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Although these units don't require much maintenance, operators and service agents can perform a number of procedures to help extend the service life of warewashers. The list below contains general maintenance information and should not be substituted for the manufacturer's requirements and recommendations.
Ask operators of any stripe what their main concerns are and controlling costs and ensuring food safety will likely be high on the list. With air curtains, DSRs have the opportunity to sell one product that can address both these issues simultaneously.
These labor saving tools eliminate the need to scrub pots and pans and operators can customize them to fit almost any need
It's 'safe' to say that quick-cooling blast chillers are an efficient solution to chilling foods through microbial danger zones, and can provide other benefits to foodservice operators, as well.


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Cupcake15-I agree that a consumption tax like a national sales tax would be fair. I also like the idea of the flat tax which would make all Americans pay the same percentage of tax.
This would eliminate the tax on social security earnings as well as the federal tax table. There would be no need for income tax estimator because there would be no IRS and everyone would know exactly what they would owe in taxes.
I prefer a consumption tax vs., and income tax, but I doubt that congress will make any changes to the tax code anytime soon.

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Any ideas about what this is?
You can see the three letters on the main menu screen and also on the tactical/feed board on the Paladin.
Any ideas about what this is?
You can see the three letters on the main menu screen and also on the tactical/feed board on the Paladin.
"I play Splinter Cell...as Sam Fisher"
Some other possibilities:
SMI is an abbreviation for Strategic Mission Interface, the SMI is a new operating system that Sam can use to help him analyze, assess, and determine the best course of action.
This results in myriad options when it comes to a player's approach to an encounter or situation. The player has the option to call in air support for a messy, show-stopping kill just as easily as going for a silent and lethal melee attack.
Text was copy and pasted and came out in a font like that. Sorry
EDIT: Link: http://www.ign.com/wikis/splinter-cell-blacklist/SMI
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I think it means my Wife is going to be able to do the missile gameplay from an Ipad or similar while I play my SP?
Actually, now I just watched the G4 bit it sounds like the SMI is the big glass table Grim and Sam are standing at. Apparently it will show the Player all of the available Maps that can be accessed. SP, Co-op, MP, and the Player will be able to jump into any mission/match really easily.
Sounds like a new Menu Interface. 'System Mission Interface'?...I didn't catch it in the bit.
Edit: Oh look, you already posted it, Strategic Mission Interface.
Sounds good though. I liked SCC menu's and interfacing. I wonder if they can improve on them.
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I didn't like the menu and interface of SCC. It wouldn't be bad but I loved the digital, OPSAT look of the previous games (DA360's start menu was akin to SCC in that it wasn't the OPSAT like SAR, PT, or CT BUT the in-game interface for objectives and all that was still the OPSAT. I hope the start screen is the same picture as the demo start screen and the in-game pause is the OPSAT (and you can quit game or switch "tabs" and view objectives and all that) OR the pause screen is some screen with the same color scheme as the demo start screen with Options, Save Game, Revert to Last Save/Checkpoint, Quit Game, etc. and the back button will be the OPSAT (like it was in DA).


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Lowestoft Armed Forces Day featuring an aerobatic display by Nigel Wilson in YAK 52, and a drumhead ceremony led by Rev Andrew White. Pic Mick Howes
By BEN WOODS
Sunday, July 1, 2012
A swooping aerobatics display and traditional parades provided a fitting tribute to serving men and women at Armed Forces Day in Lowestoft.
Scores of people descended on Royal Green on Saturday to indulge in the military pomp and extravagant regalia, while paying respect to the British Army, the Royal Airforce, the Royal Navy and the adjoining military services.
As families mingled with medal-clad veterans, there was a sense of excitement as people took in this year's displays including the Spitfire MK805, the artillery gun presented by the Colchester-based 7th Parachute Regiment RHA, and the fly past by the YAK 52 piloted by Nigel Wilson.
But there were also tears from some veterans when Rev Andrew White conducted the Drumhead service of Commemoration – a church service traditionally carried out near the field of battle.
Major General John Sutherell, who represented Lord Tollemache, Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk, said the day gave the armed forces the chance to engage with the public.
Major Sutherell said: "It is the opportunity for the armed forces in the wider sense, and the organisations linked to them, to present themselves to the public.
"And, the opportunity for the public to show their recognition as well."
The organisations taking part in parades and displays included, the band of the 469 (Lowestoft) Squadron Air Training Corps; the (Lowestoft T S Europa) Sea Cadet Corps; Southwold and Reydon Corps of Drums; B Company Army Cadet Corps; the Royal British Legion (Harwich) pipe band; The Salvation Army Band and a military-themed performance by the Cantors Theatre School.
