I have been with AHS for four years. The first year was a "freebie" when I bought my home, but I decided to keep up the warranty after 2 HVAC calls during that initial year. The parts alone made the service fees worth it. I have since had multiple repairs on a washer and a plumbing issue.
I have read reviews stating they don't use reputable contractors, but I have not had that problem in my area (north GA/SE TN). The contractors have all been very prompt, professional, explain the repairs to me and have not had to be recalled for the same repair. However, if you are looking for replacement appliances, that is not what this service is geared towards.
Their place is to repair if at all possible, replacement is only after a prescribed set of breakdowns for the same problem. I was very, very uneasy about taking out a home warranty after reading horror stories online, but AHS has been easy to contact, responds quickly and has been a definite money saver for me.
After researching several home warranty companies, I chose American Home Shield. We have been with for over four years and I have decided the monthly rate is the best money I spend. They have always exceeded my expectations in service and use of qualified, experienced service venders. In fact, I have had several, separate plumbing problems and they sent the same national vender and the same service person. I have told several people of the quality I have experienced and they in turn have signed with American Home Shield.
We have had this whole home warranty for almost one year. We have used it for ceiling fans, faucets, and a furnace. They always fix or replace what needs it. It has saved us THOUSANDS of dollars.
I called American Home Shield to request a plumber, and everything went well and they sent out Home Source Corp. from Melvindale, Michigan, and the plumbers were very professional, knowledgeable and friendly. They did an excellent job with the repairs and explained everything in detail. Matt Martin was one of the plumbers that came to my house, and he was totally awesome! I love it when I have service technicians come to my house that are friendly and approachable, and the plumber that was with him was also very approachable and friendly.
Three calls for repairs in 3 months, quick and efficient online request and immediate reply.
I have used American Home Shield in the past, and I have had to be very direct and write a BBB complaint that they have been responsive and fair.
You MUST read your contract and ensure the appliance is NOT working (making noise, rust, looking bad), because if it is working and you will pay your fee for nothing.
I have had a $3000 refrigerator replaced because after the 3rd try they could not get it to stop freezing up the drinking water.
I had a power vent that failed, and the cost of the vent was $300 for the part my cost $125 deductible, and it was fixed in one working day by a professional company.
I have another (different house) refrigerator freezing my drinking water, and they came out and are waiting for a new door and will replace it. $125 bucks for $400 service call and parts.
Now I have my Jenn Air Oven on the frits. I just got online, put in my service request, got a test, and they I will get a call in the morning and schedule a service call. Last time the company came out the same day they called.
Read your service contract like any you have, terms and conditions you accepted, and you should be aware exactly what is covered and how it should be reported and presented to the service provider to get it covered.
My experience with AHS has been a good one. This is the second time that I have had to call them. The contractor they sent out to fix my garage door was Magic City Door. Their technician, Willey, was very polite, professional and knowledgeable. He had my garage door opener repaired and working in no time. Thanks AHS and Magic City Doors!
Not being handy, I researched home warranty companies through Consumer Reports and found American Home Shield. Most of the negative reviews I read about them, seemed to come from the people who either didn't want to follow the rules or wanted to rush the process.
I moved into my first house and signed up with them. All calls to AHS ended in satisfaction. Our next home, as an incentive, the seller offered a one-year home warranty with a different co. It was awful, these people wiggled out of all repairs! We resigned with AHS and since have used electrician service when 1/2 the light switches and outlets in the house stopped working. Plumber when a pipe burst inside wall. Call for garbage disposal and another for kitchen faucet and sprayer. Both were replaced with BRAND NEW, TOP QUALITY BRANDS.
These are my true experiences. Several friends have signed up because of our positive experiences with AHS.
"Didn't want to follow the rules or wanted to rush the process?" Really? Seven days to get a service person to arrive, and then three incompetent contractors sent who had no clue how to fix my AC unit is rushing the process? They use an offshore call center to save money staffed by people who don't know that Chicago is in Illinois. This company is a scam!
I'm sure that your imaginary friends will be very grateful to you for convincing them to sign up with this dreadful company. Almost all of the reviews point to the same issues over and over again (shoddy contractors, terrible customer service, etc.). But you know the truth, all of these reviewers are wrong, they didn't "follow the rules" or "wanted to rush the process." You're a moron who cannot write a sentence using proper English!
AHS gets some sketchy reviews. They do have some less than clear policies, specifically with Freon, which I think is unethical but 100% disclosed in the contract. They do what they say. The problem most of these reviewers have is the customer didn't either read the contract, or didn't understand it. That is not AHS' fault.
AHS is a business; they are in business to make money. That is how this works. As a customer, we are taking a gamble that our premium is less than a broken item that IS COVERED. That is the key. Everything isn't covered. AHS is obligated to fix it, not replace it. They are going to do their best to do just that. However, if they can't it is getting replaced.
I have had the service for about 6 years and we have had our oven totally replaced with the same higher end model we had - GE Profile, not some off brand - that alone exceeded nearly two years of premiums. We have had our hot water heater repaired twice and then replaced entirely. We have had a water pressure regulator fixed. We have had a shower valve fixed, we have had our microwave fixed, we have had a garage door opener replaced. We have had our dishwasher repaired. And we were given about $900 in lieu of a repair on our AC because we opted to upgrade it, not fix it.
You must read the contract. AHS is not responsible for some things, such as required building code changes or modifications, but that is disclosed. AHS isn't responsible for outside water line issues - but that too is disclosed. If you have a question just bypass the automated phone system and ask a person. They can be fairly rude, but what can you except for a $10 an hour employee? Seriously.
All in all, I would and have recommended them to people. If you read and understand the contract, you will better understand the service and can better decide if it is a gamble you want to take.
Yeah John, I agree. Everyone is WRONG! You're the only one who knows the truth. None of AHS' customers (except for you of course) read their contract or understood it. I love AHS. My toilet was clogged, there was too much poop in the pipe. My house exploded due to the over-abundance of crap. And they like totally replaced my house with a totally like premium band of the house (because they are in the business to make money). No company that wants to make money, and no company that wants to make money ever provide good customer service. Then they like totally couldn't make money or something. Wait, I think maybe it's you and me who are clueless. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Overall if you own a home that's old, get this insurance.
The good: Got my washing machine fixed, dish washer fixed, heater, air conditioner, some plumbing.
The bad: When you call you don't get to pick which company comes out. It might take the company three weeks to come out. You can call Home Shield back but they will make you stay on the phone and have you confront the company not them If the company is bad you still have to pay them even if they didn't show and you have to pay the next company that comes out.
They have some really bad companies and even if you had a bad experience and asked Home Shield not to call them they still pick them. If you state you don't want them you still have to pay and do another work, order and that same company will be picked. The companies excuse is its who ever is available and first on he list.
The ugly: Water leaks flooding your floor is none emergency. No heat in 0 to 30 degree weather with a new baby is a none emergency.
Took one company a month and a half to restore our heat in the middle of winter and Home Shield was part of that problem.
Broken appliance since September 14.
I called for service around September 11. The repair guy came out and rigged the washing machine up to run. After he left it didn't work. Called them back (American Home Shield and Sure Tech) and they told me he can come back Wednesday, and I told them I was going to Las Vegas then Chicago followed up by San Diego and would not be back till October 2nd. When I got back I called the company back, the guy came out to my house, from Sure Tech I believe, or not. He was a loaded as a wolf, so after he ran a diagnostic test, Home Shield tells me it takes 5 weeks for the parts and they offered me some buying options for $500 and $44. So here it is October and my washer is still not fixed. Sure Tech called me the Monday before Christmas and told me that they would be there between 11 and 3 Wednesday before Christmas Eve. I explained to them that I had a house full of guests, about 11 people. They never showed up and they never called. I've been calling American Home Shield to no avail. I just spoke to the supervisor tonight, January 5th, and they just turn it over to somebody to find out why it doesn't work. This month it will be four months since I first called. I don't know what's up with you guys, you started out pretty well but now I feel like somebody's fumbling the ball.
