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India is one of the most earthquake-prone zones across the globe. In the past few years, the country has witnessed a number of seismic activities. This includes the earthquakes at Latur (in 1993) & Bhuj (in 2001). These incidents in the past have exposed the vulnerability of the building designs and codes that are followed in the country. In the wake of such natural disasters, the government has redesigned construction practices to make the buildings earthquake resistant. Let's take a look at a few facts about earthquake resistant buildings:
1. The Bureau of Indian Statistics has enlisted construction and design criteria of buildings on the basis of different earthquake prone zones in the country. During any construction project, the structural engineers are responsible for ensuring that the standards laid down by BIS are followed.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com/india/is-your-building-earthquake-resistant/story...
2. Following the Latur earthquake in 1993, the use of TMT bars has become mandatory in all important construction projects in India; especially in the moderate to high-risk seismic zones III, IV, and V. TMT bars must comply with the standards mentioned in IS1786-2008. SRMB is one of the most prominent TMT bar manufacturers in India and has been providing earthquake resistant TMT bars for different construction projects across the country. If you are planning to buy TMT bar for your construction project, visit https://www.srmbsteel.com/tmt-bars and check the specifications of our TMT bars.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/construction/why-majority-buildings-in-india-weathered-the-impact-of-nepal-earthquake/articleshow/47052454.cms
3. Earthquake resistant buildings in India are designed in a way so as to prevent a total collapse, thus saving numerous lives. A building that has been constructed using earthquake resistant material (such as TMT bars) and follows proper design codes sustain less structural damage compared to ordinary buildings.
Source: www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/real-estate/200611271166.htm
4. Seismic isolation is also a common practice to protect a building from an earthquake. In this practice, the base of the building in isolated from the subsoil by using a base isolation system. This system absorbs the vibrations resulting from an earthquake, thus protecting it from an earthquake.
Source: www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/nov252004/1426.pdf
5. The earthquake-resistant buildings are strengthened in such as way that they are flexible enough to absorb vibrations. And that is why the structure is bolstered using quake-resistant material, thus stabilising them to a certain degree.
There is an increasing need to create awareness among local builders and people regarding building planning in earthquake-prone zones. Hopefully, these pointers have given you an idea about earthquake resistant structures.


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Domini Kemp was born in the Bahamas, and moved to Ireland in 1983. She trained as a chef at Leith's in London before co-writing New Irish Cooking and working in the Michelin-starred Peacock Alley. In 1999, she opened the hugely popular itsa bagel with her sister Peaches which has grown into a successful food company with four branches throughout Dublin. But the sisters have also expanded their core business and diversified into other areas including outdoor catering (Feast catering) and two new restaurants (itsa4 restaurant and Table) as well as a growing their wholesale and retail food sales. itsa bagel ® has grown to a staff of 100 with four retail premises plus a commercial 5000 ' sq ft production unit in Sandyford.
November 05 saw the opening of itsa 4 restaurant which received widespread critical praise and a loyal clientele because of the focus on organic and local produce, good service and delicious food. A subsidiary company, FEAST, is an up-market outdoor catering company, with a VIP client list that caters weddings, corporate launches, canapé and reception parties and is one of the 12 approved caterers for OPW.
Domini regularly contributes to TV, magazines, and newspapers as a chef/food-writer and has been hailed by The Sunday Times (UK) as "easily the best food writer in Ireland" for her restaurant reviews and has published her first cook-book, "Real Food Real Fast" which has sold close to 10,000 copies both in Ireland and the US markets.
She was short-listed for IBEC's Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2002 and regularly speaks to Women in Business Groups, Entrepreneur Groups, YIHI Hospitality Group, IBEC and has spoken at Farmleigh House on "The Changing Irish Palate". She has also participated in several workshops regarding accessibility in the workplace and was interviewed for RTE's 360 programme in 2004.
She wrote the restaurant reviews for IMAGE magazine from 2006 until spring 2008, when she moved to the Irish Times magazine as food writer. She is also a member of the Taste Council (under Bord Bia) which is a representative artisan and specialty food group working at strategic level to help direct and influence policy for the artisan food sector.
In November 2006, the itsa bagel group opened "Table" restaurant in a new partnership with Brown Thomas, Cork. This restaurant is similar in style to itsa4 has been beautifully refurbished and relocated to the second floor of Cork's most prestigious store. For more information and photos of both itsa4 and Table, go to www.itsabagel.com.
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Welcome to the City of Lancaster. We want to thank you for choosing to operate your business in Lancaster and wish you well in all your business endeavors.
Business License Requirements
Per the City of Lancaster Municipal Code Title 5, Chapter 5.04 - Business Licenses and Regulations, it is unlawful for a person to transact any business in the City without first having obtained a business license. A business license authorizes the licensee to transact business at the location designated on the license. Evidence of doing business include the use of signs, circulars, cards, telephone books, newspapers, internet advertising including but not limited to use of social media or other form of advertisement to represent transacting business in the City. Businesses who hold an active license issued by another governmental agency indicating that such person is transacting business in the City are also required to obtain a license from the City of Lancaster.
Licenses are valid for a term of twelve (12) months, commencing on the first day of the month the business began operating in the City or when the City issued the business license, whichever is earlier. Licenses must be renewed a minimum of thirty (30) days prior to expiration. The City of Lancaster may send a renewal notice; however, this notice is a courtesy. Non-payment of renewal fees prior to the license expiration date may result in penalties being assessed to the license.
Additional Approvals and Permits Required for Operating a Business
Businesses are advised to visit the Planning Department prior to applying for a Business License.
Prior to operating a business in the City of Lancaster businesses may be required to obtain additional approvals and permits from the following departments:
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Businesses should consider registering their business name (not required) at the County Recorder's Office. This will register the business name and no other businesses can use it. This is not a requirement to obtain a business license.
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October 26, 2007 - Codonics will display their complete image distribution solution, including the Virtua XR at ASTRO 2007.
From film to color paper, grayscale paper, CD and DVD, the Codonics multi-media solution reportedly gives hospitals and imaging centers a way to provide professional patient consultation tools to their referring physicians and market their practice.
To support treatment planning, Codonics' photographic, edge-to-edge color images are reportedly less expensive than film.
The Virtua XR Medical Disc Publisher is reportedly the world's fastest medical disc recording system at one disc per minute and over 60 CDs or 30 DVDs per hour..
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Not from the people who brought you liquid bandages, it's the liquid condom.
No, really. It's actually a gel that turns semisolid upon contact with semen, preventing HIV from passing through. The idea is to give women a way of preventing HIV transmission that doesn't require her partner's participation or even knowledge. This is particularly important in places where cultural values prevent men from using condoms and women from insisting they do so.
Now, I gotta say, I am unavoidably reminded of those cookbooks that teach you how to sneak vegetables into your kids' meals. It may solve the immediate problem, but it won't lead to a needed long-term change in behavior. (For the record, I always ate my vegetables. Indeed, as a child I was an angel and a delight. Now, not so much.)
In children, the problem is that, if they discover your devious ways, they stop trusting anything you eat, leading to dysfunctions of eating, and meanwhile they still don't like vegetables. If domineering and recalcitrant lovers discover your devious ways, then, it may lead to dysfunctional sex, and meanwhile they still don't like or think they should wear condoms. The problem here is men who are in denial about their role in HIV transmission, about how their attitudes and actions contribute to the epidemic.
The solution, as with children and vegetables, isn't deception—it's education.
(h/t Boonsri Dickinson)
One of the most important issues of the first quarter of the 21st century will be clean, sustainable energy. I believe the key will be a panoply of sources: instead of using one process, one form of fuel (e.g., fossil fuels) to meet substantially alll of our energy needs, we will combine solar, geothermal, wind, waste biomass, and other sources as yet undiscovered so that no one thing has too big a burden.
One thing slowing progress is that, in part for reasons of infrastructure, petroleum is significantly cheaper than most other fuels. No one has any motivation to switch other than ecological altruism because it requires such a massive investment of time, money, and effort (to find a source for solar panels, or whatever it is).
In particular, using biodiesel in your car requires making it at home: there are no filling stations because so few people have appropriate vehicles, and no one wants a car that requires biodiesel because it's so inconvenient to refuel.
One solution is to run your car on straight vegetable oil. This, however, makes it impossible to run the car on regular diesel fuel, which is available at filling stations, and it uses food crops (the U.S. grows so much corn that we feed it to cattle, whose bodies metabolize it far less efficiently and completely than grain, and make it into sweetener, which the government creates a market for by levying a tariff on sugarcane).
Another possibility is to use algae. Algae are easy to grow and not used for food, so there's no chance of the fuel exacerbating food shortages. While the current method of extracting fuel from algae requires toxic solvents heavily regulated in this country, a company in Horseheads, N.Y., has developed a new solid catalyst that may alllow algae-based fuels to be produced at filling stations.
My e-mail tempts me with promises that every hot woman will ask me about the time, and offers to add spices to my bed. The second would be messy, but the first would be intriguing if attenton from hot women were missing from my life.
Well, soon it may happen. Larry J. Young, a research neurochemist at Emory Univversity, say's he's found the neurochemical basis of love. I exaggerate, he acknowledges it's a touch more complex then that.
Young is also convinced that love does not boil down to one single hormone. Other studies have shown that differences in a gene called major histocompatibility complex, which affects the immune system, may be involved in initial sexual attraction. For males, the hormone vasopressin appears to be more important.
However, many of the people saying it can't work seem to have more of a visceral than a scientific objection.
Fisher also disagreed with Young on the nature of biological love: Rather than a single reproductive imperative repurposed into other feelings, she believes there are three distinct brain systems for sex, romance and attachment.
Young is little concerned with the possibility of unethical uses, though he does note that a love potion can hep strengthen legitimate relationships. I'm not sure how this is different from a date-rape drug, beyond that there would be a sort of manipulated consent which in the long run would probably be wrse for the victims, and women in general, than anything actually available.
Whille I'm one of those people who feels caffeine is somewhat the point of coffee, I acknowledge there's a health benefit to cutting back, particularly for expectant mothers. That's why it's possible to get decaf, and to test the caffeine content of your drinks. The product is essentially a pregnancy test for coffee, looking for caffeine by causing a chemical reaction.
Now it's possible to be sure you're not getting too much . . . or too little.
I like to cook. A large portion of my bookshelf space is devoted to cookbooks and books on food. So I was drawn to this New York Times story about cooking with Shirley O. Corriher.
I actually have Cookwise (er, somewhere; that was a metaphorical bookshelf I was referring to up there), as well as Harold McGee's On Food and Coking, also mentioned in the article. One thing I find interesting about their work is the focus on science, the key to which is replicability.
That's because cooking is a science; in particular, it's mostly chemistry. The task of the cook is to facilitate chemical reactions (there's also physics and biology—e.g., yeast used in baking). And science is repeatable.
Too often the words "science" and "cooking" call to mind Ferran Adrià and his ilk, turning olives into olive-flavored green spheroids and the like. In fact, Corriher says, all cooking is science:
I see a little technical information as liberating, something that enhances creativity. If you know the limiting factors in a recipe, you're free to go wild with the rest.
That said, of course, cooking is older than science as we know it and the scientific method. However, knowing how it all works is useful in perfecting and improving traditional recipes—and creating new ones.
Looks like The Not Scientist independently read the same article and felt the same way. Howdy!


