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Luxury boutique hotel with Old World elegance, in the heart of the fashion district – Expect the best in luxury at this intimate boutique hotel, which has an entrance on Via della Spiga and is steps away from Via Montenapoleone, both of which are lined with the kind of designer shops that make the city a capital of fashion and culture.
Accommodations: Despite the trend-setting location, the ambience is all Old World elegance. Antique furnishings, fine fabrics, chandeliers, and intricate stuccoes evoke classic Italian style in the guest rooms. Some have private terraces with tables, chairs, and potted plants. All are soundproofed and have marble baths with shower/tub combinations. Suites have a more modern decor. Amenities include air-conditioning, flat-screen TVs with satellite channels, phones, internet access, in-room safes, mini-bars, and hairdryers. Butlers, baby-sitters, and personal shoppers are all available on request. Complimentary chocolates and liqueurs add a thoughtful touch, and small pets are allowed.
Dining & Entertainment: The hotel's restaurant, Il Baretto al Baglioni, is one of Milan's most renowned. Fine carved wood, lavish furnishings, and paintings depicting horseback riding and hunting in the English countryside create an atmosphere akin to a private English clubhouse in the early 1900s; the menu features Milanese cuisine and Mediterranean flavors. Drinks and cocktails are served all day at Caffe Baglioni, and from 3:30pm-7:00pm, you can enjoy tea and pastries while learning about tea's origins and traditions. From 7:00pm-10:00pm, indulge yourself with Dom Perignon champagne and oysters. NOTE: Though Milan boasts many restaurants, it is the most expensive city in Italy, and eating well requires a hearty budget. Nightlife is world-class, with every kind of bar, pub, and club imaginable.
Recreation: The new Guerlain Spa boasts 7 treatment rooms, a state-of-the-art relaxation and footbath lounge, hydrotherapy facilities, and Vichy showers. A variety of massages, facials, and body treatments are just a few ways to pamper yourself. Professional diet and lifestyle assessments help further enhance your well-being. The hotel also has a fitness center. The city is a shopping paradise, famous for its designer boutiques, but there's plenty else to keep you entertained. Major cultural attractions include the Duomo Cathedral and da Vinci's "The Last Supper" in the Santa Maria delle Grazie church, as well as the world famous soccer teams A.C. Milan and Internazionale.
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14 thoughts on "Books and ships"
Aha… Now I see why you and Mage enjoy each other's company. Not only do you share the hip challenge, but you both love ships!
My parents didn't have many English books in the house, but they did buy us the World Book Encyclopedia and my brother and I read it every night. I think I still remember a lot of the pictures and what I read in it.
While I was in San Diego last year, Mage took me down to the port to see various ships. Lots of fun.
Great post Dianne, very, very interesting! I loved to read when young. In fact, I used to ride up to the local library, fill my basket full of books and read them all very quickly, many under the covers with a flashlight when I was supposed to be sleeping. I got caught out quite a few times doing that. I once worked for a documentary film company – temporarily – when I first arrived in America. The film they were making was narrated by Yul Brynner, one of my early hero's in film. I always dreamed of meeting him but Gregg's next duty station was calling and even though I was offered a permanent job with the company, I sadly had to tell them I was heading west with my husband. Of course, there were other exciting adventures ahead but down a different road.
Brenner was one sexy guy. Also, I was a libraryholic. I always checked out 10-12 books per week, mostly biographies of western heroes. Yes, being a military wife, one makes many sacrifices.
Well, you never became a pirate, although you did work in government. Hmmm. I devoured books, mostly fiction, about horses, but was only near horses about three times in my life, once at the farm of a friend's uncle, once on a trail ride in the Smoky Mountains, and once into Petra in Jordan.
And I think our guide may just have been a pirate of the land variety.
Petra Jordan? I would love to hear more about this horse ride.

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The man who died in a road accident in Co Fermanagh on Wednesday was 51-year-old John Forsythe.
Mr Forsythe from Castlederg in Co Tyrone died in the crash on the Manoo Road in Kesh around 6pm.
A woman who was also injured in the accident is described as being in a stable condition in hospital.
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I happened to give birth to two girls. One is now seventeen. The younger, born on the same day as her sister, is fourteen. At the moment, both happen to be on the community bed (my bed, in other words), where one is sifting through fashion blogs and the other is pinning.
But here comes the cool part. The older one says to me, "Mom, I love this blog! This woman works for J. Crew. Half her outfits are J. Crew . . ." And she scrolls and oohs. "Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh," she exclaims, having collided once again with a great new style blog. And the younger one says to me, "Mom, you have to see this! Look at these steps!" And she proceeds to show me a DIY she's found on Pinterest, a cement-mixing effort that involves creating small steps for a garden walkway, each one stamped with leaves, their delicate outlines and intricate vascular systems permanently imprinted on the newly dried stone.
The point isn't that one girl dies over J. Crew and the other swoons over hardscapes. It's that my bed has become a staging area for Big Dreams, with a viewership of one–i.e., me. One thing our move has given me is more time to be a tribe of three.
Sometimes I used to stretch out on my mother's bed. She'd be neatly tucked in the way I am tonight, the difference being that while she always wore a white cotton nightie, I'm in a Hanes men's v-neck and my men's pajama bottoms (a wardrobe article so comfy and so essential I often consider never taking them off). And I'd tell her things everyone else would have found meaningless but that she would listen to with quiet delight. And now here I am, the mother, my girls pointing out all the things that get their hearts racing while I listen. I used to think I prattled on and on and that my mother was simply indulging me. Now I know better. Now that I'm the one in pajamas, I get it. The important thing is that, whatever my girls are saying, they're saying it to me.
