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Early in the morning, as the thick Amazonian night was being redeemed by the light of day, I would go down to the small jetty to meditate beside the river. In Sao Paulo or Los Angeles, Sydney or London the working day also begins at this time as people begin their commute, read their newspapers, grab a cappuccino, gearing up for the business of survival.
Here too, in the wilderness, there was a perceptible rise in levels of activity. The animal kingdom was waking for work.
But here it felt more like a transition from natural deep rest. It was a ritual of nature, a new beginning of a primal celebration, an expansion of action in peace, rather than a battle. The conflicts of the species, the survival of the fittest and the killing and devouring that drives their life-cycle were sinless. There were predators but no oppressors, those whose time had come to finish their term of life but no victims. The freshness and purity of the morning reflected this natural order as the river reflected the intensifying sun.
From the other side of the river came a noise that drew my attention away from the constant symphony of life - the river and the jungle it flowed through, the hum of the insects and birds, the splash of leaping fish rippling the smooth water and the endless, unidentifiable rustlings that populate night and day. The Amazon jungle is silent. But silence, as any meditator knows, is not the absence of noise; it is the essential innocence of being, existence in harmony with one's nature, a union between self and all that is other.
I found it hard to locate this new, oddly aggressive yet disturbingly sad noise. It came from somewhere - over there, or behind me, or downstream. For a moment it seemed almost human and in a flash of imagination I pictured a cargo of slaves being taken down river to their hopeless future. In a contrapuntal way individual voices occasionally dominated over the chorus of this pre-linguistic speech – the alpha males, I was later told, asserting their rights over their fellow howling monkeys. It was reassuring to have the noise named and located. The literalists wonder how Adam could have named all the species of animals in a single day. But, as steward of creation, he needed to give them names in order to understand them and to see how wonderfully they formed a unified whole.
Those who read the biblical account of creation in the light of meditation know that there are many ways of measuring time and that the work of understanding life reinforces its sense of wonder. My associating the monkeys' howls with human melancholy became less anthropocentric. The noise took its place within the orchestra of the world's miraculous bio-diversity in which Man belongs in order to serve rather than to exploit. So many species, so many parallel universes around me. The more we see and understand, the vaster the world becomes, the more it reflects the effulgent glory and boundlessness of its origin. "In all natural things," St Augustine said, "there is something wonderful."
The crescendo of silent energy in the Amazon jungle builds up in the predawn light and settles down again at sunset. At both times it is intensely peaceful. You feel that peace is an energy, a power that vitalizes and renews everything it touches. It enfolds the world, but without possessiveness. Our capacity for this peace is boundless yet it has to be gradually expanded. To receive too much too soon would feel threatening and even, paradoxically, frightening. As energy it can, however, be transmitted (Peace is my parting gift to you). To be close to a person whose heart is filled with peace is to have our own heart opened beyond all the restrictions imposed by anxiety, fear and anger. But even in the strongest presence of peace and of the mystery of love from which it flows – everything real derives from love - we are free and peace can also be refused.
To feel this natural peace by the glass-smooth river, as the birds sweep and dance above it, as the sky brightens like an irresistible human smile that you know won't let you down, is to find oneself anew. It is to be restored to the harmony of nature - the shalom in which we resonate with all creation, with all beings in the beautiful order of the cosmos. So, to understand peace in these conditions merely as an absence of conflict or as an escape from risk – as do urbanized human beings in their security compounds walking below the cold gaze of security cameras – is to not be there at all. It is to miss the gift of peace and to be far away in an illusory world.
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The World Community for Christian Meditation, of which Laurence Freeman OSB is director, has recently opened a new outreach program – "Meditatio" (www.wccmmeditatio.org)


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The Mayfran Company, with more than 1000 employees worldwide and production sites in the United States, Europe and Asia, is one of the leading global manufacturers of conveyor and filtration systems for the metalworking industry.
Mayfran's reputation throughout the world is evident in this current project: N3 Engine Overhaul Services ( joint venture of Lufthansa Technik AG and Rolls-Royce plc) has established a plant in Arnstadt, near Erfurt, for the reconditioning of Rolls-Royce power units.
N3 assigned Mayfran with the planning and installation of a central cooling lubricant filtration system for the supply of eight machine tools with water soluble cooling lubricants. The central system (band filter installation) is located in the basement and supplies the machine tools with up to 500 l/min cooling lubricants in 3-shift operation, six days per week. Regardless how many machine tools are simultaneously running, each machine tool must be continuously supplied with cooling lubricants at a pressure of 3 bar.
To meet this requirement, the filter installation is equipped with two immersible Grundfos pumps (change in 24-hour rhythm). The units of the MTRE series selected by Mayfran feature frequency controlled motors.
Special characteristics of this series:
- The cartridge mechanical seal can be replaced without disassembly of the pump
- Flexible immersion depth: Pump length can be adjusted to installation conditions
- A suction cycle protects the pump against dry running.
- Pump parts made of stainless steel, optimised suction chamber and impellers
- Leak channel to tank
- Energy-efficient high performance motor (EFF1).
The reason for selecting a speed-controlled variant is explained by Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Bock, who is in charge of sales support at Mayfran:
"The maximum required by all eight machine tools together lies between 400 and 500 l/min cooling lubricant. The duty pump must be designed for this. However, when for instance only two machine tools are running, the requirement decreases accordingly – and the pump automatically reduces its speed. Important: The pump still delivers the same pressure!"
This is necessary to ensure proper function, since the cooling-lubricant must be fed to each machine tool at 3 bar.
Advantage of this operation: Significant energy savings (reduced operating costs), as well as a technologically advantageous aspect: If the pump operates at reduced speed, the heat output to the cooling lubricant is also less, thus no separate cooler must be switched on.
