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Classrooms at Asia-Pacific Institute of Management (AIM) are fitted with latest learning and teaching technology like white boards, sound systems, and projectors to create a truly engaging learning environment for the students.
The institute provides separate hostels for girls' and boys' students. These hostels are located half a kilometer away from the institute. It has fully furnished rooms which are provided on a twin-sharing basis. The hostel rooms are comfortable, clean and well managed.
Apart from the infrastructural soundness, both the hostels provide a congenial atmosphere that gives new students optimal scope to know their seniors, learn from them, leverage their knowledge and build lasting relationships.
Auditorium in Asia-Pacific can accommodate 200+ people. The auditorium has been named after "Dr. B.B. Verma," one of the Board of Governors and Former Director, Bata India Ltd. This spacious auditorium is fully air-conditioned with all state-of-the-art facilities. Many events like convocation ceremony, guest talks, foundation day, cultural festivals, Mr. and Miss AIM, dramas, departmental fests, and seminars etc. are regularly organized in this auditorium.
We have a fully air-conditioned cafeteria that serves delicious breakfast and lunch. It stays open from 9.00am to 5.30pm on all days except Sunday
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After a cold and snowy winter here in New England an early spring contest was very welcome to all of us competitors! As the snow was slowly melting and the date was looming most of us were making bets if the field in Lexington, MA would be ready for a BBQ competition. Well, it was, and we were all ready to get out there. This time of year us New Englanders have very few choices for an overnight BBQ competition. The closest being Pork in The Park in Salisbury, MD. It's a great contest, but it's also a 9 hour drive, one way, for us. So we decided to support a local event and make the 31 minute drive to Lexington. It's officially the closest contest we've ever cooked!
At the heart of the event was organizer Steve Eastridge of Meat@Slim's fame. His work on the event was ongoing from late summer and into the winter. And it showed. The festival had food vendors, cooking demos, music, stuff for kids, and even a basketball tournament. Us teams had great power, clean (and enough!) portable bathrooms, a place for ash, trash, grease, and grey water. These things might seem very simple, but you'd be surprised by how many organizers overlook the basics. Also, all the proceeds from the event went to support the LABB Collaborative. A great cause. Despite the chilly, raw weather on Saturday they had a decent turnout. But, to make this event a giant success, they needed a big day on Sunday. And the forecast did not look good...
For Kris and I the contest started off unlike any we have done. Because the comp was so close to home I dropped off our trailer on Friday afternoon. Friday night we spent at home, trimming chicken, washing parsley, and relaxing. Saturday morning we casually got our stuff together and took our time getting to the contest site. We arrived in Lexington just before noon. It was windy and raw out. Teams were trying to set up their EZ-ups in the wind. All you could hear was the flapping of canvas and the swears of competitors. Kris and I looked around and decided to go find lunch and our hotel. A few hours later we showed up and set up our site. Well... we really didn't set up our site, we set up a modified version of our site. Those who know us know we set up our site the same at every comp. But, with the forecast of torrential rain and high winds in our very near future, we decided to try something a little different. That's a big step for us. We cleared out our trailer and set up a few tables inside of it. Besides the poor headroom it worked rather well. We got all our prep done and then walked around to visit with some friends.
Saturday night was brutal. High winds, a lot of rain, and cold temperatures. The kind of night that makes you question your hobby. If only for a minute or two. Because usually, upon reflection, these are the nights that you remember the most. So, you make the best of it. Put on the rain gear, grab a bottle of something, and go visit. We ended up at the Ique camp for most of the night. John Delpha made a wonderful porchetta that we all snacked on. The whiskey was flowing freely and for a few hours we forgot about the rain storm outside that canopy. It felt good to be cooking a contest again.
Sunday a warm front moved in, the clouds cleared, and the sun was present all day. A welcome change that everyone deserved. As the day got nicer by the hour the crowds grew. Spring Fever was in full effect and everyone was enjoying this beautiful day. We drank our traditional 11AM beer and listened to our standard play list on the iPod. Turn-ins went good and the awards ceremony was upon us quickly. After the smoke had cleared Lakeside Smokers took 4th overall, with a 1st place in ribs and a 2nd place in brisket. Not a bad way to start off the BBQ season. Congrats to Fatback Joe for Grand and for Mighty Swine Dining for Reserve.
The sun dried our gear, we got packed up, and we were home by Sunday late afternoon. As usual, the after-competition-shower felt amazing! We were home and cleaned up by 5PM. So, with award winning BBQ sitting in our fridge we did what anyone would do: Kris and I drove to one of our favorite restaurants, sat at the bar and ordered a beer, enjoyed a wonderful dinner, and reflected fondly of a great weekend.

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- Data Note
- Open Access
RCDB: Renal Cancer Gene Database
- Jayashree Ramana1Email author
© Ramana; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
- Received: 10 January 2012
- Accepted: 18 May 2012
- Published: 18 May 2012
Renal cell carcinoma or RCC is one of the common and most lethal urological cancers, with 40% of the patients succumbing to death because of metastatic progression of the disease. Treatment of metastatic RCC remains highly challenging because of its resistance to chemotherapy as well as radiotherapy, besides surgical resection. Whereas RCC comprises tumors with differing histological types, clear cell RCC remains the most common. A major problem in the clinical management of patients presenting with localized ccRCC is the inability to determine tumor aggressiveness and accurately predict the risk of metastasis following surgery. As a measure to improve the diagnosis and prognosis of RCC, researchers have identified several molecular markers through a number of techniques. However the wealth of information available is scattered in literature and not easily amenable to data-mining. To reduce this gap, this work describes a comprehensive repository called Renal Cancer Gene Database, as an integrated gateway to study renal cancer related data.
Renal Cancer Gene Database is a manually curated compendium of 240 protein-coding and 269 miRNA genes contributing to the etiology and pathogenesis of various forms of renal cell carcinomas. The protein coding genes have been classified according to the kind of gene alteration observed in RCC. RCDB also includes the miRNAsdysregulated in RCC, along with the corresponding information regarding the type of RCC and/or metastatic or prognostic significance. While some of the miRNA genes showed an association with other types of cancers few were unique to RCC. Users can query the database using keywords, category and chromosomal location of the genes. The knowledgebase can be freely accessed via a user-friendly web interface at http://www.juit.ac.in/attachments/jsr/rcdb/homenew.html.
It is hoped that this database would serve as a useful complement to the existing public resources and as a good starting point for researchers and physicians interested in RCC genetics.
