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We would like to welcome Diane M. Cozzo, ANP to Parkview Primary Care Physicians. Diane is a graduate of Daemen College and has 16yrs. experience caring for patients in the WNY area.
Parkview Primary Care Physicians has been serving the Cheektowaga, NY and surrounding areas for over 20 years. Our mission is to provide premium medical care. The health and wellness of our patients, is our highest priority.
The providers at PPCP and staff, work collaboratively to provide high levels of care, access, communication, care coordination and integration. We want each and every patient to be informed and participate in their healthcare and medical decision making process.
We are accepting new patients (18 yrs. and up) and participate with most insurance carriers (see list below). Call for an appointment today. If you are already a patient, then we ask that you refer a friend to join our family.
(Patients 65 and older)
In the coming months, you will be asked to schedule your annual wellness visit as part of your health insurance benefit plan.
Our office and your health insurance are working together to make sure we are aware of all of your health care needs so we can help address them and take the best care of you.
Your Primary Care Physician will utilize this time to update our medical records and notes we have about your current medical history; and make sure you are up to date with all of your test and screenings you need to stay healthy.
At this visit, you will also be able to talk about things that may be concerning you we may not have discussed in the past.
We will also ask you to complete a health assessment to get a whole picture of your health, which will also help us and your health insurance see if we can provide any other services to you.
When you come for this annual wellness visit, we would like you to bring with you:
Full list of medications, including vitamins and supplements. Sometimes we may not know all of the medications you may be taking, especially if you are seeing a specialist.
Full list of all of the doctors and providers who are treating you or have treated you in the past.
We may ask again about your family health history, immunizations and vaccinations and other medical procedures and screenings.
Please contact the office today with any questions regarding this appointment or if you wish to schedule your appointment, please call #(716)558-7727.
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Due to the increasing burden of Federal and State mandates and regulations regarding the prescribing or refilling of Federally controlled substances, effective
April 1, 2015,
Parkview Primary Care Physicians will no longer offer these prescription refills for patient pick up, by telephone or through the patient portal.
To receive or secure a refill on these controlled substances,
an appointment with one of our providers will be necessary
It is our office policy, to transmit these prescriptions electronically from our providers and, can only be refilled from our office. As per our current policy, no controlled substance refills can be offered after hours or on weekends.
If multiple controlled substances are requested, we urge you to ensure that these refills are coordinated for the same office visit in an effort to save additional visits and copayments. Where possible, as allowed by law, refills will be considered on these prescriptions
We apologize for this inconvenience but unfortunately current and impending regulations impose an inordinate burden on both you and our staff.
Parkview Primary Care Physicians
Financial Policy Update:
We would like to take this opportunity to announce the following changes to our policy
effective January 1, 2017:
High Deductible Health Plans:
Due to the increasing number of "high deductible health plans" we will be requiring a
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for routine and sick call office visits
. (note that annual preventative exams are excluded from this policy) This payment will be due at the time of service for every visit until your deductible is met. We will submit charges to your insurance company to document your payment and credit your deductible account. Once your patient responsibility is determined by your insurance, we will invoice you the balance of the charge or credit/refund you for the balance of that office visit. If you require us to bill you the initial down payment there will be a
service fee added. Please review your insurance policy to see if this will apply to you. Our secretaries will attempt to retrieve your policy information on Health e-net prior to your appointment to confirm if you do have a "high deductible plan" but ultimately it is considered a patient responsibility.
New York State Controlled Substance Refills:
Due to recent New York State Health Law changes, and the increasing burden this places on medical practices, our policy will be that refills will be given at the time of your regular doctor appointments. Due to quantity limitations set out by the State, refills may be due in between regular doctor office visits. These refills will be handled by our Nurse Practitioner's with a "controlled substance" office visit. You will likely be required to sign a "Controlled Substance Agreement" if one is not in place, and may be subject to random urine testing to ensure these medications are being used properly. Furthermore, medications will be reviewed and other testing may be ordered to ensure that these medications are causing no adverse effects.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation with our changes.
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Annual Physical Examinations
We feel it necessary to inform you about a Well Visit/Physical appointment:
services are rendered during your Well Visit/Physical, your insurance may require that you pay a co-payment. Therefore the following would not be considered a Well Visit/Physical appointment.
Examples include but not limited to the following:
New problem or medication addressed
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Your provider may ask you to schedule an additional appointment to addressed your additional issues, if scheduled time is not adequate. We thank you for your understanding.
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The Guardian and Dagens Nyheter were both in the top five last year too. Before last year, no British newspaper had reached the top places since 2007. It's a great accolade for the paper and, with no North American papers making the cut, for European designers generally. I looked at the final 17 in a previous post here and the SND report on the awards is here.

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Your events are significant investments to be protected and nurtured
Your events are significant investments to be protected and nurtured
Our clients spend 3% or more of their annual gross revenues on events, representing major financial investments designed to achieve critical business outcomes. Andavo Consulting works with organizations to ensure their meetings and events are protected from financial loss, legal liability and loss of brand integrity.
Working across 75 countries over 25 years, our team of expert consultants have helped companies prepare, respond and recover from the unpredictable and unexpected. The one common factor we find with all of them is no matter how flawlessly the meeting has been planned, unexpected disruptions will occur.
Call it Murphy's Law. Call it a foreseeable part of doing business in a fast-paced world. Call it a part of the human experience. Regardless how big or small, obstacles exist with the potential to derail your meeting.
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A 2015 Forbes and Deloitte Study shows that 50% of large corporations do not have a written corporate crisis management playbook. Andavo Consulting brings awareness of current trends in meetings and event crisis situations which encompass the greatest financial and legal exposure and loss of brand integrity.
The Andavo team has helped clients respond and recover from: hurricanes, ice storms, threat of Ebola and Zika pandemics, serious medical issues, death of an attendee, protesters, power outages, floods and bomb threats.
By partnering with Andavo, your events team will know how to conduct risk assessments specific to each event. Through facilitated learning and guided collaboration, we help companies discover the strengths of their meeting program and uncover opportunities for improvement.
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As the global meeting landscape expands, so does the list of potential threats. Hotels are now the number one target for terrorism attacks, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism. Hotels represent commercial culture and values with the opportunity to cause fear, death and destruction to a mass audience.
Generally in a weak security posture, hotels and conference centers are easy to breach and infiltrate, requiring minimal resources and planning. This sobering fact requires the meeting and hospitality industry to adopt new approaches and industry-wide security and response training in order to protect the safety of all guests and meeting participants.
Our Crisis Management Playbook training includes preparing to respond and recover from an active shooter.
Our consulting practice will enable your meetings team to:
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Better protect the organization against risks, disruptions and unexpected costs.
Collaborate with you to achieve the Return on your Investment (ROI) and the Return on Engagement (ROE) of your meeting initiatives.
While we cannot stop event catastrophes from happening, we will educate and train your teams to assess your vulnerabilities and learn how to confidently prepare to respond and recover.
Defining Strategies
Your events team will define what matters most to achieving event strategies that align with your organization's values, culture, and business goals. These will include risk assessment and response plans designed to protect you from financial and legal losses when events are challenged by out of control costs or unexpected crises which can seriously impact positive business outcomes or even event cancellations.
Enhancing Risk Assessment
Your events team will know how to conduct risk assessments specific to each event. They will understand how to identify what types of disruptions are more likely to occur as well as how to prepare for catastrophes which might be unlikely but result in grave consequences.
