It is cancer. Those are three words that enter the lives of nearly everyone at some point—whether facing a personal diagnosis or facing the fight with a friend or loved one. Facing a critical illness, such as cancer, is one of the most difficult experiences that many will face—and one that has touched my own family more than once. I accepted the opportunity to read and review 50 Days of Hope by Lynn Eib, an inspirational book for those coping with cancer—and I wish I had read it 25 years ago when cancer first touched my life.
50 Days of Hope by Lynn Eib offers a daily dose of inspiration, faith and hope to readers. As a cancer survivor herself, Eib brings a wealth of experiences to her discussions of the many emotions, needs and difficulties facing cancer patients and their support network. Eib draws on her own feelings and experiences as both a cancer survivor and her work as a cancer patient advocate as the basis of each day of hope. As she has done in her other books, Eib encourages readers to explore the relationship of God and faith as part of the medical treatment process by offering a daily prayer of hope.
Eib faces cancer realistically and honestly—but, hopefully. The book, 50 Days of Hope, does not promise a happy ending to every reader who has faith—but, it encourages readers to create their own endings through hope and faith. She offers inspirational stories of survivors—which do have happy endings—but, is not afraid to admit her own dark fears and emotions throughout her own battle with colon cancer.
Lynn Eib's 50 Days of Hope is more than a book of wisdom and inspiration for those impacted by cancer—it is truly a well, written, down to Earth, book of hope that can be equally applied to a variety of life situations. If you or someone you love is facing cancer, I would encourage you to pick up a copy of 50 Days of Hope by Lynn Eib. Read a passage a day—or find, as I did, that you are unable to put it down until it is finished.
For more information on the author, visit Lynn Eib's author biography.
Disclaimer: I was provided a complimentary copy of the book reviewed here by Tyndale House Publishers. I was not asked for a positive review—just my honest opinion. All opinions are, as always, my own.


PATH Villas at Del Rey, permanent supportive housing.
In fact, when this homeless agency began more than three decades ago, the founders opened a program that fed and sheltered people who were homeless. It was their compassionate response to a tragic human disaster on their streets.
The result of this housing policy is that more and more homeless shelters are shutting their facilities. This summer, we joined this growing trend when we closed one of our 25 statewide centers. It was our 65-bed shelter in Hollywood.
Although the community – both public and private – called our center a necessity, the program was never fully funded, a casualty to the redirection of scarce funds to "Housing First" programs. So we moved our shelter residents into other temporary or permanent solutions and closed the doors for good.
Critics of shelters call these facilities simply a "Band-Aid." Shelters do not solve homelessness, they say, and a temporary bed is not a home. Besides, most homeless shelter operators instill difficult program rules on their residents that become barriers to reach the most chronically homeless persons on the streets.
But the cost of building those apartments – think hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit – or, finding existing apartment landlords that will accept expensive housing vouchers, are the real barriers to ending this country's homelessness.
With the scarcity of financial resources designated towards homelessness, the natural inclination years ago was to take the funds from short-term solutions, like shelters and transitional housing, and redirect them toward permanent solutions such as permanent housing.
For agencies like ours, our success rate increased dramatically after we concentrated on permanent solutions. Every week, we move 20-25 people into apartments. In the past few years, we have permanently housed more people who were homeless than during all of the decades we were providing shelter and transitional housing.
Street homelessness, however, has not ended. Redirecting funds toward permanent housing has successfully increased program outcomes for everyone.
But until there are enough resources to fund permanent housing for everyone, shelters have a crucial role for a person who is homeless today and looking for a bed tonight.
Rich people and governments must take some strong steps for support homeless people. This is a way for investing money in good manner.
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The tangible shopping environment T®ASH enables new forms of human-computer interaction for complex shopping scenarios such as planning a wedding. Its tangible user interface allows the communication with a computer-based planning-system based upon the position of physical avatars. A complex and partially abstract shopping process can hereby made easier and be turned into a physical shopping experience. The wedding scenario was exemplarily chosen for any complex shopping case as it covers different shopping and planning processes as well as different products and services.
In this project, a doll's house is used as tangible user interface. Each room of the house stands for a specific part of the wedding's shopping scenario. For instance, in the bedroom one can choose the wedding dress and the wedding menu can be composed in the kitchen. Therefore, the user interacts with the doll's house, a doll as well as several physical product and service avatars.
Additionally, the system supports the user with the help of a personal shopping advisor and provides audio and video feedback, respectively. Here, the advisors are witnesses who suggest, for instance, suitable color combinations of shoes and wedding dresses.
RFID readers together with the Accada Framework are used (1) to evaluate the position of the physical avatars and (2) to trigger actions, correspondingly. The graphical feedback on the information screen ist generated by Adobe AIR which retrieves its data from a Java-based server component by using the Artemis Framework.
The following video presents a complete T®ASH shopping experience.


FOR SCOTT PREBLE, LOCATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF his career. He started his career as an aerospace engineer for Boeing. When the aerospace industry contracted, he moved on to Wall Street and brought aerospace techniques, such as TCP/IP across satellite to their transaction systems. He became chief technology architect for Citibank Lending Divisions, and grew into the roles of CIO and CTO within various industries. He was CTO of FritoLay, CTO for MGM Mirage Casinos, and Divisional CIO for LPS Default Systems, which builds software for the mortgage industry. Today he is CTO for Open Technologies Solutions, focusing on scale and higher SLA's including digital banking strategies. Behind the scenes in his technology career has been location, which has enabled him to be creative and manage risk at the same time.
By correlating location data with assets and people, Scott Preble has built software systems and purchased location- based solutions that have saved the mortgage industry $1 million dollars a year in fines; gave Frito Lay detailed location tracking for logistical planning, delivery of fresh products and truck fleet maintenance; and increased casinos revenues by targeting VIPs and more.
Many CIOs may not see location as part of their responsibilities, especially in organizations where a GIS department already exists. However, as IOT (Internet of Things) comes barreling down the pike, at a much faster pace than expected, CIOs will have to embrace location. You can't do IOT without location. IOT by definition is location-aware devices relaying information across a sensor web of connected devices, and smart everything designed to improve efficiency, productivity, and information.
While many CIOs may not have the geospatial background of Scott Preble, they will not need it. But the CIO of the future will by default become a Location Intelligence Officer. Once you get hooked on location intelligence, you will never look back because it will not only inspire you to think differently, it will reveal information you never thought possible.
LBx What is the profile of a good CIO?
differentiator in the marketplace. I have combined the principles of "imagineering" that I learned at Boeing, with the risk management principles of security, low-risk high-delity trading on Wall Street. You can't always be creative and run a stable financial business, but you can introduce new solutions that will be game changers for your business and still meet your risk management goals.
LBx What has your background in geospatial and location-based technologies and solutions taught you?
Preble Out of college, my first engineering job was working on cruise missiles. You can't fly cruise missiles and avoid them being shot down without a map or route for the missile or understanding the GPS-guided sensors. At Frito Lay, we built a tracking system for our truck drivers in order to improve productivity. You can't track assets without location.
At MGM, we focused on customer experience and ensuring that VIPs stayed on MGM properties while in Las Vegas. You can't understand or in uence customer behavior without location. At LPS, we focused on managing a massive footprint of real estate properties across the country. You can't e ectively manage and control costs related to assets without understanding the weather impact; and you can't understand weather impact without location.
Preble First it is important to recognize that if you have assets in a company, you want to be able to track them. Depending on the industry, you will want to track them to eek out pennies that can add up to millions of dollars in cost savings, to di erentiate yourself in the marketplace, to grow top line revenue, or to manage risk. There are many location-based solutions on the market today from consumer applications to enterprise-ready. Many companies are building their own in-house applications with the various tools available. I have done both, and I have worked with many different suppliers.
I am really encouraged by one particular company, Earthvisionz, which has gured out a solution that is easy to implement and risk-free. Most importantly, their solution integrates assets with location data such as weather. If you have a lot of assets, you have a lot of data and a lot of costs; when you connect location to the asset data, it makes a big di erence. Companies like Earthvisionz that make the solution simple—with no real development, where they house the data, and you track and view the data—make it easy for CIOs to simultaneously be creative and manage risk. Every CIO should check out plug-and-play solutions to see what is possible.