Why the cooling lubricant must not heat up? Klaus Bock: "Especially the grinding machines are very sensitive to temperatures and require a preferably constant cooling lubricant temperature for processing a workpiece within the specified narrow tolerances.
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Giuliana Rancic, the E! News host who recently revealed on the "Today" show that she has breast cancer, underwent her first major surgery and is now recovering at home.
The 37-year-old had a double lumpectomy following a two-hour MRI to locate the cancerous tumors. Her husband, Bill, gave "Today" an update this morning on her status.
"She's a trooper, she pulled through it and was kind of relieved to get it over with and get the cancer out and is doing well at home," he said. "I'm adding nurse to my resume now."
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He added that Rancic's recovery prognosis remained very good. "We're viewing this as a gift. It was caught very very early and we're going back to the doctor tomorrow. They had to remove a couple of lymph nodes and we're hoping we get a report tomorrow."
When asked how Giuliana was coping, Bill was adamant that she is going into the treatment process with a positive outlook.
"She's really viewing life a little bit differently. It's funny when you go through a situation like this, it really turns the volume down on the things that really aren't that important."
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Lisez les archives des communiqués de presse de l'Institut Périmètre.
During a live webcast Feb. 3, astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi will explore neutron stars, and explain how these mysterious celestial objects can shed light on some of the most vexing questions in the universe.
Researchers from Perimeter Institute have won both first and third prizes in the 2015 Buchalter Cosmology Prize competition for work that sheds new light on the workings of space and time.
For the first time, astronomers have detected evidence of magnetic fields near Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, taking the study of black hole growth from theoretical expectation to empirical fact.
On Dec. 2, scientist Paul Schaffer will explore in a live webcast how particle accelerators are being used to advance the field of nuclear medicine.
On Nov. 4, Nobel Laureate Dr. David Wineland will explore the theoretical and technological know-how needed to build ultra-precise atomic clocks that might help enable a quantum revolution.
Join Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok on Oct. 7 as he examines the surprising simplicity of the universe, and why its discovery represents a turning point in fundamental physics.
On October 7, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics launches the 2015/2016 season of its popular Public Lecture Series — live, accessible webcasts by some of the world's pre-eminent scientists.
Brilliant high school students from across the globe are headed to Canada's Perimeter Institute to attend the International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP), an intensive two-week program that tackles modern physics concepts from quantum to cosmos, starting July 12, 2015.
More than 40 physics teachers from around the world will meet at Perimeter Institute for EinsteinPlus, a one-week intensive workshop on quantum physics, special relativity, cosmology, and other cutting-edge fields from July 5-11, 2015.
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Three national U.S. soil point datasets — NCSS Characterization Database, the National Soil Information System (NASIS), and the Rapid Carbon Assessment (RaCA) datasets — were combined with remote sensing images and detailed conventional soil polygon maps, and used to generate complete-coverage gridded predictions of soil properties (percent organic carbon, total nitrogen, bulk density, pH, and percent sand and clay) and classes (taxonomic great group and particle size in the control section) for the Conterminous U.S. Soil covariate layers included: DEM-based derivatives, long-term MODIS EVI seasonal images, MODIS cloud fractions, and temperature images per month, PRISM climatic datasets of precipitation, temperature, and vapor pressure deficit, and bioclimatic indicators, Landsat (cloud free) NIR, SWIR bands, gamma radiometric images, geological surface classes, land cover classes, globally produced predictions of soil properties (SoilGrids250m), and the SSURGO parent material and drainage maps. The soil property and class models were built within a high-performance computing system using parallelized random forest and gradient boosting algorithms. Predictions were generated at 100 meter spatial resolution for 7 standard soil depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100 and 200 cm) for soil properties and as probabilities per soil class.
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Fly to Sousse (Tunis) with Destinia. We offer you flights at economical prices or in the class you choose. To select your flights Sousse, type the name of the city you wish to depart from in the Departure box and write Sousse in the Arrival field. Then select the departure and return dates. You can buy several airline tickets to Sousse at the same time by indicating the number of adults, children and babies travelling. You can filter the type of flight if you are only interested in direct flights to Sousse (Tunis), multiple destinations or flight stopovers.


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Over the last couple of years, our pastor has permitted and actually encouraged the display of pictures of deceased members in the sanctuary during church services—both at funeral and regular services. Pictures of the deceased and family have also been included on church funeral service bulletins. I have always understood that to display pictures of the deceased or pictures of persons for any reason is inappropriate in the sanctuary. It seems to me that these practices are at best tacky and distracting and may constitute idolatry. Am I over-reacting?
I commend you for your concern for the pure worship of God. The second commandment forbids "any religious worship not instituted by God himself" (Westminster Larger Catechism, answer 109). From the situation you describe, it does not appear to me that the pictures in the bulletin are objects of worship, or that they are even intended to assist worshipers in worship. If either of these were the case, then your concerns would be a matter of biblical principle.
However, I suspect that such pictures in church bulletins are meant to console mourners as they remember and give thanks to God for the lives of the deceased. I find no doctrinal grounds for objecting to this. A bulletin not only provides the order of worship on the Lord's Day, but also information that concerns the life of the congregation. The death of members and their family is certainly noteworthy. Even if you find the pictures "tacky or distracting," I would encourage that love and sympathy for grieving brothers and sisters be your pre-eminent concern.
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Vyralize: In the raging war between Google Fiber and competing cable providers, Time Warner Cable has started slashing prices and upgrading Internet speeds.
What da....KANSAS? It's not even set up in the far northern Cook area yet. Don't be in Kansas, Google. There's no place like Home. STOP NOT BEING IN KANSAS ANYMORE.
I hope they do this in NYC. I have wideband from TWC and it's $75 a month. It's fast but it disconnects a lot.