Girls need their girls, which, translated, means that if you've got two "x" chomosomes and a nearby mother or daughter, you should immediately go to the nearest bed, hop onto it, burrow in with your books and gadgetry, and get ready to exclaim to your heart's content. Mothers, prepare to be in your element. Girls, do likewise. Chocolate, optional.


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The "cloud" offers almost unlimited space for data storage, which may be used either for backup, providing for fail-safe business operation, emergency recovery or any other matter. It also introduces many opportunities to VARs offering storage as a service. An option to extend or shrink storage capacity at will is a very valuable offer for customers, and VARs must be sure that they trust the data to the best cloud backup vendor.
Vendors of cloud backup services.
1. 3X Systems. 3X Backup is the main product of the company. It is an online backup service offered in a form of inexpensive portable configured device, which provides user with an additional local resource for backup and reliable data storage.
2. Amazon Web Services. AWS platform was the pioneer of cloud infrastructure and continues to hold dominative position at the market. Simple Storage Services (S3) are based on AWS and allow storing huge data arrays for a low price.
3. Asigra. A public cloud or a private one? Asigra offers both: Public Cloud Backup Service and Private Cloud Backup Solution, which provide for two variants of backup implementation without requiring agent application to run on your servers.
4. Axcient. The company offers data protection and provision of fail-safe business operation for IT managed service providers (MSP) in a form of hybrid backup device, which is installed at the customer's site and is integrated with cloud emergency recovery service. Moreover, it can be extended if necessary without bothering spending money on infrastructure, licensing and software.
5. Carbonite. The company offers unlimited backup to the cloud for a fixed rate. Over 80 billion of files have been already backed up with the use of this service, and over 7.2 billion files have been recovered.
6. Cleversafe. Publicly accessible, private and hybrid clouds receive proper attention, either for data backup, archiving, content distribution or many other applications.
7. Doyenz. Offers a package of cloud backup services for IT-service providers, supporting reliable backup and transparent virtual failover. Company's solution called Shadowcloud stores an active image of working server in the cloud, which can be called at any moment, making for fail-safe business operation.
8. eFolder. Offers high-reliability data protection services for both remote and local e-mail backup via extensive army of VARs and MSP. eFolder technology uses a method of reverse delta.
9. Intronis. Operates in cloud since 2003. Offers services of data backup and emergency recovery for MSP. The company uses AES 256-bit encryption and numerous Data Centers across both coasts of USA, providing for data protection and high level of readiness.
10. Mezeo. Offers a cloud storage platform, which is easily adopted, serves large number of customers, provides for high scalability and security. Its API interfaces — Cloud Storage API and Interoperability API — help service providers to monetize storage by using own products.
11. Nirvanix. Security, reliability and backup are the main points of the company's offer. Its CloudComplete kit incorporates various options for cloud storage implementation, including CloudNAS Gateway, publicly accessible cloud called Storage Delivery Network as well as hybrid and private cloud solutions hNode.
12. Scality. Scality RING software allows transforming a typical x86-server along with an Ethernet network into a cloud storage system, while cutting the expenses.
13. Vembu. Enters the cloud storage market with a complete series of products and services related to online hybrid and cloud data storage: these are online backup service Vembu Pro, cloud data storage service Vembu Home, online backup software StorGrid SP Edition and hybrid backup software StorGrid Pro Edition.
14. Zetta. Offers corporative class NAS-system functionality in a form of cloud service on demand. Company states that its cloud solutions eliminate expenses spent for data protection and backup, provide for instant scalability of storage capacity, as well as keep an opportunity of extension in the future.


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Sunday, May 26, 2013
"Cherries and Creamer" Oil on 6x6 inch board
I painted these cherries the other day. I had only the cherries and metal measuring cup, and when it was done, it seemed a bit empty, so I put it aside to think about what to do. I decided to add the creamer, and it looks much better to me. More complete. Here are some pics of work in progress....
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- AnonymousMay 27, 2013 at 12:33 PM
You have a mastery of realism of the still life, Debbie!ReplyDelete
The addition of the pot and the final cherry turned this into an excellent composition! well done!
Thank you ever so much for showing us the progress of this little painting. Love all of your work. Love how you checked the last cherry to see if it worked. Beautiful.ReplyDelete
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Ravita's Top 5 Immune Remedies to beat the Cold and Flu.
This the season of change in temperatures and bugs. If you're a parent you have probably already experienced the wide variety of invisible creatures the kids brought home from school. So what to do to prevent and treat the cold or flu? Start now! Start by building up your immune system so that when the bugs do attack you are ready to fight. The following are a few remedies we recommend for you and your family.
- Andrographis Complex by MediHerb: This is a great antiviral that can be taken at the onset of a viral cold/flu. It has a combination of Andrographis leaf, Echinacea angustifolia, and Holy Basil. Andrographis contains andrographolides which supports healthy upper respiratory function including the throat, sinuses, and lungs. Holy Basil in particular upregulates polymorphonuclear cells, a type of phagocytes that digest and engulfs foreign particle or cells that invade the body.
- Adaptogen (Adrenal Support) by Restorative Formulations: This formula contains adaptogens such as Ashwaganda, Astragalus, and Eleuthro. The Adrenal glands are directly linked to the health of the immune system as they are in control of our stress hormone, cortisol. When cortisol is high the immune responses in the body are low therefore creating susceptibility for illness. An adaptogen formula helps to balance the stress response and help the body adapt rather than react allowing the immune system to continue doing its job.
