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Understanding Drug Addiction Withdrawal
When it comes to alcoholism and drug addiction, going cold turkey is not the right option for many. Supervised detox is usually safer and may be the best route for you or your loved one.
Linda Foster
Medically Reviewed by Cynthia Haines, MD
Treatment for alcoholism or drug addiction involves undergoing therapy to help you mentally and physically recover from the addiction. In order to get better, you must physically "cleanse" your body of the substance. To avoid a life-threatening reaction brought on by withdrawal from alcoholism or drug addiction, it's best to seek professional help instead of trying to go it alone.
Ending Drug Addiction: Withdrawal and Detox
Withdrawal — stopping alcohol or drug use — can be extremely dangerous if done on your own, which is why a carefully administered plan for detoxification is the safest way to end your drug or alcohol addiction.
According to James Garbutt, MD, professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and research scientist at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, "Everyone is going to have to go through detoxification to withdraw from a substance. The question is, when is it medically dangerous and when does it require medical oversight?"
Withdrawal from many drugs can bring symptoms such as agitation, sweating, an inability to sleep, and high blood pressure. Opiate and narcotic withdrawal symptoms can be among the most difficult. Opiates and narcotics are classes of drugs that include heroin, codeine, Demerol (meperidine), and Oxycontin (oxycodone), which are taken to achieve a sense of euphoria in those who abuse them.
Other substances that tend to cause more severe withdrawal symptoms, and potentially life-threatening symptoms, are barbiturates, alcohol, and benzodiazepines, according to Stephen Gilman, MD, an addiction psychiatry specialist in New York City. "Withdrawal from these substances should be handled in a hospital."
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Drug Addiction: Symptoms of Withdrawal
Symptoms of withdrawal depend on the object of the addiction. The following symptoms may result:
For alcohol: sweating, anxiety, tremors, fluctuations in blood pressure and heart rate, seizures, delirium tremens (the "DTs" — a state of extreme agitation, hallucinations, hyperactivity, tremors, and confusion), psychosis and, adds Dr. Gilman, "ultimately death if not treated by a professional."
For opiates/narcotics: anxiety, insomnia, dilated pupils, increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, nausea, and vomiting.
For stimulants, such as cocaine: excessive tiredness and depression.
For barbiturates (such as Amytal, Nembutal, Seconal): nausea, fast breathing, increased heart rate, tremors, muscle pain, insomnia, hallucinations, convulsions, and delirium. If withdrawal is not monitored, the consequence could be death.
For benzodiazepines (such as Xanax, Librium, Valium): delirium, muscle twitches, hallucinations, sensitivity to light, sound, taste, and smell, ringing in the ears, tingling, numbness, and insomnia.
Ending Drug Addiction With Medication
Another reason detox in a controlled setting is important: Medical professionals can administer medications to ease withdrawal symptoms. Ironically, sometimes these are the same drugs that are being abused.
Alcohol withdrawal is treated with long-acting benzodiazepines, such as Valium (diazepam) or Librium (chlordiazepoxide).
For opiate (heroin) withdrawal, treatment with buprenorphine (Buprenex, Suboxone, Subutex) has shown a lower rate of relapse for some patients. Clonidine, methadone, and ReVia (naltrexone) are other common drugs used for this purpose.
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Barbiturate or benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms can be treated with phenobarbital (Solfoton, Luminal) or chlorpromazine hydrochloride, or with a "step-down" approach of using reduced amounts of the sedatives themselves. The dose of the medications would be tapered down over a set period of time.
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Treatment for stimulant withdrawal includes Valium and antidepressant medications such as Norpramin (desipramine) that increase the production of neurotransmitters to compensate for the loss of appetite, depression, and insomnia.
For more information on each of these drugs, visit the EverydayHealth Drugs A-Z database.
Bottom line: "Anyone addicted to any substance should seek medical advice for assistance with withdrawal," says Gilman. Choosing a targeted addiction treatment plan will address all the important aspects of recovering from addiction and give you the framework you need for success.
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Poly-Crete HF
Hungry for Change on Food Facility Floor
With a tagline as confident as "Bring your appetite," the Black Angus beef and air-chilled chicken are the main priority at Simply Essentials. The company, which is based out of Kansas, wanted to renovate one of their old facilities, complete with new coatings and equipment. "They were spending I don't know how much money on the equipment that they were putting in there, so they definitely wanted a floor that could last and handle the day to day operations of their process," explained Kyle Loseke, director of operations for Treadwell LLC.
It would take a coatings crew that was just as confident to take the nearly bare concrete and turn it into a beefy urethane floor with all the fixins.
Trimming the Fat
Although the crew had only four weeks to complete the coating of all 24,340 square feet (2,261.3 m²), they were granted the dream situation for a contractor. "Everything was really wide open so walking into it, it was kind of a dream," Loseke said. "There really weren't any other trades in there working for the most part. Once we stepped into the jobsite we really had total control for 3/4ths of the project."
As Loseke explained, the floor was opened up to them in phases. The first phase that the coatings were applied to also became the first area where the new equipment was erected, so time was of the essence.
Working in 12-hour shifts, the 10 crew members on average started with surface prep. "There were some existing epoxy coatings there," Loseke said. The crew had to remove the old thin-mil coatings there first, using a planetary grinder from Husqvarna.
