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Bleech - Not Like You
Bleech are a three piece grunge band from London, comprising of sisters Jen O'Neill (vocals/guitar/piano) and Katherine O'Neill and Matt Bick (drums). I've blogged about them before so rather than repeat myself, I'll just let you know that hot of the heels of their first album 'Nude', the band are working on their second album 'Humble Sky'. What we have right here is the first single 'Not Like You' which they have put up as a free download. Get your copy below, it's only one click away.
Just a quick one today, Kevin Tudge from Ronda and Laura Thompson of Will Dance for Chocolate fame teamed up back in 2010 and this song was made. They shot a video for it which you can see here and if you like what you hear, you can download the track for free by clicking below. I've seen and filmed both artists several times over the years but I've never seen them on the same stage at the same time before so for a picture I've pinched one of Andy O'Hare's snaps. It's ok, he won't mind.
Harrison Bruce - Pack of Coyotes
Harrison Bruce is a folk singer/songwriter from Worcestershire who I heard on the BBC Gloucester Introducing show and immediately thought 'Wow, I need to book this guy for the radio show!' A quick google led me to his facebook page, which in turn sent me to his bandcamp page which resulted in me writing this blog. I'll be able to say much more about him once he's been into the studio and we've recorded a session with him, but in the meantime we'll both have to make do with his biog:
'Inspired by the finger-picking folk musicians of this time and that Harrison Bruce takes his influences and incorporates them into his own music. Giving you that bluesy folk that is hard to find in this day and age. Harrison was born in the Midlands and grew up listening to Cash, Dylan and many more classic artists that shaped his sound.'
Ruby Rae - Deena Met the Devil (demo)
Ruby Rae started as the side project of NYC based pop-punk band The Ex-Debutantes in 2010. Her debut release title 'Double Feature' could easily be mistaken for a night at the local drive-in when rock'n'roll still flirted with its honky-tonk roots. The songs 'It Came from the Swamp' and 'Invisible Man' showcase rockabilly inflected instrumentation paired with sinister stories of monsters, love, and guns. This is a demo track from what will hopefully be the first album, there's a Pledge page here, why not have a gander.
Benji Tranter is a singer/songwriter from Hereford who lives in London. Here we have his lovely take on the Mystery Jets song 'Hand Me Down', you can hear the original by clicking here.
NOTE: This download is a .wav file which is 32MB so you'll want to run it through an mp3 converter if you want to keep it. I wish musicans on SoundCloud would realise that people don't want wavs.
Benji Tranter - Crayons E.P.
Benji Tranter is a singer/songwriter from Hereford who lives in London and who akes some lovely music. He's recently played a bunch of festivals, started recording his first album and has released his first music video 'Wolf-Cub' which you can see by clicking here. Up for grabs today is the 'Crayons E.P.' from 2009
Little Boots - We Love mix
I love Little Boots and so should you. As much as I want a new album to follow on from the brilliant 'Hands' which had such great ElectroPop singles such as 'New in Town', 'Remedy' and 'Earthquake', Little Boots has been keeping herself busy with DJ sets and remixing tracks. Here's a mix she put together for a recent DJ set at the closing party at Space in Ibiza. It's a 52 minute slab of disco which might be a bit too much if you're indoors on your own but if you're having a bit of a gathering or a party, it's about the same length as an album so if you can't afford to get Little Boots to turn up and DJ in your living room, here's the next best thing. Pop this on your playlist and pretend she's the sound selector in the corner bopping about.
Signals. - 'You Could Call It Art'
Signals. are a band from Southampton/Isle of Wight. In their words: 'We are Signals, a female fronted indie / post math rock four-piece from the South of England. We take collective inspiration from artists such as Bon Iver, Thrice, Local Natives, Manchester Orchestra, As Tall As Lions, and Tubelord, amongst others. From this, we have created an eclectic mix of intricate melodies and ambient guitarscapes, held together with energetic rhythm sections - all entwined with subtle and soaring three-part harmony.' Why not have a little listen and see what you make of it.
They have a 5 track EP called 'Square Wheels' for sale for £4 on their BandCamp page.
NOTE: The download is an .aif file which you're not going to have much luck playing. Don't despair though, just run it through an mp3 converter and you'll have a nice 1 minute mp3, for a few clicks.
Joanna Gruesome - Sugarcrush
The brilliantly named 'Joanna Gruesome' are a Cardiff-based, male/female vocal-led five-piece indie rock group who say they sound like all of your favourite 80s and 90s indie bands rolled into one. Dinosaur Jr, Lush, The Pastels, My Bloody Valentine, Superchunk, Mega City 4...have a listen and see what you think. They've put an EP online for free download (or pay what you like) Signed to Radio One endorsed Art Is Hard label and having played Indietracks, theirs is a name you can expect to hear popping up online and in conversation. For a better idea of what you can expect from them live, you can check out their video for 'Madison' by clicking here and if you're hungry for more, then click here.
...and Upstairs, Nurses are a math-rock band from Birmingham. Photo by Albert Testani. More to follow after the gig tonight.
Making your music folder better, one song at a time.
_Pretty much everyday I seem to find some amazing exclusive tracks that
some awesome artists are giving away for free as a special one off
promotion. Today, it occured to me that instead of just downloading
them, maybe reposting them on facebook if they're special enough/someone I know and
then moving on, I should start a little music blog on here. Even if it
doesn't last forever, it's still a free song for you each day that it
does! I'd say the character of this blog is mostly electropop and singer/songwriter but I've got plans for mathcore, post-rock and glitch-hop. A lot of these tracks have a download limit of 100 so get in there on the quick. I'd also point out that a lot of the songs will need renaming once you've downloaded them so I'd do them one at a time.
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Agencies: Metro Transit Police Department MTPD District of Columbia
Last updated: about 2 years ago
Peter John was killed by a Metropolitan Police officer while fleeing with a BB gun in Northeast, D.C. early Monday morning, February 1, 2016.
At around 2 a.m., officials say an MPD officer was on a routine patrol in the 5300 block of Clay Terrace when he saw a man acting strangely. As the officer approached the man, police said the man attempted to run but fell and in the process a weapon was dislodged. According to police, the man did not comply with the officer's commands and as he tried to recover the weapon the officer shot one round, hitting him.
MPD recovered the weapon and later determined that it was a BB gun.
"The subject attempted to flee, but lost his footing and fell. As the suspect fell, a gun dislodged from somewhere on his clothing onto the ground," Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.

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Redwood testing the market for "expanded prime" RMBS
Redwood Trust, long known for targeting only the most pristine borrowers, is preparing its first securitization of residential mortgages with slightly wider credit parameters.
Choice mortgages, introduced in April 2016, have loan-to-value ratios about six points higher, credit scores about 30 points lower, and fewer liquid reserves than Redwood's traditional Select mortgages. To compensate for the additional risk, Choice mortgages also pay interest roughly 100 to 125 basis points higher than Select mortgages.
