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Thanks to the latest technology, you can now do anything from book a taxi to order takeaway at the touch of a button. So why shouldn't the beauty industry be the same? At glamdeva.com, we connect you with all the best HMUA services in Lancashire, available direct on an on-demand basis.
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Josh Palma and the Global Rider Search
Back in 2004 a then unknown rider named Josh Palma entered the Ambush/Buywake.com Global Rider Search Contest. To say that winning changed his life would be a bit of an understatement. As the winner Palma was hooked up with a handful of sponsorships, including a full sponsorship from Ambush/Buywake.com. Soon enough Josh was making waves in the industry with his smooth, technical, and consistent riding. These days he is known around the world for his competitive abilities, laid-back attitude, coaching at The Boarding School, and just being an all around wake shredder. Here is some of what Josh had to say about winning the first GRS and what it did for him and his career.
"Winning it was really pretty shocking. I'd shot that video with my roommate during my sophomore year of college. A week before the submission deadline my roommate broke his femur and up until that point we only had a little bit of footage, but I asked him if he wanted to throw something together because he liked editing and was obviously laid up at the time. It was super last minute and sort of on the whim, so I wasn't expecting much, but when I got a call from Chuck Morrow (owner of Ambush/Buywake.com) one afternoon I was completely shocked.
Winning that first GRS hooked me up with a handful of brands and really got me connected in the industry. It was a really revolutionary contest. Chuck and the whole contest really opened a ton of doors for me, but he also made it clear that it was only a one year thing. He said if I worked hard and stuck with it, it could lead to more opportunities in the industry — and obviously it did. At the time the contest was really crucial for me because I wasn't a 14-year-old kid who had a ton of time to develop, grow and build connections in the industry. I was in college and knew the window of opportunity wouldn't be open much longer.
Really, it's probably the most important thing that's ever happened for me in my career, because it really is what started my career in the professional sense. To be propelled into the industry by something like this was exactly what I needed in order to make wakeboarding my career. It also gave me the confidence that I could make wakeboarding professionally a reality — before I won I just thought it might be cool to finish school and maybe enter a couple contests, but I never thought I'd be able to do what winning the contest allowed me to do."
Now, as a well-respected pro and the original GRS winner, Palma is looking forward to being on the panel of judges who will select the next Global Rider Search winner. This year Ambush/Buywake.com and Alliance have teamed up with Liquid Force to bring back the revolutionary contest and help change the life of one rider. All you have to do is submit a video of your riding to the designated site. One video to potentially change your life and help you become the next professional wakeboarder or wakeskater. For more info on the contest and how to submit your video, go to http://www.buywake.com/grsv2/ Submissions close August 1, so get on it!
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ESA BR-300 ELIPS: Research in space for the future
This brochure gives an overview of the wide range of research the European Space Agency is performing under the unique conditions found in space.
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The cornerstone is the International Space Station and its European Columbus laboratory, but several other mission platforms are also available. The areas of scientific interest are many and diverse: from fundamental physics to human physiology, from new alloys to plant roots.
ELIPS – European Programme for LIfe and Physical Sciences in Space – is ESA's research programme for science and applications in microgravity, helping to improve our life on Earth and enable humankind's long-term presence in space. The examples presented here are all part of ELIPS. However, with a programme that involves some 1500 scientists in hundreds of experiments, as well as a large and diverse group of industrial research and development users, only a small but representative sample of the whole portfolio can be presented.


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Public technology professionals discuss the skills needed when moving from IT to government operations positions within government.
On the surface, information technology and government operations may seem like distinct career paths. But the two fields have become more entwined in recent years, as various CIOs have switched back and forth between those roles and believe it's a natural evolution for technologists in the public sector.
David Sullivan, the current CIO of Norfolk, Va., would know. After spending almost 16 years in various technology roles for the city of Virginia Beach, Va., and Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) — a transportation agency serving six cities in Virginia — Sullivan spent two years at HRT as the interim chief financial officer and chief of staff.
Although Sullivan's shift away from technology wasn't by choice (superiors asked him to take on additional roles) the challenge of moving into a non-tech leadership role is something he believes many CIOs are considering. He said technology professionals are ideally suited to leadership roles, as most develop a familiarity with the business processes and people that drive government.
"IT has a big view of the entire government, as well as a narrow view of understanding the different business needs for each of the departments it supports," Sullivan said. "I often used to say there are very few people at the executive level of government who could walk in anywhere and people don't act differently. But the IT guys can because they are part of the fabric of getting business done."
Michele Hovet, the longtime CIO of Arvada, Colo., can relate. After spending 25 years in technology, including 20 years in local government, Hovet was named deputy city manager of Arvada in mid-June. She agreed with Sullivan that CIOs have a couple of different paths to consider as IT departments mature.
Hovet said because she has a business degree and some background in banking, she was driven to explore Arvada's business processes. She twice ran the city's budget process when the deputy city manager was absent. And after being CIO for 11 years, she felt it was time to allow others on her staff to grow into the CIO position.
"It was just an opportunity to do something different," Hovet said. "I think it's very important for CIOs these days to take a bigger picture look. Technology comes and goes and is exciting [but] it's important for CIOs to look forward."
Being familiar with how various government agencies do can be significant when moving away from IT into a more general role. But other factors are equally important, according to Sullivan and Hovet.
Hovet said developing a sense of the bigger picture in government, honing project development skills and paying close attention to how small details are managed are key skills an IT person should acquire. Government IT personnel should have a leg up on those skills because everything tech people do is fairly complex.
"To have a good change process management in place, you need to be able to look at capacities and resources," she added. "To me, that applies across any type of business. I don't care if it is IT, finance or police. "
Sullivan believes the move to government operations isn't all that unusual now. But it was about 10 years ago. Back then, IT people weren't looked at as people who were primed for leadership roles. But as technology became more integrated with how government does business, IT workers started getting on the radar of key executives.
"The CIOs became more enterprise focused," Sullivan said. "As a result, they became higher visibility, and higher profile in the organization. Then people started looking to them and saying, 'Hey, if they can lead these initiatives, they can lead broader business initiatives.'"
In addition, Sullivan felt the biggest transition an IT person has to make when shifting to an government operations position is admitting limitations and recognizing the strengths of business staff people. When Sullivan became CFO and chief of staff at HRT, he said it was helpful to question why certain aspects of the business processes were done the way they were.
As a non-finance person, Sullivan stepped in and asked all the "dumb questions," which forced his staff to step back and take a closer look at their efficiency and whether changes were necessary.
That experience has actually helped Sullivan in his return to IT as CIO of Virginia Beach. He came away with more respect for the pressures that non-IT staff face.
"I now have a much better appreciation of how people depend on our systems, and I think I brought that back with me to IT," Sullivan said. "I help our staff focus on really understanding what our client departments are doing and [how] whatever we're doing fits with them."
The transition out of IT isn't as easy as it may sound, however. New relationships have to be built and additional skills need to be honed. Hovet is in the midst of her own crash course, having been on the job as deputy city manager in Arvada for a little over a month.
From learning how to plan a residential development to dealing with protestors at a Wal-Mart opening, Hovet said that the experience has been good. There also are a lot of things she didn't anticipate learning.
In Arvada, there are two deputy city managers who split oversight of all city departments. Hovet's concentration areas are public works, community development, parks and hospitality, the city's performing arts center and economic development — a far cry from managing information technology. The learning curve for her has been meeting the people involved in those areas and bringing together the departments to do things more strategically.
"It's been eye-opening every day," Hovet admitted. "Some days I feel like I'm drinking through a firehose, for sure. "There are a lot of new processes that I wasn't aware of."
Despite the challenges, however, Hovet said meeting new people and being more connected to the community has been a great experience. She believes the influx of IT people into leadership roles should continue as time goes on.
