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/*globals describe, before, it*/
var should         = require('should'),
    hbs            = require('express-hbs'),
    utils          = require('./utils'),

// Stuff we are testing
    handlebars     = hbs.handlebars,
    helpers        = require('../../../server/helpers');

describe('{{excerpt}} Helper', function () {
    before(function () {
        utils.loadHelpers();
    });

    it('has loaded excerpt helper', function () {
        should.exist(handlebars.helpers.excerpt);
    });

    it('can render excerpt', function () {
        var html = 'Hello World',
            rendered = helpers.excerpt.call({html: html});

        should.exist(rendered);
        rendered.string.should.equal(html);
    });

    it('does not output HTML', function () {
        var html = '
There are
10
 types
 of people in the world:' +
                ' those who ' +
                'understand trinary
, those who don\'t
and' +
                '< test > those<<< test >>> who mistake it <for> binary.',
            expected = 'There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand trinary, those who ' +
                'don\'t and those>> who mistake it <for> binary.',
            rendered = helpers.excerpt.call({html: html});

        should.exist(rendered);
        rendered.string.should.equal(expected);
    });

    it('strips multiple inline footnotes', function () {
        var html = '
Testing1, my footnotes. And stuff. Footnote2with a link right after.',
            expected = 'Testing, my footnotes. And stuff. Footnotewith a link right after.',
            rendered = helpers.excerpt.call({html: html});

        should.exist(rendered);
        rendered.string.should.equal(expected);
    });

    it('strips inline and bottom footnotes', function () {
        var html = '
Testing1 a very short post with a single footnote.
\n' +
            '

https://ghost.org ↩

',
        expected = 'Testing a very short post with a single footnote.',
        rendered = helpers.excerpt.call({html: html});

        should.exist(rendered);
        rendered.string.should.equal(expected);
    });

    it('can truncate html by word', function () {
        var html = '
Hello World! It\'s me!
',
            expected = 'Hello World!',
            rendered = (
                helpers.excerpt.call(
                    {html: html},
                    {hash: {words: '2'}}
                )
                );

        should.exist(rendered);
        rendered.string.should.equal(expected);
    });

    it('can truncate html with non-ascii characters by word', function () {
        var html = '
Едквюэ опортэат праэчынт ючю но, квуй эю
',
            expected = 'Едквюэ опортэат',
            rendered = (
                helpers.excerpt.call(
                    {html: html},
                    {hash: {words: '2'}}
                )
                );

        should.exist(rendered);
        rendered.string.should.equal(expected);
    });

    it('can truncate html by character', function () {
        var html = '
Hello World! It\'s me!
',
            expected = 'Hello Wo',
            rendered = (
                helpers.excerpt.call(
                    {html: html},
                    {hash: {characters: '8'}}
                )
                );

        should.exist(rendered);
        rendered.string.should.equal(expected);
    });
});

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GRANT TO HELP CW EXPAND ENVIRONMENTAL TOUR FOR KIDS
By BENTLEY BOYD Daily Press
WILLIAMSBURG — A $5,000 grant will help the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation expand its environmental tour for children next summer.
The EcoKids tour was an experiment this year: not widely advertised, it often discussed how colonists handled garbage and conserved energy for an audience of only three or four children.
But the Virginia Environmental Endowment liked what it saw when it viewed the tour. The endowment recently awarded the foundation a $5,000 grant to hire an intern to supervise and expand the program in 1995.
"The enthusiasm of the kids coming back from the program was our success," said Colonial Williamsburg landscape foreman Terry Yemm, who helped teen-agers fashion the 90-minute tour.
He added, "They didn't feel they were at an `adult' program. They were learning from their peers. They felt less pressured and enjoyed it more."
Six teen-agers guided the tour three times a week, reaching about 100 children, Yemm said. The grant could allow the program to be offered up to 10 times a week and reach 2,000 kids, Yemm said. A steering committee is now considering the best way to expand the program.
"Instead of coming through the normal channels, this program came from the bottom up, from the junior interpreters," he said.
"So everyone wanted them to succeed but waited to see if they would succeed before they could fully endorse it."
The tour was designed to give children something to do separate from their parents.
"Parents would go on another tour or go see a gallery that the kids wouldn't be interested in - or to go shopping for something for their children that they didn't want to see," Yemm said.
"Parents used the tour a lot of different ways."
The tour included visits to the windmill, where a tobacco garden depleted the soil's nutrients; the Governor's Palace, where a well was dug next to an outhouse; the Geddy forge, which produced air pollution; and the print bindery, where rags were recycled into paper.
The tour included a treasure hunt for native and non-native flora and fauna.
About 20 percent of the flora now seen in Williamsburg was introduced by settlers. Kids were also given a bag so they could pick up litter as they went on the tour.

