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How steady job could benefit diabetics
For people who are diabetic or prone to diabetes, having a steady job appears to be good for their health.
And the benefit lies in their adherence to anti-diabetic medications, and not just because of the insurance coverage, according to a new University of Michigan study.
It found that that jobless working-age people with diabetes are less likely to adhere to their oral anti-diabetic medications than diabetics who are employed.
Further, people of working age with diabetes are more likely to be unemployed than those who do not have diabetes.
The lack of a clear-cut, cause-and-effect relationship between insurance and medication adherence surprised lead researcher Rajesh Balkrishnan of the U-M College of Pharmacy and School of Public Health.
"Improved use of medications is more than just a facet of having medical insurance. It is linked to bigger issues such as being employed, periods of joblessness or a personal financial strain," said Balkrishnan, who believes that a healthier, active lifestyle and access to medical care resources through employers that want employees to remain productive play a big role in adherence.
Other factors that account for lack of medication adherence include lack of financial resources, stress due to unemployment and lack of access to health care.
Researchers looked at diabetes because it is one of the most commonly present chronic conditions in working-age adults, and globally it is the seventh-leading cause of death and the eighth-most costly disease to treat, Balkrishnan said.
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text: TICONDEROGA Santa-Fest, a community holiday party, has been planned by the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce. The event will be held Sunday, Dec. 2, 2-5 p.m. at the Community Building. Santa-Fest follows last years Enter-Train-Ment Spectacular, sponsored by the chamber. That event was held as a prelude to the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train in Ti. This year the train, covered with hundreds of holiday lights and carrying a live Christmas show, arrives on Monday, Dec. 3. We couldnt work it out so it would coincide with the train, explained Bonnie White, the chambers administrative assistant, but its basically the same event as the Enter-Train-Ment Spectacular. Santa-Fest will feature a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, a community tree lighting ceremony, live entertainment, refreshments and activities, such as ornament making, tree decorating, making of holiday cards and balloon art. Last years event drew a large crowd of children and adults to the Community Building. We were thrilled with the turn out, Deb Malaney, chamber executive director, said of the 2006 program. Christmas is for the little ones and we wanted to do something for them. Its turned out wonderful. Malaney credited Bonnie White, Keri Rhebergen, Pam Nolan and Stan Burdick with organizing the event. The Canadian Pacific Railway Holiday Train will again visit Ticonderoga and Port Henry Dec. 3. The decorated train is scheduled to stop at the Ticonderoga train station at 5:45 to 6:15 p.m. and at the Port Henry train station at 7:15 to 7:45 p.m. Last year about 1,000 people turned out for the trains arrival in Ticonderoga. This will be the fourth year the train, covered with hundreds of holiday lights and carrying a live concert, will stop in Ti. Like last year, Canadian Pacific has announced it will donate $1,000 to the Ticonderoga and Moriah food pantries as part of the stop. People who go to see the train and show are asked to bring canned goods for donation to the local food shelf. Now in its eighth year in North America, Canadian Pacific Railways two lighted Holiday Trains one in the eastern U.S. and Canada and another in the Midwest carrying live musical shows performed from boxcar stages in an effort to end hunger.


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The competitive LCD display market continues to take a few twists with dominant player Samsung securing a deal with LG Display Co. to supply television screen units.
LG Display, is already a major supplier of panels to Apple. The deal is still yet to be finalised but speculation suggests that the LG Display deal will replace the deal between Sharp Corp. and Foxconn Technology Group. It is understood that LG will supply as many as 3 million LCD panels to Samsung this year.
Sakai Display Products Corp, which is controlled by Sharp and Foxconn, has announced that it will cut back supply of LCD screens to other TV makers. The Sakai deal has delivered over 4 million large TV panels annually to Samsung. Foxconn subsidiary Sharp will no longer be supplying LCD panels to Samsung Electronics starting in 2017, according to a report from The Japan Times.
The changes revolve around Sharp intending to shift supply of its products manufactured by Sakai Display in Osaka that is jointly operated by Foxconn and Sharp, to reduce any impact on their businesses, the report claims.
The spin off effect off this is that a complete halt of LCD supplies from Sharp will create a supply shortage of 4 million panels per year for Samsung.
Should TV panel shipments decline during first half of 2017, revenue figures might not reach estimations, which might cause Sharp to increase shipment volumes during second half of the year to stimulate revenue, which could cause market prices to crash.
Finding a good commercial TV panel is also a challenge, but CombiTel has been successful with integration of their Omniscreen software with a number of TV manurfacturers. Last year this Australian enterprise IPTV application specialist has become a part of the global Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP).
SEAP includes almost 1,000 global partners from small to large and offers a range of benefits including the opportunity to integrate partner technology into Samsung commercial hospitality displays.
For CombiTel MD Eugene Razbash the opportunity to work with Samsung at this critical development level is a breakthrough opportunity. "We are very fortunate to be part of the Samsung B2B development programme.
The partnership will open many doors for us and allowing us to integrate our Australian developed technology into the Samsung commercial hospitality display units is a significant coup," he said.
The Omniscreen Pilot, enterprise TV application server is suited for many enterprise applications including hospitality, education, aged care and government.
Specialist IPTV systems integrator focusing on service providers and enterprises. CombiTel offers unmatched value to its clients based on its unique mix of skills and many years of experience in both Telecommunications and Broadcasting. We have a proven track record and happy customers in Australia and New Zealand.
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Melamine/Lam. cutting speed and feeds3/20
using a 1/2" solid carbide compression bit at 15,000 rpm and 600 ipm I can only cut 10 sheets of medium density melamine before my bit dulls. I also have tried a 3/8" at 15,000 and 600 ipm but get the same results. I increased the rpm to 18,000 and to a feed of 700 ipm but cannot tell it made any difference. What is the suggested rpm and ipm for cutting melamine and lam. particle boards?
I try to shoot for 0.023" chipload for melamine and laminate. For me, this means 16,000 rpm spindle speed, and 736 inches per minute for a 2 flute compression, or 1,104 for a 3 flute compression.
Your not that far off on the first numbers you listed. Have you looked at the collet care? Spindle runout? Not sure why they aren't lasting. I'm using Leuco brand, but Vortex, Onsrud, and Leitz all make good bits.
Try pushing it as hard as you can until you loose parts, have poor cut quality, or snap the tool. The bigger chip size, the cooler your tool stays, the longer it lasts. It is always a balancing act for these variables.
Hope that helps :-)
You should try a 12.7mm Single Flute Compression Diamond Tipped from FS Tools made by FS Cruing, works great outlasts solid carbide bits we have. FS Cruing has many other Diamond tipped Router bits for the woodworking industry you should check it out.
We are running 3/8" 2 flute compression Onsrud Marton bits (coated) We will get 60 sheets of melamine and another 30 sheets of MDF or particle board. Running a Komo @600",16K. When the bit is new we will push it a bit faster, 700". It is running cool enough you can take hold of it right after it stops. HPL is hard on bits we will only get about 25-30 sheets on it. I like to have a very clean cut, no crushing of the melamine face or burring of the HPL. The problem with the diamond bits is they are usually single flute, meaning your feed rate has to be slowed a lot.
Larry-- Yes your right because of the single flute we run it slower but, you can get a two flute of three flute diamond bit if you wanted to. We are using a single flute just because thats what we have usually used but we would like to look into the two flute or three flute but they cost more, but at the same time they do last a while.


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A cartel is an agreement among competing firms where there is small number of sellers and they usually involve in the production of homogeneous products. Cartel members agree on price fixing, total industry output, allocation of customers, allocation of territories, bid rigging, establishment of common sales agencies, and the division of profits or combination of these.
Cartels are formed to control, manipulate and regulate prices. The aim of cartel agreement is to increase individual members' profits by reducing competition.
Cartel gives all advantage to member firms where as it gives most of disadvantage to customers and competing firms.
Advantages of Cartels are as follows:
- It distributes risks and profits equitably among member firms.
- The firms have not to incur much on publicity.
- It stabilizes market.
- Reduce different types of cost production, distribution etc.
- Firms do not face any competition among themselves.
- It is more stable than pool.
Disadvantages of Cartels are as follows:
- Standard of product is reduced.
- The customers are charged higher prices because there is no competition among the firms.
- Cartels drive the competing firms (which are not member of cartel )out of existence,
- Reduced volume of trade
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017
30 Minute Challenge !!!!
Here is my make..
Kitchen timer set and off we go!!. I have this tag that I had a plan with some die cut pipe work.. I started off with a mixture of white gesso and Fresco Chalk paint in Inky Pool, applied with a brayer..
Whilst this was drying I die cut my pipework and used the wet paint as a glue. I ended up with paint all over my fingers, so I smudged this on the tag!!
