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Pushed along by a rain-swollen river, bull sharks wound up inside a lake at the Carbook Golf Club in Brisbane, and biologists are amazed that since they wound up on the course some years ago near the 14th tee, they have begun breeding.
There are nearly a half dozen eight to 10 foot-long sharks now swimming about at the lake, Sky News reports.
The ecological quirk, however has had a chilling effect: no kids dare jump in the lake to recover lost balls for resale as they traditionally had.


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Flemming Nielsen (né le  à Copenhague au Danemark et mort le ) est un joueur de football international danois, qui évoluait au poste de milieu de terrain.

Biographie

Carrière en club

Flemming Nielsen évolue au Danemark, en Italie et en Écosse.

Lors de la saison 1955-1956, il inscrit 11 buts en deuxième division danoise avec l'équipe du B 93 Copenhague.

Avec le club italien de l'Atalanta Bergame, il joue 92 matchs en Serie A, inscrivant huit buts.

Carrière en sélection
Flemming Nielsen reçoit 26 sélections en équipe du Danemark entre 1954 et 1960, inscrivant quatre buts. Toutefois, seulement 24 sélections sont reconnues par la FIFA.

Il joue son premier match en équipe nationale le , contre la Norvège (défaite 1-2 à Malmö). Il inscrit ses deux premiers buts le , contre la Norvège. Ce match gagné 3-0 à Copenhague rentre dans le cadre du championnat nordique.

Il participe ensuite aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1960 organisés en Italie. Lors du tournoi olympique, il inscrit deux buts, contre la Tunisie, puis lors de la finale perdue contre la Yougoslavie. Les joueurs danois remportent la médaille d'argent.

Il reçoit sa dernière sélection le , contre la Suède (défaite 2-0 à Göteborg).

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 Jeux olympiques :
  Argent : 1960.

 Atalanta Bergame
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 Vainqueur : 1963.

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Joueur de l'Atalanta Bergame
Joueur du Greenock Morton FC

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Kerstin Helene Bergman, född 19 februari 1946 i Örgryte församling i Göteborg, är en svensk journalist.

Biografi
Helene Bergman arbetade i många år på Sveriges Radio, där hon bland annat startade lokalradions första kvinnoprogram Amanda i början av 1980-talet. Under fyra år var hon en av programledarna i riksradions kvinnoprogram Radio Ellen. Hon har därtill varit nyhetschef och journalist vid en rad svenska lokaltidningar samt kommunal informatör och folkhögskolelärare. Hon har bott i Zimbabwe, Bangladesh och Turkiet och rapporterat därifrån som frilansjournalist. Hon är också fotograf och håller kurser i fotografering, bland annat street photography.

Hösten 2013 utgav hon memoarboken Med svärtad ögonskugga. En feministisk memoar.

Deltagande i samhällsdebatten
Helene Bergman har även deltagit i samhällsdebatten i frågor som rör feminism, bland annat med uppmärksammade artiklar i Göteborgs-Posten och Nyheter24. Hon har tagit kraftigt avstånd från Feministiskt initiativ: "Fi är inte det rosa parti de ger sig ut för att vara. Under det rosa täcket finns ingen feminism värd namnet. Istället finns populism, maktbegär, förföljelse, förtryck och könsrasism."

I en debattartikel på Ledarsidorna, där hon medverkar som debattör regelbundet sedan januari 2016, skriver hon:

Bibliografi
 2013 – Med svärtad ögonskugga: en feministisk memoar
 2017 – Förortens grupp 8: 2000-talets kvinnokamp
 2021 – Den politiska rättegången: kampen om yttrandefriheten (om rättegången mot Ann-Sofie Hermansson)

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Episode 5: Pruneface Strikes Back!
On today's episode, we talk about the news release of Han and the Rebel Commandos, we answer the age old question of who is better between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, and we learn the toll that painting binges take on the human body.
Drop day is here!!! John and Matt talk about their first 800 point match, Matt gives us a recap from GAMA, and Josh decides that Vader doesn't need Saber Throw. Finally, Matt got to sit down with Zach Reyburn, Organized Play Manager at Asmodee North America, to find out the future of organized Star Wars Legion.
The demo game is finally here, and the guys dive into the results of their first matches. We debate which is the best troop option, what upgrades have had the most impact, and we take the shock collar off of Josh to hear him spit hot fire about expansions.
Episode Two: Rules Are Here!
We got the rules! First we see if Josh's new shock collar will keep him from ranting, we analyze the developing Legion Online Community, and most importantly, we dive into the Learn to Play Rules released by Fantasy Flight this week.


Numerous evacuations have taken place across the United States on December 13th after scammers sent bomb threat emails demanding bitcoin payment to a number of businesses, companies, schools, and other entities, according to reports.
As of press time, authorities indicated there is not any evidence so far of any explosives detonating or actually being placed. However, police are asking people to remain vigilant as they work through the threats.
It is not yet clear how far the email threat has spread, but law enforcement in numerous jurisdictions across the country have released statements on social media and other outlets about the situation.
The Federal Bureau Of Investigation said it is aware of the threats and remains in contact with law enforcement across the country.
Speculation is the messages are robo-emails that were sent out in a group. The New York Police Department indicated on Twitter how it looks like they were sent to "cause disruption and/or obtain money."
A number of people on Twitter posted screenshots of the threatening email sent by the bitcoin scammers.
The email is printed in an article by Heavy.com.
It begins declaring that "my mercenary" has placed a bomb in "the building where your business is conducted" that would wound many people upon detonation.
According to The Verge, there seem to be multiple versions of the email, some of which list a different type of explosive material.
The actual bitcoin wallet also looks to vary across messages. The Verge also wrote that it was able to confirm at least three wallets. It is not yet clear if anyone has actually paid the ransom.


