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Prince Charles to attend pass out parade in Sandhurst
Britain’s Prince Charles is set to attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst’s passing out parade today (11.12.15).
The 67-year-old royal is expected to watch officer cadets pass out from the prestigious training college in Camberley, Surrey, and receive their commissions this afternoon.
The Prince of Wales will stand in for his mother Queen Elizabeth at the Sovereign’s Parade, which formally marks the cadets’ completion of their training course, after representing her in the past – in 1978, 1989 and 1998.
During the parade, Charles will dish out the Overseas Award, The Queen’s Medal – for academic achievement – The Overseas Sword and the Sword of Honour.
He will then make a speech, before the parade will come to a close when Adjutant Major Peter Middlemiss SG rides his horse Coldstream up the steps of Old College, as he follows the graduating Officer Cadets through the Grand Entrance.
Meanwhile, the Prince has had a busy couple of weeks as he’s on a mission to help flood-stricken families in the UK.
His Countryside Fund has announced a £40,000 grant to support rural communities, farmers and businesses affected by the flooding following disaster in Cumbria recently.
The announcement comes after Queen Elizabeth expressed her sympathy for those people who have already been affected by the devastation, as more rain it set to strike.
She wrote: “Please convey my sympathy to all those whose homes or livelihoods have been affected by the recent flooding. My thanks go to members of the emergency services, local authorities, military personnel and volunteers who are providing assistance in these difficult conditions.” | <urn:uuid:57dcac71-9aec-4b0c-967f-5edda9a23ab0> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.everythingzoomer.com/arts-entertainment/stars-royals/2015/12/11/prince-charles-to-attend-pass-out-parade-in-sandhurst/ | 2022-09-30T23:15:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335504.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930212504-20221001002504-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.962617 | 361 | [
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5 Why-Why analysis is also popularly known as 5-Why problem solving tool. It’s a simple and effective problem-solving tool that is used widely in many industries.
5 why why analysis
The principal of 5 why why analysis is very simple, by asking ‘why’ five times a problem investigator can discover the real root cause of the problem.
Who developed the 5 why why analysis tool?
5 Why problem-solving developed in 1930 by Sakichi Toyoda, the Japanese industrialist and founder of the Toyota industries.
How to use the 5 why why analysis / problem solving tool?
Define the problem: The first step of using 5-Why is to define the problem with a clear description by considering the following factors,
- What went wrong?
- Where the problem/defect observed?
- When the problem recorded/observed?
- Who reported the problem/defect?
Team formation: This is a very important step for the selection of the right team member for problem-solving. It’s better to select team members who are familiar with the problem Subject matter experts can add lots of value to the problem-solving process. For example, an operator who daily handles machines, production processes, can add more accurate information in the problem-solving process.
Brainstorming: It’s better to conduct a brainstorming session on-shop floor or the place where the problem/defect arose. Conducting 5-Why analysis at a spot/station will help to discover a real root cause of the problem. The first question may look simple to ask, but it’s challenging to gain the right answer. First question it-self quick off brainstorming process. Team members co-relates problem statement with a different scenario and find out a first cause (answer) of the first question. Subsequently, remaining 4 Why question helps to find out a root cause of the problem.
Corrective Action: After the brainstorming session, the next step is determining corrective action to resolve each root cause identified in the 5-WHY analysis. Corrective action of each root cause carefully evaluated. It’s better to gain team members’ suggestions, input to build a better and effective corrective action.
Problem Statement: 100kg of batter rejected in the food industry after detecting the oil contamination (at one of the batter mixing machine) during a mandatory first batch production approval at the food lab.
1st WHY: Why batter is contaminated?
Cause (Answer): Small quantity of oil drained from batter mixing machine shaft during batter mixing process?
2nd WHY: Why oil drained from batter mixing machine shaft?
Cause (Answer): Batter machine shaft seal was damaged.
3rd WHY: Why shaft seal was damaged?
Cause (Answer): Shaft seal was affected due to non-food grade oil usage for lubrication.
4th WHY: Why non-food grade oil used for lubrication?
Cause (Answer): Machine maintenance operator was not aware of food-grade oil usage for lubrication.
5th WHY: Why operator was not aware of food-grade oil usage for lubrication?
Cause (Answer): Batter mixing machine maintenance plan does not specify food-grade oil usage for lubrication.
In this way, 5-Why analysis can be conducted to solve the problem. Corrective action for this problem would be,
- Usage of food-grade oil for lubrication
- A maintenance plan should specify the type of food-grade oil and it’s a quantity.
- Operator training for usage of food-grade oil for lubrication of food contact machinery.
Refer following 5Why Analysis Template
When to use 5 why why analysis?
5-Why/why-why analysis is more useful and suitable for solving a simple problem. The 5-why tool is not a practical tool to solve a complex and critical problem. 5 Why analysis problem-solving tool is very effective to solve a simple problem. For complex problem-solving fish-bone diagram is the best option.
Along with 5 why-why additional open and close-ended questions can be included to discover the root cause.
Please do watch a small video tutorial about Quality control (7QC) tools.
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The staircase is a bridge between two places, not a destination, and so you might forget to give it the attention it deserves when it comes to cleaning. You shouldn’t though; the stairs receive a lot of traffic and wear and tear! Give the stairs the cleaning they need and learn how to make sure both wood and carpeted stairs are clean stairs.
- Use a stiff brush or broom to remove debris from the stairs. Start from the top of the stairs and work your way down. Make sure to get in corners.
Vacuum the stairway starting from the top and ending at the bottom. Move from side to side and vacuum the sides of the stairway as well.
Several times a year you should shampoo the stairway carpet, too. After you shampoo, you’ll need to leave the stairs alone while they dry completely, so for this chore where you start will depend on the layout of your home. It’s best to vacuum the stairs once more after they’ve dried completely.
Sweep or vacuum. Pay special attention to the corners and edges. That’s where dirt tends to pile up.
Every so often, check your floor’s finish. If your floors have scratches or excessive wear and tear, you may need to sand and refinish your floors to restore their look.
Clean Stairs in No Time
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A gardener with a passion for sustainable agriculture
Jeffrey King (1987 –)
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The first half of the twentieth century was full of new technological marvels and horrors. In 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, finally ending World War II but also showing, in stark destruction and staggering loss of life, the power of scientific advances.
On a Paraguayan Bruderhof settlement far from Japan, Philip Britts, a British scientist, poet, and essayist, wrote:
Are we really standing at the beginning of a new age of scientific development, of supersonic speeds, of atomic energy, of more and more wonderful machines? . . . Are we really about to enter an era of greater wealth, greater luxury, greater leisure, and emancipation from drudgery? Or has this age reached its climax, and will this civilization destroy itself with those forces which it has created?
Time alone will answer this question, but it is by no means certain that the scales will tip for peace and plenty. To sail onwards in the arrogant confidence that man can manipulate these tremendous forces for the good of all, is to drift toward catastrophe. Is not this the poison of the age, the belief of man in man?
For Philip, the news from Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a dreadful confirmation of the things he had worried about all along, that humans would seize more power, especially through technological innovation, than they could responsibly wield.
Philip was raised in the busy port city of Bristol, and attended the university there. Upon graduating and being named a Fellow of England’s Royal Horticultural Society, he married a childhood friend, Joan Grayling, and bought a comfortable stone house with a walled garden.
Then war broke out. A convinced pacifist, Philip had founded a local chapter of the Peace Pledge Union, a national pacifist organization. After England entered the war in September 1939, however, the movement quickly caved in. Thousands of PPU members broke their pledge and threw their energies into defending the country against the threat of an invasion by Hitler.
Just at this juncture, feeling isolated in their convictions, Philip and Joan heard of the Bruderhof. Intrigued by its consistent stand for peace and the witness of its classless, international membership, they cycled there with their dog – a thirty-mile trip. After a week’s visit, they decided to join.
That Christmas, Philip wrote a poem that expresses the heart of his calling:
The Carol of the Seekers
We have not come like Eastern kings
With gifts upon the pommel lying.
Our hands are empty, and we came
Because we heard a baby crying.
We have not come like questing knights
With fiery swords and banners flying.
We heard a call and hurried here –
The call was like a baby crying.
But we have come with open hearts
From places where the torch is dying.
We seek a manger and a cross
Because we heard a baby crying.
Already before the young couple came to stay in November, German members of the community were being called to appear before local tribunals to determine if, as “enemy aliens,” they should be interned. Finally, the community was issued an ultimatum: it would either assent to having its German members interned for the duration of the war, or all its members would have to leave together. Taking the latter option, the community decided to look for a new home overseas, and found that the only country that would accept such a motley collection of nationals was Paraguay. By the end of 1941, everyone had miraculously made it across the submarine-infested Atlantic and resettled in South America.
In Paraguay, Philip’s agricultural training was vital to the community’s survival. It took time to build up a garden large enough to feed three hundred and fifty people, but under the expert eye of Philip and other members, the first crops – beans, corn, manioc, rice, and sweet potatoes – were soon being harvested. Meanwhile, he experimented with plots of wheat, pineapple, grapefruit, and bananas, and took copious notes. Alongside his careful observations were notes and poems that expressed his sense of wonder at the beauty of creation:
The Field and the Moment
The shadows of three men sowing watermelons
Grew very long behind them as they crept down the field.
A pair of parrots flying homeward
Shouted noisily to them to look at the sky:
But they continued stooping and dibbling the seed in the earth.
In this way they grew a number more melons
And missed what was written in that particular sunset,
Which had never been written before
And, of course, will never be written again.
In 1943 Philip visited STICA (Servicio Técnico Interamericano de Cooperación Agrícola), a US-funded agricultural institute based in Asunción, to learn what crops might be most suitable for the community’s land. A month later, two of its American researchers returned the visit. They were so impressed by the community’s farming – and by Philip’s record-keeping – that they offered him a job.
Although it meant leaving his young wife and their five-month-old child, Simon, the community needed the money, and Philip agreed to take the job. For most of the next two years, he lived in Asunción. Among his successes was the development of a green bean variety later planted by farmers across the country, and a grass variety that resulted in a better milk yield from dairy herds.
After returning to the Bruderhof, Philip continued his work with the institute. STICA rented twenty acres of Bruderhof land, where Philip set up three experimental farms. His research notes fill eight volumes.
But, even as he worked at the institute, Philip had reservations about developments in agriculture. The Green Revolution started in the 1940s in Mexico, where American scientists developed new varieties of wheat with increased yield and high disease-resistance. These strains were dependent on big machinery, high-volume irrigation, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides. In an unfinished essay, Philip worried that chemical-dependent farming would have devastating long-term results:
Adam was charged with the double task to “subdue and replenish” the earth. If a graph could be plotted of the subjection of nature by man, it would show a line, rising slowly at first, through several thousand years, then abruptly and very steeply in the last few years. A graph of the replenishment of the earth by man would probably show a slow rise throughout the centuries, but instead of following the sharp rise of the line of subjection in modern times, would perhaps curve downwards. This in spite of the extensive use of fertilizers, because chemicals without humus do not give lasting or balanced replenishment.
Where will the lines go from now on? Obviously if the measure of subjection continues to rise, and the measure of replenishment falls, if the lines get farther apart, nature will rebel, and bring down the measure of subjection by such hard steps as erosion, sterility, and disease.
Man’s relationship to the land must be true and just, but it is only possible when his relationship to his fellow man is true and just and organic.
In contrast, his own research focused on organic methods that worked with, rather than against, nature. But on its own, organic farming was not enough:
Man’s relationship to the land must be true and just, but it is only possible when his relationship to his fellow man is true and just and organic. Thus we do try to farm organically, but we see this as only one part of an organic life, existing in the context of a search for truth along the whole line. This gives rise to social justice as brotherhood, to economic justice as community of goods. We see these conditions as the necessary basis for a true attitude towards the land and towards work.
To the question, “How shall we farm?” must be added the question, “How shall we live?”
The only answer, to Philip’s mind, was Christian community.
Instead of the glittering palace of manifold divisions, let us seek a simple house with an open door. Instead of the towering organization of worldly skill and worldly knowledge, let us seek a humble trust in God. Let us make the unconditional surrender to the spirit of love. “Except a man be born again he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.” Let us beware of trying to save ourselves by going the two ways. “He who seeks his life shall lose it.” Are we standing at the brink of long vistas of prosperous evolution, or is civilization moving towards its own destruction? Has it the seeds of life or death within it?
Our only choice is a choice of service, and service means deed, not word. It is either-or. Serve one or the other. Prune the great tree of division or plant the new tree of brotherhood.
But Philip was also adamant that community “is not a panacea for the problems of life. The struggle is intensified, not lessened. But mutual aid in love gives strength and joy. So let each one who hears this call add his torch to the fire, so that the light of brotherhood may shine clearly and warmly in the chilly darkness of our times.”
In January 1949, at only thirty-one, Philip died of a rare tropical disease. His death shocked the community. Few had realized the gravity of his illness, and suddenly he was gone. He left three young children and Joan, who was carrying their fourth child.
At the time of his death, Philip’s practical and intellectual work was barely begun. Had his short life done anything to combat the evils – war, injustice, scientific hubris, natural destruction – that he so deplored? This poem, written in 1941 and published posthumously in Water at the Roots, seems to anticipate that question:
That My White Lamb
That my white lamb is being carried off
In steel-like talons to the unknown hills
And is a lost speck only, in the sky –
That is not the chief thing;
Or that I did not have the strength or skill
To drive off the attacker, to defeat
Merciless claw and swift unerring beak
Or shattering wing;
But my fist is smashed and bloody
And my arm is a scarlet rag,
Showing I struck at the eagle –
And that is the chief thing.
Read more of Philip Britt's poetry and writings in the book Water at the Roots.
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With photography by British photojournalist Danny Burrows, this 300-page hardcover book celebrates what is possible when people take a leap of faith. It will inspire anyone working to build a more just, peaceful, and sustainable future.
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Education, Children, Families
participation free of charge, prior registration required
We invite children from 4 to 11 years old and their parents, grandmothers or grandfathers to visit us on two Sundays of September (15, 22 and 29.09) at 1.30 PM.
The workshops last 90 min and consist of two parts. At the beginning we all visit an exhibition that is currently showing at MWW and discuss the featured works. After that we move on to the manual part, which is intended to creatively use the aroused imagination and sensitivity.
Programme of Sunday Family Workshops
– September 2019:
15.09.2019 HOW TO BECOME A DRAWER?
Instructor: Ignacy Oboz
The number of participants is limited. Submit your application by 12 September 2019.
Please sign up for the workshop. It will help us to predict the amount of necessary materials and adjust the level of the workshop to the age of the participants.
We will begin by visiting the exhibition Borderline. Drawing Triennial 2019 and analysing how the featured works were created and what tools were used by the artists. During the practical part, we will explore the drawing potential of various objects and develop a guide for a beginner drawer.
22.09.2019 CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM
Instructor: Joanna Sekuła
The number of participants is limited. Submit your application by 19 September 2019.
During the workshop we will refer to Jerzy Kosałka’s work The Battle of Kłobuck, presented at the exhibition Unjustified Violence. What reflections will it trigger in us? What is war, confrontation, discord? The artist presents the warring armies in a schematic way, building a uniform structure of the image. What significance does this arrangement of motifs have for the work? What would happen if we changed the position of the symbols, endowed them with a different colour, reduced or increased their number?
The event accompanies the exhibition Unjustified violence and other afflictions of the contemporary world.
The exhibition is public task which is co-financed with funds received from the Municipality of Wrocław. The project has been co-financed by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the resources of Fund for the Promotion of Culture.
29.09.2019 MY INTERNAL WORLD
Instructor: Agata Iżykowska-Uszczyk
The number of participants is limited. Submit your application by 26 September 2019.
What do we see in our dreams? Are we always just passive observers? Or perhaps we observe ourselves? We often dream absurd and surprising situations… During the workshop we will prepare original, miniature magnets by taking self-portraits with Polaroid cameras and using them to create unreal, dreamlike visions.
Detailed information about the subjects of future meetings will follow soon.
ph.: 71 356 42 53
Please be informed that during the workshops photographs can be taken for the needs of Wrocław Contemporary Museum, which may include the images of people taking part in the classes and images of works made by them. The photographs will be stored in an internal archive documenting the activities of MWW. They can also be used for promotional purposes on the website www.muzeumwspolczesne.pl and in social media (on websites facebook.com/muzeumwspolczesne, instagram.com/muzeumwspolczesne and youtube.com/muzeumwspolczesne). If you do not agree to have your photographs taken, please inform the person conducting the workshops before they start. Failing to provide such information before the beginning of the class workshop is tantamount to granting Wrocław Contemporary Museum consent to use the photographs as referred to above.
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A Tricky Thing About Relationships
There’s a scene in the movie The Notebook in which Allie comes clean to Lon (her fiancé) about being in love with Noah (her true love). In context, Allie has just come back to Lon after spending a number of passionate days reconnecting with Noah; she is torn about what to do (to move forward with marrying Lon—the man she thinks she should marry—or to scrap the engagement and live a humble life with Noah—the love of her life). If this happened in real life, I think most people would label Allie a tramp and defend Lon’s position to throw her to the wolves. However, Lon’s response is profound: "The way I see it, I got three choices,” he says. “One, I can shoot him. Two, I can kick the crap out of him. Or three, I leave you. Well, all that's no good. You see, 'cause none of those options get me you." As much as Lon loves Allie, he realizes that her heart is with Noah. “I don’t want to have to convince my fiancé that she should be with me,” he says. And that’s profound, becauselove is not about trying to force someone’s cards. In this emotional exchange, Lon teaches us a thing or two about love and relationships. One is that surrender, though one of the most difficult things to do, is sometimes what is necessary. He realized that it was counterproductive to effort at keeping Allie; that in order for her to be genuinely happy, he was going to have to let her go, even at the expense of his own dreams. But how do we rectify this with the approach that “you fight for what you want” or “you find a way to make it work?” The thing is, we can’t change other people, so “fighting for what you want” and “finding a way to make it work” are only possible in a relationship when both people come to the table with the intent to do so. Intent is the key. I explained to someone recently, “When there’s no connection with someone, a million and one reasons why it should work won’t convince me to be with them; when there is a good connection with someone, a million and one reasons why it shouldn’t work won’t keep me away.” In other words, my foremost intent is to have a deep connection with someone (to be “on the same wavelength”), and everything beyond that (even the things that seem really big) are just details. These details are seemingly important ones, but in truth, they are usually just bullet points to support the predeterminedlogical assessments that I’ve made about given situations. In other words, we come to a conclusion first and then (usually subconsciously) look for proof that our conclusion is accurate. The first step in changing this pattern is to intend for it to be different; to want a different outcome; and then to say, “I’ve never done it this way before, but I’m going to give it a wholehearted shot, regardless of how illogical it sounds,” and then to do just that. Discontent is a companion to anyone whose intent of the mind overshadows the intent of the heart. That said, you cannot change someone else’s intent. Tough as it may be, sometimes the most valuable thing we can do is to allow someone the space to determine it on their own, and then to be supportive of whatever they decide. | <urn:uuid:65f3c558-62c5-4ba6-8fea-7a53c843ec42> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://warriorintimacy.wixsite.com/home/post/2012/01/30/a-tricky-thing-about-relationships | 2022-10-03T15:47:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337421.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003133425-20221003163425-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.969481 | 771 | [
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(From The Guide, 3/5/10) Keller Williams’ last local show was his 2008 New Year’s Eve gig at the Shoreline Ballroom on Hilton Head Island. The musician — known as a one-man jam band for his ability to play and loop different instruments — put together a three-pronged show that featured a regular set, an all-request set and a bonus set of “grunge-grass,” his name for bluegrass versions of ’90s hits from Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots and the like.
And even though Williams is of the genus of musicians who treats every show like a unique moment meant to be shared by tapers, you won’t find the Hilton Head appearance in the vast pantheon of his music online.
“I was thinking about releasing it, but got talked out of it due to all the licensing issues that have happened to Pearl Jam and Nirvana,” he said. “They keep that stuff pretty close to the chest. But I might sneak it in in my ‘Once a Week Freek.’ ”
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Two weeks after violence rocked Kasuwan Magani in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, the Igbo community is still searching for several of its missing kinsmen even as people take stock of the losses they incurred in the ugly incident.
To this end, leaders of the Igbo community in Kaduna have been holding series of meetings as they continued the search for their missing ones.
Recall that a communal crisis erupted at Kasuwan Magani, where several people were killed, many houses and other property were burnt by the rioters.
However, the Chairman, Igbo Community Welfare Association (ICWA), Kasuwan Magani chapter, Mr. Tobias Udeh, said though the missing men are alive, they could not be reached. He added that efforts were being intensified to locate them.
Udeh said: “As I speak to you, I cannot locate some of our people. We don’t know whether they have relocated to the East or to the neigbouring communities. We are still searching for them. But all we know is that they are alive. We didn’t lose any Igbo man. But we don’t know their whereabouts. Many Igbo lost property worth hundreds of millions of naira.
“I personally lost millions of naira following the burning of my property. It was not quite long I received fresh supply that the place was set ablaze.
“On the day of the incident, I went to one village to buy chicken for the celebration of my birthday which I always mark on February 27 of every year. I left my house as early as 6:00a.m and by the time I returned around 9:00a.m, I discovered that my wife was not in the house. One of my children told me that she had travelled to Kaduna town to buy some items.
“I went to my shop where I operate patent medicine shop, and later went to the other shop where I do wholesale on soft drinks. I made sure that I put things in order for my workers every day before I go for other business.
“But after few minutes, I saw people running helter-skelter, and I asked my daughter what was the problem after I left the house in the morning?
“My daughter said that some people wanted to covert a Christian girl to Islam, and her parents did not want that and so they forced their daughter back home. She said there was commotion everywhere, and the youths started taking laws into their hands.
“So before we knew it, people started locking up their shops, schools were hurriedly closed, everybody was confused. I rushed back to the house and picked my car, drove to the school to pick my children. After picking them, I couldn’t drive back to the main road again because everywhere was blocked with bonfire by the rampaging youths. I took a bush path and drove straight to Kaduna and got my children to safety. I later made effort to return to Kasuwan Magani, but it became a go-no-area. I returned to Kaduna. I told my wife to remain in Kaduna and not contemplate of returning to Kasuwan Magani.”
Udeh who is a nurse by profession and whose wife also runs a pharmaceutical shop that serves as a community health centre, said that the place was burnt by irate youths.
“We did not take away a pin from the place. The place was looted before it was set ablaze. So many shops were burnt to ashes. I have been living in Kasuwan Magani for more than 30 years now, but I cannot explain why Igbo are always the target whenever incidents of this nature occur. Igbo people don’t have problem with anybody but they are always the big losers.
“My family is presently squatting with my sister in Kaduna. We are calling on government to come to our aid over this incident,” he said
Corroborating Udeh’s stand on the missing men, the Coordinator, ICWA Zonal Delegate Meeting, Mr Thaddy Ogbonna said: “This was an unfortunate incident. We have been holding meetings to know where some of our members have gone to in the wake of the crisis. However, we are suspecting that some of them may have relocated to the East.
“We are calling on the state government to help all the victims, particularly the Igbo who lost property worth millions of naira. It is also unfortunate that wherever Igbo find themselves and they are progressing, people become envious of them instead of partnering with them. It is high time government intervened to safeguard the Igbo business not only in Kaduna, but all over the country.”
Meanwhile, the Kaduna State government said that 63 persons had been arrested in connection with the mayhem.
Making this disclosure, Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary, Kaduna State Ministry of justice, Chris Umar, said: “After completion of initial investigation the 63 people were charged before the Chief Magistrate Court 6, Daura Road, Kaduna. Those arrested were charged for offences ranging from criminal conspiracy, rioting while armed with offensive weapons, culpable homicide punishable with death, unlawful assembly while armed with offensive weapons and inciting disturbance to peace, all of which are contrary to sections 59, 67, 190, 78 of the Penal Code, Laws of Kaduna State, 2017.
“The case was mentioned and then adjourned to March 15, 2018, to enable the police conclude their investigations, while the 63 suspects were ordered to be remanded in prison custody with the exception of one Theophilius Sa’idu, who is an underaged person.
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While you may not be required to show proof of vaccination to go to work now that the Biden administration has, businesses, states and cities can still require people to show their vaccine card to enter a building.
But what can you do if you’ve lost or damaged your COVID-19 vaccine card? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t keep vaccination status records, but there are a variety of ways to retrieve your information — even if you went to a mass vaccination site that’s no longer around.
How to replace your COVID vaccine card if you went to a mass vaccination site
You can probably still replace your COVID-19 vaccine record, even if you got your shot at a church or stadium or a pop-up vaccination site that’s no longer around.
Contact your county state’s health department: Most states have a phone number, email address and website where you can access your immunization records. You likely need to fill out an immunization request form and submit a photo ID. The process and how long it takes can vary by state.
Keep in mind that your state’s health department may not have access to your COVID-19 vaccine status if you were not vaccinated by a state-approved provider. It could also be possible that your vaccine record has not been updated on your state’s registry yet.
Your state may also have an online portal where you can retrieve your vaccine info, like North Carolina’s COVID-19 Vaccine Portal. North Carolinians that got vaccinated by one of the state’s providers and provided an email address can print their vaccine record from the portal.
Got the shot at a pharmacy? That works, too
If you got your vaccination at a pharmacy, you’re in luck. Your pharmacy most likely has a record of your vaccination. At Walgreens, you can take your driver’s license or ID to the pharmacy to get your vaccine record.
And you don’t even need to leave your home if you use CVS. You can get proof of vaccination quickly on its. You can also visit the pharmacy to get a new card. We suggest calling your pharmacy to ask what its protocol is if you’re unsure or see if you can request your information using its website.
Check with your doctor’s office
Did you get vaccinated at a doctor’s office, clinic or health care facility? If so, they may have a record of your shot. If not, they’ll be able to point you in the right direction.
