The will be a summer ending Buyback in the UE Bookstore today and Friday. If you have any books you are wanting to get rid of stop in the Bookstore during regular store hours during these dates.
We are delighted to welcome Erin (Braun) Lewis to UE as program director to support the GAP program. Her primary focus will be to expand cross-disciplinary project engagement, a key objective for the Institute and the University. Resources made available by refinement in programming and consolidation in staffing at the Institute for Global Enterprise make possible this exciting addition to the University family. In addition to being an alumna of UE, she is also the daughter of UE physics professor Jeffrey Braun.
Most recently, Erin worked as former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's director of outreach at iCivics where she implemented national projects and developed interdisciplinary and experiential programming. She also established partnerships with former astronaut and senator John Glenn, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, the George W. Bush Presidential Library, and many institutions across the country.
Prior to joining iCivics, Erin helped to create the Center for Civic Literacy at the Indiana University Public Policy Institute and served as the director of civic education at the Center for Law and Civic Education in Indianapolis. She is also a former United States Marine, having completed Officer Candidate School in Quantico.
Erin earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Evansville and a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University School for Public and Environmental Affairs where she was one of only three graduate students to receive the William M. Plater Civic Engagement Medallion for service to the community.
We are thrilled about the breadth and depth of experience Erin brings to this position.
The Fitness Center will be closed Monday July 27 - Friday July 31 for resurfacing of the floors.
Please join the Accounting & Audit department in welcoming Emily Hilbert as our Benefit & Accounting Clerk. She is providing assistance in the payroll, accounts payable, and accounting functions.
Emily has over 15 years' experience in administrative areas of higher education, most recently at Earlham College. She also dedicated a portion of her career to applications support and providing training to groups on a variety of software programs.
Relocating from northern Indiana to be closer to family, Emily got here just in time to experience true southern Indiana heat and humidity! We are very excited to work with, share ideas, and get to know Emily. She can be found in Olmsted Hall, Room 213, by dialing extension 2038, or by e-mailing eh189.
Fire drills will be held throughout the school year in the academic and administrative buildings, and we need volunteers to help observe the drills. If you are interested or would like more information, please contact Jan Schrader at js652. These fire drills help make our campus safer for all - your help will be appreciated!
The Fall Booklist should be posted on the UE Bookstore website during the last week of July. Please be patient as we finalize information and do updates to provide complete information in regard to new, used, and rental options.
UE Theatre is excited to welcome our new senior administrative assistant, Liz 'Nichols' Evans. Liz and her family recently moved to Evansville from Lafayette, where she worked at Purdue University. Her husband, Chad is the new chief meteorologist at CBS44 WEVV, and they have two children. Hadley is three years old and Ryland is celebrating his 10-week birthday this week. Welcome to the UE family, Liz!
The July Cycle which began on June 23 ends on July 21 at midnight. Transactions may be reconciled throughout the month and reports may be printed on July 23 until the GL lockout on July 28.
In order to work on processes meant to serve you better, the Registrar's Office will be open limited hours during the week of July 20. We will be open from 8-9 am each morning and again 3:30-4:30 pm through July 24. Please note that we will be closed from 9 am- 3:30 each day and will not be accepting or answering walk-in traffic, phone calls or email during this time. Be assured that all of your inquiries will be addressed during our open hours those days or the next week as we resume normal business hours. Thank you for patience and understanding as we continue to strive for excellent student service!
Lorena Andueza, assistant professor of Spanish, co-authored a book chapter entitled "The Pragmatics of Embedded Exclamatives" in Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society, edited by Alessandro Capone and Jacob L. May (Springer).
University Organist Emeritus Douglas Reed served as one of three adjudicators for the Regional Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (RYACOP) at the American Guild of Organists 2015 Great Lakes Region V Convention in Indianapolis on July 10.
RYACOP takes place bi-annually after a preliminary round at local AGO chapters throughout the region. Winners in each AGO region throughout the U.S. will perform as "Rising Stars" at the biennial national convention to be held in Houston next summer.
Over the past three decades, several of Reed's students have placed in RYACOP and NYACOP, the national level of the AGO competition. In 1984, Matthew Boatmon was a NYACOP finalist in San Francisco. Kirk Rich performed as a "Rising Star" in Minneapolis (2009) and as a RYACOP finalist in Columbus, Ohio (2012). In 2013, Rachel Bennett competed in the RYACOP in Kalamazoo. In 2014, Kirk Rich was one of three finalists in the Boston NYACOP.
The July 10 competition took place at Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis.


