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Accidental Love
After a freak accident lodges a nail in uninsured Alice Eckle's (Jessica Biel) head, her crusade for health care takes her to Capitol Hill. But with her injury causing wild sexual urges, things are bound to get out of control in this romantic comedy. As naive congressman Howard Birdwell (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes up her cause, sparks fly between Alice and the young senator. But will love and politics make uneasy bedfellows?
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- Director
- David O. Russell
- Genres
- Comedy, Romantic Comedies, Political Comedies
- Format
- DVD and Blu-ray
- Ratings
PG-13Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
14Common Sense rating OK for kids 14+
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English SDH, Spanish (Neutral)Closed captioned
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Color; interactive menus; scene access.
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Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that Accidental Love is a black comedy that exposes the not-so-noble inner workings of Washington, while focusing on a waitress who's the victim of an unfortunate industrial accident involving a nail gun. There's a good bit of swearing (including "s--t" and "f--k," sometimes spoken by a young girl) and some not-so-subtle sexual innuendo, as well as one sex scene that's over the top and played for humor. Nothing graphic is shown, but there are plenty of noises. A condom is seen on screen. There's a little fighting, characters duel with flaming torches, and there's some social drinking.
- Sexual Content
- One sex scene, played partly for laughs, has plenty of noises and brief glimpses of hands or feet reaching into the frame -- the rest of the participants' bodies are off screen. A man and woman are seen briefly in their underwear. A woman talks about her sex life, with a few private details. Innuendo. Birth control (condom) is shown on screen.
- Violence
- Two men get into a brief scuffle. A men's group ritual involves a duel with flaming torches. The film starts with a mishap involving a nail gun.
- Language
- Strong language includes "bitch," "s--t," "d--k," "whore," "ass," "crap," and "screwed." A young girl says she wants to "f--k s--t up."
- Social Behavior
- Honesty will always prevail over deception, and people who lie will be exposed.
- Consumerism
- A Trojan condom gets some prime screen time at a key moment.
- Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol
- Adults drink while relaxing and socializing.
- Age appropriate
- Not an issue
- Depends on your kid and your family
- Not appropriate for kids of the age most likely to want to see it


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Family Life and Work
Family Life and Work
Patterns of work and caring are changing for women, who are entering the workplace in larger numbers than ever before. But the experience of too many women at work is one of low pay, unequal pay or discrimination. Women are the majority of the lowest paid and are still under-represented in senior positions.
Motherhood, in particular, has a direct and dramatic influence on women's employment prospects and pay which typically lasts a lifetime. Many women return to work part-time after having children, but most part-time work is characterised by low pay with few prospects for training and promotion. The pay gap, combined with dramatically different leave entitlements for mothers and fathers when a child is born (one year for the mother, two weeks for the father) means that in most cases women continue to be primary carers for children. There is little support or encouragement for men to spend more time caring. This is bad for both fathers and children who would benefit if care was shared more equally.
The Children and Families Act, which introduced a shared parental leave system and extended the right to request flexible working to all employees, was passed through Parliament in 2014. We believe that these reforms will help act as a driver for the culture change needed to afford women real choice about their work and caring arrangements, and to dismantle gendered attitudes and end discrimination against women in the workplace.


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Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09
Returns information about your Skype for Business Server 2015 infrastructure, including internal domains, sites, clusters, computers, services, and back-end instances of SQL Server. This cmdlet was introduced in Lync Server 2010.
Example 1 returns complete details for your Skype for Business Server 2015 topology. This is done by calling the Get-CsTopology cmdlet without any additional parameters.
Example 2 returns information about the computers found in your Skype for Business Server 2015 topology. To do this, the command first calls the Get-CsTopology cmdlet to return the complete Skype for Business Server 2015 topology. This information is then piped to the Select-Object cmdlet, which uses the ExpandProperty parameter to extract and display detailed information for all the computers included in that topology.
Get-CsTopology | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Machines
The command shown in Example 3 returns information about your Skype for Business Server 2015 topology and then saves that information to an XML file. To carry out this task, the command first calls the Get-CsTopology cmdlet, along with the AsXml parameter; that causes the data to be returned as formatted XML. That formatted data is then piped to the Out-File cmdlet, which saves the information to the file C:\Logs\Topology.xml.
Get-CsTopology -AsXML | Out-File C:\Logs\Topology.xml
The Get-CsTopology cmdlet returns information about how Skype for Business Server 2015 has been set up and configured. Called without any additional parameters, the cmdlet provides an overview of your Skype for Business Server 2015 infrastructure; in that scenario, the cmdlet gives you an overall view of such things as your domains, your sites, and the computers running Skype for Business Server 2015 services and server roles. Alternatively, you can pass the output of the Get-CsTopology cmdlet to the Select-Object cmdlet; this enables you to access detailed information about a portion of your topology. For example, the following command provides detailed information regarding the SQL Server instances used by Skype for Business Server 2015:
Get-CsTopology | Select-Object –ExpandProperty SqlInstances
You can also use the AsXml parameter to return detailed information about your entire topology in XML format.
Returns topology information in XML format. By combining the Get-CsTopology cmdlet, the AsXml parameter, and the Out-File cmdlet, you can export your topology to an XML file.
Retrieves the topology data from the local replica of the Central Management store rather than from the Central Management store itself.
None. The Get-CsTopology cmdlet does not accept pipelined input.
The Get-CsTopology cmdlet returns instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deploy.Internal.DefaultTopology object.


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Characteristics, changes and influence of body composition during a 4486 km transcontinental ultramarathon: results from the Transeurope Footrace mobile whole body MRI-project
Almost nothing is known about the medical aspects of runners doing a transcontinental ultramarathon over several weeks. The results of differentiated measurements of changes in body composition during the Transeurope Footrace 2009 using a mobile whole body magnetic resonance (MR) imager are presented and the proposed influence of visceral and somatic adipose and lean tissue distribution on performance tested.
22 participants were randomly selected for the repeated MR measurements (intervals: 800 km) with a 1.5 Tesla MR scanner mounted on a mobile unit during the 64-stage 4,486 km ultramarathon. A standardized and validated MRI protocol was used: T1 weighted turbo spin echo sequence, echo time 12 ms, repetition time 490 ms, slice thickness 10 mm, slice distance 10 mm (breath holding examinations). For topographic tissue segmentation and mapping a modified fuzzy c-means algorithm was used. A semi-automatic post-processing of whole body MRI data sets allows reliable analysis of the following body tissue compartments: Total body volume (TV), total somatic (TSV) and total visceral volume (TVV), total adipose (TAT) and total lean tissue (TLT), somatic (SLT) and visceral lean tissue (VLT), somatic (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and somatic adipose soft tissue (SAST). Specific volume changes were tested on significance. Tests on difference and relationship regarding prerace and race performance and non-finishing were done using statistical software SPSS.
