Trying to find pubs in Avon? You've come to the right place. We've got every pub and bar in the UK listed. Whether you're looking for a pub or bar in Avon to play darts, somewhere to play pool or just want to have a look at a menu before you go, we can help.
Queens Head in Stratford-upon-Avon serves food. The pub serves real ale, it shows football on TV. Queens Head has terrestrial TV. The pub is a member of Cask Marque.
The Rose & Crown in Stratford upon Avon is a gorgeous traditional pub in the historic heart of Stratford. Our menu is in the best tradition of British pub food. Best enjoyed with a drink, friends and a warm welcome at the Rose & Crown.
Edward Moon is a long established award winning English brasserie with plenty of its own history, characteristic of Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare's country. Situated in Chapel Street, we are just a few metres from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Situated next to the Swan's Nest Hotel, The Bear offers a beautiful riverside location with stunning views across the River Avon and is just a five minute stroll from the RSC recently refurbished theatre.
Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon has accommodation. The pub has a beer garden, it has a car park. Shakespeare has disabled facilities. The pub gives a warm welcome to dogs and their owners, it is a family friendly pub. Shakespeare serves food. The pub has a function room that can be booked, it has an outside area. Shakespeare has free WiFi.
Dirty Duck in Stratford-upon-Avon has a beer garden. The pub serves food, it has an outside area. Dirty Duck serves real ale. The pub has free WiFi, it is a member of Cask Marque.
The Townhouse is located in the heart of Stratford upon Avon. Housed in a 400-year-old, Grade II Listed building and opposite Shakespeare's school, the perfect place to enjoy the history, culture and entertainment that the town offers.
Antelope Inn in Lighthorne has a beer garden. The pub has a car park, it gives a warm welcome to dogs and their owners. Antelope Inn is a family friendly pub. The pub serves food, it has a function room that can be booked. Antelope Inn has an outside area. The pub serves real ale, it has a real fire. Antelope Inn has free WiFi. The pub is a member of Cask Marque.
Windmill in Stratford Upon Avon serves real ale. The pub is a member of Cask Marque.
All Bar One in Stratford-upon-Avon has a cocktail bar. The pub is a family friendly pub, it serves food. All Bar One has an outside area.
New Bulls Head in Stratford-upon-Avon has an outside area. The pub has free WiFi, it has a pool table.
Blue Boar in Temple Grafton has a beer garden. The pub has a car park, it has disabled facilities. Blue Boar is a family friendly pub. The pub serves food, it serves real ale. Blue Boar has a real fire. The pub is a member of Cask Marque.


Long View enjoys panoramic views of Whiteside and Chimneytop Mountains from this enclave located just minutes from town. The master bedroom along with a guest room and office are located on the main level. Two additional guest rooms are located on the lower level along with an indoor pool that has glass doors opening to a stone patio. The covered deck expands the living area and lets you enjoy cool summer breezes.
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Donald Carl Odenkirk, 77, of Littleton, NC passed away on Monday, September 19, 2016.
Donald was born in Wooster, Ohio to Dorothy E. Messner and Carl F. Odenkirk. He served his country in the United States Air Force and served as a Past Commander in U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary on Lake Gaston where he served from 2001-2010. He was also a member of Calvary United Methodist Church in Littleton, NC. Donald worked for IBM in management for 32 years.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Louise Gardner Odendkirk; his daughter, Lynda Odenkirk of New Haven, CT; his son, Robert Odenkirk and his wife, Missy, of S. Glens Falls, NY; his sister, Gini Davis of Las Cruces, NM; his 3 grandchildren and his 5 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held in the chapel of Askew Funeral and Cremation Services on Friday, September 30, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Stan Lewis officiating.
There will be two visitations; the first will be on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at Askew Funeral and Cremation Services from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m., and the second visitation will be held on Friday, September 30, 2016 at Askew Funeral and Cremation Services from 10:00 a.m. until Service time. Askew Funeral and Cremation Services In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Donald's memory may be made to: Calvary United Methodist Church, 136 Calvary Church Rd., Littleton, NC 27850, and American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22478, Oklahoma City, OK 73123, and to the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 93, 252 River Rd. Henrico, NC 27842.


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The last of the wreckers
Birmingham Press / 19 October, 2015
Opponents of Birmingham Central Library seem to be vanishing, notes Alan Clawley.
With the resignation of Sir Albert Bore as Leader of the City Council Labour Group, fans of John Madin's Central Library can quietly celebrate the demise of an influential quintet of two councillors, two officers and one property developer that had long plotted and championed its destruction.
Bore's co-conspirators Mike, now Lord Whitby, the late outspoken Clive Dutton, former head of planning and regeneration, former head librarian Brian Gambles, and Argent's Gary Taylor have left the scene. Only one other councillor, Bore's deputy Ian Ward, has publicly championed the Library's destruction and might be capable of filling one vacancy. But even his position is far from secure.
Mike Whitby was strongly censured by the Birmingham Post in July 2008 for a personal attack on the Library's architect John Madin. The editor wrote "…a touch of desperation appears to be entering the Council strategy. In a 4,500-word letter to the minister, which his friends might describe as passionate but others would regard as bombastic and vaguely threatening, council leader Mike Whitby makes the case for demolition of the Central Library. Was it, for instance, really necessary to make a case about the quality of the architect's other buildings and to add, somewhat gratuitously, that Mr Madin now lives in Hampshire rather than Birmingham – as if that is in any way relevant to the factors Mrs Hodge must take into consideration when deciding whether to list the Central Library."
In 2007 Clive Dutton famously advised Cabinet (The Stirrer 11th December) that the Central Library was of "no architectural merit". He was of course bluffing because he knew it had been recommended for listed status once and would almost certainly be considered for listing again. Why else would he have advised the Council to apply to the Minister for Culture for a Certificate of Immunity from Listing?
Brian Gambles and I were interviewed by Lucinda Lambton in Birmingham in October 2008 for her Radio Four programme entitled Listed. I quote:
Gambles: We're looking forward to building a new Library of Birmingham about two hundred yards from here which will be funded through the city council (£193 million) and we're going to be building the best public library in the world. It's going to open in 2013, and there will be a few tears but not too many tears shed over the demise of our present central library.
Lambton: There'll be buckets pouring out of my eyes I can tell you because of the extraordinary way it yells of the age in such a superior way. I mean it's marvellous to come in here and march through these great buildings, first of all Victoria Square and then Chamberlain Square with these beautiful great neo-Classical very fancy Victorian buildings, 1940s detailing, and then wham bam in your eye this sensational seventies Brutalist monster of a block which becomes beautiful by virtue of its being of its age and there won't be any more ever.
Gambles: I think there's another way of looking at it. The incongruity of the way that the Brutalist structure of the present Central Library sits with the Victorian and post-Victorian structures around us. I think it sits very oddly with those.
Gambles retired from the Council in April 2015.
One of Sir Albert's innovations, to allow members of the public to address the full council, gave me to chance in 2012 to ask him whether in deciding to demolish the Library he had considered the growing appreciation of twentieth century architecture. His reply (I quote) – "I can only provide personal comments as regarding the appreciation of twentieth-century architecture and would limit myself to saying that I am not a fan of what is sometimes called twentieth-century Brutalism, an architectural style which has blighted many cities including our own here in Birmingham,"– showed that he had not given the opinions of others a moment's thought.
So, while the last of the Library's big adversaries is fading away its supporters are growing in strength. A new action group called Brutiful has been formed and is finding widespread enthusiasm for the style not only from the usual suspects such as the Twentieth Century Society, the Manchester Modernists, and the World Monuments Fund (who have just put the Moseley Road Baths on their list of endangered species) but also from unexpected quarters such as the National Trust.
On 10th January 2016, when the Certificate giving the Library immunity from listing expires, none of the once-powerful quintet will be around to oppose a new listing application as they did before. In the meantime, we watch and wait for the long-promised wrecking ball or its modern equivalent.
19 October, 2015 in Most recent. Tags: Alan Clawley, Birmingham Central Library, John Madin
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Dave JustDave says:
Really pleased to see this, how might I find the group "Brutify" mentioned in the article?
ALAN CLAWLEY says:
The email address is brutiful2015@gmail.com
They have a facebook page Save The Birmingham Central Library
Reza S says:
Always a pleasure to get a solid insight into local affairs…
Steve Beauchampe says:
I think you need to start lobbying John Clancy and anyone else who might succeed Albert Bore

