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Yorkshire rail decision prompts inquiry
TRANSPORT Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and Network Rail executives look set to be grilled by MPs over the decision to shelve two major railway improvement projects in Yorkshire.
By James Reed, Political Correspondent
Friday, 26th June 2015, 7:43 pm
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Louise Ellman, recently re-elected chairman of the Commons transport select committee, confirmed she would be asking colleagues to agree to an inquiry into the handling of Network Rail's £38 billion investment plan.
Mr McLoughlin announced on Thursday that delays and rising costs would mean electrification of the Midland mainline and the transpennine route would be "paused" as part of a review of Network Rail's operations which will also see the installation of a new chairman, Peter Hendy, and directors forego their bonuses.
Mrs Ellman told The Yorkshire Post: "When the committee is elected I will be asking them to look at this issue and to look at how Network Rail are operating.
"As far back as January we did warn that the costs of the Great Western line had trebled and we said we were very concerned about the impact this could have on other electrification.
"The response from the Government was this was being addressed. Clearly it wasn't being addressed."
Shadow Transport Secretary Michael Dugher, the Barnsley East MP, challenged the Prime Minister directly over when Minsters became aware of Network Rail's problems.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Dugher wrote: "It appears that despite you and your Ministers knowing that these projects were in serious difficulty before the election, you decided to wait until after the election to reveal the extent of the problems before reneging on the commitments you had previously made.
"The public have a right to know if they have been deceived and if members of your Government knew for months that these projects would not be delivered as promised."
Mr Dugher asked the Prime Minister to explain why his official spokeswoman had refused on Thursday to comment on whether he was aware of Network Rail's problems before polling day.
Pointing to comments by Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne that it knew "very early on last year" that its investment programme would be hard to deliver, Mr Dugher asked Mr Cameron when those concerns reached the Government.
Mr Dugher also called on the Government to publish a report to the Transport Secretary by Network Rail on its electrification plans from last year.
Asked when he first heard of Network Rail's difficulties, Mr Cameron told a press conference in Brussels: "The first substantive conversation I've had about this was with Patrick McLoughlin when he came to talk to me about the need to change the leadership of Network Rail and his plans for Peter Hendy - who I think is an excellent choice.
"He did a great job for Transport for London, and I think it's right to let him get on with the job."
The Liberal Democrats launched a petition calling on the Government to press ahead with Midland mainline electrification.
Former Sheffield City Council leader Lord Scriven said: "This is a kick in the teeth for cities and town across the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
"The Liberal Democrats pushed hard in Government to secure the cash to fund improvements to this vital rail link which would have delivered new, faster trains with more services and more carriages to ease congestion and overcrowding on this busy line."