Meanwhile, there were also stands from military services at Royal Green including a display of military vehicles and weapons by the Lowestoft Memorial Museum.
Leo Whisstock, co-organiser of the event and secretary of the Lowestoft and District Combined Ex-Serivces Association, said: "The day is about bringing the forces into the public eye.
"We often hear in the media about the armed forces facing government cuts, or people being killed in Afghanistan, but it is also good for the public to meet them and get feed back both ways."
As well as the Spitfire, the new additions to this year's Armed Forces Day were the US Airforce from RAF Mildenhall and the Halesworth and District Model Engineering Society who provided rides on traction engines up and down the seafront.
The mayor of Lowestoft, Nick Webb, said Armed Forces Day also paid tribute to the families of serving men and women.
He said: "It is huge that we support our armed forces, both our serving forces and our cadets because they are the future.
"But not forgetting service families. They play a massive role in supporting the troops. The work they do gets filtered back to the guys on the front line."
At present, the 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the Vikings, and the Light Dragoons, based in Swanton Morley, near Dereham, Norfolk, are deployed in Afghanistan.
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The day should have been called the Demise of the UK Forces Day. As Cameron and his ilk continue to dismember the armed forces. His actions are an insult to the fine men and women who have served and continue to serve this country with pride.
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One of Germany's most elite producers, Czientist has been an in-house producer for Mightier Than Then Sword Records since 2011, however his work with the label started four years earlier when Czientist and label founder, Ty Bru reunited online during the myspace craze of that time.
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My elderly mother received 2 letters from Mercy Corps stating that they "spoke with her by phone" and that she agreed to make a $100 gift.
Not only is this a complete fabrication, it greatly disturbed me since my mother had a stroke and has been in a nursing home, unable to speak, for over 18 months.
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I very much admire the fact that this charity, in addition to its other merciful work, offers microloans to US fledgling businesses, such as the one described in this article: http://www.newsregister.com/article?articleTitle=acupuncturist+gets+start+with+mercy+corps%27+help--1324229737--2268-- America would be so much the better if these small loans were expanded to include small businesses in all the 50 states and NOT just those local to the corporate office in Oregon. Right now so many small businesses in America are foundering. SO MANY right here in OUR country are losing the battle for survival. Without question,the plight of so many worldwide is tragic, I DO believe, however, given the current economic status of small business owners here in the US, in the case of MICRO-BUSINESS LOANS, that charity should also be given at home - all across America. I think of my niece and her husband and their two small children, the younger of which is autistic and the elder still struggling with physical disabilities resultant from a premature birth They have worked so long and hard for 6 years to establish themselves and now struggle desperately to stay afloat ,feed clothe and provide medical care for their family, as they eke out a living and use every ounce of creativity to seek new alternative sources of revenue as they wait for the core industry for their business - the stagnant construction industry-- to rebound. These young people did so much to help the community in ay way they could in donations, community contributions and so forth during their busiest years. Now they struggle day to day with no help for the weary. I hope this agency will think on these things.
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Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they're being harvested for muti, a witch doctor's potion traditionally derived from plants and animals—and which, some believe, can be made more potent by adding human remains. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu joins the investigation with the police force's newest detective—and only woman—Samantha Khama, for whom the case is personal.
Soon one girl's father, convinced that his daughter's death is linked to the recent popularity of a political candidate, takes the law into his own hands. After the father flees, what Kubu and Samantha find in the politician's home confirms their worst fears: muti containing human DNA is real.
Now Kubu and Samantha are thrust into a harrowing race to stop a serial killer or killers—and those who would pay for their special, lethal muti.
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Michael Stanley is the writing team of Johannesburg natives Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Sears was born in Johannesburg, grew up in Cape Town and Nairobi, and teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. Trollip was on the faculty at the universities of Illinois, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and at Capella University, and divides his time between South Africa and Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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Understanding causes of tree growth response to gap formation: ∆13C-values in tree rings reveal a predominant effect of light
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Carbon isotope ratios in growth rings of a tropical tree species show that treefall gaps stimulate diameter growth mainly through changes in the availability of light and not water.
The formation of treefall gaps in closed canopy forests usually entails considerable increases in light and nutrient availability for remaining trees, as well as altered plant water availability, and is considered to play a key role in tree demography. The effects of gaps on tree growth are highly variable and while usually stimulatory they may also include growth reductions. In most studies, the causes of changes in tree growth rates after gap formation remain unknown. We used changes in carbon isotope 13C discrimination (Δ13C) in annual growth rings to understand growth responses after gap formation of Peltogyne cf. heterophylla, in a moist forest of Northern Bolivia. We compared growth and Δ13C of the 7 years before and after gap formation. Forty-two trees of different sizes were studied, half of which grew close (<10 m) to single treefall gaps (gap trees), the other half more than 40 m away from gaps (controls). We found variable responses among gap trees in growth and Δ13C. Increased growth was mainly associated with decreased Δ13C, suggesting that the growth response was driven by increased light availability, possibly in combination with improved nutrient availability. Most trees showing zero or negative growth change after gap formation had increased Δ13C, suggesting that increased water stress did not play a role, but rather that light conditions had not changed much or nutrient availability was insufficient to support increased growth. Combining growth rates with Δ13C proved to be a valuable tool to identify the causes of temporal variation in tree growth.