"I think there's not a big enough voice in those areas of leadership where technologists should be," Hovet said. "There are always lawyers and accountants, but I think it'd be great in the future to have more technologists to drive home innovation, effectiveness and efficiencies."
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Nats battle to final week after slow start to season
Late-year turnaround not enough to meet preseason expectations
ST.LOUIS -- Entering the 2013 season, the Nationals were favored by many to win their second straight National League East title. But the Braves got out to a fast start while the Nats started slowly, easing Atlanta's path to become champions of the division, while three teams from the NL Central -- the Cardinals, Pirates and Reds -- found their way to the postseason.
One can imagine how the Nationals felt after losing to the Cardinals, 4-3, and being eliminated from the Wild Card race on Monday night. The locker room was quiet. There was manager Davey Johnson fighting back tears and outfielder Bryce Harper sitting by his locker for 45 minutes while reporters were trying to get some insight as to why the Nationals couldn't repeat as division champions.
Washington lost to the Cardinals in the NL Division Series last season. To a man, everyone was able to get over the devastating loss last October.
"The postseason door is officially closed," shortstop Ian Desmond said. "But there are still five games that can provide us an opportunity to get better. We have the opportunity to rain on [the Cardinals'] parade a little bit, so to speak. That's my intention, play as hard as you can, regardless if we are in the postseason or not. Just try to be professional, go out, play the game the right way and just try to take a couple from them."
Injuries played a role in the Nationals not making the playoffs. The biggest blow came when Harper missed more than a month after banging his left knee into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium during the middle of May.
Harper wasn't totally healthy after he came back, dealing with hip issues, which did not put him on the DL.
"I'm not going sit here and say I'm a game changer, but we are a great team. Me being in this lineup is huge, and I have to be in this lineup every night," Harper said.
Besides Harper being sidelined, the Nationals didn't get any production from their bench, while the bullpen was average at best. They didn't have a quality lefty out of the bullpen until late in the second half when Xavier Cedeno started getting lefties out on a consistent basis in September.
The offense struggled so badly during the first half that they dismissed Rick Eckstein as the hitting coach.
"We dug our own hole. We just couldn't dig out of it," Johnson said. "We didn't do the things we were capable of early. We came back strong. That's baseball. I love those guys -- great talent, make makeup. Just didn't get it done. We fixed some problems that we had. ... I like the balance of this club. I think going forward, it's going to be very positive."


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Free Slideshow Presentation and Creation Tools for Teachers
The 5 Best Free Slideshow Presentation and Creation Tools for Teachers
A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers to Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
1- SlideShare
It Offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios.
2- Animoto ( no option for collaboration)
Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes.
VUVOX allows you to create interactive slideshows and presentations from photos, video and music from Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, YouTube, Facebook and more.
Knovio gives life to static slides and with a simple click you will be able to turn them into rich video and audio presentations that you can share with your friends and colleagues via email or popular social media websites. Knovio does not require any software installation or download, it is all web based.
6- HelloSlide
7- Jux
Jux is one of the best showcase for your stories. You can embed videos and photos from your hard drive or from a URL.
8- Slidestaxx
Slidestaxx is a great presentation tool. It allows its users to create amazing social media slideshows. You can now gather media from different sources and put them together in an engaging slideshow using Slidestaxx to embed it in your blog, website or wiki.
9- Present.me
It allows its users to record and share their presentations using their webcams.
11- Slideboom
12- Zentation
13- Empressr
14- VoiceThread
15- Slidesix
16- Zoho Show
17- Prezentit
18- Popplet
19- AuthorStream
20- SlideRocket
21- Prezi
"Best Presentations of the Decade"
8 Best PowerPoint Presentations: How to Create Engaging Presentations
Make PowerPoint Presentations Using Movie Maker
Creating Presentations in Windows Movie Maker
How to Make a PowerPoint video presentation in Windows Movie Maker
Using Windows Movie Maker to Edit or Compile Media for Use with Presentations and Classroom Activities
Create Interactive Infographics
Kizoa is neat but expensive. It does most of what iMovie does, including direct posting to social media. However, one needs to pay in order to do that.


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- Developing a Total Peak Period Travel Time Performance Measure: An Updated Concept Paper (May 2013)
This paper describes a recent addition to the set of mobility performance measures included in the Urban Mobility Report.
- Incorporating Sustainability Factors Into The Urban Mobility Report: A Draft Concept Paper (August 2010)
This paper presents some measure enhancements that can be accomplished with generally available data and may persuade some to adopt congestion metrics as one important element of the performance management process.
- Mobility Analysis in Long-Range Transportation Planning – An Important Item on the Mobility Checklist (April 2009)
A description of the process for increasing the amount of information about congestion levels that will result from future transportation and land use scenarios.
- Six Congestion Reduction Strategies and Their Effects on Mobility (2008)
Description of the method used to accommodate the effect of several mobility improvement strategies in the Urban Mobility Report.
- Keys to Estimating Mobility in Urban Areas (May 2005)
White paper prepared for the Urban Transportation Performance Measure Study that details mobility measures and how to develop and apply mobility information. A spreadsheet is included that contains applications of many of the measures.
- Data Processing Steps in Mobility Monitoring Program
A short summary of the procedures used for data quality control and database creation.
- Guidelines for Developing ITS Data Archiving Systems (September 2001)
- Lessons Learned: Monitoring Highway Congestion and Reliability Using Archived Traffic Detector Data (October 2004)
This report describes lessons learned from four years of the Mobility Monitoring Program.
- Measuring the Distribution and Costs of Congestion (June 2003)
Presentation in Washington, D.C.
Traffic Congestion: Issues and Options Conference
- Selecting Travel Reliability Measures (May 2003)
Performance measures for reliability from a user perspective.
- Travel Time Data Collection Handbook (March 1998)
Methods to collect travel time and speed information.
- Incorporating Access Management into the Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report (January 2005)
A paper discussing how the effects of access management have been incorporated into the Urban Mobility Report.
- Implementing Statewide Operations Performance Measures in Oregon
Paper describing the development and implementation of statewide operations performance measures using HERS-ST and archived real-time data using procedures from the Urban Mobility Report.
- Final Report (June 2004)
- TRB Paper (January 2005)
- Documentation of the Value of Time used in the Urban Mobility Report
- Cost Per Hour and Value of Time Calculations for Passenger Vehicles and Commercial Trucks for Use in the Urban Mobility Study – Technical Memorandum (May 2008)
- The Value of Travel Time: New Elements Developed Using a Speed Choice Model
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- SHRP2 Report S2-L03-RR-1: Analytical Procedures for Determining the Impacts of Reliability Mitigation Strategies (2013)
- NCHRP Report 618: Cost-Effective Performance Measures for Travel Time Delay, Variation, and Reliability (2008)
- NCHRP Guide to Effective Freeway Performance Management: Final Report and Guidebook
- NCHRP Web-Only Document 97 (August 2006)
- NCHRP Research Results Digest 312 (February 2007)
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Clashes continued throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem as tensions intensified following the funeral of a thirteen year old Palestinian boy in Bethlehem who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
Hundreds attended the funeral of Abdul Rahman Obeidallah who was shot in the chest whilst returning home from school in Aida refugee camp Monday afternoon.
"He was a small kid, he can't throw stones and even if he did he wouldn't have hurt anyone, but he still got shot in his heart," said Majed, a resident of Aida camp whose name has been changed to protect his identity.
Protests broke out in Bethlehem in reaction to Obeidallah's death, prompting a harsh response from Israeli security forces who fired at the crowd with rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.
According to Ma'an News, two Palestinians were shot with 0.22 bullets in the head and another was shot in the leg.
In addition, seven Palestinians were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, medics said, and dozens suffered tear gas inhalation.
Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers continued outside Bethlehem, with disturbances in the east Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Jabal Mukkaber and Abu Tor following the demolition of two homes belonging to Palestinians accused of "terrorist" activities last year.
Violent protests also broke out in Nablus, Hebron, Arroub refugee camp and the Israeli settlement Beit El, where dozens of Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets and excessive tear gas inhalation.
Hundreds of protesters also marched from the Qalandia refugee camp to the nearby checkpoint at midday today.
Confronted by Israeli forces, Palestinian youths threw rocks and molotov cocktails at soldiers who fired back with tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and live fire.
The Red Crescent said 25 Palestinians were injured in clashes at Qalandia military checkpoint, including five with live fire and 10 with rubber-coated steel bullets.
According to Ma'an News, a 17-year-old Palestinian was shot in the stomach, reportedly with a 0.22 caliber bullet, and underwent surgery to remove a bullet from near his spine. A Palestinian woman was also critically injured in her neck.
A Palestinian journalist was hit with a rubber bullet to the abdomen.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestine National Initiative (PNI), was amongst the crowd at Qalandia.
He went on to describe the escalation of demonstrations in the West Bank as reminiscent of the beginning of the First Intifada.
"What you see is the spirit of the first intifada coming back again; the three principles of self reliance, self organisation and a defiance of the occupation," said Barghouti.
Many have voiced concerns over the possibility of a third intifada, citing the lack of clear leadership and political divisions in Palestine as a cause for concern amidst the escalating violence.
Human rights activist Mohammed Othman believes the protests and subsequent clashes throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem will lose momentum over the coming days or weeks.
"We don't feel it's the beginning of third intifada because there is no unity. Every politician and every leader is throwing responsibility to the other and no one can lead the third intifada. What's going on in Qalandia, in Beit El, in Nablus, anywhere in the West Bank, it's just madness... What I say [is], the people just want relief. It's not an uprising," Othman concluded.
However, Dr. Barghouti seemed undeterred by the current state of discordance amongst Palestine's leading factions.
"The lack of unity should not be an obstacle to the struggle. If the parties are loyal to the Palestinian cause they should overcome their differences and unify. The whole competition between Fatah and Hamas is meaningless because their authority is meaningless under occupation," he said.
Dr. Barghouti's words have been echoed by the PLO Executive Committee.
In a statement released today, they announced their commitment to political unity in the face of Israeli occupation:
"The Committee also confirmed taking quick steps towards holding the regular meeting of the Palestine National Council, with the participation of all Palestinian factions and powers including Hamas and Al-Jihad."
With the Palestinian Red Crescent having declared a state of emergency in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in response to the growing violence, tensions remain high in the region as the numbers of dead and injured continue to rise.
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We Need American Revival...
...and we need it now. Ronald Reagan knew that and called regularly for it. I was lucky enough to hear him do it personally when a group I founded gave him a Teach Freedom Award. We gave it to him to honor his farewell warning to the American people as President of the United States on January 11, 1989. He warned us then...
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American Thinker Video Link
With TV news clips from the 1989 California gun debate,
Bob shows that today's media use the
same anti-gun techniques
For almost two decades Conservative Democrat Bob Just has debated the left from Alan Colmes on Fox News Channel to Bill Maher on ABC, covering all kinds of subjects, especially Democrat Party extremism.
Obama Socialism v. Reagan Freedom
"Spread the Wealth"
2008 Reality for 2020 Action
This touching 1978 short film has won awards all around the world. Told as a modern-day fairy tale, the story is of a little boy who goes on an adventure and returns with something far more precious than what he was seeking in the first place. There is no dialogue and therefore no language barrier. The film speaks to all people. Rich in visual meaning, it is a story about life, loneliness, and things unseen.
"Tea Party: We're Reagan's 'New Patriots'"
Commentary by Bob Just
Important Reagan Speeches
"Evil Empire" Speech
The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc
Reagan's Farewell Speech
Barack Obama and abortion issue
"Just Tell us the Truth"
Newsweek: "Thought Police"
Only a few years after the famous 1984 Apple ad captured America's attention by depicting a fictional totalitarian nightmare, Newsweek magazine warned of a real totalitarian nightmare -- political correctness. Two years later PCism captured the White House. America has never been the same. Read this hard to find article.
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"Killer Culture: A Call to the Churches"
Commentary by Bob Just
PBS Transcript, "Merchants of Cool"
PBS Transcript, "The Lost Children of Rockdale County"
"Bringing Up Boys"
by Dr. James Dobson: "The culture is at war with Parents"
Democrats for America
Mainstream Democrats must speak out about the extremists who control our party. Republicans are helpless. It's our party -- so it's our fight.
Fascism, Corruption and My 'Democratic' Party
Ten years ago, Newsweek magazine shocked mainstream America with a cover story headlined Thought Police, a lengthy report on a new social /political movement developed on college campuses since the 1960s. Ironically, one year after...
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My un-American Democratic Party
Imagine you've got a Muslim neighbor who is actually a radical, but hasn't yet revealed to you his inner radical thoughts. He may seem like a nice family-oriented, hard-working, reliable guy, but then at a barbecue he tells his private view that the "worldwide Jewish movement" is the embodiment of...
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Killer Culture
Increasingly, the horror of America's culture is becoming frighteningly clear, both for its evil intent and for its devastating effect on the nation's children...
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Son of Divorce
Bob shares his personal recovery story, and discusses the mystery of love and marriage...
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Amendment Separation of Atheism
and State
Imagine that it was not the 9th Circuit, but the United States Supreme Court that made the "under God" decision. Imagine that instead of two nervous circuit judges, it was five brazen Supreme Court Justices declaring the Pledge unconstitutional in some nightmare future years from now five secular...
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The Miracle of the Bible
I've been a writer for many years, working on all kinds of projects from screenplays to corporate speeches to playwriting to academic essays to journalism and commentary. As a former English teacher, I've read all kinds of writing but never anything that comes even close to the Bible...
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Imagine There's a Heaven
Start by imagining there is such a thing as "goodness" in this life, and then imagine we can recognize goodness because there is evil too. And we can see the choice clearly. And we can see that choosing evil leads to great heartbreak and destruction. And we can see that choosing good brings joy to life and to our souls. Now imagine you have a soul –...
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Concerned Fathers Against Crime
Bob Just sat down with then Sheriff Dan Calvert and pitched a vision to him about how regular guys could help support law enforcement with a new system, called Concerned Fathers Against Crime.
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Neighbor to Neighbor Project
After the 9-11 terrorist attack Bob took an interest in Citizen Corps Council, a federal homeland security system designed to bring community-minded citizens around a table to discuss how they could improve public safety,
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Social technologies can help organizations with everything from talent recruitment to project collaboration to performance feedback. But social platforms can also be a technology looking for a solution. The trick is how to best apply them based on your talent objectives.
In this interactive webinar, Charlie Ungashick, Chief Marketing Officer at Globoforce, provides insight into key technologies that leading companies are using to recruit, engage, motivate and measure their talent.
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The pump performance curve shows the correlation between media flow (Q) and the pressure differential or head (H) that the pump creates.
Flow is normally given in m3/h or l/s. Pressure differential or head is given in kPa or mws (meter water column).
For variable-speed pumps, the performance curve is given at minimum and maximum RPM.
When several pumps are connected, the final performance curve is achieved by combining the characteristics of the individual pumps.
Parallel-connected pumps are added horizontally to increase Q. For two identical pumps, the maximum Q will double, yet maximum H will be the same. This principle is commonly used in pump systems.
Series-connected pumps are added vertically to increase H. For two identical pumps, the maximum H will double. Maximum Q will remain the same. This principle is commonly used in multi-stage pumps.
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We didn't witness the end of the world, but we did see enough drama in Major League Soccer to keep the weekend interesting.
There were four games decided in the final stages, two 1-0 squeakers and a raging, if not apocalyptic, storm that caused a lengthy delay at one venue (for the second time in recent weeks).
