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Q: Unity 3D how to make different things happen for triggers/collisions with different objects? C# I have code for what happens when the enemy collides with the player using a rigid body on the player and clicking the is trigger on the collider in the inspector. When the player hits the enemy, the number of lives go down. I now have an empty game object (track) which has a rigid body and ticked the is trigger on the box collider, that one enemy moves toward. Once the enemy gets to the trigger, it is supposed to move back towards another empty game object (backTrack) to make it look like it is walking back again. At any point, if the player hits the enemy, the life count goes down by 1 and the enemy respawns at the start position. My problem is that I can't get it to distinguish between colliding with the player and track because at the minute, when the enemy hits track, it does what should be done if the player had hit the enemy and the enemy respawns at start position. Here is my code:
 private bool triggered = false;
 public GameObject track1;
 void moveBackTrack(){
     float move1 = moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
     transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards (transform.position, backTrack.position, move1);
 }
 void OnTriggerEnter(Collider col)
 {
     if (!triggered)
     {
         triggered = true;
         if (col.gameObject = track1) {
             moveBackTrack ();
         } else {
             Destroy (gameObject);
             print ("Collision Enter: " + col.name);
             GameManager.Instance.lives -= 1;
             GameManager.Instance.setLivesText ();
             GameManager.Instance.SpawnTrackEnemy ();
         }
     }
 }

A: Set a tag ID for the player and enemy objects, then subscribe to the OnCollisionenter event of your track. This will fire when any collision occurs between another object and the collider of your track object.
void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col){
    GameObject collidedWith = col.gameObject;
    if(collidedWith.tag == "PlayerTagName"){
        //do player collided logic here
    }
    else if(collidedWith.tag == "EnemyTagName"){
        //do enemy collided logic here
    }
}

By handling each object by its Tag name individually, you can better maintain your code, making it easier to code to each separate condition. I recommend setting up a similar OnCollissionEnter handler for your player and enemies as well, depending on how many conditions might occur in the logic of your game.

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JWT in partnership with Warc hosted the inaugural Warc Conversations
Report compiled by Megha Manchanda, Sr. Planning Director (JWT, Gurgaon)
JWT in partnership with Warc hosted the inaugural Warc Conversations in Delhi on 12th December, 2013. The audience consisted of JWT and Warc's senior most clients and the JWT team.
Off the back of the newly released Asia Strategy Report, Ed Pank (MD, Warc Asia) shared key learnings from this year's Warc Prize for Asian Strategy which showcased the region's best strategic thinking. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion with some highly respected people from the marketing and advertising fraternity.
The panel consisted of:
Mr Ajay Kakar- Chief Marketing Officer, Aditya Birla Group
Ms Bindu Sethi- Chief Strategy Officer, JWT
Mr Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan- Head of Communications (SAR), Nestle India
Mr Shubhajit Sen- Global Lead & VP Emerging Consumer Market, GSK
Mr Viral Oza- Director Marketing, Nokia India
The discussion was extremely interesting, candid and insightful where topics ranging from the global slowdown to emerging digital trends to relationship between the marketers and advertisers were discussed and debated. The discussion went longer than the designated time of one hour while the audience were still asking for more.
The session is a first in the series of insightful and strategic discussions that JWT promises to hold for its clients and team from time to time.
Keep watching this space for more.

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Starbucks appreciation: Will retort to Chick-fil-A day succeed?
Gay marriage advocates are planning to show their support for companies such as Starbucks on Tuesday to counteract the effect of Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.
(Charles Krupa / AP Photo)
By Tiffany Hsu
Aug. 7, 2012 9:23 AM PT
Gay marriage activists had a vision: Tuesday would be their clarion call for consumers to reject Chick-fil-A and its president's comments against same-sex unions, instead crowding into Starbucks and other more sympathetic companies.
Though it's still early in the day, National Marriage Equality Day – originally known as National Starbucks Appreciation Day before organizers broadened the scope – seems to be getting a mostly mild start.
A Facebook profile created for the event by Equally Wed, a lesbian and gay wedding magazine, shows more than 34,000 people signed up to attend. But a photo page populated by submissions from supportive consumers had fewer than 20 images just before noon on the East Coast.
Organizers called out dozens of brands – including Absolut Vodka, Macy's and Tiffany & Co. – as gay-friendly. But if social media users were patronizing such companies more than usual, they were relatively quiet about it.
Starbucks, however, got plenty of shout-outs.
"Let's show the right that the left can spend money on demand too," wrote one Twitter user. "Accentuate the positive! … We can 'appreciate' OUR biz's too!!," wrote another.
Big crowds, however, weren't on the menu.
Compare that with Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day last week, which was launched by former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. The event, inspired by comments from Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy backing the "biblical definition of the family unit," created traffic jams, out-the-door lines and record sales for the chicken chain. More than 670,000 people signed up on Facebook to attend.
Starbucks has well over 12,000 stores in the Americas; Chick-fil-A has slightly more than 1,600.
Seeing the Chick-fil-A outpouring, Equally Wed decided to strike back with an event lauding corporations that it deemed to be more tolerant. Organizers chose Aug. 7, a date that left them less than a week to plan and generate buzz.
"We didn't want the momentum and feeling to be too lost so we tried to choose a day that gave us a little bit of time to get the word out but not so far away that people would have moved on to the next big news story," said Kirsten Ott Palladino, co-founder of Equally Wed.
Initially, the event was focused on Starbucks, which recently threw its support behind legislation in Washington that would make gay marriage legal in the state.
But the coffee giant's corporate office had no part in planning, instead reiterating the same statement it has used for months.
"We deeply respect the views of our customers and our employees and recognize that there's genuine passion surrounding the topic. We have many constituents and from time to time will make statements that are consistent with our values and heritage even if they may be inconsistent with the views of a particular group."
The company declined to comment about a potential sales boost from Tuesday's event.
"We will continue to treat all with dignity and respect regardless of their view," spokesman Zack Hutson said. "As always, we welcome everyone in our stores."
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Tiffany Hsu is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she wrote about the California economy, fast food, restaurants, retail and alternative energy for the Business section. A Bay Area native, UC Berkeley graduate and eternal Nor-Cal fan, she once worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She also did a stint at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she developed a passion for sweet tea. She still has faith that someday she'll find two economists who agree.


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I didn't know the wind could blow like *that* - it's very very very windy out here today. It started last night....gusts up to 25 mph, they said. And steady....it's weird. It's also pitch black outside. Supposed to rain - maybe even thunder-boomers. Fun stuff!
Our area got that storm last night, but it missed us for the most part. Just rain, and not much booming.


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Försvarsmaktens personalansvarsnämnd (FPAN) är en svensk personalansvarsnämnd inom Försvarsmakten som verkat sedan 1993. Nämnden har sin stab i Stockholm, Uppland.

Bakgrund
Försvarsmaktens personalansvarsnämnd behandlar cirka 60 ärenden per år och inrättades 1993. Dess verksamhet regleras i 25 § myndighetsförordningen och 29 § i förordning (2007:1266) med instruktion för Försvarsmakten. Nämnden består av sju personer, ÖB (eller av ÖB utsedd person) som tillika är ordförande i nämnden. Vidare består nämnden av chefsjurist, personaldirektör, chefer utsedda av ÖB samt fackliga företrädare.

Verksamhet
Nämnden kan pröva samtlig personal inom Försvarsmakten, undantaget tjänster utsedda/tillsatta av regeringen. Nämnden får i regel anmälan från Försvarsmaktens olika förbandschefer, som anmäler sin anställd på grund av personen begått allvarliga fel i tjänsten. Innan nämnden fattar beslut utreds ärendet vid en nämndens juridiska stab. Nämnden kan besluta om: varning/löneavdrag, uppsägning eller avsked. Beslutet i sig kan överklagas till allmän domstol. Om den av Försvarsmakten anställde anses skälig för misstanke om tjänstefel som kan ge annan påföljd än böter, är Försvarsmakten skyldig att anmäla händelsen till åtal.