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Brazil and Colombia Expand Cooperation for Humanitarian Demining
The countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding to boost Brazil's support in the demining process.
Taciana Moury/Diálogo April 13, 2018 Capacity Building 0 Comment
By Taciana Moury/Diálogo
The ministries of Defense of Brazil and Colombia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand Brazil's cooperation in the demining process of Colombian fields. The agreement, signed on February 21, 2018, will bring around 15 Brazilian service members to Colombia.
According to Brazilian Marine Corps (CFN, in Portuguese) Lieutenant Colonel Anderson Reis, coordinator of the Office of Global Agencies of the Ministry of Defense's Deputy Office of International Agencies, Brazilian service members will to work as instructors or technical advisors in the demining area, but won't perform any minesweeping or removal of mines and explosive devices. "Our service members won't go into any mined areas or places thought to have mines or improvised explosive devices," said Lt. Col. Reis.
Brazil's contribution to Colombia's demining process through the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Defense Board began in 2006. "At this time, four service members, two from the Brazilian Navy [MB, in Portuguese] and two from the Brazilian Army [EB, in Portuguese], are on the mission since the start of 2017," said Lt. Col. Reis.
Among those is CFN Major Bruno Tiago Silva dos Santos, whose tour of duty in Colombia started in January 2017. Prior agreements, he explained, were between the Colombian National Navy and MB to build and develop doctrine, manage courses, and assist in operations related to the humanitarian demining program. The Colombian Army also had a similar agreement with EB.
Brazil's involvement in Colombia increases
The MOU, noted Maj. Bruno Tiago, considers deploying more service members to instruct, plan, and oversee operations. "Specifically for our mission with the Colombian National Navy, the agreement centralizes on the ministries of Defense, but in practice, the initially stipulated terms haven't changed. In the past, two Brazilian service members contributed to instruct the Colombian National Army. With the agreement, the number will increase to five. In addition, eight service members will provide technical advice to demining units, as part of the mission's operational arm," he said.
According to Maj. Bruno Tiago, securing another channel of cooperation between the two countries increases the exchange of knowledge. "The Brazilian Armed Forces have a lot to add in terms of experience, given that they participated in humanitarian demining missions as OAS monitors in Angola, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, as well as in Colombia, before these agreements," he explained. The deactivation of explosive device doctrine acquired in the Marine Corps Engineering Battalion, improved Colombia's situation, he said.
The MOU turns out to be a plus for Brazil as well, whose service members learn from the different explosive devices used in 50 years of conflict. "Many of them are improvised and hand-made, which makes the demining process even more dangerous, and we Brazilians end up gaining considerable knowledge," Maj. Bruno Tiago said.
"With all the know-how added to the mission and the increase in personnel we should be able to shift demining activities into higher gear, while always ensure the highest levels of safety in such a dangerous and important task for Colombian people," he added.
CFN Major Fernando de Paula Lima will join Maj. Bruno Tiago on the mission, which extends until January 2019. The service members will instruct, train—in both theoretical and practical humanitarian demining education—and assist in the development and improvement of doctrine within the Colombian National Navy, creating and revising operational documents.
Brigadier General Ricardo Ernesto Vargas Cuellar, commander of the Colombian Navy's Marine Infantry Training Base, where Brazilian marines are stationed, highlighted for Diálogo the importance of the work done, both in humanitarian demining doctrine creation and in monitoring and training platoons in the Montes de María region of Colombia. So far, Brazilians trained 344 graduates. The OAS and the Colombian government's Office of Integrated Action against Antipersonnel Mines (Descontamina Colombia, in Spanish) certified 92 percent of them. "Brazil's officers contribute to the improvement of processes and compliance with the international regulations required by OAS and by Descontamina Colombia to perform these tasks," Brig. Gen. Vargas said.
According to Brig. Gen. Vargas, service members demined 188 municipalities. Only 263 locations remain with explosives. The MOU, he added, is critical to meet the goal set in the Ottawa Convention for complete clearance of mines from the Colombian territory by 2021. "The agreement is also institutionally significant for both navies, since it enables us to strengthen bilateral alliances, which aren't limited to demining, but to other mutual interests like the fight against cross-border crimes drug trafficking and illegal mining in the Amazon border region," he said.
Brazilian reinforcements in Colombia
Colombian Vice Minister of Defense Aníbal Fernández de Soto greeted the new Brazilian military contingent on March 22, 2018. MB and EB service members are set to work on demining 22 Colombian departments.
"They come to offer their experience in humanitarian demining," said Brigadier General Luis Emilio Cardozo Santamaría, commander of the Colombian National Army Corps of Engineers. "[They come] particularly to plan and enhance work done with OAS."
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Who can say when, or how, the Wraiths began to make their presence felt. Yet when Teeth Of The Sea entered their base of operations The Facility to begin work in Autumn 2017 on their fifth album, it seemed hard to deny that these ghostly interruptions were at play. By November, all three members were in agreement that the disturbances were tangible and impossible to ignore.
It wasn't just the more familiar spectres of the band's collective and overactive imagination - the unruly morass of '80s horror and sci-fi movies, industrial ballast, 2000AD terror, '70s-damaged experimental brinksmanship and atmospheric grandeur that they'd somehow conspire to sculpt into coherent structures. For as much as the band were determined to create a vivid and maximalist work that threw all of the wildest imagination into sharp relief, what resulted summarily went beyond anything they could have expected.
Moving down to Soup Studios, located in the liminal zone of East India Dock on the Thames, these spectres contributed to influence a collection of tracks that soon began to represent a fearsome and transporting marriage of the ferocious and the melancholic. Alchemised trash, kitchen-sink surrealism, out-of-order intensity and ritualistic overtones collides and colluded into a monstrous hybrid - this was a world where Tetsuo the iron man would happily share space with Judee Sill, and where the acid guitars of Helios Creed would happily conspire with the Acid Rock of Rhythm Device.
Teeth Of The Sea are frankly none the wiser as to what these disturbances meant and what caused them - a fissure in the astral plane, psychic disturbances brought on by societal collapse, or just a collective hallucination. Whichever, they can't help but be grateful that these voices and visions made their mark on this record, and can only hope the music has allowed them safe passage to the beyond. Ladies and Gentlemen, pray silence for the Wraith.


