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Looking for a great Catholic Christmas present??
There is still time to order the Lion Roars prayer book for Christmas. The Lion Roars is a collection of beautiful Catholic prayers for all different occasions. Christmas special: Order 2 copies and we will include 1 extra copy. Thats 3 for the price of 2!!! For more informaton or to order click below.
Vocal Prayer...How to do it.
1. It is prayer not recitation. This means we are lifting our minds to God. Before saying your prayer recollect yourself and place your heart in the presence of God.
2. Pay attention to the words you say. Ok this is obvious but how many times have you read an entire page of a book and realized you didnt pay any attention to what you were reading.
3. Go slow! Pause often. A good way to practice this is to pray the Our Father and try to take 2 to 3 minutes for one prayer. This will be awful at first but it will help us to be deliberate in our vocal prayer.
4. Unite vocal prayer to mental prayer. This is from St. Teresa of Avila. She explains it thus: "If while I am speaking with God, I have a clear realization that I am doing so, and if this is more real to me than the words I am uttering, then I am uniting mental prayer to vocal prayer."
5. Be docile to the Holy Spirit and not enslaved to the written words. This is obviously not the case when it comes to liturgical prayer but when you are just having a personal prayer time let the Holy Spirit guide you. If you feel an insight or you feel the Lord leading you into some strain of meditation dont worry about getting the prayer finished just go with the meditation. When you get distracted or it ends just go back to your prayer.
God calls every christian to a silent prayer life but that doesn’t mean we leave all wrote prayer behind. Sometimes these prayers sum up the feeling of our heart perfectly. This prayer is from the Raccolta and it is absolutely a favorite.
Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist, I adore Thee.
Sweet Companion of our exile, I adore Thee.
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, I adore Thee.
Heart solitary, Heart humiliated, I adore Thee.
Heart abandoned, Heart forgotten, I adore Thee.
Heart despised, Heart outraged, I adore Thee.
Heart ignored by men, I adore Thee.
Heart, Lover of our hearts, I adore Thee.
Heart pleading for love, I adore Thee.
Heart patient in waiting for us, I adore Thee.
Heart eager to hear our prayers, I adore Thee.
Heart desiring that we should pray to Thee, I adore Thee.
Heart, Source of fresh graces, I adore Thee.
Heart silent, desiring to speak to souls, I adore Thee.
Heart, sweet Refuge of the hidden life, I adore Thee.
Heart, Teacher of the secrets of union with God, I adore Thee.
Heart of Him Who sleeps, yet ever watches, I adore Thee.
Jesus Victim, I wish to comfort Thee; I unite myself to Thee; I offer myself in union with Thee. I count myself as nothing before Thee;I desire to forget myself in order to think of Thee, to be forgotten and despised for love of Thee, not to be understood, not to be loved, except by Thee. I will hold my peace that I may listen to Thee; I will forsake myself that I may lose myself in Thee.
Grant that I may quench Thy thirst for my salvation, Thy burning thirst for my sanctification, and that, being purified, I may bestow on Thee a pure and true love. I would no longer weary Thine expectations; take me, I give myself to Thee. I entrust to Thee all my actions—my mind that Thou mayest enlighten it, my heart that Thou mayest direct it, my will that Thou mayest establish it, my misery that Thou mayest relieve it, my soul and my body that Thou mayest feed them.
Eucharistic Heart of my Jesus, Whose Blood is the life of my soul, may it be no longer I who live, but Thou alone Who livest in me. Amen.


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To mark this year’s World Mental Health Day, League Football Education is signing up to the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation. The initiative has been launched by the Sport and Recreation Alliance, the Professional Players Federation and EFL’s charity partner Mind.
By signing up to the charter, League Football Education makes three commitments to help create a culture shift and remove stigmas around mental health.
Building on from LFE’s club meetings last May, for which emotional well-being took centre stage, this is further commitment to the cause with LFE recognising the need to further support academy players and staff with information, guidance and practical support.
LFE continues to work effectively with If U Care Share and the Sporting Chance Clinic to provide education and preventative measures as well as signposting to The PFA-funded well-being hotline.
The PFA and LFE joined forces during September to ensure apprentices across the country registered for use of the Safety Net, a bespoke mental health support tool for footballers.
Other recent activities have seen The PFA deliver a second annual mental health conference ‘Injured 2’ to the football fraternity and If U Care Share’s Matthew Smith helped successfully instigate the appointment of the first minister for suicide prevention as a result of his petition signed by 393,117 supporters calling for government action.
In conjunction with the EFL, LFE is dedicated to continue making positive steps to raise awareness and help ensure that no one tackles a mental health problem alone.

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When you experiencing debilitating pain in your joints, it can drastically hinder your ability to perform even the simplest everyday tasks. Joint pain can strike any joint in the body and can be caused by a multitude of conditions or problems. Many patients benefit from nonsurgical treatment methods, but in some cases the joint pain is too severe to be treated with these types of methods, leaving surgery as the only other option.
Joint replacement surgery is a safe, effective procedure that many have undergone to regain motion in their joints. This surgery is crucial for some patients who have suffered a great deal of joint damage and were unable to perform activities that they once enjoyed.
Joint replacement surgery is a straightforward procedure that has improved the quality of life for thousands of people each year. It has the power to relieve pain and restore range of motion to various joints in the body that were once damaged such as the knee or hip. However, like all major surgeries, there are risks that need to be considered.
Experiencing the debilitating effects of a damaged joint is a painful situation that you shouldn’t have to deal with. If this is the case, you could be a candidate for joint replacement which is one of the leading surgical procedures for aging members of the population.
If you’re dealing with debilitating joint pain or a severe joint injury, you understand how much it affects your daily life. If you’ve tried non-surgical treatment methods without success, surgery may be your only option. While you may be apprehensive about undergoing surgery, joint replacements and other othopaedic surgeries have been perfected over the years and are very commonplace today.
Joint replacement surgery is a safe procedure that many patients undergo to relieve pain and restore their quality of life. If you’re dealing with pain and limited range of motion in a joint, it’s important that you’re treated properly so you can live the life you want to live. Be sure to see your doctor to determine if joint replacement surgery is right for you.

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text: Here at Peergrowth Technologies, our results speak for themselves. Ok, enough about us. We want to hear all about your business, so we can transform your Digital Marketing and help you drive business growth. Give us a call to chat with our Team, or pop us a note and we’ll be in touch soon!

