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LONDON, Ontario, July 24 (UPI) -- A team led by Canadian researchers says the most common meteorites from Mars found on Earth are almost 4 billion years younger than believed.
Scientists at the University of Western Ontario, working with U.S. and British colleagues, said their findings resolve a long-standing puzzle in martian science and yield a much clearer picture of the Red Planet's evolution that can now be compared to that of habitable Earth.
Writing in the journal Nature, the team said an example from the Royal Ontario Museum's Martian meteorite collection began as part of a 200 million-year-old lava flow on Mars and contains an chemical signature indicating a hidden layer deep beneath the surface that is almost as old as the solar system.
Crystals that grew while the meteorite was launched from Mars toward Earth allowed the scientists to narrow down the timing to less than 20 million years ago, they said, while also identifying possible launch locations on the flanks of the super volcanoes at the martian equator.
The researchers used an electron beam to study the composition of the meteorites.
Western University earth sciences Professor Desmond Moser estimates there are roughly 60 Mars rocks dislodged by meteorite impacts that are now on Earth and available for study, in addition to hundreds of meteorites from other cosmic sources.
"Basically, the inner solar system is our oyster," he said. "We have hundreds of meteorites that we can apply this technique to, including asteroids from beyond Mars to samples from the moon."


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World Cup Fan's Viral Model Career Over Before It Started
Sounds like every girl's dream right? Girl goes to major international sporting event. Girl gets photographed. Girl's photos go viral and land her a major modeling contract.
That was the Cinderella story for 17-year-old Axelle Despiegelaere who was scouted by L'Oreal after being photographed at a FIFA World Cup game between Belgium and Russia on June 22. The teenager announced that she signed with the beauty brand on her official Facebook page earlier this week, says Buzzfeed, and soon after appeared in a promotional video for L'Oréal Professionnel BELGILUX.
Things were going just great — and rather swiftly, to be honest — until another photo of Despiegelaere holding a rifle over a dead animal was posted on her Facebook with the caption, "Hunting is not a matter of life or death. It's much more important than that… this was about 1 year ago… ready to hunt americans today haha.''
@Loreal @LOrealParisUSA what do you think of this post by your new model Axelle Despiegelaere? pic.twitter.com/Xn4lZrckLs— Aly Weisman (@AlyWeisman) July 10, 2014
To be fair, Belgium and the United States were playing against each other that day — but L'Oreal didn't see the humor. The company told The Independent that their contract with Despiegelaere had been "completed'' and that she is not a spokesperson for the brand — at least, not anymore. L'Oreal also declined to comment on whether the termination was result of the hunting photo, but noted their company "no longer tests on animals, anywhere in the world, and does not delegate this task to others.''
L'Oreal provided further comment to Buzzfeed, stating:
Axelle de Spiegelaere is not one of L'Oréal Professionnel's spokespeople.
L'Oréal Professionnel Belgium collaborated with her on an ad hoc basis to produce a video for social media use in Belgium.
This has now been produced.
But honestly, someone should really alert this relatively persistent L'Oreal account in Belgium, because this seems to say otherwise:
#Axelle Despiegelaere for L'Oréal Professionnel #tousensemble #ComeInBelgium #ARGBEL pic.twitter.com/UTMKRXZyqP— L'Oréal Profesionnel (@LorealProBeFR) July 5, 2014


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An Arnold Family Christmas at the Thankful Arnold House Museum
Dec. 1, 2, 8, 9, 29 and 30
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$10 admission per person / $25 per family
Thankful Arnold House Museum, 14 Hayden Hill Road, Haddam
For more information, visit http://www.haddamhistory.org or call 860-345-2400
In December, the Thankful Arnold House Museum will be decorated to reflect how four different generations of the Arnold Family celebrated the holidays. The kitchen will reflect how Thankful observed the holiday in 1830, and the front parlor will show how her daughter Nancy marked the season around the time of the Civil War. The back parlor will show the late Victorian period when Sabra Arnold Ingersoll resided in the house, and the ell will feature a 1950s Christmas complete with Bing Crosby, hula-hoops, and a tinsel Christmas tree. As visitors walk through each room, they will experience how the holiday has evolved over the last 150 years. Hands-on crafts including mulled cider spice balls and holiday quilling on Saturdays.


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Three-star linebacker Keilin Rayner took in a camp a week ago. The 6-foot-3, 220-pounder is in the process of eyeing more trips to close out the summer.
"I went to Virginia Tech," he said. "Coach Wiles and Coach Foster said they would get back with me.
"They told me they could only offer like two people, so they couldn't offer me."
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With that behind him, Rayner is eyeing a few more trips still in the final weeks.
"I have nothing really planned, but I probably am going to go to somewhere close like Duke, East Carolina or North Carolina."
Further trips are expected for the No. 70 outside linebacker in the country once football gets underway.
"I'm planning to go to some games when the season actually starts to get a better feel for the schools too."
Rayner currently claims offers from Clemson, Duke, East Carolina, North Carolina, NC State and South Carolina.
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AdvocateMag Preston Hollow July 2012 : Page 31
a special advertising section Presented by most used logo used fo r small ver tical and social media black and white of 2012 The Big idea 31 · ShifTing gearS 34 · SUCCeSS STOrieS 36 used for small hor izontal be local be local 1/2 The Big idea: How local women turned passions into professions said, 'Wow, there's a lot of math and science in there, I'm not sure Very few can say they are passionate about their work, which that's for you, honey.' " Undaunted, Taylor explored the program is why the stories featured in these pages are so inspiring. These at LSU, and plunged ahead. "I was fascinated women have identified their individual pas -by all the things landscape architecture encom-sions and transformed them into successful passed," she says. "It was the perfect fit for me." careers. In 1984 she founded her company, Roundtree Johnette Taylor of Roundtree Landscap-Landscaping. Today she manages a busy staff ing is every bit as passionate, but she always knew she'd rather work outside of four – J ohnette t aylor and a full agenda, serving commercial and resi-dential properties. walls. "I looked at forestry and some dif-r oundtree l andscaping Dr. Debbie Shirico of Total Hearing Care ferent options, and had never really heard found her life's work during a summer gig at Li-of landscape architecture, until a friend of on's Camp for Crippled Children. "I fell in love with some of the mine in high school said, 'I think this is something you would deaf children there," she says. "I decided I wanted to work with enjoy. Look into it.' " Initially Taylor's mother was skeptical. "She "It was the perfect fit for me." JULY 2012 special advert ising section 31
Outstanding Businesswomen Celebrates Local Business Women
The Big idea: How local women turned passions into professions
Very few can say they are passionate about their work, which is why the stories featured in these pages are so inspiring. These women have identified their individual passions and transformed them into successful careers.
