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2017 is underway, and that "new year, new me" nonsense saturating your social media feed, office interactions, and morning trips to the cafe has your mental clarity hanging on by a thread. We know. But what if you flipped it and reversed it, and made this year about drinking new and incredible beer – even enjoying particular beer styles when they were meant to be drunk, instead of sipping the same tired old picks that you fill your vegetable drawer with?
Why Seasonal Beer
When it comes to homemade beer and drinking it, you're out for the fastest, simplest, and most flavorful path to your end point. You aren't thinking about which beers are meant to be enjoyed in each season, because omggggg is the beer done yet I'm going to the pub right now this is all too much.
So we did it for you. We built out a guide to brewing and drinking the beers intended for each season. That being said, we don't plan on busting down your door if we see you ordering up the recipe for a light Saison to be enjoyed in the dead of winter. You do you. "Seasonal" beers can be pretty subjective, and that's all good by us. We're just saying, maybe consider that the dark, rich, heavy Stout you've been eyeing isn't likely to be a hit while everyone is sweating it out and munching on ribs by your pool.
Seasonal homebrewing is also smart because there will be times of year when certain ingredients are harder to locate, and as more of our brewers dabble in partial mash recipes that can require additional fresh ingredients, this is important.
While everyone huddled around the Keurig smugs it up about their choice to "really eat with the seasons and hear their body's intuition this year," just let them know that you plan to do the same – but with beer. Aren't you fancy.
Homebrewing Calendar
We're currently in winter, so let's start there. The beer you brew now will be ready for drinking in the springtime. If you aim to celebrate any particular birthdays or holidays in the spring, you'll want to select beer recipes for those occasions now. This is how we organized our homebrewing calendar – we've given recipe suggestions for each season along with the relevant holidays you may be forgetting about that fall within that season.
Spring Beer
Springtime is all about St. Patty's, Easter, and Mommas. So, what's good to brew? Irish Red Ales & Stouts are a flavorful way to commemorate Ireland's patron saint, and they're sure to be much more popular with your nearest and dearest than some bizarre green concoction built for looks but not flavor. In Germany, Bocks are a popular pick for special occasions like Easter and Lent (likely because they were once brewed and drank by Bavarian monks as their sustenance during fasting). Maibocks (literally May-Bock) are often made for consumption at spring festivals, and tend to be paler/more hoppy than a standard Bock. Spring is also a great time to drink something hazy, fruity, and smooth – think Blonde Ale, Belgian Wit, German Weiss/Wheat beers. Enjoy the notes of coriander and orange or banana and clove, keeping these light and fluffy à la the Easter Bunny. Brew Fruit Beers crafted with what's in season to really wow 'em. We chose the Apricot Wheat homebrew recipe – so good you might even brew it for your momma.
Summer Beer
Summer means higher temperatures, brewing for your Pop, and grillin' plus fireworks. You'll be looking for light, well-carbonated and refreshing beer. Cream Ale, Steam Beer or California Common, Kölsch, and Saison are all beer styles that meet that mark well. Don't be confused – Cream Ales don't actually contain any dairy, nor should they taste like cream, they are meant to be pale, smooth and creamy on your palate. Steam Beer will be more malty, dry, and carbonated. Kölsch is a crisp and bright classic out of Cologne, Germany (Köln). Saison may be more adventurous than the others as its spicy, farmhouse aroma gives it unique character. Our Saison du Miel, made with honey, is sure to be a spicy, dry, and fizzy winner at any cookout.
Fall Beer
When folks read "fall beer" their mind tends to go one of two ways, either they immediately salivate over Pumpkin Beer or they rub their palms together in anticipation of those Oktoberfest Lagers. This is the time of Oktoberfest, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and pumpkin spice everything. We say your beer should resemble the foliage – think coppers, reds, and browns. Amber Ales, Brown Ales, and Dunkelweizens (the dark cousin of Hefeweizen) will all bring the balanced maltiness and smooth body that you're finally ready for as the temperatures drop and you begin bundling up again.
Winter Beer
The chilly holiday season is ideal for higher ABV, bold spice, and strong flavors. Rich and boozy Aged Beers and Barley Wine will keep you warm all the way to your toes. Bust out the Stouts, Porters, Strong Belgians and Bold Wheats. With Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's celebrations filling your calendar – you'll want a holiday brew to impress guests and gift to friends. During this time of year, recipes tend to get heavy in the cocoa, vanilla, chili notes because nothing says decadence like a high ABV brew that goes down like a spicy hot chocolate for grown-ups.
Now this is how you brew beer at home! Brew like you are running your very own craft brewery, with some year-round favorites on tap 24/7, and some unforgettable seasonal beers in rotation that get folks excited to see what you'll do next.
Now remember, brewing times vary with our 140+ homebrew choices, so while these guides will keep you on track, some are meant to condition for a lot longer. Don't forget to check the total brewing times listed on each beer's page!
Download our brewing calendar and print it for the ol' fridge so that you don't lose track of the next season's brewing ideas.


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The "BoatBites" have been barely a nibble... it's been a busy Summer! What can I say, except all those "robots" posting Chinese or Japaneses or whatever language it is, seriously, go post your "comments" elsewhere!
The "bites" will return when I return to Europe in the Winter to keep tabs on my dear friends Nicola and Ryan Breymaier. If you haven't been reading, and since I've not been writing, it's a decent chance you may have missed my passion for the Barcelona World Race and Ryan's entry.
This blog will regain some life when I hop on the plane to Spain later this year. Till then, please follow Ryan's journey! He has one sweet title sponsor, which will be something to write about! An American sailor with a solid sponsor?!? You can name those on one hand!
Fair Winds!

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God's perfect love is shown in this picture by a whirlpool- like ultimate anti-black-hole. "…how wide, how long, how high, and how deep" (Ephesians 3:18) is His love. It is so wonderful that words cannot express nor the mind comprehend it.
God's perfect love is shown in this picture by a whirlpool- like ultimate anti-black-hole. "…how wide, how long, how high, and how deep" (Ephesians 3:18) is His love. It is so wonderful that words cannot express nor the mind comprehend it.
This picture reflects the sheer magnitude and awesome character of God. Splashes of colour reflect His creativity and incomprehensible knowledge revealed throughout creation. Featured is a yellow triangle representing God in three forms- the Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit."In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light." (Genesis 1:1-3, NLT)
This picture shows a pillar of fire- God's tangible presence as revealed to the Israelites as they journeyed through the wilderness."By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night." (Exodus 13:21, NIV)
White dotted lines in the picture symbolise the invisible work of God happening behind the scenes. The multi-coloured stripe represents Jesus- God in a tangible form
"Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation. (Colossians 1:15, NLT)
This picture seeks to make the distinction between God's wisdom and the shortcomings of human reasoning and logic.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts". (Isaiah 55:8-9)
"God said to Moses, "I AM who I AM" (Ex 3:13-14, NIV)
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8, NIV)
"[Jesus] said to them all: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it." (Luke 9:23-24, NIV)
"I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys" (Song of Songs 2:1, NIV)
This picture draws on the analogy of Jesus being the light of the world. When Jesus sacrificed His life by dying on the cross, He overcame the power of sin and death for eternity for all those who believe. Just as God's power overcame the power of the sin "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5, NIV)
Featured in this picture are clouds which represent patterns of thought. The flecks of gold inside the clouds symbolise an active pursuit of God achieved though prayer and meditating on His word and character.
"..stop and consider God's wonders…Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?" (Job 37:14-16, NIV)
"Creativity is contagious, pass it on" – Albert Einstein
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On June 7th Nicole Richie was spotted arriving in London with her bff Masha Gordon and close friend Kelly Sawyer.
I love what Nicole is wearing, she looks amazing!!
I love how simple yet stylish this outfit is, it just goes to prove a little is sometimes a lot!
Later that night Nicole was spotted out and about on the London club circuit.
Again I think Nicole looked great, seeing as it is winter here in Australia I really love this look
It's good to see Nicole out and about as she has been lying low lately while Joel is currently on tour with Good Charlotte.
Image credit:- the skinny website, gossip centre, world celebs


