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Thanks for the mention, but I’m not in that one. LOL! I’m in Diamonds in the Rough, and I’ll have a couple of pieces in the flash anthology.
Whoops – yeah, just rechecked the TOC, sorry Laura. I guess I was mixing up ‘cos I missed the boat on Diamonds too. At least I’ll be in the flash anthology too.

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Every birth I attend humbles me, leaves me shaking and full. Full of the love God has for us. The unwavering love of Him is so palpable when a woman is birthing. The Mama I met several times before her birth has such an unwavering spirit. Even with resistance, she has birthed three children her way, made choices she wanted. Friday evening, just as I was leaving I got a text from her saying labor had begun earlier and she would be headed to the birth center in a bit. We kept contact and since I was a bit farther than I like, with a fourth baby on the way, I headed to Spartanburg. Full of excitement we chatted for several hours before it seemed that things were a bit early and maybe going home to rest and see what Saturday would bring might help. Well this Mama knew what her body was preparing; after one hour of sleep back in Greenville, I got a call from her midwife saying it was time and I sprinted out the door.
Fourth babies can be finicky, our muscle memory is all there, but maybe they shift more, maybe you've mastered labor in a way that you can break and hold things back. I knew this, my fourth was different than all the others. This Mama's birthing time was longer than she anticipated (quick 3rd births make you forget:) and with a long day of early labor, the night seemed longer than it was.
Her husband was truly unwavering in his support. For almost 9 hours he never left her side, barely drank, didn't eat. He wiped her brow, cooled her neck, caressed her shoulder, whispered his pride and love and belief in her. In the final moments before their son was born, his words gave her the strength she thought was lost. This birth was hard won, longer and more difficult due to position of the baby and her midwives were amazing in their care for this mama every step of the way.
At 11:44 am a third son was born to these loving parents. Such amazing parents with hearts turned toward God's love as they introduced siblings to each other. Baby K was immediately tuned into his blessing at being a 4th born. He calmed at hearing his siblings voices and turned toward them with such alertness. And they rejoiced in him. It was a blessing to watch a family grow and expand in love right before my eyes.
When I met this couple, I knew one thing: they loved their two boys fiercely. Yes, I know everyone loves their kids, but there was something else, something strong and directed and all encompassing about this love. And then I found out their second son has complicated medical issues; yes, now it made sense. There is a super hero love that radiates from a mom whose child has been through the medical system, who has had a critical condition, whose life at one moment or another has been in that terrifying fragile place we parents have nightmares about. There is a forwardness to this love, it lacks periphery, it's single minded focus pulls the family through the dark of illness, it directs, it does. Such a privilege it was to watch this strong mama birth her third son at high noon on a Saturday. Just like the cartoons her boys were missing as they watched in awe at the super human strength she displayed. Playful and laughing and caring right up until the last 5 minutes as her son crowned and was swept into her arms in a beautiful water birth. Her sons will never wonder at how something gets done, how a woman can hold strength and softness within her simultaneously. Happy Birthday Baby R!

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Home Health What Drives False Memories in Psychopathology?
What Drives False Memories in Psychopathology?
Detecting false memory effects in PTSD and Depression.
Memories assume a persuasive part in both clinical and legitimate settings. Memory inconsistencies are normal for posttraumatic push issue (PTSD) and depression.
PTSD has been appeared to consolidate ineffectively explained and coordinated recollections, which may prompt issues with the purposeful review, while discouragement has been connected to particular personal memory issues.
In a new study, study at the Association for Psychological Science examined associative activation as the link between PTSD, depression, and spontaneous false memory.
Associative activation theories conceptualize memory as containing representations or nodes that are interconnected by associative links. When information is encoded, activation can spread, triggering related information that may or may not has been part of the original experience.
During the study, scientists searched the Web of Science database using the following keywords: ‘PTSD AND false memory’. For depression, they entered the keywords ‘depression AND false memory’.
The results suggest 57 hits for PTSD and 166 hits for depression. Both suggest that the results of our review refer mainly to the link between spontaneous false memories and depression.
Although the difference did not consistently emerge when the neutral or nonassociative material was presented.
The results showed that individuals with these two conditions are at a greater risk of generating false memories. but only when exposed to the negative or trauma-related material.
The study also suggests PTSD has been appeared to consolidate ineffectively explained and coordinated recollections, which may prompt issues with the purposeful review, while discouragement has been connected to particular personal memory issues.


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HAL Nashik Called Walk-in Interview for Recruiting 577 vacancies of Trade Apprentice Jobs. The Interview will be held on 25-04-2018 to 28-04-2018 at the venue mentioned below. All qualified, as well as Interested prospects, can attend this Walk-in-Interview. Additional Detailed Info Pertaining to Educational Qualifications, Age Restriction, Selection Procedure, Test Pattern, Syllabus for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Nashik (HAL Nashik) Recruitment 2018-19 Trade Apprentice Exam shown in this article is pointed out below.
HAL Nashik Recruitment 2018 – Walk in for Trade Apprentice Posts in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Nashik. Candidates are invited by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Nashik (HAL Nashik) to attend walk-in-interview to be held on 25-04-2018 to 28-04-2018 for 577 vacancies.
Trade wise available vacancies are given below.
Contenders those willing to attend for the interview must pass ITI from Registered Board/Organization.
Applicants Age should be between 18 to 27 years. Check Age Relaxation Details from Official Notification.
Those selected for this HAL Nashik Recruitment will get pay Scale of For first year Rs 7618.5/- per month will be given and for the second year Rs. 7618.5/- per month will be given per month.
For ITI-30% based on this merit list will be prepared.
Job Seekers who fulfill all the eligibility conditions and desired to apply against HAL Nashik Trade Apprentice notification may attend for walk-in interview along with their original documents, one set of self-attested photocopies to prove their educational qualification including attempt certificate, age etc. Check Interview Venue, Date & Time which are mentioned below.
Ex-ITI (NCVT) candidates applying under XSM quota, Wards of serving/retired/deceased employees of HAL are required to submit the proofs at the time of walkin interview.
Haridas Vidyanagari, Amrutdham, Nashik, Maharashtra 422003.

