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Dr. Widhalm has served as the Executive Director of the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts in Natchitoches, Louisiana, since 2001. LSMSA is a residential high school that has been recognized as one of the top schools in Louisiana and in the nation. Prior appointments include the Conservatory of Music at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and founding Dean of Arts and Academics at the South Carolina Governor's School for Arts and Humanities in Greenville.
In 2008, Dr. Widhalm was selected to lead the Louisiana team participating in the Education Leaders Institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in Chicago. In October 2009, he received the Lieutenant Governor's Louisiana Culture Award for education. He has served as a member of Leadership Louisiana, Council for a Better Louisiana, been appointed to the State Arts Council, and served as president of the Natchitoches Rotary Club.
Dr. Widhalm was attracted to Franklin due to the school's consistently strong reputation for academic excellence. Ben Franklin is the top school in Louisiana and received the National Blue Ribbon recognition in 2015, for the fourth time. "What I saw during the interview process really sold me. I saw a highly qualified faculty and staff working with bright and motivated students for academic and personal growth, and that is the heart of a great school. I am honored and excited to be joining and working with the Franklin community," says Widhalm. Dr. Widhalm will join the Franklin community effective July 1, 2016.
For more information contact Mrs. Christy Cowart Read '89, Development Director, at 504-286-2615 or visit our web site at www.bfhsla.org.
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Benjamin Franklin High School, New Orleans' most outstanding public charter school, has been preparing students for success through academic achievement since it was founded in 1957. Consistently ranked as a "top public high school in the nation" by U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, and Business Week, Franklin has received the highest School Performance Score in Louisiana, making it the #1 public school in the state, year after year. Franklin is repeatedly named a National Blue Ribbon School, producing Presidential and National Merit Scholars each year. The exceptional students, faculty and staff of Benjamin Franklin High School are the best and the brightest of New Orleans.


text: The Firmware 8.0 thread is all over the block and not very useful. There is an excellent thread on the Media Player's handling of USB in another thread. Perhaps we can use this thread to discuss all other aspects of the "new" Media Play as clearly it has issues which need to be addressed. My hope is that collecting the feedback into one thread will help guide Tesla on what they need to do to for 8.1 and beyond. I'll start with something simple. There was some belief that the new Media Player was doing a better job if handling album covers. That may be the case, I haven't made a determination myself yet. However, the pictures below are from using the Bluetooth connection to play the Economist application and show how the 2016 Tesla Media player handled the content versus the 2014 BMW i3 media player. While the Tesla version is a little more exciting, it's not exactly relevant! At least for Bluetooth, it's not using the graphical content from the source.

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We have a fantastic Staff Team who look after the children extremely well. They are committed, enthusiastic, professional and fun. We have full and part time places available, with the option of school collection. We have minimal closure days to cater for all your needs.
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Our nursery hosts 4 spacious and safe rooms
We understand that you may feel anxious leaving your child for the first time, so we do our best to make this as stress free as possible
In our baby room we aim to mirror the routine you have at home to ensure a smooth transition between home and nursery care. Naturally the staff in the baby room will work very closely with you to establish a routine that works for you and your baby.
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We provide a caring, educational and fun approach to the pre-school. Your Child will be encouraged by our staff to develop to the best of their ability in all areas of learning before starting school. We have a structured program which is monitored and changed on a monthly basis to help the children progress well during the first years of life. We also provide the opportunity to engage in structured and planned activities such as baking, handwriting, counting games and many more create activities. This is all to help prepare your child for their move to school.
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Title: Real Deal
Series: Single Dads Club #1
Author: Piper Rayne
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Too loud.
Too clingy.
Too much make-up.
I could go on and on. The other guys in the Single Dad's Club would say I'm obsessed with finding them. But none of their kid's mothers call a maximum-security prison home either, so their opinions mean shit.
Caterina Santora has her own list of red flags…
She's too young.
She's my client's daughter.
She's my five-year old's camp counselor.
Even after repeating this mantra to myself every morning on the way to Lily's summer camp, guess what happens the moment I see Cat? Yeah, that mantra turns into ride me, doggie style and reverse cowgirl.
Every. Damn. Time.
The fact that she doesn't remember me from seven years before grates on me until I don't have it in me to leave her alone any longer. I have to have her. But our lives are opposites in every way. In no way compatible.
"Real Deal is a super funny, sweet and sexy romantic comedy that will leave you satisfied from beginning to end!" ~Whoo Gives a Hoot (Aurora Hale)
"Piper Rayne has a way of sucking you in and making you part of the story. Laughs, loves and intense moments are abundant in all of their writing!" ~ White Hot Reads (Heather)
Another hit from Piper Rayne!These authors sure do have a talent in writing books that make you swoon,laugh and pant!I fell in love with them after the Modern Love series and I was so excited to hear that they were starting up on a new series especially one that focused on single dads!I was like woah, sign me up right now!! :D And it sure didn't disappoint.
Before I talk about this book, can I just say how much I love the cover?Its absolutely gorgeous, and though it doesn't fit my Marcus exactly, it still falls in a category of its own.I literally had hearts in my eyes when I saw it!
The book is set in Climax Cove and that alone had me snorting! Lol!
This was a feel good book with tons of steam, a swoonworthy romance and an awesome dad.
I loved Marcus' relationship with his daughter Lily, and single dads in romance have always been a weakness of mine.So basically this whole series is going to be a joyride for me.
Cat has grown up a lot and I loved seeing this mature version of her.She tried to come on to him when she was 18, and Marcus rejected her quite brutally.Granted, he was in a bad place then and well, she was 10 years his junior.He did like her back then.
In this book, it was quite weird to seem him suddenly having the hots for her as soon as she showed up, but after I read the prequel Jailbait, things made a lot more sense.
Marcus was different from the usual Piper Rayne heroes and though Lucas and Cole still top my list, Marcus also has a special place in my heart now.
It was quite difficult to like him at many points, but the authors have characterized him beautifully.I loved how the relationship between him and Cat developed quickly in the bedroom, but slowly when it came to emotional terms.The chemistry between them was wicked hot!!!The ending had me swooning!
I can't wait to read the next book in the series and I'm wondering if its Dane's?Cause good luck then lol!He was a trainwreck in this one! :P
There are at least ten camp counselors currently standing in the water watching the children, and six of them are female. Victor doesn't understand the epidemic he's going to have on his hands. The longer I sit there, the more dads find their way down to the lake, thinking it's an everyday Thursday pickup. To their surprise, it's a teenage boy's wet dream. And maybe that teenage boy's dad's, too.
Caterina is laughing with another female counselor. I never noticed how her cheeks rise into two small apples when she smiles. Nor did I notice the way her hands cover her mouth to stifle a laugh or how she briefly touches the other person's arm when she's amused. Damn, I want to pull that reaction out of her.
But all I've gotten this week since camp started is a few polite smiles and 'hello Mr. Kent.' She hasn't acted as though I've seen more of her than what that bikini she's wearing reveals.
"What did I miss?" Dane sits down next to me, trying to catch his breath.
"What the hell do you do all day that you can't be here on time?"
He glances over to me and then concentrates ahead of him. I can't blame him, we don't get views like this in Climax Cove very often.
"Does Victor realize he's giving every dad here beat off material for tonight?" Dane asks. A few of the dads milling about laugh, knowing it's true.
A small ball of anger begins brewing in my center. The idea of these dickheads thinking about what's under the blue bikini hugging Cat's tits gets under my skin. That beat off material is for me and only me.
"And to answer your question, I had to go down to the county for some paperwork."
Dane's been doing some heavy renovations to Happy Daze the last few years, expanding and making it a more family-friendly bar and grill during the day.
"Sorry, that sucks."
Both of us continue our conversation as we pretend to watch our children. I can multitask though. My gaze veers to Lily to make sure she's not drowning, but she's taken swimming lessons since she was one, so I don't have to worry too much.
