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Do not miss your chance to see the unique and magnificent natural beauty that is the Natural Bridge Caverns, a natural museum full of wonder. Situated 180 feet below the ground, these breathtaking caves are only 30 minutes from downtown San Antonio and is the largest cave system in the state of Texas.
The discovery tour is a 75-minute walking excursion that takes you through a mile of cavernous beauty. Your expert tour guide will lead you through all sorts of different sections of the caverns as you see unusual rock formations such as flowstones, stalactites, soda straws, and stalagmites. The strange thing is these rock formations are constantly changing and evolving, even weeks apart your photos could turn out different!
The History of the Natural Bridge Caverns
These exquisite caves were discovered in 1960 as four college students were roaming the area. After unveiling more than two miles of cavernous area under a 60-foot limestone bridge, millions of people have flocked to San Antonio to see this unique wonder. If you're heading to Texas, be sure to stop by the Natural Bridge Caverns San Antonio— this one of a kind cavern has been dubbed a National Natural Landmark and is sure to provide your family with lasting memories.
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On Thursday and Friday of this past week the Tutor/Mentor Connection hosted its 29th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference since May 1994. More than 120 people attended. Some came from California, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania and many came from the Chicago region and Illinois. You can see a partial list of participants here, which is an on-line attendee form which was created as people registered for the conference.
Tomorrow I'm flying to Atlanta where I'll participate in the National Conference on Volunteerism and Community Service. While I expect more than 1500 people will attend the National Conference, I don't expect to be able to attend more than one workshop in any time frame, nor do I expect to meet any more people than I did at the Chicago conference.
In fact, since I cannot find an attendee list on the National Conference web site, I suspect participants will not be able to connect with as many of the people who they might want to meet as they could from the Chicago conference, which was much smaller.
While I'll be in Atlanta, the National NonProfit Congress meeting will be taking place in Washington, DC. More than 500 people will be attending and an attendee list is available on-line. While this does a great job of showing where a participant comes from, it still does not enable one participant to contact another participant directly. Thus, it's not likely that people attending this event will meet any more people than I'll meet in Atlanta, or that you could have met in Chicago.
Yet, we're all concerned with similar issues of volunteerism and service, which must be funded by philanthropy.
The most a conference can do is inspire us, energize us, and give us a few new ideas. The work of putting these ideas in place takes place after the conference and unless we have the resources, or help from others, it's not likely that many of these ideas will ever be used by the many people who are attending these events.
If anyone who organizes an event builds in an on-line forum, or an interactive attendee list, they will enable participants to connect with each other. If this connects service providers, resource providers, evaluators, media and public leaders, it can lead to more good ideas taking root in more places.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered time to participate in the Chicago conference. We hope you'll introduce yourself in online forums such as this and this, so we can continue to work to build a stronger infrastructure to support our efforts, which will lead to better supports for kids living in disadvantaged situations.
More shootings in Chicago this weekend. Same as last year.
Last May I wrote an article following some shootings in Chicago.
If this concerns you, why not come to the Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference being held in Chicago this Thursday and Friday (May 29 and 30). Here's the web site.
If you're not in Chicago, join us in on-line forums.
E – educate yourself – most of us do not live in high poverty neighborhoods, so we only understand the root causes of senseless shootings from what we read in newspapers. We also only read negative news in the media, so we're now really well informed on where these events are taking place most frequently. Finally, while there is a perception that there are plenty of youth programs, we really don't have a good understanding of the distribution of different types of youth programs, to different age groups, in different zip codes. The only way this will change is if each of us pledges to spend one hour a week reading books, articles and web reports, that illustrate the root causes of these shootings, or of poor performance in schools. Through our learning we can draw ideas that we use in our own actions. We can also begin to contribute information that other people use to support their own decision making.
If you know of a tutor/mentor program operating in your neighborhood, see if it is listed in the Program Links or Program Locator at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org. If not, ask the program to contact the T/MC. Together we can create a shared library of knowledge, that helps us all understand where we have enough services, and where there are neighborhoods without services.
Over the next few days people throughout America will honor the memory of men and women who have fought and died for the freedoms we enjoy. We have the right to share ideas on blogs like this only because men and women have died to give us those rights. Never forget.
However, the battles that have been fought are not over. We are still in a shooting war overseas. We're threatened by terror every day. Our global environmental crisis is a growing enemy. And far too many people live in poverty in the US, and around the world. This poverty is a breeding ground for new forms of terror.
How do we stop this? Where are the heroes of tomorrow who will fight on the battlefields of ideas and social justice?
I lead a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in which adults from many different business backgrounds volunteer time each week to serve as tutors, mentors, organizers, activity leaders, fund raisers, etc. to help kids living in the Cabrini-Green area of Chicago. To me, these volunteers are heroes. So are the kids who make an effort to be here every week.
However, while I lead a single program in one neighborhood, I know that programs like this are needed in neighborhoods all over the Chicago region, and in other big cities all over the country. I created the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993 to try to help mobilize resources to support the growth of such programs.
There have been many volunteers who have helped the T/MC over the past 15 years. There have been a growing number of interns who have also helped. I create a page listing different projects that students and volunteers have been doing to help the T/MC.
To me, these people who devote their talent to helping us mobilize volunteers and raise dollars are also heroes. We need more of them. We need millions of them.
We can reduce the number of men and women who die on future battlefields, if we increase the number who sacrifice time and talent to help end poverty and correct the many social injustices that exist in this world.
As you celebrate and honor our fallen warriors, I encourage you to also look for ways to donate your time and talent to these other battlefields in the coming months and years.
If you'd like to know more, come to the Tutor/Mentor Conference in Chicago next weekend, May 29 and 30.
It happens every six months. I'm about two weeks prior to the Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference, which I've hosted in Chicago every six months since 1994, and I'm stressing over the attendance, the speaker list, and all sorts of things that event planners always worry about prior to an event.
I want it to go well. I want a good turnout. I want people to leave the conference with new energy, and new ideas. I want this to result in program improvement from now until August, or in new programs starting, so that every program in Chicago will have more success recruiting volunteers at the start of the 2008-09 school year, which is just 3 months away! You can see a partial list of attendees here.
But why should I be stressed? I'm doing this to help other programs in other neighborhoods and other cities. I'm also doing this to help Cabrini Connections, which is the program I lead.
Over the past 35 years I've learned that the time I spend organizing these events, and networking with others, results in many benefits to my own program, and to myself. I find new ideas. I benefit from the public awareness. I find friends who help me stay involved with this work, year after year.
I've also learned that these events help us generate public attention for tutoring/mentoring, and this helps us recruit volunteers. From my experiences working in advertising for the Montgomery Ward corporation, I've learned the importance of keeping your advertising in front of customers on a regular basis. Thus, the conferences, are part of a sequence of events that not only draw programs together, but draw volunteers and donors to our web site, and to different programs throughout the Chicago region.
From this image you can see that what we do in May is intended to influence what happens in August, November and next spring. Thus, the conference not only benefits me, it can benefit everyone else who offers tutoring/mentoring in Chicago, or in other cities.
Thus, I'm stressed. I know how important it is to get the attention of thousands of potential volunteers and donors and I can't do it by myself. This conference, and the Tutor/Mentor Connection, only work when others see the conference as an event that supports their own program, and expands their own personal network.
I've learned from many years of experience that what happens next week, is what is intended to happen. No matter how many people attend the conference, those who do attend will find value. Here's what some people have said after past conferences. I'm sure many will offer similar comments after this one.
There's no time to be stressed. As soon as this conference is over we move on to the next event. I hope you'll join us.
Visualizing our goals for tutoring/mentoring, violence prevention, education, etc.
schools are trying to teach them.
the reauthorization of the Elementary and Education Act, in particular.
aside competing agenda, and this may prove undoable. "
On the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site I've used maps and charts to illustrate how we need to focus on all of the high poverty neighborhoods where kids need extra help in order to succeed in school and live free of poverty.
Today, I listened to a presentation by the rock star BONO, as he called for 1 million activist to get involved in creating social justice for people living in Africa. Imagine if he were using maps like those I'm trying to create, to draw people who could help to all of the places where help is needed, and will be needed for the next 20 or more years.
My friend at UCLA, BONO and the T/MC all have the same challenge. We need to get millions of people to look at our maps, read the information we provide on our web sites, and then act in one way or another, over-and-over, for many years, and in many places at the same time.
Even with all of the power and celebrity that BONO has, he is asking for help. Even with all of the resources at UCLA, my friend is asking for help. I don't have nearly as much power or wealth as either of these leaders, yet I'm asking for the same type of help, and so are the thousand of people working in isolation and obscurity in high poverty neighborhoods around the world.
There are many entry points to getting involved, (such as the May 29 and 30 conference in Chicago), and individual calls to action can each attract some people to some of these places. However, until we connect these entry points, and tie them to maps, we'll never get enough people, looking at all of the places where help is needed, nor staying involved as long as they need to be involved.
During the spring 2008 school year term, two students from an Information Visualization class at the University of Indiana took on a project for the Tutor/Mentor Connection. The goal was to visualize the call to action that the T/MC is communicating via pdf presentations so that it would resonate with leaders in businesses, universities, churches, who then would apply these ideas to helping draw needed resources to volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in all high poverty neighborhoods of big cities like Chicago.
This is not a completed project, but it is a step toward what we're trying to communicate. It shows how students in universities can use their talent, and their learning, to do real-world work that helps non profits achive their important social missions. It also shows where poverty and poorly performing schools are located and this is where tutor/mentor programs are most needed. If you're a volunteer, or donor, or potential university or faith partner, you can click on the map in the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, and learn what organizations are in this area, and what forms of tutoring and/or mentoring they do.
Learn more about ways university and high school students might use their time and talent to support the T/MC or other social benefit organizations. Click here and here.
For most of the people in America, inner city violence is just a sound byte on TV, or a newspaper headline. It's not something they really understand, thus it's not something that offers more than simplistic solutions. It's a complex problem.
A friend of mine works for CEASE Fire, and sent me a link to an article about Cease Fire, and inner city violence, from the New York Times Magazine, written by Alex Kotlowitz. I encourage you to read it.
I've known about Cease Fire for more than 10 years and have had its founder on my newsletter mail lists. We've never found ways to connect our strategies of prevention via tutoring/mentoring, and triage, or street intervention, right at the point of acts of violence.
I think we've got to find ways to apply multiple pressure points to this problem. No single solution is enough. I use maps to try to map this conversion of different strategies, and host the conference in May and November to try to draw people from different solution-channels together, so that relationships, and integrated strategies might develop.
However, until funders become willing to fund these multiple strategies, in the same geography, for many years, we'll each compete with each other for core resources, and this competition will prevent most of us from finding ways to work together.
If you look at the links library on the T/MC web site, they go to many different sites, all with valuable information, and valuable programs. How do we create advertising to draw millions of viewers, like the readers of the New York Times magazine, or an Alex Kotlowitz book, to sites like this where they all spend some time, talent or dollars to support one or more of the different groups listed.
If we can generate enough traffic, and enough consistent funding, we can relieve the negative competitive pressures, and maybe generate some more complex and integrated problem solving.
Every day I send one or more letters to people in Chicago and around the country, introducing myself, and inviting these people to visit our web sites, and connect with us in some form of on-going learning and collaboration aimed at helping more and better tutor/mentor programs be in the lives of inner city youth. I'm writing one right now, and I decided I'd share it with those who read my blog. I hope you'll forward it to people in your own network, as this graphic suggests.
This letter is written to Catherine Jordan, project manager for the National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas.
I'm writing to introduce you to the second part of our organization, the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC). I started my volunteer work with tutor/mentor programs in 1973 at the same time as I was beginning a 17 year advertising career with the Montgomery Ward corporation. We had 400 stores in 40 states, and used advertising to draw customers to these stores every day. We also had another team of people working to make sure we had stores near customers, and that each store had well trained people, and products and services that would appeal to customers.
Between 1975 and 1990 I began to create a network of Chicago area tutor/mentor programs, encouraging the group to meet regularly to share ideas and build supportive relationships. As I did this I recognized a pattern in media and public leadership that I call the "Camel effect". Every so often there would be a surge of public indignation following some tragedy, such as a school shooting, or a report, such as Nation at Risk, that would cause the newspapers and editorial writers to call for some action.
However, when that happened, they only pointed to a few brand name youth organizations as the solutions, and they only pointed to a few of the high poverty neighborhoods of Chicago as the location of the problem. Furthermore, this public attention only lasted a short while, as the media and our leaders would soon be drawn to some other crisis.
This surge in attention is happening right now in Chicago, as the media are focusing on the tragic killings of a growing number of inner city kids.
In our advertising at Wards we knew that we needed to keep our customers focused on our stores and services every day, and we needed to make every store as good as it could be, in order to attract repeat customers to each store.
Thus, I created the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993, with a goal of helping constantly improving, volunteer based tutor/mentor programs be available in every high poverty neighborhood, following the same principles that our company was using to try to make sure high quality stores were available to shoppers all over the country.
In the Program Locator and Chicago Program Links sections of the T/MC web site, shoppers can learn about different tutoring/mentoring programs throughout the region, and choose what area of the city they want to support, and which programs in that region they want to help. In many cases there are few, or no programs, thus a shopper (volunteer or donor) might need to help start new programs, in order to serve the youth in that region.
I believe that a high quality non-school youth organization must have a base of adults committed to the lives of the children they serve, and that extra adults, who don't live in poverty, and who can model a variety of jobs and careers, need to be involved as tutors, mentors, coaches, fiends, advocates, etc. If the youth organization makes a commitment to "do all it can to assure that the children are in jobs and careers by age 25" then it is the adult volunteers who need to stay connected to the organization, and its youth, so that as kids finish high school or college, there are people beyond the poverty neighborhood where these kids live, who can open doors to job opportunities, and provide support to career growth.
This is what a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program is to me, and what we try to do at Cabrini Connections. Through the Tutor/Mentor Connection we work to help other programs get the resources they need to build and sustain similar long-term commitments to the youth they serve.
I hope you'll take a look at the T/MC and see how we're using maps, the internet, conferences and an on-line program locator database to help volunteers and donors find the various programs in the Chicago region. This is a strategy that any city can duplicate in order to assure that good programs, with adults who care, are in more of the places where they are needed.
I'll look forward to hearing from you. I hope the Youth Today article draws a few more people toward this idea of adult involvement and mentoring as part of a strategy of "no child left behind".


