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Been a long but productive weekend. The first good news: Villain Tees, the new joint venture between bishop_henley and I, is officially off the ground! We're selling the most rude, obnoxious T-shirts you're likely to find anywhere. Drop by and give it a look.
Today, kellyasmith and I helped Shelly move to Tampa. Shelly has been staying with us for most of the past two weeks, and to be quite honest, I've kind of become accustomed to having a couple of extra feet in my bed. It's been really nice. Shelly has a place of her own here in Tampa, now, which is both good and bad--good, because she's officially living here; bad, because she's spending the night in her place, not our place, this evening.
She's easy to get used to.
kellyasmith and I have been spending quite a bit of time together; our relationship is in a growth phase again, even after seventeen years. Some part of that has been prompted by Shelly, who has this knack--or maybe it's an art--of offering a fresh and well-reasoned perspective on things.
Another milestone: I fired up the engine on my new model airplane this week. It's just about ready to fly--a minor glitch with the aileron servos, which don't seem to want to work properly, and it's good to go. I can hardly wait!
A very large Web redesign project for a major client has been green-lighted for an effectively unlimited budget--good news indeed.
The Florida Poly Retreat is coming up in a few weeks--right about the same time as my birthday. :)
It is, it would seem, rather difficult to find the time to journal life when you're quite busy living it.


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PUB appoints Black & Veatch to consult on Singapore's fourth desalination plant
SINGAPORE'S national water agency has appointed engineering consultancy Black & Veatch to provide consultancy services for the country's fourth desalination plant in Marina East.
Black & Veatch will do the preliminary design for the development of the plant under a Design-Build-Own-Operate (DBOO) arrangement, the consultancy said in a press release on Tuesday, noting that the plant will be designed to treat two different sources of water: seawater from the Singapore Straits and raw water from the Marina Reservoir.
After the preliminary design, it will continue to provide services to the PUB throughout the plant's development, it added, noting that the Request for Proposal for the development of the plant will be made in the second quarter of 2016.
It said its consultancy scope for the Singapore desalination project was "similar to those undertaken by the company for the ongoing second Changi Newater Plant and Tuaspring Desalination Plant completed in 2013", adding that it had also provided "detailed design" to Hyflux on the SingSpring desalination plant completed in 2005.
The Marina East plant is planned to have a capacity of 30 million imperial gallons per day.
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Have your say on plans to transform east-west rail services
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The views of residents, businesses and passengers are being sought over the next four weeks on plans to continue the transformation of east-west rail services between Oxford, Bicester and Bedford and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury.
Since the last round of consultation in July and August 2017, there have been a number of changes to the East West Rail Phase 2 project in certain areas. Everyone is invited to comment on the proposals and we're holding events where the project has seen the greatest changes.
The third round of consultation will run from 12 January until 9 February and is an opportunity for all to help shape its future development.
The drop in events take place at the following lcoations:
- 15 January 2018, 10am-3pm: Twyford Village Hall, The Knob, Twyford, MK18 4EG
- 16 January 2018, 12-8pm: Charndon Community Centre, Charndon Playing Fields, Steeple Claydon Road, OX27 0BL
- 17 January 2018, 12-8pm: Public Hall, Elmfields Gate, MK18 3JG
- 18 January 2018, 11-5pm: Longueville Hall, Whaddon Road, Newton Longville, MK17 OAT
- 19 January 2018, 12-8pm: Sports and Social Club, Bicester Road, Launton, OX26 5DP
Dominic Baldwin, Network Rail's project director for East West Rail, said: "We want as many people as possible to engage with our plans which will make travel across Britain easier. I would urge anyone who has an interest in this investment in the railway to make their voices heard."
Councillor Mark Shaw, chairman of the East West Rail Consortium's Western Section board, said: "As with most major infrastructure projects, East West Rail's design has evolved over time, reflecting feedback from the previous consultation while ensuring the scheme gives taxpayers the best value for money.
"It is therefore only right that a further consultation is held so residents have a chance to understand these changes and their impact on the scheme's construction and operation. This is particularly the case for those living between Bicester and Winslow where all of the significant changes have been made since the previous consultation."
The East West Rail project will make cross country travel easier, re-establishing a rail link between Cambridge and Oxford to improve connections between East Anglia and central, southern and western England.
Phase 2 of the western section of the project will introduce rail passenger services between Bedford and Oxford, Milton Keynes and Oxford, and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury with connections via Amersham or Princes Risborough to London Marylebone. It will mean passengers can make the journey between Bedford and Oxford without having to travel in and out of London.
The work is being funded by the Department for Transport with a contribution from the East West Rail Consortium*.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has formalized its request for precision-guided munitions (PGM), fast boats and drones from China as part of the assistance offered by Beijing to the Duterte administration's campaign against illegal drugs and terrorism, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said yesterday.
Lorenzana said he has submitted the letter to Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua regarding the $14-million arms package that China pledged to the government.
"We have formalized that because China is giving us $14 million… we asked for many things such as boats and drones," he said when asked if Duterte had requested for the PGMs from Beijing. "This is (in the form of) assistance."
The PGM is intended to precisely hit a target to minimize collateral damage.
Lorenzana noted that a PGM is less sophisticated than a missile, which could carry a conventional or nuclear explosive.
The defense chief added that he submitted the military's wish list to the Chinese ambassador about three weeks ago.
"They will look at the list, and see if they can provide them… Once they have okayed it, then we will proceed (to China) and look at them," Lorenzana said.
He affirmed Duterte's pronouncements last week that he had sounded off to China to help the Philippines with the acquisition of precision-guided arms.
"And I have also asked the Armed Forces to use all available assets and all the weaponry that's at our disposal. And I have an urgent message to China to help us if they have precision-guided arms, they can give us a loan," Duterte said.
He revealed the information as he discussed the threat of Islamic groups in Mindanao.
While he lambasted the United States for interfering in local affairs, Duterte asserted his promise to Beijing about his decision to defer bringing up the issue of the dispute in West Philippine Sea.
Last weekend, Duterte also said that he would tap Russia for the procurement of modern equipment to be used in operations against terrorists in Mindanao.
The Philippines' bilateral relations with China strengthened after Duterte made a state visit to Beijing and set aside for the meantime the United Nations arbitration ruling in the South China Sea dispute.
After the warming of relations between the two countries, China also offered a $500-million long-term soft loan for other military equipment. This is apart from the $14-million grant.
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Since I have been so busy, I am making my posts shorter and more impactful. So Day One to start. Our flight was cancelled on Friday so I got the earliest flight out which was 6am on saturday morning. That was a tad painful since the airport is an hour away, but thankfully I found a cheap car service so he picked us up right at my flat and lovely drive out. Got to Pisa and went directly to the train station and we got the train that went directly to Monteresso. Somewhat nice train ride through Tuscany. I have to give the italians huge props for having cheap trains that run amazingly well and on time. That was a great thing. Like clockwork.
So we get into Monteresso and that city is sort of split into two and our hotel was on the other side from the train station. So there are pretty much no cars, so you just have to walk it with your stuff. My mom and I of course made the mistake that there are two streets that get you to the other side of town, one is well paved and straight and one is up like 100 stairs and rocks. Guess one we took? But got some lovely pictures.
So my mom and sister came to London earlier this month and I had a nice time off and becuase it is taking so long for my photos to upload I am breaking this up into a few posts. First one - In London.
So they got in in the morning and I forced them to stay awake and since it was a thursday we took the bus and went to borough market on the left bank and then walked up the embankment all the way to the London Eye, Big Ben and Parliment. It ended up being a really nice sunset so we got some good pictures.
Then it ended up that it was Megan's birthday so we took many trains to get up north london to have a few pints with Megan. Then of course to make their day even longer, while there should have been a bus home, it was taking forever so we just ended up walking. I sort of killed them, but I think it was good since they got a good night's sleep including the fact that they both take sleeping pills and start seeing double and falling asleep before actually getting into bed. It was pretty funny.
My mom and sister are here and tomorrow we leave for the long weekend to go to Cinque Terra in Italy. Should be lovely and I cannot wait to eat my face off.
I am going to be in NYC on the 26th is anyone around? I would love to get dinner. Back online on Tuesday.


