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Located in the heart of downtown Miami, the stylish Langford Hotel will open its doors on March 21 as the area’s first historic hotel. Built in 1925, the Langford formerly stood as the Miami National Bank, an iconic building with an impressive Beaux-Arts façade typical of the commercial architecture style seen at the height of Miami’s land boom in the 1920s. The building was designated a historic site by the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Developer Stambul, and designers Bloom Miami maintained historical details from the original 1925 building, including its façade, ceiling moldings, an original mailbox in the lobby and intricately-designed elevator doors.
The hotel has since undergone a full remodeling by developer Stambul, management company Trust Hospitality and designers Bloom Miami while maintaining historical details from the original 1925 building.
Once inside, the hotel’s historic past is combined with modern, stylish touches throughout the common areas and guest rooms. Located on the second floor, the “Sky Lounge” is an inviting space for guests to relax and unwind away from the hustle and bustle of Downtown Miami’s busy streets, featuring white oak floors in a sophisticated herringbone pattern, comfortable, light-colored couches and distinctive Miami touches (such as decorative jai alai cestas lining the wall). The guest rooms are equally as warm and inviting, merging high-end contemporary and antique elements to create a truly unique Miami experience. Colorful vintage-styled wallpaper, headboards inspired by 1950 Cadillac seats, one-of-a-kind luggage racks, a pedestal-style bathroom sink and Waterworks bathroom fixtures are just some of the details you will find. The bi-level penthouse is striking – bright, cozy and private with impressive views of Miami’s downtown skyline.
The hotel is also home to PB Station, a new American eatery by the well-known Miami-based PubbellyBoys, and Pawn Broker, an urban rooftop bar featuring hand-crafted cocktails, tapas-style bites, live music and an outdoor lounge with panoramic views. Come morning, the outdoor lounge transforms into a peaceful oasis for yoga classes and relaxation.
The Langford Hotel blends old Miami with the city’s recent cultural renaissance driven by Downtown Miami’s revitalization and blossoming business and art districts. This seamless merger of old and new creates a certain charm not found in any other property in Miami today. Under one meticulously-styled roof, you can experience the glamour of Miami’s prohibition era at Pawn Broker, get a taste of the city’s diverse culinary influences at PB Station and relax in style in one of the Langford’s 126 rooms or luxurious penthouse.
The Langford Hotel is located at 121 SE 1st St., Miami, FL, 33131. Visit www.LangfordHotelMiami.com for more information.
Photos courtesy of the Langford Hotel Miami.
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Written by Tristan Lovecraft, these are Ten easy steps to being a drama queen, I mean, Goth queen!
1.) Whine about everything. This is the most important part. Granted, whining is universal. A girl can whine and not be Goth. But, to be a Goth Girl, you must whine. You broke a nail? People don’t understand you? People who are popular mock you? Seek refuge and take solace! A whine of particularly good vintage will help set things at ease.
2.) Have no sense of perspective. Remember, anything that happens to you has never happened to anyone before. Or, if similar things have happened to others, it was with nowhere near the severity it encompassed in destroying your life.
3.) Your life is infinitely more interesting and important than others’. Everyone wants to know the up to date minutiae involved in your daily existence, no matter how pointless.Your friend’s parents have died in agony after being sliced out of a flaming car crash. That’s nothing compared to any of the dozens of major misfortunes you suffer daily. Your suffering extends to levels unfathomable to cancer patients because your artsy boyfriend, who wears eyeliner and fangs while writing incoherent verse detailing his severe committment issues, is being “distant”.
4.) Create a web page that tells all of your most embarrassingly personal secrets. This step is crucial. With it you join the vast online sorority of Phi Glooma Gotha. Also involved in this step is to get into online cat fights, called flame wars, with sorority sisters. It’s important as well to complain how you can’t trust anyone, and dedicate pages of web space to describe all actions said and done. Be prepared to retract such statements as necessary.
5.) Dress like Morticia Addams but never be satisfied with your looks. Looks are important, but remember, it’s important that you never think you look good. You’re going to be a Goth Girl. If you want to be happy and self confident, go become a cheerleader. Dyeing your hair every other week is recommended, as is paying extra attention to fashion. Pointing out fellow Goth Girls’ appearance issues as derogatorily as possible is encouraged.
6.) You are smarter than everyone else, thus better. This should probably rank higher on the list. It’s the most critical self realization of the awakening Goth Girl. There’s a reason you’ve been reading books instead of talking to people; now you know it! Make sure to use obscure words as often as possible. The true mark of a Goth Girl is for the plebes to read what you write and need to refer to a dictionary at minimum once a sentence.
7.) Hate Drama Queens, but be one. Wouldn’t that make you a hypocrite, you ask? No. Self loathing is of course required to be a Goth Girl, but is unncessary in this instance. There is nothing worse than a primadonna Goth Girl Drama Queen who blows everything out of proportion. At every instance you must point out acts of Drama for what they are, but also seek Drama of your own, which you will blow out of proportion, write about on your web page, and defend yourself against fellow sorority sisters who attack you for being a Drama Queen.
8.) Enjoy awful music. A list of acceptable music will be provided for you. Choice selections include The Cure, Bauhaus, and Depeche Mode. Any band that has never had a Top 40 single is automatically approved. Remember, it’s our common embrace of unknown groups that makes us so individual.
9.) Value pets above humans. Animals now mean more to you than people. Love your pets without *loving* your pets. If you have to swerve to avoid hitting a squirrel but that means hitting a human, there are too many people in the world anyway. Have conversations with your pets.
10.) Accept that no matter what, you are doomed. Your parents won the lottery? The ticket will burn before they turn it in. You won a scholarship to Harvard? Massachusetts is cold, and your room mate will be Barbie. You’re a Goth Girl now. The world is a conspiracy against you. Fate is a fixed game you can’t win dealt from a stacked deck by a crooked dealer.
There you go! 10 Quick and easy steps to becoming a Goth Girl. Follow these and you are well on your way. The journey is not yet complete, but you have a good head start. The key is to observe others, and copy from them to secure your originality!

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Ancient Nutrition is a high-traffic natural health and fitness website that also manufactures and sells its own health supplements. Prior to working with Materiell to relaunch the Ancient Nutrition website, Ancient Nutrition ranked as the second most popular natural health website on the Internet.
After working with Moxie Sozo, a design agency, to relaunch the Ancient Nutrition brand, Ancient Nutrition felt there was a mismatch between the new Ancient Nutrition branding and their website.
Axe Wellness came to Materiell looking to update and relaunch the Ancient Nutrition content site to reflect the new branding and optimize performance and usability.
Given the success of their brand redesign with Moxie Sozo, Ancient Nutrition wished to maintain that design relationship while working with Materiell for help with implementation, development, user experience, and performance optimization.
Redesigning and optimizing Ancient Nutrition’s website required a mix of front-end and back-end changes.
To offer improved usability and performance, and facilitate the implementation of new functionality, we rebuilt the existing information architecture for Ancient Nutrition’s content.
As part of updating Ancient Nutrition’s website, we moved the site to Pantheon hosting, which offered a massive improvement in stability.
In order to provide a seamless migration while accounting for the continuous volume of content that the Ancient Nutrition team produces, we performed a live database pull to ensure that all content was up-to-date after the migration process.
Ancient Nutrition publishes remedies and content for a huge variety of medical conditions, which means it’s essential that visitors can sort between different conditions to find the content that matters most to them.
In addition to the Ancient Nutrition eCommerce store, many physical retailers also stock Ancient Nutrition products.
Beyond front-end changes, the Ancient Nutrition team also wanted a more streamlined, performance-optimized dashboard to facilitate easier content creation for their team.
To help, we redesigned the native WordPress dashboard with an approach that fit Ancient Nutrition’s unique needs and workflows.
Because of the success of the website relaunch, Ancient Nutrition chose to continue its relationship with Materiell via our ongoing support and maintenance retainer plans.
We now maintain Ancient Nutrition’s website with WordPress core and plugin updates, as well as general website fixes.
Beyond those fixes, we also provide full application support for Ancient Nutrition’s site, including customized support for Ancient Nutrition’s unique client architecture and traffic needs.
This ensures that as Ancient Nutrition continues to grow, we’ll be there to make sure their site keeps performing at a high level.
And if Ancient Nutrition needs any additional support, they’re able to easily reach out for help directly from our team of experts.

