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We're up early and on the road to Castellon. We park up at an out of town shopping area beside a large supermarket. After grabbing some lunch I discover that I can pick up wifi from the petrol station over the road from the van. Why a petrol station has free wifi when you can't use your phone on the forecourt I have no idea! Given that I'm not feeling very well today it's an ideal way to while away the rest of the day getting the blog up to date and catching up on online news.
We have a short walk around the local area just to get out of the van but I'm not feeling up to much more so it's back to the van for dinner and a movie. Fingers crossed I'm feeling a bit more lively tomorrow! Sorry no pics for today!


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Art Basel was one of the first events that CF Dominicana performed for at this end the show room along with Maybach Mercedes. This event blocks off ht streets where the art galleries and creatives are to allow people and tourists to enjoy the creative heart South Beach. Art lovers are typically affluent and of course, cigar lovers. Premium cigars are appreciated in this town and the Cuban population has reinforced the cigar culture.
The hotels that line the coast of the most sought after in Florida. The Ritz Carlton along with five-star hotel Mandarin Oriental are beautiful to see and make for the greatest nightlife in town. Cigars, wine, art and entertainment is the formula for South Beach.
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This five-day course provides students with the skills needed to effectively use, configure, and customize the Request Management application. This course covers how to use Service Manager 9.30 software to effectively manage the Request Management application, as well as customize and configure the Service Manager 9.30 software using advanced administrative tools. You will also apply ITIL-based Request Management processes to Service Manager 9.30. This course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs. This course covers software versions 9.21 and 9.3 and the hands-on labs use software version 9.3.
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With the world gripped by fears of a new pandemic, Sean McKernan asks: Wow serious a health risk is swine flu?
WITH THE INTENSITY of media coverage over swine flu this summer, one can be forgiven for having mentally tuned out. Ever since swine flu appeared in mid-March of this year, countless news reports have proclaimed the carnage and death this virus will bring. Although swine flu presents a severe challenge to world health, it may not be as severe as largely presented by the media.
Swine flu, as the name suggests, is a virus normally endemic in pigs, but is most recently believed to have passed to humans with the infection of a young boy in Mexico City early in 2009. Evidence suggests that the virus may have been present in humans for several months, and that Mexico was already in the midst of a silent epidemic, before the virus was formally recognised and diagnosed.
Historically, swine flu has caused several epidemics, with a vaccine for an earlier strain developed in 1976. As viruses mutate rapidly, this vaccine is now obsolete and we have little natural immunity to the virus in its present form, formally identified as the A(H1N1) strain. The race has now begun to create a vaccine for the current strain, which has the potential to make billions in profits for pharmaceutical companies.
"The virus attacks deep in the lungs and creates more severe respiratory symptoms than other flu viruses"
The virus itself can cause varying symptoms within carriers; ranging from effects comparable to the annual seasonal flu, to more severe sickness; muscle pain and heavy vomiting. People with underlying health conditions, respiratory conditions, diabetes and heart conditions, as well as those who are pregnant are the most likely to suffer severe complications or to die as a result of infection.
In its severest form, the virus attacks deep in the lungs and creates more severe respiratory symptoms than other flu viruses, which attack only the upper respiratory system. This can cause more serious breathing difficulty than other influenza viruses and increasing the risk respiratory failure.
Swine flu carries a higher mortality rate than the seasonal flu, but the difference is greatly exaggerated by most tabloid newspapers. With the winter approaching in the northern hemisphere, however, the number of cases may take a long time to plateau.
So why has swine flu become such a serious health topic? One reason may be its prodigious rate of spread. With air travel and international travel now commonplace, the rate of viral spread is increasing. SARS and Bird Flu are perfect examples of recent viral outbreaks where air travel was a major factor in the rapid spread of disease.
Alarming virus epidemics have occurred in the past. In 1918, Spanish flu was spread to sub-Saharan Africa by two soldiers returning home from World War I, and caused the deaths of approximately two million Africans. The Black Death of the 1340s is another example of a lethal and easily transmitted infection, which claimed at least 75 million lives.
Now with air travel widespread, disease can travel internationally to numerous countries, creating silent epidemics where the virus has spread widely before it can be controlled. Border control has also been stepped up by several countries such as China in a bid to curb the spread.
Swine flu is an excellent example of how modern life can make it easier for diseases to spread at pace. The study of its epidemiology may provide vital data to scientists that could be used to prevent other diseases from spreading in the future, and thus ensuring that minimal lives are lost.
In the meantime, frequently washing your hands and covering your mouth when coughing or sneezing is the most effective way of preventing the spread of disease, as eighty per cent of all bacteria are transferred via hand contact.


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Gloria Izaro Club Hotel is a village style aparthotel complex located in Puerto Del Carmen, less than 1km away from the beach, shops, restaurants and nightlife.
Great location for a relaxing, self-catering holiday in quality accomodation, offering a fantastic 4 star service.


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The biggest obstacle that many people have in their money management is impulse buying. For some people, they think that they need to buy every product that is offered to them. They think that if they don't buy the product immediately, they will lose the chance to own the product forever. So, whether or not they need the product, they keep buying more products until they realize that they have no money left. Then, they will regret their purchase and wish that they didn't buy these products impulsively. Yet, when they receive their income again, they will start their impulse buying habit all over again.
While it might be difficult for you to stop your impulse buying habit all at once, you can repress your impulse buying habit and gradually take control of your spending.
Here are some tips to repress your impulse buying habit and save more money:
Always Create A Plan For Your Purchases
You are buying on impulse because you don't have any plan for your purchases. You don't know what products that you really need, and you never put it on a list. This is why creating a plan for your purchases can be really helpful in repressing your impulse buying habit. When you have a plan for your purchases, you will think twice or three times before deciding to buy a product that is not included in your plan.
Always Buy With Cash
Impulse buying can be a dangerous habit that will plunge yourself deeper into debt. Why? That's because many people buy the products that they cannot afford. Combined with their impulse buying habit, they will tend to buy those products on credit, which means that they need to pay for it later with interests. With impulse buying, the more products that you buy, the more debts that you have, and the more difficult for you to pay for it. So, the only way to repress such a dangerous spending habit is to always buy with cash.
