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The NHL has plenty of ways of rewarding the regular season's best teams: the Presidents' Trophy, home-ice advantage in the playoffs and matchups with the lowest available seeds all qualify as the benefits of being the best team in hockey.
Of course, each of these rewards means nothing compared to the Stanley Cup, and as the Los Angeles Kings showed us last season, that prize can be won by any team in the playoffs.
Thus, in the grand scheme of things, being good all year isn't as beneficial as playing your best hockey at the right time. The eighth-seeded Kings looked poised to miss the playoffs for most of the 2011-12 season, barely qualifying for the playoffs following a late charge.
Once the playoffs began, the team was virtually unbeatable.
As teams compete in the shortened 2013 season, the teams well-equipped to handle the pressure of the playoffs will thrive. These teams will likely need postseason experience, depth and goaltending to stay strong when the going gets tough.
Let's take a look at the five teams that will hit their strides in the postseason...as long as they make the postseason.

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While you're here, I might as well let you know that we've recently gone totally nuts for homemade crazy milks. And incidentally, we're also head-over-heels crazy about homemade nut milks. See anything unusual about this story yet? No? Maybe I'm just being paranoid that you'll find us a little eccentric.
The first time I made cashew milk in my Vitamix, I felt positively omnipotent. One minute I stood in front of a cup of raw cashews and three cups of water. The next minute, I had four cups of the whitest, creamiest milk I'd ever seen. Who was I? A cow? A goddess? A pair of boobs?
Non-dairy milks and creams are weirdly easy to make at home. They're incredibly useful for vegans but can also add welcome variety and healthfulness to an omnivore's diet. Packaged varieties abound in the supermarkets these days, but for optimum taste and nutrition, it's so much better (and barely more difficult) to start with whole foods and whizz them up yourself. You can make non-dairy milk from any number of dry ingredients. I'm just beginning to explore different combinations and will report back in more depth one day soon. But for now, here's a simple, oddly empowering recipe to get you started.
Use almond or cashew milk any way you would use dairy milk, from drinking to cooking. Many people prefer the taste and nutritional profile of almond milk for day-to-day use. Cashew milk and cashew cream are especially great to cook with because they're very creamy and they thicken beautifully and reliably when heated. Crazy or no, hope you'll give nuts a try one day soon.
Recipe: Homemade Almond or Cashew Milk
This recipe is for basic, unflavored almond or cashew milk, which is quite delicious as is and very versatile in sweet and savory recipes. If you'd like to flavor it, try adding a teaspoon of vanilla extract and two tablespoons of maple syrup before blending, and maybe a dash of ground cinnamon and nutmeg. To make cashew cream, which works brilliantly to add lifelike creaminess to both cooked and raw vegan dishes, reduce the water to one cup and blend until completely smooth.* I'll talk more about cashew cream in a later post.
- 1 cup raw almonds or cashews
- 3 cups water, plus more for soaking
- Place the nuts in a medium bowl and cover completely with water. Soak nuts for eight hours, or overnight. Drain and discard liquid and rinse nuts thoroughly. Soaking both softens the nuts and makes their nutrients more available for our bodies.
- Pour three cups of water into the blender and add the nuts. Cover and blend for about two minutes, until very white and smooth. For cashews, there should be no remaining nut pulp and no need to strain.* For almonds, pour the milk through a fine-mesh strainer lined with two layers of cheesecloth (or through a nut milk or paint strainer bag). Press until no more liquid drains out. Then use the milk and reserve the almond pulp to add to baked goods, cereals, etc. Milk keeps, tightly sealed, in the fridge for about three days.
* Since I didn't start making nut milks until I got my Vitamix, I don't have any personal experience making them in a regular blender. The internets confirm that it is eminently do-able, but if you do end up with some pulp or nut pieces after blending, by all means, strain the cashews as I've described for almonds. Nut milks should be completely smooth and creamy, without any bits or grit.
Preparation time: 8 hours, including soaking
Cooking time: 2 minutes
Number of servings (yield): 4 cups


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'Duck Dynasty' Cast's Contracts Could Keep Family From Ending Show
The Duck Dynasty cast has been public about discussions over whether or not they will continue to produce the show with A&E, but their current contracts with the television company may take the decision out of their hands.
The family is hesitant to work with A&E again following patriarch Phil Robertson's suspension due to controversial statements he made in a recent GQ interview. However, a source tells FOX411, "It's not as easy as just not returning to the show, since they all have binding agreements. It's the network's option, not theirs. Plus the family makes far too much money selling merchandise because of the show. It would be a bad business decision to leave it."
It's worth noting that the cast may value family over business, but even family can't negate a contract. An attorney tells FOX411 it's likely each family member has a separate contract, which means they would all have to fight breach of contract claims separately. Their contracts reportedly included morality clauses as well, allowing A&E to dismiss Phil.
Duck Dynasty is considered to be A&E's most-watched show, with 12 million tuning in for the season 4 premiere and 9 million watching the show's Christmas Special earlier this month. If A&E was even willing to give that up, they still hold the rights to everything under the name "Duck Dynasty."
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- n. A chronic dermatitis of the face, especially of the nose and cheeks, characterized by a red or rosy coloration, caused by dilation of capillaries, and the appearance of acnelike pimples. Also called acne rosacea.
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- n. A chronic condition characterized by redness of the face.
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- n. Same as acne rosacea. See acne.
