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1. 王晓龙, 刘秉权, 汤步洲, 林磊, 刘远超, 王轩, 陈清财. 语句级中英文混合输入方法. 专利号(201010566505.6), 授权日期：2012年06月27日.
2. 王晓龙, 刘秉权, 汤步洲, 单丽莉, 孙承杰, 刘铭, 陈清财, 王轩. 词汇自适应中文输入方法. 专利号(201010551084.X), 授权日期：2012年07月04日.
1.	Mei Liu, Yong Hu, Buzhou Tang. Role of Text Mining in Early Identification of Potential Drug Safety Issues (Chapter 13). Biomedical Literature Mining, Methods in Molecular Biology, 1159:227-251. Humana Press. 2014.
13.	Buzhou Tang, Hongxin Cao, Xiaolong Wang, Qingcai Chen, Hua Xu. Evaluating Word Representation Features in Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Tasks. Biomed Research International. vol. 2014, Article ID 240403, 6 pages, doi:10.1155/2014/240403. 2014. (JCR二区, IF: 3.169).
16.	Shengyu Liu, Buzhou Tangʂ, Qingcai Chen, Xialong Wang, Xiaoming Fan. Feature Engineering for Drug Name Recognition in Biomedical Texts: Feature Conjunction and Feature Selection. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. Volume 2015, Article ID 913489, 9 pages, dio:10.1155/2015/913489. 2015. (JCR三区, IF: 0.887).
22.	Min Jiang, Yang Huang, Jung-wei Fan, Buzhou Tang, Josh Denny, Hua Xu. Parsing clinical text: how good are the state-of-the-art parsers?. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 15(Suppl 1):S2. 2015. (JCR二区, IF: 2.024).
23.	Jingting Mai, Fei Wang, Qiong Qiu, Buzhou Tang, YongQing Lin, NianSang Luo, WoLiang Yuan, XiaoLong Wang, Qingcai Chen, JingFeng Wang, YangXin Chen. Tachycardia pacing induces myocardial neovascularization and mobilizes circulating endothelial progenitor cells partly via SDF-1 pathway in canines. Heart and vessels. dio:10.1007/s00380-014-0613-5. 2014. (JCR三区, IF: 2.065).
24.	Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, Xuan Wang. Comparisons of Sequence Labeling Algorithms. ICIC Express Letters, Part B: Applications. 1(2):241-246. 2010. (20105113504753).
25.	Buzhou Tang, Xuan Wang, Xiaolong Wang. Chinese Word Segmentation Based on Large Margin Methods. International Journal of Asian Language Processing. 19(1):55-68. 2009.
26.	Shengyu Liu, Buzhou Tangʂ, Qingcai Chen, Xiaolong Wang. Effects of Semantic Features on Machine Learning-Based Drug Name Recognition Systems: Word Embeddings vs. Manually Constructed Dictionaries. Information. 6(4): 848-865. 2015.
27.	Shengyu Liu, Buzhou Tangʂ, Qingcai Chen, Xiaolong Wang. Drug Name Recognition: Approaches and Resources. Information. 6(4): 790-810. 2015.
28.	Bin Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Ruifeng Xu, Buzhou Tang. Protein Remote Homology Detection by Combining Profile-based Protein Representation with Local Alignment Kernel. Journal of Medical and Bioengineering. Vol 3(1):17-22. 2014.
29.	Lei Lin, Bin Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Xuan Wang, Buzhou Tang. Protein Remote Homology Detection and Fold Recognition Based on Features Extracted from Frequency Profiles. JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS. 6(2):321-328. 2011. (20110813689836).
30.	汤步洲, 王晓龙, 王轩. 置信度加权在线序列标注算法. 自动化学报. 37(2):188-195. 2011. ( 20111413898640).
31.	汤步洲, 王晓龙, 王轩, 张强. 语句级汉子拼音输入技术评估方法的研究. 中文信息学报. 22(5): 51-55. 2008.
32.	刘峰, 王晔晗, 汤步洲, 王晓龙, 王轩. 基于Android的智能中文输入法. 计算机工程. 37(21):225-227. 2011.
1.	Buzhou Tang, Qingcai Chen, Xiaolong Wang, Yonghui Wu, Yaoyun Zhang, Min Jiang, Jingqi Wang, Hua Xu. Recognizing Disjoint Clinical Concepts in Clinical Text Using Machine Learning-based Methods. Proceedings of American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. pages 1184-1193. 2015.
2.	Buzhou Tang, Yonghui Wu, Min Jiang, Hua Xu. Clinical Entity Recognition Using Structural Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. 2012.
3.	Zengjian Liu, Buzhou Tang*, Xiaolong Wang, Qingcai Chen. CMedTEX: A Rule-based Temporal Expression Extraction and Normalization System for Chinese Clinical Notes. Proceedings of American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. 2016.
5.	Yi Chen, Xiaolong Wang, Buzhou Tang*, Junzhao Bu, Qingcai Chen, Xin Xiang. Structural regularity exploration in multidimensional networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing. pages 532-540. 2015.
6.	Yi Chen, Xiaolong Wang, Buzhou Tang*, Junzhao Bu, Xin Xiang. User recommendation based on network structure in social networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing. pages 488-496. 2015.
9.	Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, Yonghui Wu, Min Jiang, Jingqi Wang, Hua Xu. Recognizing Chemical Entities using Conditional Random Fields and Structured Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the Fourth BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop. vol.2, 74-78. 2013.
10.	Buzhou Tang, Yonghui Wu, Min Jiang, Josh C. Denny, Hua Xu. Recognizing and Encoding Disorder Concepts in Clinical Texting using Machine Learning and Vector Space Model. Working Notes of CLEF 2013 Evaluation Labs and Workshop. 2013.
15.	Junzhao Bu, Buzhou Tang*, Xiaolong Wang, Qingcai Chen, Zengjian Liu, Haodi Li. HTSZ_CEM System for Chemical Entity Mention Recognition in Patents. Proceedings of the Fifth BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop. pages 116-118. 2015.
16.	Haodi Li, Qingcai Chen, Buzhou Tang*, Dong Huang, Xiaolong Wang, Zengjian Liu. An Initial Ingredient Analysis of Drugs Approved by China Food and Drug Administration. Proceedings of Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Semantic, Knowledge, and Linked Big Data. pp.104-109. 2016.
17.	YaHui Zhao, Haodi Li, Qingcai Chen, Jianglu Hu, Guangpeng Zhang, Dong Huang, Buzhou Tang*. ICRC-DSEDL: A Film Named Entity Discovery and Linking System Based on Knowledge Bases. Proceedings of Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Semantic, Knowledge, and Linked Big Data. pp.205-213. 2016.
18.	Haodi Li, Qingcai Chen, Kai Chen, Buzhou Tang*. HITSZ_CDR System for Disease and Chemical Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction. Proceedings of the Fifth BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop. pages 196-201. 2015.
20.	Min Jiang, Josh C. Denny, Buzhou Tang, Hongxin Cao, Hua Xu. Extracting Semantic Lexicons from Discharge Summaries using Machine Learning and the C-Value Method. Proceedings of American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. pp.409–416. 2012.
21.	Yonghui Wu, Jianbo Lei, Wei-Qi Wei, Buzhou Tang, Joshua C. Denny, S. Trent Rosenbloomc, Ran-dolph A. Miller, Dario A. Giusec, Kai Zheng, Hua Xu. Analyzing Differences between Chinese and English Clinical Text: A Cross-Institution Comparison of Discharge Summaries in Two Languages. MedInfo. 19:662-666. 2013.
22.	Xiaoqiang Zhou, Baotian Hu, Qingcai Chen, Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang. Answer Sequence Learning with Neural Networks for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering. Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics. pages 713-718. 2015.
23.	Yang Xiang, Xiaoqiang Zhou, Qingcai Chen, Zhihui Zheng, Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, Yang Qin. Incorporating Label Dependency for Answer Quality Tagging in Community Question Answering via CNN-LSTM-CRF. Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. pp. 1231–1241. 2016.
26.	Yonghui Wu, Buzhou Tang, Min Jiang, Sungrim Moon, Hua Xu. Clinical Acronym/Abbreviation Normalization using a Hybrid Approach. Working Notes of CLEF 2013 Evaluation Labs and Workshop. 2013.
27.	Yaoyun Zhang, Jingqi Wang, Buzhou Tang, Yonghui Wu, Min Jiang, Yukun Chen, Hua Xu. UTH_CCB: A Report for SemEval 2014–Task 7 Analysis of Clinical Text. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014). pages 802-806. 2014.
30.	Min Jiang, Yang Huang, Jung-wei Fan, Buzhou Tang, Josh Denny, Hua Xu. Parsing clinical text: how good are the state-of-the-art parsers?. Proceedings of the ACM Seventh International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics. pages 1-5. 2014.
31.	Yaoyun Zhang, Trevor Cohen, Min Jiang, Buzhou Tang, Hua Xu. Evaluation of Vector Space Models for Medical Disorders Information Retrieval. Working Notes of CLEF 2013 Evaluation Labs and Workshop. 2013.
32.	Yaoyun Zhang, Jun Xu, Chenlong Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Ruifeng Xu, Qingcai Chen, Xuan Wang, Yongshuai Hou, Buzhou Tang. ICRC_HITSZ at RITE: leveraging multiple classifiers voting for textual entailment recognition. Proceedings of the NTCIR-9 Workshop. pp.325-329. 2011.