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- 2014-04-01
- 10.1007/s00468-013-0961-2
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- 1432-2285
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- G. Helle (4)
- T. L. Pons (5)
- N. P. R. Anten (6) (7)
- P. A. Zuidema (1)
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- 1. Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Centre for Ecosystems, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- 2. Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal (IBIF), Km 9 carretera al norte, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
- 3. Programa de Manejo de Bosques de la Amazonía Boliviana (PROMAB), Universidad Autónoma del Beni, Riberalta, Bolivia
- 6. Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 4. Section 5.2 Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam. Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Telegrafenberg C127, 14473, Potsdam, Germany
- 5. Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 7. Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands


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(born 185/184—died 129 BC, Rome) Roman general credited with the final subjugation of Carthage. He was the natural son of Paullus and the adoptive son of Publius Scipio, son of Scipio Africanus the Elder. Polybius instilled in him the ideals of honour, glory, and military success. He first distinguished himself in the Third Macedonian War (168). He then campaigned in Spain and went on to Africa (150), where he displayed great military skill against Carthage while serving as military tribune, and demand arose that he take the command against Carthage. Though under age, he was elected consul in 147 and returned to Africa. He besieged and destroyed Carthage (146), ending the Third Punic War and establishing the province of Africa. Again made consul in 134, he was given command of the Celtiberian War (see Celtiberia), and he secured Spain by besieging and destroying Numantia (133). Back in Rome, he took an unpopular position on a bill supported by his friend Tiberius Gracchus; he was due to speak on the question when he died unexpectedly.
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(born 236—died 183 BC, Liternum, Campania) Roman general in the Second Punic War. He was born into a patrician family that had produced several consuls. As a military tribune, he fought at the Battle of Cannae (216), managing to escape from the defeat. While still young, he secured Spain for Rome by 206, driving the Carthaginians out and avenging his father's death. As consul in 205 he was granted permission to attack the Carthaginians in Africa. In 202 he was victorious over Hannibal at the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War and winning the name Africanus. His political opponents, led by Cato, accused Scipio and his brother Lucius of offering too lenient terms to Macedonia after their engagement there and of not being able to account for money supposedly received in those terms. Though there was no evidence of his guilt, Scipio withdrew from public life and died a virtual exile.
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Scipio Africanus Jones was born in Smith Township, near Tulip in Dallas County, Arkansas.
His mother, Jemmina Jones, was 15 years old when he was born. She was the former slave, and best friend, of 14-year-old Thresa Jones whose parents, Dr. Adolphus and Carolyn Jones, died when she was 9 years old. Scipio Jones' father was Dr. Sanford Reamey, Thresa's uncle.
Jones worked as a school teacher in Big Rock District Two from 1885 until 1887. He was a tenant of James Lawson, a white man, who was a prominent member of a pioneer family of Little Rock.
One source Ovington (1927) claims Jones was denied admittance to the University of Arkansas School of Law due to his race. However, the current law school did not exist until 1924. A year after Jones passed the Arkansas Bar in 1889, an earlier law school was founded; it was closed by 1913. Jones offered to work for free as a janitor at the law offices of U.S. District Judge Henry C. Caldwell, Judge T.B. Martin, and Atty. S.A. Kilgore. While there, he began to read law books during his free time. He also became an apprentice-in-law and studied under Circuit Judge Robert J. Lea.
Jones was deeply rooted in the struggle between the Lily Whites and the Black and Tans within the Republican Party. In 1902, Jones helped organize a slate of Negro Republicans to challenge the Lily Whites and Democrats in the Little Rock general election. The struggle reached a breaking point in 1920 when the Negroes took an unprecedented course of nominating a Negro candidate, J.H. Blount, for Governor. In that year, Jones was selected as the Black and Tan contender for the Arkansas Republican National Committee. Four years later, Jones, J. H. Blunt, N. R. Parker and J. Hibbler helped organize a Black and Tan protest meeting in Little Rock in which a list of demands for equal political treatment was presented to the Lily Whites. Eventually, a compromise was reached that guaranteed Negro representation on the State Republican Central Committee.
