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All the women around the world suffer from the severe hair loss problem. If you control hair loss and breakage, then you can get a long hair. Certain tips are listed out below to improve the growth of your hair.You can follow the below tips to get the long hair. But you have to be patient while you are in the process of growing long hair.
Trim your hair
If you have split ends in your hair, then there is no possibility of the hair to grow longer.Therefore you must trim your hair for a regular period of an interval to maintain a proper hair growth.Trim the end of your hair to improve the hair growth. Trimming the hair at regular interval is the best solution to make your hair grow longer.
Avoid Daily Shampoo
Using shampoo daily is not a healthy way.The shampoo is used to wash away the dirt from the hair.So use it twice or thrice a week.This is much enough to keep the hair clean away from dirt.Over usage of shampoo will make your hair lose the natural oil in your hair and cause the hairs to break.
Use Conditioner
The conditioner is very good for the growth of long hair. Daily, use conditioner for your hair. This gives the protein to the hair and makes it grow longer. The wet hair is the best time to use conditioner.The condition smoothens your hair and builds a strong hair in the end.
Apply Oil
Apply oil massage to your hair at least once in a week. This helps the hair to get nourishment and prevent hair from breakage. Apply more oil at the end of the hair, it controls split ends.Massage your hair with an oil mask and leave it for sometimes.Then,wash the hair with cool water.The hot water will bring split ends to your hair.Therefore, your hair will not grow longer.
Use supplements
The supplements are used to improve the growth of hair.The hair needs proteins to grow hair.The supplements will also prevent the hair from breakage and split ends. So,your hair will grow longer with the help of proteins.Also, maintain a proper food diet.The intake of food is the better choice of growing your hair longer. Follow a balanced nutritious food.
Proper Care for Your Scalp
The scalp is the building block of your hair.So you must care more about your scalp.Give a massage at the root of the hair and scalp.The serum is the best choice to massage your scalp.It will nourish the hair and will give a strong foundation to your hair.If you have a strong scalp then your hair will not break from the root.This will help you to get long hair.
The hair does not grow in a night. Therefore be patient and follow the above tips. This will improve your hair growth.Follow the above methods to grow long hair.Leave us a reply on the comment box regarding the results.


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No, the Walnut Room at Chicago's flagship Macy's store isn't going anywhere, a company spokesperson said Monday, but questions surrounding the future of the State Street location remain unanswered.
CVS Health is closing 11 locations in Chicago as part of the company's previously announced cost-cutting initiative, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Kraft Heinz has decided to withdraw its $143 billion offer to buy mayonnaise, tea and seasonings maker Unilever.
U.S. food giant Kraft Heinz Co. confirmed that it's made an offer to buy Europe's Unilever and been rejected.
Target has announced plans to build a new "flexible-format" store expected to open this fall in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.

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SOURCE: Nucleus Medical Media
July 27, 2016 07:00 ET
Nucleus receives awards at the 2016 Association of Medical Illustrators Salon
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - July 27, 2016) - Nucleus Medical Media, Inc., was recently recognized at the 2016 Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) meeting in Atlanta, receiving three awards for the company's medical animations. Each year, the AMI Salon showcases hundreds of the finest medical illustrations and animations from students and professionals around the world.
Two animations, "Innate Lymphoid Cells" and "Acton Topical Delivery System", each received the Award of Excellence, the highest honor. Another animation, "Eukaryotic Cell Organelles", received an Award of Merit. Entries are judged on quality and accuracy.
The "Innate Lymphoid Cells" animation was created for Nature, a scientific journal. The animation discusses a recently discovered type of lymphocytes, called innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), and how it maintains tissue homeostasis.
"Acton Topical Delivery System" was created for Aplion Medical Corporation. Acton is a medical device used for wound treatment.
The "Eukaryotic Cell Organelles" animation is part of a series of biology animations that will be completed in 2017. The biology animations are written by high school science teachers to conform to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for Grades 9 - 12.
"It is an honor to call all the talented people at Nucleus Medical Media my co-workers," said Nucleus co-founder and CEO, Ron Collins. "I am grateful to the AMI Salon judges for selecting these animations from the many other excellent works at AMI 2016."
Credit for these awards goes to the hard-working Nucleus team, including animators Stephen Boyd, Erin Frederikson, Nobles Green II, Hoc Kho, Elizabeth McDonald, Heidi Sinsel, and Eric Small; and writers Mary Beth Clough, Mike Gleason, Leslie Leonard, and Joanne Jezequel.
The Association of Medical Illustrators is an organization comprised of over 800 members across four continents. Medical illustrators are professional artists with advanced educations who work to transform complex information into visual images. Nucleus Medical Media currently employs 18 medical illustrators.
About Nucleus Medical Media
Founded in 1997, Nucleus Medical Media, Inc. is an award-winning creator and licensor of medical illustrations, medical animations, and interactive multimedia for the publishing, legal, healthcare, entertainment, pharmaceutical, medical device, and academic markets. Nucleus's clients and partners include WebMD, McGraw-Hill, EBSCO Publishing, and thousands of other businesses in new and traditional media. Additional information can be found at http://www.nucleusmedicalmedia.com.
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What happens to those high school bullies who make lives miserable for so many other students just trying to get an education? Sometimes they're actually the ones with the problem and outgrow their miserable ways. But sometimes they just grow up and continue their bullying in other venues, such as the workplace.
An alarming statistic from the Workplace Bullying Institute: Bullying is four times more common than either sexual harassment or racial discrimination on the job. And currently there is no legal recourse to deal with it, as there is with sexual harassment or racial discrimination.
There is a loose-knit bipartisan coalition called Protect-US-Workers that is dedicated to ending abusive work environments though national legislation. They have created a petition through Care2 that they hope will be a pipeline to tell their stories directly to President Obama and the Department of Labor and to serve as a plea for the simple respect and human dignity that all workers deserve.
Think you may be a target of workplace bullying? The Workplace Bullying Institute offers these signs to look for.
For more on workplace bullying, see the TechRepublic articles:
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Toni Bowers is the former Managing Editor of TechRepublic and is the award-winning blogger of the Career Management blog. She has edited newsletters, books, and web sites pertaining to software, IT career, and IT management issues.


