SOUTH BOSTON, Va. – Saturday's AutosByNelson.com 250 had something for everyone when the CARS Response Energy Tour ran their season finale at the Virginia racetrack. Corey Heim and Craig Moore both visited Edelbrock Victory Lane, the first win for both competitors on the tour, while Jared Fryar and Bobby McCarty both claimed their first series titles in nailbiting fashion at the end of the afternoon.
Tate Fogleman led the field to green in the final super late model contest of the season after claiming the Mahle Pistons Pole Award earlier in the afternoon. The Durham, North Carolina, driver led the opening 18 circuits until Anthony Cataldi took the lead for a handful of circuits on lap 18.
An accident involving Dean Ward and Ryan Matthews slowed the field on lap 21, forcing a restart where Fogleman motored back around Cataldi to lead the field for the next 52 laps. As the race wore on, Corey Heim and Cataldi began to reel in Fogleman while the entire trio distanced themselves from the field. Heim took advantage of a slip by Fogleman in turn one to drive underneath the No. 8 Ford and set the pace for the first time of his afternoon.
With 22 laps to go, championship leader Jared Fryar had trouble in turn one, showering sparks behind his No. 14 car as it pounded the retaining wall due to a cut tire. Fryar's closest championship rival, Heim, was in position to capitalize when the incident occurred, leading the field to the restart.
Anthony Cataldi had been pressuring Heim for the race lead prior to the Fryar incident and continued to do so once the field raced back into the first turn after the green flag. Cataldi raced side-by-side with Heim for numerous laps and nosed ahead on lap 120 after nudging the No. 78 aside. Heim returned the favor a lap later and recaptured the top spot before pulling away by three car lengths.
Heim fended off the last-lap attempts by Cataldi to steal the win and captured his first career CARS Response Energy Tour victory, also the first for his Fab Specialties team. Cataldi, Brandon Lynn, Fogleman and Nolan Pope rounded out the top five finishers.
"Hats off to Anthony for racing me hard without wrecking me, we ran 1-2 almost the entire race, so I really appreciate him racing me clean," Heim said as soon as he exited the car in Edelbrock Victory Lane. "All I have to say is what an awesome job by my team to give me a great car. I burned off my right rear a little bit in the middle of the race but we're in victory lane so that's all that really matters right now.
Despite his late-race troubles, Jared Fryar was able to retain his point lead over Heim and claimed his first series championship. A long-time supporter of the tour since its inception in both classes, Fryar was in tears following the race.
"It means a lot and it was tough all throughout the year, I'm just kind of speechless right now," Fryar mustered while wiping tears from his eyes. "I'm very thankful to be in this position and race for a championship and most importantly to do it with my dad and my family. It means a lot to us because my family has been racing for a long time. To win my first championship means a lot and I can't thank everyone who helps out out at the racetrack and the shop, it means a lot.
Layne Riggs came into South Boston hoping to avenge last year's misfortune when a part failure ended his race prematurely and started the afternoon in successful pursuit of that goal by claiming the Hedgecock Racing Pole Position. On the drop of the green flag, however, the No. 99 Ford failed to accelerate and headed to the pits with another drivetrain failure, reminiscent of his race a year prior.
Championship leader Bobby McCarty took full advantage of Riggs' situation and rocketed to the lead in turn one, attempting to win his first race since the June event at Carteret County.
Two major incidents eliminated drivers early including a three-car melee on lap 4 and a four-car mashup on lap 24, the first of which required a red flag for cleanup.
On the lap 24 restart, Craig Moore bypassed McCarty for the race lead and took charge of the event for 12 laps until McCarty motored his way back around the No. 1 car for another 29 laps.
McCarty's luck began to sour on lap 65 when, while leading, his car shot up the track in turn one and dramatically slowed with a flat right front tire, the result of a broken wheel on his AutosByNelson.com Toyota. McCarty was able to keep the car out of the wall to avoid further damage but was assessed a one-lap penalty by officials for intentionally stopping to bring out a caution.
To wrestle the title away from McCarty, Lee Pulliam needed some help in the form of bad luck from his rival and on the restart, he quickly made his way forward into the top three in pursuit of the race win. McCarty, however, had fortune on his side as a lap 67 caution for Colin Garrett permitted him to receive the free pass and earn his way back to the lead lap.
Timothy Peters stole the lead away from his Nelson Motorsports teammate Brandon Pierce on the lap 68 restart and led the next five circuits until Mini Tyrrell and Ronald Hill tangled in turn four, ending the day for both competitors and drawing the second red flag of the day for water barrel cleanup after Tyrrell smashed into them at the turn four pit entrance.
Coming to the restart, Timothy Peters suddenly darted down the track and accidentally made contact with his teammate Pierce after Peters realized he had a flat left rear tire. Though the damage to Pierce's car seemed minor, Craig Moore was able to drive around the No. 2P on the restart to take the lead for the second time on lap 73.
Moore, Deac McCaskill and Lee Pulliam began to pull away from the field in the final 50 laps to settle the race amongst themselves, but Moore began to prove himself as the better of the three. Moore was out to substantial lead when Charlie Watson and Mason Diaz wrecked in turn three, causing the final restart of the afternoon with only nine laps to go.
After choosing the outside lane on the restart, Moore quickly executed his way through the gearbox and into the lead once again on the exit of turn two. McCaskill hounded the No. 1 for nine laps, tapping the back bumper lightly multiple times but never moving Moore out of the way, allowing the new father a chance to win one for his newborn son whow as home watching on TV with his mother. McCaskill, Pulliam, Josh Berry and Brandon Pierce rounded out the top five.
"First off, I want to thank God because I prayed, and prayed, and prayed. I'm dedicating this win to my main man, Dusty. We lost his dad last week and this one is for him, he was riding with us," Moore said in Edelbrock Victory Lane. "We hated that caution came out because we felt like we had the race won. The car was good on the high side, but we got tight with probably 20 or 30 to go. With these tires, and on this racetrack, you're able to maintain on the outside and it doesn't bother me a bit to run up there. This is great, man, we've been fighting and trying so hard.
Bobby McCarty finished an uncharacteristic ninth in the final rundown, but it was enough to guarantee himself the championship over Lee Pulliam. It was McCarty's first championship in late model stock competition and the first tour title for team owner Barry Nelson who fields cars for three drivers in the CARS Tour.
"'Oh, no!,' is exactly what went through my mind," McCarty explained after the race. "I was more worried that a suspension part broke. Once I found out it was a tire, I felt like we were going to be ok. We fired off really good on the new right front, but it wouldn't hold. The new right front and the old right rear just weren't working together. I couldn't move around enough to make passes and get back through the field. We just had to dodge wrecks after that and hold on.
The CARS Response Energy Tour kicks off their 2019 season at Southern National Motorsports Park on March 9. The dual-division show will be the first twin big-money event in tour history, paying $10,000 to win the feature events in both late model stock and super late model competition.