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Long-running roots supergroup gets royal reward of guest stars, on new album and at Massey Hall on Saturday.
Those Nashville connections continue to pay sweet dividends for Toronto-born Colin Linden and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, who kick off a 14-date cross-Canada tour at Massey Hall Saturday.
Linden, 56, who also resides in the town that the country-music business TV soap opera is christened after, has been with the program since its 2012 inception, frequently appearing as a guitarist and bandleader.
Brought on board by then-executive music producer T-Bone Burnett, with whom he collaborated on Bruce Cockburn’s 1994 album Dart to the Heart and the 2000 bestselling film soundtrack O Brother Where Art Thou?, Linden has struck close relationships with both the cast and guest talent that has performed on the show — a perk that came in handy when tapping guests for the Canadian music roots supertrio’s latest album, Kings and Kings.
The testosterone-fueled sequel to 2011’s Kings and Queens — which featured duets with such musically compatible vocal femme fatales as Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris and Toronto’s Holly Cole — Kings and Kings’ dozen songs rely heavily on the Music City contingent. That includes country superstar Eric Church, Grammy winners Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell, ex-Drive-By-Truckers singer Jason Isbell, Mavericks’ lead man Raul Malo.
The last track on the album features vocals from “the men of Nashville” — cast members Jonathan Jackson, Chris Carmack, Charles “Chip” Esten and Sam Palladio. The latter two will join the Blackie crew onstage Saturday — just one more bit of good fortune surrounding this band.
“It’s been wonderful in so many ways,” notes Linden, who formed Blackie and the Rodeo Kings in 1996 with Hamilton native Tom “Lee Harvey Osmond” Wilson and Vancouver’s Stephen Fearing in honour of folk singer Willie P. Bennett.
In a separate interview, Tom Wilson said that besides convenience, the reason Kings and Kings is “a Nashville-centric album” was familiarity.
“That community has embraced us to a certain extent,” Wilson claims. “They like what we do. They’re fans of ours, and that’s really why a lot of phone calls were made to those people on the record. Same with Kings and Queens — because they’re fans of the band.
Not all guests hail from or live in Tennessee: Bruce Cockburn, Dallas Green, blues singers Keb’ Mo’ and recent Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito also chime in, as well as one both Wilson and Linden seem particularly pleased to land: Nick Lowe.
“When we were cutting ‘Secret of a Long Lasting Love’ — even before the tape stopped running — Stephen said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to get Nick Lowe on that?’ ” Linden recalls.
Says Linden: “There’s nothing like Blackie and the Rodeo Kings in my life. I love it so much, not the least of which is because it was put together in honour of Willie P. Bennett, who was such a great friend (he died in 2008).
For Massey Hall, Nashville cast members Esten and Palladio won’t be the only guests.
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The booking deposit is refundable up until 14 days prior to arrival, except a processing fee of 5%.
Payment of the remaining balance upon arrival at the residence, by cash or credit card.
Breakfast is included in the rooms rate, for 2 guests. Extra breakfast: $9/person (300 THB).
Children 2-12 years old can stay free of charge in existing beds, not including a breakfast.
Breakfast will be provided to a child under 4 years old, free of charge.
Pick Up $6/seat (200 THB). Special taxi with 4 seats: $25/way (800 THB). Van with 12 seats: $35/way (1200 THB).
Smoking is allowed in open areas or at the balcony only.
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Another step towards a mechanical movement with a 180-day power reserve.
Greubel Forsey teased at a remarkable development at SIHH in January 2017, revealing conventionally sized wristwatch with a 180-day, or half-year, power reserve, titled Mechanical Nano. Little was revealed about the workings of the movement, but it was understood to be miniaturised to a extreme degree and combined with friction-free materials, rendering it exceptionally efficient.
Now Greubel Forsey has given away a bit more, with the announcement of the Nano Foudroyante EWT. The name explains it all: a unbelievably tiny lightning seconds, or foudroyante, mechanism. In fact, the Nano Foudroyante EWT takes up 96% less space than a conventional lightning seconds, according to Greubel Forsey. The miniature mechanism cuts the energy needed to operate the lightning seconds by a factor of 1800.
Beyond the tremendously reduced scale of the mechanism – the disparity in size between the lightning seconds gearing and the balance wheel is visible below – the construction of the foudroyante is novel. It’s essentially a series of tiny gears (including a conical, bevelled gear to translate the lateral gear motion into vertical motion of the lightning hand) connected directly to the escape wheel, bypassing the gear train. The gears have a low moment of inertia, meaning they need very little energy to turn.
While the mini-lightning seconds is displayed in the same manner as a conventional version of the complication – a hand that makes eight steps around a sub-dial every second – the Nano Foudroyante EWT is so tiny the hand has to be magnified 23 times to be visible.
More on the new technology will be revealed in due course, but one of the most interesting aspects of the development is not the mechanism itself, but how such remarkable small parts are produced to the required tolerances.
As Stephen Forsey explained at SIHH 2017, the goal of the Nano Mechanical movement is not a make a remarkably tiny movement for the sake of sheer size, but to free up space and energy for more or better complications.

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Furious parents living in one of Longford town's largest residential estates say they are terrified to allow their children outside owing to these shocking images of used needles and heroin kits being left discarded just yards from their front doorsteps.
The disturbing find was discovered at a vacant house in Grian Ard, Ardnacassa, earlier this week by angry mother of two Amanda Fennell, who lives just two doors down from where the various drug paraphernalia is dumped.
Ms Fennell said she has been left outraged by the apparent evidence of brazen drug taking and dealing in what is one of Longford town's most heavily populated areas.
"It's disgraceful," she stormed, when interviewed by the Leader earlier today.
"You shouldn't have to pay to live beside the likes of this. What happens if a child prick's his hand with one these things, what then?"
It's not the first time Ms Fennell has raised the spectre of drug fuelled activities taking place in the estate.
Two years ago, she went on RTÉ's 'Liveline' to highlight her displeasure at how heroin addicts were using a vacant house to meet and exchange needles.
Despite difficulties encountered by local authority chiefs to track down the property's owner, a kind hearted local builder agreed to secure the house by boarding up its front door and windows.
Now, it would appear the problem has returned with Ms Fennell taking aim at a recent letter sent by local Superintendent Jim Delaney to local councillors which suggested anti-social behaviour issues in the area were not being reflected in reported incidents.
"And then you hear people saying there is no anti social behaviour?
"You don't even ring the guards anymore."
Ms Fennell, who purchased her semi detached home 13 years ago for €110,000, said she been left helpless while being cognisant to the fact that she must keep up with her €490 mortgage payments each month.
The Leader examined the scene earlier today and observed more than a dozen used needles, broken bottles and empty condom wrappers.
At a similarly boarded up house across the road, a stained mattress, together with floods of broken glass lies strewn across its empty driveway.
Ms Fennell said the scale of the problem has deteriorated to such an extent that she has witnessed middle aged men wandering to the back of the house to shoot up within metres of her teenage children.
"They are all ages and all nationalities that go in there," she said.
"There is a 40 year old man who looks to be foreign and he sits on the wall and will go in and out. They don't even hide it, that's the thing.
"I understand people have addictions but there is absolutely no need for that.
"To me this is a health hazard to all the kids in the area."
The Leader also spoke with Ms Fennell's next door neighbour, Glory Osunde.
The Nigerian born mother of four lives adjacent to the boarded up house at the centre of the controversy, but seemed blissfully unaware about the drug taking activities that has been going on within yards of her front door.
Like Ms Fennell, she told of how she witnessed several individuals congregate at the back of the boarded up house, adding that some had also attempted to intimidate her by shouting obscenities.
"They throw stones at my car and when you tell them to stop they say nasty things like f*** off," she said.
Ms Osunde said despite reporting the matter to gardaí and the local authority, she and her family had been made to feel like prisoners in their own homes.
"I just have to close and lock my door. Even my kids can't go outside when these people are on the street.
"I have called the guards but nothing seems to change. I don't know what to do now.
Asked if she wanted to relocate to another area due to the underhand activities that were taking place next door to her, Ms Osunde was unequivocal in her response.
"I would be very very glad to leave because even in the holidays we can't leave the home. If they (unnamed individuals) don't see the car here for two or three days, I just know they will break everything. It's terrible."
Local Cllr and chairperson of Co Longford's Joint Policing Committee Gerry Warnock slammed the unease local residents were having to encounter, adding it painted a disturbing picture of the area's wider societal problems.
“First of all its shocking to see these photographs and it’s indicative of the extent of the antisocial problems being landed on the laps of ordinary decent people in the Ardnacassa area," he said.
After being shown images of the drug-related litter, Cllr Warnock said he swiftly contacted members of the Council's Joint Task Force, a body set up to address issues solely relating to the Ardnacassa area.
"I’m reliably informed that this particular unit is on the Programme of Works for a refit which is due to commence shortly. This house will be made habitable and allocated to a needy household and that in my opinion is the best security against a continuation of the problems that Amanda (Fennell) has been experiencing for too long," he said.
"I have also contacted our Housing Department who are going to arrange an immediate cleanup of the drug related paraphernalia."


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Both Florida State and Cincinnati got raw deals by the NCAA tournament selection committee, and Seton Hall and Syracuse should've swapped seeds.
The NCAA tournament selection committee doesn't have an easy job. But considering the euphoria of playing in March Madness and how critical matchups are for advancing to the second weekend, well, the cast of decision-makers isn't getting off the hook that easy.
Cincinnati, the AAC tourney winner, should've been a No. 5 or No. 6 seed. The committee gave the Bearcats (28-6) a No. 7 seed in the South Region. While it's rather generous that they'll be playing in nearby Columbus, this seed makes us wonder if the committee even watched the American Athletic Conference tournament championship that ended right before the selection show. Cincinnati beat a really good Houston team in the final and had a much better profile to be in the range of a No. 6 seed or even No. 5 seed. It could be a blessing in disguise because of the location and how dangerous the No. 11 and No. 12 seeds are in this bracket.
NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET: All 68 teams revealed!
Snubbing UNC-Greensboro for St. John's: The Spartans (28-6, 15-3 Southern) were undoubtedly worthy of making the field of 68 given their overall profile in which they only lost to Quadrant 1 (top-30 home, top-75 away) opponents. And if Belmont is getting in with five losses and the same amount of Quad 1 wins (2) then UNC-Greensboro should've been considered. Look at the Red Storm (21-12, 8-10 Big East) from a blind résumé standpoint. They had a worse NET score of 73, a worse non-conference strength of schedule of 216 and lost five Quad 2 or Quad 3 games compared to UNC-Greensboro's zero. The committee shouldn't have just given one really good mid-major love, it should've given it to two.
Florida State, not Purdue or LSU, should've been a No. 3 seed. The Seminoles (27-7) have been overlooked all season, having been the fourth wheel to the ACC's three No. 1 seeds — Duke, Virginia and North Carolina. Did the committee see that UVA game? Apparently not. FSU had a top-16 NET score, a top-15 strength of schedule and eight Quad 1 wins. Comparatively, while Purdue and LSU have slightly better NET scores, Purdue lost two more games and LSU isn't the same team with coach Will Wade suspended for his alleged involvement in an NCAA violation. If the committee was looking at the teams that were entering the tournament, credentials aside, FSU should've moved up.
Seton Hall (20-13) was way underseeded as a No. 10 seed. The Pirates should've been a No. 8 seed, having played their way well off the bubble line and looking close to the best team in the Big East in the conference tournament, beating Marquette and falling to Villanova in the final. As a whole, Seton Hall had seven Quad 1 wins and a top-25 strength of schedule. What was the committee looking at?
Syracuse (20-13) was way overseeded as a No. 8 seed. The Orange (20-13) could've swapped seeds with Seton Hall. For a team that played in the ACC, 'Cuse only got three Quad 1 wins and also lost two Quad 3 games. Was this team's top-45 NET score weighed too heavily? Most definitely. And was a regular-season win over top overall seed Duke treated like the golden ticket to move up two seeds? Seems so.

