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Tax commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo says he is "looking forward to donning a pair of galoshes to help the team out" as they help squelch and squash hundreds of millions of unsold branded cigarettes when plain packaging begins.
"Between October and December 2012, there will be up to 100 cubic metres a day being destroyed, which means squelched and squashed and graded into landfill," Mr D'Ascenzo said in his internal weekly column.
"For smokers, it will be approximately 540 million cigarettes destroyed as each stick is individually branded.
"So the ATO will have staff in most destruction sites, in safety boots and high visibility vests."
Manufacturers in Australia will be prohibited from producing branded cigarettes from October 1 and retailers will have two months to get rid of stock before a December 1 ban on selling branded products. It is the manufacturers leftover stock that will be destroyed.
The anti-smoking laws, which are the toughest in the world, come into force after a long battle in which the tobacco industry accused the government of trying to acquire its intellectual property and trademarks without compensation.
After December 1, cigarettes will appear in plain olive green packaging.
In August, the High Court rejected big tobacco's constitutional challenge to the laws.
"Manufacturers can apply for a refund of the duty they have already paid on the Australian manufactured stock they are destroying," an ATO spokesperson said. "As we do not know yet how much product is likely to require destruction, we do not know how much duty manufacturers will be entitled to yet.
"Of course, when manufacturers restock with compliant product, that stock will also attract excise duty."
The spokesperson said manufacturers were busy determining their strategy for dealing with non-compliant products, and it was unclear how many destruction sites would be needed, although the ATO has estimated it would oversee about 80.
The federal government and Australian Greens have attacked an attempt by tobacco companies to flout the new plain packaging laws.
Imperial Tobacco is using packaging to directly challenge government health warnings, telling its Peter Stuyvesant brand customers that "it's what's on the inside that counts".
Health Minister
She said the government had referred the packaging to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
"What's really on the inside of a smoker are diseased lungs, hearts and arteries," she said.
Greens senator Richard Di Natale joined Ms Plibersek in condemning the tobacco companies.
He described big tobacco as "a bunch of greedy, morally bankrupt, deceptive executives, who are doing what they can to maintain a dying industry".
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The center houses a multi-purpose area that consists of 3 full size basketball courts which can also be used for volleyball, badminton, tennis etc. It also has a 200-meter walking/running track around the courts. There is a 6 lane, 25-yard pool. There are men's and women's locker rooms with hot and cold showers and individual lockers for daily use. There are 2 regulation racquetball courts. There is a fully equipped weight area with a sizable collection of free weights; various plate-loaded pieces complimented by a full circuit of selectorized equipment. Our cardiac equipment includes stairmasters, lifecycles, treadmills, recumbent and upright bikes, versa climbers, 2 rowing machines, arc trainers, adaptive motion trainers, trixter bikes and elliptical trainers.
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- 200 meter gymnasium running track
- Indoor playground
- Available to all members who are participating in a program at the Fitness & Wellness Center.
- Parents must remain in the building while they are using this service.
- Children must be at least six months of age.
- Parents may use this service for up to 1.5 hours at a time.
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There are usually two lanes available for our members to swim during the regular pool operating hours except during times which indicate NO lap swimming on the current pool schedule.
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UC320 and regions
I have UC320 installed and am in an area that is both 5 number and 6 number digit plans.
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Auxins, Cytokinins, and Gibberellins
All physiological aspects of plants are affected by plant hormones (chemical messengers), including auxins, cytokinins, and gibberellins.
Learning Objective
Differentiate among the types of plant hormones and their effects on plant growth
Key Points
- During phototropism and gravitropism, the plant hormone auxin controls cell elongation.
- The plant hormone cytokinin promotes cell division, controling many developmental processes in plants.
- Gibberellins control many aspects of plant physiology including shoot elongation, seed germination, fruit and flower maturation, seed dormancy, gender expression, seedless fruit development, and the delay of senescence in leaves and fruit.
any of a class of plant hormones involved in cell growth and division
a class of plant growth hormones that is responsible for elongation in phototropism and gravitropism and for other growth processes in the plant life cycle
any of a class of diterpene plant growth hormones that stimulate shoot elongation, seed germination, and fruit and flower maturation
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Growth Responses
A plant's sensory response to external stimuli relies on hormones, which are simply chemical messengers. Plant hormones affect all aspects of plant life, from flowering to fruit setting and maturation, and from phototropism to leaf fall. Potentially, every cell in a plant can produce plant hormones. The hormones can act in their cell of origin or be transported to other portions of the plant body, with many plant responses involving the synergistic or antagonistic interaction of two or more hormones. In contrast, animal hormones are produced in specific glands and transported to a distant site for action, acting alone.
Plant hormones are a group of unrelated chemical substances that affect plant morphogenesis. Five major plant hormones are traditionally described: auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, ethylene, and abscisic acid. In addition, other nutrients and environmental conditions can be characterized as growth factors. The first three plant hormones largely affect plant growth, as described below.
The term auxin is derived from the Greek word auxein, which means "to grow. " Auxins are the main hormones responsible for cell elongation in phototropism and gravitropism. They also control the differentiation of meristem into vascular tissue and promote leaf development and arrangement. While many synthetic auxins are used as herbicides, indole acetic acid (IAA) is the only naturally-occurring auxin that shows physiological activity. Apical dominance (the inhibition of lateral bud formation) is triggered by auxins produced in the apical meristem. Flowering, fruit setting and ripening, and inhibition of abscission (leaf falling) are other plant responses under the direct or indirect control of auxins. Auxins also act as a relay for the effects of the blue light and red/far-red responses.
Commercial use of auxins is widespread in plant nurseries and for crop production. IAA is used as a rooting hormone to promote growth of adventitious roots on cuttings and detached leaves. Applying synthetic auxins to tomato plants in greenhouses promotes normal fruit development. Outdoor application of auxin promotes synchronization of fruit setting and dropping, which coordinates the harvesting season. Fruits such as seedless cucumbers can be induced to set fruit by treating unfertilized plant flowers with auxins.
The effect of cytokinins was first reported when it was found that adding the liquid endosperm of coconuts to developing plant embryos in culture stimulated their growth. The stimulating growth factor was found to be cytokinin, a hormone that promotes cytokinesis (cell division). Almost 200 naturally-occurring or synthetic cytokinins are known, to date. Cytokinins are most abundant in growing tissues, such as roots, embryos, and fruits, where cell division is occurring. Cytokinins are known to delay senescence in leaf tissues, promote mitosis, and stimulate differentiation of the meristem in shoots and roots. Many effects on plant development are under the influence of cytokinins, either in conjunction with auxin or another hormone. For example, apical dominance seems to result from a balance between auxins that inhibit lateral buds and cytokinins that promote bushier growth.
Gibberellins (GAs) are a group of about 125 closely-related plant hormones that stimulate shoot elongation, seed germination, and fruit and flower maturation. GAs are synthesized in the root and stem apical meristems, young leaves, and seed embryos. In urban areas, GA antagonists are sometimes applied to trees under power lines to control growth and reduce the frequency of pruning.
GAs break dormancy (a state of inhibited growth and development) in the seeds of plants that require exposure to cold or light to germinate. Abscisic acid is a strong antagonist of GA action. Other effects of GAs include gender expression, seedless fruit development, and the delay of senescence in leaves and fruit. Seedless grapes are obtained through standard breeding methods; they contain inconspicuous seeds that fail to develop. Because GAs are produced by the seeds and because fruit development and stem elongation are under GA control, these varieties of grapes would normally produce small fruit in compact clusters. Maturing grapes are routinely treated with GA to promote larger fruit size, as well as looser bunches (longer stems), which reduces the incidence of mildew infection .
Effect of gibberellins on grapes
In grapes, application of gibberellic acid increases the size of fruit and loosens clustering.