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Photo from Homer School District 33C regarding a pledge Homer Junior High students took yesterday to “Choose Kind.” They took the pledge after hearing the story of Mary Cate Lynch, who was born with Apert’s Syndrome.
Before commenting on a person’s appearance or avoiding them altogether, everyone should “Choose Kind,” Homer Junior High School students were told this week.
Lynch’s oldest child, 4-year-old Mary Cate, was born with Apert’s Syndrome, a rare craniofacial condition that affects the head, hands and feet. Only about 25 babies are born with the spontaneous genetic mutation each year.
The toddler has undergone five surgeries to separate her toes and fingers and to open her skull to allow the brain to grow. She is expected to undergo another 10 to 20 surgeries by the time she turns 20 — the age at which our bones stop growing.
Lynch was motivated to educate others about the syndrome because of a comment the doctor made shortly after Mary Cate was born.
Lynch now writes a blog and visits schools, sharing stories about Mary Cate’s progress and encouraging them to treat others with kindness and acceptance.
“The world would be boring if we all looked the same,” she told Homer Junior High students.
The school invited Lynch to share Mary Cate’s story because it ties in with its efforts to promote acceptance and support for one another.
Toward the end of the school assembly, students were asked to take the “Choose Kind” pledge.
“When given the choice between being right and being kind, I will choose kind,” they said in unison.
“Choose Kind” is an anti-bullying campaign inspired by the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio.

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text: The Deluxe Room is a comfortable accommodation which is easy on the pocket. This fully air-conditioned room comes with modern amenities and is equipped with a double bed. The room can easily accommodate two guests.

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Sue Marsh is a sewing pattern and fabric designer. She currently puts emphasis on practical patterns such as e-reader covers, purses and totes along with some fun projects for the kitchen. Sue designs bright and whimsical fabrics for RJR fabrics and her current line is chock full of colorful dragons! Her goal is to make you giggle. Learn more about Sue and her business via her website and blog.
Sue: Inspiration is all around. I might be driving down the street and notice a convertible with Dad and Junior in the front seat and a big ol’ dog in the back. That might easily become a fabric, only the dog would be driving.
S: A project almost always starts as a doodle on a scrap of paper. I work on dimensions and color next. I work up a prototype, then onto the instructions and then a final project.
S: It is simply a part of me.
S: It is 100% my job now. I started like most do, sewing for myself. I found I needed extra money after college graduation – a big recession at the time – so I sewed for craft shows. I gradually started creating my own patterns, then after 15 years of working two jobs (sewing and my real job as a software engineer), I quit my high tech, high paying job and started drawing cartoons for a living.
S: We are human. Allow yourself to make mistakes!
P: When and why did you start sewing/quilting?
S: I’ve been sewing since I was 12. To me it is as much an artistic outlet as painting or music.