Your doctor’s office or clinic may use an app, like MyChart, that stores your proof of vaccination. Some physicians put vaccine documents and test results in the app, so it’s easy to grab. But keep in mind that even if your information is available from the app, you may not be able to get a replacement card with the CDC’s seal if your doctor’s office doesn’t offer one. However, you may be able to ask for a printed version of your vaccine record.
Red flag: It’s illegal to falsify your vaccine card
Selling or purchasing a fake vaccine card — or filling in false information — is committing fraud. Even if you’ve had the vaccine, buying a fake card is considered fraud and is punishable by fines and up to five years in jail.
The US Customs and Border Protection agency regularly seizes thousands of fake vaccine cards across the country — a good reminder to retrieve your proof of vaccination the right way.
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For extra security, you can leave the paper card at home in a safe place andor your . can use the CommonHealth app and Google has a way for , too.
Some states — including California, Hawaii, New York and Oregon — let you create a digital version of your vaccination card that you can see on your phone. I recently traveled to another state and was able to use my digital vaccine card from my state to enter a restaurant there that required proof to enter. And the list of states that are providing is growing.
If you signed up for the CDC’s app, V-Safe, when you first got the shot, there’s some good news: The app stores your vaccine information, so it’s easy to retrieve it if the white card is lost or becomes worn. The CDC gives step-by-step instructions on how to register for V-Safe.
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How many hotels can say they have a traditional place of worship touching their grounds? Right next door to La Siesta Resort & Spa, and with a private direct route from the hotel gardens, is what looks like an old temple. Seemingly inconspicuous, lying in wait behind a high wall, it is very easy to pass by, oblivious to its existence. Renovated in 1952, the building wears the yellow ochre colors of Hoi An, topped with old traditional roof tiles, mottled in dark green and brown moss. A humble hidden gem, undiscovered by the tourist industry.
This is the Communal House of Thanh Ha Ward.
Centuries ago rice cultivation was the main source of livelihood for the ancient Viet people. In between the harvests, farmers would make useful household items and handicrafts to support their daily lives and supplement their income. Over time, thousands of handicraft activities developed into successful and sophisticated guilds. Techniques were kept closely guarded secrets within each family; skilled artisans handed down their knowledge from generation to generation.
Over the years, handicraft industries have gone through huge periods of change. Sadly, many have declined or died out as villagers opt for other sources of income, while the younger generations may simply lose interest in the family trade. Luckily others continue to thrive, preserving century-old skills and knowledge, solidifying that industry’s importance to the village and community.
Such communities did, and still do, worship the ancestors and masters of their handicraft. At annual festivals, the villagers pay homage to their founders and craft masters. They do so at a specific place of worship within that village or community.
In the simplest of terms, there are traditionally three main types of building associated with worship in Vietnam. Even though they share similarities both inside and out, these structures have different purposes.
A Chùa is a Pagoda where people pray to Buddha. It is regarded as the more feminine out of the three as most worshippers are women. A Đền refers to a temple where people honor a spirit or guardian, or a real person such as a local hero or master craftsman of the village. And finally a Đình is a communal house. This is similar to a temple in terms of worship and dedication to village founders. However, the Đình was, and is, also the center of village activity and entertainment. It is regarded as the more masculine out of the three places of worship. In the past the village men and elders would gather to discuss village business, legal and administration matters. And even now the communal house retains its status as a meeting place, and the starting point for annual village festivals.
Rice production remained a staple industry but around the rice farming areas villages sprung up founded on a particular handicraft skill. Different regions and communities became famous for certain crafts. For example: Van Phuc silk village in Ha Tay, Hanoi; Cat Dang lacquer village in Nam Dinh; Mot Thoang weaving village just outside Saigon and so forth. And Quang Nam province has its own share of special craft villages; nowadays it is estimated 60 or so handicraft villages still remain in the province.
Legend of the Thanh Ha potters
One of these is the 500 year-old Thanh Ha pottery village in Thanh Ha Ward. Dating back to the 15th century, it is said residents originating from Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Nam Dinh and Hai Duong provinces brought their pottery trade to the Thanh Ha area. Legend goes onto explain that some village folk from Nghe An and Thanh Hoa were sailing in the area when they hit a big storm. They anchored their boats at the junction of a river and a road. It seemed a favorable location to them so they decided to stay and establish their craft in this area. With a plentiful supply of quality clay, being close to the water and having good trade links, the Thanh Ha pottery trade was born. Soon ceramic production made all of the Thanh Ha ward area famous.
Rice and worship
In Thanh Ha pottery village itself the villagers hold a number of bright, big and colorful annual festivals. Starting out from the village communal house they worship the ancestors of their pottery profession, praying for good luck with their profession.
Meanwhile, further up the road along Hung Vuong Street heading towards Hoi An ancient town, the Thanh Ha Community Communal House also holds its own festivities. However, unlike its village neighbor 2km away, the festivals of this communal house are much lower key, more private and quietly modest. But equally poignant.
Thanh Ha Community Communal House celebrates two annual festivals. The first is on the 16th day of the second lunar month to pray for Spring. The second is on the 16th day of the eight lunar month to honor the Autumn. Although worshippers also pay their respects to the eight founding fathers of the pottery trade, to which the communal house is dedicated, the reason for their worship differs to that of the neighboring Thanh Ha pottery villagers. These festivals are held to celebrate the two annual rice harvests for the region, Spring and Autumn. As such the farming community pay their respects and pray for the best possible weather conditions for their community.
It is really only the past 15 years or so that tourism has started to replace traditional agricultural life and rice farming of the Hoi An area. However, despite decades of changes, structures such as Thanh Ha Community Communal House, with its crumbling peaceful courtyard, Banyan tree (a soul of the land) and other symbols of worship ensure this connection between farming and worship are kept alive.
Thanh Ha Community Communal House
Dedicate to the 8 founding fathers of the Thanh Ha pottery trade
132 Huong Vuong Street
2km from Thanh Ha pottery village, 1km from Hoi An ancient town center
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“Forward with the streetlights!”. But “get a hold of yourself, Catalina”, because if you don’t, this will “grab on the side of the tomatoes”. Argentina has an infinite number of words, phrases and expressions that, despite having the most disparate and varied originsthey constitute a fundamental part of their language.
If we talk about scams, true to the belief that we are the best in the world in everything, in Argentina, different types of theft and deception abound that are already part of popular culture. Among the most remembered is, without a doubt, the robbery of one of the most important banks, about which the Netflix documentary premieres this Wednesday The Thieves: The True Story of the Robbery of the Century.
The origins of the names of these usual scams, however, are not always anchored in the country’s own history but, in some cases, come from different parts of the world, as in the case of “selling smoke”. What does what we say say about us? Where do all the expressions that adorn our language and make it unique come from?
In his new book, We are what we say, the Argentinian writer, journalist and professor Charlie López explains the secrets, stories and curiosities of the 300 most representative sayings and expressions of the country. It has, as one might say with a very popular expression, “the truth of the Milanese”. López, who has lectured on the Spanish and English languages around the world, is also the author of books such as behind the words and why do we sayother titles that once again go deeper into the origin of the expressions used on a daily basis.
The so-called uncle’s tale was a very common type of scam at the beginning of the 20th century. It took advantage of the ambition, greed and, at the same time, the innocence of the victims who aspired to obtain large profits easily, through a credible performance by a fraudster who convinced his interlocutors of the desirability of accepting an offer that involved handing over money in exchange for something that could be fake or not have the declared value. In some cases the scam involved certain illegal actions on the part of the victim, which guaranteed the fraudsters that the corresponding report would not be made in case they were discovered. The forms these scams took were multiple, although in the majority there was always an uncle involved.
One of the most common was the lack of money to be able to travel somewhere far away in Argentina to collect a millionaire inheritance from an uncle. It was common for someone in these cases to offer to pay lawyers’ fees, passage and lodging in exchange for a significant portion of the inheritance. All this recorded in a document drawn up and signed in front of an alleged lawyer (accomplice of the swindler), who, once the swindle was completed, disappeared together with the original criminal.
Currently, the uncle’s tales present other formats, for example, that of a criminal who, pretending to be a close relative, asks another person, usually an elderly person, to hand over all their money to someone who will be stopping by the house shortly to buy dollars before an important devaluation In other cases, they ask victims for bank or credit card details to receive a prize, to which they have become creditors.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the government of Italy published, within The Italian Immigrant’s Handbooktips to avoid falling victim to this kind of scam.
Sebastian de Covarrubias (1539-1613), lexicographer, cryptographer and chaplain of Philip II (1527-1598), defines “smoke sellers” in his book Moral emblems: iconography and doctrine of the Counter-Reformation: “It is said of those who by artifice pretend to be deprived of princes and lords, and sell favors to merchants and suitors, being lies and smoke“.
Smoke sale (“Smoke sale”) was a legal figure, within Roman law, which it punished the actions of an intermediary who received money in exchange for obtaining favors from a public official, which was never specified. Simply put, a scam.
The most extreme case happened when a Vetronio Torinowho boasted of having direct access to the Roman emperor, fell into a trap laid by the same Marcus Aurelius Severus Alejandro (third century), as a result of which he was caught, tried and sentenced to death. He died at the stake, tied to a pole at the foot of which green logs were burning in such a way that he died from asphyxiation and not from the action of the fire. The execution was crowned with the phrase “Smoke died, who sold smoke” (“In the smoke die who smoke sells”).
The Diccionario de la Lengua Española defines “Selling fums” as: “Appearing bankrupt and deprived with a powerful to take advantage of suitors“.
It is known as a “pyramid scam” or “Ponzi scheme” a a fraudulent operation that consists of raising capital and paying extraordinary utilities or interest, with funds coming from new investors and not from legitimate commercial activities.
In other words, the first investors get paid what they promised thanks to the money contributed by new victims, who enter the system attracted by the huge profits that this practice promises in short periods of time. The scheme works and remains as long as it continues to grow and as long as a significant number of contributors do not demand, en masse, the return of their capital.
This type of scam, with precedents in other countries at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, it is named after the Italian immigrant who introduced it to the United States in 1920, on discovering that international mail reply coupons were being sold at a higher price in this country than abroad. He did the first operations with small contributions from friends and acquaintances, whom he convinced of the significant benefits that this business would bring.
quickly Carlo Ponzi (1882-1949) attracted a large number of interested parties, who literally formed long lines to entrust their money to him by virtue of the fabulous interest he paid for short periods of time. In some cases up to 100% in three months. shortly became its main shareholder.
A questioning by the Boston Post newspaper caused his company to be intervened by the State. Because he is not allowed to raise new capital, Ponzi went bankrupt and went to prison, where he served a sentence for fraud for several years. The “Ponzi scheme” is also called “pyramidal” since it is supported by the capital of new contributors who form the base of a pyramid that allows those at the top, the first investors, to continue receiving the promised benefits. The loom of abundance, multi-level schemes or silver circles are some of the names used to refer to this type of deception.
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The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to make its mark on recruiting at Shippensburg University.
With the uncertainties that come with the virus, recruiting coordinators at SU were forced to make changes, adapt to the unusual situation and overcome hurdles they have never faced before.
With all levels of the sports world being shut down last March when the pandemic started gaining ground, recruiting was not on the forefront of anyone’s mind. There were still many questions to be answered about the virus itself. Plus, there was no recent film for schools to watch.
But once officials gathered more information, sports started coming back into the picture. Recruiting began to re-make its appearance with limitations. The biggest hang-up for recruiting coordinators remains the inability to see athletes in action regularly.
“This has not been a normal recruiting process,” SU football recruiting coordinator Anthony Johnson said.
Once September rolled around, the NCAA Division II “quiet period” was lifted and normal recruiting calendars returned Sept. 1. This allowed Johnson to revamp his recruiting to some capacity. The live streaming of high school contests – due to limited attendance in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus– also provided another outlet to watch athletes perform in real time.
However, it still was not the same. Sports across the board continued to be affected by the seemingly unforgiving virus.
Spring sports were hit hardest. And for soon-to-be collegiate athletes, that meant no senior high school season or that last chance to showcase their talent in front of college scouts.
Not only was it a change for potential collegiate athletes, but recruiting coordinators like SU baseball’s Sean Williamson, had to adapt to the unforeseen circumstances.
“It was a unique situation. The way we had to recruit completely changed,” Williamson said. “Since we couldn’t go see some of these kids in person, we had to rely heavily on video.”
And that is exactly what happened. Williamson’s recruiting cycle fell into that NCAA “quiet period,” and the use of video and social media platforms as a way to deliver film to schools and coaches, exploded.
“This way of recruiting had been gaining momentum over the years, but this year, everyone really blew the roof off of it per se,” Williamson said.
In the uncertain times of a pandemic, there was no better way to do it. Some athletes even created Twitter accounts specifically for recruiting.
It was a 2-for-1. Social distancing was practiced, and athletes’ film still received the recognition it deserved.
“It’s just way easier to find information on kids now,” Williamson said. “To where a year ago, it was getting toward that direction, and every once in a while, you’d come into a hiccup here and there. But now, the kids understand the importance of video.”
Even with the use of video bursting onto the scene, the recruiting process was still missing a key component. It lacked that face-to-face interaction. Once that issue was recognized, the wheels started turning in the right direction.
For Johnson, a major part of the recruiting process is getting the prospects on campus to see the facilities, talk to their potential position coaches and show all of what Shippensburg has to offer. With SU hosting campus tours in limited fashion in the fall, officials granted permission for potential recruits to get those opportunities, minus some dining experiences.
The chances only applied to Pennsylvania athletes, however. With travel restrictions in place, out-of-state athletes did not qualify for those same opportunities.
“We struggled early on with getting kids on campus because of COVID,” Johnson said. “But as time went on, we were able to get some Pa. kids on campus. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do the same for out-of-state kids.”
“But we were lucky the university even allowed us to have on-campus visits. Some schools didn’t get that opportunity,” he added. “That was the major positive out of all of this.”
In wake of the positives, there is still some concern moving forward. That concern being how the recruiting scene will be impacted for years to come.
From Williamson’s perspective, he said he is unsure what the future holds.
“I think the process will get back to normal eventually. The way we go out and evaluate and see kids,” Williamson said. “Recruiting in regard to spots available, eligibility getting back, [it’s] kind of a log jam basically. There’s been a trickle down effect from junior colleges to the transfer portal.”
“I don’t know the answer to that [what will happen] and in regard to how long it will take to get back, or if it will ever get back to what it was,” he added. “Honestly, hopefully it does for the players’ sake.”
In Johnson’s eyes, he said he feels recruiting will revert to its traditional routine in some shape or form, but does not know if it will ever return to what it once was.
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A-Zambian woman who has been hospitalised in South Africa for two months, is looking for her relatives back home.
Mildred Chola, 39, is in Thabamoopo Hospital in the Lebowakgomo area in Limpopo Province and does not have a clear recollection of the circumstances that brought her to South Africa. This has in turn caused some difficulties in locating her relatives.
However, records from the Hospital indicate that her relatives are in Mufulira on the Copperbelt in Ndeke Village, Plot No. 2008 but efforts to locate them have so far proved futile.
According to the information provided by the Hospital, Ms Chola was born on 1st November, 1983 as the sixth born to Fernando Chola and Getrude Kalaba Chola and attended school at Pamodzi Primary before going to Ndeke Secondary School.
Zambia’s Acting High Commissioner to South Africa Ms. Inonge Mwenya has appealed to anyone with information regarding Ms Chola to get in touch the High Commission in Pretoria.
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I don't remember the context, but someone recently joked to me that the city of Genoa and the word genuflect are related. I looked it up later, and, surprisingly, they are! In Latin and some older texts, it was spelled Genua, and that's probably an old Ligurian word for "knee" because of the city's geographic position where the Italian peninsula curves into the rest of Europe like a knee. Finally, that comes from the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction gnewo, also meaning "knee". I've already written about genuflect before, but it comes from the same root, through Medieval Latin genuflecto, the fourth declension Latin word for "knee", genu, and the Proto-Italic root genu. The term genoa can also refer to a type of jib used on cruising yachts - that term was borrowed into English around the 1930s - and is the source of the word jeans.
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Today we put up our generators. So no more of that. Anyway we're still working on solar art. Were pretty much almost done with solar art. Anyway that also means that I'll stop making the blog well maybe. We'll that's all I guess. Hope you enjoyed reading. Please comment. Sam.
Today we use energy meters to see how much volts we could make with our generators. Also we had to write down the steps to make the generators. Then we made videos of how it works. Aaron will probably finish editing the video in a day or so. Right now students of Aaron's class are working are working on things for our solar classroom. Like making sighs that say: this class is solar powered. Or painting a charge controller. And also someone is writing a solar classroom blog someone like me. And also a circuit breaker sigh and a lot of other stuff that I can't name because I'm writing this blog. Hope you enjoyed reading. Please comment. Sam.
Today mostly everybody made a little generator that has enough energy to lite up a tiny light. You had to rape wire around a little box. Then you pinch jumper clips to the wire and the tiny lite. That the easy way of explaining it. If you want to see somebody making it in stop animation look down. Thanks for reading. please comment. Sam.
Hello this is my first post so just read it hope you enjoy. Today we learned how generators work. A generator pushes electrons using a magnet, just like a water pump moves molecules of water. That's how a generator works. We also are going to make our own generators. But today we just saw the parts of the generator. We are learning about generators because that's how we will make wind turbines.
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In our previous article from Prestige Auditors, we talked about financial mistakes that are usually made by novice business owners. Today, we will continue in the same way and will show you other problems that inexperienced business people face and how to solve them.
However, we would like you to know that making a mistake is something each of us should experience throughout life. You know why? Because “anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new!” We can explain it even on a biological level! The complicated and intricate human brain works better if there’s a vivid example of something bad.
For example, you read that not having an emergency fund during the pandemic led many companies to closure. Now your brain understands that you will lose your job and all your money that you invested, if you don’t open an emergency fund right away, especially in the world where disasters happen every second!
Now let’s get back to our topic, and discuss what mistakes usually business owners make!
Investing Everything. Getting Nothing…
Have you ever invested everything you had in your business, earned money and spent it on your business again? If yes, then congrats, you made your first mistake!
If you want to operate your business wisely, without problems and nervous breakdowns, then you should let yourself spend your money on YOU! Don’t create authoritarian budgets, where the only thing you are “allowed” to do is spend it on your business. Even though having something of your own is very important, you still have to enjoy your life a bit! Without fun, you will forget what you worked for. Without spending time with your loved ones, you will regret working so hard!
Novice business owners usually think that asking for help is not necessary. Even if they’re in a difficult situation, where they need an industry specialist, they think that it’s a waste of money, and that it’s all for nothing! But let us tell you one thing…
When you’re a business owner and have to deal with situations related to taxes, audits or other industries, you need professional help. Without it, you will have a hand-made system, where everything may break down each second! Remember, to have a solid business with solid and stable income, you need to distribute the tasks based on the competence you and your employees have. If you feel that you can’t handle a tax-related issue, then you should have a consultation with those who know – easy as it is!
Lack of Audits, Lack of Stability…
Do you really want to have a steady business, where you can rely on your income and business operations? Then you should constantly inspect your business, and take into account every detail that has the potential to go wrong!
You may think that only big companies like Apple or Amazon conduct audits, but that’s not necessarily true! The main goal of audits is to inspect the entire business, its operations, records and transactions in order to ensure their accuracy. You certainly know that in the world of numbers, you should avoid uncertainties, and conducting an audit will certainly help!
Of course, having an audit can be done by everyone, including you and your employees… However, let’s remember that working alone is not always the answer to all your questions! Sometimes you need help from professionals, who are auditing business every single day and who know how this industry works! Apart from that, companies like ours will help you have an audit based on IRS’ requirements, which means that you’ll be audited by official standards!
Online World, It’s a Mess…
If you have your own online store or operate on platforms like Amazon, make sure you hit the books and study their taxation system. So, if you want to avoid similar mistakes, you can either educate yourself on taxes and all that stuff in our blog section, or contact us and have your business treated with the most prestigious tax services of this field!
Fix Your Mistakes!
Now that you know how the business world works, and what you’re expected to do, make sure you avoid them at all costs. However, if you feel that you already made a mistake and can’t fix it in any way, just contact professionals like us!
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A study of 1,000 parents of teenagers found 75 per cent think the ages of 13-19 are the most challenging years of raising children, with 32 per cent admitting they were ‘unprepared’.
Coping with their mood swings is the most stressful thing about parenting a teenager (35 per cent), followed by helping them to make important life choices (32 per cent) and allowing them to make their own mistakes (31 per cent).
But nearly three in 10 found it difficult to help them through the anxiety of exams, with 29 per cent ‘shocked’ at the impact GCSEs and A-Levels had on their child’s stress levels.
Worryingly, 66 per cent of parents believe their child reached a point where they felt unable to cope with school, exams or the pressure on their education.
And 47 per cent think it affected their teen’s mental health, while 44 per cent believe it hit their confidence.
Stress also led to those teens who were feeling the pressure becoming more argumentative (37 per cent) or angry (36 per cent), while 32 per cent lost sleep.
A spokesperson for herbal remedies firm A.Vogel, which commissioned the study, said: “A lot is said about the stress of raising a newborn baby, but for many, the teenage years can be difficult and bring unexpected challenges.
“Parents have to try and guide their child through a stressful time of exams and learning to deal with new hormones, when their teen is also trying to learn who they are and wants more independence.”
The study also found 77 per cent of parents claim their teenager has had periods where they have felt stressed, with 82 per cent of those saying these worries were around their exams or education.
Getting good grades is the top school worry, according to 45 per cent of parents, along with remembering everything they revise (37 per cent), and what happens if they fail (36 per cent).
Other stress triggers around their education include the impact of the pandemic and home-schooling on their grades (31 per cent) and living up to their parents’ and teachers’ expectations (25 per cent).
As a result, 27 per cent think exams are too stressful for teenagers and 32 per cent believe there is too much pressure placed on a child’s education.
It also emerged 29 per cent of those polled via OnePoll felt powerless to help their child with exam stress, with simply talking to them the most common way parents tried to alleviate the anxiety.
A third tried to give them space, 30 per cent tried to make sure other areas of their lives were calm and organised and 27 per cent ensured they had a healthy diet.
But 27 per cent of parents believe they felt more stressed about their child’s exams than their teen, with one in five (20 per cent) going as far as to say they felt unable to cope.
While 25 per cent of parents claim their youngster’s exam anxiety affected the whole family.
Professor Margareta James, psychologist and founding director of The Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic, said: “We have a child morphing into an adult.
“Their sleep patterns change which can cause chronic sleep deprivation that affects concentration levels and leads to poor attention span which inevitably reflects on their school and exam performance.
“Brain maturation also coincides with puberty and hormonal changes, so they lack control in the ‘executive action’ areas (setting priorities, planning, organising and controlling impulsive behaviour).
“This causes a lack of motivation, mood swings and conflicts with authority, as well as impacts on their decision-making, especially when it comes to risk-taking.
“Exam time adds an additional layer of stress, but emotions come and go, and we can all learn to be in control of how we feel.
“Herbal remedies containing Passiflora can promote relaxation during stressful or anxious situations including exams, but in the long term, parents and teenagers need to manage stress placed on the body through healthy eating, daily exercise, and good sleep habits as well as learning relaxation techniques such as regular meditation and havening.”
TOP 20 MOST STRESSFUL THINGS ABOUT PARENTING A TEENAGER
1. Coping with their mood swings
2. Helping them to make important life choices, such as what GCSEs or A Levels to take
3. Allowing them to make their own mistakes
4. The fact they spend so much time on technology
5. Helping them to manage their emotions
6. Dealing with hormonal changes
7. Helping them through their exam stress
8. Trusting them to make their own decisions
9. Helping them to plan and make decisions about their future
10. Worrying about them doing well at their exams
11. Them wanting their independence/ more independence than you want to give them
12. Helping them to deal with their body image and feel confident
13. Communicating with them about sensitive, tricky or embarrassing subjects
14. Fears about the impact of social media on them
15. Worries that they are going to be bullied
16. Guiding them through high-pressured education
17. They are getting into boys/ girls – learning about relationships
18. Helping them to cope with a huge amount of schoolwork
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Have you ever had one of those mornings where absolutely everything seemed to go wrong? One where literally the only thing you can do is burst out laughing and toss your hands up at the universe?
I most definitely have: for example, only this very morning, I woke up at 5am determined to restart my gym routine (mind you, I had tossed and turned the entire night so just rolling out of bed was an act of will in and of itself). After getting ready and walking to the apartment gym, I discovered that it was locked. I trekked to the second gym location (I know, swanky). Again, locked.
Frustrated, I went home, but I was determined not to be defeated. I grabbed my resistance bands and started in on an arm workout, proud of my resourcefulness and drive, and then-
My resistance band snapped in half (due more to its cheap nature than my muscles, I’m sure). Whilst staring in disbelief, laughing, and shaking my head up to the sky, I grabbed another one from my box and kept going. And I finished that damn workout.
Now, the lesson I learned from this was simple: if you take one difficult step towards your goal, your determination to avoid setbacks will be tenfold.
Notice that I said *difficult* step. For me, this was getting up at 5am. Had I encountered a locked gym in the afternoon, I would have been much more inclined to take it as a sign to use my yoga pants to stretch out in front of the TV rather than try to figure out how I could workout sans equipment. Yet, since I had overcome that first hurdle of an early wakeup call, I was not about to let all that effort go to waste.
Therefore, perhaps, instead of making our goal easier for ourselves, we should create a first step that, if taken, makes it nearly impossible to not complete the task.
For example, I have been wanting to write a book (trilogy, actually). Yet, somehow, I can sit on the couch night after night with my laptop beside me and do everything and anything but actually open up the computer and type even one damn word.
However, if I were to find a coffee shop close by, and set a goal to visit it at least 3 times a week with my laptop, you can bet that I would make some serious progress every single time that I took that first step of just driving to the coffee shop–there’s no way I would cart the computer over there just to scroll Instagram or text my friends!