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By God's providence, and through the generosity of the membership, the Lord has blessed Fairview Bible Church (FBC) with a building and property useful for the work of ministry, the fellowship of the saints, and the glory of God. With that provision comes the need to establish certain guidelines for the use of the facilities in order to preserve and further the mission of the church—to know Christ and to make Him known. This policy contains basic guidelines for the use of our facilities, and is subject to careful emendation at the discretion of the elders.
Use of FBC facilities will not be permitted to persons or groups advancing, advocating, or explicitly holding beliefs, or advancing, advocating, or engaging in practices that conflict with the church's faith or moral teachings, which are primarily summarized in the church's constitution. Nor may facilities be used for activities that contradict, or are deemed by the elders as inconsistent with, or contrary to the church's faith or moral teachings.
This restricted facility use policy is necessary for two important reasons. First, the church may not in good conscience materially cooperate in activities or beliefs that are contrary to its faith. Allowing its facilities to be used for purposes that contradict the church's beliefs would be material cooperation with that activity, and would be a grave violation of the church's faith and religious practice. (2 Cor. 6:14; 1 Thess. 5:22)
Second, to allow our facilities to be used by groups or persons who express beliefs or engage in practices contrary to the church's faith would have a negative impact on the message that the church strives to promote. It could also be a source of confusion and scandal to church members and the community because they may reasonably perceive that by allowing use of our facilities, the church is in agreement with the beliefs or practices of the persons or groups using the church facilities. It is very important to the church that we present a consistent and pure message to the community.
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he now sleeps 8 hours (or more occasionally). whew!
we headed to park city after christmas with nannie, poppie and jo-jo to have our christmas with them. it took us a couple of days to actually make it up there due to the weather. it was sooooo cold. we had a good time just hanging out, eating, and playing games.
the kids had fun playing in the snow with cousins. i didn't take any photos, so i stole these from miriam. kaylee and savannah and their snowman. andrew was the only brave soul. even uncle matt was wimpy. he even did it twice, cause mom didn't get a picture on the 1st round.
Sam's first Christmas! He could have cared less:) although he did enjoy all the wrapping paper. will got his rocket ship that he has been wanting forever! it has been played with almost daily since, he loves that thing.
as usual Andrew was the first to wake up. he sat patiently on the stairs waiting for everyone for a realllllllly long time.
as usual kaylee would have liked to sleep longer but her brother couldn't wait any longer!
we had a great christmas morning opening presents at mike and tiffany's house. as usual the kids got way too much, and were excited about it all. later that day, mom and dad, matt and miriam, darrick and ariel, and chris and janet, and their families came over to mike's house for dinner. (we still had jo with us too) unfortunately i didn't take a single picture. we had yummy food, and all the cousins had fun together. the cousins exchanged presents and got to open their new ornament from grandma peanut. this is always a high light for my kids. they love their ornaments.


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Junior League of Baton Rouge to host 4th Annual Touch A Truck
by: Carly Laing
Posted: Mar 19, 2019 / 01:51 PM CDT / Updated: Mar 19, 2019 / 06:59 PM CDT
Touch A Truck is an interactive annual event that allows children to see, touch and explore their favorite big trucks, vehicles, heavy equipment and more.
Touch A Truck is set for Saturday, March 23 at the BREC State Fairgrounds.
There will be extended quiet hours from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Regular hours continue until 4:00 p.m. rain or shine.
Tickets are $10. Food and drinks are provided.
Participants also have the chance to donate to a number of Junior League events including the Diaper Bank (bring a pack of unopened diapers and enter to win a Yeti Cooler) and Kids in the Kitchen just to name a few.
by Karli Carpenter / Jan 17, 2020
Two Baton Rouge Magnet High School students made a perfect score on ACT tests they took in December.
Jonathan Ding, a sophomore who's a member of the school's BETA club and Mu Alpha Theta club, received the maximum score of 36 on the test, as did Fariz Firdausi, a junior who took second place in Excel at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Champions competition in the summer of 2019.
by Kara St. Cyr / Jan 17, 2020
BATON ROUGE, La. (LOCAL 33)(FOX 44) - People have medicines and doctors at their fingertips, so illnesses as complex as arthritis can be treated. But what about arthritis in dogs?
Gracie Lou use to be energetic, but after 16 years of fetch and walks, the most she can give right now is a good company to her owner Gretchen Morgan.
by Jared Joseph / Jan 17, 2020
BATON ROUGE, La. - The list of LSU players going pro continues to increase. Tight end Thaddeus Moss was the latest player to throw his name into the NFL Draft. While the Bayou Bengals took over the White House, Moss took to Twitter to announce he decided to forgo his final year of eligibility.
Moss's contribution to LSU's historic offense including breaking records of his own. The Charlotte, NC, native caught 47 passes for 570 yards and four touchdowns. Both stats broke LSU records for most receptions in a single season for an LSU tight end, and all four of his touchdowns were in the Tigers' two College Football Playoff games.


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Boophis feonnyala is een kikker uit de familie gouden kikkers (Mantellidae). De soort werd voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences, Franco Andreone en David Vallan in 2001. De soort behoort tot het geslacht Boophis.

Leefgebied
De kikker is endemisch in Madagaskar. De soort komt voor in het oosten van het eiland, zo ook in de subtropische bossen van Madagaskar, en leeft op een hoogte van ongeveer 900 meter. De soort komt ook voor in nationaal park Andasibe Mantadia.

Beschrijving
Mannetjes hebben een lengte van ongeveer 25 millimeter. De rug is beige, met soms rode vlekjes. De buik is witachtig.

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Boophis
Endemisch dier uit Madagaskar
IUCN-status onzeker

