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Individual differences in preferences for and responses to four nicotine replacement products
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2001 Jan 1;153(2):225-30. doi: 10.1007/s002130000577.
R West 1 , P Hajek, F Nilsson, J Foulds, S May, A Meadows
1 St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, UK. r.west@sghms.ac.uk
DOI: 10.1007/s002130000577
Rationale: With several different forms of nicotine replacement therapy available for smokers, it is useful to know about factors that may influence choice of form.
Objective: To examine factors associated with preference for different nicotine replacement products and effectiveness of these products. The simple comparison of success rates between the products has been reported previously.
Methods: Five hundred and four smokers were invited to rank order four products (gum, patch, nasal spray and inhaler) in terms of preference and were then randomly allocated to receive one of the products for a smoking cessation attempt. They were followed up 1 week, 4 weeks, 12 weeks and 15 weeks later. Ratings of the products were repeated 1 week after the quit date. Mood and physical symptoms were assessed at baseline and at each follow-up visit. Urges to smoke were assessed at all post-quit date sessions. Abstinence was assessed by self-report with expired air carbon monoxide verification.
Results: The patch was the most popular product initially, followed by the spray and inhaler and then the gum. The difference was greater for women than men. However, all smokers quickly came to like whichever product they had been allocated. Smokers who initially preferred the spray or inhaler were heavier smokers than those who preferred the gum or patch. Prior experience of the gum was associated with lower initial preference for it, but did not affect outcome. Prior experience with the patch had no effect on preference or outcome. Being allocated to the preferred product did not increase success at stopping smoking. Women were more successful at stopping smoking on the inhaler than the gum. Among highly dependent smokers, those on the inhaler had a lower relapse rate than those on the other products.
Conclusions: Regardless of initial preferences, whether patients obtain their preferred form of NRT or one selected for them did not seem to affect outcome. This may be because smokers came to like particular products as they got used to them. Other things being equal, women may be better advised to use inhaler rather than gum and men vice versa.
Administration, Cutaneous
Administration, Inhalation
Nicotine / administration & dosage
Nicotine / therapeutic use*
Nicotinic Agonists / administration & dosage
Nicotinic Agonists / therapeutic use*
Smoking / psychology
Smoking Cessation / methods*
Nicotinic Agonists


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White House Intruder Carried a Knife, Affidavit Says
Satumba 22, 2014
An explosive technician in a bomb suit approaches a vehicle near the entrance to White House in Washington, Sept. 20, 2014.
The U.S. Secret Service is reviewing its security measures after two incidents in two days at the White House.
Late Friday, a man identified as Omar Gonzalez, 42, was arrested after jumping the White House fence and dashing 70 yards to the front door. He was found to be carrying a 3½-inch-long folding knife.
The man made it through the front door on the North Portico, which is frequently used and just one flight of stairs away from the Obama's living quarters, was unlocked at the time of the breach.
After Gonzalez made it past the door, an officer standing post stopped him and subdued him.
The Secret Service had initially said Gonzalez, of Copperas Cove, Texas, was unarmed. Agents found a Spyderco VG-10 black folding knife with a 3½-inch serrated blade in his pants pocket, according to an affadavit, the French news agency AFP reported.
The U.S. Army said Sunday Gonzalez had served from 1997 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2012, when he retired with an undisclosed disability. He served three tours of duty during the nine-year war.
During an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington on Saturday, Gonzalez was charged with unlawful entry while in possession of a deadly or dangerous weapon. according to AFP. He faces up to 10 years behind bars.
Family not in White House
Just minutes before the breach, the president and his daughters had boarded a helicopter on the South Lawn for a weekend getaway to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.
On Saturday, a second man was arrested for trespassing at the White House. He approached the gates on foot first, but returned with his vehicle to another gate after being sent away by security.
When he refused to leave he was arrested for unlawful entry.
Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary told AFP that Kevin Carr of Shamong, New Jersey, had been charged with trespassing.
Officials downplayed Carr's breach compared to the fence-jumper the day before.
"This is an everyday occurrence," said Ed Donovan, another Secret Service spokesman, adding that at no point did Carr attempt to enter the White House grounds.
Some material for this report came from Reuters and AFP.

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The Reformers of the 16th century were moved to put their livelihoods, homes, fortunes, and lives on the line to restore the Church to the essential teachings of the Gospel. These core teachings have come down to us by five Latin phrases. Translated into English, they teach that salvation is according to Scripture alone, in Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, for the glory of the God alone.
Download or listen to five sermons from Alistair Begg about Preaching.
This month marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation—a pivotal point in church history when reformers like Martin Luther called the wandering sixteenth-century European church to return to the teachings of the Gospel.
In today's world, we don't discuss God's wrath often. While many of us hold to the truth that God is loving and full of grace and mercy, it can be tempting to stop there, leaving us with an incomplete picture of God's true character. In these sermons, Alistair Begg reminds us that while God is loving, He is also just, and there are consequences if we don't accept His Son as our Savior.
The Reformation - How Did It Transform the Church?
When Martin Luther first proposed his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, he wasn't trying to be a revolutionary. 500 years later, though, we look back on that moment as the spark that ignited the Reformation. On that day, he kindled a passion for the Gospel that's still burning bright throughout the world.
The Reformers concluded from Scripture that a true church exists where the Word of God is rightly preached and the ordinances are rightly administered. In its assembly, the local church is made up of believers united to fulfill the work commissioned by Jesus: making disciples of all the nations.
"There is nothing little in God; His steadfast love is like Himself - it is infinite. You cannot measure it."
This month marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. This theological revolution is largely ignored and forgotten, not just in our secular culture, but more tragically in an increasingly confused and compromised Church.


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Tchorzewski est un patronyme pouvant désigner:

Patronyme
Ed Tchorzewski (1943-2008), homme politique canadien de la Saskatchewan
Krzysztof Tchórzewski (1950-), ingénieur et homme politique polonais

Homonymie de patronyme

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Houston Press awards local individuals or organizations that have made animpact in the local arts community with a MasterMind Award. Each winnerreceives a $2,000 check from the Press. The MasterMind Awards is sponsoredby Stella Artois. The winners will be featured in a special section ofHouston Press, and will be honored at the event on January 28. Last year'swinners included:
Horse Head Theatre Co: From the company's ambitious production of Abby Koenig's Spaghetti Code, which dabbled in the touchy subjects of abortion and infertility; to playwright Timothy N. Evers's The Whale; or, Moby-Dick, for which Horse Head erected a geodesic dome on the banks of Buffalo Bayou and engaged the audience in the shared goal of trying to escape; to helping create the immersive experience for the regional premiere of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (produced by Stages Repertory Theatre), these creatives really made us sit up and take notice. The bar has been set.
EMERGE: The EMERGE program at Houston Independent School District has grown exponentially since 2010's trial fellowship by then-teacher Rick Cruz and a team of volunteers. From helping 14 students in its inaugural year — most of them first-generation college-goers — to this year's growing ranks of 700 to 750 kids, EMERGE has paved the way for students to attend Ivy League and Tier One colleges and universities.
University of Houston's Moores Opera Center: For five years in a row, the school's productions have earned top honors from the National Opera Association; this year Rappaccini's Daughter won first place in Division V, while the local premiere of Frau Margot placed second. It was October's production of Jules Massenet'sManon, however, that best demonstrates the school's ability not only to take on massive productions, but also to make them seem effortless.
Preview: Cambodian Rock Band at Alley Theatre
Kriti Kitchen Debuts, Spanish Village Closes Soon
Things To Watch: The Pale Blue Eye
Christian Nurse Practitioner Sues CVS After Getting Fired Over Refusing to Provide Contraception
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Book: Brain on Fire
By DacianJuly 16, 2017 Books
I have always been fascinated with memoirs, the idea of reading the exact thoughts that a person has, albeit subjective, draws me in every time. One of the best things that mass education has given us is the ability of people to write down their lives and experiences – their intimate inner workings and how they chose to deal with a certain situation or event.
Brain on Fire is definitely a memoir, but it is so much more. The level of research that has gone into writing this book is staggering, and if I was to include the gargantuan task that was needed to find the courage and energy to write this it becomes, probably, one of the most interesting books I have ever read.
As I have been dealing with my own struggles I became aware of this book – although I kept postponing reading it for quite a while – mostly because it was about a person that was trying to figure out what was wrong with them and trying to share their experience in doing so, a subject that is very close to my heart.
As a young intellectual with a writing passion that goes through a gruesome medical episode I cannot but admire the necessary effort, both physical and mental, to come up with such a composed and detailed recollection of events – as the author mentions in the book, she had to go through thousands of medical records, speak to an army of doctors and interview every person that was a part of her story in order to remember and recollect what has happened.
The memoir is also unique in the sense that it details almost a breakthrough – a young journalist that suffers what happens to be a breakdown that actually is a very rare and serious disease. Her telling of the numerous doctors and tests that she had to go through to little avail, the way in which it has traumatised her family and the ones closest to her, the way in which she felt like she was losing every sense of what herself was – a disease that was discovered only a few years before she has suffered the episode and the way in which the diagnose was made is almost like the script for a House MD episode, only that this was real and the pain and suffering was not played out, but felt.
The memoir, with its plot and medical terminology explained, is set to offer a vivid exploration into the mind and actions of a sick person, but it also wants to be a resource for people that might be going through the same experience. It is popularising autoimmune disease and informing people that a very unknown disease might be what they are really suffering from and not the more common diagnosis that they have received – the book also mentions in the final chapters the story of a father that, because he had read the experiences of the writer, was able to get the doctors treating his daughter to do the necessary test, diagnose her properly and offer her the needed treatment – so, just by the fact that one life was saved or was significantly improved by the author's story proves that it was well worth the effort of the documentation and writing of the book.
No fiction will ever beat real life – the pain and disorders we go through on a daily basis offers us more knowledge and art that we ever hope to receive from any masterpiece – the fact that one person's experience can make a difference in the lives of others proves that we are on the right track to becoming more knowledgeable and adapt to what difficulties lie ahead.
The story of Susannah Cahalan is one of those rare gems that, through suffering and documentation, grips the reader and makes him suffer. And through that suffering it makes the reader more compassionate and informed, and nothing is more necessary in our day and age.
The monthlong epic compacts so many emotions that it is hard to simply read the book, you have to live the despair of the person that thinks it is losing its mind; the parents of a young adult that go through a shock and a constant fear of what is about to happen; simple lives of friends and lovers that are forever changed by something that they never imagined or prepared for. And to add on top of that, the courage to bring these experiences on paper; to relieve, explore and inform.
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Pedro Chacón  (* 1526 in Toledo; † 1581 in Rom) war ein spanischer Gelehrter. Er lehrte Griechisch an der Universität Salamanca und war Mitglied der Schule von Salamanca.