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Bailing out the states: the momentum - and the prospect for violence - builds
Regular readers will know that for years, I've predicted that the failing states in the Union - failing because of their feckless, fiscally inept and terminally greedy politicians, plus the cronies to whom they pour out largesse from the state budget - are going to demand that the federal government bail them out, and assume responsibility for their catastrophically large, otherwise unpayable debts, deficits and overheads.
I was right.
As I reported last week, Illinois Democrats have asked for over $41 billion in financial aid, ostensibly related to the costs of the coronavirus pandemic, but in reality specifically earmarked to make up the shortfall in state pension funding, pay off the state's deficit, and basically cover their overspending for the past decade or two. The money has little or nothing to do with the coronavirus, but everything to do with ensuring that their past misdeeds are paid for by the taxpayers of the entire United States, not just those in Illinois. What's more, you and I know full well that if they succeed, they won't change their spendthrift ways. Within a few years, they'll have dug themselves into yet another fiscal hole, and demand to be bailed out yet again - citing this bailout as precedent.
If you want to know some of the facts underlying Illinois' predicament, read this article.
Our analysis at OpenTheBooks.com shows that an Illinois family of four now owes more in unfunded pension liabilities ($76,000) than they earn in household income ($63,585). In a state of 13 million residents, every man, woman, and child owes $19,000 — on an estimated $251 billion pension liability.
Our auditors discovered 110,000 public employees and retirees who earned more than $100,000 last year.
We found tree trimmers in Chicago making $106,663; nurses at state corrections earning up to $277,100; junior college presidents making $491,095; university doctors earning up to $2 million; and 111 small town managers who out-earned every governor of the 50 states ($202,000).
It's becoming clear that almost every state and major city that's in similar self-inflicted dire straits is hoping for a similar bailout. Democrats are demanding it; Republicans are pushing back.
Democratic leaders on Tuesday doubled down on their demand for $500 billion in aid to states to help with the coronavirus crisis while rejecting a suggestion by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that some struggling states may need to declare bankruptcy.
"Right now the House is hard at work for the next bill CARES 2, which must contain robust funding for state and local government to pay frontline workers," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a call with reporters. "Governors and mayors, Republicans and Democrats, are crying out for support."
"In terms of funding we may have two packages, one for states and one for locals," Pelosi said. Later she clarified: "It looks like we're going to need 500 [billion] for the states and we may also need a very big figure for counties and municipalities."
On Monday, President Trump appeared open to signing such a bill, but also asked why taxpayers should bail out "poorly run states."
"Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example) and cities, in all cases Democrat run and managed, when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help?" Trump tweeted Monday. "I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?"
New York City is trying to get in on the act as well.
The word "absurd" doesn't even begin to describe this ridiculous demand by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he publicly says he wants the federal government to replace all of the missing revenue from the COVID-19 economic shut-down. This is bonkers.
If the federal government was to even consider taking such action it would essentially be promoting all states and cities to remain shut-down forever; because, in the mind of those who live from the government trough, there would be no need to reopen. The mental disconnect here is incredible. I think the needle on my 'nope-meter' just broke off.
While private citizens, private companies and private workers are forced –by government– to remain locked in their homes; unable to earn a living and on the cusp of financial despair, or face arrest; the NYC Mayor wants the government system and workers to be isolated from any economic impact via a federal bailout.
Sundance, blogging at The Last Refuge, believes this is part of a deliberate wider strategy by Democrat-controlled cities and states to prolong the economic impact of the pandemic for as long as possible, hoping that the misery it inflicts will bring them votes in November. It's hard to disagree with him. Bold, underlined text below is my emphasis.
It is being reported the San Francisco Bay area will remain in a state of forced lock-down with an extension of the stay-at-home orders throughout May. Considering this is the home of Speaker Nancy Pelosi,… this decision highlights an expectation that the federal government will bail out local and state governments.
We anticipated this type of approach where Blue states & Blue regions will keep their economies closed as long as possible to inflict maximum political damage. Simply, if San Francisco were not confident they will gain a federal bailout they would not be keeping their economic system closed for another entire month.
It is likely that Democrat governors and Democrats in the House have organized a specific media allied approach to demand the federal bailout. There is simply no way any state or local region would remain shut down unless they were confident of funding.
Any bailout would only help the local and state government. It would not help the private sector, or private sector workers. By using federal taxpayer funds to replace missing tax revenue, the Blue states/regions would be protecting their own big government ideology.
The three step plan seems predictable:
Get out ahead of President Trump.
Defy the 'all clear' and shape economic benefit to their political allies.
Then use Fauci's upcoming dossier to hit the administration for heartlessly opening the economy too early.
This is going to be one hell of a battle.
Essentially we are looking at a Spring and Summer conflict, an economic civil war between Blue states/regions and Red states/regions.
More at the link.
Essentially, many state and local governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to suspend constitutional rights and liberties, and govern by decree. They're now trying to extend that to the federal government as well, by making it dance to their fiscally irresponsible tune. As the American Spectator points out, "Now that officials have learned they can suspend our civil liberties by edict, expect such "emergency" measures any time there's another crisis, real or perceived." I expect that'll apply to bailouts as well.
I don't think those agitating for a federal bailout, using the economic misery generated by the pandemic as a lever to apply pressure, have thought this through. If their residents find that government largesse is no longer flowing (at least in the amounts they want); and if they believe (or have been told, loudly and repeatedly, by their politicians) that they're entitled to such largesse; then they're going to get out of control and try to take what they want. The results are likely to be catastrophic for law and order, and civil society.
I think the ordinary people of America realize this. After all, that's why they bought more guns in March than any other month in previous US history. They're getting ready to defend what's theirs - and I believe they're right in anticipating the need to do so. Again, bold, underlined text is my emphasis.
"Simply put: I wanted peace of mind when it comes to the safety of my family," Eaton said.
"To me, it's all about protecting my family, and if a gun makes that easier, so be it," Scott, a California tech worker with a wife and daughter, said.
Many of the new gun owners cited concerns about personal protection as states began emptying jail cells and police departments announced they would no longer enforce certain laws. Jake Wilhelm, a Virginia-based environmental consultant and lacrosse coach, purchased a Sig Sauer P226 after seeing Italy enact a nationwide lockdown on March 9.
"[My fiancée and I] came to the conclusion in early March that if a nation like Italy was going into full lockdown, we in the U.S. were likely on the same path," Wilhelm said. "Given that, and knowing that police resources would be stretched to the max, I decided to purchase a handgun."
"I think a lot of people were afraid of exactly what's happening now," Viden said. "They're afraid if it continues to go on longer, things are going to get worse."
The fear extended past the disease to how communities would bear the strain of job loss, lockdown orders, and law enforcement policies adopted in the wake of the spread. One Tampa inmate who was released over coronavirus concerns has now been accused of murder, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Brian, a 40-year-old living near Tampa, lost his full-time bartending job in March but was concerned enough about deteriorating public safety that he dipped into his savings to purchase a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield.
"My biggest fear is that our local police force comes down with the virus," he said. "If the good guys are all out sick, who is going to stop the bad guys? When people have no hope, they get desperate. And we fear the worst is to come."
You want to know why my friends want me to upgrade their rifles? You want to know why I've been warning about COVID-19 as a threat to personal security, and suggesting ways to keep your shooting skills honed, even during the lockdown? You want to know why I wrote my recent three article series about personal defense rifles? Look no further. To quote a sixties trope, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." As I pointed out a few weeks ago, the grasshoppers are already coming after the ants.
I expect that problem to become exponentially worse during the next two to three months. Other observers are even more pessimistic than I am. (Try this one as an example: "The economy is dead on arrival, the pin to the grenade has already been pulled, the majority of Americans simply don't realize it yet.")
I don't think it's going to be as bad as that, but it's certainly going to be a very difficult few years ahead. I can only hope and pray that the worst expectations and predictions are wrong.
Posted by Peter at 4/29/2020 09:05:00 AM Labels: Big Brother, Corruption, Dilemma, Economics, Political Correctness, Reality
NITZAKHON said...
Even if the GOP holds the line against this, and expect it to morph to "For the chiiiiiilren!" soon, the avalanche to financial collapse has started.
It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Yeah... I've been saying for years that if States are allowed to file for bankruptcy, they need to be reorganized under responsible adult supervision.
Also, in such cases some creative application of Article IV, Section 4 might be in order.
I have to wonder about the Chicago/Illinois earnings quoted. When I worked at the Home Depot warehouse they put out a thing telling us what we made with all the extras & it was a lot of money! I didn't see or use the "extras" so all I saw was what was in my paycheck & that was not even close to what they said they were paying for my services.
I suspect that the dollar value we see for a nurse that is making over a quarter of a million dollars a year has a LOT of value added by the people doing the writing & that nurse is making far less money than that.
It's like all the libs WANT to see hyperinflation.
Don in Oregon
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DUH. Cloward-Piven.
Spin said...
I'm ok with this as long as the politicians who vote for it have skin in the game. Namely that they will be put to death for voting for it. Probably would stop and make them think that taking the fruits of someone else's labour to pay off your buddies is a bad thing. The best thing is that after they are out to death they can't vote for any other crap ideas, well except the Chicago guys.
Spin Drift
smoken said...
Kosh you magnificent b4stard! I read your book!
McChuck said...
The penalty for vote fraud needs to be increased to "death". We need to start having mass arrests of politicians for "violation of rights under color of law". Anything less is essentially pointless.
Those on the Left have neither a conscience nor a sense of shame. To them, there is only power.
smoken: ROFL. I was wondering if someone would pick up on that.
If you ever look at my blog you'll see I start my essays with "And so I begin..." which is a take-off on Kosh as well.
Linda Fox said...
As for the figures being inflated by benefits being counted in, possible. However, a retiree has access to Medicare, which provides a reasonable level of health care. The only ones that won't qualify for paid-for Part A is someone who never held a job that required him/her to pay Social Security taxes - i.e., public employees, who in 14 union states decided to opt out of SS.
Their bad. They should have to suck up either paying for their health care costs at a higher rate (less from the state's contribution), or pay the extra for Part A.
Also, many Public Employee pension plans have formulas that allow near-retirees to work nearly non-stop in the 3-5 year period, collecting overtime and inflating their eventual monthly check - for the rest of their life.
ALL of them - except for the lowest 10% or so - need to take a cut - 20% sounds about right. It will hurt, but allow them to understand just how much their crap has hurt the taxpayer. Or, cap the top amount paid to 125% of the average pension - which, actually, I like better. That way, it stops the hogs from sucking all the money out, and risking the pensions of the bottom half.
Bear Claw Chris Lapp said...
Now Komiefornia is in on it as of yesterdays reading.
economessed said...
There is a simple solution to this: Give 100% of the state-requested bailout money to the citizens of the state, then allow the state to confiscate the money provided to the citizens through taxation. If the people of these states feel that the government deserves to reallocate their money to former government employees, they can happily hand it over and enjoy living in the paradise they have created for themselves.
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University of South Florida Civil Unrest Discussion Question
Select one of the following questions to answer. When posting your response in the Discussion Forum, please be sure to include the question number at the very top of your posting.
– In Chapter 5 (and others) Binelli uses the word 'redlining' and makes reference to the deep racial divide that exists between Detroit and its suburban areas. Watch the video titled "Redlining Detroit" in our weekly video page and do a little research on what redlining is. A quick google search will provide you with some information. What is redlining? What are its impacts? Does it surprise you at all that there were federal laws in place that restricted where Blacks could purchase homes? Why do you think the situation was/is more severe in Detroit than even in the Deep South?
– Urban apathy and the "bystander effect" are discussed on page 125 of Cities & Urban Life. Watch the last three videos provided in the Videos for Chapter 5 link (each have the term "Bystander Effect" in the title). What were your thoughts after reading about the bystander effect theory and watching the videos? Do you agree with the theory that the larger the number of people involved in a situation, the more responsibility among the group becomes diffused? Is there a way to decrease or eliminate the bystander effect and increase the likelihood that individuals will become involved or report incidents of crime or other types of emergencies?
– Chapter 5 of Cities & Urban Life discussed the concept of Urban Sociology. What theory and/or theorist(s) did you most agree or disagree with regarding the concept of city, and why?
– Chapter 6 of Cities & Urban Life focuses on spatial perspectives and the geography/development of cities. Watch the video titled "Brilliant Ideas to Fit More People in Every City" located in the Module 6 video page. What were your thoughts after watching the video? How might these innovations impact the way cities are shaped?
– Binelli discusses the video "Detroit: City on the Move" at length in the beginning of Chapter 6. The video is available for you to watch on Module 6 video page. What were your thoughts after watching the video?
– The riot in Detroit was a pivotal moment for the City. As you will see in the videos, rioting was not confined to Detroit. Nor was this a U.S. thing. It was world-wide. What do you think was the primary cause of the civil unrest? Vietnam? Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King or Bobby Kennedy? Racial inequality, college student revolts, class warfare, and police riots — the list goes on and on. Were there one or two things that really stand out to you as THE cause? Why?
– Create your own question based on this week's readings and/or videos. Write the question in the top of your posting and your response below the question.
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These are FAQs and basic brand questions. Updated frequently to include new answers and advice, this is the starting place for the most common information requested.
Why a new brand mark? Why now?
Two reasons:
Towson University isn't the same institution that it was when our name first changed in 1997. The new brand mark is a better creative expression of TU's contemporary story. Straightforward but distinctive. Bold but approachable. Solid, flexible, open.
It's hard to say that 1997 was "another era," but in terms of communications, it really was. The previous logo did not work well in many of the digital mediums we now take for granted — web, graphic email, social media, smartphones, etc.
Who designed it?
Our campus community helped launch this brand work. More than 2,000 conversations with our students, faculty, staff, alumni and others around TU were the foundation of the design. Initial explorations were conducted and tested by Lipman-Hearne, a higher education marketing firm from Chicago that helped the university develop its new brand platform. Work continued with TU's in-house design team, and the final version of the mark was designed by TU's marketing partner Mission Media of Baltimore.
What do you mean by 'Brand Platform'?
A brand is more than a logo. The brand platform is a distillation of the university's core attributes, values and voice that helps guide all creative expression and storytelling across divisions and colleges in a way that consistently and authentically resonates with all audiences. It's not just about what we say, but how we say it.
How long will implementation of the new brand last?
The rollout of the new brand identity will last through the end of 2019. The new identity was first unveiled at President Schatzel's Fall 2018 Address.
How much does the university expect to spend replacing materials that have the previous mark on them?
We will encourage people not to replace materials immediately, but use up whatever stock they have before the end of 2019. We also will encourage recycling and donating supplies, goods, and materials wherever possible.
What about campus signage?
A refresh of the university's wayfinding (exterior signage) is underway and was purposely timed to align with the development of the new visual identity and brand mark. New wayfinding and campus signs will be replaced and installed over the coming year as part of the overall wayfinding project.
What does this mean for the Tiger logo(s)? Are those being changed, too?
There are no plans to update or change the Tiger head Athletics brand marks.
Many schools use their Athletics logo for the university. Why didn't TU make the Tiger its sole logo?
While the Tiger logo is popular, research demonstrated that our audiences see athletics and academics as distinct but important aspects of the university's public image. For this reason, a refreshed institutional mark is necessary.
What about the existing 'block' TU logo?
The popularity of the recently introduced informal (TU) brandmark was a key consideration in the design of the new university brand mark. With a new graphic TU serving as the core of the new mark, the previous TU mark is no longer needed, and is being discontinued along with the "flag" brand mark.
When will my department be expected to start using the new brand mark?
Internal divisions and departments will receive access to the new mark and visual identity in January 2019. Units will receive guidance around specific timelines and deadlines throughout 2019. The expectation is that the transition will be a process with time to account for all necessary changes. All materials should be changed over no later than January 1, 2020.
What kind of communications should I expect to receive about the new brand?
The university's marketing and communications division will provide regular updates via the TU Today daily email to inform the campus community of important brand information. In addition, workshops and internal brand sessions are provided monthly through early summer of 2019.
Who internally was consulted and provided feedback on the new brand?
In fall 2016, the University Marketing and Communications team began leading Towson University through an identity or brand audit process to achieve greater clarity and effectively incorporate the identity audit findings into a comprehensive, integrated marketing campaign. More than 2,000 stories about TU — from students, faculty, staff, alumni and others — from multiple media markets across the nation, were heard during the process.
I have the old logo on a T-shirt. When can I get a new one?
T-shirt swaps and other events are in the works to get our new brand out to the campus community.
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Morazán, Francisco
Morazán, Francisco fränsēs´kō mōräsän´ [key], 1799–1842, Central American statesman, b. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He led the revolutionary army that overthrew (1829) the regime of Manuel José Arce and was proclaimed president of the Central American Federation in 1830. The opponents of Guatemalan domination caused Morazán to move the capital from Guatemala to San Salvador. As a liberal he promoted education and abolished most monastic orders. The spiritual father of federalism in Central America, he fought vigorously for his ideals, but when elected for a second term he was unable to combat widespread apathy and the increasing opposition of the conservatives; his congress dissolved the federation in 1838. Nevertheless, in 1839 he attempted to recapture Guatemala from Rafael Carrera, but was defeated. In the following year he went into voluntary exile until recalled in 1842 by Costa Rica and proclaimed president there. Again he attempted to restore Central American unity but was betrayed and shot Sept. 15, 1842, by his own partisans.


