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The midwife comes home to a many-roomed house; dim lights illuminate the windows even when she is away at her work. After a day that began before sunrise, the door to the house comes open easily. She turns no key; there is no lock. As she enters, the scent of the house comes over her: cool, humid, gently salty, as if just inland.
She reaches her hand out in the barely lit entryway and leans her weight against a section of wall painted in a woman's hot exhalations, the exhalations that came when she insisted that all of her strength was gone. She feels for the switch of a lamp in the corner and the light appears as the pale yellow of a woman's closed eyelids, her head thrown back against the pillow, resting atop the mountain of her success.
Underfoot, the floor is an intricate network of wooden inlay: a late gush of blood interlocking with an urgent grip on the midwife's arm that leaves a bruise the next day. A sharp creak as she ascends the stairs; one finger held silently at a woman's lips — Please, he can never know. Her house is this way: drawing the curtains for the night, a woman's long black hair held away from her neck, damp with sweat. Sinking heavily into the bed, pulling starched sheets up over her legs, the delicate weight of a newborn laid in her arms — We did this together. Somewhere in the house is always the first birth: a back-issue magazine consigned to a high shelf or a deck of stiff playing cards in the side table drawer.
She can't remember the day the house was finished — wasn't it built by some other midwife? Some years ago she spent a single night in one of its small bedrooms looking out onto the street, the sidewalk dark and damp with late autumn rain. Over time she spent so many nights in the house that it simply made sense to stay; one day she finds that she has carved her initials into the soft wooden banister. She recalls no single moment in which this became her home, no date on the calendar to distinguish the before from the after.
But if you have time, let me tell you a story of before and after.
A nurse approaches me on the labor floor, tapping a ballpoint pen to the clipboard she holds tightly in front of her. "Twenty-one years old, baby number one, 32 weeks pregnant, not feeling the baby move," she reports. She rattles off the woman's vital signs and most recent lab results. "She's not ours," the nurse sniffs — that is, she does not come to us for prenatal care. "She's in triage room 20 whenever you're ready for her."
Rising from my desk I cross the floor and take a moment to read the electronic fetal monitor displaying the pattern of the baby's heart. I watch this jittery yellow line proceed across the screen, its occasional rises and returns painting a reassuring digital picture. Below that, a line reflecting the electrical activity of the uterus: flat, quiet, no contractions at all, just as I would hope for in a woman only eight months pregnant. Without laying eyes on the woman I know that her baby is likely in fine condition.
I casually consider what I will tell her; I am also thinking of the previous two women who have appeared in triage with the same concern. I am also half-considering: a training on breastfeeding that I need to complete; the birth I attended yesterday and what I could have done to prevent the hemorrhage; the anthropological text on birth practices in south India that I haven't yet finished; a letter I'd like to write.
Entering room 20 I find a young woman seated on the exam table; she is outfitted in clean, dark leggings, a tidy yellow sweater and glasses framed in navy plastic. Her hair is smoothed into a tight, shellacked bun. The mildly chemical scents of dandelion shampoo and laundry detergent perfume the air. I know that I will find her skin softly clammy with cocoa butter; she is presenting her body for examination.
I introduce myself and ask her what has brought her to the hospital this evening. She stares at the pastel walls of the triage room. "I don't feel the baby moving so much," she says. She is hoarse. "Also I think I have the flu." I help her lie back and see her wince when her shoulders reach the worn, brown plastic of the exam table. I ask her if she is in pain. "Oh yeah," she says flatly. "But it's nothing new. I hurt all the time."
As she pulls up her sweater and I place my hands on her abdomen I immediately feel the unmistakable form of a fetus changing its position, its intentions unknowable as it flexes and extends, as it draws fluid into its lungs and then expels it, an imitation of breathing. I gingerly take the woman's hand and place it atop the mound of her belly. "Do you feel this?" I try to look her in the eye but she has shifted her gaze to the ceiling. "This is your baby moving."
She is quiet, and I am quiet, and the grainy, electronic representation of the fetal heart is the only sound in the room, rising and returning. A thought crosses my mind of a woman's complex perineal laceration that took me an hour and a half to repair; I wonder if she is healing. "Oh. Yeah well I guess I do feel him now."
I take in the picture of this woman on the table: no sore throat, no vomiting, no diarrhea, no chills or malaise. The nurse has already told me her temperature but I place my hand on her forehead — no fever. She closes her eyes under the weight of my palm and tears begin to drop heavily from the beneath her glasses; I pull a cheap cardboard box of tissues from a drawer beside the table and touch one of the thin, white squares to her cheekbone. She takes it from my hand and covers her eyes.
I take the bulky monitors off her abdomen and wipe ultrasound gel from her skin. "Your baby is just fine," I tell her, "and I don't think you have the flu." The corners of her mouth tense; her eyes are giant with tears as she stares at the fluorescent light fixtures.
"But you are not fine," I add.
And the words surface in my head: And I am not fine. They are new to me and are quickly submerged beneath the memory of a man who assaulted his wife in triage last month, trying to pull out her IV before we called the police.
She shifts to her right and pushes herself up awkwardly to sitting. Nudging her glasses up her wet nose, she looks at me. "Doctors always say the baby is fine. I come in and they check the baby, they say the baby's fine and they send me away. But I think I'm dying."
And I am not fine — the thought turns over in my head.
The details tumble out: bulging discs in her spine that make it hard to walk or sit, prescription pain medications that she has been warned against taking while pregnant, chiropractors and physical therapists refusing to see her until after the baby is born. Severe depression for which her physician will no longer prescribe her medication because "it might hurt the baby." Counselors that are angry at her for missing appointments; she doesn't want to get out of bed anymore. No one at home to help her prepare for this baby that she doesn't want, no one to put a hand on her lower back. Pain in her mind and pain in her body, each intensifying the other until she has come to this moment in which it seems that she is dying or would like to be. Then she asks if, when the time comes, we could please numb her and do a c-section so that she won't have to feel anything.
I exhale heavily. Another black man was shot by the cops for no reason last week; today's news is full of images of the protesters. And then there is this woman in front of me.
I tell her that see her terrible pain and that I will not send her out of the hospital without making a plan for her to feel better; I tell her that she is a human being not an incubator and that she deserves to feel well. I ask her if she has a plan to hurt herself or someone else and she says that she does not. I ask if she would agree to speak with our social worker and she says that she would. I ask if she would like me to take care of her for the rest of her pregnancy — she says yes, and the yes feels like a bright green tendril in the dirt.
She and I sit over a clean sheet of paper and make lists: the medications it is safe for her to take; the ways to soothe her back pain until our medicine clinic can evaluate her; names of friends and relatives that she can call on for help; problems she would like to talk about with a counselor. We write this all down because it is something for her to hold on the way home, to keep in her coat pocket, and because in writing, unlike in thinking, you must eventually come to a stop. I make her an appointment to see me in the prenatal clinic the next day at eleven o'clock and, because no one knows what a midwife is, she says: "You're the first doctor who ever listened to me."
I am aware of a growing pain in my chest, a crackling like circuitry on the fritz.