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The Fujifilm X-T1 is a new compact system camera that looks and feels very much like a miniature DSLR. The X-T1 features a 2.36m dot resolution OLED electronic viewfinder with the world's highest magnification and a lag-time of just 0.005 sec, hybrid auto-focus system with a fast response time of 0.08sec, a weather-proof body, five mechanical dials and six customisable function buttons, and compatibility with Ultra High Speed UHS-II SDXC memory cards. At the heart of the X-T1 is a 16.3 megapixel APS-C sized X-Trans CMOS II sensor, which has a colour filter array that mimics film grain and no optical low-pass filter for higher resolution images, Fujifilm's EXR Processor II, and a Lens Modulation Optimiser which automatically corrects diffraction blur. The X-T1 also has a tilting 3-inch LCD screen, 8fps burst shooting, enhanced wi-fi connectivity, interval timer shooting, in-camera raw conversion, a range of film simulation modes, multiple exposure and panoramic shooting modes, Digital Split Image and Focus Peaking for easier manual focusing, and Full HD video recording capabilities at up to 60fps. The Fujifilm X-T1 is available in all-black or silver and black and costs £1099 in the UK and $1299 in the US body-only, or £1449 / $1699 with the 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS kit lens.
In terms of its outward appearance, the new Fujifilm X-T1 is quite a departure from previous X-series cameras, sporting a DSLR-look rather than the classic rangefinder design that the range has become well-known for. Fujifilm claim that this decision has been taken to try and broaden the appeal of the X-series to action photographers armed with longer lenses, but we suspect that the X-T1 has also been designed to appeal to the large number of potential customers that want a DSLR, or at least a camera that looks like one. Whatever the reason, the X-T1 is undoubtedly a good-looking camera, with a classic DSLR profile, just in miniature.
The X-T1 is the first weather-proof X-series camera, with 80 points of weather sealing offering dust-resistance, water-resistance and freeze-resistance down to -10°C. The optional Vertical Battery Grip (VG-XT1) offers the same levels of weather-proof-ness. Curiously, Fujifilm didn't launch a wather-resistant lens at the same time as the X-T1, which means that it won't actually become a fully weather-proof system until you can pair it with one of the three new weather-resistant zoom lenses that are slated for release in 2014 (the first being the XF 18-135mm lens, due out in June).
As with the X-E2, the the X-T1 dispenses with the range-topping X-Pro1's innovative Hybrid optical/electronic viewfinder, replaced instead by a brand new high-resolution OLED electronic viewfinder. Although sharing the same 2.36m dot resolution as the X-E2, Fujifilm have clearly been hard at work on making the X-T1's electronic viewfinder even better. With a magnification of 0.77x, it narrowly beats the Olympus M-D E-M1 to the title of "EVF with the world's highest magnification", while it has a lag-time of just 0.005 sec, in practice answering one of the most common complaints about electronic viewfinders.
Fujfilm's engineers haven't stopped there though. The viewfinder has a stunning new Graphic User Interface that no optical viewfinder could ever hope to emulate. The default Full mode does what its name suggests and displays an uninterrupted view of the scene with all the settings information displayed outside the frame so that you can really concentrate on your subject. Normal provides an optimum view, including the shooting settings. The very clever new Dual mode is unlike anything that we've seen before, taking advantage of the EVF's size to display a split view of the scene before you, with the full frame on the left and a smaller 100% manual focus area on the right, complete with either focus peaking or Fujifilm's digital split image function. Finally, the displayed settings in the Full and Normal modes automatically rotate when the camera is held in a portrait orientation (although sadly not for the Dual view).
All of this - size, magnification, speed, and display - adds up to make the Fujifilm X-T1's EVF the best that we've ever looked through, no mean feat considering the likes of the viewfinders inside the Olympus M-D E-M1 and the Sony A7/A7R. Electronic viewfinder sceptics should definitely take a look through the X-T1's viewfinder - you might never go back to an optical viewfinder again.
The Fujifilm X-T1 is another amazingly well-built X-series camera, with absolutely no flex or movement in its chassis thanks to the die-cast magnesium alloy body and machined control dials. At the same time, it's actually a little lighter than a first glance might suggest, weighing in at 440g body only with the battery and memory card fitted, about the same as the X-Pro1. Measuring 129.0mm (W) x 89.8mm (H) x 46.7mm, it's slightly taller and deeper than the X-E2.
The X-T1 has a pronounced hand-grip at the front and a prominent rest at the rear for your thumb, with your grip helped in no small part by the textured faux-leather surface that runs around the full width of the camera. Two small metal eyelets on either side of the body are used for connecting the supplied shoulder strap. A metal tripod mount is positioned slightly off-centre from the lens and next to the battery compartment, so you'll have to remove the camera from the tripod to change the battery. The memory card is located on the right-hand flank of the camera when viewed from the rear. The X-T1 is the first ever camera to offer compatibility with Ultra High Speed UHS-II SDXC memory cards, which has the main benefit of increasing the data writing speed in continuous mode to about twice that of a conventional UHS-1 card. The X-T1 offers a continuous shooting rate of 8fps for 47 JPEGs if you use a UHS-II SDXC card, certainly up there with the fastest compact system cameras, although not as fast as the Olympus O-MD E-M1 which can shoot up to 50 RAW files at 10fps (even with a non-UHS II card).
At the heart of the X-T1 is the 16.3 megapixel APS-C sized X-Trans CMOS sensor, which is also used by the X-E2 camera. APS-C is a sensor size that's more commonly used by the majority of DSLR cameras, rather than by compact system cameras - Sony's NEX range and Samsung's NX series are the others. Fujifilm actually claim that the X-T1's sensor will deliver image quality that surpasses most APS-C DSLRs and even some full-frame ones, and as our test photos and sample images on the next two pages show , the X-T1 actually does live up to those claims. We won't say any more at this point other than to recommend that you take a look at our Sample Images for yourself.
Helping to keep the image quality high is the 18-55mm standard zoom kit lens that we tested the X-T1 with. This offers fast maximum apertures of F/2.8 at 18mm and F/4 at 55mm, with the added benefit of built-in optical image stabilisation to help keep your images sharp. There are aperture and manual focus rings on the lens barrel, which in conjunction with the shutter speed and exposure compensation dials on top of the camera body makes it straight-forward to set the exposure. We did find though that the aperture ring is easily moved, particularly when taking the lens on and off the camera, so watch out for an incorrectly set aperture. The 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS is a really nice standard zoom that's certainly a cut above the kit lenses that ship with most interchangeable lens cameras.
The 18-55mm lens' fast maximum apertures in conjunction with the large APS-C sensor make it easy to throw the background out of focus and achieve some really nice bokeh effects. The combination of the fast apertures and the extensive ISO range of 100-51200 makes the X-T1 very well suited to low-light shooting, allowing you to hand-hold the camera in places where you'd usually be reaching for a tripod (if allowed) or other support. The clever ISO Auto Control setting allows you to set a maximum sensitivity (up to 6400) and a minimum shutter speed (1/30th is a good starting point), with the camera over-riding your ISO choice if it thinks you're being too ambitious whilst maintaining a shutter speed that won't introduce camera shake.
With its focal-plane shutter, the X-T1 has a very adaptable top shutter-speed limit of 1/4000th second in all shooting modes. Consequently there's no built-in ND filter as on the X100/S, so if you want to use the 35mm lens at F/1.4 in very bright sunlight, for example, then it's a good idea to buy an actual glass ND filter. The X-T1 utilises a focal-plane shutter rather than the leaf shutter that the X100/S cameras have, much like a regular DSLR camera. This results in slightly noisier operation than on those very quiet cameras, although the shutter on the X-T1 is pretty stealthy by DSLR standards, and a much slower flash-sync speed of 1/180th second (versus the X100/S's 1/400th second). To make the camera less obtrusive there's a Silent menu option which turns off the speaker, flash, AF-assist lamp and most importantly the shutter-release sound, instantly making the X-T1 perfectly suited to candid photography.
The Fujifilm X-T1's auto-focusing speed is very similar to the X-E2, with a quoted fastest auto-focus time of just 0.08 seconds when using the 18-55mm zoom. The X-T1 has the same ultra-fast hybrid AF system with both a conventional contrast-detection system and built-in Phase Detection pixels which enables the camera to achieve a focus lock so quickly and accurately. The X-T1 has 49 individual AF points laid out in a 7 x 7 grid, with the ability to change the size of the focus point via the rear command dial to achieve more precise focusing.