Living Room And Bedroom Furniture Sets - In picking the layouts for your living room sets, are experiencing the issue? If yes then let's provide you with a useful and easy option. Really if you are not that good in designing your own home, you could have a difficulty which design would give the ambiance you need your visitors to feel when they are inside your home and which design of living room sets would totally fit your property. There are really so many things to be considered in picking the look of such for your own family room.
One is the color of the furniture; there are many colours of such sets that somehow make it more difficult to choose which would fit the motif you would like to describe. There is some furniture which has plain color only while others are multicolor. Now, when you do not know which to select from, the very first basic step you will need to do would be to think thoroughly which would you prefer, plain color or multicolor one.
Now, this should not confuse you. Then select color furniture that is loud, in the event you're a type of person who wants something bright. Although most are troubled together with the colors they need for his or her furniture, there are those colours that could blend in anything it is the one that is black or white. Plain black or white furniture for your family room may possibly also be a brilliant thought. Another is the form of the sets, it also plays a great role in choosing the design of your furniture.
As opposed to seeing an organization that offers these items wherein you can possess the items, not avail of it through online you need to buy without stressing yourself substantially. There's no requirement for you to cancel appointments from work or escape your household responsibilities, just to go to a specific department store and buy the furniture you'll need for your own home.
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Rams Take a Hard-Fought 75-55 Loss at USC-Aiken
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Winston-Salem (6-7) 16 14 20 5 55
USC Aiken (6-5) 20 21 17 17 75
Pts: Melody Prichard - 11
Reb: Teara Johnson - 6
Pts: Kwajelin Farrar - 19
Reb: Melyk Taouil - 15
AIKEN, SC – The Winston-Salem State Rams (6-7) started 2020 on a down note when the team took a 75-55 road loss to the USC-Aiken Pacers (6-5), Wednesday afternoon. The Rams put on a solid effort, but the team struggled to get their offense in gear against the tough Pacer defense in the loss.
Making shots turned out to be tough for the Rams in the road loss. As a team, the Rams shot just 29.5% (23-of-78) in the loss. The team did a good job taking care of the ball with just 12 turnovers in the game. For the second straight game, WSSU sophomore guard Melody Prichard led the way for the Rams with a team-high 11 points in the game. Sophomore guard Amaya Tucker made her return from an injury to add 10 points for the Rams. Junior guard Teara Johnson showed no fear of the paint as she led the Rams with six rebounds.
Things looked good early for the Rams, but the team wore down as the game went on. The first quarter was a solid one for the Rams as they held the Pacers within striking distance. After falling behind early, 4-9, the Rams cut their deficit down to just a point, 10-9 after a jumper from Prichard with 4:44 left in the quarter. However, in the final minutes of the quarter, the Rams allowed the Pacers to pull away, 20-13 later in the half before a Tucker three-pointer pulled the Rams to within four points to end the quarter trailing, 20-16.
The second quarter looked similar for the Rams as the team once again allowed the Pacers to get a strong start before beginning a comeback midway through the quarter. The Rams opened the quarter by allowing five unanswered points to the Pacers and fell behind, 25-16 before sophomore O'Shea Hatley scored five straight points of her own to cut the WSSU deficit down to just four points, 25-21 with 6:11 left in the second quarter. Unfortunately, as with the first quarter, the Rams once again struggled in the final minutes of the quarter and allowed the Pacers to take a 41-30 lead at halftime.
The Rams opened the second half with their best quarter of the game. In the third quarter, the Rams outscored the Pacers, 20-17. For the third time in the game, the Rams allowed the Pacers to jump out to a strong start, but the team bounced back in a big way to end the quarter. After falling behind, 54-32 near the midpoint of the quarter, the Rams made a big push late to close the period. The Rams went on a 13-1 run to cut their deficit down to just 10 points, 55-45 after a lay-up by senior guard Taylor Daniels with 1:17 left in the quarter. In the final minute of the quarter, the Rams outscored the Pacers 5-3 to end the quarter trailing, 58-50.
The fourth quarter was not as good for the Rams as the team closed the game by being outscored, 17-5 to end the day with the 75-55 loss. For the quarter, the Rams hit just two field goals and a free throw to end the game with the 75-55 loss.
With the loss, the Rams fall to 6-7. The team won't have long to relax, however, as they will head to Bowie, Maryland to take on the Bowie State Bulldogs in a non-conference game. For more information on Rams women's basketball, contact the WSSU Office of Athletic Media Relations at (336) 750-2143 or log on to www.WSSURams.com