Key Term Reference
- abscisic acid
- apical
- Appears in these related concepts: Chromalveolata: Alveolates, Plant Adaptations to Life on Land, and Mosses
- apical meristem
- Appears in these related concepts: Plant Tissues and Organ Systems, Functions of Stems, and Genetic Control of Flowers
- cell
- Appears in these related concepts: Cells as the Basic Unit of Life, Citric Acid Cycle, and Levels of Organization
- cutting
- Appears in these related concepts: Extremophiles and Biofilms, Primary and Secondary Growth in Stems, and Types of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
- cytokinesis
- Appears in these related concepts: The Mitotic Phase and the G0 Phase, Meiosis II, and Sympatric Speciation
- derived
- Appears in these related concepts: Building Phylogenetic Trees, Constructing an Animal Phylogenetic Tree, and Evolution of Mammals
- elongation
- Appears in these related concepts: Elongation and Termination in Prokaryotes, Initiation of Transcription in Eukaryotes, and The Mechanism of Protein Synthesis
- ethylene
- Appears in these related concepts: Abscisic Acid, Ethylene, and Nontraditional Hormones, Plant Responses to Wind and Touch, and Plant Life Spans
- frequency
- Appears in these related concepts: Properties of Waves and Light, Characteristics of Sound, and Sound
- fruit
- Appears in these related concepts: The Nucleus and Ribosomes, Angsiosperm Fruit, and Diversity of Angiosperms
- germinate
- Appears in these related concepts: Protist Life Cycles and Habitats, Ascomycota: The Sac Fungi, and Basidiomycota: The Club Fungi
- germination
- Appears in these related concepts: Characteristics of Gymnosperms, Sexual Reproduction in Angiosperms, and Life History Patterns and Energy Budgets
- gravitropism
- Appears in this related concept: Plant Responses to Gravity
- growth factor
- Appears in these related concepts: Components of Plasma Membranes, Cell Signaling and Cell Growth, and Cancer and Transcriptional Control
- hormone
- Appears in these related concepts: Functions of the Nervous System, Biological Influences on Sexual Motivation, and How Stress Impacts our Health
- meristem
- Appears in these related concepts: Structural Adaptations for Land in Seedless Plants, Types of Root Systems and Zones of Growth, and Meristems
- mitosis
- Appears in these related concepts: Early Eukaryotes, Gametogenesis (Spermatogenesis and Oogenesis), and The Role of Genes in Prenatal Development
- nutrient
- Appears in these related concepts: Plant Nutrition, Natural and Artificial Methods of Asexual Reproduction in Plants, and Food Requirements and Essential Nutrients
- phototropism
- Appears in these related concepts: Plant Responses to Light and Blue Light Response
- physiology
- Appears in these related concepts: Defining Physiology, Branches and Subdisciplines of Biology, and Characteristics of the Animal Body
- seed
- Appears in these related concepts: Mendel's Laws of Heredity, The Evolution of Roots in Seedless Plants, and The Evolution of Seed Plants and Adaptations for Land
- seed dormancy
- Appears in this related concept: Fruit and Seed Dispersal
- senescence
- Appears in these related concepts: Caulobacter Differentiation and Socioemotional Development in Adulthood
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Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says projects agreed to by Australia in exchange for expanding its asylum seeker processing capability have not been costed.
Australia and PNG agreed on Friday that asylum seekers travelling to Australia by boat will be turned away, processed and potentially resettled in PNG.
In exchange, Australia has a agreed to a raft of infrastructure programs in the university, roads, health and law and order sector.
"The costings for the Ramu-Madang highway has not been done, design and costings for of course Lae hospital has not been done. So it costs into millions of Kina," Mr O'Neill told journalists in Port Moresby upon his return from Brisbane on Monday.
"But I cannot just simply give you a figure that is imaginary."
When asked where in PNG asylum seekers will be resettled under the plan he replied: "We'll get there when we start processing them."
Mr also O'Neill declined to nominate an upper limit to the number of asylum seekers he expects to be processed in PNG.
Manus MP Ronnie Knight has said he was told up to 3000.
"It'll be down to what the capacity on the ground can take," Mr O'Neill said.
"Listen, I cannot give you a figure, I cannot know what's going to happen in the future.
"We are hoping this is going to stop the non genuine refugees and asylum seekers coming into our region. I don't think the numbers are going to be as big as what we think its going to be."
He cited Australian media reports of people smugglers saying the expanded processing plan had already had an impact.
"You will see genuine people travelling, but non genuine economic migrants will fall off," he said.
PNG's opposition whip Tobias Kulang on Monday took to the national newspapers to blast the plan.
He said Mr O'Neill should have explained the scheme to the nation's parliament before announcing it in Australia.
"I am convinced we are far less equipped to handle the situation at this stage, especially to respond and to accommodate these asylum seekers.
"Australia must also come out and explain what and how it plans to assist PNG manage this affair."
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S. Strande, H. Cai, T. Cooper, K. Flammer, C. Irving, G. Laszewski, A. Majumdar, D. Mishin, P. Papadopoulos, W. Pfeiffer, R. Sinkovits, M. Tatineni, R. Wagner, F. Wang, N. Wilkins-Diehr, N. Wolter, and M. Norman, "Comet - Tales from the Long Tail - Two Years In and 10,000 Users Later," PEARC17, July 09-13, 2017, new Orleans, LA, USA. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-5272-7/17/07. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3093338.3093383
Supun Nakandala, Suresh Marru, Marlon Pierce, Sudhakar Pamidighantam, Kenneth Yoshimoto, Terri Schwartz, Subhashini Sivagnanam, Amit Majumdar and Mark Miller, "Apache Airavata Sharing Service: A Tool for Enabling User Collaboration in Science Gateways," PEARC17, July 09-13, 2017, new Orleans, LA, USA. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-5272-7/17/07.
Dura-Bernal S, Neymotin S.A., Kerr C.C., Sivagnanam S., Majumdar A., Francis J.T., Lytton W.W., "Evolutionary algorithm optimization of biological parameters in a biomimetic neuroprosthesis," IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 61; Issue 2/3, March-May, 2017.
Majumdar A, Sivagnanam S, Carnevale NT, Yoshimoto K, Gleeson P, Quintana A and Silver RA (2016), "Neuroscience Gateway - Cyberinfrastructure Providing Supercomputing Resources for Large Scale Computational Neuroscience Research," Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Neuroinformatics 2016. Neuroinformatics 2016, Reading, United Kingdom, 3 Sep - 4 Sep, 2016. doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2016.20.00008
A. Majumdar, S. Sivagnanam, K. Yoshimoto, T. Carnevale, "Understanding the Evolving Cyberinfrastructure Needs of the Neuroscience Community," Proceedings XSEDE16, July 17-21, 2016, Miami, FL.
M. Tatineni, X. Lu, DJ. Choi, A. Majumdar, DK Panda, "Experiences and Benefits of Running RDMA Hadoop and Spark on SDSC Comet," Proceedings XSEDE16, July 17-21, 2016, Miami, FL.
S. Dura-Bernal, S. A. Neymotin, W. L. Lytton, A. Majumdar, and S. Sivagnanam, " A Dynamic Data-Driven Approach to Closed-loop Neuroprosthetics Based on Multiscale Biomimetic Brain Models," Dynamic data Driven Application Systems Workshop, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Dec. 16-19, 2015, Bengaluru, India.
M. Miller, T. Schwartz, P. Hoover, K. Yoshimoto, S. Sivagnanam, A. Majumdar, "The CIPRES Workbench: A Flexible Framework for Creating Science Gateways", Proceedings XSEDE15, St. Louis,MO, July 26-30, 2015.
R.L. Moore, C. Baru, D. Baxter, G. C. Fox, A. Majumdar, P. Papadopoulus, W. Pfeiffer, R. S. Sinkovits, S. Strande, M. Tatineni, R. P. Wagner, N. Wilkins-Diehr, M. L. Norman, "Gateway to Discovery: Cyberinfrastructure for the Long Tail of Science," Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2014.
S. Sivagnanam, A. Majumdar, K. Yoshimoto, V. Astakhov, A. Bandrowski, M. Martone, and N. T. Carnevale, "Early experiences in developing and managing the neuroscience gateway," Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 2, pages 473-488, doi:
H. Karimabadi, V. Roytershteyn, H. X. Vu, Y. Omelchenko, J. Scudder, W. Daughton, A. Dimmock, K. Nykyri, M. Wan, D. Sibeck, M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, B. Loring, and B. Geveci, "The link between shocks, turbulence and magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas," Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 21, Issue 6, 2014.
Shi, F and Sivagnanam, S and Folkerts, M and Gautier, Q and Jia, X and Majumdar, A and Jiang, S, "A Gateway for GPU Computations in Radiotherapy", Medical Physics, 40, 260-260 (2013),
C. Garcia-Blanquel, A. Majumdar, R. Luna-Garcia,
"Parallel Adaptive Method for Selecting Points of Interest in Structures; Cranial Deformation,"
Computacion y Sistemas Special Issue: Supercomputing: Applications and Technologies, Vol. 17 No. 3, ISSN 1405-5546, pp 317-327, 2013.