"We can talk about that shit later." Dane waves me off. "Fuck, this is so not fair. How is my kid getting more action than I've seen this week?" He bites his fist, watching Toby and his friends pour a bucket of water over his camp counselor's head. Her yellow bikini doesn't exactly hide the fact the water might have been slightly chilly.
Lily looks away from the action in the lake, finds me sitting there, and smiles. "Why do I suddenly feel dirty?" I mumble to myself.
Lily runs from the lake and Caterina says something to one of the other counselors and follows Lily's path. Our eyes lock, but Cat is quick to shift her focus elsewhere.
"Daddy!" Lily screams and jumps into my arms, soaking me in the process.
"Hi, sweetie." I prop her on my knee.
"Hi, Uncle Dane," her sweet voice says.
I clear my throat so he'll turn his attention from the lake to my daughter. Dane turns to me, back to the lake, and then realizes why I'm clearing my throat.
"Hey, kiddo. Swim day, huh?" He leans back on his hands, focusing his attention on her.
"Come." She jumps down from my lap and grabs my hand.
"No, sweetie. I'll wait until you're done. Go have fun with your friends."
She smiles and runs off.
"Damn, a little warning, huh? I'm practically tucking my dick between my legs," Dane says and shifts in his seat.
"Um, how do you think I feel?"
"Who's the dickhead?" Dane asks, head nodding to the lake.
One of the male camp counselors approaches Cat. She laughs at his joke and shakes her head. I don't miss the way his eyes light up when she puts her hand on his forearm.
"Who?" I pretend my heart isn't skipping beats from the adrenaline coursing through my system. Just call me a fucking caveman.
"Yeah, okay. Your eyes have been glued to one counselor, in particular, this whole week."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I glance around to make sure no other parents overheard us.
"Is that how you're gonna play it?" he asks, turning toward me and raising his eyebrows in question.
I say nothing, watching the dickhead pick up Caterina by the waist, her squealing and him dropping her in the deeper part of the lake. She stands up and now she's dripping wet in her blue bikini that probably matches the color of my balls.
Once again, I swear her gaze veers over to me as she pushes her hands through her drenched hair. Before I can be certain, she's concentrating on the kids again. She claps her hands and announces swim time is over for her group.
"Man, your chick is a fun sponge," Dane says because Toby's camp counselor is still in a water battle with her kids.
I push off the picnic table to head over to pick up Lily and gather her things.
Piper Rayne, or Piper and Rayne, whichever you prefer because we're not one author, we're two. Yep, you get two established authors for the price of one. You might be wondering if you know us? Maybe you'll read our books and figure it out. Maybe you won't. Does it really matter?
We aren't trying to stamp ourselves with a top-secret label. We wanted to write without apology. We wanted to not be pigeon holed into a specific outline. We wanted to give readers a story without them assuming how the story will flow. Everyone has their favorite authors, right? And when you pick up their books, you expect something from them. Whether it's an alpha male, heavy angst, a happily ever after, there's something you are absolutely certain the book will contain. Heck, we're readers, too, we get it.
What can we tell you about ourselves? We both have kindle's full of one-clickable books. We're both married to husbands who drive us to drink. We're both chauffeurs to our kids. Most of all, we love hot heroes and quirky heroines that make us laugh, and we hope you do, too.


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Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams and Instagram designer Tim Van Damme to leave Facebook
Facebook has confirmed that Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams is leaving the company, while AllThingsD is reporting that Instagram designer Tim Van Damme has also parted ways.
The firm provided the following statement to The Next Web: "Joshua has been a valuable member of Facebook. We wish him the best of luck with his future endeavors."
Facebook announced its talent acquisition of the location-based social network Gowalla team in December 2011. Williams has served as the product manager for Pages, Locations & Events since moving to Facebook. AllThingsD's sources claim Williams plans to start a new company in San Francisco.
Van Damme worked for Gowalla at the time of the Facebook deal, but he decided to head to Instagram instead. Months later, Facebook acquired Instagram as well. If you want to learn more about Van Damme's design process, you can read our interview with him in DESIGN, the latest issue of The Next Web Magazine for iPad.
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Groove metal band Ektomorf has released a new music video for the song "Unscarred." The band has also issued the following announcement about a lineup change:
"Sadly Mike had to quit for family reasons. It was a great time with him playing music and we are still friends. There's no bad blood between us at all. I had the intention to call Tamà s (Schrottner), our previous guitar player, again after two years. We had a great fucking talk the very next day. He joined us on the 'Unscarred' video shoot and now Tamà s is back in the band. We had a killer rehearsal and we are ready to kick asses on the 'Black Flag' tour! See ya all soon!â€
The "Unscarred" track comes off the band's new album "Black Flag," released on August 31st, 2012.


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Summer Essentials for Goths?
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Hey there, Internet!
With it still being summer here in Europe you notice what is missing to protect yourself from that heat. So today I'd like to share my 5 essentials to save me during the hot season with you, maybe tell us about yours?
* Sunscreen – Of course it is ok if you want to get tanned but still, it's not something I want for myself so a lotion with spf 50+ (thats the highest you can get here in Germany) is what i always have in my bag during summer. The current one (from Vichy) has a mattifying formula which makes it even more awesome! And even when you don't care about tanning, skin cancer is enough of a reason to wear sunscreen these days.
* Sun-Glasses / Shades – I'm a bit jealous of those people who are not as blind as I am or of those who manage to wear contacs without having huge red glowing zombie-like eyeballs after a few seconds. There would be so many beautiful shades to buy these days, Or for the more expensive version as always, recommenting Fledermausbrille.
* Fan – I got my go-to fan at WGT 2014, it literally saved my live and was the first of a fan-collection. You can find them in nearly every material and color or even DIY one by yourself so 'would not suit me' is not an option. (this is also for the guys, fanning can look quite elegant!)
* A hat to hide from the burning sun, probably the bigger the better, remember Lydia from Beetlejuice? She definitely has a life saving hat! Only downsides are they can be a bit difficult to wear when it is hot and windy and might limit you choices in hairdos. Or maybe you would prefer an umbrella?
* Light Fabrics, cotton, lace, net, especially in oversized clothing makes black an easy to wear in summer color choice! Plus who does not love that 'bat-like' feeling when wearing loose fit tops?
What would your top 5 must haves be for summer each year or maybe you have newly discovered something this year? Have a nice evening!


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A new kids label from a Project Runway favorite has answered our call.
La Miniatura is the label of Jeffrey Sebelia, the designer with the rock band and the awesome neck tattoo who won Bravo's Project Runway Season Three. Jeffrey's also unforgettable for his style and wit, and now, his line of rad threads for boys, all throwbacks to the late 70's and early 80's with a modern interpretation.
There are plaids and velvets dripping with post punk sumptuousness. Personally, I am hooked on the blazers, and trench coats and sweaters…well, all of it, really. But if I had to pick a favorite, it would absolutely be the Merlot Velvet Jacket. I love the richness of the color, the smooth velvet and the black trim. It's so sweet, it hurts.
The clothes are well executed and crafted, which comes at a price. In other words, La Miniatura isn't ideal for everyday wear, but for a special occasion or two, it hits the spot. If the boys start asking for temporary tattoos on their necks, I may have to speak with management.-Eva
The entire La Miniatura catalog is available online at laminiaturakids.com and can be ordered via speciality boutiques listed here.


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The cable news audience has peaked
CNN's rotten ratings have grown only rottener. The Time Warner-owned news network drew fewer prime-time viewers last week than any week since September 1991, the New York Times just reported.
But CNN isn't the only network riding the down escalator when it comes to ratings. Over the same week, Fox News Channel attracted its fewest viewers in the important 25-to-54-year-old category since July 2008, the Times added. * But CNN isn't the only cable news network in the doldrums, according to year-by-year data. Various observers have blamed the viewership downturn on the lull in the 2012 campaign, on viewers defecting to the season finales on the entertainment channels and on the lack of breaking news. But I interpret the falloffs as fresh evidence that the audience for cable news has peaked.