As I watch her leave the labor floor I imagine: the next three women who will appear in triage with the same concerns; the next birth during which there will be a hemorrhage; the long run I will take when I get home. I think of the woman whose labor I will be inducing later this evening, wonder when the first labor was successfully induced with modern medications, and think how interesting it would be to read a social history of the induction of labor. My boss's comment to me during my recent job performance review appears in mind: "Even during an emergency we look at your face and can't tell that there's anything wrong — that's a good thing." Because I am not fine. Some time later, my shift comes to an end.
The next morning in the prenatal clinic my breath feels uncomfortably humid. There is a bitter taste on the back of my tongue; my body is electric and ungrounded. It is 10:50, it is 11:00, it is 11:10. I have no sooner realized that the woman from triage is never coming to her appointment than another woman's chart appears on my desk for review. I stare at it blankly.
There is a knock at my clinic room door and, before I can answer, the midwife next door has stuck her head in the room. Katherine is a senior midwife and a comfortable presence: she speaks with calm and deliberateness; she places her hands surely. She outfits herself in soft knits and delicate beads and sits with the stillness of a cat. I see her mouth begin to form its typical inquiry into my day, "You doing ok?" — an offer of her experienced perspective, should I need it — but she sees something in me and stops, her face arranging itself into concern. Slipping into the room and seating herself next to my desk, we look at each other the way animals do, without fear or social grace. Her eyes are serious and unblinking as I recount the story of the woman from triage room 20, of my hours spent with her, of her hopelessness, of her failure to appear today as if she has broken a promise to me.
"What's her name?" Katherine asks me.
"Her name?"
I search my memory and find only the crackling of circuitry on the fritz. Some low panic comes over me — what is her name?
I have been told that I have a memory like a steel trap: so sharp that it makes those close to me nervous. I will remember: the unstable living conditions of a woman I met once three months ago; the exact wording of an argument I had last summer; the exchange of vitamins and minerals in the kidneys as explained during a lecture in graduate school three years ago. But for the first time in months I find nothing in my mind at all — no thoughts of tasks to be completed, no blood tests or chest x-rays to be ordered, no clinical questions to which I've been meaning to look up the answers, no reminders of books to be added to my personal reading list.
After some pause, I say all that I can manage to Katherine: "I can't remember."
She trusted me, she told me that I had helped her, and today I can't even remember her name; we are strangers to each other, after all. I cover my face with my hands and find that my cheeks are damp with single tears.
With no preamble, Katherine tells me that I have burnout, and asks me how long I've been at this job. I protest that it's been less than a year, so burnout is impossible.
"And how long ago did you attend your first birth?" I don't answer.
Yes, that first birth: five years and two months ago, as a doula in a public hospital in China's Yunnan province. That I will always remember — the woman, her birth, her son, his name: Gabriel. Born into my bare hands because there was no one else, because the instinct is to reach out hands to catch a baby falling into the world. Dabbing my cheeks dry with a paper towel, the room smells faintly of the thin Himalayan air at 11,000 feet.
"I remember this moment when I was a new midwife," Katherine says plainly, "before I understood about the trauma." She outlines a plan for how I am going to complete this day and for what I will do when this day is over. I want to be listening because the plan sounds like a good one — something about rest and self-care — but I can't, because I don't believe her. What trauma? That total exhaustion, that dim view of humanity, that pop psychology explanation for being not strong enough or compassionate enough — that doesn't sound like me at all. I tell her as much and she looks at me with an expression that goes some distance beyond pity.
And so, because the will to excuse our own dysfunction is so strong, that is not the moment between the before and after of this story. It is only some days later, after yet another night shift with its bleary sleepless hours punctuated by the adrenaline of birth, and after a long drive out of New York City, up the east coast to New England and back again — the miles passing beneath my feet opening some meditative corner of my heart — that it finally comes. I find myself at home slowly returning to their rightful places all of the untidy objects of my apartment: the mail that has accumulated on the glass coffee table, the shoes lying on their sides in the hall, the empty teacup on the window sill. My whole body hurts. I roll a mat out on the living room floor but there is no way to stretch out the pain; I give up and begin to fold my clothes instead.
As I sit turning back shirt sleeves I feel slow a heat come over me, rising up my spine, up my neck and behind my ears, finally settling in my forehead. For a moment I think I'm coming down with something; I actually get out a thermometer but there is no fever. I go to the mirror by my bed and, leaning towards it, hope to see the face of someone familiar to me: one who comforts a woman with a warm and steady hand, one who brings her a measure of peace. Instead, I see for the first time what Katherine saw: a tension in my face that I barely recognize; I am not fine. Although it should have been clear, although it is everywhere in my writing, I only now take in the full picture myself in this moment and on my face I see: the terrible violence in women's lives, their stab wounds and HIV infections; their stillbirths on the sidewalk, their babies brought onto the labor floor in plastic buckets; their babies born having seizures; their babies born addicted to drugs; their infections and lacerations and hemorrhages that I have worried are my fault. I look in the mirror and see these things for what they are. I call them trauma and it sounds, suddenly, correct.
I close my eyes and feel my mind go silent, as if the plug has been abruptly pulled on that crackling circuitry, all of the painful energy draining from me in an instant. My body is cool and quiet, a long fever finally breaking.
I awake in a darkness like the pupil of an eye. Throwing off my heavy blankets and feeling my way out of the bedroom, I enter the kitchen and put my hand into an open drawer, withdrawing a box of matches. I strike one and it springs into flame. Moving to the kitchen window I touch the match to the wick of a short, white taper candle waiting upright on the sill, and then to another. Long shadows appear behind the objects of my kitchen: a purple glass vase in the shape of a woman's gratitude; she says I took away her suffering. A thin trail of sulphurous smoke from the extinguished match curls through the air: the first time I surreptitiously leaned in to inhale the finely scented skin of a newborn's head, feeling like a pickpocket. I move from room to room in this way, lighting candles, lighting lamps.
What is this house that I have built? On what date did I see these rooms for the first time, and when did I come to dwell in them? That first day when they said Get the midwife! and they meant me? — no, years before then. My first birth of midwifery school? — no, even before then I had laid the foundations. The first time I was taken in to a woman's confidence? — perhaps then, although that is a memory long since faded.
There is certainly this: five years ago, when I said that I would one day do this work, women began to tell me the stories of their own pregnancies and losses. So eager were they to unburden themselves that I found I needed only to hold out my hands and women would give me their stories of pain and triumph like bricks and bolts of cotton, like lengths of pine and knotted rugs. I never thought to choose among these stories or to put them aside; I collected them all in case I disrespected a woman by forgetting her, in case I might need them again, and because it was it was possible to keep them all when there were only a handful of such women, before they became fifty, then a hundred, then five hundred. When my arms could no hold no more, I stacked the bricks into walls and laid the pine into floors; I built a house from the intimacies of women, sewing the cotton into pillows and rolling out the rugs beneath my feet.
