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Achilles Tendon Pain Symptoms, Causes & Common Questions
Understand achilles tendon pain symptoms, including 6 causes & common questions.
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6 Possible Achilles Tendon Pain Causes
The list below shows results from the use of our quiz by Buoy users who experienced achilles tendon pain. This list does not constitute medical advice and may not accurately represent what you have.
Achilles tendonitis
The Achilles tendon connects the back of the heel to the muscles of the calves. Achilles tendonitis can be an acute or chronic condition. The term tendonitis implies inflammatory cells in the region of the tendon. While this may be true in acute cases of tendon overuse or tendon ...
Achilles tendon rupture
The Achilles tendon connects the calf muscles to the heel bone. Together, they help push the heel off the ground and let a person go up on their toes. If the Achilles tendon stretches too far, it can tear or rupture.
Rarity: Rare
Top Symptoms: achilles tendon pain, constant foot pain, sports injury, recent ankle injury, swollen achilles
Symptoms that always occur with achilles tendon rupture: achilles tendon pain
Urgency: Hospital emergency room
Posterior tibialis tendinopathy
The posterior tibialis tendon attaches the calf muscle to the bones on the underside of the foot. It provides stability and arch support. If this tendon is damaged, the result may be a flat, unstable foot.
Posterior tibialis tendinopathy is most often a sports injury, where the tendon becomes inflamed or torn through overuse or high impact.
Symptoms include pain down the ankle and into the foot, sometimes with swelling. The pain becomes worse with any activity, even standing or walking. When standing, the patient's arch will be collapsed and flat and the front of the foot will point outward. The patient will be unable to stand on the injured foot and raise the heel.
Diagnosis is made through patient history, physical examination, and imaging such as x-ray, CT scan, or MRI.
Treatment involves rest, over-the-counter pain relievers, orthotics (shoe pads,) braces, and sometimes steroid injections into the damaged tendon. Surgery can be tried, but tends to be complex and cannot always restore the tendon completely.
Rarity: Ultra rare
Top Symptoms: swollen foot, pain in one foot, limping, pain in one ankle, spontaneous ankle pain
Symptoms that never occur with posterior tibialis tendinopathy: recent cutting accident
Urgency: Primary care doctor
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Ankle arthritis
Arthritis simply means inflammation of the joints. Because the feet and ankles have many small joints and carry the weight of the body, they are often the first place that arthritis appears.
Arthritis is caused by a breakdown in the protective cartilage at the end of each joint, so that the bones begin to wear against each other and the joint becomes stiff and painful. This breakdown may be due to simple wear and tear; an injury; or from rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune condition which causes the body to break down its own cartilage.
Symptoms include swelling, warmth, and redness in the joint, and pain with movement or with pressure on the joint.
Diagnosis is made through patient history, physical examination, and imaging such as x-rays, CT scan, or MRI.
There is no cure for arthritis, but treatment is important because the symptoms can be managed to prevent further damage, ease pain, and improve quality of life. Treatment involves physical therapy, pain-relieving medications, and sometimes surgery to help repair damaged joints.
Rarity: Uncommon
Top Symptoms: swollen ankle, swollen foot, joint stiffness, pain in one ankle, ankle stiffness
Urgency: Self-treatment
Non-specific ankle pain
Ankle pain not caused by injury or surgery that is a variation of normal.
Rarity: Common
Top Symptoms: pain in one ankle
Symptoms that always occur with non-specific ankle pain: pain in one ankle
Symptoms that never occur with non-specific ankle pain: ankle pain from an injury, severe ankle pain
Urgency: Self-treatment
Rheumatoid arthritis
Arthritis is a general term for multiple conditions that cause painful inflammation and stiffness throughout the body. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic condition that is autoimmune in nature, meaning that the body's immune system which normally protects the body by att...
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Questions Your Doctor May Ask About Achilles Tendon Pain
To diagnose this condition, your doctor would likely ask the following questions:
- How would you explain your ankle pain?
- Did you just suffer from a high impact injury (e.g., a fall, collision, accident or sports trauma)?
- Any fever today or during the last week?
- Do you have multiple joints that are stiff?
If you've answered yes to one or more of these questions
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Achilles Tendon Pain Symptom Checker Statistics
People who have experienced achilles tendon pain have also experienced:
- 18% Ankle Pain
- 4% Swollen Ankle
- 3% Knee Pain
People who have experienced achilles tendon pain were most often matched with:
- 54% Achilles Tendon Rupture
- 27% Posterior Tibialis Tendinopathy
- 18% Achilles Tendonitis
People who have experienced achilles tendon pain had symptoms persist for:
- 33% Over a month
- 26% Less than a week
- 21% Less than a day
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Smartphones and social media were made for one another. Most people use their smartphones as a "gap filler," a way to kill a few minutes of time on the subway, in line for coffee, and even — yes — in the bathroom [source: Krawczyk]. (More than a third of social media users ages 18-24 access their favorite sites in the john [source: Nielsen].)
Social media networks serve much the same purpose, providing a quick jolt of information, entertainment and social connection via popular networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. The fact that we can now access social media virtually anywhere through native smartphone apps and mobile Web has been a boon for both the gadgets and the social networks we love.
According to "Nielsen's State of the Media: The Social Media Report 2012," 46 percent of all social media users in America now use their smartphones to access social media networks. In the Asia-Pacific region, that number climbs to 59 percent.
Facebook still rules mobile social media, boasting over 78 million unique American users in 2012. Twitter, FourSquare and Google + were next in line, with U.S. audiences of 22.6 million, 10.3 million and 9.6 million respectively [source: Nielsen].
To capitalize on the trend, the British company INQ markets its Cloud Touch smartphone to confirmed Facebook addicts. The smartphone makes phone calls, technically, but its user interface is designed for quick full-screen access to Facebook friends, your Facebook news feed and Facebook chat [source: INQ].
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Author's Note: 5 Innovative Social Devices
The world still waits for the game-changing device or killer app that fully integrates our entertainment consumption and social lives. Apple has come the closest. The iPhone completely revolutionized the smartphone sector — remember when Blackberry was the "hot" gadget — and iPad made the tech world believe in the incredible potential of the tablet. And let's not forget about iTunes, which rescued music, movie and TV content from the low-quality chaos of peer-to-peer file sharing and proved that reasonable people will pay 99 cents for a song. So why hasn't Apple TV achieved similar success? The service lets you share all of your digital content across every gadget in the house and streams high-def movies and TV from iTunes or Netflix, but it's lacking an intuitive and simple connection to our favorite social networks. The WiiU seems to be the closest thing to an all-in-one gaming, entertainment and social machine, but will it catch on? Until we get that killer app, the social media-addicted couch potato in all of us will soldier on.
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Giants co-owner Ann Mara dies at 85
Ann Mara, owner of 50 percent of the New York Giants with her children, died Sunday at the age of 85.
"I am sad to say that our mother has passed away," John Mara, Ann's son and the Giants' president and chief executive officer, said via the team's website. "She has been the leader of our family in every way, and we will miss her dearly.
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"She slipped in front of her home (in Rye, N.Y.) during the ice storm two weeks ago (January 18). She had been in the hospital since the following day, initially due to a head injury she suffered in her fall. After a few days, we were hopeful for her recovery, although we knew it would be a long road back. Unfortunately, there were complications.
"She loved her family, and all of us were able to spend time with her in these final days. All 11 of her children and our spouses and numerous grandchildren were with her when she passed away."
Mara and her children assumed 50 percent ownership of the team when her husband, Wellington Mara, died in 2005.
Three of Ann's four sons work in the Giants' front office. Ann and Wellington also had seven daughters, 43 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Wellington's father, Tim Mara, founded the Giants in 1925. The Mara family owned the team solely until 1991 when Bob Tisch bought 50 percent of the team. Tisch passed away just three weeks after Wellington in 2005. His son, Steve Tisch, is the Giants' chairman and executive vice president.
"On behalf of my mother and sister and brother, I want to express our sympathy to John and the Mara family," Steve Tisch said. "Ann Mara has been the wonderful matriarch of our franchise. Like her husband Wellington, Ann was passionate about her faith, her family and her football team. Her energy and enthusiasm for her franchise were unmatched. We will miss her and are deeply saddened for the Mara family's loss."


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Victoria Beckham and her footballer legend husband, Romeo Beckham stars in the London-based luxury brand's holiday season film.
Burberry has once again teamed up with "Brand Beckham" for its Christmas campaign. Inspired by musical cinema, the four-minute short features some slick choreography and is soundtracked by "The Way That I Live" by Burberry favorite Ed Harcourt. Beckham takes a starring role (in a classic Burberry trench), playing Cupid for lovers in the snow.
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"It's difficult for the Beckhams because they want to give their teenage son privacy, but they don't want him growing up too fast. And while they joke that Brooklyn's dating an 'older woman' she's still, after all, only 17."
The source added that 15-year-old Brooklyn's famous mom and dad are supportive of the blossoming romance.
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David Beckham has added a line of boardshorts, swimshorts and trunks to his successful underwear collection for the high-street chain.
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H&M unveiled two 10ft silver statues of the star in his undies on Regent Street to promote their David Beckham Bodywear collection.
Back in March, he had to dispel rumours that he uses a body double for his underwear shots.