Bursting through an obstacle gives you much more incentive to keep going than simply meandering around. And the rewards are endless. Drifters never see anything that the masses haven’t seen. The trekkers, however, the ones who deliberately choose the steepest path and the densest jungle, they are the ones who see the tops of the mountains, depths of the caves, and beauties of the hidden waterfalls.
I will be forcing myself to test this theory with my writing (and yes, even thinking about it seems daunting). What is something you’ve wanted make happen but just can’t seem to find the drive and motivation to do it, not matter how many times you put it on your to-do list? Maybe instead of making it as easy as possible for yourself, you should try creating a first step that will be quite difficult for you to mentally achieve. If you do try it out, let me know your experience in the comments!
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For the first time this season, Hamilton Bulldogs’ forward and to prospect for the 2019 National Hockey League Draft Arthur Kaliyev is our draft eligible player of the month after having come close in previous months.
Kaliyev, who is ranked 11th on NHL Central Scouting’s mid term rankings among North American Skaters, appeared in 12 games for the Bulldogs in January scoring 10 goals while assisting on 8 others. He also notched a pair of goals at the Sherwin-Williams CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game.
Kaliyev leads all draft eligible players in goals, assists, points, shots and possesses the top three goal scoring streaks of the season as well as the longest assist streak of the season. He was named the OHL Player of the Week for the week ending January 7, 2019. In January, he was named the games’ first star twice and third star once.
Also considered were Mississauga Steelheads defenceman Thomas Harley and Niagara IceDogs forward Philip Tomasino. Harley recorded 4 goals and 11 helpers in 12 contests while Tomasino notched 9 goals and 7 helpers.
Harley was ranked by NHL Central Scouting 9th overall among North Americans and the top prospect from the OHL while Tomasino was ranked 24th.
Among goaltenders, Jet Greaves of the Barrie Colts gets our vote. Despite his record of 2-3-2 in January, Greaves posted a 2.42 goals-against-average and .926 save-percentage. Greaves is not ranked on Central Scouting’s mid term rankings.
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The daily business briefing: November 21, 2017
Nebraska regulators approve alternate Keystone XL pipeline route, the DOJ sues to block AT&T's Time Warner purchase, and more
Nebraska regulators approve alternate Keystone XL pipeline route
Nebraska's Public Service Commission on Monday approved a route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, sweeping away the long-delayed project's final major obstacle. The decision marked a victory for President Trump, who has advocated it as a job creator and revived it after the Obama administration denied a border crossing permit for the project. The decision, however, gave the pipeline's owner, TransCanada, the right to build on an alternate route, not its preferred one, so the company said it would have to "conduct a careful review" to see how the changes would affect the work's "cost and schedule." Opponents vowed to continue fighting what they said would be an environmental disaster. Four days ago, another TransCanada pipeline spilled 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota.
Justice Department sues to block $85 billion AT&T acquisition of Time Warner
The Justice Department launched a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block AT&T Inc.'s proposed $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner. "This merger would greatly harm American consumers," said Makan Delrahim, head of the department's antitrust division. "It would mean higher monthly television bills and fewer of the new, emerging innovative options that consumers are beginning to enjoy." The move amounted to a potentially major setback for AT&T's effort to merge its telecommunications empire with Time Warner's media content. The lawsuit marked the first time in decades the Justice Department has tried to prevent a merger that wasn't between direct competitors. "Today's DOJ lawsuit is a radical and inexplicable departure from decades of antitrust precedent," AT&T said in a statement.
Yellen says she will leave Fed board when she's replaced as chair
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen announced Monday that she would step down from the central bank's Board of Governors when her replacement takes over in February. President Trump announced he would nominate Fed governor Jerome Powell to succeed Yellen as chair when her term comes to an end in February, breaking with tradition by denying Yellen a second term. Yellen's term as a Fed governor continues until 2024, but she said she would leave after Powell takes over as the Fed's leader. "As I prepare to leave the board, I am gratified that the financial system is much stronger than a decade ago," Yellen wrote in a letter informing Trump of her decision.
Uber announces deal to buy 24,000 Volvo autonomous vehicles
Uber on Monday announced a new deal to purchase as many as 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo once the technology is ready to use in Uber's ride-hailing network. "We don't know exactly how an autonomous world will look," said Jeff Miller, Uber's head of automotive alliances. "But we know that we want to be the platform that's at the center of it." Also on Monday, Colorado regulators fined Uber $8.9 million for letting people with serious criminal or road violations serve as Uber drivers. The penalty came after the Colorado Public Utilities Commission investigated a complaint that an Uber driver had assaulted a passenger in the mountain resort town of Vail, and found that nearly 60 Colorado Uber drivers had felony convictions.
Stock futures inch up ahead of more corporate earnings
U.S. stock futures rose slightly early Tuesday, setting up the Nasdaq Composite index for a shot at another record high. Nasdaq-100 futures added 0.1 percent, as did S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures. During the day, stocks could be influenced by a flurry of corporate earnings reports. Investors also are digesting outgoing Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's announcement that she will leave the central bank altogether when she is replaced in February. She could have stayed on as a governor until 2024. Her departure will give President Trump greater leeway to shake up the leadership of the central bank. | <urn:uuid:582307ff-aa0c-4c7e-a7b6-d6700fbb6271> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://theweek.com/business-briefing/732682/daily-business-briefing-november-21-2017 | 2022-10-05T02:14:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337531.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005011205-20221005041205-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.967513 | 816 | [
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Overview: Query Builder for Matomo (Dimension Report)
How to access the Query Builder for Matomo (Dimension Report)
Navigate to Metrics > Query Builder to access the Query Builder. Click the green + New Custom Metric button and select your connected Matomo Account from the Data Source drop-down list. Select the Dimension Report radio button.
Query Builder is available on the Professional and Performer plans. Request a trial of Query Builder by following
How to use the Query Builder for Matomo (Dimension Report)
Pro Tip: Add the word "by" in between the Metric and Dimension in order to determine an appropriate Custom Metric Name. From the Metric and Dimension examples outlined above, we could create the Custom Metrics "Visits by Country," "Total Searches by Device Type," or "Clicks by Channel Type."
Pro Tip : If you don't know which segments to put in place for your use case, use the Dimension + Data Preview to troubleshoot and get more insight into the data that is returned from your Matomo Account for each field. Learn more here.
How to create a Custom Matomo Dimension Report Metric [Example]
In this example, we'll create a Custom Metric to report on Visits tracked in the Matomo Account, split up based on Country.
How to add a Custom Matomo Dimension Report Metric to a Databoard
Learn how to add a Custom Metric to a Databoard here.
- The Data Preview is limited to display a maximum of 20 Dimensions per Date Range for Attributed Metrics. Dimensions will be sorted by descending value, therefore the 20 Dimensions with the highest total values will be displayed in the Data Preview for each Date Range.
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Anna Colin is an independent curator, educator and researcher based in Kent, UK.
Alongside her freelance activities, which straddle the curatorial and the pedagogical and increasingly engage the natural environment and open spaces, Anna is training in horticulture and garden design, while completing a PhD in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. Her doctoral research unpacks the notion of alternative in multi-public educational organisations from the late 19th century to the present, in the UK and further afield.
Anna was a co-founder and director of Open School East, an independent art school and community space in London then Margate (2013-20). She worked as associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris (2014-20), associate director at Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research, Paris (2011-12), and curator at Gasworks, London (2007-10).
Anna has curated exhibitions at venues including CA2M, Móstoles/Madrid; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool; Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo; GAM, Turin; La Synagogue de Delme, Delme; Le Quartier, Quimper; La Maison pop, Montreuil; and The Women's Library, London
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Compact binoculars with heavy-duty rubber armouring and twist-up eyecups. Focus Action III has a large field of view so you can spot wild animals in the terrain faster and more easily, or follow birds in flight. Lightweight, easy to use and equipped with BK-7 porro prisms which produce a clear, sharp image. Includes beltcase and neckstrap.
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Wedding photographer at Calistoga Ranch in Napa Valley. Corrine and Shaun.
Corrine and Shaun were so darn adorable and she even pulled a camera out of the pocket of her wedding dress to take a photo of her guests after she walked up the aisle. Definitely a stellar moment. Then during the reception Shaun surprised Corrine by flying out one of her favorite musicians who serenaded her with a song. Tears. Such beautiful tears. All this took place in the wine cave at The iconic Calistoga Ranch in Napa Valley. An extraordinary night with a beautiful couple. I hope they continue to come back to Calistoga ranch for post wedding celebrations in years to come. Such fun being a wedding photographer at events such as these in Napa Valley. | <urn:uuid:196f98b5-3057-4499-8b46-d18bb8ba1ccb> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://enlucephotography.blog/2018/06/09/wedding-photographer-at-calistoga-ranch-in-napa-valley-corrine-and-shaun/ | 2022-09-25T20:14:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334596.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925193816-20220925223816-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.971973 | 157 | [
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Innovative Jim Casella IP1003 Hard Yarn Marimba Mallets - Product Information
These mallets are designed to the specifications of leading marching percussion specialist Jim Casella. This series has been designed to meet the demands of both the indoor and outdoor marching percussion ensemble. This extensive line of specially designed indoor/outdoor mallets, offers the marching percussion ensemble the one most extensive variety of timbres available today.
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(TS Seduction) Kayleigh Constrained: Kayleigh Coxx Serves Her Master Dominic Pacifico
Cast(s): Dominic Pacifico, Kayleigh Coxx
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Willson Contreras is an international professional Venezuelan baseball catcher for the Chicago Cubs of MLB. His full name is Willson Eduardo Contreras.
He made his MLB career debut in 2016. Contreras’s batted .205 in 29 games at age 17. In 2010, he batted .313 in 17 games when at the age of 18.
His age and height
He was born on 13 May 1992. In this birth date, his present age is 28 years old. His height is 6 feet 0 inch or 1.85m.
Contreras’s Salary and Net worth
As of 2016, his salary is $507,500 USD. He is a Venezuelan professional baseball player who has a net worth of $4 million USD.
His wife or girlfriend
The Cubs will kick off a three-matches against the Cardinals Friday. In fact, he got married to his girlfriend, Andrea Villamizar. He had 1 year relationship and has not been engaged previously.
Willson Contreras baseball ranking, height, family, biography, contract, career and more
|Contreras's MLB career, family, net worth, contract, wife, girlfriend, and more|
|His height, weight, age, biography|
|Full name||Willson Eduardo Contreras|
|profession||Venezuelan baseball player|
|Height in cm and m||185cm or 1.85m|
|Height in feet inches||6 feet 0 inch|
|Weight in kg||95 kg|
|Weight in Ibs||209 ibs|
|Date of Birth||1992-05-13 00:00:00|
|age||[showcurrentage month="May" day="13" year="1992" template="9"]|
|Birth Place||Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela|
|His MLB Statistics, team, career awards and more|
|Runs batted in||253|
|MLB debut||June 17, 2016, for the Chicago Cubs|
|Teams in Club career||Chicago Cubs (2016–present)|
|Career Highlights and award|
|2x All-Star||(2018, 2019)|
|All-MLB Second Team||Unknown|
|World series Champion||2016|
|World series MVP||Not known|
|Gold Glove Award||Unknown|
|National team||Venezuelan National team|
|NL RBI Leader||Not known|
|His contract, salary, net worth|
|Contract||He projected to make $4.5 million in 2020,|
|Net worth||$4 million USD|
|Family, wife, parents, and favourite details|
|Fathers name||William Contreras|
|Mothers name||Olga Contreras|
|Favourite games||MLB and tennis|
|Favourite animals||Cat and Dog|
|Favourite MLB player's||Not known|
Willson Contreras MLB career and news
He batted .205 in 29 games at age 17 and he batted .313 in 17 games with them in 2010 at age 18.
In the Year of 2015, he was named the Cubs Minor Association Player later batting .333/.413/.478 with eight home runs.
He completed with 80 hits in 295 at bats with 35 RBIs, 12 home runs and a .275 batting average, in 2016.
Contreras was the Cubs’ inaugural day starting catcher against the St. Louis Cardinals, on 2 April 2017.
In Four game of the NLCS, he hit the longest postseason home run (491 feet) since Statcast, on 18 October 2017.
Contreras was voted to start in the All-Star Game 2018 when his first All-Star games. He and his teammate Javier Baez were named starters for the National Club in the All-Star 2019 game, but neither recorded a hit.
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Dr. Robertson is a urologic oncologist and Associate Professor, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery , Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He received his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine and was a Urologic Oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He has authored more than 100 published articles to date, lectured nationally and internationally, and held positions including the current president of the North Carolina Urological Association. Current areas of research interest include the associated immunological effects of HIFU on prostate cancer in vivo, and the clinical effectiveness of HIFU in human trials of localized prostate cancer. More information on Dr. Robertson can be found here and he can be reached at [email protected].
Q: When and how did you get interested in focused ultrasound for the prostate?
My first real introduction to HIFU was around 2006 at the annual American Urological Association meeting. There was an investigator meeting there with EDAP, TMS, Inc. where the concepts of HIFU were discussed and an offer was made to participate in their upcoming clinical trial in localized prostate cancer. I had heard about HIFU tangentially as an up and coming technology but didn’t know a lot about it. I was fortunate to serve as the national Principal Investigator at Duke for this clinical trial, whose purpose was to the safety and effectiveness of HIFU as the initial treatment in men with newly diagnosed localized prostate cancer, compared to cryotherapy.
Q: Please describe the current nature and scope of your focused ultrasound research program for treating the prostate.
Sure, so I have been working with the Biomedical Engineering Department at Duke for about seven years now. Some of our past published works include survivorship in mice whose tumors were treated with mechanical dissociating HIFU [find/add link] — which is similar to the University of Michigan work on histotripsy that you may be familiar with. We’ve also looked at immune modulators’ effect on treatment response, and published a manuscript looking at something called STAT 3 inhibition [add link]. Also, the checkpoint inhibition story in immunotherapy is a very hot topic right now, and we wanted to expand that into the basic science labs, so we are now exploring the same model that I just mentioned, but looking to use checkpoint inhibitors to modulate the immune response. We will also be monitoring immunologic markers, in combination with the immunotherapy team at the Cancer Institute at Duke; in that case we’re teaming with immunotherapists to look at the potential usefulness of HIFU. I do think HIFU can be a preparative treatment to enhance the immune response.
So I would say our preclinical models are our main focus of research. But we also believe there can be correlative science in any human trial, and so we’re working with the medical oncology research team at Duke to develop a line of investigation where we would monitor immunologic markers after HIFU and potentially have a therapeutic trial where we would have immunotherapy in combination with HIFU for the treatment of locally advanced prostate cancer. That’s a lengthy way of saying that our research effort is basic but it’s becoming clinical. And right now the only clinical trial with HIFU conducted at Duke was the registration trial with EDAP for the Ablatherm device that I mentioned earlier.
Q: What focused ultrasound system(s) do you use?
We used the Ablatherm device (EDAP, TMS, Inc.) in the clinical trial looking at low risk, low grade localized prostate cancer; we enrolled 27 patients at Duke and 135 nationwide. That efficacy data has been submitted to the AUA in abstract form and will hopefully get accepted and presented publicly in Spring 2016. Now that the Ablatherm device has received approval, we’re hoping to bring this device for clinical use to Duke.
Q: Any thoughts on watchful waiting/active surveillance versus treatment with HIFU for men with prostate cancer?
We routinely recommend surgery or radiation for patients with intermediate risk disease; those men would not be put on watchful waiting or active surveillance, unless they have really low volume disease. I think the sweet spot is intermediate risk disease. If we see a candidate with a clean MRI, even with a positive biopsy, and a Gleason score of maybe 6 or low grade 7, we can tell them they’re a good candidate for active surveillance – those are not the patients I think we’re looking at to enroll in HIFU treatment. While this recommendation hasn’t yet been formalized, I would say that the thought among the international community and leaders in the field is that the intermediate risk (Gleason 7) patients are the most appropriate potential candidates for HIFU.
Q: What can you tell us about focal treatment versus whole gland HIFU?
I think we’re going to be seeing whole gland HIFU for patients with small gland, low volume, Gleason 7 disease. And keep in mind that there certainly may be fewer side effects with hemi-ablation/focal HIFU compared to other treatments, but that is not the case for whole gland HIFU. Trial data showed that only 25% of whole gland HIFU patients completely recovered erections back to their baseline – and you see those same rates with surgery as well. Whole gland HIFU also treats the urethra so patients may temporarily stricture their urethra (15%) and may need some kind of secondary management like a catheter or dilation. But if you perform a pre-HIFU resection of the prostate (TURP) in advance and open up the bladder and the urethra a bit, they don’t have this problem as often.
For perspective, whole gland HIFU in Europe has been practiced in about 5% of prostate cancer patients, and Ablatherm is in 90% of HIFU sites, but there is limited experience with focal treatment. So I’d estimate that initially 90% of patients will be offered whole gland treatment and probably 10% will get focal treatment. That will change as data on focal therapy becomes more mature. If I had a male relative 55-60 years old, with a unilateral ½ cc lesion on MRI in the posterior lobe of the prostate, and everything else is clean, and biopsy confirms Gleason 7 pathology, I think I might advise focal therapy for that prostate as opposed to whole gland. It may better preserve erectile function and urinary control, with less risk to the urethra.
Q: How does FUS/HIFU fit into Duke’s overall prostate program? What percentage of patients get FUS treatment compared to other approaches? Is this changing? How many patients have you/Duke treated with focused ultrasound for the prostate?
We treated 27 patients at Duke between 2007 and 2010 under the ENLIGHT Ablatherm clinical trial. I would say that HIFU fits in our overall program of GU cancer care as a new option for treatment, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to patient evaluation. We have a combined clinic with medical oncology, radiation oncology and urologic oncology within the Duke Cancer Institute. We are having strategic planning meetings currently to develop an algorithm for new patient referrals which will expand our multidisciplinary clinics and incorporate HIFU eligibility determination at the time patients are referred for localized prostate cancer. So while no patients currently receive HIFU treatment at Duke, that’s in development and will likely change. My prediction is that we’d expect 10-20% of new patients with prostate cancer to be eligible for HIFU, either whole gland or focal.
Q: Can you share some thoughts about what the FDA approvals of SonaCare’s and EDAP’s HIFU systems mean for men with prostate disease in the US?
HIFU is an additional option for therapy that I believe is unique and potentially transformative – and by “transformative” I mean that it is a new approach to prostate tissue without tissue disruption. I think HIFU ablation is very interesting because it doesn’t involve a lot of pain, discomfort, or inconvenience. It’s an ambulatory treatment which is well tolerated. In that regard it’s also very different than the other treatments which need needles, catheters, surgeries, etc. Of the invasive treatments currently available, HIFU is the least invasive. External beam radiation therapy is obviously the least invasive as it is “touchless.”
Q: Where do you think FUS should fit in the treatment of prostate cancer?
I think HIFU has great potential. It can be used for localized disease, either whole gland or focal treatment, and it can be used as immunopreparative therapy for advanced disease or metastatic disease theoretically – and that remains to be proven as a good strategy. But it has the potential to be able to treat prostate cancer in many stages. I have a great feeling that in the future we may see HIFU transition from less of only tumoricidal thermal treatment and also of a tissue disruptive/preparative treatment.
Remember, over 40,000 prostate HIFU treatments have been completed worldwide and results are published demonstrating long term outcomes similar to alternative, more established therapies. The role for HIFU will continue to evolve as more experience is gained in various clinical settings.
Q: What do you think about the potential role of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation in advancing the technology for prostate treatment?
There is a strong track record of using forums, symposia, etc. to bring people together, even newsletters and just sharing general information on cross-disciplinary approaches. Your biannual symposium is excellent for this, and I should know as I’ve attended three symposia over the years! I think having the HIFU users in GU learn about how HIFU is being used in neurosurgery and how it’s being used overall, for example, increases the general awareness and acceptance of the technology. I personally find it fascinating to learn about HIFU and treatments for bone cancer, pain alleviation, Parkinson’s tremor, etc. I also think the general community is very large and we urologists tend to stay very focused, with blinders on if you will – and so having FUSF inform the group and maybe help create a stronger identity within the urologic oncology field would be very beneficial. We need a community of urologists who are interested in HIFU, and I think HIFU users around the country will need to form a working group and communicate, perhaps with the Foundation’s help.
Q: Anything else you would like to add?
I’m fascinated by the fact that when the prostate is treated with HIFU there is a significant decrease in tissue volume – 20 ccs will shrink to 5 ccs on average. It implies in my mind that there’s a real treatment effect on the tissue with HIFU. And it’s also remarkable how HIFU is really not uncomfortable, and is very well tolerated. There is minimal pain for the patient.
I would add that any procedure has risk. HIFU is not a no-risk procedure. I think it’s much, much better to say that for very selected patients I think HIFU can be an ideal alternative to more aggressive, traditional treatment. I think it’s really important to look at patient selection and let that dominate as we proceed with HIFU in the US and elsewhere for prostate treatment. Keep in mind, too, that it’s early and we’ll gain experience over time, and there will continue to be advances in HIFU devices as well. And I personally am excited to continue exploring the potential immunologic benefit for HIFU patients that is currently under study. It’s a very exciting time. | <urn:uuid:89c68050-5e78-4af4-87dd-50f5e4c86d2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.fusfoundation.org/posts/hifu-expert-cary-n-robertson-md/ | 2022-09-29T20:33:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335365.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929194230-20220929224230-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.959032 | 2,513 | [
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A Texas teen is celebrating her high school graduation by giving back.
Leanne Carrasco, who graduated from Waltrip High School on Saturday, chose to forgo her graduation bash to provide pizza and care packages for residents at the Star of Hope Family Development Center, a homeless shelter for women and children in Houston, KTRK reported.
“I didn’t want to spend so much money either on a party, when that’s just gonna last a day,” Carrasco told the station. “I feel that if I’m able to give to the people that will last more than a day. I just want people to be able to have some stuff that they don’t normally have.”
Carrasco has volunteered at the center several times over the years, according to KTRK. Footage from the event showed residents enjoying the pizza and thanking Carrasco.
With the help of some friends, the graduate ordered 95 pizzas and made about 400 hygiene packages, including toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, soap and hand wipes, CNN reported. The group served about 200 people.
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“Not a lot of people have the same options as me. It’s not fair,” Carrasco told CNN. “There are a lot of people who need help. So I give it.”
“It was a very magical day. It gives you a hope for the youth of today,” Star of Hope spokesperson Scott Arthur, told CNN. “[The teens] were able to think of other people.”
Now, Carrasco said she plans to study nursing at Briar Cliff University in Iowa and the school praised her good deed on its Facebook page.
The event took months of planning, the student told KRIV. But the hard work certainly paid off.
“I just want to be a blessing and show these beautiful women and children that no matter what, someone does care,” she told the station.
“Parties, they don’t last that long, only a couple of hours. Probably, I won’t even remember it. But being able to give to these people, it means a lot.”
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Raipur: Wildlife activists in Chhattisgarh have expressed fears over the one-month time limit given to the state government’s investigation team constituted to probe the death of three female elephants on successive days last week.
The activists said the death of all three female elephants within quick succession may not be natural, alleging that this could either be a case of poaching or intentional killing due to human-animal conflict.
The activists added that for a meaningful investigation, the timeframe for the probe must be shortened, or else important evidence might disappear due to monsoon and other factors.
However, the Chhattisgarh Forest Department said the time given to the four-member panel is appropriate as they work on several counts. It added that all evidence will be taken into consideration.
Activists in the state are also preparing to approach the Chhattisgarh High Court over the deaths of elephants in the state.
The latest case came last week when three female elephants were found dead on consecutive days of 9, 10 and 11 June, in the forests of Balrampur and Surajpur districts, which are adjacent to each other.
The first was a 20-month pregnant female elephant, who was found dead on 9 June in the Pratappur forest area of Surajpur. Barely 24 hours later, another female elephant was found dead nearby. The authorities also recovered some pouches of insecticide from near her body.
On 11 June, a third female elephant’s body was found inside the Rajpur forest division of Balrampur. According to the postmortem report, the elephant had probably died six days earlier, and the local authorities had allegedly not informed the higher authorities about this. Action was taken over this.
A day later, Chhattisgarh Forest Minister Mohammad Akbar constituted a panel to investigate the deaths and asked it to submit its report in a month. The committee, led by retired principal chief conservator of forests K.C. Bevarta, is tasked with probing the reasons and circumstances leading to the death of the elephants, lapses at any stage, and determining accountability.
‘Probe may not produce concrete results’
Speaking with ThePrint, wildlife activist and member of NGO Nature Club Mansoor Khan called for reduction in the time allocated to the inquiry panel.
“It does not appear that the ongoing investigation in the case might produce any concrete results. This is because even if the death of these three female elephants is a result of poaching, all the evidence can disappear in a month’s time due to monsoon and other time bound factors,” he said.
“One thing is certain that the death of these elephants is an outcome of human-animal conflict. Female elephants have been killed by poisoning for sure,” he said.
Khan said it can’t be a “mere coincidence” that there wasn’t much distance between the carcasses of the three deceased female elephants.
“Apart from this, the dead bodies of all three female elephants were found inside an area of forest which has no habitat or settlement in the radius of around 2-3 km. Does it not cause serious suspicions?” he asked.
Khan said the female elephants might have mistakenly consumed poison that was intended for the male elephants. He highlighted a poaching case in the area that was registered in November 2019 in Balrampur forest when a male elephant was found dead. Investigation had revealed that both of the elephant’s tusks were uprooted. Eight persons were arrested later and two huge tusks weighing 16 kg each were also recovered, worth around Rs 50 lakh.
Activist Anurag Shukla, another member of the Nature Club, echoed Khan’s concerns as he dismissed the ongoing investigation as eyewash.
“The elephants’ death has occurred due to consumption of poisonous substances. It is clear that they have been poisoned, but there is doubt that anything like this will be found in the government’s investigation,” he said.
