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JSPD is a prestigious journal publishing articles in the field of surgical pathology, celebrating the 10th Anniversary with the support of all the authors who have published in our esteemed journal by contributing.
It gives us great pleasure to read the eminent researches like you all your recent publications which had a great impact on its readers. We believe that your future work will be equally influencing. Hence, on behalf of our Journal, we take the privilege of welcoming you to share any of your current research for publication in upcoming (Volume 3 Issue 1) of the Journal.
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system (vagina, uterus, and ovaries). Outside medicine, the term means "the science of women". Its counterpart is andrology, which deals with medical issues specific to the male reproductive system.
Almost all modern gynaecologists are also obstetricians (see obstetrics and gynaecology). In many areas, the specialities of gynaecology and obstetrics overlap.
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, dated to about 1800 BC, deals with women's health —gynaecological diseases, fertility, pregnancy, contraception, etc. The text is divided into thirty-four sections, each section dealing with a specific problem and containing diagnosis and treatment; no prognosis is suggested. Treatments are non surgical, comprising applying medicines to the affected body part or swallowing them. The womb is at times seen as the source of complaints manifesting themselves in other body parts.
The Hippocratic Corpus contains several gynaecological treatises dating to the 5th/4th centuries BC. Aristotle is another strong source for medical texts from the 4th century BC with his descriptions of biology primarily found in History of Animals, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals. [2] The gynaecological treatise Gynaikeia by Soranus of Ephesus (1st/2nd century AD) is extant (together with a 6th-century Latin paraphrase by Muscio, a physician of the same school). He was the chief representative of the school of physicians known as the "Methodists".
J. Marion Sims is widely considered the father of modern gynaecology. Now criticized for his practices, Sims developed some of his techniques by operating on slaves, many of whom were not given anaesthesia.Sims performed surgeries on 12 enslaved women in his homemade backyard hospital for four years. While performing these surgeries he invited men physicians and students to watch invasive and painful procedures while the women were exposed. On one of the women, named Anarcha, he performed 30 surgeries without anesthesia. Due to having so many enslaved women, he would rotate from one to another, continuously trying to perfect the repair of their fistulas. Physicians and students lost interest in assisting Sims over the course of his backyard practice, and he recruited other enslaved women, who were healing from their own surgeries, to assist him. In 1855 Sims went on to found the Woman's Hospital in New York, the first hospital specifically for female disorders.
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Louie Bossi's Creates Exclusive Tequila
Louie Bossi's Patrón Reposado tequila is the most trending choice of beverage in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton. Sommelier Ervin Machado, alongside Patrón master distiller Francisco Alcaraz and microbiologist Mariana Sanchez.
Just the facts
- The tequila was made in Oaxaca and Jalisco, Mexico.
- Machado spent three weeks in the factory, testing multiple batches to achieve the flavors he was imagining.
- He caramelized blue agave to give it a sweet flavor. Before churning it over riverbed rocks, rather than shredding it.
- The riverbed method squeezes the agave and doesn't bruise it.
- The tequila was aged for 180 days in a French oak barrel rather than in American or Hungarian oak.
- Machado says the Limousin French barrel they used is longer and darker than American and Hungarian barrels. Producing more color in a shorter amount of time.
- Machado made one barrel or about 252 bottles of this Patrón tequila. Exclusively sold at Louie Bossi's Ristorante.
It's now served to enjoy on the rocks and in the reposado margaritas at both locations!

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A team of 200 priests comment on daily Gospel
Liturgical day: Tuesday 3th of Advent
Gospel text (Mt 21,28-32): «John came to show you the way of goodness but you did not believe him». Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, «What do you think of this? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said to him: 'Son, today go and work in my vineyard'. And the son answered: 'I don't want to'. But later he thought better of it and went. Then the father went to the second and gave him the same command. This son replied: 'I will go, sir', but he did not go. Which of the two did what the father wanted?». They answered, «The first». And Jesus said to them, «Truly, I say to you: the publicans and the prostitutes are ahead of you on the way to the kingdom of heaven. For John came to show you the way of goodness but you did not believe him, yet the publicans and the prostitutes did. You were witnesses of this, but you neither repented nor believed him».
Today Jesus Christ keeps on talking to the priests and elders of the Temple. He admonishes them for their lack of faith. They do not trust Jesus Christ; they do not believe Jesus is God become man to save us. John the Baptist had cautioned that Jesus the Messiah had already arrived.
Besides, Jesus performed miracles and preached a much sanctified teaching..., but they do not want to listen to him or believe him. They do not want to!
-Today, your parents today take John's place: they pray for you, they talk to you about Jesus, they help you to pray. Do you follow their advice?


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I had the Pleasure of styling Shingai for several events on Day 1 of LFW 2012.. take a look at some of her looks and where it's from!!
Shingai Shoniwa from the Noisettes at PPQ London Fashion Week 2012
Designer: PPQ, Kzeniya Bags, Gogo Philip, Kurt Geiger Carvela.
Playsuit by PPQ AW12
Shingai Shoniwa at 'Joseph Anton' By Salman Rushdie Book Launch
Designers: PPQ, Sass and Bide, Gogo Philip.
Source: http://musicfashionland.com/category/sass-bide/
I also received a Feature on music fashionland website!!
Shingai Shoniwa DJ'ing at Mawi Jewelery London Fashion week Afterparty
Designers: PPQ, Sass and Bide, Mawi Jewellery.
Playsuit by PPQ SS12
Hope you enjoyed!! xxxo
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Spiti Valley Life Experience – 7N / 8D
A spellbinding tour to Spiti Valley, located in Himachal Pradesh in India, often proclaimed by those who see it as a different world in itself. With homestay at Lhalung and Camping at Chandertal – Experience Spiti Valley to the full. A world 14000 ft above sea level – a world less traveled – Experience a destination so unique, with scattered villages and vast landscapes you will wish the tour never ends.
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- Vacation Style Holiday Type
- Family
- Mountain
- Rural
- Snow & Ice
- Activity Level Moderate
- Group Size Medium Group
A comfortable and curated eight-day Spiti Valley tour, designed for travelers looking for the authentic Spiti Valley experience. Shared by a small group of travelers, this Spiti Valley Tour includes travelling in a comfortable SUV to some of the most popular villages of Spiti Valley including Asia's highest villages – Komik and Kibber, marvel at the wondrous structure of the Ki Monastery and get ready to be amazed by the Tabo Monastery – a 1000 year old UNESCO World Heritage Site. End this tour on a high (literally) as you spend a night, gazing at the Milky Way and the millions of stars as you can camp near the stunningly beautiful Chandratal Lake.
Amongst the few unexplored areas, the world over there isn't one as enchanting and inspiring as Spiti. This land often known as Little Tibet, was historically a part of the kingdom of Nariss Korssum (Western Tibet) and is home to few of the oldest Buddhist monasteries and temples in the world. Tucked away in the interiors of the Trans-Himalayan belt of Himachal Pradesh, this high altitude cold desert region has only recently been opened to the outside world.
Key Highlights Of The Tour
- Travel by a comfortable SUV
- Drive through the Hindustan-Tibet Highway – Known as one of the world's most treacherous road.
- Camping at Chandratal Lake. Camping includes state of the art sleeping bags, tents, and camping mattress.
- Visit Asia's Highest Himalayan Villages – Komik and Kibber
- Enjoy Spitian Hospitality with Homestay in Lhalung
- Delhi-Manali Transfer By Volvo bus
- Meals- Breakfast & dinner at all Hotels and Camping sites.
- Non A/c Vehicle for all transfer & Sightseeing.
- Permissions, Entry fees, Inner line permit, wild life charges etc
- Accommodation on twin sharing basis
- Food during Train/Volvo journey
- Entrance fees/personal expenses/Tips/Mineral water etc-In case of part replacement or any repair of the vehicle, the cost to be borne by Participants
- Airfare/Train fare
- Journey to Delhi and return
- Local transfers in Delhi.
- Any portage at airports and hotels, tips, insurance, wine, mineral water, telephone charges, and all items of personal nature.
- Expenses caused by factors beyond our control like rail and flight delays, roadblocks, vehicle malfunctions,political disturbances etc.
- Any services not specifically mentioned in the inclusions.
- Day1 Arrival at Location
Drive from Delhi to Manali. Reach Manali by late evening. Overnight rest and acclimatize at Manali Hotel.
- Day2 The Drive Starts
Drive from Manali – Rohtang Pass – Kunzum La – Losar – Kaza. Overnight in a Kaza Hotel. (11,980 feet / 9 – 10 hours)
- Day3 Kaza - Khibber- Ki Monastry
Drive from Kaza – Langza – Hikkim – Komik – Ki Monastery – Kibber – Gette – Kaza. Overnight in a Kaza Hotel. (14,806 feet feet / 6 – 7 hours)
- Day4 Kaza - Pin Valley - Kungri - mudh
Drive from Kaza to Pin Valley – Kungri – Mudh – Kaza. Overnight in a Kaza Hotel. (12,450 feet / 4 – 5 hours)
- Day5 Kaza - Tabo - Dhankar Lake - Lhalung [Homestay]
Drive from Kaza to Tabo – Dhankar – Dhankar Lake Trek – Lhalung. Overnight in a Lhalung Homestay. (12,774 feet / 4 – 5 hours)
- Day6 Lhalung - Kunzum La - Chandratal [Camping]
Drive from Lhalung to Losar – Kunzum La – Chandratal Lake. Overnight in Camps near Chandratal Lake. (14,000 feet / 6 – 7 hours)
- Day7 Chandratal - Rohtang - Manali
Drive from Chandratal Lake to Rohtang Pass – Manali. Overnight in a Manali hotel (6,726 feet / 6 – 7 hours)
- Day8 Manali - Delhi
Check out from Manali at 12 noon / Take an overnight bus to New Delhi.
Spiti Valley is located in the remote part of the Himalayas and has limited accommodation options when compared to hotels in the lower Himalayas. At Manali and Kaza / Rangrik, you will be staying at a comfortable hotel equipped with spacious rooms, western toilets, hot showers and a multi-cuisine restaurant.
At Kibber Village, you will be staying in the home of a local family that will open up their doors, hearts and life to you. Experience a unique insight into the lives of these hardworking people and the intimate relationship they share with their land. Every Spiti Homestay on any Spiti Valley tour offers you a clean room with hygienic bed sheets and pillow covers, boiled drinking water, delicious and freshly cooked local cuisines, traditional Spitian dry eco toilet, candles and lamps. All this, and the famous warm Spitian hospitality.
At Chandratal Lake, you will be staying in a fixed campsite which includes Swiss Tents, high altitude sleeping bags and a comfortable camping mattress. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be prepared and served fresh at the campsite.
On this Spiti Valley Tour, breakfast and dinner are included on all days as specified in the Whats Included section. The menu for Breakfast and Dinner is regular Indian Cuisine in veg and addition of a local specialty on select days. We also add a Non-veg Dish to the menu on one of the days depending on availability.
Though not prohibited, we would advise NO. In these expeditions, we are going to pass through, visit and stay at some of the Highest Altitude Places in the world. At high Altitudes the Oxygen in the atmosphere is low and this causes AMS [Acute Mountain Sickness]. Drinking Alcohol at such places can make things worse as Alcohol lowers the oxygen absorption capacity of your Blood. So please Don't.
Once registered we will send you a detailed list of Things to Carry which includes minute details from Toiletries to essential Medicines.