During the administration of Mayor Brickhouse, the Little Rock Clearing House, composed of representatives from the ten banks of Little Rock, had declined to make a loan to the City of Little Rock. When the mayor mentioned this fact to Jones, he asked the mayor how much money the city needed. The mayor replied they needed $75,000, and Jones said, "My clients have $120,000 on deposit in the banks of Little Rock and if the Clearing House will not let you have the money, my clients will." After hearing about the conversation, the Clearing House agreed to lend the city the $75,000.
Jones was the National Attorney General of the Mosaic Templars of America. The Mosaic Templars, founded by John E. Bush and Chester W. Keatts, was, at the time, the one of the largest African-American fraternal organizations in the nation, and one of the largest black-owned business enterprises. The organization provided burial and life insurance to members; operated a building and loan association, a newspaper, a nursing school, and a hospital; and offered other social programs to the community. Its international headquarters were located in Little Rock.
Jones also served as the attorney, counselor, and legal adviser for several other African-American fraternal organizations, including the International Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor, which also had its headquarters in Arkansas, just a few blocks from the Mosaic Templars. He successfully defended the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias when the Arkansas Insurance Commission attempted to put them out of business. Because of his work with African-American fraternal organizations, he was called "the Gibraltar of Negro fraternal beneficiary societies."
In 1915, when Fred A. Isgrig was judge of the police court in Little Rock, he was disqualified in a case and City Attorney Harry C. Hale nominated Jones to act as judge. All the parties being Negroes and all the witnesses being Negroes and all the attorneys being Negroes, except Hale, he thought it proper to have a Negro judge preside at this particular trial. Jones was elected special judge. The election of a Negro to hold court so angered W. N. Lee, a white lawyer of Little Rock who was originally from Mississippi, that he engaged in a fisticuff with Hale for nominating Jones and declared he would not live in a state in which white people would elect a Negro. The trial was had about ten o'clock in the morning and Lee left the state about four o'clock that afternoon and never returned.
In 1924, Jones was also elected special chancellor in the Pulaski County Chancery Court.
Jones was the first lawyer in Arkansas to raise the question that Negro persons had not been permitted to serve on the grand and petit juries, although many were qualified. He contended that this was discrimination on account of race, color, and previous condition of servitude. Jones raised this question before it was raised in the Carter case of Texas, which was afterwards appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court held that it was a discrimination on account of race, color, and previous condition of servitude. Many cases were dismissed in Texas in which indictments had been made without Negro persons' being on the jury.
Following the Adair case in Georgia, many suits of injunction were brought in other states against the Negro Shriners, attempting to prohibit them from using the name and paraphernalia of Shriners. Jones represented the Negro Shriners in such a suit brought in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and Chancellor Judge John Martineau held in his favor. Jones also assisted in the trial of the case at Houston, Texas, against the Negro Shriners. The white Shrine Temple had sold its paraphernalia to the Negro Shrine Temple, and then enjoined the Negro Shriners from using the paraphernalia. This case was carried to the Supreme Court where it ruled that the Negroes had the right to use the paraphernalia on the ground of "estoppel".
The plight of the Elaine 12, and 87 other black men who were convicted to prison terms for participation in the riot, quickly made international headlines. Three organizations offered assistance: the Arkansas Conference on Negro Organizations (ACNO), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the National Equal Rights League (NERL). The ACNO and NERL joined together to hire Jones as the defense attorney for all 99 of the convicted men. The NAACP hired former state attorney general George W. Murphy as the defense attorney for only the Elaine 12. The two attorneys were friends and decided to work together.
When Murphy died unexpectedly, Jones took the lead in guiding the appeals process. After much internal debate, the NAACP temporarily retained Jones as their replacement for Murphy, making him briefly the sole attorney for all of the 99 defendants. He successfully saw the Elaine 12 case to the Supreme Court of the United States and is credited with having been the author of the brief used before the Court.
When it was time to argue the Elaine 12 case before the Supreme Court, the NAACP decided to replace Jones with Moorfield Storey and former assistant U.S. attorney Ulyssess S. Bratton. It was Jones' efforts that led to the landmark Supreme Court Moore v. Dempsey ruling that, for the first time, permitted collateral attack through habeas corpus on a state appellate court decision.
During the trials, Jones received frequent lynching threats and was said to have shifted his location each night to avoid those who wanted the Elaine 12 defendants convicted at any cost.
New trials were granted to the twelve defendants as the court stated that they had not received due process in the original trials.
Charges were quickly dismissed against six of the defendants. The remaining six were retried, convicted and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Jones successfully lobbied Arkansas Governor Thomas McRae, who had earlier refused to release the defendants, to let men out on indefinite furloughs in 1925 just hours before Governor-Elect Thomas Terral assumed office.
