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Daizy puts her heart and soul into everything she is involved in.
Daizy is always reaching for the stars.
Daizy does not give up until she reaches her goals.
Above all else, Daizy enjoys all that she does.
Learn all about Daizy Gedeon and her incredible personal story.
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"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
Daizy has worked with and changed the lives of many people around the world. Hear what they have to say about the talented soul that is Daizy Gedeon.
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I've known Daizy for 30 years, and her professional endeavour and drive have been apparent from the beginning. This is what led me to use her skill as a freelance journalist for various professional projects of my own. Her honesty and integrity are foundation stones to her character. She is bold and will not shirk from a challenge. I am delighted to be associated with such a strong and resilient individual for so many years both on personal and professional platforms.
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"Extremely driven and energetic"
I have known Daizy Gedeon for the past five years in a professional capacity. Daizy is extremely driven and an energetic business professional who has built a successful marketing services company. She is a courageous and highly ambitious individual, who never accepts failure is an option and sees success as the hallmarks of hard work and commitment. With a gregarious personality and caring spirit, nothing is ever impossible or unachievable for Daizy.
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Daizy Gedeon is one of those women who just gets it! I have worked with her team closely and she continues to expand her thinking and her purpose. Her documentary and passion for Lebanon is second to none and this drive that serves both ourselves and others is a true win/win. This is the ecological environment Daizy is creating. I admire and respect this business woman, mother and friend, and know she will continue to make a massive difference to the world.


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2013 VW CC: Keep Stylish in Driving with Affordable Sedan
2013 VW CC is a type of sedan which is include as one of the most affordable car made from Germany. VW cc which is released in 2013 is a brand of Volkswagen which has so attractive details either exterior and interior designs and also the machine used for powering the car. 2.0L TSI® Engine is tuned to have a broad, flat torque curve with a nice, wide power band and 3.6L V6 engine for more power. It is released firstly for Americans who are so eager to have more attractive physical appearance of car. Like other Sedan types' design, 2013 VW CC has common body design but it looks more luxurious and strong car. Seen from main design, 2013 VW CC has more sporty design than other kind of Sedan's series. Sporty details can be seen easily on its wheels use and other components of exterior details such as the head lamps, nail lamps, and many more components.
Perhaps for the owner of previous VW, they are so bored with common look and anything else related to the main components of the car. But now, there is the most recent 2013 VW cc that will charm everyone especially for the automotive lovers. They then must want to own it since they will look so trendy driving a luxurious car. Good news for Sedan lovers is that 2013 VW cc will new performed with the standard content. Since it uses more standard contents, it will make them cheaper than previous series. Compared to previous version of Volkswagen, it surely will bring the benefits for the customers. Previous version of Volkswagen presents non standard contents with high price but it looks so bored and classic. But this latest version is completed with Volkswagen's new grille. Model trims: sport with lighting pkg, sport plus, R-line, Lux, V6 Lux, VR6 4motion.
2013 VV CC – Tiptronic 6 speed transmission
2013 VW CC interior Features:5-passenger seating, multi-function steering wheel, self-dimming rearview mirror, leather seating surfaces with active ventilation and massage function and dual-zone automatic climate control.
2013 VV CC Interior – dual-zone automatic climate control
If we see the previous version of Volkswagen, we can discover that the old Volkswagen does not plug double height grille but it uses a piece of height grille. Then the head of car, it is reshaped with some simpler units and larger. This old performance has been seen on the release session of 2012 VW CC last summer. Let's compare to the most recent 2013 VW cc. The car has simpler shape for the head of car but it looks so glamour. Based on its purpose that the car is designed for simple and standard use, almost components on the car's head are reshaped and designed with more standard elements such as LED taillight and headlight which are more standard.
2013 VV CC Technology: Bluetooth® with audio streaming, Premium VIII touchscreen sound system with HD Radio™, Dynaudio® premium sound system, SiriusXM® Radio and Traffic and touchscreen navigation.

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- Above is the latest WWE Top 10 video with clothing casualties in Superstar fights.
- The season 25 premiere of ABC's Dancing With The Stars will premiere tonight with Nikki Bella and her partner Artem Chigvintsev. WWE has a poll asking fans who will be Nikki's biggest competition on the show - "Shark Tank" star Barbara Corcoran, '80s pop singer Debbie Gibson, former NBA player Derek Fisher, "Property Brothers" star Drew Scott, actor Frankie Muniz, actor/Singer Jordan Fisher, violinist Lindsey Stirling, singer Nick Lachey, "Pretty Little Liars" star Sasha Pieterse, former NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens, TV personality Vanessa Lachey or paralympic swimmer Victoria Arlen. As of this writing, 16% voted for Owens while 11% voted for Lachey, 11% for Pieterse, 9% for Fisher, 9% for Arlen and 8% for Stirling. The rest received 7% or under.
- WWE posted this video of Mojo Rawley working the crowd at a WWE 2K18 signing in Dubai over the weekend:
Where does @MojoRawleyWWE's HYPE come from? The #SDLive Superstar sounded off at a #WWE2K18 signing in Dubai! pic.twitter.com/27yAfjrNTn— WWE (@WWE) September 18, 2017


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STEMmobile school tour stops in state capital
Policy-makers in Nashville will get a chance to see STEM education up close today as the STEMmobile, a mobile STEM laboratory of the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network, is on exhibit at Nashville's legislative plaza. On a brief break from its tour of schools across 20 counties in rural Tennessee, the STEMmobile will be in Nashville for the first time since completion. Visitors can walk through this mobile STEM lab on wheels and experience the same high-tech and innovative STEM practices that the STEMmobile delivers to grade-school students across the rural Upper Cumberland region of the state. Built and operated by the Upper Cumberland Rural STEM Initiative, a hub of the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network, the STEMmobile was designed to bring… Read More


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Woman killed in 7.6 Philippines quake; official says not to sleep
A woman was killed after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit off the eastern coast of the Philippines, disaster officials said Friday. Though officials initially attributed her death to a landslide, later media reports quoted officials saying a house had collapsed.
A 5-year-old boy was also injured.
The death, the only fatality to be reported so far from the quake, happened in Cagayan de Oro City, the same area where five homes were damaged in flash floods, forcing families to evacuate. Power was reportedly out in several towns across central and southern areas of the country.
Government officials in the Philippines urged people in threatened coastal areas to evacuate to higher ground and advised boats at sea to stay in the deeper parts of the ocean until the threat passed. As it grew late, disaster response chief Benito Ramos urged people to stay awake.
"Don't sleep, especially those in the eastern seaboard … because there might be aftershocks," Ramos said in a nationally broadcast advisory, according to Associated Press.
