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Chances are, if you live in the U.S., you are required by your state's laws to purchase minimum car insurance protection in order to own or operate a motor vehicle. In most states, minimum insurance laws require that drivers only purchase liability coverage, rather than a more comprehensive policy. There are several reasons why minimum liability insurance is required.
Protecting Other Drivers
Liability insurance is required to protect other drivers from any bodily injury or property damage losses that you cause. In most states, you are legally responsible for the harm and loss that you cause another person, and auto insurance helps guarantee that victims have access to the medical treatments, auto repairs and property replacement they deserve following an accident.
Protecting You
Minimum liability insurance not only protects victims of an accident you cause, but it also protects you. Regardless of whether you have auto insurance, you can still be held legally responsible for the losses you cause another person. If you do not have insurance, a victim may sue you directly, which could result in a liquidation or seizure of your personal assets if you do not have the cash to pay a judgment out of pocket.
It is never a good idea to drive a vehicle without adequate insurance coverage. Unfortunately, even state minimum coverage may not be enough to protect you in the event of an accident. Talk to your insurer about the cost of increasing your coverage to provide full coverage protection for both yourself and others you are liable for. And as always, be sure to shop and compare premiums to be sure you are getting the most coverage at the most affordable rates. The rates you pay for state minimum coverage at one provider may buy you much more coverage through another.


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Did Columbus lose the Worldcon bid because people didn't think it was a strong bid that would lead to a good con, or did Japan win over a good bid from Columbus because people really wanted Japan?
There has been some discussion of whether Columbus wants the NASFiC. I think the answer to the above question (an honest answer about the general mood of the Worldcon voting public, not the Columbus committee's own feelings) is the key to the question. In other words, if they really want a Worldcon, do they have a good shot of getting it if they bid again, or should they go for the NASFiC to show fandom that they really can handle a big con?
To any of my friends who were part of the Columbus bid, let me make clear that my point isn't that I lack confidence in Columbus. I am wondering, since I don't feel that I have my finger on the pulse of fannish opinion, how much confidence fandom in general has in Columbus.


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Congratulations to Elmo Birkhead on being named our 2017 inductee.
Elmo Birkhead inducted into MMC Hall of Distinction
Elmo Birkhead was added to Martin Methodist College's (MMC), illustrious Hall of Distinction on May 5, 2017, for her dedicated service to MMC, to her church, and to her community.
The Martin Methodist College Hall of Distinction was established by the alumni group in 1980. An inductee to the Hall of Distinction must be an alumnus/alumna or friend who has made a significant contribution to Martin Methodist College through employment, service, or donation. An inductee can also be an alumnus/alumna who has brought significant honor to the college by substantial personal achievement in profession, avocation, or community service.
In her professional life, Birkhead worked as a counselor for the state of Ky., served as Dean of Women at Kentucky Wesleyan College and finally was a counselor for the Department of Mental Health in Tullahoma. She retired to Florida in 1990 but moved back to Tullahoma in 1995 and came out of retirement to serve as Program Director/Facilitator at First United Methodist Church (FUMC) Tullahoma at the encouragement of former MMC President Bill Starnes. Birkhead has worked in that full-time position on a volunteer basis since then.
Serving as pastor of FUMC Tullahoma at that time, Starnes and his wife Rosemary because close friends with Birkhead and shared their love of MMC. Over time, Birkhead grew to love the college as well and responded to that love in a self-less, giving way. Her desire to leave a legacy for years to come has impacted students past and present, and she has become an influential ambassador at her church, FUMC Tullahoma.
Elmo Birkhead is a giver, and for that, we are all the better," said Vice President for Institutional Advancement David Jones. "All of us who love MMC are blessed that Elmo Birkhead has been faithful and generous with her prayers, presence, gifts, service and witness for our beloved college."
"Almost 10 years ago, visiting with Rosemary and Bill Starnes in Tullahoma, I met one of the most wonderful, kind and unselfish people I know—Elmo Birkhead," said Assistant Vice President of Institutional Advancement Edna Luna. "We immediately bonded, and I'm blessed to call her my friend. Likewise, MMC has been so very fortunate to have her support and friendship, and I can't think of any one more deserving than Elmo Birkhead for the Hall of Distinction Award.
Who can be inducted into the Hall of Distinction
An inductee to the Hall of Distinction must be an alumnus/na or friend who has made a significant contribution to Martin Methodist College, through employment, service or donation. An inductee can also be an alumnus/na who has brought significant honor to the College by substantial personal achievement in profession, avocation or community service.
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The eighties showed the deep contrast in which even now, the Peruvians live with. Lima, where the economic and political powers are centralized, lived behind a civil war wich occured inside the country. Even though we see the violence of those years, we never wanted to deal with the dimension that had been reached. There are political sectors that insist on keep on forgetting the disasters of war and their reasons are divers. Postponing the construction of the memory of the years of violence is part of its strategy. Disguise was state policy, and we all submit and accommodate to that.
Invisible, argues about the blindness we keep to hold alien other reality; not about the imposed blindness, but for which we are accomplices. Martinez shows us the emptiness and existing silence, showing what we do not want to see, remember and know.
Ayacucho, its provinces, its people, their stories; are the backdrop that Claudia chose to show the wounds of a hidden war. In each province she etched with a needle pictures and testimonies of horror and pain. She strikes the paper, builds the story with deep holes and repeats it again and again, her action reminds us of more than 69,000 Peruvians we lost. The white color paper is the support, does not transgresses, respects and chisel a subtle mark, for in it we discover what is yet latent.
Martinez invites us to discover our past, blocking the view of the image by making it hard to see, for in it ́s unveiling we can build a memory and on it, we reflect on the history.
After four years of the Final Report of the Commission for the Truth and Reconciliation, we have not yet been able to see clearly the awful footsteps of our recent past. Therefor Invisible, is both timely and essential.
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Anamnesia- Claudia Martínez Garay / Rudolph Castro / Santiago Quintanilla.