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COVID-19: London hospital sees spike in child abuse during lockdown
A major London children's hospital registered a 15-fold increase in the number of apparent child abuse cases it dealt with during the COVID-19 lockdown compared to previous years, researchers reported Thursday.
From March 23 to April 23 — corresponding to the height of self-isolation rules — the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children saw 10 infants ranging in age from two weeks to 13 months diagnosed with "abusive head trauma".
In 2017, 2018 and 2019, the hospital reported an average of only 0.67 such cases over the same time period each year, Jai Sidpra from the London Medical School and four doctors from Great Ormond reported in Archives of Disease in Childhood, a medical journal.
Clinical examinations revealed symptoms including bleeding in the eyes, bruising, and scalp swelling, while X-rays or CAT scans showed brain haemorrhaging, internal bleeding and skull fractures.
Immediately prior to the examination, half of the infants were colic, 40 per cent were on the edge of unconsciousness, and 20 per cent had had seizures, according to hospital records.
"The increase in incidence seen at our institution reflects a rise in domestic abuse in countries enforcing similar social distancing measures," the researchers wrote in a peer-reviewed letter.
The real number of cases is likely to be even higher than reported due to public avoidance of hospitals during the pandemic, they added.
– 'A more silent pandemic' –
"Two parents in our cohort cited fears of contracting COVID-19 as a reason for delayed presentation," they wrote by way of example.
Though the cases were just at one hospital, the experts point to evidence suggesting the increase in such trauma could be happening across Britain and other countries that had strict confinement policies.
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Studies from several countries in recent weeks have shown an increase in stress, domestic violence, substance abuse and mental illness during strict stay-at-home lockdowns.
Such episodes are more likely to occur, earlier research has shown, in households with unfavourable socioeconomic circumstances.
In the case of the ten infants seen at Great Ormand Street Hospital, all the families lived in areas with higher than average Index of Multiple Deprivation scores, a measure of social well-being established by the government.
Seventy per cent of parents had significant "underlying vulnerabilities," the letter said: two had criminal histories, three had mental health disorders, and four had serious money problems.
"In the background of the intensely public SARS-CoV-2 pandemic" — the scientific terms for the new coronavirus — "a more silent pandemic is occurring," the researchers wrote.
As of July 1, Britain has seen more than 313,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and nearly 44,000 deaths, giving the nation one of the worst death rate per capita in the world.
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Q: Fortify plugin for gradle I have been running fortify scan for some Java  components. Below are the general steps followed:
For java Project:

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*mvn com.fortify.ps.maven.plugin:sca-maven-plugin:4.30:clean

*mvn install -DskipTests  -DSTABILITY_ID=1 -DRELEASE_NUMBER=0 -DBUID_ID=1

*mvn -Dfortify.sca.debug=true -Dfortify.sca.Xmx=1800M -Dfortify.sca.Xss=5M -DSTABILITY_ID=2 -DRELEASE_NUMBER=2 package com.fortify.ps.maven.plugin:sca-maven-plugin:4.30:translate

*sourceanalyzer -b build_id -Xmx1800M -Xss4M -scan -f build_id_results.fpr -logfile scan.log -clobber-log -debug-verbose

After this fpr files gets generated and is uploaded to the server.
Now I have to do the same for a component using gradle.
What would be the commands that I will have to use to generate the fpr files.

A: I have to remove duplicity, improve a little bit and probably create a plugin, but basically, try the following snippet.
/*
 * Performs the Fortify security scan.
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 * 1) Runs source code translation.
 * 2) Creates the export session file.
 * 3) Submits the export session file for processing through the scp.
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 * Credentials and url for the scp are obtained from the gradle.properties file
 * (or can be passed from the command line through the -P switch).
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fortifyUploadUsername

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fortifyUploadPassword

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fortifyUploadUrl

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task fortify(group: 'fortify', description: 'Security analysis by HP Fortify') << {

    def fortifyBuildId = 'myProjectId'

    logger.debug "Running command: sourceanalyzer -b $fortifyBuildId -clean"
    exec {
        commandLine 'sourceanalyzer', '-b', fortifyBuildId, '-clean'
    }

    def classpath = configurations.runtime.asPath
    logger.debug "Running command: sourceanalyzer -b ${fortifyBuildId} -source ${sourceCompatibility} -cp $classpath src/**/*.java"

    exec {
        commandLine 'sourceanalyzer', '-b', fortifyBuildId, '-source', sourceCompatibility, '-cp', classpath, 'src/**/*.java'
    }

    def fortifyBuildFolder = 'build/fortify'
    new File(fortifyBuildFolder).mkdirs()
    def fortifyArtifactFileName = "$fortifyBuildId@${project.version}.mbs"
    def fortifyArtifact = "$fortifyBuildFolder/$fortifyArtifactFileName"

    logger.debug "Running command: sourceanalyzer -b ${fortifyBuildId} -build-label ${project.version} -export-build-session $fortifyArtifact"

    exec {
        commandLine 'sourceanalyzer', '-b', fortifyBuildId, '-build-label', project.version, '-export-build-session', "$fortifyArtifact"
    }

    logger.debug "Running command: sshpass -p <password> scp $fortifyArtifact <user>@$fortifyUploadUrl:$fortifyArtifactFileName"

    exec {
        commandLine 'sshpass', '-p', fortifyUploadPassword, 'scp', "$fortifyArtifact", "$fortifyUploadUsername@$fortifyUploadUrl:$fortifyArtifactFileName"
    }

}

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Can you go in the swimming pool with fake tan on?
Personally I would avoid it. Chlorine and self-tan don't mix well; it's likely to make your tan fade faster.
Would you recommend applying fake tan after a day at the beach?
Sure! I find the salt in seawater to be an amazing natural exfoliator for the skin prior to application, and actually putting self-tan on warm skin tends to give a very smooth finish – almost spray tan like. Post-tan, seawater can also be quite good for removing any patchiness and for giving your glow that all-important even finish.
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Becoming a licensed phlebotomy technician in Ohio by earning your phlebotomy certification is a great way to get started with a new job in the allied-medical field.
The barrier to entry is low, and there are many local colleges and vocation training programs available.
Phlebotomy is the act of drawing blood from the veins of a patient. The blood is used to either investigate specific physical conditions in individuals or for blood donation purposes, such as local blood drives performed by the red cross.
A phlebotomist in Ohio is usually employed by hospitals, blood banks, and private medical clinics.
There is no specific stipulation which requires an aspiring phlebotomist to acquire specific certification, but given the nature of the job, an aspiring phlebotomist must obtain specific abilities and qualifications to be successful in the job.
Almost every Ohio employer insists on specific skill sets and credentials these days, and some employers want additional certifications from professional associations.
There are a number of colleges in Ohio that offer training in phlebotomy, with varying schedules and classroom/clinical hours.
Most training programs offer both theoretical and practical sessions – offering really life, hands-on experience to students.
The courses are usually offered by the colleges and vocational schools, and are divided into credits. However, an additional certification from a national credentialing agency like National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, and the American Society of Phlebotomy Technicians adds a lot of value in terms of finding employment.
A phlebotomist must also be good at patient management while performing daily venipuncture routines.
Different patients react differently to a blood draw, so it's important the technician possess a calm and assuring presence, addressing possible needle and "sight of blood" anxieties.
The Bureau for Labor Statistics has given an encouraging job scenario for phlebotomists, with a projection of 14% growth in the number of jobs out through 2018.
According to the Occupational Employment Statistics Handbook, the average salary of a phlebotomist in Ohio was $38,420 annually and $18.47 per hour.
Akron phlebotomists earn $40,740 annually.
Other than reasonable salary levels, phlebotomists also enjoy a number of other benefits from their employers.
The Ohio School of Phlebotomy offers a certificate approved by the State of Ohio Board of Career Colleges and Schools. The course contains credits like HIPAA and Patient's Rights, test tubes and their uses, heel and finger sticks, special procedures like blood culture, bleeding time, and testing of glucose tolerance, blood components, performing venipuncture with the help of syringes, and butterfly and vacutainers. The successful candidate is put into an internship program with an affiliated laboratory so that he/she can pick up practical skills.
The Cuyahoga Community Collegeoffers a phlebotomy certificate program through the Tri-C's Health Careers department. The program contains 14 to 16 credits, and an aspiring phlebotomist can complete this in 2 semesters. The course is a combination of theoretical and practical classes. The practical sessions have at least 14 hours of clinical rotation. A successful candidate can take the phlebotomy technician certification test which is conducted by the American Society for Clinical Pathology.
The Sinclair Community College offers a 6 credit phlebotomy certificate program. The course is a combination of theoretical and practical classes. The duration of the practical classes is 25 hours.
Schools and private satellite classes offering phlebotomy training in Ohio is on the rise, so be sure to compare course durations and pricing that fits your personal schedule and budget before committing to any program.