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Excellence in Computer Simulation
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Computational science is frequently labeled as a third branch of science - equal in standing with theory and experiment, and computational engineering is now an essential component of technology development and manufacturing. The successes of computational science and engineering (CSE) over the past two-three decades have been substantial, but at the beginning of a new century, it is useful to reflect on what has been accomplished, on how computational science and engineering are evolving, and on how we can be even more successful in the future. A conversation along these lines has already begun. For example, Leo Kadanoff has encouraged computational experts to move beyond simply verifying experiments and play a more assertive role in leading science [1]. Greg Wilson argues that computational scientists don't follow practices of documentation and preservation of data that experimentalists expect of themselves [2]. Douglass Post and Lawrence Votta assert that computational science needs a new paradigm [3], and Bradley Shadwick argues that computational science should not be regarded as a third branch of science at all [4]. The objective of this forum was to simply to begin a discussion along these lines within the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), as we begin to chart our long-term future. It was also an opportunity for NCN students to think about how to prepare themselves for careers in CSE. By posting the presentations on the nanoHUB, we also hope to spark a discussion within the broader community of computational experts and others.
Excellence in Computer Simulation brought together experts who have made strong contributions to CSE and thought deeply about the field. The one-day event consisted of individual talks followed by short discussions. Each presentation was recorded for dissemination on the nanoHUB to provide a resource for students preparing for careers in science and engineering and to simulate a broader discussion within the NCN and across the national and international research community.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Andray Blatche led a bevy of Brooklyn bench players with 20 points and 11 rebounds the Nets erased an early 17 point deficit to beat the Washington Wizards 106-101 on Monday night.
Kris Humphries, who was the team's original starting power forward at the beginning of the season before falling out of the rotation, added 20 points and nine boards for Brooklyn. Mirza Teletovic added 14 points and MarShon Brooks chipped in 12 for the Nets, who will host Detroit on Wednesday night before they open up at home in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Nets reserve rookie Toko Shengelia, who has played 67 minutes all season, saw 25 minutes. After averaging 1.1 points and 0.7 rebounds and 3:42 minutes in 18 games, Shengelia finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds.
John Wall led Washington with 18 points and 12 assists while Trevor Booker added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Wizards, who lost for the fifth straight time.
Brooklyn trailed for pretty much all of the game before finally taking a 95-94 lead on Shengelia's layup with 4:57 left in the fourth. Booker's hook shot with 4:37 remaining gave the Wizards a 96-95 lead but after the Wizards failed to inbound the ball, Teletovic nailed a 3-pointer to make it 98-96 for the Nets with 3:19 left.
After Cartier Martin's 3-pointer made it 101-101 with 1:43 left, Blatche's layup gave Brooklyn the lead for good, 103-101, with 55.5 remaining
Having already sealed the no. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Brooklyn Nets had a long injury list before the game - as have many NBA teams with their playoff seeds locked.
Starters Deron Williams, Brook Lopez, Reggie Evans and Joe Johnson all played cheerleading roles on the bench and were joined by Keith Bogans and Jerry Stackhouse.
Brooklyn will play the Chicago Bulls or Atlanta Hawks in the first round.
Gerald Wallace, who's been struggling this season as he's looked to find his way in an offense led by Williams, Johnson and Lopez, was Brooklyn's lone starter on the floor after missing his last two games due to a lower left leg contusion. Wallace's injury came early in the second quarter of the Nets' win at Boston last Wednesday night.
Wallace, who averaged 15.2 points in 16 games with the Nets after he was acquired from Portland last season, has just posted up 7.8 points a game this season. He scored just two points on three shot attempts in 23 minutes.
Humphries, who been almost a non-factor all season long after signing a two-year contract extension during the offseason, resembled the player he was a year ago.
Before the national anthem, the Brooklyn Nets aired a short video clip on the big screen above midcourt and had a moment of silence for the bombing that occurred earlier in the day at the Boston Marathon.


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Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald led all 132 state lawmakers in claims for daily expense reimbursements in 2012.
Newly released expense claim records for the year show Fitzgerald received $14,608 in the claims known as per diems. The second highest was Republican Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder who received $13,112.
They are among 10 lawmakers who got $10,000 or more in per diems last year.
The claims cover food and lodging expenses while lawmakers are in Madison doing state business. Those who live in Dane County can get $44 a day while the rest receive $88 a day while in Madison above their annual salaries.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos collected $9,856. He floated the idea of increasing per diems this year, but then dropped it.


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More than 1,200 African Christian leaders have gathered in Kampala, Uganda, for a church planting summit that aims to help attendees reach the collective goal of planting more than 200,000 churches over the next decade.
Key Christian leaders from Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania are learning from successful church planting leaders how to duplicate their strategies in Africa as they convene for this week's Billion Soul Leadership Summit.
"We have taken ownership of the Great Commission," said Dr. Alex Mitala, chairman of the New Birth Fellowship of Uganda and co-chair of Global Mobilization. "The Lord has called us, no matter where we are in the world, to synergize our efforts together to help double the size of the Church."
Like other Billion Soul leadership summits, which take place throughout the world, this week's summit seeks to mobilize and equip Christian leaders to plant church and save souls while also networking them to synergize their efforts.
Collectively, the Billion Soul movement looks to plant more than three million churches and save one billion souls in the coming years. To date, more than 200,000 churches are now represented in the Billion Soul Network, founded by Dr. James O. Davis.
"The Lord is raising up the Church in East Africa to help lead the global Church to fulfill the Great Commission," commented Dr. Peter Njiri, the Assemblies of God chairman for East Africa, at the Kampala summit, which concludes Thursday.
Among the church leaders that summit attendees will learn from this week is Dr. David Sobrepena, founder of the Word of Hope Christian Church in Manila, Philippines, who will talk about church planting.
Mitala of Uganda had attended a leadership summit in Nairobi last September where Sobrepena taught leaders how his organization plants churches in Asia. Mitala and his nationwide committee have since implemented Sobrepena's ideas in their country and within the last ten months saw more than 1,200 churches planted in the bush areas of Uganda.