“The fact of the matter is that the results of such investigations are predefined to suit the government’s wishes. There is absolutely no need to allocate one month’s time for preparation of report by the inquiry committee, because there is full scope for elimination of evidence during that time,” he said, adding that the NGO is “also conducting a separate investigation at our own level”.
What the government says
Reacting to these demands, Chhattisgarh Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) Arun Kumar Pandey said the probe panel has to work on several counts and this will take time.
“If there is any evidence then it will definitely be considered in the course of investigation. As far as fixing accountability is concerned, action has already been taken against the officials whose efforts were found to be lacking in this case of the elephants’ death and further investigation will continue,” he said.
On 13 June, the government transferred Rajpur Divisional Forest Officer Pranay Mishra. It also suspended Rajpur Sub-Divisional Officer K.S. Khutia, Ranger Anil Singh, Deputy Ranger Rajendra Prasad Tiwari and Forest Guard Bhupendra Singh.
On the suspicion of poisoning, Pandey said the investigation teams from the forest divisions of Rajpur and Pratappur are already visiting several houses in the surrounding villages.
“Chemical substances were recovered from the carcasses of two of the deceased elephants, which raises the suspicion of poisoning. Therefore, our investigative teams and officials are visiting the villagers’ house to know more about the kind of pesticides used by them,” said Pandey.
“These elephants often trespass inside the villages. It may also be possible that these elephants had consumed some insecticide in the villagers’ house,” he added.
Move to approach high court
The activists of the state are preparing to approach the Chhattisgarh High Court over the incidences of elephant deaths.
“According to our information, more than 50 elephants have been killed in Chhattisgarh in the last 20 years. Yet no concrete steps have been taken by the state government to stop it. That is why we will very soon move to the High Court on this issue,” said Shukla.
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As he concluded, he required a shorter break up to preparation himself for your huge project emerging upcoming. Immediately after the process, Draco gently inserted the crown over a worktable, then grabbed the Enchantment.
Draco employed to suffer from Impressive Enchantments with just a single Everlasting rune in the past until he acquired a slight hang from it owing to his Status of becoming as well as Result in and Outcome Way of thinking, however right now the madman applied an Long lasting, a Supreme, along with a Divine rune on a single Famous Enchantment!
The bigger and fewer precise your runes for Enchantment ended up, the greater powerful the last Enchantment would be. It was why Draco’s runes ended up always so short therefore obscure.
Nicely, as we say, a california king must care for and treat his princess, perfect? Eva had been sacrificing a great deal for him – even her very own sanity – for such a long time, and from now on it was his turn to reciprocate the really like she experienced given him.
It was light and fluffy, even bubbly and attractive similar to a little girl from the arms of her papa. Draco gently and carefully brought it decrease upon the crown hovering for the anvil.
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Following getting rid of all his bloodline energy at this time, he could bring back about ten percent of his Provider Origin. Because his bloodline vitality would bring back by itself after some time and the man was not pressed because of it either, he chosen to wait for it to naturally re-load.
Considering that that has been a matter for later on, the time had come to deal with is important with the now. He got suffered to make this Enchantment and place it, so which kind of added benefits would it give the dinner table?
That had been why Draco did not even treatment if he invested over 20 very best-standard Aether Crystals to complete the Enchantment. After all, the gap between 15 method-standard crystals and 20 very best-class was obviously a chasm that was too frightening to think about, yet still he made it happen.
It was actually light-weight and soft, even bubbly and cute for instance a little girl from the forearms of her papa. Draco gently and slowly and gradually taken it downward upon the crown hovering for the anvil.
The key ingredient back then were Clarent’s Supplier Origin, only just a little of it was necessary for the Semi-Epic versions as the bulk possessed inserted one he wore, which grew to become ungraded.
The initial set up experienced the rune for crowns – Ou, the consequence he needed, which had been clairvoyant – Mentis, as well as setup in the runes, which has been Superior Manage – Supra Vento.
What was even more uncharacteristic of him was that he or she was smiling gladly. It wasn’t while he liked splurging this way, but while he pictured the looks on Eva’s facial area when she saw what he bought on her behalf.
Or it could be that Draco was unique, simply he will make these kinds of great-tier Enchantments job?
Unfortunately, Draco got failed to find out any Hidden Quest for this Treasury at this point, but he wasn’t concerned.
Afterward was done, a phenomenon occurred. The Aetheric Power of this area became turbulent, and even the small pieces of Divine Power ended up shaken casually.
Draco adored it to obtain a little just before placing Mjolnir besides. He then chose to establish-up an Auto-Craft and Batch-Create to the Semi-Epic Dragorugio set up. He needed to provide an exclusive regiment of his people with it, generating the Devastation Dragon Corps.
Draco smacked his lips with hassle. Nothing acquired transformed on the power on the Cardiovascular in the Forest except for the truth that it had been now evolvable. In other words, that wisp of Origin Vigor paved exactly how to the piece, rather than directly benefiting it.
Draco was stunned. Just attempting to position this Enchantment experienced almost wiped out him, and had a single-picture him right before he even acquired the opportunity muster more of his overpowered protection, forcing him into his invincible declare? d.a.m.n!
If a single established with the Eternal rune price tag 15 method-quality crystals in the past, the amount of would it charge in Heart and soul Stones which had been what ordinary Enchanters of the Rates employed?
You have moved into an invincible state for one minute.｣
Draco armor almost shattered immediately, along with his system cracked as if it was an item of ruined gla.s.s. His sight grew to be bloodshot and our blood leaked from his orifices inside of a major process, not anymore as comedic as well before.
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Teeth grinding at night, known as sleep bruxism, affects roughly 13% of adults. While it is not serious, continuous clenching of the jaw while grinding can cause headaches, disruption of sleep, jaw pain, and dental health issues.
Once a patient identifies the cause of their teeth grinding, they can take the proper steps to stop it. Even if it can’t be stopped entirely, there are ways to reduce its harm and alleviate discomfort.
How to Tell if You Have Sleep Bruxism
A patient’s sleep partner is often the first person to notice teeth grinding. After all, the patient is asleep while it happens, so they are usually unaware. Even if they are feeling the symptoms of bruxism, the signs are vague enough that they could indicate any number of other issues. They may not make the connection between what they are feeling and what is going on with their jaw or teeth overnight.
Some signs that teeth are clenched or grinding at night:
- Sleep disruption. A patient might wake up multiple times overnight, conscious that their teeth were grinding. Or they might notice fatigue during the day without realizing their sleep has been interrupted.
- Headaches. Frequent dull headaches, especially when waking up, might be a sign of teeth grinding.
- Sore jaw. Clenching teeth can make the muscles around the jaw hurt. Pain can radiate into the neck and shoulders too.
- Tooth sensitivity. Constant teeth grinding can wear down or cause tiny cracks in tooth enamel. This might make teeth sore or sensitive, especially to heat and cold or while chewing.
Why Teeth Grinding Needs to Stop
In addition to the discomfort that comes from losing sleep, and the pain of headaches and muscle aches, teeth grinding can be hard on a person’s mouth. The constant chewing or clenching motion can cause damage to teeth and dental work.
When bruxism is chronic, it is possible not only to wear down tooth enamel but to crack it. This might show up as a tiny hairline crack called a craze line. Or with sufficient force, teeth grinding can completely fracture a tooth. It is also possible to break or loosen a filling or crown.
A crack or chip will need to be repaired, but until it is, it can make the tooth more susceptible to decay. A crack can allow bacteria past the enamel to form a cavity. Left untreated, this can turn into pulpitis or an abscess, requiring even more extensive dental work, such as a root canal procedure.
Bruxism can also cause or worsen TMJ, or temporomandibular joint syndrome. This is a condition affecting the joint that connects the jaw to the skull, causing pain and a popping or clicking sensation when talking or eating.
The very nature of sleep bruxism—teeth grinding while asleep—means that the patent has no idea how often it happens or how severe the problem is. Patients should see the dentist as soon as they are aware that they might be grinding their teeth. The dentist can assess the problem, discuss the possible causes, and prescribe a solution.
What Causes Teeth Grinding and Jaw Clenching?
Things that make a person grind their teeth at night typically fall into the following categories:
Dental Health Issues
Teeth grinding while asleep may lead to dental health issues, but it can also be caused by them. A malocclusion or abnormal bite might make the teeth rub together. So can a missing tooth. Once a dentist fixes these problems, the grinding may stop.
Sleep apnea and snoring can contribute to nighttime teeth grinding. A doctor or sleep specialist can perform a sleep study to determine if this is the patient’s problem. Solving the patient’s sleep issues will often take care of teeth grinding too.
Medical Conditions and Lifestyle Choices
Medical conditions such as GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and some allergies can include teeth grinding as a symptom. Also, smoking and drinking alcohol can contribute to an increase in teeth grinding while asleep.
Stress and Anxiety
In a study done in September 2020, The American Dental Association reported that half of the dentists surveyed saw an increase in patient conditions related to stress. Among those conditions—bruxism. Pandemic-related tension was common in everyone’s life at the time. It is not much of a surprise that people were clenching jaws and grinding teeth in their sleep, too.
Teeth Grinding Solutions
Finding the right method to treat teeth grinding depends on what is causing it. If the habit becomes bothersome, see a dentist or your doctor. They can make an initial assessment of the likely causes and advise you on a treatment plan.
Orthodontia can fix a malocclusion. In the case of a missing tooth, the patient might need a dental bridge or implant. Aside from those fixes, there are a variety of options for bite guards and mouthguards that will keep teeth apart while sleeping. A dentist can offer advice about what type is best for the patient.
In severe cases, the dentist might recommend a procedure called reductive coronoplasty. This involves leveling off the teeth by reducing their height to correct the bite. The opposite, additive coronoplasty, adds to the height of the affected teeth using materials like those used for fillings.
As a general rule, getting a better night’s sleep can reduce teeth grinding. Staying away from caffeine and keeping a regular bedtime routine are some easy things that might help.
Patients with sleep disorders may be prescribed a dental appliance mouthguard or a CPAP machine. Either one will help open the airways during sleep and stop teeth from grinding.
Medicines to treat allergies, GERD, or any other condition might help patients sleep without grinding their teeth. Muscle relaxers might reduce jaw clenching. Botox has even been used in the hinge of the jaw to temporarily stop teeth grinding and clenching.
Anything that can be done to reduce stress and anxiety throughout the day may help a patient stop teeth grinding while asleep. Exercise is recommended, as are calming activities like yoga and meditation. Patients who feel their mental health is suffering should seek a doctor’s help. They might find relief with any number of stress-reduction techniques and treatments that are available.
Talk to Your Dentist to Stop Teeth Grinding While Asleep
Teeth grinding may seem like more of a nuisance than a medical or dental problem. But severe bruxism can lead to serious discomfort. Start by letting your dentist know your symptoms. (If you don’t have a dentist, you can use our online tool to find one near you.) Together you can come up with a plan for treatment to help you stop grinding your teeth. You won’t just start getting a good night’s sleep, you’ll be saving your teeth too. | <urn:uuid:81fb914a-c7c9-4fe2-822e-619cc5aa446c> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://dentalhealthsociety.com/oral-health/how-to-stop-teeth-grinding-while-asleep/ | 2022-10-05T04:50:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337537.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005042446-20221005072446-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.936851 | 1,449 | [
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Alexandria is updating some of its comically outdated code to adjust some of the restrictions on dogs in Alexandria.
The contemporizing of the canine corollary to city code is scheduled to be considered by the City Council the Tuesday, July 6, meeting.
A large section of the updated code clarifies when and under what conditions dogs can bark. A line in the old code forbid Alexandrians from keeping dogs that bark or howl “to such extent as to annoy any resident or keep dogs in such a manner as to cause offensive odors.” Instead, the new language specifies that dogs are forbidden from barking or howling:
Between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. that is plainly audible in any other person’s residential dwelling with the doors and windows closed and the source of the sound generation is discernible regardless of whether such doors or windows are closed; or
Between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. when the sound is plainly audible and discernible across real property boundaries or through partitions common to residential dwellings and such sound can be heard for more than five consecutive or non-consecutive minutes in any ten-minute period of time. Sounds that can be heard for less than five consecutive or non-consecutive minutes in any ten-minute period shall not be subject to this Section.
The updated code specifies that this doesn’t apply to any dog that was responding to pain or injury or protecting itself, its kennel, its offspring or a person from an actual threat. The ordinance also doesn’t apply to police dogs when “on duty” or dogs engaged in agricultural work.
The code also specifies that dogs — other than seeing eye dogs — are not permitted on public property like playgrounds of public school grounds.
The existing code notes that it’s forbidden to “knowingly or willfully” urinate or defecate on private property of people without their permission. Urination or defecation on public property is mostly verboten as well, though the code allows that urination on streets or alleys is mostly fine and defecation isn’t a violation if the owner promptly disposes of the dog poop.
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Playa Carrizalillo is known for it's crystal aqua waters and an easy left-hand break suited for all levels of surfer.
Enjoy a short trip from Puerto Escondido on this horseback riding tour to natural thermal pools.
Discover the most “local” part of Puerto, where the locals actually eat, shop and live
Bioluminescent Lagoon Boat
Experience the natural phenomenon of the bioluminescent waters in the Lagoon of Manialtepec
Oaxacan Cooking Classes
Become more knowledgeable about the culture, cuisine, and history of this beautiful region of Oaxaca.
Improve your Spanish language level and cultural immersion at one of the many programs in Puerto.
Release baby sea turtles into their natural environment
Take a boat cruise for dolphin watching and fishing along the amazing coastline.
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Merge Dragons for PC is a wonderful fantasy adventures game plays where in the mystical world hidden in the middle of the clouds, the value of Dragonia increase. Then evil Zombies cast a negated across the vale and there’s only hope to make good the land rests in your magical power to match anything and all the dragon eggs, trees, treasures, stars, magical flowers, and constantly mythical creatures.
However this game is powered for Android devices and available on Google Play Store under the action category but today we will let you know how to download and install the Merge Dragons for PC Windows 10/ 8/ 7 and Mac. We’ll tell you the method to download this game on your PC later in this article but before that let us have a look and know more about the game itself.
Moreover, Merge Dragons for PC came with some new features and some enhancement in the game play according to the preceding version of the game play.
- Discover over 500 fantastic objects to match
- Drag objects around the beautiful world
- Match 3 of a kind evolve them into better things
- Match nearly anything – plants, buildings, coins and treasures
- Fallen stars, magic objects, mythical creatures and more
- Match Life Essence and tap it to unleash power to heal the vale
- Discover the Gaia statues stuck in each level’s cursed land
- Match them to solve the puzzle and create life
- Discover 17 dragon breeds that live in the vale
- Evolve them through 8 growth stages for new dragons
- More than 600 quests to challenge your mind
- Test your puzzle solving skills in more than 140 tricky levels
- Quests and rewards to help you build your dragon camp
To discover more you have to download this wonderful game and start playing on your PC or Mac. Merge Dragons for Windows 10/ 8/ 7 or Mac has all the features which are seen in the game for the android or iOS devices. Below is the guide to let you know how to download and install Merge Dragons for the Computers.
Required Apps to install Merge Dragons on Windows 10/ 8/ 7 or Mac:
You need to download any of the following apps on your device to play the Merge Dragons game for PC.
1- BlueStacks App Player: Download
2- Andy App Player: Download
3- YouWave App Player: Download
4- iPadian: Download
How to Download Merge Dragons for PC using BlueStacks:
1- Make sure that you have downloaded the BlueStack App Player.
2- Open the BlueStack
3- Tap on the search icon and type “Merge Dragons”
4- Once searched click on the game icon
5- Tap on Install that’s it.
How to download Merge Dragons for PC using Andy App Player:
1- Download the Andy App Player from given link above.
2- Open Andy App Player.
3- Search for the “Merge Dragons”
4- Click on install to install the game on PC and stare playing!
How to Download Merge Dragons for PC using YouWave App:
1- Download the YouWave App Player from the above given link.
2- Open the YouWave app player
3- Tap on search and type “Merge Dragons”
4- Install the game
5- Now tap on the icon and play the installed game.
How to Download Merge Dragons for iOS on PC:
1- Open iPadian player
2- Tap on the AppStore icon.
3- Go to Search and type the “Merge Dragons”
4- If the App is available on App store, click on Get to download the game.
5- Download and play the game.
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Statistics look encouraging at the start of a career in medicine. Roughly equal numbers of men and women graduate medical school; Drexel University College of Medicine graduated an equal number of men and women in 2018. But when those students graduate, and further advance into their careers, the field is increasingly male. Women are 36 percent of physicians and 16 percent of medical school deans. In publishing, women make up one in five senior authors in academic medical literature (although the number is on the rise), and seven percent of editors-in-chief at major medical journals. Discrimination and bias against women in health care infiltrates hiring, pay, promotion, and other critical aspects of a career, reports a study earlier this year in The Lancet.
Combatting this and other persistent factors leading to these disparities, Drexel’s Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program actively works to close gender gaps and prepare high achieving, qualified women for executive positions in academic and healthcare institutions worldwide.
Since 1995, ELAM has offered a one-year fellowship for senior level women faculty possessing the greatest potential for executive leadership at academic health centers within the next five years. In just the past year alone, 69 program graduates started a leadership role and 38 garnered an award or a board appointment.
To learn more about progress in gender equity and inclusion in medicine and the necessary next steps in this effort, the Drexel News Blog spoke with Nancy D. Spector, MD, executive director of ELAM and professor of Pediatrics at the College of Medicine.
Why does gender inequity matter in medicine?
Gender inequity in medicine is bad for women, bad for patients and bad for healthcare as an industry. Diverse teams are stronger, more productive and perform better financially. There is evidence that in some cases patients who are treated by female physicians have lower odds of death. So, all of us lose when women are held back.
This past winter, the Lancet published a groundbreaking issue focused on gender equality in science and medicine and the costs to society of inequity. Achieving gender equity can mean real and positive differences in health and healthcare and economic growth.
We’re seeing a rise in the number of women in health care, but that has not come with a comparable rise in gender inclusion. How can we advance more highly qualified women into leadership roles in academic medical centers?
Yes, it’s true that women account for the majority of the U.S. healthcare workforce, and that women are now the majority of medical school applicants and matriculants. But when it comes to leadership roles, women are lagging, and this is not because of a lack of qualified women. It is because of bias and discrimination, and study after study shows this. It has taken 53 years to get from zero women medical school deans to the 27 women deans who are now in this role.
It’s going to take a dual approach to achieve equity in leadership. We need to expand the leadership skills and network for women through leadership programs like ELAM. At the same time, we need to make systemic change in the policies and culture at our academic medical centers. This means that our institutional leaders, professional societies, journal editorial boards and hospital boards have to commit to making equity a priority, and back it up with the financial resources and standardized policies needed to make real change happen.
There are a number of ways institutions can move the needle towards equity:
· Make Implicit bias training mandatory for searches for leadership
positions and selection committees
· Include a diversity champion on every search committee
· Ensure that there are at least two women finalists in every search (The
odds of hiring a woman are 79 times greater if there are at least two
women in the finalist pool.)
· Establish policies and systems to allow people with family
responsibilities more time for promotion
· Use other open recruitment techniques
· Make performance evaluation objective
· Ensure a critical mass of women leaders
· Welcome women back who step away
How can institutions address persistent gender pay disparities in healthcare?
Metrics and transparency are key here. Institutions need to conduct salary analyses and form review boards to explain compensation differences or hire outside experts to do so. There needs to be a clear compensation philosophy and policies that articulate a vision of gender equity.
Institutions need to track and share faculty and clinical salaries and use benchmark data from organizations such as the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) to determine starting salary. A useful tool that was recently published is the AAMC’s Promising Practices for Understanding and Addressing Salary Equity at U.S. Medical Schools which outlines the many ways to help implement salary-equity initiatives including the starting point of creating a plan to design and conduct a salary-equity study, and then committing to doing these salary-equity studies regularly.
In honor of ELAM celebrating its 25th anniversary in May 2020, what are some of the program’s major achievements and what is ahead for the program?
ELAM has grown so much in 25 years. What started out as a program with an initial class of 25 fellows from medical schools, has become today what is seen as the preeminent longitudinal leadership training program for senior women faculty at medical, dental, public health and pharmacy schools. We have a class of 61 fellows enrolled for 2019-20, and more than 1,000 alumnae in leadership positions at 259 academic institutions around the country. About half of the women deans of medical schools are graduates of our program.
We collaborate with national leaders and organizations in the gender equity movement like the Women Leaders in Global Health Initiative, which is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As Executive Director of ELAM, I am one of the founding members of Time’s Up Healthcare, and thanks to Daniel Schidlow, MD, dean of the College of Medicine, Drexel became one of the first institutional signatories of Times Up Healthcare.
We’re incredibly excited to celebrate all of the program’s accomplishments, and the incredible accomplishments of its alumnae, at our anniversary on May 1, 2020. As we look to 2020 and beyond, we’re excited to explore the development of a second ELAM program that would be geared to women interested in C-suite executive (CMO, CEO) positions.
You explained recently in the Journal of Hospital Medicine that sponsorship can dramatically shape a woman’s career—to the benefit of all. Sponsorship goes beyond mentorship, right? How can leaders, regardless of gender, be a helpful sponsor to women in healthcare?
Sponsorship is recognized as a critical piece in the puzzle of how to help advance women’s careers, no matter their level. This is true for trainees, junior, mid-level and senior level women physicians. And you’re right – sponsorship is different from mentorship. A mentor provides feedback, strategies and advice. Sponsorship goes beyond this and focuses on the advancement of the protegee. Sponsors leverage their own power to publicly advocate for their protegees.
For women and underrepresented minorities, sponsorship is especially important. And sponsors don’t need to look like you. In fact, having sponsors of different genders and race and from different areas of medicine can be incredibly impactful because they offer diverse perspectives to the challenges you may encounter. There should be formalized sponsorship programs at institutions, and the top leadership should set the expectation that sponsorship is an essential component of good leadership.
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Here we have a woman
Maria Gaetana Agnesi, born in Milan in 1718
a child prodigy who spoke
seven languages by age nine,
who is practically a saint
(her father having denied her
request to join a convent
she bargains down to
not having to attend dances),
who after ten years of work
publishes a two-volume treatise of mathematics
which enjoys widespread success
and was the classical textbook in the field
until Euler’s own work,
who then drops mathematics entirely
and dedicates herself to the care of the sick
and starts a hospital motivated
only be her love of humanity…
Sorry to interrupt, but what’s with the witch already?
It’s a long story, the usual one:
Maria Gaetana studied a curve
(already studied by none other than Fermat)
called “versiera” from the Latin “vertere”
which sounds like “avversiera”
meaning “the adversary” or someone
associated (you guessed it) with the devil.
Add to this John Colson, Professor of Mathematics at
who mistranslates “curve” as “witch”
and there you have it:
the saint becomes the witch.
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Worklessness is an important public health issue at both local and national level and is highlighted in many health and wellbeing strategies, devolution plans and in the Five Year Forward View and Sustainability Transformation Plans for the NHS.
With combined costs from worklessness and sickness absence amounting to over £100bn annually, greater than the annual budget of the NHS and equivalent to the GDP of Portugal, there is a strong economic case as well as a moral and ethical case for greater action.
There is also a clear evidence base that shows that for the majority of people being in ‘good work’ is better for their health than being out of work.
‘Good work’ means having not only a work environment that is safe but also having a sense of security, autonomy, good line management and communication within an organisation.
Long term conditions
One in three employees currently have a long term health condition, one in seven report having more than one diagnosis and by 2030 it is estimated that 40% of the working age population will have a long term condition.
The statistics say it all - it’s hard to avoid the fact that this is a significant issue for employers.
Supporting people with long term conditions to remain in work is generally more cost effective for employers than losing the knowledge, experience and the direct and indirect costs of recruitment and replacement.
Many companies will be aware of this, and will already have systems in place to help prevent health issues before they arise, such as mental health first aid training.
Creating a culture where talking about health conditions is a good place for companies to start. One in three employees with a long term condition will have not discussed it with their employer, and only 52% have access to occupational health support through their work.
This reflects the scale of the challenge to tackle stigma around having an honest conversation about health problems.
Companies need to get the right support in place for both staff and their line managers in order to maximise the potential of individuals whilst keeping them productive and engaged in work.
This week we partnered with the Work Foundation to publish a suite of infographics that aim to help raise awareness and understanding of the relationship between health, work and worklessness.
They are designed to illustrate the context for supporting the health of the UK workforce, as well as those who are currently workless.
The infographics include specific sections on mental health, musculoskeletal issues and issues for younger and older workers, which are two of the main causes for sickness absence.
As part of the package, there are also infographics focused on data around worklessness, highlighting different health conditions in the context of employment support allowance claims.
For instance, 48% of ESA claimants have mental health and behaviour disorders and 13% have musculoskeletal issues, so there is real potential here to support people to manage their conditions and help them remain in positive and constructive employment.
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Commerce releases North Dakota COVID-19 Community Impact Survey
16 Apr 2020
The North Dakota Department of Commerce encourages all North Dakota residents to participate in the North Dakota COVID-19 Community Impact Survey.
Led by Commerce’s Main Street Initiative team in partnership with other state agencies, the survey opened to the public this week and already has provided valuable input that will help structure future programs and outreach.
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Natalie's Ramonda pavilion
Biljana Jović, Komnenov Mirjana
Natural shapes are increasingly used as inspiration for design. Flower forms stand out because of their beauty, so we find them inspiring. The species of choice for us is Ramonda nathaliae P. et P., characterized by unusual traits of poikilohidry and limited range. Its flower shape is simple and consistent, and therefore a suitable basis for the extraction of the form to be used for generative modeling. We transformed the surface of flower petals into the Voronoi pattern, generated them using software tools, and developed them in the model of the Natalie's Ramonda pavilion. | <urn:uuid:62634542-f23a-4cc8-b663-0cb8b03010c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | http://admc2017.graphicscience.jp/finalist/10_index_detail.html | 2022-10-07T22:46:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338280.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007210452-20221008000452-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.879786 | 147 | [
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With Hybrid mode of operations post pandemic, workplace being everywhere, increased adoption of cloud and digital technologies have meant greater agility and flexibility for organizations, with increased in attack surface which significantly enhanced security risks and vulnerabilities.