Chacon studierte in Salamanca und zeichnete sich schon im Studium in Mathematik und Griechisch aus.

1572 ging er nach Rom, um an der Kalenderreform mitzuarbeiten (Gregorianischer Kalender 1582).

Er schrieb eine Geschichte der Universität Salamanca (1990 neu herausgegeben) und schrieb ein Buch über römische Ess-Sitten. Außerdem veröffentlichte er über die Dekrete von Gratian, die Kirchenväter, Maße und Gewichte und Zahlen.

Schriften
Kalendarii Romani veteris Julii Cœsaris aetate marmori incisi explanatio.
Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris M. S.
De Nummis libri III.
Commentaria de Nummis tam Grœcorum et Latinorum quam Hispanorum et Italorum.
In Decretum Gratiani correctiones.
In S. Hieronymum, S. Hilarium, et S. Ambrosium Nota quœdam.
De Triclinio sive de Modo convivandi apud prisco Romanos… accedit Fulvi Ursini Appendix, & Hier. Mercurialis, De accubitus in cena antiquorum origine dissertatio. Amsterdam : Andreas Frisius, 1664.
Historia de la Universidad de Salamanca hecha por el Maestro Pedro Chacón. Transcription and commentary by Ana María Carabias Torres, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1990.

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Mathematiker (16. Jahrhundert)
Gräzist
Hochschullehrer (Universität Salamanca)
Spanier
Geboren 1526
Gestorben 1581
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Influence of platelet reactivity on BARC classification in East Asian patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Results of the ACCEL-BLEED study.
An increasing body of data suggests that East Asian patients have differing risk profiles for both thrombophilia and bleeding compared with Western population. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship of bleeding to platelet function in East Asians undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Patients who had undergone uneventful PCI (n= 301) were prospectively enrolled and bleeding events were evaluated during dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) with aspirin and clopidogrel. Platelet function was measured during hospitalisation and at 30-day follow-up by light transmittance aggregometry (LTA) and vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein phosphorylation (VASP-P) assay. During 30-day follow-up, 29.2 % of patients (n= 88) experienced post-discharge Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) complications (24.6 % and 7.0 % of BARC type 1 and 2, respectively). Patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction had fewer episodes of type 1 BARC bleeding (odds ratio: 0.41; 95 % confidence interval: 0.22 to 0.76; p= 0.005). The cut-off of low platelet reactivity (LPR) (20 µM ADP-induced platelet aggregation ≤ 46.1 %; platelet reactivity index ≤ 45.1 %) was the independent determinant of type 2 BARC bleeding (odds ratio: 3.55 and 4.44; p= 0.009 and 0.002, respectively). The first 30-day BARC bleeding episodes were associated with an increased rate of subsequent premature DAPT discontinuation during one-year follow-up (4.7 % vs 11.4 %; odds ratio: 2.60; 95 % confidence interval: 1.04 to 6.50; p= 0.035). In conclusion, among East Asians, mild bleeding episodes are common early after PCI and are associated with premature DAPT discontinuation. Type 2 BARC bleeding episodes are associated with LPR cut-offs measured at 30 days post-discharge.


Java program to print mirrored half diamond star pattern program. We have written below the print/draw mirrored half diamond asterisk/star pattern program in four different ways with sample example and output, check it out. At the end of the program, we added compiler so that you can execute the below codes.
1) For loop, execute the group of statements n number of times.
3) 2nd inner loop will display the character until the condition j<i is false. The 1st outer loop will display this pattern after all iterations.
4) The 2nd outer loop iterates until the condition i>0 is false, the first inner loop will display space until j<=n-i is false. The 2nd inner loop will display character until the condition j<=i is false. The 2nd outer loop will display this pattern.
1) 1st outer while loop will execute the code until the condition i<=n is false. The 1st inner loop will display the space until the condition j++<=n-i is false, the 2nd inner loop will display the character until the condition j++<=i is false. The 1st outer loop will display the first half of the pattern of mirrored half diamond star pattern.
After first outer loop execution, the cursor comes to next line and executes the 2nd outer while loop.
2) 2nd outer loop will execute the statements until the condition i>0 is false, the 1st inner loop displays the space until the condition j++<=n-i is false, the 2nd inner loop will display character until the condition j++<=i is false. The 2nd outer loop will display the remaining half of the pattern of a mirrored half diamond.
1) The do-while loop executes the code one time then checks the condition at while.
2) The 1st outer do-while loop executes the code until the condition is false ++i<=n is false, 1st inner loop will display the space until the condition ++j<=n-i+1 is false, 2nd inner loop will display character until the condition ++j<=i is false. This outer loop displays half of the pattern of a mirrored half diamond pattern.
3) The 2nd outer do-while loop executes the code until the condition–i>0 is false, 1st inner loop will display space until the condition ++j<=n-i+1, 2nd inner loop will display character until the condition ++j<=i is false. This outer loop displays the remaining half of the pattern of a mirrored half diamond pattern.


