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Balance is what prevents a Michelin-calibre béarnaise sauce from breaking down into a curdled, oily mess.
Rarely does a driver feel more like a driver than when pushing the FR-S through a curve.
It is also what keeps a great sports car on a driver's mind long after the brakes have cooled and engine has ticked itself silent. Unlike torque curves or power-to-weight ratios, balance resists quantification. Perhaps that's why it is so rarely encountered in the car world – and when it is, not so easily forgotten.
When such a slippery quality manifests in a vehicle costing $25,000, something special is afoot.
The Scion FR-S, marketed in Europe and elsewhere as the Toyota GT86, commands one of the lowest rates of churn – the amount of time a car sits on a dealer's lot – in the industry. Judging from a weekend spent careening over the linguine-like strands of asphalt strung across the Catskills mountain range of New York, the enthusiasm does not seem misplaced.
Our test model, painted a burnt orange that Scion likes to call Hot Lava, was fitted with the standard six-speed manual transmission. That this box feels a little more mechanical than most is a testament to how well Toyota understands its customer. Liquid-smooth shifts are not the goal; the driver's hand should feel the progression through the cogs, ideally while forcing raw, agitated bleats from the FR-S's 2-liter, 200-horsepower boxer four-cylinder engine. Downshifting for the sake of hearing that protest is a constant temptation.
Filled with rollicking elevation changes, the numbered county roads of the Catskills test a car's poise. But the FR-S felt so planted on its struts and wishbones, and its steering so effortlessly precise, that body roll was virtually neutralised. (The seats' torso-hugging wings helped with that impression.) Rarely does a driver feel more like a driver than when pushing the FR-S through a curve.
In naming the Toyota equivalent to the FR-S, the GT86, his car of the year in 2012, Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson used a process of negation: this was not a supercar, nor was it a grand tourer or a hot hatch. It was a sports car, plain and simple – the kind that Toyota and Nissan (née Datsun) built to win over millions of European and American drivers in the 1970s (with the Celica and Z, respectively), and that both had seemingly forgotten how to build.
Like Subaru, which co-developed the FR-S/GT86 and sells its own version, the BRZ, Toyota has made noises about offering a more powerful version of the coupe. This may be a rare case where more power would not equal more fun. The FR-S is a sauce in equilibrium. Toyota and Subaru tinker with the winning recipe at their own risk.
Vital stats: 2013 Scion FR-S
- Base price: $24,930, inclusive of $730 destination charge
- As tested: $25,066
- EPA fuel economy: 22mpg city / 30mpg highway
- Powertrain: 2-litre four-cylinder 200hp boxer engine, six-speed manual transmission, rear-wheel drive
- Standard equipment: Vehicle stability control, four-wheel anti-lock brakes, chrome-tipped dual exhaust, Pioneer 300w audio system, leather-trimmed tilt-telescoping steering wheel, bolstered sport seats with red inserts
- Major options: Wheel locks ($67)


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Valve has patched Dota 2 with a short patch update. This incremental update re-enables Alchemist and fixes various miscellaneous bugs.
DotA 2 Patch Notes (12/2/2011):
- Re-enabled Alchemist.
- Fixed issue with some items and abilities not having mana costs or cooldowns.
- Fixed Kunkka's missing body parts.
- Fixed Feast not working properly.
- Fixed bug in Queen of Pain's particle effect.
- Fixed clock being off when reconnecting or spectating.
- Fixed Naix's attached effects being visible when he's infesting someone.
- Fixed issue with inputting international languages.

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You will probably no longer see the forest through the trees when you are standing in front of the shelves with brushes and combs. And which are the most suitable for your hair? We help you by putting the different types of brushes and combs in a row, so you can easily find your perfect hairbrush.
Whether you want a middle, side or angular separation, use a plastic tip comb. With the tip, you can make the most precise separations, and with the comb with fine teeth, you can tame even the smallest unruly hairs. This comb is also your most handy aid during your hair.
The 'Wet Brush' is an ideal brush, for several reasons. First, you can brush your wet hair with this hairbrush without damaging your hair. Secondly, it is also suitable for brushing fine, fragile hair. The flexible bristles brush your tangles out of your hair without breaking it.
Yes, even those with curly hair can brush their hair. With the Denman D4 Classic Styling Brush, you can brush the curls without becoming fluffy. You can use a leave-in conditioner as well.
The Mason Pearson brush is one of the king hairbrushes. The mix of plastic and natural bristles is suitable for every hair type, and let your hair shine. Use the brush before you take a shower and before you go to bed because it is ideal for dividing the natural oils of your scalp over your hair.
With a round brush, you can make perfect blowouts. Use it when your hair is still damp for the smoothest and polished result. A round brush is also great to create extra volume in your hair.
A comb with wide teeth is handy to get tangles out of your hair. Use a hard plastic comb only on dry hair, because on wet hair it can cause your hair to break off.
A prominent mistake women make is to use a metal round brush to curl their hair during blow-drying. Metal becomes extremely hot from the heat of a hairdryer, and therefore your hair gets damaged quickly. Use only a metal round brush on hair that is dry for 80 percent. Then you get the most beautiful and healthiest curls.
For this type of hair, you need a basic hairbrush that does not pull on your hair so that it breaks. A paddle brush follows the contours of your hair. The flat, square shape of the brush ensures that you do not make strokes or curls in your hair, but that it stays beautiful and stylish during drying. The rubber cushion of the brush helps to reduce friction which prevents static hair.
Point combs are widely used for teasing hair, but the plastic teeth are not suitable to mistreat your hair. Better you can use a brush with hairs. You can also tease with this, but it is a lot softer for your hair. And when you're done with backcombing you can lightly smooth your hair.


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Flamingoes coach, Peter Dedevbo has said he is not disappointed that CAF chose Equatorial Guinea's Genoveva Anonma ahead of Chinwendu Ihezuo for Player of the Year award.
The African football body in Accra, Ghana on Thursday night named the experienced striker who plies her trade in the German Bundesliga side, Jena as the 2012 African Player of the Year for women.
Anonma beat Nigeria's youngster, Ihezuo and South Africa' s Portia Modise for the coveted award.
Dedevbo said the Pelican Stars' goal poacher has years ahead of her insisting she is the future African football.
"Caf has their criteria for the award of woman footballer of the year, I'm not disappointed that the Equatorial Guinean Genoveva Anonma was picked ahead of Chinwendu Ihezuo.
"Ihezuo is a young girl, 16-year old and for such a young girl to have gone to the World Cup to score six goals shows her pedigree and I think she is the future African football if she continues that way.
"Her conqueror, Anonma is experienced, plays professional football in Germany and did very well to help her country win her second African title.
"The decision to award the Equatorial Guinean player the footballer of the year is right but I tell you Ihezuo will dominate the award in a very short time," said the Delta Queens coach to supersport.com.
However, Dedevbo is not considering the striker for a switch to his side in the coming season.
"Delta Queens are a star-studded side, and I won't want to pull her out to destroy her career as she may not fit in or be able to displace any of my experienced strikers.
"I monitor her progress and will continue to offer her career advice.
"We're on break to resume second week of January and then we'll review our team strength put some on the market and recruit new ones.
"We always go for unknown players, nurture and bring them to limelight.
"Winning the double will dominate our target in the coming season," he said.