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A competition in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences saved approximately $230,000 by reducing an estimated 2 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions in six buildings, according to a Dec. 12 press release from the University.
Administrators said the Barton Lab in Geneva, N.Y., reduced its emissions by 800,000 pounds — more than any other building in the competition. The yearlong competition was sponsored by the CALS Green Initiative and Cornell’s Office of Energy and Sustainability.
Dominic Frangillo, the coordinator of CALS Green, said that the smaller buildings in the competition, including Wing Hall and the Barton Lab, were more effective in reducing energy consumption.
Frangillo said that shutting down one fume hood — a venilation device designed to limit exposure to noxious fumes — cut more than 33,000 pounds of CO2 emissions and saved $4,000 a year. He concluded that 17 percent of the fume hoods at Cornell could be removed.
CALS administrators implemented various energy efficiency measures, such as installing energy efficient lightbulbs, not only to reduce carbon use, but also to create jobs and save money, according to Frangillo.
“Instead of paying energy bills, we can bring those resources back to the mission of education — it’s a win-win for everybody,” he said.
The CALS Green project, according to CALS Green Director Lauren Chambliss, is an energy conservation and sustainability initiative started by Director of Energy Management Lanny Joyce and CALS Associate Dean Michael Hoffmann.
Chambliss said the response from the Cornell community to the CALS Green initiative has exceeded her expectations.
“We were quite surprised at people’s willingness to engage [in CALS Green] and also the level of information people already had and how willing people were. It’s a very motivated campus,” Chambliss said.
Frangillo said that, last year, several students were responsible for identifying areas in which buildings could conserve energy or become more efficient.
Alison O’Neil ’12, one of the students involved with CALS Green, said that laboratories were an important target for energy conservation due to their energy-consuming machinery. One of the most energy-consuming machines identified by CALS Green was fume hoods.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Early in my teaching career, when I desperately needed toys and materials, a first grade teacher (and good friend) introduced me to garage sales. For less than three dollars, I collected enough View Masters and reels for an entire early childhood special education class of eight.
Time Magazine named the View Master as one of the top 100 toys of all times. It was first introduced in 1939 at the New York World’s Fair so that people could enjoy pictures of exotic locations, but over the years, evolved into a toy for children.
as a carry-over activity for articulation.
Have you used View Masters in therapy? If so, I would love to see your ideas.


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I have clients in the IT and media sectors and act as Company Secretary for a number of residents’ property management companies.
I particularly enjoy getting to grips with complex transactions and drafting clear documents that meet my clients’ business needs and avoid unnecessary legalese.
I blog occasionally on legal issues that I find interesting within my areas of expertise. You can read my Blog at wildslaw.blogspot.co.uk.
I am married with one son. In my spare time I enjoy board games, science fiction, alternative rock music, supporting Chelsea Football Club and motor racing. I am a keen hillwalker, and am gradually working away at bagging all the Scottish ’Munros’.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


text: Lauren Herman holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and an M.B.A from MIT Sloan School of Management. She leads the product organization at Jobcase, a social platform of more than 90 million members dedicated to empowering America’s workforce. She is passionate about improving people's lives by utilizing technology to foster and grow communities.


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When I wrote my book, The Self in No Self, I subtitled the chapter in which I presented the teaching I had received about surrendering the ego to our true Buddha nature, “The Missing Noble Truth.” While that may seem almost sacrilegious, the point I wanted to make is that after realizing the cause of suffering, in order to practice the noble Eightfold Path to end suffering, one must first, or better put simultaneously, surrender your ego to your true Buddha nature.
As I stated in the book, one cannot practice Right anything while your ego is still an active influence because it will subvert any such effort. What the ego desires is not Right effort, etc.
Later as related in a prior post, I realized that one reason why taking this step was so difficult is that as stated it is very much an act of will, and as they say in 12-step programs, addiction is self-will run riot. Instead, I realized that the 12-step concept of turning your will and your life over to the care of your true Buddha nature, while still an act of will was less confrontational and gentler.
Most recently, as related in the post, “The Heart’s Embrace,” I now realize that what turning your will and your life over to the care of your true Buddha nature requires is having your heart embrace all aspects of your being. Making yourself whole in that way removes all internal struggle, lessening the power of the ego.
Without that action, you may have sincerely undertaken an act of volition … turning your will and your life over … but that volition needs to be perfected. And it is by embracing all aspects of your being that the volition is perfected.
The reason why I am writing this post now is solely to bring attention to the thought I expressed in my book, that this is a necessary step in practicing the Four Noble Truths. And that the way to achieve the surrender, the turning your will and your life over to your true Buddha nature, is to have your heart embrace all aspects of your being.
Walking the path is a never-ending process that both involves always going back to basics and at the same time always going deeper.
The basics of course are meditation, including the elements of posture, breathing, concentrating on a spot 4-6 feet in front of you, the Five Precepts, and the Four Noble Truths. Next come the Eightfold Path and the Six Paramitas.
But beyond these basic teachings which encompass virtually all of what one needs to understand to walk the path, there are many teachings of the Buddha as well as other teachers which have enabled me to go deeper, understand more clearly, and even to see truths from within myself. To name just as few: two Vietnamese Zen monks in rural Michigan transferred to me the teaching that I later expanded upon and refer to as the Fourfold Path to Freedom. And which I have been further expanding upon ever since.
There is the teaching I found in The Life of the Buddha where the Buddha tells his disciples that if something causes suffering, “it is not you, it is not yours, it is not yourself, for yourself would not cause you suffering.” That statement was powerful in my efforts to free myself from the five skandhas.
Then there’s the statement in the same book where the Buddha tells Ananda that he “should make of yourself an island; yourself and no other your refuge.” Again, a very powerful teaching that helped me realize I could only look to myself to experience peace and happiness. I had to find from inside myself the truths that would set me free.
Then there was the teaching of Zen Master Bankei, as related in The Unborn, which very simply states that we each are born with the unborn Buddha mind intact, fully formed, inside us. That what happens during life is that our learned experience defiles our unborn Buddha mind, turning it into a “fighting spirit,” and so we turn to our emotions to protect us and our thoughts. From this teaching came my realization that Buddha mind and ego-mind are all part of one mind, just opposite ends of the spectrum.
Most recently, I saw a book in a used bookstore called, If the Buddha Dated. A friend bought the book and found there a teaching about opening the heart to embrace all aspects of our being. He related that teaching to me and advised me to try it as he saw that I had been trying unsuccessfully to get rid of certain habit-energies, aspects of me that went beyond emotions.
This teaching didn’t sound all that different from the Shambhala teaching of acknowledging and having compassion for your emotions, which had never done much for me, but I meditated on this new teaching because I trusted my friend. And as related in my post, The Heart’s Embrace, it has profoundly changed my frame of mind and enabled me to see from within that indeed I have everything I need within myself to be at peace and happy. Another example of how saying the same thing using different words can profoundly change the impact.
I also realized that this … opening my heart to embrace all aspects of my being … is what is really meant by “turning my will and my life over to the care of my true Buddha nature” or “surrendering my ego to my true Buddha nature,” the fourth step of the Fourfold Path to Freedom. It took many years to stumble upon this truth which has allowed me to go deeper and more fully liberate me.
Also recently, my friend and I have been reading Personality: The Art of Being and Becoming by the Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan. Although not a Buddhist text, everything in that teaching is one with the teachings of the Buddha, just said using different words and concepts. It is a wonderful, clear, insightful book that speaks very directly to one and has brought me more in touch with my heart. This book was also found in a used book store.
And again, recently, while attending a Kadampa temple in the neighborhood which I don’t regularly attend, I heard a powerful teaching from the resident monk who said that anything that pushes our buttons is a direct expression of someone’s or society’s suffering. How can you get upset with someone because they are suffering? All one can do is have compassion and wish that the person’s or society’s suffering ends and that they find happiness and peace. Again, this had a major practical impact on me as I went about my day and related to the things and people I saw.
I am constantly aware and grateful for all the people who have made a difference in my practice and thus in my life.
I have an annoying habit of always thinking that I know what’s best. This used to be a global matter for me, but I learned long ago in my spiritual practice that everyone comes to their opinions honestly as a result of their experience and thoughts, and that all deserve respect. There is no right or wrong when it comes to matters of the mind. And so my intellectual discussions or disputes have a very different dynamic than in times past.
The specific area I’m talking about now concerns things spiritual. First of all, let me state clearly that I am aware that I don’t know what’s best. That’s all ego. But that awareness does not result in my ego not asserting itself.
The other thing I am aware of is that this is not just an expression of ego. That would be simpler to rectify. But it’s also an expression of wanting to offer others joy, or wanting to help others in their journey along the spiritual path. It’s also a function of my craving for people I care for to be happy, both for their own sake, and to be honest, for the impact their happiness or unhappiness has on me … and it is indeed a craving.
This habit can be annoying to those who are at the receiving end of it. This came up again recently with my best friend. He was suffering, I thought as a result of something he had done, and so I mentioned this while we were discussing his suffering. My friend is very spiritual; he knows as much as I do; he is as far and in some ways further along the path than I am. Indeed, he has made comments or shared things he was reading which have advanced me on the path.
That my intent is to help him and for him to be happy is irrelevant. People need to discover things for themselves and make their own decisions. That’s true even of grown children. This type of comment says to him that I don’t think he is capable of sorting things through on his own, which is without question not the case. Yet I make such comments anyway. Or I bring up something he did in the past which “worked,” and so I make it sound like it is his fault he’s suffering because he’s made a bad decision this time.
If I’m asked a question, that’s one thing. But to assert myself into someone else’s thought process is another. Every time I think about this, meditate on it, and commit to not making such comments, I do it again nevertheless. It has seemed that on this one issue, I am out of control.
And so once again, I committed myself to meditating on this. In a different way. I was aware that several things needed to be done. First, I need to humble myself; I do not know more or know best. Second, I need to let go the attachment and craving that he or others be happy.
I decided to meditate on this within the context of my recent meditation on opening my heart to embracing all aspects of me, including my weaknesses, as well as affirming that I have everything I need to be happy and at peace inside myself. Regardless what is going on around me, it I go within myself, I will be at peace and happy.
I realized several things during my meditation. First, lack of humility is an expression of insecurity. The more insecure the less humble. Clearly, including insecurity in my “not me” exercise has not worked; perhaps it too is in my bones like my facial expression. and so now I opened my heart to embrace my insecurity. I felt the inner struggle go, and with it the power of my insecurity. Insecurity may not be a reflection of my true self, and so “not me,” but I know that despite this it will always be part of my ego-mind and thus part of me.
Second, because of my new deep awareness that I have every thing I need to be happy inside myself, I no longer feel dependent on things outside of myself to experience happiness, All attachments, including either to my friend or his happiness, are thus no more. I love him as much as ever, but I am not attached to that love. I wish for him to be happy, but I do not crave it. I know that when I go deep inside myself and return to my unborn Buddha mind, whether he is in my life or not, whether he is happy or not, I will still experience happiness and peace.
Finally, I became aware during my meditation that not only is it not my responsibility to ease his or anyone’s suffering, but that I cannot do that. I misconstrued the Boddhisatva Vows. As he has often told me, I cannot fix things. That is ego. I can offer him or others joy, I can share wisdom, but only he can ease his suffering.