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Now it's time to vote! Click on the photos below to vote for your favourite to win. Voting closes at midnight on 9 October 2018.
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Back in 2005 the whole world fell in love with Yves Larock and his infectious summer grooves with 'Zookey' – a Caribbean-infused dancefloor smash hit which devastated the charts securing a top ten position in the French charts with 150,000 copies sold in France alone.
His follow-up single 'Rise Up' went on to become a major global hit with twenty number ones worldwide! 'Rise Up' was signed to Ministry of Sound, Spinnin', Universal and other major labels with distribution deals in more than 45 countries.
There was no standing still for Yves, as he continues to produce tracks at an obsessive pace as well as two albums – 'Rise Up' and 'Manego'- proving without question his status as one of the most prolific producers in the world. His music regularly finds pride of place in Tiesto's bag of tricks as well as that of David Guetta, Paul Oakenfold and Pete Tong to mention a few.
Prepare to be surprised and fall in love all over again for this year brings a brand spanking fresh sounds coming from new horizons. Enough said. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears tuned and you shall be rewarded.
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Terrorism & Security
Putin: Ukraine gave military aid to Georgia in war with Russia
The Russian prime minister called Ukraine's involvement a 'crime,' but still agrees to a gas contract with Kiev.
By Arthur Bright
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin charged Ukraine with supplying arms and manpower to Georgia during its recent war with Russia, and said if Ukraine's involvement was proven, it would be a "crime."
Russian news and information agency RIA Novosti reports that Mr. Putin made the accusation Thursday during a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to sign a new contract on Russian natural gas exports to Ukraine.
The BBC writes that Ms. Tymoshenko said she was confident that Ukraine's involvement in the war in Georgia would not be confirmed. The BBC adds that Putin's accusation "amounted to an attack on [Tymoshenko's] political rival, [Ukrainian] President Viktor Yushchenko," who sets Ukraine's defense policy.
Reuters reports that despite Putin's accusation, he and Tymoshenko agreed to a new deal to gradually increase Ukraine's payments for Russian gas over the next three years. Kiev, which has been paying Russia roughly $180 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas, had been concerned that Russia would require it to immediately start paying market prices, which are more than $500 per 1,000 cubic meters.
The Times of London reports that the Kiev-Moscow talks come amid a power struggle in Ukraine between Tymoshenko and Mr. Yuschenko. The two came to power during Ukraine's 2004 "Orange Revolution," but the government, a coalition of their two parties, has been wracked by infighting ever since. The Times writes that just before the talks, Tymoshenko accused Yuschenko of commandeering her plane to stymie her negotiations with Putin, highlighting one of the key disputes between the two: Ukraine's relationship with Russia.
Russia's influence in Ukraine is not limited to diplomacy. The Chicago Tribune reports that Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula is home to a large ethnic Russian population and a major Russian naval base. Although Crimea's regional government is not separatist, like those in Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions, there are concerns in Ukraine that Russia could use a similar excuse to invade Crimea as it did in Georgia.
But one of Russia's concerns about Ukraine looks to be allayed, at least for the time being. Although Yushchenko has campaigned for Ukraine's membership in NATO, The Wall Street Journal reports German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Thursday that Germany would not support giving a membership "road map" to Ukraine or to Georgia this year.
With an eye on Iran, Israel to place radar antennae near nuclear plant (Agence France-Presse)
In Belgium, authorities seize 2 million counterfeit drugs bound for Africa (BBC)
US envoy calls North Korean talks "substantive" (Reuters)
Europe calls Euro 2012 penalty on Ukraine for treatment of Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko, freed from prison, to run for Ukraine president
How Ukraine can someday join the EU
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import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;

import org.reactivestreams.*;

import io.reactivex.*;
import io.reactivex.Scheduler.Worker;
import io.reactivex.disposables.Disposable;
import io.reactivex.exceptions.MissingBackpressureException;
import io.reactivex.internal.disposables.SequentialDisposable;
import io.reactivex.internal.subscriptions.SubscriptionHelper;
import io.reactivex.internal.util.BackpressureHelper;
import io.reactivex.plugins.RxJavaPlugins;
import io.reactivex.subscribers.SerializedSubscriber;

public final class FlowableThrottleFirstTimed<T> extends AbstractFlowableWithUpstream<T, T> {
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    final TimeUnit unit;
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    public FlowableThrottleFirstTimed(Flowable<T> source, long timeout, TimeUnit unit, Scheduler scheduler) {
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Ateneo Lady Eagles recover, stop FEU's winning streak
Ateneo started its second round campaign on a high note as it stopped Far Eastern University in its tracks, 25-19, 25-21, 25-17, in the UAAP Season 80 women's volleyball tournament Wednesday at Filoil Flying V Centre. The…
Panthers recover to beat Wolves, rule Elite Talisay
Rabboni Centino Borbon 12/18/2017
The Panthers put up a huge fourth quarter run to beat the Wolves, 100-94, and win the championship title of the Elite Basketball Club – Talisay Season 3 last Sunday at the Vista Grande Gym in Bulacao,…
Baby Warriors coach confident team can recover in Cesafi v'ball
John Carlo A. Villaruel 09/04/2017
THE UNIVERSITY of San Carlos (USC) Baby Warriors have been one of the championship contenders in the Cesafi volleyball tournament in recent years. Proof of this is that the team won the 2013 and 2014 Cesafi girls'…
ONE YEAR RECOVERY: ABU SAYYAF in bohol, the aftermath
Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/29/2017
Boholanos to rely on resilience to recover from crisis TOURISM stakeholders in Central Visayas explore other opportunities to negate the expected losses from the negative impact of the clashes in Bohol province this month between state troops…
Romanians charged as cops recover car with P3M cash
Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/20/2017
Charges were filed yesterday against the three Romanians who were tagged in the series of unauthorized withdrawals from automated teller machines (ATM) of Metro Cebu branches of the Land Bank of the Philippines. Ionut Alexandru Mitrache,…
Great Barrier Reef may never recover from bleaching: study
Australia's Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year's warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study that called for urgent action in the face of ineffective conservation efforts. Record-high temperatures in 2015 and 2016 drove an unprecedented…
Boy recovers from drowning
Norman V. Mendoza 01/30/2017
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy is confined in a hospital after he was found unconscious in a resort's swimming pool in Barangay Agus, Lapu-Lapu City last Sunday afternoon. Rigie Pocong, a resident of Sitio Suba-Masulog in Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu…


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Whiting es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de Jackson el estado estadounidense de Kansas. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 187 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 71,92 personas por km².

Geografía
Whiting se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas  (39.590001, -95.613116).

