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Lisbon is a unique city, with its very own identity and culture.
"The city of seven hills", as it is known, is now more than a thousand years old. As a result of the ages, the many microcosms created now intersect and intertwine.
We selected for you some of the most interesting districts for shopping, but also those who deserve to be known for their history, tradition, architecture and gastronomy. Because Fado is sung in Alfama, and the good pubs made Bairro Alto famous, they're also listed. The historical stores are in Baixa (downtown) and Chiado, the best antique shops in São Bento, and the famous brands in Avenida da Liberdade. The avant-garde trends may be found in Príncepe Real and design is happening in Santos. From Belém we went out into the world and nowadays Martim Moniz has the all world in it. The best of Modernism is in Alvalade, and contemporary architecture can be visited at Expo.
In Alfama inhabits the soul of Lisbon. This is the oldest and most typical of the city's districts, famous for its narrow streets, picturesque facades, traditional shops, taverns, Fado houses and countless churches. Animated by the peculiar local population, Alfama explodes with life during the "popular saints", a traditional festival that draws thousands of people to the streets. This maze of medieval alleys leads us to the Castelo de São Jorge and a wonderful view.
In Graça, the belvedere baptized with the name of poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen is one of the best places to admire the city and to fall in love. Not far away, we find the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, the National Pantheon and the Campo de Santa Clara, where the flea market takes place and you can haggle trinkets and curiosities.
Baixa is Lisbon's welcome card and also a district of memories, preserved traditional trade and lively due to its cafes and street performers. In what is the oldest commercial area of the city, alongside the new names in fashion, we still find examples of the crafts that gave the name to the streets of orthogonal geometric layout: Correeiros (saddlery), Douradores (gilders), Fanqueiros (cloths) and Sapateiros (shoemakers). It is also here were you'll find one of the most beautiful squares in the world, the Praça do Comércio /Commerce Square (also known as Terreiro do Paço / Real Palace Square), lined with restaurants and terraces. The Triumphal Arch takes us up the noble and pedestrian Rua Augusta to the emblematic Praça D. Pedro IV or Rossio.
On Chiado, Lisbon walks proud and elegant, since the times when politicians, intellectuals and artists here met in endless gatherings. With its theatres and opera houses, historic cafes and century old bookstores, it is also the scene of the latest fashion trends and some of the best restaurants in town, becoming a meeting point and an mandatory stop for tourists and residents.
In Bairro Alto different generations encourage the traditional trade and alternative shops of urban fashion, galleries, hair salons and tattoo studios. This sixteenth century streets districts is the a chameleon spot in town: during the day is the address of flowers in balconies and drying clothes hanging, at night it becomes the bohemian centre of Lisbon with some of the most popular bars and restaurants in town (including traditional Fado houses).
Traditionally known for its centenary garden and antique shops, Príncipe Real is an old district, but elegant, sprinkled with colourful historic buildings.
Today it represents a new Lisbon, cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial, attracting avant-garde shops, national artists' studios, galleries, cafes and trendy restaurants. It is a district appreciated by locals and tourists alike, for its unique charm, with palaces converted into shopping arcades, a bio market and lively nightlife.
The street of São Bento is famous for several antique shops, where decorative items and treasures with historical and collection value can be found. There are also the celebrated "Noites de São Bento" (São Bento Nights), a marathon that keeps the stores open until midnight for three days in a row, along with street entertainment, music, exhibitions and even wine tasting. It is also here that you'll find the Casa Museu (House-Museum)Amália Rodrigues and the São Bento Palace, a grand, neoclassic building that houses the Parliament of Portugal since 1834.
The romantic garden Guerra Junqueiro, known by all as "Estrela" and the beautiful and monumental baroque and neoclassical Basilica are a trademark of Estrela. Campo de Ourique is the starting point (or arrival) of the famous 28 Tram line that runs up through the historic centre down to Martim Moniz. It is one of Lisbon's most charismatic districts, with a family environment, a sort of village within the city, with a life of its own and the "jardim da parada" (parade garden), a church, market, shops, cafes and traditional restaurants. As a natural extension of Campo de Ourique, we have Amoreiras whose main symbol is the Amoreiras Shopping Centre, a mall of reference opened in 1985.
Avenida da Liberdade was built in the style of the Champs Élysées, the "Public Garden" of high society in the nineteenth century Lisbon. Today is one of the most luxurious arteries of Europe where the elegance and sophistication of the big luxury brands shine in the shop windows and the five-star hotels and major companies' offices are located. It is one of Lisbon's main avenues, connecting the Restauradores Square to the Marquis of Pombal roundabout. In the shade of old trees lurk the facades of noble buildings, the patterns of cobblestone and kiosks with terraces.
The elegant Castilho Street is almost an extension of Avenida da Liberdade, bringing together a number of international luxury brands, especially of women's fashion. Grouped in the Castilho Fashion Street concept, the stores promote trade through various initiatives contributing to its transformation in one of the noblest and charming streets of the capital, where also hotels and services are concentrated.
As a result of the urban growth of the late nineteenth century, this district is made of flat streets, wide sidewalks and sober architecture, testimony to the progressive urbanism of the engineer Ressano Garcia, influenced by the technical and aesthetic concepts followed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann in Paris during its renovation in the 1850s and 1860s. It is in the Avenidas Novas (new avenues) that you'll find the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a cultural icon of Lisbon and an absolute must. Directly opposite is the Bairro Azul, an architectural complex of the 30s of the twentieth century, with buildings in the Art Deco style, bas-reliefs, pilasters, friezes and pediments elegantly decorated. With the Garden Amalia Rodrigues and the Eduardo VII Park next to it, this is a good area for sightseeing and shopping in the country's largest department store.
Alvalade is the area north of the city formerly occupied by farms, manors and extensive green fields. It is known as "the most modern district of Lisbon", thanks to the grand projects of Modernist architecture it bears witness. And if here abound buildings to admire and visit (such as the National Library, the Rectory of the University of Lisbon, the Torre do Tombo, the Museum of Lisbon - Palace Pimenta or the Bordallo Pinheiro Museum), its streets are animated by traditional trade and the true district life, including one of the best markets in the capital. This is also here where you'll find the largest green space in the center of Lisbon.
Built in 1940, this residential and traditional district of the Estado Novo regime is part of the architectural history and urbanism of Lisbon, with several works signed by renowned architects like Cassiano Branco, Joaquim Bento de Almeida, José de Lima Franco, Antonio Lino, Filipe Figueiredo and José Segurado. The axis Guerra Junqueiro, Praça de Londres and Avenida de Roma has become one of the most charming shopping areas of the city with the Café Mexicana as a meeting point for locals and visitors.
Alcântara derives from the Arabic "al-qantara", the "bridge" that once crossed the now invisible river Alcantâra. Today the 25th of April Bridge dictates the landscape of this old industrial district near the Tagus, where warehouses gave way to restaurants, bars and nightclubs. The old borough of Ajuda, with its rural origins in the sixteenth century, is famous for grand National Palace, built after the earthquake of 1755. Along the river, Belém is a mandatory destination to taste the Pastel de Belém, and also the borough that celebrates the Discoveries. It was from here the ships set off in search of new worlds. In this garden by the sea you'll find the ex-LIBRIS of Lisbon's monuments, the Jerónimos Monastery and the Belém Tower, both heritage of Manueline architecture. Here is the Monument of the Discoveries and the Belém Cultural Centre.
The requalification of Santos has attracted schools, artists and forefront commercials spaces, particularly a set of decoration and design shops that have joined the initiative Santos Design District. Neighbouring the famous National Museum of Ancient Art and the Puppetry Museum in the old quarter of Madragoa, this riverfront area is also known for its restaurants and the young and lively nightlife. Right next to the Cais do Sodré, an old port area, frequented in the past by sailors and prostitutes, it has been witnessing a major change, which includes the Mercado da Ribeira newly rehabilitated. It is currently one of the most sought after areas to go out at night (particularly Rua Nova do Carvalho, known as the "Rua Cor-deRosa / Pink Street"), thanks to the systematic opening of restaurants and trendy bars.
Mouraria (Moorish quarter) is the place where the Moors were relegated after conquest of Lisbon in 1147. This district of dark alleys and simple people, is one of the cradles of Fado, and where Fado singers like Severa, Argentina Santos and, more recently, Mariza lived. Today is the most multicultural spot in the city, a patchwork of ethnic groups living with a long rich history and the parochial spirit. The renewed Martim Moniz Square is where you can still go to the Mercado de Fusão (fusion market) to taste the flavours of the world (China, India, Bangladesh ...) and breath culture. Next door, the Intendente Square was named after D. Diogo Ignacio de Pina Manique, the famous police superintendent of Queen D. Maria I. For years the center of drugs, theft and prostitution, it underwent a renovation that gave it a new light. Special attention to the store of the old factory Viúva Lamego and its beautiful facade tiles.
The Zoo is the true symbol of Sete Rios, a pleasant space that takes an active role in the protection and conservation of nature. Currently one of the most cosmopolitan and populous boroughs of Lisbon, Benfica was once an area occupied by farms and smallholdings. This applies to the Quinta da Granja, converted into an urban park, the Beau Sejour Palace, a former summer residence, where today works the Olisiponenses Studies Department, with the largest collection of books about the city, or the Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira, the most beautiful example of Portuguese civil architecture of the XVII century, with stunning gardens and tile decorations. For the more consumerists, Centro Colombo is the reference; it is one of the largest shopping centres in the Iberian Peninsula.
On the shores of the river Tagus was born a contemporary Lisbon. Parque das Nações, once an industrial center, was built to host the Expo 98, the last Universal Exhibition of the twentieth century. Along a 5 km strip of waterfront, this district emphasizes the modernity of the city, with spaces for leisure, culture and sport designed by big names of world architecture, as Santiago Calatrava and Alvaro Siza Vieira.
Lisbon is a unique city, with its very own identity and culture.
Yes, Lisbon is an amazing city, but it does not exhaust the richness Portugal has to offer. Right next door, Estoril, Cascais and Sintra are regular tours, to discover beautiful beaches, restaurants that serve the freshest fish and seafood and a magic mountain inhabited by an enchanted palace. The capital is a good base to explore the country from north to south. A little over an hour away, is a medieval village and great monuments of Portugal's history, all classified by UNESCO. Porto is undoubtedly one of the best destinations in Europe, while the Douro Wine Region is an absolutely mandatory destination. To the south, the plains and the Alentejo wineries win international prominence. The Algarve no longer needs introduction. Ready to get started?


