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Nicole du Toit, Padraic M. Dixon. May 2011. Common dental disorders in the donkey. Equine Veterinary Education.
Normal dental anatomy and the range of dental disorders found in donkeys are largely similar to those described in horses. Recent studies have shown dental disease to have a high prevalence in donkeys. Some dental disorders, such as diastemata, displaced teeth and wave mouth can have serious clinical consequences by causing oral pain and weight loss and even predispose to colic. Many of these signs can be prevented by regular dental treatment that can slow down or even prevent the progression of these disorders.
Nicole du Toit, Susan A. Kempson, Padraic M. Dixon. 12 September 2007. Post mortem survey of dental disease in donkeys. Presented at British Equine Veterinary Association Congress 2007. (12 September - 15 September 2007). Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nicole du Toit, John Gallagher, Faith A. Burden, Padraic M. Dixon. May 2008. Post mortem survey of dental disorders in 349 donkeys from an aged population (2005-2006). Part 2: Epidemiological studies. Equine Veterinary Journal. 40:3. 209-213.
Reason for performing study
Dental disorders have recently been recognised as having major clinical and welfare implications in donkeys. However, no investigation appears to have examined the association of dental disorders with managemental factors and any intercurrent illness.
To determine the association of dental disorders observed in a post mortem study with age group, body condition score, time since last dental treatment, feeding and the illness that necessitated euthanasia or caused death.
A prospective study documented the type and prevalence of dental disorders in 349 mainly aged donkeys (median estimated age of 31 years) that were subjected to euthanasia over an 18 month period in 2005'Aì2006. The estimated age, body condition score, supplemental feed status, time since last dental treatment and nature of the intercurrent disease that necessitated euthanasia or caused death were also recorded. Multivariable analysis was performed to examine associations of these factors with specific dental disorders and between specific dental disorders.
There was a high prevalence (93.4%) of significant dental disease. Age group was significantly associated with the presence of dental disorders and an older age range was a high risk factor for the presence of cheek teeth (CT) diastemata. There was a significant association between the presence of CT diastemata and the concurrent presence of displaced, missing and worn CT. There was also a significant association between the presence of diastemata and colic.
Conclusions and potential relevance
Aged donkeys have a high prevalence of dental disorders especially of CT diastemata. Dental disorders and, in particular, the presence of CT diastemata were significantly associated with colic. Routine, prophylactic dental treatments should be performed, especially in aged donkeys.
Nicole du Toit, Faith A. Burden, Lee Gosden, Padraic M. Dixon. April 2008. Dimensions of diastemata and associated periodontal food pockets in donkey cheek teeth. Journal of Veterinary Dentistry. 26:1.
Equine cheek teeth (CT) diastemata often cause deep periodontal food pocketing and are therefore regarded as a painful dental disorder of equidae. However there appears to be no information available on the size or shape of these diastemata. This post mortem study examined 16 donkey skulls (mean age = 32-years) containing 45 CT diastemata to define the anatomical shape and dimensions of these diastemata, and of the associated periodontal food pockets that occur with this disorder. Diastemata were found to more commonly involve mandibular (56.0%) compared with maxillary CT (44.0%), and 71.0% of these diastemata had adjacent intercurrent dental disorders that may have predisposed donkeys to the diastemata. The median widths of all diastemata were 2.0-mm at the occlusal surface and 3.1-mm at the gingival margin, with no diferences in widths between the lateral or medial aspects of diastemata. Diastemata were defined as open (60.00%) or valve (40.00%) based on their gross appearance. This classification was confirmed to be accurate by measurements that showed valve diastemata to have an occlusal to gingival width ratio of 0.4, in contrast to open diastemata where this ratio was 1.07. Food was impacted in 89.0% of diastemata, but all diastemata had adjacent periodontal disease. Periodontal food pocketing was present adjacent to 76.0% of diastemata, more commonly on the lateral aspect (73.0% prevalence; mean pocket depth = 4.1-mm) than the medial aspect (47.0% prevalence; mean pocket depth = 2.4-mm). The depth of periodontal pockets of diastemata was not associated with the height of the erupted crowns of adjacent CT.
Nicole du Toit, Faith A. Burden, Padraic M. Dixon. April 2009. Clinical dental examinations of 357 donkeys in the UK. Part 2: Epidemiological studies on the potential relationships between different dental disorders, and between dental disease and systemic disorders. Equine Veterinary Journal. 41:4. 395-400.
Reasons for performing study
Dental disease has been shown to be a risk factor for weight loss and colic in horses. No extensive clinical studies in donkeys have investigated the potential relationship between different dental disorders, or between dental disease and systemic disorders.
To determine possible associations between dental disease and body condition score, weight loss, the need for supplemental feeding and prevalence of colic in donkeys of all ages, and to gain a better understanding of the pathogenesis of dental disease by the determination of associations between different dental disorders.
A prospective cross-sectional analysis of clinical dental examinations of 357 donkeys in The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth was performed. Other epidemiological factors such as estimated age group, body condition score, weight loss, medical history and supplemental feeding were also recorded, and multiple regression analyses were performed to determine possible associations.
Donkeys from older age groups were more likely to have dental disease, poor body condition score and suffered previous colic episodes. The presence of dental disease was also significantly associated with weight loss, colic, low body condition score and the need for supplemental feeding. The presence of diastemata, periodontal disease, wave mouth, smooth mouth and step mouth are frequently associated with the presence of other dental disorders.
In addition to oral-related pain, dental disease can cause significant systemic disorders and so has increased welfare implications in donkeys. Some dental disorders promote the development of other types of dental abnormalities and thus increase the severity of dental disease in individual animals. POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE: Effective treatment of dental disorders slows down the progression of dental disease and decreases the risk of developing some medical disorders such as colic and weight loss that are associated with dental disease.