Pierce, Marlon; Marru, Suresh; Demeler, Borries; Majumdar, Amitava; Miller, Mark (2013): Science Gateway Operational Sustainability: Adopting a Platform-as-a-Service Approach. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.790760 Retrieved 18:03, Sep 16, 2014 (GMT)
H. Karimabadi, P. O'leary, M. Tatineni, B. Loring, A. Majumdar, B. Geveci, "In-situ Visualization for Global Hybrid Simulations," Proceedings XSEDE13 Gateway to Discovery, San Diego, CA, July 22-25, 2013.
S. Sivagnanam, K. Yoshimoto, A. Majumdar, N. T. Carnevale, V. Astakhov, M. Martone, A. Bandrowski, "A Neuroscience Gateway: Software and Implementation," Proceedings XSEDE13 Gateway to Discovery, San Diego, CA, July 22-25, 2013.
S. Sivagnanam, A. Majumdar, K. Yoshimoto, N. T. Carnevale, V. Astakhov, A. Bandrowski, M. Martone, "Introducing The Neuroscience Gateway,"
Proceedings International Workshop on Science Gateways
, Zurich, Switzerland, 3-5 June, 2013.
M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, "Optimizing Hadoop Deployment on Gordon Data Intensive Supercomputer," Second Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, Dec. 17-18, Pune, India, 2012.
Y. Bazilevs, A.L. Marsden, F. Lanza di Scalea, A. Majumdar, and M. Tatineni, "Toward a Computational Steering Framework for Large-Scale Composite Structures Based on Continually and Dynamically Injected Sensor Data," International Conference on Computational Science, Omaha, Nebraska, June 4-6, 2012,
Procedia Computer Science, Volume 9, 2012, pages 1149-1158.
K.K. Yoshimoto, D.J. Choi, R.L. Moore, A. Majumdar, E. Hocks, "Implementations of Urgent Computing on Production HPC Systems," International Conference on Computational Science, Omaha, Nebraska, June 4-6, 2012,
Procedia Computer Science, Volume 9, 2012, pages 1687-1693.
Homa Karimabadi, Hoanh Vu, Burlen Loring, Yuri Omelchenko, Tamara Sipes, Vadim Roytershteyn, William Daughton, Mahidhar Tatineni, Amit Majumdar, Umit Catalyurek and Alper Yilmaz, "Petascale Kinetic Simulation of the Magnetosphere," TeraGrid 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 18 - 21, 2011.
D. S. Katz, D. Hart, C. Jordan, A. Majumdar, J.P. Navarro, W. Smith, J. Towns, V. Welch, N. Wilkins-Diehr, "Cyberinfrastructure Usage Modalities on the TeraGrid," 2011 High-Performance Grid and Cloud Computing Workshop, Proceedings of 2011 IPDPS Workshops (May 16, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska), pp. 927-934, 2011.
H. Karimabadi, H. X. Vu, B. Loring, Y. Omelchenko, M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, and J. Dorelli, "3D Global Hybrid Simulations of the Magnetosphere and I/O Strategies for Massively Parallel Kinetic Simulations, " TG10, Pittsburgh, August 2-5, 2010
S Jiang, X Gu, C Men, X Jia, O Fluck, D Choi, A Majumdar,
"Real-time Re-planning for Online Adaptive Radiotherapy,"
52nd Annual Meeting American Association of Physicists in Medicine
, Philadelphia, PA, July 18 - 22, 2010.
H. Karimabadi, H.X. Vu, B. Loring, Y. Omelchenko, M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, J. Dorelli, J. Raeder and K. Ma,"Peta-scale global hybrid simulations and visualization strategies for analysis of very large data sets," ASTRONUM - 2010, 5th International Conference on Numeircal Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, June 13-18, 2010, San Diego, CA.
X Jia, X Gu, J Sempau, D Choi, A Majumdar, and SB Jiang, "Development of a GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation code for couplped electron-photon transport,"
Phys Med Biol. 55 (11): 3077-3086, 2010.
S. Jiang, X. Jia, X. Gu, C. Men, O. Fluck, D. Choi, A. Majumdar, "GPU-based Computational Tools for Online Adaptive Cancer Radiotherapy", PARA 2010, Reykjavik, June 6-9, 2010.
H. Karimabadi, H. X. Vu, B. Loring, Y. Omelchenko, M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, and J. Dorelli, "Enabling Breakthrough Kinetic Simulations of the Magnetosphere Using Petascale Computing," Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Hyderabad, India, July 5-9, 2010.
S. Potluri, P. Lai, K. Tomko, S. Sur, Y. Cui, M. Tatineni, K. Schulz, W. Barth, A. Majumdar, D. Panda, " Quantifying Performance Benefits of Overlap Using MPI-2 in a Seismic Modeling Applicaiton, " 24th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS' 10), Epochal Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, June 1-4, 2010.
X Gu, H Pan, Y Liang, R Castillo, D Yang, DJ Choi, E Castillo, A Majumdar, T Guerrero, and SB Jiang, " Implementation and evaluation of various demons doformable image registration algorithms on a GPU,"
Phys Med Biol. 55(1):207-219,2010.
H. Karimabadi, H.X. Vu, Y. Omelchenko, M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, U.V. Catalyurek, and E. Saule, "Enabling Global Kinetic Simulations of the Magnetosphere via Petascale Computing," 51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, November 2-6, 2009, Atlanta, GA.
C Men, X Gu, DJ Choi, A Majumdar, Z Zheng, K Mueller, and SB Jiang, "GPU-based ultrafast IMRT plan optimization",
Phys Med Biol. 54(21):6565-6573, 2009.
H. Karimabadi, H.X. Vu, Y. Omelchenko, M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, D. Krauss-Varban, "Enabling Breakthrough Kinetic Simulations of the Magnetosphere Using Petascale Computing, " AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 14-18, 2009.
C. Men, DJ Choi, X Gu, SB Jiang, A. Majumdar, "A New On-line Re-Optimization Model for IMRT Treatment Planning", INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Oct. 11-14, 2009.
Gu X, Choi DJ, Men C, Pan H, Majumdar A, Jiang SB," GPU-based Ultra Fast Dose Calculation Using a Finite-Size Pencil Beam Model",
Phys. Med. Biol. 54 (20):6287-6297, 2009.
H. Karimabadi, H.X. Vu, Y. Omelchnko, B. Loring, M. Tatineni, A. Majumdar, U. V. Catalyurek, E. Saule, "Enabling Breakthrough Kinetic Simulations of the Magnetoshpere via Multi-zone Petascale Computing, " TeraGrid 09 Conference, Washington D.C., June 22-26, 2009.
Lennox Hoyte, Margot S. Damaser, Simon K. Warfield, Giridhar Chukkapalli, Amitava Majumdar, Dong Ju Choi, Abhishek Trivedi, and Petr Krysl,
"Quantity and Distribution of Levator Ani Stretch during Vaginal Childbirth,"
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 199, Issue 2, August 2008.
Lennox Hoyte, Margot S. Damaser, Simon K. Warfield, Giridhar Chukkapalli, Amitava Majumdar, Dong Ju Choi, Abhishek Trivedi, and Petr Krysl, "Quantity and Distribution of Levator Ani Stretch during Vaginal Childbirth," South Atlantic Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 70th Conference, January 20-23, 2008, Sarasota, Florida.
Steve B. Jiang, H. Edwin Romeijn, Chunhua Men, Neelam Tyagi, Lily Tang, Dong Ju Choi, Amitava Majumdar, Todd Pawlicki, Catheryn Yashar, Arno J. Mundt, "Towards On-line Adaptive Radiotherapy for Cervical Cancer,"
Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
, Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore, CRM Series, Vol 7. Censor, Yar, Jiang, Ming, Louis, Alfred K. (Eds). 2008, XX. 526 p.
Y. Cui, R. Moore, K. Olsen, A. Chourasia, P. Maechling, B. Minster, S. Day, Y. Hu, J. Zhu, A. Majumdar T. Jordan, "Enabling Very-Large Earthquake Simulations on Parallel Machines,"
International Conference on Computational Science
, Beijing, China, May 27-30, 2007; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Part 1, series 4487, pp 46-53, Springer, 2007.