Northern Georgia Christmas Tree Farms: choose-and-cut Christmas trees, Tree lots with pre-cut trees, stands, sleigh rides, hay rides and related winter events and fun!
Whether you want to cut your own tree, pick a live tree and have it cut for you, buy a tree already cut or buy a living tree you can plant, this page provides detailed listings of Northern Georgia's choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms, places to buy pre-cut (also called pre-harvested and fresh-cut) trees, stands, sleigh rides, hay rides and related winter events and fun. Some listings are for tree farms, others are tree lots, and some only offer hay rides, sleigh rides or other winter events. READ EACH LISTING to know what each facility offers. The farms are listed further down this page, so scroll down the page! Since this service is free and open to ALL Christmas tree farms, not just those who belong to an association or pay for an ad, like almost all other websites do, this is the most complete and current listing available! I'm always looking for more to add, and to correct any inaccuracies or errors, so if you encounter any, please email me !
And please tell the farmer you visit in Northern Georgia that you found their farm here! I need the farmers to realize that you found them here so that they will keep their information up to date!
985 Salem Valley Road, Ringgold, GA 30736. Phone: 706-935-3563. Open: from. from November 25 to Christmas, until Christmas, 7 days a week, 10 am to 5:30 pm. Directions: Take I-75 Exit 345, Ringgold - Tunnel. Go one mile North on Hwy 41, turn right on Salem Valley Road. The farm on your left. From Ringgold - go South on Hwy 41 four miles, turn left on Salem Valley Road. The farm on your left. We sell Wreaths and Tree Stands. Click here for a link to our Facebook page.
Comments from a visitor on November 29, 2008: "A great Christmas tree farm. Lots of sizes and varieties to choose from. Any tree on the lot was just $35. They have farm animals to pet as well. Horses, sheep, a pig, goats, and llama. The kids had a great time. The owners were very friendly and helpful."
55 Lawrence dr., Dawsonville, GA 30534. Phone: 770-380-3636. Fax: 706 2651447. Email: bradspumpkinpatch@alltel.com. Open: Friday after Thanksgiving through December 23rd; Monday to Thursday from 1 pm to 6 pm; Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 6 pm; Sunday from 1 pm to 6 pm. Directions: We are located just 8 miles North from the Dawsonville Square on Highway 183 at the 5 mile marker. From the Dawsonville Square take Hwy 53 West to Highway 183 North (right). Continue on Hwy 183 to the 5 mile marker. We are located on the left; look for the signs! And for a map to our farm, click here. Also have old-fashioned cooking pumpkins thru Thanksgiving; Daffodils: first weekend in March. Payment: Cash, Check. Heritage daffodils (pre-civil war) and daylilies beginning last weekend in February for daffodils and end of July for daylilies.
Christmas tree varieties: PreCut varieties: Fraser Fir.
9945 Lakewood Highway, Mineral Bluff, GA 30559. Phone: 706-374-1234. Email: thepodunkman@hotmail.com. Open: We open the day after Thanksgiving for the Christmas season. Directions: Highway 515 North, Left on Highway 60, two tenths of a mile. Click here for a map and directions. Local peaches May through September; Homegrown tomatoes June through October; Georgia Rattle Snake watermelons July through September; Giant cantaloupes arrive from Cordele Georgia in May Vidalia onions arrive third week in April; Local apples come in June; Boiled Peanuts and Pork Skins year round. Payment: Cash, only.
76 East Troutman Road NE, Rome, GA. Phone: 706-232-9819. Open: from November 20 to Christmas, daily, 9 am to 6 pm.
U-Choose & Cut your own: White Pine,.
226 Spur 101 Se, Silver Creek, GA 30173. Phone: 706-295-5557. Email: wyattlfc@aol.com. Open: Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 pm;. Saturday' from 9am to 6 pm and Sunday from 11am to 6pm, from the Friday after Thanksgiving to Christmas. Directions: 2 miles south of Rome off Highway 101. And for a map to our farm, click here. Payment: Cash, only. Click here for a link to our Facebook page.
You-Choose and You-Cut varieties: Eastern White Pine, Leyland Cypress.
1581 Ga. 197 north, Clarkesville, GA.
276 Woodland Lane, Dahlonega, GA. Phone: 706-864-8222. Open: UPDATE: December 13, 2018: Sold out of trees; They are closed until next season (2019), when their hours should be: from November 20 to Christmas, Closed Monday, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to dark; Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm.
753 Highway 515 South, Jasper, GA 30143. Phone: 706-692-9064. Email: jason@hemlocks1.com. Open: Monday to Friday 10 am to 7 pm, Saturday 8 am to 8 pm, Sunday 10 am to 6 pm from Thanksgiving Weekend to December 23. Directions: Located 1 mile south of Highway 53 on Highway 515 in Jasper across from Shottenkirk Ford. Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Debit cards, Visa/MasterCard, Discover, AmEx. Visit us this Holiday Season to explore our premium selection of Fraser Fir Christmas Trees.We are a Family Owned & Operated Business that prides itself on providing premium quality trees and friendly service. Our trees are shipped directly from the farm to our lot. We immediately make a fresh cut and display our trees in water reservoirs to ensure that you are getting the freshest tree possible. Click here for our Facebook page.
375 Carver Mill Road, Talking Rock, GA 30175. Phone: 706-692-3261. Email: jbarnes@etcmail.com. Open: from the day after Thanksgiving and the next 3 weekends, Satuirday and Sunday from 10 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 5 pm. Directions: From the intersection of Hwy 515 & 53 in Jasper, travel West 7 miles on Hwy 53, Farm is on left.
Phone: 706-746-6952. Open:UPDATE for 2018, They may have closed; Does anyone have current information, are they still in business and open? If so, please write me, their last reported hours were from November 25 to Christmas, Monday to Thursday, 12 pm to 5 pm; Friday to Saturday, 10 am to dark; Sunday 2 pm to 5 pm.
U-Choose & Cut your own: White Pine, Balsam Fir.
5030 Hwy. 441 North, Rabun Gap, GA 30568. Phone: 706-746-6952. Open: UPDATE: December 14, 2018: They are closed until next season (2019), "Due to the amount of snow in the tree fields we are not able to cut any trees; therefore the choose and cut and pre-cut lots are closed for the 2018 season."; see them in 2019 when their hours should be: 9 am to 4 pm at the CHOOSE & CUT LOT and 9 am to 5 pm at the RETAIL LOT (cut trees)) through the second weekend in December. Click here for a linkto our Facebook page.
Do you know of any Christmas tree farms or other special Christmas and winter events in this County? Please tell me about them - Click here to write to me!
2226 Owltown Rd, Blairsville, GA 30512. Phone: (706) 745-0601. Email: stpfarm1@gmail.com. Open: UPDATE: December 14, 2018: Sold out of trees; They are closed until next season (2019), when their hours should be: See our website for current hours. Click here for current open hours, days and dates. Directions: Located 4 point 7 miles south of Blairsville, GA off of Highway 129. Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Visa/MasterCard. Santa Claus will be here and ready for pictures with you, your family, and friends. Come down and visit the Plantation. Hayrides: We invite you and your family for some fun riding experience on our brand new miniature train. The train runs on a road track and is just the right speed for youngsters. Marshmallow Roasting: Tell a few tales while roasting those yummy marshmallows over our open fire pit. Pony Rides: For the younger buckaroos, we have fun in the form of our quiet loveable ponies.. Hayrides: This is not an average hayride. Our enjoyable long-lasting hayrides will take you over 60 acres of beautiful Plantation land with breathtaking mountain scenery. Also, an enchanting river and a creek that meanders through the Plantation. And, of course, our thousands of Christmas trees. Many surprises and things to see along the way. Put your old jeans on and join us for the fun.
U-Choose and Cut varieties: Blue Spruce, Canaan Fir, Fraser Fir, Norway Spruce.
1713 North Long Hollow Rd Chickamauga, Ga. 30707. Phone: 706-861-5672. Email: drtreeboss@aol.com. Open: UPDATE for 2018, Their website is gone; Does anyone have current information, are they still in business and open? If so, please write me, their last reported hours were starts 2:30 pm Thanksgiving Day, 2:30 pm- 5 pm weekdays; 8:30 am to 5 pm Saturday. Closed Sunday. Directions: Take the new U S 27 Park Bypass to Longhollow Road, Turn West 1 and a half miles. Look for signs. OR Take Mission Ridge Road to Longhollow Road, Turn East 3/4 mile on the right.
7206 Highway 95, Lafayette, GA 30728. Phone: 423-838-5785. Email: treefarminfo@gmail.com. Open: Check their website for this year's Santa visits; Thanksgiving day from 1pm till dark , Friday after Thanksgiving 10 am till dark Saturday 10 am till dark; Sunday from 1 pm till dark then Mondays through Fridays from 12 pm to dark; Saturday from 10 am to dark and Sunday from 1 pm to dark thru last weekend before Christmas. Directions: Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check, Debit cards, Visa/MasterCard. Everyone welcome to bring your family and have fun picking out your family Christmas tree. This is all about enjoying your family and remembering the true reason for the season.
You-Choose and You-Cut varieties: Carolina Sapphire, Deodara Cedar, Leyland Cypress.
You Choose and We cut varieties: Carolina Sapphire, Deodara Cedar, Leyland Cypress.
654 Kensington Road, Chickamauga, GA 30707. Phone: 706-375-2729. Open: Monday thru Friday from 5 pm until 6 pm, Saturday from 9 am until 6 pm, Sunday from 12 pm until 6 pm. Directions: From Chickmauga, go South on Hwy 341 4 miles, turn right on Kensington Road, farm is 1/4 mile on right.
Phone: 706-638-7041 or 706-236-1329. Open: from November 25 to Christmas, Monday to Friday, 4 pm to 6 pm; Saturday 8 am to dark.; Sunday 1 pm to 6 pm.
U-Choose & Cut your own: Leyland Cypress, White Pine, Cedar .
2572 highway 95, Rock Spring, GA 30739. Phone: 706-764-6111. Email: dantheman@windstream.net. Open: starting Monday after Thanksgiving to the weekend before Christmas on Monday through Friday from 3 pm to 6 pm; Saturdays from 10 am to 6 pm; Closed Sundays; closing on December 22; NOTE that Santa photos scheduled for Saturday, December 15, 2018 have been canceled; Please see our web page and follow us on Facebook. Directions: 2572 highway 95, Rock Spring, Ga 30739 is physical location. 2.5 miles Southeast of Rock Spring on highway 95. Only minutes from Chattanoga, Ringgold, Chickamauga, and LaFayette. Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Visa/MasterCard, Discover.
You-Choose and You-Cut varieties: Carolina Sapphire, Leyland Cypress.
You Choose and We cut varieties: Carolina Sapphire, Leyland Cypress.
1237 W. Walnut Avenue, Dalton, GA 30720. Phone: 706-529-6584. Email: fiddleheadsdalton@gmail.com. Open: Monday to Friday 9 am to 6 pm; Saturday 9 am to 5 pm November 21 to December 24. Click here for current open hours, days and dates. Directions: I-75 North to Exit 333. Go east on Walnut Avenue for 0.5 miles and turn right on Dug Gap Road. Fiddleheads will be on the left behind Wal-Greens. Click here for a map and directions. Fiddle Fest (fall festival) Saturday, October 12 includes fresh made fried apple pies, BBQ, Brunswick stew, Pumpkin painting; Christmas Event (check our Facebook page for annual date) - bonfire with homemade smores, make your own Ornament, wreath decorating, early Christmas tree selection. Payment: Cash, Check, Debit cards, Visa/MasterCard, Discover. Made in Georgia gift shop, shrubs, trees, annuals, perennials, grasses, pottery, flags, and much more.
Living, rooted tree varieties: Carolina Sapphire, Deodara Cedar, and other varieties (call!).
Wheeler's Christmas Tree Farm - Christmas trees-you choose and you cut, Precut Christmas trees, hayrides, Hot Chocolate, Coffee, Cookies, Fresh Wreaths,tree stands and water spouts.
1144 Dogwood Valley Rd Tunnel Hill, GA, 30755 706-463-1924. Open: Thanksgiving day and Black Friday are 9 am to 6 pm; then until December 19th, we are open Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 6 pm, Monday to Friday 1 pm to 6 pm. We offer two varieties of choose & cut trees, the Murray Cypress and Carolina Sapphire. We also have premium fresh-cut Fraser Fir trees. All trees are tagged individually with the height and price of the tree. There will be hayrides every Saturday and Sunday.