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Small but perfectly formed.
The new JBL home cinema
After trying two rooms for the JBL home cinema I found the one with the longest length to be a troublesome type and so I have settled on a smaller room.
One was the (chimney breast) that stuck out mid way in the room, by (18Ē depth) by (61Ē width), so I decided to abandon the room with the 15 foot length and go with a more easier room that will still need a few basic modifications done to it.
I plan to make a secondary floor for the (JBL home cinema) to help with vibrations from LCR surrounds, sub bass extension and LFE.1.
Bass is fairly neutral due to the concrete flooring I guess, less (boom), just a natural sounding tone, unlike the last place, where it was a bit bass heavy at the back.
What you see here is only temporarily, this will nether be placed at the back of room around summertime, when I have the budget to buy a few professional 19Ē racks, Samson, studio racks.
Roomís dimensions are
Length 11 feet10Ē
Width 10 feet 9Ē
Height 7 feet 7Ē
Yeah thatís small and I plan to shorten the height by has much as (2 Ĺ inches) with (2x2 timbre) and (15mm MDF or other) for the top part of the flooring. It shouldnít cost no more than £80.00 the MDF will be the costly part of the material but not as much as the timbre beams as I only need around 6 or 7 spaced out evenly, over its length.
JBL control 1 fall in stand to attention!
Hereís my surround arsenal of battle troops ready to provide all the trills and spills on the surround channels.
JBL control 5 I must say sound better in a room with concrete flooring, this helps to eliminate rattles and buzzing sounds! Not to mention sub bass and LFE.1 frequencies.
Its kinder difficult to get a wide angle of the front because of the field of depth, the camera can only see what it can see, I can get very tight angles, but the sides are cropped off a bit.
Now this would be great to place underneath the (timbre beams) or more rather the timber beams placed on top to add a little extra isolation.
Door to the JBL home cinema room, will hath to be switched around to opened in the opposite direction, due to the raised flooring.
Horizontal platform for the front loudspeakers LCR will be placed 1Ē above the TV monitor and angled downwards, the length of the platform will extend the roomís width, depth of the platform will be the same as the JBL 4645 sub 18Ē to keep it flush.
That is the question, what am I to do with 10 JBL control 1, now I can still place these on the sidewalls and rear wall and a few on the ceiling. Iím thinking I can set:
x2 for sidewall
x2 for centre back surround
x4 for height surround when available
And thatís pushing it, not quite to the original plan as I hoped and planed for, which was x16 I think?
Anyway all this, will be done over the course of the summertime no rush and there is a slim budget, as I have to mange other priorities that kinder remain on the top, but there will be a slow transformation.
Thereís only one in the JBL home cinema that will be blocked up with two layers of MDF cut to size. First off Iíll place a window blind in front, to give the illusion on the outside that I have the blinds closed for privacy, which isnít far from the truth.
First layer of MDF will have a small bit of timber placed around the outside, then attached to the (window frame) securely. Next Iíll place a thin layer of (rock wool) inside it securely. Last off the second layer of MDF will be screwed to the other piece. This should reduce the traffic noise, as too what sound pressure level I have no data on this as for now, Iíll hath to wait until I get around to doing it.
Iíll take RTA readings with SPL db level metre, for a few hours note the average and the install the frame, after which I can take more readings and see if thereís been a reduced noise level, as the traffic around here is noisy during the night. Also thereís an airport nearby, Hurn international, with a few jets taking off and approaching as well.
The roof, now thereís nothing I can do about the roof, I think its (sound) so thereís no need to look that, unless I can hear (heavy rainfall) but since Iíve been here, I havenít noticed it, with the past rainfall.
Additional absorption DIY
(Bass tarps) is out of the question, by the time Iíve stuck those in the room, I wonít have room to swing a cat around! So adsorption panels placed on the wall surfaces will suffice to add further adsorption.
(Rock wool) will be used for the panels, a soft layer placed onto a thin layer of MDF along with a (colourful fabric) for cosmetic appearance.
Interior decorative lighting system
Neon lighting will be the theme a basic red green and blue placed around the room in a hoarse shoe configuration that will be concealed near to the ceilings curve.
This will have a computerized controller when turned on will cycle though a sequence, on delay, dimming one colour and fading in the next colour, and so on.
12 volt neon is the simplest, the same type that is used for cars.
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Parkville Teen Finds Her Voice Setting Lyrics To Video-Game Music
But when her phone rings, the ring tone is the original Super Mario Brothers theme for the Nintendo Entertainment System. A plush doll of Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega systems swings in the backseat of her car, and the music playing inside is from video games.
“That’s all I listen to, pretty much,” Fischer says, sitting in the Panera Bread at Towson Place. Blond and blue-eyed, she speaks thoughtfully and with a sweet Maryland drawl, wearing Vans and a track jacket with Link from the Legend of Zelda game for NES and the words olde school emblazoned on the back. “Like, I tried to listen to normal music, but it’s just not me, you know.”
Born in Baltimore and raised in Parkville—where she still lives with her family, commuting to and from Villa Julie College as a first-year student—the 18-year-old singer, who performs and records under the stage name pIENESS, grew up surrounded by video games and music. Her father, Thomas, and two older brothers, Matt and Jared (an occasional City Paper contributor), play guitars and drums, and her older sister, April, played keyboard. Video games were always in the house, and Fischer spent a great amount of time watching her family members play.
“My mom would play Tetris when I was a baby,” she says. “The first Nintendo, yup. That’s the only game she liked, actually. And then I liked to just watch my brothers play and beat the games, and that was really cool.”
Fischer bought her first mainstream music CD, Green Day’s Dookie, when it came out in 1994, but as she got older video-game music won out over everything else. She discovered the internet as a source for her favorite songs and soundtracks, and no longer did she have to play the games to hear those tunes. After a few stints as drummer/singer for different bands—“it’s hard to keep up the beat and sing at the same time,” she says—Fischer switched over to listening to video-game music exclusively. She played it so much that she began to think about doing something more with it. In 2003, pIENESS was born: video-game music with vocals.
“I just listen to it so much that words would come to me, for certain songs,” Fischer says. “If you listen to a lot of it, it sounds like there’s a melody being played by some kind of instrument or something that should have vocals. That’s just what I go along with. It sounded like it was missing something, and I thought, Oh, it would be really cool if I made a song out of it.”
And make songs she did. Fischer started recording as pIENESS two years ago by singing into a computer with video-game music in the background. Now, she works on vocal and video-game tracks separately in her basement, experimenting with GarageBand, recording software made by Apple. Six electric guitars stand nearby alongside a drum set, a filtered microphone, and a PA system; elsewhere in the basement are tubs full of video games, an NES, and a Sega Master System. “We even had ColecoVision,” Fischer admits. “But I don’t know what happened to it.”
Her first solo gig was in early 2004 at a church in Hamilton, as the opening act for an all-punk concert, using just a microphone and a CD player. Fischer recorded a duet with guitarist Temp Sound Solutions (aka Shawn Phase, a friend of her oldest brother, Matt [No Cover, Aug. 11, 2004]) to the soundtrack of the DuckTales game for NES. Later that year, she created a MySpace profile (www.myspace.com/pieness), which led to her song “eASTER” being played on 98 Rock last Easter. 98 Rock DJ Don Koenig had befriended her on MySpace and asked to borrow it.
“I actually couldn’t hear the actual song, because I was screaming the whole time” it was on the air, she says. “It was exciting. I think it’s kind of neat.”
Also neat is how well Fischer and her lyrics mesh with video-game tracks. For “This Race,” set to music from the racing game F-Zero for Super NES, she sings in a mellow alto, her vocals jumping together with a tense, dissonant background. Her voice highlights and accentuates “Churches Bridges,” which uses a MIDI version of music from the Sega Master System game Columns. And “Ice Fing Castle,” set to music from the Super NES game Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, is dramatic and swarthy with gothlike vocals over a churning, ethereal, roughly metallic mix.
Short and catchy—each piece runs anywhere from one to two minutes—pIENESS’s songs make you want to play them over and over, like video games. They’re made even more addictive with easy-to-remember verses. Take, for example, the lyrics to head-bopping “Double Dragon,” set to the remixed theme of the game of the same name for Super NES: “I wanna play Double Dragon/ I wanna play Super Dragon/ I wanna play Double Dragon/ I wanna play Super Double Dragon.”
It’s not Bob Dylan, but Fischer isn’t exactly working in a traditional songwriting idiom. She taps into a nascent young subculture riffing on video-game music that has sprouted up in the past few years—see also the aforementioned Shawn Phase, the Minibosses, the Neskimos, Norway’s Press Play on Tape—musicians who treat game music like found-object sound sources. Fischer herself, while citing Halo 2 as one of her current favorite video games to play, considers herself more a game devotee than a gamer. (“I’m horrible at them,” she confesses.) She’s just into the music, especially the older stuff.
“I like to hear that video-game sound—it’s just so unique and different, and it doesn’t have annoying people singing over it already,” she says, laughing. “I can stand some normal music, like some metal, stuff like that. Heavy stuff. But I prefer that unique sound. . . . I guess it’s just because I grew up with it. There’s just something about the older games. Newer games, they’re OK, but they don’t have the same feeling as the older games. The newer games are always trying to be realistic, and that kind of takes away from the whole video-game idea, I think.”
And, as 18-year-olds did with punk, hip-hop, and rock ‘n’ roll before her, Fischer doesn’t waste time dissecting what it is about video-game music that so enthralls her. She, quite simply, knows what she likes. “It’s really fun for me,” she says. “It kind of makes me stand out, you know, good or bad. I think a lot of people find it interesting, and I like seeing their reaction to it, like either they recognize it, or they’re just like, ‘Hey, that’s different.’”
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The Olympic Games kicked off this weekend, and I haven’t been able to turn away. Yes, there are the feats of athletic prowess, and sure, it is always interesting to learn the finer points of an obscure sport. (Am I the only American looking forward to handball?)
But mostly, I’m tuning into the Olympics for the names – both those that seem prime for importing to the United States, and those that are just plain interesting. A few days ago, Sarah explained that Zamzam, the name of the Somali athlete competing in the 400 meter dash and bearing the flag for her country in the Parade of Nations, is actually a religious appellation, a reference to a sacred well visited by those on pilgrimage toMecca.
It’s too soon to say if a superstar will emerge from the games, another Nadia Comaneci to inspire parents to borrow her name for their daughters. The biggest baby name influence from the 2012 Games could be the host city’s name: London. We’ll have to wait and see – and watch, to see if any of those handball players inspire us.
The nine newsiest names of this week all point toEngland:
Olympia – Mount Olympus was the home of the gods in Greek myth, and a Greek princess called Olympias was the mother of Alexander the Great. One of Edouard Manet’s most famous paintings is of a courtesan called Olympia. That’s a steady history of use, and yet Olympia is off most parents’ radar. She’s a possible alternative to Olivia, with an unmistakably athletic vibe.
Dolly – Well, hello, Dolly! English reality star Chantelle Houghton gave birth to her first child back on June 17, but she and fiancé Alex Reid struggled to settle on a name. They’re not the first high profile parents to revive the early twentieth century appellation – American actors Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell welcomed twins called Charlie and Dolly back in 2008.
Charlotte – Charlie reminds me – do you know the name of the very first woman victor at the Olympics? It’s England’s Charlotte Cooper, a tennis champion who also claimed the Wimbledon trophy five times. Charlotte makes for a regal, enduring choice – and one with a subtle tie to the international sporting event.
Philippa – Speaking of royals, we didn’t see the world’s most famous sister-in-law at the opening ceremonies, but Philippa was in the news for another reason. German baroness Isabella Shorlemer welcomed a daughter called Philippa Ina Anna Maria Yves Hieronyma. If that’s not news enough, Philippa’s dad is restauranteur Jo Laggner, and mom was the headline-grabbing age of 54 when the happy coupled announced their news.
Fox India – Take That frontman Mark Owen has an affection for nature names – his folder kids are Elwood Jack and Willow Rose. Now he and wife Emma have welcomed a third child, Fox India. A boy named Fox would’ve fit right in. The same is true of a girl called India. But it seems like a strange combination for a daughter.
Nico – While we’re talking singers, you might not recognize Israeli-born crooner Keren Ann by name, but her music has been featured on high profile television shows like Grey’s Anatomy. Now she has a daughter with an equally musical appellation: Nico, as in the Velvet Underground chanteuse.
Stratford – Back to the Games. London Olympic Park stands on an extensively re-developed site, an area known as Stratford. Among the wackier celeb-related Olympic rumors? Victoria and David Beckham are said to be planning a fifth child, and should he happen to arrive roughly nine months after the closing ceremonies? It is also said that Stratford could be the little one’s given name.
August – It is the summer games, after all, so let’s end with a seasonal appellation, with a subtle tie to the British royal family. Zeffy’s post on Georgian era names includes some surprising facts about Augustus and Augusta.
Have you been watching the Olympics? Are there any Games-related names that you might use for a child?
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I am sending this to everyone who received my initial email "HELP!" in search of the dog trainer Wolf Spirit(Barrie Tierney.) Despite a very involved search, and a wild goose chase to Frederick, we were unable to locate him, however, with the help of Judi and Barbara, I found the "Pittsburgh Dog Whisperer," Joe Orsino, who has Mr. O's, the Dog Training Place, in Lower Burrell, PA. He is a miracle worker!
In case you know someone who is desperate for help, this is the guy. Lady Jane, to refresh memory, had a major problem with aggressive behavior toward smaller animals, a very dangerous situation here, because we have 3 cats, squirrels, birds, and small dogs visiting, etc.
We went up on Sunday, I dropped her off on Monday morning at 10, and she was fully trained by 5 THAT DAY! I went for instruction at 6(IN A SNOWSTORM)and we spent about an hour on my training. Both of us "old dogs" learned new tricks!
We then went outside in the snowstorm so that Joe could show me how Lady
would go to the bathroom on command. Previously, she would not go potty
without a long walk, marking everything along the way! This, of course,
made it very difficult in winter weather. He had her on a 6-foot lead, so
she had a six-foot radius around him. When he said, "Go to the bathroom,"
she squatted immediately! I have continued this, and it works every time!
Joe had worked Lady Jane with his little Shih Tzu, Tiger Lily, that day,
and he instructed me to immediately expose her to the cats upon arrival
home. She was perfect, and continues to be so, even on our walks when
meeting smaller dogs. Before the training she would lunge, bark, snarl,
and was out of control, not to mention scaring the little dogs out of
their wits! She is a little doll now, has done a complete turnaround,
waiting at my side on command for the little ones to come and greet her.
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Boxer – 3 years old - Hyperactive and
My name is Laura Kussew, my dog’s name is Strongheart. He is an 80# Boxer. I rescued him from a shelter 2 years ago. He was very bad, jumped on everyone and was extremely hyper all the time. I couldn’t walk him on a leash he would always pull me down. Plus, he would pee on everything. I was ready to take him back to the shelter. I ended up taking him to Petco for 7 weeks. It was a total failure and he actually got worse. I took him to Mr. O, who trained him in one day. I couldn’t believe the change in his behavior. It was the first time I had ever seen him calm. I now take him everywhere with me, he walks beautifully on the leash. It took Mr. O longer to train my husband than it did for him to train my dog. Now my husband and I can truly love our dog and he is the most important part of our lives. Mr. O is a miracle worker!
Boxer – 1 year old – Timid and separation anxiety
dog’s name is Lacey. We adopted from Oakland County Michigan Shelter.
She was 8 months old. Lacey was very timid and had severe separation anxiety problems. She wouldn’t listen to anything and was impossible to housetrain. We were very afraid she was going to bite our 2 year old daughter out of fear. She was becoming very possessive of my wife, Kim. She would growl at people when she would become afraid. She was afraid of everything. We took her to numerous trainers, no one was able to help her behavior. We love Lacey very much and couldn’t stand the fact that we would have to take her back to the shelter. Then we talked to a friend of ours from Pittsburgh, who told us Mr. O trained his dog, who was very afraid also. The training made him a different dog. Mr. O trained Lacey in his one day program, the difference in Lacey is truly amazing. Her separation anxiety is almost gone. She is no longer afraid on everything. Most importantly we don’t have to worry about her biting our daughter any more. Mr. O you are a true Saint, the trip from Michigan was well worth it!
John and Kimberly Kirkland
Two Dogs Trained – Pitbulls – 2 & 3 years old - Dog Aggression & Fear Biters
I had two dogs trained by Mr. O, Rocko, a 3 year old Pitbull. He had people and dog aggression issues. We had him since he was 8 weeks old. Adriene, a 2 year old Pitbull, we adopted him from a shelter at 4 months old. Rocko was very hyper, he tried to bite everyone that came to our house. We couldn’t walk him on the leash, every time he saw another dog her would try to attack it. Adriene, was very afraid of people and everything else. We couldn’t have anybody over at our house, because everyone was afraid of our dogs. I always wanted to take the dogs to work with me, at my gym. But , I couldn’t even think about doing that. I brought my dogs to Mr. O because I talked to several of him clients that had similar problems, that Mr. O fixed. Now I have friends that can come to my house and my dreams of taking my dogs to work with me is now a reality.
Natrona Heights, PA
Lab – 5 months – Hyperactive
My dog’s name is Jamie. I bought this dog for my 5 year old articulate son for companionship. But, Jamie was so very hyper and out of control; she would keep jumping and chewing on my son. I took her to 8 weeks of puppy classes, that didn’t do anything at all for her behavior. I was very frustrated and thought I would have to give the puppy back. I heard about Mr. O from people in my church. Mr. O trained my puppy in one day and now Jamie and my son are best friends. My son can walk to puppy everywhere, it was a miracle.
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Australian Shepherd mix – Unsocialized
and Aggressive Behavior
My dog’s name is Barney, a 1 ½ year old Aust. Shepherd mix. We rescued Barney when he was 2 months old. He would constantly nip at clothing and your hands. He would growl and bark excessively at people when we would walk him. He would become very hyper and aggressive when we would try to correct his behavior. There was only a few times during the day that he would be calm. We had very little peace in the house. It was hard and exhausting. We tried all types of training, but nothing would work. We read the testimonials about Mr. O’s training and he was our last resort. Now, that Mr. O trained Barney he is now calm and relaxed. We learned how to interact productively and in a healthy way with our dog. He is a happier and less stressful dog. He is truly a joy to be around.
Bull Masstiff – 6 months old - Dog Aggression & Very Manipulative
Our dog’s name is Kyzar. He was dominating and fighting terribly with our other dog everyday. We could not control Kyzar outside or on walks. She was very manipulating with us. We were considering getting rid or Kyzer as her behavior was out of control. At times I cried out of frustration. We took her to Petsmart, but they were clearly not use to working with a large breed puppy and I got no help with her dominating behavior. I saw Mr. O’s ad and after visiting his website, I knew he was the one for us. She came home like a different dog. She no longer dominants our Boxer, does excellent on walks, and is a pleasure to have. We now have a peaceful home. We take Kyzer everywhere, she is happier and no longer fights with our other dog.
German Shepherd – 1 ½ year old – Fear
Duke is a German Shepherd, he was adopted from the ASPCA in York , PA. He was very mouthy and uncontrollable around other dogs. We were afraid to take him around other dogs and people. We tried to use an E-collar training, but it just made his behavior worse. We took him to Petsmart for 11 months of training. He ended up biting someone at Petsmart. We were terrified that he was going to bite someone very badly. My family heard about Mr. O from some of their friends. Mr. O trained Duke is his one day program. Duke now listens and understands the word no. I can walk him without worrying, people can now pet him and other dogs can approach him. Mr. O thank you so very much!
Lab/German Shorthair Pointer mix – 8
months old – Very Hyper and Controlling
Our dog’s name is Harley, a Chocolate Lab/ German Shorthair Pointer Mix. We adopted him from German Shorthair Rescue in WV. There were several behavioral problems, constantly licking and jumping on people. He had no attention span what so ever and was always trying to manipulate. My fiancé and I were constantly frustrated from this behavior. Walking Harley on a leash was impossible. My finance was constantly telling me to get rid of the dog. We spoke to other obedience trainers at local pet stores and another private trainer, but didn’t think they had the knowledge to work with our dog. We met Mr. O at the Home Show in Pittsburgh; we were extremely impressed by his knowledge of dogs. Mr. O solved all of the behavioral problems that we were encountering. Harley is no longer hyper, walks very well on the leash, pays strict attention to the commands he is given, comes on command, and he enjoys playing with the neighbors dogs. My fiancé and Harley are now best friends. The video I purchased from Mr. O helps reinforce that training provided by Mr. O. We are no longer frustrated by Harley’s behavior; he is such a trained dog. All of our neighbors are very impressed by Harley’s training.
Bogie- 1 year old Papa-poo
Bogie was given to us at 7 months old; after we had him for a month we understood why the owner would give away such a cute and very expensive dog. Bogie had an extremely aggressive attitude. Especially around his crate or toys. He would bite neighbor kids if they took or even touched any of his toys. We had to keep him away from people especially kids. We would smack him when he would be aggressive, but these measures just made the experience worse. We knew Bogie had a good side and we had to find it.
We took him to numerous obedience classes, but it didn’t help his aggressive attitude when we called Mr. O we were very desperate because we knew that if we couldn’t fix him we would have to think about putting him down.
When we picked Bogie up at the end of the day’s training, there was an amazing difference in Bogie. Mr. O showed us how to work with him and the most important thing was he explained to us how to read and understand Bogie. Bogie would still try to use his scare tactics once in awhile, but now we could stop his behavior in a second thanks to Mr. O. He really did save Bogie’s life.
Grammy – 6 ½ year old German Shepherd Dog
I am Grammy’s second owner. Her first owner locked her in a cage for almost a year. He gave her to me; he said he didn’t have time for her. Being locked up for so long left her with many issues.
She became very un-socialized; she didn’t even know how to act outside of the cage. She was totally out of control, extremely dog aggressive, very possessive of toys, treats, food, and me. She was impossible to walk on a leash.
I have a dog sitting business out of my home, so Grammy has caused me lots of grief and money because she has attacked some of the dogs that I dog sit. I had to pay vet bills and I have lost business because of it.
I called lots of training places to get help, but they said there wasn’t very much that they could do about her dog aggression problem. Then I found Mr. O, he said he could guarantee results for her dog aggression. I liked the idea of having her trained in one day because I needed help fast. I loved this dog the first time I saw her and I didn’t want to lose her. But it was either lose her or my business.
Thanks to Mr. O Grammy is doing excellent and I was able to keep my business. I truly believe God sent Mr. O to me.
Chica - 1 ½ year old Chihuahua
We purchased Chica at Petland at 10 weeks of age. Chica was very hyperactive with absolutely no attention span, and no manners. Chica made our whole family frustrated. She was continually jumping all over us, my husband, our two girls and myself. She wouldn’t listen to anything and when we called her she would run in the other direction. She would not stop barking.
We tried lots of different training programs, but she seemed impossible to train. We had no clue what we were going to do with her. Mr. O was highly recommended by an employee of my husband, whom had a dog trained by Mr. O.
We noticed a 100% turn around with Chica after she went to Mr. O’s. She was so much calmer. Mr. O showed us how to work and communicate with Chica. Without Mr. O’s help Chica most definitely would not have lasted in our household.
Cindy and Michael Tedesco
Minx – 3 year old Siberian Husky
We acquired Minx through a breeder. Our problems with her were she was extremely hyper and would continually jump on people. She was impossible to walk on a leash. People did not want to come to our house because of her behavior.
We tried the clicker method, but it didn’t do anything for Minx whatsoever. We were giving up hope for her. Then some of our friends told us about Mr. O and how he did wonders for their dogs.
So, Minx went to Mr. O and now she is so tremendously calm, it’s like she is a different dog. She is a pleasure to walk on a leash. Thanks to Mr. O, Minx is now the perfect pet!
Maggie Mae - 4 year old Golden Retriever mix
We adopted Maggie from the Animal Rescue League of Western PA when she was about 6 months old. They told us although she appeared very calm she was in fact very active. They recommended Mr. O's training program saying he had done a wonderful job with a number of the other dogs.
We had no idea just how active she was. She knew very few basic commands and wouldn't listen to them anyhow. We contacted Mr. O and set up an appointment. Although we were skeptical of a one day training he offered us a guarantee he could get her to settle down and follow commands. When we picked her up we thought he had switched our dog. She was well behaved, calm, and listened to her commands.
She did such a good job Mr. O asked if he could use her to represent Mr. O's and the Animal Rescue League at the Westmoreland County Fair. We said yes. He took her and worked with her to learn to wear costumes and be less frightened of people. He said she did a great job at the fair and she has been doing great since then! You can see her Website at Maggie and Friends.
Gordon and Stacey Isherwood
Daisy – 1 year old Newfoundland
(A BIG DOG WITH A BIG ATTITUDE)
Daisy was purchased from a breeder at 8 weeks of age. Although I have successfully trained a lot of dogs, I couldn’t even remotely get anywhere with Daisy. She was so wild, always jumping on us and chewing our hands, and tackling us. She wouldn’t come to us no matter what we did. We couldn’t have people over to our house because of her unruly behavior. She acted like she had ADD!
I’ve tried a lot of different methods of training and discipline with Daisy but nothing worked, I was becoming extremely frustrated with the whole situation. I heard about Mr. O and liked what I read about his one day program. Daisy definitely needed the psychological part of Mr. O’s program.