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Home / Event / Songs From Syria – iyatraQuartet with the Saleh Brothers & Peter Ford
Songs From Syria – iyatraQuartet with the Saleh Brothers & Peter Ford
« Here Comes The Sun – Professor Steve Jones
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Featuring former diplomat Peter Ford and music from iyatraQuartet led by Will Roberts and featuring Basel and Mohammed Saleh from the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians. Discussion, music and snacks from Syria.
The name 'iyatra' is derived from the Hindi word for pilgrimage and the group embraces a sense of journey in every performance, bringing classical sensibility to a jazz-like approach. You will hear original arrangements of songs from Syria and new collaborations, taking you on a journey from deeply moving expression to joyous song and vibrant rhythms.
Songs From Syria is a collaborative project bringing together the musicians of iyatraQuartet with Basel and Taim Saleh, from the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians. Their music encompasses original arrangements of songs from Syria and new collaborations, taking you on a journey from deeply moving expression to joyous song and vibrant rhythms.
The core quartet plays violin, bass clarinet, cello and percussion and in this concert includes as guests two outstanding members of the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians – Basel Saleh on oud and Mohammad 'Taim' Saleh on qanun. The musicians met at a street party in memory of Jo Cox MP. The Songs From Syria project was launched in 2018 with performances at King's Place, Bloomsbury Festival and Brighton Open Air Theatre.
There are over five million Syrian refugees outside Syria, making it the biggest refugee crisis of our time. This event introduces some of the musicians who have lived through this and are now living in the UK. It celebrates the beauty of Syrian culture and laments its destruction. The music will be presented alongside a talk by the former diplomat Peter Ford and with a selection of delicious traditional Syrian food.
'Terrific!' Joe Frost – Songlines Magazine
Visit the Songs From Syria website for more information:http://www.iyatraquartet.com/songs-from-syria.html
PETER FORD
Peter Ford is an expert on the Middle East. An Arabist, he served as British Ambassador to Syria and Bahrain before joining the UN to work on refugee issues. He is a frequent commentator on Syria in the media.
Kindly sponsored by William Hammond Ltd
Current Affairs, Music
Bollington Arts Centre
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434 WORLD NEWS ... panies published on March 22, it was pointed out that BE "will not be trans- ferring its computer business in defence systems. . . . Nor will Plessey be trans- ferring its product activities in the field of defence systems. . . ." However, air- craft companies which use off-line com- puters will now deal for their require- ments with the group instead of indi- vidual companies. One significant feature of ICL is that, although the Government will nominate one director and will hold 10.5 per cent of the share capital, it does not intend to use its shareholding to intervene in any way in the group's day-to-day man- agement. Twin Porter Revealed Testing of the first prototype Piilatus Twin Porter is well advanced following a first flight last November 28, and the aircraft will be seen publicly at the Han- over Show in April. It is powered by two 290 h.p. Lycoming IO-540-GlB5s mounted on a short stub-wing over the windscreen for structural independence of the wing. 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Martin-Baker "2,000" Celebration At the Hilton Hotel in London on May 10 Sir James Martin, managing director and chief designer of the Martin- Baker Aircraft Co, is giving a dinner- dance to celebrate the saving of 2,000 lives by his ejection seats. All who have had their lives saved by these seats, and who have not already had an invitation to the celebration, are asked to write to: The Secretary, Martin-Baker Aircraft Co Ltd, Higher Denham, nr Uxbridge, Middx. Military ACV Outlook: Correction Through a misprint on page 31 of the Air-Cushion Vehicles supplement last week Mr Mason, Minister of Defence (Equipment), was reported as giving "an oblique reply, which seemed to indicate that serious work [on the hovership] was going on." The passage should have read "wo serious work." As it stood, the item appeared to contradict directly the theme of the leading article, which deplored the lack of hovership researches. Parliament Defence was the main item on the menu at Question Time in the Commons on Wednesday of last week. The Defence Ministers and Under-Secretaries were on parade; and MPs took the opportunity of raising matters as various as the can- celled Chinook order, RN missiles, Can- berra replacement and Gan airfield. Perhaps the most intensive questions and answers were on the Navy's missiles, Mr Robert Howarth (Lab; Bolton, East) asking when the Navy would have in service surface-to-surface guided missiles "capable of matching those known to be possessed by other navies" and Mr Patrick Wall (Con; Haltemprice) asking the Defence Minister for a statement on the development of surface-to-surface and submarine-to-surface missiles for the Royal Navy. In reply, the Minister of Defence for Equipment, Mr Roy Mason, said that "as was made clear in the Adjournment Debate on November 13 last year and in the debates about the Royal Navy last week, we are not planning to provide the Fleet with any surface-to-surface guided weapon in the sense of a missile fired directly from ships. Instead we shall arm the helicop- ters—which will be carried by all ships of frigate size and above—with an air- to-surface missile. This will have a suffi- cient stand-off capability to give the helicopter substantial immunity from the sort of anti-aircraft weapons carried in patrol boats, and the helicopter will be able to deliver it over a much greater range than that of the patrol boats' anti- ship missiles. Defence against missile- firing destroyers will be provided by shore-based aircraft and Fleet submarines. "As regards submarine-to-surface mis- siles, the Statement on the 1968 Defence Estimates indicates that studies are in hand to improve the effectiveness of submarine-launched anti-ship missiles." On Chinook helicopters, Mr Gordon Campbell (Con; Moray and Nairn) wanted to know if the defence Minister would reconsider the proposed cancella- tion, but the Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the RAF, Mr Merlyn Rees, told him that there was no ques- tion of reconsidering his decision. Mr Campbell pursued the matter by asking whether the cancellation would not cause serious loss of mobility to the Army. Mr Rees then quoted from Hansard for November 27, 1967, when the cancella- tion was announced, saying that the Chinook purchase had been "designed to provide a capability which we have been able to do without until now. We will, therefore, have to do without it for a little longer . . ."; and Mr James Rams- den (Con; Harrogate) wondered whether this answer meant that contrary to mili- tary advice the Government were plan- ning for a reduced size of tactical com- pany lift. Mr Rees said that it meant that no further decision had been made as to how to meet this capability, "which we have done without for a very lone time." By contrast, an aircraft which has been in RAF service for a very long time, the Canberra, was the subject of another question from Mr Howarth, as to whether the Minister would order the design and development of a strike/ reconnaissance aircraft to replace the Canberra and certain V-bombers. Mr Healey said he had nothing to add to an answer he gave on February 2 and an answer by the Minister of Defence for Equipment on March 4; but when pressed by Mr Howarth to indi- cate the very maximum length of time that the Ministry expected the Canberra to stay in service, and what was to hap- pen after that date, said that "we always planned to keep one mark of the Can- berra—the latest one, which came into service in the early 1960s, the PR.9- some way into the 1970s." Another type of replacement which concerned one MP was that of the Commando carriers, Mr M. Maddan (Con; Hove) 'asking the Minister of Defence what estimates he had made of comparative costs of constructing a merchant-type ship with a flat top and of converting an aircraft carrier for commando purposes. Mr Roy Mason, Minister of Defence for Equipment, said that no such estimates had been made; the present Commando ships would be running into the 1970s and the question of their replacement would have to be decided "in the light of our future roie in Europe." He agreed with Mr Maddan that when decisions were being con- sidered about this the Ministry would take very great care that "the rather old-fashioned standards of naval arcm tects which are perhaps irrelev^nV." Commando ships do not hamper the po sibility of the most effective deploymei of the Commando." ,r ". As to Gan, Sir John Rodgers (Con, Sevenoaks) wanted to know wnai. » cussions the Minister had had *"" Australian and American Gr about its future use and was that none had been held.


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Q: Has Dailymotion a Sandbox environment? I was looking for this information but I did not find any.
Does Dailymotion provide a Sandbox platform while I am developing the site that uses the API's?
Thanks
Jaime

A: There is no specific Dailymotion Sandbox environment, you can directly use https://www.dailymotion.com and https://api.dailymotion.com endpoints while you are developing. You can create a separate test account and if you need advanced API features on your test account, please contact our support.