- Protein-coding
- miRNA
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents a heterogeneous group of tumors differing in genetic background, responses to surgical and medical therapy and prognoses. It accounts for 3% of adult malignancy and results in over 100000 deaths worldwide annually [1]. It is the one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in Western countries with steadily escalating incidence over the last few decades [2]. RCC is classified based on morphological and genetic differences. This classification distinguishes metanephric adenoma oncocytoma and papillary adenoma as benign tumors from the clear cell (ccRCC), papillary/chromophilic, chromophobic (chRCC) and collecting duct RCC. This classification is important because of its prognostic implications. ccRCC is the most common and accounts for 70% of RCCs. RCC is diagnosed through imaging studies including CT and ultrasound, but kidney biopsy is an invasive technique that might result in complications and would not provide accurate diagnosis in certain situations. For early presentations, surgical extirpation through nephrectomy provides an effective treatment, but patients usually present at advanced stages, leading to poor outcomes. Even for patients without metastatic spread who undergo nephrectomy, metastatic recurrence is frequent. Apart from surgery, RCC is resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Cytokine therapy, which is reserved for patients with advanced disease, can produce partial responses in 10%–15% and durable remissions in 5% of the patients. The therapeutic approach to RCC is determined by the probability of cure, which is related directly to the stage or degree of tumor dissemination. An accurate assessment of the individual risk of disease progression and mortality after treatment is crucial to counsel patients and plan individualized surveillance protocols. Multiple studies have investigated the deregulation of genes in renal carcinogenesis at the genomic, transcriptomic as well as proteomic levels using a suite of molecular profiling techniques [3]. These include cytogenetic studies [4], gene expression analyses through tissue microarrays [5, 6], serum proteomics [7], genomic resequencing [8], and microRNA profiling [9] and have yielded useful insights into RCC biology and clinical presentation, and have led to a rich understanding of the heterogeneity of this disease which greatly influences prognostic decisions. Despite the voluminous data available on RCC, the information is rather sporadic and scattered in literature.
In the last few years, a number of databases have emerged with a central focus on a particular cancer type as exemplified by Lung Cancer Database [10], Oral Cancer Database [11], Breast Cancer Gene Database [12], Cervical Cancer Database [13] etc., however there is no report of any such database for RCC. This work describes the development of the Renal Cancer Gene Database (RCDB) that catalogs the protein-coding and miRNA genes known to be involved in renal carcinogenesis as evidenced by biomedical literature. Due to its specific focus on RCC, unlike dbDEMC [14] and miR2Disease [15], it provides a far broader coverage of the miRNAsdysregulated in RCC. It incorporates information regarding the relevance of miRNAs to molecular classification of renal tumors (neoplasms) based on tumor type, metastatic status or prognosis group. This provides an additional advantage over other databases like miR2disease. Many of the protein-coding and miRNA genes in RCDB are useful prognostic and diagnostic markers and are therefore clinically relevant. These may also serve as therapeutic targets.
Construction and content
Classification of protein-coding genes in RCDB
No. of genes
Classification of miRNA genes in RCDB
No. of miRNAs
1) chromocytoma vs oncocytoma
2) ccRCC vs papillary RCC
3) Poor vs Good prognosis
4) ccRCC vs normal kidney
5) chRCC vs normal kidney
6) ccRCC vs chRCC
7) Metastatic vs Non-metastatic RCC
8) Primary vs Late metastasis
Utility and discussion
RCDB provides a comprehensive compilation of information obtained from published RCC research, complemented with the information from public databases like Swissprot, Refseq etc. It would allow the users in performing comparative studies, e.g. to deduce the genes that are shared with other cancers as well as the ones which are unique to RCC. This analysis was performed for miRNA genes in RCDB by surveying the literature for the involvement of these miRNAs in different cancers (Additional file 1). While most of the miRNAs were found to be reported in other types of malignancies, few were unique to RCC. The latter included miR455, miR219, miR509, miR627, miR648, miR510, miR379, miR136, miR376b, miR154, miR551b, miR514, miR383, miR453, miR582, miR450, miR425, miR365-1 etc.
RCDB has been developed as an integrated information source to assist the research efforts of scientists and clinicians working on renal carcinoma. Besides providing a panoramic overview of RCC, it facilitates thorough exposition of each gene by providing hyperlinks to relevant PubMed records. In future, RCDB would be updated and additional data incorporated. It is anticipated that RCDB would serve as a valuable resource to the scientific community.
Availability and requirements
Project home page: http://www.juit.ac.in/attachments/jsr/rcdb/homenew.html.
Authors' Affiliations
- Danilin S, Sourbier C, Thomas L, Lindner Vr, Rothhut S, Dormoy Vr, Helwig J-J, Jacqmin D, Lang H, Massfelder T: Role of the RNA-binding protein HuR in human renal cell carcinoma. Carcinogenesis. 2010, 31: 1018-1026. 10.1093/carcin/bgq052.PubMedView ArticleGoogle Scholar
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- Baasiri R, Glasser S, Steffen D, Wheeler D: The Breast Cancer Gene Database: a collaborative information resource. Oncogene. 1999, 18: 7958-7965.PubMedView ArticleGoogle Scholar
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Variation on the Door - Margaret Randall
with Adrienne Rich
There is nothing I would not give
for years or even minutes,
time moving differently in this place we occupy,
memory hoisting itself upright in us.
There is nothing I would give
you or another,
repetition comforts me today,
a long delicate line of pink light parts the sky
and a coyote crossing the road makes you smile.
Knowing you here—a here
distant as voices or a room apart
(working as I work)
our air becoming a single air—
knowing you here holds my body in space,
fixes my mind.
This knowledge neither linear nor perfect
is again and again the door
opening because we have chosen
to walk through, chosen to risk,
remember our names.
Memory walks tall in this dream, memory
and hope.
Nothing can call me home, love,
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IMC (Indus Motors Company) the local distributor of Toyota in Pakistan, has hinted a possible increase in the prices of its product line-up especially Toyota Corolla 2016, in the near future. It should be mentioned that IMC has already increased the tariff of its products earlier in May 2016.
Indus Motor Company held its analyst briefing recently, where the company's briefing for security analysis (June 30, 2016) hinted at the possible increase in the coming months to cover the Pakistani Rupee depreciation in relation to US Dollar and Japanese Yen.
Moreover, Pak-Suzuki increased the prices of their products by 3% from August 2016, which saw an increase of PKR 20,000 to 30,000 in the price tags of all vehicles offered by the company. And now, we might expect to hear the second price increase by IMC (The 2nd largest auto-manufacturer in Pakistan) in the same year. Here I would like to mention that the first price hike by IMC, saw an increased price tag of PKR 10,000 to 65,000 in Toyota Corolla cars in Pakistan.
Furthermore, EDB (Engineering Development Board) has asked both IMC and Pak-Suzuki to justify the reasons behind these latest price hikes. But so far, no response has been made from both auto-manufacturers.
The fact still remains that the company yielded a solid profit of PKR 9.1 billion after taxes as compared to the previous Fiscal Year's 3.9 billion PKR. This growth is mainly attributed to an increasing demand for the company's Toyota Corolla models in the local market. It should also be noted that IMC is all geared up and prepared to introduce the new Toyota Hilux Revo and the 2nd Generation of Toyota Fortuner in the coming months, which will help to elevate the status of IMC in the eyes of Pakistanis and will help the company to retain its good public relations with the investors and customers. But the question still remains: How will this probable price hike effect the company's sales and overall customer relations?