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Maisie's Song No. 4 (Somewhere Over the Rainbow)
Learn the Flowers (Gary Snyder)
Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Space Edition)
God Bless the Flowers
Be Loose & Natural (Osho)
Run the World Mural (with Girls Inc)
RISE mural at the Dane County Detention Center
At the Dane County Detention center, in collaboration with Lauden Nute and resident teens. Completed August 2017.
A Thousand Ways (Bubbler Residency) Gig Poster
My Candle Burns at Both Ends // Group Show at Hot Pop Milwaukee
Photo by Dana Dufek
Photo by Victoria Vasys
Forward Wisconsin!
Photo by Holly Whittlief
In collaboration with Cortney Heimerl
4 & 20 Bakery Mural (for Mandy)
Meet You On the Astral Plane (The Modern Lovers)
Woven Sky Prints (Collaboration with Sarah Eichhorn)
Dolly Wants You
Photo by Victoria Vasys
In Good Company
Photo by Victoria Vasys
Angel from Montgomery (John Prine)
Maisie's Song No. 3 (The Littlest Birds)
Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Second Edition)
Nourishment // Screen Print for Taproot Magazine
Photo by Holly Whittlef
Tarot Art Show (curated at Madison Bubbler, April 2017)
Future Primitive Installation (Madison Public Library)
Zodiac Cards
Fire Cider
Rye Whiskey
Two Little Blackbirds Sitting On A Cloud
Harvest Moon (commissioned print)
Starfish and Coffee (Prince)
Long Time Sun Shine (The Incredible String Band)
Take It Easy
Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am
Maisie Song No. 2 (Donovan)
Willie Nelson Blacklight Print
Hotter than Mojave
Photo by Holly Whittlef
The Lonely People Fill-In-The-Blank Screen Print
Liquid Gold
Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light (Gary Snyder)
Photo by Victoria Vasys
Wisconsin Crest (Second Edition) // Collaboration with Cortney Heimerl
The Clean Fifteen
The Dirty Dozen
God Bless The Flowers (Joseph Pintauro)
Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light (Gary Snyder) // Second Edition
Liquid Gold
Who Loves The Sun? (The Velvet Underground)
Twin Peaks
Photo by Victoria Vasys
Long Time Sun Shine
Coat of Protection // My Candle Burns at Both Ends Group Show
Wisconsin Flag Pillow (collaboration with Cortney Heimerl)
Photo by Dana Dufek
Bike the Barns 10 Year Anniversary Poster
2018 CSArt Prints
Solstice Sketches (a drawing of a local plant a day for a year)
Wedding Chuppah for Jacob and Erin
Your Head is a Living Forest (ee cummings)
Screen Printed Cards
Scrap Print Quilt
Photo by Victoria Vasys
Maisie's Song No. 5 (Little Life by Josephine Foster)
Maker Market Poster // August
Maisie's Song No. 2 (Donovan)
Screen Printed Ornament
Maisie's Song No. 1 (Townes van Zandt)
Photo by Victoria Vasys
Woodworker Valentine's
Grow Together (commissioned by The Apartment Project/Goose Island Brewery)
To Live is to Fly (Townes van Zandt)
The Seal Woman
The Bubbler UFO! (In Collaboration with Taylor Rushing and a bunch of kids)
In the home studio
Photo by Victoria Vasys
Rainbow Pie (Guy Clark)
Ike and Emma Forever (wedding print)
Salutation to the Dawn
Angel from Montgomery Cards
I Love You More Than Culver's Card
We Belong to Each Other
Banner Design for Mary Good, Henwife Herbals
Purple Bunnies (Bubbler Demo)
Don't Let Them Tame You
Scrap Print Butterfly Chair (Madison Community Discourse)
Blood Moon (Desire)
Impeach Trump
Maisie's Song No. 1 (Townes van Zandt)
Little Gallery East Mifflin (detail)
Poppies for Claire
Wear Your Love Like Heaven (First Edition)
Wisconsin Flag (collaboration with Cortney Heimerl)
Photo by Stephanie Renee
Eastside Farmers' Market Posters
Screen Printing Ornament
Blood Moon (Desire)
Madison Magazine Awards 2015
Asstrology (collaboration with Rachel Duggan)
Unfuck the World (Angel Olsen)
Scrap Print Chair at Hawthorne Library // Created for Madison Community Discourse Show
Count Your Blessings
Boycott Driscolls (installed at The Apartment Project)
Plant Portraits (pen and marker on recycled tea bags)
Maker Market Poster Summer 2015
Discover Wisconsin
Black Lives Matter
Snowy Creatures Cards
Sing it Loretta
Ups and Downs (The Vaselines)
Ups and Downs (Nina Simone)
Ups and Downs (The Velvet Underground)
Ups and Downs (Smokey Robinson)
Ups and Downs Series for Eaux Claires Music Festival
Unfuck the World Tote Bags (Angel Olsen)
Crafty Fair 2015 Flyer
Illustration for Free Range Nonfiction
Maker Market Poster November 2015
I Want You
Little Gallery East Mifflin (detail)


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|On Monday we spent several hours out in the woods exploring. The weather is perfect -- low humidity and comfortable 70-80 degrees (22-25 C or so).
(Below that is a purple maple leaf DD wanted in the picture as well!)
|There aren't anywhere near as many mushrooms out in the woods these days, but we did come across this pretty one.
|I have no idea what kind of a tree this is, but the way the sunlight was catching these lacy looking berries was just beautiful.
|Just watch out for the thorns on the trunk of that berry tree!! Ouch!
|The kids were so industrious. LD was building a "trap." DD was making a complicated map. And ED was drawing animals in the dirt.