I was reminded recently of William Morris's admonition that we should have nothing in our houses that we do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. Standing in the light of incandescent bulbs, taking in the walls of what has become my home, its objects illuminated by a dozen tiny fires, I see instead of such curation the horror vacui that I have created over the course of years: books stacked from floor to ceiling, all of the infections I have cured; a hundred landscape paintings, women's internal places of retreat during the pain of labor. Paper bags of bric-a-brac wait in the hall: recollections of hard night shifts destined for delivery to the doorsteps of unsuspecting friends and lovers. My cheeks burning in this recognition, I am nonetheless grateful that in the diagnosis lies the cure. Settled at my broad mango wood table during quiet evenings and the long hours of a post-call afternoon, I am now turning these objects over in my hands: does it serve me to remember those mistakes that caused a new mother's fever? Is my life more exquisite for the addition of a new father's prayerful exclamations at the birth of his son?
I have a fear of the cold and dark months, associating them with the theft of my freedom, with being forced indoors away from the freezing rain. And so I am amazed to find, for the first time in years, that I feel no dread at the close of these short December days but feel instead a peace like the quiet whistling of a kettle on the stove.
In the dark of this winter, at this turn of the year, I am giving away these possessions.


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Prep Time and Total Time: 15 minutes
3 cans LeSeur peas,drained
1/4 cup celery, chopped
1/4 cup purple onion, chopped
1/4 cup green bell pepper, chopped
1/4 green onion, chopped
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup Lite Miracle Whip Salad dressing
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2. Best if vegetables drain in refrigerate overnight, then add cheese and dressing.
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From time to time, I pretend to be an algebraic topologist. But I'm not really hard-core and some of the deeper mysteries of the subject are still ... mysterious. One that came up recently is the exact role of CW-complexes. I'm very happy with the mantra "CW-complexes Good, really horrible pathological spaces Bad." but there's a range in the middle there where I'm not sure if the classification is "Good" or just "Pretty Good". These are the spaces with the homotopy type of a CW-complex.
In the algebraic topology that I tend to do then I treat CW-complexes in the same way that I treat Riemannian metrics when doing differential topology. I know that there's always a CW-complex close to hand if I really need it, but what I'm actually interested in doesn't seem to depend on the space actually being a CW-complex. But, as I said, I'm only a part-time algebraic topologist and so there may be whole swathes of this subject that I'm completely unaware of where actually having a CW-complex is of extreme importance.
Thus, my question:
In algebraic topology, if I have a space that actually is a CW-complex, what can I do with it that I couldn't do with a space that merely had the homotopy type of a CW-complex?


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Astellas and Drais Partner To Develop Third Astellas Compound through Tacurion
InterWest Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and Astellas Venture Management Invest $15 Million into Tacurion to Advance Compound
TOKYO, JAPAN and BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 7, 2013 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo: 4503, "Astellas") and Drais Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Drais") today announced that they have entered into a third partnership in the past year to develop and commercialize an Astellas compound. Under the terms of the agreement, Astellas will license ASP7035, of which a phase I study has been completed and is a phase IIa-ready, vasopressin V2 receptor selective agonist for the treatment of nocturia, to Tacurion Pharma, Inc. ("Tacurion"), a virtual company that will be operated by the Drais executive team. The partnership is similar to two prior Astellas and Drais agreements, to advance ASP3291 and ASP7147 through Telsar Pharma, Inc. ("Telsar") and Seldar Pharma, Inc. ("Seldar"), respectively – both also virtual companies. As with Telsar and Seldar, Tacurion will be operated by Drais, which has substantial clinical development experience.
Tacurion, Telsar and Seldar all share the same investors: InterWest Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures (two U.S. venture capital firms that are also the lead investors in Drais) plus Astellas Venture Management LLC (the corporate venture capital arm of Astellas). The three groups will invest a total of $15 million into Tacurion. These funds will provide a runway to further the development of ASP7035, with Drais serving as the exclusive provider of development services.
This partnership is reflective of Astellas' 'Multi-Track R&D' approach, in which the company moves select promising compounds forward without any disruption in the development process. The approach allows Astellas to optimize costs and control risks while accessing outside capital and expertise.
The partnerships are a long-term enterprise that Astellas and Drais may expand by moving additional Astellas compounds into virtual companies for development by Drais. Working with virtual companies is a straightforward solution that allows the investors to target their investment to one compound. Virtual companies also provide a simpler structure for any future sale of the compound.
The participants in the partnership have all worked together successfully in the past. The Drais executive team was previously the senior management of Yamanouchi R&D (a precursor company to Astellas) in Paramus, NJ. Later they served as the executive team of AkaRx, acquired by Eisai/MGI for $300 million in 2010. Dr. Arnold Oronsky, general partner at InterWest, and Dr. Jeff Bird, managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures, are both board members and investors in Drais; they previously held the same positions at AkaRx. Astellas Venture Management was also an investor in AkaRx.
Under the terms of the agreement, Tacurion has an exclusive worldwide license to develop and commercialize ASP7035. Tacurion will be responsible for all development, manufacturing and commercialization activities and their associated costs. Astellas is entitled to receive a milestone payment and royalties on future sales of ASP7035. Astellas also has a onetime option (but not an obligation) to acquire Tacurion upon the success of a proof of concept study. The company expects to initiate the phase II proof-of-concept study in the third quarter of 2013.
About Astellas Pharma Inc.
Astellas Pharma Inc., located in Tokyo, Japan, is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. Astellas has approximately 17,000 employees worldwide. The organization is committed to becoming a global category leader in Urology, Immunology (including Transplantation) and Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Neuroscience and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Complications and Kidney Diseases. For more information on Astellas Pharma Inc., please visit the company Website at www.astellas.com/en.
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Drais Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a privately held drug development company dedicated to the in-licensing, development and commercialization of novel therapeutic treatments that address unmet medical needs, providing significant benefits over currently available therapies.
Formed in September 2007, Drais completed a Series A financing round in January 2008 from lead investors, InterWest Partners (Menlo Park, CA) and Sutter Hill Ventures (Palo Alto, CA). The Drais management team consists of highly experienced individuals with a successful track record in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to forming Drais, the management team founded AkaRx, Inc. (acquired by Eisai/MGI in 2010 for $300 million). Drais is based in Bridgewater, New Jersey.
For more information, please visit: http://www.draispharma.com.
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For more than 30 years InterWest (www.interwest.com) has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs to build winning technology and life sciences companies. With more than 200 years of combined operating and investing experience, our team has raised $2.8B, completed more than 70 IPOs, and participated in nearly 60 upside acquisitions. As we invest InterWest X, a $650M fund, we continue to believe that providing capital is just the beginning of a long-term collaboration with entrepreneurs to turn their vision into a thriving company.
About Sutter Hill Ventures
Sutter Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm that finances technology-based start-up and early-stage companies that pioneer products or services in growth markets, especially those in information technology and health care. Founded in 1964, it is one of Silicon Valley's original venture capital firms. For more information about Sutter Hill Ventures, please visit www.shv.com.
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So I was thinking through some of the more high profile new developments and their retail occupants:
Astor Place - Bank
176 Perry (Richard Meier) - Perry Street restaurant
Urban Glass House - Empty
Orion - think its empty but not sure
Grand Madison - empty (although rumor of Gold's gym)
505 Greenwich - empty
255 Hudson - empty
101 Warren - Whole Food, Barnes & Noble, etc
260 Park Ave S - Bank
240 Park Ave S - ?
The Link - ?