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NEW Goodies From Polaris: RANGER Accessory Collections
NEW Goodies From Polaris: RANGER Accessory Collections
If you're an owner of a side-by-side, especially a utility version, you know that accessorizing your ride is a top priority so that it fits your needs. There are SO many accessories on the market these days that you have almost too many to choose from. However, if you own a Polaris RANGER and you're looking at Polaris-specific accessories for your ride, then you might want to check out these new pre-determined accessory packages that the manufacturer recently released.
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Four trusted professionals created RANGER accessory packages for use by land owners, ranchers, waterfowl hunters and big game hunters. Polaris RANGER partnered with master craftsman and host and producer of DIY Network's Barnwood Builders, Mark Bowe (Craftsman Collection), ranch owner and cowboy with a record-setting 24 World Champion titles, Trevor Brazile (Ranch Collection), legendary waterfowl hunter and Habitat Flats owner Tony Vandemore (Waterfowl Collection) and hosts of the CRUSH TV show and renowned professional hunters Lee and Tiffany Lakosky (Big Game Collection).
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- Polaris® PRO HD 4,500-lb Winch with Rapid Rope Recovery
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- Pro Amor® Wheel & Tire Set: Mud XC - Shackle - Matte Black
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"We're excited to have worked with Polaris to create the ultimate Big Game Collection highlighting our favorite vehicle accessories to outfit our RANGER," said Tiffany Lakosky, co-host of CRUSH with Lee & Tiffany. "Polaris RANGER continues to help us conquer more terrain and get more done while out on a hunt."
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- Work Beacon LED Light
- Pro Armor® 33" - Combo LED Light Bar
- Pro Armor® Wheel & Tire Set: Flare - Matte Black & Attack 2.0
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Presto subscribers have welcomed arrival of Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye, which has drawn record crowds after arriving on the SVOD service on Wednesday night.
Exclusively produced for Presto, Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye was available online after the season finale of Home and Away.
In what was one of the biggest nights experienced by the service, over 55% of Presto's total streaming between 8.30pm and midnight was generated by the new arrival of the special event.
Presto's collection of Australia's favourite Home and Away Births, Deaths and Weddings episodes also ranked high among subscribers in the lead-up to the Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye premiere.
In less than 24 hours, the Home and Away special event broke through all day one streaming records on Presto.
Shaun James, Presto TV CEO, said, "When we first announced that Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye would stream on Presto, the feedback was incredible. But now that it's arrived, we've been truly blown away by the popularity of the special event which has been reflected by both our streaming numbers and in our massive uptake in subscriptions. Clearly this iconic Australian series has more than captured the hearts of generations of viewers, dominating over 55% of total Presto streaming last night between 8.30pm and midnight."