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For the month of May 2016, the Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP) turned the eleven artist studios on our orchard site over to the We Players, a remarkable site-specific theater company, as they developed a new production of Romeo and Juliet. Founded 16 years ago by Artistic Director Ava Roy, the We Players adapts classic pieces of theater for historic places and keeps audiences on their toes as their performances wend their way through these striking environments. The We Players have performed Ondine in San Francisco's Sutro Baths, Macbeth at Fort Point, and Hamlet on Alcatraz, creating once-in-a-lifetime experiences for audience members.
As the We Players cast and crew worked together to develop the underpinnings of their unique approach to Romeo and Juliet, they were joined at the LAP by Monica Lundy, a visual artist and past LAP Guest Artist. Monica Lundy had spent the summer of 2015 in residence at the LAP alongside Ava Roy, and after a month of artist dinners on the picnic tables under the oak trees, they had planted the seeds for a future artistic collaboration. Roy invited Lundy to return to the LAP with the We Players team, to collaborate with them on their new theater production. An artist who creates striking mixed media paintings, Lundy stepped out of her comfort zone and agreed to develop a series of animal-themed masks for a key scene of Romeo and Juliet—the ball at the Capulet residence that initiates the drama of Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, risk, and miscommunication.
Over a month, Roy walked with the actors on the trails, orchestrating the exploration and building of their characters. The actors lived and ate meals with each other and did that deep work that actors do—the invisible and little-appreciated preliminary work of coming to understand the characters they will inhabit. They read and reread Shakespeare's script. In his pajamas on his day off, actor John Steele Jr. made word-cloud images of the animals built of the dialogue of each character. They worked from ten in the morning until ten at night.
And Monica Lundy went to work in the clear light of studio 41. She hand-formed the mask of hummingbird as Romeo walked in Montalvo's rose garden, learning how that bird loves. She gilded the frizzled brow of the sphinx moth carefully as Juliet explored what it means to love a flame. And the animals came to rest in the characters' natures, and the characters came and inhabited the animals, and the play was born.
The Characters, their Animals, and their Humans:
Nurse (quail): Jennie Brick
Juliet (sphinx moth, also known as hummingbird moth): Maria Leigh
Peter (mouse): Amy Nowak
Lady Capulet (mountain lion): Libby Oberlin
Benvolio (jackrabbit): John Steele Jr.
Friar Laurence: Rush Rehm
Romeo (hummingbird): Mohammad Shehata
Tybalt (bobcat) & Paris (heron): Steve Thomas
The Prince & Mercutio (coyote): Courtney Walsh
We Players Artistic Director Ava Roy
Since 2008, Ava Roy has pioneered unique partnerships with both the National Park Service and the California State Park system, creating large-scale performances at park sites throughout the Bay Area. Production highlights include: Hamlet on Alcatraz, Macbeth at Fort Point, The Odyssey on Angel Island, Twelfth Night at Hyde Street Pier, and Ondine at Sutro. Inspired and guided by Shakespeare since her teenage years, Ava has explored many characters from the canon, including Juliet, Olivia, Henry V, Mercutio, Feste, Viola, Lady Macbeth, Cordelia, and Lear's Fool. Her unique style of interactive, site-integrated performance aims to highlight the historical and natural treasures of the local landscape and encourage new ways of experiencing and appreciating these places. Learn more about Ava Roy at weplayers.org.
Visual Artist Monica Lundy
Guided by an interest in deepening one's understanding of place, Monica Lundy threads together historical research and studio practice. Her curiosity about lesser-known histories is paired with her curiosity about unconventional painting practices. While her thematic focus revolves around subjects who exist on the periphery of society—and places whose histories have become obscured over time—Lundy's technique focuses on the space in which an image breaks down into obscurity or physical degradation. Lundy's mixed-media paintings bridge painting and installation, abstraction and figuration. Her work ruminates upon the dispossessed, memory, and the corrosive nature of time. Learn more about Monica Lundy at monicalundy.com.
We Players Presents "Romeo & Juliet at Villa Montalvo"
For the month of May 2016, the Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP) turned the eleven artist studios on our orchard site over to the We Players, a remarkable site-specific theater company, as they developed a new production of Romeo and Juliet that will be performed throughout the Montalvo grounds in October. Founded 16 years ago by Artistic Director Ava Roy, the We Players adapts classic pieces of theater for historic places and keeps audiences on their toes as their performances wend their way through these striking environments.
Romeo & Juliet at Villa Montalvo
Montalvo Arts Center presents a one-of-a-kind, interactive theater experience this fall when it hosts We Players, presenting Romeo & Juliet at Villa Montalvo. In this site-integrated production, audiences will be on their feet, following the action to various locations throughout Montalvo's grounds—including its historic Mediterranean-style Villa—as they viscerally experience the timeless drama of feuding families and star-crossed lovers.
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Montagues at Montalvo
by Ann Gelhaus, The Mercury News
An artist residency at Montalvo for We Players' artistic director blossomed into a residency for the entire theater company. It also spawned a production of "Romeo and Juliet." Ava Roy, who founded We Players at Stanford University in 2000, spent the summer of 2015 in Montalvo's Lucas Artists Residency Program. We Players stages "site-integrated" productions—many of them Shakespeare plays—during which the audience literally follows the action from one area of the performance space to another.


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Watford, Southampton And All That Jazz
Everybody up in the place, let's go.
Everton are back and doing what they do best. Looking dead ordinary against limited opposition and eliciting boos from the crowd less than an hour into the new season.
Go Toffeemen.
Much has been made of the complete lack of signings – Tom Cleverley and Gerard Deulofeu don't appear to count – but it took some chin-stroking it-will-sound-dead-insightful-if-I-preface-it-with-'for me' banter-merchant on The Football Ramble podcast to point out that the Blues have not been helped by a skip-full of injuries. Still, you'd expect better from the squad packed full of international footballers than we witnessed on the opening day.
Arouna Kone was the only bright spark on a grotty afternoon, laying the ball off to Ross Barkley for his thraker of a shot and then anticipating Romelu Lukaku's touch like a proper centre-forward before drilling home a Lineker-like equaliser.
The Blues looked far more effective with a traditional strike partner for Lukaku as opposed to Barkley shoe-horned into that Nigel Clough/Nick Barmby 'position' that has been a real poser for Everton ever since Tim Cahill first 'arrived late' and 'hung in the air' to score in a blue shirt. In theory, your 'number 10' – number 10, for fuck's sake – should be the most complete footballer on the pitch, such is his responsibility for making space and supplying the passes for the out-and-out goalscorer. It's almost certainly not meant to be where you just stick the extra midfielder in an attempt to try and hide the fact that you don't really trust him completely. Fucking hell, remember when Jack Rodwell got shoved there for a while?
Kone or Steven Naismith would surely be more comfortable alongside or 'just behind' Lukaku – because positions are really that static in football – than Barkley, who needs to replace either James McCarthy or Gareth Barry if he's good enough, or start on the bench if he isn't.
And all that's before we even start on Tom Cleverley, who isn't a wide attacker, or indeed an attacker of any description, while he's got a hole in his arse. So unless he's had some severe colonic surgery, that means he's really only back up for one of the first-choice defensive midfielders, surely?
It was only the first game of the season though, and the transfer window is still open, so there is plenty of time for Everton to improve and also to add more players to the squad.
Whether this will be enough to appease the growing number of angry flag and banner folk seems dubious, but let's be honest, the start of the season would have been even duller without them. It's kind of a footballing lifestyle choice now, the whole protestor thing, a new tribe for a new generation, and it should be embraced. Organising meetings in function rooms, tweeting furiously, sending open letters to the press and hanging up enigmatic banners has got to be seen as more healthy than getting in big gangs and slashing people, and certainly no more weird than standing in the street selling a pamphlet about Everton, pop music and Grange Hill. It's in fashion at pretty much every club now, and it's just another way of experiencing the match – it doesn't really do anyone any harm. If you want to spend your time and money on sky-writing 'SACK THE BOARD', well, why not?
Now, we never got around to 'publishing' all that in the wake of the Watford game, so by rights we should go back and rewrite it to look cleverer following the rather marvellous performance at St. Mary's.
But we can't be arsed.
Resplendent in their Idi Amin Last King of Scotland kit, 'under pressure Everton' went to Southampton and executed pretty much the textbook Roberto Martinez performance. In fact, did it not remind you a bit of when Wigan came to Goodison in that cup tie?
A much fitter-looking Lukaku finished off two superb breakaway goals, but he was more than assisted by Kone, who crossed for the first, and Barkley who set up the second and then scored Everton's third in the final five minutes, curling home another cracker to cap off one of his best games in an Everton shirt. James McCarthy was also incredible as he led by example in terms of energy and aggression, and it was that attitude and desire to win the ball back quickly that allowed the Blues to launch the counter-attacks that ultimately did for their hosts.
Elsewhere, Chelsea were left cowering in the Premier League equivalent of the Lime Street left luggage after their game at Manchester City. Jose Mourinho's running out of scapegoats and so turned on pretty much the last person left who he hasn't already blamed for some failing or other, John Terry. And while it's always great to see the discomfort of those two pricks, you just know that the end result of the whole thing is going to be some sort of wacky bid for John Stones. A shame, because he's started the season great for us, and you would rather watch him than Ashley Williams, Jonny Evans or some terrifying-sounding fella from River Plate.
We're also being linked with Andriy Yarmolenko from Dynamo Kiev. According to a badly edited five minute Youtube video he loves doing that daft turn that Marouane Fellaini pulled off once against Craig Bellamy and then tried in every subsequent game until he left, and all manner of other mad flicks and back-heels. It seriously made him look 'very McGeady'. But you can't judge him on that. Although we have. Haven't we?
We've got City at the weekend and they have started great. We've never really been great respecters of them though, and on the back of how we played on Saturday, and especially with Lukaku looking so dangerous, you would have to believe that we are more than capable of winning. And we wouldn't have thought that even back at the top of the page, so life can't be all that bad at the moment, can it?
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4 thoughts on "Watford, Southampton And All That Jazz"
Personally, I think anyone flying a banner over a football ground demanding structural change should be concreted into the foundations of the next new stadium (which pretty much guarantees it won't be Goodison mk 2 of course). Nice that your first post of the season has a win in it. I shall revel in it while it lasts.
How much does it cost to hire plane and a banner to be flown over a ground? Wouldn't that cost be better placed donating to the club to help pay a players, or back room staff's wages. Or on drink and burgers.
revolversk4 says:
"….and will you welcome our opponents for todays game……….the 325th Evac Unit….."
Nick Lewis says:
Nope. Those protesters with their little stunt on Saturday are, quite clearly, fucking lamentable bellends to a man.


