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The college student using music to tackle HIV stigma
Compared to many developing countries, HIV prevalence in Nepal is low. Yet there are deep and complex problems around HIV. Stigma remains a huge problem. People living with HIV say they have faced enormous discrimination, including being ostracized by their communities, bullied at school and work, and exposed to insults and even violence. HIV services and support are central to the work of the Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN). Its staff and volunteers run services around the country, providing HIV counselling, education on prevention and treatment, and community home-based care services. People living with HIV are at the forefront of this work: FPAN employs thousands of community home-based care mobilisers who are themselves HIV-positive, meaning they are able to provide people with clear, sensitive and empathetic support that draws on their own experiences. Photography © IPPF/Jon Spaull Read Milan's story and watch the video
| 19 July 2017
Family Planning in Nepal
For people across Nepal, access to contraception and family planning services can mean the difference between life and death. Yet in this largely patriarchal culture, where having four or five children has long been the norm, contraception remains an alien idea to many, and access to it is strictly controlled by male heads of households. IPPF Family Planning Association of Nepal is working with local community to increase awareness and access to family planning among rural communities and people affected by the 2015 earthquake. See how they're ensuring access and changing lives
Taking health and care to rural mountain villages when disaster strikes
The earthquake that struck Nepal in April 2015 caused devastation and destruction that the country has still not recovered from. Almost 9,000 people lost their lives and over 22,000 were injured in Nepal's worst natural disaster for 80 years. The earthquake severely disrupted access to healthcare and family planning. Thousands of people were displaced far from their usual clinics or support networks. In the days and weeks after the earthquake, the Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN) took action to make people's health and family planning needs a top priority. Within 48 hours they were running emergency health camps across the country, dispensing medicines and bringing vital, changing support to thousands of survivors. Photography © IPPF/Jon Spaull
Bringing contraceptive choice to mountain communities
Meeting the family planning needs of Nepal's 28 million people, particularly those living in remote mountain villages, takes careful planning, complex logistics, skilled staff and money. Since 1959, the Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN), has been providing better access to contraception and maternal health, ensuring its services penetrate even the most remote corners of this rugged mountain country. Reaching communities in far flung parts of this mountainous country is a logistical challenge, but one FPAN sees as crucial to its work. Teams of staff and volunteers spend days travelling by vehicle or, if necessary, on foot to make sure they reach people. Stories Read more stories from Nepal
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IPPF funds youth-led projects to tackle abortion stigma
As part of our work in tackling abortion stigma, IPPF awards small grants to young people to create projects that would tackle the issue of abortion stigma in their communities. In 2015, small grants were awarded to promising projects submitted by young people in Ghana, Palestine, Spain, Macedonia and Nepal. In 2017, a further six grants were awarded to young people in Guinea, Kenya, Nepal, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leone and Venezuela. In 2019 five more grants were awarded to youth-led projects in Albania, Colombia, Nigeria, Spain and Tanzania. These documents give more information about what these projects set out to do, their methods and the results.


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TORONTO—As the Raptors continue to navigate the first half of the NBA season, DeMar deRozanc has grown accustomed to the attention.
"I think it's pretty awesome that it's being so much bigger in Toronto," he said.
"You have to remember, when we're just a team and not a city.
It's been so big for us, and it's been a huge blessing to grow up here."
You get to see how the city evolves, and there's been some really good things happening.
"Toronto's DeMar is only 16 years old, and his future with the Raptors is in his hands, as the franchise continues to grow.
The young man from the Bronx has blossomed into one of the game's elite passers in his short career, ranking third in the league with a 3.7 assist per game average in 2016-17.
DeRozac, who will turn 18 on March 9, was one of two rookie players in the 2016 NBA draft who led the league in assists per game.
He finished with 12.6, good for sixth in the NBA.
He was also the only player to average at least 16.2 assists per contest during the regular season, which is tied for the most in NBA history.
While DeRazans shooting stroke has been a strength of his game for most of his career, his efficiency numbers have improved with age.
His 3.3 assist-to-turnover ratio is the highest of his 10-year career.
DeMar is a big reason why Toronto is ranked fifth in the Western Conference and second in the East.
The Raptors are just 5-1 this season, but their play has been so good that the Raptors have a six-game winning streak heading into Sunday's matchup against the Washington Wizards."
It's definitely a big game for us," DeRosa said."
We're going to have a lot of opportunities.
They're a great team and they're coming off a tough loss last night.
"DeRosa was named the Rookie of the Month for November for the second time in his career.
He averaged 17.8 points, 6.1 assists and 4.3 rebounds in the month, which included two games against the Brooklyn Nets.
DeRosios best game came against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Dec. 23, when he averaged 21 points, 5.3 assists and 3.4 rebounds in a 114-106 win.
The next game, DeRoma led the Raptors to a 105-103 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks on Jan. 10.
DeSantis has been one of DeRos best teammates during the run to the playoffs.
The forward led the team in scoring with 25.5 points per game, while shooting 38.3 percent from the field and 35.4 percent from beyond the arc.
De Santis has averaged more than 18 points per contest in five of his past six outings.
DeSantis led the Celtics in scoring and rebounding during their four-game playoff run last season.
De Santis also finished with 15 rebounds in their first round matchup against Cleveland.
DeShane Battier, who started the season as a rookie in Toronto, is averaging 14.8 rebounds and 4 of 6 from the 3-point line.
The former Boston Celtics guard is shooting 50.7 percent from 3-pointers in his last six games, a stretch that began when he played in a Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Miami Heat."
He's just an unbelievable competitor, a great competitor, and a really, really good guy," Raptors head coach Dwane Casey said.
De Shazer has made 37 of his 64 field goal attempts in the series so far.
The point guard has averaged 17 points and 9.3 boards in his past three contests.
He scored a team-high 24 points against the Cavs in the first round.
DeLeo has had a lot to do with the success of the Raptors in the last decade.
The two have been the most consistent teams in the Eastern conference since the 2011-12 season, when the Raptors made the playoffs for the first time in nine years.
The Raptors will get their first taste of DeShazar during the series finale on Wednesday night, when DeLeo and Toronto face off against the Atlanta Hawks.
Toronto won 102-98 on Dec 18, 2014, while DeLeos team-leading 23 points were scored by DeSairas 27 rebounds.
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Chiron Oderkerk, Anders Petersen, Claus Bundesen, Signe Vangkilde; Fast and flexible: dynamic adaptation of temporal expectation. Journal of Vision 2017;17(10):1318. doi: 10.1167/17.10.1318.
Accurate temporal expectation about an event should reflect its hazard rate, i.e., the probability it will occur in the next possible moment, given that it hasn't yet. Indeed, the speed of perceptual processing of visual stimuli has been found to change as a function of the hazard rate of those stimuli when varied between blocks of trials in visual recognition paradigms (Vangkilde, Coull, & Bundesen, 2012). In this study we investigated the dynamic adaptation of temporal expectation over time. We used two alternating hazard rates over the course of a variable cue-stimulus foreperiod, and measured participant response times in a speeded visual discrimination task. During the foreperiod, a coloured fixation cross would alternate between two colours, each denoting either a high or a low constant probability that the target stimulus would appear in the next possible moment. Foreperiods were distributed using discrete time steps of 400 ms, each with a high or a low probability that the stimulus would appear on that time step. Consecutive time steps with the same hazard rate were grouped together into epochs such that the probability that the stimulus would appear during the next time step was dependent on whether that time step was located during a high or a low probability epoch. We found significantly faster responses to stimuli presented during high probability epochs than during low probability epochs. This indicates that participants were not only able to adjust their temporal expectation, but could do so fast and flexible enough to reflect the change in hazard rate.


