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The proliferation of devices and channels means that reaching and engaging with customers has never been easier. However, the relentless pace of change constantly moves the bar for marketers, pushing them to expand their definition of multichannel and challenging them to meet it. But are they actually prepared to meet the most vital demands of multichannel marketing? Or is the rate of change preventing sustainable progress?
Earlier this year, Econsultancy and Adobe surveyed nearly 2,000 digital marketers and ecommerce professionals in order to explore the extent to which their organisations are adopting a joined-up approach to marketing across multiple channels (Adobe is CMO.com's parent company).
The resulting Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing, called "The Multichannel Reality," illustrates that most companies are failing to take an integrated approach, with only 14% of marketers saying their organisations join up campaigns across all channels. Perhaps more worryingly, the proportion of companies which said none of their marketing campaigns were integrated has almost doubled (from 6% to 11%) since a similar study was carried out two years ago.
To see the full infographic, click here.
Why has there been so little movement in multichannel marketing in the last two years? Here we explore three key issues holding marketers back.
The Right Tools For The Job
Effective data management, one of the most important pillars of multichannel marketing, has long been a challenge for marketers. Since 2013, the proportion of companies with separate, non-connected technologies managing data for different channels has only marginally decreased, from 52% to 50%. Non-integrated tech platforms are seen to be the most significant barrier to integrated marketing activities, selected as a top-three obstacle by more than a half of responding organisations, and as the single biggest problem by nearly a fifth.
Unsurprisingly, organisations with a single platform that manages data across multiple channels are most likely to take an integrated approach to all campaigns across all channels (31%). Those with separate, non-connected technologies experience the lowest levels of campaign integration, with two-thirds (67%) of companies in this category having zero or limited integration across campaigns and channels.
While one would expect this to give new impetus to those striving for more integrated activities, the transition to all-in-one marketing solutions has been slow. It's not solely a matter of stringent organisational purses or lack of buy-in (though these are still challenging for many), but also of a stagnant mindset. Although the vast majority of marketers know what they need to do, too few are actually doing it. It's high time they did their part and caught up with what technology can enable them to do.
The 'Single Customer View' Conundrum
The research also revealed that the much-sought-after 360º view of the customer remains one of the most difficult challenges facing modern marketers. While there's been a small increase in the proportion of organisations who have this capability, from 26% in 2013 to 29% this year, it's a long way off for over two-thirds of companies surveyed.
In the content of integrated marketing, how would you describe your organisation's capabilities in the following areas?
Such a complex undertaking requires technology which is up to the task. The findings of the study emphasise the importance of investing in the right solution; organisations using a single platform to manage data across multiple channels are twice as likely as their counterparts with non-connected technologies to have a single customer view.
But technology is not the ultimate answer. Even those organisations which have the right systems in place face the mammoth task of combining offline data with reams of online data, navigating organisational silos and reconciling disparate datasets. Having the integration necessary for a single customer view requires a deep understanding of the customer journey--something which, as seen above, many are struggling with.
Catching Up With The Consumer Reality
Multichannel marketing is much more than simply launching campaigns that use the same assets or broadcast the same content across multiple channels. It's become more important than ever for marketers to understand the variety of journeys on which their customers embark, so it's somewhat worrying that only 17% of organisations indicate they are fully capable of analysing their customers' journeys. Organisations using a single platform to manage data across multiple channels are three times more likely to have this capability compared to those using non-connected technologies.
Taking into consideration the complexity and number of touch points, it is no surprise that only 10% of companies surveyed are able to match channels to a well-mapped customer journey. When asked about barriers to mapping the customer journey, a dearth of adequate systems has again emerged as the greatest challenge.
Multichannel success means going beyond the confines of creative ideas and responding to the changes in how consumers use various channels and devices, seeking to interact with them at those key moments which may influence the extent to which they interact with the brand. No matter what the key challenge is--non-connected technologies, inadequate skills or fragmented data--businesses need to catch up with the reality of how connected, mobile consumers are engaging across channels.
Overcoming all the above is no easy task. But the rewards are there: Over half (52%) of organisations using cross-channel campaign management tools (either third-party or in-house) indicate they "usually" or "always" hit their financial targets. Those using third-party solutions are nearly twice as likely to "always" achieve their goals than the rest. This is what might convince a sceptical, cautious CFO to give investment in multichannel technology and processes the go-ahead.
Sooner or later, every organisation will have to follow the lead of those taking an integrated approach to all marketing. They'll finally recognise the fact that their customers live in a multichannel world and will invest accordingly. Multichannel marketing will just be marketing.
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EDP1A is a protected agriculture value chain project which focuses on promotion of protected agriculture through establishment of greenhouses, training of farmers and facilitating market linkages in Behsud, Khewa, Surkhroad and Kama districts of Nangarhar province. This project was started in February 2012 and was being implemented by KRA until October 2015. The initial phase of the project included establishment of 300 greenhouse, 1 aggregation center, and 1 greenhouse producers association. The project was expanded in December 2015 which is being implemented by CARD-F IU. Under the expansion phase initially 150 greenhouses were planned to be established in Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces. However, due to less demand from the community the target number of greenhouses was reduced to 63 and out of the remaining 87 greenhouses, 37 greenhouses were changed to broiler farms in the same provinces as part of the EDP 3 and the remaining 50 greenhouses were added to EDP Kunduz. Actual implementation of EDP 1A ended in March 2017. However CARD-F IU continues providing extension services to grantees of this project based on demand and need until December 2017.
The objective of this project is to increase rural income, create rural employment opportunities and stimulate private sector investment in vegetable value chain Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces.
MTs of Fresh Vegetables Produced
Employment Opportunities for Men
Employment Opportunities for Women
Cumulative Rural Net Income
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A lighting booth is a rigid frame with semi-transparent paper or cloth covered windows, open on the side facing the photographer. The product is placed inside the booth and light sources are arranged around the sides and top. Light passing through the semi-transparent windows is diffused, allowing the object to be well lit without producing surface glare. The booth also provides a neutral background. Instructions for building a DIY light booth can be found here.
Most home and office settings have several types of lighting present in the same space. Sunlight, overhead florescent and incandescent bulbs all produce different color temperatures which confuses the color processing component in a digital camera and distorts the appearance of white and gray and subtle hues. The colors cannot easily be corrected once shot. It is better to capture the subject matter properly by shooting product photography in an enclosed room with more control over the lighting. Try using multiple lamps that share the same type of bulb. Certain brands offer daylight light bulb varieties which create less yellow tint than incandescent bulbs.
If you have to take the photo with a flash, try lowering the intensity of the flash (if such a setting is available).
Outdoor Shooting
When all else fails, take photos on a cloudy day. The amount of ambient indirect lighting on a cloudy day makes it easy to take great photos.