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Sometimes CEOs need an understanding ear--but they worry that confiding in a colleague isn't safe or smart. Leslie G. Mayer is an ear-for-hire. As founder of the Mayer Leadership Group, in Radnor, Pennsylvania, and a senior fellow at Wharton, she says she has listened to and advised dozens of top executives at companies large (GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK), Aramark) and small (InnaPhase, TMX Communications). Mayer, who holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, travels sans couch--but she does bring a deep understanding of the fraught relationships, secret insecurities, and empathic blind spots that weaken healthy leadership. A former teacher, she also knows how to keep wandering attentions focused and manage the occasional temper tantrum. Recently, Mayer spoke with editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan about the personalities she has met in corner offices.
Are chief executives cagey about letting their staffs know they're working with a psychologist?
They don't call me a psychologist. I'm generally viewed as a trusted adviser or consigliere. I work on the point where psychology and business meet.
What does that intersection look like in real life?
For example, I'm involved currently with the CEO and founder of a growth company who had an offer to sell. He was very excited about accepting this offer. But his board of outside investors was saying, "Gee, this is very nice. But why don't we hold on to this for a while and keep growing?" The CEO kept pushing back, and the board couldn't understand why. They thought he was being naive and impulsive. As he and I talked, I learned that his father--who was the original investor in his company--was having serious health issues. What had become prominent in his mind was the opportunity to hand his father a big check and say, "You bet on me, and you made a good choice. I want to make you proud." That relationship was where we ended up doing our work.
And what happened?
He didn't sell the company. But he did have a set of conversations with his dad. He came to see that the currency was in what they had to say to each other.
Have you worked with CEOs who couldn't accurately identify what was troubling them?
I worked with the CEO of a pharmaceutical company who thought his team wasn't working effectively together because of personality differences. When I got further into it, I found out that they'd spent years developing a drug and taking it through all the trials. Then, when it finally got its day in court before the FDA, it wasn't approved. So there was a lot of blame going on. We had some very delicate discussions about why it happened and managed to unfreeze the team.
In that situation, it wasn't just about the CEO. There were group dynamics at play.
There are always group dynamics at play. The CEO and his executive team. The CEO and the board.
What do you do if you come across a CEO who simply doesn't belong in the job?
Not long ago, I worked with a CEO and founder who held a very big stake in his company. He wasn't producing desirable results, and there were a lot of tensions between him and his three partners. I gave him guidelines about improving his performance, but he wasn't able to apply them beyond a specific situation. He just was not having an effect. So I subtly switched the conversations, and we started talking about what chairmen do. After a time, he stepped down from the CEO position. But he spoke about how it was painful to him, about how he wished he was able to do the job. When I don't think someone belongs in the top job, I usually focus on the fact that they're not feeling gratified. People are angry at them all the time. It's obviously related to their competence, but I don't start there. I ask, "Is this what you want to be doing with your time? When were you the happiest?" They say, "I was happiest when I was dreaming up this idea." And I say, "Well, how can we get you back to a place where you're a visionary and not an operator?"
What parts of their lives do CEOs most often neglect?
A lot of them are extremely physically active. They're committed to being part of their children's lives. But there's a shortfall in the intimacy with their spouses. Maybe the spouse doesn't understand the business, and that's where their head is at night. Sometimes the spouse is problem-oriented, and they don't have the energy to come home and spend the evening on more problems. Or the opposite: The spouse doesn't want them to solve problems at home, and solving problems is what they do.
What do you do if there's a marital problem?
If the issues affect work performance or professional gratification, we examine them. As my understanding of the CEO develops, so does my sense of how he or she may be contributing to issues at home. When the issues are more complex, I make a referral to a psychologist or other professional.
How does one get into the CEO psychologist business?
I actually started out as an educator working with youngsters who were gifted but had learning differences. Many of the entrepreneurs I work with today are like grown-up versions of those children. They're bright but with idiosyncratic operating styles.
What do you mean by "idiosyncratic operating styles"?
Children with learning differences are sometimes unable to project themselves into the mindset of others. So they can be inappropriate--they often lack emotional intelligence, and sometimes they blurt things out at the wrong time. Recently I was working with a CEO who needed to deliver a difficult message to someone. He'd been preparing this conversation for the better part of a year. He was rehearsing it with me, and he had done a superb job of outlining all the points. But he missed the fact that the person receiving the message had no idea this was coming. And delivering that volume of information at one time, some of it painful and some of it critical, was not going to have a good outcome. He had all these pent-up feelings and wanted to let them go all at once. He wanted a catharsis, but as the head of the company, that's not something you can do.
Do you come across that frustration a lot?
Sometimes. I've heard CEOs say, "I'm tired. I'm so tired of hearing about what everybody else isn't getting or needs. When is it my turn?"
That's sort of ironic.
After all, starting a company is a major act of ego. Entrepreneurs would say it's not about ego. They'd say it's self-actualization. Doing what you must do. The painter must paint. The writer must write. I must get this product off the ground. I must build this company. They would argue there's no ego involved in it at all.
That sounds self-deceptive.
At growth companies, people always say, "Check your ego at the door." It makes me smile.


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I'm back after a long pause with another Launch Stories interview from someone I interact with everyday and absolutely love talking to.
Maggie Patterson from www.maggiepatterson.com is giving us the inside scoop on her signature offering, The Story Distillery.
Typically, we talk about digital products and online courses when we refer to "launching", but you can also launch services.
This should be great insight into what it takes to launch a service vs. a digital product for all of you happy-to-stay-put service providers out there.
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Let's start off with you sharing a bit about your service you were launching.
I launched The Story Distillery in October of 2014, which is my flagship service. It's a one-on-one service designed to help people nail their stories and message so they can stand out in their market. Too many people aren't sure what to say, how to say it and suffer from obscurity because of it.
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Can you give us the inside scoop on your last launch?
How long did you plan it for?
As a service, The Story Distillery is always available for sale, but we've done two "launches" around it to help generate more bookings as this is a lead in for all of our other services.
We started planning for the launch of The Story Distillery in September with an eye on launching it in late October. As a new service, we wanted to make a splash so we could book out for the next 90 days.
What were some of the key milestones along the way?
The Story Distillery itself took months to develop as it's a fairly involved process, but once that was done, creating all the key elements needed was fairly easily.
The cornerstone of The Story Distillery was the sales page copy which took me about a week to write from start to finish. Given that it's a service focused on messaging, I knew we had to nail it!
Once the copy was done, the page was designed and then we moved into planning all of the launch content including blog posts, podcast episodes, social media and of course, emails.
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How did you structure your actual launch?
How long was it – cart open/close, etc.