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Pharmacy research grants taking on health service pressures
Tarirai Moyo and Alex Moore
Discovering the reasons why patients throw away millions of unused medicines each year, and the impact of a scheme which refers patients from their local GP to a community pharmacists depending on symptoms, are University of Sunderland-based projects which have secured funding from Pharmacy Research UK (PRUK).
Tarirai Moyo, a community pharmacist in Teesside and part-time teacher practitioner at the University, was interested in pharmaceutical waste, why patients throw their medicines away, what type of medicines go unused from prescription to over the counter and where are they being disposed of?
A report by the Department of Health estimates that unused medicines cost the NHS around £300 million every year, with an estimated £110 million worth of medicine returned to pharmacies, £90 million worth of unused prescriptions being stored in homes and £50 million worth of medicines disposed of by Care Homes.
She hopes the results from her Masters project will help educate people, improve their health prospects by taking medicines correctly and further support initiatives already in place by local pharmacies encouraging patients to drop off their unused medicines in for proper disposal.
The research will initially focus on pharmacies around the Middlesbrough area over the next year, Tarirai explained: "Pharmaceutical waste is an accepted problem within the NHS and there are a number of initiatives nationally attempting to tackle the issue.
"The cost also to patients' health if medicines are not being correctly taken or left unused could lead to worsening symptoms and extra treatments, which might have otherwise been avoided.
"I want to find out what sort of medicines are thrown away the most, then find out why people might feel that they don't want or need those particular medicines.
"People will bring some back to pharmacy for correct disposal, but then admit they've thrown some in the bin.
"Hopefully the research will help educate people as to why they are taking the medicines and help prescribers managed drugs better, reducing waste and hopefully improve cost implications on the NHS," added mum-of-three Tarirai, who has been a community pharmacist in the UK for 17 years, after moving here from Zimbabwe, where she worked for eight years as a pharmacist.
Tarirai Moyo
Meanwhile Sunderland MPharm graduate Alex Moore will simultaneously begin evaluating the impact of a pilot scheme in South Tyneside, GP2Pharmacy, which gives patients the option to see a pharmacist the same or following day when they call their local practice to book an appointment with their GP. Under the initiative, patients calling their GP surgery are assessed by a receptionist and, depending on their symptoms, booked into a fixed appointment time at a pharmacy of their choice.
Patients can be referred to a pharmacist if they have a condition that falls under the locally commissioned minor ailment scheme, including coughs, colds and skin conditions such as eczema, impetigo and psoriasis.
Alex, 25, will draw on his experience as a community pharmacist in Whickham, part-time work in a GP surgery on behalf of the North Durham Clinical Commissioning Group and teaching commitments at the university.
He explained: "This will be the first full evaluation of the services, which aims to assess its impact, see if people think it's been beneficial and for its intended purpose, which is to relieve the pressures on GP surgeries.
"I'll be analysing quantitative data from the age of patients, to what products are supplied, the reasons why they have been referred, as well as interviews with focus groups involved in the scheme.
"This will assess the impact of the service which would hopefully be rolled out to other areas of the UK."
Andrew Sturrock, Principal Lecturer in Pharmacy, said: "We are delighted that both Alex and Tarirai have separately received funding to undertake exciting research projects as part of their MSc study.
"Both projects are looking at highly relevant areas of practice, that have real potential to make positive contributions to patient care and to the National Health Service.
"As an institution we are proud to continue our successful relationship with Pharmacy Research UK who have funded a number of research projects at the University over the past few years. This continued support will help to further develop the research capacity in the region's pharmacy workforce."
Pharmacy Research UK is the principal research charity supporting pharmacists and pharmacy to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients and the public.
We were founded in 2012 when two charitable trusts, the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust (PPRT) and the Pharmaceutical Trust for Educational and Charitable Objects (PTECO), agreed to combine their resources to maximise their impact.
Pharmacy Research UK funds capacity building and original research to help pharmacy and pharmacists improve the public's health and deliver better outcomes for patients. While we are a relatively new organisation we have a legacy of supporting and promoting pharmacy research since the late 1990s, which provides a strong foundation for this ambition.
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Baler National High School was built in February 1993 on agricultural land in Barangay Pingit. It started with 110 students and 3 teachers. To date, it is the biggest public secondary schools in Aurora, with close to 1,300 students. It now follows the K-12 program for the Filipinos in order to excel both The Philippines and the World.

Its facilities include a covered court, internet and computer laboratory, science laboratory, canteen, music room, clinic, guidance office and 25 classrooms ( The government of Australia and the Philippines built a new building compromising of 6 classrooms, to be used by the school-year 2014–2015). The weather condition in Baler is unpredictable. Further, since it is situated near a river, when it rains, it floods easily.

Sections
It is divided into a Regular Section and a S.T.E.M Section.

Regular Section
This section mostly consists of 6 bi-sections, depending on the number of enrollees. Identifying themselves as bi-section A-F,G,H or so on.

S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Section
This section only consists of one bi-section per grade. It offers the highest education for public schools in the whole province.

S.P.A.(Special Program in the Arts) section
The SPA section has four sections which is Dance, Vocal, Instruments, and Visual Arts.

