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When you want to make a good impression to people, during a job interview, date or meeting the intuition about what creates a positive impression is often wrong.
Harvard Business Review, quotes this as "humblebragging", which is a common way to respond to interview questions such as What's your greatest weakness?(I'm bad at saying no, so I end up helping other people too often.)
According to HBR researchers have found that humblebraggers are viewed as less likeable than people who straightforwardly brag or even people who complain. When someone humblebrags, he sounds inauthentic, like he's saying something strategic instead of something honest.
Other people are evaluated more positively when they try to be themselves, so the best strategy is just to be honest about yourself even if what you're being honest about is how great you are.
Want to know more? Read this article: The Right Way to Brag About Yourself,†by Francesca Gino


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Profile – Birthday cake milkshake.
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Delicious confetti cake batter on the inhale, sweet vanilla icing and whipped cream on the exhale.
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A savory confetti cake, lightly blended with a vanilla milkshake and fluffy marshmallows.
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Consumer deals company Groupon is in the hottest part of the charitable soup kitchen over its three Super Bowl spots that (mildly) spoofed charitable causes, Tibet, whales and the rain forests.
Groupon and agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky clearly made the mistake of thinking charities and some consumers had a sense of humour. Here's Liz Hurley superimposed on a rain forest (it would have been better with the addition of Aussie cricketer Shane Warne poking about in the undergrowth).


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Whoops, I'm sorry. When playing with the new Dropbox add-ons I found that the name change made by Dropbox also affected the shutting down of the running Dropbox daemons on ReadyNAS OS 4 x86. To fix this, there are updated versions for the Dropbox Installer 1.x and 2.x available:
As usual the updates can be downloaded from the "My Account" page for existing users.


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The obligation for classification and labelling of substances and mixtures according to CLP regulation has far-reaching ramifications on several other national regulations including the control of major accident hazards. Because of our many years of expertise in risk assessment of industrial chemicals knoell provides competent consulting and broad support in handling of all required tasks.
Effective from 1 June 2015 the Seveso-II Directive will be repealed and replaced by Directive 2012/18/EU, also known as Seveso-III Directive. This will lead to essential changes in the national laws on the control of major accident hazards. Primarily, these changes will involve the adaptation of criteria for classification and labelling of hazardous substances according to CLP regulation. In addition, the list of named hazardous substances in Part 2 of Annex I of Seveso-III Directive was expanded considerably.
Operators will be required to establish a safety management system which includes drawing up a written document setting out the major-accident prevention policy (MAPP). If not available yet, this document needs to be sent to the competent authority within set time-limits. E.g. for existing upper-tier establishments, safety reports and emergency plans shall be sent to the competent authorities until 1 June 2016.
In order to comply with these requirements, operators of upper-tier and lower-tier establishments need to perform a complete review of their hazardous substances inventory including raw materials, by-products, residues and intermediates. Quantification of all hazardous substances likely to be present at any time point and their classification according to CLP criteria is a precondition for the risk analysis of major accident scenarios as needs to be compiled in the safety report and emergency plans.
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This collection of free data visualization tools help represent figures and other factual data in visual manner.
What is data visualization? This is the art and science of creating info-graphics, flowcharts and other graphics that represent data. The graphics that make it easier to analyze and comprehend data, in simpler terms, it is called visualizing the data.
These days, every kind if research or report requires data-driven content. This content, which usually ends in a conclusion or a set of recommendations, requires such tools to make sense of the data. Without these tools, the data would just be a mumbo-jumbo of figures and no one will be able to make any sense out of it.
So today we are sharing a collection of the latest and 100% free data visualization tools that will you guys create and design infographics, charts and graphs.
This post is a followup to the wireframe tools post where you guys requested for a data visualization post. So here it is, you wish is my command 🙂
There was a time when Visual.ly was the best data visualization tool on the planet. But I can't include it in the list as it is not free anymore. It is not even a tool anymore, it is only a design house that specializes in creating info-graphics.
Free Data Visualization Tools
It allows users to explore and interpret dense data sets. The finalized charts are interactive: you can zoom in and out, and use mouse-over to highlight individual values.
I like their slogan, data in – brilliance out.
Better World Flux
This is a data visualization tool that creates charts with pre-input data. The data includes geopolitical facts and figures including each country's independent figures and world averages.
Google Fusion Tables helps you search thousands of public Fusion Tables, or millions of public tables from around the web you can import to Fusion Tables. You can also import your own data.
If you are a history buff than this is one of the best data visualization tools for you. It can generate interactive maps on all kinds of topics, from the beginning and rise of memes and the life and career of Steve Jobs.
Wiki Mind Map
Wiki Mind Map is a tool by…. Wikipedia of course. With it, you can create a mind map of any of Wikipedia's topics. I felt that this is a great tool for students and learners.
The biggest feature of Tagul is that you can incorporate shapes. You can make shapes of your word clouds. That can be your name, your logo or anything else.
Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects.
Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations like the ones in the screenshot below.
Leaflet is a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about 33 KB of JS, it has all the features most developers ever need for online maps.
Global Stat Counter has been my favorite website statistics website for over 10 years now. It contains great statistics about browsers, devices and screen resolutions worldwide.
This is a great tool webmasters like me. This tells about the incoming links to your website.
It s a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web.
JpGraph is an Object-Oriented Graph creating library for PHP from 5.1 to 5.5


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Capalaba Produce (3221 Old Cleveland Road) is a little taste of the country in the city that a colleague who is also an organic gardener recommended. It's a hodge-podge of buildings and a and farm pens with goats, pigs, chickens, ducks and many more barnyard animals. There is a New Zealand shop on the site selling L&P, Watties Sauce and Rashuns. They also sell bales of hay, I bought a bale of lucern to improve my soil and to use as a mulch.
There is a nursery selling orchids, bromeliads, veggie seedlings and a big selection of native plants. The main building has farm supplies, chicken coops and chicks, pet supplies, tropical fish and plenty of gardening supplies, such as hardwood tomato stakes which we picked up a load of this morning.
On out first trip we met their parrot, who has an impressive vocabulary of statements such as "Gidday Mate", "Gimme a Kiss" and "Get out you stupid idiot", he can also sing how much is that doggy in the window!
On our trip this morning we saw a family giving a large white goat a bit of attention, he was loved having his lower back scratched while wagging his little tail. He loved it so much he let out a big loud fart directed right at them in appreciation.