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On Saturday February 3rd members of Altrincham Interfaith group were privileged to be invited to see the production of "Yugpurush" which was being presented at the Wythenshawe Forum, Manchester, for one night only. This was timed to coincide with Hate Crime Awareness Week.
The play is subtitled Mahatma's Mahatma, and is about the special relationship between Shrimad Rajchandraji, and Mohandas Gandhi who later was known as Mahatma (venerable or high-souled) Gandhi. Gandhi first met Shrimad on the 6th July 1891, when he was 21 and had returned to Bombay from London having trained as a barrister. Shrimad impressed him by his amazing memory as well as his spirituality and wisdom. They corresponded by letter when Gandhi moved to South Africa and Shrimad became his spiritual guide. Gandhi wrote of Shrimad "The more I consider his life and his writings, the more I consider him the best Indian of his times. " Shrimad died young, aged on 33, but his writings continued to influence Gandhi, and he contemplated them again and again throughout his life.
In the play, we saw Gandhi as an old man, reminiscing about his life and friendship with Shrimad until his death by an assassin's gun, which was truly shocking. During the play we heard many philosophical discussions between the two men – the timeless nature of the soul was stressed, and the importance of truth, compassion and non-violence for which, of course, Gandhi was renowned. The production was very well directed, the sound quality was suberb and we found the whole experience to be very moving.
The Alf Keeling memorial Lecture 2017 – "Science and Spirituality in Hinduism" by Dr Girdari Bhan.
On the evening of November 9th, the hall of St Ambrose Preparatory School was filled for the occasion, with over 70 people attending the lecture which was timed to celebrate Interfaith Week 2017. Azhar Rasul, Chair of Altrincham Interfaith Group, welcomed Dr Girdari Bhan and then Poonam Kakkar, a Hindu member of the AIG committee, introduced Dr Bhan and described all he had done for interfaith, working in interfaith both locally and nationally, being co-Chair of the Interfaith Network for the UK and Patron and Ex-President of the World Hindu Council UK among many other roles.
Dr Bhan began his talk by stating how Interfaith was an opportunity to inform people about who we are. He said how there was a widespread assumption that Science and Religion were at loggerheads, and cited the debate between Creation and Evolution as an example. He pointed out that Science is based on reason and is validated by experiment and evidence, it deals with the material world. Religion is based on faith and revelation. Spirituality, however, deals with philosophical issues.
He explained how the ancient Hindu texts are packed with scientific knowledge, with no dividing line between science and spiritual knowledge. The seers held, however, that science must be validated, and withstand all challenges. The Hindu view is that the universe goes through cycles of creation and destruction, that time and space are relative, with no fixed span.
He then said how the ancient texts described many of the features of our cosmos - the existence of atoms, the concept of planetary motion, the evolution of complex from simple life forms. He said how ancient civilizations had mastered many advanced techniques including brain surgery, metallurgy, dentistry (teeth with fillings had been found, thousands of years old),were aware of the existence of disease-producing entities (i.e. germs) and emphasised the importance of hygiene. In mathematics, the concept of zero was recognized and the ancients could calculate up to 1053.
He said that Hindus believe that knowledge comes from the Supreme Being and that we just discover things that are already there. We are also confirming ideas expressed long ago by the ancient seers.
After a brief foray through the world of astronomy and particle physics, and comparing the Old Mechanistic View with the Modern View, Dr Bhan concluded that everything is subject to the cosmic laws of nature. Humans are not the centre of creation, and he reminded us that human rights are not superior to the rights of other beings. He urged people to be open minded, and to treat knowledge with respect. There should be no conflict between science and religion.
After a few questions, Azhar thanked Dr Bhan for a most interesting address and he was presented with a beautiful lily. We then mingled and chatted with drinks and biscuits.
Many thanks to all who helped to set up the hall, provide and serve the refreshments, and to St Ambrose Preparatory School for allowing us to use their facilities.
The Hall at Timperley Methodist Church was filled to capacity on the occasion of AIG's Cultural Entertainment Evening which was a rousing success. Ably hosted by Ann Angel, we saw the Hindu Community present a Devotional Song in Hindi performed by Piyush and Mana followed by a Kathak Dance performed by Sunita, Sadhna and Poonam in glorious traditional dress. Then we saw two young dancers, Aahi and Rijuta, who were amazingly skilled as they whirled and spun around in their yellow and orange dresses, performing a Sargam Dance. Ann then took to the stage to tell us a moving story from the Jewish Folk tradition which held us all spellbound, after which there was a break for refreshments – very welcome on a hot and humid evening.
The second part of the evening comprised a contribution from the Muslim community, reading and singing poems and songs composed by Rumi, a famous writer in the Sufi tradition. This was beautifully and movingly performed by Daniel and Saimma Dyer on guitar and frame drum and then we heard the Manchester Stake Choir of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sing a selection of well-known songs. The evening was rounded off with everyone joining in with the Beatles "All You Need is Love!" – what a perfect end to a fantastic evening!
Thanks to all who helped to make this evening a spectacular success, especially all the performers, Timperley Methodist Church for the venue, Cath Pridgeon and her team for refreshments and Ann Angel for her meticulous planning of the event.


Just got back to Boston - we had an amazing time.
The way you arranged our logistics from the time we landed (save for an early flight) to details about pick-ups, hotels, daily activities was tremendous.
We loved each spot and would not really have changed a thing.
Split – it was great to fly in and Hotel Judita Palace was an ideal place to start our trip. The walking tour was a great way to start. Saša was lovely! The dinner of wine tasting and local cheese and meat was amazing. Just a note – many people from the US may not eat as much meat or ham/pork (for us, it was not an issue) – but it is something to ask. The wines were good – not great (as we then experienced amazing wines later on our trip).
We loved the falls the next day and the time of day was perfect for us – it was lower on tourists and we had a chance to hike in the am and give the kids an opportunity to sleep in a bit.
Dinner that night behind the "closed doors" with Tatjana and her husband was memorable and I would do it again and recommend it to anyone. We felt a little "sloppy" since we came right from the falls and swimming to dinner at her house – it was hot and we were fine (in fact, I changed to dry cloths but Natalie and the kids were fine).
The next two days with Domagoj was among my personal favorite – LOVED him and all the activities and his historic knowledge. I don't think the "typical" family would have done too well on the bike ride – it was a challenge. Dom was great and it was well worth the whole bike ride seeing the Natural spring. The walk to the monastery was beyond belief. For me, getting this exercise in was good timing on our trip. Both Dom's picnic dinner and then the wine lunch were among our top meals (more on that). It would have been nice to have a little more time with the team at Senjković winery. We could have taken a later ferry so it was our choice to leave when we did. There was another couple so we were a bit slow to start the lunch (as we certainly were in no rush).
We also really, really enjoyed our day in the Adriatic sea – we ended up getting to Hvar after 6PM since we enjoyed our time with Tom and Tom. They picked such a special spot for lunch. Probably the best grilled whole fish of the week (get the name of the restaurant – it's worth going ). Swimming and naps on the boat/yacht was perfect spot in our trip.
Hvar was worth it for us – the Hotel was fine – great service and amazing views (and it was the only hotel with a gym in it). Kids went out that night and enjoyed – and it was fun for all of us to see and compare and contrast. We realize that if you're Croatian, it's a foreign party town and not really what the country is about but still fun! We had dinner at Giaxa sitting in a palace square – unreal. Food was ok, wine was great.
Korčula island was wonderful as well – we loved our buggy adventure and lunch (they even took us on their boat for a traditional meal) – again, perfect for us. The views from the buggy were picturesque.
Something to recommend to any food lovers – the final dinner we had on the Island was at Lešić Dimitr – we did the chef's tasking with wine pairing sitting outside on the terrace – I would list it was one of the top 5 dinners we've ever had (combination of food, location, location, location, wine, service, weather) – it's up there with Chevre d'or in Eze. We got a detailed run down of each dish and wine (including history of each wine). We also happened to have dinner next to a wedding party and had the bride and Groom join us for a drink (or two) after their guests left.
The hotel suite was really cool – it rained day 1 and our patio didn't dry out too well. I personally found the room very dark given that we were overlooking the sea and had such amazing views a blast. But we enjoyed the big Jacuzzi baths and the service was amazing. We had some free time which was great but didn't get settled on a beach or area to hang together – we ended up doing our own things (which was fine).
And to cap off the trip was our tasting day with Mario on the Pelješac peninsula – we learned a lot about how wines are made and loved the day. We managed to bring back and ship 3 cases of wine for our Croatia week at our beach house. It turns out that, we eat like Croatians (simple salads, grilled meats and fish) so we are dedicating a week with our wine!
Finally – Dubrovnik was an amazing city and good end to our journey- the guided am tour was great (we added the synagogue) we enjoyed resting on the Adriatic again in the afternoon. On our own, we did a sunset wall walk before our final dinner.
Personally, if I could have figured out 1-2 mornings of exercise, I would have been even better (but that's just me and not most others).