- ACES+Zn by Cytomatrix: This antioxidant formula increases T lymphocytes in the body creating a more efficient immune response. This combination in particular is great because it has in it the cofactors needed for optimal absorption. Bonus, kids love it! Open up the capsule into some water and they think they're getting orange juice!
- Vitamin D: all the vitamin D we carry from the various companies have an oil base to them for optimal absorption in the gut. This liquid sunshine is a key component of a healthy immune system, especially in rainy Vancouver!
- Metagenics UltraFlora Cold Support: You may have heard of probiotics and their use in the gut, but what if we told you that every part of your body and every organ has its own unique microbiome? What?! Science is really starting to see how these beneficial bacteria that surrounds is there to protect us. This product in particular has probiotics for the lungs so is key in fighting colds and flus and those long lingering coughs.
Don't wait until the bugs get you down, get your immune boosting, stress busting, supplement regime started today. Supplements aren't the only things that help immunity, what we eat plays a major role. In this season the digestive system needs extra support, it isn't as speedy as it was in the summer time. To nourish it eat lots of soups and stews so your boy doesn't have to work hard to digest food but can put the energy towards keeping you healthy.


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Rumour of Brightpoint's failure to hit sales targets has been rife within the market for some time.
And in any sales business, achieving targets is the only goal. And as with any business, failure to meet those, often ends with dismissal. Case closed? Not in this instance.
Because the grey market is the only way out for sales channels struggling with tough targets. Nokia should cut it some slack.
The commercial agreements between Nokia and its partners are confidential. But historically, Nokia's accredited distributors have been required to sell 50,000 units per quarter to retain a direct relationship.
New measures have been introduced too, but it is the headline volume marker that is most bothersome in a tough trading environment.
Brightpoint is handling high-end Eseries and Nseries devices, Nokia's smartphone offerings.
But look at the statistics. Global handset sales decreased 9.4 per cent to 269.1 million units in Q1 2009, the "biggest quarter-on-quarter contraction" in the history of the industry according to Gartner.
Sales haven't improved much. Q3 2009 figures showed 308.9 million units sold.
But, whether massive decrease or miniscule increase, it is clear developed mobile markets are hemorrhaging sales while emerging markets plaster over the losses some.
Nokia's market share declined 1.5 percentage points year-on-year, with handset sales down from 117.9 million in Q3 last year to 113.47 million in Q3 this year.
Nokia has been hit badly from three sides – by strong new competitors, a maturing market and a recession. It cannot afford to let the slide be a slump, when it is market leader and relative upstarts like Apple, BlackBerry and HTC are taking its share.
Interestingly, both Brightpoint and its successful new competitors operate commonly at the premium end of the market, where there is some growth still in the west.
For smartphones, sales surpassed 41 million units in Q3, a 12.8 per cent increase from the same period last year.
The problem is, perhaps, businesses' demand for BlackBerry-like Eseries phones and buggy Nseries handsets has not been sufficient, especially when there are genuinely iconic units from rivals available to them.
Nokia knows some amount of grey trade will go through, and is perhaps even necessary. It counts against its local sales figures, after all. Head office clearly disapproves of inter-market disruption.
But Brightpoint's failure is not, apparently, like Carphone Warehouse's.
Carphone recently committed to huge volumes of Nokia 5530s, only to sell a big chunk of them for grey market export.
By committing, it secured an exclusive and also stopped high street competitors from doing the same. That, or it has simply mis-forecast sales in spectacular manner.
Brightpoint and other UK distributors rely upon hitting targets to get the marketing kickback that comes with the achievement, and which is virtually the only real and direct financial incentive. It also secures their reputations with customers.
Clearly, however, some redress is needed in terms of reality and expectation by manufacturers.


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7 Content Rules to Succeed in a Post-Panda 4.0 World - SEMrush Blog
Panda 4.0 has some major changes that could affect how your site is found in search engines. While many blogs have discussed the new Google algorithm, you might not know the best way to create content that is best-suited for Panda.
In this post, Julia Spence-McCoy is going to show us some of the best practices for creating effective content in the Post-Panda 4.0 World.
A recap of Google Panda 4.0 changes
Let's refresh our minds real quick before delving into writing for Panda 4.0. This algorithm is directed at cutting out spam or poor quality posts from the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs.) Google is taking their SERPs very seriously, by making sure their users find exactly what they want. This is evident in their nifty new, Siri-esque, conversational search. To stay on Panda's good side, you want to focus on writing great quality pieces and staying away from spam-filled content.
As all internet marketers know by now, best practices are crucial for SEO. You need to make sure you're following them, especially as you post content in the post-Panda 4.0 world. Let's take a quick look at a few of these rules and help you continue to rank!


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On Monday, Julie and I went walking up and down the streets. I don't think we had a purpose, we just wanted to get around, you know?
Julie managed to score a great handbag at a garage sale. I observed her bargaining skills in action, and have resolved to put them in play.
We also managed to find a cute health-food store which had all sorts of wonderful things. Including creme fraiche. Close by, there was a restaurant with little things growing out front. Like baby aubergines.


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Objective- Tween 80 (Polysorbate 80) is a classical non-ionic surface-active detergent. It is widely used as an additive in pharmaceuticals and in the food industry. Many of the Tweens are considered to be carcinogens. Here in this study an attempt was made to find out whether the tween 80 used as an excipient in an anti cancer drug, Methotrexate affected its therapuetic efficiency or not.