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The Best of Opera Vol. 2
Christoph Willibald von Gluck was a figure of great importance in the operatic reforms of the second half of the eighteenth century that ensured a greater degree of dramatic realism, notably with his Orfeo ed Euridice of 1762, based on the traditional story of the legendary Greek musician Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice, bitten by a snake and taken down to the Underworld, from where, by the power of his music, Orpheus seeks to rescue her. The reported success of this venture varies. In Gluck's opera, however, Orpheus fails to observe the command of Pluto, God of the Underworld, not to look round to see if Eurydice is following him. He looks round and she dies, only to be revived by Amor, providing the opera with the necessary happy ending. In the famous second act aria Che farò senz'Euridice Orpheus laments the apparent loss of his beloved.
Mozart belongs to a slightly later generation. He realised his ambitions as a composer of opera primarily during the last ten years of his life, spent in Vienna. Here he won his first success with a German opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). Four years later, in 1786, he embarked on his first collaboration with Lorenzo da Ponte in the Italian comic opera, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), based on a play from the Figaro trilogy by Beaumarchais in which the servant Figaro helps to best his master, Count Almaviva. There is a sparkling overture and in the first act aria Non più andrai Figaro makes fun of the amorous page Cherubino, whose affections have turned towards the Countess.
The last collaboration between Mozart and da Ponte was Cosi fan tutte (They all behave the same way), a satire on the fickleness of women, staged in Vienna relatively briefly in 1790, the year of the death of the Emperor Joseph II. The lovers Ferrando and Guglielmo resolve to test the loyalty of their betrothed, Fiordiligi and Dorabella by pretending to go away to the wars and returning in disguise, each to make overtures to the other's girl, finally with some success. In the beautiful trio Soave sia il vento (Gently blow the wind) the two girls, and the cynical master of the plot Don Alfonso, bid the two men farewell, as they leave, supposedly for the war.
Mozart's German opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) was the last to be staged in Vienna, in the autumn of 1791, the year of the composer's death. The masonic plot, by the actor-manager Emanuel Schikaneder, centres on the ordeals to be undergone by Tamino, a prince, in his search for truth and love in the shape of his Pamina. Tamino is accompanied by the peasant bird- catcher Papageno, a rôle taken originally by Schikaneder himself, who announces his trade and identity in Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (I am the bird- catcher).
The French composer Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne cantor, became a master of light opera in mid-nineteenth century Paris, not least with his parody of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) was first staged in 1881, the year after its composer's death and is based on stories by E.T.A.Hoffmann. The famous Barcarolle, a gondolier's song, sets the scene in the third act in Venice, where Hoffmann is attracted to the beautiful courtesan Giulietta.
In 1875, Georges Bizet had shocked Paris with his excursion into realism in the opera Carmen, set in exotic Seville, where the gypsy Carmen seduces and then discards the soldier Don José, who, in despair, murders her. Carmen's Habanera, L' amour est un oiseau rebelle (Love is a treacherous bird) charms her lover, in true Spanish fashion.
Earlier traditions in Italian opera were continued at the beginning of the nineteenth century by Gioachino Rossini, who enjoyed phenomenal success in the second decade of the century, followed by a period of further triumph in Paris, ended by the change of régime there in 1830. Best known of all arias from his many operas is Figaro's Largo al factotum, from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, in which the barber Figaro, in a work based on the first of the Figaro plays of Beaumarchais, announces his aptitude for any task that may come to hand.
From the 1840s onwards Verdi came to dominate Italian opera. In La traviata, derived from a play by the younger Alexandre Dumas, he depicts the fated love affair of the young Alfredo and Violetta, a popular courtesan, who is later persuaded by the young man's father to reject him and finally dies in his arms, after he has learned the truth too late. Their early happiness as lovers is declared in Un dì felice (A happy day).
La traviata was first staged in 1853. Rigoletto, first staged in 1851, dealt with a harsher subject, the curse of a father, whose daughter has been wronged, on the court-jester Rigoletto, who has abetted the Duke in his amorous episodes and eventually loses his own daughter, seduced by the Duke and then murdered by those Rigoletto had hired to kill his master. The Duke' s La donna è mobile (Woman is fickle) expresses his view of the sex and is heard with particular dramatic effect when Rigoletto thinks he has had the Duke killed, only to hear his voice singing his favourite song.
Verdi wrote his opera Aida, set in ancient Egypt, for the new Cairo opera- house, where it was staged in 1871. The story is one of love and jealousy, in which Radames, loved by Aida and victorious over her people, the enemies of Egypt, is brought to his death, in which she joins him. The victorious general Radames returns from battle to a triumphal march, an opportunity for theatrical display.
Alfredo Catalani is best known for his opera La Wally, a work that deals with the rivalry of the lovers of the woman of the title, Hagenbach and Gellner. La Wally refuses her father's command to marry the latter, a decision declared in her first act aria Ebben? ne andrò lontana (Now, let me go). She and her chosen lover die eventually in an avalanche.
The Dance of the Hours from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda is the best known excerpt from the work, an entertainment provided by Alvise Badoero for his guests in the third act of a plot of some complexity, in which Alvise's wife Laura is La Gioconda's rival for the love of a Genoese prince, Enzo Grimaldi. All ends predictably unhappily, with the death of La Gioconda and of her mother.
Operatic realism of another kind was embraced by Giacomo Puccini at the end of the century. In Che gelida manina (How cold your little hand is), from La Bohème, the poet Rodolfo first touches the little hand of Mimi, his neighbour in the Latin Quarter of Paris, where he and his artist friends have as little money as she. Mimì timidly seeks a light for her candle and then drops her key on the floor, as the candle flickers out. The two become lovers, but misundertandings intervene, only to be ended when Mimì is on her consumptive deathbed.
Un bel dì vedremo (One fine day), from Madama Butterfly, is the story of the desertion of a young Japanese geisha by the American naval lieutenant whom she has married and who is the father of her son. He leaves, only to return with an American wife, and she, in despair at the disappointment of her long hopes, kills herself. Before Pinkerton's return, however, she had continued to hope that all would be well, as in this optimistic aria.
Another wronged woman, the singer Tosca, is at the heart of the opera of that name. She seeks to save her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, who has been arrested for complicity in the escape of a political prisoner. Allowed the chance to save her lover by giving herself to the corrupt head of police Scarpia, she agrees, but murders him once he has signed what seem the necessary papers. Scarpia had, in fact, deceived her and left orders for Cavaradossi's execution, which she Witnesses, before leaping to her death from the battlements of the prison. In Vissi d'arte (I have lived for art), she protests in prayer her innocence, having given her life, in a way that might seem theologically unsatisfactory, for her art and for love.
Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut, derived from the novel by the Abbé prévost, centres on the sad fate of Manon herself, who elopes with the young Chevalier Des Grieux, only to desert him for the rich old Géronte. Her betrayal of the latter leads to arrest and transportation to the inhospitable American desert, where she dies in her lover's arms. In Donna non vidi mai (Never did I see such a woman) Des Grieux is first struck by the beauty of Manon, while in the Intermezzo of the third act Manon's imprisonment in Le Havre before her transportation is reflected.
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Jeff and I were so excited to snag Half Dome permits. We packed our lightweight running backpacks in preparation for a very long day of hiking. Water reservoirs full, extra water bottles, salty snacks, turkey burgers, string cheese, almonds. We arranged for Sam to be checked on and walked by a neighboring camper back at the RV park.
We are hiking Half Dome Baby!
Jeff and I purposed to leave the Happy Isles trailhead at 6AM and found a place to park near the backpacker's campground. We took the Mist Trail up past Vernal and Nevada Falls. This trail was like an adult water park and we were drenched by the time we made it through the falls. The Mist Trail is a stair step climb with minimal handrails. The granite stairs are a bit slick from being wet and we were thankful to have our hiking poles.
The top of the Nevada falls is a popular turn around for a lot of hikers. You can either head back down the mist trail or join the John Muir trail and loop back down another route. There are pit toilets here as well and there was quite a congregation of folks hanging out here before turning back.
We kept hiking past the Little Yosemite Valley campground (backpackers only) and another 3 miles further up the trail to Sub-Dome.
Sub-Dome is where things start to get interesting! Permits are required beyond this point. But at 9:30am there were no rangers there, making us wonder why we stood in line the previous day for 5 hours to get a permit. (They were actually there on our way down)
Narrow stairs chiseled out of solid granite, switchbacks and a steep slope was an exercise in vertigo control. I wish I could say what the view was like at this point but I was too focused on where to put me feet without looking down!
We reached to bottom of the cables about 10:30AM and unpacked our rubberized gloves for the final push. The gloves are amazingly helpful for gripping the cables. This section was EXTREMELY STEEP…almost repelling-like, and the gloves helped give extra grip to be more secure.
There was a pile of used gloves at the bottom of the cables that hikers leave for others to use. The wind tends to carry some off so there were a lot of unmatched gloves laying around.
Previously, we heard one of the rangers talking about the permit system for Half Dome. That if you couldn't get a permit, you hate the system. But if you were lucky enough to get a permit, you LOVE the system. Jeff and I couldn't have agreed more!
The climb up the cables was intense and I can understand why they put permits in place. After the permit system was instituted, half dome deaths dramatically decreased.
Each turnbuckle had a 2X4 attached to it to provide stable footing to rest or wait for passing hikers. Even with the limited people allowed on this hike we still got caught in traffic on the cables. But what was really cool was that everyone worked together encouraging one another, communicating, holding on giving each other the right of way. It was neat to see and experience, especially since it was so dangerous.
Just when I thought I couldn't go any further we reached the top with a loud cheer from a few of the hikers on top. The last 500' took us about 30 minutes and we celebrated by having a snack overlooking Yosemite Valley.
It's moments like these that I become especially thankful for the ability to hike and climb. To have a body that is healthy and strong. To have a wrist that just 6 months ago was shattered and now I was pulling myself up the cables of Half Dome! We scored a permit to the top and now we are seeing a view not too many people can or will see.
The view on top was so big and grand. Lush green meadows, sparking water of the Merced River, waterfalls spilling over granite cliffs, crisp air, the shear drop off of El Capitan. It was all visible, even palatable from this one spot. What an experience!
Our climb back down the cables was looming so after an hour at the top we started back down. It's comical to see the different strategies people use to go down. Face first, side-ways and backwards. I chose the backwards method which worked well. I felt very secure and it kept the vertigo in check. It was much easier getting down and we celebrated with our fellow hikers.
Overall this was an 18-mile hike for us that took 11 hours to accomplish. Talk about pooped!
The next day we needed to recover, so we pre-planned taking the Valley Floor tour ($25 each). This is a two-hour open-air tram tour driven by Sam and narrated by ranger Carol. They were affectionately dubbed Yosemite Sam and Christmas Carol!
Jeff and I normally don't take tours, preferring to avoid tourist attractions. But we REALLY enjoyed this and would highly recommend it. We learned so much more about how the valley was formed, how Muir and Roosevelt worked together to start the National Parks, how bears are controlled in the park, and climbers on El Capitan.
My favorite story was when Christmas Carol shared about the flood of 1997. The rapidly rising water took out over 1,000 lodging sites in the form of campgrounds and lodges. Everyone was safely evacuated and not a single life was lost. Carol shared that the most special part of the flood was that the park was closed for 3 months for cleanup and only workers were allowed in. She said that without the crowds the wildlife came out of the woodwork with such peace and quiet. It gave me goose bumps to think about experiencing Yosemite in such a special way. I was envious of her job!
After our tour we took a stroll over to Yosemite Falls and then called it a day.
Thursday was our last day at Yosemite and we had two things left that we wanted to do. One was to drive to Glacier Point and the second was to hike the Four Mile hike. So much to still see and so little time!
The Four Mile hike (3200' elevation gain) once was a toll trail developed in 1872 to connect the Valley Floor to The Mountain House lodge at Glacier Point. It is a strenuous hike that was eventually lengthened to 4.8 miles in order to flatten out some areas of steep grade. Even though mileage was added the historic Four Mile trail name was retained. The lodge burned down and the state of California eventually purchased the "private" trail for $2,500. It then became public property and toll free.
My legs were too shot for the 3200' climb so we decided to drive to Glacier Point where Jeff would drop me off at the McGurk Meadow Trailhead on the way. This is an 8-mile one-way hike from TH to the Glacier Point. Jeff then parked at Glacier Point and hiked the 4-mile trail down, then back up.
Both hikes were beautiful. Mine was secluded with minimal traffic while Jeff's was exposed on the side of the cliff with A LOT of people. We both ended our hikes about the same time and we had a great view of Half Dome!
We left Yosemite for the final time that day. We were both really sad. We could have easily spent a second week and still not have gotten in all the additional hikes we wanted to do.
I guess that just means we will have to make another trip back!
- Come in the off-season if at all possible-shoulder months are less crowded.
- Avoid the Valley Floor during the weekends-there are great hikes around the perimeter of the park that are much less crowded.
- Arrive at the Park entrance gates before 8:30AM-Cars start backing up at the entrance by then and parking is limited. We heard of others waiting 4 hours in traffic just to get in the park entrance and other who circled parking lots for 2 hours trying to find an open spot.
- Take lawn chairs with you-we set up our chairs under a shade tree in the parking lot to get some work done and make business/family calls. Also, its just nice to sit, regroup and rest then get back out there for the rest of the day.
- Expect no connectivity-We had very poor cell coverage and no WiFi at our RV Park, even with our own hotspot and booster. We did find decent coverage in the parking lot in the Valley so we purposed to get some work done there each day after our hikes.
- Make arrangements for pets-Pets are not allowed on hiking trails but can be taken on any paved paths. There are lots of paved routes, but none that will give you any backcountry experience.
- Bring bikes-If you just want to explore the Valley Floor be sure to take bikes. Waterfall spots and lakes are spaced out making it a very long walk. Bikes will keep you from having to give up your coveted parking spot.
- Take the Valley Floor tour-Well worth the $25/person (reservations required).
- Be mentally prepared for irresponsible people who lack manners, don't pick up after themselves and who ignore park rules-Its very disappointing to see the amount of trash left on the floors in restrooms and around crowded waterfalls.
- Take plenty of sunscreen and water-Even if it is a short distance, the air is dry and the sun is intense.