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Honor Make-A-Wish On World Wish Day
World Wish Day is celebrated every April to honor the anniversary of Make-A-Wish. The magic all started when Make-A-Wish granted the wish of a boy named Chris who wished to be a police officer. Today, Make-A-Wish grants the wish of a child every 38 minutes and has granted the wishes of more than 250,000 children globally since 1980! This year on World Wish Day, you can help to make even more wishes come true.
Choose Vehicle Donation In Honor Of World Wish Day
An easy way to benefit Make-A-Wish on World Wish Day is through vehicle donations to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish. When you donate an unwanted car, truck, boat, motorcycle, camper, or other vehicle, you are helping to fund a local child's wish but are also contributing to the green movement. Your vehicle donation will be auctioned off for a new owner to use or it will be recycled and reused to build new vehicles. Earned proceeds from donated vehicles benefit your local Make-A-Wish chapter.
When you donate a vehicle to benefit Make-A-Wish, you receive:
Free pick up or towing of your vehicle, nearly anywhere in the United States
The maximum possible tax deduction
An easy and hassle-free donation process
To donate a vehicle, please call 1-877-431-9474 or fill out an online car donation form.
You Can Contribute To Wish Granting
If you don't have a vehicle to donate to charity, you can still help out on World Wish Day. Since nearly 75 percent of children's wishes require air travel, a donation of airline miles is extremely important to Make-A-Wish and the children who are wishing to travel to their dream destinations.
Each year, around 50,000 airline tickets, or 2.5 billion airline miles (equal to $37.5 million) are needed to send Make-A-Wish Wish Kids and their families to dream locations. When you donate your airline miles to Make-A-Wish, you can help make a difference in the life of a child in your community.
If you don't have airline miles to donate, you can also make a general donation to Make-A-Wish. When you make a general donation, you can choose which Make-A-Wish chapter you would like to donate to. This gives you the opportunity to make a donation that will stay in your community, or even your home town!
You may also be interested in starting your own fundraiser for World Wish Day, which will benefit Make-A-Wish. Just make your own Make-A-Wish fundraising account and get started today!
Fill A Child's Life With Hope, Strength, And Joy
Wishes generally fall into five categories:
I Wish To Be
I Wish To Give
I Wish To Go
I Wish To Have
I Wish To Meet
Wishes can fill the human spirit with hope, strength, and joy. During a 2011 Wish Impact Study, a combined 89 percent of doctors, nurses, and health professionals surveyed say they believe a wish experience can influence Wish Kids' physical health.
Imagine being a child or teenager and spending your free time at doctor's appointments, having blood work done, and undergoing scans or chemotherapy treatments. Instead of having sleepovers with friends or shopping for prom, many Wish Kids are unable to partake in some of the events that other children and teens are able to enjoy. Your contribution to Make-A-Wish can help to see that each and every kid has a chance to do what they do best – which is be a kid.


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Osteopathy for sports injuries
Sporting activities and exercise have become a regular part of life for many of us.
Whether you're young or more mature, a casual participant, an elite professional, or you just enjoy keeping fit, injury can occur.
Sports injuries can be the result of several factors:
Repetitive/ overuse injuries – Can lead to a variety of sports injuries including Golfers/tennis elbow, biceps tendinitis, Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis. These often occur due to poor technique or compensations for other dysfunctions within the body.
Poor preparation – Not warming up or cooling down can increase your susceptibility to injuries such as sprains, strains and spasms.
New activity – Failure to build up the necessary strength and skill required before starting a new activity can result in injury.
Incorrect use of gym equipment – This can result in recruiting the incorrect muscle groups, causing injury, pain and stiffness.
Ill-fitting footwear – This can unduly stress the knees, hips and lower back. Hip bursitis, Achilles tendonitis, knee pain and swelling may be the result.
Loss of flexibility – This creeps up on us all slowly, often without us noticing until we push our bodies to perform at a higher level. Other parts of our bodies compensate and we can end up with injuries in different parts of the body.
Growing young bodies:
This group of people are especially vulnerable because they are developing strong muscles on an immature skeletal system which can result in excessive strain on the muscles and joints.
Young people tend to recover from injury quickly and feel they may feel they are indestructible but care should be taken to develop good exercise habits.
We can all remember an old fall off a bike, rugby or football injury that seemed to get better at the time but has returned to haunt us as we get older.
Looking after young sports people is an investment in their future health and ability to continue to enjoy sports long into the future.
How can Osteopathy help me?
- We look for the root cause of your injury and identify the predisposing factors which may have led to the injury occurring in the first place.
- Treatment can reduce pain and swelling, improve range of motion and assist recovery of an injury
- Bespoke rehabilitative exercises and advice about preventing further problems and improving your performance.
Remember prevention is better than cure
A check-up at a sports injury clinic can be particularly helpful during pre-event training, to identify problems and prevent injury. Early intervention is the key to good tissue health and repair, should an injury occur.
How to avoid injury:
- It is important to make sure that you warm up & cool down properly after the activity you are doing. Ensure that you stretch after.
- Make sure you stay hydrated.
- Exercise regularly and vary the type of activity you are doing.
- If you do have an injury to a joint or strain a muscle following basic first aid can help minimise the immediate effects of the injury:
- Rest – try not to move the injured area too much, protect the injured and the injured area.
- Ice – apply an ice pack (or even frozen peas) to help reduce the pain an inflammation to the injured area. Ensure that you wrap the ice pack in a towel to prevent cold burns
- Compress – Applying compression to the swollen area will help to reduce the swelling e.g. using a stretchy bandage.
- Elevate – pain permitting, by elevating the injured area above the heart reduces the blood flow and thus reduces swelling.
Read this article by Dr Ann Redgrave (wife of 5-times Olympic Gold medalist Sir Steve Redgrave),
Find out why she turned her back on Orthopedic Surgery and trained as an Osteopath:
Robert Chernick is a specialist in treating Sports Injuries with a background in Biomechanics, Exercise prescription and Sports Science which he studied at The University of Leeds.