304 Spring Street - empty
Sky Lofts - empty
4 West 21st - believe its a Starbucks
Can anyone help fill out this list or name others? I would have expected that many of these places would put banks as they are great tenants (low traffic, great credit).
I have heard rumors that a restaurant was going into Urban Glass House but nothing has happened yet. What is interesting is that the Hudson Square area is pretty much dead from a retail perspective and none of these new developments have retail tenants. Shocking that Duane Reade, a bank or Starbucks hasn't jumped on one of these leases.


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The first Robe ROBIN® 300E Wash fixtures in Australia were delivered to Total Event Services in Darwin by Robe's distributor ULA ... and went straight out on the Qantas Darwin Turf Club Gala Ball, Australia's largest outdoor seated dinner event, attended by 3,800 people.
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- Tulle adorned with tonal sequins
- 100% Polyester
- Bodice partially lined, sleeves un-lined, skirt fully lined
- Concealed zip at centre back
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- Form fitted bodice, fitted sleeve with a multi-layered full skirt
- Floor length (UK size 10 - 154cm / 60 inches side neck to hem) * Length varies 1cm between sizes
- Model is 175cm / 5ft 9in and is a UK size 8
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These three Honeywell air filters are compatible furnace filters that can be used as upgrades over the Trane Perfect Fit filter of the same size. Genuine Trane Perfect Fit filters have only a MERV 8 rating, while these compatible Honeywell furnace filters boast a MERV 10 rating.
These Honeywell AC filters replace the American Standard TFM245B0FR0 and TFM245BOFRO and the Trane BAYFTFR24M filter, which are 24x27x5 air filters for Trane Air Cleaner Filter models. In addition to replacing Trane furnace filters, these air filters can also be used in most media air cleaners that require a 24x27x5 furnace filter. Compare the actual dimensions below to ensure these filters will work with your media air cleaners.
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Shopfront 106
Ideally suited to ground floor applications, our Shopfront system is now available at a new depth of 106mm, meaning increased spans can be accommodated before a larger base size is required.
The system now integrates more seamlessly with our other product suites, including the Atlantic48™ and Flushglaze ranges, to ensure a flawless architectural result.
- Upgraded Glazing Specifications
- More Doorway Options
- Seamless Cross-Suite Integration
Upgraded Glazing Specifications
The range has been enhanced to accommodate double-glazing at depths of up to 27mm for windows.
With deeper pockets that give increased glass 'bite', the new range exceeds New Zealand compliance requirements.
More Doorway Options
Shopfront now offers door options up to 48mm thick with single and double glazing options up to 34mm.
In a local industry first, doors can be made fully watertight and low step thresholds, with airtight and watertight seals, are more easily accommodated.
Additional door features:
- A range of opening mechanisms, including sliding, hinged, pivot, auto and bifold is available.
- The Shop Front system can accommodate bifold doors up to 120kg and sliding panels in excess of 250kg.


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I want to Load a Picture Box or Image control with an image file as binary, Save it To an SQL Server DB. I want to be able to also retrieve the Image from SQL Server and display it in the Image Control when i need to.
I would like to do this using an ADO recordset and SQL Server 2008. Is there any one who has had this challenge before?
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Interroll offers highly flexible horizontal or space-saving vertical crossbelt sorters. These fast, robust and economical solutions for high-speed sortation can handle multiple items such as letters, parcels, packages, boxes and totes between 50g and 35kg.
The Courier, Express and Parcel distribution industry (in short CEP) has experienced several years of strong growth driven by trends such as urbanization and the rapid growth of e-commerce.
Depending on throughput rates, performance targets, and space, you can choose from a horizontal loop (circular structure) or vertical loop (linear structure) configuration.
The Interroll Crossbelt Sorter can be seamlessly integrated with our MCP Conveyor Modules to create a perfect environment for your parcels, boxes, and totes to run smoothly throughout your facility.
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Sortation in E-Commerce: Delivery on time
E-commerce and online shopping have grown tremendously in the recent years, at constant double-digit growth rates in economies around the world. If you can deliver faster, you get the business. In this complex and demanding market environment, logistics has become a key competitive factor. Considering that sorting, next to order picking, is the most cost-intensive area of logistics, it pays to invest in best-in-class sortation solutions.


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Adhita is an independent individual for whom the words "women´s liberation" are much more than just a few letters, however this doesn´t prevent her from being glamorous and seductive, in love with life and all the pleasures it has to offer. "Dynamic" is the word that characterizes her best. Indeed, she is quite the fidget, and if circumstances allow, she can often find herself between flights and trains. She craves adventure, and her promptness of action, adaptability and curiosity prove to be valuable assets in satisfying this urge. Her strengths are essentially her great courage, initiative and responsibility, as well as her sociability and easy-going manner, cleverness, sympathy and the enthusiasm that she inspires in others (she is obviously a passionate character). Her weaknesses are her emotional instability, fickleness, carelessness and her tendency to libertinism, with a somewhat superficial and adventurous attitude. On the other hand, her intuition is highly developed and she is extremely sensitive, and such virtues mean that she is generally perceived as being friendly by her peers. As a child she is a right "little monkey" and a true tomboy who much prefers to climb trees than bake cakes! Rather unpredictable and agitated, she can often be disobedient and disorderly... enough to enrage and exasperate her parents for a few years! Therefore, a strict, even authoritarian upbringing is desirable, although she will need to retain a certain amount of independence, whilst an early sex education wouldn´t do any harm and could even do some good.
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A humanist in general, Adhita likes making herself useful, sometimes even devoting herself to others. She therefore enjoys participating in group or community activities with a common ideology and focus. Love and romance are of fundamental value to this hot-blooded lady libertine who is susceptible to falling in love at first sight. Fidelity will no doubt be a virtue that she must learn. Her need to get off the beaten track can take her far in search of love, possibly abroad, unless some marginality in her chosen partner conquers her heart!
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Adhita is not fundamentally qualified for the vocation of a housewife, nor for that of a public servant for that matter, and she can be known to throw herself into a career a little too quickly even if this means changing jobs shortly afterwards. Her active number 32 encourages mobility, which is obviously not conducive to a lengthy program of study that would impede this craving for action. Occupations that are likely to bring her satisfaction are those related to travel and abroad (commercial occupations such as import-export), sales and marketing, advertising, representation, the media, transport, tourism and social and humanitarian occupations (medical, paramedical or justice).
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Climbit at the W5 Children's Museum
A climbing sculpture built to reflect the shape of a Celtic dragon winds its way through several stories of this children's museum in Belfast. Kids can navigate through the structure by climbing on a series of 96 curved platforms steps that are surrounded by vinyl-coated cables.Designers Luckey Climbers have created varying sizes of these platformed climbing spaces in different spots around the world. The only difficulty with this one may be talking your kids into coming down when it's time to go.