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How Can SEO Tactics and Social Marketing Work Together?
Search and social, as more companies are finding out, complement each other quite well.
Search and social, as more companies are finding out, complement each other quite well.
When Deborah Carver, the content marketing manager at digital marketing agency Nina Hale, was working with a health insurance client, both parties were a little unsure as to how to create content that people would want to click on. Carver spoke about her experiences and offered advice at Brightedge's Share15 conference this week in San Francisco.
Health insurance is necessary, but isn't a sexy product or one that could post pictures of cats to boost organic reach, Carver noted at the event:
No one goes, "Ooh, premiums," I'll share that! Especially the terms around health insurance. No one's really looking to share that content. … It's hard to create content around it.
Utilizing Brightedge's proprietary Data Cube product, she discovered which search terms were already leading people to the client's website. She found that they ranked quite high in Google searches for preventative care and family health insurance, among other terms.
So she went about crafting content around these topics, but found that optimizing headlines for Facebook posts aren't quite the same as optimizing for Google. Carver said that the first question she asked her colleagues, before developing content, was "Would you click on this?" Instead of taking a keyword-heavy approach that Google enjoys, the creative focus was around a catchy image with a short, powerful headline.
The results for the health insurance client were quite positive. Carver said they did use paid social, but the entire campaign cost roughly $1000 — and posts got thousands of views, with hundreds of click-throughs.
Carver talked about how SEO tactics may be similar, but they can't really be directly applied on Facebook and Twitter:
It's finding a way to insert that keyword or relevant term in a headline that would still drag people to click, but not that you'd necessarily use for SEO purposes. … You're still looking at that keyword, but that's not going to be the best SEO link ever. It's a balance. It's more about being as interesting as you can while still using your keyword.
Readers: What are some ways you use search data in your social content strategy?
Top image courtesy of Shutterstock.