As of late Friday evening in the Philippines, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had canceled the tsunami warning it had earlier issued across Indonesia and much of the Pacific.
The quake did generate a tsunami, the center said, which may have been destructive along coasts near its epicenter. Boats and coastal structures might still be in danger for several hours due to rapid currents, it added, urging local authorities to make their own determinations.
Filipinos, who have come to rely on the Web and social media during disasters such as rampant flooding earlier this summer, were frustrated that the website of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology was unavailable at some points after the quake. "It only works when you don't need it," one Twitter user complained.
Pentagon warns Navy SEAL author on Bin Laden book
Gambia, Iraq executions buck worldwide abolitionist trend
Mexico's PRI to be declared winner of presidential election
-- Emily Alpert in Los Angeles
Photo: A resident sifts through the debris of a collapsed house in Cagayan De Oro city in the southern Philippines following a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck off its eastern coast late Friday. Credit: Froilan Gallardo / Associated Press


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it came to be that if I agreed with my church I'm a catholic and I'm very catholic and I've been all my life ,that people were calling me a racist and a bigot for believing my beliefs and that, that was the final straw for me cause I'd been a democrat all my life and my mother the same way and I felt I wasn't welcome.
DaTechGuy Feb 2010 on Why I was (at the time) A Republican
At the Hill they've discovered what I figured out last century. If you are a Roman Catholic who actually believes the doctrines of the church concerning the sanctity of life, the Democrat Part is simply not for you.
The raging debate among Democrats about whether to support candidates whose views on abortion differ from the national platform obscures a crucial fact: There simply aren't that many "pro-life" Democrats left.
Only six members of the House Democratic Caucus voted for a 2013 proposal to ban abortions after 20 weeks in the District of Columbia. Of those six, only three – Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) – are still in Congress. Lipinski and Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) are the only Democratic members of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.
and it's not just a question of being pro-life,
In 2016, just one Democratic senator, Indiana's Joe Donnelly, scored less than a 100 percent rating with NARAL Pro-Choice America. Donnelly and Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) are the only three Democratic senators with lifetime scores under 100 percent with Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Bottom line if you aren't on board with the whole, baby killing, selling human parts agenda of Planned Parenthood, you can forget about any kind of future on the national level state or even local level.
And no matter how popular you are in the party, if you dare come out in favor of a Pro-life democrat, there will be hell to pay.
NARAL Pro-Choice America had condemned Sanders and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez for endorsing Mello and intending to campaign with him. NARAL's president, Ilyse Hogue, called the campaign stop "politically stupid"; Daily Kos, the progressive site that had been crowdsourcing donations for a series of campaigns in red states, pulled its endorsement of Mello after admitting it was unaware of his views about abortion.
Now the Democrats have a perfect right to decide that Abortion should be a litmus test for them if they wish, and such a decision is very consistent with their party becoming pretty much a secular party.
The only problem is that this comes with consequences:
In fact, Blume's research also shows quite vividly that secular, nonreligious people are being dramatically out-reproduced by religious people of any faith. Across a broad swath of demographic data relating to religiosity, the godly are gaining traction in offspring produced. For example, there's a global-level positive correlation between frequency of parental worship attendance and number of offspring. Those who "never" attend religious services bear, on a worldwide average, 1.67 children per lifetime; "once per month," and the average goes up to 2.01 children; "more than once a week," 2.5 children. Those numbers add up—and quickly.
They lost the mayoralty in 2013, one in a string of defeats that had seen the party wiped out in Nebraska's major elected offices; in 2016, they lost the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District
and in the congress
"Back in the early '90s, when we had 290 members of the House, we had 100-something pro-life Democrats. Today, we've got three or four pro-life Democrats," said James Zogby, a long-time Democratic National Committee member and a national advisory board member of Democrats for Life of America.
Subtract those 100 members from the Democrat Caucus and what are you left with, a permanent minority.
Now if the Democrats want to remain the Party of Lena Dunham, Amanda Marcotte, Channel Dubofsky, Shulamith Firestone, Andrea Dworkin, Sidney Abbott, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Gloria Steinem, Jaclyn Friedman, Meghan Murphy and Jean Houston instead of the party of DaTechGuy and his Wife, they are welcome to do so, but let me point out one thing. As of Today my wife and I have produced more voting age children then all of those NARAL supporters combined.
A quick Layoff bleg update. Aug 10th was the scheduled end to my layoff bleg and I'm sorry to say we didn't manage half of the goal I had set (UPDATE: Now we have) although we did manage to raise enough to get me a paycheck this week and next week. This will make August a very lean month.
So if you are inclined and at all able I would ask you to hit DaTipJar at this time even if we don't make the goal another $315 will mean a full paycheck for August 25th. (made that goal!)
UPDATE: replacing the layoff bleg with a weekly paycheck goal details to follow.
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Brand new for the 2016 holiday season!
Get Your Jingle On! A fun, upbeat winter/holiday CD to get the whole family singing along! Steve Blunt & Friends present fresh, spirited versions of seasonal classics–plus a few clever, catchy original tunes. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com for simple ordering instructions–or visit CDBaby for song clips, downloads & credit card orders.
|The latest release! There's a Vampire at My Door – Silly, Spooky Musical Fun. Release Date: 2011
|Let's Have a Reading Party! 16 Songs & Stories That Make Reading Rock by Steve Blunt & Marty Kelly. Release Date: 2009
|Kangaroos & Didgeridoos: Kid-Friendly Australian Songs & Stories: A Singalong in the Billabong: Songs, storytelling, and kangaroo hip-hop for Happy Little Vegemites of all ages. Release Date: 2008
|Steve's 2nd full-length release is OUTTA SCHOOL! – a delightful mix of songs for kids in the elementary grades (ages 4-10). The song "Reading Road Trip, USA" was commissioned as the official theme song for the New Hampshire State Library's 2007 Summer Reading Program. OUTTA SCHOOL! was awarded a Parents' Choice Approved award in the fall of 2007. Release Date: 2007 (Cover Art by Marty Kelley)
|Winner of a Parents' Choice 'Approved' Award (Summer 2003), HANG ON, HENRY! is a 14-track collection of original, mostly humorous songs for kids and families. It covers a range of musical styles, from the rockabilly title track (about a little brother who flies away on a kite) to the reggae/ska-influenced "Macaroni & Cheese" (about a girl who refuses to eat anything else). Steve's folk-rockin' tunes feature clever lyrics and catchy refrains that kids love to sing. Release Date: 2003 (Cover Art by Brenda Baker, Madison, WI)


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Do I just replace 'input' with 'disable' or is there something else that I should enter? I'd rather get it done right, than do something wrong and screw things up later...Either delete the autocrlf line or set it to false.