Nicole du Toit, Faith A. Burden, Padraic M. Dixon. April 2009. Clinical dental examinations of 357 donkeys in the UK: Part 1: Prevalence of dental disorders. Equine Veterinary Journal. 41:4. 390-394.
Reasons for performing the study
Dental disorders have a high prevalence in older donkeys and horses, but the nature and pathogenesis of many of these disorders have yet to be established.
The identification and determination of the prevalence of important dental disorders in different age groups in a large single population of donkeys, to establish a better understanding of the nature and pathogenesis of these disorders.
A prospective cross-sectional study was performed on the donkey population at The Donkey Sanctuary with detailed oral examinations of 357 donkeys within 7 different age groups (age range 2-53 years) recorded.
The prevalence of dental disease in all donkeys was 73%, increasing in prevalence from 28% in the youngest to 98% in the oldest age group. There was an increase in prevalence of commonly recognised dental disorders with increasing age, such as: diastemata (3.8% in youngest to 86% in oldest group); missing teeth (0-56%); overgrown teeth (15-86%); worn teeth (8-84%); displaced teeth (0-38%); and periodontal disease (0-28%).
There was a significant increase in the prevalence of dental disorders with increasing age with the largest significant increase for most dental disorders occurring in the 15-20 year age group. POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE: Most dental disorders significantly increase in prevalence in the 15-20 year age group and, therefore, prophylactic geriatric dental treatment in donkeys should be commenced from age 15 years.
Nicole du Toit, Faith A. Burden, Susan A. Kempson, Padraic M. Dixon. December 2008. Pathological investigation of caries and occlusal pulpar exposure in donkey cheek teeth using Computerised Axial Tomography with Histological and ultrastructural examinations. The Veterinary Journal. 178:3. 387-395.
Post-mortem examination of 16 donkey cheek teeth (CT) with caries (both peripheral and infundibular) and pulpar exposure were performed using computerised axial tomography (CAT), histology and scanning electron microscopy. CAT imaging was found to be useful to assess the presence and extent of caries and pulp exposure in individual donkey CT. Histology identified the loss of occlusal secondary dentine, and showed pulp necrosis in teeth with pulpar exposure. Viable pulp was present more apically in one exposed pulp horn, with its occlusal aspect sealed off from the exposed aspect of the pulp horn by a false pulp stone. Scanning electron microscopy showed the amelo-cemental junction to be a possible route of bacterial infection in infundibular cemental caries. The basic pathogenesis of dental caries in donkeys appears very similar to its description in other species.


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The latter opposition is one of many alignments that put love, relationships and sexuality very much in the focus this month. The second alignment of this quality is a conjunction of the Shiva, Psyche and Parvati asteroids in later Cancer. This conjunction will be joined by Venus and the Sun in the course of the month, highlighting an exceptionally tantric alignment that is one of the highest expressions of the sacred marriage.
The Sun and Venus together is almost always a loving, erotic and fertile combination of solar masculine and the Venusian femininity. In Cancer it is especially deep, luscious and sensual, with a traditional emphasis on the home front, live in relationships and family dynamics. If well aspected, it can bring great harmony and enjoyment into the home environment, particularly between parents and children, adolescents included!
Fortunately, most of the aspects to the Sun/Venus are positive and supportive; the Sun sextiling a Taurus Moon gives the month a firm stable foundation between its core masculine and feminine energies. Sextiling the luminous Jupiter/North Node conjunction adds grace, growth and flow to proceedings, enhancing feelings of wellbeing, positive expectations and the greater alignment with soul.
Linking it all with the earth grand trine gives the conjunction brilliant support to manifest its inherent creativity and fertility, traditionally expressed through gardening, renovations, beautifying the home and creating babies!
Alongside this earth focus is an equally creative and powerful spiritual thread, with the Sun trining a conjunction of Neptune, Eros, Medusa and Pallas Athena - an unusual combination of mysticism, playfulness, fierce passion and focused warrior energies swimming in the watery realms of Pisces (and in the 12 house!) This is particularly brilliant for deep inner work, meditation and for piercing into the mysteries of the inner self to purify, heal and reclaim the "dark" feminine, wounded and liberating sexual energy and lower chakra potency.
And this is where we must talk about the Sun/Venus/Pluto opposition. In the midst of this exceptionally benevolent astrological climate is an intense demand for transformation of self, in our love lives and sexuality, and in the balance, or lack of, between our professional and personal lives, the outer world and the home front. And as most of us know, there can be no transformation without some form of death, whether to old ego structures, our naiveté or escapism, or redundant ways of relating to self and others.
However, around this core theme is such a brilliant support, encapsulated in all the positive aspects above. This includes being able to call upon the medicine women and men within each of us. The Moon in Taurus conjuncts the Witch Queen Hecate, a beautiful earthy embodiment of the medicine woman and one in sync with the Jupiter/North Node in Virgo, the latter another placement for the earth priestess within. Similarly, on the masculine side, there is a water grand trine linking highly evolved Shiva energy with Mars in Scorpio and the wounded healer Chiron in Pisces. This is an equally brilliant uniting of sacred warrior healing energy.
So, whatever shadow work is presented us by the demands for healing and transformation, we can make the best of this opportunity by putting ourselves in the right places and practices, the right workshops with the right practitioners so that we can dive more deeply at this exceptional time.