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I like liberals; I'm one of them. But they do amaze me with their inability to understand good and evil.
They don't see political issues in those terms – which might be a helpful way to prevent yourself from falling into the intellectual trap of thinking "My side's good and their side's evil," just because you're on one side.
– But not if you're actually confronting evil.
Let me define some terms here: preventing the poor from getting health care from Medicaid – as scores of un-United States are doing, thanks to Republican governors and legislative supermajorities – is evil. The Federal government's paying 100% of the costs for three years, which will save the states big money, but no dice.
Throwing the poor off Food Stamps, as John Boehner's House Republicans have tried to do – that's evil. Their Farm Bill tried to cut $20 billion from Food Stamps, while the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill adds $40 billion for border security.
We're going to secure our borders by starving people? That's fiscal responsibility?
Meanwhile legislatures in North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere are taking advantage of a holiday weekend by passing draconian anti-abortion bills, knowing full well that the public favors the status quo on abortion and Democrats are unprepared to defeat them.
It's the unprepared part that bothers me.
A Texas state senator, Wendy Davis, has become a political star by waging an 11-hour filibuster against a close-the-clinics bill. She was prepared; the rest of the Democrats largely were not, which made her instantly amazing.
In North Carolina they're bellyaching about a bill that purported to ban Sharia law but was suddenly turned into an anti-abortion measure and passed as lawmakers headed out of town.
But what did those Dems expect? This is what Republican majorities do.
No one's really surprised; Republicans understand the human vagina about as well as they do a foreign religion – it's all the same to them, they don't need to read the bill – but now Democrats are running around saying they done us wrong, when all they did was act on the power voters gave them – since Democrats can't be bothered to vote for a mere governor or legislator, while Republicans do turn out. All these folks were lawfully elected, because progressives really don't give a damn. If there isn't a Barack or a Hillary at the top of the ballot, they don't show up. They just complain mightily afterward, while Republicans couldn't care less.
The Democrats' naiveté troubles me, because it's not like you can't learn all there is to know about good and evil if you'd just pick up your Bible.
It's all there, because human motivations haven't changed in 10,000 years.
There are seven deadly sins, uhkay? Let us start with Greed and Pride. They're all over the pages of that book.
It's about greed and pride – but these liberals are babes in the woods. They heard the Bible was about God, and they don't believe in God because the Pope and Pat Robertson are batshit crazy, so they don't bother to read the instruction manual, which leaves them squawking that Republicans done us wrong and they can't understand it.
Of course many liberals are fervent believers in God And All That; I'm one of them. Chris Matthews, E.J. Dionne, Jr. and Chris Hayes are all semi-public Catholics. I don't know Joy Reid's affiliation, but that lady's grounded in the Black church.
Secular progressives do not see a use for God, and while they're entitled to their faith or lack of one, they drive me to distraction. They have no grounding in classical justice, which is another thing That Book is about.
See, they think they're inventing justice here and now, brand-new – which makes them dumb as rocks.
What the Bible does is make you see into the ugly heart of Greed. Do that, and you won't be surprised by Mitt Romney's "47%" comment.
Capitalists have to attack the poor. Otherwise voters might decide that Greed is not good and vote it out.
The good news in what we're seeing now, as the Republicans fall inexorably into their death spiral, is that Romney and Rubio, Ryan and all their lesser lights are out of the closet with their hatred of the poor.
They don't hate them individually – they don't think they hate women or Gay people either – but they are forced to hate the poor as a class, because people without money threaten the notion that "the United States is the greatest country on earth" and capitalism is the best economic system ever invented.
It isn"t. Anything-goes Capitalism is one giant Monopoly board. Sponsored by Citibank!
Remember how much you hated your cousin, the ruthless Monopoly player?
In my case it was my brother Steve, and it took me decades to find out he wasn't a horrible human being. I came to love him dearly; he was only half-horrible.
I believe in regulated capitalism as the best system for creating jobs and a middle class, promoting the work ethic, generating innovation through competition, and keeping the rich from robbing us blind – which they'll inevitably do if there aren't cops patrollng your Monopoly board.
It's no accident that the Republican death spiral coincides with the most blatant promotion of "Makers, Not Takers" in today's political rhetoric.
Even the racism, sexism and homophobia of today's GOP makes a certain logical sense if you dig deep enough: they think Straight White Males are the ones who got us here, and if we're to keep prosperity going we have to keep pale men in power.
(Please do not notice they are robbing you blind.)
Jesus knew about greed. His father YHWH wrote the book on it. I am sorry the secular Democrats never read the book.
I do not trouble any woman or man about their religion; freedom of conscience on religious and other matters is what makes us Americans.
The Vatican's now the House of Crazy and Pat Robertson flies around like an Alzeheimer'd bat. We all know that.
But if you'd like to know about the sins of Pride and Greed, you could try reading the Book just once in your life. It's a story of heroes and villains, and God comes out even more spectacular than Superman.++
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For all patients, visitors and staff, frequent and careful hand-washing is the single most effective means of stopping the spread of potentially harmful bacteria and viruses. Dispensers are located throughout the hospital with alcohol based hand sanitizer. Please wash your hands frequently with sanitizer or warm soap and water, and remind all who visit you (care-givers and visitors) to do so as well.
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Time for the next Yosemite installment. These are from the day we spent in Yosemite Valley, home to Half Dome, El Capitan, and most of the amazing waterfalls the park is so famous for. We started the day with a picnic beside a river. The water was freezing, but the kids managed to get pretty wet anyway (cast and all!).
Atti, getting his toes wet.
The gang.
Half Dome.
Patchie, trying to take it all in.
I want to live here!
This was taken on our hike to bottom of Yosemite Falls, the 5th tallest waterfall in the world. It was a HUGE waterfall, with unbelievable amounts of freezing cold water just pouring down the cliffside. Atti and I have just come across the foot bridge that passes directly in front of the bottom of the falls. It was windy, freezing, loud, and more than a little startling for our youngest camper. He preferred seeing the falls from a distance!
Here is a better shot of the falls, from a warmer, drier distance. These pictures can't really do it all justice. Everything was just too big to truly capture with our little camera. But, you get the idea...
We might not have braved Half Dome on this trip, but we did do a lot of rock climbing.
The perfect place for a little rest.


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More on the Top 5 Trends for NextGen AuthoringSeptember 23, 2008 at 1:09 pm | Posted in Blogs, Content Management, Information Work, Web 2.0, XML Syndication | 5 Comments
I had a request in my posting on the top 5 NextGen authoring trends for some more explanation of these trends. I mostly wanted to set up the context for these trends – where they come from and how they relate to traditional forms of authoring. But I'm happy to elaborate with an elevator pitch on each of them to show where I'm coming from in my research. So, if you don't mind riding up the elevator 5 times with me, here goes:
Collaborative authoring
Content is increasingly being created in a collaborative fashion, with multiple commenters and sometimes multiple authors for a given document. Perhaps a fallacy was that there ever were authors working alone. Document creation has always been social and what is happening now is that increased collaborative capabilities and web 2.0 heightened awareness of social work are feeding back to the way in which documents are authored.