S.P. DiMaio, N. Archip, N. Hata, I.F. Talos, S.K. Warfield, A. Majumdar, N. McDannold,K. Hynynen, P.R. Morrison, W.M. Wells III, D.F.Kacher, R. E. Ellis, A.J.Golby, P.M.Black, F.A. Jolesz, and R. Kikinis, ``Image-Guided Neurosurg ery at Brigham and Women's Hospital: The integration of imaging, navigation and interventional devices,''
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
, Vol. 25, Issue 5, pp 67-73, 2006.
T. Devadithya, A. Birnbaum, A. Majumdar, D. Choi, R. Wolski, K. Baldridge, N. Archip, and S. K. Warfield,
"On-demand High Performance Computing: Image Guided neuro-Surgery Feasibilty Study",
12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Minneapolis, MN, July 12-15, 2006.
L. Hoyte, P. Krysl, G. Chukkapalli, A. Majumdar, D. Choi, A. Trivedi, S. K. Warfield, M. Damaser,
``Computational Model of Levator Ani Muscle Stretch During Vaginal Delivery,"
5th World Congress of Biomechanics
, Munich, Germany, July, 2006.
A. Majumdar, S.K. Warfield, P. Krysl, D. Choi, N. Archip, K. Baldridge, ``Dynamic Data Driven Finite Element Modelling of Brain Shape Deformation During Neurosurgery", 12th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computation, Feb. 22-24, 2006, San Francisco.
A. Majumdar, A. Birnbaum, D. Choi, A. Trivedi, S. K. Warfield, K. Baldridge, and P. Krysl,
``A Dynamic Data Driven Grid System for Intra-operative Image Guided Neurosurgery,''
International Conf. On Computational Science, May 2005, Atlanta, GA, V. S. Sunderam et al (Eds), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg : ICCS 2005, LNCS 3515, pp. 672-679, 2005.
Y. Dewaraja, M. Ljungberg, A. Majumdar, A. Bose, and K. F. Koral,
``A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Planar and SPECT Imaging: Implementation, Verification and Applications in I-131 SPECT,''
Journal of
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
, Volume 67, Issue 2 (2002), pp. 115 - 124
Y. Dewaraja, M. Ljungberg, A. Majumdar, A. Bose, and K. F. Koral,
"A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Planar and SPECT Imaging: Implementation, Verification and Applications in I-131 SPECT,''
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, October 15-20, 2000.
A. Majumdar, and W. R. Martin,
"Per formance Measurement of Monte Carlo Photon Transport on Parallel Machines,''
Proceeding s International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium, Philadelphia, May 7-11, 2000.
A. Majumdar,
"Parallel Performance Study of Monte Carlo Photon Transport Code on Shared-, Distributed, and Distributed-Shared-Memory Architectures,''
Proceedings International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium 2000, Cancun, Mexico, May 1-5, 2000.
A. Snavely, L. Carter, J. Boisseau, A. Majumdar, K. S. Gatlin, N. Mitchell, J. Feo, and B. Koblenz,
``Multi-processor Performance on the Tera MTA,''
Proceedings Supercomputing 98, Orlando, Florida.
J. Boisseau, L. Carter, K.S. Gatlin, A. Majumdar and A. Snavely,
``NAS Benchmarks on the Tera MTA,''
Workshop on Multi-Threaded Execution, Architecture and Compilation (M-TEAC 98), February 1998.
A. Majumdar and W. R. Martin (invited paper)
``Development of a Multiple Perturbation Monte Carlo Methods for Criticality Problems and Implementation on Parallel Processors,''
Joint Nuclear Conferences X ENFIR/III ENAN, Auguas de Lindola, Brazil, August 7 - 11, 1995.
A. Majumdar and W. R. Martin `
`Multiple Reactivity Calculation Using Single Correlated Sampling Monte Carlo Simulation,''
Proceedings International Conference on Mathematics and Computations, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analyses, Portland, Oregon, April 30 - May 4, 1995, Vol. 1, p. 85 (1995).
A. Majumdar and W.R. Martin, ``Calculation of Reactivity Perturbations Using Correlated Sampling Monte Carlo,'' Transaction American Nuclear Society, 71, 203 (1994).
A. Majumdar and D. Majumdar,
``Possible Locations of Monitored Retrievable Storage from a Spent-Fuel Transportation Perspective,''
Transaction American Nuclear Society, 70, 61 (1994).
W.R. Martin, A. Majumdar, J.A. Rathkopf and M. Litvin, ``Experiences with Different Parallel Programming Paradigms for Monte Carlo Particle Transport Leads to a Portable Toolkit for Parallel Monte Carlo,'' Proceedings International Joint Conference on Mathematical Methods and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 19-23, 1993, Vol. II, p. 418 (1993).
A. Majumdar and W.R. Martin, ``Parallel Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Algorithm Applied to Neutron Diffusion Problem,'' Transaction American Nuclear Society, 65, 209 (1992).
A. Majumdar and H. Makowitz, ``Study of Algorithms to Enhance Vector Performance of Thermal-Hydraulic Codes Based on a Hopscotch Scheme,'' Transaction American Nuclear Society, 55, 331 (1987).
N.T. Carnevale, A. Majumdar, S. Sivagnanam, K. Yoshimoto, V. Astakhov, A. Bandrowski, M. Martone, "The Neuroscience Gateway Portal: facilitating access to high performance computing resources," Poster, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov. 9-13, 2013.
A. Majumdar, M. Tatineni, and D. Choi,
"Performance Analysis of Scientific Applications on GPUS Using MVAPICH2,"
MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG), Columbus, Ohio, USA, August 26-27, 2013.
N.T. Carnevale, S. Sivagnanam, K. K. Yoshimoto, V. Astakhov, A. E. Bandrowski, M. E. Martone, A. Majumdar, "A Neuroscience Gateway for High Performance Computing," Poster,Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, October 13-17, 2012.
A. E. Bandrowski, S. Sivagnanam, K. Yoshimoto, V. Astakhov, A. Majumdar, "Performance of parallel neuronal models on the Triton cluster," Poster, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Nov 12-16, 2011.
H. Karimabadi, B. Loring, A. Majumdar, M. Tatineni, "I/O Strategies for Massively Parallel Kinetic Simulations", SC2010, New Orleans, Nov. 13-19, 2010 (poster).
D. Choi, O. Fluck, M. Folkerts, X. Gu, X. Jia, S. Jiang, A. Majumdar, Z. Tian, F. Vidal, D. Unat, "Short Course on GPU Programming for Medical Physics and Medical Imaging Research," San Diego Supercomputer Center (organized by Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies (CART), Dept of Radiation Oncology, UCSD), Oct 29-30, 2010
A. Majumdar, "On-Demand Dynamic Data Driven Real-Time Computing for Scientific Applications",
The 2nd Workshop on "Frontiers of Multicore Computing",
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Sept 21-23, 2010.
NSF and AFOSR workshop on
Dynamic Data Driven Appplication Systems (DDDAS)
, Washington D.C., August 29-31, 2010.
NSF OCI Campus Bridging Task Force Workshop, Denver, CO, August 25-27, 2010.
A. Majumdar, D. Choi,
Workshop: Introduction to Parallel Computing, GPU programming, one-sided MPI
Instituto Polite'cnico Nacional
, Mexico City, August 16 - 20, 2010.
A. Majumdar (invited talk), "Application of High Performance Computing to Situation Awareness Simulations," Interactive Situation Awareness Simulation (ISAS) Workshop, UCSD, May 25, 2010.
A. Majumdar (invited talk), "Teraflop to Petaflop - Computational Science," 1st International Supercomputing Conference in Mexico , Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, March 2-5, 2010.
A. Majumdar (invited talk), "High Performance Computational Science - Teraflop to Petaflop," High Performance Computing and Simulation Symposium (HPC 2009), 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'09), March 22-27, 2009, San Diego, CA.
A. Majumdar, "HPCC and Applications Benchmark on Windows HPC Cluster," MIcrosoft HPC User Forum, SC2008, Austin, TX, Nov. 15-21, 2008.
A. Majumdar (panel), "Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems - New Drivers for Networking and Communications," IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, Nov. 26 - 30, 2007, Washington, DC.
A. Majumdar (panel), "HPC at Major Universities," HPC User Forum, Sept. 25-27, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A. Majumdar (invited talk), "Computational Science : TeraFlop to PetaFlop," Kobe University, Japan, Sept 5, 2007.