"I can say the crotch is mine and the backside is mine as well," he told France's Le Grand Journal (via E!). "I heard this the other day. Someone said that I had a stand-in for my bum, but no, I can confirm that's my bum."
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The Beckhams are reported to be preparing a £40 million bid for the former mansion of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace.
The mansion on Ocean Drive where Gianni Versace was shot dead in 1997The Italian fashion designer was shot on the doorstep of his Miami home in 1997, and David and Victoria Beckham are said to be ready to make a bid on the villa in Ocean Drive.
According to reports in the Daily Mirror newspaper, the couple are among the big names set for an auction on September 17 where the 10-bedroom home will be up for sale.
Opulent: the pool area at the South Beach mansion. Versace spent $33 million renovating the house, which features a 54-foot mosaic pool lined with goldThe property has been used as an exclusive hotel for many years, and its owners failed to sell it for £82 million last year.
The report coincides with speculation that Beckham is planning to start his own US-based soccer team.
Extravagant: one of the many foyers in the South Beach mansionA spokesman for Major League Soccer commented: "It would be great to have David involved with us."
An insider recently added: "The Beckhams' people have enquired about the mansion, but it's all very hush-hush.
"It's an incredibly beautiful family home and oozes Gianni Versace's style ideas. Posh would be in heaven. She's positively drooling at the prospect of living there.
The Mosaic Suite, the room where Madonna is believed to have stayed while visiting, at the Versace mansion"It'll be very much a second home for them because they intend to be based in the UK from now on. But if all goes well with David's football venture they'll spend a lot of time in Miami and want a spectacular house right by the water."
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In a scene that appears to mimic Daniel Craig's infamous swimming trunk scene in Casino Royale, Beckham, 37, emerges from a pool dripping in water as he sprints across a garden. Beckham, who pledged to donate all of his earnings from his five-month contract with his new football team to a children's charity
In the closing shot he coolly readjusts his pants after a bus load of tourists stop to take his picture.
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Spice Girls performed live with their hit song "Say You'll Be There." Victoria Beckham is happily married to David Beckham. The Beckhams recently welcomed their 4th 'schild.
Mel B. also had a baby, this is Brown's 3rd child.
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There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights of the poor and the working class, have signed on to this movement because they fear becoming irrelevant. Union leaders, who pull down salaries five times that of the rank and file as they bargain away rights and benefits, know the foundations are shaking. So do Democratic politicians from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi. So do the array of "liberal" groups and institutions, including the press, that have worked to funnel discontented voters back into the swamp of electoral politics and mocked those who called for profound structural reform.
Resistance, real resistance, to the corporate state was displayed when a couple of thousand protesters, clutching mops and brooms, early Friday morning forced the owners of Zuccotti Park and the New York City police to back down from a proposed attempt to expel them in order to "clean" the premises. These protesters in that one glorious moment did what the traditional "liberal" establishment has steadily refused to do–fight back. And it was deeply moving to watch the corporate rats scamper back to their holes on Wall Street. It lent a whole new meaning to the phrase "too big to fail."
Tinkering with the corporate state will not work. We will either be plunged into neo-feudalism and environmental catastrophe or we will wrest power from corporate hands. This radical message, one that demands a reversal of the corporate coup, is one the power elite, including the liberal class, is desperately trying to thwart. But the liberal class has no credibility left. It collaborated with corporate lobbyists to neglect the rights of tens of millions of Americans, as well as the innocents in our imperial wars. The best that liberals can do is sheepishly pretend this is what they wanted all along. Groups such as MoveOn and organized labor will find themselves without a constituency unless they at least pay lip service to the protests. The Teamsters' arrival Friday morning to help defend the park signaled an infusion of this new radicalism into moribund unions rather than a co-opting of the protest movement by the traditional liberal establishment. The union bosses, in short, had no choice.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, like all radical movements, has obliterated the narrow political parameters. It proposes something new. It will not make concessions with corrupt systems of corporate power. It holds fast to moral imperatives regardless of the cost. It confronts authority out of a sense of responsibility. It is not interested in formal positions of power. It is not seeking office. It is not trying to get people to vote. It has no resources. It can't carry suitcases of money to congressional offices or run millions of dollars of advertisements. All it can do is ask us to use our bodies and voices, often at personal risk, to fight back. It has no other way of defying the corporate state. This rebellion creates a real community instead of a managed or virtual one. It affirms our dignity. It permits us to become free and independent human beings.
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A Salina man was arrested after trying to buy pizza and cigarettes with a counterfeit $100 bill.
Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 39-year-old Deandre Finch was taken into custody early Saturday morning after he allegedly tried to use a fake $100 at Casey's General Store, 215 W. Crawford.
Police say Finch attempted to buy pizza, 2 liters of soda and a pack of cigarettes around 3:30am Saturday.
When confronted by the clerk, Finch said he found the bill and did not know it was a counterfeit. He then grabbed it, threw it in the trash and walked out.
He was found in the 600 block of S. 9th a short time later.
Captain Forrester says the back of the bill is marked with Chinese characters in pink ink. The front of the bill has dash lines on the top, right corner.
Finch is now facing charges that could include theft by deception and making false information.


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- 1 tbs coconut oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 0.3 cup spanish olives, pitted, finely chopped
- 0.3ÃÂ cup grilled eggplant slices, finely chopped
- 0.3 cup sun-dried tomatoes, finely chopped
- 100g baby spinach
- 600g mince meat
- 0.5 cup almond meal
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp thyme, finely chopped
- 1 tsp marjoram, finely chopped
- 0.5 tsp cumin, ground
- 0.5 tsp paprika
- Heat a saucepan on medium heat and cook the onion and garlic in coconut oil for 3-4 minutes, stirring regularly, until the onions are soft and lightly golden. Remove the onion and garlic from the pan and place into a mixing bowl along with the olives, eggplant and sun-dried tomatoes.
- Return the saucepan to the heat and add the spinach, stir until the spinach begins to wilt then add to the mixing bowl and combine with the other ingredients.
- In a separate mixing bowl, combine the mince meat, almond meal, egg, thyme, marjoram, cumin and paprika and combine well.
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MLB DFS Write-Up: ALDS Game 4 - October 8
James Grande breaks down what we should look for in tonight's Divisional Round Game from a DFS perspective.
Houston Astros @ Tampa Bay Rays
Tropicana Field
Series: HOU 2-1
Welp, the Rays fought hard to win Game 3 only to have to face Justin Verlander in Game 4 and if they win that? Gerrit Cole awaits in Game 5. The Rays were a strong home team this year at 48-33 and as we saw in Game 3 they can hit bombs. Verlander has given up a LOT of homers this year; 36 to be exact. So don't completely count them out.
The Rays are going with the trend that they really started last year and the rest of the league adopted -- the opener. Diego Castillo will start the game and the Rays will deploy whomever they need after that. Only two pitchers -- one being their starter -- threw more than an inning on Monday, so his bullpen is fresh in this one. Castillo had a strong campaign with Tampa Bay this year pitching to a 3.24 ERA, but it's likely we see him max out at two innings before turning the ball over to the rest of the staff.
We already mentioned Darth Maul Verlander is ready to close this one out and throw a game much like he did in Game 1. If you had to guess which month(s) Justin Verlander had his best ERA in throughout his career could you? Yeah, you got it. September and October. The former Cy Young is lights out in primetime. It is interesting to note that he is pitching on three days rest, so that does help Tampa Bay out a bit.
The Rays have played four postseason games thus far and twice they've hit four homers in a game. We mentioned it up at the top that Verlander has given up some power this year, so it wouldn't shock me to see one of these juiced baseball's leave the yard. Right-handed hitters belted 19 while lefties hit 17. The Rays lineup has a lot of pop against righties, as five-of-nine batters notched a .330 wOBA or better against RHP this year and seven of nine hit double-digit homers off of them.
If we want particular players, Austin Meadows and Brandon Lowe are the two most likely to do serious damage. Ji-Man Choi , however, in the three hole is very cheap on both FanDuel and DraftKings and hit 17 HR while posting a .362 wOBA vs. RHP this year. Willy Adames is hitting over .500 through the first four games of this postseason as well, so you can use him as another value option in your showdown lineups.
On the Houston side, there really isn't any fading of Jose Altuve . He's the seventh most expensive hitter on DraftKings showdown slate and yet has homered in two of three games and we know his ability to reach first and steal a bag is extremely high. Yordan Alvarez and Alex Bregman have both hit in all three games, with Bregman homering and swiping a bag while Alvarez has notched two multi-hit contests. There is a reason as to why Houston is favored and they won the most games in baseball this year. They can flash elite pitching and hitting at the same time.
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Bournemouth Air Festival – Latest News from The Queens Hotel
Gordon the Lion the new mascot for The Queens Hotel will be busy looking after guests during the Bournemouth Air Festival. Do please try and find time to come along and meet him, shake his hand or have a hug! He is a very friendly lion, he will be assisting with Kids Club to keep our younger guests busy when families are holidaying in Bournemouth during the summer holidays at the family friendly Queens Hotel.


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- About us
- Principal's letter
- Our classes
- Our teachers
- Our curriculum
- Rules and Policies
- Summer 2020
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- Tuition and Payment
- Math placement test
- Outreach activities
- School Newspaper
- Testimonials
- Jobs
The pages below describe the curriculum of our classes. Please note that this is subject to change: a teacher can modify the syllabus, depending on the level of the students in the class and other factors.
