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I know this question is all over the internet, but I have not been able to get any resolution. I just bought a Netgear N600 router and went about setting it up. I used my Windows 7 machine to go through the process with minimal difficulty, except for a brief period in which it exhibited the Unidentified Network, but I think that it was because the router was trying to assign an IP address that was already in use. Can anyone verify that that is a possibility? Anyway I continued the setup and went to connect wirelessly on a Vista machine and it too displayed the unidentified network without internet connectivity. I have tried, I think, everything that has been mentioned to fix this issue without result. I have reset the router, modem, and restarted the computer. I have manually assigned an IP address to the computer, I have manually assigned a MAC address to the computer, I have disabled and/or uninstalled the wireless adapter multiple times, and I have tried simple ipconfig /release and /renew. I have asked others what the problem might be and someone told me that there is an issue with the internet signal coming from the modem. He said that the router and or the wireless adaptor are picking up on these drops in internet connection which is making them disconnect and not reconnect to the internet, and said it is something that Vista does. Can anyone verify this?
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Chelsea Ladies FC 2
Chapman (61 mins), Groenen (90 mins)
City 1
Flint (27 mins)
- Match reports
- 20 July 2014 16:04
- Posted by @roline_mcfc
Manchester City Women's three-game winning streak was brought to an end in the cruellest of circumstances at Chelsea Ladies.
Nick Cushing's side, who had opened the scoring through Natasha Flint's stunning long-range effort, surrendered their lead just after the hour-mark before conceding again in the final minute of normal time to gift the hosts a valuable three points.
The victory lifts Chelsea up to second in the FA Women's Super League table, five points clear of the Mancunian outfit.
City headed into the clash on the back of seven wins in their last eight games and in the knowledge they needed another one to keep their title hopes alive.
With that in mind, Cushing named an unchanged side from the one that secured a 1-0 win over Notts County on Thursday night. New signing Emma Kete was named on the bench.
The visitors made a bright start with Krystle Johnston firing two efforts towards goal inside the opening ten minutes. The first curled wide but Chelsea goalkeeper Marie Hourihan had to be alert to keep out the second.
Hourihan was called into action again shortly afterwards, producing a fantastic save to claw away a Toni Duggan effort.
A minute later, it was Karen Bardsley's turn to keep the scores level, tipping over a long-range shot. From the resulting corner, Katie Chapman headed over.
Johnston then tried her luck once more from distance. The strike looked to have been pushed over but instead a goal-kick was awarded.
Eniola Aluko tested Bardsley again on 24 minutes, as the striker began to create more and more for the home side, using her lightning pace to run at the City defence. She would cause problems for the visitors all afternoon, ghosting past players with ease before delivering a number of dangerous crosses into the area.
It was the away side who broke the deadlock though with a fine piece of individual skill of their own.
Just as she did against Notts County, Flint picked up the ball in the opposition half and ran at the defence. This time though, she spotted Hourihan off her line and planted a glorious lob over the goalkeeper that dipped into the back of the net.
It was the youngster's third of the season and second in two games – proof that despite her age, she can compete at the highest level.
Chelsea responded well to going behind and would have equalised within three minutes if not for Bardsley.
City's afternoon took a turn for the worse just before half-time, when captain Steph Houghton went down with what looked to be a serious head injury. Fortunately, though it had looked to be the case, the stretcher was not required. The skipper did require stitches though will be monitored over the next few days.
When play continued, Bardsley was on hand to make yet another stop and the Blues hung on for a half-time lead.
After the break, City pressed for a second. Duggan's effort flew off-target before the visitors were given a huge let-off, when Yuki Ogimi somehow fired over at the back-post from close-range.
Isobel Christiansen then curled a shot straight at Hourihan, after winning the ball back well, but as Chelsea pressed, City's resilience was broken on 61 minutes, when Chapman headed an equaliser into the bottom corner.
With the scores back level, both sides sought a winner. Jill Scott and Rachel Williams both headed off-target before Bardsley produced two more fine saves.
As the game entered its final minutes and with Chelsea in the ascendancy, City were hanging on somewhat and were dealt the killer blow in the dying seconds as substitute Jackie Groenen stole possession from Betsy Hassett before playing a one-two, rounding Bardsley and slotting the ball into the back of the net to give the home side the win.
Next up, MCWFC host Liverpool Ladies in another crucial league encounter on Sunday 27 July. Ticket details will be released in the next few days.

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Mariska Hargitay, Andy Cohen, Tiffani Thiessen & More Come Out To Celebrate NBC's 2013 Fall Launch Party
Michael J. Fox joined established NBC stars such as Mariska Hargitay, as well as a bunch of NBC newbies such as Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold and Betsy Brandt for NBC's 2013 Fall Launch Party hosted by Vanity Fair at The Standard Hotel held last night (September 16, 2013) in New York City.
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She smiled and said she's coming
she never made it here.
She smiled and said she loves me,
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She brought my dreams to life,
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She smiled and kissed my forehead
now all that's gone away.
People tell me she's in a better place,
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'Net Positive' approach key to future business success: new report by Forum for the Future, The Climate Group and WWF-UK
- Date
- 28 April 2014
LONDON: A 'Net Positive' approach is key for long-term business success in the face of growing social and environmental pressures, finds an influential new report launched today by Forum for the Future, The Climate Group and WWF-UK, which includes Principles developed by BT, Capgemini, Coca-Cola Enterprises, The Crown Estate, IKEA Group, Kingfisher and SKF.
The report – Net Positive: A new way of doing business – captures, for the first time, the principles of what it means to take a Net Positive approach and provides a route map to help businesses engage with the concept. It calls for the ambition of business to change from 'doing less harm' to becoming 'Net Positive' to have a positive impact on the world.
Authors explain that a strong sustainability strategy helps businesses in many ways; enhanced reputation, increased sales, cost reduction and engaged staff. Net Positive: A new way of doing business identifies that a Net Positive approach – where businesses demonstrate positive environmental or societal impacts in key areas of their operations – adds further benefits, including competitive advantage, supply security and the space to innovate products and services through moving the organization into a leadership space.