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"Everyone in the room knows this. Several of you were deeply involved in the history. But Sythyry insisted I say it anyways, in case you have forgotten about the time you saved the world, or nearly destroyed it." Feralan was wearing a blind-mask, a pair of leather disks over his eyes, the same color as his Rassimel mask. He was using peculiar Locador spells to stay aware of the edges of the dias and to avoid knocking into the podium. This got him many odd looks from many Locador experts. Fortunately he could not see the odd looks, or he would never have finished a single sentence of his talk.
"I only broiled eleven cities!" said the Wild and Scaly Llezcaryg. I could have sworn zir count was higher; but maybe zie is only counting mistakes. Or, perhaps, actual broiling.
Feralan tried to continue. "Teleport gates are well-known to erode the universe around them. If two gates are too close together, or if a gate can be pointed at different places, it can make tiny cracks in the shell of reality. As the cracks grow and join together, it makes holes that are large enough for wickedness from outside to come in."
hCevian danced over Feralan's head. "Wickednesses like me from the non-place where I was spawned, if you are lucky! There are many worse things out there." (The real point of this introductory material was to get the audience used to hCevian's presence, so that they'd listen to the important parts rather than staring at him or analysing him.)
"Yes, yes, we all know about the Eater of Cities — we all fought the Eater of Cities," said Talujjan. (You probably haven't heard of Talujjan, unless you're interested in the history of Locador, but his name is all over that topic. He is one of the relatively few Orren wizards older than a few centuries.) "Get to the point, will you?"
"Not all of us! Not even everyone in here who was alive in year 1531 got to the Eater in time to fight it," said Glikkonen. "Feralan ky Disastro certainly did not. He's not yet thirty years old."
"Oh, great staring gods," said Talujjan. "I mistook him for being Sythyry's age at least. Pray continue, young Rassimel! And young demon, too."
"Well, there haven't been many teleport gates built since then, and no variable ones," said Feralan.
"By 'variable gate' do you mean 'a gate capable of being opened and closed', or 'a gate capable of excluding certain substances or beings, the list of exclusions being capable of being changed at need', or 'a gate capable of visiting several destinations'?" asked Prof. Isotomable. (One of only two mortals, a Rassimel in case it's not utterly obvious, given primary invitations to the seminar; he is an authority on the theory of Locador magic, but he is not a wizard or even much of a mage.)
"Multiple destinations, and closing too, I suppose," said Feralan. His hands were shaking. It's surely intimidating enough talking to an audience like this, but doing it blind must be horrible.
"That's not true!" said Talujjan. "I, myself, have built any number of gates since then — at least two a century!"
"And the rest of us have probably built as many, between all of us, put together," said Glikkonen. "Which is — what, under two hundred gates, total. How many new city-states have been founded in that time, on the uppermost branches alone? Ten times as many, eighty-four times as many? I think that counts as Feralan's 'not many!'"
The two wizards went at it with daggers, flails, glaives, hand-axes, pikes, scimitars, and triremes, which might well be mistaken by the mere amateurs at magic for a discussion of the semantics and entomology of 'a few'. (And I do mean entomology, not etymology. They were as crazy as scatter-bugs.) Feralan whimpered on the dias and waved his hands. hCevian danced a figure-8 with parallel sides over his head. Eventually the rest of us whomped on the combatants with enough frozen squids and gelatinized gristle girdles to make them shut up.


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So I'll tell you a few things before I talk about the hearing aids. Cooper came out of surgery mad as hell. Gosh that kid is a fighter. He had an IV and was super distraught. We literally took his gown off, threw a t-shirt on him and took him home. We wanted to be home. We were tired. And overhwhelemed. And so freaking scared that we couldn't think.
On the ride home I kept saying, "he's going to get teased. I'm not doing it. I'm not putting him in hearing aids. I won't. I can't. It shouldn't be like this. Why is it so hard."
My husband kept trying to be logical. He's a fixer. "Kate, he can't hear. This will get him talking. It's going to be fine. I promise."
When we got home Cooper went right to sleep. And slept 6 hours. (Remember, this is the kid that wasn't sleeping.) When he woke up, he walked into the living room and went right to his toy box. He bent over it and pulled out his toys. And sat down and played. He played for the first time in months. Cars and trucks and books.
I can't even begin to tell you what that meant to me. He wasn't in pain anymore. He was rested. He wanted to play. And I wanted to play with him. We spent the afternoon laughing. I think I hugged and kissed him 5000 times in the next few hours.
I just kept looking at him and thinking your life is going to be so much harder sweet boy. But I will be here for you. I will fight for you.
Cooper went to sleep that night and slept through the night for the first time in months. He woke up rested and ate a big breakfast. One word. Relief.