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I have a new blog.
And there's lots of cool new stuff!
I will be leaving this blog up because there are some features I cannot duplicate on the new one and vice versa.
I will be posting here each time there is a new entry on the new site to make sure to cover all the bases. Every post here is already copied to the new blog but I couldn't copy the comments...but that's OK.
Check it out when you get a chance....
BARIATRIC GIRL BLOG (the link is http://www.bariatricgirl.com/)
Many blessings in love and light, Y


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Hi everyone,
Many band families would like the choice of donating to the band program instead of selling items. You're in luck! We have such a program! It is called Bucks for Band and there incentives for parents who donate (just like prizes for the kids who sell cookie dough). We've had this program for a few years now and has served well as an option for many families.
Attached are files that explain our program (these files are also in your band handbook). If you decide that this program is for you, many ask how much they should donate. This is completely up to you and what is best for your family. In the files your will see donation levels that will help with your decision.
Also, a recent question has prompted me to share more info with you about our profit margin. If every child sold ten items from the catalogue (at 40% profit margin), the average profit per student is around $68 dollars. If you notice in the Bucks for Band donor levels, there is level that starts at $75. Perhaps this would work for you?
If you decide to help our students by donating, your would write a check to "Discovery Middle School" and in the memo section write "Bucks for Band donation". It's that easy!
Please contact our band parent leading this project, Mrs. Tara Aznavorian, at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions and to sign up!
If you participate in this donation program, it would be great to receive the check the same day as cookie dough money on November 14.
Thank you SO much for your time and consideration of this program and whether it is through Bucks for Band or Otis Spunkmeyer, I hope you will consider helping our band students.
With immense appreciation,
Mr. Marc Whitlock
Band Director, Discovery Middle School


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Cut and ready to stitch. Stonehendge "Meadows"
October 03, 2013
Miniature Menagerie
Moving on from Easy Street ----I'm frantically working on finishing the machine embroideries "Miniature Menagerie" from Urban Threads, the Natures Curiosity quilt for quilt retreat. I have six more insects to stitch out on a lovely new fabric I found at our local fabric shop. The fabric is a soft tone on tone beige by Victoria Hutto for Quilting Treasures.
1 comment:
- Purple Pam said...
Your stitcheries are beautiful. I am sure you will have a great time at retreat sewing them all together. Have fun.
- October 12, 2013 at 6:52 PM
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A couple of weeks ago Aaron and I recorded an interview for a new local radio station out of Placitas, New Mexico. It aired last Thursday and I now have the link to share it with you all here! It's about a 30 minute show with an interview and 5 of our songs played in between. Please give it a listen and let us know what you think. Thank you!
FYI, I'm a singer in a alternative folk group with my husband, Aaron Lewis. We play original songs, written mainly by Aaron. If you would like to hear more of our music and know more about Sunlight, check out our website at www.nmsunlight.com


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FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — A Tanglewood pool-goer didn't notice until taking a closer look that the design on her wristband wasn't the American flag, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. It was the Confederate battle flag.
Forsyth County parks and recreation officials said that on Monday they disposed of wristbands with a Confederate battle flag design after looking at a complaint from Sage Magnes, a former Forsyth County resident who was visiting for the holiday.
Magness said she was "pretty mad because the Confederate flag is something I don't have in my life."
Magness complained on the county's Facebook page. She got a response from someone with the county who at first said that, in the catalog the county ordered from, the wristbands "have a generic stars and stripes pattern" before seeing Magness' photo of the wristbands. The county employee said the bands have been used for the past several years without generating any complaints.
Damon Sanders-Pratt, the deputy county manager of Forsyth, said Monday afternoon that a young staffer who ordered the wristbands mistakenly thought he was ordering a patriotic theme.
"The employee's intention was to recognize the American flag and Independence Day, but they made an uninformed selection," Sanders-Pratt said. "Again, the county made a mistake by using these wristbands, no matter what they were called, and apologizes to those who were offended."
Read more at the Winston-Salem Journal.


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Time for the start of phase two of the group stage and a part of the tournament I always find interesting. The teams have all seen each other and many know what they have to do to progress.
I would love to see South Africa win this but think this is where Uruguay will come good, knowing they really need a result here to stand any chance of qualification.
Mark predicts: 1-2
Etina predicts: 1-1
Maddoc predicts: 3-2
Audrey predicts: 5-1 (ow!)


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Does driving in Mexia get you down? Traffic congestion, school carpools, and lack of parking can stress out the most resilient driver, but the Ford Flex, an in-demand three-row SUV, has convenience features to ensure your commute is hassle-free.
Nobody enjoys getting stuck in traffic, but you can make your commute a little more bearable with Sync 3. Sync 3 works with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to give you access to all of your favorite apps while you're on the road. Jam out to your favorite tunes, ask for live traffic updates, and answer messages with the voice-controlled infotainment center.
Dick Scott Ford loves how roomy the Ford Flex is. The third row of seats folds flat to provide ample cargo space for your next family vacation, and the rear liftgate is controlled with your key fob to give you access to 43 cubic feet of storage.


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The fall is all about change and with the leaves changing colors and weather finally getting cooler, my blog now has a new look and name – The Style Foxx. Originally, I started this blog as an outlet to show my personal style and I felt that Palm Leaves & Pine Trees didn't really embody what I was/am going. So welcome to my "new" blog and read below for more details on what I wore to New York's own Oktoberfest!
It's finally fall and I've never been happier! Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love summer. I love going to the beach as frequently as possible, outdoor concerts and music festivals, wearing sandals everyday and having frozen drinks during rooftop happy hours are some of my favorite things to do – but there's something about the fall that makes me my happiest. Aside from beautiful weather, leaves changing colors and Halloween, fall fashion is what I look forward to the most. I love being able to wear cozy sweaters and boots everyday and not feel like I'm melting – summer I still love you but I don't miss you and won't miss you until January.
This past Sunday, my friends and I went to Oktoberfest in New York. Spending Sunday with friends and enjoying the weather with some delicious "Cidre" is definitely a positive way to end the weekend! Since we were outside the entire day and we're experiencing some warmer weather on the east coast, I wore a tee shirt from Urban Outfitters with a fringe Forever 21 sweater and skinny Free People cargo pants (similar.) I paired my outfit with one of my favorite pair of boots I purchased at Free People a few years ago and rose gold "Lennon" Ray Bans.
Though everything I wore in this outfit is from past seasons, I did wear something new – Glossier Generation G in "Like." When it comes to makeup, I'm pretty lazy and I'm also allergic to most makeup brands/ have eczema, so I've never tried anything creative on my face. I stumbled upon Glossier on Instagram and decided to browse their site. If you've heard of Emily Weiss and her site Into the Gloss, you'll know about Glossier (she also was Teen Vogue's super intern on The Hills!!)
Glossier is a hypoallergenic, paraben-free, cruelty-free, dermatologist tested skincare/makeup line that is basically every lazy girl's dream. Naturally, I bought two Generation G colors, "Like" and "Cake" and fell absolutely in love (especially with Like.) This lipstick keeps my lips moisturized all day and the formula is nice and creamy. If you're looking for something to wear on an everyday basis that's light and gives a bit of color, Generation G is for you.
As if I need to stress this again, Fall is my favorite so I'm looking forward to all the fun fall activities I still have planned for this season and of course writing about them!


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The oil of black seed is one of the most useful oils and you can get a lot of benefits of it.
What is actually black seed oil? This is the oil extracted from a plant named black cumin or Nigella sativa. This plant is a member of the family Ranunculaceae. It has originated in southwestern Asia, the Mediterranean and Africa. For many years people has been using this plant as spice or medicine. They also call it black cumin seed oil.
This oil eliminates some bacteria that cannot be treated with other drugs. This oil treats:
- Candida
- Tuberculosis
- Malaria
- Influenza
- Staphylococcal
- Gonorrhea
Moreover, the oil has a lot of incredible health benefits thanks to the natural chemicals:
- thymoquinone
- thymohydroquinone
- thymol
Furthermore, phytochemicals are really powerful components of this oil and they can help you treat health problems such as:
- Postural Tachycardia Syndromes
- Glaucoma
- Apathy
- Alzheimer's
- Autism
- Myasthenia gravis
- Dementia
- Neurodegenerative condition
- Parkinson's
- Schizophrenia
Black seed oil can help you or give you some benefits in treating and preventing:
- Cancer – decreases the tumor cells (especially in colon, prostate, pancreatic and lung cancer)
- Liver issues
- Diabetes (type 1 and type 2)
It also helps you to:
-Lose some weight
– prevent hair loss
– improve the look of your skin
– cure infections (such as MRSA)


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Escape From Tomorrow (Part 2)
Some Jerk With A Camera
Original Air Date
November 20, 2015
Escape From Tomorrow (Part 1)
Escape From Tomorrow (Part 3)
(We open to black with the caption:)
Announcer/Jerk (v/o): Previously, on "The Ben Stiller Show..."
(We cut to a model for a theme park.)
Announcer (v/o): It's Oliver Stone Land!
Oliver Stone/Ben Stiller: (Standing next to the model) A magical place, where the objective is not to escape, but to confront.