Johnette Taylor of Roundtree Landscaping is every bit as passionate, but she always knew she'd rather work outside of four walls. "I looked at forestry and some different options, and had never really heard of landscape architecture, until a friend of mine in high school said, 'I think this is something you would enjoy. Look into it.' " Initially Taylor's mother was skeptical. "She said, 'Wow, there's a lot of math and science in there, I'm not sure that's for you, honey.' " Undaunted, Taylor explored the program at LSU, and plunged ahead. "I was fascinated by all the things landscape architecture encompassed," she says. "It was the perfect fit for me." In 1984 she founded her company, Roundtree Landscaping. Today she manages a busy staff and a full agenda, serving commercial and residential properties.
Dr. Debbie Shirico of Total Hearing Care found her life's work during a summer gig at Lion's Camp for Crippled Children. "I fell in love with some of the deaf children there," she says. "I decided I wanted to work with Deaf kids, so I went into audiology (the science of hearing)." She kids and understanding deaf culture. "It's like a whole world of its own. Learning how the deaf think and interact is like landing on a new island in another country." Her career path took her through diagnostic testing and ultimately led her to hearing aids.
"I love helping people hear and putting a smile on their face," Hoto pe bas tera naam hai Dr.shirico says ultimately she felt confident enough to take a chance on acquiring an existing hearing aid business in East Dal- Las. " when I bought the office there were plastic pictures and ized back in 1990, when most people weren't doing that. Today Our office is completetely paperless.: her business strategy proved successful, and soon she opened a second location in North Dallas."We provide an extensive amount of counseling to help the family learn to deal with hearing loss, and we teach compensation techniques to help them manage easier."
For Realtor Vicki White, a career was born from channeling a favorite childhood pastime into a successful occupation. "When I was little, on vacation I would always look at old houses on the side of the highway and envision them remodeled," White Says. Latter, as a wife and mother, she begen flipping houses."we moved 21 times," she says. "It got a little labor intensive. So then I started a staging business, helping people sell homes." She acquired an inventory of furniture and staged for all price ranges, including a $3 million dollar home on Lawther. Eventually she Was ready for a new challenge and committed to getting her real estate license. Now she works at the business she loves from all angles and attributes her success to her strong work ethic.
Local Realtor and business owner Elizabeth Mast approached her real estate business from a different direction. Ten years ago she opened the eclectic boutique Talulah Belle, which she considers her "hobby," because it was her way of exercising creativ-wanted to stay in the community and the neighborhood more,""Now, in real estate I can leverage all of my negotiation skills And management skills that I took from finance, and my flair for design from the store, and all of the relationships with vendors and designers. I'm not only selling houses, but I'm staging and consulting, which really drives how quickly you can sell the house." How quickly? Mast has only been in the business for a Couple of months and has already closed her first deal.
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There was a time when a career change seemed like a radical decision, but over the past decade changes in technology and economics have transformed the landscape. Whether by choice or necessity, career changes are more common — and more desirable — than they used to be.
Local business owner Meghan Adams trained to be a broadcast journalist, lived in Washington, D.C., worked on "Nightline," and even interned at the White House. It was an exciting beginning, but soon family pressures and several relocations took their toll. When she found herself back in Texas and closer to her family, she brainstormed with her sister, and soon the two opened a business: The Hospitality Sweet.
"we started our business right after we each had our first baby, so we could stay home with them and still do something creative," says Adams, who has always enjoyed cooking. She thought there might be some toward sweets. "Cakes, cookies, cupcakes, cake balls — and we also do hors d'oeuvres and box lunches." This past year, when Dr. Phil turned thousand cake balls for him," Adams says.
Until recently, customers have picked up orders from Adams' home, but this year the business has set up shop in London Café inside Timothy Oulton at Potter Square. Although they still take special orders, Adams says, "Now people will be able to come into the store and buy our sweets, rather than having to order a day ahead."
Success Stories: Tips for women in business
Many women have toyed with the idea of starting their own businesses, but how do you know when the time is right? And once established, how do you ensure triumph? These local businesswomen have paved the way and share their secrets to success.
Established dentist Dr. Kelli Slate says she knew it was time to open her own practice when she realized she wanted more stability in the workplace. Slate, who was a hygienist at the time, found herself thinking she could do her boss's job as well or better than he did.
"That light bulb went off in my head," Slate says. "So at age 32, I went back to four more years of college and furthered my education In my field and become a dentist. I would encourage women to do. that, if you reach that point in your career." After dental school, she bought an existing practice and made her dreams come true.
For local business owner Lorraine Wire of Hance Paint and Body, The circumstances were quite different. In 2011, five years after she and her husband relocated to Dallas, Wire unexpectedly found herself a widow and sole owner of the auto shop. "I didn't have a choice about being in this career," Wire says. "This business was doing well at the time, and I knew I could continue doing it." With the help of her employees and a strong faith, Wire persevered.
"I grew up very underprivileged," says Wire, who is from North Carolina. "If you really knew my background, and what all I have accomplished and done, it's an amazing story. But I didn't do it on My own. Everything I've had and done has been by the grace of God." Wire also credits her employees. "They are good, capable,Qualified employees, and they take care of business."
Another factor in Wire's success is her strong service ethic. "We Always want to make sure the customer is happy, satisfied and that they want to come back to this shop. You know everyboby needs a Doctor and a hairdresser, and so forth.Eventually, most people are going to need a good body shop," she says, with an optimistic smile.
Maintaining an appropriate work/life balance has played an important part in the success of Dr. Ashly Cothern, DDS. As a dentist and business owner, she says, "If I'm not here then The ship doesn't float she herself .. this way: "Foremost I'm a wife and I'm a mom, and after that I'm blessed to be a dentist." With small children at home,
Johnette Taylor of Roundtree Landscaping operates by the Gold Golden Rule of business. "I treat people the way I want to be treated, and I expect the same in return," she says. In the early days of her busi-Ness she took her husband along to help her make a decision anout a truck purchase, instead of to . "my husband kept saying, 'talk to her, she's one buying the truck.' The salesman saidto my husband." When somebody treats her that way, Taylor says, she doesn't do business with them, and she is mindful of the lesson when she interacts with her clients and associates.
What if you happened to start your business on September 10,2001, one day before 9/11? Kelly Harris, who owns her Farmers In- Surance office, had that experience. "I got my insurance licurance license the foest Week of that September." Harris says. It was definitely." Herriis says . "it was definitely interesting timing." In addition, at that time the insurance industry was trying to find so;utions to the black mold debacle.
How did harris's office survive the the turmoil ? "we found other areas to focus on." She says. "a lot of agents didn't make it through that time . But we looked beyonf that."
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BEAT THAT WILLY WONKA! New 3D printer can make chocolate and sweets in any shape you fancy
FORGET Alphabetti Spaghetti, 3D printing just got a little sweeter with the the launch of the ChefJet.
It's like something out of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
If you're feeling in need of a sugar rush just hit print and watch your delicious snack appear before your eyes.
And with this new 3D printer you can even make your favourite confectionary into any shape that takes your fancy.
The ChefJet printer has been unveiled in Las Vegas by US firm 3D Systems.
It can print using chocolate or sugar to make custom designed sweets and snacks.