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Oct 17, 2013 09:22 AM EDT By Staff Reporter, UniversityHerald Reporter
Men with Low Voices More Likely To Cheat, Canada Study
Did you ever wonder why Sylvester Stallone and Van Diesel have female followers in huge numbers? One of the reasons can be attributed to their sexy, low and deep voice, apart from their acting skills and physical characteristics.
The effect of this attractive trait has been further strengthened in a study from McCaster University in Ontario.
According to Jillian O'Connor, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior and lead author of the study, women find men with low-pitched voices (which are produced by larger vocal chords) more attractive than their higher-pitched peers.
"This was a problem for us. We wanted to figure out why women would be attracted to a man that they think is not going to be good to them in a relationship," O'Connor told cbc.ca. "Maybe one of the explanations could be [that] it depends on what kind of relationship these women are after."
O'Connor's paper has been published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
O'Connor arrived at the conclusion after asking 87 women to listen to several male voices that had been digitally manipulated to create higher and lower pitches. After listening to the modified voices, the researchers asked the participants to reveal which one of them was more likely to cheat and which one would be better for a long-term relationship or a short-term fling.
She found that women favored men with lower-pitched voices, but claimed that such people are more likely to cheat. As a result, they would prefer having short-term relationships with them.
"They're attracted to these men in a situation where maybe they wouldn't expect fidelity," O'Connor said.
"The sound of someone's voice can affect how we think of them," said O'Connor in an official statement. "Until now, it's been unclear why women would like the voices of men who might cheat. But we found that the more women thought these men would cheat, the more they were attracted to them for a brief relationship when they are less worried about fidelity."
O'Connor said that so far, whether men with low-pitched voices are actually more likely to cheat than their higher-pitched counterparts, hasn't been proved yet.
"Men with lower-pitched voices have higher levels of testosterone and men who have higher levels of testosterone may be more likely to cheat when they're in a relationship. They're generally less committed," O'Connor said.
"It's kind of like a rule of thumb; more often than not it might be right, but it's not going to be 100 per cent accurate."
"From an evolutionary perspective, these perceptions of future sexual infidelity may be adaptive," David Feinberg, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour said in the official statement.
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Tribute to an old friend
Photo courtesy of Michigan Department of Natural Resources
A welcoming hemlock stands in a forest within the Porcupine Mountains in Gogebic County.
A bridge over the Big Carp River is visible from the Escarpment Trail.
Hemlock branches shield a view of Agate Falls on the Middle Branch of the Ontonagon River.
Nawadaha Falls is one in a series of impressive waterfalls on the west end of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
A morning view of the forested hills at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
A beautiful stand of hemlock trees at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
Lake of the Clouds is the trademark attraction at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
By Frank Wladyslawski | frank@medianewsgroup.com, Press Release, Press and Guide, Guide Intern, Guide News, John Pepin, Michigan Department of Community Health, Michigan Department of Nartural Resources and Michigan Department of Transportation | News-Herald
PUBLISHED: January 10, 2020 at 6:50 a.m. | UPDATED: June 17, 2021 at 10:36 a.m.
In the burnt sunlight of a late afternoon, I followed a rocky trail down one side of an ancient volcanic rock face. The steep trail was rugged and twisted down into the forest below.
Once there, I stopped.
Looking up, I could no longer see the craggy, black rocks near the top of the lichen- covered face of the cliff. They were obscured by a dark green cover of pine needles and branches lightly perched high in the canopy.
I ran my hand over the dark reddish-brown bark of one of the trees. Still staring skyward, I enjoyed the peace and comfort of feeling small in the shadow of these forest giants. It was my old friend hemlock.
Sometimes called the Canada hemlock or the hemlock spruce, some eastern hemlock trees can live to be almost a thousand years old. Most manage to survive on the earth about half that long. God knows how old these were.
They turn their branches away from the prevailing winds. Lightning strikes, fires threatening their shallow root systems and windstorms are among their toughest foes.
Forest creatures like white-tailed deer, ruffed grouse and the snowshoe hare all find food and shelter among these trees.
This hemlock I'm describing is a species of pine, not to be confused with the poison Greek philosopher Socrates picked to end his life. His tea was brewed from the crushed leaves of the hemlock plant, also called "beaver poison" and "devil's flower."
The plants, which have small white flowers, are not native to America. When the leaves are crushed, they have an unpleasant smell. The same can be said of the needles of the hemlock tree – and therein lies the root of any confusion.
This similarity led to these attractive trees being named hemlocks, but unlike the 3- to 5-foot-tall flowering plants, hemlock trees are not poisonous.
Today, Michigan is home to over 170 million native hemlocks. Hemlock wood is used in newsprint and wrapping paper or to make boxes and crates, as well as railroad ties and timbers used in mining operations.
During Michigan's historic pine timbering days, hemlocks were avoided, with the wood less suited for lumber compared to some other pine species. The bark was stripped from hemlocks for use, as it is today, for tannin for leather.
Campers know when a piece of hemlock wood has found its way into the fire pit by the loud pops and cracks it makes when it burns.
As time passed, the demand for pulpwood tree species – including hemlock – increased. During World War II, pulpwood, because of reliance on paper goods for countless items, was an important material needed for the war effort.
In the early 1940s, a movement was underway to save from the woodsman's ax the intact hemlock-hardwood stands in the western Upper Peninsula – in particular, those trees located in what was to become Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.
In October 1941, an article in the Detroit Free Press predicted a dire future for those timberlands if they were not saved.
"At the present rate of cutting, the largest single stand of virgin hardwood in the United States, covering 250 square miles of rugged country in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, known as the Porcupine Mountains, will be reduced to a tree-less stump-covered waste in less than 10 years," the paper reported.
In those days, the Porcupine Mountains – the highest range between New York's Adirondacks and the Black Hills of Dakota – still were attracting thousands of tourists, despite limited access.
"A road now runs along Lake Superior from Silver City to the bottom of the range, and a short, stiff climb brings sightseers to the top of the escarpment which overlooks the lake," the Free Press story said. "Besides the road to Lake of the Clouds, there is only one other access to the roadless wilderness area of the Porcupines. That is the country highway that leads to the mouth of the Black River and Black River Park, one of the outstanding scenic spots in Michigan."
The newspaper outlined the aims of those conservation-minded people organized to help preserve the area.
"A vacation-ground whose delights are just beginning to be discovered will lose much of its appeal," the newspaper said. "This is the dread prospect-unless this great area of privately-owned land can be brought into government ownership so that the timber may be harvested on a selective basis."
A 1943 Michigan Department of Conservation proposal urging land purchases for preservation as a park described the hemlock-hardwoods of the Porcupine Mountains.
"Except for an area immediately adjacent to Lake Superior, the slopes are covered with virgin forest growth of the hardwood-hemlock type, with small scattered patches of old-growth white pine interspersed," the report read. "Almost every phase of this type is present, varying from almost pure hardwoods, maple, birch and basswood on the upper slopes through varying degrees of hemlock mixtures, to the stands on the lower flats where hemlock predominates."
This lower, moist area where the hemlocks stand tall is where I stood admiring the growth of these magnificent trees. These rugged mountains offer many places where hemlock cathedrals provide inspiring places for peace and reflection – nature's beautiful churches – open to all.
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park – Michigan's largest state park at roughly 60,000 acres – was established here in 1945. The park gained the "wilderness" part of its title in 1972, after passage of the Wilderness and Natural Areas Act.
For some reason to me, some trees appear "friendlier" than others. Hemlocks are among those trees that seem soft and pleasing – with their short, flat needles and tiny cones – yet strong and tall, some with trunks as thick as yardsticks.
I encounter my old friends often, and not just in the Porcupine Mountains – often with white cedars and balsam firs – in the wet swamps I haunt looking for cagey trout, wild bird songs and pretty pictures.
Here, in the places where black muck is king, hemlocks can offer a leg-up, a shady place to eat a sandwich or a firm place to rest your back.
Before turning back up the trail. I paused along the shoreline at the Lake of the Clouds. The trees of these famed forests cast beautiful swirls of watercolor magic across the placid surface of the lake.
At the top of the craggy escarpment again, I took one last look at those hemlocks now far below me.
Just knowing they were there would bring me peace of mind in the days ahead – days filled with ringing telephones, traffic noise and the television news talking every night about the laces woven around our fractious world seemingly coming apart.
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CSG Edelstahl > Manufacturing Processes > Centrifugal Castings
The centrifugal casting process is used to produce rotationally symmetrical, hollow bodies such as tubes or bushings. Liquid steel is poured into a rotating mould, which solidifies without cavities under high centrifugal acceleration. The centrifugal casting process is used both, horizontally and vertically. The horizontal process is suitable for pipes with a constant wall thickness, while the vertical process is particularly suitable for rings or externally shaped components such as cones.
The outside diameter of a centrifugal casting component always depends on the inside diameter of the mould used. Especially for small quantities, a favourable price depends on the availability of a suitable mould.
Centrifugal Casting Process: horizontal and vertical
Main Quantities: From 1 to 1000 tubes per order
Alloys: heat and corrosion resistant stainless steel
Length: up to 6000 mm
Outer Diameter: from 50 to 2000 mm
weight per casting: up to ~ 3 t
In particular for components in high-temperature environments, cast alloys are superior to wrought materials from other manufacturing processes due to its high creep rupture strength. The high creep rupture strength of heat resistant chromium-nickel materials is based in particular on the formation of carbides and thus depends largely on the carbon content. While this content is limited in wrought materials in order to keep the material deformable, centrifugal casting (and other casting processes) allows the final contour to be produced directly and thus a considerably higher carbon content may be used. In addition to simple tubes, as cast or machined, we supply ready-to-install components or welded assemblies according to your drawings. Typical pressure-resistant products for process plants are tubes, coils and collectors for steam crackers or catalyst tubes and headers for steam reformers. The focus in the non-pressure-resistant area is on furnace rollers and radiant heating tubes for the heat treatment and steel industries.
Typical Centrifugal Castings