The first sign of a peak in cable news appeared in March 2011, when the Pew Research Center released a study that proclaimed, "Though many will remember 2010 as a hard year for CNN, in reality, most cable news channels suffered audience losses." The able chartists at Pew drew a sad graph of cable news. Combined median viewership for CNN, Fox News and MSNBC during prime time had receded 16 percent, to 3.2 million, that year. Mean viewership had also dropped 13 percent, to 3.3 million, making it the largest year-to-year drop for cable news since Pew started analyzing the numbers in 1997. It also marked the first drop in the median audience since 2006.
The bad news continued through 2011, as cable news viewership remained nearly flat. This was fairly astonishing considering all the breaking news from that year – the Arab Spring, Japan's tsunami, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Libyan civil war and the European economic crisis – not to mention the bustle of the presidential campaign.
Among those who noticed that cable news was flatlining was the Atlantic Wire's Uri Friedman, who surveyed analysts for the underlying reasons in a March 2011 post. The consensus view put the onus on the Web: Now when big news breaks, the polled pundits agreed, the curious go to the Web (often via their mobile device) instead of cable news. Outside the Beltway's Doug Mataconis speculated that the potential audience for overtly liberal (MSNBC) and overtly conservative (Fox) TV news had maxed out.
Other possible reasons for the cable news slump is that the three channels (plus CNN's subsidiary channel, HLN), approached maximum carriage on large cable systems years ago. Upwards of 90 percent of U.S. households already subscribe to cable or satellite TV, and most carry the news channels, so there are very few eyeballs out there that would like to tune in to CNN, Fox News and MSNBC but can't.
Fox attempted to expand the market for cable news in 2008, when it started the Fox Business Network to compete with CNBC, but it has not succeeded. The network continues to occupy the "bottom tier" of cable channels rated by Nielsen, in part because it's available on only 50 percent of cable-TV households compared with the 85-plus percent of CNN/HLN, Fox News, MSNBC, and direct competitor CNBC. It's reasonable to surmise that cable systems don't want to carry Fox Business because so few viewers are dying for more of the same.
Just because cable news may have peaked doesn't mean the audience is static. Viewers still move around the dial. For instance, in 2011, CNN and MSNBC gained some prime-time viewers at the expense (Excel spreadsheet) of HLN and ratings colossus Fox News. But the increase in viewership by two standard yardsticks is only 1 percent or 2 percent.
There's so little news in cable news – especially during prime time – that it's a bit of a misnomer to keep calling it "cable news." As currently programmed, the networks best resemble political talk radio, in which people chat about the news instead of report it. That political talk radio has already reached its own "saturation point" has occurred to the industry, talk-radio consultant Randall Bloomquist of Bloomquist Media told me.
"The audience for personality-driven political talk radio has flattened and aged in recent years. Still, radio companies have been reluctant to pull their hand from that still-lucrative jar and experiment with new forms of spoken word programming," said Bloomquist. "Political talk radio has always viewed the performance of cable news as a key indicator. Peak cable might provide another impetus for radio to start taking some chances with non-political formats, especially shows with an appeal to younger men, something that political talk sorely lacks."
Although cable news growth may have stalled, don't weep for the networks. Revenues are still growing. Pew reported in its 2012 study that revenues (both advertising and subscription fees charged to cable systems) were rising at all three of the top channels.
But as cable news has peaked, so too has Fox News Channel President Roger Ailes. He'll continue to call the plays at his channel, but unless he comes up with something startlingly new, he won't be able to cause any greater public ruckus with his shows. And if Ailes and Fox News have peaked, what of Media Matters for America, David Brock's advocacy group? Media Matters polices Fox News with such dedication that it's become the network's finest publicist, pushing Fox News stories to liberal audiences who would otherwise never be aware of them. Oh, Media Matters will continue to ding Fox News. But if the Fox News audience isn't growing, Media Matters can't expect its followers to be more scandalized about Fox News than they already are.
Bill O'Reilly? Peaked. Chris Matthews? Peaked. Anderson Cooper? Peaked. Democratic Party outrage over what Fox News said about the president? Peaked. Maddow, Hannity, O'Donnell, Sharpton? Peaked, peaked, peaked, peaked.
* Correction, May 25: This article originally cited a flawed New York Times article whose analysis of Fox News rating has been corrected.
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It may have peaked because it became tabloid trash instead of serious news.
What LBK2 said. I've had my fill, with stories about The Situation,the Octomom etc.
I think Jack peaked at Slate around the time of Bush's invasion of Iraq and the story about a chick called Miller at the NY Times who was supporting the falsified data on WNDS, udderwise known as Bush's wombats! Scooter Libby segued into that story! That was juicy stuff!
My and scott Abbott's blog archive about the controversial Guenter Grass poem that accuses the Netanjahu government of planning a first strike on Iran has not yet peaked at 1000, an infinite resource!
http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/ 04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html
Of my numerous specialized Handke blogs,
I do have one posting, it is a review of a Handke biography by Malte Herwig, MEISTER DER DAEMMERUNG. Inexplicably it has received nearly 10,000 hits twice the nearest posting. I am usually satisfied if I get 500 hits for a posting. many of the best don't even get 100 in that fairly specialized field.
http://handke-magazin.blogspot.com/2010/ 06/handke-magazine-is-over-arching-site. html
http://www.facebook.com/mike.roloff1?ref =name
36 year-old, white, educated suburban male here.
I won't watch Fox News because it's garbage and lies.
I won't watch CNN because it's dull and superficial. Pierce Morgan had Slash on and I threw up a bit in my throat at the promo.
However, I really won't watch Current or MSNBC because they're "preaching to the choir." Though when I want a little info or weather I'll tune there for a few minutes until Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski make me nauseous.
American Corporate News Networks.
I do not watch any of these, because the Internet provides better and more honest news than any of these corporate hacks.
They are all tabloid garbage. CNN, Fox and the others have squandered what potential they had in their rush to ape the National Enquirer. I now simply create my own online news feeds without the idiocy and spoon feeding. The other component is the idiotic cost of pay TV. Contrary to popular belief, folks are still hurting from the 2008 financial meltdown. If you think folks will continue to pay $75 a month and more for shopping channels, duplicate channels, church channels and other nonsense, you're breathing crack pipe fumes.
I worked in TV for a long time at ABC. I teach multimedia journalism. I stopped my cable subscription five years ago. Guess that makes me an early retro adopter.
I'm an American male (despite my online handle) and look where I am at this very moment. On Reuters! Last I heard it was a British news outlet. I also get my news online from BBC, The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, and to a lesser extent from other online European newspapers (especially Greek at the moment). I've even started reading some Chinese, Indian, and Israeli news sources. Why? Because I'm convinced that I'm not getting objective news from the major American sources. It's biased, twisted, censored or filled with inane junk. There have been many times where I've come across an absolutely fascinating bit of news about my own country from a foreign source that one would think would get wide play in the USA, only to find it completely ignored. This had made me very suspicious and cynical about the agendas of the American news conglomerates. I truly believe that they want us to be ignorant and misinformed about important matters. And they want us to meekly accept the pablum that America is the best country in the world, with the best people, the best opportunities for success, the best of everything. That way we won't be demanding any fundamental changes. And enough of this American Exceptionalism rubbish. Exceptional at what precisely? Anything one names can be found to be done better elsewhere. Except military might. Which may be why we are always so eager to use it indiscriminately.
It has always been tabloid trash instead of serious news.
But then who watches serious news. The losers(average man) does not have the character to be concerned about serious matters beyond whining, crying and ranting.
Censorship is evil.
