday, June 11 and runs through Tuesday, […]


Kevin Garnett is a different dude. Now in his eighteenth NBA season, if you didn't know this by now, you're clearly new to things. Let us welcome you, then, to the wonderful world of KG, and how he sees the game through specially-colored glasses.
After the Celtics fell to 0-2 on the young season in a blowout home loss to the Bucks, Garnett felt it was time to showcase some of his veteran leadership skills. Apparently he gave his teammates a postgame pep-talk to try to snap them out of the early-season funk.
The theme of this talk? Hyenas. Naturally.
It really is none of y'all business, and Garnett probably couldn't care less whether we get where he was going with this or not. It's the response from his teammates that matters, so maybe those on the inside that heard the entire thing will be able to translate that into something useful from a team basketball perspective.


You may play this personnel at cost +1 to draw a card for each mission you command that is worth 40 or more points.
"My government's instructions will be heard in the consul chambers on Babel."
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Fly fishing the Platte is like fishing "40 miracle miles". We fish 12-20 miles a day of a fishery that looks like it was just stocked by the DOW with tons of brooders. The wildlife sightings are fantastic and the trout are hard playing. Picture an early start with the crisp cool air and the sound of chirping meadow larks and the river running cold and clear. The silence being broken by the sound of the reel on the first fish of a long day. When you hook a fish here it will probably be the fish of your lifetime.


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AINHOA, YO NO SOY ESA
Carolina Astudillo Muñoz
Spain 98 min Catalan premiere Documentary
A family that films, records and photographs daily life. Ainhoa, the youngest daughter, decides to start writing what she doesn't want to tell anyone during her adolescence. In her diaries, which she preserves until her death, there are many experiences, stories and letters related to the experience of women. Ainhoa writes, films and she also represents herself. Ainhoa is an essay on women's writings. An alternative chronicle to the official Spanish history of the 90's, told from an intimate point of view and based on a real testimony. The film gives voice to a dissident, marginal and disenchanted generation in the personal and the política.
Presented by the director
Carolina Astudillo
Graduated in Film Studies from the Universidad Católica de Chile and master's degree in Creative Documentary from the UAB. She has developed her work from historical research, documentary creation and writing, with women and historical memory as a point of reference. She has won two Biznagas de Plata in Malaga, with El gran vuelo and also with Ainhoa: yo no soy esa.
Filmography: Canción a una dama en la sombra (2022, D'A 2022), Esa fugaz esencia que dejaron los sucesos (short, 2022, D'A 2022), Naturaleza muerta (short, 2020, D'A 2020), Un paseo por New York Harbor (short, 2019, D'A 2019), Ainhoa: yo no soy esa (2018, D'A 2018), El gran vuelo (2014), El deseo de la civilización (short, 2014), Lo indecible (short, 2012), De monstruos y faldas (short, 2008)
Int. title: Ainhoa: That's Not Me
Director: Carolina Astudillo Muñoz
Script: Carolina Astudillo Muñoz
Contact: Un Capricho de Producciones
With: Patxi Juanicotena, Esther Carrillo, Dave Roca, Lluís Subirós
Biznaga de Plata best documentary in Malaga