Se även
Statens ansvarsnämnd

Referenser

Noter

Externa länkar
Försvarsmaktens personalansvarsnämnd officiella webbplats

Arbetsrätt
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This tiny bar (4.45 x 6.15m) has been an inspiration for architects and designers ever since it was built over 100 years ago. While Adolf Loos became known for writing 'Ornament is Crime', he was not unknowing of how to use materials to gain richness in his pared back designs. Take note inside of the three equal bays divided by green marble pilasters and beams overhead; the rectangular marble coffered ceiling; the rich mahogany timber panelling on the walls and bar; the green and white marble checkerboard floor; the thin backlit onyx panels over the front entrance (an idea copied many times over the years); and the multi-panelled stained glass signage for American Bar and Kärntner Bar on the exterior.
Loos was also a master of manipulating space, in this instance using repetition and mirrors above door height to multiply and 'extend' the tiny space within the bar.
Since 1995 the bar has been revived and cared for, becoming a worthwhile destination for visitors to Vienna.


We invite Oklahoma companies to apply to present their deal at the Technology Ventures Summit being held in Tulsa February 15-16, 2011. Twelve finalists will give their presentations the morning of February 16. All participants' Executive Summaries will be included in the Summit Booklets.
Deadline for submission is January 14, 2011. All submissions will be judged by a panel of experts and the twelve finalist companies will be notified by January 21, 2011. Presenting companies will have access to mentors and must deliver their presentations to TVS by February 4.
For more information regarding the Technology Venture Summit please go to http://www.ocib.org/tvs. Following are the selection criteria for the company presentations. Each company must be engaged in commercializing a technology.
Presents a history, current status, strategy, and objectives for the business.
Describes the key features and benefits, current stage of development, proprietary position, and competitive advantages of the product or service.
Presents the growth trends and key driving forces of the industry; identifies the key characteristics and needs of the target market(s); assesses the competitive environment; addresses distribution and pricing; demonstrates market acceptance for the product or service.
Backgrounds, history, and roles of key individuals; ability to work as an effective team; personnel needs; organizational structure.
Addresses the marketing, production, research and development, personnel, administrative, and financial strategies for the business.
Realistically identifies the major internal and external critical risks that could threaten the business.
Demonstrates realistic and attractive income potential of the business; the income statement is consistent with the operating and marketing strategies outlined in the body of the plan; income statement information provides projections through 5 years.
Presentation of amount, timing, and use of funds required for the venture.


This conference will explore a point of intersection between the disciplines of film studies and history, focusing on how films generate history visually and auditively, modeling it and making it available to experience. While historians have not engaged in detail with these questions until now, in film studies approaches have been formulated which posit that watching and experiencing film and media images play a key part constructing historical events (Sobchack 1996). In addition, the cinema has been read as a site of historical consciousness that replaces historical depictions of events, making the sensibilities of early periods palpable (Kapelhoff 2008). In recent years, the field of "visual history" has become established as a new realm of research (Paul 2012) that looks at related issues and represents an adaptation of the pictorial turn. While the specific aesthetics of images long remained unnoticed in their historical examination as sources, the historian Gerhard Paul now places this issue consciously at the center of his research.
This represents a possible paradigm shift: away from the dominance of writing and towards the dominance of images, which, according to Paul, is also the result of entirely new possibilities of image research. In this context, comprehensive archives have been established, for example the Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation, an impressive example for how the study of recent history can profit from this expansion of the field of historical research.
The auditive level of the moving image has been taken into consideration as well, although the audio history of film has been largely neglected until now. Since the 1980s, sound in film has increasingly become a relevant field of research, but this research remains largely limited to studies of sound aesthetics and the history of sound production or technology. While in some approaches, film sound is explicitly placed in the context of a cultural history of sound recording (Holl 2012), the general meaning of film sound for modeling history and the construction of historical experience is scarcely examined in a thorough way. An exception here is Richard Dyer's study on the Hollywood career of African American singer Lena Horne, where Dyer places the aesthetic of Horne's voice in the context of her film and television productions and analyzes her singing and (and sound), regulated by the studio system, from the perspective of cultural history and sociopolitical issues (Dyer 2008). All the same, it should be noted that the auditive level of film in history has found little attention. But here, too, there are approaches that understand visual history in the context of a society of "co-viewers" and, quite expressly, "co-listeners" (Lindenberger 2004).
In general, the interpretation of political and historical events has been and is increasingly carried out with the help of film as a medium (Lowry 1991, Paul 2008). Documentary photography and film flank historiography, while fictional films present over and over popular adaptations of historical narrations. Presuming that historical knowledge is constructed in the media (White 1987, Hohenberger/Keilbach 2003), film here functions as an aesthetic and narrative modeling of history; not only does it stage important historic subjects or biographies of historical figures, but also mediates historical knowledge in an audio-visual fashion, in this way creating images of the world and shaping our point of view. Film thus enters into competition with the standard historiography as well as other cultural techniques of memory (Kracauer 1927, Rancière 2003, Paul 2008) and proves to be a significant factor in the competition for interpretive hegemony, until now hardly explored by historians.
While ever since 1898 historians like Boleslas Matuszewski have been exploring the question of the extent to which film could be relevant as a historical source (Matuszewski 1898), in most cases the medium has been seen as testimony of its time of emergence or grasped in the sense of a film historiography with an aesthetic orientation. Furthermore, in the wake of Siegfried Kracauer's work From Caligari to Hitler (1947) there have repeatedly been attempts to understand social-historical developments, like the political victory of Nazism in the early 1930s, by analyzing contemporary film. All the same, film and film history were by no means recognized as a legitimate space of reflection for the historical discipline. It was only in the mid-1970s that Marc Ferro demanded a turn to film in order to open a new field of historiography, the history of human imagination and desires. Ferro's interest is not directed only at certain film documents, but takes film as a document of history, as a reading of its subject and its states of emergence.
Since the 1970s, this development has been accompanied by an important transformation in film studies: various approaches have sought to re-formulate film historiography. During the 1980s, these critical approaches were grouped under the term "new film history," which was understood generally as the expansion of an aesthetically-oriented film historiography to include the economic, technological, social, and historical level. In the course of this transformation, film studies has demanded a more differentiated and complex understanding of historiography and historical reflection.
An important impulse for the mutual approach between film studies and historiography was the so-called linguistic turn. A key figure in the historiography was Hayden White (1987, 1991): his reading of the narrative character of history, which structures data in a targeted fashion, sharpened the gaze for film as a medium. Later, Robert Rosenstone (1995) located a new form of historiography in the medium of film itself, proposing a multimedia form of historiography. Robert Burgoune (2008) takes a similar perspective when he describes (historical) film as critical dialogue between present and past. In the context of research on documentary film in particular, this perspective has been the subject of critical reflection in terms of the relationship between film and history (Hohenberger/Keilbach 2003).
The 19th International Bremen Film Conference will explore these positions at the intersection between the disciplines of film studies and history, most importantly taking account of research on the production and experience of history in moving images and sound. The conference will consist of lectures, discussions, film screenings, and performances, and will take place in the local cinema (CITY 46). The organizers seek to contribute to the debate outlined above.
-or explore examples of the relationship of history and film beyond Europe, i.e., in the US, Latin America, or other regions.
If you would like to hold a lecture at the 19th International Bremen Film Conference (20 min. presentation & 20 min. discussion), please submit an abstract (max. 1 page in length, German or English) and a CV by December 1, 2013. Accepted participants will be informed by January 12, 2014. Travel funding is available to a limited extent.
Please note that a German version of this text can be found online.
Film and History. Producing and Experiencing History in Sound and Moving Images, 07.05.2014 – 11.05.2014 Bremen, in: H-Soz-Kult, 08.10.2013, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-23078>.