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Tray measures 14″ x 20″ 1.You pick your paint colors and decorate to personalize. 2. You get to sand your project if desired 3. Attach handles 4.You will go home with a piece of chalk to write whatever message you'd like on your tray.
Wood sign measures 10" x 14" – You get to pick out paint color, sand your project, pick out string color and hot glue a coffee filter flower onto your project.
Wood sign measures 10" x 14" – You get to pick out paint color, sand your project and pick out string color.
Wood sign measures 7″ x 24″ – You get to pick out paint color, sand your project and pick out string color. You get to pick your own ribbon, felt flower, and clothes pin.
This Mom and Me DIY workshop is designed for a child and any adult as long as the child is accompainied. We recomend ages 5yrs and older. There are three ways to paticitate: 1) buy 2 tickets and both adult and child get to work on and take home a project. 2) buy 1 ticket that way adult and child will work on project together. 3) If you have two children you would like to bring thats great just buy as many tickets as projects you want to take home (please no more than two children per one adult). Come dressed for a mess! We will be painting, sanding and letting our creative juices flow. We have all the supplies you need to create and personalize the project just the way you like it.
Class size is limited to 10 people, so don't miss out and register today!


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Dr. Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, Associate professor of psychiatry and human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh
Topic: Gene mapping work among inbred populations
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST, August 22, 2017
Dr. Vishwajit Nimgaonkar is a Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh where he directs the Program in Genetics and Psychoses. His research is focused on the causation of severe psychiatric illnesses, including genetic and environmental factors. With funds from the National Institute of Health, Dr. Nimgaonkar oversees research projects in the United States, India and Egypt.
Dr. Nimgaonkar received his medical qualifications (MBBS) from the University of Madras and his PhD (DPhil) from the University of Oxford, UK. His clinical training includes residencies at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK, and at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh.
Dr. Nimgaonkar's post-doctoral work includes a fellowship in Molecular Biology at the University of London, UK followed by training in Human Genetics at Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.
Dr. Nimgaonkar has received several honors, including a Rhodes scholarship, the Sir Dennis Hill Prize from the Institute of Psychiatry, London, the NIMH Independent Scientist Award, the Harry Levin Award for Clinical Excellence from Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and an Outstanding Mentorship Award from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He serves on the editorial board of several psychiatric journals and is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
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Frequency-domain displacement sensing with a fiber ring-resonator containing a variable gap
Vollmer, F., Fischer, P.
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, 134(2):410-413, 2007 (article)
Ring-resonators are in general not amenable to strain-free (non-contact) displacement measurements. We show that this limitation may be overcome if the ring-resonator, here a fiber-loop, is designed to contain a gap, such that the light traverses a free-space part between two aligned waveguide ends. Displacements are determined with nanometer sensitivity by measuring the associated changes in the resonance frequencies. Miniaturization should increase the sensitivity of the ring-resonator interferometer. Ring geometries that contain an optical circulator can be used to profile reflective samples. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pf Vollmer, F., Fischer, P. Frequency-domain displacement sensing with a fiber ring-resonator containing a variable gap SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, 134(2):410-413, 2007 (article)
Observation of the Faraday effect via beam deflection in a longitudinal magnetic field
Ghosh, A., Hill, W., Fischer, P.
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 76(5), 2007 (article)
We show that magnetic-field-induced circular differential deflection of light can be observed in reflection or refraction at a single interface. The difference in the reflection or refraction angles between the two circular polarization components is a function of the magnetic-field strength and the Verdet constant, and permits the observation of the Faraday effect not via polarization rotation in transmission, but via changes in the propagation direction. Deflection measurements do not suffer from n-pi ambiguities and are shown to be another means to map magnetic fields with high axial resolution, or to determine the sign and magnitude of magnetic-field pulses in a single measurement.
pf Ghosh, A., Hill, W., Fischer, P. Observation of the Faraday effect via beam deflection in a longitudinal magnetic field PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 76(5), 2007 (article)
Comment on "negative refraction at optical frequencies in nonmagnetic two-component molecular media" - Reply
Chen, Y., Fischer, P., Wise, F. W.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 98(5), 2007 (article)
pf Chen, Y., Fischer, P., Wise, F. W. Comment on "negative refraction at optical frequencies in nonmagnetic two-component molecular media" - Reply PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 98(5), 2007 (article)
Circular differential double diffraction in chiral media
Ghosh, A., Fazal, F. M., Fischer, P.
OPTICS LETTERS, 32(13):1836-1838, 2007 (article)
In an optically active liquid the diffraction angle depends on the circular polarization state of the incident light beam. We report the observation of circular differential diffraction in an isotropic chiral medium, and we demonstrate that double diffraction is an alternate means to determine the handedness (enantiomeric excess) of a solution. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.
pf Ghosh, A., Fazal, F. M., Fischer, P. Circular differential double diffraction in chiral media OPTICS LETTERS, 32(13):1836-1838, 2007 (article)
Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of chiral molecules
Fischer, P., Hache, F.
CHIRALITY, 17(8):421-437, 2005 (article)
We review nonlinear optical processes that are specific to chiral molecules in solution and on surfaces. In contrast to conventional natural optical activity phenomena, which depend linearly on the electric field strength of the optical field, we discuss how optical processes that are nonlinear (quadratic, cubic, and quartic) functions of the electromagnetic field strength may probe optically active centers and chiral vibrations. We show that nonlinear techniques open entirely new ways of exploring chirality in chemical and biological systems: The cubic processes give rise to nonlinear circular dichroism and nonlinear optical rotation and make it possible to observe dynamic chiral processes at ultrafast time scales. The quadratic second-harmonic and sum-frequency-generation phenomena and the quartic processes may arise entirely in the electric-dipole approximation and do not require the use of circularly polarized light to detect chirality: They provide surface selectivity and their observables can be relatively much larger than in linear optical activity. These processes also give rise to the generation of light at a new color, and in liquids this frequency conversion only occurs if the solution is optically active. We survey recent chiral nonlinear optical experiments and give examples of their application to problems of biophysical interest. (C) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pf Fischer, P., Hache, F. Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of chiral molecules CHIRALITY, 17(8):421-437, 2005 (article)
Negative refraction at optical frequencies in nonmagnetic two-component molecular media
Chen, Y., Fischer, P., Wise, F.
There is significant motivation to develop media with negative refractive indices at optical frequencies, but efforts in this direction are hampered by the weakness of the magnetic response at such frequencies. We show theoretically that a nonmagnetic medium with two atomic or molecular constituents can exhibit a negative refractive index. A negative index is possible even when the real parts of both the permittivity and permeability are positive. This surprising result provides a route to isotropic negative-index media at optical frequencies.
pf Chen, Y., Fischer, P., Wise, F. Negative refraction at optical frequencies in nonmagnetic two-component molecular media PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 95(6), 2005 (article)
Isotropic second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities
Fischer, P., Buckingham, A., Albrecht, A.
The second-order nonlinear optical susceptibility, in the electric dipole approximation, is only nonvanishing for materials that are noncentrosymmetric. Should the medium be isotropic, then only a chiral system. such as an optically active liquid, satisfies this symmetry requirement. We derive the quantum-mechanical form of the isotropic component of the sum- and difference-frequency susceptibility and discuss its unusual spectral properties. We show that any coherent second-order nonlinear optical process in a system of randomly oriented molecules requires the medium to be chiral. and the incident frequencies to be different and nonzero. Furthermore, a minimum of two nondegenerate excited molecular states are needed for the isotropic part of the susceptibility to be nonvanishing. The rotationally invariant susceptibility is zero in the static field limit and shows exceptionally sensitive resonance and dephasing effects that are particular to chiral centers.
pf Fischer, P., Buckingham, A., Albrecht, A. Isotropic second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 64(5), 2001 (article)
Reply to "Comment on 'Phenomenological damping in optical response tensors'"
Buckingham, A., Fischer, P.
We show that damping factors must not be incorporated in the perturbation of the ground state by a static electric field. If they are included, as in the theory of Stedman et al. {[}preceding Comment. Phys. Rev. A 63, 047801 (2001)], then there would be an electric dipole in the y direction induced in a hydrogen atom in the M-s = + 1/2 state by a static electric field in the x direction. Such a dipole is excluded by symmetry.
pf Buckingham, A., Fischer, P. Reply to "Comment on 'Phenomenological damping in optical response tensors'" PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 63(4), 2001 (article)