This was important because Terral was a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). During a speech before one of the largest KKK rallies in Arkansas history the night before his inauguration, Terral vowed to execute the remaining Elaine 12 defendants as his first official duty in office.
Before leaving office, Governor McRae also pardoned the other 87 Elaine defendants.
Jones's last case was in 1942 when he teamed up with Thurgood Marshall to sue the Little Rock School District to obtain equal pay for a black school teacher. Though Jones died before the completion of the case, it proved to be successful.
Scipio Jones died in Little Rock, Arkansas on 2 March 1943 and was buried at Haven of Rest Cemetery.


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Oh no! One Direction fans are super worried after shocking footage emerged of Louis and Zayn smoking a 'roll-up cigarette' on their way to a concert in Peru in April. Are YOU concerned about the One Direction hotties' health?
The boys of One Direction have some of the most loyal fans in the world, but many Directioners took to Twitter to voice their disapproval over Zayn Malik, 21, and Louis Tomlinson, 22, lighting up a funny-looking cigarette in a shocking new video that was released on May 27. See what 1D fans had to say right here!
Zayn Malik & Louis Tomlinson's 'Joint' — Fans React To Shocking Smoking Video
After a video obtained by the UK's Daily Mail made the rounds on the Internet on May 27, Zayn and Louis are under fire for joking about smoking a "joint" and then actually taking puffs from a roll-up cigarette while on the Latin American part of their 2014 "Where We Are" tour in April. But it seems like fans are more concerned for the boys' well-being than they are angry with them. Here's a sampling of what the Twitterverse is saying:
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It hurts so much to see Zayn and Louis doing that…it's beyond upsetting…I'm very worried…
— Kellie (@NiallsWife144) May 27, 2014
ok Zayn and Louis are freaking 21 and 22 respectively. Smoking will effect them in the long run but they are young! its totally normal! — #%^*! (@thisisforme723) May 28, 2014
zayn and louis can do whatever they want we're just worried with them can everybody understand that
— andreia (@dreampaynee) May 27, 2014
+bit afraid that both of zayn and louis are actually harming themselves because they have some type of depression +
— ShrEowk. (@Pharaohstagram) May 27, 2014
im gonna support zayn and louis no matter what happens but it is still wrong regardless and we shouldnt be glorifying drugs anyway + — keiana | 297 ˘◡˘ (@SPOTLIGHTMALIK) May 28, 2014
Not going to lie I'm disappointed in Zayn and Louis but it's their life what am I to say — Tee (@37NOUIS) May 28, 2014
im kinda disappointed with louis and zayn not the fact about they were smoking but the fact that they act like its normal film that
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Zayn Malik & Louis Tomlinson Smoking: 1D Boys Caught With Funny Cigarette
In the video viewed by the Daily Mail, Louis, who is filming Zayn in the band's SUV, jokes, "So here we are, leaving Peru. Joint lit. Happy days!"
Later in the video, Louis tapes a police motorcyclist riding next to their SUV and says, "One nil b***h! Look at this b***h! He's having a look. He's thinking, 'I'm sure I can smell an illegal substance in there.' And he's hit the nail on the head." Louis also reveals that, "One very very important factor of Zayn's warm up of course if Mary J herself."
No wonder Zayn and Louis' fans are worried about them — it sounds like smoking might be part of their routine!
HollywoodLifers, are YOU disappointed in Louis and Zayn? Do you think they should quit smoking? Let us know!
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Seriously they're normal people and they do normal people stuff. It only disappoints 8-14 years old girls. Because if smocking is bad eating biscuits is bad having tatoos is bad swearing is bad watching game of thrones is bad and then living is bad but we are all living
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They're grown men they can do whatever they want. Im actually happy about this bc maybe the young fans will leave and they can stop having such a clean image. Though he probably shouldnt have said the N word it didn't offend me bc everyone says it nowadays i dont like it but if i don't get all pissy when friends do it then i dont see why i should if a celebrity does
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Should I Repair or Replace My Mitral Valve?
Topic Overview
There are two types of surgical procedures used to correct mitral valve regurgitation (MR): mitral valve repair and mitral valve replacement. Both of these are open-heart procedures.
In mitral valve repair, the surgeon reconstructs the natural valve. In mitral valve replacement, the surgeon removes the valve and replaces it with a prosthetic valve.
Things that affect the choice between valve repair and valve replacement include:
- The surgeon's skill and experience in doing valve reconstructions, since repair surgery demands more technical precision than replacement surgery.
- The cause of the MR.
