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World Of TomorrowA wholehearted, emotional work that can help accentuate future possibilities the the energy to make them happen.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATPZ2_200.jpgSingle7100126-ST$ 39.957100126-EX$ 59.957100126-W$ 149.95Instrument: Electronic, Percussion, Piano, Synthesizer, New Age Ensemble, Instrumental Emotions: Driving, Positive, Uplifting, Inspirational, Atmospheric, Calm, Cheerful, Competitive, Confident, Fresh, Hypnotic, Incessant, Inspiring, Motivating, Pulsating, Soothing, Tranquil, Ambient, Hopeful, Quiet Genre: Earthy, Sophisticated, Corporate/Technology, New Age, Easy-Going Production Types: Commercials, Corporate, Documentary, Corporate Communications, Product Videos, Science, Training, Background
World Of Tomorrow from the album Positive Biz Vol 2
Magical Encounterhttps://www.smartsound.com/artist/images/ASFB03_200.jpgSingle7100034-ST$ 39.957100034-EX$ 59.957100034-W$ 149.95Instrument: Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, Celeste, Percussion, Piano, Piano (Electric), Strings, Violin, Violoncello, Acoustic, Instrumental Emotions: Positive, Inspirational, Atmospheric, Calm, Delicate, Expansive, Gentle, Heartwarming, Hypnotic, Incessant, Innocent, Inspiring, Intimate, Panoramic, Passionate, Pensive, Powerful, Refreshing, Relaxed, Serene, Soothing, Touching, Tranquil, Ambient, Emotional, Magical, Poignant Genre: Earthy, Elegant, Outdoorsy, Romantic, Sophisticated, Orchestral Production Types: Animation, Cinematic, Commercials, Documentary, Nature
Magical Encounter from the album Magical Moments
Motion Upon MotionA high-activity piece propelled by seemingly chaotic, haphazard percussion underpinned with atmospheric swirling synths.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATES_200.jpgSingle7100228-ST$ 39.957100228-EX$ 59.957100228-W$ 149.95Instrument: Drums, Percussion, Piano, Synthesizer, Acoustic Emotions: Mysterious, Inspirational, Atmospheric, Ethereal, Hypnotic, Inspiring, Mystical, Suspenseful, Ambient, Abstract, Investigative, Experimental Genre: World, New Age, Electronica, Urban Production Types: Commercials, Background
Motion Upon Motion from the album Entrancing Soundscapes
Undiscovered TerrainA journey of subtle determination and insistence unfolds as various percussion and electronic elements propel an open and spacious piano melody.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATES_200.jpgSingle7100233-ST$ 39.957100233-EX$ 59.957100233-W$ 149.95Instrument: Ethnic Ensemble, Drums, Guitar (Acoustic), Percussion, Piano, Acoustic, Instrumental Emotions: Driving, Mysterious, Ominous, Inspirational, Atmospheric, Confident, Fierce, Hypnotic, Incessant, Mystical, Powerful, Serious, Somber, Suspenseful, Tense, Uncertain, Ambient, Abstract, Investigative, Tormented Genre: World, New Age, Middle Eastern, Oriental Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Documentary, Indie Film, Travel, Suspense, Background
Undiscovered Terrain from the album Entrancing Soundscapes
Desert JourneyA beat that envelops and wraps around you driven by exotic percussion builds to an inescapably infectious melody.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATES_200.jpgSingle7100226-ST$ 39.957100226-EX$ 59.957100226-W$ 149.95Instrument: Guitar (Acoustic), Percussion, Piano, Synthesizer, Acoustic Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Exciting, Happy, Positive, Uplifting, Inspirational, Atmospheric, Confident, Fresh, Heartwarming, Inspiring, Powerful, Pulsating, Refreshing, Ambient, Hopeful, Upbeat Genre: World, New Age, Pop Rock Production Types: Commercials, Corporate, Background
Desert Journey from the album Entrancing Soundscapes
Forest ClearingThis percussion feature can accompany a safari deep into the forest or support documentary nature footage. Pan flute helps out the proceedings.https://www.smartsound.com/music/images/tranquil.jpgSingle5006-ST$ 39.955006-EX$ 59.955006-W$ 149.95Instrument: Ethnic Ensemble, Percussion, New Age Ensemble, Acoustic, Instrumental Emotions: Hypnotic, Ambient, Mellow, Quiet, Soft Genre: Earthy, Outdoorsy, World, Indie Production Types: Documentary, Indie Film, Nature, Short Film, Meditation, Background
Forest Clearing from the album Tranquil Journeys
Midnight EscapadeEscape for an evening rendezvous with this calm, airy melody, juxtaposed with excitement from a pulsing rhythm.Single?$ ?7100422-EX$ 59.957100422-W$ 149.95Instrument: Electronic, R&B Band, Bass (Electric), Drums, Percussion, Piano (Electric), Synthesizer, Instrumental Emotions: Atmospheric, Calm, Pulsating, Punchy, Relaxed, Sensual, Sultry, Ambient Genre: Funky, Sophisticated, Soulful, Club, Jazz, Lounge, Electronica, R&B/Soul, Urban Production Types: Commercials, Home Videos, Product Videos, Background
Midnight Escapade from the album Streets Of Fire
Chasing The MoonUniquely performed guitar and bells create a sense of the mysterious as a rhythmical clockwork beat descends with a hypnotic, pulsating veil of illusion.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATES_200.jpgSingle7100230-ST$ 39.957100230-EX$ 59.957100230-W$ 149.95Instrument: Electronic, Guitar (Acoustic), Percussion, Piano, Synthesizer, Acoustic Emotions: Mysterious, Inspirational, Atmospheric, Ethereal, Hypnotic, Incessant, Motivating, Mystical, Panoramic, Powerful, Pulsating, Soothing, Touching, Ambient, Investigative, Poignant Genre: World, New Age Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Animation, Cinematic, Commercials, Documentary, Indie Film, Short Film, Background
Chasing The Moon from the album Entrancing Soundscapes
Beautiful PathsStaccato hand drums marry pizzicato violins and acoustic guitar for a haunting, moody track.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATES_200.jpgSingle7100227-ST$ 39.957100227-EX$ 59.957100227-W$ 149.95Instrument: Harp, Percussion, Piano, Strings, Synthesizer, Acoustic, Instrumental Emotions: Mysterious, Atmospheric, Calm, Dramatic, Ethereal, Hypnotic, Incessant, Mystical, Ambient, Emotional Genre: World, New Age, Waltz Production Types: Animation, Cinematic, Indie Film, Short Film, Background
Beautiful Paths from the album Entrancing Soundscapes
Moving SidewalksA simple guitar melody comes to life with a bright, insistent backdrop and intriguing upright bass.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATES_200.jpgSingle7100234-ST$ 39.957100234-EX$ 59.957100234-W$ 149.95Instrument: Ethnic Ensemble, Bass (Acoustic), Mandolin, Percussion, Strings, Violin, Violoncello, Acoustic, Instrumental Emotions: Driving, Exciting, Inspirational, Atmospheric, Confident, Hypnotic, Incessant, Inspiring, Mystical, Pulsating, Reflective, Ambient, Upbeat Production Types: Commercials, Documentary, Indie Film, Short Film, Travel, Video Games
Moving Sidewalks from the album Entrancing Soundscapes
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by Art Horne
Just recently Dr. Stuart McGill, Jordan Andersen and myself published an article in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research examining the link between traditional pre-season strength, fitness, and sports medicine testing to overall on-court basketball performance and injury resilience throughout the course of two collegiate basketball seasons. Although I would be the first to admit that there are some clear limitations to this study (number of participants for example), key performance predictors (points scored, ability to rebound, block shots, etc) were NOT associated with traditional strength or performance measures so often pursued in collegiate basketball strength programs.
Over the course of the next few weeks I will review this article in detail and provide insight into how actual on-court basketball performance may be improved upon beyond simply finding better parents or recruiting.
Predicting Performance and Injury Resilience From Movement Quality and Fitness Scores in a Basketball Team Over 2 Years
McGill, Stuart M.1; Andersen, Jordan T.1; Horne, Arthur D.2
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
July 2012
The ability to successfully predict injury resilience and competition performance from preseason testing is a very wishful goal; however, questions remain regarding this objective: Do tests of fitness have a predictive ability for injury and are there other factors that can be assessed that may predict injury? Are there specific indicators that predict performance? This study was motivated by these questions.