Refrain From Visiting Online Shopping Websites
Online shopping websites will always try to attract your attention by giving discounts and deals for the products that they sell there. The problem is that most of the time, you don't need to buy these products. But, because you see some great deals and discounts, you suddenly want to buy it right away, while the prices are low. This can be very alluring, yet you will only grow your impulse buying habit if you visit those online shopping websites often.
Think About Whether You Will Use The Product Later
Before buying any product, especially an expensive product, think about whether you will use the product later. If you only want to use the product once or twice, why bother buying it? But, if you really need to use the product for long-term, then you can think about buying it. Even so, you shouldn't just buy it on the spot. You should give at least 30 days before you decide to buy that product.
Spend Your Day Doing Productive Activities
Many people spend their day thinking about what products they will buy later. Instead of doing some productive activities, they are thinking about how they can spend their money. This is not a good way to spend your day. Try to distract your mind from shopping and do various activities that can be useful for you instead, such as exercising, painting, and reading. In this way, you can suppress your impulse buying habit.


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The term "robotic surgery" may conjure up the image of an android such as C-3P0 from "Star Wars" clad in a gown and mask. But surgical robots are just mechanical arms to which tiny tools, sensors and cameras can be attached. A human doctor controls the robotic arm using a computer and a screen that allows him or her to view enlarged 3-D images of the body.
In some ways, robotic surgery is similar to minimally invasive surgery, in that it allows an operation to be performed through a smaller incision than conventional open surgery. But it's even less invasive, because a robotic arm can make smaller, more precise movements than the surgeon who is directing it, minimizing damage to tissue [source: MedlinePlus].
The history of robotic surgery dates back to 1985, when a neurosurgeon used a robot called the Puma 560 to perform delicate brain biopsies with greater precision than a human hand could [source: Lanfranco et al.]. Since then, robotic surgery has been used for a wide range of surgical procedures, from coronary artery bypasses and tubal ligations to kidney transplants and prostate cancer surgery [source: MedlinePlus]. Since the late 1990s, doctors have performed more than 1.5 million operations using the da Vinci robotic system, a $1 million device with four robotic arms that allows surgeons to control up to 50 different instruments [source: Glass and Knight].
But the growth in robotic surgery also has exposed its limitations. Some critics note that robotic arms can't feel human tissue in the way that a surgeon's actual hand can, and that sensors designed to provide tactile feedback still have difficulty compensating for vibration and other distorting effects [sources: Glass and Knight, Kreml]. Hopefully, improvements in sensor technology and software will conquer that problem.
Other technological advances could enable robots to truly revolutionize surgery in the future. Researchers envision merging robotics with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and gadgetry that allows machines to be controlled remotely by brain waves. The operating room of the future may be a VR simulation of the inside of a patient's body, in which doctors can see through tissue and control surgical robots with their minds, while working alongside other autonomous robotic assistants. Surgeons will even be able to augment the 3-D environment with data from other scans or medical tests, so that they'll see the cancerous tissue inside a kidney as, say, bright green [source: Shubber].
Researchers are also developing tiny surgical robots -- nanobots -- that may someday roam inside the body on their own. Others envision robots with innovative designs, such as a flexible snake robot that would crawl inside a surgical incision and slither into places where human hands or conventional tools couldn't reach [source: Begos]. We've come a long way from bloodletting, but there will always be room for innovation.
Related Articles
- Begos, Kevin. "Tool-wielding robots crawl in bodies for surgery." Associated Press. May 29, 2012. (Dec. 2, 2014) http://phys.org/news/2012-05-tool-wielding-robots-bodies-surgery.html
- Glass, Nick and Knight, Matthew. "Would you have surgery at hands of a robot?" CNN. Aug. 5, 2013. (Dec. 2, 2014) http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/02/tech/da-vinci-robot-surgery/
- Kreml, Stephanie. "Robotic Surgery: da Vinci Versus The Ideal." InformationWeek. Nov. 25, 2013. (Dec. 2, 2014) http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/clinical-information-systems/robotic-surgery-da-vinci-versus-the-ideal/d/d-id/1112732
- Lanfranco, Anthony R., et al. "Robotic Surgery: A Current Perspective." Annals of Surgery. Jan. 2004. (Dec. 2, 2014) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1356187/
- MedlinePlus. "Robotic Surgery." Nih.gov. 2014. (Dec. 2, 2014) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007339.htm
- Shubber, Kadhim. "Peering under your skin: the future of surgical robotics is virtual." Wired. June 11, 2013. (Dec. 2, 2014) http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/11/robo-surgeons


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VICTORIA – A dominant 2-0 victory over the UBC Thunderbirds capped off a perfect weekend for the University of Victoria Vikes men's soccer team, as they won their 15th Keg Spring Cup title inside Centennial Stadium on March 24-25.
The Vikes struck early in the championship game, when Ian Whibley tallied his second goal of the tournament on a Vikes counter-attack after a rare UBC foray into the Vikes penalty area.
A solid Vikes defence led by centre-backs Logan Fisher and Evan Libke as well as tenacious midfielder Austin Schneebeli remained steady the rest of the way, limiting any serious UBC challenges to Jasdeep Lally in the Vikes net.
Just before the final whistle, Isaac Koch doubled the Vikes lead with an outstanding, curling, free-kick.
Koch struck the ball from around 20-yards away from the net and managed to get it over the wall and past a helpless UBC goalkeeper before the ball slammed against the underside of the crossbar and bounced across the goal line to cement the Vikes victory.
The team booked their ticket to the championship game with a shutout victory of 1-0 over the Fraser Valley Cascades on March 24. In total, the Vikes allowed zero goals against over their two games while scoring three.
The Vikes women had a more volatile time in the tournament, finishing in third place after recording one win and one loss.
In their consolation final, the Vikes fell behind early before roaring back to claim victory over the UBC T-Birds. Kiara Kilbey and Natalie Cavallin tallied goals in the game as the Vikes came out on top by a score of 2-1 over their rivals from the Lower Mainland.
The Vikes ended up on the consolation side of the draw after falling 3-0 to the Alberta Pandas who would go on to defeat the Trinity Western Spartans in a penalty-shootout to claim the women's title.