The Story Distillery cart never closed, but we did offer a $100 off if you booked in the first three weeks the service was available.
How did you promote it during this time?
Email was the lynchpin of our launch strategy and we built a very robust email campaign for the period of the early bird.
Also, we created a free guide, The Storytelling Shortcut which is a fun and lighthearted tool to help people uncover their stories. It is backed up with a email series that shares more about The Story Distillery. Plus, we ran extensive Facebook ads to The Storytelling Shortcut during this time to build our email list and generate new leads for this service.
I also hosted a webinar before the end of the early bird period, and there were blog posts, podcast episodes and social media updates to support the launch as well.
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What were your results from your last launch?
We've "launched" The Story Distillery twice now. The intro launch we booked out for 60 days of Story Distilleries at the intro price for more than 15 sessions. With the buzz we created about the service, we continued to book solid into Q1 of 2015.
Once we reached the point of booked and delivered 25+ sessions, we knew the service was a hit and decided it was time to raise the price of the service. (Which we'd planned to do after we had proof of concept.) So in March we did a last call at the $499 price point and booked 12 more sessions which booked us out into the end of Q2.
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What's the #1 thing you've learned from launching?
You cannot underestimate the importance of your email to the launch. Don't assume people have actually read your emails, they may see only 1 or 2 during your launch. We took what we learned from the email strategy around The Story Distillery and have applied it time and time again.
And just because it's a service doesn't mean you can't apply a launch strategy around it. It's too easy with services to just leave them on your site and not direct people to them.
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What do you love (or loathe) about launching?
I have a love/hate relationship with launching. I love the excitement, but there's always mental junk that comes up while you're launching. My favorite part is always seeing who I get to work with and helping to get their stories out there.
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What would you tell someone gearing up for their first launch to help them prepare?
Give yourself enough time to do it right and really work through all the details, but don't put it off because of resistance or fear. Set a date and stick to it.
And make sure you nail your launch emails. Your sales page matters so much, but if your launch emails are weak, you're missing out on opportunities in a big way.
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Maggie Patterson is a copywriter and communications strategist. She works hands-on with entrepreneurs to help them market their businesses – using content and communications strategies along with copy that converts – to meet business goals.
She is the host of the Marketing Moxie podcast and her work has been published on leading websites including Entrepreneur.com, The Huffington Post, Virgin.com, LKR Social Media, Duct Tape Marketing, Content Marketing Institute, Yahoo Small Business and more.
Based near Ottawa, Canada you can follow Maggie on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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I have been experiencing high ping lately and I can not figure out why. Over the past month or so my ping has drastically dropped, it was at a high of 40-50, but now it is stuck at anywhere between 80-120 with constant spikes to anywhere between 300=400, and sometimes even reaching into the thousands. This has made it impossible to game and it has made using any other thing on the internet slow. I recently had a technician come to my house to see what the problem is, and he said the issue was just a bad connection. But whenever I use an Ethernet cable and plug my laptop into the modem, I end up with the same issues of around 100 ping with massive spikes. While checking my ping on speedtest.com it says that my ping is fine around 55, but when I go to fast.com my ping is at 110-120. I was wondering if there was anything anyone can do to help out or try and tell me what to do to fix the problem.
Can you post your signal levels? Also, can you post a tracert to google.com? My guess is ingress, which is common but very hard to track down. Only a supervisor, or someone with a meter, can climb the pole and scan for the problem.
Here is the tracert to google.com
C:\windows\system32>tracert google.com
Tracing route to google.com [2607:f8b0:4000:802::200e]over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 58 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2600:8807:8340:8b90:22f1:9eff:fe3f:24c4 2 13 ms 12 ms 11 ms 2600:8807:9f01:103::1 3 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms 2001:578:1c00:4::56 4 13 ms 11 ms 10 ms 2001:578:1c00:4::2 5 74 ms 55 ms 57 ms 2001:578:1:0:172:17:248:183 6 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms 2001:4860:1:1:0:58f5:0:21 7 28 ms 36 ms 34 ms 2607:f8b0:8000:266::1:1 8 33 ms 29 ms 29 ms 2001:4860:0:1::d7a 9 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms 2001:4860:0:11e4::3 10 31 ms 28 ms 29 ms 2001:4860::c:4000:d85a 11 31 ms 27 ms 40 ms 2001:4860::1:0:bf0c 12 35 ms 28 ms 27 ms 2001:4860:0:e03::1 13 27 ms 28 ms 35 ms 2001:4860:0:1::425 14 35 ms 30 ms 27 ms dfw25s12-in-x0e.1e100.net [2607:f8b0:4000:802::200e]
Trace complete.
And here is the signal levels. I believe you are talking about this, although if you were talking about something else then please let me know
Here is the tracert while connected with Ethernet
1 56 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2600:8807:8340:8b90:22f1:9eff:fe3f:24c4 2 17 ms 15 ms 8 ms 2600:8807:9f01:103::1 3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 2001:578:1c00:4::58 4 13 ms 13 ms 15 ms 2001:578:1c00:4::4 5 40 ms 29 ms 29 ms 2001:578:1:0:172:17:248:183 6 30 ms 33 ms 32 ms 2001:4860:1:1:0:1:0:38 7 32 ms 30 ms 30 ms 2607:f8b0:8000:238::1:1 8 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 2001:4860:0:1::20a0 9 29 ms 31 ms 30 ms 2001:4860:0:1::425 10 28 ms 29 ms 27 ms dfw25s12-in-x0e.1e100.net [2607:f8b0:4000:802::200e]
I have the new Panoramic WiFi router, the model number is TG1682G
Yea, something is wrong with it. Seems like it's overloaded. What else do you have connected to it? Try disabling the wifi and unplugging everything from it and test again. If still that high, I would suggest swapping it out or going with your modem and router.
Theres not much connected to it, 3 laptops but only 1-2 are used at a time, 4 phones, and 1 TV. But that's all on wireless so I can disable everything and see if that fixes anything
If it's not congestion, then there could be something wrong with the unit itself. Even if the first 56ms spike is a fluke, it's odd that it would take 2ms to go the 3-10feet I assume the ethernet is you are using. Another test is trying ping 127.0.0.1. This is the internal private IP of your PC itself, so if you get latency there, you know it's a software/PC problem. I assume 127 will be good though, since a PC issue wouldn't effect your entire network.