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We love visitors at our jam shop & kitchen, "Handpicked", just outside the heart of Eastsound on Orcas Island. We're open M-F 8-4:30pm (NEW weekend hours Saturday and Sunday 11am-4pm!), kitchen humming along, copper pots a-stirring, hands a-chopping, and shelves stocked with everything we make (right here in this wee kitchen). We also have a smattering of delicious samples to taste (that and the glorious smell is complimentary). Come see us!
If you're not on the island, getting your sweet fix is simple in our Online Shop, but if you live nearby one of our fabulous specialty food retailers, stop on by and pick their brains about their favorite pairings, and drop a wedge of cheese in along with your Orcas Pear w/Bay. And a baguette - heck, some wine and chocolate too while you're at it. We're all for a well-rounded meal.
You can also find us at the following Markets (seasonally):
San Juan Island Farmers Market
Interested in wholesale? We'd love to stock your shelves. Please email us and let us know a little bit about you.


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Food Services provides several dining options for LCC students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
The LCC Food Court, located on the first floor of the Center Building, features six restaurant outlets offering a wide variety of menu options for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. Many of the menu items are created using local and sustainable sources, sometimes from our own LCC Learning Garden! All food court outlets accept cash and all major credit cards.
View a map of dining options on campus
Questions, Comments or Concerns? Email Food Services or call (541) 463-5006 or (541) 463-5021
Simple and healthy South-of-the-border inspired recipes featuring vibrant and bold Latin flavors
Monday thru Thursday: 10:45 am - 3:00 pm
Friday: 10:45 am - 2:00 pm
Hot, fresh and sustainability sourced burger selections made-to-order.
Monday thru Thursday: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Closed Friday
Located on the 2nd floor of the Center Building, Blender's offers great drip coffee, Lattes, Cappucinos delicious bakery items as well as sandwiches, smoothies and snacks.
Monday thru Thursday: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
Fridays: 7:00 am - 2:00 pm
In Campus Food Services we work in conjunction with Specialized Support Services to provide employment training in the cafeteria and kitchen at the main campus. Student-Workers are trained with a focus on the cleaning and maintenance duties of a large-scale food service operation.
Training also focuses on current recycling and composting practices, keeping in focus Lane's commitment to sustainability. A rotating crew of 14 Student Workers and several staff clean all of the dishes created each day, bus and clean tables in the dining areas, restock utensils and condiments, and many other jobs.
For more information visit Specialized Support Services.


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Men's Group Apprentice Training
You're invited to this training because your current Men's Group Leader or a Buckhead Church Men's Group staff member has recommended you because of your influence in your current group. We want to invest in you as you grow in your leadership and lead others into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
There is one thing we want you to know: there's no such thing as being fully prepared for spiritual leadership. This type of leadership will stretch us all. We'll be required to depend on God in new ways as we lead others spiritually. God grows us in times of leadership. That is what we want for you.
This 3-week Apprentice Training is specifically designed to help you see your potential as well as provide context for spiritual leadership. We'll explore topics like:
- Leading ourselves spiritually
- Leading others spiritually
- Understanding our stories and how we fit into God's big story
WHEN: Sundays from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. (April 23, April 30, May 7)
WHERE: The Warehouse at Buckhead Church (third floor)
Lunch will be provided.