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Manchester Canalsiders say more progress is needed in tackling homophobia in rugby, as the world's first LGBT rugby league team celebrate a year competing.
MM caught up with them at the end of their first full season to see how it went and discover that while great strides for equality have been made, many players feel they had to 'come out' twice – once in their private life and again in the dressing room.
The image of rugby league as a tough working man's game with its heartlands in Lancashire and Yorkshire may not seem like an obviously progressive and inclusive sport.
But most rugby league fans will tell you there is a tradition of openness and acceptance built on 'family values'. Supporters take pride in the lack of trouble on the terraces and even self-police against bad language.
These core principles are reflected in the experiences of the Manchester Canalsiders ARLFC and their coach and player Lauren Houlton.
"The rugby league community is totally different from football. Fans mix all the time so there's very rarely any trouble," said Lauren.
Lauren described how from the first tournament at Rochdale's international mixed tag rugby league festival, the Manchester LGBT club were made to feel part of the community.
She said: "The biggest thing for me was when we played at Rochdale Swarm. There are lots of well-established teams there – a lot male, but a couple of female and mixed teams as well.
The sports' governing body, the Rugby Football League, should take a lot of credit for the initiatives put in place to combat discrimination and foster this feeling of acceptance.
Canalsiders co-founder, chairman and coach, Martin Owens, was quick to praise the support and encouragement the team received from the RFL and its top clubs.
"Rugby league has led the way for a while. Since about 2010 they had a tackling homophobia campaign with Sheffield Eagles and they've led the way through with their policies," said Martin.
Canalsiders ARLFC have been competing in an entry level league playing teams across the North West and the reception appears to be just as positive.
Martin said: "We've had no homophobia when we've played games, we're just guys and girls that want to go out and play rugby, have a good time and go and have a beer afterwards.
Although homophobic incidents are rare in the sport, there was one high profile incident this summer when Leeds Rhinos fullback Zak Hardaker was charged with using homophobic language on the pitch.
He was handed a five match ban and fined £300 after his comments aimed at a player were interpreted as homophobic abuse of the referee.
As part of his apology to the LGBT community he came to Manchester to meet Canalsiders and train with them.
"Zak and Brian McDermott came down and did some coaching with us," said Martin.
The coach at Canalsiders has a firm but fair view of Hardaker's actions and believes he should be forgiven after his apology.
He said: "It is unfortunate that if you've done something wrong, any accusation sticks with you. He said sorry and he apologised to the community wholeheartedly. He should be left alone to play his rugby.
The Hardaker comments show that work still has to be done in order to eradicate homophobia in sport. The very existence of Canalsiders, a team set up to encourage LGBT people to play, proves the point.
Martin said: "Although rugby league and rugby union teams are both very inclusive, you sometimes don't get that feeling, you have to come out twice.
"We set the club up primarily for people who were LGBT so they could play the sport that maybe they'd played in school and didn't feel like they fitted in.
"Although we are an LGBT club we welcome anybody regardless of race, gender, and sexuality. At the end of the day it's just about going out there and playing rugby."
The team are currently recruiting players through the close season for either full contact or touch teams.
They train at Bell Vue Leisure Centre on Tuesdays, 7-8pm.
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The ability to prevent the problems that may occur in your day to day activity. Getting good insurance coverage may be one of these little things that can make a huge difference. The type of insurance policy and the coverage depend very much on the industry you're in. In some areas of activity, employers have to protect their employees against various risks. In other industries, business owners have to protect their clients and their personal assets. Sometimes, business owners have to protect themselves. All these situations call for the proper insurance coverage only an experienced insurance agent or broker can help you find. Matching your industry and your real needs with the most appropriate insurance option is both a skill and an art. An experienced agent will be able to identify all your options, in order for you to get the best coverage on the market at a reasonable price.
Rather than trying to buy insurance by yourself is that experts know all insurance options for small businesses, being therefore the most qualified individuals to recommend such solutions to those who seek for their services. A good insurance broker is always up to date with the latest news from all major insurance companies, so he or she can help you choose the option that suits best your needs. Besides, as cost is one of the most important factors that influence the purchasing decision in case of insurance policies, you may be tempted to think that the lowest price should also be the best choice. This isn't always correct, but you need an expert assessment of all benefits and drawbacks of each type of policy. If you were to do this by yourself, you'd need weeks or even months, and a lot of data. Insurance brokers already have most part of the information, so they only need to adjust it to match you specific case. This is why they can be a lot more efficient than any small business owner trying to make the best decision. Read Some Common Rental Real Estate Mistakes That You Want to Avoid .
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An amendment could prevent some casinos to enjoy the new legislation. A few weeks after gambling received the seal of approval in PA. Major casinos are looking to comply with the law. But many are also planning major expansion. This is the case of the Mount Airy Resort and Rivers Casino.
While some are planning to grow, others are screaming injustice. Because of a last-minute addition to the 939th page. Indeed, an unknown lawmaker added 28 words to the bill 2 hours before it got signed. The addition to the document prohibits a 'category 4 license' in 'a 6th class county'. But also forbid 'a category 2 facility' to exist within a 25 miles barrier of a ' 6th class county'.
What are the impacts of the 28-word amendment?
Well, according to some its beneficial to the Mount Airy Casino Resort. But to a lesser extent, Rivers Casino Pittsburgh. But also because Mount Airy Casino Resort is currently a 4 class license holder. Some believe the addition to the bill will protect the monopoly of Mount Airy in the region. It's important to know that Mount Airy is one of the largest casinos in PA. Its annual gross revenues are currently at around $235 million. We think their revenues will increase with the legalization of gambling.
VP of Penn National Gaming Incorporated claims injustice!
E. Schippers, Senior VP for Penn National said in an interview. "What's upsetting to us is that Penn National is negatively affected by this. At the same time, they give this gift to Mount Airy. It's unequal treatment. This is an eleventh-hour giveaway!"
Until now, no official sources have commented from the legislator side. Mount airy representatives have not yet commented on this matter either. But we'll make sure to report any changes on this subject as always. So bookmark this page to stay on top of the news.