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How to make custom Spinel engagement ring
I wanted to show you a very special custom spinel engagement ring that we did for our client recently.
Most people don't know where to start when they want a custom ring, so let me take you through this whole journey on a real-life example.
Our client contacted me about two months ago. We started with a consultation via skype. 20 min after we summarized everything - he wanted a sapphire engagement ring, he wanted it to be unique, something that you can't just go and buy at the store and he wanted to stay under a specific budget.
He also shared a Pinterest board of his fiance so we could look at it together and then our designers started drawing. A few days later, we had another call and went through 3 options that we sketched for him. He quickly chooses one that he liked with a trillion cut; we did a 3d model to see it in 3 dimensions and to confirm that everything is right and stared, making his ring with our jewellers. The only thing we've changed later were the side stones on the call, instead of triangle stones we did 3 round stones on each side, and we change prongs from round to triangle.
Let's talk about the centre stone a little more because it's pretty unusual.
Initially, my client said that he wanted sapphire as a centre stone. When I asked him if he wished to specifically sapphire or the look of it turns out he likes the way it looks, its deep blue colour.
So I said that one of the best solutions would be a gemstone called Spinel, it's significantly more affordable and gorgeous as you can see. And we could stay with his initial goal of 2ct stone.
A little bit of history on this stone.
It used to be popular and quite expensive a couple of centuries ago—just 2 facts. You can find a 170ct Spinel next to 350ct Diamond on British Crown dated 1367, and only the best gemstones would make it to be on the Crown of the reachest empire at the time. The other famous application of the Spinel is Catherine the Great Crown dated 1762. That Spinel was initially been a gift from the Chinese emperor. You can imagine if royals used it than it was the best of the best.
Anyway, let's come back to the ring.
Since it's pretty much impossible to find Spinel in Trillion cut and especially in a given time, we decided to buy raw stone and cut it. We have great specialists to do the most complex gemstone cuts.
For the setting itself, which is the band of the ring and the way all the gems are supported on it since we were going with a bluestone we both agreed that the best choice is 14K white gold.
The Trillion cut is a very tricky shape because of the sharped edges. So if you use it in an engagement ring that is meant to be worn daily, we want the owner to be safe and comfortable.
Triangular tips are kind of fragile and can scratch you, so you need to protect yourself and protect tips of the stone from chipping. So we put triangle prongs on each tip to emphasize the beauty of the stone and make it as comfortable and safe as possible.
I think we achieved the goal of making a unique engagement ring. I'm delighted with the final result.
Everything from the stone to the setting it's genuinely custom hand made. Even the box is custom made as well. We did everything under eight weeks from our initial skype consultation to the day it arrived, and we did all that when everything was closed on quarantine. I'm very proud of our small team!
I hope this ring will inspire you to make your custom beauty. Check our other videos for more inspiration, and thank you for watching this video. Please let me know if you have any questions in the comments. I would be happy to hear what you think.
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Evidence for an active fibrinolytic system in normal human bone marrow
N A McWilliam, L A Robbie, Caroline Barelle, G Adey, S Prasad, B Bennett, N A Booth
Normal human bone marrow from patients undergoing heart surgery was analysed quantitatively for components of the fibrinolytic system, using functional and immunological assays. Marrow was found to contain considerable fibrinolytic activity, reflecting high levels of t-PA (tissue-type plasminogen activator). The t-PA was in an active form, despite the presence of the inhibitors PAI-1 and PAI-2. Plasminogen and alpha2-antiplasmin (alpha2-AP) were also present in marrow. The balance of proteases and inhibitors differed dramatically from that observed in plasma, with higher levels of t-PA, PAI-1 and PAI-2, and lower levels of u-PA (urokinase), plasminogen, alpha2-AP and t-PA-PAI-1 complex in bone marrow, and resulted in favourable conditions for fibrinolysis. The presence of plasmin-alpha2-AP complex at concentrations of the same order of magnitude as total plasminogen and alpha2-AP demonstrated that active generation of plasmin was indeed occurring. A role for the active fibrinolytic system in normal human bone marrow may be the removal of unnecessary fibrin deposits formed in the cavities of the marrow, in order to maintain flow through this tissue.
British Journal of Haematology
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Fibrinolysin
Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1
Plasminogen Inactivators
Tissue Plasminogen Activator
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McWilliam, N. A., Robbie, L. A., Barelle, C., Adey, G., Prasad, S., Bennett, B., & Booth, N. A. (1996). Evidence for an active fibrinolytic system in normal human bone marrow. British Journal of Haematology, 93(1), 170-6.
Evidence for an active fibrinolytic system in normal human bone marrow. / McWilliam, N A; Robbie, L A; Barelle, Caroline; Adey, G; Prasad, S; Bennett, B; Booth, N A.
In: British Journal of Haematology, Vol. 93, No. 1, 04.1996, p. 170-6.
McWilliam, NA, Robbie, LA, Barelle, C, Adey, G, Prasad, S, Bennett, B & Booth, NA 1996, 'Evidence for an active fibrinolytic system in normal human bone marrow', British Journal of Haematology, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 170-6.
McWilliam NA, Robbie LA, Barelle C, Adey G, Prasad S, Bennett B et al. Evidence for an active fibrinolytic system in normal human bone marrow. British Journal of Haematology. 1996 Apr;93(1):170-6.
McWilliam, N A ; Robbie, L A ; Barelle, Caroline ; Adey, G ; Prasad, S ; Bennett, B ; Booth, N A. / Evidence for an active fibrinolytic system in normal human bone marrow. In: British Journal of Haematology. 1996 ; Vol. 93, No. 1. pp. 170-6.
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where should i look?
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Minnesotans Prepare For Brutal Cold
Filed Under:Canterbury Park, Cold, Cold Temperatures, Holly Wagner, Minneapolis News, Minneapolis Parks and Recreation, Snocross, Theodore Wirth Park, Wind Chill, Winter
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Many people were out and about Saturday, running last-minute errands in preparation to stay at home for a few days.
Grocery stores were busy with people stocking up before the winter blast.
At Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis, cross-country skiers and runners got out and enjoyed the brief stint of warmer temperatures.
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation is closing all of its facilities Saturday at 6 p.m. until Tuesday at noon because of the weather.
In Shakopee, Canterbury Park is hosting one of the biggest Snocross events in the sport.
Thousands of fans are expected to attend Saturday night's competition.
While they can stay warm in the Grandstand, the top competitors will be out battling the falling temperatures and negative wind chill.
Levi Lavallee, a popular and decorated Snocross competitor from northern Minnesota, told WCCO how they protect themselves.
"The biggest thing is you got to keep all exposed skin covered," Lavallee said. "So a lot of guys will literally put duct tape on their face, and you kind of look at them and they look like a monster when they take their helmet off, but that's what you have to do when it's brutally cold like this."
There are no plans to cancel Snocross events because of weather.
The competition continues Sunday.