A family of protocol specifications that describe a strategy for the interconnect. AMBA is the ARM open standard for on-chip buses. It is an on-chip bus specification that details a strategy for the interconnection and management of functional blocks that make up a System-on-Chip (SoC). It aids in the development of embedded processors with one or more CPUs or signal processors and multiple peripherals. AMBA complements a reusable design methodology by defining a common backbone for SoC modules.
An integrated circuit that has been designed to perform a specific application function. It can be custom-built or mass-produced.
See Application Specific Integrated Circuit.
A breakpoint is a mechanism provided by debuggers to identify an instruction at which program execution is to be halted. Breakpoints are inserted by the programmer to enable inspection of register contents, memory locations, variable values at fixed points in the program execution to test that the program is operating correctly. Breakpoints are removed after the program is successfully tested.
The hardware used for communicating between the software running on the processor, and an external host, using the debug interface. When this communication is for debug purposes, it is called the Debug Comms Channel. In an ARMv6 compliant processor, the communications channel includes the Data Transfer Register, some bits of the Data Status and Control Register, and the external debug interface controller, such as the DBGTAP controller in the case of the JTAG interface.
See Also Fast context switch.
The bottom eight bits of a Program Status Register. The control bits change when an exception arises and can be altered by software only when the processor is in a privileged mode.
A core is that part of a processor that contains the ALU, the datapath, the general-purpose registers, the Program Counter, and the instruction decode and control circuitry.
The infrastructure for monitoring, tracing, and debugging a complete system on chip.
Part of an Embedded Cross Trigger device. The CTI provides the interface between a core/ETM and the CTM within an ECT.
The CTM combines the trigger requests generated from CTIs and broadcasts them to all CTIs as channel triggers within an Embedded Cross Trigger device.
The ECT is a modular component to support the interaction and synchronization of multiple triggering events with an SoC.
A hardware macrocell that, when connected to a processor core, outputs instruction and data trace information on a trace port.
The Program Flow Trace macrocell provides processor driven instruction-only trace through a trace port compliant to the ATB protocol.
A system of organizing memory in which each Physical Address contained within the memory space is the same as its corresponding Virtual Address.
One of two mutually exclusive debug modes. In halt mode all processor execution halts when a breakpoint or watchpoint is encountered. All processor state, coprocessor state, memory and input/output locations can be examined and altered by the JTAG interface.
The behavior is not architecturally defined, but is defined and documented by individual implementations.
The behavior is not architecturally defined, and does not have to be documented by individual implementations. Used when there are a number of implementation options available and the option chosen does not affect software compatibility.
A component for debugging real-time systems through a simple memory-mapped trace interface, providing printf style debugging.
The ARM Jazelle architecture extends the Thumb and ARM operating states by adding a Java state to the processor. Instruction set support for entering and exiting Java applications, real-time interrupt handling, and debug support for mixed Java/ARM applications is present. When in Java state, the processor fetches and decodes Java bytecodes and maintains the Java operand stack.
An optional component of the DAP that provides JTAG access to on-chip components, operating as a JTAG master port to drive JTAG chains throughout a SoC.
An optional external interface for the DAP that provides a standard JTAG interface for debug access.
One of two or more parallel divisions of interleaved memory, usually one word wide, that enable reads and writes of multiple words at a time, rather than single words. All memory banks are addressed simultaneously and a bank enable or chip select signal determines which of the banks is accessed for each transfer. Accesses to sequential word addresses cause accesses to sequential banks. This enables the delays associated with accessing a bank to occur during the access to its adjacent bank, speeding up memory transfers.
A JTAG-based tool for debugging embedded systems.
An interconnect scheme similar to a cross-bar switch. Each master on the interconnect has a direct link to each slave, The link is not shared with other masters. This enables each master to process transfers in parallel with other masters. Contention only occurs in a multi-layer interconnect at a payload destination, typically the slave.
Typically a shared, not multi-layer, AHB interconnect scheme. More than one master connects to a single AMBA AHB link. In this case, the bus is implemented with a set of full AMBA AHB master interfaces. Masters that use the AMBA AHB-Lite protocol must connect through a wrapper to supply full AMBA AHB master signals to support multi-master operation.
In pipelined processors, the process of fetching instructions from memory to fill up the pipeline before the preceding instructions have finished executing. Prefetching an instruction does not mean that the instruction has to be executed.
Changing the address of physical memory or devices after the application has started executing. This is typically done to permit RAM to replace ROM when the initialization has been completed.
A replicator enables two trace sinks to be wired together and to operate independently on the same incoming trace stream. The input trace stream is output onto two (independent) ATB ports.
A VFP coprocessor operation involving a single source register and a single destination register.
An opaque, compiled simulation model generated from a technology specific netlist of an ARM processor, derived after gate level synthesis and timing annotation, that you can use in back-annotated gate-level simulations to prove the function and timing behavior of the device. It enables accurate timing simulation of SoCs and simulation using production test vectors from Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) tool such as Synopsys TetraMAX. It only supports back-annotation using SDF files. The SOM includes timing information but provides slower simulation than a DSM.
An optional external interface for the DAP that provides a bidirectional debug interface.
A model whereby a run-control emulator (based on RVI-ME) is placed in the chip and communicated with using a single pin scheme (compared to the four to six for JTAG). This not only reduces pins, but SWJ provides power from the run-control emulator (through the pin). It also provides additional access and a unique ID. The use of this DBT model enables this mode to run very fast for download.
Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis. An accurate transistor-level electronic circuit simulation tool that can predict how an equivalent real circuit behaves for given circuit conditions.
See Trace Port Interface Unit.
A generic term to describe Trace Port Analyzers, logic analyzers, and on-chip trace buffers.
A Remote Debug Interface target that controls a piece of trace hardware. That is, the trigger macrocell, trace macrocell, and trace capture tool.
A device that combines multiple trace sources onto a single bus.
A term for a device that contains an Embedded Trace Macrocell.
A port on a device, such as a processor or ASIC, used to output trace information.
A hardware device that captures trace information output on a trace port. This can be a low-cost product designed specifically for trace acquisition, or a logic analyzer.
Drains trace data and acts as a bridge between the on-chip trace data and the data stream captured by a TPA.
A cache of recently used page table entries that avoid the overhead of page table walking on every memory access. Part of the Memory Management Unit.
A data item stored at an address that is not divisible by the number of bytes that defines the data size is said to be unaligned. For example, a word stored at an address that is not divisible by four.
Means that the behavior of the ETM cannot be relied on. Such conditions have not been validated. When applied to the programming of an event resource, only the output of that event resource is Unpredictable.Unpredictable behavior can affect the behavior of the entire system, because the ETM is capable of causing the processor to enter debug state, and external outputs can be used for other purposes.
In a word-invariant system, the address of each byte of memory changes when switching between little-endian and big-endian operation, in such a way that the byte with address A in one endianness has address A EOR 3 in the other endianness. As a result, each aligned word of memory always consists of the same four bytes of memory in the same order, regardless of endianness. The change of endianness occurs because of the change to the byte addresses, not because the bytes are rearranged.The ARM architecture supports word-invariant systems in ARMv3 and later versions. When word-invariant support is selected, the behavior of load or store instructions that are given unaligned addresses is instruction-specific, and is in general not the expected behavior for an unaligned access. It is recommended that word-invariant systems use the endianness that produces the desired byte addresses at all times, apart possibly from very early in their reset handlers before they have set up the endianness, and that this early part of the reset handler must use only aligned word memory accesses.
Writes are defined as operations that have the semantics of a store. That is, the ARM instructions SRS, STM, STRD, STC, STRT, STRH, STRB, STRBT, STREX, SWP, and SWPB, and the Thumb instructions STM, STR, STRH, STRB, and PUSH.
Java instructions that are accelerated by hardware can cause a number of writes to occur, according to the state of the Java stack and the implementation of the Java hardware acceleration.
In a write-back cache, data is only written to main memory when it is forced out of the cache on line replacement following a cache miss. Otherwise, writes by the processor only update the cache. This is also known as copyback.
The memory system indicates to the processor that a write has been completed at a point in the transaction where the memory system is able to guarantee that the effect of the write is visible to all processors in the system. This is not the case if the write is associated with a memory synchronization primitive, or is to a Device or Strongly Ordered region. In these cases the memory system might only indicate completion of the write when the access has affected the state of the target, unless it is impossible to distinguish between having the effect of the write visible and having the state of target updated.