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The Centre for Business and Insolvency Law recently played host to Professor Claudia Sandei of the University of Padua, Italy, who visited Nottingham for three weeks from 7-23 September 2016.
The Centre for Business and Insolvency Law recently played host to Professor Claudia Sandei of the University of Padua, Italy, who visited Nottingham for three weeks from Wednesday 7 September – Friday 23 September 2016.
At Padua, Claudia teaches Company Law and Insolvency Law. At the University, she is also responsible for the Internationalisation activities within the School of Law. Claudia collaborates closely with many academics in Spain, Germany, Austria, and now the United Kingdom, and is also a member of the Editorial Board of some of the most important law reviews in Italy. Her primary research interests are in corporate governance, capital markets, banking law, and corporate insolvency law. Besides an important number of articles in the company field (some of which have also been published in foreign law journals), she is the author of an important monograph on the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive and the use of technology in company annual general meetings.
While in Nottingham, Claudia presented a staff seminar on Monday 19 September 2016 on reforms to the commercial law environment in Italy, including two important areas of insolvency, company law, and banking law. She will also be working on an article about Regulatory Competition and Bank Failure and will be meeting with members of the Centre to discuss mutual research interests and possible collaborations.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Summary: It's summer and Jabari is a self-confessed "great jumper." After situating his suit and goggles, Jabari is determined to jump off the diving board this year.
After swim lessons and a test, Jabari says he isn't afraid.
He watches the jumpers from the sidelines, noticing their techniques, and declares that it "looks easy," but Dad's hand feels awfully good.
and the crowd is more ready than he. Jabari urges them to go ahead of him so he can practice his special jump. When Jabari stalls half-way up the ladder, his dad asks if he's ok. Jabari says he just needs a rest. Dad urges him to come on down. Jabari does.
Then Jabari remembers his stretches - very important!
and feels ready for the surprise, not so afraid anymore.
Jabari takes another deep breath and jumps.
He's ready to go again, this time with that special jump - "a double backflip!"
Hanna’s Comments: This book offers great connections to our many scriptures about courage. Don’t let the age and cuteness factor of Jabari limit you. Sure this book is great for little ones, but Jabari can be an inspiration to us all. Adults struggle with courage and can relate to jumping off a literal or figurative diving board. The metaphors of faith and our belief in God’s (or Jesus’ presence) are evident in this story. Acts that are our next steps in faith are Jabari's slow journey to the end of the diving board. Jabari's father is an obvious image of God (or Jesus) and a role-model to those wanting to be encouraging parents. Breath is a particularly important aspect of the strategy Jabari’s father gives him to face his fears and be ready for the joys such courage can bring. Remind your audience that breath can signify God (or the Holy Spirit) and holy inspiration. I've been doing more centering prayer lately. Perhaps you do yoga. Breath is an integral aspect to such grounding practices so we can courageously jump with faith into the delights that will follow.
Idea(s) for Application: Read this book to a group of children who are going to church camp for the first time. Relate this story to their courage when swimming but also to other activities that will be new or require risk. Emphasize the comfort that God’s (or Jesus’) presence offers. For a class on parenting, emphasize the role Jabari’s dad plays in letting him be courageous while tooling him with strategies and confidence.


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Am I the only one wondering why there are 17 spy agencies?
Sure enough, the U.S. intelligence “community” is officially the composite of 17 overt organizations (more on them later) … but, according to a Washington Post investigation, they’re just the tip of the iceberg.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence is where all the intelligence should come together for delivery to the president.
Central Intelligence Agency spies on foreign governments and organizes covert ops.
National Security Agency was established in 1952 with a mission primarily dedicated to code breaking, after the Allies’ success in cracking German and Japanese codes during World War II. Today, its scope extends far beyond code-breaking.
FBI’s National Security Branch oversees counterterrorism and intelligence gathering.
State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research provides diplomats the necessary tools for effective foreign policy.
Defense Intelligence Agency works to understand what foreign militaries will do before they do it.
Air Force Intelligence provides reconnaissance for US ground troops, most recently, using aerial drones.
Army Intelligence and Security Command is the major unifying command of army intelligence to troops on the battlefield.
Office of Naval Intelligence provides information on the world’s oceans to sailors everywhere.
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity monitors the Corp’s battlefields and gives tactical and operational intelligence to battlefield commanders.
Coast Guard Intelligence provides information on maritime security and homeland defense.
Department of Energy, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence gathers information on foreign nuclear weapons.
Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis collects terrorism and financial intelligence.
Drug Enforcement Administration hunts down illegal drugs.
National Reconnaissance Office is responsible for design, building, launch, and maintenance of America’s spy satellites.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency provides advanced mapping for military forces.
(1) I’m sure that each agency has some plausible reason for being … but, 17, really?
(2) Man, it’s gotta be tough getting 17 civilian and military agencies to agree on anything.
(3) Perhaps, at least one of these 17 should have done something to stop the meddling & sowing.
Business Insider has published more detailed profiles of each of these intelligence agencies … it’s worth browsing.
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Hmmm. We have thousands of institutions of higher ed in the country also….maybe we should have just one.
My point is that these different institutions may seem to be doing the same job but they aren’t. Saying all intel orgs are the same is an oversimplification, just like it would be for law enforcement. I am pretty sure the FBI is not the appropriate organizations to be patrolling your local 7/11. The various intelligence divisions coordinate where necessary and specialize where required.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


text: We have Kathie Pelliccio to thank for these delicious pumpkin seeds. It all started in the kitchen when Kathie was looking for an added crunch to her salad. We’ve tried them on salads and they are delicious and very keto-friendly with 13 grams of fat and 1 gram net carbs per 1/4 cup. Pumpkin seeds are also super healthy being a great source of iron, zinc, magnesium and potassium. Super Seedz Gourmet Pumpkin Seeds come in a large 18 oz pack and cute little 1-ounce pouches. A Good Keto Finds favorite!

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Whilst looking at vids on youtube on how to keep insects hydrated I came across people using water beads.
Has anyone used them with their grows?
Some kid on another site says you can mix them in your pot mix and water them once.
Then you won't need to water them again for 2 weeks.
Does anyone have any expierence using them?
I think those beads are silica gel, if so I've used them mixed in soil in the past. They do retain liquid.
It's a good idea, I remember a cloning kit that used that sort of medium fortified with cloning nutrients. I think it is no longer available though. It's basically like a tissue culture.
I'm going to try some anyways, I ordered some when I saw them.
I'm going to try a hempy bucket.
I read on diff sites that some people mix vermiculite in with perlite to help retain moisture.
If i use the beads instead of vermiculate it should do the same.
Good luck, keep us posted. Remember roots need oxygen too.
When i saw them i was like "where the fk have I been for the last few years" they've been around for a while now I've never came across them.
Does the perlite not help with that?
there's a product called "soil moist" that comes as a jar of crystals that you can mix into your soil or topdress wtih & they turn into clear gel goo.
it's been years since i used them for tomatos during a vacation but it worked.
The gel in babies nappies/diapers is the same, some people just use that.
They work, you can also get them in mixed color on ebay for next to nothing!
They can make the difference between a successful guerrilla harvest and a dead crop during a drought.
WalMart has these orange pads around the stores that can hold a full can of soda, or something crazy like that. Grab a couple every time I’m there.
The upscale florist here use it for flower delivery as it doesn't "slosh" while being transported.


