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Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer found in men, and is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer. Statistically about one man in every six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. Men diagnosed with prostate cancer are naturally anxious about the disease and the potential complications that can come from treatment. One of the most worrisome of these complications is erectile dysfunction, also known as impotence.
How Are Prostate Cancer and Erectile Dysfunction Related?
While it is possible for erectile dysfunction to result directly from prostate cancer, it is rare and unlikely. The prostate is located near a juncture of important nerves and blood vessels at the base of the penis. If the cancer spreads beyond the prostate, it can affect these nerves and vessels, which can result in the ability to achieve or maintain an erection.
It is however, much more likely that a man will develop ED as a result of prostate cancer treatments, rather than the cancer itself.
Prostate Cancer Treatments And Erectile Dysfunction
All of the most commonly accepted treatment methods for prostate cancer
can result in ED. The most common treatments for prostate cancer include:
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- Hormonal Therapy
- Cryotherapy
Up to 90% of all men will experience temporary ED following prostatectomy. Most men are able to resume normal or near-normal sexual function after 12-18 months.
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If you have only recently started to date and on a particular date, you find that your boyfriend does not turn up, what do you do? This is one of those instances that leave a void in your emotions and the inexplicable situation makes it a little embarrassing for you.
It is important that the reasons be fathomed to understand how you need to continue from there on.
The first thing that you should analyze is whether the communication has been clear or not. Given the hectic life schedules, there is quite a possibility of mis-communication and hence whenever you fix up a date, ensure that you write it somewhere.
Better still, send him a text so that both of you have a copy. You have the sent copy on your phone and he has one in the inbox. This will clear all air in case an explanation is required. Ensure that the directions of the place to meet have been clearly provided to avoid any room for ambiguity. If your date misses the place, then ensure that it is none of your fault first.
There are times when he will call you to tell you that he will not be able to make it for the meeting. In case he has not turned up, then certainly there will be an excuse given as to why has he not been able to make it.
Always be judicious and estimate the viability of the excuse. If an emergency has been sought as an excuse, get the full details to determine whether there could have been any better alternatives.
If it is a work related excuse, go through all that you know about his work and see if there is any chink in the armor of the excuse. Missing a date is not to be taken lightly as it is one of the pillars that helps establish relationships.
Keeping a date is also about honoring commitments. Find out whether your boyfriend is the kind who keeps his commitments regarding work and amongst his friends. It is important for a relationship to grow. In case he has not turned up, ensure that a friend is there that you can spend the time with.
But yes, you seriously need to do some thinking before you emotionally go forward anymore.

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February 12-16
A Note From Ms. Gurn
I enjoyed seeing some of you at the Angels in the Vista Auction last Friday night. What a fun night celebrating St. Peter's! Now, we will begin a more somber time at school, as we prepare this week for Ash Wednesday; the beginning of our Lenten journey.
This week, there is an early dismissal on Monday at 2:00 pm with the After School Program available. There will be no school on Friday due to a Teacher In-Service Day. Enrichment Day will be available on Friday to those who signed up, however.
Have a blessed week. See lesson topics below.
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This Week In Class
Reading/Writing Workshop: This week we will be learning how to evaluate. The students will choose a character from Number the Stars to analyze. They will form an opinion about the character and provide textual evidence to support their opinions. This practice will lay the foundation for our first literary analysis paper. Reading t test Wednesday.
Spelling Words: The spelling words come from our novel, Number The Stars. The words are: lanky, stern, glare, sneer, defiantly, obstinate, incident, sabotage, impassive, suitable, jubilee, intricate, ration, hesitate, sarcastic, reassure, torment, disdainfully, and scoff. Test this THURSDAY. (no school Friday)
Science: This week we we will be learning about the different lunar phases of the moon. We will be able to see the lunar phases using a hands-on approach with Oreos! What is the moon made of? In addition, we will also be integrating history by studying the first moon landing in 1969! See video below.
Social Studies: This week we will be learning about the Great Depression. What is the Stock Market? Why did it crash? How did Americans survive the Great Depression?
Theology: This week, we will learn about the season of Lent; beginning with Ash Wednesday. Why do we receive ashes on our forehead? What do the ashes remind us of? We will also set our Lenten promises and sacrifices. During the Lenten season, we will be participating in the Stations of the Cross weekly in the church with 4th and 6th grade. Quiz Thursday on Lent.
4th Grade Social Studies: This week, we will be studying the Declaration of Independence. What are the different parts of the Declaration? Which founding fathers signed the Declaration? Who is John Locke and why is he an important figure to this document?
6th Grade Social Studies: Thank you to all who attended the Greek Fair. I was so impressed by the students' creativity and knowledge of their Greek projects. This week, we will be starting Ancient Rome! We will start by discussing how Rome was divided into two main classes; patricians and plebeians.
Reminders & Important Events:
February 12- 2:00 pm Early Dismissal
February 13- 12:00 pm Information Session
February 14- Valentine's Day/Ash Wednesday Mass at 8:30 am
February 16- In-Service Day/No school
February 19- Presidents' Day/No School
February 20- Progress Reports go home
February 27- Progress Reports returned to school


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Winter Children's Art Program 7-12 year olds (Week 5)
11 September 2010
2-3.30PM at MGA each Saturday 14 August - 11 September 2010
Winter Art Program for 7-12 year olds!
Taking inspiration from the exhibition Living deadly, students will explore a different artist in each of the five weeks. Each session will be tutored by experienced art-educators from The Art Factory.
The perfect way to beat boredom on cold, wintery weekends!
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I'm working on a cool places in Shanghai page for this site so I figured today I might as well do a write-up on one of the many places I've come to enjoy here. This little gem of a park was a completely accidental find which I located after a little art session at Moganshan Rd. (More on this location later) . MengQing Park (梦清公园 , loosely translated as Green Dreams Park, is located at 66 or 130 Yichang Rd in Putuo district right near the meetings of Jingan and Zhabei districts. (宜昌路66号130号)。 A quick walk from Zhongtan rd on metro lines 3 and 4 , not that far from Changshou rd metro stop on line 7 , and a very quick walk from Moganshan rd art district.
This park is situated on a little peninsula surrounded by the Suzhou river ,where the river flows does a 180 and then drunkenly continues on its meandering path. The Suzhou river still isn't the cleanest in the world but years ago it was completely and utterly awful. 11 years and a 14 billion yuan (a little over $2 billion USD by today's exchange rate) has done a lot to swing that around. This park is part of the rehabilitation phase of the river. Before 2003 or so this little jut of land was a factory complex and is now an 8.6 Hectacre patch of green with lots of trees and bamboo!. Part of the river is diverted through a man built series of pools which filters the water through underwater greens and serves to oxygenate and purify the water. Pretty cool use of nature in the middle of the urban jungle. There is also a vast underground storage pool used to collect rainwater and then run it through the filters. Which is also a very good thing cuz well lets face it all that smog in the air gets pulled outta the sky and into the raindrops when the clouds decide to unleash upon us.
Continuing on the theme of being in a concrete jungle one definitely does not forget they are in the middle of a megalopolis. Sitting in the park surrounded by trees one has a great view of blocks of towering 28 story plus apartment buildings. The best time to visit the park is in the evening/early night when the all the apartments are glowing with the lights of their interior residents. The park itself is also lit up with an array of mind-bending color changing light displays. One of the things I really enjoy about China is the everyday light show! Not sure exactly when the park is closed ( ill clarify after a further visit of the park) but it stays open after dark for a while which is quite unlike many parks here in Shanghai.
This is a fantastic place to go to enjoy an intriguing mix of nature and urban , a place to ponder pollution and rehabilitation , also not a bad spot to take some brews and relax taking the light show and trees. With that I will leave you with some photos to enjoy! Hope to see you there!
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Major Comparative Essay – Second Critical Assignment
This essay compares and contrasts the effectiveness of two articles that present arguments offered in relation to an issue of suitability of using super-skinny models by fashion designers, which has been discussed in the news media. One of articles is titled 'It's time fashion world got real – Minister takes aim at cult of the thin', as published in Sunday Telegraph by Sharri Markson, and another is entitled "" in The Advertiser on 24th January, 2008, The essay will investigate both reasons supporting and against the suitability of using super-skinny models to promote fashion, and also involves evaluating how to use of ethos, logos and pathos as persuasion tools in developing their arguments. Conclude with some suggestions and treatments for the fashion industry, the government and schools to work on the problem. In my opinion, super-skinny models should be banned to use for promotes fashion, and they should use different sized and shaped models on catwalks.
In recent times, people are thinking about the arguments supporting the use of super-skinny models. One of the supporting opinions is that people view 'skinny' as beautiful in modern society, and bone beauty is becoming something that most people are trying to pursue, both men and women. As people have such an aesthetic standard, lots of clothes now tend to look good on slim people rather than plump ones, which results in fashion designers only making clothes to flatter one type of body shape and preferring super-skinny models to wear their clothes. Models also make themselves skinnier to flatter the modern aesthetics.
Secondly, London and New York City are authoritative fashion cities nowadays, where peoples' standards of beauty come from. People regard the following characteristics as an emblem of beauty, which is what every super-skinny model has in common. They are all considered beautiful, they all wear clothes well, and they are all low in...