They are currently offered by roughly 90% of Redwood's correspondent lenders, and accounted for 20% of total volume in the second quarter, according to a transcript of an Aug. 3 conference call published by Seeking Alpha. Initially, Redwood sold these loans to whole loan investors, but in recent months it has been holding on to them in anticipation of tapping the securitization market, company executives stated during the call.
Choice mortgages account for a "significant portion" of the collateral for Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2017-CH1, a $316.5 million offering of mortgage bonds launched Wednesday, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
By most measures, Choice mortgages are still firmly in prime territory; credit scores are no lower than 660, though debt-to-income ratios no can exceed 50, and loan-to-value ratios can exceed 85%. However, some of them have features that preclude them from being considered Qualified Mortgages. That means Redwood must hold on to 5% of the economic risk of the deal in order to satisfy risk retention requirement.
Redwood is not required to retain a stake in securitizations of its Select mortgages, because it can rely on an exemption for loans that meet the criteria for qualified residential mortgages.
Kroll expects Redwood to retain at least 5% of the aggregate fair value of the issued certificates as a first-loss "eligible horizontal residual interest."
Kroll expects to assign an AAA rating to both the "super senior" tranche of notes to be issued, which benefits from 15% credit enhancement, as well as to the "senior support" tranche, which benefits from just 10% credit enhancement.
Wells Fargo Securities is the initial purchaser.
Investors have demonstrated a strong appetite this year for all kinds of residential mortgages bonds, including bonds backed by mortgages to borrowers with much weaker credit than Redwood's Choice mortgages. Of course, subprime mortgages pay higher interest rates than expanded prime mortgages, offsetting the added risk. By the same token, investors demand higher credit enhancement on subprime mortgage bonds.
Redwood is hoping that that the risk-return tradeoff for securitizing expanded is attractive, compared with selling the whole loans. "It's hard to give specifics at this point until we complete a deal, and see where spreads fall out, but we certainly think the return profile will be quite a bit better than our Select program," chief executive Marty Hughes said on the conference call.
Here's how the overall pool of loans backing 20170-CH1 stacks up to Redwood's previous deals this year, which were backed entirely by Select mortgages: The weighted average original credit score of the entire portfolio is 744, compared with an average of 770 for the six previous deals; the weighted average cumulative loan-to-value ratio is 74.8%, versus 68.2%; and the weighted average debt-to-income ratio is 36.3%, versus 32.25%.
The deal employs a structural feature, used in all Redwood RMBS issued since 2015, in which servicer will not provide advances of interest and principal on loans that are 120 days or more delinquent. To date, this feature has not been used in any transaction, but Kroll noted there is a far greater likelihood of being employed in this transaction SEMT 2017-CH1 than prior SEMT-shelf transactions that have not included expanded prime collateral.


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| 11.8°C Dublin
Eating chips during pregnancy can lead to significant health problems for newborn babies, research suggests.
Consuming a vast quantity of chips, crisps and biscuits during pregnancy can lead to babies having a lower-than-average birth weight, the study found.
Mothers-to-be who have a high intake of acrylamide -- which is found in commonly consumed foods and coffee -- are also more likely to have a baby which has a smaller head circumference.
The size of a child's head has been associated with delayed neurodevelopment, while lower birth weights have been associated with adverse health effects as children grow up.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Hannah Winks
Hannah shows us she has learned how to wink her eyes back and forth. Pretty funny girl!
Monday, February 09, 2009
Hannah Makes a Funny
Here's the conversation on the way to school today:
H: "Hey, Momma. When I get to school today I'm going to tell everybody I have my Valentine panties on!"
M: "OK, Hannah!"
H: "Yeah! It'll be like their special treat".
M: "Yes it will, Hannah. Yes it will."
(Thank you to Aunt Jillian for the Valentine panties. Who knew we'd get a laugh out of those!)
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Daddy Daughter Time
Reilly Stands Up!
Although he's not yet crawling, when propped up, he will stand all day! Will he walk before he crawls? We don't know!
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Lihir Gold
Lihir Gold Limited
operates as an international public company, headquartered in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The company is engaged in the exploration, construction and development of
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sites. The annual profit of Lihir Gold stood at $184.9 million in 2008.
Lihir Gold
was established in Papua New Guinea in 1995. During the same year, the company completed the construction of the Lihir mine and a corresponding processing facility. The merger with the gold explorer Ballarat Goldfields took place in 2007. Lihir Gold purchased the Ballarat mine for $ 350 million. This operation is expected to increase the total production of Lihir Gold to 1 million ounces of gold. In 2008, the company merged with the gold miner Equigold NL which operated the Mt Rawdon site in Queensland. At present, Lihir Gold is processing considerable quantities of gold at the Mt Rawdon and the Bonikro site in Papua New Guinea.
The company operates five mining sites in Australia, Cot d`Ivoire, and Papua New Guinea. Feasibility studies at the Ballarat mine in Victoria have demonstrated that the site has inferred resources of 1.5 million gold ounces. In Southeast Queensland, the Mt Rawdon mine produces between 0.09 and 0.1 million ounces of gold per year. Operated jointly, the Kirkalocka site in the Murchison region currently produces just 9.4 thousand ounces of gold for Lihir Gold. Northwest of Abidjan in Cot d`Ivoire, the open pit Bonikro is expected to produce about 0.12 million ounces of gold per year. The company is currently exploring various sites in Cot d`Ivoire such as the Dougbafla East Prospect and the Kokoumbo site. In Papua New Guinea, the Lihir Island open pit is the major mining operation of the company. The mine is producing 0.77 million ounces of gold per year. The expansion of the processing plant is expected to boost the production to 1 million ounces of gold by 2012.
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Diastasis Recti Assessment and Safe Core Postpartum Exercises October 05 2015, 0 Comments
Are you a fitness or birth professional that works with women?
Are you a fitness or birth professional that works with women? Did you know that even 20 years postpartum a woman's abdominal muscles may still be separated and that certain exercises can make this condition worse?
Abdominal separation ( diastasis recti) is when your linea alba, a band of connective tissue that connects you right and left side rectus muscles (six pack) splits or separates exposing inner organs. This can lead to chronic back pain, pelvic floor dysfunction and more.
This is caused by:
- Misalignment/ collapsing through the spine
- Growing uterus
- Hypo or hyper tonic abdominal wall musculature ( over or under developed abdominals)
- Superficial abdominal, core work during pregnancy
- Improper bio mechanics and breathing
- More
- Belly breathing
- Core exercises with legs at table top or out in a "V"
- Lifting head off of the floor, Pilates Roll downs
- Using heavy weights
- Any forward folding
If a woman is coming to you complaining of back pain the first thing you should do is check her abdominals for a diastasis recti- even if she is 20 years postpartum! It is important to asses from the zyphoid process to the belly button for separation and recognize that the separation can be shallow, medium or deep depending on how much of your finger can sink into the belly.
Here is Anne Rust of Baby Moon at a mamalates training Lexington.KY. learning how to assess an abdominal separation.
