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Clare is a placement student with the museum. She found some interesting items in the collection and they made a perfect blog. she explains the rest…
I can wholeheartedly say that I hate cleaning. Especially hoovering. But one day at Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery I spotted in the corner of my eye a 70 year old Ewbank Hoover. Normally I would have instantly forgotten about it because to me hoovering is the most mundane activity that you could possibly do. However, positioned directly next to the Ewbank was a 1960s American Hoover from The Hoover Company. The clear contrast in the appearance and manufacture of the two Hoovers led me to thinking about Hoovers today and how some people will pay over £300 for the latest lightweight, cordless, awe-inspiring, turbine dust buster. But surely all Hoovers fulfil the same purpose of essentially just cleaning your floor? So why is there so much fuss over modern manufacture and changing appearances? How much can a Hoover from the 1940s really differ to a Dyson? To find out I put the Hoovers of Blackburn Museum to the test.
Without wanting to create a mess, I decided to test the Hoovers on their speed skills around an assault course in the museum's very own Nürburgring, aka the Watercolor Gallery. I started with the oldest, so the trusty but slightly aged Ewbank went first. Although the smallest, the Ewbank was not without its problems, particularly round the sharp corners, proving that angles are not its strong suit. Second to face the challenge was the retro Hoover, which is surprisingly lighter than it seems. The next Hoover put to the test was a delightfully solid blue model from the 1990s, which was very practically made without wheels, so I had to carry it around the course, knocking down part of it on its way. Last but not least the modern day Dyson faced the track and even as an amateur cleaner, I noticed the difference in its weight, speed and ability to tackle tricky corners.
And with that race analysis, the results are in…
4th place the Ewbank with a time of 24.4 seconds
3rd place the 1990s Hoover just making the podium at 23.5
2nd place the 1960's Hoover at 21.5
1st place the Dyson in poll position with a speedy 17.7 seconds
The final times just go to show the advancement that Hoovers have made in the last 70 years and putting them to test was anything but mundane.

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At some point in a woman's life, she will have the displeasure of experiencing a yeast infection. The first experience will most likely lead her to the gynecologist, which is a good reaction to ensure that all other problems are ruled out. From there on, most will simply treat it themselves with a simple over-the-counter purchase at a drug store. However, there is a natural yeast infection remedy that could be a better solution and help you save a few dollars.
This is a result of an imbalance of the natural bacteria that exists in the vagina. Once the imbalance occurs, there is an overgrowth of yeast. To avoid this from occurring, or at least to reduce the risk of having one, a woman should eat yogurt daily. The catch is to read the label and ensure that there are live cultural bacterium in the product. If they are lacking, it will not help in any way.
Regardless, a woman can still get a vaginal yeast infection due to other factors which include antibiotic therapy, irritants like detergents and soaps, clothing, etc. Firstly, a woman should always take acidophiles or other probiotics when on antibiotics to avoid the imbalance from happening.
A natural yeast infection remedy is using live bacterial cultured yogurt (plain, of course) directly at the source. For starters, it will eliminate the burning sensation that is felt by many. Secondly, it will combat the overgrowth and soon return the balance, helping you get back to normal.
It should be noted that the plain yogurt can be inserted safely into the vagina as well to provide relief from the uncomfortable itch and other symptoms. The yogurt can be inserted with an oral syringe or even with a tampon applicator. It should be left in place, preferably overnight and can be less messy by simply wearing a pad.


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CWC Recruitment 2015-2016 for 22 Warehouse Assistants. Central Warehousing Corporation Recruitment for 22 Warehouse Assistant Grade- II Vacancies. CWC Panchakula has been released a notification for 22 jobs or Vacancies. Interested and eligible candidates may send the prescribed application format on or before 12th October 2015. Please read the below provided information such as educational qualification, application fees, selection procedure etc. carefully before applying for this job.
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It's been a quite a while that I wanted to have a full blog post on Regular expressoins to be used on Notepad++ that could immensly help when it comes to string manipulations; which coudln't be done due to lack of time to pay on it; But here it comes.
Following are some of the tips on primitives of the REs on Notepad++
- [ ] : The square brackets can be used to match ONE of multiple characters. For instance, [abc] matches any of the characters a, b or c. Hence, b[eo]n will match words like ben and bon, but not been or beon. Ranges can also be used, [a-z] is any lower case character and so on.
- ^ : The caret can be used inside the square brackets to exclude characters from the match. For instance, hell[^o] means the string 'hell' will be ignored if followed by the letter 'o'. Another example is [^A-Za-z] which will exclude all alphabetic characters. However, if not placed inside a set, ^ can be used to matches the start of a line.
- $ : This matches the end of a line.
- . : The period or dot matches any character.
- \d : Matches any single digit.
- \w : Matches any single alphanumeric characters or underscore.
- \s : Matches whitespaces including tabs and line breaks.
- * : The asterisk or star sign matches 0 or more times. For example, Ba*m matches Bm , Bam , Baam etc.
- + : The plus sign matches 1 or more times. For example, lo+l matches lol , lool , loool etc.
- \< : Matches the start of a word. For example, \< directly followed by 'sh' matches 'she' but does not matches 'wish'.
- \> : Matches the end of a word. For example, sh\> matches 'wish' and does not matches 'she'.
- ( ) : The round brackets can be used in the Find & Replace function to tag a match. tagged matches can then be used in replace with \1, \2 etc. For example, If you write 123xxxRRR in the search and 123\1HHH in the 'Replace with' filed, the result will be: 123xxxHHH.
- \ : The backslash can be used to escape regex characters. For example to match 1+1=2, the correct regex is 1\+1=2. Otherwise, the plus sign will have a special meaning.
Hope these examples to be helpful in real time :
- Find: Win([0-9]+) Replace with: Windows\1 Will search for strings like Win2000, Win2003 and changes them to Windows2000, Windows2003
- Find: [a-z]+(\d\d)\> Replace with: Windows\1 Will search for all alphanumeric followed by 2 digits only at the end such as Win98 and Win07 and changes them to Windows98, Windows07
- Fiind : –USD([0-9]+) Replace wtih : : USD\1 of Entrace Fee NCAA finals–USD200peradult will produce Entrace Fee NCAA finals : USD200 peradult


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Wednesday TMs Weather Sketcher was drawn by 9-year-old Genissa Hernandez, a 4th grader at St. Anthony TMs Catholic School.
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Surprisingly, some incidents have a way of surviving the ravages of time. However dated they might get, they still manage to bristle with humour.
Last year, my parents were with me in Bangalore for one month. Mostly, they were indoors as this was their second visit and on the first one they had visited most of the spots that attract tourists in Bangalore.
One day, my father had briefly ventured out while my mother and I were at home. I was talking to my mother while it occurred to me that I had to go out on a personal errand. I walked to the door, unbolted (we have old-fashioned bolts) it and gently pushed the door. The door refused to open; someone had bolted the door from outside.
There was nobody within shouting distance I could call and have the door unbolted. It was not very long since my father had left for market, so he would take sometime to return.
Who would open the door? Who had bolted the door locking us inside? Was it a mischief of the building kids?
Although I was not venturing out on an extremely important chore, being disallowed to go out when I wanted to felt stifling. It was like being denied freedom.
I started pacing about in the room. I had told the landlord to replace the bolt outside with the one whose latch could be arrested with a lock, preventing a mischief monger from bolting the door from outside locking us inside. The owner procrastinated replacing the bolt, and here we were…locked inside.
My mother's concern wasn't so much about the present predicament as about a distant possibility: what if I was alone, famished (I don't cook at home), wanting to venture out to eat and found myself locked without any one within earshot to come to my rescue. "We have to get it changed today," as my mother said this, we heard a gnashing sound: someone was unbolting the door. My father was back from market.
"Who bolted the door," my father asked as he stepped inside. "The do-gooder didn't tell his name," my mother replied.
My father was as perturbed about someone having bolted the door mischievously as my mother. He started deconstructing the mystery, but couldn't figure out who did it. As his analysis failed to yield any plausible culprit, he turned his wrath to the landlord.
"When you introduced me to that guy, I understood he was an 'all promise no service' type," he told me.
I told him that during my last one-year stay, this had happened for the first time; but failed to calm him.
Few hours later, while we – my parents and I - were lunching together, my father suddenly intoned, "ohhh..." "What happened?" my mother and I looked up and asked.
My father had loosely recalled that he had unmindfully bolted the door while going to market (my father is sometimes forgetful - like me - and always in haste – unlike me).
After my parents left for Calcutta, I reminded the landlord of the offending bolt, but somehow he never replaced it (he has fixed costlier things, though). I never forgot the bolt because my parents didn't let me.
Though since then the bolt has never caused me trouble, it has sometimes reminded me of the incident and given me light-hearted moments.