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No matter how effective your management methods or how innovative you are, your company's results will be measured in dollars and cents. Explore the basics of the accounting process. Learn how transactions are recorded in the accounting system of your organization and how to interpret your company's financial statements and annual reports. Offered via live webinar.
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Markets have paid too much attention to what the Chinese government says, and too little to what the economy is not doing.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has piled pressure on the Group of 20 to come up with an urgent policy response to stuttering global growth, adding to a call from the International Monetary Fund as leading finance ministers and central bankers meet in Shanghai.
Highlighting the turbulent state of the world economy and markets, OECD secretary general Angel Gurria said in Shanghai on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting that growth was still muted even eight years after the global financial crisis.
"The problem is structural reforms are decelerating just at the time when they should be accelerating," he said.
"We are in the eighth year (after the global financial) crisis and we have not reached the 4 percent cruising speed that we had before the crisis…the speed, the appetite, the courage for reforms has waned; we should pick it up and do exactly the opposite," he added.
Central bankers he said, "have done almost as much as they could" and it should now be up to governments to stimulate the private sector so that it would invest again.
Gurria's comments come as representatives of the G-20 – the group of the world's leading developed and emerging economies – meet in China's financial capital on Friday to survey the world's economic landscape, and two days after the IMF called for "multilateral actions to boost growth and contain risk," particularly through fiscal stimulus.
The IMF noted that a promise made by the G-20 in 2014 to boost global growth by an extra 2 percent by 2018 was set to add only 0.8 percent, based on the measures that countries had implemented so far.
The OECD is tasked with monitoring reforms implemented by the G-20 to help the group keep its 2014 promise on growth. The organization on Friday released an interim report on economic policy reforms.
"Even though progress is made in tackling some of the main challenges, the slowdown in the pace of reforms observed in 2013-14 has continued in 2015, even after taking into account measures that are in the pipeline but that have yet to be fully implemented," the report said.
The OECD said that the pace of reform was generally higher in Southern European countries like Italy and Spain, than among Northern European countries. Outside Europe, the reform leaders were Japan China, India and Mexico.
Japan has made clear its desire for a stronger group solution at this G-20 meeting.
Stimulating growth a Catch-22
With its own central bank moving to negative interest rates last month to what some commentators have said was little effect,Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso pledged to push for a group response to calming current global market turmoil, set off at the turn of the year by growing fears China's economic slowdown would spread worldwide.
.But U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has played down the chances of coordinated action by the G-20, telling Bloomberg TV on Wednesday that a "crisis response" should not be expected because the current environment was not a crisis situation.
Productivity–a central ingredient to economic well-being—has been decelerating in the majority of countries, with the slowdown going about 15 years, at least in advanced economies. But finding a solution was not straightforward, according to the OECD report released Friday.
"On the one hand, demand policies alone will not restore sustainable growth; but on the other hand, policies to strengthen competition and innovation, spur job creation and repair financial systems to fund investment will only yield results if there is enough growth, " the report said.
Against the backdrop of "subdued global economic prospects", countries should prioritize reforms that would spur employment, productivity and support activity in the short-term. These include public infrastructure investment and the reduction of barriers to entry in services sectors with pent-up demand, it said.
China needed to shift to new sources of growth as it faced a slowdown in its traditional manufacturing powerhouse; capital knowledge, more efficient allocation of resources for enterprises and human capital development was key, the OECD said.
In the advanced Asian economies of Japan and South Korea,productivity in services was "particularly low", relative to manufacturing. The OECD recommends reducing regulatory barriers to competition and innovation in network industries as well as professional services and retail distribution to improve the situation.
Ageing populations in both countries were also dragging down productivity and there was a need to boost full-time labor participation by women by introducing a working environment the helped reconcile work and family responsibilities, the OECD added.


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It is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It costs $2.99 in appstore
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Letters to the Editor
Limbaugh's rant
All of America should be appalled at the sick and disgusting behavior of Rush Limbaugh. It doesn't matter if one likes Michael J. Fox, whether he was on his "meds," nor whether one favors stem cell research. What matters is that there are people in our country who continue to listen to a man like Limbaugh after such a contemptuous attack on a person suffering from Parkinson's disease.
In an interview after Limbaugh's attack, Fox began to be breathless and sweat from so much movement. Does Limbaugh think all of Fox's movement and sweat was faked? Most people would be saddened to see the effects of this disease on a person's body and breathing.
Instead, Limbaugh has the nerve to mock a person with a deadly medical problem. He has spouted off way too many times and his listening audience ought to have shut him up years ago. What would Limbaugh be spouting if he were the one with Parkinson's disease?
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Crime - Sacto 911
Mother, live-in boyfriend arrested in death of 2-year-old
The Citrus Heights mother of a 2-year-old child and her live-in boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of killing her toddler in October.
Rebecca Thomas, 34, and Taylor Montgomery-Gutzman, 23, were arrested Wednesday by Citrus Heights police.
Police had responded to a home in the 8000 block of Auburn Boulevard about 5:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Officers found the 2-year-old not breathing. The child – who has still not been identified by the Sacramento coroner – later died at an area hospital.
Police initially said the child was a twin and that both children had existing medical conditions.
"After a thorough investigation, numerous interviews, (and) the collection and examination of evidence, it was determined the child did not die of natural causes," the Citrus Heights Police Department announced in a news release Thursday. The release said "the mother and live-in boyfriend were responsible for the child's death."
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Aircraft Wrecks in the
Mountains and Deserts of the American West
This Article Appeared in the
DailyBreeze.com - February 5, 2005
Link to DailyBreeze.com
By Ian Gregor
Daily Breeze
She was never
seen again. Her disappearance has remained a mystery for more than six
That mystery could soon be solved if years
of research, planning and hard work are blessed with a little luck.
Early next month, divers from a 40-foot San
Pedro-based boat called the Ranger are scheduled to make the latest -- and
quite possibly last -- in a series of searches for Tompkins' plane.
Descending to the ocean bottom just off LAX, they'll examine and
photograph two masses of metal that crews found during the last hunt for
the wreckage in 2002.
If the wreckage is indeed a plane, it
should be fairly easy to determine if it's a P-51D, said Pat Macha, an
aviation archaeology expert and retired Hawthorne High School history
teacher who's been investigating Tompkins' fate since 1996. The P-51D's
manufacturer, North American Aviation, stamped more parts than most other
airplane builders. And only one P-51D crashed into Santa Monica Bay west
of the former Mines Field, Macha said.
At the same time, it's far from certain
that the debris is an airplane.
"It's still a long shot," said Macha, who
has written three books on aircraft archaeology and has visited more than
800 crash sites during the past 40 years.
"I'm not overly optimistic but it's in a
suspect location and it's metal so we have to check it out."
Macha believes this may be the last chance
to find the plane flown by Tompkins, who had been married just one month
when she disappeared and was still listed in military records as Tompkins.
Further searches to the south -- which is the direction she would have
turned after taking off -- are precluded by buoys and underwater obstacles
from the Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant, Macha said.
"I think at that point we'd have to take a
large step back" if the debris turns out not to be Tompkins' plane, Macha
Gertrude Tompkins Silver was a member of an
elite group of about 1,100 Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) who
served during World War II, primarily ferrying planes for shipment
overseas and pulling along aerial gunnery targets used by the military for
target practice.
Tompkins became a WASP in 1943 and, at 32,
was one of the older female pilots when she vanished, said her grandniece,
Laura Whittall-Scherfee of Sacramento. According to Macha, she was one of
38 to 43 WASPS who were killed in crashes.
The day Tompkins disappeared, she was among
a trio of WASPs who were to fly brand new P-51Ds from their manufacturing
site to Palm Springs, where they would spend the night before continuing
on a three-day journey to Newark, N.J.
Tompkins' takeoff was delayed by a canopy
that wouldn't close properly; witnesses later reported seeing two P-51Ds
buzzing east above Imperial Highway but never a third, Macha said. She
wasn't reported missing until the other pilots got to Newark because they
had assumed that she had been unable to take off due to the mechanical
problem, he said.
"She had slipped through the cracks," Macha
Macha believes Tompkins went down almost
immediately after takeoff. His leading theory is that the plane stalled --
possibly because Tompkins wasn't expecting that its center of gravity
would be shifted by the full fuel tank directly behind the cockpit -- and
went into a low altitude dive from which Tompkins could not recover.
Fighters often left no debris on the ocean surface if they sliced almost
vertically into the water, he said.
Macha said he had been aware of Tomkins'
disappearance but got personally involved in the mystery in 1996, when he
was contacted by Whittall-Scherfee.
Whittall-Scherfee said she had heard of her
great-aunt as a child, but only delved into her disappearance after she
and her husband, who is an aviation and history buff, moved to California.
She called Macha after her husband picked up one of his books at an
airplane museum.
Pilot's family gets involved
"He said if you're interested, I'm
interested in running with it," recalled Whittall-Scherfee, 44. "It's a
personal search and one my husband and I are very committed to."
The couple and Macha pieced together facts
and a timeline by assembling information from articles, military records
and witness statements. Macha organized a series of all-volunteer searches
of increasing sophistication, culminating with a 2002 effort that turned
up two mounds of debris close together in relatively shallow water less
than a mile off Dockweiler State Beach.
The Ranger -- the San Pedro-based boat --
entered the picture because Eric Rosado was watching TV at just the right
Rosado was a member of the aerospace club
that Macha ran at Hawthorne High School. Now 29 and a commercial diver, he
stumbled upon a History Channel documentary called "Broken Wings," which
profiled Macha's efforts to find Tompkins' plane.
"I said, 'Hey, I know that guy!' " Rosado
Soon after, Rosado volunteered his services
to Macha. Five divers he works with also signed up for the endeavor,
including Tyler Fenton, the 21-year-old owner and captain of the Ranger.
"All the guys have a love for the ocean,"
said Rosado, standing in the Ranger's cabin next to a table covered in a
large depth chart of Santa Monica Bay. "We want to give back to veterans
who gave to us."
Debris covered in sediment
The debris is 25 to 30 feet down, and the
last search in 2002 indicated it was covered in six to 12 feet of
sediment, which shifts constantly, Fenton said. Visibility in that area is
anywhere from zero to 20 feet, depending on weather conditions, he said.
Wearing $5,000 diving helmets and thick
black wet suits with Kevlar knee and elbow pads, divers will mark the
search area with buoys and rope it off, Rosado said. They'll do a quick
swim-by to see if they can spot anything right off. Then they'll stick a
camera mounted on a long pipe into the sand, and use an air hose to blow
away sediment so they'll be able to photograph what's underneath, he said.
Although a two-day search is planned,
Rosado said the divers are willing to work as long as it takes to
determine what lurks underneath the ocean floor.
Earlier this week, the crew of the Ranger
visited the Western Museum of Flight at Hawthorne Municipal Airport to
inspect a P-51D Mustang to get a better idea of what they might be finding
under water.
Perhaps luck will be on their side. Last
Sunday, while visiting the site near Victorville where a B-25 bomber went
down on Oct. 4, 1944, Macha found the insignia of a WASP pilot named Marie
Mitchell Robinson, who was killed in the crash along with two other crew
He's trying to find her next of kin to
return the insignia.