If you were paying attention to last year's presidential campaign, it is likely you heard about the opioid epidemic. Candidates frequently referenced the topic when they talked about public health policies, and all of them often agreed that it is one of the biggest crises the country is currently facing. But what exactly is an opioid? And can we really categorize this situation as an epidemic?
If you're not familiar with the word "opioid" by now, you're probably more familiar with its other names such as Vicodin, Percocet, or Oxycontin. There are many other drugs that also fall under this category, as well as non-prescribed drugs like heroin. In other words, an opioid is often a strong painkiller or drug that's used to turn off sensors in the brain to block pain.
So why are opioids considered an epidemic? Simply put, the numbers are alarming: Prescription and illegal opioids are killing as many people as the HIV/AIDs crisis in the 1990s. In 2015 alone, 52,000 people died of drug overdoses, and more than half of those deaths were linked to Fentanyl, Percocet, Oxycontin, and heroin. In fact, drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, and two thirds of those deaths are from opioids.
NPR recently followed Melissa Morris, a Colorado woman who serves as a perfect—and unfortunate—example of how and why this epidemic has spiraled out of control. Morris was given a prescription for opioids when she was twenty to relieve post-surgical pain following her daughter's cesarean birth. After a few pills, she was immediately hooked.
Like most people who take opioids every day, her tolerance built up, and she went from Vicodin to Percocet and then to Oxycontin. Doctors soon caught on to her scheme, and she was cut off prescription drugs. Morris says that it was then when she discovered heroin, because not only was it easily accessible, but it was cheaper and lasted longer.
Morris' case perfectly illustrates why people in rural areas of the United States are usually more prone to opioid addiciton: a lack of access to alternative methods to relieve pain. Other suitable alternatives like physical therapy often aren't available because of high prices and lack of medical infrastructure in rural places. Another reason opioids are more common in rural areas is because of the number of manual labor jobs in those regions, which eventually end up taking a toll on a person's health, making them seek drugs to help alleviate the pain. Treatment for drug addiction is also limited in these areas, leaving people to wean off of it themselves, or be forced to drive hours for Buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction.
For people that want to get better, there is already legislation that seeks to combat this disease. Last year, Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act, which aims to improve drug prevention education and incentivize turning in unwanted prescription bottles. There is also medicated treatment, such as Naloxone, which is the leading anti-opioid overdose drug.
In addition to these steps that have already been taken to fight opioid addiction, there is also growing awareness about the issue among the public and politicians. And the more we learn about this epidemic, the more we can do to help improve the lives of those affected by it.