Sobrepena's church planting model consists of seven steps: adopting a vision, recruiting and training church planters, setting goals and plans, sending a survey team, starting outreach and evangelism, establishing a worship/fellowship gathering, and forming a church organization.
Using this model, Sobrepena has seen his church grow to about 30,000 worshippers each week, hundreds of churches planted, a world-class hospital established, and more than 300,000 leaders trained nationwide.
Billion Soul Network, which seeks to spread effective church planting ideas, hopes the "Sobrepena Model" will be taught to the more than 1,200 African leaders attending this week's summit who will then go back to their countries to plant churches and hopefully see the same level of success as Mitala.
"I believe in the future; those who are not networking will be not working," Billion Soul Network founder James O. Davis told The Christian Post, regarding the network of church planters sharing ideas.
"We are witnessing the rise of the Global Church who will not primarily depend on the West for funding and sending. It is one the greatest missional shifts in Church history," he added.
Davis, who co-founded the Global Pastors Network with the late founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, Bill Bright, launched the Billion Soul Network – sometimes referred to as the Second Billion Network – in 2007. Davis is also founder of Cutting Edge International and previously served for twelve years as the national evangelists representative for the National Assemblies of God world headquarters.


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For many patients with chronic medical conditions like depression, pain or diabetes, the pattern is predictable: The more they suffer, the more they draw inward. Doctors may not see them until they are in crisis and show up in an emergency room.
Now a digital-era solution is emerging. When patients withdraw, their cellphones may reach out for them. The phones use an app that tracks how often they send text messages and place calls, and how often they move and where they go. If their habits and patterns deviate in a way that suggests they've become withdrawn, the app alerts a doctor or other caregiver to check in.
A handful of hospitals and medical centers have recently begun testing and using the technology, with financial backing for these digital flares coming from medical chains, the U.S. military and insurance companies.
The novel approach relies on technology that is increasingly standard on smartphones: global positioning systems and accelerometers that can track location and movement.
''It's a potential human early-warning system, the body's check-engine light," said Michael Seid, a professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Since last year, 15 patients with chronic gastrointestinal trouble have carried the phones to test the software's effectiveness. The results so far indicate that some patients clearly change their communication and movement patterns in the days before the onset of severe symptoms.
''When your pain increases, you're less likely to be at the park or the mall. It could be early indicators of a flare-up or worsening of the disease," Seid said. The technology, he added, "measures social behavior at a scale and depth you just didn't have before."
The software is still being tested and studied for its effectiveness. But mental health experts and researchers say it shows great promise - not just for spotting worsening conditions but also for picking up on behavior changes that suggest someone has stopped taking medication or needs a dosage change.
''It could provide an important new tool in a fairly empty toolbox," said Adam I. Kaplin, a professor of psychology and neurology at Johns Hopkins. "I have concerns but can say, emphatically, they've put their finger on the need to catch these people before they go down the rabbit hole."
Kaplin's concerns include whether such systems might send alerts that people may be sick when they're not, such as people who aren't depressed or in pain but simply have downtime, or perhaps the flu. If so, will that add costs, rather than alleviating them? And, he said, patients might fear they are being overly monitored.
''When does big data become Big Brother?" he said.
The companies and researchers behind the technology say they are aware of the privacy concerns. But they note that th e patients must consent, and that the information goes only to health professionals or to designated family members. They also say it's too early to gauge what effect it will have on doctors and how they work with patients.
The technology is part of a field often referred to as "big data" that captures and sifts through enormous amounts of data to better understand and predict behavior, like buying patterns, stock-market movements and conditions that can lead to military conflict.
In the health field, researchers in labs across the country are pursuing a host of big-data technologies, including ways to better assess patient behaviors and measure drug effectiveness.
One of the leading research centers in the field has been the MIT Media Lab, where Alex Pentland, a professor of human dynamics, oversees the entrepreneurship program. He says the idea of collecting patient movements and communications could give doctors more accurate evidence of behavior than re lying on patients' memory or efforts to describe their problems.
''Humans are not just bad at it, they're terrible at it, and they're biased in so many ways," he said of patient self-assessment. The data from the phones "is a true God's-eye view of what we're doing."
But Pentland added that the data must also be refined and understood so that, when someone appears to be withdrawing, the information is not misleading.
''Maybe the guy is going to kill himself, or maybe he's going to write the classic American novel," he said.
One of the companies with roots in the Media Lab is Ginger.io, which is providing the technology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, along with larger deployments set to start this month at hospitals in North Carolina that are part of Novant Health, one of the nation's largest health care companies.
Matthew Gymer, the director of innovation at Novant, said he wanted to see how well the technolo gy performed in alerting caregivers to potential behavior changes in thousands of patients with different conditions, including diabetes, chronic pain and heart disease.
''The reality is that as we march through life, there's a fairly predictable pattern to where we go and what we do," he said. "If that pattern is broken in an unannounced way, something could be wrong."
Cogito, a company with ties to the media lab, has begun a large-scale trial of the technology with the VA Boston Health Care System, part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, backed by the Defense Department and Raytheon, a military contractor. The test tries to measure whether a soldier might be headed for post-traumatic stress disorder by identifying periods of withdrawal or mania, said Joshua Feast, the founder of Cogito.
Feast said a big focus of the research was to identify which measures were most effective at identifying and predicting illnesses like d epression.
Deborah Estrin, a computer science professor at UCLA, is working on a small trial with chronic pain patients at the University of California, Davis, to see whether data drawn from patients' cellphones can show whether they are suddenly sedentary, a possible indication of intensifying pain, or even that someone is not taking their medication.
Estrin said the promising early research points to possibilities like increasingly personalized treatments based on assessments of individual patterns of behavior. Doctors could better understand how a particular treatment, medication or dosage affects a patient.