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In this work, a discriminatively learned CNN embedding is proposed for remotesensing image scene classification. Our proposed siamese network simultaneouslycomputes the classification loss function and the metric learning loss functionof the two input images. Specifically, for the classification loss, we use thestandard cross-entropy loss function to predict the classes of the images. Forthe metric learning loss, our siamese network learns to map the intra-class andinter-class input pairs to a feature space where intra-class inputs are closeand inter-class inputs are separated by a margin. Concretely, for remotesensing image scene classification, we would like to map images from the samescene to feature vectors that are close, and map images from different scenesto feature vectors that are widely separated. Experiments are conducted onthree different remote sensing image datasets to evaluate the effectiveness ofour proposed approach. The results demonstrate that the proposed methodachieves an excellent classification performance.
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In this work, a discriminatively learned CNN embedding is proposed for remote sensing image scene classification. Our proposed siamese network simultaneously computes the classification loss function and the metric learning loss function of the two input images. Specifically, for the classification loss, we use the standard cross-entropy loss function to predict the classes of the images. For the metric learning loss, our siamese network learns to map the intra-class and inter-class input pairs to a feature space where intra-class inputs are close and inter-class inputs are separated by a margin. Concretely, for remote sensing image scene classification, we would like to map images from the same scene to feature vectors that are close, and map images from different scenes to feature vectors that are widely separated. Experiments are conducted on three different remote sensing image datasets to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. The results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves an excellent classification performance.††footnotetext: W. Wang, Y. Gao, Y. Su, F. Wang and J. Cheng are with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 611731. L. Du is with the school of computer science, University of Leshan Normal. This research has been supported by the National Natural Science Fundation of China under Grant 61671125. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities NO.2672018ZYGX2018J008. (Corresponding author: [email protected])
I Introduction
With the development of remote sensing technology, large amounts of high-resolution images are becoming increasingly available and remote sensing image classification has attracted much attention in recent years[15],[6],[17]. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has shown great potential for remote sensing image scene classification. However, scene classification is still a challenging problem because of the large variability of scale, orientation, illumination, viewpoint and layout of scene in the images.
During the past few years, there has been increased interest in developing a variety of methods to deal with remote sensing image scene classification. Traditional methods design the hand-craft features, such as color, texture and shape, including SIFT[7], LBP[1017623], HOGs[4] and Gist [9], which are the primary characteristics of a scene image. Then, the descriptors based on visual dictionaries (e.g., Bag of Visual Words (BoVW) model)[16], attracted the attention and were widely used for feature encoding, in which the input is a set of handcrafted features and the output is a set of learned features. In recent years, with the development of deep learning techniques, especially Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), deep feature learning-based methods have shown high feature representativeness and generalization capability for remote sensing image scene classification[8], [3], [10]. In deep learning-based methods, a robust and discriminative descriptor is usually employed to represent each input image as a feature vector, where different scene classes are expected to be separated as much as possible in the feature space. However, this model has a relatively weak constraint on features extracted from the same scene, since dissimilar features of the same scene classes would be mapped to different scene classes, which lead to low scene classification accuracy.
In this paper, we use metric learning loss function to learn from the labeled training images to effectively measure the distance of scene samples, under which the distance of inter-class input pairs are enlarged and that of intra-class input pairs are reduced as much as possible to improve the discriminative ability of the learned embedding for remote sensing image classification. The proposed network is a siamese network architecture [5] that predicts scene classes and measures the distance at the same time. Compared to the previous models, we take full advantages of the labeled training data in terms of pair-wise distance similarity and image classes. To summarize, our contributions are two-fold:
(1) We propose to use metric learning loss function to learn a discriminative CNN embedding by the siamese loss, which learns the class for each scene and penalizes the distance between the deep features and their corresponding labels.
(2) Our proposed method significantly outperforms the state-of-art methods on three remote sensing datasets: Brazilian Coffee Scenes [10], UCMerced LandUse [14] and NWPU-RESCISC45 [3].
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section II introduces the proposed method in detail. Section III presents the experimental results on three publicly available scene datasets. At last, we conclude our works in Section IV.
II Our approach
The goal of our proposed method is to extract the features from training images and compute the distance between images with a discriminative metric for accurate image classification. Fig.1 shows an overview of the siamese network for remote sensing image scene classification.
II-A Overall Network
Our network is basically a convolutional siamese network, which consists of two sub-networks with shared weights. Given an input pair of scene images, the proposed network simultaneously predicts the classes and the distance measurement of the two input images.
As shown in Fig.1, the images are processed by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The CNN involves many individual processing steps, so we refer to the complete CNN as a function, , that takes an image as input and produces a vector as output, where is the vectorised representation of the CNN's final layer activation maps and denotes ConvNets parameters to be learned. In this work, we use GoogleNet[12] as the base CNN architecture, which was pre-trained on ImageNet [11].
II-B Siamese Loss
Our siamese network trains the feature extraction network to optimize both the classification loss to predict the scene classes and the distance learning loss to estimate similarity.
The first is the classification loss function, which classifies remote sensing images into one of different classes. The classification loss function is achieved by following the deep CNN with an -way softmax layer, which outputs a probability distribution over the classes. The network is trained to minimize the softmax function, or cross-entropy loss, which is denoted as,
where is the softmax weight matrix, is the bias matrix, and is the target class, is the predicted probablity, and is the image feature vector, denotes the softmax layer parameters.
The second is the distance learning loss function, which encourages features extracted from scene images of the same classes to be similar and enlarges the margin between the features from different classes in the feature space. Given a pair of images (), where each image has been processed using the deep CNN feature extraction network to give image feature vectors, and , where is the feature extraction function defined by the CNN. The high-level feature from the fine-tuned CNN has shown a discriminative ability and it is more compact than the activations in the intermediate layers[2]. So we directly compares the high-level features , for the distance estimation. We can write the siamese network training objective as a function of the feature vectors and as follows,
where is the Euclidean distance between the feature vectors. When two images are from the same scene classes (), the objective encourages the features and to be close by minimizing the distance between the two vectors. While for images from different scene classes (), it encourages the distance larger than a margin . is the parameter to be learned in the above training objective function.
We can now define the overall training objective for a single pair of images(), which jointly optimizes the classification loss function and the distance learning loss function to train the CNN for discriminative feature learning. The formulation is given as follows,
where is used for balancing the two loss functions.
II-C Optimization
Our goal is to learn the parameters in the feature extraction function , while and are only parameters introduced to propagate the classification loss and the distance learning loss during the training stage. In the testing stage, only is used for feature extraction. The parameters are updated by stochastic gradient descent.
Then the gradient of with respect to and are given by,
The gradients of with respect to is defined by the following relation, and the gradients of with respect to is symmetric with that of . The derivatives are used to update the parameters of deep nueral networks.
The gradients of with respect to is illustrated as follows,
At last, the network updates the parameters of , and as, , and , where is the learning rate.
III Experiments