Announcer/Jerk (v/o): And now, back to the not Ben Stiller Show goes to Disneyplace!
(Cut back to the movie)
Jerk (v/o): So, Milquetoast McGee and his boy (Jim and Elliott White) continue stalking these Beauxbaton drop outs (Sophie and Isabelle) onto the People Hater-I mean, Mover.
Elliott White: (Notices Sophie and Isabelle) They're pretty, huh?
Jim White: Well...uh...pretty...I mean, it depends on your definition of pretty.
Elliott: Is Mommy pretty?
Jim: Your mother? Yeah, she's beautiful!
Elliott: I think so, too.
Jim: Yeah, I mean, not in a classical sense. More in an Emily Dickinson, kind of bookish, Tina Fey kind of thing.
(We then cut to a clip from "30 Rock." She's just got married to Criss Cross dressed as Princess Leia in "Star Wars: Episode IV.")
Liz Lemon (Played by Tina Fey): (to Jack Donaghy) You know, I'm attractive! I've got cheek bones and a pair you can do something with!
Jerk (v/o): Then they (Jim and Elliott) follow them (Sophie and Isabelle) onto Space Mountain, kind of.
(Sophie and Isabelle go to a green screened Space Mountain.)
Elliott: Space Mountain?
Jim: What's the matter?
Elliott/Jerk (v/o): It's not really over there, it's just a green wall.
Jim/Jerk (v/o): There is no green, silly! We exist in a bleak grey world of drab colorlessness!
(Before they go to Space Mountain, Jim's phone rings as he sees that his wife, Emily White, is calling.)
Jerk: Oh, that's his wife's name, or at least, a cruel nickname.
Jim: More in an Emily Dickinson kind of thing.
Jerk (v/o): Finally, he rendezvoused with "Emily Dickinson," she chews him out for getting their son sick on Space Mountain, they swap kids, and he and his daughter (Sara White) continue their eternal quest for a plot. Maybe they'll find one up in this tree?
(Jim and Sara climb the steps of a type of tree house.)
Jim: (To Sara) C'mon, lets go.
Jerk (v/o): Nope! Maybe there's one on this Island? (Jim and Sara go to Discovery Island and Sara plays around with a steering wheel.) Nope!
(Cut to Jerk next to a mail box.)
Jerk: Maybe there's one in this mail box? (He opens the lid and looks inside) Nope! (Cut to Jerk outside a Kmart) Maybe there's one in this Kmart? (We see Jerk's POV as he goes in the Kmart store and makes his way to some nearby laundry detergent. Cut back to him outside.) Nope! (Cut to Jerk next to a wormhole in time and space.) Maybe there's one in this portal to the future? (He sticks his head in to see a clip of an action scene from "Mad Max: Fury Road." He then sticks his head out.) Nope!
Jerk (v/o): But, the search is interrupted when some other kid pushes his daughter and she gets a heart shaped boo-boo.
Jim: Sara!
The other kid's parent/Man on Scooter: (Laughs and says in a Southern Accent) You'd say they kinda bumped into each other.
Jim: Tell your kid to watch where he's going next time! (Picks up Sara and says to her) Let's go.
(He walks off as the Man on Scooter stares in befuddlement)
Jerk (v/o): Do you have any response to that Mr. or Mrs. "Personification" of how the director (Randy Moore) views all Disney fans? (We then cut to Sara being treated by Disney Park Nurse) Apparently not! Christ, the first act of WALL-E had more dialogue. (As the Nurse gives Sara a band-aid, Jim stares at her (The nurse's) cleavage and ass) OH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE, MOVIE, HER FACE IS UP THERE! Yeah, we get it, he's middle aged and sexually frustrated, his own wife won't make out with him in public, and as we all know, men are entitled to physical affection and if ever a woman is uncomfortable with her man's advances, it means she's a cold, heartless demon from the 69th circle of Hell! Fine, now can the main character of this feature film please grow a SECOND CHARACTER TRAIT?!?! IS THAT TOO MUCH TOO ASK?!?!?
Jerk: I swear to God, the cast of "Step By Step" had more nuance!
Passerby (Played by Tim Crist/Shoebox): What's "Step By Step?"
Jerk: (Confused) I don't know.
Nurse: (To Jim) How's she doing otherwise?
Jim: Good.
Nurse: No coughing or flu like symptoms? Everyone's so worried about Cat Flu now.
Jerk: Ah, yes, the Cat Flu, that crippling disease that improves your reflexes, enhances your Internet view count, and makes everyone in the world love you for doing literally nothing. (He then licks the plush toy of Marie from The Aristocats.)
Nurse: Children are most at risk, so we have to be extra careful. You could be a host and not even know it.
Jerk (v/o): DAMN YOU, ANTI-VAXERS!
Jerk: I knew it, this whole time, Jenny McCat-thy (We then cut to a split-screen of Jerk and actress/model. Jenny McCarthy, in a sexy cat Halloween costume, her cleavage is quite visible) has been creating her own personal army of cat people! It's so diabolical, everybody already wants to be a cat, because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at! She used manipulation to…You're not even listening to me, are you? You're looking at her boobs, aren't you? It doesn't even matter what I said. I could be saying, literally, anything, you wouldn't know. Because SpongeBob, canker sore Madrid, French Toast on Jesus, big riblet, and I have sex with kangaroos. Did you hear any of that? No, of course not, because you are transfixed on …(Jerk then becomes transfixed by Jenny McCarthy's cleavage, which the screen zooms in on.)
Announcer/Jerk (v/o): This message has been brought to you by "Vaccinations!"
Jingle singers/Jerk (v/o): (Sings)
If you actually listen
to Jenny McCarthy,
you're using the wrong body part!
(Cut to black with the caption: "Vaccinate your damn Kids!!!" We then cut to a Jim sitting at a bench at the park, eating a turkey leg.)
Woman sitting next to him: That's not turkey, you know?
Jim: Hmm?
Woman: What you're eating, it's not turkey.
Jim: Well, if it's not turkey, then what is it?
Woman: You really want to know?
Jim: Well, now you have to tell me.
(Cut to a clip from "Pulp Fiction")
Mia Wallace: Now I'm definitely not gonna tell you, 'cause it's been built up too much.
Woman: Emu.
(Cut back to Jerk staring at Jenny McCarthy's cleavage. He then stops staring when he hears what the woman said.)
Jerk: Sorry, what?
Woman: Emu.
Jim: Emu? (Jerk then pushes the picture of Jenny McCarthy, so that he and a clip from "The Naked Gun," can facepalm.) Why don't they just call it that?
Woman: Oh, would you really buy it if they did?
Jerk: (Sighs) Okay, movie, let's break this theory down, shall we? Now, these alleged "turkey" legs of which you speak is actually one of Disney's more popular food items.
Jerk (v/o): And for good reason, they're delicious, they're filling, and they're relatively inexpensive, the perfect meal choice for a guest on a budget. In fact, according to the Disney parks blog, they sell over 1.6 million turkey legs a year.
Jerk: Now, every emu has…(pulls out his phone) Let's see, multiply the square root by the coefficient, add the denominator, carry the five, (puts his phone away) two legs per emu. Now, I know what you're thinking, "Yeah, there's probably a couple of one-legged emus hopping around somewhere." You know what? There's probably a couple of emus with no legs at all, just sitting there, waiting to die. But, I'm gonna be generous and round up to an even two legs per emu. Now, what this means, according to the urban legend that you've accepted as fact is that: every year, Disney is breeding and slaughtering or at least dismembering 800,000 emus. I'll repeat: Eight-Hundred-Thousand-Emus! (Yells) YOU EVER SEEN EIGHT EMUS IN THE SAME PLACE?!?! YOU EVER SEEN EIGHT EMUS, TOTAL, IN YOUR LIFE?!?! YOU'VE EVER BEEN TO AN EMU FARM? THAT'S LIKE FIVE EMUS, TOPS! AND THAT'S AN EMU FARM!!! EIGHT EMUS WOULD BE LIKE AN EMU PLANTATION!
(Cut to footage of an emu)
Jerk (v/o): Yeah, let's kill this giant monstrosity of an animal for its precious extremities and fuck all this meat! That's way more cost-effective than breeding (Cut to a bunch of turkeys) these jive turkeys! In fact, just for the shit of it, let's breed more emus annually, that currently exist in their native continent! (Their native continent is Australia, where there are only 725,000 of them.)
Jerk: And I swear, this normally wouldn't bother me, movie. But, you know, for all the ranting your writer-director (Randy Moore) did on the press junket about how Disney is this "fake" corporation that indoctrinates everyone into their cult by shoving lies down people's throats, you ("Escape From Tomorrow") don't seem to have much problem shoving lies down people's throats!
Jerk (v/o): And, honestly, that's fine. It's a movie and all movies are inherently fake, even documentaries use editing techniques to manipulate reality, and in fiction, you can totally make shit up. But, if you seriously have a problem with Disney making shit up about the fantasy being real, then more shit up-making won't solve the problem! At least "Blackfish" (A documentary SeaWorld and captive killer whales) can claim moral high ground, you're just saying, "Uh, fuck that company, presenting askewed version of reality, THAT'S MY JOB!"("The turkey legs are really from emus" myth was not started by this movie, but has been around for years.)
(The woman fiddles with the big gem, hung from the necklace she's wearing. Jim is mesmerized by it.)