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I have a question regarding my assumed batch-effects. When I do a PCA and plot the results grouped after the different batch effects, I see no real clustering for these effects. With the raw data I also see no clustering regarding my condition. Interestingly, the DE-genes analysis differs substantially if I correct for batch-effects or not.
Additionally I also did a batch-correction with limma and the ComBat-function from sva, starting with the raw data. The goal was to check which batch-effect or which combination of these effects leads to the best result, regarding the discrimination between the two conditions. I found that, as for the DE-genes analysis, correcting for all three batches is the best method.
As mentioned above I see no batch-effect-clustering in my raw data, so I want to ask you, whether it is valid to correct for batch-effects if I cannot see them in a PCA plot. Maybe I destroy my data while correcting for these effects? Is it valid to create some real artificial batch-effects and then check the analysis with these effects? Are there other methods to check whether my batch-effects are real?
Furthermore, I want to try the svaseq-function from sva but I did it not yet.
Please let me know, whether you need more information.
Why are you assuming you have batch effects due to library and sample preps? Batch effects usually describes some sort of bias in your sample or results that is found only in your subset or batches. But you don't necessarily always get batch effects ion your data, or if you do they may be quite minor. If you're not seeing evidence of batch effects in the data, then they probably aren't there.
First of all sorry for the late reply. I assume batch effects because dealing with such tiny amounts of material (like for library preparation etc.) can always lead to variations when one is doing the lab stuff e.g. on different days. What I asked myself is, how does e.g. DESeq2 perform when one is adding these effects to the model (design) but these are not existent. Is this considered by the functions? So if I include them in the design and these effects are not present would the result of this model be similar to the native model (only with the condition of interest)? As mentioned above, I found a substantial difference for these two models (designs). I would guess that something like overfitting is possible but of course not desirable.
I haven't typically used DESeq2 so I can't directly comment. If you try using BallGown you can easily add a factor to your samples for the batches and include it as a potential confounder in the data. The problem though is typically that if you have a limited number of samples such that samples simultaneously vary in treatment condition and batch your statistical power drops like a rock when you try and capture the batch effects in the data.
To be honest, while we should be accounting for potential batch effects on our data, we often don't because we just don't have the money to do the sampling proper up front. We frequently gather experimental data and replicates on different days and mostly ignore it. Checking, as you did, with some PCA analysis to see if batches are explaining a bunch of variance in the data or clustering things together is a good check to see whether you can safely assume that ignoring the batches will be "OK"
Hi Dan, thanks for your fast answer. Yes exactly, I found a huge difference in the differential expression between the raw model (only diet was included) and the so called fully adjusted model, where I put three potential batch effect factor variables in the model.
It makes a lot of sense that the power drops as you described. I never thought on that before.
How to remove batch effects when i have different organs?
Evaluating removing batch effect tools with PCA or MDS?

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text: Hogan designer Simon Holloway has found a nice groove. They have always liked Britishness in Italian fashion so the fact that Holloway is a Brit – a London resident who lived a bit in New York in the 90’s – makes him the perfect man to do Hogan. This season he went for a collision of punk, disco, rap and rock. If this sounds complicated it nonetheless worked because Holloway anchored the tailoring on a Tommy Nutter Savile Row-inspired long and lean silhouette, and that tailor’s fantasy colors. So, there were safety pins, which came from a Joan Jett photo to camouflage and graffiti splattered clothes all making for a good urban uniform. This season the Hogan sneaker is modernized with holographic prints. Simon projected them on a huge wall behind his cast. Punk meeting disco, rap rifling into cool Italian fashion.


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4:1 THEREFORE, WHILE the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [to distrust it], lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it.
1. Since the Israelites lost the rest of Canaan through unbelief, let’s take care that we don’t miss this rest in this life, (all that salvation and being born again means, and also the heavenly rest that is to come.
1. Faith in the word preached, in reference to that God who sent it, is the means that the power of God will fulfill its purpose.
1. The great spiritual blessings, which were typified by the rest the ancient Israelites could have had in the promised land, we enter by faith in Jesus Christ.
2. When God said “they shall never enter my rest”, He was referring to that 40 years in the desert.
3. Creation (or foundation) of the world: Means the completion of the work of creation in six days.
1. He set apart the 7th day as a day of rest for man.
1. This was a 2nd rest which the Lord promised to the believing, obedient seed of Abraham, spoken in the days of David, when the Jews actually possessed this long promised Canaan.
2. Therefore it’s evident that was not the rest which God intended, as the next verse shows.
1. Disobedience: unbelief: Gr. Apeitheia: disbelief (obstinate and rebellious.
1. God in His mercy has instituted another day-has given another dispensation of mercy and goodness by Christ Jesus.
2. God speaks now as he spoke before: His voice is in the Gospel.
8[This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another day.
1. A rest: Gr. Sabbatismos: not only a rest from labor, but a spiritual rest: body, soul, and spirit as outlined in the Gospel blessings, and all that it entails.
1. He that has believed in Christ Jesus has entered into his rest.
2. Human labors or his own work: Man no longer depends on the observance of the Mosaic rites and ceremonies, (the law) for his justification; He rests from all these works of the law as fully as God has rested from His works of creation.
3. This Greek word for rest is: katapausis; reposing down, or to settle down.
4. Here God’s rest is used vs. Sabbath rest in verse 9.
12 For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
1. Two-edged sword: The law, and the word of God in general , is repeatedly compared to a two-edged sword among the Jewish writers, “the sword with the two mouths.
2. With this sword a man himself lives, and by it he destroys his enemies. (This is implied in its two edges.
3. The sword cannot cut unless it has an experienced teacher using it, hence applied by the Spirit of God, it separates soul and spirit, joints and marrow.
13 And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.
1. To whom we must give account: He is our Judge, and is well qualified to be, because all our hearts and actions are naked and open to Him.
1. The Jews were trying to get the Christians of to return to the temple, the “human high priest, and the temple sacrifices for sin; (the Jews were saying that without this there is no religion, no sacrifice for sin); The apostle says that now we have new High Priest who passed into the heavens.
a. That we have a high priest.
b. That this high priest is Jesus, the Son of God; not a son or descendant of Aaron.
c. Aaron and his successors could only pass into the holy of holies, and that once a year; but our High Priest has passed into the heavens, of which that, (Aaron going into the Holy of Holies), was only a type or shadow.
a. He left the congregation of the people.
b. He passed through the veil into the holy place, and was not seen even by the priests.
c. He entered through the second veil into the holy of holies, where was the symbol of the majesty of God.
a. Left the people at large.
b. He left his disciples by ascending up through the visible heavens, the clouds, as a veil, screening him from their sight.
c. Having passed through these veils, he went immediately to be our Intercessor: thus he passed ouranous, the visible or ethereal heavens, into the presence of the divine Majesty; through the heavens.
5. Hold fast: Gr. Krateo: to use strength, seize or retain.
1. Though Jesus was, and is the Son of God, having partaken of human nature, and submitted to all its temptations and tests, just like us, but didn’t sin, or give in to those temptations.
16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].
1. When the high priest, (under the old covenant), went into the holy of holies, he went with fear and trembling, but if he didn’t go in with the proper sacrifice for himself, he could be struck with death.
2. Now we Christians can come boldly: Gr. Meta parrhesia: amid all outspokenness, frankness, bluntness, assurance.