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Narender Grewal- Raising Their Game: 3rd UBA US Pro Performance Camp
"After training so hard in this environment, I can't wait to come back and compete in the league,"- said Narender Grewal of training in the UBA US Pro Performance Camp.
Watch highlights of Narender shooting 3s with his unique one-handed stroke here.
Narender Grewal made his UBA debut with Pune Peshwas in UBA Season 2, averaging 23 points per game in his first season. He raised his game higher in the next season, winning the UBA Season 3 MVP award while averaging a league leading 31.8 points per game. Speaking of UBA helping him to raise his profile, Narender said "I've played for India for a long time, but the level of recognition I got from playing in the UBA and winning the Season 3 MVP award was on another level as people get to see us play live on TV. Back in my hometown (Bamla, Bhiwani, Haryana), they had a ride of honor for me on a tractor. I'm very thankful for the name, fame and recognition I've got here."
Known as 'India's One-Handed Shooter', Narender made his debut for the Indian team in 2010. He initially had the UBA coaches perplexed with his unique shooting form as he relies on just his shooting hand to let shots fly. His accuracy soon set any doubts at rest, and it didn't take long before he was making it rain from all over the court in the UBA as well.
In UBA Season 4 with the addition of international talent from USA and India in the league, Narender averaged an efficient 17.2 points per game, along with 4.5 rebounds and 3 assists. He was incredibly efficient from the line, shooting 92% to lead the league among players who averaged at least one attempt per game.
Having attended the 2nd UBA US Pro Performance Camp in December, 2016, he is one of the players making a return to the 3rd camp. "After attending the last camp, I could feel that my skills level changed. We worked on dribbling in very deep detail, paid a lot of attention to fundamentals. After working on the game so hard here, when we come back we feel a lot more confident in our game."
UBA Season 4 saw the addition of international talent from the USA and more of Indian national team's top stars. Correspondingly, the increased level of competition only helped the players raise their game. "Playing with such good players from abroad, you can see they have the experience in playing at a high level. When you play against such strong athletes, you have to be extra careful because they can lunge and steal the ball anytime. You have to be extra careful while driving in. Passes can be stolen in a second, and the moment they get a steal they are off the other way in a second. Playing and training with such players, your ball security improves so much you feel that no one can take the ball away from you."
One of the best ways to raise your game is to train and compete with quality players. Narender has seen the benefit of playing with top players from the USA in Season 4 and in the camp thus far. "You learn a lot playing with them. Defensively, you have to be a lot stronger. When you are guarding someone one-on-one, you have to work harder on defence. The competition is very strong, and you have to also get stronger. Here we have players who have played at a high level, if you can stop them you feel a lot surer of your game also."
In the UBA US Pro Performance Camp in Phoenix, the players are training with UBA Director of Coaching Jody Basye, UBA League Assistant Coach Jon Kimberlin and Pro Advantage Systems' owner Keith Wilson at Ability 360 Sports and Fitness Center, Phoenix. Speaking of Coach Wilson, Narender said "Coach Keith Wilson is really sporting. He's very positive and explains things really well, breaks things down nicely. He works with pros and even the youth games that we saw there, the standard is very high. He does not expect us to have the same speed of picking up some concepts as the players over there, he's very understanding and teaches things really well."
The coaches in the UBA have been working closely to help the players get to the next level, and the players are appreciative of their efforts. "Coaches Jody and Jon were present to train us at the recent camp in Bengaluru as well (in the UBA Bengaluru Training Camp). They are the best, always working hard to help us all get better," said Narender.
The upcoming season will be Narender's 4th season in the UBA. Having seen the standard of play evolve every season, he's already chomping at the bit to get rolling. "In Season 5 we will have a lot of high-level players coming in. The competition is going to be very strong. All our games will benefit from playing with such players. If you have sportsmanship and confidence, you can work to achieve anything. I'm really looking forward to playing in UBA Season 5."
The 3rd Annual UBA US Pro Performance Camp is seeing some of the top UBA players and others from around the world participating in an intense, two-week camp designed to maximize their skills as a basketball player, increase their overall strength as an athlete and learn to train in ways which they can maintain when returning home.
Stay tuned to read more about the top UBA players going to train abroad in the UBA US Pro Performance Camp.
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Hawaii residents honor Orlando victims with mile-long lei
Matthew Dekneef,
Since the Orlando mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub shocked the world on June 12, a group of Hawaii residents from the island of Maui have come together to weave a mile-long lei for the victims that were killed that evening.
This lei of aloha was created in less than a week—started last week Thursday and finished by Sunday. Approximately 400 volunteers weaved the lei for 12 hours non-stop daily, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. until it was completed.
This week, members from that group traveled to the memorial site in Orlando with a part of that ti leaf lei: a 49-foot lei made up of 49 strands to represent the 49 people whose lives were claimed that night.
The lei also had 49 cowrie shells with a victim's name written on each attached to the lei.
"It represents joy, love, and healing and peace, that's what we're hoping it will do for everyone here," says one of the people who flew to Orlando to present the lei at the memorial and led an oli (chant) asking for guidance, strength and knowledge for the people affected and the world.
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Students head outdoors for new perspective
Students at Lima Elementary School visit their outdoor classroom every day.
Students head outdoors for new perspective Students at Lima Elementary School visit their outdoor classroom every day. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: https://on.rocne.ws/1Mj32E5
Justin Murphy, @CitizenMurphy Published 3:46 p.m. ET Oct. 28, 2015
First-grader, Irene Sesnieat, looks through a book of animals while exploring the outdoor classroom at Lima Primary School.(Photo: MAX SCHULTE/@maxrocphoto/, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)Buy Photo
"OK, let's go explore!"
The kindergartners at Lima Elementary School didn't need to hear that instruction twice. They hopped down the tree stump trail leading to their outdoor classroom, squishing in the mud with rubber boots and waving magnifying glasses at anything standing still.
Some bounded up a short dirt hill and took in the view. A half dozen jockeyed for position on a tree snag where its bulbous base jutted out. Five-year-old Luke Boldt led an expedition into a six-inch trickle of water.
"I really liked going in the water," he said. "And guess what else?"
"I went in the forest."
It was a typical day for kindergarten teacher Barbara Rose and the 300 kindergarten and first-grade students at the school. They visit their growing outdoor classroom every day, in beautiful fall weather like last week but also in the snow, wind and rain.
"We just say there's no bad weather," Rose said.
"Play is an area where children are experts."
Bruce Gilberg, local psychologist
It is the most vibrant local example of an increasing interest across the country in outdoor education and free-range learning in general. Educators are increasingly seeing the value in having children outdoors for both structured lessons and unstructured play.
"Play is an area where children are experts," local psychologist Bruce Gilberg said. He is the founder of Generation Two, a program that pairs young children in Rochester and Fairport with adult volunteers for unstructured play. "Developmentally, it's a way for adults to move to the child's level to understand what's on their minds. And the beauty of play is there are no dire consequences. It's experimental — if the results don't turn out all that well, there's always a second or third chance."
Kindergarteners line back up to head back inside from the outdoor classroom at Lima Primary School. (Photo: MAX SCHULTE/@maxrocphoto/, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Sometimes, Rose and other teachers at the school use the outdoor space no differently than their classroom: students bring out a clipboard and do their regular assignments.
Other times, the typical curriculum is modified for the outdoors. For instance, children use sticks to practice writing letters and numbers in the snow, or add and subtract snowballs and compare their sizes.
And some days, there's no lesson at all. Just the suggestion: "Let's go explore!"
"The mindset (at school) is so strict; the day is just blocks of time to do this and do this and do this. There's so much value in just free, unstructured play."
Barbara Rose, kindergarten teacher
"The mindset (at school) is so strict; the day is just blocks of time to do this and do this and do this," Rose said. "There's so much value in just free, unstructured play."
The outdoor space was built and shaped mostly by volunteers with donated materials. There is also a garden on the other side of the school building, and the vegetables students pull from it get used in the cafeteria.
The school recently got a grant to partner with Wild Wings, the bird-of-prey sanctuary in Mendon Ponds Park, to develop students into "ambassadors of wildlife." Part of the benefit of being outdoors, Rose said, is the natural concern students develop for the creatures they come across. After it rains, they want to go outside and rescue the beached earthworms.
"We're developing stewards for the future," she said. "They can't love something they don't know."
Max Mayo (standing), Quinn Brooks (with binoculars), and Oren Davis climb a tree for a better vantage point of the outdoor classroom at Lima Primary School. (Photo: MAX SCHULTE/@maxrocphoto/, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
The Lima Elementary School program began four years ago and is the most prominent local example of a school sending its students outside to learn. Many other schools, however, incorporate nature in smaller doses.
Brighton, Penfield, West Irondequoit and World of Inquiry School in Rochester are among the places where students in a certain grade go each year on an overnight outdoors trip. West Irondequoit also has the affiliated Helmer Nature Center, a 45-acre outdoor classroom utilized by its own students as well as many from other local districts.
In Brighton, the new sixth-graders at Twelve Corners Middle School spend two days at Rochester Rotary Sunshine Campus in Rush. It's part scientific expedition, part orientation.
"It's nice to get away from school because it gets kids in a different environment," Twelve Corners Principal Rob Thomas said. "You can learn more about a kid from an hour of play than a month of school."