Jim: Your necklace.
Woman: You like it?
Jim: Yeah, it's…uh…
Woman: (Doesn't move her lips, almost telepathically) It's what?
Jerk (v/o): Ooh! Neat trick, movie! Now sing show tunes while drinking a cup of Strychenie. (After Jim stares at the necklace, he finds himself in the woman's hotel room, hands bound to the bed notches, and the woman on top, having sex with him.) Jesus, Gumption! The fuck did this become a "Cards Against Humanity" round?
(We then cut back to Linkara and the other reviewers playing "Cards Against Humanity.")
Linkara: (Reading the cards) "You haven't truly lived, until you've experienced stranger danger and the primal, ball-slapping sex your parents are having right now at the same time."
Woman: (Humping Jim) Oh! Oh, God, here it comes again!
Jerk (v/o): Okay, this is way too out of left field to be anything but a fantasy sequence, right? Just like earlier, when he fantasized about ripping off "(National Lampoon's) Vacation," this is just another, even sicker, fantasy sequence he's having while sitting on the bench. (The Woman and Jim finish sex.) Any second now, it's gonna cut back to him on the bench. (She unties Jim) I can't help but notice, it still hasn't cut back to him on the bench.
Woman: (To Jim, as she looks at herself in the mirror) You know the princesses? They're high priced courtesans.
Jerk (v/o): And the emus are really crack dealers.
(Jim leaves the bedroom of the hotel, to find Sara and the Woman's son watching an Internet video.)
Jerk (v/o): OH, GOD, NOW THIS FANTASY'S JUST EVIL, YOU'RE GOING TOO FAR… (We cut to Jim and Sara taking a ferry back to the park.) It was real? He actually had an affair with a woman he just met, while his daughter was in the other room, watching whatever the Christ this is? (It looked like they were watching some weird music video.) It's not bad enough that he just lost his job, but now he's putting his MARRIAGE IN JEOPARDY?!?!
(Cut back to Jerk with the Cine-Kyle, played by Kyle Kallgren.)
Cine-Kyle: (Robot voice) The male protagonist is being punished for his male gaze, by being objectified sexually himself.
(Jerk looks happy as we see the music and logo for the "Cine-Kyle.")
Jerk (v/o): So, let's review: I hate Jim, because he's a one-dimensional, schlubby, perverted halfwit, who, at best, can get roofied by jewelry, and even then, doesn't seem too angry about it. I hate Emily Dickinson (White), because she's a one-dimensional shrew who does nothing but complain. I hate Emu Woman (A few chords of "Evil Woman" from the Electric Light Orchestra plays), because she's, at best, a half a dimensional conniving adulteress for no reason. I hate the damn wiener kids, because they may as well be cardboard cutouts. I hate the meandering excuse for a story. I hate the black and white, because it thinks it's artsier than it is! I hate all the awkward silences, because they strike me as last writing, and mostly, I HATE DISNEY WORLD!
Jerk: (Realizes) Oh, my God, I hate this movie. I mean, check all the boxes: hate, hate, hate. I feel like a man without a country here. I can't, in good conscience, align myself with matter or ant-matter. Righteous anger has only sustained me for so long before I start craving an actual movie. I mean, don't get me wrong, the enemy or my enemy is still my friend, I'm just not sure which is which anymore. You know what, I'm only an hour into this movie, maybe…(We cut to a live clock of the film, which shows we're 35 minutes in) OH, YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME?!?! THIRTY-FIVE… (takes a deep breath and calms down) You've got all the more time to redeem yourself, movie. Almost one full hour to cohere all these disparate threads and make it all make sense. I advise you not to squander it...you're gonna squander it, aren't you?
(Cut back to the film, the whole family is at the hotel pool.)
Jerk (v/o): Pool scene! Okay, maybe something will happen here. (We just get footage of kids enjoying the pool) Probably something will happen here. (More footage of people in the pool) Hopefully, something will happen…You know what, I'm gonna start the scene over with a timer, to see how long it actually takes before something happens. (Five seconds in) Anything, as long as it's a new plot development that moves the story forward and isn't just a retread of what's happened already.
(16 seconds in, Jerk sighs. Cut to a clip from "Spaceballs.")
Colonel Sanders: Prepare to fast forward!
(We fast forward through the scene, Jerk stops it at a minute and 10 seconds.)
Jerk (v/o): Wait a minute, wait minute, he (Jim) fell in the pool. He fell in the pool (beat) and he's fine, so it's the pool equivalent of entering a room. What else we got? (He fast forwards to two minutes in) Oh, wait a minute, he is giving Emily Dickinson a present. Two full minutes into the scene, he is giving a present.
Emily White/Jerk: Because I could not show for Jim, he kindly shopped for me.
Emily White: (Looking at her Dumbo bell) Dumbo, Jim?
Jim: What's the matter?
Emily: You got me Dumbo?
Jim: Isn't that the one you wanted?
(Cut to a clip from "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory")
Mr. Salt: All right, Veruca, all right.
(We fast forward again as he skims through the scene)
Jerk (v/o): And pointless, fucking argument like the ones they've already had, blah, blah. (Emily puts sunscreen on Sara) Sunscreen. (Fast forwards to three minutes in) And the French girls (Sophie and Isabelle) show up again. Is something new gonna happen with them or is he just gonna leer at them some more with, apparently, zero guilt that he just cheated on his wife? (Fast forwards again as we see Jim swim to them) Sweet, savory, gluten-free, Christ on a cronut, it just keeps going! (Fast forwards to five minutes in.) Okay, Emily Dickinson seems to have noticed he's looking at the girls, maybe she's gonna acknowledge this? Maybe have him come to terms with his midlife crisis? And...
Emily: If you still want to go to EPCOT and see the fireworks, we've got to change and get ready.
Jim: Then why did you put sunscreen on her (Sara), then?
Jerk (v/o): OR THEY COULD BICKER ABOUT SUNSCREEN!
Emily: 10 minutes.
Jerk (v/o): (Upset) Well, what's another 10 minutes when we've already wasted six goddamn minutes waiting for something, anything the slightest bit interesting to happen in this goddamn pool scene!
(Fast forwards a few seconds to Jim, his face in the pool, looking dead.)
Jerk: Jesus, when it rains, it pours.
Jerk (v/o): Sooo, he's dead? Did he drown or something? After dicking around in the pool for six minutes and calling it a scene, they just kill off their main character, halfway through the movie? I mean, I'm not complaining, it worked for (Alfred) Hitchcock and it might just be the shot in the arm this movie needs to…
(Some lifeguards go to save Jim, but as they carry him away, we see he's alive.)
Jim: What are you doing? I'm fine. What are you doing? I was just playing!
Jerk: (Pissed) This guy just tricked me into watching his vacation slides, didn't he?
Jerk (v/o): Back in the hotel room, Jim stubs his toe on a chair and…draws blood?
Jerk: (Annoyed) The chair was made out of knives, who cares! Let's just get this over with so I can walk into the ocean like a normal person.
(The Whites make their way to EPCOT and see Spaceship Earth.)
Jim: Wow, it's a giant testicle.
Jerk: (Confused, silent for a few seconds then yells) WHAT THE HELL DO YOURS LOOK LIKE? (He's then curious and looks in his pants (which we don't see); shocked by what he sees, he awkwardly walks off screen.)
Jerk (v/o): So, with his life in shambles and his family intolerable, Jim follows in the footsteps of the great John Goodman and drinks his way through EPCOT.
(Jim and his family eat at the Germany Pavilion)
Jim: (Giving a toast) Deutschland, forever!
(Cut to a clip from "The Big Lebowski")
Walter Subchak: Fucking Nazis.
Emily: (To Jim) You've had enough!
Jim: What? It's Disney World!
Jerk: Wait a minute, wait a minute, play that again?
Jim: It's Disney World!
Jerk: Gary!
Gary The Guerilla Gorilla: (Appears next to Jerk) Yo!
Jerk: What the hell? I thought this was a fictional hybrid. He just flat out said it was Disney World!
Gary: Well, obviously, it's a fictional hybrid called "Disney World," from a timeline where it looks like Disneyland from some angles.
Jerk: Oh!
Gary (v/o): Plus, you'll notice he's been soaking his brain in German juice, he's liable to say anything!
Jerk: That makes perfect sense!
Gary: Of course it does. Now, If you'll excuse me, I've got to go climb up a symbol of man's hubris. (leaves)
Jerk: Be home for supper.
Jerk (v/o): Then his kids get a meet and greet with some princesses (Ariel, Belle, and Cinderella ) and…
(Three Japanese businessmen go up to the Princesses)
Cinderella: You want to take your picture, little boy?
(The Japanese men start draping their arms over them and one guy gropes Cinderella's breast.)
Jerk (v/o): Apparently, the emu lady was right, they are hookers.
Jerk: How dare you! How dare you besmirch the good name of prostitution! The world's oldest profession has no place in a Disney park!
(Cut to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride, where pirates watch the an auction of a redheaded wench.)
Pirates: We wants the redhead!
Jerk: What? They probably want to discuss feminist theory and the virgin/whore dichotomy within children's media with her. (Beat) Yo-ho!
Jerk (v/o): And hey, remember the "It's A Small World" scene from earlier? Well, now it's time for that scene's non-union, Mexican equivalent.