Demografía
Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000 los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $24,792 y los ingresos medios por familia eran $39,167. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $30,694 frente a los $19,792 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $18,353. Alrededor del 14.8% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Ciudades de Kansas
Localidades del condado de Jackson (Kansas)

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'Dear Santa' documentary features Chicago volunteers who do more than answer kids' dreams
'The parents just want to wake up one Christmas morning and to feel like their kids can be like all the other kids,' Ashley Jones says. 'If we can provide that and make one day brighter, that's what matters.'
By Selena Fragassi - For the Sun-Times Dec 4, 2020, 12:00pm CST
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Chicagoans Jennifer Jones (from left), Matt Beresh and Ashley Jones go over letters to Santa in the documentary "Dear Santa."
The U.S. Postal Service's "Operation Santa" kicked off its 108th year Friday, and a new documentary, "Dear Santa," chronicles the good deeds of people around the country who've helped make the program a success, including a Chicago organization called There Really Is A Santa Claus.
Matt Beresh, an executive with Mackinac Partners, his wife Jennifer Jones and her sister Ashley Jones, who works at the Goodman Theatre, started There Really Is A Santa Claus in 2002, choosing a few "Dear Santa" letters from the main Chicago post office downtown to respond to.
Their operation has grown into a not-for-profit organization that, thanks to donations, delivers more than $30,000 a year's worth of gifts to families around Chicago. It has provided gifts to 1,250 people over the past six years.
The Postal Service's program aims to provide children in need with gifts.
Jennifer Jones says There Really Is A Santa Claus aims to take that a step farther. Though the post office, to protect people's privacy, doesn't give its volunteer helpers contact information for families in need, Jones says her group writes a personal response to each letter with the organization's contact information, asking about what everyone in the household needs, not just the child who wrote to Santa. The post office forwards those letters.
Jones says that allows her organization to deliver gifts that go beyond, say, a toy that a child requests, also delivering larger items like beds, cribs, "even tires for a man who needed them for his car to get to work."
She says she and her team focus on the usually neglected bin of "Dear Santa" letters that come to the main post office at 433 W. Harrison St. from families with six or more kids.
"That bin is never touched, sadly, and we have the funds to help them," she says.
Jones says her family's organization typically "adopts" 30 to 40 families a year.
'Dear Santa': You better watch this feel-good doc on volunteers helping deliver the presents
Hundreds of letters to Santa are sorted at a post office in a scene from the documentary "Dear Santa."
Every December, "We rent a U-Haul truck and drive around the city to meet up with the families on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd so we can wrap up and enjoy the holiday on the 24th and 25th," says Beresh, who is Jewish and didn't celebrate Christmas until he was introduced to Operation Santa while dating his future wife.
Jennifer Jones has been participating since 1994 after hearing about it through a family she worked for as a nanny.
"I knew the good it would do," says Jones, who says her own sometimes-tough childhood growing up in Indiana made the program resonate with them. "I knew the need was there."
To find out more about There Really Is A Santa, go to https://www.therereallyisasantaclaus.org/
The U.S. Postal Service's Operation Santa program kicked off Friday at www.uspsoperationsanta.com — you can write Santa here or "adopt" a letter to help out.
"Dear Santa" is now streaming on all major platforms.
Ashley Jones says: "We know what it's like to want and to need. We know what it's like to go through life and see people having everything be normal. And, for these families, the parents just want to wake up one Christmas morning and to feel like their kids can be like all the other kids they see on TV or in their classrooms."
Certain letters they can't forget.
Ashley Jones remembers a teenager who said he needed a laptop so he could do his homework at home rather than at a library, which entailed a walk where he'd have to face gang members.
For Jennifer Jones, the "Dear Santa" writer who most stands out is a woman, referred to in the documentary as "Teresa," who provides a home to children of young mothers in need. She says the two regularly keep in touch.
Jennifer Jones organizes holiday gift packages in her Bucktown home workshop in the documentary "Dear Santa."
For Beresh, it's the high school senior who asked for a suit for his graduation. He was the first in his family to receive a diploma. The 18-year-old Chicago Public Schools student, who lived on the South Side, didn't have an email address. Beresh, whose fourth-grade daughter already had email, that really hit home.
"I was bewildered at the quantity and quality of obstacles that are in front of these families," he says.
He and his wife live in Bucktown. Starting in November, their home becomes a Santa's workshop with what he calls the "controlled chaos" of fitting in more than 150 volunteers, working in shifts, to shop, organize and wrap gifts. They have a volunteer coordinator to help manage everything.
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't changed much for them, Jennifer Jones says.
"The donors that are shopping seem to have no qualms about going to stores, and a fair number of people are OK coming over to wrap as long as it's in line with CDC recommendations," she says. "We are trying to outfit our garage and under the deck with heaters, similar to what restaurants are doing."
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Alzheimer's Disease Essay
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Veronica Brinson
Mary Lou. Jenkins
Alzheimer's disease is a chronic progressive deterioration of the brain leading to dementia, incapacitation, and death. Dementia is a condition marked by memory loss plus a minimum of one other cognitive impairment. Alzheimer's disease has been referred to as both the plaque of the ages and the plague of the aged. Alzheimer's disease was so poorly understood that people who suffered this dementia were label as tormented, affected, pixilated, weird, afflicted, senile, mad, crazy, and spellbound. People with Alzheimer disease were feared, avoided, ignored, and ridiculed. Years and ...view middle of the document...
Disorientation is when people with this disease lose contact with time and space. Wandering is when peoples with this disease may become lost inside their home having difficulty know the difference between the bathroom, bedroom, or kitchen. Personal care changes with peoples with this disease like their daily bath become a once or twice a week event. Mood swings that vary from day to day even from moment mark the intermediate stages. Sundowner's syndrome just before the sun goes down the increase of the sunlight intense has an adverse effect on the brain. People with this disease their eating habits changes because it require more period of time to eat meals and may not eat at all some days.(refuse) Alzheimer's disease is slow but progressive weight loss throughout the course of disease. Depression is experienced by over half of the people with this disease is characterized by withdrawal, melancholy, apathy, and crying. Agitation is watch throughout all stages of Alzheimer's. People with Alzheimer's disease show their aggression in many ways which includes more verbal abuse and physical abuse. When people with Alzheimer's disease become paranoia is the state of mind that causes it victim to become distrustful and suspicious of others. Delusions in Alzheimer's people are completely false ideation and unshackle beliefs. Hallucinations are abnormal sensory are not real. Incontinence is when peoples with this disease loss control of the bowels. Speech loss occurs when peoples with Alzheimer's disease cannot express their thoughts adequately. The final stage of Alzheimer's disease is label by total incapacitation. There are many causes of Alzheimer's disease and others are currently under investigation waiting to be evaluated. People with Alzheimer's disease the disease kills the brain cells meaning the more brain cell die the brain begin become smaller than a normal brain size.(brain decrease) When a doctor examine a person with Alzheimer's disease he or she tests the brain tissue under a microscope they look for two types of abnormalities called the plaques...