Now, this conjunction of Shiva, Psyche and Parvati is equally auspicious and a tantrika's dream. As a practitioner around the sacred marriage, the Shakti goddesses of India and in the core archetypes involved in tantric spirituality, this conjunction is particularly exciting for me. Here is the great yogi god Shiva, an image of refined masculine transformative power, a phallic moon deity and co-patron of Tantra, with his beloved, in the form of the goddess of the sacred marriage and Queen of yoga, Parvati.
In between the two is the exquisitely lovely Psyche, a goddess energy within each of us that draws us towards the possibility of conscious, soul-to-soul relationship with another human being, a capacity she shares with Parvati.
Starting from the 5, Venus, and then a week later, the Sun, will cross over this conjunction, which stretches from 20 to 29° of Cancer. Against the month's core theme around the transformation of our relationships, we will then be given multiple opportunities to go deeper in our loving, to face fears, inhibitions and wounds that limit our capacity for intimacy and to release old baggage and conditioning around the nature of relationships.
Obviously, this is also a brilliant time for authentic tantric practices, as well as any form of sexual and relationship healing, whether alone or in partnership. It promises connection to both sacred masculine and feminine to recover more of the beauty and the purity of our sacred sexuality.
Daniel Sowelu (BSc Dip Ed) is a therapeutic astrologer, primal therapist and groupleader in his 35th year of private practice.


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First POST: Bush League
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Earlier this week, The People's Lobby launched their first participatory democracy experiment in Provo, a city of just over 115,000 people in north-central Utah. Incorporating tools from both Loomio and NationBuilder, the process is meant to foster increased community participation in city government.Read More
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Obama administration sets record for censoring or denying access to files requested under FOIA; hype over Meerkat; French gov't starts to block websites that promote or advocate terrorism; the theme for Personal Democracy Forum 2015; and much, much more. Read More
[Op-Ed] We Need a Yelp for Civic Engagement to Get the 21st Century Democracy We Want
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We have more opportunities to get involved in our communities, through a wider array of tools, processes, meetings, and apps than ever before. Some of these opportunities are interesting and beneficial, while others—especially the ones supported by governments in the name of public participation—can be frustrating and may even be harmful. So how should we judge? What kinds of public engagement are helpful?Read More
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Organised by music promoter Doctor Feelgood Events (previously known as Unomodo) and hosted by Rotterdam classic rock/pop station Radio 10, We All Love 80s 90s 00s featured a performance by Ben Saunders & The Dirty Daddies (pictured), "the best music selection from [the] '80s, '90s and 2000s" and "fabulous retro graphics, images and projections relating to those wonderful years".
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The first week of our search for Jackson's best bacon cheeseburger had been less than spectacular. It seemed that, one by one, we were exposing revered Jackson institutions. Wednesday, Sam and I planned to meet for lunch and get the quest back on track. Trying to decide between Char or the Cherokee, I decided we should try the high end and see if we fared any better.
I've previously reviewed Char and had been less than impressed; I believe I said "it doesn't excite the senses". Regardless, I was ready to give Char another try, but this time sticking to simpler fare.
Right away, I was glad we had agreed to try Char. As much as I love a good greasy spoon, there are few things finer in life than a clean restaurant with dark woods, clean white tablecloths, and an attentive wait staff.
Less than a minute after being seated, we had our order ready. Two orders of the Char burger, dressed with lettuce, beefsteak tomatoes, and red onions on a toasted egg roll. A two dollar extra of Tillamook sharp cheddar and bacon make the char burger exactly what we're looking for.
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The first bite, as always reveals the truth. The cheddar definitely compliments the burger.
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Sam and I had to throttle ourselves in for this rating.
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South likes: Benjamin Valenza at Komplot, Brussels
South likes: Benjamin Valenza at Komplot, Brussels
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The show by Benjamin Valenza on view at Komplot constitutes the prosecution of an ongoing research on which the practice of the artist is based. With a multifarious approach, Valenza embraces diverse procedures, including sculpture, music poetry and performance. The exhibition addresses complex themes related to the culture of the Mediterranean, to the issues in defining the vernacular, and to the way we envision the representations of certain cultures. A series of sculptures created and showcased in the exhibition venue highlight a particularly important point of Valenza's vision. Maintaining that culture appears when it is shared or so to speak when it is exchanged, the objects and the experiences created by Valenza bypass any exotic take on the purity of regional cultures. In order to favour the portability of his discourse, the artist chose a material that is both easy to find and cheap to produce, regardless of geographies and local economies. For this reason he decided to employ a traditional recipe to cast soap sculptures with the help of a group of young artists. The collective work included the actual realisation of the objects as well as the production of a musical score to accompany the work of the group. The portability of this "vehicular factory", as it is defined by the artist, is in fact central to the show. Halfway between a workshop and an installation, the show is composed by different elements, each one bearing a specific semantic tension. The head of a swordfish, an impossible wooden boat, a piece of rope recreate cultural landscapes that are common to many different regions of the Mediterranean, as seen in Vittorio De Seta's documentaries or during Valenza's travel to Palermo in Southern Italy—whereas travelling is indeed a healthy habit rather than an entertainment for tourist. A poem, vacuum sealed in a plastic bag, reaffirms the research for a common character that unifies distinct cultural scenarios: the whole page is the seamless repetition of the words "lingua franca". For eventually, as Fernand Braudel wrote, "the life and history of the Mediterranean do not stop—as the geographer, the botanist or even the historian might have imagined—at the point where the last olive tree has been left behind".
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Go read this on the New York Times Opinionator. Great piece about
confusing the possible effectiveness of folk remedies with the arbitrary theoretical-metaphysical baggage attached to it. There is no question that some folk remedies do work. The active ingredient of aspirin, for example, is derived from willow bark, which had been known to have beneficial effects since the time of Hippocrates.
