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Arya Tara Yoga
Breathe, Relax, Feel
Changed my life. It can change yours!
I am a Vinyasa Flow yoga instructor certified by the Yoga Alliance International and have been teaching for over a decade.
In 2009 I became a Green Tara practitioner under the guidance of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. My spiritual approach to yoga is also well supported by my philosophical training, including a Ph.D. by Nova University of Lisbon in 2002.
Private Classes
Group Classes
Yoga brings many benefits both to body and mind.
In one to one classes in my studio
I address individual needs, offering a tailor made
program with a therapeutic focus.
Arya Tara Yoga classes are for all levels!
Each class includes Pranayama (breathing exercises), Asana practice (physical postures) and Green Tara Meditation after Savasana (deep relaxation).
Workshops are a fantastic way to progress. For a few days you will be totally focused on your practice! Each workshop has a theme that we explore with asana, philosophical teachings and meditation. In the end there is also space for sharing your personal experience with the group. We grow together, we increase our practice together.
To retreat is to draw a line between your daily life and your inner world. You turn your attention inwards. In Arya Tara Yoga we create good conditions for this to happen.
Laverne Jack
I would definitely recommend Maria, very patient and accomodates all levels, always feel good after class.
Wonderful !
Eduardo Vaz
The yoga of Maria João is made of great attention, accuracy and pleasure.
A magnificent parenthesis in everyday life – a precious and short recess leaving marks
… spreading until they gain the substance of the attitude.
So this praxis accompanies me and helps so much!
A beneficial inspiration, this yoga of Maria João, the body and mind in gratitude.
Juliet Locke
It is a wonderful privilege to have Maria João as my yoga teacher. Her classes are carefully and thoughtfully planned and structured around the individual needs, ability and flexibility of each student and she is very focused and detail orientated in both her demonstration of the yoga moves as well as the correction of her students' poses. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her classes to anyone interested in practicing yoga at any level.
Karen Thompson
Just experienced a wonderful week of yoga with the amazing Maria! She's an inspiration! What a joy to have her share her knowledge and teachings. I learned so much and only wish I lived close enough for regular practice with her.
Francesca Melone
I've started Yoga with Maria and I was captiveted after the first class . She is an excellent teacher, instilling love for Yoga in her students.


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Bield Response 24 – Monitoring Service accreditation
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
on behalf of Bield Housing And Care
Bield, Scotland's leading care and housing provider, is celebrating news that their 24 hour emergency alarm receiving centre – has received its 10th annual accreditation from a leading telecare body.
The Telecare Services Association (TSA) has awarded Bield Response 24, also known as 'BR24', with the accreditation after a maintenance audit was carried out.
This audit, which is a precursor for a full audit which is due to take place next year, aims to ensure that the telecare service offered not just to Bield tenants but to 62 other housing associations across Scotland is in keeping with the TSA's Code of Practice.
BR24 handles around 55,000 calls a month, providing a direct point of contact for people in their own homes or grouped housing developments to highlight any concerns regarding their safety and well-being.
The TSA's audit looks to assess BR24's services to ensure Emergency Call Advisors are maintaining a high standard of service to those who rely on the 24 hour call centre.
The formal accreditation is the 10th one in a row from the TSA and BR24 staff have seen the audit as invaluable in helping them to maintain standards and assist in preparations for next year's full audit.
Accreditation from the TSA not only monitors high standards but has also been acknowledged as providing reassurance and confidence to those who use the service.
Sharon Ewen, Manager of BR24, said: "We are delighted to have received re-accreditation once again from the TSA.
"We view the TSA as a key industry body in ensuring that high standards remain in place with telecare services.
"The annual audit took a full day and gave staff a great opportunity to learn from the process, explore & prepare for next year's full audit.
"The audits are a great way to gather national feedback from the TSA on how other service provider's work and to share good practice ideas to enhance service delivery.
"We actually found that one organisation has call handlers self-assessing by way of quality their own emergency alarm calls. This has proved to have a very positive impact on improving customer services from within and is one idea we may explore next year.
"At Bield, we live by a 'Free to Be' philosophy whereby we encourage our tenants to live life independently however, at BR24 we view it as incredibly important to be available 24/7 when tenants and those who use our services need our help."
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Content Gamification
Content gamification is awesome. Engaging your students in an activity is fun and works. I am particularly fond of using Minecraft to do this. Here is an example:
My UCC students presenting at the 2016 ESRI Canada National User Conference.
Structural Gamification
The bigger picture is empowering the learning of your students for a full year using a gamified learning management system. Many LMS on the market try to implement this. This means, students use a platform where access to resources, ongoing feedback, badging and level ups for encouragement hopefully result in student engagement and empowerment.
Here is a link to a blog comparing some of them.
I find them expensive and slow. So I am trying to make my own FREE GAMIFIED LMS called http://gameof5.com.
Click on the animated gif below to see what the student user interface looks like ...
- A leader board to show you who the top 5 students are in your class with their XP total
- Access to step by step lessons with links, keywords and expectations
- Your level and access to all levels with XP
- Graphic class by class XP barometer
- Quiz/homework barometer
- Top comments feed
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Alhambra Surroundings
Couldn't get the ticket to the Alhambra?
Did you already visit the Alhambra but still want more?
This tour is perfect for you. We will visit the surroundings of the Alhambra, the areas of the fortress for which entrance is not required and which visitors do not usually get to see. We will avoid the crowds and discover fascinating parts of the Alhambra and its enviroment.
Very interesting places such as Cármen de los Mártires, the original tomb of the Catholic Kings, the museum that collects the archaeological remains that were found in the Alhambra, the Charles V Palace, the Alhambra forest and much more!
IMPORTANT: This tour DOES NOT INCLUDE the areas of the Alhambra where ticket is required such as the Nasrid Palaces, Alcazaba and Generalife.
Technical information
Difficulty: Low – Medium
Type of surface: Urban with slopes.
- Arrive 10 minutes before the start time of the tour.
- Wear comfortable shoes. The tour lasts around 2.5 hours.
- In summer remember to wear sunscreen and bring a bottle of water.


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"Someone is here! Someone is here! Welcome to my portfolio!"
storyboards and animatics
The Shadow
Between the Roses
Action Shot Study
Animatic study for an action scene, striving to get out of my comfort zone and exercise camera movements and action poses, as well as a darker environment, contrasting my usual personal style. Part of a series of shorts being made.
One Small Step
Animatic Short
This is the first sequence for the animation short "One Small Step" for the Aerial Contrivance Workshop studio. Story by Jim Capobianco, who mentored me throughout this whole process and taught me so much!
I was the Lead Storyboarder on this challenging project: We had two weeks to create from beggining to end the animatic for a music video for the song Black Widow, made by the metal band Imago Mortis. It was very interesting to work with such a different style from my personal one and to lead other storyboarders into making one, cohesive project. I learned a lot with this one!
Imago Mortis
Akomotion Studio
Music Video +18
Personal Project
This was my final project for college, where I worked with another artist to complete this animatic of 4 minutes and a teaser of 1:30 minute. I was responsible for the storyboard in most scenes, except for a few of them at the end. Also was responsible for the Art direction and character design.
Mika's Diary
Supertoons Studio
Kids TV Series
I was given songs and was responsible to make animatics for the music videos. Here's one of them above. The musical part was completely up to me to decide what would happen, just being sure it followed along with the music and flat aesthetics of the series. This is the music scene for an episode for the 2nd season of the series Mika's Diary, indicated for an Emmy Kids Awards 2018, owned by Supertoons Studio, aired on Netflix BR. Because of the high standards on how to deal with kid's imagery and storytelling, it was a very rewarding project to work on. I boarded 5 episodes in total for the series.