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The frame's other national freshmen targeted horror and family fans to varying effect. An American Haunting, based on the historic Bell Witch incident, ranked fourth with good response that should pave the way for very good ancillary exploitation.
Depending on who you quote, the film grossed between $5.9 and $6.4 million this weekend, and it opened against Mission Impossible 3.
What's really interesting, though, is that An American Haunting isn't a studio release but an independent one. Solomon raised private equity to release his film on almost 1,700 screens. I talked to him last week for the My Space film page, and I'm posting the full feature below as well:
"I don't get a lot of sleep," Courtney Solomon replies when I ask him what it's been like making his new horror film, An American Haunting. That's not because making the film was so scary – although there were some strange incidents during its shooting that I'll describe below – but more because of Solomon's responsibilities on the film. After having developed and produced the feature, Solomon was unhappy with the distribution deals he was offered by distributors, so he decided to form a distribution company, After Dark Films, and release the picture himself. "Not only am I writer, producer and director," he says, "but I'm also head of marketing and distribution!"
Filmmakers as diverse as William Castle, John Cassavetes and Hal Hartley have all self-distributed their movies, but what makes Solomon's venture a little more unusual than most is its scale – the film opens this Friday on almost 1,700 screens and goes head-to-head with Tom Cruise's latest Mission Impossible spectacle. So, yeah, at this moment, Solomon is not getting a lot of sleep.
Solomon originally got the filmmaking bug from his mother, who was a freelance production coordinator and assistant director in Canada. "I grew up on film sets with her," he says, "and instead of going to film school I decided to form my own film company and look for investors in Asia." For his first project, Solomon decided that he'd make a film out of the popular role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. "I was 19 or 20 years old," he remembers, " and I cold-called the [company that owned the rights] and made a friend on the inside. I was really persistent, and after a year and half of wrangling I managed to secure an option. With no track record, it was a tough process, but the fact that I did it while I was so young helped me get investors."
Solomon's story of making Dungeons and Dragons is a movie unto itself. The short version: after getting interest from heavyweights like James Cameron and Francis Ford Coppola in directing, various corporate politics created a situation where Solomon was forced to step into the director's chair and helm the movie himself. "I hadn't even made a short," he says, "and here I had to prep a movie with 1,300 digital effects shots in eight weeks. It was trial by fire, and everything that could go wrong did go wrong."
Solomon started developing An American Haunting before he shot Dungeons and Dragons and returned to it immediately after finishing that film. "I'm personally interested in the paranormal," he says, "and I was on Amazon and saw Brent Monahan's book, The Bell Witch: An American Haunting. I read some user reviews and it sounded cool, and then I did some more research and found out that there were about 20 more books and that it was a famous case."
The film tells the story of the Bell family of Red River, Tennessee, who experienced a series of terrifying occurrences – a series of ghostly attacks on the young daughter, Betsy – almost 200 years ago. The case has gone down in the history books as the only time a death has been classified by the government as being caused by paranormal activity. "There was enough evidence and eyewitness accounts for the government to classify it this way," says Solomon.
After Dungeons and Dragons, Solomon put together a script for this next feature (based, in part, on Monahan's book), attracted veteran actors Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek along with the exciting young actress Rachel Hurd-Wood (Wendy from the recent Peter Pan), and brought on the great d.p. Adrian Biddle (Thelma and Louise). In writing the script, he updated the Bell Witch story not just with a present-day framing device but also by exploring the psychological theories of the incident advanced by Monahan. He secured enough financing through equity investment, pre-sales and some Canadian co-production funds to shoot for "50 days and change," with the landscapes of Romania doubling for the story's Tennessee location.
To prepare for the shoot, Solomon studied the horror classics. "I watched a lot of Hitchcock," he says. "I looked at Rebecca for mood and atmosphere and also films like The Innocents and The Haunting. And I watched The Exorcist because I knew that by nature of the fact that Betsy Bell was wearing a nightgown in her bedroom with these [paranormal] things happening to her, I'd be subject to some kind of comparison, and I didn't want to lift anything from that movie."
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After recutting the pic, Solomon screened it for distributors but ultimately decided to go the independent route. "All of the studios are scaling back on acquisitions, and unless [movies] fit into that cookie cutter mode, they don't get the attention they deserve," he says. "And financially, if you sell something to the studio, that's all you are going to get – what you get up front [as an advance]. I said to my partner, who is very wealthy and from Hong Kong, 'Let's doing something different. Let's come up with After Dark Films and put the film out ourselves. If it works, we'll have the ability to be a Miramax or New Line and can go out and acquire even more films."
Once his investor pledged money for prints and advertising, Solomon started his distribution efforts by contacting Freestyle Releasing, a company known for booking films that receive small releases. "I said, 'Are you up for 2,000 screens?'" They said yes, and to convince theater owners to book his picture, Solomon put together a studio-level advertising campaign, buying tv spots and putting An American Haunting billboards in the major cities and buying bus shelter advertisements. Once theater bookers saw that Solomon had the serious resources needed to make an impact in the marketplace, they booked his film. And he hooked up with MySpace to connect directly with the film fans he needs to draw to theaters that opening weekend. "It's been a roller coaster ride," he says of the whole experience.
Oh yeah, and what about those scary moments? "We left what's known as a 'hot set' overnight a couple of times," Solomon said. (A "hot set" is a set with all of its props and set dressing in place that's not intended to be touched.) "We'd leave the set hot and come back the next day and everything would be rearranged. There was one Romanian security guard, and I really doubt he was going in and doing it. So that was a little weird."
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Islam later abandoned his BMW but was arrested shortly after and was found to have almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
It was later discovered that he was on bail for dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol, and in breach of a suspended prison sentence for possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
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Judge Michael Kay QC said: "The sort of dangers presented by those who drive in this manner are seen every day in the newspapers. They cause serious injury and at times death.
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Prosecutor Peter Shaw said the first episode of bad driving was in the early hours of March 21 this year in Bedford, where Islam almost crashed head on with a police car.
He abandoned his BMW but was arrested shortly after and was found to have almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
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Richard Purchase, defending said Islam had been remanded in custody since the incident.
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In the thriller, Dhritiman Chatterjee will be seen donning the gloves of the sleuth, who tries to solve a murder mystery.
Konkona Sen Sharma and Indraneil Sengupta are all set to star in a new Byomkesh Bakshi film titled 'Sajarur Kanta'.
Actress Konkona Sen Sharma and Indraneil Sengupta are all set to star in a new Byomkesh Bakshi film titled 'Sajarur Kanta' directed by Saibal Mitra.
Mitra added, "Till this date there are antique-dotted households in the city but stepping out you will discover new look buses, cars and typical facade of a metro. 'Sajarur Kanta' seeks to catch the two which merge at one point," the director said.