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Your events team will design a playbook based on the areas of identified risk so that the organization will know what to do when "bad things happen to good meetings." This playbook will be replicated for all types of future events to properly prepare to respond and recover from disruptions and catastrophes.
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Your events team will tackle the area of risk of financial loss due to poorly drafted meeting and event contracts and determine the current state of contract vulnerability. Team members with authority to negotiate and sign contracts will be trained on the top 10 most critical contract terms which are drafted in favor of the hotels and venues and pose a great risk to business and financial loss. These terms are due to unreasonable attrition and cancellation penalties, a hotel's right to walk all or part of the entire group, undisclosed construction during the event, and excessive surprise fees, taxes and surcharges.
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Your event teams will know how to "show me the money." Stakeholders from executive, legal, procurement and HR, will be able to identify how events can be measured as an asset, not just a cost. The result will be a set of metrics for return on engagement (ROE) and return on investment (ROI) which measure both tangible (actual savings) and intangible (attendee learning, application, and business impact) outcomes from your significant events.
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We will empower your events team to discover the strengths of your meeting programs and uncover opportunities for improvement. Whether our partnership lasts for one event or 10 years, our goal is for your meetings to deliver maximum return on investment and for your attendees to have a profound return on their engagement.
Our team is ready to optimize your meeting solutions as soon as tomorrow. We're ready for any challenge.
When partnering with Andavo Consulting, our team of expert professionals train your event team to develop risk assessment and response plans that will protect you from financial loss and legal liability. Your team will know how to identify what types of disruptions are more likely than not to occur as well as how to prepare for catastrophes which might be unlikely but can result in grave consequences.
In today's world, it is no longer a question of "if" but rather "when", a crisis will occur.
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Sheffield United manager Nigel Adkins paid tribute to his players and the fans after an impressive 2-0 win over Swindon at the County Ground.
Second half goals from Neill Collins and Billy Sharp, his second in successive league games, secured the victory for United and went some way towards exorcising the demons of a 5-2 defeat last season at this venue, not to mention the play off nightmare which saw the Blades crash out in the semi-finals.
Adkins, whose side moved up to second in the table, said "That was a really disciplined performance against a very good side. All credit to the players.
"Credit to the supporters too. We couldn't go storming forward but they understood and stuck with us."
He added: "We've come with a gameplan and I thought the players were fantastic in their application of it."
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If you've been patiently waiting for the first new Beck album in four years we've got some bad news for you: If you can't read sheet music you're out of luck because his new collection of 20 songs is pure notation and doesn't include any actual recordings of him performing the songs.
Beck's follow-up to 2008's Modern Guilt is called Beck Hansen's Song Reader and according to a statement by McSweeney's, "In the wake of Modern Guilt and [2006's] The Information, Beck's latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form — twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded."
"The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you'd expect from their author," the statement continues. "But..."Sorry. I stopped reading right there. Right there after they said "The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you'd expect from their author."
Wow. You know - even Dylan dropped a load of turds now and then. And we're supposed to take Beck's word - his own and his publisher's word on his music - at how "unfailingly exciting" these songs are? Holy shit.
I can't wait for Beck's next album: Beck Hansen's Song Thinker. "Pay Beck $28 and feel yourself ravished by His new masterpieces! But you'll have to play them yourself—as you imagine them playing in His beautiful mind!"
I mean and I've liked the guy's music. "Devil's haircut" - I wish I'd written that (or at least just the chorus line) just because. But hell on fire...
P.S. I forgot to mention: This is also meant as a "statement" about the music business, illegal downloading, and so on. And so brilliant a statement it is - because people will never be able to copy pieces of paper! Like they can music!


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Theatre lovers Nottingham
Nottingham has an array of excellent theatre venues for young and old theatre goers alike.
The Royal Centre in Theatre Square Nottingham is home to the Theatre Royal and The Royal Centre. The Theatre Royal was visualised by two of Nottingham's lace dressers, William and John Lambert in 1865. The classic frontage with its imposing white pillars gives the venue a striking and regal appearance. The Victorian style interior decor and its comfortable seating for 1,186 person's compliments the building.
The theatre is renowned as one of the best entertainment touring venues in the UK for drama, opera, ballet and stand up comedy, West End musicals and of course annual pantomime performances. Alongside the Theatre Royal there is the Royal Concert Hall a 2,500 seat auditorium which boasts a state of the art sound and light system. Attractions to the Royal Centre's stage include leading orchestra, comedy and dance acts, as well as a variety of musical performances from around the world.
The Royal Centre has landmark neon pipe work sculptures to its frontage created by London sculptor Ron Haselden, which when lit provide an impressive light display.
Make your evening to the theatre extra special and have a limousine from our Limousine Hire Nottingham collect you from your home and take you to your theatre venue. You'll arrive feeling like a West End star!
The contemporary Nottingham Playhouse presents a range of performances to entertain you in its modern building, with elegant and airy foyers, comfy seating auditorium and bars. In the courtyard outside the Nottingham Playhouse you can see a stunning sculpture the Sky Mirror designed by Anish Kapoor. This amazing stainless steal sculpture at nearly six metres in diameter and weighing nearly ten tonnes is attached to a water feature and well worth seeing.
Next to Playhouse is the Albert Hall, its multi piped organ makes it an excellent venue for hosting classical concerts and choral events.
If you are planning a pre theatre meal, then what better way than a hire a limo to take you from one venue to another. You could hire a hummer limousine or range rover sport limousine or pink limo hire let us chauffeur you and whilst you relax and enjoy your evening.
Other theatre venues in Nottingham are The Lakeside Arts Centre on the University Park and Independent Lace Market Theatre both providing theatre productions of contemporary drama, dance and comedy.
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You needn't get after show blues you could hire one of our limousines to collect you from the theatre and take you to an after show drink or meal in one of Nottingham's bars or restaurants. During your journey you could listen to the shows sounds tracks whilst enjoying a glass of complementary Champagne.
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A Dramatic Dining Room for Entertaining
Jacey and Grant love to entertain, so they keep the dining room in their Spanish-style West Hollywood apartment always at the ready for impromptu parties and get-togethers. The room itself is set up beautifully — it's bold and dramatic, and I love the pop of red from the dining chairs!
The room has a couple very personal touches, too. The cotton centerpiece above is from Jacey's 150-year-old family cotton farm in Texas, while the antlers came from Jacey's dad. So cool to have them displayed on the table, don't you think?
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Inventive blending of contemporary and indigenous music
Gwyneth Calvetti | West Salem, WI United States | 12/14/2000
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"The energy in the cuts from this CD is infectious. Percussion, local instrumentation and seamless vocals blend into a package that defies description. The world beat is evident, but Craddock has suceeded in using the Pygmy voices and music conventions in music that does not jar our Western ear. The rhythms are intricate. The vocals are smooth and blend beautifully on each track. It has become one of my favorite CDs to keep me company as I workout on the Nordictrack, driving me with the beat and energy to work just a little harder!Each time I listen to "Spirit of the Forest," I discover some new nuance that I'd not heard before. In these days of "CD of the week," the desire to hear it again months later speaks volumes to its creativeness."
