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Is it dangerous to take actos plus met and gluctrol ( three diabetes meds)?
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No it is not dangerous to take all three medicines together.
These drugs all help to lower your blood sugar levels in different ways.
Actos (Pioglitazone) helps muscle & fat cells and the liver absorb more blood sugar when insulin is present.
Metformin tells the liver to produce less glucose and help muscle and fat cells and the liver absorb more glucose from the bloodstream. This lowers blood sugar levels.
Glucotrol (glipizide) tell the pancreas to make more insulin.
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Organisers cited record turnout in the voting. By 5 p.m. local time, 78 per cent of voters in Donetsk region and almost 70 per cent in Luhansk region cast ballots.
Ukrainian authorities dismissed the referendum as criminal farce. "There is no referendum taking place," Sergiy Pashinskiy, the acting chief of staff for Ukraine's presidential administration, said in Kiev. "This is nothing more than an information campaign by terrorists."
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"We have waited so long for this vote," Igor Volov, resident of Luhansk, told Rossiya 24 TV channel. "We want to be independent from Ukraine and its fascists."
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Lump on eyebrow can be hard, small and painful. This post provides you with information on the causes and how you can get rid including treatment. Could it be cancer? Find out more.
Lump in eyebrow causes
Lump on eyebrows can be as a result of different condition. The lumps can also be a good sign of an underlying medical condition. Left untreated, a bumps, cyst or lump appearing on your eyebrow could lead to complication on your eyes or the face. Below are some of the possible causes of these lumps.
If you notice a lump on your eyebrow last for more than a day, you need to have it checked by a dermatologist. The following are the possible causes of lump on the eyebrow.
- Sebaceous cyst, which is typically a swelling in the skin arising in the sebaceous glands. It is a bump as filled with yellowish sebum. These bumps are painless and can heal on their own.
- Ingrown eyebrow hair, common in people with coarse and curly hair, these bumps are formed when hair strand fail to penetrate the skin or grown underneath the skin surface. Also called razor bumps, the bumps can be accompanied with the infection of the hair follicles or not.
- Skin cyst are noncancerous small bumps beneath the skin. These cyst can appear anywhere on the skin, they are however common on the face, neck, and trunk.
- Folliculitis is the inflammation of the hair follicles. These are the pores on the skin where hair strands penetrate the skin from. When infected, the hair follicles can become clogged with sebum and dead skin cells.
- Lipoma, these are benign tumor composed of body tissue. Lipoma are the most common benign form of soft tissue tumor. These bumps are soft to touch, usually movable and generally painless
- Other causes include: Neurofibroma, Keratosis pilaris, Benign Dermatofibromas, Keratacanthom, Melanoma, skin cancer and eyebrow piercing
Lump on eyebrow cancer
Lump, cyst, and bumps appearing on the face and on eyebrows can also be as a result of skin cancer. According to the National Health Service UK, skin cancer is one of the most common cancer in the world. Non-melanoma skin cancer, a common type of cancer, refers to a group of skin cancer that slowly develops in the upper layer of the skin.
A less common type of skin cancer known as melanoma can be more serious. According to available statistic, non-melanoma skin cancer affects approximately 100000 people each year in the United Kingdom alone, of this number, there are more men than women. The condition is common in the elderly than in young people.
A lump is the first sign of non-melanoma skin cancer. The lump will continue to persist after a few weeks and slowly progresses over months or sometimes years. When the lump appearing on eyebrow is cancerous, the lump will be red and firm and sometimes turn into ulcers, cancerous patches will usually be flat and scaly.
Apart from the eyebrows, non-melanoma skin cancer will most often develop on areas of the skin regularly exposed to the sun. These areas will include the face, hands, shoulders, upper chest and back. With skin cancer, the common symptom will include the following:
- A sore of spot that does not heal fast
- An ulcer appearing on the skin
- A small, slow-growing, shiny and red lump
- Itchy red patches on the skin
If you notice any of the symptoms last for more than 3 weeks, you will need to have them checked out by a dermatologist or any professional health care provider. They will run some tests and when you are diagnosed with skin cancer, different treatment options will be discussed with you.
Cancer treatment will depend not only on the type of cancer but also on the stage the cancer is at. Treatment can then include either, chemotherapy where strong chemical drugs are used to kill and suppress the cancerous cells in your eyebrows, radiation therapy when these cells are destroyed physically with high radiation ultraviolet rays or surgery. With surgery, the tumor and surrounding tissues are removed during an operation.
Surgery is the oldest type of cancer therapy and remains an effective treatment from many types of cancer today [cancer.net]. The goal for surgery will vary, however, surgery is used for the following reasons:
- To diagnose cancer,
- Find out the location of cancer
- To remove some or all of the cancerous tumor
- Find out if cancer has spread or is affecting the functions of other organs in the body
- To restore appearance on the function of the affected organ
- Finally, to relieve the side effects
- To prevent or reduce the risk of cancer spreading
- To control symptoms and extend life
Lump on eyebrow bone
Our bones are living and growing tissues made mostly of collagen. Collagen is protein that provides the soft framework. Collagen also provides the mineral calcium phosphate that adds strength and hardens the framework.
A lump on eyebrow bone can be hard and painful and will in most cases come and go. To some people, however, the bump will be small and painless. The lump in eyebrow bone can appear to anyone regardless of age and gender. A possible cause of these bumps can include the following:
An osteoma or osteomata in the plural is a new piece of bone that grows on another piece of bone. This is most common on the skull but could happen on other bones. Osteoma is a benign tumor. When the bone tumor grows on the other bone, it is known as homoplastic osteoma, when it grows on other tissues, it is called heteroplastic osteoma.
Osteoma represents the most common benign neoplasm of the nose and paranasal sinuses. The cause of osteoma is uncertain, commonly accepted theories propose embryological, traumatic or infectious causes.
Large craniofacial osteoma may cause facial pain, headache, and infection due to obstructed nasofrontal duct [Wikipedia]. It is unclear whether surgery help with the headaches and other symptoms, however, if the tumor causes pressure then removing it might help.