A. Majumdar, A. Birnbaum, T. Devadithya, J. Andrews, K. Bladridge, D. Choi, S. Warfield, N. Archip, "Grid Enabled Image Guided Neurosurgery Using High Performance Computing," Fifth Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics, Oct. 25-28, 2005.
A. Majumdar, Simon K. Warfield, Florin Talos, Ron Kikinis, Ferenc A. Jolesz, Adam Birnbaum, Dong Ju Choi, and Kim Baldrideg, Grid Enabled High Performance Computing for Image Guided Therapy, 5th Interventional MRI Symposium, Boston, MA, Oct 15-16, 2004.
Berkeley, IBM SP SciComp6, August 19-23, 2002:
``Parallel Medical and Genomics Applications on Power3 and Power4 Machines''.
San Diego, American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 1-5, 2001:``Mapping of Parallel Monte Carlo and Fast Multipole Algorithms on Parallel Machines''.
Hitachi Research Lab, Hitachi, Japan, December 28, 1999:``Parallelization and Performance Issues of a Monte Carlo Photon Transport Code''.
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York, October 7, 1999 :``Parallelization and Performance Issues of a Monte Carlo Photon Transport Code on Nighthawk and other machines ''
University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering Department, April, 1995: ``Calculation of Reactivity Perturbations Using Monte Carlo Methods.''
Argonne National Laboratory, Reactor Engineering and Reactor Analysis Department Joint Seminar, December, 1995: ``Monte Carlo Perturbation Methods and Implementation on Parallel Computers.''
Texas A&M University, Nuclear Engineering Department, April, 1996: ``Development of a Multiple Perturbation Monte Carlo Method for Eigenvalue Problems and Impelmentaion on Parallel Processors.''(with W. R. Martin)
University of Houston, Center for Parallel Computing, April, 1996: ``Development of a Multiple Perturbation Monte Carlo Method for Eigenvalue Problems and Impelmentaion on Parallel Processors.''(with W. R. Martin)
Bettis Atomic Power Lab., Pittsburg, April, 1995: ``Development of a Multiple Perturbation Monte Carlo Method for Criticality Problems and Impelmentaion on Parallel Processors.'' (with W. R. Martin)
Center d'Etudes, Saclay, France, April 1993: ``Experiences with Different Parallel Programming Paradigms for Monte Carlo Particle Transport Leqads to a Portable Toolkit for Parallel Monte Carlo.'' (with W. R. Martin, J. A. Rathkopf and M. Litvin)
A. Birnbaum, A. Majumdar, T. Devadithya, D. Choi, R. Wolski, K. Baldridge,``On-demand High Performance Computing : Image Guided Neuro Surgery Feasibility Study," SDSC Technical Report, SDSC-TR-2006-2, 2006.
`` Evaluation of a Multithreaded Architecture for Defense Applications'', W. Pfeiffer, L. Carter, A. Snavely, R. Leary, A. Majumdar, (SDSC, UC San Diego), S. Brunett (Cal. Tech), J. Feo, B. Koblenz, L. G. Stern (Tera Computer), J. W. Manke (Boeing), T. P. Boggess (Sanders/Lockheed Martin), Final Report to DARPA, September 1999, SDSC TR-1999-1.
``The Slightly-Enriched Spectral Shift Control Reactor,'' Final report to Department of Energy for the Project September 30, 1988 - September 30, 1991, DOE/ER/12809-4.


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taking nat parkers great idea.
i used to just drink natural ice and light cuz it was cheap, about 5 years ago i started tring all kinds of beer, i wanted to try everything, that chilled for awhile while living in vegas cuz i could buy 9.0 and 10.0 24oz for like 1.29, three or four of those and i'm fucked, here in s.l.c. (btw the beer at the gas station here is only 3.2, assholes) if you go to the liquor stores you can get stronger and exotic beers, i've began once and awhile buying some new ones.
personally my fav is probably rolling rock, it's smooth no bad after taste. (i get a little giddy when i see someone drinkin it in a movie)
i also enjoy pete's wicked ale strawberry blonde and becks.mmm.
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Tennis ace Andy Murray was seeing double instead of playing doubles when he came across his new waxwork model.
The lookalike was so similar to the British number one, some people were left wondering which one was the dummy!
The waxwork will be part of a tennis game at London's Madame Tussauds, where you get to be the umpire.
The 20-year-old has injured his wrist and hasn't said yet whether he'll play in the big tennis championship Wimbledon that starts on Monday.
If he plays, Murray is ranked eighth in the competition.
The Murray waxwork is about 10cm taller than the real thing and his mum Judy pointed out another difference: "The kit is really white and doesn't need ironing - that's the main difference."


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A company has lost its appeal to put up big illuminated adverts in Clapham Junction.
The council refused to grant KDT Management planning permission for illuminated hoarding opposite Clapham Junction station.
Now an independent planning inspector has backed the council's decision after the advertising company appealed to try and get the ruling overturned.
Planning committee chairman, Councillor Sarah McDermott, said: "I am pleased that the inspector has endorsed our decision and rejected this appeal.
"This very large and garish hoarding would have been extremely unsightly and intrusive, especially at night, and would not have fitted in at all with its surroundings.
"It would have been a real blot on the landscape which is why we refused to give it planning permission in the first place."
In March councillors rejected the company's plans to erect a billboard, measuring 16m by 8m, on the front of the Wessex Halls banqueting suite.


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Cumming, Georgia (AFP) Oct 28, 2007
An extreme drought in the southeastern United States has fueled a bitter tri-state battle over dwindling water resources that pits man against mussels.
Millions of people in the state of Georgia fear their taps could run dry, while environmentalists in Florida say freshwater mollusks protected under the US Endangered Species Act risk dying off.
Hoping to guarantee no one will go thirsty, Georgia authorities want to drastically reduce the outflow from a reservoir that supplies drinking water to three million people. But neighboring Alabama claims that would have devastating economic effects on its population, while Florida says a reduced flow would threaten fragile ecosystems.
"You'd think people would come before mussels," said Bob Leamy, 55, walking on caked mud that was once under Lake Lanier's waters.
The man-made lake is at the frontline of the battle of words. It supplies drinking water for more than three million people in the city of Atlanta, feeds the Chattahoochee river that runs along the border with Alabama and flows into Florida's Apalachicola river.
Because of the drought, the 38,000 acre reservoir is almost five meters (15 feet) below average levels, and officials say the water will continue to dwindle.
Georgia has filed a legal motion seeking to force the US Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the reservoir, to limit the release of water. Alabama and Florida both oppose the motion.
"The State of Georgia is suffering a drought of historic proportions and is facing potentially dire and irreparable consequences if the United States Army Corps of Engineers does not immediately stop depleting the reservoir storage," Georgia state Governor said at a recent news conference on the banks of the receeding lake.
Perdue asked US President George W. Bush to temporarily exempt Georgia from the Endangered Species Act, under which outflow from the reservoir is linked to the survival needs of the purple bankclimber and fat three-ridge mussels in the Apalachicola River.
The governors of Alabama and Florida have asked the president to reject Perdue's request.
Alabama Governor Bob Riley warned the measure sought by Georgia would "have dire consequences on people and their livelihoods downstream in Alabama" and could lead to the shut-down of a nuclear power plant and industries along the Chattahoochee River.
Florida's Charlie Crist insists the measure would have a devastating effect not only on protected mollusk species but also on the multi-million fishing industry in the area where the Apalachicola River flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
Many Georgia residents, particularly in Atlanta and along the shores of Lake Lanier, are furious over their neighbors stance.
"Our problem is that the lake has become political," said Leamy, a retired building contractor who lives in the small town of Cumming, near Lake Lanier.
Residents say the sinking reservoir level threatens numerous jobs linked to recreational use of the lake.
Most boat ramps have had to shut down, and many boaters stay away from the lake because of the navigational hazards posed by the low water.
"There's this guy who'd just bought a 500,000-dollar boat, tried it out and hit a reef. It was a total loss," said Ken Smith, whose company sells second-hand motorboats.
Echoing the feelings of many locals, John Linder, a Republican congressman for Georgia says the choice authorities face is between "the health and safety of the people who live in Georgia or protecting species that will now be endangering our welfare."
But others say the battle should serve as a wake-up call in a region where population growth is putting increasing pressure on natural resources.
