text:
by Zach King
- Feb. 04, 2019
A story about Kristin Stehly.
As a kid growing up in Escondido, Stehly played soccer and did gymnastics, hiked with her parents and enjoyed exercise and the positives that came from it.
"I always was into fitness," she says. "I knew I wanted to teach P.E. and teach fitness classes and be in front of people. Even in the seventh and eighth grade, I would get up in the morning and lift weights. It was a priority of mine. I was never the best athlete, but I always wanted to be healthy."
She stayed active throughout high school (doing varsity gymnastics four years, and soccer) and college and even while pregnant with twin boys. After they were born — and she took some time off from her 17-year teaching career — she started running.
"It was the easiest thing to do when they were in the stroller," she says of her boys, now 8. "Just put them in and go."
In January of 2011, she ran her first marathon in Carlsbad. Then came 32 more. Running became her passion.
"You just kind of fall in love," she says. "It's so painful and you're running and you're like, 'I'm never doing this again,' and then you cross the finish line and you're like, 'When am I going to sign up for the next one?'"
But running took its toll. As a girl, Stehly had Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, in which she didn't get proper blood flow to one hip, causing damage to the bone. She had to have surgery and was in a brace for a year. Because one leg is slightly longer than the other, all those running miles caused hip dysplasia in the previously damaged hip and a stress fracture in her other hip.
Read Her Full Story
Written by Zach King
What is your Perthes story? Parents, patients, or friends. We want to hear it. Share your details!


text:
Handout via Getty Images
SpaceX Notches Next Step in Race With Boeing to Crewed Flights
"This mission puts us a step closer toward re-establishing American access of American astronauts, on American rockets, from American soil to the ISS for the first time since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011."
Bloomberg | Mar 04, 2019
The successful voyage of SpaceX's unmanned Crew Dragon to the International Space Station this weekend put the U.S. one tantalizing step closer to the day when American rockets will again ferry the nation's astronauts into space.
Sometime this summer, both Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Boeing Co. are scheduled to launch crews toward the ISS, ending a long drought in which the U.S. has had to hitch rides in Russia's Soyuz capsules. NASA awarded them contracts worth as much as a combined $6.8 billion in 2014 to fly U.S. astronauts to the ISS, splitting what's known as the Commercial Crew program to avoid a monopoly.
Saturday's launch of the crew cabin from Florida and Sunday's docking at the ISS mark "a major milestone for SpaceX and for the nation," said Taber MacCullum, chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, in a statement. "This mission puts us a step closer toward re-establishing American access of American astronauts, on American rockets, from American soil to the ISS for the first time since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011."
Hatch is open! Crew Dragon will now spend 5 days at the @space_station pic.twitter.com/HA9iSWOBVE
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 3, 2019
SpaceX may get there first, in July based on how the test schedules are shaping up, with Boeing following just a few weeks later. In addition to the lucrative launch business, both companies see space tourism as a future source of revenue. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg congratulated Musk in a tweet for reaching the testing milestone.
"This is a huge milestone and shows how far NASA and the industry have come together," said Lori Garver, a former deputy NASA administrator, via email. "Lots more important milestones ahead, but the team can be very proud of this accomplishment - I know I am!"
For SpaceX, the next big test comes later this week. Crew Dragon, which carried some supplies to the ISS along with a sensor-laden mannequin, is slated to undock from the space station at 2:31 a.m. New York time on Friday, then return to Earth and splash down into the Atlantic Ocean with the help of four parachutes.
Crewed Flights
Though dates can shift, the latest schedule from NASA has SpaceX conducting an in-flight abort test in June and then following up in July with Demo-2, a flight that will take NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS. That's the final hurdle before the system would be certified to enter the official rotation of crew-carrying flights.
NASA says that Boeing's CST-100 Starliner continues to undergo testing in preparation for its Orbital Flight Test, slated for no earlier than April. If all goes well, Boeing would then have a launch-pad abort test no earlier than May and a crewed flight test no earlier than August.
Beyond the test flights, Boeing and SpaceX could use their vehicles to offer space rides to tourists and others with the means to pay. SpaceX is interested in flying Crew Dragon passengers other than government astronauts but hasn't begun prospecting for customers, Musk said Saturday at a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center.
By Dana Hull
TAGS: Companies & Executives Innovation Technology and IIoT
BMW Poised to Name Production Chief Oliver Zipse as New CEO
Corvette Courts Ferrari Fans With Mid-Engine Design Change
Renault's Senard Plays Down Potential for Nissan, Fiat Deals
GE Sells Solar-Business Stake to BlackRock

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Roosters Juniors
Women's Rugby League
Roosters Girls
JUNIOR REPS
Junior Results | Finals Week One
TARSHA GALE GO DOWN IN FINALS
The Sydney Roosters Indigenous Academy Under 18s found themselves in the top eight at the end the regular season in the Tarsha Gale competition and were playing to stay alive in the final series.
They were up to the challenge and their efforts were there to see early in the quarter.
The Panthers scored two quick tries to start the game though and they followed through with plenty of confidence.
We soon hit back with a try to Brandi Davis-Welsh and looked like we were back in it.
The game soon started to slip away from the girls and score line showed it.
Tries late in the game to Brandi Davis-Welsh and also Dakota Blacklock showed our individual brilliance at the back end of a tough outing.
The heart and the persistence from the girls was evident as they never gave up throughout the season despite some tough results.
The girls wore the red, blue and white with pride in 2018 and will look to improve in 2019.
TRIES: Brandii DAVIS-WELSH (8m) Brandii DAVIS-WELSH (24m) Dakota Blacklock (33m)
S.G. BALL SIDE FALL IN WEEK ONE
The Sydney Roosters Under 18s S.G. Ball were hot favourite heading into the first game of the finals series.
After winning the Minor Premiership in 2018 with some big scores, the young Roosters weren't expecting what the sharks threw at them.
The Sharks came out with purpose, their forwards were dominating the Roosters and showed early on as they scored sixteen points in the first twenty-two minutes of the game.
They were playing smart footy, kicking to the corners early and capitalising on penalties.
The Roosters soon hit back with a try to Egan Butcher just before half time to give the Roosters some momentum heading into the sheds.
The Tricolours came out of the sheds with purpose in the second half as coach Adrian Lam challenged them to be better.
Asu Kepaoa scored eight minutes into the second half with a great team try.
The Sharks boys picked themselves up to finish the job by scoring the next three tries though.
We hit back with two more tries to Egan Butcher, but there wasn't enough time left on the clock.
The Sydney Roosters go down in the first game of the finals series 32-24, but live to fight another day.
TRIES: Egan BUTCHER (32m) Asu KEPAOA (38m) Freddy LUSSICK (65m) Egan BUTCHER (67m) Egan BUTCHER (69m)
Judiciary Result | Jared Waerea-Hargreaves
Team Announcement | Round 18
Player Media
Round 18 Media - Crichton
Media Round 18 - Cooper Cronk
Media Round 18 - Luke Keary
Follow the Roosters


text:
College risks Natfhe strike
Sheffield College is facing the possibility of a total shutdown after its lecturers voted for industrial action over plans to cut more than 200 jobs.
Members of lecturers' union Natfhe voted 56 per cent in favour of industrial action.
"We made it clear on the ballot form that members who were not prepared to shut the college down should vote 'no' to action," said Natfhe branch secretary Jenny Prideaux.
"But they said 'yes' and we will now try to negotiate with the management to avoid compulsory redundancies."
The further education college wants to cut 107 full-time equivalent posts from the academic payroll in an attempt to redress a long-term shortfall of almost Pounds 6 million.
Alan Biggin, the college's marketing manager, said that over 70 full-time equivalent positions had already been cut through voluntary packages.
"We are two-thirds of the way towards achieving our target, and we are still pursuing every other action to avoid compulsory redundancies.
"I wouldn't say I was confident we can avoid it, but we would only use compulsory redundancy if all other methods fail. I can't comment on how Natfhe will act," he said.
Natfhe has argued that the cuts are achievable without sacking teachers, and has initiated a local media campaign and petition.
Ms Prideaux commented: "The college seems to be more amenable to the idea of negotiating, but our members are saying enough is enough. In the past two years a quarter of the academic staff have gone.
"The members have a grim determination to see it through and we are prepared to shut down the college if we have to. We will make our ballot live within 28 days," she added.


At Perth Auto Dismantlers we are well equipped to meet all of the tasks required to manage our customer's scrap metal recycling needs. Our fleet of modern Roll-Off and Lugger trucks operate from Southwestern Ontario, enabling us to quickly deploy the type of bin that best meets the requirements of our customers.
Perth Auto Dismantlers has been in business for over 20 years and has built up an extensive database of product information. When you deal with Perth Auto you're not just buying a vehicle part, you are gaining access to all our vast knowledge base and expertise as well. Whatever part you need, we'll get it for you.
Our full service, fully staffed and equipped automotive shop prides itself on being the Best with providing great service to our customers. You'll find our shop, with friendly and down to earth service, a place where you can bring your vehicle and know that it will be fixed right by people who care about you and your safety.
To request an appointment in one of our fully equipped service bays, please contact us today. Click here to enter your name and contact information and we'll book you in our first available opening. We'll reply with confirmation of your booked date & time. We can also be reached between 8am & 5pm, Monday to Friday at 519-271-4008.
At Perth Auto Dismantlers we are well equipped to meet all of the tasks required to manage our customer's scrap metal recycling needs.
Perth Auto Dismantlers has been in business for over 20 years and has built up an extensive database of product information.
When you deal with Perth Auto you're not just buying a vehicle part, you are gaining access to all our vast knowledge base and expertise as well.