C:\windows\system32>ping 127.0.0.1
Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
Everything was perfect when sent to that, so you believe the issue could be with the modem itself?
Yes, maybe not a hardware issue, but something isn't quite right. However none of your data fits the 300-400ms spikes you mentioned in your OP. Were you seeing those from ping or inside a game?
I also don't like the SNR on a couple of your channels, but that wouldn't cause a latency issue on the first hop. I think you have two issues so I am trying to isolate which is which.
I've had both, but mainly inside the games, again there were times when I ended up getting entirely kicked out of chrome because the internet just stops working so I have to either reset the internet or disconnect and reconnect. Also for some reason my responses keep getting flagged as spam or abuse
I guess I should ask here, because it was relevant in another thread just now, but how long is the ethernet you are using to connect the PC to the modem/router? Also, do you have a Netgear modem/router?
its not that long, only 4 feet, we only use it when needed, and no I don't use anything netgear
ScottN said:so I have to either reset the internet or disconnect and reconnect
Can you explain that in more detail? What do you have to reset exactly and what are you disconnecting and reconnecting from?
Also, what model gateway do you have? I think it is malfunctioning in some way.


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BEND, Ore., Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Seven players, including defending champion Mark McNulty, tied for the lead Thursday in the Tradition, the fourth major of the year on the Champions Tour.
McNulty, Jay Haas, Mark Wiebe, David Eger, Tim Simpson, Gene Jones and Craig Stadler all shot 5-under-par 67 at the Crosswater Golf Club in Bend, Ore.
McNulty rolled in a 25-foot putt on the final hole to gain a share of the lead.
"I played nice and steady," McNulty said. "I drove the ball well. Hit some nice, quality iron shots. I'm pretty much on track with what my game's like. I balanced it all out."
Haas, winner of the Senior PGA Championship this season, parred the last six holes.
"Last year, I didn't play very well here," Haas said. "I felt like this year I needed to come out and fire away and not play too conservatively. I'm hitting the ball pretty well. Five-under, I'm pretty happy with that."


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This weekend, to mixed critical reception Gore Verbinski's first movie since 2013's The Lone Ranger released to theaters. A Cure for Wellness offers both beautiful and grotesque visuals, but fans of 2008's BioShock should pay attention for another reason. Verbinski was the director who almost brought Rapture to film.
This contains MAJOR SPOILERS for both A Cure for Wellness, and 2008's BioShock.
It was actually this review of the film, and the comments on it, which first got me thinking about this. Toward the end of the review they point out that, while not jazzed about it as a movie, they'd love it as a game. It has tonal similarities, including the climax. The comments pointed out, Gore Verbinski was working on a video game adaptation, not too far in the past. BioShock.
It would be hyperbolic to claim that A Cure for Wellness is simply a repurposed BioShock film, and I don't intend to do that. The things the movie has in common with the game are largely tone, and imagery. Despite being set present day, the asylum/resort/spa looks out of the middle of the twentieth century, and the sensory deprivation chamber used in one major scene looks straight out of Rapture. When a character looks out a floor to ceiling window only to see bodies floating, suspended in water, it definitely feels like something out of Rapture.
However, there are a number of interesting parallels between the two plot wise as well, and I don't think it's crazy to suggest that Verbinski, who says that BioShock was cancelled "eight weeks from filming" might have worked elements he had planned for one project into another, similar film.
A Cure for Wellness is about a mysterious secluded health resort for the super-rich at the foot of the swiss alps, where clients check in, but they never seem to check out. They like it there, so who would ever want to leave? Dane DeHaan plays Lockhart, an employee who is sent to return his boss, who suddenly announced he would never be coming back, from the spa.
One of the most important elements of A Cure for Wellness is water. Jason Isaac's character Dr. Volmer explains that the resort is built upon an aquifer unlike any other in the world, and that its waters contain unique medicinal properties. At this spa, people drink the water, they swim in the water, they get blasted by hoses with the water, seemingly all they is somehow related to the water.
Late in the film it's revealed exactly what the special properties of this water are. The species of eel that lives in the aquifer only lives a dozen or so years anywhere else in the world. Here though, in this water, they can survive two hundred. The water is exceptionally toxic to humans, unless properly distilled. This distillation, unfortunately, can only be done by using the human body (somehow), killing those unfortunate enough to sign up for an extended stay. Also, brainwashing them (I guess), making them perfectly willing and enthusiastic hosts. The movie has some plot problems here, if that's not totally clear.
The use of water isn't quite the same in BioShock. While it is, obviously, a major force at play in the oceanic city of Rapture, there's nothing particularly special about the water itself. What is special is the species of slug that lives on the ocean floor in this particular part of the world. The slugs produce something called ADAM, which can be used to genetically rewrite humans, making anything possible. Unfortunately, the amount of ADAM attained from the slugs is marginal at best, so the city comes up with another method. Take the useless parasites feeding off society (read: harmless orphaned girls) and give them a purpose in life (read: turn them into delusional "Little Sisters" who live to harvest ADAM).
The eels in particular raise my eyebrow here. While the eels are a major motif of the film, they really don't amount to much by the end of the movie. They're there, and it always seems like the reveal is going to be "the eels are magic," but instead it is simply, "the water is magic, the eels are lucky." They look gross, and they can definitely get under your skin, but they really don't amount to much, other than imagery. Imagery which was, perhaps, first designed with large sea slugs in mind?
For that matter, using the most helpless among us (the children, and the sick elderly) to refine a powerful, but impractical resource into something worth its weight in gold? It's abstracted out just one level too far to be obvious, or blatant, but it is certainly very similar.
What about the little sisters, then? Another massively important element to the BioShock brand? Well, there's something reminiscent of them in A Cure for Wellness too, the character Hannah, who despite being played by 23 year old Mia Goth, is stated to be developmentally stunted. She dresses, acts, and is treated like a little girl. Her father protecting her at all costs is a major element of the film.
On another note, probably the most famous moment in BioShock is the "would you kindly" moment. Spurred on the whole game by seemingly the only friendly face in Rapture, a man named Atlas, you confront the evil man behind it all, Andrew Ryan. Only to find out, nothing has been as it seemed. You aren't who you think you are, you've been a brainwashed puppet the whole time working for Atlas, actually criminal mastermind Frank Fontaine, who wants Ryan out of the way to rule Rapture himself. It's a brilliant ending. So good, in fact, that it's easy to forget there's a quarter of the game left afterward.