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Please be sure to use a butterfly, faerie, or angel on your new card or project. When your creation has been uploaded to your blog/gallery, please add a direct link to your work on the FBW blog. Something big is brewing on the FBW blog next week, so be sure to get your card in this week and stop back for next week's surprise!
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Stamp: Bird-Day Hi from Clear Dollar Stamps
Paper: Printed on PTI, DP is by MME
Ink: Colored with Copics, with Smooch flower centers
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I was going to post about something else entirely, but as I was checking my unread feeds, I came accross the news that one of Design Sponge's editors, Anne Ditmeyer, was just about to go study in Paris. They linked her personal blog in there, so I clicked it and started to reading a few of her texts. One of them goes on about what she looks forward to doing while there and there laid what caught my attention. She talks abou tthis american guy, Jim Haynes, who's been hosting Sunday dinners for strangers to meet each other for over 30 years. She found out all about him through an article over at National Public Radio and liked the idea very much. And what's there not to like, really? According to Jim himself, he's a firm believer in introducing people and thinks we all should know each other, as our lives are all connected.
It kind of warms my heart and soul just to know that there are people like that out there. It also makes me want to be like that real bad. It is just a good inspiration. If you liked the idea, please, do go over to his site, read more about him and his activities and, why not, email him about getting a place at one of his Sunday dinners!


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We are familiar with the importance of including fish in our diet and that's why sardines make perfect choice for you. They are here during the whole year, they are cheap, and the most important thing – they are super healthy! Sardines are full of vitamins, packed with proteins and give you plenty of omega 3 acids.
The only "bad" virtue they have is the fact that they can be "heavy" to digest (especially canned sardines), so combining them with tomato sauce makes it much easier and digestible. I prepare this recipe often, and we never had any digest problems afterwards, so here it is…
Olive oil (3 or 4 spoons)
2 or 3 shallots
Garlic (to taste, 3 or 4 bulbs)
Red pepper (it works fine both with fresh chili peppers, or pepper flakes – you need about ½ teaspoon)
Regular paprika (minced red paprika, ½ teaspoon)
1 tablespoon tomato paste
500 grams cherry tomatoes (halved)
½ cup (125ml) white wine
¼ cut (65 ml) water
There was 1 spoon of fish sauce in original recipe, but I didn't use it J
500 grams fresh sardines (the number depends of their size) – cleaned and gutted
Salt (to taste, 1 ½ to 2 teaspoon)
Freshly grounded black pepper (to taste, 1 teaspoon)
Freshly squeezed lemon juice
Use large, oven-proof pan. Sauté shallots, garlic, pepper and paprika until shallots become soft and transparent (around 4-5 minutes). Add Tomato paste and mix. Cook for another minute, until tomato starts to turn brown.
Toss in cherry tomatoes and sauté for some 5 min. or so, till' they release some juice. Pour the white wine, and water and simmer until it all begins to get thicker.
Remove from the heat
While cooking the sauce, turn on the oven (around 220 degrees).
Now it's time to prepare sardines. Season the fish with salt and black pepper. In a large bowl whisk together lemon juice, olive oil and mix in the seasoned sardines. Let it be covered all the way.
Arrange sardines on prepared tomato sauce and put it in the oven, on the closest position to the griller (upper heater) and broil for some 10 or 12 minutes. Turn the fish in the middle of broiling (after some 6 minutes).
Sardines are finished when they are brown and crispy and their meat comes off their bone.
Don't overcook them .


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State legislators backed a bill this week that would require government agencies to obtain a court order before shutting down cellphone service.
Senate Bill 1160, introduced by Democratic state Sen. Alex Padilla of Los Angeles, was a reaction to last summer's decision by BART officials to shut down mobile service in downtown San Francisco stations to thwart a demonstration targeting a July 2011 BART officer-involved fatal shooting. That decision sparked weeks of protests organized by the online hacker group Anonymous that claimed the decision violated free speech rights.
BART's move also led to an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission and spurred the removal of longtime spokesman Linton Johnson, who hatched the shutdown idea.
Protesters in Oakland marked the anniversary of the decision with a demonstration on Monday, but it did not disrupt train service.
The bill, which was approved by the state Senate on Monday, will now be sent to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature. If approved, it will require agencies to cite specific reasons a service disruption is necessary before acting.


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More Jeanne is good. Hoping Fiore get a good VA.
A-1.... uuhhh... I don't know 'bout this. They usually do their things.... uhmm independently is the right word?
I'm always up some animated Karna, Semi and Astolfo, but mostly Karna. PV looks pretty good. Better than most A-1 stuff I've seen at least.
My expectations would be higher if this wasn't the eighteenth thing down the list that A-1 was working on in 2017.
HYPE Thrusters R.I.P. Arcueid
This year COULD NOT get any better.
Well I mean it can if they do something with Tsukihime. If that happened I may just die from the hype.
Wait, this is real? Wow, color me (pleasantly) surprised.
This is cute.
I just want good fights
I'm most excited for animated Spartacus nuke and animated Golem Keter Malkuth.
It looks very anime.
The Manhattan Project: Is it a sin to kill for your country? In an age of nationalism, where do you draw the line between right and wrong? In the 1960s, eight people seek peace amidst war and tragedy.
[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
He means that Christemo and Break would be the top posters in an Apo thread
Localizationing stuff
Everyone expected an Apo anime sooner or later, but 2017 is already loaded with fate/title goddamn


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From Rugby League Week:
Warrington prop Paul Wood played the second half of the Super League grand final against Leeds with a ruptured testicle. He even conducted post-match interviews before going to hospital where it was later removed.
He jokingly tweeted after the operation: "Tony Smith [Warrington coach] did say in his pre-match team talk last night 'Your balls are on the line here guys!' I didn't think he meant literally." The ultimate sacrifice for the team! Haven't heard of that down here in the southern hemisphere?
Leeds won the match 26-18.


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It seems to be the trend for all of the Milspouse blogs to start participating in the Friday Fill-In and I thought why not. It gives me something new to write about and a chance for you all to learn more about me. I have been really surprised at how much I love writing my blogs and I quit spending so much time on Facebook & spend oodles of time blogging! Yeah me! Here come my answers, we'll see if you find me interesting at all.
1. How did you and your spouse/significant other meet?
We met our Sophomore year of high school sitting outside of a church house across the street from the Driver's Ed range. I definitely was NOT interested in him when I met him, but given time sparks did start to fly.
2. What is the best thing about being a MilSpouse?
The military benefits: on post housing, health insurance (when we had it), knowing other wives who know what I'm going through
3. What is the hardest thing about being a MilSpouse?
There is never a guarantee that my hubby will be with us for the important events and he misses out on so much. He missed our daughters birth, because he was at AT and this year he missed her taking her first steps because he was at AT again. You never know where he'll be and he could be gone at a moments notice it sometimes seems. You can't stop things from happening and time doesn't stand still.
4. What is your favorite dish?
This fabulous new recipe I got from Real Mom's Kitchen blog called Chicken Pillows and they are to die for. I don't know or even care if they are healthy for you, I think I could eat them every week!
5. If you could change one thing in this world, what would it be?
I'd want peace so that our soldiers didn't have to fight and be far away from us.
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Here are details of our transit of Venus activity taking place on board HMS Warrior this Tuesday 5th June 2012 at 1.30pm and 2.30pm. This event is free with a valid entry ticket to HMS Warrior. PLEASE NOTE: it really is Tuesday not Monday. The BBC Things To Do Listing should update soon.
Here is the listing on the HMS Warrior Site.
I made the below worksheet to give out at the event. We'll also have a solar telescope, and safe solar viewers to give out.