Lipodystrophy syndromes represent a group of rare, heterogeneous disorders characterized by progressive loss of fat tissue, mainly from the subcutaneous compartment and occasionally from visceral fat.  Subcutaneous loss of fat can occur as generalized or partial lipodystrophy; the latter is more common. Progressive lipodystrophy is the most common type of partial lipodystrophy.
The etiology of this condition is obscure. Lipodystrophy is often associated with glomerulonephritis, low C3 serum complement levels, and the presence of a C3 nephritic factor. C3 nephritic factor is a serum immunoglobulin G that interacts with the C3bBb alternative pathway convertase to activate C3.
C3 nephritic factor induces the lysis of adipocytes that secrete adipsin, a product identical to complement factor D. The distribution of the lipoatrophy is postulated to be dictated by the variable amounts of adipsin secreted by the adipocytes at different locations.
Model of the adipocyte destruction in acquired partial lipodystrophy showing complement activation at the adipocyte surface resulting in adipocyte lysis. Adipocytes synthesize C3, factor B, and factor D (adipsin), which allows C3bBb to be formed locally, but which usually does not result in the activation of the terminal lytic part of the complement pathway (C5-9).The IgG antibody, C3Nef, prevents the alternative complement C3-convertase C3Bb from dissociative inactivation, resulting in adipocyte lysis. Adipocytes synthesize factor D, the limiting component of the alternative complement pathway, which cleaves C3-bound factor B to its active enzymatic form. Factor D is expressed to a higher extent in the fat cells of the upper half of the body compared with the lower half, and it is possibly this regional difference that accounts for the restriction of fat loss to the head, arms, and trunk. C3Nef is also associated with type II, dense-deposit membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in which subendothelial deposits of immunoglobulin and C3 are probably due to a deregulated alternative complement pathway.
No racial predilection is reported for progressive lipodystrophy.
Progressive lipodystrophy is 4-5 times more common in women than in men. Of patients with progressive lipodystrophy, 80% are females. The accumulation of fat in the buttocks and lower limbs occurs almost exclusively in females. Males who are affected usually have lipoatrophy without lower body hypertrophy.
Progressive lipodystrophy typically starts in individuals aged 0-20 years, with most cases starting before individuals are aged 15 years. Progressive lipodystrophy tends to develop earlier in most male patients compared with female patients.
The prognosis for progressive lipodystrophy is correlated with the renal complications and the onset of renal failure. Acquired progressive lipodystrophy is a nonfatal condition, but it is frequently associated with mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis, which can lead to renal insufficiency. In pregnancy, more severe renal disease is associated with a risk of intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, and fetal death.  Associated autoimmune disorders are also present in some patients, including systemic lupus erythematosus and dermatomyositis.
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The Southern HOGs group came together for a two-day Regional Leadership Exchange held at the Georgia Transportation Management Center. This exchange focused on the advancement of situational awareness and response plans across southern states and enhancing regional coordination. Prior to the exchange, the Coalition sponsored a technical webinar in advance to familiarize attendees with Florida DOT's Emergency Shoulder Use program that was implemented during Hurricane Irma. Please click here for more information.


Hi and welcome to our Vegetarian Kitchen. This week our recipe is for another Italian classic - Minestrone Soup. The most delicious Minestrone Soup I tasted was many years ago in a small Italian cafe tucked away behind Covent Garden. Covent Garden was London's fruit and vegetable market, opening around 1670, but today Covent Garden is famous for its restaurants, large central piazza, shops, fashionable boutiques and night life. Our Minestrone will, of course, be made with Vegetable Stock.