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Adding, removing and reordering countries
My thoughts would be that since a new rulesmd.ini is going to be provided, it should be based on the UMP .ini rather than standard YR since it fixes many bugs.
The Man with the Shock Rifle
The UMP features that don't alter gameplay and as long as it doesn't make the patch lots of MBs big (there were some fixed SHPs in it, the weather storm for instance, which I think should be included), I'm generally with this.
The problem is that is would drastically increase the amount of required changes if a non-UMP user changes to RP2 with an existing mod.
A possible solution for that is some kind of a "RP2 Setup" program, which allows installtion of single RP2 INI changes...
That would be several UMP options for one, but it would also allow for an automatic installation of the new countries system, which would go through the [Countries] section, find the countries' data and add tags with default values to it.
There are quite some possibilities.
But we should consider Bobing's concerns, it would really suck ass if one would have to update a mod everytime a new RP2 version gets released.
This makes me consider having default values... will be a damn pain to implement though... >.<
Ultimos Homo Statans
I'm actually in the process of writing a small tool to automatically add the UMP changes to a mod's existing rules and art.
Given that RP2 isn't going to be a mod in itself, there shouldn't be a requirement for mod's built on RP2 to include the UMP - but they can if they want to using my new tool.
I plan to release the UMP DevPack on Launch Base soon. This will include the new tool as well as a new bug fix.
For simplicity, the UMP and RP2 should be separate and a UMP mod for RP2 should be released.
I don't think default values for the new countries system are neccessary - as long as RP2 doesn't make a habit of changing things that require mod rewrites then I think we can live with it!
Ever wondered what the hell is going on?
Believe me friend you're not the only one.
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Check out Launch Base for RA2/YR - http://marshall.strategy-x.com
Also home to the Purple Alert mod, 1.002 UMP, and the YR Playlist Manager.
The thing is that I don't know how many of these major changes will be made.
For now it's clear: countries and sides, maybe some mouse cursors (more info later in another thread).
Right now I cannot think of any logics being revamped totally, but that might change over the time.
Well, RP2 mods could/should contain the specific RP2 version they need, but that would be a lot of installing/uninstalling which would be very annoying.
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29.11.2007, 21:40:27 (This post was last modified: 29.11.2007, 21:41:37 by gordon-creAtive.)
No it won't. LaunchBase is a really fine thing - It install automatically the necessary version!
Indeed, a facility that gordon-creAtive requested was an option for Launch Base to detect and install/uninstall the required version of the RockPatch when a user launches a mod.
Launch Base and the latest version of RP-Gen (which I sent pd recently) will also allow the RP to specify how far backwards-compatible a version of RP2 is to previous versions, in case a version of RP2 does break compatibility.
I think the easiest thing would be for pd not to worry about breaking compatibility - any mod author releasing an RP2 mod should be keeping an eye on developments and updating as neccessary, something which Launch Base can help with.
And if a mod author releases an RP2 mod and then stops updating, the users will be expected to use an earlier version of RP2. As long as there are enough legacy versions of RP2 kept available to cover backwards-compatibility then there's no problem.


ALMATY (Reuters) - Uzbekistan's parliament named Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as interim president on Thursday in succession to the late President Islam Karimov, saying stability and law and order had to be maintained in the populous Central Asian state.
Mirziyoyev, 59, secured the top job when the man who should have become transitional leader under the constitution bowed out in his favor, saying he had long experience in office and enjoyed the respect of people.
The authoritarian Karimov died of a stroke last week aged 78 after ruling the resource-rich country for 27 years.
Under the Uzbek constitution, a presidential election must now be held within three months, and Mirziyoyev, who was the official mourner-in-chief at Karimov's funeral and met Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, is widely expected to be elected.
Russia, the United States and China vie for influence in Uzbekistan, a country of 32 million bordering Afghanistan.
Central Asia pundits say they do not expect any drastic policy changes under Mirziyoyev, a former regional governor valued by Karimov as a competent manager.
With his appointment as acting head of state, Mirziyoyev leapfrogged the little-known Senate chairman Nigmatilla Yuldashev, who under the constitution should have led the country during the transition period.
Yuldashev turned down the role and instead asked to for Mirziyoyev to be instated as acting president, taking into account "his long experience of work in executive positions and respect among the people", the parliament said in a statement.
Parliament supported Yuldashev's motion, stressing the "need to preserve stability, public security, law and order and effectively resolve political and economic issues".
Karimov cast his country as a bulwark against militant Islam but drew Western criticism for suppressing political dissent. Human rights groups say there are hundreds of political and religious prisoners in local jails and say torture is practiced.
In contrast to the West, Putin said during his visit to Tashkent this week he hoped the new Uzbek leader would continue Karimov's work, putting a stamp on Moscow's claim to be the former Soviet republic's closest ally.


Blog - Drescher Elson Sperber, P.C.
Married couples and Registered Domestic Partners have options when creating revocable living trusts. One option is the simple Probate Avoidance Trust, with the other option being an A/B Trust.
At the death of the first spouse (or partner), this Trust continues for the benefit of the survivor, becoming irrevocable only at the survivor's death.
It is important to understand the survivor's ability to change the terms of the Trust after the first death. Because the Trust remains revocable, the survivor has complete control over the disposition of the entire estate at their death. As a result, the survivor could exclude the children, heirs, or other intended beneficiaries of the decedent.
Another potential disadvantage of the simple Trust has to do with estate taxes. All Trust property passes to the survivor and if, at their death, the estate is over either the state estate tax exemption amount (currently $1,000,000), or the federal estate tax exemption amount (currently $11,400,000), an estate tax will be imposed. However, this can be addressed in a variety of ways, including the use of a Disclaimer Trust written into the main Trust. The main advantage to Disclaimer Trusts is that a decision to utilize it is not necessary until after the first death. However, disclaiming must occur within 9 months of the date of death, and so conversations about whether or not to disclaim must be had sooner rather than later after the first death.
This type of Trust calls for a mandatory split of the Trust assets into two new Trusts at the first death, one of which (the A Trust) remains fully amendable by the survivor, the other of which (the B Trust) is "born" an irrevocable Trust.
Historically, A/B Trusts were used to keep the decedent's estate from ever being subjected to an estate tax, with the B Trust set up for the benefit of the survivor, and then out to the other beneficiaries at the survivor's death. However, I now find that the simple Trust with the Disclaimer Trust language works better for most clients, giving them more flexibility and time to decide if they want (or need) to engage in estate tax planning.
I utilize A/B Trust most often when working with blended families, as a way for the decedent to retain control over their half of the estate after death. While the survivor typically receives all of the net income from the B Trust, extra provisions are likely added restricting the survivor's access the principal of the B Trust and it is important to understand how these limitations may affect the survivor's lifestyle. Because the B Trust is irrevocable, the decedent knows their estate will ultimately be distributed to their intended beneficiaries.Whichever type of Trust is ultimately chosen, it is important to understand that as circumstances change, amendments may be necessary. There is nothing wrong with this; in fact, I believe it is the mark of a good estate plan.
This organization is a long-time favorite of mine. Recently entering its tenth year, Music & Memory is a non-profit organization that brings personalized music into the lives of the elderly or infirm through digital music technology, vastly improving quality of life.
In April 2012, a documentary about our work, Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, was previewed at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. A video clip of Henry, one of the residents reawakened by listening to his Cab Calloway favorites, went viral, now with more than 11 million views, boosting awareness and enthusiastic interest in our program.
As a musician, I can personally attest to the power of music. According to Music & Memory, researchers at University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City used brain imaging to demonstrate that familiar music may facilitate attention, reward and motivation, which in turn makes it more possible to manage emotional distress for people with dementia.
A pilot study at Columbia Health Care, Wisconsin, published in conjunction with Stephen Post, PhD, of Stony Brook University Hospital, indicates that listening to personal music favorites improves swallowing in individuals with advanced dementia, making eating easier and potentially diminishing reliance on feeding tubes.
In Scottsdale, Arizona, Kari Johnson, PhD, RN, with HonorHealth, examined the connection between listening to favorite music and delirium prevention in hospital trauma ICU settings. Her controlled study found that patients in the music intervention group experienced a statistically significant reduction in physiological measures of anxiety, a major factor in delirium onset.
I invite you to peruse their website and learn more about this amazing organization.