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|Index from J E Theriot on Flickr Creative Commons licence is here.
What would we do without indexes? And God bless the folk that create them. I confess to getting a bit cranky these days if I borrow a non-fiction book and it doesn't have an index - what were they thinking? Of course, indexes are not just in the back of books. Researchers can find them in libraries and archives. They might be created by archivists and librarians or volunteers like the members of QFHS and wonderful individuals like Judy Webster. They are fantastic tools or finding aids that help you navigate a sea of information.
I am a bit chuffed because today I received my very own copy of Brian Papardallo's Tracing Your Naval Ancestors.
It contains many tables showing what records exist in The National Archives and if personal name indexes exist for them. Now, if only I could get to them thar Archives!
There are of course other volumes out there that might be able to help. In my search for information about my great-grandfather and what he might be doing in the South China sea in the early 20th Century, I borrowed a book from my local library called The Australian Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Boxer Uprising 1899-1901 by Justin Corfield. Naval contingents from NSW, Victoria and South Australia went to China. If you think one of your ancestors may have served in this conflict, I would highly recommend you borrow/obtain this book as it has lists/biographies of those who served. I was pleased to find in it a reasonably exhaustive biography of Edward Richard Connor (1848-1903). I keep coming across references to him and he was serving around the same time as my Edward Connor. Maybe he's related, I'm not sure, but at least this book was able to tell me that his parents were Alexander and Naomi Connor - names that are unfamiliar to me.
Another useful book when looking for helpful sites on the internet is Peter Christian's The Genealogist's Internet. Of course, all books featuring websites are bound to date very quickly but at least it is a starting point.
One of the sites he recommended is Paul Benyon's Late 18th, 19th and early 20th Century Naval and Naval Social History site. There is also Paul's Index of 19th Century Naval vessels here. There's a lot of me that wishes the site was sourced better but it's fascinating nevertheless.
Other sites that might be helpful are:
The UK Mariners page on Hall's Website
Gilbert Provost's Register of Ships transcribed from Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping from 1764 to 2003.
Then there's CLIP or the Crew List Index Project.
Or how about Mariners?
Of course you should also consider browsing gateways like Genuki's Military Records page (scroll to the bottom to find all things Navy) and Cyndislist. And then there's UKMFH - oh dear Lord, I may never get to bed at this rate!
Monday, April 11, 2016
I is for Indexes and the Internet
10 comments:
- Suzanne McClendon said...
How exciting and just think of all the bunny trails (fish trails?) these links could take you on! I've found some pretty exciting things going down bunny trails that took me off my primary research path. Sometimes the best information is found in very unlikely places.
Enjoy that new book and the research. Have a blessed day. :)
- April 12, 2016 at 2:08 AM
- Jill Ball said...
UKFMH - a new to me site, thanks.
One of my pet hates are non-fiction books without indexes.
- April 12, 2016 at 10:02 AM
- ScotSue said...
My husband's ancestors (names - Donaldson, Iley White and Moffet) were mariners sailing out of South Shields in north East England. Tyne and Wear Archives have proved particularly useful in identifying ships they sailed on and also Lloyd's Register. I found your list of references very helpful and must explore them in more depth. Thank you.
- April 12, 2016 at 9:54 PM
- Alex Daw said...
Dear Suzanne..I do like a bunny trail so I do!
- April 13, 2016 at 7:07 AM
- Alex Daw said...
Glad to be of service Jill!
- April 13, 2016 at 7:08 AM
- Alex Daw said...
Dear Sue ...Iley White is an unusual surname I'm thinking....
- April 13, 2016 at 7:09 AM
- Alex Daw said...
Dear Sue ...Iley White is an unusual surname I'm thinking....
- April 13, 2016 at 7:09 AM
- Alex Daw said...
Glad to be of service Jill!
- April 13, 2016 at 7:09 AM
- Alex Daw said...
Dear Suzanne..I do like a bunny trail so I do!
- April 13, 2016 at 7:09 AM
- Cassmob (Pauleen) said...
We tend to overlook the wonderful services of all those indexers, after all many of the indexes used by the commercial sites were first prepared by society members and people like Judy Webster. Following your links reminded me that one can order some of the PRO Bt series on microfilm through the LDS church/famil search as I have done in the past.
- April 18, 2016 at 9:48 PM


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Karen Satterthwaite (Neice)
17 November 2012
Passed away peacefully at home on November 10, 2012.
Funeral Service to take place at Bushbury Crematorium, West Chapel, on Thursday, November 22, at 10am.
Family flowers only, donations to the PDSA c/o JENNINGS FuneralDirectors 6 / 7 The Square Codsall WV8 1PT Telephone 01902 845770.
Lovingly remembered by Daughter Jill, Son-in-law Mike and all her Family in England and South Africa.
17 November 2012
So sad you've left us God Bless Karen
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With the imminent approach of the next videogame generation, it's fun to imagine what might edge out as "the big thing" or who will become our new favorite heroes. Consequently, in looking forward, it's also a causes to reflect, to see what has been successful. In the Xbox 360's case, Gears of War turned out to be a marquee franchise so intertwined with the console, it's hard to disassociate one from the other. Epic Games' creation has cast a mould from which others borrowfor better or worseand has helped to further popularize the cover-based shooter, Unreal technology, and team-based survival against waves of unrelenting enemies.
Whereas Epic's earlier work on the series might be viewed as mostly progressive, their collaborative work with People Can Fly on quasi-prequel Gears of War: Judgment plays in an arguably retro-fied manner. Showcasing a hefty bias towards score-based gameplay, instead of dramatic exposition, Judgment amounts to a quick, side-story romp more suited for the hardest of the hardcore in the "Gears" community. Their effort might have been intended to bring more players into the fold with quickly accessed action, but there's little backing up the tight controls in a game so focused on solely delivering explosions of meaty giblets.
Honestly, I see Judgment as a devisive "Gears" experience. It's a departure from the numbered arc where Marcus Fenix's fight against an emergent alien force involved showy set pieces and more drawn out pacing to at least make an attempt at creating drama amidst oversized splattering bodies. In a way, the series' popularity crafted more of an obligation to play, rather than an opus, but either way, the result is the same: a lot of people played the games. Like any massively popular commodity, those games spawned licensed products, extending its reach and giving way to the super-fan who could invest into more than only a couple of games. That's the kind of person I see really getting the most out of Judgmentsomeone who just really loves the "Gears" universe.
For the generalist group (of which I consider myself a member), it's hard to sit through a game that purposefully, methodically, predictably pulls you away from any hint of immersion. Literally and mechanically broken up into sections, Judgment hides what skeleton of a story there is behind template scoreboards and gameplay breakdowns of your COG-versus-Locust firefights. Taking control of series favorites Cole and Baird, along with newcomers Paduk and Sofia, in a framed narrative scheme, that can be remixed with challenges in each section with Mission Declassification (only certain weapons allowed, finite health, etc.), holds potential for at least entertaining storytelling, but besides some contextual cues, Judgment's reason to fight is swept to the background. The story's so passively constructed and presented, the big-boss bad guy only exists as a name and an anticlimactic final battle, and the characters hardly develop from anything more than one-liners.
It's not until you finish the main campaign and unlock a short, more Gears 3-styled epilogue that any effort at a narrative presents itself. Aftermath serves to tie the years-prior events of Judgment to 3, but it's distinct contrast to Judgment's structure makes it an out-of-place DLC event.
The decision to build and dissect the game into defined sections; score, recap, and reward each of those parts; and breeze past any meaningful storytelling is ultimately what breaks an otherwise solidly grounded shooter. Judgment's light on any real twists on the familiar chainsaw bayonet run and gunning, opting to instead incorporate some survival standoffs into its campaign, but its action isn't any less fluid for it.
Though it can be hard to nail down random sessions with random people online, at specific parts in the story, four-player cooperative design allows for groups to complete the sections (and their accompanying declassified modifications) with a sort of brutish grace. Sucking up against a low barrier can unfold into a series of movements through cover that allows for a myriad of ways to dispatch Locust opposition. It's not new territory for the franchise, but it's just a little bit faster and more tuned.
Thankfully, Judgment's competitive multiplayer saves face for the package. The addition of a free-for-all option and the objective-driven, Horde-Beast hybrid, OverRun to other genre staples offer some "Gears" takes on multiplayer. No longer are matches just shotgun forays; an emphasis on relatively as powerful, yet just as skill-necessary, medium-range rifles make pot-shots from a little bit of a distance more achievable, in maps of some verticality (that number too few, unfortunately). These rifles come in handy in OverRun games where player-controlled Locust enemies fight to invade barricaded COG objectives. Standard classes (medic, engineer, scout, and heavy) on the COG side are surprisingly well-matched against a greater number of bigger, more-fun-to-play-as Locust options.
Essentially, Judgment offers a more balanced multiplayer experience than past entries; it's one that's slightly more accessible for the generalist, while also offering a different skill to master for the "Gears" diehard.
For all of its cross-over experience integration, allowing both campaign and multiplayer modes to contribute to unlocking character and weapon skins, Judgment falls short on delivering an engaging story to play through. I get that's not what it's entirely trying to achieve, but creating a core experience out of what's usually reserved for 'arcade' or more ancillary play doesn't create a strong impression. People Can Fly and Epic exhibit an ability to make technically sound gaming, where gunplay and movement is tight and thought out, but it's a shame there isn't more substance to keep Judgment from staling to mindless, meaningless shooting for points and standings on a leaderboard.
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Voss finally got his new legs but Dr. V was looking for a little something extra. He had lent out the Boss of the Exchange (Dyrid) 100,000 credits. for payment of the new mechanical legs, we were to reclaim his debt from the Exchange. The group split up. Kershaw, Tyan, Aranis and Ashtok all made way to the coordinates Dr.V had given them. Voss was left to walk back to the ship to get used to his new legs. On route to the ship, he removed the restraining bolt. The group had requested it specifically so they wouldn't have another incident
like back on Dantooine. Voss had to drag his limp broken ass back to the ship and use the Nashada yellow pages to call up someone to repair him… already. The group -making way to repay the debt for Dr.V, who FIXED Voss had gotten to the exchange's pleasure palace. They struggled to make an appointment to see the boss. They finally convinced Dyrid to transfer 100,000 credits to Ashtok's credit chip. Betwixt all of this, Voss was unknowingly taken in on the promise of getting his legs fixed by a bounty hunter. And you know what, he's fucking up the story far enough from here. Long bullshit story short he's now frozn and when/ if he gets thawed out he's gonna explode unless we rescue him from the bank. then we went to wendys. fuck.