Content reuse
Few business documents start with a blank page and even fewer finish without having copped at least a few pieces from prior documents. But despite the prevalence of content reuse, organizations have mostly muddled through using copy/paste or by saving existing, similar documents under a new name and hollowing them out. As with programming, creating reusable content takes discipline in componentization, tagging, and storage that can be difficult to instill in authors. However, more comprehensive content reuse approaches are becoming feasible for the average author, decreasing the time needed to create documents while increasing consistency between them.
Living documents
Business documents have always been subject to an iterative, open process. "Living documents" that are continually under construction and go through more iterations are increasingly common and intentional. Document production is a moving target in many cases, with quick changes required before and after initial publication. Rather than publishing a "final" document, authors are using wiki-like tools to create content that can be improved incrementally while still maintaining a single version of truth for the reader.
Freshness preference
Content publication involves an implicit balance between speed/freshness and readability/accuracy. We are moving from an era when transaction costs for correcting or updating content were high to one in which content can be quickly fixed and readers can be quickly notified (if they need notification at all). This has shifted the balance towards freshness, and encouraged the use of technologies such as blogs and XML syndication.
Dangerous findability
Other NextGen trends point to an explosion of content in its many forms; this is the one trend that's holding it back. Quickly published and discarded thoughts, early iterations of documents, rogue wiki and blog postings, and inadequately protected sensitive content have long (perhaps infinite) lives and lay in wait to later embarrass or legally implicate the authors and all those around them. This causes some organizations and authors to avoid NextGen content creation. Fear is greatest around the rapidly produced, informal sorts of content that evade traditional records management processes of classification and control.
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Hello Wiki Community, today I bring you the Monday interview with a Wiki Ninja.
My name is Jefferson Castilho and it is my pleasure to introduce Rafael Bandeira de Oliveira
Site: https://br.linkedin.com/in/rafaelbandeiradeoliveira
Here are some of his community stats:
- 30 Wiki articles!
- 100 Wiki Edits
- 34 Wiki Comments
- 1 Forum Answers
Who they are, where you are and what you do?
My name is Rafael Oliveira Flag, 34, Married, I am Carazinho-RS and now reside in São Leopoldo-RS. I have 12 years experience in the IT field, currently working as the Group Infrastructure Analyst Gold and Silver. Administer all part of servers, storage, network, and Active Directory management, Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Server, WSUS, DNS, DHCP and VMWare.
What are the technologies of their specialty?
Expert in technologies such as Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Windows Server Virtualization. It also has certification in ITIL V3, ISO 20000, ISO 27002, Cloud Computing and Exin Certified Integrator Secure Cloud Services.
How did you meet TechNet Wiki and what their first collaboration?
I had heard TechNet Wiki is a long time, but met the same fund in April 2015 and became interested when the Alan Carlos
published a post on Linkedin Group at Microsoft Technet Brazil with the title you want to contribute to the TechNet Wiki ?, I exchanged some emails with him and from that moment I started posting.
My first article was about how to disable DEP - Quando adicionar um programa a DEP não resolve o problema
In addition to its work on TechNet Wiki, in which other places you usually contribute?
Usually contribute beyond the TechNet Wiki, blog andersonpatricio.org, purainfo.com.br and in my profile on Linkedin.
What are your major projects now?
I am dedicating myself to write posts on Active Directory, Exchange and Windows Server and Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Solution Deployment call Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS).
What do you do with the TechNet Wiki and how it fits into your work?
It's my source of consultation when necessary to answer questions, I use to learn more about Microsoft technologies and apply best practices in my work.
In addition to consume this content will also collaborate with articles.
What interests you most in the TechNet Wiki?
What interests me most is the sharing of knowledge and quickly we can update us.
Among the articles he contributed to the TechNet Wiki community, what are its favorites are?
Guia de Sobrevivência: WSUS Server 3.0 SP2
Guia de Sobrevivência: Active Directory no Windows Server 2008 e Windows Server 2008 R2
Utilizando o Locksmith do DaRT 7.0 para Alterar a Senha do Administrador Local (pt-BR)
Who impressed in the Wiki community and why?
So many articles that helped me, I will name a few, here we go: Fabio Hara, Daniel Donda, Rogério Molina, Anderson Patricio, Luciano Lima, Cleber Marques, Rafael Bernardes among many others.
As I received the help of many people indirectly, I decided it was my turn to contribute.
Thank you for the contributions and the interview Rafael
Come and be part of the team of Ninjas Wiki contributing to the Microsoft community.
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Até a próxima!
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Barca bet on Neymar to ease Messi dependence.
Barcelona announced on Sunday morning that after a transfer saga lasting some 18 months they have finally landed Brazilian international Neymar from Santos on a five-year deal that is expected to cost the Catalan club around 50 million euros ($65m, Au43m). The 21-year-old was always expected to come to Barca when he eventually left his homeland, but rather than wait till his contract expired with the Brazilian club next year, the Spanish champions have sped up the operation as they try to rejuvenate a tired squad that suffered the club's worst ever defeat in European competition when they were hammered 7-0 by eventual Champions League winners Bayern Munich in this year's semi-finals. Even at his tender age, Neymar has already shown glimpses of his brilliance on the big stage with 20 goals in 32 international appearances, whilst his incredible return of 156 goals in 256 games for Santos at such a young age has seem him inevitably compared to Pele. However, it is the potential to combine with another of the all-time greats that Barca are interested in as they look for someone to ease the goalscoring and creative burden on Lionel Messi. Barca's reliance on Messi was particularly exposed in this season's Champions League when the Argentine was called into action whilst clearly carrying a hamstring injury to get them across the line against Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals. Messi ended up playing only 75 minutes of the 180 in that tie. The period he was on the pitch Barca won 2-0, the time he was on the sidelines they lost 3-1. Worse was to come for the Catalans, though, in the humiliation at the hands of Bayern. Again a hobbling Messi was forced into action in the first-leg as the Germans romped to a 4-0 victory, and with the four-time World Player of the Year consigned to the bench for the return, a Barca side devoid of creation and belief were again picked off 3-0. In the two years Barca have won the Champions League in Messi's stellar era, he has had significant support in the goalscoring charts. In 2008/09 Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry combined for 62 goals to Messi's 38. And in 2010/11, Pedro and David Villa contributed 55 to the Argentine's 53. Over the past two season Messi has reached the barely fathomable figure of 123 goals, whilst Cesc Fabregas comes closest with just 28. Questions still remain over how Neymar will adapt to the European game. His effectiveness has been tempered in big Copa Libertadores and international fixtures when forced to play in reduced spaces, something which Barca are faced with on a weekly basis as they have to weave themselves through the parked bus in front of the opposition's goal. And there are also concerns over the Brazilian's reliance on drawing soft free-kicks that tend to be given in the striker's favour in his homeland. However, unlike some other big money Barca signings in recent seasons such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Fabregas, Neymar fits into the current Barca style and formation. His ability to cut in from the left side will not only pose a goal threat and allow him to combine with Messi, but also allow the ever adventurous Jordi Alba to surge forward on the overlap. And, arguably most importantly of all, despite questions over how their egos may collide, Neymar's acquisition seems to have the green light from Messi. "He is a great player, makes the difference and is very good in one against one situations," he told reporters earlier this week. "For us I suppose it would be a marvellous addition. He is a type of player that offers very different individual solutions to the rest." It is that variety that the bosses at the Camp Nou are hoping will reignite the spark in an attack that has faded into a one-man show over the past two years.