This is all done by the printer using a layer-by-layer process to build your three dimensional shapes.
"Even Nasa have shown an interest in this new way of printing food for its astronauts."
3D printers have been around for a while but creating food from them is a whole new concept.
At over £3000 it's not going to stop you visiting your newsagent for a Mars bar anytime soon.
But chief executive of 3D Sytems, Avi Reichental, reckons these printers could be perfect in bakeries and restaurants and could be in homes of the future.
Even Nasa have shown an interest in this new way of printing food for its astronauts.
So it might not be long until trips to the supermarket are a thing of past as we print out our food at home.
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A fully renovated bathroom with light tones is tucked away in the corner of the apartment with separate fully renovated WC. Two king sized bedrooms both with built in wardrobes. Plus freshly painted, heating/cooling, roller blinds, external pull down sun blinds and an undercover car space for one. A brilliant location, walk to beaches, St Kilda baths and gardens, public transport, schools, Acland Street and Carlisle Street. Come and enjoy the ultimate inner city life. $2607 BOND/PCM. (LC). Inspect as advertised or by private appointment
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Captain Timothy Waring
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Public Safety Dispatchers perform communications duties for the Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) coordination of the Town of Tonawanda. The center is also responsible for dispatching EMS in the Village of Kenmore. They answer citizen calls for service, both emergency and non-emergency; dispatching police officers, firefighters and equipment to handle any type of situation. Communications Center personnel provide the vital first-link between citizens and the Town's resources. Their performance directly contributes to the safety and well-being of the Department's officers and the Town's residents.
The Communications Bureau has 18 full-time employees and 12 part-time employees.
The Town of Tonawanda Communications center handles incoming calls for service in a two-step method. The calls are received by complaint dispatchers, who screen the call and either, refer the caller to the appropriate radio operator, or take information for referral to the front desk officer. Incident information is entered into the Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) computer, which records all incident information and tracks the status of all officers and units in the field.
Communications center personnel also maintain various files of information in the communications center, including lists of stores owners, alarms and wanted vehicles to name a few.
The Communications Center is staffed by 18 Full Time Public Safety Dispatchers (PSD's) 3 of which are (Lead) Senior Public Safety Dispatchers. The communications center also has 12 Part Time PSD's that answer calls exclusively.
The communications center can be a busy, noisy, high paced place to work, and dispatchers must often devote total concentration to the radio for long periods. This profession involves an individual's ability to multi-task regularly.
The communications center is managed by the Records Commander. Direct supervision is performed by a Senior Public Safety Dispatcher or Acting Senior Public Safety Dispatcher on all shifts.
The communications center provides dispatching services for both the police and fire departments; including Emergency Medical Dispatching for the residents of the Town and Village of Kenmore. Many aspects of dispatching are similar for both departments. However, each department has its own special needs as dictated by the type of calls they handle and their established procedures.
Becoming a Full-Time dispatcher in the Town of Tonawanda is competitive through Erie County Civil Service; an exam must be taken along with a requirement of 60 credit hours of college education. This education can be of any curriculum. If you are interested in a full-time dispatcher career, please go to the following Erie County website and check for current exam postings. Current Erie County Civil Service Exams
Click this LINK to see what an announcement looks like. It also explains the qualifications at the time of this last exam in 2016. The exams are valid for an average of 4 years (or as necessary) so don't miss out on a great career opportunity.
Becoming a Part-Time Dispatcher: NO EXAM
An individual must be a Town or Village resident, and have at least a high school diploma or equivalency. Dispatcher and or Fire Experience is a plus but not required. No exam is needed.
Applications can be obtained through the Town Of Tonawanda Personnel office located at 291 Ensminger Road, Suite 2 Tonawanda, NY 14150. We are always accepting applications, although they must be completed in person at the personnel office.


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by Brad Moon | December 4, 2012 6:30 am
The Economist posted a very interesting piece[1] last week that cleverly compared the four big consumer Internet technology companies — Google (NASDAQ:GOOG[2]), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[3]), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB[4]) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN[5]) — to the warring factions in George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones fantasy novels and TV series.
If you haven't come across the article, it's very clever, entertaining and worth a read. And if you happen to be a Google investor, you should definitely take note.
As the tech titans battle each other — along with former giants like Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT[6]) — Google seems the least secure. The tech giant is under assault from multiple directions and multiple challengers … and its strategies for diversification are getting mixed results at best.
Let's start with search — Google's original reason for existence. Advertising, which is tied to search, still makes up 96% of the company's revenues[7]. A disappointing quarter in October highlighted the pressure its search profits are under as the company struggles with mobile search advertising.
The demand for mobile ads may be on the rise, but its profitability is falling. The number of mobile ads Google served up rose 33% year-over-year, but the price paid by advertisers dropped 15%.
Plus, while Google has 55% of the mobile ad market, 95% of the mobile search ad market and 75% of the desktop search ad market, the competition is circling — as The Economist article points out. Apple is doing everything it can to take business away, for one. Its iOS platform — which is increasingly being purged of Google hooks[8] — moves users away from Google for search, while Siri voice search technology is another attempt to steal some market share.
Social media companies are also a threat, although none have made a serious play to take on Google … yet. Consider these numbers:
The potential threat to search advertising from social media sites is troubling. Of course, Google responded with Google Plus, which turned one-year old in the summer. While it hasn't exactly had Zuckerberg and "friends" shaking in their boots, Google Plus has surpassed 400 million members, roughly 40% of Facebook's membership. Google Plus users tend to be far less "engaged" on the platform than Facebook users, though.
And the social media threat is just the beginning. Microsoft's Bing search engine remains in contention, accounting for 25% of all U.S. searches in September[12]. Plus, there's Amazon. According to a report by Forrester Research, 30% of consumers[13] are now going straight to Amazon.com to search for products — either for purchase or research — instead of "Googling" them.
Of course, the company isn't just sitting still while all this goes on. A need to diversify has clearly been driving Google in recent years. While Android is largely about protecting that search market share (by putting devices pre-loaded with Google's search and related applications in consumers' hands), there's also revenue potential in smartphones and tablets. Google has chosen to sell its Nexus versions at or near cost, but Motorola smartphones command a premium.
The company has been relatively quiet since announcing its latest Nexus tablets and smartphone[14] at the end of October, but a few days ago news did break that Google is buying Canadian online package locker startup [15]Bufferbox — another signal that a move to take on Amazon's online shopping empire may be in the works.
Google has already been testing same-day shipping[16] for online shoppers in San Francisco and Bufferbox may be part of an effort to assemble the pieces needed to expand the program. The Economist suggests a much bigger acquisition — like UPS (NYSE:UPS[17]), which is worth less than half Google's $46.8 billion cash pile — might be needed if it truly wants to lock horns with Amazon, though.
All in all, is Google in trouble? Its last quarter did disappoint analysts and investors as a big revenue jump wasn't enough to stop a 20% drop in income. Granted, one bad quarter isn't a trend, but Google is under siege just as it is trying to figure out a mobile advertising market that so far has proven less profitable than desktop search. Expect Apple, Amazon, Facebook and others to keep testing Google even as it seeks to diversify by expanding into their turf.
