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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Affordable Art Fair, November 8-11
The Affordable Art Fair is happening next week in Seattle from November 8-11 and if there is one that I love it is some good ol' affordable art! I'm usually one to trade or collect on the cheap so it will be interesting to see a line up of local and regional galleries all exhibiting in Seattle over the weekend.
Here's a full list of exhibitors and I'm looking forward to seeing the selection of PDX Contemporary, M.I.A. Gallery, and of course SEASON.
*The image pictured is Claire Cowie's, The Grate, from 2011 (James Harris Gallery).
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Featured Artist Monday| Merrily Tompkins
Plus a video of her work here.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
City Arts Fest images
Here are images from my recent collaboration with Ian for the City Arts Fest. Many thanks to Sierra and the City Arts crew. It was awesome to be a part of the show and also to experiment with some costuming and sculpture.
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Labels: art show, city arts fest, embroidery, ian young
Monday, October 15, 2012
featured artist monday|natalia goncharova
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
City Arts Fest
Ian and I collaborated on an installation for the City Arts Fest Culture Club in Seattle next week. I have been wanting to branch out into costuming and this was a great chance to both work with Ian and experiment with some new styles. Thanks to the City Arts folks for hooking us up with this gig!
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Labels: city arts fest, embroidery, seattle
Thursday, October 11, 2012
box of rain
This is my song of the week. Please excuse the live version, however, I think this version is probably more appropriate to hear/watch when thinking of the Grateful Dead.
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Monday, October 8, 2012
featured artist monday|sherry levine (!)
I just saw that this piece is at Elles:SAM! Levine is one of my favorites and this piece is extra awesome in person. This view is a little obstructed so you'll have to go see it at SAM.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Declarative Sentences at Punch
I am in a group show at Punch gallery that opens this Thursday in Seattle. Ries Niemi and Mackenzie Boetes are the other artists in the show. I am super excited with how the whole show turned out.
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Reusing Onsite Materials
by Paul Rose
Recently, a Semmes project had a lot of concrete needing removal. Consulting with some of our sub-contractors helped us decide to recycle it into gravel for the drain rock behind the site's retaining walls, and as base material for some of the slab work. This was a great decision that meant we did not need to haul multiple truckloads of waste material to another location, process the material there and haul it back. It was just done on-site:
While this process meant moving the material a couple of times, it was done all within a hundred yards, not a hundred miles. Re-using materials is fairly common these days, but it usually occurs at a larger centralized location. This is another way Semmes and Co. Builders works to save resources, providing the best solutions.
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Posted Dec 29, 2016 - 8:36 am
this is just the first phase more to come as the year goes
Posted Dec 29, 2016 - 9:04 am
They are closing two Sears in my area (Cheektowaga and Amherst)... I need some new household items, but I know what a "liquidation" sale entails so by the time I want to start shopping for items they will probably be very well picked over...if only everyone had the patience I do to wait until they went to at least 75-80% off there would be a better selection of items to choose from...sigh...
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Posted Dec 29, 2016 - 10:37 am
They already reduced our Sears from 2 floors down to 1, so I would think we'd be safe for a little while longer. I hope. Sears is kind of a must-have store for me.
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Posted Jan 4, 2017 - 8:33 am
I heard there will be a lot of store closing for traditional retailers this year even though it was the most successful shopping year in a long time. Article I read said a lot of the stores will end up remaking themselves to add things you just can't get from places like Amazon (they used an example of trying out a treadmill). Was a pretty interesting article all in all. I honestly don't care much about K-Mart, so many have closed and the ones that remain open look like they haven't been updated since the 80's. You want your store to be a success why do you try making them look nicer. Now as for Sears that will make me sad if they go away. I have bought many things from them over the years and still tend to wander in there for tools (especially when they have a good craftsman sale).