"It's nice to get away from school because it gets kids in a different environment. You can learn more about a kid from an hour of play than a month of school."
Rob Thomas, principal at Twelve Corners Middle School in Brighton
Rose said she has fielded calls from other local schools asking about her program and how they could implement something similar. There are obstacles, though: school districts have whittled their offerings through years of budget constraints imposed by the state, meaning less money is available to pay for the teacher training and curriculum development required, to say nothing of possible construction costs.
"The way school budgets have been, this is probably not the best of times for districts to expand programs," said Charles Yaple, executive director of the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors at SUNY Cortland. "I'd be doubtful about how quickly it's spreading."
He added, however, that college-level outdoor education has been growing more quickly, and that K-12 programs are much more robust in other states, like Michigan and Texas.
At the same time, stricter academic requirements have made it more difficult to carve time out for lessons that don't connect directly to state standards.
"There are two movements that conflict with each other," Gilberg said. "One is a more authoritarian approach in adopting core standards and emphasizing expectations and highly structured learning; on the other hand, there are many people paying attention to how play and creative, child-centered learning enhances the intrinsic motivation to learn."
Rose acknowledges it takes extra effort to incorporate the outdoor classroom into her indoor work. She recalled a day when the children lay on their backs in the grass and looked at the clouds. She encouraged them to go home and do the same with her parents.
One mother called her later that evening and said her son had pestered her relentlessly to go look at the clouds until finally she paused in her endless to-do list to go outside for five minutes. They ended up lying in the grass for 40 minutes.
"I have a schedule that I get caught up in, too — it's tough," Rose said. "But she said it was the best part of her day. And she said they're going to do it again."
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Scheme of Reasonable Accommodations at Certificate Examinations(RACE)
Secondary school students with special needs may have special arrangements made for them while sitting State examinations such as the Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate. Candidates with disabilities (for example, visual impairments, learning difficulties, motor and mobility impairments and so on) can apply through their school for the Scheme of Reasonable Accommodations at Certificate Examinations (RACE).
Reasonable accommodations are designed to remove, as far as possible, the impact of a disability on a candidate's performance and enable the candidate to access the state examinations on an equal basis with other students. It does not give the candidate an unfair advantage over other candidates in the same examination.
What 'reasonable accommodations' are available?
Examples of reasonable accommodations include the following:
You may get enlarged and/or Braille versions of questions, if you have a visual impairment
You may use voice-activated computers, tape recorders or scribes (other people to do the writing)
You may use assistive technology to access the examination paper, for example reading pens, magnifiers or screen readers
You may do your examination in a hospital or in any other stand-alone centre
If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you may be exempted from the aural part of the examination
Accommodations that can be approved by your school
Your school has the authority to make special provisions for students with special needs during State exams on the basis of what is best for you. Some of the special provisions your school can make include:
Taking medicine, food or drinks into the examination centre where this is required for medical reasons.
Use of a special desk or chair that is used in your classroom
Use of low-vision aids that you normally use in the classroom
Ensuring that deaf and hard-of-hearing students are seated close to the examination superintendent
Granting breaks or rest periods in each examination session warranted by your physical or medical condition. (Under this special provision, the time taken for rest or as a break can be compensated for at the end of each examination period to a maximum of 20 minutes.)
If you are not satisfied with the arrangements made, you may appeal to an independent appeals forum. The members of the forum are from outside the Commission and all appeals are considered in light of the Framework of Principles set out by the Expert Advisory Group on State Examinations.
The State Examinations Commission has responsibility for ensuring the proper conduct of State examinations in Ireland. The Commission has a stated policy regarding the issue of reasonable accommodations of students with special needs during examination time.
However, schools also have the authority to make a number of specified arrangements to facilitate examination candidates with special needs without requesting advance permission from the Commission.
You can read more in the guide for students on reasonable accommodations.
You can download the application form and further information on reasonable accommodations from examinations.ie.
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CSUN math professor Maria D'Orsogna fights for Italian coastline
Tushita Vidhale
Maria D'Orsogna, mathematics professor at CSUN, discovered and fought offshore drilling on the Italian coastline.
As cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead would say, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Justifying the quote is a story of a woman whose strong sense of civic duty changed the life of several citizens in Ortona, a rural town in Abruzzo, Italy. This is the journey of Maria Rita D'Orsogna, (AGE) associate professor of mathematics at CSUN, who fought against offshore drilling alongside the Italian government and an Italian multinational oil and gas company.
D'Orsogna was left anxious when she learned in 2007 that Eni, the conglomerate oil company of Italy, was proposing plans to drill the agricultural farm along the coastlines of Ortona. This fertile soil is predominantly covered with olive groves and grape wineries, but beneath this arable land are potential crude oil wells which the oil company was interested to discover.
Italy spends as much as $78 billion annually on oil and gas imports and a local production increase could cut the cost by $6.8 billion, according to Bloomberg Business Week.
Since the government had some percent of shares invested in the company, it was in favor of granting permits to explore oil refiners. "The plan was to uproot the series of farm land and build an oil refinery that would have a pipeline laid about 7 kms long deep into the sea," D'Orsogna said.
Exercising her doctorate degree in Physics from UCLA, D'Orsogna did what she was trained best to do: research.The crux of what she found during her examination was a modern technique of oil extraction done through a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process of injecting harmful chemicals underground at high pressure to extract natural gas or to oil well, according to Food & Water Watch.
Research suggests that fracked oil wells leak over time, which in turn contaminates soil, underground water, which ultimately destroys the land. Influenced by this, D'Orsogna wrote a paper about the detrimental effects on the farms and the environment as a result of drilling oil wells, This would have left the majority of the Ortona population unemployed as they are predominantly dependent on agriculture.
Something more disturbing to D'Orsogna was that no one was taking action against it, which sparked the activism in her.
Despite the oil company owning all the legal permits for the project, her only hope was the fact that the oil refiners were not yet built, so there was still time to fight the action.
Consequently, D'Orsogna targeted the Catholic Church, wrote letters to the local university officials, many of whom did not respond, and to the mayor of the city thinking that he was unaware of the issue. She later discovered that he was also one of the several corrupt government officials behind the plans.
Her voice was finally heard when a local newspaper published her letter which created a link between her and the local residents. They asked her to explain everything about fracking and the detrimental effects on the environment associated with that in a report or a blog that would allow them to understand the problem in basic terminology, she said.
In a city where the majority of the population were farmers, the oil company tricked them, saying the refinery they intended to build was an oil center, D'Orsogna said.
"To you and me, 'oil' means petroleum but to the Italians, the word 'oil' means 'olive oil.' They played with words and people thought that this project was going to be an olive oil processing center," D'Orsogna said.
After many years of opposition from locals, D'Orsogna now had the support of the Italian people.
Now being entitled as the "oil lady" or the "Erin Brokovich of Abruzzo," D'Orsogna was recently asked to run for governor of the Abruzzo state which she respectfully declined.
How does she feel after creating history?
"You are assured that the message has really gone through," D'Orsogna said.
Especially when two women shopping in a market are overheard talking about the effects of Hydrogen Sulphide. Or when a student in a classroom discussion adds that Hydrogen Sulphide is a harmful gas.
"If you think something is wrong and you don't like it, just take an action. It doesn't have to be big, but just start and take the first step, things will unfold on its own. Just care about something and if everybody cares enough about something, the world will be a nicer place to live in," D'Orsogna said.
Her life in LA continues as a professor and researcher, the Provost Harry Hellenbrand declares D'Orsogna as the 2014 Jerome Richfield Fellow. Her research presentation on "The Mathematics of Crime" is scheduled to be held in the Jack and Florence Ferman Presentation Room in the Oviatt Library on April 3 at 4 p.m.
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We haven't done anything major to improve our home's curb appeal, but we have made some small improvements to the front door to personalize the house and make it look more welcoming.
We changed the house numbers right away because for some reason I really didn't like the others. I can't even explain why I needed them gone, but that was one of the first things we did when we moved in!
We bought two of these beautiful berry wreaths for the doors of the church during our wedding, and I brought one home with me.
Then I added a classic doormat (thank you, HomeGoods). I thought the half-circle one was too wimpy, and I like how the rectangular one mirrors the shape of the door.
I "went shopping" at my parent's house and came home with the turquoise stool, the potted plant (fake because I can't take care of a plant to save my life) and the pumpkins. The pumpkins added the little festive touch I was looking for, but they will go away as soon as I begin the Christmas decorations. I love it that my mom always buys too much stuff and that my dad is always anxious to give it away!
What do you think? Have any good ideas for changing this up for Christmas?