Attempts to understand injury mechanisms and performance sometimes consider links to fitness. Traditionally, fitness testing, at least in occupational settings, has included the assessment of strength (13), joint range of motion (ROM) (23), and physiological variables such as heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen uptake (2), but the performance scores in the occupational context are difficult to quantify. In contrast, there have been some studies relating fitness to sporting performance that are more tangible. In studies of ice hockey players (6,24), success could be more tangibly quantified from on-ice measures such as total minutes played and scoring chances. Green at al. stated that "goals scored" was not the best measure of hockey skill. Studies of football players suggest that those who score higher on movement quality tests have few injuries (11,12); however, preseason football combine testing is dominated by tests of strength and running speed. Recognizing that movement asymmetry and compromises to neuromuscular control have been linked to both future injury (11,12) and with having a history of back injury (17), movement assessments have been developed (3,4) and have been suggested to predict injury rates. Further, several fitness and movement tests have been implicitly assumed to predict "playing" performance by their inclusion into standard preseason tests. These include tests of endurance, strength, joint ROM, agility, and speed. The question remains as to the validity of these factors when attempting to predict injury resilience and performance.
Although links between moving well and injury resilience and performance seem intuitive, this notion remains controversial. Interestingly, some evidence suggests that fitness training alone may not ensure peak performance or injury resilience (8,20). In addition, movement quality has been suggested to predict future injury (12). A possible mechanism may be that injury changes the way a person moves as an accommodation to pain (consider, e.g., the changes in mechanics throughout the anatomical linkage when limping from foot pain). Having a history of injury, in particular back injury, appears to change movement patterns (17). Movement patterns determine important injury criteria, such as joint and tissue load, together with influencing the length of time and repetitions an individual is able to perform a task with uncompromised form. Compromised form exposes the tissues to inordinate load elevating the risk of injury. Several examples of this link are available, for example, not maintaining a neutral curve in the lumbar spine while bending and lifting decreases the tolerable load at injury (in this case tissue failure [18]); having restricted hip motion is linked to having more spine motion when bending (17). Movement competency has also been linked with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rates, for example, having larger knee abduction moments and angles when landing from a jump predicted higher ACL injury rates (9). Given the variety of considerations for interpreting the links between movement, fitness, performance, and potential injury, the goal of this study was to first evaluate some traditional fitness test scores in a controlled athletic group that has a variety of challenging movement demands and also perform an assessment of the quality of movement. It was hoped that following a test group for a period of time would reveal links between specific fitness scores and movement quality with variables to predict injury resilience and performance. If such links exist, they could form a rationale for specific tests to be included in preseason testing.
The purpose of this study was to see if specific tests of fitness, and movement quality, could predict injury resilience and performance in a team of basketball players over 2 years (playing seasons).
It was hypothesized that in a university basketball population, (a) Preseason movement quality and fitness scores would predict in-season performance scores. (b). Preseason movement quality and fitness scores would predict in-season injury resilience.
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I decided to interview Rob Shugg from Kinetic Performance after hearing a few new definitions of what power is, and felt that we needed more sport science tools to help the performance community understand how to develop power in team sports. Track and field is very objective, but the methodologies tend to be cloudy. I wanted to get Rob's opinion on the matters of true development and monitoring of elite sport as he has many years with the Australian Institute of Sport and in the private sector with technology and performance. The BSMPG is the first conference in the US to promote Gymaware and Kinetic Performance as technology and data is becoming more and more important to help teams find the winning edge. Most of the US professional and college teams are familiar with linear transducers for measuring power, could you expand on the differences between Gymaware and the Tendo system, specifically with the advanced analytics and cloud benefits. First I'd like to give your readers a quick outline of the GymAware components:GymAware Power Tool - A linear transducer that connects via bluetooth to an iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone. iOS apps: GymAware Lite App - a stand-alone weightlifting analyzer app withextensive training, feedback and plotting functions. GymAware App - a cloud-connected weightlifting analyzer app offering online data and athlete management. GymAware/Kinetic-Athlete cloud analysis server - a web based account for managing and analysing Power Tool and other athlete performance data.So as you can see, while the Power Tool and the Tendo weightlifting analyser are both linear transducers, only GymAware offers a complete athlete performance stack, from data collection to athlete performance management. You canstill use the Power Tool like you use the Tendo unit to motivate and train athletes, but in addition you can start to look at[other variables] like dip and lift profile to improve technique.
The GymAware Power Tool has evolved through 5 different models over the last 10 years with each new release improving accuracy and usability. There is a good comparison [here] between the latest Power Tool and the Tendo Power and Speed Analyzer. To talk about the benefits of the cloud server and advanced analytics, you first need to look at system accuracy as this is fundamental to the success of the advanced features.The high accuracy of the Power Tool opens up new opportunities in preparing athletes for competition. With high accuracy you can look for more subtle changes over time that give you real insight into the state of the athlete. Power is often pursued by teams, could you look at how power can act as a marker of both performance and fatigue with team sports? Currently Benchmarks and profiling seem to be important for individualization. There's no doubt that power is a key factor in producing game winning performances, and power profiling to optimize power training plays a vital role in any professional team. But recently in Australia, regular (3 to 5 times per week) power and/or velocity monitoring has proved to be a very reliable way of monitoring for fatigue. At last year's ASCA conference Dr Kristie Taylor suggested that we should Other performance managers have reported to us that the Power Tool measurements are so sensitive that they can see slower power recovery after games played at a particular stadium known to have a hard playing surface. Regular monitoring with GymAware adds a completely new dimension to the knowledge available to the sports performance professional. Kinetic Athlete is not new to player monitoring, why does Kinetic Performance's experience make you a leader in player management? I think to answer this you need to look at environment that lead to the development ofGymAware.
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When being pulled over by the cops, it is important to remember that when the officer asks to see your driver's license and registration that you don't accidentally hand him a fat sack of weed, instead.
This is the unfortunate lesson a young man from Prospect Heights, Illinois is being forced to learn the hard way.
Earlier this week, police were called out to the Bristol Court Condominiums in Park Ridge to investigate reports of a suspicious vehicle trolling the area. When the officer arrived on the scene, he immediately pulled over the suspected vehicle to give the driver a proper roadside interrogation; to find out exactly what sort of business he and the other occupants could have possibly had in an upscale neighborhood at 4:30 in the afternoon.
A police report indicates that when the officer asked the driver for a look at his license and registration, the kid got flustered and mistakenly handed him a "bag containing a green, leafy substance," which the cop suspected was marijuana.
Of course, the officer, now left holding a baggie full of pot -- 10 grams, according to the report -- felt compelled to inquire with the teen about the contents of the bag… to which the kid replied, "I didn't mean to hand that to you."
Unfortunately, this little stoner blunder brought the heat down: the driver was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of tobacco by a minor. In addition, his four passengers, three 16-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy, received citations ranging from possession of tobacco by a minor to possession of drug paraphernalia.
All of the teens were released on their own recognizance, and are scheduled to appear in court next week.
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DEXTER-- Hannah Clement recorded 14 points, four assists, and four steals to lead the Orono Red Riots girls basketball team to a 44-39 victory over Dexter at Guiski Gymnasium on Tuesday evening.
Clement also led a strong Red Riots defense that forced 25 Dexter turnovers. They held Dexter to 37.5% shooting from the field.
Clement shot 5-5 from the field, including 4-4 from three point range.
"Hannah (Clement) played tough, she had some turnovers against their pressure, but Hannah is not going to back down from a challenge. She would turn the ball over then come back down and hit a key three pointer,"Orono coach Jessica Witham said. "It sometimes gets lost how much Hannah does defensively. She tends to guard the other teams best player pretty much every game. I can't say enough about Hannah's effort."
Orono has only allowed 40 or more points in three games so far this season. That has propelled the Riots to a 10-1 record.
"Every game this season we have said offense can waver, sometimes you are on and sometimes you are off, but defense is all about effort. You shouldn't have any off days on defense,"Witham said. "Whoever I put in the game, they work their tales off and really contribute to our defensive effort. That is part of the reason why our team has been so successful this year so far."
Dexter was able to stay in the game with strong defense of their own. They forced 28 Red Riots turnovers.
"We are both very good defensive teams, we are both very intense. I guess whoever handles the pressure better gets the ballgame,"Clement said. "We focused on coming out good in the first half. Rotating on defense and winning with our defense."
Katie Sypher played a strong post game for the Red Riots. She put in 10 points and grabbed five rebounds.
"We did well handling their pressure, especially in the second half, "Clement said. "We adjusted to how the refs were calling the game, and we found a way to get the ball inside."
Orono also defeated Dexter 62-47 earlier in the season.