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Whether you’re in product design, software know-how, construction or any other sector, there is certainly usually even more than one particular way to get stuff done. Regarding projectmanagement, both the most legendary methods intended for getting details done will be the classic design style of task operations as well as the cutting edge youngster upon the mass, agile job supervision. To decide which is best with respect to your requirements, you need to develop a solid understanding of the advantages and limitations of each and every type of project management technique. In this article we take a look at what is completely different about the two schools of thought, and do a comparison of side by side the advantages and restrictions of every single.
Design job supervision mimics the typical workflow method in any making or construction project as it is a sequential process. All the stages occurs in vereinzelung, and once whole, the team begin the up coming level in the range. Waterfall task management depends upon meticulous record hanging on to. This means we have a crystal clear newspaper trek to follow, enabling the method to be enhanced and superior in the future. From the outset, the consumer could have a clear idea of what is normally going to happen during project delivery. They are going to find out around what the price, timescales and size of the job will probably be, and will include a good idea of what to expect in the final analysis. Once a stage in the process is over, generally there is no way to get back and change things without scrapping the whole entire job and beginning again. The whole method depends on stronger preliminary requirements; if these are mistaken then the task is doomed to failing from the outset. The product is created in levels and only tested fully at the end, meaning drive may always be hence historical in the final analysis product that they will be unachievable to take out. Finally, this sort of job management isn’t going to enable alterations to the brief, consequently if the consumer understands they need to modification the brief half way through, sacrifices will will need to always be produced in terms of finances and timescales.
Cellular was once suggested seeing as the solution to many on the problems in waterfall job management. Instead of following a selection of stages in isolierung, this process is dependent after a gradual way to the project delivery. Project clubs start shut off having a very simple concept of where they are going, and consequently work with unobtrusive segments in short ‘sprints’. At the end of each sprint the modules happen to be tested to discover any parasites or imperfections and customer opinions is got prior to the following sprint happens. Plenty of adjustments may be produced after first plans happen to be developed, in fact rewrites and major adjustments are practically expected. This makes it less difficult to add features and keep abreast of modifications in our sector, also while the job has been supplied. Frequent screening ensures blemishes will be founded in the beginning, meaning that the item can be ready for launch quicker and is very likely to be a top quality item. This technique needs a good project director to hold points in track and balance out creativity with project delivery requirements. Since of the haziness of the primary project method, the final product can easily often always be wildly different to what was actually expected.
The two strategies of job management have their as well as place, and the one which in turn ideal your needs will be based entirely on your own specific short. When you know very well what a final product should always be and are positive your client won’t need to switch the opportunity half approach through, waterfall project control is your friend. Nevertheless whenever swiftness of production is even more important than the quality of the done item plus the client would like to be capable to change scope throughout, agile allows for more flexibility and is certainly one important thing every single project supervisor should know about. For more information go through right here www.bluefinservltd.com .


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Open call for people who can contribute new exercises!
BuckleScript: A platform that features an optimizing OCaml compiler to readable JS. Optimization and readable JS code are the killer features.
When the view itself is dynamic, the problem is a nested incremental problem.
Thanks for the really useful notes, @armish! I’ve bumped your trust level up so you should be able to edit and post as many links as you like, if you want to edit the markdown.
Thanks Amish, if we can have rendered markdown it would be better.
Thanks a lot for writing this up, armish! I couldn’t make Compose this year and it’s great to get pointers to what I missed.
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This is surprising to me because slide 65 of @chrisamaphone’s presentation from 2 years ago mentions that higher-order functors are disallowed. Does this just mean, then, that it is merely that functor types can’t be directly used as functor arguments, but if said functors are module members it’s always fine?
That talk was about SML.
The talk in general is about SML, but the part I pointed to refers to OCaml explicitly, comparing its functor behavior with SML and MoscowML.
If you want a demonstration of high order functors in action, look at the internals of ocamlgraph and ctypes.

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Knowing when you need help with substance use may be hard to identify. This is particularly true if you have used for a long time and feel like you have a handle on the situation. A lot of people have the same problem you do. In 2013, an estimated 22.7 million Americans needed help with drug and alcohol-related problems, but only 2.5 million received help.
The best way to determine if you need help is to consider these 10 questions. If you can answer yes to any one of them, then it may be time to seek professional help.
Do you put your life or the lives of others in danger?
In 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated that 1,017,808 drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of substances. That works out to one arrest for every 215 U.S. licensed drivers. If that is not a staggering enough statistic, roughly 30 people died each day in 2017 because of drunk driving. That is a death every 48 minutes.
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is caused when a woman’s use of narcotics or alcohol lead to her giving birth to a child who goes through withdrawal at birth.
Sharing needles leads to the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.
In a recent study, 81 percent of women and 69 percent of men who used drugs were victims of physical or sexual abuse.
Do you have health problems related to your usage?
If your doctor has voiced concern that your substance use is affecting your health, it may be time to seek help. While treatment may not reverse all effects of your addiction, it can slow down the impact going forward.
Even if you do not go to the doctor, you can tell how you feel. Do you find yourself lacking energy or focus? Are you coughing up blood? Does your body ache? Are there sores on your body that refuse to heal? Have you experienced flu-like symptoms for more than a few days? Do you have trouble staying awake or sleeping on a regular schedule? These are all signs that something is not right with your body and mind.
Does your usage affect our job, education or home life?
When you stop taking your substance of choice, do you experience withdrawal symptoms?
Experiencing withdrawal symptoms is a good sign that your body has become addicted to the drug or alcohol you consume. These withdrawal symptoms can range from mildly annoying to downright agonizing. The severity and duration of these symptoms depend on how long you have been using, the level of dependency, how you are using such as snorting, drinking or injecting, how healthy you are and your genetic predisposition to addiction.
You may experience all these symptoms or just one or two, but if the symptom is relieved by feeding it the substance of choice, then you likely have an addiction and need professional treatment.
If you have been arrested for a drug or alcohol-related offense, the judge may require you to seek help from a treatment program. If that is the case, the obvious answer to avoiding jail time is to go into a treatment program.
With this question, delve a little deeper. Have you been arrested for any reason that can be related to your substance use? Were you arrested for stealing to support your habit? Were you arrested for starting a fight while under the influence? Were you arrested for a crime you don’t even remember because you were high at the time?
Any time the law gets involved with your life over something you have done because of your usage, it is a good time to seek help. Recovery is a better option than imprisonment where someone else will control your life.
Have friends and family asked you to quit?
Friends and family have the advantage of seeing changes in your behavior that you may not have noticed. If they have asked you to quit taking drugs or drinking, it is time to seek help. If you do not trust one person’s opinion, ask others if they have noticed the same signs of addiction. Trust that your addiction is hindering your ability to see your own destructive behavior.
Even if your family and friends have not openly asked you to quit, has their behavior toward you changed? Will your spouse no longer leave the children in your care? Are your friends no longer talking to you because you owe them money that you used to support your habit? Have you been accused of lying or stealing? Have your parents hidden all the liquor in the house or forbidden you from coming home if you are drunk or high?
Have you lost your job, been kicked out of school or lost your family because of your addiction?
If you have lost your job, been kicked out of school or been asked to leave the family home, it is not too late to pull your life back together. These are some good signs that you are not managing your substance use as well as you think.
Treatment can put you back on the right path to a long and happy life. Spend some time thinking about everything you have lost and what you want to do with your life. Discuss the ground rules with your family for moving back into the family home. Odds are good that recovery is the first step to pulling it back together again.
Do you lie about your usage?
Recreational drug use or social drinking is a slippery slope that can lead to a hard-to-kick addiction, especially if you are genetically prone to addiction. It is easy to tell yourself that you just want to relax or are taking drugs because it is what your friends do, but when your usage starts affecting your quality of life, it is time to ask the hard questions. Are you lying to yourself and others about your recreational usage?
Do you wake up thinking about your next hit?
Are you drinking or using more days of the week than not?
Do you lie to others when they ask if you are high?
Are you spending money set aside for basic necessities, such as food and shelter, on your habit?
Does using make you feel better about yourself?
Are you using drugs or alcohol as a reward for fulfilling obligations?
Does using feel more important than friends and family?
Does it take an increasingly larger dose to feel better?
Are your children afraid of you when you drink or use?
If you answered yes and can think of instances when you have lied or covered up your usage, then your usage may have crossed that line into a destructive addiction.
Do you feel like you can’t quit or want to quit and don’t know how?
Substance use has a way of wearing you down until you feel incapable of stopping. That is where the specialists at a treatment facility can step in and give you hope. No matter how long you have been using or what your substance of choice is, a treatment program is available to help you take control of your life again. While fighting addiction may feel like an impossible task, trained addiction specialists can break the fight down into manageable skirmishes, including the development of lifelong habits that will help you long after you leave.
Have you harmed yourself or others while using?
Depending on your substance of choice, you may have found yourself frequently thinking about harming yourself or others. Have you woken up with injuries and you could not remember how you got them? Even if you have not acted on those thoughts yet, you are at risk of doing so in the future. Gaining help with your addiction is a good first step to protecting yourself against self-harm and against harming others.
Don’t be one of the 20 million addicts who does not receive treatment each year. Ask yourself the tough questions, and if you see signs of addiction, then seek help. Think of it this way: If you were trying to lift a car, you would not do it alone. You would ask for help and use the tools available to you to make the job easier. Addiction can feel just like that car. There is no shame in asking for help.