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Crist Ridiculed But Ready to Strike Back
Under fire from both Democrats and Republicans, the ever-sunny Gov. Charlie Crist is turning into the most ridiculed man in the state Capitol.
But he also remains the most powerful. As long as Crist is in the governor's office, he commands the state's biggest political stage and can, as late Gov. Lawton Chiles once said, "put the ball in play every day.".
Crist began demonstrating the hold he still exerts over both parties Monday, saying it was "possible" he would summon lawmakers back to Tallahassee to enact tougher public corruption laws. Crist added it was important "to address that as quickly as possible in a responsible way," although he would not yet commit to calling for a special session.
Crist also said that the state's $70.4 billion budget, approved by lawmakers Friday, was going to be closely scrutinized. After severing his ties with the state's ruling Republican Party last week, Crist hinted that plenty of vetoes could be coming as he rebrands himself as an outsider ready to take on both parties.
"I guarantee you, we will go through it very, very carefully," Crist said.
He also shrugged off the blistering he's been receiving from the Florida Republican Party – which last week condemned him as a "trial lawyer" and Monday put a portrait of him at GOP headquarters up for sale on eBay.
"That kind of rancor and bitterness is exactly what people are sick of. We have to get away from that," said Crist, who also dismissed the trial lawyer screed by recalling that "Abraham Lincoln was a trial lawyer."
"I'm going to ignore the noise," he added.
As Crist's break from the party settled in, speculation continues to grow that the governor might veto the entire budget, marking the Legislature as an early target in his new outsider campaign. Crist said Monday that he has not yet received the budget – but once he does, has roughly two weeks to decide.
Former state Rep. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala Republican advising Crist's Republican U.S. Senate rival, Marco Rubio, acknowledged that the governor can shape the state's political debate unlike any other candidate or official, although he also said he expects Crist's political base is fast-eroding.
"He's got a powerful platform to work from," said Baxley. "He can veto the budget, he can veto bills. People have to pay attention to him. But that will eventually change."
Calling lawmakers back to Tallahassee to craft a spending plan more generous to schools and social programs is plausible. A powerful base for his no-party-affiliated campaign could be the education community which rallied behind his veto of Senate Bill 6, which would have erased teacher tenure, a measure backed by virtually all GOP leaders except Crist.
While there may be some political potency to blowing-up the recession-lean budget, a protracted special session also could pull Crist into a riptide of criticism over Tallahassee gridlock.
"My intent is not to do damage," Crist said Monday. "It's to help the future of Florida."
But lawmakers have given Crist plenty of chances to use the governor's office as a springboard for his freestyle campaign.
With state unemployment benefits potentially expiring for more than 100,000 Floridians in June – after lawmakers failed to reach a consensus on extending coverage – Crist, again, could add loft to his self-styled "people's candidacy" by bringing lawmakers back for a fix.
He's also widely expected to veto legislation approved in the session's waning hours that would require women to pay for an ultrasound and be asked to view the results before obtaining an abortion – a measure supporters say they hope will reduce abortions but which opponents counter as a costly, unconstitutional interference.
Crist, always a moderate on social issues, could burnish those credentials by striking down the GOP-backed bill. Indeed, as long as the budget and bills are before the governor, Crist has plenty of fuel for his retooled campaign.
"He's liberated, for at least a couple of months," said Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach.
If the Republican-led Legislature gives the governor direction for his nascent independent run, it may be only fitting. After all, it was the Legislature which also cut him free.
In Crist's State of the State speech opening the Legislature in March, Democrats provided most of the applause, an early sign of the growing separation within the GOP.
But Crist's Shakespearean fall may truly be traced back further – to the death of influential Republican moderate Sen. Jim King of Jacksonville last summer, coming just weeks after Crist announced his U.S. Senate campaign amid endorsements from top Republican brass in Florida and Washington.
King's death forced a special election last fall won by John Thrasher, a former House speaker and close ally of former Gov. Jeb Bush.
While Rubio slowly climbed in polls propelled by his popularity with the burgeoning Tea Party movement, anger over the spending excesses of Crist's hand-picked state Republican Chairman Jim Greer led to his ouster in January and blame directed at the governor.
Greer's successor was Thrasher, who also became a pivotal force in a suddenly more conservative Senate. Thrasher sponsored the teacher tenure bill that became Crist's Republican Rubicon when he vetoed it.
Senate President-designate Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, has emerged as one of Crist's loudest legislative antagonists. Haridopolos' animosity deepened with the governor's mid-session veto of a campaign finance bill aimed at giving legislative leaders more control of party fund-raising and spending.
If Crist is going to do battle with the Legislature, Haridopolos effectively called for him to bring it on.
"If the governor wants to lead our state for the remainder of his tenure, he's got to step up and talk about his ideas," Haridopolos said. "You can't just have this Monday morning quarterback approach. You can't just react to what other people say, after the fact."
Haridopolos questioned Crist's leadership ability – as a lame duck governor, now without a political party's backing.
"Leadership takes responsibility," Haridopolos said. "He has been mute – other than on political matters, which he's well-versed on."


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Republicans. I can't believe them. After getting caught firing eight US attorneys for exclusively political reasons so that they could use the misguided USA Patriot Act to replace the attorneys with ones more amenable to the Bush & Co. line, the Administration is acting like the Democrats are playing nothing but politics. Bush refuses to allow his people to testify under oath, charging that to do anything else would be a partisan "fishing expedition."
I'm sorry, but what the hell? This is coming from the head of a party that impeached a president over a BLOW JOB. The sex life of the president had no bearing on his ability to effectively govern (and if you disagree with that statement, you'd best reevaluate your judgment of most US presidents), and yet the country was bogged down by Republican viciousness for years. But asking the White House to testify under oath about something that has a significant impact on the running of the country is pandering to politics?
I don't think that the firing of these attorneys is the worst thing Gonzales has done. That said, he still needs to answer for it. Rove needs to address his role as well. And once that's done, Congress needs to repeal the Patriot Act.
George W. Bush needs to shut up about partisanship already. He's the worst offender of them all.


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Rio Ferdinand has hinted David Beckham only decided to quit Manchester United after the club accepted a bid for him from Barcelona.
Many feel Beckham was already resigned to leaving when he waved a tearful goodbye to fans after United's final home game against Charlton last season and then later went back onto the Old Trafford pitch for a kickabout with son Brooklyn.
However, Ferdinand insists he had no inkling of the England captain's impending departure at that time and, in fact, was sure he would stay with the Premiership champions.
"Even when he was applauding the fans at the end of the season I did not think he'd be leaving. It did not seem possible," Ferdinand said.
"My friends asked me what was happening but I didn't have a clue.
"People think we're lying when we say that but, honestly, players are the last to know.
"A week ago, it hit me when United said they had accepted an offer from Barcelona for Becks. I spoke to David on the phone and, while it wouldn't be right to go into the details of our conversation, I think all footballers realise that once a club says it is prepared to sell you there is no going back.
"From that moment, you want to get things sorted out and get on your way. Whoever you are, a drawn-out transfer is a stressful experience and the longer it drags on the more it drives you nuts.
"I felt a huge relief when my move to United went through and, although David will be sad to leave us, I'm sure it's a huge weight off his mind that it is done and dusted."
Beckham's father Ted has also once again reiterated his belief that the 28-year-old midfielder would have preferred to stay on at Old Trafford.
He said: "I feel choked that he's going and the way he's had to go. David doesn't want to go. He's being forced out.
"He would have signed an extended contract if the club had wanted him to."
Even Real Madrid sporting director Jorge Valdano claimed United had made the first move in instigating Beckham's switch to Spain.
A leading football analyst believes Manchester United have struck it rich by agreeing to sell David Beckham to Real Madrid for #25 million.
Shares in the club's plc rose yesterday just hours after the deal had been confirmed for the England captain.
"That tells you everything," said Stan Locke of stockbrokers Brewn Dolphin. "It shows people are supporting the club.
"Beckham's transfer is not going to impact at all on the business. He didn't play a lot of games last season and United won the championship.
"They didn't miss him then and they won't won't miss him next season.
"Of course he is a great player but he is 28 and United are getting #25 million for him.
"In this day and age of transfer fees that is a colossal sum.
"How many transfers have you seen in the last month? There aren't any.
"People are trying cut down deals rather than pay inflated prices again."


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Wyoming Area senior quarterback scored a passing touchdown, a rushing touchdown and returned an interception to help Wyoming Area defeat defending Ditsrict 2 champion Scranton Prep. For his performance, he was named The Citizens' Voice Athlete of the Week.
You went undefeated in the regular season last year, but never got to face Scranton Prep. Did you feel like you had something to prove coming into Saturday's game?
Yeah I feel like we did because they're a high-ranked team, and if we won it would put us on the map, and that's what our coaches told us pre-game and the whole week.
Did you think you would need a big game personally to get the win?
Not necessarily, I feel like if we all came together and meshed together and played together well enough, we would be good.
You scored a few different ways. How does your versatility impact your game?
My first two years, sophomore and junior at quarterback, I was more passing, not really much running. This year, I feel like I'm running much more. I've been working on my speed a lot in the offseason, and I guess that helped a lot this season.
Other than the offense, your team's defense has also been great this season. What kind of work goes into that?
We've put a lot of work into the defense. Two of the three days we practice during the week is defense. Defense wins games, and offense wins championships, that's how it is. Our defense is just so big up front and physical. I think that's what separates us from everyone else.
With so many key players returning this year, what are your expectations for the season?
With all the experience we have, I feel like we could go pretty far. It's just a matter of who's up next and hopefully we stay healthy.
Has the community been pretty excited about this team over the last couple years?
Yeah, the community actually is pretty excited. Last year, a couple of the restaurants around the area put up a big banner in the center of the town. Hopefully we come back with a district championship this year to show we're thankful to them.
Is winning a district title a big goal for the year?
That's one of our goals, but hopefully we could get farther into states and hopefully make a run.
Getting to know Dominic
Age: 17
Town: West Pittston
Family: Parents Carl and Ree Ree, siblings Dante and Sally
Favorite TV show: "The Office"
Pregame rituals: Get a hoagie from The Kitchen by Nikki
Favorite place to eat: Arcaro and Genell
Favorite team: Penn State football
Favorite athlete: Saquon Barkley
Hobbies: Hunting and fishing
Favorite thing about football: Physicality, life lessons you take from it
Most difficult thing about football: Breaking down film and creating game plans
Biggest role models: Father Carl and grandfather Malcolm