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Scientific Objectives
The cost of drug development has increased sharply in recent years, while approval of innovative drugs has declined. This "productivity gap" represents a major challenge for the pharmaceutical industry in Europe and throughout the world. One of the main reasons for the lack of new, innovative drugs is the high attrition rate during drug development. Three factors are major contributors and represent 66% of the causes for termination of drug development projects: toxicity in animals (20%), non-acceptable unwanted effects in humans (11%) and lack of therapeutic efficacy (25%). Both lack of efficacy and unpredicted toxicity is due to the paucity of mechanism based and predictive preclinical toxicity testing approaches.
The objective of Predict-IV is to provide an improved predictivity of the non-clinical safety testing well in advance of performing animal safety testing (pre-phase I development) and clinical trials (phase I and beyond).
Recent advances in tissue and bioreactor technologies, molecular biology, toxicity modelling, and bioinformatics are leading to new approaches in the integration of toxicity testing in vitro into the early stages of drug development, with the possibility of significantly increased predictability. The project will integrate these new developments to improve and optimize cell culture models for toxicity testing and to characterize the dynamics and kinetics of cellular responses to toxic effects in vitro. The target organs most frequently affected by drug toxicity will be taken into account, namely liver and kidney. Moreover, predictive models for neurotoxicity are scarce despite the fact that the neuronal system is a frequent target of undesired side-effects of drugs. The CNS is therefore addressed by the call and included as a target system. For each target organ the most appropriate cell model will be used. The choice of these models is based on availability and biological relevance to toxicity. It is envisaged to adopt and optimize the "best choice" of established cell systems rather than to undertake development of new cellular models.
Predict-IV will combine classical in vitro toxicology with innovative technologies, profiling and modelling tools in a system biology approach (from pathology to molecular mechanisms and in vitro kinetics) from the perspective of academia, industry and SMEs. High quality standards based on sound modelling and biostatistical practices will be applied to establish the experimental design of the in vitro dynamic and kinetic experiments leading to high quality data generation for further analysis, evaluation and integration. For the introduction into pharmaceutical discovery and development, this new test strategy will ultimately need to be validated.
Participants with complementary expertise to address the widely different issues will contribute to the project. Established and optimized cell culture systems with the ability to indicate deregulation of specific cellular processes within a short time after exposure (early markers of toxicity) will be used. The combination of profiling methods such as "omics" promises further insights into cellular responses to xenobiotic insults. In this area, the project will build on the knowledge gathered from other large research efforts. In particular there will be a direct link to the on-going InnoMed/PredTox project that is studying early biomarkers of toxicity of selected pharmaceuticals in vivo. The main purpose of PredTox is the construction and delivery of an integrated database from in vivo experiments on compounds with known toxicity profiles and correlating biomarkers of early toxic effects (transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics) with pathology.
The approach will be evaluated using a panel of drugs with well described toxicities and kinetics in animals and partly also in humans. Some of the compounds analyzed in vivo in PredTox will also be included in the Predict-IV project. This approach will be highly advantageous as it will allow a direct comparison between the in vivo to the in vitro data. A parallel analysis of several dynamic and kinetic models with a broad spectrum of endpoints should allow for the identification of several relevant biomarkers of toxicity. Inter-individual susceptibilities will be taken into account by integrating the polymorphisms of the major drug metabolizing enzymes and correlating the observed effects in the human cell models with their genotype. Environmental influences on cellular toxicity to these compounds will also be evaluated using hypoxic stress as a relevant test model. The ultimate goal is to provide an integrated test system approach with specific safety markers to predict toxicity prior to pre-clinical animal testing. Exposure data in vitro will be provided that can be used to derive margins-of-safety.
A highly integrative approach from a multidisciplinary team with expertise in analytical chemistry, biochemistry, cellular model development, toxicogenomics, metabolomics, high-content imaging technologies, bioinformatics, kinetic modelling, toxicology and risk assessment is required. The consortium of Predict-IV represents a wide variety of specific knowledge and many partners with demonstrated excellence in their fields that will cooperate to complete specific deliverables, which will then be integrated into a coherent testing strategy.
Predict-IV addresses a number of research priorities from the sub-priority "Predicting suitability, safety and efficacy of therapies". This project proposal is also in line with the aim of the call to mobilize and integrate research excellence necessary for the promotion of new strategies for alternative testing.
Predict-IV will aid in the scientific, technical, wider societal and policy objectives of the Health Priority in a number of ways:
- Predict-IV will build on a growing knowledge-base delivered by DGRTD FP6 projects, the progress made in pharmacological/toxicological screening and safety pharmacology and the input of an extensive list of scientific networks.
- One major contribution will be the application of cell culture systems (mainly based on human cells) to the early drug discovery and development process to accelerate drug development of pharmaceuticals and target organ specific and non-invasive endpoint determination.
- Profiling methods mainly based on metabolomics and genomics, and other endpoints indicative of the deregulation of essential cellular processes will deliver early biomarkers of human toxicity for pharmaceuticals. Improved knowledge on the toxicity mechanisms will be obtained for some model compounds.
- The development of better measurements or estimates of the real exposure of cells to drugs and/or their metabolites in the in vitro test systems will be a key element for the extrapolation of in vitro results to the in vivo situation.
- The development of consistent, 3Rs conscious strategies for predicting the kinetics of pharmaceuticals in man, should allow both early information on kinetics to be used for in vitro tests and comparison of in vitro toxic concentrations withtissue doses in vivo. These should use mostly in vitro and in silico techniques to give input data into relevant (particularly physiologically-based) kinetic models. The development of a consistent methodology to compare in vitro exposure and predicted in vivo kinetics is an important aspect for accurate toxicity prediction from in vitro toxicological test results. ECVAM will ensure that the test methods are developed according to ECVAM's criteria for inclusion of the developed strategies in future validation studies (Hartung et al., 2004).
- Predict-IV also aims to contribute to maintain Europe's position as a world-leader in the field of animal reduction in medical research and PBPK modelling.
Taken together, the Predict-IV' approach combines biological effects (toxicodynamics) with toxicokinetics and modelling ensuring the generation of real exposure data linked to effects. This will enable a relevant extrapolation from in vitro to in vivo including predictivity for adverse effects in human. The established models can then be flexibly integrated into any drug discovery testing cascade for the selection of the best drug development candidates.


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Science Left Behind -- Alex Berezow & Hank Campbell, authors
Release Date: 11/28/2012
Jefferson Exchange -- November 28, 2012, HOUR 2
Science Left Behind
The right wing in America takes a lot of flack for its relationship with science. Denial of global warming and evolution are often found among conservatives. But the left wing also has its doubts and denials about science. Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell explore those in their book "Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left."