What makes the use of aspirin "scientific," however, is that we have validated its effectiveness through properly controlled trials, isolated the active ingredient, and understood the biochemical pathways through which it has its effects
Just because some folk remedies work doesn't lend credibility to folk or naturopathic theories of healthcare.


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- Iraq's erstwhile trade minister has been arrested on charges of corruption, the BBC reports. Abdul Falah Sudani resigned his post earlier this month after allegations emerged that he and other officials in his department were embezzling government funds. The dramatic capture today occurred after police requested Sudani's flight...
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- The US turned over tens of thousands of Sunni fighters to Baghdad this weekend to take government jobs and mend fences with ruling Shiites, but many Sunnis are skeptical, the
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Shiite PM teams with secular Sunnis and even militant cleric
- The Shiite party of PM Nouri al-Maliki has allied itself with Sunni political figures and even Moqtada al-Sadr, a major departure from earlier politics that followed ethnic and sectarian lines. writes Anthony Shadid in the
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Iraqi Women's Minister Resigns in Protest
Budget cuts rob her of resources to help 'army of widows'
- Iraq's state minister for women's affairs has quit to protest a lack of resources for a daunting task—improving the lives of "a full army of widows" and other women left poor or abandoned by war. Nawal al-Samarraie told the AP how her office's budget was so tight that...
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Iraqis Wrap Up Voting Amid Relative Calm
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- Iraq's first provincial election went off more or less smoothly today. Though three mortar shells landed near one polling place, no one was injured or killed, Reuters reports, and polls closed without any other major incidents. Turnout appeared strong, even in places like Anbar province, a Sunni-dominated area that...
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Iraqi Women Pressured to Run for Office, Fill Quota
Many candidates in Anbar are wives of tribal leaders
- Iraq has new rules to boost women's rights, but it may take a while for the nation's culture to get up to speed,
reports. In this month's provincial elections, for instance, 25% of newly elected council members must be female. But in provinces such as Anbar, the idea of...
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US transfers control of Baghdad's fortified enclave
- The heart of the US occupation in Iraq was returned to Iraqi control at midnight last night, the
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Accord will shift jurisdiction to Baghdad, and officials want evidence to stand up in trial
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Charges Could Loom for Contractors in Old Iraq Disputes
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Myth sensors.pl
Note: The correct title of this article is myth_sensors.pl. It appears incorrectly here due to technical restrictions.
|Michael T. Dean
|Retrieves sensors output (thermal/fan information) and formats it for inclusion in the MythTV backend status page,
myth_sensors.pl retrieves sensors output and formats it for inclusion in the MythTV backend status page
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # myth_sensors.pl # # Retrieves sensors output and formats it for inclusion in the MythTV backend # status page. # # You may specify the sensors_command_line as well as the data to retrieve and # the output information as described in the comments, below. # Change the command line required to execute the sensors program, below. # The default value should work as long as sensors is in the PATH for the user # running mythbackend my $sensors_command_line = 'sensors'; # Specify the data to retrieve and the output information in the format: # # [ "<sensors label>", "<display output>", "<XML output name>" ] # # where <sensors label> is the label used by the sensors program for the # value you wish to include and <display output> may contain "%v" at the # location where the value should be placed. If <display output> does not # contain "%v", the value will be appended to the end. The <XML output name> # is an optional value for the "name" attribute, which can be used to make # machine parsing easier. my @output = ( [ "CPU Temp", "Current CPU Temperature: %v ℃", "temperature-CPU" ], [ "CPU Fan", "Current CPU Fan Speed:", "fan-CPU" ], [ "M/B Temp", "Current Motherboard Temperature: %v ℃", "temperature-MB" ], [ "Case Fan", "Current Case Fan Speed:", "fan-case" ], ); # Editing the following code should not be necessary. my $line = 0; my %data = (); my ($label, $display, $value, $name); my @sensors_data = `$sensors_command_line`; while ($sensors_data[$line]) { $sensors_data[$line] =~ /^(.+):\s+(?:\+|-)?(\d+\.?\d*)/; if ($1 && $2) { $data{ $1 } = $2; } $line++; } for $i (0 .. $#output) { $label = $output[$i][0]; $value = $data{$label}; if ($value) { $display = $output[$i][1]; $name = $output[$i][2]; $display = "$display %v" unless ($display =~ /%v/); $display =~ s/%v/$value/; print("${display}"); print("[]:[]${name}") if ($name); print("[]:[]${value}") if ($name && $value); print("\n"); } }
Getting sensors Data from Remote Systems
With appropriate authentication in place (i.e. using SSH Certificate Authentication, Kerberos Authentication, ...), you may also retrieve sensors data from remote systems (i.e. remote backends, remote frontends, etc.). Do so with commands of the format below (provide an appropriate host name in place of
remote and either specify a full path for
myth_sensors.pl or ensure the script is located in the user's PATH):
ssh -q remote myth_sensors.pl
Alternatively, this information could be retrieved from an appropriate monitoring program (monit, mrtg) or by using SNMP, depending on the system and network configuration.


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Bank Fees: What's the Breaking Point for Customers?
Bank of America (BAC) learned pretty quickly last month that customers think $5 a month is too much to pay for using a debit card. Consumers and commentators expressed outrage that a formerly free service would now cost $60 a year. Wells Fargo (WFC) and Chase (JPM) are testing $3 fees for the same service in selected areas.
However, 13% of 1,000 respondents said that they would be willing to pay bank fees if they were reasonable.