Searching for hotels in Prince Albert (Canada) or Prince Albert accommodation? At the meeting of the attractive forest belt in northern Saskatchewan and the enchanting valley of the North Saskatchewan River, Prince Albert lies on a beautifully sloping bank. It is the third largest city in the province and has well developed mining and forestry industries. Prince Albert's climate boasts long sunny days, cool nights and the unusual warm days in winter. It offers a blanket of sunshine to many visitors seeking to escape colder climates.
Prince Albert's rich culture is well worth exploring. There are many activities for the creative, visual and musical arts. The E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts on 12th street features the Art Gallery of Prince Albert and the Olive Diefenbaker Theatre. Both local and international talents can be enjoyed here. Additionally, there is the Prince Albert Arts Centre where one can view a variety of art and crafts, and take part in instructional programs for persons of all age groups in clay pottery, weaving and painting among others. Art and craft displays can also be viewed at the John V. Hicks Gallery. The main museums are the Prince Albert Historical Museum, Diefenbaker House, Prince Albert Evolution of Education Museum and the Rotary Museum of Police and Corrections.
Accommodation can be obtained in Prince Albert in the form of mainstream hotels and apartments as well as rented cottages. The hotels tend to be ideally located around the town centre for easy access to the numerous arts and cultural sites, shopping expeditions and delectable dining cuisine.
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Trailer for 'Love Story' the romantic comedy from New Zealand director Florian Habicht's about the construction of a fictional love story merges snippets of narrative with actual interviews with everyday New Yorkers to create an original film in which the boundaries of art and life overlap.
Shot on the streets of New York, Love Story begins when Habicht finds a subject for his filmic experiment: the beautiful Masha Yakovenko, spotted at a subway station, carrying a slice of cake. Seeking advice from New Yorkers – strangers – on how to create his on-screen love story with Masha, he takes the notion of interactive storytelling to its logical end, crowdsourcing his plot on the streets. Romance blossoms artificially, and organically, between the director, actor, New York and New Yorkers.
Be also sure to visit directornotes for their interview with Florian Habicht about making the film and a very interesting outtake.
'Love Story' was featured as part of the BFI London Film Festival in October 2012 and is getting a Australian theatrical release in December, no news yet of a further release for Europe or America but be sure to check the films Facebook page for details.


Anna Fitzgerald is a Certified Member of the British Association of Teachers of Dancing. As an active competitor and teacher, Anna instills a love for tradition and strength in her students. She began dancing over 20 years ago in North Carolina, originally as a student in Ballet, Tap, and Jazz. After watching many of her relatives compete in Highland Dance, Anna grudgingly gave it a try, only to discover what would become a life-long passion.
Advancing quickly through the competitive levels, Anna has been a Premiere Highland Dancer for nearly 15 years. While earning her Masters Degree from The Hartt School of Music, Dance, and Theatre in Hartford, CT, Anna became an active member of the Callanish School of Celtic Arts as a Dancer and Assistant Teacher. The Callanish School has a deep connection to its community, and it was there that Anna began using Highland Dance and Scottish Tradition to engage in outreach programs throughout the state of Connecticut.
Anna was the 2014 recipient of the Eunice Baird Whittlesey Memorial Scholarship, which enabled her to move to New York City to continue her Post Graduate studies at Mannes College The New School for Music. Currently, Anna remains an active competitor and is a Dancer with and the Performance Coordinator for Shot of Scotch, New York City's Premiere Scottish Highland Dancers, which she joined in 2014. She continues to perform outreach programs throughout New York and Connecticut and teaches Highland Dance to students of all ages and skill levels as the founder of the New York City School of Scottish Dance.


Medical Education in Japan: From Chinese Medicine to Western Medicine.
Dr. bowers has written an entertaining and informative little book on a fascinating subject. He has recorded the origins, development, and present status of Japanese medical education with sympathy, humor, and insight. Of particular interest are biographical sketches of two individuals as they pursue their careers from secondary school through the long postgraduate training period that characterizes the Japanese medical education experience. This small work is replete with historical and contemporary color, and the reader is introduced not only to Japanese medical education but also to a survey of current Japanese medical practice.


As the challenges faced by ecommerce retailers greatly differ from those in physical retail, ecommerce managers everywhere have been forced to become extra vigilant, with their fingers on the trigger to react to competitor changes in their marketplace which for many is the difference between increased sales or going out of business. Even though similarities exist between online and offline retail commerce, today's consumer is more digitally engaged than at any point in history hence the increased digital focus by ambitious retailers to secure a piece of consumer attention.
While local and national retail operators still enjoy sales from consumers who prefer the physical shopping experience, these consumers are increasingly in the minority as online shopping has rapidly become the dominating channel in retail commerce so much so that 2017 delivered the most consumers that shopped online as opposed to shopping in store during Black Friday. As the retail market continues to reach new boundaries in terms of options available for retailers to meet consumer needs, Ecommerce managers now find themselves with several problems that remain front of mind as they strive to remain competitive in a firecely competitive global retail environment.
According to a recent post by the wall street journal, 70% of online shoppers stated that they prefer to shop at their favorite online retailer. This minimizes the market for a great many smaller ecommerce sites. These means that retailers who cannot be seen, have to be seen. In order to drive online traffic to their online website, ecommerce managers should focus on achieving the best top ranking SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) they can. Consider focusing on increasing organic content with targeted keywords to boost SEO. This means ecommerce managers need to increase organic content across their website, pre-filled with targeted keywords. This could be within the blog and product pages on the website.
Everyone loves to get value for money and today's consumer is no different. Yes they may be loyal to their favourite brands but they are always on the lookout for the best deals which can only be offered after competitor prices are fully tracked and analysed. Wiser Competitive Pricing can be obtained through Price Monitoring Platforms, help ecommerce managers remain on the pulse of their competitive environment and intelligently manage the ultimate reseource for any professional ...... time.
When it comes to financial transactions, you must have security and present that security to your potential buyers. One way in which to do so is through security certificates and validation. No one wants to get a potential malware notice when they are visiting a website. It is quick way to ruin your business. SSL Certificates, SiteLock Website Security, and SAN certificates are the most common ways an ecommerce site can build trust on the security of their information.
Social media is to the ecommerce world what billboards, radio, and television advertisement is to local business marketing. There are over 3.6 billion internet users in the world according to internet live stats. Out of these users there are nearly 500 million tweets, 3.5 billion videos posted, 40 million Instagram photos uploaded, and about 2 billion active Facebook users per day. The average person spends 116 minutes a day on social media alone, reports socialmediatoday.com. Ecommerce managers should hone into various social media sites and provide engaging content which can be easily shared and commented upon. Tradional advertising will always be relevant but retailers today need to offer content which educates and empowers (such as a blog on how to do .....).
Ret which focus on one item or service are doing their business an injustice and greatly hindering their sales and growth potential. Multi-channeling your selection of goods benefits your business in at least two ways. First, your business has more diversity in the product leading to a broader target audience. This does not mean that you do not have a selected target, such as entrepreneur apparel for example, but rather that you have expounded upon this target niche by offering various means for the consumer to encounter your brand. Yes you need to have online marketing, but research from Deloitte has shown that Ecommerce managers which step outside of just online marketing and multichannel to their consumers have shoppers which spend 82% more than those which do not.
When reviewing your analytics or your click ads, if you find that you have lower activity than desired, it could be a result of your information. Consumers online are competitive in nature. They tend to look for the best deal on the market. Keep in mind that you are working on a global network and not just locally. If you are offering a deal of the day, but the merchandise that you offer is still more expensive than your competitors, the consumer is more than likely going to go with the other retailer. Retailers such as Amazon, also pose an issue based on their ability to offer lower prices than most of their competitors. Consider providing promotional offers that deliver real value to the target customer and well as engaging and empowerment.
While there are a number of issues which an ecommerce store will face, the main issues which need to be focused upon are the customer relationship, multi-channeling, and the automation of competitor analysis in order to maintain competitive prices and increase customer loyalty.