Let us know about your remarks on this expected price hike.


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Our summer offer includes:
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Terms & Conditions: Rates valid until September 30, 2017. Offer is subject to availability and a minimum length of stay may be required. Blackout dates apply. Rate is based upon single or double occupancy and subject to applicable taxes and fees. An additional charge of $50 per person, per night plus tax applies for the 3rd and 4th adults in each occupied room. Cannot be combined with any other package, rate, or discount. Not applicable to reservations of 10 or more.


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WWE Diva Search Winners
The winner of the WWE Diva Search gets a contract with the WWE to compete as a WWE diva with the first competition the
diva only getting a photoshoot and no contract, the second and third competitions being a member of the Raw brand, and then
the fourth and fifth competitions being any brand
2003: Jaime Koeppe
2004: Christy Hemme
2005: Ashley Massaro (Ashley)
2006: Layla El (Layla)
2007: Eve Torres
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Check out Meagan Good, the latest from Fly Society. The track was released on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011. Fly Society's chances in this game are improving with each new release, and Meagan Good is no exception - quite the opposite, in fact. It's a nice addition to the impressive catalogue Fly Society has been building over the years. We're definitely anticipating the next move.
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Sleep Apnea Death Risks
collisions with pedestrians or cyclists -- 80% of the crashes of that kind were
in sleep apnea patients."
All sleep apnea patients appeared to be at risk of crashing their cars. The
problem wasn't limited to those with severe apnea.
"It didn't matter how severe your sleep apnea was. We found that you
still have the same increased risk even if you have mild sleep apnea,"
Mulgrew says.
And patients seemed unable to tell when they were at greater risk. Patients
who said they drove even when they felt sleepy were no more likely than other
sleep apnea patients to wreck their cars.
The results of the study were so striking that Mulgrew now carefully asks
his sleep apnea patients about their driving histories and about any "near
misses" they might be having. He is much more likely to recommend the most
effective sleep apnea treatment -- a continuous positive air pressure or CPAP
device -- to patients with driving problems, even if their sleep apnea is
relatively mild.
Sleep Apnea and Diabetes
While evaluating older, obese men for a sleep apnea study, Botros and his
Yale colleagues noticed that about a third of the patients suffered from
diabetes as well as sleep apnea.
To see whether the two conditions were related, the researchers kept track
of nearly 600 sleep apnea patients for up to six years. Compared with similar
men without sleep apnea, the patients were more than two-and-a-half times more
likely to develop diabetes.
The more severe the sleep apnea, the higher the patients' risk of
"We know that by measuring markers in the blood that the body of a
person with sleep apnea is in a highly inflammatory, highly excitatory
state," Botros says. "This state increases stress hormones, and we
think the insulin-making pancreatic beta cells are affected."
Botros and colleagues are now looking at whether CPAP treatment can reduce
sleep apnea patients' diabetes risk.
Sleep Apnea and Pregnancy Complications
Sleep apnea is more common among obese people. But the extra weight gain
during the third trimester of pregnancy often puts a woman at risk of sleep
apnea, says Hatim Youssef, DO, of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of
New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Youssef and colleagues noticed that in their hospital, women tended to have
low blood oxygen levels at night if their BMI (body mass index, a measure of
weight according to height) went over 35. A BMI of 30 is considered obese for
people who are not pregnant.
So the researchers analyzed the 2003 medical records of 4 million U.S. women
who delivered babies. Only 452 of these 4 million women had sleep apnea. But
these 452 women were much more likely than other women to experience
- Women with sleep apnea were twice as likely as other women to have
gestational diabetes.
- Women with sleep apnea were four times more likely than other women to have
pregnancy-induced high blood pressure.
"I absolutely think women whose BMI goes over 35 when they are pregnant
should be assessed for sleep apnea," Youssef tells WebMD. "We really
are pushing our obstetric colleagues to have this on their radar because sleep
apnea is very treatable. It may help to treat this condition, which is
dangerous to the mother and to the fetus."
Obesity isn't the only risk factor for sleep apnea in pregnant women,
Youssef says. He suggests that women with preeclampsia or high blood pressure
are also at higher risk.
Sleep Apnea and Heart Attack, Heart Death
Having sleep apnea for four or five years raises a person's risk of having a
heart attack or dying by 30%, find Neomi Shah, MD, and colleagues at Yale
Shah's team followed 1,123 patients evaluated for sleep apnea. More than 500
of these patients had 15 or more low-oxygeevents per hour of sleep.
After adjusting for other heart risk factors, these patients were 30% more
likely to have a heart attack or die over a four-and-a-half year period. The
more severe the sleep apnea, the higher the risk of heart attack or death.
"There is some evidence to make us believe that when sleep apnea is
appropriately treated, the risk of heart disease can be lowered," Shah says
in a news release.
By Salynn Boyles
Reviewed by Louise Chang
B)2005-2006 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved


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Community Support: NC Worm Farm Completes 1st Year of Adopt-A-Highway Program
We at the NC Worm Farm believe in giving back to the community as much as we can. When trying to come up with ideas of how to accomplish this goal, we thought of with a real winner. What better way to go green and give back then to join the adopt a highway program?!?!
Our section of road includes a 2-mile span of Maynard Rd in Cary. If you are in that neck of the woods, look for our signs near Cary Towne Center. It starts from Cary Towne Blvd and continues on to Reedy Creek Rd. Above you can see our sign….
We were excited to get out an clean-up. So we donned our orange vests, grabbed garbage bags, and hit the road to battle litter. And my has the time really flown by, February marked the end of our first year of the Adopt-a-highway program. We are proud of our stretch of road. Initially it was polluted with everything from McDonald's bags, cups, and hubcaps to partially shredded credit cards. But after the first two cleanups, the road looked noticeably cleaner.
Over the course of the year, we had four clean-up days. We were lucky enough to enjoy 2 beautiful days of about 65-75 degrees. Walking the roadside removing litter in the warm sun…it sure beat sitting at computer or being indoors! And then there were the other two days…they not-so nice. The first was during our summer event, the temperatures reached 94F. Needless to say we went through a lot of water and sunscreen….but we got the road cleaned-up and hit the showers.
The second not-so-pleasant day was in January. It snowed that morning. Most of the snow had cleared off the roadside, but it was a little chilly with the wind. Below is a photo of Steve (looking a little scary) braving the elements to keep the road clean… notice snow in background.
But overall, it is a good cause and helps to keep our town clean! We will have this section of road for another three years. So if anyone ever wants to help join us for a cleanup day, let us know…. the more the merrier!