Total, somatic and visceral volumes showed a significant decrease throughout the race. Adipose tissue showed a significant decrease compared to the start at all measurement times for TAT, SAST and VAT. Lean adipose tissues decreased until the end of the race, but not significantly. The mean relative volume changes of the different tissue compartments at the last measurement compared to the start were: TV −9.5% (SE 1.5%), TSV −9.4% (SE 1.5%), TVV −10.0% (SE 1.4%), TAT −41.3% (SE 2.3%), SAST −48.7% (SE 2.8%), VAT −64.5% (SE 4.6%), intraabdominal adipose tissue (IAAT) −67.3% (SE 4.3%), mediastinal adopose tissue (MAT) −41.5% (SE 7.1%), TLT −1.2% (SE 1.0%), SLT −1.4% (SE 1.1%). Before the start and during the early phase of the Transeurope Footrace 2009, the non-finisher group had a significantly higher percentage volume of TVV, TAT, SAST and VAT compared to the finisher group. VAT correlates significantly with prerace training volume and intensity one year before the race and with 50 km- and 24 hour-race records. Neither prerace body composition nor specific tissue compartment volume changes showed a significant relationship to performance in the last two thirds of the Transeurope Footrace 2009.
With this mobile MRI field study the complex changes in body composition during a multistage ultramarathon could be demonstrated in detail in a new and differentiated way. Participants lost more than half of their adipose tissue. Even lean tissue volume (mainly skeletal muscle tissue) decreased due to the unpreventable chronic negative energy balance during the race. VAT has the fastest and highest decrease compared to SAST and lean tissue compartments during the race. It seems to be the most sensitive morphometric parameter regarding the risk of non-finishing a transcontinental footrace and shows a direct relationship to prerace-performance. However, body volume or body mass and, therefore, fat volume has no correlation with total race performances of ultra-athletes finishing a 4,500 km multistage race.
With the worldwide growing number of people running, endurance sports have experienced differentiation into multiple (sub-) disciplines in the last decades. Concerning distance running, the ultramarathon (UM) seems to be the greatest challenge in endurance running. The German Ultramarathon Association (DUV) defines footraces of 50 km or longer as UM. However, as in every field of human physical activities, some people try to push themselves to the limits and beyond. For these ultra-athletes a multistage ultramarathon (MSUM) is the ultimate test of endurance performance. Sometimes, the worldwide small group of ultra-endurance runners meet with each other trying to achieve the impossible: finishing a multistage transcontinental footrace over thousands of kilometers. These most extreme multistage endurance competitions in the world take the runner to a different level, where nutrition, sleep, energy and psychological states have to be carefully managed. Besides a few case reports, almost nothing has been reported about the medical aspects of runners doing a transcontinental extended MSUM over several weeks
The Transeurope Footrace Project (TEFR-project)
One focus of this presentation is on the descriptive presentation of characteristics and changes in body composition during TEFR09 in a new way, differentiating between somatic and visceral and segmental volumes of defined fat and lean tissue compartments measured by continuous mobile whole body MRI. In addition, possible associations of body volume composition and prerace and race performance were analyzed to test the following hypotheses: it is hypothesized, that prerace endurance running performance is related to specific body fat and lean tissue composition in ultra-athletes. Secondarily, it is supposed, that although the running distance of a transcontinental UM cannot be trained for concerning the running volume (km), participants need specific prerace performance skills and fat and lean tissue volume distribution, if they want to finish such a race. Due to the expected huge energy burden a transcontinental footrace without any day of rest implies, another assumption is that it is mandatory for every participant to lose body mass and total body volume (TV) due to massive adipose tissue decrease and more or less lean tissue catabolism. At least, with the continuous differentiated measurement of body tissue compartments throughout the entire TEFR09, it should be shown indirectly, that although the participants are preselected in regard to their ultra endurance running expertise, they will develop further economical adaptations as the 4,500 km race progresses.
Every TEFR09 participant was asked to join the TEFR-project, which was approved by the local ethics committee of the University Hospital of Ulm (UHU, No.: 270/08-UBB/se) in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, regarding the study design, risk management plan and individual protocols
Prerace performance
Before the start of TEFR09 all subjects filled out specific questionnaires concerning their prerace experience in endurance running. This history includes the years of regular endurance running (PRY), the number of finished (nF) marathons (M), UM and MSUM, and the prerace records (PRR) for marathon and specific UM (50 km, 100 km, 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours) races within the last decade before TEFR. It also includes the extent of prerace training (PRT) 16 months before TEFR09: training volume (Vol: km/week), training duration (Time: hours/week) and the training intensity (Int: km/hour). The self-disclosures about nF and PRR were cross checked with the archive of the DUV and discrepancies were clarified. However, for PRT and PRY we had to rely solely on the self-disclosures; these could not be compared with any official lists.
Body composition analysis
Different techniques for quantification of body fat are described and more or less commonly used in the literature:.
Subjects who finished TEFR09 had whole body MRI six times during TEFR09 (seven measurements in total). Measurement of body mass (BM) was done at the same time as MRI and every fourth day: BIA balance Tanita BC-545 to the nearest 0.1 kg (Tanita, Arlington Heights, IL, U.S.A.). Body height was measured with a wall-mounted stadiometer (to the nearest 5 mm, standing barefoot) and body mass index (BMI) was calculated.
Mobile whole body MRI
For whole body magnetic resonance (MR) measurements a 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner (Magnetom Avantot™, Siemens Ltd., Erlangen, Germany) mounted on a mobile unit (MRI-Trailer, SMIT Mobile Equipment B.V., Great Britain) was used. The total 45 tonnes of equipment (MRI-trailer, truck tractor, external 105KVA diesel-generator, and material van) was built up and taken down daily at each stopover of TEFR09, requiring daily checks and support of all technical systems
Several MRI techniques have been described for the measurement and quantification of body fat composition: T1-weighted imaging by spin-echo or gradient-echo techniques
Image post-processing
For topographic tissue segmentation and mapping of the athletes body a fuzzy c-means algorithm according to Würslin
The signal of intestinal content with a short T1can be interpreted as visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in the absence of intraluminal gastroenteric nutrition fat (INF). If the scanned subject is in a non-fasting condition, the visceral T1 signal occurs from both, VAT and INF. Reliability (mean absolute deviation of three repeated measurements) is noted with 3.08% for total volume (TV), 1.48% for total adipose tissue (TAT) and 1.13% for visceral adipose tissue (VAT)
Due to their immense mental and physical stress caused by the daily ultra-endurance burden, the runners' biggest fear was losing too much energy over the course of TEFR09. Their primary effort after stage finishing was to get as much nutrition and calories as possible before falling asleep. Therefore, it was not always possible to ensure fasting conditions of the subjects for mobile MRI measurements. Some subjects were motivated enough to do the MR examination directly after the daily stage before eating in a fasting but exhausted condition, so they sometimes were not able to lie absolutely still on the MR table and follow the breath commands exactly. These specific circumstances resulted in the image post-processing analysis being less automated than that mentioned by Machann and Würslin
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Semiautomatic separation of adipose bone marrow: selected slices from whole body MRI of a 32-year-old male finisher of TEFR09
Semiautomatic separation of adipose bone marrow: selected slices from whole body MRI of a 32-year-old male finisher of TEFR09. I: ankles, II: middle of lower legs, III: knees, IV: middle of upper legs, V: hip/pelvis, VI: umbilical level, VII: upper abdomen, VIII: heart/mediastinum, IX: shoulder girth, X: elbows. Left row: before start (t0), green: TLT, red: SAST, yellow: VAT+INF, blue: ABM. Right row: after 4,120 km of running (t5), green: TLT, red: SAT (=SAST + ABM), yellow: VAT + INF. ABM, adipose bone marrow; INF, intraluminal nutrition fat; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; SAST, somatic adipose soft tissue; SAT, somatic adipose tissue; TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009; TLT, total lean tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.