Full of history, Bolsover castle was built in the 12th Century. I was thrilled when Natasha and Suresh asked me to photograph their wedding. It really was a fairytale wedding. Natasha arrived on horse and cart which was just amazing. And to top off the day, we were blessed with a magnificent sunset.


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Kabdebó Duci, születési nevén Kabdebó Jozefina (Pesthidegkút, 1898. június 13. – Kolozsvár, 1974. június 27.) erdélyi magyar operettprimadonna, Bisztrai Mária anyja.

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Fiatal lányként Déván műkedvelő előadásokban szerepelt. Itt ismerkedett meg Petru Grozával, a későbbi román miniszterelnökkel. Mivel a család ellenezte kapcsolatukat, Kolozsvárra szökött, és anyagi okokból színésznőnek jelentkezett Janovics Jenőnél. Egy próbaelőadás után állandó szerződést kapott, és pályafutásának két éve alatt számos szerepet játszott. Gyermeke, Bisztrai Mária megszületése után többet nem lépett színpadra.

Petru Groza mindvégig tartotta a kapcsolatot Kabdebó Ducival és lányával. Halála előtt nem sokkal megkérte Fazekas János politikustársát, hogy halála után is, Kabdebó Duci minden születésnapjára küldjön egy csokor virágot előre megírt üdvözlősorokkal. Ez meg is történt.

Szerepei
 Charlotte báróné (Vincze Zsigmond: Hamburgi menyasszony)
 Orlovszky herceg (Ifj. Johann Strauss: A denevér)
 Annuska (Oscar Straus: Búcsúkeringő)
 Éva (Schubert–Berté: Három a kislány
 Flórika (Moldován Gergely: Flórika szerelme)
 Fidiászné (Henri Christiné: Fi-Fi)
 Heléna hercegnő (Oscar Straus: Varázskeringő)
 Riza (Lehár Ferenc: Tatárjárás)
 Hermine (Nádor Mihály: Offenbach)
 Lucy (Jacobi Viktor: Leányvásár)
 Sybill (Jacobi Viktor: Sybill)
 Pillangó főhadnagy (Komjáthy Károly: Pillangó főhadnagy)

Jegyzetek

Források
 Kötő József: Közhasznú esmeretek tára. Színjátszó személyek Erdélyben 1919–1940. Kolozsvár: Polis. 2009.
 Dehel Gábor: Bisztrai Mária, Kolozsvár: KOMP-PRESS. 2011

Magyar színésznők
Kolozsváriak
1898-ban született személyek
1974-ben elhunyt személyek

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> to allow the module to deny access where it would otherwise be granted.
> it is being implemented in the capabilities plug.
some of the things brought up in this current discussion.
interface and adding tons of hooks.


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Martin Flowers, third from left, appears in Kendall County Court on Thursday, July 13.
Herman Johnson, third from left, appears in Kendall County Court on Thursday, July 13.
The former chairman of the Kendall County Democratic Party is now a convicted felon.
Martin Flowers, 43, of Montgomery agreed to a plea bargain Thursday morning with the Kendall County State's Attorney's Office before Judge Timothy McCann, pleading guilty to felony mutilation of election materials, in connection with forging the names of registered voters on election petitions.
As part of the agreement, Flowers, who served as the county's Democratic Party chairman until April of 2006, admitted to forging signatures on election petitions for both his candidacy as an Oswego Township road commissioner candidate earlier this year and as an Oswego Public Library District Board member in 2015. Flowers withdrew his candidacy for Oswego Township road commissioner in December. He was elected in 2015 to a two-year term on the library district board after running unopposed.
Flowers was sentenced to 30 days in county jail as part of the agreement. He will begin his sentence on Aug. 4. He will also serve two years of probation and pay a $2,000 fine, according to State's Attorney Eric Weis. Additionally, he will be required to perform 100 hours of community service, according to court documents.
In addition, Flowers cannot seek employment from a public entity for five years after the completion of his sentence, per the agreement.
Herman Johnson, 77, of Oswego was also charged with felony mutilation of election materials, and also took a plea deal with Weis' office. Johnson was sentenced to two years of probation and must pay a fine of $1,000 as part of the agreement, as well as perform 100 hours of community service work.
Kenneth Musich, 66, of Boulder Hill was charged with a misdemeanor, disregard of the election code, as a result of the Oswego police investigation that yielded the Flowers and Johnson charges. Musich was sentenced to two years of probation and a fine of $500, along with performing 130 hours of community service.
Oswego police said Johnson knowingly forged or falsified his candidate petition for Oswego Township trustee, while Musich was accused of certifying that he was the circulator of a candidate petition for Oswego Township road commissioner in the April election for Martin Flowers when he was not.
All three men were represented by attorney John Sackmann of Oswego.
The charges against Flowers, Johnson and Musich capped a six-month investigation by Oswego police into the forgery allegations.