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The captain was directed to stop the vessel, however, he refused. Keeping the spotlight on the vessel, the police continue in pursuit and the vessel eventually stopped. They then observed one of the two occupants of the vessels, standing with what appeared to be firearm in his hand pointing in their direction. Fearing for their lives, the police fired at the person with the firearm. This individual then jumped overboard, swam towards the mangroves and made good his escape.
Upon reaching the vessel, police found inside, one Eric Swan, with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the upper right leg, and a graze to the buttock. Also found in the vessel were, six (6) live 7.62 rounds of ammunition, camouflage pants and sea worthiness certificate in the name of Eric Swan. Swan was taken to the San Pedro Poly Clinic and later transported to the KHMH where he remains in stable condition under guard.
At about 8:00am on Saturday, 31 January, Brionne Swift, 29 years, of Boca Del Rio Area, San Pedro Town reported to police that he believe that his friend John Paul Saldivar was shot, on Friday, 30 January around 4:00pm and might still be alive. As a result police visited an area about 16 miles North of Ambergris Caye, where they found a Hispanic decent male person laying face up on the seashore, with appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds and to the head and legs. The body was also observed with bruises. The body which was pronounced dead on arrival at the San Pedro Poly Clinic, was identified as John Paul Saldivar, originally of Corozal Town.
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Schick's Smooth Lee Promo Offers an Adventure of a Lifetime
How smooth are you? Schick's newest craze, #SMOOTHLEEADVENTURE wants to know and you may just win a trip to Hongkong and Macau for four days 3 nights with a free tour at Ocean Adventure and HongKong Disneyland and a $500 USD pocket money! Or you might also win an Apple I-Pad Air or a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 by creating your own Schick TV Commercial using the Smooth Lee Adventure mobile app.
Joining is very easy as you will be asked to download the "Smooth Lee Adventure"2 mobile application in IOS Apple and Android. After downloading the app, you can now star in your own Schick TV commercial.
"We wanted the consumers to experience Schick Exacta 2's refreshing, liberating, and stress-free shaving as Exacta 2 offers one-push cleaning button that helps remove hair easily. Exacta 2 likewise aims to precisely target hair in hard to reach areas leaving a smooth shave. We want to connect Schick with the consumers and in today's growing number of smart phones in the market, we chose to do an app and a digital promo to make it more exciting and fun for the consumers," Claire Guevarra, Schick Senior Brand Manager said.
The videos created will then be converted to Youtube and the contestants will be prompted to "share" and/or "join" the promo. You will have to register and submit your entries at the Schick website (www.schick.com.ph). Once entries are registered and approved by Schick Philippines, the videos will already be made public on youtube. Qualified entries will be posted on Schick's official Facebook page and will be raffled off to determine the winners.
How does a trip to Hongkong or Macau sound? These awesome adventure for two awaits the grand prize winner while the second prize winner takes home an Apple iPad Air! For the third prize winner, you will get to own a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. There will also be 50 consolation prizes of Schick gift packs.
The promo runs from August 1 to September 30, 2014.
"Through this promo, we will pursue our goal of not only encouraging the public's creativity with the use of the App that we developed for them, but more importantly the importance of good grooming and self confidence that we packaged in a fun and interactive way via the Smooth Lee app" said MJ Tiquia, Schick's product manager.
For more information on the latest promo from Schick Philipines, visit www.schick.com.ph , like www.facebook.com/schick.ph. Schick Philippines can also be followed through Twitter, Instagram, and youtube. Per DTI permit number, DTI-FTEN SPD Permit No. 0043 Series of 2014.


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Every day we make fundamental compromises related to our privacy in exchange for the always on, available anywhere access and convenience of the online world.
We merrily click "accept" to just about any set of terms and conditions in order to get something we want online — and next to none of us bother to read the small print.
I was prompted to think about this again as we at AIIM work to help organizations prepare for the looming May 25, 2018 European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, which seeks to recalibrate some of the balance between privacy rights and data usage for EU citizens.
Wrong or Just Plain Creepy?
I've shared the following anecdote with a number of people over the past few months and almost universally, the responses have been one of the following: 1) "You can't be right about that" and 2) "That's creepy."
A couple of months ago, my wife, daughter and I went to a "California-style" taco place in New York City named Playa Betty's. (The food was good and the beer was cold, by the way — I recommend it.)
We arrived at the restaurant a bit haphazardly after one of those long and meandering family, "Where do you want to eat?" "I'll eat anywhere" "Where do you want to eat?" conversations as we strolled through the Upper West Side.
After much back and forth about alternatives (can you feel the tension?) and rising hunger (mine), we wound up at Playa Betty's. The restaurant is located at 320 Amsterdam Avenue, at the corner of 75th street. The Amsterdam part of the address is important for the story that follows.
All I Wanted Was a Taco
Fast forward a couple of months and we're in town to see our daughter again. While we wait for our daughter to get out of work, my wife and I decide to get something to eat.
My wife said, "Do you remember that restaurant we went to the last time we were here? Let's go there again."
I said, "Do you remember the name?"
She said, "No."
I said, "Neither do I." (This kind of exchange is becoming far too frequent for us, whether the topic is restaurants or people I work with or movie stars or music groups.)
But I had some memory of the location: "I do remember it was on Broadway, I'm sure of it, so let's just walk till we find it."
After walking many blocks, we were still no closer to eating, and certainly no closer to remembering the name of the blasted place. (And as a male, there was no way I was going to actually ask anyone for directions.)
And then, an epiphany. I remembered when we were at that restaurant: Jan. 21. I remembered because it was right after Inauguration Day and we were eager to get out of Washington, DC. (Note: little did we realize that would be the day of the most massive women's protest marches in both DC and NYC in years, but that's another story.)
Can't Remember? Google Does
So I went into Google's location history, entered the date and voila: Here's what I did and where we were that day — this is actually an abridged version of the massive amount of information available with one click.
At 8:20 a.m., we took the DC Metro to Union Station.
I took some pictures of the massive Women's March crowds at Union Station, and then boarded the train to New York.
We had lunch at a place called the Melt Shop at 1:50 p.m.
After, we took the tour at NBC Studios.
And ultimately wound up at Playa Betty's ...
... which turned out to be on Amsterdam, not Broadway.
Mystery solved.
Very cool.
But also a little creepy.
An Exchange of Sorts
In "Data and Goliath," author Bruce Scheiner does a far better job of describing the privacy versus convenience trade-off than I ever could:
"Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick or pregnant. Your emails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it.
"The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we're offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches.
"Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection."
GDPR Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg
We are entering into a new period in which the rules of privacy and engagement have yet to be determined. In this environment, governments will rush in to set new rules — the GDPR is just the tip of the iceberg of what is to come.
Often, the resultant rules and regulations have very little to do with actually protecting privacy. It's almost impossible for legislators to stay ahead of rapidly changing technology, especially when the governments doing the protecting are often complicit in the compromising.
But one thing is clear: Organizations must make a new commitment to protecting private information and automating how they do this — and do it now. The clock is running on the GDPR, but the GDPR is just the front edge of a longer-term conversation about privacy that is just emerging. It's time for organizations to get serious about this conversation.