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REVIEW OF WORD WHIZZLE
Posted on April 29, 2017 | Back to Toys and Games
REVIEWED: Word Whizzle (2017)
Genre: Puzzle
Developer: Apprope
Platform: Tablet
As a wordsmith, I really like language related games but finding one that keeps me engaged for longer than a few days has been a struggle. Word Whizzle was my latest attempt to rectify this issue.
The game is an electronic jumble in which words or phrases must be plucked out by connecting letters in a variety of patterns. Like a newspaper jumble, or even a crossword puzzle, answers can be arranged vertically, horizontally, diagonally, or even in serpentine patterns. A hint is provided for each new puzzle and if you get really stuck, you can purchase additional hints using credits you accrue through game play or by purchasing them with a credit card.
While the words and phrases I was seeking became more complex and difficult as I leveled up, the game play itself didn't change at all. As a result, there was no impetus for me to adjust my strategy to become more successful and after a week of off-and-on play I was pretty much done. Like other puzzle games I've reviewed here, there's nothing particularly wrong with Word Whizzle, just don't expect to play it for a sustained period of time.
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Back on January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in California. And so began the California Gold Rush. Hundreds of thousands of people immigrated from all over North America for the chance to get rich quick. You might remember from history class, the people who eventually ended up in California a year later (travel was much slower back then) were called 49'ers.
Even further back in time, the early 1500's to be exact, men called conquistadors explored the new world in search of wealth and riches for their respective countries. They searched for legendary cities like Cibola (one of the seven cities of gold), El Dorado, and also the fountain of youth. They were looking for riches beyond imagination as well as fame and glory.
Hi, I'm a Nigerian Prince from the country of Nigeria. My favorite cousin is dire need of help. He is stuck in South Africa, and he lost his passport, wallet, and identification. Because of this, he can't access our families' riches from the country he is in. For some reason, I can't access them either to help him get back. But I'm sure you could help. Just wire me the $10,000 that he needs, and when he returns you'll be handsomely rewarded with over $100,000. Thanks for your help.
I'm sure you or someone you know at some point received an email similar to the paragraph above. It might not have even been as well written as the one above *sarcasm*, and it was probably much longer. But they are all basically the same. They want you to give them a smaller, but still significant, amount of money, and in exchange for your help they will give you back a much larger amount of money later.
They were all opportunities to get rich quick. Get rich quick schemes date back hundreds of years.
The conquistadors were outfitted and sponsored by kings and queens specifically for the express purpose of bringing back gold and wealth. They didn't hide the fact that they were searching for life changing riches.
The 49'ers of the California gold rush were also looking to get rich quick. And they thought the best way during their time to do just that was to find gold. And to find a lot of it. So many of them risked everything they had for the chance to stake a profitable claim out in California.
And the Nigerian prince? The folks helping him out were looking for a windfall also. They were just naive.
Why do people fall for confidence tricks like the nigerian prince scam? And why do they risk so much for such a small chance at riches? Sometimes it may be because they are just naive and kind hearted. Think: your grandma. But other times, they become blinded by the thought of the large reward. Maybe they think they have no other option?
We laugh about the different variations of the Nigerian Prince scam. And we joke about our royal buddy who wants to gift us large amounts of money.
We may talk about the wealth hungry conquistadors, and the atrocities they committed under the guise of exploration.
And the 49'ers who risked it all? We may discuss how we would never travel for a year through the wilderness or on a leaky ship just for a chance to dig up gold and become rich. But the reality is, people today are still as gullible and money-hungry as they were when these things happened.
Just recently, the Powerball reached a record level 1.6 billion dollars. People with normally good sense felt obligated to purchase a single chance at unimaginable wealth. Some purchased multiple tickets. And even though they didn't win, they didn't want to be left out of the mania.
And there's the stock picking game. You could get rich if you pick the next Amazon or Apple. But that's a mighty big "if".
You can have something for next to nothing.
Get rich quick schemes often appeal to us, as they have over the centuries, because we all want something without all the hard work or waiting. We are all lazy by nature, and blinded by greed, we don't make rational decisions.
And when it comes down to it, is there anything in life that is truly free? Of course not. Where you can get money or riches for next to nothing? Nowhere. Yet, so many have been deceived into thinking the opposite.
That's why many of these opportunities or schemes have you risk some money. You need to be invested in the scheme. They play on your confidence.
The nigerian prince usually asks for money upfront. The conquistadors invested and risked their time, money, and often their lives. The 49'ers the same. Many of them lost everything when the gold didn't pan out.
Even when you play the lottery you have to pay for a ticket.
What would go through your head, if I mentioned that was planning to gift you a million dollars? For no discernable reason . . .
You wouldn't believe me if I offered you a million dollars, yet we are quick to accept the premise of winning the lottery. We are normally skeptical creatures. And yet when the warning bells go off in our head, we ignore them and continue on. We will stake our future on a small chance of wealth.
In the case of a get rich quick scheme the reward often outweighs the risk in our minds. We minimize the risk in order to convince ourselves that what is in fact too good to be true is not.
Some people do actually become wealthy.
And this is the hardest one to deal with. Because in every one of the events or schemes I mentioned above, someone became rich.
In the case of the conquistadors, we know the famous ones. Men like Cortez, Pizarro, and Ponce de Leon achieved fame and glory in their discoveries and conquests. While they didn't always find wealth, they did succeed in their missions. But there were countless others who tried and failed.
How many of the 49'ers struck it rich? Some, but many did not. The prospectors who arrived earliest had a much better chance of wealth. But the ones who became the richest were the entrepreneurs who started up businesses to sell supplies and services to the mass of prospectors. Like Samuel Brannan, who became one of the wealthiest men in California after re-selling all the pickaxes, shovels, and pans he could find at a significant markup.
And the nigerian prince? "He" is the only one getting rich off this decades old scam. He of course never gives any rewards, and since he targets so many people, even if only a few respond, he still makes out.
And then there's the lottery. Somebody usually does win. And of course it's widely publicized, so that we all know how a common, ordinary person like you and me is now wealthy.
While you might think that you would never fall for a get rich quick scheme, don't be too quick to dismiss them. They have evolved over the centuries to our current modern day lottery. If you've purchased a lottery ticket, you've succumbed at some level to the get rich quick mentality.
Be careful that you don't lose your rational thought by the flash of gold and riches. Wealth comes from hard work, time, and ingenuity. And don't let anyone tell you any different.
What's your opinion on get rich quick schemes? Are they still prevalent today? Have you ever been the victim of one?
Let me know in the comments. Please share this post. Thanks as always.