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NACUE and Pivomo are working together to support students and graduates get their start up ideas underway — and summer is just a great time to get going!
What are you doing this Summer!?
- Going to the beach?
- Paying off debts?
- Starting up a company?
- All of the above!?
More and more, students and recent graduates are looking to start up companies so they can get a head start on building their career capital and explore new and flexible ways of working. Whether you do this from the beach or a coffee shop is up to you! But rather than settling for a dead end job where you won't use what you learned on your degree until you're 35, a start up offers a career challenge right from the start.
There has never been a better time to start a company, with innovative social media tools, crowd funding and developer resources all now much more accessible and at lower cost. However, to succeed, you will need to use all your skills — and more. This is where Pivomo helps.
Pivomo provides a unique research-based psycho-metric tool, called Dynamiqe, which is immediately accessible from your mobile. It generates a diagnostic report that shows you what kind of entrepreneur you are and the attributes that you will need to Build, Sustain and Reduce in order to get your project off the ground.
Starting up a company often involves simply making the most of what you have already. What are you passionate about? What do you excel at? This is a good place to begin.
Here are links to two case studies showing how two funded start ups made use of Pivomo tools to help their founders get going:
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Abracadabra! - Steve Miller Band appear as if by magic with long-awaited 2010 UK tour and new album
Posted: 29th April 2010
Well he may well have been "a joker, a smoker and a midnight toker, taking his loving on the run" but hey Steve, we've all got to get a bit older and a bit more respectable right? Mr Miller has even called his brand new forthcoming album "Bingo!" to prove the point. Joking aside, it's been a long time since the Steve Miller Band played dates in the UK and possibly even longer since we had a new album, his last studio recording being 1993's "Wide River".
He plays a pair of gigs in October at London's Royal Albert Hall on the 7th and Manchester's Apollo on the 8th. Tickets are on sale from 9am tomorrow (30th) and cost £35 for Manchester, from £50 - £60 for London.
So what is the new album all about? Well, "Bingo!" sees Steve display his incredible guitar-skills with cover versions of songs by BB King, Lowell Fulson and Jimmy Reed - tracks such as "Tramp", "Who's Been Talkin'", "Sweet Soul Vibe" and "Hey Yeah" make up the 10 tracks on offer. There is a second companion album set for release during 2011 (which may mean more dates next year). According to Billboard, Miller is also writing his own new material now that the sessions for the two blues albums are almost complete.
Meanwhile, you can hear the first single from "Bingo!" on his website (www.stevemillerband.com/bingo.html) - entitled "Hey Yeah", it gets a download release on 18th May.


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General Booking and Travel Conditions
The Reservation
A minimum of 30% of the total price is required at the time of booking and the balance no latter than 21 days prior to the departure of the safari. For overseas bookings payments can be made in US dollars, Sterling pounds and Euros. Residents pay in local currency at the rate of exchange applicable at the time of payment. Late bookings Full payment is due at the time of booking for reservation made within 21 days prior to the commencement of the tours.
Modification of tour
If you choose to modify the arrangements after the commencement of the tour i.e. change accommodation or the duration of your stay, the company can not accept liability for any loss or additional expense and no refunds will be made.
Rates/ Prices
Tour prices include: All expenses for drivers and vehicles appropriate for the itinerary as set out. i.e. for transfers, game drives, drivers allowances unless stated in the itinerary. Government hotel taxes, training levy and service charges, all park entry fees except where specifically indicated separately. Normal communication costs incurred to make the reservation.
Tour price exclude: Personal insurance, Airport taxes, landing fees for charters and visas, gratuities to drivers and porters (other than hotel service charge), Beverages (unless otherwise indicated), Laundry, other personal expenses of tour members (i.e. telephone calls etc), any other tour services requested that do not appear in the itinerary.
Cancellation And No Show Fees:
Due to very limited space and high demand, we would like you to note that cancellation Fees will be levied once booking
has been confirmed. Advance park fees and hotel bookings especially for extra Safari, Once paid will not be refunded.
The Cancellation charges and conditions are as follows:-
7 days upto 24 hours prior to the safari 25%
within 24 hours and No show 100%
Demand for safaris can be high and may lead to shortage of the specified hotel/lodge/ tented camp accommodation. All bookings will be confirmed, but on occasions changes may be necessary. Hotel. Lodges and tented camps, here specifically named are given as an indication of the category and rooms may be reserved at similar Lodges/ hotels/ tented ca mps. We undertake to advise you of any changes known to us prior to departure, but the possibility of change without notice, must be accepted when booking. Wherever possible we book rooms with private baths/showers throughout on the basis of two persons sharing a double room. Single rooms are available at supplementary cost but neither single room nor rooms with private bath/showers can be guaranteed. Safari minibuses, cars, four wheel drive or coaches will be provided according to the route and number of participants.
The right is reserved to employ the services of subcontractors. English speaking driver/guides are provided. Occasional mechanical problems, changes of lodge or adverse road conditions may in turn lead to change in routing or game viewing without prior notice being given. We reserve the right to offer substitutes of equal value to cancel the operation of any tour. In practice, Very few itineraries are affected but a little flexibili ty on your part will ensure the tour is unique and rewarding. Safari description Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information, regrettably errors do occasionally occur. You must therefore check all details of your holiday booking with your travel agent or supplier at the time of booking. The Company cannot therefore accept responsibility for any information not contained herein, being confirmed verbally by its staff or representatives unless subsequently reconfirmed in writing by the Company. The company accepts no responsibility for any personal illness, injury, delays, loss or damages from any causes whatsoever. Every effort will
be made to adhere to the itinerary, but no rebate will be considered should we fail to do so. You are advised to take appropriate insurance cover.
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To this day there are still so many misconceptions on dementia. These may be due outdated knowledge, old hypotheses, or simply misinformation. But what are the most common misconceptions?
A 2014 study wanted to find out why there still are so many misconceptions when it comes to dementia in America today, and what are the 10 most common ones.
The researchers write that the reasons for misconceptions may be multiple. There certainly still is an element of folk knowledge, although not too widespread. Some beliefs stemming from folk models of knowledge may be, for example, thinking that AD is caused by "evil spirits" or represent punishment from supernatural or higher powers. This conceptualization of AD may cause delayed care and could potentially result in dangerous and harmful practices, for example exorcisms.
Other misconceptions have to do with what the best practices are when it comes to dementia care and managing symptoms. For example, some caregivers may think that the best solution for wandering behaviours is to lock the person living with dementia into a room, to prevent wandering in the first place. Some other people think that reminders, calendars, or daily planners are ineffective, thus depriving the person living with dementia of means to live independently.
Many have misconceptions about how AD has an impact on society at large, and the authors bring forward the example of beliefs concerning the ability of people living dementia to drive, who could potentially be cause of danger for society at large.
Quite obviously, there are still a lot of misconceptions regarding AD as a normal part of aging, and not an abnormality. If people believe that AD is simply "growing old" they may delay treatment, or not seek it altogether.
As for the 10 most common misconceptions, the authors were able to identify the following, in descending order;
- Reminder notes are ineffective;
- Mental exercise is always effective;
- It is useful to remind a person with AD that he or she is repeating him or herself;
- People with AD most commonly live in nursing homes;
- Eating food cooked in aluminium pots cause dementia;
- Medications are effective in stopping dementia progression;
- Dementia is a normal part of aging;
- There are cases where people living with AD fully recover;
- Individuals with AD are unable to make informed decisions for themselves;
- There are prescription medicines effective in preventing AD.
The most surprising, and possibly worrying aspect that the authors found out, was no statistically significant difference in misconception between health care professionals and those who were not health care professionals, except for believing or not AD to be a normal part of aging.
Clearly many misconceptions still exist. By education people, carers, and healthcare professionals, we can only hope to achieve better results in dementia care in the future.
Lowe, D., A., et al. (2014), Misconceptions of Alzheimer's Disease, in "Clinical Gerontologist", 38(2), pp. 149-156.