Posted Jan 4, 2017 - 12:51 pm
We never had a Kmart near us - closest one is about an hour and a half away. We had a Sears at the nearest mall (about an hour a way), but it went out of business a few years ago. We had a "Hometown Sears" not far from here with limited items - but it went out of business last year... so we have NOTHING left... it's online or not at all - for the most part - I choose not at all - too much competition on larger items - and the smaller items that are on really good sales never seem to be available for shipping.
Posted Jan 5, 2017 - 12:20 pm
Macy's is also closing stores.
Posted Jan 5, 2017 - 2:29 pm
In addition to the 150 Sears/Kmart stores closing, they are also selling the Craftsman brand to Black & Decker:
Posted Jan 6, 2017 - 6:53 am
Hope they don't kill the warranty of it. I think spreading the craftsman brand to other stores will help it out though. Article I read (not WSJ as they block most of the article unless i sign in) said that the deal gives Stanley the rights to sell at stores outside of Sears/Kmart. Odd wording. Did they just buy all of craftsman including the manufacturing and such or did they buy rights to it?
Either way it goes it says Sears bought Craftsman for $500 in 1927 and just sold these rights for $900 Million plus a percentage of sales of the items. Sounds like a good investment to me. I think they should kill Kmart off and try to revive Sears itself.
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The Grace of Giving Beyond Your Ability
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At CHAR(10) Markus had a talk about Using MVCC for Clustered Database Systems and explained how Postgres-R does it. The scope of his project is to maintain a set of database servers in the same state, eventually.
Now, what does it mean to get "In the Cloud"? Well there are more than one answer I'm sure, mine would insist on including this "Elasticity" bit. What I mean here is that it'd be great to be able to add or lose nodes and stay online. Granted, that what's Postgres-R is providing. Does that make it ready for the "Cloud"? Well it happens so that I don't think so.
Once you have elasticity, you also want
scalability. That could mean lots of
thing, and
Postgres-R already provides a great deal of it, at the connect
and reads level: you can do your business
unlimited on any node, the others
will eventually (
eagerly) catch-up, and you can do your
select on any node
too, reading from the same data set. Eventually.
What's still missing here is the hard sell, write scalability. This is the idea that you don't want to sustain the same write load on all the members of the "Cloud cluster". It happens that I have some idea about how to go on this, and this time I've been trying to write them down. You might be interested into the MVCC in the Cloud part of my Next Generation PostgreSQL notes.
My opinion is that if you want to distribute the data, this is a problem that falls in the category of finding the data on disk. This problem is already solved in the executor, it knows which operating system level file to open and where to seek inside that in order to find a row value for a given relation. So it should be possible to teach it that some relation's storage ain't local, to get the data it needs to communicate to another PostgreSQL instance.
I would call that a remote tablespace. It allows for distributing both the data and their processing, which could happen in parallel. Of course that means there's now some latency concerns, and that some JOIN will get slow if you need to retrieve the data from the network each time. For that what I'm thinking about is the possibility to manage a local copy of a remote tablespace, which would be a mirror tablespace. But that's for another blog post.
Oh, if that makes you think a lot of SQL/MED, that would mean I did a good enough job at explaining the idea. The main difference though would be to ensure transaction boundaries over the local and remote data: it's one single distributed database we're talking about here.


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With files from The Simi Sara Show.
In Vancouver, the short term rental bylaw states that all rental tenancies must be at least 30 days – except in hotels and licensed bed & breakfasts.
But the vast majority of Airbnb are violating that regulation, including the New York Apartments building now under investigation by the city for operating no less than 17 of 29 units units as Airbnb short term rentals.
READ: The commercial impact of AirBnB in Vancouver
That's not news to Ian Marchbanks, a student with UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning who has been studying the impact of Airbnb on Vancouver's rental vacancy rate.
He says more than 99% of the Airbnb stays in Vancouver are less than 30 days, which means they're breaking the rules.
LISTEN: Ian Marchbanks on The Simi Sara Show
Skirting hotel taxes
Then there are the taxes.