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- n. a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance
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Narragansett, R. I.There are a few well-known causes of constant facial flushing: certain daily drugs; a skin condition called rosacea; a handful of rare disorders, including blood, thyroid, and kidney cancers; and a slow-growing tumor called a carcinoid.
—F.G.W., Narragansett, R.I.There are a few well-known causes of constant facial flushing: certain daily drugs; a skin condition called rosacea; a handful of rare disorders, including blood, thyroid, and kidney cancers; and a slow-growing tumor called a carcinoid.
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Strikeforce officials have confirmed the company will hold an event on August 18 from San Diego, announcing Ronda Rousey and Sarah Kaufman would headline the show as expected.
It also appears another match is in works for the card, as middleweights Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza and Derek Brunson are in the process of finalizing a deal to face off.
MMAWeekly confirmed verbal agreements are in place for the two to tangle in August with the fight clearly having a big impact on the middleweight title picture.
185-pound champion Luke Rockhold will be defending his title against Tim Kennedy in July, and as a former champ in the division Souza (15-3) is hopeful to get another crack at the belt.
Souza defeated Bristol Marunde this past March. He was expected to face Brunson, but the Ohio Athletic Commission would not allow Brunson (9-1) to compete because of an issue with his vision. Since that time, Brunson has had surgery to fix his eyesight, and suffered a short-notice loss to Kendall Grove in a very close decision that many felt belonged to Brunson.


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Lional Popkin premieres Ruth Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Dance trio grapples with Popkin's multiracial identity using a cultural patchwork of fabric through lens of dance icon
In Ruth Doesn't Live Here Anymore, fabric is a living entity. The set is material ordered, strewn, and tossed. The movement is set to a live Klezmer score, and the full evening's work is the intersection of these fabrics and the dancers. As the trio and the materials clump, order, and scatter, the biography of early 20th century choreographer Ruth St. Denis is unveiled, allowing Popkin to deal with his multiracial identity as half Jewish and half Indian. Ruth's world premiere on March 2-3 at Dance Place in Washington D.C. is just one week prior to the performances here in Philadelphia on March 8-9 at 8 p.m., setting the Bride stage with yet another first-see experience for audiences across the region.
Loosely inspired by the career of Ruth St. Denis, Ruth serves as a way for Popkin to wrestle with his own uncertainties and awkwardness with generalized cultural representations. Miss Ruth revolutionized the concert dance world, first with her "Oriental" dances and Vaudeville background in the early 1900s and then again from 1914-1931 with the creation of the Denishawn company. In preparation for this piece, Popkin foraged Miss Ruth's archives in L.A., where she died the year before he was born, and examined her journals, photos, programs, sketches, costumes and notes. Her journals (particularly those from the notable Denishawn 1925-26 tour of The Orient) are filled with references to the costumes as the starting place for her dances, and Popkin follows her through this point of entry. A vast array of fabric and clothing is strewn across the stage. The performers' attempts to sort through it all function as a metaphor for the way we try to order our messy pasts.
There is much for Popkin to tussle with beyond Miss Ruth's costumes as Ruth St. Denis was an appropriator of Anti-Semitism. She only allowed only ten percent of her Denishawn dance company to be Jewish. Did Popkin consider this as he explored her as a choreographer? Was her "Orientalism" an act of cultural appropriation or a legitimate examination of sources of dance? Can a century of perspective help the contemporary choreographer reach his own point of equilibrium? Lionel Popkin questions the acts of cultural sourcing, representation and transmission. The work also features an original score by Guy Klucevsek for accordion and violin, evoking the essence of both Klezmer and Indian music, a beautiful intersection of the themes illustrated by the dance itself.
Don't forget that when Lionel presents, anything can happen. When last here in Philadelphia, Popkin performed Ahead of Myself, in which he began his performance by first taking a bow and then entering the audience with a live tape recorder to ask for reactions to the unwitnessed dance performance. After recording, he rewound and played the tape, improvised to the responses, and then took the tape out of the recorder and shoved it into his rear end. In another Philadelphia performance, Popkin presented And Then We Eat, in which he cooked zucchini curry onstage with his dance partner, offering the dish to audience members at the end of the performance. While Popkin keeps his playful nature in the choreography of Ruth, the subject matter here is more reflective than earlier works, offering sincerity in self realization that will echo with audiences who struggle with common human issues like self identity and societal relationships.
Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Bride Members, students, and seniors save 25% on tickets. Tickets can be purchased at paintedbride.org, over the phone, Tuesday – Saturday, 12pm – 6pm at 215-925-9914 or in person at the Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106.
Lionel Popkin has had his choreography presented nationally and internationally at numerous venues including DanspaceProject and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, The Getty Museum, REDCAT, and Highways in Los Angeles, the Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Series, On the Boards in Seattle, the Wilma Theater and Philadelphia Dance Projects in Philadelphia, Sushi Performance in San Diego, Dance Place in DC, The Place Theater in London, and the Guongdong Modern Dance Festival in Guongzhou China. From 1999-2000 Lionel was a Choreographer-In- Residence at the Susan Hess Studio in Philadelphia, PA and he has been commissioned by San Diego's Lower Left Performance Collective, the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, Carolyn Hall, and Nejla Yatkin. As a dancer, Lionel has performed throughout the US and Europe in the companies of Trisha Brown (2000-2003), Terry Creach (1996-2000), and Stephanie Skura (1993-1996).