As mentioned, of all the types of cancer, skin cancer is the most common. Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. A malignant growth or tumor resulting from the division of abnormal cell can result on any part of the body. A lump caused by cancer can be small and painless or large and painful.
Early treatment and diagnosis can help prevent the spread and risk of cancer. Depending on the type and stage the cancer is at, treatment may involve either radiation therapy chemotherapy or surgery. All this option will be discussed to you by your doctor.
Benign tumor
A lump on eyebrows caused be cancer can either be benign or malignant. A benign tumor is a mass of cell or tumor that lacks the ability to invade neighboring tissue. With this, a benign tumor is not defined as cancerous.
On the other hand, a malignant tumor is that which invades the surrounding tissues. It is usually capable of producing metastases. Metastasis is development of the secondary malignant growths at a distance from the primary site of cancer.
Osteochondroma is the most common benign tumor of all bones. This tumor takes the form of cartilage-capped bony projections or outgrowth on the surface of the bones. The condition is characterized as a type of overgrowth that can occur in any bone where cartilage forms bone.
The condition is rare, but it does occur. The growth is not cancerous and is common in children and in adults. Since n symptoms are common, the tumor is more likely to be noticed when the child has a bump or reports pain.
The actual cause of the condition is not known, there however theories that say the tumor is maybe a result of genetic abnormalities. Clinicians and scientist are currently studying this condition its origin. In most of the reported cases, osteochondroma shows no symptoms, however, depending on the location and size of the bone growth, some of the symptoms would include the following:
- Severe pain
- Nerve compression causing weakness of muscles
- A visible bump or lump under the skin
- Deformity
- Growth disturbances
Lump below eyebrow swollen eye
With a lump on eyebrows, it is possible for the eye to swell. This can be painful and could result in difficulties in seeing. Urgent diagnosis and treatment of the underlying cause of the lump is required. The aim of the treatment will thus not only be to relieve the symptoms but also to prevent the spread of the infection to other parts of the body.
A swollen eye can more likely to be as a result of a chalazion. A chalazion according to the American Optometric Association is a slowly developing lump that forms due to blockage and swelling of an oil gland in the eyelid. It is generally not an infection.
A chalazion will often start out as a very small red, tender, swollen area of the eyelid. In a few days, it may change to a painless slow-growing lump the size of a pea. Most people confuse a chalazion with a stye, the difference is, whereas a stye is an infection of the oil gland in the eyelid, a chalazion is not. A stye produces a red, swollen, painful lump on the edge or the inside of the eyelid and usually occurs closer to the surface of the eyelid than chalazia.
Chalazion causing the swelling of the eye will have the following symptoms:
- Painless lump in the upper or lower eyelid
- Thickening of the fluid in the oil glands of the eyelid
- Tearing and mild irritation
- Blurred vision when the chalazion is large enough to press against the eyeball
- The bump may disappear within several weeks though they might often recur
Lump on forehead above eyebrow
Different conditions could lead to the development of a lump on the forehead above the eyebrow. The lump on the forehead can appear on anybody regardless of age, gender and skin complexion. The lumps are however common in old people and will vary in causes from one person to the other.
The characteristics of the lump will also vary in terms of size, shape, and color. All this will depend on the underlying cause of the lump. Some people will have small and painless bumps, others will have large and painful bumps, and for some, the bumps might be malignant whereas to others the bumps are mostly benign.
Dr. Amil Shah a plastic surgeon, says most cases of a hard lump on the forehead above the eyebrow are attributed to osteoma. Osteoma is hard, bony growth in the skull. The growth is rare and in most cases, they are not cancerous. The National Library of Medicine says the condition may be hereditary of form at birth.
The other common cause of a lump on the forehead is hard tissue injury on the forehead. This kind of injuries can also cause hard or small bumps to appear above eyebrows. A hard tissue injury refers to the injury of the bone tissue. This are kinds of injury that causes the loss of continuity in the substance of the bone. They include fractures and dislocation. Urgent medical attention is required for this kind of injuries.
Hard lump under eyebrow
A hard painless lump on either eyebrow can be painful and will in most cases come and go. When this is the cases, a painful lump appearing on your forehead is most likely to be a sebaceous cyst, a benign growth or lipoma.
A sebaceous cyst also known as an epidermoid cyst is a non-cancerous swelling under the skin. The cyst is in usually lined by packed outer skin cell. The content of the cyst are dead skin cells and sebum which is an oily secretion of the sebaceous glands. These lumps or cyst will usually become tender or enlarge under conditions such as stress, increased activity, mechanical irritation, and condition such as diabetes or other current illness.
Sebaceous cyst under eyebrows is thus often as a result of swollen hair follicles or skin trauma. These bumps are not dangerous and will often disappear on they own, surgical removal is however recommended when the cyst grow too large, become tender or interfere with everyday life.
The other possible cause of the hard bumps under eyebrow would be a lipoma. A lipoma is another benign tumor composed of adipose tissue, which is basically body fat. Of all the benign form of soft tissue tumor, a lipoma is the most common. These growths are soft to touch, usually movable and are generally painless.
No treatment is required for lipoma, However, when the growths have become painful and large, then a steroid injection or surgical removal can be prescribed. If you notice the lump under eyebrow become painful or larger, you need to consult a doctor as soon as possible.
Painful Lump in eyebrow
Pan is a common characteristic of different growth or disorder appearing not only on your eyebrow but on any part of your body. Lump on eyebrow can either be painful or not. All this will depend on what the underlying cause of the bump is.
Different characteristic of the bump such as the position the bump appears on, the size of the bump, whether or not the bump is popped and if the bump is infected or not. For the record, an infected bump is more painful than that which is not. Pain can thus be used as a sign of infection.
A painful lump in eyebrow can thus be as a result of a condition such as Acne vulgaris, Melanoma, Folliculitis, Eye infection, Skin cancer and Skin cyst. If topical creams and painkillers won't help with the pain, have a dermatologist check it out.