(1) Victoria
(3) TWU & UFV (tied)
(1) Alberta
(2) Trinity Western
(3) Victoria
Saturday, March 24
Game A Women UBC Trinity Western UBC 0, TWU 1
Game B Men UBC Trinity Western UBC 3, TWU 2 (UBC wins in PKs)
Game C Women Victoria Alberta UVic 0, UofA 3
Game D Men Victoria Fraser Valley UVic 1, UFV 0
Sunday, March 25
Consolation Women Victoria UBC UVic 2, UBC 1
Consolation Men Fraser Valley Trinity Western UFV 1, TWU 1
Final Women Trinity Western Alberta TWU 2, ALB 3 (ALB wins in PKs)
Final Men Victoria UBC UVic 2, UBC 0


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Over the past decade, the Novartis Malaria Initiative has become one of the largest access-to-medicine programs in the healthcare industry, measured by the number of patients reached. Our holistic approach enables us to offer solutions that go "beyond the pill" and drive improved patient outcomes.
Since 2001, working with a range of organizations, we have provided more than 850 million treatments for adults and children, without profit, to more than 60 malaria-endemic countries, contributing to a significant reduction of the death toll from malaria, mostly infants and children.
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[extract] Use of grid-connected photovoltaics (GCPV), which involve the installation
of photovoltaic panels (PV) on a roof or external wall and generating
electricity for use and/or export to the grid, has been in its infancy in Australia.
GCPV is arenewable source of power without environmental cost in
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and policy support by Governments in Australia for use of renewable energy
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international targets for greenhouse gas emissions. Production of electricity
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and Australia retains a very high per capita emission of greenhouse gases.
Government policy to increase use of renewable solar energy generation
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I ended up at NTEN by accident. I was brought on board to help with the 2009 Nonprofit Technology conference when I returned to Portland after dropping out of a graduate program that wasn't a good fit and came at the wrong time. NTEN turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I can't count the number of times I've told people how fortunate I am to be the Community Manager for such a passionate, engaged, and fun community. Sometimes accidents change your life for the better; working at NTEN, with this amazing community, has changed my life for the best.
My work here has challenged and inspired me. It has also motivated me to create a career path, to stick to it, and to fully accept my lot in life as an accidental techie. After four fantastic years with NTEN, I've made the decision to move on and have accepted a position with PwC Advisory in Austin, TX. In my new role, I'll be putting my social listening and community engagement skills to use as a consultant. I'm thrilled to be joining the team there, and equally broken hearted to be leaving the fantastic staff at NTEN.
I've often found myself describing NTEN as the community itself: you all are the teachers, the doers, the makers; those of us on staff help facilitate the spread of your knowledge. I plan to remain an active and vibrant part of the NTEN community. I can't wait to share the new things that I learn, and I know I will continue to learn from all of you.
My last official day at NTEN will be Friday, November 23rd. Amy is diligently searching for my replacement (apply here) and will be happy to answer any questions about Tech Clubs, CoPs, NTEN Social Media, or NTC community events in the meantime.
I will head into Thanksgiving this year with so very much to be grateful for. Thank you all for being a part of my journey.


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Katharine House Hospice's annual Midnight Walk returns on Saturday, June 24, when hundreds of people will take on a 10-mile course and raise money for people and families facing life-limiting illness.
The theme for this year's event is Animals, so the hospice is encouraging people to put on some rabbit ears, slip in to an animal onesie, or join friends, family and colleagues in a giant caterpillar and raise as much money as possible for the hospice.
Events fundraiser Victoria Cliff Hodges said: "It costs over £10,000 to run the hospice every day, so by joining the Midnight Walk and raising sponsorship money you'll be helping to provide specialist care for people who really need it."
More than 600 walkers took part in the Midnight Walk last year, raising over £80,000.
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A group of students will hold a vigil in Taipei on June 4 to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China and to call for the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波) and other political prisoners in China, organizers said yesterday.
"We not only hope to remind people about past repression, but also call their attention to the present, which is why we will be calling for the immediate release of these political prisoners," said Tu Ching-wei, a member of a Taiwanese student advocacy group for the promotion of democracy in China that is organizing the event for the third year.
Tu said the vigil is being held to commemorate the victims of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy student demonstrators in Beijing and to echo global calls for Liu's release.
Chinese democracy activist Wang Dan (王丹), a student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, is to give a speech at the event, Tu said.
Excerpts of the film The Tank Man, produced by the US' Public Broadcasting Service, will be screened during the vigil, which is to be held at the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Tu said.
The group is hoping that more Chinese students will attend the vigil this year, he added.
Many Chinese students have expressed concern about having their identities exposed if they participate in the vigil, so 700 masks of Liu Xiaobo's face will be made available prior to the event this year, Tu said.
With all the participants masked, any photographs of the event will show dozens of images of Liu's face, he said.
Tu said he expects about 500 people to attend the vigil.


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Tyler hasn't seen any of his family for a long time. His step-sister is the only one that will talk to him, inviting him into her home. He's daydreamed about Bridgette B curves and her plump lips wrapped around his cock for years. Luckily for him, she's been having the same thoughts. She welcomes him into her bed, answering all of the questions he's ever had about her body.


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Every month I get Baby J into a little white onesie slap a sticker on his cute Buddha belly and snap a million pictures of him. And every month, I put his monkey {not so creativley named George} next to him so we can see how much he grows from month to month.
Well? Month #4 was my favorite photo shoot by far! It took four whole months for this sweet child of mine to realize there was something next to him.
Can't you just hear him thinking, "Hey mom, did you know this thing was here?"
This wasn't his only realization though...
Yep, that's right son, you have hands and feet!
I am so in love with this kid it's ridiculous.
Happy Wednesday lovelies!


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written anonymously and posted March 5, 2012 http://limpingchicken.com
When I was younger, I was just Deaf.
I, like other Deaf people, held my vision sacrosanct. The idea of losing my sight was an unthinkable terror not to be contemplated for even one moment. The idea was too overwhelming. Too horrifying.
I utterly took for granted being able to see. It was my most effortless sense. My way of being in the world.
From the beginning, I have been a visual being. Vision was – my unshakable companion; my vaulted treasure; my room with a view; my blanket; my Annadin; my karabiner; my anchor; my solace and joy. Life with diminished sight was simply unimaginable.