"We hurt ourselves with too many turnovers and not enough quality possessions,"Dexter coach Jody Grant said."We did not shoot the ball as well as we are capable of. Credit them with causing a lot of havoc."
Dexter rallied at the end of each half.
Orono held a 20-12 lead with 1:40 remaining in the second quarter. The Tigers scored the final six points of the half to cut the lead to 20-18.
Orono held their biggest lead of 12 (37-25) when Katie Smith made a shot with 7:04 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Clement nailed a three pointer to give the Riots a 40-31 lead with 2:33 remaining.
Tasha Pratt and Michaela White hit back to back three pointers to cut the lead to 41-39 with 28 seconds remaining.
Elea Kass nailed three free throws in the final 20 seconds to secure the victory for Orono.
"I thought it was just enough to win. I give Dexter a lot of credit,"Witham said. "They had a big run at the end of the second quarter and a big run at the end of the fourth quarter."
Smith recorded nine points, eight rebounds, and two steals for the Red Riots.
Kass finished with six points (6-8 FT), and three steals.
Kassidy Dill added three points, while Ally Gonyar chipped in with two.
Orono is scheduled to host Old Town on Thursday.
Abbie Melvin led the Tigers with 13 points and seven steals.
Peyton Watson recorded nine points, two assists, and two steals. White added seven points, five rebounds, and three steals.
Bobbie Chambers and Pratt had three points each. Abbey Jordan chipped in with two points, six steals, and two assists. Megan Peach added two points.
Dexter (9-3) is scheduled to host Central on Saturday afternoon.


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We all love The Dad (except Felix who is still scaredy of him, do not know why) But I am DADDY'S GIRL. I feel really bad, as I jumped on him the other night & scratched him bad with my back claws. I didn't mean to though. Anyways, The Dad let me stay when I was really supposed to go back to the shelter to be adopted after I was fostered here. After much whining & pleading & cajoling from Momma & human sister that they loved me too much to let me go, he said....FINE. See now The Dad would never hurt an animal, but he was not a kitty dude. He always had doggies. I single pawedly turned him into a kitty-dude. He plays with us, he gives us extra treats that Momma does'nt know about ...ahem...whaaat?... and built us a cat tree. He made a big wooden house for the outside kitties to keep warm, and happily carries bags of food or litter & will go to Petco with Momma to stock up our noms. He brushes us all with the Furminator & has his own nicknames for each of us. He keeps a spot on the couch just for Tigger, and lets us sleep all over the bed - even in his spot. Yep, The Dad is a pretty awesome guy. We stand up on our hind legs, and wave a paw in salute to all Daddies out there! Happy Dad's Day to you all, and to The Dad...we love you! purrs, from your Chingie-girl
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Yep Daddy's are pretty awesome. I hope Felix comes around soon. Happy Father's Day!
Hope your daddy has a good day!
Pawsome papa! What a guy! Happy Daddy's day to him! I'd even share my nip with him (MOL).
Felix will figure it out....Purrs to all the Cat Dads!
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The movie, Touch, tries to capture what Christ would be like if he came back to earth in the 1990s. Viewers are introduced to a Christ who, though capable of miracles, shows no interest in spreading the gospel, perhaps owing to his attraction to girls. We meet nutty Catholics who are prepared to kill for a return to the Latin Mass an array of characters whom most Catholics would find bizarre. In short, just the regular fare we've come to expect.


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More news on Daisy Khan: Daisy Khan on Muslim Women, Egpyt's Future and Her New Vision for the "Ground Zero Mosque"
Until last summer, Daisy Khan's life was a study in compromise. As a teenage immigrant from India, she unbraided her hair and donned bell-bottoms to fit in at her Long Island, New York, high school. As a successful corporate interior architect, she translated her creative vision into designs acceptable to her more conservative clients. As an imam's wife, she counseled young Muslim couples on how to balance Islamic traditions with American customs. Later, as an advocate for Muslim women's rights, she sought to reconcile feminism with the Koran. And as a self-described bridge builder between Islam and the West, she sought to forge alliances and eradicate fear. But now, at 52, Daisy Khan is shocked—some say naively so—to find herself in the middle of a raging national controversy surrounding a Muslim community center and prayer space that she and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, want to build two blocks north of where the twin towers fell. Opponents have asked the couple to stop the project or at least move it elsewhere. But on this point, Khan insists there can be no negotiation and no concession. The compromiser is refusing to budge. The question is, why?
It is early November, and a warm afternoon light bathes the conference room of Khan's offices on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Filled with books and photographs, the space is cozy, a sanctuary from what she refers to as "six months of an onslaught" since the couple's plans to turn a shabby, four-story building worth about $4.5 million into a 15-story, $100 million complex first exploded in the headlines in May. Nothing, Khan says, prepared her for the vehemence of the reaction: the death threats, the vicious blog posts, the public statements from opponents darkly questioning the couple's motives, some even suggesting that they are a front for radical Islamists bent on imposing Sharia law on U.S. soil. These days she hesitates before turning on the TV or getting on the Internet. "I mean, like, I'm scared to see some of the stuff that's out there," she says.
Since that initial media eruption, the center has become the focus of a blazing national debate over the nature of Islam and its role in America, and Khan has become the project's public face, appearing on CNN, Fox, This Week with Christiane Amanpour. Usually dressed casually—pants, jacket, T- or man-tailored shirt, her lustrous brown hair worn loose to her shoulders or clipped into a messy bun—she looks like everyone's friendly neighbor. In a soft voice, her pronunciation melodiously tinged with the English accent she picked up as a child in India, Khan passionately defends the project that has been her long-standing dream. At stake, she says, is nothing less important than the First Amendment right to religious freedom and the bedrock American principle of tolerance. As she said on Amanpour's debate "Holy War: Should Americans Fear Islam?" last October, "I am now fighting for American values." And, she suggested, for America's security as well. The center, she said, would be a bulwark against Islamic terrorists, "amplifying the voices of moderate Muslims" and creating "a countermomentum against extremism so that another 9/11 does not ever happen again."


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- Haliommatidium-DRA&UAs part of a design competition for a fairground building at the Rossi Sud complex in Italy, Rome-based DRA&U designed the Haliommatidium. Inspired by the intricacies of shells, the mixed-use structure features a smooth, continuous exterior surface, but on the inside is made up of a delicate network of rooms and cavities hidden under the facade. The large fairground building will play host to a number of cultural activities and will harness the power of the earth through geothermal energy. Additionally, the chamber-filled building enjoys rooftop gardens and solar energy to aid in reducing its energy use and providing efficient cooling.1
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UThe Rossi Sud complex is a former industrial area in Latina, Italy that is undergoing upgrades, part of which includes a new mixed-use fairground building.2
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UDRA&U's proposal is a white, shell-like building, with a smooth outer surface and a complex network of chambers inside.3
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- Haliommatidium-DRA&USurrounding the building is a network of paths, green areas, an outdoor auditorium, playgrounds for children and an arena for outdoor events.5
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UOne of the most important aspects of the building's design was to minimize energy usage for heating and cooling.6
- Haliommatidium-DRA&URelying on the earth's semi-constant temperature and an underground aquifer, DRA&U chose to make use of geothermal heat pumps.7
- Haliommatidium-DRA&ULow-enthalpy geothermal energy is used to produce thermal energy for air conditioning during the summer and for heating in the winter.8
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UAdditionally, a heat exchanger and air pipes are used in a system for natural passive cooling with the help of a ventilation tower the expel heat out of the roof.9
- Haliommatidium-DRA&USolar photovoltaics on the roof generate electricity for the facility and rooftop gardens aid in insulation and rainwater collection.10
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UEntrances to the mixed-use building.11
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UCirculation inside the building.12
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UA translucent model showing the inner cavities.13
- Haliommatidium-DRA&UCross section of the Haliommatidium.14


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New Jersey Central Nervous System Injury Surveillance
About CNS Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) surveillance has been conducted in the Center for Health Statistics (CHS) since 1994. Incidence reports for TBI in New Jersey for 1994, 1997, and 1999 are featured below. In 2001, CHS was awarded a four–year cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct TBI surveillance and validation. CHS was also awarded supplemental funds to conduct spinal cord injury (SCI) surveillance and validation in New Jersey.
Under the conditions of the cooperative agreement, CHS was required to submit TBI and SCI incidence data for 2000 to 2003 to CDC to contribute to a multi-state central nervous system (CNS) surveillance system. Years 2000 to 2002 have been submitted, 2003 will be submitted soon. Variables for these data were collected through a manual review of medical records for a representative sample of TBI cases and all SCI cases hospitalized in New Jersey. Featured below is the first in a series of annual Central Nervous System Injury incidence reports.