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Ref. 00104 Modern Villa Estepona
EUR 802,950 minimum
, Estepona
Property Description
Modern Villa Estepona for Sale
Click once on the picture above to open a separate window to view the photos of the property at full size.
Contemporary 3 bedroom 3 bathroom detached villa with stunning sea views and high quality finishings.
This villa is in Valle Romano, a sought after residential area in Estepona. It is a short distance from a wide variety of local amenities. Only 10-15 minutes away from Puerto Banus and Marbella.
This ideal family villa offers 3 spacious bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a modern fully fitted kitchen, high ceilings and open living spaces. The living spaces open up to a large garden, private swimming pool and both covered and uncovered terraces.
The modern villa Estepona also benefits from hot/cold air conditioning, domotic system and a private garage.
Photos, layout and views may vary and are for illustrative purposes only. Final Price is subject to distribution, layout, choice of materials and plot selected.
Property Details
- Price: EUR 802,950 minimum
- City: Estepona
- Country: Spain
- Property Size: 180 square meters
- Property Lot Size: 800 square meters
- Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 3
Year: 2018
Garage: 2
Storage/Trastero/Stockage/Kelder: 1
Amenities and Features
speeltuin / recreational area / zone de loisirs / Área recreativa
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text: becozy Posted June 5, 2010 Report Share Posted June 5, 2010 Chinese Auction- auction runs concurrently with Vegas - bidding closes 9PM PT-Midnight ET Each of these items will be individually autographed and personalized by Gerry!! NO IMAGE AVAILABLE T-shirt from Salinas Balloon Festival - Prop from The Ugly Truth Item #CA-TL 8x10 official Timeline photo of Marek Item #CA-RnR 8x10 official Rocknrolla photo of One Two Item #CA-At One-Sheet poster from Attila Item #CA-G One-sheet poster from Gamer To bid send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com Include: subject: CA Item you are bidding on Your best bid (only 1 bid per item) Your screen name/real name The item goes to the Highest Bidder between Vegas and Virtual Con. PayPal only. All bids will be collected at closing of the auction, 9PM PT/12Mid ET and whomever gave the highest bid gets the item, but it must be paid for with PayPal within 24 hours. If there is ANY reason you might not be able to do that within the time frame we will know what, if any, special arrangements are required. Link to post Share on other sites


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Back to Journals » Clinical Epidemiology » Volume 6
Quality assessment of observational studies in a drug-safety systematic review, comparison of two tools: the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale and the RTI item bank
Authors Margulis AV, Pladevall M, Riera-Guardia N, Varas-Lorenzo C, Hazell L, Berkman N, Viswanathan M, Perez-Gutthann S
Received 22 April 2014
Accepted for publication 17 June 2014
Published 10 October 2014 Volume 2014:6 Pages 359—368
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S66677
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Review by Single anonymous peer review
Peer reviewer comments 3
Andrea V Margulis,1 Manel Pladevall,1 Nuria Riera-Guardia,1 Cristina Varas-Lorenzo,1 Lorna Hazell,2,3 Nancy D Berkman,4 Meera Viswanathan,4 Susana Perez-Gutthann,1
1RTI Health Solutions, Barcelona, Spain; 2Drug Safety Research Unit, Southampton, UK; 3Associate Department of the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK; 4RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Background: The study objective was to compare the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS) and the RTI item bank (RTI-IB) and estimate interrater agreement using the RTI-IB within a systematic review on the cardiovascular safety of glucose-lowering drugs.
Methods: We tailored both tools and added four questions to the RTI-IB. Two reviewers assessed the quality of the 44 included studies with both tools, (independently for the RTI-IB) and agreed on which responses conveyed low, unclear, or high risk of bias. For each question in the RTI-IB (n=31), the observed interrater agreement was calculated as the percentage of studies given the same bias assessment by both reviewers; chance-adjusted interrater agreement was estimated with the first-order agreement coefficient (AC1) statistic.
Results: The NOS required less tailoring and was easier to use than the RTI-IB, but the RTI-IB produced a more thorough assessment. The RTI-IB includes most of the domains measured in the NOS. Median observed interrater agreement for the RTI-IB was 75% (25th percentile [p25] =61%; p75 =89%); median AC1 statistic was 0.64 (p25 =0.51; p75 =0.86).
Conclusion: The RTI-IB facilitates a more complete quality assessment than the NOS but is more burdensome. The observed agreement and AC1 statistic in this study were higher than those reported by the RTI-IB's developers.
Keywords: systematic review, meta-analysis, quality assessment, AC1
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Jojoland Crimson Sage PDF
Crimson Sage are a fun pair of socks that are both pretty and practical. Knit with Jojoland Melody Superwash, these socks will look great in any color.
This pattern is available as a PDF download.
Skill level: Intermediate
Finished measurements: foot circumference - 7", foot length 10"
Yarn: Jojoland Melody 2 balls (100% wool yarn, 220 yards per ball 50g) 440 yards total
Needles: US size 2 (2.75mm), set of 4 double pointed needle
Gauge: 9 sts by 11 rows = 1" square


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Scoolary (possible) (site of)
Where is Scoolary?
Scoolary is in the parish of Canisbay and the county of Caithness.
Grid reference: ND 2982 6847
Lat / long: 58.598504, -3.2092264
OS Map for Scoolary
References (websites)
Ancient sites near Scoolary
Castles near Scoolary
Pictish stones near Scoolary
Pictish sites near Scoolary
Accommodation near Scoolary
Dunnet Head Cottage
9.0km away
Seaview Hotel
9.3km away
Greenland House
10.3km away
The Castletown Hotel
10.7km away
St Clair Arms Hotel
10.7km away
Ackergill Tower
14.8km away
The Brown Trout Hotel
15.0km away
17.8km away
Royal Hotel Thurso
18.1km away
Holborn Hotel
18.1km away
Cafés, restaurants & bars near Scoolary
The Storehouse
9.5km away
Ackergill Tower
14.8km away
Royal Hotel Thurso
18.1km away
Holborn Hotel
18.1km away
Red Pepper Restaurant
18.1km away
Royal Golf Hotel
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Dornoch Castle Hotel
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The Eagle
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Railway Hotel
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Effects of the European Common Agricultural Policy on Preserving Biodiversity: Farmland Birds in Slovenia
This paper assesses the effects of agricultural payments on changes in farmland bird diversity in Slovenia. Diversity was measured by Shannon index, while the impacts were estimated with the first-difference estimator on panel data for municipalities with and without special protection areas for birds. The effects of agricultural payments on farmland biodiversity require that the balance of financial instruments be taken into account when the agricultural policy is being drafted. The effects of payments in municipalities with and without special protection areas indicate the need to consider the landscape perspective and adapt schemes to landscape type while preparing the national agricultural policy.


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Infosys Technologies has been providing business and information technology consulting services to businesses for over 20 years. In 1999, Infosys became the first Indian company to be listed on Nasdaq.
With over 66,000 employees, Infosys is one of India's largest IT companies. Globally, financial services is Infosys' largest vertical. Clients include several of the top commercial and investment banks, securities firms and credit card issuers in the U.S., Europe and Australia.
Infosys partners with Global 2000 companies to provide business consulting, systems integration, application development and product engineering services. It has helped its clients grow through the waves of information technology change, starting from mainframe applications, thereafter moving to client-server applications and today's Web-based applications.
With nine development centers in India, Infosys offers five integrated services: business and IT consulting, application development, systems integration, data and network management, web-based software solutions, document imaging, and outsourcing


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Embryonic row
The US National Institutes of Health is forging ahead with a controversial
plan to fund research into embryonic stem cells. These cells would be taken from
embryos created by IVF. A proposal says the NIH would fund scientists who study
stem cells provided by privately funded researchers. Critics claim this flouts
the spirit of a law that forbids government funding for research that destroys
human embryos. "This is the Pontius Pilate approach of washing one's hands,"
says Frank Young, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and an
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2016 Indian Chief Dark Horse
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The first 2016 model Indian is a stripped down, blacked out version of the highly successful Chief. Called the Dark Horse, the new bike ditches the bright paint and shiny chrome of the Chief Classic for a blacked out engine, pipes, bars, and pretty much everything else, to go with a matte black paint scheme. […]
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Diatomaceous Earth
$ 12.50
Diatomaceous Earth
How Does Diatomaceous Earth Help Cleanse Heavy Metals from the Body?
Diatoms are some of the oldest living creatures on the planet. They have a unique chemical structure that makes them ideal for cleansing the body.
Specifically, diatomaceous earth has microscopic sharp edges around the outside edges of each particle. These sharp edges literally eviscerate bacteria and harmful microorganisms within the body. That's why diatomaceous earth is popular for getting rid of bacteria and other infections.
At the same time, diatomaceous earth particles also have a unique honeycomb structure. This honeycomb structure – similar to the one found in charcoal particles – attracts harmful heavy metals.
Heavy metals are absorbed into the honeycomb structure through positive/negative attraction. Specifically, diatomaceous earth has a negative charge while heavy metals are positively charged. The diatomaceous earth attracts all of these particles, trapping them inside the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure prevents the particles from entering the body. Instead, heavy metals are passed out of your body naturally without being absorbed.
Essentially, diatomaceous earth works like a scrubbing tool in your gastrointestinal tract. It pushes toxins like heavy metals out of your body.
Diatomaceous Earth Benefits
After taking DE, many people exhibit the following benefits:
— Natural Colon Detoxification
— Restoration Of Healthy Bowel Movements
— Anti-parasitic Activity And A Reduced Risk Of Infections And Viruses
— Reduced Aches And Pains
— Aids In The Reduction Of Stubborn Belly Fat And Weight Loss
— Strengthens Hair, Skin, And Nails
— Boosts The Health Of Your Teeth And Gums
— Restores Energy Levels
Ultimately, diatomaceous earth attracts positively-charged pathogens throughout the body. Those pathogens include many of the harmful compounds we try to avoid on a daily basis, including viruses, pathogenic fungi, bacteria, heavy metals, pesticides, parasites, prescription drug residues, and even radiation. It safely passes these compounds out of our body in a way few no other food product can.
Start by mixing one level teaspoon of diatomaceous earth into an 8 ounce glass of water before breakfast. Then, take another teaspoon in water before going to bed.
If you want to be extra careful about what you're putting into your body, then use warm, distilled water as opposed to standard tap water.
Once you understand your body's reaction to diatomaceous earth, you can start boosting your dosage. Consider taking about 3 level teaspoons of food-grade diatomaceous earth every day.
You can safely take DE repeatedly for months at a time. DE cleansing experts typically recommend taking three teaspoons of DE for four months, and then switching to a maintenance plan of one teaspoon afterwards.
16 oz. 100% Pure Fresh Water Type/Food Grade
Ingredients: Puree 100% Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth.
Caution: Avoid contact with eyes. Keep out of reach of children.