Method- Hepatocellularcarcinogenesis (HCC) was induced in the wister rats by the administration of a single dose chemical carcinogen DENA (150 mg/kg i. p.). The animals exposed to DENA were treated with pure Methotrexate (MTX) and marketed MTX (0.14mg/kg by oral route through force feeding) and Tween 80 (0.14mg/kg by p. o.).
Result- Exposure of DENA and Tween 80 elevated the levels of SGOT, SGPT, ALP, and AFP in Wistar rats. Histopathological examinations of the liver tissue showed marked carcinogenicity of the chemical carcinogen and excipients, while pure MTX treated group showed normal liver cell architecture.
Conclusion- The study revealed that the excipient polysorbate 80 used in the marketed formulation of Methotrexate decreased the efficacy of the pure drug (pure Methotrexate).
Keywords: Polysorbate80 , Excipient, Efficacy, Diethylnitrosamine(DENA), Hepatocarcinogenesis, Methotrexate (MTX).
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What would Penfold say – Danger Mouse is making an exhibition of himself in Sale…By Peter Trollope at
Some of the most famous and iconic film and television animated characters are here in Sale.
Danger Mouse, Postman Pat, Noddy, Count Duckula, and Chorlton and the Wheelies are just some of exhibits from the Cosgrove Hall Films Archive on show at the Waterside Arts Centre.
Original models, puppets, storyboards and hand-drawn animation is on display in the exhibition. Actor David Jason was the voice of Danger Mouse for many years.
The venue is also preparing for the Puppet Masters Conference on Saturday, November 4th, featuring leading speakers from the worlds of animation and puppetry, and will have guests who have a strong connection with Cosgrove Hall.
Count Duckula, who shunned meat after being resurrected with ketchup instead of blood, and Danger Mouse, the world's greatest secret agent, are the stars of the exhibition.
In its heyday Cosgrove Hall was the biggest animation studio in Europe. Its programmes were shown all over the world, both original productions such as Danger Mouse, which ran for 161 episodes, plus remakes of Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men; Noddy and Postman Pat.
The Chorlton-cum-Hardy based studio was founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall in 1976. Danger Mouse established the company as a main-player in animation.
Brian Cosgrove said: "I'm delighted to be working with Waterside to preserve and share the Cosgrove Hall legacy with new generations.
"I am honoured, and I'm sure Mark Hall would have been too, with the enthusiasm that our work still generates with the general public. I hope that many people will come from far and wide to enjoy these well-loved characters as much as we have over the years."
They produced quality animation by bringing together some of the biggest puppet-makers, actors and animators in the UK to create, adapt and produce popular animations.
They also brought characters from popular childhood fiction to life in animations such as Roald Dahl's The BFG and Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows.
Cosgrove Hall Films runs until February 17 next year at Waterside Arts Centre. Entry is free.


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National Tequila Day with Altos Tequila
I'm always throwing a party, or having some type of event! And If you know me, you know I love hosting family and friends especially when we can genuinely connect over food and drinks! Which is why I'm so thrilled to be partnering with Altos Tequila for #nationalTequilaDay !
Altos Tequila embraces the family connection and togetherness that bring family and friends together over food, drink, conversation, and lifestyles. Um, hello, this company knows my heart to the core!I love how that is so important to them as a company. I can support someone like that! This company noticed the gap between really inexpensive tequila and very expensive tequila and wanted to make something authentically produced and hand crafted. I'd say they succeeded at bridging that gap!
Altos Tequila is 100% blue agave. Master Distiller Jesus Hernandez is responsible for supervising production from the initial harvest of the agave plants, to the end result, the bottle. Their tequilas are exclusively produced in the heart of Los Altos, 7,000 feet above sea level in the western state of Jalisco in Mexico, and are created, in part, using the 500-year-old traditional Tahona method, before being distilled in copper pot stills. Altos offers three tequilas – Plata, Reposado and Añejo – and is one of the only tequila brands in the world that still uses the ancient Tahona wheel to crush our roasted agave.
We decided to make their Paloma, using the PLATA tequila. I know I made it, but it's one of the best Palmoa's I've ever had! We hosted friends for grilled chicken, corn, and of course chips and various tasty salsa's! So we made enough of 6 in a pitcher ! Here's their delicious recipe, which you can also find on their site along with tons of other awesome recipes!
Altos Plata 2 parts
Fresh pink grapefruit juice 2 parts
Lemon juice 1 part
Agave syrup ½ part
Salt RIM with Pink Himalayan Salt( I added this because I love pink!)
Frost the glass rim with salt and crushed pink peppercorns.
Pour all the ingredients except the grapefruit juice into the glass.
Mix using the ALTOS molinillo to dissolve the agave syrup.
Fill the glass with ice and finish with the pink grapefruit juice.
Garnish with half slice of pink grapefruit.
I hope you enjoyed learning about this amazing company and their even more amazing Tequila! Have fun making this cocktail! Find ALTOS Tequila recipes + More here!
I loved Partnering with Altos Tequila. ALL OPINIONS ARE MY OWN! You must be 21 years or older to drink and PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY! #AD #SPONSORED
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Water Damage
Inspecting Your Home and Assessing Your Water Damage
Upon arrival, a professional water damage restoration specialist will immediately tend to a checklist. In order for your damage to be fixed, your specialist will have to do a little detective work. He or she will need to know the source of the damage, the details about the water, what was affected and discover anything that may contribute to further problems before your home can be restored.
If you are unfamiliar with the complexities of water damage, you may not know what to look for. A trained professional can spot hidden water and looming dangers before they take over your home, creating a problem that will be far more costly to resolve further down the line. Armed with moisture detectors and a keen eye, and investigative water damage specialist will be able to quickly see the full scope of the problem.