To continue and expand our CNS surveillance efforts, CHS has established working relationships with the state-designated Trauma Centers. Starting with 2003 cases, the Trauma Centers began submitting data from their trauma registries on all TBI and SCI cases. CHS receives the same data elements they already submit for inclusion in the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).
In 2005, with the establishment of the Office of Injury Surveillance and Prevention (OISP), all CNS surveillance-related activities were moved under OISP. OISP, in conjunction with the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research and the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research, also developed a CNS Registry, which enables the non-trauma center hospitals in New Jersey to directly enter data on all TBI and SCI cases for submission to OISP.
While these data have obvious value for those concerned with TBI and SCI, they can also be viewed as proxies for serious injuries in general. The leading causes of TBI and SCI are also the leading causes of serious injury overall: motor vehicle crashes, unintentional falls and intentional injuries. Injury prevention efforts should be focused on these major causes of injury hospitalization and death.
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As radio commentator Paul Harvey is fond of saying, having "the rest of the story" leads to fuller understanding of Deepwater's challenges and its achievements. Here are two examples where having "the rest of the story" really matters:
First, it has been reported that costs for the program have grown from $17 billion to $24 billion. This is true, but there's a reasonable explanation for the change. The original Deepwater implementation plan was developed before the tragedy that occurred on 11 September 2001. Following the service's transfer to the Department of Homeland Security in March 2003, we conducted a performance gap analysis, drafted a new mission needs statement, and revised our implementation plan to ensure Deepwater capabilities would support enhanced mission emphasis newly assigned to the Coast Guard; e.g., maritime homeland security. All of these steps were carried out in full consultation with the Bush administration and Congress, who committed to this level of investment. The increased costs can thus largely be attributed to a considered decision to increase capabilities and not to cost overruns, as some have suggested.
Second, it's not readily apparent from most recent coverage that the program has had any success at all, yet dozens of Deepwater assets are already operating in the fleet and making a difference today. A climber who fell down the side of a mountain last July in the Olympic National Forest owes his life to a daring rescue executed by a well-trained air crew from Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles, Washington. What's the connection? The rescuers were flying a recently delivered HH-65C helicopter, newly re-engined as part of the Deepwater Program. So far, more than 80 B model HH-65s have been converted to Cs, giving them the ability to carry greater loads and remain aloft for longer periods. Had the climber fallen just two weeks earlier—before the station's Charlies were delivered—the rescue would not have been attempted and the outcome would have been very different. Also, sensor and communications equipment upgrades on 39 cutters are directly contributing to the execution of Coast Guard missions worldwide and also facilitate seamless operations with the U.S. Navy.
Fifteen major acquisition projects are currently under way within the Deepwater Program, underscoring its complexity. Imagine the challenges the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps would face if they assigned their top 15 projects to one office. Yet historical circumstances drove the Coast Guard to do exactly that. Here's why.
By the end of the 1990s, most of the Coast Guard's ships and aircraft were at or approaching the end of their service lives. In 1997, the chairman of the Navy League's Coast Guard Affairs Committee exhorted readers of Sea Power magazine to launch a rescue mission for the Coast Guard, noting: "The Coast Guard's capital plant has a value of approximately $19 billion. Based on industry standards—annual replacement of 5 percent of capital assets—the Coast Guard's average acquisition, construction, and improvement expenditures should be $950 million, but actually have been under $200 million, in constant dollars, over the past 20 years."
Forced to Act
This perennial under-funding for capital investments had resulted in imminent block obsolescence, and the service was forced to act immediately to ensure it could continue to save lives, defend 95,000 miles of American coastline, protect natural resources, and support the nation's economy by ensuring the free flow of U.S. trade by sea.
Given the massive task at hand, a traditional, piecemeal replacement of failing assets didn't seem to make much sense. Therefore, we determined it would be more cost-effective and efficient to adopt a mission-based performance approach to acquiring an integrated system of assets—referred to as a "system of systems"—to give the service functional capabilities to perform missions worldwide. With respect to our unique approach, the General Accounting Office, now the General Accountability Office (GAO), in 1998 concluded: "The (Coast Guard's) 'system of systems' approach seems logical as a way to avoid a costly one-for-one replacement of assets."
Originally called the Deepwater Capability Replacement Project, the program was established formally in 1996, following extensive needs analysis, and the Coast Guard developed an acquisition strategy to support the project. In alignment with the Government Performance Results Act, OMB Circular A-109, and other government-wide acquisition reform legislation and regulations, the Deepwater strategy incorporated insights and recommendations from the GAO, the Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other independent experts.
The Coast Guard recognized that after years of slim procurement budgets, our cadre of in-house acquisition professionals required greater capacity to harmonize the execution of Deepwater's comprehensive recapitalization program. In what has turned out to be one of the most often discussed aspects of the program, a decision was made to employ from industry a single systems integrator with experience in managing Level I acquisitions, which are large-scale projects in the general cost range of more than $250 million. In selecting our systems integration team from industry, the Coast Guard put primary emphasis on achieving a comprehensive, integrated solution for Deepwater because we believed such a solution would lead to synergies and efficiencies. Following full and open competition, the contract for the Integrated Deepwater System was awarded in 2002 to Integrated Coast Guard Systems, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
Nobody ever said recapitalizing the fleet would be easy. Reports from the GAO, OIG, and an array of independent third parties stated that in spite of "excellent" planning it would be hard—really hard—to obtain adequate funding and staffing and provide appropriate levels of oversight to contractors. A team of experts from Acquisition Solutions, Inc. (ASI) perhaps summed it up best in its review of the program, saying: "First, risk is part of every acquisition. There will always be significant cost, schedule and performance risks inherent in projects of this size, scope, and complexity. Second, outsourcing a difficult task does not make it any easier. The Coast Guard still must identify existing, potential, and emerging risks and develop measures to mitigate and manage the risks." And, in an echo of the Navy League's earlier appeal for support to modernize the fleet, ASI continued: "Third, this is a mission—essential, unavoidable requirement and major investment is inevitable."
Our initial projections set the Deepwater budget at $300 million for the first year, and $500 million for each year thereafter. Some believed the projected funding levels were unattainable and even then only minimally reflected necessary costs. Fortunately, thanks to bi-partisan support from Congress, our program funding has increased every year since 2002. We received the program's first $1 billion annual appropriation in 2007. However, we don't take this support for granted and cost control remains foremost in our minds as we take the program into its second five years. Notwithstanding empirical knowledge that rising costs are an economic fact in shipbuilding, the Coast Guard, along with the Navy and industry, has pledged to reduce shipbuilding and other costs wherever possible.
Nevertheless, we have encountered other headwinds that have pushed back against our initial vision and projections of Deepwater's acquisition strategy. For example, a planned conversion of 49 patrol boats from 110 feet to 123 feet—our first project out of the chute—was halted after just eight conversions because of technical problems. Much has been written elsewhere about this disappointing episode, with no need to belabor it here. However, it should be noted that we only attempted such an unorthodox upgrade in the first place because projected budget constraints informed us we could not afford to recapitalize all of our platforms under Deepwater. We realized that choices and trade-offs had to be made, and modernizing our patrol boat fleet through the conversion was one of them. Even now, in light of the hard lessons we have learned through this project, a cross-functional team continues to study our problems with this conversion. The bottom line is that the Coast Guard's leadership is wholly committed to preventing future such occurrences.
Meanwhile, we have had to develop an interim solution to get patrol boats into the fleet as quickly as possible, after early tank testing showed technical risks with the initial composite hull design for our Fast Response Cutter. We're now working to acquire a "parent craft" design based on a vessel already in operation that will require minimal modifications to meet our basic mission requirements.
A recent report by the Department of Homeland Security OIG highlighted concerns with our approach to resolving potential hull fatigue-life issues on our National Security Cutter, the largest of Deepwater's three major classes of cutters. The Coast Guard hasn't built a ship on this scale for 35 years, so we didn't expect entirely smooth sailing. It is not uncommon for first-in-class ships such as the Bertholf (NSC-1) to experience some turbulence during design and construction. Nearly every ship the United States has built has encountered challenges and cost growth. During design review and early construction, the Coast Guard incorporated many changes recommended by the then-chief engineer of the Coast Guard. However, further review of the cutter's design indicated the ship might also experience higher stress levels than anticipated, raising a question of the hull's fatigue life over the course of the cutter's 30-year service life. We have been addressing these concerns for several years now in fact, had begun to address them long before the Inspector General's auditors arrived on the scene in the Summer of 2005—and there has never been a question of safety related to the ship's structure or its ability to complete all assigned missions.