He has received grants from the National Performance Network's Creation Fund, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the City of Los Angeles' Department of Cultural Affairs, the Santa Monica Artist Fellowship, the Puffin Foundation, the Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative through the Jerome Foundation, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the New York State Music Fund, and the Durfee Foundation. He has served on the faculty of Bates College, London's Laban Centre, Sarah Lawrence College, Temple University and the University of Maryland. He is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique. Currently Lionel is an Associate Professor of Choreography and Performance at UCLA.
Guy Klucevsek is one of the world's most versatile and highly-respected accordionists. He has performed and/or recorded with Laurie Anderson, Bang On a Can, Brave Combo, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Dave Douglas, Bill Frisell, Rahim al Haj, Robin Holcomb, Kepa Junkera, the Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Present Music, Relâche, Zeitgeist, and John Zorn.
He is the recipient of a 2010 United States Artists Collins Fellowship,an unrestricted $50,000 award given annually to "America's finest artists." He has premiered over 50 solo accordion pieces, including his own, as well as those he has commissioned from Mary Ellen Childs, William Duckworth, Fred Frith, Aaron Jay Kernis, Jerome Kitzke, Stephen Montague, Somei Satoh, Lois V Vierk, and John Zorn.
His music theatre scores include "Chinoiserie" and "Obon" with Ping Chong and Company, "Hard Coal," with the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, "Industrious Angels" for Laurie McCants, "Cirque Lili" for French circus artist Jérôme Thomas, which has been performed over 250 times world wide, always with live music, and his own piece, "Squeeze Play," an evening of collaborations with Dan Hurlin, David Dorfman and Dan Froot, Claire Porter, and Mary Ellen Childs. He and Dan Hurlin were awarded, jointly, a BESSIE for, "The Heart of the Andes," which has played the Henson International Puppetry Festival, The Barbican Center in London, and the Ten Days on the Island Festival, Tasmania. He can also be heard on John Williams's orchestral scores for the Steven Spielberg films, "The Terminal," "Munich," "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," and "The Adventures of Tin-Tin," and on A. R. Rahman's score for "People Like Us."
- PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Annual Holiday Guide 2016 - November 17, 2016
- Circus Arts Mixes With Dance Theater For This Years Fringe Festival - September 7, 2016
- The Ultimate Guide to Dance at FringeArts 2016 - July 22, 2016
- Review – The 28th Inhale Performance Series - May 15, 2016
- In Process – PhiladelphiaDANCE.org's new residency program to have its first showing with Sam Tower + Ensemble - May 10, 2016


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Wednesday, Dec 29, 1875 Was very ill in the night and have felt so badly today that I have done no work. I think the dull wet weather accounts for my illness. Went out to attend to some affairs. Girard came at noon and Eastman Johnson also. Went to see the Siege of [?] at the Colisseum this evening. It was quite interesting. It rains and the weather is depressing. [?] cold weather in winter.


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FIX: Error message when you try to open or to create a protected XPS document by using the XPS viewer that is included with the .NET Framework 3.0: "Cannot open this document because your permissions have expired"
When you try to open or to create a protected XML Paper Specification (XPS) document by using the XPS viewer that is included with the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, you receive the following error message:
Cannot open this document because your permissions have expired.Note The XPS viewer is a component of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0. The .NET Framework 3.0 is included with Windows Vista.
The XPS viewer uses the Rights Management Services (RMS) functionality in Microsoft Windows to create and to open RMS-protected XPS documents. RMS uses an XML manifest file to store configuration information.
The problem that is described in the "Symptoms" section occurs because the manifest file sets an incorrect expiration date for the RMS functionality of the XPS viewer. If the system date is later than the expiration date that the manifest file sets, you receive the error message that is mentioned in the "Symptoms" section. For example, if the manifest file sets the expiration date to December 31, 2006, and the system date is later than December 31, 2006, this problem occurs.
Hotfix informationA hotfix is included in the .NET Framework 3.5 and in the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. To resolve this problem immediately, install the latest version of the .NET Framework by using Windows Update. Or, download the latest service pack from the following Microsoft Web site:
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>> My Friday column covers my day here with Gerrit Cole, the Pirates' $8 million arm. You'll also find a video I shot of the young man pitching, as well as our interview.
>> Above is a shot I took of Cole signing autographs yesterday. Signed forever, too.
>> The Pirates have a bunch of highly promising arms, to their credit. But they haven't exactly hit many home runs in drafting position players. If not for Robbie Grossman and Starling Marte, the system would be awful in that area. That's inexcusable, and it's something Neal Huntington and Greg Smith must address.
Back to those arms, though. Cole had a chance to see a few in the Pirates' recent Instructional League sessions in Florida, and he sounded genuinely impressed: "We are just super-deep in pitchers. There were times there when he felt like every single guy we ran out on the mound was better than every single hitter we faced. I can't tell you how excited I am to be part of that."
>> Grossman looks great, too, and I'm not ignoring him. He'll get his own feature in tomorrow's paper, as well as a photo, video and all that.
>> I hear from three time zones away that James Neal scored yet another goal on yet another low shot. That's 7 for 7, if you're scoring from home.
Neal thinks I'm nuts, by the way, on this issue. We'll see.