Preventing More Water from Entering Your Home
The first thing your specialist will do is figure out where the water is coming from. In some cases, such as an apparent dishwasher or toilet overflow, the water will have already stopped. If the cause of the water damage is not apparent on sight, you may have an ongoing leak. The source of the water has to be determined, and the water needs to be stopped. If there is a dedicated valve in the area, the specialist will shut it off. If there isn't and the water is still flowing, all water to your home may need to be disconnected.
Determining What Kind of Water Caused the Damage
Water is divided into three categories: White, gray, and black. The type of water involved sets the tone for how the specialist will approach your damage. Whitewater is water that came straight from a pipe, gray water is drainage from any pipes that don't handle sewage, and black water is water that has potentially or definitely come into contact with sewage.
Whitewater is the safest to come into contact with and doesn't generally pose any threat to safety. Gray water contains microbes and human bacteria but is not always dangerous. This is the water that drains away from sinks, bathtubs, and most household appliances. It's also the most common category of water in most water damage scenarios. Blackwater is very dangerous, as it contains live bacteria that can spread disease.
Blackwater makes for a unique circumstance. If the source is determined to be black water, specialists will need to use industrial grade decontamination suits to work inside your home. Your family will need to vacate the affected area, and porous items affected by black water may not be salvageable. If it is discovered that black water is the culprit, your home restoration specialist will immediately make arrangements to sterilize the affected area. Removing sewage from a home is a top priority.
Surveying the Damage
After the causes have been identified, the specialist will examine the extent of the damage. This involves inspecting cabinetry and looking for any vulnerable electrical outlets that may have been affected by the water. Once the inspector knows the extent of the damage, a plan to solve the issue can be drawn up. The inspector will then know how long it will take to restore your home and what the total cost will be. The inspector can help you file a claim with your insurance if the damage falls under your coverage.
During this process, the specialist will examine the structure of your home with moisture detection equipment. This will allow the specialist to see how much water has been absorbed beneath your floor, within your walls, or in your ceiling. Structural drying and dehumidification are crucial steps in water damage restoration, as they prevent the damage from spreading and remove the potential for mold cultivation.
Looking for Any Other Concerns
Can the same issue happen again? Does anything else need to be fixed to prevent future water damage? That's what your specialist will attempt to find out. For example, if a pipe bursts due to rust and old age, are the surrounding pipes just as likely to burst in the near future? Are there issues with the electrical in your home that create a looming threat for an electrical fire? Your specialist wants to get the job done right, and they only want to do it once. If anything else needs to be fixed immediately, your specialist will want to fix these issues as they're spotted.
There's no sense in putting a bandage on a wound that requires stitches, and that's why it's so important to thoroughly check the whole home for the potential of compounded damage, or damage that can recur.
Preparing the Area for Restoration
After all the bases have been covered, it's time to get the area ready for restoration. Furniture may need to be moved out of the way to keep the area open for restoration equipment. Any furniture that has absorbed water will need to be thoroughly dried before it's returned to your home. The specialist will move the equipment in, and get to work on fixing the damage
If flooring needs to be removed or pieces of a wall need to be cut away for replacement, the specialist will do so at this time. After the area has been thoroughly dried, new flooring can be installed and walls will be patched. During the drying process, things may be upside down. Once the restoration is complete, your home will be as good as new.
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Heart beat pulse sensor interfacing with pic microcontroller. Hi everyone I hope you are fine and doing well. In this article, you will learn how to interface heart beat pulse sensor with pic microcontroller. How to measure heart beat using inexpensive hear beat pulse sensor? How to use this cheap heart beat pulse sensor with pic microcontroller to measure heart beat rate very easily. I have used SEN-11574 hear beat pulse sensor in this project. I have already posted a article on how to measure heart beat using arduinoand heart beat sensor. You may also check. But today I am going to explain SEN-11574 heart beat sensor interfacing with pic microcontroller.
I have used pic18f46k22 microcontroller in this project. PIC18F46k22 microcontroller is one of the best production of microchip family of microcontroller. It has a lot of built in resources like more than 20 built in analog to digital converters and many other features. After PIC16F877A microcontroller, it is one of my favorite microcontroller from microchip medium level microcontrollers series. So now lets start with introduction of SEN-11574 heart beat pulse sensor. It has many applications and few of them are given below:
- exercise machines for heart beat measurement using workout
- heart beat meter for local use at home and many other applications
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SEN-11574 pulse sensor introduction
SEN-11574 is very easy to use heart beat sensor for engineers and students. It consists of optical heart beat sensor circuit and amplification circuit and noise cancellation circuit and its internal circuit diagram is given in its data sheet ans shown below.
It has three pins and description of each pin is given below:
- +3 to +5 volt pin : you will supply +3 to +5 volt to this pin
- Ground: You will connect this pin with ground pin of power supply
- Signal pin: This pin is basically a output pin which gives output according to heart beat rate.
So this sensor gives output in the form of voltage and we need to measure this voltage waveform and extract heart beat rate out of this waveform. I will explain it in later part of this article that how I measured the output waveform heart pulse sensor and measured heart beat with it.
Components required heart beat pulse sensor interfacing with pic microcontroller
Followings components are used in this project:
- PIC18F46K22 microcontroller : It is used to measure output signal of heart beat pulse sensor and send the value to 16 x 2 lcd for display.
- 16X2 LCD: Heart beat measured value is displayed on LCD.