Having finally mostly caught on to the villain's plan, our protagonist in A Cure for Wellness is captured, brainwashed, and finds himself like everyone else there. Second lead Hannah closes out an arc regarding a music box ballerina "finally having woken up," and DeHaan turns to the camera, smiles, and repeats the villainous mantra, "why would anyone want to leave?" The camera zooms out, the music soars sinister tones, and the audience prepares to leave their two hour film. Then the movie just kind of keeps going for another half an hour.
Eventually we wind up at, essentially, a final boss fight. As the villain marries his own daughter and attempts to rape her (there's a *lot* of things going on in this movie), our main character lights the evil Batcave on fire, and scuffles with him as the film's setting is engulfed by flame. Our villain, far stronger and healthier than DeHaan is (he's been doping on eel juice), rips off his own face to reveal his real, terrifying ghoul visage, and pushes our protagonist closer and closer to a pool of carnivorous eels, before being promptly being dispatched by aforementioned daughter, Hannah.
This not only feels like a final boss battle, it plays out very similarly to the final boss fight from BioShock. When you finally find Atlas, he's been disfigured by using ADAM to reconstruct himself so heavily. He's stronger than you, and is only actually stopped, moments before killing you, by the little sisters.
A Cure for Wellness isn't just BioShock with the names changed, Verbinski isn't even the screenwriter for the film (though he does have a "story" credit, for what that's worth), but it gives us a tantalizing glimpse at the Bioshock film that almost was. It's not that hard to swap out the halls of an asylum for the cramped tunnels of Rapture. It's not that hard to see a world where the movie features a slug bath, rather than an eel bath.
A lot of these pieces of imagery feel like they certainly came from a mind that spent a lot of time thinking about ways to make water scary, whether that was circa 2011, or 2016. A Cure for Wellness takes inspiration from a lot of different sources, and wears most of it on its sleeve, but after seeing the movie, I have come to suspect one of those sources might've been a film that never quite got made.


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An out-of-state jury recently handed down a $4 million verdict to a woman whose father was killed after he fell in a long-term medical facility. After a week-long trial, the jury awarded the medical malpractice compensation for punitive damages against an out-of-state hospital of which the facility was a part. The suit had been filed on behalf of the decedent's daughter, who was the executor of his estate. A Maryland resident who has been involved in a similar situation is typically entitled to file a medical malpractice suit against the responsible party or parties.
The suit was filed shortly after the woman's 77-year-old father was discovered on the floor of his room in the hospital after he fell in September 2007. Due to his being at a high risk for falls, he was supposed to be restrained at the time of the fall. By leaving the man unrestrained, the hospital facility breached its standard of care, and that breach caused his death a little less than 12 hours after his fall.
However, the hospital facility attempted to defend itself by claiming that the man's medical records were incorrect. It refused to take any responsibility, claiming that the man never, in fact, fell. Representatives even tried to explain that, in the medical context, even the word "fall" has a different, separate definition.
However, the jury was able to see the gravity of the hospital facility's wrong, including the argument over what the word "fall" meant. When a hospital facility's breach of its duty of care results in the injury or death of one of its patients, a victim or his or her family typically files a medical malpractice suit against the facility, seeking compensation. As in a case like this, the punitive damages assessed by the jury are designed to not only compensate the victim -- or, as in this case, the victim's family -- for damages sustained as a result of medical malpractice but also to punish and deter similar wrongs from ever taking place again. Victims in Maryland typically begin the process of filing a medical malpractice suit by consulting an experienced personal injury attorney.
Source: dothaneagle.com, "Jury awards $4 million in malpractice lawsuit against Dothan medical facility", Matt Elofson, March 28, 2016


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The Men have revealed a new track 'Different Days' – listen to it below.
The track is the second to be taken from the New York rockers' forthcoming new album 'Tomorrow's Hits', which will be released on March 3 on Sacred Bones. It follows the previously released 'Pearly Gates', which can also be heard below.
The band's fifth album, 'Tomorrow's Hits', follows 2013's 'New Moon', which was released in March.
The album was written in 2012, before the release of 'New Moon', in band member Mark Perro's bedroom in Bushwick. It was recorded over just two days at Brooklyn's Strange Weather studios. It is the first time the band have used a high-end studio to record their music.
The 'Tomorrow's Hits' tracklisting is as follows:
'Dark Waltz'
'Get What You Give'
'Another Night'
'Different Days'
'Pearly Gates'
'Settle Me Down'
'Going Down'
The Men will also tour the UK in March in support of the album. They will play:
Sheffield The Harley (March 13)
Brighton The Haunt (14)
London Village Underground (27)
Liverpool East Village Arts Club (28)
Glasgow Broadcast (29)
Leeds Brudenell (30)
To check the availability of The Men tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0844 858 6765.


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Daniel really loves playing them especially the younger one, or rather he enjoys following him around and copying what he says much to the annoyance of my Godson.
The teen princess had a friend over on Friday night. You know when they get to the teen stage it's not all of their friends that you want around, much like adults some of them have personalities you just don't take to. However this particular friend is a joy to have around, one of those teens that is well behaved, enjoys a laugh and complements my horrid old school photos (they do exist!) I do hope, like my best friend and I, they remain friends long after they have left school.
I then had to take them to their cheer comp on Saturday. I'm always proud watching my baby girl do her 'cheer thang' as I call it (trying to be cool but totally missing the cool ship and being left behind on the island of outdated mothers!) They didn't do as well as they would have liked (the girls are very hard on themselves) but I still thought they were fantastic especially considering the heat in the sports stadium.
Sunday came so fast and though it's usually the day we put our feet up and relax (after getting uniform and dinner ready.) This Sunday stopped to watch my friend kick a ball whilst on the way to another friends house. It was just the teen and I because little man was home with mum, it's great having her around and little man now doesn't mind when I pop out without him for a few hours, which is great! We went to visit our tree and took a few snaps.
|The teen and I had carved our name in the tree before little man was born,
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The teen and I had been given the task of collecting a French student who is staying with my friend and is the same age as the teen. We collected her promptly then spent all day driving around half of London looking for a mattress. We entertained her until my friend came home that evening and It was very interesting trying to have a conversation with someone who speaks very little English, though with my limited French we manage to find out lots about her and her family, as well as what she likes doing. I look forward to seeing her again soon after my friend has taught her some English and seeing her progress!