MITZPE HILA, Israel — Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit heard the sounds of battle around him during a massive 2006 military operation seeking to free him from his Gaza captors, his father said on Thursday.
"He was aware of the operation and everything that was going on," Noam Shalit told journalists outside the family home in the northern Israeli village of Mitzpe Hila, two days after his son was freed in exchange for a total of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli military campaign was launched in June 2006, three days after Palestinian militants — including members of Hamas — captured Shalit in a raid into southern Israel. The operation lasted five months and left more than 400 Palestinians dead.
He said that his son was kept in isolation, without seeing the sun for five years, but was allowed to listen to Israeli stations on the radio.
Thursday was the Jewish festival of Simhat Torah and Noam Shalit said that his son spent the day chatting with friends, riding his bicycle and playing table tennis.


Our side slit dress is cut from 4-ply silk crepe. It is heavier in weight with a smooth, creamy feel and a matte finish. The straight neckline has a clean edge with no visible stitching. Detailed with 10" side slits. Finish with french seams.


Jim Montgomery's Dallas Stars (11-9-2) play host to Guy Boucher's Ottawa Senators (9-10-3) on Friday evening. Game time at the American Airlines Center is 7 p.m. CT. The game will be televised on Fox Sports Southwest. Friday's game is the Stars' Hockey Fights Cancer night.
The Stars are in the midst of an extremely busy stretch of hockey. They are playing for the fourth time in six nights and the fifth time in eight nights. The schedule will not relent much after this, as the team heads right out after the game to start a road trip that starts in Colorado on Saturday night. After two much-needed off nights, the Stars face back-to-back games in Edmonton on Tuesday and Calgary on Wednesday.
It has been a roller-coaster month for the Stars after November started off with back-to-back road wins in Toronto and Washington. Since that time, Dallas has gone 3-4-2. A poor second and third period in a road loss to the New York Rangers on Monday spilled over into a rough night in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
The Stars enter this game coming off a 5-1 road shellacking at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Sidney Crosby led the way with three points (one goal, two assists) in a game that was 3-0 by the end of the first period and 5-0 after two. Roope Hintz (2nd goal) broke up Casey DeSmith's shutout bid at 7:55 of the third period. Dallas mustered just 19 shots on goal for the game, spending far too much time in its own end of the ice. Both puck management and coverages were suspect for the Stars. In goal, Anton Khudobin stopped just 11 of 16 shots. With Ben Bishop unavailable, Landon Bow came in to relieve Khudobin after Tanner Pearson made it 4-0 at 8:52 of the second period. Bow stopped all 14 shots he faced.
On Thursday, the Stars recalled defenseman Taylor Fedun from the AHL's Texas Stars, and reassigned defenseman Ben Gleason to the farm team in Cedar Park.
The Senators are in the second game of a four-game road trip that will continue next week against the New York Rangers on Monday and Philadelphia Flyers the next night. After winning three of four games, including a 6-4 road upset of the powerhouse Tampa Bay Lightning, the Senators have been battered defensively the last two games, getting outscored by a 13-9 margin in back-to-back regulation losses.
On Wednesday, the Senators sustained a 6-4 road loss to the Minnesota Wild. The Sens trailed 2-0 after the first period and 4-1 after the second before rallying back to briefly tie the game in the third period. on goals by Thomas Chabot (shorthanded, 6th), Christian Jaros (1st) and Colin White (7th). Earlier, Jaros assisted on a Chris Tierney goal (3rd) that cut a 3-0 gap to two goals in the middle stages of the second period. Craig Anderson stopped 28 of 33 shots for Ottawa before a late empty-netter sealed the win for Minnesota. Eric Staal and Matt Dumba each scored twice for the Wild.


Shot with a live audience in the historic and stunningly opulent Grand Opera House in Belfast, The Music of Northern Ireland is a concert special starring Irish pop tenor Eamonn McCrystal, featuring a wide array of Music that originates from Northern Ireland. Most people don't know that many of the hit songs we love were written by Northern Irish songwriters, like Van Morrison and Jimmy Kennedy. Along with traditional Irish tunes, The Music of Northern Ireland pays tribute to hits like Moondance, Brown Eyed Girl – even South of the Border – all written by Northern Irish artists.
The event will feature an array of internationally renowned and world famous musical talent, all originating from Northern Ireland; including artists such as Brian Kennedy, Rachel Tucker, and Keith & Kristyn Getty. An impressive orchestra will accompany the performance led by Musical Director, Nigel Wright (producer for Andrew Lloyd Webber and Simon Cowell).
This original concert highlights hits from Northern Ireland with a unique lineup of songs. Celebrated Northern Irish songwriters on the show include: Van Morrison, (Moondance, Brown Eyed Girl) and Jimmy Kennedy (Red Sails in The Sunset, South of the Border) with haunting, traditional pieces like Carrickfergus and Danny Boy also included in the repertoire.
The Music From Northern Ireland show is an eclectic mixture of music and lyrics, woven together into a rich tapestry of unique Irish culture, which proves that Northern Ireland has become a nation that is proud of its past as well as welcoming its future.
Eamonn McCrystal is a renowned adult contemporary vocalist. Born in Northern Ireland, the acclaimed traditional pop artist, TV personality and radio host made his music debut at the age of nine and recorded his first album at 13. He has collaborated with major artists/producers including Walter Afanasieff, Kristin Chenoweth and Randy Travis. Eamonn is scheduled to launch his new web series "In Person" later this year on EMN, and will appear beside Whoopi Goldberg, Ashley Judd and Patrick Wilson in the movie "Big Stone Gap," of which he is also featured on the movie soundtrack.


iva I did this just now.
fanmmm Did y'all just now realize this?
constance Tehehe... so yes... I just did this.
molly I just did this and I feel so much better!
hannahmnt kiss kiss.... I just did something like this!!!!
muriel why did I just find out this exists?
sheryl oh wow. I just did all of this.
sally I am a ginger blond now and I just took the plunge and did this to my hair. I love it!!!
firstgradedeb Holy Crap! I just did this and now I'm afraid to sit down for fear I might not be able to stand up again. And I only did 2 sets of 10 reps each! Doing this again for sure.
charmaine Emergency Candle. Just put a wick in it and it will last for about 45 days! I did not know this!! Now I do.
iva Dafuq did I just became.
ila vintage sheet napkins. How did I not think of this sooner?! I just keep buying vintage sheets and waiting...until now.
ToppersTvS Now who did this!
peggy moberly I just did this and lasted only 29 minutes of the 40...it honestly works! Now to hydrate and get rid of this headache from the detox, whew!
lucile Dafuq Did I Just Read?


text:
Trump: "I'm Like Really Smart… A Very Stable Genius"
Health, Latest News, Politics / Donald Trump / By live_news / January 7th 2018 January 7th 2018
The president of the world's largest economy has defended his mental state, declaring himself to be a "very stable genius" amid questions raised by an explosive new book that quotes senior aides in the White House questioning his fitness for office.
In a flurry of Twitter posts sent from the Camp David presidential retreat on Saturday, Donald Trump portrayed the doubts about his mental acuity as elements in a broad conspiracy including the investigation now under way into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links to his campaign.
"Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence." Mr Trump said.
" . . . Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames," he said. "I went from VERY successful businessman, to top TV Star to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius . . . and a very stable genius at that!"
Speaking with reporters later he said he had felt the need to defend his mental state because he had attended "the best college", been a "very excellent student", had gone on to make "billions and billions" in business before being a "tremendous success" on television and winning the presidency.


text:
HDAW's educational sessions tackle the toughest industry issues
Bill Grabarek (TPS Online Editor)
While members of the heavy-duty aftermarket look forward to once again meeting in-person with colleagues and business partners at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week (HDAW) 2022, the event's educational programming will offer a wealth of information to help attendees clear the industrywide hurdles they all face. HDAW is being held Jan. 24-27 in Grapevine, Texas.
The session, "Upping Your Retention and Recruitment Game in These Changing Times," will discuss how the past few years have made hiring and retaining employees more difficult. The COVID-related "Great Resignation" and labor shortage poses an on-going challenge to the industry. The session will explore the changing workforce and discuss action-oriented strategies for employee recruitment and retention.
Tony Lee, vice president, content, SHRM"I look at very practical solutions to the challenges a lot of companies are facing finding talent, given the incredible talent shortages we have — and then retaining that talent. I walk through about 14 different specific tactics employers can do to help ease the situation," says moderator Tony Lee, vice president, content, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
Lee says a huge problem right now is "ghosting." Employers find interesting candidates, they'll schedule interviews and then the candidates never show up to the interviews.
"Another common problem, but a really shocking one, is employers go through the whole interview process with a candidate, extend an offer, the offer is accepted and on Day 1 on the job, the candidate doesn't show up. There are reasons for [this] and there are things companies can do to try to avoid it," Lee says.
The trucking industry relies on the ability to attract and retain talent. Without the talent, the trucking industry grinds to a halt. "Figuring out how to address the issue becomes the worry of a CEO not just HR," he says.
The session, "Paving the Way: How the Heavy-Duty Aftermarket Can Profit from Telematics & Predictive Maintenance," will cover how parts suppliers, distributors and service providers can maximize the benefits of telematics and predictive maintenance to improve equipment uptime as well as how the aftermarket can profitably insert itself into the technology-driven supply chain of the future.
"The goal is to bring the aftermarket and distribution sides into the service data conversations. OEMs have built strong digital and physical networks to get parts to where they're needed at OEM dealerships on a near predictive level. We're going to talk about how parts suppliers, distributors and service providers work together to become more digitally integrated and where they see the ROI in making those efforts," says moderator Jason Morgan, content director, Fleet Equipment.
Jason Morgan, content director, Fleet Equipment"Predictive maintenance is coming from OEMs. They're going to be shouldering the warranty cost for service issues that haven't happened yet and directing trucks to their service locations to do so. As truck service continues to march toward that model, data integration and analysis will drive business toward those channels. The aftermarket parts suppliers, distributors and independent service providers need to be a part of that conversation, and that conversation has to start now. That's why we're having it," Morgan says.
The session, "Conversations That Matter: How is our Industry Adapting to Supply Chain Challenges?" will address evolving supply chain issues and shipping disruptions that continue to impact the industry. Supply shortages and delays are adding to an already complex inventory management scheme at warehouses, DCs and repair shops.
The panel will discuss how companies in the entire aftermarket supply chain are adapting to these ongoing challenges through defensive strategies and other methods for building long-term resiliency into their supply chains.
"We want educational topics to be relevant to what is happening today, and to prepare for what is coming tomorrow. The educational sessions will provide insights into the current supply chain, equipment technology and human resource challenges," says conference co-chair David McCleave, director of marketing and aftermarket, Hendrickson.
"The sessions have been developed to drive audience engagement and provide information distributors can use to modify their business strategies and tactics for continued growth," he adds.
This is the second of three TPS articles previewing Heavy Duty Aftermarket 2022. Check back next week for our final preview in the annual series.
RV Retailer acquires Country Camper
Reviva acquires reman sourcing business to meet growing market demand
National Truck Protection Co. supports college athlete's charitable program


