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Expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in macrophage-rich areas of human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Beth A. Lipton, Michael E. Rosenfeld, Terttu Särkioja, Teizo Yoshimura, Edward J. Leonard, Joseph L. Witztum, Daniel Steinberg
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The recruitment of monocyte-macrophages into the artery wall is one of the earliest events in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) is a potent monocyte chemoattractant secreted by many cells in vitro, including vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells. To test whether it is expressed in the artery in vivo, we used Northern blot analysis, in situ hybridization, and immunocytochemistry to study the expression of MCP-1 in normal and atherosclerotic human and rabbit arteries. Northern blot analysis showed that MCP-1 mRNA could be isolated from rabbit atherosclerotic lesions but not from the intima media of normal animals. Furthermore, MCP-1 mRNA was extracted from macrophage-derived foam cells isolated from arterial lesions of ballooned cholesterol-fed rabbits, whereas alveolar macrophages isolated simultaneously from the same rabbits did not express MCP-1 mRNA. MCP-1 mRNA was detected by in situ hybridization in macrophage-rich regions of both human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions. No MCP-1 mRNA was found in sublesional medial smooth muscle cells or in normal arteries. By using immunocytochemistry, MCP-1 protein was demonstrated in human lesions, again only in macrophage-rich regions. Immunostaining of the serial sections with an antiserum against malondialdehyde-modified low density lipoprotein indicated the presence of oxidized low density lipoprotein and/or other oxidation-specific lipid-protein adducts in the same areas that contained macrophages and MCP-1. We conclude that (i) MCP-1 is strongly expressed in a small subset of cells in macrophage-rich regions of human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions and (ii) MCP-1 may, therefore, play an important role in the ongoing recruitment of monocyte-macrophages into developing lesions in vivo.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.12.5252
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Ylä-Herttuala, S., Lipton, B. A., Rosenfeld, M. E., Särkioja, T., Yoshimura, T., Leonard, E. J., Witztum, J. L., & Steinberg, D. (1991). Expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in macrophage-rich areas of human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 88(12), 5252-5256. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.12.5252
Expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in macrophage-rich areas of human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions. / Ylä-Herttuala, Seppo; Lipton, Beth A.; Rosenfeld, Michael E.; Särkioja, Terttu; Yoshimura, Teizo; Leonard, Edward J.; Witztum, Joseph L.; Steinberg, Daniel.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 88, No. 12, 15.06.1991, p. 5252-5256.
Ylä-Herttuala, S, Lipton, BA, Rosenfeld, ME, Särkioja, T, Yoshimura, T, Leonard, EJ, Witztum, JL & Steinberg, D 1991, 'Expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in macrophage-rich areas of human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 88, no. 12, pp. 5252-5256. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.12.5252
Ylä-Herttuala S, Lipton BA, Rosenfeld ME, Särkioja T, Yoshimura T, Leonard EJ et al. Expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in macrophage-rich areas of human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1991 Jun 15;88(12):5252-5256. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.12.5252
Ylä-Herttuala, Seppo ; Lipton, Beth A. ; Rosenfeld, Michael E. ; Särkioja, Terttu ; Yoshimura, Teizo ; Leonard, Edward J. ; Witztum, Joseph L. ; Steinberg, Daniel. / Expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in macrophage-rich areas of human and rabbit atherosclerotic lesions. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1991 ; Vol. 88, No. 12. pp. 5252-5256.
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China will take "drastic measures" if Taiwan makes moves towards independence, a Beijing official warned on Wednesday, adding that Taiwan's provocations and outside meddling could intensify next year.
China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and in the past two years has stepped up military and diplomatic pressure to assert its sovereignty claim, fueling anger in Taipei and concern in Washington.
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Pierre Kast (; 22 September 1920, Paris20 October 1984, Rome) was a French screenwriter and film and television director.

Biography
A member of the Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s, Kast created many short films and documentaries.

Kast died from a heart attack on board an aircraft on 20 October 1984, aged 64.