Now Daisy has a wanting to please personality. She is much more calm. I’m now able to take her places that I always wanted to take her, like the Farmer’s Market. I don’t have to ever worry about her being out of control or not listening, even around strangers. Our whole household is so much calmer and happier now. Mr. O was a miracle worker!
Mary Ann Portman M.D.
Fox Chapel, PA
Levi – 3-year-old German Shepherd Dog
(Extreme Dog Aggression)
Levi was purchased from a breeder when he was 8 weeks old. Levi developed an extreme aggression towards other dogs. I couldn’t control him when we walked or when he would see another dog. Levi had a great personality and loved people, but whenever he would see another dog he would turn into Cujo!
I felt helpless that I couldn’t control him and thought I would never be able to take him anywhere. I had Levi to another trainer for almost a year and his techniques just weren’t working. I heard about Mr. O and after researching his extensive animal background I felt confident he could help me.
I was so right about Mr. O being able to help me. After Mr. O’s One Day Program I was able to control Levi no matter what dog we would encounter. What I was really impressed with was that Levi could now see dogs without getting out of control and we could walk by other dogs and he would actually ignore the dogs. There would be times when the other dogs might do something to provoke Levi and if Levi would start to get out of control I could correct him and he would immediately be back under control.
I feel so much more confident that I can take him anywhere and know that he will listen and respond to me. I just want to thank Mr. O so much for helping me.
New Kensington, PA
Mandy – eight month old Labrador Retriever
(Hyperactive and unruly behavior)
I’ve purchased Mandy as an 8-week-old puppy with the intensions of having her be a pet, but also for her to be able to perform some support dog duties for my companion who has MS. We especially wanted Mandy to be able to balance my companion when she would be walking. But Mandy became so hyper and out of control that she would jump on her or pull her to the ground. We were so afraid that Mandy was unintentionally going to cause bodily injury. We tried to discipline her with all types of methods that other trainers would tell us, but nothing was working. We were afraid that we would have to give her up which was heart breaking because my companion loved Mandy and felt so bad that she wasn’t able to control her.
My sister-in-law had her dog trained by Mr. O and we were very impressed with those results. We called Mr. O knowing that if he couldn’t help Mandy we would have to find Mandy another home. After Mr. O’s One Day Program, Mandy and my companion Lynn are almost inseparable. Mandy is so much more calm now. It seems that Mandy has such an ability to understand that it’s almost like Lynn and Mandy can read each other’s mind.
Thanks to Mr. O’s Mandy has a home and Lynn has a companion dog!
Lower Burrell, PA
Josie – 3 years old English Springer Spaniel Mix and Lucy – 5 years old Basset-Dachshund Mix
(Extremely submissive 2 dogs food oriented method that failed)
Josie’s issues – She was extremely submissive, afraid of everything, jumping on people continually when people were sitting on chair or couch, extreme barking, couldn’t walk on leash because of her fear of everything.
Lucy’s issues – She was almost identical to Josie. She was extremely submissive, excessive barking and whining at strangers and people who visited us. We could not get her to stop barking.
We could not have people visit us. It was impossible for us to relax at home because of our dogs continually bothering us. The dogs were out of control.
We tried everything – water bottle, yelling. We tried food oriented obedience program. That was a total waste of time. We were at our wits end.
We decided to use Mr. O because we saw how well his program rehabilitated Megan’s brother’s dog. Mr. O’s program built up our dogs’ confidence so that they were no longer afraid of things which made them a lot calmer and they no longer barked out of fear. They also learned that when we tell them no that they have to listen and will stop any behavior they are doing.
Mr. O’s program has made a huge impact on ours and our dogs’ lives. We can now relax and are able to enjoy our dogs. The dogs now are very friendly and calm with any company that comes to our house. Now they listen to us and they just do.
Thank you so very much Mr. O.
Megan & Peter Farkasovsky
Brittany - 10 month old Golden Retriever
(Hyperactivity – Continually jumping)
My dog’s name is Brittany. She is 10 months old. We are from New Florence, PA. Mr. O trained Brittany when she was 8 months old.
Brittany would not or could not stop jumping on people. She would not stop pulling on the leash when we walked her.
We were becoming extremely frustrated. We tried all kinds of methods from other trainers but nothing was working.
She is a large dog and we were afraid she would accidentally hurt someone. We had to keep her in her cage when company came. This was very disappointing because we have lots of friends come to visit so Brittany ended up in her cage a lot.
I had used Mr. O with another dot that I owned and that was extremely out of control that Mr. O did wonders with so we knew he could fix Brittany’s problems.
She now obeys all of her commands and she is really calm and focused. We can no have people over and not worry about her jumping. It is great to have our friends be able to enjoy her.
Thank you so very much Mr. O.
Brian & Jodi Kosczull
Thor – 1 year old Pug Chihuahua Mix
Thor was extremely hyper and would not calm down ever. He was always jumping on everyone and everything. He never listened to discipline.
I was always fed up with trying to control him and embarrassed to have people over to the house because of his behavior.
I tried spraying him with water, hitting his nose, holding him down and locking him in a room. Nothing worked.
I heard Mr. O’s program really worked and was guaranteed to make them calm down.
Now he is so well behaved. He doesn’t jump up and he listens when I correct him. He is like a new dog. I enjoy my time with him now. I am out any more. I can share him with my friends. Now Thor is happy to please us.
I thank Mr. O for saving my dog’s life.
Bella - 2 ½ year old Collie
(Shy – unsocialized – rough)
Bella is a 2 ½ year old Collie. We acquired her from a breeder in Monroeville, PA. We had her 2 years.
Bella would be so out of control around people, would not come and ate food off table.
We were continually chasing her around the house and yard to discipline her. We had to put her on a leash when people came.
We took her to Pet Smart obedience training, but it was useless.
We saw Mr. O’s on TV and thought he sounded good.
Now Bella is so well behaved. She doesn’t bark, sits, stays, comes when called and is now so well mannered when company comes. We no longer have to yell at Bella. She is so affectionate. We enjoy her so much more now.
Mr. O you are a miracle worker.
Lily was 5 months old
(Out of control puppy – Extremely manipulative behavior)
Lily was 5 months old when I got her. I had her 3 months.
Lily was always biting me and making me miserable. I didn’t understand it because I loved her so much, but I could not touch her or enjoy her. She would always bite me. I really thought I would have to give her up.
She wouldn’t listen to any discipline. I couldn’t even do anything with her on a leash. I could never have anyone visit me. It seemed I was scolding her all the time.
I decided to try Mr. O because I saw the results of his training with another dog that was out of control.
Now she is so much better. I can enjoy her by being able to pet her or do anything with her without her biting me or making me miserable. She is such a pleasure to be around. I can walk her or do anything with her now. She can be a playful puppy when I want her to be. Now she respects me no matter what or when I tell her something. Now we have a wonderful rapport.
Thanks Mr. O for allowing me to keep my wonderful puppy, Lily.
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Police investigate death of Laurel infant
Anne Arundel County police say they are investigating the death of a six-month-old boy found in a Laurel home.
Police say officers were called to the home on Edge Rock Way for a report of a death.
When officers arrived at the home, police say they found the boy dead inside the home.
Police say an autopsy will be performed and investigators are conducting interviews.
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I designed this puppy, because I wanted a realistic looking puppy that had really cute features. The feet on this puppy include paw prints, and also include spots all over the body. It also has safety eyes and a safety nose for the little ones in your life.
Hello, and welcome!! My name is Britteny. I am a wife to an amazing husband and a stay at home mom to two beautiful children. I taught myself to corochet whilst pregnant for my daughter. Please feel free to browse around and contact me! | <urn:uuid:35890e8f-2282-4cc4-bebc-eed3ce30cd57> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/crocheting/toy/spots-the-cute-puppy/56119 | 2014-04-19T02:03:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535745.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00080-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977724 | 107 | [
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1 bag Fresh Express Italian lettuce
4 bone-in chicken breast halves
Coarse salt and cracked black pepper
3 Tbsp. olive oil
2 lemons cut in half
4 cloves garlic, smashed
1 cup each green and yellow zucchini squash cut into 1/2 inch coins
1 cup each red and yellow bell pepper cut into 1/2 inch strips
1 tsp minced fresh thyme
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
Juice and zest of 2 lemons
½ tsp fine sea salt
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/3 cup Mascarpone cheese
1/4 cup freshly chopped Italian parsley
Prepare Chicken & Roasted Vegetables:
Make sure to rinse your chicken and pat it dry with paper towels, then season your chicken with salt and pepper.
Heat a large oven proof skillet with 2 tablespoons oil over medium heat. Brown chicken, skin side first, until golden brown, about 3 minutes on each side.
Add the lemons, garlic, summer squash and bell peppers, sprinkle the chicken with the fresh thyme and chili flakes and place pan in a 375 degree oven for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, lemon zest, olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt Add the Mascarpone cheese and whisk till smooth, add half the parsley and set aside.
Once chicken is cooked through, remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
When chicken is cool enough to handle, pull chicken off the bone and discard the bones. Place chicken and roasted summer squash on a clean plate.
To assemble salad, toss the Fresh Express Italian salad with the desired amount of dressing. Add the roasted chicken, summer squash and peppers and toss once again. Serve by dividing the salad onto four plates and drizzling with 2 teaspoons dressing and remaining freshly chopped parsley. | <urn:uuid:6c62890c-d654-49ec-9e36-0a62758d2749> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.freshexpress.com/recipe/chicken-roasted-summer-squash-salad-with-lemon-mascarpone-dressing.aspx | 2014-04-19T02:02:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535745.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00080-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.835301 | 386 | [
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Fashion Sidekicks- 09.20.07
Wow, what happens when you give 15 fashion designers sidekicks to do what they want with? Some pretty crazy fashion/artsy looking phones. My favorites are below, and the stand out is definitely this Justin Giunta for Subversive one… gold bees, everywhere. Also interesting were the cool bags that some of the designers made to go with these… like betsey johnson, coach, tommy hilfiger, diane von furstenberg, and more… (even philip lim and j. lo did phones ~ crazy group they arranged) These are all being auctioned on eBay, and you have 4 days left! 100% Benefiting Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. | <urn:uuid:712d3420-c4ba-4874-bcbd-1e5b11b24ff2> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.notcot.com/archives/2007/09/fashion-sidekic.php | 2014-04-19T03:22:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535745.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00080-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915922 | 152 | [
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Royce Waltman was the assistant coach for IU and the head coach for DePauw, UIndy and ISU during his career.
PBS's Independent Lens is airing "Medora", a documentary that follows the Medora, Ind. high school basketball team through a losing season.
IU athletic officials released a statement today announcing the transfers.
Freshman Noah Vonleh told CBSSports.com last night he is leaving Indiana for the NBA draft.
The DePauw women's basketball team begins its quest for a second straight national championship when it hosts round one of the NCAA Division III Championship.
Sports analysts are predicting a grim March Madness for Indiana teams across the state.
The men's basketball game between Indiana and Iowa that was cancelled Tuesday because of falling ceiling plates as Assembly Hall is rescheduled for Feb. 27th.
Research estimates high school athletes experience between 130,000 and 300,000 concussions every year.
Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall is being named in honor of alumna Cindy Simon Skjodt and her philanthropic organization, the Samerian Foundation.
The opening of the new rec center will mark the first time the the ladies basketball team has ever played a home game. | <urn:uuid:1f4d6ac3-ae76-4691-993c-de54ca3efdf0> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/tag/basketball/ | 2014-04-20T10:08:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609538110.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005218-00112-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962456 | 254 | [
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I'm excited to have become affiliated with Prints to Polka Dots. They are a fantastic UK online shop, with everything you need to quilt and more (check out the Slipper Gripper, I will so be making myself some slippers!!)
I know I've already recommended them to a few of you before and I have bought some great fabric from them since I started quilting. They have a good choice, particularly for children's prints, and I love their sales. They currently have some lovely Amy Butler, Valori Wells and Annela Hoey's Sherbert Pips prints on sale, as well as great scrap bags (they have lots of options and choices of scraps if you need some stash builders!) and budget bargains :)
The Pezzy quilt top (still waiting for wadding!)
My first embroidery attempt (still waiting to be framed!)
A Bee Blessed block (I sent it off to Judith today!)
A drawstring bag using Jeni's fabulous tutorial for my threads since I'm now an embroidery addict too!!
Stained QAL (see the button on the sidebar) - I've finished my first block and I'm totally in love :)
This is SO fun, goes together super easily and although my sewing isn't perfect I'm really happy so far!
I realised I made a mistake, sewing a couple of the same fabrics in the wrong place, so they're too close together but I'm not unpicking since I still like it ;)
- rose star blocks, I've basted some pieces for my next block but no actual sewing done yet
I've been perusing the internet looking at solids for the background for my Rose Star dilemma and I think I've fallen for the Kona Apple! I like the mint but am wondering about going brighter. The apple looks yummy to me. I'm still contemplating... I did try some darker colours but it doesn't look right. Huge thank you to you all for your input and ideas. I will do another mosaic if I can't make a decision soon!
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in progress: 3
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Apple Valley High School emphasizes educational excellence and innovation with a concern for mastering basic skills as a foundation for further study. Over 125 staff members are committed to curricular and co-curricular programs that prepare students for today and tomorrow while assisting them to appreciate the yesterdays from which their opportunities were generated.
Apple Valley High School offers over 300 required and elective trimester courses. This allows students a vast choice of opportunities and challenging experiences.
15 mathematics courses through Calculus BC, 5 years of Spanish, 4 years of French, German and Japanese Honors and advanced courses in Freshman English; Literature; Speech; Composition; Composition 1 and 2; Algebra II; Geometry; Pre-Calculus; Chemistry; Physics; Biology; Accounting; Spanish 2, 3, 4; Computer Applications; Dance Performance; Art; and Industrial Technology.
Advanced Placement courses in Studio Art, Language and Composition, Literature and Composition, European History, American History, U.S. Government/Politics, Biology, Chemistry, Calculus, Statistics, Advanced Placement Psychology and Macroeconomics.
College in the Schools (CIS) classes in Public Speaking, Anatomy and Physiology, Spanish V and Macroeconomics. The Apple Valley High School Media Center is an extension of the classroom and serves students research and information requirements. It provides 170 networked information computers which index encyclopedias, magazines and newspapers through on-line databases and a 200,000 Item collection which is searchable on the internet. Instructional Technology Center, (ITC), serves as the hub for development of curricular utilization of multimedia. Video, interactive TV, multimedia production, CD-ROM, scanners, and cable TV are components used in this process. All multimedia computers are networked and provide Internet searching for information. AVHS has a first class television production studio with cutting edge technology complete with several high-end editing suites. AVHS also is the origination site for the Districts Education cable TV channel, operating 24 hours each day of the year, providing district programming and information to District citizens.
Other Educational Programs Art - 34 courses Business Education - 28 courses Language Arts (English) - 36 courses Family and Consumer Science -12 courses World Language - 20 courses Industrial Technology - 29 courses Performing Art - 23 courses Physical Education/Health - 34 courses Science - 17 courses Social Studies - 14 courses Career Development - 33 courses and many Special Education and ELL Education courses
View the AVHS activities calendar
View available school documents
View staff contact information
AVHS Physics Web Page
Principal: Stephen Degenaar
Email: Contact Us
Assistant Principal: Michael Bolsoni
Email: Contact Us
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The state of Alaska and Offshore Systems Kenai presented opening arguments Tuesday in a case involving Nikiski residents' beach access via Nikishka Beach Road, which OSK has blocked for a year and a half. Kenai Superior Court Judge Anna M. Moran is presiding over the bench trial being held at the Kenai Superior Courthouse.
Assistant Attorney General Dana Burke, representing the state, argued that although the land in question has changed hands many times over the years, nothing the state, OSK or the Kenai Peninsula Borough did during the time each entity held a lease on the land changed the fact that a public access right of way existed.
"A private business cannot turn that public access into private property," Burke said. "You can't turn a public road into a private road."
At the end of 2007, OSK erected a security checkpoint past the platted road, restricting public access to the beach. OSK blocked access in order to comply with provisions of the Marine Transportation Security Act of 2002.
OSK's land was once owned by the federal government. It was later selected by the borough, prior to being acquired by OSK. However, according to the title search, previous rights of way and easements still attach to the property.
In a report to the Borough Assembly in January of last year, Land Management Officer Marcus Mueller said a state-owned 100-foot-wide right of way to the beach borders Nikishka Beach Road and extends beyond the platted portion to the shore of Cook Inlet. It is under the jurisdiction of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. Meanwhile, a 50-foot-wide easement along the mean high water line provides contiguous access along the shore pursuant to state code.
Burke said Nikishka Beach Road was constructed to provide access past where OSK's security gate now stands and that the gate must be removed.
He went on to say that despite the fact that the paved road ends at OSK's guard shack, public access still extends all the way to the beach.
"When you have a paved road that goes to a beach, you don't build asphalt down to sand," he said.
Weather, tides and erosion are just some of the factors that make constructing a road to the beach impractical, Burke said. Hence, it's not significant in this case that the pavement ends before it reaches the beach.
Ron Baird, representing OSK, said the existence of a physical road doesn't necessarily indicate the existence of a public right of way.
Someone can't go onto a piece of property willy-nilly, then later claim there's a right of way somewhere, Baird said.
Burke also cited several years of public use in his opening statement. He said the history of maintenance as well as decades of personal use of the road to reach the beach shows OSK's knowledge of the public access right of way boundaries.
"All of that access was through the area of where the gate now stands," Burke said, reiterating the gate should be eliminated.
Baird, on the other hand, said the original leaseholder, James Arness, built the road and a dock in the 1960s. There has never been any reference to a right of way in any the documentation surrounding the land, Baird said.
Arness' original five-year lease stated he shall not prevent the public from using the road, however, Baird said the subsequent 55-year lease did not include such language.
"That lease does not refer to Nikishka Beach Road," he said.
He said the lease only required a 60-foot right of way for existing roads to the beach.
In response, Burke said any improvements made on the road by OSK over the years doesn't change the fact that a right of way existed.
Baird contended that OSK made a private investment to make the existing road extend down to the dock. Now, the state wants the judge to seize the road and make it public access, he said.
Baird said the $1.3 million construction project, conducted in 1986, which extended the road from the bluff line to the beach, was done so at OSK's request for OSK purposes.
"The state has never spent any money constructing any road down to the dock," he said.
Although there was a failure to plat the public right of way, Burke said the continuous, uninterrupted use of the access trumps the failure to plat.
He asked the judge, if nothing else, to at least declare the existence of a public right of way past the gate, and to establish it on both sides of OSK's dock.
"It exists," Burke said, "and it exists beyond the gate."
"There was nothing to get to the beach by making a right turn at the top of the bluff," Baird said in response to Burke. He said beach-goers had to use Arness' road then make a U-turn to access the beach.
In closing, Baird said in the past OSK re-subdivided a parcel of land, giving ownership back to the borough because some cross-country ski trails intersected onto that lot. Though OSK didn't have to do it, they did so out of a sense of community, he said.
Now, Baird continued, the borough is trying to say the public has a right to pass through OSK's private, developed property.
"That's horrendous behavior by a public entity to a private owner," Baird said.
Clay Young, representing the borough, said the issue is Nikishka Beach Road, not almost-to-the-beach road.
He said though there was a failure to plat where the right of way is, documentation exists to show a right of way is there, and that that right of way goes at least to the guard shack.
It was there since 1980 and continues to be there, he said. The right of way extends past the shack to the beach, to the right and the left of the dock, Young said.
The right of way is there, it's just not platted, he added.
Young, like Burke, said the right of way was preserved during each change-over of the land to the various parties.
The borough, which has no jurisdiction in the matter, got involved in the case in August 2008 when it authorized the administration to intervene because the issue involved borough residents.
The trial continues today at 8:30 a.m.
Mike Nesper can be reached at [email protected].
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|Description||Defines a tag, <htmltag>, that allows for placing HTML tags on the page out of a set of allowed tags and attributes pre-specified by the administrator.|
|Author(s)||Yaron Koren <[email protected]>|
|Latest version||0.1 (November 2012)|
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|Example||A demonstration of the HTML Tags extension|
Translate the HTML Tags extension if possible
|Check usage and version matrix; code metrics|
The HTML Tags extension defines a tag, <htmltag>, that can be used to display HTML tags within wiki pages that may otherwise be disallowed by the MediaWiki parser.
HTML Tags was initially developed in order to allow support the use of LRMI (Learning Resource Metadata Initiative) tags within MediaWiki pages. See Implementing LRMI for how to implement such a thing (and similar metadata schemas) using HTML Tags.
You can see a basic demonstration of this extension here.
Code and download[edit | edit source]
You can download the HTML Tags code, in .zip format, here.
You can also download the code directly via Git from the MediaWiki source code repository. From a command line, you can call the following:
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/HTMLTags.git
To view the code online, including version history for each file, go here.
Installation[edit | edit source]
After you've obtained an 'HTMLTags' directory (either by extracting a compressed file or downloading via SVN), place this directory within the main MediaWiki 'extensions' directory. Then, in the file 'LocalSettings.php' in the main MediaWiki directory, add the following line:
You then need to specify the allowed set of HTML tags, and the allowed set of attributes for each one, using the global variable $wgHTMLTagsAttributes. For instance, to allow the <a> tag, and to allow only the attributes "href" and "class" for it, you would add the following to LocalSettings.php, after the inclusion of LocalSettings.php:
$wgHTMLTagsAttributes['a'] = array( 'href', 'class' );
If you wanted to allow the tag <fieldset>, but without any allowed attributes, you would add the following:
$wgHTMLTagsAttributes['fieldset'] = array();
Usage[edit | edit source]
Once a set of allowed tags and attributes are specified, you can use <htmltag> to place those tags on the page. You use the attribute "tagname" to specify the actual tag, and then add the other attributes exactly as you want them to appear. The "contents" of the tag become the contents of <htmltag>.
For instance, if the above lines are added, and you want to add a link on some page using the <a> tag, you could add something to the page like:
- <htmltag tagname="a" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica" class="my-links">Read about Antarctica</htmltag>
This will add the following to the page's HTML source:
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica" class="my-links">Read about Antarctica</a>
Calling <htmltag> with a tag name that is not allowed will result in an error message; calling it with an attribute that is not allowed will simply lead to the attribute being ignored.
See Implementing LRMI for a full description of how this extension, along with some templates, can be used to allow for easy adding of LRMI metadata to pages.
Authors[edit | edit source]
HTML Tags was written by Yaron Koren, reachable at yaron57 -at- gmail.com.
Version history[edit | edit source]
HTML Tags is currently at version 0.1.
The version history is:
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In its 7-1 ruling on the affirmative action program at the University of Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court basically punted. The decision did not break new constitutional ground; the court simply said that lower courts had not properly applied existing constitutional standards, and therefore were too quick to dismiss the white student’s challenge.
The ruling in Fisher vs. University of Texas at Austin leaves intact a reasonable framework for trying to increase the diversity of a university’s student body without resorting to reverse discrimination. The standard the Supreme Court set in 2003 still applies: a student’s race may be used as one of many “plus factors” in admissions, but race cannot automatically give students extra points in any formula that drives the admission decision.
The goal, the Supreme Court has said, is to “ensure that each applicant is evaluated as an individual and not in a way that makes an applicant’s race or ethnicity the defining feature of his or her application.”
The University of Texas tried to do that, looking for a sweet spot that complied with the two standards set in those rulings from 2003. Where the lower courts went wrong was in showing deference to the university’s judgment that its new system was “necessary” to promote an important educational value – having "a critical mass" of diverse students to enhance the educational experience the institution offers.
The Supreme Court said, no – the lower courts must apply “strict scrutiny” to the admissions program. That means conducting a “searching examination” to see whether the university’s rationale for it is “clearly identified,” “unquestionably legitimate,” and “narrowly tailored” to the goal it is trying to achieve. Merely trying to achieve racial balance in the student body will not pass muster.
As Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the ruling, “The Court of Appeals must assess whether the University has offered sufficient evidence that would prove that its admissions program is narrowly tailored to obtain the educational benefits of diversity.”
This case was one of the most politically-charged ones on the court’s docket this session. Opponents of anything that smacks of affirmative action hoped to deliver a knockout blow and ban ANY consideration of race from admissions decisions. They failed, at least so far. This stage of the much-ballyhooed case has ended not with a bang, but with a procedural wimper. | <urn:uuid:6008e695-ad81-443d-8477-8c9715f98314> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/06/affirmative_action_survives_opponents_attempt_at_knockout_blow_editorial_quick_take.html | 2014-04-21T16:06:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609540626.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005220-00144-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963078 | 515 | [
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Tax Cut Extension Helps Wind Developers
Most of the focus of the extension of the Bush era tax-cuts centered on tax benefits for wealthy and middle-class Americans. However, one industry is also set to benefit from the compromise deal reached by Democrats and Republicans last week.According to the American Wind Energy Association, the 1603 investment tax credit to develop renewable energy also received an extension–a one-year extension for projects such as the construction of wind energy projects.
Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association said, “This is a great holiday present for the 85,000 American workers in the wind energy industry, tens of thousands of whom will now be able to get back to work in a sector that has been a bright spot in the recession so far. Orders will be on the rise for new wind power, and investors will put more capital into the U.S. economy because of what happened in Congress.”
In New York State the extension couldn’t come at a better time. Horizon Wind Energy, the largest wind developer in the state has three major wind projects, (Maple Ridge Wind Farm I and II and Madison Wind Farm) that have already been constructed with plans for more projects in the works. Another company, Northwind and Power is also looking to construct wind turbines in the Town of Litchfield, NY however, according to Patrick Doyle, President and CEO, the project may not get off the ground soon enough to benefit from the extension of the 1603 investment tax credit.
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, (NYSERDA) recently launched their own green initiative that will provide up to 30% of funding to help New Yorkers install small-scale wind turbines. And according to NYSERDA, a partnership formed with Clinton Community College and Hudson Valley Community College implemented the Nacelle Turbine Troubleshooting Learning system to support a wind energy training program and even unveiled two, 5-kilowatt wind turbines at HVCC’s TEC-SMART facility in Malta, NY. All in the name of investing in green energy.