Small lump near an eyebrow headache
According to WebMD symptom checker, there are close to 80 possible conditions associated with a headache, lump or bulge. The symptoms checker helps provide a better understanding of the causes and treatment of these related conditions.
Headache accompanying the small lumps on eyebrow can be caused by any of the following:
- Tension headaches
- Trauma or injuries
- Aseptic meningitis
- Acute stress reaction
- Excessive caffeine use
- Caffeine withdrawal
- Migraine headache
Treatment for Lump on eyebrow
Depending on the underlying cause of the lump on eyebrow, the symptoms and treatment will vary. Not all the underlying causes of these lumps require treatment to get rid of them. The treatment for this bump will also depend on how large the lump is, whether or not the bumps is painful. Other symptoms will include itching, irritation inflammation, and swelling.
For enlarged lump in eyebrow your dermatologist might prescribe a corticosteroids injection, the topical ointment can be used for symptoms such as inflammation, swelling, irritation, and itching. For severe pain caused by the lumps, you might need to some over the counter painkillers.
Oral or topical antibiotics can be used for infected lumps on the eyebrow. Wash you face with an antiseptic solution to keep the bumps free from bacteria.
How to get rid of Lump on eyebrow
Most of the cause of lump are not serious and most will even heal on their own without treatment. For some of the symptoms like irritation, itching, swelling and inflammation natural home remedies can be used to relieve them.
You can try the following natural remedies:
a) Apple cider vinegar
Of the natural remedies, apple cider vinegar has strong anti-fungal and antiseptic properties. It also has antimicrobial qualities which make it suitable for a cleansing agent. Apple cider vinegar is a good choice for an infected sebaceous cyst on eyebrow or other parts of the body.
To use apple cider as a remedy:
- Soak a cotton ball in a solution of apple cider vinegar
- Apply the solution and hold it on for some minutes
- For those with sensitive skin, make sure to dilute the vinegar
- Repeat the process twice or thrice a day
b) Warm or cold compress
To speed the healing and drainage of a sebaceous cyst, apply a moist heat gently on the lump. Heat dilates your blood vessels, this improves the transportation of nutrients to the affected site which heals the damaged skin faster.
All you need is a clean towel and a bowl of warm water. Apply a warm compress on the cyst for 10 minutes twice or thrice day.
c) Tea tree oil
When the underlying cause of the bumps is the overproduction of sebum, which leads to clogged pores that in turn give rise to cystic acne. Tea tree oil is the best remedy for this, it is a known anti-microbial agent with excellent anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial effects.
Sources and references
- Cysts, lumps and skin bumps: http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/guide/cysts-lumps-bumps#1
- Eyebrow bumps possible causes: http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/sym/eyebrow_lump.htm
- Eyebrow bumps causes: https://www.axappphealthcare.co.uk/health-information/expert-help/small-lump-above-eyebrow/
- Lump on eyebrow: http://www.healthedition.org/bumps/lump-on-eyebrow/lump-on-eyebrow-bone-above-eyebrow-causes-hard-how-to-get-and-treatments/
- Eyebrow cyst other causes: http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-the-common-causes-of-an-eyebrow-cyst.htm
- Ingrown eyebrow hair removal: http://www.treatnheal.com/hair/ingrown-hair/ingrown-eyebrow-hair-cyst-bump-infection-remove-get-rid/
- Swollen eyebrow area home remedies: http://www.homeremediesorg.com/eye/swollen-eyebrow/swollen-eyebrow-area-bone-above-pimple-piercing-treatment/
- Cancer treatment: http://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/how-cancer-treated/surgery/what-cancer-surgery
- Home remedies for lump on eyebrows: http://www.rapidhomeremedies.com/remedies-for-sebaceous-cyst.html


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YAPS! - The South Dublin Teen Reading Blog is an exciting new blog - a teen reading blognificence - created and managed by library staff who are passionate about young adult (YA)literature. If you want YA recommendations or to find titles for your teen, then YAPS! is THE blog.
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South Dublin Libraries' annual celebration of books, literatures and authors. the festival runs over a week with lots of events, author readings, workshops and the annual Readers' Day.
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TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. South Dublin County Libraries run a TEDx event once a year and show live broadcasts of other international TED events at various times throughout the year.
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For people who love libraries and everything about them and about the people who are library champions
Reading Champions
What do Bressie, the Dublin team and Eoin Colfer have in common?
They are all champions for reading!
Singers, runners, footballers, and actors are among the well known personalities to give their support to www.readingchampions.ie a new website which promotes positive role models for children's reading.
The Reading Champions website, www.readingchampions.ie, is an initiative of a group of librarians from six different local authorities
who asked famous writers, sportspeople and celebrities to say what reading means to them and to become ambassadors for children's reading.


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Biomimicry: The Artful Science That Emulates Nature
As a general concept, biomimicry is anything but new. From clothing—originally derived, one supposes, from cold humans observing warm animals—to advanced propulsion systems being developed today, we have long taken advantage of nature's 3.85 billion years of research and development on Earth.
Only fairly recently, however, has biomimicry become a recognized scientific discipline with its own certification system. In fact, in the entire world, there are currently only 14 certified biomimicry professionals, with certification coming from the Biomimicry Institute. One of those is Lisa L. Schmidtke, an associate with Clark Nexsen Architecture and Engineering in Norfolk. Schmidtke will be joining Clark Nexsen Vice President Ray Pentecost, FAIA, to lead a workshop in Richmond the afternoon of November 2, 2011, just prior to Architecture Exchange East, to explain the potential of biomimicry to the profession of architecture.
"It is a science and it's cool because it's interdisciplinary," Schmidke explains. In fact, of her initial certification cohort of 16 (two did not complete the two-year master's curriculum) there were four each of businesspeople, designers, biologists, and engineers. In turn, the curriculum consisted of a half a year each on design, engineering, biology, and business.
But what exactly is biomimicry?