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Semiautomatic separation of somatic and visceral volume (right row) and intraluminal nutrition fat (left row): selected slices from whole body MRI of a 32-year-old male finisher of TEFR09
Semiautomatic separation of somatic and visceral volume (right row) and intraluminal nutrition fat (left row): selected slices from whole body MRI of a 32-year-old male finisher of TEFR09. V: hip/pelvis, VI: umbilical level, VII: upper abdomen, VIII: heart/mediastinum. Left row: before start (t0), green: SLT, red: TSAT, grey: TVV. Right row: after 4,120 km of running (t5), green: TLT, red: SAT (=SAST+ABM), yellow: VAT, blue: INF. ABM, adipose bone marrow; INF, intraluminal nutrition fat; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; SAT, somatic adipose tissue; SLT, somatic lean tissue; TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009; TLT, total lean tissue; TSAT, total somatic adipose tissue; TVV, total visceral volume; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.
After these procedures a specific and extensive topographic mapping and segmentation of body tissue was possible (Table
Statistical analysis
For data elaboration specific software was used: Microsoft™ Office Excel™ (Release 12.0.6665.5003, Microsoft Home and Student Suite, 2007, Microsoft Inc.) for data documentation, SPSS (IBM™ SPSS™ Statistics, Release 19.0.0, 2010, SPSS Inc.) for statistical analysis and SigmaPlot for Windows Version 11.0 (Release 22.214.171.124, 2008, Systat Software Inc.,) for graphical data presentation.
The measured volumes of tissue compartments are presented as percentage volumes (vol%) and as absolute
Analyses on volume changes during TEFR09
For analysis of the significance regarding volume changes of the specific tissue compartments during TEFR09, a univariate variance analysis (ANOVA) for repeated measurements was preferred (only subjects who had the whole body MRI at every measurement interval (t0 to t5): n = 12). Therefore, a common linear model for repeated measurements (with
Analyses of difference
For dependence analysis including all stages of and total TEFR09, analyses of difference between the dichotomous nominally scaled dependent variables of the sample finishing status (finisher/non-finisher: F/NF) regarding prerace running performance history and regarding total, lean and adipose tissue volumes were carried out. Depending on normal or free distribution of the independent interval scaled variables, the parametric independent t-test (variance homogeneity was calculated with Levene`s test) or nonparametric Mann–Whitney-U-test was used. Due to the higher power in small cohorts, the Shapiro-Wilk
Analysis of relationships
For analyses of relationships, the Pearson correlation coefficient (CCP) and Spearman-rho correlation coefficient (CCS) were calculated for parametric and non-parametric parameters, respectively, using bivariate (two-sided) or univariate (one-sided) testing as appropriate:
BM versus TV and its distribution throughout the race: bivariate CCS
Prerace performance versus percentage total, lean and adipose volumes: univariate CCS / CCP
Race performance versus percentage total, lean and adipose volumes: univariate CCP
For interpretation of CC-values the effect size according to Cohen (r = 1: low, r = 3: medium, r = 5: high) was used
Case presentation
Figure 3
Topography of lean and adipose tissue changes in a 32-year-old male finisher
Topography of lean and adipose tissue changes in a 32-year-old male finisher.
Total body volume versus body mass/body mass index
The absolute volumes of all investigated body tissue compartments and segments are shown in Table
Figure 4
Comparison of total body volume versus body mass during TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12)
Comparison of total body volume versus body mass during TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Percentage body composition
At the start of the TEFR09, the mean percentage volume of TSV was 84.8 (SD 1.36 vol.%). TSV could be differentiated into mean SLT 65.0 vol% (SD 5.33 vol%), mean ABM 3.2 vol% (SD 0.89 vol%) and mean SAST 16.6 vol% (SD 5.58 vol%). The mean TVV of 15.2 vol% (SD 1.36 vol%) is consistent and divides into mean VLT 12.3 vol% (SD 1.23 vol%) and mean VAT 2.9 vol% (SD 1.37 vol%). From these data the changes in mean vol% of tissue compartments regarding the overall population of ultra-runners could be calculated for transcontinental MSUM races (Figure
Figure 5
Adipose and lean volume percentage distribution in finishers at the start and end of TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12)
Adipose and lean volume percentage distribution in finishers at the start and end of TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009, SE is indicated in brackets.
Total volumes
Percentage volume changes of TSV and TVV were not significant (Table
Figure 6
Changes of somatic and visceral percentage volumes during TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12)
Changes of somatic and visceral percentage volumes during TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Figure 7
Post hoc analysis of significance of paired comparison of total volume measurements at different time intervals (finisher, nF = 12)
Post hoc analysis of significance of paired comparison of total volume measurements at different time intervals (finisher, n F = 12).
Total volume
After more than 4,000 km of running the mean TV showed a mean decrease of 9.5% (SD 5.1%, min −2.7%, max −17.9%) compared to the start. Depending on the total sample the mean TV decrease for the overall population of ultra-runners ranges between 8% to 11% (SE 1.5%), (Figure
Figure 8
Mean and standard error of relative changes of specific tissue volume during TEFR09 compared to the start (total sample, n = 22)
Mean and standard error of relative changes of specific tissue volume during TEFR09 compared to the start (total sample, n = 22). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Figure 9
Absolute changes of specific tissue volume during TEFR09 compared to the start (finisher, nF = 12)
Absolute changes of specific tissue volume during TEFR09 compared to the start (finisher, nF = 12). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Figure 10
Absolute volume changes per km compared to the start in the finisher group (finisher, nF = 12)
Absolute volume changes per km compared to the start in the finisher group (finisher, nF = 12). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Total somatic volume
The relative decrease of TSV during TEFR09 showed a nearly similar curve as TV (Figure
Total visceral volume
Compared to TV and TSV, the relative decrease of TVV occurred much faster but ended in a nearly similar amount with a mean of 10.0% (SD 4.9%, min −3.8%, max −19.3%) in a negative parabolic graph shape (see Figure
Adipose tissue
In total (TAT), somatic (SAST) and visceral (VAT) adipose tissue, a significant change of absolute volumes (Table
Figure 11
Post hoc analysis of the significance of the paired comparison of total fat tissue measurements at different time intervals (finisher, nF = 12)
Post hoc analysis of the significance of the paired comparison of total fat tissue measurements at different time intervals (finisher, n F = 12).