Vancouver's hotel tax is actually called the municipal and regional district tax and is levied on hotel rooms, and most cities have something similar.
Plus is you stay in a hotel room in B.C. you have to pay the 8% sales tax as well.
Airbnb stays are not taxed as such. But why not?
According to Marchbanks, about 77% of Airbnb's revenue is coming from commercial hosts who are renting properties year-round.
"They aren't living in the suites, as we see in the Kitsilano example, where you have multiple properties in a single house, or in properties across the city that are being run full-time. And that accounts for about 27% of Airbnb's revenue – just from that top 10% of superhosts."
Single room occupancy hotel bylaws
In addition to the short term rental bylaw, there are restrictions on single-room occupancy suites, like the property in Kits.
"Those are an obsolete form of housing," says Marchbanks,"but it';s also one that only people who can't afford anything else will rent a single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel. That's why we have them and that's why the city is even talking about making new ones."
The small stock of affordable housing in the form of SROs also operate under a bylaw in Vancouver that states if an owner wants to re-develop the suites they have to be a provider of social housing already and intend to use the suites for social housing in the future.
READ: Vancouver Mayor "very concerned" AirBnB encouraging hosts to ignore bylaws
He says that the owners of the SRO in Kitsilano are skirting the bylaw by renting as AirBnB to make as much money as they can until they can demolish the building for re-development.
Airbnb protects member's identities
Even in San Francisco where they have regulations about renting accommodation, there isn't enough in place to enforce the regulations and force Airbnb to give up information.
"What we found is that there's about 10% compliance with that because Airbnb protects people's identities when they break the law, and they refuse to tell the city who they are or where they are or how to get in touch with them. And there hasn't been, until recently, any legislation on the books to fine Airbnb directly for hiding people's identities when they're breaking the law."
Where does the province stand on the issue?
Marchbanks says when he was doing the study, the BC Liberals were advertising the legalization of the sharing economy.
"So I think there's a really strong push on the provincial level for platforms like Airbnb and like Uber to basically exist and to run with impunity to municipal laws. My understanding is there isn't a lot of support on the provincial level for some of the regulations that have been proposed here in Vancouver."
Marchbanks says he thinks it's incredible that a $30 billion multi-national corporation is facilitating illegal activities in the City of Vancouver and province and the city government really don't have the tools to tell them to stop.
"It really throws into question do we really have the ability to enforce our laws, do we really have a rule of law in the City of Vancouver if we're going to allow multi-national corporations to do this?"


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| macpuppy chapter 1 . 8/2/2002
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| Lynda Henderson chapter 1 . 5/24/2002
Hi. Loved the story. It held my attention right to the very end. Very well done. Do writers from the show ever read these? It would make a great storyline in the future. Thanks. Lynda.
| SunKrux chapter 1 . 5/22/2002
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Warriors: Legends of Troy (360/PS3)
The cutscenes are quite impressive. The games opening cutscene does a quite stellar job in illustrating that you are doing a land invasion. The game tells the story in two ways. Sometimes, it shows them through expected cutscenes. The second way is though the use of Greek paintings. I like the variation in the story telling, so that one does not get bored with how the story is told.
The story is legendary, literally. Quite frankly, i seriously wonder why games were not made using this story before. Yes, we all know God of War takes place in the a place where one fights against the god but that story was fictional. However, Warriors takes its story from one of Homer's most famous poem/story known as the Iliad, which was based on true events.
The game takes place during the Trojan Wars, which was a ten-year siege of Ilium. The battle was between the Trojans and the Greeks, lead by King Aagamemnon and his now legendary warrior known as Aachilles.
The only downside to this epic story is that you play both sides. Let me correct myself, i mean that after you play one side's mission, you play a mission for the other side. When this happened the very first time, it took me quite sometime to realize that i was fighting against the people i was helping a few minutes before.
I think it would have been best to break the game into two parts or campaigns instead of switching sides for every mission. When i say break, i don't mean to have to separate game disks but that at the start window, it gives you the option to pick which side you want to play on. I think that breaking it into two campaigns makes the story less confusing.