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Make your own Mexican street tacos by learning homemade recipes of some of the best street tacos in town, including Taco al Pastor, Taco de Barbacoa and Taco Campechano, that you can replicate back home. Enjoy a market tour (in the morning class) and a full lunch in an intimate cooking studio.
Join Local Guide Graciela for a customized experience where you’ll immerse yourself in the Mexican culture. You will start with a quick introduction to Mexican ingredients and food history, followed by a hands-on cooking class, and finish with a delicious drink and dessert. This is a workshop that connects you with Mexican cuisine in a very special way.
Market tour to Mercado de Medellín (walking distance).
Prepare Tacos al Pastor (pork), Tacos de Barbacoa (beef), Tacos Campechanos (beef and pork), three Mexican salsas and hand-made tortillas.
Tacos al Pastor, Tacos de Barbacoa, Tacos Campechanos, three Mexican salsas, and hand-made tortillas.
This tour includes a Market Tour. For a cooking class without the market visit, check out Graciela's Mexican Street Tacos Cooking Class in Mexico City.

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text: Come check out this beautiful home. The kitchen and dinning area have an open concept feel to it. The kitchen has upgraded cabinets, stainless steel refrigerator, kitchen island for the family to sit around. This home has tile, carpet, and hardwood floors. This beautiful home has been well maintained. It also has an outdoor man cave with a wood stove. This home is located on an .2 acres of land and also features an outdoor fire pit, and plenty of storage, yard is fenced in. This home is close to grocery stores, shopping stores, and 2 different highways. This is a must see. Don't miss out!!!

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And the same Michael had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
The being that calls itself Justin McElroy is an imposter. Don't believe his lies.
Is a writer, lawyer, cartoonist, and podcaster. He lives in a cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains like a wild animal.
Memphis based comic creator and graphic designer. Listens to Kiss's damn near perfect album, "Rock And Roll Over" on Fridays.
You have all the information that you need.
Is the corporeal construct of a metaphysical concept as conceived by a paraphysical demiurge. He likes pancakes.
Grew tired of living in his reality at a young age, so he started drawing to create his own. Now that he's an artist people just smile and say he's "eccentric."
Humble champion of the Valkyries. Modest purveyor of worlds. Enchanted. Enchantress. Endless.

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7 am – 9 am – Pre-ride check-in and day-of registration at BelAir Cantina Tosa, 6817 W. North Ave. Stop here before you ride to check in, get your wrist band, and pick up free candy canes to hand out to kids watching along the ride. BelAir will also be offering a special breakfast with fun prizes. Stay tuned for more details on how to win!
Haven’t been on a Santa Cycle Rampage? This fun video by Richard Beauchamp and our friends at Mainly Editing from last year’s Rampage should give you an idea of what to expect. Thanks also to Eddie Blazonczyk, Sr. (July 12, 1941 – May 21, 2012) and The Versatones for the perfect background music. Blazoncyk, from south of the Cheddar Curtain, was a Grammy award-winning musician and is deservedly in the Polka Hall of Fame.
For 2016, the “official” Santa Cycle Rampage Ride day-of registration and pre-ride check-in will open at 7am, at BelAir Cantina, 6817 W North Ave. in Wauwatosa. Please stop in to pick up your ride wrist band. We will also be giving riders free candy canes to share with people along the ride. Be sure to get to BelAir early enough to eat a special breakfast with “Golden Ticket” prizes hidden randomly in the meals!
Buy a Rampage shirt, scarf, hat or hoodie when you register and we will ship them to you.
We did contact all the other business owners where Santas traditionally gather in the morning or as post ride parties, and they all agreed to roll out the red carpet for holiday merry makers again this year. We even picked up some new places. All the business owners also agreed to sponsor the ride with donations to the Wisconsin Bike Fed. Below is the official list of Santa Cycle Rampage Day sponsors for morning gathering places and post ride parties. Note that some of these businesses have limited hours for Santas because they have tours and other events.
Cafe Hollander Wauwatosa Village, 7677 W State St.
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Higher Things is excited to announce the plenary speakers for this year’s “Crucified” conferences!
The Rev. George Borghardt, President of Higher Things and Senior Pastor of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in McHenry, IL.
The Rev. Jonathan Fisk, Host of Worldview Everlasting and Associate Pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church in Naperville, IL.
The Rev. William Cwirla, Host of the God Whisperers, former President of Higher Things, and Senior Pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Hacienda Heights, CA.
While the Wisconsin conference is completely full and has a long waiting list already, there is still plenty of room to register for the Florida and Utah conferences. Both of these conferences will also have special adult tracks of breakout sessions and adults are invited to register and attend a Higher Things conference on their own!
For more information about this summer’s “Crucified” conferences, download the Registration Packet, visit www.crucified2014.org, or email conferences@higherthings.org!!


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This site is situated amonst the hills and valleys of bonogin. The rear of the site backs onto the bonogin creek and views through the valley to the south. This home was designed to suit the sloping block and take advantage of the views to the south. With the main living areas to the southwest, highlight windows were used to allow direct sunlight into these spaces.
A 4 car garage was required and to reduce the visual impact of garage doors, timber battens were used to create a feature and conceal the doors.
The master ensuite features a glass roof to allow star glazing baths at night.
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LOS ANGELES, CA. – The Pomona-Pitzer Women's Swim and Dive Team outswam Occidental College on Saturday afternoon on the road. The Sagehens took first place in 12 of the 14 events they competed in, and secured enough top-three finishes to ensure a lopsided victory.
Anna Newman had a solid showing in the long distance, taking first place in the 1000 Yard Freestyle at 10:53.71. She later won the 200 Individual Medley at 2:18.23, just 0.52 seconds ahead of second place finisher Annika Moen of Occidental. Vee Vanderpoel completed the 500 Freestyle in first at 5:27.17, more than five seconds ahead of second place Katherine Lauerman (5:32.88).
Kate Denend had a solid day in the short distance freestyle events, taking first in the 200 at 2:03.23 and the 100 at 54.55. The Sagehens dominated majority of the short distance races as Lavinya Yap took first in the 100 Backstroke at 1:03.36 and Alex Seidel finished at the top in the 50 Butterfly at 26.32. Seidel also took second in the 50 Backstroke at 28.51 behind teammate Angela Ling who crossed at 26.73.
Denise Dao finished in first ahead of teammate Kirsten Mortimer in the 50 Freestyle, crossing at 25.64 while Mortimer clocked in at 25.98. Maddie Kauahi won the 50 Breaststroke at 32.31 while Mikaela Nishida secured first in the 100 Butterfly at 1:02.61.
The Hens capped off the afternoon by taking the top-two spots in the 200 Freestyle Relay. Sabrina Kwan, Denend, Seidel, and Kauahi finished in first at 1:38.66 while Tori Agostini, Sasha Newton, Mortimer, and Dao combined for second at 1:42.13.
The Sagehens will host Whittier College and Chapman University on Saturday, November 18 at 10:30 a.m.