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US in Worrying Position as China's Top General Ignores Pentagon Requests
By Elizabeth Stauffer, The Western Journal May 23, 2021
It looks like U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been ghosted by his Chinese counterpart, General Xu Qiliang, the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and a member of the Politboro of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Financial Times on Friday reported that "three people briefed on the impasse" had said that Austin has tried on three occasions to contact Xu, "but China has refused to engage."
As evidenced by the acrimonious talks held in Alaska between Biden officials and CCP leaders two months ago, the US/Chinese relationship, while never smooth, has become increasingly strained in recent months.
Austin would like to speak with Xu about "the rising tensions in the Indopacific," specifically Chinese aggression in Taiwan and their military activity in the South China Sea, according to The Financial Times.
"The two militaries are increasingly coming into closer contact, particularly in the South China Sea as the Chinese navy and air force conduct aggressive activity near Taiwan," the newspaper reported.
In March, a U.S. defense official told The Financial Times that "President Xi Jinping was flirting with trying to seize Taiwan." Within hours, "China flew a record number of fighters and bombers into Taiwan's air defense identification zone."
In late January, The Financial Times reported that Chinese military aircraft had conducted "simulated missile attacks on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier near Taiwan."
Additionally, the U.S. is concerned about the ongoing territorial dispute between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands northeast of Taiwan. The islands are currently controlled by Japan, where they are known the Senkaku Islands. In China, they are called the Diaoyu islands.
These islands are important "because they are close to important shipping lanes, offer rich fishing grounds and lie near potential oil and gas reserves" and they are located "in a strategically significant position," according to the BBC.
Would the Chinese military have blown off contacts from Trump administration officials?
A U.S. defense official who wished to remain anonymous told Reuters, "The military relationship is strained, no question about that. It's hard to know how much this is reflective of that strain as much as it is just Chinese intransigence."
"But we certainly want to have a dialogue. We just want to make sure we have a dialogue at the proper level," the official added.
Reuters spoke to a second U.S. official who explained there was disagreement with the Biden administer over whom Austin should try to contact — Xu or Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe.
"Xu is seen as having more power and influence with Chinese President Xi Jinping," Reuters reported.
Both Austin and Wei had planned to attend the Shangri-La defense forum, scheduled to take place in Singapore next month, however, the gathering was canceled last week due to COVID-19, The Financial Times reported.
A defense official told The Financial Times that Austin prefers to meet with Xu.
"We believe the appropriate counterpart is the vice-chair of the Central Military Commission," the official said.
The Financial Times reported that "[Former Defense Secretary] Jim Mattis met Xu in Beijing in 2018. … But China almost always offers up its defense minister instead. This has increasingly frustrated the US because he has little power in the Chinese system and does not serve on the 25-member politburo that rules China."
"The White House is split over how Austin should handle the situation. Some National Security Council officials are opposed to Austin dealing with Wei. Another group are less resistant, but want Austin to use any meeting or call to tell Wei that he would only hold talks with the CMC vice-chair," the newspaper reported.
Heino Klinck, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia told The Financial Times that, due to the structural differences between the U.S. and Chinese militaries, it has always been difficult to agree on protocol for high-level meetings.
"Given the situation with Taiwan and other issues such as the East China Sea and South China Sea, as well as attempted Chinese coercion of our key allies and partners such as Australia, it is important to have clear communication," Klinck told the newspaper. "We need to be conveying to the Chinese what our own red lines are because they convey theirs."
China's reluctance to engage with the U.S. should come as no surprise after the complete breakdown of the diplomatic talks in Alaska, where it was made immediately and abundantly clear that Chinese Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi had neither fear nor respect for the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The photographs below show that the U.S./Chinese relationship had been quite different under the Trump Administration.
the same Yang Jiechi when facing Pompeo pic.twitter.com/fToDsK0UIY
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Real pictures.
Respect for the interlocutor, No one is looked down upon, the basics of diplomacy in fact. pic.twitter.com/UY7KNRuB98
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With President Joe Biden in the White House, American officials have never been as weak as they are now against China, which is unsettling enough. This kind of behavior shows the Chinese know it — which is actually frightening.
Maybe Austin ought to drop his war against extremism "in the ranks" and his concern over the "existential" threat to national security from climate change, and focus on America's real enemies.
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Benicar is a blood pressure medication sold by Daiichi Sankyo and Forest Laboratories. The drug is a member of a class of medications known as angiotensin II receptor blockers, or ARBs. While the drug has proven successful in lowering blood pressure for many patients, others have experienced severe gastrointestinal issues, including chronic diarrhea, and other complications after taking the drug. Affected patients may be eligible to file an Ohio Benicar lawsuit to seek compensation for their injuries.
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According to the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University, blood pressure is the force of the blood placed upon the blood vessels as it is pumped throughout the body. Blood pressure increases and decreases naturally throughout the day, but when it remains elevated for a long period of time it can cause hypertension. This condition can lead to other serious health conditions, including heart attack and stroke, especially when left untreated.
In order to lower blood pressure to a healthy level, doctors often require that patients change their lifestyles by adding regular exercise and healthy eating to their daily routines. In addition, quitting smoking and avoiding excessive alcohol consumption can help, but there are some cases in which the only thing that effectively lowers blood pressure is the use of prescription medication.
How Does Benicar Help?
Benicar is one of several blood-pressure lowering drugs called angiotensin II receptor blockers. Angiotensin II receptor blockers are designed to prevent the release of the hormone angiotensin II into the bloodstream. According to the drug's manufacturer, Benicar contains a medical agent that keeps angiotensin II from making the blood vessels constrict. When the blood vessels are constricted, blood flow is inhibited and blood pressure increases.
According to WebMD, angiotensin II receptor blockers also effect the hormones that regulate the water and sodium present in the bloodstream. The drugs cause excess water and sodium to be released from the body through urine, which also helps to lower blood pressure.
Complications Associated With Benicar
In 2012, the Mayo Clinic released a study in which the use of olmesartan, the generic name for Benicar, was connected to severe sprue-like enteropathy. This is a condition in which patients suffer from diarrhea, nausea, malnutrition and weight loss similar to those people who have been diagnosed with celiac disease. The study looked at 22 patients who were admitted to the hospital with these symptoms, all of whom tested negative for an intolerance to gluten. All were prescribed Benicar, and all had a reversal of their symptoms once the drug was discontinued.
Not long after the release of the Mayo Clinic study, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication in which the risks and complications associated with Benicar were outlined. The FDA had received numerous adverse event reports and had conducted a review looking into the claims made by patients suffering from gastrointestinal side effects while taking Benicar.
Ohio Benicar Lawsuit Filed
In 2015, an Ohio woman filed a lawsuit against Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., one of the manufacturers of Benicar, alleging that she suffered from chronic diarrhea and now has long-term intestinal damage caused by the drug. The woman had been prescribed the drug following a heart attack, and she claims to have followed all prescription instructions. In the lawsuit, the plaintiff alleges that Daiichi Sankyo failed to warn her of the possible gastrointestinal side effects by leaving that information off of the drug's labels.
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The Bristol Ensemble, formerly the Emerald Ensemble, is a professional chamber orchestra, based in Bristol, England. The ensemble has been in existence since 1994, when it was formed as a musicians' collective by violinist Roger Huckle. Their repertoire includes classical, popular, jazz and contemporary music. The size of the group depends on the programmes being performed and can range from trios to a full complement of 70 or so musicians. They perform standing up (except in orchestral concerts).

The Bristol Ensemble tours regularly throughout the South West of England and further afield, with a large number of performances in Bristol at venues including the Bristol Beacon, St Georges, Brandon Hill and Bristol Cathedral. The Ensemble give approximately 60 concerts a year and work with soloists.

The ensemble regularly accompanies screenings of silent movies. In 2008, as the Emerald Ensemble, they performed at a local nightclub to some acclaim, and in autumn 2009 they performed with William Goodchild and Roni Size, and also with Crippled Black Phoenix and the solo artist Joe Volk under the curation of Geoff Barrow. The Bristol Ensemble also undertakes outreach work with schools, colleges and older people. They regularly record for television and film, including much work for the BBC Natural History Unit and they have produced several CDs of their work.

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  Live At Colston Hall (2015) Roni Size & Reprazent with William Goodchild and The Emerald Ensemble