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"La Fortuna": A Magical Place in Costa Rica Awaiting for Your Visit
Abounding with tropical beauty and bliss
La Fortuna is a small town located in the province of Alajuela and is considered a touristic Hot Spot in Costa Rica for eco-tourism enthusiasts; it forms part of the San Carlos Canton, which, in turn, belongs to the province of Alajuela, located north of Costa Rica.
The attractive beauty of the district's landscape, its forests, the wide variety of tourist activities available, such as canoeing, rafting, bird watching, sport fishing, hiking, hot springs, and in particular its proximity to the Arenal volcano, make it one of the most important tourist destinations in Costa Rica.
Geography and Demography
In all its extension is 225 km², there are 9 small communities whose inhabitants total around 16,000, which makes it the fifth most populous district of the canton, behind Quesada, Aguas Zarcas, Pitar, and Poco sol, although ahead of Florencia.
Little is known about the original inhabitants of this region since, by the arrival of the first white colonizers in the mid-1930s, there were only vestiges of what appears to have been a large population. Its first permanent colonizer, Marcial Barquín Vellorín, dedicated himself to the extraction of rubber and subsistence agriculture.
The community of La Fortuna began to be defined in the early 1940s, after the arrival of peasants from Ciudad Quesada, Grecia, Alajuela and other regions of the
San Carlos Canton. These first settlers were mainly engaged in agriculture, hunting, and livestock.
In its beginnings it was called "El Burío", but at the end of the 1940s, its inhabitants changed its name to the one it currently bears. Since 1950, La Fortuna is the 7th district of the canton of San Carlos, as a result of a Referendum.
The Economy of La Fortuna is based on 2 specific activities: the inherited one, which is agriculture and the main one: tourism. Visitors and locals have at their disposal all kinds of public services: within a radius of no more than 2 kilometers, accommodation, restaurants, pharmacies, banks, post office, health services, gyms, shops, sports, and even nightlife.
La Fortuna has direct bus connections with San José, Quesada and other locations in Alajuela, Puntarenas, and Guanacaste. The journey between San José and La Fortuna takes about 4 hours making a stop in Ciudad Quesada.
La Fortuna offers a spectacular setting for observing the Arenal, the most active volcano in Costa Rica. The Arenal volcano is located about 10 kilometers from the town and regularly emits smoke and ashes.
This Volcano is the biggest tourist attraction in the country. It has not had activity since December 2010 but is still considered active. It is the third most active volcano in the country, behind the Rincon de la Vieja Volcano and the Turrialba Volcano.
The volcano's chimney has been filled with debris and volcanic material. It is very possible that the pressure can reopen this orifice or a new one can be formed.
Typical Foods
The gastronomy of La Fortuna de San Carlos is characterized by preserving the recipes of the ancient inhabitants of the region and adapting the ingredients and techniques of other countries to their stews among the basic ingredients of the cuisine are corn, beans, potatoes, cassava, and tomatoes, accompanied by chicken, beef and pork. Here are some dishes:
Casado: It consists of boiled rice, beans, fried sweet banana with beef, pork or chicken, and coleslaw.
Olla de Carne: Beef broth with the meat in pieces, potato, yucca, chayote, corn, carrot, among other vegetables.
Buñuelos: Wheat dough flour fried in oil and covered with sugar or honey.
Gallo Pinto: A mixture of rice, beans, onion, sweet pepper, and cilantro.
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Temperatures range between 21 ° C and 28 ° C the average is 22 degrees. The rainy season runs from May to January, while the dry season runs from February to April. It has a humid tropical climate, a pleasant thermal sensation can be perceived throughout the year. The hottest season occurs in spring, in which thermometers can reach 26 ° C. Summer coincides with the rainy season, so the temperature usually drops a couple of degrees compared to the previous month's thanks to rainfall. In winter, temperatures are at 21 ° C.
We suggest you pack comfortable clothes and shoes, sunscreen, dark glasses, a hat or cap, swimsuit, and insect repellent. In winter, a light jacket will be enough to cover you in the afternoons and evenings, when the temperature can drop a little. In the rainy season, add a folding or waterproof umbrella and shoes with a non-slip sole to your suitcase.
In addition to the volcano, this town has many other attractions such as the beautiful La Fortuna Waterfall, with a refreshing vertiginous drop of 70 meters. Another key attraction is the relaxing Tabacón Hot Springs, located within a wonderful lush green, where rare orchids abound. For the more adventurous Canopy tours and boat trips in Caño Negro are just some of the activities you can enjoy while you are here.
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Alzheimer's Awareness Month – LVP Memory Care Floor
One…two…three.
Someone has just been diagnosed with Dementia.
Someone is starting to forget who they are, where they are, and how to do basic tasks.
The thought sounds completely terrifying and disorienting, but it's a reality for over 50 million people worldwide, with a new one joining them every three seconds.
September is World Alzheimer's Awareness Month. Alzheimer's is the most well-known form of dementia and makes up for 50-60% of its cases. According to WorldAlzMonth.org, "Dementia is a collective name for progressive brain syndromes which affect memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion. It is the leading cause of disability and dependency among the elderly, and although each person will experience it in their own way, they will eventually be unable to care for themselves and need help with all aspects of daily life.
That is where the dedicated staff at Luther Village on the Park come in, or more specifically, those involved in its 33-resident Memory Care Floor.
Added to the Sunshine Centre for assisted living close to two years ago, the Memory Care Floor is well-equipped with staff from nurses to activity coordinators, social workers to a music therapist.
Director of Resident Care Josephine Castillo oversees the staff and builds relationships with residents and their families to ensure they receive the highest level of care possible.
She takes pride in knowing that her staff go above and beyond to meet the needs of each resident in her care.
"One day I was doing my rounds and was trying to communicate with a patient I wasn't very familiar with," says Josephine. "She just stared at me and wouldn't answer my questions after I told her who I was and why I was there. A Personal Support Worker must have heard me struggling, because they popped their head in and informed me that this particular resident only responds to singing. So, I sang her my questions, and it worked!"
Josephine added that the woman's son was so grateful for the lengths the staff go to for communicating and caring for his mother, that it made his decision to bring her to Luther Village easier.
Aside from building unique relationships with residents, keeping them busy with varying activities is vital for their wholistic wellbeing. Memory Care Activities Coordinator Mandy Holmes has ten years of experience with long-term dementia care and knows her position is no small task.
Although she has only been at Lutherwood for three months, she already finds her role incredibly rewarding, saying her favourite part is when the residents start recognizing her and smiling when she enters their rooms.
"My role consists of planning the monthly Activity Calendar," says Mandy. "I try to balance my calendar to include programs of all domains including intellectual, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social."