Wells Fargo says that the new law, part of a larger financial overhaul called the Durbin Amendment, is part of the reason that they are testing a $3 debit card fee in five states, but that there are other proprietary reasons for the fee. Chase started testing a $3 debit-card fee in two markets last February and says it has no plans to expand at the moment.
Sound fair? To be sure, bank fees are not that uncommon. Who hasn't ponied up a few dollars to pay an ATM fee? Many checking accounts charge monthly fees, as well.
But clearly the debit card fee touched a nerve. If more customers do wind up walking away from their banks, increased fees may have an unintended consequence of simply making banking unaffordable for millions of low-income Americans.
On principle, is charging a bank fee at any level too much? Or can you simply not afford to pay any more for banking services?
Catherine New can be reached at email@example.com.


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The buzz around Namm this year was definitely GigaStudio160. Many world renown composers, musicians and companies such as Hans Zimmer and Lucas Arts were glued to the Nemesys booth. While many attempts were made to draw these individuals to other exhibits they were all in vain. GigaStudio160 is all that was promised and then some. Users of this forum can congratulate themselves on being instrumental in helping Nemesys create a product inspired by users ideas. Nemesys developers paid a great deal of attention to our wish list, as well as posts in the forum.
What we will do in the following paragraphs is answer some of the questions posted in the forum as well as dispel some other the myths being perpetuated across the web.
At first glance the interface has more of a windows environment feel. This is great because there is much more information available to you all at once. All windows are resizable enabling you to customize your desktop. One amazing feature we found was the search component of GigaStudio160. Its an intuitive parsed search engine. Due to the converged nature of GigaStudio160 it is inevitable that users will end up with literally thousands of sounds on their hard drives. This search engine/ librarian enables you to search for specific strings of information. You can search by sound type, embedded details such as composer ,dates, categories , also you can search using modifiers or wild cards. For example we typed strings and all string instruments on the hard drive came up. Then we applied a modifier, we typed strings not violins and all strings exclusive of violins came up. We then typed Dave Govett and all instruments created by Dave Govett Popped into view. We could then audition any of these samples before loading them into GigaStudio160. You can see the possibilities that this opens for organizing and auditioning your sounds. With regards to conversion GigaStudio160 is very open ended. It now comes with the ability to instantly convert akai, sound fonts and wavs as well as many other sample formats via third party software. What we mean by instantly is, no longer is there a need to extract and convert sounds. GigaStudio160 automatically detects the sound format on the cd and it appears in the instrument window. From here you drag and drop the sound on a gig channel like any other gig instrument. Another neat feature is the ability to rip wavs from cd and drop them directly onto a gig instrument without the need to go into the instrument editor.
There is a neat little polyphony indicator which shows the number of notes currently in use. We were amazed to see the polyphony count as a seasoned pianist played the Giga piano. Upon checking the polyphony meter there were over 90 voices in use. That in it self was great but, what truly amazed us was the fact that this sound was being streamed OVER A LAN NETWORK!!!. Which brings us to the point of networking abilities. GigaStudio160 comes out of the box with the ability to be networked. The significance of this is obvious if you have an edit suite with more than one room. You can house all your sounds on one centralized database and access them anywhere on the network.
A key innovation is the effects and automated mixing abilities. GigaStudio160 comes with a reverberator/muti-effects, Chours/flanger , tap delay/pan. All of which are very lush. We noticed the reverb has a smooth ambient tail , unlike many of the harsh ending software reverbs on the market today. The effects responded with zero latency. All of these effect can be routed in a variety of combinations through the fully automated mixing console.
The console it self enables you to control level, aux sends/receive, pans and even real-time pitch.
whew ..this is all well post for now please feel free to post any questions. We realize that we have not addressed the new instrument editor and wave sample editor yet. We will do so soon.
Stay tuned .
To set record straight we think the upgrade price for existing gigasampler owners to GigaStudio160 is a heck of a deal. $149 u.s . When you consider the polyphony alone you would have needed two extra site keys just to attain this. Not to mention all of the other features that come with GigaStudio160.
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Karcher wet and dry vacuum cleaners from SweepEx Australia are ideal for use on wet or dry surfaces, and suitable for a wide range of cleaning jobs.
They can be used to clean fireplaces, BBQs, wet spills, and even leaves and woodchips, and can also be used inside on both carpet and floorboards.
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IJRE loved by most researchers for the fast track review
As a research scientist, publishing peer-to-peer reviews in an indexed journal is time-consuming. Subsequent to research investigation, frustration is widely shared that researchers are increasingly questioning the long time it takes to publish their articles; and feel trapped in a big cycle of submission, rejection, review, and re-review that seems to kill months of their lives, interferes with their job, and unfortunately research-grant, information often become out-of-date.
Nowadays research scientists are more likely to prefer and consider a rapid review and quickly publish a journal. However, you should beware of those bogus journals that are just looking for a profit, and which can be easily identified by carefully look into the contents of the website.
Here, I would like to recommend that you submit your work to the "International Journal of Research and Engineering IJRE.org, which are "open access", "double-peer review", "indexed" by Google Scholar, Academia, Research-gate, Copernicus, and more. These are loved by most researchers for the fast-track review and quick publication process, and most importantly; all this adds up to a shorter period of acceptance notification.
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Lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of Parliament, on Monday summoned ministers of justice and counter-narcotics to ask them about the spending of their development budgets.
The ministers survived no-confidence vote from lawmakers. Lawmakers are expected to summon all those ministers who have failed to spend less than 70 percent of their development budgets.
"The ministry of justice would have spent almost 84 percent of its development budget if the construction of its new building had not faced opposition from the World Bank," Justice Minister Abdul Basir Anwar said.