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Keyton K-0.7MICROWAVEWHT Microwave Oven with 6 Instant Cooking Settings & 10 Power Levels and a Digital Display, White
Keyton K-0.7 MICROWAVEWHT Microwave Oven features ten power levels that will surely give you a personalized cooking experience.
Since you are able to choose power levels so you can cook foot to perfect every time regardless what's on the menu.
This Keyton microwave oven carries innovative design that has a digital display and clock that let you keep track of the time as your food cooks.
Further, it comes with a bigger push button door that makes it easy adding and removing foods very quickly and easily.
This Keyton 0.7 Cu. Ft. microwave oven has outer dimensions of 10.30 x 17.80 x 12.15 inches.
Further, it comes with a child safety lock because safety is very important in every kitchen. This child safety lock will prevent unsupervised access to the unit.
This Keyton microwave oven comes with six cooking settings, using these settings, you can instantly make popcorn, pizza, beverages, frozen dinners and reheat leftovers. Read more…
Features of Keyton K-0.7 MICROWAVEWHT Microwave Oven
- 7 cubic feet interior
- White color
- 10 power levels
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- 6 cooking settings
- Child safety lock
- Innovative design
- 8 x 12.2 x 10.3 inches product dimensions
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Trying to log in to a local account in Windows 7?
Missing that little log in to dropdown from the good old XP days telling you the computer's name?
Rather than working out the name of the PC and using it as part of the username (ie computer_name\Username) just cheat and let the PC fill that in for itself.
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The FDA announced today that they are revising labeling to remove any indication for codeine or hydrocodone-containing cough cold products for use in patient under the age of 18. The FDA Safety Communication (here) states:
"We are taking this action after conducting an extensive review and convening a panel of outside experts. Both of these determined the risks of slowed or difficult breathing, misuse, abuse, addiction, overdose, and death with these medicines outweigh their benefits in patients younger than 18."
In addition, FDA also noted that they are adding this safety information to the Boxed Warning for one such products. The Safety Communication also lists those cough and cold products containing either codeine or hydrocodone. Calming the cough center is important for adults when the cough is non-productive and significantly disrupts sleep and rest, potentially leading the patient to become run down and more susceptible to developing bronchitis or pneumonia. I am not trying to practice medicine here, just telling it from my perspective as a pharmacist. Hydrocodone is one of the best cough suppressants, and as I can testify from experience in our family, the only thing that is often able to relieve a non-productive, severe, and persistent cough. While it should only be used for short term management of severe cough, it can produce "miracle-like" result for certain patients. Care should be given in the prescribing of such products and only limited quantities should be prescribed.


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Vote for your favourite venue in the borough for the Havering NightLife Awards 2018
PUBLISHED: 12:00 24 October 2018
Havering Council
Celebrate the best of the borough's night time businesses by voting for your favourite as part of the Havering NightLife Awards 2018.
The awards, which is being supported by Havering Council, is being held to showcase how joint partnership-working of local licensees, businesses and various agencies have helped to reduce crime and are continually improving the visitor's experience in Havering.
Thousands of people visiting the town centres across the borough, particularly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, continue to raise concerns among residents in relation to anti-social behaviour and drink-related crime.
The awards will combine the safety aspect but with the public also being able to vote for their favourite venues, it is also a chance to put the spotlight on those businesses that make Havering a place to be for entertainment and leisure.
From best night time venue and restaurant, to best places for families and live acts, there are plenty of categories to choose from and one voter will receive a pair of tickets to attend the awards ceremony on Wednesday, November 28, which will be held at Atik nightclub in Romford.
The council's community safety team is working alongside the Met Police, London Fire Brigade, Trading Standards, licensing and independent assessors to inspect venues to ensure they are complying with licences and regulations.
Cabinet member for public protection and safety Councillor Viddy Persaud said: "Our pubs, clubs, restaurants and bars are essential to our borough in creating a vibrant nightime economy.
"It is vital that our residents and visitors can go out around the borough, enjoy a variety of venues, but most importantly, feel safe.
"While people can vote for their favourite place, the council, together with our partners, will be looking at how these venues offer safety and security for people on a night out and are complying to all the necessary regulations."
Voting closes on Friday, November 9.
To vote for your favourite venue in the borough, visit here
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Who would not wish to have a manchester airport pick up done in all the style and comfort? Whether it is from family and friends or perhaps your hired a manchester airport taxi company. A meet and greet manchester airport service is just something one won't want to refuse if it is within the range of budget.
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POSOCO Recruitment 2019 80 ET Vacancy official notification and online application forms issued here for the posts of 80 Executive Trainee (ET). The officials want to fill up the 80 vacancies with willing aspirants. At present, the POSOCO ET application process was active from 31st Jan 2019 and it is available up to 1st March 2019. You can catch this central govt job details through the official site of POSOCO @ www.posoco.in.
Post Details
- 1 POSOCO Recruitment 2019
- 1.1 Specifications Of POSOCO Notification 2019
- 1.2 POSOCO 80 Executive Trainee Vacancy
- 1.3 Eligibility Criteria
- 1.4 Apply Online for POSOCO ET Vacancy
POSOCO Recruitment 2019
POSOCO Executive Trainee Recruitment 2019: Hello to the job seekers. Good news for you. One latest recruitment notification was waiting for you. The organization of Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) announced the notification for the POSOCO Recruitment for the eligible candidates. In this notification, all details are mentioned on this page. Worthy contenders, follow this article and apply for this notification on before the last date. You can also refer our web page @ www.recruitmentindia.in also.
Specifications Of POSOCO Notification 2019
|Name of The Organisation
|Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO)
|Total Posts
|80 Posts
|Name of the Post
|Executive Trainee (ET)
|Application Start Date
|31st Jan 2019
|Application Last Date
|1st March 2019
|Central Govt Jobs
|Job Location
|Around India
|Application Mode
|Online Mode
|Official website
|@ www.posoco.in
This POSOCO Recruitment Notification main purpose is to recruit the candidates for the posts of Executive Trainee (ET) (Electrical/ Computer Science. Totally 80 vacancies are looking for the eligible candidates in the department of ET. The application submission process was started on 31st Jan 2019 and the registration process will be ended on 1st March 2019. So eligible applicants use this opportunity and submit the POSAOCO ET Online Application Form.
POSOCO 80 Executive Trainee Vacancy
Candidates, are you wish to apply for the POSOCO ET Recruitment through GATE 2019 Score, definitely, you should complete your Full-Time B.E./B.Tech/ B.Sc (Engg.) degree in the courses of Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) in a recognized university/ institution. Applicants also maintain the 65% marks in the course and along with GATE Score. Applied postulates, also refer to the related Technical Interview Questions in this page.
The POSOCO Notification Recruitment selection process was based on the GATE score, Group Discussion, Personal Interview. Candidates, who get the high score in GATE Level, those applicants names are selected and conducts the next group discussion level for those aspirants. The weight-age of different parameters are mentioned in the below page. You should check and apply it. The POSOCO ET Recruitment age limit, pay scale, selection process, vacancy details etc are clearly entered on this page for the convenience of the applicants.
Eligibility Criteria
Educational qualifications:
Aspirants, who have completed their education in Full-Time B.E./ B.Tech/ B.Sc (Engg.) degree in the courses of Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) in a recognized university/ institution.
- Electrical: Electrical/ Electrical (Power)/ Electrical and Electronics/ Power Systems Engineering/Power Engineering (Electrical)
- Computer Science: Computer Science/ Computer Engg./ Information Technology
Candidates maintain the Minimum 65% or Equivalent CGPA *. At the same time, the applicants also qualify in the GATE written test.
Age limit:
The board of Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) issues the age limit details and also gives the age relaxation per the eligible candidates.
The Age Limit details are:
Minimum Age: 21 years
Maximum Age: 28 years
The Age Relaxation Details Are:
a. For OBC (NCL) candidates : 3 years (for posts reserved for the respective category)
b. For SC/ST candidates: 5 years (for posts reserved for the respective category)
c. For PWD candidates: 10 years over and above category relaxation
d. J&K Domicile / Ex-Servicemen/ Victims of riots: As per Govt. of India directives
Selection Rounds:
The POSOCO Notification selection process was based on
- Group Discussion
- Interview
Applicants, who have the GATE score, those names are shortlisted and conducts the GD and Interview.
Weightage of Different Parameters:
- GATE 2019 Marks (out of 100) in corresponding Paper: 85%
- Group Discussion: 3%
- Personal Interview: 12%
- Total 100%
Pay Scale
The organization of Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) pays the sufficient salary for the selected candidates. The pay scale details are:
- During Training: Rs. 8.6 Lakhs Per Annum
- After Training: Rs. 15.0 Lakhs Per Annum
Application Fee
- For General Candidates: Rs.500/-
- SC/ST/PWD/Ex-SM/Departmental candidates: No Application Fee
Vacancy Details
The department-wise vacancy details are:
- Executive Trainees (Electrical) -59 Posts
- Executive Trainees (Computer Science)- 21 Posts
Apply Online for POSOCO ET Vacancy
Applicants, catch the POSOCO ET Application Form in this page or @ www.posoco.in. Once click the official notification link and check all details about this notification. In the notification have all details about this recruitment. The direct link to Apply Online for POSOCO ET Vacancy also provided here. You can apply this notification in an easy way, with only one click. If any confusion refers to the applying instruction at the bottom of the page.
The Applying Instructions for POSOCO Recruitment:
- Aspirants, in case you wish to apply this Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) recruitment notification, refer the official site @ www.posoco.in
- Visit the homepage.
- Find the carrier opportunities and check the POSOCO Recruitment 2019 Official Notification link.
- Click on the link and download the official notification.
- Check the eligibility details like given dates, age limit, refer the no. of vacancies, selection process, application fee etc.,
- In case you are eligible one, submit your online registration form and pay the fee as per the norms of the POSOCO.
- Then upload the scanned documents.
- After the completion of the enrolling process, take the hard copy of the application form for the safety purpose.
Important Dates & Links
Application Starting Date: 31st Jan 2019
Application Ending Date: 1st March 2019
POSOCO Recruitment 2019 Notification