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On 8th December, there were innumerable rumours making rounds on social media about a particular tribute song composed by the legendary composer, Ilayaraaja for the late former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dr J.Jayalalithaa.
There was a video which was shared online saying that it is a song composed for the former CM by Ilayaraaja. But these rumours were later denied by Ilayaraaja's son, Yuvan Shankar Raja who tweeted saying - ''What im hearing is not true, my dad didn't do any tribute song for our CM #jayalalithaa and if he ever did we will let you know. #rumours''.
People looking for online information on Dr J Jayalalithaa, Ilayaraaja, Yuvan Shankar Raja will find this news story useful.


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There could be a hundred people in the room, and we’d still only see Lady Gaga. If we could ask her anything, it’d just be this one question: How do you do it? Her music, her already Oscar-worthy Hollywood career, her brave advocacy of causes close to her and, of course, her ever-changing and never-boring hair.
In case you haven’t been keeping up, Gaga’s current choice of mane is a supreme platinum blonde, also known as the most difficult shade to care for. The color needs more frequent upkeep as it requires a double process; the hair is first bleached, and then the color is neutralized with a toner. Add in a bunch of heat, and you have the recipe for a gorgeous platinum shade — oh, and some very fragile hair.
Platinum blond hair is more prone to breakage and can look scraggly or unhealthy if not nourished regularly. You also don’t want it looking brassy or too pale. So, how does she do it? Frederic Aspiras, who prepped Gaga’s hair for those fire red carpet outings, spilled the grooming beans.


text: This study was carried out two point view that reuse of sludge and adsorption of benzene, toluene and o-xylene of VOCs in cast, carbonized cast and activated carbon. The cation exchange capacity of cast and carbonized cast were 59.2, 112 meq/100g, respectively. The specific surface were 560, $800m^2/g$, respectively. The average removal rates of benzene by 50g cast of 50% hydrous cast, anhydrous cast, carbonized cast, activated carbon were 15.0, 41.2, 88.2, 99.4% in 60min of retention time. The average removal efficiency of toluene by 50 g cast of 50% hydrous cast, anhydrous cast, carbonized cast, activated carbon were 12.5, 34.2, 88.2, 99.5% in 60 min of retention time. The average removal rates of o-xylene 50 g cast of 50% hydrous cast, anhydrous cast, carbonized cast, activated carbon were 8.8, 28.5, 84.8, 98.1% in 60min of retention time. The adsorption efficiency of test absorbent was in order of Activated Carbon > Carbonized Cast > Cast.


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Why choose Clinic of Natural Medicine?
Our naturopathic physicians Michelle Niesley, ND, MS, FABNO, Teresa Silliman, ND, and Stacy Dunn, ND, MSOM, FABNO, have a combined over 50 years experience in their fields of integrative medicine, providing you a physician that focuses on your area of concern.
While medical school provided a foundation for a lifetime of learning, the naturopathic physicians at the Clinic of Natural Medicine have had a variety of professional experiences that have shaped their unique expertise. Observation of our patients, assessment of their progress, collaboration with our peers, and continual feedback from thousands of patients, results in better care for the next patient. Our clinical expertise saves our patients time, money, and frustration, while providing a plan.
We do not have set protocols.
We appreciate the trust our patients have in us. Our goal is to determine what is at the core of the issues that prevent our patients from maintaining optimal health. Our doctors continue to learn more about our patients with each interaction, which helps us to tailor your plan specifically to you.
Acupuncture is one of the oldest, most commonly used medical procedures in the world, originating in China more that 5000 years ago. Acupuncture enhances the flow of qi, which circulates in the body along twelve major pathways. Learn more about Dr. Stacy Dunn’s acupuncture practice.
We are uniquely trained physicians with natural medicine infused throughout our formal medical education. We specialize in herbal medicine, nutritional medicine, supplements, and cancer specific care.


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Is she pregnant? Is she trying to get pregnant? Did she gain weight? Lose weight? Jennifer Aniston, like so many women in the entertainment industry, has seen photos of herself on tabloid covers accompanied by just that sort of speculation.
It's not rare, it's not right, and the actress is speaking out against it — again.
Just last year, Aniston penned a powerful piece taking tabloids to task for the constant objectification, body-shaming and baby-bump gossip she and others face, and now she's returning to the topic in an inspiring new interview.
"I mean, it’s like they take a picture of you and create this story," she told Glamour magazine. "If your body is in a normal moment of having had a bite or two, or you’re having a moment of bloat, then there’s arrows circled around your stomach, telling you that you’re pregnant. And it’s like, actually no, it’s just my body. Not that it’s any of your business to begin with. Having a child, as we know, is no one’s business except the couple or individual that’s going through it."
Jennifer Aniston to tabloids: I'm not pregnant, I'm fed up!
At 48 years old, and having been in the business for 30 of those years, she's not buying into the constant critiques — or into the broader narratives about being a woman getting older in society.
"I don’t think life stops after 50 — if anything, it gets more and more exciting," she said. "For some reason, we don’t honor or pay respect to aging. It’s something that we look at as a negative, and yet every single person on this planet does it. I don’t understand why it’s not something that's celebrated, why there’s some sort of an expiration date on who you are as a person worth watching and a story being told about you."
And that's where Aniston has a problem with the picture-perfect concept of ageless beauty that doesn’t really exist.
"Just because you can’t bounce a penny off your tummy anymore, because you’re not 22 or 32, doesn’t mean that should quantify what makes you relevant and interesting," she added.
Real beauty — enduring beauty — is based in mindfulness, according to the actress.
"It’s being as full and complete of a human being as you possibly can be," she explained. "And that means going to therapy, figuring out your darker corners, and getting to work on them, so you’re not passing on your negative experiences — and trying to become a fully realized human being, so you can go out in the world and bring that to people."


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By now, a lot of people have heard the story of how Star Trek was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s favorite TV show.
It was, according to Nichelle Nichols, the only program he allowed his children to watch because it portrayed African Americans living in a future where they were treated equally and with dignity and respect. He believed that this representation was an important image for young Black people to see and he urged Nichols not to leave the show. (She stayed and her role had tremendous impact—it encouraged Whoopie Goldberg to seek her role as Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and inspired Mae Jemison to become the first African American female astronaut. Soniqua Martin Green has recently said that Nichols motivated her as the star of the most recent Star Trek series Discovery).
It’s interesting to speculate how Star Trek might have influenced King’s thinking. Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) premiered in September 1966. This was after the two big legislative victories of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This was also a year after Watts burned and the same year race riots broke out in Cleveland and Omaha. King had moved to Illinois at this point to extend his organizing into urban issues in the North, including unemployment, housing discrimination, and poverty. He had started to think about the effects of the Vietnam War and how it robbed people of life and the means the sustain themselves. It was a particularly difficult time for him politically, emotionally, and spiritually. How did a science fiction story about human beings living in the 23rd Century–in which war, hunger, racism, and poverty had been overcome–affect his sense of hope for the future and what was possible for humanity?
It’s not a far fetched idea to think Star Trek touched King’s imagination. We know that he was a fan of speculative fiction from his earliest days—and we know that his wife Coretta was partly responsible for stoking his creativity along this path.
When they were first dating in 1952, Coretta gave King a copy of Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel, Looking Backward. She instructed him that she wanted him to read it and return to tell her his thoughts about it. Bellamy’s book, written in the 19th century, imagines what a socialist United States would look like in the year 2000 (free medical care and unemployment benefits for everyone!).
In an amazing and touching note, the 23-year old King writes to his future wife and tells her how much he enjoyed the book—so much so that he admits he wants his future ministerial work to be guided by the kind of vision of progress hinted at in it—a world free of war, with a better distribution of wealth and resources, and solidarity instead of racism. He admits that he agrees with Bellamy that capitalism has no future for humanity but he worries what revolutionary socialism can justify in terms of violence. For the next sixteen years, he would reflect and refine his thinking on these subjects, leading him to not only imagine the Promised Land, but also to the devise the organizational strategies and policies—the Poor People’s Campaign, universal basic income, demilitarization—to try and get there.
Dr. King’s Beloved Community is a global vision, in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger, and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human decency will not allow it. Racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice will be replaced by an all inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood. In the Beloved Community, international disputes will be resolved by peaceful conflict-resolution and reconciliation of adversaries, instead of military power. Love and trust will triumph over fear and hatred. Peace with justice will prevail over war and military conflict.
All in all, King’s vision of the future for humanity is a clear example of the power of utopian speculative fiction, and Star Trek, in particular, to nourish an imagination in the pursuit of justice.