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Japan's major transportation and logistics companies are on a spending spree in Myanmar to cash in on the increasingly promising Southeast Asian market, with Yusen Logistics Co. and MOL Logistics (Japan) Co. announcing new investments.
As the country has embraced democracy, the country's economy has blossomed, and with a new container terminal at the critical hub of Thilawa in the works, logistics operators are positioning for future growth in the country.
Container ship MOL Paramount - Image: Manuel Hernández Lafuente
Yusen Logistics, the logistics arm of NYK Line, said that it will establish Yusen Logistics (Thilawa) Co. and build a multipurpose warehouse with a total floor space of some 5,000 square meters (53,800 square feet) on a site of about 30,000 square meters in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone near Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.
The warehouse, Yusen Logistics' first in Myanmar, is scheduled to be completed in 2017 and may expand depending on future demand.
Meanwhile, MOL Logistics (Japan), the core logistics subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Japan's second-largest shipping firm, established its first Myanmar subsidiary in Yangon Monday.
The new company will develop a wide variety of logistics services such as international air and ocean transport, cross-border transport with neighboring countries, domestic transportation, customs clearance and plant and project cargo transportation, MOL Logistics (Japan) said.
Myanmar, thanks to its cheap labor, has become an investment destination for manufacturing companies in Japan and elsewhere as they review their production and sourcing strategies in Asia amid rising labor costs in China.
The Thilawa SEZ is a large-scale joint project between Myanmar and Japan located 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) southeast of Yangon and adjacent to the Port of Thilawa. The SEZ is Myanmar's first such zone and opened in September 2015.
It is expected to become a production hub for the electronics, automotive and food industries.
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Ceinwen Vale
Welcome to Ceinwen Vale!
Fresh off the heels of Kelemvor's Oath and our introduction to the area (masterfully DM'ed by Brian), our heroes continue their quest for fame, riches and the most eccentric ingredients for making quality beer!
This will be a common source page for all of our wanderings around the region of Ceinwen Vale, with refresher information about what we've done so far, who we've met, what evils we've conquered (or have conquered us), and so forth.
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By Jan Baum
Executive Director
3D Innovation Institute
3D printing and additive manufacturing (3DP/AM) have been included in the top ten lists of disruptive and transformative technologies for at least the last five years. These technologies are allowing us to innovate faster, shrink product development cycles and costs, optimize products prior to commercialization, and most importantly, make it possible for the collective 'us' to find new solutions to tomorrow's problems. But we have to be engaged. The industry has a compound annual growth rate of 26.4% and has averaged a 34% annual growth rate over the last several years. 3DP/AM technologies are both transformative and revolutionary and will lead to seismic changes. This evolving technology has applications across industries and sectors.
Here's where we are today and here's what you need to know:
It Is No Longer Trains and Stations But Do Find a Platform
Our world today is a networked, global, digital superhighway where virtually everyone has access and everyone can become a node:
- Digital blueprints can be generated anywhere and printed or manufactured anywhere leading to more talent in the pool, distributed manufacturing, and crowdsourced solutions.
- Proof of concept, visualization, and rapid prototyping will always be mainstay applications of 3DP/AM technologies and we will see a steady uptick in the adoption of these technologies through these gateway applications.
Even more interesting are the increasing examples of scaled applications. Here are two: Ninety five percent of in-the-ear hearing aids are made with 3DP/AM. If you are in the hearing aid industry and are not using these technologies, you won't be in business long. The poster child for impacting manufacturing is GE's titanium fuel nozzle for the new LEAP engine. With 3DP/AM, the fuel nozzle is reduced from 18 parts to 1 part resulting in a part that is 5 times stronger and 25 times lighter. [Light weighting is a central benefit of 3DP/AM. In the aerospace industry parts have been light-weighted upwards of 80% on some parts.] Do the math: a significantly faster production time times the multiple benefits of a superior product divided by the cost to produce. Disrupt Yourself.
We are at the tip of the iceberg. The technology is accessible. The software is accessible. Funding is accessible. Human imagination is limitless. The technology is evolving all the time at every place on the spectrum. Bio-printing, for example, printing human cells and organs, is almost mind-boggling yet it is happening at flagship institutions like Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland as well as so-called hackerspaces that curious innovative types gin up, and entrepreneurs are creating desktop bio-printers out of entrepreneurship programs and in entrepreneurial work spaces. Distributed and disruptive innovation.
Every time a 3D printer is installed, high skill, middle skill, and low skill jobs are created. Show me a region that doesn't need 21st century jobs. This is a worldwide trend and the U.S. is not owning it.
Required: A Different Way of Thinking
Do you believe? Too many 3DP/AM technologies seem like science fiction. We have manufactured our world for so long using traditional subtractive methodologies. And we are really good at it. You would have to be living under a rock--my fear--to not realize that our world is increasingly digital and our physical world is being digitized, even, and especially, our tried-and-true, bedrock, grounded-in-the-physical-world industries. As leaders, we must continually challenge ourselves to continually rewire our brains for the digital era in order to remain competitive. One tool--a 3D printer--can reduce the number of constituent parts a product requires from 18 to 1, eliminate that supply chain and labor, create a superior product, and that one tool can do this for an unlimited number of products. In the automotive industry, product development cycles have been shrunk from years to months-resulting in faster innovation. 3DP/AM requires a different mindset. Can you afford to not evolve?
3DP/AM has applications across industries and across sectors and is not the provenance of one discipline or a select group. Making and manufacturing defines us as human beings, so it is no surprise that there is worldwide engagement with these technologies to solve today's problems. The technology is accessible: from large scale service bureaus with hundreds of 3D printers cranking out parts for industry to online platforms that project managers turn to while waiting for the C-suite green light. Educational institutions that are keeping up with technology have siloed labs. Educational institutions that are setting the pace have accessible networked labs where 30-50 desktop printers meet the demands of the student body regardless of where they are located. And those not in an educational institution as described can increasingly turn to their local library or online platforms.
Smart and Getting Smarter
There are a lot of great software products, materials, and technologies available today. We can print with over two hundred materials. And more of everything is being developed every day. Access is a key component in developing the rapid technology industry. Collaborative evolution and industry collisions present the best path forward: software that maximizes and pushes current technologies, new materials that push software and technologies, discipline-specific methodology applied across disciplines, etc. 3DP/AM is lights out manufacturing and with increasing connectivity, we are alerted if a machine fails.. saving us even more time.
Blazing Pathways
This is happening everywhere. Localized nodes. With human capital as one of our most precious resources. Now ask yourself this: Is your company, industry, or region breeding competitive innovative people?
Jan Baum is the Executive Director of the 3D Innovation Institute, Principal at J. Baum + Associates LLC, and a full professor. A leader in the 3D printing and additive manufacturing industry, she is currently leading the charge in building a 21st century 3DP/AM industry in the Mid-Atlantic region. Her focus is on facilitating a connected and collaborative rapid technology ecosystem across sectors. She has instituted industry best practices for Maryland, and has established multiple innovation + prototyping labs educating future workforce leaders and helping businesses compete using 3DP/AM technologies.


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On this Veterans Day, here's a snapshot of the Rochester metropolitan area's veteran population.
There are 62,832 veterans, down 9 percent from 2011.
– Gulf War II (2001 and later): 8 percent
– Gulf War I: 12 percent
– Vietnam: 36 percent
– Korean: 11 percent
– World War II: 9 percent
Many of our veterans are aging, with 28 percent over the age of 75.
Our veterans are financially more secure than non-veterans. They have a poverty rate of 7 percent, compared to 13 percent for non-veterans. They have a higher median income and lower unemployment rate.
One out of four veterans has a disability, compared to one out of seven for non-veterans.
The U.S. Census compiled facts about veterans nationally and did a separate breakout on their economic status.
Links of the Day:
– "Despite their sacrifices, and those of thousands more, all we have to show for it are two failed wars."
– Today is the 220th Anniversary celebration of the Canandaigua Treaty.
– New car sales are way up in Monroe County.
– The Mormon church revealed founder Joseph Smith had 40 wives, some of whom were very young or already married.
– The Asian population is growing in Monroe County.
– Bats are hackers! Mexican free-tailed bats will jam other bats' bio-sonar to steal food.
– The Oatmeal: "Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I'm going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works."


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West Wales Family Life is an online lifestyle magazine dedicated to Local Family Life.
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The Senate approved legislation Monday to restore jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed, sending the bill to the House where Republicans have voiced strong opposition to it.
The legislation, which passed by a 59-38 vote, would renew federal long-term unemployment benefits for five months, retroactive to when they expired on December 28. Nearly three million Americans have been gone without assistance since the law expired.
House Speaker John Boehner has called the White House-backed bill "unworkable" and criticized the legislation for failing to include job-creation measures.
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While I was researching northern hemisphere constellations for my information board for the site project I came across Urania's Mirror. It is a set of 32 constellation cards first published around 1852 and it has really strange, gorgeous illustrations produced with an amazing, restrained colour palette.
Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniae, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia Pneumatica, Argo Navis, and Pyxis Nautica
Psalterium Georgii, Fluvius Eridanus, Cetus, Officina Sculptoris, Fornax Chemica, and Machina Electrica
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Clerk With Gun Thwarts Pa. Suspect With BB Gun
AMBRIDGE, Pa. (AP) – Police say a western Pennsylvania store clerk with a real gun thwarted a robbery by a suspect armed only with a BB-pistol.
Online court records don't list an attorney for 42- year-old James Hayes, of Ambridge, who remained jailed Monday on a charge that he tried to rob Moh's Market about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
Police say surveillance video shows Hayes entered the Ambridge store about 3:45 p.m. Saturday and pointed his gun at the clerk, who responded by pulling a real gun on Hayes.
Police say Hayes ran away, but they caught him nearby a short time later when a woman yelled that a man with a gun had just run into her apartment.
Interim police Chief James Mann says Hayes "is one of the world's dumbest, and luckiest to be alive, criminals.''