"I have found that it makes sense to explain biomimicry in terms of examples," Schmidke says. And she offers two classic architectural examples. The Eastgate Centre tower in Harare, Zimbabwe, designed by Mick Pearce, is modeled after termite mounds ubiquitous to the plains of that part of Africa. Wing shaped in section, with the edges oriented north to south, the mounds are riddled with airways the termites open and close in sync with the sun and prevailing winds. Thus, the termites keep their microbial food source thriving at a constant 87 degrees F day and night.
The Eastgate Centre likewise stays consistently comfortable with a passive heat-transfer system, engineered by Ove Arup, that takes advantage of the city's wide day/night temperature variations. The building uses 10 percent of the energy of an equivalent yet conventionally condit ioned building, according to a Prince Claus Fund evaluation.
Another well-known example is Norman Foster's 30 St. Mary Axe, completed in 2002 in London, which circulates air the way a glass sponge circulates water. Despite firebreaks that are required every sixth floor, the building is effectively ventilated with six chimney-stack shafts. The air stacks, sandwiched between two layers of glazing, also help insulate the building's exterior. Engineered by Arup, the tower reportedly uses half the energy of a conventional equivalent tower.
"By giving the client these examples, they see that biomimicry is a real entity with real benefits and not some scary new design approach that's going to cost a lot of money," Schmidke says.
Biomimicry is a process
A lot of the design work in biomimicry is spent evaluating building performance-optimization. "We are not looking at what we want to design—say, a school—but at what we want our design to do—be a part of the instructional experience," Schmidke explains. "You can look at how nature purifies water, provides seasonal shade, ventilates, or prevents fires. And that's how you go about developing design strategies. But first you have to develop a process of evaluating connectivity. Nature doesn't design schools or trains. What nature does know, and that we can learn from,
is how to make sea kelp spin with the waves and eliminate drag. Biomimicry is applying that observation, somehow, to building performance."
Schmidke's method of teaching biomimicry to others involves exercises that develop potential design strategies based on observed natural principles. The goals span from finding free energy and managing water to benign recycling of all fabricated materials, she say. "And once you know where your problem areas are, you can look to nature to see how to handle each challenge. So the study of biomimicry just gets your brain going.
"Humans are brilliant," she continues. "Our brains make us stand apart from the 30 million other organisms on Earth. But, in turn, we designers also have to stand apart from our hubris and accept that there are other ways to increase building performance that are gentler and more efficient than what we are used to doing. I'm anxious to see where this discipline will go in the A/E world. But I think architectural design will benefit greatly. And, hopefully, the science will help us keep humans as one of those 30 million species on the Earth."


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We stayed at the Hotel Vista Lago in Brunate because we wanted somewhere different. This area certainly offers that, overlooking Como it has views that stretch for miles.
To get to the hotel from the train station it is best to get a taxi to the funicular if you don't have your own transport as it is quite a walk with luggage (we know from experience!). I would also recommend getting anything that you may need from the supermarkets or shops before heading up to Brunate as we could not really find any grocery type shops up there.
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Shakespearean Staging, 1599-1642.
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the lower corner of the front panel. The dj has some wear and rubbing along the edges with some scuffing and light soiling to the covers. 163 pages with illustrations, 3 appendices (1. major scholarship since 1940, 2. plays first printed 1600-1659 which are not included, 3. dramatic texts first printed 1600-1659 which are not plays), endnotes, and indices. "This unique survey of pre-Restoration staging techniques examines all the extent plays first performed by English professional actors during the years 1599-1642, from the autumn when Shakespeare's company first acted at the Globe until the closing of the theaters by order of Parliament." (from dj flap). (Item ID: 12659)


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Inverse problems in cardiovascular modelling have become increasingly important to assess each patient individually. These problems entail estimation of patient-specific model parameters from uncertain measurements acquired in the clinic. In recent years, the method of data assimilation, especially the unscented Kalman filter, has gained popularity to address computational efficiency and uncertainty consideration in such problems. This work highlights and presents solutions to several challenges of this method pertinent to models of cardiovascular haemodynamics. These include methods to (i) avoid ill-conditioning of the covariance matrix, (ii) handle a variety of measurement types, (iii) include a variety of prior knowledge in the method, and (iv) incorporate measurements acquired at different heart rates, a common situation in the clinic where the patient state differs according to the clinical situation. Results are presented for two patient-specific cases of congenital heart disease. To illustrate and validate data assimilation with measurements at different heart rates, the results are presented on a synthetic dataset and on a patient-specific case with heart valve regurgitation. It is shown that the new method significantly improves the agreement between model predictions and measurements. The developed methods can be readily applied to other pathophysiologies and extended to dynamical systems which exhibit different responses under different sets of known parameters or different sets of inputs (such as forcing/excitation frequencies).
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In this paper, we present a two-level statistical model for characterizing the stochastic and specific nature of trees. At the low level, we define plantons, which are a group of similar organs, to depict tree organ details statistically. At the high level, a set of transitions between plantons is provided to describe the stochastic distribution of organs.
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E-payment protocol allows two or more users to securely exchange e-cash and digital product among them over an open network. There are some problems in the E-payment applications of cross-domain and cross-organization scenarios because of certificate-based authentication and digital signature, like inconsistent public key certificates and a heavy certificate management burden. ID-based cryptography is adopted to solve those problems, but it suffers the key escrow issue. Certificateless cryptography has been introduced to mitigate those limitations. A certificateless signature and authenticated key exchange scheme (CL-SAKE for short) is proposed, and its security is proved in the extended random oracle model. As an application, an E-payment protocol based on the new CL-SAKE is then proposed, which achieves unforgeability and un-reusability of e-cash, customer anonymity and fair exchange.