More specifically, the valve may be repaired easily if one of its anchoring structures (chordae tendineae) is ruptured or if one of its leaflets has degenerated mildly over time. On the other hand, if rheumatic fever, reduced blood flow to the valve area, or a hardening (calcification) of the valve has caused mitral regurgitation, the valve should probably be replaced, as these conditions damage the inherent shape and structure of the mitral valve beyond repair.
Mitral valve repair is generally preferred if your valve is suitable for reconstruction and the surgeon has the appropriate level of experience and surgical skill. The advantages of mitral valve repair include the following:
- Preserves your natural valve and its support (chordae tendineae). In general, the more of the natural valve that can be preserved during a mitral valve replacement, the better the results of the procedure.
- Prevents the need for lifelong blood-thinning medical therapy (anticoagulation), which is required to prevent the clotting that typically occurs when an artificial valve is introduced to the heart
- Reduces the need for repeat valve surgery later in life
- May lead to fewer complications and better postoperative results than mitral valve replacement
The disadvantages of mitral valve replacement include the following:
- A biological prosthetic valve will deteriorate over time.
- A mechanical prosthetic valve will likely cause blood clots and the resulting need for anticlotting (anticoagulation) therapies.
If you choose mitral valve replacement, it is best to preserve as much of the valve as possible. Doing so provides a greater chance of postoperative success. Keeping the valve's base intact reduces the amount of foreign structures to which the heart must grow accustomed after replacement surgery.
Mitral valve replacement—in which the entire valve apparatus is destroyed—is a last-resort option. It should be performed only when the original valve and associated structures are so distorted by physical abnormalities that none of the valve can be salvaged.
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text: Deaths of two families in plane crash shock South Carolina townBy Thom Patterson, CNNUpdated 4:07 PM ET, Wed July 10, 2013Just WatchedAlaska crash victims were 'spectacular'replayMore Videos ...Alaska crash victims were 'spectacular' 01:35Story highlightsPlane crash kills 9 people from two different South Carolina families The McManus and Antonakos families of Greenville included five children FAA: The plane "struck the runway and burned" on takeoff Sunday southwest of Anchorage The plane's pilot also died in the crash, officials saidThe stunning news has been spreading through the city of Greenville, South Carolina, shaking residents in a way they hadn't felt in recent memory. Two families -- including five children -- were killed Sunday in a plane crash while vacationing together in Soldotna, Alaska, about 65 miles southwest of Anchorage. They were all passengers in a small, single-engine plane that crashed on takeoff into the runway at the town's airport, officials said.While much of the country focuses on the intensely covered plane crash in San Francisco, many of Greenville's approximately 60,000 residents have been thinking about Soldotna. The Alaskan town sits thousands of miles away, but this crash feels much closer to home. "Without a doubt, it's the most devastating tragedy I think we've had to experience since I've been here," said Scott Sanders, a 21-year Greenville resident. "Losing two entire families -- it just doesn't happen."Greenville was mourning Dr. Chris McManus; his wife, Stacey McManus; and their children, Meghan and Connor, said Johnathan Bragg, a spokesman for the Greenville Police Department. McManus was a radiologist who practiced at a local hospital.Also killed aboard the plane were the Antonakos family: Milton "Melet" Antonakos; his wife, Kimberly Antonakos; and their children Mills, Ana and Olivia, Bragg said. All the children ranged in age from grade school to high school, said Sanders. Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – The National Transportation Safety Board has sent a team to Soldotna, Alaska, to investigate the crash of a small single-engine plane on Sunday, July 7. All 10 people on board were killed. Hide Caption 1 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – Two families from Greenville, South Carolina, made up nine of the 10 victims of the crash. Killed were Milton and Kimberly Antonakos and their children, Mills, Ana and Olivia, at left, as well as Dr. Chris McManus; his wife, Stacey McManus; and their children, Meghan and Conner.Hide Caption 2 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – The NTSB released images from the crash site and early details via Twitter on Tuesday, July 9. Here, NTSB member Earl F. Weener and investigators arrive at the scene. Hide Caption 3 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – The NTSB said the plane's propeller showed evidence of rotation at the time of impact. Hide Caption 4 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – NTSB investigators plan to be at the scene for at least a week. Hide Caption 5 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – The NTSB also collected five cell phones from the scene, which will be analyzed for useful information for the investigation. Hide Caption 6 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – The NTSB reported that the two families hired the plane to take them to a lodge about 80 miles from Soldotna. Hide Caption 7 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – The NTSB will move the wreckage to a hangar for further examination.Hide Caption 8 of 9Alaska plane crash 9 photosAlaska plane crash – The