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MANILA -- For 32 years in a row, former President Fidel V. Ramos, who will turn 90 next month, repeated his famous EDSA People Power jump on Sunday -though less in vigor and intensity - to mark the 32nd anniversary of the historic civilian-backed military 1986 bloodless revolt that toppled the authoritarian Marcos regime.
Ramos was one of the key players during the four-day EDSA People Power on Feb. 22-25, 1986. The others were former Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, Sen. Gringo Honasan, Jaime Cardinal Sin, and Butz S. Aquino, brother of assassinated Sen. Benigno S. Aquino Jr.
Upon learning that Marcos and his family had fled Malacanang Palace at the height of the 25 February 1986 bloodless revolt, Ramos, who was then the Armed Forces vice chief of staff and chief of the Philippine Constabulary and Integrated National Police (PC/INP), jumped with joy.
For the past 32 years, Ramos always makes a point to repeat his now famous EDSA jump during its anniversary.
The former President who turned to column writing as his hobby in a national daily renewed his call for all Filipinos to work together as Team Philippines to move the country.
The Spirit of EDSA emanates from the Filipinos' act of unselfish caring, sharing and daring for the common good - of believing that significant change could be achieved through lawful but courageous acts and decisions. Our People Power Revolution at EDSA could have ended in massive bloodshed. But, by God's merciful wisdom, the 1986 EDSA crisis was resolved peacefully - and triumphantly - resulting in bloodless regime change that restored our democracy and civilian supremacy, Ramos said in his Sunday column.
He continued: Still, many wonders: Why did EDSA in February 1986 happen? Why did more than a million people, armed only with their convictions, democratic faith, and God's protection, defy overwhelming odds - the threat of tanks, artillery, helicopter gunships, fighter planes and combat troops which could likely inflict sudden death or grievous injury?
The answer simply is this: we gathered at EDSA and made our stand against dictatorship because we loved freedom, and were tired of the political system imposed upon us. We wanted our freedoms back plus a better future for ourselves and for those after us.
The Spirit of EDSA teaches us that every citizen � poor or rich, young or old, lowly or elite, Grade IV dropout or Harvard Ph.D., can make a vital difference by respecting the law, paying our taxes, raising a proper family, and helping those in need.
Whoever today treasures the Spirit of EDSA must first internalize it by doing some positive acts to CARE, SHARE and DARE for others. Those in authority now - wherever they were in February 1986 - should today champion the SPIRIT OF EDSA, and spread it by word and deed, especially to younger Filipinos. This means taking actions that enhance, not diminish our democracy; curb corruption and cronyism; undertake poverty alleviation and social reform; and insure justice is delivered to the suffering and powerless.
The Spirit of EDSA does not belong only to the past. It belongs to the present and to the future. The Spirit of EDSA, indeed, belongs to all time. Like it or not, our People Power Revolution at EDSA is a continuing revolution � an unfulfilled vision we must win without further loss of time and goodwill.


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Would a Power Mac G4 800MHz run Final Cut?
Discussion in 'Digital Video' started by 66217, May 24, 2008.
I have an old Power Mac G4 right now, and have been doing some video work.
I currently have been doing the video with Final Cut Express in my MacBook 2GHz with 2GB of RAM, and I find it suffices OK with my needs. But we (at work) want to have a computer that can be available always. So I am wanting to find out if the Power Mac would be enough for this.
I could update the RAM to 1.5GB and put Tiger in it. And maybe upgrade the processor to a 1.2 GHz. But I want to know if the update is worth it, would it be the same as in my MacBook or would it be much slower than it?
It may literally function but i doubt i would run very well without dominating system resources.
I believe I have the same computer: G4 dual 800, "quicksilver" 1.25 ram running 10.3 panther / Final Cut pro 4.5 - I use it only to log footage from decks and it's rock solid. Doing basic edits work fine... if you want to get into using MOTION or work with real time effects, that's a different story.
. But I want to know if the update is worth it, would it be the same as in my MacBook or would it be much slower than it?
You MacBook will crush the G4 six ways from sunday. I have a dual 1ghz G4 next to my MacPro and anything other than doing just straight cuts on the G4 is painfully slow. Rendering is slow. Exporting is slow. Making a DVD, oh dear good, is slow. I love my G4 and still use it for non-editing tasks, but the poor girl is doorstop compared to intel-based Macs in terms of speed.
Thanks guys, now I am sure investing in upgrading the G4 isn't a good idea.
Hopefully if things go as we expect we could invest in a Mac Pro (boy, am I going to be happy with that ), if not I think we could settle with an iMac. Not so future proof, but still very capable for the kind of task I require at the moment.
Would the new video card (the one with 512mb of memory) be much better for video editing? Or is video editing more processor intensive? I only use FCE and Livetype and the ocasional Photoshop. I don't think I'll ever venture to the Final Cut Studio (after playing with it a bit it sacred me, too complicated).
And one more question. What burning application would you recommend for making DVD movies? iDVD is very limited, I am constantly having problem. And DVD Studio Pro isn't a stand-alone app. Any suggestions?
I say get the best you can possibly afford but consider other things such as hard disk space, big monitors, things like that.
I bounce between Toast Titanium and DVD Studio Pro. Toast does my basic burns when I don't need anything jazzy and DVD SP is for sophisticated menus and such.
Rendering is slow. Exporting is slow. Making a DVD, oh dear good, is slow.
If it does, it won't be very pretty.
Even if you could find an older version of FCP to run on it, you're going to be limited by the compatibility of that older version with codecs and whatnot. Trying to edit modern high resolution, large (long) videos won't go very well at all. Render times will kill you; you'll pull out every last hair as you watch the entire season 1 of Prison Break and find that it's still rendering.
You can read the specs of my iMac in the description, and I still find the rendering/export times frustrating (working with HDV, though).


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The amber in which the wasp was trapped was extracted from mines located in the the Hukawng Valley of Kachin Province in Myanmar and was studied by scientists in Moscow.
A study conducted by researchers from the University of California has found that the Greenland, home to Earth’s second-largest ice sheet, is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980's.
More than 1,000 demonstrators have been arrested in London in the past nine days. Here, nine of the climate change protesters explain the extraordinary ends they will go to for the Earth I have never been a campaigner or activist before, but I have been worrying about the environment for decades. For 20 years I have written letters, signed petitions, ridden a bike – I have done everything that is “polite” – but the situation has, if anything, gone backwards.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The grisly images show the 4,500-pound creature splattered in blood while the front of its prey remains locked between its jaws in Japan.
Archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre which took place in the 17th century. According to legend, it started when a boy accidentally hit another boy in the eye during a game of darts.
Crisp packets, plastic bottles and other items carelessly thrown away by visitors to Drumpellier Country Park, near Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire pepper the land around the nest.
Order targeting the protest is first to explicitly mention organisers could be detained Police have warned Extinction Rebellion organisers that they face arrest if they incite protesters to block roads around Parliament Square. The Metropolitan police said it was imposing pre-emptive conditions restricting any demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday to the lawn in the centre of the square, after hearing that activists with the group planned to gather there.
Juan Carlos Casado from Spain snapped a beautiful aurora that lit up the night sky of Iceland in a swirl of green that has been chosen as a NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
The tool will block screen shots from being captured if fingerprint authentication is enabled. This feature is expected to be rolled out globally for Android soon.
My empathy for the super-woke youth waxes and wanes, but Extinction Rebellion and the new wave of campaigners have woken me up I have been called out so many times online that it’s just white noise now. For my various sins I have been blocked, deleted and “cancelled” on social media, which doesn’t resemble real life at all. In real life, one may break bread with beings who think differently from you and, weirdly, no one dies. There are lists of what can and cannot be said now, but I am from a generation that derides trigger warnings and micro-aggressions, because we are harder than hard. I recognise myself in the rantings of the writer Bret Easton Ellis, whom I adore.
We have the technology to prevent climate crisis. But now we need to unleash mass resistance too – because collective action does work Because I am concerned about inequality and about the environment, I am usually classed as a progressive, a liberal. But it seems to me that what I care most about is preserving a world that bears some resemblance to the past: a world with some ice at the top and bottom and the odd coral reef in between; a world where people are connected to the past and future (and to one another) instead of turned into obsolete software. And those seem to me profoundly conservative positions. Meanwhile, oil companies and tech barons strike me as deeply radical, willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere, eager to confer immortality.
19h Extinction Rebellion: How might ministers win over the protesters?
Elon Musk said he's 'very confident' that Tesla will have autonomous robotaxis on the road as soon as next year and could remove the steering wheel and pedals from its vehicles by 2021.
A security researcher found that a popular WiFi hotspot app was storing passwords for private networks on an unsecured database. The app has been downloaded by thousands of users.
25h These Otters Are Popular Pets in Asia. That May Be Their Undoing.
Samsung has pressed pause on the release of its new $2,000 folding phones. The tech giant is delaying the release of the Galaxy Fold until 'at least next month,' after repeated display issues.
Experts at the University of Florida and the US Department of Agriculture wanted to find out which, if any, offered natural resistance to the fall armyworm, a caterpillar that often damages lawns.
Researchers at the D'Or Institute for Research and Education in Brazil found showing people real-time scans of their brain activity while completing a mental task boosted their brain power.
33h Unbuttoned: Hello, Little Microbe. Doesn’t This Jacket Look Yummy?
A generation of networked rebels will bring down an old order whose failings have been laid bare I am a fan of generation gaps. Though academics and the media love to identify new demographic cohorts – Generation X, Generation Z, Net Gen, Gen Wii – such distinctions often confuse mere fashion with decisive transformations in behaviour, social priority and worldview. But we need such transformations, the inter-generational arguments that they spawn, and the changes that, sooner or later, they compel upon us all.

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Same as Type 6.9.1 except Value in Hindi grammatically corrected reads EK HAZAAR / RUPAYE in Hindi in Central Denomination Panel and grammatically corrected EK / HAZAAR / RUPAYE in Hindi in lower left corner on obverse and EK HAZAAR RUPAYE in Hindi below it on reverse. Corrected language panel in Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Commemorative coin issued on 1000 years of the temple’s anniversary.