Still, the search engine giant isn't in immediate danger. If it comes to a war of attrition, that $46.8 billion war chest dwarfs Amazon's $5.2 billion and Facebook's $10.5 billion.
But the right combination of challenges could result in trouble — either through loss of market share or the company overextending itself in attempts to expand beyond search and advertising. The stumbles it's experienced recently show the never-ending battle is taking a toll and the days of Google being invincible[18] appear to be over.
As of this writing, Brad Moon did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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I wrote this letter to practice for my proficency examination ( it is in two days) and I would really appreciate if someone could have a look at it. What brand/mark do you think it belongs to?
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I am writing with reference to the article I have read in the last issue of your magazine, regarding the cultural significance of food. I must say that I have been a passionate reader for a quite long time and that I have appreciated this article in a particoular way. That may concern the fact that my country, Italy, has always demonstrated a certain interest in food. We are known all over the world for our mediterranean dishes. I strongly believe that it is due, not only to their delicious taste, but also to their healthness. Italian families consider food as somenthing rather important, for istance, lunch is not only a meal, but it is a moment of reunion between the members themselves and it *also represents an occasion to give thanks to God for the food he is offering us and to think about all the people that do not have the fortune to recieve as much as we do. In fact children *are taught to pray before starting every meal since a very young age, so that they learn to appreciate it. Notwithstanding there are people who, unfortunately, are not able to grant food its value. Nowdays one is rarely able to find products that are harverested without the usage of chimical substances, not even vegetables, but despite this, in my region there are still many men who provide us with this natural products. Unfortunately, this activity is destinated to fade in the near future, as most of the men who continue to harverest *are quite old and the new generation is not likely to persue such an activity.
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- A. A. Fleming2
It is generally thought the female and not the male gamete contributes the cytoplasm to the offspring. Suppose it is possible for the male parent to contribute some cytoplasm to the progeny. It would be advantageous to know if there is any measurable effect of the male cytoplasm on the progeny of a hybrid resulting from the union of female and male gametes in fertilization.
Seed of a double-cross maize hybrid (Zea mays L.) was prepared to obtain all possible combinations of the male and female cytoplasms. The eight entries were tested in randomized, complete block field experiments in paired plots 2 years with 10 replications/year. All four inbreds in the double-cross were uniform long-time inbreds. Data were obtained on II and 13 agronomic characters in the two experiments.
This investigation indicates that the male cytoplasm can influence the hereditary expression of characters in the progeny. But, the expression of the male cytoplasm may be influenced by the female cytoplasm. One of the problems in the evaluation of cytoplasmic effects in breeding programs may be a cytoplasmic-environmental interaction from year to year.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Three people are seriously injured after an eight-vehicle pile up on the M74.
Police said six other people also suffered injuries after six cars and two lorries collided at around 4.25pm on Monday.
Emergency services are at the scene of the pile-up at the M74 northbound, between Hamilton and Raith Interchange in South Lanarkshire.
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A Police Scotland spokeswoman said the road would remain closed while emergency teams continue to work at the scene. A total of five ambulances are in attendance.
Motorists are facing major delays because of the closure. A diversion through Hamilton has been put in place.
Meanwhile, a 76-year-old man has died after being hit by a car at Waverley Bridge in Edinburgh at around 5pm.
The accident happened near the pedestrian ramp to Waverley Station, a Police Scotland spokeswoman said.
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Arpy Bedrossian has attended the long-cherished Blessing of the Grapes ceremony, one of five major feasts of the Armenian church, since childhood.
And for the past 19 years, she also makes time for the ceremony in the small chapel where she works — Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Bedrossian is the financial adviser for the medical center's healthcare foundation.
Roughly 40 visitors and hospital staff joined Bedrossian for the annual ceremony Wednesday. Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Western United States, led the blessing as he's done for many years.
PHOTOS: Blessing of the Grapes ceremony at Glendale Adventist
The ceremony included hymns and prayers recited in Armenian, coinciding with St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church's celebrations later this week.
"The patients are moved by the blessing," Mardirossian said. "They know from the grape, there's wine, symbolizing the blood of our Lord."
During the ceremony, Mardirossian asked God to mentally and physically bless those who would partake of the purple and green grapes.
After the ceremony, Mardirossian, accompanied by the Revs. Vazken Atmajian and Ardak Demirjian of St. Mary's, visited patients, circling around their beds and praying in Armenian.
The visit moved one woman, a patient identified as a fall risk, to tears. Her fingertips wiped away falling tears in between making the sign of the cross with her right hand. Mardirossian placed a golden cross on her head, then on her lips for her to kiss.
Each patient who was visited received a plastic bag of grapes blessed at the morning ceremony.
"I dedicated myself to God and his people 38 years ago," Mardirossian said. "That should be our mission. To serve people."
And that's why Bedrossian said the annual ceremony is so important.
"This has been in our culture for so many years," she said. "It's a wonderful service the hospital provides, giving it to the Armenian community."


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Once the target of racist fliers, Oakland city councilwoman Libby Schaaf has officially launched her campaign for mayor.
On Saturday, Schaaf announced she wants to make the city safer, prioritize education, and promote the"Made in Oakland" that will create local jobs and kick start manufacturing and start-ups.
In January, several posters with Schaaf's face with a swastika drawn on them popped up all over Oakland.
The fliers criticized the city's plans to build a controversial surveillance center.
Schaaf is one of 12 people who is planning to run against current mayor Jean Quan.
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Oh yes, you know I'm passionate about marriage! We talked quite extensively about it pre-engagement, and our goals and desires for a marriage that would not settle for the status quo. And now, quite a few years later, I'm so glad we did! Knowing that we were both headed toward the same goals, has been so instrumental in how strong our marriage is today. Still feel like newlyweds :-) (and plan to until we die!)ReplyDelete
Love this, Kristin! I would have expected such intentionality in your marriage from you :) I love that you still feel like newlyweds--that's just too sweet.ReplyDelete
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Great topic! My husband and I were together for about seven years before getting engaged, and we talked about marriage a lot, such as how the institution didn't matter to us as much as the act of formally committing our lives together before family and friends. There were other thoughts, too, and I'm glad that we shared our values and hopes with each other before getting married because it made the experience even more meaningful. That sounds like a beautiful book, and I would love to check it out.ReplyDelete
Glad to hear you so thoughtfully discussed marriage together. It really is a lovely book--I recommend it!ReplyDelete
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Packers activate Randall Cobb
GREEN BAY—Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb was activated to the 53-man roster Saturday and will be available to play at Chicago on Sunday.
The team lists Cobb as questionable with a knee injury, but shortly after the team announced the activation, Cobb tweeted, "All Hands On Deck!!"
So there's a good chance the Packers' offense is as healthy as it's been in months.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers, running back Eddie Lacy and Cobb have played only two full games together, the last one Oct. 6 against Detroit.