Total adipose tissue
There was a continuous decrease of TAT that ended in a relative mean loss of 41.3% (SD 8.0%, min −25.4%, max −53.2%) with a small SE of 2.3% (Figure
Somatic adipose soft tissue
The relative SAST decrease compared to the start showed a steeper graph than TAT and ended in a mean loss of 48.7% (SD 9.9%, min −25.9%, max −65.5%) after more than 4,000 km (Figure
Visceral adipose tissue
The relative decrease of VAT occurred much more rapidly in the mean and ended in a relative VAT volume loss of 64.5% (SD 15.9%, min −27.7%, max −88.8%) at the end of the race (Figure
Figure 12
Changes of adipose and lean tissue percentage volumes during TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12)
Changes of adipose and lean tissue percentage volumes during TEFR09 (finisher, nF = 12). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
The subdivision of VAT into IAAT and MAT shows that IAAT decreased a bit faster than VAT in total and ended in a relative volume loss of 67.3% (SD 14.8%, min −31.7%, max −88.8%) at the end (Figure
Figure 13
Relative changes of visceral adipose volume during TEFR09 compared to the start (total sample, n = 22)
Relative changes of visceral adipose volume during TEFR09 compared to the start (total sample, n = 22). TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Lean tissue
Due to significant and continuous loss of different adipose tissue volumes the percentage volume of TLT, SLT and VLT increased during TEFR09 significantly without relevant changes in absolute volumes, respectively (Table
Total lean tissue, somatic lean tissue, visceral lean tissue
TLT volume showed undulating relative changes duringTEFR09 in the mean compared to the start. Just at the end, after more than 4,000 km running, the mean relative changes were −1.2% TLT (SD 3.3%, min 6.3%, max −5.5%) with an SE of 1.0% (Figure
Segmental volume analysis
The significance of the volume changes in the different body segments is shown in Table
Figure 14
Relative changes of segmented tissue volume (UE, TR, LE) during TEFR09 compared to the start (finisher, nF = 12)
Relative changes of segmented tissue volume (UE, TR, LE) during TEFR09 compared to the start (finisher, nF = 12). LE, lower extremities; TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009, TR, trunk; UE, upper extremities.
A total of 45.5% of the subjects did not finish the race. The dropout rate of subjects compared to all race participants is shown in Figure
Figure 15
Dropout rate
Dropout rate.
Figure 16
Difference between F and NF regarding percentage tissue volumes before the start of TEFR09 and at MI t1
Difference between F and NF regarding percentage tissue volumes before the start of TEFR09 and at MI t1. F, finisher; measurement interval; NF, non-finisher; TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Figure 17
Difference between F and NF regarding relative volume changes of tissue compartments at first measurement interval (t1) of TEFR09
Difference between F and NF regarding relative volume changes of tissue compartments at first measurement interval (t1) of TEFR09. F, finishers; NF, non-finishers; TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Prerace performance
Although there is a wide range of finished long distance foot races in the subject group (Table
Figure 18
Correlation (one-tailed test) of percentage volumes and prerace performance
Correlation (one-tailed test) of percentage volumes and prerace performance.
No relevant correlation between percentage fat and lean volumes of different compartments at the start and the race performances of the subjects at TEFR09 could be detected (Figure
Figure 19
Correlation of adipose and lean volumes at start with performance at TEFR09
Correlation of adipose and lean volumes at start with performance at TEFR09. TEFR09, Transeurope Footrace 2009.
Almost nothing is known about the influence of the endurance burden on the specific changes in body composition regarding distribution of adipose and lean tissues in somatic and visceral compartments and in the body segments. Field studies on this topic mostly use methods which only allow indirect measurements and approximated calculations or simple estimations of total or local adipose or lean tissue proportions
Age and gender related differences
Changes in body composition
Different effects of endurance performance on body composition are described in the literature. Beyond dispute is the fact that endurance performance leads to a decrease in body mass, mainly body fat. Body fat is the main energy-rich substrate for endurance performance
The specific influence on energy turnover seems to depend on the type of endurance burden
Mass loss
Raschka and Plat observed a mean loss of 1.75 kg body mass in an ultra-endurance run over 1,000 km within 20 days
The relation of water and lipid to the density of human adipose tissue ranges from 0.925 to 0.97 kg/L
Visceral adipose tissue
Mediastino-abdominal lipomatosis is described as being associated with exertional dyspnea
Until now, a specific treatment for the selective reduction of VAT is not known
Finishers versus non-finishers
55% (n = 12) of the 22 ultra-runners treated with mobile whole body MRI for this study reached the last measurement interval; 10 dropped out earlier. In contrast, the dropout rate for all starters at TEFR09 and all subjects taking part in the TEFR project was 31%
In a 17-day MSUM (1,200 km) Knechtle et al. found no differences between finishers and non-finishers regarding the anthropometric parameters, BMI, SF, CF, estimated skeletal muscle mass (estimated from SF and CF) and percent body fat (BIA)
Although training a distance of 4,500 to 5,000 km is not possible, participants of such MSUMs should acquire specific characteristics and levels regarding body composition and performance skills even before the race if they want to have a good chance to finish: VAT near 20% to 21%, training volumes of more than 100 km/week one year before the race and the performance intensity of 7.5 km/hour at a minimum allowing specific ultra-race records of less than 5 hours in 50 km-races or more than 178 km in 24-hour races. In other words, if these levels of prerace performance are reached for at least 15 months before the transcontinental race, the VAT (and SAST, TAT) as the sensible marker for specific body composition adaptation is also in an optimal range for low risk of non-finishing, because these parameters correlate in a mostly high level.