And whatever the week lacked in goals, quantity-wise, it made up for in quality, with more than half a dozen beautifully taken strikes.
We also saw the first edition of the 2011 SuperClásico, along with a handful of streaks ended and extended.
So let's celebrate our new lease on life with a look back.
Heart-Stoppage Time
If Sporting Kansas City players were tapping their adidas heels together and repeating "There's no place like home" right about now, we wouldn't hold it against them.
Peter Vermes' men are eight games into a 10-game, season-opening road trip and it's been a rough ride. They won their opener on March 19, but have since gone winless in seven, including five straight losses.
None of those defeats was more painful than Saturday night's loss at Seattle, where Kansas City (1-6-1) played well enough for at least a share of the points—but lost 1-0 on a 93rd-minute header from Sounders FC defender Jeff Parke.
As Vermes told the Kansas City Star, "We were organized and disciplined, but we only did it for 92 minutes and 45 seconds."
In that 15-second window, Parke snuck into the mixer on a Tyson Wahl corner kick and headed home the game's only goal.
That sent the 36,098 fans at Qwest Field home happy, if soaking wet—and got KC fans pining even more for their new stadium, Livestrong Sporting Park, scheduled to open on June 9.
WATCH HIGHLIGHTS: Seattle 1, Sporting 0
Fire in a Hole
The Chicago Fire's season has unfolded much like Kansas City's, minus the monster road trip. Chicago (1-4-5) won their second game of the year, on March 26, and haven't won an MLS match since.
They nearly changed that in a wide-open second half against Philadelphia on Saturday. The teams traded goals just after the hour mark but Chicago ultimately fell on a late golazo from Carlos Ruiz.
The 31-year-old Guatemalan striker corralled his own deflected free kick and hit a looping volley from 40 yards. The shot dipped over Fire 'keeper Jeff Conway and in off the crossbar. It was the first time all season the Union had scored more than one goal in a game, and the win put them back in first place in the Eastern Conference.
New York Minute
The team trailing Philadelphia in the East, New York, produced some last-minute heroics of their own en route to a 2-2 draw with Houston on Saturday.
They also produced some first-minute heroics, jumping out to a 1-0 lead just 39 seconds into the game at Robertson Stadium. Dane Richards drilled a layoff from Luke Rodgers from 25 yards to set the record for the fastest goal in the history of the New York franchise.
But it didn't stand up for long as Will Bruin drew a penalty in the 11th minute and Brad Davis converted to pull Houston even. That's how it remained until the 82nd minute, when the Dynamo's new Spanish striker, Koke, bagged an apparent match-winner, slamming a rebound past New York 'keeper Greg Sutton.
But Red Bulls substitute Mehdi Ballouchy had the last word, heading in Joel Lindpere's corner kick at the near post in stoppage time to give New York, who were playing without Thierry Henry (knee), a hard-earned point.
WATCH HIGHLIGHTS: Houston 2, New York 2
San Jose and New England also generated some 11th-hour dramatics in their meeting on Saturday night. The Quakes' 20-year-old winger Ellis McLoughlin opened his MLS account in the 71st minute with a powerful header off a cross from Chris Wondolowski.
That broke a scoreless deadlock, and Bobby Convey added an insurance goal with a spectacular curling free kick in the 83rd.
The Revs' Chris Tierney gave his team a lifeline with a free-kick goal of his own in the 86th, but New England could not find an equalizer, and San Jose hung on to win 2-1.
The Quakes have won two in a row and are unbeaten in three straight.
SuperClásico Streaks
In Southern California, the LA Galaxy edged their Home Depot Center co-tenants Chivas USA 1-0 in the 21st edition of the SuperClásico on Saturday.
The win—courtesy of Chad Barrett's glancing header off David Beckham's laser of a free kick in the 26th minute—extended LA's SuperClásico unbeaten streak to nine games. The Galaxy are 6-0-3 vs. Chivas in that time. The Goats haven't beaten their city rivals in MLS play since 2007.
Portland also extended an unbeaten streak with a 1-0 victory this week. Rangy defender Eric Brunner did the honors, heading in a cross from Khalif Alhassan to defeat Brunner's former team, Columbus.
Jack Jewsbury started the play with a quick re-start to Alhassan on the wing. It was the Timbers' ninth goal off a set piece this season (out of 13 total), and it extended Portland's home record to 5-0-0.
WATCH HIGHLIGHTS: Portland 1, Columbus 0
Déjà vu in Dallas
Real Salt Lake broke out their "Victory Gold" alternate kits for their trip to Pizza Hut Park on Sunday night, hoping the yellow jerseys might inspire a win — or any kind of positive result — at the venue where RSL were 0-8-0 alltime against FC Dallas.
Mission accomplished, as RSL earned their first road point against the Hoops, scraping out a 0-0 draw after a rain delay of nearly two hours.
It was the second such delay this month at PHP, and, like the one against LA on May 1, it started in the 83rdminute. (Cue Twilight Zone theme). Unlike that game, though, Dallas did not bag a winner after the long break. Neither side did, and the 0-0 score line was a fair reflection of the absence of both teams' offensive catalysts, Javier Morales and David Ferreira.
Sunday's Colorado-Toronto FC tilt finished up scoreless as well and, truthfully, a rain delay would have been the most exciting thing about it. Toronto mustered just three shots on goal and no corner kicks while yielding 64 percent of possession to the hosts.
But the rebuilding Reds will certainly take a point on the road against the defending champs, and then look for a title of their own in Wednesday's second leg of the Nutralite Canadian Championship, against Vancouver.


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Emerald is a native iPhone app template that allows to create a 100% customized app without a single line of code.
You can change all images, all colors, the font, and import your own content easily.
You can then send the app to the AppStore, exactly like we did :
We have also created a demo for you to preview all features of Emerald.
You can download it right from Safari by using any iOS device (iOS 5.1 and above required) here :
It is compatible with iOS 5.1 and above and runs on iPhone 3GS / 4 / 4S / 5 and iPod Touch 4th and 5th generation
Requirements to open the project : OS X 10.7.4 or later
We used gotham medium on the demo and the AppStore version. We have replaced it by TitilliumText25L004 (free front) in the template.
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For more informations on the way Emerald works you can check our online documentation.
- Choose your features : the tab bar is a great way for the user to navigate within an iPhone app. By using this navigation system you are still free to choose the number of tabs, the order and the features (Articles, Images, Videos, Audio, More) in it.
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- Real time data : WordPress, Pinterest, Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo, XML, Emerald takes care of your data. As soon as you add new content users can look at it in the app.
- Reading list : users can store their favorites articles in one touch to the reading list. A great way to enjoy your content offline. You can deactivate this feature.
- Network alerts and Content management : nothing is more frustrating to see an empty screen with no explanation. Emerald displays network alerts as well as images for empty content/ no network connection
- Languages : English, Madarin, Korean, European, etc… you can change the entire app language. Give your users an app they can easily interact with.
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- Support and documentation : Emerald comes with a complete tutorial from your first experience with Xcode to the AppStore submission. Our team is providing support under 24 hours to help you get the work done.
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As we promised you can customize the entire app, and if you want you can have 5 tabs with only articles, or any other feature.
I am not using WordPress/Youtube/Vimeo/Pinterest/Flickr, how can I add content ?
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What do I need to submit the app to the AppStore ? Do you provide any help to submit the app to the AppStore review ?
You will need a paid iOS Developer Account. We have created a step by step tutorial to submit the app to the AppStore.
I don't have any iOS device. How can I test the app?
Xcode comes with the iPhone simulator and it allows you to build the app and interact with it like a real device.