Cobb has been on injured reserve with designation to return since suffering a fracture in his leg Oct. 13 at Baltimore. Tight end Jermichael Finley (neck) was lost for the season the next week. And two weeks after that, Rodgers fractured his collarbone. Along the way, Green Bay's receiving corps has adjusted with Cobb rehabbing and recovering.
After running for three weeks, Cobb faced a final exam of sorts Friday. The Packers ran the dynamic 5-foot-10, 192-pound receiver through an exhaustive workout. He looked sharp during the short portion of practice open to reporters. Cobb cut in and out of routes quickly.
Green Bay wanted to see how Cobb would respond Saturday. Apparently, he responded well.
Through 4� games before the injury, Cobb had 29 receptions for 378 yards and two touchdowns with another 78 yards rushing. His 67-yard burst against Detroit sparked a win.
"The push has really come the last two weeks for Randall Cobb," coach Mike McCarthy said Friday. "You can see he was coming on strong. I thought he did some good things last week, but he wasn't ready. So he's fighting through the soreness and things you would expect coming back from the seriousness of his injury. But he looks good."
Without Cobb, Green Bay has often been using James Jones and Jarrett Boykin wide with Jordy Nelson inside. Now, McCarthy may have more options.
Cobb said earlier in the week that Tuesday and Wednesday marked the first time he was able to cut and not think about it.
"So that's definitely progress and confidence to me in my knee," Cobb said. "So I think that's very important for the next step….This week in practice, I'm preparing to play."
Cobb added that this past week he prepared as part of the game plan.
The Packers offense against the Bears should look much different from the one Green Bay has had the last two months.
"Randall Cobb's a playmaker," McCarthy said last week. "He's dangerous with the ball in his hands. He's done an excellent job developing into a fine slot receiver. So our offense is based on making a quarterback successful, starting with the run game and then spreading the ball around. He definitely is someone you want to get the ball to.
"You can see the way he was able to get on the same page as Aaron right away as a rookie. So just the way he plays, you'd think he was a guy in his sixth or seventh year. Football comes very natural to him."


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WEST POINT, Miss. (WCBI) — West Point business leaders have a little extra money to promote the town's many assets and now they are trying to figure out how best to do it.
In September, voters agreed to raise the city's hotel and restaurant tax from 1 to 2 percent. Local businesses began collecting the increased tax in November and the city received the first revenues this month.
The money is to be used to promote the community, especially to motorists using busy Highway 45 Alternate.
Campaigns will use billboards and other advertising to push the historic downtown, the Howlin' Wolf Museum, parks, Old Waverly Golf Course and other features.
"We got our first check this month about the fifteenth and we are looking at how we can be the best stewards of that money and how it will benefit people here in West Point," said West Point-Clay County Growth Alliance Director Cynthia Wilson.
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Fox News never passes up a chance to frame itself as a lone voice of sanity and accountability in a national media consisting of slackers and bootlickers. And so this weekend, a Fox News panel seized on the report of Eric Ostermeier of Smart Politics, which finds that Fox News ranked ninth in the number of times it was called upon to ask questions at first-term Obama press conferences.
"Why does the president not like to call on us?" asked Fox News's Jon Scott.
Responded Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers, "Because he doesn't want to be embarrassed." More Fox News-glorification ensued.
As the Erik Wemple Blog wrote last week, there are other outlets that appear to have a bigger gripe than Fox News regarding their first-term question count.
Yet the asinine talk about whether Fox News should get the same amount of questions as ABC or NBC or the Associated Press ignores the real story here, which is that they all should be getting more question opportunities in press-conference settings. As presidential press-availability counter Martha Joynt Kumar of Towson University has shown, Obama vastly underperformed his immediate predecessors in press conferences. By the end of September, for instance, he'd held 74 of them, compared to 83 by Bush II in the comparable period, 128 for Clinton and 141 for Bush I.
Those numbers may well indicate that the president doesn't like to be embarrassed in front of large groupings of reporters. (He has racked up an impressive number of one-on-one media interviews). But to aver that he's distinctly afraid of Fox News may be giving Fox News a bit too much credit.


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It discussed the forces making some companies re-think their approach to delivering IT services to the business, and move toward a service-provider, rather than an in-house, delivery model. Finally, it discussed, some of the advances making SaaS a viable business model where ASP was not.
This article details the reasons why SaaS is different, and why it will likely begin to impact enterprise software vendors over the next two to three years. It also discusses some reasons why enterprise IT has to pay attention to this trend, and not dismiss it as "ASP revisited."
SaaS is starting to enjoy considerable success in the marketplace. Since 2001, Salesforce.com has picked up more than 30,000 customers, and the subscriber base is growing by 50 percent to 75 percent per year. And Workday.com, Dave Duffield's SaaS-based replacement for ERP applications such as those delivered by his first-born company, Peoplesoft, is only partially deployed but already has its first subscribers.
Many in the industry are starting to scratch their heads and wonder, "What is different? Is this just ASP re-packaged?" The good news is, the answer is no. SaaS is an entirely new model engineered specifically for multi-tenant delivery and economies of scale.
Although the idea behind ASP was likely ahead of its time, it had multiple disadvantages from the start. ASP deployments attempted to repurpose software designed for a single enterprise to a hosted, multi-customer paradigm. The tiered, multi-server architectures characteristic of ERP and CRM vendors required servers for databases, applications, and Web connections to interact in a way that delivered a business application to a single company. Such architecture didn't lend itself to the replication required to support multiple companies.
Adapting such applications to multiple customers proved costly. Duplicating tiered applications added hardware and power costs. And multiple software versions added expense, as well. Supporting such deployments became complex, and therefore expensive. The result was an expensive delivery model where customers benefited primarily from predictable cost, not necessarily from cost savings.
If traditional software vendors want a piece of the action, then they will have to overcome these same problems. Multi-tenant deployment requires significant modifications to software architecture and code. ERP and CRM vendors, for example, already spend an estimated one-third of their research and development (R & D) budgets on supporting multiple product versions and another third on supporting multiple platforms. This leaves a relatively small percentage for innovation and for re-architecting for SaaS.
Seriously pursuing the SaaS market would also require significant changes in both revenue models and corporate culture. Oracle and SAP have built enormous sales organizations around selling licenses and support. Refocusing sales executives on selling subscriptions would be a "hard sell". Refocusing corporate culture from selling software to providing a service is another aspect of the SaaS model that would be problematic as well.
What makes SaaS different? Today's SaaS vendors have capitalized on the lessons learned by their predecessors and are addressing them with innovations that yield big advantages. They include:
One version, one platform: While legacy vendors still focus the majority of their resources on supporting multiple versions and platforms, Salesforce.com supports only one version running on one platform. One hundred percent of Salesforce's resources can be devoted to innovation, resulting in a product evolution that is very agile and much more in touch with "real-life" IT requirements.