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text: Continuity in policy is a great thing, except when the policy itself is mindless. While not being able to get it changed in Parliament is the reason why the NDA has persisted with the UPA\u2019s disastrous land acquisition law, this cannot be the reason for staying with the UPA\u2019s FDI in single-brand retail policy which allows majority control to foreign firms only if they agree to a 30% local-sourcing clause. Despite seeming to make a break from it by talking of carving out an exception for hi-tech industries, the government is back to insisting it will allow Apple to set up its own stores only if it does 30% local sourcing. Senior BJP leaders have defended the policy privately on grounds it leads to local employment. It would, however, be interesting to know just what the government thinks Apple can source locally given the quality and\/or pricing of most Indian manufactures versus those from a China or a Vietnam. Developing local sourcing is critical, but can take decades to develop quality suppliers, especially for firms that, like Apple, have very high standards for quality. Suzuki, it is true, offers a product that is largely indigenised, but that is after three decades of being in India\u2014imagine the consequences if India had turned it away on local-sourcing grounds. In the case of the telecom sector, where the government routinely lays down village-phone norms, it has been the growth of the rural market that has encouraged telcos to penetrate these markets, not the targets themselves\u2014indeed, till the market developed, telcos were content to simply pay fines for not achieving targets or simply doing technical rollouts. And though it is not a quid pro quo, surely Apple planning to set up a 4,000-strong centre in Hyderabad is employment being generated, and pretty high-quality employment at that? Indeed, even if Apple does not end up doing more sourcing for its company-owned stores, once it starts working in India via its Hyderabad centre, chances are that like other tech MNCs, it too will employ a lot more people over a period of time. If, on the other hand, the political leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi and finance minister Arun Jaitley is going to let the bureaucratic process take over, chances are this will only discourage Apple from taking a bitter bite of what India has to offer. A good way to look at how mindless the UPA\u2019s policy was is to examine what happens now that Apple has been denied permission to set up shop here. Apple phones will continue to be sold through franchisees and distributors, though those buying the phones will probably not get top quality after sales services and\/or full product guarantees If consumers don\u2019t find this good enough, they will dump Apple products and go in for Chinese imports. While neither process is adding to local sourcing in any way, if the finance minister was to use countervailing duties as imaginatively as he did for mobile phones two years ago and extend this to printed circuit boards used in the manufacture of phones, there would be more local value addition and jobs. It is unfortunate that a government which came to power on the promise of being different should choose to follow UPA policies that make little sense. Because-Sonia-said-so can hardly be the justification for a policy.


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Franklin found a fly that can't fly...this leads to things like this:
"He just walking, Mommy. Look."
"The fly's walking on me! Look look! He's walking on me"
Franklin just put on a pair of fleece pj pants and is now walking around saying "Whew. It's hot in here. Whew."
I might have made a mistake when I asked Franklin yesterday if the fly was his friend...
Why? Because it's sort of creepy to hear your toddler say, "I gotta kill my friend."
In other fly news: "He fly up the sky and he come back down and he can die."


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Iodine is a mineral found in some foods. The body needs iodine to make thyroid hormones. These hormones control the body's metabolism and many other important functions. The body also needs thyroid hormones for proper bone and brain development during pregnancy and infancy. Getting enough iodine is important for everyone, especially infants and women who are pregnant.
Iodine is found naturally in some foods and is also added to salt that is labeled as "iodized". You can get recommended amounts of iodine by eating a variety of foods, including the following:
- Fish (such as cod and tuna), seaweed, shrimp, and other seafood, which are generally rich in iodine.
- Dairy products (such as milk, yogurt, and cheese) and products made from grains (like breads and cereals), which are the major sources of iodine in American diets.
- Fruits and vegetables, which contain iodine, although the amount depends on the iodine in the soil where they grew and in any fertilizer that was used.
- Iodized salt, which is readily available in the United States and many other countries. Processed foods, however, such as canned soups, almost never contain iodized salt.
Iodine is available in dietary supplements, usually in the form of potassium iodide or sodium iodide. Many multivitamin-mineral supplements contain iodine. Dietary supplements of iodine-containing kelp (a seaweed) are also available.
Most people in the United States get enough iodine from foods and beverages. However, certain groups of people are more likely than others to have trouble getting enough iodine:
- People who do not use iodized salt. Adding iodine to salt is the most widely used strategy to control iodine deficiency. Currently, about 70% of households worldwide use iodized salt.
- Pregnant women. Women who are pregnant need about 50% more iodine than other women to provide enough iodine for their baby. Surveys show that many pregnant women in the United States may not get quite enough iodine, although experts do not know whether this affects their babies.
- People living in regions with iodine-deficient soils who eat mostly local foods. These soils produce crops that have low iodine levels. Among the regions with the most iodine-poor soil are mountainous areas, such as the Himalayas, the Alps, and the Andes regions, as well as river valleys in South and Southeast Asia.
- People who get marginal amounts of iodine and who also eat foods containing goitrogens. Goitrogens are substances that interfere with the way the body uses iodine. They are present in some plant foods including soy, and cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. For most people in the United States who get adequate amounts of iodine, eating reasonable amounts of foods containing goitrogens is not a concern.
Iodine deficiency is uncommon in the United States and Canada. People who don't get enough iodine cannot make sufficient amounts of thyroid hormone. This can cause many problems. In pregnant women, severe iodine deficiency can permanently harm the fetus by causing stunted growth, mental retardation, and delayed sexual development. Less severe iodine deficiency can cause lower-than-average IQ in infants and children and decrease adults' ability to work and think clearly. Goiter, an enlarged thyroid gland, is often the first visible sign of iodine deficiency.
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Giving iodine supplements to children with mild iodine deficiency improves their reasoning abilities and overall cognitive function. In children living in iodine-deficient areas, iodine supplements seem to improve both physical and mental development. More study is needed to fully understand the effects of mild iodine deficiency and of iodine supplements on cognitive function.
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Radiation-induced thyroid cancer
Nuclear accidents can release radioactive iodine into the environment, increasing the risk of thyroid cancer in people who are exposed to the radioactive iodine, especially children. People with iodine deficiency who are exposed to radioactive iodine are especially at risk of developing thyroid cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved potassium iodide as a thyroid-blocking agent to reduce the risk of thyroid cancer in radiation emergencies.
Yes, if you get too much. Getting high levels of iodine can cause some of the same symptoms as iodine deficiency, including goiter (an enlarged thyroid gland). High iodine intakes can also cause thyroid gland inflammation and thyroid cancer. Getting a very large dose of iodine (several grams, for example) can cause burning of the mouth, throat, and stomach; fever; stomach pain; nausea; vomiting; diarrhea; weak pulse; and coma.
Iodine supplements can interact or interfere with medicines that you take. Here are several examples:
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- Taking potassium iodide with medicines for high blood pressure known as ACE inhibitors could raise the amount of potassium in your blood to an unsafe level. ACE inhibitors include benazepril (Lotensin®), lisinopril (Prinivil® and Zestril®), and fosinopril (Monopril®).
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This is why I dont miss the 80's. Everyone thought they were Olivia Newton-John, even (alleged) guys.
What? Is Dave on vacation again?
You should see what he does when he makes cannoli.
Take the cannoli. Leave the '80's.