If you are asking "How do I know if I have an abdominal separation or if my clients have one?" You can check out this video below for a self check and for a basic exercise to help close the gap and get yourself or your clients on the road to a healthier core!
VIDEO: How to check for an abdominal separation
Look for more information on safe postpartum core exercises and an abdominal binding VIDEO in my next post!
Wendy Foster is the founder of mamalates and the master trainer for all mamalates licensing programs. An internationally certified Pilates instructor, pre/post fitness specialist, and birth recovery expert, Wendy has been teaching Pilates based restorative exercise since 1999 and practicing yoga for nearly two decades. She has a practice in Southeast Portland, OR. and offers her OB/GYN endorsed training around the country . To set up a training in your area or for any questions, contact her at email@example.com or visit mamalates.com.
7 Smart tips for your first postpartum run-When can I start running again after my baby is born? July 01 2014, 1 Comment
When can I start running postpartum? Maybe it's been a few weeks or a few months but you are now ready to attempt your first run after you've had your baby.
You were a big runner before the birth or maybe you weren't and your thinking "This is a great, quick way to get my exercise on, may help me sleep better and I can do it on my own time- PERFECT!"
Well, there are a few things to keep in mind before you go for that jog, exasperated sprint or marathon that will help you run more efficiently and recover more quickly. And, the best news of all? They all start with "S" so they will be easier for your postpartum brain to remember.
But, before we start with those, let's back up a bit.
First: Can you jump off a curb without any pelvic pain? Chiropractor Dr. Bryan of Clearwater Clinic advises to try this first. No pain? Then you are ready for action!
Secondly: Will you have 5 minutes sometime during your day to use your foam roller and lengthen your hamstrings/ stretch your hips?
If you answered yes to both then NOW you are ready for the 7 "S's"!
1) START without a baby jogger- your alignment is messed up enough as it is and baby joggers DO NOT help. Try running solo a few times before you add the jogger and added weight into the mix- especially if you are running hills.
2) STAND tall- keep your ribs lifted off your hips and your spine long- minimize the compression.
3) STABILIZE shoulders-- your shoulder girdle should be stable as you run. DO NOT recruit your neck muscles by allowing your shoulders to creep up to ears- slide 'em down!
4) STACK ribs- align your ribs on top of your pelvis and keep them there- don't lean forward or flare them!
5) SUCK in gut- well, not really but it starts w/ S. Draw your belly in and recruit those core muscles about 20% your entire run. This will keep you tall and save your back.
6) SAVE knees- use your hamstrings, inner thighs and booty as much as possible. See how little you can use your quads and give your knees a break. Try pushing a little more though the heels.
7) SHIFT weight- you are probably leaning too far forward w/ your upper body, especially if you are exhausted or your breasts are full of milk! Bring your weight back on your heels and run more upright.
At mamalates we know that all mamas have their own path to recovery- some mamas don't run and that is OK! In fact, there are so many articles about the amazing benefits of walking if that is fine for you but these same tips apply!
One other thing to remember: if you have a diastasis recti, you can wear your binder while running..This will help you maintain length and offer support. But if you are 3-4 fingers or more separated, it is recommended to wait until the gap closes up to less than 21/2 before you lace up those Brooks!
"Don't fear moving forward, fear standing still."
Wendy Foster is a mom, business owner, pre/post fitness specialist and part time runner.
Do you have Diastasis? March 14 2013, 0 Comments
Diastasis recti is separation of the rectus abdominus (your "six pack!"). This happens at the linea alba (which is a fibrous band of connective tissue down middle of abdomen between the muscles) and can affect 2/3 of postpartum women.
You may been experiencing this and not even know it!
Diastasis is when the linea alba that runs vertical from your zyphoid process to your pubic bone splits. It can split the entire length or just an inch or 2. The separation is most comonly found around the belly button.
It can happen to anyone but most usually is caused by a big growth spurt during pregnancy. It is more commonly found in small frame women (no room for the baby to go except OUT front) and women who are extremely tight or fit around the core and then become pregnant. It may also be found in women who have undergone a cesarean.
Diastasis is also found in "gym rats" (men and women) who perform hundreds of abdominal crunches improperly.
Your rectus abdominus is a crucial part of your "inner corset." It helps protect your back, plays a big role in posture and alingment and contains your inner organs. If it is compromised, your body starts to overcompensate. Your back does the work your core should be doing. Your shoulders start engaging overtime as well and you can end up with neck discomfort. Having abdominal separation can actaully make you appear to be bloated or 5 lbs heavier than you are. Your abdominals become hard to "reel in" and separation can actally become worse. Problems may not manifest until 2-3 or 10 years down the road, but get a handle on it now.
Ask your doctor or midwife to check you immeditely after baby is born.
- Lay on your back with knees bent. One hand behind head, one hand on your xyphoid proccess with fingers going perpendicular to zyphoid (across).
- Roll up with your head + shoulders and look down at your feet. Do not engage abdominals.
- Slowly, starty to walk your fingers down. Walk them all the way down to your pubic bone. If you feel a divit or a groove where your fingers sink in a bit, then you have diastasis.
- It may be wider in some spots and narrower in others.
- One to 2 finger width separation is normal immediately postpartum and, can repair on its own .Greater than that, you need extra help
Binding! Splint yourself immediately postpartum. Use a scarf or store bought girdle (like spanks) or purchase a splint. Wrap from your hips up to the top of your ribcage. If your separation is greater than a 2 finger tip width, you need manual support to bring everything back.
- Move mindfully. Keep a neutral pelvis and spine while holding and lifting. This includes baby, car seat, emptying dishwasher... DO NOT ALLOW YOUR ABS TO POOCH OUT! Exhale, and draw your belly button towards your spine as you exert yourself.
- Log roll out of bed and/or down to the floor to play with baby and children. Use your hand to prevent your abs from bulging by placing it on your belly
- Perform specific diastasis recovery exercises and incorporate your pelvic floor as you do so.
- NO CRUNCHES or CURLS. Do not do any exercise where you lift your head off the floor or have your knees up att table top. (This can worsen the diastasis.)
- Get a prescription for physical therapy if your diastasis recti is 2 1/2 finger width or greater. Demand it from your doctor.
- Please check Mamalates for diastasis repair workshop, and our mom+babe workout DVD for a safe workout if you have diastasis
Other resources for diastasis
Local doctors and pyhsical therapists:
Dr. Lara Williams- Every Woman's Health- www.everywomanshealth.org
Lisa Friedman -Moxie body PT-(503) 239-6199
Q&A with Lara Williams, MD March 14 2013, 0 Comments
Lara Williams, MD is a board-certified OB/GYN who currently practices with Everywoman's Health in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas and did her residency in OB/GYN at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During that time, she injured her hands. Through Pilates, Aston Patterning and Cranio-Sacral therapy, she was able to completely heal her injuries. She started training as a Pilates instructor through Core Dynamic Pilates and was PMA certified in 2006. She is now studying to be an instructor in both Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis exercise systems. She conducts Pilates workshops in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation and continues to use Pilates.