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
Before the Knights even took the field against South Windsor, Glastonbury was already resting after securing their fifth win. Football fans throughout the state had already circled the Week Six match-up between the Knights and the Tomahawks, and it was already being touted as a midseason battle between undefeated programs.
But first, the Knights had to finish some business. On Saturday, Oct. 13, South-ington dispatched the Bobcats in another lopsided victory. Bench players counted turnovers to their teammates on the field. The offense quietly rallied for 48 points. For the third straight week Southington's defense hasn't let up a point. For the second time this season, the Knights rallied for a shutout.
Now, Coach Mike Drury is ready to look ahead. At the mid-point of the season, his Knights are one of seven undefeated teams in Class LL…Bring on the Tomahawks.
"We had to make sure that we focused on this one," Drury said after a 48-0 win in South Windsor. "We had to get this one done before we look at anything else. It always has to be game by game and practice by practice. This game was our focus."
South Windsor didn't pose much of a challenge as the Knights improved to 5-0. Bobcat runners were beaten back for negative yardage. South Windsor receivers caught just six passes for 80 yards, and that was skewed by one 36-yard play when the outcome was already decided. The defense clamored for six turnovers. The offense responded with a balanced attack, and Southington's bench players scored against South Windsor's starting defense. Now comes the hard part.
"We've got to keep it rolling," said Blue Knight quarterback Stephen Barm-ore. "We've done a great job preparing up to this point, but in the second half of the season we have a lot of teams that are playoff contenders and a lot of teams that are going to want to knock us off."
The first one is Glastonbury. The Tomahawks won't be scared by the Blue Knight resume. They've been dispatching opponents with just as much ease. Glastonbury (5-0) is coming off a 48-7 win over Maloney. Southington's defense can brag about holding the Bobcats to 74 yards of offense, but Glastonbury held the Spartans to 11 yards in their win.
"They're a solid all-around team—special teams, defense, and offense," said Drury. "They've got a very good ground game. They're able to throw the ball and be efficient with it. They've got a very good kicking game. It's going to be a great game. We'll have a big prep week to get ready for them."
Against South Windsor, Southington led with its defense. Through five games, the Knights have allowed just 28 points (5.6 points per game). Against the Bobcats, the Knights turned up the heat. Zach Maxwell collected eight tackles. Justin Rose had seven, and Nick Spitz had six. But it was the turnovers that told the story.
Anthony Oliva finished with two fumble recoveries and a late interception. Nate Bonenfant and Rose each recovered fumbles. Ryan Daigle had an interception. The Knights blitzed for six quarterback sacks and had four more tackles for negative yardage.
That's going to be a key for the Knights as they try to match-up with Glastonbury's size and speed.
"It's hard to hold onto the ball when you've got 10 people tackling you at the same time," said Spitz. "We hit hard. We swarm to the ball, and we play our responsibilities. Nobody tries to make a big play themselves. The defense just makes the big plays as a whole."
Offensively, the Knights have quietly gone about business. Barmore completed 11-of-14 passes (78.6 percent) for 140 yards and one touchdown. Jarrid Grimmett paced the rushing game with 21 carries for 132 yards and two scores. The Knights amassed 189 yards running and 184 yards in the air.
Barmore, Alex Jamele, and Zach Jamele scored touchdowns on the ground. Anthony Bonenfant caught another. Jasen Rose connected on three of his four passes as Southington's back-up quarterback, including a 16-yard touchdown strike to Kyle Borawski that capped the Knights' scoring.
"They're looking good," Drury said about his offense. "We have the ability to make big plays. We're going to tighten some stuff up and get even that much better. We know that we have more in the tank."
Barmore said that they still have something to prove as they enter the second half of the season.
"In the first half of the season the teams that we've played have not been to the caliber of the teams that we're going to play in the second half of the season," he said. "I think that the whole team has something to prove that we're here to play and we're here to contend for a state championship."
Glastonbury will be the first test. The Tomahawks have size and speed. Sure, the Knights have outscored opponents, 201-28, but Glastonbury has done just as well. The Tomahawks have rallied for 197 points and have surrendered only 55.
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Fans will find out on Saturday, Oct. 20 at Falcon Field in Meriden.
"We're going to take a hard look at everything that they do and try to simplify it the best we can for the guys so that they can still continue to play fast without over-thinking it," said Drury. "We'd like to be able to do the stuff that we like to do."
Kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Overall the construction of The Collective is superb. It looks slightly box-pressed, it's covered in an oily, maduro colored wrapper with very fine veins and it has a bit of fine sandpaper like tooth.
From the foot there are notes of toast mixed with sweet tea and the free cold draw had a touch of lingering spice with cocoa.
Within the first inch there were notes of spice, toast, oak, earth, sugar and cocoa, plus the wrapper left a nice sweetness to the lips. As the cigar slowly turned to ash there were other flavors of cream, black tea, coffee, honey and a great tasting burnt mocha finish.
Cigar Federation calls The Collective medium bodied, this cigar was mild at the foot and full bodied at the nub. The burn was a bit erratic, but it never had to be touched up and the cigar burned a long 1 hour 45 minutes!
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In 1971 a group of army officers staged an unsuccessful attempted coup d'etat against the Moroccan king, Hassan II during his 42nd birthday party at one of his palaces. Over a hundred people died at the scene but the king escaped. Whilst I know little about the king, I spent some time in the mid 1980s with some Moroccan students in France who hated the man with a passion but were mostly reluctant to go into too much detail (not that my schoolgirl French would have helped me very much). As is shown by the abuse described in This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun, and has been clearly confirmed by revelations resulting from events in the Middle East and North Africa this year, acts of despotic behaviour by leaders in the region were not uncommon. Shamefully for our governments it's also clear that it's not a 'new' thing for the international community to cheerfully look the other way so long as it suited them to do so. Happily the current king, Mohammed VI, seems to be cut from a different cloth than his father but once you read about what happened to the men in this story, you'll probably feel as I do that there are a lot of questions that should be asked about this seemingly peaceable and stable country.
They say "All's fair in love and war" but there's nothing 'fair' about what happened after the coup. The officers who masterminded the plot (though it was so badly executed that the term 'mastermind' is perhaps the wrong one) were given the honour that their rank demanded – a firing squad and a fast clean death. For the men who followed them, many entirely unaware of what was going on, one of them only there because he was hitching a ride home to his village on the army truck – there was to be absolutely no mercy. Following a two year stint in the violent Kinetra prison, 60 of the men were transferred to a secret underground facility at Tazmamart in the Moroccan desert where they spent two decades incarcerated in tiny cells with ceilings too low to stand up in and with only a tiny air vent in the ceiling and a hole in the corner for a toilet. They were fed only the bare minimum of food necessary to keep them alive in order to prolong their suffering. Just a few cups of dirty water were provided each day to cover their drinking, cleaning and toilet needs. The intent was clear – they should die as slowly and painfully as possible until none would be left to tell their tale. This Blinding Absence of Light is that tale – told through the memories of one man, Salim, who spent twenty years listening to most of the 30 men he went in with die the most inhumane of deaths as a result of disease, infestation, starvation and brutality. His survival is so much more than just a testament to the strength of the human spirit because he came out of the experiences with his faith, his dignity and his sense of 'self' still intact.
The slim book about Salim and his fellow prisoners serves as his personal story and his record of the lives and deaths of the men he suffered with, telling the world what happened to them so that they can never be entirely forgotten. Their memory defies the intent of the men who sent them to die, who buried them to bury their stories. The book ensures they have not succeeded in wiping history clean of what happened out in the desert. The brutality goes beyond the worst imagination of the most graphic horror story writers and Salim calmly reports the unthinkable ways in which men died. The images will stay with you long after the book is finished and placed back on the shelf. Many went mad and that's entirely understandable. Others were eaten away by disease and in once case literally by cockroaches – for that man, Salim tells us it was a race between the gangrene and the cockroaches to see which would kill him first. The cockroaches won. There are many more such horrifying deaths but I don't want to disgust you so badly that you won't read the rest of my review but I do need to warn those who may want to read the book that it is one of the most explicitly horrible and horrifying true stories that I've ever read. You SHOULD read it – but I'd entirely understand if you chose not to.
"Forgive for selfish reasons – because it's the best way to protect yourself."
The men only ever saw daylight when they were dragged blinking out of their cells to help with the burial of their fellow prisoners. We naturally ask why Salim should have fared so much better than many of the men and there seem to have been some key things that kept him alive – an excellent memory and a phenomenal capacity to accept his lot and not give in to hatred are the two key factors I identified. He became the story teller of the group – a modern day male Scheherazade recreating for the other men stories he'd seen in films or read in books. His near photographic memory has him repeating poetry, long stretches of books and large chunks of the Koran. One man becomes their time keeper – focusing all his energies on keeping track of the hours and minutes of every day until the task becomes too much and his inner clock runs down. Another specialises in inspirational passages of holy books. Together the men work to keep each other alive as long as they can bear, always understanding that not everyone can take as much as others and mourning the loss of each man whilst thanking God for his release from earthly suffering.
A lot of books come with flashes on the cover claiming 'This book will change your life' but this makes no such claims. For me though it would entirely deserve to say such things. I was deeply moved and inspired by some passages and found myself ringing troubled friends and reading the odd paragraph out of wonderment at the power of the words. I've been reading this at a time when the media are incessantly rehashing the events of 9/11, stirring up hatred and blame and picking the scabs off unhealed wounds and I've taken enormous comfort from Tahar Ben Jelloun's words.
At the beginning of Chapter 9, Salim tells us of his fellow prisoners:
"Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at you from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you it always crushes you in the end".
This is such an interesting twist on the conventional altruistic message of 'forgive other people because it's the right or holy thing to do'. What Salim is telling us is that we should forgive and move on because it's the only healthy way for any of us to survive. Hatred – even small dislikes and annoyance we have with other people – are so much more destructive to us personally than they are to those who are the targets of those feelings. Forgive for selfish reasons – because it's the best way to protect yourself.
The book stretches to just 190 pages in the Penguin edition which I have and despite its immense power, I can't tell you that it's a compelling page turner. It's not an easy read and it's quite a task to keep going to the end. How can you spice up a story which basically covers 20 years sitting in the dark listening to people die around you? How can you differentiate between one horrible day and the next other than by recording the deaths and absuses along the way? But once you start reading you will have to keep going because to give up along the way would be disrespectful to the suffering of the dead. It's possibly not great literature if viewed only as the sum of the words on the page – but if you measure instead their impact, then it punches well above it's word count.
Often a book such as This Blinding Absence of Light would come with either a substantial foreword or a long afterword to give us additional info about the events that led to the coup, perhaps more information on the prison or the circumstances leading to the eventual release of the few surviving men. I would have appreciated perhaps some more information about the man, identified only once – on the cover – as Salim – whose story Tahar Ben Jelloun has reported in his book. But strangely, very strangely indeed, there is none of the background or explanation I expected. The words stand alone with only a short glossary of words or names that the author or his translator think may be unfamiliar to readers. There is no sugar coating, fluff or padding – it's just 190 pages of straight testimony. If you do want to know more – and I did – there's a lot of information about Tahar Ben Jelloun and his work on the internet though I found nothing about how he came to meet Salim and tell his story. I also found the book variously categorised as both fiction and non-fiction – in one case the ambiguous term 'non-fiction novel' was used. Somehow the uncertainty and mystery associated with the book are both acceptable and almost desirable and I actually liked the way the story has been pared down to nothing more than the testimony of Salim.
The final thought I would leave you with is that recent reports from Libya have said that there could be thousands of prisoners in underground jails in the country but nobody knows where they are. As you read this, spare a thought for the men – possibly women – who even today might be dying in the dark like Salim and his friends, abandoned by jailers who've gone to ground and left them there. And maybe spare a second thought for our politicians who used to cosy up to men like Gaddafi, Mubarek and Assad as recently as just a couple of years ago.
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The high court threw out more than five years' worth of juvenile cases heard by disgraced former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, who is charged with accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks to send youths to private detention centers.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed Thursday thousands of juvenile convictions issued by a judge charged in a corruption scandal, saying that none of the young offenders got a fair hearing.
The high court threw out more than five years' worth of juvenile cases heard by disgraced former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, who is charged with accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks to send youths to private detention centers.
The Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, which represents some of the youths, said the court's order covers as many as 6,500 cases. The justices barred any possibility of retrial in all but a fraction of them.
"It's the most serious judicial corruption scandal in our history, and the court took an extraordinary step in addressing it," said Marsha Levick, the center's legal director.
Children routinely appeared in front of Ciavarella without lawyers for hearings of a few minutes.
Ciavarella also failed to question young defendants to make sure they fully understood the consequences of waiving counsel and pleading guilty, showing "complete disregard for the constitutional rights of the juveniles," the Supreme Court said.
After being found delinquent, the youths were often shackled and taken to private jails whose owner was paying bribes to the judge.
Federal prosecutors have said that Ciavarella and another Luzerne County judge, Michael Conahan, took a total of $2.8 million in payoffs.
"Ciavarella's admission that he received these payments, and that he failed to disclose his financial interests arising from the development of the juvenile facilities, thoroughly undermines the integrity of all juvenile proceedings before Ciavarella," the Supreme Court said.
The judges pleaded guilty in February to honest services fraud and tax evasion in a deal with prosecutors that called for a sentence of 87 months in prison. But the deal was rejected in August by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward M. Kosik, who said the two hadn't fully accepted responsibility for the crimes, and the ex-judges switched their pleas to not guilty.
A federal grand jury then returned a 48-count racketeering indictment against the judges, who await trial.
The Supreme Court had previously overturned hundreds of juvenile convictions involving low-level offenses. Thursday's ruling covered all cases heard by Ciavarella between 2003 and 2008, including ones involving more serious crimes.
"We fully agree that, given the nature and extent of the taint, this Court simply cannot have confidence that any juvenile matter adjudicated by Ciavarella during this period was tried in a fair and impartial manner," the court wrote.
Prosecutors in Luzerne County had agreed that none of the convictions should stand, but they wanted the right to bring dangerous offenders back into court for retrials.
The court said the district attorney's office may seek to retry youths who remain under court supervision — a group that Levick said likely numbers fewer than 100. And those youths may challenge any attempt to retry them on double-jeopardy grounds, the court said.
Berks County Senior Judge Arthur Grim, whom the justices appointed in February to review cases handled by Ciavarella, will consider any retrial requests made by the DA's office and forward his recommendations to the high court.