plane was owned by Redeiske Family LLC and operated by Redeiske Air for three years, according to the NTSB. Hide Caption 9 of 9EXPAND GALLERYJust WatchedFamily killed in plane crash 'loved life'replayMore Videos ...Family killed in plane crash 'loved life' 02:02PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedAlaska plane crash kills 10 replayMore Videos ...Alaska plane crash kills 10 01:20PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedHow to survive a plane crash replayMore Videos ...How to survive a plane crash 03:26PLAY VIDEOMelet Antonakos worked in medical equipment sales while Kimberly Antonakos served as a president of a parent/teacher group, according to The Greenville News. "You name it, if you needed somebody to volunteer, you called Kim Antonakos and she was there," State Rep. Bruce Bannister told the newspaper.Bannister, who lives just down the street from the Antonakos home, told CNN he and Melet Antonakos had become good friends. Melet was Antonakos' traditional family Greek name. "He was 'Melet' to his friends and 'Milton' to his business associates," Bannister said. The Bannister family's son was a classmate of 12-year-old Ana. Now Bannister tells his children the Antonakos family "got to go to heaven together." In light of the San Francisco plane crash, Bannister said that sometimes it's hard to really appreciate the significance tragedies have when they take place far away."You hear about a plane crash in California and you're in Greenville, South Carolina, and you think, 'that's a terrible tragedy.' And now you hear about a plane crash and you think about the Antonakoses and how those families connected to the crash out there in California are feeling. You really recognize how huge these tragedies are."Both families were "very involved in their community, very involved in their church and their schools," said Sanders, who is president of a swimming pool where some of the children went. "Very few people here have not been touched by this tragedy." Christ Church, where the families worshipped, has been especially striken by the news. Sunday school teacher Heather Meadors, who taught the children of both families as toddlers, told The Greenville News she felt "like there's a big black cloud over Christ Church right now." McManus had been named among the nation's best physicians in 2011, according to his hospital website. He had a sibling who is employed by Turner Broadcasting, the parent company of CNN."Chris was one of our lead interventional radiologists, who brought a number of new and innovative diagnostic and therapeutic tools to the community," McManus' colleague, Dr. C. David Williams, told The Greenville News. 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Mincemeat and Granny Smith apples make this pie as delightfully golden as the childhood memories we associate with it. To save time, use store-bought dough to speed preparation.
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Calories | 1074 |
Total Fat | 59g |
Saturated Fat | -- |
Cholesterol | 120mg |
Sodium | 308mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 126g |
Dietary Fiber | 5g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 11g |
Calcium | -- |
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- 1 tablespoon(s) (finely chopped) crystallized ginger
- 1 tablespoon(s) sugar
- 2 cup(s) mincemeat (such as Borden Nonesuch)
- 1/4 cup(s) brandy
- 2 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 quinces, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 cup(s) (chopped) walnuts
- 1 cup(s) golden raisins
- 2 oranges, juiced and zested
- 1 lemon, juiced and zested
- 2 2 piecrusts (for top and bottom crusts)
- 1 large egg, beaten
- Prepare the filling: In a small food processor, combine the crystallized ginger and the sugar. Process until mixture is finely chopped. Set aside. Place the mincemeat, brandy, apples, quinces, walnuts, raisins, and orange zest and juice in a large saucepan and bring to a simmer. Continue to cook over medium-low heat, covered, until the fruit is tender -- about 30 minutes. Stir in the lemon zest and juice. Let cool to room temperature.
- Make the pie: Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Roll half the piecrust dough to a 10-inch round and fit into a 9-inch pie tin. Fill the pie shell with the quince mixture. Roll the remaining piecrust dough to a 10-inch round. Use decorative cookie cutters to make cutout patterns. Place the top crust over the pie and crimp the edges to seal. Add 2 teaspoons water to the egg and brush the edges of the crust and the surface with egg wash. Sprinkle the egg-washed piecrust with some of the reserved ginger-sugar mixture. Transfer the cutout pieces of piecrust to a cookie sheet, brush with some egg wash, and sprinkle with the rest of the ginger-sugar. Bake until just golden -- about 12 minutes. Bake the pie until the top is golden and filling is bubbling -- 35 to 45 minutes. Decorate the pie with the cutout pastry pieces. Serve warm.
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We're not talking about 2004's presidential aspirants, but instead a contest with just as much intrigue -- next year's Miami-Dade mayoral battle to succeed Alex Penelas. In anticipation of that August 31, 2004 election, a slew of well-known figures have already tossed their hats into the ring or appear set to formally announce, including Miami-Dade Police Director Carlos Alvarez, Radio Unica president José Cancela, former county Commissioner Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, current county Commissioner Jimmy Morales, and school board member Marta Perez.
Among all the resultant jockeying for position, though, one topic looms large: What on earth is Miguel Diaz de la Portilla thinking?