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Future perspective: Consistent development in all areas
HELLER 2013: standing firm in unstable times
In 2013, HELLER placed a strong emphasis on the further development and refinement of its products.
- Completion of existing machine series
- Expansion of solution competence to additional applications
- CBC technology receives environmental award and generates orders
- Strengthening of our international presence
- Expansion of international personnel development and staffing levels
Despite all this, business of the German machine tool industry, including HELLER, was affected by the economic slowdown. Order intake at 413.5 million EUR saw a stronger-than-expected decline compared to last year's above-average volume. As expected, 2013 turnover at 532.7 million EUR was 59.7 million EUR below the record result of 2012. But 2013 turnover is the second highest in the history of the HELLER Group, still beating the average of the past 10 years by 30%. In view of the current economic climate, the company's unchanged overall performance of 496.7 million EUR represents an impressive and far above-average result.
Order intake: strong increase in the second half-year.
The decline in order intake is largely due to subdued order intake from project business with the automotive industry that experienced a significant decrease, particularly during the first six months. In the second half-year, the tide turned: order intake increased significantly, even being considerably above the prorated annual plan – however, without being able to fully compensate the shortfall from the first six months. The positive development clearly continues in 2014. Despite a declining market, the company has been able to expand single-machine business, benefiting from the expansion of the product portfolio.
Origin of orders: Europe is back.
Due to weaker project business, which in previous years had been supported by orders from Asia and the US, major shares in order volume have shifted back to Europe. 66% of all orders came from Germany and the rest of Europe (previous year: 46%), whilst the share of new orders from Asia declined to 19% last year (2012: 34%) and that of North and South America to 15% (2012: 20%).
Order trend 2014: positive development continues
Three months into 2014 HELLER records a positive development in order intake. At 187 million EUR, order intake is 120% above the previous year. As a result, orders received in the first quarter compensate for the disappointing development in 2013. So far, the positive trend has continued into the second quarter. For the overall year the company expects an order volume of more than 500 million EUR.
Healthy profit situation, sound equity ratio.
Investments into the future, e.g. the start-up of the new assembly plant in China and additional development efforts are reasons for satisfactory revenue though below that achieved in 2012. A particularly positive development: despite the decline in turnover equity capital has grown again to now 106.4 million EUR. This increases the equity ratio to 34% from 31.2% in 2012.
In addition, HELLER is now debt free. This has been achieved as a result of consistent accounts receivable management amongst other reasons. It also provides leeway for offering our customers numerous attractive financing solutions an increasingly number is asking for in their investment considerations.
Record development expenditure: expansion of regional business
The 2013 investment volume stabilised at a high level being significantly in excess of 16 million EUR. Investments focused on the assembly plant in China, machines and other equipment and modernisation of operating and business facilities.
In response to the growing market in Eastern Europe we are investing to increase customer proximity, e.g. with the expansion of our sales and service activities at the HELLER location in Yekaterinburg/Russia. Poor economic climate in Russia – partly due to the weak exchange rate – that became evident at the end of last year has further declined since the beginning of the year. Despite the current crisis, which makes planning of activities a challenging task, we consider the strengthening of our presence in the Russian market an investment into the future.
Another priority was development expenditure. Last year, the company spent at total of 14.1 million EUR in this area – 10% up on 2012. The focus was on the diversification of the product range, enabling the company to better serve its existing customers and expand business into new target groups, attracted by the traditional strengths of HELLER, including customers from outside the company's traditional clientele from the automotive industry. At the same time, we continued working on the expansion and intensification of our regional business.
Three new developments and numerous product enhancements result in a completely revamped and expanded product portfolio for 4-axis and 5-axis machining and combined milling/turning, especially in terms of large-part machining. Another addition is a completely new developed external milling machine for the machining of small light-duty crankshafts to round off the lower end of the product range in terms of external and internal milling processes.
In terms of its turnkey competence for crankcase manufacturing systems, HELLER is offering systems for the coating of cylinder bores on the basis of twin-wire arc spraying technology already successfully introduced in the market. Under the name HELLER CBC (CylinderBoreCoating), HELLER it expands the process chain in crankcase manufacturing. First systems are already in operation for high-volume production in Germany and Japan. At the production location in Nürtingen, the HELLER CBC TechnologyCenter is operating a flexible system showing the current status of development that can also be used directly for customer projects.
A look back at the past and a journey into the future: 2014 – HELLER's anniversary year.
There is a lot to celebrate for HELLER in 2014: in July the parent company in Nürtingen will be celebrating its 120 year anniversary. TThe company continues to operate as an independent, family-owned business. At the same time, the HELLER branches in Redditch/UK and Sorocaba/Brazil are celebrating 40 productive years as part of the global HELLER production network.
For 120 years, spanning three generations, HELLER has been a successful owner-managed enterprise: independent and family-owned. Continuity in terms of management and on shareholder level is and will remain part of our policy. In mid-2013, the great-grandson of the company founder, thus representing the fourth generation of the family, became shareholder of the company in preparation of the generation change.
Berndt Heller continues to act as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. His son-in-law, Christian Pfleiderer, has been active in the leadership of the company since 2013 and is now responsible for global service business. This success story is something HELLER can rightly feel proud of. However, it also requires us to invest thought in the perspectives of the globally operating group today.
We are convinced that continuity on shareholder level, long years of experience in leadership, shared values and a clear orientation provide the ideal basis to be well set up for meeting the challenges of the future – far beyond the year 2020. All customers and prospective buyers of HELLER will benefit from these activities in the same measure. With enhanced and even more precisely customised products and solutions. With specially targeted consulting. With further enhanced tailor-made service solutions – wherever the partner is located. Guaranteeing 100 percent "Made by HELLER".
Employees worldwide: equally qualified and committed.
More positive news: in 2013, the HELLER Group again achieved an increase in staff numbers. In detail it means that at the end of year, HELLER employed 2,436 people, including 1,840 staff in Germany.
The strongest growth in personnel was noted at the Chinese locations. The development triggered by the new foundation of the production facilities in Changzhou in autumn 2013 accounts for the significance of the Chinese market.
Independent of the location, the high quality of the HELLER products and services is backed by dedicated and qualified staff everywhere. That is why we remain committed to not only maintain the high quality level but to globally promote and enhance it through special measures and qualification programmes. Mastering this challenge is one of the most important tasks of the HELLER organisation as a whole.
Training and personnel development at HELLER are key to tomorrow's success. That is why the company is proud that, throughout the world, the name HELLER has for a long time been synonymous with excellent products and services as well as for outstanding, renowned and sophisticated vocational education and advanced training – at all production locations.
This claim is backed by convincing evidence: the quality of our training not only manifests itself in excellent qualifications and results of HELLER graduates but also in numerous co-operations with other companies. For some time now, HELLER has been training their young talent during the first 1.5 years. Another project in this context is the MAT2 Program currently implemented in the US. In the course of this scheme the proven German educational standards are implemented at our foreign subsidiary with the support of the State of Michigan.
For many years, exchange programmes, some starting at completion of the vocational education, have formed a cornerstone, aiming to achieve even more successful co-operation of all HELLER locations in the future. One example is the participation of our trainees in the European exchange programme called "Leonardo da Vinci" in co-operation with the HELLER branch in the UK. Our American trainees also visit Nürtingen every year for traineeships of several weeks.
To ensure that our products and services are of comparable excellent quality worldwide, we have additionally implemented an international personnel development programme, ensuring comparable knowledge and skill levels following uniform standards and built on identical contents and regular training. The scheme is supported by specific HELLER knowledge management tools and databases and is being developed further into new future-oriented dimensions.
These measures will help to ensure that our customers around the globe will be able to benefit from highly knowledgeable and skilled HELLER staff.
Following the continual development of HELLER health management and its constant expansion in the last 4 years, the current programme now covers a wide spectrum. Continuous programmes and special campaigns in the areas of nutrition, exercise and stress prevention are available to all staff members. The enhancement of our people's well-being and health is in the foreground of all activities, promoting a positive attitude towards everyday work life.
Future perspective: high-quality machines and state-of-the-art solution competence supporting the success of our customers.
The investment in a new machining centre has to pay off. To make production future-proof, our customers need reliability, precision and high productivity. In response we provide a combination of high-quality mechanical engineering and state-of-the-art solution competence.
HELLER solution competence results from the product itself plus our process-specific know-how. Through our solution competence we are strengthening the unique selling points of the product. We offer customers the added value and security to operate our machines with a high level of reliability and productivity. This is true for complete solutions from stand-alone machines through to turnkey manufacturing systems worth 150 million EUR. From new machines and full-service agreements through to retrofits. Always geared towards the requirements of our customers.
Our high-quality machines need to meet today's demands of modern production. That is why HELLER products are based on a modular system. Well before the introduction of series production of machining centres in 1960s, HELLER already focused on the development of a modular product range. The BEA model range was in the vanguard of this development. Until today, we aim to offer our customers the greatest possible range of flexibly configurable products. That is why we build on the concept of optimising existing base machining centres and modules with optional and customised extensions tailored to the specific requirements of each user.
For example: special spindle units, tool magazines or workpiece management systems. This enables us to supply HELLER solutions perfectly tailored to each customer's production requirements, in other words, a tailor-made 'off the peg' solution. This way we are combining customised solutions with the cost benefits of series production.
Our path into the future: with new ideas and concepts built on proven know-how
On 1 July 2012, Dr Christian Lang took over responsibility for regional sales in Europe followed by management responsibility for regional business in Germany on 1 February 2013. In addition to the leadership of the European sales organisation and close co-operation in the further development of our customer-oriented range of 4-axis, 5-axis and mill/turning centres, this tasks included optimisation and intensification of sales activities regarding stand-alone machines. For personal reasons Dr Lang retired from is executive post on 1 May 2014.
With the conceptual work initiated by Dr Lang regarding the development of HELLER's regional sales activities we are well set up for the future. Besides our successful activities in our traditional field of automotive business, we will continue on this path taking a focused and targeted approach.
Responsibility for the activities started will be taken over by Christian Pfleiderer who is currently working on the successful restructuring of our worldwide service activities towards global market requirements.
We are convinced that our existing product and service portfolio will enable us to continue to be successful in the market as a globally oriented and family-owned business. Feedback we receive from our customers every day clearly confirms this.
Heller Machine Tools L.P.
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I updated today to 3.6.7. Now my "Tag-Cloud" miss the line break/break -> http://www.pixelfeuer.de below "Schlagwörter"
That Tagcloud is "SimpleTag" but with the default Cloud-Widget it is the same problem. That bug/issue isnt into 3.6.4. This missing line breaks (whatever) are seen within firefox, opera, chrome, IE.