Manual focusing is activated by setting the focusing switch on the front of the camera to Manual and using the ring that encircles the lens to focus. The X-series lenses have an electronically coupled focus-by-wire manual focusing ring, rather than a physical one. We criticised some older X-series bodies for taking a lot of turns to change the focus from 0.1m to infinity, commenting that it was a much better idea to use the AEL button on the rear of the camera to set the focus automatically, then use the focusing ring to micro-adjust the focus manually, if required. This is still a viable technique, but is perhaps no longer required as Fujifilm have cleverly made the focusing ring more sensitive to how you use it - turn it slowly and the focusing distance changes slowly, but turn it more quickly and the camera quickly moves through the distance scale. It now only takes less than 2 full turns and a couple of seconds to jump from the closest focus distance to infinity.
The X-T1 offers not one, not two, but three ways of manually focusing. Firstly, there's a handy blue distance scale along the bottom of the viewfinder (both the OVF and EVF) and on the LCD screen if you're using that for composition, with a red bar indicating the the focusing distance and a white bar showing the depth of field, which actually changes in line with the current aperture - very clever. In addition to the AEL button, the X-T1 has another trick up its manual focusing sleeve in the shape of the new Focus Assist. As its name suggests, you can press this in to magnify the view in the electronic viewfinder. Furthermore, if you hold down the Focus Assist button, the manual focusing aid then switches to Digital Split Image, and then to Focus Peaking - a very neat way to change between the three modes.
The second manual focusing method is the Digital Split Image feature. Harking back to film cameras of the past, this displays dual images on the left and right which then need to be lined up together for accurate manual focusing, enabling accurate focusing especially when shooting wide-open or for macro shooting. It's much easier to understand in practice than written down. The third and final method is the Focus Peak Highlight function, which displays a white line around the subject when it's in focus, something that Sony NEX users in particular have been enjoying for a while. Both of these functions make manual focusing on the X-T1 more of a pleasure than a chore, although the revised fly-by-wire manual focusing ring operation is arguably more important.
In addition to the class-leading electronic viewfinder, the X-T1 has a higher-resolution 3 inch LCD monitor on the back, which offers 100% scene coverage and 1.04 million dots, and can be usefully tilted up and down by about 90 degrees. The LCD screen has a handy Info view which presents all of the key settings at once, or you can switch to the Standard or Custom Live View modes, with the latter offering 14 customisable options (these are also used for the electronic viewfinder). The X-T1 has a built-in eye sensor so that you only have to hold the camera up to eye-level to switch between the rear LCD and the electronic viewfinder (or you can press the View Mode button on the side of the pentaprism).
In terms of operational speed, the Fujifilm X-T1 is very satisfying to use. Shutter lag is virtually non-existent on this camera (0.05 second), so once you have set the focus, you'll never miss the moment because the camera can't fire the shutter quickly enough. The shot-to-shot time is just 0.5 second, and it starts-up in only 0.5 second too. The write speeds from pressing the shutter button to recording to the SD / SDHC / SDXC memory card are fast too. Shooting a single RAW + Fine JPEG takes less than a second to record to a UHS-II card, a big improvement on the already speedy X-E2. Continuous shooting speeds have been slightly improved, with a faster top rate of 8fps for up to 47 JPEGs or 23 RAW files if using a UHS-II card, with a slower 3fps speed with AF tracking up to the capacity of the card also available. Thankfully the camera doesn't lock up completely for a long time if you shoot the maximum number of images in a burst, allowing you to continue shooting after just a few seconds. The X-T1 also offers interval timer shooting for time lapses, with intervals of 1 second to 24 hours and up to 999 frames.
One area in which the Fujifilm X-T1 excels is its handling, thanks in no small part to the numerous external controls that make changing the key settings a breeze, especially when holding the camera at eye-level. Surrounding the 18-55m lens is a circular aperture ring, although it has no markings due to the variable aperture. This dial also allows you to choose third-stop apertures. On top of the X-T1 is a large, tactile, lockable control dial for setting the shutter speed, with settings ranging from 1 second to 1/4000th second, an Auto option, a T setting for longer exposures (2 to 30 seconds, set via the circular command wheel) and a Bulb mode for exposures up to a whopping 60 minutes in length. Alongside the shutter speed dial is another tactile dial for changing the exposure compensation, with a range of +-3EV, and on the left-hand side is a third, lockable dial for setting the ISO speed, with settings ranging from Auto to H2. Together these three controls make it extremely easy to set the exposure.
Underneath the ISO Speed and Shutter Speed dials are two more dials, the first for setting bracketing, burst, multiple exposure, advanced and panorama functions, and the second for setting the metering mode. Cleverly, unlike the dials that sit on top of the them, these two dials are not locked in place.
Four other controls complete the X-T1's top-plate. The small but responsive shutter release button is encircled by the On/Off switch, although sadly there's no thread for a traditional mechanical cable release, as on the X-E2. Alongside are the one-touch Movie Record and-the Fn/Wi-Fi buttons, which by default provides quick access to the Wi-Fi options, but can be customised to suit your own needs from 12 different settings. Further customisation is available via the 7 Custom Menu options, which let you create, save and recall up to 7 sets of user-defined settings, and no less than 6 configurable function buttons. Finally there's an external flash hotshoe for suitable dedicated external units, into which fits the new EF-X8 flash that ships in the box. This small but handy flash unit has a guide number of 11 at ISO 200, more powerful than the X-E2's flash, which goes some way to compensating for the fact that it's not built-in to the camera.
The X-T1 features enhanced built-in wi-fi connectivity. Install the new FUJIFILM Camera Remote App and you can transfer your pictures immediately to a smartphone or tablet PC and then edit and share them as you wish, transfer stills and video onto the camera, and embed GPS information in your shots from your smartphone. You can also now control the camera remotely, the first time on an X-series camera, with the list of available functions including Touch AF, shutter release for stills and movies, shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation, ISO sensitivity, Film Simulation modes, White Balance, macro, timer and flash. The built-in wi-fi also provides a simple means to backup your photos to your home PC.
The Fujifilm X-T1 can record full HD 1080p movies at 60/30fps with stereo sound and a high bitrate (36Mbps), with the option for turning this mode on curiously buried at the bottom of the Drive menu, although at least Fujifilm have finally added a one-touch record button. It's fair to say that the X-T1's movie mode isn't overly advanced. You can set the aperture and shutter speed before recording begins, but not during, and you can also set the Film Simulation mode, so black and white footage is possible, and the exposure compensation. Continuous auto-focusing is possible, although it still tends to hunt around before locking onto the subject, and manual focusing is also available (with the same caveats as for stills). There is a HDMI port for connecting the X-T1 to a high-definition TV, although as usual there's no cable supplied in the box. Also missing is a paper copy of the otherwise helpful manual, which is supplied on CD-ROM instead, along with the consumer MyFinepix software the slow and rather unintuitive RAW convertor (essentially a specially customised version of the commercial Silkypix application).
The X-T1 has a logical enough rear control layout, although it's not quite as streamlined as the X-E2 thanks to the inclusion of the tilting screen. Above the LCD screen and to the left of the viewfinder are two buttons for choosing image deletion or playback, while on the right is the AE-L button, rear control dial and the AF-L button. Beneath those is the Focus Assist button, then the Quick Menu button. This provides quick access to lots of frequently used shooting settings including the ISO speed, White Balance, File Size and File Quality, with the 4-way controller and command dial used to quickly change them. A 4-way controller is used to change the shutter speed and aperture, toggle the macro mode on and off, and set the AF point. In the middle of the controller is the Menu button, which accesses the eight Shooting and Set-up menus. Underneath is the Disp/Back button which is used for changing the LCD display or going back.