Every Woman's Health
"The immediate post-partum period is the culmination of fatigue, sleep deprivation, hormonal changes, muscle and nerve stretch/injury, redistribution of weight, laxiaty of the ligaments, poor nutrition (mainly from being too tired to eat), the art of breastfeeding and complete devotion to a newborn's hourly needs. During that period, finding support for all of those facets of recovery and growth can be challenging and even more difficult because of the added requirement of finding childcare. This is a critical period for a woman to regain strength and balance in both physical and emotional realms and more needs to be done in the way we offer support."
—Dr Lara Williams, on Birth Recovery
Q+A with Dr. Lara Williams
Diastasis recti is defined as a separation of the rectus abdominis muscles (the muscles in the center of the abdomen) into right and left sides. Normally they are joined the middle of the abdomen at the linea alba. During pregnancy, as the uterus continues to grow, the rectus muscles must stretch to accommodate the enlarged uterus. In some cases (a large baby, excess amniotic fluid, twins or other multiples, or just because), the muscles will separate to either side of the abdomen and leave a space between them. This can be felt on exam by your physician or midwife. Sometimes patients will notice a soft bulge in the middle of their abdomen when they try to sit up.
Yes. When the abdominal muscles don't work in concert with each other then the muscles in your back have to compensate. For example, when you go to lift something like your beautiful child and their car seat and the diaper bag and the toy bag for the other child and your purse which has everything you could possibly need for any emergency, your back muscles have to strain to compensate for your poorly functioning abdominal muscles. Since the back muscles are not made to perform the functions of the abdominal muscles, this can lead to back strain and pain.
A hernia is a defect or weakening in the fascia (the strong layer that separates the inside organs from the stomach muscles). Sometimes this defect allows an organ (such as the intestines) that was previously contained by the fascia to protrude through this layer. A medical examination and either ultrasound or CT scan is needed to distinguish between a hernia and a diastasis recti . An example of a hernia would be an umbilical hernia, where part of the small intestine pushes through a weakening or defect in the fascia in the belly button. It will feel like a soft ball and sometimes can be very painful. This is a common place to get a hernia after a pregnancy or some surgeries.
First, you need to be seen by your medical professional to make sure that this is a diastasis recti and not a ventral (central) or umbilical (around belly button) hernia. There are physical therapists and other fitness experts who specialize in diastasis recti. Surgery may be needed in advanced cases, but most diastasis recti resolve with appropriate exercises. It is important to learn what exercises are good to help resolve your diastasis since some abdominal exercises can actually make it worse.
Binding and Splinting for Birth Recovery January 30 2013, 0 Comments
Ideally, all women would leave the hospital with a binder or splint from their OB/GYN or nurse. Did you receive one?
Most cultures do wrap for support a week or so after the baby arrives—this helps support the back, prevent compression in the spine and pull the belly in—especially if you are experiencing diastasis recti (abdominal separation). It can also lift your organs up off your pelvic floor.
In fact, we used to wear corsets and even girdles up until the 1970s!
If you are an avid baby wearer, it is very important to carry and lift with proper biomechanics, and an abdominal binder can help with this as well.
The abdominal binder we sell is "industrial" strength and will help to keep the connective tissue connected while you lift and carry your new baby.
We've seen the best results when incorporating mamalates restorative abdominal exercises while wearing the abdominal binder throughout the day!
Welcome to My Birth Recovery! July 28 2012, 0 Comments
We are so happy that you have found us and that you are commited to RECLAIMING YOUR CORE!
We aim to offer the best postpartum/postnatal fitness and birth recovery products, so that you can put yourself back together and create a strong fitness foundation in your possibly unfamiliar, postnatal body. We feel this is just essential for new moms. Whether you are a boot camper or a couch potoato, if you do not have the support and tools you need postpartum, you could be setting yourself up for lifelong postural issues and chronic pain. Just lifting, wearing and caring for your new baby is a workout!
Modifications and a deeper focus on your alignment may be necessary for you before you jump back into your fitness routine.
All of our products are mom-tested and approved. We will be adding to our Mamalates and entire collection regularly—be sure to check back for new items, information and prenatal/postpartum fitness videos.
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Srinagar:Mobile internet service of all Cellular companies, including Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), was suspended on Friday as a precautionary measure in Srinagar.
The mobile internet was suspended in Srinagar following clashes and fire in central jail. Two inmates received pellet injuries in force's action on detenues who were protesting against shifting of some of them to outside the valley jails late last night.
However, the broadband of BSNL and point-to-point internet service of some private companies were functioning though people complained low speed.
Suspension of service has badly hit the students, doctors and other professionals besides journalists, who had to file their reports on fixed internet lines.
Airtel service provider informed its customers that as per government instructions, the internet services has been temporarily suspended in Srinagar today.


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A regionalisation of the BIBB-IAB qualification and occupational field projections took place for the first time in 2015 based on the data from the third wave of the QuBe project. It is therefore now also possible to examine regional differences in the projected results of demand and supply of skilled labour.
The Federal Republic of Germany was divided into six regions for this purpose, for which labour demand is calculated according to 25 sectors, 20 extended main occupational fields (an approximation of the 54 BIBB occupational fields, compatible with the 12 BIBB main occupational fields) and 5 qualification levels. The supply of labour is set against demand, differentiated according to 20 extended main occupational fields and 5 qualification levels and taking into account vocational mobility specific to the region (vocational flexibility and occupation related commuting flows).


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Special limited quantities of Gigantic print issues #1 and #2 will be onsale for $2 at the Housing Works Lit Mag Fair today, Sunday, June 20, 2010.
Other magazines onsale include: AGNI, A Public Space, Canteen, Glimmer Train, Ecotone, Electric Literature, Fence, The Literary Review, The Oxford American, MAKE, Slice, Tin House, and Zeek.
There is a new issue of Gigantic Online now up, featuring the latest installment of a graphic short story collaboration between Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro, as well as fiction by Callista Buchen, Jen Gann and Brooks Sterritt.
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Bruce Willis Is Justice In 'Death Wish' Trailer
Fathers would do anything to protect their family.
Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who is also a father to a daughter (Camila Morrone) and husband to his wife (Elisabeth Shue). When his wife is killed during a home robbery and his daughter is seriously injured, Kersey feels like many people in this situation before. Helpless and mad he wasn't there to protect his loved ones. He takes it one step further and vowed to extract revenge. Kersey turns into a vigilante killer going out and hunting for the assailants. When he meets a young boy in the hospital he tries to help his situation, and quickly the media asks is this man a hero or a villain?
The film is directed by Eli Roth and is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name starring Charles Bronson (and according to IMDB has a young Jeff Goldblum as freak #1). Willis is the perfect lead and Roth can take this idea into unknown levels of violence and justice.
'Death Wish' releases March 2, 2018.