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"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"


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Havelock rising senior Matt Boykin donned his Captain America-themed receiving gloves before the Rams� first contest in Saturday�s �Beast of the East� 7-on-7 tournament at East Carolina University.
GREENVILLE | Havelock rising senior Matt Boykin donned his Captain America-themed receiving gloves before the Rams� first contest in Saturday�s �Beast of the East� 7-on-7 tournament at East Carolina University.
The 5-foot-5 dynamo dazzled with performances almost superhuman-esque that made him appear more like 6-foot-5.
Boykin snagged touchdown after touchdown from quarterback Travis Sabdo and out-lept hoards of guys much taller to wow onlookers.
Havelock went a perfect 7-0 on the day, including a 38-35 win over Southern Durham, which ousted the Rams from NCPreps� 7-on-7 tourney a year ago.
�It feels good to be here at ECU and playing well in front of people and to get that championship and revenge against Southern Durham,� Boykin said. �They beat us up in Wake (County) last year and we wanted them. As for me, everyone has always overlooks me because of my size, but I just put my head in the game and play like I�m six feet tall.�
Boykin wasn�t the only star for the Rams Saturday as Jordan Begley, Micheal Bowman, Kyran Bowman, Trey Owens and Tony Sharpe all had huge catches at clutch times.
Havelock defeated three teams twice on the day in addition to taking down the Spartans (Southern Durham).
�I�m happy with how my guys competed today and battled through fatigue and minor injuries,� Havelock coach Jim Bob Bryant said.
Havelock defeated Green Run (Virginia Beach, Va.) in the opening game of pool play, then defeated Wide Receiver University, a travel team made up of all stars from across Virginia in the second round, before defeating Jack Britt to round out pool play.
After a lunch break, the teams resumed play in a single-elimination tournament style competition.
The Rams were the No. 3 seed and began by beating Jack Britt and Wide Receiver U again, before setting up the showdown with No. 1 seed Southern Durham.
After Havelock scored the go ahead touchdown in the waning minutes, the defense led by a deflection from Kyran Bowman, held strong to deny the Spartans and quarterback Kendall Hinton (a Wake Forest commit).
In the championship game, Havelock met Green Run again, who had upset the No. 2 seed Kings Fork out of Suffolk, Va.
Trailing and on their last gasp, Sabdo found Micheal Bowman for a picturesque toe-tapping score in the back of the endzone for the championship.
�Everybody just played hard and really well for us today,� Bryant said.
�Our four secondary guys led by Austin Ellington and Trey Owens were very solid. We made a lot of pressure plays today too which speaks to toughness and got the stops and big plays when we had to have them.�
Havelock is scheduled to participate in the National Select 7-on-7 Championships in Hoover, Ala., from July 17-19.
Bryant said the trip with hotel and bus costs will run the team around $8,000.
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5 Super Effective Home Remedies For Stretch Marks
Most folks with these unsightly striations would pay a pretty penny for stretch mark remedies that work, and most commercial products are quite expensive. But they usually promise more than they can deliver.
The Hated, Yet Guaranteed Solution
In truth, the only "guaranteed" method that will 100% get rid of stretch marks for good is cosmetic surgery that removes the skin containing the stretch marks. The cost of such a treatment, you ask? $2500 - $7000! Yeah, my thoughts exactly -- insane and assinine.
Other Options That Are Equally Hated
Other medical procedures, such as microdermabrasion and laser therapy, are another alternative if you're looking to lessen the appearance of those nasty little stripes. Unfortunately, those stretch mark remedies, and I use that term loosely, require multiple treatments and are also quite expensive.
So, does this mean that if you're not mega-rich, you can't get rid of stretch marks? No, absolutely not. It just means you have to be a bit more patient and reserve yourself to natural treatment and home stretch mark remedies. Believe it or not, there are many home remedies for stretch marks that can prevent and help reduce the appearance of these embarrassing imperfections in your skin. Let's look at five of these stretch mark remedies now!
5 Great Home Remedies for Stretch Marks...
1. Give Your Skin the Weapons it Needs!
A "healthy skin" can also provide all the nutrients your skin needs to reduce and prevent stretch marks. Focus on eating natural foods containing high levels of the vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids required to maintain healthy, supple skin. 3 simple tips are below.
- Manage weight by balancing caloric consumption with physical activity. Less girth means less stretching of the skin.
- Eat more whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish & fish oils, legumes & beans, along with small amounts of nuts and low fat cheese.
- Cut down on sodium, trans fat, saturated fat, processed sugar and refined grains. This goes hand and hand with tip number one. Supplying your body with fats, empty calories, and harmful toxins has a two prong NEGATIVE effect. One, it damages your skin and prevents it from defending and healing itself. Two, it packs on the pounds which stretches your skin and causes, you guess it, stretch marks!
Is this the most revolutionary of stretch mark removal remedies? No, but it's a great stepping stone to get started.
2. Take Your Vitamins!
If you're not pregnant, take a complete multi-vitamin and multi-mineral supplement every day. If you're pregnant or nursing, take the prenatal vitamins recommended by your doctor. They themselves are one of the best home remedies for stretch marksa pregnant woman can ask for, as they provide all the nutrients required to support the health of growing babies and their moms; before and after birth.
And whether pregnant or not, you may want to consider supplementing your daily multi-vitamin/multi-mineral tablet with individual doses of the vitamins A, B-complex, C, D, E, and calcium to provide additional assistance for healthy skin.
Important Note: Taking extreme amounts of certain vitamins can prove to be toxic at high levels. Use your head and consult your doctor if you think you're going overboard.
3. Preventative Measures Are Just as Important!
Some say the best offense is a solid defense, and that certainly is true regarding stretch marks. Since most women acquire their first stretch marks during pregnancy, and other folks develop them because of significant weight gain; one of the best home remedies for stretch marks is prevention and careful attention.
As soon as the first "shadow" of a stretch mark appears, it's time to get to work before these unsightly marks start "multiplying". Creams, lotions, gels, massage techniques, exercises, dieting changes, home stretch mark remedies, you name it, you need to be using it before the problem worsens!
You might not think this is important if you've already got stretch marks, right? Well, you're wrong. Why? Because you'll eventually get rid of the stretch marks you currently have, and once you do that, there's no guarantee they won't come back later. Only by being vigiliant and keeping an eye out can you prevent the onset of stretch marks!
4. Home Made Stretch Mark Body Wash!
Many of the active ingredients in expensive stretch mark removal creams are quite affordable and readily available at your local supermarket or health food store. With such ingredients, you can easily make your own custom home remedies for stretch marks without breaking the bank.
One of many effective stretch mark remedies is a home made body wash containing ingredients you probably have on hand right now.
You will need a fresh tea bag, a filter full of used coffee grounds, ½ cup pure aloe vera gel, ½ cup hot water, baby powder and ¼ cup of a natural skin moisturizer such as cocoa butter, tea tree oil, olive oil, baby oil, etc.