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With the arrival of Spring comes my habitual urge to do some decluttering. And, since I know from experience that this urge is as fleeting as that April snow, I am going to take full advantage of it.
A couple weeks ago I issued a challenge to my husband, after another frustrating trip to the basement to look for something that I couldn't find in the mess. Out of sight, out of mind. The basement is a too convenient spot to dump stuff "temporarily". But then it never leaves. The challenge was for us to each find one thing per day to get rid of, whether to sell or donate. It's a small baby step that over time, let's say a year, would add up to 730 items removed from the premises! Between the closets, cupboards, basement and garage that could make a noticeable difference. I did have to throw in the caveat that throwing away a rusty nail would not count. A jar full of nails, yes.
I am happy to say I have been keeping up with the challenge. My husband has some catching up to do. This week alone I have sold eight things on eBay and Etsy, which has also pocketed me $136.50. Ka-ching! Great incentive. (Of course, the printer died this week so that money is already earmarked.) I also took a car load of items to drop off at Goodwill. The closets are already looking a little leaner.
Another area I need to work on is all my projects in waiting. We rent a storage unit for those, mostly larger furniture items. To justify the rental cost I need to get some money coming in on those. With the return of warmer weather I'll be able to work in the garage again on those.
And last but not least we'll be making a road trip to Texas this summer. That's primarily to spent some quality time with family, but a bonus will be delivering several boxes of books and other things that our son has been storing here. I know we're not the only empty nesters that have this problem. The kids don't want us to get rid of their sentimental things, but on the other hand they don't really want them at their houses either. Sigh.
I have a few more things to list in my Etsy shop today so if you want to take a look, head over to Red Telly Vintage. I plan to do another post soon featuring some items I have in the shop. Check back soon. Here's a sneak preview.


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text: Author: Bill Malone // Date: AUG.22.2013 // Source: Clinical Laboratory Strategies A big problem in preventing the spread of HIV has been that newly infected people enter the most infectious phase of the disease before HIV antibodies appear in their blood. As companies come out with new, 4th-generation tests that can spot the virus earlier, CDC has funded studies across the country to determine both the effectiveness of the new assays, as well as the best way to confirm HIV diagnoses with supplemental tests. This issue of Strategies explores a recent CDC report on these studies. A new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded studies shows that 4th-generation HIV tests pick up a significant number of acute HIV infections when implemented in diverse areas of the country, the first large-scale study across populations that examines both the new assay and CDC's new HIV diagnostic algorithm (MMWR 2013;62:489-94). The proposed new algorithm begins with a 4th-generation immunoassay that detects p24 antigen, an HIV-related protein that shows up in acute infections prior to seroconversion. Supplemental tests in the algorithm include an HIV-1/HIV-2 differentiation assay and an HIV RNA assay as a final arbiter when necessary, while Western blot and indirect immunofluorescence assays (IFA) are retired. The MMWR article reported on two major studies of HIV testing, one in a Phoenix emergency department (ED), and another multi-site study that's still ongoing with sites in New York City, North Carolina, and San Francisco. The researchers found that acute HIV infections detected by 4th-generation tests were often misclassified as negative by Western blot or IFA. The new algorithm averted missed diagnoses in 32% of HIV-positive patients in the Phoenix ED study and 9% of HIV-positive patients in the three-state study referred to as the STOP study, Screening Targeted Populations to Interrupt On-going Chains of HIV Transmission with Enhanced Partner Notification. The MMWR authors noted that they were particularly surprised by the high number of acute HIV infections in the Phoenix ED study, which took place in the Maricopa Integrated Health System. The study evaluated the new algorithm through an HIV screening program that attempted to screen all adult ED patients age 18–64 for HIV who had blood work for other reasons as a part of their medical care. The overall goal of the program was to screen as many patients for HIV as possible. There were 37 undiagnosed HIV infections identified during the study, of which 12 were acute. "While the percentage of acute HIV infections was unexpectedly high, our analysis did not specifically examine the reasons why. It is possible that HIV tests might have been ordered on some patients because of clinical suspicion, potentially increasing the number of identified infections," said Philip Peters, MD, an author of the study with the CDC. "It is also important to note that the high percentage of acute infections evaluated through this testing program are consistent with observations that many people with acute infection develop symptoms prompting them to seek medical care. These findings also suggest that these people with nonspecific symptoms that seek care in EDs and other urgent-care settings may go undiagnosed without the use of newer testing technologies such as fourth-generation HIV tests." Peters is a medical officer and the activity leader for HIV testing in the CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention's Epidemiology Branch in Atlanta. The studies also solidify RNA testing as the most sensitive compared to immunoassays. For example, in the Phoenix ED study, acute HIV infections were established by a negative supplemental test but a detectable HIV-1 RNA. The median HIV-1 viral load among acute infections was 3,636,176 copies/mL, while for patients with established infections, the median was 27,125 copies/mL. Previous research has established that 4th-generation assays can do better at detecting acute infections compared to older, antibody-only tests. However, the scale of this study dramatically outlines the human costs of less sensitive tests. "The results of these studies reported in the MMWR really show that in a program designed to identify people with acute HIV, you can actually find a substantial number of infections," said Nicholas Moss, MD, an investigator in the San Francisco branch of the STOP study. "The studies demonstrate that there is a role for acute HIV screening in community-based testing programs serving certain populations, something that has not been shown on such a large scale before." Moss is director of the HIV/STD section in the Division of Communicable Disease Control & Prevention in the Alameda County Public Health Department in California. The MMWR report is also a coup for the new CDC testing algorithm, which has been praised in theory but rarely tried in practice. "I think these studies convincingly show that the HIV testing algorithm can be applied in a real-world setting and used to detect both acute and non-acute HIV infections," Moss said. "Up to this point, although a few labs and public health departments have tried using versions of the algorithm, no one has presented a large-scale application of it. In addition, the STOP study took place in STD clinics and community-based testing organizations, and the data from Arizona is hospital-based, reflecting the utility of the algorithm in different testing settings." At the same time, CDC is not rushing to recommend the new algorithm be widely implemented, and remains committed to thoroughly vetting the design as study results continue to come in, according to Peters. "While this particular testing process holds promise for increasing accurate diagnosis and identifying acute infections, CDC is continuing to evaluate that process for effectiveness and has not yet released official recommendations," he said. One study that is ongoing is STOP, and Moss and Peters agreed there is much more to learn from the research. "Regarding diagnosing acute HIV infection, the study is comparing the performance of the fourth-generation immunoassay with pooled nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT). Preliminary data was presented at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, and activities to evaluate the benefit of enhanced partner notification are still ongoing," Peters said. "The ultimate goal of this project is to demonstrate a cost-effective model for acute HIV infection screening that can be adopted as a national public health program to reduce HIV transmission." The STOP study will also offer more data on the performance of the Multispot HIV-1/HIV-2 differentiation test, used in the new CDC algorithm as a supplemental test after a positive 4th-generation immunoassay result, Moss said. In addition, pooled RNA testing won't be an option for many public health laboratories, so gathering more data on the comparison between 4th-generation immunoassays and RNA is vital. "In comparison to the fourth-generation immunoassays, pooled RNA is a little bit more sensitive," he said. "The fourth-generation tests for early HIV infection may not turn positive until the viral load is around 30,000–50,000 copies per milliliter, so we're interested to see if there are other ways to increase the sensitivity of a fourth-generation based algorithm."