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Herman Oosterwijk is president of OTech Inc., a healthcare imaging and IT training and consulting company based in the Dallas, TX, metroplex.
Herman has been involved with PACS for more than 35 years, initially as a PACS product manager working for Philips and Kodak, and for the past 25 years as a teacher/consultant.
He has participated in several DICOM, HL7, and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) working groups and has published more than 10 textbooks and study guides on these topics. He is a frequent blogger, has written more than 200 articles, and speaks at international conferences. Herman has taught in more than 20 countries about PACS, DICOM, HL7, IHE, and FHIR.
A complete CV can be found at his website www.otechimg.com, as well as the latest seminar and training schedule.
Dealing with medical CDs: Images, reports, or both?
Enterprise imaging: Threat or opportunity for radiology?


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Promoters back way forward to help Birmingham nightlife.
The team behind The Rainbow Venues in Birmingham has welcomed recommendations for a new regional drug policy put forward by West Midlands Police Commissioner David Jamieson.
The globally recognised Digbeth-based live music, club and mixed arts spaces launched the Educate Not Revocate campaign in January 2018 following a heavily criticised council decision to revoke its licence in late November 2017.
Educate Not Revocate calls for a more progressive approach to the licensing of live music venues and clubs across the UK along with better harm reduction strategies from agencies and further partnership working with organisations to improve safety and welfare throughout the night-time economy landscape.
A video statement released on Thursday 18 January 2018 by The Rainbow Venues announcing the initiative has been viewed almost 100,000 times. Educate Not Revocate has also received support from UK superclub fabriclondon, the Night-Time Industries Association, primary ticket outlet Skiddle, as well as internationally-renowned DJs Jamie Jones, Hannah Wants and Toddla T.
– Joining-up police, community safety and public health funding streams to increase efficiency and improve outcomes for those suffering from addiction.
– Introducing on-site testing in night-time economy areas to reduce the number of deaths and increase the authorities’ intelligence of drugs in circulation.
As a direct result of Birmingham City Council’s decision to revoke their licence on Monday 28th November 2017 at the request of West Midlands Police, The Rainbow Venues have been forced to stop investing in venue operations in its home city and have announced their return to the live music promotion industry elsewhere in the UK.
Further announcements regarding those operators will be made in due course.
The Educate Not Revocate campaign has launched at a pivotal time for live music in the UK, following the highly-publicised closure and subsequent reopening of London superclub fabriclondon under similar conditions in 2016, and the recent industry success in securing a Parliamentary review of planning legislation to reduce impact from residential developments on live music venues.
The Rainbow Venues, itself a significant employer, creative incubator and economic force in Birmingham’s creative quarter of Digbeth, is asking supporters for help in calling for a more progressive approach to UK venue licensing.
Educate Not Revocate aims to raise awareness of drug misuse, harm reduction, youth culture and to improve communication between agencies and authorities, as well as preserving the venues’ significant contribution to regional and national culture through its work with live music promoters, theatre companies, film production companies, street food markets, community groups, independent creatives and other artistic partners.
Lee McDonald will be speaking at the NTIA-organised Sharing, Caring and Networking: Place Making and the Night Time Economy in Birmingham and the Midlands event at The Jamhouse in Birmingham on Tuesday 27th February.


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Mansfield Independent School District, Mansfield Sunrise Rotary Club, and Methodist Mansfield Medical Center help boost literacy education through the Read to Me infant book program.
Newborns at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center will receive a free colorful book for reading aloud, presented in a fashionable carrying bag. Methodist Mansfield hopes the books will foster a life-long love for reading and promote the importance of reading together.
Reading aloud to children is easy, fun, and a great way to build early literacy skills. It teaches a baby about communication, builds listening, memory, and vocabulary skills, and introduces numbers, letters, colors, and shapes in a fun way.
Research shows that the more children hear stories read aloud and the more words they're exposed to, the more likely they are to have improved language and speaking skills. Babies whose parents frequently talk and read to them know more words by age 2 than children who have not been read to.
When children hear parents using many different emotions and expressive sounds, it promotes social and emotional development. And language skills improve when babies imitate sounds, recognize images, and learn words.
But perhaps the most important reason to read aloud is that it makes a connection between the parent and child.
To make a donation to the Read to Me program, visit the Methodist Health System Foundation.

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Anyone who’s experienced kidney stones knows that they can be extremely painful and uncomfortable. These stones develop when there’s a build up of waste in the kidneys. “These waste materials are products of metabolism that are normally filtered through the kidneys and removed from the body in urine,” writes Healthline. The waste crystalizes which is what turns it into stones that can cause blockages in the urinary system.
The citric acid in grapefruits may be effective at preventing calcium oxalate stones which are the most common type of kidney stones, “by binding with calcium in the kidneys and flushing it out of the body,” explains the source. It can also increases levels of pH in the urine which reduces the risk of kidney stones in the first place.


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Birthday Cakes Traditional frosting or fondant cakes. Two, three or more layers of sizes 12, 16, 24 inches.
Baby Showers Cute cupcakes for your guests or a large round/sheet cake to satisfy everyone.
Specialty Cupcakes Personalized designs to match just about any occasion you may have. Minimum order is a dozen.
Class Reunions Everyone loves cake no matter if they are still trying to impress their former classmates.
Anniversaries They only come around once per year so treat your lady, or man, to with a wonderful memory.
Office Party Have a special event? Go over the top and impress everyone with decorative cupcakes.
Chocolate Pears I've been experimenting with these little wonders. Mini chocolate cakes with a pear. The chocolate cake is infused with pear juice and baked until a moist perfection is achieved. So far, so gooood!
Apple Cinnamon Tarts A moist chocolate pastry filled with warm apples slices topped with cinnamon and sugar. I'm thinking of offering them by the dozen which seems about right for a intimate party.


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The Square-Locked tube/ conduit is produced from a continues metal strip which is locked into position by one overlapping joint. The highly flexible tube provides excellent mechanical protection without stretching or binding.
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Grapevine magazine writes about our new single!
Grapevine fjallar um SUÐ og nýja lagið okkar!
Grapevine magazine writes about our new single – check this out!


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LuxFLAG is pleased to welcome AllianceBernstein, Backbone, CA Indosuez Wealth (Asset Management), Falcon Fund Management, Fidelity International, SDL and Trident Trust as new Associate members, counting 69 members in total.
AllianceBernstein: As a leading investment management and research firm, AB's unique combination of expertise, insights and global reach allows them to anticipate and advance the interests of their clients around the world.
Backbone: Backbone is an advisory company whose aim is to support the development of Impact Investing as an alternative financing and investment process. They provide technical services to investment and financial players that want to support SME-financing and other forms of social finance.
CA Indosuez Wealth (Asset Management): CA Indosuez Wealth (Asset Management) was founded in 2014 as the Asset Management company of CA Indosuez Wealth (Group). The Management Company allows the Group to offer a comprehensive range of funds that can mainly be found in Indosuez Funds, and which are suited to the needs of its clients.
Falcon Fund Management: Falcon Fund Management Ltd. was incorporated in 1988 and has extensive experience of implementing individual fund solutions. In the administration and custody area, they work together with Hauck&Aufhäuser Fund Services S.A. They have a broad range of five umbrella structures featuring high-quality investment funds domiciled in Luxembourg with distribution licenses in several European countries currently managing 15 UCITs funds, including simple products such as funds of funds and equity funds as well as an insurance-linked strategy fund.
Fidelity International: Fidelity International is a global leader in the investment and retirement savings business since 1969. By investing in companies with high standards of corporate responsibility, Fidelity International aims at protecting and enhancing investment returns. Thanks to a strong commitment to responsible investing, Fidelity International gains an in-depth understanding of Environmental, Social and Governance aspects - leading to better investment outcomes for clients.
SDL: Donnelley Language Solutions, which is now part of SDL, is a leading provider of language services and technology. We support many of the leading global organizations and brands with a full range of multilingual communications solutions that break down barriers, build connections and deliver measurable results.
Trident Trust: Trident Trust is a leading independent corporate, fiduciary and fund administrator, employing nearly 800 staff across a global footprint that spans Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East. They provide a comprehensive range of services to over 500 alternative investment funds worldwide with AUM in excess of $35bn. The investment funds they support include a substantial number of funds active in emerging markets, as well as impact investing funds. Established in 2009, their experienced professional multilingual team in Luxembourg is able to assist with all aspects of the establishment and administration of Luxembourg companies and (un) regulated investment funds.