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The European Respiratory Society is hosting its 2014 Annual Presidential Summit in Rome, Italy on 2nd and 3rd of July. Started in 2010, this annual event aims to address and discuss pressing issues at the interface of science and policy. The objectives of the 2014 Summit are to:
- examine the various barriers to new medical products, from research to regulatory issues;
- and explore new ways to create a better environment for medicine development.
Under the Presidency of Professor Peter Barnes, the Summit this year moves to Rome on 2-3 July 2014, discussing how to create a better environment for better medicines.
ERS Presidential Summits are a forum for discussion in the interface between science and policy. Summits aim to provide a broad background from which to tackle respiratory disease – from the European Respiratory Roadmap, to a focus on health inequalities, and a discussion on research priorities.
This year's event hosted speakers from a range of fields from policymakers to researchers and patients, coming together to discuss key issues in medicine development.


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Saturday, May 24, 2008
WHETHER ONE HAS A TASTE for urban graffiti or not, this style of visual expression which found its mark in 1980s New York City is definitely exploding onto the local scene, and is moving from the streets into the art venues and into the home. This year's Artomatic '08 is larded with the stuff, every wall that would otherwise be empty is tagged, so let's cut to the chase. Here's an article with interesting follow-up comments presenting several sides of the question.
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Sony Cuts Vita Sales Predictions
Sony Cuts Vita Sales Predictions
Sony aims to sell fewer than half of the handhelds it originally intended.
Whether it's personal budgets or big business, you always want to keep your financial outlook realistic. Sony has had to do just that in regard to its Vita handheld. While the company originally set out to sell 16 million Vitas (and PSPs, although that system's life cycle is effectively over), it slashed its expectations, first to 12 million, and then to 10 million. Declining hardware sales in Sony's Q4 2012 have necessitated another adjustment: Sony intends to move only 7 million handhelds by the end of its fiscal year on March 31, 2013.
Sony cites "the slow penetration of the PlayStation Vita," in the hardware market as the primary reason why it hasn't sold nearly as many units as expected. Sales of the recently discontinued PS2 as well as the PS3 also decreased by over half a million units over the last year, further exacerbating Sony's gaming financials. The major difference, of course, is that both the PS2 and PS3 are relatively old systems whose sales have most likely already peaked, whereas the Vita is a new entrant in the market. Sony considers the Vita's flagging sales a "particularly important issue."
On the whole, Sony's revenue and losses have improved since last year, although this is more due to television and movie sales than anything related to videogames. It's unclear how many Vitas Sony will have to move before April in order to reach a 7 million unit goal. With limited new software releases during that window, it may take something drastic to reverse the powerful handheld's fortunes during this fiscal year.
Source: Gamasutra
Maybe if they actually released any halfway decent games for it, people would buy it. There's maybe a couple of games for it that I would buy if I had the system, and none of those are even close to system sellers. In addition, I haven't seen anything that's coming out for it that's remotely interesting, so I have no reason to buy this expensive handheld, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Yes, you actually need good software in order to sell a system. I bought mine because I got a good deal on it and it is definitely a great system.
Issue is the only games I've wanted to play on it were persona 4 golden and some PS store games.
I know I keep saying this, but $250 is still way too much to expect people to buy a handheld for.
Which is funny considering everyone said that was a fine price... Until the 3DS got a price cut and then everyone called fowl on the Vita.
Although I do hope for a price cut so I get my friend to get one in time for Soul Sacrifice. :D
This thing is never gonna get off the ground, mark my words.
Sony really should've learned their lesson with the PSP.
I do think it could be cheaper, but the system itself is less of a problem than those damn supremely overpriced memory cards. It's like Sony has no idea how much flash card storage you can buy for the cheap these days. $80 for 32 is simply inexcusably greedy.
Couple that with a lack of true system sellers (it has good games, like Persona 4, Gravity Rush, and Assassin's Creed: Liberation... but none worth buying a system for), intense competition from both Apple and Nintendo (3DS has easily three times the quality games worth getting), and the fact you could buy a 500GB Playstation 3 Slim for LESS than the price of a PS Vita, and I think Sony just has no rational clue what they're doing, what they're charging, and why they're failing.
Systems are useless without support and software. Which companies are going to actually pour millions of dollars into supporting a failing handheld when the market for the competition isn't just stronger, it's flourishing. Sony needs to give them a reason to do so, and then give customers a reason to buy it. They're not doing either. They're sitting back and expecting the Playstation brand to sell it for them. It's not going to happen.
Where the PSP finally found its market was in making portable a plethora of the best content from the PS1 days. If SONY had given us a wide library of our beloved PS2 software on the PSV we would be throwing money at them. Instead they give us this weird touchy feely crap. A portable needs to be a walk around emulator of our beloved mispent youth that we can play on the train during our eternally dreary commute for our dreary lives. Nintendo understood this. SONY seems to have missed it.
Actually the PSP in Japan got off it's feet and soared. It's just not everywhere else.
Yeah but I think even that happened much later in its cycle.
The thing is that a console experience on a handheld is not what most people want, and the PSP proved that. And now with mobile gaming as prevalent as it is, trying this approach again just seems dangerously stubborn of Sony.
Will the franchise go bust If it sells less than 5 million units?
I truly do love my Vita, but it is very expensive, the price of it is the same as a PS3 console and don't get me started on the BS that is the propitiatory memory cards for the thing.
Also question, I got a bunch of games free with that Vita sales thing, do I keep the games once my 90 day PS+ subscription runs out?
Really? Everyone thought that $250 was fine for the 3DS? Really? So all that rage about the $250 price tags on these very forums was an elaborate joke to make me feel silly? Now that I'm done with the rhetorical/sarcastic questions, I sure we both know that reason that the 3DS' price point was the main reason for the low sales.
And before you blame the lack of credible launch games remember that the original DS had the same abysmally lame launch game selection and sold much better. If everyone though that the $250 price tag was ok for the 3DS, they wouldn't have needed a price cut of $90 6 months after launch. Would they?
Holy shit batman! Calm the hell down.
I have been on these forums for a while now and when the 3DS was announced at 250, there was some complaining but overall the majority seemed fine. However it was after the Vita released and the 3DS got a price cut that everyone began to cry fowl.
Also no it's the games end of. Vita has good games but it doesn't have enough good games, the 3DS started slowly but by the time it reached it's first anniversary it had begun to pick up steam which the Vita has been struggling to do and thus isn't selling as well. (Also hampered but the vita memory card.)
Software sells and with good software people will buy. You could make it cheap as hell but if there is no good games no one would buy it. The 3DS began to sell because around the time of the price cut if began to get loads of games releasing for it.
The PSP was slow to take off at first, but it ended up being a pretty nice system towards the end of it's life. I'm afraid for the Vita, because it's a great machine, but no developer has stepped up to bat to give us a fantastic game that utilizes the machine's power, not just it's touch screen. Ragnarok Odyssey and Silent Hill: Book of Memories are the only games I play on it, although Gravity Rush is pretty sweet. Other than that, it's a mobile Final Fantasy IX machine for me.
I hope things get better for it, but there seriously needs to be more games for it first.
No, you need to keep the subscription going to keep playing the "instant game collection games" but any games you bought with the discount are your games so you keep those.
I grabbed the 90 day deal too and I intend to keep the sub going, its great because it applies to the PS3 and the PS Vita. So getting those discounts and the instant game collection its pretty awesome what you get for the sub cost.
Microsoft should hang their heads in shame.
Actually The Vita is a great emulator. I own more PS1 and PS2 games on my Vita than I do Vita games.
I think that Sony needs to push the mobile aspect of the Vita more. I was looking through the PlayStation store and every game that was made available on that xperia smart phone is on there as well. The thing can play just about anything. Its great for college students like me who don't want to transport the console everywhere. The only problem is the lack of WPA2-Enterprise support.
The Vita is going to continue to have poor selling rates for some of the above reasons and BECAUSE of the PSP. The PSP is rather nice. It found its place and it does alright for itself. Because so much of what it has is NOT in the Vita, the question of "Why should I bother?" comes to play. They didn't make it backwards compatible and the digital copies idea isn't fullly compatible with all games either. It was still too soon with not enough good ideas involved.
See, again, your point goes against the fact that the original DS had just as shitty of a selection of titles upon launch and a good long while after launch. The DS sold millions more. It was also $90 cheaper. The 3DS came out with no games, but sales sucked due to the price. It doesn't make sense for the DS to have sold as much as it did when you think of it from a "software sell" point of view exclusively.
To this day the 3DS still isn't selling as well as the DS in the same time frame. $250 is just too high to sell a handheld at. You have to admit, if Nintendo is slashing the price of its handheld by over 30% just 6 months after release due to poor sales, it was the price, not the games that were a bigger factor in why sales were so slow. I haven't heard of a price cut that big and that quickly since the days when Sega was still in the console race.
I mean really, most console have horrible launch selections.