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"after seeing baka beyond live in concert recently we were compelled to pick up this recorded work. though it does not reproduce the unique energy of the concert,it pleases on other levels. when martin craddick and wife su hart lived with the baka pygmies in africa in 1992, it was no doubt a life altering experience. much of that comes through in the music presented on
"spirit of the forest". craddick,who's resume includes OUTBACK, a similarly genre busting project,teams with hart(vocals),paddy le mercier(another veteran of OUTBACK on violin and flutes)and members of the baka people who play percussion and several african instruments, to create a mellow listening experience based on a fusion of musical ideas. i paticularly like using this as background music for various endeavors, but there is plenty here for those who wish to have a provacative listening session as well. the warm commraderie the participants shared really comes through. i don't see how any fan of acoustic based alternative music will be disappointed in this recording. as an added incentive to explore this work, it is stated in the liner notes that "all performance and compositional royalties due to the baka for this album will be collected for them to use to protect their forest and to develop in a sustainable way without losing their knowlege or their culture.""
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The smartwatch will be available before July and will cost somewhere between £180 and €220
According to Pocket-Lint, LG UK has given an official confirmation that the shelves are going to stock up on the Android Wear-powered LG G Watch before July this year and thanks to one of the LG reps, we also know the retail price of the device. The price of the G Watch is going to fall somewhere between £180 and €220.
The smartwatch is at the peak of its development stage and LG was kind enough to give a demonstration of the final design at an event in Weybridge. Although this prototype presented by LG at the event was not working but it was there to give an idea about the design and what the users will be getting and hence it perfectly served the purpose. The LG watch is finally going to launch this summer in Europe and it is expected that the global premiere is going to be at around the same time. But the LG G watch should look out for competition because Google also recently announced that it is teaming up with some manufacturers to bring the smartwatch into action.
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Dr. Lyle B. Borst, a nuclear physicist who helped build Brookhaven National Laboratory's nuclear reactor and was an early member of the Manhattan Project, died on July 30 at his home in Williamsville, N.Y. He was 89.
In 1950, Dr. Borst led the construction of the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor, which was the largest and most powerful reactor in the country and the first to be built solely for research and other peacetime uses of atomic energy.
Within the first nine months of operating the reactor, Dr. Borst announced that it had produced a new type of radioactive iodine, which is used in treating thyroid cancer.
In 1952, based on studies of new types of atomic nuclei created in the reactor, Dr. Borst helped explain the mystery behind giant stars, known as supernovae, that burst with the energy of billions of atomic bombs and flare for several years with the brilliance of several million suns.
Dr. Borst found that beryllium 7, an isotope of beryllium that does not occur naturally on earth, is formed in supernovae by the fusion of two helium nuclei. The fusion takes place after the star has used up its hydrogen supply. This reaction absorbs huge quantities of energy, causing the star to collapse in the greatest cosmic explosion known.Continue reading the main story
Dr. Borst was also a senior physicist at the Clinton Laboratories in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he worked on the Manhattan Project.
After atomic bombs were dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dr. Borst, concerned that atomic energy should be internationally regulated, helped organize a group of about 1,300 scientists who had worked on the bomb project and wanted to keep atomic energy under civilian control, rather than military control, to prevent a worldwide competitive armaments race.
Speaking in support of an atomic energy control bill in front of Congress in 1945, Dr. Borst said he helped start the Federation of Atomic Scientists ''to create a realization of the dangers that this nation and all civilization will face if the tremendous destructive potential of nuclear energy is misused.''
On a trip to Greece in 1961, Dr. Borst discovered that a ''Manhattan District Project'' in Sparta made steel in large quantities as early as 650 B.C.
Based on specimens he obtained from archaeologists, he theorized that steel was the secret weapon of the Spartans and that it was the reason for their military successes against enemies having only soft iron or bronze weapons. Having such a weapon at that time, Dr. Borst said in a 1961 article in The New York Times, was almost the military equivalent of having an atomic bomb.
Born in Chicago on Nov. 24, 1912, Lyle Benjamin Borst earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Illinois and a doctorate at the University of Chicago.
In 1942, Dr. Borst was a research associate at the metallurgical laboratory in Chicago, where Dr. Enrico Fermi conducted the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
He became a professor of physics at the University of Utah in the early 50's and helped design the university's small nuclear reactor. Dr. Borst taught at New York University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was a member of the National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Ruth Barbara Mayer Borst; two sons, John Benjamin, of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Stephen, of North Brookfield, Mass.; a daughter, Frances Elizabeth Wright of Albany; and seven grandchildren.Continue reading the main story


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Weekly Addresses: Immigration, Student Loand [VIDEO]
Declaring "the time for excuses is over," President Barack Obama is trumpeting the economic benefits of an immigration overhaul, arguing that a bipartisan bill picking up steam in the Senate would put the nation's loathed deficits and fragile entitlements on better footing.A recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers' nonpartisan scorekeeper, was Exhibit A in Obama's weekly radio and Internet address Saturday. The report shows deficits would fall nearly $1 trillion over two decades after the bill becomes law.
What's more, Obama said, the influx of immigrant-driven investment, technology and businesses would give the economy a 5 percent shot in the arm.
"This bipartisan, common-sense bill will help the middle class grow our economy and shrink our deficits, by making sure that every worker in America plays by the same set of rules and pays taxes like everyone else," he said.
Confidence that the overhaul could pass the Senate by impressive margins is growing, and leaders scheduled a test vote on the bill for Monday, with a final vote expected by the end of next week. Although the heart of the bill is a 13-year pathway to citizenship for millions living in the United States illegally, it was a military-style surge to U.S.-Mexican border security, added this week to placate wary Republicans, that was credited for giving the bill a much-needed boost.
Obama didn't specifically address the border amendment Saturday, but he did note that the bill "would continue to strengthen security at our borders." Despite concerns from some Democrats that the security provisions — 20,000 new agents, 350 miles of new fencing, 18 new unmanned drones — are overkill, Obama spokesman Jay Carney said Friday it would constitute a "breakthrough" that the White House applauded.
"The bill isn't perfect. It's a compromise," Obama said, reprising a line he's used throughout the process when Democrats have complained the bill has become too conservative. "But it's consistent with the principles that I and others have laid out."
In the Republican address, Rep. John Kline of Minnesota says Obama must show leadership to avoid an impending hike on student loan interest rates. He said it's fortunate that Obama and House Republicans agree on the issue and have both proposed plans that would tie interest rates to the market.
"Our students deserve better. We're in this predicament because politicians put themselves in charge of setting interest rates, guaranteeing exactly this type of down-to-the-wire uncertainty for students and their families," said Kline."What we need is a long-term solution that gets Washington out of the business of setting rates altogether.
Kline noted that Democrats seem to be working against both the President and Republicans.
"If I didn't know any better, I would say they are content to let rates double," Kline said. "This eleventh-hour scrambling is a perfect demonstration of why we need to take the politics out of student loans once and for all."
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Set in Cairo but mostly shot in Casablanca, The Nile Hilton Incident is a noir police procedural written and directed by Egyptian born Tarik Saleh.
Q: How does a corrupt police force investigate crime?
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You don't want to see my invitationMade with Swedish, Danish and German money and only partly filmed in Cairo. It is vaguely based on the murder of Suzanne Tamim. I don't think that The Nile Hilton Incident will get shown in Egypt because of the negative depiction of the Egyptian police and government and the sex scene.
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Richard Bartholomew, of Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, finds a New York Observer article about Left Behind author Tim LaHaye's move into mainstream publishing, including a contract with Kensington. Bartholomew kindly posts Kensington's company profile: "We are considered a leader and innovator in such areas of publishing as African-American (Dafina), Gay and Lesbian, Erotic Romance (Brava), Wicca, and Alternative Health (Twin Streams) and of course romance."