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Yes. It's November. And it's Thanksgiving. People say time flies when you're having fun. I say time always flies, fun or not. So, it's that much more important to constantly give thanks, be it November or March, rainy or sunny, good times or bad. I think there's something therapeutic about saying "thank you," especially when people aren't expecting it.
I can tell you that I'm most thankful for my God, my family and my life. I use the word "life" here because that pretty much encompasses everything else. I'm thankful for it all. For what are you thankful? Do the people for whom you're thankful know that you're thankful? Here's a challenge: every day in November, make it a point to tell someone that you appreciate him or her. Find a time to be gracious. TIP: Do it when you don't feel like it, or when the other person really doesn't deserve it. Ohhh…that heaping coals on their head thing! If we do it all month, maybe it will carry over to forever!
Let's get to the things in this issue for which YOU should be thankful! Like how to scope out an awesome house in South Fulton, on any budget. Or, maybe you need a little help in the bedroom—we've got that covered, too! How about some insight on gratitude, from one of our timeless pastors, Mark Couch? It's all in here, plus much more. Shall we? Oh yeah, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


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Science Daily has our bases covered with the invention of photoelectric cells that create power from sunlight, and the motion of falling rain:
For the conversion of solar energy to electricity, the team from the Ocean University of China (Qingdao) and Yunnan Normal University (Kunming, China) developed a highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cell. In order to allow rain to produce electricity as well, they coated this cell with a whisper-thin film of graphene.
In aqueous solution, graphene can bind positively charged ions with its electrons (Lewis acid-base interaction). This property is used in graphene-based processes to remove lead ions and organic dyes from solutions.
This phenomenon inspired researchers working with Qunwei Tang to use graphene electrodes to obtain power from the impact of raindrops. Raindrops are not pure water. They contain salts that dissociate into positive and negative ions. The positively charged ions, including sodium, calcium, and ammonium ions, can bind to the graphene surface.
And, abridged version, when you've got positive and negative ions next to each other, you've got electric current.


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Opposition block adopts resolution for rebust alliance
MONROVIA, LIBERIA-Liberia's opposition political parties have adopted a five-count resolution to form rebust collaboration ahead of the 2017 Presidential and Representative Elections.
As part of their resolution, the parties announced the establishment of a technical committee, charged with the responsibility of making critical decisions on behalf of the opposition block.
The parties reached the decision over the week-end at a one-day gathering in Ganta, Nimba County.
According to our Nimba County Correspondent, the collaborating political parties are the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), National Patriotic Party (NPP), and the Movement for Economic Empowerment (MOVEE).
Others are the Movement for Democratic Reconstruction (MDR) and Alternative National Congress (ANC).
Our Correspondent also said each of the fifteen opposition political parties has two representatives on the Joint Technical Committee.
However, the resolution did not include any leadership structure for the opposition block.


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It started as a trickle -- an offer of a free track, "Hinterlands," from the next Dog on Fleas album, punnily titled, Buy One Get One Flea.
And now, while I hesitate to call it a flood -- a stream, perhaps -- more music from the beloved New York everything-including-the-kitchen-sink band is making its way to the public's ears.
The sampler below not only features "Hinterlands" but three other tracks in the same jazzy, picnic blanket sound of some of the band's earlier work. It also features the "Grand March" from Verdi's Aida, which you'll probably recognize once you hear the melody, though I feel confident in saying James Levine never conducted a version like this.
Buy One Get One Flea will be released February 2, 2014.
Dog on Fleas - Buy One Get One Flea Sampler [Bandcamp]


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Holes:18 Year:1909 Par: 71 Length: 5.875 yd
Architect: Archie Simpson, James Braid, Team Niblick
Murcar Links is located just outside of Aberdeen in Scotland. Murcar Links is a 27 hole complex consisting of the 18 hole Murcar Course and the 9 hole Strabathie Course.
Murcar Links golf courses features frequently in the top 100 courses in the UK and is one of VisitScotland's Top 40 Great Scottish Links Collection.
In 2005 it hosted pre-qualifying for the British Senior Open. In 2013, Murcar Links hosted the European Boys Team Championship. Murcar Links was established in 1909 and was designed by Archie Simpson. The Course was altered in the 1930 by famous golf designer James Braid and further refinements were made to the course more recently by Team Niblick Ltd.
The Murcar Course is situated on a classic stretch of links land with large sand dunes, crumpled fairways, whins, burns and heather. From the elevated tees there are some breath taking views across the North Sea and to Aberdeen City in the south. Murcar is a beautifully rugged course with much natural appeal. Murcar Links Golf Club is just a 15 minute journey from Aberdeen, and its airport. The Gold Club is a two hour journey from Edinburgh and Glasgow. Public transit routes are available.Murcar Links is an 18 hole links course with a par of 69 and a length of 5372m.
Murcar is a seriously challenging course despite its short length. The hummocking fairways are often very tight and the ball has a habit of bouncing off the knolls and into vicious rough.Visitors are welcomed at Murcar Links and tee times are available throughout the year, although the summer month are better.
Green fees are to be expected for such a well renowned course. Day tickets are only available through the week. Junior golfers are welcome on the Murcar Course. Clubs, Trolley and caddies are available for hire.The clubhouse is newly refurbished and opened in 2006. The clubhouse provides excellent catering services and menus can be tailored to your specifications.The practice area was also newly opened in 2006 and offers access to greens for putting, pitching and chipping as well as a 3 hole short course, practice bunker and a driving range with 8 covered tees.The professional shop is well stocked and modern and it's resident PGA professional is available for lessons and has invested in the Explanar teaching system. Murcar links is not for the beginner or for the faint hearted as it presents a truly challenging test of golf.