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Dr Shyam K Bhat MD, chairman and founder of the Mind-Body Clinic. Dr Bhat has a rare combination of postgraduate training and American Board certifications in two specialities – Psychiatry (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) and Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine). He is also board certified in Psychosomatic Medicine (ABPN subspeciality), the study of conditions at the interface of body and mind. Dr Bhat combines these qualifications with a deep study and understanding of eastern philosophy and healing practices, and has been called a pioneer of Integrative Medicine and holistic psychiatry in India. He is the founder of Seraniti.com where he heads a team who provide integrated mind-body and emotional wellness therapies. He founded the Mind-Body Clinic, Bangalore, and is also the founder of Nirvikalpa. The Centre for Human Potential where Dr Bhat conducts regular group programs and workshops. He is a recipient of the Norris Brookens award, and member of Alpha Omega Alpha that recognizes excellence in scholarship and the highest ideals in the profession of medicine. Dr Bhat is a trustee at the Live Love Laugh Foundation, founded by Deepika Padukone, to increase awareness and decrease stigma around depression. Dr Bhat is the author of the best-selling book "How to heal your broken heart: A psychiatrist's guide to dealing with heartbreak", published by Juggernaut.
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Prime rents across the 17 key cities around the world fell marginally by just 0.4% in 2016 suggesting that the sector is seeing a recovery. Some 10 of the cities recorded rental growth over the course of the year, up from seven in 2015, according to the data from the Knight Frank's prime global rental […] The post Prime rental market in key global cities showing signs of recovery appeared first on PropertyWire . Taylor Scott International
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Status: UK signee
Power forward | 6-9 | 205
School: Waterford Mott
Hometown: Detroit
Twitter: @IJackson22
One of the top post defenders in all of high school basketball, Jackson has the kind of skill set that should get him on the floor immediately at Kentucky.
John Calipari likes athletic players with a defensive instincts, and Jackson is just that. He was one of the top shot-blockers on the Nike circuit during his last summer of travel ball and is a smart, high-IQ defender in the post with good timing and quick-twitch athleticism around the basket.
Jackson chose Kentucky over fellow finalists Alabama and Syracuse, and there should be plenty of available minutes for a player of his caliber in Kentucky's 2020-21 frontcourt, especially with the departures of Nick Richards and EJ Montgomery.
The Detroit-area native continues to work on his jump shot and fine-tune other offensive skills. Jackson's high school coach, David McGlown, says he's more of a complete player than he's been given credit for, and he continues to improve.
"In some circles of basketball, he's known as an elite defensive player. He is that, but he's also got more to his game," he said. "He can get the ball off the rim, take it full court, throw a no-look pass. He can shoot the ball. As long as he keeps developing, he'll be very good at the next level."
Jackson averaged 11.0 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.7 blocked shots per game during the Nike regular season in the spring, cementing himself as one of the best defensive prospects in all of high school basketball.
"This is your prototypical run-and-jump power forward. He's got a lean body. He's got quick instincts. He's quick off his feet. He's a very good leaper. I think his best value is with his ability to protect the rim and his rebounding — he's a pogo stick. The areas for improvement would be fine-tuning his offense and really polishing that up and developing some scoring moves around the basket. But, right now, his biggest value is being a rim-protector, a rebounder and a lob catcher."
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The Bias That Kills
Commitment to one's own correctness is a dangerous thing.
On some level, we all want to be right.
We want to be right when it comes to our basic values. We want to be right when it comes to picking a political candidate. We want to be right when we root for a football team.
Our minds have a need to be right. And, that's ok. It's a way that we cope.
But stemming from this desire, a bias exists out there that is the absolute killer of executives and strategist of all walks: It's the very real bias toward confirming of one's beliefs.
I won't go into depth on the issue, but suffice it to say that confirmation bias is a real psychological phenomenon. We like data that says we are right, and we (as a rule) dislike data that says we are wrong. It makes us uncomfortable.
Cases in point:
Many confirmation biases exist in personnel decisions. We like people and it can blind us to their performance. I once worked with a manager who had a very strong opinion about placing a particular person in an important role. The executive viewed the placement idea as creative and nonconformist, and, in a highly collaborative manner, asked the candidate's prospective team members about whether that particular placement would be a good idea. Unfortunately the feedback wasn't good. To a person, the team gave negative comments from the aggressively passive "do whatever you want" all the way down to the directly negative "terrible idea."
Instead of taking that advice, however, the hiring manager changed the game. They decided to go ask several more people…people without a direct stake in the decision, and those people, of course, praised the creativity of the "idea" of the hire. The manager, probably not knowing that ego was driving the search for confirming evidence, felt free to make the placement. And the decision ultimately cost untold dollars in organizational support, coaching, and botched decision making, not to mention the friction of frustration in the team that come with dealing with a less than competent team member sponsored aggressively by the boss.
This sort of bias exists in business strategy as well. When we have a good idea about a market, we want to know that the idea is good; we seek validation. I once worked days, nights, and weekends on a project to build a massive production facility in southeast Asia. The economics of the facility were bad, the technology the facility depended on was unproven, and,the leadership team was marginal at best. Behind the scenes, executives viewed evidence that the technology "might" work as highly validating, even in the face of the dominant perspective that it "probably wouldn't" from the same engineers. In spite of a massive set of evidence that the project should be shut down, the company flushed more than a hundred million dollars into it just because its leadership team said it would work.
These cases provide the micro and the macro of this particular bias… it's a bias that kills. It kills teams when people maintain commitments to non-performers they simply like and validate constantly. It kills shareholder value when projects are not stopped when the evidence says they should be. It kills careers when people seek a rationale to stay with a really bad role in a really bad company or under a really bad leader.
We search for confirming evidence, even in the face of massive contradictory evidence. It might feel off color to say so, but this is the realm of battered spouses who won't leave their mates; they always find reasons to stay. Only it's also the issue of highly "successful" executives who can't for a moment believe that they might have been wrong yesterday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."
In other words, when we foolishly stick to our guns in the name of commitments made yesterday or the day before, we avoid the ability to explore whether we could be great. This is not a call to avoid commitment. It's a call to avoid the pressure your ego places on you to stay with bad commitments.
It's a call to avoid being "little" in a leadership sense. It's a call to be big.
Stop, reflect, and be willing to admit…even just for a moment…that you might be wrong.


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Nigel Evans, Member of Parliament for the Ribble Valley and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, has today praised the Conservative led Lancashire County Council for delivering a 2% cut in resident's Council Tax.
Mr Evans said:
"I would like to congratulate Lancashire County Council on its cut of 2% in Council Tax for 2013/14. It is a decision that shows that the Council are in touch with residents' needs and it is an incredibly welcome move.
"This 2% cut comes after the Council have frozen Council Tax in each of the last three years and as a direct consequence of this the average tax payer will have saved over £500. I am delighted that residents in the Ribble Valley and across Lancashire will benefit from this real cut in their household bills."