Scientists measure radiation in different ways. Sometimes, they measure the dose that a person receives from a radioactive source, and sometimes they measure the amount of radioactivity in water, or in soil, or in the air. Each measure describes a different aspect of radiation, and each has its own unit.
3 days of background radiation in Atlanta.
2 days of background radiation in Denver.
1 year of wearing a watch with a luminous dial.
1 year of living next door to a normally operating nuclear power plant.
Radioactivity refers to the amount of ionizing radiation released by a material. Whether it emits alpha or beta particles, gamma rays, x-rays, or neutrons, a quantity of radioactive material is expressed in terms of its radioactivity (or simply its activity). This represents how many atoms in the material decay in a given time period. The units of measurement for radioactivity are the curie curieThe curie is U.S. unit used to measure radioactivity. One curie is roughly the activity of one gram of Radium-226. Curies are not used to measure radiation dose. The international unit is the Becquerel (Bq). (Ci, U.S. unit) and becquerel becquerelBecquerels are the international unit used to measure radioactivity. One becquerel is the amount of a radioactive material that will undergo one transformation per second. Becquerels are not used to measure radiation dose or radiation exposure. The U.S. unit is the Curie (Ci). (Bq, international unit).
Exposure describes the amount of radiation traveling through the air. Many types of radiation monitors measure exposure. The units for exposure are the roentgen (R, U.S. unit) and coulomb/kilogram (C/kg, international unit).
Absorbed dose describes the amount of radiation absorbed by an object or person. The unit for absorbed dose is the rad radThe U.S. unit used to measure absorbed radiation dose (the amount of radiation absorbed by an object or person). The international equivalent is the Gray (Gy). One hundred rads are equal to 1 Gray. (U.S. unit) or the gray grayA gray is the international unit used to measure absorbed dose (the amount of radiation absorbed by an object or person). The U.S. unit for absorbed dose is the rad. One gray is equal to 100 rads. (Gy, international unit). One gray is equal to 100 rads.
Effective dose describes the amount of radiation absorbed by person, adjusted to account for the type of radiation received and the effect on particular organs. The unit used for effective dose is rem remThe U.S. unit to measure effective dose. The international unit is sieverts (Sv). (U.S. unit) or sievert sievertAn international unit used to measure effective dose. The U.S. unit is rem. (Sv, international unit).
One sievert is equal to 100 rems. More commonly, dose is measured in much smaller units: millirems or millisieverts. A millirem milliremThe millirem is the U.S. unit used to measure effective dose. One millirem equals 0.001 rem. The international unit is milliSievert (mSv). (mrem) is one thousandth of a rem. A millisievert is one thousandth of a sievert.
Use the Radiation Dose Calculator to estimate your yearly dose from sources of ionizing radiation.


South Sudanese rebels have released two Kenyan pilots they were holding after receiving compensation for the family of a civilian killed when their plane crashed last month, a rebel spokesman said on Monday.
The plane came down in Akobo, in the Greater Upper Nile region in early January, and the rebels asked for compensation for the family of a woman who was killed, and for others who lost livestock.
I have just confirmed now that pilots have been released by the local leaders of Akobo after they received a full compensation from the Kenya delegates.
"I have just confirmed now that pilots have been released by the local leaders of Akobo after they received a full compensation from the Kenya delegates," Lam said.
A Kenyan foreign ministry spokesman said they would issue a statement.
Oil-rich South Sudan has been in the throes of civil war since 2013 months after President Salva Kiir fired his then deputy Riek Machar.
The conflict has displaced a third of the population, shut down most of the oil production and strangled the economy.
Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo in 2016 after fierce fighting broke out in Juba, is now being held in South Africa to stop him fomenting trouble, diplomatic and political sources say.


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Café Etrusca, es una empresa mexicana, que se dedica a la producción, venta y distribución de café de especialidad proveniente de los estados de Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo, Chiapas, Oaxaca y Guerrero. La especialidad de Café Etrusca es el proveer insumos de alta calidad en los segmentos Gourmet y de especialidad.

Café Etrusca se caracteriza por dar servicio a las Cafeterías gourmet la cual se ve efectuada desde la producción de café gourmet de alta especialidad, asesoramiento a emprendedores y empresarios, capacitación y venta de insumos, venta de maquinaria y equipo para cafeterías.

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Páginas Oficiales:

Marcas de café
Café de México
Empresas de México
Empresas de alimentación de México


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Alois Schwarz ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Alois Schwarz (Chemiker) (1854–1928), mährischer Lehrer und Chemiker
 Alois Schwarz (Politiker) (1932–2007), österreichischer Politiker (ÖVP), Bürgermeister von Eisenstadt
 Alois Schwarz (Bischof) (* 1952), österreichischer Geistlicher, Bischof von St. Pölten
 Alois Schwarz (Skilangläufer) (1965–1999), österreichischer Skilangläufer

Siehe auch:
 Alois Schwartz (* 1967), deutscher Fußballspieler und -trainer


Pam has made an in-depth scientific study of the fasinating and sophisticated communication that takes place between wild dogs in Eastern Africa, and followed it up with studies on communication between domestic dogs, and between dogs and their owners within many thousands of homes in many countries.
Her highly successful and extremely popular book on The Language of the Pack (i.e. Nature's Formula for Obedeince) - Living with an Alien, teaches dog owners how to co-exist peaceably with their dogs by looking at the world through their eyes - rather than by trying to impose human logic onto them. This simple, non-gimmicky, down-to-earth shift in perspective makes dog owing easy, and evenmore enjoyable!
Pam wrote her first humorous book, Who Wants a Dog! in 1975. In 1978 it was published in the UK, where the London Times said: "This book provides a much needed new approach to dog owning." It was translated into Braille and Afrikaans - as 'n Hond vir die Huis, and is now in Japanese. It is now updated as Living with an Alien, to meet today's more sophisticated market - and more sophisticated dogs.
Even very "disobedient"dogs, are simply dogs that would dearly love to please their owners - if only they could understand what they're saying! Dogs are not disobedient! They're not stupid! Or stubborn... They're just not English. They're Doglish. Ever tried saying something to a person who doesn't speak your language, then tried saying the same thing to them in their own language? The change in their behaviour is amazing! You can expect the same dramatic change in the behaviour of your dog - once he understands what you're saying to him!
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Carriera

Club
originario della piccola Vestmannaeyjar svolge nella squadra della sua città, l'ÍBV, sia la trafila giovanile che l'ingresso nei campionati maggiori islandesi. Il 18 gennaio 2013, passa in prestito ai norvegesi del Sarpsborg 08.

Nazionale
Ha effettuato la trafila nelle Nazionali giovanili del suo paese, con l'Under-21 parteciperà all'europeo di categoria del 2011 dopo aver preso parte alle qualificazioni della stessa.

Palmarès

Club

Competizioni nazionali

Hafnarfjörður: 2015, 2016

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Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale islandese


Naming this collection Artee was no accident. These tiny works of art were inspired by graffiti and street art.
There are Bleenks with drip painting, rainbow effects or two-toned. All work swimmingly to express the creative side of your look.
Bleenk black with yellow pincushion.


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# Cloud control with kubernetes

# UnExpose new replication controller as a service
kubectl delete -f service.json

# Delete the cluster
gcloud container clusters delete kyrene --zone=europe-west1-c

# Eliminar la imagen del servidor
gcloud docker push gcr.io/funfunfunction-149923/kyrene:1

echo "Ahora conecta al console.gcloud.com y borra el storage de la imagen"

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


I graduated from Napier University Edinburgh in 2008 with a BEng(Hons) in Computer Networks & Distributed Systems. As part of my honours dissertation I studied and developed software for the Android mobile platform which was created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. I then went back to Napier to study an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering which I finally completed in 2011 while working in my full time job as a Software Developer at The Environment Exchange.
Professionally I specialise in C# development for both desktop and the web using ASP.NET and Windows Presentation Foundation. I also have a personal passion for Linux and other Open Source projects such as PHP and MySQL. Since 2006 I have designed an run a number of websites for local groups and businesses using open source technologies.
I am also involved with Penicuik Hunter and Lass and represented my home town as the Penicuik Hunter for 2007. Many of the pictures in the galleries were taken at various Borders Festivals.
Then go and do something useful.


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The Compagnia Generale di Elettricità S.p.A. (General Electric Power Company) was an Italian joint-stock company founded in 1921 in Milan. The company was widely know in Italy as simple acronym CGE, it was primarily owned and managed by General Electric USA.

CGE manufactured electrical applications, simple high voltage transformers, generators, powerplants and engines for trains and trolleybuses in particular.
It manufactured a certain number of its products for the European market. In the transport sector, CGE was well known for its electric components that equipped many rolling stocks,
trolley buses, railway and locomotive applications. During its active period, CGE competed against two Italian companies: Ansaldo and "Italian Tecnomasio Brown Boveri" (TIBB).

The company was later the EMC Traction Operating Unit of Ansaldo Transmissione e Distribuzione S.r.l. and was acquired by IMPulse NC, INC. in 2000.