My original plan was to cut several lengths of wool, soak in paint and attach to the tag, when I reached onto the shelf to get some tubes of Pebeo Dyna paint, my arm caught a pot of paint. I just caught it before it fell on the floor, when I put this back on the shelf the label was facing me. It was Indigo Blu called Banana Custard. The word Custard caught my imagination, I changed my plan and decided to have custard coming out of my pipe work!!!
I like apple pie and custard, so I drew a very quick sketch...
By the time I had faffed with all of this, I checked the kitchen timer, 5 mins to go !!!!. So I quickly coloured in the pipes with a alcohol marker and some silver Pebeo Dyna Paint and some Copper Dyna paint and the timer went off.....
Great fun, Don't forget to take part, £20 voucher to spend....
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This is brilliant Bryan, I love the way your mind works and your tag is great fun! Thanks so much for joining in with my challenge at Country View Crafts and have a great week. Sue xxReplyDelete
Loving the spontaneity Bryan. It's great fun and a custard tap is good for me!ReplyDelete
Ah... custard on tap, now that would be a dream come true! Love the imagination that went into this make, thanks for joining us at Country View Challenges this month!ReplyDelete
Fabulous idea and fun project Bryan!! I love apple pie and custard also. xxReplyDelete
Hi Bryan, thanks for the visit to mine, thought I'd pop over and see what you are up to and pleased I did this is such a fun piece. I would quite like a custard tap Lol! Happy crafting, Angela xXxReplyDelete
Hope you don't mind Lol! Just joined your followers XReplyDelete
lots of fun - love your tag and thanks for joining us at CVC! RachelxReplyDelete
This is pretty cool only having 30 minutes would drive me crazy. you did a wonderful job and where did you get that pipe die?Replies
Hi Colleen, Thanks for your comment, the die is from Sheena DouglassDelete


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NYFW Spring 2014: Naomi Campbell Closes DVF Show
The OG supermodel didn't throw a phone at anyone's head as she surprise sashayed down Diane von Furstenberg's catwalk on Sunday, but she did cause a social media scene.
NEW YORK — Original '90s supermodel and The Face coach/executive producer Naomi Campbell, whose, uh, diva-like behaviors once inspired the popular T-shirt "Naomi Campbell Hit me. And I liked it," was a surprise participant in Diane von Furstenberg's spring 2014 fashion show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York on Sunday.
The Oxygen network personality donned long, wavy hair, a smirk of confidence and her signature fierce hip-swaying runway moves as she modeled the final look of the presentation — a black and gold shift dress from von Furstenberg's next major seasonal collection — as Daft Punk's "Lose Yourself to Dance" played in the background.
The style set took to social media with glee upon the controversial model's arrival.
"NAOMI CLOSES DVF: that is all" Instagrammed Lucky editor-in-chief Eva Chen. While Style.com market director Marina Larroude too took to the photo and video sharing platform to alert her 29,000 followers that Naomi had entered the building. Italian Model and blogger Marta Pozzan also went on Insta to share her excitement, using the hash tag #OMG, while L.A.-based Bravo personality and vintage clothing aficionado Cameron Silver simply wrote "There's only one Naomi Campbell" from his perch in the front row.
Though Campbell made the biggest splash at the show, she was hardly the only boldfacer in attendance, with Coco Rocha, Jessica Alba, Sheryl Crow, Rachel Zoe and Allison Williams watching von Furstenberg's tribal geometric prints come down the pike.
Paris Hilton was there, too.


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LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA — Go to the Zambezi Sun, the managing editor of the paper where I am posted, urged. It is right on the falls.
I didn't want to burden him with either expectations or with a grudge (I have been told I hold them, for example, against the matronly sociopathic former editor who, with an air of comforting affection, stuck me on night cops for six months of my one life), so I left the decision to the trip-planning half of our little family and hoped for the best.
For the first time in recent years, it turned out, a management-level editor made a good call.
The Zambezi Sun is right on the falls — the ones that are one of the seven natural wonders of the world. It is a three-star hotel that in every particular except food is a five star hotel. But then, it shares grounds with the Royal Livingstone, a five-star hotel, that in turn boasts as its best justification for the extra two stars (aside from a claim that each guest gets a personal butler dressed up in colonial costume — no thanks, and the claim they will throw flower petals on the bed for special sexual occassions — how embarrassing a call to the desk is that?) the best dinner under the stars I have had.
Both hotels are on the grounds of the Mosi Oa Tunya National Park, and that means that the animals run both. Which is just fine.
For one thing that meant we were greeted upon our arrival by this:
Then came the warnings, which endearingly began to make us feel as we might visiting the beautiful home of a delightfully eccentric wealthy couple with terribly spoiled children.
We can't serve coffee at the scenic patio by the river — the monkeys steal the sugar and make a mess of everything.
Would you like to sit on the balcony or inside — (this for lunch) — oh, never mind, outside's no good, there's a baboon out there (a woman, cowering in the doorway, for some reason told me the baboon was "the same size as you" perhaps annoyed, justifiably, that I was slow on the uptake of why sharing space with a baboon is a bad thing).
Be careful around the ponds at night — the crocodiles.
And, most thrillingly of all, don't stand within a couple of meters of the zebras — they will kick you.
Zebras. Even the thought of having a chance to see one unstriped by zoo bars, free to kick whoever didn't respect its space, was the best hype of all.
And it happened, in droves.
Which in the course of following them (from a respectful distance) led to an encounter with the giraffe family:
It is hard to describe what it was like when the baby was born, a passing security guard told us mistily, they stayed close. If the mother had to go somewhere the father watched the little one. We have much to learn from them, he said.
It is the Garden of Eden.
Until dinner. That is where, with a smirk that belied his air of regret, the family trip-planner pointed, under entrees on the menu, to "Impala Pie."
Impalas are guilty of no more than being a little shallow. Like most of us animals.
In their case, like most, this manifests in their mating habits. Each group of females has one male (the apparent difference — the males have horns). If you see a lone male, it means another male cut in, so to speak, crashed his party, and kicked him out. And he wanders alone until he finds a "bachelor herd" of other horned impalas. Those lone male impalas and those bachelor herds have gracefully curving horns. Their replacements — the interlopers, tend to have less developed ones; youth helped them gain their ascendancy.
Who do they prey on? No one, a guide told us. Who preys on them? Only humans, he said, embarrassedly. Sadly for them, apparently, they are tasty as all get out.
I do not know this first hand, and I don't intend to find out. At the news meeting I attended on my return this afternoon I mentioned that having seen them alive, seeing them on the menu made me feel bad. Yes, several of the editors explained amidst the laughter, but the meat is delicious.


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One of the most important thing to remember whether in your business life, or – as importantly – in your home life, is that the quality of the decisions you make will be in direct relations to the amount of research you do and the amount of facts you gather.
Let me give you one example. Going to the uSwitch website and changing your gas and electricity supplier or suppliers if they are separate. But bear in mind that this is the sort of exercise you need to handle for many other items.
Do you know how much a mile your car uses? Including depreciation, loss of trade in price, cost of servicing, insurance all spread through out the year, average amount of miles done each year? Do you know how to tell when your car is "sick"? Easy to tell if you record mileage and amount of petrol every time you fill up. If your using much more petrol per mile and you have kept to the same style of driving, your car is "sick" and needs servicing.
However, before we continue further, I stress that this is just one area where research before action is necessary in the family home. Just out of curiosity, how many of you have a sit down meeting at home with the family each month? Pam and I did this for thirty years and this is why, although not that well off by politicians standards, we have never been poor.And even if things aren't going too well, spouses get on better for the sharing of information - children help more if they can really see times are tough.
If you go straight to uSwitch and change, you have no real way of knowing whether you have chosen the best supplier. However, if you gather research so you have some facts at hand you may well make a more accurate decision.
You will need to take gass and electricity readings from your meter on the same day each month – preferably the last day of the month. If you have a single bill which covers your gas and electricity, you will need to research the company and how much their charges are for gas and for electricity, and estimate in your spreadsheet (or on the back of an envelope) an approximate amount for each commodity. You also need to add whether the weather was typical for that time in the year, warmer or colder.
When you have got a year's supply for this, you need to go to uSwitch, pick the best three companies, and research what experiences the public have had with each of them as it may be short-sighted to pick the lowest price.
The facts are that you have a very good idea of the number of units your household uses in a 12 month period, for each of the four seasons, and for the year in total.
After knowing what you have spent in the last twelve months, whether it is high or low for typical weather, you can now enter reliable figues into the fields on the uSwitch website and rest easy that it will come up with the right companies based on accurate figures.