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Welcome to the July 2014 homepage edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine.
At the commencement of 2014 i2P focused on the need for the entire profession of pharmacy and its associated industry supports to undergo a renewal and regeneration.
We are now half-way through this year and it is quite apparent that pharmacy leaders do not yet have a cohesive and clear sense of direction.
Maybe the new initiative by Woolworths to deliver clinical service through young pharmacists and nurses may sharpen their focus.
If not, community pharmacy can look forward to losing a substantial and profitable market share of the clinical services market.
Who would you blame when that happens?
But I have to admit there is some effort, even though the results are but meagre.
In this edition of i2P we focus on the need for research about community pharmacy, the lack of activity from practicing pharmacists and when some research is delivered, a disconnect appears in its interpretation and implementation.
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It started with "tablet" computers deployed on shelves inside the retailer Coles, specifically to provide information to consumers relating to pain management and the sale of strong analgesics.
This development was reported in i2P under the title "Coles Pharmacy Expansion and the Arid PGA Landscape"
In that article we reported that qualified information was a missing link that had come out of Coles market research as the reason to why it had not succeeded in dominating the pain market.
Of course, Woolworths was working on the same problem at the same time and had come up with a better solution - real people with good information.
Editor's Note: The understanding of a pharmacy's presentation through the research that goes into the design of fixtures and fittings that highlight displays, is a never-ending component of pharmacy marketing.
Over the past decade, Australian pharmacy shop presentations have fallen behind in standards of excellence.
It does not take rocket science - you just have to open your eyes.
Recently, our two major supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, have entered into the field of drug and condition information provision - right into the heartland of Australian Pharmacy.
I attended the Pregnancy, Baby and Children's Expo in Brisbane recently.
What an eye and ear opening event that was!
Young Mums, mature Mums, partners of all ages, grandparents and friends……...many asking about health issues and seeking reassurances that they were doing the right thing.
It should be the scandal of the century.
It potentially affects the health of almost everyone.
Healthcare providers and consumers alike should be up in arms. But apart from coverage in a few credible news sources the problem of 'Marketing Based Medicine,' as psychiatrist Dr Peter Parry terms it, hasn't as yet generated the kind of universal outrage one might expect.
Government funding is always scarce and restricted.
If you are ever going to be a recipient of government funds you will need to fortify any application with evidence.
From a government perspective, this minimises risk.
I must admit that while I see evidence of research projects being managed by the PGA, I rarely see community pharmacists individually and actively engaged in the type of research that would further their own aims and objectives (and survival).
Most of us leave a tremendous impact on pharmacies we work for (as proprietors, managers, contractors or employees)—in ways we're not even aware of.
But organisational memories are often all too short, and without a central way to record that impact and capture the knowledge and individual contributions, they become lost to time.
It is ironic that technology has provided us with phenomenal tools for communication and connection, but much of it has also sped up our work lives and made knowledge and memory at work much more ephemeral.
This article was first published in The Conversation and was written by Wendy Lipworth, University of Sydney and Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney
In the endless drive to get people's attention, advertising is going 'native', creeping in to places formerly reserved for editorial content. In this Native Advertising series we find out what it looks like, if readers can tell the difference, and more importantly, whether they care.
i2P has republished the article as it supports our own independent and ongoing investigations on how drug companies are involved in marketing-based medicine rather than evidence-based medicine.
Editor's Note: This is an early article by Mark Neuenschwander we have republished after the soul-searching surrounding a recent Australian dispensing error involving methotrexate.
Hmm. There's more than one way you could take that, huh? Like Someday when I get around to it (I'm not sure) I may admit that I was wrong about something. Actually, I've been thinking about the concept of admitting wrong. So don't get your hopes up. No juicy confessions this month except that I wish it were easier for me to admit when I have been wrong or made a mistake.
Brian Goldman, an ER physician from Toronto, is host of the award-winning White Coat, Black Art on CBC Radio and slated to deliver the keynote at The unSUMMIT for Bedside Barcoding in Anaheim this May. His TED lecture, entitled, "Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about it?" had already been viewed by 386,072 others before I watched it last week.
Kay Dunkley - BPharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm, Grad Dip Health Admin, MPS, MSHPA
Most readers will be aware of recent publicity relating to dispensing errors and in particular to deaths caused by methotrexate being incorrectly packed in dose administration aids.
The Pharmacy Board of Australia (PBA), in its Communique of 13 June 2014, described a methotrexate packing error leading to the death of a patient and noted "extra vigilance is required to be exercised by pharmacists with these drugs".
This same case was reported by A Current Affair (ACA) in its program on Friday 20 June http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8863098/prescription-drug-warning
Have you ever had one of those days when all you could think was, "Gosh, do I need a vacation."
Of course you have – because all work and no play aren't good for anyone.
A vacation doesn't have to be two weeks on a tropical island, or even a long weekend at the beach.
A vacation just means taking a break from your everyday activities.
A change of pace.
It doesn't matter where.
Everyone needs a vacation to rejuvenate mentally and physically.
But did you also know that you can help boost our economy by taking some days off?
Call it your personal stimulus package.
This article was first published in the Conversation. It caught our eye because "peer review" it is one of the standards for evidence-based medicines that has also been corrupted by global pharma.
The article is republished by i2P as part of its ongoing investigation into scientific fraud and was writtenby Andre Spicer, City University London and Thomas Roulet, University of Oxford
We've all heard the phrase "peer review" as giving credence to research and scholarly papers, but what does it actually mean?
How does it work?
Peer review is one of the gold standards of science. It's a process where scientists ("peers") evaluate the quality of other scientists' work. By doing this, they aim to ensure the work is rigorous, coherent, uses past research and adds to what we already knew.
Most scientific journals, conferences and grant applications have some sort of peer review system. In most cases it is "double blind" peer review. This means evaluators do not know the author(s), and the author(s) do not know the identity of the evaluators.
The intention behind this system is to ensure evaluation is not biased.
The more prestigious the journal, conference, or grant, the more demanding will be the review process, and the more likely the rejection. This prestige is why these papers tend to be more read and more cited.
While dining out with an elderly friend, I noticed that he kept his false tooth plate in his shirt pocket. He had recently had seven amalgam-filled teeth removed, because he believed that their toxins were making him sick; but his new plate was uncomfortable. He had been treated by an 'holistic dentist'. Claiming to offer a "safe and healthier alternative" to conventional dentistry, are they committed to our overall health and wellbeing or are they promoting unjustified fear, unnecessarily extracting teeth and wasting our money?
We are now entering a new financial year and it's a great time to reflect on last year and highlight those things that went well and those that may have impacted negatively in the pursuit of your goals.
It's also a great to spend some time re-evaluating your personal and business short, medium and long term goals in the light of events over the last year.
The achievement of your goals will in many cases be dependent on setting and aspiring to specific financial targets. It's important that recognise that many of your personal goals will require you to generate sufficient business profits to fund those aspirations
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Welcome to the new financial year in Australia.
For many in business the past year has been described as a challenging period.
Adjectives are a key feature of the English language. In the business lexicon their use can be, and often is evocative and stimulate creative images. But they can also contribute to inexact, emotional perceptions.
Throughout the financial pages of newspapers and business magazines adjectives abound.
References to "hot" money draw attention and comment. The recent wave of funds from Chinese investors, keen to remove their wealth from the jurisdiction and control of government regulations is creating a potential property bubble in Australia.
Pharmacy culture is dormant.
Being comprised of values, unless each value is continually addressed, updated or deleted, entire organisations can stagnate (or entire professions such as the pharmacy profession).
Good values offer a strong sense of security, knowing that if you operate within the boundaries of your values, you will succeed in your endeavours.
The following article is reprinted from The Conversation and forms up part of our library collection on evidence-based medicines.
At i2P we also believe that the current model of evidence is so fractured it will never be able to be repaired.
All that can happen is that health professionals should independently test and verify through their own investigations what evidence exists to prescribe a medicine of any potency.
Health professionals that have patients (such as pharmacists) are ideally placed to observe and record the efficacy for medicines.
All else should confine their criticisms to their evidence of the actual evidence published.
If there are holes in it then share that evidence with the rest of the world.
Otherwise, do not be in such a hurry to criticise professions that have good experience and judgement to make a good choice on behalf of their patients, simply because good evidence has not caught up with reality.
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, July 25, 2014
Laropiprant is the Bad One; Niacin is/was/will always be the Good One
by W. Todd Penberthy, PhD
(OMNS July 25, 2014) Niacin has been used for over 60 years in tens of thousands of patients with tremendously favorable therapeutic benefit (Carlson 2005).
In the first-person NY Times best seller, "8 Weeks to a Cure for Cholesterol," the author describes his journey from being a walking heart attack time bomb to a becoming a healthy individual.
He hails high-dose niacin as the one treatment that did more to correct his poor lipid profile than any other (Kowalski 2001).
Deep within all of us we have a core set of values and beliefs that create the standards of behaviour that we align with when we set a particular direction in life.
Directions may change many times over a lifetime, but with life experiences and maturity values may increase in number or gain greater depth.
All of this is embraced under one word – "culture".
When a business is born it will only develop if it has a sound culture, and the values that comprise that culture are initially inherent in the business founder.
A sound business culture equates to a successful business and that success is often expressed in the term "goodwill" which can be eventually translated to a dollar value.
Exoskeleton leader ReWalk Robotics announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the company's ReWalk Personal System for use at home and in the community.
ReWalk is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) to stand upright and walk.
ReWalk, the only exoskeleton with FDA clearance via clinical studies and extensive performance testing for personal use, is now available throughout the United States.
The brave new world of health and wellness is not the enemy of Pharmacy, it is its champion.
Australian futurist, Morris Miselowski, one of the world's leading business visionaries, will present the Opening Keynote address on Pharmacy's Future in the new Health and Wellness Landscape at 2.00pm on Wednesday July 30.
Morris believes the key to better health care could already be in your pocket, with doctors soon set to prescribe iPhone apps, instead of pills.
Technology will revolutionise the health industry - a paradigm shift from healthcare to personal wellness.
Health and wellness applications on smartphones are already big news, and are dramatically changing the way we manage our personal health and everyday wellness.
Editor's Note: We have had a number of articles in this issue relating to pharmacy research.
The PGA has conducted a number of research initiatives over the years, including one recently reported in Pharmacy News that resulted from an analysis of the QCPP Patient Questionnaire.
Pharmacy Guild president, George Tambassis, appears to have authored the article following, and there also appears to be a disconnect between the survey report and its target audience illustrated by one of the respondent comments published.
I have asked Mark Coleman to follow through, elaborate and comment:
Neil Johnston
Neil Johnston is a pharmacist who trained as a management consultant. He was the first consultant to service the pharmacy profession and commenced practice as a full time consultant in 1972, specialising in community pharmacy management, pharmacy systems, preventive medicine and the marketing of professional services. He has owned, or part-owned a total of six pharmacies during his career, and for a decade spent time both as a clinical pharmacist and Chief Pharmacist in the public hospital system. He has been editor of i2P since 2000.
Last month when the controversy surrounding the PGA/Blackmore's proposed alliance brought out a large number of critics, the PGA found itself in an extremely vulnerable position.
Some criticism was well-deserved - other criticism arose from misperception surrounding the proposed alliance, while other criticism evolved surrounding the "evidence" relied on by the alliance to underpin their clinical promotion - was blown out of all proportion, or negatively criticised.
More positively, academic Dr Ken Harvey called for the TGA to manage an evidence database for complementary medicines that have had a full evaluation.
Last month when the controversy surrounding the PGA/Blackmore's proposed alliance brought out a large number of critics, the PGA found itself in an extremely vulnerable position.
The uproar caused the PGA and Blackmore's to abandon their proposed alliance, and many PGA "enemies" were able to use the incident to their advantage.
There was some concern by i2P in that while the basic idea had some merit, project implementation as originally described, had the potential for abuse.
However, some of the elements of the original proposal, if used correctly, may have had the potential to assist pharmacy patients.
The clinical evidence relied upon seemed impossible to evaluate because:
* No single Australian database existed for evidence (drugs or complementary medicines) that had been properly rated by a reliable external ratings agency.
* No database existed that could authenticate even supposed "gold standard" evidence because at least 20-30 percent of that data is contaminated through big-pharma manipulation involving the use of "ghost writers", to magnify benefits of their drug or point to a conclusion not supported by the original investigational data.
A description of the process of "ghost writing" is explained further along this article – a process that I believe must constitute academic fraud!
i2P was recently contacted by well-known academic Dr Ken Harvey to support an initiative he was preparing in respect of an evidence database managed by the TGA, with the consumer organisation CHOICE facilitating the process.
i2P agreed to support this initiative and added a signature to the CHOICE letter addressed to the TGA.
The following is the original full text of this letter and the TGA response.
CHOICE letter
Dr Rohan Hammett
National Manager
Therapeutic Goods Administration
PO Box 100
Dear Dr. Hammett,
Re: A TGA list of registered (and properly evaluated) Complementary Medicines (CMs)
The recent Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report titled, "Therapeutic Goods Regulation: Complementary Medicines" said (43):
"It would enhance transparency and help inform both consumers and healthcare professionals if the TGA were to place the summary of evidence it collects from sponsors, as received, on its website—with a clear indication of whether it had been assessed or evaluated by the TGA."
There are a small number of registered CMs on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG). If these products have been registered recently, it means that they have been properly assessed for quality, safety and efficacy (unlike Listed CMs which predominate on the ARTG). Examples of registered CMs include Blackmores Flexagil Pain Relief cream (a clinically proven comfrey root extract) for the topical treatment of sprains and osteoarthritis and Flordis Iberogast (a clinically proven nine herb mixture) for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Unfortunately, some registered CMs were "grandfathered" into the ARTG, without proper evaluation, e.g. ARTG no: 68083 ARTHRO-AID Glucosamine hydrochloride (see appended).
At this point in time, there is no way the ARTG can be searched to obtain a list of registered CMs let alone those that have been properly evaluated as distinct from "grandfathered".
We believe that it is important for the medical profession and community to be aware of the more evidence-based CMs that are currently registered by the TGA and for us to provide constructive feedback where needed. Can you please provide us with this data?
May we also suggest that the TGA compiles a list of properly evaluated registered CMs and places this on the TGA website. In the longer term, we suggest that the ARTG database should contain an additional searchable field to distinguish CMs from other medicines.
We believe that these initiatives by the TGA would make a nice response to paragraph 43 of the ANAO report.
Nick Stace (CEO, CHOICE)
Carol Bennett (CEO, CHF)
Dr Vicki Kotsirilos, GP and expert on CM
Neil Johnston, Editor, Information to Pharmacists (I2P)
Dr Ken Harvey, School of Public Health, La Trobe University
cc Lynn Weekes CEO, NPS
TGA response (the same response was sent individually to each signatory)