The crew prepped areas that were bare with shot blasting and dust collection equipment from Blastrac. At Treadwell, each person has a role (or two). During the shot blasting stage, there was one crew member manning the Blastrac machine. "He'll have a secondary guy that kind of bounces around to help him move around the dust collector system, rearrange hoses, to basically keep our guy manning the machine constantly moving," Loseke said. Then a few other guys prepped the perimeter of the building where the shot blaster can't go. They used hand grinders for those areas, "making sure that we're getting right up to the edge of the wall prepped," he continued.
Because the project also included 12 40-foot-long (12.2 m) trenches running parallel, prep also included keying and sloping to encourage the right flow. They applied up to 4 inches (10.2 cm) of Dur-A-Tex LM mortar, feathering it into the substrate. And they sloped 5,650 square feet (524.9 m²) in total.
That's quite a lot of fat to trim!
Drizzle and Dust
Cutting the room in 30-foot (9.1 m) sections, the crew was finally able to get to the coating portion of the job. There was a method to those sections.
"We definitely intentionally break it up into sections not only because of the working time of the material itself but also because it's unreasonable to expect guys to be on their hands and knees for 10,000 square feet [929.0 m²] of material in one shot," Loseke explained.
After the breaks, complete with stretching and flexing, the crew was able to "hit it again," Loseke said. They also wore proper personal protective equipment (PPE), such as hard hats, high-vis vests, gloves, and steel-toed boots — "nothing out of the ordinary," according to Loseke.
And again, each crew member had a specific task. During the coating phase, there were four guys mixing the Dur-A-Flex materials, six guys working with the screed box, and one more broadcasting and back rolling the anti-slip silica sand aggregate.
"After the material was pulled out with the screed box, you'd have guys following behind chasing the screed box," Loseke said. They're working to blend each pass together. "So you're running your screed box out 30 feet [9.1 m], you turn it around, come right back over your wet edge, pour your next row of flooring right up to the edge of your first row, and you've got guys following behind blending that line in. It's kind of a big operation."
The anti-slip was broadcast to about 75 percent, but the 1/4 inch (0.6 cm) of Poly-Crete HF was nothing less than a 100. According to Loseke, the trowel down system that they installed on this project is the "Cadillac of urethane cement floors." Not only does it offer moisture tolerance and thermal shock tolerance, meaning "you can go from extremely hot to extremely cold temperatures and you won't get cracking or anything like that," he said. But it's also "just a very functional, very durable floor."
To finish it up, the foremen and journeymen installed a 6-inch (15.2 cm) cove, hitting all 970 lineal feet (295.7 m) to the entire perimeter.
Once the floor had cured enough to walk on it, the crew came back in and vacuumed up any aggregate that didn't get locked into the coating matrix.
"As we got toward the end of the project, getting into our final phases, we had a lot of the flooring complete and other trades were starting to get in," Loseke said. That required some coordination to ensure that the crews installing the new equipment knew which areas the Treadwell crew would be in and when. "But other than that, it wasn't your typical summer vacation school job that we might do where you got two months to get the job done and you're working on top of the electrician, the plumber, the drywall guy and everything trying to kind of happen all at once," he continued. "This was pretty well thought out and we essentially had total control of the project."
At four hours away from Treadwell's headquarters in Kansas City, the crew had to stay in hotels for the duration of the project. That meant the crews had easy access to the floors, but after the four-week-long project, heading home was sure to been a sweet treat.
Originally published 11/30/2017 by Stephanie Marie Chizik, www.coatingspromag.com. Shared with permission of Coatings Pro Magazine.

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Q: Find the determinant of a sum of idempotent matrices
Let $A, B \in \mathcal{M}_n (\mathbb{R})$ such that $A^2 = A$ and $B^2 = B$. If $\det(2A + B)=0$, prove that $$\det(A + 2B) = 0$$

My attempt:
I know that both matrices are diagonalizable and their all of their eignvalues are either $0$ or $1$. I can assume that one of them, lets say $A$ is in its diagonalized form but this doesn't help very much as long as I don't have any information about $B$'s form. I was also thinking about multiplying the matrix $2A+B$ with another matrix to use that the matrices are idempotent and simplify things, but I haven't managed to get anything too useful.
Another good idea of mine is to take a nontrivial vector $v$ such that
$(2A+B)\cdot v=0$ and then $2A\cdot v+B\cdot v=0$ and now my idea was to multiply the left hand side by $ \overline{{v^t}}$ and use that $A^2=A$ and $B^2=B$ but I don't know that $A=A^t$ so I can't form a scalar product of 2 vectors.

A: Here's a straightforward solution.
$A$ and $B$ are projections.
Let $\text{Im}(A)=S,\text{Ker}(A)=T,\text{Im}(B)=U,\text{Ker}(B)=V$.
So you can interpret the conditions in the problem as follows:
$\mathbb{R}^n=S\oplus T=U\oplus V$
There exist $s\in S, t\in T, u\in U, v\in V$ such that $s+t=u+v\neq0$ and $2s+u=0$.
$\\$
It follows that $u=-2s$ and $v=3s+t$.
Now, $as+bt=(a-3b)s+(3bs+bt)$, where $(a-3b)s\in U$ and $3bs+bt\in V$.
So look for $a,b\in\mathbb{R}$ such that $A(as+bt)+2B(as+bt)=as+2(a-3b)s=(3a-3b)s=0$.
We can set $a,b=1$. We have already stated that $s+t\neq0$.

A: Here is a solution which I think is more natural, although it is somewhat longer than those on AoPS.