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City named world's most liveable, except to some people who live there
Melbourne, Australia. It's the land of hipsters, perpetual rain, ironic murals and blue coffee, and now, its residents have (even more of) a reason to gloat. Their fair city has just been named the world's most liveable according to The Economist Intelligence Unit. For the sixth. Year. Running.
How nice. Except there's one problem. Melbourne locals love bitching about Melbourne, and today's announcement was not going to stop them, least of all because their arch nemesis city, Sydney, was toppled out of the top ten.
Just look at all this cynicism. It's all so very #Melbourne.
But not without good reason. Take this crime against nature. Intolerable.
If Melbourne is the most liveable city why am I sTiLL sO sAD
— Anna Spargo-Ryan (@annaspargoryan) August 18, 2016
Melbourne is not a very liveable city. Too cold, and the hangovers are really bad.
— Nick Partridge (@nkpart) July 25, 2016
Like ... Melbourne you're supposed to be the most liveable city in the world but yet nothing good ever happens here !!!!!!!!!
— lind♡lysha, (@Lindawgs_) July 12, 2016
Melbourne - World's most liveable city (except in winter) ❄😨☃ pic.twitter.com/Pg5dD8AQ26
— Michael McDonald (@MadHatter10six) June 24, 2016
Plus, there are actual social issues facing the city.
Record number of homeless on the streets of #melbourne, but its the "worlds most liveable city".How much do we PAY for that title? #bullshit
— Jimmy VanZeno (@VanZenoJimmy) July 18, 2016
As one commentator put it, "any true assessment of Melbourne needs to be a tale of two cities – one where infrastructure and services are abundant but housing affordability is appalling, and another where housing is more accessible but services and infrastructure are not."
@lennartnout Proof that every time Melbourne has topped a liveable city list, the judges never ventured more than 5km from the city centre.
— Spencer Milburn (@SpencerMilburn) August 8, 2016
Did the pollsters who decided that Melbourne is "the most liveable city" take into account its public transport system?
— Sonia Nair (@son_nair) July 25, 2016
Car jackings , home invasion's, armed robbery's assaults on a daily basis. Welcome to Melbourne Australia world's most livable city 😤
— Jason Fraser (@Jasonkfraser) July 21, 2016
Idea: instead of continually declaring Melbourne to be the most liveable city in the world, lets just rename Sydney "Shite-Town" and be done
— Arduino: Dad (@kels_316) July 5, 2016
Guess you can't please everyone.


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Hello. Has anybody got any suggestions? I have tried to use the rbe2 in a simpler case (using shell elements) and it works perfectly fine. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about this case...
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Hi pratik, Thank you for your reply. Do you mean that in LGDISP analysis contacts might not work properly if you do not use SPCD? I've read in the manual that prescribing motion using SPC or SPCD is pretty much equivalent as a matter of fact.
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Matteo posted a topic in Altair OptiStructHi everyone, I am writing here hoping someone can help me with the following problem. I have a plate which is connected to one end of a flexural spring (0.8mm thick) through FREEZE contact (please see picture below). The other spring end is fixed. I have used 2 loadsteps to perform this analysis: The plate has to translate downwards of about 1.4 mm. LGDISP non linear static analysis activated. From the position reached in the previous point, the plate must rotate about the X axis of an angle 0.25° (DOF4).LGDISP non linear static analysis activated. All displacements have been enforced through SPC. Picture of the model: I have used CNTNLSUB in order to make one subcase follow the other. Unfortunately, from other threads in this forum, I seem to have guessed the 1st loadstep loads (SPC enforced displacements in this case) must be enforced in 2nd loadstep as well. This proves to be impractical, since my final goal is to simulate bending+torsion in the flexural spring. In fact, I cannot impose the desired rotation in the 2nd loadstep because the plate has to be forced to translate downwards like it is in the 1st loastep. I am attaching my file in order to get the matter as clear as possible. Thank you in advance for any help you will wish to provide. Best Regards Matteo Spring_Plate.fem
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Matteo replied to Matteo's topic in Altair OptiStructDear Rahul Thank you for your reply. I have tried using fixlen some days ago and it worked! Thank you very much!
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Matteo replied to Matteo's topic in Altair OptiStructDear Rahul, Thank you for your kind reply. What is this error due to? A further update: I have seen that if I run only the non linear analysis part only, the analysis starts smoothly. So, apparently, only if I impose a pretensioned modal analysis, the error comes out. I have one question: how do I disable memory allocation? Do I have to use fixlen or is there another command I should type in?
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Matteo posted a topic in Altair OptiStructHi everyone, I am currently running a pre-stressed modal analysis using Altair Optistruct. The first loadcase is a LGDISP non linear quasi static analysis and the second loadcase is a normal modes analysis which is PRETENS with loadcase#1. The model comprises of friction, freeze and slide contacts, 2nd order tetrahedral elements, CBEAM elements and RBE2 elements. Everything has been checked but something strange happens when I run it into Optistruct: If I change the order of the tetrahedral elements from 2nd to 1st, I get the following error: OptiStruct error termination report printed to file "def_linear2.stat". PROGRAM STOPPED DUE TO ERROR. NOTE # 1422 There were 1 automatic memory expansion(s). (The result is not affected by this.) ************************************************************************ A fatal error has occurred during computations: *** ERROR # 292 *** Available working storage insufficient. The strange thing is that if I run the 2nd order the simulation proceeds and starts as it should. At first I corrected all RBE2 free-nodes and deleted any duplicate elements. Unfortunately, this keeps happening. Please, I COULD USE some feedback asap. If there is any need to share something, I would consider using file transfer. I am attaching the .out file. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Matteo def_linear2.out
Hi Prakash, Sorry for the late reply. In short, I have a problem during non linear analysis of the structure contained in the file below. As you can see, there are 2 subcases. For the first one (1.2mm of imposed displacement) there are seemingly contradictory (and wrong) results with what happens in subcase number 2 (2 mm of imposed diplacement). This happens when the model is made of second order elements. Not big problems are encontered when I use only first elements instead. I need to use second order elements for this analysis, so it is my priority to make it run. Find attached my file below. Best Regards Matteo Analysis.fem
Hi @User123 I am having the same problem too. I know your post is dated almost 1 year ago but...did you happened to find something? If you don't maybe we can try to get a solution...
Optistruct No forces applied but no zero displacement found
Matteo replied to Matteo's topic in Altair OptiStructThank you! How did I end up not noticing it! Thank you very much :)
Hi everybody, I was running a test with optistruct using two simple cubes. They are both fixed at opposite ends. Their faces are separated by 0.1 mm and can, if pushed, become engaged in a contact (type SLIDE). Type of analysis: nonlinear quasistatic. Issue: Even if I fixed both cubes at their bases and there is no applied force and no contact is engaged (shcdist=0.001 and the solver warns me that no contact elements have been defined during the analysis), the cubes translate of 2 mm as if they are moving like rigid bodies. I have already tried to constrain some more nodes, to no avail. Any explanation for this thing by anyone? Thank you in advance. Find attached my .fem file to check SHRCTOL001.fem
Hi Prakash, Can I upload it without the GRID cards attached? Unfortunately it would be better if the geometry of the model doesn't get shared.
Hi Prakash, Tried as you said, it runs smoothly! I took a look at the .fem file. It had a huge number of ACCEL1 cards. I think that Optistruct might experience problems dealing with them all. Is this correct? One last thing...what is the SPASMB section? Thank you for the fast and accurate reply Matteo
Optistruct stucked on linear analysis
Matteo posted a topic in Altair OptiStructHi, I happened to run a linear static analysis on a model. Everything worked fine. After that I had to rerun the same analysis on the same model BUT I had to add on EVERY NODE of the model an acceleration of about 10g using the card ACCEL1. The analysis got stucked after few minutes on the same screen. It has been like that since several hours. I don't know what it is...it's just as the solver got...stucked. Does anyone has an idea of why this is happening? I will now upload the .stat and the .out files, should there be some more informations, let me know. Best Regards Matteo ASFEL18004.out ASFEL18004.stat
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1. What the fuck is wrong with the Redskins? If they wanted a piece of shit QB to stand in the pocket and throw interceptions, they should have kept Campbell. To make it even worse, they release Colt Brennan, the one hope they had at offense. I want to throw my tv on the floor watching them play this year.
2. Men have to stop being so clingy. I fucked you, it was good. Enjoy it! Why do you have to fuck it up by calling all the damn time. Grow a set!
3. I am sick of working retail and not getting a real job. It is time to join the navy like my dad. We all know how much I love semen… oh wait thats seamen.