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The stories, objects, and photographs on display in the DANK Haus Museum are only a small part of our collection. Museum staff often meet with individuals and families to evaluate items for acceptance into the Museum's collections. We take pride in maintaining an ever-growing collection that preserves and interprets German-American history.
How Do I Donate Objects, Images, or Documents to the DANK Haus Collection?
If we are interested in accepting your donation, Museum staff will work with you to receive the objects, images, or documents.
Can I Mail or Drop Off a Donation?
Please contact the Museum & Collections manager before mailing or dropping off items. Not all items will be a good fit for our collection. We also need to know as much about the item as possible to determine its historical value and prefer to have contact with the donor in advance.
Will the DANK Haus Exhibit the Materials in My Donation?
The DANK Haus cannot guarantee that any historical materials donated to the collection will be exhibited unless expressly collected for that purpose. Only a small fraction of the collection is on view at any given time.
Objects, images, and documents from the collection are occasionally loaned to other institutions for temporary exhibitions, and many historical materials in the collection are made available for research purposes.
If I Donate Materials to the DANK Haus, Will They Be Returned to Me at My Request?
The DANK Haus cannot return accessioned collection objects, images, and documents to the donor. Once the DANK Haus Museum staff accepts your donation for the collection, you will be asked to sign a Deed of Gift which legally transfers ownership of the historical materials to the Museum.
Will the DANK Haus Appraise My Donation for its Monetary Value?
The DANK Haus does not provide appraisals of the monetary value of proposed donations or for any other reason because the Internal Revenue Service regards museums and libraries as interested parties.
Can Donated Materials be Removed from the DANK Haus Museum Collection?
The DANK Haus may remove historical materials from the collection through a process called deaccessioning. Objects, images, or documents that conform to our deaccessioning criteria (for example, historical materials that are determined to be outside the scope of the Museum's collections, inauthentic, misidentified, or misattributed, pose a risk to other objects in the collection) may be concerned for deaccessioning. Deaccessioned historical material may be donated to another museum or cultural or education organization, destroyed, sold, or disposed in another manner that the Museum deems fit.
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Bernie wants a political revolution but how do we revolt?
We can protest. But protests rarely seem to produce positive change. Egyptians protested and their government is no better. Syrians protested and got killed, or became refugees. Remember ‘Occupy Wall Street.’ People get tired of protesting and they can get violent.
How about voting the bad guys out of office? The Republicans have gerrymandered districts so successfully the crazies in the Congress are supported by crazies at home. They are not likely to be voted out of office and if they stay in office they will continue to block any progress toward justice and equality.
Petitions are popular now. Do you think our Congress members pay attention to our signatures? Like Bernie says, they listen to the lobbyists and the wealthy, not to us.
I remember many years ago when Lech Walesa, a dock worker founded Poland’s first trade union; Solidarity. Walesa won a Nobel Peace Prize and eventually became the President of Poland. He did it with a STRIKE.
Bernie is turning out thousands at rallies all over the country, and they will continue, at least for a while. Suppose, just suppose, these well meaning people picked one day in December or January to stay home from work. That’s all, just stay home. You don’t have to carry a sign or go to Washington or even go out of the house. It’s not inconvenient, it’s not dangerous. Some may want to take to the streets peacefully to call attention to the strike. If millions participated in a peaceful workers strike it might stir the pot. If teachers didn’t go to school and grocers didn’t stock the shelves and gas stations didn’t open up, and mail carriers ‘got sick’ and airplanes didn’t fly Congress might listen. And if they didn’t then on the first of the next month the strike would recur. And if that didn’t work then in two weeks another strike might go down, and another two weeks after that……eventually the people might be heard, like they were so many years ago in Poland.
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FOR SALE $ 2,500,000.- Land area 1,753 m² (18,869 sq ft), construction area 1,600 m² (17,222 sq ft), apartment area 220 m² (2,368 sq ft) Shopping Center in strategic place of Samara, right at the junction of route 160 to Carrillo, in front of the bus stop and 200 meters from the beach. The shopping center has two floors, has 20 commercial premises, bathrooms on both floors, 2 apartments, internal and external parking, as well as an internal tropical garden. First Apartment 125 m² (1,345 sq ft) It consists of three bedrooms, two with air conditioning, 2 bathrooms, a huge covered terrace, ceiling fans in all rooms, air conditioning in the dining-living room, kitchen and laundry room. Second Apartment 95 m² (1,022 sq ft) It consists of two bedrooms with ceiling fans, one with air conditioning, 2 bathrooms, very large covered terrace, kitchen, laundry room, air conditioning in living room.
FOR SALE $ 235.000.- Land area 425 m² (4,574 sq ft), Construction area 175 m² (1,883 sq ft) Beautiful two storey house with fine details, located 200 meters from the beach and the center of Samara. The house has 3 bedrooms, all with air conditioning, 2 half baths, living-kitchen-dining room in an open area with high ceiling, laundry room, outside terrace, garden, parking for three vehicles. It is fully ready to live. Availability of all public services.
This agricultural land is located in Sámara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in Nicoya county. This riverfront, mountain and countryside property with mountain, greenbelt, wooded, garden and river views is situated in the tropical dry forest of Costa Rica. The land area of this agricultural land is a total of 2.20 hectare (5.44 acre).