The WHF Winter CSA will run from November 25th – April 10th – a total of 16 Weekly Shares or 8 Bi-Weekly Shares!
We're offering two Winter CSA options: Weekly for $756 & Bi-Weekly for $432.
Spread the good word! Word of mouth is the best way to help us grow and sustain our small farm. Please share the link, forward this email and encourage interested friends, family, neighbors & community etc… in signing up for their CSA share. Many thanks for your help from all of us at Working Hands.
Sakura cherry tomatoes ripening on the vine and the first of the fall broccoli emerging..
Now onto some updates from the farm!
In order to avoid the hotter part of the day especially with fresh harvest we've been getting up at 5:00/5:30am and have been getting harvest done by noon which makes a huge difference. The temperature between the hours of 11-noon spike 10 degrees so it's important for the veggies (and the farmers) that everything be washed and chilled before then. The pole building has been amazing throughout the hot summer. We've been opening it up in the early morning hours to cool things off and then close it up to keep it passively cool throughout the day. It's been averaging 80 degrees in there while it's 95-100 degrees outside so we've been pretty happy about that. Not to mention the super chilled veggies + insulated building have been keeping the veggies cool during CSA pick ups. That's a big win-win!
Eggplant season is upon us, painted mountain dry corn tasseling up, and the last succession of squash coming along..
This hotter weather is giving us major flashbacks to the 2015 growing season (el nino) and the (previously) hottest summer ever. We are better prepared for it this time around but working in the heat is no joke. Our biggest priority is watering and keeping all the plants roots cool. We use the kifco water reel and drip tape for irrigation… we have been staying on top of giving the plants a nice deep soak. Brian has been managing the irrigation this summer and we've been working out the kinks integrating the new water reel system. A lot of the crops (tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, squash, melons, cukes etc) are on drip tape but the majority are overhead watered. Setting up the reel is usually a one person job but moving lay flat hose around the farm is no joke (who needs cross fit when you have farm fit…) We're making good notes now though to have for next season and how we'd like to do things more efficiently (having a few main arteries of layflat set up around the farm so they don't move during the season.. that way it's easy to plug into). Having the irrigation all set up and ready to go under the plant also helps us to maintain some balance with the extremes that this season's weather brings!
Feeling prepared and ready is worth it's weight in gold when it comes to extreme weather events etc especially with the pattern of extremely dry and hot summers.
Heirlooms ripening on the vine and the winter squash is maturing in the field..
Over the past month we've been planting up a storm! We planted out a few rounds of Fall crops: kale, romanesco, cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage– over 7600 row ft/6100 plants!!!! We still have loads more to plant over the next few weekends… storage crops, roots, our third and final fall succession of broccoli, cauliflower and romanesco etc. So. Many. Plants. We started our overwintering crops last month– purple sprouting broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower too! And got our final round of overwintering storage carrots seeded (1,800 row ft) that we flamed last week. Our big bulk harvest of onions happened a few weekends ago… over 20,000 storage onions and beautiful cipollini and shallots for winter CSA! We'll be moving on to bulk harvest of potatoes this coming up this week and next… it will sure feel good to continue to bring in those major crops. So many things to look forward to checking off the list!
July, August and September are the peak of the season for us.. our biggest planting pushes for Fall and Winter as well as the heavy harvests of summer and fall. In the midst of all the excitement it's always important to take a moment and appreciate what we're accomplishing on the farm… We're farming over 13 acres this season and we're set to harvest well over 100,000lbs of veggies (that doesn't even include the Winter CSA) in just the Spring/Summer/Fall season alone/feeding over 600 individuals. It feels pretty darn amazing.
Zucchinis in the field, the second succession of melons and views from the bottom of the farm..
In order to sustainably farm through the crazy summer's it's important for us to check in with ourselves and one another. To recognize when the day is done and if we need breaks or a moment to ourselves (that doesn't involve farming etc). We prioritize eating as many delicious homemade meals that we can (it'd be impossible to do what we do without proper nourishment!) We do our best to dole out high fives, check in with each other and tell each other that their doing an amazing job. We're definitely getting closer to what the big picture answer is in relation to the workload that we currently have going and we are confident that in the foreseeable future the balance will come and our goals will realign more than ever before. We certainly know what we can accomplish when the two of us put our heads together… now more than ever it just feels right to reel it in and realign! We're in it for the long haul and we love growing and raising the best possible food for our community that we can.
A BIG THANK YOU to our members and surrounding community all for your encouragement and excitement this season! We've seriously loved every second of it and it truly makes our day when we see what everyone is cooking up in the CSA Member Page. It connects all the dots.
Brussel sprouts are maturing, the gourds are getting color and we are waiting patiently for the bell peppers to turn colors!
Full Hearts. We also celebrated our four year anniversary as a married couple at the beginning of the month. Hard to believe we even pulled off getting married in the beginning of August (it's just too crazy to think about). Thank goodness for all the friends and family who came and lent a hand the days leading up to it… I always think fondly of that time and experience and it's definitely one of my favorite memories of our wedding. Besides marrying my best friend, of course.
So many things have happened in the course of 4 years of marriage (+the 3 1/2 years before that). Its been a wild ride and I feel so thankful that I have someone like Brian to move through these days with – there sure is something special and sacred that we share between us and I thank my lucky stars for the universe bringing us together. Farming is a mutual passion for both of us and one of the main reasons our paths first crossed. He is my other half (sometimes my better half) and my favorite person and I feel so lucky to walk through this life with him. As he once said to me just a week or so after being married, "It does feel different being married. It feels complete." This man, this place, us. To begin and end my days with him makes all of life's sweetness even sweeter. We live, we work, we grow and we flourish – together. It's a beautiful and quick lifetime here on Earth.. and he is my constant reminder to enjoy every second of it.
Late summer starts, the rest of the Fall and winter crops waiting for their planting date and tasty greens!
September also marks the month of some of our favorite veggies and shares! We will be slowly transitioning into our cooler weather crops. The summer crops are still bumpin' but as the days get shorter and the nights get cooler the Fall veggies will start to shine providing a delicious balance of the two seasons. The summer harvests have been so plentiful… we're looking forward to the shorter days, to give these farmer bodies a little bit of re-coop time. This is the time of the season where our backs feel it the most – 50 lb -70lb harvest crates x 3 days (and 200 households) can add up to a lot of pounds of produce being harvested, washed and displayed.
Speaking of summer bounty! Our Bulk Tomatoes are now available (get em while they are here!) and should be around for the month of August/through mid-September (weather dependent, of course). This is the 7th season in a row that we have had offered this unbelievable deal! Please see below for details.
Farmer's tip: A super simple way to put up tomatoes without the canning/processing is… FREEZING! These bulk maters are great for freezing whole in gallon bags to enjoy the summer bounty year round!
We hope you all enjoy this week's bounty and have a great long weekend!
Fall kale is growing fast, the first of the fall radishes are up and the pie pumpkins are turning colors!