text:
Province of Venice facts for kids
Province of Venice
2,467 km2 (953 sq mi)
30010, 30014-30016, 30020-30039
Telephone prefix
No. of communes
Veneto Provincia Venezia
The Province of Venice (Provincia di Venezia) was a province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Venice. It had an area of 2,467 km², and a total population of 846,962 (2011). The province became the Metropolitan City of Venice by 1 January 2015.
Statistics recorded since 1871 show that the population of the Province of Venice increased from some 341,000 inhabitants in 1871 to almost 847,000 in 2011. It rose steadily in each of the ten-year statistical periods until 1981 (reaching 838,794 inhabitants) whereafter there were declines until 2001 when the population dipped to 809,586. Finally, there was an increase of 4.6% in the ten-year period from 2001 to 2011 when the number of inhabitants reached 340,913.
The average age per inhabitant was 44.8 years in 2011, up from 35.6 years in 1981. In 2012, there were 72,284 foreigners residents in the province (up from 44,996 in 2006), mainly from Romania, Moldova and Albania, representing 8.5% of the total population. In the academic year 2012 to 2013, 23,677 students were enrolled at university of which 61.8% were women and 38.2% male. The most popular fields of study were economics, foreign languages, letters and philosophy, and architecture.
There were 44 comuni (singular: comune) in the province [1]. In 2005, the main comuni by population were:
Venice 270,662
Chioggia 51,231
San Donà di Piave 40,899
Mira 37,737
Mirano 26,126
Portogruaro 25,162
Spinea 24,698
Jesolo 23,705
Martellago 19,904
Scorzè 18,626
Santa Maria di Sala 15,521
Cavarzere 15,319
Noale 15,237
Dolo 14,649
Marcon 12,969
Eraclea 12,653
Cavallino-Treporti 12,444
Santo Stino di Livenza 12,386
Camponogara 11,858
Caorle 11,847
Salzano 11,797
San Michele al Tagliamento 11,778
Musile di Piave 10,642
Concordia Sagittaria 10,641
Tourism was an important contributor to the provincial economy with over 26,000 establishments (including 1,277 hotels) offering overnight accommodation and accounting for a total of 34 million tourist nights spent in 2012 (down slightly from 2011 but substantially higher than some 29 million nights in 2002).
The Gross Domestic Product of the province was 25 million euro in 2010, down slightly from 25.973 million euro in 2007. In 2012, the service sector represented 73% of the economy, while industry covered 19%, construction 7% and agriculture just 1%. Footwear represented 9.6% of provincial exports, petroleum products 7.2% and machinery 6.7%.
Provinces of Veneto
Belluno | Padua | Rovigo | Treviso | Venice | Verona | Vicenza
Province of Venice Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


text:
Allen Orthodontist
604 S. Watters Rd., Suite 150 Allen, TX 75013
Award-Winning Practice
Patient Appreciation
Benefits of Braces
My Doctor Reviews
Oral Hygiene & Foods to Avoid
Common Bite Problems
Parts of Braces
Ortho Dictionary
It's almost impossible to imagine the practice of dentistry without x-ray technology. Radiographs (x-ray pictures) allow orthodontists to diagnose and treat problems not yet visible to the naked eye, including early tooth decay, gum disease, abscesses and abnormal growths. There is no question that since x-rays first became available a century ago, this diagnostic tool has prevented untold suffering and saved countless teeth. Now, state-of-the-art digital x-rays have made the technology even safer and more beneficial.
How X-Rays Are Used in Orthodontics
Digital x-ray technology uses an electronic sensor to capture an image, which can be called up instantly on a computer screen. When digital x-rays first became available about 20 years ago, they immediately offered a host of advantages over traditional x-ray films, which require chemical processing. Most importantly, they cut the amount of radiation exposure to the dental patient by as much as 90%. While faster x-ray films have been developed over the years that require less exposure, making that difference less dramatic, a digital x-ray still offers the lowest radiation dose possible.
Advantages of Digital X-Rays
Digital x-ray technology is designed to make the imaging process more effective, efficient, and safer for everyone. Besides minimizing radiation exposure, digital x-rays offer numerous advantages to dentists and patients alike. These include:
Minimal Use Of Radiation - With digital technology, the amount of radiation exposure is drastically reduced, making the process safer for both kids and adults.
No Wait Time - Instead of waiting for the x-ray film to develop, the image is available immediately on the computer screen for Dr. Mojdehi-Barnes to examine while the patient is in the chair.
Higher Quality Images - With digital x-rays, your orthodontist has a greater degree of control over the image, with the ability to enhance the image or increase the contrast, making it easier to spot potential problems. It's even possible to compare the x-rays side-by-side in an instant, making even the minutest changes to your tooth structure easier to detect.
No Chemical Processing - Since there is no film being used with digital x-rays, that means there are no more toxic chemicals necessary to develop that film, helping protect the environment.
Easy Sharing & Storage - Instead of having to deal with physical prints of your x-rays, digital x-rays can be easily transferred electronically through email or other means, which also decreases the chance that a valuable x-ray is lost or misplaced.
X-Rays and Your Safety: What You Should Know
While digital technology has minimized the health risks of x-rays, it has not entirely eliminated it. X-rays are a type of radiation used to penetrate the tissues of the body to create an image. In doing so, there is always a slight possibility of causing changes at the cellular level that might lead to future disease. Of course, there are sources of radiation present in the daily environment—the sun, for example—that can also cause disease. It's important to note that the chance of this happening is thought to be cumulative and not based on a single exposure.
Still, x-rays are not considered risk-free regardless of how technology reduces your exposure. That's why dentists will only use them when the benefit of obtaining better diagnostic information outweighs the procedure's small risk. This is particularly true of computed tomography or CT scans, which can raise the level of exposure, yet yield a tremendous amount of information per scan. No matter which technology is being used, each case is considered individually, and your safety is always paramount. If you have questions about why an x-ray is being recommended for you, please feel free to ask.
Contact Your Local Allen, TX Orthodontist
Dr. Maryam Mojdehi-Barnes proudly provides professional orthodontic care to patients of all ages so they can enjoy a healthy smile for years to come. For more information, please contact us or give us a call at (972) 390-1100. You can also schedule an appointment using our online appointment request form. We look forward to seeing you in our office soon!
X-Ray Safety For Children Nearly every diagnostic testing procedure carries some risk, so it's always important for you and your healthcare provider to weigh the benefits against the risks. This is particularly true when it comes to children, who are more sensitive to x-rays than adults... Read Article
Getting The Full Picture With Cone Beam Dental Scans Dental imaging took a major leap forward at the beginning of the new millennium with a three-dimensional technology known as cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). The name comes from the cone-shaped beam of x-rays the CBCT machine projects as it rotates around a person's head, taking multiple images that are compiled into a 3-D picture by a computer. Find out what CBCT can reveal and how it helps a doctor to make a highly informed diagnosis and choice of treatment... Read Article
604 S. Watters Rd., Suite 150
Allen Orthodontist - 604 S. Watters Rd., Suite 150, Allen, TX 75013 Phone: (972) 390-1100 Fax: (972) 390-1104 Email: [email protected]
2022 © All Rights Reserved | Website Design By: Intrado | Site Map | Notice of Privacy Practices |Login


Despite freight transport operations being influenced by supply chain dynamics, there has been only a very limited investigation into the impact of demand amplification on this function, with almost no analytical research. This paper aims, through spreadsheet simulation of a generic production control system, to quantify the impact of demand amplification on transport performance. Performance measures evaluated include both transport cost and efficiency. The results in general find a negative relationship between transport performance and demand amplification. It is also found that the ratio of vehicle capacity to average demand affects these results.