Next update (v1.1)
We are currently working on freelance jobs and doing the best support for our customers. Our team is currently working 10 hours a day and reached 100% of the production capabilities now. We apologies for reporting the 1.1 later.
iPad app is on it's way and will be sold as a separated item. V1.1 planned changes :
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– New feature : Gallery
– Images : zoom, scroll paging view
Contact us if you have any request for the next update! We will read every suggestion.
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A weekly feature wherein we contextualize TV ratings for national sports broadcasts. Data via Nielsen and Sports Business Journal's John Ourand. Viewership numbers represent approximate number of persons tuned to a given program; ratings share refers to the percentage of all households using a television who are turned into that program.
Monday, Sept. 10:
Monday Night Football; Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens (ESPN): 10.9 million viewers
Monday Night Football; San Diego Chargers at Oakland Raiders (ESPN): 10.4 million viewers
The Voice (NBC): 12.3 million viewers
Tuesday, Sept. 11:
World Cup qualifying, Costa Rica at Mexico (Univision): 3.7 million viewers
So You Think You Can Dance (FOX): 4.3 million viewers
Wednesday, Sept. 12:
No highly rated sporting events.
Thursday, Sept. 13:
Thursday Night Football; Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers (NFL Network): 8.6 million viewers
America's Got Talent (NBC): 10.6 million viewers
Friday, Sept. 14:
Mexican soccer, Guadalajara at Leon (Univision): 979,000 viewers
The O'Reilly Factor (FOX News): 3.6 million viewers
Saturday, Sept. 15:
IndyCar MAVTV 500 (NBCSN): 229,000 viewers
NCAA football; Notre Dame at Michigan State (ABC): 5.0 million viewers
NCAA football; Florida at Tennessee (ESPN): 5.1 million viewers
NCAA football; USC at Stanford (FOX): 3.9 million viewers
Spongebob Squarepants (Nickelodeon): 3.3 million viewers
The Voice (NBC): 4.0 million viewers
Sunday, Sept. 16:
Sunday Night Football; Detroit Lions at San Francisco 49ers (NBC): 21.3 million viewers
NASCAR Spint Cup at Chicago (ESPN): 3.9 million viewers
The Mentalist, rerun (CBS): 4.2 million viewers
Professional Bull Riding (NBCSN): 273,000 viewers


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The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, studied hundreds of black men in Alabama with syphilis, failing to inform them of their diagnosis or treat their condition. From this striking example of a disregard for ethical standards and the lives of these men, many African Americans harbor deep suspicions about government-sponsored medical studies.
The Tuskegee experiments, however, are one of many disturbing cases over the field's history, in which tests were often performed on nonconsenting mental patients, prisoners, poor blacks and people overseas. Last year, when a Wellesley College professor unearthed hidden files detailing U.S. government experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s, where scientists infected hundreds of people with syphilis, President Barack Obama apologized to the Guatemalan government and people, vowing never to repeat the atrocities of the past.
With that, Obama directed the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to conduct a thorough review of the Guatemala experiments and current regulations for federal research. He asked the 13-member advisory council to assure him that federal laws effectively protect research participants, both domestically and abroad, from harm and unethical treatment. Its report is due to the president by September.
The bioethics commission held a meeting in Washington, D.C., this week to review the initial results of its investigation. The Root talked to commission member Anita L. Allen, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, about U.S. medical studies performed in Africa and South America, the ethical concerns of conducting research in prisons and whether anybody is likely to get a government apology again.
The Root: U.S. clinical studies are increasingly conducted abroad, with a particular focus in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Why are pharmaceutical companies targeting these parts of the world?
Anita L. Allen: One motivation for doing human-subjects research abroad is that sometimes the needs for the clinical investigations are abroad — that is to say, some medical conditions are more common in developing countries than in the developed world. So the researchers are going where the need is. What we heard at the meeting this week is that developing countries are seen to benefit from having investigators internationally come in and conduct clinical trials.
TR: What are some examples of conditions that could not just as easily be researched on people in the United States instead of, say, Nigeria?
Another rationale we heard was cost. It can be less expensive to do research in a developing country than in the United States. However, we also heard the argument made that, sometimes, not counting some of the ancillary costs of research makes it appear that research abroad is cheaper. If researchers addressed all the social and medical needs of a population — their underlying, more holistic health concerns — then we might realize that research in these countries is more expensive than it seems. But people are looking for cost-effective places in which to do this very expensive research.
Unfortunately, to some extent it is also a lack of regard for the human rights of people in developing countries that may have prompted some researchers to seek out these domains for this research. We heard a combination of reasons.
TR: Now that you have this information, what is the commission doing next?
ALA: Our commission has been asked, with specific respect to the Guatemala incident, to look at the circumstances under which that research took place. In that study we will be looking at the underlying causes and context of past atrocities.
We are also looking prospectively at how contemporary regulations and laws in the United States might prevent such things from happening again. The commission will be looking toward ensuring that, from a policy point of view, we have in place the rules and standards we need to make it unlikely that federally funded research would ever be used for a horrific purpose in the future.
TR: What are the current policies that are designed for this purpose?
ALA: There are federal ethical standards today that have been in place since Guatemala happened. Those standards apply to all federally funded research, no matter where it takes place. Those standards also apply to all human-subject research in the United States, whether it's federally funded or not.
One important standard is informed consent. That means that the researcher is obligated to disclose the risks and benefits of the research, and then to get the person's permission to, in light of those risks and benefits, go forward.
A second important condition is that the privacy and confidentiality be protected. Third, there's a requirement for an institutional review board. This requires that there be a group of people convened whose purpose it is to examine the research protocol and to ensure that the safety and rights of the research subjects are protected in the course of the research.
TR: In terms of clinical trials in the United States, studies continue to be done on volunteers in the federal prison population. What kind of research is this exactly?
ALA: There are several reasons a researcher might wish to turn to a prison-based population today. One reason is they may want to study the specific effects of incarceration. There may be research that relates to the condition of incarceration, in which case people who are or have been incarcerated would be the most apt human subjects to study.
While this is not something that anyone on the commission would condone, another reason is that if you have a prison population, the attrition rate in your study will be somewhat less. Whenever you're doing research, there's a certain amount of attrition in the study — people may decide to withdraw from the study, or you might lose track of them. Well, it's easier to keep track of people who are incarcerated.
But I think the primary reason today is to benefit people in prison. In the past — we're talking about 30, 40 years ago — it was about having a ready population of people who were captive, people you might not have to pay and you might not have to [get] the same level of informed consent [from].
I'm not aware of any human-subjects study research going on in prisons today that's not primarily aimed at benefiting the prisoners, or studying the prison population in order to better understand the psychological and physical effects of incarceration. It's about improving the lives of people who are facing incarceration.
TR: Performing research on prisoners at all, though, can still feel ethically murky. It raises the question, how "voluntary" is it really if they're locked up?
ALA: Obviously, anyone who's behind bars is in a situation in which it's hard for them to make their own choices. But suppose someone in prison needed their tonsils out. Can a person in prison give informed consent to have their tonsils out? You might say, "No, because they're in prison!" Or you might say, "Of course they can because, although they're in prison, they can make their own choice about whether they want to have a tonsillectomy." It's too much to say that people in prison can't consent to anything, but there may well be some things that we don't want to ask people in prison to face giving consent to.
Sometimes when people hear the words "human-subject research," they think it means something scary and invasive — some kind of surgery, something that involves the taking of body tissues, and things of that nature. But some of what goes under the name "human-subject research" is simply filling out a questionnaire. It can mean taking some blood for a blood test, filling out a form and going to an interview to be asked questions by a researcher. It's a whole range of things.
Actually, a sign of how far we've come is that, in universities all around the country where there's just survey-type research, there's an institutional review-board process that requires looking into issues of informed consent, privacy and so forth, even if it just involves someone filling out a form.