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The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 6
Thursday, Dec 8, 2016, 12:02 AM | Source: The Conversation
By Lauren Rosewarne
Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne
Another December Day and another five reasons to spend Christmas in front of the television with replacement relatives like The Partridge Family's Shirley Jones and The Wonder Years' Fred Savage.
26. The Christmas Tree (1996)
A subtly odd film about nuns and their intimate relationships with foliage. Enjoyable and sweetly sentimental with a human-romance subplot. Directed by Sally Field.
No trailer, but you can watch the whole thing online. (At least for the moment).
The Christmas Tree (1996) - full movie.
27. Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
Two strangers meet in a New England hotel: both in Amherst to visit family members in hospital. In the bubble of the holiday the duo find intimacy. A kind of Christmastime Brief Encounter (1945).
Lovely, understated performances from Lloyd Bridges and Shirley Jones. Hard to track down a copy of, but for the moment it's watchable online.
Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969) - trailer.
28. A Snow Globe Christmas (2013)
A workaholic, Grinch-ish television producer hits her head on a snowglobe and wakes up living inside the ornament. Sure, it's ridiculous but it's a Christmas film. Very sweet performances from Alicia Witt and Donald Faison.
A Snow Globe Christmas (2013) - trailer.
29. Love Actually (2003)
Even outside of Christmas films, Love Actually is one of my favourites. It's corny and twee and requires the best part of a tissue box. Qualities I appreciated in a Christmas film.
Love Actually (2003) - trailer.
30. Christmas on Division Street (1991)
Quite a few Christmas films do the scruffy-vagabond-changes-the-lif-of-a-brat storyline. Christmas on Division Street provides a particularly well-executed example, starring Hume Cronyn as the homeless Cleveland, befriended by Trevor (Fred Savage). Tissues are necessary.
(For a bad version of this storyline, please do subject yourself to the achingly preachy Wish For Christmas (2016). An abomination).
Watchable online.
Christmas on Division Street - station promo.
This post is an instalment from a 15-part series on my favourite Christmas films. The consolidated version - 75 Christmas Films Worth Watching - is now available.
Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Five Years Young: Where Tacoma Refugee Choir is Going from Here
By Erin Guinup
We recently celebrated our fifth anniversary and are proud of how far we've come together. As we continue to grow, we're thinking a lot about why we started.
Refugees and many other immigrants often endure extremely difficult conditions before being forced to leave their home countries. Once they get here, it can be disheartening to realize their challenges are not over as they encounter often overwhelming practical challenges––including suspicion and disdain from others. When you've lost everything, community is all you have left. And yet it can be excruciatingly hard to find a sense of belonging when you are repeatedly treated as an outsider.
Singing with others can be one of the most joyful ways to connect with others and be part of something bigger than ourselves. If you've ever crooned a chorus or belted a bridge with your friends in the car, you know this to be true. When you sing together, you are connected. A sense of purpose fills the void of isolation and we start feeling safe to be authentically ourselves. When we feel safe to be ourselves, new possibilities emerge and challenges are not as overwhelming. As one member recently said, "For the first time in my life, I'm learning that my voice matters and that my voice has power to do something about the sadness around me."
This work is changing lives– and saving lives. When someone has lost all hope, music can reach where words fail. This is why we do what we do. Music may not change the world but music changes people and people that are healed change the world.
Of course, we've also had the opportunity to share our music and our story with over 100,000 people, welcomed over 600 people from 53 countries to the choir, written 18 original songs with our members, produced 7 music videos, plus interviews and other content that has been featured in Singapore, China, Sweden, Kenya, Washington D.C., Chicago, and with partners here in beautiful Tacoma.
Although we're amazed by how much has changed from our earliest days, even more, has stayed the same. At our core, we believe that everyone has a song to share and that music can heal anyone brave enough to lift their voice. Every song we write, performance we add to our schedule, music video we edit, and project we take on is dedicated to our mission of loving and supporting one another in our community.
We recently completed a strategic plan and have big plans this year including recording our first album, the expansion of our Teen Sings program, a music therapy program, a tour to perform as invited guests at the NW-ACDA conference, a Tacoma Sings Festival (which will include opportunities for members of the community to sing with us), and much more. Everything we do remains centered on our members and supporting healing together.
Five years feels like forever and nothing at all. We know that we're just at the beginning and we're so excited to take on the future with you.
You can support our mission by giving the give of hope through a monthly donation. Continuous giving of as little as $5 can offer stability and longevity to our members and our choir. Learn more about where your donation goes on our website.
Erin Guinup, Executive & Artistic Director
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LENIN'S TOMB: Solzhenitsyn and the right.
You can be sure that the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn is going to be celebrated in the most nauseating fashion in the mainstream press. Somewhat less importantly, the remaining supporters of the late USSR are going to waste some sorely needed energy laying a boot or two into the corpse of this "slanderer". There is plenty to criticise. Solzhenitsyn was notable for his reactionary pro-Tsarist politics, and for his concessions to antisemitism. And, as just as many of his criticisms of the Stalinist terror were, they were both exaggerated and conjoined to a paranoid view about the supposed menace posed by the USSR.
But this, threat-exaggeration and concomitant calls for a more aggressive US posture, was what he was loved for. The extraordinary atmosphere of hysteria The Gulag Archipelago unleashed once published in Paris served notice that he could be extremely useful. Solzhenitsyn was already extremely popular in the Western press for his earlier works, The Cancer Ward, The First Circle, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. He had received the Nobel Prize in 1970, and his struggles to get his writings published in Russia had been detailed in a biography by Z A Medvedev. His eventual expulsion from the USSR in 1974 would have ensured a rapturous welcome for him even if The Gulag Archipelago had not been published. But the cult of Solzhenitsyn would not have become what it did without the publication of that three-volume opus in the Autumn of 1973, whereupon portions were serialised in the New York Times, and translated into French in June 1974. The drearily predictable attacks by the French communist party (PCF) and those intellectuals in its orbit can only have intensified the mystique. What followed was a curiously contrived affair, as formerly left-wing intellectuals who were apprised of the horrors of the camps decided that Solzhenitsyn's text was a revelation that, not only were Stalinist politics corrupted (they had already made that decision years before) but that the whole arcanum of Maoisms and Trotskyisms that stood as alternatives to those politics were also corrupted at source. Marx was the evil seed of a diabolical utopianism that could not but result in total slavery. Solzhenitsyn, who blamed Marx for the killing fields in Cambodia, could have found nothing objectionable in that. Yet, those leftists who had been acquainted with the texts circulated by David Rousset, Ante Ciliga and Victor Serge, all from the anti-Stalinist left, could hardly pretend to be shocked by revelations of the barbarism of Stalinism.
Solzhenitsyn's reputation as a novelist became secondary to his status as an anti-communist ideologue in the West. Thus, the refusal of Gerald Ford to meet the dissident in 1976 infuriated the neoconservatives, and raised the ire of one Ronald Reagan. He was championed by Jesse Helms, welcomed by rightist think-tanks such as the Hoover Institute (he actually stayed in Hoover Tower for a while, and contributed to their publications), and received an honorary degree from Harvard University. He was the right man for the post-detente period, precisely the sort of person the Reaganites sought. Though credited as a defender of human rights, he defended the Franco regime in its dying days, making a series of broadcasts on Spanish television demanding to know if Spaniards really knew what a dictatorship was like (yes, he was that kind of 'anti-totalitarian'). He attacked detente, and supported the UNITA in Angola (Jonas Savimbi admiringly referenced his denunciation of the 'Western disease' that he said was behind its inadequate vigour against the communists). He was also scathing about human rights organisations that he saw as insufficiently anticommunist (Amnesty International, in particular), and described Western peace campaigns as fronts for Russian ends, using "Russian means and Russian money". He attacked the Western left and the movement against the Vietnam war in particular, just as the fate of the 'Boat People' was becoming a global issue.
But his usefulness to the American empire was limited, and definitively reached its sell-by date by 1990. Neoconservatives might have appreciated his critic of the degeneracy of the West and its failure to defend itself by being more God-fearing, but he was a Russian nationalist and this stance made him unpopular with some of Reagan's advisors, who presumably hoped to turn the country into an IMF basket-case. In fact, his argument against communism was by no means a defense of liberal universalism. Instead, he appealled to Americans to understand the 'West' as a distinct cultural entity which, while it had to be defended both against its communist opponents and its internal decadence, had little applicability to other societies. He wrote to Reagan to explain that once the putative threat from the USSR had gone, the US should pull out of every country it was involved in, from Central America to Africa to South-East Asia, and leave the world to its own devices. Once he was able to return to Russia in 1990, his austere conservative criticisms of the decadence of Western society, long articulated but generally glossed over by his supporters, came to the fore. He became rather unfashionable at this point. By the time he was castigating US military interventions in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and defending the Putin administration, the American right had no more use for him.
Even so, reactionaries will surely find it in their hearts to forgive his later meanderings and remember instead the bold anticommunist who defended NATO's favourite fascist, worked to undermine detente, attacked the antiwar movement, and generally called for America to be far more aggressive than it was even prepared to be.