"We all must change the way we think about and use our fresh water resources," says Brigadier General Joseph Schroedel, who commands the Corps of Engineers division that oversees the Lake Lanier water system.
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Current pics posted previously-300cc mod profile saline implants on 5'2' 96lb frame.I found original photos.Was told they were supposed to look that way following surgery till they dropped. They did "settle", but never to my liking. My goal with revision surgery is more cleavage, volume,& size(& no padded bra). I also have muscle distortion on one side when I flex. Can this be fixed? My first surgey was not noticeable at all.I want large breasts,but "safe" in size.Do I really need a breast lift?
Breast Implants Were Place High to Begin With, Do I Really Need a Breast Lift? (photo)
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Lift or Not?
It is not reliable to guess on lifting without examining you. You look like a borderline case. The answer also depends somewhat upon how much larger you want to go on implant size. I would be conservative as your envelope looks like it was stretched pretty well the first time.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
You do not need lift
The main issue in your case is the implant position and lack of lower pole expansion. Your first surgeon used aerolar incision without the release of the pectoralis muscle. You will need revision with duel plane implant position and release of the lower pole .
Implants placed too high, is a breast lift needed?
It can be difficult to tell for sure from the the photos you have submitted but you do not appear to need a breast lift. Your before and immediate after pictures suggest your implants were placed too high in your original surgery. They likely have settled some with time but they still look high relative to your nipple position. So your choices could be to lower your implant position, or raise your nipple position i.e. a lift. It is nice to avoid the additional scars associated with a lift unless really needed. When adjusting the implant position you could go with a larger implant but take into consideration that you already appear to have thinner tissues, and a large implant will thin your tissues further and possibly result in some visible rippling. It is likely that you will still have some muscle distortion when you flex your pec muscle. This is not easily fixed. It can be reduced in some situations by adding Strattice into the procedure but this is costly both in terms of the material and extra time for placement and may not completely fix the problem.
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I understand your disappointment. You anticipated a certain appearance which never materialized. You had a mild breast asymmetry which appears to have been compounded by high placement of the implants. You also describe muscle distortion on flexing which may be related to how the implant pocket was created and healed after the surgery. No simple answers can address your condition. You do require a revision procedure with implant exchange and probable breast lifting of some kind.
You may wish to consult several Plastic surgeons face to face and see what the prevailing opinion is.
Implants too high
It looks like your implants are too high in the pocket. I think you need a revision to adjust the pocket size so that the implants sit in a better relationship with your nipple areola complex. Being that they are five years our after srugery, perhaps the muscle was not adequately divided or you have a capsular contracture? Difficult to say without an exam.
You do not need a breast lift at all.
You implants were placed too high and they are still too high, specially the right one. You just need a revision lowering and making symmetrical the implant pockets. The pockets can be brought closer together (specially the right) to give you more cleavage, and you can use larger implants.
Implants Too High
This is a difficult question to answer without being able to examine you. Generally a breast lift is performed when the nipple areolar complex is at or below the inframammary fold. It is difficult to tell where your nipple sits on the breast mound. Another option may be to revise the implant pocket.
High implants
Breast Implants Were Place High to Begin With, Do I Really Need a Breast Lift? (photo)
Best on the posted photos you could consider just a donut or L-shaped lift to address the N/A location.
High breast implants not solved by a breast lift
The breast implant should be centered in the breast such that they move and feel as one, and the nipple should project on the front of the breast. If the implant is high a better result is seen by lowering and centering the implant. Only if the nipple falls below the breast fold, or the distance from the nipple to the breast fold remains short will a breast lift help out.
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Linking businesses by location - Business Link allows startup, SME and corporate companies to create a business card representing their products or services. All business cards are displayed in order of distance from the user in meters. Distance is updated every 5 minutes.
The user can search cards for a particular keyword or industry, and save cards that they like.
Business Link is useful for knowing when a contact is nearby, so you can arrange face-to-face meetings to suit.
Business Link is particularly useful for networking events. It is recommended that event organisers inform event subscribers so all attendees are able to share and view business cards.
Benefits of this app :
1. Instead of having to hand out business cards, this app allows you to create a virtual business card, and then broadcast your business card to other app users who are nearby, for example, to everyone at a business breakfast, conference or trade show.
2. You can view the business cards of other app users nearby, so this app would be useful when you are at an event, and you would like to know a little bit about people before you approach them. It would be a good ice breaker, and a fast way of establishing common ground.
3. This app is an efficient way of gathering the business cards of all the people at an event, when it is not possible to walk around and speak to everyone.
4. This app is an easy way of not losing other peoples' cards, because the app allows you to save their digital card on your phone.
5. If you have ever tried sorting through a mountain of business cards then you will know how tough that can be. This app is a good way of sorting your cards, because you can search them by industry or any other keyword.
6. This app displays the distance of business card users from you, so you will always know when a contact is near by. So it is a good way to arrange face-to-face meetings that are convenient to both of you.
7. This app enables you to quickly find tradesmen or services that are nearest to you in meters - so it encourages local community, and also helps people with shared interests to link up locally.
8. Removes the competition. There may be many people offering the same services in your town, but viewers in your local area will always see YOU at the top, because you are nearest.
9. This app is cheaper than using a printed business card.
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She dazzled last night on a red carpet in London. She charmed during the day at the Olympic Games. And now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge - Kate Middleton - is the cover girl of September's Vanity Fair.
For the third time, the mag names Kate to its International Best-Dressed List. Known for her fashion recycling, Kate tends more toward frugal than fancy. Prince Charles spent an estimated $55,000 in the first half of the year on designer clothes for his daughter-in-law, but Middleton continues to decline the services of a royal dresser, preferring instead to shop for herself. She has been spotted browsing the racks at stores like Topshop and T. K. Maxx. And how many times have we seen those blue wedges?
Kate's brother-in-law, Prince Harry, makes the list for the first time, as does Monaco's Charlotte Casiraghi. Middleton shares the September cover with actress Jessica Chastain, who is named to the list for the first time.
Other names of note:
Jay-Z is named to the list for the first time, along with fellow musician Alicia Keys, who is back on the list for the first time since her inaugural appearance, in 2009.
Colin Firth is on the list for the second year in a row, along with wife Livia, in the Best-Dressed Couples category. Actor Eddie Redmayne (My Week With Marilyn) is one of the Best-Dressed Men, as are NBC's Matt Lauer and CBS' Morley Safer.
From the world of sports, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady makes his debut appearance, as does New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz.
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Aestheticians know how to remove dead skin without accidentally uncovering your creepy skeleton. Take a little off the top with this Groupon.
Choose Between Two Options
- $29 for one dermaplaning facial (a $65 value)
- $58 for two dermaplaning facials (a $130 value)
Dermaplaning is a form of manual exfoliation, during which a spa staffer gently scrapes away the outermost layer of epidermis with a surgical blade. This rids skin of dead cells, impurities, unwanted facial hair, and debris, leaving the complexion smooth and bright.
Identity Hair Salon and Spa
Celebrating 50 years in business, Identity Hair Salon and Spa has a menu of services that helps them create new aesthetic personas via French pedicures, braided hair extensions, or Latisse lash-growth treatments. Inside, Dr. Marie Meyers, along with her medical staff, enhances appearances by performing a variety of beautification services, such as Titan Laser Genesis and IPL Foto Facials. The multi-faceted salon and spa attracts a range of clients, including men eager to evict renegade hairs encroaching on their backs. Alternatively, microdermabrasion, Botox, and facial fillers can transform faces that are on the run from a sinister cabal of stamp collectors.


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Bill has been in the Roofing business since 1964. He started out helping his Dad when he was nine years old. There is very little he hasn't seen and nothing he can't fix. He's 70 years old and still climbs the roofs to do our inspections.
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A long list of nightclubs has paraded through 100 S. 9th St., the tiered structure that has been home to Seven Cities, Taboo, Cans, Big Whisky and Comedy Underground in recent years. And now there are two new tenants: The 502 Martini Bar & Lounge and Grit City Comedy Club.
The 502 had its soft opening on July 19. Owner Chuck Haines took over the lease from Big Whisky as that club's owners took their country and western theme to another downtown holding, the Varsity Grill, which was rebranded Steel Creek.