You can see the effect of autocrlf if you do a fresh checkout and a `git diff' shows you that all files are modified.


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Medicine, government and public health in Philip II's Spain
Shared interests, competing authorities
- Editorial: Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Fecha de la edición: 2011
- Lugar de la edición: Surrey. Reino Unido
- Colección: The History of Medicine in Context
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 218
- Idiomas: Inglés
Bridging the gap between histories of medicine and political/institutional histories of the early modern crown, this book explores the relationship between one of the most highly bureaucratic regimes in early modern Europe, Spain, and crown interest in and regulation of medical practices. Complementing recent histories that have emphasized the interdependent nature of governance between the crown and municipalities in sixteenth-century Spain, this study argues that medical policies were the result of negotiation and cooperation among the crown, the towns, and medical practitioners. During the reign of Philip II (1556-1598), the crown provided unique opportunities for advancements in the medical field among practitioners and support for the creation and dissemination of innovative medical techniques. In addition, crown support for and regulation of medicine served as an important bureaucratic tool in the crown's effort to expand and solidify its authority over the distinct kingdoms and territories under Castilian authority and the municipalities within the kingdom of Castile itself. The crown was not the only agent of change in the medical world, however. Medical policies and their successful implementation required consensus and cooperation among competing political authorities.
Bringing to life a cast of characters from early modern Spain, from the female empiric who practiced bonesetting and surgery to the university-trained, Latin physician whose medical textbook standardized medical education in the universities, the book will broaden the scope of medical history to include not only the development of medical theory and innovative practice, but also address the complex tensions between various authorities which influenced the development and nature of medical practice and perceptions of 'public health' in early modern Europe.
Juxtaposing the history of medicine with the history of early modern state-building brings a unique perspective to this challenging book that reassesses the relationship between the monarch and intellectual milieu of medicine in Spain. It further challenges the dominance of studies of medical regulation from France and England and illuminates a diverse and innovative world of Spanish medical practice that has been neglected in standard histories of early modern medicine.


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I have a lot of Hot Wheels cars. I mean, tons. Maybe 100 or 150, all adorned with bright colors and racing numbers designed to appeal to the Hot Wheels target market: eight-year-old boys.
I buy them when I go to Target with my girlfriend and she says something like: "Oh look! A decorative oven mitt!" Once those words are stated, I feel it's fair game to do just about anything, including head over to the toy aisle and stand uncomfortably close to a fourth-grader so he will leave and I can browse the Hot Wheels display in peace.
So I was looking at my Hot Wheels collection the other day (and by "looking at," what I mean is driving them back and forth in my hallway while making "vroom" noises in a continuing effort to write these columns) when I noticed something: all the cool cars came from the mid-2000s.
Now, I don't mean that my coolest Hot Wheels cars come from the mid-2000s. In fact, as I recall, Hot Wheels in the mid-2000s was mostly making crap cars, such as a toilet on wheels and a vehicle that consisted – in its entirety – of wheels, an engine, and a seat. Stop me if this sounds like the General Motors lineup throughout most of the 1980s.
No, what I really mean is that all the coolest models came from the mid-2000s. Think about it: this was a time when Ferrari debuted the Enzo, Lamborghini released the Gallardo and the Murcielago, Porsche had the Carrera GT, Ford was selling the GT, and Dodge had the new Viper SRT-10. Aston was finally churning out cool new products after selling rebadged Jaguars for a decade. Hell, even Mercedes joined the party with that McLaren supercar whose hood doubled as a landing strip for light aircraft.
It was an automotive renaissance, really. And here's the crazy thing: all of these cars came out within the span of two years.
As I started thinking about it, I realized something troubling: the mid-2000s might be as good as it will ever get. It's a sad thought, but it might be a true one.
Take, for instance, the Porsche Carrera GT. It was a loud, mid-engined monster with a true stick shift and a V10 built for racing. You couldn't ignore the thing even if you wanted, largely because – even when it was sitting still – it appeared to be bristling with chest hair and covered with prison tattoos that would scare your wife in the grocery store. You didn't screw with the Carrera GT.
And the Carrera GT's successor? Well, for one thing, we had to wait almost a decade for it. And once it finally turned up, it came with an automatic transmission, a ridiculous pricetag, and a hybrid engine. The chest hair here was waxed off with precision. There were no tattoos. Your wife wouldn't be scared. In fact, she would see a 918 Spyder and say: You took me away from the decorative oven mitts to look at this?
The same can be said for the LaFerrari. Yes, it's a V12-powered replacement for the Enzo. But it's a hybrid, for God's sake. A hybrid! When the Enzo came out, it made no bones about the fact that it used as much fuel as you could get in the tank before you were mobbed at the gas station by people holding Motorola RAZR flip phones with 0.9-megapixel cameras.
But at least Porsche and Ferrari followed up their supercars. Some of the best mid-2000s supercars were never even replaced. The Ford GT never got a successor. One could argue the SLS hardly followed up on the wildly exotic SLR. And we're still waiting for a Gallardo successor, though it appears Lamborghini will never create one as long as rich people keep buying special editions named things like "Gallardo Slightly Darker Alloy Wheels Edition."
But it wasn't just supercars that peaked in the mid-2000s. How about more common sporty cars?
Think about it: back then, the M5 and S6 had V10s, and the E63 AMG had a bigger V8 than either of them. Mercedes felt it was necessary to stuff a twin-turbocharged V12 inside its S-Class to come out with the S65 AMG. (Admittedly, they still do this.) Audi was putting a V8 in its S4. And it wouldn't be long before BMW did the same thing with the M3.
These days, that's all over. We've gone to dual clutches and turbocharging. Exhaust notes are amplified into the cabin, sometimes using the very speakers you would've turned off five years ago to listen to your engine. In other words: it's all downhill from here.
Now, I'm well aware people are constantly predicting the demise of sports cars, and V8s, and loud, mid-engine exotics. I'm not doing that. But I am saying the mid-2000s may have marked the end of an era – the era of loud, masculine, big-engined sports cars that don't take crap from anybody. From here on out, the battles will be fought using hybrid power and new technology. The game isn't over, but it's different – and maybe not in a good way.
Good thing I have my Hot Wheels.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He operates PlaysWithCars.com and writes for The Truth About Cars. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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I don't do Filipino food, but this stuff is sooo yummy… my absolute favorite in Comfort Food! Plus, it's good for you 🙂 (Beef, green beans, cabbage, potatoes, etc…)
The beef is mmmmmm, so tender… and all the yummy, healthy stuff is served in one, big, hot bowl!