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well i know that i said i'd post a vlog every 25 posts... well this is techincally in that limit. just a little sooner then i figured. alot of stuff has happened this week, and the only way to communicate it easily i found is through a vlog.
in spite of everything that has happened i'm going to hang out here for a few more days. the museum is having it's xmas party, and cam and krista have invited me to join them at it. so i figure i might as well go. i have no where better to be at moment...
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Train Amsterdam → Dresden
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Amsterdam - DresdenThe average travel time between Amsterdam and Dresden is 11h58 minutes. The quickest route is 11h58 minutes. The first train leaving Amsterdam is at 19:01, the last at . There is an average of 1 trains a day between Amsterdam and Dresden, leaving approximately every -2J 16h minutes.
- Departure station : Amsterdam cs (Stationsplein 15 1012 AB Amsterdam)
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More than canals,culture and cannabis Amsterdam, also known as the Venice of Northern Europe, is a world-class capital known for its rich culture, openness and tolerance. Amsterdam Centraal Station (CS) is at the heart of the city and can easily be reached from Schiphol airport within 15 minutes. Miss the train ? Not to worry – they run every ten minutes. The Centraal Station's impressive neo-renaissance building is located at the IJ waterfront. Unless you plan to travel by one of the ferries from the north side of the station, you'll need to exit at the center side, where all buses, trams, metros, taxis, departure quays for tourist boats and the main Amsterdam tourist office are located. The station's location is unique, situated on three man-made islands, themselves resting on over 8,000 wooden piles that have been driven deep into the sandy soil. Several canals that have recently been added to the UNESCO heritage list surround the train station. Learn more about Amsterdam
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The phoenix of Germany Dresden, the capital of Saxony and known as "Florence on the Elbe," was during the first half of the 20th century a leading European center for art, classical music, culture and science. Dresden could be a monument to tragedy, courage and triumph, as it has been lovingly resurrected from the ashes of World War II. A UNESCO World heritage site for five years, its status was revoked after the construction of a highway bridge across the Elbe valley. This is only the second time the committee has rescinded this honor. Dresden, it seems, is more compelled to build toward the future than hold onto its woeful history. And to that we say, "Prost !" Learn more about Dresden


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The luxe of both a beautiful neutral palette in combination with the classic elegance of rose gold always seem to make for a extraordinary combination. As you already know.. I am a fan...
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With the holidays already here and the new year just around the corner.. why not step into all of it with your favorite accessories..
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Our hall facilities are located in Foxbush next to the Church and offer a wide variety of accommodation suitable for a number of activities. We have an on-site car park that has a capacity for approximately 50 vehicles.
A kitchen with two double cookers, hot water heating, two sinks, a hand wash sink and a commercial dishwasher allows catering to be undertaken throughout the building.
The building has five doors each accessing different parts of the building, three of which have ramps. A patio area offers a safe outdoor area accessible to the main hall and Family Room.
Lightweight tables and chairs are available for use throughout the complex. These can be used for dining purposes. Smaller ones are available for children or use as occasional tables.
The building has fully accessible toilet facilities.
We are able to offer the following for hire when it is not in use by other organisations. Accommodation can be hired for mornings, afternoons and evenings.
1. A sports/community hall with Gerflor cushioned flooring, stage facilities with green rooms. There is a small meeting room just off the main area. The hall features a multi functional lighting system. A stage lighting system is installed and can be used upon request and for an additional fee. The hall is approximately 105 square metres in area.
2. A Foyer area with direct access to the front of the building offers approximately 60 square metres of space and can be used for smaller functions.
3. Our Family Room offers more lounge style space. It is approximately 70 square metres in size and has direct access to the patio and kitchen. This room is suitable for formal and informal meetings. A retractable projection screen is installed at one end.
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Thoughts for Thursday: Story
Thoughts for Thursday is a new feature hosted by Musings on Fantasia and LKHill. In this meme, we share thoughts or quotes that we know or have recently come across. Each week there is a specific subject or theme. These can be quotes from books, quotes by famous people, (quotes by YOU, perhaps ;D). Anything from anywhere is game, though we do ask that you keep your quote to a few sentences at most. Don't quote, for example, entire passages of a book or essay. These can be funny quips, cool sayings, hair-raising antidotes, movie lines, any kind of quote you can think of!
Just have fun, collect awesome sayings by awesome people, and try to be inspired!
This week's theme is Story. Check out my other blog for more quotes.
Just have fun, collect awesome sayings by awesome people, and try to be inspired!
This week's theme is Story. Check out my other blog for more quotes.
There is no great agony than bearing an untold story inside you.--Maya Angelou
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.--Neil Gaiman
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.--C.S. Lewis
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of theme, something to say between the lines.--Robert Wise
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.--Shannon L. Alder
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.--Ursula K. Le Guin
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How To Run Multiple Instances Of Yahoo Messenger
It is possible to run multiple Yahoo Messenger simultaneously right after installing the official version of Yahoo Messenger.
You will need to apply a simple windows registry patch to enable this feature.
Follow these simple steps :
1. Open the notepad
2. Copy the following code
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\Test] "Plural"=dword:00000001
3. Save the above code as multi.reg
4. Either double click on this file or right click on it and select merge option. (aim is to merge this settings into windows registry)
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 written by Ankit Agrawal
28 Responses to "How To Run Multiple Instances Of Yahoo Messenger"
abhishek bhatnagar
April 16, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Well i suggest "patch-it" to run multiple instances of yahoo messenger it wrks with all the versions of yahoo messenger...btw a cool article..
April 17, 2007 at 3:51 PM
hey hi ankit!! this is anonymous commenting..
howz it possible to have 2 yahoo mesgnr's...
i have copied the code into a notepad and saved it as multi.reg..
then later on what i need to do to be online with 2 user Yahoo ID's
please reply me..i want to see whether its really possible.
Can you please let me know the procedure too..
thank you ankit...
here goes my mail ID.. email@example.com
thank you once again bye take care
Ankit Agrawal
April 17, 2007 at 4:06 PM
Ya. after copying the code in a notepad save it as multi.reg and double click on the file to apply the patch..
After this you can start two instances of yahoo messenger one after another by two different id's.
April 28, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Hi Ankit
Followed the steps as mentioned by you, but still could not get it running. Is there anything else that needs to be done? No where can I find the prompt saying to include another id? Any suggestions, would be very welcome and thanks.
Ankit Agrawal
April 28, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Run the multiple instances of yahoo messengers one after another,..
You will be asked yahoo id for each instance,,
May 2, 2007 at 10:50 PM
i too have tried opening up another instance of yahoo messenger...but no luck. Once u sign in with one Id, the moment u click on an icon or in from start menu, this same messenger is highlighted. Help please.
May 6, 2007 at 2:40 PM
Hi guys! Well the trick is an old one but it does work!
Just do what Ankit said and after running one Yahoo! Messenger window and signing into it, You have to Double click on the Yahoo! Messenger Icon on your desktop to open another windows, rest you can understand.
It's quite simple :)
Hope that helped!
November 27, 2007 at 7:33 AM
Btw, the registry patcher didn't work for me. I manually add the values my self. And it does work. You might have re-check that patcher thinggy.
December 21, 2007 at 7:15 PM
hey! it doesn't work because the script is incomplete:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
this is what you should write in your notepad. then, if you follow the steps, it will work. bye!
July 18, 2008 at 6:03 AM
when you open one messenger sign out, and then enter your 2nd id into it, dont log back in!!!!
next open another messenger and allow to log in, then log in the first messenger again with the changed id.
you cannot log in 2 messengers with only 1 username!!!
no its not a joke and yes it does work
August 28, 2008 at 7:06 PM
for all of those who can't get this to work, this concept works ( good news) but this patch might not work for everyone. Here what you need to do ...
Step1: click on start, click run, type "regedit" and click ok( without quotes) idea is to open registry editor.
Step2: locate registry value ->HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager. for those of you who are not sure how to get there, follow these...
after registry editor is open click on "+" sign in front of "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" and look for "Software" and click on "+" infront of software then locate "Yahoo" and click on "+" sign again, locate folder called "pager" and for last time click on "+" sign.
Step3: right click "pager" folder and then select "new" and then "key" this will create a new fold at the bottom, type in any name for this new folder ( in this registry patch as you can see its named "Test".
Step4: now right click on newly created folder and select "new" and then "DWORD Value" this will create a new white and blue file looking thing in right hand side veiw window of reistry editor, name it "Plural" (remember no quotes).
Step5: double click "Plural" to open it and in Value data field type in "1" ( number One) and make sure hexadecimal is selected.
Step6: Click "ok" close registry editor and have fun. YOU ARE DONE...
if followed properly should not take more than one min to do it.
October 19, 2008 at 8:15 PM
I am trying to run multiple instances of the AOL software. Not AIM, but AOL. If anyone can email me a solution, I would pay to have this done.
March 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM
does it work in windows vista? 'cuz i'm havin' a hard time tryin' this, guys.... amphft!....
May 7, 2009 at 9:50 PM
tnx for the info buds.. ^_^ it works your from patch youve provided "ym8multi".. but the codes you've provided it doesnt work for me.. =(
September 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I'm using window vista... Does it work for this. I've tried the methods mentioned but it seems not to work. It can only run 1 yahoo messenger.. Can anyone tell me what should i do? Thanks a lot...
September 27, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Does it works for vista? I've tried the aboved metioned methods but it seems not to work. I can only run one yahoo messenger. I tried clicking the messenger icon again, but it doesn't works. There's only one messenger appearing. Can anyone tell me what should I do? Thanks a lot...
October 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM
I've really wanted to know before how to open 2 different ym accounts at the same time. Thank you very much to that person who shared his knowledge about this! You are such a blessing not just to me but to others. God bless you! :)
January 4, 2010 at 12:20 AM
very good AMAR...works fine with me...Thanks for the info 2 thumbs UP!!
February 9, 2010 at 7:52 AM
just open your registry and follow this path REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\Test] "Plural"=dword:00000001 left click create dword rename plural and modify value to 1...
February 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM
yesss..... i did it...
it's working on my 64bit windows vista... thank you bro...
February 28, 2011 at 9:12 PM
Nice trick,very usefull..I tried it n got it running multiple yahoo messenger accounts…