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Hoi An was an important trading port during the Champa Kingdom in the 7th Century. It traded in spices with Indonesia even then and if you visit the Hoi An Central Market during your vacation in Vietnam you are likely to smell the herbs and spices much as the locals did all those centuries ago. Hoi An is in Central Vietnam and many Vietnam packages include time in Central Vietnam whether clients are heading north or south.
The city has a rich history and overseas tourists are certain to enjoy a visit. When it comes to shopping in Hoi An, the Central Market should be the first stop. As well as herbs and spices, shoppers will see lovely silk products and just a tip; the further you go into the market, the more likely you are to find a bargain. The Market has plenty of fresh food stalls and fish; it is actually located next to the Thu Bon River where they are caught. There is an early start with fishermen dropping off their catch early in the morning. As the day progresses the smell increases; live ducks and other livestock will be on sale as well.
There are tailors who can make things to measure if you are staying for 24 hours.
You should haggle without losing your temper and walk away if you are not happy; it is important to local Vietnamese that they do not lose face in negotiations and that everyone is happy at the end of the transaction.
• Hoi An Silk Village offers the expensive end of the market and is especially interesting because you can learn more about the silk making process.
• Cocobox Farm Shop in the centre of the ancient town sells organic and fair trade goods only; coffee, jams and honey, sauces and lotions.
• Metiseko sells women’s clothing and accessories and is near the Japanese Covered Bridge.
• Aobaba Hoi An is a highly-recommended tailor’s shop, family owned.
• Lifestart Foundation Workshop helps poor and disadvantaged locals selling art, handicrafts, some clothing and handbags.
• If you are interested in jewellery pay a visit to Lotus Jewellery; there are two shops in Ho An.
• Reaching Out Arts and Crafts is a fair-trade establishment with proceeds again going to the disadvantaged. You can enjoy a quiet tea or coffee on the courtyard before or after browsing the many handicrafts on sale.
• Hoi An Fine Art Gallery is a refurbished colonial building and sells prints from the French photographer, Etienne Bossot. Once you order, that order will be sent to Australia for printing but you can expect the goods in 7 days to the address you provide.
• Friendly Shoe Shop makes shoes to order. There is plenty of stock on display and catalogues from which you can select the style you want.
Even if you are in the middle of your tour in Vietnam, you may see things that leave you unconcerned about carrying a little extra weight for the remainder of your holiday.

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Cohen-Poradosu R, Kasper DL. Cohen-Poradosu R, Kasper D.L. Cohen-Poradosu, Ronit, and Dennis L. Kasper.Infections Due to Mixed Anaerobic Organisms. In: Kasper D, Fauci A, Hauser S, Longo D, Jameson J, Loscalzo J. Kasper D, Fauci A, Hauser S, Longo D, Jameson J, Loscalzo J Eds. Dennis Kasper, et al.eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2014. http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1130&sectionid=79736907. Accessed April 23, 2019.
Cohen-Poradosu R, Kasper DL. Cohen-Poradosu R, Kasper D.L. Cohen-Poradosu, Ronit, and Dennis L. Kasper.. "Infections Due to Mixed Anaerobic Organisms." Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19e Kasper D, Fauci A, Hauser S, Longo D, Jameson J, Loscalzo J. Kasper D, Fauci A, Hauser S, Longo D, Jameson J, Loscalzo J Eds. Dennis Kasper, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2014, http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1130&sectionid=79736907.
Anaerobes comprise the predominant class of bacteria of the normal human microbiota (formerly termed “the normal human flora”) that reside on mucous membranes and predominate in many infectious processes, particularly those arising from mucosal surfaces. These organisms generally cause disease subsequent to the breakdown of mucosal barriers and the leakage of the microbiota into normally sterile sites. Infections resulting from contamination by the microbiota are usually polymicrobial and involve both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. However, the difficulties encountered in handling specimens in which anaerobes may be important and the technical challenges entailed in cultivating and identifying these organisms in clinical microbiology laboratories continue to leave the anaerobic etiology of an infectious process unproven in many cases. Therefore, an understanding of the types of infections in which anaerobes can play a role is crucial in selecting appropriate microbiologic tools to identify the organisms in clinical specimens and in choosing the most appropriate treatment, including antibiotics and surgical drainage or debridement of the infected site.
This chapter focuses on infections caused by nonsporulating anaerobic bacteria. It does not address clostridial infections and syndromes, which are covered elsewhere (Chaps. 161 and 179).
Anaerobic bacteria are organisms that require reduced oxygen tension for growth, failing to grow on the surface of solid media in 10% CO2 in air. (In contrast, microaerophilic bacteria can grow in an atmosphere of 10% CO2 in air or under anaerobic or aerobic conditions, although they grow best in the presence of only a small amount of atmospheric oxygen, and facultative bacteria can grow in the presence or absence of air). Most clinically relevant anaerobes, such as Bacteroides fragilis, Prevotella melaninogenica, and Fusobacterium nucleatum, are relatively aerotolerant. Although they can survive for sustained periods in the presence of up to 2–8% oxygen, they generally do not multiply in this environment. A smaller number of pathogenic anaerobic bacteria (which are also part of the microbiota) die after brief contact with oxygen, even in low concentrations.


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Getting information the "last mile"
People need knowledge so they can help themselves to solve problems and get out of poverty, but reaching isolated people in poor rural communities can be especially hard.
To meet this challenge, Practical Action has developed the gyaner haat, an innovative model of decentralised knowledge centres.
The government of Bangladesh, with the support of the UN Development Programme, has established some 4,500 information centres across the country to give people greater access to various e-services and information.
In a pilot project in 30 of these centres, we established the Gyaner Haat (literally, knowledge bazaar). They are often located in a room as part of the local council office and work best near crowded places, such as markets, schools, colleges, council or NGO offices and micro-credit centres.
On a day-to-day basis the haat is managed by an entrepreneur who generates enough income to keep it going. They usually do this through selling ICT services, photocopying and similar activities.
From each haat, a network of around 12 extension workers reach out to the community, gathering people's questions about agriculture, fisheries and livestock, and spreading knowledge and skills about best practice – particularly when it comes to the use of technologies. The extension workers are self-sustaining because they also sell value-added services like crop spraying or animal vaccinations.
Practical Action’s technical enquiry service (Practical Answers) collects questions from the grassroots and develops multimedia content based on the most frequently asked questions. These are in Bengali and made into audio-visual materials.
Practical Action’s Bengali knowledge website has been developed to be a reliable source of contents on location-specific problems on agriculture, fisheries, livestock, market system development, waste management, housing and eco-sanitation, and this can be accessed through the Gyaner Haats.
One centre can provide services to at least 2,500 households in between 10 and 15 villages. A farmer, who gets information and services from an extension worker, will excahnge this knowledge with other farmers, and the Gyaner Haat continues to operate as a technical ‘backstop’. In this way, technology and knowledge spreads fast and a sustainable ‘knowledge net’ is created.
This sharing and effective use of knowledge at the grassroots really works.
Babur Ali, from a village in the coastal Shatkhira district, has benefited from advice and support from extension worker Abdul Ahad. He had a goat that had stopped feeding. He received de-worming tablets, powder and vitamin injection from Ahad, which significantly improved the goat's health and it began feeding again.
Similarly, shrimp farmer Bishawjit Mondol has been able to control snail infestations at his farm after he learned how to use tobacco powder as bio-pesticide from a fisheries rural extension worker who had been trained through the Gyaner Haat in Atulia Union.
The exciting thing is that we are helping the official government extension workers to reach much further down into the community, to real farmers who can benefit from their knowledge – really reaching that last mile. This helps a large and slow bureaucracy turn into something more agile and able to meet the needs of the poor.
We use similar approaches to knowledge sharing in different parts of the world, adjusting to the local context.
For instance, in Nepal we work out of local community libraries. There is less emphasis on extension workers being able to answer questions immediately, and instead enquiries are gathered together for experts to answer. In some cases the enquiries are passed up to a national radio station who record an interview with an expert for broadcast – which is then taken on a laptop back to the community.
Voice recordings have also been a key part of work in Zimbabwe, where we have taken podcasts into the community on MP3 players. We started this digital extension and are now trying to get the national ministry extension service (Agritex) to adopt and expand it. Again, it is local knowledge brokers who go out into the field, meet communities, play podcasts and then pick up further feedback and enquiries.