"We transferred all projects to Ministry of Urban Development and Housing on the basis of a resolution, but some of the projects were returned to the relevant ministries after the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing could not managed to implement the projects because of their large numbers," said Salamat Azimi, Minister of Urban Development and Housing.
Meanwhile, some MPs said the spending of the development budget is hindered by donors and the Ministry of Finance.
"You should summon those who are responsible and who are making barriers on the way of spending of development budget," said Qais Hassan, an MP.
"Main responsibility lies with the Ministry of Finance and donors who hinder spending of development budget," said MP Bashir Ahmad Tahyanj.
This comes after the Ministry of Finance said on December 19 that the balance of development budget spending by government's budgetary units has surpassed almost 90 percent this year, which shows a 23 percent increase compared to the same period a year ago.
The Finance Ministry has allocated AFs 399 billion for the 1398 fiscal year's budget, 69 percent of which has been allocated for the standard budget while the remaining 39 percent has been allocated for the development budget.
According to the ministry, from the AFs 399 billion, AFs 275 billion will be allocated to the standard budget and the remainder will be put aside for the development budget.


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End of an Era: The Ishibashi Farm Closing Sale | KCET
End of an Era: The Ishibashi Farm Closing Sale
"¨There was a feeling of sadness hovering over the buckets of rusted nails, the ancient cash register, and the 1971 Coca Cola machine. After over sixty years in business, the Tom T. Ishibashi farm in Torrance, the last of a string of iconic South Bay family farms, closed its gates.
On Saturday, the family had an everything-must-go sale before shutting down for good. A throng of bargain-hunters picked through boxes of old mason jars, buckets of $1 gardening tools and wooden crates that once held grapes and peaches.
"It's truly the end of an era," said Marcia Oto, daughter of the legendary farmer, Tom Ishibashi, who died last year of congestive heart failure at the age of 82.
The Ishibashi family has a long line of farmers, going back at least through the 1800s, and through the early 1900s when Tom's parents migrated from Japan. Their original stand was located on Pacific Coast Highway, whose coastline reminded them of their native town of Okayama.
In 1949, Tom's father leased nearly 150 acres from the City of Torrance, since Japanese Americans were not permitted to own land at the time. Situated alongside the Torrance airport, one can almost imagine how the land must have looked all those years ago. But with the constant traffic on Crenshaw Boulevard and the large Kohl's building in the distance, it's obvious that the days of family farms in Southern California are long-gone.
While the residents of Torrance remember Tom as the man who lovingly doled out fresh strawberries, his sister Naomi remembers a brother who originally had no interest in farming. "He never wanted to be a farmer," she says. "My mother taught him how to farm, but everything she said, he resisted. If she said yes, he said no."
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Tom eventually gave in and came to work alongside his parents on the farm. Though he'd changed his mind about raising crops, he was still adamantly opposed to his mother's great love -- flowers.
"One thing they had a fight about was flowers," Naomi remembers. "My mother loved raising flowers, but Tom didn't want anything to do with them."
But after his mother's illness, Tom had a change of heart. "It was such a joy to see him growing the flowers that she loved, like a memorial for Mom. And he grew sweet peas by the road that were so fragrant when you'd drive by. It was like all the things that Mom loved were here for her."
Longtime customer Don Sorenson remembers the land in the 1940s, when the airport was P-38 training base for pilots fighting in the war. "I used to buy strawberries here in the 1950s," Sorenson says. "Now I can buy them at the 99-cent store for much cheaper."
Indeed, this seems to be the story all over. Massive farms run like factories receive subsidies from the government, allowing them to keep their prices so low that it's impossible for small farms like Tom's to compete. It wasn't always this way.
Farmers hoping to make a living turned seriously to the open spaces of Southern California in the late 1800s, when at the same time agricultural reformer William Ellsworth Smythe was developing his concept of the "irrigated society."
Smythe strongly believed that small farms created democratic community life. The ideas outlined in his journal Irrigation Age increased the predictability of crop yields, paving the way for the small family farm to have enough water, power and means to work the land. Soon, Central and Southern California became some of the biggest agricultural centers in the world. In the South Bay alone, Carson was known for its cut flower crops, and Gardena was something of a berry capital. Ishibashi Farm had a central leadership role in the area for some time. But with increasing regulations on crop growth and distribution, the family farm is a thing of the past.
"This is not a money-maker," says Naomi. "You had to have a passion for raising crops. Everything's expensive."
Tom kept the farm afloat by decreasing the number of workers and paring down the amount of crops he grew, but after awhile the stricter farming regulations removed any hope of a profit. The family temporarily retired in 2005 when Tom's wife, Maya, grew ill and had trouble with her eyesight. To the delight of Torrance residents, he reopened the stand in 2006, but after his death last May, it was inevitable the farm would have to be closed.
Though it's a sad time for the family, daughter Marcia knows that this sale is what Tom wanted.
"He just wanted all of this cleaned up for the city," she says. "That was his biggest concern. He said, 'I'm sorry I'm leaving you with all of this mess.' He just wanted it cleaned up, and for this to be the place it was when he first came here."
Naomi agrees.
"This was his life, his baby," she says. "He loved it, so he kept it open. It was a love affair that he enjoyed to the very last."
[Photos by Eric Spiegelman]
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Video Download Capture is an easy to use, and powerful video downloader, converter, editor, media player and screen video capture. Video Download Capture lets you download streaming video or TV show easily. Video Download Capture allow you to download movies and videos from most of popular video sites including: YouTube, Facebook, MetaCafe, and more., and performs editing and converting videos from one to another formats.