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Shades of Change: 3 Color Palettes for Growing Your Home
Preparing your home for children is one of the most exciting, stressful, scary, amazing and joyful times in life. That's a lot of emotions to pack into that small spare room you're converting into a nursery or playroom, and they're all perfectly normal. Just don't forget to have fun. We came up with three Glidden® playroom palettes that play off these emotions. They're bright, beautiful and (most importantly) kid-proof.
When you're planning a child's room, it's especially important to use paint that's washable, scrubbable and holds up to life's messes. With that in mind, we used Glidden Diamond™ paint for its durability. Because let's face it: Your future includes walls covered in grape juice and crayon marks, and preparing for it now means easier cleanup later.
Why we love Glidden Diamond
It's a great value.
It's durable.
Its scrubbable, stain-resistant formula made of 100% acrylic is ideal for high-traffic, high-moisture rooms.
It's a paint & primer in one.
Fewer coats = more time for family fun.
Each playroom palette is colorful and playful, but flexible enough to adapt to your child's personality as they grow up. Take a look at the three, then vote on your favorite below. At the bottom, you'll see which look Maxwell chose, too!
Little Explorer
Background: Blue Cloud 29 BB 75/065
Accent: Orange Tiger Lily 28YR 29/561
Best For: Balanced rest and play
By pairing calming Blue Cloud with energetic Orange Tiger Lily, this palette creates a balanced environment for rest and play. A light gray shade with a blue undertone sets a neutral foundation that looks great with natural wood and white furniture. Orange adds a little lift of happiness and allows you to play with animal accents, from foxes to lions, tigers and bears. Oh, my...cute overload!
Start Fresh
Background: Iced Purple 03RB 63/122
Accent: Sublime Lime 90GY 83/114
Best For: Sophisticated softness
An alternative to pink, Iced Purple walls feel sophisticated but still soft. Because it's on the warm side, it pairs well with woods and natural materials. For a fun retro accent, use pale green trim like Sublime Lime. It's unexpected but still feels familiar, like a favorite print from a childhood blanket. This is a look that will grow with your child, even after the toddler toys are packed away.
Outside the Lines
Background: Citrus Punch 13YY 60/475
Accent: Bermuda Bay 90GG 51/211
Best For: Fresh, fun style
Part of what makes decorating a child's room so much fun is the chance to be a little brighter and bolder. This cute color combination pairs walls in Citrus Punch, a warm earthy orange, with crisp Bermuda Bay blue trim. It's a fresh palette designed to inspire creativity and play through high-contrast colors, which very young children respond to. Plus, it looks great with durable materials like solid wood, a natural woven rug and easy-to-clean kids' furniture.
Maxwell's Pick:
Start Fresh
"Iced Purple is a color to grow up with. The color is bright and welcoming for a newborn. Switch in black-and-white or even bohemian accessories to freshen the room for a toddler room. Glidden Diamond holds up to repeated scrubbing – as a dad I can tell you that's important."
–Maxwell Ryan, founder of Apartment Therapy
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Welcome to the Comfort Suites, an Auburn Hills hotel near Oakland University
The Comfort Suites® hotel is conveniently located just two blocks from Interstate 75 and one mile from The Palace of Auburn Hills arena.
This Auburn Hills, MI hotel is less than five miles from the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall and the DaimlerChrysler Corporation World Headquarters.
Other popular points of interest include the Village of Rochester shopping and entertainment area, Oakland University and the Oakland Technology Park.
There are a variety of restaurants within walking distance from the hotel. Several shops are also nearby, including Oakland Mall and Somerset Collection. The Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and the Bishop International Airport are 20 miles from the hotel.
Guests will enjoy this all-suite property featuring amenities like free continental breakfast, free local calls, free weekday newspaper, indoor pool and hot tub.
This Auburn Hills, MI hotel offers business travelers conveniences like free wireless high-speed Internet access in every room, computer hook-ups and access to copy and fax services.
The hotel offers hot tub suites, and one- and two-bedroom suites. Each suite has a refrigerator, microwave, iron, ironing board, hair dryer, free HBO and coffee maker.
The hotel also offers a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Whether traveling for business or pleasure, the Comfort Suites hotel looks forward to the opportunity to host every guest visiting the Auburn Hills area.


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Luxury Interior Designer Gives That All Important Advice: Top Three Ways to Personalize a Space
I can go into any home and create an amazing aesthetic – but it does not become truly YOURS until it is personal. The best part of my job is connecting with my clients and finding out a beautiful piece of their family history or a collection that has been passed down from generation to generation that we can weave throughout the design. Home is where the heart is, right? So lets get to it and here are my top three ways to personalize, or put some heart, into your space.
1. Identify something that matters to you and all other members of your family. Perhaps you all love boating. Can you think of ways to incorporate that love into some aspect of your design? How about in your artwork? In my case, I had a French Garden painted onto the walls in my foyer. Now as I walk into my home, I have a reminder (as does my family) of a special place to all of us. In addition, mine is further personalized with a family tree where a leaf is named for each member of our family!
2. Start a meaningful collection and display it cleverly.
3. Pick at least one item in each room that you absolutely love and adore. Perhaps it is an antique secretary or hutch. Perhaps it is that fabulous $200 dollar a yard fabric that you wisely chose to put on a pillow. Maybe it's a stunning piece of art. Just make sure it moves you and your home will be a more personal representation.
Do you have a favorite way that you have personalized your home? Tell me about it. If you would like to make your home more personal, contact me for a consultation. Email me at email@example.com


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Configuring Apache Modsecurity with an auto-updated Comodo rule set soft
We need a SHORT article aimed for newbies on how to integrate auto-updated Comodo rule set software with Apache Modsecurity.
I found the following article here on DO but I am having a few problems with it:
It doesn't deal with Comodo or any common rule set.
It seems to me way too long and complicated for being just a simple primal configuration of MS.
About 18% of the article deals with "Optional rules". This is not something for newbies.
Besides, the article has a whole chapter "Write your own rules".
Come one now, we are just coming to it man, hence most of us don't have the knowledge (or need) for writing our own rules.
I really think this article should be revised, shortened, and become more didactic.


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NORTHAVEN Baptcare aged-care home at Kerang has unveiled the addition of two mobile chairs for immobile residents, the result of fund-raising performed by the Northaven Ladies Auxiliary.
The chairs were purchased after the auxiliary presented the aged care facility with about $5000 in donations.
The chairs, which are extremely easy for carers to manoeuvre and comfortable for residents to use, will allow those residents who might otherwise be bedridden to leave their rooms and participate more fully in life at the centre.
Residential care and services manager, Robyn Stepnell said the chairs would be of great benefit to residents.
"It's about pain, it's about mobility, and it's about comfort [for residents]," she said.
"We appreciate the work [the auxiliary] does in raising funds for us," she said.