The sound is very well done. The voice acting is above average and the voice sync seems perfect. I also love the various sounds i hear, such as metal hitting metal, when swords hit bronze shields. I enjoy listening to the music which does a great job at get getting you ready to spill the blood of your enemies.
The gameplay overall is decent. One has a handful of attacks at their disposal but i really cant tell one attack apart from the rest. I sometimes am lead to think that you need only use one button to attack. This game does feel a bit more of a button masher than other games.
there are two things that i do not enjoy while playing. The first is that, you simply cannot tell your enemies apart from one another and against your own allies. It is true that this is a hack and slash game but it does not help you get into your blood taking grove when everyone looks the same. Additionally, i sometimes try to kill my own allies and get killed instead when i mistake my allies for enemies because both allies and enemies look the same.
The final issue with gameplay is that your allies are extremely slow in movement. While i am moving from one battle location to another, it seems that i need to wait quite sometime for my allies to catch up to me. The playable character seems to run to each location but the allies seem to not realize that you are in need of their killing ability. However, once they do catch up to you they do provide some degree of help.
I really love the fact that the game uses such a famous story. However, the execution of everything else does not seem to be at the same level as the story itself. I think that the best one can do is rent this game.
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A multiagent evolutionary algorithm with direct and indirect combined representation for constraint satisfaction problems
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The evolutionary algorithms (EAs) became more and more important in solving NP-hard problems in recent years. The representation of specific problems in EAs is very important and it has a great influence on the performance of EAs. The constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are typical NP-hard problems and the representation of CSPs can be traditionally divided into two types, namely the direct and indirect representations. The variables in direct representation represent the actual values that they can take, and can be evaluated directly. Whereas in indirect representation, a specific permutation is assigned to variables, and the individual is incapable of being evaluated without a decoder. In order to take advantage of both representations to enforce the ability of EAs in solving CSPs, we propose a combination of these two representations in this article. The minimum conflict decoder is employed to transform indirect representation to direct representation and several new behaviors are designed for agents in multiagent evolutionary algorithms. In experiments, 250 benchmark binary CSPs and 79 graph coloring problems are tested. The comparisons among the direct, indirect and the combined representation methods are conducted. Experimental results illustrate that the method of combined representation outperforms the two other methods.


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Chez Newb: Adding Curb Appeal with Stain
When we bought our house five years ago, we bought it for the potential and location, not for the exact state it was in at the time. It definitely had appeal to me, but not necessarily the curb appeal I really wanted.
Very slowly throughout the years we've changed, renovated, added and upgraded so much of the house that it feels more like us, but still maintains some of the original charm for which we bought it. We've tried to put our money and effort into permanent changes and not those that will eventually change when the money tree flowers and we can go ahead with the second phase of our addition to the front.
However, there are a few things that needed immediate attention when we moved in. One of our top items included replacing the chain link fence. It was not part of the original house's appeal and adding a higher, more private type of fence is a change that will definitely see returns if it stays just five years, or twenty-five more years.
My dog thought it was the #1 piece of curb appeal because he could see and bark at everything.
So replacing that fence was one of the first things we did to the exterior of the house.
Unfortunately staining and finishing the cedar fence was one of the things we never did to the exterior. Ooops. (I think the key to a good before picture is a hose, some wayward mats and a compost bin, no?)
So when you get a year of awesome free paint & stain, what do you do? Well, first you wish for at least 48 hours of sun in an Ottawa summer and then you get your stain ready.For the first time ever, I think I remembered to take a picture of the paint can before I opened it and dripped stain down the side of the label. I chose PARA's TimberCare hybrid stain for exterior wood in a solid colour. Here's my big tip for the post: for a fence or a gate like ours, you can use a solid colour stain. It doesn't take any heavy foot traffic so it will hold the colour well. If you were staining a deck you should consider a semi-transparent or transparent stain, it will make for a longer lasting finish underfoot. Check with your paint specialist for the best advice on a specific deck or fence though.