Here's how to make it at home…
- 1.5 lbs Beef Shank with Bone, cut into bite-size cubes
- 4 Potatoes, cut the same size as beef
- 1 small cabbage, quartered
- 20 green beans, cut in half
- 5 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 10 corns of black pepper
- 7 cups of water
Cooking Instructions:
- In a big pot, add 5 cups water and beef. Bring to a boil then simmer for about 2 hours – or until the beef is very,very tender.
- Add potatoes, pepper corns, soysauce, and remaining water (2 cups). Continue to simmer until potatoes are cooked.
- Add cabbage and green beans. Simmer for additional 10 mins.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
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For the last few years, it has been impossible to escape talk of the microbiome – the associated bacteria (and other organisms) that live in and on the human body. Overall, this attention has been a good thing, since it's made people aware of just how bacteria-laden we are (not that everyone finds that a comfortable subject). And in some cases, particularly Irritable Bowel Syndrome, evidence is accumulating that microflora are a big part of the disease state, and might be a big part of treatment as well. It's been known for a long time that antibiotic treatment can disrupt the gut biota, of course, with a particular case being C. difficile colitis. But it's quite plausible that less dramatic changes in bacterial populations could also have noticeable effects.
Proving that, though, and unraveling those effects, is something else again. One of the most-referenced possibilities is a connection between gut flora and obesity, and there have a been a number of studies suggesting one. Now, though, a meta-analysis of all this work is enough to make a person wonder. In mouse models, connections have been reported between obese states and ratios of different bacterial populations, or between obesity and alpha diversity of the gut microbiome in general. But here are the authors of this new review of the data:
. . .We performed an extensive literature review of the existing studies on the microbiome and obesity and performed a meta-analysis of the studies that remained on the basis of our inclusion and exclusion criteria. By statistically pooling the data from 10 studies, we observed significant, but small, relationships between richness, evenness, and diversity and obesity status, as well as the RR of being obese based on these metrics. We also generated random forest machine learning models trained on each data set and tested on the remaining data sets. This analysis demonstrated that the ability to reliably classify individuals as obese solely on the basis of the composition of their microbiome was limited. Finally, we assessed the ability of each study to detect defined differences in alpha diversity and observed that most studies lacked the power to detect modest effect sizes. Considering that these data sets are among the largest published, it appears that most human microbiome studies lack the power to detect differences in alpha diversity.
These are very good points, and they're the sort of issues that come up in all areas of science. Does your study have the statistical power to safely draw the conclusions that you're drawing? Too often, the answer is "No, not really". In biopharma research, some of the worst offenders are too-small rodent studies, of which there have been a great many published over the years, but this issue goes all the way up to the design of human clinical trials (indeed, it's perhaps the most crucial issue there). In the case of this microbiome work, the machine learning issue is also a complication, as the quote mentions.
That illustration shows what happened when the authors went back to each study, took the stated machine-learning method from each, and applied it to the data from all the other studies. You will notice that some of the combinations flip between roughly 10% accuracy and 90% accuracy, and (from what I can see) every single study can show up as well below 50% or well above 50% accuracy, depending on whose model is used. So that statement above is certainly correct; the ability to classify individuals as obese by these methods of microbiome analysis is "limited", and I think we can call that an example of academic understatement. I would have trouble distinguishing the overall effects shown by these re-analyses from random noise, honestly.
This says something about machine-learning models as well as about the complexities of microbiome research. The authors tried, but "it was not possible to identify factors that predictably affected model performance", and the conclusion that has to be drawn is that none of these models can be said to be any better or more useful than any of the others, and it would appear that none of them are very useful at all. This is something to keep in mind when you hear about the marvels that can be produced through machine learning. I actually have little doubt that marvels are possible through such routes, but "garbage in, garbage out" is a law of the universe that no one has ever been able to repeal. In this case, it's more like "not enough data in, not enough conclusions out", but that's an unbreakable one, too.
It's also true, though, that the data on microbiome/obesity connections in rodent models is a lot more robust than this, and it would appear that these studies are in conflict with what we're seeing in humans. Mind you, we can't do the sort of wholesale manipulations in people that are done in some of the mice, but you'd still expect to see more than this. The best hypotheses that the authors offer are that obesity signatures might vary a lot more from person to person than we realize, and that just looking at diversity and taxonomy through 16S ribosome sequences is not going to be enough to tease these things out. There might be a whole host of rather different microbiome populations that end up doing similar effects and similar-looking ones that do completely different things (perhaps through metabolite formation), or it might all depend crucially on each person's own immune fingerprint. At any rate, once again, It's Not As Simple As You Would Have Hoped.


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One of the world's most controversial and startling photographers is back in Rome for the first time in over 15 years: David LaChapelle. His greatest works can be seen in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni until September 13th.
David LaChapelle is one the most appreciated and influential photographers in the world. He is famous for his provocative and shocking images, which may be controversial, but always inspire some emotion. You cannot walk away from one of his photos without developing an opinion or attitude.
Rome played a huge role in LaChapelle's creative development. His private visit of the Sistine Chapel in 2006 inspired the photographer to create his series called " The Deluge," which led to a meaningful turning point in his artistic path. After "The Deluge", the American photographer began to produce artwork with new aesthetical and conceptual features.
His early work is filled with religious themes (Jesus in male model form), abundant nudity, artistic icons, and pop culture references that range from Louis Vuitton handbags to Jeff Koons' sculptures. LaChapelle also uses major celebrities in his pieces: the Kardashian family members, Courtney Love, Michael Jackson, Naomi Campbell, etc.
To allow the public to understand the "origins" of LaChapelle's work before "The Deluge," the exhibition also provides a selection of the photos that first brought him publicity. One of the sections of the exhibition which I found most interesting is the projection space, where you can watch short "behind the scene" videos and understand how photo production works.
LaChapelle's work is exhibited in the most important public and private international collections and in many museums, among those: Musée D'Orsay, Paris; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; The National Portrait Gallery, London; Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm and The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Right now LaChapelle's photos can be seen in Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper Portrait Gallery in Munich, and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
The exhibition is open until September 13th; don't miss the chance to see the greatest works of David LaChapelle in real life!
Visit many other exhibitions while studying in John Cabot University!
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How am I, with my own unique gifts, being called to put them at the service of God's Kingdom on this earth?
This Fourth Sunday after Easter, May 11, 2014, celebrates the 51st World Day of Prayer for Vocations. This is the day when all Christians are invited to reflect on their Baptismal commitment, and to pray for one another and the whole Christian Community. This is to say that each baptized Christian is invited, today, to ask "How am I, with my own unique gifts, being called to put them at the service of God's Kingdom on this earth?" and to pray for an increase in courage and generosity for all in responding to this invitation.
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This principle is by no means limited to the United States. Consider the case of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in Pakistan - according to The News International, the bureau sent tax notices to 31,000 non-filers across the country, but as many as 20,000 of them were undeliverable because of errors in their addresses in the organization's contact database.