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By Hans Ebert
George Michael died of heart failure, manager says https://t.co/X11rmEkZNq
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 26, 2016
It's been said before and it's been said many times this year: Life's too short. And today, the day after Christmas, came the news that George Michael had his Last Christmas and decided to leave us at the age of 53, and join Prince, Bowie, Glenn Frey, Rick Parfitt from Status Quo, who left this world yesterday, and so many other musical heroes for so many of us to wherever it is that they'd meet up.
Yeah, life's too short. There I was thinking only yesterday just how unforgiving and ungrateful even one's own flesh and blood can be and wondering how these types of people could have once been part of my life. I had even started a song that opened with the lines, "You don't take sides in a family/Family must never be the enemy". What do I know? What does anyone know? Despite all that outward niceness are some truly hurtful people. But that's the past, and no matter how disappointing and tough it is, there's a need to delete them from your life. It makes those dark clouds hovering above disappear.
George Michael had a number of dark clouds hovering over him for many years. After the cheery music of Wham!, his solo career began with two of my favourite songs- "Careless Whisper", and the very underrated "Different Corner", a beautiful ballad that showcased his brilliant voice- a truly unique voice.
Despite a string of huge hits, the man was dogged by one controversy after another- the all-too frequent drug busts, the all-too-familiar comebacks that all-too-quickly became setbacks. And despite close friends closing rank and trying to help him, and his promises on talk shows that he had exorcised his many demons, the downhill slide happened again and again. He quickly became a liability to himself and even his most loyal support system including Elton John, music companies and management.
While Elton John, who had fought his own personal battles, cleaned up his tiaras and tantrums lifestyle, married his longtime partner, and made sure that the sun didn't go down on him, George Michael, like Icarus, flew too close to the sun once too often. And now he's gone forever.
Sure, there will always be his music and the world will mourn his passing, but it's too late for him to know and hear how much we loved him through his music and videos and concerts. How, despite all the bad publicity, he continued to play to sell out concerts. He was George Michael. He was an incredible singer, musician, and performer. His fans never forgot that. They forgave his faults. They were perhaps the only permanent safety net he had.
If only there was more forgiveness between friends and family, this just might be a better place. But that's an impossible dream from a cockeyed optimist. The inability to forgive speaks volumes about a person, especially when they're flesh and blood that have been sadly reduced to a discardable bag of vindictive sticks and bones. At least, we stuck by George Michael through thick and thin. That's the way God planned it and meant for us to live our lives.


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You'll never have to be late for work taking an extra 20 minutes to prep your eyebrows if you've gone to Audrey Glass. Splitting her time between branches in Los Angeles and British Columbia, Audrey works full-time for the renowned cosmetic tattoo studio, Sashiko Studio, which is famous for their tebori technique. Audrey mastered the fine line technique required in order to mimic the fine hairs in eyebrows and make the cosmetic tattoos look as natural as possible. From blondes to raven-haired beauties, Audrey's got you covered.
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This three-day, instructor-led course is intended for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Microsoft Project. The course begins with the basic concepts and leads students through all the functions they'll need to plan and manage a small to medium-size project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.
This course will also help students prepare for Microsoft Project Exam 74-343 Managing Projects with Microsoft Project.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Microsoft Project 2016.
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When a business requires a particular skillset, for example payroll processing, but does not need it consistently enough to hire a full or part time member of staff to perform the required tasks, they can look at hiring an outside professional or team to help. This makes financial sense for one off tasks, like branding or creating a marketing strategy, or for services only needed several times a year, like accounting and tax lawyers.
The experts you outsource services to don't need any one client to provide a full time workload, as they have multiple clients who each need their expertise. This creates a win/win situation, as the business who is outsourcing gains access to valuable services, while the business providing that service can charge a higher hourly rate as relatively few hours are needed.
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When businesses are assessing the viability of outsourcing, they cannot merely consider the financial repercussions. While outsourcing is generally cheaper, it comes at the cost of relinquishing control and therefore risking diminished quality. Almost any process or service can be outsourced, but if any of the following are true, it probably will not be appropriate:
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By Kollin Miller
School has just let out all around Lincoln. Children of all ages are beginning to gather for afternoon games.
Games of football, basketball and soccer are played across the city.
But behind an apartment complex to the south of Lincoln High School, a different game is played. A ball pops over the wooden fence, then falls behind it, back out of sight. If you weren't looking for it, you'd never know that Karen refugees have gathered for games of sepak takraw.
And they've been doing this for years.
Eh Moo is a 16-year-old boy who just started playing a few weeks ago. Everyone else was playing the game and he wanted to learn it as well. Since then he's been out there every day, practicing.
He races home from Lincoln High School every day and is sometimes the first one on the converted cement basketball court. He doesn't care who shows up next, he just wants someone to play with.
Today, Mook Shaw is the next boy to appear. He is only 9 years old, but he has already been playing takraw for a year. He's not big enough to be able to do many types of kicks. Instead, he relies on simple touches with his feet and head to keep the ball in play.
Eh Moo sets himself up to practice more difficult kicks. He kicks the ball high into the air, jumps, spins and connects. Everything is timed perfectly, and he shoots the ball to the ground on the opposite side of the net. Impressive for only having played for a few weeks. But Eh Moo says there is no secret to how to do those types of kicks though.
"You just learn it," Eh Moo said.
More and more children start show up.
They come through the hole in the fence or show up on bikes. Soon the small court is packed with 15 or 20 children.
When enough players show up, seats are at a premium. Only a couple of chairs sit next to the court, so the children sit anywhere they can. They sit on the swings of the jungle gym or on the cement ground. They even crouch on top of the fence or climb the tree overlooking the court to watch.