Because the subjects mainly fall out of the race due to overuse injuries in the myotendinous fascial system of the lower extremities, we tend to assume that the mentioned interdependent parameters of body composition and prerace ultra-running performance, lead to overuse injuries in the main stressed musculoskeletal organs, if they are not highly adapted as mentioned above; too little specific ultra endurance adaption and too much of VAT (and SAST) results in a high risk of severe soft tissue overuse in the legs and mostly happens in the early phase (Figure
Nearly every starter of TEFR09 showed, more or less often, overuse soft tissue problems of the myotendinous fascial structures of the legs during the race, but the feet are not a region for problems for experienced endurance runners in a MSUM
Body composition and performance
In specific treadmill investigations under laboratory settings, Millet
Several anthropometric factors are reported to affect performance in runners, but the presented data are inconsistent and often contradictory. Such differences are also present in the specific literature regarding anthropometrical predictors of performance outcome in ultra-marathons. Several factors are responsible for this. The numbers of volunteers are different, and in most reports they are limited and differ in gender and ethnic origin. Furthermore, the investigations are based on manifoldly different types of UM races. They can differ in the distance of running and number of stages, but also in altitude and/or external conditions.
Anthropometric parameters related to good performance are different in marathons and middle distance (half-marathon, 10 km) events
In MSUM Knechtle
According to our results with a group of 22 subjects and using gold standard whole body MRI, in athletes taking part in a 64-day MSUM there are no relevant correlations between total volume, percentage fat and lean volumes of different compartments at the start and total race performance of subjects participating in TEFR09. For SAST, a significant correlation between percentage volume at the start and cumulative performance is seen at the beginning of TEFR09 (stages 1 to 8), but only at a medium to low effect size. Correlation of percentage fat and lean volumes to performance at the individual stages could only be shown in a few stages at a medium to low effect size. Looking at percentage volume distribution, the participants already started with a low percentage of body fat. Therefore, our results might confirm earlier findings of a negative relationship between the amount of subcutaneous fat tissue (thickness or volume), being the main fat tissue compartment of the body, and performance in single or multiday ultramarathon races. However, in a multistage ultramarathon over thousands of kilometers we found no relationship between body fat percentage or BM or BV and race performance using specific whole body MRI, as Knechtle
Similar interpretation has to be done, when looking at segmental (somatic) tissue changes in the arms, legs and trunk during TEFR09. As for adipose and lean total somatic and visceral volumes (Figure
Some ultra athletes show adaption to the intense running burden of TEFR09 with muscle (SLT) increase in the legs, although they are already specialized in ultra running. These findings were not significant in the mean. For the trunk, a mean increase of SLT could also be detected in the first third of the race. This is explained by the gluteal and psoas muscles, which are part of the active motor system of the lower extremities but anatomically are placed in the trunk in our segmentation. All lean tissue segments showed a decrease in their volumes towards the end of TEFR09, indicating the high negative energy burden of transcontinental running.
Metabolic changes
After the first thousand kilometers the mean loss of TV per km, mainly caused by the SAST and VAT decrease, declined constantly up to more than half until the end of race (Figure
There was no general or individual nutrition plan offered or generated for the participants of TEFR09 or subjects of the TEFR-project, respectively. The athletes had a breakfast and a dinner served in different locations at the stage destinations, but these meals were organized and oriented at the local level at the last minute. The food supply points during the stages also offered products that changed every day and the athletes took additional individual food on their own throughout the race
Whole body mobile MRI protocols did not measure ectopic fat such as intracellular fat of organs (for example liver) and muscles (intramyocellular lipids: IMCL). For IMCL measurement, specific protocols for mobile 1H-MR-spectroscopy of the muscles of the lower legs were implemented in the TEFR-project
With this mobile MRI field study a complex change in body composition during an ultra-long MSUM could be demonstrated in detail. IAAT (VAT) shows the fastest and highest decrease compared to SAST and lean tissue compartments during TEFR09. Participants lost more than half of their adipose soft tissue and even lean tissue volume decreased (mainly skeletal muscle tissue). Without exception, every subject showed a significant loss of body volume. This indicates that running an MSUM of nearly 4,500 km without any day of rest is linked with an unpreventable chronic negative energy balance due to the massive running burden. The ratio of adipose tissue contribution between the visceral and somatic compartments has a significant influence on dropping out of the race during the first third in a MUSM due to overuse injuries of the myotendinous fascial system of the legs. Body volume or body mass and, therefore, fat volume has no correlation with the performance of ultra-athletes finishing a 64-stage UM. Two- and three-compartment methods, such as bioelectrical impedance analysers and skinfold-equations, cannot give estimations about the relationship between the visceral and somatic compartments and, therefore, cannot measure the most sensitive anthropometric predictor of not finishing a MSUM: VAT. Running economy is mandatory for transcontinental MSUM races and, even in well trained ultra-athletes, such events lead to further adaptation of running mechanics and to metabolic changes as performance analysis compared to body composition changes throughout the race indicates.
ABM: Adipose bone marrow; ANOVA: Analysis of variance; BIA: Bioelectrical impedance analysis; BM: Body mass; BMI: Body mass index; CF: Body circumference; CF: Body circumference; CHESS: Chemical shift selective (imaging); CCP: Pearson correlation coefficient; CCS: Spearman-rho correlation coefficient; DEXA: Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry; F: Finisher; IAAT: Intraabdominal adipose tissue: retroperitoneal and intraperitoneal fat depots; IMAT: Intermuscular adipose tissue; IMCL: Intramyocellular lipids; INF: Intraluminal nutrition fat in the gastrointestinal tract; LT-LE: Lean tissue volume of lower extremities; LT-TR: Lean soft tissue volume of trunk; LT-UE: Lean soft tissue volume of upper extremities; MAT: Intrathoracic, mainly mediastinal adipose tissue; max: Maximum; MI: Measurement interval; min: Minimum; MR: Magnetic resonance; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; MSUM: Multistage ultramarathon; NF: Non-finisher; PRY: Prerace years of regular endurance running; PRR: Prerace records; PRRM: Prerace record in marathon; PRR50km: Prerace record in 50 km-races; PRR100km: Prerace record in 100 km-races; PRR6hr: Prerace record in 6 hours-races; PRR12hr: Prerace record in 12 hours-races; PRR24hr: Prerace record in 24 hours-races; PRT: Prerace training; PRTInt08: Prerace training intensity (km per week) in 2008; PRTVol08: Prerace training volume (hours per week) in 2008; PRTVol09: Prerace training volume (hours per week) in 2009; PRTTime08: Prerace training hours per week in 2008; PRTTime09: Prerace training hours per week in 2009; SAST: Somatic adipose soft tissue; SAT: Somatic adipose tissue; SCAT: Subcutaneous adipose tissue; SD: Standard deviation; SF: Skinfold thickness; SLT: Somatic lean tissue: mostly muscles; TAST: Total adipose soft tissue; TAT: Total adipose tissue; TEFR09: Transeurope Footrace 2009; TEFR-project: Transeurope Footrace Project; TLT: Total lean tissue; TSV: Total somatic volume; TV: Total volume of the body; TV-LE: Total volume of lower extremities; TV-TR: Total volume of trunk; TV-UE: Total volume of upper extremities; TVV: Total visceral volume; UM: Ultramarathon; VAT: Visceral adipose tissue; VLT: Visceral lean tissue: includes lean tissue of intrathoracic and intraabdominal organs.