Filmography

Director
 1949: Les Charmes de l'existence, codirected with Jean Grémillon (short film)
 1951: Les Femmes du Louvre (documentary)
 1951: Arithmétique (documentary)
 1952: Je sème à tout vent
 1954: L'Architecte maudit: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (short film)
 1957: Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur (short film)
 1957: Amour de poche
 1959: Images pour Baudelaire
 1959: Des ruines et des hommes, codirected with Marcelle Lioret (short film)
 1960:
 1960: Une question d'assurance
 1960: La Morte saison des amours
 1960: Thank You, Natercia
 1962: P.X.O. (documentary)
 1963: Portuguese Vacation
 1964:
 1965: La Brûlure de mille soleils (short film)
 1966: Les Carnets Brésiliens (TV documentary)
 1968: Bandeira Branca de Oxalá (documentary)
 1968: Drôle de jeu, codirected with Jean-Daniel Pollet
 1972: Les Soleils de l'Ile de Pâques
 1976: Un animal doué de déraison (A Nudez de Alexandra)
 1980: Le Soleil en face
 1982: La Guérilléra
 1985: L'Herbe rouge (TV)

Assistant director
 1949: Pattes blanches by Jean Grémillon
 1951: L'Étrange Madame X by Jean Grémillon
 1952: Jeux interdits, de René Clément (non credited)
 1955: French Cancan by Jean Renoir
 1955: Les Carnets du Major Thompson by Preston Sturges

Writer
 1951: Arithmétique with Raymond Queneau
 1952: Je sème à tout vent with François Chalais
 1955: The Red Cloak
 1959: Des ruines et des hommes with Marcelle Lioret
 1960:  with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
 1960: Une question d'assurance
 1960: La Morte saison des amours
 1960: Merci Natercia! with Peter Oser
 1963: Vacances portugaises with Alain Aptekman, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Robert Scipion
 1964: Le Grain de sable with Alain Aptekman
 1965: Une balle au cœur with Didier Goulard and Jean-Daniel Pollet
 1965: La Brûlure de mille soleils with Eduard Luis
 1966: Les Carnets Brésiliens (TV)
 1968: Bandeira Branca de Oxalá with Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
 1970: Le Maître du temps with Jean-Daniel Pollet
 1971: Le Petit matin with Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
 1972: Les Soleils de l'Ile de Pâques
 1974: L'Ironie du sort with Paul Guimard and Édouard Molinaro
 1976: Un animal doué de déraison (A Nudez de Alexandra)
 1980: Le Soleil en face with  Alain Aptekman
 1982: La Guérilléra with  Antonio Tarruella
 1985: L'Herbe rouge (TV)

External links
 Pierre Kast biography on newwavefilm.com

1920 births
1984 deaths
French film directors
French male screenwriters
20th-century French screenwriters
Writers from Paris
20th-century French male writers
French expatriates in Italy

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Palazzo Mormino Penna è un palazzo che si trova a Donnalucata, frazione marinara del comune di Scicli da cui dista circa 8 km, in provincia di Ragusa. In particolare sorge lungo via Regina Margherita e l'ingresso principale si affaccia all'incrocio tra via Villa Glori e Via Regina Margherita.

Le origini
Palazzo Mormino Penna venne costruito, nell'Ottocento, dalla famiglia Penna di Scicli contemporaneamente ad una villa che si trova alla periferia nord del paese e che prende il nome di Villa Penna.
L'intenzione della famiglia Penna era quella di avere a disposizione una villa al mare nonché un palazzo che si trovasse nelle immediate vicinanze della spiaggia.
I lavori, in particolare, furono terminati dal Barone Antonio Penna Grimaldi e il palazzo rimase alla famiglia fino al secondo dopoguerra quando venne ceduto al Comune di Scicli.
Negli anni successivi venne adibito anche ad asilo comunale e non di rado vi venivano trasferite alcune classi della vicina scuola elementare.

Il Palazzo
L'edificio venne realizzato in pietra calcarea tipica del ragusano ed in stile neogotico anche se con decorazioni che simboleggiano la Trinacria.
Per le mura esterne fu scelto il colore rosso acceso e tutto il palazzo venne circondato da un giardino coltivato con piante tipiche del mediterraneo.
Il giardino era a sua volta recintato da sbarre di ferro, ma tale recinzione venne rifatta in muratura durante la seconda guerra mondiale a causa della necessità di ferro dell'epoca.
Negli anni novanta è stata tuttavia ripristinata parte della recinzione in ferro.