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World's chillest cat bobs his head along to 'Hotline Bling'
This cat is more mellow than you will ever be — and, bonus, he really appreciates Drake.
When his owner turns on "Hotline Bling," this cat knows his jam is on, and makes the most of the listening experience by bobbing his head in solidarity and appreciation.
... Orrrr his owner his just scratching his head in time with the beat. Whatever. Don't ruin the Internet magic.


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My story has been featured on the Natural Matters website – the UK's Natural Life Directory. The article titled My Transition from Junk Food to Healthy Food to Heal ME includes a combination of two of my blog entries My Story: How I Became Ill With ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and My Transition from Junk Food to Healthy Food.
I would like to thank the PR department of the College of Naturopathic Medicine, where I am currently in my second year of studying nutrition, for introducing me to the editor of Natural Matters. The editor contacted CNM as she thought my story was very inspiring and would be very interesting for her readership.
I genuinely hope that it inspires the readers of Natural Matters to improve their diet. The editor of Natural Matters has said that she hopes to use some of my recipes herself! It is important to me to spread my message, especially to ME/CFS sufferers and to give them hope that they can recover from this chronic, debilitating illness!


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FDA Amends Regulations Recognizing a Reduced Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
Washington D.C., December 20, 2016 — The Peruvian Avocado Commission (PAC) is pleased to announce that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has affirmed that avocados are a healthy food. This new rule allows for a health claim that recognizes the overall benefits of raw fruits and vegetables, including avocados, provide a reduced risk of coronary heart disease. The American Heart Association submitted a petition to annul that claim, and it has been approved.
"Earlier this year, the FDA provided guidance that was inclusive of avocados being a healthy food," explains Xavier Equihua, President and CEO, PAC. "Now the FDA has amended previous regulation authorizing a health claim on the relationship between dietary saturated fat and cholesterol and risk of coronary heart disease, confirming that avocados are heart-healthy. We're happy they agree with us."
According to literature recently published by the FDA, "The interim final rule recognizes all raw fruits and vegetables that fail to comply with the "low fat" definition and/or the minimum nutrient content requirement to be eligible to bear the claim." This regulation went into effect December 19th, 2016.
The Peruvian Avocado Commission (PAC) is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was established in 2011 to increase the consumption/demand for Avocados from Peru through advertising, retail promotion and public relations. The PAC's promotional activities are conducted under the guidelines of the Federal Promotion Program for Hass Avocados, which is under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For more information about the PAC please visit www.avocadosfromperu.com or email [email protected].
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The Book of Knowledge lights up the darkness, though the Vine of Wisdom which bears the two moons ands stars facing towards the East and the West, symbolizing the diversity of disciplines and the fruit of knowledge.
The rising sun brings change, hope and enlightenment. It emanates inspiration and from the light of knowledge, four birds take wing from the nests of light, and spread out to the four corners of the world, symbolizing the quest for spiritual gratification through knowledge and wisdom.
The NUST Blue is a color that represents the future. It carries all the characteristics of the color blue, like dignity, grace, freshness, professionalism, prudence and resolve.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Futures on West Texas Intermediate oil, the U.S. benchmark, closed below $79 a barrel for the first time since June 2012. Oil prices remain under pressure from a stronger U.S. dollar and fears Saudi Arabia could announce another price cut.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in December
December Brent crude UK:LCOZ4 on London's ICE Futures exchange fell $1.58 to $84.28 a barrel. Brent crude is widely seen as the global oil benchmark.
Oil extended an early decline after the Institute for Supply Management's U.S. October manufacturing index rose higher than expected to a reading of 59% from 56.6% a month earlier. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast a reading of 56.5%.
The reading fueled gains by the U.S. dollar, with the ICE dollar index
A stronger dollar is seen as a negative for commodities priced in the currency because it makes them more expensive to users of other currencies.
Over the weekend, China's official manufacturing PMI dropped to a five-month low of 50.8 in October from 51.1 in September. Earlier today, HSBC's private gauge of manufacturing activity in China rose to 50.4 in October from 50.2 in September.
The numbers are consistent with cooling domestic demand and a further slowdown in growth in the fourth quarter as China's economy is still facing downward pressure, Julian Evans-Pritchard, economist at Capital Economics said.
China is the world's second-largest oil consumer, and sagging oil demand, due to its slowing economy, has been partly responsible for the slump in global oil prices.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, will announce its official selling prices for December this week. Last month, it slashed prices, with the deepest cuts for its Asian customers. The price cuts have triggered fears of a price war, which only has served to push global oil prices lower.
"If there is another aggressive cut for Asia, there will be loud headlines about market share battles and price wars, and it could trigger another downward leg in prices," Societe Generale's head of oil research Michael Wittner said.
Speculators have further reduced bullish bets on Nymex crude oil, in the week ended October 28, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed. Citi Futures said the latest net long exposure of 174,257 contracts was the smallest since August 2012.


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Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
There's so much going on in our lives. There are decisions to be made, deadlines to meet, families to be taken care of, so forth and so on. In the mayhem of a day, we can be overwhelmed and it seems nobody cares.
Perhaps sin has put you in a place so deep and so dark that you think you'll never be able to make a comeback. You've tried everything and nothing seems to work. Allow me to introduce you, or reacquaint you, to a man who has taken on all of our burdens and is willing to help you in your seemingly impossible situation. His name is Jesus.
Jesus wants us to come to him with all of our cares and burden. He doesn't care how heavy your loads are, how impossible they seem and how deep we allowed sin to take us. He just wants to help us. He wants to ease our fears and pain. He wants to show us a love that we can't get from anyone on this earth. Give Him a chance. I'm a witness to Him being able to accomplish things that are way past our imaginations.
My Savior, Jesus. I pray others will see the love you've shown me and how much you care about our current situations. I pray my family and friends and the viewers of this blog will begin to feel and see your presence in their problems, tears, fears, and circumstances. In your Holy Name, amen.