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Free to go? They're letting that menace to society loose?!
I wait in suspense to see how Dan is doing.
In panel 3 the phone seems to be near the end of the table closest to the window and straight, where as it was diagonal and near the other edge of the table in panel 1.
In panel 5, there's enough width that the window should be visible behind the drapes as it is in 1. It makes sense that he's blocking it in panel 2 though.
I wonder how long it takes for the FemCop to glue the screen-mask around her hair. Or maybe it's a wig?
I already know about a lot of those things. Often i just don't have the time to redraw everything just because it's at a slightly wrong angle – I'm just hoping that with practice I can get more of it right as I'm pencilling and not when I'm already done, but yeah, I know it's not perfect, I'd never finish anything otherwise.
Dan's gonna be back soon. After next week, actually. (Spoiler: He's not doing terribly well. But I'm guessing everyone already knows that, right?)
I have this feeling that Dan is laying in a gutter somewhere mumbling to himself about how everyone takes him for granted
I fully expect him to now be offended that he's being treated like the small fry he is.
Hey, you guys are back! Awesome, I already missed this webcomic.
Oh Vlad :)
"A pack of vicious lies! I will sue myself for libel once I get out of this office!"
I lol'd.
Since finding Drugs and Wires last week I've since binged on all the archive (a few times), all the one shot strips (a few times) and the prequel (many times). My only regret is that it took me so long to find this in the first place.
Man, I'm just gonna have to re-read this every time I get too lazy/tired to draw :'D Thanks dude, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying this. Wish we could update more!
I am enjoying it immensely. I love cyberpunk (have since I first read Neuromancer) but I'm also a picky reader. You've done a top notch job not only working within the cyber punk aesthetic but also the even more important piece too many fiction writers miss out on which is world building. Add believable characters and I'm happily addicted :)
I hereby dub thee, the Dan of Webcomics.
I can live with that :)
DnW is back!!!
Blessed is he (and she) who delivers us drug fueled cyberpunk escapades!!!
The design of those militiamen reminds of Zee Captein & Mr. Snippy at the same time, love it!
Aw man, now I can't unsee it! Though I guess being compared to the likes of Romantically Apocalyptic is pretty flattering if anything.. :D
I'm so pumped up for this chapter!
I really hope those masks breath well mask sweat is a horrible horrible thing. So glad this comic is back by the way love everything about it.
And thanks for sticking with us :D I'm just gonna let the rule of cool work here and try and not think about how those masks feel or function. This comic is depressing enough.
Hey guys! Are you gonna be at comic con on Sunday as well, Saturday was sold out by the time I could get a ticket, I'm cosplaying a character out of this world sort of based off Lin and wanted to come show you guys! :)
Absolutely! We're here all weekend. Would love to see the costume! -cryo


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Amazing Media Study:
TV Creates Demographic Winter in Germany
An academic study in Germany was able to identify a relationship between TV consumption and fertility by exploiting a natural experiment that took place within Communist East Germany during the Cold War.
Contrary to East Germany's values and family role models promoted by the communist regime, West Germany's TV messages were not regulated by the government and portrayed lifestyles where children and the traditional family only played a small part.
In Western television programs, female characters had much fewer children or no children at all. The researchers found robust evidence that consumption of Western TV programs, which promoted smaller families, significantly lowered fertility. Their evidence suggests, along with other economic deterrents, that fertility decisions might be affected by role models and lifestyle choices promoted by the media. Such factors are usually ignored in social science studies.
Western German TV, which was not influenced by the state, aired completely different subject matters, information and programs than those seen on East German TV. Western TV programs provided a view of a much wealthier and prettier world. Furthermore, in the matter of family stereotypes, the contrast between the two types of TV programming was severe and. For example, in West German TV programs, that children played a small part. In fact, less than eight percent of the female characters on TV had children.
During the 1970s, most families on TV were depicted in a negative light and seemed especially prone to quarreling. Several studies on Western TV shows aired during the period under consideration found that most women on TV were unmarried, young, appealing, and didn't work, while married women were depicted as maternal and lacking sex appeal. The labor participation rate among female characters never exceeded 50 percent; among married women, employment was less than 20 percent. At the same time, housework didn't seem relevant, and only very few women were shown engaged in household activities.
In contrast to this, state-controlled TV in East Germany was employed to promote full employment of both men and women. It was also used to increase population size, and so a two-to-three-child policy was instituted. Several studies analyze how this family model was promoted on television. For example, in an analysis of family series of the 1980s, all the female characters are employed and bear the double burden of family and job with a high number of children, usually around four. These families and female characters are depicted in a positive light. In fact, showing problems with balancing family and work was taboo on government regulated TV in East Germany.
Meanwhile, TV in West Germany promoted lifestyles where having children was of little importance, and this idea took hold. Furthermore, West German TV contributed to spread images of consumption-oriented lifestyles, which also increased material aspirations, which is also likely to have had a depressing effect on fertility levels.
The big problem today facing Germany, Western Europe and the United States, however, is demographic winter. For example, deaths have exceeded births in Germany by more than 2.3 million since 1990, and more than 4 million since 1972. And, this downtrend is clearly accelerating.
In 1910, two million children were born in Germany every year. A century later, with 50% more people, less than 700,000 are born annually, of whom more than 200,000 are from foreign-born parents. In the last 40 years, four million more Germans died than were born. Italy, Greece, Portugal and Austria, among other countries in Europe, have a lousy demographic profile as well.
All this has contributed to the structurally low growth rate of the European economy for several decades, including the current crisis of the euro.
In the USA, lower fertility means less growth in the U.S. population, barring an increase in immigration, which is only slowly picking up. That means fewer workers to propel the economy and a smaller tax base to finance benefits for the elderly. The trend also promises to weigh on consumer spending, which fuels two-thirds of economic activity. Thus, if fewer women have children, there's less buying of diapers, school supplies and homes to accommodate growing families.
Sources: "Television Role Models and Fertility – Evidence from a Natural Experiment" by Peter Bönisch and Walter Hyll, SOEP papers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research Television 2015; "Italy is a dying country as babies no longer replace people who die, says health minister" by Nick Squires, Telegraph Media Group, 02/13/15; and, "Baby Bust Threatens Growth: 'Economists Say the Recession Ended in 2009, but Nobody Told American Women'" by Neil Shah, Wall Street Journal, 12/04/14.
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I am about to become a father
I just felt so proud about becoming a father that I needed to share it with the world. Seven and a half months ago now my wife sheepishly popped her head into my office and with a tear in her eye and a big beaming smile on her house she told me she had just taken a pregnancy test and it was positive.