Jane Gets Treated- A case study in medication side effects.
Jane a 45 year old executive secretary notices her ankles are swelling in the evenings. She goes to the Doctor. Her Doctor runs some blood tests and tells her, "Everything looks fine except your blood pressure is too high". Because High Blood Pressure is a killer, he prescribes a common drug for her blood pressure. The good news is that the pill he gives her will also reduce her ankle swelling. He tells her, "This pill may make your potassium levels drop too low. You will need to take a potassium supplement to prevent this." He then tells her she may be able to get off these pills if she loses a few pounds and stops using salt.
Several days later, Jane steps onto the bathroom scale. Her weight is down 3 pounds. Her ankles are small again. Jane is pleased. She didn't have to change a thing! Two little pills in the morning did the trick.
Unfortunately, the story is just beginning!
The next day Jane notices her stomach burns when she takes the Potassium pill. No problem, Jane fixes this problem herself.
She starts taking over-the-counter antacids. After a few weeks she notices her stomach hurts all the time. The antacids work only about an hour. She starts taking antacids every hour or so and books a visit to her Doctor.
Meanwhile, she has a tremendous attack of pain in her back. It is so severe she goes to the emergency room. The Doctors tell her, "You have kidney stones." They suspect that her excessive use of antacids may have caused the problem. They schedule her for a procedure to remove the stones. But... the logical answer to the severe pain?
A narcotic. This causes severe constipation.
The Doctor prescribes a bowel stimulant.
Sitting in the hospital bed anxiously waiting for the bowel stimulant to work, Jane notices her left big toe is swollen and very sore. A blood test confirms that she has a nasty disease called gout.
Another drug is started to take care of her gout. She is warned that the drug may initially worsen the problem, but it should help in the long run.
At this point Jane SHOULD begin to wonder... where will all this end. She still doesn't know why her stomach has been aching so bad… Certainly there will be a pill to help that problem!
Unfortunately, along with millions of other Americans, pleased with the excellent care they are receiving, Jane may never suspect that these problems were caused by the medications she took for another symptom. She is at the mercy of some astute Doctor to say, "Listen, just as soon as we fix your kidney stones you are going to need to start over by making some lifestyle changes. If you don't we will meet again in this hospital."
Furthermore, if Jane had known to apply some natural health cures when she was first diagnosed with High Blood Pressure all of this would have been avoided.
Initially, natural health cures and treatments are more effort than taking a pill. But the benefits... money saved, and medication side effects prevented are incalculable.
Just for fun, let's look at the happier version of this story.
Jane notices her ankles are swelling in the evenings. She goes to the Doctor. Her Doctor runs some blood tests and tells her, "Everything looks fine except your blood pressure is too high". He tells her that she needs to do some extensive lifestyle changes to reduce her blood pressure. Those changes include cutting back on salt and losing a few pounds. He tells her that he wants her to come back in two weeks so he can evaluate how she is doing with his recommendations. If she doesn't show improvement she will have to start medications.
Jane leaves the office somewhat overwhelmed. Lose weight? Cut back on salt? Jane gets on the internet. She finds the Klondike Mountain Health Retreat web page on How To Treat High Blood Pressure- Naturally!
With only two weeks to make a change Jane decides to do two of the natural cures discussed in the free education. She returns to the Doctors office two weeks later.
She has lost 4 pounds! Her blood pressure has improved but is still borderline high. Her Doctor is pleased with her progress but insists that the blood pressure needs to be still lower. She schedules another visit for one month later.
Jane gets back on the Internet and re-reads, How To Treat High Blood Pressure- Naturally! She applies two more of the natural cures. A week later she notices that her feet are no longer swelling.
Jane is delighted, but struggling with some of the natural health cures. How does she cook whole foods so they taste good and retain their healing properties? She needs more variety. Her husband is refusing to eat her food.
She contacts Klondike Mountain Health Retreat and registers herself, and her husband, for a 18 day session.
While at Klondike Mountain Health Retreat , she gets a much needed break from her high pressure life. The setting is beautiful. The staff is friendly and helpful. The cooking classes are just what she needed. She leaves with menus, and recipes both she and her husband have tested and love. Her blood pressure is now in the low normal range. She has lost another 4 pounds. She has more energy than she has had in years.
Don't miss the fact that she is drug free!
The best part of this story is that Jane has incorporated natural health cures into her everyday life. This PREVENTS many other diseases from occurring. What a great success story!
Health is not given to you by your Doctor, a pill, a procedure or a health system. Health improvement is largely a personal decision, based on knowledgeable application of health cures and treatments.
Your health is a powerful thing to gain... A devastation to lose.
Click here to learn more about the high blood pressure.
Click here to start a four part article on the cause for high blood pressure.


The call for papers is now available on this website. You have until July 1st to send us a resume, the selected participants will be contacted during the last week of July.
International Symposium "Practising voice on stage"
Do vocal techniques frame a singular aesthetic? This will be our central question to analyse how vocal techniques and research affect the actors from the first stage of the daily training of their own vocal instrument to the creation of a performance or a company's aesthetic. Shaping the voice includes working on the actor's physiology, the vocal translation of a written text, and the exploration of its resonance. Voice is in itself a duality, being at once a complex physiological process aimed at the production of a sound, and the sonorous result of such a process.
In the vocal output, the whole body is considered a vocal apparatus, but in a specific way: the organs that allow a sound to be produced are diverted from their original functions, which are eating and breathing. Resonators shape within the body empty spaces that the airy sound can set into vibrations. New output techniques multiply those resonators and create a new subjective and sensitive body in contradiction with its actual physiological and biological identity – Grotowski imagined a mouth on top of the head for instance. Our purpose here will be to question the relationships between body and voice, sometimes with the integration of speech such as Cicely Berry's approach.
One could adopt multiple points of view for this first line of research: the actor's, the vocal trainer's or the stage director's. Let us remind also the importance of a multi disciplinarian approach: whatever vocal technique is at stake, inspirations from outside the theatre arts are to be found – most of the time speech therapy and music interact into the vocal training, but nowadays training techniques regularly call upon other fields such as the somatics (Feldenkrais method, Body-Mind Centering...), yoga, relaxation therapy, or sound poetry.
Is there a causality relationship between a specific vocal technique and its aesthetic and sonorous result? How does the actor's work adapt itself or create itself with regard to the contemporary aesthetic challenges, such as the new technologies on stage?
Thanks to the new virtual technologies, it is possible to create and alter – during the performance itself – voices spreading on stage or in the audience space, so that virtual voices would sometimes 'act' in the absence of any physical or visible body. What kind of space is then created by those virtual voices, and, to a larger scale, how does the development of such technologies question the very notions of presence and subjectivity on stage?
Experiences like performances in complete obscurity or broadcast theatre manage to create a sound scape and a sound drama from the absence of the actor, not their presence. How then does the actor has to reinvent his own relationship with voice – being virtual or not? What is at stake concerning the spectator and its perception of the performance? Do the contemporary vocal trainings for actors include such consideration for the new technologies or do the actors have to train themselves on the job? We realized that those questions are too rarely addressed by the dramatic research, in spite of their major importance. This symposium will be an opportunity to question for instance the techniques for an actor to master the use of microphone on stage, or to address on a more philosophical ground the strangeness associated with hearing one's voice outside of one's body.
In this line will also be approached the impact of new medical technologies and their consequences to the understanding of physiological data at stake in the actor's work. Being able to visualize the inside of one's vocal apparatus and to understand with precision its mechanic changes something for the actor, and those changes for instance need to be analysed.
Multi disciplinarian vocal techniques and new sound technologies strengthen the contemporary stage in its ability to create, along with the classical spoken language, new body-like shapes and spaces thanks to the voice. Romeo Castelluccistarts his Julius Caesar with the visual performance of an isolated larynx dancing on stage – a microphone being inserted inside the throat of the actor, his speech shapes itself into a body occupying the whole space. A space devoted to voice that is to be found, under a different appearance, in the recent creation by French stage director Daniel Jeanneteau version of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blinds. The audience is surrounded by a thick white fog, noises and sounds are broadcast from different loudspeakers along with the actual voices of the actors who mingle with the audience. A sound scape is created. Those two performances reveal the ability of the voice on stage to create a singular space, to create a kind of presence in spite of the physicality of a visible actor. And here we might approach the core of voice as a theatrical material: what kind of presence can a voice separated from its physical structure and its very visibility build?
Thus, Flemish director Guy Cassiers uses a sound amplified voice paired up with the filmed image of an actor to "rise above [his] physicalness". The voice echoes something from the intimacy, something that can't be said with the spoken language, a secret. To use Henri Meschonnic's words, the voice is a "vocal portrait", meaning it can build as many identities as the actor or the director's imagination can find. Then it's up to the spectator to widen and sharpen his hearing: there is not only a meaningful speech to hear but, behind or beyond it, the silent voice of an intimacy such as the one that Claude Regy's work resonates with.
With this line of research, we wish to question the voice on stage relying on the performances themselves considered in the singularities of their experiences, rather than on their creative process. Analysing specific performances will be the opportunity to address the problematic notions of presence, character and perception in those explorations of the voice on stage. Similarly, one could question the relationship between a specific vocal technique – Vassiliev's accentuation, Regy's slow down of diction, or the constant switch between singing and spoken voice with Marthaler's shows – and the construction of a theatrical meaning. What is at stake for the theatre in the reality of its performance with this growing interest for the voice on stage?