In collaboration with the Coast Guard's current Chief Engineer, who serves as the program's technical authority, and ICGS, we have developed structural enhancements that will be incorporated into the design of the cutters not yet under construction (hulls 3 through 8) and retrofitted into the first two currently being built.
Lessons Learned
Without question, the Coast Guard has collected a lengthy list of "lessons learned" about program and contract management and execution. ASI was right: outsourcing systems integration didn't make it easy. Although we're convinced the fundamental system of systems concept remains sound, we are adapting our vision for this acquisition program in light of experience. Our approach to Deepwater is evolving as the Coast Guard confronts, forthrightly, the challenges of building budgets under incremental funding profiles, post 9/11 mission requirements, and a Coast Guard acquisition culture that naturally prefers a more hands-on approach to its relationship with industry. We are learning that our original, less-structured approach to system integration must be tempered with stronger oversight and closer partnership ("trust but verify") with our partners in Integrated Coast Guard Systems.
It is prudent to keep in mind that we're in the early stages of what Congress has helped to define as a very long acquisition effort that will continue to evolve as the nation refines its maritime security strategy. Our original vision was a comprehensive program that would feature "one-stop shopping" for modernization and recapitalization. The program was to have demonstrated value added through reduced costs, using largely mature platforms and systems designs and commercial practices.
The reality of Deepwater today is that the Coast Guard has become more involved as a system integrator than we anticipated. The functionality of our Deepwater integrated product team model with industry has proved to be more complex in execution than our early due diligence indicated. Experience has taught us that the government and industry team must redouble its efforts to focus on total ownership cost management and maintaining focus on technical performance and program schedule.
While the challenges we face are formidable, every member of our Deepwater team knows that each day the Coast Guard embarks on dangerous missions in hostile and unforgiving environments. Our men and women require the enhanced capabilities promised by Deepwater. Simply put, the nation's maritime security and the safety of our citizens depend on our success, and we shall not fail to deliver.
The Coast Guard has recognized that Deepwater is entering a new and important phase in its evolution as a program. We have moved past the era of making our case as to why Deepwater is necessary; now we must focus on our commitment to excellence in executing this program. We must demonstrate our willingness to draw on the best practices of a broad cross-section of government and industry acquisition expertise. Under the leadership of our Commandant, Admiral Thad Allen, the service is aggressively implementing a series of improvements in program management to ensure effective oversight, sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and timely delivery of these much-awaited assets. Building on the GAO Framework for Acquisition Management, improvements already initiated or completed include:
- Consolidation of Coast Guard acquisition activities (Deepwater, Office of Acquisition, acquisition policy, and the Research and Development Center) into one directorate to increase efficiency and maximize human capital;
- Adoption of a DoD 5000-based revision to the Coast Guard's Major System Acquisition policies;
- Development of new evaluation criteria for the follow-on Deepwater contract term, beginning in June 2007;
- Renewed focus on hiring, certification, and retention of qualified contracting officers and program management personnel; and
- Increased government staffing at Deepwater manufacturing facilities to focus on quality assurance.
Independent Analyses
In addition, the Coast Guard is committed to independent, third-party analyses of our program, including technical assessments of all new, or principally new, asset designs, such as the Fast Response Cutter (A-class), for which we also recently completed an expanded business case analysis. Last fall, we contracted with the Defense Acquisition University for a "quick look" review to examine the program's key management and technical processes, performance-based acquisition strategy, organizational structure, and our government and industry partnership contract, as well as a study being conducted by the Coast Guard Research and Development Center to provide recommendations for the way ahead on the planned Deepwater Vertical-Launch Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VUAV).
We believe these important first steps demonstrate our willingness to learn from our experience and to frankly assess our program's strengths and weaknesses. These measures also put us firmly on the path to correcting problems and to building the solutions that will deliver the next generation of capability to the fleet. However, it is the nature of any large acquisition effort that improvements in program management may not be evident for months or even years. Nevertheless, we are confident that, over time, these improvements in our processes and procedures will help us grow into the model, mid-sized federal acquisition entity we know we must become to meet expectations and deliver assets affordably and on schedule.
While we know we owe a debt of gratitude to the Coast Guard, departmental, and congressional leaders who had the vision to initiate the Deepwater Capability Replacement Project, we in Deepwater's second generation must recognize the confidence they placed in us to adjust the acquisition strategy based on lessons learned, funding realities, and current events. It is our duty to realize the program's original promise by recapitalizing the Coast Guard while integrating best practices resulting from both the past challenges, and current successes, of the Deepwater Program.
Rear Admiral Blore assumed the helm as Program Executive Officer of the Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater System in April 2006.
1. James H. Thach III, Sea Power: Letters , May 1997.
2. GAO Report to the Subcommittee on Transportation, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate (GAO/RCED-99-6), October 1998.
3. Independent Assessment of the United States Coast Guard "Integrated Deepwater System" Acquisition Issue Brief, July 2001.


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Do our memories hold truths, or distortions? How would the people of Britain respond to a Biblical deluge? Was the flouridisation of tap water a rehearsal for something far more sinister?
These are some of the questions raised in DRIFTWOOD, Benjamin Norris' debut novel; a spiralling, nebulous collection of confessions and monologues.
Norris introduces his characters to a world of coincidence and causality, and sits back to hear what they have to say (that is, if the sound isn't drowned out by the heavy falling of rain)...
"The prospect of a complete novel from the writer of A View From A Car Park is an exciting one indeed" (XBerliner Magazine)
Benjamin Jiva Dasa Norris is a young writer and freelance journalist from Bristol, England, currently living and working in various parts of Europe. Benjamin's main sources of inspiration come from his immediate surroundings, and the injection of small facets of magical or spiritual contents into otherwise mundane settings. His fascination with Ancient Indian texts is evident throughout the majority of his work, but more recently influences have seeped in from other global narrative cultures, mainly those of Romany and Baltic origin. Benjamin has recently released his debut novel 'Driftwood', after previously publishing a collection of short stories.
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Jones Lang LaSalle CEO Defines the 'New Normal'
- By Irina Filatova
- Apr. 06 2010 00:00
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Colin Dyer, president and CEO at Jones Lang LaSalle, is putting his bets on hotels and stores as Russia's commercial real estate market slowly recovers from the economic crisis.
"In terms of the new demand, hotels will be the most promising segment, followed by retail, then logistics and offices in that order," Dyer said in an interview.
"That's the order of scarcity. There's a big scarcity of the hotel space in Russia and particularly in Moscow," he said.
Dyer, who has been heading the Chicago-based real estate giant since 2004, dropped into Moscow last week to gauge the "new normal" for Russian commercial real estate. He told The Moscow Times that the "new normal" could be defined as a gradual recovery with "very healthy" 5 percent to 10 percent annual growth for the next two to three years.
"We don't expect a boom," Dyer said, adding that a slow recovery would be healthy for the market.
Commercial space has grown quickly in Moscow since the previous economic crisis in 1998. From 1998 to 2003, there were fewer than 400,000 square meters of commercial space in Moscow, of which perhaps half was offices, Dyer noted. Now there are more than 20 million square meters of commercial space, including 12 million square meters of offices.
Going forward, three- to five-star hotels offer promising growth because demand far outstrips supply, Dyer said.
The number of rooms in these hotels in Moscow increased by 4.4 percent in 2009 to reach 11,400, compared with 10,900 a year earlier. Jones Lang LaSalle forecasts that the number of rooms will increase by 12 percent to 12,800 this year.
City Hall, however, said Moscow had a 9.3 percent drop in foreign visitors last year, with 3.5 million people coming to the capital in comparison with 3.9 million people in 2008.
Dyer said the retail sector also should experience tremendous growth because the 66 quality shopping centers currently operating in Moscow are not enough and cannot be compared in quality to those in Europe.
A new trend in the retail segment is that the owners of shopping centers have started seeking higher standards so as to attract customers after the crisis, Dyer said.
An improvement in quality across all segments will be part of the "new normal," he added.
The office segment in Moscow currently has the highest share of vacant spaces — about 22 percent of all commercial space — after a record number of offices were completed in 2008 and 2009, Dyer said.
According to a Jones Lang LaSalle report, office completion in 2009 totaled 1.7 million square meters, down 18 percent from 2.05 million square meters a year earlier.
The profile of the most active office tenants has changed because of the crisis. Finance and construction companies, which were the primary tenants of quality offices in 2008, showed less activity in the market last year, the report said.