Suppose $Ax=kBx$ for some scalar $k\notin\{0,1\}$ and some nonzero vector $x$ (in your case $k=-\frac12$). Then $Ax$ and $Bx$ are either both zero or both nonzero. In the former case, clearly any linear combination of $A$ and $B$ are singular.
Suppose $Ax$ and $Bx$ are nonzero. If $x$ and $Ax$ are linearly dependent, we must have $Ax=x$. But then $Bx=\frac1kAx=\frac1kx$, which is a contradiction to the assumption that $B$ is idempotent. Therefore $x$ and $Ax$ are linearly independent. It follows that $V=\operatorname{span}\{x,Ax\}$ is a two-dimensional invariant subspace of both $A$ and $B$ (and this is the key observation in my proof). The matrix representations of the restrictions of $A$ and $B$ on $V$ with respect to the ordered basis $\{x,Ax\}$ are respectively
$$
\pmatrix{0&0\\ 1&1}\text{ and }\pmatrix{0&0\\ \frac1k&1}.
$$
It is now evident that every linear combination of $A$ and $B$ is singular. Using these matrix representations, one can also easily find a non-trivial solution to $(\lambda A+\mu B)v=0$. For instance, we have
$$
(B-kA)\big[(k+1)Ax-kx\big]=0.
$$

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Here's another movie about blowing up the White House. We've had our fair share of these movies at least just in 2013 so I was feeling quite lukewarm going into the White House Down screening. But it does have two of my favorite actors in Jamie Foxx (since Willie Beamen in Any Given Sunday) and Channing Tatum (She's the Man) so I went. So what does the latest capitol destruction movie have for us this time?
White House Down is from director Ronald Emmerich. Know him? From the movie 2012. Or the movie The Day After Tomorrow? Independence Day? See the trend? All of these movies have something in common and that thing does not bode well for the White House. I didn't really have any expectations going into the movie. The trailer I saw had Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx running around with some comedic lines so I wasn't quite sure if it was really a serious movie or some sort of action movie parody.
John Cale (Tatum) is a former soldier who now works as a bodyguard for the government. His dream job is to join the secret service and become bodyguard for top dog which is the president of the US (Foxx). He is denied the job but in order to impress his daughter, he stays around and joins the White House tour. That's when a terrorist group lays siege to the White House by blowing it up in hopes of kidnapping the president and holding him hostage. Our unwilling hero, Cale, now tries to get his daughter out of the White House, but in the process, runs into and has to protect the president.
Channing Tatum is no stranger to action star roles and this one is no different. The movie needed someone who can play a macho role both physically and psychologically, someone who can pull off cheesy jokes, someone who can do a concerned dad role, and someone who looks good on screen. Channing fits the role perfectly. Second main character is a non-traditional black president who is smooth, cool and serious at the same time. Jamie Foxx… let's face it, he can play any role. He's that awesome. I must mention that Joey King (Crazy Stupid Love) does a great job in playing the role of Tatum's daughter. She plays the sweet, innocent and rebellious girl so well.
The other characters are from big names like James Woods (Hades from Hercules). I didn't even know he was in this movie but I really like him. Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel from the Dark Knight – she replaced Katie Holmes in the second one) did an ok performance. They didn't really write a lot for her in this one. A surprise appearance was Lance Reddick (Boyles from Fringe). He just has a signature way that he talks and he brings it wherever he goes. It's awesome.
Nothing complex here. It's an action packed story where terrorists try to take over the White House to get to the president. Terrorists get the upper hand, hero tries to save the day, hero gains advantage, terrorist gains advantage, hero makes a smart move, hero wins. They give the hero a bunch of flaws in the form of being the underdog and having a child that hates him. This is nothing new and that's not a bad thing.
I had a great time with White House Down, much more than what I was expecting. It's an action packed movie that does not stop shooting and exploding once it starts. It brings nothing new to the table in terms of action movie formula but I still had a great time with it. People looking for a mindless movie with a lot of eye candy (for the ladies) should go into cinemas to watch this.
White House Down is from Columbia Pictures and shows in Philippine theaters on July 3.


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Matthew F. Jacobs: Imagining the Middle East – An Excerpt
Posted by Erich on 3 October 2011, 11:07 am
In Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967, Matthew F. Jacobs illuminates how Americans' ideas and perspectives about the Middle East have shaped, justified, and sustained U.S. cultural, economic, military, and political involvement there. He demonstrates that an analysis of the intellectual roots of current politics and foreign policy is critical to comprehending the styles of U.S. engagement with the Middle East in a post-9/11 world.
"Jacobs takes a novel, compelling approach to the broad American experience in the Middle East during the formative years of U.S. national involvement there. This book makes a major contribution to the growing literature on the history of U.S. official and non-official interaction with the Middle East in the middle twentieth century."
–Peter Hahn, professor of history, The Ohio State University
The following is an excerpt from Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 (pp. 3-4).