Some of the daily programs include a worship service, "Helping Hands" where residents help with everyday tasks from folding towels to sorting socks, reminiscing groups, gentle fitness, music therapy and a new "Music and Memory" program that is particularly exciting.
"One of my most memorable moments so far here was when I provided a gentleman with his iPod for the Music and Memory program," says Mandy. "This man is from Holland and his daughter provided Dutch music to load onto it. When I turned on his music, this otherwise serious, somber man, cracked a big beautiful smile at the sound of his familiar music. This happens a lot with this program."
Personal Support Worker Supervisor Wendy Rowland agrees that contrary to the stigma, dementia doesn't always have to be 'doom and gloom'.
"There are fun times and happy times which are nice to see," says Wendy. "The objective of the PSWs is to see someone come into memory care and improve to some degree. To give them a clean living space, encourage their independence and to teach them how to accept help when they do need it."
Wendy says that is one of the struggles in memory care, having a formerly independent person need assistance with things like baths, morning routines, and other day-to-day supports that the PSWs provide. It's hard to admit that you can no longer do these things on your own.
Residents can become understandably frustrated, so the workers on the front line are all well-trained, patient and hard-working on the Memory Care Floor. "It can sometimes be a thankless job, but when the families comment on and appreciate the care we're providing their loved ones, it makes it all worthwhile."
A new method of care coming to the Memory Care Floor in the coming weeks is something called MemorySparx Connect. In an effort to keep up with changing technology and provide the highest level of service, the Sunshine Centre is bringing in this web-based tool to further aid its residents. This secure, private Facebook-type online application will allow families to share photos and videos with their loved ones in real time as well as old albums, and allow staff and patients to keep track of wellness journals, calendars, medication, and more.
The staff at the Sunshine Centre know that it's never easy to have a parent on the Memory Care Floor, and they hope this app will help them feel more connected, along with a few words of advice. Wendy says the most important things you can do are to stay informed on dementia and the individual needs of your loved one, and to not feel guilty with your decision that they need more professional help, because families can always help in their own ways.
"Loved ones have a unique advantage when it comes to caring for someone with dementia," says Mandy Holmes. "They know the 'real person' behind the disease, and all things should be approached with love. It's important for families to remember that the resident didn't choose this. All actions that we may perceive as 'aggressive' or 'bothersome' or 'repetitive' are most of the time their way of trying to communicate a problem, or that they're scared."
"Caring for people with dementia poses the unique challenge of seeing your loved one's behaviour change," says Josephine Castillo. "It's important to practice creativity, flexibility and compassion on a day to day basis. Learn and understand how to communicate with them. They are still your loved one."
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Keystone leaks and reminds us why we're glad there isn't an even bigger pipeline out there
By Kate Yoder on Apr 4, 2016
A major section of the original Keystone pipeline is out of commission after an oil spill near the pipeline was detected in South Dakota on April 2.
The spill, estimated at 187 gallons of crude oil, serves as a reminder of the risks that pipelines pose — and that with the Obama administration's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, we've likely avoided the potential for an even bigger, more disastrous spill.
Part of the original argument against Keystone XL was that eventually, the proposed pipeline was bound to spill. A 2013 Forbes article (which claimed that it was "crazy" to think Keystone XL wouldn't leak) pointed out that as pipelines age, they are often not properly maintained, leading to a greater possibility of a leak occurring.
The recent oil spill was discovered, of course, by TransCanada's state-of-the-art spill detection technology — oh, what's that? My state-of-the-art Tweet detecting system's "Bill McKibben" sensor just went off:
It appears that Transcanada's 'sophisticated pipeline leak detection system' involves passerby noticing pools of oil theglobeandmail.com/report-on-busi…
Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 04, 2016
Apparently, a South Dakota landowner first noticed signs of a spill and informed TransCanada of the leak. As a result, TransCanada shut down the section of the pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to Cushing, Okla. (The section of Keystone that runs from Cushing to Texas is still in operation.)
TransCanada says that "no significant impact to the environment has been observed" from the April 2 spill. We hope it stays that way — and in the meantime, we're glad that there's one less huge pipeline out there to worry about. Spilled milk might not be worth crying over, but unspilled pipelines are definitely worth celebrating.
Correction: An earlier version of this article's headline read "Keystone leaks and reminds us why we're glad there isn't an XL pipeline out there." In fact, the southern leg of the XL pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas is in operation. Grist regrets the error.
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Knock, knock, knock says the door. The luscious babe inside the house is just stepping out of the shower so doesn't really hear the door. You know the shower drips like a crazy man looking for his driver's license in the wrong jacket, after it's turned off. Knock, knock, knock says the door again. By this time the sultress is out of the shower so hears the door calling her. She grabs a towel and starts dying herself as she walks down the stairs.
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Sweet and juicy cherries are in season right now and I absolutely love them. They do create a bit of a bloodbath when you try to stone them so I tend to don a pair of disposable rubber gloves to avoid the old purple finger look which isn't very flattering. I decided to bake a batch of muffins using these purple juicebombs and some sweet dessicated coconut - they're ultra simple to make and take just 20 minutes to bake. This recipe makes 18 muffins or you can turn it into a 2lb loaf for a teatime treat.
In fact, Aldi are selling them for 79c a punnet so run like the clappers and grab some now!
Preheat your oven to 180c/Gas Mark 4 and line your muffin tins with 18 paper cases.
In a large bowl, mix the sugar, butter, flour, baking powder, eggs and vanilla extract together until well combined.
Fold in the coconut and cherries, mixing well - the batter will turn a beautiful shade of lilac with the cherry juice.
Place a large tablespoon of the batter into each muffin case, top with the 18 reserved cherry halves and bake for 20-25 minutes until cooked.
Transfer the muffins to a wire rack to cool fully. They'll keep for 3-4 days in an airtight container.
Your photos, as always, are stunning. These are deffny going on my 'Must Make' list!
These sound great. I have to confess though that I doubt I'll ever bake them ... simply because I cannot stop eating fresh cherries and they'd never reach the batter ;) Gorgeous photos, especially the last one - it just screams "eat me"!
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Yummy Yummy Scrummy Muffins. We are busy demolishing the special batch that Ms. Babaduck make for us. There has been a steady chorus of "oohs aahs and oh, they're yummy" coming from the kitchen. There has even been a discussion about how we get you do this every friday :) Thank You! Gonna have to try making these.