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International Exhibition ofmine, geology & related industry- road construction, civil, road and rail machineries
13th International exhibition of mine, geology and related industry
15th International exhibition of decorative stone
15th International exhibition of road construction, civil, road and rail machinery 16-18. Aug., 2018
Visiting hours: 03-9 PM
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Opening ceremony by attend of senior officials of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade.
Attend of trade delegations from countries such as Iraq, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Professional meetings and conference sessions.
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Mining and road, rail construction machinery
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The 18th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival presented by AT&T will open with the world premiere of the HBO Documentary Film The Apollo.
Roger Ross Williams directed the film, which chronicles the history and contemporary legacy of the 85-year-old New York City theatre, a cultural hub that served as a launchpad for the likes of Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Dave Chappelle, and Jimi Hendrix.
The film follows a new production of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between The World And Me and frames the way in which The Apollo explores the current struggle of black lives in America, the role that art plays in that struggle, and the broad range of African American achievement that the Apollo Theater has championed.
Williams interviews artists including Patti LaBelle, Pharrell Williams, Smokey Robinson, and Jamie Foxx.
The film will debut at the iconic venue itself in Harlem on April 24, and later this year on HBO. Lisa Cortés, Nigel Sinclair's White Horse Pictures, and Williams produced with Jeanne Elfant Festa and Cassidy Hartmann.
"The Apollo is about so much more than just music, it's about how we used music and art to lift ourselves out of oppression," said Williams. "The story of the Apollo is the story of the evolution of black American identity and how it grew to become the defining cultural movement of our time. I was fortunate to make my first film with HBO and I am thrilled to be coming back home with The Apollo. Premiering at The Tribeca Film Festival, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem is a dream come true."
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Neuroleadership refers to the application of findings from neuroscience to the field of leadership.[1] The term neuroleadership was first coined by David Rock in 2006 [2] in the US publication Strategy+Business.[3] In 2009 Mark Waldman developed a NeuroLeadership class that is part of the Executive MBA program at Loyola Marymount University. Neuroleadership claims to bring neuroscientific knowledge into the areas of leadership development, management training, change management, education, consulting and coaching.[citation needed]
Neuroleadership is not without its critics.[4] They question whether having scientific brain data to back up what was commonly believed adds any value.
- ^ Lafferty, Christina L.; Alford, Kenneth L. (June 22, 2010). "NeuroLeadership: sustaining research relevance into the 21st century". SAM Advanced Management Journal. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ^ "David Rock". David Rock. 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
- ^ [1] Archived November 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ See for example comments by Howard Gardner and Warren Bennis in Australian Financial Review 9 November 2007
- "Need for brain-based coaching and significance of neuro-leadership in corporate set-up". The Economic Times. June 21, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- "Forbes India Magazine - Neuroleadership – Making Change Happen". Forbesindia.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- "The Business Brain In Close-Up". Businessweek. 2007-07-22. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- "South Africa: The Science of Neuroleadership to Make Debut in the Country". allAfrica.com. 2011-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- Moinak Mitra, ET Bureau (2008-12-12). "Management's new dimension- Neuroleadership - Economic Times". Articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
External links[edit]
- Ringleb, Al H.; Rock, David (2009). "NeuroLeadership in 2009" (PDF). Issue 2. Neuroleadership Journal. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- Neuroleadership training and development: Integral Performance, The Tuscan Leadership Institute.


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If you're looking for bookkeeping software then it's important that you make the right decision for your business. What works well for one business may not work well for another and this will depend on what it is you do, how much detail you want in your reports and how much time you have to enter the data into the software!
The first thing to think about is why you're purchasing bookkeeping software in the first place. In our experience it is usually one of the following reasons:
To get regular financial information about the business
To complete your VAT returns
To try and save money (i.e. so you don't have to pay the accountant to do the bookkeeping!)
Your accountant has recommended it because they use that particular software
If your reasons are either of the first two then you're buying the software for entirely the right reasons! Good for you!
If it's the third one then you need to think about whether doing it yourself will really save you any money. Unless you are confident that you have accounted for everything in exactly the right place and all of the bank reconciliations are performed before you hand the information over to the accountant, it's likely that the accountant will need to make corrections and adjustments to your figures anyway and there will be a cost involved in figuring out your figures, so to speak.
Finally, if it's the last one then stop right there! Yes, all accountants have their favourite bit of software, but it might not be the right thing for your business. Bear in mind that many accountants receive incentives to sell certain pieces of software too, which may influence their advice to you.
Okay, so now you know why you're buying it. The next thing to figure out is who is going to enter all the data. Not only is data entry time consuming but if you're using the financial information that it produces to make decisions or submit returns to HMRC then you need to be confident that whoever is entering the data is going to get it right! We usually find that the following scenarios apply:
You will be hiring a qualified and experienced bookkeeper to do it
Your admin assistant will learn how to do it
Your mum / dad / partner has offered to do it
You are going to enter the data yourself. You don't know a huge amount about bookkeeping but the software has a support line and it can't be that hard, can it?!
If you're going for scenario number one then you get a big thumbs up from us! Just make sure that know how to read a set accounts; you wouldn't believe the number of cowboy bookkeepers that we have seen with no qualifications who end up making a royal mess of the balance sheet of the business. Just because they can enter data doesn't mean they know what that data means, stay vigilant!
If you are opting for any of the other scenarios on the list then you need to think very carefully before you go ahead. Unless the person entering the data has a sound knowledge of how to read a set of accounts then we really wouldn't recommend it. Posting an entry into the wrong place could not only significantly alter the financial information that you're basing your decisions on; it could result in incorrect submissions to HMRC and even increased accountancy fees at the end of the year if the accountant has to unpick what's gone wrong.
Finally, you need to look at how much the software you are considering costs. Bookkeeping software can range from free to incredibly expensive. It is very easy to be swayed by the pictures of fancy graphs and pretty reports that some of the software can produce; but think with your head and not your heart! You need something that is easy to use, gets the reports right and provides you with what you need. We've known people spend as much on a bit of software (that they never end up using) as it would have cost to hire an accountant to do the work for them!
There are lots of bookkeeping software providers out there nowadays so do shop around. Good places to start are with providers like Sage, Quickbooks and Xero. Many will offer you a free trial so take full advantage of that and see if the software suits you and your business needs.
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Talia's dress is an original design by Enzoani at JS Couture, which she has accompanied with a custom-made sheer lace bolero and a romantic, trailing veil for the ceremony at New West End Synagogue. This gown's strapless fishtail design enhances Talia's slender silhouette, and the bold appliqué flower details add eye-catching texture to the skirt – this bride will certainly be the centre of attention today. Talia certainly looked beautiful in her chic surroundings at the Chelsea Harbour Hotel for her wedding reception.
Dress: Original, Enzoani at JS Couture - Bolero: Custom - Engagement Ring: Hatton Garden, designed by Talia's fiancee - Shoes: Rainbow by John Lewis - Perfume: Coco Mademoiselle, Chanel
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West Bend teachers visit area businesses to better prepare students for workforce
Some West Bend teachers took a field trip of sorts on Thursday to get real-life experience outside of school, and it could benefit the students.
"It's ensuring that the children that graduate from East High School and West High School have the opportunity to enter the workforce with the skills to be able to advance through those career ladders in local industries," West Bend schools Superintendent Ted Neitzke said.
VIDEO: West Bend field trip links classrooms to jobs
Neitzke said the trip to job sites will help students be more career-ready.
One stop was cookware maker Regal Ware.
Badger Middle School science teacher Brian Chesick is already preparing his next lesson plan.
"We talk a lot about substances and materials, and obviously, there's a lot of materials here I can take back to our chemistry unit in seventh grade," Chesick said.
There are about 30 different jobs in the 200,000-square-foot warehouse that West Bend students could one day make into a career.
It's something Regal Ware Senior Vice President of Operations Joe Swanson said is welcome.
"This is an opportunity for business and educators to join forces and understand how we can help each other as we enter this next generation of employees," Swanson said.
"Opening our teachers' eyes to the workflow in Washington County is going to be critical to our future in the local economy," Neitzke said.
The district is also already planning their college and career fair that will happen in the spring.