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Laura Ashley, the fashion and retail operator, is looking for opportunities to roll-out its tea room chain.
There are currently four sites open with its fifth set to open in Stratford Upon Avon.
Laura Ashley has three tea rooms managed by in partnership with the Corus Hotel Group. This partnership is set to see the opening of its fourth site in Stratford Upon Avon joining Burnham Beeches, Solihull and Coventry.
It also launched the tea room concept as a stand-alone site with Highbullen Hotel, Golf & Country Club in North Devon in October 2018.
Each site is designed designed in-house by the Laura Ashley Design Service. Sites offer afternoon tea as well as a range of teas ranging from Breakfast Tea, Darjeeling, Jasmine Pearls to Peppermint and Camomile.
"We decided to launch the tea rooms, as a way for our customers to experience the brand in a different way. Laura Ashley Hospitality offers a contemporary experience that is in tune with our distinctive design and an atmosphere of relaxed luxury," a spokesperson from the Laura Ashley business development team told Coffee Business World.


Classical dance is one of the most popular hobbies among girls. Ballet tells a story, expressed through music and dance instead of words. In this new simulation for Wii and Nintendo DS, players take on the role of a 12-year-old girl, who has just been admitted to a very prestigious dancing academy. During her period of training, the heroine commits herself solely to dancing. Her dream is to become a great prima ballerina. But the path to success is full of challenges. Also, she should never underestimate her fellow students, because some of them would do anything to outdo their competition. But only the best will get a chance to shine, and therefore players will have to keep proving and improving their skills. Luckily, they are getting support from Nathan, a young, very talented dancer, the heartthrob of every girl in the academy. Together, they train between lessons, so that the heroine can make her dream come true and become a famous prima ballerina.
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Éva Tardos (born 1 October 1957) is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.

Tardos's research interest is algorithms. Her work focuses on the design and analysis of efficient methods for combinatorial optimization problems on graphs or networks. She has done some work on network flow algorithms like approximation algorithms for network flows, cut, and clustering problems. Her recent work focuses on algorithmic game theory and simple auctions.

Education and career
Tardos received her Dipl. Math in 1981 and her Ph.D. 1984 from the Faculty of Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University under her advisor András Frank. She was the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell from 2006-2010, and she is currently serving as the Associate Dean of the College of Computing and Information Science.

She was editor-in-Chief of SIAM Journal on Computing from 2004-2009, and is currently the Economics and Computation area editor of the Journal of the ACM as well as on the Board of Editors of Theory of Computing.

She has co-authored with Jon Kleinberg a textbook called Algorithm Design ().

Honors and awards
Tardos has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2007), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences (2013) and the American Philosophical Society (2020)
She is also an ACM Fellow (since 1998), a Fellow of INFORMS, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
She is the recipient of Packard, Sloan Foundation, and Guggenheim fellowships.

She is the winner of the Fulkerson Prize (1988),
the George B. Dantzig Prize (2006),
the Van Wijngaarden Award (2011),
the Gödel Prize (2012)
and the EATCS Award (2017),
In 2018 the Association for Women in Mathematics and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics selected her as their annual Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer.
In 2019 she was awarded the IEEE John von Neumann Medal.

Personal
Tardos is married to David Shmoys. Gábor Tardos is her younger brother.

See also
Tardos function

References

External links
Eva Tardos on Google Scholar
 Cornell University: Eva Tardos, Department of Computer Science

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For this reason, I'm excited to get inspired at the upcoming 46th annual BC Home & Garden Show which will be back at BC Place Stadium from February 22nd-26th!
This year's show features 425 trusted brands and local companies, and appearances from the industry's biggest names, including HGTV's Bryan Baeumler, Carson Arthur, and Mike Holmes Jr!
The show will feature a main stage for expert advice and home improvement project tips. The show will also feature a cooking stage with live cooking demos from some of Vancouver's top chefs.
In addition, this year's show will highlight gardening like never before with The Vancouver Sun Gardeners school, tips on gardening for Vancouver Urbanites who are living small, with over 3000 sq ft showcasing innovative gardens to give the inspiration to create a garden you love for any size living space.
I'm taking part in the BC Home and Garden show Ultimate Upcycle Challenge!
I will be taking part in the BC Home and Garden Show upcycle eat your veggies challenge presented by Rust-oleum Consumer brands in support of Habit for Humanity Society!
I'm nervous because I don't typically take on DIY projects but I'm up for the challenge especially because this is a charity auction project that will help give local families with a safe affordable place to live.
Getting creative while giving back at the same time, how could I decline?
I'll be using a frugal $50 budget, the rescued item from Restore pictured below, and Rust-oleum paints to turn my rescued item into a planter for herb and vegetable gardens.
Attendees can place a silent auction bid on any of the 5 upcycled items and 100% of the proceeds will support this wonderful cause.
And one lucky reader can win their very own 'DIY bundle' including a $50 gift card to Habitat for Humanity ReStore and a variety of products from Rust-Oleum, to do your very own upcycling project!
Help support affordable housing in the Lower Mainland by donating $1 to Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver when you purchase your ticket for the BC Home + Garden Show.
Looks like a great show, hopefully you enjoyed your time there!


The other day I was sitting in the chicken run, just hanging out with the girls, and noticed that Hester was doing this strange thing with her neck and mouth. She'd stretch her neck all the way up, then open her mouth to the sky and do like a quick yawn, then bring her neck back down to normal size and shake her head back and forth like a dog. It seemed like she was trying to swallow something that was stuck in her throat.
I'd seen her do that before, but this time she was doing it repeatedly. She didn't seem to be in any distress, but I started to worry nonetheless. Maybe it meant something?
Clearly not having learned my lesson from my previous internet research on chicken oddities, I went to the computer for information.
After reading some articles, blogs, forums, and making the mistake of watching some on-line videos, I suspected that she had "gapeworm" and was a goner for sure. Apparently, gapeworm is a condition that chickens can get from eating things with a certain kind of parasitic worm. The worm attaches to the trachea and grows there. It's also permanently copulated with its mate and there they reside — in the chicken's throat, conjoined and growing, making it increasingly difficult for the chicken to swallow and ultimately causing its demise.
My mind started racing about what to do. Does one take a chicken to a vet? IS there a vet who would treat a chicken? How much money should I spend on a chicken? What if she died? I'd be very sad. Would I cry? Would that be silly? The connection and fondness I felt for Hester deepened. She was one of the first. I knew from her amber eyes looking at my brown ones that we understood each other. She hung out near me whenever we were in the yard together. What would I do with her if she died? Could I bury her in the yard? She's no bigger than Ubu (the cat who died last October), and he's buried there. We definitely couldn't eat her (although we do each chicken — just not ours).
After reading actual medical articles about gapeworm, I learned that along with this "gaping" of the mouth, neck stretching, and head shaking that Hester was doing, there were other symptoms that Hester didn't have, such as inability to eat or drink, weight loss, droopiness, and general lethargy. Good news? But how to tell?
Many people on the forums (and there are many backyard chicken forums, blogs, and websites out there!) wrote that you could look down the chicken's throat and see the reddish worms. So I figured that's the first step — see if we can actually see anything there. Of course I had no idea what to do or how I'd react (given my general squeamishness about such things) if I actually saw any disgusting worms in her throat.
I had read that it's not easy to hold a chicken still and keep its beak open to peer down its throat. There were a variety of suggestions on how to do this and one person shared that she did this by opening the beak and putting a pencil in the chicken's mouth to keep it open so she could look. Yikes.
I enlisted my husband's help. I held the chicken on my lap, and after a few tries, I was able to grab the bottom half of her beak in one hand and her top part in another. I kept them apart (no pencils required). Those hens are actually really strong! Their beaks are small and their necks are very twisty, which makes the whole operation quite challenging. My husband held the flashlight and we looked down her throat — a first (and, I hope, last) time for me.
It looked clean and clear. Such a relief (on so many levels)! No gapeworm. No need to answer all those questions. Hester is eating and behaving normally, other than the gaping and head shaking, so I'm calling it just another odd chicken behavior. Internet chicken research . . . never again!
You are too funny. I love hearing these stories as a non animal lover. I would never do any of what you do in showing your love for your animals. It's a whole new twist for me. And a new vocabulary word-gapeworm.