The fact that the people you FINALLY get to talk to after more than 30 minutes on hold are usually polite, courteous and try to be helpful, the FACTS are that fewer and less reliable resources as services are available to us subscribers!
But most aggravating, I wish their help would contact YOU quickly with follow-up concerns! AND not have to endure multiple 1/2 an hour or more times on hold!


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The Hockey Ireland Board, after consultation with its branches, has decided the following in the interest of the health and safety of the hockey community and all people on the island of Ireland:
Hockey Ireland together with its four provincial branches are suspending all hockey activity with immediate effect until the 29th March 2020 and is directing all clubs and schools to do the same. All hockey activity including training and education across clubs and schools must now cease. We understand that this decision is disappointing to all hockey players, coaches, officials, volunteers, and supporters, but in light of the circumstances, Hockey Ireland believes this is in our members' best interests.
As such the Irish Senior Cup Finals which were due to take place in UCD on the 29th March 2020 are now postponed. As the situation is changing very quickly, we will continue to closely follow developments and issue further information regarding the Hockey Ireland Cup Finals approaching the 29th March Date.
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Writing a matrix as a product of elementary matrices.
So if I have a matrix and I put it into RREF and keep track of the row operations, I can then write it as a product of elementary matrices. An elementary matrix is achieved when you take an identity matrix and perform one row operation on it. So if we have a matrix like $\begin{bmatrix}1&0\\0&1\end{bmatrix}$, one elementary matrix could look like $\begin{bmatrix}1&0\\-1&1\end{bmatrix}$ for the row operation $r_2 - r_1$ or $\begin{bmatrix}1&0\\0&1/2\end{bmatrix}$ for the row operation $\dfrac{r_2}{2}$. So if you put a matrix into reduced row echelon form then the row operations that you did can form a bunch of elementary matrices which you can put together as a product of the original matrix. So if a have a $2\times{2}$ matrix, what is the most elementary matrices that can be used. What would that look like?
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$\begingroup$ Many people use "elementary matrix" to mean "matrix with 1's on the diagonal and at most one nonzero off-diagonal element". Such matrices have determinant 1, so every matrix that can be written as a product of elementary matrices in this sense must have determinant 1. Should you add anything to your question? $\endgroup$ – DCarter Oct 26 '16 at 16:09
$\begingroup$ An elementary matrix is a matrix obtained from I (the infinity matrix) using one and only one row operation. $\endgroup$ – david mah Oct 26 '16 at 16:11
$\begingroup$ So for a 2x2 matrix. Start with a 2x2 matrix with 1's in a diagonal and then add a value in one of the zero spots or change one of the 1 spots. $\endgroup$ – david mah Oct 26 '16 at 16:12
$\begingroup$ So you allow elementary matrices to be diagonal but different from the identity matrix. You may want to edit your question to clarify this. It would also be helpful to say something about the matrix coefficients; do they belong to a field? $\endgroup$ – DCarter Oct 26 '16 at 16:23
$\begingroup$ I updated my question with specific examples about elementary matrices. $\endgroup$ – david mah Oct 26 '16 at 16:37
Let's assume that nonzero entries in our matrices are invertible.
If $a \ne 0$, then a $2\times 2$ matrix with $a$ in the upper corner can be written as a product of 4 matrices that are elementary in the sense described:
$$ \left( \begin{array}{cc} 1 & 0 \\ \frac{c}{a} & 1 \end{array}\right) \left( \begin{array}{cc} a & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right) \left( \begin{array}{cc} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & d-\frac{bc}{a} \end{array}\right) \left( \begin{array}{cc} 1 & \frac{b}{a} \\ 0 & 1 \end{array}\right) = \left( \begin{array}{cc} a & b \\ c & d \end{array}\right) $$
Notice that when $a=1$, three elementary matrices suffice.
If $a=0$ but $c\ne 0$, then $$ \left( \begin{array}{cc} 1 & \frac{1}{c} \\ 0 & 1\end{array}\right) \left( \begin{array}{cc} 0 & b \\ c & d\end{array}\right)= \left( \begin{array}{cc} 1 & * \\ c & d\end{array}\right) $$ Since $\left( \begin{array}{cc} 1 & * \\ c & d\end{array}\right)$ can be written as a product of 3 elementary matrices, $\left( \begin{array}{cc} 0 & b \\ c & d\end{array}\right)$ can again be written as the product of 4. A similar argument holds when $a=0$ but $b \ne 0$.
I'll leave the case $a=b=c=0$ to the reader.
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The Space Foundation's 33rd Space Symposium will culminate on April 6 with ceremonies celebrating the induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame® of two innovations developed for space that now improve life on Earth, as well as celebrating 30 years of the Space Technology Hall of Fame program.
Thirty years ago, the Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame was established to increase public awareness of the benefits that result from space exploration programs and to encourage further innovation. To date, 75 technologies have been inducted that were transformed into commercial products that improve the quality of life for all humanity.
In the mid-1990s, scientists at a NASA Research Partnership Center in Wisconsin were working on improving methods of growing plants in space.
The work was accomplished by the NASA-funded Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics -- or WCSAR -- one of many universities or research centers partnering with industry to work on NASA directed research programs.
The problem was the build-up of ethylene gas around plants grown in the closed environment of spacecraft, which caused premature plant decay and spoilage.
To combat this, the group developed an 'ethylene scrubber' based on a concept by Dr. Marc Anderson using the existing principle of photocatalytic oxidation where UV lighting and titanium dioxide are used to break down organic compounds like ethylene.
The WCSAR team worked to create a system that could function in the space environment -- no simple task. The first device was successfully flown and operated on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1995, proving the system could work in helping to grow plants in the space environment. The initial results were successful and further refinements were made to the system.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Space Product Development Program funded and provided assistance to WCSAR as the worked to develop the plant growth chambers for space flight. The ethylene scrubbers that were conceived and developed for this project are the basis for the Aerus' air purifiers in use today.
The ActivePure family of products was designed around the concept that was proven by the NASA-funded team. While there are similar products, the Aerus team took the concept of the space-based ethylene scrubber and further developed the technology to build a family of products that benefit people in their everyday life.
Florikan® CEO Ed Rosenthal noticed one of his client's struggle to get Florikan fertilizer to mix into a water solution for easier application. This inspired Rosenthal to develop a new method, allowing easier and more accurate fertilizer application.
In 2003, Florikan introduced its first Staged Nutrient Release (SNR) fertilizer. Three polymers were developed to coat three components of the fertilizer. This concept, patented in 2004, proved to be very successful for the growers.
Growers could more accurately apply and use less fertilizer because the staged release kept nutrients in the soil longer, resulting in increased crop yields and significantly less environmental damage from excess fertilizer leaching into groundwater, a critical problem in the agricultural industry.
The National Society of Professional Engineers selected the technology for its 2004 'Most Innovative New Product' award, and afforded Florikan 40 hours of consulting research and technical advice.
Florikan also engaged the NASA-funded Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program -- or SATOP -- designed to help small businesses overcome technological challenges using expertise derived from the U.S. space program. The original SATOP concept began in Florida, with initial funding and support provided by NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The alliance partners that supported the SATOP program included Kennedy staff and local aerospace and technology companies. Florikan continues to work with Kennedy today in developing fertilizers to support NASA's research into long-term space flight.
SATOP Engineers analyzed the high production cost issues that limited Florikan's widespread use. They determined Florikan could coat all three fertilizer components with the same material -- a single polyurethane material that NASA has used in past projects. Florikan developed a new staged release fertilizer using this single coating, and in 2006 patented this new technology ensuring its commercial success.
In 2012, the J.R. Simplot Company purchased the rights to Florikan's technology. Simplot's worldwide distribution channel will provide more growers access to the product and its many benefits.
The following individuals are being inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame®.
The following organizations are being inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame®.