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Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South is a collection of twelve short stories that addresses issues of race, place, and identity in the post-Civil Rights American South. Using historical, spectral, and hip hop infused fiction, Boondock Kollage critically engages readers to question the intersections of regionalism and black culture in current American society.
Regina N. Bradley earned her Ph.D. in Literature from Florida State University, an M.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University, and a B.A. in English from Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. Dr. Bradley's academic research and writing focuses on the post-Civil Rights Black American South, hip hop culture, and race and sound studies. She is also an acclaimed fiction writer, with her work being featured in Obsidian journal, The Oxford American, and Transition Magazine. Dr. Bradley is an Assistant Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia.
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NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — A model that mimics the recommender system used by Netflix and Amazon can help predict outcomes of lenalidomide treatment in patients with non–deletion 5q (non-del[5q]) myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), according to new research.
The model was used to identify genomic biomarkers that were associated with resistance or response to lenalidomide. Researchers found these associations in 39% of patients with non-del(5q) MDS, and the model predicted response or resistance with 82% accuracy.
Yazan Madanat, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, and his colleagues presented these findings at the Acute Leukemia Forum of Hemedicus.
Dr. Madanat explained that his group's model is similar to the recommender system used by Netflix and Amazon, which makes suggestions for new products based on customers' past behavior. Dr. Madanat and his colleagues used their model to show that patients with certain molecular or cytogenetic abnormalities are likely to respond or not respond to lenalidomide.
The researchers began by looking at 139 patients who had received at least two cycles of lenalidomide treatment. There were 118 patients with MDS, and 108 who had received lenalidomide monotherapy. However, the team focused on the 100 patients who had non-del(5q) MDS, 58 of whom had normal karyotype (NK) and 19 of whom had complex karyotype (CK).
The model revealed several combinations of genomic/cytogenetic abnormalities that could predict resistance to lenalidomide, including the following:
- DNMT3A and SF3B1
- EZH2 and NK
- ASXL1, TET2, and NK
- STAG2, IDH1/2, and NK
- TP53, del(5q), and CK
- BCOR/BCORL1 and NK
- JAK2, TET2, and NK
- U2AF1, +/– ETV6, and NK
However, only the following two combinations could predict response to lenalidomide:
- DDX41 and NK
- MECOM and KDM6A/B
These combinations could be applied to 39% of the patients with non-del(5q) MDS, and the model predicted response or resistance to lenalidomide with 82% accuracy.
Although the biomarkers were found in only a subset of patients, Dr. Madanat said these findings may help physicians tailor therapy for MDS patients, given the high level of accuracy the researchers observed.
"It's really important to validate the results in a prospective manner and to ensure that we're able to apply them clinically and potentially change the way we're treating our patients," he added.
Dr. Madanat and his colleagues reported having no relevant conflicts of interest.
The Acute Leukemia Forum is held by Hemedicus, which is owned by the same company as this news organization.


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Some things in history, however tragic, still have shaped and influenced our world that we know today, which is why the Florida Holocaust Museum opened it's doors.
Located in St. Petersburg, this eye opening and moving museum honors the memory of those men, women and of course children, who either suffered in the Holocaust, or who didn't make it out.
More suitable for those older children who will be able to understand the stories and events, the museum is home to permanent exhibitions, as well as two temporary exhibition galleries.
The first permanent exhibition is History, Heritage and Hope, which lets you see original artifacts and historical photos to tell the story, with a strong emphasis on the personal stories of those local survivors.
The other exhibition is Kaddish in Wood, which are woodcarvings by a very talented artist who created carvings of French children who were victims of the Holocaust.
The two temporary exhibition galleries at the Florida Holocaust Museum often focus on one particular facet of that period in time. The changing nature means you can see something different on your next visit.
The 3rd floor of the museum holds small temporary exhibitions.
With a focus on the stories and faces from this infamous period in history, the museum really does justice to the memories of those who succumbed to this event.
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There is nothing I'd rather do than spend an afternoon wandering around, eating, spotting celebrity chefs, and people watching. The only thing that'd make it more perfect would be if I were being fanned by palm fronds while sitting on some type of throne. But since I don't forsee that happening anytime soon, I'll have to settle for eating and ogling celebrity chefs.
Enter, the 4th Annual Pebble Beach Food and Wine Grand Tasting event, held at the glorious Pebble Beach golf course in Monterey, California. I was able to attend the event courtesy of FoodBuzz and my darling friend Lemons and Anchovies (who also did a fabulous write up of the event). L&A was kind enough to give me her extra ticket so I could bring the hubster to carry my big camera, leaving my hands free for stuffing my face.
There are so many blogger friends who have done a lovely, detailed account of the event. Me, I'll keep it more Letterman's top 10 style. So here we go:
10) While normally, I'd have some qualms eating something bumpy and tentacly, I gobbled two (okay, three) of Chef Morimoto's Angry Octopus with Pickled Radish and Meyer Lemon Mousse on Crispy Rice.
9) True skill is making something as fancy as Shank Terrine with Dungeness Crab and Umbria Lentils for the masses.
8) Don't ever turn down a brownie brown sugar parfait.
7) This is no ordinary scallop. Not when it's served with a Mango Dungeness Crab Ceviche and Blue Corn Crisp.
6) How awesome is it when celebrity chefs that you've watched on TV are fun people in real life?
5) When Chef Chris Cosentino serves beef heart and oyster tartare, you know the fabulous plating is just the start of the magic.
4) Why do berries taste so much better when served in fancy little cups?
3) Crab Beignet. Delicious. Want one now. That is all.
2) Never say no to seconds (or thirds!) of chocolate ice cream sprinkled with fancy sea salt. Calories don't count when eaten from such cute spoons!
1) When a fabulous chef creates something strange-sounding, eat it anyway. It may be the best thing you've ever had. And on that note, I'd like to introduce you to the Buttered Popcorn Bisque.
And perhaps, even after the mind boggling top ten list above, the best part was hanging out with great blogger friends Caffeiiina, SP Cookie Queen, and of course, Lemons and Anchovies. And while I'm bummed I missed seeing Authentic Suburban Gourmet and Kitchen Confidante at this event, I'm hopeful I'll get to hang out with them at the next fabulous foodie event.