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FASHION FASHION ENTERTAINMENT MODEL POP CULTURE TV SHOW
Asia's Next Top Mode Exclusive: Meet Sneha Ghosh of India
Asia's Next Top Model Cycle 2 is under way and proving to be one of the hottest reality TV shows in the Asia-Pacific region! Modelled of of Tyra Banks' infamous America's Next Top Model, this Asian high-fashion show features a large cast of hopeful models from everywhere in Asia! All sixteencontestants are fighting for the coveted title of "Asia's Next Top Model" as well as a three-month contract with Storm Model Management in London, the chance to appear in a spread and on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Singapore/ Malaysia, a cash prize courtesy of FOX International Broadcast, a Subaru XV car and the chance to become a TRESemme model in their new 2014 campaign! What's it like competing on one of the biggest modelling shows in Asia? Contestant Sneha Ghosh of India spills all to F&B Inc…
Sneha Ghosh first began modelling professionally in early 2013, however she experimented with modelling throughout college and graduated with the title Femina Miss India. Sneha grew up dreaming modelling, but hailing from an Orthodox Indian family where being a model wasn't viewed as an appropriate career choice held her back. However, Sneha's intense passion for fashion was unbreakable and she wouldn't let anything stop her from pursuing her modelling dreams on Asia's Next Top Model!
F&B Inc: What was your first reaction when you found out you would be competing on Asia's Next Top Model?
Sneha Ghosh: I thought it was too good to be true!
F&B Inc: What was your experience like on the TV show?
Sneha Ghosh: I was sleeping, eating and breathing melodrama all the while.
F&B Inc: Who were your best friends on the show and did you have any enemies?
Sneha Ghosh: Well, I had friends and hopefully a few foes. My besties were Jodilly , Nicole and Katarina. We were officially called the Alliance Of Four.
F&B Inc: What was the best modelling advice you were given?
Sneha Ghosh: Awkward is Beautiful.
F&B Inc: What are your future goals as a model?
Sneha Ghosh: I want to be a Super Model. VS Angel is the dream!
While Sneha was eliminated in Episode 7 it is impossible to ignore the fact that she was an amazing model throughout her time on the show and her passion and dedication for fashion will take her far in this industry! Stay tuned for more Asia's Next Top Model Exclusives coming soon!
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Exclusive Interview With Lulu Johnson Of Of The Hot New Reality TV Show "XOX Betsey Johnson"
Pop the champagne, break out the sequined tutus and get your cartwheel on because iconic fashion designer Betsey Johnson and her equally amazing daughter Lulu Johnson are hitting the small screen Sunday May 12th at 8:00pm on the Style Network with their all-new show…
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ABC Family Announces Pretty Little Liars Spin-Off TV Show "Ravenswood" To Launch October 2013
It is no secret F&B Inc has a huge Pretty Little Liars obsession so when ABC Family announced an exciting new show launching October 2013 with a distinct PLL celebrations were in order! A press release was sent out this afternoon detailing the thrilling…
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Season 2 of Fashion Star has begun (yay!) The first season of Fashion Star was a massive hit as unknown designers launched their careers and sold their designs in Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue and H&M. One of our favorite buyers on Fashion Star is…
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Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily may be the leading ladies of the Pretty Little Liars, but it is their missing ex-alpha best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, that really makes the show. Ever since Queen-bee Alison mysteriously vanished Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily have been consumed…


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The investigation of the connection between our central nervous system (the brain and spinal string) and our immune system. Neuroimmunology adds to advancement of new pharmacological medications for a few neurological conditions. The immune system and the sensory system keep up broad correspondence, including "hardwiring" of thoughtful and parasympathetic nerves to lymphoid organs. Neurotransmitters, for example, acetylcholine, norepinephrine, vasoactive intestinal peptide, substance P and histamine adjust the insusceptible action. Neuroendocrine hormones, for example, corticotrophin-discharging element, leptin, and alpha-melanocyte empowering hormone manage cytokine adjust. The immune system adjusts brain action, including body temperature, rest and bolstering conducts. Particles, for example, the significant histocompatibility complex not just direct T cells to immunogenic molecules held in its separated additionally regulate improvement of neuronal associations. Neurobiologists and immunologists are investigating normal thoughts like the neurotransmitter to comprehend properties.


La. Family Finishes Rebuilding, But Struggles Go On Four years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana residents Donald and Colleen Bordelon say things are looking better. The construction on their house is finally complete. But their struggles aren't over — and there are some things they'll never get back.
This weekend marks the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the Gulf Coast. Since shortly after that storm, we've been checking in with Donald and Colleen Bordelon of St. Bernard Parish, near New Orleans. Even when water filled the first floor of their house, they stayed. They've stayed ever since. And now their house is fixed up. The Boderlons have seen public works crews in their neighborhood, though the neighborhood is still mostly empty.
Ms. COLLEEN BORDELON: Road work.
Mr. BORDELON: …they - we got a new street, you know.
INSKEEP: Although it must feel strange to put in a whole new street, and you've still got these properties on either side with slabs where there used to be houses, and still a lot of vacant houses, and so forth.
Mr. BORDELON: Exactly, man. They've still got a lot of slabs. They're starting to kind of tear them up now, you know. They - I guess one day, they'll go for sale, you know.
INSKEEP: Are there enough people around that there's some kind of street life? Does anybody ever have a block party or cookout?
Mr. BORDELON: No, no block parties, yet, you know, just, really, neighborhood friends, you know, everybody kind of getting together, you know.
INSKEEP: Although I bet you guys have been outside on the grill a little bit this summer.
Mr. BORDELON: Oh, of course. You know that. You know me. I've been get you down here again, you know.
Mr. BORDELON: Eat some good crabs and some shrimp, some oysters, you know.
INSKEEP: Oh, my gosh. I'm, like, there now. I'm there now.
Mr. BORDELON: I heard that.
INSKEEP: If I were to, I don't know, go up in a helicopter, a balloon over St. Bernard Parish and I'm looking down, how different do you think St. Bernard Parish would look today than it did right after the storm hit?
Mr. DONALD BORDELON: It looks a lot better. You know, it really does look a lot better, 'cause, you know, most of the houses are pretty much cleaned up. Every street you ride up and down, you know, you see a lot of high grass, you know, here and there, you know. There's still a few houses or a few places on our street, the grass is, you know, four or five, six-foot high. You know, it's like a little set of woods, you know. I hate to say it, I'm still cutting my neighbor's grass next door and the house next door and the lot across the street that they just never did really - nobody fooled with, you know. You know, I just hate living next door to something like that. So, I take a couple extra hours every week, you know, and take care of it, you know?
INSKEEP: I'd like to ask you each, also - and I know you've had such tremendous spirit, which is one of the reasons we keep coming back to you. You've dealt with horrible things, and you just keep going. But what for you right now is hard, if anything?
Ms. BORDELON: The conveniences is what I miss before. Businesses that you were used to going to before isn't there anymore. So, you got to go with somebody else that you're not used to. But, you know, like everything else, you adapt. And I guess you just roll with the punches, like, you know, what can you do? Scream?
Mr. BORDELON: I really miss that. That's what I miss worse, you know, my garage, where I had a lot of tools in my garage. I ain't got one-sixteenth of what I had before. You know, I really lost a lot of tools, you know. It'd cost you a fortune to replace everything, you know.
INSKEEP: Was that a lifetime accumulation of tools?
Mr. BORDELON: Exactly. A lifetime through my daddy and, you know, some of his friends and some of the stuff he collected, you know - stuff you'll never get back again, you know.
Mr. BORDELON: Every, every day - every day. 'Cause, you know, you walk in a garage, and I got one of them. And you stop, oh, it's not there.
Ms. BORDELON: And you say, oh, wait. I knew we had it. And we go digging and we say, oh, no. That was pre-Katrina. That went with the storm.
Mr. BORDELON: Just things like that you really miss, you know.
INSKEEP: Well, Donald and Colleen Bordelon, it's always a pleasure to speak with you.
Mr. BORDELON: Okay. You, too. Be careful.