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Dreamland Drifter
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession." – Albert Camus
Chihayafuru, vol. 2
Posted on March 10, 2018 by dreamlanddrifter
Chihayafuru got off to a great start, probably the best in a manga I've read for a long time. The second volume adds some more dimension to Chihaya's character, making me fall even more in love with her and the series in the process.
The last volume left Chihaya, Taichi, and Arata on a cliffhanger in their first karuta tournament. This volume picks up right where that one left off, where Chihaya sadly loses her match. After this, the three graduate from their elementary school. Then there's a timeskip to the present day, which I found a bit more compelling.
Chihaya enters high school, lamenting the fact that she wasn't able to make any friends around her karuta playing. She's almost immediately "othered" at her entrance ceremony because her classmates, most of whom seem to know her older sister's modeling work, expect something different from her. Chihaya's got a one track mind, though, and while she's encouraged to continue track club in high school, she is entirely focused on earning her Class A rankings in karuta so she can share with Arata, who has moved back to Fukui due to a family emergency years earlier.
Chihaya is shocked to learn Taichi is going to her high school, given that he was on track to get into a prestigious university through his middle school's connections. Then she's overjoyed to see him back, because that means more karuta matches. The problem is that he hasn't played karuta much and is much more interested in keeping his girlfriend company. Still, he cares enough to join Chihaya at practice, and later accompanies her to a tournament. He chides Chihaya for her goal to reach Class A; since it took her longer than usual to hit Class B, he feels like Class A will take her too long.
She later takes a trip to Fukui to meet with Arata, as after making a surprise phone call to him, he drops a bombshell that he isn't playing karuta anymore. Her hope is to meet him in person to talk. She's able to meet him, but isn't able to get him to play again. She returns to Tokyo half-dejected.
The tides shift somewhat when she meets Kanade, a student at her school interested in joining her karuta club. Chihaya is elated at the new acquaintance, but later realizes Kanade's interest in karuta is slightly different from Chihaya's. That doesn't faze Chihaya much, as she still takes a liking to her.
The only thing I didn't like was that the first two chapters featured the main kids during their elementary school years. The mood of those chapters compared to the rest is so different, in ways that I didn't really like. The karuta match in this chapter is rushed; usually, the series does a good job of explaining the game well enough that total outsiders like me can follow along. These chapters didn't work as well, for reasons I couldn't put my finger on. It was so rushed that I thought I was reading a Sailor Moon fight, which isn't a good thing to me. The bittersweetness of theses chapters didn't jive with the later ones to me. I thought it would've been better to move them to volume 1, so volume 2 could have had a more consistent tone.
I still loved this volume, though, because it expanded Chihaya's character in effective ways. Her dedication to karuta causes her peers to disregard her, but Chihaya's so focused on her passion that she ignores it and continues to push on. Taichi and Arata's detachment from karuta initially hurts Chihaya, who wanted it to be the thing that kept them together forever, but it causes her to refactor her love of the game into something more singular and personal to her. Kanade's love of karuta for the poems and historical context, rather than the competitive aspect of the game, also prompts Chihaya to reevaluate the Hyakunin Isshu, which helps her understanding of the poems. Her remark to Kanade when she explains herself is simply, "You're friends with all of them!" a reference to something her sensei told her in the last book.
I love her passion, and I love that she's able to let these outside interactions alter her strategy. It makes sense when considering the game – characters even remark that it's good for her to think outside her sensei's box, as different teachers have different methods of explaining the game and strategizing for it. But it's also indicative of how open she is to making friends that share her passion. I don't quite know how to put it in words; Chihaya is just so lovable as a character. Even in volumes like this, where there's relatively little action and a much larger focus on interpersonal relations, she still elevates the series to something special. She expressed desire to be the best at karuta, and I really hope she gets there someday.
Chihayafuru is written and illustrated by Suetsugu Yuki. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Be Love magazine since 2007, and its chapters have been collected into 36 bound volumes as of November 2017. It has been licensed for release in North America by Kodansha Comics, which has released nine volumes to date.
This entry was posted in manga and tagged chihayafuru, josei, suetsugu yuki by dreamlanddrifter. Bookmark the permalink.