TR: Given the documentation of unethical experiments performed on prison inmates, mental patients and poor blacks in the past, do you anticipate there will be other forthcoming apologies on the government's behalf, as we saw in the Guatemala situation?
ALA: The commission's work is not aimed specifically at recommendations concerning the relevance of an apology. However, everybody, from President Obama to the commission chair and vice chair, agrees that what we discovered happened in Guatemala was unethical. This is something we've been very open about, and there's a common understanding that what happened was wrong, and every effort would be made to ensure that such things do not happen again.
Cynthia Gordy is the Washington reporter for The Root.


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I am 64 years old and recently retired — but not by my own choice. I was an advertising exec for many years and have been unable to find comparable work. Fortunately, I don't need a big income any longer but I do want to continue working. I applied for a sales clerk position at a major department store, and at one point the interviewer asked how I would feel about taking direction from a much younger boss. I said that wouldn't be a problem. I didn't get the job, and I can't help but feel like my age had something to do with it. What do you think?
It's impossible to know what the reasons were for your rejection — and not fair to speculate. But I can say this objectively: It is inappropriate if not unlawful to make a reference to your age in the interview — and certainly to make an employment decision based on someone's age.
All that aside, keep at it. While you're unlikely to get hired at Juicy Couture or Victoria's Secret, most large mass retailers have employees representing a broad cross-section of the work-force demographic. Present a positive, polished, customer-service oriented disposition, and you'll find plenty of opportunities in retail. Good luck.
A co-worker of mine is under investigation, and I've been told that I have to cooperate and be interviewed for what I may know about the situation. I'm no snitch and don't want to participate. What are my rights?
You have the right not to be a "snitch" and not cooperate. Your employer also has the right to fire you for not cooperating and telling them what you know. Listen, I know that in our pop culture being a "snitch," "rat" or the more genteel "informant" is often associated with unsympathetic characters, but we're not talking about double-crossing your mob boss here to save your own skin from being a guest of the state. We're talking about a shared obligation to ensure that your workplace is free from unethical, unscrupulous, unlawful behavior that threatens the company and everyone's livelihood. So you have a choice to make.


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All workshop dates for 2020 are posted on our website, no other dates are planned. If we add a date you will see it posted as per our FAQ statement:https://stretchtowin.com/page/FAQ#other. If you cannot attend this workshop or it is sold out please choose another date.
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We are implementing the following Covid-19 Guidelines: Daily health screenings and temperature taking, increased social distancing, mandatory mask wearing, hygiene and cleaning, and strict adherence to all CDC, federal, state and local COVID-19 guidelines. One week prior to the workshop start date students will be emailed a link to a waiver of liability release form. This waiver must be agreed to by digital signature prior to attending. Our huge 11,000 square foot space ensures comfortable and optimal social distancing during the times we are not practicing 1-on-1. When working 1-on-1, students will be required to remain with the same partner all week to keep exposure to a minimum.
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It is your responsibility to research the laws of your state and city regarding what professionals may engage in any sort of therapeutic touch. You must also research what liability insurance is required.
To remove risks of practicing FST without proper prerequisites noted previously, we highly suggest that you also research getting training in a profession that includes "assisted stretching" under their scope. We do not endorse any track of training but one example is personal training certification. We recommend that you get this training first before you register for our courses.]
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Students must also be able to read, write, speak and understand English.
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Our workshops sell out 4-6 months in advance! Early registration is encouraged. Waiting lists will be available when a workshop sells out; however, no guarantee is made that a spot will become available.
Our students have earned additional income equal to the entire cost of the tuition in as little as 2 weeks after finishing this course when they have scheduled their clients for stretch only appointments. You will have a complete system of skills to use and apply the day you return to work - guaranteed!
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In the first part, you will learn the principles, theories and evidenced-based science surrounding the subject of mobilizing and manipulating fascia through our assisted technique called Fascial Stretch Therapy™ (also known as FST™). The most
recent research and clinical findings on fascia will be included. Comparison and contrasts with other forms of manual and assisted therapy to stretch or manipulate fascia will also be discussed.
This 5-day workshop is 95% hands-on and the first half focuses on getting adept at evaluating the state of the neuromyofascia of the lower half of the body from the level of the T-12 vertebra on down to the feet. This is accomplished by learning
how to accurately sense the end-feel of connective tissue through tri-planar range of motion challenge tests to the torso, lumbo-pelvic-hip girdle and extremities.
The second half of this workshop focuses on getting more adept at evaluating the state of the neuromyofascia of the upper half of the body from the level of the T-12 vertebra on up to the head and upper extremities. This is accomplished by learning
how to sense the end-feel of connective tissue through tri-planar range of motion challenge tests to the torso, shoulder girdle, upper extremities and spine.
After learning how to identify regions of fascial imbalance you will learn how to conduct a complete assisted fascial stretch session on a massage table with stabilizing belts for healthy and fit clientele as well as for those with symptoms of
pain, tightness and soreness due to neuromyofascial imbalances. Clients/patients most appropriate for this level of training will run the gamut from those that simply want to be more flexible in order to maintain an active lifestyle to those complaining
of general or specific tightness or stiffness. Teenagers experiencing myofascial tightness and pain from the growth spurt will also be appropriate. All athletes will seek your services to help them improve sport performance and reduce training recovery
For physical therapists and other licensed healthcare practitioners, this level of training will enable you to successfully integrate FST into your practice as a preferred, very effective manual therapy technique to treat pain and mechanical
dysfunction appropriate to your level of skill, training and education. FST can also be used as a full cash pay service, to help shift your practice away from insurance and actually give you more quality time to help your patients achieve better outcomes.
This is the prerequisite first evel to get the expertise needed to progress to more advanced levels where diagnosis and treatment protocols specific to fascia are addressed.
You may start Level 2 training after completing and submitting a documented minimum 100 hours of clinical practice utilizing Level I FST techniques.
NOTE: Course content is not intended for use by participants outside the scope of their license or regulation
Written notice 45 days prior to the workshop is needed to withdraw from a workshop. Please see our Cancellation/Refund Policy for more information.
Important note: We refund you the US dollars that we received. The conversion rate for a refund is determined by your credit card company which is usually the daily current exchange rate. This may be different than the currency conversion rate on the day you registered. Please check with your credit card company to determine what their policy is for Credits/Refunds from Foreign country purchases.
Additional Note:
Course content is not intended for use by participants outside the scope of their license or regulation. We strongly recommend that you have current professional liability insurance that includes the service of "assisted stretching" BEFORE you provide FST services. Contact your professional association for more information.
FST does not change your current scope of practice. For those that do not have a scope of practice, we highly suggest that you thoroughly research professions that include "assisted stretching" under their scope. And we further recommend checking with your city and state or provincial governments whether they regulate assisted stretching under your chosen profession. We do not endorse any track of training but one example is personal training certification.
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At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.
- "The sopophorous bean was proving very difficult to cut up."
- —Description[src]
The Sopophorous bean is the fruit of the Sopophorous plant; it is a shrivelled pearly-white bean resembling overgrown mistletoe berries.[1] It has many magical properties and it is used as an ingredient in potion-making.
The Sopophorous bean contains a thick silver juice that will remove the drinker's memory if drunk neat.[1] If used in potion-making, it does not seem to retain this power.
The Sopophorous bean is used as an ingredient for the Draught of Living Death.[2] The potion's current instructions, as featured in Advanced Potion-Making by Libatius Borage, say to cut the bean in order to release the juice within. However, this can prove very difficult,[2] and the bean may bounce when punctured with the blade of a knife.[3]
However, crushing the bean with the flat side of a silver knife is a more simple and effective method of obtaining the juice, as suggested by Severus Snape in his personal copy of Advanced Potion-Making.[2]
The prefix "Sopo-" most likely comes from the Latin sopor meaning "deep sleep". The suffix "-phorous" is more elusive, though it could quite possibly have the same etymological roots as the "-phorus" in "phosphorus" (a chemical element) - in this case "phos-" and "-phorus" come from the Greek φως (fo̱s in the Latin script, meaning light) and φέρω (féro̱ in the Latin script, meaning bringer or carrier) respectively. Hence, "Sopophorus" would read as "bringer of deep sleep", which is appropriate given its use as an ingredient in the Draught of Living Death.