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New master plan developed to combat complaints.
Bali’s provincial administration plans to launch a new master plan to combat challenges and complaints faced by the current tourism development scheme.
The master plan would be based on a blueprint of four key pillars, will cover short, medium and long-term tourism development programs and adhere to all government decrees and bylaws, the Jakarta Post reported.
The four pillars cover destination development, promotion, the tourism industry and human resource development.
“The bottom line is to create Bali as a quality tourist destination – inside and outside,” Bali province tourism office head Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu said.
Complaints from visitors and international tourism institutions include a lack of infrastructure, security issues, connectivity and garbage management.
Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban received a US$211 million upgrade but this is considered only a short-term solution to looming infrastructure troubles facing the island.
“It is predicted that the number of passengers using the airport’s services will rocket in the coming years, while at that time, Ngurah Rai will no longer be able to accommodate the rising demands,” Mr Subhiksu said.
Asia-Pacific travellers monopolised Balinese tourism, snatching almost 60 percent of the 2.12 million foreign visitors to Bali during the first nine months of 2012.
The Badung and Gianyar regencies and Denpasar mayoralty plan to issue new tourism strategies based upon the proposed provincial tourism blueprints.


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A few points of reference from this week of flourishing resistance.
I made and gifted this papercut-and-ink poster. It was inspired by Rep. John Lewis and Susan O’Malley. Still learning.
Last night, I co-hosted a Protest Sign Work Party. We supplied paper in fluorescent red, aqua blue, navy blue, gold, and silver. I was elated to see a lot of great paper-cutting, hand lettering, and creative messages. It was heartening to hold space, share, and prepare for the NYC Women’s March on Saturday, among other actions.
Thanks to SOHO20, Rachel Vera Steinberg, everyone who braved the rain and cold to participate, and Materials for the Arts (an amazing NYC city institution!).
I love what Culture Strike posted about the power of artists’ resistance.
Saying no to opportunities can be trying, but it’s a choice we all have, and we have to exercise it to understand our capacities to resist. We can’t afford complicity. Now is a time for opposition (we can oppose with revolutionary love; see Representative John Lewis’ interview with Krista Tippett on On Being).
*As per my last post about not re-inscribing power, I redacted the name. I’ll try out different ways to avoid adding to […]’s over-representation. The parens and ellipse are sort of nice because power is inherently empty (H/T Amanda Curreri), and those who occupy it can be displaced (H/T Kerry James Marshall).
Friday’s ArtStrike is spurring soul-searching among some artists, who question the efficacy of participating. To me the answer is obvious: collective action is comprised of personal actions. But that’s hard to see without a sense of social purpose.
Perhaps, if it develops social purpose, then the project of seeing ourselves as interdependently entangled, and as agents, not subjects is necessary and urgent work.
One aspect of autocracy that offends is the intentional disregard for others. The autocrat exempts himself from principles foundational to social bonding: fairness, mutuality, accountability, integrity. (As M said, the spectrum of possibilities of the unreasonable continues to widen.) Simultaneously, being emotionally immature, thin-skinned, reactionary, petty, and vindictive describes a counter-example of how to be in the world. I would like to craft my resistance on my terms, to self-determine my emotional tone of resolve.
While organizing artists is notoriously difficult—like “herding cats” as the cliché goes—maybe that means, optimistically, we’re inclined towards ungovernability.
OK, you’ve got cats, artists, ungovernability—this is so meme-ready, artists. Go with it!


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Washington DC -Â The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) released a “Report Card” on the Obama Administration’s efforts over the past year to reform, if not end, the failed “War on Drugs” which has turned out to be a “war against poor and powerless black people across the country”.
“Over the past year, the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) has invested a significant amount of time and resources in research, advocacy and organizing around the War on Drugs”, said Dr. Ron Daniels, IBW’s President. “A year ago, hundreds of protestors from New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington DC came together in the nation’s capital to proclaim that we have suffered long enough and that the time had come to bring an end to an ill-conceived and destructive policy/strategy”.
A year later, on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the declared ‘War on Drugs’, IBW is releasing a “report card” on the response of the Obama Administration to the demands we made a year ago. Our report which gives the Administration a C grade finds a mixed record of some significant steps taken by the White House and the Justice Department over the past 12 months along with persistent and unacceptable inaction and foot-dragging in a number of critical areas.
“In short, while progress has been made to cease the most repressive and racially discriminatory drug policies, there’s still much left to be done to bring a speedy and comprehensive end to the War on Drugs and to begin repairing the horrible damage it has visited on black communities across the country,” said Dr. Daniels.
While IBW’s “Report Card” concludes by re-stating a number of demands and by offering several concrete proposals and recommendations to the Obama Administration in the area of drug policy reform, perhaps the most urgent priority in our war on the “War on Drugs” is to immediately de-criminalize the possession and use of small amounts of marijuana.
Half of the “War on Drugs” is a war on marijuana and black people are arrested at 5-9 times the rate of whites for marijuana possession even though the rates of marijuana consumption are roughly the same between blacks and whites. Other marijuana data compiled over the last year continues to reflect a persistent pattern of disproportionate and racially imbalanced punitive practices for drug-related offenses.
*	Intensify efforts to eliminate the disparity in sentencing between powdered and crack cocaine.
* Issue an Executive Order terminating the War on Drugs and replacing it with a national initiative that treats drugs and drug addiction as a public health issue.
*	Issue an Executive Order ending the practice of using incarcerated persons as prison labor.
*	Allocate more federal funds for drug education, counseling and treatment.
*	Form a Presidential Commission to initiate a National Dialogue on the regulation and taxation of drugs.
* Mobilize moral and political support for direct public sector jobs and sustainable economic development programs with priority inclusion of formerly incarcerated persons targeted to transform distressed Black communities.

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Model: If I were my father, I'd have to work for more than eight hours a day.
1.	If I were my father, I'd have to drive a car.
2.	If I were my father, I'd have to make important decisions.
3.	If I were my father, I'd have to earn the living for the family.
4.	If I were my father, I'd have to take care of the family.
5.	If I were my father, I'd have to take my little brother to school.
D. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form.
1. Here are the most important rules: to be professional, which means Presentation, Punctuality, Preparation; to be organized; to express clearly what kind of job is suitable for you; to prove that you are responsible.