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Gilles Marini becomes a U.S. citizen
(CBS News) Gilles Marini, the French actor who competed on "Dancing with the Stars" and appeared in the first "Sex and the City" film, is now a U.S. citizen.
Marini took the oath of citizenship during a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles on Thursday. More than 7,000 people from 120 countries were sworn in.
Timeline: "Dancing with the Stars" seasons and competitors
"It's very difficult to express what I feel just because it's 10 years in the making," Marini told OnTheRedCarpet.com. "I've been working really hard and I adore this country, so for me it means really something very special. You get choked up, you know? It's fantastic. I'm an American."
On his Twitter page, the actor shared the happy news and also revealed his first meal as an American - a burger from the West Coast chain In-N-Out:
Marini, who also appeared on the TV series "Brothers and Sisters," came in second place on "DWTS" in 2009, losing the mirrorball trophy to Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson.


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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (it was called New Orleans) I took a break from two television and several radio newscasts a day and also broadcast a weekly program called Jazz Review. It did what the name suggests. Once in a while I deep-sixed the review format and put together a special called "It's All Music." The show might consist of recordings by artists as diverse as Charlie Parker, Waylon Jennings, Spike Jones, Percy Sledge, Artur Rubenstein, Jo Stafford, the Juilliard String Quartet and Frank Sinatra. Once I played the entire second movement of Mahler's 6th Symphony. I did the first "It's All Music" with trepidation. It turned out that the listenersand the sponsor liked it and asked for more. There's no percentage in assuming that people are not open-minded.
All of that came to mind today when I got a notice that my newest follower on Twitter is the composer Daron Hagen (pictured). Anyone familiar with Hagen's music is aware that he is open-minded. The eclecticism of his work, from chamber music to grand opera, makes that clear. You can find out about him on his website. But this isn't about Daron, whofull disclosureis a friend. It's about a singing group and a piece of their music I found on YouTube when I followed a link in one of Hagen's tweets. The group is New York Polyphony. The music is a liturgical work by the 16th century English composer William Byrd. Maybe it struck me because I recently finished reading Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf Hall about the exploits of Henry The Eighth and Ann Boleyn during Byrd's time. Or maybe it's because the singing in this short piece is so good and the harmonies are so rich. I thought that you'd enjoy it, too.
It's all music.


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On July 28, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") issued final guidance regarding the agency's substantive review of Traditional 510(k) premarket notifications. This document, titled "The 510(k) Program: Evaluating Substantial Equivalence in Premarket Notifications," marks a key milestone in FDA's re-evaluation of the 510(k) program, which the agency initiated in 2009 in response to concerns that the program did not sufficiently assure the safety and effectiveness of devices as well as industry concerns that the program had become unpredictable and opaque.
Below we summarize the key points from the guidance, discuss how FDA responded to criticisms of the draft version of this guidance, and describe further actions that remain to be completed as part of FDA's 510(k) re-evaluation project.
Key Points from the Guidance
The new guidance is FDA's first update to the 1986 "blue book" document, "Guidance on the CDRH Premarket Notification Review Program, 510(k) Memorandum K86-3." FDA asserts that it developed the guidance to inform industry and FDA staff about the agency's "current review practices," not to "implement significant policy changes." Key points from the guidance include.
Elimination of split predicates. The guidance states that the use of a "split predicate" is inconsistent with the 510(k) regulatory standard for demonstrating substantial equivalence. A 510(k) uses a "split predicate" when it compares the device that is the subject of the 510(k) (the "new device") against one predicate device to show sameness of intended use, and a separate predicate device with a different intended use to show similarity of technological characteristics. Although FDA has been taking this position in practice for several years, this is the agency's first official, final policy statement on this topic.
Designation of a "primary predicate." Unlike split predicates, FDA will accept multiple predicates in some circumstances. Multiple predicates are commonly relied upon when a 510(k) combines features from two or more previously marketed devices into a single, new device. In the guidance, FDA generally encourages the use of a single predicate to simplify the decision-making process. It also recommends that, when a manufacturer relies upon multiple predicates, the 510(k) identifies the "primary predicate," which is "the one with indications for use and technological characteristics most similar" to the new device.
Explanation of "reference devices." The guidance discusses the use of "reference devices," which, like the term "primary predicate," does not appear in the statute or FDA regulations. Reference devices are legally marketed devices, other than the predicate device(s), that are referred to in a 510(k) to help support the use of particular scientific methods or reference values. The guidance states that a manufacturer intending to rely upon a reference device should provide a scientific rationale for its use.
Definitions of "intended use" and "indications for use." FDA has long recognized a distinction between the "intended use" of a new device, which must be the same as the intended use of the predicate device, and the "indications for use" of a device, which may differ to some extent between the new and predicate device. In the guidance, FDA defines "intended use" to mean the "general purpose of the device or its function," whereas "indications for use" means "the disease or condition the device will diagnose, treat, prevent, cure, or mitigate, including a description of the patient population for which the device is intended." FDA also repeats the point it has made elsewhere that a manufacturer's intended use for a device can, in some cases, be determined by facts and circumstances outside the 510(k) submission itself. Although these concepts may sound straightforward, identification of the "intended use" of a device can be a matter of negotiation, and in some cases dispute, between manufacturers and FDA.
Determining whether new "indications for use" constitute a different "intended use." According to the guidance, FDA may find that changes in indications for use constitute a different intended use when they raise a safety or effectiveness issue not raised by the predicate or have the potential to significantly increase a safety or effectiveness concern raised by the predicate. The guidance contains several illustrative examples of how FDA applies this concept. It also asserts that FDA may rely upon publicly available scientific information or FDA knowledge about how a disease progresses to determine whether indications to treat a certain disease or anatomical site constitute a new intended use.
Determining whether differences in technological characteristics raise different questions of safety and effectiveness. Where differences in the technological characteristics of a new device raise different questions of safety and effectiveness, the new device is not substantially equivalent to the predicate. The guidance describes a logic scheme by which FDA identifies the technological characteristics of a device, compares them against those of the predicate device, and then determines whether there are differences in technological characteristics that raise different questions of safety and effectiveness. FDA states that a "different question of safety and effectiveness" is a question "raised by the technological characteristics of the new device that was not applicable to the predicate device, and poses a significant safety or effectiveness concern for the new device." Similar to the section of the guidance addressing indications for use, this section of the guidance relies largely on illustrative examples.
Performance data requirements. If the new device described in a 510(k) has the same intended use as the predicate and the differences in technological characteristics do not raise new questions of safety and effectiveness, the remaining statutory question is whether the 510(k) contains information deemed necessary by FDA to demonstrate that the new device is "as safe and effective" as the predicate. The guidance does not discuss this statutory standard at this point in the logic scheme, most likely because FDA's interpretation and application of that standard is discussed in a separate draft guidance issued on July 15, 2014, titled "Benefit-Risk Factors to Consider When Determining Substantial Equivalence in Premarket Notifications [510(k)] with Different Technological Characteristics." Instead, the guidance discusses how FDA applies the statutory "least burdensome" principles by applying a hierarchy of performance data requests starting with descriptive information only, and then proceeding stepwise to include non-clinical bench testing and biocompatibility data, analytical studies using clinical samples (e.g., for in vitro diagnostic devices), and clinical performance data if required.
Encouraging 510(k) "Summaries" rather than 510(k) "Statements." FDA regulations require a 510(k) submission to include either a "510(k) Summary" or a "510(k) Statement." A 510(k) Statement is a certification that the manufacturer will make available all safety and effectiveness information in a cleared 510(k) within 30 days of request by any person, other than permitted redactions for patient privacy and trade secret protection. Because FDA can and does proactively post 510(k) Summaries on its website, which facilitates transparency, the guidance "encourages all submitters to utilize the 510(k) Summary option."
Encouraging greater transparency in 510(k) Summaries. The guidance states that FDA, in an effort to improve the transparency and predictability of the 510(k) program, intends to verify the completeness of the information a manufacturer submits in a 510(k) Summary. The guidance includes appendices describing the content required to be included in such summaries under FDA regulations, provides guidance on what information and data should be included, and includes a sample 510(k) Summary. In particular, the level of detail FDA is requesting be included with respect to clinical studies may be greater than manufacturers have been accustomed to providing in the past.
Responses to Criticisms of the Draft Guidance
On December 27, 2011, FDA announced the availability of a draft version of the 510(k) guidance and invited public comment. FDA received numerous comments, but ultimately made few significant changes to the guidance document. The principal changes were to:
- Expand the discussion of the use of predicate devices and the reasons for defining a "primary predicate";
- Add examples to several sections to clarify FDA's decision-making process for finding devices substantially equivalent despite differences in indications for use, technological characteristics, or performance characteristics;
- Add an appendix with a sample 510(k) Summary to demonstrate that level of detail FDA expects; and
- Remove sections of the draft addressing Special 510(k)s and Abbreviated 510(k)s, due to the relationship between Special 510(k)s and planned FDA guidance on submitting a new 510(k) for a device modification.
What's Next?
It appears that criticism of the 510(k) program has abated somewhat since FDA launched its re-evaluation initiative in 2009. Nevertheless, there are concerns that the 510(k) guidance reflects narrowed interpretations of the substantial equivalence standard that should have been subject to notice and comment rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act. Whether FDA's 510(k) policies or individual 510(k) decisions will be subject to more frequent appeals within FDA, or legal challenges in court, remains to be seen.
Although it has now finalized the 510(k) guidance, FDA has yet to complete a number of other important actions relating to the 510(k) program. These include:
- Issuing new draft guidance on when modifications to a device are significant enough to require a new 510(k), after having been required by Congress to withdraw its previous draft guidance from August 2011 on this subject;
- Issuing new guidance on Special and Abbreviated 510(k)s; and
- Considering comments received in response to the recent draft guidance, "Benefit-Risk Factors to Consider When Determining Substantial Equivalence in Premarket Notifications [510(k)] with Different Technological Characteristics."
In addition, FDA in the past has stated that it intends to develop new regulations relating to the transfer of ownership of 510(k)s and to develop a public repository of medical device labeling. Ropes & Gray will continue to monitor developments on these proposed initiatives, and other aspects of the 510(k) program.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.