In collaboration with Acadio's marketing team, we designed this recombinational customer care package to convey a warm and engaging feel. Given the educational nature of their mission, we had to look both smart and memorable. The mousepad in particular was designed to feel playful and curiosity-provoking.


text:
Can Spain be beaten?
NEWSWorld Championship
On Apr 5, 2017
The eleventh FIM Indoor / X-Trial des Nations takes place this coming Friday in Pau, France, with Spain starting as overwhelming favourites to retain their title. The two-man Spanish team of newly-crowned 2017 FIM X-Trial World Champion Toni Bou – Repsol Honda and Jaime Busto – Repsol Honda carry the expectations of their country on their shoulders.
Since the event was first held in 2002 Spain have remained unbeaten and it is a fact not lost upon nineteen-year-old Busto.
"I think there is a certain pressure on my head," he said, "because the Spanish team has been winning for many years and when you compete you never want to break that streak. In other words, we must do well.
"But having Toni as my team-mate means I hope it will be easy to win. I look forward to doing well and I am very excited to be able to compete to win again the FIM X-Trial des Nations. The level of this competition is usually a bit lower than the World Championship sections so I hope I can also prove my level."
A new ruling introduced in 2016 that one team member must be under twenty-five years old explains why Busto has been selected in favour of more accomplished Spanish riders for the second consecutive year.
Last season he won alongside Adam Raga when Bou, who won his eleventh consecutive FIM X-Trial World Championship in Nice last week, was injured.
The other countries competing include home nation France with Benoit Bincaz – Scorpa and Alexandre Ferrer – Sherco who have finished runners-up for the last two years; Italy represented by Matteo Grattarola – Gas Gas and Luca Petrella – TRS; and the team from Great Britain with James Dabill – Gas Gas and FIM Trial 2 Cup winner Jack Price – Gas Gas.
The field is completed by Germany's Franz Kadlec – Gas Gas and Jarmo Robrahn – Beta.
Of the ten competitors only Bou, Dabill and Kadlec competed in all four rounds of the 2017 FIM X-Trial World Championship with Busto and Ferrer both making wild card appearances, Busto in particular impressing with his fourth-placed finish at round three in Marseille.
Photo – FIM/Good-Shoot
FIM X-Trial des Nations – Key Facts
Spain are unbeaten in the competition and if they win on Friday it will be their 11th consecutive title
The competition was first held in 2002 and has run every year apart from breaks in 2007 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2013
Spain's winning team in 2002 was Adam Raga, Albert Cabestany and Marc Freixa – Raga was 2nd in the 2017 FIM X-Trial World Championship with Cabestany 4th
In 2016 a new ruling was put into place that one team member must be under 25 years of age
Out of the 10 riders 4 – Jack Price, Franz Kadlec, Luca Petrella and Jarmo Robrahn – will be making their FIM X-Trial des Nations debut in Pau
At 31 years of age James Dabill is the oldest competitor in Pau – Jarmo Robrahn at 18 is the youngest
Adam Raga runner up of the FIM X-Trial Championship 2017 with TRS Motorcycles
Trial Magazine and Classic Trial Magazine – Have you Subscribed Yet?


text:
two moms fight to stay together
Shirley Tan came to the United States from the Philippines over two decades ago, fell in love and built a life with her partner Jay, giving birth to twin boys and becoming a full-time mom. The American dream, right? Not quite: On gay pride, watch two moms fight to stay together.
Now, she faces the biggest challenge of her life as she fights to stay in the United States, basically made helpless by laws that don't allow gay and lesbian couples to sponsor their partners. Watch the video above for their story, and find out more at Restore Fairness.


text:
Aqbolagh-e Sadat (, also Romanized as Āqbolāgh-e Sādāt; also known as Aqjah Bulāq and Āqjeh Bolāgh) is a village in Hendudur Rural District, Sarband District, Shazand County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 283, in 63 families.

References

Populated places in Shazand County

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


I was curious if there are any bushcraft, survivalists, outdoor adventurists on the forum?
It's been a part-time hobby of mine since I was young - Extended Hiking, Camping, Exploring, etc. There is a lot of really nice gear, camping supplies, survival tools available here in Switzerland at stores such as transa.ch or galaxus.ch in Zurich. Recently I have been purchasing some new gear for my hiking backpack and have found many great items available here in Europe that were unknown to myself when I lived in America. America has some good stuff as well if you generally avoid the made in China stuff at the big-box stores, but I am more interested in European made gear at this time.
I keep a basic Mammut Creon 35 liter backpack with a good full-tang Swedish knife, fire starter rod, Stainless Steel 750 ml water bottle, a water repelling tarp and some 550 paracord, Suunto Compass and Leatherman in my sack for basics. Of course, being in Switzerland I also keep a mid-sized Victorinox Swiss Army knife with several functions as well.
Not to be confused with a Bug Out Bag, which is more of doomsday survival bag where people buy all kinds of unnecessary and redundant low quality items and think they are going to survive a terrorist attack or the end of the world with some duct tape, a Bic lighter, 20 franc knife and a Redbull, etc. I am referring to the serious outdoors hobbies and being able manage off the land for a couple of days if one had to.
Just curious what some of you serious outdoorsman and women found the most useful for Switzerland and maybe some the surrounding countries like Italy and Germany? Any good local resources for such a hobby in the Zurich area, Swiss TV shows? Must Have Gear recommendations?
Last edited by Sonnenbrand; 25.03.2019 at 13:55.
Re: Bushcraft, Survival, Outdoors Enthusiasts?
Surely, you'd be a better 'survivalist' if you practised without any nice gear and just what you had with you?
But as far as cooking on wood in the forest is concerned - my kids have been doing that here since Kindergarten - as part of the curriculum.
completely agree with you. using a stainless steel bottle feels like cheating to me. i prefer to fashion my own container out of the guts of the animals i kill.
i prefer to fashion my own container out of the guts of the animals enemies i kill.
Yes, your logic is undeniable, as witty and funny as it may be.
They typically practice the same outdoors skills with children in the U.S. as well in many areas of the country. Many kids nowadays are also not so fortunate.
I was throwing the question out there not expecting to get many responses on this forum, but on the forum it can provide a long term topic that is searchable. Meetup would pry lend a better response to meeting like minded persons.
It's boys and girls here. Things have moved on in the world - it's mixed in most countries except the U.S.
I learnt my biouvac building and living of the land in the Scouts.
i might just be out of date. i remember there being the boys scouts and girl guides.
I run private courses for Adults and Children.
I have access to the forestry commission are surronding my home in Neckertal Toggenberg.
1 day introduction course for individuals or groups in English.
Based on the "Lofty Wiseman" P.L.A.N system.
What this is not is Ray Mears style Bushcraft or wilderness living nor is it Bear Grylls style theatrical TV.
The course location and time can be tailored to suit you, it can be in a group or as a Family or individual.
We will examine the true skills required to survive the unexpected and await rescue.
We will look at various types of survival kit - kits - tools & clothing.
For families, what to carry in your car/boat/canoe, on your person.
We can also start a discussion here on the forum prior to training - i'll gladly answer questions on the subject.
I have been practicing the art of Survival & Bushcraft since my youth, I was keen Scout & Scout group leader in the UK.
I am married with 3 children & live near St Gallen.
I would definitely be interested. My wife and I are outdoorsy kindsof people and appreciate someone local. Is there more information, contact details you can provide with direct communication?
As Saiya-jin thought it necessary to groan my post (but then not bothering to add his own post explaining perhaps why he did and why he has a different view), I thought maybe elaborating might help.
For example, I almost always wear an analogue wrist watch (rather than a digital one) because I can also use it as a compass using the watch hands.
I also have navigated using the sun.
I've been in a few 'survival' situations in real life (not sure how much life-or death they actually were as I'm actually still alive so probably not too life-threatening) but I never had any specialist equipment with me.
I make do with knowledge and what I have around me.
A good knowledge of first aid - especially pertinent to the area they are travelling.
A good knowledge of navigation - without relying on smart phones or GPS.
A knowledge of how to stay warm at night.
A knowledge of fires, cooking on them and foraging for food.
How to signal for help.
There's probably more but you get the idea.
Your quite right Tom and these are exactly what I can teach people but don't forget practice makes perfect.
I navigate by smell. West is the most unique.
Is this an attempt at sarcasm, a joke, something really clever or what?
Trueways is good - went with them a few years ago for the survival weekend.