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The US website Cool Tools has compiled a list of the best magazine articles of all time that has sparked much online debate.
No doubt compiled with an eye to reading on the iPad, it's a fascinating (if subjective) trawl through the past half decade of magazine publishing.
It's heavy on the "state of the nation"-style articles from the likes of Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe in which Esquire and Harper's specialised in the 1950s to 1970s. They were times in which magazine articles really mattered: you could argue that Richard Hofstadter's 1964 "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" summed up an entire era.
Elsewhere, there's Tom Wolfe's biting analysis of "radical chic" and Hunter S Thompson's notorious "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved".
There's also a smattering of heavyweight tech articles, including Ron Rosenbaum's groundbreaking 1971 Esquire piece on phone-hacking "phreakers", which sparked interest in hacking before there were even home computers.
Wired magazine makes a strong showing in more recent articles; few would dispute the influence of Chris Anderson's 2004 piece on "the long tail", for example.
There's a lot to argue with in there – not least the lack of articles by women – but it's an interesting starting point.
With the rise of online news and Twitter, are long-form articles on the way out? The list highlights the fact that magazines such as the New Yorker and Wired are still publishing strong in-depth pieces – but this kind of journalism clearly needs investment.
Would iPad users be willing to pay for an app that compiled long-form articles? The site Longform.org already provides this kind of service – either for printing out or reading using the Instapaper app.
The list also makes one wonder whether British magazines such as the New Statesman or the Spectator have less influence than their US counterparts – or at least why their writers get less acclaim.
So did Christopher Hitchens or Paul Johnson's work in the New Statesman inspire you? Or Julie Burchill or Tony Parsons in the NME? Clive James in The Listener? James Brown in Loaded?
I can think of a 1983 Melody Maker feature on the Smiths by Dave McCulloch titled "Handsome Devils". It wasn't the best-written piece ever – it even spelled the singer's name as "Morrisey" – but, along with John Peel on Radio 1, it helped turn me from youthful punk rocker to fey indie kid. The NME, Sounds and The Face went on to inspire me throughout my teenage years.
Let us know what you think are the best magazine articles of all time below.


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London copper eases as virus toll continues to rise
Copper prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) fell on Friday, as the rising death toll from the coronavirus in China dented the demand outlook for the metal.
Three-month copper on the LME declined 0.3% to $5,775.50 a tonne by 0227 GMT, while aluminum dipped 0.3% to $1,743 a tonne, nickel fell 0.7% to $13,195 a tonne and lead fell 1.2% to $1,869.50 a tonne.
The death toll in China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic, has risen by 116, with the total number of cases up by nearly 5,000, health officials said on Friday.
China is a major consumer and producer of many base metals.
* SHANGHAI PRICES: The most-traded copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose 0.3% to 45,850 yuan ($6,565.85) a tonne, aluminum fell 0.3% to 13,680 yuan a tonne, nickel edged down 0.2% to 105,450 yuan a tonne.
* CHINA ECONOMY: The Chinese economy will grow at its slowest rate since the financial crisis in the first quarter, but the downturn will be short-lived if the outbreak is contained, a Reuters poll showed.
* LME WEEK: The London Metal Exchange's annual event in Hong Kong could be postponed due to the coronavirus, the exchange said on Thursday.
* FIRST QUANTUM: Canada's First Quantum Minerals Ltd posted a surprise profit, helped by higher sales and production, driven by a ramp up of its Cobre Panama copper mine.
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* Global shares eased, as investors were spooked by the sharp rise in the number of coronavirus cases in China this week while oil prices extended gains on hopes of more production cuts.
0630 India WPI Inflation YY Jan
0700 Germany GDP Flash QQ SA Q4
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1330 US Retail Sales MM Jan
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ARBS ($1 = 6.9831 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Mai Nguyen; Editing by Arun Koyyur)


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A new test build of Android O has shown up in Google's code commits, with "Shamu", Motorola's 2014 Nexus 6 shown as the device that the build is intended for. While the Nexus 6 has officially reached its end of update life, it was still set to receive security updates. The presence of an Android O test build stands in contrast to Google's policy of focusing on newer devices, but it's quite possible that Nexus 6 owners will never actually see this build hit their device. Regardless, it's currently unclear whether this test build is just made to test libraries present in the Nexus 6 or if it's being made with the intention of eventually letting Nexus 6 users run a stable release of Android O.
Looking over the files in the tree, the build seems to be in a very primitive state at the moment; the proprietary elements are all there and most of the basic hardware is accounted for, but the Nexus 6's unique handling of critical thermal situations doesn't seem to be coded in, and hardware acceleration using the phone's Adreno 420 GPU is also nowhere to be seen. Network hardware, meanwhile, seems to be running on generic drivers; since the Nexus 6 was infamous in its heyday for not working correctly on certain carriers' LTE networks, such as T-Mobile, it remains to be seen whether Google improves that aspect of the device. Still, most of the basic elements seem to be there, so enterprising ROM builders can always take the existing hardware-related code from Nougat that's missing from the Android O build and see how well it all works when combined together, though that method historically yielded less than stellar results.
It should be noted that the Nexus 6 has yet to receive a build of Android 7.1.2 Nougat, which is the version that current Nexus devices are on, as well as Google's newer Pixel lineup. Google is often seen testing new software on old hardware just to check compatibility and doesn't always release the results of that testing. As mentioned above, the results do end up in Google's Android Open Source Project. While this doesn't always lead to viable builds of newer ROMs, the new elements created by Google to get old hardware working with new software can always be used to enhance Nougat ROMs and add in new features that only newer officially support.


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A Level Results
Pupils achieve top grades to study at first choice Universities.
I am really pleased with the A' Level results this year. These are very good results, particularly the top grades where we achieved 36%, with more than 62% gaining A* to C grades. The overall pass rate remains in excess of 92%. With a background of more change in education, pupils have successfully made the leap from the older GCSE's to the new, more rigorous A' Levels, and these results are a testament to the pupils' hard work, and the dedication and resilience of the teaching staff and parents. These results will provide and excellent springboard for their university careers, where well over 50 % of pupils gained a place at their first-choice university, with one pupil, Elvira Baranova taking up her place at the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris to read Modern Foreign Languages. Chris Staley, Headmaster
Just some of the highlights are:
- Charlotte Brett A* in Art and Design Textiles, A in Geography, B in English Literature and C in Biology who will read Geography at Durham
- Leena Hussain 3 A's in Business, Economics and English Literature and is going to Warwick to study International Business Management
- Imogen Leader 3 A's in English Literature, Geography and History who is going to UEA to study English Literature
- Sam Martin A* in Mathematics, and A's in Further Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics and is off to Bath to read Natural Sciences
- Demelza Mason A in Biology and B's in Chemistry and English Literature, who is going to Southampton University to read Archaeology & Anthropology
- Catherine Missin A in Music, B's in English Literature and Psychology, and is to take up a place at the prestigious Guildford School of Acting.
- Jack Trundley A's in Economics and Geography and C in Chemistry who is reading Economics at Loughborough
"I am so pleased with my results and they are a reflection of the hard work I have put in and the incredible support of my teachers, especially Ms Taylor (Head of 6th Form) and Mrs Cooper (Head of Art/Textiles). I can't wait to start at Durham University and find out more about how I can make a positive impact on climate change". Charlotte Brett
Jack was over the moon with his results and can't wait to start at Loughborough University where he will read Economics and continue to play Rugby.
Investment banking was always on the cards for Leena who will study International Business Management at Warwick. "Ever since a young age I have been interested in banking and my advice to other pupils is to never give up and take advantage of all the support from teachers at WGS". Leena Hussain


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People living near a Tyneside park are worried about drug users and dealers.
The concerns came to light in a survey by The Bridges Labour Party Action Team of residents' views in Village Heights, near Gateshead town centre.
Team leader Angela Armstrong said: "Residents told me they were very concerned the park on Windmill Hills was being used by drug users and that possible drug dealing was taking place."
Mrs Armstrong has contacted Gateshead Police to try and resolve problems.


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