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The Art of Survival
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 11-07-14
- Language: English
- Publisher: Mark Pierce
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Publisher's Summary
It doesn't matter if you are a history buff or if you love human interest stories, I've found this book to be the most unexpected page turner that I've read in a very long time. It's the story of Charles Pierce who lived through six, terrifying years of being a slave to the Nazis facing death most virtually one minute after the next and...miraculously surviving. Then, having the courage to build a lasting, loving and happy marriage with a woman he would call his bride for over a half century.
What I found most intriguing about this incredible true tell-penned by Charles Pierce and J. Marlando-in 164 fast reading pages-is that it truly touches both the heart and mind giving the reader a clear view of man's inhumanity of man while, at the same, inspiring us to overcome the obstacles that we all meet over the course of our lives.
The story begins as all our own stories begin, in childhood when our world view is positive and we see only bright and joyful futures. Then evolves the Nazi occupation and death camps! While this story is about the horrors and struggles of World War II, it is far from being a repeat telling of the holocaust; this is a highly personal story of one man's experiences and in his own words learning not only to survive slavery but what it takes to survive one's freedom.In the second half of the book we are given what Charles calls the secret of a happy successful marriage-something so many people seek and never find in lifetimes. In this light, I am convinced that The Art of Survival belongs in every home library. It's history as it actually unfolded when the world was at war...its history as it actually unfolded as a love story for an ordinary man who experienced most unordinary circumstance; a book that not only makes you think...but makes you feel.
It the true story of Charles Pierce. The Art of Survival. I can't recommend it more. It is bound to touch the very fiber of your own life.
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Vouchers and credit-tokens: transport vouchers: exemption for employees of passenger transport undertakings
Section 86 ITEPA 2003
For a definition of a transport voucher see EIM16060.
Transport vouchers provided for employees of passenger transport undertakings under arrangements in operation at 25 March 1982 are excluded from the vouchers charge. But there remains a taxable benefit under Part 3 Chapter 10 ITEPA 2003 on employees other than for employees who are in lower paid employment (see EIM20007) for 2015/16 and earlier. So the exclusion can only apply to employees in lower paid employment for 2015/16 and earlier.
The exclusion covers passes, season tickets, etc that enable the employee, or a relation, to obtain passenger transport services provided by:
- the employer
- a 100% subsidiary of the employer
- a body corporate of which the employer is a 100% subsidiary
- another passenger transport undertaking.
Arrangements in operation on 25 March 1982 should be treated as continuing notwithstanding minor changes made after that date.
A passenger transport undertaking is defined as an undertaking whose business consists wholly or mainly in the carriage of passengers. For instance, employees of a passenger bus company and its subsidiaries are thus exempt from this charge on free or cheap travel facilities provided for themselves and their relations by their employer or by another passenger transport undertaking (for example, another bus company) under reciprocal arrangements.
For details of special rules for people who were employees of British Rail at the time of its privatisation in 1994 see EIM16075.


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That said some resorts in Colorado did receive up to 90cm (three feet) of new snow since last Wednesday with Telluride, clocking up two feet (60cm), half of it yesterday (Tuesday 7 February). Other big name resorts had rather less - Snowmass 26cm and Breckenridge 16cm. There were similar moderate falls at Utah resorts.
The biggest accumulations were again in the north west of the country in Alaska (201cm for Alyeska - nearly seven more feet) and down in the south in New Mexico (52cm at Taos). Mt Baker in Washington State is up at its usual 'most snow accumulated in the world' mark with 4.8m (16 feet) lying.
Not much new on the East Coast though - just 3cm (an inch) for Killington where just over half the terrain is open with deepest snow depth 90cm (three feet).
The snowy deluge that has been falling on Western Canada since mid-November appears to have finally taken a break this past week and for the first time this winter resorts in the East of the country have reported more snow in the past seven days then resorts on the west. That's not a problem for the western resorts of course as they're sitting on huge bases.
Mont Sainte Anne and Mont Sutton in the Quebec have some of the biggest falls with 15cm (six inches) in the past week.