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Just keep fighting…Just keep fighting…
So, I thought the fight was over and that we were moving forward with our sons surgery…I was wrong. I cannot believe how difficult this whole process has been. Now, I am fighting with the pharmacy and their lack of care or concern to get the approval processed and order the medication needed. CHLA and I have spent the last two weeks fighting Caremark. Faxing over the approvals and prescriptions, following up and re-faxing approvals and prescriptions and getting nowhere. I cried again today. Tears of frustration have become a normal part of my routine. Its been 90 days since we saw Dr. Olson-Kennedy. I thought we would have had the procedure by now, but here I am, still fighting for my sons medical right to hormone blockers.
I worry daily that it's going to be too late by the time we get the surgery scheduled. I worry daily that irreversible puberty will kick in before we get it all handled. I worry daily about what that will do to my sons mental health. I am carrying this tremendous worry around that has me constantly in tears and easily on the verge of a mental breakdown. I keep telling myself in my best "Dory" voice (from Finding Nemo), "Just keep fighting…Just keep fighting."
I feel like as soon as the surgery is done and the medicine kicks in, it will be a huge sigh of relief, the worry will lift and we can just enjoy our life again. I know that there will always be worries as parents, but, this surgery will allow us a year to just settle in and enjoy our son. Please keep us in your positive thoughts as we continue to hold onto that "ounce of hope" that it will all resolve itself soon.
♥ Just Parents


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On Tuesday, the greenback stood still against the major Japanese currency, following strength in Asian shares clearing up market sentiments, thus inviting to sell haven assets.
The evergreen buck was traded at ¥114.54 right after hitting ¥114.87 earlier during Asia trade. However, in New York the currency pair reached ¥114.58 late on Monday.
With market participants still feeling the impact from yesterday's Japanese stocks leap, higher commodities prices as well as robust gains in Asian stocks greatly helped to brighten the overall market mood, thus assisting investors to sell the perceived safety of the yen.
Meanwhile, the Nikkei Stock Average grew to 16,054.43 o 0.2% midday in Tokyo after going up 7.2% on Monday. The Shanghai Composite Index soared to 2833.30 or 3.2%.
Currently most market participants observe unrolling of risk-off or yen buying positions at rather a gradual tempo, though it doesn't seem dramatic. To add to this, after the greenback's steep fall below ¥111 amid recent great fluctuations, the major US currency is still vulnerable to selling on recovery if it comes closer to the level ¥115. It feels like the greenback will most likely be traded in a ¥111-¥116 range for a while.


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Luke DeCock
Coaches' contracts worth millions ... and nothing, at the same time
It's entirely unsurprising that N.C. State and Dave Doeren are working on a midseason contract extension. That's the way the world of college athletics works these days, and if you have a coach who might be in demand later you might as well raise his exit buyout now, even if the season is only half over.
The better question is this: What does it really matter anyway?
Doeren's already under contract through 2019 and can trigger an automatic one-year extension with an eight-win season, so it's not like his contract is going to run out anytime soon. And even if this extension goes through, if another school comes sniffing around and he's interested, it's not going to keep him here if he decides to leave – these days, Power 5 schools (and their deep-pocketed boosters) can come up with eight-figure amounts with frightening speed. And even if N.C. State implodes and finishes 2-4 and starts next season poorly, this extension won't stop the Wolfpack from making a change if that's how it goes.
All it does is spread the money around, a little more to a coach, a little more to his assistants maybe, a little more to his agent. This is the way of college sports these days. Which isn't to say Doeren hasn't earned it – it's hard to see N.C. State finishing any worse than 8-4 at this point, and the way remains clear for better – only that this is a formality that borders on hypocrisy, because college coaches' contracts are essentially meaningless as long-term commitments.
Mark Gottfried signed a five-year extension at N.C. State in November 2015. He didn't make it 18 months. Coaches come and go, athletic directors too. There are buyouts, but they're rarely a big enough obstacle. (Kevin Sumlin, who would be owed more than $11 million if Texas A&M fires him, is a rare exception, proof that there's no reason not to ask for everything under the sun in a negotiation, because the other side might actually say yes.)
The only signature that means anything in college sports is the signature of a prospective recruit on a letter of intent. That thing is ironclad. If the coach who recruited you leaves and you want to go somewhere else without a hassle, find a lawyer. And a good one. (Although in North Carolina, there's an open legal question whether a National Letter of Intent signed by a minor is an enforceable contract anyway.)
Every other contract in college sports is easily breakable. Doeren's new one will be as well, for either side. He'll put a little more money in his pocket, but other than that, nothing will really change. These final six games will say a lot more about his future than a new contract ever could.
Sports columnist Luke DeCock: 919-829-8947, email@example.com, @LukeDeCock


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When I felt I was ready, I tried soliciting literary agents with a one-page query letter, synopsis, and whatever their submission guidelines called for. Oh, did I mention the Catch 22 in traditional publishing? Apparently, you need a literary agent to get traditionally published. However, in order to get a literary agent, you need to have already been published. So it's nearly impossible to get an agent unless you're a famous celebrity, politician, sports figure, etc. Certainly, they'd give me more credence if I had a BFA or MFA in creative writing, which I had not. Like all roads to success, this one's paved with rejection. And after tons of rejection letters from literary agents, I had a choice to make: give it up or step it up. Since giving up is not really in my vocabulary, I stepped it up.
So I hired an editor, and the first thing she did was cross off 5,000 unnecessary words. I learned a lot simply by reading her edits and comments, and I became a better writer for it. I had rewritten the manuscript time and time again for a period of two years, and in the process, I learned how to write. Looking back, I had no idea how long it was going to take or how hard it was going to be. Writing the manuscript, however, was the easy part. Navigating the way to a successful book, now that's the hard part.


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Should I or Shouldn't I Send My Child to School Today?
Strep Throat: Children may return to school 24-48 hours after the first dose of antibiotic therapy has started, provided the child is feeling well enough to attend and does not have any other symptoms.
Fever: Children may return to school when their temperature has been normal for 24 hours. Tylenol (acetaminophen), Motrin or Advil (ibuprofen) may lower an elevated temperature, therefore the child should be off any of these medications for 24 hours as well.
Cold: Children should stay home if he/she is too uncomfortable to complete his/her work. Children should also stay home if they have a severe cough.
Vomiting/Diarrhea: Children should be symptom-free for 24 hours and be able to hold down food and fluids before returning to school.
Pink Eye/Conjuctivitis: Children need 3 sets/doses of drops and no drainage and/or crusting in the morning before returning to school.
Please remember, good nutrition and hand washing are our #1 way to prevent the spread of disease.
If still in doubt, call Mrs. Sienkiewicz at 972-827-9775 ext. 219 with your questions and concerns.