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Embark on a journey through the Rocinha Favela – the largest in Brazil – alongside your local guide. Begin by meeting your guide at an arranged location near your hotel. From there, travel through Rio to the favela via public transport. Once you've arrived, embark on a walking tour through Rocinha as your guide teaches you about the neighborhood's culture and history. Along the way, stop at scenic overlooks to take in sweeping views of the favela. Visit the local school that your tour price is benefiting before stopping by a local graffiti artist's studio to get a taste of the art scene in Rio de Janeiro. You will have the option to eat lunch in the favela at a per-kilo restaurant, a Brazilian take on the traditional buffet, for an additional fee.


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Scoliosis in Pediatric Patients: Comorbid Disorders and Screening
Michael P Horan; Todd A Milbrandt
Pediatr Health. 2009;3(5):451-456.
Patient Screening
Scoliosis Comorbid Disorders
Sidebar: Executive Summary
Scoliosis is one of the most commonly encountered pediatric spinal deformities. Although 80% of scoliosis case are idiopathic and have no specific comorbid disorders, the pediatric practitioner needs to be knowledgeable in the other causes of scoliosis in order to rule out other known causes. Screening tools include a patient's history of physical examination, radiographs and advanced imaging studies, depending on the clinical situation. Knowledge of comorbid disorders associated with scoliosis will help guide the pediatric practitioner in ordering other tests and setting up appropriate referrals. Minimizing excessive unnecessary testing and referrals will undoubtedly help to save time and money for both the patient and healthcare system.
Pediatr Health. 2009;3(5):451-456. © 2009 Future Medicine Ltd.
Michael P Horan, MD, MS
Chief Resident, Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 740 South Limestone, Suite k-408, Lexington, KY 40536-0248, USA. Tel.: +1 859 218 3044, mphora2@email.uky.edu
Todd A Milbrandt, MD, MS†
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 740 South Limestone, Suite k-408, Lexington, KY 40536-0248, USA and Shriners Hospital for Children, 1900 Richmond Road, Lexington, KY 40502, USA. Tel.: +1 859 266 2101, Fax: +1 859 323 2412, tmilbrandt@shrinenet.org
†Author for correspondence
Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 740 South Limestone, Suite k-408, Lexington, KY 40536-0248, USA. Tel.: +1 859 266 2101, Fax: +1 859 323 2412, tmilbrandt@shrinenet.org
Scoliosis is one of the most commonly encountered pediatric spinal deformities.
Knowledge of comorbid disorders associated with scoliosis is required in order to rule out other serious conditions.
Screening consists of history of physical exam, focusing on the appearance of the trunk and spine, in addition to a thorough neurologic examination.
In addition to plain radiographs, MRI scans and ultrasound may be required to rule out comorbid disorders, depending on clinical suspicion.
The value and effectiveness of school screening programs has been under debate for over 20 years.
Idiopathic scoliosis is not associated with other medical conditions by definition.
Congenital scoliosis has a strong association with central axis abnormalities, including intraspinal lesions, heart defects and genitourinary anomalies. Additional screening tests are usually required to rule out these comorbidities.
Neuromuscular scoliosis is associated with intrinsic neuromuscular disease, including cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, poliomyelitis, Friedreich's ataxia, familial dysautonomia (Riley-Day syndrome) or Werdnig-Hoffmann disease.
Syndrome-associated scoliosis is observed in Neurofibromatosis, Marfan's syndrome, and thoracic wall deformities or postcardiac/thoracic wall surgery.
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It's too soon for my Spidey senses to know how the winter will be, maybe by the end of august I'll have some clue.
Japan getting frosty early.....earliest on record! Same in Georgia (the country). Fill your wood store.
Would give some weight to Weathercheck's post.
Last edited by sryanbruen; 22-08-2018 at 23:15.
I don't know why this tickles me so much but the coldest day of the year in Ireland for 2009 & 2010 both landed on Christmas Day.
Can we achieve scenes like this in Winter 2018/19? My opinion, not to this extreme. I believe 2019/20 holds the best potential for severity of cold/snow, I would love 2018/19 to be at least decent like 2008/09.
Out of interest, what leads you to say this so far in advance, regarding 2019?
Now that I finally have access to my PC (since it has been down all day and have been using a slow laptop), I can answer to you.
Well my prediction comes from two factors, solar activity being the main defined approach towards it. Back in 2016, I was sure that we would get the chances of some harsh Winters come 2019 to 2021 because this is the period when I predicted solar activity to be slowly increasing after coming out of a deep solar minimum much like 2009 did. My estimates were that the highest chance of all for a harsh Winter was the one following the minimum point of solar activity, 2009/10 was the most recent example. I say chance because it doesn't always happen this way, 1868/69 was one and that became the mildest Winter on record - still unbeaten to this day and 2015/16 was the second mildest. A problem with 1868 could be that Autumn 1868 was very cold and as we know, nature loves to balance things out so the Winter was the mildest on record in comparison. I will try and work on some actual percentages using CET data from the UK Met Office and see what period of solar activity actually has the highest chance of being a harsh Winter historically. The issue with doing this is because every Winter is unique in how much solar activity has occurred and none are the same so I would have to make up fairly strict criteria for each different period, like a period just before the minimum point (which is usually 0), the minimum point itself and a period just after the minimum point. However, regardless of these issues, you know I love a good challenge that I set myself for when it comes to these sorts of things.
I have explained how the gulf stream declined in 2010 to a massive extent which gave away to less transport of mild air during Winter time towards Ireland and as a result, we had the coldest year since 1963 or 1986 (even coldest year on record for some like Dublin Airport). Me and some other weather enthusiasts I frequently talk to (whom study the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on a regular basis) think we will likely see a similar decline in the gulf stream sometime from 2019 to 2021 as explained in a post above. These likely predictions are based on historical occurrences like the solar activity so could be more coincidence than anything for all we know but we can only work with what we got.
I think what sryanbruen is saying is that winter will be so cold that army helicopters will be freezing in seconds and falling from the sky over Scotland.
Like these poor chaps in 1963 (except this was Ireland)?
Here's the percentages I promised above in regards to Winters and solar activity. I also added in a table containing all these Winters for good measure and interest. I used the CET for the Winter mean temperatures (because it's the only dataset that goes back to solar cycle 1) and as this is based on the Central England region, remember there would be variety over the UK and Ireland in these Winters.
I used the 1981-2010 average (which is 4.5c for the CET) to decide if a Winter is cold or not for the percentages. I'd like to give the disclaimer that we have a sample space of only 24 years for each solar activity period. Also, remember from a graph that I gave, there is no correlation with solar activity and the CET - though there is correlation with increased northern blocking.
These are very high percentages for chance, unusually so. There's some interesting things here, I've found. First is the fact that going by the percentages, solar minimum provides the highest chance for a cold Winter though they're all reasonably close to each other so not big deviations. Nevertheless, solar minimum has the best chance which is different to what I estimated.
The bottom two columns of the table show the number of times that Winter was the coldest of the period (I also highlighted the coldest Winters of each period in blue) and the overall CET mean combining the Winters. There's more interesting things here. Just after solar minimum has had the highest number of coldest Winters for the periods but solar minimum has the coldest mean CET even though the number of times it was the coldest Winter is the smallest.
So basically, I was somewhat off with my estimate and that the solar minimum Winter has the highest chance of being cold. 2018-19 is highly likely to be the solar minimum Winter so this is intriguing.
Data comes from SILSO and the UK Met Office.
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Interesting analysis as always @syranbruen, I do have a feeling we're actually in for a deep sleep (maunder style). Regardless those 71% and 79% figures are relatively close and so assuming this winter is the minimum then either could end up the coldest.
It's all stacking up very nicely for this winter so far anyway, if you like colder weather that is. The next thing to watch will be Eurasian snow cover extent progress as we go through the Autumn.
Finally, isn't there a greater chance of an easterly occurring during winter when the qbo is in an easterly phase?
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Quick fixes get a bad press (i.e., "there are no quick fixes"). But some problems (e.g., not remembering postage rates, sitting in long lines to exit parking garages) really are easily fixed (forever stamps, pay machines by garage elevators). In the May 26 Wall Street Journal Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke, considers why it is that people lie or cheat in small everyday ways ("Why We Lie"; this appears to be an excerpt from a new book, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty). He concludes that we are influenced less by the relative likelihood of getting caught or the prospect of monetary reward than by whether we see others cheating and whether any monetary reward we receive can be rendered just a little bit deniable (for instance, test subjects are more likely to cheat to receive tokens redeemable in cash than to receive cash itself). Being reminded in timely fashion of society's moral codes is apparently a powerful disincentive to cheat. You are less likely to steal immediately after being reminded that "Thou shalt not steal" is one of the Ten Commandments.
From this, Ariely hypothesized that people would more likely be honest, when filling out forms of various kinds, if they were asked to sign at the top rather than the bottom. When you sign at the bottom, he figured, you've already stated whatever lies you're going to tell. But if you sign at the top, you're burdened from the beginning by the moral weight of your pledge to be honest. Ariely tested this theory by having 20,000 test subjects fill out automobile insurance forms that they thought were real. On the forms, clients were asked what their mileage was. Lower mileage got them lower premiums. Half the clients were asked to sign at the top; the other half were asked to sign at the bottom.
Sure enough, those who signed at the top reported higher mileage on average (26,100) than those who signed at the bottom (23,700). Ariely concedes that he doesn't know how honest those who signed at the top were being; but given the absence of any other variables, it seemed pretty likely that they were being more honest than those who signed at the bottom.
Conclusion: When filling out tax documents and assorted legal forms, we should no longer be asked to sign at the bottom. We should should sign at the top.