How do you overcome the moments when you feel like you are drowning?
Today's episode is all about handling the stress that we all experience as we act on our ambition to accomplish our goals. It is ok to feel overwhelmed every once in a while, but it is important to know how to react to those moments.
-> Experiencing stress is a result of your ambitious action.
-> Why understanding where you get your energy from is important.
-> How to overcome moments of feeling overwhelmed.
-> How to overcome analysis of paralysis.
-> Next time you feel overwhelmed, get your thoughts out of your head and take action!


The Filamatic® Rotary Plugger/Capper can accommodate a range of components including a dropper tip/dome cap, a flow restrictor/screw cap, a threaded screw cap, a snap cap and an airless pump/dust cover. This servo driven machine incorporates multiple turrets to gently move containers through the capping and closure process. Plugging and capping turrets are configured with 4 to 8 stations depending on the container size and required rate. Torqueing of threaded closures are controlled with servo driven chuck style heads.


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import * as React from 'react'
import memoize from 'memoize-one'
import { GitHubRepository } from '../../models/github-repository'
import { Commit, CommitOneLine } from '../../models/commit'
import { CommitListItem } from './commit-list-item'
import { List } from '../lib/list'
import { arrayEquals } from '../../lib/equality'

const RowHeight = 50

interface ICommitListProps {
  /** The GitHub repository associated with this commit (if found) */
  readonly gitHubRepository: GitHubRepository | null

  /** The list of commits SHAs to display, in order. */
  readonly commitSHAs: ReadonlyArray<string>

  /** The commits loaded, keyed by their full SHA. */
  readonly commitLookup: Map<string, Commit>

  /** The SHA of the selected commit */
  readonly selectedSHA: string | null

  /** The emoji lookup to render images inline */
  readonly emoji: Map<string, string>

  /** The list of known local commits for the current branch */
  readonly localCommitSHAs: ReadonlyArray<string>

  /** The message to display inside the list when no results are displayed */
  readonly emptyListMessage: JSX.Element | string

  /** Callback which fires when a commit has been selected in the list */
  readonly onCommitSelected: (commit: Commit) => void

  /** Callback that fires when a scroll event has occurred */
  readonly onScroll: (start: number, end: number) => void

  /** Callback to fire to revert a given commit in the current repository */
  readonly onRevertCommit: ((commit: Commit) => void) | undefined

  /** Callback to fire to open a given commit on GitHub */
  readonly onViewCommitOnGitHub: (sha: string) => void

  /** Callback to fire to open the dialog to create a new tag on the given commit */
  readonly onCreateTag: (targetCommitSha: string) => void

  /** Callback to fire to delete an unpushed tag */
  readonly onDeleteTag: (tagName: string) => void

  /** Callback to fire to cherry picking the commit  */
  readonly onCherryPick: (commits: ReadonlyArray<CommitOneLine>) => void

  /** Callback to fire to when has started being dragged  */
  readonly onDragCommitStart: (commits: ReadonlyArray<CommitOneLine>) => void

  /** Callback to fire to when has started being dragged  */
  readonly onDragCommitEnd: () => void
  /**
   * Optional callback that fires on page scroll in order to allow passing
   * a new scrollTop value up to the parent component for storing.
   */
  readonly onCompareListScrolled?: (scrollTop: number) => void

  /* The scrollTop of the compareList. It is stored to allow for scroll position persistence */
  readonly compareListScrollTop?: number

  /* Whether the repository is local (it has no remotes) */
  readonly isLocalRepository: boolean

  /* Tags that haven't been pushed yet. This is used to show the unpushed indicator */
  readonly tagsToPush: ReadonlyArray<string> | null
}

/** A component which displays the list of commits. */
export class CommitList extends React.Component<ICommitListProps, {}> {
  private commitsHash = memoize(makeCommitsHash, arrayEquals)

  private getVisibleCommits(): ReadonlyArray<Commit> {
    const commits = new Array<Commit>()
    for (const sha of this.props.commitSHAs) {
      const commitMaybe = this.props.commitLookup.get(sha)
      // this should never be undefined, but just in case
      if (commitMaybe !== undefined) {
        commits.push(commitMaybe)
      }
    }
    return commits
  }

  private renderCommit = (row: number) => {
    const sha = this.props.commitSHAs[row]
    const commit = this.props.commitLookup.get(sha)

    if (commit == null) {
      if (__DEV__) {
        log.warn(
          `[CommitList]: the commit '${sha}' does not exist in the cache`
        )
      }
      return null
    }

    const tagsToPushSet = new Set(this.props.tagsToPush || [])

    const isLocal = this.props.localCommitSHAs.includes(commit.sha)
    const unpushedTags = commit.tags.filter(tagName =>
      tagsToPushSet.has(tagName)
    )

    const showUnpushedIndicator =
      (isLocal || unpushedTags.length > 0) &&
      this.props.isLocalRepository === false

    return (
      <CommitListItem
        key={commit.sha}
        gitHubRepository={this.props.gitHubRepository}
        isLocal={isLocal}
        showUnpushedIndicator={showUnpushedIndicator}
        unpushedIndicatorTitle={this.getUnpushedIndicatorTitle(
          isLocal,
          unpushedTags.length
        )}
        unpushedTags={unpushedTags}
        commit={commit}
        emoji={this.props.emoji}
        onCreateTag={this.props.onCreateTag}
        onDeleteTag={this.props.onDeleteTag}
        onCherryPick={this.props.onCherryPick}
        onRevertCommit={this.props.onRevertCommit}
        onViewCommitOnGitHub={this.props.onViewCommitOnGitHub}
        onDragStart={this.props.onDragCommitStart}
        onDragEnd={this.props.onDragCommitEnd}
      />
    )
  }

  private getUnpushedIndicatorTitle(
    isLocalCommit: boolean,
    numUnpushedTags: number
  ) {
    if (isLocalCommit) {
      return 'This commit has not been pushed to the remote repository'
    }

    if (numUnpushedTags > 0) {
      return `This commit has ${numUnpushedTags} tag${
        numUnpushedTags > 1 ? 's' : ''
      } to push`
    }

    return undefined
  }

  private onSelectedRowChanged = (row: number) => {
    const sha = this.props.commitSHAs[row]
    const commit = this.props.commitLookup.get(sha)
    if (commit) {
      this.props.onCommitSelected(commit)
    }
  }

  private onScroll = (scrollTop: number, clientHeight: number) => {
    const numberOfRows = Math.ceil(clientHeight / RowHeight)
    const top = Math.floor(scrollTop / RowHeight)
    const bottom = top + numberOfRows
    this.props.onScroll(top, bottom)