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A Novel High-Resolution Method for the Respiration Rate and Breathing Waveforms Remote Monitoring
Boris G. Vainer
Кафедра физики ФФ и СУНЦ НГУ
Результат исследования: Научные публикации в периодических изданиях › статья › рецензирование
A search for robust noninvasive methods permitting to discern the respiration subtle peculiarities in mammals is a topical issue. A novel approach called "sorption-enhanced infrared thermography" (SEIRT), helping to solve this problem, is described. Its benefits spring from the integration of the infrared thermography (IRT) and chemical physics (phase transition heat release/absorption) within a single method. The SEIRT opportunities were verified in the investigation of 42 humans, 49 rats and 4 minipigs whose breathing waveforms were revealed to the last detail. It is shown that the SEIRT-obtained breathing-conditioned temperature response may exceed 10 °C (!) even in small animals (rats) and that the SEIRT sensitivity is 4.5–250 times higher than that of the matched IRT-based techniques. The new method is validated by a comparison with that based on thorax breathing movement (TBM). It is shown that the SEIRT-determined breaths have a close correlation with those determined via TBM (r = + 1.000, p ≪ 0.05); this is also true for breathing intervals (r = + 0.9772, p ≪ 0.05). SEIRT opens up the way to a high-resolution noncontact quantitative evaluation of respiration rate and breathing waveforms in both humans and animals. It may become a cutting-edge technique in diagnostic medicine and biomedical research.
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Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Опубликовано - 1 июл. 2018
Подробные сведения о темах исследования «A Novel High-Resolution Method for the Respiration Rate and Breathing Waveforms Remote Monitoring». Вместе они формируют уникальный семантический отпечаток (fingerprint).
Sorption Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 100%
Monitoring Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 63%
Rats Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 33%
Animals Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 27%
Mammals Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 19%
Phase transitions Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 14%
Medicine Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 14%
Physics Технические дисциплины и материаловедение 12%
Vainer, B. G. (2018). A Novel High-Resolution Method for the Respiration Rate and Breathing Waveforms Remote Monitoring. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 46(7), 960-971. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-018-2018-6
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Let's see, where do I begin.
The story of PerFIcT (the former name of WeStrive) begins in Cheney, Washington. The idea of creating a social personal training app sounded like an easy task at the time...but little did I know just how hard this task would actually be.
I personally spent years pitching investors, building websites, working with developers, and really just talking with anyone and everyone trying to figure out how you even go about building an app. After a successful Kickstarter campaign in the spring of 2016, PerFIcT had collected enough funding to begin working on our first app.
Due to development struggles, the app is delayed six months and doesn't launch until February of 2017. Even after all the struggle, the app was still a failure. The designs were not professional, there was no P.O.S. (Point of Sale) system in place, and the social element (along with many other things) had yet to be added.
Out of failures, come some of the best lessons. I, along with Sean Daly, Cy Zellner, and Ian Bouchard, set out to find a new development team and to completely part ways with the app we had just created. In the summer of 2017, PerFIcT is introduced to StartupSoft, a development team based out of Toronto & Ukraine, and a life-changing partnership was born.
In exchange for equity and cash, we partnered with StartupSoft and handed over a 150-page document with web/app designs to let this new company take the reins. After a few months of collaborating on the design, our company struggled to come up with the necessary funding to accelerate development. Thanks to a successful Start Engine campaign in late 2017, the work resumes as PerFIcT raises $24K (still not a lot) through the equity crowdfunding website.
After years and years of work, the PerFIcT App finally launches in June of 2018 as a marketplace for fitness plans where personal trainers could sell to exercisers.
We finally launched our app...hooray, right? Not exactly. We planned a massive launch party on a Santa Monica rooftop to celebrate our beautiful new app finally entering the world. On the day of the launch party, I received a call from Apple. They informed me that they were removing our app from the App Store due to the fact that we weren't using their payment system.
Frustration doesn't even begin to cover how I felt.
We had purposefully submitted our app to the App Store three separate times throughout the previous months to our launch...just to verify it's authenticity for this very same reason. We were told, "the person who approved your app each time shouldn't have done that".
Well isn't that just awesome :)
We went on with the launch party as scheduled, but were only able to sign-up Android users (about 10% of the event's attendees). From there we spent the next few weeks re-building the entire payment system in our app and by the time we launched we had lost all of our momentum.
I truly believe everything happens for a reason (more importantly, if I'm not optimistic about this terrible situation then it will seem like a massive loss of time...which it kind of was). If we hadn't of had that botched launch party then we would have spent countless months focusing on the entirely wrong product.
You see, as everything was falling apart before my eyes, I realized that I had been looking at our platform all wrong this entire time. I made the mistake of taking something I wanted - a marketplace for fitness programs - and convincing myself that it was the best possible solution for our business. However, after speaking to hundreds of trainers, I took a step back and realized that what they truly needed was a better platform to actually run their business...and not just sell programs.
The pivot
The PerFIcT Team and I immediately put together what funding we had and spent the next 1.5 years rebuilding, beta-testing, and adding an entirely new Client-management tool to the WeStrive platform. I approached my development team, StartupSoft, with another 120 pages of designs - and we got to work.
After 6 months of work on our new platform, in early 2019 we decided to rename our future app 'WeStrive' and to abandon our old name of PerFIcT for various reasons:
-The name PerFIcT was too difficult for people to spell
- It encompassed the word 'Fit' (we knew we wanted to expand beyond fitness and into health & wellness)
- PerFIcT was terrible for SEO (being found on Google)
- The Android Google Play Store constantly said, "did you mean Perfect?" when typing PerFIcT into the entry field.
Enough was enough.Back to the development: I once again completely underestimated how absolutely massive of a project we were building. It's mind-blowing to think about all of the features that would have to go into our product in order for it to be market-ready.
With that being said, after about a year and a half of work (and on a shoe-string budget), we were finally ready to launch in January of 2020.
WeStrive
I'm not going to lie to you, the launch of the app was pretty rough (shocker). We went live on Product Hunt and they had a very rare glitch that caused our platform to not be seen anywhere on their website. Our followers had to search 'Cory McKane' - go to my profile - click on my projects - and then they could find WeStrive.
It's such a rare occurrence that it took the Product Hunt team a week to admit to me that the error was on their end. They let us re-post but by then the damage was done...no feature for us :(
Then, the app launches in January with a slew of bugs that took about a month to fix.
The biggest of these bugs (and I take 10000% blame for this) involved an error that occured when transferring our programs from one app to the next. When we moved our 500 marketplace programs from PerFIcT to WeStrive, our new app accidentally 2-3X'd the number of exercises in each circuit. I went through these programs one by one personally and somehow didn't even noticed.
Again, totally my bad.
So when exercisers were following a circuit - Let's say you're doing 3 rounds of bicycle crunches, burpees, and sit-ups...you actually ended up being told to do 9 rounds. Now imagine a program having 3 circuits in it, 3 exercises each, for 3 rounds each. An exerciser goes from doing 9 exercises in circuit to doing 27 per circuit...and going from 27 exercises overall to doing 81 exercises overall. So yeah, it was a problem.
The crazy part is that people were actually doing these ridiculously long workouts (good for them!).
I spent the next month fixing this bug, along with several others, and then WeStrive was finally ready to go.
Our team spent from February-July conducting hundreds of interviews with personal trainers. I personally believe that customer service should be the number one priority for a company, so we wanted to make sure that our personal trainers & clients were happy.
We learned so much throughout this process... literally HUNDREDS of amazing ideas came out of these interviews and that's what we'll be introducing with our re-launch in December of 2020.
We're excited to be launching our new platform. Our team has worked so hard and I really couldn't be more proud of them.
We have a lot of work ahead of us, and we're ready for it.
Feel free to send us an email at Help@westriveapp.com if you have any questions about the app...and if you're still reading, thanks for listening to our story. Have an awesome day or night (or maybe even afternoon). Don't forget to be a good person and always follow your dreams.
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ALEX CROSSLIN is an Account Manager with over 8 years of experience in the benefits industry. Alex began her career as an HR Generalist and followed that up with outsourcing HR services to small and mid-size companies. She has extensive experience in employee relations, payroll, HRIS data maintenance, compliance, benefits administration, and recruitment.
Alex has a Bachelor's degree in Communication from Oregon State University and earned a Master's in Human Relations/Counseling from Northern Arizona University.
In her free time, Alex stays busy with her two little boys and loves to spend time with family and friends. She also enjoys yoga, running, hiking and skiing.


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PPC may seem like a "set it and forget it" operation once you have everything just right. Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple. PPC campaigns need regular audits to ensure performance and ROI. But how often should you be conducting a PPC audit and what should you be looking for? That's what we're going to explore.
The whole point of a PPC campaign is to drive conversions. Unlike SEO, you have to pay to put a PPC ad online. Thus, an ad has to show that it is pulling its weight. If it isn't, it needs to be changed or pulled before more money is spent on a poor-performing ad.
Regular audits can identify poor-performing ads, but they also identify your best ones. Auditing can reveal best practices for your other PPC ads to raise their conversion rates. Over time, this can increase your ad's quality score and reduce the overall costs of your ad campaigns. Google rewards those who create quality ads with lower ad prices, so this is a good goal to shoot for.
Auditing can also reveal sudden shifts in the PPC market. A particular keyword might raise or lower in price and force you to re-evaluate your budget. You can also use an audit to study what your competition is doing with their campaigns so you can respond to their movements.
If you don't audit, all of this information is lost. Too many businesses just set up some ads, throw in a bunch of money into the account, and hope for the best for the next six months, year, or whenever the money runs out. This is a sure way to lose money with PPC.
2. How Often Should I Audit?
Auditing should happen much more often that you probably think. Many businesses perform quarterly audits. This is far too long to get valuable audit data, especially if you want to control ad spend.
You wouldn't let an employee fail to pull their weight on the job. You shouldn't let your ads fail to pull their weight either. PPC audits should be performed every two weeks or for every 100 clicks.
100 clicks are enough to get good data on conversion for an ad, and two weeks is long enough for an ad out in the wild to see if it gets any response.
The fundamental thing to measure in your PPC audit is how much you made off of the conversions vs how much you spent on the ad. If you spent $500 on PPC and earned $2000, your PPC campaign is succeeding. It may not be as much as you like, but it is succeeding. On the other hand, if those numbers were reversed then your ad campaign is in serious trouble.
If your PPC ad campaign is targeted toward building an email list rather than sales, you'll need to calculate how many sales you are getting off your list to see if the ROI is there. Revenue coming in must be higher than revenue going out.
Using broad match – Your ads should be prequalifying your audience so they'll want to convert after clicking. When you use broad match, Google puts your ad on many related keywords to the ones you choose. This may lead to more clicks, but without conversions it just leads to spending more money.
Not using local targeting – If you have a local business, you must use local targeting. You don't want your ads showing up to people outside of your service area. AdWords makes it really easy to choose a geographical region or radius from a point for targeting. Don't set your ads national unless you're truly a national brand.
Not comparing queries with keywords – Google AdWords will tell you which queries people used to find your ads before they clicked on them. This is invaluable information for tightening up which keywords you're targeting.
Not A/B testing ads – When you do rapid auditing, you'll quickly learn what works and what doesn't with your audience. Every time you make a tweak to an ad, let it run for another two weeks or 100 clicks to see how it performs. If it did better, note the change and try it on other ads. If it did worse, note that too. This rapid A/B testing is what makes short audits so powerful. You can try lots of things without spending a lot of money and quickly discover what works and what doesn't.
In closing, you should be auditing your PPC at least twice a month to make sure your ads are pulling their weight. If they aren't making you money they must be optimized until they do so or be scrapped. Audit regularly and often.