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- 0.1 The Clamor Over Towel Diapers: Is the Eco-Payoff Really Well worth the Effort?
- 0.2 I Will Never Live Without Paper Towels (but Don't Tell Any individual).
- 0.3 There's no question that non reusable baby diapers create a LOT of waste.
- 0.4 Well, however exactly what concerning those contaminants in non reusable baby diapers, the ones some people claim can seep from landfills to pollute ground water?
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The Clamor Over Towel Diapers: Is the Eco-Payoff Really Well worth the Effort?
I have two kids. I did not towel baby diaper them, neither did I try that removal communication point where you aim to translate your child's numerous faces in order to properly forecast when you need to hold their naked bottom over a mixing dish that you will presumably never ever again utilize for food preparation objectives. If I estimate we experienced an average of six baby diapers a day for each and every kid, that's an overall of 8,760 disposable baby diapers I sent out to land fills throughout the first two years of their lives.
The grand overall is more than that, certainly, given that I do not bear in mind either one of my kids ringing in their 2nd birthday celebration by suddenly making a decision to be potty trained.
We are well past the diaper phase now and also I have specifically zero strategies to review it ever before again, excepting drastic unforeseen conditions like needing to drive cross-country to confront an enchanting rival or holding an 11-hour filibuster, yet my efforts to lead a much more eco-friendly way of life have led me to wonder: if I needed to do it throughout once more, would I make use of cloth this moment?
I'll be sincere, I never ever also considered it when my kids were bit, due to the fact that it seemed like a great deal of extra work. A lot of poopy extra job. Spraying the poop, scraping the poop, soaking the poop in jugs, happily tossing poop-smeared material into the washing machine. I really did not recognize the language: liners, pre-folds, flats, fitteds. I wasn't also curious about enlightening myself on the topic, disposables just looked like the method to go.
I Will Never Live Without Paper Towels (but Don't Tell Any individual).
Towel diapering appears to have come back in style recently, thanks to much easier bolts and also super-cute textiles. I have actually long presumed that the fad of revealing off charming baby butts swaddled in distinctive patterns has actually led to an increase in the number of individuals who firmly insist that fabric diapering is better for the atmosphere.
There's no question that non reusable baby diapers create a LOT of waste.
Around 27.4 billion disposable baby diapers are made use of every year in the USA, causing a feasible 3.4 million tons of used baby diapers included in landfills annually. One study approximates that the $7 billion dollar disposable diaper market makes use of over 300 pounds of wood, 50 extra pounds of oil feedstocks, as well as 20 extra pounds of chlorine for each and every child annually.
Those numbers appear jaw-droppingly awful, till you take into consideration that towel diapering additionally has a negative affect on the atmosphere. Cloth baby diapers use up huge quantities of electrical energy and water for washing as well as drying, and also commercial diaper service delivery van consume gas as well as produce air contamination.
Well, however exactly what concerning those contaminants in non reusable baby diapers, the ones some people claim can seep from landfills to pollute ground water?
Inning accordance with the EPA:.
Non reusable baby diapers drop under the group of metropolitan strong waste, which indicates the material is secure to be disposed of in a UNITED STATE community solid waste landfill. In the United States, modern-day garbage dumps are well-engineered centers that lie, created, run, and checked to guarantee conformity with federal policies which aim to secure the atmosphere from impurities which may be present in the strong waste stream.
Spend simply a couple of mins diving down Google's numerous informational rabbit-holes, and also you can discover numerous debates both for as well as versus towel baby diapers, along with extensive research studies that eventually caused a type of fancy shrug from the specialists.
" Disposables eat even more basic materials and generate more solid waste … but fabric baby diaper manufacturing and usage consume more water and also energy as well as generate more … atmospheric discharges and waste water effluent," writes Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Video: cloth Diapering in Hooks
And after that theres this regarding Diapers:.
" Both the non reusable and also reusable baby diaper choices produce solid waste as well as wastewater that must be dealt with and/or disposed. More solid waste is developed with the disposal option, while even more wastewater is produced with the multiple-use choice," creates Jeremy O'Brien, director of applied research at the Solid Waste Organization of North America.
Darned if you do, damned if you do not. Possibly that mixing dish isn't such a negative concept.
Fugitive hunter: A Personal Quest to Ditch Paper Products in the Cooking area.
So exactly how's a parent meant to sift with all the different viewpoints in order to make the environmentally-friendly selection?
I don't know that there's a one-size-fits-all answer to the excellent diaper argument.
My individual feeling is that cloth is the far better option for those dedicated to living environment-friendly, considered that you can do things like line dry the textiles, get energy reliable appliances, wash on chilly, and so on. A three-year study by the London-based Environmental Company wrapped up that there was "no substantial distinction" in between the environmental effect of fabric and non reusable diapers– however they do make clear that actions could be required to lower the effect of fabric diapering:.
The ecological influences of using designed reusable diapers could be greater or lower than making use of disposables, depending on just how they are washed. As opposed to making use of disposable diapers, it is consumers' actions after acquisition that identifies most of the influences from multiple-use diapers.
In spite of our best interests, disposables just get thrown in the garbage, and there's no other way around that.
It's not even understood for how long it takes for a disposable baby diaper to decay.
Centuries, yes, however the number of precisely? No person's specific.
I'm also vague just what my final thought is from all this. I seem like I've come around to believing that towel diapering is the extra accountable decision– and also the more economical one over the long-term– however would I stroll the stroll? I honestly do not know. I have really demanding memories of those early parenting days, as well as I'm not exactly sure that I 'd have been able to commit to towel. It's not that I would certainly have been squeamish about the poop, it's that I remember feeling so … at capability. Exhausted and also anxious as well as, you recognize, virtually currently sinking under a hill of washing.
Possibly I would have, if I would certainly invested some time right into considering the options prior to me rather of thoughtlessly going with exactly what appeared easiest.