The benefits of a Net Positive approach are already being felt by businesses, including BT, Capgemini, Coca-Cola Enterprises, The Crown Estate, IKEA Group, Kingfisher and SKF. Leaders of these businesses came together with the report authors to share their experiences and help define the Principles of a Net Positive approach. They concluded that failure to deal adequately with environmental and social issues will result in "exposure to supply chain risks and missed opportunities".
The Principles outlined in the report encourage organizations aspiring to become Net Positive to "make a positive, demonstrable impact in key material areas" and to "show best practice in corporate responsibility and sustainability across the spectrum of social, environmental and economic impact areas".
A Net Positive organization should also invest in "innovation in products and services", "work across the value chain" and "in some cases could challenge the very business models it relies on". The report is also clear that "no aspect of a Net Positive approach compensates for unacceptable natural losses or ill treatment of individuals or communities".
Forum for the Future chaired the Net Positive working group, which agreed the principles. Sally Uren, CEO of Forum for the Future, said: "The term 'Net Positive' is not new itself but has never been properly defined, leading to it being dismissed in some quarters as repackaged CSR. We hope that the Principles outlined in this report will help to bring clarity and push the agenda forward. Companies taking brave steps towards being Net Positive are already reaping the benefits in terms of securing the supply of resources they rely on, investing in radical innovation and shaping their operating context. We look forward to welcoming other companies that wish to leave behind damage control, and move towards making a positive contribution to our planet. They will be the success stories of the future."
The report is supported by BT and is launched today at The Climate Group's 10th anniversary event in London which is being streamed live. It includes case studies of businesses already seeing huge benefits from Net Positive approaches:
- Kingfisher: Set out its Net Positive ambitions in October 2012 focusing its efforts on four priority areas where it believes it can have the greatest impact: timber, energy, innovation and communities. Kingfisher's timber journey started two decades ago with an ambition to get all its timber responsibly sourced. Its Net Positive approach now sees the world's third largest home improvement retail Group working to help reforest degraded land, enhance the quality of standing forests and actively advocate for policy changes. It calculates it will save between £45m and £60m a year by 2020 though its restorative approach to timber sourcing.
- IKEA Group: Through its People & Planet Positive strategy, aims to make a positive difference by focusing on three areas: inspiring and enabling millions of customers to live a more sustainable life at home, striving for resource and energy independence and creating a better life for people and communities. The strategy includes commitments to produce as much renewable energy as the total energy used in its buildings by 2020 and to work with partners to significantly expand forest areas certified to the Forestry Stewardship Council standard.
- Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE): through its "Deliver for Today, Inspire for Tomorrow" sustainability plan, sets out its vision to be a 'low carbon, zero waste' business. CCE produces 12 billion bottles and cans a year and has made a commitment to 'recycle more packaging than it uses'. As part of its approach, CCE has established new joint venture businesses to transform the PET recycling infrastructure in France and Great Britain and is working with online open innovation platform OpenIDEO.com to inspire consumers to recycle more.
- The SKF Group's BeyondZero strategy aims to dramatically reduce its operational environmental impacts while at the same time rapidly growing a portfolio of products and solutions which significantly reduce customers' environmental impacts. Based on this strategy and the transformative targets defined within it, SKF became the first engineering company to enter into a Climate Savers Partnership with the WWF. Between 2006 and 2013 – while its business grew by 20% – SKF reduced the total absolute energy requirements of its manufacturing operations by 13%.
Niall Dunne, Chief Sustainability Officer of BT, said: "At BT we believe in the power of communications to deliver sustainable and economic growth. We can already see this in initiatives such as smart cities where communication technology is playing a positive role in the infrastructure of our towns and cities. Our Net Good goal is to help customers reduce carbon emissions by at least three times the end-to-end carbon impact of our own business. We are building on the investments we have made in reducing our own energy consumption and are turning what we have learned into business opportunities to help our customers."
Mark Kenber, CEO of The Climate Group, said: "Many leading businesses are already aiming to become Net Positive. WWF-UK, The Climate Group and Forum for the Future want to encourage many more companies to take this route. Together, these organizations have created a space where businesses that have already ventured into this territory can share experiences in order to strengthen what is fast becoming a Net Positive movement."
Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business Sustainability & Innovation at WWF-UK said: "A Net Positive movement will drive a restorative economy – an economy that aligns with restoring clean air, fisheries, forests, rivers and many other of the planet's assets that have been lost in recent decades due to the current model of unfettered growth'.
James Robey, Group Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Director at Capgemini, said: "Capgemini is proud to stand alongside these other leading companies. We are committed to ensuring we have a positive impact on the environment and on the communities in which we operate. It is clear that governments, people and businesses need to strive for more ambitious, aggressive goals and Net Positive will provide the means, support and best practice to help set and achieve those goals."
Rob Jenkinsson, Director of Sustainability for the SKF Group said: "We know that SKF is uniquely positioned to contribute to climate change mitigation by driving tough and transformational targets along our value-chain."
Mark Gough, Head of Sustainability at The Crown Estate, said: "The Crown Estate is proud to support this collaborative approach that has delivered the principles and benefits of what Net Positive really means. We believe that this consensus will allow us all to go further in delivering a positive impact as well as strengthen our vision to be a progressive commercial business creating significant value beyond financial return."
The 12 principles of 'Net Positive' are:
- The organization aims to make a positive impact in its key material areas.
- The positive impact is clearly demonstrable if not measurable.
- As well as aiming to have a positive impact in its key material areas, the organization also shows best practice in corporate responsibility and sustainability across the spectrum of social, environmental and economic impact areas, in line with globally accepted standards.
- The organization invests in innovation in products and services, enters new markets, works across the value chain, and in some cases, challenges the very business model it relies on.
- A Net Positive impact often requires a big shift in approach and outcomes, and cannot be achieved by business-as-usual.
- Reporting on progress is transparent, consistent, authentic and independently verified where possible. Boundaries and scope are clearly defined and take account of both positive and negative impacts. Any trade-offs are explained.
- Net Positive is delivered in a robust way and no aspect of a Net Positive approach compensates for unacceptable or irreplaceable natural losses or ill treatment of individuals and communities.
- Organizations enter into wider partnerships and networks to create bigger positive impacts.
- Every opportunity is used to deliver positive impacts across value chains, sectors, systems, and throughput to the natural world and society.
- Organizations publicly engage in influencing policy for positive change.
- Where key material areas are ecological, robust environmentally restorative and socially inclusive methods are applied.
- An inclusive approach is adopted at every opportunity, ensuring affected communities are involved in the process of creating positive social and/or environmental impacts.
For more information follow #NetPositive on social media and contact:
Zoe Le Grand, Principal Sustainability Advisor, Forum for the Future firstname.lastname@example.com
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Juan says bye to Camila, and the ladies find out they're heading to South Korea. They seem really happy about South Korea, like overly happy. Like why are they SO happy about South Korea? Maybe because of the really fast internet connection, that's all I can think of.
Chelsie, Cassandra, Elise, Danielle, and Cat are also on the group date. Date predictions include making popcorn, and making gum. Good guesses ladies. They're actually dancing with Korean pop band, 21.
Nikki tells us how big 21 is in Korea, because she lives in Korea, and she's a huge fan of 21. They all go into a dance studio to dance around with 21.
Nikki makes a fool of herself by doing a weird thing with her leg. Cat is really happy because she thinks she's a really good dancer. Elise says she is "ready to rock out with K pop and 21," I don't think she gets that K pop is a genre, and you can't rock out with it.
The girls find out they're dancing on stage with 21 at a concert in a mall. Nikki is shocked at how many people showed up to see 21, even though she was JUST saying how popular they are.
This performance is embarrassing for 21. And for Cat. Cat's faces…
Next, Juan Pablo takes the ladies to a zen garden.
Cat feels the need to do some damage control because she's worried she's coming off as the hot blonde with some killer dance moves and an ass that won't quit. She confesses that her father is an alcoholic, so I guess that proves there's a lot more to Cat than what meets the eye. Then, she really lets her walls down and shares with America that she's always been the strong, successful, independent one. I just can't believe anyone would be vulnerable enough to say that on national television.
Cassandra doesn't look happy that Nikki is making fun of Cat's guacamole announcement. Screw you Cassandy, I agree with Nikki, and I thought her guacamole thing was funny.
Nikki bitches to JuanPab- is it okay if I call him JuanPab?- about feeling inferior to the outgoing girls in the house, and Juan Pablo doesn't want to talk about it, because he's not really saying anything in response.
Juan Pablo gives the group rose to Nikki. Cat did not have fun seeing that. She said so.
Where is Kelly's dog?
Then, Sharleen gets the one on one date, and Clare is pissed because Sharleen and Juan Pablo are wrong for each other. She can just tell.
Juan Pablo admits that Sharleen is his favorite "one," and he takes her to Seoul to walk around, and he feels like he's trapped in a mize, and they buy some ugly dresses and taste monkey brain.
JuanPab takes Sharleen to a teahouse and Sharleen calls him a cheeky smart ass and teaches him what bland means.
JuanPab tries to get Sharleen to sing, but she's wary because she's worried Juan Pablo will fall in love with her. She does a weird warm up that seems unrelated to opera singing, and then the voice an angel comes pouring out. Juan cuts her off after five seconds. He doesn't actually like opera. Then Sharleen grabs JuanPab's lip with her finger and pulls on it before she kisses him. Gross.
I don't like hearing this kiss. It reminds me of someone walking slowly through a sewer, with three inches of water, and mud on the bottom.
Sharleen looks pretty on their dinner date, and they talk about things other than being in a place of readiness for love. Then Juan Pablo brings up kids. Sharleen tells JuanPab that she hates kids. JuanPab appreciates Sharleen's honesty and gives her the rose despite the fact that she will never accept Camila.
Next is the other group date, with all the remaining girls. They walk around Seoul eating food and paddling in swans. Juan takes the girls to a spa and makes some fish eat the dead skin off their feet. Renee's feet have the most dead skin. Clare is a stalker.
We find out that Clare's biggest fear is taking a bite of octopus. Kelly thinks Clare should be able to do it because she's swallowed bigger things. I'm not really sure what she's implying. I mean, I think I know what she's getting at… but it doesn't really make sense.
At the drinking ceremony, Renee sets herself up for an awkward rejection when she asks JuanPab what Camila would think if her and JuanPab kissed. Best case scenario, they would have had an awkward forced kiss. Well played Renee.
Lauren S. gets some alone time with JuanPab and makes him dance with her to no music. Then asks for a kiss and gets denied. And cries. And then complains to JuanPab that JuanPab won't kiss her. Then Lauren S. describes herself as someone that is optimistic.
Kelly calls Clare a dog, which is surprising considering Kelly's job is a dog lover.
Clare tells JuanPab that she barfed in her mouth and swallowed it back down, and JuanPab gives in and kisses her. He says likes her teeth and lips. I think I hate her teeth. She hardly has to open her mouth and there they are, all her teeth. I hate Clare. She's so annoying.
JuanPab gives the date rose to Andi. I knew it! I like Andi. She's a nice lady.
Clare looks stunned.
Then, Renee gets a rose.
Intense drums.
Chelsie gets a rose.
Some Indian snake handler sounding music overlapping some intense drums.
Kelly gets a rose. I'm surprised about that.
Danielle gets a rose, I'm a little surprised about that too.
The music stops.
Cassandra gets a rose.
The music starts again.
Allison gets a rose. I can't even remember who Alison is.
Clare gets a rose. Nikki looks pissed.
Between Cat, Elise, and Lauren, Cat gets the rose. She kind of looks like Sweet Dee from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. But Sweet Dee is a lot cooler, and not as stupid and annoying.
That means Lauren and Elise have to go on a 12 hour flight home, thinking about how stupid their long green dress over there gold sequin mini skirt is, cough ELISE.
Elise doesn't know what's in store now... So like, she was really banking on winning for some reason. Let's be real Elise.
Lauren S. had it together at first, and then starts crying again. At least she can go back to being just Lauren.
Juan Pablo tells the ladies that they're going to somewhere hot, gorgeous, and exotic… I was thinking like, Bora Bora, but they're going to Vietnam.
What's wrong with Clare in the next episode? What does Negache Chalaga mean? Did Sharleen learn German, or like... how did she overcome the language barrier in Germany? Find out the answer to one of these questions next week.


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Eumops floridanus
|Scientific Name:
|Eumops floridanus
|Species Authority:
|G.M. Allen, 1932
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Eger (1977) revised the genus and recognized E. g. floridanus (Allen 1932) in Florida and E. g. glaucinus in Cuba, Jamaica, Central America, and South America. Timm and Genoways (2004) examined range-wide geographic variation in morphology and concluded that Eumops floridanus should be recognized as a distinct species. Simmons (2005) included floridanus as a subspecies of E. glaucinus, but Timm and Genoways (2004) was published too late for review by Simmons, who did state that E. glaucinus (including floridanus) may include more than one species.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered C2a(i) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Timm, R. & Arroyo-Cabrales, J.
|Medellín, R. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Listed as Critically Endangered because its population size is estimated to number fewer than 250 mature individuals, with no subpopulation greater than 50 individuals, and it is experiencing a continuing decline.
|Range Description:
|The range encompasses southern Florida, including Charlotte, Collier, and Lee counties on the Gulf Coast and Miami-Dade County on the Atlantic Coast (Timm and Genoways 2004); the species is known mainly from the Miami, Coral Gables, and Fort Lauderdale areas. According to Timm and Genoways (2004), "In the greater Miami area, only three records exist of the Florida bonneted bat after 1965. The most recent of these are from the 1990s; one is a single recent specimen from Coral Gables and one is an acoustic recording. Additionally, an extant, albeit probably small, population occurs along Florida's southwestern coast in Lee County near Fort Myers and adjacent Collier County in the Fakahatchee-Big Cypress area." Excluding fossil records, Eumops floridanus was first recorded at Miami in 1936. A pregnant female was captured in Coral Gables in 1988, indicating the continued existence of this species in Florida after an earlier survey concluded that the subspecies probably was extinct (Belwood 1992). Ted Fleming (pers. comm., 1994, 1995) obtained anecdotal acoustic evidence of the bat's continued existence in the Miami area between 1989 and 1993, and he also found evidence of an early 1990s occurrence in the George Merrick House in Coral Gables. This bat was found in 1979 near Punta Gorda, Charlotte County, on the western coast of Florida (8 individuals, including a pregnant female); the roost was destroyed as part of a highway construction project (Belwood 1992).
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Native:United States
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|This species is represented by very few occurrences or subpopulations. All of the known occurrences are relatively small and probably of less than optimal viability, yet they probably have a good probability of persistence for the foreseeable future. This species has appeared to exist in low numbers for several decades (Timm and Genoways 2004). Total adult population size is unknown. The species appears to be rare but may be more numerous than historical evidence indicates (USFWS 1996). It roosts singly or in small groups.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Once believed to be common on Florida's eastern coast in the Miami-Coral Gables area but reported there only a few times since the mid-1960s. One of the few occurrences in southwestern Florida was destroyed. Low fecundity (only one young at a time).
This bat occurs in urban, suburban, and forested areas; it roosts in buildings (e.g., in attics, rock or brick chimneys of fireplaces, and especially under Spanish roof tiles, often in buildings dating from about 1920-1930), sometimes in tree hollows (including those made by woodpeckers), occasionally in foliage of palm trees (e.g., shafts of royal palm leaves); also has been found under rocks, in fissures in limestone outcrops, and near excavations (Layne 1978, Timm and Genoways 2004). The species is known primarily from suburbs, also (on the west coast) from a pine flatwoods community where several were found in a longleaf pine in a cavity 4.6 meters above ground; the cavity had been excavated by red-cockaded woodpeckers and enlarged by a pileated woodpecker (Belwood 1992); this tree was later cut down in conjunction with road construction. In the early 2000s, a colony consisting of at least one male and several females took up residence in a bat house in a North Fort Myers (Lee County) suburban backyard (Organization for Bat Conservation).
|Major Threat(s):
|Vulnerable to habitat loss (in urban and forested areas), habitat alteration (removal of old trees with cavities, or buildings with spaces suitable for roosting), and pesticide spraying for mosquitoes. The last may be responsible for the species' decline in the Miami area, as roosting sites are still abundant. Severe hurricanes may cause loss of older trees with roosting cavities. Hurricane Andrew, an intense Category 5 hurricane that struck southeastern Florida in 1992, may have had a significant impact upon the already low population of bonneted bats (Timm and Genoways 2004). Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has listed this species as endangered (2004)
|Conservation Actions:
|Search for roosting sites and associated foraging areas; employ acoustic equipment capable of detecting Eumops. Every effort must be made to protect existing roosts and their surrounding habitats.
Belwood, J. J. 1992. Florida mastiff bat, Eumops glaucinus floridanus. In: S. R. Humphrey (ed.), Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Mammals, pp. 216-223. University Press of Florida, Gainsville, FL, USA.
Eger, J.L. 1977. Systematics of the genus Eumops (Chiroptera:Molossidae). Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum 110: 1-69.
Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Timm, R. M. and Genoways, H. H. 2004. The Florida bonneted bat, Eumops floridanus (Chiroptera: Molossidae): distribution, morphometrics, systematics, and ecology. Journal of Mammalogy 85: 852-865.
|Timm, R. & Arroyo-Cabrales, J. 2008. Eumops floridanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T136433A4291062. . Downloaded on 26 June 2016.
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Walter Iooss Jr, a sports photography superstar for more than 50 years, regaled a 2015 LOOK3 audience on Friday with some of the best tales from his storied career. Steve Fine, former director of photography at Sport Illustrated, joined Iooss on stage at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville to prompt Iooss about his encounters with many great athletes: Roger Maris, Dave Parker, Joe Namath, Muhammed Ali, Tiger Woods, and Michael Jordan, to name only a few.
Iooss was a teenager without a driver's license when he got his first assignment from Sports Illustrated around 1961. His father had to drive him to the job. The subject, an 83-year-old man who had built a sailboat and sailed it to Florida and back, looked at the 17-year-old photographer and said incredulously, "This is my moment?"
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The New Zealand Dollar reached the highest level in almost three years against the greenback as demand for the latter declined before the Federal Reserve released the policy meeting minutes. The Kiwi benefitted as traders remained cautious, and shrugged off lackluster domestic releases which indicated that credit card sales did not post as expected, and Chinese inflation dipped to 2.3 percent in the month of June, after coming in at 2.5 the previous month. Further news from China revealing that the consumer price index climbed by 2.3 percent in the initial half of 2014 did little to impact the Kiwi. Other announcements confirmed that China's economy grew 7.4 percent annually in the first three months of the year, and experts anticipate that the economy will show stability for the second quarter, even though the country is still facing headwinds due to a sluggish real estate market.
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Let $f(x)=\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}\delta(x-n).$
(a) Show $f$ is a tempered distribution.
(b) Compute $\hat{f}$ using the convention $\int_{\mathbb{R}}f(x)e^{-ix\xi}\;dx$ convention for $\mathcal{F}$.
(c) Let $\{e_{k}\}_{k\leq d}$ is a basis for $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ and compute $\hat{f}\in\mathscr{S}'(\mathbb{R}^{d})$ where $$f(x):=\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}^{d}}\delta(x-[n_{1}e_{1}+\ldots+n_{d}e_{d}]),$$ and formulate the result in terms of the dual basis.
Part (a) is straightforward:
Let $f_{n}$ denote the nth symmetric partial sum of the series defining $f$. Then $\{f_{n}\}_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ defines a sequence of tempered distributions (as they are compactly supported) whereby for each $\phi\in\mathscr{D}$ we have $(f_{n},\phi)\to\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}\phi(n)$ as $n\to\infty$. The righthand sum is finite since $\phi$ is rapidly decreasing (in particular, for large $n$, $\phi(n)$ is majorized by $|n|^{-k}$ for every $k>0$) and thus $f_{n}\to f$ in the distributional sense. Since $\mathscr{S}'$ is closed in $\mathscr{D}'$, the claim follows.
Part (b) is also relatively straight forward if we proceed formally:
$f$ is periodic with period $1$ so it can be expressed as a Fourier series $$f(x)=\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}a_{n}e^{2\pi inx}$$ where $$a_{n}=\int_{-\frac{1}{2}}^{\frac{1}{2}}f(x)e^{-2\pi inx}\;dx=\int_{-\frac{1}{2}}^{\frac{1}{2}}\delta(x)e^{-2\pi inx}\;dx=1.$$ On the other hand, the inversion theorem gives \begin{align*} \hat{f}(x)&=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x)e^{ix\xi}\;dx\\ &=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\left(\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}e^{2\pi i nx}\right)e^{ix\xi}\;d\xi\\ &=\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}\mathcal{F}\left\{e^{2\pi inx}\right\}\\ &=2\pi\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}\delta(\xi-2\pi n) \end{align*} as desired.
Part (c) I am having difficulty proceeding. I know that it will be similar to (b), but the sum over $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$ is giving me a headache; furthermore, I am questioning the rigor in (b). I think that I need to express everything in distributional form (i.e. as linear functionals) and then apply the operations of Fourier transforms, inversion, etc. as they are so-defined for distributions, no?


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Well, apparently, I did fracture my foot back in January and it's not healing correctly. Ortho doc wants a lot of money so debating doing nothing. The pain is minor at this point and I don't feel like I've lost any use of my foot. What happens, I wonder, if I choose to do nothing?
Off my treadmill again-for blistering on my other foot. Can't seem to win with this exercise thing. Guess I'll have to learn to chair dance. I do have some upper body and leg exercises I can do without using my feet so guess that'll be this weeks goal.
2 of my grandson's are coming to visit me for a month this summer. One of them has been here the last few years, his step brother gets to come this time as well. The boys are 7 and 8 and I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. I've not met the older boy as they live in Mi. My husband's been up there once to see them but I didn't get to go. Both of them are extremely tall for their age-the oldest the size of a 12 year old. (They have giant parents) I am very excited that they are coming to see grandma.
I sure wish spring would make an appearance. It teased us with almost 80 degree temps one day and now there is snow in the forecast and it's down right cold with no visible sun in sight. Yuck.
New medications don't seem to be helping much. One of them makes me want to eat. Not helping.
Oh well. I have to get the spare room cleaned out. Guess that requires feet I'm suppose to stay off of today. Hmmm. I'm so bored.
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I'm so sorry I hadn't read this post of yours before reading the one from the 26th... Not having a medical background, I don't have any good suggestions for you, although I can share an experience my aunt had years ago. This was before MRIs were even used as diagnostic tools for this, and it was believed she had a stress fracture. She was given a stability boot, wore it for some time, and eventually, the break healed. I realize that and a Marcus Welby re-run are worth about 5� (with inflation), but I'm sending my best wishes for smooth, swift healing.
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You haven't said what the orthopedist said about the fracture and what the outcome might be down the line if you don't have it treated. The fact that it hasn't healed properly on its own sounds like the repair will be more complicated that it would have been had it been treated up front. I think you must deal with having the work done or risk life-long mobility problems. A second opinion is an excellent idea.
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I'd be inclined to get a second opinion from someone who specializes in the foot. It's hard to say - may cause problems in the future, and then again, maybe not. Go for the second opinion. Do some research to find a known specialist . . . highly recommended.
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If I were you and had treated my foot gently for a couple of months with no union or callus formation, I might be concerned something else was going on. I broke the small toe of my right foot when I was 12 and it was never repaired. In adult life, it led to the formation of a bunionette which may have to be surgically corrected at some point. Why don't you talk to another doctor about your concerns, maybe your primary physician?
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I know two adults who broke foot bones many years ago and never did anything about it. One was told by doc that there
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I would definitely check into the possible consequences before deciding what to do about the break. Enjoy the time with your grandsons.
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I have $n$ points $p_i$ strictly interior to a rectangle $R$, and I would like to connect them with a curve $C$ whose curvature is as low as possible. Let $\kappa_\max(C)$ be the sharpest (largest absolute value) of the curvature of $C$ at any point along $C$. More specifically, $C$ should: (a) pass through the points in any order; (b) be simple, i.e., non-self-intersecting; (c) remain inside $R$; and (d) have the minimum $\kappa_\max(C)$ over all $C$ satisfying (a,b,c).
For example, perhaps the curve left below is optimal.
The right curve has lower curvature but strays exterior to $R$.
I am seeking a lower bound on the minimum of $\kappa_\max$, as a function of the point configuration and its placement within $R$. I have seen literature bounding curvature variation, and literature focused on shortest paths of bounded curvature, and literature that permits $C$ to self-cross, but no literature on my specific collection of constraints. My $n$ is not large, so a solution for a fixed permutation would still be quite useful. If anyone can point me to relevant literature, I would appreciate it. Thanks!
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La Monnaie ¦ Opera ¦ Daphne ¦ Intro
In this Daphne – the 'bucolic tragedy' about the beautiful Daphne, who is loved both by the simple shepherd Leukippos and the god Apollo – director Guy Joosten sets the world of an ecologically-inspired 'hipster' on the fringes of the mainstream against a hard economic reality. Apollo kills his rival and leaves Daphne inconsolable, after which he immortalises her in the form of a laurel tree. Daphne's sad story, as described by Ovid and given shape to by Bernini and Chassériau in the plastic arts, inspired Richard Strauss to write his thirteenth opera, which quite possibly contains his finest music. ' The metamorphosis of Daphne is set in a total union with the music, whereby the words become superfluous and Daphne becomes just a voice that resounds out of the moonlit treetop' – this is how the librettist Joseph Gregor characterised the ultimate moment in the opera.
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Quality of Life
It's been said that the toughest job in the military is the one of military spouse. In fact, the U.S. Department of Defense recognized the crucial role families play in supporting service members and consequently prioritized its support for the service member and his or her family beyond the work environment through Quality of Life programming (QoL). Quality of Life programs are critical to readiness and retention and to ensure service members stay focused on the mission. No assets are more important than our people and their families.
In an overseas assignment such as at EUCOM, ensuring a good quality of life is even more important where families are immersed in foreign culture, foreign language and fewer resources that they are accustomed to accessing easily and familiarly. EUCOM is responsible for maintaining the quality of life, including health care and schools, for almost 130,000 military family members living in Europe. Consequently, through committees and an annual conference, the command reaches out, listens and works to enhance quality of life as it relates to subjects like: relocation and housing, family deployment support, military deployment, wounded warrior support, single—service member issues, youth and teen concerns, health care access, and adult education opportunities.
The EUCOM Readiness division has planned and sponsored the annual joint conference on behalf of the EUCOM Commander since 2004. The conference is a culmination of a year-long process to identify and resolve the quality of life concerns that are most important to the EUCOM family. The EUCOM Quality of Life Executive Steering Committee reviews and prioritizes issues identified by delegates for possible inclusion into the EUCOM Quality of Life Action Plan. The committee is comprised of component personnel leaders and senior enlisted leaders and is co-chaired by the Director of EUCOM Personnel and the EUCOM Senior Enlisted Leader.


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CALICO, lernu!, and the Esperantic Studies Foundation present an annual award to a website offering exceptional language-learning resources. The winning website is recognized at CALICO's annual conference banquet, and its developers are presented with an Award Certificate and a prize. Noncommercial (cost-free) websites, created and/or maintained by CALICO members, are eligible for this award.
Resource Center for Teachers of Russian (visit the website)
Evgeny Dengub, Susanna Nazarova, Marina Rojavin and Irina Dubinina
Papeirs-Mâchés is an online interactive tutorial to help learners improve their French writing skills.
Macedonian Language E-Learning Center (visit the website)
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Aymara on the Internet (visit the website)
Gillian Lord, M. J. Hardman, Justino Llanque-Chana, Howard Beck, & Marcela Pineros
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Jozef Colpaert, Frederik Cornillie, Margret Oberhofer
Français interactif (visit the website)
Karen Kelton, Carl Blyth, & Nancy Guilloteau
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Robert Blake & Kirk Belnap (Project Co-Directors); & Sonia Shiri (Course Designer)
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ESF provided limited financing for the documentary The Universal Language directed by Sam Green, whose previous film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award. Green and his team attended the 2006 World Esperanto Convention in Florence, Italy, and subsequently the 2007 World Esperanto Convention in Yokohama, Japan. The film, released in 2011, was subsequently made available on DVD.
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The third book of short stories in a series of four about Jessie Mae, a little girl born and reared in Georgia in the late 40's and early 50's. The stories are fictional but based on fact, and tell us about a child in the segregated south, her emotions and her heart as she works out confusing and unfair situations with a wisdom far beyond her years.
Prose and poetry have appeared in the following and other magazines and literary journals. South Carolina Writers Workshop anthologies and newsletter, Rockford Review, Aiken County and Savannah Magazines, Timelapse, Anderie Press, WordSmith, Big Easy Sonnet, Writers Exchange, Poet's Page, California Quarterly, Flights of Fancy, Poetic Page Opus, Potato Eyes, Green River Writers, PoetWorks Press, Poetry Motel. Publication of a chapbook The Wind Will Pass, which was a compilation of previously published prose and poetry.
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Gadsden, Ala.–The International Program at Gadsden State Community College welcomed 15 new international students as part of the Community College Initiatives (CCI) Program administered by Community Colleges for International Development, with funding from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright commission, and the Ministry of Education of Egypt. This is the second academic year that Gadsden State has participated in the program, which allows students from historically underserved populations to study technical and vocational programs at the college for one year. Last year, Gadsden State had seven students from Egypt participating in the program, completing their degrees or certificates in December. Participating students this year are from Brazil, Belize, Costa Rica and Egypt.
The CCI Program aims to provide quality educational programs, professional development, employment skills and a first-hand study of American culture for the participants. According to the U.S. Department of State Web site, After completing the program, participants return home with new skills and experiences that enable them to contribute to the growth and development of their countries and societies."
LaTonya Gamboa, a twenty-year old CCI participant from Belize, did just that. She said she decided to apply for the program on a whim after hearing about it from a friend of a friend who knew about the program from working at the U.S. Embassy. "I was at a place in my life where I had traveled and had time to learn about myself and I had a choice to go to work or school." Gamboa said, "I chose school." Gamboa chose to pursue the Certified Nursing Assistant program upon arrival at Gadsden State because nurses are needed everywhere in the world. Gamboa said, "I hope to continue my studies and use my nursing degree to transition into environmental conservation and public health."
Gamboa said that she did not have any expectations of Alabama, but that she was ready for an exciting adventure. "It has turned into a giant learning adventure about the differences from Belize." The biggest difference Gamboa has found is in the teaching styles of her professors. "At home teachers just read from the book," she said. "Here my teachers come alive when they teach and tell stories to make the lesson real. I am learning from experience and not just reading."
Faith Dobbs, project coordinator, said that the program helps students stay focused. "The students are very driven because they only have one year to complete the program." Dr. Paula Ross-Derrick, coordinator of international programs, added that international students contribute to the diversity of the College. "The students are able to learn about each other while sharing traditions of their cultures."
Gadsden State has offered an extensive international program since 1968, and an intensive English program, Alabama Language Institute, since 1973, when it became the first program of its kind in the state. This semester Gadsden State has approximately 200 international students from 51 countries. The average cost for an international student to attend Gadsden State is $11,000 a year.
Ross-Derrick said that most students hear about Gadsden State's international program by word of mouth. "The Alabama Language Institute and Gadsden State have excellent reputations for the educational experience and for the faculty," Ross-Derrick said. "The students hear that a relative or friend went through the international program here so they research it and apply."
While at Gadsden State, the students receive mentor families who help them adjust and give them a family life away from home. For more information about Gadsden State's International Program, CCI, or becoming a Mentor Family please contact Dr. Paula Ross-Derrick at (256) 549-8324 or by email at email@example.com.


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Stock Downgrades: Fifth Third Is at Sixes and Sevens
Justin Sharon
Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.
Sunday, which caused investors
no end of angst in 2008
, showed a far more benign side five years on, with markets surging on Monday, thanks to Larry Summers' exit 24 hours earlier. (Alas, the appropriately named fictional financial reporter
Sloan Sabbith
wasn't around to see it, having signed off on another season of
The Newsroom
on the Sabbath.)
Among stocks on the move,
Apple Inc.
(NASDAQ:AAPL) fell a further 3.18%. Last week, life imitated art a little too literally for the Cupertino company, as its 6.7% slide eerily echoed the
punk opening weekend performance of a film about Steve
The Squibb and the Whale
might make a better movie, with
(NYSE:BMY) advancing 3.63% after
being boosted by
(NYSE:JPM), whose
aquatic angst in England shows no signs of abating
Today in Washington, DC, the Federal Open Market Committee starts its two-day policy meeting on interest rates. In earnings action,
Adobe Systems
Coty Inc.
FactSet Research Systems
(NYSE:FDS), and
(OTCMKTS:PRDSY) are all expected to release results.
Big 5 Sporting Goods
(NASDAQ:BGFV): The stock is now Neutral from Overweight at Piper Jaffray.
Extra Space Storage
(NYSE:EXR): Goldman Sachs downgrades shares to Buy from Conviction Buy.
Food Stocks
(NYSE:CAG) gets cut to Neutral from Overweight at JPMorgan, which moves
(NYSE:K) to Underweight from Neutral.
Glencore Xstrata
(LON:GLEN): Shares in the commodity company are sharply lower in today's London trading on a Neutral-from-Buy downgrade at UBS.
(NASDAQ:IACI): RBC Capital Markets moves the owner of Match.com to Sector Perform from Outperform.
Regional Banks
: Goldman Sachs gives Neutral-from-Buy downgrades to
EverBank Financial
(NYSE:EVER) (price target taken to $16.50 from $18) and
Fifth Third Bancorp
(NASDAQ:FITB), which is clearly now
at sixes and sevens
and trading lower before the opening bell. Meanwhile,
National Bank
(NYSE:NBHC) gets slashed to Sell from Buy.
Royal Bank of Scotland
(NYSE:RBS): The British financial firm is reduced to Neutral from Buy at UBS.
Steven Madden
(NASDAQ:SHOO): Wedbush slashes the shoe stock to Neutral from Outperform.
Werner Enterprises
(NASDAQ:WERN): KeyBanc Capital takes the trucking titan to Hold from Buy.
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In the world of wine, trademarks are fiercely defended, usually in direct proportion to the net worth of the organization doing the defending. A friend who owned a vineyard known as Olivet Grange was sued by Australian Wine Giant Penfolds because of that word Grange that appeared on her bottles of Pinot Noir. E&J Gallo has sued a number of people for the use of the word Gallo, even in realms completely unrelated to wine. And speaking of Gallo, as in Gallo Nero ("black rooster"), the folks in Chianti don't take kindly to use of their favorite mascot.