So it was off to the races for us. I chose the colour Ebony for the stain on my gate. It pulled in the colour of my door and the colour of the mulch we use on our front yard. (I am no green thumb, so we had to ditch the lawn in the front yard.)
For preparation I sanded the fence and gate with a palm sander. It was worth it for this gate because it was a small surface and helped to get the old wood ready to absorb the stain. I used a thin, medium-sized brush so I could get both the boards and the nooks and crannies between the boards. And here's an action shot selfie since Sue and I always seem to shy away from our own pictures on the blog…
And here's how it all turned out.
I finally got around to adding the post caps to the fence, and since it was looking so finished over in the corner, I put out my planters, some beach pebble for the edging and solar lights.
Don't judge me for putting mums in my planters so early! I love them, they fit my budget and I promise you that it was not the reason for this early fall weather we seem to have been unfortunate enough to experience this past week. I'm positive we will go back to our regularly scheduled summer and my mums will be just fine….
My hydrangea tree was in such great form this year, even after the great dig in the winter, so I couldn't resist a shot of them in bloom. I pretty much stick to hydrangeas, geraniums and hostas in my front garden. They love the soil, the early morning sun and the shade that covers them throughout the rest of the day.
I'd love to be tall enough, have a ladder long enough, or perhaps borrow the stilts from the performers I saw at Lansdowne Park this weekend so I could finally paint the last remaining bits of brown on the eaves of the front of the house. But for now, I'm just focusing on the stuff I love, which now happily includes the fence. It's a small, subtle change, but it sure does make me happy. The feather in my cap was when I was crouched down putting the edging in beside the fence one of my new neighbours was exclaiming to her walking partners how great this little house looked and how much progress was made in just one day. I surprised her by practically jumping up from behind our vehicle and saying thank you! thank you! It was such a great compliment to overhear that I couldn't just be demure and accept it sitting down.
Is anyone else working backward and painting and staining at the end of the season, rather than the beginning? We are just about done staining the back decks — just waiting for some dry weather and a little bit more stain to finish the job.
Disclaimer: As part of the PARA Blog Crew, Sue and I were handed over the keys to our own virtual paint shop. We received the paint for our Para projects and want to make sure you know that when you read our posts.
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23 Comments on Chez Newb: Adding Curb Appeal with Stain
What a transformation, Mere! I love the Ebony stain and it works perfectly with your front door. The simplicity of hydrangea and hosta with a punch of colour using the mums… Gorgeous!Reply
The fence looks beautiful, Mere! We are still thinking of staining our deck (working backwards, as well ;)). What type of stain are you using? What do you think about paint vs. stain?Reply
Bravissima! Your ebony fence looks gorgeous: tall, dark and handsome, I say. xoReply
Whoa, what a difference! Nicely done and yes, the fence goes with your front door so well!Reply
Gorgeous! I'm always amazed at how paint can completely transform the look of a space! I love the colour of the stain you chose – it matches perfectly with your home!Reply
Looks amazing Mere! You're inspiring me to finish staining our back deck…Reply
Gorgeous! And I can't believe you're still crouching :-).Reply
Love it! And it's not a little transformation, it make the house look completely different. I love the ebony colour you chose, so elegant and refined. I really want to paint our backyard fences black too, just need to find some time and of course some rain free days.Reply
Love Love Love! Great colour choice Mere! I can see why you love this house so much. It's beautiful! That newly painted fence is the perfect touchReply
LOVE that colour!! So crisp & classy. The fence looks brand new!Reply
You pup looks so tough in that picture! lol. I love the colour you chose for the stain! Big impact.Reply


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Brands: Getting creative leads to better programmatic performance
Want to enhance campaign performance for programmatic ad buys? Get creative. That is the takeaway from a new report out from CPXi, based on data from AppNexus. By the way, that 'get creative' message isn't just referring to the creativity of messaging but to how ads are purchased.