In order to better evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed model, we have chosen three remote sensing datasets with different visual properties. The details about the three datasets and the experiments implementation are presented in the following subsections. Finally, we present and discuss the experimental results.
III-A Dataset
UCMerced LandUse. The UCMerced LandUse dataset [14] is one of the first publicly avaliable high-resolution remote sensing imagery datasets. This dataset contains aerial scene images with pixels equally divided into land-use classes. Fig.2 (c) shows some examples of ground truth images from three classes in this dataset.
Brazilian Coffee Scenes. This dataset [10] includes multi-spectral scenes taken by the SPOT sensor. It contains images with pixels equally divided into classes (coffee and non-coffee). Fig.2 (a) shows some examples of this dataset. It has many intra-class variances caused by different crop management techniques.
III-B Implementation details
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For UCMerced LandUse dataset, all the images are randomly cropped to and mirrored horizontally during training. For Brazillian Coffee Scenes and NWPU-RESISC45 dataset, we randomly crop images to and respectively. The mean image computed from all the training images is substracted from all the images. Besides, we shuffle the dataset and use a random order of the images. The margin in our experiment is set to . All experiments were performed on a 64 bits Intel i7-4790 machine with 32GB of RAM memory. A GeForce GTX 1080Ti with 11GB of memory and Ubuntu version 14.04.1 LST were used in our experiments.
III-C Classification Evaluation
Comparison with the CNN baseline. We trained the baseline networks without the distance measurement. The baseline nteworks were pretrained on ImageNet and fine-tuned to predict the scene classes. As shown in TABLE I, the classification accuracy can achieve , and on UCMerced LandUse, Brazilian coffee and NWPU-RESISC45 dataset seperately which are better than , and obtained by the baseline network on GoogleNet. The results show that: (1) distance measurement used in remote sensing image has positive effects on improving the performance of classification accuracy. (2) our proposed method can work with different datasets and improve their results. (3) the proposed model helps the network to learn more discriminative features.
Comparison with different values of . is a tradeoff parameter to balance the contribution of the classification loss and the distance learning loss. The value of affects the classification accuracy. As shown in Fig.3, the results show that: (1) distance measurement has positive effects on improving the classification accuracy. (2) a larger means higher accuracy, while excessively larger decreases the performance. For the reason that, if is too large, too much attention is paid to the distance measurement, and the classification prediction is ignored.
Feature embedding. We qualitatively evaluate our learned features to verify if it is a good generic feature. We extract the fully-connected layer features from test split of the three datasets. These features are then projected to 2-dimensional space using t-SNE[13]. Fig.4 shows the feature visualization on the learned embedding of our model and the baseline CNN. Under the single classification signal of cross-entropy loss, the features are less seperated than our proposed method with both classification loss and distance metric learning loss. If we only use the softmax loss, the resulting deeply learned features would contain large intra-class variations. While joint the softmax loss and the distance metric learning loss achieve good intra-class compactness and inter-class separability, which is very beneficial to the discriminative feature learning.
IV Conclusion
In this paper, we have proposed to combine class prediction and distance measurement to improve the performance for remote sensing image scene classification. Our proposed method takes full advantage of the similarity information in training samples and learns a discriminative embedding. It outperforms the CNN baseline on three different remote sensing datasets and shows the effectiveness of the proposed method on improving the remote sensing image classification performance.
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Mesut Ozil admits life at Arsenal hasn't been easy
Not been easy
Mesut Ozil has admitted that his career since joining Arsenal has not been all roses.
The former Germany international said that things are always special – but can be hard at the club.
The fans have a love hate relationship with Ozil, and at times, he's come under-fire.
That's been specifically true since putting pen to paper on his new contract.
Ozil said to the Arsenal website: "It's not always been easy, but it has always been special."
He also admitted that the main thing the fans want to do is win for the team.
Arsenal have struggled to do that at times in recent seasons, but are changing this term under their new manager.
He added: "At the end of the day we were happy with the team. It was special, not just for us, but for the fans as well.
"We keep trying to win trophies to make us and the fans happy."
Life under Emery
Arsenal fans have rallied since their losses in the first two games of the season.
Now, after a great run of results and a draw against title contenders Liverpool, they're on a roll.
At times, games that should be wins end up being draws, and the title may be beyond them.
The form of Manchester City might be a step too far for the Gunners.
However, a top four finish would be a huge achievement.
It would be even better if they beat Jose Mourinho's Man United and local rivals Tottenham Hotspur to the spot.
See also: Manchester United declare interest in West Ham's Declan Rice
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Office leasing activity slowed in Jacksonville in the third quarter compared to 2009, but overall office vacancies dropped since the second quarter, Cushman & Wakefield reported Tuesday.
Overall, the city's vacancy rate dropped to 19 percent at the end of the third quarter, down from the 22.5 percent at the end of the second quarter, and that was good news, said Buddy Register, a local manager with Cushman & Wakefield.
"While an air of uncertainty prevails, there has been a surge of activity in the office market," Register said.
Nationwide, out of the 31 cities the firm tracks, 18 showed year-over-year growth in leasing activity.
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Looking Up
Released on March 27th, 2020. 'Looking Up' is now available everywhere.
Recorded live at Prairie Sun Recording Studio to 24 track 2 inch tape with Grammy winning engineer Oz Fritz (Tom Waits, John Hammond), the full band release represents a fluid evolution and natural progression of where Eric's music is heading, but his stake in the songs has not changed a bit.
The same convictive soul of Eric's songs appear again, but where his last record highlighted a sparse reserve that shone alone in its' self-recorded home studio upbringings, 'Looking Up' comes in full fidelity with the warmth of his full band and a depth of sound rich in harmonic overtones.
Firm to its core, it features The Short Tempers with David Pascoe on fidddle & mandolin, Rhyne Erde on drums, Thom Beneducci on upright bass, Dave Zirbel on pedal-steel, and Tom Relling on resophonic & electric guitar.
""Long's vocals have a timeless timbre that sounds well-traveled, self-reflective and pure.""
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Inside the IGCC
Gift Card Trends & The Incentive Gift Card Council
By Rick Dandes
Where Do We Go From Here?
Amazon, Target and Wal-Mart control the world, Borst said. If we are talking gift cards, family dining is a huge category. "What I am finding out is most of our customers, the big suppliers for the loyalty programs are getting more and more questions about our gift card uses outside of the United States. It is scary in some sense because if you are a specialty retailer—such as Foot Locker, Gap, Bass Pro shops, T.J. Maxx � the specialty retailers—you wonder how you are going to be able to continue to grow when you are fighting against the Amazons of the world."
Choice, immediacy and convenience is what people want now, Borst said, which leads us back to e-gift cards.
Any discussion has to start with mobile, Hornbogen said. Mobile gift card platforms are great. They enable consumers the ability to buy, send and manage gift cards. Retailers like Starbucks, for example, give you the ability to safely store and manage your gift cards within their mobile applications. Companies like ApplePay and SamsungPay stores virtual versions of all your gift cards so you can easily access them at any time.
"Mobile and social media have to be key elements of getting the message out on our gift card program," Sadek added. "To effectively communicate our gift card offering and our brands, we have to think about the messaging to our Landry's Select Club members, as well as how we can bring it to life through social networking sites that our guests use."
Both mobile and social media have their place in incentive programs, but Tomlin does not believe they have overtaken physical gift cards or reached a point where the social media makes a meaningful difference. However, he said, while your program participants might not post about receiving a gift card, they may have posted an experience or product they purchased using a gift card that was received as part of an incentive.
Meanwhile, Ozer said, a new trend has emerged in which incentive companies and brands are developing their own proprietary gift card solutions. "For example," Ozer said, "CarltonOne Engagement has created new 'G-Codes' that are digital gift codes redeemable from a vast selection of award choices in hundreds of countries globally, Paramax has created codes that can be redeemed for merchandise from various pricing plateau selections, and Tumi and Maui Jim have created non-dollar-denominated gift cards that allow participants to pick their choice of brand-name gifts from a selection of specially selected items."