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kiln is of the type known as a 'double pye-kiln'.
though the ground beneath is included.
remains throughout, particularly in its well-preserved defensive earthworks.
on the western edge of the fort.
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The Face of the City is both recycled and something completely new
One of Lux Helsinki's partners this year is public broadcaster Yle, which is presenting the installation "The Face of the City" at the Olympic Stadium. The experimental video installation projected on the façade of the Sports Museum of Finland and the tower on the side of the Olympic Stadium is the final part of the acclaimed series of the same name.
The Face of the City is the story of two people living in the big city in different periods who are prisoners of the expectations and roles of their own time. Combining both the true and the imaginary, as well as the present and the past, the installation paints a picture of a modern and surreal metropolis. The installation places on a pedestal long-forgotten Finnish silent films and music performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a completely new form and in a wide-open outdoor space.
Premiering at Lux Helsinki in January, the installation originated from an idea by Mauri Ahola to project a video on the wall of a public building. At the suggestion of producer Katri Henriksson, the plan was combined with the existing series The Face of the City, and Teemu Kokkonen then came up with numerous visual visions over long days at his desk.
The video projection required its own unique solutions, as it includes three different surfaces, one of which is the tower on the side of the Olympic Stadium.
"The central idea was to create a dialogue of images and an interesting rhythm. The narrative had to be constructed in such a way that it could be followed on different surfaces. We had to consider how the nature of the building changes through illusions that utilise all of its surfaces," Kokkonen explains.
It was important to consider the audience's point of view throughout the design process.
"It has been both an opportunity and a challenge to consider how the viewer's gaze moves between different surfaces. What kind of emotional experience does this movement create by connecting and drawing attention to different motifs?" Ahola ponders.
The historical layers and connection between the past and the present are strongly visible not only in the theme of the work, but also in the working methods of its creators. New life has been breathed into old materials, while the creative team was able to benefit from new ways of doing things.
"It is really great to be able to refine and develop new content from existing material. The Face of the City represents both recycled material and something completely new. It has given us the opportunity to use our creative skills and learn new things," says executive producer Marja Mäki-Reinikka together with producer Katri Henriksson.
Yle: Mauri Ahola – Teemu Kokkonen – The Face of the City
Sound design: Anssi Tamminen
Music: Aarre Merikanto: Pan, Ernest Pingoud: The Face of the City
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu
Lloyd Libiso, street poet
Façade of the Sports Museum of Finland
Duration: 4.10
A city is about colours, energy, networks, shapes, characters and a beat. The Face of the City is an experimental work that combines the real with the imagined, the present with the past. The installation's modern and surreal metropolis is made up of the reality that surrounds us – uncertainty, imbalance and the inexplicable.
Long-forgotten Finnish silent films and music performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra are given a new form and a wide-open outdoor space as a stage. The installation can be seen on the façade of the Sports Museum of Finland and the tower on the side of the Olympic Stadium.
The installation has been inspired by the diverse visual catalogue and soundscape of the city, as well as by Finnish art music of the modernist period. Produced by Finnish public broadcaster Yle, the installation is the final part of a series of the same name that also includes a two-part TV documentary and a VR work.
Creative team:
Screenplay, direction and visual design: Mauri Ahola, Teemu Kokkonen
Digital artist and technical implementation: Teemu Kokkonen
Camerawork: Teemu Kokkonen, Raimo Uunila
Sound design and implementation: Anssi Tamminen
Music: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu
Artistic and technical consultation: Kirsi Kukkurainen, Marcus Lönnqvist, Hannu Hellsten
Production manager: Karita Korolainen
Producer: Katri Henriksson
Executive director: Marja Mäki-Reinikka
Yle Events, Yle Creative Content and Media
Note: Access to the installation along the street "Paavo Nurmen tie" and exit clockwise around the Olympic Stadium towards Pohjoinen Stadiontie.


Episode 68 – in which Kaylen lends a hand and a few fingers in the Hooktongue Slough, and Katapesh comes knocking on Stagthorn's doors.
The Sugar Fuelled Gamers are a tabletop roleplaying group from New Zealand. Named for the snacks that power our gaming prowess, various configurations of the group have been gaming together for over fifteen years. We've had campaigns of Star Wars, FATE, Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder Adventure Paths, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulhu, PDQ, and other systems. We've raced Phileas Fogg around the world, travelled in time, learned to be careful what we wish for, fist-fought yetis, come face to face with Nyarlathotep, become kings, gotten shipwrecked, and, of course, saved the world!