The deadline to submit nominations for induction in 2018 will be Aug. 15, 2017. Anyone may submit a nomination of a technology that was developed anywhere in the world for use in space and then modified or adopted for use on Earth. Nomination information, including online and downloadable nomination forms, is available at www.SpaceTechHallofFame.org.
This article is part of Space Watch: March 2017 (Volume: 16, Issue: 3).


Are we ready to emulate Finland's education system which promotes potential and the love of learning ahead of the ability to regurgitate facts?
Last week a story emerged that didn't seem to get a lot of traction. Its source, being a report from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, probably has had a lot to do with that.
The report suggested that the Irish primary school curriculum should be radically altered along Finnish lines. The Finnish education system currently being seen as the système du jour.
Child centred, based on bringing out the learning from within rather having it imposed upon, there is much in the Finnish system worthy of consideration and emulation.
This, however, is only a report. It requires one of the most conservative departments of government, that of Education and Skills, to bring its proposals into being.
I would be sceptical it would do so, or at least not do so while cherry picking those aspects that would result in cost savings, whilst ignoring those proposals that could achieve better social and educational outcomes.
Add to this a lack of willingness to interfere with things as they are, lest the new world order of bluff and blunder over consideration, takes offence, which makes change even less likely.
But we owe it our children to be part of an education system that puts realising their potential ahead of regurgitation; which can instill a love of learning ahead of being made into an economic utility.
By way of example I'd like to impart this personal anecdote. I get to help out with the daughter's daughter. It isn't an imposition, her joy of life is infectious. I sometimes get to collect her from playschool. From there, and until the time I get to return her to the real world, I occasionally get to take her to a local playground.
Initially I had to overcome strong qualms I had on how, sadly, our society views men being on their own with young children, regardless of the family relationship. I got over that.
The daughter's daughter disabused me of such notions. Being the livewire she is she demanded constant attention. The exercise I was getting flitting from side of the playground to the other was exhausting, but aerobically beneficial.
She seemed magnetically drawn to climbing; on the steepest interface to the highest point. I stood nearby to act in case my Icarus ever came to grief, which she never did.
On one piece of apparatus I was more cautious than I should have been. It was about 50cm off the ground. On its top were a number of pods similarly distant from each other, on alternate sides requiring a step or a slight leap to reach.
I feared if missed a nasty graze or a twisted ankle might be the prize. I went to hold her hand to offer guidance. She refused my hand with disdain (I'm quite use to female rejection). Putting her hands on her hips she proceeded to tell me "I want to learn it myself,".
If I ever needed confirmation that we need to go Finnish in how we educate our kids as they educate us, madam provided it for me there in splendid, suspended animation.
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great commentry on toddlers attitudes to fuddy duddys. i climbed everything i could when i was a toddler all the way up to teens and guess what, i survived. this new age cotton wool wrapping generation take it too far. a generation of which i'm part.
Lets get the first thing out of the way, It will never happen. And thats because even if you could guarantee every child would be at Hawinks level intelligence, if it changed the old work practice or meant any change in general the unions will kill it.
Not true on books. The school selects the books but the books are published by private companies who set the price.
A nice piece you have there Dan. A perfect example of how children already have the thirst to learn, even from the youngest age.
It's such a pity that, as usual, the political will is not there, and instead a love for forming committees.
My experience of the Irish education system (in the late twentieth century) taught me that teachers are very keen on child-centered education. They seemed to enjoy letting each child discover and display his or her natural talents, curiosities and capacity for independent learning. Unfortunately for everyone, the parents had already decided what little Johnny or Jenny was was going to do for a living. "Just make sure our darling labour-force statistic gets enough leaving cert points into the right socio-economic pigeon-hole. That's all we care about".
Nice piece Dan…. but I fear, our country is too riddled with nationalism in the education system to be so progressive with schools.


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A step too far
It's nice to see Jose Mourinho has made so many friends since he has been at Chelsea! But, much as I like Jose and dislike Cristiano Ronaldo, this time he has gone too far. Criticise Ronaldo's diving by all means, have a go at him for wasting possession far too often by taking on one man too many, but insulting his family and upbringing is just too personal. Just ask Zinedine Zidane!
I would have thought the fact that Ronaldo has made something of himself despite a tough upbringing is to be applauded. It is the ones that do not have Mourinho's privileged upbringing that give kids at home hope. Most children these days face a lifetime of debt to pay for their education or they can look forward to spending their life doing dead-end jobs for minimum wage. Cristiano Ronaldo can give them hope of more from their future.
For that to be ridiculed by someone who was lucky enough to be born into a privileged lifestyle leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Cristiano Ronaldo may play act, he may fall over far too easily in the hope of winning free kicks and penalties, but at least he worked hard for what he has. I just hope Ronaldo has the sense to just ignore Mourinho's comments, letting his manager deal with Jose while he does his talking on the pitch.
The man who seems best equipped to deal with Jose Mourinho is Rafael Benitez. For some reason Rafa definitely seems to get under his skin, I have no clue why as Liverpool have yet to really challenge Chelsea in the league. Maybe it's because Benitez, unlike Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger, tries to keep out of the mind games. Jose believes (and quite possibly rightly believes) himself to be the master of the mind games, so perhaps he feels threatened by Rafa's refusal to get involved.
I would not put it past Mourinho to actually be using the public dislike in lieu of mind games, he might feel the players will try harder for him. The closeness he has with his players can be used to an extra 5% out of the players wanting to win even more to beat someone Jose dislikes. I could be giving Mourinho too much credit, he may just be petty and still sore after seeing his Chelsea team eliminated in the 2005 Champions League semi finals, by a Liverpool team that went on to lift the trophy.
Jose does like to harp on about the fact the ball never crossed the line and so the goal should never have been given. But he conveniently forgets that the alternative would have seen his keeper sent off and Chelsea facing a Liverpool penalty. But then you can not build up a 'whole world is against us' mentality by being unbiased. You have to emphasise every decision given against you, while ignoring the ones that go your way. It also helps to play up every decision, or non-decision, given to the advantage of your main rivals.


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Psychiatry, Politics and PTSD: Breaking Down
Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social phenomenon.
The book draws upon interviews carried out in field settings to examine the true individual and social costs of being diagnosed with PTSD.
The author examines how social contexts and social movements shape diagnostic thinking about mental trauma and how the PTSD diagnosis emerged as a symptom of a crisis in psychiatry over demands to recognize the social and political origins of mental suffering.
Chapters explore case examples from a range of settings, such as military and veterans' affairs clinics, war zones and refugee camps, psychosomatic medicine, the criminal justice system, and more.
Providing a new way of thinking about PTSD and an alternative to both critics and defenders of the diagnosis, this text will be useful for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, public health policy as well as, sociology, social work, gender studies, and the law.
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"With her characteristically lucid prose and critical intellectual gifts, Haaken interprets PTSD through the lenses of politics, history, and feminist psychoanalysis. She sheds light on how PTSD has emerged and grown powerful as a diagnosis and how it serves not only to help patients but also to protect clinicians and limit their understandings of how and why patients suffer. Importantly, she accomplishes this with compassion, fairness, and clinical acumen; she sees many sides of the same problem and never loses sight of the people who suffer and those who are tasked with attenuating that suffering… Breaking Down is a book to be savored both by psy practitioners and general intellectual audiences throughout the world."
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"A former student asked me to zoom in on a class on culture and psychology. In his syllabus there was Jan Haaken's (1998) Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back. Having taught a seminar where years before he had studied that book, it was a much-deserved tribute to Haaken's nuanced narratives of social psychological phenomenon and their intertwining. Certainly, her work is not in the vein of écriture feminine nor in the forced (if sometimes humorous) efforts of Slavoj Žižek to modify university discourse. Haaken does this subversion [JM1] with ease and grace, like a beautifully written case study with satirical and political bite. Haaken crafts modes of expression that should especially merit the attention of feminist psychologists[JM2] who must contest the American Psychological Association's stylistic constraints- which occasionally beset Haaken's latest book. Still, the overall result of her text in both style and content and should generate more radical reflections on how we write what we write about."