Home > Route One News > Kristian Svitak New Part!
Lucero? Hensley? Chad Knight? The cameos alone make this new Kristian Svitak part a must see!
Those of you who were skating around the turn of the millennium will no doubt remember Kristian, he was Black Label's answer to Rowley; gnarly as hell and 'Punk as F*ck' to boot!
After leaving to start his own brand, discovering Ben Raybourn and basically having a rad old time of it for the past decade he has finally joined up with old Label team mate Mike V and is now riding for Street Plant skateboards.
Coming in at over nine minutes this section is pure "mates" hype footage and contains some seriously rad new skateboarding as wel as a multitude of classic clips; we promise if you bob it on before your next skate you'll be hyped all session. Get watching!


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Connections Alternative School is a public alternative high school in Eagle Point, Oregon, United States.

Academics
In 2008, 9% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 33 students, three graduated, 17 dropped out, and 13 were still in high school the following year.

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Shmemel () is an Israeli Funk Rock band. The band was formed in 2007 and consists of ten members. Most of the lyrics are satirical and humorous and often controversial. The songs are in Hebrew and English. Some songs have controversial names and contents such as "Laughing at the Goyim" which deals with Israeli relations with other nations or "Berlin" which deals with emigration of Israelis to Berlin for a better financial life. The song featured lyrics such as "Even Jacob went to Egypt"  and "where rents were half and salaries were double".

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I've always been trying to find the perfect place for me that can guide me to achieve the body build that I want. There are many gyms out there that I've visited and tried for a very long time but I don't get the results I want. I actually don't know if I was the one lacking or their services are just poor. But finding Iron Body Studio was one of the best things that ever happened to me. They really helped me gain more confidence and led me to a better and healthier lifestyle. Not to mention that they were also great at training, the results I received in just a few months were amazing and I can really tell the difference from before unlike when I tried the past gyms. IBS is really great!
My friends suggested this gym to me and said that I should get a personal trainer so I can work my body out. I do slack off actually and honestly, I don't really take care of my body, no wonder why my friends keep bugging me about doing exercises and stuff. I did try working out alone in my house but that was a fail because I have no real experience in working out. I tried going to Iron Body Studio after my failed self-exercises. Now, I can really see my improvements and going to this gym also helped me want to eat healthier as well.
Months of working out alone and just following instructions from the internet were not successful as I thought it would be. I realized I just wasted my time doing what I could not do alone when I registered for this gym. The results with my personal trainer were much better than I did when I tried working out alone.