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Stanislas Grassin-Delyle, Roland Couturier, Emuri Abe, Jean Claude Alvarez, Philippe Devillier, Saïk Urien; A Practical Tranexamic Acid Dosing Scheme Based on Population Pharmacokinetics in Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. Anesthesiology 2013;118(4):853-862. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318283c83a.
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Pediatric cardiac surgery patients are at high risk for bleeding, and the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid (TA) is often used to reduce blood loss. However, dosing schemes remain empirical as a consequence of the absence of pharmacokinetic study in this population. The authors' objectives were thus to investigate the population pharmacokinetics of TA in pediatric cardiac surgery patients during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).
Twenty-one patients were randomized to receive TA either continuously (10 mg/kg followed by an infusion of 1 mg·kg−1·h−1 throughout the operation, and 10 mg/kg into the CPB) or discontinuously (10 mg/kg, then 10 mg/kg into the CPB and 10 mg·kg−1·h−1 at the end of CPB). Serum concentrations were measured at eight time points with chromatography–mass spectrometry and the data were modeled using Monolix (Lixoft, Orsay, France).
Tranexamic acid pharmacokinetics was ascribed to a two-compartment open model. The main covariate effects were body weight and CPB. Representative pharmacokinetic parameters adjusted to a 70-kg body weight were as follows: systemic clearance, 2.45 l/h; volume of distribution in the central compartment, 14.1 l; intercompartmental clearance, 5.74 l/h; and peripheral volume, 32.8 l. In accordance with this model, the authors proposed a weight-adjusted dosing scheme to maintain effective TA concentrations in children during surgery, consisting of one loading dose followed by a continuous infusion.
The authors report for the first time the pharmacokinetics of TA in children undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB, and propose a dosing scheme for optimized TA administration in those children.
This work describes for the first time the pharmacokinetics of tranexamic acid in children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, which was the basis for the proposal of an optimized dosing scheme.
Bleeding in pediatric cardiac surgery patients is more common than in adults, exposing children to the risks associated with allogenic transfusions. Although the efficacy of tranexamic acid in pediatric cardiac surgery has been previously demonstrated, pharmacokinetic analysis of the optimal dosing regimen remains lacking.
This study investigated the population pharmacokinetics of tranexamic acid in pediatric cardiac surgery patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass.
The population pharmacokinetics and a proposed dosing scheme for optimized tranexamic acid administration in children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass is described.
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The gymnastics seminar with Louise and Jayde went so well the first time that we are hosting another on Saturday, August 23rd. This time though they will be broken into 2 session times: INTRO and ADVANCED. Please click on the poster below for details! Sign up is first come first serve in Mindbody under "EVENTS". Talk to Jayde if you have questions about which group you should be in.
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The Center for Children & Young Adults (CCYA)
Established in 1981, the mission of The Center for Children & Young Adults (CCYA) is to provide a safe and nurturing environment with comprehensive services for homeless youth and young adults who have been abused, abandoned, neglected, or are at risk. As a part of the state foster care system, we house, feed, clothe and develop homeless and maltreated youth in the Atlanta Metro Area.
Our first youth home, Open Gate, was created as a temporary emergency shelter for abused/neglected children in Cobb County and opened its doors in 1984. In 1995, CCYA became a longer term facility (excess of 90 days) and opened Another Chance an all teen home on the current campus. In 1998 we expanded beds at Another Chance and relocated Open Gate to the current campus. We built Life Works in 2001, a Transitional Living Housing Program, to house young adults aging out of care at 18. In 2009, CCYA reorganized to meet growing state needs for housing teens and began serving only youth ages 12-20 while expanding services to more than 13 counties. In 2010, CCYA shifted from a "shelter" model to a "youth development" model employing a Trauma Informed Care Approach. We are the only children's residential center in Georgia to adopt the national certification training curriculum in the field for youth care professionals which is the Residential Child & Youth Care Professional (RCYCP) Training out of the University of Oklahoma National Resource Center on Youth Services. Our newest program Connections Beyond Care offers transitional young adults a host of services and support in the community. New to Connections is a residential support program, providing eligible youth an apartment and rental assistance while they attend school and work skills training programs.
Over the years, our fundamental goals have remained the same: (1) To provide shelter, food and clothing for homeless youth & young adults in need; and (2) To provide for the safety, education, health, and well-being of these young people while helping them to achieve a permanent home placement OR, where no placement is available, transition them successfully to independence. However, our approach has been changing over time.
CCYA is redefining residential care for at risk youth in our community – we are no longer just housing, feeding and clothing youth, we are developing them. Through innovative therapies (music, art, & animals); strong community partnerships; a therapeutic culture of care; and a daily milieu that involves youth in their own care and planning; CCYA is helping youth to overcome their childhood maltreatment, expose them to new opportunities, learn and practice life skills, and achieve goals they once never dreamed possible.