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Senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan said the Rafale deal was the largest defence scam in India and urged the Centre to initiate a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the matter.
Addressing reporters here, he questioned how Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence, the Indian offset partner of French firm Dassault Aviation, could be involved in the project as "most of his companies are in debt."
"This is not only the largest defence scam in India, but is one where national security has been severely compromised. While the IAF wanted 126 flights, it was reduced to 36," Bhushan said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the procurement of a batch of 36 Rafale jets after holding talks with then French president Francois Hollande on April 10, 2015 in Paris.
Opposition Congress has accused the government of choosing Reliance Defence over state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd to benefit the private firm though it did not have any experience in the aerospace sector.
Lashing out at Modi and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Bhushan charged the Centre with making IAF officials "lie" about the deal.
"You have severely compromised national security, broke the IAF's back, looted people's money and defamed a public sector unit (HAL)," he said.
"The government should immediately agree for a JPC probe and put all the papers before it. There is no (element) of national security (as being claimed by the government). They only want to hide the huge scam in defence purchase," he said.
He further suggested that Ambani's company could not have entered the deal without the defence minister's approval.
Hollande's reported comments that New Delhi had proposed Reliance Defence as the Indian partner for the contract has escalated into a major political row, even as the French government said it had no say in the choice of the Indian industrial partner for the multi-billion dollar deal.
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The chamber music festival "Freedom", which had taken place from 28th of april to 2nd of may in Maastricht had a special prize for the participating ensembles: A concerttrip to Bangkok, sponsored by the "Highschool for music in Silpakorn" (Thailand). They had to take part in a competition, where the six groups, ranked best, were allowed to join the festival. Additionally, they got instructions from three highly interesting famous artists. Finally, a performance competition would determine the winner, who is going to fly to Bangkok.
great ensembles
In this preliminary round, six ensembles were chosen: The Trio Mirus, the Etereo Trio, the Recitaand and the Eurasia Quartet, the Bonnefa Wind Quintet and the Malevich Piano Quintet. They all got lessons from Henk Guittart (Schönberg Quartet), Ursula Smith (cello, Zehetmair String Quartett, soloist), und Tamara Jongerden (coach for performance) in rehearsals, private lessons and in special workshops. The tips, tricks and suggestions from the experts were highly valuable for the groups, although they couldn´t manage to realize everything at the festival. Still, the directions for future rehearsals of the single groups were presented. Ursula Smith was mostly working on musical expression and body presence and was a big win for the Trio Mirus and the Eurasia Quartet. Tamara Jongerden helped the ensembles with their representation on stage (which is still somewhat neglected in european instrumental training). Henk Guittart could further improve musical expression due to his acribic detailwork. The level of the students from the "Conservatory Maastricht" was high and professional, as compared to international standards. Their ensembles were ambitious and remarkably well prepared. Still, there was room for plenty of fun and sometimes everybody was just laughing.
great plans
In 2016 the festival is supposed to take place in a more eminent setting. The maxim "growing in freedom" should be celebrated through the global power of music. People from West and East, from Germany and Limbourg should get connected through a series of concerts. The festival is supposed to pay tribute to the victims and history of the liberation of Limbourg and to celebrate freedom and liberation seventy years later in all facets. The festival is going to have its doors open for all nations and has additionally an extraordinary interesting format: Beside the concerts, masterclasses and competitions, planned lectures, exhibitions, theatre performances and readings take place. For example about worldwar II, about the jewish heritage, or about life in Maastricht / Limburg in the interwar period. Moreover, there will be political excursions as well as busrides and boattours to historic places.
hot prices
But now we are curious: which ensemble has won the trip? After a fulminant performance at the closing competition concert, the price was given to the Etereo Trio, which is now going to play a concert in Bangkok. For the 2nd placed Malevich Quintet, a journey to Shengdu in China could be arranged as an additional price. They will play there on a large festival. The dean of the "Highschool for music Silpakorn", Mister Damrih Banawitayakit, who was guest of honor at this year's festival, remarked, that he was "deeply pleased with the cultural exchange and very positive about ideas, which may result from working together in the future". It`s always a nice experience to see people from different cultures interchange by trying to reach their goals together and we are looking forward to a cool festival 2016 with interesting ideas, high quality ensembles and fruitful newborn connections."
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We're going to report on things as they happen this week. As well as this being a 'fly-on-the-wall' week, we want to share practical 'How to' tips as well.
As we said in our previous post, we've decided to turn zero waste week into a week-long all singing, all dancing, celebration. But I've decided to take a step back from the 'bigger picture' too which feels a bit overwhelming and to literally take one step at a time.
Breakfast was porrage today, but not just any ordinary porrage. I've learned, through years of experience, that slow cooked porrage is quite a different delicacy than ordinary porrage!
Ordinary porridge is a bit gloopy, you get hard bits in it, bits that resemble frog spawn and it has an after taste; come to think of it a foretaste as well, of cardboard. No wonder people think porridge is a disgusting thing to eat.
But with a little 'Mrs Green creative licence' my slow cooked porrage is creamy, decadent and luxurious and gives you a red glow in all the right places.
I needed to open a new carton of soya milk this morning (making it with 1/3 soya milk makes the porrage really creamy and filling). These cartons have a small strip of foil over the opening. That foil is taken off, washed, squashed into our 'foil ball' (small piece of foil jam the machines apparently) and saved for recycling. The carton goes in our local tetrapak recycling collection point once a week when we are passing the centre anyway.
Porridge was served with fresh fruit, bought locally (and loose of course). We had apples and raspberries, slivered almonds (bought in polythene which can be recycled) and everything was topped with yogurt. Little Miss Green sweetened hers with some fruit juice concentrate which comes in glass bottles.
I've bought a yogurt maker which I use occasionally, but we've also found a place where I can send yogurt pots for recycling. There is a company called GHS based in Portsmouth, so there are two options for zero waste yogurt now. Phew!
Apple cores go into the compost; late at night after the wasps have gone to bed!
The oats I buy are organic and come in carboard boxes without a plastic inner – yay! I buy in bulk direct from Mornflake to enjoy a substantial discount on supermarket prices. I've been doing this for years and they provide excellent service – the orders are despatched within a day, and as I buy 48kgs at once, it's great to have it delivered to the door. I wouldn't fancy my chances at getting that home on the back of a bike 😀
Mr Green drinks coffee which comes in tins. Recently we've been wondering about the lids, which are plastic, but Little miss Green has come to the rescue with her love of tins, boxes, bags and baskets. Old coffee tins are currently put to good use for storing snake food, fairy food, ingredients for making spells (yesterday I was turned into a frog for being such a horrible Mummy) and goodness knows what else. Mr Green uses them in the garage for storing things like nails as well, so while we ponder on a way to recycle the plastic tops or find an alternative, they are being put to good reuse.
Right, I need to think about lunch and media! More on the media stuff later; I have my hair to do 🙂
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Wanted: Secondary schools to feed back on Internet Safety Strategy
Although the official consultation has closed, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) are offering opportunities for secondary schools to participate (via telephone dial in) a consultation on the Internet Safety Strategy green paper. The following text from DCMS … Continue reading
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text: West Poison Au Yeung Fung appeared in both LOCH and ROCH, but his role in each story was different. In LOCH, he served as the powerful and evil antagonist who threatened Gwok Jing, Wong Yung, and their associates. In ROCH, he was Yeung Gor's crazy old stepdad. Which presentation of the character did you prefer?