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Dokk1 Library and Citizens' Services Center
A series of four whimsical playgrounds surround this library and community center overlooking a harbor in Denmark. Danish designers Monstrum created scenes to display travel around the world at different compass points surrounding the building. Kids can climb on a giant wooden eagle, tunnel through a slide held up by an oversized bear, or explore the volcano or jungle play areas. A visit to the library might be slightly calmer after kids get some energy out on the playgrounds.
Aarhus Public Libraries, Dokk1
Watkins Regional Park
Kids and parents can both delight in seeing a classic book and movie come to life at this Wizard of Oz-themed playground in Maryland. A giant yellow-brick road leads to the play area where visitors can slide down giant ruby slippers and play in structures modeled after Dorothy's farm and The Emerald City.The playground also features replicas of pages from the L. Frank Baum book, and giant word puzzles where visitors can search for words like "Dorothy" and "Wizard." Caregivers can also rest on a spiderweb and broomstick bench while their little ones contend with the (thankfully, imaginary) flying monkeys.
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Woods of Net Pavillion at Hakone Open Air Museum
Textile artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam has been hand crocheting brightly colored netted play areas throughout the world for several years. At the Hakone Open Air Museum, kids can bounce on or hang from one of MacAdam's designs, which is hung inside a wooden pavilion. The fiber materials are designed to stretch and give as children interact with them, and adults and kids will both appreciate the fanciful, Dr.-Seuss like designs.
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"The Land" on Plas Madoc
Since many kids can stay happily entertained with a cardboard box or a giant pile of dirt, not all play areas need artful designs. "Adventure playgrounds" offer children a chance to literally get their hands dirty with unstructured play. "The Land" in Wales is filled with junkyard items like tires, wood, and hammers, and kids are encouraged to interact with materials in self-directed play. Children build with and even destroy the myriad items in the playground.There are three to five adult Playworkers are on hand at the playground at any given time, and while the workers won't make the kids follow a list of strict rules, they might actually help them start a fire. Kids five and over can be left without parents and kids under five can visit with a caregiver.
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The Lorber Family Playground at Jackson Square
This playground in Boston contains a "Walholla" play structure – a narrow vertical play space with wire mesh walls. In the giant hamster maze-like space, kids can enter and exit through different holes and traverse an orange ribbon-like path. If the children tire of running in the 10-foot play area, the playground also has a zipline and swings.
LEGO House Playgrounds
Little brick builders will love exploring The LEGO House that opened in 2017 in Billund, the city where the toy was invented. The immersive play experience gives kids a chance to explore unique LEGO exhibits in a multi-story building that looks like a life-sized creation built with the famous bricks. The nine brightly colored playgrounds also allow kids to play out scenes like dodging a sea monster in a bright yellow submarine to balancing on surfboards near an oversized shark.
Inflatable Island Playground
This unicorn-themed inflatable playground floating off the coast of the Philippines has a play space as big as eight basketball courts. Visitors can rock climb, jump, and slide on different inflatable attractions, which are decorated with unicorns and rainbows. There are different areas for kids versus more "advanced" playground users, so people of all ages can get in on the fun.
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Sunbird Park Playground
This park, perched above Lionshead Village in Vail, has oval nest-like structures for kids to play in along with rope bridges and slides. Little visitors can climb into the cocoons and peer down on ice skaters in the winter or water fountains in the summer. Vail playgrounds often include artists as part of their design teams, and Sunbird Park designers were inspired by bird habitats when creating this park.
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Cadboro-Gyro Park Playground
This waterfront park has a beach, a zipline, and giant concrete sea creature sculptures to play on. Visitors can slide down an octopus tentacle or climb on the giant green sea serpent named Cadborosaurus, or "Caddy" for short. Caddy draws on a local legend of sightings of a sea serpent in Cadboro Bay in the 1930s.
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Lion's Park Playscape
Thousands of 55-gallon drums were used to construct this playground in Alabama. Rural Studio, a design program affiliated with Auburn University where architecture students work on community projects, created the playscape using donated steel drums. The repurposed drums form a shade structure and play space for kids to climb, jump, and swing.
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My sister stole my identity - now my credit history is crap
Here's my question,
My sister used my identity to take out several loans and 5 credit cards over the past 3 years.
I found out last week and paid off the loans, and the creditors claim they will take it off the 7 year bad listing on my credit report.
I can't send my sister to jail. I would be hurting her childing who have no where to go. I have a 1 bedroom apartment, I can't house them in that. And now that i'm broke from paying her dept, I couldn't afford to house them.
Anyways, the creditors have been really nice to me and kinda feel sorry for me. They are aware of my situation, they have spoken to my sister as well as me.
They promise me that it won't stay on my credit report for 7 years. What kind of assurance do I need to make that happen???


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Following Dancing Stage's previous sojourns in the arcades, putting dancing game fans through their paces to an eclectic line-up of pop classics, the foot-confounding Konami creation brings its latest wares exclusively to PS2 for more party-friendly antics. Thing is, the beauty of dancing games is that anyone can have a crack at them; you don't need to be an expert to have a go, and they're great fun to play at shindigs with friends, family, the dog etc. In the same spirit as Sony's gathering-friendly gizmo, EyeToy, it's all about flinging yourself about and having a laugh. The other big plus of Dancing Stage Fever's console versions is that you can quietly practice and get good in the comfort of your own home, then head off to the arcades to wow the crowds with your mad boogying skills.
The biggest difference you'll spot between Fever and earlier titles in the franchise is the addition of licensed music videos, which accompany the tracks onscreen. So you can shake your stuff to the Spice Girls as they 'zigga-zig-ah' to Wannabe, go One Step Beyond with Madness or practice your fancy (feline) footwork with Cool For Cats by Squeeze. The gameplay retains the genre-standard 'step-on-arrows-as-they-flash-up-on-screen' formula, but there'll no doubt be options to ad-lib a little and go freestyle, if you fancy impressing your audience.
Fever boasts a variety of difficulty levels to ease you into the action gently too, so you can start off on Easy and, as you begin to muster confidence and master the finer points of moving around the mat in time to the arrows scrolling down the screen, you can progress to the more tricky settings. There's also the option to get physical in Workout Mode, or go head-to-head with a toe-tapping pal in Two-Player Mode.
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Guyana: Fiscal freedom
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Guyana: Fiscal freedom index (0-100): For that indicator, we provide data for Guyana from 1995 to 2020. The average value for Guyana during that period was 63 points with a minimum of 56 points in 1995 and a maximum of 69 points in 2015. The latest value from 2020 is 66 points. For comparison, the world average in 2020 based on 178 countries is 77 points. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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The Fiscal Freedom index for Guyana from The Heritage Foundation reflects the tax burden imposed by the government, including the direct taxes on individuals and corporations and the overall amount of tax revenue as a a share of GDP.
Definition: The Fiscal freedom index measures the tax burden imposed by government. It is composed of three quantitative factors: the top marginal tax rate on individual income, the top marginal tax rate on corporate income, and the total tax burden as a percentage of GDP.
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We saw what The Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man looked like at Comic-Con, but now his scaly excellence has been unveiled to the world in the most ignominious way possible...as a movie tie-in Pez dispenser! Spoilers ahoy!