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Defunct manufacturing companies of Italy
Electronics companies of Italy
Manufacturing companies based in Milan


Religious Education is one of the distinguishing features of the Catholic school and this has been so since the formation of Catholic schools in Australia.
Much discussion of Religious Education in the past fifty years has centred around the term, nature and function of 'religious education' as it occurs in school classrooms. Over this time, the activity of religious instruction in classrooms has carried various names from Catechism, Catechetics, Religious Instruction, Christian Living to Religious Education. The changes in name reflect different approaches to teaching and learning in Religious Education.
Catechism and Catechetics both emerge from the Greek word 'catechesis' which means 'to echo'. In the early church, when most people had limited access to the written word and very few people could read or write, a catechetical approach to teaching the Catholic faith was adopted. The approach involved a focus on the spoken word when potential new-comers to faith learned the tenets of the faith by echoing the words of the priest teacher. They also learned the stories recorded in scripture through the arts: images of the nativity, the crucifixion and the resurrection were painted on church walls and these images retold the life of the Jesus and, in turn, reminded people how they should live their lives. Later, in the early 1500s during the Reformation, Martin Luther produced the first Catechism: in fact, he produced three different types of Catechism – one for preachers, another for teachers, and a third for children.
The Catechism consisted of a series of questions and answers which children learned and recited. Rote learning of this type continued until the early 1960s and was a common form of instruction for many subject areas, not just religion – we learned our tables, spelling, geography and history in a similar way. In many ways, we did not know a great deal about how children learned, and so we treated children like mini adults and taught them in a manner which was more suitable for adults.
In the late 1950s, religious educators began to investigate different approaches to teaching and learning, and they learned a great deal from developments in other subject areas. Eventually, religion books developed specifically for children were written, and many may remember the My Way to God series which was a landmark development in the teaching of religion in the 1960s. These books contained Bible stories, prayers and coloured illustrations, and the accompanying teacher texts explained how teachers could best use the books with children.
Changes too took place in the teaching of religion for students in secondary schools in the 1960s. The title Christian Living reflects one of these changes. Rather than a focus on rote learning, Christian Living attempted to start with the life experience of the student and often involved sharing personal stories. One of the weaknesses in this approach was that it often lacked serious content and, therefore, was not taken seriously. By the early 1970s, changes in the make-up of the population of Catholic schools was also beginning to occur: no longer could we presume that all the students in the religion class were Catholic, nor that they were all practising Catholics. Catechetical models of Religious Education are sometimes referred to as faith-forming models, and generally involve a community of believers and aim to help people grow in their faith. The strong emphasis placed on sharing and development of faith presumes that the students concerned are willing participants in the catechetical process.
The student population of Catholic schools in Australia today reflects the diversity of beliefs and practices both within and outside the Catholic faith. By the mid 1970s, some religious educators began to separate catechesis (faith formation) from religious education (learning about and from religion). The American religious educator Gabriel Moran describes Religious Education as having a twofold complementary function: teaching people about religion (which is what predominantly should occur in the religion classroom) and teaching people how to be religious in a particular way (which is the function of the Catholic schools as a whole in partnership with families and parishes). This definition is helpful because it enables a robust teaching about religion to take place in the classroom and does not presume that all of the students belong to the one faith tradition. It also enables students to learn about religions other than their own which is necessary if we are to negotiate living peacefully in today's world.
By the mid 1980s, in most states in Australia, Religion Studies or Study of Religion programs had been developed for Years 11 and 12 students. These new religion courses taught about the five major world religions from an objective stand point, and enabled students to investigate and critique elements of the major world religions.
In today's religiously diverse world, it is imperative that students have a working knowledge of the world's major religions. Religious Education in Catholic schools, involves first and foremost learning about the 'home tradition', i.e. Catholicism, and as students become more mature, they begin to learn about the religions of others while continuing to learn about Catholic Christianity.
To be well educated in today's world, students need to be aware of the religious diversity of our social context. This requires a level of religious literacy to enable them to function effectively in our current environment. Learning about religion can break down barriers, assist us to understand the social contract and encourage social cohesion. Students, therefore, need to learn about and from religion which includes the 'home tradition' as well as the religious traditions of others.
The foundation Chair of Religious Education at Australian Catholic University, Peta has experience as a primary, secondary and tertiary educator, and has presented to teachers both nationally and internationally. She was awarded a Carrick Citation for excellence in teaching in 2006 and Australian Catholic University's Excellence in Teaching Award 2005. Peta's research interests are focused on teaching scripture through representations of scriptural texts in the arts, as well as developing innovative pedagogies for teaching world religions. She is the national president of the Australian Association for Religious Education, a key body for representing religious educators in Australia. She has chaired the writing of the Study of Religion Syllabus for senior secondary students for the Queensland Studies Authority in 2001 and 2008, and recently was invited by Cambridge University Press to write two books for senior secondary students Investigating Religion and Exploring Religion and Ethics.
Peta has a number of books, book chapters and journal articles to her credit, and has also delivered key note addresses at many national and international conferences and public forums. Peta is currently Associate Dean, Catholic Identity and Partnerships at ACU's Faculty of Education.


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Ford EV Raw Material Strategy Does Not Follow Tesla Playbook
In recent months, Ford has worked overtime to secure the raw materials it needs to reach its goals of producing 600,000 EVs annually by 2023 and two million by 2026 by signing deals with a number of suppliers across the globe. The same is true of the automaker's joint venture partner, SK On, which itself has recently signed deals with companies like Lake Resources and Global Lithium Resources. Additionally, Ford plans to switch the Ford F-150 Lightning EV pickup and Ford Mustang Mach-E crossover to lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries from the current lithium-ion units for the foreseeable future, as they don't use nickel or cobalt in their construction – moves that are critical as the price of lithium surges. This Ford EV raw material strategy is quite a bit different than Tesla's, which is a good thing in this case, according to a new report from Bloomberg.
Before other players like Ford and GM entered the EV realm, Tesla essentially had full control over the raw materials market, dictating its own terms in the process. Things have changed dramatically in recent times, however, and those same materials are in high demand and short supply, which is precisely why Ford is forging partnerships with its suppliers.
On the flip side, Tesla has historically avoided such moves, at least in terms of partnering with suppliers to develop new mining operations. Additionally, the automaker has thus far shunned opportunities to acquire mines or lithium companies itself. This strategy worked fine for some time, now now, it's becoming a bit of a problem, it seems.
Tesla's competitors are happy to "stuff money into a bazooka and just blast it at the supply chain," said Chris Berry, president of House Mountain Partners, a battery-metals consultant. "Tesla can't throw their weight around in terms of negotiations." Meanwhile, lithium demand is expected to increase more than fivefold by the end of the current decade, and since it takes around $1 billion and six years to construct a new mine, lithium shortages are expected to continue until at least 2026.
We'll have more on Ford's EV strategy soon, so be sure and subscribe to Ford Authority for around-the-clock Ford news coverage.
Ford CEO Farley Says EV Battery Raw Material Costs To Remain High
Here's Why The Ford Mustang Mach-E Does Not Offer Ventilated Seats
Ford Active Drive Assist Does Not Record Personal Information Like Tesla
Ford Return To Work Playbook Published, Outlines New Policies And Procedures
New Ford Bronco Will Get Two-Vehicle Strategy, But Not The Way We Thought
Ford Could Follow GM In Reporting Sales Results Quarterly, Not Monthly
I don't get the bazooka comment.
Shouldn't Tesla have a first mover advantage over traditional because, at least at the moment, they are the big player? Or is it more forward looking fact that at max electrification, there will be more units from traditional, that the ore folks are responding to?
I scanned article and commented before running off to an appointment.
In the meantime the bazooka comment is clear.
The traditional OEMs in an effort to rapidly industrialize and transition to EV powertrains are playing catch up.
They are paying above market price from when Tesla had little competition.
The scramble and current ore supply bottleneck has created a sellers market for mining concerns.
Some observations follow:
– depending on the strength and duration of Tesla's long term ore contracts it will have to reckon with price increases.
– the ore commodity prices will remain high for awhile until enough mines come on line and competition brings prices back down.
– companies who are entering late are going to have very high ore costs because they will be at the mercy of miners who are already booked and quite busy bringing new mines on line.
– small players like jlr may not survive the move to EV unless they can attach to some other OEM who has scale based negotiation leverage. (AstonMartin will have to lean heavily on Mercedes, Ferrari on Stellantis.)
If solid state hydrogen arrives-Toyota has a working prototype- a giant ballon could rupture. No mining reqired for solid state hydrogen.
"Solid state hydrogen" is not a thing.
"Solid state" refers to a newer trend in the chemistry/construction of batteries (i.e. with "no" liquid electrolyte component to them.)
Hydrogen refers, in Toyota's preferred approach, to onboard electrical generation via an onboard fuel cell fed from hydrogen stored in onboard pressurized fuel tanks.
Comment: Except for large vehicles with plenty of space to store all this onboard gadgetry, which requires fueling from a filling station style pump with super chilled liquid H2, transported old-style to filling stations by tankers (instead of delivered over electrical lines) this technology IMHO will have limited applications and be all but non existent in light vehicles (most likely to be seen in busses and medium/heavy duty trucks.).
To my mind, the vast majority of cars (higher share) and light commercial vehicle (lower share) buyers will prefer BEV over H2/FC because of the relative ease of use. This preference gap will only increase as battery chemistry and charging speeds improve. (Today we are somewhere like the 30 pin connector days of the iPhone, getting close to the lightning connector days and the Qi wireless charging days are probably less than 10 years off.)
Finally, my sense is that H2 doesn't have the same remaining development potential as battery chemistry, so that over time, batteries will become even more competitive against H2FC tech.
GeeBird
I hope you are right about the speed of improved battery technology. One should also consider the spillover effect of the technology to solar electric systems. Given the limitations of the current infrastructure, and the staggering cost to upgrade electric transmission capacities, the most viable long-term solution is widespread adoption of residential solar electric with on-site battery storage. Additionally, such a strategy will make it almost impossible for a fully distributed electrical supply infrastructure to be taken out by disaster or hostile actions. Long-term, it is both economically and strategically desirable. And it will require the advances in battery technology you describe.
Agree that long term, distributed micro generation is the way to go but also think stringing additional lines isn't as monumentally expensive as one might think.
I just wish the US would finally get to burying non hi voltage lines to get beyond all the own goal weather related failures (ice, snow, trees, hurricanes, etc.); these savings would defray much of the costs of the upgrade.
Ford needs to vertically integrate its raw material needs just like Henry Ford himself did. Unless you control the supply chain yourself, you are at the mercy of others.