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Tag: Expedition 48
Crew Studying Life Science During Hurricane Flyovers
Hurricane Matthew, a huge category 4 level storm, as seen from the International Space Station Oct. 3, 2016.
The International Space Station has been flying over Hurricane Matthew all week as the storm hit the Caribbean Sea and makes its way towards Florida. While the citizens of Florida braced for the hurricane's impact, the crew researched how living in space impacts the human body.
Astronauts Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi collected their blood samples, spun them in a centrifuge and stored the samples in a science freezer. The samples will be examined on Earth to understand the detrimental effects of living in space on bone marrow and blood cells.
Rubins also joined Commander Anatoly Ivanishin for eye checks today to explore the headward fluid shifts astronauts experience during long-term space missions. These fluid shifts increase pressure on the brain and eyes, potentially causing vision problems. The duo used a series of tools including an ultrasound to examine their eyes.
Finally, Onishi researched how microgravity affects microbes living inside humans, possibly upsetting the immune system. The Japanese astronaut also worked on a device that enables materials to burn safely at high temperatures for combustion research.
Get weekly video highlights at: http://jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov/videoupdate/
Author Mark GarciaPosted on October 6, 2016 October 6, 2016 Categories Expedition 49Tags Expedition 48, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, scienceLeave a comment on Crew Studying Life Science During Hurricane Flyovers
New Crew Preps for Launch at Baikonur Cosmodrome
Expedition 49-50 crew members (from left) Shane Kimbrough, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko arrive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: RSC Energia
As one crew gets used to Earth's gravity after 172 days in space, another crew is preparing to launch to the International Space Station in just over two weeks.
Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams arrived in the United States just 24 hours after landing Tuesday evening in Kazakhstan and completing his mission. His Expedition 48 crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, who were seated next to each other in the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft, have returned to their home space agency Roscosmos in Russia. Williams has completed one shuttle mission and his third station mission accumulating 534 days in space – a NASA astronaut record.
They will soon be replaced by another trio of Expedition 49-50 crew members who have arrived at their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko will launch Sept. 23 on a two-day trip to the space station. They are in final preparations for a mission scheduled to last until Feb. 25, 2017.
Back in space, the Expedition 48-49 crew consisting of Commander Anatoly Ivanishin and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi are continuing science operations and maintenance of the orbital laboratory. Rubins continued more DNA sequencing work today and inspected emergency equipment. Onishi cleaned ventilation fans and measured air flow. Ivanishin worked on the Pilot-T experiment exploring how a crew member adapts to the working conditions of a long-term space mission.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on September 8, 2016 October 26, 2016 Categories Expedition 49Tags Expedition 48, Expedition 49, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz2 Comments on New Crew Preps for Launch at Baikonur Cosmodrome
Expedition 48 Lands With Most Experienced NASA Astronaut
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams rests just minutes after landing in Kazakhstan with fellow crew members Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka. Credit: NASA TV
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos landed their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 9:13 p.m. EDT. Russian recovery teams are helping the crew exit the Soyuz spacecraft and adjust to gravity after their stay in space. The trio will be transported by helicopter to Karaganda where they will split up, with Williams returning to Houston in a NASA jet, while Ovchinin and Skripochka are flown back to their training base at Star City, Russia.
Williams was instrumental in preparing the station for the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft. The first International Docking Adapter was installed during a spacewalk by Williams and fellow NASA astronaut Kate Rubins Aug. 19. Outfitted with a host of sensors and systems, the adapter's main purpose is to connect spacecraft bringing astronauts to the station in the future. Its first users are expected to be Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, now in development in partnership with NASA.
During his time on the orbital complex, Williams ventured outside the confines of the space station for a second spacewalk with Rubins to retract a spare thermal control radiator and install two new high-definition cameras.
Together, the Expedition 48 crew members contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard humanity's only orbiting laboratory.
The crew members also welcomed five cargo spacecraft during their stay. Williams was involved in the grapple of Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft in March, the company's fourth commercial resupply mission, and SpaceX's eighth Dragon spacecraft cargo delivery in April, and welcomed a second Dragon delivery in July. Two Russian ISS Progress cargo craft also docked to the station in April and July delivering tons of supplies.
The Expedition 48 trio launched to the space station in March 2016. With the conclusion of his fourth trip to the International Space Station, Williams has accrued 534 days in space, the most by any U.S. astronaut in history.
Expedition 49 continues operating the station with Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos in command. He, Rubins, and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will operate the station for more than two weeks until the arrival of three new crew members.
Shane Kimbrough of NASA and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch Sept. 23, U.S. time, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Keep up with the International Space Station, and its research and crew members, at:
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Author Mark GarciaPosted on September 6, 2016 September 6, 2016 Categories Expedition 48, Expedition 49Tags Expedition 48, Expedition 49, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, SoyuzLeave a comment on Expedition 48 Lands With Most Experienced NASA Astronaut
Expedition 48 Undocks, Begins Journey to Earth
The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen slowly departing away from the International Space Station. NASA TV
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos undocked from the International Space Station at 5:51 p.m. EDT to begin their trip home. Ovchinin, the Soyuz commander, is at the controls of the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft.
The crew is scheduled to land at 9:13 p.m. southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
The Expedition 49 crew members, Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will operate the station for more than two weeks until the arrival of three new crew members.
NASA TV will air live coverage of the Soyuz TMA-20M deorbit burn and landing beginning at 8 p.m. Watch live at www.nasa.gov/ntv.
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Author Mark GarciaPosted on September 6, 2016 Categories Expedition 48, Expedition 49Tags Expedition 48, Expedition 49, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, SoyuzLeave a comment on Expedition 48 Undocks, Begins Journey to Earth
Expedition 48 Trio Enters Soyuz and Closes Hatches
Astronaut Jeff Williams (front row left) handed command of the International Space Station to cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin (back row center) Monday Sept. 5. Credit: NASA TV
At 2:42 p.m. EDT, the Soyuz hatch closed between the International Space Station and the TMA-20M spacecraft. Expedition 48 crew members Jeff Williams of NASA and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos are preparing to undock at 5:51 p.m. NASA Television will provide coverage beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The deorbit burn is targeted for 8:21 p.m. and will lead to a landing at 9:13 p.m. southeast of Dzezkazgan in Kazakhstan. NASA TV coverage of deorbit and landing begins at 8 p.m. Watch live at https://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
The return of Expedition 48 will wrap up 172 days in space for the crew since their launch in March 2016. Williams will return to Earth having accrued 534 days in space on his four missions dating back to 2000, the most days by any U.S. astronaut in history.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on September 6, 2016 Categories Expedition 48, Expedition 49Tags Expedition 48, Expedition 49, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, SoyuzLeave a comment on Expedition 48 Trio Enters Soyuz and Closes Hatches
Live Coverage of Expedition 48 Departure Begins
Today is homecoming day for NASA astronaut Jeff Williams (shown above) and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka. The Expedition 48 trio has been in space since March 18.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos are scheduled to return to Earth today at 9:13 p.m. EDT (7:13 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sept. 7). The trio will land in their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
At this time, there are no concerns or issues being worked, and hatch closure is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. NASA Television will provide coverage beginning at 2:15 p.m.
During his time on station, Williams surpassed former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly's U.S. record of time spent in space. He returns to Earth with 534 total days in space, passing Kelly's record of 520 days by two weeks.
Williams handed over command of the space station to cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos on Monday, Sept. 5. When the spacecraft undocks from the station, Expedition 49 formally will begin.
NASA Television coverage for Soyuz activities Sept. 6 are listed below. Watch live online at www.nasa.gov/ntv.
Scheduled Exp. 48 Timeline and NASA TV Coverage
Time EDT Event
2:15 p.m. NASA TV Coverage of Exp. 48 Farewell and Hatch Closure Begins
2:30 p.m. Soyuz TMA-20M/Space Station Hatch Closure
5:30 p.m. NASA TV Coverage of Soyuz Undocking Begins
5:50 p.m. Soyuz Undock Command Sent
5:51 p.m. Soyuz Undocking From ISS
5:54 p.m. Separation Burn 1
8 p.m. NASA TV Coverage of Deorbit Burn and Landing
8:21 p.m. Soyuz Deorbit Burn (4 minutes, 41 seconds duration)
8:48 p.m. Soyuz Module Separation (altitude ~87 miles)
8:50 p.m. Sunrise at the Landing Site in Kazakhstan
8:51 p.m. Soyuz Atmospheric Entry (altitude ~62 miles)
8:59 p.m. Command to Open Chutes (altitude 6.6 miles)
9:13 p.m. Exp. 48 Soyuz TMA-20M Landing Southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
Author Mark GarciaPosted on September 6, 2016 Categories Expedition 48, Expedition 49Tags Expedition 48, Expedition 49, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, SoyuzLeave a comment on Live Coverage of Expedition 48 Departure Begins
Spacewalkers Cleaning Up Before Trio Returns Home Tuesday
The new high-definition video camera installed during Thursday's spacewalk is now in service and providing better external views.
Two astronauts are cleaning up after a spacewalk while a pair of cosmonauts are getting a Soyuz spacecraft ready for departure after the Labor Day weekend. On the ground, three new crew members are preparing for a launch to the International Space Station at the end of the month.
Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins completed a spacewalk Thursday, retracting a thermal radiator and installing a pair of high definition cameras. Today, the astronauts are recharging spacesuits and tidying up the Quest airlock by stowing their tools and other spacewalk gear.
The Expedition 48 crew now turns its attention to a change of command on Monday, followed by three crew members returning to Earth on Tuesday. Williams will hand over station control to cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin before going home the following day with Flight Engineers Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin.
The trio will undock Tuesday at 5:51 p.m. EDT inside the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft officially ending the Expedition 48 mission. After a few hours they will parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan after 5-1/2 months in space.
Back on Earth, new station crew members Shane Kimbrough, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko participated in traditional ceremonies and final qualification exams. They will join the Expedition 49 crew two days after their Sept. 23 launch inside the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on September 2, 2016 September 3, 2016 Categories Expedition 48Tags Expedition 48, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz, spacewalk2 Comments on Spacewalkers Cleaning Up Before Trio Returns Home Tuesday
Astronauts Conclude Second Spacewalk of Expedition 48
Spacewalkers Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins completed the second spacewalk of the Expedition 48 mission.
Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins concluded their spacewalk at 2:41 p.m. EDT. During the six-hour, 48-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully retracted a thermal radiator, installed two enhanced high definition cameras on the station's truss and tightened bolts on a joint that enables one of the station's solar arrays to rotate.
Space station crew members have conducted 195 spacewalks in support of assembly and maintenance of the orbiting laboratory. Spacewalkers have now spent a total of 1,217 hours and 34 minutes working outside the station.
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Author Mark GarciaPosted on September 1, 2016 Categories Expedition 48Tags Expedition 48, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalk1 Comment on Astronauts Conclude Second Spacewalk of Expedition 48
Watch NASA TV Thursday for Live Spacewalk Coverage
Astronaut Kate Rubins is seen taking taking photographs with the Japanese Kibo lab module behind her during a spacewalk on Aug. 19.
Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA will begin a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station at about 8:10 a.m. EDT Thursday. NASA TV coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m.
Williams and Rubins will retract a thermal radiator that is part of the station's cooling system. The radiator is a backup that had been deployed previously as part of an effort to fix an ammonia coolant leak. They'll also tighten struts on a solar array joint, and install the first of several enhanced high-definition television cameras that will be used to monitor activities outside the station, including the comings and goings of visiting cargo and crew vehicles.
Follow @space_station on Twitter and #spacewalk for updates online. For more information about the International Space Station, including current residents, visit:
Author Mark GarciaPosted on August 31, 2016 Categories Expedition 48, UncategorizedTags Expedition 48, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalkLeave a comment on Watch NASA TV Thursday for Live Spacewalk Coverage
Astronauts Ready for Thursday Morning Spacewalk
Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi gets the U.S. spacesuits ready that NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins will wear Thursday during a spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV
NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins are ready for Thursday morning's spacewalk scheduled to begin at 8:05 a.m. EDT and last 6.5 hours. The duo will retract and cover an out-of-service thermal control radiator, tighten struts on a solar array rotary joint and install a high-definition camera.
The spacewalkers finished collecting their tools and reviewing their timeline this morning. Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi will assist the pair today getting the Quest airlock ready and tomorrow helping them in and out of their spacesuits.
Cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Anatoly Ivanishin were back at work today exploring how bones and the immune system are impacted by living in space. Oleg Skripochka researched how the digestive system adapts and how humans experience pain during a long-term space mission.
After the completion of Thursday's spacewalk, the crew will turn its attention to the Sept. 6 departure of Expedition 48 crew members Williams, Skripochka and Ovchinin. The trio continue loading the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft and getting their launch and entry suits ready. They will undock from the Poisk module and land in Kazakhstan after 5-1/2 months on orbit.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on August 31, 2016 Categories Expedition 48Tags Expedition 48, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz, spacewalkLeave a comment on Astronauts Ready for Thursday Morning Spacewalk