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A few moments ago, the House passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It passed by a vote of 227 to 205, and with mixed feelings, I voted yes. In some measure, I did so as a vote to continue the process because many Republicans from Northeastern states want to keep the tax exemptions currently favorable to high tax states – and for the process to continue, my vote was needed. At another level, I did so because I believe I was elected to limit the size and scope of government – and limiting taxes and spending are close proxies in efforts to do so.
It was indeed because I believe in limited government that I voted no on the budget a few weeks ago. This year's budget proposed increased spending over the next year…and the 10 years contemplated in the budget itself. And that's hardly a formula for limited government and the individual freedom that comes with it.
So, the yes vote allows the process to continue and is consistent with the fact that I have always voted to reduce taxes when given the choice. It's my hope that the Senate measure – and the Conference report that will follow – refines and improves this bill passed today. I will make a decision on that Conference report as it comes our way, likely in December.
The bill is a mixed bag, and it's for that reason groups like the Realtors, Homebuilders, and others back home have come out against it. But even with its detractors, I believe the bill does more good than bad and for this reason voted to support it.
Let me list the things I liked and those I did not.
American Competitiveness — The bill has been described as comprehensive reform. It is not that. Fundamentally, it is a corporate tax cut and reform bill. Indeed, of the $1.5 trillion in anticipated cost, in broad strokes, $1 trillion of the benefit accrues to the corporate side while about $300 billion goes to individual tax reduction and the last $200 billion goes to estate tax reduction.
One can argue for or against this distribution of tax benefit, but from the standpoint of raw competitiveness of the American society versus others around the world, this bill moves us toward being more competitive. Over the last ten years, industrialized countries have moved their rates down to the point that America's marginal corporate tax rate is the highest in the world. Ireland has moved theirs to 12.5%, while Canada has moved its to 15%, and both have seen substantial capital inflows as a consequence. The industrialized average on corporate tax rates is now 23%, and this bill moves us from 35% to 20%. Lowering corporate rates is in fact a bipartisan idea. Senator Ron Wyden, a democrat from Oregon, has proposed doing this for the last seven years.
It would also move us from a global corporate tax system to a territorial one, which aligns with the way that most other countries tax corporate earnings. Our not addressing these two things has driven companies like Johnson Controls, Burger King, and a long list of other long-time American companies to move their corporate headquarters overseas. This bill attempts to rectify this and is the main selling point of my reading of the bill. It certainly does other things like full expensing at the corporate level, but at the end of the day, these are features rather than the main benefits of what this bill offers.
Fewer Individual Tax Brackets — On the individual side, the bill eliminates things like the Alternative Minimum Tax while attempting to broaden the tax base by eliminating exemptions and deductions that allow the House bill to move us from 7 tax brackets down to 4. All this is done under the name of tax simplification. But when you really begin to get into the details of things like small business pass-through income requirements, you're struck by the fact that if this is simplification, then I would hate to see complication.
Estate Tax Reduction — In the same vein, the bill's efforts to eliminate the estate tax are mixed. The bill doubles the estate tax exemption for the next six years, and I think a doubling of this exemption is good and reasonable. On the other hand, the bill then eliminates the estate tax in 2025. What this means in plain English is that the bill raises the estate tax exemption. Period. And not more than that.
Given that no Congress can bind another Congress, I would find it hard to believe that a future Congress would somehow muster the political courage to say that Jeff Bezos ought to be able to hand off his $94 billion estate tax-free to his kids and grandkids – when this Congress won't. In short, certain sections of the code like this were gamed rather than really dealt with. In some cases, this was for political purposes; in other cases, it was to affect the scoring cost of the bill itself.
But the long and short of this is that the bill has features in it that would appeal to an array of taxpayers and indeed proposes some form of tax cut for eighty percent of the tax filers.
Raises the National Deficit — One, I don't like what this bill does to the deficit. To be clear, you can't have a tax cut and have revenue neutrality. And if you really believe that government should be smaller, then cutting both spending and taxes are essential. The catch here is that Congress oftentimes has voted for one but not the other, but I can only control the one vote that I have been vested with by people at home. And I've consistently voted to do both.
Many people in the debate that has occurred have been 100% disingenuous on this point, as they have found newfound religion on the importance of avoiding deficits. Some of these folks in fact have been some of the biggest spenders in Congress – and how they now make their argument as they do is just a touch curious…but politics are politics.
Here is the conundrum on this point. If we do nothing, our debt-to-GDP numbers are projected to continue to rise dramatically over the next ten years from 77% today to 91%. It was 35% as recently as 2007. With this tax bill, it would rise another 5% to 96%. In short, we are in real trouble either way if we have not done something material to cut spending and to increase economic growth. The bet on this bill is that it will help with the latter. It is not a guarantee but an educated bet. More optimistically, some point to the fact that tax extenders, which would largely go away with any tax reform measure, account for $450 billion in cost of the bill. When combined with the one trillion in economic growth groups like the Tax Foundation believe would come with this bill, they believe we can get much closer to parity in the bill's effective cost over the next ten years.
My reasoning goes with the first argument rather than the second, as I was taught a long time ago in business to focus on downside rather than upside in looking at budget forecasts.
One last point here on the relative weight of taxes versus spending going forward in solving our deficit problem – and it reinforces how important cutting spending will be. On average, the federal government has brought in about 18% of GDP in taxes. This has been remarkably consistent – regardless of tax rates. Sometimes high rates, other times low rates…but always about the same take to government. In short, you can only squeeze but so much juice from a lemon. On the other hand, spending has risen steadily during those same years. Today, we are at about 20.7%. It takes no mathematician to recognize that if you take in 18 but spend 20, you have a problem. What this tax bill would do is to leave us within 1% of our historic norm on taxes. Meanwhile, spending is projected to rise to 23.4% over the same ten years….about 3.5% above what we have been doing.
Skin in the Game — Two, it takes people off the tax rolls. I know this has been sold as a feature of the bill, but I think it's a mistake. I believe that there is a value to people looking at their tax return at the end of the year and asking whether or not they got their money's worth. There is a value to having all Americans with skin in the deal on whether or not their government is working. We're getting dangerously close to a tipping point in our society wherein more people get from government than give to government. And what we do by taking more people off the rolls is to give them reason to be unlimited in their demands for government since they're not tangibly paying part of the freight of the cost of the government from which they benefit.
Lack of Universal Individual Tax Cut — Three, while giving to corporations a windfall with things like full expensing, which from a scoring standpoint is very costly, the bill actually raises the tax load on some individuals. This seems a bit crazy to me. I don't like some rich folks any more than the next guy, but it needs to be recognized that we have a progressive tax system, and as you go up the income tax scale, you pay more. In fact, the top 10% of earners in America pay 70% of the income taxes in our country.
Many of these folks in this group aren't exactly rich since the top 10% in America begins at a family income of $133,000. That means a school teacher married to a truck driver could find themselves indeed in the top 10%. What Republicans have done here is to continue down this line of class warfare that I think is counterproductive. The bill does deliver tax relief to about 80% of those who have filed (and this has been noted by even the Washington Post), but the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the bill will mean a tax increase for 8.3% of taxpayers in 2019 and 22% of taxpayers by 2025. This is flawed. If we're going to go down this route of alleged tax reform, then it would seem reasonable to me that all people would get some degree of tax relief as opposed to government penalizing some who are very productive in our society.
Hardly a Simplification — Four, while the bill does eliminate some exemptions while reducing the number of tax brackets, this is hardly the simplification that you would see in a Fair Tax or Flat Tax proposal. I think the worst of these areas is with small business treatment wherein there is a very complicated 70-30 split on income. I've heard from many people at home concerned about the way in which the formula would work – because it could advantage the investor in a small business over the owner/operator. This part of the bill needs much more work.
I have a host of other thoughts, but I know my analysis is getting long in the tooth. Accordingly, I will call it quits. But I want to leave you with this. I am committed to votes that will improve the lives of people along the coast of South Carolina and across the country at large. After one includes everything from advancing the process to how to close part of our budget deficit with growth, I believe the bill narrowly comes up with more positive than negative in improving the lives of those I represent. There is still more work to be done on this bill, and for this reason, I will be working where I can to improve it. No Representative has complete control over a bill like this, but I was part of a group that pushed very hard against the idea of a border adjustment tax as this bill was getting rolled out – and our collective voice was instrumental in eliminating that provision of the bill. I will look for more opportunities to further refine this bill.
More than anything, I would love to get your thoughts on this tax proposal and what should come next in the Senate and Conference reports.


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The Calgary tournament usually takes place around the middle of July and in recent years has been the location of the Alberta Cup final. In the ladies division, Calgary fielded 2 teams in 2015 and emerged as victors after 2 tight games with Edmonton. In the men's division, Calgary had dominated this tournament in recent years but Edmonton shaded it in 2015., The mens competition has been fiercely contested in the past by Edmonton, Red Deer, Fort McMurray, Vancouver, Calgary Slashers and the Aussie Rules team Calgary Kangaroos.
The Alberta Cup takes place over the course of the summer in a league format and is run in conjunction with specific tournaments held by the four participating clubs in Alberta. The cities in which the tournaments are held are Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Fort McMurray. In recent years the Calgary tournament has been the host of the Alberta Cup finals for both Mens and Ladies. The ladies division had been dominated by Fort McMurray in recent years, however Calgary proved to be the best of the bunch in 2015. In the mens division, the pendulum swings between the fierce rivals of Calgary and Edmonton, but up and coming Fort McMurray and Red Deer are challenging the rivals more and more each year - Fort McMurray were top of the table until the final day in 2014. The last two finals have been hotly contested by Calgary and Edmonton, with the winning margin being just a point in both games. In 2012, Edmonton fought back in the 2nd half and scored a goal in the last minute to seal victory. In 2013, Calgary took a strong lead early on in the game and despite a spirited comeback from their rivals held on with a last minute goal of their own to bring the game to extra time. A strong showing from Calgary ensured a 1 point victory to claim the Denis Walsh Cup for the 3rd time. In 2014 Calgary again faced Edmonton in the final, snatching victory in extra time.
The inaugural Calgary Hurling tournament took place in 2013 and was contested between Calgary Chieftains and Edmonton Wolfe Tones. A great turnout from both clubs showcased the Hurling pedigree present in Alberta. This tournament proved to be a great success and the aim is to carry it on and get more clubs involved in the future.
Football, Hurling and Camogie teams from British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan challenge each other over the 1st weekend of August.
The Mens footballers compete for the Tom Butler Cup, and the ladies compete for the Tom Gibbons Cup, as well as the pride of being the best team in the West!
Calgary emerged as the inaugural winners in the hurling tournament while the ladies football team competed well eventually falling to a very strong Vancouver side. The Chieftains and Slashers both competed strongly but Vancouver emerged with the mens Senior trophy and Regina claimed the spoils in the Junior edition.
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About the Chieftains
Since 1977, the Calgary Chieftains have been Calgary's GAA club. We are a sports and social club that promotes the traditional Irish sports of Gaelic Football and Hurling. We are fully affiliated to the GAA, through the Western Canada Divisional Board and are a registered Albertan Society (Calgary Chieftains: Gaelic Athletic Association Club).
The club's playing season runs from May to September, depending on pitch availability after the winter. Throughout these months the club trains, and competes in tournaments in Alberta, Western Canada and the USA.
The Chieftains also provide a great social scene throughout the year, and especially over the long winter months. The club always has something on, from quiz nights to trips to see the Calgary Flames or from Talent Nights to Ski Days. We pride ourselves on helping 'new Calgarians' settle into their surroundings, or just help people make some new friends.
The Calgary Chieftains are now represented in all four codes. There are two mens football teams (The Calgary Chieftains and the Calgary Slashers), a ladies football team, a mens Hurling team and a Camogie team. Our youth division, Chieftains Óg, are a recent addition to the club and are going from strength to strength.
The Calgary Chieftains is the only Adult Gaelic Football club based in Calgary, Canada. They play at the Calgary Canadian Irish Athletic Club grounds and are members of Western Divisional Board of the Canadian County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
In 1977, Mike Quirke of Foilmore, Co. Kerry helped start the Calgary Chieftains. Paddy McCallion, brother of Tyrone hurling star Damien McCallion, who used to play for the Chieftains, of Tyrone descent, carried the torch into the nineties, having joined the Chieftains from their rivals in Edmonton. Noel Tuohy, from Dundalk, Louth, has been a stalwart player and spiritual leader for the club in the late nineties and has been largely involved in training/management since. Also the efforts of Liam Mailey, Adrian Lagan, Kim Tulloch & Amanda Stewart have been crucial for the club. In recent years, young members including John Treacy, Eamonn McSweeney, Ivan Hearty, Lydia Nutbrown, Julia Rigaux, Richie Pinfield and Suzanne McKeon have kept the club running. The Chieftains compete every year in the Western Canadian Championships in both men's & ladies Gaelic football - in fact, the men's team won the inaugural tournament in 2004.
In 2012, the Calgary Slashers (Calgary 'B' team) were formed as part of the Calgary Chieftains and have taken part in the Calgary and Red Deer tournaments in the past two years. This team was formed due to the large interest in men's football in Calgary.
In 2013, the Calgary Chieftains fielded their first hurling team in their history and held the inaugural Alberta Hurling Cup tournament in August 2013.