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The registration form asked for a seed time from a 1650 yd/1500 m pool swim. Obviously I haven't done one of those in a while, but with the help of Victoria, I guesstimated my time. I didn't want to just double my time from the swim portion of my tri (750 m) because I figured that it would be significantly slower than my pool time. When I got the seeding for Sunday's race and was near the top, I realized that most people must have guessed at their open water time, rather than using a pool time. I was pretty sure I was going to get passed - a lot.
Sunday morning I made the easy drive up to Centennial Lake. Since the race didn't start until 8:45, I didn't have to leave my apartment until 7. It almost felt like sleeping in. :) I had heard that this lake is where the Columbia Tri is held, and it was obvious as soon as I got to the parking lot that the lake and surrounding park are a mecca for triathletes. The lot was packed with cars with bike racks and people unloading their bikes, and the path down to the pavilion was packed with runners.
This was a small race (60 swimmers) so I was able to get my packet and be body marked in about 3 minutes. I was lucky number 13! Then I had plenty of time to warm up/check out the course and lake. The water felt much better than Mountain Lake in Culpeper (turns out it was 82) and, like that lake, I could see absolutely nothing in the water. Fortunately, that doesn't bother me in non-ocean situations because the only thing that freaks me out is sharks. I suppose that if I swam in Florida I would also be worried about alligators, but that wasn't a concern here!
The race used a time trial start, which meant that 2 people started every 15 seconds. I wasn't familiar with this type of wave system, but it was nice because there was no jostling or fighting for position at the beginning. The woman I started with had pulled ahead before we got to the first buoy and I knew that my suspicions about being seeded too high were probably correct. The course went out to the buoy you can see in the picture above and then we swam in a large triangle in the larger portion of the lake before coming back between that buoy and the island (on the right) and then straight in to the finish.
I settled into a decent rhythm early on and tried to sight on a semi-regular basis to make sure I was staying in a somewhat straight line. I got passed by a number of people early on, along the first side of the triangle. Other than that I felt like I was more or less out there on my own. When I started on the third side I had been alone for a while and made it my goal not to get passed anymore. Unfortunately, one more guy passed me in the middle of that side and then as I got back towards the last turn buoy I noticed that there was someone 10-15 yards behind me. At that point I was very determined not to be passed another time and tried to pick up the pace. I didn't pull away, but did manage to stay ahead of him to the finish. Since he started behind me I'm sure he actually beat my gun time, but I got the satisfaction of crossing the line first! (you can kind of see his head/splashes in the photos below)
I ended up second in my age group and walked away with a sweet ribbon that reminded me of summer league swim meets! Small races are the best. The winner was actually the woman who had started with me. She only ended up about a minute ahead of me which I think is pretty good considering that she pulled away so early on.


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ISIS Fighter: My Dream is to Live Under Islamic Caliphate in EuropeFusion
Mar. 24, 2016
Sackler Family Boasted In '90s That Oxycontin 'Prescription Blizzard' Would Be 'Deep, Dense & White'
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Eric Holder: Citizenship Question On Census 'Threatens American Democracy'
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Bolton After Visit to Israel: U.S. Won't Leave Syria Until Certain 'Objectives' Achieved
Per capita, Belgium has sent more fighters to join ISIS than any other nation in Europe. Michael Delefortrie was one of the first, and he lived to return to his home in Brussels. Many of his friends, he says, "went to Paradise." As part of its upcoming hourlong documentary on extremism in Europe, Fusion's investigative team sat down with the former altar boy to discuss his views on Islam and jihad.
Just weeks before the Brussels attacks, Delefortrie told us his dream to "live under an Islamic caliphate" would soon become a reality in Europe. ISIS's brand of militant Islam would not be denied, he said, because "ISIS is not a group, it's an ideology."
Asked about terror attacks against civilians, he suggested there was a logic behind them. "If you spit in the air," he said, "there's gonna be a moment when the spit is gonna fall in your own face."
Delefortrie is currently serving three years' probation for his connections with terror groups.
To learn more, watch The Naked Truth: Radicals Rising, Fusion's hourlong investigative documentary on right-wing and Islamist extremists battling for Europe, on Sunday, March 27 at 8 p.m. EDT on Fusion.


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Top 10 Things to Do During Daytona Bike Week
4. Demo Rides
One of the best things about Daytona Bike Week is that most of the major manufacturers have a presence at the event, giving riders an opportunity to look at all of the current model bikes. Most offer an opportunity to demo them, too. While you won't get to set any land speed records on the demo ride, you do get the chance to feel what the bike is like out on the road. Our advice is that if you are really hot to ride one particular model, show up early in the morning to register – the newest, highest demand bikes get booked up early.
While there are demo rides in other locations, the Daytona International Speedway is the epicenter of demo ride activity. Make sure you bring proper riding gear (meaning at least a DOT-approved helmet) and a valid motorcycle endorsement. If you really fall for a bike, you might want to have your checkbook handy, too.
The following manufacturers are expected to provide demo rides during Bike Week: Can-Am, Indian Motorcycle, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Triumph, Victory.


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Changes to Police and Crime Commissioners complaints system
Proposals to change the way non-serious complaints against Police and Crime Commissioners are managed.
Proposals to change the way complaints against Police and Crime Commissioners are managed were published by the Home Office today (Thursday 17 December).
Views have been invited on potential changes to the system for non-serious complaints (i.e. non-criminal), which are handled by Police and Crime Panels (PCPs) through the "informal resolution" process.
But with PCCs taking on a greater role in the handling of complaints made against their police force and their responsibilities increasing, this Government believes the time is right to amend the system for complaints made against a PCC.
The proposed changes include:
- Clarifying, through non-statutory guidance, what constitutes a complaint, ensuring PCPs take forward complaints about a PCC's conduct rather than their policy decisions.
- Providing PCPs with greater investigatory powers to seek evidence about allegations made in a complaint.
- Clarifying, through non-statutory guidance, the parameters of "informal resolution" and setting out that, where agreement cannot be reached, it is open to PCPs to make recommendations on the expected level of behaviour of a PCC, and that they have powers to require the PCC to respond.
Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, Mike Penning, said:
With PCCs' responsibilities increasing, we need to ensure that the system governing complaints about their conduct is effective and easy for the public to navigate.
These proposals will improve the transparency of the complaints procedure, delivering more satisfactory outcomes for complainants while ensuring the fundamental principle of accountability of PCCs to the electorate is not undermined.
Serious complaints - i.e. those which could relate to criminality - will continue to be handled by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. This process will remain unchanged.
The consultation closes on 10 March 2016 and the full consultation document can be found here


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Below is the letter I sent home to parents. This pretty much took all control out of my hands which was frightening. If the parents didn't respond to this my teachers would have had nothing. I shouldn't have been surprised how well they did with this! It was amazing!
Day One: I provided a luncheon but the parents signed up for desserts. I use VolunteerSpot.com and they had filled all "spots" within 24 hours!
This sweet family had a whole cake made and dedicated to our teachers!
These are all the desserts the parents donated!
We have connections at a local Mexican restaurant!
Day Two: The teachers have enough to drink for the rest of the summer! The kids had a blast delivering the teacher's favorite drinks!
I kind of lost tract the remainder of the week but the whole building smelled like flower shop on Day Three. Day Four the kids created all kinds of thank you notes and projects to give their teachers.
Day Five "Sweet Treat Day" was even a bigger success! The teachers had so much candy they were letting students eat it! This made the kids even happier.
Feel free to use any of our ideas for your school or for your own children to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week 2014!