Max Reinhardt directs a 1934 production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) has awarded a $5,000 Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing (RBDB) Grant to for the digitization and description of the Max Reinhardt Collection.
Once digitized, the collection will be made available via the New York Heritage research portal and the Digital Public Library of America.
The collection documents the life of Max Reinhardt (1873-1943), celebrated Austrian theater director and filmmaker, and offers a singular historical record of many aspects in the study of theater and its history—acting, direction, stage design and costume design.
A man of few words, Reinhardt's success was based on a combination of intelligence, passion, enormous energy, and the ability to focus on the most mundane details while keeping the larger picture in constant view. Reinhardt believed that exceptional acting was the most important aspect of any theatrical presentation. He also believed in theater-as-spectacle, and his elaborate, elegant sets and imaginative stagings reflected that belief. He knew well how to achieve dramatic effect with minimal stage effects and knew which approach to follow with each play he directed and produced. Reinhardt transformed theatrical production in the 20th century by playing a large part in the elevation of the director to the key figure in theatrical production and the innovative use of new theater technology and experimentation with theater spaces and locales.
During his lengthy international career, Reinhardt amply demonstrated his total commitment to artistic experimentation and the revelry of the creative imagination. He is still recognized worldwide today for his significant role in the transformation and development of theater.
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The Amsterdam Schiphol train station is located directly below the airport. Customer service desks are situated close to the red and white checkered cube at Schiphol Plaza. Staff at the desk will also be able to provide you with train departure information and general information on travelling by train in Holland.
With Intercity direct trains, travelers can easily journey from the airport to Amsterdam CS (in the city center), Rotterdam, and Breda. This is faster than domestic train service, which make more stops along the way.
The airport train station also services popular international destinations via high-speed Thalys and ICE trains: Antwerp (about 1 hour), Brussels (about 1.5 hours), Frankfurt (about 4 hours), Dusseldorf (about 2 hours), and more.
If travelers do not wish to take a train from the airport station to Amsterdam city center, there is also the Interliner 370 bus line that runs between Amsterdam Airport, Amsterdam Zuid station, and Amsterdam Centre (Leidseplein). Taxis are also available outside the airport arrivals section.


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Vegetation (English)
Végétation (Français)
This article discusses vegetation in reference to its importance in helping to create and build dunes, stabilize the beach, and reduce coastal erosion. It was written by a class of grade school students in Australia.
Vegetation on dunes is vital for their stability thus the resilience of the coastal dune ecosystem.
The term 'vegetation', as used here, encompasses all the different plant species that grow from the high waterline to the back of the beach through the dunes.
Through the process of vegetation succession, the different climatic and environmental conditions in different areas of the dune, affect the species growing in different regions of the dune ecosystem.
Primary species
The species which occupy the area closest to the beach (pioneer zone) are highly specialised ones which can survive the harsh conditions of strong winds and salt spray. With features such as waxy and hairy layers on their leaves and stems, plants such as Marram, Sand Spinnifex and the Bitou Bush grow close to the ground to reduce their exposure to the strong winds and moving sands. With a strong root system, they are able to spread rapidly and survive on the lack of nutrients which sand has to offer. The role of these primary species is to provide the rapid stabilisation of the sand dunes after storms and strong winds, rather than preventing the movement of sand from the dune.
Secondary species
Species on the foredune are more complex than those in the pioneer zone as the presence of more nutrients means that such plants are able to be supported. Secondary species in this region are generally semi-permanent shrubbery and small trees such as the Coastal Wattle, Coastal Banksia and Shea Oak.
Tertiary species
The hind dune is occupied by more complex and developed vegetation such as trees and forests. Protected by the strong winds and salt spray experienced closer to the beach, this area is more protected, making it easier for less hardy and specialised trees to survive. The more complex species in this area result in more humus and organic matter produced, thus providing sufficient nutrients for more species. Eventually plant communities are established in this region, further contributing to the nutrients of the area.
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US School Shooting Survivor Criticises Madonna Video
Christian Eede , July 3rd, 2019 14:43
Emma González, who survived the Parkland school shooting in the US, describes music video which depicts a shooting in a nightclub as "horrible"
US gun control campaigner and survivor of the Parkland school shooting Emma González has spoken out against Madonna's new music video which depicts gun violence.
The clip for the single 'God Control' depicts a gunman opening fire on a nightclub dancefloor, referencing the 2016 shooting at Orlando gay club Pulse, which killed 49 people and wounded 53 others.
Despite the video's intentions to speak out against gun violence and for control in the US, González has described the video as "horrible" and "fucked up" in a series of tweets.
She continued: "[Madonna] should have sent out a message warning what her new video contained, ESPECIALLY to the Pulse Victims, ESPECIALLY as it was released Just After the Anniversary on June 12th."
González suggested that people tag pictures and videos from the video depicting violence with warnings that they might be triggering. She also suggested that if people want to support the gun control movement, they could donate to the One Pulse Foundation, which was set up in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
One track on Madonna's new album, Madame X, samples a speech González gave a gun control rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2018. The track called 'I Rise' features a clip at the start of González saying: "Us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works. We call BS."
Madonna has yet to respond to González' criticisms.
You can read our review of her latest album here.
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Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson, who had encouraged her writing, and had also brought critical attention to the fiction of Anais Nin ...whom he later bedded. And so it goes, the long chain of love, affections, and artistic influences among writers, musicians, and artists that weaves its way through the The Art of the Affair--from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles. Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient, cleverly designed and colorfully illustrated, it's the perfect gift for your literary lover--and the perfect read for any good-natured gossip-monger.
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers. She is based in Chicago. Forsyth Harmon is a writer and illustrator based in New York. She is completing her first novel.
Illustrations : 4-color illustrations throughout; two fold-out spreads.