Back then I did not know what was to come.
I knew a couple of people with Usher Syndrome. Words like tunnel vision and night blindness didn't mean much and being around them stirred conflicting emotions.
Part of me wanted to do the right thing – to communicate with and include these unfortunate deafies who happened to be slowly going blind – the other part of me wanted to run a mile.
To not feel obligated or hemmed into a corner struggling to communicate with someone who reflected so starkly my own, scarcely acknowledged, darkest fears.
I know I was not alone in this reaction. I saw it in the eyes of Deaf people around me. In their reluctance to really get to know a person with Usher, the person in the background who always stay an acquaintance. It rang clear in their comments, which usually went something like 'I would rather die than go blind'.
Then the unthinkable happened. I was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome.
I'd been deaf all my life and now I was told I would slowly lose my vision. Suddenly the slightly irrational fear of all things Usher – became rational- it was real, it was happening- a Hiroshima in my retinas.
I finally became proper friends with my Usher acquaintances. They became a source of wisdom. But, still I feared becoming like them. Even more, I feared seeing pity and avoidance on the faces of other Deaf people. I knew that deep down many Deaf people are a bit afraid of people with Usher, just as I had been.
I watched for every clue that my vision was deteriorating. I needed to make sense of the spectre looming on the horizon. I needed it to be less of a huge and scary unknown. I was desperate to know what the changes to my vision would actually 'look' like?
Would I be aware of the sides of my vision closing in? Would there be an evil black blobby frame staining my view? I grilled my Usher friend, 'What does it look like?', 'Do you see black round the edges?'. His answers were unsatisfactorily vague. 'I don't know it just feels like it has always been this way. The corner of my eye has gone. It's kind of like looking down a toilet roll but there's no black tunnel walls. I am just not aware of space to the sides. It is like it doesn't exist. I don't see anything instead – just nothingness'.
Tunnel vision crept up on me. First at night time and then in the day. I lost the first 160 degrees of vision without really noticing. My eyes compensated by scanning from side to side, leaving me slowly more and more exhausted without really being aware of why. Suddenly people a little ahead of me in the street bobbed along without feet and then they bobbed without legs. Then I had no lower vision left.
But hey, It really isn't that bad. I can still see. It is just a different kind of seeing. A slower and more considered way of seeing. Like a cameraman with a restricted viewfinder, I have to think more carefully about what I want and need to see. I get to direct the shots and see the world differently.
The fear was far more crippling than the reality. Bring it on- at least then I am dealing with it, rather than worrying about it.
What I see is far less intimidating than those harsh black inkblots on opthalmology simulation pictures. I think these are over-simplistic, rubbish and obviously invented by a sighted person.
My experience is much nearer to that painted by the artist, John D. Lewis.
He paints his blurred periphery in a startling sluice of colour, with a face that is fading out rather than obscured, whilst my vision seems to be encroached by a kind of grey mist. Like dirty net curtains that I can't really see but just know are there.
There is no sanctuary in a room full of Deaf people anymore. That palpable and utter sense of relief and belonging no longer applies. Without peripheral vision, people's hands dart in and out of view. Their handshapes blur, although their faces are clear as day. Deaf people now mumble their signs like hearing people swallow their words. All communication is stressful.
In dim light, it is easier to read lips and face expressions, than to try and understand hands that disappear below eager faces. I piece fragments together. I can see enough to get by but I will miss a sign in every utterance and the guesswork is exhausting. I am always filling in the gaps. I'm have become 'hard of seeing'. It's tricky, stressful and sometimes quite frankly I'd rather stay at home.
Now I scan the Deaf faces around me for every wince or shadow of fear or obligation as I stumble on a curb or missed something that was said. They are only etched in the glances of those who don't really know me. They grab my arm without asking and don't trust me to say what I need.
Usher is perplexing and hard to explain. I can see perfectly well when walking along alone but as soon as I have someone walking beside me, I can't keep track of where they are. I can no longer do that unconscious synchronised tandem stroll that deaf people do when chatting along the street. If I glance round I lose my place on the view ahead and become disorientated and clumsy.
Years ago, an Usher friend asked a group of deafies, who were having a restaurant meal, would we mind if he walked back to the station alone, and meet us all there to catch our train. It was dark. We were in a busy city centre. We all exchanged looks and someone made a comment about him being stubborn in not accepting help. Now I understand. We offered the wrong kind of help. We needed to trust that he knew what he needed. We needed to be guided by him, not trying to lead him in our well-meaning but thoughtless and clunky way.
Those who really know me, know that I can deal with it. To ask for help if I need it. They trust me to get on with it. Life just isn't that bad. There's a hell of a lot worse things than Usher. Try dying for one. Or constant pain, depression or chronic fatigue. These are the things that would really stop life being fully lived. Usher simply makes life a lot more inconvenient, it doesn't stop it in its tracks.
As for wishing you were dead rather than deaf and going blind. I have only one amazing word for people who think like that, "Resilience". Humans have an astonishing capacity to adjust.
Fortitude is a new word in my vocabulary. Each time I stub my toe for the second time in an hour, I try to think of it as a tiny bit of fortitude I never knew I had. As some things become more difficult, new hobbies and interests present themselves. Things I would never have contemplated before. In fact I contemplate a lot more about everything.
I've learned that life has to be lived in the present moment or it will be wasted. A lot of people do not seize the here and now until it is too late. They spend too much time dwelling on the past or the future. Worrying too much about next week, next year or getting old.
The only certainty with Usher is that 'tomorrow' will get a little harder than today. I like to see Usher as a rude nudge into a more positive mindset. My 'todays' are a lot more satisfying, now I can't take my 'tomorrows' for granted.
Yes, being told I would lose most of my vision felt like the rug had been pulled from under my feet, but once I found the ground again it felt more solid than before. There's a perverse sense of challenge in seeing differently, in living through an unusual lens. As I look up at the sky, I can not only see nimbus clouds and aeroplane trails, but also flashers, floating specks and quivering crackle glaze. My vision has a new dimension. Strangely it helps me to see more clearly, that we are just a sum of our parts, our bodies are fallable and life is what you make it.