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The loss of Australian retail
Stuart Bennie
January 23, 20143 mins read
In 2008 Mitsubishi closed its plant in Tonsley Park, Adelaide with a loss of 930 jobs.
Ford will close its manufacturing in Broadmeadows and Geelong in 2016 with a loss of 1200 jobs. It reported a loss of $141 million in the last fiscal year and cumulative losses over the past five years of more than $600 million. Costs to produce cars in Australia are double those compared to Europe, and four times more than Asia.
In 2017 Holden will close its operations in South Australia and Victoria with a loss of 2900 jobs. Holden has said that car manufacturing in Australia is unsustainable.
The unions concede that it is highly likely that Toyota will cease operations in Australia in the foreseeable future due, among other things, to the unviability of the components industry once Ford and Holden have gone. If (when) this happens, 4200 jobs will disappear.
Between these four brands, will be a total loss of more than 9000 jobs over a period of around 10 years. This is not considering the flow on effect which will force many dependent businesses to close with further job losses.
This despite the government pumping $4.5 billion into Holden, Toyota and Ford over the past 10 years.
On January 10 I wrote a column titled 'The retail kingdom', highlighting the challenges posed by retail foreign entrants coming into Australia. No less than 27 of the world's largest 250 retailers now operate here.
What I didn't mention is the number of Australian retailers going offshore.
The similarity between this scenario and the motor industry is tenuous to say the least. One is in the manufacturing industry and the other is in retail. And while the motor industry is simply closing, the Australian retailers who go offshore keep their Australian operations going – for the meantime anyway.
But the analogy is there.
Henry Ergas, Professor of Infrastructure Economics at the University of Wollongong says the reality is that our labour costs are extremely high by international standards, productivity levels are low, and labour force flexibility is even lower.
Of course this is only one factor in the manufacturing equation, the high dollar being another.
On January 22 Inside Retail announced that Smiggle will be opening its first store in the UK next month, with up to eight planned shortly thereafter.
David White, Deloitte Australia partner recently told ABC News Breakfast:
"In 2014 as competition continues to ramp up at home we expect to see more Australian retailers seeking the growth opportunities available through international expansion to Asia.
"We think Asia is a really good opportunity for retailers. In the past, look back 10 years ago, a lot of Australian companies were very hesitant about moving into those types of countries where there's less stability, question marks over the talent pool, etc," said White.
At our firm we are finding a consistent flow of interest from Australian retailers to head offshore.
As mentioned above, this does not necessarily mean that they will close in Australia like the motor manufacturers are doing. But what it does mean is that there will be shift in emphasis.
Once a retailer gets a successful foothold in Asia, Brazil or the US for example, it is a matter of time before these markets become more important than the local market, and when this happens, often the operation relocates its head office, which only makes sense.
So we will see a gradual swing from the combined effect of foreign retailers entering Australia with their head offices overseas and Australian retailers going offshore with the likelihood over time of moving their head offices overseas.
As David Whites says, the talent pool in Asia was a question mark, but this has changed. If it transpires that the costs of operating in Asia are a quarter of those here, as in the Ford example, who in their right minds wouldn't move their operation?
Stuart Bennie is a retail consultant at Impact Retailing and can be contacted at stuart@impactretailing.com.au or 0414 631 702.
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Kris Ravetto-Biagioli, Ph.D.
Cinema and Digital Media, Science and Technology Studies
ravetto@ucdavis.edu
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Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose work focuses on representations and theorizations of violence in film, media, and social media. She has worked on the question of nation building, ethnocentrism and sexual violence in the Balkans and Eastern Europe; Nazism, Fascism and the Holocaust; Surveillance and social media; Digital art and experimental cinema and the uncanny; and the emergence of new forms of politics through social media.
She is the author of The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity (Columbia University Press, 2017), and is currently working on a new book project entitled Digital Uncanny (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) that examines how digital technologies, particularly software systems working through massive amount of data, are transforming the meaning of the uncanny that Freud tied to a return of repressed memories, desires, and experiences to their anticipation.
She has published articles on film, performance, installation art, new media, and the hacker group Anonymous in Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly, LEA, PAJ, Representations, Screen, The International Social Science Journal, Third Text and numerous collected volumes. She is the co-editor with Professor Martine Begneut of the Edinburgh University Press series in Film and Intermediality. Her interest in the "digital uncanny" and the culture of surveillance has inspired Recoded, the large international conference on the politics and landscapes of new media, and Figures of the Visceral and Gaming the Game.
She is co-organizing the Mellon initiative in Digital Culture with Professor Colin Milburn (English and STS), co-organizer with Anupam Chander the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Surveillance and Democracy is a core researcher on the IMMERSe and IFHA projects.
She is also affiliated with t the graduate programs in Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Critical Theory and French and Italian Studies.


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Antidepressant News and Research
Antidepressants are medicines that treat depression. Your doctor can prescribe them for you. They can improve your mood, sleep, appetite and concentration. It may take several weeks for them to help. There are several types of antidepressants. You and your doctor may have to try several before finding what works best for you.
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Individual variation in genes alters our ability to regulate emotions
A new study in marmoset monkeys suggests that individual variation in genes alters our ability to regulate emotions, providing new insights that could help in the development of personalized therapies to tackle anxiety and depression.
Antidepressant treatment leads to impaired empathy regarding perception of pain
Antidepressant treatment, not only depression per se, can lead to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy
Weighing risks and benefits of antidepressant medication for older adults
Depression is a common and serious problem for older adults. Some 15 to 20 percent of people aged 65 and older who live independently deal with symptoms of major depressive disorder.
FDA overlooked red flags in drugmaker's testing of new depression medicine
Ketamine is a darling of combat medics and clubgoers, an anesthetic that can quiet your pain without suppressing breathing and a hallucinogenic that can get you high with little risk of a fatal overdose.
NIH funds clinical trials to assess applicability of genomics for treating chronic diseases
The National Institutes of Health will fund clinical trials to assess the benefits, applicability and efficacy of applying genomic medicine interventions to improve management of diseases such as high blood pressure, depression and chronic pain.
Diabetes drug reduces anxiety-like behaviors in mice
The antidiabetic medication metformin reduces anxiety-like behaviors in male mice by increasing serotonin availability in the brain, according to a study published in JNeurosci.
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Is it a feminist right to want more sex? One company thinks a pill is the answer
Studies have never defined a "normal" level of sexual desire. Despite that, there's a website and an online quiz to help you decide if you've got a problem. Called "Right to Desire," it brands libido as a feminist "right," and its home page offers the defiant, in-your-face prompt: "Yes, I want my desire back."
Finnish researchers discover gene mutation that reduces fear, anxiety and increases social interaction
Finnish researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oulu have discovered of a new type of gene mutation that reduces fear and anxiety, and increases social interaction.
Researchers find potential link between autism and antidepressant use during pregnancy
An international team led by Duke-NUS Medical School has found a potential link between autistic-like behavior in adult mice and exposure to a common antidepressant in the womb.
Researchers use nitrous oxide to unravel rapid function of antidepressant mechanisms
Ketamine is commonly used in emergency medicine as an anesthetic drug. Later it was discovered to have rapid-acting antidepressant effects, but the mechanisms by which ketamine alleviates depression are still unknown.
Scientists develop maps of two melatonin receptors vital for sleep, other biological processes
An international team of researchers used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create the first detailed maps of two melatonin receptors that tell our bodies when to go to sleep or wake up and guide other biological processes.
Researchers identify ketamine-induced neural changes responsible for remission of depression
Researchers have identified ketamine-induced brain-related changes that are responsible for maintaining the remission of behaviors related to depression in mice -- findings that may help researchers develop interventions that promote lasting remission of depression in humans.
Workings of ketamine in depressive illness decoded
Researchers have now found the exact mechanism of how the drug works in the brains of individuals with depression and can keep the symptoms down for more than a week.
Study sheds new light on long-term treatment with antidepressant drugs
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Anti-inflammatory medicine can be effective in treating people with depression
The World Health Organization calls depression one of the most serious mental disorders, and researchers around the world are trying to improve treatment of the disease.
People with treatment-resistant depression at higher risk of developing substance use syndrome
People suffering from treatment resistant depression are at a higher risk of developing substance use disorders than other patients with depression, reports a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Addiction.
Research uncovers crucial receptor involved in response to fast-acting antidepressants
Effective treatment of clinical depression remains a major mental health issue, with roughly 30 percent of patients who do not respond to any of the available treatments.
Prescriptions for antidepressants have doubled over the last decade says NHS report
NHS figures reveal that over the last ten years, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants has doubled. There has also been a rise in the drugs prescribed for conditions resulting from unhealthy lifestyle behaviours.
Symptomatic pharmacotherapy of elderly people should be regularly monitored
The prevalence of using antidepressants and proton pump inhibitors increases after the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, according to a doctoral dissertation from the University of Eastern Finland.
Antidepressant drugs may not work when neurons are out of shape
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Giovanni Fontana (Melide, Švicarska, 1540. – Rim, 1614.) bio je dominikanski svećenik i kasno-maniristički arhitekt, brat arhitekta Domenica Fontane.