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How to Master the Cool-Girl Version of a Low Bun
When done right, low buns are the perfect mix of elegant and cool, a combination that's difficult to achieve. We went straight to celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin to figure out exactly how to pull off the look.
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Tackle any rough bits with a dab of styling cream, and you're done! There you have it: a chic, sleek chignon that's way cooler than your average low bun.
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New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/18/2017 -- China is widely regarded as the global manufacturing hub for all sorts of wedding dresses and special occasion dresses. While many people have this tendency to equate low prices with low quality, many local wedding dress factories in China are now in an attempt to break the myth. The Suzhou region in Jiangsu province in China is home to a number of internationally recognized dress manufacturers that produce the same or better quality of wedding dresses and special occasion dresses with keeping the costs low through a variety of ways.
Not only the big and well-known brands, but ecommerce brands and global suppliers like Fannybrides are also making it easier for their overseas dealers and suppliers to import quality products at low prices from China. The online store has its factory in Suzhou wedding dress city, which is at the foothills of Huqiu. The Suzhou wholesale dress manufacturing market is the largest in China, and there are numerous wholesalers and retailers in China that have their brick-and-mortar stores in this region. Like many of their neighbouring stores, Fannybrides.com also does not set a MOQ or minimum order quantity for first-time purchasers.
Besides offering low prices on wedding apparels, the online store also now offers customization services for wedding apparels. Customers can now opt out buying mass-produced wedding dresses and send their drawings or designs to the designers and tailors at Fannybrides.com to get their customized designs. Since trial orders are available, overseas retailers can also buy one unit to check the market response and place bulk orders later. Contrary to many of their competitors, Fannybrides has now their own in-house designers and skilled workers who can produce 3,500 pieces of fashion apparels every month.
The ecommerce store is now among the fastest growing wedding dress factories in China, with their production capacity increasing with every day passing. The manufacturers are now looking forward to becoming the largest manufacturer not in the domestic market alone, but also globally the most recognized brand for cheap and wholesale wedding dresses and other sorts of special occasion dresses.
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I'm ok with people in the industry who are novices who don't know any better as well as the self proclaimed gurus who know "everything." It's all part of what makes our business fascinating.
I really love the conversations I get to have with MLM people who are real though. People who are truly impressive but don't feel the need to impress me. Those moments are the gems.


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It's great to know you have friends who are willing to stay up late eating junk food, painting nails and talking the night away like teenage girls. Also, it's maybe a little validating to find out you aren't the only one who has a rather large collection of nail polish... ;)
I'm so grateful to be here in Baltimore getting to build friendships with all of these lovely ladies, and grateful to have had an excuse (not that we need one...) to get together and say goodbye to one who's moving on to new adventures. We're going to miss you Kristelle!


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served with distinction at a number of military posts in the Southwest, includ-
ing Forts Concho and Davis. Perhaps his most significant contribution came as
a result of the various engineering projects he completed. He designed and
constructed a drainage system at Fort Sill, and also supervised the building of a
highway that led from the fort to Gainesville, Texas. In addition, Flipper par-
ticipated in field operations against the Apaches during the Victorio campaign
of 188o.
The lieutenant's promising military career came to an abrupt end in 1882
when he was dismissed from the service for conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman. While serving as the post quartermaster at Fort Davis, Flipper
was accused of embezzling nearly $4,000 in regimental funds. The lieutenant
maintained that, while he was certainly negligent in his duty, he was not a
thief. The young officer was convinced that he was the victim of a conspiracy
by other officers to force him out of the army. Editor Harris, while maintain-
ing a degree of objectivity, makes a convincing case in supporting Flipper's
version of the circumstances involving his discharge from the army.
Following his dismissal from the army, Henry Flipper remained in the
Southwest where racial lines were less distinct and embarked on an adventurous
new career as a mining engineer. This new avocation brought him into close
contact with developer Albert B. Fall, who became Secretary of the Interior dur-
ing Warren G. Harding's administration. Under Fall's patronage, Flipper
became a special assistant to the Secretary.
In all, Theodore Harris has done a remarkable job in rescuing Henry Flipper
from obscurity and placing him within the context of the turbulent frontier
where he lived and worked for forty years.
Slippery Rock Unzversity DAVID DIXON
Attention, Fool! A Crewman of the USS Houston Survives Its Sinking and Japanese Death
Camps in Burma. By WilliamJ. Weissinger Jr. (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998. Pp.
xiv+175. Illustrations, note, acknowledgments, preface, prologue, glossary,
appendices, index. ISBN 1-57168-171-X. $17.95, cloth).
So often had the heavy cruiser been mistakenly reported sunk during the first
months of the Pacific War that crewmen took to calling her the "Galloping
Ghost of the Java Coast." Luck, however, ran out for the men aboard the USS
Houston in Bantam Bay just past midnight on March 1, 1942, during the
Japanese invasion of Java. Struck by intense fire from a numerically superior
force, the ship went down. Well over six hundred American sailors lost their
lives during the naval engagement. Three hundred and sixty, including twenty-
one-year-old native Texan William J. Weissinger Jr., escaped the sinking vessel
and struggled ashore, only to fall quickly into enemy hands.
Attention, Fool! is Weissinger's absorbing but all too brief personal reminis-
cence of the Battle of Java Sea, his capture, and experiences as a prisoner of war
over the next three and a half years. Before liberation in August 1945, he
endured and overcame inadequate and overcrowded facilities, malnutrition,
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That bottle above is what the kids at home look forward to having breakfast each day. Cheez Whiz brings back memories of packed snacks when I was a kid. I always thaw it a bit before spreading it on warm bread. And take note... one of the few things that make me eat bread.
The cheeseburger flavor looks fun, and it gives it a bit of oomph with meat bits that do not taste fake or synthetic. I'm actually thinking... what if I use this to make burger mac and cheese? hmmmmm.... Make sure the bread is really, really, really hot and make the spread melt into it. wait for the bread to cool before biting to it though.
It's great that it also comes in 5g packs, so we could take this with us too on our next outing. That's when we want cheeseburger in a snap (or in this case, in a bottle) without waiting for 30 minutes for delivery.
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Epidemiology of Colony Collapse Disorder
Yeah, I know it's a fruit blog, not an entomology blog, but bees are pretty intimately entwined with fruit.
The New York Times has a pretty cool op-ed on the mathematical epidemiology (epizoology?) of Colony Collapse Disorder, which offers a bit of hope that this isn't the end to honey bees:
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After seeing some of the highest rates in recent memory, housing vacancy in the United States and most of the Ninth District has steadily fallen in recent years, according to data from the Census Bureau.
Separate measures are available for housing units that are "vacant for rent" and "vacant for sale." For rental units nationwide, the vacancy rate for year-round units fell from a peak of 11.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 to 8.2 percent in the second quarter of 2013 (see Chart 1). Homeowner vacancies also fell.
Ninth District states are seeing a similar trend for rental vacancies (see Chart 2). But there are some methodological quirks. For example, smaller samples at the state level make these data noisier and less reliable. In some cases, the results are counterintuitive. North Dakota is in the midst of a housing crunch given its robust economy, yet rental vacancy rates are on the rise, according to Census data. But the Census defines a housing unit as vacant if it is occupied entirely by people who have a usual residence elsewhere. As a result, the state's rising vacancy rate is likely the result of high numbers of out-of-state workers renting temporary housing near the oilfields.
An alternative way to analyze this trend is to look at the data on vacant addresses from the U.S. Postal Service, which has an agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide quarterly updates on the number of addresses it identifies as vacant. An address is deemed vacant if mail is not collected for more than 90 days. According to this much larger data set, there has been some decrease in the share of vacant residential addresses in most district states over the same period, though it is much less pronounced (see Chart 3; Montana and Wisconsin saw rates tick up slightly).
An interesting twist: For units vacant for less than one year, vacancy rates declined nationwide and among all district states during this period (see blue bars in Chart 3). In contrast, rates for properties vacant for more than one year increased across the board (see orange bars on Chart 3), and much of the rise came from units vacant for more than three years.