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The house at 41 Oxford Avenue in Mansfield was originally bought, remodeled, and intended to be used as a sober living house for individuals coming out of an addictive/dependency rehabilitation. Tom and Josh spent many exhausting hours of labor bringing this house back to life.
Unappealing roof, gutters needed replaced, worn-out storm door, sad-looking porch and foundation, missing railing, holes and dings in aluminum siding, and very badly in need of a paint job. But look at me now!
I was leaning to the right and just like the house above, I had an unappealing roof and was in need of new gutters. My siding was way beyond needing a new paint job, so they put new siding on me. Look at me now!
My basement was uninhabitable. They remodeled my bathroom, covered my block walls with fiberglass, tiled my floor, put in a new ceiling, and finished me up with a new cove base. Look at me now!
My attic was unfinished, so they added two nice bedrooms and a study area. I got new drywall, floors, cove base, closets, and paint. Look at me now!
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George Huntington
George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician who contributed a classic clinical description of the disease that bears his name – Huntington's disease.
Huntington described this condition in the first of only two scientific papers he ever wrote. He wrote this paper when he was 22, a year after receiving his medical degree from Columbia University in New York. He first read the paper before the Meigs and Mason Academy of Medicine in Middleport, Ohio on February 15, 1872 and then published it in the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia on April 13, 1872.[1][2]
Huntington's father and grandfather, George Lee Huntington (1811–1881) and Abel Huntington (1778–1858), were also physicians in the same family practice. Their longitudinal observations combined with his own were invaluable in precisely describing this hereditary disease in multiple generations of a family in East Hampton on Long Island.
In a 1908 review, the eminent physician William Osler said of this paper: "In the history of medicine, there are few instances in which a disease has been more accurately, more graphically or more briefly described."
In 1874 George Huntington returned to Dutchess County, New York to practice medicine. He joined a number of medical associations[3] and started working for the Matteawan General Hospital. In 1908 the scientific journal Neurograph dedicated him a special edition.[4]
George Huntington should not be confused with George Sumner Huntington (1861–1927), the anatomist. (Both men attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University).[5]
- ^ Huntington, G. (1872). "On Chorea". Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia. 26 (15): 317–321.
- ^ Lanska DJ (2000). "George Huntington (1850–1916) and hereditary chorea". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 9 (1): 76–89. doi:10.1076/0964-704X(200004)9:1;1-2;FT076. PMID 11232352.
- ^ These medical societies included:
- Dutchess County Medical Society (President in 1888);
- Medical Society of the State of New York;
- Brooklyn Society for Neurology;
- Buncombe Medical Society of North Carolina;
- Tristate Medical Association; and the
- Medical Association of the State of New York.
- ^ Dr. George Huntington and the Disease Bearing His Name Archived 2006-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. www.lkwdpl.org
- ^ van der Weiden RM (1989). "George Huntington and George Sumner Huntington. A tale of two doctors". Hist Philos Life Sci. 11 (2): 297–304. PMID 2534642.
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- "HD Basics". HOPES: Huntington's Disease Outreach Project for Education at Stanford. Archived from the original on 2016-06-12.
- Stevenson, Charles S. (April 1934). "A Biography of George Huntington, M.D." Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University. II (2). Archived from the original (DOC) on March 15, 2009.
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ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — A former nurse under investigation in the homicide of a 4-year-old with medical disabilities has admitted stealing the medicine that was meant to keep him alive, according to records.
Kristie Mollohan, 40, of Kalamazoo, also admitted to using the drug.
Records obtained from the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs lay out the case against the former licensed practical nurse (LPN), who has not been charged in the death. The state report shows she admitted stealing liquid Valium from three children who needed it to control seizures and describes how the theft led to the death of 4-year-old Ryley Maue, who suffered from cerebral palsy, in August 2016.
The state's investigation led the Board of Nursing Disciplinary Subcommittee to suspend Mollohan's LPN license in January.
Mollohan started working for Wyoming-based Lakeshore Home Health Care Services in May 2015 as a home care nurse. She was assigned to work for three children in two homes, all of whom had been prescribed liquid Valium for seizures. One was the Allegan home of Ryley and his big brother, Kenny, who also has cerebral palsy. Their mom, Toni Ward, told 24 Hour News 8 that Mollohan worked at her home for about six weeks, on shift overnight several times per week.
In August, another Lakeshore nurse reported her suspicion that someone had tampered with the liquid Valium bottles for Ryley and his brother. Records show a pharmacist confirmed they had had been diluted.
A few days later, the father of another patient called Lakeshore to report that someone had tampered with liquid Valium. Records don't identify that victim, who survived. Police say that theft happened in Barry County.
Lakeshore ordered all of its nurses to provide urine samples for drug screens. Records show Mollohan was the only nurse to test positive for the drug.
On Aug. 23, Lakeshore interviewed Mollohan, who admitted stealing liquid Valium from all three for her own use and "replacing the stolen liquid diazepam (Valium) with water." Lakeshore immediately fired her and reported it to the state, records show.
Three days later, on Aug. 26, Ryley died of a seizure — a death later ruled a homicide.
The medical examiner determined that Ryley's medication had less than 10 percent of the prescribed concentration.
Before August, the report said, Ryley's condition had stabilized.
Prosecutors in Allegan and Barry counties said they're still investigating the cases and haven't decided on charges.
Mollohan, who has no criminal record, has not responded to Target 8's requests for comment.