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There is a general consensus about the success of Internet architecture in academia and industry. However, with the development of diversified application, the existing Internet architecture is facing more and more challenges in scalability, security, mobility and performance. A novel evolvable Internet architecture framework is proposed in this paper to meet the continuous changing application requirements. The basic idea of evolvability is relaxing the constraints that limit the development of the architecture while adhering to the core design principles of the Internet. Three important design constraints used to ensure the construction of the evolvable architecture, including the evolvability constraint, the economic adaptability constraint and the manageability constraint, are comprehensively described. We consider that the evolvable architecture can be developed from the network layer under these design constraints. What's more, we believe that the address system is the foundation of the Internet. Therefore, we propose a general address platform which provides a more open and efficient network environment for the research and development of the evolvable architecture.
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The conventional content-based image copy detection methods concentrate on finding either global or local features to handle the copy detection task. Unfortunately, the global features are not robust to the cropping attack, while the local features cannot substantially capture context information and thus are not discriminative enough. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel image copy detection method, which combines both the global and the local features. Firstly, SIFT (scale invariant feature transform) features are extracted and then initially matched between images. Secondly, the SIFT matches are verified by the proposed convex region-based global context (CRGC) features, which describe the global context information around the SIFT features, to effectively remove the false matches. Finally, the number of the surviving SIFT matches is used to determinate whether a test image from image databases is a copy of a given query image. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method in terms of both robustness and discriminability.
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The prevalence of creativity in the emergent online media language calls for more effective computational approach to semantic change. Two divergent metaphysical understandings are found with the task: juxtaposition-view of change and succession-view of change. This paper argues that the succession-view better reflects the essence of semantic change and proposes a successive framework for automatic semantic change detection. The framework analyzes the semantic change at both the word level and the individual-sense level inside a word by transforming the task into change pattern detection over time series data. At the word level, the framework models the word's semantic change with S-shaped model and successfully correlates change patterns with classical semantic change categories such as broadening, narrowing, new word coining, metaphorical change, and metonymic change. At the sense level, the framework measures the conventionality of individual senses and distinguishes categories of temporary word usage, basic sense, novel sense and disappearing sense, again with S-shaped model. Experiments at both levels yield increased precision rate as compared with the baseline, supporting the succession-view of semantic change.
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We investigate a large class of NP optimization problems which we call MNP. We show that Rmax(2) [PR] are in our class and some problems which are not likely in Rmax(2) are in our class. We also define a new kind of reductions, WL-reductions, to preserve approximability and unapproximability, so it is more general version of L-reductions[PY] and A-reductions [PR]. Then we show some complete problems of this class under WL-reductions and prove that the maxclique problem is one of them. So all complete problems in this class are as difficult to approximate as the max-clique problem.
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At present, the suburb retirement products with environmental resource superiority are gradually popular because of the heavy urban pollution. The paper analyzes the types of environmental resources and distinctive design methods. Combined with white sand source program in Kunming, the paper practices design methods of green elderly community and elderly apartment based on environmental resource.
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Maximizing the network lifetime is always a main challenge ahead of wireless sensor network (WSN). Clustering and routing has been proved to be energy-efficient strategies for extending the network lifetime. In this paper, we put forward an energy-consumption model for sensors in WSNs and calculate network energy consumption in a short period for any given network configuration, including sensor state scheduling, clustering, and routing information. Then we address an energy-aware optimal planning problem with area coverage and connectivity constraints, seeking for the best sensor scheduling scheme to extend the network lifetime. We formulate it as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) model, and add some extra constraints to reduce the scale of the model. We use Gurobi to compute this model and compare the basic model, scale-reduced model, with a previous work OPT-ALL-RCC [6]. The simulation results prove that the reduction is necessary and our model have better performance than the previous model.
Wang, Jianing; Gu, Jingjun; Yan, Yonghua
This paper briefly introduces the status of RV reducer in industrial robots. It also shows the necessity of profile modification of cycloid-pin wheel and its influence on the stiffness of RV reducer. At the same time, the method for determining the number of meshing tooth is given. Based on the initial gap distribution, the size of the initial gaps produced by four kinds of combined profile modification methods is compared. As a result, the best profile modification method with the highest meshing stiffness can be determined, which has a great significance on mass production of RV reducer.
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Nowadays, more and more applications need to jointly align a set of facial images from one specific person, which forms the so-called joint face alignment problem. To address this problem, in this paper, starting from an initial face alignment results, we propose to enhance the alignments by a fundamentally novel idea: rescuing the bad alignments with their well-aligned neighbors. In our method, a discriminative alignment evaluator is well designed to assess the initial face alignments and separate the well-aligned images from the badly-aligned ones. To correct the bad ones, a robust regularized re-fitting algorithm is proposed by exploiting the appearance consistency between the badly-aligned image and its k well-aligned nearest neighbors. Experiments conducted on faces in the wild demonstrate that our method greatly improves the initial face alignment results of an off-the-shelf facial landmark locator. In addition, the effectiveness of our method is validated through comparing with other state-of-the-art methods in joint face alignment under complex conditions.
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Funny how she'd never worried when he was just the Secret-Keeper and 6th year Sergeant for Gryffindor, even though the former was, really, a more crucial task to all of their survival than the Commander's own. Maybe it was seeing him like this – soft lit by the furtive glow of clandestine wands in an unused classroom with tousled hair, a ragged Star Wars tshirt and Superman pajama bottoms – but he looked no older than thirteen. Her baby brother's age, even if Colin was as fair as Daniel was dark.
She had come here with the speech prepared on her lips that with the older ones gone, they had an obligation to the rest of them to let it go, to not lose more, but now the words stuck her tongue dry to the roof of her mouth. There was nothing in those intense blue eyes that brooked retreat, nor would there be any hope of the same to be found in the stocky, immovable fortress of a girl that stood stalwart next to him in stealthless yellow.
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On Tuesday 31st January, the smell of pizza was in the air and Woolworths ready-made meal containers were in the bins. It could only mean one thing: a late-night rehearsal.Tuesday's rehearsal was a bit of a shambles with the fifty-five-minute show taking an agonising three hours for one run through. All the committees knew they were going to have to put 110% effort into the second and final rehearsal, even if it meant sacrificing study time for that all-important test.