Mr Neil Johnston
Information for Pharmacists (12P)
PO Box 297
Alstonville NSW 2477
Dear Mr Johnston,
TGA list of registered Complementary Medicines
Thank you for your letter of 18 October 2011 concerning access by consumers to information about registered complementary medicines. I note the several co-signatories to your letter who share an interest in this matter.
At the current time, there are some 200 registered complementary medicines on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG). As you point out in your correspondence, a small number of these have been fully evaluated while the majority were 'grandfathered' onto the ARTG at the time that the register was created, along with many other registered medicines, non-complementary OTC medicines, prescription medicines and listed products.
I acknowledge that the searchability of the ARTG for consumers and health professionals in relation to complementary medicines has some limitations. However, the TGA is committed to improving the transparency of our operations and increased regulatory effectiveness. I will seek advice as to the options for ARTG enhancements to allow identification of registered complementary medicines and fully evaluated registered complementary medicines, respectively.
In the interests of enhanced information for consumers and health professionals, 1 agree with your suggestion that the TGA should publish on our website a list of those registered complementary medicines that have been fully evaluated. I have asked the relevant officers in the TGA to develop this list for publication.
Should you have any queries regarding these matters please don't hesitate to contact Mr Ian Stehlik in the Office of Complementary Medicines on 02 62328439 in the first instance.
Yours sincerely
Dr Rohan Hammet,
National Manager
November 2011
Finally, the start of a reliable database that establishes a standard, and for the first time may prove to be an extremely useful tool for any clinician wishing to engage in clinical practice, without having unwarranted criticism descend on them.
For an explanation of how this type of criticism arises, view comments about the "flip-flop" rhythm of science contained in the article: Truth in Medicine – Weighing the Evidence.
Ideally, any evidence posted to the TGA site will include a full investigation, including a determination whether any input was "ghost-written", and if so, disallow that "evidence" until it is properly authenticated.
One of the more flagrant offences committed by pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession is the practice of "ghost writing" medical articles.
A new cross-sectional survey published in an article in the British Medical Journal found that more than 20 percent of articles published in six leading medical journals during 2008 were likely written by honorary and/or ghost writers.
This is lower than it was in 1996, but still far too prevalent; contaminating data to deliberately confuse and mislead- but always directing a reader disproportionately towards the claimed benefits represented by a sponsored drug.
For medical journals, ghost writing usually refers to writers sponsored by a drug or medical device company, who make major but uncredited research or writing contributions.
The articles are instead published under the names of other academic authors.
Such "inappropriate authorship" leads to a lack of transparency and accountability, which has become an important concern for the academic community.
According to the article in the British Medical Journal:
"Inappropriate authorship (honorary and ghost authorship is an important issue for the academic and research community and is a threat to the integrity of scientific publication.
Our findings suggest that 21 percent of articles published in 2008 in the general medical journals with the highest impact factors had an inappropriate honorary author, and that nearly eight percent of articles published in these journals may have had an unnamed important contributor.
The highest prevalence of both types of inappropriate authorship occurred in original research articles, compared with editorials and review articles.
...Both honorary and ghost authorship are unacceptable in scientific publications, and each form of inappropriate authorship has important consequences.
...Honorary authorship has implications for scientific integrity... Likewise ghost authorship has important implications and consequences. If un-identified authors are involved in the work and manuscript preparation, readers not only will be unaware of the contributions, perspectives, and affiliations of these individuals, but also may not appreciate the influence or potential underlying agenda these individuals may have on the reporting of material in the article (such as may occur with ghost authors employed by industry)."
Two Canadian law professors have called for legal sanctions.
"It's fraudulent for academics to give their names to medical articles ghost written by pharmaceutical industry writers", says Trudo Lemmens, one of the law professors, based at the University of Toronto.
"Studies suggest that industry-driven drug trials and industry-sponsored publications are more likely to downplay a drug's harms and exaggerate a drug's virtues".
"The integrity of medical research is also harmed by ghost written articles."
"False representation of authorship is in our view, fraud."
Ghost writing is part of a marketing process that can distort the evidence of a drug.
Industry author's identities are concealed to enable insertion of marketing messages in the primary text, and academic experts are recruited as "guest" authors to lend credibility despite not fulfilling criteria for authorship, such as participating in the design of the study, gathering data, analysing the results and writing up of the findings.
Class actions involving drugs such as Vioxx, hormone replacement therapy and antidepressants suggest guest authors often fail to meet criteria for authorship, according to the policy paper in a recent issue of Public Library of Science's journal PloS Medicine.
In the article, Lemmens and his colleague Prof. Simon Stern argue that legal remedies are needed for medical ghost writing since medical journals, academic institutions and professional disciplinary bodies haven't succeeded in enforcing sanctions against the practice.
Ghost Writers make over $100,000 a year and if an article makes its way into a prestigious medical journal — like the Lancet, British Medical Journal, or The New England Journal of Medicine —that will earn up to $20,000 in an extra bonus payment.
"You're being told what to do and if you don't do it, you've lost the job", said one ghost writer interviewed for a US TV segment.
"As long as I do my job well, it's not up to me to decide how the drug is positioned. I'm just following the information I'm being given."
Once the article is written to the pharma company's satisfaction, the pharma company then starts "shopping around" for an academic physician or physicians that are well known in the field, encouraging them to put their name on the article.
From there, they "massage" the article past peer review in one of the more prestigious medical journals, preferably one that strongly influences practicing doctors. Once the article is published, the pharmaceutical company then purchases tens of thousands of reprint copies to be distributed to doctor's offices by their pharmaceutical representatives. The unsuspecting doctor thinks the study is reliable since it clearly appears to be written by a leading name in the field, and has been published in a prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal.
Why would medical journals play along with this apparent sham?
Why aren't they doing more to eradicate this practice?
Perhaps the primary incentive to turn a blind eye is that it's very lucrative for them, as the reprints purchased by the pharmaceutical companies for distribution are quite expensive. And medical journals are, after all, for-profit businesses.
All these costs are added into the selling price for the drug, so it follows that if these practices were disallowed, there would be a facility to reduce drug prices by a large amount.
Even the institutions have divided loyalties which may explain why they've been slow to act.
For example, universities wish to protect academic integrity while also protecting their employees from unjust accusation.
It is thought that a legal response could act as a powerful deterrent. Even if the data in an article appearing in a peer-reviewed journal is accurate, misrepresentation of authorship still constitutes medical fraud.
Doctors, pharmacists and patients perceive published studies to be independent assessments made by academic experts.
The plot becomes even murkier, if ghost written publications are used in a court of law to support a manufacturer's arguments about a drug's safety and effectiveness.
Building on this deceit, academic experts who appear as witnesses for pharmaceutical and medical device companies also boost their credibility with these fraudulent publications on their CV. It's a corrupt circular problem that has no end.
Lemmens and Stern suggest that imposing legal liability on guest authors in the U.S. "may give rise to claims that could be pursued in a class action based on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)."
The policy paper and a related conference held at the University of Toronto in May were supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council on the Promotion of Integrity in Biomedical Research.
* Ghost writing of medical journal articles raises serious ethical and legal concerns, bearing on the integrity of medical research and scientific evidence used in legal disputes.
*Medical journals, academic institutions, and professional disciplinary bodies have thus far failed to enforce effective sanctions.
* The practice of ghost writing could be deterred more effectively through the imposition of legal liability on the "guest authors" who lend their names to ghost written articles.
* A guest author's claim for credit of an article written by someone else constitutes legal fraud, and may give rise to claims (in the US) that could be pursued in a class action based on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
* The same fraud could support claims of "fraud on the court" against a pharmaceutical company that has used ghost written articles in litigation. This claim also appropriately reflects the negative impact of ghost writing on the legal system.
In Conclusion:
Doctors today commonly assert that they practice "scientific medicine," and patients think that the medical treatments they receive are "scientifically proven".
However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and profitable marketing ruse, not a fact.
The British Medical Journal's "Clinical Evidence" analysed common medical treatments to evaluate which are supported by sufficient reliable evidence (BMJ, 2007). They reviewed approximately 2,500 treatments and found:
• 13 percent were found to be beneficial
• 23 percent were likely to be beneficial
• Eight percent were as likely to be harmful as beneficial
• Six percent were unlikely to be beneficial
• Four percent were likely to be harmful or ineffective.
• 46 percent were unknown whether they were efficacious or harmful
In the late 1970s, the US government conducted a similar evaluation and found a strikingly similar result.
They found that only 10 percent to 20 percent of medical treatments had evidence of efficacy (Office of Technology Assessment, 1978).
It would appear that the conventional medical model, from start to finish, is pervasively corrupted with massive conflicts of interests that make it exceedingly difficult to make a rational decision in health matters.
One of the biggest complaints the conventional medical industry has against alternative medicine is the lack of scientific research to support their practices.
This perception needs to be revised and the medical house put in order before criticising other health practitioners. Pharmacists have been continually criticised by medical practitioners along similar lines – it is time to reject these claims, but it is also time for pharmacy to update its own clinical model.
The scientific method works and I personally uphold its principles, but it has been so perverted by corporate interests, that it becomes very difficult to find the truth.
If pharmacists are to be successful in developing ethical clinical practices, they will certainly need to be vigilant in their professional processes. They will need to establish and maintain their own databases of clinical evidence and have input into the TGA database when it emerges.
The lack of integrity in the whole of the medical industry, including pharmacy, also needs a revision. The November edition of i2P featured four articles involving pharmacist integrity or integrity-related issues.
It is suggested to pharmacists that you print out all relevant articles relating to integrity, medical fraud and evidence-based practice and use them as a reference base to re-invent your clinical practice for the year 2012.
That year looks like being a watershed year for pharmacy with continuing bankruptcies, a major round of unemployment for employed pharmacists and no business plan in place to develop clinical practices with new income streams.
There will be financially-generated pressures to cut corners – don't be tempted.
And have a happy New Year!
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Headline indices of the Australian stock market declined on Thursday, 11 April 2019, as risk sentiments subdued amid the latest signs of caution from global central banks about slowing economic growth. Meanwhile, selloff fueled by Prime Minister Scott Morrison announcing the general election would be held on May 18. Most of ASX sectors declined, with shares in financials, healthcare, and materials issues being notable losers. Around late afternoon trade, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index declined 18.34 points, or 0.3%, at 6,205.20 points, while the broader All Ordinaries dropped 17.46 points, or 0.28%, at 6,299.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi reiterated warnings on Wednesday that global risks continue to batter the region's economy as the ECB signaled no rate hikes for the rest of 2019, shortly after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sharply downgraded its economic growth forecast for the euro zone economy. Interest rates on its marginal lending facility and deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0%, 0.25% and -0.40%, respectively.
On Tuesday, the IMF slashed its forecast for global economic growth this year, saying a slowdown could force world leaders to coordinate stimulus measures. The world economy will grow 3.3% this year, down from the 3.5% the IMF had forecast for 2019 in January, the fund said Tuesday in its latest World Economic Outlook. The IMF also sharply downgraded growth in the euro zone. It now expects the bloc to grow at 1.3% in 2019 — lower than its forecast had been six months ago.
The central bank's Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to not raise its benchmark rate at the March 19-20 gathering, and simultaneously indicated that it didn't see likelihood for any hikes through 2019, according to minutes from the session released Wednesday. Minutes from the Federal Reserve's March 19-20 meeting said some policymakers under certain circumstances could judge it appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate modestly later this year. The Federal Reserve's decision in March to cease raising interest rates this year was driven by unease over the U.S. and global economies and surprisingly subdued inflation.
Last month the Fed aborted previous plans to keep raising a key short-term U.S. interest. Instead, Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated the Fed would remain "patient," with the central bank's closely watched "dot plot" pointing to no increase in interest rates for 2019.
Financials were lower, with all four of the big banks in the red. ANZ declined 1%, Commonwealth fell 0.8%, NAB dropped 0.8%, and Westpac shed 1.3%. Bank of Queensland (BOQ) tumbled 5% after announcing its first half results, showing cash earnings slip 8% to A$167 million while net interest margins (NIM) fell 3bps to 1.94%. BOQ's interim dividend has also been cut with the bank blaming that on a "challenging revenue and cost environment that BOQ and the industry face." Insurance Australia Group (IAG) shares eased 0.7% on news proceedings have been filed against the insurance group and its subsidiary Swann Insurance in the Federal Court of Australia.
Shares of materials lost ground on a mixed session for base metal prices overnight, with BHP down 0.6%, Rio Tinto down 0.9%, and Fortescue Metals down 1.2%.
Whitehaven Coal was up 2.1% despite the miner lowering its production guidance for fiscal 2019 after a 3% drop in March quarterly production.
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|Sailor Planet Attack
|Seeraa Puranetto Atakku
|Upgraded Attack:
|Sailor Planet Super Attack (Musicals)
|Inner Sailor Guardians
|First Appearance
|Live Action:
|Special Act - We're Getting Married!!
|Act 10 - Moon
Sailor Planet Attack is a energy-based attack performed by the Inner Sailor Senshi in all versions of the Sailor Moon series.
One of the most powerful energy-based attacks used in the manga that incorporates a number of Sailor Senshi every time it is used. Interestingly enough, Sailor Moon is not required for the attack to work.
The attack was first used by the Inner Senshi to kill Kunzite. Later, both the Inner and Outer Senshi use the attack together against Zirconia.
The attack was similar to Sailor Planet Power, though in this attack the energy generated was directed toward a specific target. In the anime, all five of the Inner Senshi had to perform it together.
In Sailor Moon Crystal, the attack is used to remove the effects of the brainwashing used on the Shitennou. However, they teleported away before they could be affected, also releases a powerful white blast from their palm.
Live Action
In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, the attack was used to defeat Queen Mio. Sailor Venus, Mercury and Jupiter hold their hands up to Sailor Moon's Moon Wand and the four begin to walk in a circle. They then stop and spin around. Mercury, Jupiter and Venus then draw their powers in as Sailor Moon holds her Moon Wand in front of herself. All four Sailor Guardians then thrust their hands towards the sky.
They all begin to glow their respective colours. In another space, the four speak the words "Sailor Planet..." as they merge into each other.
Back in reality, all four thrust their arms forward as they finish the attack phrase with "...Attack!". This releases a powerful white energy blast from Sailor Moon's Moonlight Stick that blasts at their opponent.
A bright white light surrounds the girls as their attack is triggered. Luminous white feathers float upwards all around them.
The attack was also used many times in the final battles of the musicals.
Video Games
The attack is available in the video game Sailor Moon: Another Story as a group technique. In order to perform it, all Inner Sailor Senshi plus Sailor Moon have to be teamed up and the attack consumes 12 EP of each Sailor Senshi (the maximum amount that every Senshi can reach). No specific team formation is needed.
- When the Inner and Outer Sailor Guardians were controlled by Sailor Galaxia's bracelets, they used evil version of this attack, Galactica Planet Attack.