The report also said Russian companies accounted for 38 percent of all deals reached in 2009, compared with 54 percent a year earlier.
Dyer predicted that there would be limited or no new development over the next two years — until the vacant space was reduced — and this would be one of the factors defining the "new normal" for the market.
A gradual recovery in the office segment must absorb the vacant space, and there will likely be a need for new offices starting in 2012, he said.
But the office segment will be the last one in which the demand will start to recover in the short term, the chief executive officer said.
The availability of bank loans will be another driver that will affect the pace of the market's recovery, Dyer said.
"Banks are much more careful giving credits. This factor will restrain the market's recovery but won't stop it. This factor will keep the recovery at the major pace," he said.
The investment sales market will start recovering before the rental market, and the pace of its recovery in Moscow will follow the pattern of that in Hong Kong, London and Paris, Dyer said.
Investment sales prices in Russia's commercial real estate market collapsed by about 50 percent in 2009. But as demand started reviving, the market saw a quick bounce in prices, which increased by 10 to 20 percent, Dyer said, adding that this bounce would be followed by a more gradual recovery.
"We've seen it in Hong Kong, London, Paris. There was an initial bounce and then the market continued with quite a slow pace of recovery," he said.
Investment activity in the commercial real estate market declined by 52 percent in 2009. The total investment volume was $2.86 billion, with about 70 percent of the deals closed in the second half of the year.
Foreign investors showed low activity last year, bringing just 24 percent of the total investment volume to the market, compared with 71 percent in 2008.
Although investment activity will increase in 2010 and foreign investors are beginning to be interested in Russia again, the investment sales market will remain Russian-focused in the first half of the year, Dyer said.


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The Peavey Triple XXX II Guitar Amplifier Head delivers tones ranging from the Peavey Classic 50 to vintage British to the modern 3120 and all tones in between. The versatile and comprehensive control section supplies a master volume pot and independent volume knobs for each of the three channels. Tone shaping is accomplished through passive controls for Bass, Mid and Treble on the Clean channel, while the Rhythm and Lead channels utilize active Low, Mid and High controls.
The pristine Peavey Triple XXX II Clean channel is the perfect foundation for layering outboard effects. The high-gain Rhythm and Lead channels both include a Noise Gate and exclusive FAT switches that add extra heft, while the master section features our patented tone-sculpting tools, Resonance and Presence, which adjust upper- and lower-end response and damping factor. To top it off, the power amp can use EL34 or 6L6GC output tubes, further expanding the tonal options.
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Thinking about maternity leave
Think carefully about what is right for you. Many mums-to-be plan at first to work right until the last minute but it's important to reserve a bit of time ahead of the birth to look after yourself. Remember also that working until 37 weeks or beyond means potentially working right up until your baby is born, leaving you no or little time to get organised, rested and build new networks of friends for when you are at home with your baby. Midwives are getting increasingly concerned about mums working too close to their due date and not taking care of their own needs.
Lots of mums begin to flag in their third trimester. You may feel you've been pregnant forever and just want to get on with the birth. Or you may be dreading the birth, but still feel you've had enough of pregnancy. Some more fortunate mums-to-be really enjoy pregnancy all the way through and would happily continue for a bit longer. In any event, why not try out some pregnancy relaxation techniques or reflexology?
Heavy legs
Anothercommon niggle of pregnancyis the sensation of having 'heavy' legs. It can feel as though you're walking around in lead boots sometimes, especially after standing or sitting for extended periods. It's all down to sluggish circulation caused by pregnancy hormones, as well as the increased blood volume circulating around your system, and it can make you feel like not doing any walking at all. It's better to keep active if you can, though, as this will help to improve your circulation. Other ways of relieving 'heavy legs' include:
- putting cold compresses on your lower legs.
- massaging your calf muscles - or, better still, getting your partner to do it for you.
- wearing support tights.
- misting with cool water or using a cooling leg gel (often found in pregnancy outlets).
- resting with your legs higher than your hips, which eases water retention, improving your circulation.
NB Electronic machines which boost circulation are NOT suitable for use in pregnancy.
Older siblings
If you already have children, they will probably love chatting to your bump and getting involved in your preparations. Devote special time to them and make them feel part of the whole process if they want to. Perhaps they could help choose some new toys or pictures for the baby's room, or help you to find places to keep babycare items. Make them feel like an important part of the baby's homecoming: after all, every newborn can benefit greatly from having an older sibling to care for her. Talk to other mums about older children's reactions to pregnancies and new babies in the Coffee house.
Childcare choices
If you know you're definitely returning to work, now's a good time to start researching and thinking about childcare. There are several options to choose from:
- day nurseries, which take children from a few months to primary-school age;
- registered childminders, who care for your child along with others in their own home;
- nannies, who come daily to your home to care for your child, or sometimes live in (you can sometimes organise a 'nanny share' with another family to cut costs);
- au pairs, who can provide part-time cover and live in your home.
The cost of childcare varies greatly depending on whereabouts in the country you live. In general, au pairs are the cheapest form of childcare - but you need to consider that they may have limited English and little or no experience of caring for babies. They will also be restricted to working for a few hours per day, although they may also offer babysitting outside of these hours for extra money.
Childminders are the preferred childcare choice in the UK and are generally cost-effective. They must deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and will be registered and inspected against it by Ofsted.
Day nurseries can be costly, but are also registered and inspected, and must follow the EYFS curriculum: the benefit of a day nursery is that it is open all year round and may offer longer hours than a childminder.
Nannies are by far the costliest choice, but they will care for your baby in your home and may live in. You will need to check a potential nanny's credentials: some have training and qualifications while others do not. You'll also need to take up references and organise police checks.
If the costs seem prohibitive, have a think about whether you or your partner could perhaps alter your working pattern or hours to give more flexibility. Consider, too, whether parents, other relatives or family friends would be willing to help out.
In addition, you may be entitled totax creditssuch as the Working Tax Credit, which includes an element of help towards the costs of registered or approved childcare. To find out what childcare is available in your area, go to www.childcarelink.gov.uk. For more information on Working tax credits and your eligibility to claim them go towww.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits
Your baby
- She's about 38.6cm long from crown to heel
- She weighs around 1.15kg
- She's becoming aware of dramatic light changes outside the womb
This week your baby will weigh around 1.25kg (almost 3lb) and measure about 26cm from crown to rump. She's breathing more rhythmically now and plumping up to resemble a newborn more each day. You'll probably still be aware of vigorous movement as your baby makes the most of the space still available to her. She can play with her umbilical cord now and will be aware of dramatic changes of light in the outside world. (See if shining a torch beam at your bump gets any response!)
Four things to do this week
- Think about childcare - you'll need it sooner than you think!
- Try some reflexology to relax
- Talk to your midwife about any pregnancy niggles
- Find out what you are entitled to


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Term Paper Writers on Their Way to Perfection and Recognition
Did you happen to read in some newspaper the ads of the following content: "Professional term paper writers are wanted"? Most of the people especially students do pay attention to such kind of information. Some people are doing business on paper writing and this is not a secret.
Term paper writers can save your time and deprive you of unnecessary worries. However, it is not advisable to use the service of term paper writers all the timed via your studying. While dealing with your major subjects it sounds like absurd.
Term paper writers: How to choose the right way
There are many life situations which may force a student to deal with term paper writers. It is not a shame if you have decided to do in such a way. Everything depends on your choice.
The main thing here is to convince your professor that you are a term paper writer of you scientific work. Sometimes it may be not so easy. It means that you should be confident about the term paper writer you work with and his or her professionalism. It is rather obvious.
Term paper writers: Trying to sound convincing
Every term paper writer first of all thinks about their reputation. This means that experienced authors will perform the task in a proper way and prevent you from fiasco. Before trusting your paper to another person or the company be sure that they have good reputation. It is necessary first of all for you and your studying.
Writing the paper is a very responsible task for every student. If you feel unable of doing such tasks you may use the professional help.