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"'To those doubters out there who still don't believe that God exists, I have just one piece of advice: Google Him.'" So says Dr. George Darlington of U. of Minnesota Divinity School, about what Newsweek is calling "the most conclusive evidence of a Supreme Being ever discovered": that is, over 59 million results were returned from a young man's unintentional internet search for God. "The stunning discovery, expected to wipe out atheism worldwide," was made by a 22-year old video-store clerk in Tacoma, Washington, when he attempted to search for the word "bod," but accidentally typed a "g" in place of the "b." "'As soon as those search results came up, I immediately alerted the authorities,'" said the young clerk. "'I knew this was something big.'" Also, only 3 million sites were found for Satan, which Newsweek interprets as theologians long have: God (and Paris Hilton) are more powerful than Satan.
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"I had a good time up there talking about what I believe. It's not all that hard to debate if you know what's in your heart." A post-debate Bush adds to the heart talk. In the debate, we counted: two prayers, two "ideolog[ies] of hatred," one Muslim who wants to be free, four beliefs (one core belief), two values (one core value), one Mighty Mountain, and one Valley of Peace below. Oh yeah, and two God Bless Americas.
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A life-size fiberglass statue of Jesus, found on the banks of the Rio Grande, is now in the custody of the Eagle Pass police force, who are keeping it propped between two doors in their evidence room. The station has become a site of minor pilgrimage for the many Catholics in the Texas town, some of whom embrace the statue as a message from God. Newspapers across the river, in the Mexican town of Piedras Negras, are calling the statue "the Christ for the undocumented [workers]."


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The Department of Housing and Urban Development has extended the Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program deadline to Wednesday, July 27. For information about the Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program, scroll to bottom
BRISTOL, Conn. -- The housing market continues to be a drag on the economy. A report out today showed sales of previously-occupied homes fell 8/10 of a percent in June, the third monthly loss in a row. One factor holding down the market is the high number of foreclosures.
The federal government set up a lifeline to help thousands keep their homes, but few heard about it. As CBS News correspondent Rebecca Jarvis reports, the time to apply for that help is quickly running out.
When Teresa Acampora lost her sales and marketing job she was determined not to lose her home too. With their income cut by more than half, the Acamporas fell 10 months behind in mortgage payments.
"Bad things happen to very good people," said Acampora. "That can literally throw people into the death spiral of foreclosure."
Moving was a bad option. Their Bristol, Conn. house is customized for her 10-year-old-son Kyle, who has cerebral palsy.
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Her godsend is a billion-dollar federal program called the Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program. It's for homeowners who are either unemployed or underemployed and at least 90 days behind on their mortgage. They'd get $50,000 to bring their mortgage payments up to date and help make future payments for two years. Homeowners don't have to pay the government back as long as they do not default.
"It gave us the step up and the step forward so that we can move forward now. It helped us get stabilized [and] get our life back."
The program is supposed to help 30,000 homeowners, but it could fall short of that. Though Congress appropriated the money last July, it wasn't fully launched until last month.
The deadline for applications is Friday.
A HUD spokesperson told CBS News that "unfortunately, the time table is slower than we initially expected."
At Brooklyn Housing and Family Services, Carol Finegan's staff is racing to get qualified people into the program.
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Connecticut has had better luck, thanks to an earlier start. Dara Kovel is chief housing officer for the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority - which has received 1,000 applications for the 800 available emergency loans.
"It's not about subprime, not about restructuring a bad mortgage," said Kovel. "It just really helps people who have done everything they can to play by the rules."
Although the program is a bridge for people stuck in this bad job market, it may not be enough for homeowners deep underwater who have big arrears and little income going forward.
There is still money available especially for the following states -- New York, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Vermont and Utah -- and time left to submit worksheets. Borrowers can visit www.findehlp.org, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 855-FIND-EHLP (855-346-3345) for more information
For the period from June 20 to July 12, HUD reports there were 263,388 total visits to the Findehlp Web site, and 124,052 downloads of pre-applicant screening worksheets. For the same period, there were 26,840 inbound calls to the 855-FIND-EHLP helpline.


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They also include essays on psychoanalysis representing the various Freudian and Lacanian movements. Of particular note are the complete works of Freud published by Presses universitaires de France, as well as the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud in English.
Also available are generalist journals, as well as journals published by various schools of psychoanalysis: Revue française de psychanalyse, Cahiers jungiens de psychanalyse, la Cause freudienne, Topique, le Coq héron, etc.
The Research library holds historical writings by the great founders of psychoanalysis in both their original languages and French. It also holds psychoanalytical studies produced around the world: Italy, Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Latin America, etc. The complete works of leading psychoanalysts are available in French, English, and German on an open-access basis: the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Abraham, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung, Sandor Ferenczi, Melanie Klein, etc.
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Taking style cues from Princess Leia's "donut hairstyle" isn't the best idea -- but Milla Jovovich manages to pull it off.
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I was waiting for this monolight for a long time, and eventually got it few days ago. Talking about latest Paul C. Buff invention (intervention to hi-speed strobes market? :-), all digital Einstein 640 monolight. I've ordered few of these units back in spring 2010 "to try", ordered separately (meaning soon I've receive another one:-). That was a longest back-order line I remember, but the good thing that I've received Einstein V2 unit: it suppose to be improved from the original one I've ordered.
The main reason I was so anxious to try the unit is that currently I desperately seeking a solution for my studio high-speed photography, mostly for action-freeze of liquids. We've started to get more and more assignments in this area, and I do not feel very comfortable working with my Canon Speedlites (have four of them).
So, my ultimate choice was between power packs such as ProFoto 7A or Broncolor Grafit (probably used) and PCB Einstein V2: 640 Ws would be enough for me, the only thing I have to consider is reliability, color consistency and of course the price. At this point I am leaning towards Einsteins, really hope they will work well for me.
I am not going to try to go through a full test with my Einstein 640 strobe: there are so many already posted online. The best one I know is Rob's Galbraith review on the same subject: Stopping action with the Paul C. Buff Einstein 640 monolight.
My goal is to share results of the real, in-studio tests of flash speed duration by shooting a liquid splash: nobody has calculated the speed of water drops firing from a glass, even Rob's test with spinning disks was not enough for me:-)
Obviously I knew that Einstein strobes will be fine at freezing splash, but I did not know if flash power of that "stopping action" duration will be enough for my work. The main question was the distance and F-stop number I can use at ISO 100 at that power level (at full power Einstein is usual mid grade strobe, the magic begins when we dial power down).
So, I've started from F22 and my favorite lens for water splash photography: Canon 180mm F3.5 L macro. Long focal distance allows me not to worry about protecting the camera and lens from the water while F22 will give me enough DOF to cover my subject.
Here We go, the video:
Einstein 640 studio monolight flash speed duration test:
As you see, Einstein works great: even one light is enough to get some nice splashes. I really like how the Beauty Dish gets reflected from a stream of water:
90% crop from above:
90% crop from the above:
Looks nice, is not it? The last thing I did is a continues shooting mode: Camera was set to F5.6 1/250, continues shooting mode, strobe had 14Ws of power. My canon 1Ds MKIII could do only 4 frames per second shooting RAW, so this is how the sequence looked:
Not as impressive as this video, but it was cool to run this test:-)
You can compare this test to a very similar photoshoot I had with Canon Speedlites hot shoe strobes:
Paul C. Buff Einstein 640 in-depth flash duration test: action v.s constant color mode
Hope this was informative, Enjoy!