Il Palazzo oggi
L'edificio è oggi di proprietà del Comune di Scicli e al piano terra si trovano gli uffici della delegazione comunale nonché una sezione staccata della biblioteca "La Rocca" di Scicli.
Il primo piano, composto essenzialmente da un ampio salone centrale e da 4 stanze laterali più piccole, viene spesso adibito ad ospitare mostre e altre manifestazioni a carattere artistico nonché riunioni della cittadinanza.
Il giardino esterno è stato suddiviso in 4 parti. In quella ad ovest è stato realizzato un parco giochi per bambini, in quella a nord uno spiazzo che nel periodo estivo ospita un cinema all'aperto, in quella ad est vi è un ampio e ben curato parco cittadino mentre la parte a sud funge da ingresso al palazzo ed è stata pavimentata.

Montalbano
Palazzo Mormino Penna è stata location in alcuni episodi della serie Commissario Montalbano in particolare ne Il cane di terracotta e ne La forma dell'acqua gli interni rappresentano il commissariato di Vigata, e sempre ne La forma dell'acqua vi è una intervista su televigata realizzata proprio all'ingresso.

Bibliografia
 G. Pacetto, Memorie storiche, civili ed ecclesiastiche della città di Scicli, Ms., Biblioteca Comunale di Scicli