Recently I have run two half marathons I haven't yet been able to write about. I ran Rock'n'Roll Providence and Rock'n'Roll Philadelphia in August and September, respectively. I enjoyed both of these races a lot, as I have all of the Rock'n'Roll events I have done. Rock'n'Roll races are always so well organized and supported. These races are always a ton of fun to participate in and worth the higher than average entry fees.
Providence — The Providence race was held on August 19th and it was my fifth half marathon of 2012. My first half marathon this year was also in Providence and featured many of the same roads, turns, and hills. The Providence Half marathon was the weekend before my first half ironman triathlon, so I really wanted to take it easy but at the same time needed a little bit of a confidence boost going into the next weekend. It was a nice cool morning in Rhode Island when the race began. I started out at a nice steady pace and was looking to come in anywhere between 2 hours and 2:10. I kept that steady pace until about mile 12 where I stopped to walk through the final aid station before running to the finish. My knees have been bothering me a little bit lately, but not so much that it effects my running, I just feel the pain. I feel like I have a bone bruise right below my right knee, and my left IT band often feels sore as I get deeper into the miles. Overall, the pain was not too bad for this race, and I finished at 2:06 and change. My PR set this year in providence was 1:54:19, so I was a little ways off from that time, but for the amount of races I have done this year and all of the wear and tear on my body at this point, I was very happy with that time.
Philadelphia — Philadelphia is a really cool city. I had never been to Philly before the Rock'n'Roll Race. In fact, many of my races have been the reason to visit countless new places. It's been a real joy visiting new places to participate in races. The Philadelphia had quite a few more participants than the Providence race did; probably 8-10 thousand more racers here. I love a big race with thousands of participants. It is really cool to be with so many other people who enjoy the same thing that you do. The Philly half course was pretty basic. It was a small tour through the city of about 4-5 miles and then a 4 mile out and back along one of the rivers that runs in the city. I again was looking for a finish time of under 2 hours and 10 minutes, and just hit that with a time of 2:09.
I have just one more half marathon in 2012, and will be looking to go sub-2. I have 3 weeks between now and the race, but 4 weekends to get long runs in if you count tomorrow. I am going to try to bang out an 8 mile run around 1:10 tomorrow morning, a 10 miler in 1:25 next weekend, another 7-8 the following weekend and then race the one after that. I have mixed emotions about that half though because I am running a 10k the day before it and want to hit a big 10k PR. We'll see where I decide to focus my energy.


Since it's almost 3 weeks ago that a community update has been posted and 26 is my favorite number I decided to write a community update. It's my first one, so I hope you find all the information you want to know.
Before I start with a few general things, I first will focus on the servers.
As you might already know if you checked the forums before this post I am the new Admin for TTT (since last week Monday).
I started with 0 Janitors, but I am happy to welcome @ed_that_guy to my Staff team.
I am happy that we managed to get some people on this week, but it's way too less in my opinion.
I hope Ed and I can keep getting people on in the hope more will join.
Eventually also hoping that someone else will give some extra power to the TTT Staff team.
3 weeks ago a lot of people joined the Jailbreak Staff team. Sadly enough @SpookySkeleton decided to step down; he is Retired now.
Next to that @ed_that_guy switched to TTT Janitor as I mentioned above.
Jailbreak seems to do quite okay; it had every day 10 people online, with yesterday even 15 people!
Keep on working and I guess that if you have 10 people online every day, more people will join eventually.
Mini Servers had a big major change: @Portal sadly decided to step down.
@Oriichilari will take his place and he is the new MS Admin! Welcome!
@ham posted 1,5 weeks ago that he left the MS Staff team, but he is back as Mini-Servers Staff.
Furthermore no changes in the MS Staff.
Deathrun seems to get people in every day, but not much every day, whilst Murder has days where no one joins.
Hopefully (new) people will join (back), so MS also has quite a lot of people online.
Firstly @Sonic_Cloud is busy with some personal things, so that's why things take some extra time.
He is working already on some things and the major problems on the Pointshop should be fixed.
If there is anything you want to see changed/added/removed, then please let us (WolfQueen, Orii or me) know, so we can contact Sonic about it.
If you want to have a Community Meeting, then I'm perfectly fine to host one, but for me (seeing how TTT goes) I want to host one when we actually have people coming back on the server.
That brings me to the point that, sadly enough, we have no new Regulars or Trusted.
No one donated as well. So I hope that if we have servers with new people on again, that they will go for Regular and Trusted some day.
There is no POTW at the moment, because there is nothing we can't give them at the moment (no wings etc), so if we can again and we can suggest a POTW, then we will.
The last thing to say is that we hope we can write a Community Update every week, but we only can when something happened.
I hope everything is clear for you. If there are any questions about it, then you can comment on this post or just message me on Steam!
"Next to that @ed_that_guy switched to TTT Janitor as I mentioned above."
Rip portal, he will be missed.


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Okay, so by now, I'm hoping you saw my previous post all about BEING THE SANTA CLAUS OF YOUR ADULTHOOD and believing in yourself. If not, go check it out because there are amazing tips AND a free worksheet in there just for you, because believing in yourself and trusting yourself is KEY in entrepreneurship.
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I know, I know! Another story... when I still have others that need to be finished. I just couldn't help it... I've been in a writing mood lately!
Many thanks to one of my amazing beta's, Stella! You rock, girl!
Kagome hummed to herself as she picked medicinal herbs, adding them to the wicker basket she carried with rough fingers. Holding the basket gingerly, she gasped when she heard a low growl coming from the bushes to her left, and approached them with measured.
"Hello?" she called, grasping a branch as she pushed them aside, her eyes widening when she found a pure white dog, his fur marred with fresh crimson blood. She rushed to the dogs side, setting down the basket next to her as she inspected the deep gash on his back, careful not to disturb it.
It growled at her once more, baring his fangs in warningas red eyes slanted - revealing purple pupils.
"Oh dear, you're badly injured! Hold on - I have some topical ointment that will cure that right up!" She smiled at him, reaching into a bag that rested on her back, and picking up a small oyster shell that held green paste inside of it.
The dog looked towards her strangely, growling as she applied the ointment to his back. It stung as she applied it, but he could feel the ointment curing him as she spread it carefully and gingerly onto him.
"There... now to bandage it so the wound won't get dirty." She commented, ripping her plain yukata at the hem, before gently lifting him so that she could wrap it around his waist and over his back. He lay his head down, relaxing as he realized she meant him no harm. She smiled at him, putting her hand on his head and rubbing him very gently.
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During my live game tweet session last night I was moments from saying, "If someone scores a late OT goal – it's going to leave a sour taste in the losing team's mouth for days." As I was writing that up, Adam Clendening shot from nearly the Admirals bench, and scored the game-winner with twenty-one seconds remaining.
The truth is, the Admirals might have been fortunate to skate off with one point last night. The IceHogs blasted them for 43 shots – including 20 in the first period alone. While both teams had to handle the three-in-three element it seemed very evident that the IceHogs were the strongest team from the second period in Rockford all the way into OT last night. The team is going to need more than just rest in the days before traveling to Iowa and returning the next night to play division leading Grand Rapids.
As well as crashing Dean Evason's post-game interview I also had the chance to speak with Austin Watson and Marek Mazanec. Here is what they said after the overtime defeat.
Then I wanted to ask Marek Mazanec about something plenty caught at the rink last night: he wasn't wearing his typical "Admirals" mask. It was an Admirals-y shade of blue, though. Just for an off-topic question I threw the question out to him to see if he did get a new lid.
Once that news came through – some b=better photos surfaced of it one Twitter.
Lone difference was he used the "Admirals" mask's backplate and added an Admirals sticker to the chin. Curious if, like Magnus Hellberg earlier in the year, Nashville has yet to send him his "Predators" mask.
Of all the post-game quotes that stick out the best to me the biggest comes from Austin Watson who said, "We just need to work on finishing teams off." The team knows, despite the way the game went, they could and should have had last night's game. There might be some frustration at not getting the win last night – but the mindset is right where it needs to be.
What do you make of last night's post-game comments?