Also, after having a fair idea of how the comany treats its customers, you can feel confident that the one chosen out of the three lowest prices will be a good partner over the coming six months.
But you need to continue to collect the figures and check every six months as things change extremely fast in that industry.


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Season-end Party from 7.30 pm Saturday May 21st at the New Oxford Pub on Homer Street
The New Oxford Pub is the venue for our season-end party and for the prize draw for tickets to a match at the Bridge in 2011.
Prize Draw
• 1st Prize is a trip for two to London to see a Chelsea home game. Includes flights, two nights accommodation and two tickets for a game.
• 2nd Prize is a ball signed by the Chelsea squad, with a certificate of authenticity.
Eligibility: If you have attended games at The New Oxford and you are a member of our supporters club, then you will be entered into the draw. The more games you attended the better your chance of winning.
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The English have great junk food. I went into Tesco on a mission to find unique flavo(u)rs of Kettle Chips/Crisps that we didn't have at home. While I didn't find those, I discovered the joy that is Tesco's Bacon Rashers.
These rashers are light and crispy and delicious. They are very flavorful, filling your mouth with pork-flavored goodness with every bite. I'm pretty picky with faux-bacon flavor, having several scarring incidents with bacon bits in my youth. But these were quite tasty, and even if I burped up the flavor a few hours later, it wasn't unpleasant.


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The Delaney Student Union will begin taking reservation requests for the Spring 2019 semester at 8 a.m. Monday, September 17th, for all registered student organizations (must be in good standing with Club Alliance) and Student Government agencies. Student organizations will be allowed to request one reoccurring meeting and one special event. Reservations are made in the order in which they are received. Additional requests can be made beginning Monday, September 24th.
On September 24th, Spring 2019 reservations are open and available for all on-campus departments, agencies, organizations, Greek Chapters and off-campus groups interested in hosting any myriad of events and meetings.
Reservations may be made in person or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you wish to inquire about availability, contact the Delaney Student Union Administration Office, located in the Delaney Student Union, Building 58E, Room 1302, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday or by phone at (904) 620-2525.
For room reservations, download the appropriate form and return to firstname.lastname@example.com.
UNF groups: Use the On-Campus User Request Form
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Junior Web Developer
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Tagi: Web Developer Junior GOG
The sister company of CD PROJEKT RED (responsible for the worldwide success of The Witcher, the video game series adapted from Andrzej Sapkowski's books), GOG.com is a digital distribution platform, which offers customers the greatest selection of Windows, Mac and Linux games, both classics and day-one titles, DRM-free, with lots of extra goodies and amazing customer support. Our work environment is relaxed, and the company philosophy often goes against the typical corporate flow. Working in an international team of over 150 passionate video game industry professionals, you will not only have the opportunity to expand your skills to their limits but also have fun while doing so. We love what we do and we do it for a reason.
GOG.com seeks talented Junior Developers to join one of our three teams:
- GWENT, responsible for backend systems and online features powering GWENT: The Witcher Card Game.
- GOG Galaxy, developing server side software that powers many GOG Galaxy functionalities, including: a centralized account system, matchmaking for multiplayer, backend for achievements and leaderboards, as well as game installs and updates.
- Web, which develops and maintains most of the web-front features available on the GOG.com platform.
- Provide help with creating new and maintaining existing code and learn from the best.
- Work with an exciting technology stack such as Symfony framework, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Docker, Redis, Varnish and many more.
- Learn from experienced developers how to create top notch, scalable applications that processes large amount of data.
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.
- Stay abreast of best trends by researching new tools, prototyping solutions, as well as enhancing and further developing existing ones.
Job Requirements:
- 1-2 years of experience in web development.
- Experience in PHP and OOP practices – personal projects count!
- Understanding of HTML/Javascript/CSS code.
- Knowledge of MySQL databases.
- Willingness to learn, grow and gather new experiences.
- Ability to easily communicate in English.
- Hands on experience with Symfony or any other PHP modern framework.
- Strong understanding of best security practices.
- Ability to work with source control tools (Git).
- Experience with work in an agile environment.
- Passion for gaming, game services, and online communities.
- Knowledge of at least some of the buzzwords: REST, OAuth2, CQRS, RabbitMQ or Docker.
- Familiarity with PHPUnit, Behat or PHPSpec.
What we offer:
- A unique opportunity to enter a booming industry and to influence the future of digital distribution.
- A gamer's paradise where you will be surrounded by games – living & breathing them!
- A great, laid-back work atmosphere in our office based in Warsaw, Poland.
- The chance to work in an international environment with exceptional experts.
- A Profit Sharing Program after 6 months of work, where employees share 10 % of GOG.com's net profit (paid out once a year).
- Access to a health care and sport activities package.
- A relocation package for foreigners as well as assistance from our HR throughout the whole process.
- Polish lessons should you need them.
- Frequent social activities, free fruits, an in-house cantina, and other goodies are a standard.
- An in-house gym, open 24/7, available exclusively for CD PROJEKT RED & GOG.com employees.
- Free access to CD PROJEKT RED & GOG.com games.
Please be informed that we reserve the right to contact only selected applicants. The hired individual will need to work in-house, in our office based in Warsaw, Poland.
Information on processing of your personal data
Your personal data controller is GOG sp. z o.o. with its registered seat in Warsaw, Poland, ul. Jagiellońska 74, 03-301 Warszawa. Your personal data will be processed in particular to invite you to our recruitment process and to conduct the process, which includes negotiating conditions of employment. We respect your privacy rights i.e. the right to access, rectify and delete your data, limit its processing, transfer it, a right not to be a subject to automated decision-making, including profiling, and to object to the processing of your personal data (you will find more details about processing of your personal data in this privacy notice: http://files.gog.com/work/privacy-notice.pdf
Please include the following statement in your application: 'I hereby consent to the processing of personal data in my application by GOG sp. z o.o. with its registered seat in Warsaw for ongoing recruitment process.'
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Last year, when he was still a Senator, Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador — twice. But he failed to mention those meetings when questioned about Russia during his confirmation hearing.
A CNN review found this month that Monica Crowley plagiarized thousands of words of her 2000 dissertation for her Columbia University Ph.D. In addition, Politico reported that it found more than a dozen examples of plagiarism in Crowley's Ph.D. dissertation.
According to a new report published by Politico today, less than a third of Republican party insiders, as gathered within The POLITICO Caucus, believe that Donald Trump's campaign team overhaul will do any good.
The would-be presidents vying for the Republican nomination consistently serve as useful idiots, their declarations of hostility to Islam only alienating that faith's billion followers here and abroad, while in no way advancing our security.
Appearing on '60 Minutes,' Vice President Biden denied that the affecting deathbed scene between him and his older son Beau, as famously recounted by Maureen Dowd, had ever occurred.
The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) continues to cause political problems for Planned Parenthood, while challenging media outlets to strike a balance between covering the group's activities and spreading their strident anti-abortion message.
Naturally the Washington press corps, courageous watchdogs of democracy, have supinely lapped up the Benghazi committee's selective leaks without demanding the full context. If the Clintons did something like this, they'd bark and growl all night.
David Bossie lacks the skill and style of a truly dangerous gremlin like Roger Stone – and his rote recitations of old "scandal" memes aren't difficult to refute.
Has Washington learned nothing from Whitewater? The Clintons have spent their entire political lives in the capital dogged by one fake scandal after another.
At least a dozen additional errors await correction by author Peter Schweizer and his publisher.
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2. What are the steps that we have to take for our child's admission?
The steps to take for a student's admission are as follows:
Contact the Admission Officer by e-mail (email@example.com) to initiate the process or by phone to set an appointment to visit the school.
Complete the online application form & book testing if necessary.
Provide all of the needed documents (see Admissions Procedures page)
The Admission Officer will contact you by email or phone to confirm admission or to notify you of other needed documents / meetings / testing. Once admission is confirmed, print and sign the Enrollment Contract sent to you by the Admission Officer and return it to the Admission Office by the due date.
If required, the Admissions Office will make your appointment for a meeting with the English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher for Elementary School assessment or with the Middle School or High School Counselors for Secondary School scheduling.
Keep in touch with the Admission Office to discuss the start of school.
3. What is your age cut off date?
Age cut off date is September 1st.
4. Do you accept students with special learning needs?
Yes. As stated in the AISB Admissions Policy:
While staff and specialists provide support for learning differences, AISB does not have the resources or programs to support students with major learning disabilities or physical challenges. In some cases, one-on-one special educational needs support is provided by outside consultants or tutors and the fees for these services are paid privately by the student's family. Any educational, emotional or physical needs must be noted in detail in the admission application. Please provide any available academic or psychological evaluations and reports of extra academic support the applicant is receiving. Failure to disclose such information may result in revocation of an offer of admission.