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This Kuala Kangsar By-Election Candidate Thinks Women Are Too Incompetent To Lead
'WTF Wednesday': The former UiTM Perak lecturer argues that when "women are not qualified to lead a family, how can they lead something larger?"
By Sadho Ram — 08 Jun 2016, 02:12 PM
#wtfwednesday
#misogynist
#sexist
#sexism
#malaysianpolitics
#politicsmalaysia
#kualakangsar
#byelection
Cover image via Marcus Pheong/The Malay Mail Online
Meet Izat Bukhary Ismail Bukhary. He is contesting the Kuala Kangsar by-election as an independent candidate.
It's not his first time trying his luck in politics.
He has been doing this since he first ran in the 2013 General Elections for the Pengkalan Kubor parliamentary seat and failed.
Image via JRO
However, despite consistently failing to garner even a respectable number of votes (the highest he has received is 65), the former Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) lecturer hasn't given up hopes
While you can praise Bukhary's will to continue on his political aspirations, you cannot help but wonder why he has failed to make a mark in the last three elections he contested. It might have something to do with how the 49-year-old views women.
According to him, if women become state or country leaders, there will be problems.
He has held this sexist viewpoint against women since he started contesting elections. In fact, in this Astro AWANI piece from 2014, Bukhary even goes on to claim that allowing women to become leaders went against the principles of Islam.
"Even Islam says a leader must be a Muslim first and along the line, the leader also must be a man. In Islam, God forbid women from leading a family, what more a state."
Image via Giphy
And this year, too it's the same (old) story for Bukhary
He says he is contesting the Kuala Kangsar by-election because he reportedly doesn't trust women leaders and wanted to provide Kuala Kangsar voters with an alternative to the two female candidates in the Perak parliamentary by-election —BN's Mastura Mohd Yazid and PAS' Dr Najihatussalehah Ahmad.
"I don't believe in women (leaders) because men lead women. If they (women) are not qualified to lead a family, how can they lead something larger?" Bukhary was quoted as saying by The Malay Mail Online on 5 June 2016 after he submitted nomination papers.
"I have never agreed to women being leaders from the beginning. I feel men should be leaders and I don't believe in political parties because they are all 'cari makan' (looking to serve themselves). Parties only push people further apart."
Surprisingly, while he opposes women in the role of leaders, the former UiTM lecturer has said he supports the Citizens' Declaration
An initiative that is supported and spearheaded by two of the most prominent women leaders in the country, Ambiga Sreenevasan and Maria Chin Abdullah, among others - seeking the ouster of PM Najib Razak in return for the political support of Dr. Mahathir.
Men like Bukhary find it easier to dismiss women's stake in society and politics under the guise of religion so to further assert their control on them. But men like Bukhary also easily forget that no religious argument can keep women from claiming what is rightfully theirs. Be it taking care of her family or even leading a country.
'WTF Wednesday', as the name suggests, is a column about the most WTF piece of news the world has on offer on a Wednesday.
If you come across a news item that you think deserves to be featured in our 'WTF Wednesday' column, send it to [email protected] with 'Submission for WTF Wednesday' as the subject line. If we like what we see, we will get back to you!
Speaking of which, in our previous WTF Wednesday feature, Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia's (Isma) President Abdullah Zaik Abd Rahman gave Bukhary tough competition:
Apparently, ISMA Still Hasn't Gotten The Memo That Says It's 2016...
IMHO, ISMA wants to control Malaysian women with their stone age mentality.


Mercer County High School is in search of a new boys varsity basketball coach. Mike Jones has submitted his resignation to the district. He spent two seasons as head coach of the Eagles.
Mercer County High School bass fishing coach Aaron Heartt joined WRMJ Sports Director Jim Taylor in studio Saturday morning for the WRMJ Sportsline.
Shawn Strachan is resigning as girls varsity basketball coach at Rockridge High School. His resignation is on the Monday Rockridge School Board agenda. Strachan just finished his 17th season leading the Rockets.