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Budget Talks Begin in Sag Harbor Schools
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Incoming school business official Dr. Philip Kenter, left, and superintendent Katy Graves, right, at the December 4 Sag Harbor School Board meeting. Christine Sampson photo
The Sag Harbor School District has begun digging line-by-line into a 2018-19 budget plan, with top officials instructing teachers, department leaders and other staff members to keep increases minimal and offset any jumps with decreases to keep the budget as flat as possible.
Dr. Phillip Kenter, the district's new business administrator, said Wednesday it is critical that those increases are kept flat because "there are unfunded mandates we are required to pay for throughout the year that are not yet identified during this budgetary process, coupled with certain line items that go up considerably in cost and well over 2 percent such as mandatory retirement contributions and health insurance."
At Monday's school board meeting, Scott Fisher, director of technology, broke down a proposal that would fund more interactive touch-screen displays for classrooms, particularly at the elementary school level; a new three-dimensional printer for the high school technology lab; and a new projection screen and microphone system for the high school auditorium.
In the area of subscriptions to programs such as Learning.com and Tynker, a popular coding tool, Mr. Fisher is projecting an increase of $12,000, or about one-third of last year's subscriptions budget, up to $45,330.
"We've gotten a tremendous amount of use out of it, and I've gotten additional requests for use next year," he said.
Mr. Fisher said he also anticipates spending about $2,299 more, up to $117,259, on technology services purchased through the Board of Cooperative Educational Services such as E-school, School Messenger, Finance Manager and others.
"Those are mission-critical platforms for us," he said.
All in all, the technology budget saw a very slight decrease, of less than .01 percent. The total proposal for this department is $729,639. Last year's technology budget amounted to 1.84 percent of the total year's budget.
Board member Chris Tice asked Mr. Fisher if the current budget proposal included technology components for the Stella Maris building project.
"That's being taken care of through the project itself," he replied. "We need to make sure we're prepared on this end to accept what's taking place over there. Fair warning — we're going to see all my numbers go up slightly next year."
Dr. Kenter presented preliminary numbers for the central administration, board of education, legal, auditing and public information budgets. Most are remaining flat, he said, except for staff salaries where contractual increases have been arranged.
The district had budgeted $35,000 for an internal audit — another form of "checks and balances," Superintendent Katy Graves explained — which, for a district of this size, is not actually mandated by law. Dr. Kenter presented the school board with three options: Leave the budget line alone and proceed with an internal audit at some point next year, take it out altogether or allocate the money for something else.
While it is too early to tell what the overall budget proposal looks like, or what the actual tax levy increase will be, one figure has begun to take shape. The district has the ability to raise its tax levy by at least 3 percent, thanks to the Consumer Price Index of 2 percent and the district's "allowable tax levy growth factor" of 1.0263 percent. The 3 percent figure differs from the "2 percent tax cap" language that most people are used to hearing because the formula takes into account real estate development within each individual school district.
Another factor that can play into the development of the budget is the how much the district decides to draw upon its unassigned fund balance, or the "savings" it has left over after the previous year's budget. Dr. Kenter said school districts are able to put money from this area toward next year's budget to off-set expenses. Sag Harbor currently has $1,596,281 in its unassigned fund balance.
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Manning the battle stations
Healthcare factions try to protect separate interests as reform plans are sketched out
Matthew DoBias and Jennifer Lubell
A multipronged effort to reshape the U.S. healthcare system took center stage last week in Washington, with everyone from President Barack Obama on down pitching a vision of a new health sector even as positions became more entrenched and alliances started to fray.
From the White House to Capitol Hill—and many points between—Washington experienced a rare week in which the idea of changing how care is delivered and paid for not only dominated the conversation, but did so at a time when many believe it will finally move from talk to action.
One of the debate's most visible players, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the pivotal Senate Finance Committee, took the healthcare-heavy schedule in stride.
"This is just part of (an effort) to keep the ball moving," he said. "We'll keep putting the pieces together to forge compromises and to take advantage of the one opportunity we have this decade to get meaningful health reform legislation passed."
The senator added: "It's going to take a lot of work and a lot of cooperation."
Few may understand this as well as Baucus. In consecutive weeks, he has led committee-level discussions with dozens of healthcare stakeholders—everyone from payers and providers to economists and analysts. And twice now his hearings have been interrupted by a vocal contingent of protesters—many of them advocates for a single-payer healthcare system—who have lashed out because the health insurance lobby has had a seat at the table while they have not.
As the week played out, it became clear that they were not alone in that sentiment. Republican lawmakers, too, expressed outrage over being held at bay as many House Democrats held meetings meant to help shape a final bill without Republicans' advice.
Controversy over pledge
It was a week that saw controversy over a high-profile pledge to lower healthcare costs made by a number of groups, including the American Hospital Association, and one that ultimately ended with a somewhat contentious, private meeting between lawmakers where usually collegial senators butted heads over what should be included in a reform package.
"We've got a lot of work to do, and we're going to find a way to do it," Baucus said. "It's important to keep momentum going, but it's also important to do it right. That's the balance here."
The jockeying for a bill has been framed against a looming deadline set in a very public way by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Sharing a podium with Obama, Pelosi promised that a reform bill would be passed by July 31. It's a timetable that has been stressed before, but seldom in such a public manner.
While the Senate isn't on that exact timeframe, it's close enough. Senate leaders have said that they want to pass a bill before August, and legislation there is expected to be negotiated in the committee in June.
On May 12, Baucus and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Finance Committee's senior Republican, oversaw a hearing that examined a number of cost options that could be included in the reform effort. It was the second broad discussion the committee held in as many weeks and, similar to the first, saw its deliberation time shortened by protests.
While the committee has sketched out a rough outline of ways to change how providers deliver care, members remain hard-pressed to find a way to finance it. Senators rifled through a number of different tax options, including ones that would tax tobacco and alcohol, and another that would cap the exclusion for employer-sponsored coverage.
Separately, the hospital sector weighed in on a handful of the solutions. Wayne Sensor, president and CEO of nine-hospital Alegent Health in Omaha, Neb., and a frequent adviser on Capitol Hill, said that the $2.5 trillion per year now spent on health could be trimmed or redirected to help pay for the overhaul.
"We completely agree that reform is needed," he said. "And we believe there is enough money in the system already, we just need to be spending it more effectively, focusing on preventative healthcare, wellness, lifestyle change and the management of chronic disease."
One hospital executive pointed out that providers have long tried to keep costs down.
"The industry has always made a concerted effort to control costs and be more effective and efficient," said John Bluford, president and CEO of two-hospital Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, Mo.
On his end, Bluford has used a combination of energy conservation and personnel decisions to help shave annual in-house expenditures. "All of us collectively have to concede something," he said. "The question is, what's the right formula? The hospital industry should not be overtaxed and carry the entire burden of the healthcare system."
Worries over sacrifice
Yet that's what many hospital organizations fear. On a May 14 conference call held by the AHA, hospitals from across the country expressed concern about how much they would have to give to the overhaul effort.
The call was prompted because of questions and concerns regional hospitals had about a partnership the AHA had joined with five other payer and provider groups.
The partnership caught many of the association's member hospitals off-guard, and only three days after word had leaked, the AHA set out to clarify its position.
At issue was a pledge made by the coalition to help reduce national healthcare costs by about $2 trillion over 10 years. AHA President and CEO Richard Umbdenstock, as well as executives from America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the Service Employees International Union and others, met with Obama to pledge support to his reform cause.
But the outline for how they planned to go about doing it became blurred over a combination of miscommunication, misinformation and, to some extent, old-fashioned gamesmanship, Umbdenstock said.
"There's been a tremendous amount of confusion and frankly, a lot of political spin, and I want to assure you that the American Hospital Association is at the table and a responsible part of this, but we've been very clear on what we have committed to," he told the members at the start of the call.
The coalition said it would work toward the White House's $2 trillion savings goal. Hospitals, however, were concerned that the majority of those savings would come from them.
Umbdenstock said that Obama asked the groups to target areas where they could make an immediate impact on savings without a legislative mandate. Hospitals, Umbdenstock said, could look at reducing readmission rates and other hospital-associated complications that add up to higher costs. "So right now we have to show that we are on the right side of that issue, doing everything we can," he said. "That's what's being asked of us in the short term."
Yet many policy analysts who viewed the group's letter said that it was more a symbolic move rather than a fiscal one.
"The fact the big actors were willing to go to White House and make that pledge shows the gravity of the problem, but they'll have to make structural changes that achieve results," Robert Greenstein, founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said during a teleconference on the Medicare trustees' report.
The grousing, uncertainty and misfires from the reform debate have been happening since at least last year, and are partly because of the enormous size of what's being considered, coupled with the fact that a bill has yet to emerge from the key committees.
Nevertheless, those panels last week inched closer toward that goal.
On the House side, the Energy and Commerce Committee cobbled together a proposal that reportedly would call on individuals, families, employers and government to contribute to a new way to address coverage. The House plan reportedly includes a public health option that would compete with private insurance companies—something AHIP and Republicans have called a
dealbreaker.
Committee Democrats met on May 13 to review some of the options.
As for the July 31 deadline from Pelosi, lawmakers are as confident in meeting the deadline as the industry is wary of it.
"How quickly we achieve reform is not as important as is creating the right reform," Alegent's Sensor said. "In our haste to fix our system, let's not miss the opportunity to address the consumption side of healthcare. By making people partners in their healthcare, we can improve their overall health; more effectively manage chronic conditions; and drive down healthcare costs."
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The Brainwavz M5 retails at US$49.50 (S$65.50) but can be easily found under US$40.00 on Amazon. It comes with a hard-case carrier, several silicon ear-tips and even a pair of foam ear-tips. Honestly at this price range, the accessories that come with it is amazing.
The sound drivers are housed in a nice metal and plastic housing. At first I actually felt that they were pretty flimsy but on further inspection it seems like this pair is gonna last pretty long. The wires are round thin cables but so far I have yet to get them tangled when I roll them up. It also has a remote on the wire that I like a lot. The remote is pretty small so it does not add additional weight to one side and only has one button.
Now the sound… For me it sounded pretty balance and flat. On very rare occasions the instruments sometimes overpowers the vocals making it very muddy.
Noise isolation is not that great either and you are still very much able to hear your surroundings clearly.
For gaming, I really disliked how it sounded. For games like CSGO, gunshots sounded very muddy and very inaccurate making it quite hard to figure out where it came from. For other games like League of Legends, it sounded decent.
For the price tag, its a pretty good upgrade from your normal out of the box earphones that come with your phone, if you just want to listen to music and watch some videos.