The book's thematic organization makes it possible to read each chapter independently, but several threads tie the chapters together into a cohesive examination of how professional Middle East watchers imagined the region. First is my broad methodological interest in combining approaches that focus on national security concerns, diplomacy, and economics with interpretations that emphasize the cultural, ideological, or intellectual contexts, as well as the nonstate actors who influenced the course of U.S. foreign relations. Too often, scholars view these approaches as mutually exclusive, rather than mutually supportive. A more useful formulation might recognize that the protection or pursuit of national security concerns or economic interests often motivated policymakers, but that cultural, ideological, or intellectual contexts impacted how those interests were defined, articulated, and pursued.[1]
There can be little doubt that scholars must combine the two approaches when wrestling with the history of U.S.-Middle East relations. U.S. policymakers clearly focused on economic interests, especially during and after the Cold War with the Soviet Union. But culture and ideas were central to how policymakers and average Americans understood both economic and security issues. Oil quickly became the most critical feature of increasingly mechanized and technologically advanced militaries, as well as of a new consumer culture that first expanded rapidly across the United States, then Europe, and eventually other parts of the world in the twentieth century. Access to Middle Eastern oil for the United States and its allies therefore became crucial, in both economic and military terms, to preserving what policymakers and scholars have referred to as "the American way of life." Americans understood the Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union in similar ways, as a contest for the survival of the U.S. cultural, economic, and political system at home as well as a concomitant universalist vision of the world as a whole. Hence, as U.S. policymakers, and the academics, journalists, and businesspersons who supported them, working to define and protect those national security interests in the Middle East, they were forced to try to understand the region itself. That effort, in turn, brought them face to face with their own ideas about the people, religions, social structures, political movements, and other aspects of the Middle East. It was virtually impossible to design policies without taking such ideas into consideration.[2]
From IMAGINING THE MIDDLE EAST: THE BUILDING OF AN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1918-1967 by Matthew F. Jacobs. Copyright (c) 2011 by the University of North Carolina Press.
Matthew F. Jacobs is assistant professor of history at the University of Florida and author of Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967.
[1]4. The essays in Hogan and Paterson, Explaining the History of U.S. Foreign Foreign Relations, provide a good sense of these tensions within the field. See, in particular, Robert McMahon, "Toward a Pluralist Vision: The Study of American Foreign Relations as International History and National History," 35-50.↩
[2]5. On the rise of oil, see Yergin, The Prize. On the rise of consumer culture, see Cohen, A Consumers' Republic, de Grazia, Irresistible Empire, and Hoganson, Consumers' Imperium. Two works that place these developments in a broader interpretive framework are Hunt, The American Ascendancy and Bacevich, The Limits of Power.↩
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Domestic Abuse Bill - Report (2nd Day): Amendment 17 (10 Mar 2021)
Baroness Benjamin: My Lords, I will refer to Amendments 20, 22, 24 and 29. I understand that the Minister has committed to consulting on community-based domestic abuse services as part of the victim's law consultation this summer; that is extremely welcome. I thank the Government for this, and thank the noble Lord, Lord Polak, for his commitment to this issue. I also thank the Minister, who rightly responded...
Baroness Benjamin: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to include protections for children from accessing commercial pornographic websites which do not allow user generated content or facilitate online user interaction in any forthcoming online harms legislation; and if they have any such plans, how.
Baroness Benjamin: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they made of the impact on children and young people of not introducing age verification for accessing commercial pornographic websites before they made the announcement that they would not be introducing such verification requirements.
Baroness Benjamin: To ask Her Majesty's Government what evidence they have, if any, that non-user generated pornography is not used to depict (1) rough sex practices, and (2) sexual violence.
Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (17 Feb 2021)
Baroness Benjamin: To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total value of applications to the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme received before that scheme was closed to new applications on 11 January.
Baroness Benjamin: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications were received from schools for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme; and what was the value of any such applications.
Baroness Benjamin: To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide funding to organisations which were unsuccessful in their application to the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.
Domestic Abuse Bill - Committee (6th Day): Amendment 177A (10 Feb 2021)
Baroness Benjamin: My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate for their powerful speeches. I listened very carefully to the Minister, but I have to say that I have a very heavy heart tonight. I am so disappointed by her response. I do not accept for one moment the argument that we should simply wait for the online harms Bill: that is too long. The Government must...
Baroness Benjamin: My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 177A in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Alton and Lord McColl, and the noble Baroness, Lady Healy. This amendment would require the Secretary of State to commission a person to investigate the impact of access to online pornography by children on domestic abuse. It further requires that the appointed person must publish a report on the...
Domestic Abuse Bill - Committee (3rd Day): Amendment 101 (1 Feb 2021)
Baroness Benjamin: My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 176 and 177 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Polak, Lord Russell of Liverpool and Lord Rosser, and the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Derby, to give my support. I declare an interest as a vice-president of the children's charity Barnardo's. Barnardo's and many other charities supporting child and adult victims of domestic abuse support the...
Domestic Abuse Bill - Second Reading (5 Jan 2021)
Baroness Benjamin: My Lords, Stronger with Music is a campaign to end domestic violence and empower women and children victims. It needs all our support because domestic abuse is a horrific crime that affects millions of people across the country. Domestic abuse is experienced by one in five children at some point in their childhood. A report by Barnardo's, of which I am a vice-president, detailed the...


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Charlotte (27-20, 13-10 C-USA) continued their late season hot streak against WKU (21-26. 11-13 C-USA). The three-game series started off with a low-scoring affair and ended with an intense slug-fest.
Game 1 was the quietest of the three games offensively, thanks to Charlotte's senior pitcher Josh Maciejewski's 8.2 inning performance. He earned his seventh win of the season and help the 49ers secure the first victory of the contest.
Very little action occurred during the first two innings. WKU struck first when a Luke Brown bunt followed by a walk allowed a sac fly by Jacob Rhinesmith to bring in the first run. WKU scored their last run of the evening in the top of the fifth from Charlotte's only error of the night making the score 2-0.
Charlotte quickly responded with Dominick Cammarata hitting a lead-off double. Jackson Mims brought in Cammarata off a fly-out to center making it 2-1 at the end of the fifth.