Nursecindy, I think you mean penne.
i'd like to make it with you
I think she's been de-floured.
"A lot of brown bread is just white bread colored brown."
Am I alone, or does that sound like a Donovan lyric? Or Procul Harum?
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- Teaches a 15-16 year old couple(urghhh) how to spice up their sex life with a little bondage and whipping?
- Demonstrates to another 15-16 year old couple how to pleasure each other orally. I kid you not there was a video of another biracial couple (yeah they love that black kin/white skin combo) going down on each other 69, 39 heck, I saw some moves I didn't even know existed.
- To help a young girl who had low breast esteem cause of her inverted nipples, she had a professional photo shoot out wearing only pants so she can get to feel cool and sexy.
- For another 15 yr old who had low vaginal self esteem, a mould was made of her vulva and this was compared with other vulva moulds to convince her she is normal.
- Another who had low pubic hair esteem was given a Brazilian. In full camera view.
- For the young man who says he is gay but is not yet comfortable enough to have anal sex, he got a demonstration – a finger (or was it a dildo) dipped in lubricant and a model's ass to practice on.
I am not writing this to titillate. I am hoping you all are as scandalized as I am. I am hoping we find this as morally reprehensible as I did. Why in the world are we teaching kids how to have great sex?? When did we lower the bar of adulthood to 16?


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As they say at NPR, when we do the numbers we find that, well, it depends on how you do the numbers. Analysis is in the eye of the beholder. Just ask any finance guy told to justify the corporate jet. I prefer, with a few twists, to do the cash in, cash out method so here goes.
The HUD asking price was $39,900. I got it for $27,000 after some long negotiations. Dealing with HUD is tricky so a realtor that specializes in this is important. HUD picks the realtor and the realtor cannot opine on a bid but they will do so in code. "They may have an issue with this" means too low. "Perhaps in the ballpark" means you got it. Anyway, as I said before, you make money when you buy the house, not when you sell it.
Here are the cash flows (Sorry about the numbers going all over the place, programming ignorance):
Money out
Purchase Price $27,000
Maintenance/Repair 3,400
Property Taxes 3 Years 3,600
Insurance 600
Freddy and Celia Closing Costs 3,500
Foreclosure Legal Fees 750
Back Taxes and Penalties 3,000
Patricia Sale Closing Costs 500
Total Out 42,350
Money In
Rent $16,275
Freddy/Celia Mortgage Payments 7,920
Patricia Sale Proceeds 49,000
Total In 73,195
ROI = Cash In minus Cash Out divided by Cash Out=$73,195-$42,350=$30,845 divided by $42,350=72.8%. Not too shabby, at first glance. I held the property for 4.5 years so the annual return is 72.8% divided by 4.5 years equals 16.2%.
At this point, any analyst out there worth anything should be shouting "Wrong, wrong." And they would be right. You can't divide 72.8% by 4.5 years because it ignores the time value of money and a few other things but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
There is a more glaring error. There is no expense in there for me but let's not quibble.
Let's do look at what is in there--The cost to renovate the house was only $3,400 because I did most of the work myself. It was a controllable variable. Uncontrollable variables are property taxes and penalties ($7,600), insurance ($600), closing costs ($4,000) and legal fees ($750). Actually, closing costs can be reduced significantly by avoiding real estate agents as I did with Patricia but it ain't a done deal yet so an agent still may be necessary.
What ate up a large amount of cash was FEES and you cannot avoid them but most people forget about them. If you invest in real estate, don't forget them.
BUT we still haven't come up with the most GLARING error in the analysis. The Donald and Co. would say "Don't do it this way. Use OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY." Let's try that. You put 20% down and borrow the rest for repairs and everything else at 10%. So that is $5,400 for the downpayment and $15,350 for everything else and 4.5 years of interest payments=$31,899 plus the interest not paid you for the downpayment but let's not split hairs. Income of $73,195 minus expenses of $31,899 generates a return of $41,296 divided by $31,899 for a return of 129%, or an annual return of 29% doing it my way.
Not bad. In fact, great. The Donald is vindicated except for the fact that OPM is based on the assumption the OP are either idiots or charities because...
Who is going to lend you this money? Not HUD. Oh, there may be a government program out there that will lend you the money but I don't know about it and I wouldn't qualify. Maybe you would but I doubt it. Will a bank lend it? Lend $31,899 for a property worth currently, maybe $27,000? Remember OPM assumes you can borrow just about everything. I don't think so. Maybe Mom and Dad will lend it. Give it a try. Or private individuals may lend it but they will charge a lot more interest and take a lot more of the profits.
Please feel free to take a whack at the analysis or come up with a better one. I'm going to send this to a friend that is much better at finance than me so we will see what he has to say. For now my head is spinning and I probably made some major mistake BUT no matter how you do it you will come up with the same conclusion--yes, you can make money in real estate but it isn't as easy or painless as the guys on TV would have you believe.


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208 Rs is the latest rally car Peugeot makes based on the road-going version of their flagship hatchback model. The car follows a long line of great rally cars such as 206 RC and 207 S2000.
The Peugeot 208 R5 benefits from all the expertise and experience of Peugeot Sport, acquired and recognised over many years. Under the direction of Alexis Avril, Technical Manager of Peugeot Sport, Bertrand Vallat, formerly responsible for the 207 S2000, is the Project Leader for the Peugeot 208 R5. To cope with the rules the 2.0-litre naturally aspirated unit is replaced by the 1.6-litre turbo.
According to FIA rules every R5 rally car should have 25,000 units of its road going version produced to be qualified. Peugeot has got that covered. The Price of the 208 R5 for private teams is €180,000 excluding taxes.
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Performance and cost reduction
The R5 category consists of group A vehicles derived from a production model, of which at least 25,000 must have been produced. Launched for 2013 by the FIA, among its objectives is a noticeable reduction in costs, including operating expenditure. Therefore, the technical regulations will adopt the major assets of the S2000 category: four-wheel drive, five-speed sequential gearbox, no central differential and long travel suspension. This is also the case externally with widened tracks, a spoiler, the increase in the wheel arches to fit 18″ wheels without forgetting the minimum weight set at 1200kg for the gravel (loose-surface) and asphalt (tarmac) version, as for the WRC.
"Based on an optimisation of costs", explains Bertrand Vallat, "the regulations impose, among other things, a maximum price for certain parts and technical limitations such as a minimum weight of components of the chassis and engine. In addition, a certain number of components of the vehicle must be similar. The hub carrier is a perfect example. All four must be identical. This makes operation considerably easier and limits costs and stocking."
Another major difference: the engine, the 2.0-litre naturally aspirated unit is replaced by the 1.6-litre turbo. The Peugeot 208 R5 will adopt the EP6 CDT as standard. "We are aiming for performance which is slightly higher than that of the S2000", emphasises Bertrand Vallat.
"We start with the 1.6-litre THP engine that is already a competition winner. We know that it is both reliable and powerful, and can achieve 280bhp. We have serious foundations with this engine as it is the same as that of the RCZ Racing Cup which currently develops 260 horsepower in its endurance version. We are also aiming for a very high level of durability and reliability in competition with a potential 5000 kilometres (according to the components and conditions), which will also reduce the operating costs." Finally, the FIA has also set the maximum price for the 'R5s' at €180,000 excluding taxes.