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Tesla has sold a CHAdeMO quick charge adapter for Model S and X for a while now. When Model 3 hit the road using the same plug as the S and X, people assumed the adapter would work with the Model 3, but early tests showed that it did not.
That seems to have changed today with an update to Tesla's shop, which now states that the Tesla CHAdeMO adapter is compatible with "the North American version Model S, Model X, and Model 3." It has also been added to the "adapters" section of Model 3 accessories.
Update: not long after this post, Tesla changed the text in their shop again, and it now states that "CHAdeMO is not compatible with Model 3," contradicting the page from earlier today (which you can see via Wayback Machine).
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Exclusive: Adam Lambert on the Oscars: 'I'd like to see other examples of diversity be represented'
Adam Lambert has spoken out on the continuing Oscars diversity controversy, calling for other minority groups to be recognised.
In January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced emergency voting and membership reform, following the viral #OscarsSoWhite campaign. Prominent African-American stars including Jada Pinkett Smith, Spike Lee and Will Smith pledged to boycott the February 28 ceremony.
Now former American Idol star Lambert has stepped into the fray, saying more should be done to shine the spotlight on other sidelined ethnic and social groups.
"I know the debate sparked from the lack of black American actors in films getting recognised," said Lambert, 34, in an exclusive interview with The National.
"In addition to that, we need more diversity in general.
"The Oscar race is predominately white and male, and I'd like to see some other examples of diversities come through — there are a lot of other cultures which are underrepresented, and there's a lot of different ways in which the Oscars could be more diverse."
Lambert — who famously sang "Hollywood sold out" in 2015 hit Ghost Town — will perform at Dubai's RedFest DXB on Friday February 12.
Check our full interview and festival preview on Wednesday's Arts&Life.
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RPC bpi group in Greenock recently said goodbye to two long standing members of staff.
Laurence Morgan retired after 43 years as an IT Implementation Consultant and Dawn Kyne, an administrator, retired after 10 years at the company.
Laurence said he will miss the good friends he has made over the years and the banter! Dawn was well known for her charity fundraising, helping the company implement and raise money for the Xmas toy collection for Children In Poverty Inverclyde, the annual Macmillan coffee mornings and the Odd Sock Day for the Down Syndrome Support Group.
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Chestnuts have high quantity of water in relation to other nuts , almost 50% of it is water ! It has less calories than other nuts which makes it the perfect snack for people who follow a healthy diet or try to lose weight .
Chestnuts are an ideal source of carbs, giving the best amount of energy an organism needs . Chestnuts,also contain proteins but in a lower level . They are fiber rich and help to the reduction of cholesterol in blood .
Chestnuts have high amount of vitamin C which is essential both for the right formulation of blood vessels and bones and because it is considered as a powerful antioxidant which protects the organism from harmful free radicals .
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SOME of Ilminster's play equipment is set to be out of action this weekend as the town council looks to give it a new lease of life.
Equipment in the Wharf Lane recreation ground will be painted by a community payback team, and so will not be available for play.
Michelle Gunn, the chairman of the open spaces committee, said: "In the longer term the town council will be installing new play equipment, the first phase of which is planned to take place by this autumn.
"It is well recognised that the current equipment looks tired, so the painting has been arranged as a short-term measure to make the play area look brighter and more interesting. We are sorry for the inconvenience of the equipment not being available for the short time whilst the painting is done and it dries."
The council has previously worked with community payback to refurbish the swings at West Crescent and also on various tasks at the cemetery unearthing the kerbed grave plots, cleaning headstones and generally clearing some of the overgrown borders.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams. \r\n\r\n When Richard Chapman offers to host his younger brother's bachelor party, he expects a certain amount of debauchery. He sends his wife, Kristin, and young daughter off to his mother-in-law's for the weekend, and he opens his Westchester home to his brother's friends and their hired entertainment. What he does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, a dangerously intimate moment in his guest bedroom, and two naked women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Richard's life rapidly spirals into a nightmare. The police throw him out of his home, now a crime scene; his investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave; and his wife finds herself unable to forgive him for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers.\r\n
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"Hey, hows it going?
"Good, you?"
"Yeah good"
How many times a day do you have this interaction? It's an average, beige, mediocre exchange with another human. For just one day pick a new adjective. An easy one to start would be "really, really good" (ok, not strictly a new adjective), better would be "fantastic", or "wonderful" or "marvelous". Insert this into the above conversation.
"Hey, hows it going?"
"Fantastic, you?"
Did this small amount of effort change the interaction from a non-event into something positive. Even if it just amuses the other person, see how easy it is to bring a smile to another human. If its really this easy why are we all so miserable?
This post is a little off my normal subject matter but is dedicated to some pretty inspirational people I've spent time with over the last couple of weeks. I'm not stating outright that there's a scientifically proven direct link between being in a happy, positive mood and performing better, but I don't think there's many people on the planet that would disagree. And as John Kiely (fascinating guy posting really good research @simplysportssci) said to me on Twitter recently
"Perhaps an artefact of us wanting to understand 'life' in simple 'cause & effect' terms: But the beauty is in the complexity"
Distress and Eustress
I think one of the main benefits of a positive mindset comes from your ability to "frame" a problem. Framing just refers to how you perceive a situation in your brain. A similar event can occur to two people and depending on how they frame the situation, can lead to different outcomes. A stressful event occurs, you can view it as negative and succumb to distress, a negative stressor, or you can see it as eustress, a stressor which helps us get better or improve.
This perception is the difference between seeing something as a negative threat or a positive challenge, and it is this perception, which is entirely under your control.
Mind and Body
There is evidence emerging of things like meditation changing the architecture of your brain, so why can't positivity have a similar effect on our neuroplasticity. How long till these bran changes are backed up by evidence of changes in epigenetic expression. Maybe they have already if you believe this article and paper.
To make a massive extrapolatory leap, is the current epidemic of depression in the western world a result of too much negativity for way too long, actually leading to plastic changes in the brain structure and a further negative default position. A vicious circle to the point where you can no longer generate internal positivity. A mindset that causes physiological change leading to a different gene expression? Do we therefore have control over whether this has a positive or negative effect on our lives?
And I guess, the appropriate way to end this rather fractured blog-post would be to thank my parents, its their genetics which started me off on this road, the nature, and their upbringing which formed the person that I am, the nurture. So for those that didn't get lost in a big old google search on epigenetics:
Nature + Nurture = epigenetic expression
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Toucan Eddy is known for it's Rhythm and Roll style….rhythm & blues with a touch of rock creating an easy dance sound. They are known for their Santana & have recently added a little country rock to their playlist. They have been around the Verde Valley, Sedona, Flagstaff and Prescott since 1975 playing many rhythm & blues, rock & other covers as well as their own originals. They have a wide range in their music abilities.
As a group, they have two CD's out at present, "Mango Pie" & the recently released "Sedona Moon". Both CD's include their original songs. They are an up & coming band and will draw the crowds.