Also, it is a possible allusion to the plant historically used by the Native American shamans of the ancient Southwest, the mescal bean (Sophora Secundiflora). These beans also have a very hard shell and were split open and made into various concoctions that were then imbibed by the user in spiritual ceremonies. The sophora beans were described to put the user into a coma-like trance where the other elements of the magic ceremony could be carried out.
Behind the scenes
- While in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, this bean is depicted as very dark in colour, Wonderbook: Book of Potions describes it as "pearly-white". In Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World, the bean is described as brown in colour. Conversely, in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the beans are shown to be green in colour, which could possibly mean the beans vary in colour.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- The Road to Hogwarts Sweepstakes
- Wonderbook: Book of Potions
- Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wonderbook: Book of Potions - see this video
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 9 (The Half-Blood Prince)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) - Chapter 8


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Daniel Lalonde, president and chief executive officer of Louis Vuitton North America, appears to be no stranger to snail mail. In fact, Lalonde sent talk show host Oprah Winfrey a handwritten note inviting her to a VIP dinner hosted by Vuitton in the Windy City last week. Alas, Winfrey was in Africa, Lalonde was told.
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But the party at Art Smith's (a former personal chef to Winfrey) fashionable Gold Coast restaurant Table Fifty-Two went on without her. Celebrating the luxury brand's new 2,000-square-foot leased department at Nordstrom's Michigan Avenue store, Vuitton did its best to highlight the history surrounding the two storied companies, styling the restaurant's upper level with an antique Vuitton trunk dating back to the early 1900s alongside a single 1900s Balmoral-style boot and Fifties lace stiletto from Nordstrom.
Silver-framed black-and-white snapshots of both company's founders and early employees even dotted the L-shaped dining table.
The decor, however, did little to distract from the Southern specialties served up by Smith, whose macaroni and cheese generated such fervor some lovely lean ladies seated near Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris, Chicago Bulls guard Ben Gordon (who autographed more than one menu card) and Pete Nordstrom, president of merchandising for Nordstrom, couldn't help but scrape the bowl clean before dessert.


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Using a $600,000 grant, the Oyez Project will digitize legal materials of State Supreme and Federal Appellate Courts.
In a few years, simplified case summaries, judicial opinions and audio recordings from all federal appellate and state supreme courts could be accessible at the touch of a button.
The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law will spearhead the effort, aggregating documents and media from courts in California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas. The information will be reformatted and republished online following open practice standards.
Once the project is complete, content will be more accessible to non-legal audiences, including journalists and the general public. The remainder of state supreme and federal appellate courts in the U.S. will receive a similar treatment over the next five years provided additional funding is raised. The audio recordings and digital content will be available through individual websites for each court and a mobile app.
Helping to fund the work is a $600,000 prize that the Oyez Project received as a winner of the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov, sponsored by the Knight Foundation. The foundation works to promote media innovation by funding innovative ideas in news and information.
The Oyez Project previously digitized U.S. Supreme Court documents from as far back as 1955, including an audio archive containing approximately 14,000 hours of court deliberation spanning roughly 6 million words.
Leading the new project is Jerry Goldman, Oyez Project director and a professor with the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Goldman felt tackling the written and audio content of all the nation's appellate courts would make covering the courts easier for journalists, and give the public a better understanding of judges and legal decisions.
"They are men and women with values and judgments, and sometimes they make good calls -- and I bet they make a few bad ones too," Goldman said. "I think we have a duty as citizens to understand what they do, rather than say … 'that's someone of Polish decent and my family came from Poland so I am going to cast my vote for her.' That really is what I want to overcome by improving ease of access to the work of the courts."
The project will require a great deal of teamwork between the Oyez Project and volunteers. The grant funding will enable Goldman to create a consortium of local partners from law schools to provide plain English case summaries, abstracts and biographical sketches of federal appellate and state Supreme Court judges. The Oyez Project team will build the both the websites and the mobile application for both iOS and Android devices for access to the content.
A prototype model of what the website will look like is already online, containing data from The Washington State Supreme Court. That site was built using WordPress, but the new project will operate using Drupal as a content management system.
Matt Gruhn, associate director of the Oyez Project, explained that users will see individual websites for each court. But "under the hood," all the data will live in the same digital repository, enabling advanced querying of data across multiple jurisdictions.
In the next few months, the Oyez Project will reach out to law schools to gauge their interest in being part of the new project. Goldman said he hopes to get a couple of schools interested, which in turn should snowball into more wanting to be involved as the effort will get them noticed by the state judiciary.
In addition, the archival work could help enhance a law school's brand and reputation to help drive prospective student and professor interest in attending or teaching at the institution.
"It's another way for a law school to distinguish itself from its competitors," Goldman said. "It's hard for me to see the downside here, especially since we're doing all the hard work."
When working on the U.S. Supreme Court project, the major challenge for Goldman and his team over the last 20 years was going back 58 years to collect audio recordings in different states of decay from the National Archives and transferring it. Many of those same research and aggregation steps will exist with the federal appellate and state supreme courts, but the work will focus largely on material from current years, so it won't take as long.
A number of hurdles still exist, however. Many courts use obsolete word processing software to archive transcripts, making cataloging and transferring to one standardized format difficult. In some cases, the courts have transcribed their own audio and identified the speakers, making the process easier. But that's a best case scenario -- and one that's usually not the case, according to Goldman. As a result, a much larger amount of time and effort needs to be spent on the recordings.
Some courts have also recorded legal proceedings in proprietary formats or in sub-standard quality such as .mp3, which further complicates matters. Recording in low fidelity runs counter to the archival goals of the Oyez Project, which looks to archive the actual source audio without any loss in quality. Although the files will be enormous, with cloud technology available, size really doesn't matter.
Goldman explained that courts throw away a lot of data by using recording formats with lossy compression, such as .mp3. He argued that as time goes on and newer delivery standards come around that are incompatible with .mp3, there's no way to go back and recover a lossless format to convert into a new standard. So the quality will continually degenerate. That's why preserving uncompressed audio data is so important.
The pristine source audio is also desired to enhance the quality of mobile access to the recordings. The Oyez Project made the U.S. Supreme Court recordings mobile-friendly by creating a live stream that can be accessed by smartphone. They took the large recordings and cut them down into very small segments, enabling a user to search for specific parts of a legal proceeding. The content can also be downloaded, but by using the ISCOTUS NOW app, a person can make clips of the segments to use for various purposes.
The same is planned for federal appellate court and state supreme court recordings, but maintaining quality can be difficult, particularly if the source audio isn't at an archival level.
"I suspect we will face those issues, and then we will have to struggle with how we make those materials publicly available and archivally-sound so that going forward, we can always make a conversion," Goldman said. "I just have to do more preaching because I am not getting through to my parishioners about the importance of preservation and being able to make this accessible 50 or 100 years from now."
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Morning Brief: September 8
Consumer tech-giant Apple is all set to launch the latest iPhone on Tuesday in Cupertino, California. Rumor has it they may drop a new "smart watch" as well. But while some techies are going wild following the rumor mill, most people seem to not even be able to tell the difference. Like in 2012 when Jimmy Kimmel Live tested people on the street about the "new" iPhone they were holding.


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Only 35 Percent of Companies Have a Succession Plan and Apple Is One of Them
Apple may not want to disclose its CEO succession plan, but at least it has one. Which is more than you can say for quite a few other companies.