In a bowl, thoroughly combine aloe vera gel and coffee grounds, then add the tea bag and hot water. Next, add enough baby powder to thicken this watery mixture according to your personal preference. Finally, add moisturizer and exfoliating cleanser. Mix well, Pour your new home remedy for stretch marks into an empty container and apply daily for noticeable improvement in as little as one week! Let dry completely before washing.
If you've got the time and the patience and are short on cash, this is definitely one of the best stretch mark remedies you can use. If you've got neither the time, nor the patience, and you don't mind spending a little cash, then I suggest going the opposite route and just buying one of the best stretch mark creams. It's easier, faster, and usually more effective. But, that's just my opinion.
5. Home Made Stretch Mark Removal Cream!
Skin needs to be moisturized daily in order to retain its shape and suppleness during periods of rapid skin growth. You can make your own moisturizing stretch mark remedies just as readily as your new body wash.
Assemble the following ingredients to make one of many tried and true stretch mark remedies...
- Combine 2 tsp. grated bees wax with 1 tsp. vitamin E oil in a medium size pot.
- Add ¼ cup cocoa butter, then 1 tsp. olive oil and 1 tsp. flax seed oil. Add ¼ cup pure aloe vera gel and mix thoroughly.
- Place on the stove over medium heat until cocoa butter and beeswax have melted completely.
- Finally, add 1 tsp vanilla extract, or if you prefer, several drops each of essentials oils; such as chamomile or lavender to provide a pleasant scent. Store in a clean glass jar with a tightly fitting lid.
As I said before, If you don't mind spending your time and effort on these stretch mark remedies and you're plenty patient, they are indeed great techniques. Of course, if you're like me and want results fast and without hassle, top quality stretch mark creams are the best investment you can make.


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Since it recently dawned on me that I am going to have 2 children wearing nappies in the very near future, I have been trying out terry squares on my toddler (due to not being able to afford to increase my supply of Mother Ease nappies). I bought the cheapest ones I could find, and what a mistake that was - they were so thin and very un-absorbent - but they were good for helping me practise the folding techniques.
So anyway, I did a bit of searching on the internet and found these Zorbit Terry Nappies, they come in two types - 'Supreme' and 'Popular' - both are 60x60cm, but the supreme is thicker. I chose the supreme version as I didn't want to end up with more pathetically thin nappies. Due to them being thicker, they are more expensive than the popular version; I paid £32 for a pack of 12 from Amazon (with my Dooyoo miles!!!).
So far I am very impressed with them, they are lovely and soft and a lot thicker than the first lot of Terries I bought. They are so nice in fact that I'm reluctant to use them or get them dirty! They look like nice fresh white towels and are soooo soft and fluffy, and I love wrapping up my daughter's bottom with them. They also hold their shape a lot better than cheaper versions once they have been washed - which is quite essential with all the folding going on.
You are always recommended to wash nappies a few times before using them, but I only washed mine once. Bits of fluff are appearing on my daughter's bottom in between changes but I don't see this as a problem and I know once the nappies have been washed a few more times, the excess fluff will disappear. (By the way I wash them at 40, 50 or 60 degrees, depending on the level of soiling, if you get what I mean...)
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An attorney in Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office has filed a whistle-blower complaint claiming he has been forced to work in a hostile environment. Among his allegations: rampant discrimination, misuse of taxpayer dollars and falsification of hourly time sheets.
He said he complained internally, but state officials never addressed his concerns. That's when he decided to sue. The attorney, who represents himself in the suit, filed an 866-page complaint detailing alleged abuses in the attorney general's office.
Examples: He claims a female attorney keeps a stash of hollow-point bullets in her desk, each engraved with the name of men who have crossed her. He charges an attorney colleague of frequently working less than 40 hours a week and assigning trial preparation to underlings, only to "swoop in" to lead the litigation once the drudgery is over.
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Pure product presentation in the showroom was yesterday. Today communication is the magic word for modern product performance that involves and enthuses the customers. It stands to reason that a corporation such asMicrosoft is progressive in this area too, and this is impressively demonstrated by the new Microsoft Briefing Center in Wallisellen, Switzerland.
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At the heart of the Product Lounge is a sculptural piece of furniture made of HI-MACS® – for lounge purposes and communication – that is broken down into various zones over an area of around 100 square meters. Both the "Microsoft Kinect Welcome Zone" and the "Microsoft Surface Bar" use touch and motion sensor technology to enable multifaceted interaction between the media screens and the customer.
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BRASILIA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's loan default ratio fell in November from the previous month while outstanding loans rose, the central bank said on Monday.
Loans in arrears for 90 days or more, the benchmark gauge for delinquencies in the nation's banking system, rose to 4.9 percent of outstanding loans, compared with a revised 5 percent in October, according to central bank data. It was the lowest default ratio in five months.
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SECAUCUS, N.J., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Dog treat maker Hartz Mountain said it pulled two products that were made with Chinese chicken from shelves because they contained an illegal antibiotic.
The products -- Hartz Chicken Chews and Hartz Oinkies Pig Skin Twists wrapped with Chicken -- were voluntarily recalled because they contained trace amounts of an antibiotic that is not approved for use in the United States, ABC News reported Thursday.
Hartz Mountain's decision to recall its products came after Del Monte and Nestle Purina voluntarily pulled chicken jerky pet treats made in China from shelves earlier this month because they were possibly contaminated by an antibiotic illegal in the United States.
In a statement posted on both the Hartz and U.S. Food and Drug Administration websites, Hartz said that the company found "trace amounts of unapproved antibiotic residue" in the treats. "Even though two-thirds of the treats we tested did not contain antibiotic residues," said the statement, "we would rather be overly cautious by voluntarily withdrawing these products from the market."
"Upon learning about the nationwide voluntary withdrawal of several other brands of chicken jerky products through media reports, Hartz acted immediately to begin additional testing to determine if the same unapproved antibiotic residues were present in our products," said Sean McNear, senior director of regulatory affairs and quality assurance at Hartz Mountain.


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The community page provides regularly updated information such as requests for volunteers; status reports on levees, road closings and river levels; evacuation announcements; and educational resources.
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Istanbul Modern presents unforgettable photographs from Magnum Photos
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The latest exhibition at Istanbul Modern's Photography Gallery, "Magnum – Contact Sheets" explores the creation processes of photographs from Magnum Photos, one of the world's most prestigious photography agencies. It is the second exhibition of Magnum Photos at Istanbul Modern; "Turkey by Magnum", was hosted by Istanbul Modern February 17 and May 20, 2007, brought together Magnum Photos photographs on Turkey for the very first time.
Sponsored by BASF Turk as part of their 150th anniversary celebrations, the exhibition includes 133 works by 58 artists. Organized in cooperation with Magnum Photos, Forte di Bard and Thames & Hudson, "Magnum – Contact Sheets" focuses on the analogue age of photography with works comprising the visual history of more than eighty years.