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US Open champion Brooks Koepka had the best score in relation to par in the 2017 Majors and will be one to watch again in the big events next year.
The monster-hitting American was a combined 21-under par for the four Majors, producing his breakthrough moment when landing the US Open at Erin Hills.
You want to win Majors more than you want to win anything else.Brooks Koepka
Koepka was also T11 in the Masters at Augusta National, T6 in the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale and T13 in the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
In all, he's had 12 top-25 finishes in the Majors since a top-four at the 2014 US Open, more than any other player over that same period.
Asked to explain why he thrives, Koepka said at Quail Hollow in August: "I feel like the Majors really get my attention.
"I don't know what it is, just the fact that every shot counts so much. You want to win Majors more than you want to win anything else.
"I felt like I've had a few chances coming down the stretch to win a couple more. I don't know what it is, but the Majors, I get going for it."
Another reason touted for his success at this level is an unflappable temperament.
He's shown that with his attitude to winning a Major - rather than talk about the relief or sense of climbing the mountain, Koepka said with a shrug a couple of months after his US Open success: "I don't think anything is different. It's your job. You're supposed to win. That's kind of the goal.
"So when you win a Major, I mean, nothing changes other than maybe a few more autographs."
Koepka, who ended this season eighth in the world rankings, is 1213.00 to win the Masters, 19.00 to defend his US Open crown, 23.00 for the Open Championship and 21.00 to land the USPGA Championship.
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Finally the day has come when I am sharing my creation to the world. Its been long since I edited Twenty Ten Theme, and was using it on my different blogs. Few of my friends suggested me to share this theme code with them, and so i decided to share my Beautiful Theme with all of my blog readers and my fellow bloggers. The theme has been designed by myself The theme is based on Twenty Ten Theme for WordPress I have done modifications to it, as I was searching for a perfect theme with some great feature in it. So I searched google for various tutorials and finally the result is in front of you. You can install this theme simultaneously with Twenty Ten theme. so you don't have to delete any theme to install this theme. I will suggest you to download the Theme from below mentioned download button unzip it make necessary change as mentioned below and upload it to your WordPress theme folder.
Check out the live demo of Technotips Twenty Ten Theme
Main Features of Technotips mod of Twenty Ten Theme for WordPress
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– Rotating Author Image in Author Bio, you won't find this feature in any WordPress premium themes.
– Beautiful Pagination With Hover effect – Plugin Required wp-pagenavi
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Our Annual November Meeting Thanksgiving Potluck and Recipe Contest
Our meetings are always free to all who are interested in the gluten-free lifestyle, eating and living gluten-free, whether you are gluten-sensitive, gluten-intolerant or have celiac disease or an auto-immune disease that necessitates a gluten-free diet.
Questions? Call Lisa Shaver 503.577.9339, GIG of Portland branch manager
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December 15, 2006
Edward Speleers as ERAGON
Jeremy Irons as BROM
Sienna Guillory as ARYA
Robert Carlyle as DURZA
John Malkovich as KING GALBATRIX
Studio: Fox 2000 Pictures
Directed by: Stefan Fangmeier
Listen to Kevin's radio review…
Ever since "Harry Potter," "The Lord of the Rings" and more recently "The Chronicles of Narnia" legitimized fantasy films in the mainstream, Hollywood has been searching for the next big franchise. The latest attempt is the young adult best-selling novel "Eragon."
My biggest beef with this movie emerges from the fact that I grew up a "Star Wars" kid, with most of the fantasy films of my youth (like "Dragonslayer" and "Excaliber") crashing and burning into obscurity. Now, instead of sci-fi knock-offs, the CGI effects are made use of in the fantasy realm. But sadly, "Eragon" is still nothing more than a "Star Wars" rip-off.
The story follows a young farm boy who suddenly finds himself destined to be the last hope of a dying breed of ancient warriors. Sound familiar? Instead of the Force, there's basic magic. Instead of Jedis, we have Dragon Riders. Instead of Darth Vader, we have the evil sorcerer Durza (Robert Carlyle). The only thing missing here is a Chewbacca.
I understand that would-be writers that have read Joseph Campbell have learned to work with only a limited number of hero storylines, but this is ridiculous. I couldn't even enjoy the film because I kept getting slapped with new plot points stolen from "Star Wars."
Don't believe me? Here are just a few: Eragon was abandoned by his parents to live with his uncle on a farm. His uncle is killed by soldiers looking for his new "friend" (a dragon instead of a pair of droids). Eragon must travel with an old, wise Dragon Rider to save a princess from the bad guys. His old Dragon Rider mentor takes it upon himself to teach him the way of magic. Should I go on?
Instead of explaining how everything fits together, let's continue the "Star Wars" comparison. Edward Speleers plays Luke Skywalker. Sienna Guillory plays Princess Leia. Jeremy Irons plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Garrett Hedlund is Han Solo. And John Malcovich plays Emperor Palpatine.
Scratch that… As he does with every other role he's ever had, John Malcovich plays John Malcovich – a dirty, bearded John Malcovich who keeps an evil dragon as a pet.
The writing is somewhat uninspired for this film, so much so that it can't be saved with some pretty slick special effects. Sigh… at least they didn't have a Jar Jar Binks stuck in there somewhere.
Actually, the story behind the story is more interesting than the one in the movie itself. It's actually an inspiration Cinderella story for aspiring writers. Author Christopher Paolini wrote the book when he was still a teenager and managed to sell it. From there, he published a sequel, and a third book is being prepped for release sometime in the future.
I've never read the original novel, so I can't say whether it follows the original story. Because of this, I don't blame Paolini. Maybe the screenwriter or the director was responsible for the movie's lack of creativity.
The acting was only so-so, even for the powerhouse actors like Jeremy Irons. In fact, "Eragon" felt more like a comfortable follow-up to an Uwe Boll stinker like "BloodRayne" rather than an appropriate lead-in for the next "Harry Potter" or "Narnia" sequel.


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Feb. 15 - Fall Protection Equipment Inspection
February 16, 2017 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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This half day program is directed towards individuals who will be tasked with the responsibility of establishing and maintaining a work site's fall protection equipment inventory.
The course instructs participants on how to conduct formal equipment inspections on personal arrest system components. The course will consist of combination of practical and theoretical learning approaches. Equipment inspection will comprise a major component of the course's content, but other aspects of a proper equipment care will be taught to ensure that students can properly implement a complete managed equipment program on-site.
Prerequisite: Fall Protection Comprehensive
- Developing a managed on-site equipment care program
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An outstanding red that has now become very scarce due to extraordinary international demand. Totally opaque black purple colour – like many of the blockbusters from the 2002 vintage, it is a saturate of colour and flavour. Superb lifted nose, perfumed violets, spice and blackberry. The palate is mouth filling with flavours of spice, vanilla and violets, supported by very fine tannins. Excellent length and depth, with great concentration of primary fruit flavours. Profoundly long aftertaste of vanilla, spice, black pepper and dark chocolate.
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The 2002 Shiraz Block 6 (made from 112-year-old vines cropped at a mere 1-2 tons of fruit per acre) is the antithesis of the Hillside cuvee. Backward and nearly impenetrable, its inky/ruby/purple color is accompanied by high levels of tannin, huge structure, and massive concentration. It requires 3-6 more years to become civilized and accessible. This dense Shiraz saturates the palate with extract and concentration as well as elevated tannin. It is amazing one winery could produce two wines that are so totally opposite. Only consumers with cool cellars and the patience to wait 5-6 years should purchase this blockbuster. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2022+. This wine is finished with a screw cap.
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Exam prep Friday 17.1 10:00
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There will be a lecture/tirgul with Amos, Ilan and Shai this Friday. We will answer/solve any questions you may have. Please send us questions you would like us to answer by Wednesday. The location will be decided upon during the week.
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D-Link DI-624M and DWL-G650M
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D-Link announced the launch of its SuperG with MIMO (Multiple Input/Multiple Output) wireless networking products. Based on Atheros Technology's AR5005VL wireless chipsets that employ multiple-radio and smart-antenna technologies, D-Link's products offer the promise of improved throughput and range as compared to traditional 802.11g products, while maintaining backwards compatibility with 802.11b/g products.
According to Atheros, the AR5005VL chipset is capable of supporting up to four antennas. Though best performance is achieved when the chipsets are used on both the client and the access point, users are expected to see improvements even if the chipset is used on just a single end of the link. The new chipset uses a smart antenna design and receive combining to improve link performance.
D-Link's product announcements include the DI-624M Wireless Router with four-port switch (and the DWL-G650M PC Card. The router employs two transmitter/receiver modules and four antennas, while the client card has two transmitter/receiver modules with two antennas. Both products are expected to be available in mid-February. Watch for an upcoming review in which PC Labs tests range and performance.