    // Pass new scroll value so the scroll position will be remembered (if the callback has been supplied).
    if (this.props.onCompareListScrolled != null) {
      this.props.onCompareListScrolled(scrollTop)
    }
  }

  private rowForSHA(sha_: string | null): number {
    const sha = sha_
    if (!sha) {
      return -1
    }

    return this.props.commitSHAs.findIndex(s => s === sha)
  }

  public render() {
    if (this.props.commitSHAs.length === 0) {
      return (

{this.props.emptyListMessage}

      )
    }

    return (

        <List
          rowCount={this.props.commitSHAs.length}
          rowHeight={RowHeight}
          selectedRows={[this.rowForSHA(this.props.selectedSHA)]}
          rowRenderer={this.renderCommit}
          onSelectedRowChanged={this.onSelectedRowChanged}
          onScroll={this.onScroll}
          invalidationProps={{
            commits: this.props.commitSHAs,
            localCommitSHAs: this.props.localCommitSHAs,
            commitLookupHash: this.commitsHash(this.getVisibleCommits()),
            tagsToPush: this.props.tagsToPush,
          }}
          setScrollTop={this.props.compareListScrollTop}
        />

    )
  }
}

/**
 * Makes a hash of the commit's data that will be shown in a CommitListItem
 */
function commitListItemHash(commit: Commit): string {
  return `${commit.sha} ${commit.tags}`
}

function makeCommitsHash(commits: ReadonlyArray<Commit>): string {
  return commits.map(commitListItemHash).join(' ')
}

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Q: Vpn access when only http and https are available I'm trying to access my computer at the office from a library which allows only HTTP and HTTPS. The problem is that right now i can access the computer at the office by using remote desktop of windows. So i really need to use a VPN. Is it possible to do this simply?

A: I managed to find a program that does the job. I don't know how secure it is exactly but it's display is much better than teamviewer.
Columbus remote desktop. So basically i establish a vpn connection using network connect already configured by the network administrator of the network at the office. Then I just had to use the IP address of my computer at the office to connect.
Thanks and best wishes to you.

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People often ask me what laptop I am using when I am blogging. Well believe it or not I have been a pc girl for as long as I could remember until last year, I decided to buy myself a Macbook. It was a tough decision as Macbooks are not cheap! The most affordable was the Macbook White at RM3.5k++. I did not regret buying as it could do what a rm4-6k laptop could do. Graphics & visual was superb. Watching movies, editing photos, blogging - I enjoyed it all on my macbook white. I could also play World of Warcraft with it! (online graphic heavy games). The only two things I HATE about Macbook white is the highly fragile glass screen which breaks (and I had to fork out 1/2 the price of the Macbook white to replace it!). The second thing I hate was the service level provided by Apple Malaysia and Apple stores. That's another story to be told, which well isn't that important anyway. Recently while reading a female magazine, I found out that my Macbook White is also the most eco-friendly laptop around. Imagine that.
The greatest environmental challenge facing the computer industry today is the presence of arsenic, brominated flame retardants (BFRs), mercury, phthalates, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in products. Apple engineers have worked hard to eliminate BFRs and PVC from MacBook circuit boards, internal and external cables, connectors, insulators, adhesives, and more.3 And they've eliminated many other toxins that are a common part of notebook computer manufacturing — choosing, for example, mercury-free backlighting and arsenic-free glass for the MacBook display.
Lasts up to five years.
The removable batteries in traditional notebooks are designed to be replaced every year or two, which means lots of batteries are used up and discarded. But the battery in the new MacBook lasts up to five years — or 1000 recharges. So it uses just one battery in the same time a typical notebook uses three, reducing waste and environmental impact.4 And to help ensure that batteries are disposed of in an environmentally responsible way, Apple offers a battery take-back program in 95 percent of the countries in which it does business.
The new MacBook packaging is 53 percent smaller than that of the original MacBook. And smaller boxes are much better for the planet. Because smaller boxes mean we can fit more boxes on each shipping pallet. Which means more products will fit on each boat and plane. Which means fewer boats and planes are used, resulting in fewer CO2 emissions. It's one seemingly minor change. But it has a major positive impact on our environment.
Apple has minimized the waste when MacBook reaches end of life through its ultraefficient design and the use of recyclable materials such as high-grade polycarbonate, aluminum, and magnesium, which recyclers can reuse for other products.
Free recycling for your old computer.
Through its innovative and environmentally friendly design, MacBook has earned the highest rating of EPEAT Gold.1 The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT, evaluates the environmental impact of a product based on how recyclable it is, how much energy it uses, and how it's designed and manufactured.
MacBook Air features a full-sized keyboard for typing comfort and productivity, as well as the glass Multi-Touch trackpad found on Apple's MacBook Pro, so you can scroll through websites, flip through photos, and resize or rotate images all from the trackpad. The built-in FaceTime camera, mic and stereo speakers are perfect for video calls with iPhone 4, iPod touch and other Macs.


I have seen a lot of questions in various forums, asking the same question over and over again," How to get cocaine out of your system " well, its actually very easy, if you know the basic you can pass a cocaine drug test easily.
Honestly it sounds a little stupid for me, we all know drugs are bad, but no one force you to snorth cocaine every single week, because if you don't smoke coke regularly, then its quite easy to get cocaine out of your system.
There are a couple of ways to pass a drug test for coke. Its no different from opiates, amphetamines or THC. Use synthetic urine or detox drinks. I wouldn't recommend detox pills because they take too long to take effect. If you are a regular coke user, then always keep a bottle of detox drink or synthetic urine at home, it can be life saver for you!
Rescue Clenase 32Oz do work for cocaine i just took a drug test 11/05/2017. But you have to must drink alot of water and take the drink 2 hrs before drugs test. Remember the water flush coke out. You must drink lots of water after drinking Rescue cleanse . Need two hrs window than take the test very important ladies and gents.
There is only one reliable way to pass a hair follicle drug test for cocaine, its called the macujo method. Its not cheap because it requires some different shampoos and other detox products, but it does work. Do not forget coke, just like other drugs can stay in your hair for up to 3 months!
If you have an upcoming saliva drug test the best hat you can do is to brush your teeth and gums as many times as you can and flush it with Listerine a couple of times, if you have 1-2 days before the test, you will pass it for sure.
Coke leave your blood relatively fast, after one day you should be fine, if you have less than one day, then a bottle of detox drink can solve your problem. The best ones are rescue cleanse and mega clean.
There is no way to get coke out of your system fast, unless its saliva or blood. For a urine drug test do not worry about detoxing, it takes up to one week. Just buy a bottle of detox drink as I said earlier or go with syntetic urine.
For hair drug test, the only way to get clean is to use the Macujo method, it will permanently clean your hair of coke, THC and other toxins.


Home Prints Somerindyke Estate on Bloomingdale Road, near 75th St.
Somerindyke Estate on Bloomingdale Road, near 75th St.
Title Somerindyke Estate on Bloomingdale Road, near 75th St.
Publishing details New York : Published by D.T. Valentine ; Sarony, Major and Knapp.
Summary Detached from the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York" by D.T. Valentine, New York, 1863, opposite page 350. Purchased September 1909. #1909.2 (no.97).