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Stylish Spanish centre-back Julio endured a frustrating 2014/15 campaign as injuries limited his chances, but he still demonstrated some of the qualities that have seen him earmarked as a potential talent for the future.
A product of Barcelona's La Masia academy who joined Arsenal in 2013, Julio featured prominently for the Gunners at U21 level during his first season in North London and went on to represent the first-team in a friendly against Boreham Wood.
Small for a centre-back but extremely comfortable in possession, Julio missed much of last season through injury but returned to the fold late in the season and scored his first goal for the U21s against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Also capable of playing at right-back but far more accomplished at the heart of the defence, Julio will be seeking to remain injury free during 2015/16 campaign and is expected to be heavily involved for the U21s .
The Spanish youth international will also be hopeful of earning a place in the Capital One Cup squad.
Name Julio Jose Pleguezuelo
Nationality Spanish (U18, U17, U16)
Born 26.1.97
U21 apps 13 (1 goal)
U19 apps 5
U18 apps 8
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Kids, Popular Culture, Social Media (and The Law)
I spent a significant amount of time over the past several years closely monitoring the epic Barbie v. Bratz battle in California. Much of the case, as many reporters have noted, centered on efforts by toy companies to recapture the highly prized demographic of girls between the ages of 9 and 12. Once upon a time, these girls were major doll consumers — I vividly remember girl classmates talking about Barbies in 5th (and maybe even 6th) grade. Of course, my youth was during the Pleistoceine era, so my memory may not be perfect.
Today things have changed, and doll play has moved younger and younger down the age chain — a fashion doll that would have once been the province of a 10 year old is now the plaything of a six year old. The industry even has a catchy name for this phenomenon: GPOY (girls playing older, younger). By the time girls are 12, in many cases they have largely abandoned toys altogether — a problematic development, as you might imagine, for companies that make toys.
The Official Son of Legally Social is 13, so I get a chance to observe this demographic from up close on a regular basis. And with this perspective, it seems to me pretty obvious how — and why — this has happened over the past two decades. But more importantly, the transformation we see in kids today holds a lesson for all of us who think about social media, and what we can expect as the future hurtles towards us at alarming speed.
But first some history: Kids are self-evidently creatures of popular culture, but this has not always been the case. In fact, popular culture is a fairly new phenomenon itself. Before the media age, the notion of a non-localized popular culture was simply non-existent. This is critical to keep in mind, because the rapid changes of the past few years are completely consistent with the changes that have taken place over the past 100 years in our society at large, and the implications for how we address the legal concerns that arise in this context are dramatic.
Once upon a time, speech was inevitably a limited phenomena. Literacy was fairly restricted, and the only form of communication in most scenarios was oral. This led to social silos (fairly limited social groupings that had interests in common, geographically isolated). As Gregory Clark discussed in his epic A Farewell To Alms, until the beginning of the 19th century most of the world, including most of the Western world, lived in fashion no different than our Stone Age ancestors. This was not that long ago — in fact, the grandson of President John Tyler (born in 1790) is still very much alive today.
So the media age, as we understand it, is in human terms something still in its infancy. We have gone from letterpress pamphleteers to Facebook in a handful of generations. My grandparents were the first generation to experience radio, and my parents the first to experience television. But while this is startling to adults who remember the 8 track tape, this is even more dramatic in its impact on kids, and how our culture and its laws will develop over the next several years.
Kids historically had little social autonomy. The classic film A Christmas Story vividly describes a world where kids talked to their neighborhood friends, and the grapevine of misinformation was an endless game of operator. Kids could receive some information, but could not broadcast it on their own. They had no freedom to develop an aesthetic, because they had no freedom to do anything in particular, because their world was limited, and they didn't have access to anything other than advertisements in the newspaper and the holiday window at Higbee's department store.
It goes without saying that today's world is saturated with popular culture. Every square inch of your life is filled with commercial advertisements, music, hundreds of channels of content, millions of websites offering fellowship based on the narrowest or broadest of criteria, and mobile devices that can connect you at a moments notice to any piece of information imaginable. If you are an adult, and have well developed filters to sift through this deluge of content, it's still difficult to assimilate: There are privacy settings on every platform. There are restrictions on the sharing of content in some contexts, but not others. Some things on the Internet appear to be freely copied, while others will get you fined. The same water-cooler conversations that took place for decades may now get you sued for defamation, or fired. All of the legal restrictions on the flow of information that have always existed but were irrelevant to individuals now apply to you.
But imagine if you are a kid. Now everything becomes "old" in record time, as the newest "new" thing comes into your vision only days (hours?) after your last experience. Something that may have been enjoyable for years in a prior generation is now replaced by a yearning for the next experience almost immediately. You become jaded sooner, become a teenager sooner, become a consumer sooner. You have the ability to communicate your thoughts and desires to the world, not just to your friends. You have a mobile device on you at all times, and every thought that enters your mind can now be broadcast with or without the application of judgment you may or may not have had a chance to develop. One teenaged daughter of a friend was recently offended that her parents might want to look at her tumblr — "my tumblr is for me" she said, even though it was visible to millions of people and had thousands of followers.
The law doesn't think about any of this. Oh, sure, the FTC just revised its approach to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), to take into account the fact that social media and geolocation exist, but that hardly matters. The social context for social media and mobile communication is moving so much faster than the law can possibly adapt, and kids are the bleeding edge of that transformation. They are not only playing older at younger ages, they don't even realize that they are playing anymore, using adult tools.
So what does this all mean? It means that your social media policy is probably out of date, even if you just put it together last year, because having a social media policy (and a privacy policy, and terms of use) is no longer a static requirement. You need to be aware of what is going on all the time, and think about whether your approach to the legal risks is correct, sufficient, or even relevant. Having policies is now a process that continues on, forever, mutating your approach as the technology and the social contract are altered in real time. The intellectual property that you never thought about may be the only form of recognition you have in this new world of branded media, and you may want to consider how and whether you protect yourself. In other words, you need to audit yourself, and your approach, to electronic communication, all the time, as a reflex.
So be systematic, and think about these issues now before you have a problem. You can't be reactive in a world that moves too fast for adults.


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Formats and tools
- Unit Description
- Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver TAEPDD501, 'Maintain and enhance professional practice'.
- Google Links
- links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
- Books
- Reference books for 'Maintain and enhance professional practice' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)
Elements and Performance Criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes.