Seeing out of step with everyone else is strangely liberating. I'm different but free to see my own way. It's frustrating but fascinating. It's certainly never dull. As my vision dims, I sometimes feel I am floating in a surreal bubble, but from this bubble I actually get to see what seeing is all about.


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A sanctuary for twelve gods and goddesses
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The Portico of the Dei Consentes (Porticus Deorum Consentium) was a sanctuary for the twelve major gods and goddesses of the Roman pantheon, maybe in the style of the Greek dodecatheon. The portico is located on the slope of the Capitoline Hill towards the Forum Romanum, on the Clivus Capitolinus in a corner between the Temple of Saturn and the Temple of Vespasian and Titus. The remains of the portico was first found in 1834, and during restorations of 1858 some of the columns were re-erected.
The monument consists of eight open rooms in brick behind a portico of Corinthian columns of cipollino marble. The building is bend in the middle due to the restricted space available. At a level below the portico a line of shops were found.
The portico was first built in the 1st century CE, probably in the Flavian period, maybe following the fire of 80 CE that destroyed many buildings on the Capitoline Hill. It was later restored in 367 CE by Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, the Prefect of the City, as an inscription on one of the architraves testifies. The portico was the last pagan monument in Rome to be restored in the ever more Christian city, and Praetextatus was in fact a staunch supporter of the pagan cause.
Varro in his "On Agriculture" (I,1,4) mentions twelve gilded statues of the six main gods and the six main goddesses, the dei consentes, in the forum. The inscription from 367 CE confirms that the portico is indeed the monument mentioned by Varro.
The twelve gods and goddesses were Jupiter-Juno, Neptune-Minerva, Apollo-Diana, Mars-Venus, Vulcan-Vesta, and Mercury-Ceres. Their statues have either been placed two and two in six of the rooms, or they have been placed between the columns of the portico.
The portico is best seen from the Clivus Capitolinus.
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Do you remember when I went absolutely giddy over Riptide Publishing's presence at this year's Romantic Times Convention? Well, they have just managed to make me MORE giddy. Riptide has released it's first f/f stand alone story - Portrait of a Crossroads by Kelly Rand. And to make this even more exciting for us, Portrait of a Crossroads is part of the New Adult category!
We are super happy to be part of the Portrait of a Crossroads Virtual Book Tour. Keep reading a special guest post and interview from author, Kelly Rand!
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Hello there! I'm Kelly Rand, and thanks for joining me on the virtual book tour for Portrait of a Crossroads, my new release from Riptide Publishing, which also happens to be Riptide's first standalone F/F story—how exciting! As a writer of trans* fiction, f/f, m/m, and more, I'm thrilled to help Riptide expand their rainbow romance catalog. I invite you to comment on my guest posts all week long to share your thoughts on Portrait of a Crossroads, F/F fiction, the weather, or just to just say hello! One lucky commenter will even win a $5 store credit to Riptide Publishing, so don't be shy! Comment below before midnight on 5/26 to enter.
Hi Kelly, and welcome! You're a new Riptide author, so help us get to know you a little better.
As an author yourself, who are your idols? Which other authors have influenced your writing the most?
It's absolutely Billy Martin (Poppy Z. Brite). I've read almost everything he's ever written. When I first picked up Drawing Blood, which is still my favourite book ever, I felt like he'd touched on everything I'd ever wanted to read or write about. He creates such alluring characters, and tells such beautiful, unorthodox love stories. He's retired from writing now, but I want more than anything for him to come back. I keep hoping. He taught me to boldly follow my imagination – to fully go there, if you will – and it turned my world around. He said "I write about what turns me on" once, and that quote flashes through my mind at least once a week.
What's the most common response you hear when you tell people that you're a writer?
When I tell them my genre, they say "Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey?" Then they tell me their own views on Fifty Shades of Grey.
Do you have any special writing rituals?
I write for 10 minutes a day every day. It doesn't seem like much, but if I think of writing as something that requires hours of concentration at a time, I'll never write. So I sit down thinking "I'm just going to go this for 10 minutes," I end up being a lot more productive.
Do you listen to music while you write?
No. I need complete silence. I've written plenty of stories inspired by music though. I try to attach a Matthew Good song to every story I write too. The one for "Portrait of a Crossroads" is "Empty's Theme Park."
Do you have a writing tip to share with our readers?
Try writing in a notebook. With a pen. I've read articles about how the act of writing with a pen and paper actually inspires creativity. I used to do it as a kid and have just gotten back into it, and I find I can't wait to get home at night and write.
Since finding her father's body at the bottom of the basement stairs, Annette's been drifting through her days, watching cars pass down the rural Ontario crossroads beside her house. Her brothers have no great ambitions, but Annette remembers a time when she did. She just can't remember what they are.
Then she meets her neighbour, Sadie, a tattooed, world-weary, newly single portrait artist. Something about Sadie awakens something in Annette—the essence she captures in her subjects, perhaps, or the way the old familiar crossroads seem so fresh and promising from the view out Sadie's window.
Annette begins to help Sadie, cleaning brushes and filing invoices between long lazy afternoons of conversations and shared silences. Soon, though, Annette wants more from her enigmatic neighbor, and their slowly heating friendship melts into passionate nights. Somewhere along the way, Annette discovers that her lover has illuminated for her, as with the people Sadie paints, not just her essence but her own endless worlds of possibilities.
Purchase Portrait of a Crossroads from Riptide Publishing here.
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Kelly Rand lives in southern Ontario, Canada. She has worked as a journalist for more than fifteen years, covering court cases and elections and every kind of human interest story imaginable. She published her first erotic romance in 2012.
She has a particular interest in trans fiction, and has published some and wants to write more of it. She also writes male/male, female/female, and male/female stories that range from figure skater love to sexually disgruntled Canadian musicians. In her more highfalutin moments, she likes to think of her stories as a merger between erotic romance conventions and Southern Ontario Gothic.
When she's not writing, she likes live music, spontaneous road trips, volunteering with street youth, obsessing over various celebrities, and looking at pictures of cats on the internet.