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Disorders of the hip can cause referred pain into the groin, thigh and buttock, as well as the hip itself. The hip joint is the body's largest ball and socket joint, and handles a lot of stress during activity. Most hip disorders are chronic (ie osteoarthritis), and characterized by aching pain worsened with activity. However, there are also several tendon and ligament bands which play a role in painful conditions of the hip.
As with most joints, the cartilage associated with the hip joint is susceptible to wear and tear, which can be a source of pain. The hip joint is also covered with thick bands of tissue which keeps the joint contained and helps with movement. This is called the capsule. In addition to those, there are also tendons, ligaments and muscles in the hip joint which can all be a source of pain in that area. Because of this, diagnosing the origin and cause of the pain is a vital step in managing the pain.
The hip, as the shoulder, is a complex joint. However, unlike the shoulder, most hip conditions are intra-articular, due to labral tears, osteoarthritis, bursitis, or chronic degeneration. MRI studies and directed nerve blocks can help determine if the condition is due to the hip joint, the greater trochanteric region, or the Iliotibial band, for example.
If conservative treatments fail, interventional therapies can be quite beneficial in reducing hip pain disorders. Conventional therapies can include nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation. Regenerative therapies may aid in reducing the inflammatory component within the joint capsule (Platelet Rich Plasma allographs), aid in reducing the degenerative process (Stem Cell Grafts and Exosomes) and help heal ligament and tendon injuries.

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Made this on Friday for dinner, yum. Some mods, doubled the garlic/cinnamon, skipped the ginger (blech!) and japaleno, blended it so the boy would eat it. Big hit with everyone. Thick and creamy with BIG flavours.
Used the leftover soup to marinate chicken breasts for dinner on Sunday. Delish!
Note: the lime juice really makes the flavour pop – it’s a must – the flavour difference was especially notable with the chicken.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Live music coding, like other forms of programming, can require a lot of setup to get started. That’s a shame – many newcomers lose their enthusiasm as they battle editor configuration and hardware quirks. Klangmeister attacks this problem by hosting a live coding environment in the most ubiquitous programming environment in the world. Users are invited to design synthesisers and compose melodies with Lisp – without leaving the comfort of their browser.
In this demo, I’ll explain how Klangmeister makes synthesis design clear and accessible. I will show how music theoretical concepts like scales and time signatures can be elegantly modelled using higher-order functions. Finally I’ll switch from theory to praxis and livecode a piece to put Klangmeister through its paces.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Lady-to-Lady Conference is an extraordinary conference where the presence of God is experienced tangibly and has a special place in God's heart. The conference carries with it an experience that words cannot perfectly express. While we will love to describe this experience, we are equally aware that no words could perfectly express such experience hence why you will have to be present to experience it yourself. All we can say is that the experience inspires and brings about Hope, Faith and Love.
Each year is different and 2018 edition will not be an exception. The theme for 2018 is The Glory . You will be clothed in His Glory that will separate and position you for greater works, which will be evident for all to see. As it is written, "The glory of the latter will surely surpass the former". Glory!
Are you ready to move to the next level in aAre you pregnant with a dream, a vision or an idea that you are ready to birth? Then Lady-to-Lady conference 2018 is the right place to be. Lady-to-Lady will continually be on a mission to impact ladies to be confident in who they are in Christ and live out their God given purpose here on earth.

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Gul is the inspiring force behind the Islington Turkish, Cypriot and Kurdish Women’s Welfare Association, which she co founded thirty years ago. She describes combatting social isolation with food, song and seaside visits.
“I founded the association with a social worker friend back in 1987, to help women who were isolated at home. We went door to door to ask them to join us. Sometimes the husbands objected, but we asked them too! They could see that we were helping their wives, with social events but also with practical things such as housing benefit and disability forms.
We offer assistance with medical issues – we have regular visits from a breast cancer nurse, a mental health nurse and a dietician. And the police come to talk to us about drugs, so we can try to identify if our children might have a problem.
But we have a lot of fun too – we’re also a social club. We run a traditional dance group and a choir – we performed for International Women’s day at Hackney Council. There’s a cooking project every Thursday, after which we sit round a long table and eat the results, and we’ve even had a laughter therapist visit. Occasionally we get out of town to go fruit picking, we and visit the seaside in Brighton once a year.


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We are having our Cyber Monday 10% off sale at AdvanceDiesel.net until Midnight! Use promo code CYBER at checkout!
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The Go Rhino Cyber week sale already started!
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale Frenzy!

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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The primary focus of my research program in Applied Genomics and Cancer Therapeutics (AGCT) is to understand the genetic basis of ovarian cancer and to develop novel therapies that exploit genetic deficiencies in ovarian cancer.
Cancer Genomics: Funded by the Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Academy and the American Cancer Society Research Scholar grant, this research program focuses on understanding the biological pathways contributing to chemotherapy resistance.
Tumor microenvironment in ovarian cancer progression and metastasis: This program focuses on dissecting the role of serine protease HtrA1 in TGF-β signaling, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, immune modulation and metastasis.
Functional Genomics and Target Discovery: Funded by the Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program and the American Cancer Society Research Scholar grant, this program focuses on applying forward genetic screens to identify genetic dependencies and vulnerabilities in ovarian cancer and developing novel therapeutics targeting synthetic lethal interactions in ovarian cancer.
The primary focus of my research program is to understand the genetic basis of ovarian cancer and to define and characterize the functional contribution of cancer genes in molecular carcinogenesis, tumor progression, and treatment response.
As an independent investigator, my current research program in Applied Genomics and Cancer Therapeutics (AGCT) focuses on cracking the genetic code of ovarian cancer. Three areas of my research focus on Cancer Genomics, Functional Genomics, and Precision Therapeutics.
Using integrated approaches in genomics, functional genomics, and molecular genetics, the Chien Lab is characterizing the functional consequences of genetic and genomic alterations in ovarian cancer and their roles in recurrent disease and chemotherapy resistance.


text: The complex has 27 cosy rented apartments with a capacity for 2 to 12 people, all fitted with bed linen and towels, full kitchen, refrigerator, microwave oven, vitroceramic hot top, toaster, coffee machine, washing machine and hairdryer in the bathroom. Its services and installations include free Wi-Fi Internet connection throughout the establishment, free garage and car park, heating, lounge-diner, reading and television room, private lounges and lift. These apartments are adapted for the disabled and pets are allowed.


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Interesting fact: In West Virginia it is illegal to dig for ginseng on your neighbor's lawn without their permission.
n Ginseng (Bot) A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.
n ginseng A plant of the genus Aralia (Panax); also, the root of this plant, which is highly valued as a tonic and stimulant by the Chinese, who ascribe to it almost miraculous powers. The Manchurian is most esteemed, and sells for several taels per liang, or Chinese ounce (640 grains). The true ginseng, A. Ginseng, is a native of northern China and Corea. A. quinquefolia is a very closely allied species of the eastern United States, and its roots have been largely exported to China as a substitute for the true ginseng. The only medicinal effect in either case is that of a mild aromatic stimulant.
n ginseng Several plants not botanically related to the ginseng have been so named as possessing similar medical properties, as, in Georgia, the sunflower-like composite Tetragonotheca helianthoides.
n Ginseng jin′seng a plant of genus Aralia, and its root, a Chinese panacea for exhaustion of body or mind.
I will go on with my search and allow the ginseng to grow that much heavier.
It is a knobbed, irregular root, and when cooked resembles the ginseng.
He was also keeping bees and growing ginseng.
We know where to find ginseng, but genius is the secret of God.
The ginseng tree is noticed for the same appearance.
It belongs to the same family as spikenard and ginseng.
If it had not been for ginseng in Minnesota, many of the pioneers would have gone hungry.
Those river hills are covered with ginseng.
Of the vegetables used, none is more highly esteemed than the ginseng root.
How's the ginseng crop this year?
An interesting crop in our neighborhood was ginseng, of which there were several patches in cultivation.
They are natives chiefly of tropical or sub-tropical countries, and in Britain are represented by the ivy; ginseng belongs to the order.
Ginseng does splendidly under a tent if the tent is built expressly with regard to the requirements of Ginseng.
In a short semi-circle on the grass in front of him he had placed a dozen wild Ginseng roots.
On the same principle the Chinese use ginseng-root as a general tonic.
Ginseng, bears' grease, and snakeroot were at a later date collected and added to the furs and hides.
Principal exports, ginseng, hides, rice and silk.
Of the Ginseng there are three qualities sold in the Chinese drug-stores.
Lockhart gives a graphic description of a visit to a ginseng merchant.
Large quantities of ginseng were also shipped to the towns on the seaboard.
Ginseng – a perennial herb found in forests in the eastern US – effectively reduced cancer-related fatigue in patients when taken in high doses over a two month period, a new study from the Mayo Clinic found.
Ginseng reduces cancer-related fatigue, study finds.
Ginseng helps with cancer fatigue.
Ginseng Chicken Soup from Hugo's Restaurant.
Ginseng poaching in Smokies continues.
Anti-Wrinkle Activity of Hydroyzed Ginseng Saponins CosmeticsAndToiletries.com.
The 26-year-old actress revealed her current presidential pick on Thursday at a promotional event for Mr Pink's Ginseng Drink, E News reports.
The manufacturers of these products buy ginseng from a seller.
Money might not grow on trees, but it comes pretty close with wild ginseng.
Ginseng poachers take to the woods as prices soar.
As ginseng prices soar, diggers take to the backcountry .
Lohan made the comment Oct 11 reports FOX411's Pop Tarts, at the Mr Pink Ginseng Drink Launch Party in Los Angeles.
Some area ginseng farmers can now apply for some help after a tough growing season.
Several weeks ago I wrote about ginseng.
I have, in fact, been writing about ginseng for years.

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To enable the student as an actor, to explore knowledge of the cultural, social, legal and economic conditions of the performing arts industry, and to acquire skills for sustainable self-employment and promotion.
Evaluate a range of professional tools which support artistic practice.
Promote their own cultural and professional identity through the management of an event.