Camera gear:
Lighting, light modifiers and accessories:
- Paul C. Buff Lighting: 1×Einstein 640
- Paul C. Buff Cyber Commander 16 channels remote control
- Adobe Lightroom 3 as a remote capture solution for tethered shooting
Exposure specification: shutter speed 1/250 sec, F5.6-22, ISO 100
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Hello Alex,
I am from Ecuador, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Is it necessary the Cyber commander to stop the action with the Einstein or it could do it with the CyberSync™ Trigger Transmitter?
Can I use the The Cyber Commander with CyberSync™ Receiver Plus – CSR+ on the alien bees?
Excuse me for my english.
Thanks a lot.
Cyber commander is not needed to stop action, it is a strobe itself… commander is just a super-duper clever trigger and controller.
Yes, you can use CC with alien bees with optional control module – I forgot exact model, CSR+ might be a right one. Check with PCB website.
Privet Alex,
I'm trying to understand what type of mount for light modifiers this light has. They say "four holding fingers that expand and contract to hold speedrings", for which one would need a "Paul C. Buff™ compatible speedring". I already have Elinchrome and Bowens speedrings. No idea if they are compatible or not. What do you use?
Hi Alex!
Can you do splashes pictures with Einstein in full power (640w) ? If not, what should be the maximum power to freeze an image in your opinion ?
I can;t freeze action with Einsteins on full power: flash duration at full power is about 1/700 sec, which is too slow. the useful range is between 2WS (1/10000 sec) and 180WS (about 1/4000 sec).
hi Alex!
Einstein E640W is £599.99 http://www.paulcbuff.eu.com/shop/einstein-flash-units/einstein-e640w/0202 in Europe this is 927.67 US Dollar so… any alternatives?
thanks and greetings from greece
Hi Alex,
Thanks a lot for your explanations and your amazing tutorials.
I am trying to buy an AlienBees B800 from a friend of mine. I think is a good price, but as I am planning to invest, what you think is better for splash/commercial photography (If you take out the cost from the equation) Einstein E640, AlienBees B1600, or WhiteLighting X3200 and what is the minimum units you need to start?
Do you think I can freeze the water in the air witj a AlienBees B800?
Thanks a lot in advance.
You cna start with any strobe, but to freeze the action you'll need to have something like Einstein, Speedlite or a hi-speed sync trigger. The last will let you shoot at up to 1/8000 sec shutter speed with Aline Bees..
@Alex Koloskov, Thanks a lot, so better Einsteins over Aliens or WhiteLighting? Right?
Thanks a lot again
"better" is not a right word, as it implies that other is "worse", which is not true. Each PCB light fits well into it's price and functionality niche. But Einstein has more features and it can freeze the action. So, for action photography – yes, Einstein is "better" ;-)
Thanks a lot for your help.
I just love it, very detail explanation.
Thank you very much to share the knowledge.
Fascinating photos you have. You can see the exact pouring, splashing, and color of the liquid it so find.I like the sequence of pouring liquid photos, Its like you freeze the whole object to go down. Thanks, superb photos.
Cool stuff mate,really cool stuff ………please keep it up.
Hi alex, very nice pictures, i'm learning photography, and i would like to understand how high speed works, whit flash units, could you explain a litle how can you make pictures whit speeds of 1/2000 of a second?
Please take a look at this articles I have, it should give you some useful info:
First AKELstudio LIVE! masterclass: water, apple, flash duration test.
In general, I use flash light with very short impulse duration, which "freeze" the movement. Camera shutter stays open for a longer time, but it does not affect picture as there is only flash light makes the exposure.
Hello Alex
I'm about to order 2 units from Paul C Buff, do you think 2 units will be enough to stop action and create
good shots? I'm using 3 speedlight now, but I want to change to a more consistent system. I also like to ask you
what is your opinion on your Manfroto head, I using a Monobal right now by Arca swiss but it is not too friendly at the studio
Nice test, looks the same freezing action like Pro-7 (maybe even better!), love Alien Bees products!
Very nice… I would say they are just as sharp as the ones done with the speedlights.. Looks like PCB may have a winner on their hands..
Alex, your pictures are fantastic and your tutorials are excellent; thank you! Do you have any tips for photographing indoor sports with a flash? Can you travel with the Einstein or do you need something else?
Thank you, sir:-)
I have never done any sport photography, therefore no tips on that type of shots. as for the lights itself: Einsteins can be used as any other monolights on location, with battery power packs (like vagabond or DIY like I did here). However, this is not an easy thing to carry with you, and only needed if you have to have much more light then hotshoe flash can provide. Otherwise, use Canon on Nikon or any other dedicated hot-shoe flash, monopod or tripod, tele-zoom lens with image stabilizer, and you'll be fine shooting sport.
@A. Non, You might want to take a look over here.. http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/04/on-assignment-big-gym-little-lights.html
David shows how to light a gym using a few Nikon SB-28's and some radio triggers..
very nice pics, as ever. nice to see your new toy =)
@Donato Greco,
Thank you, my friend.
Hi Alex – thanks for the test. So just to be clear, you're still limited to 1/250th as your sync speed with the 1DsIII with the new Einsteins? (I realize the short flash duration allows you to freeze the actions but I am wondering about using them outdoors with a wide apeture for portraits…)
Yes, as with any other big strobe (even with $10K Broncolor or ProFoto) you'll be limited by the camera x-sync speed. The only higher then camera's x-sync is possible with flashes like hot-shoe mounted speedlites, when they work in hi-speed mode: they fire a sequence of pops during not fully opened shutter moving through the sensor.
For outdoors people are using neutral density filter to "kill" the sun light, so it will result wider apperture at 1/250 shutter, while working with big strobes.
Thank you!
The first few shots sold it for me. And that speed shooting feature just blew me away. Nice touch with Mumui Trol. I am buying 5 units!
He-he:-) Time for me to ask PCB for a commission? :-)
Speaking seriously, I am thinking the same: 5-6 units should cover all my needs (backed up by old WL&AB). The only a question where we would receive them, if order today? March 2011? :-)
@Alex Koloskov, I asked once. (actually, three times) but they don't want to have any affiliate programs. We asked them to give us some units so we can produce tutorials with them – (at LMS studio we have prehistoric Speedotrons (20 years old models)they are very intimidating looking) thats why we are most tutorial with clamp lamps…. But PCB said that they are asked all the time by many websites : and don't give it to anyone… doesn't make any sense to me, really.
@Sasha, Well, seeing how "fast" PCB can fulfill demand, I can only guess that they do not really want to increase sales. They can easily start selling much more not only through affiliates, but stores like bhphotovideo and other.
It might be a reason for them to do so.. Probably Paul wants to control a customer base, working directly with us. (I am getting a call every time they ship backordered item, confirming the address, etc). So far PCB has a best customer support (based on responses I've seen).
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His novels are The Very Man (London, MacMillan, 2003); People Like Us (MacMillan, 2004); Open Handed (London, Penguin, 2008); and Five Days Apart (London, Harper, 2010).
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Charles Royster. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army & American Character, 1775-1783. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1979. xi + 452 pp.
In A Revolutionary People at War, Charles Royster, Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University details the interrelationships between the political, military, and social structures in America during its first conflict – the Revolutionary War. In A Revolutionary People at War, Boyd captures the early mood or "Rage Militaire" of the American leaders, soldiers and citizens in their collective struggle to be free from the control of England. The American people are typified in their roles as private citizens, members of local militia and as soldiers in the Continental Army as they all fight to survive against the British Army.
A Revolutionary People at War was not intended nor written as a battle history or sequence but as a stand-alone study of America's struggle to find its way through its first war and succeeds admirably. The research and bibliography behind Royster's doctoral dissertation provides an in-depth argument for the existence of an "American character" that emerged just before 1775 and beyond. It was this character that prevailed and ultimately defeated the British – winning independence for America. This character is the underlying thesis for Royster, necessary for victory by a new and imperfect military endeavor from a young America.