So you want to decorate your house for the holidays, but you want to kick it up a notch? Look no further! The complete Show-In-a-Box is your one-stop-shop and easiest solution in the market today to create an awesome display. From sequencing and design, to props and programming, this is where you begin taking holiday decorating to the next level.
We begin with your house layout and design. Pixel Pro Display creates your virtual display, programs your songs, and schedules your show . Help us begin your layout by calculating your house outlines. You can have up to 8 sets, a total of 150 bulbs per string. Decoration packages include your choices of arches, snowflakes, candy canes, and spinners. An easy addition to this package is a pixel mega tree. Complete with pixels, topper, guy wires, and star, this package has everything you need to get started.
These props arrive, ready-to-connect and run with your Falcon light show controllers. Just select any 5 PPD sequences. These will arrive pre-loaded on an SD card, ready to run your entire display. Open the box, set up the strings on your house. Hang the decorations. Plug all the strings in to the labeled connector on the controllers. No computer or programming necessary, just plug it in and enjoy!
Prices and products are subject to change without warning or notification.
House outline is based on 150 pixels per output.
Package contents are furnished and provided by a third party company, Wired Watts, LLC (Wired Watts). All warranty claims and returns are subject to the terms and policies located on WiredWatts.com. Pixels are spaced at 8 inch. Free shipping is only for the contiguous 48 states. Shipping outside of the USA will incur a cost. Shipping can take up to 30 days. Wired Watts is a separately owned entity from Pixel Pro Displays, LLC (PPD). PPD will be responsible for creating a digital layout and programing musical sequences. PPD does not own the licensing rights to any music. All music licenses will be provided by the the customer utilizing the digital hyperlinks on the sequence product pages. All licenses will be provided to PPD before the final shipment of the customers products.


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package org.elasticsearch.index.query;

import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TermRangeQuery;
import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Inject;
import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.BytesRefs;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperService;

import java.io.IOException;

import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.support.QueryParsers.wrapSmartNameQuery;

/**
 *
 */
public class RangeQueryParser implements QueryParser {

    public static final String NAME = "range";

    @Inject
    public RangeQueryParser() {
    }

    @Override
    public String[] names() {
        return new String[]{NAME};
    }

    @Override
    public Query parse(QueryParseContext parseContext) throws IOException, QueryParsingException {
        XContentParser parser = parseContext.parser();

        XContentParser.Token token = parser.nextToken();
        if (token != XContentParser.Token.FIELD_NAME) {
            throw new QueryParsingException(parseContext.index(), "[range] query malformed, no field to indicate field name");
        }
        String fieldName = parser.currentName();
        token = parser.nextToken();
        if (token != XContentParser.Token.START_OBJECT) {
            throw new QueryParsingException(parseContext.index(), "[range] query malformed, after field missing start object");
        }

        Object from = null;
        Object to = null;
        boolean includeLower = true;
        boolean includeUpper = true;
        float boost = 1.0f;
        String queryName = null;

        String currentFieldName = null;
        while ((token = parser.nextToken()) != XContentParser.Token.END_OBJECT) {
            if (token == XContentParser.Token.FIELD_NAME) {
                currentFieldName = parser.currentName();
            } else {
                if ("from".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    from = parser.objectBytes();
                } else if ("to".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    to = parser.objectBytes();
                } else if ("include_lower".equals(currentFieldName) || "includeLower".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    includeLower = parser.booleanValue();
                } else if ("include_upper".equals(currentFieldName) || "includeUpper".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    includeUpper = parser.booleanValue();
                } else if ("boost".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    boost = parser.floatValue();
                } else if ("gt".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    from = parser.objectBytes();
                    includeLower = false;
                } else if ("gte".equals(currentFieldName) || "ge".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    from = parser.objectBytes();
                    includeLower = true;
                } else if ("lt".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    to = parser.objectBytes();
                    includeUpper = false;
                } else if ("lte".equals(currentFieldName) || "le".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    to = parser.objectBytes();
                    includeUpper = true;
                } else if ("_name".equals(currentFieldName)) {
                    queryName = parser.text();
                } else {
                    throw new QueryParsingException(parseContext.index(), "[range] query does not support [" + currentFieldName + "]");
                }
            }
        }

        // move to the next end object, to close the field name
        token = parser.nextToken();
        if (token != XContentParser.Token.END_OBJECT) {
            throw new QueryParsingException(parseContext.index(), "[range] query malformed, does not end with an object");
        }

        Query query = null;
        MapperService.SmartNameFieldMappers smartNameFieldMappers = parseContext.smartFieldMappers(fieldName);
        if (smartNameFieldMappers != null) {
            if (smartNameFieldMappers.hasMapper()) {
                //LUCENE 4 UPGRADE Mapper#rangeQuery should use bytesref as well?
                query = smartNameFieldMappers.mapper().rangeQuery(from, to, includeLower, includeUpper, parseContext);
            }
        }
        if (query == null) {
            query = new TermRangeQuery(fieldName, BytesRefs.toBytesRef(from), BytesRefs.toBytesRef(to), includeLower, includeUpper);
        }
        query.setBoost(boost);
        query =  wrapSmartNameQuery(query, smartNameFieldMappers, parseContext);
        if (queryName != null) {
            parseContext.addNamedQuery(queryName, query);
        }
        return query;
    }
}


SpeakOut Wireless is a service that powered by 7 Eleven Malaysia. In Canada, it called 7 Eleven SpeakOut Wireless. SpeakOut Wireless Malaysia is using DiGi network to provide the services since year 2011. Currently there are only Happy , SpeakOut Wireless and 1 more MVNO (I'll tell you later) using DiGi network.
This entry was posted in Communication and tagged Cheap calls, Cheap SMS, DiGi, MVNO, speakout wireless on January 12, 2013 by RMvalues.
Do you know what's your current mobile prepaid plan sms rate ? To same network as well as to other networks ? Can you afford it ? Or you might want to find a cheaper one ? Or your current prepaid plan is the cheapest among all the operators ?
Have you read our previous few posts ? Compare the Mobile Prepaid Voice Call Rates (Mobile Operators) , Compare the Mobile Prepaid Voice Call Rates (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) , Compare the Mobile Prepaid Video Call Rates .
Very obviously, Celcom SMS rate is the cheapest among other operators, because it has the lowest SMS rate to it's own network as well as other networks.
This entry was posted in Communication and tagged cheap call, Cheap SMS, free sms, sms, sms rate on March 26, 2012 by RMvalues.