(The family rides the "Grand Fiesta Tour with the Three Caballeros." Jim sees the skeletons making scary faces and he vomits into the water around them.)
Emily: Oh, my God!
Jerk: Eh, don't blame him, he saw the audience vomiting and couldn't help it.
Jerk (v/o): In the bathroom (cleaning his socks), Jim has another unpleasant encounter with Senator Lindsey Graham here (Man in Scooter); while outside, his wife (Emily) gets contact hallucinations, I guess.
(She sees Sophie and Isabelle, the French girls, walking by with two boys. Emily sees Isabelle has a scary, monster-like grin as audio from the "The Dark Knight" plays.)
Joker (v/o): Why so serious?
Jerk: Oh, my God, they're juggalos, this really is a nightmare!
Emily: (To Jim) They're a little young, Jim, even for you, don't you think?
Jim: Who?
Emily: Those Parisian chicks or whatever they are!
Jim: (Goes to Emily) Okay, let's just…
Emily: (Hits him) DON'T TOUCH ME! You've been following them all day, haven't you?
Jerk (v/o): You know, I think I finally figured out who this movie is for. It's for everyone who saw "Jurassic World" and thought: "You know, all that theme park stuff was pretty cool, but I want to see more of the divorce!" Anyway, Jim finally reveals that he lost his job, and their daughter, sadistically, chooses that exact moment to want a toy.
Sara: But I really want it!
Emily: (Still upset) Damn it. Sara, I said put it back!
Sara: NO!
Emily: GOD! (Slaps Sara)
Jerk: (Looking uncomfortable with that slap) Why am I watching this? Seriously, why? I mean, technically, no one's making me. Why am I voluntarily torturing myself with these thoroughly unlikable people and the thoroughly unlikable situation they rode in on? Why? Why…Oh, yeah, because their surface level gimmick is similar to my surface level gimmick. (Ponders) You know what, I don't like cameras anymore. No, I'm quite serious, if this is what we're gonna do with them, than I want no part of it. I'm gonna go start a podcast called "Some Jerk Without A Camera" and devote the rest of my life to fighting the lensed scourge. See you never! (He turns around, but the camera is still filming him.) Look, I'm serious, I'm done with you, go away! (Turns again as the camera is still filming him.) But how are you…what are you doing?
(He screams as the camera beats him up. We then cut to a technical difficulties screen with the shot of Jim playing dead in the pool. We then cut to a black and white clip of the end of part 1 of the Disney World episode of "Full House," with the caption "To Be Continued.")
DJ Tanner: Michelle?
Kimmy Gibbler: Michelle?
Stephanie Tanner: Michelle, where are you?
(Cut to the end credits. After that, we cut back to Jerk, looking disheveled.)
Jerk: I apologize for the misunderstanding and reaffirm my allegiance to our all-powerful camera overlords. So, what, I'm four hours into this movie? Five?
(We see the clock again, he's 54 minutes in.)
Jerk (v/o): Son of a cock!
(To be concluded in part 3)


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The oohs and aahs of technological advances can be heard now and then, especially whenever something strange pops out in the consumer market. As the human population is leaning towards the witty polls of earth, most of what gets invented today can be tagged humorous in one way or another.
Scrolling through Amazon yesterday, I found some items that were too cool to be true. I mean who would go to a store and say, "I need a Justin Bieber toilet paper?" Yes, that's true. But then again, the internet is a funny place, and one can find things they never expected!
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The U.S. Department of Education faces a 13.5 percent cut ($9.2 billion) under the Trump administration federal budget blueprint released today, a plan that also boosts charters and vouchers and calls for certain federal funds targeted to aid the education of low-income students to follow children who move from one public school to another.
The Washington Post reports that the so-called "skinny budget" plan would downsize or eliminate a raft of grant programs, including grants for teacher training and after-school and summer programs, among others. The cuts, among the steepest the agency has ever sustained, would be coupled with a historic investment — $1.4 billion — in charter schools, private schools and other school-choice initiatives.
The push for school choice includes the following new allocations of federal funding:
- A $168 million increase in charter school funding — 50 percent above the current level.
- $250 million in new spending to fund a newly created private-school choice program—this funding would most likely be used to provide vouchers for families to use at private or parochial schools.
- $1 billion in new spending to encourage districts to adopt a controversial form of choice: Allowing local, state and federal funds to follow children to whichever public school they choose. The additional $1 billion would be channeled into Title I, a $15 billion grant program for schools with high concentrations of poor children.
Education Week's Politics K-12 blog reports that the plan would eliminate Title II spending, "which is currently funded at $2.25 billion and helps states and districts hire and provide professional development for teachers." In addition, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program would also be scrapped, eliminating "after-school and extended-learning programs."
The Wall Street Journal quotes U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos saying, "The budget places power in the hands of parents and families to choose schools that are best for their children by investing an additional $1.4 billion in school-choice programs."


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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Two deserving Gwinnett County families will benefit from this year's Scamper Against Cancer 5K.
The event will be held Saturday, May 3 at Coolray Field, where the Gwinnett Braves play. Registration opens at 6:45 a.m. and the race will begin at 8 a.m. A 1-mile fun run is scheduled to start as soon as the 5K ends.
The 5K costs $28 in advance and $30 on race day, while the fun run is only $15. Families of four or more can register for only $79.99. All pre-registered runners will receive T-shirts.
Money raised by the race will go to 6-year-old Brayden Martin, 7-year-old Ollie Tetloff and their families. Both children are battling cancer.
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Walk Through Worship is on vacation until Sunday, July 15!
Join us then as we continue our discussion about our worship practices.
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Pastor, Thanks for the Walk through Worship writings. I appreciate the time and effort placed into the explanations of each section. My wife and I are former members of Trinity(we left Fort Wayne in 2005 due to educational and job moves) and are presently living in Michigan). We miss Trinity and I have to visit the web site to catch up, as we rarely get back to the "Fort". Hopefully, the next time back we will be able to attend a service again. Just know that former members still remember and treasure our times and faith growth at Trinity.
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Information for Applicants
Candidates are encouraged to visit the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center and meet our house staff and faculty. Interviews are only arranged after the application is complete and letters of recommendation have been received via ERAS. Interviews are scheduled between November 1 and January 31.
In addition to meeting with the chair, several faculty, and house staff during the visit, candidates are invited to participate in attending rounds and departmental conferences.
Requests for appointments can be arranged by calling (304) 293-1224 after your application has been submitted via ERAS. To have any questions answered, please e-mail the education office.
Residency Selection Criteria
- Highest priority is given to graduates of LCME-accredited medical schools.
- To be eligible for selection, applicants must apply via the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) by December 15th and must enroll in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP).
- Our institution sponsors only J-1 visas.
- All applicants must have 3 letters of recommendation.
- All applicants must be within 5 years of graduation from medical school. If longer than 5 years since graduation, we require an explanation of the circumstances which prevented you from completing residency. Each case will be considered individually.
- International applicants are encouraged to have US or Canadian direct patient care activity.
- The selection committee evaluates performance on the USMLE, grades in preclinical or clinical courses, letters of recommendation, communication skills and personal qualities. There is no minimum score requirement for the USMLE Step 1 and 2, but interviews will be offered to candidates with a combined score of >80.
- The Department does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status.
- Osteopathic candidates should review the criteria changes since the closure of the Osteopathic track.
Available Positions:
The Categorical Pediatrics Program offers up to 6 PGY1 positions each year. The combined Internal Medicine/Pediatric Residency Program offers up to 4 PGY1 positions each academic year.
Current Residents in Pediatrics and Med Peds
Salaries and Benefits
The salaries listed below are for the current academic year are listed below. Residents are paid twice a month.
Residents will be allowed 16 days of vacation/year. No more than 5 days of vacation may be taken from any rotation. No vacation may be taken during the month of December. As per the ACGME Requirements, residents must have a minimum of 16 working days (or 32 half day sessions) in a rotation in order to receive credit for that rotation.
Uniforms and Laundry
The hospital provides uniforms (2 white laboratory jackets with embroidered name and WVU logo) and laundry service.
Ample free parking is provided in lots adjacent to the hospital complex.
Resident Library:
In addition to the new, state of the art Learning Center that opened in January 2007, the Residents also have access to material in the Children's Hospital residents' work room. The comfortable area also contains individual work spaces and a 24-hour on-line access to the National Library of Medicine and the Genome Data Base. Files are kept on a wide variety of topics and subjects. Several monthly journals are also kept in the library. The library has 24-hour access to computer based learning in preparation for the board examination.
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All residents receive an annual book money stipend. Beginning with the Categorical Pediatric Intern Class of 2011, money will be distributed in the following manner to Categorical Pediatric Residents:
Year 1: $500
Year 2: $500
Year 3: $2000 which can only be used for the registration fee for the American Board of Pediatrics Certifying
Examination. Registration occurs during Year 3.
Educational Meetings:
In order to encourage residents to submit posters, articles, abstracts, and projects to national meetings, the program will provide a one-time reimbursement for presentation of same at a state, regional, or national meeting up to $750 for hotel, meals, registration, and/or transportation. Professional conferences and meetings must be approved by the Program Director and the Department Chair.
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Additional benefits include the use of University weight rooms, gymnasium, indoor and outdoor jogging tracks, indoor swimming pool, racquetball, squash, and tennis courts.