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Artwork description:
To create this work I was inspired by the Japanese traditional engraving. Mostly I like masterpieces of Ando Hiroshige, the way he combines colors and bold composition solutions.
Watercolor pencils are the new material for me. I tried to understand how the colors mix and blend with each other caused by water. Also I used a black ink brush to give some sharpness and certainty.
Materials used:
Watercolor pencil, Ink brush
Iris. Watercolor pencil on paper (2016)
Mixed-media painting by Daria Galinski
- Mixed-media painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 6.3 x 7.87 in (unframed) / 6.3 x 7.87 in (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
This artwork is sold by Daria Galinski from Germany


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We change our clocks twice a year, every year. We move them forward in the spring and back in the fall, on different dates in different countries. While daylight savings has been adopted around the world, it has been controversial in many countries.
Two of the biggest debates about whether daylight saving time, or summer time as it's called outside the United States, focus on negative health outcomes and whether DST really saves energy, which was its original intent.
Many people don't know much about the origins of the biannual ritual: most of us just look forward to getting an extra hour of natural light in the spring and dread the lost hour of sleep in the fall.
For example, the popular belief is that farmers pushed for the change to daylight hours when, in fact, they hate it because it disrupts their schedule too much — they already make the most of the daylight and wake up very early. It was actually businesses that lobbied to move the clocks forward because they estimated they would earn billions more in revenue.
Also, many people call it daylight savings time, but the accurate spelling is singular.
DST is confusing and controversial for what may not be very obvious reasons. It's more complicated than just remembering when it starts (beginning of March) and when it ends ( first week of November). It can lead to severe depression, fatal pedestrian accidents, and even increased energy consumption.
To compile a list of lesser-known facts about daylight saving time, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed over a dozen studies, news reports, and historical articles on DST's origins, the controversies around it, and how it is observed around the world.
Click here to see 16 fascinating facts about daylight saving time.