Royster's monograph highlights the creation and evolution of American military leadership for better or worse, at all levels: "The general's poor judgment, not the army's weakness, kept the Americans from beating Howe. George Bryan and Benjamin Rush tried to convince Christopher Marshall that there was 'a general murmur in the people… against the weak conduct of Gen. Washington." [1] For the first time in our military's history, we see the many nuances and challenges that existed in the military structure and its hierarchy. Royster illuminates how commissions were given to men based on their social standing and wealth and the problems that were inherent from such a policy. These same challenges arose immediately following the formal end of the war in 1783 and the disbanding of the Continental Army. The officers as opposed to the enlisted men under them had the most difficulty in adapting to their return to civilian life. Their collective efforts in seeking lifetime compensation created considerable animosity among not just militiamen and the enlisted men of the Continental Army but throughout the American citizenry: "The officer's demand for recompense and for aid in returning to civilian life brought them new trouble besides adjusting to their discharge… a flood of public abuse – as if long swelling but dammed until now – poured over Continental Army officers." [2] Private citizens claimed that by defending their homes and towns they had also contributed to the war effort and were troubled by the elitist stance from the Continental Army's officers: "In the eyes of the critics, the officers' worst crime was not so much their attempt to get on the public payroll – a time-honored American ambition – as their claim to social distinction based on superior revolutionary merit." [3]
Much has been written of the Revolutionary War – a keyword search on Amazon returns over 9,000 results. Most publications within this query focus on battle histories. David McCullough's 1776, the most recent (2006) historical contribution and notable successor to A Revolutionary People at War achieves the closest similarity in the study of the "American character". Targeted at academia, Royster's A Revolutionary People at War reads more effectively as a contribution to academic history as opposed to popular history.
Charles Royster is currently a Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The distinction of Boyd Professor is the highest honor attainable from LSU and denotes national and international distinction for outstanding teaching, research, or other creative achievement at the LSU. [4] Royster's talents as historian and writer make him uniquely qualified to write on the subject matter contained in A Revolutionary People at War. A Revolutionary People at War was Royster's first published work on early-American history.
Louisiana State University. "Boyd Professors." http://lsb380.plbio.lsu.edu/undergrad%20research/boyd.html (accessed June 19, 2011).
Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army & American Character, 1775-1483. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
[1] Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 179.
[2] Ibid., 345.
[3] Ibid., 349.
[4] Louisiana State University, "Boyd Professors," http://lsb380.plbio.lsu.edu/undergrad%20research/boyd.html (accessed June 19, 2011).


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The other day, I came across this fascinating article from Uplift. In it, the author provides research and data points that strongly suggest our greatest line of defense against addiction lies in cultivating connection with others.
Case in point: Portugal has demonstrated a 50% drop in addiction thanks to programs that are specifically designed to re-create connection between the addict and their community. It works on the premise that isolation and lack of love and support are huge drivers of addiction. Therefore, introducing these individuals into a society that values them can work to rehabilitate them. And it does.
This then reminded me of a passage in my book that states we are the most obese, in debt, medicated, and addicted adults in human history. In other words, we are numbing out at historical highs whether that be in overeating, overspending, or over-medicating. We are addicted to substances, gambling, email, sex, social media, sugar, TV, work, and more, and we are running to these things due to lack of connection. And these addictions don't necessarily end or begin based on our level of connection with other people but, rather, can occur when we lack meaningful connection with any major facet of life.
The importance of connection
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a small group of colleagues at Simon Fraser University, including Robert Coambs, Patricia Hadaway, Barry Beyerstein, and Bruce Alexander undertook an experiment that would challenge the latest findings on addiction. Previous to Alexander's "Rat Park" study, researchers would place two water bottles in a rat's cage: One containing water and another containing water laced with cocaine. These rats were in Skinner boxes that were stark, empty, and void of any "life". Time and time again, the rats would prefer the laced water and would kill themselves regularly via overdose.
But when Alexander came along, he was troubled by the environment the rats were being kept in and decided to modify the experiment. He created what came to be known as Rat Park – a heavenly playground, if you will, for rats. There was plenty of food, toys, tunnels, burrowing material along with other rats. In his experiments, he consistently recorded the rats preferring the pure water over the laced water. In short, the rats didn't want the drugs when their world was complete.
"The lack of connection is creating an epidemic of addiction"
The roots of healing
At its base, addiction is compulsive and chronic numbing. It is us running towards something else because we lack an essential need in a core facet of life. And this is exactly why I wrote my book and, in fact, gives me even more reason to believe, thanks to solid data, that cultivating connection in all facets of life can break cycles of addiction and abuse.
Alexander's rats turned away from the drugs when they had all the components that made for a happy rat. And, just like them, we need more than four walls. We need connection to a rich environment, physical activity, healthy relationships, access to play, exploration, and all that allows us to fully express our individuality and purpose. When our lives are deficient in any single area, we turn to unhealthy avenues for a surrogate.
The best test I can think of for whether or not we are living wholeheartedly is the level of need we experience for the "laced bottle of water". Do we reach for it daily? Does it creep up on us weekly? Or is it so constant that we have lost touch with what's really here? We can't even turn our backs from the water bottle to fully appreciate where our life is, most likely because we are scared of what we might find. That we may have a lot of work to do.
And yet, to do nothing is to become a slave to the addictions…. to the running. What if you stopped and dove into one area? Just focused there to create an area of ease and joy in your life? There is no more important step than to simply BEGIN. And if you do, I hope to be part of that journey.
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July 30, 2001
RICHLAND, Wash. —
While the future of quantum computing offers the potential for substantially greater data storage and faster processing speeds, its advancement has been limited by the absence of certain critically important materials-in particular, a semiconductor that is magnetic at room temperature. Recent experiments only hinted at the possibilities. Now, scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a semiconductor material that has superior magnetic properties at room temperature and that may propel research one step closer to realizing the potential of quantum computing.
Using a special synthesis technique, PNNL scientists created a thin-film semiconductor material made of titanium, oxygen and cobalt. In collaboration with scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., they showed that the materials required for quantum computing and the emerging area of spintronics likely can be obtained.
"Although other scientists have created similar materials, their films had considerably poorer magnetic properties," said Scott Chambers, a chemist and PNNL senior chief scientist. "Our material has superior magnetic strength-an improvement of nearly a factor of five.
"Our synthesis technique, while difficult to perform, is more controllable at the atomic level, and therefore yields better results. The next step is to refine the growth process."
The PNNL work builds upon experiments conducted by scientists in Japan who created the same material using laser ablation, an effective but less controlled thin-film synthesis method. The strength of laser ablation is that it allows researchers to cover a wide range of growth conditions and film compositions rather quickly when used in what is known as the combinatorial mode. In this way, several materials can be screened relatively rapidly to determine promising candidates. This kind of search by the Japanese group revealed that the material the PNNL team has synthesized in a more controlled fashion has significant potential for the applications at hand. A description of the Japanese research was published in the Feb. 2, 2001, issue of Science.
The current generation of computers uses an electron's charge to store and process information, but this approach limits the ultimate speed and storage density that can be achieved. Magnetic storage, such as that found in a computer hard drive, relies on the magnetic properties created by an electron's spin. However, if an electron's spin can be harnessed within a semiconductor, the potential exists to create entirely new ways of computing and signal processing that will greatly increase speed and data storage densities. The exploitation of an electron's spin to carry information, rather than its charge, often is referred to as spintronics.