When the film hits theaters July 3, 2012, The Lizard will be depicted by actor Rhys Ifans (and not an easily transportable sugar tablet distribution device). In any case, I really hope this doodad is canonical, and The Lizard actually possesses the ability to shoot candy bricks out of his torso.
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 17 August 2012. OCLC has successfully completed implementation of the WorldCat Local shared discovery service for AdamNet, a consortium of over 30 libraries in greater Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With WorldCat Local, libraries in the region have enhanced the ability of their users—as well as users around the globe—to access their unique materials. AdamNet's shared discovery service is currently in production for 14 of its member libraries.
In WorldCat Local, AdamNet found a successor to its traditional group catalogue, Digital Library Amsterdam, and more.
"WorldCat Local shared discovery offers participating libraries great additional value because they have already loaded their collections in WorldCat," said Hans van Velzen, chairman of AdamNet and CEO of the Public Library Amsterdam. "OCLC's partnerships with popular search engines and websites such as Google, Google Books and Google Scholar, add visibility to our members' collections. This means that Web searchers will find resources in member library collections on Web sites where they often begin their research."
"Also, with our new shared discovery service, we can search all our collections at once and see what is available at individual member libraries. And more institutions can join quickly and easily," continued Mr. van Velzen.
"AdamNet offers a unique combination of collections from academic, public library and cultural heritage institutions," says Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director, OCLC EMEA. "These materials represent the best of our culture and will undoubtedly be of interest to a global audience."
WorldCat Local shared discovery is created, in part, from records catalogued in WorldCat. Library records in the Netherlands are contributed to WorldCat via a synchronisation gateway that updates in real-time as libraries catalogue in the Dutch union catalogue, the GGC. Data contributed to WorldCat is made accessible via the OCLC WorldShare Platform for re-use through Web services, like the WorldCat Search API and through syndication with partners. A full list of syndication partners can be found on the OCLC website.
Institutions currently participating in AdamNet include:
- Aletta, institute for women's history
- Amstelland Libraries
- Cultural Heritage Agency
- Goethe-Institut
- International Institute of Social History (IISG)
- NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Public Library Amsterdam (OBA)
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
- South Africa House
- The new library (Almere)
- University of Amsterdam (UvA) & Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)
- VU University Amsterdam
About AdamNet
AdamNet is a network of libraries in the Amsterdam area. Together, the over 30 AdamNet libraries have millions of books, thousands of magazines, various multimedia and much more available. Access to the AdamNet libraries is free, but for borrowing and in some cases for accessing literature, a membership is needed. Some AdamNet libraries have a combined card: the AdamNet Card.


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LITCHFIELD, Conn. — "This guy's the champion," said Patricia Brennan, a behavioral ecologist, leaning over the nether regions of a duck — a Meller's duck from Madagascar, to be specific — and carefully coaxing out his phallus.
The duck was quietly resting upside-down against the stomach of Ian Gereg, an aviculturist here at the Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Sanctuary. Dr. Brennan, a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University and the University of Sheffield, visits the sanctuary every two weeks to measure the phalluses of six species of ducks.
When she first visited in January, the phalluses were the size of rice grains. Now many of them are growing rapidly. The champion phallus from this Meller's duck is a long, spiraling tentacle. Some ducks grow phalluses as long as their entire body. In the fall, the genitalia will disappear, only to reappear next spring.
The anatomy of ducks is especially bizarre considering that 97 percent of all bird species have no phallus at all. Most male birds just deliver their sperm through an opening. Dr. Brennan is investigating how this sexual wonder of the world came to be.
Part of the answer, she has discovered, has gone overlooked for decades. Male ducks may have such extreme genitals because the females do too. The birds are locked in an evolutionary struggle for reproductive success.
Dr. Brennan was oblivious to bird phalluses until 1999. While working in a Costa Rican forest, she observed a pair of birds called tinamous mating. "They became unattached, and I saw this huge thing hanging off of him," she said. "I could not believe it. It became one of those questions I wrote down: why do these males have this huge phallus?"
A bird phallus is similar — but not identical — to a mammalian penis. Most of the time it remains invisible, curled up inside a bird's body. During mating, however, it fills with lymphatic fluid and expands into a long, corkscrew shape. The bird's sperm travels on the outside of the phallus, along a spiral-shaped groove, into the female bird.
To learn about this peculiar organ, Dr. Brennan decided she would have to make careful dissections of male tinamous. In 2005 she traveled to the University of Sheffield to learn the art of bird dissection from Tim Birkhead, an evolutionary biologist. Dr. Birkhead had her practice on some male ducks from a local farm.
Gazing at the enormous organs, she asked herself a question that apparently no one had asked before.
"So what does the female look like?" she said. "Obviously you can't have something like that without some place to put it in. You need a garage to park the car."
The lower oviduct (the equivalent of the vagina in birds) is typically a simple tube. But when Dr. Brennan dissected some female ducks, she discovered they had a radically different anatomy. "There were all these weird structures, these pockets and spirals," she said.
Somehow, generations of biologists had never noticed this anatomy before. Pondering it, Dr. Brennan came to doubt the conventional explanation for how duck phalluses evolved.
In some species of ducks, a female bonds for a season with a male. But she is also harassed by other males that force her to mate. "It's nasty business. Females are often killed or injured," Dr. Brennan said.
Species with more forced mating tend to have longer phalluses. That link led some scientists to argue that the duck phallus was the result of males' competing with one another to fertilize eggs.
"Basically, you get a bigger phallus to put your sperm in farther than the other males," Dr. Brennan said.
Dr. Brennan realized that scientists had made this argument without looking at the female birds. Perhaps, she wondered, the two sexes were coevolving, with elaborate lower oviducts driving the evolution of long phalluses.
To test this idea, Dr. Brennan traveled to Alaska. Many species of waterfowl breed there, with a wide range of mating systems. Working with Kevin McCracken of the University of Alaska and his colleagues, she caught and dissected 16 species of ducks and geese, comparing the male and female anatomy.
If a male bird had a long phallus, the female tended to have a more elaborate lower oviduct. And if the male had a small phallus, the female tended to have a simple oviduct. "The correlation was incredibly tight," Dr. Brennan said. "When you dissected one of the birds, it was really easy to predict what the other sex was going to look like."
Dr. Brennan and her colleagues are publishing their study today in the journal PLOS One.
Dr. McCracken, who discovered the longest known bird phallus on an Argentine duck in 2001, is struck by the fact that it was a woman who discovered the complexity of female birds. "Maybe it's the male bias we all have," he said. "It's just been out there, waiting to be discovered."
Dr. Brennan argues that elaborate female duck anatomy evolves as a countermeasure against aggressive males. "Once they choose a male, they're making the best possible choice, and that's the male they want siring their offspring," she said. "They don't want the guy flying in from who knows where. It makes sense that they would develop a defense."
Female ducks seem to be equipped to block the sperm of unwanted males. Their lower oviduct is spiraled like the male phallus, for example, but it turns in the opposite direction. Dr. Brennan suspects that the female ducks can force sperm into one of the pockets and then expel it. "It only makes sense as a barrier," she said.