I haven't had TV where I live for the last 10 years. When I need to know the news right now, I turn to the internet and get the best coverage from Reuters, BBC, etc. The talking heads on TV are, at best, bland, and usually insufferable, especially when you haven't been around them for a while.
I wonder if the flattening of the viewer trendline played into Warren Buffet's decision to buy newspapers? Anyway, I fall into the category of 'pays for the news channels, but doesn't watch them'. Every time I turn one on, it is guys in suits yelling at each other. I'll watch some Al Jezera every so often, and like the translated Nigerian news, but I mostly get my news from Reuters website.
I'll go to the web version of CNN and Fox, mostly to see what ideas they are putting into people's heads. The comments section on those two sites are appalling.
More people are coming to the realization that TV is a very inefficient medium for information delivery, that it takes you 10 or 20 minutes watching TV to receive the same amount of information you would get in 3 or 4 minutes of reading a good press review somewhere on the Series of Tubes or the home page of BBC, the New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg or pick you own. Heck! Even the Washington Post, that moistened corpse of a newspaper, is superior to all cable news taken together.
Cable news and news in general is communicating on an outdated paradigm. That paradigm made CNN viable when the idea of live coverage captivated an audience. Unless there is a super hot news story, that paradigm is old news. Audience expectations are changing. In a world where we measure news in nanoseconds, cable as well as other news networks have to evolve and keep pace with technology or follow the path of dinosaurs. Loraine Antrim, http://twitter.com/#!/loraineantrim


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If you have an Old Navy, Gap, or Banana card, you can get 40% off your entire purchase (including sales!) at Old Navy through this Saturday 4/30.
Here's what I'm eyeing and potentially buying:
Summer shoes for Ryan- found here
I love these Native knock-offs. Let me tell you, we took a trip to Nordstrom and tried on the Natives first and then went to Old Navy to compare. In my opinion, the Old Navy version went on just as easily and fit just as well as the Natives. And they're $15 cheaper before the 40% off discount. No brainer.
They also have two cute pairs for girls:
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I have these and love them. They fit like my pair from Lululemon, but are way cheaper. ;) And right now, they are on sale + an additional 40% off!
I love comfy dresses for Spring/Summer!
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In May 2012, Centre for Training and Consultancy has got financing from BP and its partners to implement the fourth phase of "Community Development Initiative" project. The aim of the program is to continue the process of community development in 50 communities of Gardabani, Marneuli, Tetritskaro and Tsalka municipalities along the eastern part of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and South Caucasus gas pipelines.
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It's National Nutrition Month, a good time to contemplate the future of nutrition. Our food supply is on the brink of some big changes, some of them encouraging, some of them essential, some of them purely for marketing.
What does the crystal ball show for the future of food?
- One of the biggest challenges to our future food supply is adequate food for 9 billion or so humans. That means adequate calories, protein and nutrients for 9+ billion people using only the limited amount of land available.
- A second challenge is that, as people around the world move into the middle class, the demand for meat rises. And there simply isn't enough land on the planet to raise enough livestock to meet that demand. What can we do about that?
- Another challenge: making food supplies more local, to reduce transportation logistics and costs. An abundance of food is great, but if the food is 3000 miles away, or across an ocean, it isn't going to do you any good if shipping is disrupted for any reason.
- There is no healthy diet without healthy food. Nutrition does not come from pills or supplements, so it's essential that our future food is healthy, or at least mostly healthy.
Many of the solutions to our future food supply will rely on technology. Genetic engineering is going to play a significant role, despite the Luddite protestations. Around the globe, people struggling in Third World countries want to eat food, not high minded ideals. Farmers will make their decisions based on results. If a GMO crop can be grown without expensive or toxic pesticides, resistant to a devastating insect or fungus infestation, that's what will be grown. Results talk. Other agricultural practices will be equally important: companion planting, encouraging more small local farms and better management of soil and water, Drones, robots and satellite technology will certainly be important, too.
I'm excited about hydroponics for growing food locally, in some cases very locally. I recently stayed at a hotel that had its own hydroponic grow facility for greens. I also read about a company developing industrial-scale indoor grow facilities for urban locations. This particular company is working on a technology that uses a grow medium and a constant mist, rather than straight hydroponics. Imagine buying local arugula or leaf lettuce in the middle of New York City or Minneapolis? Even in winter. It's not just possible, but likely.
Right now, greens are fairly easy and quick to grow with these experimental indoor farms, but what's to stop someone from developing the technology to grow vegetables, legumes, soybeans, peanuts or even grains? Imagine an indoor rice paddy in a high rise building. Facilities like these have other benefits: control of the "weather", control of the nutrient mix, avoidance of insect pests and control of microbial diseases.
Indoor greens sound almost commonplace compared to the idea of lab-grown meat. But I think this is where we're heading in the not-that-distant future. We simply do not have the land available to feed everyone the amount of meat they want. Plus there are plenty of other problems with the current state of livestock agriculture: use of antibiotics, animal waste disposal, energy and water input to produce just one pound of edible meat, bacterial contamination of meat and concerns about treatment of animals.
People are already working on growing pieces of meat from scratch in labs. So far reviews have been mixed, to say the least, but I have no doubt eventually they will succeed. We'll have standardized boneless rib eye steaks, boneless chicken breast, bone-free salmon filets and maybe even boned Thanksgiving turkeys, grown in labs, all of the same quality and flavor. It's possible that people in the future will look back in horror at the idea that we actually slaughtered animals and butchered them to get steaks. It will create a new dilemma though: what will vegetarians and vegans think about "meat" that has nothing to do with animals?
Which brings up one more important application of our future food technology: personalized health. Food that's produced by technology — whether meat or greens or grains — can be designed to deliver specific amounts of certain nutrients. And as our understanding of the relationship between genes, metabolism and health improves, we'll have the ability to tailor diets to individual needs. One-size-fits-all nutrition recommendations will be obsolete. For optimal health, you might be characterized as a Type A metabolism, for example, and the local grocery store or restaurant (or your computerized food replicator) would have Type A foods for you to buy. Could this mean the end of supplements?
Of course there could be less wonderful aspects to future food technology. Chips engineered to deliver all your nutritional needs? Ice cream that tastes like premium, but has few calories and all your nutrients? Both possible, but think about this: would you really want to eat nothing but chips or ice cream? Both of those would get old really quickly. I'm hopeful that the future of food involves technology, taste, convenience, health and freshness, not just a higher-tech version of the over-salted, over-sugared processed food we've got now.


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Dubai, UAE, April 12, 2018: Based on the unique SAINT HONORE expertise in the world of watchmaking, the Accessories Collection 2011 is honouring the brand's know-how. A perfect combination of style and innovation, shape and function.
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Colours and finishes are also unique – in stainless steel, steel, 'Prince de Galle' and 'gaufrette' motifs matt black - with a steel, shock-resistant nib, which produces a particularly successful two-tone effect.
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Sheba Soup Fish And Vegetable Cat Food Pouches 4X40g
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- Complementary Pet Food for Adult Cats.
- Sheba® high quality adult cat food and well crafted recipes
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- Sheba luxury wet cat food for adult cats with 4 x 40g
- Premium soup cat food pouch with Ocean Fillets & Vegetables
- Cat food contains no artificial colours or preservatives
- Classic recipe of delicately flaked morsels in a smooth, silky soup. A novel dining experience to amaze your feline friend, time and time again. Available in 40g cat food pouches.
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- High quality adult cat food providing complete nutrition for your feline companion
- Classic recipe of delicately flaked morsels in a smooth, silky cat food soup
- 85g cat food soup gently prepared, with a delicious flavour that cats love
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- 21 kcal / 40g
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The first person Fenno told about his LP was an OCS advisor. It struck him that his confidant was not a family member or a friend, but this stranger who recited assurances that he would get a job, but it would take work, hard work. He wanted to tell her that it wasn't because he was stupid, that he was different from every other student who had gotten an LP. He wanted to fill the awkward pauses in the room with a sob story—his mother had died, his laptop floundered—anything but the truth, that he had no one to blame but himself.