''I'm very excited, but there is work to be done," she said, adding: "If health was easy, we wouldn't be so sick."


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I walked home along the starlit dirt road as the roosters started to crow and the 5am church sermon began. That is how I knew I had spent all night at the clinic taking care of the latest wave of cholera patients, this time mostly children. Around 6pm the previous evening, I casually walked into the clinic to check on our 50 or so patients who had mostly recovered from the last outbreak. I was shocked to find the clinic was overwhelmed with what would prove to be the biggest cholera outbreak Haute Limbe, Haiti, has seen yet. I ran home to change into scrubs and fill my pockets with gloves, hand sanitizer, tourniquets, tape and my precious headlamp.
When I returned, I witnessed benches full of skinny, gray, limp children slung over buckets to catch what was gushing out of both ends. The staff was setting up makeshift cots and cutting a hole out of the center to catch the liquid waste pouring out of patients too weak to sit themselves on a bucket. The characteristic smell of rice water hung heavy in the humid, unventilated rooms. Every inch of space was occupied with no room to move.
Haitians, instead of saying "ow" to express pain say, something that sounds like "why" so all throughout the night kids were wailing "why" as we intravenously pumped their little bodies full of fluids. Their family members lovingly sat by their side, bathed them, emptied their buckets, shooed away the malaria and dengue-carrying mosquitoes while singing their loved ones to sleep. In the background, a radio played a mixture of Caribbean music, Céline Dion and Christmas songs to lift everyone's spirits.
That night, as I stood shivering in the cold shower I had been complaining about earlier during the trip, I held my hand out to grab the precious drops of the wonderful precious substance raining down on me. Dear clean water—I will never take you for granted ever again.
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UCLA School of Law seeks to admit students of outstanding intellectual ability who will bring a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to the classroom and the legal profession. Through long experience, the faculty has concluded that the quality of the education of each student is affected in significant ways by the presence of vital, diverse viewpoints. Indeed, students of all backgrounds choose to come to UCLA in significant part because of UCLA Law's outstanding achievements in creating a highly diverse educational environment.
In evaluating each applicant, UCLA Law places substantial weight on traditional measures of academic ability, namely grades and standardized test scores, specifically Law School Admission Test (LSAT) scores and Graduate Records Exam (GRE) scores. We also recognize in our evaluation that other factors and attributes contribute greatly to a person's ability to succeed as a law student and lawyer. When assessing academic promise and achievement, the applicant's entire file will be considered, including economic, physical or other challenges that have been overcome, scholarly achievements such as graduate study, awards and publications, the rigor of the undergraduate educational program undertaken, and letters of recommendation.
UCLA Law also considers attributes that may contribute to assembling a diverse class. We place special emphasis on socioeconomic disadvantage in our evaluation. We also consider work experience and career achievement; community or public service; career goals (with particular attention paid to the likelihood of the applicant working for underrepresented communities); significant hardships overcome; the ability to contribute to law school programs and specializations; evidence of and potential for leadership; language ability; unusual life experiences; and, any other factors (except those factors deemed inadmissible by applicable law) that indicate the applicant may significantly diversify the student body or make a distinctive contribution to UCLA Law or the legal profession. Many of the subjects we address on the application help us to assess the non-numeric aspects of the applicant's achievements that may also contribute to the strength of our educational environment and to the quality and leadership potential of our graduates.
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WWE Reportedly Making Plans To Leave ThunderDome Soon
The WWE is reportedly planning to move away from the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, where it has set up ThunderDome, an interactive fan experience which includes a new set, videoboards, pyrotechnics, lasers, graphics, drone cameras, and rows of virtual fans on nearly 1,000 LED boards.
According to a report on Inside the Ropes, WWE talents have been told that "tentative plans are in place to start travelling again" once WWE's contract with the Amway Center expires on October 31st.
The report added that talents have been asked to no longer make any travel plans of their own accord. However, superstars who wish to take time off from WWE must inform the company three weeks ahead of time.
Although preparations to migrate from ThunderDome are presently underway, there is also the possibility that WWE extends its contract with Amway Center starting from November. The report also noted that no firm decisions have been made yet regarding potential future destinations where WWE would host its shows in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As reported earlier by @Wrestlevotes, WWE officials have put together a small team to figure out the logistics of running WWE TV shows from outdoor venues once the ThunderDome contract expires at the Amway Center.
If the contract with Amway Center is not renewed, it looks like WWE's final dates at the Amway Center will be Hell In a Cell on October 25, Monday Night RAW on October 26, and Friday Night SmackDown on October 30.
Stay tuned for latest updates on WWE potentially leaving the ThunderDome.
The Advantages of Online Casino Welcome Bonuses
When it comes to online gambling, the industry is thriving in 2020. Although casinos are banned in many countries, people still find ways to enjoy their favorite games of chance. However, considering the level of competition on the market, it may be difficult for a beginner to find a good online platform and take advantage of all offers. In this article, you will learn the benefits of casinos' welcome bonuses.
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As we have already established, the industry is growing rapidly and companies are desperately looking for new ways to attract customers. A welcome bonus is often used by online casinos to get new leads and players in the future. However, the best casino bonuses can be easily used to the player's advantage. Here are the main reasons you should not neglect this offer.
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Quite obvious, right? Well, this is the main reason why you should always use welcome bonuses in online gambling: it is always better to not risk your own money. It is especially true for beginners. Since they have no experience, it is fairly common for beginners to lose their initial investment and be done with gambling for good. However, if you use your welcome bonus as a way of getting the basics skills, the chances of success will rise significantly.
- It allows you to try several games
Another common issue beginners face is a lack of understanding of which types of games they want to try: slots, roulette, baccarat, blackjack, etc. If you use your sign-up bonus, you will be able to play several games and choose the ones you like better. Moreover, you can take advantage of a welcome bonus on several online gambling platforms. That way you will try out even more options.