That's certainly been the blunt question du jour among Miami's gay activists as word spread last week of Diaz de la Portilla's private tête-à-tête with Jorge Mursuli, Florida chapter president of liberal advocacy group People for the American Way and former executive director of SAVE Dade, the county's chief gay political organization.
Indeed in many gay circles it's hard to imagine a more reviled mayoral hopeful than Diaz de la Portilla. As a county commissioner in 1998, he voted against Miami-Dade's gay-rights amendment, solidifying his reputation as one of the Christian Coalition's strongest allies on the dais -- even receiving an award of appreciation earlier that year from the outfit's founder, Pat Robertson.
After the gay-rights amendment passed -- barely, by a vote of 7-6 -- it was the local Christian Coalition chapter that spearheaded an effort to repeal it via a ballot referendum. Meanwhile Diaz de la Portilla seemed to take his distaste for not only gay rights but anything that even hinted at homosexuality, to a bizarre extreme. In a Herald profile published during his disastrous 2000 county mayoral run, he phoned his interviewer an hour after she left him.
"Make my favorite author Shakespeare, not Oscar Wilde," he pleaded to Herald reporter Meg Laughlin as she prepared to write her story. "I don't need the hassle." Diaz de la Portilla may have been a fan of Wilde's prose, but that nineteenth-century poet and playwright was gay -- and jailed by British authorities because of it. Heaven forbid Diaz de la Portilla's supporters discovered that he enjoyed reading the works of a -- gasp -- gay writer. "I really admire him and felt bad about what happened to him," he explained to Laughlin, "but why get into it?"
Imagine the surprise, then, at opening up a recent edition of the Sun-Sentinel and reading a headline announcing that the same pol who once held gays (even dead ones) at arm's length now "courts gay community." Or turning on Telemundo's nightly news broadcast to discover that the Pat Robertson honoree had not only broken bread with Jorge Mursuli but had received his mayoral endorsement. Just what is Diaz de la Portilla up to?
"I meet with anybody in Miami-Dade who has a desire to move the county forward, whether it's Jorge Mursuli or anybody else," Diaz de la Portilla explains carefully. Driving through North Carolina on a family vacation while taking questions from Kulchur via cell phone probably isn't his idea of rest and relaxation. Still, he's game.
What exactly did you and Jorge talk about?
"We talked about county issues ..."
Gay county issues?
"We talked about a lot of issues," Diaz de la Portilla counters wryly. "I'll leave it at that."
So are we about to see a revamped, gay-friendly Diaz de la Portilla? Perhaps even an appearance shaking hands and pressing the flesh amid the shirtless throngs at the White Party?
Um, no. If he had to do it all over again, Diaz de la Portilla says he'd vote exactly the same way he did in 1998. "It's unnecessary legislation," he insists of the gay-rights amendment. And, he adds, "it's proven very much to be divisive. It's a 1998 issue, and the debate -- and its divisiveness -- has continued since."
So divisive issues shouldn't be addressed? What if folks found passing laws against racial discrimination too divisive?
"There isn't any disparity study that would show there is discrimination against gays, or denial of access to employment or housing, as has been demonstrated with disparity studies in respect to ethnicity or race." Perhaps sensing he's being awfully clinical about such a hot-button concern, he changes tack: "This is an issue of the past, and elections are about the future." But was he sorry to see last year's repeal effort fail? And how does he feel about the Christian Coalition's renewed petition drive for another repeal vote?
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Besides, he's quick to remind Kulchur, this election is about more than gay rights: "It's about accomplishing the greatness Miami-Dade has been poised to achieve for many years. I don't think the gay community cares any less about economic development, cares any less about education, or cares any less about the future of Miami-Dade County than any other community."


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Lord-Lieutenant Presides Over Official Opening
Lord-Lieutenant of Greater Manchester Mr Warren J Smith presided over official opening of The Millbrook care centre in the conservation area of Millbrook in Tameside.
Meridian Healthcare's new £3.8m care centre in Millbrook, Stalybridge is now open.
Official guests of honour at the event were HM Lord-Lieutenant Mr Warren Smith and Mayor of Tameside, Cllr Susan Quinn who were joined by Susan Firth and Alan Firth of Meridian Healthcare, Tony Greenhalgh of Quadrant architect and Mr David Smith of H.H. Smiths builders along with Smiths and Meridian personnel for a tour of the building. Children from the Millbrook Primary School and local historian Kathryn Booth also attended the event along with 70 invited guests, many of whom had visited the site whilst under construction.
Pictured from left to right are: Mr Alan Firth, Mrs Susan Firth, HM Lord-Lieutenant Mr Warren Smith, Cllr Susan Quinn and the children of Millbrook Primary School.
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