Most of these claims, which are generally founded on the legal basis of "potential product confusion" are simply ridiculous.
Witness, the latest such claim, by Champagne house Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin against the tiny Italian producer Ciro Picariello, who apparently have made the near-fatal mistake of having produced a sparkling wine with an orange label.
Nevermind that it is not Champagne. Nevermind that there's not a single word on the label that bears any resemblance to or pronunciation of Veuve Cliquot. No, this is just about the color. A shade of orange which is just a "leeetle too close" to that famous orangey-yellow label that introduced many of us to real Champagne.
Now, brands certainly need to be able to own a shade of color in a certain situation. Tiffany has the perfect right to sue anyone who starts giving away their jewelry in beautifully pastel blue boxes. Make an all-red can of cola and you most certainly deserve to hear from CocaCola's lawyers.
But an orangeish label on an Italian sparkling wine of very limited production?
While early reports have suggested that Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin is suing Ciro Picarello, apparently that is not the case. In an article on TheDrinksBusiness.Com, the Champagne Giant has clarified that they "approached Ciro Picariello at the end of 2013 to inform them of the similarity between the colours of their labels and requested if the Ciro Picariello label colour could evolve to avoid any risk of association between the two products."
Which is basically the PR equivalent of the tiger's wide smile. The Ponsardin spokesperson added "Contrary to what has been stated, to date, Veuve Clicquot has not entered into a lawsuit against Ciro Picariello and continues to sustain an amicable conversation."
Amicable unless the little Campanian winery doesn't do what the Champagne giant requests.
Unfortunately, small brands like Ciro Picariello can almost never contemplate the legal fees required to stand up to such bullying, which means almost certainly that The Widow will get her way.
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Forest, Dome, and Distant Mountain. Yosemite National Park, California. August, 7, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A last beam of sunset light illuminates the granite slabs of Lembert Dome and the distant slopes of Mount Dana above Tuolumne Meadows
This afternoon of a day when I was in the area of the Sierra crest near the Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite National Park had turned murky, with a combination of wildfire smoke and high clouds that largely killed the interesting light as the "golden hour" approached. I decided to drive along Tioga Pass Road as the day came to an end, and look for whatever interesting light might appear. There is a lighting condition that can sometimes turn a "blah" evening into something amazing in the Sierra – though I wasn't too optimistic on this evening. On an evening when clouds overhead obscure the late-day light, the clouds sometimes end a bit to the west of the high country, and as the sun drops below those clouds to the west there may be a last-minute glow that must be seen to be believed. You most certainly cannot count on this happening – sometimes the sun simply drops behind clouds and the light goes out. But if it is a possibility I will often go to great lengths to be ready for it.
Even knowing about this light, I was surprised on this evening – twice! In the first instance I had thought I saw a very subtle lightening and intensification of color on the shoulder of one distant ridge far up in the distant Rafferty Creek drainage, so I quickly found a place to turn around and return to a roadside pull-out where I thought I could photograph it. As I quickly worked to set up my tripod and camera… the glow faded and disappeared. I looked around for evidence that it might return – a bit of light elsewhere in the landscape – but seeing none I got back in the car. I had driven no more than 30 seconds down the road when the entire landscape to my south and east lit up with glorious warm light! I quickly – again – turned around and drove back and managed to get a couple of shots before it disappeared again. I then went on down to Tuolumne Meadows with a vague plan to look for interesting light or to photograph an exceptionally large herd of deer that I had seen on an earlier evening. When I arrived, the light was not stunning, but the deer where there, so I put on my "wildlife photographer hat" and a long lens. As I photographed them in less than amazing light, I saw a bright spot in the clouds to the west that just might line up to send a beam or light across the meadow from west to east – and sure enough, a moment later the light began to gradually build. Since I had no time to move or change lenses at this point, I thought about what I could do with the long lens before this light disappeared, so I focused on Lembert Dome, bathed in this light at the far end of the meadow and with the more distant slopes of Mount Dana beyond.
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Concept Media, a filmmaking production company in Ohio, has been producing indie horror films for years. Their next up and coming feature film, Midsummer Nightmares II: Summer's End, is one of the most anticipated indie films coming out of Concept Media.
With a berating of current popular concepts such as zombies and exorcism movies overcrowding the film scene these days, the creators of this project have stated they want to revitalize the unique and mostly untouched classic horror art of "slasher flicks".
The trailer for the upcoming film can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAmkRYBIho.
Horrorsociety.com has already nominated the film for 2014's Most Anticipated Sequel.
Written and directed by Ryan Stacy, the same writer and director for the original film, Midsummer Nightmares, the sequel stars many of the surviving characters from the first film and also includes some new as well as experienced indie actors and actresses. You can view the entire cast and crew names at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3004380/.
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The Pet Health Expo will be held on Sunday, April 27th, 2014, starting at 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. The event will be located at the Canine Crews Facility at 1616 N Washtenaw, Chicago, IL. For more information visit http://www.chicagocanineconcierge.com/ or check-out the Chicago meet-up group "Windy City's Responsible Dog Owners Group" involved at http://www.meetup.com/
This event is for humans only and presented by the Chicago Canine Concierge. This wonderful event is made possible with the generosity of sponsors including: One Tail At A Time, Integrative Pet Care, Alive Rescue, and Pet Wellness. The admission is free for this special pet event and a great place to learn more about the care needed for your furry friends at home.
There will be raffle drawings, gift swag bags, pets available for rescue, expo product showcasing, and local services for your pets. Checkout the new goods available such as: treats, animal wear, supplements, daily food, safety products, onsite classes on first-aid for pets, rehab sources, and alternative healthcare. This place will sure to provide families, with a wealth of knowledge for the health of their pets.