We often hear about the need to change the economic model which has served us so well up to now because of changes in the external environment which warrant a totally new approach calling for different skills, culture and leadership.
It is also often claimed and rightly so that failure to confront these changing realities is to a large extent responsible for the present socio-economic stagnation which confronts the country.
In this article we discuss some of the changes which call for paradigmatic shifts in our thinking and vision. These types of changes could, it is contended here, be harbingers of a probable swing in the pendulum towards the emergence of a more balanced world view following the dead end into which the existing dominant regime seems have led the world.
Few will contest the fact that the exit of Britain from the European Union in two years' time represents a severe blow to the dominant trend of globalisation and the precepts which it carries. The great irony is that it is the Conservative Party in Britain which is now contesting a fundamental edict of their own free market philosophy, namely the free movement of labour across the frontiers of the European Union. The UK, which under Margaret Thatcher had been a lead architect of the new neo-liberal global order, is now refusing to swallow its own bitter medicine. What started as a deliberate decision to quit is now looking more and more like an ouster. This whole episode throws us back to the accession of Britain to the European Union and its most significant impact on the future of Mauritius.
The Lome Convention, which was signed on 28th February 1975, and the accompanying Sugar Protocol arguably served as the backbone of our famous "economic miracle" by providing the needed predictability and visibility for our main exports – sugar, textiles and garments — for several decades. It was a direct result of the accession of Great Britain to then European Community and was designed to accommodate the former British colonies into the new ambitions of an enlarged European project.
The number of partners from the "Third World" increased from 18 (mostly former French colonies) to 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. The Lome Convention was first heralded as a path breaking "partnership of equals" harbouring ambitious plans to set up a new global governance regime based on predictable rules and principles that would characterize the new relationship between the Union and the ACP as a bloc. The essence of the new Convention was of course the new trade regime which accorded preferential access to the markets of the Union to members of the ACP without RECIPROCITY in treatment.
Although there have been some justified criticisms to the effect that the partnership did not live up to the expectations and hopes which were raised at the time of its launch, the consensus is that the Lome Convention did help improve economic and social conditions among the ACP countries especially those who enjoyed the benefits of special Lome trade protocols, e.g. the Sugar Protocol for Mauritius.
Unfortunately at the time of the negotiations of the successor agreement, which started on 30 September 1998, the whole new international context had changed drastically. The winds of globalisation and liberalisation had swept the world and the multilateralism driven by agencies like the World Trade Organisation (WTO) made it uniquely difficult for the ACP countries to reach a new deal anywhere as beneficial as the one that was expiring.
This was rendered even more unlikely due to the fact that their partner, the EU, were themselves an active proponent and participant in the setting up of the new global trade regime policed by the WTO. The notions of predictable rules and principles governing the new relationship gave way to the primacy of markets. In the event the fallback proposition for Regional Economic Communities (RECs) based on the abandonment of the principle of "non-reciprocity" between the erstwhile partners, so as to align with the exigencies of the new multilateralism, constitutes the ultimate blow to what had been the defining characteristic of the spirit and letter of the Lome Convention.
While Mauritius is still actively engaged in the negotiation process for the emergence of a new framework based on such RECs, the British exit from the Union is bound to further complicate matters. Britain remains a significant economic partner for Mauritius principally as a market for tourism as well as textile and garments. It is also a major source of foreign direct investments as well as an active player in the financial services industry. Whatever new deal eventually comes out of the present protracted negotiations between the ACP and EU minus the UK will be founded on new rules of the game most unlikely to be as favourable to Mauritius as the previous regime.
In line with the new global economic environment, the changes in rules of engagement imposed by the new multilateral regulatory system means that trading relationship based on reciprocity and free trade will prevail. This will constitute a tectonic shift for Mauritius which has practically throughout its history benefitted from one form of trade "arrangement" or the other.
There is an on-going debate about why the level of investments in the country has been constantly declining over the years. It is suggested here that many of the causes of our present economic sluggishness can be traced back to the apprehensions of economic operators in the face of this new emerging economic environment. The cracks in the existing system are becoming ever more obvious and penalizing but there is absolutely no evidence that there is even the beginning of a plan let alone a strategy to deal with this transition.
While there is no doubt that recent governments as well as the corporate sector have been keenly aware of the evolving scenario, there is little sign that this awareness has resulted in any willingness for both sides to find a common strategy to deal with it.
Responsibility for failure cannot be attributed to any one side alone, despite the willingness of each to do so.
What if our roads were managed as projects with safety as first priority?