On campus child care is available for residents with small children. There is a waiting list for this service, so apply early.
A cafeteria card is provided for meals when on call.
Residents also have access to the WVU Fitness/Recreation Center, and an opportunity for discount on cell phones, and computer financing.
Research Funds:
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Concert Review: The Swell Season
Submitted by [email protected] on May 19, 2010
Sorry. I can't resist the cliché. It was a swell evening of music Monday night as The Swell Season (Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and The Frames) returned to Pittsburgh to perform at the Byham Theatre. The set-up was very similar to their September 2008 concert. The Frames were in a semi-circle on the stage with white back-drops and back-lighting essentially framing the performers. The front of the stage up-lighting was very effective throughout the well paced two-hour and fifteen-minute plus performance. Irglová quietly opened the show center stage with "If You Want Me". Hansard, talking about their drive in to town, sang the "Ohio River Boat Song". "Low Rising" came next with Hansard sampling Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing". When I get a cold, I lose my voice. When Glen Hansard gets a cold, he doesn't cancel a show, instead he takes lots of drugs and still performs at the top of his game. During "Leave" Hansard showed no signs of a cold. Back in 2008, The Swell Season opened up with "Into the Mystic" and they didn't forget to include it again this year, providing a stunning moment in the middle of their show. Recently, American Idol brought "Falling Slowly" to the forefront again, but it will probably be most remembered for winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song from the movie "Once". Hansard said "Falling Slowly" was their final song. He apparently meant before the long encore. Hansard was talkative during the ending moments of the concert, but they still kept those heartfelt songs coming. He sang "Say It To Me Now", after sharing a story of meeting a woman in Chicago in a hotel elevator who lost her son in the 9/11 attacks. Irglová debuted a new song called "Crossroads". We all sang "There" on the chorus of a new song (which apparently has already has been covered and can be found on YouTube). They included a song from The Frames, with Hansard still able to give his all on the "Red Chord". The show ended with a traditional Irish song "The Parting Glass" and an extended standing ovation. It was just, swell. Glen Hansard's friend, who is now a resident of Pittsburgh, Mark Dignam opened the show with a well received 40-minute set of 7 songs and also joined The Swell Season on stage for a song during the encore. Barb S. - Sunday Mix Host
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Malawi — a Fish Eating Nation
Although Malawi is endowed with the ninth largest lake in the world and the third largest and second deepest lake in Africa, overfishing resulted in the collapse of the tilapia fishery around 1990- 1991. Tilapia, known locally as chambo, is the country's favorite fish and now costs from US$ 4.00-8.00/kg (R55-110/ kg) for whole or live fish.
This is a result of market scarcity which is unfortunate considering the massive demand for the fish and its abundant availability at very affordable prices (< US$1.50/kg) prior to 1990. Population growth at nearly 3 percent per annum in Malawi since 1990 has put the anticipated supply shortfall of fish in the country at around 80,000 t for 2017 based on sustaining 1990 per capita supply levels.
Tilapias are the preferred fish and the national dish in the country. A substantial market exists for producers capable of providing whole fish more competitively than dressed broiler chickens, less than a cost of US$2.40/kg (R33.00/kg) in Malawi. Under favorable economies of scale and scope, tilapia production using biofloc technology represents an attractive investment proposition if that selling price can be matched.
Figure 1. Imhoff cones are used to measure biofloc volume in BFT tanks at Chambo Fisheries.
Biofloc Technology
Biofloc Technology (BFT) is a relatively new and potentially revolutionary technology that is especially productive for tilapia and shrimp aquaculture. BFT is a sustainable and environmentally friendly method of aquaculture that controls water quality and harmful pathogens along with providing value-added production of microbial protein feed for the aquatic farm system. Bioflocs are clustered aggregations of microbial communities such as phytoplankton, bacteria, and living and dead particulate organic matter (Fig. 1). Shrimp and tilapia especially benefit from BFT due to their ability to filter-feed on floc in the water column, thereby reducing feed costs by improving feed conversion.
The beauty of BFT is in the mechanisms for ammonia removal from water. Using feeds with a carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratio greater than 15 results in the dominance of heterotrophic bacteria as the major pathway for the removal of toxic nitrogenous compounds via assimilation into new bacterial cell biomass. BFT simultaneously provides an abundant source of "bacterial plankton" and a rich source of good quality protein and nutrients for filter-feeding fish and shrimp — BFT is then rather like killing two birds with one stone. Figure 2 provides a schematic of the process of Biofloc Technology (BFT) to promote nitrogen uptake by heterotrophic bacteria which then becomes a food source for tilapia and shrimp.
Experience raising tilapia in BFT, where feeding rates per unit area are at least 4 to 5 orders of magnitude greater than shrimp BFT systems, is limited. Knowledge gaps remain about BFT engineering economics, tilapia feeding systems and bioenergetics, cost factors and the economics of this new technology relative to conventional tilapia aquaculture systems. Insightful experience gained at Chambo Fisheries fills many of these knowledge gaps.
Figure 2. A schematic of the process of biofloc technology to promote nitrogen uptake via heterotrophic bacteria that becomes a food source for tilapia and shrimp.
Figure 3. A battery of eight 766-m3 multi-cohort sequential SAFF-BFT grow-out tanks at Chambo Fisheries near Blantyre, Malawi.
Vertically Integrated Farm Design
Chambo Fisheries operates a vertically integrated farming operation that includes a quarantine facility, broodstock pairing tanks, an artificial incubation room for hatching eggs collected from female brooders, a dedicated nursery system, purging tanks, a moist feed milling plant, an ice plant and cold-storage facilities apart from the Biofloc Technology (BFT) grow-out tanks. Figure 4 details the farmed production cycle of Shiranus tilapia at Chambo Fisheries.
Figure 4. Farmed production cycle of Shiranus tilapia from a four-tank biofloc technology module producing up to 400 t/yr of 218-g fish year-round.
The farm has eight large round-ended (R-ended) grow-out tanks, each holding 780 m3 of water and capable of producing up to 100 t of tilapia per tank in a year, or up to 130 kg/m3 of effective rearing volume per year via a multi-cohort sequential production schedule, although rearing densities average only around 20 kg/ m3. Because of the cool climate near Blantyre at 1130 m above sea level, all production facilities require placement within greenhouse enclosures. Supplemental heat is sourced from shallow solar ponds (SSP) coupled to a hydronic heating system that includes stainless steel heat exchangers built into the tank floor that are regulated by thermostatically actuated heat exchange pumps.
The design of the R-ended BFT grow-out tanks by SAFF at Chambo Fisheries is novel in many respects. The tanks include a built-in lamella separator for solids capture and removal. Control over floc concentration in the water column and the retention time of fecal and organic material is achieved by regulating water flow through the lamella separator from a full-width floor drain in the main tank. Water is pulled through the lamella separator through development of a water head differential at the far end of the central channel by using a multiple-pod airlift pump that permits flexible control over water pumping rate.
Every aspect of the BFT R-ended tank design aims to minimize capital and operating costs, taking full advantage of the superior hydraulic environment created by the integrated R-ended tank design, creating a beneficial streaming effect while improving the driving concentration gradient for oxygen transfer by carefully selected and positioned aeration devices.
Forced moderate exercise has been shown to induce muscle hypertrophy, improve growth rates and reduce the energetic costs of protein accretion. Fish that are fed under continuous moderate exercise exhibit a shift in metabolism to derive energy for swimming activity largely from carbohydrates and lipids rather than protein, a survival mechanism to spare protein loss from the muscle. This results in fish at harvest with a lower fat content while FCRs are reduced, growth is enhanced, flesh texture firmness is improved, and fillet yields are elevated marginally (more plump fish relative to their body lengths). Horizontal water velocity control in the range 15-30 cm/sec is achieved by adjusting the submergence depth of the paddles on paddlewheel aerators.
Multi-cohort Production
The farm design has been tailored to take advantage of the benefits of continuous sequential production where each grow-out tank is stocked and harvested every three weeks. This production strategy is enabled by using screened compartments (Fig. 5) where fish are moved in a conveyer fashion every three weeks to a larger compartment using simple crowding screens. This management technique results in production output yields of 4.6-5.8 t every three weeks. This elevates the production to capacity (P:C) ratio to 5.5-6.2, indicating the high rate of crop turnover relative to system carrying capacity.
Figure 5. A single multi-cohort sequential 766-m3 SAFF-BFT grow-out tank at Chambo Fisheries
The use of a multi-sequential, multi-cohort production system, in essence, doubles output production and halves input power costs in comparison to batch production, which yields an effective P:C ratio of only 2.4. Economic viability is greatly enhanced due to the doubling of production output based on the same investment in equipment and infrastructure compared to a batch production system. This unique innovation by SAFF, called the SAFF One-Tank Husbandry Approach, was first pioneered by the company in the Middle East on two RAS farms and a third RAS farm in Malawi.
Shiranus tilapia reach an average marketable weight of 218 g in 189 days from hatch at a temperature range of 27-29 C. Although purging fish to improve flavor quality is practiced, it is unnecessary in well-managed BFT systems because the fish carry no off-flavors or flavor taints. Fish are sold whole on ice and no processing takes place on site.