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1C (2018-2018): Galilee Seismic Experiment: crustal and sedimentary structure and seismic hazard
USGS Woods Hole
Galilee Seismic Experiment: crustal and sedimentary structure and seismic hazard (GSE)
The experiment consisted of two profiles: an east-west refraction/reflection profile crossing the Dead Sea transform fault at the northern end of the Sea of Galilee, and a north-south profile along the axis of the transform fault. Twelve shots of 300-400 kg detonated at ~17 m depth were recorded by 512 Texans placed 200 m apart, and by 40 modified Texans deployed 0.5 km apart on the Sea of Galilee. Texans deployed in the lake were enclosed in flotation devices and the geophones were replaced by hydrophones.The purpose of the east-west line was to image a major continental transform plate boundary separating distinct crustal and lithospheric blocks. The purpose of the north-south profile was to define the geometry of deep pull-apart basins. The work has implications to processes of continental crust deformation and to seismic hazard.
https://doi.org/10.7914/SN/1C_2018
Uri ten Brink (2018): Galilee Seismic Experiment: crustal and sedimentary structure and seismic hazard. International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks. Dataset/Seismic Network. 10.7914/SN/1C_2018


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The Microbrewery of Serres and Northern Greece «Siris MicroBrewery», was selected for the final phase of the competition of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food among thousands of beneficiaries, who participated in the "Rural Development Program 2007-2013″. The final phase and the award ceremony were held on Wednesday, April 1st of 2015 in Athens, at the Congress Auditorium of the Agricultural University of Athens in an event organized by the National Rural Network (NRN). The presentation of the projects to be awarded was carried out in the presence of the political leadership of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, the Rector of the Agricultural University and many guests and then voting was conducted. In this voting Siris Microbrewery won the first prize in the fields of "Innovation and rural development".
Siris Microbrewery started its commercial development in April 2014, launching in the Greek market two new, fresh unpasteurized beers, the Voreia Pilsner beer and the Voreia India Pale Ale (I.P.A.). Within a few months, the company managed to break in the domestic market, continuously reaching new places from Alexandroupolis to Crete, and soon our products were placed in large super market chains. Since October 2014, the company began exports in various countries of the European market, and soon exports in America and Australia will follow. In December we launched a third product, the Voreia Stout beer, and a month later we released the fourth member of the family, the Voreia Wit beer.
The philosophy of Siris Microbrewery is focused on producing fresh, unpasteurized beer with high quality standards, using only pure materials. Thus, we produce and offer beers of high nutritional and taste value, known for their wonderful flavors and their balanced taste.
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This week on the InSession Film Podcast, Megan from the Oh No! Lit Class podcast joins us review Ava DuVernay's latest film, A WRINKLE IN TIME. We also talk about our favorite abstract movie worlds and we offer some thoughts on last weekend's Oscars.
This week for our InSession Film Podcast: Extra Film segment, we discuss the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES from the great Agnes Varda. We also review Alex Ross Perry's new film, GOLDEN EXITS.
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This week on the InSession Film Podcast, DeAnn Chiazzese from Next Best Picture joins us to review Jennifer Lawrence's latest film, RED SPARROW. We also talk about our favorite Best Picture winners and we briefly discuss the teaser trailer for Wreck-It Ralph 2.
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Farmacias Plaza – Puerto Rico
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CIGA Healthcare: Irwin Armstrong
Irwin Armstrong has forged a niche in the home-testing healthcare market. He tells us how.
Updated: Oct 3, 2013 Published: Nov 20, 2006
CIGA Healthcare is certainly making a name for itself. Founded by Irwin Armstrong in 2005, the company's self-diagnostic kits, which cover pregnancy and fertility, cholesterol, diabetes, temperature and heart monitoring are already generating turnover of over £650,000 for 2006 alone.
55-year-old serial entrepreneur Armstrong was recently named NatWest Startups Awards' Silver Fox and CIGA's success has so far emulated that of the management consultancy business he set up in 1982. The company's growth has left the trophy cabinet at his home in Ballymena, Northern Ireland bulging.
"I think we're doing well, but it's always nice for other people to recognise we're doing well too. I use the awards as a kind of external validation. It's another reason for our customers to trust we're good at what we do."
Armstrong runs CIGA with his wife and son. Due to the business' reliance on outsourcing and automated systems, it has only four permanent staff, all of whom are members of the family.
Armstrong says the original idea for the company had nothing much to do with self-diagnostics, but was based on the concept of developing a company on the principle of outsourcing and automated systems.
While shopping around for something to actually market and sell, Armstrong discovered a gap in the market which he felt he could exploit. The result was the creation of Armstrong's Suresign brand of self-diagnostics.
"The self-testing market is forecast to double in the next five years," says Armstrong. And by negotiating low prices from his various suppliers in the U.S, Europe and the Far East he is able to undercut the market. CIGA buys in volume, over a million pregnancy tests per year, which is one reason he gets the low prices he needs from his suppliers.
Armstrong says that the Suresign products are so much cheaper than their competitors' because CIGA have a much lower mark-up on their products and invest in keeping the prices low rather than spending money on advertising.
Armstrong says he is confident the business will achieve a monthly turnover of £300,000 by 2008. Up against competitors such as Clear Blue and Predictor, he says CIGA already controls 10-15% of the UK pregnancy test market.
Another possible factor in CIGA's success are the European Union rules that were brought in soon after the company started that enforced tougher regulations for those selling pharmaceutical products. Detailed records and standards now have to be kept; something that Armstrong believes is a deterrent to others who think they can follow in his footsteps.
CIGA already has its Suresign brand of products in 4,000 outlets in the UK including Asda. Armstrong says he never fails to get a kick out of seeing the brand he created from scratch when he walks into the supermarket.
By the end of 2007, CIGA plans to have its brand in every major European country. Last year the company made £40,000 profit, and this year sees it earning a clear £100,000 profit.
But Armstrong says he never worries about financing. After putting in £50,000 of his own money he borrowed another £300,000 from banks. "I've raised finance very easily because I know what the financial institutions are looking for. Because of our investments in IT and communications, they have no difficulty in seeing where their money is going. If I need any more money, I'll get it."
It no doubt helps that he's been through it all before. He graduated with a degree in business studies in 1971, at a time when business was relatively new as an academic subject. After university, he qualified as an accountant and later worked for the Northern Ireland Development Agency, which was trying to help people get started in the business world.
"After Margaret Thatcher put a stop to it, those of us that worked for the development agency were offered a golden handshake. I took it and set up my management consultancy company, Centre House Management, which I still have today, 24 years later."
Armstrong's strength is in getting concepts off the ground. "I'm pathetic as a manager," he jokes, and openly admits CIGA's growth has forced him to take eye off the ball at Centre House. "I get bored very quickly. I'm a broad strokes kind of man, but I have people behind me to do the fine detail and mop up the mess." But despite the dismissal of his own leadership skills, Armstrong seems to have got the hang of it. There must be something about the kind of mess Armstrong leaves behind, because it works for him.
© Crimson Business Ltd. 2006