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Singer Melanie "Mel B" Brown was in a good mood as she left a Los Angeles courtroom today with her rumored lover Gary Madatyan. Mel B was in court for a hearing with ex-husband Stephen Belafonte over child custody.
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Eddie Murphy doesn't care about seeing the 10-year-old girl he sired with ex-girlfriend Melanie Brown, aka Mel B. Stephen Belafonte and Brown met in court on Wednesday to try and reach an agreement for step-parent visitation rights for Brown and Murphy's 10-year-old daughter Angel Iris, pictured right.
Media mogul Tyra Banks attended NBC's America's Got Talent Season 12 Kickoff in Pasadena, California. The 49-year-old supermodel wore a black sheer lace catsuit with cutout kitten heels. "I'm still fierce!" said Banks, who started her modeling career at age 15.
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Proud father Djimon Hounsou watched his only son Kenzo Lee Hounsou, 5, play soccer at the Coldwater Canyon Park in Beverly Hills on Sunday. Kenzo's mother is socialite Kimora Lee. Child experts say boys over the age of 4 should spend more time with their dads or father figures and less time around their mothers and other female family members. A woman can't show a boy how to be a man.
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Singer Mel B and her daughter Angel Iris Murphy Brown, daughter of Eddie Murphy, attended Dodger Day in L.A. yesterday. Mel is so wrong for cutting that baby's hair in a mohawk. Now the kid has to wear pink every day so she's not confused for a boy.
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Jermaine Jackson, brother of the late Michael Jackson, blocks out his wife Halima and son Jermajesty, far right, with a giant umbrella at the Save The World Awards in Vienna, Austria on Friday. Peep the Louis Vuitton his other son Jaffar, far left, is holding.
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Look what singer Melanie Brown, aka Mel B, and her husband Stephen Belafonte did to Eddie Murphy's baby.
Luckily she's wearing pink or poor Angel Iris Murphy Brown would probably be confused for a little boy. Mel B probably shaved the child's head to spite her ex-boyfriend Eddie. You know how vindictive some women can be.
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Spice Girls star Mel B showed off her daughter Angel Iris Murphy Brown during the Spice Girls show at Madison Square Garden on Monday. Thank God baby Angel doesn't take after her daddy Eddie Murphy.
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Currently stocks of Winbirri Wine is very limited and the vineyard is preparing to release the next vintage. We hope this to be done bye the end of July, watch this space for further up dates.
The Winbirri Vineyards Pinot Noir is surprisingly fuller bodied than you might expect, whilst this is still quite a light red wine, maybe bordering on medium bodied. It has a depth and body that you would not expect from an English red wine. This still has all the characteristics of the Pinot Noir grape too you can expect to find that the colour is Garnet. On the nose you will find great black and red berry notes with a hint of raspberry. On the pallet the fruit flavours just burt out. Whilst we normally talk about red wine being served at room temperature this wine has enough fruit to take a little chill. Cant wait to try that in the heat of summer!
FOOD MATCH The wine is a perfect weight to accompany Duck or grilled Lamb or really good on its own.
GRAPE VARIETIES Pinot Noir
Winbirri Vineyards wine 'Best Norfolk Producer' in the Norfolk Food and Drink Awards 2016
East Anglia Wine Awards 2015 – Bronze Medal
East Anglia Wine Awards 2014 – Bronze Medal
Winbirri Wines are based in Surlingham, Norfolk. A sleepy unassuming village that dates back to Saxon times. You will find Lee Dyer and his father Steve running a small but extremely high quality wine business. From their farming traditions Steve planted a few vines to 'See what they would do" and 8 years later we have the answer! Winbirri Wines is now run by Lee and they now have 25 acres under vine with a steadily growing output approaching 80,000 bottles per year. Over the years they have impressed the Judges at both the English and Welsh Wine Awards and the East Anglia Wine Awards with an aray of awards over the years and last year the Bacchus was voted in the top 20 Bacchus in the country.
Often asked where the name originates, it is from the Saxon words, Win meaning Wine and a Birri is an orchard.


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I am reading this book "The Healing Self" written by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi. In the pages the authors powerfully demonstrate that ' our first line of healing lies within us, and the choices we make today are crucial to lifelong wellness".
Can you dare to believe that YOU could be the major player in getting well (or better) and staying healthy?
Or do you fear that your health is largely out of your hands and that an improved sense of wellbeing may not be possible, for everyone?
Many people in my state of Victoria have already been hit by this year's flu. It is only April and Drs are concerned about how early people are being lain down by the influenza virus, forcing them into their beds for up to weeks at a time. Despite being a healthy individual, armed with all the remedies and knowledge I need to keep well, I am one of these statistics. 2 weeks ago I woke with a throbbing headache and since then I had days of raging fever, extreme lethargy, unable to stay upright for too long, lost sense of appetite, head cold symptoms with aching body that shivered intermittently and made me feel nauseous. I asked my GP for a blood test but he said there was no use. I simply had to try sleep it off. With children, a business, a day-time job and school holiday kid-wrangling to do, sleeping at least 3 times a day was hardly manageable. And yet I had to succumb – there was no option.
During my forced rest I had time to devour Chopra's book. His primary message is that 'how we see ourselves today makes a huge difference and how our body will be tomorrow'. To this end he teaches that our immunity can be transformed but not by restricting our focus on the physical. The mind must be given equal importance which is why the self is the key word in healing'.
Most of us wait until symptoms arise before we seek healing. We'll go to an outside healer (General Practitioner) for symptomatic relief and to try understand what our symptoms are telling us. By then it is, of course, too late. We are trying to control a horse that is already racing. The greatest power for any of us is lays in the prevention of sickness, activating that healer within us to optimise our wellbeing, beyond current expectations and experiences. Unlike cases of the cold or flu, we're now referring to more serious illness and disease. Think of heart disease – for 50 years we've known how to prevent this, and yet a great percentage of us still die from heart attack and stoke. Our actions today put in place our likelihood of disease tomorrow – even when these signs are not evident to the eye (initially). The trick is in doing what is good for us now, even if we can't see the immediate results of our efforts.
Chopra calls this "incremental medicine" whereby, right throughout our lifetime we make effort to gradually honour and nourish our body's in order to prevent lifestyle related disease and attack, which ultimately are the real killers in our lifetime.
Not convinced?
At the end of July 2017 a startling medical story was published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet – on dementia and alzheimers – the greatest health threat around the world. 24 experts had come together to assess our overall chances of preventing dementia in our own lives, identifying 9 specific factors that account for around 35% of dementia cases. The standards were included like avoiding social isolation and exercising and reducing depression. But one of the most alarming factors was this: staying in school until at least the age of 15 was listed as a top 10% cause of preventing dementia in later life. That is, what you do as a teenager can reduce something life debilitating in your older years. But who on earth would be worrying about such a thing, decades before?!
That's right, you can prevent dementia when you're 15 years old!
This reminds us that unlike an attack like the flu lifestyle diseases are more stealth – their incubation period is invisible but very long – slowly progressing and depleting you over years and decades – and once manifest it is already too late; the damage done. And this is exactly why health professionals are showing us there is a new vision of disease management now.
Drs are probing into what we do with ourselves 20 to 30 years before symptoms appear and disease has developed. ie TODAY COUNTS!
It reiterates the great importance of all known lifestyle factors – managing stress, keeping weight at healthy levels, minimising alcohol, not smoking etc. But most importantly, the wholistic approach where self care matters DAILY. Investing in your health.. seeking to nourish and improve it, consciously. That is your liquid gold.
There are many threats likely to attack our body's. Cancer incidence is on the rise, everybody knows someone who unfortunately has been affected by it. And yet there is one great hope- preventative measures taken before anything goes wrong, to enhance and maintain our immunity. In this state we are empowered because turning into a drug-dependant culture is dangerous – by then we place ourselves in a more precarious space – of managing adverse pharmaceutical effects with our condition and being on the back foot.
If we manage our inflammation levels now our susceptibility to disease is greatly lowered. If we listen and learn from our bodies, we are in better stead than others. Because, remember, by shutting down the messenger (our symptoms) we miss the chance to improve and hone our illness recovery abilities. Gone are the days when most of us would be hit down with sickness, and yet eventually rise above stronger and somehow wiser from our experience. Now most of us will shut any discord down – painkillers helping us to keep soldiering on. There is no honour in suffering for glory! And yet, there IS power in listening to what our body's are trying to tell us… before they start to scream.
This message is the premise of my own book, being launched next week. Your Body is Your Teacher. Let us learn from all the incremental times of sickness, the annoying symptoms, the little reminders that we're out of kilter. Let's rest and sleep well, use our brains pro-actively, honour our aches and stay on top of any health conditions, before the damage is done, and it's too late.
As quoted in my book, according to Edgar Heim 'in the course of a fifty year life-span, the average adult suffers one life-threatening illness, twenty serious illnesses and around two hundred fairly serious illnesses. Considering these statistics, it's interesting that we try to rid ourselves of any signs of sickness in our body. Are we avoiding the inevitable?
My suggestion is to start taking seriously our health – we don't need to be sick to get better. And this improvement of wellness may not be physically visible – however you can rest assured it is an effort with far-reaching benefits. Because once you're in later years it's already too late. Today is the time to hone the healer within you. And help reduce your incidence of disease for a better quality experience of life, while you're still here.