After such a busy couple of days I am super thankful for the rest today and will be doing absolutely nothing... apart from all the things I have to do for the children. Give me strength!


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(CBS News) Well-designed gardens need not be confined to ground level. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" lifts our sights:
In cities like New York, where skyscrapers dominate the landscape, people have to go to great lengths -- or great HEIGHTS -- to create gardens.
Architect Carlos Aparicio designed what is believed to be the loftiest outdoor space in Manhattan -- on the 76th floor of the Time Warner Center.
"Have you ever designed a garden like this, this high?" asked Moriarty.
"No," he replied. "Initially when I saw it, I realized that it was a balcony to the city of New York, one of the most extraordinary spaces, open space, that I've seen in the city. . . . You can see the sun rise, and then you can see the sun setting on the other direction."
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And Lang discovered spring arrives much later way up here than it does on the streets below.
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Mission and Goals
The Division of Treatment and Recovery Research (DTRR) stimulates and supports research to improve behavioral treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and identify the organizational and financial factors that influence the adoption of evidence-based behavioral treatments into everyday practice settings. The Division's goals include:
- Improving the effectiveness of behavioral interventions through studies on:
- underlying mechanisms of behavior change
- translation of neuroscience research findings to novel behavioral treatments
- specialized behavioral therapies for understudied populations
- Understanding the dynamics of post-treatment recovery through studies on:
- the neurobiological, psychological, environmental, and social factors that influence post-treatment recovery
- trajectories of recovery in subgroups of people with different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, cognitive abilities, and medical histories
- factors associated with so-called natural recovery
- continuing care treatments that aim to support long-term recovery
- Increasing the use of evidence-based behavioral treatments in real-world practice settings through studies on:
- facilitators and barriers to adoption of evidence-based treatments
- strategies to improve the quality of care among underserved populations
- the impact of policy and financing on the delivery of alcohol treatment services
- ways to improve access to high quality treatment services
- ways to de-implement ineffective or harmful treatments
- Improving treatments for co-occurring PTSD, anxiety, depression, and alcohol use disorder through studies on:
- combinations of behavioral interventions for co-occurring PTSD, anxiety, depression, and AUD
- factors that influence treatment effectiveness
- combined behavioral treatments and pharmacotherapies, developed in collaboration with the Division of Medications Development.
- Harnessing new technology to increase the accessibility and reach of behavioral interventions through studies on:
- mobile and web-based interventions
- computerized versions of empirically-supported treatments
- Improving clinical research methods through studies on:
- efficient, adaptive clinical trial designs and statistical analyses that allow treatment adjustments based on the changing disease status of the patient
- new statistical models and methods for evaluating treatment effectiveness
- statistical approaches that capture changes in outcomes over time and convey results that are more clinically intuitive.
- Improving alcohol treatment outcomes for women through studies on:
- the comparative effectiveness of standard treatment approaches, such as group counseling and relapse prevention, in single-gender vs. mixed-gender groups
- the effects of gender-specific treatment approaches, compared with standard treatment
- the impact of coexisting conditions, including other substance use and mental health disorders, on alcohol-related health care, illness, and death among girls and women
- innovative strategies for alcohol screening, diagnosis, and brief intervention for high risk girls and women in diverse settings, including prenatal care and specialty health care
- the effectiveness of different interventions to reduce the quantity and frequency of drinking among girls and women of different ages
- innovative strategies to improve coordination of care for women and their families across alcohol treatment services and other components of integrated health systems
- Increasing the number of behaviorally-oriented clinical researchers (primarily clinical psychologists) who receive NIAAA training and career development grants (F's, K's—especially, the K99/00).
Featured Funding Opportunities
Below are some of our current funding opportunities. Before submitting your application, please reach out to the designated staff member to learn more.
NIAAA-Issued Funding Opportunities
- PA-15-299: Alcohol Use Disorders: Behavioral Treatment, Services and Recovery Research (R01, R03, R21)
- PA-15-295: Screening and Brief Alcohol Interventions in Underage and Young Adult Populations (R01, R21, R03)
Consortia, Centers, & Conferences
- Alcohol and HIV/AIDS: The DTRR portfolio includes four Alcohol and HIV/AIDS Consortia that serve as laboratories where promising behavioral and pharmacological interventions for co-occurring alcohol misuse and HIV/AIDS are evaluated for real-world effectiveness in people living with HIV and AIDS. Collectively known as the Consortia on HIV/AIDS, Alcohol, and Aging Research Translation (CHAAART), these include:
- Consortium to Improve Outcomes in HIV/AIDS, Alcohol, Aging, and Multi-Substance Use (COMpAAAS; Yale University): This consortium started in 2001 as the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), a three-site observational study of military veterans with HIV/AIDs and harmful alcohol use. It has grown to include eight VA hospitals, more than 7,000 patients, and observational, operations, and intervention research cores.
- Alcohol Research Consortium in HIV (ARCH; Johns Hopkins University): Including both observational and intervention research cores, this consortium focuses on the development of interventions for harmful drinking among women living with HIV/AIDS, and on improving the management of co-occurring HIV/AIDS and AUD in primary care settings.
- Southern HIV Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC; University of Florida): This consortium focuses on the development of interventions for harmful drinking among women living with HIV/AIDS, and on enhancing contingency management as a treatment option for people living with these co-occurring disorders.
- Alcohol and HIV: Biobehavioral Interventions and Interactions (Brown University): Key focus areas in this consortium include the development of interventions for alcohol and HIV/AIDS in sexual minority men, and elucidating the effects of alcohol on the central nervous system in people with HIV/AIDS.
- PTSD and Comorbidity: Trauma Survivors Outcomes and Support (TSOS) Trial: A Policy-Relevant, U.S. Trauma-Care System Pragmatic Trial for PTSD and Comorbidity. This trial is currently being conducted at 24 Level 1 trauma care centers across the United States. This project will enable a series of innovations in the efficient development and implementation of a large-scale, policy-relevant, pragmatic randomized clinical trial targeting PTSD and comorbidity for injured patients cared for at U.S. trauma centers.