To support her argument, Dr. Brennan notes studies on some species that have found that forced matings make up about a third of all matings. Yet only 3 percent of the offspring are the result of forced matings. "To me, it means these females are successful with this strategy," she said.
Dr. Brennan suspects that when the females of a species evolved better defenses, they drove the evolution of male phalluses. "The males have to step up to produce a longer or more flexible phallus," she said.
Other scientists have documented a similar coevolution of genitals in flies and other invertebrates. But Dr. Brennan's study is the clearest example of this arms race in vertebrates.
"It's rare to find something so blatantly obvious in the female anatomy," Dr. Brennan said. "I'm sure it's going on in other vertebrates, but it's probably going in ways that are more subtle and harder to figure out."
To test her hypothesis, Dr. Brennan plans to team up with a biomechanics expert to build a transparent model of a female duck. She wants to see exactly what a duck phallus does during mating.
Dr. Brennan also hopes to find more clues by studying phalluses on living ducks. At the waterfowl sanctuary in Litchfield, she is spending the year tracking the growth and disappearance of phalluses in ducks and geese. Hardly anything is known about how the phallus waxes and wanes — not to mention why.
"It may be easier to regrow it than to keep it healthy," Dr. Brennan said. "But those are some of the things I may be able to find out. When you're doing something that so little is known about, you can't really predict what's going to happen."


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Trapped in the Neutral Zone
Locked Out by the NHL, Blackhawks Star Patrick Kane Decamps to Switzerland—With Mom
Biel, Switzerland
Were it not for his car, Patrick Kane would get around town here without ever tipping anyone off that he is an NHL star for the Chicago Blackhawks. But once the locals see his ride, they know. In Biel, it just smacks of hockey player—mainly because it's a Skoda station wagon with the Biel hockey team's logo plastered across the side.
So when he steps out of it, people realize that he must be one of Biel's two NHL refugees, Kane or the Boston Bruins' Tyler Seguin. The fans just don't know which is which.
"They want to talk to you and ask if you're Kane or Seguin," Kane said last week.
They are just two of the 26 NHL players who came to Switzerland this fall while they wait for the lockout to end. The owners and the NHL Players Association have been deadlocked since Sept. 16. On Monday the league canceled games through Dec. 30.
What sets the 24-year-old Kane apart from the other players, aside from his status as a former NHL Rookie of the Year and Stanley Cup winner, is that when he came to Europe, he imported a support network: his mom.
"And when I got here, I was like, 'There's just no way,'" Donna Kane said. "I cook for him every day. There's only like five stations on television. There's not much really to do. It's kind of lonely."
Kane arrived in Switzerland in early November because he wanted a place to play in case the NHL season was canceled completely. He picked it over offers from higher-caliber leagues in Sweden and Russia, he said, because Sweden was only taking players if they committed to staying the whole season and, "going to Russia's almost scary."
"I knew nothing about the city, to be honest," Kane said, adding that he had only been to Zurich with the Blackhawks for two exhibitions in 2010. "I wasn't really sure what to expect, but it's a totally different world."
Here are some facts about Biel: The town, also known as Bienne, has a population just over 50,000. Detroit Red Wings legend Chris Chelios played three games here during the 1994 lockout. And Biel's inhabitants are so thoroughly bilingual that even the street signs are in two languages.
Unfortunately for Kane, neither of those is English.
Still, his lack of German and French skills hasn't prevented him from communicating with his teammates or his coaches, who run practices by simultaneously translating from German to English.
"It was a dream to get him," said general manager Martin Steinegger, who spent 22 years as a defenseman in the top Swiss league. "If you look at Patrick's hands, it's unbelievable. I've never seen such good hands with the puck."
Biel is under .500 since Kane arrived, but he has 15 points in 14 games. It's an excellent return, but not nearly enough to earn him the team's top-scorer helmet, which is painted up with orange flames like a motorcycle.
That belongs to Seguin for now. He gets to wear it during games, along with a special jersey that says, "Top Scorer" across the back instead of his name. "Some of the guys back home want me to sneak [the helmet] out of here," Seguin said.
When that call to go home eventually comes, Kane said he will have three days to gather his things and get back to Chicago, which shouldn't take too long since he only packed for about two weeks.
"I'm really surprised I've been here this long," he said.
For a month now, Kane and his mother have lived in a modern three-bedroom on the edge of the forest about five minutes from the rink. It's the first time she has lived with her son since he left home for junior hockey at the age of 14. And the apartment is so Spartan that one of the bedrooms remains totally empty.
Between them, the Kanes brought only his hockey bag, some sticks and three suitcases: one's for him, one's for her and the third is essentially America in a Bag. Among its contents are cereal bars, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, a raft of bestselling novels and, of course, a book about Tim Tebow.
Biel's practices and home games unfold in a 40-year old arena that isn't much warmer than the winter outside. The locker rooms are so tight that the skates are stored in racks screwed to the ceiling. Players have to squeeze past the giant heaters recirculating that hockey gear smell.
Kane called the setup reminiscent of his days as a junior in the Ontario Hockey League.
Like in juniors, Kane carries his own bags and takes buses to and from every road game, never staying anywhere overnight. He also supplied most of his own gear. And when he needed to order an extra 36 sticks, they came straight from Bauer in North America in a matter of days. (Biel's equipment manager is still amazed at how quickly they showed up. His orders usually take about seven weeks.) "You take certain things for granted being in Chicago," Kane said. "It's really opened my eyes."
Back home, Kane has a reputation for partying and creating "distractions" away from the ice, most famously a dustup with a Buffalo cabdriver in 2009.
In Biel with his mother, he has been a homebody. Most evenings after practice, they stay in and watch movies or American television shows on a laptop. Even on days off, he barely leaves the place, and that is mainly to work out at the arena. Donna finds it challenging to stave off boredom—she hardly knows anyone here and her husband and three daughters are back home in Buffalo. But for now she sees it as part of her job as a hockey mom.
It's a small price to pay for someone used to seeing her son play in person more than 40 times a year. For home games, she drives him to the rink before going into the stands across from Biel's bench. She watches from the edge of her seat, texting updates home to Buffalo with every goal.
"We're not here on a vacation," she added. "We're here for him to play hockey."
Kane had been waiting to do that all summer. As soon as he landed here, he had Steinegger drive him to the rink. He wanted to skate. So Steinegger obliged and sent him on the ice with whoever was there. That just happened to be EHC Biel's mosquito team of 10-year-olds.
Since then, he has also shared the ice with a number of NHL players. Last Friday night, when Biel faced the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, he matched up against the New York Rangers' Michael Del Zotto and the Ottawa Senators' Jason Spezza. Their in-game interactions amounted to little more than Del Zotto shouting at Kane and Seguin that he was closing in on them. "A courtesy," Seguin said.
They followed up the game with some lockout commiseration. The word "contract" repeatedly floated out of their huddle. They didn't have much to go on beyond their daily updates from NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr and a few texts from players back home.
But Kane wasn't part of the discussion. He was already out the door and through the scrum of fans. His mom was waiting for him in the car.