And that's what everyone did! With lots of hard work and a little less sleep, the societies were able to have two fantastic run-throughs on Wednesday night and Societies Launch 2017 was ready to blow the Grade 8s away.Once Thursday came around, everyone was a little more tired and a whole lot more nervous. The time had arrived for everyone to show off their societies onstage or on-screen in order to showcase the vastness and diversity of Culture and Service at Westerford.
With the buzzing of the audience in the Hall, everyone started to get butterflies in their stomachs. Media team pressed play and the Exco's video played. Societies Launch had started with a bang!From talking trees to love stories over pizza, Societies Launch 2017 had it all, ending with an incredible performance from the talented Rock Band. Through the tears of laughter and deafening applause, Societies Launch 2017 was a highly entertaining and informative experience for the entire School, but most importantly, the Grade 8s were able to learn about Westerford and why it truly is the School that never sleeps.
Thank you to Sound, Media and Lightingfor all their incredible work and to all the performers for making a truly phenomenal Societies Launch.
By Sarah Woolard, Grade 11


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August 18th, 2008, 03:54 PM #1Facebook ClonesI was surprised to see Russia's vKontakte - that has always been an almost exact replica of Facebook - in Alexa's Global Top 500 Sites , and not only the "top 500", but only two positions lower than Amazon itself:
It appears that vKontakte.ru is not the only Facebok clone. Germany has its StudiVZ (sold in 2007 for 100 million; more here), China has its Xiaonei... I'm sure there are others.
When I logged into my Facebook account from Russia after half a year in the States, it asked me if I want to switch to Russian. Aha! So I go to "Account" > "Language", and I see that it supports 19 languages other than English now! Nice. I've played with it a bit (it is very well localized indeed), and switched back to English for now. Per Facebook "63 languages are currently open for translation by the Facebook community". So members are helping localize it.
Does this mean that we will be hearing more about lawsuits against the "clones" in the nearest future. Forbes wrote on this a month ago.
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January 22nd, 2009, 05:43 PM #2
i don't think there will be much anyone can do if the clones sites stay out of the US market - just to expensive, hard to enforce , and not much of a risk to the US based sites. With that said - clone sites are bad, ugly and a playground for unethical marketing practices!
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I think you would run into problems when you borrow the look and feel like the one in China did -
"Xiaonei closely mimics Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook's blue and white design, and the site's founder, Wang Xing, told Forbes.com in June that he "borrowed" Facebook's design when he created the site in 2005."
But if you have your own look and feel, which you should have anyway, you can still have many of the same features and it wouldn't be a problem. Taking a look at that one in China - http://www.xiaonei.com/ and compare it to Facebook, chinese langauge site - http://zh-tw.facebook.com/ very similar.
May 19th, 2009, 08:16 AM #4Originally Posted by Geno Prussakov
Interesting that Одноклассники.ru is way down near 50 -- seems like the two should be closer in the ratings considering everyone I know in Russia uses both.


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With the main performance of Hristos Hatzipanagiotis (see cast), this film directed by Lakis Papastathis was premiered in cinema or TV in 2010. The movie "Taxidi sti Mytilini" comes from Greece. You can watch Taxidi sti Mytilini online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Greek at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2010.
Rating: 5 by 65 users./
Runtime: 100 minutes
Hristos Hatzipanagiotis, Maria Zorba, Dimitris Katalifos, Loukia Michalopoulou, Nikolas Papagiannis, Theodoros Katsadramis, Christos Stergioglou, Ivonni Maltezou, Myrto Parashi, Thanos Grammenos, Nelly Karra, Fokion Spyroglou and Babis Alatzas.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Lakis Papastathis.
The original audio of Taxidi sti Mytilini has dialogues in or Greek, it was produced in Greece.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2010.
Screenplay written by Lakis Papastathis.
Giorgos Argyroiliopoulos.
Lakis Papastathis and Nikos Nikolettos.
This film was produced and / or financed by Nova, Protasis Productions, Greek Film Center and Hellenic Radio & Television (ERT).
Composed by Giorgios Papadakis.
Feelgood Entertainment.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Taxidi sti Mytilini has a duration of 100 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or Greek in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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The major element of new business will be a quick review of the changes to our Bylaws occasioned by, or mandated in, the new Societies Act of British Columbia which will come into effect at the end of November, 2017. These additions, deletions and re-wordings are detailed at the following link.
Elections - there will be vacancies on the Board of Directors as seven current members have reached the end of their terms. Nominations are open and will be accepted from the floor during the meeting. If available nominations so indicate more than 7 individuals could be elected. The officers of the Society (all except "Past President") are appointed by a vote of the Directors at their first meeting after the clpse of this AGM.
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Will the FDA Approve Genetic Engineering to Kill Mosquitos?
October 10, 2014
Each of the 48 contiguous states saw cases of West Nile virus last year, with 119 deaths out of 2,469 reported cases. So far in 2014, 1,177 West Nile cases have been reported.
As Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution and attorney John Cohrssen explain, mosquitos carry a number of different diseases, not only West Nile virus, but yellow fever, dengue fever and the chikungunya virus. These viruses are deadly, and they cause sufferers severe pain and suffering. Chikungunya is especially concerning, as it has spread like wildfire throughout the Caribbean and has found its way into almost every U.S. state so far this year.
These often deadly bugs are made all the more concerning by their ability to breed rapidly, explain Miller and Cohrssen. There are no vaccines or drugs to treat the illnesses caused by mosquito bites, and treating the bugs with toxic pesticides can be extremely costly. While many insect populations have been reduced through the "sterile insect technique," or SIT, mosquitos lack the right properties for SIT to be successful.
There is, however, another way to combat the spread of these fatal viruses: genetic engineering. In fact, a company in the United Kingdom, Oxitec, has already created an approach to control mosquito populations. According to Miller and Cohrssen, only female mosquitos bite, so controlling the mosquito population requires a focus on the male, not female, mosquitos. To that end, Oxitec scientists created a genetic mutation that leads male mosquitos to require certain nutrients in order to live. When those mosquitos mate, they lose those nutrients and die. Meanwhile, their offspring inherit the genetic mutation. As they breed, they pass the genes along, and the population drops precipitously.