- 8MHZ crystal
- potentiometer
Circuit diagram of heart beat pulse sensor interfacing with pic microcontroller
Circuit diagram of heart beat pulse sensor is given below and which is self explanatory.
heart beat pulse sensor video demonstration
Pulse sensor wire goes to analog pin zero of pic18f46k22 microcontroller. It measure output wave form and extract heart beat rate according to the algorithm which I stored in microcontroller. Code update the value of heart beat on LCD every 2 mili seconds.


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On Saturday my daughter Lori met a woman who does watercolors of houses. "Maybe we could have her paint one of our house," I said, thinking it would be nice to have a picture of our home of 44 years that I sold after the flood. I had promised myself I would never drive down our old street, that it would be painful, but I thought the plants in the front yard might be dead and would spoil the picture.
"Let's drive over and take a look," Lori said. I was hesitant but I did want the picture. So off we went.
"I'm closing my eyes," I said when we turned down our street. "Tell me if it looks okay."
"Oh. My. God!" Lori said. "It's gone."
Logically I knew the builder who bought the house would tear it down and build a newer, bigger one. But so soon? I opened my eyes and there was an empty space. Only the redbud tree and the crape myrtle and a few sad looking plants near the street still stood.
It made no sense, but I was in shock. I dropped my head into my hands and clamped my eyes shut again. Yes, I was glad to sell the house so quickly. No, I didn't really miss it. Still I sighed, "It's like 44 years of my life have been bulldozed away."
So we won't have the watercolor, but we do have photographs and no matter what, the house is still here in my head...and in my heart.
P.S. No, that's not a picture of the lot--it's one from Google Images.


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Benjamin Samin
The people's person - outgoing, confident and a talented facilitator
Benjamin holds the role of a business development consultant ad programme manager for Asia Ability based in Kuala Lumpur. In addition to leading client interface and communications in Kuala Lumpur, he also facilitates on team development programmes around S.E.Asia. Born in Brazil and educated in various nations, Ben has an entrepreneurial background and also worked with a major Malaysian investment bank. His wealth of international exposure and his outgoing personality makes him a popular member of the Asia Ability facilitation team.


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CONCORD — Susanne Meyer Brown has been promoted to city attorney, replacing the late Mark Coon.
Brown will earn a salary of $218,700, plus health and retirement benefits. She began on April 14.
"Everyone here is committed to making Concord the best city it can possibly be. I came from private practice and I was just so impressed with the staff here and their commitment to public service," said Brown, who had served as senior assistant city attorney since 2012.
"The circumstances of this transition, obviously, are not what I would have hoped for," she added. "But I felt strongly that I offer continuity to the city and its staff."
Retired San Pablo city attorney Brian Libow acted as Concord's interim city attorney after Coon's death. The city received 43 applications for the high-profile position and the City Council interviewed four finalists.
"My feeling was that we really needed somebody that had the experience within city government and had a good breadth of knowledge of local cities and understanding the Brown Act, understanding the operations of the city and understanding land use," said Councilman Ron Leone, who described Brown as competent and knowledgeable.
"She just seemed to match what our needs were the best."
As senior assistant city attorney, Brown served as primary counsel to the Planning Commission and legal adviser to the Community and Economic Development Department.
She also has broad experience with real estate transactions, land use policy, taxation issues and the California Environmental Quality Act.
As city attorney, Brown primarily is responsible for ensuring that Concord remains in compliance with applicable laws and advising the council.
But she also believes her unofficial role is to protect residents.
"We try to make sure that we really respond to their concerns," Brown said.
"Mark had a very hands-on approach with citizens, I did too, and I don't expect that to change."
Brown completed her undergraduate work at Pomona College and earned a law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law. Before joining Concord, she was a partner at the law firm Burke, Williams & Sorensen. Brown lives in Castro Valley with her husband and three children.
Contact Lisa P. White at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.


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April 1, 2003
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Junior Joep Tigchelaar and senior Vicky Gill were named the men's and women's ACC Outdoor Track & Field Performers of the Week for their record setting performances at the Stanford Invitational this past weekend.
Tigchelaar won the men's 10,000m in a time of 28:33.81, breaking a Florida State school record that held strong for 32 years. Tigchelaar's time was a personal best and good for an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship, June 11-14. He currently holds the top spots nationally and in the ACC.
Gill finished second in the women's 10,000m, receiving an NCAA automatic bid running in a time of 33:14.98. Her time crushed the old school record by more than 44 seconds, a record previously held by Gill in a time of 33:59.67 set back in 2002. She currently holds the No.1 ranking nationally and in the ACC in the 10K. This is her second ACC Performer of the Week honor and first in track and field. Gill was named ACC Performer of the Week during the 2002 cross-country season.


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It's not as if we weren't warned.
"She's 5 feet of hugs and enthusiasm. She's going to hug you... just so you know," said Angela Hult, executive director of the Cambia Health Foundation. "Olga is amazing."
That would be Olga Gerberg, director of patient negotiation for Familias en Accion, a Portland, Ore.-based health care advocacy group. Sure enough, within minutes of meeting, Gerberg's arms were wrapped around this reporter. That's just who she is—patient advocate, caregiver and hugger-in-chief. Gerberg spends her days helping families facing diagnoses of cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and end-stage cardiovascular and renal disease. In 2001, Gerberg first met and hugged Pilar (her full identity is not revealed here because of her immigration status). Pilar, who was brought to the United States when she was a teenager, is a mother of three. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and given six months to live.