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The allure of dance as a form of exercise can be attributed to the fact that it is an art through which the performer learns to connect her body to her mind. It is an act of peace, and is, therefore, an extremely effective medium for stress relief.
Dancing is one of the best forms of cardiovascular activity, especially for people who do not like the traditional exercise regimes in the gym. After all, who wouldn't prefer a fun salsa session over numerous sets of lunges and squats?
A research study published in the Berkeley Wellness, University of California states that an average person weighing 70 Kgs can burn about 240 calories with merely one hour of dancing. The number can go up to 500 for the more intensive forms like aerobic dances.Dance classes in all the cities across India have become extremely popular these days. The benefits of these classes are well understood by the masses.
Dancing helps to keep your heart healthy and blood pressure under control.
Regular practice of any kind of dance helps to increase the flexibility of your muscles and joints.
A combination of cardiovascular and strength training exercise routine helps to maintain the agility of your body.
Dance is an instant mood lifter.
For a beginner, choosing the type of dance and the studio to join can be largely confusing. The key to making the right selection is to gain some knowledge on the different forms taught and understanding what appeals to you.
Websites: Most dance studios in Mumbai have detailed websites with all the relevant information for customers. Read through the sites of at least five studios near you and understand the kind of services they offer.
Free trial: Several dance studios offer trial classes for customers, and you can easily avail one by making an appointment.
Customer view: After short listing a couple of studios, you can talk to some of their existing customers for an understanding of their experience.
Out of the multitude of dance forms taught all over the city, some of the most popular choices are the Hip Hop classes in Mumbai. Liked by youngsters and seniors alike, the rhythmic and upbeat style makes it an absolute rage among dancers.
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Assembly members, Al Muratsuchi, Jim Fraizer, Betsy Butler and Ken Cooley pointing to the addition of the name of MOH recipient, Private First Class, USMC, Ralph Henry Johnson, who was KIA on March, 5 1968. Who was inadvertently left off of the wall when it was established. Ralph enlisted in Oakland, CA where he was working with the Peace Corp. Assemblyman Brian Dahle (R-Redding) with two of the six,Veterans of the Year from WWII from his District. Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian (D-Studio City) and Luis Rivera Veteran of the Year.
Veteran of the Year recipient Head Table: L to R: BG Mathew Beevers, CA National Guard; Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego); Amy Lewis, KFBK Sacramento; Assemblyman Rocky Chavez (R-Carlsbad); Greg Raffa, Commander, AMVETS CA; Secretary Peter Gravett, CA Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran of the Year being recognized.
Former Secretary Gravett receiving American Flag for PVT 1st Class Johnson's family.
Assemblyman Brian Dahle (R-Redding) with two of the six,Veterans of the Year from WWII from his District.
Scottish American Military Society Color Guard.
Head table, L to R: Rev. Bill Mc Donald; Ken Holybee, VVA-CSC Legislative Chair; Janet Wilson, Commander, American Legion CA; Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego); BG Mathew Beevers, CA National Guard.
Veteran of the Year being recognized.


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Q: Phone Number Formatting, OnBlur I have a .NET WinForms textbox for a phone number field.  After allowing free-form text, I'd like to format the text as a "more readable" phone number after the user leaves the textbox. (Outlook has this feature for phone fields when you create/edit a contact)

*

*1234567 becomes 123-4567

*1234567890 becomes (123) 456-7890

*(123)456.7890 becomes (123) 456-7890

*123.4567x123 becomes 123-4567 x123

*etc

A: A fairly simple-minded approach would be to use a regular expression. Depending on which type of phone numbers you're accepting, you could write a regular expression that looks for the digits (for US-only, you know there can be 7 or 10 total - maybe with a leading '1') and potential separators between them (period, dash, parens, spaces, etc.).
Once you run the match against the regex, you'll need to write the logic to determine what you actually got and format it from there.
EDIT: Just wanted to add a very basic example (by no means is this going to work for all of the examples you posted above). Geoff's suggestion of stripping non-numeric characters might help out a bit depending on how you write your regex.
Regex regex = new Regex(@"(?<areaCode>([\d]{3}))?[\s.-]?(?<leadingThree>([\d]{3}))[\s.-]?(?<lastFour>([\d]{4}))[x]?(?<extension>[\d]{1,})?");
string phoneNumber = "701 123-4567x324";

Match phoneNumberMatch = regex.Match(phoneNumber);
if(phoneNumberMatch.Success)
{
   if (phoneNumberMatch.Groups["areaCode"].Success)
   {
      Console.WriteLine(phoneNumberMatch.Groups["areaCode"].Value);
   }
   if (phoneNumberMatch.Groups["leadingThree"].Success)
   {
      Console.WriteLine(phoneNumberMatch.Groups["leadingThree"].Value);
   }
   if (phoneNumberMatch.Groups["lastFour"].Success)
   {
      Console.WriteLine(phoneNumberMatch.Groups["lastFour"].Value);
   }
   if (phoneNumberMatch.Groups["extension"].Success)
   {
      Console.WriteLine(phoneNumberMatch.Groups["extension"].Value);
   }
}

A: I think the easiest thing to do is to first strip any non-numeric characters from the string so that you just have a number then format as mentioned in this question

A: I thought about stripping any non-numeric characters and then formatting, but I don't think that works so well for the extension case (123.4567x123)

A: Lop off the extension then strip the non-numeric character from the remainder. Format it then add the extension back on.
Start: 123.4567x123
Lop: 123.4567
Strip: 1234567
Format: 123-4567
Add: 123-4567 x123

A: I don't know of any way other than doing it yourself by possibly making some masks and checking which one it matches and doing each mask on a case by case basis.  Don't think it'd be too hard, just time consuming.

A: My guess is that you could accomplish this with a conditional statement to look at the input and then parse it into a specific format.  But I'm guessing there is going to be a good amount of logic to investigate the input and format the output.

A: This works for me. Worth checking performance if you are doing this in a tight loop...
public static string FormatPhoneNumber(string phone)
{
    phone = Regex.Replace(phone, @"[^\d]", "");
    if (phone.Length == 10)
        return Regex.Replace(phone,
                             "(?<ac>\\d{3})(?<pref>\\d{3})(?<num>\\d{4})",
                             "(${ac}) ${pref}-${num}");
    else if ((phone.Length < 16) && (phone.Length > 10))
        return Regex.Replace(phone,
                             "(?<ac>\\d{3})(?<pref>\\d{3})(?<num>\\d{4})(?<ext>\\d{1,5})",
                             "(${ac}) ${pref}-${num} x${ext}");
    else
        return string.Empty;

}

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