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Anthrax Detection? Pathogen Identification? It's in the Bag.
When two Cornell University researchers started work on a project to create a pathogen-detection system eight years ago, their first purchase was not some kind of intricate scientific equipment. Instead, it was a reinforced plastic box the size of a small suitcase.
"It really forced the engineers to think inside the box," he said with a laugh.
Despite its compact size, the device is powerful. It can detect the presence of anthrax in just one hour from a sample containing as few as 40 microscopic spores. Depending on the testing kit used, the device can also detect other pathogens, including salmonella, which makes it ripe for applications in food safety.
Nathaniel Cady, now a professor at University of Albany, was the other researcher on the project.
It identifies the bacteria through a polymerase chain reaction, an established method of simplifying DNA for identification. A user inserts the sample into the machine, which recovers cells from the sample, purifies the DNA and then is able to indicate the nature of the organism from which the cells originated.
"The device looks for particular 'signature' DNA sequences," Cady said. "In our published work we focused on detecting Bacillus anthracis (anthrax). To detect other organisms, we simply change the sequence of DNA that we are looking for."
Because the system is DNA-based, it can also provide genetic information about human samples, including something as simple as a strand of hair. While it can't conclusively describe the person's full genetic map based on the sample, it can provide information about a person's basic traits.
Indeed, Cady said the New York State Police Forensic Lab has evaluated the device for possible use in its forensic examinations.
It could also be used in the identification process after catastrophic events, such as the Sept. 11 attacks, where victims' bodies are completely unidentifiable. The device would be able to group pieces of remains of one person, so rescuers would know they have "10 pieces of one person, rather than one piece of 10 people," Batt said.
Going forward, Batt said the team hopes to focus on making the device smaller. Its electronics and optics have already been downsized, and the pumping element is their next target.


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School is starting all over our country. In some school districts, staff can bring their guns to school. This has not worked out as expected in so many places but facts don't seem to matter when it comes to guns and school safety.
As I always say, there are no "accidents" with guns. Guns are deadly weapons designed to kill animals or humans.
School safety has taken on a whole new definition in the days of school shootings. Since the Columbine shooting in 1999 and now the 20th anniversary, about 700.000 Americans have died from gunshot injuries- a good proportion of them our precious students. Congress has still not acted since Columbine, thus the large toll of human life.
We all remember the Columbine shooting as the marker for our "new normal" where kids are shot up regularly in our schools. It is also a new normal for the victims and the trauma never goes away.
While I was working as a special educator in my local school district, lockdown drills were a part of our routine. Schools are not necessarily made for the type of safety needed from a school shooter. No building is actually. Schools and kids are not bulletproof.
Remember the slaughter of 20 first graders and 6 educators at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012? That surely is another important marker is school shootings because no one could believe that Congress would DO NOTHING after that heinous shooting. And remember when Wayne LaPierre said "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"? That was , in a way, a new low in NRA opposition to common sense gun laws. The NRA and Republicans and some Democrats stopped support for doing the right thing even though the nation supported action.
And then came the Parkland school shooting on Feb. 14, 2018. This massacre of 17 high school students changed things forever. This time the students were old enough to fight back and fight back they did. They started a national movement and a huge country wide March For Our Lives. And now, because the adults are doing nothing, they have their own well thought out plan for stopping school shootings and every day shootings.
But companies are making a profit trying to make everything bullet proof. I mean, why not? If we refuse to stop people who shouldn't have guns from getting them with the result that we are all less safe in public places, why not try to bullet proof people? Thus, there are bullet proof backpacks that make parents feel better about sending their kids to school and making sure they come home again.
I hope everyone understands that backpacks are not with the kids all day. Some are in closets in elementary classrooms and some are in lockers where they will be inaccessible. During some classes, backpacks may not be allowed or usable. Lunch time? Likely not wearing a backpack. Phy Ed class? Not wearing a backpack.
In addition, the company that makes them actually tested whether the backpacks would stop a bullet. Note that the backpack was on the front of the dummy, not the back where kids wear them. And also note that the backpack did not stop bullets from an AR-15, the weapon of choice for mass shooters.
So much for those. They have been pulled from the shelves in some places.
Companies are also profiting on training programs such as ALICE. I have written about this one before. ALICE is mostly to train kids and staff to take measures that could make them less safe from a shooter. It makes some sense on the face of it but in reality often the "countering" techniques like throwing something at the shooter, or interrupting the shooter can work in reverse.
We do hear about people interrupting shooters by hitting them with a chair from behind or tackling them as in the Tucson mall shooting. That does sometimes work.
But we are talking here about kids taking the responsibility for saving themselves instead of the adults who can do something about the gun violence epidemic preventing the easy access to guns in the first place.
Some Colorado school districts have provided buckets of kitty litter and tourniquets so kids can survive from the bleeding from a gunshot wound and go to the bathroom if they are trapped in a classroom for a long time.
The buckets are just one strategy teachers are being taught to respond to lockdowns and school shootings. Lopez says she was also given a Sharpie marker to indicate what time a tourniquet was applied to a bleeding student, and candy to give diabetic students to maintain their blood sugar during a long lockdown.
So it's come to this.
Where is common sense?
As kids head back to school, it will be inevitable that school shootings will begin again. There are some things that can be done and I'm not sure the above measures are the right ones. Lockdown drills happen regularly and they are scaring our kids:
Over the past two decades, the drills have ramped up in intensity — with some schools going so far as to use fake blood and fire blanks at students. A drill last month at an Indiana school prompted outrage when teachers were shot execution-style with pellet guns, leaving them injured.
At the same time, students' anxieties have swelled. Some are not told that the lockdowns are just drills, prompting them to send what they believe are final goodbyes over text to their parents or faint or throw up. Others are afraid to go to school in the days following the drills.
As a result, a growing number of schools are experimenting with ways to lessen the toll of the drills while still doing everything possible to keep students safe. For some school districts, that means using age-appropriate language; for others, it involves having guidance counselors or school psychologists available during and after the drills.
In a recently released video, by Brady, "Morning Routine", the morning routine includes putting a bullet proof vest on a little girl as she goes out the door for her school day. The father watches with a worried look on his face:
We all have PTSD from shootings and the ripple effect has grown so wide that we are all affected by shootings in one way or the other. We are raising a generation of lockdown kids and increasing anxiety about going to school.
We have done little if anything to stop school shootings. There are some things that can be done that don't require lockdowns or laws.
Parents must store their guns safely at home since most school shooters get their guns from home. Talk about End Family Fire as a way to discuss the risks of guns in the home.
If you see something, say something. In the weeks since the El Paso and Dayton shootings dozens of people have been arrested for threats made to shoot up people in public places. One such threat came from an Albert Lea, Minnesota 15 year old girl who made threats on social media to shoot up a school.
I don't believe that arming staff is a good way to deal with active shooters either. It's difficult, if not impossible, to be in the right place during a shooting and also to be able to actually hit a moving human being also shooting at you. There have been many instances of staff members leaving loaded guns in bathrooms or accidentally discharging their guns. In last May's Colorado STEM school shooting an armed guard accidentally shot one of the students. He should not have had his gun:
In a statement, STEM School Highlands Ranch said it didn't know the guard was armed until the shooting occurred May 7 on the campus that includes students from kindergarten through high school.
"While it is more common to have armed security personnel at high schools, it is uncommon at elementary schools," the statement issued Monday said. "Given the diverse population at our school, we made the decision to request an unarmed guard in an effort to balance these different interests."
There are many reasons that arming staff is not a good idea.
Let's just say it like it is. Our politicians need to DO SOMETHING to protect us from gun violence. It can be done in conjunction with respecting gun rights. The bottom line is that gun rights in the clothing of the second amendment, has stopped us from protecting the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Since January of 2019 there have been 22 school shootings according to his article. That does not include the beginning of the last school year from September through December. What we want is to reduce that number through new laws, awareness, safety practices, safe storage, and any other method we can use.