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Aquarium Liberty was established in 1975 with a very small workforce. At the year 1980, the company was restructured into a Private Limited company with Mr. Albert Tsia as the Managing Director and Mdm Elsie Ang as its Director.
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For these 10 prominent politicians, I believe events this year seal their fates. For all practical purposes their careers are over.
10. Tariana Turia: On her way out. Presiding over the imminent death of her Maori Party. Trying to force out her co-leader was clumsy. Was the deal she got with National over the foreshore and seabeds any different from what she was offered by Labour? Does anyone remember or care?
9. Brendan Horan: Political career stillborn. He didn’t understand rumours of him spending a little old lady’s money was a bottom line for Winston Peters. After all, little old ladies are NZ First’s core constituency.
8. Maryan Street: Hasn’t landed a single blow on her opposite number. The only time she got a mention was on her private member’s bill on euthanasia. I would have thought killing a patient wasn’t the best way to make your name as health spokesperson. She’s lucky Labour has a shortage of experienced women.
7. Nanaia Mahuta: Pretended to be a serious contender for the deputy leadership. Got education job instead and was never heard of again. Chris Hipkins now does all the lifting for Labour in education. Other employees get sacked for stealing their wages. So should she.
6. Tau Henare: Humiliatingly hawking himself for the Speaker’s job to his political enemies because his own party wouldn’t support him. When you started life as a working class hero and morph into someone who publicly offered to sweep the floor for Don Brash, there’s nothing else to say. Referred to these days as Uncle Tau. Sad and embarrassing.
5. John Banks: The guy from Struggle Street who spent a lifetime building a solid public reputation. Now the so-called Act leader is a pariah. There are things worse than death. Being a sniggering political joke comes close. Tragic and pathetic.
4. Pita Sharples: Being publicly shafted by his co-leader and his overly cosy relationship with the National leader makes his future bleak. It’s true that nice guys come last. His friends should beg him to retire with dignity.
3. David Cunliffe: This guy went from Helen Clark’s less-than-secret choice for leader to where even his closest allies pretend they don’t know him. Everyone says he’s smart. So why was he so easily out-manoeuvred and dispatched to the backbench without any internal backlash? The public have rewarded his leader and party by boosting both in the polls since. Disconnected from reality?
2. Hekia Parata: Just a train wreck. Spin will get you in the door but hard work and talent keeps you there. Everything she touches turns to shite. It’s her arrogance and lack of self-awareness that give her supreme confidence. Even the Prime Minister, master salesman himself, must see an incompetent bungler who will bring the whole party down around her. Cut her quick.
1. John Key: This year has finished him. His evasiveness over Kim Dotcom, his shonkiness over the SkyCity casino deal to give more pokies for a convention centre, his weakness managing his ministers and his forgetfulness on details of his job is starting to form real doubts that he’s on top of his job. We like nice guys but we expect them to know what they’re doing. This is the year he became a two-term prime minister.
2012 was a hard year for many people. It didn’t need to be so hard. Bill Rosenberg, CTU Economist said “yes, we live in difficult times, but government policies should be judged by how it dealt with those difficulties, not by the lazy criterion: “we muddled through”.
· We saw income inequality reach its highest ever in New Zealand despite increasing international evidence that it drives many economic and social problems. The Ministry of Social Development also showed that in 2011 two-thirds of households had falling incomes. Median weekly incomes in 2012 had their smallest increase since 1999.
· Levels of poverty among children continued at levels described by experts as “unacceptable” when our aging population makes it more important than ever that we should be helping all our children make full use of their abilities for their own and society’s wellbeing.
· A just released report from the Tertiary Education Commission showed that student numbers fell by an astonishing 11% in 2011 at a time when we should be increasing skills and encouraging people into education and training.
· Unemployment reached a high of 7.3 percent not seen since 1999, deteriorating from 3rd lowest in the OECD in 2006 to 15th lowest, with many more jobless or seeking more work, despite New Zealand escaping the bank failures that hit other countries. It is now not far below the falling 7.7 percent rate in the US – the heart of the bank failures.
· The economy continued to stagnate, with little sign of rebalancing away from reliance on property investment and low value commodity exports towards productive high-wage high-value industry and exports.
· Moving from employment relations which see workers and good pay, job security and working conditions as costs to be reduced, to treating workers as valuable assets and encourages collective bargaining, skill creation, and cooperation between unions and employers to increase productivity as a way forward – as it is in the highly successful Nordic societies. It should be scrapping its proposals to further reduce work protections and union rights.
· Taking its focus off an unrealistic budget surplus target to job creation, raising benefit levels to take children out of poverty, encouraging more people into tertiary education including industry training, building more good quality low cost houses and increasing the quality of private rental housing, providing food in schools, and taxing high incomes and capital gains (excluding the primary home) to bring in more revenue and reverse growing gaps between rich and poor.
· Greatly expanding programmes to assist people who are jobless through community job schemes, more help in retraining, matching skills to jobs, and relocation assistance.
· Assisting manufacturing and other local employers through government procurement, expanded support and funding for research and development, export marketing, and venture capital to create good jobs.
· Intervening to manage the exchange rate to make exporting more profitable and less risky.
The CTU wishes everyone a safe and happy summer holiday, and wants to remind workers of their rights during the holiday season.
This includes wages, health and safety, but also leave entitlements.
Employers can, and often do close down over the Christmas- New Year period. They can only do this once every 12 months, but they can require employees to take annual leave to cover the time. The employer must give workers at least 14 days’ notice if they intend to have a close down period.
Unions will be able to assist with queries as will the Labour Department.
Peter Conway said that the best protection for all workers is to join a union, be covered by a negotiated collective employment agreement, and speak up over any workplace issues.
Or see http://www.dol.govt.nz/er/holidaysandleave/publicholidays/index.asp for further information.
The Employment Relations Authority has fined the Ports of Auckland $40,000 for illegally employing strike breaking contractors during industrial action at the Port earlier this year.
Ports of Auckland Limited (POAL) broke the law when they employed an overseas engineer at the cost of $10,000 a week to undertake the work of MUNZ members.
In addition, local contractors were illegally used to carry out engineering work at the Port.
At the time when the multiple breaches of the Employment Relations Act took place in February and March 2012, MUNZ members were on strike and locked out in their battle to stop management contracting out their jobs.
In deciding the breach of the Act was deliberate and serious, she imposed penalties totalling $40,000 against POAL.
Maritime Union of New Zealand National President Garry Parsloe says the ERA decision places POAL management in an untenable position.
He says that now in addition to all the costs of the dispute, Auckland ratepayers are continuing to pay for POAL management’s deliberately unlawful actions.
Mr Parsloe says this week at the Auckland Council Accountability and Performance Committee, the so-called Council Controlled Organisation Auckland Council Investments Ltd (ACIL) indicated that they were not responsible for monitoring the costs of the dispute.
Despite continual legal findings against them, POAL management are continuing (with the support of the Board) to try to remove employment security from port workers, including by demanding a collective agreement that removes all certainty of rostering and even the current guarantee of every third weekend off.
This dispute has gone on for too long and has cost too much, it is time for POAL to settle a fair and balanced collective agreement with us, says Mr Parsloe.
He says MUNZ members at the Port simply want to have an agreement that provides job security, not sign an agreement that allows their jobs to be contracted out.
The CTU is releasing its submission to the Minimum Wage Review.
“The minimum wage review is of vital importance as it is an opportunity to address the problem of low pay and its effects on poverty”.
Bill Rosenberg said that the comprehensive CTU submission addresses major questions such as research on the effects of minimum wage increases on employment, the gender pay gap, and widening income inequality.
The CTU submission on the minimum wage review can be found here.
Prime minister John Key sent a letter on Thursday to families of the Pike River Mine apologising for the deaths of their loved ones.
His letter admitted that the lack of Government safety regulations, that allowed greedy owners to cut corners to make money, caused the deaths.
Anyone who has read the findings on the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the 29 workers would be hard pressed to claim it was an accident.
Based on the findings, I believe it was manslaughter – or worse.
Labour MP Andrew Little, the former head of the union to which some of the dead had belonged, was attacked when he proposed that New Zealand needed legislation where corporates that have their employees or the public maimed or killed through their gross and deliberate negligence should be liable for criminal charges.
We have a system in this country that the police tend to defer to labour inspectors when it comes to work-related deaths and injuries.
The problem is that there are few inspectors and they are out of their depth when it comes to laying blame where it lies. It seems every death or serious injury is an “accident” where an ambulance picks up the victims. Then it is left to the public hospital system and the Accident Compensation Corporation to pick up the pieces.
There’s always some other person to fill the vacancy.
I believe the owners and management of Pike River have gotten away with murder.
All the families of the miners get is the Prime Minister popping down this week to say how sorry he is and promising it won’t happen again.
But it will. Not necessarily in mining, but the same lack of regulation that caused the tragedy at Pike River is rife everywhere. That’s because this Government ideologically believes in less regulation in everything. It looks good on an election bumper sticker but it’s nonsense.
In my day job as a union official I have a bit to do with the security industry. Last year a young man, Charanpreet Dhaliwal Singh, started as a security guard. On his first night he visited a work site. Hours later he was found dead and a man is facing a murder charge.
The fact that this young man had no training, yet was sent out on his first night alone, was, in my view, appalling.
Our novice was sent out without a torch, phone or walkie-talkie. Was his employer charged? In a rare move, yes, though they have denied failing to secure his safety. The case is yet to be heard.
Our union at the time called for regulation of the security industry and a clampdown on cowboy, fly-by-night security companies. What happened? Nothing. Today, any charlatan can set up as a security firm as long as they have a cellphone, a cheap vest and a car. Most businesses are required by their insurer to have security.
The cowboys will undercut each other to get any job. They literally employ warm bodies. Very few companies have any training. If a security guard is attacked they have no back-up.
Even the established security companies have joined the race to the bottom. They tell me if they don’t compete with these cowboys they will go out of business. I’ve even heard that to save costs their staff are instructed to only go to work sites where a client checks they are there. The rest aren’t visited.
Some in the industry treat it like a racket. Security employees who raise concerns can find their hours reduced. I have a current case for a worker who raised safety breaches with her company and has now been “restructured” out of the job.
It’s not the same impact as Pike River where so many deaths occurred at once. But on a regular basis security guards are being killed or badly injured. And everyone turns a blind eye.
When we raised this matter this week, the minister responsible for this industry, Chester Burrows, professed to know nothing about the problem.
Really? If the Prime Minister is genuinely sorry about the lack of safety rules and enforcement by his officials then he can make a commitment not to allow the same thing to happen again. Otherwise his apology to the families of the Pike River miners means nothing and he’s just an empty vessel.