Collegamenti esterni
Foto del palazzo su Donnalucata On Line

Architetture di Scicli
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The Use of Computers in Education
Steven C. Wheelwright, Spyros Makridakis
Department of Digital Innovation
IAG Journal
Wheelwright, S. C., & Makridakis, S. (1971). The Use of Computers in Education. IAG Journal, (3), 295-308.
Wheelwright, Steven C. ; Makridakis, Spyros. / The Use of Computers in Education. In: IAG Journal. 1971 ; No. 3. pp. 295-308.
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Organic Treats for Face & Body at Seven salon.spa / By Gladys Montgomery
The room is quiet, and I am swathed in a sheet and blanket, my face and décolleté covered with a rich layer of organic herbal creams that give off a faint pine-like scent. My feet, which have just been similarly massaged and moisturized, are enveloped in cozy booties. I hear faint strains of music and the esthetician preparing her next potion in a corner of the room, but the sounds seem far distant. In fact, I could be lying next to a train track with a freighter clattering past and not much care: I am that blissed out.
Though I think of myself as a low-maintenance person, I am no stranger to facials and massages, and I've been coming to Seven salon.spa, at Seven South Street, Stockbridge, for my hair since it opened six years ago. But this is the first time that I have ascended to its spa – several generously sized, well-appointed, and immaculate treatment rooms on Seven's second floor. Ascended seems the right word: this facial and the massage that follows it make me feel as though I'm floating on a cloud.
From the beginning, Seven's spa has been a vital part of the business – the brainchild of Mark Johnson, who embarked on a career as a hairstylist 23 years ago, and his long-time partner and husband of two years, Maurice Peterson, who is Seven's co-owner and business manager. The couple began their Berkshire residence as second-home owners, fell in love with the area, and moved here full time when they launched the salon/spa.
Au courant with the latest trends in healthful hair, skin, and spa products, Seven offers organic single-process hair coloring with Herbatint, products by John Masters and others, skin care products by Pangea and Comfort Zone, and Jane Iredale makeup, the purest mineral cosmetics on the planet. It also offers manicures, including long-lasting shellac solutions, and a range of skin and body treatments, including facials, massages, peels, waxing, makeup application and lessons, complimentary private steam baths for spa clients, and myotonolgy (described as a nonsurgical facelift – note to self: mark for future reference), even tarot and readings by intuitive Sheilaa Hite.
"We have a gamut of clients – women, men, kids, actresses, and elderly ladies, and try to serve all of them with a good range of prices for services," Johnson says. "We respect our employees, and they have their own creative control over what they do. Good quality people always look for that. We're lucky to have the staff that we have."
Johnson still works in New York City two days a week at Space, the first high-end salon established in SoHo. Having trained with Vidal Sassoon, he spent four years doing magazine and runway work before deciding to work in the real world as a cutter and colorist. "It's just much more fulfilling," he explains. "What we do for our clients makes a lasting impact on their looks, and they're living with the results of what we do day and night." A great stylist combines mastery of technique with a high level of taste, and Johnson has both. The one thing that is missing at Seven is a diva-esque attitude among its employees and its clientele, and that's a breath of fresh Berkshire air.
Today, I am breathing deep, as esthetician Nicole Troiano slathers my face with gentle exfoliating, deep cleansing, and rich moisturizing masks from Comfort Zone's botanical, bio-organic Sacred Nature line. While the second mask penetrates, she treats my feet and calves to a massage and moisturizing treatment. Fifty minutes later, the facialist's ministrations, a succession of eucalyptus-scented hot towels, and sybaritic potions of borage oil, ylang ylang, sandalwood, and jojoba oil have left my skin feeling luscious and looking radiant. "How often can I do this?" this formerly low-maintenance client asks Troinano. She recommends once every four to six weeks, the length of time it takes normal skin cells to replace themselves. In time, she explains, with these bioorganic treatments, the skin will become noticeably better in quality and tone. A few days later, I return to one of Seven's massage rooms, where masseuse Lori Meek personalizes her treatments to the preferences of the client, from deep tissue work with lots of strong pressure to the more rhythmic and flowing motions of the Swedish massage. I opt for the latter, relaxing into a meditative zone while my neuromuscular and lymphatic systems bask in satisfied waves of contentment. Soothing percussive chords play quietly in the background, as the therapist kneads my back with an all-organic scentless, non-oily blend of jojoba and shea butter. "The more relaxed the client is, the deeper the massage can go," Meek explains. With nine years under her fingertips, she and Alex Vinogradov, the other lead member of Seven's massage team, offer a total of 34 years of experience, way above the industry's three-year norm. In addition to individual treatments, they team up for couples massages. "Massages break up adhesions, move fluid in the tissue, and bring blood into the muscles, so over time, the body becomes more supple," Meek says. "People move differently and look younger."
I certainly feel that way. My complexion is radiant without makeup, my stride is somehow longer and looser, and my shoulders and back feel amazing. Deconstruct the word "treatment," and what you get is "treat," something we all deserve.
Seven salon.spa, 7 South Street, Stockbridge, MA 01262, (413) 298-0117, www.sevensalonspa.com.
~ A full-time real estate agent with The Kinderhook Group, based in Stockbridge, Gladys Montgomery specializes in architecturally significant properties, including historic ones in all price ranges. She is an award-winning writer and editor who was founding editor of Berkshire Living Home & Garden and is the author of five books and hundreds of magazine feature articles in the shelter and lifestyle field.
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Harwood Museum of Art Announces 3 Days of Celebrations for the Opening of its 10,700 Square-foot Expansion
TAOS, NM (August, 2010)—The Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico has announced that the gala opening of its 10,700 square-foot expansion will warrant three days of celebration.
Ten years in the planning and development, the expansion will add much needed gallery space, archival and curatorial facilities, and a 135-seat auditorium.
Starting on Thursday, December 9, The Harwood will host an evening VIP event for its special patrons and supporters who made the expansion possible.
On Friday, December 10, members of The Harwood Alliance will be invited to a special preview to explore the museum's new Mandelman-Ribak Gallery, the Bob and Caroline Lee Ellis Gallery, and the Arthur Bell Auditorium.
And on Saturday, December 11, the same date as Taos' yearly Lighting of Ledoux, the public will be welcomed to experience the new Harwood for the first time with a ribbon-cutting, live music, food and performances. A favorite Taos restaurant, Graham's Grille, is generously contributing its delicious, creative fare to all three celebrations.
In addition, an inaugural exhibition by artists Bea Mandelman and Louis Ribak, for whom the major new gallery is named, will be on display.
"We invite the community to join us in this celebration," says Museum Director Susan Longhenry. "The Harwood is truly a Taos treasure and this expansion will introduce new ways to experience great art."
Events celebrating the Harwood Museum of Art's expansion project are generously sponsored by Graham's Grille, the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation, the Harwood Museum Alliance, The Healy Foundation and the Peters Family Art Foundation.