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Release notes/20181010
General[edit | edit source]
- Resolved an issue that could sometimes block progression during the Discovery Tutorial when attempting to complete the "Defeat the Remaining Klingons" mission step.
- Resolved an issue in the Exchange UI that was causing the item cost to not be displayed.
- Resolved an issue in how inventory was being sorted.
- Resolved an issue that was causing the Grand Prize announcement to not display the Hur'q Ravager Escort Carrier.
- Resolved an issue that was causing the "Console - Universal - Temporal Trajectory Shifter" to have the incorrect ability icon, and no recharge timer.
- Resolved an issue that was causing the Defense of Starbase 1 TFO from not appearing in the Landing Page for players above level 60.
- "All" tabs in each category of the C-Store have been moved to the end of each tab list.
- Removed Victory is Life and Dominion Lockbox loading Screens and replaced it with Age of Discovery.
- Credits have been updated.
Known Issues[edit | edit source]
- Enemies in Starbase 1 are not scaling properly.
- Universal Endeavor Expand/Collapse button is not working properly.
- Coraline, Ian Kwon, And Tamav have the wrong traits for their species
- Discovery Starter ship Windows 2 and 3 are missing materials.
- Cannot reclaim packs from the C-Store that auto-open into items on ground maps.
- Foundry features have been temporarily shut down.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post4851178669015941772..comments2020-10-25T20:30:36.171+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: Are You the Internet's Next Top Monster?Ken Armstronghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-87683155161421934882008-11-04T00:11:00.000+00:002008-11-04T00:11:00.000+00:00Yo Yo Yolander: Keep the money, you get brownie-p...Yo Yo Yolander: Keep the money, you get brownie-points for thinking up a new name for me. 'Felmar' eh?