Competing interests
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
All authors of this manuscript made substantial contributions to the conception and design or acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data; all revised it critically for important intellectual content and gave final approval to the version to be published. SUHW conceived the study, implemented the project, participated in the data collection (MRI measurements), data evaluation with statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript. BC participated in the implementation of the project and in the data collection (MRI measurements). KK participated in the data evaluation. WC participated in the data evaluation. WH participated mainly in the data collection (MRI measurements) and in the implementation of the project. BHJ participated in the implementation of the project. MJ participated in the design of the study, its technical implementation and data evaluation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We really want to thank all the athletes of TEFR09 who took part at this project. Considering their immense physical and mental stress they showed an extraordinary compliance on every day of the race.
Financial disclosure
This work is supported in part by the German Research Association (DFG: "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft"), under Grants SCHU 2514/1-1 and SCHU 2514/1-2. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. No additional external funding was received for this study.
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|Pat Nagle
| Height
| 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
185 lb (84 kg)
| NHL Team (P)
Cur. Team
| Tampa Bay Lightning
Florida Everblades (ECHL)
| September 21 1987,
Bloomfield, MI, USA
|NHL Draft
|Pro Career
|2011 – present
Pat Nagle (born September 21, 1987) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for the Florida Everblades in the ECHL.
On March 22, 2011 the Tampa Bay Lightning signed the undrafted free agent to a two-year entry-level contract.[1]
Notable awards and honorsEdit
- ↑ RealGM Hockey: Wiretap Archives: Lightning Sign Free Agent Goaltender Pat Nagle
- ↑ College notes: Ferris State hockey seniors enjoy All-CCHA honors after passing up NHL options | MLive.com
- ↑ Hagelin, Merrill on All-CCHA Teams; Burlon Takes Honorable Mention - MGOBLUE.COM - University of Michigan Official Athletic Site
- ↑ College Hockey News: Miami, Ferris State Lead CCHA Honors
External linksEdit
- Pat Nagle's career stats at Eliteprospects.com
- Pat Nagle's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
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Horemheb XII, Pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire, was assassinated at 10:13 AM, on Wednesday May 15, 2010 at the Imperial Palace, in Sais. Horemheb was shot several times in the body by a submachine gun, as he stepped out of his limousine while with his son and heir, Prince Seti. The assailant was identify as Mahmoud Abbas, who was arrested immediately after the shooting.
The assassination had resounding effects on the global stage. The United Islamic Republic was suspected as funding Abbas, though Abbas claimed he worked alone. Abbas was publicly executed, by being devoured by crocodiles, a sentence lay down by succeeding Pharaoh, Seti XIV; the Council of Commoners did not protest the sentencing.
Horemheb had recently arrived back in Sais, after visits to China, and the Australian colonies, where he picked up Prince Seti, Heir Apparent to the Throne. His plane touched down in Sais International Airport at approximately 9:45 AM. Upon exiting the plane, both Royals entered the Imperial Limousine, and driven to the palace. Horemheb called ahead to publicize his return to, in his words "Ensure the presence of the Pharaoh". This would lead to large crowds being present during his drive from the airport, to the palace.
Upon arriving at the palace, Horemheb and Seti were greeted by large crowds of Egyptian citizens in front of the gates. Seti emerged first, followed closely by his father. Flanked by two guards, Horemheb emerged from the car, waving to the people surrounding the gates. As he began to walk down the path leading into the palace, a man (Abbas) climbed over the barricade and advanced on the Pharaoh. As the guards moved to intercept him, Abbas pulled out a submachine gun, and opened fire, yelling "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Great" in Arabic), followed by "Free the East". Horemheb was shot approximately seven times in the chest.
After the shooting, Seti fell to his father's side. One of the guards described Seti as reciting a religious prayer to the god Ra for his father. The crowd promptly scattered in panic, and Abbas attempted to flee, but was immediately tackled, and apprehended by the guards. Seti attempted to stop his father's bleeding, until paramedics arrived. Horemheb was pronounced dead on the scene.
Others Wounded
Two guards behind the Pharaoh were clipped as well. One of them suffered a minor wound to the arm, while the other was shot in the torso, and admitted to the hospital in critical condition. Abbas himself was admitted with a cracked rib, as a result of being tackled by the guards.
The crowd promptly scattered after the shooting, though some people remained. One guard recalls that a group of them were trying to impede Abbas escape. As Abbas began to run, a group of people blocked his way, causing him pause, and giving the Royal Guard time to apprehend him.
Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas was recorded as first arriving in Sais on April 27, having come from Dubai. He was arrested immediately after the shooting. Several eyewitnesses, including Prince Seti, confirmed his presence in the procession, and his role in the shooting.
Though Abbas requested several times to speak with the UIR embassy, it was refused each time. The UIR foreign branch demanded he be allowed an Arabic lawyer, in context of Islamic law, though the Egyptian government refused. They reasoned that as it was a violation of Egyptian law, on Egyptian soil, Abbas would have to be tried by Egyptian law.
Abbas was described as having openly boasted to fellow prisoners about the assassination. He was reportedly assaulted several times by guards. He was tried in the Royal Court, with Prince Seti, now Pharaoh Seti XIV, serving as judge. Pleading guilty, Abbas said he had no regrets, and would gladly do it a second time. Seti condemned him to death for the assassination of Pharaoh Horemheb XII, and sentenced him to death by crocodile. Though a protest against this was filed to the Council of Commoners by the the foreign branch, the Councilors did not dispute the sentence.
The execution was carried out publicly, at the Temple of a Sobek in Sais. Abbas was thrown into the square by a group of guards, and the four crocodiles were released into the nearby pool. One of the accompanying guards said, "It didn't seem to really dawn on him what was happening, until those crocodiles swam out". Abbas was promptly attacked by one of the crocodiles, and killed relatively quickly. The remains were gathered by the High Priest of Sobek, and delivered to the UIR embassy.
The assassination of Horemheb drew near worldwide condemnation, and sympathy for Egypt. Due to escalating tensions between the Egyptian Empire, and the United Islamic Republic, some suspected that the UIR had been directly or indirectly involved.
The assassination also shocked the Egyptian population throughout the entire Empire. People openly mourned and wept at the announcement of Horemheb's death. Many were also concerned about the safety of Crown Prince Seti.


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Mentor Graphics introduced iSolve SAS and SAS transaction-based verification IP (VIP) solution. iSolve SAS is a plug-and-play hardware interface to the Veloce family of hardware emulators. The VIP solution delivers both a simulation environment, using the Questa verification platform, and accelerated simulation environment using the Veloce hardware for the verification of SAS Gen2-compliant devices. Both solutions are available now for deployment at customer sites.