He shuffled off to class later that day and, as he had done every class since the day grades came out, adjusted his seat so he could hide behind his peers. No longer did he fancy himself impressing his classmates with the facts he carefully gleaned from the casebook. Now, he merely wanted to pass through each class unnoticed. His classmates, too, had been transformed by their grades. Those who had done well were inflated by a new confidence to offer their opinions, unsolicited. Raj, for example, was routinely volunteering to parse concurring opinions and recent legal scholarship. And those, like him, who had been disappointed by mediocre evaluations, sank lower into their chairs and gazed glumly at their casebooks, hoping to avoid the almost certain public humiliation of the cold call.
That night, Fenno fumbled through his first reception. He had long shunned the practice of networking; to him, there was nothing more degrading than such an eager reliance on personality, rather than quality of work, for advancement. But the OCS advisor told him to attend, and he was no longer in a position to stand by his lofty and admittedly flimsy principles.
The firm that night was Simpson Thatcher, a firm he, in his new position at the bottom of the barrel, could now never hope to work for. Still, he feigned confidence and a passion for the law. He declared his devotion to Mergers and Acquisitions as one would professing undying love to a princess. He waxed poetic about contracts. He echoed New York was indeed the center of the world.
He walked back to his dorm feeling that he had done very well, that he had played the part of a promising legal enthusiast and perhaps that would be enough.
"Coming back from a reception?" his neighbor asked, spying him in his dark suit. When Fenno nodded, the aged 3L said cynically, "Those don't really matter. They're just going to decide based on your grades."
Fenno was quickly deflated again.
"Fenno" is a fictional serial written by an anonymous law student. The main character is always named Fenno and is always a 1L, but his or her character changes every school year. This installation is part of the series for the 2011 to 2012 School Year entitled "The Uncertain Fenno, 2011 to 2012."
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It is 1945. A young airman jumps to certain death from his burning aircraft. His last words are to a girl he has never met: "I love you June. You are life and I am leaving you".
Following an angelic blunder, caused by a classic English pea-souper, Peter Carter miraculously survives and finds June in the flesh. But, things are not so simple! To stay alive, Peter is forced to take himself, and the heavens to the Universal Court of Appeal.
Kneehigh takes on the Olivier stage at the National Theatre in a new adaptation of this much loved war movie by Powell and Pressburger. A love story set against the backdrop of the Second World War - romantic, surreal and poignantly funny.
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Set Designer Bill Mitchell
Company Dorothy Atkinson, Stu Barker, Jamie Bradley, Dan Canham, Fiona Chivers, Meryl Fernandes, Gisli Örn Gardarsson, Thomas Goodridge, Tamzin Griffin, Douglas Hodge, Craig Johnson, Pete Judge, Debbie Korley, Pieter Lawman, Dom Lawton, Róbert Luckay, Lyndsey M


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Body and Soul, Geography and Ethics, Trauma and Transcendence
A number of the canonical literary classics of New Orleans as well as the newer works that are held in highest esteem share a preoccupation with the general landscape of the city, and, in turn, with questions about the precise dynamics between sexuality and spirituality. As such, they provide endless opportunities to reflect on what an ethics of body and soul might mean in this highly eroticized landscape, where the potential, moreover, for both traumatic and transcendental experience would seem to wait around each corner. We'll consider, moreover, the tensions between the human and the monstrous as we trace the dynamics of gender and sexuality, and race and class, through the different parts of the city, from the Garden District to Gentilly to the French Quarter to Treme to the Ninth Ward, and, of course, through Storyville. In particular, we'll test the thesis that Storyville was a sort of unwitting memorial to the slave-markets of the preceding century, and that jazz, in turn, was – with voodoo and Mardi Gras Indian masking – a primary strategy of recovering from the agonizing divisions of the chattel principle.


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Our marketing and booking service will suit you if you live close to your holiday property, manage changeovers yourself and don't need a management service. We will market your property professionally and comprehensively, take bookings and payment and notify you straight away by email when you have received a booking. If you wish, we will also source a reputable housekeeper for you.
- We offer a very competitive commission rate which together with strong bookings, achieve high income for our owners.
- Your property will be inspected and graded annually, and you will receive a full report with recommendations on how to increase its income potential.
- We do not charge any registration fees, renewal fees, or fees for photography or inclusion on any of our websites or in any literature.
- Customers pay for our Cancellation Protection Scheme which protects them in the event they have to cancel for qualifying reasons, and guarantees that you as the homeowner will be paid in full for the booking, unless you choose to book the week for your own use.
- You will have a dedicated local Property Manager who is your point of contact. He/she monitors your bookings and the marketing of your property, and keeps you up to date with advice on best practice and legal compliance.
- We have a local Customer Service Manager who responds to any customer concerns, seeks feedback through service questionnaires and liaises with you and your housekeeper.
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We want letting your holiday home to be as simple, stress-free and enjoyable as possible for you. If you need assistance, live away from your holiday property, or you'd like everything looked after for you, choose our Bespoke Managed Service, which can be tailored to suit your individual needs. Our charges are the same as for the Marketing and Booking Service, plus we'll charge a management fee of 10% of the value of invoices for anything we arrange on your behalf. This could include, for example:
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Make your home eco-friendly in a day
In order to make your home eco-friendly you don't need a lot of time, expensive machines or some special knowledge. In fact, you can do this in a couple of hours, with very low-budget. All of advices that you can use in your home are useful. Just one of them can reduce power consumption and reduce an energy bill, but all of them, combined, can make your home a green home. If you want to try them, here is what you will have to do.
1. The first and basic (also the most known) advice is to replace your bulbs. Use CFLs. They use far less energy and they last longer.
2. Use bamboo. This is the fastest growing plant on the planet. You can buy a lot of products made from this plant. Also, you can use bamboo flooring. It is cheap and it looks nice.
3. Open your blinds during the day. This can save 10% of your energy.
4. Call your friends and make parties during the winter. Every person can generate the same amount of heat as a 100 watt heater.
5. Use rugs. If you have a wooden floor, adding a rug can reduce your energy bill from 4 up to 6%.
6. 13% of people cuddle their pet in order to keep them warm.
7. Just looking at the refrigerator will cost you $50 a year. Decide what you want, open a refrigerator, take what you want and close it.
8. Use vinegar to kill bacteria.
9. Microwave uses 50% less energy than a conventional oven. So, use it.


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Prepared by JoAnn Gemenden,
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Guest Speaker
Mike Hastry, DEP, Division of Hazardous Waste
Mike Hastry stated that DEP inspections of county waste events/facilities were supposed to start in July of 2004. They have been doing spot inspections and complaint follow-ups but routine inspections have not started yet.
Ann Williams from Burlington County asked if the County's could be provided with a list of what the DEP would be looking for on these inspections. Mike said that is not available yet, but other inspection forms are available on their website. Go to www.state.nj.us/dep/enforcement and click on Compliance Assistance Resources.
Mike Hastry also reported that the NJDEP rescinded all fees for County facilities and events. For those counties that paid, please let Mike Hastry know so they can issue you a check back.
The Association agreed to develop a list of EPA Generator numbers used by County's for Household Hazardous Waste programs to provide to the NJDEP for reference purposes.
NJDEP Update
Robin Heston also spoke about the Mercury Program. She indicated the Source Reduction Brochure would be available November 15th. She asked each county to provide her with a number of how many brochures they would want.
Robin also reported that Triple AAA is doing a "Switch the Switch" program during the month of October for AAA members.
Sondra Flite also asked all County Coordinators to read the "Source Reduction Section" of the Draft State Plan when it is posted on the website. Please pass on any comments or any ideas on how to accomplish source reduction goals outlined in the plan.