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'Shark in the Park' is Back and Better Than Ever
The 2014 Shark in the Park concerts got underway at the Rotary Arts Pavilion in Dover on Wednesday, and it looks as though a lot of people got the memo.
After many years of entertaining the lunchtime crowd, The Shark in the Park concert series has moved to Wednesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. and local favorites Rosie kicked off what is sure to be a great summer of live, local music.
If you weren't at Shark in the park last night, take a look at what you missed.


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From trendy to traditional, rustic to retro, there's nothing we love more than a cafe or tea room and everyone has their favourite!
Now we want you to tell us which cafe or tea room gets your vote.
It could be because of the fresh and innovative cuisine, fantastic full English, freshly baked treats, roasted coffee from around the world or exotic teas.
Maybe you love the friendly staff, the quaint surroundings or the fact that it's so much more than a cafe or tea room.
With your nominations we will draw up a shortlist of cafes that will compete for the title of cafe of the Year 2015. Entries will be printed in the paper where you can then vote for your winner.
To nominate, simply return the coupon in this week's Courier back to us or send a text, stating the full name and address of the cafe or tea room you wish to nominate.
Closing date for nominations is 10am, Wednesday, July 29.
Please be aware photocopied or defaced coupons will not be accepted.
Hand delivered coupons to the office or coupons that are received after the closing date will also not be accepted.
For more details, see your copy of this week's paper.


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Why Blame Jesus?
Why not Blame Jesus. Give Him more of the credit He deserves in your life. He did so much, does so much, and will do much more for you. Jesus was persecuted for us and was blamed for saving us. As we live every day we are the products of His Blame: His righteousness, His teaching, His love, His deliverance, His Godliness, and His power.
Why Purchase?
The Blame Jesus T-Shirt is both a representation and declaration of who you are, why you are, and what you are. We blame Jesus for everything right with us, in spite of the burden blame should actually have on us. Blaming Jesus isn't just something to say, it's a responsibility and a covenant that believer's share with Christ. These shirts were created to remind you to inspire generations, push purpose, move dreams forward, and always be reminded to Blame Jesus for it all.


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Saturday, 7 June 2014
Mayhem at March House Books by S. P. Moss
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Congrats to Claudine! I knew as soon as I saw the title that my dear friend was the winner. :) What a fun way to win a book.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Stephanie. I was delighted when I read that Claudine was the winner, but they were all great titles.Delete
What in the world...I see I missed your previous POST ! My friend, I missed you and I am so sorry! Many congratulation to the winner, but Isure missed out!ReplyDelete
Sending you a tight hug! AnitaReplies
I'm so sorry you missed out Anita, never mind I will have to think of another contest or perhaps another author will come along with an idea.Delete
Hugs back to you. Barbara
Scrimmage in Singapore is a great title. Congratulations Claudine! Thanks for the mention. Glad you liked mine too.ReplyDeleteReplies
and congratulations to you too Darlene, you obviously came very close to winning. Enjoy the weekend. BarbaraDelete
Oh wow! I never thought my suggestion would win when I read what the others had. I particularly enjoyed Darlene's and Stephanie's. Thank you so much, Susan and Barbara! I shall get in touch very soon.ReplyDeleteReplies
Congratulations Claudine, I thought it was a great title and was very happy when Susan picked it. Have a happy Sunday. xDelete
Congrats to the winners.... and I loved the post title..... Lol :D I am kindled in Karnataka (the state in which Bangalore city is.) Thanks Barbara for this nice little 'adventure' :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Look forward to hearing from you, Claudine.ReplyDelete
And a big hug has been caught here! Oh Barbara, have a delightful Sunday! AnitaReplyDelete
I'm doing a little necessary cleaning today Anita but finding lovely comments from dear friends always make me smile! xxReplyDelete
Congratulations Claudine! Love the title!ReplyDelete
That was exciting. 'fraid I didn't win! That's tough, Barbara, having to do some cleaning, I ought to do some too but have had a few problems over past week. Not yet on blog, but it will be or at least I'll tell you about it. I just loved the illustrations on those mysteries, and might try to get hold of one of the books.ReplyDeleteReplies
I know it's a hard life – but someone has to do it! Sorry to hear you've had some problems, hope everything is OK now?Delete
They look great don't they? I'm going to treat myself to a copy of each in the next week or so. I've got so many books on the go at the moment I really don't need any more, but I can't resist.
Thanks for your kind comments, Campfire, and hope your problems have fizzled away into the sunshine. If you or any other readers would like a look at my publisher's website, it's to be found on http://www.circaidygregory.co.uk - and, strangely enough given your title ideas, one of my fellow authors has written a story set in Estonia during the 2nd WW - for grown-ups rather than children - it's called Forest Brothers.Delete
Such a lovely giveaway :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations to the deserving winners xReplies
Hello Yvonne, I think so too!Delete
Thanks for calling in.
Well done and happy reading to Claudine.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Tracey I think Claudine was pretty happy to win.Delete
I commented but it didn't show up. congrats to the winner.ReplyDeleteReplies
Sorry about that Donna. I've checked the comments received/posted page on the blog and can't find any others from you, so I'm not sure what happened. Maybe Blogger was having a funny day – it happens quite often!Delete
Hi Barbara,ReplyDelete
Once again, I'm late to get to festivities. I shall blame it on my um, hectic celebrity lifestyle:)
Excellent stuff, Claudine. I love alliteration and hearty congrats to her.
Right then, I'm going now.....
Hi Gary, late, early or somewhere in the middle is just perfect as far as I'm concerned! It's always a pleasure to have your company. BarbaraDelete
Sweet Barbara! I too have spent some wonderful time out in the sun and warm air! Thank you for coming to my post after your romp in the sunshine! Isn't this the most pleasant of early summers? Now to go and read in the warm night air....enjoy and thank you for your lovely friendship! Enjoy the weekend, AnitaReplyDeleteReplies
Hello Anita, it's another wonderful warm sunny day today. I can feel my bones drying out after all the rain ;0) I hope the sun is shining brightly for you.Delete
I've downloaded a copy of Scarlet Pink Magazine and am looking forward to reading it. I did take a peek at the illustrations and found your name, but I want to wait until I have the time to savour it. Have a wonderful Sunday. xx


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DEL MAR — Many remember Jeff King destroying his home in Encinitas two years ago.
For King, it was a last hurrah. His Encinitas home, known as the Shred Ranch, was scheduled to be plowed over. King wasn't a bad neighbor; he simply had to make room for nine luxury homes.
Before the wrecking ball hit, he converted his entire home into a makeshift skatepark and invited friends and pros to do what they do best — skate. The demolition party was filmed for "Built to Shred," King's television show that featured him transforming everyday terrain and trash into skateable ramps and rails. But as a double-whammy for King, the show was canceled about a year after Shred Ranch's demise.
"The show was a ton of work, but I was sad to see it go," King said of "Built to Shred." "There was kind of a question mark after it ended."
King currently lives with his wife, 3-year-old son and dog at his new Vista home, where a mini half pipe, rails, a chicken coupe, various crops and tools for woodworking can be spotted.
From the ashes of the Shred Ranch and his show, King is building his life up again. He's even eyeing a return to his roots.
King will serve as the commentator and also bring some of his rails to a skateboard contest at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Oct. 6 during The Boardroom Surf Board Expo. It's King's way of testing the waters, as he's thinking about resurrecting the rails that made him a local legend.
Prior to hosting "Built to Shred," about a decade ago he started King Rails, a business that sold rails for skateboarders. Initially, he held "Flat Bar Fridays" at Moonlight Beach in part to promote his rails. But it soon became "about more than that," King said. Every week for six years, hundreds gathered at the free events and skated rails that King provided.
"I never made any money on the flat bar event and invested a ton of time into it," said King, who estimated there were more than 300 Flat Bar Fridays. "I took pride in what it was for our community. Alcohol, drugs and fighting weren't allowed. It was about a bunch of kids getting together, staying out of trouble and just skating."
Encinitas banned skateboarding at Moonlight Beach reportedly because of complaints from neighbors, though King is doubtful because "the feedback from everyone in the community was so positive," he said.
Sheriff's deputies were handing out tickets for skating at Moonlight. At that point, King decided it was time to focus his efforts on working with the city to build a big community skatepark.
That was in 2004, but the city only recently approved funding for the community skatepark.
"The whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth," King said. "I went to council meeting after council meeting. And planning meetings, too. There was a lot of lip service, but no action."
He said the goal is to have a safe place where kids can skate without causing problems. "It's hard to believe it could take that long to put in a community park in a town with a reputation for being the best skate town out there."
While waiting for a community skatepark, Flat Bar Fridays was held at other locations, but they were either banned or didn't stick. The events stopped about five years ago.
"It bummed me out towards the end of it," King said. "It meant and means a lot to me, and then to get yelled at and get in trouble for it was just really hard," King said.
Feelings of bitterness linger, but King said he's largely put the skatepark delay and the Moonlight Beach incidents behind him.
Now he's considering taking "the magic" of public skateboarding events and starting a contest circuit centered around rails. Specifically, skateboarders would compete in games of S-K-A-T-E, skateboarding's version of basketball's H-O-R-S-E.
"One of the cool things that developed from Flat Bar Fridays is we were able to come up with a ratings system for a S-K-A-T-E game," King said. "Skating on the flat ground is one thing, skating on flat bars is another thing entirely."
He's also looking at launching and supplying ramps and rails for skateboarding programs at local high schools and YMCAs.
"I'd like the YMCA of Oceanside, as one possible example, to have a set of easily moveable skate obstacles that can be stored in a small space," King said.
"Kids who play football have a field, why not have a small space for skateboarders?" King added.
And King isn't ruling out another season of "Built to Shred." Fuel TV cancelled the show following four successful seasons because the network switched from extreme sports to primarily UFC programming. Producing the show with another network is a possibility, King said.
For now, King's dormant flat bar session will come to life Saturday in a contest that's part of the Boardroom International Surfboard Show at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
"To see him announcing again is really exciting," said Jim Bell, a friend and owner of Vista-based Aura Skateboarding, the company organizing the event. "I approached him because he knows how to get people excited."
"I can't say what he'll do in the future, but I'd love to see him get back out there and do more flat bar events," Bell added.
King, for his part, seems excited to once again set up rails and solidify his reputation as the MacGyver of skateboarding.
"A lot of people have been hitting me up about it (Flat Bar Fridays) over the years," King said. "This opportunity just got me motivated. I can't say for sure where it will go. In the meantime, I'm happy to be helping a friend put on a event."
Admission to the surfboard show is $10. The skateboard contest, which begins at noon, includes two events, a mini ramp competition and a flat bar game of S-K-A-T-E. It's $7 for one event or $10 for both. There is a $500 cash purse.