Research Centers
- The Charleston Alcohol Research Center (2P50AA010761): This center embraces multidisciplinary and translational research approaches, integrating both basic research and clinical investigations centered on the common theme of treatment and treatment implications for alcohol use disorder.
- The University of Connecticut Alcohol Research Center (5P60AA003510-40): This research program focuses on vulnerability to alcohol use disorder and promising biological and psychosocial interventions.
- American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting – NIAAA Research Track. To be held May 20-24, 2017.
- Research Society on Alcoholism—Mechanisms of Behavior Change Satellite Meeting. To be held June 23, 2017.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the process for applying for funding?
See the NIAAA application process homepage for information about grant applications, the peer review process, and understanding how applications are selected for funding. You can also find instructions in the Funding Opportunity Announcement to which you are applying.
What are the most important things to do when considering applying to DTRR?
Plan to talk with a Program Director as you start your process, well before submitting an application. This is a good way to learn about programmatic priorities and steps in the application process. See the names and focus areas below to find the appropriate staff member (or the contacts for the funding opportunities above), and send an email to request setting up a call. Before talking with the NIAAA contact, craft a 1-page prospectus to shape your thinking and help you and the Director discuss your idea. Describe your research proposal, why you find it interesting, and the link between your proposed research methods and getting to the answers you hope to reach.
Does NIAAA support secondary analysis projects?
Yes. There are a number of important questions related to treatment development and treatment delivery that can be addressed through secondary analysis of existing data sets. Such projects must demonstrate innovation as well as the potential to inform clinical or treatment services research questions with meaningful public health impact. Researchers should consult PAR-16-234 and PA-16-395 for examples of the kinds of secondary analyses that NIAAA supports, and as always, talk to a Program Director before applying.
Can an NIAAA grant fund the delivery of treatment services?
NIAAA funds hypothesis-driven scientific research on the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment of alcohol use disorder. As a general rule, grant funds cannot be used to support the delivery of treatment services outside the context of the research study (e.g., as an arm of a clinical trial). Researchers should contact a Program Director to discuss the specifics of proposals. Treatment programs seeking operational support should contact one of our sister agencies: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) or the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
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Mumps: Burden of disease in FranceArchived
Mumps is not a notifiable disease in France, and this study provides useful information by combining different data sources. The current incidence of mumps is somewhat higher than the average European (9 versus 3.2 per 100 000 per year) and authors sugges
Europe can make a difference against health inequalities, says ECDC Director at the Informal Meeting of Ministers of HealthArchived
During the Informal Meeting of Ministers of Health, 5-6th July, ECDC Director Marc Sprenger gives a speech presenting evidence of health inequalities in the EU, as well as several options for intervention.
ECDC workshop at EUPHA: social determinants on communicable diseasesArchived
ECDC is presenting a pre-conference workshop entitled "How financial difficulties shape social determinants on communicable diseases".
Weekly Influenza Surveillance Overview (WISO) and new study presenting global estimates of the burden seasonal influenza in children publishedArchived
While Europe is experiencing low influenza activity a new study presenting global estimates of the burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children has been published online by the Lancet on the 11 November 2011
Influenza ranked highest in burden of disease measured in DALYs
Influenza tops list of burden of disease and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) with 30% of total burden, according to Eurosurveillance article.
Preventing blood-borne viruses in prison settings: ECDC and EMCDDA Guidance
People in prison experience a higher burden of communicable diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV often linked to a history of injecting drug use.
One Health to Keep Antibiotics Working
For EAAD 2018 ECDC will host the event "One Health to Keep Antibiotics Working" where ECDC will present the latest estimates of the health burden of antibiotic resistance, and the new data on the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections and of antimicrobial consumption in acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities in the EU/EEA.


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Accueil > Équipes scientifiques > Dynamiques et Interactions : Rayonnement, Atomes, Molécules (DIRAM) > Publications > 2018
Peer-reviewed Publications
Becker D., Lachmann M. D., Seidel S. T., Ahlers H., Amri S., Charron E., Corgier R., Franz T., Gaaloul N., Grosse J., Hellmig O., Herr W., Lüdtke D., Müntinga H., Popp M., Schkolnik V., Wendrich T., Wenzlawski A., Weps B., Braxmeier C., Ertmer W., Krutzik M., Lämmerzahl C., Peters A., Schleich W. P., Sengstock K., Walser R., Windpassinger P., & Rasel E. M. (2018). Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry. Nature, 562, 391.
Résumé: Owing to the low-gravity conditions in space, space-borne laboratories enable experiments with extended free-fall times. Because Bose–Einstein condensates have an extremely low expansion energy, space-borne atom interferometers based on Bose–Einstein condensation have the potential to have much greater sensitivity to inertial forces than do similar ground-based interferometers. On 23 January 2017, as part of the sounding-rocket mission MAIUS-1, we created Bose–Einstein condensates in space and conducted 110 experiments central to matter-wave interferometry, including laser cooling and trapping of atoms in the presence of the large accelerations experienced during launch. Here we report on experiments conducted during the six minutes of in-space flight in which we studied the phase transition from a thermal ensemble to a Bose–Einstein condensate and the collective dynamics of the resulting condensate. Our results provide insights into conducting cold-atom experiments in space, such as precision interferometry, and pave the way to miniaturizing cold-atom and photon-based quantum information concepts for satellite-based implementation. In addition, space-borne Bose–Einstein condensation opens up the possibility of quantum gas experiments in low-gravity conditions.
Blancard C., Cubaynes D., Guilbaud S., & and Bizau J.-M. (2018). Absolute Photoionization Cross Section for Fe6+ to Fe10+ Ions in the Photon Energy Region of the 2p–3d Resonance Lines. The Astrophysical Journal, 853(1), 32.
Résumé: Resonant single photoionization cross sections of Fen+ (n = 6 to 10) ions have been measured in absolute values using a merged-beams setup at the SOLEIL synchrotron radiation facility. Photon energies were between about 710 and 780 eV, covering the range of the 2p–3d transitions. The experimental cross sections are compared to calculations we performed using a multi-configuration Dirac–Fock code and the OPAS code dedicated to radiative opacity calculations. Comparisons are also done with the Chandra X-ray observatory NGC 3783 spectra and with the results of previously published calculations.