For us this moment was the culmination of years of studying, hard work, sacrifice and above all love. We are very much in love and fully ready for this new phase in our life to begin. The second most exciting words I have ever heard from my wife, apart from I love you, that changed my life instantly and continue to give me enjoyment to this very day, I am pregnant. I remember excitedly but delicately wrapping my arms around my beautiful wife.
Is there any greater testament of your love for a partner than creating a child with that partner? I really cannot get over the fact that I have played a major role in the creation of this little critter that roles, kicks and punches my wife daily.
We recently heard the sad story of a friend who lost their baby nephew to SIDS. The child went to sleep the night before and never woke up. This has us a little freaked but bodes well for my ability to write IB articles whilst I constantly touch my babies chest to make sure she is breathing. I am now on the lookout for something in the Angelcare baby monitor range.
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This "Green Chain"column will be published in the Lake County Record-Bee on Tuesday.
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" – John Maynard Keynes.
Forgive me please for starting this month's column with the same John Maynard Keynes' quote as last month's. But new facts have been brought to light.
I have long maintained that it is wrong-headed to always choose organically-produced foods over foods produced using synthetic chemicals and fossil fuels. I have previously pointed out the use of fossil fuels to produce pesticides and fertilizers and run machinery allows conventional farming to use less land than organic methods. And, when taken in aggregate worldwide, we spare wetlands, grasslands, forests, and sundry open spaces from being cleared for agriculture. Had farmers continued to use organic farming methods, they would have needed to exponentially increase the acreage under cultivation in order to increase production to meet demand. And since agriculture is the number one cause of deforestation, more acres under cultivation means a loss of biodiversity, which is the last thing proponents of organic agriculture want.
A newly published report in the journal Nature shows that I am incorrect, if only slightly. This new paper forces me to revise my statement. The new statement: it is generally wrong-headed to always choose organically-produced foods over foods produced using synthetic chemicals and fossil fuels.
The report is titled, "Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture." While I have admittedly only been able to access the abstract, the authors find that organic farming methods are indeed less efficient than conventional ones: anywhere from 5 percent to 34 percent less efficient. But they also state, "Under certain conditions—that is, with good management practices, particular crop types and growing conditions—organic systems can thus nearly match conventional yields."
Those "nearly match" crop types they refer to are not, sadly, vegetable and grain crops, which provide most of the calories for the world's populations. Organic yields for vegetable and grains generally fall one-third below the yields of conventionally grown crops. On the Nature website Melissa Gilbert paraphrases lead author Verena Seufert, "Cereals and vegetables need lots of nitrogen to grow, suggesting that the yield differences are in large part attributable to nitrogen deficiencies in organic systems."
Some fruits, on the other hand, under ideal circumstances can produce up to 97 percent of the amount of conventional yields if they are planted in rotation with nitrogen-fixing legumes to replace the critical nitrogen in the soil. Still, this 97 percent only counts the yield of the fruit crop. It ignores the need to harvest a legume instead of fruit every other rotation. There is no such need with conventional methods, which can bring double the yield since farmers would not necessarily need to rotate to a legume.
We often wax nostalgic for the good old days. Somehow, those days were better and technology, on the whole, has been bad. We downplay the benefits. Stephen Budiansky, a former editor of Nature, writes that due to the use of technology "…the total land area of American farms remains almost unchanged from a century ago, at a little under a billion acres, even though those farms now feed three times as many Americans and export more than 10 times as much as they did in 1910."
So, if you are concerned about preserving forests, wetlands, and open space, it is usually, but not always, wrong-headed to always choose organically produced foods over foods produced using synthetic chemicals and fossil fuels—if we're talking about certain fruits, that is.
Biello, David. "Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World?" Scientific American. April 25, 2012. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organic-farming-yields-and-feeding-the-world-under-climate-change accessed 04/25/2012)
Budiansky, Stephen. "Math Lessons for Locavores." NYTimes.com. Published: August 19, 2010. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/opinion/20budiansky.html?_r=2 accessed 07/31/2011)
Gilbert, Melissa. "Organic farming is rarely enough: Conventional agriculture gives higher yields under most conditions." Nature News & Comment. (http://www.nature.com/news/organic-farming-is-rarely-enough-1.10519 accessed 06/13/2012)
Seufert, Verena, Navin Ramankutty, and Jonathan A. Foley. abstract for "Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture." Nature (2012) doi:10.1038/nature11069 (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11069.html accessed 06/13/2012)
Related articles
- Whole Food Blues: Why Organic Agriculture May Not Be So Sustainable (ecocentric.blogs.time.com)
- The War Between Organic and Conventional Farming Misses the Point (theatlantic.com)
- Study Points to Roles for Industry and Organics in Agriculture (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)


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We help free up valuable time and resources by automatically sending confirmations and reminders via email and SMS messages to both your customers and your staff.
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Our cloud based software simplifies the toughest schedules allowing you to make changes on the fly and not have to worry about manually notifying clients and making sure your web site stays in sync. Everything is handled through an easy to use wizard that guides you through the entire process.
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With our integrated credit card processing you'll cut transaction times by more than half and lower those fees by at least 20%.
Recurring Billing and ACH
Setup monthly recurring billing and automatic withdrawals for your memberships. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.
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Transaction receipts are emailed automatically to the customer and saved in their client profile. Reduce waste, stay green.
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WellnessLiving integrates seamlessly with devices like a credit card reader, cash drawer, barcode scanner, key tags, and more.
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A collection of proven marketing tools to help you acquire new customers, retain your existing ones and win-back past customers all in one place.
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Get listed on the web's most trusted wellness directory, Wellnessliving.com. Customers will be able to find you on the web and on their phone using our iPhone/Android apps. You'll automatically receive targeted advertising by increasing your exposure on relevant searches and on the website of nearby businesses.
You don't just get listed on our directory, we build you a mobile friendly web site that you can customize. Clients can book appointments, reserve classes, make purchases, receive special promotions, and write reviews. Your custom web site is automatically optimized for search engines, increasing your Google ranking and visibility to new local customers.
Track Who Opened Your Email Campaigns
We make it easy to send promotions and newsletters right from our application. We track the performance of the campaign; tell you which customers have and haven't opened the email and enable you to quickly re-send to those customers with one click.
Groupon Integration
We integrate with Groupon, Livingsocial and Amazon just to name a few. Your new customers can redeem their vouchers and book appointments and classes online at any time. Say good bye to phone tag and needless administrative work and hello to automation.
Fill Open Spots with WellnessLivingPromote
The perfect way to promote open spots and excess capacity in your classes;
simply set the number of available spots and watch us automatically fill up your classes with potential members.