text:
636 – How to make yours a Bestseller: Tom interviews Ray Brehm
I'm here with Ray Brehm. He's the summit guy. And basically this is part two of the behind the scenes technology for the Bestseller Secrets Summit, which we talked about with Derek Decker in the last episode.
[02:29] Tom's introduction to Ray Brehm
[17:20] Promoting to all of your email lists
[18:55] Engaging a global audience and doing things differently
[28:42] Technologies to run this kind of summit
Ray's website – http://thesummitguy.com
Best Seller Secrets Summit – https://www.ScrewTheCommute.com/BestSellerSecretsSummit
Derek Doepker – https://screwthecommute.com/635/
Episode 636 – Ray Brehm
[00:00:24] Hey everybody, it's Tom here with episode 636 of Screw the Commute podcast. I'm here with Ray Brehm. He's the summit guy. And basically this is part two of the behind the scenes technology for the Bestseller Secrets Summit, which we talked about with Derek Decker in the last episode. That was episode 635. And if you missed that, you definitely want to check that out any time you want to get to it back episode you go to screwthecommute.com, slash and then the episode number that was 635 and I'm telling you you probably going to want to share these because the things we're talking about today on this summit, the value you're going to get $1,000,000 worth of free training from the 25 experts that are on there, all highly credentialed folks. So check that out. And now you'll hear a little bit how the thing is actually run from Ray. All right. A little bit of update on our program to get scholarships for persons with disabilities. One of the people has already started a website and he's blind. He's legally blind to help other people with disabilities. And then the other person is totally blind and she's helping her husband revamp his construction site. They're both in the school making great progress. And then we have a school teacher who just got out of school.
[00:01:42] So she's back in our school making great progress. So we're really excited about that. So you can check that out. It's screwthecommute.com/disability and then click on the Go Fund Me account. You'll see the video updates that they've provided. And it's kind of embarrassing when two blind people shoot better videos than I do, I got to tell you. So, any little bit you help with the Go Fund Me campaign is appreciated. Or if you're really flush with cash, you can sponsor a person yourself. And this is a pilot program where I'm proving the concept that I can get these people hired or in their own business or both so they don't have to leave home. And then I'm going to roll it out to big corporations and foundations so I can help hundreds or thousands of people with disabilities. So that's what we're doing here. So help me out if you can.
[00:02:30] All right, let's see. Let's get to the main event here. Ray Brehm, aka the Summit guy, is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal best selling author and founder of Summit Lab and the six figure author Summit Program. Ray, are you ready to screw? The commute?
[00:02:47] Yeah, I'm ready to screw the commute, Tom. I'm thankfully doing it.
[00:02:51] Yeah, yeah, I've been doing it my whole life. I never actually had a job. I know we've just met, but I actually had a nightclub for six years and it was the second biggest one in the state and I lived above it. So technically I had a nightclub in my basement, so. So I really lived that life and we're trying to get that for everybody else. But you've taken an interesting course in your career to concentrate. I know you do a lot of things, but we're specifically talking about summits. And and for those of you out there, don't think you have to be some superstar already to start a summit? I think Ray is going to going to bust that myths for you that you can do that and actually make a quicker rise in your career using summit. So Ray, take it away. Tell us a little bit about how you got into the summit business.
[00:03:39] Well, I've been an entrepreneur probably as long as I can remember kind of one of those stories. But for me, you know, I had a business, a brick and mortar business, not a nightclub. And that was a true work for home from home situation you had there. I had a real estate property management business, but I was starting to moonlight on the side as a book launch guy. And I back middle of 2018, I sold that business, put a bunch of cash in the bank, said Now let's go. And proceeded to blow all the proceeds from the sale of that business over about a year and a half period on Facebook ads and and high end coaches and things. And, you know, I did learn a lot, so that's great. But I hit a wall literally February 2020. And in fact, the first week of March 2020, I had this lunch that I'll never forget March 3rd. And it was just I drove home numb. I didn't I got booted out of an entrepreneur group I was in because I no longer owned that brick and mortar business. It was another reason, but it gave me this. It was this high impact realization that I was out of cash. I needed to figure out how to pay. March is mortgage. You know, we had some assets and things, but it was just it was so stressful mostly because my dream of being the screw the commute guy was suddenly, like, drifting away. And I thought, I'm not making enough money to survive. I just I just ran out of cash in February. What am I going to do? I actually started looking at the wine ads for the first time in about 20 years.
[00:05:11] Oh, don't say the dirty word on this thing. That is spelled Joe. You know what?
[00:05:18] Yeah, you can bleep that out if I do by accident. I mean, it was so. I mean, it was, like, nauseating. Even the thought I'd go out and look, and I would just feel like I was going to throw up as I was looking like maybe I should get. Fortunately for me, one of the last my last acts with some of my last cash a month earlier was to get a program on virtual summits. And now when I came to this realization in this kind of this really down part of my career, this is the low point. I said, you know, I I've already done half these interviews. If you if I bag this summit now and just go get a job, I mean, that's you know, I've ruined my entire career because I've already you know, I've got other interviews lined up. I've done interviews, you know, my name's at risk here. Let's push forward. So we just kind of and you know, in that sense, the pandemic, like I moved everything home. I had an office I was paying for. I moved everything home. We batten down the hatches and things start working out. But within by the end of the month, we started our launch, which is actually this week for you and I and the best seller Secret Summit where we're people can register, they can also purchase the premium pass. The summit doesn't start now for another two and a half days and.
[00:06:33] Well by the time they hear this will be starting within a day or so. Yeah. So it'll be coming right up.
[00:06:37] Yeah, I'm coming right up. And so, but I had no idea. Like, I didn't know. I thought that was something the cool kids did. So I was doing it. And to me, like I was helping people launch books. I had launched at that point probably about 15 books myself, my own books, and but the royalties weren't there. You know, this was this pipe dream that everybody thinks there's you're going to get rich off royalties. You're not. That's just you know, the book is one piece of your of your business online business puzzle. And to me, I thought the summit's the same as a book. It's an authority builder. It's a business card. Maybe I'll make a few friends along the way. Cool. Let's get this done. All the cool kids are doing it. And then we got to figure out a way to make money. Well, what happened was, that week before the summit, which is, you know, like right now you're experiencing it, too, is you're getting emails to from, you know, being a speaker as things happen. Sales started coming in and I was like, Well, wait a second, how does this how can this even be? You know, we made you know, all of a sudden I thought, you know, if I make $500 off this summit, I'll be peachy happy because I'll have some money to buy groceries. All that good stuff. Well, at that end of day one, that very first summit, we surpassed $1,000. And that was day one. That was a week before the summit started. I said, Oh, my gosh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[00:07:53] This is not what I thought. And I went back and did it and I was a math major in college, so this is embarrassing. But I went back in and said, Wait a second, what's going on here? And we were selling premium passes for a discount at $67. Exactly how we're doing it with this summit. And I went back and said, Yeah, you can't make much money selling those things. You know, I got to sell some high ticket things, which was most, most of my business prior. 150 premium past sales at $67 is over 10-K. So I wouldn't say, oh my gosh, that's pretty pronounced, especially when you've got other speakers acting as your marketing and it's it's no cost. And so things started working out pretty well then and multiple beautiful things happen. So one I was making income even before the summit started unexpectedly to. The the people that I spoke to on the summit and this is a perfect example, you and I talking on this podcast, we weren't connected before this, but because we're on the same summit together, I'm co-hosting with Derek. There's the connection there, and there's plenty of things. Within 5 minutes, I know that we could do together to help each other's businesses so that that happens. And that's something that if you try to do that organically with just like a book or just, you know, you're on your own, you got maybe one little course or you've got your podcast. It's, you know, podcasts, a little different podcast is more like summits, but the idea is.
[00:09:23] You can accelerate all these JV partner relationships, all these business relationships where you cross-promote each other's stuff and you do it massively. Because let's say you you do that first summit I did, I had 30 interviews. And so all of a sudden I had 29, 30 new best friends, I should say about three or four people I knew in the beginning. Well, you know, I went back. So anyway, the summit we that first summit I ended up and you're you know, everybody's situation is different. Your mileage will vary. But I did I did $12,126 in sales. And I was like, whoa, this is what I thought books would do for me when I was starting. And that's kind of why I got into book launching and helping people. And I said this, you know, a book obviously plays this important role, get connects you with people. But this summit, I can actually make money, I can build partnerships. I get I built an email list. I added 8000 emails to my list within the first two summits. And the second summit was just a was a second edition of the first summit where I added 15 more speakers and got it up to 45, which I wouldn't recommend that that's too many. But so, you know, I built an email, I'm like, wait a second, I built an email list. I've made all these partnerships that we and I went back and tracked them, these partnerships I made over that first year, it's pretty incredible. And I made sales and then something else happened.
[00:10:51] I was getting all these emails. People were like, Thank you so much. This was great information. Thank you so much. And so the day the summer was over, I, you know, we'd done 12,001 or 26 about I'd say 4000 that was due in commissions to the affiliates. So but it was still an amazing accomplishment. And I thought, this is really cool. I woke up that next morning. I said, you know, I just kind of feel like my authority has gone up and I call it peak authority now because I know better. But at the time I'm like, I think I should offer something else. I don't know what, but I think I should. Well, I had just made an offer for 1000 product 45 days earlier and I said, How can I even offer that? Again, I just offered it. And you know, my list has already seen it per say. So I said, But you know what? I've got the emails and it was an email to a sales page offer. Nothing else involved for $1,000. I sold 19 of them in five days after that first summit. So now, you know, it's like I just I mean, I kept walking into the kitchen and, you know, this from this is a screw the commute thing is like I walk in the kitchen with this goofy grin on my face, my wife, like saying, you made it. You make another sale. I'm like, yeah, yeah, make these these thousand now thousand dollars sales are coming in with. So that three week period, two.
[00:12:11] Weeks she decided to stay then.
[00:12:12] Right? Huh. Yeah. She's like, okay, as long as you have that goofy grin when you come in here, I'll stay one more day. But so, you know, that's two weeks of summit time, one week of this this thousand dollar promotion and this $31,126, something like that. And I so I looked back and said, you know, this is crazy because not it wasn't all new people on my list either from the summit that bought that. There were other people that were already on my list that saw me hosting the summit, saw me speaking to these, you know, big names like you that now they're like, Wow, Ray's more legit than I thought. You know, I've been I've just been on his list and, you know, he's okay. But then they saw me interview all these people, and that changed in their mind, their opinion of me. So I had never experienced a three week period, especially if you you could argue a kind of a I had done some high ticket sales where I had to do a lot of work. This was a 31,000 payday for for the fulfillment was already done. So, you know, and then I got into it, one of my speakers came to me and said, Dad, your summit looks so good. And I just did mine a couple of months ago. Can you rerun mine with your template and build it out for me? And I said, sure.
[00:13:34] And we worked out a deal. And then the next thing I know, he says, okay, you and I are partnering and selling done for you summits. So we went on and did that, started a done for you some company and that's kind of how it all started. But I went back and tracked he was one of my number one affiliates and that other top four and the gross revenue we generated, whether I promoted their webinars, they promoted mine over the next year from that very first summit was we did 56,000 places, two through 4 to 56 and I did over 150 with the top guy. So in all it was some 243,000 that it generated just from sticking it out and and doing that first summit. And I said, this is nuts. I can help. And I was in the. My list was all authors. I was in the role of helping authors perform better and get past this. Oh, I. I failed because I'm getting $20 a month in royalties. Not true. That's pretty much what everybody's getting. And in fact, the theme of my summit was called Book Profit School. And I was my goal in every interview is to figure out, hey, how are you making money on the back end? Because I saw these people that were high profile and their books were ranked below mine.
[00:14:50] And I knew how much money my books are making and it wasn't much. And I'm like, Their books are making less than mine. So how are they doing this? And every interview became about, you know, started sharing the same ideas. You've got to build an email list. You've got to connect with influencers, you've got to create sources of income. And it just kept repeating itself. Yet they were from all different places. So, you know, I interviewed Stu McLaren from he's from the membership world, Danny Ene from the course world and Nick Stephenson. Derek Dekker is of course one of my first interviews. And Derek, you know, we're co-hosting a summit today. This is how powerful summit can be. I have. I, I tell this story often. It's been a few years now, but I recall I remember vividly that I was about to press the button to try to friend him on Facebook when I was starting out and I chickened out and waited 24 hours, you know, just just a friend, because I'm like, what if he doesn't accept it or ignores it? And, you know, and now it's like, why wouldn't he take you know? But now we're co-hosting a summit together because, you know, I took that initiative. But that can you can really accelerate that.
[00:15:59] You can accelerate friendships. It's like you and I you and I just chatted a bit before this podcast. We'll probably chat afterwards. We may come up with some ideas. I've come up with product ideas, live on interviews. Yeah, some of the some because it's just it's it's such a great way to build friendships with like minded people. And so for me, I saw that as okay, but it, it is a little difficult to do. Can I help people do that? And so now it's moved to the point where I've got a course. I'm, I'm constantly testing. So I two months ago I did a a co hosted my first co host summit. So I'm doing some of these partnerships. And. I shouldn't say that's the first one because I've done one for a couple of years with Paul Brody. But anyway, I've got co-hosts I've got done for you clients. Some clients can take it and run. Just from taking our course or even just reading a book about it. So it's been very, very exciting for me. And so we're constantly I've got a full fall schedule of summits. A lot a lot of them are co hosting. Some are, you know, I'm just producing for clients and, you know, we're constantly tweaking things to try to make them better.