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The race for the signing of RB Salzburg's German sensation Karim Adeyemi is heating up.
The 19-year-old, who has been on the radars of Barcelona for a while now, has also emerged as a transfer target for their arch-rivals Real Madrid, reports SPORT.
Adeyemi has enjoyed a memorable 2021 so far. Having helped Germany win the U-21 European Championships earlier this year, the 19-year-old made his senior debut for Die Mannschaft as well and scored on his maiden appearance.
At the same time, Adeyemi has been in unstoppable form for RB Salzburg, having produced a return of 15 goals and two assists from 25 matches across all competitions this season. This sort of form for club and country has made the youngster a much-coveted option in the transfer market.
Barcelona have been pursuing the teenage striker for quite some time now, with reports even indicating that the Catalans are ready to make an offer of €40 million for his signing. However, they will now have to contend with competition from eternal rivals Real Madrid, who see the 19-year-old as a cheaper alternative to primary target Erling Haaland.
The Borussia Dortmund star is expected to cost a huge sum of money next year, with Manchester United reportedly willing to shell out €220 million for his signing. This has led to Los Blancos identifying alternatives, with Adeyemi emerging as one.
Apart from Barcelona, Real Madrid and Dortmund, the likes of Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Atletico Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain are also following Adeyemi.
The 19-year-old Salzburg ace was initially rated at €20 million. But with Dortmund coming in with an offer of €35 million and the increased competition for his signing has seemingly raised his value, with the youngster now set to cost around the €50 million-mark.
With the number of suitors for Adeyemi's signing growing by the day, Barcelona will have their task cut out to land the German marksman from RB Salzburg.
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Lauren Oliver's last book for the Delirium Trilogy was aptly titled as I literally lamented over this joke of a book. I am a die-hard fan of Lauren ever since I've read Before I Fall and Delirium. I have fallen inlove with the way she make poetry out of these books, so deep and poignant that you'd just want to lie down and relive the moments in your mind. But Requiem made me howl in rage. How did that beautiful poem turned into an insensible haiku? It was as if Lauren didn't know how to end the story gracefully like she was somehow lost in limbo.
Pandemonium had ended in a thrilling cliffhanger when Lena discovered that Alex is still alive. And that ending made me expect a lot from this book. The days that I pondered on how it would be delivered was like I was on a pilgrimage. Only to realize in the end, that my whole purpose was for nothing.
More than anything else, Requiem's plot was so shallow and dragging. Almost two thirds of the book was dedicated to either Lena's musing about Alex or hers and the Invalids' journey to this and that. I don't have any problem if they need to undertake journeys as long it's not overly done that it becomes boring. And I had had enough of that in the second book, thanks by the way.
And as if that wasn't enough of a torture, we were also given unessential accounts of Hanna's life like it was wholly important to the cause of the Invalids. Mind you, Lauren even failed to describe how Hanna should behave after her cure from amor deliria nervosa was unsuccessful.
Requiem's character development was also stunted like things did not recover from the pandemonium that had taken place in book 2. Alex became a background character that without the nudges from the author, you'd forget that he was the one who set things in motion in Delirium. What about Julian Fineman, our hero in the second book? Well, since Requiem is all about Lena and Hanna, he was also reduced to a wallflower. And that goes the same for the other characters, disposable summer decorations.
To complement the boring character development, aside from being shallow and dragging, the plot was totally predictable. Well, there were twists planted along the way but I think these were done in a last attempt to save the whole thing from crumbling into pieces. Most unfortunately, Requiem is far from salvation as it ended with a striking disappointment. Yeah, open ending. As in literally, with plenty of unanswered questions, you know what I mean. It was like you endured all those to-die for heartaches, persevered the hardships and fought all those battles in books 1 and 2 for a BIG NOTHING. Nada.
There's only one thing that I liked about this book and that was how Lena and her mother finally made up. At least, there was a bit of a drama there.
In an overall note, Requiem epically failed to deliver. And I hope Lauren would take time to ponder on things that make this book a major flop and not make the same mistake on her new book. Otherwise, I might settle for fan fictions which I think would make a far better conclusion to what should have been a grand series.


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Lyme disease cases spike in the warmer months. Research on the disease is inching forward, as the number of reported infections reaches new heights.
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As more bacteria gain resistance to standard treatments, is the answer a return to therapeutic metals?
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More and more bacteria are nearly impervious to treatment. Could new approaches pick up where antibiotics leave off?
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Disaster struck at a packed Boston nightclub 75 years ago. What happened next became a milestone in burn care.
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Expensive, clunky yet clinically invaluable, the positron emission tomography scanner is due for reinvention.
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Human joints wear out, and often replacements do too. Now innovative designs are improving longevity and function.
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A new generation of research looks at psilocybin, LSD and other mind-altering drugs. Both the challenges and the therapeutic promise are enormous.
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THIS SUMMER HAS BROUGHT A SPIKE IN THE NUMBER OF CASES OF LYME DISEASE, which is caused by the bite of a tick carrying the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. What comes next isn't pleasant. Even when the infection has been cleared away with a course of antibiotics, some victims can suffer pain, fatigue and neurocognitive symptoms.
A smaller number of people go on to suffer from antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis—a painful inflammation of the joints that long outlasts the infection. And the mechanisms by which B. burgdorferi causes all of these problems are not completely clear, and may not be the same in all patients.
But there have been recent victories against this puzzling disease. In July, the Food and Drug Administration gave fast-track status to a Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15, which was developed by the European company Valneva. The FDA had approved a Lyme vaccine in 1998, but the drug was withdrawn three years later because of poor market performance and concerns about side effects. Valneva has enrolled 180 patients for a small trial of its new vaccine, which is being conducted at two site in the United States and one in Belgium. This vaccine also targets a broader range of strains, including those found in Europe, that the earlier vaccine didn't affect.
New ways to diagnose Lyme disease are also coming into focus. Blood tests to detect Lyme frequently yield false negative results during the first few weeks after infection. But John Branda, associate director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his colleagues published research in August about a test intended to detect Borrelia infection earlier than would any of the methods now commonly used for the diagnosis of Lyme disease. A blood sample is first amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology, a routine method that can make the genetic material of a pathogen more easily identifiable. Then the blood undergoes magnetic resonance imaging, which can quickly pick up the Borrelia DNA. The test, known as T2MR, detected Borrelia in blood samples from patients suspected of having Lyme disease that were negative in other tests.
But the most promising advances may be for people who suffer long-term effects of a Lyme infection. After a round of antibiotics, Lyme symptoms soon end for most patients. But for others, joint inflammation can linger well after the final pill.
Allen Steere, an MGH rheumatologist and the researcher who led the team that first identified Lyme disease in the 1970s, is exploring the question of why some people don't get well after treatment. In patients with antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis, there is mounting evidence that Lyme infection triggers an abnormal immune response, which in turn attacks the tissues of the joints, even after B. burgdorferi has been cleared by antibiotics.
Nearly half of those with primarily European Caucasian ancestry carry a particular mutation in the toll-like receptor-1 (TLR-1) gene that can cause excessive inflammation in joints and more frequent antibiotic-refractory arthritis. In 2012, Dr. Klemen Strle and Dr. Steere published a study showing that people with this susceptibility produce a stronger inflammatory response in response to B. burgdorferi.
Now Steere believes that many more severe cases may result when people with that genetic profile encounter a particularly virulent strain of the bacterium. In a 2016 paper in Emerging Infectious Disease, Strle and his colleagues showed that some strains of B. burgdorferi cause a much stronger immune response than others. In the northeastern United States, where most Lyme infections occur, those strains are responsible for 30% to 40% of infections.
When genetic susceptibility and virulent B. burgdorferi strains combine—as they do in as many as 20% of people of Caucasian ancestry who are infected with Lyme disease—ideal conditions are created for an amplified and maladaptive inflammatory response that can attack joint tissues.
The particular immune components of that heightened response are also becoming clearer. Steere published a paper this year about the role of at least four autoantigens—human proteins that can produce a major immune response under certain circumstances—that have a role in persistent joint inflammation in patients with antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis. Another paper from his lab looked at Lyme disease patients who produce elevated levels of certain microRNAs—molecules that fine-tune immune responses—which are known to have a role in chronic inflammation, tissue growth and swelling, and impaired wound repair.
The hope, says Steere, is that this growing understanding of Lyme disease may lead to breakthroughs in treatment, and in heading off the worst outcomes. "As someone who saw Lyme disease come into our vocabulary, I'd like to see us advance significantly toward ending it," he says.
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Earnings season is in full swing and there are a couple of hundred companies in total reporting over the next few days.
Below are the key companies that will be providing their recent EPS, sales and outlook. It will be more important to watch for the management's guidance as the concern over a global slowdown is weighing heavily on the mind's of investors.