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Sinokisne (în ) este un sat în comuna Kovîlne din raionul Rozdolne, Republica Autonomă Crimeea, Ucraina.

Demografie

Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației localității Sinokisne era vorbitoare de rusă (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de ucraineană (%) și tătară crimeeană (%).

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Sinokisne, Koviîlne
Sinokisne, Koviîlne, Rozdolne
Sinokisne, Koviîlne, Rozdolne, Crimeea

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Study Shows Body Image Can Improve in One Workout
The saying "perception is reality" is especially true when it comes to our bodies. The thoughts and feelings we have about ourselves, known as body image, can shape our decisions for better or for worse. It can be a vicious cycle: You feel weak. So you don't go to the gym. Then you feel lazy — and eventually, you get weaker.
But you can also create virtuous cycles: You feel strong. So you go to the gym and train because you want to maintain and improve your strength. Mix in some protein shakes and a good night's sleep, and soon, you're even stronger.
Here's some good news that might kick off a spin around that virtuous cycle for you. A recent study showed that a single bout of exercise is enough to change your body image for the better. And the session doesn't even need to be all that long. Researchers found 30 minutes was enough to make a lasting positive impact. (OK, it was actually 38 minutes when you add in the 5-minute warmup and 3-minute cooldown participants did. But still, not a huge amount of time.)
A team of academics at McMaster University in Canada conducted the study, which sought to assess how a single training session affected a person's self-outlook. And they tested it on a tough crowd: college-aged women (17–23 years old) who had previous body-image concerns. Basically, they looked at a group of people who had a history of feeling not-so-great about their bodies, then examined whether exercise could make a difference.
THE POWER OF ONE WORKOUT SESSION
Participants were divided into two groups of 30 people, who were all outfitted with heart-rate monitors. One was the control group, which after receiving their monitors, simply sat in a comfortable chairs and read magazines.
The other was the test group. Women in this bunch cycled at a moderate-to-vigorous intensity for 30 minutes. How vigorous? The subjects kept their heart rate between 150–160 beats per minute throughout the session, with researchers adjusting the bike's resistance to ensure testers stayed within the proper zone.
Before and after the session, women in both groups were asked to complete a series of surveys meant to evaluate their self-perceptions of their strength, endurance and body fat, responding to prompts like "Right now I feel that I look…" or "I have too much fat on my body…"
The result? Researchers observed a noticeable and lasting uptick in body image within the test group after the training session. Specifically, those who worked out focused more on their body's strength, and were less likely to dwell on fat.
The takeaway: While you know you can't measurably improve your strength or shred body fat in just one workout, you can feel like you did. And that may be just as important.
"[This study] means that we don't have to wait for the actual physical body to change — something that exercisers have little control over — in order to improve body image," says Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis, the professor who led the study. "Rather, we can build elements into exercise bouts that help facilitate improvements in body image — for example, getting women to notice that they feel stronger and more competent by virtue of doing exercise."
One important thing to note about the study is the participants were already regular exercisers, training three times per week on average. Someone who's untrained or overweight shouldn't try to jump right into working out at the same intensity as the women in this study.
"Starting with a 30-minute bout of moderate-to-vigorous intensity activity, as we did in this study, will likely be a big challenge for a sedentary woman," Martin Ginis says. "You wouldn't take a beginner skier down a black diamond run on their first go. They'll get to the bottom (if they get there at all) feeling pretty incompetent, silly, banged up or discouraged. It's the same with exercise."
Instead of rushing headlong into a hard workout, Martin Ginis recommends newbies set goals within their capabilities that they can feel good about achieving. Then build off of them. And while the current study involved cycling, and Martin Ginis herself is an avid runner, the professor recommends that everybody — especially women — take a closer look at the weight room.
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"Both in my research and anecdotally, I find that women respond very powerfully to strength-training," Martin Ginis says. "It makes them think about the functionality of their bodies in ways that aerobic training doesn't. I think that's because there are more opportunities in a woman's day-to-day life to actually see that she's getting stronger (e.g., opening heavy doors, lifting groceries out of the car, picking up a child) than there are other opportunities to see she's getting aerobically fitter.
"My advice would be to try doing some strength-training, pay attention to the effects on your functional capabilities and then think about how that makes you feel about your body," Martin Ginis says.
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Fat Princess Adventures is getting free downloadable content in the form of Short Cakes' Tavern and an Arena Mode, developer Fun Bits Interactive has announced.
The DLC, announced via the PlayStation Blog, will be part of update 1.02 which is rolling out sometime today.
The Super Awesome Hero Loot Pack will be paid DLC, however the exact amount is unknown according to the blog post. We can expect to know the price once the PS Store update happens later today.


Guests, originally uploaded by Lobstersquad.
Having friends over for a few days means not just company and good times; it´s also a prime opportunity for pigging out, and feeling like a gracious hostess rather than a pig.
I give my visitors things they won´t find in Spain. Prime British pork sausages, elderflower lemonade, smoked mackerel and trout, granary malted bread and punnet after punnet of Scottish raspberries, with thick yogurt or with meringues and cream. Good stuff.
Now that they´ve gone, we go back to normal. Lunch today will be steamed broccoli and poached eggs, with the last of the raspberries. No crumbles, chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, mountains of chips or jugs of Pimm´s turning up after meals.
Until we go back to Spain in a few weeks, and become guests ourselves, that is.
Posted by lobstersquad at 9:50 a. m.
Made notes what to serve to our guests at the weekend :-))) Thanks!


There should be a way to see all products that don't have a supplier attributed to them. The Inventory Suppliers Report only shows products that have a supplier not those without.
Totally agree - if you forget to enter the supplier when creating a new product how can you find these items again - assume they won't appear on back order reports?


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Katy Perry Is Cleopatra (With a Grill) in "Dark Horse" Music Video: Watch
How do you say "problematic" in hieroglyphics?
By Sam Lansky Feb. 20, 2014
How Offensive Was Katy Perry's AMA Performance?
Accusations of cultural appropriation over her geisha-themed performance of "Unconditionally" at the American Music Awards don't seem to have dampened Katy Perry's spirits: the siren is up to her old tricks in a high-concept, high-octane video for her latest single "Dark Horse" that sees her transforming into the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. (Katy Patra, if you will.) Predictably, there are lots of candy-bright hues and elaborate costumes, as well as a guest spot from rapper Juicy J. Somewhat less predictably, Perry wears a grill. And not predictably at all, there are Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Cue the thinkpieces.


Many, if not most, of the festival's concerts feature young Chinese or Chinese-American professional musicians, and so it was on August 4th , with a program of all three Brahms violin sonatas performed by Amanda Wang, violin, and Vincent Cheung, piano. While both artists are active performers in the Boston area, an interesting feature of their biographies is that they have technical backgrounds as well. Wang received her undergraduate degree from MIT in electrical engineering before embarking on more conventional musical graduate programs, and she is now a doctoral student at BU under Lynn Chang and Bayla Keyes. A Hong Kong native who grew up in Vancouver, Cheung, having taken a licentiate from the Royal Schools of Music in London and being a founder and pianist for the Pythagoras Trio, is by day actually a post-doc researcher in biometrical engineering at MIT.
The recital by Wang and Cheung took place on the beautiful Walnut Hill campus in the Arts-and-Crafts Boswell Recital Hall, an intimate room seating maybe 65; it is comfortably air conditioned, in blessed contrast to many of the rustic settings used by festivals in up-country New England. The room eventually came close to filling its not very capacious capacity with a large contingent of the festival's mostly high-school-aged students and a handful of apparent outsiders.
The performers took it straight from the top with the Sonata No. 1 in G Major, op. 78, our personal favorite of the three. The Brahms sonatas, as a set, present an interesting view into its composer's ethos. To begin with, as is apparent from No. 1's opus number, Brahms waited even longer to present a violin sonata than he did to finish a symphony (he trashed at least three earlier attempts). The Sonata No. 1 embodies Brahms's growing fascination with cyclicality and his ability, unparalleled since Haydn, to deepen and enrich the simplest of materials — in this case, materials from two songs written some years earlier, one of which, the Rain Song, gives this sonata its occasional sobriquet of the "Rain Sonata." While Honegger subtitled his Fifth Symphony "Di tre re" for the repeated D's (re in Italian) at each movement's end, this sonata makes its three-D motto the unifying element throughout the work, but, characteristically, as a seemingly unobtrusive pick-up. Most of the work emphasizes the dreamy, poignant side of the composer, picking up from Schumann's Eusebius; the same is true of the op. 100 A -Major sonata (whose key the concert program misidentified). Only the third, D-minor sonata, op. 108, offers the kind of "public" profile of the symphonies, concertos, and some of the larger chamber works.
To present all three sonatas in one sitting thus requires, in addition to unyielding virtuosity (especially in Nos. 2 and 3), a commitment to inhabit Brahms's mindset as "the poet of regret" (we believe that to be Michael Steinberg's phrase). Brahms seems to have been that way from early adulthood, though this is not the mind of a brash youth but one of middle age and, by the standards of his day, of senescence. For young performers like Wang and Cheung, getting this tone just right presents a formidable challenge, and in meeting it they were only partly successful. The first thing to be said is that there was no question of technique. Wang produces a full, sonorous, perfectly centered tone with awesome bow control and ample power, an advance, we would say, from the typical sweet-but-recessive Boston violinist style. Only her pizzicato, which assumes importance in the slow movements of the first and second sonatas, failed to resonate; though she did well in the scherzo of the Third Sonata. Cheung was by turns nimble and powerful, sometimes too much the latter, with his resonant and booming Steinway flaunting a little too much mojo at full stick in that small room. His pedaling was almost always well judged. In short, the problems we had were almost entirely æsthetic ones: too loud, too forward (though mercifully not too fast) and in the first two sonatas, insufficiently innig, although the slow movement of the second sonata, an alternation between soulfulness and impishness after Brahms's beloved Hungarian style, came off quite effectively.
The Third Sonata is the one players crave, with its drama, passion, knockout slow-movement tune, and virtuosic finale. Completed in 1887 or 1888 (Brahms was only 55, but he was always old before his time), this ought to be old folks' music, but its fire, held in check of course by the composer's mature, jam-packed concision, appeals to the young. And so it was with Wang and Cheung: their performance was stellar, their concentration equal to Brahms's, and here the wistful lyricism that eluded them in the first two sonatas was well and truly represented.