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Metabolic syndrome may be a more important heart failure risk than obesity alone, Greek researchers found.
Normal-weight individuals with that grouping of metabolic risk factors were 2.33 times more likely to develop heart failure over six years than those without metabolic syndrome (P=0.007) in a study by Christina Voulgari, MD, PhD, of Athens University Medical School, and colleagues.
But neither overweight nor obesity in the absence of metabolic syndrome had a significant impact on the incidence of heart failure, the group reported in the Sept. 20 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Obese individuals who did not have metabolic syndrome were actually at the lowest heart failure risk in the cohort study.
"Their findings give credence to the existence of a 'metabolically healthy population' and raises concern about those with metabolic syndrome," Eileen Hsich, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
The reason for this obesity paradox may be that each component of metabolic syndrome is a known risk factor for heart failure, making it not surprising that they better predict risk together than a single variable alone, she suggested.
But that's not cause to lay off lifestyle recommendations for obese individuals who don't meet criteria for metabolic syndrome, Hsich noted, pointing out that "At an older age, they probably are no longer healthy."
The better message may be to not overlook metabolic syndrome status regardless of weight, the researchers added.
Their study included 550 individuals without diabetes or baseline macrovascular complications, studied over a median of six years of follow-up within a larger prospective, community-based study.
Among them, 271 met National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III criteria for metabolic syndrome based on insulin resistance, abdominal obesity, hypertension, high triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol.
Echocardiographic follow-up pointed to 2.5-fold higher risk of heart failure onset with metabolic syndrome overall (95% confidence interval 1.68 to 3.40).
Higher body mass index (BMI) was linked to higher rates of metabolic syndrome (38.4% at 25 kg/m2 and under to 69% at 30 kg/m2 and over) and of the individual components.
But higher BMI alone wasn't predictive of heart failure.
Heart failure incidence was highest, at 15.6%, in those with a normal BMI, 14.2% among overweight individuals, and lowest -- at 9.3% -- among the obese.
In the absence of metabolic syndrome, obese individuals were at lower risk of heart failure than individuals of normal weight with metabolic syndrome (P<0.001).
With metabolic syndrome, all three groups had relatively similar heart failure risk, with adjusted hazard ratios of 2.33, 2.66, and 2.13 versus no metabolic syndrome in a normal-weight individual.
These patterns persisted through adjustment for age, sex, smoking status, physical inactivity, lipids, glucose levels, and inflammatory marker profile.
The researchers cautioned that the relatively few heart failure cases that developed -- 185 in total, likely because they had excluded patients with diabetes and macrovascular complications -- may have limited the study's statistical power despite its longer-term follow-up.
From the American Heart Association:
The researchers reported having no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Hsich reported having no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Journal of the American College of CardiologySource Reference: Voulgari C, et al "Increased heart failure risk in normal-weight people with metabolic syndrome compared with metabolically healthy obese individuals" J Am Coll Cardiol 2011; 58: 1343–50.
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Journal of the American College of CardiologySource Reference: Hsich E "Botero's fat figures and the risk of heart failure" J Am Coll Cardiol 2011; 58: 1351–52.