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I became interested in learning business optimization almost by accident.
In 2004, I spent 26 weeks in a mentorship program, working with one of the world’s top marketing consultants, a man who has generated over 7 BILLION dollars in new profits for his clients.
One of the first things he sent us students was a business self-assessment questionnaire. It contained (I kid you not!) TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT questions!
For over 18 HOURS, I answered it.
Many questions forced me to think long, hard and deep about my business – such as, for example, how to upsell products.
How strategic is my marketing?
What are my 5, 10 and 20 year goals?
Do I have predictable results?
Is my business future-proof? Or can it collapse at any time?
Am I getting the highest value from my resources?
All tough questions, needing careful thought.
That’s what took eighteen hours.
My growth since then is a reflection of my investment in time and effort – as it revealed areas I could improve, enhance and optimize.
This also made me appreciate the self-evaluation process.


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The City of London is to lose 27,000 jobs in 2011 taking the total back to levels last seen in 1998, a new report has revealed.
A report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) showed that the decline to an average of 288,000 is forecast to be followed by mainly flat growth in both 2012 and 2013.
The figures, which were revised from earlier predicted rises of 2,000 in 2011 and 3,000 in 2012, were lowered due to the implementation of increasingly tighter regulation in the financial services industry as part of the Independent Commission on Banking report led by Sir John Vickers.
CEBRâs report also cited the ongoing crisis and subsequent lack of confidence in the eurozone as reasons for the fall.
Rob Harbron, economist at CEBR and lead author of the report, said that the figures show how the position of London as a key financial hub is âincreasingly at riskâ.
âWith the possibility of further taxation and higher regulation constraining the relative desirability of London as an important financial centre, the gap between the rising Far Eastern centres such as Hong Kong and Singapore continues to narrow,â he explained.
However, further findings from the report showed that growth is expected to return to the eurozone market place by 2014.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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(The elements have a life of their own .
until my wet brush touched the page.
and preserved was a magical unrelenting force of nature.
when it comes down to the elemental in life.
– next to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum.
BTW a water museum and café are included.
Our kids had oodles of fun.
pools slides Rapids and rafting.
How wet your tanka will get.
and suddenly stand still in awe.
a chalk line blurred by rain.
thanks Traci Barlow for letting me use this capture for today’s prompt!

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What a rollercoaster weekend we have had. Proceedings began last Thursday with a special civic reception hosted by the Longford Municipal Council in honour of our guests San Francisco Youth GAA. On Friday, our U14s and the San Francisco team travelled to Edgeworthstown to march in the Féile parade through the town before taking to the field in Devine Park. Our boys were too strong for their opponents from Clontibret (Monaghan) in the first game but a sterner test awaited in the second game against the home team, Wolfe Tones. However, we produced a stunning display to win 2-4 to 1-0. We then went back to Longford town to march with our Camógie club in the Féile parade through the town. This was led from Connolly Barracks by the Longford Pipe Band. Afterwards, the San Francisco players went with our host families to stay for the weekend.
A huge crowd turned out to see the doubleheader of camógie and hurling which took place on Saturday morning in Michael Fay Park, Slashers, and both home teams were victorious. This meant that both Slashers teams had topped their respective groups and had qualified for Cup Quarterfinals in the afternoon. We journeyed to Ballinamore to take on Westmeath side Delvin and the teams were deadlocked at halftime. Our team played a stormer in the second half, winning 3-6 to 0-6. Later in the evening, our hurling and camógie clubs (the girls also won their quarterfinal) hosted a special event for our guests from San Francisco and Letterkenny St. Eunan’s Camógie Club in the Slashers grounds and clubhouse.
Next morning, we were back in Leitrim to face Kerry South in the semifinal. Our boys came storming out of the blocks and blitzed our much-vaunted opponents. Final score: Slashers 2-9 Kerry South 1-2. Meanwhile, in Athlone our camógs had also reached the final. On then to Páirc Sean Mac Diarmada in Carrick-on-Shannon where we faced another amalgamation, Northern Gaels from Wicklow. The final was a battle throughout and we had just a one point lead at halftime. Once again, though, in the second half our boys hurled like men and defended as if their lives depended on every ball. At the final whistle there were unbridled scenes of joy as players, mentors, families and supporters embraced and lauded a famous national title win. Final Score: Slashers 0-7 North Wicklow 0-3. Our emotions were compounded with news that our girls had also won their Division final and we were soon to be celebrating an historic double for the club. A huge crowd descended on the Longford Arms to celebrate with both teams for what really a special and unique achievement by the hurlers & camógs of Longford Slashers.
Thanks so much to everyone who helped or supported us on our maiden voyage as Féile na nGael hosts. We sincerely hope our guests from San Francisco will have as many happy memories of the weekend as we certainly have made. There are too many people to thank but we wish to acknowledge our Féile sponsors: Longford Arms Hotel, Crossan Cablecomm, Andy Byrne, Edward J Valentine, Macaris Deliburger, McKeon’s Railway Bar, Tally Ho, Davis’ SuperValu, Dunnes Stores, Flynn & Lynch Life & Pensions, Grattan Gaels, Barney Leavy Taxi, Donal Brady, Paul O’Brien and Bridie Gobl.

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The Convocation Book Discussion Groups are an important touch point with new Loyola students. Along with being the beginning of their academic experience at Loyola, it is their first experience with a Loyola faculty member. As the first faculty member to interact with these students, you will be in a unique place to help them transition to life at Loyola.
Shortly after New Student Convocation, you will receive the list of students from your discussion group along with their contact information. We invite you to reach out to these students during the first few weeks of the semester to see how their transition is going. This could take place over a lunch at a local restaurant with the whole group...or even just a friendly note checking in. It's up to you; but know that your influence on these students at the start of their Loyola experience is extremely meaningful.
The discussion of the themes of Finding Purpose does not end after New Student Convocation, either. Student Transitions and Outreach hosts "Communities in Conversation" throughout the year that provide students with an opportunity to deepened their understanding of the salient themes from the book. Student will be able to hear from an expert in the field from Chicago, a Loyola faculty member, and a Loyola student who will share his or her reflections. More information about this program, along with dates and locations, can be found at . We invite you to encourage your students from your discussion groups—and all Loyola students—to attend these engaging presentations.


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the moon only when it is cloudless?
these are even more deeply moving.
are worthier of our admiration.
I have every confidence it is there.
It has not moved in the night, gone to another county, blown up or melted down.
moves me more than the days it is simply given to me.
and lift my veil, just one more time.
To wait is a hard sweet paradox in the Christian life. It is hard not yet having what we know will be coming. But it is sweet to have certainty it is coming because of what we have already been given. Like the labor of childbirth, we groan knowing what it will take to get there, and we are full to brimming already.
The waiting won’t be easy; it will often be painful to be patient, staying alert to possibility and hope when we are exhausted, barely able to function. Others won’t understand why we wait, nor do they comprehend what we could possibly be waiting for. We must not wait like Herod waits, with dread and suspicion, willing to destroy what he cannot control.
This is the meaning of Advent: we are a community groaning together in sweet expectation of the breaking dawn of morning.
How do you count all the stars in the sky?
Or how can you write down a baby’s first cry?
Now we all come in, having put the garden to bed, and we wait for winter to pull a chilly sheet over its head.
Every day now we hear hunters firing in the woods and the wetlands around our farm, most likely aiming for the few ducks that have stayed in the marshes through the winter, or possibly a Canadian goose or a deer to bring home for the freezer. The usual day-long serenade of birdsong is replaced by shotguns popping, hawks and eagle screams and chittering from the treetops, the occasional dog barking, with the bluejays and squirrels arguing over the last of the filbert nuts.
In the clear cold evenings, when coyotes aren’t howling in the moonlight, the owls hoot to each other across the fields from one patch of woods to another, their gentle resonant conversation echoing back and forth. The horses confined to their stalls in the barns snort and blow as they bury their noses in flakes of summer-bound hay.
But there are no longer birdsong arias; I’m left bereft of their blending musical tapestry that wakes me at 4 AM in the spring.
And no peeper orchestra tuning up in the swamps in the evenings, rising and falling on the breeze.
It is too quiet, a time of bereavement. The chilly silence of the darkened days, interrupted by gunshot percussion, is like a baton raised in anticipation after rapping the podium to bring us all to attention. I wait and listen for the downbeat — the return of birds and frogs tuning their throats, preparing their symphony.
May their concert never end.
My soul waits for the LORD more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
will so hollow you out.
As a child, it seemed to me the wait for Christmas Day took forever. December 25 became the focal point for everything.
Now, old as I am, I’ve found the wait, the preparation itself, becomes the point. We watch Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph, Anna, Simeon, and even Herod wait.
In a community of believers, we prepare and wait together, encouraging each other through the hard times. And there are plenty of hard times.
More significantly, Someone Else waits for us.
When will we be ready to end His wait and open the door to our hearts?


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Catch up on the latest news this week of November 25th! This week in RPG news: Devil May Cry Netflix, Deadfire, Pathfinder Kingmaker and more!
Latest patch brings new weapons, weapon ranges, build adjustments and more to Immortal Unchained, read the details here!
Catch up on the latest news this week of November 4th! This week in RPG news: Fallout 76, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, The Witcher and more!
Wondering how Immortal Unchained measures up? Check out our review and see what we think!
Immortal Unchained launches this week, check out the latest teaser trailer “Are You Prepared?” as well as pre-order bonuses.
Wondering what great RPGs are coming out in September? Check out our list of the top 5! It’s not as bad as you might think!
Toadman Interactive release a new story trailer for upcoming first person shooter, action-RPG Immortal: Unchained. Get a closer look at the story-line and gameplay here!
Upcoming third-person shooter and action RPG Immortal: Unchained will release on September 7th, 2018, more info here!