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There are various scenarios where the above damage can be done to your floor, to the point it needs to be sanded. One of the easiest ways to do damage would be to drop something onto it, damaging the finish and potentially marking the wood, or if a pet has an accident and stains the finish. If the finish has worn through, or if there is damage to the finish leaving the wood underneath exposed, then the wood is liable to staining. An all too common cause of damage is dragging heavy furniture across the floor, leaving scratch marks. This can be easily avoided by using self-adhesive felt pads on the underside of your furniture feet, or by lifting furniture and placing it into its new position, rather than dragging it.
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House Bill to Watch
There's been some concern about the powers written into HR 875, a bill introduced in the House by Rosa DeLauro. It stated purpose is to "to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes."
There are many elements of the bill of concern to supporters of Slow Food. And if you subscribe to food-related email lists, you've probably been getting emails about it describing its dire effects – there have been rumors that it would outlaw organic farming or backyard gardening, or that it would require new regulations on farmers' markets or direct sales.
As it turns out, some of those threats are exaggerated or even made up. Food & Water Watch, a well-respected watchdog group, has written an analysis showing that some of the scary statements about the bill are myths.The environmental blog Grist published a good entry on HR 875, as well. And the bill's odds of passing aren't great.
However, what's left in the bill is still nothing to look fondly on. It's mainly a set of measures meant to react to the problems inherent in an industrialized food system – not create new alternatives to that system. And it's only one of a few other bills currently making their way through the House approval process (like HR 814, which contains the NAIS animal ID progam).
While many food advocates think the approach in these bills is the wrong one, it might be wise to honor the impulse – concern about food – while letting our representatives know about the potentially negative consequences to the legislation. Food and Water Watch makes a wise recommendation:
There is plenty of evidence that one-size-fits-all regulation only tends to work for one size of agriculture – the largest industrialized operations. That's why it is important to let members of Congress know how food safety proposals will impact the conservation, organic, and sustainable practices that make diversified, organic, and direct market producers different from agribusiness. And the work doesn't stop there – if Congress passes any of these bills, the FDA will have to develop rules and regulations to implement the law, a process that we can't afford to ignore.
But simply shooting down any attempt to fix our broken food safety system is not an approach that works for consumers, who are faced with a food supply that is putting them at risk and regulators who lack the authority to do much about it.
The project we take on in reforming America's food system is a big and complicated one. As we go forward, we'll be faced with many opportunities to take positions on legislation and be in contact with our representatives. It'll be important not only to react – to let Congress know when it's on the wrong path – but also to work with our Congresspeople to let them know what it is we're looking for. Yes, the industrialized food system is under-regulated and puts more people in danger than should be the case. But the way to solve that should not be to unfairly burden small farms and organic growers with regulations that threaten to put them out of business – especially when they're not the source of the problem. We need to help our representatives understand the differences between industrialized and sustainable farming and food production practices. W're in a collaborative process of citizenship – of educating ourselves and our representatives while we try to craft a new food policy, together.
This hasn't been the first, and won't be the last of many pieces of legislation we'll need to look carefully at in the coming years. Now is a good time to begin to develop our skills in reading and understanding the legislation and seeking sources of analysis that we can trust. It's also important to be sure we're responding to facts, not exaggerations or misunderstandings of legislation. But regardless of whether everything is accurately represented to us when we first learn about it, it's still a great time to open up the conversation with legislators. Once you have the facts, and know your opinion on HR 875 or HR 814, why not send an email or make a phone call to your representative today? Introduce yourself and say hello. We're going to need to know each other well.
–Michelle Moon
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What is your creative mission?
I always think of what The Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe said, when asked what genre of music he likes: "I like ecstatic music". Me, too. Ecstasy is a powerful word. I don't want to stop at writing a catchy melody or clever lyric,
What do you love about what you do?
Artists are the holy fools of our society.
We can move between social classes, between economic classes, we can get away with being obscure, or intellectual, or raunchy, or peevish, or aggressive, or stand-offish, or perverse…you get the idea. We have license to explore the extremes of human emotion, personality, or behavior, without the usual social norms having to apply – we're somehow exempt or immune because we're artists.
What have you learned from your successes/ failures?
Art is chaotic, and the music business is chaotic. So I've learned to take risks – there is no map to success, and you never know where a new direction is going to lead.
How do you keep pushing ahead after a difficult challenge?
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It'll kill your momentum faster than facing challenges will.
Have you ever encountered resistance from family, friends or the world in general? How did you overcome those kinds of blocks?
It's important to remember to own your own story. Plug your ears when people say "It's really hard to make a living doing what you do". That's their story, why let it become your own? Believing it will just cause you to doubt, which will just make your job harder.
How has your art and creativity healed you?
Stories create our reality. I create stories for a living. So being a professional artist means you're doing fundamental self-work all day, because you're processing your reality and spitting it out as stories.
What are your NFA bullet points? What steps would you recommend for anyone who wants to kick some ass and get their creative dreams off the ground?
I put my trust in what people call "sweat equity": disciplined, sustained effort. I don't believe in talent, I believe in consistently applying yourself. Period.