So I took a little break from blogging this summer :). Hopefully you'll forgive me.
One rule I gave myself when starting this blog was to avoid discussing situations using coded language or vague meanings. I don't like to leave my readers (if there are any left 🙂 ) in the dark about situations I describe. However, I'm about to break my own rule… Just this once.
The reason I haven't been blogging is because I was engrossed in a summer project. I attempted to begin this project over Christmas break, but due to unfavorable conditions I decided to hold off until the summer break to begin the project.
So what kind of project is this? In order to stay as vague as possible, lets just say it was a chemistry project. Like any good project, this endeavor involved research, field work, and lots of interviews. I spent much time testing the compatibility of different features and discovering relationships between certain factors.
The project has been very successful; however, no conclusions were made. Therefore, this summer project will be extended through the fall term. However, I recently received an A+ for the quality of work through the summer term.
For all of those in the know, I hope you enjoyed this message. For the rest of you, thanks for being patient, and it won't happen again.
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A billboard in downtown Winston-Salem was vandalized sometime before Monday. The billboard originally read "What to expect when you're expecting a teenager." Whoever defaced it painted "impeachment" over "a teenager."
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Anti-Trump message removed from vandalized downtown billboard
By Wesley Young Winston-Salem Journal
Wes Young
A billboard in downtown Winston-Salem promoting the adoption of teens that was vandalized to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump has been taken down.
Someone painted the word "impeachment" across the bottom of the sign that originally read "What to expect when you're expecting a teenager."
As vandalized, the message read "What to expect when you're expecting impeachment."
To leave no mistake of the intended target, the vandal created orange "hair" for a man depicted on the billboard.
The billboard is owned by Lamar Advertising, based in Baton Rouge, La. Earlier this year, Lamar acquired all of the billboards in North Carolina formerly owned by Fairway Outdoor Advertising.
The vandalized billboard faces west and rises from near the parking lot of Piedmont Dialysis Center on Southwest Cotton Street right beside the Business 40 work zone.
Whoever painted over the billboard would have had to climb up a ladder that leads to a metal platform running along the base of the billboard.
Cindy Warren, the assistant general manager of Lamar for the Triad, said Thursday that the company's policy is to remove any vandalism from its billboards.
"I can assure you that in the event of graffiti or vandalism, it is Lamar's policy to get that vinyl switched out," Warren said. "Obviously, we don't want to advertise someone's viewpoint that has not been vetted through our general policy."
Warren declined to say who paid for the billboard, or to reveal anything else about the company's contractual relationship with advertisers.
According to a blog entry on the website of the Ad Council, a nonprofit organization that has long engaged in public-service advertising, the adoption campaign was put together by the KBS advertising agency working with the group AdoptUSKids, the Ad Council and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
AdoptUSKids has the goal of getting children adopted from foster care.
The ad campaign takes off on the popular pregnancy book "What to Expect When You're Expecting," with artwork that evokes the style of the original book cover.
On the unaltered billboard, a man is handing car keys to a teenage girl, who holds her hands in a gesture of gratitude.
Warren said her company probably would not report such a case of vandalism because the odds of catching the perpetrator "are relatively slim."
The vandal left what looked like a signature of sorts on the right side of the word "impeachment."
Larry Johnson, who chairs the Forsyth County Democratic Party, said that while Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much, "vandalizing a billboard is not the solution to democratic action."
"The Democratic Party encourages everyone to channel any political disagreement or anger into activism," Johnson wrote in an email. "We encourage all citizens and voters to get involved and help us make change through our electoral process."
Aaron Berlin, who chairs the Forsyth County Republican Party, said it is "always disappointing to see people vandalize property for any reason."
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Q: Get connectivity status on a blackberry 10 Dev Alpha Simulator I am developing an app for BB10 which requires to identify whether the device is connected to Internet or not.
I am testing my app on the simulator and I am using the following code to test the connectivity.
QNetworkConfigurationManager netMgr;
QList<QNetworkConfiguration> mNetList = netMgr.allConfigurations( QNetworkConfiguration::Active);

if (mNetList.count() > 0)
{
    if (netMgr.isOnline())
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}
else
{
    return false;
}

but every time I run this code, it gives me false, whereas I am able to send any requests from the app to my server.
How can I test the Internet connectivity status using simulator ?

A: I has a similiar question some time ago. Not really the same, as I did this using Air for BB10, but you should get an idea of what to do.
You can check it here: How to detect network in Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha Simulator using qnx.net.NetworkManager on Air SDK
TL;DR
VMWare will not give you an acccurate Network status, but SDK methods SHOULD work as expected in real devices.