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ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Barrister Syed Ali Zafar on Monday expressed the hope that people all across the country would exercise their right to vote freely and without any fear.
Speaking at the inauguration of Election City 2018 of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC)here, he said that all the stakeholders including the previous Parliament and Election Commission of Pakistan played their role for a transparent and impartial election.
He said that the caretaker government was completely impartial and it had nothing to do with who would win or lose the election or which party would emerge successful.
The fate and progress of the country was in hands of the people who would have the opportunity to cast their vote thoughtfully and without any fear, he added.
The Minister said that in the past, results from Presiding Officers were sent with delay which created doubts but now the method was completely changed.
The Election Commission had prepared software through which results from the Returning Officers would be received directly by ECP and through a link would also be received by Pakistan Television, he informed.
He said that if there would be any interruption at any time in the software of Election Commission then hard copy could be acquired from the Returning Officer.
The Minister said Radio Pakistan was a prized possession of Pakistan and it was not only listened in far-flung areas of Pakistan but also across the border.
It was the only media outlet which reached 80 per cent areas of the country and 95 per cent of the total population, he said.
Ali Zafar appreciated that Radio Pakistan had hundreds of thousands of followers on social media platforms Twitter and Facebook and the number was increasing with every passing day.
He congratulated the management of Radio Pakistan for setting up Election City.
To a question, he said that according to schedule of Election Commission the election campaign would end on July 23.
He said that the candidates fully participated in the election campaign and strengthened democracy and now people had to decide who would win or lose.
To another question, he said that Pakistan was fighting the war against terrorism for a long time and success was achieved to a large extent.
The anti-State elements wanted to delay or sabotage the elections, he noted, adding, that the aim of the recent terror incidents was to harm democracy but the nation remained united and political activities continued normally in the country.
He said that the caretaker government would arrange for foolproof security for the election on July 25.
Ali Zafar told that 450,000 police personnel and more than 300,000 Army jawans were deployed, adding, never before such a large number of security personnel were put on duty.
To a question, he said that security would be tight due to safety concerns and Close Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV) would be installed at sensitive polling stations so that the whole process could be kept transparent and clear.
He said that the credit for transparent election went to Election Commission and the last Parliament which enacted Election Act 2017.
He said that present Election Commission was far more powerful than the previous election bodies.
Responding to a question, the Minister said that after the election of 2013, 55 different complaints were received from observers as well as from media and civil society, adding, the last Parliament worked for three years and enacted a comprehensive Election Act so that previous complaints should not arise.
Ali Zafar informed that after the detailed code of conduct and SOPs of the Election Commission, the election process had been improved so that there were no complaints.
Director General Radio Pakistan Shafqat Jalil and senior officials of Radio Pakistan were present on the occasion.
Shafqat Jalil assured that according to the policy of caretaker government, timely and certified election results would be delivered to the people.
He said that during the special transmission of Election City, people would listen to the analysis and reports of experts.
If people would have any complaint in any constituency they could approach the regional offices or headquarters of the Election Commission.
Earlier, the Information Minister visited current affairs section, news room, FM 92 Dhanak, desk for translation of regional languages and web desk of Radio Pakistan.


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We made dinner for some friends last weekend who love risotto. It's always tough making a dish someone loves because it might not meet their standards… However, this recipe will not fail you! Many people have the misconception that risotto is very unhealthy because it is loaded with butter or cream but this recipe is super simple as long as you are willing to give it a little TLC. The way you cook it makes all the difference and gets you that nice creamy texture that is oh-so good.
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- 6 cups vegetable broth, divided
- 3 Tbsp olive oil, divided
- 1 lb portobello mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1 lb white mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1-2 leeks, thinly sliced
- 2 shallots, diced
- 1½ cups Arborio rice
- ½ cup dry white wine
- sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped chives (can use green onions too)
- ⅓ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese (can eliminate if looking for a vegan version)
- In a saucepan, warm the broth over low heat.
- Warm 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in the mushrooms and leeks, and cook until soft, about 3 minutes. Remove mushrooms and their liquid, and set aside.
- Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to skillet, and stir in the shallots. Cook 1 minute. Add rice, stirring to coat with oil, about 2 minutes. When the rice has taken on a pale, golden color, pour in wine, stirring constantly until the wine is fully absorbed. Add ½ cup broth to the rice, and stir until the broth is absorbed. Continue adding broth ½ cup at a time, stirring continuously, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is al dente, about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Remove from heat, and stir in mushrooms with their liquid, chives, and parmesan. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Discussion in 'Model S' started by richardl007, Oct 18, 2015.
Does anyone find auto lane change slightly to aggressive (turns to quick) ?
Several times I thought it was actually too slow. Some times it just doesn't change, with no indication as to why (no one is in the lane, and the sensor do not indicate it thinks there is anyone there either)
I'm not talking about about how long it takes but rather the smoothness. I find it turns to hard.
I think it's just right.
I think it is a good compromise between a very aggressive lane change and an overly tentative lane change. I can imagine that Tesla spent quite a while tuning that algorithm, but of course it won't satisfy everyone. I expect that in the future there will be user selectable options: "Leisurely", "Moderate", "Aggressive".
I think they did a pretty good job of putting it right in the middle of what most people do.
Some people are more aggressive, and some people are less aggressive.
Maybe they could key off of how the turn signal is used -- holding but not fully engaging the stalk means change lanes now. Fully engaging means "whenever you get around to it".
While I do find the lane changing a bit more aggressive than I'd like I wish it would start moving a bit quicker when stopped behind another vehicle at a red light and the light turns green.
I get this a lot. More when changing into the right lane than changing into the left lane. No discernable logic or reason but often it will not auto lane change even though it is completely clear. Other times, it will lane change with a car in the adjacent lane only a half a length behind me.
We've had several cases where the car changed lanes while simultaneously issuing a warning to put hands on the wheel because the car was departing the lane! It's happened several times, but is not reproducible.
I'm not sure of this. However, I believe here in Ye Ole Republic of Massachusetts, there is a particular amount of time you are suppose to complete a lane change. May not be true, but, it's something I heard. To that, I believe there have been studies showing a quick(er) lane change is safer in the long run. FWIW
Click below to read a well written critique of the lane change feature safety - er.... lack thereof.
Tesla's Autopilot Lane Change: Likely To Be Unsafe At Any Speed - Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) | Seeking Alpha
Gah! WARNING: people should not follow that link. He's a Tesla bear/short and he's deliberately confuting the lane change feature with autonomous lane changing.
Autopilot lane changing is simply a car-controlled maneuver initiated by the driver. It's an instruction to the car to move to the next lane instead of following the current lane. I think what some people like the OP might find is that auto lane change changes lanes at a consistent rate, while they would vary depending on conditions and traffic. But, like an automated gear change, the automated steering should give a more consistent and smoother entry and exit from the maneuver than would most drivers, which helps make changing lanes safer. It's a further reduction in physical effort that will reduce errors.
Those are all good points. But I think he makes a big leap when he implies that just because there are better solutions that the current Tesla solution is unsafe. I agree it's basically just blind spot coverage and that longer range coverage would be much better. But I've had blind spot warning in many of my cars for years and it's saved my butt many times from crashing into cars in my blind spot but I cannot think of even a single instance where the presence or absence of longer range 50 meter detection would have resulted in or prevented an accident. I understand he's saying that Tesla's marketing material will lead to people having a false sense of security or misunderstanding of how far the ultrasonics can actually see, but the exact same argument could be made about any blind spot system (manufacturers warnings, fine print, and all). Possible solutions:
1) tap into the rear view camera and use the front camera image detection alogorithms to detect cars approaching at high speed.
2) display the rear view camera in the dash screen (perhaps just the relevant portion of the rear view to bring attention to the danger zone) whenever you engage the turn signal during autopilot.
3) ultimately it seems autopilot 2.0 will have rear and side radar, but I'm glad that autopilot 1.0 can still do much or most of what autopilot 2.0 can do.
The lane change is pretty nice. Today for the first time it refused to change lanes, highway was straight and no other cars anywhere near our location. I see from other comments that this has happened to others as well. I don't see anything "unsafe" about how it works. Check that the lane is clear and use the blinker. Not any different from pre-autopilot times.
I don't particularly like the way the lane change UI works. I was lead to believe by the marketing hype that all that was required was a tap on the turn signal lever and it would initiate the turn. Of course, it's the driver's responsibility to make sure that the turn is safe at that point. I thought tapping the turn signal was supposed to mean approximately the same thing as actually turning the steering wheel. But no, I have to HOLD the turn signal for an extended period of time before it even starts to turn. I've always thought the way to make a lane change is to: check that it's OK, signal, wait for three clicks, then move over completing the move in about the same time as the three clicks. If you just tap the turn signal in manual mode it does the three clicks. In auto pilot mode it should do the three clicks then the turn WITHOUT having to hold the lever. If the driver wants to abort at any point he merely has to use the steering wheel.
I take it that you don't like to latch the turn signal for the auto lane change to complete the lane change, correct?
As much as I dislike SeekingAlpha trolls, this one has a very good point, and I've made the same point ever since Autopilot was announced. The lack of long-range rear radar makes even the driver-initiated autopilot lane change an accident waiting to happen.
Consider this: The front camera could clearly be programmed with the capability to recognize red lights and stop signs, but Tesla intentionally does not even try, leaving the responsibility 100% to the driver. There is no ambiguity. The autopilot will allow you to barrel straight through a red light without so much as a blip, and the driver knows this, so there will never be a false sense of security that the car will do it for you. But with the lane changing feature, the fact that it _usually_ recognizes danger and refuses to do the maneuver, naturally leads an ordinary driver into a very false sense of security that it will _always_ do so. When it comes to sharing mission-critical responsibility, _usually_ is a very dangerous thing.
TACC, on the other hand, is astonishingly reliable, because it has sufficient hardware to do its job. I'd be surprised if there's been even a single case where a Tesla on TACC has plowed into the car in front of it. It's not easy to construct a situation where it could even do so, short of another driver deliberately attempting to swerve into the lane and crash. But with the autopilot lane-changing, it's trivial to construct real-world scenarios that would lead to unavoidable collisions. I believe it's only a matter of time before this happens. It may still technically be the driver's "fault", but Tesla should be designing its car for imperfect human drivers, not perfect robots. They have to take human nature into account, and in this case it seems like they really haven't.
Of course, I hope that I'm completely wrong, and that years pass without any incidents like this occurring. But for now, I'll be very hesitant to quickly pass another Tesla on the left.
Sir: You are very correct. I only hope that accident due to auto lane change does not happen too soon, due to driver error and over reliance on the far from reliable system.
Right. When driving manually I typically use the single tap three click feature, that's what it's there for. Latching it down for "auto" lane change would mean having to do a second action to unlatch it. I would rather concentrate on the road. OK, it's not that hard. It just would be a lot easier the other way. What were they thinking?