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2019 is off to a swift and tumultuous beginning. In the context of the partial federal government shutdown and the LAUSD Teacher’s strike, our deepest regards go out to everyone who is personally and/or professionally impacted. During this period of tension and intense negotiation, AIA|LA is sensitive to the demands of the profession to deliver the design services that ensure the establishment of safe, healthy and resilient communities.
In early February at Hanson LA, we will have our first POC meeting to further discuss the connection between Governor Newsom’s budget proposal and our advocacy platform “Design For Dignity & Housing For All”. Details are still pending and will be shared ASAP.
We will also be focused on the specific follow-up actions that have resulted from the meetings we had with city officials at our recent Legislative Day at City Hall.
The creation of a rapid contracting & small business inclusion program initiative w/ Department of Recreation and Parks.
Programming a series of roundtables with civic leaders to discuss the direct correlation between density, design, climate change & preparing the region for the 2028 Olympics & Paralympics.
AIA|LA encourages architects and designers to participate as volunteers for the annual LA County Homeless Count, which will be on Thursday, January 24. An accurate count helps foster a better understanding of the impact of homelessness in our region and helps direct resources to areas most in need. For more information and to sign-up as a volunteer, CLICK HERE.
Are you currently working on a housing or mixed-use development project and is that project proposal taking advantage of some of the RFA, FAR and density-bonuses offered by the recently adopted Transit Oriented Communities guidelines?
If so, read on. This may help shed some light on all the layers of complexity.
On January 9, 2019 the Executive Office of the Los Angeles Department of Planning (DCP) issued an advisory memo on the applicability of certain TOC incentives in CRA/LA redevelopment plan areas. In short, the memo is advising project applicants to consult with their assigned project planners because the TOC incentives, as recognized under Measure JJJ, may not be able to receive clearance by CRA/LA staff at this time. Redevelopment project areas of LA that may be especially effected include the following: City Center, Central Industrial, Hollywood, North Hollywood, Wilshire Center/ Koreatown, and Pacific Corridor. Which are six of the twenty unexpired redevelopment project areas where the CRA/LA still has land-use authority.
Citywide, the 20 unexpired Redevelopment Project Areas include: East Hollywood/Beverly-Normandie; North Hollywood; Chinatown; Broadway/Manchester; Wilshire/Koreatown; Crenshaw; Crenshaw/Slauson; Watts Corridor; Council District 9; Hollywood; Mid-City; Western Slauson; Vermont/Manchester; Laurel Canyon; Westlake; Exposition/University Park; Adelante Eastside; Pacific Corridor; City Center; and Central Industrial.
On June 27, 2018 CRA/LA issued a memo to remind us that they do indeed still have land-use authority. In the meantime, on December 20, 2018 the City Planning Commission vote 6 to 0 to adopt a DCP staff report and approve and recommend the Resolution transferring land-use authority from the CRA/LA to the City of Los Angeles, as well as, approve and recommend the Ordinance to implement the Redevelopment Plans.
DCP staff is working with potentially impacted applicants that are currently in the entitlement pipeline. If you think your project may be impacted because it falls under one of the areas above, then your advised to contact your project planner or the City of LA development services center. Please connect with me, as well at will@aialosangeles.org — I’d like to begin tracking these projects to identify ways to be more supportive of the process.
This matter will next be heard by City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management committee, hopefully within the next month or so. Once the hearing has been confirmed, I will be engaging the AIA|LA membership to share support for the land-use authority transfer. In the meantime, I will be working with my contacts at City Hall to determine what density bonus provisions will be finalized once City of LA assumes land-use authority.
Essentially, the complexity is triggered when a locally-adopted ordinance intersects with state authorized density bonus, etc. and too often this intersection is riddled with complexity, conflict and unintended consequences.
What we need to do most, as a City, is dedicate more funding to long-term, meaningful and inclusive community planning. Let’s invest in our future by spending real money on these plans, which will more adequately prepare us for the challenges were facing regarding housing, public health and climate change. The return on investment is vast and it allows us to solve tomorrow’s problems today.


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The principal mission of the Downtown Synagogue is to serve as a beacon for the entire Jewish community of Metropolitan Detroit by maintaining an egalitarian synagogue, rooted in Jewish tradition and affirming of pluralistic practice, in downtown Detroit. It encourages inter-generational engagement and promotes broad-based participation by offering a wide range of programming and acting as a conduit for Jewish activity in the city. It is committed to supporting the revitalization of Detroit; and assuring accessibility to all.
I look forward to seeing you at our congregational seder on April 15 (the Monday before Pesach begins). After rave reviews from last year, we will be partnering again with the Bethel Community Transformation Center, as together we explore the journey toward freedom and justice through ritual, reflection, story, song, and, of course, a delicious meal.
The number of children in our IADS membership family is approaching double-chai. That means that number has more than tripled in the last five years, and it continues to grow. These kids are (sometimes jumping) on the bima, and they, along with their parents, are celebrating and studying Judaism together.
We are about to enter the month of Adar, a full month in which our tradition calls on us to be happy. And this year, as we include the leap month of the Jewish calendar, two months of Adar double our required period of happiness. Oy. For some of us it can be a challenge to be happy for two full days, much less two full months. And much like our new year’s resolutions, our first few failures sometimes cause us to give up on the whole project.
Schmooze at 5:30 p.m. with refreshments. Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:00 p.m. Nosh - dinner served immediately following services.
Saturdays, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.


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Special rate for AMP, contact hotel or visit link below to book your room for $109.00 only.


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Maryland officials are looking to use micro-loans as a key tool in neighborhood revitalization, congratulating one state department on its efforts to support small business following the Freddie Gray protests.
The Neighborhood BusinessWorks loan program offers gap-financing to small businesses located in areas of need, and Business Recovery Loan is an emergency program recently enacted to offer no-interest loans to small businesses affected by the riots.
Since clean-up efforts had begun, DHCD and First Lady Yumi Hogan have had meetings with small business owners. Yumi Hogan is Korean-American and discussed in Korean the programs the state offers to help businesses regain their footing in the community.
The department has translated loan applications into Spanish and Korean and plan to translate to other languages as needed.
Funding for the Maryland Business Recovery loan program comes out of the state’s $5 million Neighborhood BusinessWorks loan program, created to support businesses that can’t fully finance their openings, renovations or expansions from private sources.
To qualify for the program, business must be located in “Sustainable Communities,” areas identified by county governments as a low-income area in need of a revitalization strategy or guided investments.
Businesses may be awarded up to $35,000 for micro-loans (at 0% interest) and typically up to $500,000 for larger loans (at 4% interest).
“We are not replacing the private sector, we are providing a bridge for small business owners who are not able to fully finance their projects,” said Gilbert.
Peabody Heights Brewery, located in the heart of Charles Village just north of downtown Baltimore near Johns Hopkins University, was approved by BPW for a maximum $500,000 loan through the Neighborhood BusinessWorks program.
With state assistance, the expanding brewery plans to nearly double its jobs, partner with more brewers across the state, open a tasting room and recently installed more fermenters.
Gilbert estimates the impact breweries have in Maryland is about $450 million a year.
The brewery itself operates as a co-op for local craft brewers, who use the space to produce beers like Raven Beer, Public Works’ Ale, Full Tilt’s Baltimore Pale Ale and a soon-to-be released Old Oriole Park Bohemian Lager, tying into the brewery’s historic location.
“It’s a great example of entrepreneurial spirit and how a little help from the state can invest and create jobs in an area that desperately needs them,” said Gov. Hogan.
Brewer Grahm Crisler walks down aisle of fermenters.
Peabody draws in business from brew-pubs from across the state.
During a tour at the brewery this week, Mike Kolankowski, assistant general manager and brewer at Peabody, said he believes the brewing industry in Maryland has great potential for growth as these beer-focused restaurants begin to expand.
According to Gilbert, Housing and Community Development Secretary Kenneth Holt hopes to expand the Neighborhood BusinessWorks Program from a $5 million program to a $50 million program in future years.


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Greek Cypriot President Anastasiades has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
In the letter he accuses the special adviser on Cyprus, Alexander Downer of playing up the significance of the dinner to be held between the leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriots on May 29th. As far as Anastasiades is concerned, the dinner is a social event and should not be regarded as a political meeting. In fact he threatens to reconsider his acceptance of the dinner invitation.

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For many photographers, a tripod is indispensable. It holds the camera steady when you’re using slow shutter speeds or when you have a long telephoto lens attached. It assures that there will be a minimum of camera movement to blur a picture.
Make sure that the legs extend and contract easily and that the tripod raises to the height you want. Check to see that all adjustments lock securely.
If you are going to photograph small subjects at ground level, be sure that the tripod centre column reverses so that the camera can be mounted close to the ground.
Make sure that the plate with a screw that inserts into the bottom of the camera, is strong enough to hold a camera and a long telephoto lens.
Learn how to use a tripod for photography and how to choose the right one for your needs.
All photographic tripods have three legs and a mounting head to couple with a camera.
There is a huge selection of photographic accessories to help you carry, support, adapt and repair your camera.
You can also improvise, using tape, strings and clips, or modify your gear to extend its use. A bracket or clamp can hold your camera or light in an unusual position. Clips and grips can hold props or clothing in position.
A professional aluminium case with foam padding offers greater protection, reflects the sun heat and can be used as a seat or stand.
A sturdy tripod is needed to support a camera during long exposures or when a long lens is used.
A lightweight model is more portable and can be stabilized by adding weights.
The monopod is a lighter, one-legged tripod used to help steady the camera.
Get a set of boxes that fit inside one another can be used to store accessories, support cameras, and raise models and props.
Use an app to check weather and road reports.
If equipment is neglected it will stop working or produce inferior pictures. Keep a range of tools and accessories to hand for regular cleaning.
Tripods range in size from small tabletop models to tall studio stands. Be sure to get a sturdy one even though it may weigh more.


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We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to EMENA-ISTL’19. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.
Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 6-page limit.
Submitted papers must comply with the format of Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Serie SIST (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a Word Template or Latex Package) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system.
Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in within the series “Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies” SIST Series. Poster and company papers will be published by EMENA. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 15 th of August, 2019, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference.
Authors with best selected papers will be invited to prepare and submit extended versions to be considered, after a new peer review, for publication in several special issues of scientific journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others (more journals will be communicated later).