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1. Model high standards of performance
1.1 Incorporate individual responsibilities and accountabilities into personal work plans in accordance with organisational and legal requirements
1.2 Model appropriate professional techniques and strategies
1.3 Apply ethical and inclusive practices in professional practice
2. Determine personal development needs
2.1 Assess own knowledge and skills against relevant benchmarks to determine development needs and priorities
2.2 Seek input from other relevant personnel about own development needs and priorities
2.3 Identify ways to update and maintain currency of vocational competency, and prepare a vocational currency plan
2.4 Identify ways to update, and maintain, vocational education and training (VET) knowledge and skills, as well as trainer and assessor competence, and prepare a VET currency plan
2.5 Combine the vocational currency plan and VET currency plan into an overall professional development plan
3. Collaborate with peers in professional development
3.1 Observe facilitators in facilitation practice and provide them constructive feedback
3.2 Invite peers to observe and provide constructive feedback on own facilitation practices
3.3 Interview assessors in relation to the judgements they make in their assessment practices, and provide them constructive feedback
3.4 Invite peers to question own judgements in assessment practices, and provide constructive feedback
4. Participate in professional development activities
4.1 Select and implement development opportunities to support continuous learning and maintain currency of professional practice
4.2 Participate in professional networks to support continuous learning and maintain currency of professional practice
4.3 Engage in processes that include observing peers in training and assessment practices, and providing them with feedback
4.4 Invite peers and others to observe, and provide feedback, on own training and assessment practices
4.5 Use technology to maintain regular communication with relevant networks, organisations and individuals
5. Reflect on and evaluate professional practice
5.1 Research developments and trends impacting on professional practice and integrate information into work performance
5.2 Use feedback from colleagues and clients to identify, and introduce, improvements in work performance
5.3 Document professional development activities, learning and planned changes in behaviours, in accordance with the organisation's systems and processes


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With every major tournament draw, there is a group labelled the Group of Death. Similarly, there is a weaker group full of sides with limited expectations. That is undoubtedly Group A at Euro 2012.
Russia are the strongest team in the group and favourites to qualify on top. They were the surprise package at the 2008 tournament, reaching the last four before falling at the hands of eventual winners Spain.
Andrei Arshavin has largely been disappointing during his spell at Arsenal, but lit up the tournament four years ago and seems to thrive on the international stage. He is the one to watch in Group A and fans of Betfair should remember this.
Greece sit just one place behind Russia in the world rankings, in 13th, and will feel confident having qualified without losing a game. A repeat of their triumph at the 2004 tournament in Portugal is unrealistic but Greece certainly have enough quality to qualify for the knockout stage.
Co-hosts Poland are ranked below the likes of Haiti and Guinea in the world rankings, though they have suffered from a lack of competitive action in recent times. Poland's last competitive fixture was a 1-0 home defeat to Slovakia in October 2009 and they may be caught cold at the start of Euro 2012. However, you cannot discount them in front of their home crowd and the Betfair Euro 2012 betting reflects this.
Czech Republic have been on the decline for a few years now. They struggled through a group containing holders Spain in qualification before beating Montenegro 3-0 in the play-offs. Given Poland's home advantage, the Czechs are the outside bet for qualification.
Group A may lack the quality of the other groups at Euro 2012, but there is a competiveness to it which makes it just as intriguing. It is difficult to pick a winner.


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From their collection roots, rock, & revolution:
who lies
People in a bind, unemployment line
Promise of relief from the military minds
Bechtel, Halliburton, Carlyle, more
Emptying the shelves of the company store
Who lies? Who dies? Who pays? Who profits?...
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Who lies? Condoleezza Rice lies for $150,000 a speaking engagement, while Karl Rove receives $25,000 to speak lies at University of California campuses. The deliberate hoodwinking of the public by means of false intelligence and media manipulation to start the attack on Iraq goes unpunished to date. So much for the rule of law. Maybe that's why activists turn out for the chance to perform citizen's arrests on Rove and Rumsfeld from coast to coast to coast.
Who dies? A large number of Iraqi moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, cousins, babies and kids died. The number that can be documented is around 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths by war related violence. Other estimates range upward by as much as a factor of 10, for a total more like one million. Either number represents too much needless suffering to families, and too many enemies created.
Who pays? You and me, sister.
The National Priorities Project tallied the cost of war including the most recent supplemental funding bill. As of the end of September this year, the price tag to U.S. taxpayers is a whopping $749.9 billion for Iraq, $337.8 billion for Afghanistan, for a total of $1.09 TRILLION. How many school closings could have been avoided with a trillion dollar budget?
Who profits? Well, it sure as hell isn't the soldier who staggers home from multiple deployments and stop-loss to try to make ends meet on his or her salary. Top pay for an U.S. Army Corporal is $36,174 a year, while a Sargeant can get up to $47,574 (a minute of our Afghanistan occupation costs more).
"Bechtel, Halliburton, Carlyle, more/Emptying the shelves of the company store." Bring Our War $$ Home!


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Often I review some of my old photos and journals when reminded of an adventure. And this Thanksgiving weekend, thankful for all my travels, I decided to look back to the adventure that changed the course of my future. An adventure where I actually spent a Thanksgiving searching for a slice of Turkey to go with my beans and rice. This weekend I looked back to the first leg of my travel sabbatical – Costa Rica.
And now six years later, I am still so thankful for that trip. Perhaps even more thankful each day as those carefree steps taken on the soft sands of Costa Rica led me down a different path. I am thankful for becoming Pura Vida and thankful for the stepping stone that enabled Stay Adventurous.
I am also thankful for the many sunsets I watched in Costa Rica. It became part of my daily routine. I'll never forget the majestic magenta and robust reds of the sunsets in Tamarindo from the beachfront bars. And I'll always remember the evenings sitting on the sands of Santa Teresa with new-found friends taking in a few beers and discussing the day's waves after a quality surf session. All so beautiful in so many ways.
And on one of those evenings when starting a fire on the beach in Santa Teresa, a few horses wandered down close to the ocean's edge. As they passed, I snapped this photo. Apparently, they too wanted to enjoy the Sunset. I don't blame them. It is always a magical moment. Happy Sunset Sunday.
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There's more to Miami hotels than a stylish place to spend the night. They're also home to some of the city's best restaurants. From classic steakhouses to casual pizzerias, these are our favorite Miami hotel restaurants.
With three stellar signature restaurants tucked away inside this historic MiMo icon, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach is a true foodie's paradise. Start with London import Hakkasan serving haute Cantonese cuisine in a sumptuous setting or sample celebrity chef Scott Conant's legendary spaghetti dish at Scarpetta. Stripsteak by Michael Mina is a stylish, glittering, two-level steakhouse helmed by one of the country's most creative chefs. Indulge in its raw bar's seafood tower and then move on to your favorite cut of steak or try something different like the lobster pot pie. Mina has also created a more casual concept at the resort, the subterranean Pizza & Burger brasserie. There are even more casual and grab-and-go dining destinations at the Fontainebleau. You'll have to stay a while to try them all.