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I'm dying of starvation and have thus forgotten what day it is!!! No really, now that I'm four days in it is getting easier every day. I had the crazy desire to graze last night, but didn't do it. Thank the Gods!!!! My weight is still the same, but that is good. I can work with that. As long as it isn't going up, I know I will see progress soon. I still think a lot of the initial weight loss was water so this way it has become fat loss instead.
It's raining like crazy today, so I'm not sure how that will affect my evening walk. If it slows up I'll go for it. Yesterday I mowed the lawn, pruned the trees and did a bunch of other activity around the house to burn calories. Keep me posted on your progress.


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ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines - Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services (Chapter 21)
Chapter 21 in ICD-10-CM is titled "Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services." This chapter covers code categories Z00-Z99. Conditions covered in this chapter are those related to routine checkups, risk factors, the presence of prosthetic devices, screenings for diseases, and exposure to an infectious disease.
Z00-Z13 Persons Encountering Health Services for Examinations – Codes in this subsection correspond with those in categories V70-V82 in ICD-9-CM. The codes in this category are status codes, which report that the patient has a residual condition from a previous disease or is the carrier of a specific disease.
Z20-Z28 Persons with Potential Health Hazards Related to Communicable Diseases - Codes in this subsection correspond with those in categories V08-V09 in ICD-9-CM.
Z30-Z39 Persons Encountering Health Services in Circumstances Related to Reproduction - Codes in this subsection correspond with those in categories V20-V29 in ICD-9-CM. Pregnancy Z codes are only assigned for routine prental or postpartum care, and in the absence of any other obstetric codes.
Z40-Z53 Encounters for Other Specific Healthcare - Codes in this subsection correspond with those in categories V50-V59 in ICD-9-CM. These codes are first-listed to report the reasons for the encounter, but when listed as secondary codes, they reflect the provision of aftercare.
Z55-Z65 Persons with Potential Health Hazards Related to Socioeconomic and Psychosocial Circumstances - Codes in this subsection are scattered throughout ICD-9-CM. These codes report problems related to literacy, education, employment, occupational exposure to risk factors, housing circumstances, social environment, primary support group, and other psychosocial issues.
Z69-Z76 Persons Encountering Health Services in Other Circumstances - Codes in this subsection correspond with those in categories V60-V69 in ICD-9-CM. Situation reported by these codes are those for mental health services for the victim of abuse, counseling related to sexual behavior, attitude, and orientation, provider dependency, and other circumstances.Interested in learning more? Why not take an online class in ICD-10?
Z79-Z99 Persons with Potential Health Hazards Related to Family and Personal History and Certain Conditions Influencing Health Status - Codes in this subsection correspond with those in categories V10-V19 in ICD-9-CM. Family history codes are reported with categories Z80-Z84, and personal history codes are reported with categories Z85-Z92. Z79 codes are assigned for patients using prescribed medicines.
General Guidelines
If a Z code is assigned to indicate that the patient had a surgery or procedure, then the coder must also assign a procedure code.
Various Terms useful in search for codes in this category include: "history of," "aftercare," "status," test," palliative care," "management," "long-term," "follow-up," "counseling," and "encounter for."
Codes in categories Z00-Z13 are only for encounters for routine examinations, and they are not to be used for examinations for the diagnosis of a condition or for treatment purposes.
Observation Z codes are only used in limited situations, such as when a patient is being observed for a suspected disease or condition that is ruled out, or when there are no symptoms or injury related to the suspected condition.
Codes in category Z23 are only used to report a patient who receives a prophylactic examination.
The coder should assign Z33.1 only as a secondary code, used to reflect that a patient is pregnant, but that the pregnancy is not the reason for the encounter.
Codes from category Z34, Encounter for supervision of normal pregnancy, are always listed first, and never used along with other obstetric codes.
Codes in the category for after care (Z51) are assigned during the acute treatment phase when a patient is seen in order to receive radiation therapy for a neoplasm, and also when a patient is seen to receive immunotherapy or chemotherapy.
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New Site Design
Time for something new
Building a new theme for this website, has been one of my goals for a long time. The blog began with a theme I found while looking at WordPress's free themes, it never satisfied me. So I switched to the 2012 theme a few months ago. I've never really promoted the site and no one, but apparently spam bots, visit regularly. So I knew I had time to work on something nice.
I've honestly been working on this theme for a while, starting and stopping, never being pleased. My goals were to create something clean, easy to read and modern.
Someone sent me a link to David Simon's new site sometime last year. He created the awesome show The Wire. When I first saw it, I was drawn to the dark colors and the white background for text . I like color, and use it often when building websites for people, but if I'm building a site for myself I wanted something dark and simple.
Grey is my favorite color, which I guess is weird. But something about the color has always attracted me. It's neutrality, and simplicity, a mix of black and white. So I knew I wanted something with shades of grey in it.
As you can see in these notebook sketches, I started with the background. I wanted a harsh gradient that slowly disappeared responsively, as the device width changed. Figuring out how to implement this, without images, took a long time.
I tried wrapping the page in three, divs that stepped down in size, but that didn't seem efficient and I knew there would be a way to do it with CSS. A few months ago, I stumbled on Lea Verou's 24Ways article on CSS Patterns. Jackpot. Using her article as a starting point I added the background with stops at certain points.
Background gradient code in SCSS and Compass:
background: $darkgrey;
@include background-image(
$darkgrey 33%,
$midgrey 33%,
$midgrey 66%,
$lightgrey 66%),
$lightgrey 33%,
$midgrey 33%,
$midgrey 66%,
$darkgrey 66%));
background-size: 21%;
background-repeat: repeat-y, repeat-y;
background-position: left, right;
Basically, I have two mirrored gradient blocks that come in from the left and right. When the viewport get's smaller, the gradient stripes fall behind the main content block, creating a unique pattern on the left and right. It's sort of complex for a background, but it get's the job done.
Also thanks to Hampton Catlin, creator of sass, and the team at Compass. I've been using sass for about six or seven months. It completely changed the way I write css. The variables, mixins and everything else save a ton of time.
The logo came together by accident, kind of . I found the logo font, Liberator, on LostType. When I first saw it I knew I wanted to use it for my logo. The font is retro and bold, I modified it slightly in the logo block. The squiggly line was supposed to be just a squiggly line, but I then thought that looks like a robot, I animated the logo to chomp on hover. If you're on a desktop, hover over the logo…I'll wait. The animation is a simple css3 hover animation, I hope to improve it in the future.
The other fonts are some I matched on Typecast. I love the way Open Sans looks on retina displays, it's matched with Muli a really good reading font. I feel that they compliment each other well and offer a good contrast with the blocky Liberator Font.
Making the site beautiful and readable on every device was one of my main goals. I wanted the logo to resize and still chomp on all viewports. I haven't quite accomplished the chomping on mobile devices at the smallest size. But I plan to continue working on it.
To create the chomping effect I used two images(top half/bottom half). Those images are absolutely positioned from the top of the menu. The menu buttons shift from both sides of the logo to the right side on mobile.
Final Thoughts
My blog has been neglected for a while. But I plan to add a new posts at least every couple weeks. I doubt if I ever will be completely finished with this theme, expect constant updates and improvements.