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In notes included with this CD, Deva Premal states that while making this album, she and her partner Miten visited the place in India where Krishna was born and kirtan originated. Upon their return, they decided to add jazz textures to the songs under the direction of Danish producer Raj Rishi. Alluding to the title, Premal has observed: "Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred."
The path of Krishna devotion resounds with the playfulness of the Leela, and this spirit seems to be present in the eight mantras presented here. For all who are patient and meditative, there is a ten-minute bonus number.


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Writing is often such a sedentary occupation. And it's not just writing, but any job that requires you to sit staring at your screen for X number of hours a day, staring at a bright screen and tapping little square keys with letters and numerals on them. People, our bodies were not made for this. But they will make us pay in the end unless we get our soft little backsides off the chair, stop munching cookies like zombies on a brain binge and move around a little. If you need some more motivation, here are ten good reasons to start a good exercise habit.
- The greater risk of developing chronic, and often life-threatening, illnesses. Now none of us want to kick the bucket before we finish our great novel, but studies have shown that a sedentary lifestyle puts people at far greater risk of developing serious health issues. For example, those who sit or lie for extended periods of time are 112% more likely to develop diabetes type 2 and 147% more likely to develop heart disease (with a 90% increase in death caused by a cardiovascular event).
- Sitting for long periods at a stretch is thought to cause a slow down in metabolism, which means that you burn calories slower (not good news if you are also a serious cookie abuser), your blood sugar gets messed up, as does your blood pressure. These things can cause all sorts of problems, like the ones in point one above, and to make matters worse, they creep up on us slowly like some ninja until they finally get noticed through some kind of horridness.
- Activity gets the blood coursing, the heart pumping, and produces lots of important chemicals such as endorphins. The upshot of this is that you feel energised, purposeful and upbeat. If you don't let activity into your life then, of course, you get the opposite: apathy, tiredness, a lack of purpose in life and also sometimes depression.
- Being sedentary means that, with the exception of your typing fingers and cookie-eating arm, you don't move much. This sends a message to your muscles that they are not needed, and so you can begin to lose muscle tone. As muscles are important in the burning of calories, this could also contribute, albeit in a minor way, to putting on weight.
- Standing and moving around helps the bones to maintain their density. Decreased bone mass leads to the risk of developing osteoporosis which in turn could mean bones that easily break. Although diet, lifestyle and genetics have been shown to have a hand as well, it is known that doing weight-bearing exercises both build and maintain strong bones.
- According to the National Cancer Institute, inactivity can increase the risk of colon and breast cancer. Sitting own all day means that the passage of food through our digestive system is much slower than if we were up and about. This increased time in the gut leads to the colon being exposed to possible carcinogens for longer. As for breast cancer, essential hormone levels become lowered through not enough physical movement, leading to the greater chance of tumours developing.
- Because a sedentary lifestyle often goes hand in hand with a bad diet (those cookies again!), there is also a greater risk of developing gallstones. These are little lumps of hardened bile which form in the gallbladder and then cause all sorts of havoc like pain, fever and nausea.
- High blood pressure (hypertension). I touched on this earlier, but it is so important I thought I'd give it a point of its own. Sitting around has been linked to the development of high blood pressure. High blood pressure puts a strain on the heart and the blood vessels, leading to either coronary events such as heart attacks, or strokes.
- Another serious risk of inactivity is high cholesterol levels. There are two types of cholesterol: HDL, often known as 'good' cholesterol, and LDL, often known as 'bad' cholesterol. High amounts of LDL increases the risk of heart disease and strokes, especially when a bad diet and other lifestyle factors are taken into account. However, the good news is that even moderate exercise will lower the LDL and increase HDL.
- Depression and anxiety have been linked to inactivity. As mentioned above, exercise releases feel-good chemicals in the brain, but that isn't the only reason that being active can keep us happier. Writers are often solitary souls, working away and not seeing or talking to another person (I'm not sure Facebook counts) for hours, and sometimes days. Such self-imposed isolation can often lead to feelings of loneliness and despair. Also, writing can often be a frustrating and difficult calling, and writers often feel that they have spent a day without much to show for it. This lack of a visible result can lead to feelings of hopelessness and being a failure. Getting out and about not only allows us to engage socially, but it gives us a break to refresh our ideas. There is also now solid evidence that going for a walk in nature gives our moods a boost.
So, enough now of the frights! Take time to think of where you are on the inactivity/activity scale, and where you want to be. For heavens sake, don't just jump into running a marathon or doing heavy bench lifts! If you are obese, have existing health conditions, are very unfit, or over 50, it is best to seek medical advice before doing any form of exercise. After all, you don't want to make yourself worse. In the next post, I will go through some great, enjoyable ways to get more active without going to the expense of joining a gym. Remember, you can be a writer and a healthy person at the same time!


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Orange customers in the UK can get their hands on Sony Ericsson's much-anticipated Walkman W910i phone first, thanks to a talent show tie-up between the companies.
Sony Ericsson is providing a trio of Walkman mobile models to Orange first as part of its partnership deal. The W660i, W580i and W910i will all debut first on Orange - the 3G HSDPA-enabled W910i sliderphone being the highlight of the line-up. The phones will feature links to the Orange Music Store, offering over the air full track downloads
Sony Ericsson and Orange have teamed up to launch a search-for-band talent show for Channel 4 - mobileAct Unsigned - to be shown on T4 and 4music. The sponsorship deal, first reported by Tech.co.uk earlier this month, will give users a chance to vote for the best unsigned bands with interactive mobile internet and websites offering track downloads, info and voting options.
In time-honoured reality TV fashion there's a record contract with a major label awaiting the winners.