What's the problem? Securing FDA approval. Government regulation is always expensive, especially when it comes to genetic engineering. Accoridng to Miller and Cohrssen, despite molecular genetic engineering being "far more precise and predictable" than older techniques, the government is stringent in its regulation of the new techniques. The FDA requires genetically engineered animals to meet the same standards it requires for new veterinary drugs, which means years of review. For example:
- When one company applied to market a protein that would increase dairy cows' milk production, the FDA took nine years before it issued approval.
- Almost two decades ago, the FDA received an application for salmon that would mature far more quickly than others. Only two years ago did it recommend the technique go forward. Since then, the Obama administration has blocked the agency from issuing approval.
Miller and Cohrssen encourage the agency to consider the fatal nature of many of these mosquito-borne illnesses and engage in "enlightened, responsible regulation" when it considers these new methods of insect control.
Source: John J. Cohrssen and Henry I. Miller, "How Many Regulators Does It Take to Kill A Mosquito?" Forbes.com, October 8, 2014.
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Do you know someone who has double standards and demands they are treated a certain way, yet they do the complete opposite. It can be hard to win with this type of manipulative person; here are a few comebacks to let them know you are on to their nasty ways.
- Why is it acceptable for you to be an idiot but not for me to point it out.
- Oh, you're mad at me for doing that, but if you did it that would be OK…
- The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is also a hypocrite.
- Oh, how double standard of you.
- So what you're saying is you don't like me treating you the way you treat me. How interesting.
- Don't get mad when I pull a you on you.
- If you state your opinion it's free speech, but if I state mine it's hate and intolerance. Right…
- No, of course, I don't think you are a total hypocrite for preaching about the same shit you are guilty of doing…
- If I treated you the way you treat me you would hate me.
- I'm sorry, double standards don't work for me.
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Mind the Gap: Best Practices in Clinical Pharmacology Gap Analysis
Do you get anxious about taking tests? Many people do because they want to show their best efforts. Submitting your New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA can be thought of as the ultimate test of a drug program. Are you confident that you'll have robust answers to the 40 different questions that the agency […]Read More


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A Real Christmas Tree, Or An Artificial Christmas Tree - Which Is Best?
It's a question that many people ask themselves as the festive season starts to approach. To green-minded consumers in particular, it is an important topic. I asked myself this very same question last year, when, after years spent decorating our faithful, plastic, artificial tree that spends fifty weeks of the year imprisoned in the attic, I suddenly fell for the idea of a real tree. Just for once.
I don't know why, really. Perhaps it just seemed that, to real tree buyers, the very act of going out to choose the tree and bringing it home was a ritual in itself - sort of like the beginning of Christmas. Plenty of other people seemed to do it - there was a man no more than a quarter of a mile up the road selling them on the street. And perhaps it was because a real tree seemed more to be a part of nature, with its outdoorsy scent and its non-plasticy branches. Somehow it just seemed more traditional.
However, for me the whole issue of buying a 'real' Christmas tree was frought with issues. I consider myself to be someone who likes to support the environment as much as I can, so making the choice to buy a real tree or to dig out the old one from the attic was a big deal. There are advantages and disadvantages to both, and perhaps no clear cut answer. The best I could do was to research the pros and cons as far as possible, and then reach a decision.
So What Are The Pros and Cons?
Artificial Trees
Well, obviously one of the main advantages to opting for an artificial Christmas tree is the cost. Artificial trees come in all shapes and sizes, and there is a tree suited to any budget. There are many different colors - green; white; silver; even black. Some are even pre-lit, saving you the bother of fussing around with strings of lights. The main point, though, is that once you have chosen your tree there will be no further costs to incur - you just store it away and use it year after year.
No Trees Are Felled
As the tree isn't real, nothing is chopped down just for the sake of a short, annual celebration called Christmas. Surely that is a good thing, as trees are best left with their roots in the ground, right? However, the reality isn't as clear cut as that, for reasons that shall be explored further down.
The Environmental Costs of Artificial Christmas Trees
While it is true that once you have purchased an artificial Christmas tree you can keep it for years without using any further resources, there are indeed environmental costs incurred in the actual production of the Christmas tree. Artificial Christmas trees are typically made in countries likes China, which means that they, like most other products we buy, have to travel an awful long way before they end up in a store near you. And, as we know, transporting products around the world uses energy,
What Are Artificial Christmas Trees Made of Anyway?
Artificial Christmas trees are usually made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). PVC is actually one of the most hazardous plastics to produce - it is the most environmentally damaging of all plastics. Dangerous chemicals have to be transported for use in its production, and during manufacture huge amounts of dioxins are released into the air, even ending up in water. In the food chain, fish have been found to contain high amounts of dioxins, which ultimately end up on our plates for consumption. The worrying thing is, dioxins are cause for concern because they have been found to have cancer-causing potential.
How Long Is The True Life Span Of An Artificial Tree?
Well, theoretically you could use your artificial Christmas tree every year for as long as you celebrate Christmas. However, how many consumers really do this? The truth is that most people do not keep the same artificial tree forever, choosing to change it for a new one when they tire of it, or when new designs emerge which they prefer. After all, we are living in a throwaway society. When we see something we like, we get it, discarding the old one with little regard. A consumer might have several trees throughout a lifetime, resulting in more environmental damage.
And, as I have detailed further down, under the heading 'Recyclable and Biodegradable', PVC in landfill takes hundreds of years to degrade.
Real Trees
Locally Sourced
Most real Christmas trees are locally sourced, usually on Christmas tree farms. There are not planted for any other reason, so if the demand for Christmas trees wasn't there, the tree would not have existed in the first place. The planting of trees also helps to absorb CO2 in the atmosphere, and a pine tree will grow for about 7 years before it is large enough to be sold as a Christmas tree. And because the trees are local, little energy is required for their transportation. In fact, the overall energy consumption of a real Christmas tree is only around 1/5 of that of its artificial counterpart. Real Christmas trees are also generally sustainable: you should be able to verify this at the time of purchase.