The 49ers turned the game around in the sixth inning. Drew Ober started off the frame with a single followed by Zack Smith pushing him to second on a sac bunt. Ober scored from back-back wild pitches by WKU tying up the game. Tommy Bullock scored on a walk by Cammarata putting up the score to 3-2. Todd Elwood followed with a single and a squeeze by Hunter Jones brought in the final run of the night. Good defense by Charlotte put the game away for the 4-2 final.
The Saturday contest played out almost the same way the opener did but it was a lot more competitive. Unlike the opener, Charlotte scored first in the third inning. They started off with a Harris Yett walk and an Ober single to left field. A wild pitch advanced both runners. Tommy Bullock brought in Yett with a perfect squeeze. Cammarata followed up with a hit to third bringing in Ober. A later error made it 3-0. WKU responded with a solo home run by Rhinesmith in the fourth.
The 49ers kept the ball rolling in the fifth when Ober hit a single to left. After Ober was pushed to third, Elwood brought him in extending the lead. More errors by WKU made it 5-1 by the end of the frame.
WKU started to comeback late in the contest scoring a single run in the sixth and two in the seventh innings. Charlotte extended the lead by one in the seventh due to Jones bringing in Cammarata for the final run of the night.
Solid defense again closed out the night for the final score at 6-4.
The final game of the series was a grand finale to a very competitive series. It felt like a boxing match with both fighters trading punches all day long. Both teams exploded offensively leading to a nail-bitter all the way to the last out.
WKU started off the slug fest within eight pitches by back-to-back doubles. Another double brought in the first run of the day making it 1-0 A few batters later brought in the next run on a ground out.
Charlotte responded quickly with a run of their own run. Reece Hampton started them off with a double to left-center. Mims advanced him to third and Hampton scored by Yett's single.
WKU scored four runs off a costly Charlotte error making the score 6-1. If you've been following the 49ers all year long, they're no stranger to huge comebacks.
Charlotte responded the very next frame with four runs as well. Hampton and Mims hit a single to start the frame. After Yett hit his own single, Ober hit a sacfly to bring in the first run of the frame. Elwood and Jones brought in the rest of the runs making it 6-5.
Charlotte continued to score the next inning bringing in two more runs making it 7-6 .
WKU's Brunson hit a solo home-run tying it up at seven a piece in the sixth. Charlotte again responded with a Cammarata sacfly bringing in Ober to lead by one.
WKU had the last laugh scoring the last two runs of the contest in the top of the seventh. Rhinesmith hit a tying fly-out just before Collie Currie's RBI triple made it final 9-8. Charlotte could not respond to WKU in the last two innings. Even in the loss it was a hard-fought ending.
After the series, Charlotte currently stands fourth in the C-USA rankings. Up next for the 49ers is their final home series against Marshall starting Friday at 6:00 p.m.


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Processing what could end up being more than 30,000 absentee ballots could mean the final results of next week's election in Minnehaha County won't come until after Election Day.
Still, the county auditor is making some changes to speed up the process.
Historically, Minnehaha County has waited to begin processing all ballots until the polls close at 7 p.m. That's led to some long Election Nights and delayed results in the past.
More:Record mail-in absentee ballots filed ahead of June city election
But Auditor Bob Litz told the Argus Leader this week that with two separate elections to process — city-school and county-state primary — and more than 32,000 absentee ballots already sent to voters, he'll begin counting absentee ballots during the day using an estimated 80 election workers.
"We've got to grind through all those on Election Day," he said.
Litz said one vote counting machine will be designated for the city-school board ballots and two other machines will count county and state primary ballots.
An army of workers will open absentee ballots and ready them for counting, he said, though he's still assembling the team.
A requirement that those workers be equally split between Democrats and Republicans is proving challenging.
"I have more Republicans than Democrats and can't place them because I don't have a Democrat to match them," he said. ""If anyone thinks it's going to be a normal primary… that ain't happening."


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Good luck with the fundraising and I look forward to seeing Exeter Rugby continuing to thrive.
As an ex student, member of the University Rugby Club with 1st team colours for 1954 to 1957, I am very pleased to support this project.
Good luck with the funding, and enjoy playing!
Good luck boys. I echo Conn's words!
Good luck boys. Sack the tie off and get me an invite to a social when the jobs done.


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Q: Magento Sales Graph issue after upgrading to 1.8.1.0 from 1.5.1.0 I have upgraded Magento from Version 1.5.1.0 to 1.8.1.0
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About Liv on a Shoestring
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Discovering Dorset and the Jurassic Coast
I'm always so curious as to whether the average non-Brit knows there's so much more to the UK than just London and Edinburgh. I can say honestly that before moving to London 3 years ago, my mind never even thought to wander much farther than that (I also thought that England, Scotland, Wales would all give me separate passport stamps when crossing the borders, so take my advice as you will).
I'm not sure exactly where I first learned of Durdle Door and the Jurassic Coast, but I know that whatever that moment was, it was immediately added to my bucket list. I've been trying to do more UK based trips recently – partly because I've run out of annual leave, but also because I want to make the most out of my time here. I was SO excited when I was able to convince some gal pals to come explore the great outdoors in Dorset.
We found this absolutely adorable little camping pod on the Durdle Door Holiday Park (do it for the insta, amIright?), and booked a few months in advance for a weekend in July. In my head, I figured by the time July comes round, the weather will be lovely, we'd lounge on the beach and get a tan, right?