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Members of the National Cricket squad, Niroshan Dikwella, Sachith Pathirana, Thisara Perera and Dilshan Munaweera led by veteran spinner Rangana Herath visited the Meethotamulla on Wednesday. The players met the victims of the Meethotamulla tragedy at the Terrance de Silva Vidyalaya in Kolonnawa. SLC said they spent time with the victims, chatting about their lives and aspirations, and were especially touched by the little children, spending quality time with them.
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Every year we get invited to many different graduation parties. I have started making the cards instead of purchasing generic cards. One of the things that I really like to do is to try and make the card in the school colors for the graduate. I also try to make a different card each year. This year we have been invited to parties from several different schools. In the top picture we have Northeast and Camance, The middle picture is Central Clinton, and the bottom picture is Clinton High school. I still have one more card to make and that is for Durant High School. Their colors are Blue and Gold.
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Asuncion: South America will vote for the Spain-Portugal bid to host the 2018 World Cup finals when FIFA holds its election on Dec. 2, Conmebol`s general secretary Eduardo Deluca said.
"The 10 countries are agreed to give the vote to Spain," Deluca told reporters after a Conmebol executive meeting at its headquarters in the Paraguayan capital.
Deluca, who did not elaborate, said the meeting had not discussed support for bids for the 2022 finals which will also be voted on at FIFA headquarters in Zurich next week.
The joint Spanish and Portuguese bid will be competing against three others: England, Russia and Netherlands-Belgium.
Australia, the United States, Qatar, Japan and South Korea are vying to stage the 2022 finals.
"Spain for South Americans is like the mother country, and on top of that we have a more than friendly relationship with the Royal Spanish (Football) Federation which is really one more of us," Deluca said.
"We feel in Spain like in our own home," he told reporters later.
When Spain, newly crowned as world champions in South Africa in July, played a friendly against Argentina in Buenos Aires in August there was speculation locally about the visit having a political aspect with the 2018 World Cup in mind.
Brazil will be staging the next finals in 2014.
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Choosing the right power tools
Date posted: 3 August 2015
Most power tools offer a less labour-intensive and more efficient means of carrying out practical tasks at home or in a trade environment – but with such a vast choice on the market, how do you know which products to hire or buy?
Most manual tools have a powered equivalent that is designed to do the same job as – if not more – effectively, as well as more quickly and demanding less physical exertion.
If you do not have the knowledge of an experienced trade professional who works with power tools every day, this list of some key considerations offers a good starting point for choosing appropriate equipment – helping you to work safely and achieve the results you are hoping for.
Using the right tools for the job
Perhaps the most important consideration is whether the power tool is it fit for purpose. Whether you are a DIY enthusiast at home, a self-builder or a construction site manager, you will need a range of quality, all-purpose tools, some of which may need to be powered. If you are carrying out a one-off or infrequent task, however, you will need to think carefully about investing in tools – and often it may be more financially viable to hire rather than buy. The majority of injuries relating to power tool use are caused by people using them to carry out tasks for which they were not designed. Whether you hire or buy, make sure that you choose tools that are suitable for the job, and always follow the manufacturer's safety guidance.
Putting in place a practical power source
Tools can be powered in many different ways, including by mains electricity, battery, petrol, gas, and compressed air. Most self-builders employ a combination of corded and battery-operated power tools – with corded tools traditionally offering superior power, and cordless battery tools offering greater versatility thanks to their portability.
If your site has no mains electricity you will need to get a generator or look at alternatives such as battery or petrol-drive equipment. Remember that the greater the power of a tool the heavier it is likely to be, and sometimes this weight can cause operator fatigue. And if you do decide to hire or buy a generator, check how many and what type of tools you will be able to run off it simultaneously.
Understanding batteries
When you are choosing battery-powered tools it is well worth understanding the pros and cons of each type.
- Nickel Cadmium (NiCad) is considered the original battery choice, but they lose their charge if they are not used. Compared with more modern equivalents they also tend to be big and heavy. On the other hand, they can be comparatively cheap, can be used in even extreme temperatures, and can be recharged many, many times.
- Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) is lighter than NiCad and offers two to three times the capacity – delivering longer running times before requiring a recharge. On the other hand they are very temperature sensitive so are not well-suited to work in extremes, and have a far shorter recharge life than NiCad.
- Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) has become the standard choice for most portable power tools today. These batteries are smaller, lighter and more compact than the others, yet are more powerful and hold their charge for longer – with no battery memory, and no self-discharge. Electronic Cell Protection (ECP) provides longer service life.
DIY versus professional level tools
Think about what you are going to use the tool for, and how much you will be using it. Many well-known brands target both DIY amateurs and professionals with two ranges. DIY tools will probably suffice for light, occasional use at home or on projects. Professional tools, however, are far more robust thanks to higher specifications and a higher quality build. They aim to offer a longer life because they are specifically designed for continuous use, and if you are tackling heavy duty jobs or will be using them a lot they are well worth the investment.
Choosing a brand
For site work it will rarely be cost-effective in the long term to buy a cheap product rather than invest in a well-known brand. Do some research, read customer reviews and, if you can afford it, opt for major brands such as Bosch which continuously invest a great deal in research and development.
You may find that the cheap and big brand tools sit side by side in a store – and it's tempting to think there is little difference. Often the more expensive version will have a higher build quality, however, and will offer greater user comfort and control; save you more labour time; have a longer life; and achieve more professional results. Motors are particularly prone to failing in cheaper tools.
Should you hire or buy?
When you are deciding whether to hire or buy equipment, think about how often you will use the tool, and whether it is for a heavy duty or light duty application.
If you need a heavy duty tool for a one-off task, for example, you are going to need something of a professional standard – yet you are unlikely to get your money's worth if you buy a tool designed for such purposes, so it is worth looking into the costs of hiring instead. Remember that if you hire you will not need to worry about ongoing maintenance demands or storage overheads in between jobs, and that you will probably have access to the latest products every time.
If you choose to hire your power drills Best at hire have a huge range from popular brands including Makita, Ryobi and Bosch. Call our team today for free expert advice.
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The municipality of Cotignola is located on the left bank of the river Senio. Numerous remains testify to how, already in the period before the Christian era, there were ancient Roman settlements in the territory; an important example is the beautiful Caio Vario stele which is located in the open gallery of the Town Library. During the second World War, the town was almost completely destroyed, its reconstruction, however, was carried out in respect of the original town plan.
Things to see at Cotignola, the Church constructed in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi in Gothic-Roman style, a tablet of the Carracci school preserved in the Collegiate church of Santo Stefano, the Sforza Palazzo, the Acuto Tower, realised in 1376 by Sir John Hawkwood (a famous English condottiere). Worthy of note is also the "Varoli" art museum.
Cotignola accommodation in Hotel Farm House Farm Holiday Bed&Breakfast Camping Holiday Home Rooms for rent Residence Tourist Village Camp site.
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Grae's Rating:
Seeking Coherence for the Tone of This Film
The first half hour of Seeking a Friend is the reason I love Steve Carell, and exactly what I want to see in a movie where Armageddon is coming and one man decides to find his true love. It's filled with dark humor, a burst of Patton Oswalt, people wearing their special-occasion clothes doing habit-forming drugs, and Carell being the "lovable nerd who turns out to be really cool if you just give him a minute" that he usually is in his movies. It's no surprise that after his character Dodge gets abandoned by his wife (Nancy Carell), he bumps into Penny (Keira Knightley), who is just the kind of space cadet who would benefit from a grounding force in her life…especially when the world is going to end.
Also in that first part, Adam Brody plays another hilarious role as the whacked out musician boyfriend of Penny, who is so short-sighted he barely notices something is going on in the world outside of his own angst. A dog gets abandoned and tied to a sleeping Carell, and Rob Corddry calls his child a horrible name. It's funny, and plausible, and great to watch. But then it seems to shift away from being a dark comedy into yet another bland romantic comedy where occasionally someone says something depressing to remind you about the approaching meteor.
Steve Carell is always great, because even when the movie is limping along trying to figure out where it's going, his great delivery makes average lines hysterical. I never quite bought his and Knightley's chemistry, and I think that's because he's such a strong comedic force, and I can't seem to find one on her filmography. It felt unbalanced and a little weird…and even though that may be what many of us find ourselves facing when Armageddon really comes, I guess I just envisioned it being more poetic than they ever manage to get.
Just like director/writer Lorene Scafaria's last film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the soundtrack really works, as it's filled with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Unfortunately, also like Nick and Norah, the screenplay works against anything great happening with the music because it feels too draggy and uneven--even the sounds of P.M. Dawn can't smooth things over. Luckily, the film has a great chick-flicky ending-before-the-ending that stirred my estrogen enough to go home feeling like Steve Carell just fed me some dark chocolate and wrapped me in a cashmere throw, which ain't a terrible day at the movies.
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Because Segways sell for a list price ranging about $5,800 to $7,500, as of 2015, most people do not consider them inexpensive. Used Segways are available for approximately $3,000 on sites such as Amazon.com.
Several companies make competitors to the Segway. These alternative personal transportation devices often look and operate like Segway models, but tend to be lighter in weight. They also typically cost significantly less than a new Segway. For instance, model SCV R1EX by InMotion weighs 35 pounds, compared to the starter Segway model's 105 pounds, and only costs about $2,500. However, often the Segway look-alikes cannot reach the speeds of an actual Segway.


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Zara High Heel Sandal , Zara Basic Sandals, Tony Bianco Karissa, Karl Leather Wedge Sandals, Mango Sandals
I am in love with strappy sandal heels, go figure, just as we start to hit Winter I fall in love with a not so warm and cosy pair of shoes. I guess it's because everyone that I love reading in terms of blogs are all living in Summer where they are. Pictured above are a few that I love! I'm leaning towards the Zara pair in black, because it seems to be the most sensible option in terms of pricing. If I could have my way though, I'd also own the Karl and Mango heels. I think I'll love this type of heel for a long time, even when the trend has passed.


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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus) is a multisystem autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body's cells and tissues leading to chronic inflammation, antibody production, and immune complex deposition resulting in tissue damage. Symptoms can be vague and vary from person to person, and consequently diagnosis can be difficult. More common in women than men, lupus can affect any part of the body.
Lupus increases a woman's risk of other health problems and can also cause heart diseases, osteoporosis and kidney disease to occur earlier in life. There is no known cure for lupus, and the goals of treatment are to prevent flares, treat symptoms when they occur and reduce organ damage. Medication plays an important role in treating lupus, and therapies can involve NSAIDs, corticosteroids, antimalarial drugs or immunosuppressant/chemotherapeutic medication.
Lupus is currently the focus of intense research. Studies are currently looking at the genes that play a role in the disease and in the immune system, ways to change the immune system in people with lupus, lupus in different ethnic groups, environmental causes or triggers of lupus, the role of hormones and treatments for lupus.
Rationale: Preclinical studies in the MRL-(Fas)lpr murine model demonstrated that Cpn10 entirely prevented cutaneous lupus lesions as compared to vehicle-treated mice and suppressed lupus nephritis as evident from reduced serum creatinine levels, albuminuria and improved scores of disease activity and chronicity.
In 2012, independent analyses were conducted on the Cpn10 clinical and preclinical database (including the murine model demonstrating cutaneous lupus effects), intellectual property and hypothesised mechanism of action. Based on these findings, and on a clear regulatory pathway and commercial potential, systemic lupus erythematosus ("lupus") has been identified as the most promising development target for Cpn10.
Following the acceptance by the FDA of its Investigational New Drug application (IND), Invion commenced its phase II clinical trial in lupus patients in July 2013.
The Protocol is entitled a "Double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled study to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and biochemical activity of intravenous Cpn10 administration in subjects with SLE." The Protocol Number is IVXCpn001. The primary objective is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of four-week treatment with Cpn10 in subjects with mild SLE. The adverse event profile and safety laboratory parameters will be monitored throughout the study. The primary outcome measure is the reduction from baseline serum IL-6 levels at the end of active dosing, comparing treatment to placebo cohort. Dose escalation is planned from 10mg IV twice weekly (the highest dose used to date) to greater than 100mg IV twice weekly as tolerated.
Further details of this clinical trial can be found at www.clinicaltrials.gov with the identifier: NCT01838694.