The 208: an asset
The Peugeot 208 R5 benefits from the product developments of the 208 production car, particularly in regards to the weight. The shell of the 208 has benefited from a weight reduction of approximately 40 kilos compared with its predecessor the 207. Its dimensions are an advantage for the Type R5 with its long wheelbase which provides excellent chassis stability. Also, being more compact, the 208 will be more agile and efficient as a result, key factors that are sought after in a competition car. All of these dynamic qualities of the 208 combine to give the R5 excellent road holding."
Commitments from 2013
The Peugeot 208 R5 has big ambitions. Designed and assembled in the workshops of Peugeot Sport in Vélizy, it will begin a vast test programme from the end of 2012, both on asphalt and on loose surface (gravel). This will continue throughout its life in order to constantly evolve developments for customers and subsidiaries in order to guarantee chances of victory in a very competitive sector. On sale during the second half of 2013, the 208 R5 will compete at the highest level in key championships:
- Intercontinental Rally Challenge
- European Rally Championship
- National Championships
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Five weeks after Anthony Bourdain's death, his estranged wife Ottavia Busia continues to be a rock for their 11-year-old daughter Ariane.
Busia's best friend Doug Quint, who is a co-founder of Big Gay Ice Cream, gave an update on how the mother of one is doing following Bourdain's suicide on June 8. Tweeting a series of statements from his company's verified account, Quint alluded to Bourdain, though he was not mentioned directly by name.
"Five weeks ago my best friend's husband killed himself. Five weeks ago the father of the ring-bearer at my wedding killed himself," Quint's first two tweets read.
"For five weeks I have watched my best friend display more poise and grace than I could ever imagine, in the face of a global publicity s–t-storm," another tweet read.
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"For five weeks I have seen the best mothering imaginable. This whole f–king thing sucks so horribly and it always will but I discovered she's not just my best friend," Quint wrote in follow-up tweets.
Concluding, "Ottavia is my idol."
Although Bourdain and Busia separated in 2016 after nine years of marriage, their divorce was not finalized before his death. (Bourdain and girlfriend Asia Argento began dating after meeting during the filming of his CNN show Parts Unknown in 2016.)
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Bourdain often supported Big Gay Ice Cream, famously christening the franchise's East Village store in 2011, dressed as a priest.
He also wrote the foreword for the company's 2015 cookbook, Big Gay Ice Cream: Saucy Stories & Frozen Treats: Going All the Way with Ice Cream, which was written by Quint and Bryan Petroff.
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Bourdain was found dead of suicide in his hotel room in Kaysersberg, France, while in the country filming an upcoming episode of Parts Unknown with his close friend, French-born chef Eric Ripert.
A source previously told PEOPLE the culinary star was cremated in France five days after his death on June 13, and his ashes were flown back to the United States.
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Earlier this month, Bourdain's will, which was written in 2016, revealed that the majority of his $1.21 million fortune will be left to his only child Ariane while the executor of his estate will be Busia.
Bourdain also gave his "accumulated frequent flyer miles" to Busia, and asked her to "dispose of [them] in accordance with what [she] believes to have been my wishes," according to the outlets. The same instructions were stated for his cars, furniture, books, clothing and household items.
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text "help" to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.


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Belly fat, also known as visceral fat, is a serious health issue. Fat stored around your abdomen and internal organs can significantly increase your risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. Doctors even call this type of fat "heart attack fat" which shows you just how serious this type of fat can be.
While it is impossible to preferentially target belly fat with any specific abdominal exercises – fat being just stored energy – there are a few things you can do to minimize belly fat and get rid of it faster.
Manage your stress
Stress can be hard to avoid but too much stress or an inability to deal with stress effectively can cause all manner of health problems including increasing belly fat. Stress causes the release of a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol promotes fat storage and interferes with fat burning – especially belly fat.
Manage your stress levels by learning how to manage your time more effectively, mastering the art of delegation, avoiding stressful situations, eating healthily and exercising regularly.
Cut out refined sugars
Refined sugars are nothing but empty calories. They spike your blood glucose levels, trigger a big insulin response and are preferentially stored as belly fat. In addition, elevated blood glucose levels are linked to a host of serious medical conditions including diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
Refined sugars are found in many processed foods so it's best to avoid all the sources that you can including soda, cookies, cakes and candy.
Eat more protein
Increasing protein intake has been shown to prevent and reduce belly fat. Foods like chicken, fish and eggs increase your metabolic rate which leads to faster fat loss. Protein also reduces cravings for refined sugars, keeps you feeling fuller for longer and is essential for muscle growth and repair.
Try to include protein in your three main meals but, if this is not possible, consider a protein supplement such as whey.
Do aerobic exercise
Exercise comes in two main types – anaerobic and aerobic. Anaerobic exercise include things weight training and sprinting while aerobic exercise includes walking, jogging, swimming and cycling.
Literally meaning with oxygen, aerobic exercise has been shown to be an effective way to prevent and burn off belly fat. It's also good for your heart and lungs too.
To get the most from your aerobic workouts, you should aim to exercise at least three times a week and for not-less-than 20-minutes per session while keeping your heart rate at or above 60-percent of your maximum.
Take the sobriety pledge
It's no coincidence that heavy drinkers often have a beer belly. Alcohol, it seems, causes your body to preferentially store belly fat so it makes sense that consuming less alcohol will help you to reduce belly fat.
You don't have to swear off alcohol completely but it makes sense to cut down to just one regular-sized drink per day and also avoid binge drinking.
Sleep it off
Statistically speaking, people who are habitually sleep deprived tend to have the highest amounts of belly fat while those who get closer to the recommended eight-hours per night have less. For this reason, make sure you go to bed early, avoid caffeine too close to bedtime, switch off all laptops, smart phones and tablets to avoid distractions and ensure your bedroom is cool, dark and comfortable.
Too little sleep increases stress and can also lead to sugar cravings so it makes perfect sense that lack of sleep can cause belly fat and more sleep will help you get rid of it.
Tea for two…
Drinking two to three cups of green tea per day has been shown to reduce belly fat. Green tea contains catechins, a substance known for its fat-fighting properties. In studies, people who drank three cups of green tea per day lost more belly fat than those that drank regular or no tea. Green tea is also packed with heart-healthy anti-oxidants and provides an energy boost that is gentler than coffee but can still be welcome and beneficial.
Lose the bloat
Abdominal bloating can be caused by a number of things including stress and intolerances to foods like wheat, dairy and artificial additives. Abdominal bloating indicates intestinal inflation which can interfere with fat burning and promotes fat storage. Also, abdominal bloating often means that nutrients in food are not extracted and absorbed properly.
Losing the bloat by eliminating foods to which you are intolerant will reduce abdominal girth, minimize digestive discomfort and speed up loss of belly fat.
Belly fat is more than just an aesthetic issue, it can do you harm too. Taking steps to reduce belly fat will reduce your risk of suffering many otherwise avoidable medical problems and any reduction in waist measurement can potentially add years to your life.
Don't try and whittle away belly fat with hundreds of reps of abs exercises though – that just doesn't work. Instead, increase your levels of general exercise, eat a clean and healthy diet and implement the tips and tricks above.