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Whether you're a bookworm or a beach reader, trust me, there's a book out there to suit all tastes, from pageturning potboilers, nailbiting whodunnits and raunchy romances to highbrow award winning literature.
But a bookshop or a library can feel a bit like being a child in a sweet shop…overwhelmed by way way too much choice.
Read on for the TOP 10 21st century novels to help you find just the book to transport you to Hogwarts or Nigeria, back to the time of Henry VIII or forward to a barren post-apocalyptic future.
10 – Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Booker Prize winning Wolf Hall, the first of 3 uputdownable sagas is a British epic of War and Peace dimensions. With fascinating detail, it takes us right back to Tudor times in all its ruthless, glittering glory. Thomas Cromwell is the star turn antihero here – we follow the twists and turns of his unstoppable rise from humble birth to one of Henry V111's most influential courtiers.
What a brilliant portrait of an arch, no holes barred conspirator is painted by Mantel. Modern politics looks pale in comparison!
9 – The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
If you thought a book couldn't make you run for cover behind the sofa like a movie, think again.
The Hunger Games is a rollercoaster of sheer terror in a post apocalyptic future where literally
only the very fittest survive under the ruthless dictatorship in which the central character, Katniss Everdeen lives. Despite yourself, you cannot put this book down.
The odds against survival are the biggest you could ever, in your wildest nightmares imagine. Just when you're convinced it's all over bar the shouting, Katniss calls on her apparently endless superhuman strength, snake like cunning and supreme boldness to get herself out of a collision with a horrible death.
Warning – you'll stay up all night reading this, then you'll rush out to get the next installment and the boxset.
8 – The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
If you're looking for a cracking, good old fashioned story, The Kite Runner will be right up your street. An upstairs downstairs tale, it's the story of 2 Afghani boys, Amir, the boss' son and Hassan, the servant's son. Throughout their lives, their paths are destined to cross, sometimes in traumatic but often in dramatic ways.
Top of the New York bestseller list, The Kite Runner sold a staggering 125 million copies and has been made into a film and stage version
7 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson's own life and premature death are almost as fascinating as the uber bestselling, on the edge of your seat trilogy of his psychological thrillers. As a journalist whose mission was to expose Swedish neo Nazi, death threats were about as common in Larsson's life as to do lists. But actually, it was his 60 cigarette a day, workaholic, junk food addicted lifestyle which finished him off at the age of 50, just weeks after he sent his manuscripts to the publisher.
In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we are introduced to one of the 21st century's most famous fictional characters, computer hacker extraordinaire, Lisbeth Salander who assists Michael Blomkvist to uncover the real culprit of the corruption for which he has been sued. Salander is one of the first and most memorable of the Skandi drama females whose lives are dedicated to solving apparently unsolvable crimes.
6 – Half of a Yellow Sun, Chiminanda Ngozi Adiche
At the ripe age of 29, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche published her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, a tour de force about the Biafran civil war which so devastatingly tore Nigeria apart in the 1960s. The shocking inhumanity of armed conflict is told through the eyes and experiences of the novel's principal characters. The reader becomes utterly engrossed in the events, the resilience of the human spirit and the fate of those who are time and again at the cutting edge of the horror.
All the ingredients of an epic are there….love, jealousy, class, corruption, infidelity and terrible tragedy.
5 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
Little kids and not so little kids, dressed up in wizard paraphernalia desperate for their next Harry Potter fix, queued up for hours in 2000 to get their hands on volume four of the phenomenal multi award winning boy wizard saga.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry's in his 4th year at Hogwarts and although he's underage, he is mysteriously forced to compete in the perilous tournament between the 3 schools of magic. Can you cope with the excitement and suspense??
Author JK Rowling's own life is itself a magical obscurity to household name story in the same league as rags to riches Cinderella and she has been credited with single-handedly getting millions of children all over the world to read.
4 – The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Right up there with Henry James and John Steinbeck, the lofty giants of US literature, the authors of THE contemporary American novel is Jonathan Franzen.
The Corrections is an absorbing 20th century family saga which tells the engaging but often uncomfortable story of an elderly, suburban, middle America couple and their three adult children who decide to spend one last Christmas together. What we get is a microscopic behind the curtains look at the ups and downs of the lives of all the characters…voyeuristic maybe but hey who doesn't love being nosy once in a while?
3 – Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Author of the sensational Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides doesn't shy away from extraordinary topics or unconventional characters in his novels.
A decade or so ahead of his time, long before gender neutral and non binary gender roles were being regularly discussed in mainstream circles, Eugenides explored these themes. Middlesex is the story of Cal, a hermaphrodite who was 'born twice, once as a baby girl…. and then as a teenage boy'. The book stretches back in time from Detroit to her grandparents' village in Eastern Turkey with some gorgeous descriptions of life there.
It's a thought provoking novel about identity and belonging to which, in some way, we can all relate.
2 – White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Set, like many of Zadie Smith's novels in North West London, White Teeth has nothing whatsoever to do with what toothpaste you use but everything to do with British colonialism, immigration to the Mother country and the resulting multi coloured melting pot which is modern Britain. Laugh out loud comedy is interspersed with serious narrative as the novel takes the reader on a circuitous, unpredictable journey through the lives of its principal families.
Zadie Smith is a 21st century literary phenomenon, completing White Teeth whilst still a Cambridge undergraduate. On publication, it shot straight into the best seller lists and launched Smith's writing career.
1 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar, Junot Díaz
Trust me you will never be bored by this novel – it runs faster and with more energy than an Olympic sprinter.
Like it or not, we get as immersed in the life of overweight New Jersey ghetto nerd, Oscar as if he were our own kid brother. More than anything Oscar longs to find true love but his family has been cursed for generations by an ancient spell, the fukú. Thanks to the fukú , more members of Oscar's family than he cares to admit have found themselves behind bars, the victims of torture and freak accidents and naturally, the course of true love has never run smooth.
But Oscar, anything but deterred by this unhappy legacy has his sights firmly focussed on that first joyful kiss. You've got to read this to see if he manages it…or not!