Recyclable and Biodegradable
A real tree is biodegradable, whereas an artificial tree will sit for hundreds of years in landfill. What's more, nowadays most recycled Christmas trees are used to make other products, such as mulch for gardens. There is literally nothing left, whereas PVC is a material that is notoriously difficult to break down, creating more left-over waste to go along with all the other millions of items we discard each year.
Potted Trees
So are there any downsides to purchasing a real Christmas tree? Well, there are always two sides to a debate, and very few of our decisions as consumers have no environmental consequences at all. Decorating a real Christmas tree is a very old tradition, but now that the population has risen so much over the years, we require more pine trees for our festive season than ever before. Thousands upon thousands of acres are used by farmers to grow Christmas trees each year. We would certainly have a lot more trees if we just left them all alone. However, it seems doubtful that land owned by a farmer would end up being turned into a forest. And Christmas trees can be grown in poor quality soil, where crops cannot grow.
Buy A Tree With The Roots Attached
To cut the environmental costs of purchasing a real tree still further, you could purchase a potted tree with the roots still intact. This means that, rather than discard the tree after use, you could keep it and watch it grow over the years, using it time and time again. Beware, however - sometimes the roots are only partially intact, which means that it is unlikely the tree will survive long term. Also, to grow a pine tree you are going to need quite a bit of space. Another factor to consider is that trees do not particularly like being brought indoors with all the warm central heating, so your experiment will not necessarily succeed - in fact it is fairly difficult to keep a festive pine tree alive; you would have to keep it very well watered. Also, try not to place your tree too close to a radiator or other source of heat, as this will make the pines drop more quickly.
Chemical Pesticides
Unfortunately, most pines destined to become Christmas trees are sprayed heavily with a cocktail of pesticides to protect them during growth. Therefore, the tree that eventually arrives in your living room will likely contain the residue of the chemicals used. Pesticide use is another environmental concern. In the United Kingdom, it is now possible to buy Christmas trees that have been certified by the Soil Association, which provides you with the confidence that minimal pesticide use has been implemented. Elveden Christmas Trees were the first in the UK to achieve Soil Association recognition. In the USA, 22 states currently have providers of organic or environmentally friendly, low-spray trees.
Of course, one way to avoid the use of chemical pesticides altogether would be to grow your own Christmas tree. Obviously, it would take several years, so would be a long term plan, and you should plant quite a lot of trees, as many will not survive. Growing your own tree and using it time and time again is the most environmentally-friendly method of all. It might be a rather hit-or-miss experiment, but it will be fun trying, especially now that gardening and allotmenteering are now considered 'cool'.
Don't The Needles Drop?
Perhaps against the popular belief of those who opt for artificial trees, the needles on 'real' Christmas trees can drop far less than you think. The key is to purchasing the right type of tree - a popular type in Europe is the Noordman Fir, which is well known for its low needle droppage. Yes, there will be some droppage, but you will probably find that it is a lot less than imagined. On top of that, with a real tree you get the added pleasure of the natural smell of the tree. Some trees are scented, some are not - however, even the outdoorsy smell of a non-scented tree somehow adds to the magic of Christmas.
The debate between real Christmas trees and artificial look-a-likes shows that there are both pros and cons associated with both choices. However, most environmental organisations seem to be encouraging consumers to opt for real trees, over artificial. Because they are locally grown, and do not require the heavily detrimental manufacture of materials like PVC, the environmental costs certainly seem to be less. Well, I know I was very happy with my first 'real' tree last year - choosing our tree was a family activity in itself, and this year we will be doing the same again.
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It must have been about 20 years ago I traveled the washboard road East of Lone Pine, South to the Devil's Pond, to enjoy a hot spring in Death Valley frequented by dead heads between tours on the West Coast. It was there I met Jack who could have been a character in a Tom Robbins seriocomedy as his pick up had an upright piano he played from the back of his truck inspiring musical outbursts. It so happened when I needed a ride home Jack was heading that way.
Jack was a John Galt type of guy. He was brilliant as the world was dull. Tuning pianos also meant disposing pianos he actually appreciated each as an art within itself. Former piano player's emotions continued to resonate on strings and hammers as Jack heard them all to infinity when he tuned them as some strings never recover from the emotions they experienced.
It was a musical experience of it's own riding with Jack as the piano would play to the bumps in the washboard road. He didn't have a radio in his truck which was interesting as I have never tuned in to radio. I'm allergic to white noise and so was Jack who had some very interesting ideas about megahertz and how radio was programming people with sound waves driving them insane. I had never thought about it. I liked the sound of nature. I have a communion with nature as it's sounds are important information to me which radio interferes in not so nice a way.
Jack asked if I would like to go to where there is no white noise making a turn onto another washboard road driving about 40 miles to what might as well be the most pristine place on Earth as Jack explained the only thing pristine about life was death, like the piano, which he climbed into the back of his truck and played.


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Stock Graphic >> Illustration - Vintage Christmas design 309644 by Artspace @ CreativeMarket
File Size: 44.93 MB; Tileable: Yes; Requirements: Adobe CS1+; DPI: 300 DPI; Vector: Yes.
This is a collection of hand drawn vector Christmas elements in vintage style. This kit includes 17 different elements and 4 seamless patterns.
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Tonmoy said his vehicle was 3 weeks late because several parts were ordered incorrectly. He was not kept adequately informed during the repair process. They only kept him informed 80 perfect of the time, the rest of the time he had to call them himself to get updates. His online updates stopped coming in on October 7th. The business told him that he had egg damage on the top of his vehicle, but he cannot remember there being any egg damage on it. Michael told him the damage did not happen while the vehicle was at this business, but he has no way to prove it. He went to his insurance company and they told him to ask them business to go through all of their surveillance cameras. In the end he was told that there was a side panel missing from his dash and he told them he would not retrieve his vehicle without the part. The person who was supposed to give him the side panel was not informed.
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