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What do you really need out of a car?
Don't get that confused with what you want out of your car because nowadays, many car manufacturers are cramming their latest models with so many high tech features that, in all honesty, are unnecessary. Plain and simple: the answer is mobility, you know, that thing about getting from Point A to Point B or doing the daily runabout between home, school, work or otherwise.
Enter the Mitsubishi Mirage.
This is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated models from Mitsubishi; so much so that during the Philippine launch late last year, the guest of honor was the President of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation. Mr. Osamu Masuko. The Mirage is a highly important model for the brand, as it is clearly targeted at emerging markets worldwide, and would play a significant role in moving the masses.
So, what's the Mirage like then?
On the outset, the design of the Mirage is quite minimalistic. That's not saying it doesn't look good, because there are two perfectly good reasons why the Mirage looks plain by today's standards. It's quite clever, actually.
Mitsubishi seems to have avoided fancy shapes, lines and creases, as opposed to paying a premium on designs. They've avoided more expensive details like chrome, modern grab-type door handles, or even alloy wheels on this GLX model. What you get is a simple, honest-to-goodness small 5-door hatchback that doesn't have a love-or-hate it look... it's in the middle, right where it should be.
Inside, you're greeted by a modern cabin, with a very conventional layout. They made use of gray and black for the interior, and that's fine. There are a few storage compartments around the cabin, but nothing really beyond the usual. Unusually, I quite like the seats; upright as they are, the seats offer a good balance of softness and firmness, meaning it'll be comfortable to drive everyday. And true to their claim, three average-sized rear occupants won't have trouble with leg or headroom. Elbow room is another matter though.
This being the GLX CVT model, there are quite a few things that had been omitted to keep the price as low as it is. The wing mirrors are adjusted the manual way... with your hand. The front occupants have power windows but the rear passengers will have to wind theirs down. There is no central control that allows the driver to lower or raise the passenger window either. There are no central locks or alarm, so either you pay an accessory shop to have them installed or you'll have to lock the doors manually each time you alight from the vehicle. If I were you, have them installed. A nifty touch, especially for lady owners, is the driver side sunshade mirror. I won't recommend it, but I do know of a few experts in applying make-up while in traffic.
Also, don't expect decent audio from the cheap sound system in the Mirage, as the speakers sound quite tinny and the head unit's functionality and leaves plenty to be desired. It won't recognize most of my USB audio flash drives or my iPod, nor does the Aux port just didn't seem to work properly. It would take me a while to figure out how to work the Bluetooth handsfree/audio play functions, but in the meantime I was stuck with an autographed copy of David Pomeranz's latest CD I had in my bag. Don't ask why.
Powering the Mirage is a new 1.2 liter, twin-cam 3-cylinder engine. It's got MIVEC, and produces a respectable 78 horsepower at 6000 rpm, as well as 100 Newton meters of torque at 4000 rpm, and is matched with either a 5-speed manual or, in this case, a continuously variable transmission.
Driving it in town, it certainly has some pep, as the MIVEC motor's power and torque matches well with the lightweight. You won't be winning stoplight to stoplight dashes, if that's what you were thinking, but it's easy to drive and nimble in traffic. Owing to its size, however, you'll have to be very mindful about whether the bigger vehicles can see you.
The transmission is smooth, and does deliver on the promise of fuel economy both in and out of the city. In town, it's quite easy to get 13.5 kilometers per liter (light traffic, no passengers) out of the Mirage CVT, though in rush hour traffic, expect it to deliver about 10 km/l. On the highway, the Mirage is stable, and will easily deliver about 18 kilometers to the liter. It's just a little bit shy of the claimed 21 km/l, but considering that I had two passengers, it's quite good.
What I truly liked was it's ride comfort on our rougher-than-usual city streets; a very rare characteristic in small, short wheelbase cars. The suspension is tuned to soak up many of the road's imperfections. Cornering is decent, but it's definitely compromised since the Mirage was set up to deliver a soft ride. What you can expect is that the Mirage will certainly do well to convince customers in developing countries (ours included) where low quality roads are the norm.
So where do I stand on the Mirage? Mitsubishi definitely took a very clever approach to their new small city car. There are some things that I would change or add to the GLX version such as a central locking system, an alarm and a much better audio system and speakers. Either that or go for the top of the line GLS CVT model. I'm also not partial to silver, so perhaps I would go for the more fun colors like red, blue, green or yellow.
Nevertheless, for a pricetag of just PhP 548,000 the Mitsubishi Mirage GLX CVT makes a convincing argument for a great urban daily driver; an honest city car. Something tells me that the extra 90,000 for the full spec GLS CVT might be the way to go.


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The subject of this article or section was part of the opening of the Dark Portal, a world event that heralded the beginning of the Burning Crusade. This is no longer available as the world event has run its course.
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The Tabard of the Protector is a tabard earned for completing the quest [60] Into the Breach at the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands. It looks just like the Tabard of the Argent Dawn, but has some kind of AoE effect that is supposed to make your character look "heroic".
The Tabard of the Protector was a quest reward during the world event before the launch of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. After the launch of the expansion, the quest was removed and the tabard is no longer obtainable.
Activating the tabard, to "show how heroic you are" causes a cosmetic effect similar to Holy Nova around your character, and causes you to flex your muscles.


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The National Health Service (EOPYY) is a public entity, established to provide health services from a single national entity and is the product of the consolidation from combination of the majority of Health Insurance Funds:
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Hi Andrew,
Im not familiar with the 0-10V dimmer packs but assume they work the same as the analogue dimmer packs that were commonplace before DMX was introduced.
0v = OFF, 10V = 100% Brightness.
If thats the case then you would need 3 analogue outputs to drive the indiviual colours and could mix any colour you desire.
If the LED Dimmer pack only has a single 0-10V input then its possible that it creates colours based on the input voltage so to get individual colours you would need to know what voltages to send it, but if that was the case it would be in the documentation.