Just because it's on the vine doesn't mean it's growing, that you are entirely sure what kind of fruit it is or that, ultimately, it has to stay.
Even though you put up a net and think you're protected, bad stuff still gets in and good stuff gets stolen.
Even if you are ready, weeds still grow.
All of the sudden, stuff dies.
Stomping your feet when you realize stuff is not growing only makes you look silly (and just kills the grass).
When you leave and aren't watching, stuff blooms.
Stuff will still be there tomorrow (and more) if you don't deal with it today.
Stuff grows all over the world - no need to only plant in one place.
Sometimes broken stuff doesn't grow back - especially if they've been broken several times.
Leaving stuff on the vine for too long unattended will kill the vine.
Sometimes you need to get ruthless with pruning your stuff.
Concentrated water isn't always good... steady feeding is best.
Every year, the stuff is different, even if you think you're replanting the same thing.
Everthing wants to grow... all it needs is a little encouragement.
Today, it's vegetables... but it's people...and I'm learning, we've all got room to grow.


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BLEECKER STREET
Opened 2009 – 2700 sq. ft.
This latest addition to the Ralph Lauren presence on New York's Bleecker Street originally began it's conceptual life as a Children's store. It went through several programmatic changes, including a Men's vintage & tailored clothing shop, Men's Black Label & Men's Purple Label store before finally becoming a Women's Apparel store. The sketches on this page show the project in it's Men's Purple Label phase.
The inspiration for the concept at this phase was taken from the vernacular of the types of tailor shops that existed on Bleecker Street at the turn of last century. I was interested in the ambiance of these old tailor shops where one would come to a trusted and familiar tailor to have bespoke clothing made to measure. The environment would be both intimate & eclectic.
The photos on this page show the look of the final buildout as a Women's apparel boutique. The original inspiration helped inform the design for this final program as well.


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The New and Living Way
Jeremy McKeen
What is Christianity? Some people think that Christianity is just another way to find God. Others think it's just the remains of a pre-enlightened time when people "believed in that sort of thing." For many, it's just an ethical code or list of values adopted as a crutch for life. But is that what the Bible teaches? What is biblical Christianity? And why should it matter? The early followers of Jesus were initially called people of "the Way" (see Acts 9:2, 24:14). This is because in Jesus – a new and final way to meet God and to be human – was introduced. This is also why the Bible says, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come" (2 Corinthians 5:17). One way to define Christianity is as "the new and living way" (see Heb. 10:20). But what is this new and living way, and what are some of the new things that have come in Christ?
The first thing a Christian receives is new life. Jesus said, "I have come that you may have life" (John 10:10). In the movie Pinocchio, Geppetto's puppet begins by looking in every way like a real boy, but he is only wooden. Pinocchio existed and looked alive, but he wasn't really alive until, by some miracle, he became a real boy. Like Pinocchio, someone can exist physically but not yet be alive spiritually. To become a Christian is to go from being spiritually wooden to spiritually alive. Christianity is becoming "a real boy." This means that, like Pinocchio, being a Christian is not something that you happen to try; it's something that happens to you. In other words, Christianity is not a side item to the same meal. It is not an "add on" to the same life; it is a new life altogether. This is why a Christian is called "a new creation" or "born again." And what is the newborn cry of the Christian? "I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe in the gospel." And this new life then brings about a new status.
A New Status
If you were a criminal who justly deserved the penalties of the law, yet someone paid all those penalties for you, the judge would have objectively declared you "not guilty." This verdict would have immediately changed your status in the eyes of the law. You would go from a status of a condemned criminal to the status of a free and forgiven citizen. And after you heard this verdict, would you stand in the courtroom trying to convince the judge to acquit you, going on and on about your promises to change your ways? No, because your promises to change your ways do not change your status; your new status should change your ways. You would simply leave the courtroom differently, first positionally and then practically. This is the new status that Jesus has secured through his life, death and resurrection for everyone who believes. And with this new status comes a new identity.
In C.S. Lewis' popular children's novel turned film, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy find themselves in a new world and are quickly told of their new identity by Mr. Beaver. They are now royal rulers in the kingdom of Narnia who have come in fulfillment of the prophecy to help deliver the land from evil. As they hear this, they look around at each other with puzzled looks and say, "I think you have us mistaken for somebody else!" But Mr. Beaver was not mistaken. The children didn't need to earn their identity; they needed to learn their identity and then live in line with it. They needed to learn who they were in the story, because if you know who you are in the story, then you know what part to play in it. A Christian is someone who has received the new identity as a justified, forgiven, child of the King. Like the children in Lewis' novel, Christians are royal soldiers who are called to work with the true Aslan to help deliver the world from evil. How do you do this? You live in a new way.
A New Way
If you become a citizen of a new country and are graciously adopted into the royal family of that country, you are quickly taught the new way of living that is worthy of who you now are. A Christian does not live a different way in order to become a child of the King, but because he or she now already is an adopted child of the King. Jesus is the model of how a citizen and child of God's kingdom should live in the world. A Christian exchanges the way of pride for the way of humility, the way of bitterness for forgiveness, the way of grudges for mercy, the way of greed and grasping for generous giving, and the way of lust for a life of love. In other words, Christianity is a new way to be human. But it always takes God's power to live God's way.
A New Power
The new way that Jesus calls his followers to proceeds from the new power that has come to dwell within. The power of the Holy Spirit that resides in every Christian is the same Spirit and power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. This means that just as the Spirit raised Jesus to physical newness of life, the Spirit is now raising Christians to spiritual newness of life. In a world that relies upon human power and material means, a Christian relies upon the Spirit's power and the means of grace to produce new character and new responses as agents of change in the world.
As the world steps into another new year, may the new and living way of Christianity take one step closer to seeing God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.


I'm especially excited for this post because I get to write this while sipping coffee in a charming little New England-style boutique hotel on a perfect fall day. A trip full of pumpkin spice lattes, lots of history, and the sound of crashing waves was exactly the type of fall trip I was looking for. If you're a fall or Halloween lover or looking for your next charming destination, Salem and Marblehead are a must-have on your list.
Confused on where to stay?
My boyfriend and I have been wanting to ride up to Salem for all of the Halloween activities and while we throughly enjoyed Salem, we loved olde town Marblehead even more. Salem has more hustle and bustle and you're more central to everything so if that sounds like you, Salem is the perfect place to stay. Less than 10 minutes away is Marblehead, a much quieter, incredibly charming, seaside town which is obviously up our alley.
We stayed at the Hotel Marblehead, which is one of the coziest stays I've ever had. With an intimate, historic charm (it was built in 1871!) and it's own New England coastal flair, we were swept away from the delicious croissants in the morning, complimentary bicycles, and of course our cozy and spacious suite!
Some seriously amazing breakfast with fresh pastries, fruit, cereal, and more. I literally had the best chocolate croissant I've ever had!
If you're looking to dive deep into history, eat the best lobster rolls, and learn how to cast a spell, look no further. Salem and Marblehead are neighboring towns with a variety of different things to do. While Salem holds the most attractions and the Halloween spirit, Marblehead offers a quaint taste of New England.
As for restaurants and eateries, I definitely recommend 5 Corners in Marblehead for a local, farm-to-table cuisine. Their pastas are to die for! The Barnacle is a great spot for seafood and if you want to dine on the water. And lastly, you must stop by A & J King Artisan Bakery in Salem! This is the spot to get your pumpkin spice latte and they also have a great selection of sandwiches.
Depending on when you're going, check around Salem for new events like festivals, parades, and more. There's plenty of Halloween attractions in Salem, too. I recommend purchasing a bundle of tickets so you have access to more attractions for a better price (we purchased the 5-ticket combo and had access to the Salem Wax Museum, Frankenstein's Castle, Witch Village, Spellcasting, and the Candlelit Ghost Tour. In Salem, a walking tour is a MUST to learn the scope about the witch trials and haunted happenings around the town.
Marblehead looks and sounds like a great place to visit! I love how cute and rich in history everything is. The breakfast at that hotel looks so so good too! I can't believe I've never visited either of these places but I'm definitely adding them to my travel list. Thank you for sharing!
absolutely love these photos!! super cute checkered jacket as well, where is it from?
I've wanted to go visit Salem for a while now! Thank you for sharing!
Oh my goodness, these photos are beautiful! Also, I love your jumpsuit. Seriously need to visit now!
Oh my it is such a charming place! What a great getaway!
This place looks so lovely! Thanks for sharing!