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If your son or daughter is applying for grades EC3 - Grade 5, English language proficiency is not required. However, if he/she is applying for Grades 6 - 12, they must pass an English admissions test.
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Eurest also serves a snack in the mornings to Elementary School children at no additional cost to the families.
7. Is AISB a day school or a boarding school?
AISB is a day school and does not have boarding facilities.
8. Do students wear a uniform?
Our students do not wear a uniform. Parents are expected to purchase a PE uniform for all students in grades 1 - 5. This uniform is ordered on the AISB website.
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I recently counted my current cookbooks: 43. That may be a small number for some and a large for others. Before we moved, I gave away to a thrift store many other cookbooks in an attempt to declutter and widdle down my collection. If I counted the # of recipes snipped from various magazines or printed from various sites, they probably would fill another 10 books! Fortunately for me, they only fill 2 file folders and this handsome box my husband made for me the 1st year we were married. He'd be ashamed of its quality (he's so much better at woodworking now) but I love it, stained and all.
I have to qualify my love of cooking though. I usually don't like to cook everyday meals - they're sort of ho-hum and time has a way of dictating what you do. In fact, many days I actually dread the dinner hour. What I really like to do is cook for others; cook for my husband; cook on a weekend with time to spare; encourage my children to try new dishes; experimentation.
My interest in eating began the day I was born (or before I suppose), but my interest in cooking started in college. (Maybe I got the 'wrong' degree?) My mom taught me some things beforehand and I learned a lot from simply reading magazines and borrowed library books. My roommate and my then future-husband were my guinea pigs!
My first cookbook was from my uncle: San Francisco Encore. Wonderful! I have the hardback which apparently is no longer printed. I read it like a novel.
My favorite cooking sites? There are too many to list, but these have so many neat ideas.
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1992 Awards Committee The Committee's function is to submit to the Council the names of individuals for the Society's awards. The names of the nominees for awards remain on the Awards Committee's Nomination Submissions active list for three years. Nominations must be submitted before 1 June 1992 to the Awards Committee/ The Council of the American Meteorological Society invites The Society's awards are: members of the AMS to submit nominations for consider- • The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal ation by the committees listed below. The names of all • The Jule G. Charney Award individuals nominated, together with background data on the • The Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstanding individuals, should be sent to the appropriate committee in Services to the Society care of the Secretary-Treasurer, American Meteorological • The Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service Society, 45 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-3693. to the Atmospheric Sciences by an Individual The specifications for all awards are set forth in the August • The Meisinger Award 1991 Bulletin, starting on page 1183. • The Henry G. Houghton Award • The Award for Outstanding Services to Meteorology 1992 Nominating Committee by a Corporation • The Louis J. Battan Author's Award The Committee's function is to submit to the Council the Nominations for the following five awards are submitted names of individuals for 1) the office of President-Elect for a to the Awards Committee by the committee shown below. term of one year starting at the close of the 73rd Annual Nominations for these awards with supporting documenta- Meeting (January 1993), and 2) four positions on the Council tion should be sent to the appropriate committee prior to 1 for a term of three years starting at the close of the Annual May 1992. Meeting. Nominations must be submitted prior to 1 April 1992 to the Nominating Committee/ The Award for Outstanding Service by a Weather Forecaster 1992 Committee on Fellows • The Charles L. Mitchell Award for long-term service by The Committee's function is to submit to the Council the persons engaged in weather forecasting activities names of individuals for election to Fellow. • The Award for an Exceptional Specific Prediction Article III, Section 6, of the AMS Constitution provides that • The Francis W. Reichelderfer Award for distinguished those eligible for election to Fellow shall have made out- public service contributions by personnel of the weather standing contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic service or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substan- Submit documentation to the AMS Committee on Weather tial period of years. The names of nominees for Fellow Analysis and Forecasting/ remain on the Committee's active list for three years. A nomination form, which is available on request from AMS The Award for Outstanding Contribution to the headquarters, should be used. Advance of Applied Meteorology Nominations for Fellow must be submitted prior to 1 June 1992 (limited to one page) to the Committee on Fellows/ Submit documentation to the AMS Board on Private Sector Meteorology/ Undergraduate Awards and Scholarships The Award for Outstanding Service by a Broad- The undergraduate awards and scholarships, the eligibility cast Meteorologist criteria, and the nomination processes are described on page 1013 of the July 1991 issue of the Bulletin. The Submit documentation to the AMS Board of Broadcast recipients are selected by the Committee of Judges for Meteorology/ Undergraduate Awards. Nominations with supporting docu- mentation, including transcript, should be received prior to 15 The Award for Outstanding Achievement in Bio- June 1992 by the AMS Committee of Judges for Under- meteorology and Aerobiology graduate Awards/ Submit documentation to the Committee on Biometeorology and Aerobiology/ The Sverdrup Gold Medal Unlike other awards, the Sverdrup Medal is awarded by the The Robert Leviton Award President of the Society on the advice of an international Submit documentation to the AMS Committee on Atmo- committee. Nominations for the award with supporting docu- mentation must be submitted prior to 1 May 1992 to the spheric Measurements/ Sverdrup Gold Medal Committee/ The Banner I. Miller Award *Please note that deadlines differ. Submit documentation to the Committee on Tropical Meteo- +Care of the Secretary-Treasurer, American Meteorological Soci- rology and Tropical Cyclones/ ety, 45 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-3693. 1552 Vol. 72, No. 10, October 1991
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Do you like autobiographies? Are you into comics? Then my pal Ryan Claytor has a treat for you! Ryan, or R-Dog as I like to call him, is the big brain behind Autobiographical Conversations, a collection of stories compiled from his latest work in And Then One Day.
If you know anything about Ryan's work you'll know that he loves writing about himself (kidding!), but more than that he loves the ideas behind autobiography, and playing with those ideas through graphic storytelling. Now you can help him bring his unique brand of comics goodness to the masses!
Ryan's just launched his first ever crowdfunding project over at Indiegogo to support his monstrous 96-page Autobiographical Conversations and he explains it better over there than I ever could:
Autobiographical Conversations centers on a discussion between Harry Polkinhorn (a professor of English who teaches classes on the personal essay) and me (at the time, a graduate student studying Comics and Fine Art) about autobiography, comics, and the intersection of the two.
I have spent several years researching, developing, and illustrating this project and I'm eager to share it with you in its final collected edition, as I envisioned it from the start. My hope is that the comics medium will provide a more visual approach to understanding autobiographical theory and framing the subject matter in the context of a conversation will allow the reader to feel more engaged, almost as though they were part of that conversation unfolding.
There's also a brilliant little Youtube video Ryan made that further delves into the work going into this awesome book.
Head on over to Ryan's Indiegogo page and consider donating. He's got some awesome rewards at a host of price points, including collections of his existing work, and the big kahuna, a shot at flying Ryan anywhere in the US for an hour long talk about comics! If supporting independent comics creators is your thing, look no further than Autobiographical Conversations.
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The Journal of the British-Yemeni Society has been published annually since the founding of the Society in 1993. Distributed in October each year exclusively to the members of the BYS, the journal is one of the most important assets of the Society. It contains articles by academics, researchers, and experts on a wide range of Yemeni topics including history, politics, enthnography, culture, and ecology. It also includes reviews of the most recent and imporant publications on Yemen, and the obituaries of significant Yemeni personalities and of people that connected their lives with the country.
The first Hon. Editor of the journal was James Nash, to whom it owes its characteristic Sabaean bull's head front cover. After editing the first five volumes, he passed on the baton to the second editor, John Shipman, in 1998. Having previously edited the journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, John gave the BYS journal its current format. In 2013 Helen Lackner was invited to assume the editorial position, bringing in the experience of editing and publishing numerous books and articles on Yemen and other Middle Eastern topics.
Now in its twenty-sixth volume, the academic merit and substance of the British-Yemeni Society Journal has been recognised by its inclusion in the EBSCOhost online academic database. A full set of journals has also been deposited at the SOAS University of London Library under the classmark Lee Per 5/965874. The Hon Editor is always keen to be approached for suggestions of topics that would be of interest to the journal's readership at this e-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Most puzzle games give you static items to interact with, but AZZL is a new iOS puzzle game that lets you move around animated sequences. The game comes from the makers of Rebus, and offers a similar high quality style with compelling puzzles. The gameplay of AZZL is relatively unique as you drag and drop pieces of the animation, so that every piece is in the proper order. It's like a simplified moving jigsaw puzzle that comes together in fluid motion as you rearrange the pieces.