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The nominations for the annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were just announced. Along with The Golden Globe Awards they are considered to be a OSCAR predictor. Demian Birchir who starred in New Moon director Chris Weitz's first post Twilight outing, A A Better Life. was nominated as Outstanding Actor. This is quite a feat for a low budget, indie film starring a relatively unknown actor of Mexican descent. Suffice it to say, it was on almost no critic's predication list.
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Demián Bichir, a 48-year-old Mexican actor little-known to American moviegoers, scored a surprise best actor nomination at the SAG Awards on Wednesday morning.
Bichir, who plays an illegal immigrant pursuing the American dream in "A Better Life," beat out a couple of projected favorites in the category, including "Shame's" Michael Fassbender and Gary Oldman from "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Directed by Chris Weitz, "A Better Life" has only grossed $1.8 million at the U.S. box office.
The foreign star was only one of a handful of actors to receive a nomination who had not graced the lists of awards prognosticators. In the lead actress category, nearly all of the nominees were considered shoo-ins, namely Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady" and Michelle Williams from "My Week with Marilyn," though it was slightly unexpected that Glenn Close earned a nod for her cross-dressing turn in "Albert Nobbs."
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Patients affected by shoulder pain can find lasting relief from the pain with the help of chiropractic care. Sorell-Iversen Chiropractic Clinic offers effective treatments for shoulder pain using non-invasive techniques and state of the art technology. Our goal is to help our patients to find relief from chronic pain conditions by using time tested chiropractic therapies. Each patient's needs are unique and we offer personalized services and treatments that are customized to your individual situation.
Chronic aches and pains can severely affect day to day life. From moderate to acute shoulder pain, we can provide you with an in depth consultation to ascertain the cause of your discomfort. The chiropractor will work with you to develop the best treatment for your pain. After your consultation, you can start the healing process by beginning your comprehensive treatment plan that has been specifically tailored to your needs.
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Takashi Naito1 Naoto Takano2 Eiichirou Inamura2 Abdelmoumène Hadji3
The control room is where operators perform plant operations using control systems every day, and a safe, comfortable, and functional environment helps operators to run the plant more efficiently. The control room must therefore be designed accordingly. Yokogawa has been designing control rooms for various industries for over 30 years. Taking an example of the layout for operator consoles in a consolidated control room, this paper looks at Yokogawa's Control Room Design service.
When considering improving the efficiency of plant operation, major focus is put on process units, control systems and production or operation management. However, it is also important to prepare a comfortable and safe environment for operators, who are trying to operate the plant more efficiently every day using control systems.
Yokogawa has designed more than 500 control rooms for various industries for over 30 years. Yokogawa also participated in the ISO technical committee in drawing up the ISO 11064 "Ergonomic design of control centers1" (ISO: International Organization for Standardization), one of the international standards for designing control rooms. This paper provides an outline of the Control Room Design service which Yokogawa offers based on its experience, which is one of the VigilantPlant Services launched to help improve operations throughout the plant lifecycle, as a partner of customers.
|Figure 1 Human-centered
design approach
Different from general offices, it is important to design control rooms on the basis of the human-centered design approach as shown in Figure 1 by balancing comfort and functionality including the following aspects.
Yokogawa set the process from design to installation and construction of a control room as follows referring to ISO 1106 4.
Conceptual design is particularly important. This is where the design policy and the customer's requests are confirmed and issues in the subsequent processes (basic design, detailed design, installation and construction) will be identified prior to the basic design and detailed design. It is also important for improving the efficiency of the entire designing works.
Yokogawa's Control Room Design service is designed for the conceptual design phase of the entire control room design process. The service may include the basic design phase or the detailed design phase upon the customer's request.
This service is provided following a standardized procedure based on the DMAIC process of Six Sigma (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control). Table 1 shows the procedure of the service.
Table 1 Procedure of Control Room Design service
|Task items
|Set the goal considering comfort, safety, functionality and innovation.
|- Gathering information using questionnaires on plants, buildings, systems, operation and standards.
- Conducting a field survey of the existing control rooms, including the interior layouts, travel routes, operator console layouts, Human Machine Interface (HMI), panels, furniture, etc.
|Analyzing the customer's needs based on acquired information.
|Revision of the conceptual design including the room layout and its basis.
|- Submitting a final report and giving a presentation about it.
- Advising on the subsequent phases (basic design, detailed design, installation and construction).
|a) Case 1: three groups in parallel
|b) Case 2: three groups in back to back
|c) Case 3: two groups in parallel
|d) Case 4: two groups in face to face
|e) Case 5: expandable control room area
|Figure 2 Control room layouts
In this section, an example of an oil refinery is described to explain the study items, procedure and outputs of the service.
Background of the Service
This refinery is fully equipped with utility facilities and receiving & shipping facilities, in addition to the process units such as atmospheric distillation unit, vacuum distillation unit, fluid catalytic cracking unit, catalytic reforming unit, hydrodesulfurization unit and asphalt production unit. Currently, the plant is operated at nine major control rooms near individual units.
The refinery has decided to construct a new unit and, at the same time, to consolidate the control rooms as part of its modernization project. They have chosen the option of centralized control of the entire refinery from one location, rather than constructing a dedicated control room for the new unit near it as before. Since the units in the refinery are interconnected to each other from upstream to downstream, the shift supervisors and the operators of the related units work closely together while maintaining good communication. A consolidated control room, where all the shift supervisors and board operators work together, provides the most suitable environment for ensuring efficient and safe plant operation for such complex units. It helps grasp the overall state of the refinery including better communication for operational changes and plant optimization.
To capture the full benefits of a consolidated control room, the refinery has decided to introduce Yokogawa's Control Room Design service. They wished to improve the productivity of operators in the consolidated control room by an ergonomic design for better communication.
Procedure of Conceptual Design
The conceptual design of the consolidated control room was completed in two and a half months following the standardized procedure shown below.
In a consolidated control room, more operators work at the same location and at the same time than in an individual control room. Therefore, we set the goal of the conceptual design to select a layout of the operator consoles considering plant configuration, work flows, organizations and operations not affected by acoustic noise, such as operators' voices and alarm sounds from other operation sections.
A two-day field survey was conducted to grasp the current site situation, the project plan and requests.
We analyzed the gathered information mainly for the locations of the operator consoles and created five cases of different layouts of the consolidated control room as shown in Figure 2.
The five cases differ in grouping of operator consoles, orientation of placement of operators and locations of large screens, meeting areas, printers and visitors' area. Cases 1 to 4 are for the planned consolidated control room and Case 5 for taking into account possible plans for future expansion of the control room. The process units assigned to the group of operator consoles are determined by analyzing work flows for enhancing coordinated operation among units for each case as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3 Work flow analysis of collaboration among groups (case 1)
We compared and evaluated the five cases on the following points, compiled an interim report, and then explained it to the refinery.
Figure 4 Layout tailored to requirements
Using our knowledge and experience, we advised consolidating the number of devices such as consoles for engineering work and printers in the consolidated control room by system migration.
By comparing and examining the pros and cons of the five cases, we selected case 3 as the most suitable layout for the refinery. We conducted interviews regarding case 3 to confirm whether anything needed to be improved or examined further, and created a layout tailored to more detailed and specific requirements as shown in Figure 4, which was included in the final report.
We submitted the final report to the refinery and advised items to be examined in the basic design and detailed design phases, and during consolidation of the control rooms.
Figure 5 Visibility of large screens and the widths of corridors
Figure 6 Travel routes and collaborative operation among units
The report not only shows the layout but also describes the design process to reach the final layout. It includes how requests for improvement were incorporated, why the design was selected, what discussions the proposal is based on and items to note when proceeding to the detailed design. The report also contains 3D graphics that show what the completed control room will look like. Figures 5, 6 and 7 show parts of the report.
Figure 7 3D graphics with comments
With this conceptual design for efficient operation, we selected a layout of the consolidated control room based on a careful examination of work flows including collaborative operation among units and travel routes of operators. It is important to share the designing process and intentions behind the design at the beginning of the design phase through such analysis and improvement. Combined with issues identified at this phase, transition and implementation in the following phases become much easier.
Accepting the conclusions of the conceptual design study, the refinery proceeded to the basic design, detailed design and installation and construction phases of the consolidated control room for efficient plant operation.
The refinery has been grateful for the results of our layout study and the quality of our final report and presentation.
The console and operator layout in the consolidated control room is arranged, in this example, focused on better communication in accordance with the process flow of the refinery units for achieving efficient plant operation. Although the service procedure of the Control Room Design is standardized, required study items and issues to be improved vary from control room to control room. Yokogawa will continue to provide the valuable Control Room Design service to create better operation environments for customers, based on a human-centered design approach.
Solutions to improve operator comfort, ergonomics, safety, ease of communication, functionality, automation of systems, and business policy.


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'P.S. I Love You' by Cecilia Ahern is an international romance bestseller. It makes for an enjoyable read.
Its a sweet and cute book which has a touch of hilarity, grief, fun as well as goodness. Holly Kennedy lost her childhood sweetheart and husband, Gerry due to brain tumor. Holly misses him like hell and feels her emotions overwhelming and confusing. She does not know how to live without Gerry. However, she learns to do that through her own understanding, her family and her best friends and a list that Gerry had prepared for Holly.
Its a breezy read, very easygoing(except dome parts where Holly is thoughtful about herself, her life and Gerry) with a light writing style. 'P.S. I Love You' is not very descriptive but it is mostly active and happening with many events occurring in the book. The story is well laid out. It is a tad bit cliched but fortunately it is not about a guy and a girl stereotypically falling in love. Its an emotional story of a widow coping with an immense loss. Despite such a serious issue, the book is surprisingly not very deep, in fact it is light and relaxing. It ends on a positive note which is heartening.
All chick lit fans will love 'P.S. I Love You', they will be delighted in reading the book.