It’s evident that the Obama Administration’s campaign promise to aggressively invest in renewable energy is baring fruit with the one year extension of the 1603 investment tax credit. Also, the invitation of Denise Bode, CEO of AWEA to attend the signing of the bill at the White House only bolsters the Administration’s intent to keep its promise to reduce our dependence on oil. | <urn:uuid:6dd12019-13f4-4a14-b0e6-d909dd5a3028> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://wibx950.com/tax-cut-extension-helps-wind-developers/ | 2014-04-24T12:47:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223206120.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032006-00176-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948479 | 514 | [
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A kind word is of more value than gold or precious stones.
“Then you are here!” said a stern, gruff voice, addressing a pale, sickly-looking youth, whose frame trembled and whose lip quivered as he approached one who sat at the side of a low pine table;—it was his master, a man of about forty, of athletic form, and of power sufficient to crush the feeble youth.
“Well,” he continued, “if you are sure that you gave it to him, go to bed; but mind you, whisper-breathe not the secret to a living soul, on peril of your life! You may evade my grasp, but like blood I will track you through life, and add a bitter to your every cup of sweet.”
The lad had no sooner left the room than a man entered, whose carelessly arranged apparel and excited appearance indicated that something of vast importance-at least, as far as he was concerned-burthened his mind.
“Harry,” he said, throwing himself upon a chair, “I fear we are betrayed-discovered—completely used up.”
“Discovered!” shouted the person addressed. “How? where? why?”
“It is so, friend Harry. The boy you sent made a sad error.”
“Then murder the boy!” and, clutching a dagger, he motioned to leave the room, and would have done so to plunge it in the bosom of the lad, had not his informant interfered, and thus prevented him from executing so rash and cruel an act.
“What!-I will-will do it!” he shouted, endeavoring to release himself from the hands of the other.
“Never!” was the bold, unwavering response. “Move a step, and death shall be thy doom. Seest thou that?” and the speaker drew from his bosom a richly-mounted pistol.
“Doubtless thou art right,” said Harry, in a more calm manner; “the excitement of the moment urged me to desperation, and, if any but you had arisen in my path, the glistening steel should have met his heart. But, Bill, how,—I am confused, my eyes swim,—tell me, how are we discovered? Must the last act in the great drama of our fortune-making be crushed in the bud?-and who dare do it?”
“If you will restrain your indignation, I will tell you.”
“A hard task, yet I will try.”
“That answer will not do; you must say something more positive.”
“Then I say, I will.”
“Enough,—the boy Sim handed the note to the kitchen-girl.”
“But, Bill, think you she suspected its contents?”
“That I cannot say, but she is inquisitive, and has been known to unseal letters committed to her care, by some ingenious way she has invented. She looked uncommonly wise when she handed it to me and said, ‘Mr. Bang, that’s of no small importance to you.’”
“The deuce she did! I fear she deserves the halter,” said Harry.
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The mystery of God in John Scotus Eriugena
Working and writing at the Carolingian court, in the time of Charles the Bald, grandson of Charlemagne (Charles the Great), was an Irish master of the liberal arts, John Scotus (‘the Scot’) Eriugena (810-c.880). His soubriquet ‘Eriugena’ (‘born of Erin’) - was a mixed term of his own invention from the old Celtic language (Eriu is the Celtic name for Ireland) and from the Greek (‘gena’ = ‘born, originating from’) - on which language he was perhaps the only true expert in the Medieval West . The Emperor Charles the Bald therefore entrusted to him the task of translating the precious Codex he had been given by his Byzantine counterpart Michael III, containing the Corpus Areopagiticum, the complex of writings that at that time went under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, and which have come to be known today as the Pseudo-Dionysius.
Scotus Eriugena’s translation became, therefore, vital for the Latin West’s knowledge and understanding of Dionysius, and of other important Greek patristic writers, such as Maximus the Confessor, the brilliant commentator on Dionysius, and Gregory of Nyssa. The Irishman was also the greatest theologian and philosopher before St. Anselm, and in his most famous work, the Periphyseon, constructed the Medieval Latin West’s first system of thought.
Here, he joins the philosophical notion of natura (borrowed from Boethius) with the theological one of creation: the coupling of these two concepts, he believed, would enable the interpretation of all truth. In this he is strongly influenced by Dionysius, so much so as to constitute the first Christian neo-Platonic system. Paradoxically, his thought brings us back to the present, because some of his intuitions, impregnated as they are with idealism and Nominalism, were taken up by Hegel and his interpreters, whether in philosophy or in contemporary theology. He divided all reality into four parts:
1) Nature which creates and is not created (God)
2) Nature which creates and is created (the primordial, or first, cause)
3) 1) Nature which does not create and is created (all created things, animate and inanimate)
4) Nature which does not create and is not created (representing creation in its ultimate transformation, but also the mystery of evil, not created by God and capable only of destruction)
As will be evident, John Scotus Eriugena is capable of expressing, with the few intellectual means available in his own time, a vigorous and almost ‘modern’ philosophical construct, very full and articulate. He saw the reality of God and of the world united inseparably in one single movement of emanation and return (exitus et reditus), following neo-Platonic philosophy. The created world therefore has no consistency except as a theophany, that is to say, a manifestation of God, insofar as it is created by Him and returns to Him. The reality of God in himself is in fact unknowable, but creation is one manifestation of Him. The Incarnation of the Word, masterfully commented on in the Homily on the opening of the Gospel of John, is the historical moment when He who is by nature indefinable is personally united with Man, who is, by contrast, subject to limits and definitions. The Incarnate Word, testified to in the Gospel of John, is the ultimate manifestation of God, of his full and complete revelation, its highest theophany. This ontological (concerning the nature or essence of the person of Christ) union between the two natures constitutes the model, the first cause and the end of all creation.
However, Eriugena occasionally goes to extremes in his efforts to show and explicate this union, falling into a complex and daring language which resulted in his doctrine, based on divine theophany, being accused later of pantheism, that is, of believing that the divine nature is immanent in all creation. His search, though, was sincerely Christian, despite its many limitations. He was, perhaps, ahead of his time, in that his understanding of Greek theology looks forward almost 300 years to the contemporary Palatine and Benedictine masters.
The limits of Carolingian culture appear, therefore, a little too tight for this brilliant Irish master, whose theology would be taken up in various ways by the great masters of Scholasticism, above all by St. Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Eriugenan spirituality is therefore essentially optimistic: Man is destined to divine transfiguration, that is, to the transformation of the self in the image of the Incarnate Word. All are predestined to such transformation. But in order to achieve it, the individual man must embrace the Christian faith, the one true religion, and therefore the only true philosophy. Predestination is tied therefore to the free choice of the individual for or against the Incarnate Word, as set out in the treatise (Of Predestination), written by the Irishman in 851. The important point is that this is the sole certitude about our human life in our possession.
The spiritual model for the Christian, according to Eriugena, is St. John the Evangelist, who, by transcendent spiritual flight, elevated himself like an eagle above the realm of Nature and the realm of Scriptural revelation (the Creation and the Old Testament), to grasp the supreme Principle of all things, the generation of the Word. Thus St. John had become more than man, more than human, in that God had rendered him capable of knowing this profound spiritual reality, and of transmitting it in his scriptural writings, the Gospel and the Letters (Epistles).
We can say then that in John Scotus Eriugena we find expressed the spiritual yearning that has its roots in the Irish monasticism of St. Patrick and St. Colombanus. He showed to the Christians (monastic and lay) of his times the path to theosis (attaining the divine) as a universal call to sanctity for all humankind. Therefore and thereby, true believers can become, by gradual progress, transformed in and into the image of the Son, and may arrive at a knowledge of the mystery of God, in that “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him”.
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Forecasters say Hurricane Fabio will likely strengthen before weakening as it moves through the Pacific but that it won't threaten land.
The National Weather Service in Miami says Fabio has maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (145 kph) and is about 530 miles (853 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California. It is moving west-northwest at 10 mph (16 kph) and is expected to stay on this course.
Fabio is still a Category 1 hurricane and is the season's fifth hurricane. Some additional strengthening is expected over the next day or so before it starts to weaken.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Emilia, farther out in the Pacific, is moving westward and is expected to become a remnant on Sunday.
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Why would you not want a SunRay?
By user12625760 on Oct 02, 2004
The answer is: "if you want 3D graphics".
If like me you don't need this day to day, then SunRay is just a winner. Given this I am constantly suprised by how much like using a SunRay is like owning a Mac. Everyone who does not use one will tell you how there is no way they will work for them, and all those using them think they are great. True they are only as good as the server that drives them but given that âhalfâ the server that is driving ours has 4 cpus, each with 2 cores and loads, memory, Gigabit Ethernet and runs the latest build of S10 and the other âhalfâ is in f act 2/3rds that is very good indeed. Not many non SunRay users get that for a desktop.
Each time I remove the card from the SunRay and walk to another location, insert it, and my desktop is just there I see the benefit. Walking into the lab, going into an office for a con call, showing a colleague a problem, all are a winner. And Xinerama works flawlessly with the twin headed one, even wen you then move to a single headed SunRay in the lab.
Yet still people who don't use SunRay say they won't work for them. Odd. For driver development I use a lab system, which I access via ssh(1) or via the console server we have. For running a strange window system, I use, SunRay (remote login can be done), for crash dump analysis the SunRay server has lots of memory and is great, resource management keeps it going for other users.
Often it is because people use their desktop to reproduce problems, but SunRay does not prevent that behaviour though it can be painful when you reproduce the hard hang on your desktop, much better to use a lab system to reproduce the problem and SunRay to manage your display, allowing you to keep working, and then move to the lab to stare at the blinking (or not) lights when the time comes and still take your desktop with you.
O.k. Some engineers just have to have the root password to to âtheirâ system I achieve all that I need in that area by using a zone on the SunRay server which I use dtlogin to access remotely. I can do all the fiddling I feel I must, which is more than most people, in the safety of my zone while the rest of the group are either in their owns zones or in the global zone. Unbundled software can be installed, I can have DNS as my prime name service for hosts, IPv6 can be running and I can reboot just like when I had a workstation, but my âworkstationâ now has 4 cpus and 8 cores, loads of memory, Gigabit Ethernet and mirrored disks that I don't have to worry about.
True you can fake most of the SunRay functionality up using VNC and x11vnc, but when you do this you have to be sure to secure the keyboard of your desktop, and while good VNC and x11vnc are not a easy to use and do not perform as well. Indeed I do this with the SunRay to allow me to grab my session from home or from my laptop, but securing the keyboard with SunRay is as easy as removing your SunRay card, or if not using a card typing âutdetachâ.
Would I have âmyâ workstation back?
Only if it could be configured as a SunRay server.
What would I like to have next?
My zone to be configured as a SunRay server.
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I tried simple HTTP Midlet and it works correctly.
I also did some tests with my N8 and my MIDlet works correctly in it. When I create network connection from another midlet my pushregistery midlet is started.
Could there be only some ports that work on S40 devices? (I did some test but any of random port from range 5 - 70000 didn't work)
Now I have also following permissions in my JAD-file:
Here's my code:
Any ideas ? =)
String dport = "datagram://:5";
PushRegistry.registerConnection(dport, myName, "*");
Alert alert = new Alert("REG OK", myName+":"+dport, null, AlertType.WARNING);
} catch (Exception ioe)
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Dog lost near Midway Airport found safe
Source: Chicago Tribune
A dog rescued in Texas but lost at Midway Airport after slipping from her harness has been found safe and is on her way to a new home in Wisconsin.
"We are just so happy," said Lauren Kelliher, vice president of Illinois Doberman Rescue Plus, which helped coordinate the dog's travel to Elkhorn, Wis.
A woman found Madison in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side Tuesday night, then spotted a flier about the missing Doberman when she went to the grocery store this morning, Kelliher said. The woman left a message in Spanish around 10:30 a.m., Kelliher said.
Kelliher and other volunteers started scrambling to find someone to translate the message, but the woman soon called back. She told them, in English, that she had found Madison in her neighborhood near 38th and Spaulding, cold and hungry, and coaxed the dog into her garage.
Madison was inside the woman's house, wrapped in blankets, as a volunteer went to pick her up and the woman who originally planned to take her to Wisconsin prepared to begin their delayed journey to Wisconsin. The dog bore a distinctive scar that matched Madison's, according to Larissa Gavin, a volunteer who rescued Madison.
Gavin said she had been driving around a neighborhood in Houston on Jan. 5 with the founder of a rescue group, stopping to offer food to dogs and talking to people about bringing their dogs in during the cold weather, when they happened upon three unleashed puppies.
The two found the puppies' mother, Madison, nearby, and three days later were able to take custody of the dogs and take them to to a veterinarian for examination. One of the puppies had a broken femur, and Madison showed signs of having been injured, Gavin said.
After they sent out word about the dogs, a home was found for Madison in Wisconsin, while her puppies were placed with a puppy rescue shelter in Houston, Gavin said.
Madison arrived at Midway Friday and was picked up by a Chicago paramedic who volunteers for a Doberman rescue group and was going to drive the dog to Wisconsin, Gavin said. Madison somehow slipped out of her harness near 53rd Street and Central Avenue, Gavin said.
Volunteers then combed the area, with the last sighting of Madison Saturday night near 38th Street and Spaulding Avenue, as "a bunch of volunteers descended on the area," Kelliher said. But "we hadn't heard anything since." | <urn:uuid:6a05bf7d-7a5a-433f-a698-ec7019a07ffb> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://petoftheday.com/talk/printthread.php?t=174562&pp=15&page=40 | 2014-04-23T08:24:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223201753.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032001-00480-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983197 | 525 | [
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My Life At Not Vogue, Chapter Two
Not Vogue came with its own set of vocab, longer than an SAT cheat sheet and just as pretentious. Most of the names were designer derivatives, “cc” for chanel, “cd” for dior and “balence” for balenciaga – especially confusing when you needed to “balance” an outfit – that meant, add a brand that advertised in the magazine to an outfit. So inevitably, once a day, Marianne would growl, “Ava, you need to balance that look with Balence.” Uh huh.But balancing outfits was actually, really, a big deal. When an advertiser bought a page in our magazine, they really bought three pages, the one they paid for and then two others where they expected to see their clothes. Of course, sometimes the “clothes” were heinous so they got swapped. We’d say a dress was from Macy’s when really it was Marc. We’d slice open a KMart creation, re-sew it, spray paint it, put the prettiest model we could find in it, and click, the advertiser was happy.
Of course, there was one time when Marianne was not.
It was after a long day of slicing and dicing – we took apart a Bullseye Mart sheath dress and sewed it back together two sizes smaller. I got creative and added some Chanel (sorry “CC”) boucle trim that Marianne hacked off her latest piece of swag (a mini skirt that she thought wasn’t mini enough). Then I shredded the hem the way I saw Leigh Lezark do to this gown in the bathroom of a Calvin Klein dinner? And took an air-brusher from the beauty closet and sprayed the back with this line of lavender splattered puffy paint? And added a little heart-shaped jewel that I ripped off my Betsey Johnson bag? And seriously I swear Valeria and the other fashion editors looked at it and said, “Ava, you should have gone to Parsons. You’re like the next Proenza but there’s only one of you and you’re way more awkward than they are at parties.” Still it was totally thrilling.
Until Marianne came into the fashion closet – and with her came a certain celebrity whom we’ll call Hudson Kay. “Omigosh I need that dress,” squealed the then-starlet, and she pulled it off the mannequin and slipped it on and Valeria mouthed “it looks SO good” to me and I knew I was in major, major trouble.
The dress was promptly whisked away for Rachel Zoe’s approval and Marianne glowered like Melificent in “Sleeping Beauty” and said “Well Ava, what dress shall we use for our shoot? And tell me, would you rather be on Project Runway than at this job?”
Two minutes later I was on the 2,3 line to the Bullseye Mart in downtown Brooklyn to buy the original dress.
Two days later Hudson Kay showed up on US Weekly’s best dressed list wearing my impromptu creation. A huge bouquet of white roses were promptly delivered to Marianne’s desk in a white lucite bowl by Gucci with a note that read, “Marianne, a fashion genius as always. Can’t wait for the next cover, Hud.”
Five minutes after they arrived, Marianne paged me into her office.
“Ava,” she sighed, “I think you’d better take these roses.”
“Really?” I asked. I mean really? Recognition? Thank you? Flora?
“Really,” she affirmed. “Take them right now and put them in a different vase. You know I can’t abide it when you bring plastic decor into this office.”
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After the initial wave of downloads subsides, how do you keep your mobile audience engaged? According to Appboy, 46 percent of people stop using an app after one month. Appboy turned to MongoDB and ObjectRocket to empower insights for companies and engagement with millions of users through push notification, in-app messaging and news feed.
The power of Appboy is in the algorithm that creates profiles based on analysis of users’ demographics, behavior and previous purchases. Appboy then divides the population into different personas, such as the skeptical user, ready to convert and big spender. Even though your app may have an audience in the millions, this segmentation empowers you to create content in a targeted way, facilitating increased interaction and loyalty among users.
The Appboy analytics engine is built on MongoDB and collects billions of data points each month. To help manage this data, the Appboy team turned to the ObjectRocket, the high-performance database as a service by Rackspace. This partnership has assisted with the massive amount of data collection needed to make a truly unique experience for each user. After all, everyone wants to feel special, even in a sea of millions.
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Liverpool and Reading's draw at the Madejski Stadium is likely to prove insufficient for either side as it sees them all but out of their race for Champions League football and Premier League survival respectively. Liverpool dominated, but could not find a way past the inspirational Alex McCarthy.
Liverpool looked fairly comfortable on the ball from the start, and it didn't take them too long to go very close to opening the scoring. Excellent interplay from Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho saw the latter's through-ball find the former, who opted to chip the ball over Alex McCarthy, but Chris Gunter was alert to recover and head the ball off the line to keep the scores level.
Reading appeared to be weathering the first half fairly well, but McCarthy was called into action to make a fine double save, first keeping Daniel Sturridge out after the England striker was played in by Suarez, and then pushing out Coutinho's follow-up. Jamie Carragher had a decent opportunity from the resultant corner, but headed wide as pressure began to mount on Reading's goal.
The hosts did little to help themselves, however, and Liverpool should have broken the deadlock after being presented a gift from Gunter, his errant backpass playing Sturridge straight into danger, who found Suarez in support, but McCarthy once again made the save before Steven Gerrard saw his effort on the rebound blocked.
McCarthy was having a stormer to keep Liverpool out, and he needed to as the chances came thick and fast for the visitors. Just before half-time he made the finest of his saves, somehow keeping out a ferocious close-range volley from Daniel Sturridge.
After half-time, there were no changes in personnel and no changes in the pattern of play as Liverpool resumed their assault on the Reading goal. They soon had the ball in the net through Coutinho after the Brazilian got on the end of Gerrard's cross, but he was correctly judged to be offside.
Aside from a moment of comic relief when Mark Clattenburg attempted to book Danny Guthrie only to find that he had left his cards in the dressing room, the game largely resumed as before, and Coutinho saw a 25-yard curler bounce off the post as Liverpool continued to be frustrated.
Yet remarkably, the final quarter of the game was to take a radically different turn, and Reading suddenly burst into life. After beginning to press and probe, Pepe Reina was called into action to keep Liverpool from suffering defeat, most notable when Jobi McAnuff's fierce effort over the crossbar.
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Steelers' Harrison: Goodell lawsuit 'win-win'
By Scott Brown
Published: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 7:24 p.m.
It is almost four months before the start of the NFL season, but James Harrison appears to be in midseason form when it comes to tweaking his frequent foil.
The Steelers outside linebacker took a couple of subtle swipes at Roger Goodell on Wednesday, calling the defamation lawsuit that Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma brought against the NFL commissioner last week a “win-win” for the players.
“If (Vilma) loses, it shows Goodell does have too much power,” Harrison said following an offseason practice, “and if he wins, it opens up the floodgates.”
Goodell suspended Vilma for the 2012 season for the latter's role in the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal. Goodell has drawn criticism, particularly from players, for not being more forthcoming about evidence he has against Vilma and others that were disciplined for their part in an illicit pay-for-play system.
“I don't know what was said in (the Saints') locker room,” said Steelers guard Willie Colon, who is close friends with New Orleans receiver Marques Colston. “To purposely go after a guy's knee, head and leg, I think that's uncalled for and totally disgusting. But to say guys are wrong after getting after another guy, that's just the game of football. So I think there's a fine line. If they crossed it in any way, then they should be handled accordingly.
“I know we don't do football like that.”
Harrison, who has been at odds with Goodell since being fined $100,000 for multiple on-field infractions in 2010, said the Vilma case is another example of the commissioner having too much power.
No player has been more critical of Goodell and his crackdown on player misconduct than Harrison.
Harrison, who was suspended for a game last season for a helmet-to-helmet hit, said the players should have done more to check Goodell's power in the collective bargaining agreement they ratified last year.
The Steelers, Harrison was quick to point out, were the only team that didn't vote in favor of the CBA. When asked if more players regret not doing the same, the five-time Pro Bowler said, “I would hope so.”
The NFL mandated at the owners meetings earlier this week that players start wearing thigh and knee pads in 2013. The league's latest safety initiative was news to Harrison.
“I don't know how many guys end their career on a thigh or a knee bruise,” Harrison said. “If they really want to do something, they should get rid of the high-low block. I thought that was illegal, but it isn't (on running plays).
“If you ask me, I think it's more dangerous in the run game. When it comes down to it, the (NFL) competition committee doesn't feel that way. Of course, a few of those guys that are on that (committee), their teams practice doing that, so they wouldn't feel that way.”
Scott Brown is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at [email protected].
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"A great investement."
Time Splitters 2 Review
"Time Splitters 2" , a First-Person Shooter game, is the second installment of the Time Splitters series. It comes from the game design company, Free Radical. Many of the designers from Free Radical come from a game design company called Rare. Rare made previous hit titles such as "Goldeneye", and "Perfect Dark", both on the Nintendo 64 console. Microsoft bought Rare when Microsoft released the Xbox, however, because of Rare's major loss in game designers, so far, Rare has released only one game title on the Xbox, called "Grabbed By The Ghoulies", which didn't turn out to be a very big success. Although Free Radical has only released a few titles so far, they are releasing the third installment of the Time Splitters series, "Time Splitters 3: Future Perfect" in early 2005, which has been highly anticipated ever since the success of Time Splitters 2.
Time Splitters 2 has a very unique gameplay style like no other First-Person Shooter. The game takes place in many different parts of the world, as well as many different times. You could be dueling it out with a rival cowboy in the "Wild West" in one level, where as in another level you may be in a robot factory trying to disable some high tech equipment. The level design in TS2 is very nicely done, however, the levels tend to get somewhat boring. In many levels, you will see nothing but the same wall texture being repeated over and over again, and the levels themself feel somewhat linear.
Time Splitters 2 has a very nice arsenal of weapons to offer. Weapons range from bricks, (yes, bricks) to 12-gauge shotguns, to automatic homing rocket launchers. Not only do we see handguns, rifles, and rocket launchers in this game, but we also get a nice selection of explosives such as the "timed mine", the "proximity mine"- a classic from goldeneye, and a grenade launcher that shoots flaming grenades. We also see some stationary guns, such as the camera-controlled stationary minigun, which can be very useful for taking out enemies without the risk of getting fired upon by them, but someone could be ready to plant a timed mine right beside you while you are looking through the surveillance camera and you wouldn't even know it. . The great thing about the weapons in this game is that they range from one time zone to another. So, you could be playing as an alien from outer space carrying a handgun from the 1800's. With that said, you will see weapons such as: Miniguns, AK-47s, sniper rifles, several different types of handguns, crossbows, and double-barreled shotguns. If you play a lot of first-person shooters, you will realize that in most games the onscreen weapon you are holding is "locked" in position so that when you move your weapon, the screen moves with it. However, to keep the same "Goldeneye" feel to the game, Free Radical has used the same type of aiming style as in Goldeneye, so that you can freely move your weapon around to a certain extent without moving the screen. Many people do not like this feature, some do not mind it, and a lot hate it. On top of that, out of all the options they give you to customize, they do not let you turn this annoying feature off. If you are aiming at a far away target, it becomes extremely hard to hit the target even when you are using a sniper rifle. In fact, the sniper rifle is almost useless, because A: it does very minimal damage, B: it has that same "free-look" aiming style when you are looking through the scope, which makes it extremely hard to use on a moving target, and C: it is useless in close combat because it is very accurate, which is not good in close range, and has a low recovery rate. Not only that but it doesn't even feel like a sniper rifle. It just feels like a silenced pistol with a long scope on it.
The controls in Time Splitters 2 are probably the most customizable controls I have seen in a game yet. They give you the ability to assign every button to a command. This is a great feature if you are left handed, or if you prefer to hold your controller an irregular way. They also give you the ability to change several other options such as auto weapon change, rumble, invert or default Y-Axis, and several other options.
The enemy AI in TS2 is somewhat plain, and every time you are up against one, they usually do one of the same things every time: kneel down and shake their heads around like they are drunk, run away, or do the same two things at once. Almost every AI bot in TS2 no matter how big or small they are, it feels like you are killing the same person over and over again. However, they did have certain parts in which an AI may knock down a crate he is hiding behind, and then open fire. Things like these are set to happen though, so you won't see anyone you are in a gunfight with go and throw boxes around while wielding two rocket launchers.