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We decided that snorkeling Hanauma Bay would fit the bill because we needed to go somewhere today that was close by so that we could make an early day of it because Gary has to get up in the morning and head to the University to teach.
Once we got parked then waited to watch the video that they require you to watch and finally were able to head down to the bay.
We headed out from shore and decided to swim out from the center of the bay and head to our right, as the water was calmer with far fewer people. The water was very turbid and full of sand in the water column closer in, but, as we swam further and got to the outer areas beyond the buoys, the water cleared and became truly beautiful! We saw a great variety of beautiful fish and even swam with two turtles! We pretty thoroughly covered all of the areas that we wanted to see, and spent a solid two hours of swimming in doing so. We swam for an hour, came back up to the beach, had a protein bar, then went back in and swam for another hour on the left side of the bay.
A word of caution is due here: If you are a beginner or not confident in the water, stay well inside the buoys and shallower areas! There are a lot of currents as you make your way across the reef and you need to exercise caution!
Overall, I would rate this as a really good experience and definitely a "must-do" when on Oahu. Thursday, we are hopeful that conditions will allow us to snorkel Makaha Beach.
Did You Get Outside The Reef?
Nice Cary. So did you guys snorkel outside the inner protective reef area, in the deeper parts of the bay? You probably would have had to snorkel through a channel in the reef (hence the currents)? If so, did you find any live coral out there?
Hi, yes, we did snorkel outside the main inner reef area and it was superior in terms of visibility and amount of fish. And, yes, we saw quite a bit of live coral, including some really beautiful pink corals, blue corals and other types. I think the coral there seems to be in recovery.
I wish they would require everyone to use only reef safe sunscreen and include packets of it like they do at Discovery Cove. All other sunscreens are banned. It would allow the bay to recover so much more quickly, especially given the human stress this place endures.
As to the currents I spoke of, yes, there is a great deal of current moving through the channel in the middle, but, also around some of the reef edges, particularly depending on the time of day and the tidal movement. Parts of the reef become very shallow on the left end and the waves moving over and through this area can be dangerous for anyone who is not experienced and a confident swimmer.
It was a bit harrowing at the end coming back across the reef as we finished for the day. We found that we had to pick our way through small natural channels in the reef to be able to make our way back through because the tide had gone out. At times we would have to stop and pick a route through where there was adequate water to swim. We ended up working our way back across to the right end and there was only maybe 2 feet or less water over top of the reef. We quit kicking and used our arms in a breast stroke and I followed single file behind Gary.
I DO NOT recommend anyone else try this who is not experienced and confident. We learned a great deal while in Aruba, and had we not had those experiences, this would have been a very harrowing experience.
Oh, once you get away from the beach area at Hanauma, the water clarity becomes nearly crystal clear and is a lot more fun and much more beautiful.
I would recommend you first check with a lifeguard for the conditions of the day. When we were there and were going to go out, the lifeguard was adamant that it was not the day to pass the barriers. They had done enough rescues that day. Some days you may get by with it if you are a confident swimmer, other days - it is NOT worth the risk, as you are risking the lifeguards as well. Hanauma has had as many as 10 to 12 drownings per year, so lifeguard concern is not to be taken lightly.
I have a hunch some of these drownings in waist deep water are people who have picked up cone shells. There ought to be signage up all over with pictures of cone shells labeled "DO NOT TOUCH THIS" because I have seen an increase in the number of textile cones in Hawaii. One reef teacher in Kona said when they pull a dead diver out of the ocean, the first thing the coroner checks is if they've got a cone shell tucked into their suit.
I agree about the sunscreen, they could raise the admission price and provide coral safe sunscreen as well as raise public awareness about it.
Hanauma is a priceless treasure needing preservation.
Here is a link with pictures to the poisonous Cone shells.
The rule of thumb when snorkeling is don't touch anything, to keep sea life healthy and you. The Cone shell is a good example of why that rule is important.
Love Hanauma Bay, especially the west end just inside the outer reef. Both times I was there they recommended NOT swimming past the reef. It's a shame, because it's a great place to explore.
I have a question for Cary. You said in shallow reefs you quit kicking and used the breast stroke to navigate. I found shallow reefs to be a problem getting out at Hanauma and quite nearly belly flopped on some sea urchins doing the same in Sharks Cove (on the north shore).
You also mentioned what you had learned in Aruba. Any other tips for navigating shallow reefs? Agree that it's harrowing and want to be better prepared next time.
I guess that the best thing I can suggest is to just go slowly and look for small "canyons" or passageways between the corals and use them to navigate. Take your time and stop to look around frequently to see if you can spot a way where there is a bit more water over the top of the reef. The thing that distressed me was that I did NOT want to do any damage to the reef, so, that was why I quit kicking altogether and used my arms only.
The largest advice is always be cautious (which I am sure that you are) and also check on the tide conditions before attempting to navigate areas that you know are going to be shallow if you will be going across during low tide. We would never have gone outside the inner reef area if the conditions had been bad. The winds were out of the east that day, and Hanauma is very sheltered from those winds. Again, no one should go outside the buoys at Hanauma unless they are confident swimmers with a good bit of experience snorkeling.
We want to add a couple of things to the question about snorkeling over shallow reef tops. Be aware that sometimes, if there are currents, as the reef gets shallower, the currents can get much faster. Also keep in mind when swimming over shallow areas that while there may appear to be enough depth, a wave or ocean surge can come along and drop you on top of it. Really you should only swim over very shallow areas if it is super calm and protected, or if you have no choice.
It was very calm that day, or we never would have gone out beyond the buoys. We purposely stayed away from the left end, where the waves break over the top of the reef, to make our way back across the reef. We started our return close to the middle, and, in the end, we wound up coming ashore on the right end of the beach (not planned, just found more water as we picked our way through the reef).
The snorkeling outside the sheltering fringing reef of Hanauma Bay is typically far superior. Although the inside looks more enticing from above, there is little living coral. Larger fish are more rarely seen there, although one often does see uhu (parrotfish) and occasionally large omilu (blue trevally) and sometimes even white tip sharks resting in underwater caves. They are a relatively harmless variety of shark – but don’t bother it.
As many warn, do not attempt to go out either of the channels unless you consider yourself a strong swimmer and an experienced snorkeler, and don’t go out by yourself. Before going to Hanauma Bay, it is best to check the surf reports, tide tables and to make sure it is not 7 to 10 days after a full moon, which is when the box jelly fish come in. An eastern or even SE swell will usually result in rough conditions there. It’s easiest to come back in through the channel after the ebb of the low tide and before the high tide peaks. If you go out at a fairly high tide, you’re not restricted to the channels and should be able to swim over the fringing reef if there is no surf.
Sea life seems most concentrated along the outer edge of the fringing reef. The best relatively shallow (5’ to 15’ deep) coral is found toward the far right of the cable channel, so named because of the cable that runs toward it from out in the bay. Don’t be dismayed by an unusually murky area with lots of floating debris prior to getting to the targeted area. It gets much clearer after you pass it.
Schools of fish, turtles, eels, octopus, rays and/or sharks are frequently seen if one knows where to look. Check out a detailed aerial map of the bay and you can make out where the reef areas are. Typically, I just swim from one side of the bay to the other taking in as many reef areas as I can and looking from side to side while swimming over the sandy strips in hopes of spotting rays or flounder. One can swim hours there and not run out of areas to check out.


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If you’ve ever driven to a familiar place and arrived not remembering how you got there, you could be said to ‘dissociate’ from time to time – that is, to disconnect your conscious mind from your bodily experience.
Dissociation is an adaptive, automatic and universal mechanism of the mind that shapes our conscious sense of self. Contemporary thinkers see each of us as a collection of ‘self-states’ – aspects of self, each with its own set of feelings, memories, values, and thinking capacity. At a level of healthy functioning, we move fluidly between self-states to adapt to our environment. However in some circumstances, dissociation will lock out particular self-states or prevent them from developing.
Imagine a situation in which your survival is at stake, for example a car crash or violent assault. In the face of a potentially annihilating event like these, we may be terrified yet powerless. This is trauma (even if the anticipated event does not ultimately happen). Unable to fight or to flee, our only remaining possible response is to freeze, effectively to dissociate. We see this in animals, when they ‘play dead’ in the face of predator threat. Bodily systems drastically slow down, and the overwhelmed conscious mind (or left brain) goes offline.
Survival through dissociation comes at a price. As the conscious mind is not there to process emotion, record, remember or make sense of what is happening, the traumatic experience is registered only somatically. If we later see, hear or smell something reminiscent of the trauma, the somatic memory may be triggered. Still disconnected from the part of the brain that remembers the event as a narrative within a time and place, the trauma will feel as if it’s happening again now. This is PTSD. To protect us from the intolerable experience of being re-traumatised, dissociation may kick in whenever the body (linked to the right brain) senses potential triggers, creating huge disruption to living our lives.
If we define trauma as an experience of terror and impotence in the face of annihilation – either physical or psychical - then many experiences could be called traumatic. The extent of so-called ‘relational’ or ‘developmental’ trauma, is described by one US expert as an ‘epidemic.’ This is childhood trauma such as sexual, physical or emotional abuse or neglect, and more broadly, growing up caregivers who can’t recognise or meet our needs when we are so young that the survival of our sense of self depends on it. Such caregivers may, to varying degrees, collapse, ignore or retaliate in the face of a child’s expression of need; they may be struggling in difficult circumstances, or their own experience of being parented may have deprived them of the capacity to understand, respond to or cope with their child.
Infants and very young children cannot regulate themselves emotionally or physiologically; they rely on their caregivers to do this for them until, through being regulated in relationship, they develop this capacity in themselves. The absence of regulation by those an infant depends on, exposes him/her to emotionally and physiologically intolerable states that can feel like psychic annihilation. To survive this trauma, dissociation kicks in, effectively disconnecting mind from body. Traumatic experience and self-states unmet by early caregivers (for example being helpless or distressed) are then dissociated from a conscious sense of ‘me’. Babies and toddlers don’t yet have the language to process or make sense of their experiences, contributing to this disconnection. The body knows and remembers the traumatic feeling states but there are no words to describe them.
As babies and young children, we can’t yet distinguish between an environment that fails to support us in being ourselves, and whom we are. We experience ourselves, rather than the environment on which we depend, as wrong. We are likely, then, to feel, believe and behave as if we are worthless and the outside world is unsafe or hostile.
Dissociation as an adaptive mechanism may enable survival through traumatic relational interactions that objectify, violate, shame, or psychically annihilate. But from being a means of escape, it can become a prison. The mechanism will likely continue to kick in whenever a relational interaction seems reminiscent of the original trauma. As far as the body and unconscious (or right brain) are concerned, it’s not safe, even if consciously we may now live in a different time, place and relationship.
Some may re-experience dissociation whenever triggered, finding themselves feeling utterly cut off from the world around them and from their own body, for hours, days or even weeks. For others, unprocessed, dissociated, parts of the self, may drive behaviours or patterns of relating. These may be unconscious attempts to avoid, heal, or re-enact the original trauma in the hope of a different outcome. It's not uncommon for clients to present in therapy with a problematic and incomprehensible behaviour they describe as 'not me' (or perhaps something they can’t tolerate in others). ‘Not me’ can describe perfectly, the part of them that has been dissociated. The helpless, objectified child, for example, may embody any of a multitude of behaviours such as angry outbursts, bingeing, sexual promiscuity, or impulsive behaviour. Our relationships with our selves - including our bodies, what we do to them and what we put into them – reflect our early relationships – whether nurturing and responsive, or neglectful, painful or abusive.
It may feel threatening to become aware of such wounded parts of ourselves, to consciously come to know and eventually come to terms with them. This is where therapy and the therapeutic relationship can help.
The relationship with the therapist offers a space both for familiar relational dynamics to emerge and be explored, and for new relational experiences to be created. It offers both regulation and potential reminders of traumatic dysregulation. Aspects of the therapeutic relationship may trigger dissociation and therapists are trained to pick up on underlying dissociated experience, which can show up quite subtly, for example the client (and the therapist too) might abruptly change the subject, go blank, feel unable to be present, lose connection to what they are saying or to parts of their body, experience visual disturbance, unexplained bodily sensations, or get sleepy. These states and their triggers can be explored, increasing awareness of them at an embodied level, processing emotion and finding words and meaning.
Getting in touch with the traumatic experience underlying dissociative states is a possibility. This can be distressing however there are ways to minimise the risk of re-traumatisation. For example, developing a strong therapeutic relationship in which you can work collaboratively and carefully, getting to know the edge of what’s tolerable, and working with your therapist to develop inner resources you can draw on. Your so-called 'window of tolerance' can be gradually widened, so that what was once intolerable and dissociated becomes conscious, survivable and increasingly manageable.
As trauma and dissociation occur on a spectrum, their imprint may range from perhaps limiting us in some areas, to leaving us in a state of constant fear and disrupting our lives, to creating a fragmented rather than continuous sense of self. For some clients it may be appropriate to pursue a recognised, specialised therapeutic approach to trauma, such as EMDR. There are many different paths to healing.
The more our self-states are accessible, the more fully and freely we can experience life. We may still feel the pull of familiar triggers, but can respond through mindful awareness and choice rather than unconscious action.


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Since 1977, the Neighborhood Community Development Center (NCDC) has kept its ear attuned to the needs of the community. As a result, NCDC has offered programs ranging from AIDS prevention to leadership development to health and wellness camps for our community’s youth.
Currently NCDC hosts a series of events during Minority Health Month, ongoing education and programming for individuals with Lupus and Diabetes, a Youth Wellness program, coat and shoe give-a-ways, and a Back to School Celebration. Through each event, community members are given the necessary tools and training to develop leadership skills to implement these programs.
Contact our Community Developer, Ms. Cynthia Smith at 740.282.8010 ext. 210 or csmith@urbanmission.org to find out more about the exciting opportunities offered through NCDC.


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The beautiful Yorkshire Dales provide plenty of welcoming B&Bs ideal for family breaks. For a truly rural experience, stay on a picturesque farm near Ingleton to join in with the farm activities and explore the beautiful surrounding countryside. There is also a good choice of family friendly B&Bs close to the main centres of Richmond and Masham with family rooms sleeping up to four, cots, Sky TV and delicious locally sourced breakfasts served. Packed lunches can often be provided for days out or evening meals made from fresh Yorkshire produce. Alternatively, stay in a well appointed Skipton B&B for family days out to the National Railway Museum and Thornton Hall Country Farm or in Bedale to visit the meerkats at Thorp Perrow Gardens.
Whether you are looking for a charming farmhouse B&B deep in the Yorkshire Dales countryside or a beautiful cottage bed and breakfast close to the main centres, there is plenty of welcoming and award winning properties ideal for a romantic break. Champagne, flowers and flowers can be arranged at some B&Bs and some also have a hot tub or leisure facilities including a pool, tennis court and croquet lawn. Search our website and look out for romantic B&Bs offering special romance packages for stays of more than one night.
With so much wonderful countryside to explore right on the doorstep, it’s not surprising that many Yorkshire Dales B&Bs will accept dogs by prior arrangement. A selection also offer great dog friendly facilities including a walking field, dog treat on arrival, sausage at breakfast and even dog sitting in the evening while you go out and enjoy a meal or drink at a local restaurant. Visit a wonderful choice of attractions with your dog including the limestone cliffs at Malham Cove, Aysgarth Falls, or take a ride on the iconic Settle-Carlisle Railway and watch the spectacular scenery pass by – dogs travel for free and each person can take up to two dogs on the railway.
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She spoke about death in a child’s voice, and people listened.
“I’m Gabriella Miller, I’m 10 years old, and I have brain cancer,” she would begin.
In the final months of her life, Gabriella Miller was a celebrated activist, a charismatic public speaker and an advocate who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and helped launch the Smashing Walnuts Foundation to fund pediatric cancer research.
She was also a kid who wanted to grow up and felt it was unfair that she wouldn’t have the chance. Even as she grieved the loss of her own life, she wanted to help her parents and little brother carry on with theirs. She left them a list of final instructions: When they go to Disney World, they have to ride the Haunted Mansion first, five times. They should go on the cruise they’d originally planned to take as a family of four. They must always have an extra piece of cake for her on birthdays — vanilla with chocolate frosting was her favorite.
Gabriella died at home late Saturday night after an 11-month battle with an inoperable brain tumor.
Her family was surrounded by more than 2,000 people in the packed gymnasium of Heritage High School in Leesburg, Va., on Wednesday night, at a public memorial service for the fifth-grader. She had always loved bright colors, so scores of children lined the hallways of the school with vibrant bouquets of tissue-paper flowers.
Gabriella knew the raw power of her own story could drive home the fact that only about 4 percent of federal funding for cancer research is dedicated to pediatric cancers. In a video projected on the white gym wall, the crowd of mourners listened to Gabriella speak once more of the need to help kids with cancer.
Mark and Ellyn Miller, Gabriella’s parents, listened as their daughter’s educators and friends spoke about the child they loved. Gabriella’s 6-year-old brother, Jake, wriggled tearfully in his seat and leaned heavily against his parents throughout the eulogies.
She also wrote poems with her friend Tom “Tattoo Tom” Mitchell, who founded Stillbrave Childhood Cancer Foundation after his own teenage daughter died of the illness. He spoke Wednesday about the comfort of Gabriella’s presence at a memorial service they both attended earlier this year, for another child who had died of cancer.
Gabriella entered hospice care at home last week after a sudden and sharp decline in her health.
“Am I going to make it?” she asked her parents the night before she died. When she understood that she wasn’t, her mother said Gabriella pushed her favorite stuffed animal — the one that had helped her feel better when she was sick — into her mother’s hands, to help ease the pain. Gabriella kept adding to her list of parting instructions for as long as she could communicate; after she lost the ability to talk, she signed letters with her hand.
Her most important edict is immortalized on video, part of an interview for a childhood cancer awareness documentary. In the footage, she sits cross-legged on her bed, wearing a yellow shirt and a resolute expression framed by sparse wisps of dark hair. Gabriella’s right eye levels a steady gaze at the camera; her left is turned inward, yielding to the mounting pressure of a growing tumor.
Then she pauses and looks down. When she speaks again, her fragile voice is the sound of a scared child who is trying to be brave.


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Happened to be in the land of 10,000 Lakes (Minneapolis) recently and tried the bike sharing service near one of the MetroTransit stations. Bike sharing really seems to be taking off in densely populated urban regions – especially in Europe. I have tried bike sharing now in Washington, DC, Paris, Minneapolis, Montreal, Chicago, and New York.
Bike sharing has taken off exponentially in the United States after being introduced in some of the more progressive European urban areas. In some ways this is amazing given the potential pitfalls of the service – from the unpredictability of the bicycle availability to the same “last mile” problems we face in public transportation with proximity of bicycle stations. Weather in the US also heavily influences the usage patterns for bicycle sharing.
Interestingly, the industry is so successful it is facing bankruptcies and problems similar to other emerging technologies like electric vehicles and renewables. Some of the issues are related to supply chain issues, but others are simply the result of a new economic model following a hype cycle similar to that of other types of technologies. Regardless, it seems that bicycle sharing is here to stay.
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This Hands-on Lab assumes you have basic knowledge of ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET MVC 4 filters. If you have not used ASP.NET MVC 4 filters before, we recommend you to go over ASP.NET MVC Custom Action Filters Hands-on Lab.
All sample code and snippets are included in the Web Camps Training Kit, available from at Microsoft-Web/WebCampTrainingKit Releases. The project specific to this lab is available at ASP.NET MVC 4 Dependency Injection.
In Object Oriented Programming paradigm, objects work together in a collaboration model where there are contributors and consumers. Naturally, this communication model generates dependencies between objects and components, becoming difficult to manage when complexity increases.
You have probably heard about the Factory Pattern and the separation between the interface and the implementation using services, where the client objects are often responsible for service location.
The Dependency Injection pattern is a particular implementation of Inversion of Control. Inversion of Control (IoC) means that objects do not create other objects on which they rely to do their work. Instead, they get the objects that they need from an outside source (for example, an xml configuration file).
At a high level, the goal of Dependency Injection is that a client class (e.g. the golfer) needs something that satisfies an interface (e.g. IClub). It doesn't care what the concrete type is (e.g. WoodClub, IronClub, WedgeClub or PutterClub), it wants someone else to handle that (e.g. a good caddy). The Dependency Resolver in ASP.NET MVC can allow you to register your dependency logic somewhere else (e.g. a container or a bag of clubs).
Dependency Injection is sometimes compared with Abstract Factory Design Pattern, but there is a slight difference between both approaches. DI has a Framework working behind to solve dependencies by calling the factories and the registered services.
Now that you understand the Dependency Injection Pattern, you will learn throughout this lab how to apply it in ASP.NET MVC 4. You will start using Dependency Injection in the Controllers to include a database access service. Next, you will apply Dependency Injection to the Views to consume a service and show information. Finally, you will extend the DI to ASP.NET MVC 4 Filters, injecting a custom action filter in the solution.
This Lab is using Unity.Mvc3 NuGet Package for dependency resolution, but it is possible to adapt any Dependency Injection Framework to work with ASP.NET MVC 4.
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web or superior (read Appendix A for instructions on how to install it).
For convenience, much of the code you will be managing along this lab is available as Visual Studio code snippets. To install the code snippets run .\Source\Setup\CodeSnippets.vsi file.
If you are not familiar with the Visual Studio Code Snippets, and want to learn how to use them, you can refer to the appendix from this document "Appendix B: Using Code Snippets".
Estimated time to complete this lab: 30 minutes.
In this exercise, you will learn how to use Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC Controllers by integrating Unity using a NuGet Package. For that reason, you will include services into your MvcMusicStore controllers to separate the logic from the data access. The services will create a new dependency in the controller constructor, which will be resolved using Dependency Injection with the help of Unity.
This approach will show you how to generate less coupled applications, which are more flexible and easier to maintain and test. You will also learn how to integrate ASP.NET MVC with Unity.
The MVC Music Store provided in the begin solution now includes a service that manages the Store Controller data named StoreService. Below you will find the Store Service implementation. Note that all the methods return Model entities.
StoreController from the begin solution now consumes StoreService. All the data references were removed from StoreController, and now possible to modify the current data access provider without changing any method that consumes StoreService.
You will find below that the StoreController implementation has a dependency with StoreService inside the class constructor.
The dependency introduced in this exercise is related to Inversion of Control (IoC).
The StoreController class constructor receives an IStoreService type parameter, which is essential to perform service calls from inside the class. However, StoreController does not implement the default constructor (with no parameters) that any controller must have to work with ASP.NET MVC.
To resolve the dependency, the controller has to be created by an abstract factory (a class that returns any object of the specified type).
You will get an error when the class tries to create the StoreController without sending the service object, as there is no parameterless constructor declared.
In this task, you will run the Begin application, which includes the service into the Store Controller that separates the data access from the application logic.
Open the Begin solution located in Source\Ex01-Injecting Controller\Begin.
You will need to download some missing NuGet packages before continue. To do this, click the Project menu and select Manage NuGet Packages.
In the Manage NuGet Packages dialog, click Restore in order to download missing packages.
Finally, build the solution by clicking Build | Build Solution.
One of the advantages of using NuGet is that you don't have to ship all the libraries in your project, reducing the project size. With NuGet Power Tools, by specifying the package versions in the Packages.config file, you will be able to download all the required libraries the first time you run the project. This is why you will have to run these steps after you open an existing solution from this lab.
In the following steps you will work on the Music Store Solution to inject the dependency this controller needs.
In this task, you will include Unity.Mvc3 NuGet Package to the solution.
Unity.Mvc3 package was designed for ASP.NET MVC 3, but it is fully compatible with ASP.NET MVC 4.
Unity is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container with optional support for instance and type interception. It is a general-purpose container for use in any type of .NET application. It provides all the common features found in dependency injection mechanisms including: object creation, abstraction of requirements by specifying dependencies at runtime and flexibility, by deferring the component configuration to the container.
Install Unity.Mvc3 NuGet Package in the MvcMusicStore project. To do this, open the Package Manager Console from View | Other Windows.
Once the Unity.Mvc3 package is installed, explore the files and folders it automatically adds in order to simplify Unity configuration.
In this task, you will update the Application_Start method located in Global.asax.cs to call the Unity Bootstrapper initializer and then, update the Bootstrapper file registering the Service and Controller you will use for Dependency Injection.
Now, you will hook up the Bootstrapper which is the file that initializes the Unity container and Dependency Resolver. To do this, open Global.asax.cs and add the following highlighted code within the Application_Start method.
Include the following namespaces: MvcMusicStore.Services and MusicStore.Controllers.
Replace BuildUnityContainer method's content with the following code that registers Store Controller and Store Service.
In this task, you will run the application to verify that it can now be loaded after including Unity.
Press F5 to run the application, the application should now load without showing any error message.
Browse to /Store. This will invoke StoreController, which is now created using Unity.
In the following exercises you will learn how to extend the Dependency Injection scope to use it inside ASP.NET MVC Views and Action Filters.
In this exercise, you will learn how to use Dependency Injection in a view with the new features of ASP.NET MVC 4 for Unity integration. In order to do that, you will call a custom service inside the Store Browse View, which will show a message and an image below.
Then, you will integrate the project with Unity and create a custom dependency resolver to inject the dependencies.
In this task, you will create a view that performs a service call to generate a new dependency. The service consists in a simple messaging service included in this solution.
Open the Begin solution located in the Source\Ex02-Injecting View\Begin folder. Otherwise, you might continue using the End solution obtained by completing the previous exercise.
If you opened the provided Begin solution, you will need to download some missing NuGet packages before continue. To do this, click the Project menu and select Manage NuGet Packages.
For more information, see this article: http://docs.nuget.org/docs/workflows/using-nuget-without-committing-packages.
Include the MessageService.cs and the IMessageService.cs classes located in the Source \Assets folder in /Services. To do this, right-click Services folder and select Add Existing Item. Browse to the files' location and include them.
The IMessageService interface defines two properties implemented by the MessageService class. These properties -Message and ImageUrl- store the message and the URL of the image to be displayed.
Create the folder /Pages in the project's root folder, and then add the existing class MyBasePage.cs from Source\Assets. The base page you will inherit from has the following structure.
Open Browse.cshtml view from /Views/Store folder, and make it inherit from MyBasePage.cs.
In the previous task, you injected a new dependency inside a view to perform a service call inside it. Now, you will resolve that dependency by implementing the ASP.NET MVC Dependency Injection interfaces IViewPageActivator and IDependencyResolver. You will include in the solution an implementation of IDependencyResolver that will deal with the service retrieval by using Unity. Then, you will include another custom implementation of IViewPageActivator interface that will solve the creation of the views.
Since ASP.NET MVC 3, the implementation for Dependency Injection had simplified the interfaces to register services. IDependencyResolver and IViewPageActivator are part of ASP.NET MVC 3 features for Dependency Injection.
- IDependencyResolver interface replaces the previous IMvcServiceLocator. Implementers of IDependencyResolver must return an instance of the service or a service collection.
- IViewPageActivator interface provides more fine-grained control over how view pages are instantiated via dependency injection. The classes that implement IViewPageActivator interface can create view instances using context information.
Create the /Factories folder in the project's root folder.
Include CustomViewPageActivator.cs to your solution from /Sources/Assets/ to Factories folder. To do that, right-click the /Factories folder, select Add | Existing Item and then select CustomViewPageActivator.cs. This class implements the IViewPageActivator interface to hold the Unity Container.
CustomViewPageActivator is responsible for managing the creation of a view by using a Unity container.
Include UnityDependencyResolver.cs file from /Sources/Assets to /Factories folder. To do that, right-click the /Factories folder, select Add | Existing Item and then select UnityDependencyResolver.cs file.
UnityDependencyResolver class is a custom DependencyResolver for Unity. When a service cannot be found inside the Unity container, the base resolver is invocated.
In the following task both implementations will be registered to let the model know the location of the services and the views.
In this task, you will put all the previous things together to make Dependency Injection work.
A Browse View that inherits from MyBaseClass and consumes MessageService.
An intermediate class -MyBaseClass- that has dependency injection declared for the service interface.
A service - MessageService - and its interface IMessageService.
A custom dependency resolver for Unity - UnityDependencyResolver - that deals with service retrieval.
A View Page activator - CustomViewPageActivator - that creates the page.
To inject Browse View, you will now register the custom dependency resolver in the Unity container.
Add a reference to MvcMusicStore.Factories namespace.
ASP.NET MVC provides a default dependency resolver class. To work with custom dependency resolvers as the one we have created for unity, this resolver has to be replaced.
In the previous Hands-On lab Custom Action Filters you have worked with filters customization and injection. In this exercise, you will learn how to inject filters with Dependency Injection by using the Unity container. To do that, you will add to the Music Store solution a custom action filter that will trace the activity of the site.
Open the Begin solution located in the Source\Ex03 - Injecting Action Filter\Begin folder. Otherwise, you might continue using the End solution obtained by completing the previous exercise.
Include TraceActionFilter.cs file from /Sources/Assets to /Filters folder.
This custom action filter performs ASP.NET tracing. You can check "ASP.NET MVC 4 local and Dynamic Action Filters" Lab for more reference.
Add the empty class FilterProvider.cs to the project in the folder /Filters.
Add the System.Web.Mvc and Microsoft.Practices.Unity namespaces in FilterProvider.cs.
Make the class inherit from IFilterProvider Interface.
Add a IUnityContainer property in the FilterProvider class, and then create a class constructor to assign the container.
The filter provider class constructor is not creating a new object inside. The container is passed as a parameter, and the dependency is solved by Unity.
In the FilterProvider class, implement the method GetFilters from IFilterProvider interface.
Open Web.config located in the project root and enable trace tracking at System.Web group.
Open Bootstrapper.cs at project root.
Add a reference to the MvcMusicStore.Filters namespace.
Select the BuildUnityContainer method and register the filter in the Unity Container. You will have to register the filter provider as well as the action filter.
Click Rock within the Genres Menu. You can browse to more genres if you want to.
Browse to /Trace.axd to see the Application Trace page, and then click View Details.
By completing this Hands-On Lab you have learned how to use Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC 4 by integrating Unity using a NuGet Package. To achieve that, you have used Dependency Injection inside controllers, views and action filters.
You can install Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web or another "Express" version using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. The following instructions guide you through the steps required to install Visual studio Express 2012 for Web using Microsoft Web Platform Installer.
Go to https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9810169. Alternatively, if you already have installed Web Platform Installer, you can open it and search for the product "Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web with Windows Azure SDK".
Click on Install Now. If you do not have Web Platform Installer you will be redirected to download and install it first.
Once Web Platform Installer is open, click Install to start the setup.
Read all the products' licenses and terms and click I Accept to continue.
Wait until the downloading and installation process completes.
Click Exit to close Web Platform Installer.
To open Visual Studio Express for Web, go to the Start screen and start writing "VS Express", then click on the VS Express for Web tile.
With code snippets, you have all the code you need at your fingertips. The lab document will tell you exactly when you can use them, as shown in the following figure.
Place the cursor where you would like to insert the code.
Start typing the snippet name (without spaces or hyphens).
Watch as IntelliSense displays matching snippets' names.
Select the correct snippet (or keep typing until the entire snippet's name is selected).
Press the Tab key twice to insert the snippet at the cursor location.
To add a code snippet using the mouse (C#, Visual Basic and XML) 1. Right-click where you want to insert the code snippet.
Select Insert Snippet followed by My Code Snippets.
Pick the relevant snippet from the list, by clicking on it.