Wrong. This has been the summer of winter! It was forecasted to chuck it down with a side helping of thunder and lightening – thankfully, for the most part they both held off. The weather was a bit chilly, which actually worked in our favour as it meant busloads of tourists didn't show up!
We hopped on the train for about two and a half hours from London Waterloo all the way to Wool station. PRO TIP: I'd recommend buying your tickets far in advance, especially if travelling in the summer. Tickets were originally forecasted to be £12 return, and ended up costing £43.50 each because we bought last minute. 😐 Budget blown.
Once we got to Wool, we hopped in a quick 10 minute cab ride – aka the ONLY cab driver in the region – all the way to the Durdle Door Holiday Park and checked into our pod. This was not glamping by any means, but it was perfect for our weekend away. We brought our own sleeping bags and pillows and ate at the pub on the campgrounds, but a lot of people came fully prepared with their George Foremans and marshmallows. Good for them.
Durdle Door Beach
Within a 7 minute walk from our pod, we were down at the beach where Durdle Door itself sits. As you travel down the dirt path towards the sea, the gorgeous tropical looking colours of the English Channel are contrasted against the white chalky cliffs. Personally, I felt transported to the Caribbean, which was a nice feeling after being trapped in a city for so long. You go around a little bend, and then BAM, there she be! The incredible natural phenomena of Durdle Door!
The door is made out of limestone and was created from tens of thousands of years of the sea bashing against the rocks, eventually creating an archway. The whole area forms part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO site made out of incredibly diverse geology and sediment (transparency: I Googled all of this, FYI). I can personally attest that you will not believe you're still in rainy grey ol' England!
We sat and watched the sunset dance overtop of the water, listening to the waves rolling along. At that exact moment, The Kooks song 'Seaside' popped into my head.
*I fell in love at the seasideeee*
And by 'fell in love' I mean with nature, because, forever alone.
Day 2 we got up early, had some 'American style pancakes,' at the pub onsite, which was actually super strange and more of a soggy pancake, bacon stack than anything.
After breakky, we decided to head to nearby Lulworth Cove, another incredible seafront natural phenomena. To get to the cove, you follow along the coastal path from the Holiday Park for 25 minutes before spotting the tiny town of West Lulworth in the distance. As you walk in line with the sea, the colours change to a multitude of shades of green and blue. Turquoise like you would never believe!
Wandering through the tiny town of West Lulworth was a DREAM! As a North American, everything I knew about England was basically from The Holiday. West Lulworth was like stepping back in time to an era of Kings and Queens; everything was in perfectly preserved thatched roof cottages and quaint windy roads. I.was.in.love.
In the village, there's an incredible sweet and traditional homemade Dorset fudge shop called The Doll's House, which has orgasmic salted caramel fudge <3 (I may have bought two logs of it hehe) (and I may have eaten both in the same day – shhh!). There's also an adventure Coasteering company that lets you climb on, jump through, and swim around the rocks of the cove, I wish I knew about it beforehand because that's something completly up my alley! Guess I'll just have to plan a trip back!
Abandoned Village
We stopped at a local pub for lunch and asked the barman what he recommended we do in the area. The suggestion was to visit a local abandoned village called, Tyenham. In November 1943, the village was given 28 days notice to vacate the area as it was needed for Armed Forces training in the lead up to D Day. The villagers left with the assumption they would be back in a few months, but were never to see their homes again. The town is trapped in time, with the only new residents being the overgrowth of vines and wildflowers. It was an interesting place to visit and one that I don't think many tourists know about. It's a bit of a journey by foot to get to, but I would definitely recommend it.
Watch out as you go there as the area continues to be used as a live shooting range for most of the year and you literally have to cross fields with abandoned army tanks and cows wandering around. Classic England!
All in all, Dorset was an incredibly beautiful place and one that I would love to return to with a car one day. Durdle Door is one of those things you need to see with your own eyes, so wait on those cheap train tickets and head to the seaside – I'm not trying to say that everybody wants to go, but I fell in love at the seaside.
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Home Uconn Football Mora says UConn was the uphill football job he wanted to take
Jim Mora, second left, is announced as the new head coach of Connecticut football, as he poses with athletic director Dave Benedict, left, Chairman of the board Dan Toscano, second right and interim president of the university Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, right, following a press conference Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021, in East Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
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Mora says UConn was the uphill football job he wanted to take
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EAST HARTFORD (AP) — UConn athletic director David Benedict spent almost a week in Idaho visiting with Jim Mora and talking football and life, before deciding that he'd found the right man to become the Huskies' head coach.
While many things about the former UCLA and NFL coach impressed Benedict, what may have sealed the deal is a "really huge book" Mora showed him, in which the 60-year-old had chronicled every mistake he believes he's made on the sideline and written down what he should have done instead.
"I was worried it was going to take us a couple of days just to get through 'em," Benedict joked. "To me that says a lot about a person that they are willing to learn from those mistakes, they are willing to own those mistakes."
Mora insists the book isn't that big, and he notes he also journals about successes and good ideas. He said the UConn job, which he officially started on Sunday, will give him the ability to put everything he's learned into one more football challenge.
He also revealed that he reached out to UConn, not the other way around, after the school parted ways with Randy Edsall early in the season.
"This was the job I wanted," he said.
UConn certainly presents a challenge. The Huskies reached the Fiesta Bowl after the 2010 season but have gone 31-90 since. They have failed to post a single winning season and have lost 36 of their last 37 (including 14 straight) games against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents, while moving from the American Athletic Conference to independent status.