It's been a long time coming, but today we cover the final installment of the File Management series of Mobile Tutorials: Creating Permanent Albums on your iPhone. In earlier installments, we covered how to transfer image files between devices, how to transfer image files from device to computer, and how to delete all of the files on your device camera roll. The only problem with deleting all the image files from your device? There may be some files you want to keep on there! Like your portfolio or your favorite images of your kids. Let's cover how to get those back onto your device after you've cleared it off.
The first step to the whole process is to create a place on your computer where you will create your permanent albums. In "My Pictures" Library, I have created folders called "iPhone Sync" and "iPad Sync," so I can have a different set of albums on each device.
Within each Sync folder, create subfolders. Each subfolder will be an album on my device, so name the folder what you want the album to be named, and copy the photos you want in that album into the subfolder on the computer.
On my iPhone, I have albums I use for teaching classes (the "Example" folders) and albums for my Portfolios (starting with "P*_"). Since the albums will show up alphabetically on my iPhone, I name them alphabetically in the order I want them.
On my iPad, I also have texture and background images acquired from other sources or created in the past. It's nice that I always have these favorite image files available, and easy to find on my device.
1. Select your device by clicking on the device icon.
2. In the Settings menu on the left menu bar, select Photos.
3. Check the box to Sync Photos.
4. Select your Sync folder.
5. Click the radio button next to All folders, so that all of the subfolders you created will be transferred as albums. You can also click the checkbox if you have videos in these folders, and videos will be included too.
Sync your device, and voila! You now have permanent albums in your Photos app. Open the Photos app, select Albums at the bottom of the screen, and then scroll down. You will see the albums you created in your sync folder.
You can open these image files as you would any other image file on your Camera Roll, but you can't save into the album or delete images from the album. If you open and edit an image, you save a new version onto the Camera Roll like normal. That's nice, because you can't accidentally delete these images from your device.
When you want to delete individual images or an album, delete them in the Sync folder on your computer, and then sync your device. It's that easy!