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Acupuncture and IVF – How might it work?There are several by which acupuncture could influence the results of In vitro Fertilization - IVF. Acupuncture has been shown in some studies to affect the levels of pituitary and ovarian hormones. Electro-acupuncture may help improve blood flow in the uterine arteries of infertile women.The most immediate possible effect is that acupuncture served to "relax" the uterus around the time of the transfer. Several studies have shown that the uterus has contractions and that these contractions could cause expulsion of the transferred IVF embryos. If the contractions were reduced by acupuncture then that could be a mechanism for an improvement in IVF pregnancy rate.However, researchers performing a study on 164 IVF patients found that acupuncture did not reduce uterine contractions. Furthermore, implantation of the embryos into the uterine lining does not occur for two to five days after embryo transfer depending upon when the embryos were transferred. It is unknown whether the effect of acupuncture performed on the day embryo transfer would last until the day of embryo implantation or longer.Many patients have been told that they should use acupuncture for IVF because they will respond better to medication, get more eggs, get healthier eggs, or get higher pregnancy rates. Many women with specific problems such as high FSH levels or miscarriages have been promised that acupuncture will cure all these problems. To date, however, there is no objective data that backs up these claims.As of early 2008, there have been a few studies looking at whether acupuncture influences the outcome of IVF cycles. I have reviewed most of these studies below. A new IVF and acupuncture study , published in February 2008, combined the results of many of these smaller studies. they concluded that it would take 10 IVF embryo transfers to obtain one additional live birth
Acupuncture and IVF - Study Number 1The first published study, which received a great deal of attention, was conducted by Paulus and colleagues. Although this study was well designed, it looked at a very specific group of patients. The results may not be applicable to other patient groups.
Acupuncture IVF Patient Groups- Study Number 1The study looked at 160 women aged 21 to 43. Over half the couples were being treated for IVF because of male factor. One fourth had blocked tubes. This is an important consideration since three fourths of the patients would not be expected to have any hormonal abnormalities or uterine issues.Another requirement for entry into the study was that only couples "with good embryo quality" were eligible. This is an extremely important point. Based on the results of this study, we do not have any idea whether acupuncture would work for couples who do not have good embryo quality.
Acupuncture and IVF Treatment - Study Number 1In this study, IVF patients received acupuncture 25 minutes before and 25 minutes after theembryo transfer. No patients received acupuncture before or during treatment with fertility medications. Thus, we do not know if acupuncture would have had any effect on improving the number of eggs or any influence in the preparation of the uterine lining.The acupuncture points chosen for the study were supposed to result in:
- Better blood perfusion and "energy" in the uterus
- Sedation of the patient
- "Stabilization" of the endocrine system
Acupuncture and IVF Pregnancy Rates and Results - Study Number 1In this study, IVF patients who had acupuncture had a 42% pregnancy rate. IVF patients who did not have acupuncture had a 26% rate.
There was no difference between the two groups in the thickness of the uterine lining or indexes of blood flow through the uterine arteries either before or after the embryo transfer. Hormone levels were not measured during this study.
One of the criticisms of this study is that the results could be due to the placebo effect. To counter these criticisms, one year after publishing the original study, the authors presented a placebo-controlled study at the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology. Two hundred patients with good embryo quality were randomized to receive either real or sham acupuncture for 25 minutes before and after ET. There were clinical pregnancies in 43% of the real and 37% of the sham acupuncture patients. Statistical analysis of the results determined there was no significant difference between the groups. In other words, in this study, conducted by the same investigators and performed in the same way as the original study, acupuncture was not found to improve pregnancy rates.
Conclusions from Study Number 1When the first and second parts of this study conducted by these investigators are taken into account, it would appear that performing acupuncture immediately before and after the embryos transfer may not result in a higher chance for pregnancy.
Acupuncture and IVF - Study Number 2Prior to beginning their study, the doctors who conducted acupuncture study number 2 performed a "power analysis". This means they used some of the data from the Paulus study above as well as the pregnancy rate results from their own clinic to calculate, ahead of time, the number of patients they would need to study in order to prove that acupuncture either works or doesn't work. They determined that to find a difference in the clinical pregnancy rate of 11% between no acupuncture (the control group) and acupuncture (the treatment group) they would require approximately 100 patients in a control group and 200 patients in the acupuncture groups.
Acupuncture and IVF Treatment Protocol- Study Number 2The study was conducted over a period of 16 months. During that time, about 1000 couples underwent in vitro fertilization at their center. Of these, 300 couples agreed to participate in the study and were randomized to one of three groups on the day of egg retrieval. After randomization, 27 patients were excluded for various reasons. Of the remaining 273 patients, 87 were allocated to no acupuncture (control group), 95 to acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer, and 91 to receive acupuncture on the day of ET and again 2 days later.
Acupuncture IVF Pregnancy Rates and Results - Study Number 2There was no difference between the three groups in the number of eggs retrieved or the number of embryos available to transfer to the uterus.
The ongoing pregnancy rate was higher in both of the acupuncture groups compared to the control group. The ongoing pregnancy rate in the group which received acupuncture once was 36%, in the group that received acupuncture twice, the rate was 33% and in the group that did not receive acupuncture at all it was 22%. Statistical analysis was performed to determine whether these results might have been due to random chance. The analysis determined that the improvement in pregnancy rates in the single acupuncture group was unlikely to be due to chance but that the improvement in the double acupuncture group may have been due to chance.
Interestingly, the miscarriage rate in the group that received acupuncture twice was 33%. This is higher than the miscarriage rate in the group that had acupuncture once 21% or the control group -- 15%. Statistical analysis showed that these results might have occurred by random chance however.
The results of this study are somewhat confusing. If acupuncture was beneficial in increasing pregnancy rates, then why weren't two acupuncture sessions better than one? What was the reason for the seemingly higher miscarriage rate in the group that received acupuncture twice?
Acupuncture and IVF - Study Number 3In this third acupuncture study, a total of 225 infertile patients were included: 116 women were randomized into group I (the study group), and 109 women were randomized into group II (the control group). The physician who performed the embryo transfer was not aware of which couples were in which group. On the day of embryo transfer, the patients in the study group received acupuncture according to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine. At the same time, a special Chinese medical drug (the seed of Caryophyllaceae) was placed on the patient's ear. The seeds remained in place for 2 days and were pressed twice daily for 10 minutes. Three days after the embryo transfer, the patients received a second acupuncture treatment. In addition, the same ear points were pressed at the opposite ear twice daily. The seeds were removed after 2 days.The control group received placebo or phony acupuncture. As in the treatment group, patients received phony acupuncture treatment for 30 minutes. The phony acupuncture treatment was repeated three days after the embryo transfer. Equal numbers of needles were applied to the study and control groups. The placebo acupuncture treatment was designed not to influence fertility.
Acupuncture and IVF Pregnancy Rates and Results - Study Number 3Both groups were similar in terms of age, weight, duration of infertility, cause of infertility, and number of previous IVF attempts. No differences were found in the specifics of the ovarian stimulation, the number of eggs retrieved, the fertilization rate, or the number of embryos transferred.
The success rates were looked at in a few ways. The implantation rate is the number of pregnancies produced divided by the number of embryos transferred. The real acupuncture group had an implantation rate of 14.2% whereas the phony acupuncture group's implantation rate was only 5.9%. The ongoing pregnancy rate was 28.4% in the real acupuncture group compared to 13.8% in the phone group.
Acupuncture and IVF - Conclusions from Study Number 3This study introduced a number of variables that make it difficult to interpret the results. First, a Chinese medicine was administered in addition to the acupuncture. There is no way to determine, therefore, whether the results were the result of the acupuncture or the medicine.
The "control group" had acupuncture performed at sites that were not thought to improve fertility. It is possible however, that these sites actually had a negative effect. The way the study was designed, there is no way to determine which is correct.
Acupuncture and IVF - Study Number 4This next acupuncture and in vitro fertilization study subjected the patients to three acupuncture treatment sessions. The first took place before the egg retrieval on the 9th day of ovarian stimulation with fertility drugs, and the second and third acupuncture treatments were performed immediately before and after the embryo transfer. Women were randomly allocated to receive treatment with acupuncture or with noninvasive "sham" (placebo or phony) acupuncture.
Acupuncture IVF Patient Groups- Study Number 4Subjects were randomly allocated to a study group by selection of sealed envelopes. Women were allocated to receive treatment with acupuncture or with noninvasive sham acupuncture.
Acupuncture and IVF Treatment Pregnancy Rates - Study Number 4Of the 228 subjects randomized, 15% were unable to complete the treatment protocol because their IVF cycle was cancelled prior to the embryo transfer. No difference in the grading of embryos was found between groups. The pregnancy rate, defined as fetal heart rate on ultrasound scan, was 31% in the acupuncture group and 23% in the control group. Statistical analysis demonstrated that the difference seen was likely the result of chance and not the acupuncture itself.
The pregnancy rate was also not found to differ between groups if the women studies were under age 35.
No difference was found between groups for other study endpoints: number of eggs retrieved, fertilization rate or number of embryos transferred.
To examine whether the attempts to conceal from the patients the treatments they were receiving was successful, subjects were asked which group they thought they had been allocated to. Twenty-six subjects (11%) correctly guessed which group they were in. 16 subjects were in the treatment group and 10 were in the control group.
Acupuncture and IVF -- Conclusions from Study Number 4This study, which appeared to have a valid control group, could not demonstrate a benefit in terms of better pregnancy rates when acupuncture was used.Acupuncture in infertility
We have several acupuncturists that work with our patients. If you are interested in having acupuncture performed as part of your IVF treatment then contact the office for a list of names. Last Updated ( Monday, 17 March 2008 )