[00:17:20] Let's get into some of the details of this one I mentioned to you. Maybe it was before we started that, you know, I kind of avoided him for years. I mean, I got ten of them a week. People were begging me to come on and and the way many of them were run was that, yeah, they came after me because I had a big email list and then I ethically actually promoted the thing. But then all the other speakers were like, Oh man, we can just suck off the other guy's list and we won't really promote. And I had really a super big name guy, you know, say I'll promote, yeah, I'll do it. And then and then he promoted to like 1/100 of his list and said, Oh, I did promote it, you know, but I could only promote it to this little thing. So I was asking Derek about that because, you know, you've got to be careful who you put on these because they'll just suck rather than contribute. Yeah.
[00:18:14] Yep, that's true. And I'll tell you, I mean, we're never I've never had 100% performance. Yeah. I mean, there's always somebody whether they forget or they just ghost. Yeah. But to me and, and, but I am super conscious of that. Like, I don't invite anybody back if they're not going to, of course, you know, help out. And it's okay if something came up or you told me ahead of time. Hey, Ray, I've got this other thing going right then, you know, I'm like, well, you know, I still want the content, but if it's kind of like, you know, you're there's interaction and then you disappear. Yeah, ghost me. Then it's like, well, okay, all right, all right.
[00:18:55] Now the other thing that the reason I put an email out today said this is the best summit I've ever been part of. And for one very specific reason, you know, all of them had good content and good people and so forth, but you had to get up early and sit there all day, like three or four days in a row, and who's got that kind of time, you know? So, yeah, so you have your structured a different way. Tell them about it.
[00:19:25] Well, you know, for one, we want a global audience, right? So we get somebody in Australia shouldn't have to get up at two in the morning to watch these live, live streams or whatever they are. What we do is we release that day's video on demand and you go and you pick. The other thing is, you know, if you've been in a live event, it's like, okay, I got it. What should I do for these two other sessions until I get to the one I want to go have lunch or I can go sit there and listen or I can go chat in the back and annoy people, whatever. And so here it is, like you can watch them in the order you want. So basically we released them on demand. That day's page shows up. It's available for 48 hours. You can watch them whatever order you want, any time of day you want for those 48 hours. And, you know, so everybody around the world has got 48 hours to watch them. It's not only 12 hours or during the middle of the night for the the other side of the world.
[00:20:16] Yeah. So that's the first one and I've been on like that and that's just awesome. And then the other thing I was wondering about is I think, you know, I got a lot of stuff going right. So I haven't paid 100% attention to this thing. But, but I thought I saw where a, a speaker can give a digital bonus and it would be delivered automatically. Is that true?
[00:20:43] Yeah. So we in this case, it's really easy. We're using Thrive Cart as the affiliate platform and there's basically just a pulldown menu in in when you log in to your affiliate console and just says you want to add a bonus to people who buy through your link, and then you just you can either put a link to whatever that bonus is in there, it'll thrive, kind of deliver it to them. So they buy through your, you know, if they buy through your affiliate link, it also gives them an email with that whatever pieces, which is why for a few years now I've been adding my courses. Thrive Cart now has a course platform since about a year ago and I've been adding my courses there so that I can just quickly because then if they're on the Thrive card platform, I can also just connect to a course and say, hey, if you buy through mine, you also are going to get this other course of mine that I got out there. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. So just make it as automated as possible. Because I'll tell you, I mean, as you know, one of the things is like we've pulled back. We used to send you this ten page document, here's your instructions for the affiliates. And it's like, Oh, my God.
[00:21:52] Yeah. Like I said, I barely could pay attention to it. With the brief version.
[00:21:58] Right. That should be cut down to. I mean, really, it should be. And I've made notes of this is hey, here's the you know, there's a section that has bullet points. Here's some of the ideas you're going to learn, you know, some of the bullet points about the talks and or and here's a list of other people on it. That's all I should probably put out there, let everybody craft their own emails. But some people like to like just get a shell going. But the the idea is, you know, I don't want to be giving my these new friends of mine, these speakers that are going to promote homework. You know, it's just like, I want this to be as easy as possible. And so we're always kind of trying to think through how we do that. And that's I.
[00:22:41] Jumped at the to the swipe thing just and then 2 seconds I said, Oh, I'm just going to write my.
[00:22:46] I did. Yeah.
[00:22:48] I might have. I think I wrote four lines and I just go to this link.
[00:22:53] Well, you're four lines were affected, you know, cause you came out of nowhere into the standings. I was like the OG you are.
[00:23:02] I was telling Ray he doesn't really know me. But, you know, I laughed when I saw the leaderboard because he says Tom Antion came out of nowhere. Yeah, only 28 and a half years working on this stuff. I could have quit 20 years ago. Right? I'm just, well, crazy. And I.
[00:23:20] But, you know, your first email had, you know, you jumped right up to the top of the leaderboard. And and that's the beautiful thing. And so.
[00:23:28] That's email. That's email. That's why when I went and researched you a little bit, I saw all these books. I say, Well, see, I have 25 books, but nobody hardly knows about them except the people on my email list, and they buy them like crazy. So I get a little bit lazy. But you have a prolific catalog of, of books that you've written and they're up there. But sometimes I just don't even get around. I just put an email out and people buy them.
[00:23:54] Well, I'll tell you, that's a great point. And that's why building an email list and your build your authority on the platform like this or, you know, on a summit, I can sell books easy. After a summit I had we do these anthology books so people will pay to write a chapter. We make sure it's a best seller on Amazon, all that fancy stuff. Now I put one out, we launched one in July coaching Inc and I, you know, I was I was getting the promotions and the advertising all together and getting ready to send them all off. And I go to check to get the link from the book and I'm like, Well, it's already a bestseller. And I'm like, I'm still going to I mean, I'm still going to pay for this stuff, I guess, but I don't even need to do the work because it just starts catching on with everybody. In fact, I don't even know that I had sent an email about it yet, but I that that day I sent an email and said, this is crazy, you know, so I just sent an email to my list.
[00:24:56] Yeah, that's that's the way it works. That's why even the social media, I don't look like I'm very substantial at all in social media. But I lived through MySpace where there was the biggest, biggest, baddest thing and it disappeared off the face of the earth. So I that my whole career has been get him the heck off of whatever platform that doesn't belong to you and get him onto an email list that does belong to you. That's the that's another way. I've just churned that out over year after year after year.
[00:25:25] If everybody on this podcast listened to one thing and all of your episodes, that is it. Just get the people to your world to where you control access to. And and that really, to me, all these summits I'm doing, it's worth it. If it's just if I all I got was the emails. Yeah, that is worth it.
[00:25:44] Exactly. All right. Well, we got to take a brief sponsor break. Right. And when we come back, we'll we'll see how to get a hold of Ray. And we'll hear a little bit more about this summit that's coming up. But if you're ready to sign up, folks, I will tell you, like I said, people know that I don't hype stuff up, overly hype stuff up. This is the best one I have ever been on and participate in. And when I participate, I just do my thing and that's the end of it. But from the audience point of view, this is what I'm so excited about that you do not have to sit there day and night and you don't have to miss it if you're in another country. It's beautiful. So go get your free ticket at Screwthecommute.com/BestSellerSecretsSummit and you can sign up right away and you'll start getting info from Ray and Derek. Derek Decker was the one that's partnering with Ray on this. And, and when you see the lineup of people and the topics covered.
[00:26:49] Oh, my.
[00:26:49] God. I mean, it's really a. Really powerful. And then, hey, while we're at it, if you know most of you on the line know about my mentorship program, it's the longest running, most successful, most unique ever in the field of Internet and digital marketing. I've been running since 1997 or so. I also have the longest running, continuously running Internet and digital marketing seminar ever. Ray probably doesn't know about that either called bootcamp, and that's the actual name. It's not a misspelled bootcamp because I sit on my rear end to make all this money. So I didn't want to do a boot camp because Ray because I have a comic background. So people were begging me to teach this stuff and I said, I can't call it a boot camp. Everybody calls it a boot camp. And that's when I came up with boot camp. And I've done them in 11 countries around the world. But but in England, Ray, they made me call it Bum Camp instead of Butt Camp. So, folks, check it out at greatInternetmarketingtraining.com. It's one on one with me and my entire staff. You have a visit to the greater net marketing retreat center in Virginia Beach. We have our TV studio here where we shoot videos for you. I mean, it's got massive things and then the way we charge for it is different than kind of made all the other gurus mad in that they wanted 50 or 100 grand up front where I charge an entry fee and then I tie my success to your success. So for me to get my 50 grand, you have to net 200 grand and guess what, 1700 students later, people like that idea. So check it out at greatInternetmarketingtraining.com and also write down your ticket for the the summit at screw the sitcom slash best seller secrets summit. And that'll be in the show notes.
[00:28:42] All right, back to the main event. We got Ray Brehm here. Ray is the kind of the brains behind this summit methodology. So what kind of technology you got to have to run one of these things, right?
[00:28:54] Well, that's the beauty of it, is it can fit any budget. So, for instance, you know, we're obviously we're giving access to the videos day one for 48 hours from Monday. That would end Wednesday morning, Tuesday, Thursday morning, so forth that I mean those we use I use Kamara we're using Thrive card for the affiliates, but you could put the videos on Vimeo or Dropbox and just turn them on and off access. You know, after 48 hours, if you wanted to do it manually wouldn't cost you a thing you could.
[00:29:23] Email is cheap.
[00:29:25] Too, right? Right. And so, you know, if you probably already got a platform where you can host them and you know, you can do that, you can send emails to people that come in. Obviously, the better job you do, making it look professional, that's going to help you attract the right speakers you want.
[00:29:43] And back on the page. Did you make yourself. Yes, yourself? Yeah. Yeah, that looked very nice. It's I'm sure it's converting well.
[00:29:51] And it's you know, we tweak it every time, but we use a kind of a Common Core template and then we put the new art and colors and copy and everything. So it's just the format, you know, has worked well. And, you know, one of the things we do is when you register, we give you a significant discount. So the premium pass, like in this case of this summit, if you want to keep all the videos, it's $97. But when you register, we're saying, hey, it's $67 for the next 15 minutes if you want it. And by the way, you could turn it back in and get your money back in 30 days. So, you know, it's really low risk. Well, we 95 to 98% of the people grab it in the first 15 minutes.
[00:30:32] So, I mean, it's $1,000,000 worth of training easy. I mean, it's just crazy deal. Yeah. And and, you know, you won't be able to absorb for, what is it, four or five days of four or five speakers a day. And you'll want to refer back to these things. So highly suggest you upgrade to that for 67 bucks. Meet my guy. You can't talk to me for 5 minutes. For 67 bucks. So do it. So how. How do people work with you?
[00:31:02] Yeah. So I've, I've got a site called the Summit Guy and if you're interested in summits, you can get the I've got a free book on there called Virtual Summits Made Easy. I've got a course actually called Virtual Summits for authors, although that really applies to any entrepreneurs. Both of those are free. You can get them on thesummitguy.com.
[00:31:26] Yes. Yep. And that's a great place to start. And really, you know, when you look at it now, as you recall from my story, I couldn't believe it. I you know, I did $19,000 in sales of a what I would call now a core offer after the summits. And when we both of those the book, the core, the free course on there, we talk about that. It's like before you even begin their summit, we want to know what happens the week after the summit, you know, so starting with the end in mind and then we build backwards. So if, you know, if you want to sell your underwater basket weaving course after the summit, then you go back, you step back and say, well, who you know, you're not necessarily going to do a summit on underwater basket weaving, but you might do a summit on. No alternative. A better. I'll give you a better example if I'm a yoga coach and I've got a yoga class. And I might go back. I don't need to do a summit on yoga and get all yoga instructors. They're not going to want to share their, you know, the summit because they don't want to lose their clients or whatever. But I can do kind of a a healthy mind, healthy body summit and I can bring in meditation experts and and visualization experts, all these people that have the same audiences that would be interested in my yoga class after the fact.
[00:32:44] And so that's how we backtrack and build summits. And, you know, in this case, are summits highly targeted towards authors and or aspiring authors and in digital entrepreneurs? And the funny thing is, when I did that first summit, it was called Book Profit School. I thought, well, I'm only going to get people who've actually published a book, launched it, and realized their royalties aren't going to be created to make them independently wealthy and financially secure. That wasn't the case. 85% of the people who registered and even bought premium passes, they hadn't even written their book yet, but they wanted to know the end game. And so we make it appealing to them. And you know, what's great about this is we talk about all the different ways to get, in your case, podcasting. We you know, how, you know, not only how you get best seller, how you run ads, but how do you how do you make good videos? How do you make your book good? You know, there's just such a variety.
[00:33:44] Of yeah, there's so much.
[00:33:45] Content.
[00:33:47] I was the headliner at Author 101 and then after that was after the mark Victor Hansen mega seminars and and all the time the this speakers will say yeah I'm going to start marketing after I write my book. And I'm like, No, you're making a big mistake. It should mark a year before you write the.
[00:34:08] Book.
[00:34:09] Right? People begging for it when the book comes out. So, so anyway. Yeah, there's tons of stuff you can see over there at the site, folks. Screwthecommute.com/bestsellersecretssummit. All right, Ray. Well, thanks so much for coming on. And so so the summit guide is the best way to get in touch with you.
[00:34:28] Yep. And you can, you know, you can go there and simply jump on my Virtual Summit Secrets newsletter, which is basically my daily email. You'll get on that even if you download the book or the course and you know, if. And then from there you can always hit reply to an email and chat with me. I'm trying to get through all the replies we're getting from the summit, as you know, after this, before this podcast, after this podcast and in between, because we get a lot of good people just replying and super excited.
[00:34:55] Yeah, no, I know you're busy. So. And folks just keep in mind, you do not have to already be a superstar to do this. The if you're just beginning, you can put together a bunch of superstars and then you're rubbing elbows with the superstars so you can be at all levels and put one of these together. So, Ray, thanks so much for coming on, man.
[00:35:15] Tom, I really appreciate. It's been fun. And you are the OG man.
[00:35:20] I'm the OG. All right, folks, we'll catch you on the next episode and I will see you at the best seller Secrets Summit. Catch you later.