Haines' plan is to create an upscale lounge that specializes in craft cocktails and live music, the latter skewing toward jazz, blues and other rootsy styles. (Popular Tacoma singer-songwriter Kim Archer was on premises ironing out the details for a weekly happy hour gig when Tacoma Weekly visited.)
The 502 is also positioned to capitalize on the influx of new workers headed downtown. "I want more daytime traffic," Haines said. "I think Big Whisky and Cans and Taboo, all of them, were oriented toward night activity, maybe a lot of alcohol, not too much entertainment per se. And I want to do just the opposite.
"I want more of an upscale menu, and I want different types of music. From 6:00 and on we want to create some type of daytime activity. We have a lot of business, including State Farm insurance moving in across the street. So we kind of want to step up, in a sense."
Haines was joined opening weekend by Grit City Comedy Club owners Aaron Flett and Vince Miller, who took over the basement space that was occupied by the floundering Comedy Underground. Flett and Miller have been running Grit City out of Malarkey's, 445 Tacoma Ave. S., since 2011.
"We're actually going to be running both clubs for a while," said Flett, who also does standup comedy under the alias Riggs. "Our plan is to keep Grit City where it's at for a little and then put some comics in at the 502 to give them a chance to get their legs under them. It'll be Grit City East and Grit City Stadium – I don't know."
"Not that Malarkey's was a bad place, but this will be a better place for our demographics," said Miller. "Our average person is between 30 and 50 and female; and they're gonna want to come to a nice martini-jazz bar much more than they're gonna want to go to a pool hall."
Grit City Comedy will remain in the basement until the duo finish renovating a spacious, second floor space that overlooks Commencement Bay.
Also possibly on the horizon at the 502 is a cannabis club. The venue's name is a reference to Initiative 502, which passed last November legalizing recreation use of marijuana in Washington; and Haines has an extensive background with medical marijuana.
He said he has used it for years to alleviate symptoms he's suffered from an arthritic condition called Reiter Syndrome. And, in 2010, he founded CannaHealth, a company with clinics in Tacoma, Seattle and Olympia that provides authorizations for medical marijuana cards.
Initiative 502 prohibits the use of marijuana and marijuana-infused products in the view of the general public. And the Washington Liquor Control Board recently instructed Tacoma's Stonegate Pizza to shut down its Vape Club, which allowed members to vaporize cannabis-infused oil in the bar's upstairs lounge.
But, as rules for marijuana licensing are being finalized, Haines speculates that the private clubs could return.
"I don't know what's gonna happen; but I know by the end of January they're going to start issuing licenses," he said. "I'm going to be looking real close at the attitude of the Liquor Board, because compliance is so important to me. I think whatever the rules are you play within the rules. So I'm really waiting for the Liquor Board to say how they're going to handle this so I can design some kind of model around it."
The 502 is open Tuesday through Saturdays, and will eventually open Sundays for football. The venue has yet to launch it's web site, but updates can be found on its Facebook page, which can be found by searching for "502 Downtown."
The latest schedule for Grit City Comedy Club can be found online at http://gritcitycomedy.com/.


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STATE-OWNED Macquarie Generation will double the size of the solar array alongside its Liddell power station in the Hunter Valley, making it the largest solar thermal power project in the southern hemisphere.
An 18,000 square-metre field of mirrors with generating capacity of 9MW - enough to power 1000 homes - will concentrate the sun's energy to generate steam, acting as a ''solar boiler'' and saving fuel at the coal-fired power station.
The solar field will save about 5000 tonnes of greenhouse gasses a year - a tiny fraction of Liddell's emissions of about 9 million tonnes a year. (Macquarie is the country's largest emitter, at about 25 million tonnes in 2008-09.)
The solar project will cost approximately $10 million, largely funded by a $9.25 million grant from the NSW government, which means greenhouse gas savings could cost about $100 a tonne assuming the plant operates for 20 years (excluding maintenance costs).
The contractor Novatec BioSol, a subsidiary of Transfield Holdings, will begin construction next year and hopes to finish construction by 2012. Components will be made in the Hunter Valley, creating up to 35 jobs.
Transfield is proposing to use Novatec's technology to improve efficiency at the Collinsville coal-fired power station in Queensland as part of its shortlisted bid for funding under the federal government's $1.5 billion Solar Flagships process. This aims to part-fund development of two solar power stations of about 150MW capacity each - one solar thermal and one solar photovoltaic.
Final round bids closed yesterday and the winners will be announced in the middle of next year.


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Eden Foods, Organic, Tamari Soy Sauce, 10 fl oz (296 ml)
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Eden Foods, Organic, Tamari Soy Sauce, 10 fl oz (296 ml)
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Our receiving department does its best to verify and then enter the correct expiration dates for all incoming products. However, discrepancies do occur from time to time. This being said, the exceptionally high turnover at iHerb ensures that our inventory is among the freshest in the industry.
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- Product Code: EDN-01158
- UPC Code: 024182011586
- Package Quantity: 10 fl oz (296 ml)
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- Naturally Brewed
- Gluten Free
- Amber Glass Protected
- OCIA Certified Organic
- Kosher Pareve
Tamari - Organic U.S.A.
Eden Tamari is a rich soy sauce that is characterized as Wheat Free in the U.S.A. It is fermented quicker than traditional tamari. Koji inoculated soybeans are aged for six months in an accelerated brewing process. Tamari was the liquid produced in making miso. Today it is mash brewed. Tamari soy sauces impart a flavor reminiscent of miso. Shoyu enhances, imparts richness and remains in the background.
Other Ingredients
Water, organic soybeans, sea salt, organic grain alcohol (to preserve freshness), koji.
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|Serving Size: 1 Tbsp (15 ml)
|Servings per container: about 20
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|990 mg
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|Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, vitamin A, or vitamin C.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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I love it! Great taste and value for money:
The fact that when you pour the tamari and spirnkle it over your food and it comes in desirable and controllable quantities and not like the niagara falls perhaps gives some clues to the ethical standard behind this product. Taste is great too. Love it! Highly Recommended!
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Posted by 5614977417656231716 on Feb 24, 2017 | Verified Purchase
Delicious !
awesome alternative to regular soy sauce
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use it in my marinades...great taste
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I use soy sauce quite a lot, and this is a healthier choice.
I had to throw this away
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I am a Korean and I've used lots of different good organic handmade soy sauces. This wasn't a good one for me. I used this to make soy sauced potatoes and it smelled weird while it was cooking but tasted normal so I had those potatoes, not all of them but a few pieces. Then I had a quite strong reaction that I usually have after having MSG( itchy rashes, feeling drowsy, extreme thirst.. I am a bit sensitive to MSG or sodium). I wasn't sure if it was that potato dish, and I only had a little bit so I had the left over a few days later. Same reaction. The dish had potatoes, onions, seaweed, black pepper, garlic, sugar, and this soy sauce. So I am not using this soy sauce or this brand ever again. I've never written a review here but I am buying soy sauce now and it's quite weird that this one has such good reviews so sharing my experience,
Soy Sauce Extraordinaire
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This tamari soy sauce is superior to any supermarket brand. A little pricey, but worth it. It contains no sodium benzoate, so it has to be refrigerated.


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Authorities rule Monroeville woman's death was accidental
Allegheny County authorities said a Monroeville woman's death was accidental, after an initial investigation by county homicide detectives.
The Allegheny County medical examiner's office on Sunday said Carol Borandi, 61, died of blunt force trauma to the head from a fall, which the office ruled was an accident.
Monroeville police found Borandi's body inside her Meadow Gap Drive home on Saturday.


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RA's Nick Sylvester chats to the LCD Soundsystem frontman and disco DJ in advance of his performance at this year's Electric Zoo festival.
Disco is big yet again in London town, and Horse Meat Disco are largely responsible. RA talks to Jim Stanton and James Hillard, two of the DJs behind the party, to find out more.
RA catches up with Booka Shade in advance of their appearance at this year's Get Loaded in the Park to talk about their vaunted live show and their upcoming record.
Whereas their more vaunted Norwegian contemporaries can be neatly pigeonholed as future disco visionaries, it's nearly impossible to categorize the work of Mungolian Jetset. RA chats up the Oslo duo.
On an island where change is a vital element in the fight for survival of the fittest, to remain at the top of your game after ten years definitely requires some serious strategic groundwork, a hefty dose of forward thinking marketing genius, and a serious passion for what you do.


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Amateur photographer Lori Shaw was out and about on P.E.I. last year for her personal 365-day project to photograph the Island on a day-by-day basis.