Fontana je, za obitelj Aldobrandini, sagradio jednu od najpoznatijih ruralnih vila u oblasti Campagna Romana, nedaleko Rima, u periodu 1601.—1605. Castello di Torrenova bila je izvorno srednjovjekovna seoska kuća koju je Fontana proširio i ukrasio renesansnim detaljima i bedemima. Pored tvrđave bila je sagrađena mala kasno-renesansna crkva za papu Klementa I., koji je bio patron pape Klementa VIII. koji je pripadao obitelji Aldobrandini.

Pored toga Fontana je zajedno s Carlom Madernom radio na izgradnji Bazilike sv. Petra te je 1612. godine izgradio fontanu Acqua Paolina.

Vanjske poveznice
Giovanni Baglione, Giovanni Battista Passari, Le vite de' pittori, scultori, architetti, ed intagliatori

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Pakistan signed new deals with China worth nearly 500 million US dollars ahead of the Belt and Road Forum (BRF). The memorandums of understanding add to 57 billion US dollars already pledged for me China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a network of Rail, road and energy infrastructure that is part of the wider China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. Pakistan has been a flagship country and one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the belt and road initiative, in part because many projects are for power plants to alleviate the country's decade-long energy –shortage crisis that sees frequent blackouts. The China-Pakistan Corridor is a core component of Xi's visionary initiative of the Belt and Road, said Sharif during his meeting with Xi at the Great Hall of People in Beijing. Among the 3.4 billion yuan (493 million US dollars) in deals. Two cooperation agreements worm 2.3 billion yuan (333 million OS dollars) for an airport in the southwestern town of Gwadar, site of a deep-water port that is to provide an outlet to the Arabian Sea from the far northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Establishment of the Havelian Dry Port in Pakistan.-Agreement on economic and technical cooperation (160 million US dollars) for the East Bay Expressway linking Gwadar to Pakistan's existing highway system. Between 2014 and 2016, China's businesses signed projects worth 304.9 billion US dollars in countries along the Belt and Road routes, according to Qian Kerning, China's Vice Commerce Minister, Some countries may be wary of the debt burden that the Chinese .financing could create. Pakistan, however, has expressed an optimistic view, with the government chief economist telling Reuters this week that the repayments will peak at around 5 billion US dollars in 2022, but will be more than offset by transit fees charged on the new transport corridor.


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C. difficile testing will not be performed on children less than 12 months old, as this group has been shown to be asymptomatic carriers with colonization rates as high as 50%.
If a single screen result is negative, a second specimen should be submitted if there is ongoing clinical illness and alternative diagnosis has not been made.
to diagnose a relapse of CDI following a period of absence of symptoms.
Test of cure for CDI is not recommended. Toxin may persist in stool despite resolution of illness for weeks to months. In the absence of recurrent symptoms, laboratory testing is not helpful in making clinical decisions about patient treatment or precautions.
For surveillance/outbreak related investigations of C. difficile, contact the PHOL Customer Service Center at 416-235-6556 or 1-877-604-4567.
Collect a minimum of 10. 0 ml of liquid faeces. DO NOT overfill.
Follow the instructions found in the Clostridium difficile Kit Instruction Sheet.
Formed stool specimens are the number one rejection reason for C. difficile testing at PHOL and can be as high as 50% for some laboratories.
A Stool Consistency Chart with Acceptance Criteria for Clostridium difficile Testing is available in English and French to ensure specimens submitted are not rejected. Please share with your patients if they are self-collecting.
Specimens should be stored at 2-8°C following collection and shipped to PHOL on ice packs. Specimens must be received within 72 hours of collection for optimal testing.
Note: Freezing of the specimen is not required. Final test results may be affected by freezing and thawing, and may not be accurate.
The Clostridium difficile screen test is performed Monday to Saturday. Confirmatory testing is performed within 24 – 48 hours of a positive screen test or the next business day on weekends and holidays.
Turnaround time is up to 3 days from receipt at PHO Laboratory.
Stool specimens are tested by a two-step laboratory screen and confirmatory test process.
Step one – PHOL – regional sites will screen all stool specimens that meet the acceptance criteria for glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) antigen and toxins A/B with a rapid enzyme immunoassay. PHOL – Toronto site will screen stool specimens for GDH antigen with an enzyme immunoassay method. The difference in test method for the screening test is based on the volume of specimens received at each laboratory site within PHO.
Step two – All stool specimens that require confirmatory testing (refer to the Interpretation Guide for C. difficile on page 3) will be tested for C. difficile toxin gene with a molecular LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal DNA amplification) assay. This testing is performed at a number of PHOL locations in order to optimize the testing turn-around time.
The assay detects a pathogenicity locus (PaLoc) of toxigenic Clostridium difficile by targeting a partial DNA fragment on the Toxin A gene. The tcdA target region was selected as an intact region remaining in all known A+B+ and A-B+ toxinotypes. Manufacturer's sensitivity and specificity performance characteristics as compared to cytotoxic bacterial culture except for the C.DIFF QUIK CHEK COMPLETE Toxin which is compared to tissue culture assay.