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Through ITU's partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), as required by the City of San Jose, the new Smartpass provides enrolled students unlimited rides on all VTA bus and light rail lines. An additional fare of $2.25 is required for Express Bus service, when e-cash is added to card.
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Forgot about Trish Scully? We didn't think so. Imagine our joy at seeing the new, just as good as ever, Trish Scully Child at market. It's just like you remember it, with timeless, detailed styles, quality materials and the unique flair that makes Trish Scully's designs memorable. After a refreshing few years off, Trish Scully is back with an exciting new collection that reflects the same value and tradition as before, with a nod to European style and a fresh new flair that we think you're going to really like. Not to mention affordable prices that you could really start to appreciate.
If you're not familiar with Trish Scully, then you're in for a treat. This beautiful line excels with dresses and outfits for special days that are fanciful, unique and pretty. Girls will look beautiful in these pieces, and they'll feel comfortable too. The casual pieces also included with each color story are high quality and easy to wear. Trish Scully Child's beautiful line in sizes newborn through 6X features groups like Dot to Dot, Retro Rags and Oui Oui Paris and will also include holiday groups like 2012's Candy Cane and Posh Velvet.
Trish Scully's introductory 2012 spring line added "Child" to the brand name for the relaunch. Ms. Scully has been designing for more than a decade, with creative inspiration from many sources, including her own children and her background in formal fashion design for women. With a solid tradition of quality and unique style, Trish Scully reemerges with a refocused view of today's priorities. "The brand is now better priced for the economic needs of specialty retailers and their customers, but with distinctive finishing touches and detailing that buyers remembered and still want," Scully says. I couldn't have said it better myself.
This fall, we are pleased to feature a variety of styles from the Trish Scully Child collection including dresses, blouses and tops, skirts, pleated dresses and even blazers and coats for girls. Lush fabrics, pretty accents and other nice details like lace and ruffles will be sure to attract a lot of attention to this next season. This is a brand that allows girls to feel like princesses, and mothers to feel like queens. We are so glad to see Trish Scully Child on our racks and are anxiously awaiting to see what wonders Trish Scully will design next.
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I came as a volunteer to the center and then was employed in 2009 as a cook here. I enjoy the work that I do here with the children, and I have stayed for ten years because I find the work I do here really meaningful.
Looking for a job, I became familiar with Word Made Flesh in Romania. I was a volunteer in the beginning of 2017. I really enjoy being a part of this team, and I appreciate how the children here are able to come to a safe place and receive guidance, affection, education, help, food, clothing, school supplies, and more. It gives me great purpose to get to see these children every day and see that what I like to do helps them as well.
Carmen was born on December 26th, 1975 in Vaslui, Romania in a nominal Orthodox Christian family. She is the oldest of 4 sisters. She became a Christian when she was 17 years old in 1993 when her family was going through very hard times and problems. Her father struggled with addiction to alcohol and became violent, causing her mother to leave their home. Carmen was forced to be the caregiver for her sisters. Although memories from my childhood are sad and disturbing, she discovered in Jesus the love of the Father God and she experienced healing and transformation. She finished high school and went to work in a bakery for a year and then in a market until 1996. She married Dan: her wonderful, God fearing husband who loves others. From 2002 she worked for her brother's in law company until it closed.
In June 2015 her sister in law, who is on the Word Made Flesh Romania board told her that there was a need for someone to do the bookkeeping. Carmen felt this was a gift from God and that God was calling her to this community. Through this community sheI learned that God has given her a new perception of serving the vulnerable. Together with her husband Dan, they have two children. Andre is 19 and Albert is 17.
Anca was born in 1975 in Pechea, a county of Galati, Romania to an Orthodox family. She has 3 brothers and 2 sisters.
In her last year of high school, she started to understand how there were many kids, youth, and families affected by poverty, diseases, and other difficulties around the community she was in.
When she finished high school, she already knew that she wanted to help the vulnerable, especially children. She didn't know how exactly, but she had this in mind when she began deciding where she wanted to work.
From 1999 to 2011 she worked through a few NGO's with abandoned children affected by HIV/AIDS and other effects of poverty and marginalization. She has studied social work, sociology, and psychology.
In 2011 she became a part of Word Made Flesh, first as a volunteer and then came on staff in 2012. She oversees communication and fundraising in the community.
Anca believes in the power of personal example to change things that are not how they are supposed to be. She also believes that whatever one decides to do must be done with gladness and love. "Whatever you do, do it with all your might."
Claudia was born on September 5th, 1986 in Galati. She was married in 2010 to Ionut. She has one son and one daughter, 3 years old and 2 years old. Claudia graduated from university with a degree in social work in Oradea. The third year in university, the field director of Word Made Flesh in Romania wrote and asked her if she wanted to join the community in Galati when she returned from university. She was a volunteer before university and liked her time with the community.
After discussing and praying about working at the day center, she decided to begin working with Word Made Flesh. In 2010 in October, she began working as an educator and in the social work department. She felt that God was calling her here, and she has been a part of the community ever since. Even when things were hard, it was clear that God wanted her to be involved in this work.
She returned in Feb 2019 after 4 years of maternity leave and now works as an educator for the teens that attend the day center.
Adina came to know WMF Romania through volunteering and having friends within the community for over a decade now. She was invited to join the team as a Social Worker in 2017 and she's been implementing social services programs ever since, organizing community events for the children, visiting the families, social counselling, getting the parents involved, working with the educators in periodically evaluating the children progress etc.
Having experience in social work and social services for almost 15 years now, Adina has served with some of the most vulnerable children and youth in Galati communities, being especially drawn to those living in poverty and domestic violence, seen as the roots of vulnerability.
"I believe in the healing power of a Community. And I believe that, the same way "it takes a village to raise a child!", in the exact same way, when it comes to doing the Social Work of healing and growing, it clearly involves the togetherness of the child with the family, the educator, the teacher, the cook, the medical doctor, the librarian, the psychologist etc. And this is what I love about the WMF Community: the way it keeps the doors open for the children to grow and heal and be part of a larger Family!" Adina is responsible for implementing the organizational policy for preventing abuse of vulnerable persons (VPPP), for training the staff and volunteers with WMF methodology and for representing the WMF organization in communicating and reporting to the local State authorities and other entities in Galați. Starting in 2019, Adina took over the role and responsibilities of the Program Director for WMF Romania.
Growing up in a Christian Orthodox family in the last days of communist Romania and following years of searching for the meaning of life and for God's purpose with her life and after many ups and downs on this journey, Adina is now part of a local Orthodox Church Community and is currently finishing her studies for a Master's Degree in Orthodox Spirituality and Social Studies, at the University of Galati.
Geanina was born in Galati in 1974. She came to work with WMF Romania in June 2004. Through her time at the drop-in center, she came to understand that there are many needy children and wondered what she could do to help. She didn't understand exactly what work the drop-in center was doing, but as she tried, she found that she began to understand it well. After she was hired, she understood that God had sent her to the drop-in center where she needed to be and where she was needed. Geanina serves as the Cleaning Coordinator for Casa Vale as well as overseeing showers and laundry for the children.
Mikayla was born in Littleton, Colorado in a Christian family. Throughout her life she had a heart for those that were left out, unseen, and hurting. In high school and college, Mikayla went abroad on service trips with her church and school to Haiti, Italy, and Alaska. The trip to Haiti radically changed the way she saw the world and opened her eyes to the hurt people living on the margins of society experience.
In college, Mikayla went on a discovery trip through George Fox University with Word Made Flesh. After meeting the staff and getting to know the children that attended the community center, she returned to complete a social work internship for 5 months with Word Made Flesh 2 years later. In her last 2 years of college, Mikayla felt called to work with marginalized children. This led her to work with the George Fox Spiritual Life department to create a ministry providing hospitality to the Department of Human Services Child Welfare staff and linking students with service opportunities to foster children and their foster parents, as well as helping lead and plan cross cultural engagement experiences for students locally and internationally.
After her time in Romania and what she had experienced and learned in her Biblical Studies and Social Work majors, she came on staff with Word Made Flesh as the short-term teams coordinator and social worker in November of 2016.
I am from Galati Romania and am married to Ionel. I have two children, Andrei and Sarah. They are 21 and 16 years old. I became a Christian after getting married and have found a great community in my church here. Before coming to Word Made Flesh, I worked in sales. I felt that after some time, God was calling me here to work with the kids. I am blessed each day by our time together at chapel as well as time with the community.
Monica was born in Ploiesti, Romania to a Christian family. Monica remembers her journey with God beginning by attending church each Sunday with her younger brothers. There and at home, she learned a lot about Jesus and his love for people. In March of 2010, she was baptized in her church along with her two brothers.
Throughout her life, Monica's family moved to multiple cities. In 2009, she moved to Galati with her family. When she was in high school, she had a passion for serving and wanted to be a missionary to other countries. In her last year of high school, she learned about Word Made Flesh and volunteered with them that summer.
She then moved to attend university in Oradea to study Romanian and English literature. She began to work with marginalized children in a village close by. Almost every week, they hosted programs for kids from villages that did not come from Christian families. She greatly enjoyed the opportunity to work with these children and their families.
After she graduated university she returned to Galati. She began praying for a job and began volunteering at the Word Made Flesh center that summer. She became an educator at the center in July of 2016.
She finds the discussions with the children lifegiving and loves how her relationship with the kids is growing and how they are changing and growing in trust every day.
Caty grew up as a child in the Word Made Flesh program, and in 2014 she became a part of the team and community in Galati. She works primarily in Tudor Vladimirescu, a village located near Galati, a place where God has placed her to give all of herself. She feels what gives her the most joy is that God is using her and that she is not cast aside but that God can use her, understand her, and work through her. She feels blessed and values Word Made Flesh because it is a place where you can receive, give, grow, and know people with open hearts and people who are ready to walk through life beside you.
Fani was born in Galati, Romania, in 1981 into a large family. He became a Christian in 2001 and from there life seemed more interesting to him. He is a student at a Bible college in Iasi, a city a few hours from Galati. He graduated from a school that prepared him to be a customs agent, but he is sure that this has no connection to his calling. In the past two years, he began to seriously consider his calling to work among the poor, but it took him a year to accept this calling. Beginning as a volunteer in January 2005, Fani has worked consistently with WMF Romania, mostly involved with the education program for adolescent boys. In 2006, Fani lived at Casa Lazar for nine months, assisting with the care and discipleship of recovering street boys. Currently, Fani continues tutoring adolescent boys at the community center, serves as coordinator of the street ministry program and makes frequent visits to follow up with boys who have come off the streets.