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February 24-26, 2015 - Calgary, Alberta
This three day conference focused on Corrosion and Asset Integrity topics dealing with conventional oil and gas, heavy oil and the oil sands industry. Cormetrics Ltd. along with Ammonite Corrosion Engineering set up a booth which displayed laboratory corrosion rate test apparatus and examples of pipeline corrosion defects from failure analysis. Frank Hornsby chaired the session on corrosion mechanisms in the technical track.


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Well midsummer season 2014 has all arrived and all the women are start searching for the fashionable dresses for this midsummer season and upcoming Eid Ul Azha. In all such brands we have the prominent name of Elan as well. Elan has recently introduced their lovely midsummer collection 2014 for Eid Ul Azha as well. In this collection Elan is featuring with the high class of dresses that are just designed according to the latest and new fashion trends. Traditional long shirts have been put inside this collection with the pairing of trousers, tights and churidar pajamas. Some of the dresses have been adorned with embroidery and some of them are finished with lace work too. Colors have been painted in the soft and light color combinations. Scroll down and find out Elan Vital Collection 2014 second Volume.
Elan is one of those fashion houses in Pakistan that does not need any sort of introduction. This brand is one of the popular fashion houses that mainly work for the women clothing collections. The main product lines of Elan brand are casual wear, party wear, and formal wear. Each year they have appeared with something unique and fresh in their dresses whose modernizing and styling simply takes away the heart beats of the fashion lovers. Which one is your favorite collection by Elan?
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As children, our parents are infallible. This likely accounts for why it takes so long for severely abused children to be recognized, and removed from their dismal environment. If you add charm and charisma to the mix, the child sees the abuser through the lens of how he interacts with others as well as how they view him. Unfortunately, the end result in the mind of a child is the belief that there must something wrong with them.
If I take this out of the family circle, and broaden this hypothesis to other important figures in a child's life, the same rule applies. I'm thinking of all the victims at Penn State. It must have been confusing to see a renowned and charismatic figure in the realm of heightened authority, and wonder why this well-respected person picked him to abuse.
The abuser is not always the boogie man waiting in the bushes. If he was, "telling" would be so much easier. When the abuser is an elevated figure, a person in authority and an admired person - it compounds the confusion and the damage digs deeper into the child's psyche. This is the situation in Pages in the Wind. Emily's father is a dynamic figure, admired and respected by many, and his attributes are outwardly apparent. Emily is always in the audience, seeing his charismatic behavior in action.
Growing up in that house, no one told Emily that her father was anything but righteous. He was a tall, handsome man with hazel eyes, dark wavy hair, and an infectious grin. His hazel eyes were set off by his tanned skin, which he never allowed to fade. His features were masculine and rugged with high cheekbones, an angular nose, and a square and prominent jaw. He had a style that attracted both men and women. Men were drawn to him, for he enjoyed the camaraderie of other men, and he sought a large audience of men as much as women. Men made him feel important and envied, while women made him feel desirable and sexual. He was comfortable in both large and small gatherings, and moved around the room with an ease and demeanor that would catch the eye of everyone in the room.
I wonder if you have known people in similar environments, or if you relate to the "pull" that charismatic people have in dragging in their prey. Does it, in fact, even reach beyond our childhood and follow us into adulthood? If we witnessed a child being abused by a nameless person, wouldn't we drag them to the nearest cop, after we did our own damage? Would we even have to think about it? Would we wait and go through the proper chain of command, and consider damage control in terms of the abuser?
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Dallas Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison in Enticement Case
Defendant Convicted at Trial for Attempting to Entice Minor Boy to Engage in Sexual Activity
DALLAS — Jack Marty Taylor, 60, of Dallas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 120 months in federal prison, following his conviction at trial in November 2015 on one count of attempted enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
Taylor has been in federal custody since his conviction.
On September 16, 2014, Taylor posted a Backpage advertisement entitled, "Sugar Dad looking for his son – 50." Taylor stated he was looking for a younger guy for companionship and stated, "You must be 18-30ish…I'm looking for companionship and love." In return for that, Taylor offered to "give you a nice, safe place to live, 3 meals a day, spending money, clothing, shoes, etc."
On September 17, 2014, at 12:33 p.m., a detective with the Garland Police Department, posing as a 14-year-old boy, responded to the advertisement via email. Several emails transpired in which Taylor suggested they communicate via text messaging. As the text messaging began, Taylor asked more about the boy's age, confirmed he was a minor, where he lived, and what school he attended. Taylor almost immediately began to text the boy about meeting and what they would do when they met. Taylor exchanged numerous text messages with the boy, including sexually explicit text messages, throughout the day.
Between September 17, 2014, and February 4, 2015, Taylor suggested meeting the boy in person 40 times, and each time the boy avoided meeting Taylor. In fact, after just three hours of emails and texts with the boy, and after repeatedly suggesting that the two meet, Taylor texted, "I was scared of you at first. I thought maybe you were a cop." On February 4, 2015, the day Taylor and the boy were set to meet, Taylor again asked him if he was a cop. Taylor indicated he had experience in these types of matters and advised, "That's an important thing to ask when you're meeting someone for the first time." Law enforcement arrested Taylor on February 4, 2015, at the agreed meeting location.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Project Safe Childhood (PSC) initiative. PSC is a department initiative launched in May 2006 that aims to combat the proliferation of technology-
facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC marshals federal, state, tribal and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. Since FY 2011, the Department of Justice has filed 20,260 PSC cases against 19,111 defendants. These cases include prosecutions of child sex trafficking; sexual abuse of a minor or ward; child pornography offenses; obscene visual representation of the sexual abuse of children; selling or buying of children; and many more statutes. To learn more about PSC's work, please visit: https://www.justice.gov/psc.
For more information regarding the National Strategy to Combat Child Exploitation, Prevention and Interdiction, please visit: https://www.justice.gov/psc/national-strategy-child-exploitation-prevention-and-interdiction.
The Garland Police Department and the FBI investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Camille Sparks was in charge of the prosecution.
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Sony has stated over the past several weeks that their newest handheld console, the PlayStation Vita, will be a huge focus at this year's E3 press conference. That being the case, you better believe that Media Molecule's latest offering, Tearaway, will be one of the headlining titles.
Over on the PlayStation Blog, SCEA Social Media Specialist Justin Massongill has offered up a new hands-on preview with Tearaway, highlighting some of the game's unique features that can only be achieved on the PlayStation Vita.
And that's not just PR talk, either. Many of the game's functions rely on that back touchpad which, up until this point, has managed to feel more gimmicky than useful. One of the touchpad's functions in Tearaway makes it into a sort of inverted altered reality (AR) game. Instead of the game world being laid over your own world, like with traditional AR, you are instead reaching into the world of the game, with your "fingers" even popping up through the ground in some instances.
"Tearaway isn't completely outside [Media Molecule's] comfort zone," said Massongill. "It's still adorable, inventive, and a true showcase of its platform's capabilities. Built with PS Vita in mind, Tearaway makes impressive (but not excessive) use of the integrated camera and rear touchpad to craft a more tactile and immersive world."
If the name Media Molecule sounds familiar, it's because they are the studio behind the popular and brilliant LittleBigPlanet games. If nothing else, that should give you some kind of idea as to the amount of creativity we can expect out of Tearaway when it releases for Vita this October. For even more details on what the game will offer, be sure to check out Masibgill's full hands-on impressions.