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Here are some of the things I have done while troubleshooting my makerbot.
Extruder Slipping Issues:Ever since I assembled the machine, I've had some problems with the extruder slipping mid-build. The filament was not being pressed firmly enough by the idler wheel, and nothing would come out. Pushing on the filament would restart it, but sometimes I wouldn't notice and would end up with models which skipped a few layers mid-way through.
To make matters worse, the problem didn't occur with every revolution of the idler wheel. I suspect this has to do with the diameter of the idler wheel and the diameter of the metal gear wheel being relatively co-prime. Hence, just like Alan Turing's bicycle the problem would only occur when the position of both wheels happened to coincide.
Looking back through my notes, I see that I've had to strip down and reassemble the extruder 9 times and tighten it many more times. In the process I managed to crack one of the acrylic panels, (but some superglue fixed it nicely).
Filing down the slot in the housing helped a little, since the wheel was closer and applying more force to the filament, but it didn't solve the problem. It seems like the cause was unevenness in the diameter of the idler wheel causing uneven pressure on the filament.
Some things I tried, which may have contributed to the eventual stable solution:
Machining a new idler wheel:Eventually I gave up and decided it was time to machine a perfectly round idler wheel. Kean from Robots and Dinosaurs kindly agreed to let me use his lathe on short notice.
During the many extruder rebuilds I did, I noticed something odd. One time I had assembled the extruder with a new washer to change the spacing, but the washer was too wide and pressed on both the stationary and moving parts of the bearing. Consequently the friction was too high to allow the idler to turn reliably.
We used Delrin as the material for the wheel. It machines very nicely and isn't quite as hard as aluminium or steel. On the first attempt we made a wheel twice as thick as the original in order to prevent the filament from slipping to the side of the idler wheel.
Unfortunately I didn't measure the metal gear-wheel beforehand and when I got home I found it didn't fit.
To compensate, we reduced the thickness of the wheel using a fly-cutter on the milling machine. Some double-sided tape was used to hold the piece to the milling table. Damn this is strong stuff.
It was the first time I've seen a fly-cutter used, and I was surprised at the good surface finish.
Once the milling was complete, I added the skate bearing and superglued on an encoder pattern to both sides. This mostly for humans now, but I may add a photo-sensor to the extruder later to check for stalls.
The new idler wheel is a smidgen thicker than the original, but still fits nicely 'inside' the metal gear wheel.
I reassembled the extruder and ran a piece of filament through. Not only was the force nice and strong, but the depth of cut of the teeth onto the filament was nice and constant over the whole length.
Verdict: Success!Although I am wary about declaring victory yet, the extruder seems to be working quite nicely. It's given me a solid 2 days of printing at the first weekend get together of the Sydney Hackspace (a.k.a. Robots and Dinosaurs) without any hiccups. Some photos of the event are here.
However, even though the idler wheel had 'stalled' the filament was still being gripped and the extruder was running perfectly. Apparently the friction of the stationary acrylic wasn't enough to stop the filament.
This raises an important point. I solved my extruder problems by using a lathe to ensure the wheel was perfectly circular. However in the RepRap design it is important to minamize 'Vitamin' components which require specialized machining.
If the extruder can work with a stationary wheel, then this is advantageous since the diameter remains constant and the wheel is once tightened-always-tightened. With a moving non-circular wheel it is possible to be tight in one position and loose in another.
A simple design would be to use a flat or curved stationary surface to press against the filament, and be adjustable for tension. Something like a square wheel would be a nice start since it doesn't require any extra machining.
Software Crashing Issue:I have had some issues with the software for the makerbot. Occasionally it will stop mid-way through a build. Often the extruder will keep running, sometimes the Z-axis will continue to move up. This doesn't happen often, but it's frustrating. So far, I've gotten an entire plastic takeaway container filled with all the failed prints.
Here's an interrupted build of 4 topcaps. You can see the stalagmite formed where the extruder keeps running.
After looking at it closely it seems that the temperature control still works after a crash, so the problem isn't on the extruder controller board. I wasn't sure if the problem is on the host PC software (ReplicatorG) or the motherboard firmware.
Although there is a debug LED on the motherboard, it is used to indicate the successful interpretation of a command from the PC. When a crash occurs, I wasn't getting any flashes, but that didn't tell me which end the problem was on.
Adding a Heartbeat LED to the Makerbot Motherboard:Rather than reprogram the existing red LED, I decided to add a new one to the board, to give a heartbeat signal in addition to the packet processing signal already in place.
After reviewing the circuit diagram for the motherboard, it appeared as though pin D1 was not used for anything. I wired up a small LED and resistor and connected the anode to pin D1, and the end of the resistor to ground.
The LED in place. You can also see the generation 1 stepper motor drivers on a separate board to the right.
I added some code to the loop() function in the Arduino motherboard firmware sketch, as well as creating a persistent variable outside the function:
//GS -- Added for debugging operation to help diagnose motherboard crashes.This worked very nicely. I could now see the motherboard status just by looking.
unsigned long int debug_led_loop_time = 0;
//handle various things we're required to do.
void loop()
//check for and handle any packets that come in.
if (Serial.available())
//our basic handling for each loop.
if (commandMode == COMMAND_MODE_IDLE)
else if (commandMode == COMMAND_MODE_WAIT_FOR_TOOL)
//GS -- Added for debugging operation to help diagnose motherboard crashes.
#define GS_DEBUG_LED 1
if ( (millis() - debug_led_loop_time) > 1000) {
digitalWrite(GS_DEBUG_LED, !digitalRead(GS_DEBUG_LED));
debug_led_loop_time = millis();
The next time it crashed, I looked at the LED, and no heartbeat could be seen. Hence it was the motherboard firmware, not the ReplicatorG host software that caused the crash.
I still don't know what actually caused it, but I'm closer than I was before.