Sepak takraw is very popular in Southeast Asia, and Karen refugees brought the game to Nebraska when they began to resettle here. Sepak is the Malaysian word for kick and takraw is the Thai word for woven ball, referring to the ball used to play. It is traditionally made of woven rattan strips, but it is more commonly made from woven plastic.
The sport has been played in the United States since the 1980s. Kurt Sonderegger had taken some time off from the University of Maine and was working and going to school in Switzerland. There he was introduced to the ball. He was so intrigued by it, he flew to Thailand to find out more about this strange-looking ball.
He came across some people playing the sport in Lumphini Park in Bangkok. He played with them and learned from them. He met with the president of Marathon, the No. 1 manufacturer of Sepak takraw equipment.
Sonderegger saw an opportunity to introduce a new game into the United States.
When he returned to Maine, he learned that he needed to go west.
"I thought it would be a great sport to introduce here," Sonderegger said. "We started it in the Venice Beach area."
Venice Beach was perfect. Hacky sack and foot bag were already popular there, and a strong population of people from Southeast Asia lived around Los Angeles. It didn't take long for it to catch on.
Sonderegger took it to schools that were looking for different sports for young people to play. He taught them how to play and hoped to instill the same passion he had for the game. The schools liked the sport because of the minimal equipment necessary. All they needed was a net and a ball.
Sepak takraw was even featured on the television show "MTV Sports."
Sonderegger formed a national team that still competes in international tournaments today.
Ker Cha has played on the national team since 2012 and was recruited to play for them after playing local tournaments in California. He was born in Thailand and now lives in Circle Pines, Minnesota. Cha surprised to find out that the sport had reached all the way to Nebraska.
"It's good to see how the sport has grown," Cha said.
Sonderegger admits it's a long shot for takraw to shed the traditional game label and grow as a sport.
"It's hard to compete with soccer," Sonderegger said. "With takraw, maybe you can play for the national team, but soccer, you can potentially make millions of dollars."
But one thing is for sure. The people that play have as much passion for it as any sport.
Sepak takraw athletes can leave you mesmerized by feats of athleticism. The sport combines elements of several different sports, including soccer, volleyball, badminton and gymnastics.
The basics of the game are very similar to volleyball. A match is the best-of-three games. Each game is played to 15 and you must win by two. If a game is tied at 15, then the first team to 17 wins, regardless of winning by two. Three players make up each team and, like volleyball, each team has three touches to get the ball over to the other team's side of the net.
For the children that play in Lincoln though, you only get one game. The winning team stays on the court, losing team must wait their turn to play again.
The court is roughly the size of a badminton court and the net is the same height. For this makeshift court in Lincoln, white paint outlines the court and PVC pipe stuck in concrete and is anchored to a tree overlooking the
court on one side and a jungle gym on the other. It's quite a sturdy setup as it takes a lot of abuse. The net is hit by the ball, kicked, head-butted and run into, but a simple adjustment to the net and it's set for play again.
Hands are illegal, just like in soccer. In fact, the use of hands to help you kick the ball is illegal. So this means no handstands while attempting to kick the ball.
So how are you supposed to kick a ball over a five-foot tall net without any use of your arms and expect to score points? Being able to keep a soccer ball in the air is not much of a challenge for soccer players, so you have to get creative with how to kick a ball at a downward angle. That's where gymnastics come into play. Flexibility and powerful legs are a must. And so is foot-eye coordination. The simple answer is skill.
Professional players are able to do flipping and twisting kicks. They call them the sunback and roll spike. The sunback spike is equivalent to a bicycle kick in soccer. The roll spike refers to when a player jumps and twists over their opposite shoulder to kick the ball. A well-struck spike can reach speeds of 90 mph.
The momentum created by their legs allows players to twist around and strike the ball just like a spike in volleyball. The momentum of the kick spins them back around so their feet hit the ground first.
"There's a pretty steep learning curve to be able to do those types of kicks," Sonderegger said
Those are the shots that gets the reactions.
Just as incredible though are all the other shots: such as bringing their leg straight up in front of them to tap down a ball too close to the net, using their head and neck to whip the ball to an empty spot or place it just over the net. They make split-second decisions that seem incredible, but to them, it's just another shot. Nothing special about it.
The children that play after school in Lincoln, Nebraska, aren't able to do those types of kicks. Most of them anyway.
Av Le is one of the best players in Lincoln. The 17-year-old attends Lincoln High and plays. He doesn't speak much English, but his abilities on the court can't be missed. He is the only one who can do a true sunback or roll spike. It sends some of the children playing against him running. His kicks rifle through the air with incredible speed. He has incredible leaping ability and ability to adjust to the ball in midair.
He's also very polite. Le always says "thank you" when someone retrieves a ball for them. He gets everyone on his team involved, even the young ones that play with him.
But make no mistake, he's on the court to win. When his team starts to lose, his intensity goes up a notch. He takes over the game. Flip kick after flip kick and the children on the other team are helpless to stop it. Their only defense is to hope he kicks it into the net or out of bounds.
His teams don't lose much.
The children that play are a mix of tall and short, most are thin while some are a little bigger. The common trait they all share? Powerful legs. Each and every one of them have very strong legs that allow them to sky up and hit the ball on a downward trajectory.
As the sun begins to set, some of the children start to head home. Enough always stick around to play until it's too dark to play. Darkness is about the only thing that can stop them from playing. They'll be right back at it the next day. Playing until dark.
Behind a fence in the backyard of an apartment complex, an incredible sport is being played. You'd never find it if you weren't looking for it. But if you venture over and watch, you'll be amazed at the athleticism of these refugee children.


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