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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A Raleigh man accused of stabbing his wife more than 120 times in 2017 has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
Matthew Phelps was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his 29-year-old wife, Lauren Hugelmaier Phelps, on Sept. 1, 2017.
On Friday, Matthew Phelps admitted to a Wake County judge that he stabbed his wife to death.
He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps
Prosecutors played a 911 call made the night of the murder for the court. Matthew Phelps walked into a courtroom with long hair and a beard – a much different looked compared to his mugshot taken following the murder.
Matthews Phelps called 911 around 1:15 a.m. and told the dispatcher he "thinks he stabbed his wife."
"I think I killed my (redacted)," Phelps said. "I had a dream and then I turned on the lights and she's dead on the floor. I have blood all over me and there's a bloody knife on the bed and I think I did it."
The courtroom was filled with more than a dozen people wearing shirts with "#LaurensLight" printed on the back.
Lauren Phelps suffered 123 stab wounds, according to the medical examiner. In court, prosecutors said Lauren tried to defend herself against the attack and none of her wounds were postmortem.
Her head and neck had 44 wounds, with her left jugular suffering damage, the medical examiner's report says. She was also stabbed in the left arm 38 times and 17 in her right arm.
Warrants say investigators believe Matthew Phelps attempted to clean himself up before calling for help.
A kitchen knife was found on the bed, warrants say.
Warrants say Matthew Phelps made "numerous spontaneous utterances" that he killed his wife.
Matthew Phelps told investigators he had taken too much of a cough medicine called Coricidin and awoke from a dream to find his wife dead. Investigators seized an empty container of Coricidin during their initial search of the couple's home.
Coricidin is a cold medicine for people with high blood pressure.
Warrants say investigators looked at Matthew Phelps social media accounts where they found he was "possibly fascinated with and mimicked a portrayed serial killer" from the movie American Psycho.
Matthew Phelps' Instagram account contained photos of him dressed as the movie's main character.
Warrants also say Matthew Phelps told a friend he wondered what it would be like to kill someone.
The warrants states Lauren Phelps had recently taken steps to curb her husband's spending.
Lauren Phelps was found clutching hair in her hands and investigators wanted a sample of Matthew Phelps' hair to compare the samples, warrants say.
Matthews Phelps was indicted on the first-degree murder charge on Sept. 25, 2017.


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Deadline 9th May
The Vegetarian Society is providing small grants of up to £200 for events and activities taking place from 16 to 22 May 2016 that attract those beginning their vegetarian journey, meat-reducers and the veggie-curious, but are inclusive of the wider vegetarian community.
The grants are to be used for events and activities that:
- Take place during National Vegetarian Week (16-22 May 2016).
- Celebrate and promote vegetarianism.
- Are exclusively vegetarian. (Events cannot have non-vegetarian food or drink).
- Promote National Vegetarian Week exclusively as the primary purpose of the funded activity and tie in with the theme: 'Celebrate your food, stories and traditions'.
Examples of events and activities, could include, but are not limited to:
- Cookery demonstrations.
- Communal meals.
- Recipe exchanges.
- Tasting.
The grants could be used for:
- Room hire.
- Equipment hire.
- Transport costs.
- Veggie promotions at luncheon clubs and community cafés.
- Cookery demonstration materials.
- Direct costs in delivering the activity.
Applications will be accepted from:
- Vegetarian groups, local network groups and student vegetarian and vegan societies (whether they are formally part of the Vegetarian Society network or not).
- Not for profit organisations in the UK (eg community groups, schools, social housing schemes, youth clubs, Cubs, Brownies, Scouts or Guides).
- Informal groups of friends, parents or students.


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David grew up with a love of exercise and fitness. He takes a holistic approach to exercise centralized around corrective exercises, functional strength, and balance. He believes that exercise in addition to being beneficial, can also be enjoyable. David enjoys getting to know people and designing exercise plans to uniquely fit each person's needs and goals.
David attended Liberty University where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology with a focus in Exercise Science. He also is a Certified Exercise Physiologist (ACSM EP-C) through the American College of Sports Medicine. He has experience in physical therapy and formal training in working with special populations, strength and conditioning, weight loss, and general fitness. David and his wife both grew up in this area and now live in Blacksburg with their three young girls.
Benita Nam, Functional Rehab Specialist, ACE CPT
Benita is from Haymarket, VA and graduated from Virginia Tech with a BSA in Human Nutrition, Food, and Exercise. She grew up with a passion for exercise and has learned to implement exercise as medicine through her studies at Virginia Tech. During her undergrad, she worked with Virginia tech Athletics as a Student Trainer. Benita was also a gymnastics coach and loves finding ways to incorporate the sport with rehabilitation. She loves helping people realize how strong and capable they are when it comes to utilizing their own bodies. Benita is also a certified in pre and post partum fitness through the Oh Baby! program and teaches the Mom to the Core fitness class at Valley Active.
Luci Merlo, Massage Therapist
Luci is experienced in nursing and massage therapy for complex medical conditions, injury prevention, and wellness. Her technique includes Trager Movement, myofacial release, and manual lymph drainage. Luci teaches aquatic tai chi at Warmhearth and Christiansburg. She enjoys hiking and dancing in her free time.
Tony Dellorso II, Registered Dietitian
Tony is a RD that currently practices as a clinical dietitian at LewisGales Hospital Montgomery and LewisGale Hospital Alleghany providing Medical Nutrition Therapy for both inpatient and outpatients. He is originally from the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, but has lived in the New River Valley for the past 17 years. Tony earned his Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from Radford University and completed his accredited supervised practice dietetic internship through Virginia Tech. He completed rotations covering acute care, diabetes counseling, and food service management. He is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and also a member of the state chapter and local southwest chapter of the academy.
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Dr. Colliver oversees the team at Valley Active, and meets once a week at a round table discussion to make sure each client is making significant progress towards their goals.


