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We announce the immediate availability of EssentialPIM Pro and EssentialPIM Free 9.1 This release introduces significant improvements to the recently introduced anchors feature in notes (you will now be able to rename anchors, delete multiple anchors at once and link to the anchors through the common Insert Hyperlink dialog window for more efficient workflow), adjustments to spam filter logic for more intelligent detection of spam, improved synchronization with Office 365 accounts and couple of other improvements and optimizations. The detailed list of changes is available on the Version History page.
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Dubai: In spite of their impressive batting, rain washed out USA's maiden T20I match against UAE hosted at the ICC Academy in Dubai on Friday.
USA displayed their talent with the bat in the historic encounter. UAE got an early breakthrough when spinner Sultan Ahmed bowled Xavier Marshall for one. However, Jaskaran Malhotra and Steven Taylor went on to put a 70-run stand together for the second wicket.
Taylor smashed 39-ball 72, which saw nine boundaries and three sixes. He helped his side to reach 86/2 in 9.3 overs before rain interrupted the occasion. The innings resumed with the match reduced to just 15 overs a side. USA lifted themselves to post 152/7, courtesy Roy Silva's 25 off just seven balls.
USA enjoyed the second innings as well with the ball. UAE opener Ashfaq Ahmed was dismissed off pacer Jasdeep Singh for a first ball duck. Two overs later, Singh bowled Rohan Mustafa, leaving UAE 20/2. With the adverse weather, UAE could only add nine more runs before rain returned and spoiled the match, which ended with no result. USA and UAE will play the second T20I on March 16 at the same venue.


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THE Zipra Veterans' Association has challenged Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland and Midlands to take over control of the national healing, reconciliation and integration process currently being rolled out by the government and set up their own independent commission.
Zipra secretary-general, Petros Sibanda made the remarks yesterday after Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) and civic society organisations in Matabeleland disrupted National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) committee consultations last week in protest over the committee's composition.
"The ownership and terms in the process to the solution on Gukurahundi is with the people of Matabeleland setting up own commission with the view to engage government," he said.
"Chiefs and church leaders of honest Matabele DNA of sound mind playing oversight role to guarantee progress and achievement of victims' destiny. No to fraudsters!"
The NPRC visited Bulawayo on Tuesday to consult on national healing and reconciliation. The meeting was held at the Bretheren in Christ Church, where there was drama as activists, including MRP, Women of Zimbabwe Arise protested against being addressed by non-Ndebeles as the commission had only one Ndebele official.
Sibanda said the activists, who disrupted the NPRC meeting, did their part to highlight some of preliminary issues that should have been foreseen prior to meetings such as the composition of the team, which he said left a lot to be desired.
"All tribes should be represented that is Tonga, Sotho, Kalanga, Xhosa, Ndebele and so on," he said.
"Also there were commissions before and their findings should be made public. The activists were demonstrating the need for transparency and seriousness on the whole programme for healing and reconciliation."
Sibanda said unequal representation of tribes showed that other ethnic groups were still being sidelined by authorities.
He said the 1980s genocide that targeted Matabeleland and Midlands was based on the claims that the government wanted to crackdown on dissidents, but instead, the 5th Brigade targeted unarmed civilians.


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This is a wonderful story, from the Sacramento Bee, about the capability of human technology to restore spawning sites for salmon, which are needed due to the other wonderful human technology story—the building of dams on the American that save Sacramento from flooding and produce hydroelectric power—and, along with hatchery technology, can do a lot to keep the salmon run in the American rich and productive.
An excerpt.
"New fish spawning areas in the American River are bristling with fresh nests of steelhead eggs – so many that officials urge anglers and others not to wade in the area.
"Salmon and steelhead breed by laying eggs in riverbed gravel. They use their powerful tails to sweep out circular nests in the gravel to hold their eggs.
"Appropriate gravel is in short supply, however, due to a century of dam building, mining and other activities.
"To address this problem, hundreds of truckloads of gravel were spread in two riverbed areas just downstream from Nimbus Dam over past the two years in a joint project by the Sacramento Water Forum and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
"The project has succeeded in coaxing more fish to lay eggs in the American River. Salmon and steelhead have created at least 347 gravel nests – also called "redds" – in the restored areas, according to surveys by Cramer Fish Sciences, a consultant hired to monitor the project.
"Joe Merz, a senior scientist at Cramer, said the salmon and steelhead redds counted this year could produce nearly 800,000 young fish."


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Ke$ha can count Avril Lavigne as a fan
HollywoodNews.com: Ke$ha is getting pretty popular right now, but one of her biggest fans happens to be a fellow singer who also likes to rebel a bit.
Avril Lavigne admitted that she is a fan of the up-and-coming singer, reports Just Jared. "I really like Ke$ha. Her songs are fun to party to and her lyrics are hilarious," Lavigne said about her appreciation for Ke$ha.
Lavigne is coming back onto the music scene with another album that she claims is more personal and inspired by those closest to her.
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CR 1991 Tunnelhill, PA 1981
Posted September 6th, 2008 by Sean McDonnell
CR B23-7 1991 is the rear unit on a westbound empty coal train at Benny Curve in 1981. This view clearly shows where the old Track 2 was removed. In the background you can see the grade separation between the new Tracks 2 and 3 and Track 1 on The Slide.
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Comparison of the generation II with IV heterogeneous Ziegler–Natta catalysts used in propylene polymerizations
Comparison of the generation II with IV heterogeneous Ziegler–Natta catalysts used in propylene polymerizations
Polimery 1998, No 5, 287
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14314/polimery.1998.287
An unsupported TiCl3-based catalyst (generation II), modified with n-butyl ether and AlEt2Cl3, was compared with a MgCl2/dibutyl phthalate/AlEt3/cyclohexylmethyldimethoxysilane catalyst system (generation IV) in propylene polymerizations. The latter (magnesium-supported) was fund to be more than 20 times as active as the former and more stereospecific, but to yield PP with a lower molecular weight (Table 2). The kinetics of the polymerizations studied with either of the catalyst, and involving the determination of concentrations of active sites [C0*] and elementary reaction rate constants (Table 4) based on earlier kinetic models, showed the C0*-values in the magnesium-supported catalyst to be much higher than those in the unsupported catalyst, thereby bearing out the higher activity of the former, whereas the propagation rate (krp) remained practically unaffected.
Keywords: active sites, titanium catalyst of generation II, Ti-Mg catalyst of generation IV, kinetics of propylene polymerization, elementary re action rates