Mr. Virender Kumar Gandhi has done his B.Com (Hons) from Delhi University in the year 1964. He is in business since 1962 and having a vast experience of 50 years. He remained the former President of All India Federation of Plastic industries in 1989-1990 and life time member of All India Plastic Manufacturers Association. He is the promoter Director of the company.
Mr. Virender Kumar Gandhi has done his B.Com(Hons) from Delhi University in 1964 and having an experience of more than 50 years in industry and trade.
1. M/s Prisha Promoters Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Virender Kumar Gandhi receives a salary of Rs. 84 lakh/- per annum as per approval given by Central Government.
In 1969-70, Mr. Virender Kumar Gandhi was bestowed with National Award by the then President of India, Mr. V.V. Giri for making a" BLOUSE HOOK MAKING MACHINE" which was then an item of import substitution.
Mr. Virender Kumar Gandhi, Managing Director is engaged in managing the affairs of the Company in the following ways: 1. Responsible for coordination of all the activities of the Company. 2. Responsible for the effectiveness of the organization in pursuit of the Company's goals and objectives.
Mrs. Sangeeta Gandhi was born on 17.11.1973. She is graduate having a good understanding in the matters relating to trade and industry.
Mrs Sangeeta Gandhi is B.Com graduate.
1) M/s Prisha Promoters Pvt. Ltd.
Sangeeta Gandhi received a salary of Rs.12 Lakh /- per annum.
Mrs. Sangeeta Gandhi, Whole Time Director is basically looking after the Administrative and Marketing activities of the Company.


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Skylab B  – proponowana druga amerykańska stacja kosmiczna, bazująca na module Skylab, planowana do wykorzystania przez NASA dla wielu zastosowań, głównie na potrzeby misji Sojuz-Apollo, jednak anulowana z powodu braku pieniędzy na montaż końcowy i wystrzelenie. Skylab B był jednym z dwóch modułów budowanych przez McDonnell Douglas na bazie stopnia S-IVB.

Plany związane z użyciem
Po ogłoszeniu misji Sojuz-Apollo w 1972 NASA zapowiedziała wystrzelenie zapasowej stacji Skylab na potrzeby tej misji w 1975. Według tych planów pojazdy Apollo CSM i Sojuz 7K-TM miały wzajemnie się połączyć z sobą, a potem skierować się do stacji Skylab B (która podczas misji miała być nazywana International Skylab), i pozostać z nią połączone od 56 do 90 dni.

Dla przyszłych misji stacja miała uzyskać nazwę Advanced Skylab, a także miała być rozbudowywana przez flotę promów kosmicznych, które miały wejść do służby w 1979. Kiedy omawiano tę opcję, NASA dysponowała w zapasie modułem Skylab B, dwoma rakietami Saturn V, trzema rakietami Saturn IB, trzema pojazdami CSM i dwoma lądownikami LM.

Po częściowo udanym starcie modułu Skylab 14 maja 1973, plany dla Skylab B zostały skasowane, i podczas misji Sojuz-Apollo musiał być użyty specjalny adapter cumowniczy, wystrzelony wraz z załogą pojazdu Apollo CSM na rakiecie Saturn IB, do przeprowadzania eksperymentów w przestrzeni kosmicznej. NASA skoncentrowała się na opracowaniu promów kosmicznych, a w 1976 wszelkie sprzęty pozostałe po programie Apollo zostały skierowane do muzeów.

Obecnie kadłub Skylab B (S-IVB 515) znajduje się w National Air and Space Museum w Waszyngtonie.

Linki zewnętrzne

 NASA Technical Reports Server - Skylab B experiment program rationale

Stacje kosmiczne
NASA
Zaniechane projekty astronautyczne


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Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the grand re-opening of West Avenue on October 10! We hope you will visit often and admire all that the new linear park and streetscape have to offer.
West Avenue has been transformed into a beautiful tree lined street which will accommodate live music, open air dining, walking, running, a putt-putt lawn, and other greenspaces perfect for reading, classes for exercise or other special events. The new streetscape also has fountains, public restrooms, swings, public art and murals. Oak Avenue and Vance Street have also received a facelift with new sidewalks, trees, landscaping, paving and more. Underneath the streets new infrastructure has been engineered to accommodate the new businesses, sports and entertainment venue, restaurants and offices that are coming to downtown. The $30 million project also includes two new roundabouts and updated intersections designed to be visually appealing and serve as important traffic devices to slow people down as they travel thru the pedestrian oriented area.
While visiting the new streetscape you will see construction on the Sports and Entertainment Venue – the new home of our minor league baseball team. The venue will open in April 2020. VIDA, the mixed use district going up between S. Main Street and West Avenue, is now underway. There are four stories of apartments above the ground level shops and restaurants. Old Armor Beer Company, the City's first brewery, will open on West Avenue this fall. This veteran owned and operated business will offer a variety of specialty brewed beers.
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The following are some of my recommendations concerning your companions' health in choosing whether or not to vaccinate. Calling our office for an appointment is the best way to insure that the vaccination protocol you are choosing is the best fit for your companions' lifestyle.
1. If you can, do not vaccinate puppies and kittens under three months of age.
Vaccinations are much more stressful on the underdeveloped immune system. Their effects are also temporary and require subsequent boosters. Protect your new kitten or puppy by only exposing them to other healthy dogs or cats. Do not take them to places where a lot of animals congregate and defecate, such a parks and rest-stops. Be aware that they are highly susceptible to serious disease at this age and take responsibility for protecting their environment.
Puppies - Give one Distemper/Parvo vaccination. If separate vaccines are available, space the Distemper and Parvovirus vaccinations by two to four weeks. Dobermans and Rottweilers should have the parvo vaccinations after 15 weeks of age. Rabies vaccinations should be delayed until six months of age. Lyme disease, Coronavirus, and Kennel Cough vaccines do not meet the criteria mentioned previously for a useful vaccine and I do not recommend giving them.
Kittens - Give one Panleukopenia combination (FRCP). If available, give the vaccine components separately spaced three to four weeks apart. Feline leukemia and FIP vaccines do not meet the previous criteria for needed vaccines. IF your cats go outside and you have rabies in your area, give a rabies vaccine at six months of age. Legal requirements vary from state to state.
3. Booster vaccinations are neither necessary nor required.
Studies in animal populations show that long-term immunity to distemper, parvovirus, panleukopenia, and other diseases is conferred by one vaccination for many years. Lifetime protection is highly likely after one vaccination. If you are concerned, titers for distemper and parvovirus can be checked with a simple blood test to see if your companion is protected. If you do choose to give boosters, wait three to five years between them and alternate between distemper and parvovirus vaccinations if single vaccines are available. FRCP in cats is a long-lasting vaccination probably for life.
Rabies boosters are legally required, usually every three years. Check with your local health department.
4. Homeopathic Nosodes can be used when risk occurs before three months of age. Many guardians use these homeopathic medicines to help protect their companions against Parvovirus, Distemper, Kennel Cough, Panleukopenia and FIP. Some nosodes seem to work more effectively than others. None of these produce titers against these diseases like a vaccination , so they are NOT vaccine replacements. They do seem to moderate a disease condition if the animal is exposed, even if they don't prevent it. It is another option for those guardians who wish to avoid vaccinations.
5. Vaccinations will impede responses to homeopathic treatment and will interfere or reverse progress in healing.
Do not vaccinate any animal under my homeopathic care without checking with this office first. There are procedures we may wish to take to minimize adverse effect from vaccinations. In chronic disease such as cancer, vaccinations are very stressful and should always be avoided unless very extenuating circumstances merit their use.