According to a global survey of 1,300 companies by Korn/Ferry, though 98 percent of companies believe a CEO succession plan to be important, only 35 percent currently have one in place. And 49 percent haven't had one in place for the last three years.
That's something shareholders calling for Apple to disclose its succession plan annually might want to keep in mind as they prepare for the company's annual meeting later this month. On this issue, Apple is actually a leader in corporate governance. And it does have a good rationale for keeping its succession plan private:
- A written succession plan would give Apple's rivals unfair advantage by publicizing its objectives and plans.
- Identifying potential successors to Steve Jobs would invite other companies to recruit those people away from Apple.
Sound reasons and ones that seem to outweigh the main reason for making it public: Making nervous shareholders less nervous.


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If we define $$\pi^2(N)=\vert [p: p\leq N, p\in\mathbb{P}, p-2\in\mathbb{P}]\vert$$ where $\mathbb{P}$ is the set of all primes (as the number of twin primes less than $N$), and we define $$\pi^D(N)=\vert [p: p\leq N, p\in\mathbb{P}, Dp-2\in\mathbb{P}]\vert$$
Can anyone think of how to show that for $D$ prime and large enough with respect to $N$ and $N$ large enough, we have $\pi^2(N)\geq \pi^D(N)$. It seems heuristically true, simply because the probability, given a prime $p$, that $Dp-2$ is also prime is less than the probability that $p-2$ (which is smaller than $Dp-2$ and thus within a denser area of primes) is also prime.
Sieve methods allow us to conclude that the upper bounds of both sets are multiples of each other, but not much else. Any ideas?


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I've come to this keyboard a thousand times in the last month. It's not that I have nothing to say, but perhaps, I have too much.
My heart is full. The last month has been heavy with moments and memories. Prayers answered and yet to be.
But in all these things my heart is laid open because I am surrounded by a great cloud... people set before me whom I am allowed to love. Really love. And what's more... who love me back.
The calender very recently flipped into a new decade. Forty. Such a round and hearty number. The celebrations long and lavish. I drank chocolate martinis on the beach with dear and faithful friends. I sipped tea with my favorite English Amiga. I sat around a table with new friends who are teaching me how to grow in strength and wisdom by simply loving. Tonight the party continues with one last round of celebration; dinner with two kindred spirits. Its been a month of gifts in the mail, phone calls and messages... people giving so much. Simply loving through time and words and prayer. Precious gifts.
I am thank-full. Filled, and yet not stuffed. Where there is overflow, there is much to give. That's the great part about gratitude. It's contagious and, given the proper prospective, can be found in any age, in any circumstance, in any place in life. Right here, in "middle age", I'm filled beyond the depth of words.
Today marks 30 days before Thanksgiving. Today I am grateful for many things... too many to list. For this moment I am grateful for the gift of relationships. Friends and family, near and far. I am thankful for their love, and pray that I will be as generous with others as they have been to me...


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From European debt concerns to unrest in the Middle East, Cramer said it seems the markets are threatened by a different disaster every other week.
"We now live in a world where the media is in total hurricane disaster mode every single day," Cramer said Thursday. "They take every geopolitical issue, every weather issue, every story of crime and punishment and they fan the flames of panic, portraying them all as equally huge disasters. Every negative story is exaggerated to make it seem as though it's the end of the world."
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The overreaction to news events is part of the sea change in how media operates, Cramer said. It's also a sea change in how investors view the markets, he added. Investors are often unable to see past the "endless gloom" reported by the media and so the market sells off. It also makes it difficult for investors to feel "opportunistic."
So what can be done?
During his 20 years as a hedge fund manager, Cramer would employ the following strategy whenever news events drove down stock futures and overwhelmed the broad market.
Step 1: Put it in perspective. The news story may be terrifying in and of itself, but investors should question how it affects their numbers. At his hedge fund, some of his employees would bring their concerns about a given disaster being reported in the media. Cramer would respond asking how it affected the earnings of Bristol Myers . Of course, the stock would rarely be affected by the latest disaster. Cramer's point was that a news event would almost never affect this company's numbers.
Cramer would then develop a list of other companies that wouldn't be hurt by the event in case it turned out to be worse than he expected.
Being as the media reports on crisis so often, Cramer recommends developing your own list of Bristol-Myers names. Perhaps Kinder Morgan Energy Partners or Verizon Communications , he said.
Step 2: Question whether the event is really bad for all earnings. With news of anti-government protests in Egypt, people were correct to reach for oil names, Cramer said. Those stocks became tremendous buys when the futures took them down.
Step 3: Identify beneficiaries of the event.
When Egyptians were protesting their government in early 2011, Cramer said there was a moment when even oil prices got knocked down with everything else. Those who were quick to buy in have enjoyed considerable gains.
"There will never be any shortage of terrifying events around the world that bring down the whole market, especially after they're amplified by the media's megaphone of negativity," Cramer said. "The next time it happens, don't run away because there might well be an opportunity for you to profit."
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To the Editor:
I read with great interest your recent column about the tourism industry in Western North Carolina. As a result of your insightful comments about the need for tourism research and based on my years of working as a consultant in the tourism industry in the area of destination development, I want to offer two suggestions for the industry.
An easy and inexpensive way for any entity in the region to get valid tourism information "in real" time is to use an intercept interview survey conducted by college students and/or senior volunteers. All that is needed is for a focus for the survey to be defined, e.g., why you selected this area, what you want most from a tourism visit, your rating of the value/friendliness of the destination, etc.
The survey could then be developed with the help of a professor/class in marketing or statistics at an institution such as WCU, HCC or SCC OR all three.
Then the interview team (with proverbial clipboards in hand) fan out across the region for an extended period of time or on a regular cycle, i.e., the first week of every third month to adjust for seasonality until a few hundred surveys have been completed. Merchants could provide discount/free coupons as an incentive for the person to take 3 to 5 minutes to answer the survey conducted by the volunteer interviewer.
This is not brain surgery. They could just walk the streets of Sylva, Dillsboro, Waynesville, etc. and/or attend events such as art/craft shows, Folkmoot and/or visit local campgrounds and/or just be stationed at the visitor centers in these respective communities and ask folks who stop to get visitor information a few (8 to 12 questions) and move on.
If a standardized survey to be used in the intercept interviews was developed, it could also be added to Web sites of entities in the region, made available at the front desk of hotels, given at restaurants at check out time, etc. An incentive could be offered to complete the survey, i.e. name entered into a contest for a free ... whatever.
In short order and with little money, the tourism industry would have a baseline of valid statistical data that could be culled through for insights that might drive change in how the destination presents itself to the nation. If the entities who launch this effort make a long term commitment to making data-driven decisions about how best to market WNC as a region, we could have a leg up on most any other area of the Southeast that does not have a single focus.
Even without this type of "real time" research, there is another golden opportunity the region could leverage and the target market is easy to find. It is called "grand" tourism by some, not unlike developing a specific niche market such as eco-tourism, Grand tourism is a focus on GRANDparents. Free demographic data on the aging Baby Boomers travel preferences is everywhere. Guess what they want... to enjoy time with grandchildren.
However, amplified by the recession, these same millions of Boomer grandparents are looking to get out in nature, have a safe destination, be in close proximity to a wide variety of activities appropriate for grandchildren, and save money. They want value for their vacation dollar. Just think of WNC as a single destination, depending on the time of the year... we have whitewater rafting, fly-fishing, mountain climbing, festivals, Corvettes, Harleys, train rides, snow skiing, the Biltmore, WNC Nature Center, shopping, museums, the highest mountain in the Eastern U.S., Ghost Town, REAL Cherokee Indians, waterfalls. All of these "themed" parks are less than a two-hour ride in most any direction from a central location such as Maggie Valley or Waynesville.
John Curtis, Ph.D.