- It will make future gambling more profitable
Besides beneficial sign-up bonuses, good online casinos usually have great loyalty programs. For instance, the company may double up to five first deposits on the platform. If you invest 100 USD, you will get 200 USD to your account. More money — more games — more chances of winning.
Although a welcome bonus is a great way of upping your gambling game, there are a few things you should pay attention to. Firstly, a good bonus does not equal a good platform. Before choosing a casino, make sure that the company is legal and trustworthy. Since there are many scams right now, it is essential if you want to save your money. Moreover, check the available deposit/withdrawal methods and their terms.
We hope that this article has shown the true power of online casinos' welcome bonuses and how you can use them to your own advantage. Follow our tips while choosing a platform and enjoy the best gambling experience.
3 Key Mistakes to Avoid When Playing Blackjack
Blackjack is the most popular casino game in the world. The card game, sometimes referred to as '21', accounts for an average of 31 percent of all casino table traffic – this is consistent both online and in physical casinos. For reference, the second most popular is roulette (24%) followed by poker (21%).
It's easy to understand blackjack's popularity. It's a simple game to grasp and offers players a mix of luck and skill: luck in the cards that are drawn, skill over how those cards are dealt and a player's eventual hand. Compare that to roulette, which is based entirely on luck, and poker, which has a huge skill element to it.
However, while the beauty of blackjack is in its simplicity, there are also a number of complexities to the game, and as is the case with almost anything in life, you learn more from mistakes than successes.
With that in mind, here are three key mistakes to avoid when playing blackjack that can significantly increase your chances of winning, while limiting your losses.
Choosing the Wrong Table
Before a single card is drawn, being at the wrong table – whether live or online – is the first mistake to avoid.
First of all, each blackjack table will have different minimum bet requirements so avoid choosing one that is out of your budget. For instance, if you choose a table with a $100 minimum bet and your budget is $200, you might only play two hands.
Secondly, check the payout odds on the blackjack table. These are typically 6:5 and 3:2 and will affect how much gets paid out when you hit blackjack and land other bonus wins. Where possible, choose a 3:2 table as it pays out higher.
Thirdly, choose between a virtual and a live table. This is not so much a mistake to avoid but more comes down to personal preference. Virtual tables allow players to play against an automated computer, so you can play at your own pace, while live tables are usually quicker paced as human dealers are keen to move the game along.
When to Hit and Stand
As a general rule, most blackjack players know to hit when the hand is 12 and to stand when the hand equals 17. However, there are plenty of variables to consider that could influence when to hit and stand. Getting these right can really boost your chances of beating the house, while getting it wrong could prove costly.
One key move to implement is to always hit on a soft 17 – when the two cards are an ace and a six. This means that if you draw a 10 or picture card (jack, queen, king), then you convert your hand into a hard 17. It also gives greater flexibility if you draw a smaller value card as the ace can be used as a one.
While many players adopt a strict 'never bust' policy, meaning they always stand when their hand equals 12 or more, this can be ill-advised as it depends almost entirely on the dealer going bust.
Instead, analyze the value of your two cards compared to the dealer's first card and weigh up the risk factor in drawing another card before the dealer draws their second. As a strict rule, if your first two cards equal 17 or more, then stand – anything else can be hit depending on the situation.
When to Split and Double
If you are playing in a blackjack tournament, either online or live, learning when to split and double can make all the difference to your chances of success. The same also applies to individual games of blackjack.
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Splitting is when you split two cards when dealt the same value cards, so a pair of eights for example. Doubling is when you are given the option to double your bet after being dealt your initial two cards.
While it can be tempting to split and double at every opportunity to increase your winning, doing at the right time is the key.
It is not recommended to split when:
- You are dealt two picture cards or two 10s
- You are dealt two 9s
- You are dealt two 5s
- The dealer holds a 10 or picture card
It is best to split when:
- You are dealt two 8s
- You are dealt two aces
- The dealer holds a 5 or 6 (as this is the highest probability of a bust)
Similar to knowing when to hit and stand, take a brief moment to assess the dealer's drawn card compared to your own two cards and determine whether the probabilities are in your favour.
Likewise, knowing when to double down – when not to double down – can change the complexities of your blackjack game. A simple rule to know when to double is if your two cards equal 10 and the dealer's card is between 2-9. Additionally, if you hold an ace, you can consider a double as these have the flexibility of playing as 11 or 1. But if the dealer's card is an ace, ignore the double.
Blackjack may be a simple game but there are some important strategies to keep in mind next time you head to the virtual or live table. The game itself is still rooted in luck so there are never any guarantees to long-term success. However, by keeping these three important rules in mind, you can at least avoid making avoidable mistakes.
Top 5 Entertainment Activities for College Students
The life of college students is sometimes too complicated. They have to face tons of homework assignments that steal their time. Many students get stressed because of continuous learning. They seem to forget how to relax. If you're a busy student, you should remember that you're still young and shouldn't waste this precious life stage. You can undertake some entertainment activities sometimes. Take your friends and organize funny games to unwind and let off some pressure. We asked writing experts from a professional essay service Smart Writing Service to share their ideas and provide you with top-5 entertainment activities for college students you may like.
Who Are You?
Students, especially freshmen, don't know each other perfectly. They may be taken by surprise when some of them tell something quite unexpected about their hobbies, preferences, and so on. If you want to know other students better, suggest playing a game called "Who Are You".
Form at least three teams. If there are many folks, you can form more teams. Choose a speaker of the game. It may be even one of your teachers or professors. All groups will be given topics to discuss. The speaker is supposed to announce a new topic every few minutes. You may discuss and answer the following topics:
- What is the greatest challenge you are facing?
- What do you like or hate most about yourself?
- What is your greatest value in life?