One of Tuscany's most famous gardens is just down the hill from La Petraia, at Villa di Castello. The villa was bought in 1477 by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco and Giovanni de' Medici, cousins of Lorenzo il Magnifico who were Botticelli's patrons, and they hung the walls of this villa with his mythological paintings that are now the stars of the Uffizi.
The villa was sacked in the 1530 siege, then restored by Cosimo I, who spent summers here with his family, as well as his later years, when he increasingly left his governing duties to his son Francesco.
Today is the headquarters of the Accademia della Crusca, the 'Academy of the Bran' founded by the Grand Duke Francesco I in 1583 as an antidote to the official, pedantic Accademia Fiorentina, founded in 1540.
The Accademia della Crusca's main task was to 'winnow' the 'chaff' from the Italian language through its dictionary (the Vocabolario della lingua italiana, first published in 1612) to maintain the liveliness and purity of the language of Dante (its motto, from Petrarch, is Il più bel fior ne coglie ('She gathers the fairest flower'). Members, the 'Crusconi' regard their work as linguistic 'baking'; one room has all their names carefully preserved, not on coats of arms, but on bakers' shovels.
For all the joking around, the Accademia della Crusca didn't mess around when it felt the pure Florentine language was threatened and in 1717 exiled a Sienese playwright, Girolamo Gigli, for publishing his humorous Vocabolario Cateriniano and daring to suggest that St Catherine of Siena wrote better than Boccaccio. Although at the time, the Vocabolario was burned in a public book burning in Florence, in recent years the Crusconi have begun to relent and are reconsidering its republication.
While there is no admittance into the villa, you can visit one of the prototypes for the classic giardino all'italiana, was laid out for Cosimo I by Tribolo in the 1540s. Tribolo also designed the fountain in the centre, with a bronze Hercules and Antenaeus by Ammannati.
Directly behind the fountain, a fantastical artificial stalactite cave, the Grotto degli Animali, is lined with pebble and seashell mosaics and filled by Ammannati and Giambologna with a fountain and marvellous, true-to-life statues of every animal, fish and bird known to man (some are copies of Giambologna's originals in the Bargello).
The shady terrace above offers the best view over the geometric garden below; Ammannati's large statue of January, or Gennaio, emerges shivering from a pool of water among the trees. Beyond Gennaio is the woodsy English Garden, planted by the Lorraine Dukes.
Via di Castello 40. Take ATAF bus ATAF bus No. 2 or No 28 and get off at Sestese 5.