Mora compared his new job to his favorite hobbies, which include hiking or bicycling up mountains and "skinning" — wrapping skies in an animal skin, then walking up a slope and skiing back down in the dark, with just a headlamp to light the way.
"I like to go uphill," Mora said. "I like things that are hard. Hard things motivate me. So, this is just another chance to walk up a hill."
Mora already has held a team meeting and announced several coaching hires and his decision not to retain anyone from Edsall's staff.
He has been recruiting and reaching out to Connecticut high school coaches, insisting that keeping top prospects in state will be a priority.
He's also spent the last few weeks assessing the talent on the current roster. He said he'll be giving each player an honest — sometimes brutally honest — indication of the role he sees for them going forward.
He said he will use the transfer portal to help build next year's team, but he wants to create a foundation for the future through the recruiting process.
Mora has had success turning around programs. He took the Atlanta Falcons from 5-11 in 2003 to 11-5 and the NFC Championship game in his first season. UCLA was 6-7 in 2011 and went 9-5 his first season there.
He's not setting a timeline for succeeding at UConn.
"I'll just say every single day we're going to take another step toward being better," he said.
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Passport 360 cuts safety process by 99%
All companies are obliged to compile Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) documentation.
Usually, the manual compilation and reporting can take up to 20 man hours. In the mining industry, it's a constant process, and massively time-consuming.
Now smart solution Passport 360 has cut these 20 hours down to three minutes – a massive 99.75% time saving.
Click below to read how Passport 360 does it.
The speed improvement is thanks to Passport 360's built-in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which allows for custom documentation to be compiled in minutes. "It provides for a greater level of real-time intelligence and insight into SHEQ," says Passport 360 director and co-founder Siobahn Whitehead.
The dashboard view feature consolidates all contractor SHEQ documentation into a high-level dashboard, again for real-time access of all data, which can be managed and interpreted accordingly – an enormous effort to undertake using paper-based systems.
This is because paper-based systems are impossible to monitor and audit effectively in real-time. For example, 200 paper files will take an average 400 days to conduct a comprehensive review, rendering it near impossible to ensure that all crucial SHEQ information is reviewed manually within the space of a single year.
Without consistent monitoring and review, SHEQ information quickly becomes outdated, thereby ramping up the risk considerably. Digitising these records and then applying Passport 360's built-in RPA allows for mining operations to better pursue the industry's ultimate goal of zero harm.
This also has significant implications for clients in terms of transparency and security. Whitehead says: "Passport 360 allows contractors to access client systems and information without exposing those internal systems."
Passport 360 is equally capable of partnering with mining and resource companies in order to onboard their contractors more efficiently and quickly, thereby ensuring that they can be up and running in hardly any time at all.
"Our smart technology has a range of significant benefits for our mining clients, from real-time SHEQ monitoring and reporting, to highly-advanced onboarding," said Whitehead. "It allows us to provide our mining clients with a complete solution that slashes their risk, allowing them to focus on their core business of mining."
Samsung launches rotating triple camera with immersive fullscreen
Samsung has released the new Galaxy A80 in South Africa. It offers the company's first rotating triple camera and an immersive New Infinity Display without a notch. The device is now available for purchase online and in-stores.
Click below to read more about the smartphone.
In a first for Galaxy devices, the Galaxy A80 is equipped with Samsung's rotating triple camera, which provides the same high-quality lens, front and rear, so users can have the same quality selfies as rear camera pictures. The rotating triple camera allows users to record footage continuously, even if they rotate the camera during recording, so front and rear recordings can be captured in one video.
Samsung says its on-device camera technology allows users to take clear and bright photos even in low light conditions with the 48MP main camera. The Ultra-Wide Lens has a 123-degree viewing angle on rear shots.
Its 3D Depth Camera allows users to capture subjects with more depth, letting them create movie-like clips with features like Live Focus Video mode. Super Steady Video mode reduces bumps or shakes for pro-level action videos.
The handset features Samsung's first New Infinity Display, an edge-to-edge, 6.7-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED screen. With a 20:9 display ratio, the New Infinity Display allows one to fully engage in multimedia content. It comes with Dolby Atmos when using earphones or Bluetooth speakers.
"Galaxy A80 is created for the Era of Live – a world where digital natives are capturing, sharing and connecting in the moment," said Justin Hume, director of integrated mobility at Samsung South Africa. "The latest innovations in the camera, design and performance of Galaxy A80 bring a new mobile experience that fits the needs of today's generation: always on and always ready."
As part of the Galaxy experience, the handset features Samsung Knox, Samsung's defence-grade security platform designed to protect, from chipset to software. In addition, Samsung Pass allows users to access apps and websites through fingerprint sensor.
The device features AI-powered performance optimisation software, which maximises the device's CPU, RAM and battery capacity, tailoring the device to the user's everyday needs.
Galaxy A80 comes in three colours: Angel Gold, Ghost White and Phantom Black. The Angel Gold and Ghost White options come with hints of pink and blue respectively. The device is selling now for a recommended retail price of R11799.
For more information about the Galaxy A80, visit www.samsung.com/galaxy


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September 1, 2016 | Park News
The following Park community members and initiatives have received media attention in recent weeks:
(Front row): Neelam Modi '18, Sammi Fernandes '17, and donor Emily Douglass; (back row) donor Joshua Ewy, DKMS donor recruitment manager Bob Murray, donor Jordan Cousins, Rizwan Dard '17, and donor William "Stevie" Mizell came together for a press conference. – August 2016
As part of their Civic Engagement Initiatives over the past few years, Park Scholars have partnered with DKMS (formerly Delete Blood Cancer) to coordinate bone marrow donor registration drives on NC State's campus. An impressive five donors from these drives have since been matched with recipients and completed the donation process, saving five lives. Four of the donors came together last month with donor registration drive coordinators Rizwan Dard '17, Sammi Fernandes '17, and Neelam Modi '18 for a press conference in the Talley Student Union. Raleigh's News & Observer ran an op ed on the story and quoted Fernandes '17 heavily in a separate article. Time Warner Cable News also reported on the students' philanthropic spirit.