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Imagine how much more beautiful the world could be if we could all be granted a lifelong wish. Imagine being reunited with a loved one, revisiting your hometown, or hurtling towards earth at 195km/h freefalling from a plane! Now, imagine life was passing you by and the thought of that wish becomes just another distant dream. This is where Wish of A Lifetime makes a difference. An organization that creates unique experiences by granting these wishes for our beloved seniors. I was invited to document a wish being granted at the Vancouver Aquarium to capture some heart warming images from the special event.
This day was super special as Ann was having her wish granted on her birthday! The choice of venue had a lot to do with Ann’s wish as she’s been an avid animal lover all of her life. She also used to dedicate many hours as a volunteer at the Vancouver Aquarium. The last time Ann was at the aquarium was back in 1991 and her wish was to see the animals that once made up a big part of her life.
It’s not only Ann that has the animal affection gene! It turns out that in the mid 80’s, her Son also volunteered at the Aquarium too! With such a long-standing history of being with animals, I don’t think her wish day could have gotten much more special! The Aquarium has evolved so much over the years and she was absolutely amazed at what the facility does today.
Ann’s son also told me stories of how they used to have a pet Otter named Max who considered himself part of the family. He would join them on camping trips and even had his own doggy door at the family cabin to come and go for swims as he pleased.
From what I saw that day, the Aquarium was as every bit a piece of her life as her family and the four legged members that have been alongside.
Ann has always had a special relationship with lots of different animals in her time at the aquarium. Much like everyone else that visits this incredible place, a piece of her heart was stolen by the Beluga whales. Part of her wish was to see one of these beautiful creatures up close. Despite her initial concerns, she was able to muster her way down to the edge of the enclosure where she was able to reach out and touch one of the gentle giants. It was beautiful to see her face light up and see that moment, that thing that’s been lingering in her mind for some twenty-five years.
It was such a reminiscent feeling of being a kid and having your face squished up against the glass in total awe, mixed with a feeling of joyous nostalgia. That moment will stay with me for a long time as it’s not every day you see a wish come true and I’m so fortunate to have been a part of it.
Ann was extremely fortunate to have her wish come true that day. It was a poignant reminder that we should not wait to achieve what we want in life, to visit an important person or make amends with yourself or others. Whatever it is, you shouldn’t hesitate.
I was a bit reluctant to post this at first, as I didn’t want to overshadow what was such an incredible experience with any hint of sadness. This does serve however, as a reminder of why we need to focus on these important aspects of life.
Since capturing this exceptional day, we sadly discovered that the Vancouver Aquarium lost both of its beloved Beluga Whales to a mysterious illness. The Beluga’s have always been a big part of the family at the Aquarium and the staff have always been at the forefront of studying these fantastic creatures up close.
I’ve gotten to know just a few of the staff, as they make regular appearances at YVR for their Take Off Friday’s event throughout the Summer. Again at these appearances, the staff are always aiming to educate our city on the importance of our vibrant Oceans and the importance they play in the ecosystem. Our thoughts are with these lovely people as I’m sure this must be such a huge loss for them. On the positive side, I know that they’ll keep up their hard work and continue to study these animals so that they can be around to fulfill the wishes of the next generations.
Life is beautiful, but it’s also fragile. I’d love to hear what your wishes are in life.


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This is program that bring you to experience on direct observation and interaction with world’s endangered primate species in Borneo, such as Orangutan, Gibbon, Red-leaf Monkeys, Macaqua, etc in their habitat. This tour also invite you to get involved on conservation effort by conducting a pre-designated survey to collect data and information about the presence of these primates under the supervision of primate experts. The data will then be a report that showed condition of primates species, so we can supporting the national park to protect the population of these animals and to conserve the rainforest biodiversity. In addition to that you will also hiking in the tropical trail inside the national park and interact with locals community around the park.
Gunung Palung National Park can be reached via flights from Jakarta to Ketapang. Then proceed by land transport about 2 hours and crosses the river about 45 minutes to arrive at Batu Barat.
A 4-day 3-night journey to Gunung Palung and see the best of what the rich area has to offer.


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CHAI produced this Family Planning Market Report: May 2015 as a part of the FP2020 Global Markets Visibility Project. Read the report here.
Exhibit 11 has been updated. The previous version had an error that misstated the difference between FP2020 users and users implied by supplier-reported shipments in 2013. The correct figure is 74M (not 88M as stated in the previous report). Furthermore, because the proportion of modern method users that will choose sterilization in future years is unknown, the bar charts have been removed for the years 2014 through 2020 (the previous version assumed sterilization would remain constant).


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Art is the making well of that which is worthwhile, an occupation using the hands,the head and the heart.
The prophet Isaiah wrote, But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse and from his roots a bud shall blossom. Jesse was the father of David, the King, who was the root of this sacred stalk. From this root David grew as a tree from which a noble branch came forth (the Virgin Mary). This branch put forth a flower when the Virgin Mary gave birth to Christ.
Copyright © 1997 Charles Lehman. All rights reserved.


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Patients lie for a variety of reasons. Most of the time, they are just too embarrassed to tell the truth. In some cases, they fear getting judged or they want to avoid being scolded and lectured for not complying with their treatment plan. Others, meanwhile, lie in fear of the severity of their illnesses. No matter what their reasons are, it’s a nurse’s job to know how to detect a lie to ensure a patients’ safety.
If you are always in doubt, here are some of the best ways to know if your patient is lying.
There’s no definite way to tell if a patient is telling the truth or not, but you can always look out for specific verbal and nonverbal cues. Take, for example, questioning.
If you ask a question and your patient takes quite a while before answering, there’s a good chance that he is lying. This commonly happens with patients who are showing non-compliance. Ask them how much time they spend exercising and how frequently. If they can’t give you a definite answer right away, your patient is probably not following his recommended exercise routine.
It can also help if you show a bit of skepticism, but make sure you won’t sound too cynical. There are uncontrollable factors that push people to lie. One of them is economic reasons. Disability payments that are about to run out can make a person skip filling his prescriptions. If your patient has just been fired from work, he might not be able to attend as much therapy sessions as he’d like.
Another factor to keep in mind is your geographic location. There are countries that are politically conservative and there are states that won’t have the same values as you. Women from conservative regions, for example, are not likely to disclose that they’ve terminated their pregnancies in fear of being socially ridiculed.
There are patients who are so used to lying that they can come up with fabricated answers in an instant. This type of patient is trickier to deal with, especially if they see nothing wrong about their behaviors.
One of the best things you can do is to look for signs. Most of the time, patients like this are too anxious about the truth that no matter how comfortable they are with lying, they still show guilty body languages.
Eye movements are the first things you’ll notice with lying patients. They’ll deliberately avoid direct eye contact. If their eyes tend to move to the left side often, they are constructing a lie orally. If they tend to move to the right, it means that they are trying to recall something.
You also shouldn’t miss hand gestures. Patients who tend to hide their hands, either by clenching or placing them in their pockets, can mean that they are lying. Truth-telling patients feel comfortable letting their palms show.
Tensed and pursed lips can also signal dishonesty. The same thing with patients who cover their mouths when speaking. It’s an unconscious effort to cover their lies.
Listen to how your patients speak. There shouldn’t be any stuttering or stammering. Check for pitches and pace. Patients who lie speak with a higher pitch and may talk too fast and elaborate. They’ll give out more details than what is necessary to make their stories believable.
Apart from specific clues, you should also assess the overall body language of your patient. If he is lying, you’ll notice that he sweats and trembles more than usual. He’s also likely to take a protective stance, like keeping his arms crossed and distancing himself from you.
Patients lie most of the time. Despite being common, nurses should never tolerate them. Indulging in their lies can make them believe that their lies aren’t going to impact their health and treatment tremendously.
1. Direct confrontation is often regarded as the best way to deal with patients who lie. You can tell them the implications of their lies, especially if they are life-threatening. Explain to your patients that if their current treatment plans fail, the next approaches will be more aggressive and expensive.
Educate them about the importance of preventive care. Make them understand that compliance to their existing treatment plan can help prevent the development of more serious conditions and complications.
A lot of patients who have high blood pressure can’t see the importance of sticking with their medications, especially if they aren’t feeling anything wrong. They’ll tell you they’ve been religiously taking their medicines even if they aren’t. These patients are likely to be the same ones you’ll encounter a few months after with a stroke or heart attack.
2. It’s also a good idea to have your patients sign an agreement that they’ll not look for similar drugs from other health care professional, especially if your patients are showing drug abuse. Make them agree to see one physician only.
3. Cross-question your patient. If your patient is lying, he’ll have a hard time making the story’s ends meet. Ask high-risk and specific questions but make sure you won’t sound too judgmental. Patients tend to withdraw more if they feel ridiculed, cornered and humiliated.
4. If you encounter a patient who lies chronically, it’s a good idea to be more thorough with your assessment. While some patients lie for petty reasons, there are patients who lie due to serious mental conditions.
Patients with Munchausen Syndrome, for example, tend to lie because they want to be the center of attention. They fabricate stories and even induce some conditions to elicit a wrong diagnosis. They can take immuno-suppressants and insulin shots prior to testing to create other problems or prolong treatment.
Malingering patients lie intentionally because they seek to obtain external rewards, like not having to go to work or to get insurances and pensions. People with Somatization disorder, on the other hand, tend to show disproportionate reactions to their physical symptoms, like dizziness, shortness of breath and weakness. This disorder is closely linked to cases of sexual abuse and psychological illness. Nurses need to know how to detect a lie in order for them to prevent further harm to these patients.
Check out this very useful infographic on how to detect a lie. The illustrations should be useful in helping you learn this skill better.
Unfortunately, due to the wide spread of information on the net (I’ve seen ‘how to spot a liar’ on Yahoo news feeds dozens of times in the past ten years), liars now know all the give away signs they might give off, and consciously avoid doing them. So, much of this information is no longer valid in many cases.