According to the report advertisers may be paying about four times more for display ads than necessary; it also suggests some of those costs can be decreased by restraints from programmatic buying options. While programmatic can help brands better control campaign costs, there can also be issues with targeting and response time.
"The study shows without a doubt that display advertisers are doing themselves a major disservice by limiting the diversity of their campaigns, and now there is a way to address their concerns about cost and risk when it comes to utilizing a broader range of ad units," said Jeff Hirsch, CMO, CPXi. "Programmatic creative can deliver higher engagement rates, lower cost and better overall performance. Further, it opens up the display market to smaller advertisers who have previously been limited by budget, as programmatic creative does not limit scale or accuracy only to those who can afford to develop a larger variety of creative assets."
How can brands get more creative with programmatic buys so that their ad dollars go farther?
First, get creative with ad sizes. The report notes that most brands focus on Wide Skyscraper, Leaderboards and Medium Rectangle ads - the three most popular sizes - but allowing for other kinds of ad units will help budgets go farther.
Second, diversify. More diversified ads - those including alternative ad units and sizes - showed lower CPCs and better overall ROI.
Third, think non-traditional. The report indicates that non-traditional display units like Squares and Full Banners had lower CPM, CPC and CPA rates while Medium Rectangles Leaderboards and Wide Skyscrapers had CPAs between three and four times higher than other display units.
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Guess The Owner Of This Insane Back Tattoo!
Yeah, Ben Affleck isn't the only guy with a weird back tattoo floating around theÃÂ celebrity universe…
Another celebrity posted to their instagram a pic of their very ornate back tattoo…with the caption: "Here's something that most people don't know about me… Safe to say Mum wasn't thrilled at first."
So who's the celeb with the crazy back tat? Find out after the jump!
It's none other than JACK OSBOURNE!
The dude took to instagram to show off his rarely-seen tattoo, along with this selfie. Jack Osbourne looks very Lord of the Rings, just like his sister Kelly. So much so that I with both had cameos. But I guess I'll be satisfied with the knowledge that he's got a weird tattoo that's going to be super embarrassing when he's 70.
What do YOU think of his tatt?
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Tomcat configuration has two variables catalina.home and catalina.base. The purpose of this is to allow multiple instances of tomcat run from a single installation.
catalina.home is the installation directory and contains the directories bin, common, server.
catalina.base is your instance directory and contains the instance directories such as work, shared, conf, webapps.
In your conf directory there is another directory called policy.d. Inside the policy.d directory there are a few files. All of these files are merged into one and written to the catalina.policy file in the conf directory. DO NOT edit the catalina.policy file as this will have no effect. You have to edit the files inside the policy.d directory.
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You must be careful here. If, for example you are using another package to modify some files such as the DeleteQuietly function in the io-commons.jar package, then you must give this jar file the permissions too, if it is in another directory.
Debugging Security
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This will give you a huge amount of logging info, but you can easily search the output for something like 'access denied' to find out what is causing the problem


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TMS is not only life changing, it can be life-saving for some of the most severely depressed patients. At Lindner Center of HOPE, patients are experiencing the effectiveness of TMS and its ability to improve their quality of life. After six weeks of treatment, one in two patients achieves significant relief of symptoms and one out of three experiences complete remission. "After 14 years of struggling with severe depression, multiple medications and numerous psychiatrists, I finally found the complete answer," said a Lindner Center of HOPE TMS patient. "After a series of treatments, I am in remission and I have my life back. This scientific, medical breakthrough, I predict, will revolutionize the treatment of treatment resistant depression."
Is TMS right for you?
All patients begin by scheduling an initial assessment with a TMS prescribing psychiatrist. During this initial assessment, the psychiatrist will:
- Determine a diagnosis
- Evaluate appropriateness of TMS Therapy
- Determine the risks and benefits of TMS compared to other available treatments for your diagnosis.