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|Denman Wildlife Area
IUCN Category IV (Habitat/Species Management Area)
|Jackson County, Oregon
|Nearest city
|Eagle Point, OregonNearest city: Eagle Point, Oregon
|42°26′54″N 122°50′11″W / 42.4484589°N 122.8364295°WCoordinates: 42°26′54″N 122°50′11″W / 42.4484589°N 122.8364295°W [1]
|1,760 acres (7.1 km2)
|1954 Established: 1954
|40,000 (in 2008)
|Governing body
|Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
The Denman Wildlife Area (originally the Rogue Valley Game Management Area) is a wildlife management area located near Eagle Point, Oregon, in the United States. It was named in honor of Kenneth Denman, an attorney from nearby Medford, Oregon who lobbied for the creation of the area in 1954.[2]
The area is adjacent to TouVelle State Recreation Site and the Upper and Lower Table Rock lava formations.
Kenneth George Denman was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1904. His father, George Washington Denman, was superintendent of Benton County schools and began practicing law soon after the birth of his son. Kenneth's mother, Minnie Hodes, died when he was 17 years old and beginning to practice law himself.
Denman married a French teacher from Salem in 1930 named Margaret Bolt. The two of them moved to Medford for job opportunities. He remained very active in the Rogue Valley for many years until his death in 1962.
After World War II, Denman was offered a position in the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (then called the Game Commission). He took the spot in 1944 and remained there for about a year and a half. Denman was reappointed in 1951 and was elevated to chairman a year later.
The Denman Wildlife Area is situated on land originally owned by the United States Government. In 1942, the US Army had established Camp White in what is now known as White City, a census-designated place located in Jackson County, Oregon. The 174 km² (67 mi², 43,000 acre) training facility had remained in service until the end of World War II, and almost all of it was sold as real estate.
The US Government trusted the remaining land to Department of Fish and Wildlife for use as a wildlife management area in April 1954. By then, only 7.122 km² (2.75 mi²) of the Camp White land remained.
Kenneth Denman, who had asked legislators in Salem, Oregon to set the area aside as a wildlife preserve, was regarded by Southern Oregon residents to be most responsible for the area. In March 1963, less than a year after his death, the area was renamed in his honor.[2]
In January 1999, the ODFW took action against the problem of littering in the wildlife area by installing locks on one of the gated entrances. Keys were made available at no charge to hunters and fishermen who requested them. A similar move two years earlier saw great success in eliminating much of the illegal dumping that was occurring.[3]
In 2009, a project was approved to construct a $70,000 building for equipment stored at the Denman Area.[4] The building is expected to be completed within a few months of being started and will be approximately 2,880 square feet (268 square meters).
In an October 2006 meeting, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife identified two long-term goals for the Denman Wildlife Area.[5] The first goal involves habitat conservation and calls for provisioning the wildlife area in four overlapping parts; 2.95 km² (1.14 mi²) of wetland habitat, 1.18 km² (0.45 mi²) of upland habitat, 2.91 km² (1.13 mi²) of vernal pool habitat, and 0.49 km² (0.19 mi²) of forage land.
The second goal announced at the October 2006 meeting involves improving the recreational aspect of the area, with discussions touching on improving wheelchair-accessible trails, predator control, blackberry overgrowth, and the ongoing problem of littering.[3][5]
Another project in the works is a 10-year plan to restore the flow pattern of Little Butte Creek, a tributary of the Rogue River which was straightened into a man-made canal during the 1950s.[6] The straight canal is prohibitive to juvenile coho salmon, which use small streams as a wintering refuge. By restoring a "natural" winding path, the endangered salmon gain not only another such refuge, but new spawning grounds as well. As of 2007, the project has no funding or engineering plans in effect.[6]
Since 1992, the Denman Wildlife Area has hosted the Youth Game-Bird and Waterfowl Hunt. During this annual event, only children and teenagers are allowed to hunt in the area. The ODFW takes reservations and allows up to 90 hunters at a time the chance to catch stocked pheasant. In 2007, five-hundred pheasants were purchased for the event, which lasts for two days.[7]


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Former Livingstone College Blue Bear track star Quanera Hayes led her team in the 4x400m relays at the IAAF/BTC World Relays Bahamas 2017. The USA women confidently collected their third straight 4x400m title, dominating the proceedings from gun to tape on a wet and windy evening at Thomas A. Robinson Stadium. Hayes is currently ranked #1 in the world.
Phyllis Francis led off with a solid 50.42 opening lap --the fastest of the race-- to hand Ashley Spencer a 1.13-second lead. The Olympic 400m hurdle bronze medallist immediately went to work, piecing together a lead of some ten meters by the end of her sub-51-second circuit.
Hayes was next and, like the world 400m leader did in the heats on Saturday, she simply put the race well out of reach with her 50.66 leg, nearly doubling the quartet's lead to more than 15 meters after three laps.
There was little pressure on Natasha Hastings on anchor who, nonetheless, padded the lead before crossing the line in 3:24.36, a world lead.
"I did have some ceviche and boiled plantain this morning so maybe that helped," Hastings joked. "But on a serious note, I'm specially blessed to have this group of young ladies with me."
Well behind her, a fierce battle ensued over the final lap for the remaining podium positions. Poland's Justyna Swiety won that one, clawing her way from fourth midway through the final turn, to second, just nipping Jamaican Stephanie Ann McPherson a couple steps from the finish to secure her country's first World Relays medal in the event. Poland clocked 3:28.28 to Jamaica's 3:28.49.
"I'm really surprised for how this race went for me," said Swiety, a bronze medallist in the 400m at last month's European indoor championships. "Hopefully (at the world championships) in London it will be even better."
In a fairly tight finish, Great Britain and Northern Ireland were fourth in 3:28.72, with Botswana sixth (3:30.13).
Nigeria (3:32.94) in seventh and France (3:35.03) in eighth also secured their automatic qualifying spots for this summer's IAAF World Championships London 2017.
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It has become apparent that Nigerians at large should take extra precautions to taking care of themselves health-wise as the sudden breakout of a new disease known as Monkeypox is on the rise. With cases involving the virus recently reported to be in Bayelsa, Rivers, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, and Cross-River States, here are some vital points to enlighten us about the disease.
- Monkeypox is a rare disease that occurs primarily in remote parts of Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
- The monkeypox virus can cause a fatal illness in humans and although it is similar to human smallpox which has been eradicated, it is much milder.