AZZL begins with an animated scene, then slices it up, mixes up the pieces, and gives it to you for reassembly. The game is all about finding patterns to the animations, and then trying to get every single piece in the proper spot for the full animation to play. There are ten level packs of eight levels each, and every level pack introduces a different shape that the animation is cut into. If you complete all of the levels, you can unlock a secret bonus world. Not only are there different shapes to the levels, but there are also different mechanics so that some pieces you drag to rearrange, others you tap to rotate, and even some you drag vertically and horizontally to find the right position.
It's easy to see that AZZL is designed with kids in mind with the intuitive touch control scheme, high quality colorful animations, and the overall difficulty level. AZZL isn't the most difficult puzzle game you will come across, but it still is engaging for a surprising range of ages. The animations are a neat reward for each completed puzzle, and they're also the reason to keep you going from level to level. There's great animation design with interesting character interaction, activities, and sequences that are a bit reminiscent of Dumb Ways To Die. There's a fun loving nature to every animation, and it's great to see each one come to life as you properly piece the puzzle together.
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UNION – Premiere Stages, celebrating its fifth year as the professional theatre in residence at Kean University, announces the production of "Any Other Name," by George Brant. This new play was chosen to receive a full production out of over 300 submissions to the Premiere Play Festival.
In this compelling thriller set in 1840s London, a struggling poet visits his idol in search of inspiration. Instead, he unleashes a madness that feeds his insatiable hunger for fame. As art and ambition collide, how far will one man go to make a name for himself in a world where the truth cannot be trusted?
"Any Other Name" runs from Thursday, Sept. 4 through Sunday, Sept. 20 in Kean University's Zella Fry Theatre in the Vaughn Eames Building. Friday, Sept. 18 and Sunday performances begin at 3 p.m.; all other performances begin at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $25 with special rates for seniors, students, Kean alumni and groups. For reservations (highly recommended), call the Kean University Box Office at (908)-737-SHOW (7469), or visit Premiere Stages online at www.kean.edu/premierestages.
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Cyber Monday is coming up, and computers and digital gadgets are likely to play a huge role in your holiday season this year. It's the computer show on today's Vox Pop, with Tony Yang of GIG Computers. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.
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As you might know, if you have checked out any of the other ergonomics related posts on my site here, you'll know that I suffer from quite a few problems with my lower back, neck, and wrists and over the years I've been able to mediate a lot of these issues by using a variety of different products that I recommend here.
One of the products that I recommend people use if they're suffering from any pain from sitting down in a desk chair too long is kneeling chairs and today I want to talk about the different kneeling chair benefits and why you should use one if you're spending the majority of your day on the computer at a desk.
These days there are quite a few people spending the entire day, up to 8 to 12 hours at a time, sitting with poor posture at a desk.
This continuous sitting along with the poor posture can place a lot of unwanted stress on the spine, joints, and muscles throughout the lower and upper body.
The problem is that people are just pushing through these issues and aren't taking any of the necessary steps when it comes to prevention and in the long run this can lead to some pretty serious injuries.
Kneeling Chair Benefits
One of the main reasons that ergonomic chairs, such as kneeling chairs, were created was to make it easier to keep your spine in an upright, neutral position without you having to worry about it and stress about it throughout the day.
Since there isn't any back support you're actually more encouraged to stay aligned in a better, more posture friendly position without any serious effort on your part.
There's also a more enhanced angle between the lower body and the torso that opens up more space in regards to the pelvic muscle tissues that are connected to the lower back so there isn't as much pressure on the lumbar region and less stress is placed on the lower back over all.
Using one of these chairs you're able to enjoy the benefits of better posture, improved health, and you hopefully don't have to spend as much money at the chiropractor or visiting the doctor for many of the issues that you're suffering from due to sitting down for so long with poor posture.
So that was just a quick look at the different benefits that a kneeling chair offers but let's take a more in-depth look at the specific areas that you'll see some improvement.
Relief from Back Pain
One of the quickest benefits that you're likely to notice if you're using a kneeling chair is the disappearance of back pain and lower back problems.
When you're sitting in a normal office chair you're placing a lot of pressure on your lower back, especially if you're not following good posture techniques, and these chairs tend to be quite cramped and never in the right position as well.
When you're sitting in a kneeling chair there's a lot more room for your hips to spread out into a better position and this doesn't cause the muscles in your hip or lower back to tighten up so you actually have a better range of movement and more comfort.
The problem with desk chairs is that a lot of pressure is placed on your lower back and this can cause the muscles in the area to weaken and cramp up which leads to long-term pain and discomfort when you're sitting down.
Kneeling chairs help you to improve your posture and the angle of the seat forces you to sit straight up with a straight back since you no longer have the back of the seat for support.
With your legs in the right position and your hips properly aligned underneath you on the chair your back doesn't have to work so hard to keep itself straight and without the back part of the chair to keep you upright you're more likely to get reminded of sitting up straight and it's easier to keep a better posture this way.
Many people after using these chairs for an extended period of time say that they're actually more comfortable than using a regular office chair and that it's a lot easier to maintain a better posture without having to rely on armrests or back support to stay upright.
Definitely one of my recommendations if you're suffering from a lot of lower back pain is to head online and look for the best kneeling chair to use at your office so that you're able to enjoy the relief that it provides.
Improved Posture
Another one of the most noticeable benefits of using a kneeling chair is that when you're sitting down it allows your spinal column to be properly aligned without as much effort on your part so that you're able to enjoy a better and more improved posture when you're sitting at a desk.
After a while your body will start to get used to sitting tall with an upright position and this posture improvement will carry over to other aspects of your life.
Eventually your back will remain straighter in a more natural and comfortable position whenever you're sitting down, even if you're not using a kneeling chair, and this posture will also show itself when you're walking, sitting down at a couch or something, and just going about your day.
More Comfortable
It might be surprising, considering how uncomfortable the chair looks, but when you're kneeling using one of these chairs all day it's actually a lot more comfortable compared to when you're sitting in an awkward position using a desk chair.
All of the pressure that was previously placed on your lower back and upper hips is immediately alleviated and you won't be hunching forward over your desk anymore when you're sitting there so there's also relief in the upper back, neck, and shoulders.
There are a few different ways that you can sit at a kneeling chair and it's a good idea to try out a few different positions until you're able to find the one that's most comfortable and that gives you the most range of motion and best posture while you're sitting down.
Strengthening of the Core Muscles
One of the biggest drawbacks when you're sitting at a desk chair all day is that the back is fully supported by the backrest.
This results in the core muscles throughout your body not doing a lot of work and it's one of the main reasons why you hunch over the keyboard – there is simply no reason to maintain proper posture unless you physically force yourself to do so at a desk chair.
Using a kneeling chair results in your core muscles being used to keep you upright rather than relying on something else and this helps to develop their strength and ability over the time frame that you're using the chair for.
Some of the different muscles that will get strengthened include your abdominals, lower back, upper hip, obliques, and all of the small muscles and joints throughout the spine area.
Eventually, as they get stronger and stronger, it becomes more comfortable to sit using a kneeling chair and you'll start to wonder why you didn't start using one sooner.
Better Performance at Work
When you're sitting at work in an uncomfortable position and you have pain in your shoulders or lower back it's unlikely that you're going to be able to work very hard without getting distracted by the constant throbbing or persistent pain that you're feeling.
Better posture helps to improve airflow as well as helping you mediate the different issues that you're suffering from from sitting down all day and this is going to result in you working without distraction and more efficiently.
You're bound to feel better about yourself and you'll definitely have better concentration so you'll be able to get more work done at a more efficient level without the continuous distraction of pain or nagging soreness.
These are some of the more popular benefits of kneeling chairs that I covered in this post today and along with using a kneeling chair there are plenty of other different ergonomic devices that you can use to help alleviate pain and make your life easier.
If you're suffering from hand or wrist pain then I would recommend checking out my article on the best mouse for carpal tunnel.
If you're suffering from neck or shoulder pain and you're using a laptop on a regular basis then I would recommend checking out my article on the best laptop stands.
Another article of mine that you could check out if you're suffering from wrist or hand pain is the one I wrote on the best ergonomic keyboards.
Finally, if you're not able to use a kneeling chair at work then I would recommend checking out my article on the best lumbar support that you can use with your office chair for more comfort and better posture.


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Thursday, November 13, 2008
David Defeats Goliath in the Fourth Circuit
As WSAZ.com reports, Sam Juniper, a West Virginia man, sued his former employer to enforce the employer's promise that his medical benefits would not change after he retired in 2000. In 2002, he received a $40 invoice relating to some blood work after the former employer switched insurance providers. The case went all the way to the United States Court of Appeals in Richmond, which affirmed the district court's award of damages to Mr. Juniper in this per curiam opinion. Unfortunately, the opinion merely adopts the district court opinion, which I have been unable to locate online.