Jake Owen is in tune with his his inner Garth Brooks.
While visiting the syndicated radio show the Bobby Bones Show for Joy Week, Owen delivered his best rendition of the Brooks classic "Unanswered Prayers."
Joy Week is a celebration which was created to spread joy and love among listeners and to the community. Several artists stopped by Bones' studio for the cause, also paying tribute to songs they know and love, and artists they admire. The Band Perry did their take on "Trumpets" by Jason Derulo and there was at least one "Uptown Funk," but Owen kept it country.
The "What We Ain't Got" hitmaker tried his hand at the 1990 hit which was a No. 1 for Books in his heyday. If you close your eyes and listen to the audio, you may even think it's the icon himself singing the tune.
While on the show, Owen pulled another song from Brooks' huge collection, performing "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" as a bonus. The two songs find him channeling his inner Brooks; Owen is known for being good at impressions, and this instance is no exception.
Bones praised Owen's cover when he finished singing, but Owen wasn't as impressed with himself, admitting, "I kinda messed up."
Trust us, you won't think Owen messed up one bit.
Next: Jake Owen Cut All of His Hair Off Again!


SIMONE SHUBUCK: Do You Like Old Things or New Things That Look Old?
In celebration of the the gallery's new Culver City location,Taylor De Cordoba is pleased to present Do You Like Old Things, or New Things That Look Old?, a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Simone Shubuck. The exhibition will run from April 27 – June 1, 2013 with an opening reception for the artist on Saturday, April 27th from 6 – 8PM.
"Do you like old things, or new things that look old?" is a question Shubuck heard a teenage boy ask his friend many years ago. The idea resonated with her and became the inspiration for this current exhibition. With her new series of energetic works on paper, Shubuck considers our relationship with the past and acknowledges that oftentimes what we think of as "new" are really old ideas re-imagined, recycled or "knocked off." While the present moment is defined by an ever accelerating pace of innovation, the past is always close at hand providing inspiration and perspective.
Using analog materials of paper, pencil, crayon and paint, the artist communicates using a visual language rooted in floral and plant life. Collaging old drawings, antique photographs and lithographs into the work gives her a path to directly and physically embrace the past. Dense areas of detailed linework and fluid, abstract gestural fields of color create a palpable push and pull in the work. Focusing on this tension makes Shubuck's latest body of work feel completely new.
Simone Shubuck lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993 and has exhibited at numerous galleries included Susie Q. Zurich (Switzerland), Jack Hanley Gallery (San Francisco), Kantor Feuer (Los Angeles) and Zach Feuer Gallery (New York). Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This is her first exhibition with Taylor De Cordoba.
Posted in Exhibition, Past, Simone Shubuck | Comments Off on SIMONE SHUBUCK: Do You Like Old Things or New Things That Look Old?
Come meet gallery artist Frohawk Two Feathers.
Frohawk is also on exhibit at the museum until June 9, 2013 in Gallery North.
You are currently browsing the Taylor De Cordoba blog archives for March, 2013.