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Skomer, Pembrokshire.
Lying just off the beautiful Welsh Pembrokshire coastline, Skomer is famously home to 6,000 puffins, which you can see if visiting on a day trip, or staying overnight on the island. You might also be lucky enough to see dolphins, porpoises, or stumble upon the "bluebell explosion" that smothers Skomer in springtime.
Donna Nook, Linconshire.
Aside from sounding like a sassy actress from the 1970's Donna Nook is one of the safest bets for seeing seals in the UK. With Grey seals coming up to birth on the 10 km of coast stretched along the North Sea, over the winter months.
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Want an oasis within walking distance of a tube station? Look no further! Originally a reservoir constructed in 1833, Woodberry Wetlands was opened as a nature reserve just this month, and is home to 6 different breeds of bat as well as a host of bird and amphibian life.
Windsor Great Park, Berkshire.
Both an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and SAC (Special Area of Conservation) this 4,800 acres of ecosystem has both a lake and waterfall, as well as 500 deer roaming free, and one pesky ghost by the name of Herne the Hunter… Try taking a stroll around Virginia Water and look out for the 100 foot Totem Pole, it's rather hard to miss…
Insh Marshes, Caringorms.
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Attenborough Nature Centre, Nottinghamshire.
Did you know; Sir David Attenborough has no less than 15 species named after him, and now a research vessel too. Now, whilst this nature reserve isn't named in his honour it was reopened in 1966 by the great man himself. It was originally a set a gravel pits, but is now over 500 acres of SSI and is notable for it's bird watching. It's also great for children, with holiday clubs, a monthly wildlife club and activities all year round for your sprogs to get involved with. Take a look at their calendar here.


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Of course the intent was to consider that a component.
> correctness and clarity, though.
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title: Fluo 1.0.0-alpha-1 released
date: 2014-10-02 15:30:00 +0000
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Fluo 1.0.0-alpha-1 is the first official release of Fluo. It contains 83 initial tickets marked for this first milestone. The roadmap for this release included a working initial implementation, completing an initial pass at the client API (which will be finalized in 1.0.0), and writing a stress test application.  This release has not been tested much at scale and is not ready for production use.  More scale and peformance testing will be done for the beta release.

Below are resources for this release:

* Download the [Fluo binary tarball][release] for 1.0.0-alpha-1 from GitHub.
* View the [documentation][docs] for this release.
* Read the [Javadocs][apidocs].
* The Fluo [jars] have been deploy to Maven Central.

Fluo is an implementation of Google's [percolator paper][percolator], which adds large-scale incremental processing of data using distributed transactions and notifications. It runs on [YARN] using [Twill] and stores its data in [Accumulo].

## Significant features

This alpha release contained a lot of initial features to help establish the basic implementation and client API. All of these features will be expected to become more robust over time.

#### MiniFluo

MiniAccumulo and MiniFluo make it easy to start a local Fluo instance for integration testing. MiniFluo also makes it easy for developers to experiment with Fluo locally without installing it on an Accumulo cluster.

#### Garbage Collection

Without garbage collection, the columnns in a Fluo table would grow without bound as updates are applied over time. Because of this, it's important to clean up old fully-processed (and no longer being read) transaction data. The initial implementation of garbage collection kept N versions of columns. [Fluo-8][8] added the ability to garbage collect all column versions that are no longer being read by transactions anywhere else in the cluster.

#### MapReduce InputFormat

The FluoInputFormat allows a specific snapshot to be read into a mapreduce job. It was established in [Fluo-7][7].

#### FluoFileOutputFormat and FluoOutputFormat

The FluoFileOuputFormat enables the bulk ingest of a Fluo table using mapreduce by creating the Accumulo r-files in HDFS. The FluoOutputFormat pushes keys directly into the Accumulo tablet servers through the client API. [Fluo-35][35] added this feature.

#### Fluo Workers and Oracle running in Yarn

Fluo can use Yarn to manage fault tolerance and guarantee multiple worker processes and some number of Oracle processes are kept running across the cluster. [Apache Twill][twill] was used for the Yarn integration. [Fluo-11][11] added an application that will deploy Fluo to a Yarn cluster.

#### Fluo API

Fluo provides a fluent-builder API for creating transactions to read and mutate data of various different data types in the Fluo table. This API was finalized in [Fluo-23][23] and [Fluo-98][98] when it was moved into its own module.  It includes a type layer (finished in [Fluo-153][153]) that makes it easier to work with different types, default values, null return types, and row/column maps.

#### Stress test

A [stress test][stress] was created that uses a tree to force collisions on transactions trying to mutate multiple columns at the same time. This was established in [Fluo-24][24].

Other important improvements and features:

* [Fluo-1][1]     - Create scripts for starting/stopping services
* [Fluo-3][3]     - use Curator for leader election and leader discovery
* [Fluo-13][13]   - Register clients that perform transactions in Zookeeper
* [Fluo-15][15]   - Leader election for the Oracle Server
* [Fluo-16][16]   - Allow observer notification to be configured in AbstractObserver class
* [Fluo-89][89]   - OracleApp should allow configurable number of instances
* [Fluo-98][98]   - Create a Range class for Fluo
* [Fluo-123][123] - Hide implementation of Bytes in the API
* [Fluo-130][130] - Expose MiniFluo in public API
* [Fluo-131][131] - Make LoaderExector implement closeable
* [Fluo-147][147] - Create fluo-accumulo module for Accumulo iterators and formatter
* [Fluo-175][175] - Add newTransaction() method to FluoClient
* [Fluo-186][186] - Add Exceptions to API

## Testing

All unit and integration tests passed.  Two [stress tests][stress] were run successfully on a 20-node cluster with one test generating 2000 integers and another generating 5000 integers.  The 5000 integer test took about 10 minutes to run after the MapReduce load of integers was complete.