In addition to their original songs, they play covers by the likes of: the Doobie Bros., War, Van Morrison, ZZ Top, CCR, Kool & the Gang, the Commodores, Earth, Wind & Fire, Santana and many more. They are a very diverse group. They will keep the dance floor moving all night!
They do have one of the best lead guitar players in N.Arizona with Dale Caddell. Dale was born & raised in Arizona and has played guitar since 1965. He attended Northern Az. University & taught guitar at his business "Players Music" for 20 years. Dale has an extensive history of recording & gigging all over the world. Notable gigs include: Albert King, Chuck Berry, Leon Russell, Cheech & Chong, Poco, REO, Meatloaf, many country acts in the '70's and blues acts in the '90's. His influences were his father, a county singer/guitarist who gigged in the honkytonks of Phx., Az. in the '50's...as well as the likes of Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Robin Ford, Larry Carlton and of course, Albert King.
On drums, they have Joey Cruz Rivera. Joe was signed with MCA Records as the drummer for Big House. They toured all over the U.S. and Canada and were based in Nashville. In 1998, Big House was nominated by the Country Music Academy for New Country Artists of the Year. He has played with or opened for the likes of Todd Rundgen, The Tubes, Huey Lewis, The Doobie Brothers and Gerald Johnson (bass player for the Steve Miller Band). Also, played with Willie Dixon at the famous Palomino Club. Locally, he has played with Double D, the Sedona Yacht Club and most recently with Marvelous Marvin Short and his Rock & Roll Dreams. He recently produced a CD...Past to Present...of his original songs along with his Uncle Tony Martinez's originals. He is now with Toucan Eddy as drummer and lead vocals.
The band leader/lead vocals, Bert Campbell, is known for his easy style & song writing abilities. He also plays rhythm guitar. Bert created Toucan Eddy in 1975 in Flagstaff, Az. The band has played primarily in Flagstaff, Sedona, the Verde Valley & Prescott. Bert has his own CD released as the Bert Campbell CD besides the , Toucan Eddy CDs. Bert has also taught music for all these years as well as having his own recording studios utilizing some of the bigger names in the recording industry.
Dave Russell plays sax and flute and is well known in the Prescott area. One of the best sax players in Northern Arizona, Dave moved to Arizona in 1978 to complete his musical education at ASU. He spent many years as a fixture on the R & B scene in Phoenix playing most notably with Small Paul & the Drivin Wheel plus Cold Shot & the Hurricanes. Dave hooked up with Toucan Eddy after moving to the Prescott area and has been having fun ever since.
Please welcome John Sarson as our new bass player. He has played for Toucan Eddy in the past & has done an excellent job. He is also a singer. John was born & raised in Chicago and has been playing guitar & bass for more than 40 years. His band, United Stage, opened for Styx more than once. He moved to the Verde Valley in the mid 70's. He has played in several local groups (Southern Comfort, Touch, Ohms & Wild Horses). He has recently retired from full time employment to devote his time to music. He is excited to be playing with Toucan Eddy as we are excited to have him.
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By Pension and Benefits Editorial Staff
The IRS has released interim guidance and transition rules regarding the special rule requiring exempt organizations that have unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) from operating more than one unrelated business to calculate the unrelated business taxable income of each trade or business separately and without regard to the specific deduction of $1,000.
Background. Under Code Sec. 501(a), organizations described in Code Secs. 401(a) and 501(c) generally are exempt from federal income taxation. However, Code Sec. 511 imposes a tax on the UBTI of organizations, including those described in Code Secs. 401(a)and 501(c) as well as individual retirement accounts (IRAs). These entities are collectively called "exempt organizations" in the IRS guidance.
In the case of a trust that is exempt from tax under Code Sec. 501(a) and described in Code Sec. 401(a) (qualified retirement plans) or Code Sec. 501(c)(17) (supplemental unemployment compensation benefits trusts (SUBs)), Code Sec. 513(b) defines "unrelated trade or business," as any trade or business regularly carried on by such trust or by a partnership of which it is a member.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-97) added Code Sec. 512(a)(6) to prevent a deduction for one unrelated trade or business from offsetting income from another unrelated business in the same tax year, and to prevent the specific $1,000 deduction from being claimed more than once in a tax year regardless of how many unrelated businesses an exempt organization may have. When separately calculating each unrelated business' income, the UBTI of any particular trade or business cannot be less than zero.
In enacting Code Sec. 512(a)(6), Congress did not provide criteria for determining whether an exempt organization has more than one unrelated trade or business or how to identify separate unrelated trades or businesses for purposes of calculating UBTI. The IRS intends to propose regulations for determining whether an exempt organization has more than one unrelated trade or business for purposes of Code Sec. 512(a)(6) and how to identify separate trades or businesses for purposes of calculating UBTI under Code Sec. 512(a)(6)(A).
Reliance. For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, exempt organizations may rely on methods of aggregating or identifying separate trades or businesses under Code Sec. 512(a)(6) provided in this guidance until proposed regulations are published. Organizations may rely on reasonable, good-faith interpretations of Code Secs. 511 through 514 when determining whether an exempt organization has more than one unrelated business for purposes of Code Sec. 512(a)(6), including whether to separate:
- debt-financed income described in Code Secs. 512(b)(4) and 514;
- income from a controlled entity described in Code Sec. 512(b)(13); or
- insurance income earned through a controlled foreign corporation as described in Code Sec. 512(b)(17).
Reliance on the use of NAICS 6-digit codes will be considered a reasonable, good-faith interpretation until proposed regulations are published.
Aggregating income from partnership interests. Exempt organizations, other than social clubs exempt under Code Sec. 501(c)(7), may also rely on the rules provided for aggregating income from partnerships, including any unrelated debt-financed income that is earned through a partnership that meets certain requirements. An exempt organization may aggregate its unrelated business taxable income from its interest in a single partnership with multiple trades or businesses as long as the directly-held interest in the partnership meets the requirements of either a de minimis or a control test.
The de minimis test is met if the exempt organization holds directly no more than two percent of the profits interest and no more than two percent of the capital interest. The organization may rely on the information it receives on its Schedule K-1 in making this determination.
The control test is met if the organization's partnership interest is:
- not more than 20% of the capital interest, and
- the organization has control or influence over the partnership, as determined by all of the facts and circumstances.
Again, reliance on the information on its Schedule K-1 is permitted. A transition rule is provided allowing for aggregating income within each direct partnership interest acquired before August 21, 2018.
Other points of reliance. Other items of guidance on which taxpayers may rely include:
- The nondeductible amount of certain fringe benefit expenses paid or incurred by an exempt organization, as described in Code Sec. 512(a)(7), is not income from a trade or business for purposes of Code Sec. 512(a)(6). Unlike the other subsections of Code Sec. 512, Code Sec. 512(a)(7) does not treat amounts added to unrelated business taxable income as a result of that subsection as gross income derived from an unrelated trade or business.