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DECATUR, AL (WAFF) - As residents in Lee County, Alabama begin to rebuild after a deadly EF-4 ripped through the county, they won't be doing it alone.
Members of Grant Street Church in Decatur are working to collect various different items to take to the tornado victims.
The church need items like:
- Snack foods
- Gatorade
- Flashlights
- Batteries
- Dog and cat food
- Empty photo albums
Cody Michael, Outreach Minister for Grant Street Church, said they'll be collecting donations until Monday, March 11th. You can drop donations off at the church, Mellow Mushroom, Moe's BBQ, or Cloud 9 Baby store in Decatur.
"When someone is hurting, how can you make their life better, how can you make things in a better position for them," said Michael. He's hoping their acts of kindness can help bring some light into a dark situation.
Michael said they are also doing something different this time around. They're asking for people to donate empty photo albums for family's who may have lost some of their most precious memories. "A lot of family's that have lost all the memories that they had, need a chance to restart and we want to provide them their first photo album to say here, start collecting those memories back again," said Michael.
This isn't the first time the church has helped in natural disaster relief efforts. Michael said the church has assisted family's in the Carolina's, Florida, and Tennessee from hurricanes and tornadoes.
"If you have a need when we show up, don't hesitate to ask us. Anything we can help do, anybody we can help bring encouragement, we want to do so," said Michael.
Church members are planning to leave sometime this week to deliver supplies. They will go back to Lee County on Monday and stay one night to help with cleanup efforts.
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Dr. Vikas Kathuria is a dynamic Neurosurgeon specialized in brain and spine related surgical and Non-surgical Procedures.
He Did graduation and post graduation from PGI Rohtak, Haryana, India and further did super specialization in Neurosurgery from Sheth Vadilal Sarabhai General Hospital and Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
1. CK Birla Hospital for Women, Block J, Mayfield Garden, Sector 51, Gurugram, Haryana 122018
2. Tirath Ram Hospitals Private Limited, 166, 20, Basai Rd, Arjun Nagar, Sector 8, Gurugram, Haryana 122022
3. Anand Multispeciality Hospital, Plot no. 29, Sector 56, Gurugram, Haryana 122011
4. Satyam Hospital, Plot No. 173, Gali No 3, Madanpur Road, Near Hanuman Mandir, Madanpuri, Gurugram, Haryana 122006
5. Safe Hands Hospital, Plot No. 68-P, Sector 46, Gurugram, Haryana 122018
6. Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, H Block, Chauma Village, Sector 1, Palam Vihar, Choma, Haryana 122017
7. Columbia Asia Hospital, Ansal Plaza Near Gol Chakkar, Block F, Palam Vihar, Gurugram, Haryana 122017
8. SKIN AURA, Shop No.F9, First Floor, DDA Market, Kohat Enclave, Pitam Pura, New Delhi, Delhi 110034
9. Kathuria Brain & Spine Neurocentre, H. No. 158-A ; Subhash Nagar, Rohtak - Sonipat Rd, Model Town, Rohtak, Haryana 124001
10. Virat Hospital, Near Oriental Bank of Commerce, Circular Rd, Madhu Vihar, Rewari, Haryana 123401
11. Max Hospital, B Block, Sushant Lok 1, Near Huda City Centre, Gurugram, Haryana 122001
12. Shiva Hospital, 287A, Sector-12A, New Mata Mandir Rd, near Dada Singha Chowk, Gurgaon Village, Sector 6, Gurugram, Haryana 122001
13. Madhukar Rainbow Children's Hospital & BirthRight By Rainbow Hospitals, Geetanjali FC-29 5 Near Malviya Nagar Metro Station, Saket, New Delhi, 110017
14. Skin Aura Brain and Spine Neuro Centre, H.N. 7311, GF & Basement Behind Supermart 2, Near Huda Metro Station, DLF Phase IV, Gurugram, Haryana 122002
My father had large brain tumour in left frontal region. Dr Vikas operated upon my father successfully. He removed the tumour completely and fortunately he recovered very well. The postoperatively Mri brain was so good and no residual. Biopsy was hemangioblastoma and he escaped from Radiotherapy. My father is walking talking eating normally. Highly recommended.
My eight year old baby Siya had suffered head injury , ahe waa very weak and was not doing well. We took treatment from Dr kathuria who gave simple treatment and in follow up she is much better. She has improved in her studies and gained weight which was desired. He is good for paediatric Neuro problems. Highly recommended.
He is expert in Cervical pain and vertigo.Doctor listened to my problems patiently and also asked my lifestyle in detail to reach a diagnosis, i was amazed to see the method of exclusion of all other possibilities , reaching final diagnosis and it was very important. I was impressed with his depth of knowledge . Also he discussed with me the medicines he prescribed, one third of the cost of his consultation. He is the best and pocket friendly.
I am a patient of c5-6disc problem since past 2months. Thanks to Dr Vikas who treated me at metro hospital. I am now visiting in his clinic and almost cured completely with all his valuable advise and exercises apart from medicines. He understands the problem ist in detail and do not jump to investigation. He is a good doctor for spine.


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Just like other related substances, alcohol can be represented as a simple drug, even though alcoholism can be considerably damaging to the abuser's entire life dynamics. Addiction results in very detrimental physical and even brain predicaments, plus long-term alcohol misuse could even have very devastating side effects on one's general health, career or even relationships. Alcoholics may go all through various symptoms of physical withdrawal, especially in the event they ultimately stop drinking upon entering alcohol addiction programs.
This can be comparable to what drug users would do while considering the decision to finally quit their drug usage. All effects that are related to alcoholism tend to be negative, apart from the preliminary euphoric sensation, which lasts only for a few hours before it's over again. Extensive or long-term abuse may result in very detrimental health hazards, which have the potential of affecting literally all dynamics of an individual's life and this even includes brain composition.
The predicament discussed above may also have the potential of fully damaging ones emotional aspects, career, finances and even capacity to sustain significant and satisfying relationships. Much more, alcoholism further has a very negative impact on a person's immediate family setting, friends as well as other staff members whom one may be working alongside. These are all signs that alcohol addiction programs should be taken into consideration.
With the generally lethal effects that heavy binge drinking has on an individual's body, including cancer, liver and heart problems, still all social based consequences may be considerably devastating as well. In addition, alcoholics have a more likelihood of being divorced; having troubles related to domestic violence, high poverty levels and high cases of unemployment as well.
Even though one could, for a while, succeed with the work setting or even hold up his or her marriage successfully, the effects tied into alcoholism are great and can adversely affect one's life if proper measures to curb this situation are not taken into consideration, such as entering alcohol addiction programs. Predicaments related to drinking can place lots of strain on those who are directly related to the alcoholic. Family members and close friends may feel obligated to 'cover' for an individual facing these sorts of drinking predicaments.
As such, they may even consider the ultimate burden of cleaning the individual's messes, constantly lying and even working excessively just to make ends meet. Ultimately pretending that there's nothing wrong or hiding their personal fears or resentments may as well take an enormous toll on an individual's general health. Kids are particularly sensitive to their parents' alcoholic tendencies and may tend to suffer continual emotional trauma that may prove to be very disastrous for them within all dynamics of their lives.
When you're ready to admit that you have experienced trouble drinking, then this would act as your very first course of action towards full recovery. It requires great strength as well as courage for the person to face the predicament of alcohol misuse so that an ultimate long-term solution may be reached. During such circumstances, your subsequent step would be reaching for ultimate support from alcohol Abuse programs.
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Zoomlion and MOH to deploy mapping technology to map mosquito breeding sites
Waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Health at a training program organized for stakeholders executing the larviciding exercise in the Ashanti region disclosed that a mapping technology will be used to map mosquito breeding sites.
The mapping technology which will locate all water bodies in a specific area and record their GPS coordinates by the use of a tablet will track possible mosquito breeding sites thereby hastening the application of the biolarvicide to such water bodies.
Mosquitoes are one of the most deadliest diseases vectors in the world with the ability to transmit and spread very dangerous diseases to humans causing millions of deaths every year.
A technical vector control officer with the National Malaria Control Program, Mr. Christian Atta-Obeng who took participants through how to use the mapping technology explained that the application software known as EpiInfo vector surveillance helps in collecting useful data on breeding sites which helps to undertake effective larval source management.
He said the mapping technology will enhance proper surveillance of mosquito breeding sites and provide useful reports on performance measurement.
Mr. Abel Djangmah, a Senior Vector Control Technical officer of Zoomlion explained that mosquito vector borne diseases are becoming a global health threat to humanity hence the need for the country to develop effective larval source management preparedness plan to confront diseases transmitted by mosquitoes head-on.
He said available data from the Ghana Health Services indicate that malaria cases is plateauing in some health facilities whilst some of the mosquitoes are either developing resistance to in-door residual spraying insecticides or biting people before they go to bed at night.
He urged participants to make good use of the scientific knowledge gained from the training to enhance their larviciding activities in their communities and improve health conditions of residents in the Ashanti region. The participants include district and municipal environmental health officers, malaria focal persons, district managers and spraying team leaders in the Ashanti region.
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Husband and wife ace Kew Golf Club
Two members of Melbourne's Kew Golf Club achieved what could be a golfing world-first recently.
Dorothy Chard and her husband, Ian, both had holes-in-one on the same hole on the same day.
Aces High: Dorothy and Ian Chard
Dorothy, a 24-marker, was playing in the Thursday women's weekly morning competition when she aced the 146-metre par-three 14th with a driver.
Seventeen-handicapper, Ian, joined the men's field on the back nine in the afternoon with the knowledge that his wife had already aced the 14th and replicated Dorothy's feat from 169 metres.
Several minutes elapsed before Dorothy had realised her achievement.
"I said to them, 'it's probably gone over the back'," Dorothy said.
"We walked up to the green and I took my two clubs across to the back of the green, couldn't find the ball, so I went back down, had a look in the hole and there it was.
"It was a bit of an anti-climax really. We didn't know whether to take the flag, leave it there, lift the ball out. It was quite funny. It was very exciting more after the fact. As we walked along, some of the other girls came up to the tee and realised there was a hole-in-one and we we're all calling out."
When Dorothy finished she was surprised to see Ian warming up on the putting green because he had facial surgery earlier that morning.
Ian also missed out on seeing his ace find the bottom of the cup.
"The guys said it was a good shot and some people on the 15th were fortunate enough to see it go in the hole," Ian said.
Neither player had scored an ace previously and Ian was quick to inform his wife after his perfect shot.
"After I'd had a few drinks with my friends and I was leaving the club he called me and said 'I've just had a hole-in-one on the same hole'," Dorothy said.
"I thought he was just joking because he does tend to play tricks on people. It was a very amazing afternoon."
Ian watered down his hole-in-one and said it was a lesser achievement than Dorothy's.
"Her hole-in-one counted," he said.
"She was in the comp. She got the mounted ball and the laminated card and the name in the gold paint and the drink in the bar. Mine's just a semi-official one."
The married couple's astonishing tale came less than 13 months after a similarly rare result at Kew Golf Club.
Chris Dunn, a past club champion at Kew and pennant player, had two holes-in-one in the same round on the same day in April last year.
TALENTED COUPLE: Dorothy Chard and husband, Ian, all smiles after shooting holes-in-one on the same hole on the same day at Kew recently.