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Are there any face-to-face or live sessions required?
There are no required face-to-face sessions or live sessions, although these type of support sessions are available for student support and can be scheduled with your teacher.
Can I take my final exam early?
Yes. Final exams must be submitted by the last day of the session or as specified by your home school, whichever is sooner. Final exams can be submitted once a student completes all other course work successfully.
Who can take classes at Fulton virtual?
Any student currently enrolled in a Fulton County Schools school can enroll in an academically appropriate Fulton Virtual course with the permission of their school counselor.
Do I need internet access at my home?
Yes, since the courses are online, you will need internet access to via a home computer, tablet or other device. For students that meet certain criteria and live in an area serviced by Comcast Cable, there is a program that makes internet access and computer ownership more accessible. Please contact Comcast about their Internet Essentials program for more details.
What if I registered for my class(es), but I didn't get a confirmation email?
Once classes are requested they require the approval of the school Counselor. After the counselor approves the course, students are enrolled in a class and will receive a confirmation email. If the course requires payment, log back on to fulton.geniussis.com and make a payment.
Please be sure you are using the correct login designated for the correct account. All FCS students have an account and students should use the same credentials that they use to log onto a computer at their school. You can reset your FCS password here: Password Reset. You will need to have registered with the rest tool here first. Your Tech Support Specialist at your school can also help you to reset your network password.
How does Fulton Virtual work with 504 or IEP accommodations?
As with any instructional setting, all 504/IEP accommodations that pertain to the setting are followed.
Can I take virtual classes and traditional classes in the same semester?
Students have the option to take their virtual course on or off campus. If the course is scheduled at the beginning or end of the school day, a student can choose one of the following options: either to arrive late or to leave early to complete their online course off-campus. If the online course is scheduled during the middle of the day, students should take their online course on-campus. Students cannot leave in the middle of the school day and return later during the school day.
For a yearlong class, can I take both semesters at once?
Typically, no. Most courses have content in the second semester that builds on material from first semester (This is especially true in the mathematics courses). There are a few courses whose content in the two terms do not depend on each other as much. Speak with your counselor for recommendations for the course(s) you are considering.
How much time will be required online, per day, per week?
During Fall and Spring terms you should expect to spend one hour per day on your course. During the summer term which is much shorter, you should expect to spend three hours a day per course.
Are there assignment due dates?
No. Students are expected to work daily in their course in order to be successful and stay on target to finish their course(s) by the course end date.
*If a student has previously failed a course and is retaking the course to receive credit, there is no charge during Summer term.
How are the courses in Fulton Virtual taught?
Courses are taught online by highly qualified teachers using a software platform that allows for access anywhere there is internet access. Students can access this learning platform from a home computer or tablet. Teachers will interact with students by posting assignments, grading assignments, email and messaging to distribute information and to answer questions.


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Dev gets removed from Steam after filing a lawsuit against Steam users
Digital Homicide has been effectively removed from Steam after studio cofounder James Romine filed a lawsuit against 100 Steam users last week seeking roughly $18 million in potential damages.
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Arizona-based game developer Digital Homicide has been effectively removed from Steam after studio cofounder James Romine filed a lawsuit against 100 Steam users last week seeking roughly $18 million in potential damages.
What's intriguing here is that Valve representative Doug Lombardi has stated to multiple media outlets that "Valve has stopped doing business with Digital Homicide for being hostile to Steam customers," a statement Digital Homicide (via a recent blog post) claims is "incorrect."
The post goes on to claim that Digital Homicide is "defending ourselves against harassment" by filing the lawsuit against Steam users "where no resolution was able to be obtained from Steam to provide a safe environment for us to conduct business." It goes on to suggest that Digital Homicide may now be considering legal action against Valve itself over the matter.
It's worth noting here that the lawsuit Romine filed last week (a copy of which has been posted online, courtesy of Kotaku) named a list of Steam usernames as defendants, with the assumption that the real names of those users would be discovered by the court subpoenaing Valve. The lawsuit accuses said Steam users of everything from stalking to cyber-bullying to harassment.
This isn't the first time Romine has taken Digital Homicide's critics to court, either; he filed a lawsuit against YouTuber Jim Sterling last year seeking over $10 million in damages for "libel" and "slander" that had allegedly harmed Digital Homicide's ability to do business. Kotaku has a good rundown of the whole case, which has yet to be (publicly) resolved.