And Amy Winehouse, hmmm, I suspect she may take drugs but I could be wrong...email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-56110026667773653232008-11-03T23:58:00.000+00:002008-11-03T23:58:00.000+00:00Felmar, I've got a dollar bill with your name on i...Felmar, I've got a dollar bill with your name on it. I mean, I'm not giving it to you, but I did write your name on it. Now vote for my Amy Winehouse firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-20150450462471935962008-10-26T08:37:00.000+00:002008-10-26T08:37:00.000+00:00Ken (receives shoe-bill via snail-mail): Bloody he...Ken (receives shoe-bill via snail-mail): Bloody hell!

Alan: Come on... you *know* you can!! :)

Laura: As Hula Girl, warms my late-Autumnal morning. :) I *so* love your doodles - if they were on a calendar or something they would be on my firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-53346255499729067862008-10-26T04:48:00.000+00:002008-10-26T04:48:00.000+00:00I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I was 14....I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I was 14. I won best costume then for my hula girl. I had a real grass skirt. Not one of those garbage bag rip-offs.Laura Brownhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-41683748243667553702008-10-25T20:47:00.000+01:002008-10-25T20:47:00.000+01:00A judge who wears pumpernickel underwear, or purpa...A judge who wears pumpernickel underwear, or purpa knickers,,,or something like that ...

How can I out do that?Alanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-32933923683034318362008-10-25T17:37:00.000+01:002008-10-25T17:37:00.000+01:00I hope you don't mind, I had my latest shoe bill f...I hope you don't mind, I had my latest shoe bill forwarded to you!

It's not that big......Debbiehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-2497133193162283032008-10-25T10:00:00.000+01:002008-10-25T10:00:00.000+01:00Oh Reggie... :)Canucklehead - Linc - I am very p...Oh Reggie... :)

Canucklehead - Linc - I am very pleased to get a linc from link um linc from... really, though, ta very much :)Ken Armstronghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-20275871912380728102008-10-25T03:04:00.000+01:002008-10-25T03:04:00.000+01:00Everyone knows my price - BEER!Anyway Ken, it only...Everyone knows my price - BEER!

Anyway Ken, it only took me a year but I finally have you on the 'Canucklehead eh list' - that means I'll be by to bug you WAY more often. Sorry it took so long - cheers!Canuckleheadhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-52191905734588767382008-10-25T02:36:00.000+01:002008-10-25T02:36:00.000+01:00I'll be waiting....I'll be waiting....firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-20122814561463645572008-10-24T20:29:00.000+01:002008-10-24T20:29:00.000+01:00Hey Matt: Nothing at MTMD is dry, a river runs thr...Hey Matt: Nothing at MTMD is dry, a river runs through it. :)

Reggie: I will try to find a dress-up piccie for you - I know I have a few somewhere...

Susan: We take all major credit cards and there's a crude bartering system in place... 'rather partial to a banana actually. :)

Debbie: You have enough shoes!! Oh God, did I really say that? (Looks around in fear).

(Takes Creamy Pint from Mike)

On Raglan Row on an Autumn's Day
I_I saw her first and knew
that her dark hair might weave a snare that I might someday rue...

Jena: Kebitzer? Off to look it up. :)

Hi Hope: This week in Ireland, Our beloved Seniors turned militant against the budget cuts and it was a glorious sight to behold.Ken Armstronghttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-86458808696135798882008-10-24T20:02:00.000+01:002008-10-24T20:02:00.000+01:00Wow, someone in the world is still allowed to have...Wow, someone in the world is still allowed to have fun? :)

With all the political correctness floating about, I'm not allowed to have a "Halloween Party" for the kids in our After School program...no we have to have a "Fall Festival party". Sigh.

My "big kids", however, are senior citizens who can do what they darn well please. We have a Halloween Costume contest each year at lunch. Hmmm, maybe I'll send in a picture of one of them. :)hopehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-58892601448131766322008-10-24T15:45:00.000+01:002008-10-24T15:45:00.000+01:00That's a good cash prize, but I don't have a profe...That's a good cash prize, but I don't have a professional photographer. lol,..I'll just be a kibitzer...good email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-71379660467769244772008-10-24T13:49:00.000+01:002008-10-24T13:49:00.000+01:00It's about time your undisputed integrity was reco...It's about time your undisputed integrity was recognized.

Now, about that bribe.... call me. If you'll sing for a pint, I'm fairly certain I can afford one little email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-72242433939606067002008-10-24T13:22:00.000+01:002008-10-24T13:22:00.000+01:00as a fellow judge, send me shoes and I will see to...as a fellow judge, send me shoes and I will see to it that Ken votes for you!Debbiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-14465627136251976632008-10-24T00:38:00.000+01:002008-10-24T00:38:00.000+01:00Bribes, eh? Which do you prefer, chocolate or cash...Bribes, eh? Which do you prefer, chocolate or cash?

Or perhaps cash hidden in chocolate?

I s'pose it's time to drag out the bedsheets and become the Columbia Pictures gal again. Someone pass me a torch...Susan at Stony Riverhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-2787165837224572152008-10-23T20:18:00.000+01:002008-10-23T20:18:00.000+01:00Damn, when I saw the title on twitter I thought, "...Damn, when I saw the title on twitter I thought, "Sweet! I get to see Ken in some get-up" but no.. you go on to talk about Bad Evan's contest.

Don't get me wrong. I'm excited about Bad Evan's contest, but seriously I want pictures!

I'll show you mine if you show me yours! Now, now I know you're oirish but get your mind out of the gutter will email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-78157126874652218122008-10-23T20:17:00.000+01:002008-10-23T20:17:00.000+01:00That is too funny....my post, although a lot drier...That is too funny....my post, although a lot drier, comes out Friday am at the usual bat time and place: 7:00 AM on MTMD.

Cheers, my fellow judge!Matthew S. Urdanhttps://email@example.com


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I've finally decided that I should probably post my crochet and knitted projects here if they relate to my historical costuming. Makes sense, right?
So, my friend Bridget asked me to make up a crochet collar from a pattern in an 1863 issue of Godey's. Thankfully, it was a fairly simple pattern, but I've learned my lesson from past experience and decided to mock up a small section of the pattern.
Long story short, the pattern was WAY off. I have some theories as to why, which I'll get to, but first, a picture of the finished collar after I made the necessary changes.
I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and proud of myself that the finished collar fits the exact dimensions that Bridget requested–no always an easy thing for me to accomplish.
So, as to the pattern issues. Vintage crochet patterns present a certain set of problems. Of course, even modern patterns can be complicated if you are not careful. If you are familiar at all with crochet, you'll know that the terms we use here in the US are not the same as those used in Great Britain (and other European patterns that get translated). Those same differences existed in Victorian times, so you have to do your homework and make sure you know where the pattern came from.
Only problem was that the publishers used to "borrow" patterns from other publications without bothering to "translate" the terms or even tell you where the pattern originally came from. Therefore, my assumption that the pattern should use American terminology since it came from an American publication, could very well be an incorrect assumption.
Then today, since Bridget is the internet research queen, she came across another person who has used this pattern using the British terminology. She followed the pattern exactly and it turned out the perfect size. Amazing!
So, I guess I need to start doing mock ups in two different versions to see which I like better. Part of me likes how lacy mine turned out, but you definitely lose something with how many repeats and rows I had to remove in order to keep mine a manageable size. Since I don't really have anything to do right now except sit on the couch and wait to go into labor, I guess I'll give another version a try with the shorter stitches and see what we come up with.


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Two adorable children, a 2-year old little boy and his 1-year old sister, are looking for a French speaking nanny to take care of them on Mondays and Tuesdays, from 5pm to 9pm, and on Saturdays from 3pm to 11pm. The main aspect of the job will be to stimulate children in French through activities and talkings.
The family is looking for an happy and playful nanny who is dedicated to children.
A basic level of English is required for this position.
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