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Acceptability judgments are reports of a speaker's or signer's subjective sense of the well-formedness, nativeness, or naturalness of (novel) linguistic forms. Their value comes in providing data about the nature of the human capacity to generalize beyond linguistic forms previously encountered in language comprehension. For this reason, acceptability judgments are often also called grammaticality judgments (particularly in syntax), although unlike the theory-dependent notion of grammaticality, acceptability is accessible to consciousness. While acceptability judgments have been used to test grammatical claims since ancient times, they became particularly prominent with the birth of generative syntax. Today they are also widely used in other linguistic schools (e.g., cognitive linguistics) and other linguistic domains (pragmatics, semantics, morphology, and phonology), and have been applied in a typologically diverse range of languages. As psychological responses to linguistic stimuli, acceptability judgments are experimental data. Their value thus depends on the validity of the experimental procedures, which, in their traditional version (where theoreticians elicit judgments from themselves or a few colleagues), have been criticized as overly informal and biased. Traditional responses to such criticisms have been supplemented in recent years by laboratory experiments that use formal psycholinguistic methods to collect and quantify judgments from nonlinguists under controlled conditions. Such formal experiments have played an increasingly influential role in theoretical linguistics, being used to justify subtle judgment claims or new grammatical models that incorporate gradience or lexical influences. They have also been used to probe the cognitive processes giving rise to the sense of acceptability itself, the central finding being that acceptability reflects processing ease. Exploring what this finding means will require not only further empirical work on the acceptability judgment process, but also theoretical work on the nature of grammar.
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I was thinking about correct horse battery staple. I am not a native English speaker. In my language, the above could be written as:
vqrno kon bateriq telbod OR
вярно кон батерия телбод.
Keep in mind that the Latin variant can have several variations, depending on how I choose to represent the sounds from my language with English letters. This is, however, very easy for me to remember, as I do it consistently.
Roughly what would be the security value of the above two pass-phrases*?
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This question is motivated by this recent question. Suppose $R$ is commutative, Noetherian ring and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module. Let $FD(M)$ and $PD(M)$ be the shortest length of free and projective resolutions (with all modules f.g.) of $M$ respectively.
We will be interested in two conditions on $R$:
(1) For all f.g. $M$, $PD(M)<\infty$ if and only if $FD(M)<\infty$.
(2) For all f.g. $M$, $PD(M)=FD(M)$.
It is not hard to see that one is equivalent to (3): all f.g. projective modules are stably free. Also, (2) is equivalent to (4): all f.g projectives are free. It is natural to ask whether (1) and (2) are equivalent. I don't think they are, but can't find a counter-example. Thus:
Can we find a commutative Noetherian ring which satisfies (3) but not (4)?
Some thoughts: (3) is equivalent to the Grothendick group of projective $K_0(R)=\mathbb Z$. Well-known class of rings satisfying (3): local rings or polynomial rings over fields.
Of course, there are well known rings which fails (4): coordinate rings of $n$-spheres $R_n=\mathbb R[x_0,\cdots,x_n]/(x_0^2+\cdots+x_n^2-1)$ for $n$ even.
Unfortunately, for those rings we have $K_0(R_n)=\mathbb Z^2$. (except for $n=8r+6$ which do provide examples, see below)
UPDATE: it seems to me that Tyler's answer suggests $R_5$ may work, but one needs to check some details.
UPDATE 2: I think one can put together a more or less complete solution, based on Tyler and Torsten's answers, the comments and some digging online.
Claim: $R_n$ satisfies (3) but not (4) if $n=5,6$ or $n=8r+k$ with $r>0$, $k\in \{3,5,6,7\}$
Proof: Let $S^n$ be the $n$-sphere and $C(S^n)$ be the ring of continuous functions.
To show that $R_n$ satisfies (3), it suffices to show $K_0(R_n)=\mathbb Z$ (Lemma 2.1, Chapter 2 of Weibel's K-book) or the reduced group $\tilde K_0(R_n)=0$. But one has isomorphism (known to Swan, see for example 5.7 of this paper): $$\tilde K_0(R_n) \cong \tilde KO_0(S^n) $$ the reduced $K$-groups of real vector bundles, and it is well-known that $\tilde KO_0(S^n) =0$ if $n\equiv 3,5,6,7 (\text{mod} 8)$.
It remains to show our choices of $R_n$ fail (4). Let $T_n$ be the kernel of the surjection $R_n^{\oplus n+1} \to R$ defined by the column of all the $x_i$s. $R$ is projective, so the sequence splits, thus $T_n$ is stably free.
On the other hand, $R_n$ embeds in $C(S^n)$ and tensoring with $C(S^n)$ turns $T_n$ into the tangent bundle of $S^n$. If $T_n$ is free, said bundle has to be trivial. But $S_n$ has trivial tangent bundle if and only if $n=1,3,7$.
While it is not surprising that topological machinery is helpful, I would still be interested in seeing a pure algebraic example, so if you have one, please post.


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All that stuff I said about the Kings last time? I stick by that.
Frankly I don't see how this team is first in the West. They have one player with what you'd call very good offensive numbers (only Anze Kopitar is above a point a game, anyway) and they are TERRIBLE on defense.
Look at the numbers: they're fourth in goals against with 110, which is obviously excellent. But then they're 24th in goals allowed, with 106. How does a team that's plus-4 in goal differential climb to the top of the Western Conference and, indeed, into a tie for the league lead? It doesn't seem possible. Jon Quick's starts are a subpedestrian 2.60/.906. Backup Erik Ersberg's are worse.
And here they are. One player with more than 30 points. Top of the league.
They got embarrassed by a mediocre Canucks team the other night, and yet they keep rolling. Maybe they've played a weak schedule (I don't know one way or the other), maybe they've got a high shooting percentage (without having done the math, it looks pretty regular to me), maybe they're backed by the Russian mob and intimidating other teams into giving up goals (this seems the most likely).
I dunno. But I really hope all this silliness stops tonight.
The Calgary Flames (19-10-4 for 42 points. Tied for sixth in the West, second in the Northwest) and the Los Angeles Kings (22-11-3 for 47 points. First in the West, first in the Pacific).
7:30 p.m. Mountain time and 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. All other time zones should give in to temptation.
Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta.
Calgary is 8-5-1 at home this year, but is on a three-game losing streak. The Kings are 12-7-1 on the road, and are playing their third Western Canadian team in four days.
What (to hate about the Kings)
Alex Frolov — The current whipping boy of coach Terry Murray (what is it with coaches named Murray and their seemingly irrational hatred of good players?) is starting to score again lately with three points in his last three games. This is a big improvement over his prior form and will undoubtedly hurt the Flames tonight.
Jon Quick — This kid is playing his ass off in net of late, and while the Kings' goals against numbers are really quite bad, he's not totally to blame. In fact, he was the NHL Player of the Week last week, so I mean that's pretty good isn't it?
Dustin Brown — He's like Frolov in that he started out slowly but is rapidly improving to the point he's not even a giant albatross around the neck of my fantasy team any more. Of course, my having said that ensures that he will regress to levels of poorness experienced earlier this season.
Because you're it's not on pay per view for once. Enjoy the game and prepare for this savage beating in the comments section.