One P.E.I. woman's photo project was a year in the taking.
A relative newcomer to the Island, amateur photographer Lori Shaw of Millcove decided that the best way to explore her adopted home was to document its scenic beauty in all of its 365 days of glory.
"I love the Island. I just find that everywhere I look is a postcard moment: summer, fall, winter, spring," says Shaw, whose daily postings on her Shaw Photography Facebook page have gained a loyal following.
Click here to view a slideshow of her photos.
Originally from Montreal, in 2007 Shaw moved to P.E.I., which is her husband Stephen Shaw's home province.
"I fell in love with the Island and always took pictures when I was visiting (before that) but just with a cheap camera," she remembers.
Things really got moving after her husband gave her a compact but functional Fujifilm FinePix S 14 mega-pixel camera that had a few more features that allowed her to get a bit more creative with her images.
"I'd seen that some people had done (yearlong) projects, so I wondered if I could showcase the Island . . . ." remembers Shaw, who in January 2013 ventured outdoors to start the first of her 12-month focus on lighthouses, abandoned structures, sunsets, seascapes, landscapes and more.
"I have trouble sticking (to projects) so I didn't know how it was going to go. Having to go back every day and post was going to be a challenge in itself for 365 days. I can't do anything for 365 days except waking up in the morning and having my coffee," she adds, laughing.
"But then I started to notice that people were commenting (online). It's funny because it started off so slow at the beginning – the views and likes. . . . It's just kind of been going up because you reach people on the Island and you reach people from away also . . . who say, 'Oh I've been to that place!' So that's been neat, being able to interact with people."
An offshoot from some photo postings is the short online conversations.
"The interaction (spurred me on); myself learning things and other people appreciating them and looking at it from a different point of view. I had posted a picture of a house and someone said, 'I grew up in that house. I have great memories of it.' I like the conversations that it sparks," she says.
Weather, of course, was a photo shoot factor, especially in the winter months.
"All I wanted to do was take pictures, but your toes freeze, your face freezes . . . and you're crying (from the cold), so I can't even see what I'm taking. I'm going to have to buy goggles!" she laughs.
But sometimes weather systems themselves and their byproducts, such as thick fog or hazy mist, or a harbinger of weather to come, like a brilliant red sunset, become the images.
"I love nature and I just find you get to see it here . . . ," says Shaw, who for much of the spring used her sister-in-law's Canon Rebel that had a telephoto lens, which opened up even more shooting opportunities.
"It was fun and it was challenging (heading out) because it was always, 'Which way do I go? Where am I going? What beach? Am I going on a trail? Do I want trees? Do I want water? What do I want?' Even I would have trouble figuring out what I was going to take pictures of because nothing would ever really be fully planned," she says.
There were a few missed days along the calendar way, but Shaw quickly returned to her personal photo project, one bonus of which was the ability to go back and see the evolution of her style and technique over the year.
"It helped me grow in a way that I know that it's something that I'd like to continue with," she says.
Now that her 365-day photo focus on P.E.I. is done, Shaw is paring her picture posting down to a more manageable weekly schedule. She is now expanding her sights to P.E.I. lighthouses, vowing to get to each and every one before the year is out. She also has her heart set on upgrading to a camera with changeable lenses.
Looking back, Shaw is glad to have ventured on her yearlong photographic journey of Prince Edward Island discovery.
"Obviously I know I'm not a professional photographer, but it's nice to know that my little amateur shots . . . are appreciated by someone," she says. "It just kind of gives you that pat on the back. You're doing something and they're liking it."


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What's your toddler's personality type?
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While the difficulties of getting your baby to sleep are hopefully only a memory, your toddler will now bring new challenges to the task - going to bed, and staying in bed being two of the biggest! Find advice on night waking and how much sleep your toddler needs.
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Alain Johns goes todash twice when he enters Maerlyn's Grapefruit to try and save Roland's soul which is trapped inside.
There are several ways that a person can "go todash". One of these ways is to locate a bend of Maerlyn's Rainbow. These glasses can all send someone into another world, but Black Thirteen is the most likely to do so. Todash occurs in certain circumstances when someone dies, an experience shared by Jake Chambers and Donald Callahan. A final way to go todash is by finding the "highways in hiding" or the "todash highway". These are paths that are usually hidden to passerby, but some people, like Callahan, are called to them. They lead to worlds just next door, where only a few details are different, like Spiro Agnew or someone named Chadbourne becoming president of the United States.
Going todash is very dangerous. It is possible to get stuck between worlds in the "todash darkness", where the todash monsters dwell. It is possible to reduce this danger by keeping your destination in mind and by travelling with company.
Being in the todash state imparts certain abilities. It allowed Eddie Dean to walk through a locked door in The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind. It also allows a person to see the vagrant dead.


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The retirement of California basketball coach Mike Montgomery will resonate throughout Utah. As Montana's former coach, Montgomery has been a mentor to Utah State coach Stew Morrill and Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak.
Utah's recruitment of 7-foot Austrian center Jakob Poeltl also could be affected, because he's a Cal target.
Montgomery, 67, made a succcessful re-entry into college basketball with six good years at Cal, after struggling with the Golden State Warriors. His glory years were at Stanford, where he won 393 games in 18 seasons.


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TRANSPORTATION PERMITS: Companies needing to haul oversized loads through Nevada County must obtain a Transportation Permit. Completed permit can be faxed to 265-9849 or mailed.
To assist in construction of roads, driveways, etc. view our Nevada County Standard Road Drawings. You can also download our Nevada County Road Standards and other regulations.
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Information and assistance regarding Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE).
Nevada County Traffic Count Data Table from 1984 through 2012.
Traffic Mitigation Fees - New development in the County requires the payment of Traffic Mitigation Fees. The amount of these fees depends upon the type of development and the location of the development within the County. Download the Traffic Mitigation Fee Map here and the Fee Table for Zones 1 and 2 here. For the Plan...click here.


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ZARVIVAL survival server is a stunningly brilliant server, i had at first realized this when i had seen there magnificent spawn. This server is dashing with players, friendly staff, and brilliant plugins. I find this server to have one of the best community's in the minecraft experience, if i had to compare this server's pure awe and brilliance, i would compare it to Buxville. I hope you can find your expedition through this servers excellently balanced community and world to be enthralling, I know my experience was
Mayhem Survival is a Faction based PvP server in which the player experiences a well rounded game PlayThrough, this is partiality due to the fact that the server is running with most of the standard plugins including worldgaurd, worldedit, and obviously factions. Not only does it run these basic plugins, it runs the plugins TomShop and MobFight9000 which are homemade plugins made by the owner. These plugins feature shoping and killing mobs. In the long run i find this server to be evenly ran by its owners and admins, all while they help there players.
I give it an overall 9/10
I found this server to be a decent server that was running smoothly. At first look the servers spawn was a bit lacking, (im sure they will fix this) other than that they are a nice community based server. I would strongly recommend this server to new and advanced players solely due to the fact that it is evenly balanced with great plugins and even better players. 8/10
From my standpoint, and being from I.G.N.; I must say it is a really respectable gaming environment with STELLAR staff. the staff are cooler than the server itself. I have no negative standpoint on the server, note this server is also RICH with the GLORY of all of there Massive amount of plugins. However in the aspect of my review, i could not finish. This is solely due to the fact of Team Frostie Griefing doing as their name implies. on another note i was also banned but let not this discourage you the server is all around a great place and i am looking forward to someday possibly working with them again
here is what they say about there server
Crusader Craft is a medieval RPG server based in the time of the crusades, lasting from 1095 - 1291. This server has an active and friendly community, and always willing to help out! Not to mention forgiving, and nice admins!
i agree with this and belive they have done a good job on their description
the server that im reviewing as of right now(miningdiamonds) (on my NEW account ) (damn ign) is reletively good i would say i would probably give it a, say..., 8.5 out of 10.0 if you want to check it out here is the server internet protocol adress (ip)(126.96.36.199:25567) . it is creative/survival has plentaful ammounts of mobs and could definitly use more players. it could be a great online server and i would sugest to the owner(s) to post it on www.planetminecraft and www.minecraft-server-list.com it has a great community little to none griefing and the staff is nice.
i hope you enjoy this server (as will i) and have tons of fun the website is www.miningdiamonds.webs.com
sincerely, thesubordinate