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Studio sessions at Oracle Open World / Develop 2010
By Vtatkar-Oracle on Sep 14, 2010
Oracle Solaris Studio is presenting at Oracle Develop next week (Oracle Develop, JavaOne and Oracle Open World run from Sunday, Sept 19 - Thursday, Sept 23). Oracle Solaris Studio has three sessions (short abstracts follow):
Sept 20th, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Multicore Application Programming with Oracle Solaris Studio
Writing correct and fast parallel applications is often considered a hard problem. However, it doesn't need to be that way. This session will describe how Oracle Solaris Studio can be used to produce applications that are both fast and correct. The talk will cover parallelization strategies, implementation details, and common pitfalls. Presenter: Darryl Gove
Sept 21st, 11:30am - 12:30pm, Performance Measurement with Oracle Solaris Studio Performance Tools
In this session, we'll first describe the importance of performance, how tell if there's a problem, and how to triage it. We'll describe the Oracle Solaris Studio Performance Tools and show how they simplify the triaging problem. We'll then present two simple cases of low-handing fruit in applications. Presenter: Marty Itzkowitz
Sept 22nd,2:00 pm-3:00 pm Building High-Quality C/C++ Applications
There are many challenges for native language developers, such as multicore development, heterogeneous OS development, and compatibility. Oracle Solaris Studio delivers a high-performance C/C++ and Fortran tool chain with parallelizing compilers, code-level and memory debuggers, performance and thread analysis tools, optimized math libraries, and support for the latest parallelizing industry standards. Presenter: Don Kretsch
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The word shamrock derives from the Irish word seamrog (pron. sham-roh-g), which is the suffix for clover (seamair). The plant's scientific name, Trifolium, comes from two Latin words: treis, "three" and folium, "leaf". About 150 distinct kinds of Trifoliums are known. The variety that's most associated with St. Patrick's Day is the Trifolium repens, the white clover (Irish: seamair bhan). The species name, repens, is Latin for "creeping".
Trifoliums are a large group of hardy annuals and herbaceous perennials. They are native to the temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and of the mountain regions of tropical America, Africa, and non-tropical South America. The Trifolium repens, however, is native to Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. It has become introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and also common in grasslands of North America and New Zealand. The repens is low growing, and produces whitish flowers that often has a tinge of pink or cream which usually happens with aging plants. The plant is fragile and does not keep long after it has been disturbed from its habitat. The trifoliolate (three leaves) form the symbol known as the shamrock.
Trifolium repens, often used within the mixture that lawn grass seeds, is the species most generally thought of as the "true" shamrock. Although there are differences of opinion as to which particular plant St. Patrick selected to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity.
Legend claims that St. Patrick used the shamrock to illustrate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) when Christianizing Ireland. While trying to convert the Druidic people, he was challenged by a chief to explain the Christian idea of the Trinity, three gods in one person. Patrick plucked a shamrock leaf from the plant and pointed to its three leaves growing from one stem. By understanding the new doctrine in the old lucky symbol, the chief became a Christian. Another tale passed through the ages states that the shamrock was also connected with the banishment of the serpent tribe from Ireland by a tradition that snakes are never seen on trefoil.
Traditionally, the shamrock was used for its medical properties for snake bits, and scorpion stings. The Cherokee and other Native America tribes used the plant to treat fevers as well as kidney ailments. The Delaware and Algonquian Indians used the same infusion, but as a treatment for coughs and the common cold.
Besides an excellent forage crop of livestock, the shamrock/clovers are valuable survival food. They are high in protein, and very abundant. Fresh plants have been used for centuries as an additive to salads and other dishes with leafy vegetables; however raw clovers are not easily digested by humans. It's best if they are boiled for several minutes. Dried flower-heads and seedpods can also be ground into a nutritious flour and mixed with other foods.
Whether you call the plant a shamrock, a clover or a trifolium, its three leaves have played an important part in Ireland; therefore three is Ireland's magic number. It was sacred to the Celtic goddess Brigid, and represented the understanding of the Trinity to Christians. It is believed that everything good in Ireland comes in threes. Even the tradition of Irish story telling is based on a threefold rhythm.


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Given that Nokia has already chosen Microsoft's Windows Phone as the operating system of its future smartphones, the company's first WP7 device - the Nokia Lumia 800 - practically gives us a glimpse into the very future of the Finnish company.
Nokia Lumia 800, in the flesh!
And if this live demo given to TechPinas by no less than Ms. Nikka Abes of Nokia Philippines during last week's Media Thanksgiving Event shows us what Nokia's future supersmartphones will be like - if a bit, I tell you, Nokia's future will be bright:
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Radio Sawa, the U.S. radio network targeting young adults throughout the Middle East, is now broadcasting locally in Benghazi, Libya. A transmitter for Tripoli is expected next…
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This looks damn awesome.
Will rep and ask questions when im back on my PC.
Quick question though, how well does this work on single targets?
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*This is my first guide so it may suck a little bit... Just bare with me lol*
PvP on a Blood Spec DK is a sight to behold... Equip your PvP gear, hit your Blood spec and then lets get going.
Here are a few things you want to remember while PvP'ing as blood.
1. Watch your CD's and make sure you pair them with the other appropriate CD's.
2. Make sure you are not popping CD's needlessly.
3. Please remember that this is not for high damage (although you will have some big crits)... You are there JUST to keep the opposite faction occupied.
Spec: WoW Talent Calculator - Sigrie [33/6/2]
You can change this up as needed but I always recommend getting Lichborne as this is something else you can heal with. This link also shows the glyphs which I feel are best... Again, use your own judgment and adjust to your play style.
The biggest thing you are doing as blood is running in to a big group of people, singling out the healers, and keeping them locked down while your team rapes everything else standing (You may want to duck down if they get that bloodlust look in their eyes). While your damage output isn't great against people... it is more then enough to keep a healer occupied with heals on themselves wasting mana. Also keeping a Dark Simulacrum up on a Mage before they CC or a Warlock before a fear is a huge bonus to keeping the healer locked down. (Yes any spell that uses mana can be cast by you with this. Ring of Frost, Pally wings, etc....)
You also have your interrupts and silence. These are very essential for keeping the healer locked out of their heals long enough that they need to blow their big heals on themselves and when you are going against a healer as blood try to keep as many Necrotic Strikes on them as possible (When that 30k crit heal is healing you... they tend to get pissed).
Once you run in, a lot of people are going to be focusing on you. You want to make sure that your Bone Shield is on you as much as possible. This is a 20% reduction to the damage you are taking. Upon your initial rush in you are probably going to be confronted with a lot of people all attacking you. Icebound Fortitude is great to pop around this initial burst as this is another 50% reduction to the damage you take, as well as Dancing Rune Weapon (if there is a lot of melee) and Anti-Magic Shield.
CD's to pop together when you are low on health: Raise dead, Vampiric Blood, and Lichborne. All of these combined will give you a shit ton of self-healing by performing the following:
Death Pact, Death Strike, Death Coil (healing yourself with it while Lichborne is active). It is very easy to heal yourself from 10% to 100% in a matter of seconds by yourself.
Now that we have the CD's out of the way.... Lets get to the good stuff.
Unfortunately there is no end all macro that I can give you for this. But one thing you have to remember at all times. Disease your healer, spread it, then Icy Chains and Death Grip as needed. Also keep your blood boil on every person you can hit with it as it provides a 10% reduction to the amount of damage they do for 30 seconds.
As a Blood Spec DK in PvP your biggest asset to your team is that you don't take a lot of damage, you are a bitch to CC, and you have a lot of interrupts and a silence.
You will normally keep your Runic power at or near 100 of 130 for the increased damage from Death Strike as this and Heart Strike are your big damage dealers here. The only time you are going to burn this is on your own heals and when you need to do a lot of damage to a healer by spamming Rune Strike.
This is, essentially, all there is to it for BG's. Now as far as using this in Arenas or in world PvP.... It really isn't recommended as you don't have a lot of high damage for big bursts (although it is not bad for 5v5's).
If anyone else has anything you would like to add to this just PM me or post it on here and I will get it added ASAP!
UPDATE: I was completely wrong about 2v2's... This spec DK and a feral druid are absolutely amazing together.
Last edited by Blueice22; 12-31-2010 at 03:49 AM.
This looks damn awesome.
Will rep and ask questions when im back on my PC.
Quick question though, how well does this work on single targets?
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As long as it is not a pally healer it is great for 1v1.... Although in world PvP it gets a bit tricky if others start getting involved. You will pretty much be able to run any healer OOM except for a pally and anything but a frost mage is cake with this.
nice guide but i would pref going for [hand of doom] instead of [scarlet fever] since mellee won't kill you anyway and our silence one of the best is in-game with this talent only 1 min cd.
will try this out playing dk and feral 2vs2 +rep
And for pvp i suggest taking [glyph of strangulate] witch increase duration of silence by 2 sec if it interrupts something.(7sec silence hurts a lot)
and since i didn't take scarlet fever i would change [glyph of blood boil] for [glyph of anti magic shell] (awesome vs mages 7 sec no slow)
my specc : http://wowtal.com/#k=tkFCljYIv.a5o.deathknight.98gJW
anyway nice guide
Last edited by melkbus; 12-31-2010 at 06:09 AM.