SLS Brickell boasts not one, but two James Beard Award-winning chefs at the helm of its signature restaurants. Homegrown talent Chef Michael Schwartz has created his first Italian concept with F'ilia, an homage to straightforward, ingredient-driven dishes like the classic Roman caccio e pepe pasta, meatballs and a Caesar salad prepared tableside. Spanish avant-garde Chef Jose Andres created a new seafood concept at the hotel with Bazaar Mar. Indulge in creative dishes like the California funnel cake made with seaweed, avocado and blue crab or Neptune's pillow made with tuna sashimi and spicy tuna with air breads, spicy rocoto and sea lettuce powder, amongst many other out-of-this-world delights.
The over-the-top Faena is a palace of opulence, dripping in red velvet, leopard print and gilded flourishes with art by contemporary masters. There's nothing subtle about the place, including its restaurants. Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann is a carnivore's dream. The legendary Argentinean grillmaster specializes in flame-fired preparations, including skirt steak with chimichurri sauce crowned by crispy domino potatoes. For inventive pan-Asian cuisine, make a reservation at Pao by James Beard Award-winning Chef Paul Qui. The Unicorn dish has earned cult status, made of sea urchin with grilled sweet corn pudding, sake aioli and chili de arbol. From there, opt for anything from Pekin duck to roasted fish to the wagyu ribeye—and don't skip one of their specialty rice dishes to share.
One of Miami's newest luxury hotels is Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club in Surfside. The historic property was once the playground of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Winston Churchill. The original club has been restored blending Old Florida glamour with new modern architecture by Richard Meier. They've also imported Le Sirenuse, a stunning, family-owned restaurant from Italy's Amalfi Coast. A true fine dining restaurant, you'll delight in delicate crudos, pastas and steaks accompanied by some of the best service in the city.
When Jean-Georges Vongerichten is at the helm of the hotel's food and beverage program, you make a reservation immediately. At The Miami Beach EDITION, snag a table at Matador Room and enjoy the French master's interpretation of pan-Latin and Caribbean food, ranging from sweet pea guacamole to Florida black grouper tacos and more. For a more casual dining experience, duck into Market just off the hotel's lobby for black truffle and fontina pizza, kale salads, meatballs and all manner of delicious fare.
The Betsy South Beach recently refreshed its food and beverage program and debuted the casual Alley pizzeria in a hip atmosphere. The straightforward menu specializes in a focused selection of pizzas, like San Marzano tomato with mozzarella, as well as delicious starters like snapper crudo, meatballs and zucchini salad. For a more fine dining option, LT Steak & Seafood is a concept by French Chef Laurent Tourondel. Start with items like crispy calamari and move on to your choice of steak or local snapper.
Fresh off a multi-million dollar renovation, Loews debuted updated food and beverage offerings. Lure Fishbar is its high-end signature restaurant, imported from New York's Soho. The inventive seafood menu is designed with plates meant to mix and match ranging form crispy rice cakes with spicy tuna tartare to a classic lobster roll and an Alaskan king crab cake. In addition to the hotel's casual Preston's Market, Loews also launched Bar Collins serving a wide variety of small plates and wood-fired pizza. Miami Joe Coffee Co. is the perfect spot for grab-and-go treats ranging from sandwiches and salads to homemade ice cream from Little Havana.
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The Christian Gospels give two widely differing genealogies for Jesus, which have baffled theologians throughout the centuries. Not only are these genealogies irreconcilable, but the stories of the two accounts of the birth of Jesus, as given by Matthew and Luke, are also radically different. How can this be accounted for? An ancient tradition tells that there were two children named Jesus, a year apart in age and both born to parents named Mary and Joseph. These two children, brought up in close proximity, eventually "united" in a mysterious way, resulting in a single "Jesus" destined to grow up and fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament. In grappling with this mystery, Nesfield-Cookson uses all available sources—biblical accounts, Christian apocryphal writings, Aramaic and Hebrew documents discovered in the Qumran caves in the twentieth century (the "Dead Sea Scrolls"), writings by Syrian theologians of the thirteenth century, and, in particular, statements by Rudolf Steiner, the first modern thinker to speak of the existence of two Jesus children. The author also refers to the many works of art—largely by Italian artists of the Renaissance period—which appear to depict two Jesus children. Fifteen of these paintings are reproduced as beautiful, full-color plates. Includes a 15-page color insert.
MYSTERY OF THE TWO JESUS CHILDREN: And the Descent of the Spirit of the Sun By Bernard Nesfield-Cookson. 104 pages. 6x9 Paperback. Illustrated. Notes. Bibliography.
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The last week has seen the members of the community working together in the field to get in our harvest of potatoes. After a long spell of wet weather, the good Lord saw fit to send us a few days of dry, bright, sunny weather, which we took full advantage of. We have been truly blessed this year since the harvest was excellent. We bagged approximately 9 - 10 tonnes of potatoes, enough to last us to next years harvest.
The view from the tractor cab.
Rev. Fr Anthony Mary, C.SS.R. pulls the harvester through the field.
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Reforms from Florence. We want no brave heart in the EU. The Swiss are saving up while the Greeks score.
Italy has a new Prime Minister since Enrico Letta has been ousted in a vote of his own party. Italy's politics is a part of their pop-culture, so it's no wonder that the position of Prime Minister is unstable. This one is already the fourth since the beginning of the crisis and thirteenth in the last twenty years. Name of the current political team's coach is Matteo Renzi. He served as a mayor of Florence and his special sign is a label of being the youngest Prime Minister ever.
His first 100 days in the office were quite temperamental. He has announced to carry out labour market reform in March, a reform of the public administration in April and a reform of tax system in May. However, he did not impress anyone in Europe. He is suspected of paving the way for negotiations of an exception in fiscal rules. Therefore, a warning has already been given, that a country with 2 billion high public debt should not look for any exceptions. But he who laughs last laughs best and it has never been Brussels at the exceptions so far.
Europe is being spooked by a ghost of secession. And we are not talking about the independence declaration of the city of Lviv. The Commission is more concerned about Scotland aspiring for independence. The Commision President Barosso has said it would be "extremely difficult, if not impossible" for them to join the European Union. It's quite interesting, that it was no problem to approve the accession of "questionable" countries like Romania, but it is a problem when it comes to a western developed country. It might sound intimidating. Maybe the Commssion just wants to be heard in Catalonia.
Flying into the rage, Barroso mentioned also the Swiss. Those have imposed quotas on newcomers from all the EU member states which are very badly perceived by the EU and Western countries' representatives. He has stated, that the vote will have an impact on the cooperation in science, education or energy trade. Because you cannot "have your cake and eat it too". Quips might be funny , but sometimes they make no sense just like in this case. It's questionable who will be the loser in case of cancelling cooperation agreements with one of the most developed countries in the world.
The true is, that we still have a lot to learn from the Swiss. Trying to economize, the Swiss airforce is only available during office hours. Out of the office hours, the country relies heavily on deals with its neighbours, just like few days ago, when Italian and French fighter jets were scrambled to escort a hijacked boeing to Geneva. The Swiss army is being held in respect, since even the Nazis did not dare to attack them although Hitler considered them as a mortal enemy and a country which possesses the most disgusting political system.