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Finding a good Twitter client for Linux is not as easy as I thought it would be. About 5 months ago, despite resisting it for a long time, I started using Twitter. I don't know why but it is a little addictive. I've now even attended my first tweetup in Fayetteville. Twittering is a lot like blogging but without having to think too much about it as you only get 140 characters to work with. If you are here though, you probably know all that already.
For the most part, I have just used the Twitter website to read and post "tweets" but looking at some analysis of traffic, there seem to be a lot of good clients out there. This is in most part thanks to the fact that Twitter has an API so you don't have to use the website only. You can use one of the endless number of clients that are written to make the experience more feature filled. There is a nice list here but for this post, I am only interested in the Linux and cross platform twitter clients.
Unfortunately once you get to running Linux, the seemingly endless selection of clients ends. There are really only 3 easy solutions if you are running Ubuntu 8.04. I say easy because you can install all 3 through Add/Remove Applications. Sadly, none of them are very good. First, there are 2 native clients: gTwitter and Twitux.
gTwitter (using version 1.0beta) is ok. First, the default view is terrible (not the one pictured below). The default shows the selected tweet from a list of initially the last 12 you have received. The list only shows the name and the time of the tweet (except the time was when it was downloaded, not when it was posted).
Switching to "Tweet View" is more helpful (see the screen shot below). In Tweet View the client at least shows all the tweets in full along with the picture of the person; however, none of the links in them work when using this view. You can't follow an @account to see the persons page or even follow normal http links. There is also no ability to reply to a person using the interface either without manually typing @ and their username. These are all very serious deficiencies.
The text entry box is also very limited. First, it is a single line. I realize 140 characters doesn't take much space but it can still fill up a single line. I want to see everything I am typing before I send it. At least there is a character counter to show you how many more characters you have left. There is also no spell check which for me is another must have.
If you want to change the settings, of which there are few, the only way to access them is from the system tray icon. I didn't even realize it was up there after searching for a very long time for a way to change the update frequency after running out of my allotted API calls.
Oh yeah, and sometimes it just randomly crashes.
I see gTwitter as a good start but sill to lacking for real use. Just using the website would be more useful at this point.
Twitux (using version 0.60) is a lot better but still has some major annoyances. It does have clear menu items so you can get to settings and features easily. It also has a number of features that, unlike gTwitter, add value over just using the website.
In addition to the basics Twitux has a view to show you different sets of tweets such as the public list, your friends, only yours, direct messages, direct replies and the timeline for the application @twitux.
The text entry is a good sized text area with spell check but to get to it you have to use the menu or Ctrl-N to pop up a dialog box. I think it should be part of the interface like in gTwitter but as multiple lines.
The most annoying part of Twitux though is the resizing issues. If tweets are long enough they don't wrap properly and there is always a little left/right scrolling that you will have to do. Why? Up/down scrolling is expected so just drop the left/right scroll and expand those tweets vertically.
So far I think Twitux is you best bet but there are some other options.
The next option is to run Twitter in Mozilla Prism. This isn't much special as Prism is just a stand alone browser (using much of the same internals as Firefox) designed to be used for a single application at a time. The idea with Prism is you have an icon for Twitter on you desktop that you can click and it will bring up this window with Twitter in it, more like a desktop application. You can use Prism for any site like your online email or calendar too. I think you get the point.
So, using Prisim is really just like using the website in its own little browser. There is not much value add there.
Before moving on to what I think the best solution I have to ask a question: Why are there so many Windows clients and so few Linux clients and of those Linux clients, why are they so lacking? I truly do not understand. On Linux, clients like this usually spring up left and right but they haven't here. Maybe developers just don't use Twitter that much or it just isn't that big of a deal to them. I will say that a Twitter client is pretty low priority.
But the best option, I think, it to use some of the newer cross platform clients that are written using the new Adobe AIR framework. The problem there though is AIR for Linux is lagging behind the Windows and Mac versions. It just moved from alpha to beta on September 18th.
I honestly haven't tried installing AIR and an AIR Twitter client on Linux yet. That is next on my list but beyond the scope of this post. I did see some success by this guy on getting Thwirl on Linx working. This was when AIR was still in the alpha stage. I really like Thwirl in Windows. I'd like to try out TweetDeck too.
If this hasn't solved your quest for a good Twitter client in Linux, you may want to read this review of the state of Twitter clients on Linux or see what folks think of Twitter+Linux on del.icio.us. I also found Pwytter recently but it doesn't look very impressive yet either.
Have you had any luck finding a better client? I'd love to know. I'm still just using the website.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Good Linux Twitter Clients - Where are they?
Finding a good Twitter client for Linux is not as easy as I thought it would be. About 5 months ago, despite resisting it for a long time, I started using Twitter. I don't know why but it is a little addictive. I've now even attended my first tweetup in Fayetteville. Twittering is a lot like blogging but without having to think too much about it as you only get 140 characters to work with. If you are here though, you probably know all that already.