Mia de los Reyes '16
Before departing for England, NC State's first Churchill Scholar Mia de los Reyes '16 gave a talk in the D.H. Hill Library Auditorium as part of NCSU Libraries' "Stellar Students" series. She spoke about her time at NC State, and the path that led her to receiving this prestigious and nationally competitive award. Mia will use her Churchill award to pursue a one-year master's degree in astronomy within Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.
Ryan R. Neely, III '09 at the South Pole on a trip to examine aerosol, clouds, and ozone over Antarctica during his graduate studies – January 2012
Dr. Ryan Neely, III '09, a lecturer of observational atmospheric science in the University of Leeds' School of Earth and Environment and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, was involved in a study that revealed the healing of the Antarctic ozone hole, which received quite a bit of media attention in recent months. Listen to him discuss this promising revelation. His research, which entails investigation of aerosols, clouds, and precipitation by shooting laser beams and radio waves into the atmosphere, has taken him to all seven continents.
Vance Whitaker '03 – Photo © UF/IFAS Communications
Dr. Vance Whitaker '03, an associate professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, recently led a research team in a study of genetic markers in strawberries that can be used to help cultivate berries that are more resistant to deadly angular leaf spot. Their findings could save strawberry growers millions of dollars per year by preventing crop loss.
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Richa Patel '18 Tackles Technology Policy in State Department Internship	Park Scholar Media Mentions


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The slap that landed on the right side of my face came strong and fast. The sting and pain that remained in its wake lasted much shorter than the long drawn out emotional confusion, mis understanding of myself and how to navigate inter personal relationships.
It was Christmas day more than 20 years ago. I had tested the boundaries for it. In my early teenage years, I was a bundle of anger, rage, hurt, fear and frustration. The physical impact of hurt and abuse was not something I ran from in that moment. I went right towards it.
I did not understand then why I stood in the direct line of impact, all I knew in that moment was that I deserved it and it was the only way to feel something, anything, that could take me out of the deluge of mental suffering and inexplicable reality that we were all part of. It took me years to feel any sense of love for what I was trying to do, and who I was trying to be.
Growing up as a child of an alcoholic and in a home that was soaked to the bones in it brought a cacophony of unhealthy developmental mechanisms. That Christmas day was not one filled with cuddles and teddies, laughing and love.
Everything I felt in my youth was out of my control. What mood we needed to be in, what mood we were to expect. How the day would unfold, would it be filled with tension waiting for the volcano to erupt or would be spending the day running from the hot heat?
I cannot remember what proceeded the slap that day, I remember vividly that moment.
I did not deserve to be treated that way, but I did not know that at the time, nor did I for many Christmas days after.
Winter and the season around Christmas can be hard for many of us, with memories, pressure, expectations and stress making a perfect cocktail for inner and outer turbulence. The reasons or uniqueness of our own particular situations can vary but in the dark days of winter there can be a resistance to oneself and others.
Following the pain of loss, maltreatment, neglect, abuse or conflict, I know what it is like to place those events in a place I would rather not look at again.
Our make up and navigation through life and ourselves is so complex and vast. I spent years looking outwards, perfecting all in my life or striving towards perfection with enthusiasm and passion. I used to dislike the winter a lot. The sense of turning in towards oneself did not bring heart warming feelings or a sense of joy. There were elements I was so ashamed of and believed were mine forever to be held secret.
I am not scared of the dark any longer, for in there I know there is growth. It is so hard to acknowledge memories like that Christmas Day, and have a sense that it is not something that I need to carry any longer as my burden to why I am not enough, do not deserve more or cannot be at ease. That is only one memory, I could list many more. Memories that built up over years and years, imprinting themselves bit by bit on my psyche.
There is no meaning in those memories, there is no figuring out why they happened. They are raw, most certainly un glamorous and not ones for sharing around the dinner table.
Where there is meaning however, is in how we find ourselves in all of our memories, our past and our present. Can we look those memories right in the eye, and find a way to accept, understand, forgive or let go?
I needed to release the stigma, the knots I held in my stomach for years that I would be judged, or seen in some way negatively for the actions of someone else. It is not my fault my Father was an alcoholic and it is not something I need to hide down in the dark any longer. This is not easy.
Approaching this years Winter Solstice, I have at this stage of my life come to embrace the dark and shine a light in there.
Over the last number of days, I have shared on social media some fun and beneficial ways to move physically that can help us in our bodies. These moves are great for sure and provide great benefits but the real moves we need to make in life may need to be some move towards ourselves deep down and getting to know who we really are.
This does not have to be tragic or full of woes. For me it certainly has been hard over the years, trying to develop and gain a healthy sense of myself. An important part of this process is going right in where I think it is darkest.
I believe that doing this is possible and that no matter what, we can find ourselves and find a connection to others in ways that help. It takes work, the same way developing physically does. We have to put in the effort and believe in the outcomes.
Where we fear so much may hold the keys to us truly finding freedom in ourselves, where there is really only love and potential.