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When photographer Christie Goodwin first met Ed Sheeran he was unknown and unsigned-- just a young busker trying to make it big. But she could see something special in Ed. Goodwin agreed to photograph him for free to help him on his way to the top.
That was the beginning of a 10-year collaboration, with the two crossing paths as Ed rocketed to fame--a story told here, through Goodwin's camera.
Ed Sheeran: Memories We Made shares these images and stories for the first time in a stunning collection of rare and unseen photographs charting Ed Sheeran's rise to global superstardom. Featuring a foreword and additional photo captions by Ed's father, John Sheeran, this is an up-close and intimate view of the singer who has captivated audiences around the world.

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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Dr.HLT College of Pharmacy, Channapatna, Karnataka- 571502.
The present study deals with the determination of Ferrum Phophoricum and Ferrum metal in some Homeopathic formulations. The method is based on Fe3+ reduce to Fe2+ with hydroxyl ammonium chloride which react with the 1-10 phenanthroline in the pH range 3-5 to form an orange-red colour complex which shows the maximum absorbance at 518 nm. Beer’s law is obeyed in the concentration range of 0.5-3mg/ml. Results of the analysis were validated statistically and by recovery studies. The Percentage label claim and Percentage recoveries estimated were close to 100% with low value of standard deviation and Percentage coefficient of variation.
Ferrum Phosohoricum, Spectrophotometry, Fe2+ 1-10 phenanthroline complex.
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SUNNYVALE, CA - May 26, 2009 - Total Phase is pleased to announce native Mac OS X support for the new Data Center™ 3.0 software, the only hardware-based USB, I2C, and SPI protocol analysis software in the industry with true real-time performance and cross platform support for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
This release is a part of Total Phase's continuing commitment to serve the needs of the Mac developer community. By providing Mac support for its lines of embedded systems development tools, Mac developers have access to powerful and cost-effective USB, I2C, and SPI debugging solutions while working natively in Mac OS X.
With LiveDisplay technology, developers gain instant access to USB, I2C, and SPI bus data. While many solutions claim to have real-time analysis, the LiveDisplay technology shows the actual bus data as it is happening in true real-time, breaking from the traditional capture-download-process model of protocol analysis.
"LiveDisplay™ is an especially powerful and useful feature in the Data Center 3.0 software," states Derek Fung, Senior Engineer. "Immediately seeing the USB, I2C, or SPI packets as they happen gives developers unparalleled visibility into the communications on their embedded systems."
To help manage large streams of incoming data, the LiveFilter™ feature allows developers to instantly filter live USB, I2C, and SPI traffic against any number of parameters. Additionally, the LiveSearch™ functionality offers a powerful way to quickly locate data of interest in a live capture.
"In this economic climate, it is especially important to improve productivity. Users can filter out extraneous data and pinpoint relevant data quickly with the LiveFilter and LiveSearch features," Mr. Fung adds. "Problems can be identified faster, saving engineering time and costs. If we can save an engineer a day of debugging, these tools will have paid for themselves."
The Beagle™ Protocol Analyzers are the hardware complement to the Data Center Software. These analyzers can non-intrusively capture and display USB, I2C, and SPI serial bus data. Total Phase offers three different bus monitors: the Beagle™ USB 480 Protocol Analyzer, a high-speed USB 2.0 monitor, the Beagle™ USB 12 Protocol Analyzer, a full-speed USB monitor, and the Beagle™ I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer, which can capture and display I2C and SPI data.
The Data Center 3.0 software is available immediately as a free download for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X on the Total Phase website. Beagle protocol analyzers are available for purchase online and orders placed before 2 PM PST are usually shipped the same day.
Total Phase manufactures powerful and affordable USB, I2C, and SPI development tools for the embedded systems engineer. The entire line of developer tools combines best-of-breed features, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X support, royalty-free API, free software updates, and free lifetime support, making them perfect additions to any engineer's toolbox.