The cafe/joint, although quite small is chill and quiet truly perfect for hanging-out and some me-time.
Between the Buns offers comfort food such as burgers, pizza, pasta, and finger foods (chicken fingers, nachos, mozzarella cheese sticks, crinkle cut fries) but their flagship product is their burgers named after Transformers as the owner Kae Geronimo loves the film. Co-owner, Tin Beroin, also came up with the dishes on the menu.
On the other hand, Kapihan sa Balsa, like your regular coffee shop also offers cakes, smoothies, frappes, among other drinks. The cakes are under Cuisine-Ah, also Kae's dessert brainchild.
We tried four dishes from Between and two drinks from Kapihan sa Balsa. The prices of dishes range from P65 to P320. Nothing above P500.
The Chicken Pesto Pasta (P145) was one of our choices.
The chicken was surprisingly moist and flavorful. There were also bits of onions and parmesan cheese that the Eatventurers loved. However, the taste of the dish could be elevated further if there were more pesto.
A simple garnish of parsley could also enhance the presentation appeal to the customers but nevertheless we still find this pasta worth a try.
For the main event, Between the Buns' Barricade (P230) is what we tried. The burger is a must try.
It was sooo huge and so worth the price. It contains two patties which aren't dry. We especially loved its crispy sides. Surely, there is something between their buns. It also has mushroom, bacon, egg, tomatoes, lettuce, and special sauce, between two toasted garlic bread buns.
The third dish we tried was their Echo Combo pizza (P320). If their burgers are named after Transformers, their pizza dishes are named after phonetic alphabet.
The pizza was thin, which we liked. It is good for sharing for two-four people. It is topped with meat, olives, bell pepper, mushroom, and tomato. However, they only used mozzarella cheese for this. We prefer other types of cheese to go along with it for more kick.
The last we tried was one of their finger foods, Twin Twist or mozzarella cheese sticks. Five pieces for only P115.
These are best eaten immediately so you can see how gooey their cheese filling. The Eatventurers liked the white sauce of their mozzarella sticks.
Look how sticky that is!
For drinks, The Eatventurers tried their coffee jelly and their chocolate served cold.
Between the Buns brings in a simple concept of comfort food but with their affordable offerings, they need to be noticed and be visited in Malabon. The dishes are good for take-out as well. Bare in mind that they accept walk-in customers. Catch them from time to time in some bazaars around the metro.
Operating Hours: 4 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
This place really looks amzing as its name and the seating arrangemnet shows its uniqueness. i really liked that mozerella cheese stick its a must try and also the pastries looks yummy.


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Maruia Hot Springs double victory at the 2019 World Luxury Spa Awards
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Maruia Hot Springs has been honoured at the global awards for the second year in a row, receiving Continent Winner for best Luxury Eco Spa and Luxury Mineral Springs in Australia and Oceania.
The official announcement was made at the gala awards ceremony which celebrates excellence in the spa industry every year. This year's event was held on Saturday, 6 July at The State Hermitage Museum Official Hotel in St Petersburg, Russia. Although the hot springs site, located in the tranquil Lewis Pass National Reserve, has been a place of relaxation, rejuvenation and healing for centuries, Maruia Hot Springs was first recognised at the global awards last year as a country winner and now continent winner, following renovations to the historical thermal resort.
"We are fully committed to offering our guests a place to escape daily routine or reconnect with their loved ones in harmony with nature," says Maruia Hot Springs Managing Director & Co Owner, James White. "We provide bathers with an authentic, natural and pure thermal mineral water experience and have a very low carbon footprint as the electricity used to power saunas, heating and buildings is produced on-site by our very own hydro-electric generator.
We are so humbled to have our hot springs and eco spa recognised on an international level." The award results are based on nominations from spa guests, which are then reviewed by an expert panel of independent spa consultants from all over the world. Winners are judged on quality, innovation and service.
"We would like to take the opportunity to express our heartfelt gratitude to our guests for taking the time to support us in these awards," says Maruia Hot Springs Co Owner, Kim Hamilton. "We would also like to thank our amazing team at Maruia Hot Springs for delivering world-class experience time and time again."
Congratulations to our sister spring in Australia, Peninsula Hot Springs for winning the award of Best Mineral Hot Springs on a global level.