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Mixture of hemp leaves, flower & seed amongst lemongrass, fennel, cinnamon, ginger, parsley, cardamom, pink pepper & liquorice throughout the bag.
What's it taste like? The Hemp Chai edition of Dutch Harvest Hemp Teas comes with a full, powerful, spicy & sweet taste which is very much inspired from Chai Tea found within the regions of India, Nepal. Tibet & Pakistan where Chai Tea is very commonly used for medicine which is referred to as 'Ayurveda'.
How much is in the Dutch Harvest bag? The package contains 50g of Hemp Chai Dutch Harvest tea.


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Mounted Renaissance Knights charging – unit deal.
Mounted Renaissance Knights charging – unit deal. Six mounted knights – one of each Pack Code REN 9, 10, 11. Figures are supplied with the separate heads and plumes – these can be mixed with other Mounted Renaissance Knights to add variety to contingents.


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High-quality and low-cost components for the production of the final product.
Zhongshan City Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. as one of the PCB manufacturers is designing, developing, manufacturing and processing the PCBs. The plant covers an area of 10,000 square meters, have about two hundred employees, monthly producing more than 30,000 square meters of end product.
Enterprises located in the Pearl River Delta economic center Xiaolan Town, adjacent to the river high -speed G105 intersection with State Road transportation is very convenient. The company mainly produces high-precision single , double and multi-layer rigid circuit boards , aluminum plate and so on. With accurate market positioning, strong commitment and ability to play the role of corporate culture, the company is gradually developing into the Pearl River Delta circuit board industry as a dazzling star.
Our products are widely used in LED home, high-tech field of commercial lighting, automotive electronics, communications equipment, household appliances, industrial control, security and other products are exported to various provinces and cities across the country, and even exported to Eastern Europe, Asia and other regions, won the trust of the majority of users.


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HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY – Commonwealth Theatre Company at Northern Kentucky University is excited to announce its 2019 Summer Dinner Theatre season. Performances will take place in the NKU Stauss Theatre. Tickets will go on sale Monday, March 18, 2019.
Before Julia and Jane married their husbands Fred and Willy – there was Maurice, a former French lover. While the women’s blissfully ignorant husbands are away on a golf trip, he shows up and reminds them of what they might be missing. Following an evening of drunkenness and fevered anticipation, Julia and Jane become concerned that indiscretions from their past will be revealed, and comedic antics ensue. Fallen Angels is a biting, hilarious comedy about rivalry and manners, resulting in a champagne cocktail of wit and charm.
The “ladies” of Umatilla Second Christian Church Women’s Auxiliary League are back and producing their annual Mother’s Day pageant. As the “church girls” prepare for their pageant, chaos and calamity bring out less than ‘saintly’ behavior. The result is Heaven sent hilarity! Making its farewell performance, Church Girls is a campy, cheeky, audacious musical comedy that will hit your funny bone and keep you laughing.
For more information call the NKU School of the Arts Box Office at (859) 572-5464 or visit nku.edu/ctc.


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← Queen Margaret’s Gold Dress early 15th c.
Viking iron and ironing board!
Ok, so its not an iron and polishing board is a more appropriate term than ironing board, but they are for smoothing, pleating and polishing linen.
These form part of the grave goods from a Viking era burial of a wealthy woman at Birka, in Sweden. The board is carved whalebone and the smoother is made from glass. They can be seen, along with other exquisite items from her grave, on display at the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm (Historiska Museet), Sweden.
The Romans used smooth lumps of glass for pressing linen too.
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Fr Christopher and Matushka Elizabeth were in Finland during July, spending time with their beloved “Finnish family”.
At Hamina, we were again welcomed by the senior generation. A pannikida was sung at the Usano family graves. Father Jukka showed us the interior of the cemetery church dedicated to the Mother of God; Joy of all who sorrow, which is only used a few times a year as it is too far out of Hamina to be used on a regular basis. Sadly, the magnificent icons and reindeer skin banners are showing signs of mould and it is to be hoped that they will be safely preserved.
￼￼Intrigued by the richly embroidered box on the Holy Table ( covering the antimension and Gospel ) we were informed by Fr Jukka about the necessity of “keeping out the mouses”.
While relaxing at beautiful lakeside cottages near Heinavesi, we revisited The Holy Trinity Monastery at Lintula where Father Christopher was welcomed to concelebrate the Liturgy with Archimandrite Herman. In response to the request for just a “few words”, Father Christopher based his homily on a simple story about his first visit to Lintula some 35 years ago. Then, he stood in awe behind a rope which closed off the church to visitors after services; now, from before the Holy Doors, he addressed the congregation before offering them Holy Communion.
Lintula really is a beautiful and tranquil place and just wonderful to see Igumena Michaela fully recovered from the accident of 2 years ago which claimed the life of Igumena Marina, and our guide Mother Kristoduli in very good health.
Finally, Hanko, on the south coast was our next religious port of call and this time for the Patronal Feast ( praasneikka ) of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox church.


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So What’s in the New Trillion-Dollar Spending Bill?
Congress avoided a government shutdown by landing on an agreement on the funding bill. But what exactly is the language in this bill?

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Direction "Latvia — Belgium" all orders are being processed at the moment.
Section "Backway trucks / Trucks for trucking Latvia — Belgium". DELLA™ Truck Transport Company was founded in February 1995. Our Mission — a convenient and high-quality information services in of truck transport Ukraine — Ukraine and of international freight transport. Our main priority — relevance of information. Thank you for your interest in our service, we are always happy to be useful for you!

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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I am a professional adult caregiver with a medical background and excellent references. compassionate and caring.
37yo male paraplegic needs help with bathing, dressing, transferringwith electric lift, light meal prep, light housekeeping, pass out meds and feeding $897 once a month through the state plus a free room, 5 hrs a day 7 days a week, a background check is a must, valid license a big plus, help for help, 30-40 yo woman, no couple, no kids, no pets.


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This has been a month of firsts for me. I was in Atlanta for the first time for a Pollyanna Conference at The Children’s School: My Authentic Self: The Intersection of Race and Gender in MS. I was struck by the welcoming feel in the city and at the school. It was their first conference and it was an incredibly powerful day.
It was also the first time I heard the magnificent inaugural poet Richard Blanco speak. He was the keynote at Far Brook’s 3rd Pollyanna Conference: From Attending to Belonging – Re-Imagining Independent Schools for our Intersectional Communities. Richard shared his personal experiences of being from an immigrant family and gay, and how this impacted his life.
Another first was attending the NAIS People of Color Conference in Nashville: Equitable Schools and Inclusive Communities – Harmony, Discord & the Notes in Between. As I write this, I am still in Nashville in the Hub with fellow sponsors and exhibitors who are busy sharing information with attendees. The buzz here is electric. It was great seeing old friends and making new connections. When I worked in independent schools, I never attended this conference as I didn’t want to take a spot that a colleague of color might want. The comment I heard most from colleagues upon their return was, “Being at PoCC has filled, strengthened and rejuvenated me to return to my school until PoCC next year.” I now understand why.
To be among and learn from colleagues of color is empowering. As a white person dedicated to this work, it has been inspiring to be here. Over the course of a few days, there have been moving speeches, and many informative workshops offered by smart faculty and administrators. I am in awe of all this talent, commitment and compassion.
Thank you for being part of this journey of firsts. Please consider supporting Pollyanna so that we can continue to grow and experience more firsts together.
You recently joined the Pollyanna Board of Trustees as a junior trustee. What are you hoping your voice brings to meeting discussions and future planning?
I think that I will bring a unique voice to the Board…the student one. The Pollyanna conferences are in large part geared toward making a change for students. It’s one thing for administrators to discuss the issues, but as a student, I have seen the problems first hand. I’ve experienced the social interactions that happen when there are only students in the room. Students sometimes say one thing when a teacher is present, but something else when they’re not.
I also bring the perspective of a different generation. This is important because each generation has its own unique mentality, ideas, etc., and these should be considered when designing events and classes geared for my generation.
As part of the Allen-Stevenson POD as a student, can you describe the feelings you had when you met as a group to discuss action steps with administrators, alumni, diversity practitioners, faculty, parents, and trustees?
I was in Seventh Grade when I joined the Allen-Stevenson POD. It gave me a real feeling of empowerment since all the voices are equal in the room on this occasion. I also realized that our conversation meant that things could really get done…that the discussion could be continued to help us get to be a better, more inclusive school. It occurred to me that I can help make a difference and be there from the start.
Younger students are meant to be heard. However, there’s a fear amongst little kids that they can’t speak up to adults. The POD provides a forum for this discussion and all eyes are on the students in the POD. Everyone wants to hear what the students have to say, so I knew I could be honest, and that my voice would be respected.
You also joined students on stage from several schools for the student presentation to all the schools in attendance. What was your message and what did you hope to achieve?
Well…I actually had an idea. I explained that I thought students should have the ability to choose their school advisors. Everyone in our student group at the conference had an issue with the advisor they were assigned, so I realized it wasn’t just my school’s problem. A lot of advisors just didn’t seem to understand their advisees.
Usually, a student is assigned an advisor. I have found that the advisors I usually get along best with are the ones who have similar interests or experiences to me. There is more equity in specifically choosing your advisor and you can build a stronger bond with someone with whom you can relate. Moreover, advisors can be better advocates for students they better understand. One idea is to have every teacher, staff member or administrator be an advisor to say, three students. The advisor could be from a completely different grade or not even be a teacher. That person is there as a mentor and someone a student can turn to for advice. I hoped that by putting this point out there that heads of schools would hear this and take it into consideration.
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Mike Weatherley, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade, has signed a Parliamentary Motion to call on the Government to allow a vote in the Commons to decide on the impending badger cull.
Mike has signed Early Day Motion (EDM) 299 (Pilot Badger Cull Parliamentary Assessment and Vote), which draws attention to concerns about the current pilot badger cull and notes that there is mixed evidence from similar schemes abroad. The results of the pilot will be assessed and a decision will be taken on whether or not the cull will be implemented across the country. The decision is expected to be made in early 2014 so it is therefore crucial that a vote is held shortly.
Around 5,000 badgers are expected to be killed in controlled shootings over six weeks in Somerset and Gloucestershire. Badgers are being shot by marksmen in the South West as part of measures to protect cattle from bovine tuberculosis. Defra scientists estimate that culling badgers could reduce the number of new cases of TB in herds by 12% to 16% over nine year. Mike is not convinced that the culls will be effective.