Specialized Feeds Produced On Site
Feeds — including broodfish diets, starter feeds and specialized C/N ratio feeds — are produced on-site using a low-cost moist-pellet milling plant that produces sinking pellets of medium to low water stability. The major components of the Chambo Fisheries feed plant include a hammer mill and a combination grinder, mixer and moist feed pelletizer, and a horizontal dryer and grading sieves for starter feed production on-site.
Feeds for fish >5 g are all animal protein-free and are based solely on oilseed meals and maize plus vitamin and mineral premixes. In addition to premixes, additives include choline chloride, vitamin C, monocalcium phosphate, an organic acid, molasses used as a nutritive binder and most importantly the use of mycotoxin absorbent which is mandatory under BFT conditions in Malawi due to the high prevalence of aflatoxin and other mycotoxins in locally sourced maize
Best results were achieved with a 20.2 percent protein feed that provides an input C/N ratio of about 15.5 based on the use of bioenergetic feeding rate models constructed by SAFF where FCRs average about 1. Meal intervals were spaced four hours apart and the day's first meal size was the largest at 50 percent of the daily Feed Allotment (dFA). Tests conducted using feeding trays indicated that all feed is consumed at the specified meal intervals, meal percentage of dFA and feed applied within five minutes. The ability to custom formulate feeds on site allows for adjustments to the formulation with ease. During the start-up of BFT, over the first 45-60 days, feeds require additional vitamin C fortification and sometimes the addition of crushed garlic to improve the immune response in fish until the biofloc becomes mature.
After three months of continuous operation, it is necessary to reduce mineral inclusion levels in BFT tanks, particularly metals such as copper, iron and manganese as these tend to accumulate and are recycled through the biofloc. An iterative metal homeostasis model has been constructed that allows for the optimization of customized diets for BFT by SAFF given response data derived from actual systems.
Bioenergetics and Feeding Strategy
Feed often makes up 55-65 percent of the final farm-gate production cost in conventional tilapia culture systems, such as greenwater ponds, lake-cage culture, and recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). Chambo Fisheries has been able to routinely achieve FCRs that average around 1 feeding a 20.2 percent protein feed (equal to a C/N ratio of 15.5) raising Mozambique and Shiranus tilapias. Such huge shortfalls in the supply of protein in formulated feed means that fish must obtain the balance of their needed protein — ranging from 55-60 percent of total required protein intake — through filter feeding on biofloc. This is not surprising considering the high carbon conversion efficiency via the "heterotrophic microbial loop" of around 40-60 percent into heterotrophic bacterial cell biomass and the very short trophic pathway (lower trophic energy losses) of microbial aquaculture systems. The basic pathway is dissolved C + N → C + N in microbial biomass → C + N in farmed organisms.
Table 1 illustrates the advantage of biofloc-raised tilapia at Chambo Fisheries, achieving impressive performance metrics of 36.6 percent Net Protein Retention (NPR) and 20.9 percent Net Energy Retention (NER) on an edible meat yield basis. Based on results achieved at Chambo Fisheries, bioenergetic feeding rate models include the contribution of biofloc harvested by filter feeding tilapia, ranging from 20 to 25 percent of the Digestible Energy (DE) requirements of live-weight fish. Bioenergetic feeding rate models have not been properly applied to biofloc tank culture of tilapia and process optimization studies by the global research community are needed. The work at Chambo Fisheries by SAFF represents first attempts to optimize feeding rates, considering the contribution of biofloc grazing towards meeting a portion of the daily DE requirements of the fish reared.
For NPR, biofloc tilapia production is more than 100 percent more efficient than tilapia production in a RAS system and 162 percent more efficient than lake cage culture (Table 1). These results suggest that properly managed biofloc tank culture of tilapia is potentially the most efficient form of feedlot animal production, outperforming lamb, broiler chickens, pigs and beef steers as well as feedlot aquaculture systems raising Atlantic salmon in net-pens and tilapia under typical lake cage culture, greenwater pond farming and RAS conditions in terms of protein recovery on an edible yield basis (Table 1).
From an economic perspective, results at Chambo Fisheries represents a 50 percent feed cost saving when compared to feeding fish on conventional 32 percent protein feeds raised in a RAS. The merits of BFT include a significant reduction in the final farm-gate production cost of raising tilapias to around US$1.30/kg (about R17.70/ kg) in Malawi in 2016. A comprehensive economic study based on data gathered at Chambo Fisheries shows BFT farms to potentially produce tilapia at about 60 percent lower cost than large-scale cage culture, 34 percent less than RAS and 8.5 percent less than greenwater pond farming, assuming all farms are located in or near Lake Malawi.
Water Use Efficiency
Another big advantage of BFT is the massively reduced water requirement compared to conventional tilapia aquaculture systems. Currently, Chambo Fisheries uses around 150 L of water to produce 1 kg fish, which compares well against greenwater pond culture that requires 2500-5000 L/kg of fish. The high annual fish yields per unit tank surface area and volume and reduced water use in BFT opens up great possibilities for applications in greenhouse enclosures on the highlands of Africa and on the periphery of major cities, reducing transport logistics to urban markets. The results obtained by Chambo Fisheries clearly highlight the merits of BFT as a competitive and sustainable alternative low-cost intensive feedlot technology for tilapia aquaculture.
Environmental Sustainability
BFT tilapia along with RAS farms, particularly when incorporating an aquaponics component, with or without duckweed (Lemna spp.) nutrient recovery lagoons designed to achieve zero effluent status, represents exemplary Best Management Practice (BMP). Direct loading of organic solids and dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus emissions to receiving surface water bodies can be eliminated in BFT and RAS farms, thereby comparing favorably to lake-cage culture operations that are characterized by high N and P emissions and solids loadings into sensitive lake ecosystems such as Lake Malawi
Four selected tilapia grow-out technologies were compared (Table 2) on the basis of the following sustainability indicators:
By these measures, the SAFF-BFT system performs best, followed by the SAFF-RAS. Greenwater pond farming has poor input:output nitrogen and phosphorus efficiency ratios, likely caused by high N losses through volatilization and denitrification to the atmosphere and P losses to the sediment, despite being a low-cost production technology. Clearly, the lake cage culture model represents a relatively less sustainable form of intensive tilapia aquaculture (Table 2) where no opportunity exists to recover neither dissolved and fecal-bound nutrients or organic matter that can overload the nearby benthic environment of lake ecosystems.
The Future of SAFF and Chambo Fisheries
BFT promises to revolutionize tilapia and shrimp aquaculture industries globally. Some leading scientists believe that harnessing the flow of microbes to fish represents the next revolution in food production. Chambo Fisheries aims to expand operations into warmer regions of Malawi and internationally using the same design templates with minor improvements (a second generation BFT system) to be supplied by SAFF, based on technical successes at the less-than-ideal site on the outskirts of Blantyre, Malawi.
SAFF has moved operations from the Middle East and Sub-Sahara African countries to focus on South Africa in support of various initiatives, including BFT farms that include an aquaponics component and multitrophic land-based marine RAS farming of several high-value finfish species on the East Cape coast and Atlantic salmon farming on the West Cape coast.


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OCSLLayerMakerWin32 and 64, English
General Usage Instructions
OCSLLayerMaker is an AutoCAD application that creates AutoCAD layers based upon a specific standard format which is either available via the Internet or a series of specifically configured text files. OCSLLayerMaker can be configured for a specific based standard if required and the appropriate settings can be mapped using the AutoCAD options and OCSL_LayerMaker Tab.
The present version creates layer to the following standard formats:
- AIA – AIA CAD Layer Guidelines USNCS-V5.
- AIA ISO 13567 – AIA CAD Layer Guidelines USNCS-V5.
- BS1192:2007 - British Standard 1192:2007 (Uniclass Version 2015).
- BS1192:2007 - British Standard 1192:2007 (Uniclass Version 1.4). ·.
- CP83 – CP83 Part 1: 2004 Singapore Standard.
- Bespoke (Based upon Local Txt files)
OCSL_LayerMaker works by selecting the appropriate fields from the drop down boxes to create the appropriate layer names. Layers can be created by double clicking the description, using the "Add Current" button or the "Add All in List" button. Where options are available these can be set by using the Unlock / Lock where available. All settings are saved to the registry.
|Ribbon/Toolbar Icon
|Command Description
Launches the form from which to create AutoCAD Layers.
The installer that ran when you downloaded this plug-in from Autodesk App Store has already installed the plug-in. You may need to restart Autodesk product to activate the plug-in. To uninstall this plug-in, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features (Windows 7/8/8.1/10) or Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP), and uninstall as you would any other application from your system.
Additional Information
Further Help and support information, including purchase options are available from the website:
This includes specific help for each of the Standard formats supported with a dedicated page to each as well as guidance on how to set up the chosen format using the AutoCAD Options.
There are also videos showing how the OCSL_LayerMaker application works.
Known Issues
Internet connection require to access Layer standard format data
Author/Company Information
Support Information
Further support information including software Licensing, configuration and help information is available from the Website http://www.ocsltools.com/index.php/autocad-tools/
Requests for help can also be processed through the Contact Form or directly by email : email@example.com
Version History
|Version Number
|Version Description
|Added 2016-2017 support – Uniclass 2015 support and Bespoke Layer Txt File support
Inclusion of Layers formats for AIA – AIA ISO 13567 & CP83 added to application
Initial Release