October 25, 2004 is the public hearing on the Mercury Switch Rule to be held at 401 E. State Street in Trenton.
County Update
- Mark Vangieri from Bergen County reported that Bergen County received a $10,000 Dell Grant. They had one event planned but have now expanded to three (3) events in one day.
Ron Potter – MXI Environmental Services
His company is a hazardous and solid waste transporter with a facility in Virginia and Piscataway, NJ. Ron provided an overview of the services available from his company.


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Quantitative comparison of PET performance—Siemens Biograph mCT and mMR
© Karlberg et al. 2016
- Received: 9 December 2015
- Accepted: 17 February 2016
- Published: 25 February 2016
Integrated clinical whole-body PET/MR systems were introduced in 2010. In order to bring this technology into clinical usage, it is of great importance to compare the performance with the well-established PET/CT. The aim of this study was to evaluate PET performance, with focus on image quality, on Siemens Biograph mMR (PET/MR) and Siemens Biograph mCT (PET/CT).
A direct quantitative comparison of the performance characteristics between the mMR and mCT system was performed according to National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) NU 2-2007 protocol. Spatial resolution, sensitivity, count rate and image quality were evaluated. The evaluation was supplemented with additional standardized uptake value (SUV) measurements.
The spatial resolution was similar for the two systems. Average sensitivity was higher for the mMR (13.3 kcps/MBq) compared to the mCT system (10.0 kcps/MBq). Peak noise equivalent count rate (NECR) was slightly higher for the mMR (196 kcps @ 24.4 kBq/mL) compared to the mCT (186 kcps @ 30.1 kBq/mL). Scatter fractions in the clinical activity concentration range yielded lower values for the mCT (34.9 %) compared to those for the mMR (37.0 %). Best image quality of the systems resulted in approximately the same mean hot sphere contrast and a difference of 19 percentage points (pp) in mean cold contrast, in favour of the mCT. In general, point spread function (PSF) increased hot contrast and time of flight (TOF) increased both hot and cold contrast. Highest hot contrast for the smallest sphere (10 mm) was achieved with the combination of TOF and PSF on the mCT. Lung residual error was higher for the mMR (22 %) than that for the mCT (17 %), with no effect of PSF. With TOF, lung residual error was reduced to 8 % (mCT). SUV was accurate for both systems, but PSF caused overestimations for the 13-, 17- and 22-mm spheres.
Both systems proved good performance characteristics, and the PET image quality of the mMR was close to that of the mCT. Differences between the systems were mainly due to the TOF possibility on the mCT, which resulted in an overall better image quality, especially for the most challenging settings with higher background activity and small uptake volumes.
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- Quantitative image quality
Whole-body hybrid PET/MR technology is a promising and powerful tool with several potential advantages compared to the more established PET/CT. PET/MR has the ability to perform simultaneous PET and MR data acquisitions, and MR offers functional-imaging capabilities as well as better contrast among soft tissues than CT imaging. Also, the significant radiation dose to the patient, contributed from a CT scan, can be excluded [1]. There are a number of differences in the PET system design as well as in the acquisition and reconstruction methods between this later introduced modality and the PET/CT system. The main technological differences are the design of the PET detectors and the attenuation correction (AC) of PET data. Traditional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are incompatible with the strong magnetic field in a PET/MR system. Several approaches have been applied to solve this problem. In Siemens Biograph mMR, avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are used in PET detectors instead of PMTs. Due to the relatively low timing resolution of APDs, the Siemens mMR lacks time-of-flight (TOF) capability. TOF option is however available in the Philips Ingenuity TF PET/MR non-integrated system as well as in GEs integrated Signa PET/MR with silicon-PM detector technology. TOF is known to improve image quality due to increased signal-to-noise ratio [2].
For accurate quantification of the radionuclide uptake, PET data need to be corrected for photon attenuation. Attenuation information can be obtained from either a transmission scan in stand-alone PET or derived from CT images in combined PET/CT systems [3]. Low-dose CT scans are today's standard for AC in PET/CT imaging. Alternative methods have been proposed for AC in PET/MR, since MR images do not reflect electron densities. These methods can be classified into three main categories: emission, segmentation and atlas-based approaches [4]. Siemens Biograph mMR uses a segmentation-based technique derived from an MR sequence as basis for AC in clinical procedures. However, conventional MR sequences do not image bone tissue, and this becomes a source of error in clinical PET AC images from a PET/MR system. For phantom studies, vendor-provided attenuation maps (CT-based templates) can be used instead of MR-based attenuation maps. Artefacts that usually occur when scanning large water-filled volumes are then avoided, and attenuation in phantom housing is accounted for.
It is essential to evaluate the performance of PET/MR in comparison to PET/CT, with respect to image quality and quantitative parameters. Several studies have compared the PET images from PET/CT and PET/MR in clinical data [5–17], and the vast majority have demonstrated equal diagnostic performance and detection rates, despite some differences in quantification. However, attenuation correction issues in clinical data will always lead to quantification inaccuracies in such comparisons. Biological factors will also influence the activity distribution within a patient between the PET/CT and PET/MR examination. By using a phantom and CT-based attenuation correction for both PET/CT and PET/MR, such limiting factors are eliminated.
Previously, full scanner performance measurements, according to National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) NU 2-2007 protocol, have been performed by Delso et al. [18] for the Siemens Biograph mMR system and by Jakoby et al. [19] and Marti-Climent et al. [20] for the Siemens Biograph mCT. To the best of our knowledge, no direct phantom comparison between the two systems has been reported, and this is important to establish a basis on which a further comparison and discussion of clinical performance can be made.
The main purpose of this study was to perform a direct quantitative comparison of PET performance, with main focus on PET image quality, between state-of-the art PET/CT and the later introduced PET/MR, using the same physical phantoms, same phantom preparation for image quality, identical data analysis and the same measurement protocol (NEMA NU 2-2007).
The Siemens Biograph mCT (software version syngo MI.PET/CT 2012A) (Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany) consists of a PET detector with 4 rings, 48 detector blocks in each ring and lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) crystals of 4 × 4 × 20 mm in a 13 × 13 array coupled to a 2 × 2 PMT array in each detector block. This gives an axial PET field of view (FOV) of 22.1 cm. The transaxial FOV is 70 cm. Detector ring diameter is 84.2 cm. Time coincidence window is 4.1 ns, system time resolution 540 ps and energy window 435–650 keV. An integrated 64-slice CT is used for attenuation correction of PET data [21].
The Siemens Biograph mMR (software version B20P) (Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany) consists of a PET detector with 8 rings, 56 detector blocks in each ring and LSO crystals of 4 × 4 × 20 mm in a 8 × 8 array coupled to a 3 × 3 APD array in each detector block. This gives an axial PET FOV of 25.8 cm. The transaxial FOV is 58.8 cm. Time coincidence window is 5.86 ns and the energy window 430–610 keV. The integrated whole-body MR is a 3 Tesla (T) niobium-titanium magnet with 60-cm patient bore diameter [22].
Performance measurements
Performance measurements included spatial resolution, sensitivity, count rate performance, scatter fraction and image quality for both systems. All measurements were performed according to the NEMA NU 2-2007 protocol and evaluated with Siemens NEMA 2007 software for both systems. Cross calibration (between dose calibrator and systems and between the systems) and normalization with time alignment and full detector calibration have been performed on a regular basis according to manufacturer's recommendations on both scanners. To assure good quality, this was also done prior to this study.