text:
Vishwaroopam Mired In Serious Controversies Or Are They Simply Marketing Gimmicks?
By Shruti Kesavan:
How often do we come across an Indian movie which is the first to utilize Auro 3D sound technology or the nation's first to be released film on a Direct to Home (DTH) connection? Not very often I'd assume and yet the movie Vishwaroopam has been in the limelight for more negative reasons than positive. The movie has been written, directed and co-produced by Padma Bhushan award winner, Mr. Kamal Hasan. It is an Indian spy thriller which has been made in three languages simultaneously, namely Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. The Telugu version is a dub of the Tamil version.
Vishwaroopam, Kamal Hassan's dream child, goes on the lines of the Mission Impossible series and is expected to earn 350 crore rupees from the music and the other distribution sources alone. The movie stars Mr Hasan himself along with other lesser-known actors like Pooja Kumar, Jaideep Ahlawat, seasoned actors like Rahul Bose and a singer cum actress Andrea Jeremiah. The movie has been extensively shot in the United States, Canada, Chennai and Mumbai.
The first official teaser of the movie was out on May Day in 2012, which was a part of their marketing strategy and was also aired as a one minute trailer in an award ceremony which saw Kamal Hasan and Andrea. The movie was set to be released on January 25th across India but did not see the light of day for many reasons some of which are mentioned briefly.
The first controversy which sparked off right with the naming of the movie was with respect to the Hindu Makkal Katchi which literally translates to the Hindu People's Party. In June 2012, the movie makers ran into trouble with the party in Tamil Nadu, as they claimed that Mr Hasan was being anti-Tamil by naming the movie with a Sanskrit word and not a Tamil word. The same party had also opposed his previous movie on the same lines showing they have nothing against the movie but simply something against the actor himself.
The second controversy in no specific order was the decision of Mr Hasan to release the movie on the DTH connections, which would directly reach the homes of millions across the country by simply paying a menial fee of rupees one thousand. This marketing strategy was not taken well by the theatre owners as it boiled down to them standing a loss if this strategy was adopted by all movie makers as a part of their marketing gimmicks. The show was said to be aired eight hours before its release on the large screens which was scheduled on the 11th of January.
When the owners said that it was putting their money and jobs at jeopardy, Mr Hasan was quick to retort with his side of the argument which stated that the proposed fee would actually attract more audience to the theatres. This however failed to cut the ice among the theatre owners. The issue was blown out of proportion to such an extent that the intervention of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalitha was sought to resolve the problem. When Mr Hasan was asked about this issue in an interview on 'The Bollywood Show' he confidently remarked saying that there were 400 theatres which were still going to release the movie in Tamil Nadu.
If these controversies were not sufficient enough, there came the moral brigade of the Muslims protesting and creating a ruckus out of the whole issue stating that they were being portrayed in bad light in the plot. "The screening of the movie will affect the social harmony in the state. We plan to meet the Home Secretary besides moving to the Censor Board" stated M.H Jawahirullah, MLA and President of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagan. He also continued to say that the movie would affect the social harmony among the different communities and change the way people see the Muslims. Based on these allegations, the state of Tamil Nadu and many other places like Hyderabad and the UAE have banned the movie for a long time to come. The banning of the movie was also owing to the collision of the movie's release date with the Muslim festival Milad-ul—Nabi.
If you thought that this would discourage Mr Hasan's fans from going and watching the movie, you would have sadly been mistaken. The Tamil movie fraternity shown complete solidarity with Mr Hasan and his movie and this includes actor Mr Rajnikanth who has been Mr Hasan's friend for almost 40 long years. He also stated that "He (Hasan) would never hurt anyone or their sentiments".
The Madras High Court banned the movie up until another two weeks in Tamil Nadu but the fans clearly don't have the patience to wait for so long. It was reported that the people of Tamil Nadu travelled all the way to Palghat in Kerala to watch the movie, clearly defying the ban. Fans are ready to travel as far as Kannur and the other western districts in Tamil Nadu, just to get a glimpse of the film. All this is sufficient to say that the ban is more of a political issue than anything else.
On the downside, the movie has already been released in Singapore and other regions in India on Thursday itself which triggers fears that pirated versions of the film might reach the places in which it has been banned. The movie was said to make a collection of rupees 350 crore, but the ban is to have its long lasting effect on the box office collections as well.
To conclude, a movie is a form of art which is to be watched, cherished and enjoyed. The politicizing of issues such as this only shows how democracy and the right to express are being misused for the benefit of certain individuals or communities. When movies like Shaurya and My name is Khan spoke about Muslims in the good light, they were unseen and unheard of. Movies like Bombay or even Roja were huge hits irrespective of whom they were portraying and how. Then why is this movie being questioned? Is it that huge banners are being questioned to stir communal discord as they cater to a larger audience and fan following, or is it just a source of cheap publicity?


text:
Accueil Tous les numéros Volume 63 / Numéro 5 (September-October 2008) Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Rev. IFP, 63 5 (2008) 657-667 Références
Experimental Study on Hydrate Induction Time of Gas-Saturated Water-in-Oil Emulsion using a High-Pressure Flow Loop
Discussion of Agglomeration Mechanisms between Hydrate Particles in Water in Oil Emulsions
Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Rev. IFP, Vol. 64 (2009), No.5, pp. 629-636
Experimental investigations on tetrahydrofuran – methane – water system: Rapid methane gas storage in hydrates
Methane Hydrate Formation and Dissociation in the Presence of Silica Sand and Bentonite Clay
Rheological and Flow Properties of Gas Hydrate Suspensions
Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Rev. IFP, Vol. 59 (2004), No.1, pp. 41-57
Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Rev. IFP
Volume 63, Numéro 5, September-October 2008
https://doi.org/10.2516/ogst:2008032
Sloan E.D. (1998) A Statistical Thermodynamic Approach to Hydrate Phase Equilibria: Clathrate Hydrates of Natural Gases, 2th edition, Marcel Dekker, New York. [Google Scholar]
Englezos P. (1993) Clathrate hydrates, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 32, 7, 1251-1274. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Kvamme B. (1996 ) A new theory for the kinetics of hydrate formation, 2th International conference on gas hydrates proceedings, Toulouse, France, June 2-6. [Google Scholar]
Kvamme B. (2000) A Unified Nucleation Theory for the Kinetics of Hydrate Formation, Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 912, 496-501. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Kashchiev D.,Firoozabadi A. (2003) Induction time in crystallization of gas hydrates, J. Cryst. Growth 250, 499-515. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Lee J.D.,Susilo R.,Englezos P. (2005) Methane–ethane and methane–propane hydrate formation and decomposition on water droplets, Chem. Eng. Sci. 60, 4203-4212. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Rodger P.M. (2000) Methane- hydrate: Melting and memory, Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 912, 474-782. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Thompson H.,Alan K.S.,Buchanan P.,Aldiwan N.,Creek J.L.,Koh C.A. (2006) Methane hydrate formation and decomposition: Structural studies via neutron diffraction and empirical potential structure refinement, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 164507-1-7. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Kashchiev D. (2000) Overall Crystallization: Nucleation, Basic Theory with Applications, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford. [Google Scholar]
Volmer M. (1939) Kinetic Analysis of Typical Special Cases with Experimental Verification: Kinetics of Phase Formation (Kinetik der Phasenbildung), Steinkopff, Dresden. [Google Scholar]
Mullin J.W. (1997) Crystal growth: Crystallization, Butterworth- Heinemann, Oxford. [Google Scholar]
Kashchiev D.,Firoozabadi A. (2002) Nucleation of gas hydrates, J. Cryst. Growth 243, 476-489. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Anklam M.R.,Firoozabadi A. (2004) Driving force and composition for multicomponent gas hydrate nucleation from supersaturated aqueous solutions, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 23, 11867-11875. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
Van der Waals J.H.,Platteeuw J.C. (1959) Clathrate Solutions, Adv. Chem. Phys. 2, 1, 1-57. [Google Scholar]
Parrish W.R.,Prausnitz J.M. (1972) Dissociation pressures of gas hydrates formed by gas mixtures, Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Design Development 11, 26, 26-35. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Soave G. (1972) Equilibrium constants from a modified Redlich- Kwong equation of state, Chem. Eng. Sci. 27, 6, 1197-1203. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Bird R.C., Prausnitz J.M., Poling B.E. (1987) Diffusion Coefficients: The properties of gases and liquids, 4th edition, Mc Graw Hill book company, New York. [Google Scholar]


Look through the listings of Member members here at Native American Personals that are tagged with Vegan. Meeting others that have like minded interests is a pefect way to find things to do on a first date. Register for a 100% Free Profile to Meet Someone Tonight!


⬅ Putters – Cut and Boo….
FEELING The Clubhead – The Hidden Edge….
Almost everyone who I have done a fitting for lately has received some significant benefits from identifying the right weight feel for their clubs. And it does not go one way only – sometimes adding more weight is the key, sometimes reducing weight is what makes the clubs pay better.
1. Adding 8 grams of head weight to irons and seeing ball flight trajectory increase significantly.
2. Adding just a few grams to a club and seeing impact go from off center to dead in the center of the club.
3. Increasing the MOI of a driver and learning that the player can now "feel" the head and control it.
I think all of this makes sense……………..but I think for a reason you may not think. I think we all inside are attempting as best as possible to hit the golf ball on the center of all of our clubs. And we do the best we can to adjust our swings with the clubs we have to make this happen. But when we get the RIGHT club weight feel, then we allow ourselves to "go on automatic" in terms of hitting the golf ball – center contact becomes effortless, more distance and consistency results.
I am working to get some new equipment into my fitting in the next month or so. When I do, I will be able to measure how open the clubface is at impact, and what the actual path of the club is as it approaches the ball. Once I can do that I will be more easily able to see how club head weight and also shaft weight affect club path and club head contact with the ball.
Bottom line…………..just a few GRAMS of head weight can result in significant improvements in ball striking!


CVA actuators utilise Rotork's innovative and well established 'non-intrusive' communication technology for actuator programming and adjustment. Actuator set-up and configuration is performed using a Bluetooth® enabled PDA or PC running Rotork Enlight software. Every CVA incorporates an onboard data logger, enabling operational data such as valve torque profiles, dwell times, actuator events and statistics to be downloaded for detailed investigation and diagnosis. After analysis, any required configuration changes can be uploaded into to the actuator.
The CVA installed at Wakefield is on the inlet of the bottle filling machine, similar to the one shown above. Basically there are two operation modes and the CVA plays an important part in both.
The CVA controls this pressure in a PID controlled system, the set point being 4 Bar. This not only saves on power consumption and improved control but also lowers the compressed air consumption.
The CVA controls this pressure in a PID controlled system, the set point being 1.5 Bar. As stated above, the performance of the CVA is much better than the pneumatic actuator as the CVA does not overshoot the set point.