Corgier R., Amri S., Herr W., Ahlers H., Guéry-Odelin D., Rasel E. M., Charron E., & Gaaloul N. (2018). Fast manipulation of Bose-Einstein condensates with an atom chip. New J. Phys., 20(5), 055002.
Résumé: We present a detailed theoretical analysis of the implementation of shortcut-to-adiabaticity protocols for the fast transport of neutral atoms with atom chips. The objective is to engineer transport ramps with durations not exceeding a few hundred milliseconds to provide metrologically relevant input states for an atomic sensor. Aided by numerical simulations of the classical and quantum dynamics, we study the behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an atom chip setup with realistic anharmonic trapping. We detail the implementation of fast and controlled transports over large distances of several millimeters, i.e. distances 1000 times larger than the size of the atomic cloud. A subsequent optimized release and collimation step demonstrates the capability of our transport method to generate ensembles of quantum gases with expansion speeds in the picokelvin regime. The performance of this procedure is analyzed in terms of collective excitations reflected in residual center of mass and size oscillations of the condensate. We further evaluate the robustness of the protocol against experimental imperfections.
|Mangaud E., P. - J. R., Sugny D., Meier C., Atabek O, & Desouter-Lecomte M. (2018). Non-Markovianity in the optimal control of an open quantum system described by hierarchical equations of motion. New J. Phys., , in press.
Mendive-Tapia, D., Mangaud, E., Firmino, T., de la Lande, A., Desouter-Lecomte, M., Meyer, H. D., & Gatti, F. (2018). Multidimensional Quantum Mechanical Modeling of Electron Transfer and Electronic Coherence in Plant Cryptochromes: The Role of Initial Bath Conditions. Journal Of Physical Chemistry B, 122(1), 126–136.
Résumé: A multidimensional quantum mechanical protocol is used to describe the photoinduced electron transfer and electronic coherence in plant cryptochromes without any semiempirical, e.g., experimentally obtained, parameters. Starting from a two-level spin-boson Hamiltonian we look at the effect that the initial photoinduced nuclear bath distribution has on an intermediate step of this biological electron transfer cascade for two idealized cases. The first assumes a slow equilibration of the nuclear bath with respect to the previous electron transfer step that leads to an ultrafast decay with little temperature dependence; while the second assumes a prior fast bath equilibration on the donor potential energy surface leading to a much slower decay, which contrarily displays a high temperature dependence and a better agreement with previous theoretical and experimental results. Beyond Marcus and semiclassical pictures these results unravel the strong impact that the presence or not of equilibrium initial conditions has on the electronic population and coherence dynamics at the quantum dynamics level in this and conceivably in other biological electron transfer cascades.
Puglisi A., M. T., Kennedy E.T., Mosnier J.P., Bizau J.M., Cubaynes D., Sisourat N. and Carniato S. (2018). X-ray photochemistry of carbon hydride molecular ions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 4415.
Résumé: Hydride molecular ions are key ingredients of the interstellar chemistry since they are precursors of more complex molecules. In regions located near a soft X-ray source these ions may resonantly absorb an X-ray photon which triggers a complex chain of reactions. In this work, we simulate ab initio the X-ray absorption spectrum, Auger decay processes and the subsequent fragmentation dynamics of two hydride molecular ions, namely CH2+ and CH3+. We show that these ions feature strong X-ray absorption resonances which relax through Auger decay within 7 fs. The doubly-charged ions thus formed mostly dissociate into smaller ionic carbon fragments: in the case of CH2+, the dominant products are either C+/H+/H or CH+/H+. For CH3+, the system breaks primary into CH2+ and H+, which provides a new route to form CH2+ near a X-ray source. Furthermore, our simulations provide the branching ratios of the final products formed after the X-ray absorption as well as their kinetic and internal energy distributions. Such data can be used in the chemistry models of the interstellar medium.
|Puthumpally-Joseph R., Mangaud E., Chevet V., Desouter-Lecomte M., Sugny D., & Atabek O. (2018). Basic mechanisms in the laser control of non-Markovian dynamics. Phys. Rev. A, , in press.
|Zhao, Z. Q., Chen, J., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, D. H., Wang, X. G., Carrington, T., & Gatti, F. (2018). Computing energy levels of CH4, CHD3, CH3D, and CH3F with a direct product basis and coordinates based on the methyl subsystem. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 148(7), 074113.


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Stomach Virus Associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Small-Intestinal Injury Common in Chronic NSAID Users


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THERE WILL BE NO ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES TOLERATED on the premises and if found persons involved will be subject to Florida law on possession of contraband.
If any attendees possess items that look like contraband they WILL BE CUT AND REMOVED FROM CONVENTION PREMESIS.
Alcohol is also not permitted on the convention center grounds. (If it was purchased in a neighboring restaurant, then IT MUST BE FINNISHED AND DIPOSED OF at that restaurant). Attendees with alcohol on their possession will be asked to disposed of the beverage(s) or remove themselves from the premises.
Any attendees that are considered to be under the influence of any kind will be escorted back to their hotel room or, if a more serious matter, have to answer to security and may be subject to Florida law.
rules: SANDS OF ANIME (SOA) AMV CONTEST RULES for 2014 CONTEST
rules: SANDS OF ANIME (SOA) AMV CONTEST RULES for 2014 CONTEST


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The first time I heard about Pinterest I really didn't know what to think of it. I searched for the site and thought the site was just another micro-blogging web site with a "like" and "share" capabilities. I then started to look through the different types of services that they had and really got addicted to the site for a little while.
The actual site uses a very simple concept, yet it's extremely powerful and effective for companies to market their messages to the right people. You simply "pin" anything you're "interested" in to the wall – enhancing the name Pinterest. The number of people using Pinterest continues to grow by the day, and with it will come new services. Currently the site is on the "trial" stages where you have to request an invite to get the full experience, and trust me lots of people are lining up to get the invite.
The website has a lot of potential for business marketing, the ability to pin an interest onto the page means that you can post an image or a video and reach a very large audience. The site gives you the ability to build a following, and depending on how interesting your pins are, the further your message will broadcast out.
On pinterest you can literally put anything and everything you want on the wall, images, videos, and even recipes. LinchPinSEO put together the infographic below where it talks about how Pinterest could be the tool for your next marketing campaign.