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Being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness yourself, or having it happen to a person you are close to can be devastating. Adding more negativity to the picture, it is also very frightening and downright paralyzing, in great part due to the rapidly escalating thoughts and feelings that may overwhelm you once you hear the doctor's words.
It's exactly at this point - which probably happens quite quickly and in rapid succession after having received the diagnosis - that you must step in and be prepared to do something. Stepping in means you must take charge, instead of allowing all those thoughts and feelings you are experiencing to be the ones who are in charge. If they remain in charge, they literally affect your energetic frequency, which means they affect your cells. Imagine a rose you have planted that has been doing well and finally you notice it has some strange sticky bugs on the leaves. Apart from consulting with an expert, you would probably now do your utmost to ensure that the soil in which the plant lives is clean. You would perhaps spray it with something that might help clear out those bugs. You would probably give it health- and growth-enhancing fertilizer, changing as well its position vis-à-vis the sun, watering more or perhaps less, and thus doing, in other words, everything you could to improve the 'environment' of the rose. You must do the same with yourself.
That requires awareness. We've looked at that topic many times over the course of these 10 years that I've been writing this monthly newsletter, so suffice it to say that awareness means you need to be able to recognize your own thoughts and be able to bring them to a less tumultuous state than the one they may currently be in. Here's a past article to refresh your memory: Consciousness is a Full-time Job.
Your thoughts and feelings can be dealt with - gently - by following a daily practice of mindfulness which will literally train your mind and form new neural pathways in your brain, in order to be able to take greater cognizance - to be more aware - at all times of your thoughts and hence your feelings, and above all, to recognize that you are capable of making choices about all of this, and hence literally influence and improve your well-being.
Many people who in fact know all these things I've been discussing, nevertheless lose sight of them when they receive a diagnosis that frightens them, and it all flies out of the window, and they give in to their most dire thoughts and feelings, thus creating an even more unhealthy environment for their body.
Think of it like this: imagine you have just had the cast removed after a multiple fracture of your tibia. You are so frightened that you'll never walk properly again. The orthopedic surgeon tells you that you'll need about two months of serious physiotherapy and then will still require further time after that until you are back up to speed. Again, your thoughts and fears take over, and all you can concentrate on is the fear that it won't ever happen; that you'll never walk without a limp again. Then, instead of going to those sessions of physiotherapy, you stay at home. As time passes, the lack of mobility in your leg becomes more and more pronounced and in the end, you truly do not recover your motor skills. Now I realize that almost no one would do this, but take it as an analogy of what happens to most people who receive a poor health diagnosis. They focus on the problem. They freeze. They may accept conventional treatment (and this article is not at all about refusing such treatment), but their thoughts and feelings remain stuck in one specific place - a very negative place, or a fear-filled place.
by consulting the best physicians/healers possible (but without making an obsession of it, because if you do, you will probably contribute to a lowering of your energetic frequency). Remember, the physicians and healers are only part of the answer. YOU are just as large a part of that answer. You.
by doing your own research, because after all, it is your body, and to some degree, you should make yourself responsible for how you progress from this point forward (but again, not by obsessing, for the same reasons as mentioned above). Self-responsibility is one of the most freeing actions you can take for your life and inner well-being.
by gently working on all those issues that continue to persist in your life. Is there resentment, pain, anger, frustration over people and events in your past? Do you need to learn how to forgive, create better boundaries, understand and eliminate patterns that you have been reliving over and over again, or begin to love yourself better, etc.?
by continually taking stock of your thoughts and feelings in such a way that you move them in directions that are energy-raising as opposed to energy-depleting, positive as opposed to negative, but recognizing that your responsibility in this diagnosis of illness of yours is not to figure out how to cure yourself, but to maintain yourself, or bring yourself to a place inside of you where your inner state of energetic frequency and your inner state of well-being is - by your choice, not by external circumstances - always as good as you can possibly make it (knowing that it truly is up to you), in order to bathe your being and your body in the most excellent and nourishing climate you are able to. This - all of this - is a choice.
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Develop a public engagement, enforcement and compliance plan for illegal dumping.
Complete development and start implementation of the Green Zones Program.
Conduct a Countywide climate vulnerability assessment that addresses social infrastructure vulnerability and use it to guide priorities for investments in public health preparedness, emergency preparedness and response planning, and community resiliency.
Conduct a Countywide climate vulnerability assessment that addresses physical infrastructure vulnerability and use it to guide priorities for investments in building upgrades, infrastructure improvements, and zoning and code changes.
Develop a comprehensive urban heat island mitigation strategy and implementation plan that addresses cool pavements and roofs, pavement reduction, and urban greening.
Build shade structures at major transit stops as identified in Metro's Active Transportation Strategic Plan, starting with communities with high heat vulnerability.
Adopt CALGreen Tier 1 green building standards and identify which Tier 2 standards could be adopted as code amendments.
Pilot high performance building standards for new County buildings beyond the current LEED Gold standard, such as Passive House, Zero Net Energy, Net Zero Water, Net Zero Waste, the Living Buildings Challenge, and the WELL Building Standard.
Develop a recycled water master plan.