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W8.1 Pro x64
Wish that it'd be updated for Windows 8, even though W10 is out.
Any chance for a update?
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Several people have run it on Windows 8.1; I tested it briefly as working also. But if you found a particular issue that needs to be addressed then please let me know.
* I am currently not at home for an extended period so any updates will probably take a while.
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Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Hi, I just found this program after 10 minutes of searching and it 99% fulfilled what I needed. If you could lower the Hotspot Sensitivity minimum to 1px and Coolspot Sensitivity to 2px, it would be perfect.
Also, I'm not sure if it caused your program or Windows, but when I'm searching for something in Win Start, the taskbar is hidden and looks kinda weird as the Start is "floating".
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Hello pvpbender,
I will definitely look into adding per pixel sensitivity detection. But, as I've explained previously, I am quite busy right now so I don't know when I can implement it.
The floating start menu is a byproduct of the fact that the taskbar and start menu are two different windows objects. I chose to go for less cpu usage by my app rather than having to constantly check for the presence of the taskbar AND the start menu which could affect the performance of other programs/games negatively.
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|31 Aug 2017
10 64bit
Absolutely Perfect And Essential Program!
Hey jykelly, I just wanted to let you know I've donated towards the development of the program. I've been using it for windows 10, and I can say it works well, except sometimes the taskbar won't show at all, and the delay can be a bit long (which isn't too bad), even with all Windows Animations turned off. Thanks so much for your work.
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|14 Sep 2017
Hi AlasShyBar, thanks for the donation and for your kind words. I haven't been able to test ShyBar on Windows 10 much unfortunately. Thanks for the input, those issues are now also on my to-do list once I can get back to coding.
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|19 Oct 2017
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
I can't really see myself using this without windows key support. I'd rather just deal with the 1 pixel annoyance than to be required to use the mouse any time I want to see what programs are open, check the time, etc. How has no one brought this up in 9 pages, lol?? Also the added delay is considerable even with zero delay setting.
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|24 Oct 2017
Hi joe7dust,
The windows key support is a valid issue that I hadn't considered because I don't tend to use that key (because games). I will look into that soon. As for the zero delay, it works perfectly for me on an old i5. Nevertheless, I will also investigate.
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|13 Dec 2017
Hello everybody. If anyone is interested in helping me test, here is a new beta for ShyBar. 2.6: Dropbox - shybarsetup2.6beta.exe
As it says in the name, this is a beta so there will probably be some bugs in the new features. Let's not pollute the thread with complaints about bugs - send me a private message instead.
1) The installer will be blocked by Windows Smartscreen (you have to click More Info in Smartscreen to get the Run button for the installer). I am looking to get proper Windows Desktop Apps certification for the final version.
2) Per-pixel spot sensitivity is now included and I am 95% sure about this feature.
3) I added in some rudimentary Windows key detection. This one may or may not work yet.
If you don't care about the two new features, please don't download and install this.
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|27 Feb 2018
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
I just registered to say that I'd love to be able to try this, but for some reason I'm unable to get it to work. Seconds after launching the program I receive an error message. The message sounds similar to the Avast message:
ShyBar has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.
I've tried some of the more obvious things to resolve the issue - reinstallation, restarting, updating windows, diagnostic startup, updating 2013 C++ etc. but the problem persists with only windows programs running. I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, Intel i5-2410M, 6GB Ram.
I'd love to know whats causing this problem. How might I troubleshoot it?
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It snowed here yesterday and I instantly was ready to pack up and move back to Texas. I've been living in Kansas for about nine years and being from Texas were we only have two seasons; extremely hot and not so hot, you'd think that I would be a major fan of white Christmases.
However, I'm not! After the first winter here I don't care if I ever see snow again in my life. This dreadful snow is inconveniencing my weight; I can't do my morning jogs, it's ruining my good shoes and it's becomes ugly as soon as people get out in it.
Snow is slowly but surely turning me into a Grinch- a skinny one but nevertheless, a Grinch. I will admit that the best part about the snow is that it keeps me locked inside and no aimless trips to the grocery for silly things like eating. I'm stuck in the house with only berries and water.
Though, I can give you many reasons as to my disdain for the snow, yesterday after I left church I went on an excursion. I got myself a late birthday early Christmas gift, a Samsung NX3000 camera. Since it wasn't many people out I knew I could get some pretty decent shots of the snow.
While I was freezing my (now nonexistent) butt off, I began reminiscing about my childhood Christmases. I must say no matter what my family was going through my parents always made a way for us to have the most awesome Christmas every year.
There were Christmases where we go every gift imaginable, some where my parents would torment my brother and I by keeping the tree bare until Christmas morning (which was child abuse if you ask me, you know what that does to a child's self-esteem believing fat Santa don't care about them?) I've had the Christmas where I got the full size train set that naturally my dad played with because we was too busy riding our new bikes with our childhood best friends Victor & Luis while playing with our walkie-talkies.
My favorite Christmas memory is on the off chance that it snowed my uncle would load all the kids on my block in the back of his truck and do doughnuts in the empty snow covered parking lot of the neighborhood church. How can I forget all the same kids squeezing onto the tail gate of Mr. Johnny's pickup as he took us to see the Christmas lights in different neighborhoods? I remember one year my neurotic mom actually let us help her decorate the Christmas tree, my brother, dad and I felt like she freed the slaves we had so much fun.
Speaking of death my basket case/unhealthy grandmother (Skinny-Jesus rest her soul) was sure she was going to die Christmas of 2000 that she spent thousands of dollars on Christmas gifts for all her grandchildren, she even bought us name brand stuff! It was like we had two Christmas because she was in the hospital on Christmas day so we didn't actually open our gifts from her until New Year's Eve.
Now as an adult I have to start making new Christmas memories such as, last Christmas. I drove to Dallas for two days; it actually snowed in Dallas giving my favorite nephew his first white Christmas as we drove around all day in it. Then, after dinner I had to get back on the road to drive back to Kansas to head to Mexico for my service trip to Acuña. This was the best experience of my life thus far.
Although, I will not be going home this year, I will not miss the loads of carbohydrate laden entrees and desserts but it would be nice to hang out with my entire family in one setting (to get money from them of course).
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Connect to networks using the highest level of security available, such as WPA2 for wireless networks. Connecting to unknown, open wireless networks is very risky. If only unsecured networks are available (e.g., at public wireless hotspots), take extra care with these
(a) Disable the "automatically connect to non-preferred networks" setting to make sure you connect only to approved wireless access points.
(b) Turn off file and printer sharing.
( c) Switch off your wireless card when not in use .
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(e) For safer, anonymous Web surfing, consider using a Web proxy or VPNs designed for consumer use.
6. Be proactive about protecting your data and gear now.
If your laptop or other device does get stolen or lost, tracking services and recovery software products, as well as features such as remote wipe for BlackBerrys and other smartphones, can help you get it back–but you have to set up the software/service first (i.e., before your device disappears).