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We give you a convenient to use Database Manager, bundled in the Web Site Control Panel, from where you can generate new MySQL and PgSQL databases immediately. Additionally, you are allowed to administer their settings with the quick access presented to the phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin software instruments.
The Database Manager in the Web Site Control Panel provides an effective nevertheless uncomplicated interface. You’ll be able to set up a whole new MySQL or PostgreSQL database by just specifying a user name and security password. Also, you may create a backup file or modify the security password of the database with just a mouse click.
Through the Database Manager you’ll have direct access to the administration area for all of your databases, which means you can make quick corrections in the event you have to.
With the Database Manager you’re able to create an archived duplicate of your database when you need! For this reason, you’ll always have a backup of your active content if your web site gets hacked or if you mistakenly eliminate a database. To create a backup: click on the ’clock’ symbol beside a certain database and then wait for a couple of seconds for the process to be concluded.
There are no limits for the amount of databases you are able to back up or the volume of back–ups you can make for a database.
You will find PgSQL support in all of our cloud web hosting bundles. PgSQL databases aren’t as sought after and widespread as MySQL, nevertheless they offer the highest possible level of security for your website content and articles. Due to this, a lot of widely known businesses like Skype and Yahoo implement PgSQL databases. Taking care of PgSQL databases is as easy and simple as MySQL, due to the incredibly user–friendly interface of the Database Manager.
PgSQL databases are integrated automatically in the most innovative web hosting packages. For the basic plans, they are featured as upgrades.
The MySQL databases on our machines make use of the newest release of the InnoDB storage engine. InnoDB has been designed to ensure the max efficiency for sites that work with large volumes of data. It presents CPU efficiency that can not be matched up by any alternative disk–based relational database engines.
InnoDB is ACID–compliant and supplies 100% transaction support, meaning that it’s possible to update/insert/create/alter/drop many times for a single "operation" of your app. Furthermore, it uses row–level locking instead of MyISAM’s table–level locking, that improves multi–user concurrency and effectiveness.
From the comprehensive database statistics tool included in the Web Site Control Panel, you’re going to be able to keep a record of the load produced through your active sites at any hour. Every single overload difficulty with your websites could slow the loading rates and have a damaging influence over the overall impression of your site visitors. Therefore, by having information about the database work immediately, it will be easy to resolve overload problems straight away.
The database data interface displays data of the volume of daily, hourly and monthly lookups, so you’re able to review just how the load is allocated over various time periods.


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EuroSUP Peniche: Arthur Arutkin 2nd Overall!
The EuroSUP 2017 contest took place last weekend in Peniche under beautiful Portuguese sunny skies. Arthur Arutkin finished 2nd in the Technical Race as well as in the Long Distance and came 2nd overall! 16 year young Christian Andersen from Denmark came 7th in the Longe Distance and 4th in the Technical Race and Paulina Herpel from Germany finished with a close 4th place in the waves. Well done team!


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People often forgot vineyards are farms. They are small family-owned farms. You witness this when you travel the Piedmont trail. Beautiful acres of vineyards, corn and other crops native to Maryland. The tasting rooms are quaint, cozy places like Basignani Winery and Mount Felix Vineyard & Winery. The venues are often staffed by family members. This is kinda cool. The staff works side by side the winemaker. The winemaker is also pouring wine in the tasting room. You can meet Roy Albin, Royal Rabbit’s wine maker when you visit. Tasting room staff are able to give you first hand account of the wine making process. You get interesting stories about whats in the bottle. You will never get by reading the back of the bottle.
Sherry, Port, Maderia, Ice Wine are the styles of dessert wines commonly mentioned when people discuss dessert wines. Ice cream is sometimes accompany these dessert wines. But, what about ice cream wine. Your dessert wine is ice cream. Wine is one of the main ingredients of this homemade gourmet ice cream. Just because they use wine in the ice cream, how does this make the Piedmont Wine Trail? WineCream makes the wine, they are winemakers. You cannot buy the wine independently. The wine is made to use in the ice cream. It is Maryland’s first and only winery and creamery.
Prior to this year, you could only try WineCream at wine festivals or private tastings. WineCream officially opened its tasting room early this summer. Located in west Baltimore City in a historic industrial building, it is like other tasting rooms. You are guided through their tasted menu during your visit. You must make an appointment and 21 years and older to try the boozy delight.
Boordy Vineyard is the oldest commercial vineyard in Maryland. Yes, Maryland winemaking has been around since 16th century, but Boordy Vineyard has been operating consistent for over 70 years. It is widely popular its summer concerts brings hundreds of people to the vineyard on a weekly basis. It is great family fun. You can bring a picnic, the kids, and your friends. Buy your ticket in advance; the concerts usually sell out.
What brings hundreds of people to these concerts? The music is great. The bands are fun cover bands but you are not going to see headliners like Beyonce. So what is it? It is the wine. Boordy has a three tier wine series. There is something for everyone. Sweetland is Boordy’s sweet wine series, like Sangria, Jazzberry and peach wine. Boordy has a table wine series, known as the Maryland Icons. Sketchings of iconic Maryland symbols such as the crane, oriole and blue crab are on the wine labels. The Icon series has dry and semi-dry wines. The last series is the Landmark series. It is Boordy’s reserve wines. Your serious wine drinkers would have appreciation for the Landmark wines.
Cider and mead evoke thoughts of New Year’s Eve sparkling aperitif. The cider reserved for the designated driver. Well…erase those thoughts from your mind. CharmCity Mead Works and Millstone Cellars ciders and meads are dry. You may find a semi-dry on their tasting menus, which is the closest you will get to New Year’s cider. The ciders and meads are contemporary, even trendy. So trendy, the beverages are used in cocktails in DC’s hotest restaurants. Unlike many Maryland wines, these meads and ciders are widely distributed. You can find them in many grocery stores, fine wine stores, and restaurants.
CharmCityMead Works taproom is moving to a new location on Preston Street in Baltimore City. The taproom new location is scheduled to open late September or early October. When you visit you can enjoy mead tastings and a tour.
A mile or two before you arrive at Millstone Cellars you will notice cars parked along the roadway. People abandon their cars to tube or to kayak along Gunpowder River. The River runs under Millstone Cellars building. The building is a historic mill. Millstone offers a tour of the mill to everyone. The staff shares with you during the tour how the building was used by bootleggers during Prohibition. The mill is just as interesting as Millstone’s cider and cysers. The ciders are gluten free and vegan friendly. They locally source the apples and fruits. Ginger, rhubarb, and strawberry are some of the fruit and spices used as accents in the ciders. You can try a flight of ciders or a glass on tap. Take a visit to Millstone. You must experience the Mill at least once.
Fiore Winery and Distillery is known for its traditional Italian-style wine. They have been making wine for over 30 years. While you are visiting Fiore try their distilled spirits. True to their Italian heritage, they offer Italian spirits like Grappa, an after dinner drink, and Limoncello, Italian liqueur. I encourage to try them after your wine tasting. It will top off your visit. In addition to the Grappa and Limoncello, Fiore offers other spirits. Whisky, Brandy and Vodka are also on the menu.


text: Tumors may usurp certain mediators and signaling pathways used by normal cells to evade or shift immune responses (1). Unlocking these mechanisms may help the implementation of novel therapeutic approaches in cancer patients. Two independent studies published in the March issue of Journal of Experimental Medicine (1,2) show that thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), an IL-7-related cytokine abundant in the tumor microenvironment, instructs dendritic cells (DCs) to shift the balance toward Th2-mediated inflammatory responses that incite and sustain tumor progression.