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The electricity sector in Ecuador requires significant improvements to increase power generation to cover the annual increase in demand of 5 to 6 percent, coupled with population growth of 2.5 percent. Electricity generation in Ecuador is heavily dependent on hydro sources, accounting for almost 45 percent of installed capacity. A drought in 2009 forced the Government of Ecuador (GoE) to diversify its supply options, increasing the participation of U.S. suppliers in the power generation industry. As the government further reviews its power generation strategy, good opportunities for U.S. companies to sell to the Ecuadorian power generation sector could be created.
Given Ecuador's powerful rivers and propensity for hydroelectric power generation, the government has plans to develop several hydropower projects in the coming years and is actively seeking foreign direct investment to finance the implementation of these large projects. Once financing has been assured, there is the potential for further opportunities for U.S. suppliers.
Market Demand
Ecuador's electricity market demand for energy and power grew steadily from 2004 to 2007, but the rate of increase has slowed in recent years. The slower growth rate in 2009 was due to a severe drought that heavily affected Ecuador in the last quarter and cost the country an estimated $1 billion in lost output. In response to this, the National Electricity Council (Consejo Nacional de Electricidad, CONELEC) has plans to construct 226 hydropower projects from 2012 to 2020, requiring an investment of approximately $10.9 billion. These projects have the potential to produce 11,818 MW, with demand currently at 3,768 MW. Of the 226 planned, the GoE is in different stages of building 15 hydropower plants that would produce 3,453 MW, an investment of approximately $5.52 billion.
The drought in 2009 caused production from hydroelectric plants along the Paute River to fall, leading to blackouts across Ecuador, and the country was forced to rely on more expensive thermo-generated energy produced by imported diesel.
To cover the country's growing demand in the last decade, the GoE has been purchasing electricity from Colombia and Peru. Energy imports have recently reached the highest levels ever. This has been the impetus for the GoE to initiate a series of hydroelectric projects to cover market demand.
In 2008, the GoE created an Energy Policy with an eye to improving efficiency and reducing bureaucracy. Large projects (defined as >50MW) will be developed by public enterprises, but the policy allows for greater private sector involvement and investment in medium scale projects (defined as 50
Energy demand has grown an average of five to six percent annually, to 14,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year in 2010, rising to a predicted 19,000 GWh per year by 2012.
The Ecuadorian Electric Corporation (Corporación Eléctrica Ecuador, CELEC EP) declared a state of emergency in the electric sector to purchase needed electricity and called for a public contest for the installation and generation of 220 MW of thermoelectric generation. On March 24, 2011, CELEC EP awarded the contracts to: Hyundai-Equitatis (Korea/Ecuador), Asociación de Generación Ecuador (AGE), and Engevix Engenharia (Brazil). .
Market Data
In 2007, the GoE created a new Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy to define sector specific policies to develop and strengthen the sector. A new electricity mandate issued in July 2008 established a single electricity rate for distributors and consolidated the 19 state distributors into one.
The electric sector is organized as follows with 16 main electricity generators, seven private, and nine state-run or affiliated. These are the key players:
• The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy (Ministerio de Electricidad y Energías Renovables, MEER)
• The National Council of Electricity (Consejo Nacional de Electricidad, CONELEC) which develops the electric energy plan and regulates the sector. CONELEC establishes the regulations for generation companies, the transmission company, and distribution companies.
• The National Center for Energy Control (Centro Nacional de Control de Energía, CENACE) which operates and administers the system. CENACE establishes generation output by each agent, defines electricity imports, and settles payment among the sector on a monthly basis.
• Ecuadorian Electric Corporation (Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador, CELEC EP) that includes the electric transmission company (Transelectric) and the main public generation companies.
• The National Electricity Corporation (Corporación Nacional de Electricidad, CNEL) was created in December 2008 to consolidate 10 distribution companies that had been reporting 40 percent losses for several years.
• Concessionaire companies for generating electricity
• Concessionaire companies distributing and commercializing electricity
The National Interconnected System (Sistema Nacional Interconectado, SNI) distributes electricity, which allows energy from hydroelectric and thermoelectric plants to be distributed nationwide. Power and energy are delivered in blocks to 19 electric companies. One of the main goals of the Energy Plan is to provide electricity to 99 percent of Ecuadorians. In rural areas, only about 86 percent of people have electricity. Quito, the capital located in the mountains, and Guayaquil, the principal port and manufacturing area, consume 25 and 36 percent, respectively, of total energy consumed.
As of December 2010, Ecuador had 206 power stations, 82 of which were incorporated into the SNI. Approximately 44.8 percent of power came from hydroelectric power, 50 percent from thermoelectric plants, and 11 percent from outside sources.
CELEC EP was created in January 2009 (originally as CELEC S.A.) to administer the major state generation companies: HidroPaute, HidroAgoyán, TermoEsmeraldas, TermoPichincha, ElectroGuayas, and HidroNación (Daule-Peripa) as business units. ElectroAustro is independent from CELEC, as well as HidroPastaza. CELEC currently generates 52 percent of the country´s demand.
Public sector projects aimed to increase capacity are:
• Construction of transmission lines, $400 million investment in three years.
• A 500 kV system to connect Guayaquil, Quito, Coca, and Sopladora dam located near Cuenca. It has received financing.
• Transmission system Santa Rosa-Pomasqui II, 230 kV
• El Inga substation 230/138 kV
• Transmission system Cuenca - Loja 138 kV.
• Transmission system Los Lojas - Nueva Salitral, 203 kV
In the private sector, Duke Energy, producing 180 MW, is the largest U.S. player in energy generation in Ecuador. Machala Power (Noble Energy) sold its assets to the GoE and left the country in May 2011.
The projects mentioned above open interesting opportunities for U.S. vendors in the sector.
Best Prospects
The GoE is developing and modernizing the thermoelectric sector. Many power plants require urgent upgrades and most of them consume diese, which must be imported. Efforts are focused on reducing energy costs and promoting international investment for the construction of new projects to avoid energy imports. Attracting sufficient outside investment may prove difficult because of legal disputes between the state and foreign businesses invested in the energy sector.
With respect to electricity generation equipment, Ecuador has been looking for technology to develop the sector and must import equipment and supplies from various countries. The sector presents good U.S. export opportunities in the generation and transmission stages of the system.
The National Master Plan for Electricity has a thorough description of the sector, strategies, and projects that will require local and foreign vendors, included in this overview.
Demand for U.S. imports is mainly required in the generation process, since it depends on technology, products, and services from overseas. Most of the imports are made by substations which need control panels, boards, cables, generators, electric motors, and other auxiliary products and services. Civil construction is mainly done with local vendors for tunnels, channels, and other required works. Construction equipment for tunnels and towers is imported by local construction companies.