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Henry Van Dyke
Dulcis Memoria - Poem by Henry Van Dyke
Long, long ago I heard a little song,
(Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?)
So lowly, slowly wound the tune along,
That far into my heart it found the way:
A melody consoling and endearing;
And still, in silent hours, I'm often hearing
The small, sweet song that does not die away.
Long, long ago I saw a little flower,--
(Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?)
So fair of face and fragrant for an hour,
That something dear to me it seemed to say:
A thought of joy that blossomed into being
Without a word; and now I'm often seeing
The friendly flower that does not fade away.
Long, long ago we had a little child,--
(Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?)
Into his mother's eyes and mine he smiled
Unconscious love; warm in our arms he lay.
An angel called! Dear heart, we could not hold him;
Yet secretly your arms and mine infold him--
Our little child who does not go away.
Long, long ago? Ah, memory, make it clear--
(It was not long ago, but yesterday,)
So little and so helpless and so dear
Let not the song be lost, the flower decay!
His voice, his waking eyes, his gentle sleeping:
The smallest things are safest in thy keeping.
Sweet memory, keep our child with us always.
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A novel Sonia Meyer
"Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies"
Sonia Meyer
Published: November 1, 2010
Wilderness House Press
Price: $24.94 (hardcover) 6 x 9
First Edition: 386 pages
"Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies" begins and ends with Nikita s state visit to Helsinki on June 6, 1957. It begins with security and propaganda preparations for the State Visit and the uneasy wait for his arrival. The end unfolds during the arrival of the Soviet delegation and the motorcade that takes them from the train station to the Soviet Embassy. Within this frame the novel tells the story of the Gypsy girl Dosha; from her childhood spent with Russian partisans in Polish forests to her defection during Khrushchev's visit.
After the wait for Khrushchev in Helsinki in the first chapter we are then led into the story fully and it begins with 1941 when Russian nomadic Gypsies answer Stalin's call to sabotage areas already occupied by the advancing German army. They move into Poland where they join Russian partisans and fight for the country that for centuries has shown the Gypsy people love and acceptance.
After the war they return to Russia to resume their traditional nomadic life, only to find increased hostility toward traveling Gypsy people. Finally in l956, during the short-lived Cultural Thaw, while releasing millions of innocent victims of purges still languishing in gulags of Siberia and Russia's High North, Khrushchev secretly clamps down on the freedom of the last Gypsy tribes still roaming free. So, as a reward for having helped the Soviet forces as partisans during the war they were forced to settle down, and that often in the very same gulags from which dissidents had been released.
The book also introduces the readers to the legend and ancient taboos, including the cult of the horse and others, as well as to some parts of the language.
There will, no doubt, be a fair number of those who will condemn this book and its author, as it seems to happen so often with such novels with a Gypsy theme regardless of how positive the authors may present the People.
Others will, in addition or especially, condemn the author for having revealed, as they would have it, secrets of the Rom too the Gadje, such as the notion of the "Cult of the Horse" and other practices of the People, as well as parts of the Romani Language. And that despite the fact that in the latter case some words have, in fact, come out wrong in the book, such as the word for horse, for instance.
I will say, however, that as an ethnic Romani-Gypsy myself, I have found the book extremely good and the history of the Russian Lovara, and that of the Ruska Rom and Ruska Roma per se, and their persecution by the Soviet state after the Great Patriotic War has been presented finally to the world.
The Soviet persecution of the Rom in the USSR is not well known in the West at all where people believe the Rom to have been treated very well by the state due to, more often than not, simply how the Theater Romen was promoted and presented. The picture of the Romani People having had a good life in the USSR having had a fairly good life is nothing but fiction conjured up by the Soviet propaganda machine and "Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies" presents this rather well to the world.
This book is very important and timely right now in the light of the way that the Rom are still be persecuted to this very day – in fact as you are reading this – in many countries of the European Union even, with Italy, France, Germany and Denmark, it would appear, in the very forefront. The persecution of the Romani People has, in fact, never ever stopped.
The author makes makes probably one of the most important points and observations in this book when she has Dosha, the heroine, realize that the fatal danger to all Rom lies not only in the external enemy that they share but in the deep-rooted divisions among themselves. It is this very division that makes too many of the People oblivious to the fate of other Rom and thus they even endanger themselves.
There is one final point that I think that must be mentioned though the fault does not lie with the author but with those that may have advised her and that is the term "Poriamos" for the Romani Holocaust. This very word is an invention of Prof. Ian Hancock and the International Roma(ni) Union and would not have existed and been used that shortly after the war. It also is created in a Romanian Romani dialect, with the ending of "-mos" being the dead giveaway. The older term of Samudaripen, as used by Sinti groups, may already have been in existence and use at that time but even of that we cannot be sure.
The author of "Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies", Sonia Meyer fled the Nazis with her parents when she was 2 years old to live in the woods of Germany and Poland with partisans and Gypsies. There her father taught her to throw hand grenades using a wooden darning egg.
They lived in the woods, in abandoned houses, in isolated excursion inns, in fields and barns, always dodging the German and later Soviet armies who hunted them relentlessly.
Shortly after the war Sonia and her family returned to Cologne, Germany where she foraged for food with a band of Gypsies camped nearby. She now lives in Wellington, FL, USA.
In conclusion I would just like to say, aside from the fact that I have immensely enjoyed the book, that I am also very happy to recommend it.
© 2010


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My Review: The Unrequited by Saffron A. Kent
Publication Date: July 13, 2017
Genres: Affair, Erotica, Romance, Student Teacher
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Layla Robinson is not crazy. She is suffering from unrequited love. But it's time to move on. No more stalking, no more obsessive calling.
What she needs is a distraction. The blue-eyed guy she keeps seeing around campus could be a great one—only he is the new poetry professor—the married poetry professor.
Thomas Abrams is a stereotypical artist—rude, arrogant, and broody—but his glares and taunts don't scare Layla. She might be bad at poetry, but she is good at reading between the lines. Beneath his prickly façade, Thomas is lonely, and Layla wants to know why. Obsessively.
Sometimes you do get what you want. Sometimes you end up in the storage room of a bar with your professor and you kiss him. Sometimes he kisses you back like the world is ending and he will never get to kiss you again. He kisses you until you forget the years of unrequited love; you forget all the rules, and you dare to reach for something that is not yours.
My Review
The Unrequited by Saffron A. Kent is a taboo romance novel with two of my favorite tropes of forbidden love.
"What does it feel like? Are you as lonely as me? As lost and angry? Are you insane like me?"
Layla Robison was in love and that love nearly destroyed her. She's moved on, or at least away, and is intent on finding herself again. Thomas Abrams is in love, a complicated love. A loved that has no room for a crazy, smart-mouthed, Twizzler-loving Layla.
"I'll ruin you, set you on fire, and won't even look back. I'll take and take until you're empty and hollow."
I read the synopsis of this story and knew it was one I would definitely be itching to read. Student-teacher romance is my favorite form of taboo, followed closely behind by those with sordid affairs; this was like a double dipped ice cream cone. The tendrils of the story from the beginning led in multiple directions, still giving us more about Layla and Thomas, but flirting with other aspects from the past that shaped the present. It was a torturous build to a story, like walking on a fragile frozen pond just waiting for the ice to break.
"But depth is misleading from the surface. Sometimes taking a plunge is the only way to find out if the water is too deep or just deep enough."
I love how Author Saffron A. Kent penned characters that were so close only a breath separated them, but so lost that they seemed to constantly row against the expanse of the ocean between them. The gradual build and layering of the story made for one that was equal parts slow-burn and cause for emotional mania.
"In this moment, we're more than soul mates. We inhabit each other's bodies. We are one. One skin. One heart. One need."
Now, for the pièce de résistance, let's get right to the sexual tension. Wow! It was taut and high. When the string finally broke, I couldn't breathe fast enough to keep up with the parallel panting that my lungs and mouth were doing. Two asteroids did collide…in my head, and that had me all messed up. I rode wave after wave of lust, pleasure, infatuation, and possession. It was intimately deranged, if that's even possible. The way Layla injected herself into Thomas' life, leaving no pore unclaimed, was eerily fascinating. She was a drug, a toxic and foreign chemical in his body, and he became hooked. So did I!
"I think I'm dead. I'm in heaven and hell. In another stratosphere. I'm everywhere. He has shattered me with his dark promises, broken me, and I don't think I'll ever be pieced back together."
There was a secondary aspect to this story that was as heartbreaking as it was surreal. I could literally see and feel this character's life light blinking, sputtering, and then going out. It was so sad and difficult to understand without having the full picture. These moments sucked the oxygen from the room and made me grasp at my Kindle, flipping page after page, looking for hope for all involved.
"The Harlot fell in love with the Fire-breather. It was beautiful and right. It was wrong and ugly, just like the earth beneath my feet. It was tragic and ecstatic. It was everything I'd hoped love could be."
I was literally mouth agape throughout most of this novel. The Unrequited was feral and alive, infectious, tumultuous, and risqué. One of the most riveting and pulsating forbidden romance novels.
"You bring them back…my words."
I'm hit by a storm of desire to kiss him better. It's a tornado, an avalanche in my body, and in one breathless moment, I decide to go for it. It's okay. I can take the blame for it later.
I break the rules and reach up and kiss him. A feathery peck on his plump lips, it's a kiss of solidarity, a kiss that intends to tell him I understand—but one isn't enough. It only manages to ratchet up my lust. So I give him another, this time on the corner of his mouth, and then another one on his jaw.
It's not enough, these small, barely-there touches. I want more, but I won't take it. I'll be good; I'll only give.
Abruptly, he fists my curls and stops me. I look at him fearfully, ready to apologize—not for the kiss, but for being the kisser. His gaze reflects passion, stark, raving need, and I shiver, despite wearing layers and sweating with his heat.
"Are you trying to kiss me, Layla?" he rasps, flexing his fingers on my makeshift ponytail.
He couldn't tell? Blush rises to the surface and I know I'm glowing like a neon sign. Swallowing, I nod. "Yes."
He inches closer to me, still not touching—as impossible as that is—but infinitely closer. "You want to kiss me, Miss Robinson, you do it right."
Oh God, does he have to call me that? Now, here? My spine arches on its own and my heavy tits graze the contours of his shuddering chest.
"H-How?" I ask innocently, belying the daring action of my body. His stern, professor-y voice is doing things to me, making me wild, uncontrolled.
For a second, he's silent, just watching. I'm afraid he'll back out from whatever this is, whatever insanity we're about to commit—but then I sense the shift in the liquor-laced air as he opens his mouth and growls, "Like this."