I note that the wages for giant-slaying have been suffering from a steady decline in the Common Era. David became King of Israel. Mr. Juniper is still awaiting his check for $40, which he plans to frame and mount. Still, there has been some improvement in the lives of giant-slayers. As the image at left illustrates, David's trophy was nasty. Bathsheba would never have put up with having that thing hanging on her living room wall.
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Despite a small increase in bill-of-materials cost, the new Xbox One S delivers for consumers in terms of improved performance and features, according to preliminary results from the Teardown Analysis Service at global business information provider IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO).
The combined hardware and manufacturing cost of the new Xbox One S game console from Microsoft, the new analysis says, amounts to $324. Thats just $24 more than the most recent Xbox One teardown analysis conducted in March of this year, primarily due to upgrades in the fabrication of its central processing unit (CPU), the inclusion of a two terabyte (2TB) hard drive and an ultra-high-definition (UHD) BD-ROM player in place of the previous conventional Blu-ray drive.
The new Xbox One S represents a natural evolution in the product line, incorporating technical advancements that have become available since the previous design, said Kevin Keller, the senior principal analyst for IHS Markit who spearheaded the teardown analysis. It provides the improved performance, smaller form factor, and enhanced features that gamers expect and demand.
The manufacturers suggested retail price is $399 for the 2TB model, which is $75 more than its bill of materials and manufacturing costs. A lower-priced version, sporting a lower-density hard disc drive (HDD), is also available for $299.
It is typical in consumer electronics to adopt a give away the razor, sell the blade model when a product is initially introduced -- particularly in the gaming sector -- given that buyers are also expected to purchase new games to play on the devices, Keller said. Even in this case, while not completely upside-down, margins are still slim once you consider all of the downstream value-add....
Read more: IHS Markit Teardown Analysis: Microsoftâs Xbox One S Brings Significant Value Gains With Minimal Commercial Pain - IHS Technology


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USB sticks are boring, right? Useful, but boring. It's safe to say that this new creation does a decent job of breaking the mould. And your laptop.
A Russian security researcher known as Dark Purple has built a USB stick capable of knocking out your laptop, desktop and pretty much anything else that features a USB port. However, it doesn't rely on the power of malware. Oh no, that's far too mainstream. It goes about its business in a far more unusual, and less torturous, manner.
The spiteful little thing, which you're unlikely to find in a goodie bag at a careers fair anytime soon, is said to pump 220 volts into your machine, which is enough to mess up the internal hardware. This renders your computer unusable, though Purple says it's "extremely unlikely" that the hard disk suffers any damage, so it should still be possible to access the data stored on the drive.
So it kills off your machine, but doesn't steal your information. It's the tech equivalent of assaulting someone for no reason. Thug life. [Graham Cluley]


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|Twinkly Pink in Adriafil Giada
This is basically a pink version of Twinkly Fern, which I wear a lot. However on this occasion I have added waist shaping and used a different lace pattern. As you can see I'm using another of my 1980s Sirdar Sunseeker patterns to complete the lace. I also made the lace panel smaller this time because it is quite holey and revealing!
Yarn: Adriafil Giada 9 x 50 g balls
Needles: 3.25mm 3.25mm circular needle and 4mm
Yarn sewing needle
Oddment of similar colour yarn without the sequins for sewing up.
Finished measurements
Length: 58 cm
Length to armhole: 33 cm
Armhole to shoulder: 25 cm
Finished width from sleeve edge to sleeve edge: 140 cm
Here are my Knitting Knotes for my adaptation of this pattern.
- Using 3.25mm - cast on 125 sts and knit 18 rows in K1 P1 rib - increase 1 st at the end of the last row = 126 sts.
- Change to 4mm and knit in stocking stitch until work 20 rows.
- Dec 1 sts each end every 3 rows until 110 sts
- Knit 10 rows.
- Inc 1 st each end until 126 sts.
- Knit to 35 cm.
- Cast on 2 sts at the beginning of the next 10 rows = 146 sts.
- Knit 20 rows.
- Begin lace pattern. ***
- Knit the lace pattern of 8 rows four times (32 rows).
- Divide for neck 45-56-45.
- Using stocking stitch Knit 45 turn.
- Next 5 rows, use stocking stitch and dec 1 st at neck edge on all rows.
- Cast off final 40 sts.
- Put middle 56 on a holder and repeat the other side.
- Same as back until ***
- Knit 22 rows in the lace pattern
- Divide for neck - 50-46-50.
- In pattern knit 48, knit 2 tog - turn.
- Complete one side at a time (put middle 46 onto a holder).
- Continue in lace pattern for a further 9 rows - decreasing 1 stitch at neck edge on each row.
- Change to stocking stitch and knit 6 rows.
- Cast off final 40 sts.
Sew up sides and shoulder.
Armhole edge
- using 3.25 mm circular needle pick up 116 sts and knit 6 row in 1x1 rib - then cast off.
Neck edge
- R1 - using 3.25 mm circular needle pick up and knit in 1 x 1 rib - 22 sts down left front, 46 sts across front and 22 sts up right front - then 7 sts down right back, 56 sts across the back and 8 sts up the left back.
- R2 - 1 x 1 rib - dec 1 st at the end of the round.
- R3 - dec 1 stitch each side of the shoulder seam (4 in total).
- R4 to R16 = as R3.
- cast off loosely.
Sew in all lose ends, use similar colour waste yarn to sew up seams and then block seams. (NB: These pics are pre-blocking!)


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Sunday, September 29, 2013
What did you have for breakfast this fall morning?
Now that mornings are cooler, for breakfast people are choosing hot oatmeal with milk instead of cold cereal.
Oatmeal is made by cooking rolled oats, as are shown above. A variety of flavored instant varieties can be found in American supermarkets. They can be prepared by adding boiling water and waiting a minute or two, or mixed with cold water and microwaved. (I prefer to keep bulk oatmeal around, and add my own cinnamon, raisins, and sweetener). Are any other grains processed and used similarly for breakfast elsewhere? Yes!
Last year in Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid's book Mangoes & Curry Leaves (Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent) I read that:
"Flattened rice, also known as rice flakes, is called chira or poha in northern India, aval in southern India. It's rice that's been cooked and then run through rollers and flattened into flakes. The flakes are a pale grayish white and fairly soft, rather than crisp. Sold in clear plastic bags, they keep well. Chira is very quick to reconstitute and requires no boiling, so it's a godsend for cooks in very hot weather or in a big hurry."
Here in Boise (at India Foods on Fairview Avenue) I found two-pound plastic bags of both thin and thick poha for sale. Thin poha (shown above) is the rice analog of instant oatmeal.
Other ground-up grains like grits (from corn) and Cream of Wheat (farina) also are common breakfast foods. Porridge is the more general term, and it appears in stories like Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
What do these breakfast cereals have to do with public speaking? In storytelling you have to begin with what your audience is familiar with, and then take them elsewhere.
Images of Goldilocks and a bowl of oatmeal both came from Wikimedia Commons.
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Bell-crack cold a month now with no sign of snow.
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as nails. Corpses arrive in crystal dawns:
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I know, I know! It's Wednesday. forgive me.
Check out these fun little business cards I've been working on with Picnik.
I wanted images of FUN. I think I've got it. There are a few more in the works but that's just it. They need more work.
There's an order of nursing aprons going out tomorrow and more nursing aprons in progress for the shop. Hopefully, you'll see them there on the weekend! I'm cooking up a new idea for a very unique apron and pondering quilts I'd like to make... along with the other projects I'm attempting to finish. better get to work.
Enjoy the rest of your week!
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Escape Plan Story
Escape Plan is a action-thriller Movie.The film begins in a very linear, clandestine fashion where a prisoner (Sylvester Stallone), after escaping from the tightly secured Bendwater Penitentiary Institution, Colorado, reveals to the officials that he is Ray Breslin, a consultant and security expert who exposes the vulnerabilities of the state prisons.
He further gives the jailor a step-by-step detailed account of how he managed to break free. While the jail officials are not happy with the revelation, the CIA approaches Ray Breslin and his team with an assignment to check the loopholes in one of the new facility for the world's most dangerous criminals. The whereabouts of this facility are not disclosed for security reasons.
Lured with a promising fee, Breslin's manager pushes him to accept the offer saying, "I am the numbers guy and you are the artist who can escape from any prison made by man." Breslin concedes. The flow of events doesn't go as planned. Nevertheless, Breslin lands up in this tightly secured place and finds himself at the mercy of the prison's sadistic warden Hobbes (Jim Caviezel). After evaluating his chances of escape as practically impossible, he reveals his true identity to Hobbes. But the warden refuses to listen, leaving him with no alternative but to try the impossible.