Home > News > Articles > Taking AIM: Why should I float my company on AIM?
Jemil Visram, associate at Square One Law, offers advice on whether floating on AIM is right for a business.
IPOs are much in the news today. Flotations are proving more popular now than they have been for some time and high profile offerings such as Royal Mail have been given plenty of media column inches.
For smaller or emerging businesses throughout the region, a flotation on the Alternative Investment Mark (AIM) is an increasingly attractive proposition for a number of reasons.
First and foremost a flotation on AIM provides the opportunity to raise finance for the development of your business by granting access to long term investment capital via the initial, and any subsequent issue of shares. Increasing market confidence following the continued economic recovery coupled with the recent changes that allow shares in companies listed on AIM to be held in ISAs, means the AIM market has never been exposed to so much capital from individual and institutional investors alike.
Despite the management time and costs that are involved, a flotation on AIM remains attractive as companies are able to use their listed shares, and the ability to issue more shares, as currency for strategic mergers and acquisitions rather than financing such transactions using cash or debt finance.
Similarly existing shareholders are able to realise the value of their initial investment in the business by selling all or a portion of their shares. This gives businesses the ability to incentivise and reward executives and employees by issuing options and share awards linked to the long-term success of the company by aligning their interests with those of the shareholders.
A non-tangible benefit of any flotation is the status of being a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange. This will inevitably increase and heighten the profile of your company and enhance its status when dealing with customers and suppliers especially in the international business arena.
Finally, many companies choose to float on AIM rather than the Main Market as the admission requirements are less onerous and there are no rules as to the minimum size of the business or the number of shares which must be publicly traded. The corporate governance requirements and the continuing reporting obligations are less strict under the rules of AIM which allows the executive management team to focus on building and developing the company with less scrutiny and analysis by external commentators.
The corporate commercial team at Square One Law has experience of floating companies on both AIM and the Main Market. We recognise that deciding to float is a significant milestone in the lifecycle of your business and we take a pro-active approach by offering commercially practical solutions rather than mere options. We work closely with businesses and their advisers to ensure the process of floating a company proceeds to completion as smoothly as possible and advise on the continuing obligations that apply to a publicly listed company as well as its directors and shareholders.


By the fourth day, all that was left in our "must visit places in Bali" was Tanah Lot. However, what were we to do for the rest of the day? Pak Yoda mentioned the pura I had pointed out in our travel guide. "The one by the lake", I said. Well, better make our money's worth since we've already paid Pak Yoda to drive us around for the length of our stay.
Pak Yoda being the best tourguide EVER cramped as many interesting places he could to make our day even more awesome.


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La presse écrite mauricienne, qui est la presse écrite que l'on rencontre à Maurice, pays insulaire du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien, se caractérise par , certains titres étant publiés en français, d'autres en anglais, et d'autres encore dans des langues d'origine indienne.

Exemples de titres

Actuellement
 L'Eco Austral.
 L'Express.
 Le Mauricien.

Autrefois
 Le Cernéen
La Gazette de Maurice.

Liste des titres

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie

 Paroomal Mayila, « La presse à Maurice durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale : production locale de propagande et ébauche de discours patriotique mauricien », Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, 2012/2 (n° 246), p. 79-96. DOI : 10.3917/gmcc.246.0079. URL : https://www.cairn.info/revue-guerres-mondiales-et-conflits-contemporains-2012-2-page-79.htm

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During the week, the Walt Disney Company continuously moved forwards without any progress, with an average of $150.64. And now in the pre-market, it is trading at $142.40 by -3%. One of the largest media conglomerates of the entertainment industry worldwide has decisive changes following this, DIS is doing everything possible to attract international viewers to its streaming platforms. On Wednesday, it was announced that the company is creating a new center for international content creation, and Rebecca Campbell will serve as chairman. Consequently, Rebecca Campbell will report directly to Disney CEO Bob Chapek.
Campbell will be in charge of increasing the international content production pipeline and also leading teams in the Asia Pacific, Europe, etc. that oversee foreign linear channels. At this point, Walt Disney will increase its total content budget by $8 billion annually, reaching about $33 billion in 2022. Besides, Michael Poole was appointed to the newly created position of head of Disney+, ESPN+, Star+, and Hulu. Disney+ added 179 million subscriptions to its portfolio, which is 60% more than the previous year.
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Sonia has been leading the Community Outreach initiatives and teaching Environmental Education for as long as I can remember. She's a multi-talented individual that continually innovates creative ways to engage the Lobitos youth and protect the environment. One of my favorite initiatives that she's played a huge role in is the recycled costume contest celebrating Earth Day. What's so brilliant about this is that not only do the young people think up ways to recycle everyday items that may typically be thrown away, but it engages the entire family. It's obvious that a lot of time and effort go into making the celebration a success. The costumes they come up with are completely adorable too! Thanks Sonia for all you do! I encourage you to contribute and support Sonia and WAVES in 2018!


Persona 5 will be releasing Early 2017 in NA – 3WIREL!
Many were hoping to play Persona 5, the upcoming JRPG by Atlus and the P-Studio this fall. They will if they live in Japan and can read Japanese text, but for people wanting to play an English version of the game, the wait is a bit long.
Atlus and SEGA announced that the game will be releasing February 2017 now. This is not strange, considering how other major JRPG's like FFXV are releasing this Fall and one year too six months is the average wait for a Persona localization. Will update as the story develops.