On the contrary, the angry French Prime Minister Hollande and his predecessors have forgotten to save up and now they beg foreign investors to come to the country. A sharp decline in foreign investments has startled them. But also when investors come, it's hard for the French to welcome them. Not even government subventions can help sinking Peugeot, so the company has to be rescued by a Chinese partner. Therefore, the Peugeot family codes control over the company after two centuries and starts learning how to pronounce "Donfeng Motor" without French accent.
Greeks have a reason to celebrate. The country has posted first current account surplus in 66 years, which means that its exports have exceeded imports. The surplus of 1.24 billion was driven by a significant fall in imports and a 15% increase in tourism receipts. But there are still voices talking about need of another rescue package. However, that won't be approved until the European elections, since it would be very unpleasant for the politicians to explain the necessity of addititional support to Greece when the crisis is already over (for the fifth time already).
European elections is a hot topic in Greece. The government has suddenly decided to change the rules abolishing the party list system and replacing it with the direct election of MEPs. The government considers the decision as a democratic leap while the opposition says that it as an attempt to mitigate the expected magnitude of their defeat.
In Spain, a new record has been reached rising the bad loans ratio to 13.6 %. A scandal erupted in Austria when the former deputy governor of the central bank and eight other people went on trial charged with bribing officials in Azerbaijan and Syria to win banknote contracts. Public institutions in Cape Verde got better off legally. The country which population is approximately half a million people will be provided with 55 million euro of development aid, although it is one of the most developed countries in Africa.
Savings of European penny-pinching citizens should be used for good purposes – from Euro officials' point of view. They have proposed to "mobilize" (confiscate) private savings to fund long-term investments. Of course, only of those with good purposes.
But there won't be too much of them probably. The upcoming financial transaction tax will probably deprive European retirees and other savers of hundreds of billions of their savings value. German and Italian citizens will be the most afflicted with 150 billion and 200 billion worth estimated losses. Slovakia will join the club too, as it can not miss any new chance to tax its citizens.
The European resolution fund, which will be paid for by the banks has made a step forward to its implementation. Ten years seems quite enough to create it. Germans were reluctant to mutualise the fund earlier, but they seem to have changed their mind now. So we can look forward to see our banks rescuing the Spanish ones in only few years.
Hope you will have a funny rest of the week – on the contrary to this ending.
Martin Vlachynský
Translated by Michal Kollár
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A new kitty once a week! Click here to find out how your cat can appear on Van City Kitty.
Here are the deets on Hannah as submitted by VIA reader : Becki Chan!
|Name: Hanna Grey
Breed/Colouring: Russian Blue. She has a grey coat and green eyes
Hood: Yaletown
Hangouts:Anywhere her person happens to be sitting. If she is watching TV on the couch, Hannah takes up most of the seat and her person sits on the edge to make Hannah happy. Also, on top of laptops that are in use.
Habits: She is a big fan of licking the bathtub just after someone showers. She also likes rolling over sideways in hope of someone walking by and petting her!
Favorite Things: Tap water, black hair bands, tea bags
Other Info: Hannah is very loved and has her very own blog!
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Mother's Day Lunch at Taxi Kitchen - Federation Square
MelbourneSun May 8th 2016
Melbourne, Taxi Kitchen, Level 1, Transport Hotel, Federation SquareMelbourne https://www.myguidemelbourne.com/events/mothers-day-lunch-at-taxi-kitchen---federation-square VISIT WEBSITE
Event Details
At Taxi Kitchen we are all about sharing with friends and family and Mother's Day is a perfect time to share a meal with your loved ones. On this special day, we will be hosting a Mother's Day lunch serving three courses for $75 per person. Children (12 years and below) can dine for $25 each and will receive their own fun menu. Sittings will be at 11:30am for a two-hour sitting, and 1:30pm till close at 4:00pm. Book in now and say thanks to mum with lunch in the Kitchen. Click on the website button on the right -->> For the Mother's Day menu, the attachment has all the details -- >> Check out our Facebook page and give us a 'Like' This event and more like it now feature in our new APP, downloadable here
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"Clive Nicholas" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Re: ST clarify
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Maarten Buis replied to Eric Uslaner:
> I persume that the Clive meant that the author of -clarify- no longer
> develops it, which would make sense as Gary King seems to have become
> more interested in R than in Stata. That does not mean that -clarify-
> is discredited, or that others stopped using it. If it will remain
> popular and if there is room for improvement, someone else will
> eventually create a -clarify2- or contact Gary King to get permision to
> further develop -clarify-.
Yes, Maarten, that's exactly what I meant.
I use -clarify- quite regularly and find it very useful, but several
months ago, I downloaded R to try out the package that King has
decided to supersede -clarify- with: Zelig. I've not got very far to
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After sales to the general public began 1st January, marijuana shops throughout the state are already running out stock with 100,000 people rushing to purchase the recreational drug.
Popular among celebrities, Rocky Mountain Ski Resort in Aspen approved a licence to open its first cannabis shop.
The owner of the store Jordan Lewis told the Aspen Times: "Hopefully we're going to create the finest marijuana establishment in the country."
Although cannabis has been legally traded in California for medical purposes since 1996, Colorado is the first US state to begin legally selling cannabis after, along with Washington, legalizing recreational use of the drug last year.
Throughout the state there are a total of 36 shops licensed to sell the drug to customers over the age of 21, all of which made a killing on New Year 's Day alone with $1m in sales.
Since then, the total sales between them is estimated at $5m.
"None of us could really prepare for what was going to hit us," Nick Brown, of High Country Healing told the Denver post.
The local manager Ryan Cook told the local television station: "We ultimately ran out of our flower products for retail sale. We had a thousand people in line every day for the first four days."
Among the drug itself, shop owners in Denver are also claiming to have run out of cannabis infused products (chocolates and cakes).
In order to keep up with the demand, shop owners are considering rationing the maximum sale amount to a quarter ounce rather than a whole ounce.


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To widen your self-catering accommodation search, try the nearby areas of Figueira, Salema and Budens. A little further again from Sagres is the popular family holiday resort of Praia da Luz, which has a huge choice of self-catering accommodation.
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Flower farmer Rita Jo Shoultz, owner and managing partner at Alaska Perfect Peony in Homer, Alaska, has been named a winner of the 2018 American Small Business Championship, according to a news release. The Championship is hosted by SCORE, a network of volunteer expert business mentors, and is supported by Sam's Club.
"We were really surprised and very honored," said Shoultz in the release. "Cut flowers don't always get a lot of recognition."
Shoultz, who is a member of the Certified American Grown Council, competed with a pool of more than 1,100 applicants and was selected as a champion through a combination of online voting and judging by a panel of small-business experts.