The psychiatrist will want details about previ¬ous treatment for your depression including counseling history, names of medications, maximum dosage, duration of treatment and reasons treatment was discontinued such as lack of benefit or side effects.
A history and physical examination from your primary care physician is also needed to complete the assessment. At the end of the assessment the psychiatrist will decide if you are a candidate for TMS Therapy. If TMS Therapy is right for you, and you pursue treatment, your next appointment will last two hours. During this visit the psychiatrist will create a plan for your treatment.


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Manifestations of Cervical Spine Involvement in Longstanding Ankylosing Spondylitis: Atlantoaxial Ankylosis and Atlantoaxial Subluxation
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According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the first practical use of the sun's energy --- known as solar energy --- came in the 7th century B.C. At this time, humans used a magnifying glass to focus the sun's rays and create fire. In 1954, photovoltaic technology was developed. This technology allowed for the conversion of solar energy into power for practical uses. Solar energy was first used for smaller electronics. As efficiency has increased, solar power's uses have advanced, including cars that run on solar power.
Solar Cars
A small 15-inch vehicle invented by William G. Cobb of General Motors is considered the first solar-powered car. It was used to show the possibility of solar energy in the future. Solar cars have solar panels that are attached to --- or built into --- the surface of the car. They are usually made of the lightest materials possible to maximize the generated solar power. In the American Solar Challenge, competitors design, build and race solar cars a distance of about 1,500 miles.
Photovoltaic Cells
Photovoltaic cells convert light into electricity. They use solar cells --- made of silicon --- to absorb light photons and then discharge electrons. These discharged electrons are then organized by semiconductors treated to create an electric field with a positive and a negative side. Electric conductors are connected to the positive and negative sides, creating a electrical circuit and current in which the electrons are captured as electricity. According to Future Pundit, the current record for photovoltaic cell efficiency is 42.8 percent.
Solar Car Benefits
As the technology for harnessing solar power develops, it could eliminate the need for burning fossil fuels for energy. According to Maine's Bureau of Air Quality, driving vehicles that burn oil causes more pollution than anything else an individual does on a daily basis. Auto emissions cause an increase in the environment of these harmful pollutants: hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and particulates. An example of a particulate is soot. Solar-powered cars would greatly reduce the amount of these pollutants in the environment.
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Currently, solar cars are not suitable for daily use. They are expensive to produce because of the high cost of solar cells and panels. Because solar cars rely on the sun's light, they need expensive batteries to store the energy necessary to run at night and on cloudy days. Also, the solar cells themselves are not efficient enough to produce sufficient energy, and the solar collectors --- which gather the energy --- are too large for for commercial use.
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"Dear Elliot" (or "Westbound") is the eighth track from Lana Del Rey's From the End and the seventh from her unreleased album Sirens.
- Bad boys are present in "Children of the Bad Revolution" and "Gangsta Boy".
You didn't think about anyone else
You didn't think about any of us when you left that place
You didn't wanna go anywhere else
Nothing could satisfy you till you left, so you went away
Where'd you go?
Where are you now?
I ask about so many of my friends
Oh, about their ends
What about us?
Are we just dust on the floor again?
I thought we were on the mend
You really put me in a quite a position
You got me strugglin' as a musician with a song
You like to write about all of your problems
Put them in songs because you think it would solve them
But you're wrong
Why did you go?
I guess I know
Maybe my question is, why must it come to this?
You talk about being strung out and how I want to be
You and your melody
Tryin' to learn about somethin' important
But you keep takin' up space, you're annoyin'
But I love you so
Yeah, you already know
Tryin' teach me 'bout new ways of livin'
You're tryin' to teach me 'bout ways of forgivin'
But you make it hard
You're such a bad, bad boy
I love you anyway
No matter what they say
You were not approved, but you are on the move
I care about how this turns out
It's just more than I ever knew how to fight
I guess I won't
Tell me I have to, tell me I have to
I know you could
I said, I know you could
Where are you now?
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