For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will buy up milk from dairy farmers – $50 million worth. It'll go to soup kitchens and food banks to help people in need. But the program also has another purely economic purpose: to help America's struggling dairy producers. U.S. milk consumption has fallen more than 4 percent since last year, driven in part by shifting consumer preferences. Think of all those non-dairy milks, like almond and cashew, crowding store shelves.
Agricultural economist Daniel Sumner at the University of California, Davis said the purchase is only a drop in the bucket.


I would like to thank Minister Ulla Tornes and Permanent Secretary Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen for hosting us; and I would also like to highlight the leadership of Klavs Holm the Danish Ambassador to the OECD in setting up such an ambitious agenda. Last but not least, let me welcome representatives of the MCM co-Chairs, Australia and the United Kingdom and, of course, BIAC and TUAC.
It is a pleasure to be with you in Copenhagen. This conference fits neatly with the reflection which Denmark has been leading as Chair of the 2017 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, whose theme is making globalisation work for all.
Denmark should boost benefit coverage for low-skilled and low-wage workers and improve the support available to blue-collar workers as part of a series of reforms to help laid-off workers get back into work more quickly, according to a new OECD report.
Job displacement (involuntary job loss due to firm closure or downsizing) affects many workers over the course of their working lives. Displaced workers may face long periods of unemployment and, even when they find new jobs, tend to be paid less than in the jobs they held prior to displacement. Helping displaced workers get back into good jobs quickly should be a key goal of labour market policy. This report is the sixth in a series of reports looking at how this challenge is being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It shows that Denmark has effective policies in place to quickly assist people who are losing their jobs, in terms of both providing good re-employment support and securing adequate income in periods of unemployment. Despite a positive institutional framework, a sound collaboration between social partners and a favourable policy set-up, there is room to improve policies targeted to displaced workers as not every worker in Denmark can benefit from the same amount of support. In particular, workers affected by collective dismissals in larger firms receive faster and better support than those in small firms or involved in small or individual dismissals. Blue-collar workers are also treated less favourably than white-collar workers. More generally, low-skilled and older displaced workers struggle most to re-enter the labour market.


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Tover Dvadzhiev: "Film Award is My Dream"
A clip for the most famous Crimean Tatar song "Hey Guzel Qyrym!" (Beautiful Crimea) produced by Qaradeniz production. So the director of this work is the young and talented Crimean Tatar Dlyaver Dvadzhiev. To the present date, a clip was wantched more than 800 thousand times on YouTube. These are not millions but in percentage rate a very good indicator for the Crimean Tatar product.
Another well-known composition "Milliy Bairak" (author Zore Kadieva) is the work of the same director. Dlyaver Dvadzhiev works with various artists and shot a dozen clips.
Last year, Dlyaver acted as the director of the first Crimean Tatar fairytale movie "Khadir Dede", which, by the way, was in the Crimean and Kyiv cinemas. Currently, ongoing work is underway on the Crimean Tatar series "Shamataly Qoranta" (Noisy Family). Add here a lot of sketches that the audience loved, promotional videos with his emphasis, and another no less iconic products of Dvadzhiev.
It is no secret that the heroes of his works have already gained popularity among the people, and the director himself remains in the shadow in terms of recognition. I asked Dlyaver about his attitude to this circumstance:
– There was a situation when strangers met the guys, they enthusiastically questioned them, and about me, they simply asked: "Who are you?" Not that it was unpleasant, but it is clear that every creative person has a certain vanity. And on the other hand, you understand that you are a director and you are behind the scenes. You immediately program yourself for this – that you are the person who is behind, the society does not know you, you do not go to the masses, and you will never earn such popularity in this profession.
It hurts at the beginning, but then you get used to the fact that you are the person who should create them (actors) and their popularity sometimes depends on you to a certain extent. Sometimes it seems that if you invest more in your work, people will learn more about these guys.
To the question of how he relates to criticism, Dlyaver answers:
– It's cool, it's some kind of adrenaline, it is needed. The more a person criticizes, the more I want to create. He tells me: "stop doing this," but I want to do it more. If there are no such people, then there will be a problem. It is motivation.
Dlyaver does not hide that his dream is a significant award in the field of cinema:
– It would be too exaggerated if I said that this is my goal -. Yes, it's my dream because the movie is a specific exam of all your work done.
Dlyaver Dvadzhiev – 34 years old. Graduated from Taurida National University in Simferopol, faculty of "Radiophysics and Electronics". He worked as a physics teacher for four years. Then radically changed the scope of activity. Dlyaver engaged in camera work. First, he shot weddings and then got a job at the first Crimean Tatar television channel ATR. There he went from operator to head of the ATR production studio. In 2015, the television company did not receive a license from Roskomnadzor and was forced to move to Kyiv, Dvadzhiev and his family remained in Crimea.
For the past three years, Dlyaver has been working as a director at the Qaradeniz Crimean Tatar production studio and engaged in the filming of music videos and sketches. Among his works is a clip for the famous Crimean Tatar song "Guzel Qyrym", as well as the shooting of the first Crimean Tatar fairytale movie "Hıdır Dede". Now Dvadzhiev is working on the filming of the first Crimean Tatar television series "Shamataly Qoranta" (Noisy Family).
Zair AKADYROV
Author Редакция AvdetPosted on 24.04.2020 24.04.2020 Categories Culture, slider, slider_title


These first 3 pictures were taken at the entrance to the path to the Polynesian resort, from the TTC.
The tiniest Polynesian CM we've ever seen.. This little fellow was on a walking path and looked much brighter in color in person than he does in this picture. We saw a lot of unusual foliage and "critters" (FRIENDLY critters, don't worry!) as we walked the beautiful grounds of the Polynesian.
This picture shows the zero-depth entry of the Volcano pool, it was like walking into the ocean from a beach.
Tiki torches are lit every night and light the walkways around the resort. Beautiful at night!


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