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Etheostoma baileyiEmerald darter
By Amy McIntosh
Emerald darters, Etheostoma baileyi, are found primarily in eastern Kentucky, with a small range extension into northeastern Tennessee. Their range is restricted to the Cumberland Plateau, including only the upper Kentucky and upper Cumberland River systems, specifically Red River, Jacks Creek, Buckhorn Creek, Redbird River and Indian Creek of the Kentucky drainage and Clear Creek, Station Camp Creek, Elk Creek and Poor Fork of the Cumberland River drainage, among others.
Interestingly, there are several sympatric darters below the falls of the Cumberland River, but E. baileyi is one of only a few darters also present above the falls. Etheostoma sagitta shares a similar limited range, and Kuehne and Barbour (1983) suggest that this is a result of a stream capture of the Cumberland River by the South Fork of the Kentucky River in recent time. (Clayton, 1984; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983; Page and Burr, 1991)
Like most members of the family Percidae, emerald darters are adapted to a benthic existence. They can be found in a variety of clear freshwater lentic habitats with moderately low siltation and with several different substrates. Microhabitat selection is influenced by flood events, temperature and seasons. The fish typically are found in depths of 8 to 45 cm. However, they seek deeper rock-lined pools during winter months and when flooding alters current velocity and depth at riffles.
Streams in Kentucky known to have populations of emerald darters maintain temperatures of 0 to 25 degrees Celsius. When water temperatures are high, the fish can be found in riffles and runways with up to 0.61 m/s flow velocity.
Siltation is generally not well tolerated by this species. Because it ranges throughout the heavily strip-mined Cumberland Plateau, it is thought that coal siltation has likely reduced, but not eliminated, E. baileyi populations throughout its range.
Emerald darters prefer open areas with full sunlight over dense vegetation. However, areas with Potemogeton, Typha, Justicia, algae species and other submerged and emergent plants have produced collections. (Clayton, 1984; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983; Page and Swofford, 1984)
0.08 to 0.45 m
0.26 to 1.48 ft
Etheostoma baileyi is a member of the snubnose darter subgenus (Ulocentra), and shares several characters with others in the group, including a blunt snout, small mouth, broadly joined gill membranes, five branchiostegal rays, scales on the belly, a humped nape, and 8 to 9 dorsal saddles with a roughly square appearance. Other snubnose darters include E. zonale, E. coosae, E. simoterum, E. barrenense, E. rafinesquei, E. etnieri, E. duryi, and E. atripinne. Of these, E. baileyi shares a present but narrow premaxillary frenum and lack of vomerine teeth with E. simoterum, E. barrenense and E. rafinesquei. (Clayton, 1984; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983; Page and Burr, 1991)
Emerald darters are moderately sized darters (standard length 27.8 to 49.9 mm; body depth 15.9 to 21.1 mm), although they are one of the most delicate bodied species within their subgenus. Males tend to be longer and have less body depth than females of similar age. (Clayton, 1984; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Etheostoma baileyi possesses a small, subterminal mouth, scaleless breast, and scaled cheeks, opercle and posterior nape. It has nearly colorless pectoral and pelvic fins with olive-dominant upper sides and white or yellowish ventral surface and lower sides. It has a complete lateral line composed of 44 to 56 scales. Gill rakers number between 8 and 10. (Clayton, 1984; Etnier and Starnes, 1993; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Emerald darters possess two distinct dorsal fins, the anterior containing spines only, and the posterior containing only soft rays. Clayton (1984) and Kuehne and Barbour (1983) differ slightly in published fin ray counts for the emerald darter. Clayton found a majority of individuals with 10 to 12 dorsal spines (rarely 13), while Kuehne and Barbour found 10 to 11 common, with 9 to 12 possible. Regarding dorsal ray count, Clayton's specimens varied commonly from 10 to 12 with occasional individuals with 13. Kuehne and Barbour found 10 to 11 common, with a range of 9 to 12 possible. Both sources agree that pectoral fin rays are about 14, with Clayton specifying a range of 13 to 15. Both sources also agree on an anal fin ray count of 6 to 8. Clayton's dissections of the species revealed a range of 38 to 41 vertebrae, which was previously unknown. (Clayton, 1984; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Coloration in emerald darters is sexually dimorphic, with females possessing a muted yellow or green body with a reddish brown upper margin on their spiny dorsal fin, and males exhibiting more various and saturated color, particularly from mid-winter through May. Males have green accents on their cheeks, opercles, anal fin, pelvic fin, basal portions of both dorsal fins and at the top and bottom of the caudal fin nearest the caudal peduncle. Breeding males boast a bright red band at the dorsal margin of the spiny dorsal fin, with highest saturation at the extreme anterior and posterior portions of the fin. Both males and females start to fade in color by the first week of June. (Clayton, 1984; Etnier and Starnes, 1993; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Males and females share similar general color patterns, including 8 to 12 lateral emerald green blotches and 7 to 10 dark green dorsal blotches ("saddles"). The lateral marks are evenly spaced and square with the exception of breeding males, in which the marks are extended into vertical bars. Dorsal saddles are fairly vague, especially closer to the caudal fin. The membrane of the spiny dorsal fin exhibits 2 to 3 light horizontal bands and the rays of the posterior dorsal fin possess 2 to 3 light bands. There is no regular pattern on the pigmented caudal fin. The fish possess a stippling of dark spots on the upper side. Three markings may surround the eye: a preorbital bar that does not extend continuously to the lip, a long but vague suborbital bar, and spots and a dark band behind the eye are sometimes present. (Clayton, 1984; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983; Page and Burr, 1991)
An additional difference in the sexes is observable in the genital papilla: males possess a short tube, whereas females' papilla are longer and bent backward at the tip. (Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Banded darters (Etheostoma zonale) and Tennessee snubnose darters (Etheostoma simoterum) are similar in appearance to E. baileyi. Etheostoma zonale has fewer saddles (6) and lateral blotches that extend around the belly as bars, as well as a more pronounced snout. Although banded darters are close associates, being found in the same areas and similar microhabitat, they are able to tolerate swifter currents than E. baileyi, and the two are not known to hybridize in the wild. Tennessee snubnose darters have red spots on the upper portion of the body, and a spiny dorsal fin with irregular black lines and black marks along sides. Additional similar species include the more massive Etheostoma blennioides with only 6 to 7 dorsal saddles. Etheostoma simoterum atripinne, a species historically found in the Little South Fork of the Cumberland River, has more prevalence of red markings than E. baileyi, and 54 or more lateral line scales. (Clayton, 1984; Etnier and Starnes, 1993; Page and Burr, 1991)
sexes colored or patterned differently
male more colorful
27.8 to 49.9 mm
Emerald darter larvae measure 4.5 to 6.4 mm in length when first hatched. Larvae emerge from the egg with yolk sacs. Temperature of water affects the speed of the hatch and the size of the emerging larvae, with warmer water resulting in a faster development, but smaller larvae. In laboratory hatching experiments, incubation time ranged from 172 to 384 hours with temperatures ranging from 17 to 21 degrees C. During the same experiments, Clayton (1984) noted that successful larvae exited the egg tail-first, and had relatively small yolk sacs. Initial spiraling motility of the larvae was replaced by a more darting movement after a few days. (Clayton, 1984)
The fish continue to grow throughout their lives, reaching an average total length of about 38 mm at one year, 45 mm at two years and 53 mm at three. Males tend to grow at a greater rate than females when young. (Clayton, 1984; Etnier and Starnes, 1993)
As described above, emerald darters are sexually dimorphic with males exhibiting more splendid and varied colors than females. Colors reach highest saturation in May, which indicates the peak month for spawning. (Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Little else is known about the specific mating systems of this species. Clayton's (1984) attempts to have captive emerald darters mate for observation were unsuccessful, and information is unavailable regarding mate attraction or defense in the wild. (Clayton, 1984)
Actual spawning of emerald darters has not been observed; although attempts by males to mate with unresponsive females in captivity included swimming from side to side over the female's back. In the wild, males have been observed in riffles, attempting to mount unresponsive females by approaching from behind or from the side. (Clayton, 1984)
Spawning occurs in raceways and riffles. Larger males place themselves in pools near the middle of riffles, likely to encounter the greatest number of females, which tend to utilize the middle of the riffles. Although exact spawning behavior is not known, it is likely that emerald darters would be grouped into Page and Swofford's (1984) "egg attaching" spawning type, in which the female chooses the location to deposit eggs, is mounted by the male and 1 to 3 adhesive eggs and sperm are released simultaneously through mutual vibration. Eggs are then placed by the female on substrate (rocks or plants).
Clayton (1984) observed a few individual eggs widely spaced on aquarium equipment in captivity, although no spawning had occurred. He suggested that the females most likely attach eggs individually, at some distance apart on rocks like other species within the snubnose darter subgenus. (Clayton, 1984; Page and Swofford, 1984)
Clayton (1984) also found that although collected gravid females contained 228 to 864 eggs, the average number of ripe eggs (when collected in May) was only 36. Female emerald darters' eggs ripen, likely in small batches, from early April to early June. The number of eggs produced is directly proportional to the standard length of the individual. (Clayton, 1984)
Gonads reach maximum size in males and females in April and May to coincide with spawning. In addition, genital papillae of both sexes become larger and tubular beginning in late March. Clayton (1984) observed that all individuals of one year of age were in spawning condition when collected in May. He therefore concluded that most spawning activity occurs in May. Water temperature affects the length of the spawning season—-- unseasonably warm temperatures may cause females to become unreceptive and to reabsorb eggs earlier in the season than during mild years. (Clayton, 1984)
several times during breeding season
April to June
172 to 384 hours
If emerald darters are indeed accurately placed in the "egg attaching" group described by Page and Swofford (1984), once the eggs are placed by the female, no further care is given. (Page and Swofford, 1984)
Many emerald darters have been captured that were aged up to three years. In the Red River drainage, 53% of the population survived into its second year, and 7.7 % into its third, with third year individuals being primarily male. (Clayton, 1984)
3 (high) years
Little is known about the behavior of emerald darters. It is likely that males are territorial since the only darter species that have not demonstrated territoriality are species in which the females are larger than the males. (Clayton, 1984)
Emerald darters migrate short distances, both upstream and downstream, to deeper pools with cooler fall temperatures in late September to late October. They return to raceways and riffles in March and remain there throughout warm weather. (Clayton, 1984)
Little is known of communication between members of this species. They are able to perceive their environment using vision, hearing, chemoreception and can sense vibrations with the lateral line system. (Page and Swofford, 1984)
Emerald darters are benthic feeders, as evident from their subterminal mouths. Prey items and amount of feeding is influenced by season and temperature. They feed primarily in the daytime, relying on vision to locate food items, as noted in related species. The major constituent of the diet, regardless of season, tends to be Chironomid larvae and pupae (family Chironomidae), with nemotodes and microcrustaceans also common, and the occasional caddisfly or mayfly larva. (Clayton, 1984)
insectivore
aquatic or marine worms
Specific predators of emerald darters are not known. Their defenses against predators include cryptic coloration. Bright dorsal colors may help darters in riffles with multicolored rocks to be concealed, and darters with green coloration may be found living in algae (a habitat noted previously for this species, although not a primary one). In addition, horizontal bars in riffle darters may serve to interrupt the outline of the fish to confuse predators. (Page and Swofford, 1984)
Emerald darters are predators on aquatic insects, and are undoubtedly prey items as well, although their predators are not specifically known. Their parasites includes metacercarial tremetodes (Trematoda) which cause cysts, and leeches (Hirudinea). Additional ecosystem roles of emerald darters are largely unknown. (Clayton, 1984)
Leeches, metacercarial tremetodes
Emerald darters are important members of the ecosystems in which they live.
Emerald darters have no currently known negative effect on economics to humans.
Emerald darters are threatened (although not currently state listed) in Tennessee due to limited range in the state and the threat of negative impacts on stream health due to strip mining for coal. The species is fairly common throughout its range in Kentucky. (Etnier and Starnes, 1993; Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Etheostoma baileyi was named for Reeve M. Bailey, curator of fish at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology 1944-1981. (Kuehne and Barbour, 1983)
Amy McIntosh (author), Eastern Kentucky University, Sherry Harrel (editor, instructor), Eastern Kentucky University.
Mary Hejna (editor), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
An animal that eats mainly insects or spiders.
movements of a hard surface that are produced by animals as signals to others
Clayton, J. 1984. Population Differences and Life History of Emerald Darter, Etheostoma baileyi (Pisces, Percidae). University of Kentucky, Lexington: M.S. Thesis.
Etnier, D., W. Starnes. 1993. The Fishes of Tennessee. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press.
Kuehne, R., R. Barbour. 1983. The American Darters. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
Page, L., B. Burr. 1991. A Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes: North America north of Mexico. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Page, L., D. Swofford. 1984. Morphological correlates of ecological specialization in darters. Pp. 103-123 in D Lindquist, L Page, eds. Environmental Biology of Darters. Boston: Dr. W. Junk Publishers.
Order Perciformes
Perciformes: pictures (447) Perciformes: specimens (5)
Family Percidae Perches
Percidae: pictures (21) Percidae: specimens (3)
Genus Etheostoma
Etheostoma: pictures (7)
Species Etheostoma baileyi Emerald darter
Etheostoma baileyi: information (1)
To cite this page: McIntosh, A. 2006. "Etheostoma baileyi" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed January 17, 2022 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Etheostoma_baileyi/