The application asked each entrepreneur to describe the unique aspects of their small business that have contributed to their success, their positive impact on the community and their plans to use the prizes to grow their business operations or revenue.
The first peony farm in Alaska, Alaska Perfect Peony ships fresh-cut peonies to 50 states and Canada. It helped spur growth of the peony and fresh-cut flower agriculture business on the lower Kenai Peninsula, with now about 25 producers.
In addition to running the farm, Shoultz has worked to have the city of Homer declared the "City of Peonies" and started Main Street Homer, a task force working to revitalize downtown Homer through economic and cultural development, historic preservation and advancement of the arts.
The "champion" designation nets Shoultz an all-expense-paid trip to Reno, NV, for a SCORE training and networking event. She will also compete for the chance to win one of three $15,000 grand prizes, which will be awarded at the SCORE Awards Gala on Sept. 13 outside of Washington, D.C..
Should she win, Shoultz said she'd use the funding for marketing efforts and to look into selling her peonies in Hong Kong and Singapore.


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Famed fashion designer and photographer Hedi Slimane captured top model Lara Stone as a party girl in the editorial "Lara by Night" in the February 2009 issue of Vogue Paris.
In the editorial, Lara was styled by Emmanuelle Alt as a socialite, a disco party girl and a sophisticated woman. And since this is Vogue Paris, it also includes the obligatory fur shot which PETA must love…
Lara Stone is the only star of the February issue. Check out more of her editorials & socialite culture trends below.
Party-Girl Editorials
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Glamorized Editorial Violence
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TV Show-Inspired Editorials
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'Lara by Night' Makes Cigarettes Look Fashionable in Vogue Paris
- By: AymanJan 16, 2009
References: thefashiontime & fashiontography.blogspot
References: thefashiontime & fashiontography.blogspot


text: I live in Florida. My garage is air conditioned but because of the size and lack of insulation I keep it about 85 in the summer. Just to keep the humidity down. Got to thinking why not have the climate control in the MS always on while plugged in say to 78 degrees. Keep the humidity even lower inside the cabin. Would wear and tear on the system be a issue? I don't care about the power expense.


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calcium channel, voltage-dependent, gamma subunit 3
The protein encoded by CACNG3 is a type I transmembrane AMPA receptor regulatory protein (TARP). TARPs regulate both trafficking and channel gating of the AMPA receptors. This gene is part of a functionally diverse eight-member protein subfamily of the PMP-22/EMP/MP20 family. This gene is a susceptibility locus for childhood absence epilepsy.
Phylogenetic analysis suggests that all c subunits evolved from a single ancestral gene through tandem repeat and chromosome duplication (Burgess [1312], chu [1311]). Based on sequence homology and chromosomal linkage the c subunits can be divided into three clusters: (c1, c6), (c5, c7), and (c2, c3, c4, c8) (Burgess [1312], chu [1311]). Interestingly, these clusters also mirror to some extent the tissue distribution of the subunits and their likely cellular functions. (Chen [1310])
Cacng3 : calcium channel, voltage-dependent, gamma subunit 3
c2, c3 (=cacng3, the third gamma unit), c4, and c8 contain several common regulatory sites in both the extracellular and intracellular domains. The most distinct features of the TARPs are the terminal PDZ-binding motifs overlapped with PKA phosphorylation sites. The terminal TTPV motif is known to interact with PSD-95 in the postsynaptic density and the binding is regulated by the PKA motif immediately preceding the PDZ-binding motif (Chetkovich [1325], Choi [1326]). This combination determines the synaptic targeting of TARPs and AMPA receptors. In addition, the nPIST- binding motifs in the center portion of the C-terminal tail of TARPs regulates membrane-trafficking and synaptic targeting of the TARPs (Cuadra [1333]). A series of nine serine residues in the N-terminal portion of nPIST-binding motif are regulated by kinases (CAMKII, PKC) and phosphatases (PP2B and PP1). A tyrosine sulfation site also exists in the first extracellular loop of the TARPs. Tyrosine sulfation occurs when proteins travel through the Golgi lumen. This modification strengthens protein–protein interactions and is usually observed in proteins involved in intercellular interactions and communication. (Chen [1310])
The eight calcium channel c subunits share a predicted structure that includes four transmembrane domains with intracellular N- and C- termini (Fig. 1 in Chen [1310]). They are members of a large protein superfamily (pfam00822, a subset of the tetraspanin supergroup) that also includes claudins, proteins that are important components of tight junctions in epithelia. The c subunits share with the claudins a conserved GLW motif of unknown significance in the first extracellular loop. (Chen [1310])
The four c subunits identified as regulators of AMPA receptor function (c2, c3, c4, and c8; the TARPs) are widely expressed in the brain and share highly conserved sequences that are quite distinct from c1 and c6 (Arikkath [4], Black [478]). Notably, the cytoplasmic C-terminal regions of the TARPs contain a number of regulatory sites including a PDZ-binding motif. This PDZ-binding motif (TTPV) is critical for targeting AMPA receptors to the synapse. (Chen [1310])


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On November 8, the Placer County Department of Health issued a statement that E. coli and coliform bacteria has potentially been found in the Squaw Valley Upper Mountain. Squaw Valley has issued a statement about the drinking water that has been contaminated. Squaw Valley has been treating the water consistently and the quality level is improving. Director of Environmental Health Wesley Nicks has said there is low levels of coliform present and no e. coli.
Water will continue to be treated until it is the needed quality and the restaurants will remained closed until then. Skiers are urged not to drink any water. Top to bottom skiing practices have been encouraged to promote health habits. Squaw Valley released their own statement regarding the situation. Liesl Kenney Director of Public Relations released one late Sunday November 30.
Read more: Squaw Valley issues statement on upper mountain water quality
They stated that heavy rains in October caused several water systems in the area to be affected. In Squaw Valley, the newly updated system at High Camp and Gold Coast areas. The contamination was limited to that one system. Routine testing caused this issue to become detected and Squaw Valley notified the proper authorities. Squaw Valley also sought the help of third party water experts to help remedy the problem and will continue to work towards a solution until the water has been fixed. Water usage will not resume until health officials give the all clear signal.
Customer safety is their top concern. They will continue normal operations at the High Camp and Gold Coast areas. Free bottled water will be available for all customers until the issued has been fully resolved. Updates will be provided as they are available. As a resort, they are taking full measures to make sure the issue is resolved.
Squaw Valley is a North Lake Tahoe ski resort that spans over 6,000 acres. They have been 2016 "Best Ski Resort" in North America by USA Today. The resort averages 450 inches of snow year round with 300 sunny days, which makes for beautiful Spring skiing. They have one of the longest ski seasons in Lake Tahoe, and they have slopes that can accommodate all levels of skiers from beginner to intermediate. Squaw Valley ski holdings operates Squaw Valley resort, Alpine Meadows resort, and Squaw Valley real estate.