Spintronics would provide the basic properties required for advanced technologies, such as on-chip integration of magnetic storage and electronic processing functions and quantum computing, which depends on coherent spin states to transmit and store information. A material is permanently magnetic if the majority of its electrons spin in the same direction.
In order to be practical, spintronics will need to use semiconductors that maintain their magnetic properties at room temperature. This is a challenge because most magnetic semiconductors lose their magnetic properties at temperatures well below room temperature, and would require expensive and impractical refrigeration in order to work in an actual computer.
Chambers and his team of scientists achieved these properties in a crystalline oxide film known as anatase titanium dioxide that is infused with a small amount of cobalt, a magnetic impurity. These results will be presented in a poster presentation at the 2001 Spintronics Workshop in Washington, D.C., Aug. 9 to 11.
Chambers and his team created this magnetic semiconductor material using a synthesis method called molecular beam epitaxy. In this growth method, individual beams of atoms-in this case, titanium, oxygen and cobalt-are generated in a highly controlled vacuum environment and directed onto a crystalline surface of strontium titanate where the atoms condense and form a crystalline film with dimensions on the nanoscale. Chambers designed and built this equipment in the early and mid-90s, and his particular system was the first of its kind in the world when installed at the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE user facility at PNNL.
After the material was created, a team of scientists at IBM, led by research staff scientist Robin Farrow, validated the results by characterizing the material's magnetic properties. In the material synthesized at PNNL and characterized at IBM, each cobalt atom's magnetic moment, which is a measure of the material's magnetic strength, is about five times larger than in the Japanese scientists' material.
The research is in its first of three years and is funded by PNNL's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative. While early results are promising, PNNL scientists will continue their research to determine the material's ideal growth temperature, growth rate, composition and choice of substrate, and then optimize the structural properties required to achieve the desired magnetic properties.
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Iraq parliament elects speaker as forces push into Tikrit
Iraq's fractious parliament elected a speaker on Tuesday, setting the stage for the government formation process to move forward after extensive delays, as security forces advanced into militant-held Tikrit.world Updated: Jul 15, 2014 18:06 IST
Iraq's fractious parliament elected a speaker on Tuesday, setting the stage for the government formation process to move forward after extensive delays, as security forces advanced into militant-held Tikrit.
World powers and Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, had piled pressure on MPs to put aside their differences and counter a major jihadist-led onslaught that has overrun swathes of territory north and west of Baghdad.
After two sessions in which they made no progress, MPs elected Salim al-Juburi parliament speaker, a post traditionally held by a Sunni Arab that must be filled before the process of forming a government can proceed.
Acting speaker Mahdi Hafez announced that Juburi, an MP from Diyala who ran on an independent list, won 194 of 273 votes cast.
It was not immediately clear if his election was part of a package deal involving the two outstanding senior posts of president and prime minister, but Tuesday's progress after previous deadlocked sessions indicates that some type of accord has been reached.
Lawmakers must now elect a president, who will then give the biggest bloc the first chance to form a government.
The speaker presides over an institution that has consistently failed to fulfil its duties and whose powers are dwarfed by those of the prime minister.
The UN's Iraq envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, has warned lawmakers that "failing to move forward on electing a new speaker, a new president and a new government risks plunging the country into chaos".
Former premier Ibrahim al-Jaafari, speaking ahead of Tuesday's session, said: "If we can't agree within those 48 hours, we still won't agree in 48 days."
Advance into Tikrit
Earlier on Tuesday, security forces began an attack on Tikrit, aiming to revitalise an operation to retake it that began more than two weeks ago but became bogged down south of the city.
"Iraqi forces began a military operation to liberate the city of Tikrit and our forces were able to control the southern part of the city," Ahmed Abdullah Juburi, the governor of Salaheddin province, of which Tikrit is the capital, told AFP.
An army colonel said the police academy and a hospital had been retaken, and Juburi confirmed those facilities were back in government hands, along with the governorate headquarters.
Tikrit was seized by militants on June 11 as part of a sweeping offensive that has overrun large areas of five provinces since it began last month.
Violence also struck south of Baghdad on Tuesday, with bombings in the Madain area killing nine people, including four soldiers, officials said.
The blasts and the new push for Tikrit came a day after the Pentagon said that American military teams sent to Iraq last month have completed their assessment of Iraqi security forces.
The details were not released, but The New York Times said one conclusion was that only roughly half of Iraq's units are capable enough to be advised by US personnel, if the decision is taken to do so.
Deep divisions
Though parliament has finally made progress, deep divisions remain over key appointments and other issues.
Ties between the Baghdad government and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have hit a new low, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has pledged to seek a third term despite some lawmakers insisting he step aside.
The Kurdish region's government has laid claim to disputed northern oilfields, having earlier taken control of other contested areas abandoned by Iraqi forces last month as they fled the sweeping offensive led by the jihadist Islamic State group.
Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani has also called for a vote on outright independence.
Maliki has accused the Kurds of exploiting the insurgent offensive and harbouring militants, while the Kurds say Baghdad is unfairly withholding their share of oil revenues and have called for him to step down.
Maliki, a Shiite Arab viewed by opponents as a divisive and sectarian leader, has no plans to do so, despite eroding political support and thinly veiled calls for change from Washington.
The 64-year-old premier and his coalition partners dominated elections in April, and there is no obvious consensus candidate to replace him.
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With Prices Up, More Farmers May Plant Peanuts
With Prices Up, More Farmers May Plant Peanuts
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —
Rising peanut prices are leading some farmers to consider growing the crop outside of established peanut-growing areas.
Drought in parts of the South helped reduce the 2011 peanut crop by about 15 percent from the year before. Prices climbed from about $400 a ton in 2010 to $1,000 this year.
That has led more farmers in states with ample water, such as Arkansas and Mississippi, to plant peanuts.
Farmers such as Greg Gill say it makes sense to grow peanuts instead of rice on his land in northeastern Arkansas.
Gill said as fuel prices rose, it became costly to run pumps needed to flood his fields as required for rice.
Besides avoiding that cost, he said peanuts don't require as many costly treatments for weeds and pests as other crops.


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Since the Celtics began playing best-of-seven series in the NBA playoffs in 1957, they have rarely been involved in four-game sweeps.
In 75 best-of-seven series, they have swept opponents out of the postseason only four times, and the Celtics have been victims of a 4-0 sweep on just three occasions.
This afternoon at the AmericanAirlines Arena, the Celtics can add to their sweep total with a win over the Miami Heat (1 o�clock, TV: Channels 5 and 6; radio: WEEI-850 AM).
The Celtics hold a commanding 3-0 lead over the Heat after Paul Pierce�s buzzer-beating jump shot gave them a 100-98 victory in south Florida.
The win put the Celtics in position for their first 4-0 sweep since the Eastern Conference finals in 1986 when Boston took out the Milwaukee Bucks to advance to the NBA Finals, where it defeated the Houston Rockets.
That quick four-game run against the Bucks gave the Celtics an 11-1 record in the playoffs before they were extended to six games by the Rockets.
The Celtics defeated the Bucks by 32 and 11 points at Boston Garden, then clinched the series with wins by four and 13 points in Milwaukee.
The only other 4-0 sweeps by the Celtics occurred in the 1959 championship round against the Minneapolis Lakers, the opening round of the 1980 playoffs against the Rockets and the first round of the 1981 playoffs against the Chicago Bulls.