Spatial resolution
The spatial resolution of the systems was measured by using a capillary tube with 18F−-absorbing resin as a point source (start activities, 7.0 MBq (mCT), 8.9 MBq (mMR); activity concentrations at scan start, 3.8 GBq/mL (mCT), 2.9 GBq/mL (mMR)) placed at six different positions within the PET FOV ((X,Y,Z) = (0,1,1/2FOVz), (0,1,3/4FOVz), (10,0,3/4FOVz), (10,0,1/2FOVz), (0,10,1/2FOVz) and (0,10,3/4FOVz) cm). The point source was placed on an L-fixture and accurately aligned with the gantry lasers and with the semiautomatic positioning software included in the Siemens NEMA software. Average net trues were 2.8 million counts for the mCT and 2.3 million counts for the mMR. Sinogram data was reconstructed using Fourier rebinning (FORE) algorithm and filtered back projection (FBP) into image matrices of 400 × 400 × 109 voxels/2.04 × 2.04 × 2.03 mm (mCT) and 344 × 344 × 127 voxels/2.09 × 2.09 × 2.03 mm (mMR). It can be noted that Siemens NEMA test instructions accept a larger point source volume than the NEMA NU 2-2007 instructions. Therefore, a minor compromise in volume was used to be able to perform the tests.
Sensitivity was measured using a 70-cm line source of known 18F−-activity inserted into the five standardized NEMA aluminium sleeves at two positions in the PET FOV (X,Y = (0,0) and (0,10) cm). Start activities were 8.4 MBq (0 cm) and 6.7 MBq (10 cm) for the mCT and 12.3 MBq (0 cm) and 9.8 MBq (10 cm) for the mMR. Acquisitions included five measurements for each point, 300 s each. For each measurement, one sleeve was removed. By changing the amount of attenuation surrounding the line source, the sensitivity can be extrapolated to zero attenuated medium for each position and the average sensitivity for each system can be calculated. The data was decay corrected.
Count rate
Count rate measurements were performed utilizing a high activity line source (18F−) in the NEMA scatter phantom, centered in the transverse and axial PET FOV. Start activity was 997 MBq (mCT) and 627 MBq (mMR), which is high enough to allow peak NECR estimation for the systems. Regular 600-s measurements were taken until activity approached zero (14.7 h for both systems). Sinogram data was used to estimate NECR and scatter fractions of the systems for varying activity concentrations within the FOV. NECRs were calculated using delayed coincidence window for randoms subtraction.
Count rate accuracy was estimated by extrapolating the true rate for low-activity concentrations (where count losses and randoms can be effectively neglected) back to higher activity levels and comparing it to the measured and corrected trues rate. Data was reconstructed using the FORE algorithm and FBP.
Image quality
European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) procedure guidelines [24] recommend reporting SUVmax and at least one additional SUV based on threshold, or peak value, for 2D or 3D clinical data. Therefore, SUVmax, SUV50 and SUV80 were evaluated for all hot spheres and for both background concentrations, using Siemens Syngo.via workstation for the 3D volumes.
Corrections in image quality measurements
AC in mCT data was based on a low-dose CT scan (120 kV; reference mAs, 40; pitch, 0.95; rotation time, 0.5 s; collimation, 64 × 0.6 mm; slice width, 3 mm.
Water-filled phantoms may induce strong artefacts in MR imaging at magnetic field strengths above 1.5 T, and MR-based AC is therefore not recommended for large phantoms at 3 T. The artefacts are caused by inhomogeneous radiofrequency excitation when fluids with high relative permittivity are imaged [25]. In addition, phantom housing are not included in MR-based AC. Ziegler et al. [26] and Boellard et al [27] have demonstrated that CT-based AC is superior to MR-based AC for image quality evaluation of the NEMA phantom in integrated PET/MR. In accordance with that, AC for the NEMA phantom in this study was performed with a vendor-provided attenuation map (μ-map) on the mMR system (CT-based template). Linear attenuation coefficients were 0.095 cm−1 for water and 0.026 cm−1 for the lung insert (same as the mean attenuation values derived from the low-dose CT scan used for AC of mCT data).
All reconstructions included corrections for attenuation, detector normalization, randoms and scatter. Truncation compensation was automatically not used for the PET/CT scans and was disabled for the PET/MR scans, since the phantom did not exceed the FOV.
Spatial resolution, sensitivity and count rate performance
Performance characteristics of the Biograph mMR and Biograph mCT
Resolution (mm)
Axial FWHM/FWTM @ 1 cm
Transverse FWHM/FWTM @ 1 cm
Axial FWHM/FWTM @ 10 cm
Transverse FWHM/FWTM @ 10 cm
Average sensitivity (kcps/MBq)
Peak NECR (kcps)
196 @ 24.4 kBq/mL
186 @ 30.1 kBq/mL
Scatter fraction (peak NECR)
37.9 %
37.7 %
Count rate accuracy (mean bias, peak NECR)
4.9 %
1.9 %
Mean bias for count rate accuracy was higher for the mMR (4.9 %) than that for the mCT (1.9 %) at peak NECRs. For activity concentration in the clinical range, the mean bias was slightly higher for the mCT (1.3 %) compared to that for the mMR (0.9 %).
Image quality
Contrast and background variability
Contrast results (in percent) for the NEMA phantom with various sphere sizes, with different reconstruction settings and the 1:8 ratio for the Biograph mMR and Biograph mCT
Inner diameter (mm)
Mean (hot spheres)
Mean (cold spheres)
Contrast results (in percent) for the NEMA phantom with various sphere sizes, with different reconstruction settings and the 1:4 ratio for the Biograph mMR and Biograph mCT
Inner diameter (mm)
Mean (hot spheres)
Mean (cold spheres)
Lung residual error
SUV evaluation
SUV deviation Deviation (%) from theoretical SUV, for the 22-mm sphere, with different background concentrations and reconstruction settings for the Biograph mMR and Biograph mCT
SUV and concentrations
SUVmax 1:8
SUVmax 1:4
The basic performance measurements of resolution, sensitivity, count rate and scatter fraction conform well to the previously reported results by Delso et al. [18], Jakoby et al. [19] and Marti-Climent et al. [20], within experimental uncertainties. A small difference in the mMR average sensitivity can be observed in our study (13.3 kcps/MBq) compared to the study by Delso et al. (14.4 kcps/MBq). This may be explained by a significant variation in the sensitivity of the system within a few millimetres of its centre and is probably caused by a gap effect, which are unmeasured lines of response in the sinogram. In the exact centre of the FOV, this effect is less prominent than at all other projection angles. The placement of the line source in the field of view is therefore critical to minimize this effect for the mMR. For the mCT, this effect was not as prominent.
The mMR has slightly higher NECRs for both low- and high-activity concentrations compared to the mCT. The scatter fraction is approximately the same for both systems for peak NECRs. However, below peak NECR and for lower activity concentrations, which are normally used in clinical scans and for the NEMA image quality phantom, the mCT yielded lower values. This would imply that the mMR is more affected by scatter than the mCT.
Our image quality results seem to correspond well to the study by Delso et al. [18] regarding image contrast and background variability measurements for the mMR. Their results demonstrated approximately the same cold contrast (four iterations) and a somewhat lower hot contrast than ours. The lung residual error was higher in our study. Small discrepancies could be due to reconstruction and acquisition settings or minor phantom variations. The semiautomatic or manual matching of the μ-map to non-attenuation corrected PET data in the Siemens NEMA image quality software could cause some result variations because the matching depends on the researcher performing the matching/registration and not some predefined registration procedures. The new software version (Syngo MR B20P), which was used in our study, included new software features, coil modifications and other modified hardware for the Biograph mMR system, compared to the earlier systems with Syngo MR B18P version. The equivalence of these two versions has been verified and should however not affect the performance of the system [28].
For the mCT, the measured mean hot contrast was substantially higher in the study by Jakoby et al. [19] than that in our study (86.0 % vs 63.2 % when PSF and TOF were incorporated in the reconstruction), while the mean hot contrast in the study by Marti-Climent et al. [20] demonstrated approximately the same results as ours. One possible reason for these discrepancies was different reconstruction parameters. Cold contrast and lung residual errors were relatively similar between the studies.