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HONOLULU – A little more than a year ago, results from the DAWN and DEFUSE 3 trials substantially broadened the time window for endovascular thrombectomy of acute ischemic stroke by selecting patients using brain imaging. Stroke clinicians are now trying to reconcile widespread, routine use of this life-changing treatment against an uncertain need to replicate the higher-end perfusion CT and analytical software imaging that these landmark trials used for patient selection. This has produced a schism in what experts advise for using endovascular thrombectomy on acute ischemic stroke patients.
"Go open the artery, people!" Michael D. Hill, MD, exhorted during a talk at the International Stroke Conference, sponsored by the American Heart Association. "Don't get over-selective; more people will benefit than you think," said Dr. Hill, a professor of clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary (Alta.).
"We are over-selecting, and depriving patients," commented Raul C. Nogueira, MD, professor of neurology at Emory University in Atlanta and a lead investigator of the DAWN trial, speaking from the audience during a discussion at the session where Dr. Hill spoke.
"The prevalence of treatable [acute ischemic stroke] patients is far higher than the prevalence of patients who are not good candidates, so you just want to exclude the 'wipe-outs'; that's what we do," Dr. Hill explained. "Fortunately, endovascular therapy is very safe, and you're not going to harm many patients. With other treatments [used routinely in medicine] some patients don't benefit, but when you have a large effect size we use the treatment on almost everyone. The effect size from thrombectomy is so large it's an argument to treat almost everyone, although the patients in the trials were selected by imaging."
Dr. Hill repeatedly stressed that for most patients a non-contrast CT image is usually adequate to identify patients with salvageable brain tissue and a low risk for hemorrhage from intervention, and he endorsed also doing CT angiography to further inform the diagnosis. But he dismissed CT perfusion imaging as unnecessary. "Noncontrast CT and CT angiography are more than adequate to make treatment decisions," he said. "The prevalence of poor collaterals is quite low, about 10%," which means that about 90% of acute ischemic stroke patients will have more slowly progressing infarction," making them amenable to treatment in an expanded time window and boosting the volume of salvageable tissue.
But these appeals for more liberal use of thrombectomy without the perfusion CT imaging used in DAWN (N Engl J Med. 2018 Jan 4;378[1]:11-21)and DEFUSE-3 (N Engl J Med. 2018 Feb 22;378[8]:708-18) received push back. Maarten G. Lansberg, MD, a co-investigator on the DEFUSE 3 trial, highlighted the speed and simplicity of CT perfusion imaging, and its utility in helping to better target thrombectomy to the right patients. It's "speedy, simple, and safe," it "excludes patients who will not benefit" from thrombectomy, and it helps when the patient's history and noncontrast CT images are inconclusive, said Dr. Lansberg, a neurologist at Stanford (Calif.) University.
"Clinical presentation will only tell you so much." With imaging that includes CT perfusion, "you can find out, in 5, 10 minutes, whether there is an occlusion, its location, the extent of dead tissue – that's all really helpful," said Marc Fisher, MD, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "There is a tension now between doing treatment really fast and the concept of slow and fast evolvers. For slow evolvers, the concern about speed is irrelevant because it can take days" for their brains to have substantial damage. "For the fast evolvers, time matters, but they could also possibly be harmed; that's why we need more data."
A pitch for more data also came from Pooja Khatri, MD, who also spoke at the session. "There is a real tension now between personalizing the imaging and figuring out exactly the right patients against the time trade off for doing that. Some argue to keep it simple and move fast, and by doing that you'll wash out any difference from doing more fancy stuff. Plus some places, even in developed countries, can't afford the image-processing software" used in the DAWN and DEFUSE 3 trials. The correct approach remains unclear and has created "an area ripe for a trial," declared Dr. Khatri, professor of neurology at director of acute stroke at the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Hill has received honoraria from Merck and received research funding from Boehringer Ingelheim, Covidien, Medtronic, and Stryker. He has an ownership interest in Calgary Scientific and holds a patent on acute stroke triage methods. Dr. Nogueira has financial relationships with many companies. Dr. Lansberg and Dr. Fisher had no disclosures. Dr. Khatri has been a consultant to Lumosa and has received research funding from Cerenovus/Johnson & Johnson, Genentech, and Nervive.


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