The Celtics have been swept in four games by the Indiana Pacers in the first round in 2004, the New Jersey Nets in the second round in 2003 and the Bucks in the second round of the 1983 playoffs.
The top-seeded Pacers had little trouble in 2004 taking care of the eighth-seeded Celtics, who won just 36 games. The Pacers� margins of victory were 16, 13, 23 and 15 points against a team that was led by interim coach John Carroll, who took over in January for Jim O�Brien.
The loss to the Nets in �03 came one year after the Celtics were eliminated by New Jersey in six games in the conference finals.
The sweep at the hands of the Bucks in �83 led to the firing of coach Bill Fitch, who was replaced by K.C. Jones, the coach who guided the Celtics to two championships in three seasons.
Wallace�s minutes reduced: The minutes of Rasheed Wallace have declined in the three games against the Heat.
Wallace, who averaged 22.5 minutes during the regular season to lead all Celtics� reserves, played 22 minutes in Game 1, 14 minutes in Game 2 and only 11 minutes in Game 3. He has scored only 12 points, hitting 4 of 8 shots, and has seven rebounds in a reduced role during the series.
Rondo delivering: After nearly becoming the first Celtics guard to average a double-double during the regular season (13.7 points, 9.8 rebounds), Rajon Rondo has posted 11.7 points and 10 assists in the first three postseason games. In the opening round last year against the Bulls, Rondo averaged 19.4 points, 11.6 assists and 9.3 rebounds. � If the Celtics are unable to finish the Heat off today, Game 5 will be on Tuesday night at the TD Garden, most likely at 7 p.m. � Kendrick Perkins, who nearly broke Cedric Maxwell�s franchise record for the highest field-goal percentage in the regular season, has made only 47 percent from the field against the Heat. Perkins, who shot 60 percent during the season, is averaging only seven points after going scoreless in Game 3. Perkins is averaging a team-leading eight rebounds.


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Has God ever hurt your feelings? I'll be honest, sometimes I'll read those verses from Philippians listed above and think to myself, "This is a tough pill to swallow."
Content in any and every situation?
A few years ago my daughter was a state champion gymnast. To see her do gymnastics was like looking at God smile. She was beautiful, graceful, and captivating to watch.
Then one night while practicing for one of the largest tournaments she'd ever competed in, she fell. It was a move she'd done hundreds of times with the greatest of ease. But this time something went terribly wrong and that one mistake ended her gymnastic dreams.
We spent a year going from doctor to doctor only to be told she'd never be able to support the weight of her body on her injured shoulder again.
I'll be honest, this was a tough pill to swallow. Watching a 14 year-old girl wrestle with the fact that her dreams were stripped from her doesn't exactly lend itself to feelings of contentment. Now, I know in the grand scheme of life, people face much worse situations. But in her world, this was huge.
It was so tempting to want to wallow in the "why" questions and tell God He'd hurt our feelings.
Why did this happen?
Why didn't You stop this God?
Why weren't my prayers answered?
Have you ever been there? Have you ever had a big situation in your life where you just couldn't process why God would allow this to happen? Or maybe even a small annoyance like losing your keys or having a flat tire on a morning you really needed to be somewhere.
It's so tempting to wallow in the why.
Asking why is perfectly normal. Asking why isn't unspiritual. However, if asking this question pushes us farther from God rather than drawing us closer to Him, it is the wrong question.
If asking the why question doesn't offer hope, what will?
The what question.
In other words: "Now that this is my reality, what am I supposed to do with it?"
Philippians 4:8, "Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things" (NIV).
I like to call this verse "directions on where to park my mind."
And that's exactly what Ashley has had to do with her dashed gymnastics dreams. Instead of wallowing in why did this happen, I've had to help her say:
This is my reality, now what am I going to do with it?
What can I learn from this?
What part of this is for my protection?
What other opportunities could God be providing?
What maturity could God be building into me?
Switching from the why to the what questions paves the road to parking our minds in a much better place.
Is it always easy? Nope.
But is it a way to find a perspective beyond situations where we feel God has allowed something in our lives we don't understand and we absolutely don't like? Yes.
I pray this helps you today. You can also download a free resource on how to change your why questions into what questions. Just go to my blog, http://www.lysaterkeurst.com/ and click on the button "When God Hurts Your Feelings."
Dear Lord, I want to process everything I face in life through the filter of Your love. I know You love me. But sometimes it's just hard to understand the circumstances that come my way. I find myself consumed with trying to figure things out rather than looking for Your perspective and trusting You. Thank You for this new way to look at things. In Jesus' Name, Amen.


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You never know exactly how you'd react to something until you witness it, but we have a hard time believing we'd react to a man falling through the ceiling the same way "Billy" does in this trending video.
The origins of this clip, which was posted on YouTube on Jan. 12, are unclear. But the "when" and "where" aspects of this story can be cast aside briefly in order to enjoy this bizarre video.
As you can see, the clip takes place in a golf shop. About 22 seconds into the video a man appears to come crashing through the roof.
"Hey, Ron," says one voice, in an extremely casual manner.
"Hey, Billy," another man says, also nonchalantly. "That hurt."
The dialogue continues in this manner, as Ron tells Billy not to move as he calls for help. Billy says he's OK, but Ron cautions him again not to get up. Another man walks into the room, but like Ron and Billy, he is in no hurry.
The entire scene seems like a Saturday Night Live skit or perhaps a Jimmy Kimmel prank but, as far as we can tell, it's not.
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"Everybody deserves a hot meal," Keith Sullins, president of Houston Pizza Venture, LP, Papa John's largest franchisee in the Houston market, says in a press release. "We are blessed to be able to help and will be cranking our ovens as long as it takes to help meet these displaced folks' basic needs."
Sullins, who oversees 49 Papa John's restaurants with 1,200 employees in the Houston market, is also set to hire 150 displaced victims of Katrina to work for the chain to deliver pizza. "It's the least we can do," Sullins says. "We need drivers, and these folks need jobs. I hired three individuals today forced to relocate from Louisiana, and we know there are many more folks in the same situation."
Papa John's also announced today that it has established a Disaster Relief Fund through which its franchisees and employees can make donations in support of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in the Gulf Coast states. The company has pledged to match up to $50,000 in contributions and will make the donation through the American Red Cross. Additionally, Papa John's is dispatching two 18-wheelers filled with bottled water along with two mobile pizza kitchens for pizza distribution in affected areas.
"Our hearts go out to the many families impacted by this horrendous disaster," says Chris Sternberg, Papa John's Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications. "Papa John's is in the business of feeding people and bringing families together. We hope that by providing food to the hungry and funds to support long-term relief, we will begin to make a difference."
Approximately 50 Papa John's franchise restaurants in the Gulf Coast region were impacted by Hurricane Katrina, with 27 not having yet reopened. The company is working closely with the impacted franchisees to provide support, including sending generators to help reopen a portion of the affected restaurants.
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Katharine Kennedy 2/02/08
Hi Katharine
I think Ellen's parents were Thomas and Elizabeth nee Seymour, but I have yet to connect them to my tree. I have a public member tree on Ancestry.
I think your Glew family lived in Hambleton which is my home village. The Glew family used to live at the other side of the railyway line and the houses have long since been demolished. It was possible to get to Wistow by cart, there were wooden bridges across the "The Dam" long ago silted up. It was also possible to sail by small boat to Wistow from Hambleton. It is my theory that the Glew family of Wistow is connected to the Glew family of Howden. Many other families in my tree have used this river and drainage system as if it were roads.I am still looking for any proof of my theory. Best wishes Estelle
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