This is about saving lives and protecting our children. For the sake of my grandchildren and yours and your children, it's time to get involved and engage. Let's get to work.
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MediaMath announced an aggressive rollout of the IAB's "ads.txt" initiative across its entire supply footprint throughout MediaMath's Curated Market, the company's guaranteed brand-safe, fraud-free premium media offering, within which the company will only buy over authorized paths from publishers who have an ads.txt file in place.
By ensuring that customers are dealing with legitimate publishers and by taking a hard line on traffic that is acquired via illegitimate means, the company believes it will deny perpetrators of these frauds the monetary benefit they seek. In fact, his approach has already produced dramatically effective results, furthering the company's mission to access only legitimate human traffic on verified, trusted properties. Since its launch in April 2017, the Curated Market has already demonstrated significant lift across a broad range of marketer business outcomes when compared to the open auction environment.
"Bringing ads.txt into our arsenal of fraud prevention resources strengthens our ability to protect our clients," said Lewis Rothkopf, General Manager of Supply at MediaMath. "Working in consultation with outside experts, we've found that no single tool or third-party vendor alone is likely to be able to prevent all instances of fraud, particularly as the tactics and techniques used by 'bad actors' evolve. Instead of taking a one-size-fits-all approach, we leverage a variety of technological and human methods that considers first and third-party inputs, to ensure that our ecosystem is brand-safe and fraud-free."
The ads.txt rollout will be phased in over the coming months to ultimately encompass all MediaMath's supply products, providing publishers sufficient time to create and implement the ads.txt files on their web sites.
"We strongly support the ads.txt initiative and universal adoption across premium publishers will be required for it to fully reach its potential," said Jeremy Hlavacek, Head of Global Automated Monetization at IBM Watson Advertising. "We applaud MediaMath for taking this strong stance in ensuring that everyone on the supply side contributes to this important initiative."
MediaMath has been monitoring supply-side uptake of ads.txt, an open standard sponsored by the IAB, since it was announced in May of this year. While the pace of publisher adoption of the initiative has been relatively slow, the company expects that with a buy-side impetus, those rates will begin to rise.
By insisting on ads.txt, MediaMath clearly proves that it believes in good customer-centric advertising, delivering relevant and meaningful marketing experiences across channels, formats and devices. Rather than engaging in a never-ending cat-and-mouse technical escalation with fraudsters, MediaMath is focusing its efforts on stopping fraudulent activity at its source by eliminating the economic incentives for 'bad actors.'
Powered by advanced machine learning algorithms that buy, optimize and report in real time, Mediamath's platform gives sophisticated marketers access to first-, second- and third-party data and trillions of digital impressions across every media.
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16 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About the English Language
ByMichelle Juergen
The English language is enourmous. An unabridged dictionary can easily top 600,000 entries. But it didn't get that way overnight. For hundreds of years, English has begged, borrowed and stolen from other languages to become the tongue we know today. Here are 16 facts you may not know about the English language and how it came to be.
1. English is an official language in 79 countries and territories.
As of 2014, English is an official language of the government in 58 sovereign states and 21 non-sovereign entities, including everywhere from Caribbean islands like Barbados and Grenada, to African countries like Kenya and Cameroon, to Singapore and the Philippines in Southeast Asia, all the way to the tiny island nation of Niue in the South Pacific. (Tracing the map of who speaks English and where is also a pretty quick way to track colonialism around the world.)
2. But English is not the official language of the U.S., the U.K. or Australia.
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English is considered the "de facto" official language of these regions, meaning "in practice or actuality, but not officially established." Scotland, Wales and most states and territories in the U.S. consider English their official language, but the U.S. and U.K. as a whole do not. As of January, 28 U.S. states have established English as their official language (Hawaii counts both English and Hawaiian as official), but states like Alaska, Maine and Louisiana (home of Cajun French) have not adopted an official language.
Now when you're arguing with that infuriating guy who says, "This is America, we speak English here," you can tell him what's what.
3. The earliest English comes from Germanic tribes.
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Celtic tribes were some of the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles, though they weren't the first people to live there. The Romans brought Latin to Britain when they made it part of the Roman Empire, which officially lasted until the early 5th century CE. With the Romans gone, Germanic tribes like the Saxons, Angles and Jutes began invading and settling in different parts of the island.
Old English (like in Beowulf) sprang from an epic mashup. The Anglo-Saxons called their new home Englaland, the Land of the Angles. Its emerging language was called Englisc (now called Old English or Anglo-Saxon), which eventually produced four major dialects: Northumbrian in northern England and southeastern Scotland, Kentish in southeastern England, West Saxon in southern and southwestern England and Mercian in the midlands.
4. The Mercian dialect is considered the basis of modern English.
Not much has survived of the dialect that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, a major power from the mid-7th to the early 9th century CE, but Mercian was crucial to the development of Middle English. One of the most important pieces of this puzzle comes from a manuscript written by a monk named Orm who lived in the English Midlands in the 12th century. The Ormulum is a 19,000-line poem recounting biblical homilies, but what makes it actually interesting is the scribe's insistence that everyone else is speaking English wrong, so he's going to write out how it should be done. Not only did he start to standardize spelling conventions, he did it so clearly that we have a pretty good idea now of what Middle English sounded like at the time.
5. The history of English is divided into three periods: Old, Middle and Modern.
Old English looks like this (from a passage from English abbot Ælfric of Eynsham's Homily on St. Gregory the Great):
Eft he axode, hu ðære ðeode nama wære þe hi of comon. Him wæs geandwyrd, þæt hi Angle genemnode wæron. Þa cwæð he, "Rihtlice hi sind Angle gehatene, for ðan ðe hi engla wlite habbað, and swilcum gedafenað þæt hi on heofonum engla geferan beon."
Middle English looks like this (from a passage taken from the fictional Mandeville's Travels):
In þat lond ben trees þat beren wolle, as þogh it were of scheep; whereof men maken clothes, and all þing þat may ben made of wolle. In þat contree ben many ipotaynes, þat dwellen som tyme in the water, and somtyme on the lond: and þei ben half man and half hors, as I haue seyd before; and þei eten men, whan þei may take hem.
These bring us to Modern English, which was born around the middle of the 16th century. The phonological changes that began in the late Middle English period completely revolutionized the language. The development of the printing press, a heavier influence of Latin and Greek and expanded contact with other cultures also helped bring us to the language we speak today.
6. William Shakespeare was probably one of the biggest influences on the English language.
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NBD, but in late the 16th and early 17th century, ol' Billy took advantage of the nonstandardization of English to great effect, and contributed to the standardization of grammar, spelling and vocabulary. His own vocabulary was extensive (some 34,000 words), and he gave us around 1,700 original words of his own (lonely, frugal, dwindle, hot-blooded, fragrant), many of which are still used. He also invented or popularized common phrases like "neither here nor there" (Othello), "mum's the word" ("Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum," Henry VI, Part II), "a wild goose chase" (Romeo and Juliet), "there's the rub" (Hamlet) and "all of a sudden" (The Taming of the Shrew). You can also credit him for bedazzled (The Taming of the Shrew), zany (Love's Labour's Lost) and puking (As You Like It).
7. Many of our words come from the Vikings.
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During the 800s, Scandinavian Vikings expanded into many parts of Europe. Large numbers settled in Britain, bringing Old Norse with them, including many words like ransack, knife and take.
Ultimately, some 1,000 Norse words were permanently added to English, among them skin, leg, freckly, sister, husband, egg, sky, cake, scream, rotten, happy and weak.