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For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "The Silence of the Lambs", he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, "Law & Disorder" is Douglas' most provocative and personal book to date. In it, he addresses every law enforcement professional's worst nightmare: those cases where, for one reason or another, justice was delayed …or even denied. Through a series of character-driven case histories – from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox – Douglas shows what happens when the system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. Here also are Douglas' personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth – from painful lessons learned early in his career to his controversial findings in the West Memphis Three and Jon Benet Ramsey investigations. Brimming with procedural detail, "Law & Disorder" is an eye-opening insider's account of the exhilaration and frustration that attend the quest for justice.
This book is a fantastic read hands down. John Douglas, is one of the nation's foremost experts in criminal profiling. In this new book he shows you several criminal cases where the police and prosecution got it all wrong in a rush to judgement. The book is really fascinating, and so is Mr Douglas's wealth of knowledge about criminal justice.
If you only read one book this year make "Law and Disorder" that book. If you have any interest in the criminal justice system and wrongful convictions you will want to read this book.
I received this book for my early review, all opinions expressed are my own.


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diplexer vs duplexer-difference between diplexer and duplexer
This page diplexer vs duplexer describes difference between diplexer and duplexer and explain basics of diplexer and duplexer in wireless system.The other difference between terms are also provided here.
Diplexer separates two different frequency bands in receive path and combines them in transmit path. These frequency bands usually will be wide apart in frequency domain for diplexer to work satisfactorily. It is often referred as RF power combiner/divider with added functionality of filtering. Broadband Filters are used to pass appropriate bands at Tx and Rx path.
Diplexer is used to separate/combine frequency bands of GSM900 and DCS 1800 systems. It is also used in multiband design of mobile handset with multiple technologies GSM,CDMA,LTE. As shown in the figure, diplexer does multiplexing and demultiplexing of wide frequency bands with much appropriate difference. Figure shows L and H bands at S port. This duplexer vs diplexer comparison will help to use them according to their functionality in wireless system. For difference between RF diplexer and RF multiplexer, refer microwave multiplexer vs diplexer.
As shown in the figure-1 there are two RF ports in diplexer other than output port, the device RF triplexer will have 3 ports other than one output port.
A duplexer is a device that allows use of the single antenna by both transmitter and receiver. In other words duplexer is a device which couples the transmitter and receiver to the antenna while producing isolation between transmitter and receiver. There are two types of duplexer, one by using PIN diode switches and the other using circulators as shown. Both transmit and receive paths usually will have frequency bands very nearer, hence narrow band filters are used to separate these frequencies. Duplexer is often referred as 3-port RF circulator.
It separates uplink (890-915MHz,Uplink-UL) and downlink (935-960MHz,Downlink-DL) frequency bands in GSM900 system.
Other than difference between diplexer vs duplexer mentioned on this page; there are many useful terms which enthusiasts can refer as mentioned below.
Diplexer Duplexer Manufacturers
Diplexer, duplexer and triplexer devices are widely used for test and measurement of
wireless modules compliant to standards such as WLAN, WiMAX, GSM, CDMA, LTE etc.
Following are the popular manufacturers of diplexer and duplexer devices:
• RTx Technology Co. Ltd.,KOREA
• TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.,USA
• Wainwright Instruments,GmbH
• Wireless Telecom Group Inc (Microlab) ,USA and UK
• API Technologies Corp.
• RFMW Ltd, SAN JOSE, CA, USA
• Oscilent Corporation
• Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
What is Difference between
Following pages mention difference between RF power combiner and divider, 4 port circulator vs 3 port circulator, TDD vs FDD, FDM vs TDM and so on.
RF Isolator vs RF Circulator
RF circulator basics
4 port vs 3 port circulator
Power Divider vs Power Combiner
difference between FDM and OFDM
Difference between TDD and FDD
CDMA vs GSM
Fixed wimax vs mobile
wibro vs mobile wimax
FDM vs TDM


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Refurnished Copenhagen apartment at trendy Nørrebro
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Bright, cozy and newly refurbished apartment on the 4th floor of Nørrebros most desirable neighborhood. The apartment consists of a large family kitchen, with brand new kitchen, dining area for 10 people and sofa / TV area. From the kitchen there is access to a spacious balcony that faces the cozy, green yard. From the family kitchen there is access to large and airy bedroom with double bed and childrens bedroom also with double bed. From the kitchen there is a passage with washer and dryer and a passage to a renovated bathroom with shower.
Entire rental, no sharing with owner or other guests.
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Sleeping arrangement
Bedroom 1: Bedroom with double bed for 2 people.
Bedroom 2: Childrens room with small double bed for 2 people.
Bedroom 3: Living room with possibility of an extra bed arrangement on sofa for 1 person. Possibility of cot for small child on request.
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Nørrebro: The apartment is situated in the most trendy area of Nørrebro district on a side street of the lakes. The neighborhood offers a wealth of fantastic cafes, restaurants and small bars. Furthermore, the area is known for its vintage and antique shops. Not to mention the beautiful lakes which always calls for a walk or a jog. The apartment is within walking distance to the Copenhagen city center and sights like the National Gallery of Art, Botanical Garden, Kings garden and Tivoli.
Transportation & Parking
The apartment is 10 min. walk to Nørreport station, where there are metro connections to the airport and to all destinations in the metropolitan area. In addition, there are a few min. walk to bus services at Nørrebro street. The easiest way to get around is, however, by bike - bikes can be hired from Cykelbørsen on Gothersgade street, 15 min. walk from the apartment. Public parking in the street.
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- Copenhagen Airport: 10 km.
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- Copenhagen Airport: 10 km.
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- Nearby: Nørreport Station - The Lakes - The Round Tower - The National Gallery
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Wonderful location, home from home. We had 2 nights in this lovely appartment near the lakes area of Copenhagen, We walked from Norregard station and it was only 10 mins to the flat. It was light, airy, beautiful books and furnishings- highly recommended
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We had a wonderful time in Copenhagen & loved living in the apartment. It was in an excellent location & was both stylish & homely at the same time. Id thoroughly recommend it!
Richard Henry, Glasgow (5/5)
Very nice and cozy apartment in a good location if you want to see Copenhagen by walking around. You feel really welcome and comfortable in the apartment. Amazing that there are people who have the courage to open their homes that way.
Heidi Juhl Pedesen, Næstved (5/5)
A great appartment in a wonderfull neighbourhood in a vibrant city. We travelled by car to Copenhagen, to stay there for a week. We are a family of 4, children 22 and 18. On arrival we could pick up the keys at the cafe .After getting the luggage in the appartment we took the car to the area close by ,for free parking. The information we got from the owner was very helpfull. All our questions were quickley answered by mail. The appartment is very well equipped. The bed in the second bedroom is a bit small for 2 adult persons , and to sleep on the airbed , although a good one , for a week is a bit long.The appartment is in the very nice Norrebro, close to everything the city has to offer. We rented a bike for the whole week . So we have seen all the sights , terrasses , parks , history , swimmingpool in wonderfull sunny wheather!
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We had a lovely long weekend in this wonderful Copenhagen apartment. The apartment was perfect in relation to it all, and was really cozy and charming. We felt welcome and had everything. There was a really nice balcony, which was nice since we were 2 couple of friends staying there.
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Great appartment in a nice neighborhood. Went to Copenhagen for a weekend with some friends and as we would have to split up if we choose to stay at a hotel this apartment was an excellent option. The apartment was as we excepted after seeing the pictures on the site, really nice and clean with two good bedrooms and a nice big living room to hang out in. Everything worked really smoothly regarding our contact with the host (retrieving keys and so on). The apartment was great and had everything we needed and although it was in quite a busy neighborhood it was on a quite side street within walking distance to a lot of good restaurants, bars and cafes.
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Last year's game topped the league and now the all-new FIFA 10 is looking to defend its title as the number one football action game. More realistic than ever, this latest sequel has greatly improved artificial intelligence, ball physics and graphics.
Brand new this year is the 360 degree dribbling system, giving you the most precise control ever. There are also changes to how the defensive line is formed, as well as improvements to crosses, freekicks and goalkeepers (who can now receive red cards).
Naturally the game retains its hugely successful on and offline multiplayer modes, with new options and better stability for online play. The manager mode has also seen a massive update to make it just as deep and complex as the main game. With all these new features and more EA Sports are betting on FIFA remaining the champions for a long time to come.
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To paraphrase the song Orange Colored Sky (popularized in 1950 by Nat King Cole and revived by Lady Gaga in 2010), "I was surfing along, minding my business, when out of a Google-colored sky, Flash! Bam! Alakazam! "Privacy Checkup" came by". Actually, it was not love (Cupid) that came and hit me in the eye, but more accurately that old devil Advertising. After a brief display of what Google knows about me (not very much and not very accurate, which baffles me because I have done so many transactions starting with Google searches and have been a member of Google+ for nearly two years), the tone of their mission shifted very quickly from something that might have benefitted me to something that essentially only benefits them: "Make ads more relevant to you"! But that old devil's aim was faulty, and his English was even worse, as he couched it in gibberish doubletalk: "Please note that you will still see ads after opting out – they'll just be less relevant." What !!?? Opting out should mean I would NOT see ads, no? And why would either Google or I want to see less relevant ads? Does Google need a healthy dash of adult supervision?
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