Why to Buy an AR Pistol?
It is apparent that in the firearms world there are two types of people those that like AR pistols and those that HATE them. Let's dissect this and go over the pros and cons, but be advised I am writing this as a former hater and now believer.
First we need to define what an AR pistol is, I will do this as clearly and concisely as I can. Basically an AR pistol is an AR-15 rifle with a barrel shorter than 16 inches, also known as a Short Barreled Rifle (SBR). The AR pistol has one unique feature that DOES differentiate it from its cousin the SBR, and that is that the AR pistol IS without the stock, AND without the carbine/ rifle buffer-tube. Please note well, as far as the ATF is concerned the mere installation of a carbine / rifle buffer-tube on an AR pistol will change the classification of the pistol to an SBR, regardless is a stock is installed on that tube.
Now that we have covered that, when AR pistols first hit the market they just had a buffer-tube and no apparatus on the tube. These were the original AR pistols that were a decaf solution for those not wanting to spend the time and money to pursue the SBR route, or those living in states that forbid the possession of a SBR. I believe this is what really polarized the way people felt about the AR pistol, you had a firearm that was neither fish nor fowl, meaning; it shot rifle bullets but offered no solution to mitigate rifle-caliber recoil, or stability to assure a steady shot when fired. At this stage in the game the deck was stacked against the AR Pistol.
Several years ago the advent of braces put some fuel in the tank of the AR pistol market, but these braces left a lot to be desired- they fit awkwardly, rotated and collapsed forward on the tube when shouldered and really weren't aesthetically pleasing. Despite all that he brace was a clever solution to the aforementioned problems the initial AR pistols had.
Recently the ATF has rescinded this edict and now "shouldering" is allowed. So now the "shouldering" use of a brace or storage device is acceptable and opens up the potential of the AR pistol platform. In other words the AR pistol is really the poor-man's or clever-man's, SBR. Now that we are able to "shoulder" our pistols there is no better time to buy an AR pistol and slap on the next generation of pistol apparatus, and that is the Pistol Storage Device.
Please reference the Pistol Storage Device review for all the specs and info on why this product outperforms any and all pistol braces and is an elegant solution and potential reason for the naysayers to come over to the AR pistol side of the fence.
Why Shoot an AR Pistol?
Either you have an AR pistol or you don't. I am going to illustrate reasons why you should have one if you do not already and tell you about some solutions that you might not be aware of in the AR pistol market.
There are many reasons why shooters should look into the purchase of an AR pistol if they have not done so yet. And yes, I know that many of you will just SBR your lower and take it from there, but since the ATF redefined the process for obtaining any NFA item like an Short Barreled Rifle (SBR) in June of 2016, it has become more tedious of a process for many of us. So what does that have to do with AR pistols you say? It has a lot to do with AR pistols, starting with why we buy SBR's. We buy SBR's for many reasons, superior ballistic performance, and lots of power in a small package, they look cool, and we're American!
One can argue that all the benefits of an SBR can be had with an AR pistol. I agree, but conditionally. Yes, the AR-pistol has the same ballistics as an SBR. Yes, the size of an AR pistol is almost identical to an SBR. Maybe, the AR pistol will look cool, and that is where the new Pistol Storage Device (PSD) from Pistol Mounted Solutions comes in.
When compared to Pistol braces the PSD is superior. The PSD can fit almost any pistol buffer tube and can be adjusted to desired length for optimal fit to shooter, unlike any pistol brace. The ATF has ruled that the PSD does not change the classification of a pistol into an SBR. The retention system of the PSD to the pistol keeps the PSD from sliding or rotating on the pistol buffer tube like most pistol braces. Although some braces are "adjustable" they rely on a sharp screw that damages the finish of the buffer tube and has very little retention strength when compared to the PSD. The PSD is not a brace it can be configured to hold almost any commercially made magazine (except for 50 BMG) it will hold everything from 308 magazines to 9 mm pistol magazines. The PSD is also contoured to give the shooter a solid cheek-weld and with a wide rear cross section offers shooters a comfortable solution when "shouldering" their pistol, and in my opinion the PSD does look cool.
The Shouldering of Pistols- What Are My Options?
In April of 2017 the ATF changed its position on "shouldering" pistols, to allow shooters to "shoulder" their pistol. Prior to this the ATF letter issued in 2015 deemed the "shouldering" of pistols to be unlawful and a federal offense. Although I am unaware of anyone formally charged with such a crime, it certainly dissuaded folks from doing anything remotely close to "shouldering" their pistols for fear of reprisal. Now that we are allowed to shoulder these pistols there is still much to be desired.
Regardless of the intent of design, we all know how these can be used in a fashion similar to that of an SBR, but the latest ATF letter leaves a wide interpretation that does lean towards that of the shouldering-pistol owner. Now that we have a relative green-light to "shoulder" we have a couple options as AR/ AK/ FAL/ Sig/ CZ etc. pistol owners to accessorize with. Pistol owners have two options to effectively "shoulder," they can either use the pistol braces or the PSD (Pistol Storage Device), lets examine them.
Most accessories for pistol buffer tubes are "pistol braces" these are designed to assist the shooter in maintaining stability and control of the firearm. These pistol braces are not very comfortable, one is bulky and moves all over the pistol buffer tube, while another is very hard and rigid with a narrow edge that digs into the shooters shoulder. Neither of theses items are very good at providing a suitable and comfortable "shouldering" of the pistol, but that wasn't their intent.
The Pistol Storage Device (PSD) from Pistol Mounted Solutions is not a brace, but a unique patented storage device that has been approved by the ATF to NOT turn your pistol into a short-barreled rifle. The PSD securely holds almost any magazine (from 308-9mm & everything in between) that firmly attaches to almost every size pistol buffer tube, eliminating need for a proprietary tube size and allowing the user to position and configure the PSD anyway they deem beneficial. The PSD isn't limited to magazines; it will hold slings, tourniquets and almost any other similar sized accessory you want. Even the amount of tension can be adjusted for whatever item/ items you store in the PSD. The shape of the PSD tapers out on the buffer-tube to provide the shooter a stable and comfortable cheek-weld. The PSD also used friction and tension to remain static on the buffer-tube to provide the shooter with shot after shot consistency. The cross-section at the rear of the PSD is approximately ¼" thicker than the magazine it stores helps disperse recoil or pressure that occurs from firing or driving the weapon into the body based on shooter preference.
Based on that info, the PSD seems to be the logical choice for any AR pistol guy or girl. The PSD offers much more to the shooter than any of the braces, comfort, function and shot to shot consistency. The PSD won't break the bank either, $59.99 MSRP beats most of the braces and definitely a tax stamp. Given the comfort, looks and functionality of the PSD you might want to give it a try.


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The Colour of Spring is the third studio album by English band Talk Talk, released in March 1986. Musically, The Colour of Spring was a major step away from the synthesised pop of early Talk Talk, with a greater focus on guitars, pianos, and organs on such songs as "Life's What You Make It", "Living in Another World" and "Give It Up". It had a sound described by the band as much more organic than their earlier records, with the improvisation that was to dominate on their later works already apparent in the recording process.
Spirit of Eden is the fourth studio album by English band Talk Talk, released in 1988 on Parlophone Records. The songs were written by vocalist Mark Hollis and producer Tim Friese-Greene and the album was compiled from a lengthy recording process at Londo
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Talk Talk returned with their sophomore album 'It's My Life' in 1984. The record features the singles 'It's My Life', 'Such a Shame', and 'Dum Dum Girl'.
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So--this pops up in my Twitter feed, retweeted by a friend that I consider a teacher leader, a thoughtful voice for the issues that teachers are wrestling with right now.
My first thought? Well--yeah. Especially the first sentence. The best teachers--my colleagues, my children's teachers, the dynamic teachers I know in my state and across the country--are all risk-takers. They challenge themselves, they try new things with no guarantee of success. In fact, they are continuously re-defining success. They speak out when kids are being harmed or bored into submission.
But the second half of statement? Most of the school leaders I encountered in 30 years in the classroom were good people, but the overwhelming majority were cautious rule-followers and cheerleaders for incremental change. The principals followed the superintendent's directives and the folks at Central Office looked to the state for guidance. Most recently, everyone has experienced the heavy hand of the feds--for standards, assessments and "aligned" materials. "Successful" leaders hit benchmarks set far from actual classrooms.
Only a few school leaders--distinct in my memory--were willing to step out of the box, pursue a different climate in their building, pilot a new program just to see if it works, or challenge the people they are supervising to be creative and playful.
If I had waited for my school leaders to be risk-takers before feeling comfortable with change in my classroom, decades could have gone by. Still. It's a great thing to imagine--school leaders strapping on metaphorical, non-standardized wings.
So--a kind of dry and dusty, run-on definition of teacher leadership, full of edu-speak and lots of adverbs and sub-clauses.
Is the goal of teacher leadership to "improve teaching and learning practices?" Well--it's one possible goal. But isn't there a panoply of goals involved in teacher leadership? Think of all the things we want teacher leaders to do--from comforting a frightened pre-schooler who misses her mama, to lobbying for safe and warm school buildings. Is demanding another recess teacher leadership? Resisting excessive testing--is that leadership? How about building community coalitions? Heading up the food drive? Organizing a conversation at the bar after school?
I've read dozens of descriptions of teacher leadership. I have sat in circles of smart, passionate teachers trying to come up with the One True Definition, the sentence that would make everyone's heart sing and re-focus the work. I think it has something to do with Daniel Pink's big three: Purpose, mastery and autonomy.