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Plymouth County has filed a class-action lawsuit against a national electronic mortgage registry company it says has enabled banks to avoid paying Iowa mortgage recording fees.
Plymouth County Attorney Darin Raymond filed the suit on behalf of all 99 Iowa counties against MERSCORP Holdings Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., known as MERS, which tracks mortgages sold and traded among banks that subscribe to the company's service. The suit also names several of the nation's largest banks and mortgage companies.
In the lawsuit, Raymond said MERS has allowed banks to skirt Iowa's public information and recording laws by trading mortgages through an electronic registry that lists MERS as the mortgage holder, even though the banks are buying and selling the mortgages.
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Friday, 10 May, 2002, 06:36 GMT 07:36 UK
Test the Nation
Do you enjoy doing crosswords?
Is your idea of fun an afternoon spent disentangling the instructions on a flat pack wardrobe?
If so, then the BBC's Test the Nation may be for you.
IQ tests are a very useful thing to do: they're good for getting jobs, for all sorts of things.
Results are not based on individual right or wrong answers, it really depends on how the test is constructed.
We write the questions and then give them to a large sample group and the results we get is the basis of our analysis.
(Click on the video icon on the top right hand corner of this page to watch the above interview.)
Dr Cooper joined us for an interactive forum this morning.
Click here to watch the forum.
This Saturday (May 11) BBC One will be running a series of IQ tests across Britain.
Presented by Phillip Schofield and Anne Robinson, the aim of Test the Nation will be to find out whether one part of the country really is brainier than another.
Seventy specially-designed questions will test the nation's brain power in five separate areas: language, memory, logic, numbers and perception.
Six different groups will pit their wits against the BBC's brain-teasers in the studio.
Anne Robinson - already famous as the queen of mean on the Weakest Link - says:
"Never mind who always claims to be the clever globs in the family or the egg-head at the office.
"This is a chance to test who truly is the smartest.
Reputations will be made. Reputations will be ruined!"
Limber up Your IQ score is supposed to remain roughly constant, but there are some things you can do to get in shape for the tests.
check out Breakfast's mini-test - or, for some serious limbering up,
A full eight hours' kip should improve your performance
Moderate exercise improves the flow of oxygen to the brain, say scientists
Your grandmother was right, apparently: some food, such as oily fish, really is "brain food"
What is your IQ?
The IQ test is nearly a century old.
The first tests were devised in Paris in 1904.
Given the average life expectancy of an officer in the trenches, this is one IQ test you'd have been well advised to fail.
The IQ test is not intended to be a measure of what you know, but how well you can think.
It measures different aspects of the brain's skills, including verbal and non-verbal reasoning, visual abilities and mental arithmetic
Scientists have noticed that the average IQ is rising, at the rate of roughly three points per decade.
They're not sure whether we're really all getting brainier, or whether we're just getting better at being tested.
Try our mini-IQ test
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Social Suppers
Let's Get Together
Bring your voice, your perspective, and your energy, shared over a meal, and together, we can try to change the world.
Bring your voice to the table
CARE Social Suppers is a dine-and-dialogue initiative in which hosts bring guests together for an evening of food and shared conversation with a purpose.
Guided by a CARE-provided toolkit with talking points and other curated materials, and calls to action centered on advocacy and fundraising, Social Suppers is driven by community-building and engagement with a focus on women's and girls' issues such as child marriage, economic empowerment, education, health, poverty and social justice.
When you host or attend a CARE Social Suppers dinner party, you help amplify the voices of women and girls around the world, bringing awareness to their issues and driving your friends and family to take action for good.


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The Nelson County Radio Club, formerly known as KARS, has been meeting at the EMS training room at 7 PM on the second Monday of the month. Lately, we have had problems accessing the training room due to the need for EMS personnel to respond to incidents.
Beginning May 7th, 2018, NCRC will begin meeting at the Nelson County Public Library on the second Monday of the month in community room #1 between 7 and 8 PM.


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The millennial generation born between 1980 and 2000, is a group that makes up almost 35% of the world's population. This generation generates over 60% of the SMS traffic and the Baby Boomers and Generation X are following suit. Over 90% of them have cell phones and personal computers. They believe in instant communication as a way of life and expect that technology will facilitate it.
Mobile devices have become an integral part of life and companies need to have a mobile communication strategy to be able to please customers. Texting is a prominent piece of mobile usage and the ability to have two way conversations using mobile texting is increasingly becoming a requirement for contact centers. To embrace the next generation customer expectations, this technology needs to be included in the design of any customer communication strategy.


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One of the most difficult things I find about homeschooling is trying to judge how involved my role as a teacher goes.
When the big boys were little, of course there was no question of a more hands-on approach. I prepared manipulatives, created fun worksheets, helped with lapbooks, went through each math lesson, directed handwriting, took them outside for fun geography lessons and so on. Some times I look back in disbelief of what a fun Mom I tried to be!
As they have grown, however, it becomes more difficult in figuring it out. One would hope the 9th grader would take a lot less hand-holding than the 5th grader. Although at times reality does not follow the ideal!
There are different schools of thought in homeschooling as in anything else. And different subjects require different amounts of involvement. And I am sadly, easily confused. I read an article that talks about how good it is to just let kids experience reading and not worry about literary analysis. And it makes good sense.
But then I think about Latin, which requires me to work with the boys every day, at least to some degree. That is a subject of real discipline ("CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"). Just reading it for the love of it won't work.
In the end, each subject can require something a bit different from the rest.
So, it still leaves me scratching my head some days - Was I involved enough? Did I hover? Am I encouraging independence or enabling my motivationally-challenged child to wallow in procrastination?
There is the Dream Homeschool Me and the Real Homeschool Me.
Here is how it goes, ideally:
1) I meet with each boy individually once a week, to discuss where they are in each subject, to map out their work for that week and to discuss any issues or problems they are facing.
2) The boys follow their schedule, meeting with me for various subjects from time-to-time (we do Michael Clay Thompson's language arts program together)
3) When they boys have a quiz, a test or work for me to check, they place them in a manilla envelope hanging on the bulletin board.
4) Every evening, I check the turn-in envelope and grade. The next day we review any work that needs reviewing.
Some weeks the above even happens! Happyhappyjoyjoy! But for the other weeks:
1) I meet with each boy on Monday and realize we forgot one whole subject the previous week. Or rather, I forgot one whole subject and they did not remind me!
2) As I work with each boy, I find out one has not done Latin in two weeks ("I forgot"), one has spent four weeks on the science lesson that should have taken two, and one read his whole book for literature but cannot sum up the plot at all.
3) I realize I have not checked the turn-in folder for days. I reach my hand in to find a) a large sheaf of papers that could only make a bureaucrat happy OR b) nothing. Either one is bad.
4) I lay my head down on the desk and cry.
But I am not alone. Cartoonist Todd Wilson reminds me every time I see one of his panels.
I am not alone.