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Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus in non‐identical female twins
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title={Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus in non‐identical female twins},
author={Neil H. Cox and J. N. Mitchell and W. N. Morley},
journal={British Journal of Dermatology},
volume={115}
N. Cox, J. Mitchell, W. N. Morley
British Journal of Dermatology
MADAM, We were interested to read the report by Drs Meyrick-Thomas and Kennedy {British Journal of Dermatology, 1986,114,377) describing the development of perineal lichen sclerosus et atrophicus in a pair of monozygotic female twins. We have recently seen the same disorder in a pair of non-identical female twins, who developed lesions at the age of 2 years and 27 years respectively. Both girls are otherwise well; their sister (aged 5 years) is unaffected, and there is no family history of…
Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus
Acute Lichen Sclerosus in a 25 Years Young Female- A Case Report
N. Yasmin, N. Kabir, Tahmina Afrin Daise, Shahrin Ahmed, F. Sharmin
The condition is presented here as an younger woman presented with acute form of lichen sclerosus, which most commonly occurs on the vulva and around the anus with ivory-white elevations that may be flat and glistening.
Simultaneous Occurence of Vulvar and Mammalian Lichen Sclerosus: A Case Report
F. Demirtürk, C. Çalışkan, H. Aytan, D. Köseoğlu
The case of a 38-year old primer infertile women with a 10 year history of a white patch on her vulva and bilateral mammalia, which seems to be a genetic susceptibility and a link with autoimmune mechanisms is reported.
Lichen sclerosus of the vulva
M. Origoni, C. Gelardi, S. Salvatore, M. Candiani
Chronic and severe vulvar itching, especially at night, is the predominant symptom reported by almost all patients, and diagnosis is often delayed by long-term self-administered topical preparations, or by the clinician's unawareness of the disease.
Familial lichen sclerosus et atrophicus in association with CREST syndrome: a case report
E. Fitzgerald, C. Connelly, S. Purcell, G. Kantor
The British journal of dermatology
A case of a young woman with CREST syndrome who has a documented family history of two sisters with lichen sclerosus et atrophicus who presented with vulvar pruritas in association with dyspareunia is described.
G. L. Tasker, F. Wojnarowska
Lichen sclerosus is a chronic skin condition, which offers many challenges to the clinician, and ideally all patients should attend a dedicated clinic and be offered long‐term monitoring.
Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus
Y. Smith, H. Haefner
The history, clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment of lichen sclerosus of the vulva, as well as pregnancy issues and sexual function in patients with this condition are discussed.
P. D. Yesudian, H. Sugunendran, C. M. Bates, C. O'Mahony
International journal of STD & AIDS
The condition tends to be remitting and relapsing, with spontaneous regressions reported in a few, and the need for long-term monitoring cannot be over-emphasized.
EMAS clinical guide: vulvar lichen sclerosus in peri and postmenopausal women.
F. Pérez-López, I. Ceaușu, +7 authors T. Simoncini
Maturitas
This clinical guide provides advice on early recognition and treatment of vulvar lichen sclerosus in peri and postmenopausal women and suggests topical corticosteroids are the most effective treatment, although prolonged treatment may be associated with dermal atrophy.
Familial lichen sclerosus et atrophicus in childhood.
E. E. Sahn, E. Bluestein, S. Oliva
Genital LSA in two young sisters who were diagnosed a year apart are reported, and it is reported that genital LSA is seen occasionally in young children.
A Review Article on Lichen Sclerosus, Affecting Ano-Genital Area in Females
A. Al-Imam
The disease epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, complications, differential diagnosis, diagnostic methods, histopathology, psychosocial impact, and treatment options are reviewed.
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Negative opinions about the state of medicine has large numbers of physicians planning to change their practices in ways that would decrease access to patients, according to a new study by The Physicians Foundation and Merritt Hawkins(www.physiciansfoundation.org).
Almost half of the more than 17,000 physicians surveyed this spring said they planned over the next one to three years to cut back on hours worked, retire, take a non-clinical health care position, switch to a cash-only practice, or take other steps that would ultimate reduce access to patients.
"(The survey) reveals a physician workforce that continues to be dispirited about the current state of the medical profession and apprehensive about its future, due primarily to the large regulatory burden physicians face and the perceived erosion of their clinical autonomy," the researchers said in the report.
Overall, only 52 percent of physicians said they planned to remain working at the same level they are now. That represents a decline from 2014 when 56 percent of physicians surveyed said they didn't plan to change their practice.
The reasons for the negative changes are widespread. Almost 63 percent of respondents said they felt either "very" or "somewhat" pessimistic about the future of medicine, which was an increase from 51.1 percent in 2014. Eighty-one percent of physicians said they were overextended or at full capacity and unable to see more patients.
That said, many physicians aren't ready to abandon medicine entirely. Almost 72 percent of respondents said they would choose medicine as a career again, compared with 71 percent in 2014 and 67 percent in 2012. When asked if they would still recommend medicine as a career to their children or other young people, 51 percent said they would, up slightly from 50 percent in 2014.
Primary care physicians were a little more optimistic than their specialist peers, with 50.5 percent saying they are very or somewhat positive about the current state of medicine and 42.5 percent positive about the future of medicine. By comparison, 43.5 percent of specialists were positive about the present and 33.9 percent were positive about the future of medicine. Almost 73 percent of primary care physicians said they would choose medicine again as a career, compared with 71.4 percent of specialists, and 54 percent of primary care physicians said they would recommend medicine as a career to young people, compared with 50 percent of specialists.
The demographics of those responding to the survey showed the continuing trend of physicians leaving private practice for employed positions. Almost 33 percent characterized themselves as practice owners while about 58 percent said they worked for a hospital or large medical group. By comparison, 35 percent identified as practice owners in 2014 and 53 percent worked for large health groups and hospitals.
Looking at specific pieces of health care reform, only 43 percent said they were paid based on quality or value and 80 percent professed little knowledge of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Only 11 percent of respondents said electronic health records have improve their interactions with patients, and only between 5 percent and 6 percent said the year-old ICD-10 coding has improved efficiency and revenues.


Is it possible to have my name changed on this site? I really dont want to have to start another account just to change the name when a mod can do it in seconds.
No real need to post requests like that ..
Start a new account with the name you want and I'll combine all your posts under your new name.
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Sweep Series
Cate Tiernan
Seventeen-year-old Morgan wrestles with love, life, and witchcraft.
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Twenty years ago, Morgan Rowlands was the most powerful young bloodwitch to come around in generations – making magickal discoveries, facing and conquering unimaginable evil, and surviving a devastating betrayal. Her daughter, fifteen-year-old Moira, knows there's more to her mother's past than she's been told. And the secrets that lie in Morgan's heart could destroy Moira's entire world. When Moira learns two painful truths about her family, she begins to put the puzzle together – and realizes that someone close to her is in grave danger.
Hunter, Morgan, and Alisa. Together the three worked to defeat the most unspeakable evil known to witches. Now the danger they face is just as deadly. But to vanquish their new foe, they must first defeat the weaknesses within themselves.
Alisa is still coming to terms with being a blood witch. Longing for a sense of belonging, or understanding, Alisa seeks out her mother's family. While there she finds comfort in some of the mysteries of her past, but she also uncovers danger, hostility, and fear – and she must make a choice that could change her future.
Morgan knows that a dark wave of destruction is on its way. Everyone she loves is in jeopardy. So Morgan, Hunter, and a surprising new ally join together to fight a battle that will test their powers more than any of them can imagine. In this struggle of good versus evil, bright magick versus dark, who will survive to tell the tale?
The chronicle of the deadly Woodbane conspiracy—as told by one of Morgan's own ancestors—has fallen into Hunter's and Morgan's hands. Hunter and Morgan explore the world of these powerful witches, to find a way to vanquish them at last.
Hunter is reunited with his father, who vanished years before. But Hunter doesn?t find his childhood hero?instead he finds a dark and shadowy version of the man he once knew.
Frightening things are happening when Morgan is around. Books are flying, lightbulbs are exploding, and no one knows the cause. Morgan's friends think she's the cause of this strange activity. How can she prove she's not to blame?
When Morgan receives a shocking revelation about her family, she's thrown into a moral tailspin, believing that her essential nature is evil. Is her dark heritage too powerful to overcome?
Morgan and Hunter travel to New York City, Morgan to seek out information about her birth parents and Hunter to continue his quest to end the deadly Woodbane conspiracy. But in their search for answers, they find themselves in terrible danger.
Morgan knows that a great battle is to come. More immediately, she senses that someone is out to harm Hunter. Is it a human or a witch?
For now, Morgan is safe from the dark wave that has been attacking witches. Betrayed by her first love, she is trying to come to grips with her Woodbane heritage and with Wicca–its thorn and its rose.
Evil forces are after Morgan, forces connected with a dark wave of magick. And she knows something is wrong with the way Cal is acting, although she can?t put her finger on it. Cal is definitely hiding something, but is he out to hurt her, as Hunter says?
Blood Witch
Morgan has found her mother's Wiccan tools, and her relationship with Cal is strong. Everything seems perfect. Except that Cal's half brother, Hunter, is stalking them. Hunter claims to be a Seeker who is investigating Cal for the misuse of magick. Whom can she trust?
The Coven
Cal, now Morgan's boyfriend, helps her accept the truth: Wicca is in Morgan's blood. As Morgan learns more about Wicca, she realizes that she needs to find out more about her parentage. The answers are there, but she doesn't know how to find them.
Morgan and her best friend, Bree, are introduced to Wicca when a gorgeous senior named Cal invites them to join his new coven. Morgan falls for Cal immediately? and discovers that she has strong,inexplicable powers.
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International Right to Know (RTK) day was celebrated across the country on 28 September - Committee of Concerned Citizen (CCC), Youth Engagement and Support (YES), Swajan and YES Friends in 34 regions joined hands with the district administration to observe this day. This year's celebration emphasised on strategising ways to increase both demand and supply of information that is raise awareness of people and service providers on RTI, encourage pro-active disclosure of information by both public and private sector. Information fairs, cartoon exhibitions, orientation on RTI application, face the public, rallies, seminars, essay/art/quiz competitions, satellite AI desks and cultural programmes were organised to this end. Apart from these events a number of innovative campaigns like info truck, anti-corruption signature collection were organised to popularise the RTK day.
TIB also joined another celebration with Information Commission that marked the day by organising discussion meeting, rally and information fair on 28 September at the National Academy for Planning and Development. Information Minister was also the Chief Guest there and Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Professor A A M S Arefin Siddique, Chief Information Commission Mohammad Farooq were among others who spoke on the occasion.
Participants, guests and speakers at these celebrations emphasised on the role of RTI Act to promote accountability, transparency and participation i.e. promote good governance at all spheres of service delivery. They also urged for collective efforts among government and non government organisations to create demand of this pro-people act.


"Do it for the gram". I love social media and Instagram is my 2nd favorite social platform! If you are not familiar with Instagram, it is an app that allows you to share photos and videos with your followers.
I fell in love with Colombia! I enjoyed the fresh food, salsa music, brightly lit buildings, history and the Colombian people, Follow me @sweetiffys as I take you on my Instagram photo journey through Bogota, Medellin, and Colombia.
Take a tram or walk up to see Monserrate, a mountain in Bogota's city center. After arriving at the top, visit the inside of the church, eat a meal, buy a souvenir or simply enjoy the view. Be advised that it is 3,152 above sea level.
Don't forget to take a day trip to see the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground Roman Catholic church built in salt tunnels.
When you think of Medellin, Colombia, Pablo Escobar immediately comes to mind. Take a Pablo Escobar Tour. Visit his grave-site, house and the place where he was captured by police.
Communa 13 was once knows as a deadly city, it is now known for graffiti art. Take a free guided tour in Communa 13 to learn about the history and transformation of the city.
I was immediately drawn to this art work because it reminded me of myself.
Take a day trip to Guatape, Colombia to climb El Penol. You must climb 740 steps to the top.
Yay, I made it. It was worth the 740 steps to the top.
Take a free walking tour around the city. I enjoyed the statues in Plaza Botero by famous Colombian artist Fernando Botero.
Or check out the city on ATV's.
Visit Cerro La Popa, when I saw the views, I knew that I had to capture this photo for Instagram.
Visit Playa Blanca for a relaxing day at the Beach.
Dont forget to take a picture inside the walled city with women of Palenque.
I have never been a fan of whole fish, but this was so delicious I'm craving this food as I write this blog post.
Take Pictures at Cafe Havana, in Cartagena.
There are also free guided tours in Cartagena. I absolutely loved this picture of strong Afro Colombian women.
Due to time constraints, I missed lots of beautiful places in Colombia. Do you have any places on Instagram that I missed? Do you love Instagram as much as I do. Which Instagram photo was your favorite and why?
These photos are amazing! I always have the intention to take great pictures but then start to feel self conscious and never do. Hoping to change that with my next trip.
I love how you captured Colombia with all of these beautiful shots! The blue cave is amazing and I also love the graffiti one too.
Girl. I love this and I'll be lying if I said I wasn't simultaneously on SkyScanner trying to book my trip to Columbia. These pictures are amazing and I cannot wait to be there! Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us.
I love Colombia! It's so colorful and vibrant. I'm sad I didn't see as much street art as I would have liked to. Great pics!
Your photos are awesome and I love this post. I am digginh the last mural of the 3 women with their fros. I see why you upset you didnt get a pic with it but at least you have a picture of it!
I would love to visit Columbia. Your pics are beautiful and the melanin magic there is real. I didn't know that.
I ned to hit you up on some tips about Colombia. I am trying to figure out if I should bring my husband there for his 40th.
You look like you had a blast! Travel spots are great photos for travel for sure.
Lovely! Guatape looks and sounds amazing!
It looks like you had a great vacation. I would love to visit this place on a cool girls trip.
Central America keeps calling my name again. Although I am headed back to Playa this week, Columbia is definitely on the top of my travel list soon I keep seeing affordable flight so thanks for sharing your experience!
South America is great! Every time, I see cheap flights, I want to go back as well.
I have a love hate relationship with Instagram. I am trying to do better but I struggle with IG. These are great photos as well.
WHOA!! It looks like you had such an amazing trip or should I say Adventure. I love how colorful Colombia is!