## Current Status of Percolator Implementation

The following tables identify the features necessary for a full implementation of Percolator and the current state of Fluo with regards to the implementation. For alpha, a test to excercise some of these features at scale was created, however, it was not run at scale for long periods. One of the goals for beta is to have at least a 24hr run of the scale test, on at least 20 nodes, succeed.

### Necessary features:

| Percolator Feature         |  Details | Testing |
|----------|-------------------|------|
| ACID-compliant cross-row transactions | Provides distributed transactions with ACID guarantees that work across Accumulo rows. Rows are distributed across tablet servers. | IT,CST,[#240][240]1 |
| Observers |    Perform transactions by sending read/write RPCs to Accumulo tablet servers, which in turn send read/write RPCs to HDFS.   |  IT,CST |
| Worker Process | Scans Accumulo for changed columns and invokes necessary observers as function calls on the worker. | IT,CST |
| Timestamp Oracle | Provides strictly increasing timestamps; a property required for correct operation of the snapshot isolation protocol. |  IT,CST |
| Oracle Failover | When an active Oracle process dies, timestamps should be served from a different Oracle. They should never go backwards. | IT,[#37][37],[#241][241]1 |
| Lightweight Lock Service | Makes searches for dirty notifications more efficient. Zookeeper is used in this case. Should be low-latency, replicated, balanced, and persist to a backing store. |    IT,CST |
| Multithreaded Transasctions | Allows highly parallel execution of transactions and synchronization only during get() and commit() upon which transactions actually collide. |    IT,CST |
| Snapshot Isolation | Non-serializable isolation mostly implemented through MVCC provided through Accumulo's timestamp portion of the key. | IT,CST,[#240][240]1 |
| Roll-back / Roll-forward semantics | Failures during the first phase of commit cause transactions to be rolled back while failures during the second phase can cause them to be rolled forward. | IT,[#240][240]1 |

1 This feature has been at least partially tested.

### Performance enhancements:

| Enhancement         |  Details | Testing |
|----------|-------------------|------|
| Locality Group for NOTIFY column |  Add an extra index in the underlying r-files for the notify column where it can be scanned faster by workers.  | IT,CST  |
| Worker scan conflict resolution | Workers register random tablets they choose to scan. When two workers generate the same tablet, one of them re-generates a new random tablet. | [#5][5] |
| Worker advertisement | Workers advertise through the lock service so that the system can know if they failed and any transactions upon which they are working can be rolled back or rolled forward | IT |
| Oracle batching | Timestamps get allocated in batch to workers. Each worker should share one connection to Oracle to limit RPCs across threads | IT,CST |
| Weak Notifications | Allows notification of a cell without the possibility of transactional conflict through a special type of column that can be notified but not written to | IT |
| Conditional Mutations | Allows READ-MODIFY-WRITE of a mutation in a single RPC.  | IT,CST |
| Conditional Mutation batching | Delay sending of conditional mutations destined for same tablet server so they can be batched. Lowers number of RPCs, adds latency but provides better parallelism. | IT,CST |
| Read batching | Delaying of read operations on tablet server for batching | [#138][138] |
| Prefetching & read-ahead caching | Prediction made each time a column is read, which other columns will be read in the same transaction based on previous behavior. | [#12][12] |

* IT = Integration tests, CST = Cluster stress tests
* Testing columns providing a ticket number have not yet been implemented.

## Quickstart

If you are new to Fluo, the best way to get started is to follow the [quickstart] which starts a local Fluo instance
(called MiniFluo).  By using MiniFluo, you can avoid following the steps below to run your own Fluo instance.

## Running a Fluo instance

In order to run a Fluo instance, you will need [Accumulo] (version 1.6+), [Hadoop] (version 2.2+), and [Zookeeper] installed and
running on your local machine or cluster.

Fluo distributions are built for specific releases of Hadoop and Accumulo.  If you are using Accumulo 1.6.1 and Hadoop 2.3.0, you
can download the [1.0.0-alpha-1 tarball][release]. Otherwise, you will need to clone the Fluo repo and build a distribution tarball
of 1.0.0-alpha-1 for your environment:

{% highlight bash %}
git clone https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo.git
cd fluo/
git checkout 1.0.0-alpha-1
mvn package -Daccumulo.version=1.6.1-SNAPSHOT -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0
{% endhighlight %}

The distribution tarball will be created in ```modules/distribution/target```

When you have a Fluo distribution, install it to a directory:

{% highlight bash %}
tar xzf fluo-distribution-1.0.0-alpha-1-bin.tar.gz
{% endhighlight %}

Next, follow the instructions to configure and run Fluo in the [README].

## Running Fluo applications

Once you have Fluo installed and running on your cluster, you can now run Fluo applications.  Fluo applications consist of
clients and observers. If you are new to Fluo, consider first building and running the [phrasecount] application on your Fluo
instance.  Otherwise, you will need to include the following in your Maven pom and follow the steps below to create your own
Fluo client or observer:

{% highlight xml %}
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.fluo</groupId>
  <artifactId>fluo-api</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.fluo</groupId>
  <artifactId>fluo-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-alpha-1</version>
  <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
{% endhighlight %}

### Creating a Fluo client

To create a [FluoClient], you will need all properties with the ```io.fluo.client.*``` prefix set in the configuration that is passed
to the ```newClient()``` method of [FluoFactory].  See [fluo.properties] for details on these properties.

### Creating a Fluo observer

To create an observer, follow these steps:

1. Create a class that extends [AbstractObserver].
2. Build a jar containing this class and include this jar in ```lib/observers``` of your Fluo installation.
3. Configure your Fluo instance to use this observer by modifying the Observer section of [fluo.properties].
4. Restart your Fluo instance so that your Fluo workers load the new observer.