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Matt Schulz
The first defense witness presented was Matt David Schulz (―Schulz‖). By agreement of the parties he was sworn by the clerk of court for Miami- Dade County, Florida and testified by phone from Montgomery, Alabama.
Schulz testified that he is a three (3) year employee with the Federal Public Defender's Office in Montgomery, Alabama. On June 16, 2011, he witnessed the execution of his client, Eddie Powell, in Alabama. After visiting with Mr. Powell and his family and noting that Powell was in no visible distress, he was escorted by
the guards to a viewing room. There, he was seated, approximately 7-8 feet from Powell, who was covered with sheets except for his face and upper body and strapped down to the gurney. Schulz was facing Powell's left side and could see some of Powell's right arm also because the arms were outside of the sheets. The chaplain and warden then entered the room. The warden read the death order and asked Powell if he had any last words. The warden allowed Powell to make a last statement. The warden then walked behind Powell and made an announcement that the execution was to be carried out. The I.V. lines ran into the wall. Schulz was unable to see any activity behind that wall and unable to see when syringes were pushed. The chaplain approached Powell, spoke a few words to him, and nodded. Powell looked to the left, nodded, took a deep breath, and then put his head back down. The chaplain talked to him for 30-60 seconds. Powell lay there approximately one (1) minute then suddenly jerked his head and his upper and lower body appeared as if pressing against the restraints. Schulz believed that Powell was attempting to sit up. Powell, he said, had a look of confusion when he looked at the chaplain. Schulz asserted that Powell clenched his jaw, flexed his muscles, and his arteries bulged. His eyes rolled back in his head, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes. This lasted about one (1) minute. The guard approached and called his name (―Eddie, Eddie, Eddie‖) several times. He did not
respond. The guard did an ―eyelash check‖ to which there was no response. After a few minutes or so, he noticed that Powell's eyes were opened partly.
This was the first execution Schulz ever attended and it was very stressful for him.
The entire process that he observed seemed to last 20-25 minutes. He was able to see a clock directly but was not watching it. He did notice it but not until after the guard called Powell's name during the consciousness check.
He is not sure what the lethal injection protocol is but believes that 2500 mg. of pentobarbital is administered.1
This testimony is speculative and without more specific testimony or expert testimony it is of little value to the court in consideration of the question at hand. Even if the entire situation lasted one minute, it certainly does not establish that the Defendant suffered to establish an Eighth Amendment claim. See Baze.
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Every week Geoff Boycott updates his site with fresh views on the world of cricket. Don't miss it.
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Every cricketer's ambition is to play for England and I was privileged to do so for 18 years. I can recall just about every minute of that first hundred and, of course, making my 100th century in front of my own crowd at Headingley. Another outstanding moment was going to Buckingham Palace to receive the OBE from Her Majesty. There wwere heartaches along the way, but that's life.
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This delightful diagram, of Boycott's 152 not out v Warwickshire in 1982, was sent to GB by Anne Tunnicliffe of Chester. Her letter explains everything: " Dear Geoff, I enclose a chart of your innings against Warwickshire which should give you some idea of where you scored your runs. That is not to say you did not know exactly what you were doing! I hope you find it of interest and should also like to thank you for the entertainment you gave my husband and I on that day and indeed on many others. Unfortunately you had started your innings this morning before we arrived, but I wish you the best of luck for the rest of the day and for Wednesday, Yours, Anne Tunnicliffe"
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Vietnam Inclusive and Sustainable New Communities Project
The Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement - SMU), is a classic example of community-driven development based on specific institutional principles and community participation developed during 1971-1979 in the Republic of Korea (RoK). The global programme - Saemaul Initiative towards Inclusive and Sustainable New Communities (ISNC) – was launched jointly by UNDP and the RoK in 2014, aiming at updating and scaling up SMU experiences. The objective of the project is to facilitate "Vietnamization" of the SMU approaches and set up mechanisms for nationwide visionary leadership development. In brief, ISNC focuses on the development of effective tools and channels for social capital accumulation and leadership development based on SMU principles locally adapted to the Vietnamese context.
Sustainable Cities and Communities , Enhance capacity for participatory, sustainable human settlement
According to the World Bank, despite progress to address poverty, a significant share of the population is still vulnerable, living close to the poverty line (one third of the population—equivalent to about 30 million people—fall into the 'poor' or 'near poor' groups). In particular, Viet Nam's rural population is experiencing a high level of poverty due to lower income and poor livelihoods.
The project aims to develop a "Vietnamized" training curriculum and public communication programme with the goal to mobilize social capital and visionary leadership development with SMU principles of self-help, diligence and cooperation. In particular, a Training of Trainers (ToT) will be organized for provincial government leaders and leaders of mass organizations, such as the Farmer's Union, Youth Union and Women's Union, nationwide networks down to the village levels. As part of the project, effective tools and channels have been developed to strengthen leadership capacity at different levels, specifically for adaptation and scaling up of community mobilization principles. The tools and channels will also be used for nationally targeted programs focusing on sustainable poverty reduction and new rural development.
This project has successfully developed an enabling environment for formulating and strengthening institutional arrangements/legal framework, with support from policy makers from the government, the national assembly, and the party's committees. In addition, ISNC was integrated into the National Targeted Programs (NTP) for 2011-2015 and was institutionalized in the NTP, specifically focusing on new rural development and sustainable poverty reduction for the period 2016-2020. The project also experienced strong government and system-wide support, specifically for its potential scalability beyond the community level and rural areas to "encompass the entire spectrum" of the government's local development policies and programmes.
Viet Nam
Korea International Cooperation Agency , UNDP
Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affair in Viet Nam


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Every time we stop to smell the roses—meaning take a look at all of the genius ways PicMonkeyers put our photo editing and graphic design tools to use—we wind up feeling pretty humbled. And maybe crying a few happy tears. That's because PicMonkeyers repeatedly turn out top-notch creations, and share the ingredients to their secret sauce with step-by-step tutorials. Check out 10 tutorials made by brilliant PicMonkey pros below, and discover new (and ridiculously fun) ways to put our tools to use.
1. Snuggly lions
We love how Meredith from Spoonflower transformed her adorable Cutimals + People Toppers graphic creation into an extra cuddly toy. We extra love that she donated it to the Softies for Mirabel Handmade Toy Drive. And we double-extra love that she documented it all in a step-by-step tutorial, so that everyone can make squishable, well-accessorized animals. See how she used PicMonkey's design tools and Spoonflower's custom fabric option in her tutorial, "How to Make Your Own Softie with PicMonkey," then start crafting your own one-of-a-kind toys.
2. Pretty words
We have a whopper of a crush on text masking, aka pictures coming through text, aka textured text. Whatever you wanna call it, Boss Lady Dreams blogger Stephanie has this technique down. See how she gave her words a taste of the tropics in her tutorial, "How to Create Textured Text with PicMonkey."
3. Indoor snowsports
New Zealand blogger Stella has a knack for creating out-of-the-ordinary images of her little ones (check out the About section of her blog for hot air balloon and garage band goodness). Her Fake Skiing Memory tutorial is a behind-the-scenes look at how she made wintry pics sans snow, using some DIY photoshoot accessories and PicMonkey effects. Adorbs!
4. Bubbling up
If we could travel back in time and have Larissa of Larissa Another Day make all of our grade school Valentine's Day cards, we'd definitely be the coolest kids in school. Every year she comes up with darling, punny Valentines for her kids' classmates, and our hearts melt faster than ice cream in a toaster oven. Round up an image and head to her bubble-gum themed Valentine tutorial for step-by-step instructions on how to make them for your kid's class, or your grownup sweetheart.
5. Palette perfection
Color lovers and home design enthusiasts, this one's for you. Lifestyle blogger Dawn has discovered a ridiculously fun way to create custom color palettes that you can use while deciding on paint hues for your space, or whatever other creative project you're gearing up for. See how she gives our eyedropper tool a workout in her gawgeous tutorial, "How to Create a Custom Color Palette in PicMonkey."
6. (Thumb)nailed it!
Calling all YouTube stars! Vlogger and self-proclaimed "makeup junkie" Velma Perez has all the info you need to make a kickin' YouTube thumbnail image. Watch her video tutorial to get the lowdown on using our collage maker and design tools to create polished thumbnails. We especially enjoy the way she uses Draw to give her text an uber-glam look.
7. Grand graphics
Think our touchup tools are only for portraits? Then you need to take a look at the magical way Karen, aka the Graphics Fairy, uses Blush Boost to change the color (and amp up the cool factor) of a face-free image. Take a look at her suuuuper useful step-by-step guide to recoloring images, and start creating your own custom looks.
8. Color scheming
Maybe you've already found a few fabulous colors for your home interior, but you're not sure they're going to create the cohesive vibe you're after. Shelly from the Domestic Heart has developed an innovative way to put your floor plan and swatches to use, so you can ensure hue harmony before you start prying open those paint can lids. Check out her method for creating a paint scheme floorplan, and make sure you're ready to commit to your colors.
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Alrighty, entrepreneurs! It's time to ditch those mediocre product shots, and affiliate marketing specialist/blogger Justine will show you how. Take a gander at her tutorial, and learn to create product shots that scream "professional" in minutes.