On view through August 2, 2015, the new exhibition demonstrates the great influence of these works on visual culture from the past century through to our contemporary age through the contact sheets of legendary photographs. Co-curated by Lorenza Bravetta and Gabriele Accornero, "Magnum – Contact Sheets" brings together select works by world-renowned photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliot Erwitt, Eve Arnold, Josef Koudelka, René Burri.
The exhibition gives visitors remarkable access and insight into the decision-making processes of many of Magnum's famous members through the inclusion of first-person accounts. The texts accompanying the contact sheets, gleaned from the book "Magnum – Contact Sheets", published by Thames & Hudson, tell the stories behind the artists' work.
With the development of digital technologies and their huge impact on photographic production, this exploration of photography's analogue age sets out to both investigate and celebrate a technique that is becoming increasingly historical; to provide an "epitaph", in the words of Martin Parr. In the exhibition, contact sheets and photographs are accompanied by close-up details, articles, books and magazine spreads.
Oya Eczacıbaşı, Chair of the Board of Istanbul Modern, explained that the exhibition "Magnum – Contact Sheets" encompassed visuals documenting cultural, political and social history from across the world by Magnum photographers from the 1930s to the present-day. "Those Magnum members whose works are displayed in the exhibition convey the stories of their photographic processes, how they reach the 'decisive moment' after films are developed, and how they carefully select the final images from several contact sheets. By seeing the contact sheets, which are in a sense the 'logbooks' of the photographer, the viewer witnesses how these unforgettable photographs created the visual history of an 80-year epoch."
Oya Eczacıbaşı added that the exhibition served as an homage to the analogue age, a method of photography now lost to the development of digital technology, and provided an opportunity to see the unique photographs taken by those who experienced serendipity during photographic processes: "who were at the right place at the right time" and who captured the zeitgeist.


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That summer, Shannon and her family brought 500 pounds of these donated school supplies to a rural village in Tanzania, and transformed a dilapidated classroom into a fully functioning library. From that initial project, SHARE in Africa was born.
SHARE in Africa is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit which empowers thousands of African girls through education. SHARE has built school libraries and established after-school reading programs to help girls become literate; collected donations of 33,000 books, thousands of school supplies, and dozens of laptop computers and e-readers; installed electricity and solar power in three schools; constructed a dining hall that can seat 1,000 students; and has spread awareness about the educational gender-bias in African cultures to thousands of Americans.
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We are meeting for lunch at Darios, a vegetarian Italian restaurant (in deference to the fact that I am a vegetarian) tucked away in one of the bylanes of the upmarket Poes Garden area where the chief minister and Rajinikanth live. I ask him about the growing competition. All segments in this business have been pioneered by us. Everyone follows. We are the leaders. For instance, it was his idea to start EliteMatrimony.com for the rich. If the wealthy want to meet other wealthy prospects, they have to cough up R1 lakh to register! The rich also need help, he says. He now has AssistedMatrimony.com for those at the bottom of the pyramid.
Murugavel was the first member of his family to go to the college. He grew up in a blue-collared tenement in north Chennai. He was a bright student. Today, he is able to laugh about his struggles when he was put in an English medium school for his Plus 2 classes. We order garlic bread with parsley and sun dried tomato, to be followed by mushroom soup.
His maternal uncle, the only educated member in the family, asked him to study chemistry in college so that he could get a job easily. As it happened, he got admission into BSc Statistics. He had not even heard about statistics. He put in hours of hard work, conquered the subject, and also started taking part in inter-college competitions. A degree in statistics made him eligible for MCA (Master of Computer Applications). Till then, I had never touched a computer. I applied for a seat in Madras University. I was one of the 15 students who were selected. If I had got into the chemistry course, I may have been working in some laboratory on a monthly salary of R10,000.
It is time to order the main course. We ask for penne arrabiata and stromboli pizza, and decide to share. Murugavel tells me that when he was doing his Masters, he realised that he had excellent programming skills. He gained confidence and found himself a job in Singapore in 1994. It was the first flight I had taken in my life. He moved to the US in 1997 as a consultant working for a multinational company.
By this time, internet was emerging as a major force. In his free time, he set up a portal for the Tamil community living in the US. This was a free website. I started working at home after office hours, leveraging the strong cultural bonds that united the Tamils living abroad. I offered the daily calendar on my website to Indians used to tearing the days sheet on their calendar. I offered them what they were used to back home, reminding them of Indian festivals, auspicious days, daily fortune and so on. Till then, all websites for Tamils were meant only for registering their views. Mine was the first website that was useful for them.
Some of his friends were beginning to look for brides in India. I made it possible for them to register personal details on the internet for prospective brides. The first marriage as a result of my service took place within three months. Technology had dramatically cut short the normal lead-time of months, even years, for Indian marriages. I established a portal called TamilMatrimony.com, without realising this was going to be the turning point in my life.
Murugavel started noticing how many hits his matrimonial service started getting. That triggered the idea of a matrimonial portal based on a revenue model. The dotcom bust gave him the opportunity to return to India. I lost my job and so the decision became easy. He launched TamilMatrimony.com from a small apartment in Chennai with three employees in 1999. He realised that most Indian families no longer wanted to operate with limited choices. TamilMatrimony became inclusive of all languages, communities and became BharatMatrimony.com.
In the beginning, it was a one-man show. Once I introduced a membership fee, I started earning up to R2 lakh per month. I opened offices in the US and Chennai for starters. It was the first step in my progress. That decision of mine opened many doors. Murugavel tied up with all the major portals such as Sify, Rediff and MSN, which gave him a lot of visibility at minimum cost. We were able to monetise the additional traffic. Then he branched out all over India and the portal started servicing all communities and languages. He introduced offline concepts like door-to-door collections, and big marriage melas in large spaces.
He was among the first to get PE funding from Yahoo. He then diversified into IndiaProperty.com and ClickJob.com. Mistakes were made. In 2006, we raised around R40 crore. but in a year blew it all up because we didnt have the understanding of how to use it efficiently. So we were left with hardly any money and were trying to raise the second round. Finally, I had to pledge my house to borrow some money. It was a very challenging time. When we finally managed to get the next line of funding, the 2008 meltdown happened, and we started losing money again. We couldnt raise a third round. We had a rough time for four or five months and, at the end of it, emerged stronger. Murugavel has shut down the jobs portal. He has a separate CEO for IndiaProperty.com. His focus is totally on matrimonial services. There is an IPO in the offing, maybe next year. According to PE circles, the company is being valued at very high figures.
BharatMatrimony.com became profitable by 2009. In the last three years, Murugavel has launched several marriage-related businesses such as Tambulya offline shops which offer return gifts, a directory of matrimonial services, wedding expos and so on. He has mobile apps for Android and ISO which have had more than 5 lakh downloads.
Marriage is a very big market in India. Over 10 million people are getting married every year, which means close to 40-50 million people are actively looking to get married at any given time. The company hasnt even catered to 10% of this market, hence the potential to grow is huge. Murugavel fully plans to exploit this potential. We have scored on various parameters like scale, size, revenue, business model and success. We will build a better Bharat through happy marriages!


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