- The monkeypox virus is transmitted to people from various wild animals but has limited secondary spread through human-to-human transmission. Infection of index case results from direct contact with the blood, bodily fluids, or cutaneous or mucosal lesions of infected animals. Eating inadequately cooked meat of infected animals is a possible risk factor.
- Human to human transmission can result from close contact with infected respiratory tract secretions, skin lesions of an infected person or objects recently contaminated by patient fluids or lesion materials.
- Typically, case fatality in monkeypox outbreaks has been between 1% and 10%, with most deaths occurring in younger age groups.
- There is no treatment or vaccine although prior smallpox vaccination was highly effective in preventing monkeypox as well.
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Undoubtedly the best superhero without any superpowers, Batman is one of the most iconic characters of all time and has cemented its legacy in the form of blockbuster movies. Apart from movies directed by Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan, take a look at the 15 Batman movies which were almost made:
15. Adam West's Batman
Starring in the 1960s ABC show Batman and its theatrical film, Adam West has donned the mantle of the bat more than any other actor yet he was an utter moron when it came to coming up with the idea of a movie starring the Dark Knight.
During an interview with Rolling Stone, West revealed that he pitched an idea for a Batman movie in which the superhero would return from retirement to fight an original villain called Sun Yat Mars. He would be an alien and use Batman's villains as his minions called Marsies.
The movie would have also had Robin as a "singing medical intern". Not so surprisingly, the idea was never utilized.
14. Superbat
Imagine a hybrid of Batman and Super-Man – Superbat! Sounds stupid, right? Turns out that Adam West revealed to Rolling Stones in the same interview that once he failed to buy the movie rights of Batman, he decided to just rip him off with another DC superhero.
"I also wrote a thing called Superbat when it was clear I'd never get film rights to the Batman character. It was a hybrid of Batman and Superman who came from another galaxy, but he now lives in this vast cave."
Thankfully, the idea never came to fruition.
13. Batman in Outer Space
Among the horrible Batman movie ideas, Batman in Outer Space has to be the worst. In the 1970s, CBS was interested in producing the movie and producer Michael Uslan had purchased the movie rights of the character to "make the definitive, dark, serious version of Batman, the way Bob Kane and Bill Finger had envisioned him in 1939. A creature of the night; stalking criminals in the shadows."
Ulsan pitched the idea to several movie studios including Columbia Pictures and United Artists and – not so surprisingly – all of them ditched the idea of the galactic Batman.
12. Return of the Batman
After Michael Uslan failed to make the idea of Batman in Outer Space into a reality, he tweaked the screenplay a lot which resulted in Return of the Batman. Based on the storyline, The Dark Knight Returns, the adapted screenplay actually gained some attention.
With the addition of several producers, dozens of twists and turns, the Return of the Batman was almost entirely changed and would slowly transition to the next entry of the article.
11. The Batman
Based on the limited series Batman: Strange Apparitions, Tom Mankiewicz completed the script for The Batman which would focus on Batman and Dick Grayson aka Robin's origins with the addition of Joker and Rupert Thorne as villains.
With a budget of $20 million and the release date of mid-1985, it looked like the movie would actually get made but the script went through nine rewrites by nine separate writers, a long time for losing interest in the project and the movie was never made.
10. Bruce Wayne (TV Series)
Apart from the movie ideas that never made to the big screen, a television show focusing on Bruce Wayne's tenure from losing his parents to becoming Batman was planned and even went in development phase but due to creative differences, the project was abandoned.
Surprisingly, the leaked script of the pilot episode received positive reviews. The project was rethought and turned into Smallville – focusing on Clark Kent before becoming Super-Man. On an interesting note, the concept of Bruce Wayne was revitalized on Fox with the creation of Gotham starring Ben McKenzie as James Gordon.
9. Batman Unchained
Also known as Batman Triumphant, the project was given the green signal during the shoot of Joel Schumacher's awful Batman & Robin. George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell and Alicia Silverstone were set to reprise their roles of Batman, Robin and Batgirl. Jack Nicholson would have returned for the role of Joker along with Nicolas Cage as the Scarecrow.
The overdose of characters did not stop there as Harley Quinn was planned to appear as a supporting character. Once Batman & Robin received horrible reviews and became a box office flop, the chances of Batman Unchained immediately died along with the Batman franchise.
8. Tim Burton's Batman Forever
Though Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever was somewhat watchable, it could have been a lot different, darker and quite frankly better if Tim Burton remained as the director. Though Batman and Batman Returns were critical and commercial successes, Warner Bros. attempted to make more money by merchandise sales but could not do so due to the movies' dark tone.
Deciding to remove Burton and give the charge to Schumacher in order to make the upcoming Batman Forever more kid-friendly, the movie dramatically contrasted from the predecessors and featured Val Kilmer as the new Batman since Michael Keaton declined a $15 million salary to reprise the role after being unsatisfied with Schumacher's vision.


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Aston Villa have announced that club captain Stiliyan Petrov has received positive news as he battles to overcome acute leukaemia, saying the cancer is in remission.
The 33-year-old midfielder was diagnosed with the illness in March after developing a fever following the Barclays Premier League match against Arsenal.
The Bulgarian international has undergone regular treatment at a London hospital since the start of April.
A statement on Aston Villa's website (www.avfc.co.uk/) read: "It is with great delight that the club can confirm on behalf of our long-standing captain, Stiliyan Petrov, that Stan's acute leukaemia is in remission.
"He and his family have been moved by the depth of feeling stirred in so many people"
– Aston Villa statement
"Stan would like to take this opportunity to express his deep gratitude to the medical staff who have looked after him so well since his condition was diagnosed just over four months ago.
"He also wishes to place on record again his profound sense of appreciation for the incredible outpouring of love and support he has received from Villa fans, his team-mates and colleagues at the club, as well as football fans and many more people around the world during this period.
"He and his family have been moved by the depth of feeling stirred in so many people and he has taken great strength from it, too."
The club added: "Stan's fight is not over. There will be further battles to overcome in the days, weeks and months ahead.
"But he would like to share with you this tremendous news now and, in time, deliver his own personal message to all of you."
Petrov has established himself as a key player for Villa since moving to the club from Scottish side Celtic in 2006, making 184 League appearances.
News of his condition has led to a massive outpouring of support and Petrov received an emotional standing ovation when he appeared at Villa Park at the end of March.