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Monday, January 6, 2014
Elevation Dykh-Tau and Passion Flower
Hey you guys! Today's polish is so much prettier than my pictures can even show. Elevation Dykh-Tau is part of an LE duo but I decided to pair it with Elevation Passion Flower instead of the glitter it came with. Dykh-Tau has a slight shimmer that is hard to see on the nail but I think helps give this polish some depth. Passion Flower has circles and hexes in several shades of purple, green and yellow. Super pretty polish!
I adore Elevation Polish. Every polish I've ever purchased has been outstanding quality. I hope you all have a great Monday.
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Teaching the science of sound to young students can be frustrating and difficult for teachers because our little learners are still concrete learners, and it's hard to illustrate sound when it is invisible! Every year when it is time to teach sound to my second grade classroom, my colleagues and I usually begin our planning with, "Ugh... Not this again."
Over the years I have learned that teaching sound doesn't have to be painful. It will get noisy, but it is a productive noise. My first year of teaching sound, I began and ended by reading one book. It was ineffective to say the least, and I knew it. I just wanted to target that standard and say that I "taught it" because quite frankly, I didn't know how to teach it.
Last year was the first year that my students and I both enjoyed learning about sound. I can say that I felt like they truly understood the concept, and the best part about it, is that they were excited to share their experiences about it with their friends and families! Without further ado, I am going to share some ideas for each multiple intelligence so that you can differentiate and target every learner.
I. Musical/Rhythmic: My kids love this Fun Science - Sound video. Not only is this kid hilarious, but he actually demonstrates sound through art on his video so the students have a nice visual. They have no clue they are learning and they LOVE it! It is sure to give your students a good laugh!
II. Bodily/Kinesthetic: This experiment is so simple. All you will need is a working voice box and your hand. Have the students place their fingers on their throat, then have them whisper anything like, "Sound science is super!" Using a triple vinn diagram, list descriptive words of what it felt like. Using the same method, have them say the same thing in a famous mouse (with really big ears) voice, and a deep manly voice. List descriptive words for each on the triple vinn diagram and compare and contrast each. Students will be able to FEEL the vibrations moving quickly and slowly. This is also a good time to discuss pitch.
III. Naturalistic: Take your students outside and observe different animal sounds. You will notice that smaller animals typically make higher pitch sounds while larger animals typically make lower pitch sounds. This is because there is less space for the sound vibrations to move in smaller animals while there is more space for it to move in larger animals. You can probably make some predictions about different animal pitches and organize them from highest pitch to lowest pitch based on size; however, this does not always hold true. An enormous whale can create very high pitched sounds.
IV. Verbal/Linguistic: Reading is always helpful for this multiple intelligence. This non-fiction read aloud on Youtube has a great example of a story you can read to your class. You can also use these Sound No-Prep Worksheets that I created to help reinforce vocabulary. My kids enjoy these because they feel like they are playing games.
We've only discussed four MI, so to target the next four MI I use these Sound STEM activities.
V. Visual/Spacial
VI. Logical/Mathematical
VII. Interpersonal
VII. Intrapersonal
These STEM activities are super engaging and rich with opportunities to dig deep about sound in creative ways.
To start with, I always begin by having the students create a three pitched instrument. I don't tell them whether it has to be string, percussion, or wind. I simply let them get creative and choose their own instrument. Warning: the classroom can get a little noisy and messy, but it is worth all of that! You will be amazed at how creative the kids can get. Then, I always let them demonstrate their instrument and improve on it. We create a class band and try to play hot cross buns. It's always fun and we usually never sound that great, but the kids enjoy it, and that's all that matters.
The next STEM activity I introduce is for determining how sound travels best. What material is the best conductor for sound to travel? We make the cup telephones, but use different materials for the string such as floral wire, ribbon, yarn, string, etc. Then we test out the materials and organize them from best to worst.
The next STEM activity I introduce is for determining which is the best insulator for sound. I always tell my students about the experiences I had with my Dad as a little girl when he was recording music. The walls, the floor, and everything else were covered in materials because they were preventing echoes in the song being recorded. My students create a sound proof box. I have an apple watch, so I place my phone inside the box, and I play a song. The students get really quiet and listen. After we have tested, improved, and tested again, we then organize the materials from best to worst insulators. Then we can compare the insulators with the conductors.
Finally, I like to get that cultural piece in there, so I read The Rainstick A Fable and we create our own rainsticks out of a piece of the cardboard paper towel holder, tape, and different sized beans, rice, and pasta noodles. We use floral wire for the inside, but you can also insert toothpicks through the paper towel holder for the beans. After we place the wire inside, or put the toothpicks through, we select a variety of beans, noodles, and rice to place inside to fill it up about a quarter to a third of the way. Then, we tape up the top and bottom of the paper towel holder, and students can decorate the outside of their paper towel holder. They look forward to this every single year.
I hope that these ideas give you some inspiration and help you look forward to teaching Sound Science. Below are the following resources that were mentioned above.
Fun Science - Sound
non-fiction read aloud on Youtube
Sound No-Prep Worksheets
Sound STEM activities
The Rainstick A Fable
Sound Science for Early Elementary
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Satisfactory Crop Residue Management Is a Key for the Carlquists of Southern Idaho
By Don Lilleboe
Doug and Melanie Carlquist were among a sizable contingent of Idaho sugarbeet producers who attended a strip-till seminar and field demonstration hosted by Amalgamated Sugar Company back in the summer of 2008. And, like a number of those attending, they were impressed enough with the perceived benefits of the production system that they purchased a new strip-till unit for deployment in their upcoming row crop fields.
Chaff Trails & N Applications
Results from Year One of Idaho Strip-Tillage Study
By Amber Moore, Don Morishita & Oliver Neher*
The introduction of strip tillage to sugarbeet production in southern Idaho has brought challenges as well as opportunities to local beet growers. One challenge is accounting for chaff (residue) trails left behind by combines. These trails create uneven distribution of residue throughout the field, which can be a challenge for ensuing crop production with strip tillage.
Specifically, growers are concerned that the areas with little residue will be droughty and more susceptible to weed growth, while areas with heavy residue coverage may have more fertilizer and herbicide binding in the residue — and more soil-borne disease pressure under a cooler, more-moist and higher-carbon soil environment.
Mike Spieker
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March 2018


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This is the definitive way to diagnose bladder outlet obstruction.
There are 3 principal problems which can arise with the process of micturition.
As mentioned previously the micturition reflex initiates a contraction of the detrusor and a relaxing of the urethra. Because the urethra is highly distensible this enables a large flow for little rise in pressure in the normal case. The obstructed bladder leads directly to high pressure emptying. This derives from the bladder output relation. The obstructed urethra requires a very high detrusor pressure to initiate flow. This gradually decreases and the characteristic D shape is seen.
The high pressure detrusor in obstruction has been responsible for some misunderstanding among clinicians. It was first thought to be "compensation" by the detrusor whereby it hypertrophied in order to create these high pressures. However this concept is now discredited. Any normal detrusor would produce high pressures in the presence of obstruction. This is a result of the bladder output relation which derives from simple physiological measurements on bladder strips and geometry..
All of the above 3 abnormalities can be investigated by the pressure-flow study. Detrusor pressure and flow rate are measured simultaneously - often with a suprapubic catheter so that there is no obstruction to the flow as there would be with urethral catheterisation. For diagnostic purposes, the most informative way to present the data from a pressure flow study is to plot pressure against flow.
The seminal work on the dynamics of micturition has been done by Derek Griffiths and Paul Abrams (1979) whose papaer is used extensively to diagnose the obstructed bladder. Abrams and Griffiths studied 117 men who had been referred for investigation of possible obstruction. These men were classified clinically and then the Abrams Griffiths nomogram (the red quadrilateral on the plots) was devised as the best method for separating the pressure flow loops.
Although theoretical models of normal micturition have been evaluated (Griffiths & Rollema 1979 Med & Biol Eng and Comp 17 291-300) it is the abnormal micturition and in particular the obstructed urethra which is most commonly studied.
The figure below illustrates the characteristic patterns of pressure flow loops.
|Low pressure high flow. The normal urethra is highly distensible and opens at low pressures
|High pressure low flow; if the the normal detrusor is obstructed to give low flow rates it will produce high pressures. This has repercussions for the upper tracts
|Time domain curves
|Unobstructed pressure Flow loop with Abrams Griffiths nomogram. The tip of the loop is well into the unobstrcuted zone.
The loops are compared against the Abrams Griffiths nomogram in red. Abrams and Griffiths (Br Jour Urol. 1979 51 129) studied 117 males
In 2/3 of the cases obstruction could be assessed from the maximum flow together with the detrusor pressure at that point (the apex of the pressure flow curve). In the remaining third obstruction could be assessed only by studying the shape of the plot of Detrusor pressure against flow.
|Time domain curves
|Pressure flow loop and Abrams Griffiths nomogram. Note that this is displayed on a different scale from the loop above and below because of the high detrusor pressure. The patient is highly obstructed.
The curves below show the case where the flow information alone would lead one to diagnose obstruction, but the detrusor pressure is not in fact high. Cases like this are the reason uroflowmetry will never have a very high specificity.
|Time domain curves
|Pressure flow loop and Abrams Griffiths nomogram. The patient is unobstructed.
|The principal treatment for proven obstruction is the transurethral prostatectomy
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Discussion in 'Amps and Cabs [BG]' started by UtBDan, Mar 16, 2006.
In a word,YES!
Sure. People power 8x10s all the time with 800RBs, which are 300 watts, I think.
Of course it is. It's not as if the cab will go on strike and refuse to work properly unless you give it more juice.
But that's the wrong question, anyway. The question is, would that amp through that cab be loud enough to do the job you're trying to do? And the only way way to determine that is to examine your playing situation. What kind of music do you play, what kind of gear do your bandmates use, what kind of venues do you play (big or small, outdoor or indoor), do you have PA support, all that kinda stuff.
I dont use PA support (we only use PA for vocals), the guitarist has a 100 watt tubed Vox, the drummer is acoustic/not mic'd up but plays hard, we've done small outdoor gigs before.
I wouldn't be doing this for very very big gigs, as my band doesn't get very very big gigs. But it would be for bigger-than-coffee-house, school-audience & small-stage situations.
Yes the 700rb would power a 810 more then enough i have used a800rb to power a 610 cab and even though it was only 300 watt's it was then enough power.look at 1001rb II it has 700 watt's at 4 ohms which would give you more then enough head room and power to be to be heard for anything you would probley ever need for any gig.best of luck.Cheer's Mate!


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Interview with the head of Design Studio and Olga's Studio Olga Kondratova was published in August edition of "Beautiful apartments" magazine.
O.K. I want to make a real authentic apartment, similar to the pre-revolutionary one of a professor such as in the novel The Heart of a Dog. It also shouldn't be a picture of mercantile Moscow, but rather that of imperial St.Petersburg. There are a lot of residences of such kinds and suitable yards… It would be interesting to create a manorial estate of Chekhov's times with white columns and a terrace. That is why I am studying special literature of the XIX century, dedicated to design of such houses. It seems as if a feeling of nostalgia lives in me…
Most of the works in the portfolio of our design studio are focused on the preservation of family values. In a recent interview, the head of Olga's Studio Olga Kondratova told ABITANT about how important it is to build a connection of the interiors with the past. One of the main secrets of Studio's success is the ability to develop competent planning solutions. When working on the design of apartments in old houses, Olga Kondratova always attempts to create the impression of being in a historical environment associated with the past rather than that of a typical trendy remake. According to the designer, the main thing in her work is the ability to express the individuality of the customer. The interior should become something akin to an "architectural portrait" of a particular person. You can find the full text of the interview with Olga Kondratova on our site.
Apartment Interior in a Moscow High-rise
"Квартирный ответ» magazine №6 (95), 2013, published an article devoted to one of the interiors by Olga Kondratova. The text of this publication details the process of creating a design project of an apartment located in a Stalin-era high-rise.
High-rise buildings in downtown Moscow symbolize imperial Stalin's architecture with its indisputable advantages. However, it's rather common that the apartment interiors in these houses does not reveal any connection with the extraordinary architectural design of its facades
The owners of such an apartment had to make a harmonious connection between the interior decoration and the exterior. After all, according to the layout, the apartment in the initial state was more like a typical Soviet communal flat than an apartment in the center of Moscow. However, the view of the Moscow River from the window very quickly inspired designers to create an interior masterpiece.
The information on a small flat with a narrow corridor and how it managed to turn into a bright and spacious apartment, you can be found in the interview for "Housing Reply" magazine
Ethnic Africa in the Design of a Bachelor's Apartment
"ARCHIDOM" magazine always pays attention to unusual interior design projects created by truly passionate people. Of course, the design of this stylish apartment for a bachelor could not remain unnoticed by the editors of the magazine. The client is a young businessman, who is fond of minimalism and Art Deco. A large area of premises and a good layout provided a lot of space for imagination. The process of work on the interior of the apartment can be found on our website.
In an interview for a Moscow TV channel "Doveriye"(Trust) designer Olga Kondratova talks about current trends in the world of interior design.
In her TV speech, Head of Olga's Studio also explains what designer's renovation is, and talks about the most popular styles and methods of finishing.
Olga Kondratova believes that the timeless classical style is gradually replacing high-tech and minimalism. This trend persists due to the fact that each of us wants to come back home to be embraced by a cosy, family atmosphere of tranquility. During the programme some examples of interior design projects are shown, which proves the idea of a growing demand for the classics.
Proper Design of a Children's room
Designer Olga Kondratova acts as an expert in the programme "Other News" dedicated to children's rooms.
Head of Olga's Studio shared her vision of interior design for children in the interview with TV host.
As a rule, families with two or more children have to create a common room for all the kids. After all, not everyone can afford the luxury of a separate room for each child. The task of adjusting the room for several children requires certain knowledge of area zoning methods. Keep in mind that the design of a children's room has a direct impact on the formation of a child's psychology.
The project "Women's History", authored by Olga Kondratova, made the cover of the magazine "Ideas for Your Home» №6 (June) 2011
The interior was designed for a mother and her daughter. Thanks to the competent redevelopment and use of classical elements of decor, a small apartment on Taganka turned into an elegant and cozy city flat. After the redecoration, the feeling inadequate space has completely disappeared and the apartment has found its own individual look.
Olga Kondratova knows very well the Taganka district in Moscow, which was actively developed in the Stalin era very well. Despite the fact that the flat is located in a panel building of the 70s, the architect decided to bring into the interior some neo-classical elements of the last century.
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