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Manage Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn and other social profiles from one dashboard. Make immediate or scheduled posts across all of your social profiles with a single click. Use the dashboard to know what people are saying about your business on Google, Yelp, Citysearch, Yahoo and more.
Acquire new local customers through WellnessLivingLocal
We incentivize customers who frequent businesses that are part of our network in your neighborhood to check out your business, too. Driving client traffic from local non-competing businesses means a steady flow of new customers walking through your door.
Staff Schedules & Payroll Has Never Been Easier
Your staff can check their schedules and send instant notifications when a session is booked or cancelled.
Hours are tabulated for services performed and tied right back to an automated payroll report.
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Easily synchronize your employees' schedules with your calendar to simplify managing, booking appointments and classes. There is one central calendar so everyone stays organized and connected. Staff members have the option of syncing with their Gmail, Outlook or iCal calendars, too.
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Know at a glance which employees are performing exceptionally well and which ones need more encouragement.
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Staff Members Have All The Knowledge They Need at a Glance
No need for one staff member to see the schedule for other staff members. We keep things simple and let each staff member pull up their own attendance list to see who's signed up for their particular classes. They can also choose to receive a daily automated attendance email listing their complete roster for the day. They know instantly who has or hasn't paid and when things change, they can modify, reschedule, or cancel any appointment or class effortlessly.
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Set compensation by Salary, hourly rate, attendance, commission, or any combination and watch our software do all the work for you. WellnessLiving will automatically generate your payroll report with one-click. When it's time to issue checks, you can even convert the information to Paychex®, ADP®, Exact Payroll Services and other formats instantly.
Each employee has a unique login and you can define roles and permissions based on the job they perform within your organization. You can use our predefined roles and permission sets for front desk operators, instructors, studio managers or even create your own. You have all the versatility you'll ever need to grow your business.
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Account for sales, returns, tax collected... Combine these with your end-of-day reports and you'll have everything you need.
Boost Your Online Reputation
We encourage, incentivize and reward your clients through our rewards program to write reviews about your business. WellnessLiving takes your customer's 5 star experiences and spreads those glowing reviews all across the top internet web sites, including Google.
Customer Reviews Matter!
What customers say about you on the web is essential to the success of your business. Savvy shoppers are routinely going online to read reviews before making a purchasing decision. The WellnessLiving system collects and showcases verified reviews from your happy customers making them available for all to see. Our built-in loyalty program gets your clients talking and sharing their experiences over reviews and interact with them. Connecting with your clients has never been easier.
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Our platform automatically publishes your verified customer reviews across the web. Each time you get a new customer review it is published right on your web site, Facebook page and your WellnessLiving web site. Reviews are also automatically syndicated directly into Google where customers can find you instantly on the FIRST page.
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Our loyalty program incentivizes your customers to share their reviews and experiences through Facebook and Twitter. On average, a person has over 500 Facebook fans. Your customers will be preaching about your business to all of their friends by posting to their Facebook wall.
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Clients will rave about their experience whether using your own mobile friendly website or our WellnessLiving iPhone/Android app. With more and more people using smart phones for everything, we've made it easier than ever for clients to browse, book and pay for your services right away.
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As a WellnessLiving affiliated business, you will automatically appear on the WellnessLiving app. With hundreds of thousands of people already accessing WellnessLiving on their phones, that's a lot of opportunity to capture new customers in your area.
Customers can read reviews about your business, see who is teaching, check out trainer & instructor bios, view instructor pics as well as descriptions of the services that you offer.
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Let customers reserve a spot in your class right from their smart phone. Your schedule and attendance list will be automatically updated in real time, so it's always accurate.
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Sell any product or service you want and give clients the opportunity to make the purchase on their phone.
Customers Talk About You
WellnessLiving automatically asks your customers to write about their experience at your business. The review can be written using their phone and it instantly gets published and syndicated all over the web.
Customer Loyalty is Priceless
To increase spending you need to reward spending. WellnessLiving gives you the tools to turn all your customers into loyal, high-paying customers.
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Now you can offer points for performing certain customer actions such as booking online, referring a friend, buying a product or even sharing their experience on Facebook and Twitter.
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Turn your customer's experience at your studio into a game by awarding prizes to the person who gets the most points.
Display the results of your contest on our digital leaderboard and collect scores and rank players dynamically.
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Use your own customers as an advertising vehicle by leveraging the power of social media and our rewards program.
Customers can share their reviews, activity, leaderboard score, your promotions, instructor profiles and so much more. Once they accumulate enough points, they can redeem the points for prizes.
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of customers are more likely to refer their friends if they are rewarded.
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Set your booking rules for classes and appointments, configure your automated email marketing and reminder emails, create your rewards program and watch our software do the rest. We make running your business easy with hundreds of built-in automations.
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Each time a client visits your business, we automatically deduct it from their class pass. When they run out of visits, you can set the pass to auto-renew. They will be billed and sent an email receipt automatically. For memberships, you can decide how often payments recur and if the amount should be charged on their credit card or debited directly from their bank account.
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Email and SMS Notifications
WellnessLiving currently supports over 100 automated email and SMS notifications, which are fully templated, customizable for your business and ready to use immediately. Best of all, you can add an unlimited number of your own templates which are sent based on the rules that you know work best for your business.
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You can create a custom campaign in seconds and get up and running fast. You can send emails or use our SMS feature to send text messages directly to your customer's mobile phone automatically based on a behavior like a purchase, visit count or number of days of inactivity. You can attract more leads and turn them into customers by automating your lead capture and email follow-up. Send a single email for special promotions or use auto-responders to send a personalized series of emails that nurture your leads. Spam scoring helps ensure your emails arrive in the inbox with a 99% deliverability rate.


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Connect the Dots: Turning Observations into Insights
Once you've revisited your notes and begun to sort into themes and patterns, you're already on your way to documenting insights. To create insights, look back at your collection of themes and patterns. Take your themes and create a statement out of each one. This post is part of Civic Service Design Tools + Tactics, a resource for introducing public servants to service design, published by the Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity Service Design Studio.


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Frequently Asked Questions
About Sedona
Q: How do I get to Sedona?
A: From Phoenix: Total Distance 119 miles/Estimated Time 2 hours: Option A: Take I-17 north towards Flagstaff (98 miles), Exit at State Route 179* (exit 298), Turn left (west) onto State Route 179, Proceed on State Route 179 to Sedona (14 miles). *State Route 179 is designated as an "All American Road" by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) based on its natural, recreational and scenic qualities. The National Scenic Byways Program recognizes, preserves and enhances selected roads throughout the United States. Click here for more information
Q: Can I bring family and friends?
A: Of course! There is always sightseeing and general activities that appeal to all travelers. Encourage them to stop at the Sedona Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center in Uptown Sedona for ideas of things to do or visit VisitSedona.com.