- What emotions do you express easily?
- What is the most valuable thing in friendship?
- Who you want to become in five years?
- What is your major objective for next year?
- Is there something you want to improve about yourself?
- What motto do you try to live by?
- Where would you like to travel?
- If you were to study abroad, what country would that be?
Students should write their answers on index cards. The speaker should gather the answers of every student and shuffle them. Afterward, he/she redistributes them randomly to students. Each person should guess whose card he/she is holding. Play this game after you spend some time together and already know at least something about one another.
Sentence Completion
Another fun activity is "Sentence Completion." Most people like it because it's commonly accompanied by laughter and good mood. It's necessary to prepare a list of sentences. Those sentences should have a beginning, but with no end. Every student should finish the sentence he/she gets. Oftentimes, students give funny answers. At times, they are quite serious, and we can learn something important about other students. Here are several sentence beginnings you may choose:
- Before I came to college, I was interested in…
- When I was a child, I wanted to become…
- The best moment I remember most about high school is…
- My favorite pet is…
- The things I value most are…
- Five years from now I hope to be…
- My greatest personality trait is…
- My favorite subject at high school was…
- If I could change one thing in the world, it would be…
- My greatest fear is…
- After I graduate from college, I…
The Reception Line
You may likewise try another entertaining activity for college students. It is called "The Reception Line." Gather all the mates eager to participate. Divide yourselves into two groups. If you form more, it won't fit the rules of the game. Each person talks to the person in front of him/her until he/she must move. The person at the end of one line goes to the end of the other line. This method makes it possible to meet new people. Thus, students will learn more about each other. You can make shifts every next topic or set a limit. For example, the pair should discuss 5 topics and afterward move to change partners. Here are some interesting topics to discuss:
- Where would you like to travel?
- What motto do you try to follow?
- What is your favorite movie?
- What music do you like?
- What is your favorite hobby?
- Why did you choose this college?
- What do you like about college life the most?
Take Sides
You can likewise suggest a game, which offers only two options. It's called "Take Sides." Create a list of questions with two answers. Students should obligatorily choose one of them. Afterward, you may discuss the answers. Let everyone explain his/her choices. Thus, you'll learn more about each other, and it will bring you closer. Here are several suggestions:
- Watermelon or banana?
- Sweat or bitter?
- Short trips every weekend or a journey around the world for three months?
- Partying or hiking?
- Listen or speak?
- Rock or pop?
- Morning or night?
- Superman or Batman?
- Robocop or Terminator?
- Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings?
- Los Angeles or New York?
- Liberal or conservative?
- American football or ice hockey?
My Most Embarrassing Moment
You can likewise tell each other about the most embarrassing moments. It's important to be honest and don't imagine a story that never took place. All the participants should agree on this term. Commonly, it is a very entertaining activity. Students tell funny stories they've been through. It commonly makes them closer.
These activities for college students are very simple to follow. They are really entertaining. Mind that we have mentioned only 5 of them. However, you can try a hundred activities more. Use our examples to have fun and relax. They may inspire you and your friends to look for other entertaining activities.


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At the start of April, I travelled to Amsterdam to sail aboard longstanding tour operator Tauck's newest river cruise ship.
Dubbed the MS Inspire, she was christened just days before I set sail on her maiden voyage - and I discovered that despite being the largest ship to enter service for Tauck, their high standards of service have only increased since I last sailed with them in 2012.
Chief among the Inspire's new features are eight Loft Staterooms located on Deck 1. Measuring 225 square feet apiece, these Category 3 staterooms are a first for the river cruising world.
Also present aboard Tauck's forthcoming ship, ms Savor, these rooms feature a raised sitting area separated from the main bedroom and flanked by a 1.5-storey-tall wall of glass that can be opened electronically with the push of a button.
Curtains, privacy shades and even the flat-panel television can all be controlled with the push of a switch. Bathrooms are also uncommonly large for a river cruise vessel and feature glass showers with rainforest and standard shower heads.
The rooms include more storage space than you'll know what to do with, and boast a mini-bar and your own personal Nespresso podded coffee maker. The best feature of these new Loft Staterooms, though, was how spacious they felt.
Priced less than a French Balcony stateroom of similar size but more than the standard "riverview" staterooms on Deck 1, these loft rooms are likely to appeal to a wide segment of travellers looking for something unique. They certainly turned heads on my cruise, as passing barges and river cruise ships all stopped to snap photographs of their overheight windows. Chalk these up as my favourite cruise ship accommodations in a long time.
But it's not all about the loft; the ms Inspire devotes an entire deck to suites, with 22 measuring a spacious 300 square feet.
Yet, despite the fact she's the largest ship ever constructed for Tauck, she carries only 130 guests - just 12 more than her smaller sisters.
As with any Tauck cruise, the ship is only half the story.
It's the dedicated Tauck directors (four on each sailing) that make the experience so fantastic.
Guided tours are beyond excellent, and each Tauck sailing includes a number of exclusive events. Typically, these are things you could never buy your way into.
On my sailing, a private, afterhours tour of the moving In Flanders Fields museum in Ypres was included, followed by a five-course dinner in the meticulously rebuilt Cloth Hall that was almost destroyed during the First World War.
During our post-cruise stay in Brussels as part of our tour, Tauck also gave each guest $30 for lunch - something you don't see every day.
The company has a strong belief in not selling additional extras.
Gratuities and all beverages served on board ship, including beer, spirits, wine, soft drinks and water, are included in the cruise fare.
Tauck also offers complimentary bicycles for you to use ashore; something a few guests on my sailing took advantage of, cycling the seven kilometres from Veere to our afternoon port of Middelburg.
With Tauck, it's all about choice. The company has put together a comprehensive set of shore excursions - all complimentary - in each port of call, though you're by no means bound to participate in them.