[YARN]: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.5.1/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html
[Accumulo]: https://accumulo.apache.org/
[jars]: http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cfluo
[Twill]: http://twill.incubator.apache.org/
[percolator]: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html
[apidocs]: /apidocs/fluo/1.0.0-alpha-1/
[docs]: /docs/fluo/1.0.0-alpha-1/
[quickstart]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo-quickstart
[Hadoop]: http://hadoop.apache.org/
[Zookeeper]: http://zookeeper.apache.org/
[release]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/releases/tag/1.0.0-alpha-1
[README]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/blob/1.0.0-alpha-1/README.md
[phrasecount]: https://github.com/fluo-io/phrasecount
[FluoFactory]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/blob/1.0.0-alpha-1/modules/api/src/main/java/io/fluo/api/client/FluoFactory.java
[FluoClient]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/blob/1.0.0-alpha-1/modules/api/src/main/java/io/fluo/api/client/FluoClient.java
[fluo.properties]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/blob/1.0.0-alpha-1/modules/distribution/src/main/config/fluo.properties
[AbstractObserver]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/blob/1.0.0-alpha-1/modules/api/src/main/java/io/fluo/api/observer/AbstractObserver.java
[ACCUMULO-1000]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1000
[percolator]: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html
[twill]: http://twill.incubator.apache.org/
[stress]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/blob/1.0.0-alpha-1/modules/stress/README.md
[241]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/241
[240]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/240
[186]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/186
[175]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/175
[153]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/153
[147]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/147
[138]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/138
[131]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/131
[130]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/130
[123]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/123
[98]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/98
[89]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/89
[37]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/37
[35]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/35
[24]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/24
[23]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/23
[16]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/16
[15]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/15
[13]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/13
[12]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/12
[11]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/11
[8]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/8
[7]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/7
[5]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/5
[3]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/3
[1]: https://github.com/fluo-io/fluo/issues/1

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I guess the morale of this blog is that I will only suggest helmet treatment for little ones who actually NEED the treatment. If the little ones don't need treatment, or if their flattening can be resolved through other means such as repositioning techniques, tummy time tips, physiotherapy, exercises then I certainly suggest this first.
If you or someone you know is concerned about their little ones head shape, please don't think I am a pushy sales person, I am an ethical clinician who will provide a full assessment and diagnosis of the little ones head shape and discuss the appropriate, correct method of treatment.
Don't be frightened that all babies who come and see me end up in a helmet!
A Thank you from Rhys. CI 108% – 87% and Asymm 15mm – 0mm in 7 Months.


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Inspur to Offer BeeGFS Storage Systems for HPC and AI Clusters
March 29, 2019 by staff
Today Inspur announced that it will offer integrated storage solutions with the BeeGFS filesystem. BeeGFS, a leading parallel cluster file system with a distributed metadata architecture, has gained global acclaim for its usability, scalability and powerful metadata processing functions.
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Canadian Trysten Routledge faced 'a lot of pressure' in Pan Am men's skeet final
By Gregory StrongThe Canadian Press
Sat., Aug. 3, 2019timer4 min. read
LIMA, PERU—Trysten Routledge could sense things were slipping away after missing both targets at the second station of the Pan Am Games men's skeet final on Saturday.
He lowered his shotgun, launched the hulls onto the ground and tried to stay positive as he prepared for the next station.
The six-man showdown in his first major multi-sport Games proved to be a much different beast than the qualification round. Routledge shot a personal best to reach his first international final but faded when scores mattered most, settling for sixth place.
Shooting for a potential Olympic quota spot also hung heavy on a breezy afternoon at Las Palmas Range. A podium appearance would have likely done the trick.
"That's quite a lot of pressure for an athlete," Routledge said. "Unfortunately, I let it get to me."
The 23-year-old from Calgary was fourth in the 28-man field after shooting without a miss over three of five 25-shot qualification rounds. Routledge hit 11 of 20 targets in the final.
In skeet, competitors shoot at orange targets moving at 80 km/h — projectiles slightly larger than a drink coaster — that intersect over the field.
Athletes rotate through various shooting stations and have just a couple seconds to raise their gun to eye level, aim and fire, before focusing on the second target and shooting again.
American Christian Elliott won gold, Juan Schaeffer of Guatemala took silver and Peru's Nicolas Pacheco earned bronze.
"I came out and I shot a qualification score that would be (good for) a final at almost any event in the world, including the Olympics," he said. "I believe that this is the first of many situations in which that happens."
The U.S. had already secured spots for next year's Tokyo Olympics so Routledge needed to finish in the top two of non-American competitors. However, additional quota opportunities will be available at future world-level events.
The experience should serve as a solid building block for a young athlete who needs more reps at the sport's top level.
"I had my first day of qualification yesterday and I ran a perfect score," he said. "At that point I realized that I earned my place here and I deserve to be here.
"I shot with the best in the world and I was able to hang with them."
Team leader Sandra Honour said Routledge has the potential to be one of the strongest shooters Canada has had in over a decade.
"He's a very dedicated athlete and if he's got a weakness, he's trained it out of himself," she said. "He's very solid physically, he's technically strong, he's mentally strong.
"There's just nothing but good things for him ahead. No question about it."
Routledge first picked up the sport six years ago. He rented a gun at a Calgary club, was told he was a good shot, and enjoyed the experience.
"It sort of lit a fire in me I suppose," he said.
He competed in a variety of shooting disciplines while studying at the University of Tucson — earning degrees in microbiology and German studies — and made his World Cup debut in 2017.
"In the last probably three years he started to focus down on international skeet," Honour said. "He likes the challenge because shooting 25's is not easy in this game."
The turn-and-shoot skill is honed during regular training and consistent practice at home.
Athletes will often imagine they're in a competitive environment and work on the motion of raising their arms and pretending to shoot.
Routledge tries to schedule his classes in the morning before training for a few hours on the range in the afternoon. He works on his visualization technique every day.
"I usually do 100 mounts a day, regardless of whether I train that day or not," he said.
The native of Red Deer, Alta., will begin PhD studies in microbiology this fall at the University of Calgary.
"It's quite a balancing act," Routledge said. "Basically shooting is what I do for sport and for fun. So I have my school work and then I go shooting.
"Shooting kind of acts as my entertainment and something that is part of my athletic career."
If vision and precision remain in top form, shooters can enjoy long runs at the elite level.
Earlier in the week, 48-year-old Curtis Wennberg of East St. Paul, Man., teamed with Amanda Chudoba Obrigewitch of Spruce Grove, Alta., to win bronze in the mixed team trap event.
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Both Canadians missed the eight-woman final in 25-metre pistol on Saturday. Calgary's Kimberly Britton was 22nd and Lea Wachowich of Strathmore, Alta., was 23rd.
In the mixed 10-metre air rifle team event, Christopher Baldwin of Aylmer, Ont., and Shannon Westlake of Barrie, Ont., were 18th. The top five teams qualified.
Saskatoon's Richard McBride tied for 10th in the skeet.


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