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In business with Mega Kayaks UK for 14 years, Savannah Canoe and Kayak has garnered a strong reputation for supplying high quality new and used surf boats stateside. Striving to bring you the latest and best in contemporary designs, we stock the largest inventory of Mega surf kayaks in the United States. We deal directly with Mega UK. and ship nation wide. As the US Mega importer we handle shipping, customs, import duty and quality control so you don't have to. Nothing ships out from our shop that is not in perfect condition and guaranteed to fit your needs. We know Mega Kayaks inside and out. We can get you in the ideal boat for your size, location, and style.
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Mega MATRIX
'This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.' The Mega Matrix loves to go down the rabbit hole as much as she likes to fly off the lip. She's a tight fit, but once you squeeze in this boat is very fast and super nimble, transferring from edge to edge with nothing more than the impulse of thought. With a pigeon toed fin placement and intergrated thigh braces this boat is designed to drive up the face and get high. If you like to go fast, get high and weigh in under 170lbs the Matrix is your girl.
Mega Matrix Specs - Length 7' 6" Width 24" Weight Carbon Superlight - 20lbs
Mega BOOST
The Mega BOOST is a rad shred sled, no doubt. There was nothing racier until her little sister came along and stole some of her thunder. But the Boost is a fast, super fun and playful package with a high rate of speed and lots of foregiveness. She loves to go top to bottom, as well as streak down the line at high speed, but with a little more volume for a larger paddler than the Matrix. Ideal for paddlers upto 180lbs.
Mega Boost Specs - Length 7' 6" Width 25". Weight Standard layup - 25lbs
Mega EDGE
Big sister to the Matrix, the Mega EDGE is powerhouse of a kayak complete with a fine set of glutes and quads (all Mega surf kayaks are available with a custom quad fin setup). Similar design and surfing characteristics to the Matrix, but for the bigger paddler...up to 195lbs. High knee position and a little narrower across the foredeck gives more speed and stability through the turns. This is a very fast and very high performing surf kayak for the competitive personality. Favorite surf boat of Aiden Brackenbury who makes this boat fly.
Mega HALO
The Mega HALO is the big girl of the modern family Mega. These new family members are the highest performing of the HP boats. If your surfing skills are on point, and you are looking for the most up to date design theories incorporated into your next ride then it will most likely be a Halo, Edge or Matrix. The Halo is large...more foot room, more butt room and better floatation for the paddler in excess of 200lbs. She's a bit of a redesign of the very popular Mega Proton, but has evolved into a stand along performer. Removeable/adjustable thigh braces and plenty of room to reposition the foam seat give this shredder lots of adjustability for big thighs, big butts or broad shoulders.
Mega PROTON
The Mega PROTON has been around for 6 years now, but it's such a solid performer, she's sure to be in the line up for good while longer. Big brother to the iconic Boost, both these kayaks shred with effortless abandone . Wide and volumous in the tail, makes for quicker, cleaner take offs, and easier paddle outs on those bigger days. For a big boat she is fast on the wave and nimble from edge to edge. Bigger guys up to 220lbs will be well accommodated, and smaller bodies will have added stablility and comfort. A super popular high performer.
Mega MEGATRON
The Mega MEGATRON has been a super popular boat for over a decade. For those big guys out there who cant fit in anything else this is the surf kayak for you. With a capacity of 250lbs this boat is truly the largest surf kayak on the market. Even if you are not close to such a weight this surf kayak provides a level of comfort and support that smaller boats cannot.
Mega BULLITT S
One of the best selling surf kayaks of the last 10 years, the BULLITT S launched many a new paddler onto the face of their first wave, and it's also responsible for the second generation of these 'long board' style high performance kayaks. The Bullitt S just makes everything a little easier. Designed to come in just shy of 9ft to take part in the competitive HP division, the Bullitt excels in all manner of surf conditions....too small , too big, too windy, to choppy, too far,...You name the conditions and this boat will perform and be fun. Born out of the IC Bullitt by chopping off the ends, the BS has consistent rocker front to back and a curved hull edge to edge, making it fast down the line with smooth soulful cutbacks. We love the Bullitt S. You wont get air in a Bullitt S, but the corners of you mouth will be pointing to your ears long after you leave the line up.
Mega BULLITT X
If the Bullitt S has a little too much soul for you and not enough competitiveness then enter the BULLITT X. Instead of chopping of the ends and keeping the flatter middle section, Mr Mega threw out the middle and re glued the ends together. So same length width dimensions as the BS, but with more rocker, quicker turns, more top to bottom styley , less soul surfing more rooster tailing. Popular boat than can often be found used and well worth jumping into.
Mega BANSHEE
The next generation of the long HP's, enter the Mega BANSHEE...the new and improved Bullitt S. Less rocker, flatter across its mid section and a V in the tail section, meaning more speed, but still super adaptable to all conditions and super forgiving. They say it can get air, but we have not seen that.. Feedback from our customers confirms that this boat screams doen the line and excels in the big stuff, rips through everything else.This boat is sure to be a classic.
Mega VAMP
Possibly the aeriel sister to the Banshee. the VAMP is fast and loose in every way. Bringing back the intergrated thigh braces from back in the day, rounder in the tail with v section for quicker release and turning, could this long nosed HP performer be going for regular air. We think it could ! We hope so. That would be so swell. Come on Vamp, lets hit the lip and let fly.
Mega GHOST
International Class are any boats over 3 meters. HIgh Performance class are all boats under 9ft. Lets hope no one makes a surf kayak 9'6"!. IC boats are designed to surf without fins. You rely on engaging the rails to grip and climb and drop the edges to slide and glide. Due to their rocker and cross section hull profile they are not as fast on the wave as HP surf kayaks, but are super loose and require a whole other level of skill to master on the green.They provide a most satisfying ride quite unlike other surf kayaks. The Ghost is 10ft.long and is a soul surfing master
Mega SURF on TOP
The Mega SURF on TOP is the transition boat between surf kayak and surf ski.. Imagine a sit on top, something like a Frenzy...it's easy and fun and catches all the waves, but it weighs 55lbs and has the performance characteristics. of a lead banana.. Now imagine the same easy, fun sit on top , but weighs in at 25lbs and shreds waves similar to the rest of the Mega HP family. This is the Mega Surf on Top. High performance hull with a sit on top deck. Comes with thigh straps and foam foot blocks.
Demo-Used-Consignment-Surf Kayaks available at SC&K
We carry a constant inventory of the above mega models. Aside from these we also carry constant inventory of used and consignment boat including but not limited to Mega Neutron RV, Mega Impulse, Mega Scarab, Mega Bullitt IC, Mega XRay,
We run skills clinics, classes, and demos year round. Call to schedule an appointment.
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When the parents have shared physical care, the child spends about half of the time with one parent and half of the time with the other parent. When and how often the children go from one parent to the other is up to the parties if they can agree and up to the court if they cannot.
One of the most important things to consider when setting up parenting time is the effect on the child. Children are flexible, but there is a limit. Generally, a parenting schedule where the child is with one parent for two days and the other parent for three days on some sort of alternating schedule is not in the child's best interest.
Remember, the child is now living in two different households where there are two different sets of rules, two different houses with two different floor plans and potentially two different groups of people. It takes a child time to switch from one household to another and "settle in". A short stay with a parent means the child never really adjusts to the household before they have to switch again. It also means they are essentially living out of their suitcase. It also means they have to remember which parent they are going home to. That is a lot to ask of a child. It is harder on the parent, but easier on the child, to have the child stay at least a full week with one parent.
When one parent has primary physical care and the other parent has visitation, a visitation plan needs to be set up.
Visitation plans and shared physical care plans should be specific so as to avoid any possible conflicts and avoid confusion. While it is best if both parents can be flexible and work with the other; if they cannot, having a detailed plan in place can avoid another trip to the court to get it figured out.
A visitation schedule depends on the child's age and whether there is somewhere for the child to sleep during the overnight visits. A typical arrangement, depending on the child's age, consists of every other weekend usually from Friday through Sunday, one evening each week and every other holiday. However, for a child younger than 6 years of age, it is generally recommended by child development experts that visitation may be scheduled for 2 or 3 days weekly of 2 to 8 hours each visit.
Refusal by one parent to allow the other parent to exercise their visitation or shared physical care time is punishable by contempt and can be punished by fines, jail or in extreme cases, changing the visitation schedule and/or custody arrangements.