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Orchard Pear – Pears warmed with notes of jasmine and cognac.
Blueberry Scone – Aroma of English quickbread with sweet blueberries, rich cream and a hint of vanilla.
Candied Apple – Apples coated with a mix of melted sugar, orange, pear and vanilla.
Cinnamon Sugar – A warm, sweet brown sugar and cinnamon with notes of nutmeg and vanilla.
Evening Air – A fall night warmed with notes of clove, geranium, basil, cedarwood and musk.
Mulling Spices – Warming aroma of hot apple cider infused with cinnamon, clove and vanilla.
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Chocolate Cupcake – Creamy, sweet aroma of cocoa, buttercream and vanilla
Cafe' Au Lait – Rich, fresh brewed coffee topped with milk froth and a dash of cinnamon.
Autumn Gold – Spicy cinnamon and clove with notes of cranberry and vanilla. and a pinch of fall trends from Bath and Body Works…Harvest Berry – Berries, bergamot and cassis are blended with white citrus, jasmine and anise.
Ginger Vanilla – Creamy caramel, fresh nutmeg and gingerbread are blended with candied apple, lemon zest and warm vanilla.
Leaves – Notes of golden nectar, mandarin and red delicious apple are paired with toasted cinnamon stick, mulled spices and freshly picked berries.
Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin – All the sweet and spicy scents of fall – apple, cranberry, cinnamon, pumpkin and clove.
Fresh Balsam – Crisp, clean balsam fir blendedwith fresh eucalyptus and sweet pine layered with notes of bright apple, cedarwood and musk.
Spiced Cider – A warm, scent that mulls three varieties of fresh apples spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. … yields inspiration for your bath and body products, soaps, and candles.
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The lovely people at Lagom sent me samples of my new Birthday card range this week!
The colours (inspired by Macaroons - I'm so dope) have all come out really nicely and I hope this cheeky Dachshund will put a smile on lots of children's faces on their special days.
Here they are hanging up on some bunting with some spotty pegs - this is because bunting and spots ALWAYS make things look really pretty FACT - just ask Queen Elizabeth. Don't ask Prince Philip as he is a bit grumpy and only saw the celebratory bunting when it was damp.
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Nurse Practitioner Programs in Georgia: Facts & Figures
Georgia has one of the ten metropolitan areas with the highest employment of registered nurses (RNs) in the U.S. The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta area has 32,270 nursing jobs, or about 14 for every thousand total jobs. There are plenty of educational opportunities, both online and campus based, for learning nurses in Georgia. The Georgia State Board of Nursing offers licensure for all the standard types of nurses, including:
- Registered Nurses (RN)
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, Clinical Nursing Specialists)
- Certified Nurse's Assistants (CNAs)
- Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses
Nursing Licensure in Georgia
Georgia's State Nursing Board administers licensure for nurses in the state, and their requirements for obtaining or renewing a license are clearly laid out on the board's website. In summary, you must:
- Complete the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). Registration for this test is available through Pearson Vue.
- Fill out the required application paperwork, which may include submitting fingerprints, educational credentials and any previously held nursing or medical licenses for verification.
- Submit to a criminal background check through a state approved agency.
Georgia's state nursing board site is careful to note that application fees for nursing licenses are non-refundable. While most states require between 20-30 continuing education contact hours for licensure renewal, the Georgia State Board of Nursing does not require these to be submitted.
Average Nursing Salaries in Georgia
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that RNs in Georgia earn a mean annual salary of $62,370, and that there are 65,240 RN positions in the state. Georgia is not in the top five states for employment of RNs, but there are still nursing training programs and degree programs available, and nurse practitioners are in growing demand just about everywhere. The table below shows the number of RN jobs and the average salaries for the U.S. and the state of Georgia in comparison to those for several metropolitan areas within Georgia.
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|Savannah, GA Metro Area
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The 28th Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) will take place June 16-20,
2012 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. See
http://socg2012.web.unc.edu/. It brings together the global community of
researchers who work on a large variety of aspects that combine geometry,
algorithms and applications.
Traditionally, the participation and involvement of students in research,
discussions, and social events plays a large role. Participation in a
top-level event such as SoCG can be educating, motivating, and useful for
networking, both with other students and with more senior scientists.
To allow a broad audience to actively participate in the community's major
scientific event, this year's Symposium will be accompanied by a series of
afternoon events, under the collective title "Computational Geometry:
Applications, Practice, and Theory" (CG:APT), which, together with SoCG (whose
talks are scheduled for the mornings), will constitute "CG Week 2012".
One of these events will be "Computational Geometry: Young Researchers Forum"
(CG:YRF), which aims at current and recent students. Its objective is to let
young researchers present their work (in progress as well as finished
results) in a friendly, open setting. Just like in the main event,
presentations will be given in the form of talks. A pre-screening (but no
formal review process) will ensure appropriate quality control.
Formal aspects:
- The topic must fit into the general context of SoCG, as described in the call
for SoCG submissions.
- Submissions must be in the form of 2-page abstracts, to be submitted via easychair.
- Formatting must be according to a provided style file.
- At least one of the authors must be a current or recent student; this is defined as
not having received a formal doctorate before 2010.
- The idea of the event is to present new and ongoing work. Therefore, abstracts should
not have appeared in print in a formally reviewed proceedings volume or journal by
the time of submission.
- The paper must be presented by a co-authoring student during CG:YRF.
- Accepted abstracts will be compiled in a booklet of abstracts that will be
distributed among the participants; however, these should not be considered a
formal publication. In particular, participants are encouraged to turn their
presented work into a form that can be published in a formal, peer-reviewed
After acceptance, appropriate acceptance letters can be provided.
Important dates:
- March 11, 2012, 23:59 Honolulu time: Deadline for submissions
- March 31, 2012: Notification of acceptance
- April 30, 2012: Due date for final versions of 2-page abstracts
- June 16-20, 2012: CG-Week 2012
Prosenjit Bose (Carleton University)
Jeff Erickson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sándor Fekete (TU Braunschweig, chair)
Marc van Kreveld (Utrecht University)
Alexander Kroeller (TU Braunschweig)
Joseph Mitchell (Stony Brook University)
Bettina Speckmann (TU Eindhoven)
Jan Vahrenhold (TU Dortmund)
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PLEASANTON, Calif. – NeoTract, Inc., a medical device company focused on addressing unmet needs in the field of urology, today announced that the European Association of Urology (EAU) has given the UroLift® System a positive recommendation for the treatment of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in its newly updated "Guidelines for the Management of NonNeurogenic Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, Including Benign Prostatic Obstruction," published in European Urology.
The guidelines assist practicing urologists in Europe in making informed decisions based on the highest-quality scientific data. The guidelines and recommendations were based on a rigorous systematic review of the published literature on the UroLift System, performed by a panel of experts with urological and epidemiological backgrounds.
The review panel graded the clinical evidence supporting the UroLift device Level 1-b, the second highest level of evidence, denoting evidence obtained from at least one properly designed randomized controlled trial that suggests that the benefits of the clinical service outweigh the potential risks. "We are pleased that the European Association of Urology has recognized the UroLift System as a treatment option for patients suffering from an enlarged prostate – an extremely common men's condition that greatly impacts quality of life," said Dave Amerson, president and CEO of NeoTract. "This positive recommendation is another testament to the rigor and excellence of the body of clinical data that supports the use of the UroLift System, which involves no cutting, heating or removal of tissue, and is the only treatment option providing total preservation of sexual function. We look forward to reporting the latest clinical trial results from the UroLift System next month."
Three-year results of the L.I.F.T. IDE Study, a multi-center, randomized, blinded U.S. clinical trial, as well as one-year results from the randomized BPH-6 European multi-center randomized study comparing UroLift to transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), will be presented at the American Urological Association's annual conference taking place May 15-19 in New Orleans.
The UroLift device has received regulatory clearance in the US, is CE marked in Europe, and is currently available in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
About the UroLift System
The UroLift System is a novel, minimally invasive technology for treating lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The UroLift permanent implants, which can be delivered during a minimally invasive transurethral outpatient procedure, relieve prostate obstruction and open the urethra directly without cutting, heating, or removing prostate tissue. Clinical data from a pivotal 206-patient randomized controlled study showed that patients with enlarged prostate receiving UroLift implants reported rapid and durable symptomatic and urinary flow rate improvement without compromising sexual function. Patients also experienced a significant improvement in quality of life.
Most common adverse events reported include hematuria, dysuria, micturition urgency, pelvic pain, and urge incontinence. Most symptoms were mild to moderate in severity and resolved within two to four weeks after the procedure. The UroLift System is available in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Canada.
Learn more at www.UroLift.com.
About Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
BPH, also known as enlarged prostate, is a medical condition in which the prostate gland that surrounds the male urethra becomes enlarged with advancing age and begins to obstruct the urinary system. The condition is common, affecting approximately 37 million men in the United States alone.
BPH symptoms include sleepless nights and urinary problems, and can cause loss of productivity, depression and decreased quality of life. About one in four men experience BPH-related symptoms by age 55 and by age 70, over 80 percent of men suffer from BPH. Medication is often the first-line therapy for enlarged prostate, but relief can be inadequate and temporary. Side effects of treatment can include sexual dysfunction, dizziness and headaches, prompting many patients to quit using the drugs. For these patients, the classic alternative is surgery that cuts or ablates prostate tissue to open the blocked urethra. While current surgical options, such as transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), can be very effective in relieving symptoms, it can also leave patients with permanent side effects such as urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction and retrograde ejaculation (dry orgasm).
About NeoTract
NeoTract, Inc. is dedicated to developing innovative, minimally invasive and clinically effective devices that address unmet needs in the field of urology. The company's initial focus is on improving the standard of care for patients with BPH using the UroLift System, a minimally invasive permanent implant system that treats symptoms while preserving normal sexual function. Learn more at www.NeoTract.com.
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Editorial: Talking truths at Calabar …and elsewhere
The Rev Karl Johnson, the chairman of Calabar High School, and Michael O'Hara, the school's star athlete, need to provide further and better particulars about that conversation which Master O'Hara says was his inspiration for his ambush marketing antics last week at the annual athletics championships for Jamaican high schools.
It would help if, in the process, there are no manufactured truths or distortion of the facts as to cause dissonance on the channels and the corruption of meaning. Important issues are at stake, including the principle of fair play and the values, ethical and moral, that Jamaica expects its schools, and other socialising institutions, to instil in its youth.
Of equal importance is the obligation of corporate entities to uphold ethical values, and especially to eschew the exploitation of the ignorant and the young.
Master O'Hara, who won four gold medals at Champs, told of a pre-Champs conversation he had with Rev Johnson about ordinary people daily doing extraordinary things, which became his inspiration on winning the 200 metres race, to lift his running vest to reveal an undershirt with the words 'Be Extraordinary'.
Nothing is wrong with a bit of celebratory gloating by a young man of his extraordinary achievements. Except that 'Be Extraordinary' is a tag line for advertising by the telecommunications company, Digicel, which just happened to disclose, not long after that race, that it had signed Master O'Hara as a 'brand ambassador', essentially a paid spokesman for Digicel's services and products. Except, too, that Digicel is not a sponsor of Champs - which are organised by the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) - and their competitor, LIME, is.
Further, there is Rev Johnson's insistence that he knew nothing of Master O'Hara's contractual arrangement with Digicel, which would mean that he would not have knowingly endorsed the athlete's action. We are sure that even at his young age, Master O'Hara would not plead ignorance of the concept of ambush marketing, or that he does not have an instinctive sense of right or wrong. Nor would he not understand why many people believe, even if vulgarly induced, his action was deliberate and why, perhaps, LIME, and other sponsors of Champs, would not have been amused.
Fair play
Perhaps, too, as an athlete and student, Master O'Hara would have heard, and embraced, the concept of fair play and that despite his school's ambition to win Champs, its leaders would have emphasised that athletics and competition among schools are extra-curricular activities aimed at forming well-rounded citizens. Then Master O'Hara has squared his supposed commercially unprompted action with the statement by Digicel's head of marketing, Peter Lloyd, that nothing the company did was "illegal", but "in celebration of Michael O'Hara who embodies our brand promise, which happens to be 'Be Extraordinary'".
Give Master O'Hara the benefit of the doubt about acting of his own volition after what may have been untextured and uncontextualised remarks by Rev Johnson about extraordinary people. Yet, what he did has brought him face to face with the issues of fair play, morality, copyright, trademark, intellectual property, the law and just maybe, truth. Rev Johnson has much to discuss with his fellow Calabar governors when they next discuss curriculum development. But these issues need not wait for such formal processes before they are talked about with students. Digicel should be a participant in this conversation.