Since the image quality results are highly dependent upon reconstruction parameters, it is difficult to compare previous studies [18–20] with each other to evaluate possible differences between the systems. For best image quality comparison between the mCT and the mMR, our study used the same reconstruction parameters, including approximately the same pixel size, the same filtration and equal number of iterations for both systems.
The mean hot contrast can be considered comparable between the mMR and mCT system. But, for the smallest sphere, the combination of TOF and PSF was in favour of the mCT. This is in accordance with the results of Akamatsu et al. [29], demonstrating that the signal-to-noise ratio for a 10-mm hot sphere was highest for the OSEM reconstruction method with a combination of TOF and PSF. This reconstruction combination also gave highest contrast recovery in the studies by Jakoby et al. [19] and Marti-Clement et al. [20] for several sphere sizes. These studies also demonstrated improved contrast recovery with TOF in cold regions, such as the lung insert and water-filled spheres, as seen in our study as well.
The average residual error, due to scatter and attenuation, was higher for the mMR than that for the mCT. This was expected due to higher scatter fraction on the mMR system. The TOF option on the mCT improved lung residual error and cold sphere contrast. In order to reduce average residual error and achieve the same cold contrast levels for the two systems, the number of iterations should be higher on the mMR than that on the mCT. Generally, the mMR performance was more dependent on the reconstruction than the mCT, and reconstruction parameters should therefore be evaluated carefully to maximize the performance of the mMR system.
SUV quantification was good for both modalities. In general, PSF correction overestimated the hot sphere values. This could be attributed to edge artefacts (Gibbs artefacts) that occur when PSF is used in iterative reconstruction algorithms, as previously shown by Nakamura et al. [30].
In this study, several problems that usually occur in the attenuation correction of clinical PET/MR data were avoided by using a CT-based template for AC of PET/MR data. Usually, uptake is underestimated in clinical PET/MR AC images due to the fact that bone is neglected in the MR AC maps [31]. Also, limitations in the MR FOV may lead to incomplete attenuation maps which cause truncation artefacts in reconstructed clinical PET images [32]. Furthermore, the flexible body surface coils are neglected in clinical PET/MR AC. Paulus et al. [33] have proven that disregarding them can lead to a bias in AC PET images that is regional dependent. The closer the analysed region is to the coil, the higher the bias. Thus, the clinical system performance will be affected by these, still unsolved, issues.
The same image quality phantom preparations were used for both system, to avoid different activity ratios between spheres and background, which may occur when preparing a phantom twice. This means that the activity concentrations were lower during the mMR acquisitions than during the mCT acquisitions. However, all image quality phantom measurements still covered normal clinical activity ranges used for these systems, as recommended in the NEMA NU 2-2007 test instructions. So this analysis should be highly relevant in comparing the clinical image quality of the two systems.
In accordance with previously reported clinical studies, demonstrating equal diagnostic performance between the mMR and mCT systems, this phantom study shows comparable performance between the scanners in most cases. However, caution should be made for more challenging settings, as for example higher background activity concentration or small uptake volumes, where the differences are more pronounced.
There are detectable differences in the phantom-based performance of the Biograph mMR and mCT system. NECRs and sensitivity are higher for the mMR system. Differences in image quality are mainly related to the TOF capability of the mCT system and are most evident for the more challenging settings, where the performance is somewhat better for the mCT. However, it must be noted that the mean hot contrast for the systems are almost the same, and SUV measurements show good agreement for both systems.
We thank Kevin Lohmann, Siemens Medical Solutions, for assisting in methodical and accurate phantom preparation and acquisitions. We also thank Charles Watson and Dieter Manthey, Siemens Medical Solutions and Björn Jakoby, Siemens AG Healthcare Sector, for the helpful information and discussions about our results.
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I love touring gardens and I always come away with new ideas to try at home. That can be dangerous, like when I decided to change my color scheme of 20 years and rip out everything that wasn't blue or yellow. But more often it's a smaller change; a way to cluster containers or an intriguing combination of plants. Big Ideas for Small Spaces showcases some of the tips I've gleaned over the years, from the wonderful public gardens I've frequented.
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Locust GroveReducing Maintenance at Locust Grove - Locust Grove, in Hyde Park, is one of the best maintained historic sites in the Hudson Valley. That includes the grounds, the heritage vegetable garden, the dahlia and peony collections, and the ornamental borders and cutting gardens. Sounds like a lot to maintain - and it is. I talk with horticulturists Tim Steinhoff and Susan MacAvery about what it takes to keep these gardens looking spectacular and the tricks and time-savers they've developed and employed to make it so. They'd be more than happy if you choose to steal a few for your own garden.
BellefieldLessons from Beatrix Farrand and Exuberance of Bellefield - One of the few remaining gardens designed by famed designer Beatrix Farrand. Farrand is most famous for Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C. While Bellefield is much smaller, it contains many of the concepts and ideas that originally made mix borders so popular with gardeners. In this video and the accompanying write-up, I talk with Executive Director, Karen S Smythe, and Horticulturist Anne Cleves Symmes, of the Beatrix Farrand Garden Association, at Bellefield in Hyde Park, NY, about what makes Bellefield so special and what gardens can takeaway from it for their own gardens.
Tomato TrellisA Better Way to Trellis Tomatoes - Throw away the tomato cages and toss out your stakes. This trellis system from Locust Grove, in Poughkeepsie, NY, outproduces them all. My version is a bit more practical and I'll bet you could improve on it even more.
BlithewoodRestrained Abundance - Blithewood is tucked away at the end of a discreet road on the Bard Collage Campus, in Annandale-On-Hudson, NY. The garden is formally laid out on a center access with rigid square beds. But everything is made welcoming by the round shapes of billowing plants and the calming affect of a limited color palette.
Berkshire Botanical GardenEdibles on a Personal Scale - Not many public gardens devote as much space (and thought) to edibles as does the Berkshire Botanical Garden, in Stockbridge, MA. While it is an educational display and they do classes on growing vegetables, what impressed the visitors with me was how cleverly they had laid out the beds and how well they tucked even more vegetables into containers mixed in with the ornamental. If you think your yard is too small for a vegetable garden or if you just want to grow more in whatever space you have, take a peek.
SissinghurstWorld-Wide Influence and Subtle Style - Sissinghurst Castle was made famous by the garden created by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson. The white garden has spawned many imitations, but there are other lessons to be learned here. Nicolson and Sackville-West had a keen eye for making garden rooms and were well ahead of their time in revering foliage.


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We are very pleased to announce that two more Teaching Hubs have been formed. The Northampton Hub comprises All Saints, St Giles, St Peter and Holy Sepulchre, all within Northampton. The Loddon Hub (located within the northern part of the Sonning Deanery branch of the Oxford Diocesan Guild) comprises Hurst St Nicholas, Sonning St Andrew, Twyford St Mary (Twyford), Waltham St Lawrence and Margrave, St Mary.
ART are aware that a number of towers which are doing very good work, teaching to the ART Training Scheme and with the potential to become Teaching Centres (TCs) fall short of the criteria that all teaching must be carried out by ART Members. To make sure that these efforts are recognised we have created ART Teaching Hubs along similar lines to TCs but acknowledging not all of the teachers will be ART Members.
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Established as a lasting tribute to Dr. Arbuckle's work on behalf of children, families and public education, the awards is presented by GEA where she served as Executive Director before her retirement in 2013. The Arbuckle Award is presented to someone with a long history of support for quality public education. The recipient is a community leader with vision, a tireless and passionate convener, a strong advocate with a heart for all children having a fair chance for a successful life.
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In the third game, Burgess attacks the Thousand Sunny at Jaya. He almost succeeds in devouring the Flame-Flame Fruit, when it is taken by Sabo who was thought to have died.
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Burgess is the loudest of the Blackbeard Pirates, often gloating that he is the Champion.
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