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"I HIGHLY recommend Meredith Hunt Photography. The experience was wonderful from start to finish. She is so incredibly talented and professional. She handled our daughter so well, I couldn't believe she stayed so still- I wanted to bring her home with me! We loved each and every photo! Thank you Meredith!" -Kaitlyn C.
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"Meredith has taken newborn photos for 3 of our children. We can't say enough good things. From booking our sessions to receiving our images and products, Meredith was professional and easy to work with. You can tell she is very comfortable with babies (she's a NICU nurse as well) and I had no hesitation handing my baby to her. She took her time and made sure to get the best possible pictures of my babies. Meredith's photos were beautiful and unique and we've received so many compliments on them. Highly recommend!" -Jennifer M.
"I cannot say enough wonderful things about Meredith and the quality of her work. She truly has such a gift and natural talent for photographing newborns. I felt completely comfortable during the entire session which is so important when someone is handling your brand new little baby. She was so amazing with my little one, I have nicknamed her "the baby whisperer". AND the pictures turned out better than I ever could have imagined. I will recommend her a million times over to anyone wanting top of the line pictures to cherish forever." -Jessica N.
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"'Awesome', and 'amazing' are two words that come to our mind when we think of Meredith's work. She has created memories of our newborn daughter through photo shoots that we as parents will cherish for a lifetime. Her preparation is top notch and the quality of her work is worth raving about. Such is her work that you as parents would want to go back again for another photo session for your kids. She has already created priceless memories for us and we plan to go back to her to keep building on top of it. Great work Meredith. Keep it going!!!!" -Gautham V.
"I cannot say enough good things about Meredith Hunt Photography! She photographed my newborn, and the pictures are absolutely perfect! I framed a few for my daughters nursery and have received so many compliments. During my daughters session, Meredith was so professional, patient, gentle and caring.. I felt completely comfortable leaving my newborn in her hands. I cannot thank her enough for the beautiful photos that I will cherish forever. I will definitely use her again in the future and recommend her to anyone looking for a newborn photographer." -Katie E.
"Meredith is both professional and personable, two great assets to work with when having pictures of your newborn taken just days after having a baby. She offers an inviting environment, sensitive to new moms as well as safe for your new baby. Her NICU nursing experience allows you to rest assured knowing your baby is in safe hands. And no need to worry about not having a good pic if your little one decides to act up. Meredith has a way with even the most difficult of newborns. I have had all three of my children photographed by Meredith and my third was by far the most challenging. She cried on an off and did not want to sleep. Yet, I have an album full of picture perfect material." -Aftan B.
Have you had a positive experience that you'd like to share? I'd love to hear from you! Reviews can be left on my facebook page, on my Google business listing, or emailed to me directly.


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Henricho Bruintjies (Paarl, Sudáfrica, 16 de julio de 1993) es un atleta sudafricano, especialista en la prueba de 4 x 100 m, en la que logró ser campeón africano en 2018

Carrera deportiva

En el Campeonato Africano de Atletismo de 2018 celebrado en Asaba (Nigeria) ganó la medalla de oro en los relevos de 4 x 100 metros, con un tiempo de 38.25 segundos, que fue récord de los campeonatos, superando a los equipos de Nigeria (plata con 38.74 segundos) y Costa de Marfil (bronce con 38.92 segundos).

Referencias

Atletas de Sudáfrica
Nacidos en Paarl


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The population of Hot Springs Landing, NM in 2019 counting up to 134 people. More than 15% of employed adults in New Mexico apply at least onse a year for a Payday Loans from $100 to $1,000. And as the time shows, more than 10 people, even with bad FICO credit score get approved for small-dollar loan.
Personal Loans such as mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and rents are borrowed by 83% of adult (from 18 to 65 years of age) residents of the state - it's 56 lending service users.
Short-term Payday Loans up to $1,000 and long-term Personal Loans up to $15,000 in Hot Springs Landing, New Mexico.


When you think of your water heater, you probably envision a big round tank in the garage, basement or another area of your home that feeds hot water throughout your home as you have need for it. In recent time, however, a revolution in the water heater design has occurred. It is the arrival of tankless water heaters. Perhaps you've heard of them before or maybe you're just hearing about it now or when you've contacted a plumbing service in Birmingham to repair or replace your current system. Here's what you need to know when it comes to a tankless system vs. the traditional water heater.
In basic terms, this new type of water heater uses a system that rapidly heats the water on-demand to send throughout your home instead of storing it in a large tank, where water can become stagnant over the years. This system will typically use either gas or electricity to perform its duties and has been developed to be energy efficient when in use.
When you have a traditional water heater, it stores water in a tank that is heated and on-hold until you need it. These systems are not as efficient, because they continually heat the water, while tankless only heat the water as you need it. Also, the water can sit in traditional water tanks for a long, long time and isn't fresh water as with tankless systems.
The first benefit of the tankless is that it will occupy much less space than your traditional water heater system does. It is also quite energy efficient, which means more money in your pocket when your power bill arrives; however, a tankless system will cost more initially to install it than your traditional tank system would up front.
The tankless systems also have a longer life expectancy than your typical tank water heater system does. There's also no worry of running out of hot water as the tankless system will be on-demand. When you need hot water, you've got it!
If you're in the market for a new water heater system, contact Hemphill Services to learn all the pros and cons of each system. This professional plumbing service in Birmingham will assist you in picking the perfect water heater for your home.


The debate over selective education as it is sometimes called has been raging for as long as I can remember. As someone who was educated under a completely comprehensive system in Rotherham in what was referred to at the time as the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire I never had any close experience of what the grammar school system was like.
My view is that if a child's parents are well off and want their school to go to a grammar school they can move into an area which has them. This is an option denied to poorer parents. Of course it may be that parents do not want their child to go to a grammar school but they should at least have the choice. I do not believe ideology should stop parents from having the choice. We should find out more about the government's plans to extend choice in education later today.
Would you kindly ask your leader does this mean turning all state comprehensive schools into Academies is off the agenda, as it would be nice to know? Good luck with this getting through the Lords most people think it will not pass.