Gaslight (verb): to manipulate someone in to questioning their own sanity.
It seems like almost every day I meet someone who has been told that their dizziness, nausea, headaches and other symptoms are psychological. Sometimes it's chalked up to depression or anxiety (despite solid research showing that eye movement problems are not caused by depression or anxiety). Sometimes it's chalked up to being just vestibular in nature. The problem is that the testing of the health of the eye, visual acuity, and very basic eye movement testing shows normal signs. Essentially it comes down to a problem of education. Our medical and health profession schools do not teach the most up to date understanding of visual function or how visual function problems can lead to symptoms we normally associate with vestibular conditions. One of the biggest problems is that professionals assume they know all there is to know. If they were not taught it, or cannot find the problem. It must not exist. We default to telling the person that it's all in their head.
Let's take a minute to walk through one type of case I see much too often. His name is DJ (changed).
DJ has had a concussion or TBI (traumatic brain injury) about 2 years ago. Since then he has been through physiotherapy, vestibular rehabilitation, cognitive therapy and more. A few of his symptoms have improved, but he still has trouble with computers, screens, lights, reading, places like Walmart or Costco, and is struggling in his return to work. He gets dizzy, nauseous, has headaches almost daily, and is exhausted trying to return to work. He has plateaued in his recovery He has been told his vision is fine, and that the dizziness he still gets must be vestibular in nature. Several doctors and other people have implied that his symptoms may now just be because of anxiety. That he is making it up. Malingering is what they call it.
Before even examining anything visual, the history demonstrates that visual stimulus will provoke symptoms. That's one reason I'm a fan of the pattern glare test. This gives nothing other than visual stimulus. If pattern glare provokes symptoms, we know that there are problems with how the brain is processing vision. This means that if vision is being used during other testing, it has now interfered with the other tests.
Back to DJ. During testing it becomes obvious that anytime he has to track a moving object, move his eyes closer together or try to read it provokes symptoms. The computer tracking of his reading shows that the two eyes are not working together.
Almost always, the same day we can use glasses that change the perception of depth and space to gain some immediate improvements in either balance, dizziness, or the response to the pattern glare (implicated to show visual involvement in headaches and migraines). See below for an example. The lenses change the interaction of the visual and vestibular systems and can improve how motor coordination happens. Remember, coordination requires coordinates.
To sum it up, DJ has a history that demonstrates that visual stimulus provokes symptoms since the accident. He has both objective and subjective measurements during an examination which demonstrate changes to how he processes vision positively impact his performance and symptoms. Treatment is actually quite simple in prescribing lenses that improve function, and using proper vision therapy so his brain can re-learn how to control his eyes and process/integrate his vision. It is actually a very simple way forward, with very high success rates when done properly.
The reality is that I see patients like DJ all the time. From 1 year of struggling to 8 years of struggling. The reasons they are left struggling include a lack of public awareness and a lack of professional understanding.
It crushes me to see people's lives impacted in such a way, for so long, when the conditions causing their struggle are treatable. On top of it, they are often told that anxiety or psychological problems are causing their dizziness, headaches, vertigo, and sensory overload. I've had family members affected by this and have dedicated my life to preventing others from having the same experience.
Below is a summary I have written on Post Concussion Vision Syndrome or often referred to as Post Trauma Vision Syndrome.
Post Trauma Vision Syndrome is caused by damage to regions of the brain that are involved in various aspects of visual function. This disrupts the stored "programs" for how the visual system functions. This damage occurs on the axonal level and often escapes detection by medical imaging. PTVS encompasses more specific diagnoses like egocentric visual midline shift, oculomotor dysfunction, binocular dysfunction and more.
Reading: If you were a marathon runner who sustained an injury that disrupted the coordination of your legs, it would be understandable as to why your running was suffering even if you were physically healthy and in great shape. It would also be understandable as to why you would not be able to run for as long as before. When PTVS causes problems with eye tracking and how the eyes are working together it will impact a person's reading abilities and how long they can sustain the process. If it becomes difficult to control eye coordination, the reading comprehension will also drop. This challenge is similar to how hard it is to hold a conversation when you are learning to drive a manual transmission, as all your conscious ability is directed towards just trying to do it. Vision dysfunctions that affect reading can also indirectly affect any other testing involving reading.
Dizziness/balance/vertigo: Vestibular, proprioceptive (information from muscles and joints), and visual information all need to accurately integrate together. PTVS causes the visual system to feed "garbage" into this collaboration, which will prevent proper integration often causing the person to plateau with vestibular rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this has led to accusations of malingering when there was truly an unidentified vision problem preventing the rehabilitation. Often in an assessment, there are lenses (glasses) that can be put on a person that change their perception of physical space, dramatically improving their balance and symptoms immediately. It is also possible to mimic some of these problems in someone who has normal visual function by reversing the process.
Headaches/Migraines: Vision dysfunction after an injury can result in a litany of headaches and migraines often associated with computers, reading, busy visual environments, and other visual stimuli. Using a high contrast black and white grid and gauging the person's reaction to it, is a great way to determine whether the visual system is a playing a role in these symptoms. Inefficiencies with how the eyes coordinate will produce situations that make it difficult for a person to sustain attention, which creates a confounding variable for a lot of testing.
Similar to vestibular problems after a concussion, PTVS requires rehabilitative efforts centered around re-establishing the areas of affected visual function. Special types of prescription lenses can improve the efficiency of visual function and how an individual processes depth and space. Treatment time can range from weeks to more than a year, and the neurological changes are permanent. Treatment for PTVS is commonly coordinated with other professionals.


Stephen Jacobs is a professor, video game designer, and open source advocate. Jacobs is the faculty lead for free and open source programs at the Rochester Institute of Technology's MAGIC Center. RIT is the first university in the United States to offer an interdisciplinary minor in free and open source software and free culture, a multidisciplinary effort led by Jacobs.
Brian Gerkey is a computer scientist and programmer. Gerkey was a member of the core team that developed the Robot Operating System (ROS) at robotics lab Willow Garage. He is currently CEO of the Open Robotics which oversees the development of ROS and Gazebo — an open source robot simulator.
Chris Wright is a computer programmer and Linux developer. He has contributed to many parts of the Linux kernel and is the maintainer of the Linux Security Module (LSM) Framework. Wright is also Chief Technology Officer of Red Hat which provides commercial support to corporations that want to use Linux and other open source software.
Denise Dumas is a software executive with an extensive background in operating systems. Dumas runs the organization that produces Red Hat Enterprise Linux — the most popular, commercially supported, version of Linux used by corporations.
Yan Zhu is a computer programmer and information security expert. Zhu has contributed to multiple open source projects including the Brave web browser, HTTPS Everywhere, and SecureDrop. She is also an advocate for end-to-end encryption of web traffic and has written and edited multiple W3C standards documents on the topic.
Melonee Wise is a a mechanical engineer and roboticist. Wise contributed to the development of the Robot Operating System (ROS) while working at robotics lab Willow Garage. She is currently CEO of Fetch Robotics, whose fleet of mobile automation robots utilize ROS. In addition, Wise is also the co-creator of the TurtleBot — an open source personal robot kit.
Rikki Endsley is a technology journalist, community manager, and open source advocate. She is currently editor and community manager for opensource.com — one of the most popular websites for information about open source technologies. Endsley also played an important role advocating for open source while part of the Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat, as community manager for the USENIX Association, and as the associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine and Ubuntu User.


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We at Mareli Academy and Mareli Medical welcome one of Europe's absolute top trainers and therapists to our team.Marie Engman is a registered nurse with over 16 years of experience in aesthetic injections.
Marie has also worked as an assistant in reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery for over 32 years.
Operated several clinics in Sweden and Switzerland, and recently opened their own private clinic, Engmankliniken in Solna. For 9 years, Marie has also been a speaker at IMCAS Paris and IMCAS Hong Kong. Marie has been an international clinical trainer for 11 years and educated physicians and nurses in three levels Basic, Advance and Master class.
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Trained nurse since the late 1980's with a further education as an addict nurse since 1990.In 1996 she opened her own clinic, Hässleholms plastikkirurgi, which today is one of the country's premier clinics in plastic surgery and aesthetics, medical skin care, etc. Has over 20 years of experience with injection treatments with fillers.
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Imagine having the time to travel to the most luxurious spots around the world, imagine being able to see a new country each month, and then imagine being PAID for it all.
Well we've just summed up the life of Irish blogger Nadia El Ferdaoussi and it's the stuff dreams are made of.
Over the next few months Nadia has planned a trip around the world, and has already started by heading to a private island in the Caribbean.
As we're preparing for a serious cold Irish winter, we're living vicariously through Nadia's sunny snaps (she's nadia_dailyself on Instagram FYI).
The girl behind popular Irish blog The Daily S'elf said she wanted to celebrate her 30th birthday with one hell of a trip.
"I wanted to celebrate the fact that I turned 30 and still have the freedom to do something like this," she told Goss.ie.
"I never took a gap year, went interrailing around Europe or spent a summer in America on a J1.
"So this is my chance to travel the world and I'm fortunate enough to call it work," she explained.
Nadia has just spent a few night reviewing a 5 star exclusive resort in St Barth, the St. Tropez of the Caribbean. If you want to follow her experiences, her Snapchat will drive you mad with jealousy.
Not only has Nadia been enjoying endless Champagne and her own private pool, she also got a private plane charter to reach the island which has seen Leonardo DiCaprio partying with Victoria's Secret models and is home to the hotel owned by Pippa Middleton's fiancé James Matthew's parents.
So how is this actually a job you wonder? Well, Nadia writes for print publications in Ireland such as the Irish Examiner, Sunday Business Post and Irish Daily Mail to name a few, but is also an avid social media fan – with some exciting posts coming to Goss.ie very soon.
Truffle fries and chilled rosé on the beach in @leguanahani in St Barth. Check my snapchat for the private pool room tour before the story expires, it's paradise ? Anyone been? The flight in was an experience ?
Her Instagram account is an endless stream of white sandy beaches, tropical sunsets and lavish yacht trips.
"Sailing is my favourite," she revealed.
"One of my first press trips was on The Yacht Week in Greece and since then I've been sailing in the British and US Virgin Islands, Croatia, Ibiza and Turkey.
Where's next for Nadia? You'll have to follow her stunning social media accounts to find out.
"I don't have a strict itinerary, travel should be fun and spontaneous. Some of the best opportunities have popped up last minute.
"For now, I'm meeting up with friends I've met along the way and I'm open to seeing new places or revisiting my favourites.
"One thing's for sure, I'm happy to keep chasing the sun for as long as I find it fun," she added.