8. They also come from the French.
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In 1066, William the Conquerer, the Duke of Normandy in northeastern France (where they actually called him "William the Bastard"), established a kingdom and a culture that made French language and culture supreme in Britain. Anglo-Saxon words and language patterns persisted in the lower classes, but the nobility was all about what the king spoke. That French influence is still all over our vocabulary: An example is our word duty, which does not come from the Old French devoir, but rather from duetee, an Anglo-French word familiar in medieval London. You can say merci, français for lots of other words borrowed from the French, including food terms like fry, boil, butcher and beef, as well as legal terms like court (as in, law court), judge, attorney and plaintiff.
9. And the Dutch.
In the Middle Ages, London became a center of trade, and as trade routes grew, English adopted shipping words from the Dutch, like buoy, skipper and dock, as well as art words like easel, etching, landscape and sketch, and food words like brandy (wine), coleslaw, crullers and waffle.
10. And everyone else.
England was never cut off from everyone else (see also: the Crusades), but after the 15th century and the discovery of the New World, trade routes expanded greatly. During this age of exploration, English absorbed whole new worlds of words, from the Spanish (armada, bravado); from the Chinese (tea); from Germany (quartz, dachshund); from Arabic (hashish, mosque, bazaar); from Hindi (chintz, cummerbund, pajamas); from the Italian Renaissance (cameo, fresco, balcony, umbrella, violin); and from Australia (kangaroo).
To describe new inventions, we borrowed from Latin and Greek for words like omnibus, cinema, photograph, thermometer and telegraphy.
11. We add new words to the lexicon each year.
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To much of the world's dismay, Oxford Dictionaries Online officially legitimized selfie and twerk last year. As of May 2014, other words added include cryptocurrency, perf, bikeable, audax, gran fondo, snacky, omakase, white pizza and time suck, as well as new senses of ship, thing, crazy and slash. This year, Merriam-Webster added words like hashtag, tweep, turducken and a new kind of catfish to its dictionary.
12. The longest word in English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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This 45-letter word, the longest recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary, is a lung disease caused by inhaling volcanic silicon dust. The two second-longest English words are antidisestablishmentarianism (opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England) and floccinaucinihilipilification (the estimation of something as worthless). Kind of like, say, the need for a 45-letter word for a disease caused by volcanic dust.
13. Until about the mid 1500s, there was no word in English for the color orange.
Orange you glad that Moorish Arabs brought the first orange trees to Spain in the Middle Ages? Since so few things that occur in nature actually are orange, people usually said those objects were "gold" or "amber" instead. The fruit which came with the Sanskrit name naranga eventually became orange in English.
14. Slang ain't nothin' but a thang.
There are thousands of British and American slang words and idioms, many of which have deep historical roots. It (sort of) began with regional differences in pronunciations and dialects, but slang began to be considered a "thing" in the 16th century, when the English Criminal Cant developed. This was used by foreigners or criminals as a new form of speech, and it was considered taboo by outsiders. Nonetheless, it made its way into the mainstream and into works like Robert Copland's mid-1500s play The Hye Way to the Spyttel-Hous. Since then, slang has become more acceptable, and has been employed to ensure secrecy, as a way for groups to form identities, to play with language and of course to insult others.
Take redneck, which many people think is a variation of a "hillbilly" (which is another story). The word actually dates back to the 1600s, to a religious war in Scotland. Protestant rebels wore red cloths around their necks, and "redneck" came to mean any Scottish Presbyterian. When these Scots came to America, they were not welcomed by the English, who turned the word into a slur.
Y'all, a familiar word to Southern folks, originated from the Scots-Irish. For the word you, English had thou, which was singular, and ye, which in some Scottish dialects was used in the plural as ye all. When the Scottish emigrated to the American colonies in the 1700s and made their way into North Carolina and Georgia, the word spread across the South and melted into the word y'all know today.
15. Porpoise means "pork-fish."
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No mere chicken of the sea, the porpoise derives its name from many iterations of the original. The Romans named it porcus marinus, meaning "pig of the sea"; in the Middle Ages, this became porcopiscus, from Latin porcus (pig) and piscis (fish). In early French, the word became porpeis, and eventually the English word became porpoise.
16. Text-speak is really just modern shorthand.
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Ur mom might have srsly no idea how to decode the acronym-prolific texts you sent her 2day, but FWIW, our SMH-inducing shortened messages are predated by centuries by legit shorthand. According to literary critic Leah Price, before the 1870s, shorthand was used for recording one's own thoughts or for copying others'. It gradually made its way into the more utilitarian uses of stenography for things like secretarial work.
And now ATM it's used to tell your BF that ZOMG you just want to be FWB.
For a vintage look at the history of the English language, check out this WWII-era propaganda video from the British Council. Scholarship, like language, has changed a lot since then, but that just goes to show that there's clearly always a whole lot more to learn.


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The purpose of opening this center is to encourage yoga practitioners to do the self practise of Asan & Meditation.


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NORTHWOOD boss David Anderson believes that the return of key trio Anthony Page, Ryan Tackley and Kyle Matthews will be like "signing three new players" for the club's Ryman North Division One play-off charge.
NORTHWOOD boss David Anderson believes that the return of key trio Anthony Page, Ryan Tackley and Kyle Matthews will be like "signing three new players" for the club's Ryman North Division One play-off charge.
Both midfielder Page and left-back Tackley have missed the whole of this season with knee injuries, while forward Matthews has also been out for a large chunk of the campaign after suffering torn ankle ligaments.
However, Page and Tackley continued their comebacks with a run-out for Northwood's reserves on Monday night, while Matthews is only a couple of weeks away from full fitness.
Though this Saturday's clash at Redbridge may be too soon for all three to return, Anderson expects them to provide a big boost to a squad that are now just seven points off the play-off spots with two games in hand.
"They are all first-team players and will be pushing for places in the next couple of weeks," said Anderson. "It is great to have three key players coming back at this stage of the season and it is like having three new signings."


many systems.  See perlbook for a number of good books on Perl.
VOS GNU C++ and GNU Tools product from Stratus Technologies.
on the version of VOS that you are using and on the architecture of you Stratus hardware platform.
the VOS Standard C Cross-compiler.	You must build perl on VOS Release 14.1.0 (or later) on an XA/R or Continuum platform.
This version of perl is properly called "miniperl" because it does not contain the complete perl functionality.
VOS Standard C compiler or cross-compiler.	You must build perl on VOS Release 14.1.0 (or later) on an XA/R or Continuum platform.
Release 14.1.0 (or later) on an XA/R or Continuum platform.
piler.  You must build perl on VOS Release 14.3.0 (or later) on a Continuum platform.
comes with VOS Release 14.3.0 or higher.  This port of POSIX will compile and bind with either version of POSIX.
then have perl process the output file.	These functions are all available in the generally-available version of POSIX.
version of POSIX support, you may instead use the VOS GNU C/C++ Compiler.  These are standard Stratus products.
2    Either the VOS OS TCP/IP or STCP product set.  If you are building with the alpha version of POSIX you need the OS TCP/IP product set.
If you are building with the generally-available version of POSIX you need the STCP product set.  These are standard Stratus products.
3    Either the alpha or generally-available version of the VOS POSIX.1 environment.
tus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html This is not a standard Stratus product.
Cross-Compiler).  In VOS Release 14.4.0 or higher, it is also bundled with the VOS C Runtime.  These are standard Stratus products.
source lines.  Due to VOS release-compatibility rules, this port of perl may not execute on VOS Release 12 or earlier.
patible commands in the directory /system/gnu_library/bin.
to build it with the generally-available version of POSIX.  The default is "ga".
sor type of the module.
piled for the pa8000 processor type can execute on the PA8000, PA8500 and PA8600 processors.
5   You can examine the @INC variable from within a perl program to see the order in which Perl searches these directories.
name; these must be renamed.
dates, this should not be an issue.  The supported epoch is January 1, 1980 to January 17, 2038.
VOS.  Performing other floating-point computations that underflow or overflow will probably result in SIGFPE.  Don't push your luck.
result in TODO (ignored) failures.
books available on the Perl language; consult a book seller.
along with a support contract (or from anyone else who will sell you support).


The routine for skin care at night is just as important as the steps we take in the morning before leaving home, or even more than that. It is essential to take care of our skin and have a beautiful and healthy skin.
The first step in our skin care routine at night is the most important. We must remove makeup before proceeding to prepare the face for rest. If we do not remove the remains of makeup it will block the pores and we will get up with a much worse appearance in the morning.
We can opt for a more dense and oily makeup remover if we use a good amount of permanent cosmetics. In contrast, for the most superficial and natural makeup, we can use a more fluid and lighter product.
In addition to removing makeup, or in the case of not using makeup, the second step is to cleanse our skin in depth. In this way, we eliminate dirt, impurities and dead skin cells that give a dull appearance to our skin.
Nowadays we can find cleansers in soap or cream or some deeper ones as an exfoliant. The important thing is to use one that does not contain alcohol or too strong components, as they could alter the pH and sebum of the skin.
Our routine for skin care at night should include, a tonic to combat the signs of tiredness of the day. The tonic helps to close the pores, balance the skin and provide hydration to the skin.
We recommend opting for a product that does not contain alcohol, which provides a sensation of freshness but dries and damages the skin in the long term. We can find some natural ones. The most popular are rose, rosemary, and witch hazel.
The serum is a product that is applied just before the moisturizer and that is characterized by a high concentration of nutrients. We can apply it in the morning and at night, although before going to bed it is the most effective time.
The type of serum will depend on what we want to contribute to our skin. The most common ones contain hyaluronic acid, collagen, vitamins A, B or C, coenzyme Q10, etc.
Also read: Regenerating aloe vera cream very easy to prepare (Homemade).
From the age of 25 or 30, we can start using a specific nocturnal moisturizer. We must bear in mind that the facial cream that we apply during the night is not the same as during the day. During the night hours, thanks to rest, our skin will absorb nutrients much better than during the day.
In addition, the day cream usually has sunscreens and does not have as much concentration of nutrients. For this reason, although we could use it, we would not get the same results. Although we will have to invest in buying in two creams, in the end, they will also last twice as long.
If we have a few more minutes to complete our routine to take care of the skin at night we should give ourselves a self-massage. Or, even better, get our partner to do it so that the relaxation is greater.
A facial massage is the best remedy to relax the tensions of the face, give firmness to the skin and activate circulation. In this way, our skin will absorb much better the products that we have applied.
If we have facial swelling problems when getting up we can try using lighter textured cosmetics, as well as a slightly higher pillow.
Sleeping fewer hours than we need affects the appearance of our face. However, sleeping too much also gives us a tired look the next day.


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2021 Chase Plastics Giving Card Campaign winners announced
Posted December 22, 2021 by group55
Chase Plastics is awarding donations totaling $10,000 to four different charities as part of their annual Chase Plastics Giving Card Campaign. Now in its sixth year, the much-anticipated campaign is awarding a record $2,500 to four winning charities. This year's winners were all nominated by customers of Chase Plastics. They include:
Rising Stars Academy: A school for intellectually and developmentally disabled adults to belong and develop the necessary skills to participate within the community at their full potential. https://www.rising-stars-academy.org/
Penrickton Center for Blind Children: A unique, private nonprofit agency, providing five-day residential, day care, and consultation/evaluation services to blind, multi-disabled children ages one through twelve. https://penrickton.org/
Photo courtesy of Penrickton Center for Blind Children
Battin Farms Equine & Soldier Sanctuary: A nonprofit horse rescue, first and foremost, with a second aspiration to utilize rescued horses and rehabilitate to provide equine therapy to veterans and active duty military at no cost. www.battinfarms.com
See Me Home – Senior Dog Sanctuary: A nonprofit senior dog sanctuary located in Sturgis, MI that provides a safe haven for senior and special needs dogs. https://www.facebook.com/seemehome
Photos courtesy of See Me Home – Senior Dog Sanctuary
The Chase Giving Campaign started in 2016 as a way to highlight the charities that Chase Plastics' customers and suppliers were most passionate about. Their generosity has not only led to a total of $37,000 being donated to charities across the country through the campaign, but it has also perpetuated the spirit of giving — something in which Chase Plastics strongly believes. Chase Plastics has made it an initiative to encourage volunteerism and increase awareness of charitable organizations by spotlighting various nominated charities on their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages throughout the campaign. As a result, they hope to inspire others to donate time or money to the featured charities or use it as a resource themselves.
This year, the Chase Plastics Giving Card received a record number of nominations and used their social media channels to spotlight several of the nominees. The added exposure of some lesser-known charities was met with appreciation from those who had submitted. "It's our favorite time of year," said Chase Plastics' President, Kevin Chase. "Our company and industry never lose sight of what really matters. We love coming together to make a difference."
Past winners include: Party for a Purpose (Monticello, MN), LifeCenter Northwest (Bellevue, WA), Children's Oncology Group Foundation (Philadelphia, PA), Home of the Innocents (Louisville, KY), Malachi House Hospice (Cleveland, OH), Gleaners Community Food Bank (Detroit, MI), Operation Underground Railroad, Thumb Area Helping Hands (Bad Axe, MI), Folds of Honor, Hero Dogs, Inc., Because There Is Hope, Toms River Field of Dreams (Township of Toms River, NJ), Agape Safe Haven (Longmont, CO), Paws With a Cause (Wayland, MI) and Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank (Akron, OH).
Nominate your favorite charity
It's giving season at Chase Plastics
Posted November 11, 2021 by group55
Rhoda Miel, Assistant Managing Editor
For the sixth year, the resin distributor in Clarkston, Mich., will give out $1,000 gift cards to charitable groups, and it has opened nominations at its website for the program. Chase is accepting nominations from customers, suppliers and even people who are not currently customers.
In addition to the donations, Chase will highlight nominated groups through its social media pages.
"In times of crisis, it's more important than ever to lend a helping hand to those in need," the company said.
Nominations are due Dec. 14, and winners will be announced Dec. 22.
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Chase Plastics Appoints Kevin Chase CEO and
Adam Paulson President
Posted October 11, 2021 by group55
Chase Plastics Services, Inc. announced today the appointment of Kevin Chase, President of Chase Plastics, to Chief Executive Officer, and Adam Paulson, Vice President of Operations, to the role of President, effective January 1, 2022. The changes reflect a thoughtful and strategic approach to long-term growth and succession planning for the growing organization.
Kevin Chase, co-founder and President of Chase Plastics for 29 years, started the business with his wife and business partner, Carole. From their humble beginnings, they built an organization committed to providing quality specialty, engineering, and commodity thermoplastics for small, medium, and large-sized applications through Outrageous Customer Service. Today, Chase Plastics is one of the largest plastic resin companies in North America and employs 144 people.
Adam Paulson, a Chase Plastics veteran since 2003 with an impressive sales and operations background, has held the position of Vice President of Operations since 2015. "It is with great pride that we announce the transition of my role to CEO and the promotion of Adam Paulson to President," said Kevin Chase. "Adam has been an integral part of our success and growth and has embodied our core values and culture of excellence for more than 18 years. His vision and dedication to our customers, suppliers, employees, culture, and industry made him the natural choice to lead the organization into our second generation of growth."
"I am blessed to have called Chase Plastics home for nearly half my life," said Adam Paulson. "The team's dedication to our core values and delivering 'outrageous customer service' is an inspiration. The commitment of our leadership group to our team, ownership, suppliers, and customer base is extraordinary. I am humbled and honored to be trusted to lead this dynamic organization and to further Kevin and Carole's vision and passion for service excellence."
Plastics and ACC announce six new members to elite Operation Clean Sweep blue status
Posted September 2, 2021 by group55
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) and American Chemistry Council (ACC) today announced the addition of six new members to Operation Clean Sweep Blue. The elite status is achieved by exceeding rigorous standards set by Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS). OCS is an industry-led campaign dedicated to help every plastic resin handling operation prevent plastic resin loss.
New OCS Blue Designees
Chase Plastics Services (South Bend, IN)
Bayport Polymers LLC (Pasadena, TX)
Fortron Industries, Inc. (Wilmington, NC)
Intertape Polymer Corporation (Sarasota, FL)
R&J Trucking (Youngstown, OH)
TotalEnergies Petrochemicals and Refining USA, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Brother, can you spare some resin?
Distribution executives look at 2021
Posted August 19, 2021 by group55
Frank Esposito
If resin distributors had theme songs, their selection for 2021 might be the Rolling Stones hit "You Can't Always Get What You Want."
That's been the case for availability of resin as well as for challenges in logistics, labor, packaging, shipping, rail and trucking since early 2020. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic were followed by hurricanes in the second half of 2020 and an unexpected ice storm that hit Texas in February.
(A backup song selection might be the Joe Jackson hit "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)." But that might not apply, since distributors already know what they want.)
These tight supply conditions have been accompanied by surging demand from many plastics end markets as global economies recovered. The major supply/demand imbalance has made life challenging for resin distributors, who could sell more resin if they could only get more resin.
Plastics News recently checked in with executives at several resin distribution firms to see how they were handling the challenges of 2021.
Here's what they had to say:
Longmont homeless shelter Agape Safe Haven receives surprise donation to close 2020
Posted January 11, 2021 by group55
Jessica Bennet, communications director of Agape Safe Haven, said she checked email on Dec. 15 and was surprised to see the $2,500 donation and was even more shocked when she noticed it came from Michigan. And although it was a great act of kindness, it wasn't random.
During a year that has left many without work and shelter, a refuge in Longmont that helps the most vulnerable in society get back on their feet received a $2,500 donation from Michigan's Chase Plastics.
It turns out a volunteer from Faith Community Lutheran Church, Peggy Matern Brossman, also a customer of Chase Plastics, nominated Agape Safe Haven for the donation.
Chase Plastics is a family-owned thermoplastics distributor out of Clarkston, Michigan.
The small company was opened by Kevin and Carole Chase almost 30 years ago, according to executive assistant and marketing manager Sherry Cudd. From the trunk of their car and a $2,500 investment, the Chases grew the company to one of the biggest thermoplastic distributors in the United States and saw it named one of the best places to work in 2020 by Plastics News.
During the pandemic, Chase Plastics has been distributing plastics to customers all over the country who, in turn, have been making personal protective equipment, among other things, Cudd said.
For the fifth year, the company decided to give back by donating to a charity. After some consideration, Chase Plastics decided to give three charities $2,500 each.
"I can't say enough about the big hearts that the Chases have for not only letting me do this campaign every year, but they just always are so willing to give," Cudd said, adding the campaign also creates an avenue for getting "the word out there about these charities."
With 88 nominations, Cudd said it was difficult to choose recipients.
"But what stood out to us is just the work that (Agape Safe Haven is) doing and that a charity like that could probably really use the extra boost this year," Cudd said.
She wasn't wrong. Agape Safe Haven is known in Longmont for the care it provides to those who need it most.
Before Agape Safe Haven became what it is today, it was a shelter that opened when the weather was bad enough to put homeless people at risk, giving them somewhere safe and warm to go during frigid and wet nights.
"With the Boulder Shelter consistently full, the HOPE street outreach had nowhere to take the homeless," according to Agape's page at Coloradogives.org.
In response, Agape Safe Haven created a shelter program for up to 15 homeless individuals at a time that rotates locations between Longmont churches to give people a place to stay for a year.
Some people are referred to Agape Safe Haven by Longmont Public Safety and all potential guests must apply for space at the shelter.
Agape chooses residents based on a list of criteria, according to the program page. Requirements include that they are not aggressive, they remain sober, are attempting to be self-sufficient and they would be emotionally or physically vulnerable at a warming center.
While Agape is built on Christian principles, its "sheltering model does not include religious practices; it simply serves our poorest neighbors with compassion as an expression of our Christian faith," according to its mission statement.
Church services are offered but they are not required to be part of the Agape Safe Haven community, Bennet said.
"The only thing they have to do for us is they've got to remain sober, or if they're unable to maintain their sobriety, we do our darndest to make sure that they get to meetings or get counseling help and whatever they need," she said.
Agape also offers a year-round day shelter where guests can check their email, apply for jobs, socialize, do their laundry, take showers, access a kitchen and receive counseling from a registered psychotherapist, according to the website.
COVID-19 impacted Agape, closing down almost all of the church sites that served as overnight shelters. The residents have been staying at the day center, a small three-bedroom house rented by Agape.
"Through fate or whatever, we've had six homeless men and women that we've had staying at our day shelter since March," Bennet said, adding they are all self-quarantining as a precaution since three of the residents have disabilities.
Having a safe, warm place to stay is only a portion of what the people Agape serves need for success, Bennet said, adding 2020 was a tough year in which to make progress.
"It's bad enough being homeless, try being homeless in the middle of a pandemic, knowing that you still have to work on yourself, and it's still your responsibility to try to get out there and find work and work on your mental health and your physical health. It's just really sad and depressing," she said.
While Agape always accepts donations of money and items from its Amazon wishlist, letters of encouragement to its guests would be most helpful in easing their feelings of isolation, Bennet said. Letters can be sent to Agape at 10656 Parkridge Ave., Longmont, CO 80504.
The donation from Chase Plastics will go to operating costs.
"We're a small tiny nonprofit, so $2,500 for us is a big deal," Bennet said. "God has provided; I mean, it's great."
Chase expands giving campaign in 2020
The Chase Plastics Giving Card Campaign marked its fifth year by donating a total of $7,500 to three charities.
The program run by resin distributor Chase Plastics of Clarkston, Mich., concluded Dec. 15. The campaign previously donated $1,000 each to three charities, but officials said in a Dec. 22 news release that because of overwhelming response and the compelling stories of giving in a difficult year, three charities were selected for donations of $2,500 each.
This year's winning charities were all nominated by customers of Chase Plastics.
Visit our new Automotive page!
Posted November 2, 2020 by group55
Look to the Chase Plastics Automotive experts for customized solutions to meet your stringent mobility requirements.
With an Eye on Growth, Techmer PM Partners with SK Capital
Posted July 22, 2020 by group55
New strategic investment from SK Capital to help Techmer better serve its customers globally
CLINTON, TENN., July 21, 2020 –– Techmer PM, LLC, a leading designer and producer of engineered compounds and color and additive concentrates for the plastics and fiber industries, announced today its strategic partnership with an affiliate of New York-based private investment firm SK Capital Partners.
SK Capital, which manages a growing portfolio of companies focused on the specialty materials, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals sectors, is acquiring a majority interest in the Clinton, Tenn.-based firm and will recapitalize Techmer in partnership with its chairman and CEO, John Manuck, who will continue to retain a significant ownership stake in the company. Terms of the deal were not announced.
Privately held since being founded by Manuck in 1981, Techmer PM is a leading developer and manufacturer of custom color and additive masterbatch solutions and specializes in modifying the appearance and properties of base polymers. It serves customers across a diverse set of global markets, including agriculture, automotive, aerospace, building and construction, consumer products, medical, material handling, nonwovens, rigid packaging, and textile markets, as well as many OEMs.
Techmer PM Full Press Release
Chairman and CEO Partnership Update Video
Chase expands distribution hub in Indiana
Posted June 16, 2020 by group55
Resin distributor Chase Plastic Services Inc. has completed a major expansion of its distribution center in South Bend, Ind.
Clarkston, Mich.-based Chase broke ground last year on the $4 million addition. The expansion increases warehouse capacity at the site by more than 60 percent, adding 80,000 square feet for additional storage of more than 9 million pounds of material.
With the addition, the center now covers 205,000 square feet. In a June 15 news release, officials said that the updated facility improves processing throughput and includes five additional loading docks. The expansion also adds a new blender, equipment upgrades and expanded repacking capacity to enhance value-added services such as custom blending, material repackaging, and bulk-out capability.