- When calculating unrelated business taxable income, any global intangible low-taxed income is included under Code Sec. 951A(a) in the same manner as Subpart F income is included under Code Sec. 951(a)(1)(A). It is, therefore, treated as a dividend, and treated in the same manner as other dividends are treated for purposes of Code Sec. 511 under Code Secs. 512(b)(1) and (b)(4).
Other guidance. In addition to the items discussed above on which exempt organizations may rely until proposed regulations are published, guidance is also provided regarding:
- how to calculate net operating losses for purposes of Code Sec. 512(a)(6); and
- special rules for the treatment of exempt function income to organizations described in Code Sec. 512(b)(4), (13), and (17) (i.e. social clubs, voluntary employees' beneficiary associations, and supplemental unemployment compensation benefits trusts).
Comments requested. The IRS has requested comments regarding the various issues and approaches discussed in this guidance, and regarding the application of Code Sec. 512(a)(6) to exempt organizations with more than one unrelated trade or business generally. Comments should be submitted on or before December 3, 2018 to Internal Revenue Service, CC:PA:LPD:PR (Notice 2018-67), Room 5203, P.O. Box 7604, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044. Submissions may also be sent electronically to the following e-mail address: [email protected] Submissions should include "Notice 2018-67" in the subject line.
Source: IRS Notice 2018-67.
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PETER LAWWELL has been today appointed to the SPFL board for the 18/19 season.
With Hearts Ann Budge, The Rangers Stewart Robertson and Hamilton's Les Gray bowing out of their roles.
Peter will now act as one of six representatives chosen to represent the 42 member clubs at the SPFL.
No doubt EVERYBODY will be thrilled with the news!
Well, maybe not everybody.
SPFL board changes:
IN: Peter Lawwell (Celtic), Alan Burrows (Motherwell), John Nelms (Dundee).
OUT: Stewart Robertson (Rangers), Ann Budge (Hearts) and Les Gray (Hamilton).
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In this video, Doug Winnie shows how to create a while and do while loop in C#. He also introduces the modulo operator (%) that returns the remainder after attempting division. The increment operator (++) that increases a variable value by 1 is also introduced.
- [Instructor] In C#, we can create a while loop…using the while statement.…In a while loop, we need to create a condition…that needs to remain true for the loop to execute.…First let's create a value to test within our loop.…Our loop will go through each integer from zero to 99…and find all the numbers that are evenly divisible by nine.…So we'll create an integer and we'll call it my value.…We'll set that equal to zero.…First, we start with the while statement.…
Then we create our condition test…that we need to be true for the loop to continue.…Inside of this we're going to use a new mathematical operator…called the modulo operator.…Modulo takes a value and divides it by another number.…If there is a remainder, it returns that number.…For instance, if I try to divide nine by nine,…it divides evenly so the result is zero.…If we try to divide 10 by nine, the result is one,…since after you attempt to divide nine into 10 evenly…there's a remainder of one at the end.…
In this case, if a number is evenly divisible by nine,…
Programming expert Doug Winnie starts by sharing the history of C# to give you context into its purpose and beneficial uses. Then he walks through a sample of code showing how to run a program using the Visual Studio IDE. After warming up with a sample, he dives into working with values, variables, methods, and custom functions. Next, he shows how to capture values input by site users, managing different variable types, building compound conditional tests, and using loops with arrays. In the final five videos, he covers the basics of object-oriented programming including classes, objects, and permissions.
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A major step forward for the New York City skyline was taken on Tuesday morning. Elected officials joined developers to celebrate the official groundbreaking for One Vanderbilt.
Located along East 42nd Street between Vanderbilt Avenue and Madison Avenue, the SL Green-developed, Kohn Pederson Fox-designed building will reach 1,401 feet into the air. It will encompass 58 stories and 1.7 million rentable square feet, featuring column-free space. It will also come with over $220 million in mass transit improvements, part of the deal struck with the city to allow the tower to rise so high.
Mark Holliday, CEO of SL Green said the tower will "elegantly punctuate and celebrate our skyline."
Mayor Bill de Blasio noted that none of the upper floors' tenants will be allowed to move in until the mass transit improvements are in place. He said One Vanderbilt represents the "right kind of growth for the city." "That's how we will get things done," he said, referring to this and future similar projects.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney praised the development team's "love and professionalism." City Council Member Daniel Garodnick said Vanderbilt Avenue had been held back by "outdated rules," but the process used for this tower represents a "new and positive path for East Midtown."
One Vanderbilt's anchor tenant will be TD Bank, with about 200,000 square feet of office space, plus a retail space on the corner of 42nd and Madison. The building itself will be LEED V.3 Platinium have a 30,000-square-foot tenant-only amenity floor.
The public transit improvements includes modernization of the 4/5/6 station at Grand Central, to reduce overcrowding and modernize service. That will include two more trains per hour, new staircases to street level, a waiting area inside One Vanderbilt, and direct connections from One Vanderbilt to the trains, including Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road (when East Side Access is complete). There will also be a 14,000-square-foot outdoor public plaza on Vanderbilt between 42nd and 43rd streets.
The building is expected to be complete by 2020.
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A dangerous event may take place within the close future in the Milky Way. A star that is 8000 light years far from our planet is on the verge of a serious supernova explosion. this might cause a gamma-ray explosion, the first one among the galaxy.
The star has been named "God of chaos" and it may produce a dangerous energetic event. For those that don't understand what a gamma-ray burst is, it's a mixture of gas and dust, with a wind which will reach 12 million km/ph. after the big Bang, this may be the second most extreme energetic event.
The Australian team of researchers
The scientists who discovered this are from the University of Sydney, and that they used the Anglo-Australian Telescope, and also the very giant Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile, with the assistance of researchers at the University of Edinburgh, University of Sheffield and the University of new South Wales. you'll read all their findings revealed in the "Nature Astronomy" journal, the newest version. This rare star is part of a system that contains another star. The system is named Apep, after the Egyptian serpentine.
The two stars orbit each other each hundred years. However, only 1 of the stars seems to be on the brick of a gamma-ray burst. If this happens, it may destroy the ozone from Earth's atmosphere.
Scientists tell us to not panic yet, because the star doesn't seem to be aimed at our planet. However, they also added that they "can't be sure what the future has in store", thus we'd not be that far from a catastrophic event.
"The system may slow down enough thus it explodes as a normal supernova instead of a gamma-ray burst. However, in the meantime, it's providing astronomers a ringside seat into stunning and dangerous physics that we've got not seen before in our galaxy," explained professor Peter Tuthill, the leader of the research.
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This site is now read-only. You can find our new documentation site and support forum for posting questions here.
Be sure to read our welcome blog!
New patch version 3.4-46 released
This patch release fixes several issues that we felt were annoying enough to warrant an interim version release; see detailed list below.
Oh, and in case you're curious about the patch number, the *-46 numeral refers to the number of code commits made since the 3.4-0 release. Out of this, about a dozen are related to the bug fixes listed above; another dozen relate to new work that is not yet publicly available (gotta wait 'til 3.5...) and the rest are automated commits produced when merging completed work into the master codebase.