The single player mode offers 10 levels to play, and although 10 does not seem like much, each level is a whole new setting, and most levels have some type of boss whether it be a giant robot or a cowboy from the "Wild West". Each level can be played on easy, medium or hard. Medium is quite a challenge, and hard will put you through some planning and different ideas to beat the level. Aside from the single player "Campaign" mode, you also get two other game types: "Arcade Mode", and "Challenge mode". Arcade mode is basically a slew of individual multiplayer games in which you and, sometimes, other AI on your team, are up against another set of AI in several different game types such as Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, and . In challenge mode, you have a set of different tasks that you must complete, such as breaking 20 windows with bricks in a set amount of time, or collecting a certain amount of items in a set amount of time. If you do well enough on either a challenge or an arcade game, you will be awarded with a bronze, silver, gold, or platinum medal. In most challenge or arcade levels, if you are awarded a high rank medal, you will also be awarded with a multiplayer map, game type, or character.
This is the one thing that probably made TS2 such a great game- The mapmaker. The mapmaker is basically a feature that you can access from the start menu which allows you to actually create a full map, save it, and then play it with your friends in multiplayer, or use it as a single player level. Although mapmakers are often seen in many of today's PC games, this mapmaker is one of the first, if not the first, to hit a console FPS game. As if TS2 didn't already have enough replayability, the mapmaker almost gives the game unlimited replayability. Thanks to the Xbox's 8GB hard drive, you are able to make a huge amount of maps and never have to delete one of them.
When you first enter the mapmaker, you are given two choices: Beginner mode or advanced mode. After using the mapmaker for about 20 minutes, you should have enough skill to enter advanced mode. With this mapmaker, you are limited to what you can create, but you can really make some quite complex maps. You can either make single player maps or multiplayer maps. When making a single player map, you can pick from over 100 enemies to use in the level, but you can only place up to 10, however, you are able to make them "respawn", so that you aren't running out of enemies. In the single player mapmaker, you are able to create everything from a briefing to the mission, to putting every switch you have to pull or gold you must retrieve in the mission. This mapmaker is really a great feature, and it gives the game a huge amount of replayability.
The graphics in this game are really nothing special, to be honest. The characters, guns, and many other objects in the game don't have very much detail, and they look very cartoony. The textures on the walls can get extremely repetitive, because of the fact that most of the textures are just repeated over and over again, except the odd time when you'll see a window or a door. Don't expect to see real-time shadows, highly detailed models, or anything else to spectacular, because it's not there. The weapons in general have a nice look to them, but unfortunately they do not have animated reloads, and every weapon has the same reload time. Chances are, nothing graphics-wise will "wow" you in this game. The levels are quite nicely designed, but as I said before, they do get repetitive. There are a few neat things I have noticed though, such as when you shoot a weapon with an ammunition release door, the ammunition will fall opposite the direction you are moving, and in one level, you can see a commercial airplane take off in the distance. One more thing that was attractive was the fire effects. When you get caught on fire, fire effects are formed on the frame of the screen, and to top that off, when a character is caught on fire, it just looks damn nice. One huge let down to me was that there were no blood effects. Apparently Free Radical's aim was to get a "T" rating, but one thing that would have made this game a lot better is blood effects. One thing that was done very nicely in this game was the cutscenes. Most of them are very nicely done, and each one explains the story beneath the mission you are about to tackle by giving nicely animated character sequences and well done face animations.
Sound. The one thing that I find does not receive enough attention in most games. TS2 gives a small amount of music in the cutscenes and while playing the game, but it is nothing too innovative. To be honest, I really don't think they paid much attention to the sound while designing this game, although it does seem to come out quite nicely in the end. You are able to choose from a selection of music when playing a multiplayer game, which is a nice little feature. Most of the music is quite simple, but there is one track which it sais in the credits that someone actually used a guitar to create one of the in game tracks. The weapon sounds are not executed very well. Most of the weapons sound quite faded, and there isn't very much expression in them. There are a few well done voiceovers done in the cutscences, but there isn't a huge amount of talking in the game- a lot of it is done by simply giving expressions on the characters face to express their feelings.
Although the story is not very well executed, this is more of a "Finish the game by shooting everyone" type game, rather than a "Sit down and get comfy because you will have to pay attention" type game. The story seems quite simple, and it is, but through the levels, many different events occur that change the main characters' path on how they plan on saving the world. A few tragic events happen along the storyline, but many of these events are taken as a joke, by putting in characters and cutscenes which attempt to imitate scenes from movies like "Austin Powers". Although the storyline may not be the most intuitive experience, it is a solid storyline overall, and it is easy to follow.
The sole reason I give the replayability a 10 out of 10 is because of the mapmaker, although there are a few more gametypes which also contribute. The mapmaker allows you to basically create a whole new campaign mode, or new multiplayer modes which is a great feature. The single player mode by itself is great, because it offers 3 difficulties which alone is a lot of replayability. The challenges and the arcade mode are two other great features, and the multiplayer is very nicely done, because you are given the ability to not only create your own maps, but gives you a large selection of pre made maps, and a large amount of customizable features, and even a system link mode which allows you to play with up to 16 players.
I highly recommend you buy this game if you can afford it, because not only can you probably find it for quite cheap by now, but it is a very nicely put together game, and there is a huge amount of replayability. If you can't afford it, then perhaps you should rent it.
+ Great mapmaker feature
+ Great Single player and Multiplayer
+ Neat cutscenes
+ Huge amount of replayability
+ Some nice music scores
+ Over 100 characters
- Crappy AI
- Weapon sounds lacking
- Cartoony graphics
- Aiming style is horrid
- Storyline isn't very in depth
Reviewer's Score: 9/10 | Originally Posted: 01/03/05
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Even though the Baltimore Ravens performed poorly on the offensive, there are still some positive things we can take from two of the top receivers.
Let’s start with Brown. He was third on the team with 49 receptions for 524 yards, while averaging about 10 yards a catch. Brown even led the team with seven touchdown receptions.
One thing that really stood out is his sense of presence on the field. Against the Minnesota Vikings, Brown caught the game-winning touchdown catch after a crazy fourth quarter. He had to keep his mental focus and physical presence in snowy conditions.
Brown really showed a lot of maturity this season, and when Flacco, hopefully, pulls himself together next season, he should really be able to shine next to Smith.
Brown had great hands catching multiple pressure receptions for touchdowns and first downs.
I am excited to see what he can do with more receptions and more opportunities in his second season as a Raven. Flacco targeted Brown 83 times with only three dropped passes all season.
Brown came along well for his first year and a season in which Flacco was not himself. Of the 83 targets, 49 were receptions by Brown with three drops, which accounts for about 30 missed passes on Flacco, while also accounting for opposing defenses.
Torrey Smith was targeted 137 times for 65 receptions, and he recorded 1,128 yards receiving with about a 17 per-catch average, which all led the team. However, he did not turn his catches into touchdowns as often with only four this season.
That is heavily on Flacco, not Smith. Despite not beating his career high in touchdowns set last season at eight, he did accumulate nearly 400 more receiving yards over his previous high set also in 2012.
Of the 137 targets, Smith only dropped seven passes, so Flacco accounted for roughly 65 missed passes, again also remembering to account for the defensive presence.
Without Boldin, Flacco targeted Smith a bit more this season than last year (110 times in 2012). Boldin was a key part of the offense, and Flacco never successfully adapted without him.
Flacco threw to Boldin 112 times in 2012 and Smith 110 times. This season, Flacco clearly targeted Smith over any other receiver, with Brown the next closest.
Next season, Flacco needs to turn his attention to Brown, Smith, and of course Pitta, who should be healthy from the start. He needs to spread his attention out, but like he did in 2012, he needs to pick two wide receivers to evenly distribute the ball, and not just one.
Even better, Flacco could spread it out among three receivers, but as is often observable, a good quarterback has two favorites who feed off each other. Pitta should provide help also by becoming a common target of Flacco.
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Used, vintage and consignment clothing for both costumes and everyday wear. – In Short
This massive vintage metropolis is worth a trip for the display windows alone. Various artists arrange bizarre mannequin scenes each month using outfits from the store's eclectic collection. Held Over offers all things timeless and is carefully organized by era, color, and even theme. Shoppers will find decades-old boy-scout uniforms alongside puffball dresses from the '80s and rows of vintage tees. Accessories galore top off the selection; pull a scarf from bottomless trunks or pick out the perfect hat and gloves.
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Richard Marshall’s season is over.
The seventh-year defensive back, who started the season’s first four games at corner for the Dolphins, was put on injured reserve Wednesday. He will undergo surgery Thursday, Marshall wrote on Twitter.
“I hate I have to wait till next year to get back on the field but ill be ready,” Marshall added.
The Dolphins filled his spot on the roster with Brandon McDonald, a defensive back they claimed off waivers. McDonald (5-11, 185) spent the first nine weeks of the season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, starting two games.
Marshall’s news was another blow to a secondary that surrendered 433 yards through the air to Colts quarterback Andrew Luck last Sunday, an NFL rookie record.
Stephen Ross, the Dolphins and Ross’ Related Companies will donate $500,000 — plus all net proceeds from tickets to Sunday’s Titans-Dolphins game that are sold after 9 a.m. Thursday — to Sandy relief efforts.
The guaranteed half-million will go to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York, while the ticket proceeds will be given to the American Red Cross.
“The devastation of Hurricane Sandy knows no boundaries, and I know I speak for the Dolphins and Related in expressing our dedication to help those in need during this difficult time,” Ross said.
The Dolphins also announced Wednesday that they have “taken the necessary steps” to ensure the blackout to Sunday’s game has been lifted.
No hard feelings
Dolphins running back Reggie Bush has accepted Terry Bradshaw’s explanation for the Fox Sports personality’s comments about Bush’s touchdown run last Sunday, which were seen by some as racially insensitive.
Bradshaw said on the air that Bush looked like he was “chasing a bucket of chicken” during the play, which he later said was an inside joke with Fox co-host and former Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson. Bradshaw has since apologized for the remarks, which apparently was enough for Bush.
“I have the utmost respect for [Bradshaw],” Bush said. “I don’t think there’s an ounce of racism inside his body. I think it might have just slipped out the wrong way. It’s happened to the best of us.”
Much of the national attention Wednesday went to the previous night’s presidential election, but the league took a keen interest in a couple of local results: Colorado and Washington voters legalizing the use of recreational marijuana.
Player use of the drug remains prohibited under the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, which is part of the collective bargaining agreement, the league told USA Today. The players obviously have a say in the policy and could push for relaxed rules when the CBA expires in 2020.
“I’ve got to believe that if it was legalized nationwide, it’d be taken off the books,” said John Denney, the Dolphins’ union representative who, coincidentally, is from Denver. “But that’s so far away from right now. It’s not going to happen. To be honest with you, I don’t see that happening in my lifetime.”
LB Koa Misi (calf) was held out of practice Wednesday, while TE Jeron Mastrud (hamstring), DT Tony McDaniel (knee), C Mike Pouncey (knee/ankle) and DT Paul Soliai (ankle) were limited.
QB Ryan Tannehill (knee) participated fully, as did CB Nolan Carroll (knee), LB Karlos Dansby (bicep), WR Brian Hartline (hamstring), FB Jorvorskie Lane (knee), OT Jake Long (back) and DE Jared Odrick (elbow).
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The “Titanic” photo is not of the “RMS Titanic” that sunk 15 April 1912.
1) the RMS Titanic had a “straight” bow while the ship in the photo has a “curved” bow.
2) The fourth (aft) funnel was not connected to the steam engine exhaust, so no smoke can exit from it.
Not a Titanic aficionado but if the perspective of the photo is the starboard quarter then both your points could be true.
Hey Luigi, If you look closley @ the pic you will notice that no smoke is coming from the 4th stack. I’m sure that the pic from the Starboard Aft quarter really doesnt show the bow all that well. The only other ship of that period to resemble the Titanic was the Lusitania. I’m betting this IS the titanic. | <urn:uuid:de81557e-1fba-429c-8f2a-24c042460f1f> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://nedhardy.com/2012/05/09/22-remarkably-awesome-photos-from-history/ | 2014-04-23T12:17:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223202548.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032002-00152-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934548 | 274 | [
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Collecting Money Owed by a Tenantby Attorney William Bronchick, Legalwiz.com
Did you ever have to evict a tenant for non-payment of rent, then get stiffed for the bill? You may be able to collect what is owed to you, even years later.
First, you need a court-ordered money judgment. If you filed for an eviction in court, you received a judgment and order of possession. The actual name of this court order may change slightly from state to state, but it's the same thing - a document signed by a judge that permits a local sheriff or constable to forcibly remove the tenants from the property.
In most states you can also get a money judgment against the tenant, but this requires one of two things: 1) the tenant must have been personally served with the court papers or 2) the tenant must have shown up in court. If the eviction papers (the court papers, not the notice to pay rent) were posted on the door of the unit and/or mailed to the tenant, you generally do not get a money judgment from the court.
If the tenant left before the court date or you did not otherwise get a money judgment, you can always sue the tenant in your local small claims court for money owed and any damages to the property. The process is quite simple, and does not require a lawyer. You have to file the claim before the end of the statute of limitations, which generally ranges from three to six years, depending on which state you live in.
Once you have a money judgment, you can collect it against all non-exempt assets of the debtor. Certain assets, such as retirement accounts, are exempt from collection by creditors. Also, keep in mind that assets of the debtor's spouse may be attached as well in states that recognize community property (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin).
Cash in bank accounts is the easiest target. If you have a copy of a recent check from your tenant, you can file for a "levy of execution" on their bank accounts through the local sheriff (this is why it is a good practice to make copies of your tenants' checks each month to make sure you know where they are banking).
If the tenant is working, you can garnish wages, but most states limit garnishment to 25% of the wages of the debtor. Still, if they have a steady paycheck, you will get your money back, plus interest. If you get a transcript and record the judgment in county records, the tenant will not be able to buy a house in that county without paying you off. If the tenant owns other real estate in his name (not likely, but always possible), the judgment will create a lien on that property as well.
If you do not know where the tenants assets are located, you can start a debtor proceeding in court to make him appear in court and answer questions regarding his assets. Failure to comply may result in a warrant issued for the debtor's arrest. Depending on the amount of money owed and likelihood of collecting, this process may not be worth your effort. But, considering a judgment may be valid for as long as 10 years and you get interest on your money, why not make it a part of your business practice?
The Landlord Protection Agency thanks William Bronchick for supplying the article above.
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At the Chronicle of Higher Education, UCLA’s dean of social sciences wrote about the role of fountains on university campuses and the value they bring. However, he posed an interesting question:
Ironically, fountains have become ubiquitous, albeit in lesser forms. Mass-produced, faux-Rococo fountains dot suburban yards and supermarkets. Desktop Zen pools spout water through bamboo colored plastic piping, keeping shiny marbles spinning. Shopping malls pump lighted water over floor-to-ceiling slabs of slate. Do we risk burning out on them?
As landscape architects, what role do fountains play in your designs? Does the widespread use of reduced-quality fountains desensitize the public to true works of art or trigger a greater appreciation? Let us know in the comments.
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The 2014 Coachella will be memorialized as the year of the cameo. If Saturday elicited surprise appearances from the likes of Jay Z, Puff Daddy, Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, Sunday’s guest list attempted to up the ante—with a no-RSVP-needed guest list that included Mary J. Blige, Justin Bieber, Drake, and Deborah Harry from Blondie. By the time nightfall descended on the Polo Grounds in Indio, A-list musicians were practically popping up out of the Port-A-Potties. READ FULL STORY
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Lana Del Rey unveiled her new single “West Coast,” at Coachella last weekend — and in case you weren’t part of the desert masses this year, you can check it out below. The bluesy summer tune is off of her upcoming album Ultraviolence, which drops May 1st.
There’s a heavy influence from producer Dan Auerbach, The Black Keys frontman who has been working with her on the album. Can you catch the threads of The Beatles’ “And I Love Her“?
“I know it’s kind of weird… 20 years later.” Andre 3000’s last words from OutKast’s 90-minute performance summarized the nostalgia, bizarre ambivalence, adrenal brilliance, and unadulterated joy that surrounded the duo’s much-trumpeted reunion at the 2014 Coachella Music Festival.
You didn’t need to guess at the level of anticipation; you merely had to listen to the squeals on the Indio field. From the smoke machines and fog to the humid red lights and scarred American flag backdrop, to their magnetic charisma and take-it-or-leave-it attitude, the moment felt closer to a big-tent revival than a reunion.
If you wanted the greatest-hits set, you got it: from first song ”B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)” to the finale, an aloof rendition of “Hey Ya.” There were guest spots from Janelle Monae, Future, and long-time Dungeon Family hook guru, Sleepy Brown (even if the majority of the young Indio crowd inevitably mistook him for the late Isaac Hayes). But if you expected the OutKast Super Fun-Fun Happy Hour, you might have been gravely disappointed. READ FULL STORY
What do you get when you mix 808s and Heartbreak with the Heartbreakers? This year’s Outside Lands lineup.
Bad jokes aside, the annual San Francisco event — taking place Aug 8-10 at Golden Gate Park — has announced the slate of artists scheduled to play this year, and the bill runs from Yeezy and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to the Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab for Cutie, and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Disclosure, and the Flaming Lips — with undercard slots filled out by the likes of Dear Tick, Christopher Owens, and Chvrches.
Take a look at the full lineup below:
Eminem and Outkast will headline a diverse lineup of more than 130 acts at this year’s three-day Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Jane’s Addiction lead singer and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell announced Wednesday.
The lineup also includes recent Grammy darling Lorde, rockers Kings of Leon and Arctic Monkeys and electronic dance music stars Calvin Harris and Skrillex.
“Every year you’re shooting to have just an incredible bill that people will look at and say, `I’m there,’” Farrell said in an interview. “The music is going to entertain them and do wonders for their heart and so is the city.”
This year marks the festival’s 10-year anniversary in Chicago’s lakefront Grant Park. This year acts will perform on eight stages from Aug. 1-3. The full lineup is available on Lollapalooza’s website.
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But who cares about that crap, because Rick Ross has the No. 1 album in the country!!!! Did you know that Rick Ross has the No. 1 album in the country? If you didn’t, he and his hype man at the Fader Fort last night made sure to remind everyone over and over. And over.
As has been the trend for a few years now, Big Rap turned SXSW into its own game. The festival’s closing night drove that point home: Ross celebrated his chart-topping new record Mastermind by headlining Fader, A$AP Mob and Mobb Deep capped their own busy weeks at 1100 Warehouse, and 2 Chainz took over a showcase at Brazos Hall.
Clearly, it was a rap-heavy schedule, and that’s not even counting Jay And Kanye’s Samsung event Wednesday night or the shows by Future, Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, B.o.B., Nas, and, um, Ludacris.
After Mother Monster was vomited on at Stubbs BBQ last night — for the show guys, it was all part of the show — she came to the SXSW keynote address wearing a full body tarp and dreadlocks that gave her a distinct Twins from The Matrix vibe.
The address wasn’t actually speech, but a Q&A session hosted by John Norris, the former MTV VJ who is now a producer for Fuse. Norris couldn’t help himself and dove right in with a barf joke: “You could’ve used that outfit last night, huh?” Thank you for saying what we were all thinking. (Although, I have to question his John Galliano armband. Pourquoi?) Lady Gaga seemed subdued, which is probably because she was feeling a little wrung out from all the mechanical bull/pig riding that she did last night. That really takes it out of you.
There were two overarching ideas that she kept circling back to in her answers and they might not be what you expected: 1) The music industry machine is ruining lives, but corporate sponsorships are, surprisingly, not. 2) Twitter is ruining lives. (This from a woman with 41 million followers.) The first point was a reaction to the flack that she’s gotten for showing up to SXSW–once upon a time, a festival for unknown artists–and playing under the massive corporate logo of Doritos, which underwrote her performance. The second point, well, let’s just say Gaga is competing with Anne Hathaway for the most cyber-haters.
So here are seven things we learned from Gaga’s keynote address: READ FULL STORY
Thursday night at SXSW, scores of badge-less festivalgoers could be seen lingering on the curb outside of Stubb’s, craning their necks to catch a mere glimpse of Lady Gaga, the ARTPOP diva who was playing the (ahem) Doritos Bold Stage. Which is a shame, because for a just few dollars those fans could’ve walked 20 feet up the street to Cheerup Charlie’s and seen Future Islands, the Baltimore trio that’s been making waves with their own brand of synthy, deliriously fun art-pop.
Without a doubt, Future Islands was the name I heard most often when I asked people what they wanted to see this week. And it’s no wonder: The group’s hypnotic performance on Letterman last week quickly propelled them to famous-on-the-internet status, just in time for their big week in Austin. The level of excitement at their 4AD showcase last night was appropriately high.
Here’s the most important thing you have to know about Lady Gaga’s performance at SXSW on Thursday night: At one point, while performing the ARTPOP track “Swine,” Gaga climbed aboard a mechanical bull that had a pig’s head. A second woman, a performance artists from London who Gaga introduced as Millie, climbed onto the bull with her and proceeded to vomit directly onto the bright white apron that gaga was wearing.
It was certainly a new brand of visual, and one that Gaga designed specifically for this special show that was originally supposed to be staged inside the giant Doritos vending machine but was later moved to the faux-amphitheater at Stubb’s. That smaller stage was converted into “Lady Gaga’s Haus of Swine,” according to a light up sign on stage right. The mechanical pig wasn’t the only attraction; she opened the show by singing “Aura” while rotating on a barbecue spit (this was after six solid minutes of her eating ribs on stage in silence). You can’t accuse her of not knowing how to work a crowd, as she also re-arranged “Bad Romance” into a country-blues hybrid that featured some pretty mean fiddling.
It was hard to imagine what Lady Gaga would do on such a small stage, but she made it work. READ FULL STORY
Since its inception, MTV’s Woodies Festival has acted as one of SXSW’s great clearinghouses of acts who are poised to break. Though the 1975, Childish Gambino, and Iggy Azalea held the headlining slots, the afternoon fest seemed built around only the second live performance for Jack Antonoff’s new band Bleachers.
The fun. guitarist’s side group dropped its first single “I Wanna Get Better” about a month ago, and it has been searching for a momentum push. Perhaps Antonoff should have chosen a better single — the borderline strident “I Wanna Get Better” appeared to be the outlier during Bleachers’ brief set, with the rest of the material made up of the sort of dark, slippery guitar pop that could score the best kind of John Hughes movie. As a band leader, Antonoff’s croon and cadence eerily match those of the Killers’ Brandon Flowers’, though considering Flowers is one of the great frontmen of this generation, that should probably be considered a compliment. Of the songs introduced, the ominous “Shadow” and the anthemic “Wild Heart” both sound like potential breakout hits, though if all else fails, they have a perfectly fine future as a Tom Petty cover band, since their run through “Don’t Come Around Here No More” was the highlight of the entire afternoon.
The other big breakout was Vic Mensa, the Chicago-based rapper who is a member of the Save Money crew alongside Chance the Rapper (among others). READ FULL STORY
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|A Dream Made Real|
(words & music by Eric J. Blohm)
Left to my own devices at such an early age
I was drawn to the endless sky above
All through the passing seasons, and turnings of the page
I would fall in the perfect arms of love
Arms upraised, hands to the sun
No words for the Joy I would feel
I now strike the chords and the drums
All for a dream made real
Out upon the ocean, a dolphin breaks the wave
I would drown in the beauty of the sea
High up in the mountains, an eagle starts his dive
I would soar an eternity of trees
Gathering now in circles, heed the promise made
all is known under a canopy of stars
Now as we call the quarters and guardians of the way
Gaia calls to the heart of who we are
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At this writing, I'm about 75% finished with a full length CD titled Bridge The Distance. (Currently a 5 song demo cd-r is available) It's (admittedly) an odd collection of New Age, Rock and Middle-Eastern style music that I've recorded over the last 2 years or so.
It's mostly instrumental, with the exception of two tracks, one of which is presented here, A Dream Made Real.
This song is about the joy of finding the true path home. While I was dedicating myself to Wicca, the Lord and Lady, the Sun and Moon, and the Earth and Sky, I realized that I've had these feelings all my life. I held these things in high regard long before I was able to put a name to my path.
The instrumental intro (up until where the vocals come in) was recorded a few years ago and sat unfinished. I had started writing the lyrics recently, and had a chord progression and melody to go with it. Around the same time, I was rifling through old tapes and MIDI files and re-discovered this intro. As luck would have it, the two fit together in the same tempo and key, so I began re-recording the intro with much better sounds than I had before, and arranging the whole song based on the pieces I had. Two lessons were learned here: No idea is a bad idea, and don't toss anything out.
At my soundclick.com page, I've added a new piece called On The Dunes, Beneath The Stars, Part 1. It's the first of a 3 part suite.
Recorded: Recorded at home in a rather cramped spare room
Guests/Players: Es Solo Mio :-)
Technical Notes: Ahh, the magic of multi-track digital recording. All parts were played by me with the assistance of the wonderful sounds of my KORG X2 , Roland V-Drums and a PC with Sonar.
Artist Profile: I began playing drums in 3rd grade. I played in marching bands, stage bands, and drum corps all through school. I've played in a wide variety of bar bands over the years, and picked up piano and keyboards along the way. A few years ago, I decided that all of those playing experiences had to have a result of some kind, that I should find a voice of my own.
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Ok, so there are no face shots of this one, but from the little we can see of her face I would say this petite blonde is pretty cute. If that’s not enough to convince you, I think she will do a great job changing your mind with that hot little body of hers. She especially seems to really like showing off that sexy little pooper, which, in my book, always moves a woman up a few notches on the desirability meter. Those curvy hips are not hurting her cause either.
This is Justin’s obviously horny ex girlfriend offering-up the goods for him. He believes that she is the closest thing to nymphomaniac he will ever get. When the first got together he was not prepared for her high libido, but of course loved every minute of it. Although their relationship was much deeper than just sex all the time, it certainly kept him around much longer than he wanted to be with her. After about one year together she suddenly became very controlling and obsessive, always checking up on him or wanting him to check-in with her. He really pushed him away from her, but that just made her want him more, and she would do even more to please him in the bedroom. He was finally able to muster the strength to leave her for good, but she did not go easy. Justin didn’t want to show her face to cause more problems, but he just had to show her off. Thanks, Justin!
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