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http://hubble.nasa.gov/ – The Hubble Space Telescope homepage covers news, operations, technology, missions, and multimedia.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html – The Kennedy Space Center spaceport has served as the departure gate for every American manned mission and hundreds of advanced scientific spacecraft. The site offer news and multimedia about past and current missions.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ – NASA's Lunar and Planetary Science page features links to media, information, and educational resources relating to the exploration of planets, comets, asteroids, and moons in our solar system.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm – NASA's Solar System Exploration page features news, multimedia, and information as well as educational resources and a 'kids only' section.
http://nineplanets.org/ – This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system.
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http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/ – McDonald Observatory is a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin located in the Davis Mountains of West Texas.
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http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/ – (downloadable digital atlas of the Universe) Since 1998, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium have engaged in the three-dimensional mapping of the Universe. This cosmic cartography brings a new perspective to our place in the Universe and will redefine your sense of home.
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Keep Canada Fishing2015-09-30T20:35:46+00:00
The Variety of BC Fisheries
GEORGE GRUENEFELD
If there is one aspect of fishing in BC that stands out above all others it is that there is no down season. In freshwater or salt there's something that will strike at a lure or rise to a fly. Deciding what to fish for is a matter of deciding what you want to catch and then following the opportunities that present themselves. Take the salmon fishing.
The off-shore winter fishing starts with mooching for 10- to 16-pound feeder chinook along the Sunshine coast, the Lower Mainland and among the islands of southern Vancouver Island. By May, the fishery shifts north to Haida Gwaii, Hecate Strait and beyond where fish of 40, 60 or more pounds are hooked every season. Come summer, the migration turns south as the fish work their way back to natal streams. Through this time, the off-shore fishing along entire middle and south coast turns on and, with it, the shoreline and in-river fishery.
Coho, sockeye, and chum salmon provide shore fishing and in-river angling through to the end of November. During alternating years, pink salmon also run in huge schools along the shorelines and into coastal rivers through most of August.
The most celebrated of British Columbia's anadromous migrants are steelhead and the Skeena–with its world class tribs, including the Kispiox, Babine, Copper, Bulkley and Morice–is hallowed water, as is the Thompson, a tributary of the Fraser. Vancouver Island streams, including the Gold, Stamp/Somas and Cowichan are touchstones for steelhead anglers.
In freshwater, rainbow trout are the main draw, though they share the spotlight with cutthroat and bull trout in East Kootenay waters. Rainbows are also the main draw for hardwater anglers, though ice fishing for kokanee (landlocked sockeye salmon) is becoming more popular.
For a change of pace, anglers can test their strength against white sturgeon on the lower Fraser River. The prehistoric leviathans can go over half a ton and span 10 feet nose to tail, though most fish hooked are about half that size. That's still a lot of sturgeon, especially when it tail walks right next to the boat, gill plates rattling.
Then there is the Columbia River with its powerful redband rainbows, the huge Gerrard rainbows of the Arrow Lakes, the winter fishing for stocked Eastern Brook trout and the yellowfin tuna fishing in the blue water. But those will have to keep for another time.
George Gruenefeld has fished across Canada from the stormy waters off the Newfoundland coast for giant Bluefin tuna to the island-studded coast of British Columbia for bright, feisty Chinook salmon and, along the way, sampled the freshwater lakes and rivers for trout and char, walleye and black bass as well as northerns and muskies. And he has lived to write about his experiences and adventures in many of North America's well-loved outdoor magazines and on the Internet. He currently resides in Kamloops, British Columbia, the heart of some of Canada's finest rainbow trout fishing.
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50% drop in rainbow trout puts Bow River's 'world-renowned' sport fishery at risk
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I was very frustrated and so transferred all the old water to a bucket and move all the fish across., spent 4 hours cleaning everything including the sand. Until it was almost perfect then transfer everything back with 20% top up of saltwater. Ok water look great fish seem happier. I m feeling abit better. But when i spoke to my cousin (many years running a 400 l marine tank)he advise me differently. Anyway my concern is that since i put in the sea cucumber back in it seem to be unhappy and climbed up to the water surface and now blowing bubbles. Can someone please tell me what wrong with it and is it dying? Currently it is on the glass and head semi above water.
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Have you ever stayed awake all night thinking about how you're going to implement Marketing Cloud in your organization? I mean, really think about it. That was me one night (or 20 nights). I am a Salesforce Admin, trying to roll out a brand-new marketing automation solution with little to no marketing experience and I wasn't a Marketing Cloud expert myself.
"Marketing Cloud" spelled out in cookies!
I went on Amazon, purchased alphabet cookie cutters, and showed up to work with sugar cookies that spelled out Marketing Cloud. In my defense, I didn't do this on just any normal day; I did it on the first day of our Marketing Cloud Boot Camp.
What was Marketing Cloud Boot Camp?