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Colby's opportunity to become the world's leading liberal arts college
I visited Colby alumni, parents, and friends in Europe this June (the toils of a college president …). The Colby family is spread around the globe, and everywhere I go I find that the enthusiasm for Colby among those who know us best could not be higher.
Being abroad inspired me to reflect on Colby and the state of higher education in the world, helped along by news stories back in the States. While I was in London, the University of Washington and Tsinghua University of China announced a partnership, funded in part by $40 million from Microsoft, to develop technology-related academic programs and an innovation hub. That same week, the Bloomberg Foundation announced a $100-million donation to Cornell Tech, the fledgling partnership between Cornell University and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, to develop an applied science campus in New York City.
These announcements followed a variety of global partnerships and initiatives launched by United States universities in recent years. These include NYU Abu Dhabi; Duke Kunshan University, a collaborative effort between Duke and Wuhan University in China; and Yale-NUS College, an effort by Yale and the National University of Singapore to bring a Western liberal arts approach to learning to Singapore. While at the University of Chicago I led efforts to establish major research and teaching centers in Beijing and New Delhi, and the university is now designing a new campus in Hong Kong.
There are many more examples—many still in formative stages, some showing significant signs of success, and others struggling or abandoned. It is a period of great experimentation, with institutions demonstrating a high tolerance for risk. The anticipated reward is the development of a fully global institution—one with global visibility and impact, a strong international footprint, and the power to recruit the most talented faculty, students, and staff from all corners of the world.
While American research universities have been charging ahead to develop the optimal global strategy, our liberal arts colleges have barely begun. It is not that we lack for international efforts. At Colby more than two thirds of our students study abroad, we offer a strong set of international internship and research experiences, Jan Plan provides a great opportunity for study-travel courses, we continue to support a foreign language requirement, and roughly 12 percent of the incoming class are non-U.S. citizens.
Colby, started more than 200 years ago as a small regional college, has of course developed into a leading national college. What would it mean for us to be the leading global liberal arts college? That is a question I think we should consider.
Should we be thinking about a more robust set of global partnerships with educational, research, and cultural institutions? Should we expect (require?) all students to have meaningful global experiences, which could include academic as well as work experiences? Are there areas of the world that we see as strategically important—areas where we would want to invest or develop partnerships—or are we better off embracing a more organic approach to program development? How should we think about the international composition of our community, and what would that suggest about recruitment programs and international outreach and marketing? Will there be enough value in having a global reputation in the years to come that it is worth investing now in this effort, understanding the inherent risks?
These are questions we have been asking on campus, and they have been stimulating a very productive conversation. I welcome your thoughts on them as well. My own view is that Colby's future has to be global and that the liberal arts college that can legitimately define itself as a leading international center of learning will have a compelling advantage, will attract the very best students, and will provide the richest set of opportunities for the next generation of global leaders. It seems to me just the right moment for Colby to truly step onto the international stage and to determine its own strategy for being the premier global liberal arts college.
I hope we can think more about these issues together in the coming months. Though liberal arts colleges are trailing universities in global experimentation, investment, and initiatives, there is still plenty of time to formulate and execute a strategy that would be true to and would further Colby's important mission of preparing students for lives of meaning and impact.
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All people 12 and older are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in Texas. Children ages 12-17 can get the Pfizer vaccine, but COVID-19 vaccines are not mandatory for Texas students.
State and local health officials say that vaccine supply is healthy enough to meet demand across much of Texas. Most chain pharmacies and many independent ones have a ready supply of the vaccine, which is administered free and mainly on a walk-in basis. Many private doctors' offices also have it. And you can check current lists of large vaccine hubs that are still operating here.
Public health departments also have vaccines. You can register with the Texas Public Health Vaccine Scheduler either online or by phone. And businesses or civic organizations can set up their vaccine clinics to offer it to employers, visitors, customers or members.
Yes. Medical experts recommend that people who have had COVID-19 should still get the vaccine. If someone's treatment included monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma, they should talk to their doctor before scheduling a vaccine appointment. The CDC recommends that people who received those treatments should wait 90 days before getting the vaccine.
Yes. Health experts and public officials widely agree that the vaccine is safe. The three currently approved vaccine manufacturers — Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — reported their vaccines are 95%, 94% and 72% effective, respectively, at protecting people from serious illness. While no vaccine is without side effects, clinical trials for Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson show serious reactions are rare.
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Abbott, who is fully vaccinated, is not experiencing any symptoms and is isolating at the Governor's Mansion, spokesperson Mark Miner said in a statement. He is getting Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment. Public health officials officials have noted that while breakthrough cases like Abbott's are occurring, vaccines are still proven to be effective at reducing the severity of the virus.
"The Governor has been testing daily, and today was the first positive test result," Miner said. "Governor Abbott is in constant communication with his staff, agency heads, and government officials to ensure that state government continues to operate smoothly and efficiently."
Miner added that "everyone that the Governor has been in close contact with today" has been informed of his positive test. The first lady, Cecilia Abbott, tested negative.
Abbott's positive test comes as the coronavirus pandemic is ripping through Texas again, with daily new cases and hospitalizations reaching levels not seen since the last wave in the winter. The governor has received national attention for his refusal to allow local governments and school districts to mandate masks or vaccines.
Abbott has kept up public appearances in recent days. He spoke Monday night at what he called a "standing room only event" in Collin County, later tweeting photos of him addressing a maskless crowd. His campaign tweeted video of him mingling with the crowd, taking photos.
The Collin County event was organized by the Heritage Ranch Republican Club. Neither the club nor Abbott's office immediately responded to requests for comment on the event.
Less than three hours before his diagnosis was announced Tuesday afternoon, he tweeted pictures of a meeting with guitarist Jimmie Vaughan. The musician's team said in a statement Tuesday evening that "Jimmie and family have tested negative and are doing fine."
Abbott received the a dose of the vaccine on camera late last year in Austin, hoping to set an example. Texans have lagged nationally in getting the vaccine. As of Sunday, 45.2% of Texans were fully vaccinated.
Pandemic indicators in Texas have been sharply rising. The state reported 5,343 new cases Monday and 11,791 hospitalizations Sunday. The seven-day average of the positivity rate — the ratio of cases to tests — was 17.8% on Sunday. That was a slight dip but still well above the 10% threshold that Abbott has identified as dangerous.
Republicans like House Speaker Dade Phelan said they were praying for Abbott's recovery Tuesday afternoon. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a statement he has "been in touch with Gov. Abbott and I stand ready to assist him in any way possible."
Meanwhile, some Democrats wished Abbott well and also used his diagnosis to reinforce their criticism of his pandemic leadership. Among the Democrats responding was Julián Castro, the former presidential candidate, U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor.
"Governor Abbott has put his own Republican primary politics before the public health since day one," Castro tweeted, sharing the video of Abbott at the Collin County gathering. "I hope he recovers quickly. I also hope he will act more responsibly on behalf of Texas children and families."
State Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, said on Twitter that he was praying Abbott's diagnosis "will cause him to rescind the order stopping schools from requiring masks." The state has spent recent days battling school districts in court over their decisions to require masks in defiance of the Abbott order prohibiting them from doing so.
In addition to his travel outside Austin, Abbott has been a presence at the Capitol, where a second special session is underway to pass the governor's agenda, including his priority elections bill. However, legislating mostly remains at a standstill due to the continued Democratic quorum break in the House over the elections legislation.
Abbott was scheduled to be in Houston on Wednesday to speak to the Houston Region Business Coalition. The group said Tuesday evening that the event is postponed.
The antibody treatment that Abbott is receiving — a cocktail made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals — is one that Abbott has increasingly promoted. Hoping to prevent hospitalizations and reserve hospital capacity for the most serious cases, Texas recently opened nine antibody infusion centers throughout the state that use the Regeneron antibodies.
It was not exactly clear why Abbott was receiving the Regeneron treatment if he was not experiencing symptoms. The Regeneron antibodies are recommended to treat "mild to moderate COVID-19" in people 12 years and older who have tested positive and "are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19."
Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze said it is "recommended that you begin Regeneron within 10 days of testing positive and before you start experiencing symptoms." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration provides somewhat different guidance, saying the treatment should be "administered as soon as possible after a positive viral test for COVID-19 and within 10 days of symptom onset."
James Barragán contributed reporting.
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Q: Disable ORMLite logs when using log4j 2.13 I am using log4j:2.13 and ORMLite:5.1
I cannot figure out how to disable (or change level) of ORMLite logs without affecting the level of logs on the rest of my application.
ORMLite's documenation states that I should do the following:
log4j.logger.com.j256.ormlite=DEBUG (source)
Well this doesn't seem to work. I am new to using log4j. Does anyone know the solution?
Here is my log4j2.properties file:
status = error
name = PropertiesConfig

filters = threshold

filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
filter.threshold.level = debug

appenders = console

appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

rootLogger.level = debug
rootLogger.appenderRefs = stdout
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref = STDOUT

# Even if I set this to ERROR, log4j continues logging at debug level because I set it above..
log4j.logger.com.j256.ormlite.level = ERROR

No matter what log level I try, it seems that rootLogger.level takes priority and "overrides" the ormlite setting.

A: Often such problem is caused by the fact that there is more than one Log4J config file in the class path. The first found config is used. Some other file could have been found earlier than yours.
What can you do? Analyze you class path, all JARs in the class path, all directories (if any) in the class path. If in doubt, check in debugger what config file was used.
Update
The line with log4j.logger is not correct. Change it as follows (set other logger name if you wish):
logger.ormlite.name = com.j256.ormlite
logger.ormlite.level = error


One young man is presumed dead of several gunshots received while driving an older model Mercury Grand Marquis.
No names have been released. We will update this posts upon receipt of more information.
Victim has been named: Deven Williams, 22 year old, black male. His mother is Ms. Colie McIntosh. Ms. McIntosh and her children are being comforted by loving family, friends and neighbors following the receipt of this tragic news. In this news, this is another tragic murder of another young person in Phillips County, Arkansas. In her home, she has lost a son!
Williams is listed as a 2007 graduate of Central High School and a 2010 graduate of the Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas. His records show also that he was attending the University of Central Arkansas (UCA).
In a recent status on Facebook he said it seems like you get a lot of comments when you talk about "nonsense" on Facebook.
Friends are lining up to say rest in peace (RIP), rest in love(RIL), I love you (ILY) and the like on Deven Williams' Facebook page.