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This case reports shows the effective resolution of a 3 year history of severe pain and shoulder restriction in a patient with a partial thickness rotator cuff tear and tendinopathy after Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy injections.
This is a study of 53 patients who underwent arthroscopy for a repair of a complete rotator cuff tear. The patients were randomly divided into 2 groups, one who received an intraoperative application of PRP and the other who did not. The results of the study showed that the autologous PRP group had reduced pain in the first postoperative months, a long term positive effect in healing.
In this sample of 94 patients with an average of 53 months of unresolved shoulder pain treated with dextrose Prolotherapy. 97% of patients reported pain relief and over 82% experienced improvements in sleep, exercise ability, anxiety, depression and overall disability.
In this study of 29 patients, dextrose Prolotherapy resulted in a clinically significant improvement in shoulder pain.


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import seaborn as sns
from pudzu.charts import *
from pudzu.sandbox.bamboo import *

# -----------------------------
# European Nobel prizes winners
# -----------------------------

SIZE = 50
CMAP = sns.cubehelix_palette(start=.5, rot=-.75, as_cmap=True)
CATS = ["Physics", "Chemistry", "Physiology and Medicine", "Literature", "Peace", "Economics" ]
CATPAL = sns.color_palette("colorblind")
PALETTE = { cat : RGBA(col) for cat,col in zip(CATS, CATPAL) }
NONNATIVE = "#EEEEAA"
NOPRIZE = "#EEEEEE"

tiles = pd.read_csv("maps/europe_tiles.csv", names=range(15)).as_matrix()
generate_tile_map(tiles, "cache/europe_tiles_map.png", SIZE)

countries = pd.read_csv("datasets/countries.csv").split_columns(('nationality', 'tld', 'country'), "|").explode('tld').update_columns(tld=lambda v: v[1:]).set_index('tld')
nobels = pd.read_csv("datasets/nobels.csv").split_columns('countries', '|').explode('countries')
# .assign_rows(countries=lambda d: set(d['countries'] + (d['birthplace'],)))
bycountry = nobels.groupby(('countries', 'category')).count()['name']

# tile map

def colorfn(c):
    if not isinstance(c, str): return None
    cname = first(cname for cname in countries['country'][c] if cname in bycountry)
    if cname:
        n = bycountry[cname].sum()
        nobelspermil = n * 1000000 / countries['population'][c]
        color = tmap(RGBA, CMAP(nobelspermil / 5))
    else:
        cname = first(cname for cname in countries['country'][c] if cname in nobels.groupby('birthplace').count()['name'])
        color = NONNATIVE if cname else NOPRIZE
    return color

def labelfn(c):
    if not isinstance(c, str): return None
    color = colorfn(c)
    cname = first(cname for cname in countries['country'][c] if cname in bycountry)
    n = 0 if cname not in bycountry else bycountry[cname].sum()
    name = Image.from_text(c, arial(16,bold=True), fg="black", bg=color, padding=1)
    winners = sorted(Counter(bycountry[cname].to_dict()).elements(), key=lambda v: CATS.index(v)) if n > 0 else []
    boxes = Image.from_array([[Image.new("RGBA", (SIZE//10-2,SIZE//10-2), PALETTE[winners[10*y+x]]).pad(1, 0) if 10*y+x < n else None for x in range(10)] for y in range(15)])
    return Image.from_column([name.pad((0,0,0,4),0), boxes])

grid = map_chart("cache/europe_tiles_map.png", colorfn, labelfn)

# legend

GW, GH = 40, 200

gradarray = np.fromfunction(lambda y, x: 1 - (y / GH), (GH, GW), dtype=float)
gradimg = Image.fromarray(CMAP(gradarray, bytes=True)).pad((0,0,0,1))
griddraw = ImageDraw.Draw(gradimg)
for i in range(0,6):
    griddraw.line([(0, GH * (5-i) // 5), (GW, GH * (5-i) // 5)], fill="#333333")
for i in range(0,6):
    label = Image.from_text("{}{} per million".format(i, "" if i < 5 else "+"), arial(14), fg="black", bg="white", padding=(5,0,0,0))
    gradimg = gradimg.pin(label, (GW, GH * (5-i) // 5), align=(0,0.5), bg="white")
gradimg = Image.from_column([gradimg,
Image.from_row([Image.new("RGBA", (GW,GW), NONNATIVE), Image.from_text("local-born\nforeign nationals", arial(14), fg="black", bg="white", padding=(5,0,0,3))], bg="white")
], bg="white", xalign=0)
gradleg = Image.from_column([Image.from_text("Prizes per capita", arial(16, bold=True)), gradimg], bg="white", xalign=0, padding=(0,5))

catimg = Image.from_array([[Image.new("RGBA", (GW,GW), PALETTE[cat]), Image.from_text(cat, arial(14), padding=(5,0,0,0), max_width=100)] for cat in CATS], xalign=0, bg="white")
catleg = Image.from_column([Image.from_text("Prize categories", arial(16, bold=True)), catimg], bg="white", xalign=0, padding=(0,5))

legend = Image.from_column([gradleg, catleg], bg="white", xalign=0, padding=5).pad(1, "black")
gridleg = Image.from_row([grid, legend.pad((50,0,0,5), "white")], yalign=0, bg="white")

# put it all together

title = Image.from_column([
Image.from_text("European Nobel laureates by nationality", arial(48, bold=True), fg="black", bg="white", padding=(0,20,0,0)),
Image.from_text("using modern countries of citizenship, based on Wikipedia", arial(24, bold=True), fg="black", bg="white", padding=(0,0,0,40))
], bg="white")
chart = Image.from_column([title, gridleg], bg="white").pad(5,"white")
# chart.place(Image.from_text("/u/Udzu", font("arial", 16), fg="black", bg="white", padding=5).pad((1,1,0,0), "black"), align=1, padding=0, copy=False)
chart.save("output/nobels_mapeu.png")

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Everything created by God is designed to grow. Spiritual growth is becoming more like Jesus Christ. Spiritual growth is basic to the life of a believer, just as physical growth is basic to the life of any person.
To truly experience spiritual growth, we should completely desire to worship Jesus making Him the centre of our lives, allow the Holy Spirit to do the work as He pleases, placing our focus on studying the Word and prayer.