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MD Continental provides fine dining experience in their restaurant serving multi cuisine. They also provide a bar to relax and unwind.


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I saw a post, re-posted it on my Facebook profile. A video about an empty area, about people waiting for disaster to hit their doors, about people who have already left and about people having nowhere to shelter from it. I felt outrage, I felt deep disappointment, I felt discourage and I felt the helplessness in those images.
I read comments, hundreds of them. Some people guided the photographer to run, others were writing words of encouragement for the best outcome from this sad experience.
People are afraid of loosing everything, including their lives. But some people are just too stubborn to leave a dangerous place. Those people just wait… (Of course, no one can force them.) Maybe some of them rely on their trust and faith in God. However, regardless the power of faith and hope, people need to be brave enough and admit they might meet God the next moment if they take no action by themselves.
A hurricane is terrible!. I've seen news on the topic (God forbid to ever face it in real life!). Don't know why I never felt what I feel now. Have no clue why I never understood the real pain inside all of this. But today is different. Today I am scared. I am afraid for all people having to experience such thing, wherever they are from, no matter their roots, no matter their hearts, regardless their beliefs. Yes, I admit! I am afraid for human beings; I am afraid for helpless animals (though it's said they feel it coming and they hit the highway way before people); I am afraid for billions of trees that will never get to grow, for old trees that will have their roots taken out of the ground, for tiny elegant flowers being pulled and wiped out. I am afraid!
This takes me back to my "What if…?" article. And I think… If we were better, would all of this still happen? Should we have been forced to go thru all this torment, be it only on a thoughtful conscious level? Would we, actually, be learning to feel hurt for others and consider everyone part of this infinite creation? Would we be directing our good thoughts and hopes to the ones facing this?
I don't know, I can't tell. But I'm afraid!
All of you our there that still have a place to be living in tomorrow, still have everyone around you safe, still have food to decorate your tables and stomachs with, still get to see the light of sun the next minute, still having the happiness of hearing a song, still having the joy of touching a living flower and pet a healthy animal, hold your child's or parent's or a friends' hand, be grateful! Because tomorrow may never come. Be thankful today. Wake up, wipe your eyes and stop being concerned by useless things. Enjoy what you have, while it lasts. Pray for the ones in need and help whoever you can, whatever way you can! Be good! Stop spreading hatred, stop judging, stop blaming, stop killing, stop devastating places, people, feelings with your bare hands! Stop fabricating greedy ideas for personal welfare. Stop doing this to YOU and OTHERS!
To all of you going thru crucial moments right now: today's Saint – Anna – and God guide you!
God spread bliss around the globe!
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Dec 7, 2014
Trust Fund Beauty Swatches & Review
**Products Provided**
Hey guys! Settling in after a cold I've had for the past week and now feeling better. So for today's post I have some swatches from a new-to me brand called
Trust Fund Beauty
. It is a Canadian "indie" based that launched this year, so it is a fairly new brand. With sassy, chic, fun names and with tons of gorgeous shades with great finishes.
They are vegan, non toxic and cruelty free, perfect if your cautiously looking for a brand with your needs. The polishes I received for review, are now available on their site, which comes in cute packages. They are absolutely beautiful and are super girly shades. So lets get to it:
I had It First
- is a gorgeous soft pink jelly, described by TFB "To be a trendsetter, you'd have to care about what those other people do after you. You don't. It was expensive, and it is worth it". The formula on the polish was a bit thin and the application was very sheer. I had to level it with a few more coats. This is three thin coats, sealed with top coat.
With this polish I wanted to create a chic and girly look. I used Cirque Colors
Carpe Diem
to create the marble affect and Super Black
Bossy Lady
for the outline. I just couldn't help myself accent the design with golden caviar in a triangular shape. It's so fancy...hehe!
Bitch, Please
- such a sassy name for a sassy shade. It is a pinkish lavender metallic creme, described by TFB "You know they're talking, but all you hear is "blah blah blah". With that quote I feel like their directly in my mind haha! The formula on this polish was pretty good. The application was so smooth, this is definitely a one coater. This is one coat, sealed with top coat.
With this shade I've decided to recreate an old design I did last year, a half-snowflake. I actually wanted to see how it would look on a metallic shade, and I definitely say it looks amazing. For this snowflakes, I decided to use black acrylic paint, sealed with top coat.
Bitch, Please
was my favorite of the two. I would recommend checking out this brand and their wonderful colors. All of the polishes are currently available through
Trust Fund Beauty
. Their entire line is vegan, 5-free, and cruelty free!
Be sure to take a look, and follow them:
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Hope all of you enjoyed my post today!
What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments below!
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Is there a Mac version of this software?
No, there is no Mac version available for LedshowTW 2016. The software was developed to run only on Windows platform. You will have to install other applications if you want to run it in Mac.
For example, there is Wine Bottler that allows you to run Windows applications without any other libraries. Download a copy, install it and the download LedshowTW 2016 and follow the guidelines provided by Wine Bottler to attempt a possible launch.
Note: Keep in mind that if you need to install drivers, Wine Bottler won't run them.


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Luke Halliday writes:
"The 21st Century may not be ready for 20th Century Boys, a manga that is so far ahead of its time that it may take another century for the world to truly get it's brilliance. Naoki Urasawa is the brains behind the work and with a rich history of intelligent, ground-breaking manga, it isn't any surprise that 20th Century Boys proves to be unlike anything else in manga today."
Perfect reviews are few and far between so I kinda think this one has to be added to my collection asap