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Mattingly says this news has "no news hook" whatsoever; it's old news. Probably true. But I wanted to take aim at Mattingly's title claim "Mushy Faith on the Rise." I would suggest this is not necessarily true. It certainly isn't true for this liberal Christian.
I was raised in a Christian home, in a predominantly Christian town, in a predominantly Christian country. But it might have been otherwise. I think that our choice of faith is likely to be dictated more than anything else by where we were born. It is highly unlikely that I would be a Christian had I been born in India or Saudi Arabia. I might very well have been born into a family of Hindus or Muslims.
That simple fact gives me pause when I think about the truth claims of Christianity that seem to close the door on the validity of other faith perspectives. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except by me." Really? Can we really say that with certainty anymore when the world has become so interconnected and when our own country has become so religiously diverse? Are we really ready to condemn to eternal death the majority of the population of the world simply because by accident of birth they grew up in other religious traditions that make their own truth claims?
There is nothing mushy about my belief that this kind of thinking is wrong. I am certain it is wrong. I am convinced that there are many valid spiritual paths, even as I choose to follow in the way of Jesus. I am, in fact, fairly intolerant with those who hold these kinds of intolerant views about Christianity and its supremacy over other faith traditions. It's an ironic position to be in, but there is nothing mushy about it.
I suppose that there are some liberal Christians who have a mushy faith believing that anything goes, just as there as some mushy conservative Christians who see no conflict of interest between being a follower of Jesus and being a super capitalist/militarist.
Mattingly closes his post with the three questions that apparently separate, in his view, the true Christians from the mushy ones ("the fault lines in Christian churches and denominations"):
If you hang your hat on doctrine as the dividing line between "true" and mushy faith then these are your questions. It is all about getting your ticket to heaven and believing the right things and living the kind of life that will get your ticket punched. You want to be up there with your tribe sitting at the right hand of the Father.
(1) Are the biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Did this event really happen?
(2) Is salvation found through Jesus Christ, alone? Was Jesus being literal when he said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6)?
(3) Is sex outside of the Sacrament of Marriage a sin?
Me, I'd rather hang my hat on these three questions:
Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? 39And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?I want to know whether your beliefs lead you to care about the immense social ills in our world today? Have you done your duty by going to church on Sunday and reciting the creed or by bowing in the right direction at the right time for prayer? Or does that faith lead you to care about changing the world and doing something about it. If the fault line is doctrine - any doctrine - and protecting your heavenly turf, then I think your faith is pretty mushy.


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Were continuously looking for ways to improve and simplify the ways you use Skype, so over the course of the next several weeks well be making some changes to the experience.
Keep the call going, even when you leave
Now, when the person who initiates a call hangs up, the call will carry on smoothly no matter who leaves or joins the conversation. This means that the discussion wont be interrupted if someone has to greet an unexpected visitor at the door, or even if dinner is ready.
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Starting with Android and coming to iOS soon after, the Call phones tab will become the Calls tab. From there, youll have access to fast, simple one-tap calling of all typesfree Skype-to-Skype audio or video calls, as well as calls to mobile or landline numbers that require you to use Skype Credit. Purchasing Skype Credit will become a lot simpler too. So youll benefit from being able to call any group or individual from a single place, with a single tap.
A new way to listen to voicemail
In response to the decline in traditional voicemail use, weve decided to modernize the way you can leave a message by using the richness and personal nature of video. You can also leave a simple chat message if you prefer, all integrated natively into your chat with the person or group you tried to call. As we roll this feature out, heres what youll see if your call isnt answered:
If you love using Skypes traditional voicemail delivery, or simply cant live without it, fear not. Well continue to support the ability to receive voicemail (with settings controllable in the Skype account portal), however custom voicemail greetings, email notifications and SMS transcription will no longer be available.
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Breathtaking hypocrisy
The House speaker, Paul Ryan, and other Republicans falsely accused Democrats of rushing the Affordable Care Act through Congress. Last Thursday, in a display of breathtaking hypocrisy, House Republicans — without holding any hearings or giving the Congressional Budget Office time to do an analysis — passed a bill that would strip at least 24 million Americans of health insurance.
Pushed by President Trump to repeal the A.C.A., or Obamacare, so he could claim a legislative win, Mr. Ryan and his lieutenants browbeat and cajoled members of their caucus to pass the bill. Groups representing doctors, hospitals, nurses, older people and people with illnesses like cancer opposed the bill. Just 17 percent of Americans supported an earlier version of the measure, and Republicans have made the legislation only worse since that poll was conducted. Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Ryan seemed bothered by this overwhelming criticism of their Trumpcare bill, the American Health Care Act. They seemed concerned only about appeasing the House Freedom Caucus, the far-right flank of their party.
Mr. Trump in particular has been spreading misinformation and lies about health care, arguing that the legislation would lower costs while guaranteeing that people with pre-existing health conditions could get affordable health insurance. It would do the opposite.
Despite a catalog of the bill's horrors, many Republicans have embraced it so they can claim they fulfilled their promise to repeal Obamacare. They aren't bragging that the bill would reduce tax revenue by $880 billion over 10 years, according to the C.B.O. A vast majority of those tax cuts would go to wealthy Americans.
The bill now moves to the Senate, where several centrist Republicans are opposed to it. The best hope for defeating this legislation rests with lawmakers like Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rob Portman of Ohio. But Mr. Trump and far-right groups will put tremendous pressure on them to pass this dreadful bill or something similarly terrible. The health of millions of Americans is now in their hands.
—New York Times
Repeating a mistake
In 2010, after a Democratic-controlled Congress passed and President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans denounced what came to be known as Obamacare with critiques that were often borne out. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., for one, has long had on his website a statement ripping the law because it was "passed on a partisan vote with the rationale that we would have to pass it to find out what was in it. Now that the bill is law, the American people are finding out that what's in it is completely contrary to what they were promised."
Sure enough, by 2017, the GOP could claim vindication on several fronts. The ACA didn't allow people to keep their doctors. It didn't drive down premium costs. It gave incentives for people to game the system by buying coverage after they got sick. Dissatisfaction with the law helped propel Republicans to years of gains across much of the nation.
Yet now that the Republicans control Congress, they haven't learned from this history at all. With Issa providing one of the final votes to put the bill over the top, House Republicans on Thursday passed the American Health Care Act — a complex bill to repeal and replace much of the ACA — on a partisan 217-213 vote. Astonishingly, they did so without knowing what was in the bill and with promises about its effects that are likely to prove untrue.
No analysis was done by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office before the vote so that lawmakers — and the public — would know its effects on U.S. health care. This allowed House Speaker Paul Ryan and others to frame it as a humane, less expensive reform measure that represents a huge improvement on Obamacare. As if.
Yes, it would save a great deal of money. But it doesn't take a CBO analysis to see that as with the previous version of the bill that died without a vote, it is much more a cold-hearted spending cut than reform — and there is nothing humane about provisions that would lead to many millions of people losing access to health care.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Arjun Mk1 MBT: Surviving & Winning
28 comments:
- Vishal Nalkur said...
Hey, nice article, though a small one. Keep it coming!
- Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:25:00 PM
ha ha ha ha ha hilarious. sengupta you have outdone dishonesty to ludicrous proportions this time. this is simply a formation diagram from a previous exercise (desert strike?) and has absolutely no bearing on the arjun/bhishma trials. i have a copy of this diagram in a press handout and it was given out some three years ago. and incidentally they are not going to be mobility trials you idiot. why dont you STFU if you dont know anything.
it's unbelievable how much some people can lie. for once do something truthful and honest in your life.
- Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:11:00 PM
LOL I hope this doesn't wrap up your coverage on Arjun :-p
Btw did you make that diagram yourself?
- Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:24:00 AM
Vishal, what happened to your blogs?
- Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:07:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
To Anon@11PM: And you for once get it inside your thick skull that the Indian Army has to date never given out any 'Formation Diagram' to anyone from the press or to anyone outside the Army. Secondly, that illustration is not a formation diagram but a graphic illustration of a scenario likely to be enacted during a land campaign. If you cannot get your terminologies right then you STFU! Or better still, upload the so-called press handout that you claim to have received three years ago and for once do something truthful and honest in your life!
To Max: LOL, don't worry, I have a thick enough skin to tolerate such delinquent retards.
- Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:58:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
Vishal, thanks for your inputs.
- Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:07:00 PM
moron sengupta doesnt know his ass from his elbow. it's confirmed. this was an exercise diagram for operation desert strike which took place in pokhran field firing range (pffr) in 2005. this deceitful piece of trash is trying to pass it off as some prophetic insight into how the t-90/arjun trials will be. from which angle does this have anything to do with proposed trials? bloody lying cheat.
- Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:29:00 PM
- Vishal Nalkur said...