But following some aggressive treatment and a lot of assistance from Gerberg (including thousands of hugs), Pilar has survived cancer thus far and was proud to share her story of survival to dozens of Boise caregivers at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. While she spoke to a meeting room filled with doctors, nurses and social workers at Saint Al's Boise campus, a column of words appeared on a screen behind her: respeto, personalismo, confianza, familismo (translations: respect, personal relationships, trust, extended family). Pilar's appearance was part of special, culturally sensitive training on palliative care, with particular emphasis on Latino families, sponsored by the Cambia Health Foundation.
"Mi nombre es Pilar," she said, walking to the front of the room. "When my doctors said, 'cancer,' that was a new world. It was like someone had opened a door and I was pushed through."
Palliative Care
Untold volumes of medical textbooks have detailed the drug, radiation, chemotherapy and radical surgery treatments for cancer and other serious illnesses. Palliative care, however, is still relatively new. The concept is well established—the desire for respeto (or respect) and confianza (trust) are universal—but it wasn't until a couple of decades ago that American hospitals fully embraced the reality of palliative care.
Not to be confused with hospice care, which focuses on relieving symptoms and supporting terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of months, palliative care can be offered at any stage of a person's illness. Still, many Americans aren't familiar with the term.
"Research shows that a big part of the challenge is that most Americans don't understand what palliative care is," said Hult, speaking from the Cambia Health Foundation's office in Portland, Ore. "It's really about asking the question, 'What matters to you?' rather than asking, 'What's the matter with you?' Many patients have a life-limiting or terminal illness; but we're really talking about quality of life and making sure that a patient's wishes are respected and honored."
Dr. Kevin Clifford has been at the forefront of palliative care in Idaho. A physician in Boise since 1988, Clifford was a faculty member at the Family Practice Residency of Idaho, helped create the first HIV specialty clinic in the state and, in 2002, started the palliative care program at Saint Al's. When Boise Weekly asked him about the genesis of palliative care in America, Clifford pointed to the fact that while more patients now live longer with disease, they do so in greater pain.
"The price that we've paid for a 50 percent increase in life expectancy is that many people have had a bad death," said Clifford. "As we were able to keep people alive, the quality of that life deteriorated."
Studies continue to document how American caregivers haven't done a good job of taking care of people in their final days, Clifford said.
"We lost something as we became more and more specialized, more and more effective at disease management," he added. "We lost some of the wisdom that accompanied the role of a healer. We certainly knew more answers and knew more studies, but we didn't know if our patients were happy."
When it comes to so-called living wills, which have become more commonplace since the Patient Self-Determination Act became law in 1991, Clifford said the good intention of a living will was appropriate, but the end result left too many vagaries.
"A living will often read, 'If there's nothing you can do to prolong life more than a short while, then I want to be comfortable.' That's a very limited document," said Clifford. "Maybe they should read, 'If my cancer is advanced and I have eight weeks to live with aggressive treatment, or two weeks to live without it, I want to be comfortable.' And when physicians talk to families about what the patient wants, we use abstractions and talk in terms of medical procedures, and that limits the conversation. For example, San Francisco General Hospital has a very good internal medicine program, but they found that the amount of time that hospital-certified physicians spoke with patients about the patient's preference was one minute. And when that patient is being admitted to an emergency room, that patient is sick and tired and is being asked, 'Do you want this or that procedure?' and there's very little verification that people understand what's going on."
That's where palliative care steps in.
'I have to be invited.'
"It's a very privileged position," said Clifford, who meets with his team before making rounds on Saint Al's intensive care and coronary care units each morning.
"But I can't see a patient about palliative care unless a doctor asks for it. I have to be invited," Clifford said. "As times passes, yes, more people have heard about palliative care; but over two-thirds of the patient population still don't know what it is."
And "what it is" is a lot of listening: listening to the patient, the patient's family, friends, social workers, specialists, etc. It's a challenging task when more and more differing cultures, some of whose practices conflict with modern American medicine, are presented in emergency rooms each day.
"When I first came here, everybody spoke English. Now, there are... well, how many cultures are there in Boise?" Clifford said. "Tibetans, Nepalese, Bosnians, Yugoslavians, Iranians, Iraqis, Saudis, Somalis... I could go on."
With that, the Cambia Health Foundation has chosen to train more caregivers in Idaho on culturally sensitive palliative care, with particular emphasis on the Latino community. According to census data compiled by the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Idaho's Latino population is growing faster than the general population: From 2000-2010, Idaho's non-Hispanic population increased by 17 percent; during the same 10 years, Idaho's Hispanic population increased by around 73 percent.
"Inside the Latino community, there's a higher rate of Stage 4 cancer diagnosis," said Hult. "And without proper and timely care, I'm afraid that can lead to a terminal outcome."
She added that because many Hispanic families weren't comfortable with asking questions, whether because of cultural barriers or uncertainty over their immigration status, they weren't getting the information they needed in a timely manner. That's when Cambia teamed up with Familias en Accion to reach out to Latinos in Portland, Ore., to discuss palliative care.
"And we saw some fantastic results," said Hult.
Some of the barriers are more obvious than others: linguistics, for example, require a translator, which could conflict with HIPAA (the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) which requires strict confidentiality of a patient's records.
"There have even been some questions among providers saying, 'We're not quite sure what we can or cannot say.' Even within the system, there's some confusion. But, yes, interpreters are perfectly allowed," said Hult. "And a patient navigator can help eliminate those barriers."
That would include a patient navigator like Gerberg, who spends her days building trust with patients' families and sometimes with patients who feel alone—like Pilar, whose family was far away at the time of her own cancer diagnosis.