Kentico CMS is extremely powerful when it comes to controlling the URL of a website. Right out of the box, you get the power of aliasing whatever URL you want to whatever document or resource you have in the content tree.
Heck since Kentico 4.x you can even mask/change the extension or just get rid of it all together, to get more control of your site's URLs.
I can't stress enough how beneficial this feature is when it comes to creating SEO friendly links, maintaining out of date website paths/structure, or just making it easier on your visitors to reach the pages that they need to get to.
Let's get started with an example. For instance let's say your website had a products section that sold different types of potato chips. My favorite potato chips are Baked Lays. So we will go with that for the example.
Google and other search engines see this only as one URL, …/chips.aspx, which doesn't do us very good.
This is nice right? No crazy question mark in the QueryString or namevalue pairs. This is one example of URL Rewriting. Behind the scenes there is no physical file on the file system that IIS is serving out. The Kentico 404 HTTPHandler is intercepting the request and and feeding it through the content in the database of the site you have, and serving out the correct page based on that.
As you can see your end result is even nicer now.
And it would just work. This really just brings a nice and logical experience to your users, and Kentico does a great job of it.
You can see that I added a Document Alias with a URL Path of /Products/Best-Chips-in-the-World. If you copy that into your browser that will lead you to the exact same page as /Products/Baked-Lays. You can have as many of these Document Aliases as you want on each document.
Now I know what you are thinking if you are a long time user of Kentico, and that probably is: Brian why are you writing a blog post on such old features like this ?
And the sixty four thousand dollar answer is… I want to make sure that you have a good understanding of URL Rewriting and Document Aliasing, because in my next post I am going to throw a twist into the the whole situation and solve one shortcoming that Kentico has on this very topic.
Update: See the next post in the series here.


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No National Grid buoys at the beach this year
Casius Shuman
News, B.I. Wind Farm
National Grid said it will not be deploying a "no-anchor zone" at the Fred Benson Town Beach this summer. The move was precipitated by the town's concerns about visual impact at the beach and to its tourism economy. Last year, National Grid deployed a field of a dozen buoys designating the anchor-free zone that flanked an exposed section of its sea2shore cable at the beach.
Last year, the town charged National Grid $189,450 to maintain, patrol, and enforce the no-anchor zone through the New Shoreham Harbors Department. Those monies were deposited into the town's infrastructure fund.
But Town Manager Ed Roberge said money was not the issue.
"That's not what our concern was," said Roberge. "It is our opinion that the no-anchor zone presents a physical and visual impact to Town Beach. We want to preserve the reputation for that stretch of beach. That's far more important than it being a revenue source."
As a result, "National Grid has decided to forego the deployment of the buoys in 2019," said Roberge. "I understand that their decision was in part to recognize the town's concern with the physical and visual impacts to Town Beach, and we appreciate their consideration for the potential economic impacts to tourism to the Block Island community."
Jessica Willi, the Executive Director of the Block Island Tourism Council, said that if the buoys are not required to be deployed "then that's great." She said beachgoers will not have to look at an unsightly buoy field floating off the Town Beach this summer.
Michael Masseur, a spokesman for National Grid, said, "In light of the town's most recent request, National Grid has made the decision to not install the buoys this summer. However, the no anchor zone, which is identified on marine maps, does remain in effect in an effort to prevent any interaction between the sea2shore cable and boat anchors. It's also important to reiterate that the area remains safe for beachgoers and swimmers."
"Last week the town reiterated their preference for not having the buoys installed, and after additional internal discussions, we ultimately agreed to meet the request," said Masseur. "The no anchor zone remains in effect and we expect boaters in the area will continue to respect it."
Masseur noted that, "National Grid had been planning on installing buoys off Crescent Beach around this time to demarcate the no anchor zone. The deployment of these buoys has been an on-going discussion between National Grid and the town."
The reason for the buoy field is to prevent anchors from snagging on National Grid's sea2shore cable, which has become exposed over the years since it was installed in June of 2016 due to shifting sands and dense sediment in the surf zone. The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Council has ordered National Grid to reinstall the exposed section of its cable at the beach as a long-term solution. The company will be installing an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 feet of new cable at the beach.
To that end, Masseur said that National Grid was "still in the planning and engineering phase of a potential long-term solution. We don't yet have a cost on what the long-term solution will be."
"Under the current structure, the cost of owning, operating, and maintaining the sea2shore cable that connects Block Island with the mainland is supported by all Rhode Island customers through the Block Island Transmission Surcharge," added Masseur. "The cost of reburying the cable due to observed sediment shifts would be reflected in the same surcharge that has been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission."
Masseur noted that National Grid is "reburying the cable to ensure that we can continue to provide safe and reliable service to Block Island for the years to come. It is important to note that National Grid is a regulated utility that must receive federal and state approval for rates."
Jeffery Wright, President of the Block Island Utility District, said FERC is the federal oversight committee that regulates tariffs imposed by utilities, such as National Grid. Wright said the BIUD can petition FERC to look into the rate structure filed by National Grid, but the legal fees to do so could be quite costly.
As for how the town allocates spending the $189,450, or any of the $508,920 in funds collected in its infrastructure fund, Finance Director Amy Land said at the town council's June 19 meeting that the expenditures must be voted on at a Financial Town Meeting. Use of those funds need to be approved by the Town Council and voters at the FTM, said Land.
First Warden Ken Lacoste asked Land how monies from the infrastructure fund have been spent in the past. Land said funds were used, for example, to pay Tilson Technology for broadband consultant work in 2016/2017, and for the renovation of the doctor's house.
Roberge said the intent of the fund is to provide financial support to the town's specific infrastructure needs.
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In June 2012 the Steering Group approved the involvement of the Solent Forum in a pilot project to test the 'Catchment based Approach' in the New Forest.
The aim of this pilot, one of 25 in England and Wales, was to test different collaborative approaches with stakeholders to improve the rivers, streams, lakes, coastal waters and groundwater of selected catchments, working towards the development of a catchment plan. The impetus of the work was largely to achieve the objectives of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) for all waterbodies to meet 'Good status' as well as conferring multiple benefits, for example to local fisheries and climate change adaptation. The project ran from June to December 2012 and has concluded with the New Forest Catchment Water Environment Improvement Plan.
The New Forest National Park Authority together with Pond Conservation led the catchment pilot project which covered the streams flowing east into Southampton Water and south into the Solent but excluding those flowing west into the River Avon. Over 50% of these streams do not achieve 'Good Status' with most of the coastal and estuary waterbodies also failing. A Catchment Development Group (CDG) of local stakeholder organisations and groups was established to collaboratively drive the work forward.
The CDG decided that in order to develop ownership and action on the ground, an approach focusing on individual sub-catchments should be adopted. Initially the pilot focused on three specific sites including Sowley Stream/Pond. The Solent Forum undertook to link any coastal issues to the catchment, looking specifically at the coastal area downstream of Sowley Pond; this involved desk research and a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss an action plan.
Please contact the Solent Forum Office for further information.


In Montana, unit 270 is considered one of the top trophy mule deer units in the state.
Tag holders can expect to see 20+ quality bucks per day. Each year we see and possibly harvest bucks that score 190+ B&C including some that score over 200 B&C inches. The average deer we take in this unit scores around 180 inches gross. Over the past seven years we have taken many trophy deer with both a gun and bow. We have personally guided hunters to some of the largest bucks killed in the unit each year. If you are looking to harvest the buck of a lifetime, this is your unit and we are your outfitter.
Only a limited number of tags are given out annually for this area. Since the draw odds are slim for this area we can't book a hunt for this unit specifically. This hunt is generally booked after the hunter has secured a permit.
Our 270 Mule Deer Harvest Stats some of the deer taken with us in the past including: score, number of points, and spread. This will give you an idea of the year to year trends and sizes harvested.
If you are not interested in playing the application game and want to hunt mule deer now, our private land Eastern Montana deer hunt is a great option. You are able to hunt it on a general tag. Although the quality is not the same as unit 270 we run 100% success on mature mule deer.
For information about the tags please check out the application section.
If you have any questions about the mule deer hunting or how to apply feel free to contact us.