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The Application of the Buckley-Leverett Frontal Advance Theory to Petroleum Recovery
- Authors
- Stephen G. Dardaganian (A&M College of Texas)
- https://doi.org/10.2118/835-G
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- Publisher
- Society of Petroleum Engineers
- Source
- Journal of Petroleum Technology
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 04
- Publication Date
- April 1958
- Document Type
- Journal Paper
- Pages
- 49 - 52
- Language
- English
- 0149-2136
- Copyright
- 1958. Original copyright American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. Copyright has expired.
- Disciplines
- 5.4.1 Waterflooding, 5.2 Reservoir Fluid Dynamics, 4.1.5 Processing Equipment, 5.3.4 Reduction of Residual Oil Saturation, 4.6 Natural Gas, 5.2.1 Phase Behavior and PVT Measurements
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Basically, the Buckley-Leverett theory involves two systems which are similar in nature but are differentiated by time. These systems may be described by the fractional flow and frontal advance equations which essentially characterize the mechanics of oil movement while being expelled from the reservoir.
The fractional flow equation originally developed by Leverett may be expressed in the more usable form
(Equation 1).
The development of this equation is based on Darcy's law describing fluid flow through porous media and applies to the flow at only one point (it is a point function). For simplification, the fractional flow equation is written in the above form because the capillary forces always increase the fractional flow of the displacing phase regardless of the direction of flow or the displacing phase.
Applications of the Frontal Advance Theory to Petroleum Recovery
Two general applications of the Buckley-Leverett frontal advance theory involve the system in which the oil is being displaced by an expanding gas cap overlying the oil zone and that in which the oil is being displaced by water.
Displacement by Gas in the Presence of an Immobile Water Saturation
A system in which gas is the displacing phase may be thought of as having two forces effecting the displacement process. These forces are the gravitational force and that force exerted by the displacing gas. The gravitational effects control the displacing efficiency of the gas. The gravitational effect will be less at higher rates of flow, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the displacement of the oil by the gas. The more efficient displacements occur at flow rates which are less than the gravity free fall rate. Capillary forces can be neglected without materially changing the magnitude of the gas saturation.
The Mile Six pool is used herein to illustrate the calculating procedures in evaluating gas drive-gravity drainage field performance. These calculations represent the determination of the gas-oil contact when the distribution of the hydrocarbon pore volume is considered.
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|Borough's New Year's Day Parade Float is a Prizewinner
H&F entry wins £4,000 for mayoral charity Walking With The Wounded
Hammersmith & Fulham Council has entered a float in London's world famous New Year's Day parade - and has won our borough fourth place in the Let's Help London Challenge.
19 London boroughs competed in the challenge, with an array of entries that reflected the event's twin themes of The Olympic Games and Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The Hammersmith and Fulham float celebrated Walking With The Wounded's forthcoming attempt on Mount Everest, and won £4,000 for Walking With The Wounded, which is current Mayor, Cllr Frances Stainton's chosen mayoral charity.
The result was nail bitingly close with the international panel of judges separating the top twelve entries by just 30 points. H& F's entry came in just behind joint winners Merton and the City of Westminster and runners up Brent.
The float, the borough's first in years, featured the Mayor, Cllr Frances Stainton with her mayoress and consorts, curator of the Buckingham Palace 2012 summer exhibition: 'Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration', and Olympic gold medal winning rower, Ben Hunt-Davis, who is an ambassador for next year's games.
Mani is a member of the charity's 2012 Everest expedition team that is attempting to get four wounded servicemen at the top of the tallest mountain in the world. He is bringing to life Walking with the Wounded's logo of a fearless soldier as he will be wearing arctic clothing while pulling a Scandinavian sled, called a pulk.
Other nods to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on the float included a life-size picture of the Queen, donated by the Royal Collection, and a rhino made of grass that echoes the moment Her Majesty became Queen, while on safari in Africa.
The borough's most famous link to the Olympics is that it hosted the first modern day Olympics, as we know it, in White City in 1908. This was reflected in the costumes and colours worn by the children from the circus wearing, along with some circus rings, to symbolise the Olympic rings.
The council adds that the H&F float was created at no cost to the taxpayer, thanks to artificial grass company Easigrass's sponsorship of the float, and their loan of a grass rhino and a horse, to depict equestrian sports, favoured by the Queen.
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Introduction to Physical Science B!
Unit S.M.A.R.T. Goal:
Students will attain an 80% passage rate in 3 of 4 trials
Review and Prep for Balloon Car Lab and Physical Science Unit 6 Test.
Key Concepts:
Inertia, Force (Action vs Reaction), Friction
Course Digital Resources:
Link -> Mr. Tyler's Physical Science Digital Resources
Assignments –
Task #1 –
Review of Newton's 3 Laws and review of responses e-mailed in
– E-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com before midnight Thursday January 17, 2019 with the answer to this question: How can learning Newton's 3 Laws improve your life? Reflect first before answering. There is a benefit to knowing these three laws. This assignment is part of your Unit 6 grade. If you do not e-mail in your answer before midnight on Thursday it is considered late.
Task #2 –
Review of Physical Science Review Quiz from virtual Class on 1-16-2019
Task #3 –
Next up we are going to do some house keeping. Which equations and or pages are you having problems with in Unit 6 before we turn it in.
Task #4 –
Balloon Car Lab Attempt #1
Some of the cars that were built and ready!
Task #5 –
Unit 6 Physical Science Practice Test
Next Generation Science Standards:
HS-PS 21 Analyze data to support the claim that Newton's second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and it acceleration.


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South America: Under The Skin of a Foreign Country is a short work of travel writing penned by author Barbara M Webb. Part entertaining travel read and part actual guidebook, the premise and purpose of the work is for the author to document what happened to her after she lost her terminally ill husband, a memoir which she recollected in 'Moving from Grief in Cornwall'. Here, Barbara moves to Ecuador to start a new life in its incredible capital Quito, and in doing so transforms and learns so much about the world. This memoir recounts that experience of embedding yourself in a new country and culture so far from home, and goes on to follow the author through other exploratory travels in the rest of South America.
In a work that is uplifting and intriguing for all the right reasons, author Barbara M Webb escapes her grief and reinvents a new life for herself in a much braver and more exciting way than most people would ever dream of doing. Reading her book is like going on the adventure with her, from the vivid descriptions of the places she has lived in and visited to the very real connections she likes to make with the people of the new cultures she encounters. More than simply a travel writer's guide, this memoir-esque work hones in on the real heart of South America, the ethos of its people and the experience of being welcomes (and in some cases, unwelcome) as an ex-patriot going abroad. South America: Under The Skin of a Foreign Country does exactly what it promises. Highly recommended.


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You can now book the redi-GO AMT at a minimum booking amount of Rs. 10,000. Deliveries to commence on 23rd January.
Datsun is all set to add another variant to their redi-GO line-up. The company already has five variants of the redi-GO on sale in India, including 799cc and 1.0-litre options. However, unlike its sibling, the Renault Kwid, the redi-GO wasn't offered with an AMT options as yet. The Japanese car maker will launch the redi-GO 1.0-litre with the AMT option in the next few days. Bookings for the redi-GO AMT have commenced at a minimum booking amount of Rs 10,000, and deliveries are expected to begin on 23rd January.
The redi-GO AMT shares its engine with the Renault Kwid AMT. The 1.0-litre petrol motor pumps out 68 horses and 91Nm. This engine comes mated to a 5-speed AMT. While the Kwid gets a rotary knob on the centre console for shifting gears, it remains to be seen what approach Datsun takes for the redi-GO. Moreover, unlike its rivals Tata Nano and Maruti Suzuki Alto K10, the Kwid also doesn't come with a sequential shift.
In terms of design and interior, expect the redi-GO AMT to be identical to the standard model except, of course, AMT badges in a few places. The redi-GO AMT is likely to demand about Rs. 30,000 more than the standard model, taking it in the Rs. 3.9 – 4.1 lakh (ex-showroom) price range.


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Das erste Fernsehen
Das erste Fernsehen
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Although telephone and radio had already enabled people to link up in real time, television has set an extraordinary milestone in the live switching of society. Distant instances could be followed synchronically by "use of the most sophisticated organ of perception: the eye" (opening speech of the German television broadcast). The first continuous television programme went 'on air' in Germany in 1935 and opened the – solemnly spoken – "time of the incomprehensible wonder…of handing sight to the peoples." Strange enough though that the effective Nazi propaganda underestimated the impact of television in the beginning. This is the reason why those early, still a little unskilled documents give a unique insight not only into the dawn of the medium but also into national socialist society without its usual propagandistic elevation. As there was no method to conserve programmes in this early time of television, they were pre-produced on film. Also one cinema film about televivion and its breaking-new possibilities of surveillance are part of the programme. For one evening the cinema hall will turn into a Fernsehstube (television parlour) as the first public viewing rooms were called. The programme was curated by Marcel Schwierin for transmediale.11.
Sendezeichen und An- und Absagen des Deutschen Fernseh-Rundfunks, 1935, 5 min
Fernseh-Großbildstellen, 1937, 5 min
Werkfilm der Fernsehtechnik, 1939, 9 min
Vorbereitung Reichsparteitag, 1936, 13 min
Wer fuhr IIA 2992?, Karl G'schrey, 1939, 15 min
Bauernarmut im Sowjetparadies, 1941, 5 min
Kalenderblätter "August 1943" (Ausschnitt), 1943, 18 min
Wie baue ich meinen Ofen selbst?, 1943, 8 min


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Is my wife a voater? submitted by Scruffy_Nerfherder to AskVoat
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I think she is, when I had her over last night she asked me to check her bits.
FACT: Breitbart Is A Batshit Extreme Right Wing Conspiracy Site, Not A Genuine News Publisher submitted by SimpleAndFair to politics
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Used the word FACT and used a URL with FACTCHECK, that's like double the factuality. Two times even.
I had fun in court last week. submitted by crazy_eyes to whatever
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You are correct you should not have to prove your son's innocence. That is absurd. I'd see how you can get a transcript of the hearing and present it to a lawyer if you can get a reasonable or free consultation. It may cost you more then the 185, but it might be worth a few extra hundred bucks to stick it to this judge.
I don't use syrup either, it is basically corn syrup. It's like your son is in trouble because the ex didn't have syrup. Fucking laughable.
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"no violation of Twitter's rules" in racist anti-white speech, account suspended for replacing "white" with "black" submitted by Arrvee to politics
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Rise and Shine Goats !!! President Trump is Tweeting and James Comey is in the [KILLBOX] submitted by Oh_Well_ian to GreatAwakening
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Trump has an unhealthy obsession with fox and friends.
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This shouldn't be celebrated. How is busting up a sidewalk a felony? Yes this guy should be punished but our judicial system is too damn felony happy and I won't support it, even if it is against idiots I don't like.