"Here I was in the States and somebody says, 'cancer.' But three years later, here I am today, sharing my story because Olga was there for me," Pilar said. "In a very real way, I'm the voice of all those people who deal and struggle with the system. They're diagnosed with a chronic disease and they don't know where to go and whether something like palliative care is there for them."
Pilar and Gerberg spent time with caregivers at Saint Al's locations in Boise and Nampa, as well as St. Luke's Boise Medical Center, to talk about palliative care for Idaho's Latino community. The need, however, is much broader.
"A community needs to be ready to offer palliative care for different cultures," said Hult. "You have to have providers in place, providers like Dr. Clifford. And with that, we hope there's a ripple effect."
Clifford emphasized that it is equally important to understand that there's a risk of actually knowing too much about a culture, then defining a person by that culture.
"All cultures respond to genuine effort of respect," he said, adding that almost every day of his work includes combinations of joy, sorrow and grief.
"I see them every day," Clifford said, pausing to look out on the Boise Foothills from the fifth floor of Saint Al's. "To be a very good palliative care physician, you have to be able to access the joy, the relief and, yes, the heartbreak. They're all necessary. It's the human condition."
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Photo #1091 – 11.10.11
Upper Wheaton River Valley Panorama
(for a larger version of this panorama, click here!)
The Wheaton River Valley is where I probably spent the most time during my graduate research trips to the Yukon Territory…and it is photos like this one that help me remember just how beautiful this area was. On a wondrous blue sky day, we enjoyed a great snowy hike up along a snowmobile trail that included this open overlook of the valley and surrounding snow-capped mountains. I think we had to stop for a bit here to take in the scenery before continuing onwards toward our snowpit locations.


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Spruce (Guest) on 05/22/2007 4:48 pm
Rebel, eh? Beware the revolution...who knows if that goop is really laced with weapons grade mutagen that shall make them large enough to take over the world and divvy up the continents? I'd hate for RoG to be the guy at the start of the movie that ruins everything for everyone but the misfit hero(who shall of course become a combat master and get the hot girl. But sheesh, is his best friend ever screwed).
Captain Struggle (Guest) on 05/22/2007 4:51 pm
My son has had one of those things for over a year and we still haven't bought ants for it. I'll have to give it a try now that I see how interesting it is.
Calleh (Guest) on 05/22/2007 4:51 pm
Hah, If i was a insect, i'd choose that place to live.
It's probably a 4 star hotel of ants.
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After all, what's better than watching ants eat and dig their way through blue goop? Watching them eat and dig their way through glowing blue goop.
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Emeraldscales (Guest) on 05/22/2007 5:18 pm
I bought one of these back in February and all of my ants are still kicking. I bought my ants http://www.antsalive.com/ here and they only cost $5 versus whatever that other company charged, plus only 2 died en route. They've already made a multitude of pathways and are still really cool to watch!
Kryten Syxx (Guest) on 05/22/2007 5:34 pm
Glad you're enjoying them ants RoG! I tried out their cheaper line of termite farms ... but the wood enclosure they were kept in didn't last long. Now they are eating away at my desk. Excitement!
ElSingario (Guest) on 05/22/2007 5:44 pm
I've never had much interest in ant farms before...but you certainly make it sound like fun. I may have to pick one up to add meaning to my life.
diraru (Guest) on 05/22/2007 6:22 pm
I had an ant farm once, but they betrayed me! After I had put them all into their ant farm not on a table near my bed(the only table I had in my room that wasn't covered in random crap), I awoke the next day to find a few things wrong...
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2. the ants were either dead on the table or...
3. biting the hell out of my arm.
diraru (Guest) on 05/22/2007 6:23 pm
why is there a random not in there? am I dyslexic now?
Quandary (Guest) on 05/22/2007 6:56 pm
Is that giant ant eating that man's crotch? The horror!
Be wary this does not happen to you, Rog.
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Ones in this country are only like... Slightly smaller than 1 CM.
Lone Wolf (Guest) on 05/23/2007 3:27 pm
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Manel (Guest) on 05/23/2007 5:15 pm
Is it that hard to go outside and grab some ants? Just leave candy at the side walk wait a bit and HURRAY ANTS!
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Keith (Guest) on 05/23/2007 11:53 pm
I realize giant ants are cool but seriously, ordering ants by mail? Just scoop them from outside. If you want larger ants, just rob a children's zoo, or the LA zoo down in Griffith Park. There's no security there.
the boy (Guest) on 05/24/2007 12:34 pm
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ColdFusion (Guest) on 05/24/2007 9:04 pm
It would be pretty funny to get different species of ants and watch them have a war, but considering they're in the ant equivalent of a studio apartment here, that probably isn't too nice.
... God damn this is cool.
RebeccaOTool (Guest) on 05/25/2007 10:59 am
Dude, now I *really* want to get some ants and buy that thing(I suppose I could capture the ones who invaved my kitchen and not order any...).
z (Guest) on 05/26/2007 12:33 pm
Why do you have to order ants? There all over the ground, last I chaecked.
Stevetothepast (Guest) on 05/27/2007 10:30 pm
When I was younger I had this thing called "The ultimate bug collector set" which sounds better than it really was mainly because it was just a knock off tupper ware dish and a shitty 10 page booklet. Anyways I used to put 3-5 earwigs and a couple beetles in. Just let them sit for a few days until they hated each other. Very entertaining. You should throuw a few different bugs in there RoG. C'mon you know you want to.
ShadowNinaj (Guest) on 06/21/2007 1:07 pm
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Don (Guest) on 06/27/2008 8:00 pm
Ordering ants seems a little out there , but I guess people sell them
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