@ Anon 11.07 AM
Nice to see people missing my blog.
- Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:09:00 PM
No no, you misunderstood me. I meant that: I hope this little article does not wrap up your coverage of the Arjun / T90 "scandal" for we're expecting muccch more than this LOL. I know you're think skin and you won't get dismayed by any sort of comments. I saw it in Ajai's blog :-)
Oh, I just realised too, you quit blogging? why?
- Friday, November 14, 2008 2:24:00 AM
"I have a thick enough skin to tolerate such delinquent retards"
Not just tolerate, but take them on. It's good you take on such questions as it increases our understanding on the matter, reduces our doubts.
Although it may be headache for uou? LOL
- Friday, November 14, 2008 2:29:00 AM
Two other questions (from your helicopter article): short answers will do.
1. In what stage exactly is the LOH's development? Has development started or is it still in proposal stage?
2. Secondly I asked this before and got some answers from others but I'm not too convinced: Why does the LCH have its optical turret on top of the nose? This configuration obstructs the pilot's view of targets directly below the chopper especially during ascending flight. All other attack helos have the optical turret either tucked into the nose or underneath.
Please enlighten.
- Friday, November 14, 2008 2:35:00 AM
- Vishal Nalkur said...
Its just that i have 'unshared' my profile. My blog's still there, but have a few exams lined up. Will be back blogging next week perhaps. Hope to churn out some good content.
- Friday, November 14, 2008 4:23:00 AM
Good luck!!
- Friday, November 14, 2008 8:53:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
To Anon@7:29PM: Instead of claiming confirmation where's your copy of the so-called 'formation diagram'? Where have you uploaded it? Show it to all of us here (by posting the link where you've uploaded your version of events)and let all fellow bloggers judge for themselves what exactly needs confirmation: your assertions or your decapitating brain-damage.
- Friday, November 14, 2008 9:53:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
Max, regretably, the LOH issue and its reporting by the mass-media has been misleading. Kindly allow me to explain further. The requirement is for a SINGLE single-engined platform to perform two roles: 1) all-weather observation as an Army aeroscout (replacing the SA.315B Cheetah/Lama observation helicopters used for field artillery fire direction and observation of the forward battle area where the contact battle is being fought) and 2) light utility for transportation of battlefield commanders, senior IAF commanders, and casualty evacuation, which is now being carried out by the SA.316B Chetak/Alouette III helicopters and are known as LUH. Now, with regard to Role 1, this can today be done by UAVs as well as the LCH snd WLRs. There's really no need for a single-engined LOH and the upgraded Cheetahs (re-engined with the new and uprated TM333-2B engine and featuring a lightweight glass cockpit and belly-mounted lighhtweight FLIR turret, and called Cheetal) will be excellent all-weather high-altitude observation-cum-casualty evacuation helicopters. It must be borne in mind here that ONLY in India are such helicopters required as the IAF-operated Cheetahs are routinely operating at altitudes between 10,000 feet and 22,000 feet, whereas helicopters like the AS.350B3 and Bell 407 were designed to operate efficiently only up to 9,500 feet altitude. Therefore, even if there is a re-tendering exercise by Army/IAF HQs there's no way a winner will emerge as the Cheetah/Cheetals will remain unbeatable in terms of high-altitude performance. The same goes for the upgraded Chetaks (called Chetan) that can serve as unbeatable casualty evacuation and light utility platforms at high altitudes (up to 16,000 feet). Now, for operating in the plains a single-engined variant of the Dhruv ALH will be able to serve as an excellent LUH and I therefore believe that both the Army and IAF should immediately commit themselves financially to the single-engined Dhruv-derived LUH and the twin-engined LCH, and totally do away with importing single-engined LOH/LUH platform. At the same time, both the Army and IAF should also lend their total support to the Chetan/Cheetal programmes and I must add here that there are at least 300 such Alouette III/Lama helicopters worldwide that could be upgraded by HAL to the Chetan/Cheetal configuration. This is definitely a profitable business proposition that needs to be actively promoted.
Now, with regard to your second query, positioning of the LCH's turret containing optronic sensors is not an issue since the turret is swivelling both in azimuth and elevation/depression and therefore there will be no degradation of the aircrew's field-of-view and situationasl awareness. The definitive design of the LCH, will also have roof-mounted millimetre-wave radar to detect and track moving metallic objects. And for terrain-hugging flight profiles, the aircrew will rely on helmet-mounted night vision goggles for surveying the terrain below and ahead of the LCH.
Vishal, here's wishing you the very best of luck for the forthcoming exams. Rock on!
- Friday, November 14, 2008 10:57:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
One more point, Max, regarding the Arjun MBT and LCH. These two machines can be used together as a hunter-killer combination and when communicating with one other via the Army's newly-deployed battlespace management system (BMS), the Arjun MBT crew's situational awareness will improve to such an extent that the MBT will be able to position itself to attack targets with a decisive element of surprise, since the LCH will be able to detect the hostile ground-based targets up to 15km away (when equipped with a roof-mounted millimetre-wave radar). This cannot be achieved at the moment with either the T-90S or upgraded T-72M1s as they do not have the BMS on-board. Thus, the acquisition and deployment of the Arjun MBT should not be seen as just a standalone platform-centric exercise, but as a system that forms part of a network of deployed systems (both airborne and ground-based) all glued together seamlessly via the BMS. The end result then is a superior network-centric force projection capability.
- Friday, November 14, 2008 11:12:00 AM
- shriya said...
Hi PKS Can u pls let me know whats better, is it WZ10 or upcoming LCH? you r the best guy to ask since u have been to that chinese show.
- Friday, November 14, 2008 11:35:00 AM
- shriya said...
pls dont tease my sengupta my heart aches
- Friday, November 14, 2008 11:37:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
To Shriya: One cannot really compare the ZW-10A and LCH because the ZW-10A is a dedicated heavy attack helicopter, while the LCH is a 'combat' helicopter whose main role will be to engage and destroy UAVs, UCAVs and hostile LOHs/LUHs. The ZW-10A is optimised for attacking armoured vehicles located at least 6km away, while the LCH will be able to do that out to only 4km, but will be superior to the ZW-10A in terms of operating at higher altitudes and engaging hostile airborne helicopters.
- Friday, November 14, 2008 12:17:00 PM
Prasun, is it possible for the Arjun LCH combo to take out enemy tanks using LAHAT. That's the LCH which can detect enemy tanks at a distance can provide the info to Arjun and Arjun firing the LAHAT to it's max range of 5 km to take out the Target.
- Friday, November 14, 2008 7:28:00 PM
Can u give me tech specifications of Shourya. Is this at last a good missile to come out of DRDO. Given mach 5 etc. Thanks Anjan Sengupta
If not here, pls mail me: email@example.com
- Friday, November 14, 2008 9:58:00 PM
Thanks for the lecture.
About Arjun's superiority I've heard that one too many times, but unfortunately it's not getting through the heads of the people it should be :-(
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 2:20:00 AM
macha, where's my nirbhay article?
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:17:00 AM
- This is Anna Gorbachev said...
Anna: Interested? Please buy T90S and reject Arjun.
Babu: OK.Arjun out, T90 and Anna in.
moral of the story: Indian babus think about their pockets and dicks first and country last.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:23:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
To Anon@7:28PM: Yes, it is possible for both the Arjun MBT & LCH to be armed with the LAHAT ATGM and both platforms can fire the LAHAT. In fact, the Dhruv ALH armed with LAHAT was earlier being promoted in countries like Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and now Turkey. Therefore the LAHAT has already been integrated with the Dhruv ALH and could be on board the LCH as well. It is lighter than the air-launched Nag ATGM as well.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:52:00 AM
- Prasun K Sengupta said...
To Anjan: The Shourya is as good a theatre-level land attack PGM as its Chinese counterparts. By next February during Aero India 09 further technical/performance parameters will be available from the DRDO and the 2nd test-firing of the PGM is also likely to be conducted then.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:56:00 AM
don't know who this Shriya is but seeing the names underscored I wanted to see the prfile whether Shriya is a male or a female and it takes straight to porn sites.I read a LOT of defence articles in front of my children as defence matters are not inappropriate but this is outrageous.This person should NOT be allowed to continue discussion.
- Monday, December 15, 2008 3:17:00 AM
To anon @ 0317AM
Sir view def blogs in front of yer kids n' not user profiles lolz. btw piczcrazy is a photo upload site n' not a porn one though most of the content uploaded is erotic in nature.
u r doing a gr8 job but i still wud want to c like minded guys like u, ajayji & shiv joining hands & doing a media campaign against the import bias tht exists in our armed forces esp d army (IN is an exception though). plz guyz do something b4 its too late like 26/11
- Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:23:00 AM