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DescriptionPromote Salisbury is a newly launched FB page with the overall goal of promoting local businesses and residents' events, profit and not-for-profit. Promote Salisbury was created by a group of Salisbury small business owners to fill a very apparent void, and assist Salisbury's businesses and residents get up to speed with their social media presence. The Promote Salisbury FB page is a 100% volunteer organization.
The Social Media Intern will assist with outreach, research and project related tasks within specified deadlines and take full responsibility for his/her projects. His/her foremost priorities, with no order of importance/priority, are as follows:
Take responsibility for managing the Promote Salisbury Facebook (FB) page in a timely manner, as well as local businesses, events, etc. in order to increase the followers of the Promote Salisbury FB page;
Assist in launching a Twitter page for Promote Salisbury, and in creating and managing tweets;
Assist in launching an Instagram age for Promote Salisbury, and in creating and managing its posts, including pictures & captions;
Utilize Hootsuite (or other similar program) to program timely posts, tweets, etc.
Contact and sign up for various email lists of local businesses and not-for-profit organizations to assist with the promotion of their businesses/FB pages;
Other responsibilities may include: assist in creating a FB page for the soon to be launched Salisbury TV program on Salisbury's local TV station SCTVMC
Promote Salisbury is in no means restricted to requesting only the aforementioned duties of the Intern insomuch as they are directly related to the overall goals of Promote Salisbury in promoting the business and residents' activities in Salisbury, MA, for profit and not-for-profit organizations.
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Pure, clean drinking water is undeniably important to a healthy diet. Some people are concerned about the minerals, treatment chemicals and disinfectants found in tap water. While state and federal laws mandate acceptable levels of minerals and chemicals allowed for water systems, people who are health-conscious or have particular chemical sensitivities may need a more pure water source.
What is Distilled Water?
Any system where a source water is heated and the resulting vapor is then condensed and collected (isolated from the unclean source water) is producing distilled water. Water distillation was practiced as far back as the Bronze Age as a method of producing drinkable water while at sea. Distillation is a major source of drinking water from seawater throughout the Middle East today. Distilled water contains no waterborne pathogens (disease-carrying organisms), chemicals or minerals.
Is Bottled Water Distilled Water?
Most bottled waters are either tap water or softened and filtered tap water. Since distillation is more expensive than most types of filtering, distilled water is clearly marked in the bottled water aisle at stores.
Is Distilled Water Beneficial?
Distilled water is safe to drink. It is more pure than most other waters, with the exception of some reverse osmosis-filtered water. Distilled water does not have the minerals, chemicals or organics found in most other water, making it useful for cleaning toxins from the body.
Are There Health Risks?
Distilled water lacks both the unhealthy and unpleasant minerals of tap water as well as the minerals needed in a healthy diet. Excessive amounts of distilled water will leach useful minerals from the body. However, most of your minerals come from food. In a healthy diet, the loss of minerals from drinking water istrivial compared to the benefits of screening out unhealthy minerals, chemicals and organics from tap or regular bottled waters.
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Distilled water is available in most grocery stores for less than $1 per gallon.
Less than $100 purchases a countertop water distiller, which produces a gallon of distilled water from tap water (or even well, river or sea water) in a few hours. Most of these systems use electric heaters to evaporate the water, so there will be that expense as well as necessary periodic cleaning of the distiller.
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Popular journalist arrested for alleged connection to Boko Haram terrorists' video and the whereabouts of over 200 Chibok schoolgirls, has been freed detention.
Dubai-based Nigerian journalist, Ahmed Salkida, who was taken into custody by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) as he arrived from the UAE at Abuja airport, weeks after being declared wanted by the Nigerian Army over his ties with Boko Haram, and was reportedly denied access to his lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday, has been finally released, a high-level security source has exclusively disclosed SaharaReporters.
A security source reevaled exclusively to SaharaReporters that Ahmed Salkida was very "cooperative"throughout the time he was in the detention custody of the DSS, adding that Salkida had informed the DSS in advance that he planned to return to Nigeria after the Nigerian Army declared him wanted.
The military had sought the journalist, who is believed to be in contact with some leaders of the Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, especially in connection with the group's recent release of a video showing some secondary school girls abducted in April 2014.
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Even a broken clock is accurate twice a day, and this morning's European Court ruling on the legality of sex discrimination in insurance claims was welcome and right.
It is of course true that male drivers - especially young male drivers - cause more accidents than female ones. On that basis, many people (most of them, strangely enough, men) seem to have bought the insurance industry's self-interested case that offering women lower premiums is somehow fair. It isn't. Men are not, generally or on average, more dangerous drivers than women. The majority of drivers, male and female alike, do not cause accidents. It's just that, of the minority of drivers who are reckless, most of them happen to be men, and a high proportion of those are young or inexperienced. Culture or testosterone may be relevant factors for those drivers, helping to explain the differential. But even young male drivers are more likely than not to drive safely. Penalising half of all drivers on the basis of their genitalia is thus not fair at all.
Insurance works by spreading risk among a large number of people: in motor insurance the cautious subsidise the reckless, and since there are fewer of them, the reckless get by far the best deal (until, that is, they have demonstrated their recklessness by causing accidents, at which point they may struggle to find anyone willing to insure them at all. In life assurance and pensions plans the prematurely dying subsidise the long-lived, and centenarians scoop something of a jackpot. Women, on average, live longer than men, and on this basis have lost out in pension calculations. But all this means is that there are more older women than there are older men (and many more female centenarians). The gap, though, is narrowing, and may owe almost as much to lifestyle factors than to a biological predisposition. Even the fact that more men die in accidents skews the figures somewhat. The actuarial difference does not mean that any particular man is likely to die sooner than any particular women, or that any given male driver is a greater accident risk than any given female driver. Yet that is how the insurance industry treats people.
Imagine that it was discovered that statistically gay male drivers were less likely to cause accidents than heterosexual ones. Would it be acceptable for insurance companies to ask customers to reveal their sexual orientation, and to offer lower premiums to homosexuals? (It would be wrong forprecisely the same reason that sex discrimination is wrong: the low number of gay dangerous drivers would not cause any particular straight driver to drive badly.) What if being black turned out to be a risk factor for involvement in a car accident? I suspect few people today would defend penalising ethnic minorities in car insurance. Yet the principle involved is the same. I also wonder if the present scheme would enjoy such widespread assent if it was women who were charged more for car insurance - just try to imagine how the male equivalent of the Sheilas Wheels commercial would go down with the gender police.
Men are not dangerous drivers because they are men - if that were true, then the safe male driver would be in the minority. And if that were true, driving - for anyone other than a professional - would have been banned decades ago.
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Even a broken clock is accurate twice a day, and this morning's European Court ruling on the legality of sex discrimination in insurance claims was welcome and right.
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