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Thyme Essential Oil
Botanical Name: Thymus vulgaris
Country of Origin: France
Application: Aromatically & Topically
Plant Part: Leaf
Extraction Method: Steam distillation
Aromatic Description: Warm, herbaceous, floral, powdery
Main Chemical Components: Thymol
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Pure Thyme essential oil. Thyme is commonly used as a seasoning, but it also produces a potent essential oil that has cleansing and clarifying effects for the skin; however, due to its high phenol content, Thyme should be diluted with Fractionated Coconut Oil before application.
- Use 1–2 drops in meat and entrée dishes to add a fresh herbal flavor.
- Dilute with Fractionated Coconut Oil then apply to targeted areas on the skin to purify and promote healthy skin.
- Add 2 drops to veggie capsules and take during winter time to promote immunity.
Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
Topical use: Dilute one to two drops with Carrier Oil then apply to desired area. See additional precautions below.
CAUTIONS: Possible skin sensitivity. Keep out of reach of children. If you are pregnant, nursing, or under a doctor's care, consult your physician. Avoid contact with eyes, inner ears, and sensitive areas.
*** These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. ***


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The clock's display is short and stocky. The clock has a nice amount of padding at the edges. There is a good amount of space between the digits of the clock's display, so the digits have plenty of breathing room. The clock has an edge glow effect. The edge glow is intensely opaque. The color of the edge glow is close to black, with a hint of dark green and maroon. It is quite fat, but is still distinctly confined to the edges. The clock has a color grid effect as a background. The color at the top left corner is close to dark slate blue, with a hint of dim grey and slate grey. The color at the top right corner is close to dark khaki, with a hint of rosy brown and tan. The color at the bottom left corner is close to dark goldenrod, with a hint of olive and goldenrod. The color at the bottom right corner is close to brown, with a hint of fire brick and sienna. The digits of the clock's display are made up of several segments. The digits are intensely opaque, so it is difficult to see anything directly beneath them. Their color is close to maroon, with a hint of dark red and dark slate grey. There is no gap between the digit segments. The digit segments have a drop shadow. The direction of the shadow is close to north. The shadow is offset by a modest amount. The shadow is extremely blurred, so that it is soft and blends seamlessly into the surroundings. The shadow has a fair amount of spread, adding strength. The color of the shadow is black. The shadow is completely opaque, and should feel very strong.
The SevenSegmentWithColorGridBg clock combines a traditional seven segment display for the digits, a four corner color smooth gradient background, and an edge glow with themeable color, thickness, and opacity. The individual segments of the digits support theming by color, opacity, segment gap, and a drop shadow. Additionally, digit spacing, overall clock aspect ratio, and edge padding can also be themed.


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There's a great new collection of essays about the inestimable Joe Strummer (1952–2002) that came out last month from Ashgate Publishing called Punk Rock Warlord: The Life and Work of Joe Strummer. I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute a chapter.
A much shortened, adapted version of that essay ran at PopMatters under the title "Joe Strummer: Punk-Rock Shapeshifter":
Strummer wanted to be a lot of things: writer, artist, revolutionary, world-champion cigarette smoker. But what was probably most important to him was communication, whether about racial equality, how consumerism was crap, or just whatever was running through his roiling mind that week. He wanted to use his songs to get the word out. Rock stars can get the word out; they have a megaphone louder than that of the street-corner busker or pub-rocker that Joe started out as. If he was going to be a rock star, he needed a proper stage name…
Just for kicks, here's a New York local news report from when Joe and the Clash barnstormed through the city in 1981:


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Oral hearing of the maritime border dispute between Ghana and Ivory Coast started on Monday at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea at Hamburg in Germany.
The President of the Special Chamber constituted to deal with the dispute, Judge Boualem Bouguetaia, is presiding over the hearing for the next ten days.
Ghana and Ivory Coast will give their oral submission after which the parties will visit the boundary for field assessment.
The case dubbed: "Dispute Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire was filed by Ghana after 10 failed negotiations. Ghana is seeking a declaration that it has not encroached on Cote d'Ivoire's territorial waters.
Cote d'Ivoire in February 2015 filed for preliminary measures urging the tribunal to suspend all activities on the disputed area until the definitive determination of the case.
But the Special Chamber of the ITLOS on April 25, 2015 declined to suspend production activities in the disputed area with the explanation that "in the view of the Special Chamber, the suspension of ongoing activities conducted by Ghana in respect of which drilling has already taken place would entail the risk of considerable financial loss to Ghana, and its concessioners and could also pose a serious danger to the marine environment resulting, in particular, from the deterioration of equipment".
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April 30th is Adopt A Shelter Pet Day! Of course, we're always happy to see shelter pets going to good homes. Giving that one lucky animal a second chance can be a very beautiful and rewarding experience! In this article from Arapahoe Animal Hospital, your Boulder, CO vet, serving Louisville and surrounding areas, a local vet discusses adopting shelter pets.
Don't Overlook The Imperfect Pets
Keep an open mind—and an open heart—when looking for your new four-legged friend. Many sweet and loving pets are passed up because they have disabilities, or are old or timid. Sometimes these lovable furballs make the best pets!
Consider Your Other Pets
If you have other pets, keep them in mind when choosing their new roommate. If you have a senior cat, for example, a rambunctious kitten may be too much for her.
Spend Some Time Together
Spend some time with your potential pet before making a final decision. When you adopt a pet, you're signing on for years of pet parenting, so it's important to make the right choice.
Ask Questions
Don't be afraid to ask questions about your furry friend's history or breed. You may find out more than you expected!
Consider Adopting Buddies
Animals can form very close bonds with one another. Sometimes pets that have grown up together end up in shelters. It's also possible for pets to bond while they are at the shelter. If you see two buddies or siblings up for adoption, consider taking them both. This is also something to think about if you're adopting a puppy or kitten. Your furry pals will grow up together, and will offer each other company and cuddles.
Prepare For Mishaps
Pets aren't perfect, any more than we are. Your new furry companion may have a few bad habits, or need additional training. Be prepared to face a few bumps in the road.
We recommend having everything your new pet will need ready and waiting before you bring them home. However, you may want to wait until you've made a final decision before going shopping. A senior cat will have different needs than a kitten, and a large dog will require different supplies than a Chihuahua would.
Do you have any questions about your pet's health or care? Contact Arapahoe Animal Hospital, your Boulder, CO vet clinic, serving Louisville and surrounding areas.


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13 May Gratus Capital's Todd Jones to Moderate Private Wealth Southeast Forum Panel
Gratus Capital Director of Investments Todd Jones
Todd Jones, MBA, CAIA®, Director of Investments at Gratus Capital, will serve as a moderator at the 5th Annual Private Wealth Southeast Forum hosted by Markets Group in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, May 14, 2019.
Todd will lead a panel discussion titled Opening Bell: Economic, Political, Social & Global Market Outlook featuring leaders from several Southeast wealth management firms. Panelists will discuss the various factors that could affect their global investment and business decisions related to operating a wealth management organization.
This annual meeting of regional RIAs, private banks, and family offices at Buckhead Club brings together more than 75 wealth managers and capital allocators from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
As a closed-door, invitation-only event, the Private Wealth Southeast Forum provides a platform for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and networking opportunities for the high net worth (HNW) wealth management regional community.
The single-day agenda will cover asset allocation, wealth management, alternative investing, private client management, asset protection, wealth accumulation, and legacy planning, as well as regulatory compliance and the global market outlook.
As Director of Investments, Todd Jones, MBA, CAIA®, oversees and directs Gratus Capital's investment platform, which encompasses, strategies in equities, fixed income, derivatives, and alternatives. He also serves as the portfolio manager for the firm's value-oriented mutual fund.
About Markets Group
Markets Group is an executive forum organizer with a track record of 300+ conferences in over 20 countries. Founded in 2009 in New York, Markets Group has grown into one of the largest and most successful conference organizers in the financial services sector, with over 75 professionals operating out of the US and Europe.
About Gratus Capital, LLC
Gratus Capital is a consultative wealth manager focused on serving successful individuals, families, foundations, endowments, and other institutions nationwide. We offer comprehensive financial planning and active portfolio management. Clients benefit from having a dedicated team focused on providing invaluable counsel, recommending intelligent, custom solutions, and upholding fiduciary standards. Contact us today to learn how we can help you reach your financial goals.