I know you put alote of time into this but srly...
Blood is Fail for arena, bg's, fails at every duel apart from melee and does next to no damage. The only people i know who do blood pvp fail at pvp in general it's like playing a prot pally tank for pvp in wrath, all you're doing is making dk's into a stereotype.
Now i know you dont do top end pvp or even mid range cause everything you said is almost wrong.As long as it is not a pally healer it is great for 1v1.... Although in world PvP it gets a bit tricky if others start getting involved. You will pretty much be able to run any healer OOM except for a pally and anything but a frost mage is cake with this.
A good druid will never oom to a DK once he has lots of res.
Thats because You're usles and cant dps cause all you do is heal, so if anyone trains you there idiots.Although in world PvP it gets a bit tricky if others start getting involved.
I'm guesing you're about -1500 rating cause any decent player will have no probs killing a blood dk, only class that might have trouble is a melee.You will pretty much be able to run any healer OOM except for a pally and anything but a frost mage is cake with this
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Well considering that the 2v2 team that I just started yesterday is at 2k rating already and we are sitting at about 80 wins now... It's not that bad I would think. Also blood does not do a lot of damage... you are correct. But when you are beating the shit out of a healer and keeping them locked down in 2's.... yeah that makes it a cakewalk. Thank you very much for your opinion though. You can just leave it right by the door if you don't mind....
Why pvp as blood when its kinda like the new tank spec? tons o health and it regenrates and stuff?
2k is not high its low-mid pvp, every arena season the rating gets easier about 100 points hence the new change to the arena achievements 2k is more like 1600.Well considering that the 2v2 team that I just started yesterday is at 2k rating already and we are sitting at about 80 wins now... It's not that bad I would think. Also blood does not do a lot of damage... you are correct. But when you are beating the shit out of a healer and keeping them locked down in 2's.... yeah that makes it a cakewalk. Thank you very much for your opinion though. You can just leave it right by the door if you don't mind....
1k-2k low
2k-2.4k mid - high
2.4k-3k high
For 2v2 its just lol, 2k is like 1500. This stuff might work on noobs but only noobs, you will be running around doing 0 damage why they drop your healer in a set up with you not being able to make any pressure or cc as blood to stop it, this is a noob spec and always will be.
meh we still aren't having any issues. Top 2v2 teams right now are frost mage and rogue... and we don't have any problems with them.
I'm trying to wrap my mind around why you didn't pick up Hand of Doom.
I didn't pick it up because I normally use strangulate once per game and normally just use mind freeze. I actually have a little bit of a different spec that I use now which does use hand of doom and glyph of strangulate as in the higher brackets there are lot of casters that need to be locked down and it makes it easier to do that.
Frost dps and pvp ftw
Blood is not much of viable pvp spec at all. It MAYBE might work with something like a hunter or rogue but that's the extent of it. Not enough utility and very lacking with damage. Never say never but I don't see any blood dk comps performing well over 2k, 2.2k would probably be your ceiling if you are exceptional players. It would be OK for botting BGs with it, since you could stay alive longer at get more hks. You'll also win most duels just because you can essentially heal as much as any healer and still do subpar damage to outlast someone. Frost is now what is used for 5s/some double dps comps, and unholy is used for 99% of healing comps or 2s/3s with control.
Duelist is 0.5% - 3%, rival is 3-10% and challenger (the typical rank of a casual/semi good arena player) is 10-35%. These ranks are all statistically derived from a general bell curve of typical outcomes. I play on a battlegroup that is fairly average, and I believe 1900 barely got someone a challenger title. Essentially what you're saying is that your rating is only 'high' if you are within approximately the top <2% of teams around..which is just not the case considering 1/200 TEAMS (approximately 1/700-800 people that do arena, underestimate) are the only ones who are ever going to get that high.
1500 is still the rating you need to get any sort of point cap increase. 0-1500 is negligible since it's so easy to get, however ~ 1850-2.2k is still miles ahead (generally in the top 10-35% of teams) of the average arena player, statistically...
Last edited by Kardus; 01-02-2011 at 03:26 AM.
thanks for the guide.
btw commanderx14 must certainly be pro. pros are always aggressive
This is a great guide +rep! Although you could make it even better by adding desired stats eg. for gemming/reforging.
Anyways, cheers man, was actually searching for ages just a few days ago for a guide like this!


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YWCA of Togo – acting to reduce violence against women
Recently the state of Togo was on the agenda for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in March 2012 during the 19th Human Rights Council; during the UPR session the government of Togo highlighted the actions they have taken to enhance human rights within Togo. Historically, Togo has challenges in terms of human rights with accounts of torture, arbitrary detention and a very weak judiciary system. Although Togo, has taken steps towards progressing human rights and complying with United Nations conventions, human rights abuses still prevail. It was noted in the UPR discussions that violence against women, children and child abuse, prison overcrowding, poverty, illiteracy and women's underrepresentation in decision-making bodies, are all of major concern for the UPR community and continue to be a challenge for the people of Togo.
Within this context, the YWCA of Togo conducts much needed work and provides various services for women, young women and girls to develop skills, knowledge and to claim their rights. Since 2009, the YWCA of Togo has run violence against women programmes targeting both women and men. Domestic violence including battering and marital rape are serious problems in Togo; however, as a result of a combination of different social, economic and legal factors, many women are either unwilling or unable to report this violence. The legislation which exists fails to prevent and execute punishment of domestic violence and the police are reportedly ill-equipped to handle complaints of family violence. Domestic violence continues to be regarded as a "private affair" by most law enforcement personnel and members of the judiciary who generally urge women to take steps to reconcile with their abusers rather than lodging official complaints.
In this regard the YWCA of Togo identified the problem of women not knowing their rights and having little or no understanding of the law and how they can use the law to protect themselves, children and family. Therefore, through the violence against women programme the YWCA of Togo trained appointed women to become paralegals and assist survivors of violence and offer guidance in reference to the law. The success of the programme is on-going with sensitisation workshops and awareness campaigns being conducted. In total 3,000 people have taken part in the campaign since 2010, 60% being women, 20% young women (women 30 years old and under) and 20% male. The YWCA of Togo highlighted that in order to combat violence against women, men must be part of the solution because in most cases it is men who are the perpetrators.
In late March 2012, the YWCA of Togo conducted a two day training programme with resources persons, Marlene Phanzu a professional lawyer and the co-ordinator of the Peace Oasis from the YWCA of DRC, Valerie Adzo Assimpah a workshop facilitator and specialist on human rights and violence against women from the YWCA of Togo and Marie-Claude Julsaint the Global Programme Manager of Violence Against Women from the World YWCA. The training took place in the Red Cross centre in the town of Atakpame, in Togo. Women, young women and men from the community of Atakpame all participated in the training.
During the training Marie-Claude Julsaint conducted a session on the role of men and boys in eliminating violence against women. In this workshop participants looked at the traditional roles of men in Togolese society. It was articulated that in order to achieve gender equality the traditional male roles need to be challenged. The discussion highlighted the impact of positive masculinities and positive male role models in eliminating violence against women. Utilising as an example the Bible story in Genesis 39, Marie-Claude illustrated how Joseph resisted temptation and as a man of God decided not to have sex with his master's wife, even though when he was wrongly accused and this resulted in a strong punishment by his master. In the end, the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did. The World YWCA strongly believes in and promotes safe spaces for women, young women and girls, especially in the case of violence against women. The World YWCA also recognises the importance of collaborating with other organisations that work with men.
The YWCA of Togo is using a human rights based approach in their work on violence against women and has particular expertise in law and legal frameworks as a whole. Since the beginning of the programme in 2009, more women are now willingly to come forward and report cases of violence.


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Creamy Celery Soup
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 2 cups celery, roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup onions, roughly chopped
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 1/2 cups chicken stock
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Pinch of dried thyme
- Pinch of dried oregano
- Pinch of dried tarragon
- 2 teaspoons celery seeds, toasted and ground
- Celery leaves for garnish
In a medium sauce pot, melt the butter with the oil and saute the celery and onion for approximately 1 1/2 minutes or until translucent. Add the flour and blend together to make a roux. Add chicken stock and bring to a boil and whisk until it becomes lightly thickened and vegetables are tender Add the heavy cream and blend well together with a mixer.
Add the remaining ingredients and puree soup in a blender in batches. Serve garnished with celery leaves
Recipe Courtesy of Jim Coleman
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