In some ports, Tauck will offer more than one choice of how to spend your day. My Belgium & Holland in Spring itinerary also included calls on the Dutch ports of Hoorn, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Maastricht and the Belgian cities of Antwerp and Brussels.
The Inspire will spend the rest of 2014 sailing the Rhine for Tauck on two separate itineraries between Amsterdam, Netherlands and Basel, Switzerland. Her new sister-ship, the Savor, will enter service this June along the Danube.
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Tuition costs rival that of UC and CSU's within a 20 mile radius. Keep your grades up and enjoy the substantial discount given by GGU.
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Dr. James Boelkins, provost and professor of biology at Hope College, has announced that he will retire at the end of the new academic year.
Boelkins made the announcement to members of the Hope College faculty during the annual pre-college Provost's Address.
Boelkins has served at Hope since 2002. A 1966 Hope graduate, he has worked in higher education administration for more than 30 years, including 25 years as the chief academic officer at Hope and other institutions.
Hope College President Dr. James Bultman praised Boelkins for his commitment and effectiveness in serving Hope.
"Jim Boelkins has had a distinguished quarter-of-century career as chief academic officer at collegiate institutions," Bultman said. "It has been my great good fortune and that of Hope for him to serve these last eight years as provost at Hope."
"Jim is the consummate provost," Bultman said. "He is faithfully committed to our mission, is a superb leader and administrator, sets high standards for himself and others, and sees both the big and small pictures in higher education. He prizes great teaching as well as scholarly research and creativity. His work ethic is extraordinary."
"Jim will be greatly missed as a colleague and friend, but we will savor this final year together even as we address several exciting initiatives yet to be fulfilled," Bultman said.
Boelkins's tenure as provost has been an active time in the college's academic life, with Hope adding two academic majors and seven minors, and receiving more than $23 million in external grants and spending more than $83.5 million to construct or renovate academic buildings. The college has hired 83 faculty, with 27 members of the faculty retiring.
Among other signs of academic excellence, a recent report by ResearchCrossroads found that Hope held more funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health than any other liberal arts college in Michigan. Hope is the only private, four-year liberal arts college in the United States with national accreditation in art, dance, music and theatre.
In addition to his service at Hope, he is active in professional associations and local organizations. Among other activities, he chairs the Great Lakes Colleges Association Deans' Council, the Advisory Committee of the Van Andel Institute Graduate School, chairs the Board of Directors of Wedgwood Christian Services, and is active in his church.
Boelkins, who turned 65 in early August, noted that has treasured his time at Hope, but that after more than three decades in senior administration he is ready to step away from the demands of his profession and spend more time with family.
"I have loved doing this job and Hope has been an extraordinary place in which to serve," he said. "It's not hard to be a provost when you have so many productive faculty who are fun to serve. I've had the privilege of working with an outstanding president and administrative team. My office staff is simply the best. Still, it's time for me to allow someone else to bring new ideas and vigor to this role at Hope."
Boelkins came to Hope from Grand Valley State University, where he had been since July 2000 and was serving as vice provost of the Pew Campus in Grand Rapids. He was previously with Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa., for 15 years, first as vice president for academic affairs and then, starting in 1992, as provost.
From 1972 to 1975, and from 1977 to 1985, he was a member of the faculty of the University
of North Dakota School of Medicine, Grand Forks, where he chaired and developed a
new department of pharmacology. He received a variety of awards at the university,
including recognition in both 1978 and 1983 as the Outstanding Basic
Science Teacher.
From 1975 to 1977, Boelkins was a member of the pharmacology faculty t Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at The Pennsylvania State University during 1971-72.
He was an elected member of several national scientific organizations and published research during his tenure in the medical schools.
He majored in biology at Hope. He completed a Master of Science degree at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks in 1968, and a doctorate in pharmacology at the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1971.
He and his wife, Barbara, who also attended Hope, have three grown children.


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SPI Group has owned Kremlyovskaya (or Kremly as it is known amongst its loyal consumers) since 2003 and has secured the ownership of the trademark across nearly 200 countries throughout the world.
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Specifically, reptiles can't get a proper night's zeds and therefore don't experience "slow wave sleep, the type of sleep believed to be responsible for boosting memories, especially those connected to performing new tasks".
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We got into the car, all of us, last Thursday and drove east - toward Chapel Hill.
We're trying to get one of two little boys into an experimental treatment program for autism, and this was the first step. The closest lab participating is at UNC - so off we went. Some very kind people helped us coordinate the process, even contacting the Ronald McDonald house because as patients in the program they would assist us with lodgings.
I'm not actually sure how much I am or am not supposed to SAY about the actual treatment so I'll just be vague, but I'm hoping he gets in and I'm hoping he does not get the placebo. My littlest boy has the greatest challenges and problems. He is far more severely autistic than his brother.
You can imagine our displeasure when as we headed into NC I got a message saying "You may have heard we're getting a severe snow storm........."WHAT? WHAT? NO!"
I did not hear. Sigh. I can't say enough with how gracious the research coordinator was even contacting the Ronald McDonald house to get us more time if we got trapped there. Amazing.
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But maybe they don't think Divergent is the sure thing they thought it would be. Maybe? To be honest, I haven't been paying attention to the marketing. According to Buzzfeed, Divergent will be more Hunger Games than Mortal Instruments. Fine. But I've been avoiding all the hype. And that has everything to do with Allegiant. Allegiant was such a disappointment for me, it kinda took the enthusiasm out of the movie. And I'm not sure if what we've seen from the movie is enough to make up for where we know the story is going. Click here if you missed my review of the book.
And…then again… Twilight wasn't a great book and the series kept getting progressively worse. So maybe this is a good strategy, especially if Woodley and James have chemistry. If that's the case, their relationship throughout the franchise could distract us from the source material.
Are they dating? Do I care? Do you care?
Um, I think I do?
They do look really, really good together. Is that enough?