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Reported Bedouin land grab exposed October 23, 2012 – Atara Beck – Israel Correspondent, Jewish Tribune http://www.jewishtribune.ca/news/2012/10/23/reported-bedouin-land-grab-exposed At a recent event at the Menachem Begin Heritage Centre hosted by Regavim, an NGO that launched an "emergency campaign to save the Negev" from alleged Bedouin land theft, Professor Raphael Israeli of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said that he blames subsequent ... Read More »
Articles in the Press
UK family claims ownership of Negev village
UK family claims ownership of Negev village By Ilene Prusher Jerusalem Post 28th September, 2012 Regavim group seeks to force state to stop building on land near Beersheba and relocate 7,000 residents of Beduin village. Mark Ismailoff, who moved to Israel from the UK in 1979, lives in Jerusalem. But his sights are on the Negev, where ... Read More »
Stop the silent surrender of the Negev
When Israel realized that it could no longer ignore the massive spread of illegal Bedouin settlement in the Negev, it developed generous programs to regularize the situation. In 2007, it established the Goldberg Commission, headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Eliezer Goldberg. Following the publication of its recommendations, the Chairman of the Policy Planning Division of the Prime Minister's ... Read More »
Illegal Arab building defies Supreme Court ruling
Jerusalem Post – 27th August, 2012 The illegal "building intifada" being waged by the Palestinian Authority on state lands in Area C of Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank), has become the latest battleground for the radical left in conjunction with foreign-funded Israeli so called "human rights" NGO's such as B'tselem and Bimkom, Such unlawful land theft is being ... Read More »
Is Government and Supreme Court inaction poisoning our children?
Jerusalem Post – 15th July 2012 By ARI BRIGGS Illegal and unregulated production of charcoal, illegal due to the fact that the businesses are not registered and take place on land zoned for agriculture or in some cases on government land, is causing sever health consequences for our children. Most disturbing is that the government and the ... Read More »
Al-Zarnoog and Bet El- A Tale of two settlements
Jerusalem Post – In the beginning of the twentieth century, a group of Zionist Jews acquired a parcel of land measuring around 160 acres (65 hectares) in the Negev, in the area of Moshav Nabatim, between Beersheba and Dimona. It was registered in the names of the purchasers in the Land Registry of the British Mandate, and after the establishment ... Read More »
Tower & Stockade Settlements – Version 2.0
Jerusalem Post 6th September, 2012 In the middle of the Arab uprising of 1936, the Jewish settlement of Kfar Hittim in the Gallil was established, on 2000 dunam of land which the Jewish National Fund had purchased in 1905. David Ben Gurion, who was then the head of the Jewish Yishuv, gave his tacit approval, as long as it could ... Read More »


text: The students of Kohinoor American School (KAS) celebrated Janmashtami with equal gusto. The students formed the human pyramid and tried a hand at breaking the pot laden with chocolates. Janmashtami is an Indian traditional festival that depicts the birth of Lord Krishna. The activity of breaking the earthen pot helped in team building amongst the students. Not only the boys, but the girls also showcased their strength in breaking the pot. 'Kudos' to all those who participated.


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Commercial truckers are a somewhat ignored part of American culture, but they are on every highway and in every city, navigating tight corners and trying to make it to their destination on a tight timeline. Tractor trailers are enormous and pack a lot of power in order to carry so many goods. When a tractor-trailer or other large commercial vehicle comes into contact with a car, the injuries can be serious and even deadly. If you or a loved one has been injured from an accident involving a large semi-truck, call an experienced Solano county accident lawyer immediately to learn what legal course of actions you can take.
A fully-loaded semi truck can weigh more than 80,000 pounds. These large vehicles spend the majority of their time on major highways at the highest speed possible in order to make their deadline. Even at low speeds, this type of vehicle can cause serious damage to a passenger car that typically only weighs 4,000 pounds at most. The following are the most common injuries that occur in the incidence of a tractor-trailer colliding with a passenger car:
If you have suffered any of the above injuries, consider reaching out to a Solano County accident lawyer to learn how you can get financial compensation for your pain and suffering. A collision that results in the death of the driver or passenger of the car may have grounds for a wrongful death lawsuit. When someone's negligent behavior, or negligent lack of action, causes the death of another individual, there are laws in California that hold that person accountable.
Being involved in a collision with a commercial truck is terrible not only because of the severe damage it can do to your car and the great harm it can inflict on your loved ones, but because of the people behind the tractor-trailer. Unlike with normal fender benders, where you must discuss how to move forward with the other driver and their insurance company, tractor-trailers and their drivers are just a small part of the larger trucking company and various other entities involved in the transportation of the cargo. Determining liability can get tricky but with the help of a Solano County accident lawyer by your side, you can trust you'll get the best outcome of your case.
Everyone involved in the trucking industry is interested in getting as much cargo to the destination as quickly as possible. The people or group of people involved in getting the cargo into the truck may overload the trailer, in an attempt to get more of the product to its destination in a single trip. While that goal, in itself, is not malicious, the results of an overloaded truck can be severe.
The contents within a large commercial truck are likely to shift throughout the long journey. If the truck is overloaded with cargo, the contents can shift, causing the tractor-trailer to tip over. This is especially likely if the truck takes a turn a bit too quickly. Drivers are typically not involved in the decision-making process of how much of what to put in the truck. If the driver doesn't understand that his or her truck is overloaded, they may only exercise a normal amount of caution. This may not be enough when travelling with an overloaded truck. Rollovers can also occur if the truck stops too fast or is hit in the side by another vehicle.
Overloaded trucks are overall simply less stable than a properly loaded semi. Even if this does not result in the tractor-trailer fully flipping over, it makes it more difficult to maneuver. The last thing anyone wants of a tractor-trailer is for its driver to lose control. When a truck is overloaded, it can take on a bit of a life of its own, especially at high speeds, such as on the highway.
When taking legal action with the help of a Solano County accident lawyer against an entity, one of the most important aspects to determine is who is actually at fault. There are many groups and peoples involved in each commercial trucking endeavor, such as:
Though it may seem an overloaded truck is obviously the fault of the loading company, all these players interact and affect the end result. Even if the truck was overloaded, the breaks could have been worn past the point of reasonableness. This could be the fault of the maintenance group, but perhaps the trucking company declined the offer to have them replaced. Obviously, there are many reasons a truck can be involved in an accident and it's important to determine exactly who is at fault, even if it is multiple groups or people.
As it's a very complicated industry with a lot of money, it can be highly advantageous to have someone with experience and knowledge on your side. Hiring a high quality Solano County accident lawyer can benefit you enormously in seeking the compensation you and your loved ones need and deserve. These companies will do almost anything to avoid blame, and having someone who knows how to get to the truth of the matter can be invaluable. Consider seeking the advice or an evaluation from a legal group you can trust.
With our extensive experience handling personal injury cases of all types of accidents, including those involving large trucks, you can trust The Choyce Law Firm to fight aggressively to get the best outcome for your case. Give us a call at (707) 422-1202 to learn how a Solano County accident lawyer can help you get the financial compensation you deserve for your pain and suffering.


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Assigning tenants on NAM Server
NAM Console ► Deployment ► Manage devices, select NAM Server ► Open configuration, then select Tenants
By default, the NAM Server processes data from all tenants configured on the NAM Probes assigned to it, but you can configure it to process data from only a selection of the tenants configured on those NAM Probes.
To process data from a selection of tenants:
- In the NAM Console, find the NAM Server in the list devices and select Open configuration for that device.
- In the navigation panel, click Tenants.
The Assign Tenants screen is displayed.
- Change Process all data assigned to any tenant to Process data from the following tenants.
- If Process all data assigned to any tenant (the default setting) is chosen, the selected NAM Server processes all data it receives from any tenant.
- If Process data from the following tenants is chosen, you can then choose to process or ignore traffic based on tenants configured on the data sources for this NAM Server.
- When Process data from the following tenants is chosen, you can select, from the list of available tenants, select the tenants whose data you want this NAM Server to process.
By default, Available Tenants lists all tenants configured on all NAM Probes assigned to this NAM Server.
For each tenant you want this NAM Server to process:
- Select the tenant in the Available Tenants list.
- Click the right arrow. The selected tenant is moved to the Assigned Tenants list. Data from tenants remaining in the Available Tenants list will not be processed by this NAM Server.
- Select or clear the Process data with no tenants assigned check box. In addition to the traffic for tenants selected in the Assigned Tenants list, the reporting server will also process the traffic that was not assigned to any tenant if Process data with no tenants assigned is selected.
- Click Apply to save and apply your changes.
If you want to put more than one tenant on the NAM Server, those tenants must have distinct server IP address ranges, regardless of other tenant definition dimensions on the NAM Probe. To be safe, configure one tenant per NAM Server.