With stock prices down considerably since 2001 and apparently heading lower, many Americans have taken a liking to real estate. They have bought homes in record numbers as easy credit and low interest rates have enabled many to buy rather than rent a home. And just like stock prices during the 1990s, the value of homes keeps rising as does the debt incurred to buy them. According to Federal Reserve data, American homes now are worth some $13.6 trillion, which is 92% more than a decade ago, while mortgage debt more than doubled to $6 trillion. With all that money rushing into real estate, does it blow bubbles, as it did in the stock market, or does it reflect chronic inflation and dollar depreciation, or does it manifest rising incomes and growing ownership aspiration?
Searching for an answer to these questions, we must raise and answer yet another question that enfolds the former: is the capital market that guides and drives economic activity allowed to function freely or is it controlled and manipulated by government regulators? In other words, is an unhampered market rate of interest allowed to direct the employment of capital and labor and thereby shape present conditions, or is the rate commanded and managed by mighty controllers? The answer is obvious: it is set by the governors of the Federal Reserve System who thereby modify all interest rates and manipulate the capital markets. In recent years they chose to keep interest rates far below market rates and thus guide economic activity along lines that differed greatly from those an unhampered market would have directed. They caused massive increases in money and credit and brought about what economists call "maladjustments" which are the very mainspring of economic recessions and depressions.
Maladjustments in real estate differ visibly from the afflictions of stock and bond markets which are national or even international in range and scope. Landed property is an inherently local asset that is affected by a great number of local demand and supply factors. The housing market in San Jose, California, has little resemblance to that in Grove City, Pennsylvania, although both are affected by the same Federal Reserve monetary policy. Some places may suffer stagnation or price declines while others experience feverish booms. There may be bubbles in some parts of the country while stagnation and recession hold others in their grip. Yet all prices undoubtedly are much higher than they would be in absence of chronic inflation and dollar depreciation.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight informs us that average housing prices rose 38.3 percent from 1997 to 2002. This knowledge may be of interest to economic historians but of little use to real estate investors. They are intrigued and lured by local conditions and the possibility of earning high returns through debt financing when prices soar. A home buyer may put down ten percent of the purchase price and borrow the rest; a price rise of ten percent would double his investment. An annual price increase of just five percent would yield a return of 50 percent on his investment, year after year. While the mortgage loan continually depreciates in purchasing power, the owner's equity rises in step with the rising price of his house. In fact, in less than ten years a ten percent annual bubble rate will shift one-half of the value of his house to him, without having made a single loan payment. Surely, he will have to maintain the property and pay an interest on the mortgage loan, which may be less than the rent he would have to pay if he were to rent the house.
This leverage of debt financing also works in reverse. When the bubble bursts and housing prices readjust, many new owners soon lose their entire investment. A ten percent fall in prices wipes out a ten percent owner equity; a thirty or forty percent decline, which is rather common in a bubble crash, not only stamps out his investment but also may inflict additional losses – unless he walks away from his house and thereby shifts the losses to the financial institution that granted the loan. When the decline is severe and many owners choose to unload their losses on creditors, the crash may jeopardize the solvency of financial institutions that financed the bubble.
Despite such occasional reversals our age of inflation has made ownership of a home the most effective way to increase personal wealth. While inflation tends to raise interest rates by adding the anticipated depreciation rate to the basic time-preference rate, it also lowers the debtor's risk premium which may offset the higher depreciation rate. The owner's equity increases in step with the rising price of the house, which simultaneously reduces the risk to the lender. Before the age of inflation a home buyer needed a down payment of 30 to 50 percent of the purchase price; the age of inflation gradually reduced this rate to 20 or 10 percent, but sometimes 3 percent or less. The lender's price risk is minimal; the buyer may just sit back and let the bubble increase his equity.
Politicians and government officials look with favor on home ownership as they themselves do benefit from such favors. Home buyers enjoy big tax breaks. They can deduct property taxes and the interest on their mortgages from their taxable income. And when they sell their homes they may exclude up to $250,000 in capital gains from taxable income; married couples may deduct $500,000. And they can do this again and again as long as they live in the home for two of five years before selling.
National statistics tend to understate the risk of loss for many homeowners. They obscure the extreme price swings in individual towns and cities and blur the particular forces that may reduce or compound the maladjustment. During the 1980s, for example, several West Coast cities enjoyed feverish high-tech and defense-spending booms. Real estate prices soared. A few years later when high-tech production spread to China, India, and many other places, stagnation settled over many places and prices fell noticeably. In the Silicon Valley they slid some twenty percent.
In recent years many communities also have been affected by soaring U.S. trade deficits driven by Federal Reserve easy-money policies and mounting U.S. Treasury budget deficits. As trade deficits rose to more than $500 billion annually, that is to more than five percent of GDP, American manufacturers of many consumers goods faced growing pressures of foreign competition and were forced to contract. Many communities soon experienced economic declines and rising unemployment especially in parts and sections of town occupied by the laboring population. While the construction of mansions continued at full speed and middle class refinancing generated new life in old neighborhoods, heavily-populated urban areas occupied by welfare recipients and unemployed laborers ceased to grow. Apartment rents may have kept on rising but the prices of such dwellings rarely did.
Throughout the industrial Northeast many communities, large and small, even endured real depressions as militant labor unions relentlessly boosted production costs and unemployment soared to deplorable levels. The strongholds of labor unions, such as coal mining, the steel industry, the automobile industry, the aerospace industry, trucking, and shipyards, stagnated throughout most of the 1980s and 90s. In Grove City, Pennsylvania, ugly labor strikes, too numerous to count, finally drove the largest employer out of town and state. In Youngstown, Ohio, high unemployment and deep depression settled on the community when the last steel mill was forced to close its gates.
The local demand-and-supply factors that often drive the real estate market may at times be overshadowed by national forces. They surely were overwhelmed during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the six recessions that descended on the country since then. Another recession could do it again. If foreign central banks should tire of financing U.S. trade deficits the U.S. dollar would plummet in foreign exchange markets, American goods prices would rise, and interest rates would readjust. An international flight from the dollar undoubtedly would delimit the Fed's power to manage interest rates. Rising rates would impact on the housing market and reveal the maladjustments that resulted from many years of rate manipulation. Rising rates would expose ill-designed housing built in wrong quantities, wrong qualities, and wrong neighborhoods. Of course, the monetary authorities would do everything in their power to flush the troubles away. Unaware of any inexorable principles of economics and infatuated by the coercive powers of government, they are likely to compound the difficulties and make matters worse.
Even if foreign creditors should never tire of financing American trade deficits and U.S. Treasury debt, the maladjustments are calling for correction. The ocean of debt in which many Americans are swimming cannot brook a major rise in interest rates; it may soon force a readjustment. Similarly, the financial bubble engendered grossly inflated price-earnings ratios which call for early readjustment to unimpeded levels. In short, powerful forces consisting of the value judgments and choices of the people are working tirelessly to correct the maladjustments also in real estate.
It is well nigh impossible to estimate the magnitude of income and wealth which false interest rates and misleading credit markets redistribute every day. It is unearned lucre that is taken from millions of savers and creditors and bestowed on all kinds of debtors, including millions of mortgagers. Surely, most Americans are both creditors and debtors but rarely equal in both accounts. Most may be vaguely aware of the transfer process; some may take advantage of it, but only a few may be knowledgeable of the causes that drive the process. Economists are keeping their eyes on the prime movers, the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury which wield vast powers over American money and credit. But their voices are barely audible in the din of official pronouncements.
Most Americans trust their political leaders and their media spokesmen who wax eloquent about the wisdom of Federal Reserve policies and the benefits of Federal spending. They sense the growing importance of government and especially its primary role in the allocation of inflation lucre. Discerning the important role of politics in their economic lives, many Americans now participate in party politics and join in bitter feuds about government favors. They all would redistribute the lucre, few would abolish it. They may even favor and support inflationary policies that blow bubbles in real estate and create incomparable opportunities. Unfortunately, they pay little heed to the great economic and social harm done by such policies.


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/All News/All News/IMMAF veteran Julia Dorny wins European Sumo Bronze
IMMAF veteran Julia Dorny wins European Sumo Bronze
IMMAF World Championships and European Open veteran Julia Dorny competed at the European Sumo Championships in Poland over the weekend of April 23. Representing her country on yet another international martial arts platform, the German competitor placed 5th in the -65kg (143lbs) division, and Germany as a National Team secured the Bronze medal position. In conjunction with her Amateur MMA career, Dorny is a black-belt competitor and coach in Judo. In addition to placing 5th at the German National Judo Championships, she was crowned National Champion in both MMA and Sumo in 2016. Dorny most recently travelled to the city of Leipzig on April 30 alongside her regional Judo team, Judo Club Wiesbaden, as competition continued in the German Judo Bundesliga. In 1997 Dorny first started Judo at the age of seven. Seventeen years later this was followed by a her transition to MMA in 2014, and Sumo which she impressively began as recently as March of this year before winning the National title. Having already made a fast start with successful results on the National and European Sumo stage, Dorny explained to IMMAF.org the reasons for adding the extra discipline to her martial arts resume. "Honestly it was just for fun," Dorny explained. "I kinda promised one of my very first Judo coaches to take part because he is involved in Sumo as well as in Judo. Then I won the tournament, became German champion and qualified for the Europeans and Worlds." As a National MMA champion and member of the German MMA Federation (GEMMAF) National Amateur Team, Dorny first competed under the IMMAF banner in 2015 at the IMMAF World Amateur Championships in Las Vegas, USA. The German Featherweight competitor earned a Bronze medal at the World Championships and followed up with a second IMMAF Bronze in 2016 at the European Open Championships in Walsall, England. Despite her strong background in Judo, Dorny has shown enthusiasm for striking and bringing a high volume approach to bouts by staying busy on her feet, and with a multitude of kicks. Dorny's latest Amateur MMA contest (pictured below) took place in Brandenburg, Germany, on April 9 where she secured victory via unanimous decision. As the no.1 German competitor in her weight division, Dorny is lined up to make her return to the city of Las Vegas where she will compete at the 2016 IMMAF World Amateur Championships during the 5th Annual UFC International Fight Week. Written by IMMAF.org lead writer and website manager, Jorden Curran
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