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"Emilie in the Streambed" by Luther Gerlach sits on display in the james Kaneko Gallery on April 5. (Photo by Jennah Booth)
By Jennah Booth April 18, 2018
The James Kaneko Art Gallery at American River College is hosting its newest exhibit, "The Passion of Process," by photographer Luther Gerlach.
The exhibit opened March 19 and features examples of wet plate collodion photography, a process that dates back to the late 1800s.
In addition to his installation in the Kaneko, Gerlach will hold a lecture on the historical photographic process in Raef Hall on April 12 at 7 p.m. and a demonstration on April 14 at 2 p.m.
The demonstration will be held on a bus that doubles as a mobile dark room. Gerlach will show the entire process of taking and developing wet plate collodion photos.
Gerlach is a southern California based photographer who has hosted demonstrations and workshops, as well as had his work displayed in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Gerlach's exhibit features examples of both ambrotype and tintype photographs made through the extensive wet plate collodion process.
Patricia Wood, the gallery director, offered insight into the complex process.
"Basically it's where you take those huge old cameras, take a picture, expose it into a glass plate with collodion," Wood said. "It's a liquid so you pour it on there and you have to balance it. Then you dip in into silver nitrate and the image is actual on the glass."
Collodion is a highly flammable solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol and is instrumental in processing wet plate photography.
In terms of length, Wood said the process takes much longer than photography does today.
"It's [a long process] in terms of getting the camera out, setting it up," she said. "The exposure time is several minutes. It's a lot longer than pushing a button on your phone."
According to his artist statement, Gerlach finds his artistic expression through the process of historical photography.
"Quite often, I feel as if my soul is in the past and my mind is in the future," he wrote. "The vintage cameras and processes I use have a magical quality, which helps me to bring forth an indefinable depth of feeling and poetic structure in my photographs. My primary concern is that my art communicates both on a factual level, as well as on one of beauty and emotion."
Wood said Gerlach's works are being shown in the Kaneko as a part of Sacramento's first ever photography month.
"Viewpoint Gallery in Sacramento is spearheading an idea that every April of every even year, will be photo month in Sacramento," Wood said, "They're trying to get every single gallery in Sacramento, every community college, to have photography exhibitions as a celebration of photography."
Jodie Hooker, an ARC photography professor, initially wrote a grant to bring Gerlach on campus for a lecture and a demonstration. After some rearranging at the gallery, the Kaneko was able to include an installation of his work as well.
"The Passion of Process" will run in the Kaneko Gallery as a part of the city's Photography Month Sacramento through April 14.
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Under-18s coach Dean Selvey previews tonight's FA Youth Cup tie against Luton Town...
Barnet's Under-18s play Luton Town at The Hive this evening (kick-off 7pm) in the FA Youth Cup first round and coach Dean Selvey says his players are looking forward to the occasion.
The Under-18s have not played on the first-team pitch at The Hive since beating FC Claton 11-1 in 2014 as both of last season's FA Cup draws were away from home.
It is an occasion which those involved tonight are unlikely to forget in a hurry and Selvey is fully aware of the significance of the tie.
"It's hard to get them to think about anything else," he admitted in the build-up to the game. "It's difficult when these games come around because they kind of forget about the league fixture in the middle.
"They are excited – it will be great. I'm sure they'll invite their friends and family and people will come down.
"Last year we didn't get to play here because we were drawn away at Boreham Wood and then Cheltenham Town.
"So for the boys who are now into their second year, this is their first opportunity to play at The Hive.
"I'm really excited for the boys to have the opportunity to play on the pitch and to see if the work we have been doing has been positive."
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Based in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she grew up amongst her parents' collections of Indian miniatures and Japanese woodblock prints, Kushana Bush paints amongst a library's worth of books and archival material, and the sound of the news on her radio.
In painstaking strokes of gouache, she traverses a vast array of sources – from Mughal miniatures and medieval books of hours to, as we hear in this interview, water-skiing and sportswear – to seamlessly infuse historical references with symbols of our contemporary world.
Last year, the Gallery acquired one of her most ambitious works to date, Here we are 2016.
An earlier work – Pressed open hook 2009 – is currently on display in Out of the ordinary: works from the ARTAND Emerging Artist Collection .
The exhibition presents works by Australian and New Zealand contemporary artists who engage with everyday materials and imagery in surprising and transformative ways. Each work was created in the early stages of the artist's career and demonstrates a keen spirit of experimentation, while also illuminating the direction and development of the artists' current practice.
A human pyramid of eccentric wrestlers, a zigzagging group of sporty worshippers; who exactly are we looking at here?
I'm often asked who it is I am painting; my answer is always a firm – in no way are my paintings self-portraits. Bear in mind, artists are the biggest liars I know, and are especially good at lying to themselves.
In 2010 I had just survived my first years of living off painting sales as my only income. Looking back, I can see why those hyperventilating people look so concerned and risk toppling over at any second. It looks like I have not even been kind enough to supply them with inhalers!
Theatre and paintings often use 'the fool' to stand in for that lost or searching someone – that the artist often identifies with – and I think these laughable gym bunnies have something of 'the fool' in them. Most of us in the modern world can relate to their endless futile search for meaning. When we recognise ourselves in these foolish wrestlers, our sniggering stops.
Your imagery seamlessly blends a range of historical and contemporary references. Do you consider your imagery to be set in, or from, a certain period of time?
The best of my works duck and dive out of any specific time and place. The use of gouache in a miniature format took form from some of the medieval illuminations I discovered at this time. Those were images that could be shut away in books, but I was trying to attempt a similar thing for the modern audience, large scale and on a wall.
I've had a little one-page photocopy in the studio for years of the First seven modes of prayer of St Dominic (illustrations for Los nueve modos de orar , a 14th-century work in the Monasterio de Santo Domingo el Real, Madrid). This very simple illustration depicts a man doing his daily exercises of 'devotional gymnastics' – think planking and downward dog. I loved how it was a manual in how to achieve ecstasy. His little positions inspired me to think that the body has played an important role in prayer and attainment of spiritual wellbeing.
The subjects of your paintings always have the most intriguing attire – and Pressed open hook is no exception. Do you see clothing as a key social signifier, a way to tell us something about your 'little people'?
Sometimes when I'm out in the real world (I'd guess 90% of my waking life is in the studio) I simply wonder why am I drawn to that? It can start with a tube sock I wish I never saw on a long walk and it ends up lasting in the work for a very long time. In our day-to-day we pay no attention to a Nike tick, a wristwatch and a tube sock, but as soon as it is placed in a gallery we demand its concrete symbolic importance. Boy, that's a powerful thing for an artist, the most wonderfully alluring hot potato.
The Gallery has also acquired a recent painting of yours, Here we are , which is compositionally more ambitious than this earlier piece, with a much tighter brocade of imagery, broader range of colour, and executed on a much larger scale. What processes and ideas were you exploring at this moment of your career?
I think, in areas, there is this same occasional compositional clumping of figures which I learnt from my dalliance with flower arranging. This compositionally helps to carry the eye to parts of the painting and rest them there until the next point takes over. Instead of stage directions, in my most recent works, I have now literally given them a stage (and when I say 'them' I mean my little people). Their clothing is often a little more conservative but not always. I think they look out to the world more too; they reflect my spy hole on world events and daily events in a way that my works in 2009 weren't able to.
Also today, eight years on, I would never think to humiliate my little people, I now know who is in charge.
I notice too – the wristwatches. They were there in 2009!
I know! One day the clock will stop though. Gulp.


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ANALYSIS: Is Britain too open for business?
While George Osborne's budget last week continued to advance the government's message that the UK is open for business, some argue that this end-goal is being too aggressively pursued and that in fact the country is becoming too open for business.
By Matthew Gilleard
The cut in the corporate tax rate – from 26% to 24% from April rather than to 25% as previously announced, and further down to 22% in 2014 – will improve confidence that the UK is indeed "open for business" and along with the revised controlled foreign company (CFC) rules should indicate to investors that the UK's corporate tax regime is becoming more and more of a competitive option.
With a rate of 12.5% available in neighbouring Ireland, however, some questioned the merits of losing more revenue from a further cut in the UK rate, but John Cridland, director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), thinks it might be a pivotal move.
"An extra 1% off corporation tax this year could make a big difference to investment decisions," he said.
However, something that would negatively affect investment decisions is retrospective law changes. The worrying trend of retrospective amendments to legislation – as seen with Australia strengthening its general anti-avoidance rules (GAAR) and India proposing legislation to retrospectively tax Vodafone-style transactions – could become a concern for UK taxpayers too as the country comes nearer to introducing its own GAAR.
Comments from Osborne about the "moral repugnance" of tax avoidance and evasion, as well as his willingness to act retrospectively, are a warning sign to investors and buck the trend in showing the UK as open for business.
The revised CFC rules, applicable from January 1 2013, contain welcome news for finance companies in particular, with a new exemption introduced – yet another pro-business measure – but are criticised for the extent they are being watered down.
The finance company partial exemption will effectively mean that such companies pay a quarter of the main rate on profits from overseas group financing arrangements. However, ActionAid claims the new provisions will cost developing countries £4 billion ($6.3 billion) a year in lost tax revenues.
In line with this claim, further criticism has come in the form of accusations being levelled at the government of policies being written by, and made for, big business. The make-up of the government's various working groups for tax policy matters has been censured in particular.
The Guardian made the accusation just last week, bemoaning the fact that successive UK governments have installed such groups, for example a monetary assets working group comprising Vodafone, Shell, Diageo, Tesco, G4S, International Power and BHP Billiton.
The phasing in of a 10% rate for profits attributed to patents from April 2013 will encourage greater innovation and investment in intellectual property
Not just one-way traffic
While arguments that the UK is being overly lenient in its treatment of business find evidentiary support in various provisions contained in the budget, big businesses are not getting everything their own way, as the banks will tell you.
The increase in the bank levy from January 2013 – increasing from 0.088% to 0.105% – shows the UK government's commitment to taxing the financial sector and should go some way to refuting claims that the budget was unashamedly pro-business. Government explained the rate increase by saying it wants to meet the £2.5 billion revenue target set for the levy, as well as ensuring banks do not see too many of the positive effects of the corporate tax rate reduction.
Osborne is playing a tricky game in trying to balance an image of being welcome to foreign direct investment, while not being seen to be giving businesses everything they want in the eyes of a discontented public and he surely cannot appease both sides indefinitely.
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