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> >Is the Ulfa invoking Lachit here?
> > *** Good question.  See , now you are thinking :-).
this response is "Jesus!"  - and  in this day & age?
> *** Good question.  See , now you are thinking :-).
> PS: Also remember  the American Civil War? The British war of the Roses?
> Chinese Long March? Vietnam? South Africa? The Congo? Sri Lanka? Kashmir?
> Nepal? The Khalistan revolt? The Sikh Pogrom post Indira Gandhi's slaying?
> their own kin and kith.
> Nayan and JS have brought out the essence of the conversation here.
> Is the Ulfa invoking Lachit here?
> such - not answered-ever.
> deserve to be killed by their own kin and kith. Maybe they do.
> questions put by so and so .... head on.
> good to use them. Even the ulfa "newsletter" freely uses it.
> groups (which don't deserve it) an "aura" status do we?
> elected reps' role, >in looting the treasury?
> course, it matters little that blood spilled was not theirs).
> elected reps' role, in looting the treasury?
> happened before, or never will in the future.
> is present and powerful.
> you could not see, even though you it is staring at your face.
> they can win and that only a political solution will end the conflict.
> Kamadhenu'. Whatever will they do if this all ends - Work for a living?
> history? Would you like to explain?
> Why can't someone just answer to the questions.
> only make the issue more muddy  :-)?


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In need of additional load testing capacity on its Axiom storage system, Oracle found that Virtual Instruments provided all the traffic and test configuration flexibility they needed to put their efficient, high capacity system to the test.
Oracle’s Axiom storage product is an application-aware system, enabling multiple tiers of storage on a single platform – each with a unique level of service. It delivers an ultra-high capacity storage system which consolidates assets, modularly scales capacity, and reduces management complexity.
Before deploying Virtual Instruments solutions, their test environment included racks of mid-range white boxes, switches, and tape libraries – a large complement of hardware needed to adequately stress the product before going to market. The team now needed to test both the performance and functionality, using high volume SMB and NFS traffic.
Additionally, Oracle runs a virtual server farm to generate load and run test scenarios. A fleet of virtual machines would be deployed to run each test case – easy to run but hard to clean up and hard to repeat consistently. Every test case required a client and disparate application layer test suite.
Limited load testing capacity. Performance is insufficient to adequately test Axiom systems.
Desire greater granularity and test sophistication. Testing the unique features of the application-aware Axiom requires extremely detailed and flexible tests.
Difficult, time-consuming virtual server management. Rampant VM client sprawl.
Oracle discovered that WorkloadWisdom had the performance, depth, and breadth of features they were seeking.
The WorkloadWisdom Workload Generator 1G series quickly enabled increase testing productivity in the Axiom storage environment. The high volume of SMB and NFS traffic is now putting realistic stress on the Oracle Axiom product with no more server of VM housekeeping headaches. Having the product’s 8 ports on different networks allows for a more representative picture of how production clients would address a storage device. Simulating connection scaling no longer requires adding in sets of client, which had been impossible before with their VM client set up.
Oracle has easy access to stats that were only available via network traces and client OS data. And they get real-time results as part of the scenario instead of requiring extra triage cycles. Even customer log scenarios are easily reverse engineered for targeted tests.
With WorkloadWisdom, Oracle performs tests that exceed the demands their customers put on the Axiom system. And they can do it with greater control, in less time, and using fewer resources.
The Workload Generator 1G series is a high-performance load-generating system designed for comprehensive storage network testing. More than a simple load generator, the system provides protocol-level control and semantic definition that enables the broadest possible range of test cases.
The product features 8 singly configurable 1G ports and an additional 1G management port. It supports multiple authentication types and originates both NFS and CIFS traffic, simulating a great number of clients and scenarios at once. It easily handles multiple scenarios with varying lists of commands within each of 5 protocols (CIFS v1, v2, and NFS v2, v3, v4) — all running at the same time without operational overhead.
The WorkloadWisdom product is the clear choice for companies in the storage industry, because Virtual Instruments knows storage better than any other test tool vendor. It is the industry’s elite testing tool due to the product focus on storage-specific features; high-volume traffic handling, customer-centric graphic interface, and prebuilt tests and wizards.
Unparalleled load testing. Can validate the extreme performance of the Axiom.
Comprehensive, flexible tests. Able to fully test the features that make the Pillar Axiom unique.
No virtual machine sprawl. One appliance replaced all of the virtual machine clients, and more.
Time savings in executing multiple test suites. Single-screen, graphical control of test tools enables fast settings changes.
Ease of test case creation and control at the protocol level. Granular visibility and results are available for individual components.
Consistent, repeatable results. Test clean-up is automatic. Start tests at the same point with a clean slate.


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The island, with its fine natural harbor at Castries, was contested between England and France throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries (changing possession 14 times); it was finally ceded to the UK in 1814. Self-government was granted in 1967 and independence in 1979.
The recent changes in the EU import preference regime and the increased competition from Latin American bananas have made economic diversification increasingly important in Saint Lucia. The island nation has been able to attract foreign business and investment, especially in its offshore banking and tourism industries. The manufacturing sector is the most diverse in the Eastern Caribbean area, and the government is trying to revitalize the banana industry. Economic fundamentals remain solid.


text: Type Family Description These eukaryotic proteins recognise the poly-A of mRNA and consist of four tandem RNA recognition domains at the N terminus followed by a PABP-specific domain at the C terminus. The protein is involved in the transport of mRNAs from the nucleus to the cytoplasm . There are four paralogs in Homo sapiens(Human) which are expressed in testis , platelets (), broadly expressed () and of unknown tissue range ().

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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This morning at the Hartford Superior Court, Jorge Santos DOB 09/12/1980 formerly of 32 Windam Street Hartford Connecticut was charged by The State Police Home Invasion Task Force with charges related to a April 2007 Home Invasion in Hartford Connecticut. Santos is presently in the custody of the Department of Corrections on previous charges relating to armed home invasions in the Greater Hartford area.
Task Force members arrested Santos at Hartford Superior Court, where Santos was processed and presented without incident. Santos is held on $2,000,000 court set bond. More arrests are anticipated.


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We routinely evaluate our patients’ periodontal health during our initial exam and at all hygiene (cleaning) visits. Drs. Smiley and Holowicki will tailor your periodontal treatment plan based on your oral health and individual needs.
Patients who are periodontally healthy, without gum pocketing, bleeding, bone loss or heavy plaque accumulation, generally receive a routine “cleaning” and polishing.
When we discover signs of gum disease, we often recommend scaling and root planing treatments. This more extensive treatment frequently helps our patients return to optimal periodontal health, and may eliminate the need for periodontal surgery. For patients with more isolated areas of gum disease, we offer localized treatment with medications placed directly into the affected area.
Changes in hormones – During pregnancy, puberty, menopause and menstruation, gums are extra-sensitive.
Immune system compromising illnesses – Cancer, diabetes and HIV tend to weaken the immune system.
Medications – Certain medications can reduce the flow of saliva and cause dry mouth. Saliva helps to protect your mouth from harmful bacteria.
Habitual behaviors – Smoking and grinding your teeth are culprits in increased risk of gum disease.
Family history – Hereditary causes can play a role in periodontal disease.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine