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On March 23, we had a blog on FAQ’s for the gynecomastia patient recovering from surgery. There are many questions patients ask Dr. Delgado prior to making the decision to move forward with surgery. Below are several questions he is frequently asked, and we will be posting a few more in our next blog.
Question #1: Are there any nonsurgical treatments for gynecomastia?
Answer: Although you can read about easy, non-surgical cures in the news and advertisements, and there is considerable ongoing research aimed at finding a way to reverse it without surgery, no effective medical treatment actually exists at this time.
Question #2: Is liposuction adequate treatment? I do not want a surgical procedure.
Answer: Liposuction alone is not a good treatment for gynecomastia. Only with cases of pseudogynecomastia is it an adequate technique. Removing the fat around the gland only creates an unnatural bulb and patients are not satisfied with the aesthetic result from this technique. There are some patients that are candidates for the “Light Procedure” which is much less invasive Redo surgery from other establishments comprises 25-30% of Dr. Delgado’s gynecomastia practice and most of these cases have had liposuction alone.
Question #3: Will the entire gland be removed during the surgery?
Answer: Not necessarily. Male breast reduction surgery for gynecomastia is a cosmetic procedure. Therefore, enough is removed to create a good looking, flat, but contoured chest. Sometimes the entire gland is removed and sometimes only 80% or 90% is removed. After surgery, Dr. Delgado is happy to discuss this aspect of your procedure with you.
Question #4: Will it come back after surgery?
Answer: Rarely, but the tissue can be still stimulated and enlarged by steroids or other medication use. Of course, weight gain can increase the fat content of the overall chest and body. Gynecomastia seldom returns if enough of the gland is removed during the surgical procedure.
Question #5: Will insurance pay for the gynecomastia surgery?
Answer: This is a very difficult question to answer even though Dr. Delgado has dealt with insurance companies on hundreds of occasions. It is unusual that gynecomastia reduction surgery is covered, even in the most severe and unfortunate cases. Most insurance companies consider it cosmetic surgery. Dr. Delgado has occasionally received approval for cases in which a medical condition or syndrome has caused the gynecomastia. Even symptoms of pain and tenderness usually fail to warrant coverage in the opinion of the insurance carrier.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 10:30 am.

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Do you offer rental of your DVD's? – How Can We Help?
Every UnionProof program is written, produced, edited and distributed by professionals. Our team updates these programs regularly, and the proven value of these communication tools is in the fact that many of them have stood the test of time! In order to make sure our clients have access to the best resources, we do not offer rental agreements.

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The RootIt First Feed is a fertilizer designed to stimulate the development of seedlings or cuttings in the first days of their life, containing calcium, boron, vitamin B1 and humic and fulvic acids.
This is the perfect cutting and germination product.
Available in sizes: Small, Medium and Large. The range of ROOT!T Heat Mats direct essential heat to the engine room of seeds and cuttings - the roots - and can cut several days off the time it usually takes to germinate seeds and strike cuttings.
Root!t’s Electric Thermostat is used to control the output of your (separately available) heat mat based around temperature information gathered by its probe, helping to maintain a consistent environment for cuttings and young plants.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Each of our Luxury queen rooms provides a comfortable and versatile space offering a unique contemporary experience. They are front facing with neighbourhood views through large sash windows in keeping with the Victorian façade of the hotel.
All our king, queen and twin bedded deluxe rooms are Irish designed and individually styled. At an average of 280 sq ft they are spacious and many incorporate the original design features of the Victorian nurse’s home including vaulted ceilings & port holes.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


text: All teens are welcome, along with their teachers and parents, to this intimate reading with author Sharon Flake. She will be discussing her novel, The Skin I’m In with students and then conducting a Q & A. Kadiatou Tubman will be the facilitator. Please RSVP to events@itooarts.com with the teens’ names.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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Yale Locks & Hardware introduces its Multi-Family Solution, featuring Yale Accentra lock management software for multi-family housing. The cloud-based software allows facility administrators to easily manage access rights for residents, guests and employees.
Yale Accentra is a dedicated web-based software designed to eliminate costs and maintenance of on-site servers and ensure that databases are always accessible and secure.
The software is accessible from any internet-connected device, including Mac, PC, smart phone or tablet. Yale Accentra features an intuitive interface that requires minimal training and a responsive design that automatically optimizes for any device.
The software seamlessly manages the Yale multi-family solution, which includes nexTouch access control locks for common areas and exterior doors, Yale Real Living digital deadbolts and interconnected locks for residence doors, and a credential updater, based on secure HID technologies, for updating access rights and transmitting audit trails.
The software enables easy management of multiple properties and employees with access to multiple sites. It also allows property managers to distribute one-time-PINs (OTPs) for unit lockout, lost cards, or emergency access.
With Yale Accentra, residents of a multi-family property are afforded a new level of convenience, allowing them to request temporary access for guest or maintenance staff, control common area access for family members and easily obtain new credentials if needed. Building owners, developers, and property managers benefit from easier management of access rights, increased security and reduced maintenance costs.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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A recent study conducted by the Incentive Federation reveals that when it comes to motivating employees, improving performance, boosting morale and hitting business goals, non-cash awards are more effective than plain old bonuses.
1.78: The average improvement, in shots per round, seen in a group of golfers who received individually tailored social support, encouragement and reassurance before competition.
Safety managers often feel their hands are tied by production and scheduling. The important thing to remember is that job sites are simple reflections of any company's real attitude toward safety.
It costs between 2 and 3 times a worker's salary to replace a departing employee, including recruitment, training, lost productivity, and severance costs.
The fixed cost of incentive programs, unlike other sales and marketing strategies, is 20-30% of the program. The remaining 70-80% is paid only when the programs goals are reached.
Safety programs are not about motivating employees to avoid hurting themselves; the purpose of a well-designed safety incentive is generally to motivate employees to pay a little more attention to the work they are doing and to keep safety at the top of their minds.
The National Business Group on Health recommends the use of incentives in particular as a significant driver for participation in employer-based health and productivity programs.
Intermittent safety efforts are generally ineffective. It is necessary to maintain an almost continual program of keeping personnel alert of safety practices.


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Set to “The Silent Dove in the Distance”.
aren’t they already recorded in your book?
Distracted by the superscription— musing over what a tune called “The Silent Dove in the Distance” might sound like.
8 Then Aharon is to cast lots for the two goats, one lot for Adonai and the other for ‘Az’azel. 9 Aharon is to present the goat whose lot fell to Adonai and offer it as a sin offering. 10 But the goat whose lot fell to ‘Az’azel is to be presented alive to Adonai to be used for making atonement over it by sending it away into the desert for ‘Az’azel.
13……. when you heard the Word of God from us, you received it not merely as a human word, but as it truly is, God’s Word, which is at work in you believers.
I got to thinking, “Well, just exactly how does a shepherd use a staff and a rod?” The staff is used to guide the sheep and to catch them. Traditional staffs used in the UK have horn crooks with a sharp curled tip, which I suspect is designed to catch in the fleece. The rod was essentially a club used to defend against predators, but also as a goad to correct the sheep.
18 (21) So the people stood at a distance, but Moshe approached the thick darkness where God was.
5…...the disciplined and resolute firmness of your trust in the Messiah.
12 However, Moshe’s hands grew heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aharon and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other; so that his hands stayed steady until sunset.
19 So let those who are suffering according to God’s will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator by continuing to do what is good.
Bake what you want to bake; boil what you want to boil; and whatever is left over, set aside and keep for the morning.
4 1-2 Since Jesus went through everything you’re going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you’ll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want.
2 Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit. 3 Right now, because of the word which I have spoken to you, you are pruned.
27 “What I am leaving with you is shalom — I am giving you my shalom. I don’t give the way the world gives.
Peace I bequeath to you, my peace I entrust to you. The way I give is not the way the material world gives.
and threw stones on me.
from the bottom of the pit.
at my sighs, at my cries.
15Now, brothers, I must remind you of the Good News which I proclaimed to you, and which you received, and on which you have taken your stand, 2 and by which you are being saved — provided you keep holding fast to the message I proclaimed to you. For if you don’t, your trust will have been in vain.
15Also, you know perfectly well, brothers, the happy history which I declared to you; which you acknowledged, and in which you stand fast; through which you are also being set free— as long as you keep holding on to the message I told to you—unless your trust was without purpose.


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Lethbridge is still on track to receive the anticipated 240 Government Assisted Refugees by the end of 2016 of which 144 are expected to arrive by the end of February. In addition, 35 Privately Sponsored Refugees are expected by the end of February. These numbers are in addition to the as many as 70 international refugees that Lethbridge typically welcomes every year.
“LFS is working around the clock to welcome Syrians and ensure they have what they need to make a fresh start. This is possible because of the outstanding support that our agency has received from the community. I would like to thank everyone who has offered to lend a hand and welcome these refugees to southern Alberta,” says Sarah Amies, Director of Immigrant Services for LFS.
Hundreds of volunteers have stepped up to welcome refugees and dedicate their time to mentor them, help them get oriented, and introduce them to their personal networks. In addition, donations of household items and clothing have been pouring in to help these families set up their Canadian homes. Nearly $11,000 in cash donations have been given to the Refugee Settlement Fund set up by LFS.
Mayor Spearman adds that his role with the steering committee is to stay informed on the coordinated effort and provide advocacy to federal and provincial representatives on specific issues or needs that are identified. “Finding appropriate and affordable housing may be a recurring challenge, so we've already begun working to have that addressed,” he says.
The Steering Committee to Welcome Syrian People to Lethbridge is a broad-based community initiative led by LFS to prepare for the successful settlement of refugee families and individuals from Syria. The Steering Committee includes a range of local public sectors including immigration services, education, health, employment, language, municipal services, family and human services, community agencies, private refugee sponsors, emergency services, and law enforcement.

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History isn’t made in the archives or library.
‘Constitutional history’s new public moment?’, 3 April 2019.
‘Doing History in Public review of the year‘, 8 January 2019.
‘School attendance medals: a status symbol?’, 2018 Advent Calendar, 8 December 2018.
‘Mike Leigh’s Peterloo: Inequality and resistance in nineteenth-century Britain’, 20 November 2018.
‘Some advice for people embarking on their PhD’, 4 September 2018.
‘Unintended research finds: the mustard bath’, 7 August 2018.
‘The Great British Summer? A Historical Heatwave’, 10 July 2018.
‘History, policy, and religion: a conversation’, 5 June 2018.
‘Tall Tales and Shaping the Research of the Future’, 8 May 2018.
‘Children’s strikes, school walk-outs, and youth political activism’, 6 March 2018.
‘Marking the Women’s Suffrage Centenary in Cambridge’, 30 January 2018.
‘Schoolchildren’s Jubilee Address to Queen Victoria’, 2017 Advent Calendar, 7 December 2017.
‘Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation: ‘The Vietnam War”, 14 November 2017.

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SHORT HILLS, N.J. – March 26, 2019 – Dun & Bradstreet, the global leader in commercial data, analytics and insights for businesses, has named Neeraj Sahai President of Dun & Bradstreet International and Gil Shaked Chief Technology Officer. Both executives will be based at the company’s New Jersey headquarters.
As President of Dun & Bradstreet International, Neeraj Sahai will work closely with Stephen Daffron and Chief Executive Officer Anthony Jabbour to align the Company’s businesses and joint ventures in Asia, India, The United Kingdom, Ireland, as well as the Dun & Bradstreet Worldwide Network of partners, around the firm's go-to-market strategy and growth opportunity.
Neeraj joins the company from Standard & Poor’s Ratings where he was President. Prior to S&P, Sahai held several leadership roles with Citigroup across Securities & Fund Services, Global Transaction Services, and Capital Markets and Banking.
In this role, Gil will oversee the management of IT strategy and operations, enterprise systems, applications, security, infrastructure, automation, and digital transformation, and ensure customers take full advantage of Dun & Bradstreet’s solutions.

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Jeep to serve as popemobile when pontiff visits U.S.
The Jeep Wrangler, which is currently in the hands of the U.S. Secret Service, will be similar to one the pontiff used in July when he visited Ecuador.
Need another example of how good things are going for Jeep right now?
Even the pope wants one.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Pope Francis will use a modified Jeep Wrangler as his official popemobile when he visits the United States in September.
The Wrangler, which is currently in the hands of the U.S. Secret Service, will be similar to one the pontiff used in July when he visited Ecuador, the Post reported, citing the Holy See Press Office.
Kicking off a five-day visit to South Korea in 2014, Pope Francis slipped into the back of a Kia Soul and rolled down a window to wave at the welcoming party, including President Park Geun-hye.
Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Washington D.C., New York and Philadelphia Sept. 22 to Sept. 27, and will meet with President Obama and address a joint session of Congress.
Pope Francis has used a number of different makes and models to serve as his popemobile since he became head of the Roman Catholic Church in March 2013.
While he will ride in a modified Jeep in September, Pope Francis has previously used other makes and models to carry him as he visits different countries. The Holy See Press Office said Pope Francis has also used Toyota, Mercedes, Isuzu, Kia, Hyundai and Land Rover vehicles as popemobiles.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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Legal headhunters are more than just researchers and talent-seekers; they are counselors, networkers and teachers. They look beyond a candidate’s resume, asking crucial questions, and they coach candidates through the recruitment process.
Only through conversing with a legal recruiter does the unique background and perspective of a candidate come to light. These attributes are often less pronounced on paper, but they can be greatly beneficial to their professional lives. Recruiters highlight these skills when advocating for candidates before a firm, which can make a world of a difference for candidates’ placements and their futures.
Legal headhunters help place candidates within a firm that offers the right kind of work environment and professional culture. Considering these aspects of job placement can help create long-lasting satisfaction between legal professionals and their employers.
Legal headhunters can take a candidate’s background and specific situation into account as they help match them with the right firm in the recruiting process. They are aware of law firm and corporate culture, and they want to create positive matches for candidates and their clients.
Cullins acknowledges that candidates need a level of portable business to advance a career, but clarifies that diversity is nevertheless a conversation within recruitment circles, and one with which she is actively engaged. Though she works with candidates who are primarily farther along in their careers, she can speak to the demand for diversity within many firms.
A recruiter like Cullins could certainly be an excellent resource for diverse candidates, especially considering her knowledge-base and long-term engagement with diversity.
According to the American Psychological Association’s Socioeconomic Status Office, “the relationship between [socioeconomic status], race and ethnicity is intimately intertwined,” which has historically resulted in socioeconomic disadvantages for minority groups. These challenges are of course present when it comes to education, leaving many minorities with far more hurdles to overcome – financially and otherwise – in pursuit of education and careers.
“Distinguish yourself from the pack as much as possible. Top students at any law school will always get a closer look by most employers. Unfortunately, not everyone can be at the top of the class, so you should also strive to serve on Law Review, Moot Court, and gain clerkship experience. Work experience before law school may be a differentiator as well. Working in a professional role in legal or another industry oftentimes prepares an individual for the demands of an attorney position.
Legal recruiters investigate a candidate’s unique qualities and bring them to the forefront when advocating for them before an employer.
With the advocacy skills and market knowledge of a legal recruiter by their sides, and with some recruiters engaged with diversity initiatives, recruiters can help minority candidates stand out.
A legal recruiter works on a candidate’s presentation, finds their unique qualities and coaches them through the recruitment process. This can be especially helpful to minorities, especially if they are coming from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background and are looking to continue to empower themselves through positive career moves.
“We have a responsibility to provide our clients with the most outstanding candidates possible and to respect each candidate as a unique individual,” says Booher. Recruiters want to help candidates find a place where they can thrive.
Michelle Kaplan McAndrew of Chicago-based Atticus Recruiting acknowledges the invaluable location- based knowledge that legal recruiters maintain.
Regional knowledge is one of the great assets that recruiters have, but they have inside, market-knowledge, as well.
These strong and ongoing bonds give her a true market edge as she coaches candidates through the recruitment process. This knowledge, in addition to recruiters’ regional expertise, are often the right mix of ingredients leading candidates to positive career changes.
Recruiting professionals can be a truly positive influence on the lives of minority legal candidates. As the industry seeks to diversify, minorities – including women – can benefit from the advocacy skills of a recruiter as they look beyond candidates’ on-paper profiles and seek out what makes them unique and valuable as a potential addition to a law firm or corporation’s team. A legal recruiter’s client relationships coupled with their location-specific knowledge allows them a great advantage in the legal market. With many minority candidates in need of a certain company culture, a place to thrive, and an environment that embraces diversity, they need look no further than the headhunters in their region of interest.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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What does Hasina (Muslim Arabic Name) mean?
The name Hasina (Arabic writing : حسينة) is a Muslim girls Names. The meaning of name Hasina is " Pretty, beautiful. "


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Winter weather in the St. Louis area has been like a yo-yo. And, Linda and I so enjoy our granddaughter, Maggie, who is almost 8 months old now.
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas! Catching you up again on my latest happenings.
Fall is upon us and I though I would send out an “On The Beaton Path” newsletter to bring you up to date on the latest happenings.
Linda’s mom funeral was held on Tuesday, the 27th of December, at Resurrection Catholic Church in Illiopolis, Illinois followed by the burial at the cemetery in Mount Pulaski.
Guy needs my help now… And, since you’ve been so supportive of me these past 6.5 years, I wonder if you would consider helping me help Guy?
It has been my intention to bring you up to date on what has been going on with me long before now.
It is with a heavy heart I must forego the planned trip to Grandfather Mountain this year. Nothing is ever routine for me.
Volunteers, music stages, Scotline Tours and Christmas Classics.


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Tsubaki Bearing Bush Chain enables chains to be used in conveyor systems considered impossible up to now. Ideal for automated, laborsaving, or high-speed applications for improved productivity.
In addition to our Standard Series, we offer High Precision Series and Stainless Steel Series chains as well.
Initial elongation (0.02%) is less than with bearing cage chain. Will not elongate further after that. A wealth of custom configurations is available to meet your needs.
Top surfaces of attachments are ground. Link plates are nickel plated except for top surfaces of the attachments. Space between bushes and rollers is smaller.
All parts except the needles are stainless steel. Bearings are sealed to allow use in contact with water. Chain wear elongation is minimal.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Happy Father’s Day to all dads out there. The bond between father and daughter is a special one. And today I am reminded how powerful and magical fathers are in shaping their kids’ self-perceptions. Fatherhood is tough love, yes, but it’s the “love” and encouragement part I celebrate today.
My father and I were close – I have his blue eyes, his analytical mind, and his sense of humor. My dad used to tell me laughter was a gift. I just thought everyone had it and couldn’t understand back then the “life jacket” that humor has proven to be. He nurtured my sense of humor and taught me that funny is a meritocracy. We watched countless hours of The Three Stooges, Monty Python (note: mom didn’t approve because it was “raunchy”), and Dave Allen Group together and programs like The Carol Burnett Show. Sure, it was in syndication then but it was the first time I saw a woman on TV with her own sketch comedy show. My dad told me I was funny and, coming from my dad, that meant something. He WAS funny. “It’s in your genes,” he said, “but you still have to nurture it.” He was right. “Look at her (pointing to Carol on TV). She is funny, and so ARE you,” he’d say. He also loved Vicki Lawrence – and I think it was because he had a crush on her (my mom later verified this)! But I cherished that time with my father because it was our love of comedy that we shared and it was truly “ours” – our time together (without my mom and brothers). Together, we nurtured our senses of humor, and, more importantly, those were the times he spent nurturing me.
What dad gave me was the gift of confidence. Today, in my experience, there are few women in improvisational comedy compared to the number of men. Few women are encouraged and told how magically brilliant they are – just being who they are. Yet, my dad always did. He told me often and I knew he meant it. He was right, too, about humor being a gift. Throughout the ups and downs of life, humor and the ability to laugh have been my “life jackets” in rough waters. Humor is more than my life jacket I would tell him if he were here: it’s my oxygen.
My dad died when I was 17 – suddenly of a brain hemorrhage. He never saw me get several graduate degrees, publish, get married and have a son, go on to do stand-up, sketch and improv comedy on the stage. And there isn’t a time that I am performing that I don’t think of him. I know he is there in spirit. I regret not having the years to get to know my father “the person” rather than just the “father” he was. I do know a few things, however, and one of them was just how much he loved to laugh. He had a beautiful, deep, resonant laugh, too – hearty and sincere, and it was music to my ears.
Thank you, dad. It takes one to know one.


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Members of the Dark Starr Paranormal Research Society include, from left, Michael Rozycko, Christine Kramp, James Kramp, Jeffrey Spears, Melanie Slusser, David Slusser, Steve Richards, and, seated, James Szwedo.
Town of Niagara Supervisor Steve Richards was working late one night in 1996 in his Town Hall office, when he heard footsteps. He came out and looked down the hall.
It sounded like the footsteps were going into the Water Department. It happened twice more that night, but still he was alone.
Is Town Hall haunted? Well, there was the cleaning lady, who left her mop and bucket in the middle of the floor one night and called the next day refusing to ever come back to the building and asking that her check be mailed. Or what about the police officer who wouldn't come inside Town Hall whenever he worked the midnight shift? He was working late one night when he heard noises in the adjoining court office. He opened the door. No one. A little later, he heard noises again, and once again opened the door. No one -- but file cabinets were hanging open.
What most people don't know about Richards is the incidents at Town Hall planted a seed of interest in the paranormal that has grown over the years to the point he is now a member of a group of local residents who call themselves the Dark Starr Paranormal Research Society.
Richards and members of his group spoke about their experiences and equipment used in ghost hunting during a program for Niagara-Wheatfield Adult Education held Oct. 21 at the high school. Many in the large crowd had unusual experiences of their own to relate.
Richards said that after the Town Hall incidents, he was part of a group, including a psychic, who spent the night in the building. The psychic said the spirit was a murdered woman looking for justice.
"About 5:30 a.m., it got so cold, you could see your breath ... all the candles went out, and we run for the door," Richards said.
He recommends those looking for a paranormal experience visit the Iron Island Museum on Lovejoy Street in Buffalo, where both daytime and overnight visits are available and numerous visitors have reported strange experiences, noises and sightings of a "shadow man." The museum was declared haunted by TAPS on the "Ghost Hunters" show on the Sci Fi channel in 2008.
On one visit, Richards felt someone tug at his arm, said, "excuse me" and turned around to find no one (living) near him. Fellow Dark Starr member Christine Kramp of Town of Niagara remembers the feeling of somebody touching her hair there. "It makes you wonder what is out there," she said.
Another interesting spot for a first ghost hunt is Rolling Hills in East Bethany. A Grand Island man bought the old insane asylum for an art center. One day, he didn't come home to Grand Island. When his family went to search the apartment he kept at Rolling Hills, they found the door locked and the inside of the door had scratches on it, but nobody was there. Years later, a woman taking a tour there entered the room where the man's portrait is displayed and screamed that he had been behind her in line.
One of the rules of paranormal investigation is always hunt in pairs, Richards said. One member of Dark Starr learned to follow this rule the hard way.
New member Jim Szwedo, who owns the old Pharaoh's nightclub on Whirlpool Street, invited the group to explore. A young woman had been murdered there about four years ago and her body and the building set on fire. Police brought in a medium and found there were some areas of the building even she refused to enter.
On Dark Starr's tour, Town of Lewiston resident David Slusser went to the basement on his own and opened a walk-in cooler. He felt heaviness from the top of his head to his knees and it seemed like the energy was being pulled from him. "I asked it to stop; it kind of did."
Richards showed film of Slusser reaching the top of the stairs to rejoin the group and collapsing as he told his story. The film, checked later, also showed a glowing orb (believed to be a spirit) leaving his body.
Dark Starr members also toured the old Boys and Girls Club on Portage Road in Niagara Falls, which also is owned by Szwedo. It originally was a honeymoon house built for a member of a prominent family in 1901. There they found ghosts of children in the basement, who answered questions by turning their flashlights on and off. Their camera also captured a light that shone at the top and along the side of a staircase where a child had reportedly fallen.
Dark Starr members are looking for others interested in the paranormal to join their group. They'd especially like to find a member who can build websites.
Investigating the paranormal isn't for everyone, but "I find it fascinating," Richards said.


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We invite all of you within or curious about our game development community to come and join us at the Pheasant Plucker on Wednesday, May 18 for a night of good times and good cheer. This month our guest speaker is Frank & Ryan from OSnap! Games the studio behind Quasar.
From 7:00-10:30 p.m., GameDevDrinks is the place for you to hang out and to hear Frank & Ryan speak about the trials and tribulations of Quasar, as well as get a hands-on experience with their latest game. Afterwards you can chat with Frank & Ryan, share your game concepts and ideas, tell and trade stories, show off game demos or just network and hang out because at GDD our goal is to create a casual and creative social environment for anyone – student, hobbyist, enthusiast and professional alike – who shares the common interest of game development of any kind.

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Flaunt Your Basics like a Pro!
Are you a FOMO? Then this is for you dear.
Hello Peeps! Hope everyone is doing well and good. If your a big Fomo (fear of missing out) then let me give you a sneak peak of our latest most Arrivals or Collections.


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Many people dream of working from their home. Use the information written in this guide to help you look through legitimate and avoid scams.
Figure out the niche before making money online. Are you good writer?Market yourself as a content provider. Are you a talented graphic design? Many people can hire you to design or documents. Look into yourself to figure out what you do best and position it on the web.
Writers can make some money on sites like InfoBarrel or Squidoo.You can write about your favorite subjects and share their ad revenue. They both allow you to link with Amazon’s affiliate marketing program for even greater earning potential.
Make yourself a schedule. Making money continuously online is related to your own ability to keep it going consistently. This isn’t the quick fix to tons of money. You have to be willing to put in the effort each day. Schedule time each day to work days. Even devoting only an hour or two a day will make a big difference over time.
There are tons of surveys you are the right demographic. You can make some decent amount of money just filling out surveys online. Depending on where you are taking these surveys, they usually don’t pay much. However, they can be done while you’re watching TV if you like, and you can make quite a bit of money when things add up.
Make sure you prove your identity before you make cash online. You will need to provide identification at many online moneymaking sites. Get yourself digital versions of your ID before you apply anywhere.
Search Google about making money online. This will result in a huge variety of ideas and options. If you locate a company that interests you, research their company.
Use your free time well. There are some things that you could do online income that take very little focus. There are small tasks like the ones on Mechanical Turk (mturk.com). You can work on these tasks while cooking dinner or watching television. You might not get rich this way, but you can rake in a good amount of money.
Don’t pay to get started making money to start earning money online. A legit business won’t charge you anything to work for start up money. They are more than likely going to just take your cash and leave you with nothing. Avoid these companies like this at all costs.
Now that you’ve heard these great tips on how to find work you could do at home, it will then be possible for you to make extra money. Today it is now possible to make an actual living working online. As you begin evaluating your options for actually earning money online, keep this article in mind.
If you’re turning to the Internet to find online work, and that is why many are turning to the online world for work. The Internet is the perfect place to make some spare money or making a full-time living. Read on to learn how you in your online money making ventures.
Figure out your niche for yourself. Are you a good at writing? Market yourself as a content provider. Are you good graphic design? Many people will hire you to design or site creation. Introspection will help you.
Writers can make some money on sites like InfoBarrel or Squidoo.You can write about your passions and split the revenue that comes in. They both allow you to use Amazon’s affiliate marketing program for even more.
Make out a schedule daily schedule. Making money online is pegged to your own ability to keep it going consistently. This is no quick fix to tons of money. You need to put in a lot of work diligently each day. Set aside a time for work every day. Even an hour or two a day will make a huge difference over time.
There are lots of surveys available online. You can earn a lot of money taking surveys online. Depending on where you are taking these surveys, they may not pay much. However, they can be done while you’re watching TV if you like, and the money you make from them will quickly add up.
Put your down time to productive use. You can make money online without concentrating too hard on something. There are small tasks like the ones on Mechanical Turk (mturk.com). You can even do them while you watch some TV. While you may not get rich, you will be using your down time productively.
A lot of people make good money off domain names and selling them later at a profit. It’s a bit like real estate because it does require a bit of money to do. Use sites such as Google Adsense to research keywords that are trending. Try purchasing domains that use acronyms. Find domain names that are likely to have a big pay off.
It can be very time consuming to learn about earning money online. One easy way to start is to get started is to find and participate in internet communities that pertain to your niche. Find an expert to counsel you and take precautions to make sure to do your homework.Be open and you will be making money online in no time.
Never put money out of your own pocket when earning money online.No legitimate businesses or companies will ask for money up front. They are more than likely going to just take your money and leave you with nothing. Stay away from companies such companies.
Try diversifying your income diverse.Earning a steady income can be difficult. What you’re doing today may not work tomorrow. The best thing to do is spread your income streams around. Doing this means that you can fall back on multiple streams of income should one area will not break you.
Putting ads on your own website is a great way to make money. If you own a blog or website, some sellers may wish to pay you for having their ads placed on it. The ad drives readers to another site where they can buy goods or other services.
You can go into affiliate marketing if you want to make cash online. You will have to have a website that has steady visitors. Look for topics that you have a personal interest in writing about regularly. Look for websites with affiliate program and see if they will let you join. You will earn a percentage of the profit of what people buy online through your viewers buy.
Any activity or interest you have can be turned into a possible money maker online.Are book clubs something you enjoy? Do you love crocheting as a hobby?Make some infant booties and sell online!
Now that you’re done reading this article, you understand what it takes to make money online. It’s not as hard as you once thought to make money, and having read this advice, you’re ready to do it yourself. Continue your study of the process, and you can start watching your income build.

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The one and only Sisters song sung in Sister Rays. It was first performed during the superlong debut of latest incarnation of the song, and is included in mostly every performance of the medley ever since.
The song was released in the Floodland album (1987), Lucretia My Reflection single (1988) and Slight Case of Overbombing compilation (1993, extended single version). It was performed live in full in mostly every 1990/1991 Sisters gig and never since then.
More often than not, a tortured combination of first three verses is sung, with most emphasis put on repeating "empire down" adlib. As it's about the only song regular concert audience recognize in the whole medley, Sister Ray is often mistaken for a remake of Lucretia.
From Motörhead's Overkill album (1979). Few lines of the song -- "they proved me right, they proved me wrong, but they can never last this long" -- are Eldritch's staple, from time to time mumbled during soundchecks and concerts. No recent slowish Sister Ray does without it.
You can hear an excerpt from the original song in Three Classical Albums compilation section in CDNow.
Off 1984 No Remorse album. This is probably the only Sister Ray track performed by the band: it is usually stated by Adam playing the appropriate riff, and continues with Adam continuing the appropriate riffs and Andrew doing his best to scream his lungs out while singing appropriate vocals.
Also off Motörhead's Overkill album (1979). This song was only played once, in 1997/08/20 Rendsburg Sister Ray.
As the legend goes, Richard Berry wrote this song on a napkin backstage between musical sets, put it aside for two years before recording it with the Pharaohs. It was originally sentenced to a b-side obscureness, but was finally released in 1957. It was in 1963 when the song became everybody's favourite, following its cover by The Kingsmen (by which time Richard Berry had already sold rights to what appeared to be his most profitable creation). The song has its own site at http://www.louielouie.net, which includes its full story, Berry's photo and much more equally sensational material.
Every second wedding band aside, it was performed by Ike & Tina Turner, Barry White and Joan Jett, to name a few, and was in live repertoire or the Stooges (the song was the very last one they performed in their very last gig in Detroit on 1974/02/09; the show was released on Metalik KO album in 1976), Fall (live version is released in Live 1977), and Andrew's own favorite Motörhead (their version is available in, among other places, Born To Lose album -- this one includes a sample of the song). Lemmy & Co. also released it as a single in September 1978; this version isn't available in any noncompilation album.
Together with Sister Ray (the song) and Ghostrider, it made the core of early 80s Sister Rays (the medleys).
First performed by Rufus Thomas himself, the song made into US Top 10 in 1963. Since then, the song was performed by the likes of Rolling Stones (included in their first eponymous USA release Rolling Stones in 1964; this CDNow section includes short sound sample of this version), Aerosmith ("Aerosmith", 1973), Roger Daltrey ("Ride A Rock Horse") and others.
The live version of song was an often guest in Grateful Dead shows; it was also performed by Jimi Hendrix (but then, it's hard to find a 60s song not performed by him), Iggy Pop -- and, apparently, Motörhead. What a surprise.
Medleys usually include the first verse of the song, followed by repeats of "walk-walking the dog" for refrain. Together with Capricorn's extract, it's Von's most beloved as-a-matter-of-fact mumble, from time to time as-a-matter-of-factly sung in soundchecks and -- when vodka consumption reaches appropriate level -- even more as-a-matter-of-factly treated to concert audience.
This song first appeared on eponymous 1977 debut album of the legendary synth duo Suicide, which was produced by Larry Alexander -- the man was later involved in Floodland production. Suicide's Alan Vega, apart from being friend of the early band, was involved in Sisterhood project. In sleeve notes to Some Girls Wander By Mistake Andrew claims they bought Doktor Avalanche "because we all loved Suicide." Alan got rare Stooges live tape for wearing Sisters t-shirt on stage. You get the idea of bands relationship.
The song was part of the 80s Sister Ray medley, sung in Hasselt's Sister Ray and repeated in Brussels performance -- it's a rare medley guest nowadays. 90s performances center on "killin' it's youth" line and repeating "ghostrider" until everybody's satisfied -- much like the original.
Henry Rollins covered Ghostrider for Crow soundtrack.
With thanks to Ian Ford.
This was the Hawkwind's commercial breakthrough when released as a single in 1972 for huge fame. The song was sung by ex- Jimi Hendrix roadie Lemmy, better known for being the brains, tongue and bass of his next band, Motörhead. The classic never appeared on any Hawkwind noncompilation album.
The Sisters of Mercy paid tribute to the song by playing it twice in 1993 summer shows; many people state this neglected medley as one of Sisters' best. This site feature transcription of the second performance in Losheim.
Before that, a verse from Silver Machine was included in 1992/09/29 Hasselt Sister Ray, thus becoming the only Sisters public performance of the song outside the two 1993 gigs.
The song debuted in Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks debut album Bella Donna (1981; the CDNow album has a sample of the song); I don't know the rest of the story of the original song. If you're interested in Tom Petty's original demo, it's in his 6CD monster Playback (1995; includes sound sample).
The song was on Eldritch's mind as early as in 1985 -- there are recordings of soundchecks of the period with the song, and reports suggest existence of studio recording by the band from that same 1985. One of Wayne Hussey's post-split complaints was that Andrew's musical tastes were leaning towards Stevie Nicks while the rest of the band were listening to Motörhead.
The song was first introduced to wider audience in the first gig of Thune In, Turn On, Load Out tour with Public Enemy (1991). During the 1991/07/12 Chicago Poplar Creek Music Center performance (not to be confused with 1991/04/05 Chicago Riviera gig) Doktor Avalanche broke down. After the desperate attempt to finish the song anyway failed, Doktor was subjected to emergency brain surgery. To pass the time and keep the audience from rioting Andrew Eldritch chose to adlib Stop Dragging My Heart Around -- a-capella. This story got mentioned by both Rolling Stone and UTR 02.
Late 1997 issue of USA's magazine Alternative Press Fleetwood Mac feature listed Sisters' Stop Dragging My Heart Around as #3 Genital-Piercing Alternative Mac Cover, after NOFX and Hole's Gold Dust Woman. The magazine also noted that "[apparently] Played at 33 rpm, the dub mix of Big Love sounds exactly like the Sisters of Mercy. And played at 78 rpm, the Sisters version of Stop Dragging My Heart Around sounds like Fleetwood Mac." (Sisters were also present in Stevie Nicks Rampant Appreciation Society: Six Groovy Goth Chicks list: sixth place was taken by Wayne Hussey).
The song wasn't performed until the Tune In, Turn On, Load Out tour got cancelled, but was resurrected as a torturing encore for the four June 1992 dates. Oliver Duke-Williams of 1959 and all that... best summed these performances: "Only partially successful, but then with a voice like Von's, a capella numbers are always risky. Or piss-takes."
The last 1992 show in August -- the Pukkelpop festival appearance in Hasselt -- finally takes us to Sister Ray. In this gig Stop Dragging My Heart Around place in encores was taken by equally monstrous, but at least not a-capella Sister Ray performance, which became about the only Sister Ray in which Stop Dragging My Heart Around was included.
Some reports suggest the song was performed during 1998/07/25 Rothenburg ob der Tauber gig, but then, some reports suggested Sister Ray in Brussels had Under the Gun and Romeo Down.
Stop Dragging My Heart Around is one of very few songs in Sister Ray medleys without Motörhead connection.
With thanks to Ewa Zaleska, Robin Colman, Clif Duhn.

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French streaming service Qobuz (pronounced “Ko-buzz”) set up tent at CEDIA to show off its extensive hi-res music catalog, which will be made available to U.S. audiophiles as soon as late October. Qobuz also provided a glimpse of the service’s app (PC, Mac, and Android/iOS are all supported, and there’s a web browser version).
According to Dan Mackta, managing director Qobuz USA, the service will offer Roon integration by the end of the year. Around 80,000 high-res (up to 24-bit/192kHz) albums will be available to subscribers of the company’s Studio plan, which is priced at $24.99/month, or $249.99/year. There is also a CD-quality Hi-Fi plan ($19.99/month, $199.99/year) and a 320kbps MP3 Premium plan ($9.99/month, $99.99/year).
One thing that differentiates Qobuz from current audiophile-fave service Tidal is that it doesn’t rely on the controversial MQA codec for high-res streaming (according to Mackta, Qobuz is currently “MQA-agnostic”). Content browsing via its app can also be made genre-specific (classical, jazz, etc.) by selecting certain options from a pull-down tab. Qobuz also provides plenty of unique editorial content plus human-curated playlists aimed at music superfans.
Look for an in-depth Qobuz review in Sound & Vision following its U.S. launch.


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Serving Vermillion and the surrounding communities, we offer comprehensive eye health services for all members of your family. We know how much your eye health and appearance means to the quality of your life. Dr. Amy DeJong and our staff are committed to excellence and serving your complete eye care needs.
Visit us at Vermillion Vision Clinic P.C. to find the latest in fashion eyewear and lens technology. Our experienced staff looks forward to helping you find the best pair of eyewear or contact lenses to meet your visual needs.
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Telemarketing and observe up might be one of the crucial underutilized tools in the arsenal of right now’s well being club professionals. Whether you are pumping iron, pounding the treadmill or simply steaming away the tensions of the day, you may love the services at Village Health club. Complement your training program with our many courses catered for varied health ranges. That means, for those who successfully defend a bunch of Gyms lengthy enough to have multiple Pokémon earn 200 coins, 300 coins,, even 1000 coins, and a rival workforce raids, you lose all however 50 of those cash.
If you can keep a Pokémon on the Health club, you can hedge against not enough Raid Battles spawing: Two Raid Battles plus a day of possession will also net you silver. Similar to PokéStops, Pokémon Go gamers must stroll throughout the actual world with the intention to find Pokémon gyms. Discover a variety of house gym options, together with plate-loaded gyms, band or twine-based mostly gyms, body weight gyms and other kinds.
Last Real Fitness center is what gyms was – they was once clubs where individuals got here and saw their pals and had enjoyable. Technogym’s MyWellness cloud will revolutionise your training, offering you with a central on-line portal to view and analyse all of your physical exercise and well being data in a single place. Unlike the previous system the place slots disappeared when Pokémon have been kicked off, the new Gyms have six permanent slots.
Whenever you’re stationed at a gym, you may also choose up gadgets for each day that your Pokémon remains undefeated. By placing a Pokémon from your stock at a health club to defend it, you may earn the Defender Bonus – a reward of 1 PokéCoin per 10 minutes or so that it stays there, which is now routinely claimed when your Pokémon returns to you (either after you are taking it out or it’s returned automatically by reaching zero Motivation).
At full motivation, the defending Pokémon will display it is present CP. But as Motivation lowers – both by decaying over time or defeats in battle – that Pokémon’s efficient CP shall be lowered too (observe that what we imply by efficient CP is that it is a non permanent change, your Pokémon’s precise CP stays the identical and would be the similar as all the time when returned to you.) So, in theory, battles in opposition to rival Fitness center Pokémon will get progressively simpler with every victory against that Pokémon.


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Serval - Retroviral infection of neonatal Peyer's patch lymphocytes: the mouse mammary tumor virus model.
Retroviral infection of neonatal Peyer's patch lymphocytes: the mouse mammary tumor virus model.
Karapetian O., Shakhov A.N., Kraehenbuhl J.P., Acha-Orbea H.
Mouse mammary tumor virus is known to infect newborn mice via mother's milk. A proposed key step for viral spread to the mammary gland is by the infection of lymphocytes. We show here that although in suckling mice retroviral proteins are found in all epithelial cells of the gut, viral DNA is exclusively detectable in the Peyer's patches. As early as 5 d after birth the infection leads to a superantigen response in the Peyer's patches but not in other lymphoid organs draining the intestine. Viral DNA can be detected before the superantigen response and becomes first evident in the Peyer's patches followed by mesenteric lymph nodes and finally all lymphoid organs.


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IMEGEN participated in the XXVIII SEAP-IAP NATIONAL CONGRESS, held at the “Palacio de Congresos de Valencia” and attended by more than 1,200 professionals from the field. The company presented a study on the molecular and genomic characterization of cancers with poor evolution using NGS. The study received widespread positive reaction from the audience.
The study was the fruit of collaboration between various pathologists and scientists from distinguished health and scientific entities in Valencia. These include Dr Jeronimo Forteza from the Valencian Institute of Pathology, Dr Javier Garcia-Panells, Dr Carlos Mackintosh, and Dr Pablo Marin from IMEGEN, Dr Natalia Camarasa and Dr Patricia Pose, from Doctor Peset Hospital, in addition to important input from the Principe Felipe Research Centre, the Valencian Institute of Pathology, and the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Valencia.
The study demonstrated the utilization of NGS to obtain individualized information of each tumour allowing the selection of treatment in a more precise way.The objective of this work is to determine mutations in cancers of poor evolution, to obtain molecular information with therapeutic value, diagnosis, and / or prognosis. The molecular study of the most aggressive cancers will better predict its evolution, improve the molecular classification of cancer, better adjust therapy and discover therapeutic targets and biomarkers for the development of new targeted drugs. These are the main objectives of Precision Oncology and of this multicentre and multidisciplinary Valencian initiative.


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Doula versus midwife: What’s the difference?
Being pregnant comes with a hell of a lot of learning, and finding the right type of support crew for your birth is a big part of that.
If you’ve decided to rule out an obstetrician, you’re most likely considering a midwife or doula. But what’s the difference?
Does one offer something better than the other? And can, or should, you have both?
A midwife is a registered nurse who has also studied obstetrics, gynaecology and midwifery.
A doula doesn’t provide any medical care. A doula is a trained birth coach who offers physical, emotional and educational support for the mum, either during labour or the postpartum period.
Nadine Richardson is a doula, yoga teacher and Founder of She Births® and Director of The Birthing Institute. Nadine’s attended hundreds of births over the past fifteen years and says working as a doula inspired to start the She Births® program.
Jemilah, mum of two daughters, now seven and three, agrees. She elected for a midwife and doula for both of her births. She told Babyology that her first baby was born with help from her doula who was training to be a midwife (so, best of both worlds), but she says the best experience was having the roles divided – a midwife and a doula.
During Jemilah’s second pregnancy, she engaged with her doula from the start and said she reaped the rewards of having someone understand her journey from the beginning.
“The second time, my doula was my massage therapist. Someone who knew my body backwards and who I trusted completely. She was such a huge help. She came over as soon as I went into labour and was able to really help in the early stages. I felt much more comfortable labouring at home knowing she was there to support me. She was fantastic,” says Jemilah.
Every woman has the right to choose her birth support crew – but by using a doula in addition to a midwife or obstetrician you are making a significant investment in yourself.


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Functional safety training courses for machinery products, from SGS – Module M1.
Attendees will receive an overview of the functional safety standards for machinery. In the machinery sector there are essentially two relevant standards to be considered; their requirements overlap to some extent. This training module presents and compares the requirements of ISO 13849 and IEC 62061.
To find out more about our functional safety training for the machinery sector (Module M1) contact us today.


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(Reuters) – Arsenal leapfrogged rivals Tottenham Hotspur with a thrilling 4-2 victory and Liverpool’s forgotten man Divock Origi scored a freak 96th minute winner to earn a 1-0 win over Everton on a dramatic ‘derby day’ in the Premier League on Sunday.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang shot ahead as the league’s top scorer with his double for Arsenal in an epic north London contest while at Anfield, Origi’s stoppage-time winner kept Liverpool just two points behind leaders Manchester City.
Chelsea, 2-0 winners over Fulham in the day’s other London derby at Stamford Bridge, put the Blues third in the table on 31 points after 14 games, five behind second-placed Liverpool and seven adrift of City.
Arsenal have 30 points, ahead of Spurs on goal difference.
If matches were to finish at halftime this season, Arsenal would sit 19th but once again, their final 45 minutes turned a match on its head, as they came from 2-1 down at the break to get the better of Spurs at the Emirates Stadium.
Aubameyang’s penalty gave Arsenal the early lead from the penalty spot, before Spurs rallied with goals from Eric Dier and a Harry Kane penalty giving them the advantage before the break.
However, three goals from Alexandre Lacazette, Aubameyang again — with his 10th in the league this season, two more than any other player — and Lucas Torreira extended Arsenal’s unbeaten run to 19 games in all competitions under Unai Emery.
“It is a very big victory we showed our supporters and we gave them the victory because it is a very special match against Tottenham. For us, it is special also,” Emery said.
Looking for only their second win over their north London rivals in nine league matches, Arsenal, without Mesut Ozil in their squad, started at a blistering pace, and were soon in front.
Jan Vertonghen’s handball in the penalty area gifted Aubameyang the opportunity to score from the spot but Spurs levelled through Dier — a goal which sparked angry scenes on the touchline, as Spurs’ players clashed with Arsenal’s substitutes.
Kane became the joint-top goalscorer in north London league derbies in the Premier League era with eight before Aubameyang levelled the match once more with a strike of real quality.
Substitute Lacazette’s deflected effort put Arsenal in front once more, before Torreira’s first goal for the Gunners almost lifted the roof off the Emirates.
Vertonghen’s late dismissal after a clumsy foul earned him a second yellow card completed Spurs’ miserable afternoon.
December 2, 2018 in Premier League.

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PHUKET: Four sisters of a Phuket journalist facing criminal defamation charges laid by the Royal Thai Navy have written an open letter to Navy chiefs in Australia, the US, Britain and New Zealand, seeking sanctions against Thailand.
The women, Jenny Braddy, Cathy Schmierer, Jill Morison and Lisa Kovaleff, noted that their father, John Morison, fought in World War II to help bring an end to genocide, yet the Rohingya were now being subjected to genocide in Burma without the Royal Thai Navy intervening.
The women's brother, Alan Morison, edits the Phuketwan online news magazine. He and his Thai colleague, Chutima Sidasathian, have been charged with bringing the Royal Thai Navy into disrepute and an offence under the onerous Computer Crimes Act.
The pair face up to seven years in jail but have said they will go to prison rather than seek bail unless the Royal Thai Navy withdraws the ''foolish and unjust'' charges relating to publication of a single paragraph from the Reuters news agency in July.
''It's understood in all democracies that no military should be beyond criticism,'' the women write in their letter to the Navy chiefs of Australia, the US, Britain and New Zealand.
The United Nations human rights chief, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists and several other international rights organisations have issued statements calling on the Royal Thai Navy to drop the charges.
Phuket police say similar charges are also being pursued against Reuters and the two journalists who wrote the agency's special report on the Rohingya boatpeople.
An Australian embassy official said on Friday that a police officer investigating the matter told her that the Phuketwan journalists are likely to face court in March or April. The journalists were originally told they would appear in January.
Chris Lewa, the director of the rights group the Arakan Project, said this week: ''Thanks to the fair investigative reporting by the Phuketwan journalists, the involvement of various Thai agencies in the massive smuggling and trafficking operations of Rohingya refugees and their related miseries is no more a secret.
As four women who support peace, not war, we are pleading for your help. Our brother Alan Morison, who has been working as a journalist in Thailand, is being sued for criminal defamation by a captain on behalf of the Royal Thai Navy.
The captain is also using the Computer Crimes Act, an outrageous law designed to sink free speech and all it means. We ask your help because this is all about democracy. We believe the reputable navies of the world all support free speech and a free media in a free world.
We are peace loving sisters but our father John Morison went to World War II to fight for democracy in the Pacific and both our grandfathers fought in World War I at Gallipoli. One grandfather was wounded and shipped home, the other went on to the Western Front where he was gassed.
Our brother Alan was ready to fight in Vietnam. As a family, we've done our bit for the free world and democracy. Now Alan, it appears, is being condemned by the Royal Thai Navy for his award-winning work writing about the Rohingya, a stateless people who are being subjected to genocide in Burma and forced to flee to the sea.
We are certain we don't have to tell you gentlemen about genocide, or why WWII was fought. Thailand, you will recall, is where thousands of Allies died during that same war on the Burma railway, the Death railway.
We would hate to think they died in vain and that the lessons of democracy have not been learned in Thailand, of all places. But that appears to be the case.
It's understood in all democracies that no military should be beyond criticism. No military should be a law unto itself.
In defence of our brother, the United Nations human rights representative, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand and Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance have all called on the Royal Thai Navy to withdraw its criminal defamation action.
Because you four gentlemen understand so well the parallel roles of the military and the media in a democracy, we ask all of you to please suggest that the Royal Thai Navy calls off this inappropriate court action. If the action is not brought to an end, we suggest you suspend all military cooperation with Thailand until such time as this action against free speech and democracy is halted.
Good for them. Just a shame they didn't include Yingluck as a recipient. What I cannot understand about this whole unfair treatment of a couple of individuals is why the powers that be in the Thai Navy do not go after Reuters who wrote the original article, Al Jazeera and CNN who broadcast it to the world, the hundreds of internet sites with thousands of comments, as yet uncensored, all adding to the already badly tarnished image of the Thai Navy and Immigration? Why instead target a virtually unknown journalist who reported a paragraph originally written by Reuters news agency? If the Thai Navy do not drop this case I can see the world's media descending on Thailand, and maybe, the Computer Crimes Act amended and decriminalised. Freedom of speech and the press are misnomers in Thailand, and human rights are meaningless.
well done ladies ..... i scratch my head and ask where is the Australian Govt ? what are they doing to protect its citizens living and working abroad ? what happened to the country that use to box way above its own weight ? more to the point what about the Australian public ? does nobody recognize the enormity of what these journalists have discovered in relation to the Rohingya situation ....wake up Australia !!!one of your citizens is in need of your support !!!
Why hasn't the Thai navy dropped these ridiculous charges? Well in a country where "saving face" is so important, even when wrong, they must follow it to the end, what they fail to understand, and we must ask ourselves why, is that they lose more face, not only locally but internationally, they are stuck in a quagmire of they only making, simply because of the total lack of intelligence and the inability to understand that there are consequences to their actions. I think we have all heard the saying they "can't see past their own nose."
A good family sticking up for there brother well done and good luck .
The Thai navy should grow up they are supposed to be guardian's of the sea not a bunch of kid's.
As a Rohingya ,I applauded the brave call of four respectable sister of Alan Morison.The two honorable journalist must get fair justice .The world civil society must stand by Alan Morison and Chutima who always perform the best job . The continue high lighting tragedy of Rohingya boat people by Phuketwan is highly appreciable. So,we should have to stand by them .

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Wilhelm Steinitz is the first world chess Champion. To say that he achieved it very easily is wrong. He was the 13th child of his family, so that means that to expect financial support from the parents was wrong. But the love towards the chess was so strong that he was satisfied with the cardboard chessboard made by him.
Perhaps not everyone knows that Wilhelm Steinitz was a talented journalist and that he earned his living long years with the help of that profession.
But leave chess completely, he couldn’t do.
«I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton».
«A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror».
«No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter, and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter».
Steinitz had a great impact on the history not only with his game but also with the chess innovations. Some debut versions were called after him, which were detailed cultivated by him.
So we present you the best games of Wilhelm Steinitz.


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Build a healthier herd through better genetics. A product called CLARIFIDE Plus is a commercially available dairy genetic evaluation system specifically designed for wellness traits in U.S. cattle. Genomic predictions for wellness traits provide reliable assessments of genetic risk factors for economically relevant diseases in Holstein cattle enabling producers to rank animals with a new Dairy Wellness Profit Index that is based on traits that affect health, performance and profit. The company claims CLARIFIDE Plus allows for faster progress toward greater profitability for those who are in the dairy business. Here is Cheryl Marti, associate director, U.S. Marketing, Dairy Genetics and Reproduction, for the Zoetis company. She explained that it’s important for producers to evaluate any new genetic trait through the lens of relevancy, accuracy and proven effectiveness.
· Relevant — Is the data used in the calculations from the same population of animals we are applying it to? In other words, does the data come from U.S. commercial dairies like mine? Also, are the traits economically important and do they add new information? Are they utilized in a comprehensive animal ranking index aimed at maximizing profitability?
· Accurate — Is the data derived from millions of records, edited for more accurate results and higher heritability and analyzed with cutting-edge methodology to achieve solid reliability?
· Proven — Are the methods transparent, supported by science and demonstrated effective?


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Term Definition Kitchen Sink States - jurisdictions that include separate property in the marital estate and treat such property as eligible for distribution in a divorce.
Application in Divorce The Kitchen Sink States are Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North and South Dakota, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming. Eight other states include separate property when the court finds a need. These are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin.
In these jurisdictions, gifts between spouses and inheritances can become very much of an issue.
See also Dual Classification States, All-Property States.


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Are You Searching for Wedding Disc Jockeys in Wolcott, VT?
Because "good" isn't good enough. A decent, mediocre or merely a good DJ just won't cut it. Don't you deserve the best for your wedding in Wolcott, VT? Then you want the best DJ that leaves your guests saying, "Wow! that was literally the best wedding I've ever been to".
This special effect will transform the dance floor into a cloud to enhance the overall look & feel of your first dance. This effect does not utilize smoke, fog or haze so it will not activate a fire alarm. As a result of being safe for fire alarms, most venues do allow the use of this beautiful effect for your first dance at your wedding in Wolcott, VT.


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Aliens are not really on my list of favorite literary tropes, and I’ve honestly not read much involving them. I’ve always kind of taken it for granted that they exist in one form or another, but it’s not the kind of thing I daydream about, or worry whether or not the government is keeping the truth under wraps. I agree with Mulder that the truth is out there, but it can stay out there for someone else to find. So the only reason that I picked up Rick Yancey’s book yesterday was because the top review on the back cover was from a guy named Justin Cronin, who is an author that my IT guy at work has been recommending to me for some time (I ordered his book The Passage on Amazon, and am eagerly awaiting delivery next week). I flipped to a random page to see if I dug the writing style, and zoomed in on this line: ‘Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. That’s how quiet it is.’ I fell in love with the imagery and forked over $10, then stayed up til midnight devouring the first 300 pages, only putting it down to sleep when I realized my comprehension skills had already gone to bed without me.
From a brief vignette that begins the book, the reader already knows the subversive tactic that the aliens are using to begin their invasion, years before this story actually starts, so we’re a step ahead of the characters. One of the things that I enjoyed the most about Yancey’s story-telling style is that while the book is rife with plot twists, his foreshadowing allows you to get there on your own, without trying for any gimmicky GOTCHA! moments.
Aliens are invading Earth. Except, not really. No one has actually seen one, as far as they know, and there’s been no communication or visitation, just a Mothership floating up there in the sky for all to see. For 10 days, the world watches and waits, discusses and ponders and theorizes, parties, takes to the hills, hunkers down. Then, the 1st wave strikes.
We enter the story in the middle of the 4th wave of the alien invasion, in a tent in the middle of the woods, listening to the first person narrative of a girl named Cassie who is wondering whether or not she is the last human being alive on Earth while she snuggles with a teddy bear, and an M16. Cassie’s voice is strong, in turns childish and self-aware, defiant and melancholy. Pretty much exactly how you would think a teenager would feel, alone, with the whole world crashing down around her ears. We quickly witness what is an inescapable turning point for her character development, while being given a glimpse of the terrifying place the aliens have pushed humans to, with horrifying results that you can nonetheless relate to. You feel something along the lines of, well, that was awful…I would have done the same thing.
In what I feel is something akin to a magic trick, Yancey takes us from perspective to perspective, from the past to the present and back again, without leaving you fumbling to remember where and when you are. Through the eyes of those who have already witnessed it, the previous waves of the invasion are leaked to us during the present time frame, allowing a deeper understanding of where the characters are coming from, and what influences their choices. The backstory is full and rich and alive, and in the hands of a lesser author would probably have required another two books to flesh out.
The 1st wave was an EMP strike so potent that around the globe, everything just stopped. Cars crashed, planes fell from the sky, cell phones and electricity were no more. Hundreds of thousands died, and the world struggled to comprehend, to regroup. The 2nd wave was a cleverly designed strike, using the Earth itself to do the dirty work – a giant spike, twice the size of the Empire State building, dropped from the atmosphere to plunge directly between already shifting tectonic plates, causing a ‘natural disaster’ that eliminates billions more. I don’t want to ruin the fun of learning all of the aliens diabolical yet methodical plotting, but I will say this – after essentially herding all the remaining humans together, the 3rd wave strikes and leaves only 1 in 3 humans still standing. The 4th wave will hurt your heart, and by the time you discover what the 5th wave is, you’re already in the middle of it, and wishing you could take up arms and join the rally against this fictitious enemy. Just when you believe that help has arrived, the already learned lesson that you must question everything and trust nothing but your own instincts is driven home ever deeper.
We also get first person narrative accounts from other characters, all of whom will tie together by the end of this 1st book. There’s Ben Parish, Cassie’s former classmate and the unrequited love of her life since 3rd grade. Sammy, Cassie’s five year old brother, the only living family member she has left. Then, there’s Evan Walker. A Silencer, a member of the invading alien force. Except, not really. All of them have had their own separate and individual journeys through this new landscape, and we’re given a birds-eye view from their perspective, as well as in relation to Cassie. We’re introduced to characters that will get their own first person narratives in the 2nd book, The Infinite Sea (also in my Amazon shopping cart), as well. I am especially looking forward to Ringer, a crack-shot girl whose smile was the first thing she lost, who meets Ben, aka Zombie, when they’re assigned to the same squad at Camp Haven.
The story leaves us at a place where we have heroes to root for, fallen to mourn for, and an epic battle waiting on the horizon.
Not only does Yancey write teenagers well (where so many authors try way too hard and completely miss the mark), he writes humans well; men and women, adults and children, all seem natural and real. The action is gripping, the emotions palpable, and the aliens, well, I hope that actual aliens don’t hear about this and get any ideas. Again, I haven’t read or even watched a lot of things in the alien/extraterrestrial genre, so I don’t have a lot of comparative material to work with. Within my limited exposure, though, this is an original and unique conceptualization of the alien horde. Their reasoning for coming to the Earth may be one that you’ve heard before, but the amalgamation of how they are, and the way that they go about their nasty business, is creative and interesting. You find that you can’t help but have a grudging respect for their tactical prowess.
At 457 pages, this book is an actual novel, and not just a tease to lead up to the next in the series. I think that happens much too often anymore, as everyone now seems to think that just plain old writing a good book isn’t enough if they’re not creating a ‘phenomenon’ within the genre, and they end up stinting on one just to pull you into the next.
I could not be happier I picked up this book.


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Fit For The Bride specialise in all wedding dress alterations and modifications; including reshaping, adding boning, sleeves, etc.
21 January 2016 > Just had a wonderful day the the Runcorn Town Hall Wedding Fayre. It was lovely meeting all the brides and families getting married in 2016, 2017 & 2018. I hope to see you all again soon for all sorts of alterations and dressmaking.
Fit For The Bride attended the Wedding Fair at the Holiday Inn at Runcorn on Sunday 3rd November 2013. Although it was quiet we were very encouraged after meeting some new brides and traders alike. Tanya took her new Flowergirl Dress along, this was the first time she had shown the dress to the public and boy did it attract attention. You can see the new dress in the gallery section, it will retail for £120.00 making it our cheapest dress too, but still enjoying the high quality of all our dresses and products.
We also took our 19" television and played the new advert in a loop which also attracted people to the stall, a definite winner that one. You can see the video on the About Us page here along with a short time-lapse video taken during Sunday's event at the Holiday Inn. The time-lapse was taken late in the afternoon so we missed many of the early doors visitors.
Fit For The Bride will be attending the Wedding Fayre Sunday 6th October 12pm - 3pm at the BEST WESTERN Forest Hills Hotel, Overton Hill, Frodsham, Cheshire, WA6 6HH. We hope to meet many new people and show off our Flowergirl Dresses and garters which we will be selling on the day.
Fit For The Bride will be attending the Wedding Fair at the Everglades Park Hotel in Widnes on the 15 September 2013. This is a little last minute but we are fully prepared and look forward to meeting you all there. We are bringing our new product line, our wedding garters designed and made by Tanya. We hope to start introducing new products regularly for the next few weeks and will be pointing the site to our Ebay shop (once we have built it). For now you can see the garter on our products page, we we be selling them at £10.99 + p&p.
Fit For The Bride is located near Frodsham in Cheshire, we are local to Runcorn, Widnes, Liverpool, Chester, Helsby, Hoylake, West Kirby, Birkenhead and the Wirral, we are also easy to reach from Manchester, Wilmslow, Warrington, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Disclaimer: The following review was conducted on PC via Steam. A code was provided by the publisher for review purposes.
The Corpse Party series is well known in the Japanese role-playing game market. It is a horror story where every decision, big or small, affects your ending. Initially released as early as 1996 on the PC-9801 platform, the game has now found a new home the Steam and GoG platforms. With its release in 2011 on the PlayStation Portable as a digital only title, many people might have overlooked its handheld launch.
At its core, Corpse Party is a horror game set geographically in Japan at Kisaragi High School. The game heavily relies on its story, being that this is where things start to take shape, and where we are first introduced to the ghastly atmosphere that drives the games context.
On the day of the school’s cultural festival, a group of students all of whom are very close friends, find themselves cleaning the class to get it set up for break. With the looming reality that one will be sent off to another school the following semester, sadness starts to settle in. Ayumi, a girl fascinated with Ghost stories and the paranormal, decides to tell her friends about a charm that she found on the internet. But, calling upon the charm with the chants of “Sachkio, we beg of you” leaves the group in a close bond, having torn each piece of a mysterious doll to share between them. Hit with the paranormal, the group is transported to a new place, one that is plagued with visible attributes of the spirit world.
Corpse Party delivers some spooky interactions in the spirit realm.
The new place that they arrive in houses much smaller desks, cracked and destroyed floors, having the windows and some doors almost seem to be painted on. Scared, they search to find out where they are and what happened. They see a school news report hanging on the wall. They approach it, reading they find out that they’re in Heavenly Host Elementary School, a place that has long been destroyed after many murders and kidnappings caused its shutdown. Mystery shrouds the group as the charm seems to work and with that, our story begins.
You might think that a game that released almost 20-years ago might not be relevant in current times. Even though the artstyle of the game translated through a stylized 16-bit platform, it has very nice detail to the characters models and animations. In conversations with characters, there are times when crisp illustrations ensue to give you a chance to see exactly what each of them look like in more visible detail. This is important given the game’s background in the anime genre and its emphasis on such illustrations.
For anyone that has seen their fair share of anime titles, the haunted school trope has been almost beaten to death. And with that, you would think that Corpse Party would be a boring game to attempt to play or get into. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is very captivating, mostly due to the writers at GrisGris creating an absolutely fantastic script. There is a sense of connection and immersion delivered by creating a sense of compassion that these friends have for each other.
The immersive tactics continue with believable conversations, and even down to the reactions to an event heavily coincide with what’s happening in the game. They were able to take such a simple story and turn it into a complex, deep, and at times, gut-wrenching horror tale that houses a lot of replayability.
The gameplay itself is very simple. Walk to an object, press the action button and pickup said object. You never know when you will be called upon to use that item to open a new pathway or solve a puzzle. There isn’t really any combat, just avoiding spirits from catching up to you and things of that nature. Most of the puzzles are explained in the conversations between the characters, making it a very simple and easy game to learn and play.
Corpse Party is all about the story and the little decisions you make. Some decisions can be either to read the newspaper or to walk away from it, while some can be more critical. Its all about getting the right ending and doing things in a certain pattern. This pattern is disrupted by the vast number avenues you can take as the story unfolds.
Replayability is achieved due to the unique decisions you have to make to get the right ending, and the fact that each group of students trapped in another space, meaning they may never be able to find their friends. To me, this just adds an even bigger twist to the story. With the original game being a 1996 release, and this being my first playthrough, I was more than just surprised. Here I was thinking that I was just going through a straightforward game with little to worry about and I needed to discover everything there was to find to be able to complete it. Boy, was I wrong.
Each chapter of the game has many endings. The first chapter of the game houses three separate conclusions, while the second and third have five. Each chapter following those grows exponentially. With that being said, there is a lot to discover within a chapter, within the game. This is one element that will surely draw you in, creating a sense of anxiety that will make you want to go back and do things differently simply to learn more of the fate of what was formerly called Heavenly Host Elementary School.
The visual and story aesthetics are not the only thing that is pleasing to your senses. When wearing my Corsair gaming headset, I actually had a few chilling moments where atmospheric sounds added to its creepiness. It felt as if the sound of a woman breathing was coming from behind me at times, and some sounds are added to have the effect of a jump scare. There isn’t much in terms of true jump scare moments, but with a headset on, Corpse Party seems to embrace the sound effects and only uses them when needed.
The music is also creepy and adds a good horror feel to the gameplay. When the game was re-released on PSP it had Japanese voice actors contributing to the dialogue for the game. This made it so the game would age well, which in my opinion it did just that. The voice acting is not overly used, and is placed in crucial moments as needed.
Corpse Party is an amazing game but it doesn’t come without some flaws. The writing in most of the game is satisfying, but sometimes they say and/or do things that is a little cringe-worthy, with them having a sexual conversation after seeing a few dead bodies, or just very cringy one liners, the game isn’t perfect–but is damn near it. This problem could also just be my taste, many of you may look the sexual remarks, it does add some happiness to a very dreary environment, but it could’ve been handled a little better.
Corpse Party may be a port of a ’90s game, but it was done so with care a finesse. With well-drawn illustrations of each character, a very deep and gritty story and an impressive script this game has honestly took me by surprised. As a gamer born in the time where I was always playing my Nintendo and Sega, I can appreciate the initial art direction that has carried through the years of releases. PC gaming came at a later age and I had still never heard of this small yet massive game.
With me missing the 1996 launch, and later on when it released on the PSP, I am so happy that I got to discover this brilliant game. I would recommend anyone that hasn’t taken the chance to play it, especially if you love a game drenched in darkness and horror.


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Vitamin A is a generic term for a group of fat soluble vitamins that is divided into two main subtypes, preformed Vitamin A which includes retinol and its esterified form retinyl ester. The second subtype being provitamin A which includes beta-carotene, alpha-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin. As Vitamin A is fat soluble it can be stored throughout the body in adipose tissue and the liver. Vitamin A is also essential for cell differentiation.
Vitamin A is essential for many functions within the body including pigment production in the eyes for vision, all epithelial tissue including skin and respiratory tract, immune function and reproduction.
Vitamin A deficiency can result in a number of conditions such as impaired dark adaption of the eyes leading to night blindness. Keratinisation of skin, gastrointestinal and urinary tracts and, mucous membranes. This can lead to dry scaling and thickening of the skin. Respiratory infections can also result. In younger populations growth retardation and infections are common. Impaired immunity is also associated with deficiency.
Where in the diet can I get it?
Vitamin A is quite abundant in the diet. It is found through an array of vegetables and fruits including sweet potato, carrot, pumpkin, capsicum, tomatoes, mangos, spinach, broccoli and more. For those who consume an omnivorous diet, it can also be found in high amounts in organ meats such as liver.
According to nrv.gov.au, Men aged 19 years old and above require a recommended daily intake of up to 900 micrograms a day and women requiring an intake of 700 micrograms a day. Both men and women have an upper limit of what is recommended as 3000 micrograms however there is no established upper limit to beta-carotene intake from food alone as the conversion is determined by vitamin A levels already present in the body.
Excessive and chronic supplementation of vitamin A can be associated with conditions such as increased intracranial pressure, dizziness, nausea, headaches, skin irritation, pain in joints and bones, coma and potentially death.


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But there is one very extensive warehouse among the rest that needs special mention―the ship's Yeoman's storeroom. In the Neversink it was down in the ship's basement, beneath the berth-deck, and you went to it by way of the Fore-passage, a very dim, devious corridor, indeed. Entering―say at noonday―you find yourself in a gloomy apartment, lit by a solitary lamp. On one side are shelves, filled with balls of marline, ratlin-stuf, seizing-stuff, spun-yarn, and numerous twines of assorted sizes. In another direction you see large cases containing heaps of articles, reminding one of a shoemaker's furnishing-store―wooden serving-mallets, fids, toggles, and heavers: iron prickers and marling-spikes; in a third quarter you see a sort of hardware shop―shelves piled with all manner of hooks, bolts, nails, screws, and thimbles; and, in still another direction, you see a block-maker's store, heaped up with lignum-vitae sheeves and wheels.
Indeed, so long as it remained thus furnished, the native courts of the district were held there; the judge, Mahinee, and his associates, sitting upon one of the chests, and the culprits and spectators thrown at full length upon the ground, both inside of the building and under the shade of the trees without; while, leaning over the stocks as from a gallery, the worshipful crew of the Julia looked on, and canvassed the proceedings.In short, Jim, the pilot, is quite a character in his way; and no one visits Tahiti without hearing some curious story about him.Sail was now shortened, our headway was stopped, and a cutter was lowered, with orders to tow the fleet of strangers alongside. The men sprang to their oars with a will, and soon five goodly puncheons lay wallowing in the sea, just under the main-chains. We got overboard the slings, and hoisted them out of the water.All this, however, when we came to know the reason, was no matter of surprise; three-fourths of them were pressed men. Some old merchant sailors had been seized the very day they landed from distant voyages; while the landsmen, of whom there were many, had been driven down from the country in herds, and so sent to sea.