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I hope you guys listened to that cd I recommended a few posts ago... Holy. If you didn't, please do. It's amazing.
I'm sorry I don't have any pictures to upload. I feel like I had a busy Labor Day Weekend...except Labor Day itself where we had a barbecue and saw an old friend of OJ's and his new wife. I spent a lot of the weekend painting a house... one of the leaders here and his wife is gone internationally for a week and a half, so there is a surprise re-vamp of their house going on... I'm thinking they don't read my blog so it's safe to admit it here.
Today was the first day of school for my Eagles Wings crew... and it's kinda weird I'm not in school! Amy pointed something out to me by saying "You've been gone most summers, but then you always came back. This year, you didn't come back." I am kind of wondering if the rest of the year will be different now that I am so starkly doing something other than what everyone else is doing. Of course, I'm surrounded by people here doing the same things I am, only at different ages. Oh well.
I have a new job with TheCall and am feeling very excited about it all. I've gone into the office for two days now, and it is so fun! I feel like I'm part of something, part of a team. I look at pictures and feel like I know people. That, my friends, is a wonderful feeling (especially when you have just moved to a new place). I even went to a party tonight. I love knowing people. Love it, love it. All this to show, Jesus knows perfectly what we need. If He hadn't stuck me in with TheCall I don't know what I would be doing right now. Probably aching for Chicago even worse than I do right now and feeling depressed about how I only know married people here. Jesus is so good and so kind. He certainly did know exactly what I needed and He has provided for it.
I have to also just say how wonderful people here are. If anyone from KC that I have met reads this, please know that in any little way you talked me or treated me like your friend (and I can say that because everyone has treated me like their friend) you have truly, truly impacted me. Being on the receiving end of "don't let anyone look down on you because you are young" isn't always so easy...how do you prevent people from treating you whatever way they're going to treat you? But here in Kansas City, I have been so incredibly blown away by the way I have been welcomed and treated. Not one person I have met has treated me as if I'm "little" or "only a teenager". They get to know me, then they find out I how old I am, then they treat me the same as they did before they knew my age. This blows. my. mind. I'm pretty sure a lot of people don't quite understand/remember from when they were young how much this means. I feel so welcomed as just normal. Not that I was ever abnormal, but I kind of expect people to use me on their team or be nice to me just to take pity on me, because I don't really have anything else to do, or, it just works. But no! I am reminded time after time after time that I have genuinely been accepted here. I work with TheCall and people are happy that I do. Again, it blows my mind.
So, thank you all my new friends in KC. and THANK YOU JESUS. Thank you, thank you, thank you. No one could have set this life in KC up better than You have. I would be nowhere without You, and I am blown away by how You have shown your love in such practical ways in my new life. :)
By the way, Jesus was my superhero in DC. Well, He's still my superhero now, but I have to just say that when I was having difficult moments or feeling discouraged, He (again and again and again) sent someone to encourage me, or specifically gave someone a word to give to me. Jesus is amazing.
Amen. Let's stand. (ha...hahahaha!)
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Faithfulness Received
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By Charles Burke
Jack laughed out loud when the letter came.
"I won a sales contest," he told us later, "and I didn't even know I was in it."
Jack, a freelance printing salesman, was one of our steadiest customers at the photo lab. He wasn't really a photographer, but he sold full color brochures and picture postcards, and his customers never had good photos of their facilities, so he supplied them.
Simply to ensure that no sale got away from him, he bought a cheap 4x5 view camera and learned to take the photos his customers needed. And he brought all his film processing to us.
He didn't know that the photos he took were better than most of the work that came in from "real" photographers. And I doubt he would have cared if he had known. Jack never claimed to be anything but a salesman - just doing the job he enjoyed.
Then came "The Letter." The company that printed all his color postcard orders notified him that he was their salesman of the year, that he'd outperformed the next competitor by 4-to-1. They awarded Jack a cash prize, a trip and a nice engraved plaque.
He stuck the money in the bank, put the plaque on a wall, and took a few days off in Jamaica. But as soon as possible, he was back out on the roads, knocking on doors.
He enjoyed helping people put a better face on their businesses. That's the way he saw his work.
I guess a psychologist might say he was "inner directed."
But time moved on, I left the photo lab, and now, decades later, I'm a writer living in Japan.
And last week I got an unexpected phone call from my long-distance phone carrier. They tell me I was their biggest non-corporate customer for the three-month period just ended, and they wanted to send me a prize to express their appreciation.
During the last several months I'd been doing a series of one-hour interviews for a new book I was working on. Thus, I'd spent many hours on the phone, racking up the minutes, and now they wanted to give me a prize.
That's when I remembered Jack.
He was just doing the job he had set for himself. So was I. He enjoyed what he was doing. So did I. For him, winning their contest was a nice little surprise, but otherwise irrelevant.
In my case also, the wristwatch they sent just went on a shelf. I suppose I'll give it to one of my grandkids the next time I see them.
And I keep on doing the job I enjoy.
Meantime, as I look around the Internet, it's easy to identify the people who, like Jack, really enjoy what they're doing. Their websites have a different feel, a personality. Their eBooks give real, solid, usable information. Their email gets read, not deleted.
They're the ones with the crowds of customers, the masses of fans and followers thronging their websites.
The public is rewarding them, but these achievers don't dwell too much on the prizes and awards. Oh, don't get me wrong. They like the big earnings and the popularity. That's all pleasant, but their real pleasure is the job they do.
They love writing their eBooks, producing their ezines, running their Internet businesses. Giving value.
And you can be sure that if they weren't enjoying it, they'd instantly go do something else instead.
But not everybody recognizes how important it is to give value.
That last eBook you produced: of course most of the information in it came from you... surely you didn't just drag it together from bits and scraps you lifted from here and there around the Web?
And your ezine - I'm sure you don't scrounge around and grab up whatever article is at hand five minutes before the mailing deadline. (Or 2 hours after?)
And your website? We've all read article after article warning that a page with nothing but banners, links and buttons - a flea market site - is a total waste of time.
So why do we all still see them?
Two things I can guarantee: first, visitors to such a website leave almost immediately because they sense no personality; second, such sites are done by people who feel they don't have anything of their own to give.
This is tragic. Everyone has something valuable to give. Most people just haven't ever done a personal inventory, so they don't know all the things they have to offer.
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If you're enjoying what you're doing, and you're giving it everything you've got, you'll win contests - even the ones you didn't know you were in.
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Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who discovered the laws of heredity forming much of the foundation for modern genetics and genomics, is a common entry point for learning about genetics in basic biology classes.
Here are eleven of our favorite resources for bringing Mendel alive in your classroom, or tuning up your personal knowledge. Check out these notable tools including Mendel's historic 1865 paper, interactive animations, lesson plans, TEDEd talks, and more.
The 2011 Google Doodle
Google celebrated Mendel's birthday on July 20, 2011 with a Doodle detailing the importance of Mendel. This blog entry includes the art (Google spelled out in peas) and has background information on his research. It was a Google Doodle: It must be important.
Gregor Mendel - My Favourite Scientist
This six-minute TEDEd video biography of Mendel takes the viewer from "Mendel's bees" to "Mendel's peas" using expert narration and youthful illustrations. Packed with detailed interesting information.
How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped us Understand Genetics
A "TED Ed Lessons Worth Sharing" animation from Hortensia Jiménez Díaz explains how studying pea plants revealed why you may have blue eyes.
Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
A TEDEd video (about 11 minutes long) detailing Mendel's life using humorous and engaging narration with hand puppets.
DNA From the Beginning
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (longtime research home of famous DNA pioneer James Watson) explores Mendel as part of "DNA From the Beginning." This old school flip chart presentation examines Mendelian genetics up close.
"William Bateson and I Were Very Keen on Mendel."
Reginald Punnett, of Punnett square fame, provides insight into Mendel in this PBS learning media resource. Includes many animations and related learning tools.
"Experiments in Plant Hybridization" by Gregor Mendel (1865)
The original Mendel paper (in a free electronic version) details his theory and experiments.
Gregor Mendel and the Principles of Inheritance
A 2008 research journal paper from Nature Education. A must read in preparing for advanced classes. This paper covers traits, alleles, crosses, and assortment.
Mendelian Genetics, Probability, Pedigree, and Chi-Square Statistics
A lesson plan from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's BioInteractive Resources for Science Education. This lesson challenges students to work through a series of questions about the genetics of sickle cell disease and its relationship to malaria. These questions will probe students' understanding of Mendelian genetics, probability, pedigree analysis, and chi-square statistics.
A Guide to Creating a Mendel Seminar in Your Biology Class
A complete guide for a two or three class seminar focused on learning about Gregor Mendel's discovery of a process of biological evolution: how recessive and dominant traits are passed from one generation of living organisms to the next.
GeneEd's Tools for Understanding Mendelian Inheritance
The National Library of Medicine's vetted webpages on Gregor Mendel include interactive tutorials, videos, and teacher resources.


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Now that you've made it through the planning stages of your lab/section/class, you'll want to try out what you've planned. Because we're aware that even "...the best laid plans..." CAN fall apart, this section is designed to introduce you to selected aspects of being a TA, both in the classroom and during office hours.
For the first time you are an instructor, rather than one of the students in the class. Suddenly you're facing "your students" instead of the board and "they" seem to be expecting someone to take charge. The responsibility to get things rolling is yours. What is likely to happen at your first class meeting.
The following are excerpts from some new TAs' "first days:" (6)
I'll never forget the first day of my first quiz section. I was very nervous. I couldn't sleep the entire weekend before. I couldn't think how to open the first day. How should I present myself? Being very short, I had visions of those towering freshmen not taking me seriously. Should I be very severe and set a martial tone for the entire quarter or should I walk in smiling and easygoing? Should I wear a long skirt and pull my hair back or wear hot pants? I plotted my attack upon the lectern-should I stand behind it, beside it or in front of it? Did I want its authority to attach to me or did I want to be considered part of the group? I practiced roll call, passing out the reading list, the small preview of course material, and class dismissal. On the Monday of the first day I got up at 6:30 a.m. and dressed very carefully... I made a large breakfast, though by the time I was ready to eat, I couldn't. When I arrived, fear and anxiety were running wild through my body. My heart was thumping. Every surface I touched, I stuck to. And I shook. I watched the clock and counted off the seconds to 9 a.m. sharp. I didn't want to arrive early and have to stand there waiting...
9 a.m. I plodded into the classroom. The lights were dazzling. The electricity of the people sent my blood rushing faster. There were so many of them. All rustling papers. A hush fell as I neared the lectern. It was so quiet I could hear my pulse in my ears. I reached the lectern and turned around. Forty eyes were focused on my body.
I blurted, "Hello. This is the first class I've ever taught, and I'm really nervous." The students sighed, slumped in their chairs, and relaxed. And so did I.
My first section went quite well, I thought. The professor had introduced a few very basic concepts, which I thought I understood fully. I had tried to explain them to the students so that they also understood them. Buoyed with a sense of some self-confidence, I prepared to present my second section with the same material, but it didn't go as smoothly. A few of the brighter students began to question me about subtle nuances in the concepts which I had failed to consider. I began to feel incompetent. As they continued to probe, my answers became more and more contradictory and incoherent. My embarrassment increased because I realized that I, who had always been a student and therefore a passive receiver of definitions, didn't fully understand these basic concepts well enough to answer others' questions. Because of this and my impression that a teacher should know everything, I kept muddling around getting myself and the students more confused. Finally I managed to change the subject, but as I left the classroom I felt that I had lost their respect. They would be intent on tricking or embarrassing me from then on.
I was apprehensive about that particular section the next week. During the week, I thought about my role in the classroom. I spent a long time preparing for the section and thoroughly re-prepared the concepts I'd tried to review before. Happily, the next week's section went much better. In fact, I enjoyed it. It became my favorite section. The change, of course, was entirely within me. I knew that I did have gaps in my knowledge of the subject. Why not admit that and let the students know that I was learning too? I saw that it would be ineffectual for me to place myself above them as some Omniscient Purveyor of Knowledge. How could I be when almost the only reason I was in front of the class was because I had a few more courses in the subject than they had?
I had become defensive and hostile when asked questions I couldn't answer because I assumed the students were asking such questions to embarrass me. The next week I admitted my ignorance, apologized for trying to be something I wasn't, and re-explained the concepts. I encouraged them to ask questions. I promised that when I didn't know the answers I would say so and encourage the class to explore for the answer.
I learned from the experience the importance of honesty with yourself and your students. It's much more comfortable for you and for them to realize that even as you're discussing topics with them you're learning yourself.
As these excerpts illustrate, you are likely to feel some trepidation the first time you face your students. If you think about it for a minute, though, what you probably are experiencing is somewhat akin to stage fright. Admit it, aren't you fairly EXCITED as well as nervous about this first encounter?
Realizing that your competence and self-concept is somewhat on the line, what follows are some suggestions to ease the pain and increase the excitement of your first day as TA.
1. REMEMBER, YOU WERE SELECTED TO BE A TA. Your department has some reason to believe in you, so believe in yourself.
2. BOTH YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS ARE PEOPLE. Try relating from the "human" angle. If you get nervous despite this, then...
3. PLAN AHEAD AND CONSIDER WHAT YOU WANT TO DO THE FIRST DAY. Prepare or have available the course syllabus. Know where and when you'll be holding office hours. Attempt to obtain relevant information about assignments, tests, and grading for the quarter before you enter class. Ask a friend to remind you of your name before you go into class, so that you can...
4. INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE CLASS and hand out the syllabus or any relevant materials you've prepared. The syllabus can include your name, office number, consultation hours, phone number (or you can write these on the board), the books for the course, topics you'll be covering during the quarter, etc. Discuss the syllabus and course organization with students and explain how your class fits in with lectures or other courses students are likely to be taking. If you are at all nervous about the class, the syllabus will give you and the students something to concentrate on and may serve as a springboard for discussion. In addition, it will show them that you are organized, have planned ahead, and think the course is important enough to warrant your time and effort.
5. TELL YOUR STUDENTS A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF on the first day. This will remind them that you're human. (They may be nervous, too!). If you want to inform them that you're a new TA, that's fine-BUT DON'T COME ACROSS AS HELPLESS. Rather, let them know how they can help you AND fulfill their responsibilities as students (e.g., "Stop me if you have a question", "Let me know if I make an obvious mistake.").
Your first experience as a teacher need not be disastrous. You know more than you think, and your students are likely to cooperate if given a chance. Let them know what you want to do and how. If it sounds at all reasonable, they'll help you set the tone-up front, honest, and human-right from the start.
As the TA, you help to create the climate in your room. Students seem to learn best when they feel that, as students, they are as important to the TA as the material to be covered. (Of course, students contribute to the atmosphere, too.) What follows are some tips to help you create an atmosphere in which students know that you are aware of them and that you feel they are important.
1. LEARN YOUR STUDENTS' NAMES, preferably by the end of the first class. This may seem like a tall order, but calling your students by name goes a long way towards helping them feel at ease and included in the class.
2. MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH YOUR STUDENTS when you are speaking to the group as a whole. Instead of speaking to the clock at the back of the room, look directly at different students in different parts of the room. Students then feel that you SEE them.
3. BE AWARE OF YOUR STUDENTS' BODY LANGUAGE. Slumped bodies, rustling papers, private conversations, etc., may all be signs that students are not paying attention, are bored, or don't understand. You can try moving around the room, varying the speed of your speech, asking some questions, or whatever else seems appropriate to refocus students back on you. If, on the other hand, you see students leaning forward, waving their hands in the air, looking directly at you, etc., chances are you've got them where you want them.
4. BE SENSITIVE TO STUDENT NOTE-TAKING NEEDS. Whenever you can, use phrases like, "There are four applications of this theory... The first one is..." Your care in phrasing and pacing what you have to say lets students know you're aware of their presence.
The above hints will help you make good contact with your students. There are, in addition, some errors that TAs frequently make:
1. THE END OF THE PERIOD TIME-CRUNCH. There are five minutes left and you realize you will not finish the material so you race through what's left in an effort to get it done. The difficulties here are that a) the material becomes more important to you than the students when this occurs, b) your increased speed makes it difficult for students to absorb the material, and c) you'll probably do an inadequate job of covering the material in a coherent manner. For all of these reasons, students may sense your loss of contact with them and may turn you off. Your haste will be wasted. Let your students know that you are running out of time and outline the unfinished material on the board. Refer students to relevant places in their textbook and begin the next section with a brief review of what you covered or should have covered at the last meeting.
2. THE HIDDEN TA. You stand behind the teacher's desk or lab table, with all your material on the lectern, and speak to your students from there, occasionally raising your eyes from your carefully prepared notes. If you continue from this position, all other hints for good student contact may be wasted since students may quickly feel your lack of involvement with them. Move around the room! Stand near various students! Look at different people! These (and other) techniques not only help you maintain contact with students and break the monotony, but also allow you to see the room from a student's perspective.
3. THE PRIVATE CONVERSATION SYNDROME. Student A asks you a question and you respond to that student, developing a three-minute, interesting (to the two of you) dialogue. The other students in the room may feel left out or bored since the question may not have been theirs. When answering a student's question, respond not only to the asker but to the other students in the room as if they were equally interested in the response.
In general, to maintain excellent student contact, DO THE THINGS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE LIKED YOUR TEACHERS TO DO.
Any setting, including your classroom, exerts many and frequently subtle influences on the people in that environment. (Restaurant reviewers call it "ambiance" and rate it along with the quality of the food.) An uncomfortable environment can jeopardize the very climate you are trying to create. Below are some ideas to aid you in creating a classroom environment and structure which facilitates both your teaching and your students' learning.
First make sure you VISIT YOUR ASSIGNED ROOM(S) A FEW DAYS BEFORE YOU TEACH THERE. If you discover you're teaching a section of 40 in a room designed for 25, you may have a chance to find a better location. If necessary, contact Room Scheduling or the appropriate person in your department to discuss these concerns in advance.
Once settled, TAKE A LOOK AT THE WAY THE ROOM IS ORGANIZED. Seating is a prime consideration, and it can do a great deal to either facilitate or hinder what goes on in your classroom. The traditional rule of thumb is to make sure that all the students are clearly within the instructor's range of vision.
Remember that you can manipulate seating to foster any number of effects from closeness to conflict. There are any number of ways to arrange seating, so you'll want to experiment and solicit suggestions from your students. For example, IF YOU WANT LOTS OF DISCUSSION, place desks or chairs in a circle or horseshoe. This arrangement facilitates the give-and-take of conversation inasmuch as students can see one another when they talk. Students are also much more likely to get to know one another in a face-to-face seating arrangement and are more apt to stay attentive throughout the hour, as it is more difficult to withdraw or space out from a circle without being noticed. IF YOU PLAN TO LECTURE, arrange the furniture so that all students can easily see you without straining. Ask your students to comment upon present arrangements and on what would be useful for them.
Good environments are frequently flexible ones. Feel free to have students move their chairs several times during a class. For example, you might have them move into a circle for discussion, into small groups for in-depth exploration of a topic, and back to rows for your lecture. Experiment with different room arrangements to find those which work best for you.
A TA's voice can play a large part in the generation or termination of students' interest in a subject. There are three major components to a good speaking voice: 1) volume (loudness or softness); 2) speed of words (pace); 3) modulation or pitch (highness and lowness). The idea is to speak LOUD ENOUGH to be heard, without forcing the students farthest away from you to strain their ears, and SOFTLY ENOUGH for people to understand what you are saying, and QUICKLY ENOUGH that people don't doze off while waiting for your next word. Finally, MODULATE YOUR PITCH so that you neither drone people off to dreamland nor remind them of a theater performance.
How do you know if your speaking voice is right for the room size and for your students? The following suggestions may help you decide if and where you need improvement.
1. Ask your students if they can hear you, if you are going too fast, etc.
2. Watch your students. Their occasional lack of attention may be caused by not being able to hear you, by being bored by your voice, or by literally not understanding your words.
3. Tape yourself using a portable tape recorder placed in the back of the room. If you are speaking loudly enough, the tape will pick up your voice.
4. Listen to your own speech for annoying habits like repeatedly saying, "Uh", or "Um", or "You know", or "Okay, okay?".
5. Avoid dropping your voice at the end of your sentence or thought.
In general, watch your students' responses, ask for feedback, and if you have questions about the sound of your presentation, voice them.
The guiding principle of board work is: LOOK AT YOUR WRITING AS THOUGH YOU WERE A STUDENT IN YOUR OWN CLASS. Probably, almost anything you put on the board will be clear to you. The task, however, is to make your presentation clear to your students. Here are some points to keep in mind while planning a board presentation.
STUDENTS MUST BE ABLE TO SEE AND TO READ WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN. Illegible or obscured work is valueless. Watch out if you have small handwriting, tend to scrawl, or write too lightly. Sit in one of the last rows and take a critical look at your board work. Unless the floor of the classroom is sloped, students in the middle of the room won't be able to see the bottom of the board. Some TA's like to mark the off the "bottom line of visibility" with a chalk line. If there is a desk at the front of the class, keep it clear of objects that might obstruct vision. Additionally, try to keep your work visible for as long as possible. If you are right-handed, fill the right-hand panel first, then move to the panel on the left and continue your writing. In this way, YOU will not be blocking the view of students copying the writing that you have just completed.
YOUR BOARD WORK MUST BE ORGANIZED SO THAT STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO INTERPRET THEIR NOTES LATER. (a) First erase the board completely. This step is especially important in mathematics, where stray lines may be interpreted as symbols. (b) If you are to solve a problem or prove a theorem, write a complete statement of the problem or theorem on the board, or write a precise reference. (c) Fill in one panel at a time, always starting at the top and moving down. (d) Make your notation consistent with that in the textbook or the professor's lecture, so that students do not have to translate from one system of symbols into another. (e) Underline, or in some other way mark the most important parts of you presentation-the major assumptions, conclusions, or intermediate steps that you plan to refer to later on. Colored chalk may help to clarify drawings.
ERASE ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE RUN OUT OF SPACE TO WRITE. Modifying boardwork in midstream can be a frustrating experience for students who are trying to transcribe your material into their notebooks. A physics TA may reach a crucial point in the derivation of an equation and then quickly erase and replace terms. A biology TA may draw a diagram and then rapidly change first one part of the diagram and then another to show a process. If you are modifying a drawing, use dotted lines or some other technique to show changes. Remember that students cannot make the same erasures that you do without losing their written record of intermediate steps: you can alter parts of a drawing much faster than they can reproduce the whole thing.
IF YOU FIND THAT YOU HAVE MADE A MISTAKE, STOP. Don't go back over the last three panels madly erasing minus signs: first explain your error, then go back and make corrections, preferably with a different color of chalk.
IF YOU ARE PRESENTING MATERIAL THAT YOU WANT STUDENTS TO DUPLICATE IN THEIR NOTES, YOU NEED TO GIVE THEM TIME TO COPY WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN. They should not be asked to analyze while they are writing. When you want them to make or discuss a point, stop writing. Let people catch up to you (they may be lagging behind by two or three lines). THEN begin your discussion. Similarly, if you have engaged in a long discussion without writing very much on the board, allow them time to summarize the discussion in their own minds and to write their summary down in their notes before you again begin to use the board or to speak.
AVOID USING THE BOARD AS A LARGE DOODLING PAD. Students assume that what you write on the board is important. The board should serve to highlight and clarify your discussion or lecture. Used wisely, the board will enhance and underscore your presentation, not diminish it.
FIND OUT IF YOU ARE USING THE BOARD EFFECTIVELY. (a) At some point, ask your students if they can read or make sense of what you have written. Don't do this every five minutes-an occasional check, however, is in order. (b) After class, without prior notice, request one of your good and one of your average students to lend you their notes. If the notes seem incomplete or incoherent, ask yourself what you could have done to make your presentation more clear. (c) View a videotape of your presentation, putting yourself in the place of a student taking notes.
As a TA, you are expected to hold office hours for your students. Your department should provide you with office space for this purpose. Generally, TAs are asked to schedule between two to four hours per week for student consultations. It is likely that you will be asked to share your office with at least one other TA, so it is advisable for the two (or more) of you to get together early in the quarter to attempt to arrange non-conflicting office hours (it's usually much easier to keep your mind on helping a student when there isn't another conversation occurring simultaneously in the room).
Varying hours may be a good idea. Rather than scheduling your hours MWF 1-2:00, you might set up hours like M 1-2:00, TU 10:00-11:00, and F 11:00-12:00. That way, you may avoid having to schedule individual appointments with students whose schedules conflict with your 1-2:00 time slot.
Some TAs have found it desirable to require their students to make at least one visit during office hours. If you can get students to show up once and they find the experience pleasant and useful (rather than painful), chances are that you'll be seeing students regularly during your office hours. Realistically, visits are likely to be cyclical. You can expect anxious faces at your door right before exams and as deadlines approach for papers or assignments.
Office hours can be used to peruse mistakes on papers and tests, to discuss strategies for future assignments, to clarify confusing points in last week's lecture, to demystify a demonstration given in class, or to help you get to know your students better. The rapport that you establish with students during office hours is likely to carry over into your class.
SOME CAUTIONS: As a new TA, you may find yourself rewriting your students' work, giving them answers that they might be able to figure out for themselves, or getting sucked into sad stories that students may tell you and extending work deadlines far beyond the bounds of reality. If this sounds all too familiar, sit back for a minute. Just what are your responsibilities as a TA? You want to facilitate student progress in the course and help everyone make it through, but you do not want to be assuming the role of student for your own section!
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Not a typical bus tour, this 'bucket list tour' of Austin gives you a city overview in just two hours. With an insider guide, see landmarks and lesser-known gems that only a local would know about, as well as real neighborhoods, and, of course, the food trucks. You have a choice of morning and afternoon tour times; select when booking to suit your schedule.
Your tour of Austin begins at the visitor center, where you'll meet your guide, who takes you on an exploration of the city.Unlike double-decker bus tours where you are dropped off at the biggest attractions to sightsee on your own, this tour introduces you to several locations that you'll pop into for a few minutes each, learning about them from your guide, whose in-the-know commentary provides more insight than you could get elsewhere. As you go, cross of items from your bucket list, including the inside of the Capitol and the graffiti park. Take a photo in front of the Austin postcard, and enjoy a sweet treat at the food trucks.You'll learn about art, music, culture, food, history, parks, famous residents, and how the locals 'Keep Austin Weird.' By the end of your tour, there is no doubt that you will know why people love Austin. Come as strangers, leave as friends.


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With a size of 8,5 million sqkm, Brazil is one of the largest countries in the world. It is about twice as big as Europe (European Union) and in order to know all of it, a lifetime might not be enough.
I once met a journalist who spent three years of his life to visit and film all of Brazil`s national parks, an area which represents less than 5% of Brazil' territory. Since more than ten years, I am personally exploring the rainforest trails in South and Southeast Brazil and sometimes wondering how many of them exist and how long it can take to come back to the same place.
Who already had the opportunity to travel between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, a section which looks minuscule on every Brazil map, will agree with me that 10 days is not too much, in order to explore at least some of the treasures that lie between those two metropolitan areas.
So, when you pretend to visit Brazil with a limited time, it may be wise to pre-select some destinations, before travelling. To do so, you may divide Brazil in regions, states, municiples and cities but as a traveller or tourist, a better approach might be, to divide and to understand Brazil in form of biomes.
You can select between the tropical Caatinga desert in the northeast, the Cerrado savannah and the Pantanal floodlands in the center west, the Pampa grassland in the south and two rainforest biomes; the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica). All of these biomes are flat with the exception of the Atlantic Rainforest, where the Mar / Mantiqueira mountain chains expose mountains of up to 3.000 height meters to the tourist.


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Tropical Storm Franklin strengthening
Could be near hurricane strength by landfall in the Yucatan
Could be near hurricane strength by landfall in the Yucatan
Tropical Storm Franklin is strengthening and could reach hurricane strength before making landfall Tuesday morning in the Yucatan peninsula.
Officials with the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported at 10 a.m. that Franklin's top wind speed increased to 60 mph, up from 45 mph earlier this morning. Category 1 hurricane wind speed is 74 mph.
An Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft will be flying into Franklin this afternoon. That flight data will provide more accurate wind speed within Franklin. The overall environment will allow for Franklin to strengthen some before landfall.
Franklin is located in the northwest Caribbean Sea and is moving west-northwest at 14 mph (22.5 kph). Franklin will make landfall first in the Yucatan peninsula early Tuesday morning, then reemerge over the southern Gulf of Mexico by early Wednesday morning. It will continue moving west-northwest toward mainland Mexico, making landfall a second time early Thursday morning.
A Hurricane Watch is in place for the Mexican coast between Chetumal to Punta Allen. A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Belize City north to the Mexican border, and along the Mexican coast from Chetumal to Campeche.
Heavy rain with rain totals of up to 12 inches, life-threatening flash flooding, and storm surges 2-4 feet above normal tide levels are expected in the watch and warning areas.


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From a quick comparison of the two on their respective website (I built out my ideal spec for each one) it seems like the Benz pretty thoroughly cleans the kitty's clock. Even the Volvo V90 seems like a more appealing prospect, and it's way less expensive. Car and Driver seems to concur with me, although I disagree with their opinion that the Jaguar is sleeker than the E400. TL;DR the E400 (now the E450) Estate is one of my favorite cars currently on sale and I want one with the Designo Macchiato Beige/Saddle Brown interior badly.


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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Hans-Juergen Rennau <firstname.lastname@example.com>wrote:
Michael Kay wrote:
"and they [namespaces] add myriad opportunities for doing things wrong."
You forgot an item in your list: they offer a unique possibility to get
things right when things get really complicated.
For example when you do what I presently do: integrate schema information
from 283 different schemas. Fortunately they use namespaces - 283 target
namespaces - which enables me to keep everything clean without relying on
document URIs and or any conventions, and without adding anything to
existing structures (like marker attributes). I admit that I miss a lot of
fun which I might have if there were no such thing as a target namespace
(the shadow of namespaces).
I would start much, much further back and commiserate with you about having
to integrate info from 238 different schemas. If I were dealing in an
environment that broken I would start by fixing it in my local context.
Pipelines much more effective in doing so than namespaces.
Why is this architecture necessarily broken?
ĀLoose architectural systems, where clearly identified external dependencies are injected in and resolved and dispatched via external configuration are likely to be much more flexible than a system that has to be crafted with intimate knowledge of a pipeline of how the data should be processed.
As others have said, we're not all solving the same problem.


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Our most recent travels took us to a place that was just as unknown to me as it was to Seinfeld's leading lady, Elaine Benes. Seinfeld enthusiasts will likely recall this classic exchange between Elaine and her globe-trotting boss, Mr. Peterman.
Scene: Mr. Peterman in a phone booth in a far-off land. Elaine on the phone in her Manhattan office.
Mr. Peterman: I'm in Burma!
Elaine: Burma??????
Mr. Peterman: Oh, Elaine. You may know it better as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.
For many (including Elaine and me), Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is a country that is widely unknown, untraveled, and misunderstood. The reason being is that for much of the country's independent years (since 1948) it has been under military rule and engrossed in a civil war. It's only been following the official dissolving of the military juncta in 2011 that tourism has been on the rise.
Years of isolation from the outside world make Yangon an intriguing mix of old, older, and ancient. In 'modern' Yangon much has remained unchanged and little has been well maintained since the early '50's. And then there are pockets of two eras bygone – the colonial and pre-historic Burma – that have been immaculately preserved. Experiencing these pseudo time capsules made our trip to Yangon feel like a time-traveling adventure.
'Modern' Myanmar
There is nothing truly modern about Yangon as years of economic dysfunction have taken a considerable toll on the cityscape. Mildew-covered buildings haunt the city streets. Public buses (packed to the gills with riders) seem as though they've been in service for decades. And, ravaged city sidewalks are more like obstacle courses for pedestrians.
That being said, it's somewhat refreshing to visit a place that is totally void of the ubiquitous chains that now populate every Asian city. Who knew that a city could function without a Starbucks, Ferragamo, and KFC on every corner? The absence of these brands makes it easy to imagine what life was like sixty years ago when Myanmar was the second wealthiest country in Southeast Asia and seemingly on the fast track to economic glory days. Sadly, this once thriving country has instead become the third most isolated country the world (congratulations to North Korea and Somalia for receiving the gold and silver in that category, respectively) and the 39th poorest.
Colonial Burma
For nearly 150 years, Burma was an important British colony. Most of the jaunts we frequented during our stay in Yangon were built by the British during this period and provide an amazing glimpse back in time. Sweeping lobbies with black and white tile floors and massive overhead fans invite visitors in for a break from the oppressive tropical heat. Wicker furniture, massive palms, and exquisite fretwork easily coerce them to stay awhile. And the beautiful teak bar rooms make them think, 'There's nowhere else I really need to be.'
Our visit to Yangon coincided with monsoon season so the incessant downpours forced us – with little disappointment – to really hunker down at these colonial establishments. As we cozied up with Manhattans and Old Fashions to let the rainy afternoons pass, Jeff and I couldn't help but imagine we were characters in a 1920's spy novel set in the Far East. Jeff – the narrator – incessantly rattled off lines in an ominous voice like, 'I was meant to meet our man in Yangon at The Savoy Hotel.' Or, 'It's raining. Then again, it always rains in Yangon.'
If Jeff really were a British spy and I an adventure-seeking heroine, I'm certain our rendezvouses would have taken place at these spots:
129, Dhammazedi Road
Yangon, Myanmar
During our time in Yangon, we stayed at the Hotel Savoy which was actually only built in 1995 but it so perfectly mimics the colonial style that I could have been easily fooled that it has been welcoming guests for ages. It's just a stone throw away from Yangon's pièce de résistance – Shwedagon Pagoda. Guests are treated to views of the pagoda as they get their day started over breakfast at Kipling's Terrace or as they wind down over an evening cocktail at The Captain's Bar. (Even the restaurant names are throw backs!)
22 Kaba Aye Pagoda Road
Yangon, Myanmar
This red brick manor house, which dates from the beginning of the British colonial period, is now home to the best restaurant in town…probably in the country…and in my opinion possibly in Asia. Nonetheless, the highlight of the evening may have been the antique car hotel transfer – compliments of Le Planteur. Again, my imagination easily ran wild with visions of Jeff as Gatsby and me as Daisy.
But, buyers beware, the restaurant only takes cash. Jeff and I were counting our pennies throughout the meal wondering, 'Can we afford just one more glass of wine? Is there enough to cover just a taste of dessert?'
35 Taw Win Road, Dagon Township
Yangon, Myanmar
Dating from the 1920's, this colonial-style mansion formerly housed the governor of Myanmar's southern states. It only housed Jeff and me for a rainy afternoon, but should an extended stay have been required, I would have been more than happy to oblige.
92 Strand Road
Yangon, Myanmar
Today, we have the Hiltons, the Pritzkers, and the Marriotts. But, at the turn of the 20th century, the Sarkies Brothers were the Southeast Asian hoteliers. We've now hit up all three of their still-standing grand colonial hotels including The Eastern & Oriental Hotel in Penang, The Raffles Hotel in Singapore (of course), and now The Strand Hotel in Yangon. These hotels are absolutely majestic, incredibly restored, and should definitely be on your itinerary should you visit any of these cities. We've found though, with the exception of Raffles, that the hotels are always nearly empty. No people watching = a snooze fest for me. (Jeff loves to capture me running out of steam.)
Two final colonial hot spots to round out my list include Monsoon Cafe and L'Opera.
Monsoon Cafe
No. 85-87, Theinbyu Road (lower block)
Botataung Township, Yangon
Hit up Monsoon Cafe for a city-center lunch break from the heat and scary sidewalks. The food is nothing to write home about, but the ambience and service are lovely.
62 D, U Htun Nyein Street, Mayangone
Yangon Myanmar
L'Opera is located in a stately home outside of the city center and off a dirt road which seemed to me like a good place to hide dead bodies. Once you get inside, the Italian cuisine makes the creepy trip worth it.
Pre-Historic Burma
The second era that is so exquisitely preserved in Yangon dates back to a time long before the British arrived – some 2,000 years before in fact. Yangon's collection of breathtaking Buddhist pagodas offer visitors a taste of seriously ancient history that is still alive and well today. We visited two of Yangon's 'big three' payas and skirted around the third (Sule Paya). I found this time traveling experience a bit mind boggling. Religious pilgrims have been visiting these sites and performing the same religious practices that we observed for THOUSANDS of years. Talk about standing the test of time!
Shwedagon Paya
Shwedagon Paya has lots of superlatives attached to its name – oldest, most sacred, and in my opinion, most beautiful. This pagoda has existed for over 2,600 years making it the oldest pagoda not only in Burma, but in the world. For any Burmese Buddhist, getting to the Shwedagon Pagoda is the trip of a lifetime and once they make it, they are sure not to be disappointed. The pagoda is covered head to toe in gold and simply glistens from vantage points all throughout the city.
That being said, as compared to other religious powerhouses like Angkur Wat or the Taj Mahal, I don't think this monument gets nearly the press it deserves. And, as a result (and lucky for us), it doesn't attract the hoards of tourists. This has been one of the few times in our Asian travels that Jeff and I truly stuck out like sore thumbs as obvious tourists. Usually the Chinese tourists with the tripods and tour buses take the cake in this regard.
Botataung Paya
On the 'awe-inspiring' spectrum, Botataung Paya falls much lower than Shwedagon Paya. As a result, we were almost in and out in ten minutes but luckily we were talked up by a very chatty monk who gave us the lay of the land and revealed some of Botataung Paya's hidden secrets. He led us back to a monster Buddha that would have definitely gone unnoticed otherwise, explained what the water pouring practice was all about, and highlighted that President Obama and I have the same Burmese Zodiac animal sign – the guinea pig (obviously).
Our trip to Myanmar was nothing if not enlightening for me. I arrived on a Friday evening knowing basically nothing about Myanmar thinking to myself, 'Or is it called Burma?' Forty-eight rainy hours later I felt like I had a glimpse into not just Myanmar as it is today, but what it was like hundreds and thousands of years ago as well. If you have yet to visit Myanmar, hopefully I've piqued your interest and you'll get there and do a bit of time traveling yourself.
This article was originally published by The Girl on The Ground and reproduced with permission.


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UET students get laptopsArchive
LAHORE: The completion of the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor will make Pakistan the most important country in the region.
This was stated by MNA Hamza Shahbaz while speaking at a function held for the distribution of laptops under the Prime Minister's Laptop Scheme among students at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.
UET Vice-Chancellor Dr Fazal Khalid also addressed the function.
Hamza said the economic corridor would prove to be a game-changer setting a new era of development in the country.
He said the day was not far when brain drain from Pakistan would stop and rather those already abroad would wish to return to the homeland.
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Third Theology
Parish: St. Anthony, Menomonee Falls
Seminary: St. Francis de Sales
Birthday: December 17
Intercessor: St. Lucy, St. Josemaria Escriva, St. Joan of Arc
I think I am a laid back geek who loves competition, and wants to do whatever I can to serve God and His people. I also normally have trouble describing myself.
While growing up, I had great examples of faith in my parents and in many priests that were family friends. I saw priests give great examples of their work, mission, and love for God's people and the church through their service and presence in their parishes and in my own life. I was naturally drawn towards this reality of the priesthood, and greatly admired who these priests were as men, and as men of God. The first time I thought I heard God's call to the priesthood was during my first communion. Afterwards I told my parents that I wanted to pray the rosary with them every day, and surprisingly I did! During middle school things happened that caused me to really question what God's wanted from me, and what purpose He had for me. On one evening of questioning God, I came to experience an awareness of what I now think is my call to the priesthood, and the complete peace that followed it. Years later, here I am now still pursuing this call, living a dream I have had for a long while!
The challenge of feeling unworthy is one that I have personally faced. "Why choose me? Why not someone better? What gifts do I have that make me worth calling? How do I fit into the priesthood?" We are flawed and imperfect, no one can argue against that. However we have to look at a simple solution to these complicated questions. If God is God, and God wants you to be a priest, He will make you able! We must trust that.
Psalm 51:7- "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." Psalm 51:7 carries so much meaning within it. This verse contains not only the faith that God forgives and heals, but also how. The hyssop branch was dipped in the blood of the first passover lamb, and sprinkled on the doors of the Israelite's, so that the angel of death would pass over them. So also does the hyssop refer to Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, as wine and vinegar were offered to Jesus on a hyssop branch in response to His" I thirst", which was for the salvation of us all. Through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, we can all cleansed to the utmost purity.
I am a geek and gamer, so video production and editing, playing Counterstrike, Rocket League and other games, but not much beats a pickup game of volleyball.
Besides everywhere and anytime, my favorite time to pray is in the chapel somewhere around midnight. It is just so peaceful and quiet, and I can almost guarantee I will not be interrupted!
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One in particular would be St. Josemaria Escriva. His love for the people of God, and his tenacity in service and love has been an irreplaceable example in my life. I hope that one day I can love God's people with a fraction of St. Josemaria's resolve, because that love can change the world for people.
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- 0.5 tsp. salt
- 1 tbsp. Maizena cornflour
- 4 tbsp. sugar
- 3 tbsp. sunflower oil
- 2 dl water
- icing sugar to dust
- 1.5 dl coconut milk
- 1 fresh eggs
- 3 cm ginger, cut into thin slices
- 1.5 dl cream
- 230 g white flour
- 0.75 dl lukewarm water
- 600 g apricots, cut into segments
- 3 tbsp. cranberries
- 6 tbsp. coconut flakes
Combine the coconut milk and remaining ingredients with the cornflour and beat with a whisk. Add the ginger, bring to the boil over a medium heat, stirring constantly. As soon as the mixture thickens, immediately remove the pan from the heat, stir for a further 2 mins. or so. Strain the sauce, allow to cool. Beat the cream until stiff, fold in. Cover the sauce and chill for about an hour.
Combine the flour, salt and sugar. Combine the egg, oil and water and mix well, add, combine with a ladle and, on a surface dusted with a little flour, knead to a smooth, soft dough. Leave the dough to rest at room temperature for approx. 30 mins. underneath a bowl.
Mix the apricots, cranberries and sugar. On a surface lightly dusted with flour, roll out the dough to a rectangular shape, as thinly as possible, place on a cloth and, with floured hands, carefully stretch outwards from the middle until the dough is translucent. Coat the dough with 100 ml of coconut milk and scatter over 4 tbsp of coconut flakes. Distribute filling over the bottom half of the dough, leaving a free edge of about 2 cm. Fold the side edges inwards, lift the cloth and loosely roll up the strudel. Place the strudel on an oven tray lined with baking paper, with the seam facing down, coat with the remaining coconut milk and scatter over the remaining coconut flakes.
Bake for approx. 35 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 200°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool.
- Desserts
- 2h 30 Preparation/cooking time: ca. 25m + Refrigerate: ca. 60m + Allow to rest: ca. 30m + Bake: ca. 35m
- Servings For 8 servings
- Nutrition 415 Kcal


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Job Role
- Design, build and maintain the Development, Test and Production environments using cloud services.
- Ensure the SLA for IQM services with a high-availability system design and production-monitoring plan.
- Ensure application performance in production to scale.
- Update the data center infrastructure through automation for scaling the services and reducing costs.
- Ensure the security and integrity of IQM's services.
- Provide and maintain tools which will help Continuous Integration & Application Deployment to cloud production environment.
- Provide timely response to system alerts and participate in the on-call schedule.
Skills Required
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, autoscaling, ELB management, EBS storage management, S3,RDS,EMR jobs.
- Ability to work on cost optimization of AWS services consumed.
- Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS) server administration – debugging and resolving system/application issues.
- Developing {Python, shell, Perl} scripts for automating routine tasks.
- Ability to setup MySQL or PostgresQL database, troubleshoot DB issues & improve DB performance.
- Ability to configure and maintain web-servers (e.g. apache & nginx), DNS servers, Firewalls, LDAP servers, Tomcat servers.
- Working knowledge of Git, Maven and Jenkins.
- Managing production deployment.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by long-term
poor airflow. The main symptoms include shortness of breath and
cough with sputum production. COPD is a progressive disease, meaning
it typically worsens over time. Eventually everyday activities,
such as walking up stairs, become difficult. Chronic bronchitis
and emphysema are older terms used for different types of COPD.
The term "chronic bronchitis" is still used to define
a productive cough that is present for at least three months each
year for two years.
Tobacco smoking is the most common cause of COPD,
with factors such as air pollution and genetics playing a smaller
role. In the developing world, one of the common sources of air
pollution is poorly vented heating and cooking fires. Long-term
exposure to these irritants causes an inflammatory response in the
lungs, resulting in narrowing of the small airways and breakdown
of lung tissue. The diagnosis is based on poor airflow as measured
by lung function tests. In contrast to asthma, the airflow reduction
does not improve much with the use of a bronchodilator.
Most cases of COPD can be prevented by reducing
exposure to risk factors. This includes decreasing rates of smoking
and improving indoor and outdoor air quality. While treatment can
slow worsening, there is no cure. COPD treatments include stopping
smoking, vaccinations, respiratory rehabilitation, and often inhaled
bronchodilators and steroids. Some people may benefit from long-term
oxygen therapy or lung transplantation. In those who have periods
of acute worsening, increased use of medications and hospitalization
may be needed.
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1) Tests or questions you ask in first few meetings
2) What it means in medical terms
3) What it means in non medical terms
4) What should the patient or care takers do
We might interview Aurvedic doctors, homeopathic doctors, Yoga teachers
on this health issue
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overview
What Causes
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text: Nike x NBA It was a thorn in my eyes. A thorn of three stripes. 11 years long. But this has come to an end. Beginning by the season 2017/18 starting at 20 October the NBA is sponsored by Nike. From this moment on the Swoosh graces all jerseys and practice clothes. The contract is valid for 8 years and 3 days ago they finally released the official jerseys of all teams. And Nike has developed something very special for the fans. The NikeConnect technology. It will bring us closer to the game as ever before. Supported by an app and via touch between smartphone and label on the jersey Nike connects you with exclusive information about players and teams and special offers. Decide for yourself if brilliant of needless.


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This scene from the 2009 comedy movie "All The Best: Fun Begins" isn't a car chase, but a car race. Nevertheless, the improbable stunts and impossible accidents make it a fun ride, and worthy of inclusion in this series about how Bollywood can go over the top with almost anything. Enjoy!
Love the car standing for an extended period on its nose, before being demolished by a direct hit amidships from another vehicle. Even with today's non-chassis vehicles, I found that a bit of a stretch . . . but, hey - it's Bollywood! Anything can, and usually does, happen!