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Both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament repeatedly call on faithful people to care for widows and orphans, two special categories of marginalized people who lack an immediate family to care for them. The Ten Commandments also place upon all of us the obligation to honor our parents, to take care of our mothers and fathers when they are no longer able to care for themselves. These admonitions were critically important. Until the last century, those unable to care for themselves had few options. They relied on their family, if they had a family with resources to spare, or on the charity of others which may or may not have been available when it was needed. But today in the U.S., widows, orphans, and the elderly do not have to depend solely on family members or charity. During the 1930s, Social Security was established to care for people who could no longer work including disabled workers and their families, the families of deceased workers, and retirees. Today's workers pay Social Security taxes to support those who came before them and are no longer able to work.
This page provides a number of resources with information on Social Security including the 2005 General Synod resolution opposing privatization.
Background. Social Security was created in 1935 to provide an income to those unable to work. It is not an investment program but social insurance that provides guaranteed retirement income, disability insurance, and income to the survivors of deceased workers. Today, some 159 million people (96% of the workforce) are covered by the program. Some 48 million people (about one in every six Americans) are currently receiving benefits. Nearly one-third of beneficiaries are disabled workers and their families and the families of deceased workers, while the rest are retirees and their families.
Privatizing Social Security. Periodically there are efforts to privatize Social Security. Privatizing Social Security, that is, establishing private individual investment accounts within the system, would severely worsen Social Security's financial health and replace Social Security's current guarantee of retirement income with a risky system dependant on luck, investment wisdom, and the timing of the stock market. In 2005, the UCC's General Synod approved a resolution that "reject[ed] any attempts to privatize Social Security or to add private accounts to the current Social Security program, and support[ed] efforts to strengthen Social Security in ways consistent with its mission as a social insurance program."
Proposals to introduce private (individual) accounts into Social Security would not close the shortfall in funding that may begin in 35 years or so. Nor would workers necessarily get higher benefits under these plans. But privatization would require an additional $5 trillion in funding during just the first 20 years, money that would be obtained through higher taxes, cuts in other government programs, or an increase in the deficit. Women, people of color, and workers with relatively low earnings, more unemployment and disability, and more years out of the labor force are especially well served by Social Security and would be particularly harmed by a switch to private accounts. Attempts to privatize Social Security should be rejected. Only proposals to strengthen the program in ways consistent with its mission should be considered, such as raising the cap on income subject to the payroll tax.
In 2005, the UCC General Synod XXV passed a Resolution opposing the privatization of Social Security.
"Privatizing Social Security, Destabilizing the Future" appears on page 6 of 24 in the pdf file, Privatization: A Threat to the Common Good. This resource contains a series of articles accompanied by biblical reflections in which the staff of Justice and Witness Ministries explore the assumptions behind arguments to privatize water, social security, health care, public education, prisons, and the military. The resource concludes that "The best step toward a strong and enduring U.S. democracy is to preserve a public system that provides for all citizens, and especially those with the greatest need, while encouraging private development in areas where the profit motive can be expressed without leaving anyone behind."
Social Security: Caring for Each Other [609 KB] provides an indepth look at this vitally important program with a review of Social Security's financial outlook, a description of how a social insurance program differs from an investment, and an examination of Bush's proposal for private accounts. A theological reflection sees Social Security as one important way that modern society fulfills the biblical mandate to care for those unable to care for themselves. Includes discussion questions and a prayer.
Social Security: Let Us Love One Another is a two-page overview of Social Security and the issues it faces; includes discussion questions.
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: The "Entitlement Problem" (A workshop at General Synod XXVII, June 2009)Social Security, Medicare (health insurance for seniors and disabled people), and Medicaid (health insurance for poor people) are often derided as hugely expensive entitlements that must be cut. However, workshop participants learned that the "entitlement problem" is primarily a health care problem involving the entire health care system. Costs of private health insurance are growing even faster than Medicare and Medicaid. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are much more affordable than the doomsayers would have us believe. Read the workshop handout for more information.
A Statement of Principles, signed by the UCC and 20 other faith bodies, list the religious principles that underlie Social Security.
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Electronics Components: How to Use an Op Amp as a Unity Gain Amplifier
A unity gain amplifier is an electronic amplifier circuit that doesn't amplify. In other words, it has a gain of 1. The output voltage in a unity gain amplifier is the same as the input voltage.
You may think that such a circuit would be worthless. After all, isn't a simple piece of wire a unity gain circuit? Sure, but a unity gain amplifier provides one important benefit: It doesn't take any current from the input source. (Remember, that's one of the Golden Rules of the ideal op amp.)
Therefore, it completely isolates the input side of the circuit from the output side of the circuit. Op amps are often used as unity gain amplifiers to isolate stages of a circuit from one another.
Unity gain amplifiers come in two types: voltage followers and voltage inverters. A follower is a circuit in which the output is exactly the same voltage as the input. An inverter is a circuit in which the output is the same voltage level as the input but with the opposite polarity.
If you think about it for a moment, you might be able to come up with the circuit for unity gain followers and inverters on your own. The formula for calculating the gain of both an inverting amplifier and a noninverting amplifier requires you to divide R2 by R1, so all you have to do is choose resistor values that will result in a gain of 1.
Configure an electronic unity follower
A unity gain follower is simply a noninverting amplifier with a gain of 1. The formula for calculating the value of a noninverting amplifier is this:
To create a unity gain follower, you just omit R2 and connect the output directly to the inverting input. Because R2 is zero, the value of R1 doesn't matter, because zero divided by anything equals zero. So R1 is usually omitted as well, and the V– input isn't connected to ground.
Configure an electronic unity inverter
The formula for calculating gain for an inverting amplifier is this:
In this case, all you have to do is use identical values for R1 and R2 to make the amplifier gain equal to 1. Here is a unity gain inverter circuit using 1 k resistors.


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SEATTLE — A sinkhole opened up Thursday morning on a street in the city's Queen Anne neighborhood, Seattle Department of Transportation spokesperson Norm Mah said.
The sinkhole was noticed Thursday morning on 5th Avenue near the intersection of W. Comstock Street. The hole is about 3-feet wide.
Mah said crews have determined the cause of the sinkhole was a sewer connector that "had an issue."
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