We invited our new Marketing Cloud users to help us officially mark the launch of Marketing Cloud at Maryland Smith with a one-week training camp to become "Smith Marketing Cloud Specialists." The boot camp kicked-off on Monday afternoon and ran straight through the end of the day on Thursday. That is a lot of time to request your users spend in training, so we made sure to really think through the structure, curriculum, and had plenty of snacks.
I now look back at our Marketing Cloud Boot Camp as one of my favorite weeks of my entire career. There is something really special about empowering a group of dedicated folks with the tools they need to be successful, and it was really amazing to be wrapped up in that energy (and sugar-high) for a whole week!
1. How are our users going to segment their lists? At Smith, we wanted users to build data extensions to segment their subscriber lists for all email sends out of Marketing Cloud. There are pros and cons to your main three options: upload external lists, Salesforce campaigns, or send via data extensions (there are others – but let's not get too complicated!). This is important to know before you train your users on Marketing Cloud, so that they learn behaviors that contribute to your organization's data goals. This defined our training module on: Segmenting Your Subscriber Lists.
2. Do your contacts you want to email live in Salesforce? This is a big question, and usually a messy one. Did you track down all of the spreadsheets hiding on desktops, and have you finalized any current integrations with other legacy campus systems that serve as your primary source of records? Since we wanted users to pull their lists from Salesforce, this was a priority.
3. Do we want users to have autonomy in sending emails themselves with no approval process? They already had this level of autonomy, so we were careful not to strip it away and create new challenges to our implementation. We did, however, decide that while users could still be in control of their email sends & content, we wanted to require they use pre-approved templates with locked headers & footers and high-quality images. This defined our training modules on both: Email Templates & Folder Storage.
5. What features should not be included in an enterprise training camp? Journey Builder. It's too big and complicated to gloss over in a 1.5 hour module, so we decided to give it a "sneak peek" preview and allow our Marketing team to showcase the incredible sales journey they developed for our part-time MBA program to the crowd, along with a strategy/plan for departments who would likely be Journey Builder candidates.
It's important to remember that it's not really a boot camp, so make sure it's fun and engaging throughout the entire commitment you're asking users to participate. We put a lot of effort into designing a methodical approach to training a new user on Marketing Cloud.
There is so much to learn, and not enough time to cover it all in one week!
Our contract with our implementation partner included 2 days of on-site training (a total of 16 hours), so we decided to take advantage of this and organized for them to facilitate 2 days of the training with our support. The partner who ran it also happened to be a Maryland Smith alumnus. She was instrumental in organizing the modules and offered suggestions. This ensured that the flow of the curriculum made sense for the end user.
Check out a copy of our agenda. If you're going to train a group of users on Marketing Cloud and are not sure where to start, I definitely suggest following the same order in how to introduce new features to users.
Our end goal was for each participant to leave boot camp feeling confident enough to build an email list, design a personalized email with dynamic content, send that email, and track their results.
Providing reference materials (both digital and physical): Every participant had a 5×7 card of important links to reference materials and reminders of where/how to get help! This was meant for them to hang up in their office for future reference. I also built a Google site which had a page dedicated to each day, and step-by-step training decks and/or YouTube videos to accompany each module.
Required Trailhead Badges We tackled a module each day until all participants earned the Email Strategies Trailhead Badge.
Quizzes We started each morning with a quiz on content from the day prior (to make sure users remembered really important things, like adding the contact ID to the Salesforce report to create a data extension!) and reviewed the answers together as a group. We'd also pose random pop quiz questions throughout the day, and give out swag for correct answers!
Q&A Schedule enough time to make sure users can ask questions and engage in discussion within each module.
Hands-On Exercises Every module had a hands-on requirement. If they learned how to build an email, they were actually building an email within the hour.
Group Projects & Presentations We incorporated group projects that they had to present (for example, one group had to use Automation Studio to send everyone in the camp a happy birthday email). This was capped off with an award and big round of applause for everyone's hard work and dedication throughout the week. Yes, we followed the "everyone gets a trophy" model.
This week proved to be a fantastic launching point for 35+ new Marketing Cloud users to get started with Marketing Cloud. Participants left empowered, informed, inspired, and at least a couple of pounds heavier thanks to those cookies.
Kirsten Sands Rauscher is responsible for the University of Maryland Smith School of Business's enterprise roll-out of Salesforce to 170+ users, serving as the System Administrator for Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Community Cloud. Focused on integrating legacy data systems and business process improvement, Kirsten is passionate about putting real time evidenced-based decision-making into the hands of every staff member. In addition to her role at Smith, Kirsten leads the Salesforce User Group for Higher Ed in the Washington, D.C. region. Kirsten holds a BA from Susquehanna University, an MA from Georgetown University, a Sales Cloud Admin 201 and Marketing Cloud Email Specialist certification. Connect with her on LinkedIn.