Modifications related to the new "spanning deletion" allele
In version 3.4, we introduced some functionality to handle cases where a site that is variant in one sample is covered by a deletion in another sample (see release notes for details). Some of that functionality involved using a new symbolic
<*:DEL> notation to represent this in multi-sample VCFs. Unfortunately we later realized that this was not the best way to represent this, so we have now switched to a more spec-compliant notation, which is simply
*. We've also added some refinements to correctly handle cases where alleles need to be remapped, and/or where there are multiple overlapping spanning deletions in the population (which we encountered twice in a population of ~10K samples, to give you an idea of how rarely that happens in humans). The new code is fully backward-compatible, so if you have any files that contain the
<*:DEL> notation, these will be understood correctly by GATK. Note however that they will not be converted to the new notation -- they will just be passed through unchanged.
VectorLoglessPairHMM accelerated library
Some annoying gcc compiler version issues caused many of you to be unable to utilize Intel's accelerated PairHMM library to speed up HaplotypeCaller. We've sorted those out so now everyone should be able to utilize it provided their computing platform is running reasonably recent (i.e. not Jurassic-era) software.
MNP merging in ReadBackedPhasing
There was a minor bug in the ReadBackedPhasing tool that was causing some variants to be merged into MNPs when they shouldn't be; that's now fixed.
Speed issues in DepthOfCoverage
A user reported a dramatic slowdown in the DepthOfCoverage and shortly thereafter, provided a code patch that resolved to problem. Self-fixing bug reports are our favorite kind, thank you @mnw21cam!
Enhanced variant selection/filtering
OK, technically not a bug fix, so this shouldn't be in a patch, according to my esteemed software engineer colleagues, but I couldn't wait to share it with y'all. This is something people often ask how to do and until now it was beyond painful. But hark! You can now tell SelectVariants to filter out variants where a given number or proportion of samples have filtered genotypes. See the usage example in the tool doc (toward the end of the list). Now tell me you're not happy that we included it in the patch. C'mon, I dare you.
New read filter for overly clipped reads
Again with a not-a-bug-fix thing, sorry -- there's a new read filter to get rid of reads that have too much soft-clipping going on to be honest. This is a sign that there's something seriously wrong with them, as we recently found out while analyzing a bunch of cheek swab samples that turned out to be heavily contaminated with bacterial DNA. It's always fun to see some seriously messed-up samples go by... and it's nice that now we can do something to rescue them.
Various small fry
We made some minor changes to documentation (VQSLOD, QD) and error handling (clarified error message for Contigs Out of Order error, made GVCF indexing parameters not required for gzipped output).
Hi there,
In regards to the overly clipped reads filter, did you notice an significant increase in the count of indel calls for the cheek swab samples compared to other samples done before developing this new feature?
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Chasing perfect has come in many different shapes and sizes throughout life: comparing myself to others, feeling I'm not good enough at certain things, wanting more likes/follows on social media, like I don't have enough friends, and honestly the list could go on. Over the years, chasing perfect has left me tired, unfulfilled, exhausted, frustrated, and at times not liking myself...because I couldn't meet exceptions that the world offered to me.
The world puts expectations on us. Some are good like paying taxes; nobody wants to go to prison for stealing from the government. And some are not so good; you have to look/act a certain way, money makes you happy, when you have the perfect house/job/marriage then you'll be set in life, etc.
I am really focusing on serenity this year. And as I kick off 2015, I have started reading this book and working with power sheets to strategically plan goals to make what matters in my life happen. Think dreaming, creativity, and goal setting X10 (I would highly recommend them!!). Both have got me thinking and dreaming...thinking about the goals I have for myself and how do they align with God's will for my life....dreaming about the things that fire me up and bring energy.joy.passion.to my life.
And all of this has got me thinking on how to go from "mindless living" to "purposeful living". For me, one of the ways I mindlessly go through my life is trying to be perfect or work to meet expectations that actually don't really amount to a hill of beans. When I give up on perfection, I can make room for more grace...God's grace, which is transforming. Constantly seeking after and striving for perfection never works. But living with purpose and on purpose helps me open up to God's will for my life. And that's what I want more of as I work through creating and setting goals that inspire/challenge me; more meaning and purpose...more living on purpose.
Guess what? Our apartment is a hot mess sometimes, some people don't and won't like me, I don't have a "big" blog, and our marriage is far from perfect and can be messy. But in the end that's okay.
Trying to juggle all those different things we think have to be perfect is exhausting, and eventually some will fall and hit the floor. Life doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. Life doesn't have to be perfect to be filled to the brim with meaning and purpose. There is purpose, meaning, and joy found even in the messiest of messes.
Knowing that is freeing. It gives us freedom to just be ourselves...freedom to make mistakes...and freedom to give up control and grab onto God.
Goodbye perfection! Hello purposeful living!


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The Reckoning
Hmmm… yup not charming at all.. I had much better times before
It's my 3d LD, my first time making a 3D game for Ludum Dare and my first time using Blender Game Engine. I know I AM pleased with the result – I achieved more mechanics than I imagined in 48 hours. I didn't polish the game on the other hand, and.. IDK I thought it's not much of a factor in LD judging so I left it as the last task and since I had no time left – I didn't.
Through the bugs crashes and the impossible use of BGE, I feel like I succeeded moving foreward, still it seems like I still need to work on my sh*t XD
Minimal 3D graphics seems like didn't impress much, so I must conclude that my minimalism falls short. Honestly, this is bad.. that's the worst thing a minimalistic design can have.
Or maybe my problem is not being user friendly. I mean, I made a mini game that barely explains itself, because I thought color-mechanics correlation is something one can discover itself and would be much more fun this way. Well, this fell short once again. My guess is that only one folk got to the last level.
My last guess isn't very mature but WTH I'll just leave it for you guys to discuss – do you think being "harsh" with your judging would result in deducting points? Do you think people who write nicer and less honest comments would get better results?
Well, either way, I think even if my game is sh*tty, I learned a lot and made a crazy ride just as I planned – making something with a tool I never tried, made some cool mechanics I'm honestly proud of considering the time frame given and the theme.
My entry was "Being a Video Game Monster", and I want to thank everyone who played it.
70% coolness is the most I had ever before, so in that regard – I'm reasonably happy to finally figure how to behave in this coolness system.
I hope I can participate next year as well, though chances are I'm gonna be really bussy; this honestly has nothing to do with the scoring, I knew this even before entering. I don't really care about the score as much as I care that this might have been my last LD. Hopefully, this isn't the last one. Gonna try hard to find time to making an entry once again, it'll probably suck since I'll have even less time to prepare than THIS time, but even with sh*tty score I would be able to enjoy a break from everything and living the dream of making video games while asking NO ONE's permission!
That's what's LD for me.
And, as always – Have a Happy Ludum Dare (bitter smile). =]