>> Heading over to see the Cardinals today, and not the ones missing cutoff throws in the World Series. These Cards have lost four in a row, their new QB is having trouble hooking up with the world's best wide receiver and … aw, come on, am I the only one that sees this game as little more than a tuneup for the Steelers before New England and Baltimore?
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The propaganda war
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England and Scotland waged a real war in the Wars of Independence, but they also waged a propaganda war at various levels, and it's hard to say in some senses who won that war. It depends to some extent what audience the propaganda was aimed at: there was a domestic audience for propaganda, for instance, and I think in this sense both the Scottish and English crowns were able to reach out to their domestic audience and very effective inculcate an enthusiasm for war and a hatred of the other.
Robert I, for instance, sent out firebrand preachers early in his reign to try and rouse up the Scots against the English, and this seems to have been effective - certainly the English were concerned about his activities in this regard. Similarly, the English crown quite clearly reaches out to chronicle writers, to popular poets, who write very scathingly anti-Scottish verse, and if this can in some way to be taken to reflect wider opinion then hostility at the ordinary level in society is starting to be developed through propaganda against the other realm.
Scottish crowns also in their propaganda tried to appeal to foreign powers as well; it wasn't just aimed at domestic audiences. So one of the obvious examples of this was the Papacy, both the English and the Scottish crown put their case before the Papacy in terms of outlining the rights and wrongs of the Anglo-Scottish struggle. The Scots acquitted themselves quite capably in presenting propaganda to the various Popes during the Wars of Independence period, most famously perhaps in 1301 Baldred Bisset led an expedition to the Papacy of Boniface VIII and put the Scottish case forward apparently very effectively. And Boniface VIII seems to have been able to look favourably upon the Scottish cause, maybe partly because he quite liked to have ways in which he would try to curb the power and authority of the kings of England and France.
Robert I had much more difficult relations with the Papacy, not surprisingly given that he murdered somebody and then seized the throne. He had a long struggle in trying to get Papal recognition of his own rule, Papal approval of the struggle against England. The most famous highlight of that, the climax of that, was the Declaration of Arbroath so called, a letter nominally from the barons of Scotland to Pope John XXII. There were mixed fortunes I think between the Scots and the English when they appealed to foreign powers, they had propaganda aimed obviously at other powers as well as the Papacy, but the Papacy stands as a good example.
One of the important things to draw from this I think is that propaganda was regarded as a very important battleground between England and Scotland. In some senses we're getting towards total war, all the arms of the state must be involved in trying to achieve victory to the death against a very staunch enemy.
Scottish identity
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The development of Scottish identity of course was a gradual business, starting in the 12th, if not the 11th Century, certainly starting by the 12th Century
Dr Alastair MacDonald
I think it's quite clear that Scottish national identity, something we can call Scottish national identity, did exist before the Wars of Independence, but it's also quite clear I think that that sort of concept gets greatly sharpened by warfare, especially the prolonged sort of warfare that occurred between England and Scotland.
Professor Geoffrey Barrow
Had the Scots been defeated by either Edward I or Edward II we probably would have had a different organisation of the island of Britain. Probably southern Scotland would have been absorbed into England, and the north and the Highlands probably left as a kind of subordinate sub-kingdom of some sort of other.
Dr Alastair MacDonald
By the end of the 13th Century there was a sense that people who were subjects of the king of Scots had a communal identity of some sort, that they were Scots under one crown. I think we can see this sense of identity in action as soon as Alexander III dies in 1286; the Scottish guardians clearly seem to be acting on behalf of some sort of sense of a community that represents the Scottish kingdom. You can see this in symbolism, the fact that there's a St Andrew's cross on the Guardian seal, so I think there's definitely identity, both Scottish and English, before the Wars of Independence break out.
And I think we can see that both in terms of a positive identity, but also in terms of negativity, in terms of xenophobia, of hatred of the other, in the Scottish case hatred of the English, often in the English case hatred of the Scots. One trivial example, or seemingly trivial example, is the fact that Scots abuse the English as soon as war breaks out in 1296 for having tails; this is a widely held belief in the middle-ages that the English have got something demonic about them. So the Scots are using this even in 1296, but that sort of stereotyping and these sorts of xenophobic and nationalistic, I suppose in the worst sense, attitude, you can see them increasingly once war becomes entrenched and continues.
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This post needs to be sticky. I completely missed it.
Been looking forward to Ghost for a while now. Launching to public and holding this contest without a "development codex" though… not sure about the proper timing of it all. Sure, the tutorials are a good way to get help, but that's an ongoing thing that has just started. I'd love to give this one a try.
Either way, welcome to the real world Ghost!
Later edit: Unfortunately, I apparently missed the DOCs links. For those interested, this link might help: http://docs.ghost.org/themes/
By the way, Is it allowed if I convert my other theme as a ghost theme ?
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By the way, Is it allowed if I convert my other theme as a ghost theme ?
Contest info says: "$500 Bonus Prize for the best Ghost Theme converted from an existing theme or site template!"
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As day two of the draft is set to being with the second round this evening, here are a few opening notes from May 9th.
Marqise Lee is expected to come off the board quickly once round two starts but there's no denying he slipped due to red flags on his injured knee. During the season there were whispers the condition of his knee was worse than USC was letting on and in recent weeks there's been talk teams were concerned over the injury. At the same time most will have to admit if returns to full health Lee could be the steal of the draft. Don't forget, Lee was rated higher than Sammy Watkins on most boards prior to the 2013 season.
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What is the probability that a student will answer at least two questions correctly by random guessing on an exam with 8 multiple-choice questions each of which as three options?
What I don't get is the at least two questions correctly part. Do they mean P(2) + P(3) + P(4) +P(5) + P(6) + P(7) + (P8)?
P(2) means 8C2 x (1/3)^2(2/3)^6 and ect....
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That's the answer I got!The answer I came up with is 0.804907788.
Can anybody confirm that I did it correctly?
I did it by using the "opposite" approach.
The opposite of "at least two" is "less than two" (zero or one).
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The relations of the two most important concepts, entropy and symmetry, are mathematically clarified. It has been a tacit assumption that higher symmetry of a system imply less entropy. However, it is proved here that the opposite is true for both dynamic and static systems. Higher value of entropy of any system is correlated to higher symmetry. Entropy (S) of a system of w microstates is expressed as a logarithmic function of symmetry,
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This relation is broadly useful for solving problems of relative structural stability of both dynamic systems and static structures [1-4].
[1] S.-K. Lin, J. Chem. Inf. Comp. Sci. 1996, 36, 367-376.
[2] S.-K. Lin, J. Theor. Chem. 1996, 1, 135-150. This paper is downloadable from http://www.mdpi.org/lin.htm.
[3] (a) S.-K. Lin, Understanding structural stability and process spontaneity based on the rejection of the Gibbs paradox of entropy of mixing. Paper presented at the Fourth World Congress of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, Jerusalem, Israel, July 7-12, 1996.
(b) S.-K. Lin, J. Mol. Struct. Theochem 1997, 398, 145-154.
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Background: Despite increasing recognition of the significance of learning from errors, little is known about how learning climate contributes to error reduction.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether learning climate moderates the relationship between error-producing conditions and medication errors.
Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was done using data from 279 nursing units in 146 randomly selected hospitals in the United States. Error-producing conditions included work environment factors (work dynamics and nurse mix), team factors (communication with physicians and nurses' expertise), personal factors (nurses' education and experience), patient factors (age, health status, and previous hospitalization), and medication-related support services. Poisson models with random effects were used with the nursing unit as the unit of analysis.
Results: A significant negative relationship was found between learning climate and medication errors. It also moderated the relationship between nurse mix and medication errors: When learning climate was negative, having more registered nurses was associated with fewer medication errors. However, no relationship was found between nurse mix and medication errors at either positive or average levels of learning climate. Learning climate did not moderate the relationship between work dynamics and medication errors.
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|Parishes and Towns
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"Arderra", or Ardera, a townland,
in the barony of Iverk, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 3 1/2
miles (W. N. W.) from Waterford; containing 334 inhabitants. This townland,
which anciently was part of the possessions of the abbey of Jerpoint, is
bounded on the north by the parish of Ullid, and on the south by that of
Rathkyran, of which latter it is, in the civil divisions, considered to form
a part, and comprises 804 statute acres. It is in the diocese of Ossory,
and is one of eighteen denominations constituting the union of Burnchurch:
the tithes amount to Ł69. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union
or district of Moncoin.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]
Church Records
Civil Parish: Arderra. RC Parish: Mooncoin
Earliest Records: b. Dec 1797; m. Jan 1772.
Civil Roman Catholic Time FHLC
parish parish period number
Arderra Mooncoin 1856-1880 0979702
Historical Geography
Townlands (1851)
Edited by Dennis Walsh, last updated 10 Apr 1999
Parish Townland Acres Diocese
Arderra Ballincurra North 100 Ossory
Arderra Ballincurra South 93 Ossory
Arderra Arderra 583 Ossory
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It seems like I'm writing about car accidents on I-25 in Colorado quite a lot lately. Over the last month or so, there has been a teen involved in a rollover car accident, a Sunday marked by multiple auto accidents, including a five-car pile up, and one more recently in which the passenger of a Honda Accord lost her life.
Unfortunately, today we have some more tragic news from I-25. 9News describes the fatal car accident:
The Colorado State Patrol says the head-on collision happened at mile-marker 246 just north of Mead at 9:37 a.m. when a Kia Spectra and a Geo Metro were heading northbound on I-25.
The investigation is in the early stages, but authorities say it appears the two vehicles side-swiped each other, sending the Kia across the center median and into southbound traffic where it hit a Chevy Cobalt head on.
Three vehicles, three hospitalizations, and one fatality. The three accident survivors all had severe personal injuries. John Fryer of the Longmont Times-Call reports on the state of those involved in the crash:
Jane Smith, 58, of Boone, N.C., a passenger in one of the vehicles, was airlifted to the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, where she was pronounced dead a short time later, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
The driver of that vehicle — Barry Smith, 58, also of Boone, N.C. — was also transported to the Medical Center of the Rockies with injuries. He was listed in serious condition at the hospital Monday night
[…] Mountain View Fire Protection District spokesman Jesse Hodgson said both Barry and Jane Smith had life-threatening conditions.
Jordan Trujillo of Longmont, the 20-year-old driver of the Kia, and Jennifer Daigle of Longmont, his 20-year-old passenger, were taken by ambulances to Longmont United Hospital.
According to reports, police say that alcohol does not seem to have been a factor in the crash. The strip of I-25 North of the Mead exit was closed for several hours while police investigated.
Let's hope that Barry Smith manages to survive his life threatening injuries; one fatality is already too many. Exert a little extra care when going down I-25. Don't become a statistic.
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Minutes from the March 2012
Connecticut Robotics Society Meeting:
11 in attendance
The meeting started at 1pm
Jake informed the group that Mike said that there will be a Westport Mini Maker Faire to be held on April 28th.
Jake passed around an LCD case made by his students on the 3d printer that the school owns
Mike and Eric updated us on their ballon project. They are upgrading to a CO2 presuized gondola . They are supposed to do a demo on April 1.
A new member described what's involved in her school's robotics project.
Jake took the group upstairs and showed us how much progress the GHAMAS FTC (First Contest) robotics team had made from the last time we saw them.
Jake then showed the group some YouTube videos (one was a bipedal robot riding a bicycle, really cool).
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There seems to be a new restaurant opening up every week in Brisbane right now, which is fantastic, but one with a pool is exactly what we need, particularly after the sweltering heat of the last week. Bacchus has opened at the Rydges hotel in Southbank just before summer hit us with a bang, opening night pictures showed plenty of Brisbane's beautiful crowd, and had Matt Preston there to boot.
L and I visited in December for my official birthday dinner. We arrived via a a very exclusive elevator entry from street level which made us feel a little bit important. The pool was smaller than we thought it would be, and we were definitely left wondering if anyone would actually ever use it, but the outdoor area would be a great place for a few cocktails.
The restaurant interior has a lush gold and brown theme, which looks a little bit cruise ship to me, although others may gasp at this description. We were seated quite unsmoothly, being food bloggers sometimes we ask to change to a table with better lighting and this didn't seem to go down too well with staff. Unfortunately, our sparkling water took about fifteen minutes and three waitstaff to ask to arrive, which was a downer.
The menu appears to have mediterranean influences and each dish is matched to a particular olive oil which is an interesting concept. We were provided with a bunch of grissini sticks to munch on whilst we decided on our dishes. These were crunchy and light, a great non-filling alternative to bread. They had the flavours of the herbs and salt in the vase they were presented in, and we dipped them in the accompanying olive oil.
The sommelier came over to assist us with our wine selection; and although we definitely had the feeling he was only pushing us towards one in particular, the wine we had was really smooth and drinkable, a French Muscadet.
I started with Beef carpaccio, delicately sliced with heirloom tomatos, lemon and goat cheese and dried kalamatas. The tomatoes were presented beautifully and were so sweet whilst the kalamata olive was sprinkled over the top. I loved this dish, and wished as with all carpaccio dishes I order that it would last a little longer.
L had Chilli red claw ravioli, leek compote, bisque foam and tempura claw. Chilli was quite light on in flavour, but all elements worked very well together with the creamy bisque and lightly battered claw. This is the type of dish that works well as an entree, it would otherwise be quite heavy as a main.
I did the unthinkable for me and ordered a chicken dish for main. Usually chicken dishes can be boring and run the risk of being a tad dry. Not so this one, the Free Range Chicken ballotine, eggplant puree, confit garlic, and tomato and goats cheese cannelloni was delicious. Full of smokey flavours, both the chicken and the eggplant puree, the only thing about it that I didn't like was the thin eggplant wafers that tasted of paper. The cannelloni was a deskinned rolled up tomato filled with goats cheese, beautiful and delicate.
L's main was Pan roasted duck breast, beets, shallots, sour cherries, heirloom carrots and peppered mascarpone. The duck was cooked perfectly pink with crispy skin, and was very rich in combination with its sour cherry top and the accompanying mascarpone and beets.
The dessert menu at Bacchus features some interesting and occasional savoury ingredients, with goats cheese, fennel, basil and lemon myrtle all featuring. We were a little disappointed with our desserts after the fantastic entrees and mains.
My apricot souffle with Lemon myrtle sorbet looked quite magnificent in its copper pot, but was incredibly and overwhelmingly eggy with very little flavour of apricot. The lemon myrtle sorbet was quite tart in comparison but I did enjoy this.
L had the Fennel mille-feuille with basil syrup and apple duo. This turned out to be a little too "interesting" with the savoury flavours ending up to not be that enjoyable and the size quite tiny. Chunks of apple garnish were simply that, apple. Another few layers on the mille-feuille or something else added to the dish would have hit the spot.
Our Bacchus experience was overall enjoyable but didn't really leave us with the feeling of wanting to rush back. The service experience was quite patchy, which is hopefully just down to opening teething issues. Waiting that long for water (whilst having three separate people ask us about it), having an added bottle of wine to the bill that we didn't ever order at the end of the night, and a waitress simultaneously boasting of the swanky interior whilst saying how the chairs weren't designed for comfort was all a bit much. Highlights were our entrees and mains, and we will say these dishes were beautifully presented and tasted wonderful. Maybe we will leave this one to the beautiful people?
CBacchus Podium Level, Rydges Hotel Cnr Grey and Glenelg Streets South Brisbane Ph 07 3364 0843 www.bacchusrestaurant.com.au


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Bar-Lev, Michal R. Rozenfeld MD*; Maayan-Metzger, Ayala MD*; Matok, Ilan MSc†; Heyman, Zahava MD‡; Sivan, Eyal MD§; Kuint, Jacob MD*
From the *Department of Neonatology, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital; †Department of Pharmacy Services, ‡Radiology Department, and §Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Received March 26, 2004. Received in revised form May 19, 2004. Accepted June 3, 2004.
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the incidence of short-term outcomes of low birth weight infants (≤ 1,750 g) exposed prenatally to either dexamethasone or betamethasone.
METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed a cohort comprising 550 infants who were born alive at our center during the period January 1999 through December 2001, who weighed 1,750 g or less at birth, and who were exposed to prenatal steroid treatment. We compared brain ultrasound findings, such as intraventricular hemorrhage and cystic periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), as well as other clinical findings, including respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), necrotizing enterocolitis, retinopathy of prematurity, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia, for all premature infants whose mothers received either dexamethasone (from January 1, 1999 to June 30, 2000, n = 263) or betamethasone (July 1, 2000 to December 31, 2001, n = 287).
RESULTS: Patient characteristics (mothers and infants) were the same in both groups, with the exception of the number of steroid courses administered, the number of women with premature rupture of membranes (defined as > 24 hours), and the number of women who had received tocolysis. No significant difference was found between the 2 groups with respect to intraventricular hemorrhage and cystic PVL frequencies. No significant differences were found in the incidence of short-term outcomes examined, despite the fact that the dexamethasone group was exposed to a statistically significantly greater number of courses than the betamethasone group.
CONCLUSION: There seem to be no advantages to maternal antenatal treatment with betamethasone compared with dexamethasone in reducing the risk of PVL in low birth weight (≤ 1,750 g) infants. Both drugs have the same effect on all short-term outcome parameters checked.
Antenatal steroid therapy is recommended for every woman at risk of premature labor during the period from 24 to 34 weeks of gestational age. According to the 1995 published board recommendations of the National Institutes of Health, this treatment reduces the risk of neonatal mortality, respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), intraventricular hemorrhage, and necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants.1–3 It has also been shown, however, that multiple doses of steroids may increase the risk of neurological and behavioral disorders.3–9
The recommended steroid regimens are either betamethasone or dexamethasone. Both are long-acting synthetic adrenocorticosteroids with identical biological activity (primarily glucocorticoid activity). Both are weak immunosuppressors with a long half-life (up to 72 hours), and they cross the placenta in their active form. Their chemical composition is identical; they differ, however, in the configuration of the methyl group in position 16.10 Another difference between the 2 steroids is found in the drug regimens used. The dexamethasone regimen has sulfites that may be neurotoxic, especially in combination with peroxy nitrite.2,10–11 In a number of randomized studies, betamethasone (although not dexamethasone) was found to temporarily reduce fetal movement and heart-rate variability.1,11–15 In the last few years, some animal models have shown better neurological outcomes using betamethasone rather than dexamethasone.16
In 1999, Baud et al13 published a large retrospective analysis demonstrating a connection between antenatal exposure to betamethasone and a decrease in the risk of periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), a primary risk factor for cerebral palsy in premature infants. This decrease in risk was not observed in the premature infants exposed to dexamethasone in the study. One possible explanation was the preservative used in dexamethasone but not in betamethasone.
Our study compared the short-term outcomes of infants exposed in the antenatal period to betamethasone and with those exposed to dexamethasone to find possible differences between the groups.
This retrospective study was conducted in a single perinatal center, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel. We studied 550 of the 580 infants born in the center between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 2001, weighing 1,750 g or less at birth, whose mothers were treated in the antenatal period with either dexamethasone (263 infants, first 18 months) or betamethasone (287 infants, second 18 months), and who were subsequently admitted to the neonatal department (to either the neonatal intensive care unit or the intermediate care nursery) and then discharged home. We reviewed all the records of the mothers and their infants, including maternal diseases and treatment during pregnancy, as well as infant characteristics, treatment such as postnatal steroids, and complications including RDS, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, necrotizing enterocolitis, retinopathy of prematurity, intraventricular hemorrhage, and cystic PVL during hospitalizations. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia was defined as oxygen requirement on day 28 or later with a typical chest X-ray. Postnatal systemic steroids were not administered to any of the infants in the study group. Cystic PVL was diagnosed when a brain ultrasound study revealed one or more cysts of any size in the periventricular white matter.
At the time of the study, the recommended antenatal steroid regimen consisted of either 2, 12-mg doses of betamethasone administered intramuscularly 24 hours apart or dexamethasone. In some women, additional courses were given at 7-day intervals if the mothers had not delivered and were still at risk for preterm delivery.
Until June 2000, our center routinely treated the mothers with dexamethasone. As a result of the Baud et al13 study, in June 2000, our obstetricians switched to treatment with betamethasone.
Apart from the change in the steroid treatment, there were no major changes in the organizational structure, key personnel, or medical approaches in either the obstetrics or the neonatal departments during the entire study period.
The trade name of the dexamethasone used by our obstetrician is Dexacort (Teva, Petah-Tikva, Israel); it contains dexamethasone phosphate as its active ingredients, as well as inactive ingredients such as sodium citrate, creatinine, methylparaben (preservative), sodium metabisulfite (preservative), propyl paraben, sodium hydroxide normal 1 N (excipient), and water for injection. The trade name of the dexamethasone described by Baud et al13 is Soludecadron (Merck, Paris, France) and contained the same active and inactive ingredients.
The trade name of the betamethasone used by our obstetricians is Celestone Chronodose (Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, NJ), the same agent described by Baud et al; it contains betamethasone acetate, betamethasone (as disodium phosphate), and benzalkonium chloride (preservative).