Q: Can I switch race distances?
A: Up through February 5, registered runners can go in to their profile and make a race distance switch. There is no cost for down-switches, up-switches will require paying the incremental cost difference. After February 5, email Gail for direction on making that change onsite at the packet pickup.
Q: How do I get to Navoti Drive for RunSedona and where do I park?
A: In 2021, the parking will be at the Sedona Cultural Park and Sedona High School. Parking is limited, so please carpool if possible. Check the website frequently for updated parking, and directions. (Start/Finish line: NEAR 3700 West State Route 89A; Sedona, AZ 86336) We also offer a FREE SHUTTLE between uptown and the race.
Q: Where can I get my results?
A: Go to Race Results after the end of your race. Final official time may take up to 3 days to appear.
Q: Is the Sedona Marathon Event a Boston Marathon qualifier?
A: Yes, the Sedona Marathon Event is a Boston Marathon qualifier. ALL USATF sanctioned events are able to be Boston Qualified, it is your finish time that lets you apply for a Boston spot.
Q: May I bring a stroller on the course?
A: Strollers are allowed only on the 5K course. All people (big & small) on the course must be registered.
Q: Are there any age restrictions to register for any of the three races?
A: No.
Q: Are port-a-johns available along the RunSedona courses?
A: Port-a-johns will be located at each fluid and each first aid station. Stations are approximately every two miles beginning at mile two. We've also added many port-a-johns near the start/finish line at Navoti Drive.
Q: Is medical support available along the RunSedona course and finish area?
A: Yes, Aid Stations providing first aid/medical support are located approximately every two miles along the race course, including one at the start/finish area on Navoti Drive – start/finish line.
Q: Are the Sedona courses hilly or flat?
A: The course is not flat. Sedona is approximately 4,500 feet in elevation and all the courses follow a hilly route. Please click here for maps, profile and other information.
Q: Where is the ADA parking?
A: Please email race management in advance of race day to get your ADA parking permit and a map for the locations.
Q: Are walkers allowed on the RunSedona course?
A: Both walkers and runners are invited to participate in RunSedona; however, only officially registered participants are allowed on the course. The course and finish area facilities close at 2:00 p.m. RunSedona does not have a race walk division. If you choose to walk, please be attentive to running competitors.
Q: Are bikes/strollers/skates/baby joggers/dogs allowed on the RunSedona courses?
A: No. For safety reasons, strollers (except on the 5K route), in-line skates, skateboards, and vehicles of any kind are not permitted. Dogs are NOT permitted (only allowed if they are special needs or service dogs).
Q: At RunSedona, are earphones allowed?
A: USA Track and Field has removed its prohibition on earphones as a sanction requirement – so that's a guideline for us. But please remember that is it absolutely critical that you be able to hear all motor vehicle and voice sounds above your music since our roads are open to traffic – vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians – during the race.
Q: How many aid stations are on the course?
A: There are 5 aid stations. Aid stations are located approximately every two miles on the RunSedona Course. Aid Stations include Water, Gatorade (variety of flavors), Bananas, and First Aid supplies. Final aid station locations, and type of hydration that may be available will be announced on or before January 1, 2021. Current COVID related restrictions impact what can be offered on-course. Be prepared – BRING YOUR OWN HYDRATION for RACE DAY.
Q: Where can I find clothes that I dropped on the course during my race?
A: Items will be delivered on Sunday, February 7 to Sedona Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center in uptown Sedona (331 Forest Road, Sedona, AZ 86336) for pick up on Sunday, February 7 and throughout the week following the race. Unclaimed items will be washed and donated to a local charity.
Q: How is RunSedona timed and what is a timing-tag?
A: An electronic device embedded in a small sticker, a timing tag is unique to each bib number and will record a runner's official time, beginning when a participant crosses the start line and concluding as he or she crosses the finish. Timing tags are affixed to the back of the actual race bib and will be distributed at the Pre-RaceExpo with each runner packet.
Q: What is the difference between Gun Time vs. Chip Time
RunSedona will be timed using chip timing technology.
Awards will be set based on Gun Time — the time from when the start gun sounds until when you cross the finish line, and is deemed by USATF (USA Track and Field) to be the fair measure of a race awards/prizes finish order. Overall results will also be published in finish order based upon Gun Time as well. Chip Times will be listed online, under individual results. To view your Chip Time, simply click on your name in the results. You will find the additional data there. It is considered official for recording your personal best, specific course records, and qualifications for meeting entry standards in other events. Click here for complete competition rules as determined by USA Track and Field.
Remember: NO BIB TAG, NO FINISHING TIME! Your bib has an RFID timing device affixed to the back. You cannot alter the bib number in any way (except by removing the Gear Bag Tag). The bib MUST be worn on the outer-most garment FACING FORWARD and is best attached at waist-to-chest level with only two upper safety pins for effective timing. YOUR BIB MUST BE VISIBLE AT ALL TIMES IN ORDER TO BE TIMED. Safety pins will be provided to you. Please do not hide your bib on your back, on your side hips, under a jacket or we may not be able to provide you with a finish time. Do not bend/fold/cut/alter the bib number and timing tag in any way. NO need to return the bib/tag post-race, it's yours to keep!
Q: Are service dogs allowed on the course?
A: Yes, a service animal is permitted to accompany the individual with a disability on the RunSedona course. Please note that the RunSedona courses are considered to be fairly challenging and may be difficult for people with a disability. If you are in need of a service animal, you must utilize a harness (held close to the body). An individual who plans to participate with a service animal is asked to notify race management prior to the event.
Q: Where do I pick up my Age Group medal?
A: Based upon current COVID restrictions, there are no Awards Ceremonies scheduled on race day, and due to the pending Permit any Age Group awards are TBA, and will be mailed in early March 2021.
Q: I haven't registered yet and am thinking about waiting until January. Will RunSedona sell out?
A: RunSedona Half Marathon and 10K distances do have a maximum cap for participants. Last year, we nearly met capacity of the races. We anticipate another great year and encourage all participants to register early. By registering early, you help us better determine nutrition, safety and merchandising needs for our runners. The 5K distance does not have a participant limit.
Q: Are refunds allowed?
A: All EVENT Permits are pending, and there are NO registration refunds being offered. In consideration of the ongoing COVID-related uncertainties, registrations will be transferred to the 2022 event. NO exceptions.
Other terms and conditions:
Once you have entered a race, your entry fees are non-exchangeable, non-transferable, and non-refundable, under any and all circumstances, including, but not limited to, cancellation of the event or of your participation, or change in the date, nature, or format of the event. An event may be cancelled or changed due to severe weather or other factors that threaten the safety of participants, staff, or volunteers.