Presently, many girls are shipped on shopping outward. It is necessary to tell that exactly thanks to these women of fashion, we had an opportunity to allocate several countries and the cities which can actual be absolute for all. It is necessary to understand that criteria of the choice are rather low cost of goods, and their huge number. It is desirable that in the city there were many boutiques, or shops with clothes. You don't want to fly for thousands of kilometers, only to get to some fashionable boutique. And so, pay attention that the first city is New York. All the matter is that this city is the capital of fashion in the USA. In this city it is full of fashionable boutiques and shops where you can find excellent dresses. And, in each of shops there are discounts and sales. Therefore, think that this city at you has to be the first in the list.
In Italy, practically each city wanders the capital of fashion, but actually, girls allocated for themselves Madrid. Probably, it is connected with the fact that in most cases, girls go not only on shopping, but also on the vacation. That is, they want to see any peculiar beauty of the cities and countries. And so, in Madrid there is everything that it is necessary for you. One more interesting city is Sydney. Imagine that even in Australia it is possible to buy fashionable dresses. For some reason, all forget about this continent. Perhaps, it is connected with the fact that the most part of the territory of the island are deserts where there are neither people, nor animals, nor even plants.
By the way, recently, many people go to have a rest to the Thai islands. And so, you remember that you will be able to find the mass of interesting shops in Bangkok too. The only thing that this city so big that in it it is easily possible to be lost. For this reason, try to hike not, and by a taxi, or the leased car. If you got lost, then look for the person who will be able to bring you at least to the road where you could catch a taxi. By the way, on foggy Albion there are too fashionable boutiques which are in London. Believe that in these regions it is possible to arrange shopping too.
You plan to spend holidays on the islands of Malta, but you don't represent what is shopping on Malta? During shopping try not to forget about three important features: the majority of models of clothes are intended for a warm resort season, almost all range is presented in wide dimensional scale, and at last, many offered collections of the known brands already managed to use success at buyers, but a variety of accessories and costume jewelry strikes with refinement and uniqueness.
Shopping on Malta is a spent time for which it isn't necessary to regret. The alternative option of shopping included in tour Malta – Sicily about which it is told further is also available.
For tourists shopping on Malta is possible in any corner of the country. Opinions of a female half of mankind on boutiques and outlets of Malta are filled with iridescent emotions from purchase of goods of branded designers. Purchases will bring positive reviews. Malta is the country attractive by the rich range, for example, the well-known Maltese silver of handwork, jewelry and costume jewelry. And original glass which production is in Gozo attracts a look bright tones of a color palette. The jersey which quality is incomparable with the Chinese analog rushes for years.
Shopping needs to be begun with Valletta which is in heart of Malta. Near the main gate of the city the market where it is possible to get without effort various souvenirs from Malta is located: lace and original buttons, dolls, ancient cards and many other things. On Malta eight-pointed crosses are considered as the most demanded souvenir. Souvenirs from Malta is an excellent gift for friends. From the market TriqIr-Repubblik Street filled with shops of accessories and beauty shops begins. Here you will easily find design sunglasses and hats, bathing suits and bags, and also the well-known stamps of clothes in TheSavoy mall.
On TriqSantaLucija Street there is Embassy mall.
On 1 m the floor Cesca's multiple brand, with its broadest choice of models of bags and footwear settled down. Shops for fans of sports and free style are above – XCollezione and Terranova, the outlet of exclusive costume jewelry from Tenda.
And absolutely nearby, on TriqIz-Zakkarija Street, one of the best shoe Maltese boutiques Darmanin was located. Malta which shopping will leave indelible impressions for long time is always glad to receive the guests warmly.
Slim's city is on the opposite side of the gulf, in 20 minutes of driving from Valletta. Triqbisazzai ulitsa TriqIt-Torrischitayutsya Street shopping streets. Triqbisazzaznamenita brands MaxMara, Benetton, Promod, and also mall of "Plaza". On TriqIt-Torri there are enough shops too.
The boutique Oasis is located on crossing of streets of TriqBisazza and TriqIt-Torri, and Morgani Dieselna Square of St. Anna.
Besides these cities, visit also Saint-Dzhulians who is famous for a four-storeyed mall "Beng Strit". Here it is possible to get: costume jewelry, clothes from the leading designers, various literature in all languages.
Shopping for the woman is one of the major elements at visit of other city. Especially when you gets to the well-known cities of the known brands. In that case purchases become pleasant and interesting. The speech in this article will go about such known capitals of fashion as Milan, Cologne, Paris, London and Barcelona. These are the capitals of the different countries, but they are to drink whales on whom all shopping of Europe keeps.
Milan – the excellent place to start shopping. Here it is possible to try unforgettable Italian cuisine and of course, the fine choice of fashionable and stylish clothes. Shops in Milan are constructed in the same order, as well as in Russia practically. Their location nearby therefore it is very convenient to walk and choose suitable goods. In Milan there are three streets which differ on shops. That is belong to the highest class, average and simple. Difference it is divided by the price of things and their collection. But practically in each shop sellers are ready to do pleasant discounts for the acquired goods.
The second capital of fashion – the town of the German origin Cologne. In it there are always a lot of tourists who go behind fine things at the best prices. It is possible to visit this city at any time, except November. This month there passes the carnival in the city, and shops everything are closed on celebration. Shopping in this beautiful German town is very simple and as it was told earlier, the prices are very democratic.
Barcelona – the third capital of fashion of Europe.
It is better to visit this Spanish town in the summer as during this period of time it is possible to enjoy not only purchases of unusual clothes of the best Spanish brands, but also to walk on solar beaches. Shops in Barcelona are located also, as in Milan, very closely to each other. The clothes are on sale very bright, unusual styles, various forms. Therefore it will be very interesting to walk and get something unusual from clothes and footwear. Walking also on shops, it will be possible to watch architectural structures which strike with the beauty.
London – the following capital of fashion about which it will be told in article. What distinguishes the English shopping from others?! It is originality of things, their designs and excellent quality. The most known places for carrying out shopping in London are streets Oxford – the street and Ridzhent Street. Here all is on sale.
And of course, the most important capital of fashion of Europe is the city of Paris. It is possible to tell about it very long. This almost world capital of fashion. Shopping in this city will be unforgettable, excellent. Small minus in all shopping in this city is a construction of shops in a long distance among themselves therefore it won't be possible to pass all little shops in a half a day, to them it is necessary to reach on transport. Generally shopping happens originally on the well-known Champs Elysée. The following big agiotage place is the magnificent Shopping center – gallery Lafayette. It is divided into two zones: man's and female. Here the huge choice of all known brands which can be got according to the income level. Also in Paris excellent shops of footwear. Interesting and original models stand in each shop.
Here they are these small capitals with the grandiose, absolutely different things win the hearts of each visitor. Doors of shops reveal and the wide choice of clothes, generally for reasonable prices and excellent quality is offered on show-windows.


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