Continuous variables were compared using analysis of variance. Categorical variables were compared using the Pearson χ2 test. P ≤ .05 was considered significant.
The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center.
During the study period, 580 infants with a birth weight of 1,750 g or less were born at our institution and were exposed during the antenatal period to either dexamethasone or betamethasone. Eighteen infants (9 in each group) died during hospitalization, and an additional 6 were excluded because of genetic syndromes or major congenital anomalies (trisomy 22, Down syndrome, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Turner syndrome, convulsive encephalopathy, and major heart valve congenital defect). Six more infants were excluded because of the lack of sufficient data in their maternal records. The remaining 550 infants, who fit the study criteria, defined the study cohort.
No statistically significant differences were found between the 2 groups with regard to the following variables: gestational age, birth weight, percentage of small for gestational age (SGA, defined as birth weight below the third percentile for gestational age using Usher charts), gender, multiplicity, and mode of delivery (Table 1).
A statistically significant difference in the number of steroid courses given to the mothers was found between the groups. In the dexamethasone group, a higher number of courses (2.6 ± 1.6) were given than in the betamethasone group (1.85 ± 1), P < .001.
No statistically significant differences were found between the 2 groups with regard to the number of mothers suffering from hypertension or amnionitis, as well as in the number of mothers who were treated with magnesium sulfate. There were, however, a statistically significantly greater number of mothers with premature rupture of membranes (PROM), and more mothers received tocolytic therapy in the betamethasone group.
There were no statistically significant differences between the 2 groups in the incidence of respiratory and other neonatal complication of prematurity, nor were there differences in the incidence of sepsis and antibiotic treatment (Table 2)
No statistically significant differences were found in the incidence or the severity of intraventricular hemorrhage. There was, however, a difference, although not statistically significant, in the frequency of cystic PVL, which was higher in the betamethasone group (Table 3).
A logistic regression analysis including gestational age, birth weight, gender, multiple pregnancies, delivery mode, amnionitis, maternal hypertension, tocolisis, PROM, number of steroid courses, and type of steroids showed that gestational age was the only significant predictor of PVL, with an odds ratio of 0.8 (95% confidence interval 0.7–0.9).
Low birth weight infants weighing 1,750 g or less were found to have the same short-term outcomes, including rate of cystic PVL and intraventricular hemorrhage, when exposed prenatally to either dexamethasone or betamethasone, despite the fact that infants in the dexamethasone group were exposed to more courses. This finding contradicts the finding of Baud et al13 in their large-cohort study published in 1999, in which more infants with cystic PVL were found in the dexamethasone group. The current study also shows that both agents are equally effective in reducing the incidence of RDS and bronchopulmonary dysplasia, as well as other short-term complications such as necrotizing enterocolitis, retinopathy of prematurity, and infection rate. Consistent with our study results, Baud et al13 also did not find any difference in the incidence of respiratory morbidity (RDS, bronchopulmonary dysplasia), intraventricular hemorrhage, and other complications of prematurity among neonates who were exposed antenatally to dexamethasone or betamethasone. Crowley17 included separate meta-analyses of dexamethasone and betamethasone that demonstrated a similar rate of morbidity prevention by the 2 steroids. However, according to that survey, betamethasone significantly decreased neonatal mortality, whereas mortality was decreased to a lesser extent with dexamethasone.10–11,13 Another study18 has also shown that dexamethasone and PVL are not associated.
This retrospective analysis did not find a significant difference between maternal characteristics in either group, with the exception of more courses in the dexamethasone group, reflecting a change in policy over the years. This finding can only reinforce our conclusion that dexamethasone does not pose a major risk for the development of cystic PVL in comparison with betamethasone. More women in the betamethasone group had their membranes ruptured 24 hours and more before birth, and a higher number of women were treated with tocolysis, as was found by Baud's study as well13. We do not know whether these 2 parameters are related, but the results might reflect greater efforts over the years devoted to delaying labor to improve the maternal steroid effect.
Although the current study is observational, it has the advantage of being a large study conducted at a single medical center, thus representing a uniform diagnostic and therapeutic approach with no changes in therapy other than the type and number of courses of the steroid used as antenatal therapy administered to the mothers. Baud's study13 was conducted in 3 different perinatal centers, which might reflect different obstetric practice patterns as well as different neonatal intensive care unit protocols. The rate of SGA in our study was similar in both study groups, in contrast to Baud's study. Although the increased use of tocolysis in the betamethasone group may have led to higher rates of amnionitis and neonatal sepsis, no such differences were found. The rate of intraventricular hemorrhage was similar in the 2 groups, despite a possible protective influence resulting from repeated doses of dexamethasone. The main aim of this study was to discover whether there is a trend toward differences in short-term outcomes, such as PVL, intraventricular hemorrhage, and necrotizing enterocolitis, in antenatal treatment with dexamethasone versus that with betamethasone. The sample size should be larger to achieve more statistical validity.
To summarize, the results of this study seem to indicate that there is no advantage to betamethasone over dexamethasone as an antenatal steroid therapy in low birth weight infants with respect to reducing brain damage (cystic PVL). Furthermore, there is no difference between the 2 steroids in their capacity to decrease respiratory and other complications related to low birth weight. Additional larger human-based prospective studies and longer follow-up periods are needed to confidently recommend one steroid over the other.
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