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This page is in response to emails I've received asking to know why I rave on about SBI...why is it different from/ better than other web hosts?
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PREselling is a concept "invented" by SiteSell, part of the C T P M process. The concept is simple. As small business people, you do not have a brand name that is known and trusted. So you have to build that before you can monetize. Seems obvious, right? So few people do it, or they don't do it right, online.
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text: The P-shaped conservatory has two distinct areas, giving you a lot of choice in how you use your space. Whether you choose to use one area for dining, and another as playroom or a hobby room, there are plenty of options. Our P-shaped conservatories are custom designed to suit your needs, which means the possibilities are almost limitless. We can adapt any of our existing styles to suit your needs and the space available, and we can even combine styles.


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With busy class schedules and many working full or part-time jobs to support themselves, volunteering is often not at the top of students’ priority list because, in addition to prioritizing and planning, volunteering requires time.
Amanda Sevigny, a senior psychology major and vice captain of Westminster College’s Love Your Melon Campus Crew, said students might not volunteer because they are already budgeting time for the things that are important to them, such as school, family or work. To make it a priority, Sevigny suggested students find a way to donate their time to something they already enjoy doing.
For Madeline Gere, a graduate assistant in the Katherine W. Dumke Center for Civic Engagement, civic engagement and volunteering are integral parts of her day-to-day life.
But for many, volunteering isn’t just a way of giving back but is also a way to improve their résumé or get school credit.
Julie Tille, Westminster’s director for student engagement, said that even if students intend their volunteer work to meet a requirement or to boost their résumé, the outcome is still beneficial for all parties.
Sevigny said she hopes students who volunteer for the credit choose something they’re excited to pursue.
Looking forward, Sevigny said she hopes the conversation about volunteering shifts.
Through the Center for Civic Engagement, students can apply for programs to receive a budget and/or an hourly compensation to partner with an organization in the community for the semester — an effort to remove financial barriers and make it easier for students to give back.
“As we’ve grown, we’ve been really fortunate to have more financial resources and we’ve really tried to utilize those resources to help students get paid for this work,” Tille said.
Through efforts to alleviate this financial burden, both Gere and Tille said they hope more students will become engaged in the community.


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How to implement automatic page/content navigation using scheduled custom task.
I am trying to implement timer with following functionality.
Timer functionality: Navigates to other page based on custom logic under content pages.
I came to know that it can be implemented using Custom task code(Scheduled task) but I am not sure how to navigate to other page using URL or using placeholder.
Kindly share if you know any solution.


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A series of round-shaped, spring-loaded 4 ¾-inch home-décor circular panels are now available in 7- and 9-inch commercial sizes. Building designers requiring permanent access to air dampers, plumbing, vents, and electrical wiring behind drywall ceilings and walls now have a choice of round or square access panels. The product does not require framing, screws, latches, or fasteners and works in walls or ceilings up to ¾-inch thick. The panels can be painted or wallpapered to match any existing décor.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide means for effective therapy or research of diseases such as Alzheimer disease based on reduction of active form of reelin, by identifying an enzyme capable of degrading active form of reelin to inactive form, and by using the enzyme or its gene.
SOLUTION: ADAMTS-3 and its functional derivative are used for degrading active form of reelin to inactive form of reelin. A method of application of ADAMTS-3 comprises using ADAMTS-3 or its functional derivative for the purpose of medical treatment or research which are related to physiological functions of reelin or its promotion or suppression.


text: It’s clear there is a seismic shift happening in retail right now. Once steadfast department stores and high-profile retail chains are announcing massive store closures and bankruptcies, while billions of pounds in sales are moving from in store to online. While this evolving retail climate is creating issues for some, many are successfully shifting their strategy in order to meet the needs of consumers; this includes establishing relaxed return policies to remain competitive and, beyond that, implementing ongoing programmes to effectively deal with those returns.


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The IOC President Thomas Bach has welcomed the United Nations Resolution on Sport as a Means to Promote Education, Health, Development and Peace: “The IOC welcomes the resolution and thanks the United Nations and all its Member States for the confidence in the power of sport to bring about social change. The resolution is another expression of the close cooperation between the IOC and the UN, based on our shared values of contributing to a better and more peaceful world through sport.” With this Resolution, the UN reiterated its recognition of the independence and autonomy of the IOC. Adopted by the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly, the Resolution followed up on the one initially adopted in 2014. Obtaining a consensus from all the Member States, which transcended political divisions to uphold the values of sport, the Resolution reiterates the main areas in which sport contributes to social development and peace. It also underlines the challenges faced by the world of sport and governments, and to which the IOC is determined to respond. Read the full press release here.
As part of the implementation of Olympic Agenda 2020 (Recommendation 1), the IOC President met representatives of the Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA), which includes Transparency International Germany, UNI World Athletes, Terre des Hommes, the International Trade Union Confederation, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The members of SRA were asked for their input into the new text for the 2024 Host City Contract, which now includes a new section designed to strengthen provisions protecting human rights and countering fraud and corruption related to the organisation of the Olympic Games.
Following its global partnership to provide innovative and sustainable mobility solutions for the Olympic Movement in line with Olympic Agenda 2020, Toyota, the newest Worldwide TOP Partner, delivered hybrid cars for the IOC. The vehicles use Toyota’s latest hybrid technology, combining the benefits of petrol engines and electric motors to provide sustainable mobility solutions. IOC President Thomas Bach received the cars from Philippe Rhomberg, CEO of Toyota Switzerland AG, at the IOC’s Headquarters in Lausanne. For the IOC President, “this is another step in this exciting partnership, and I am particularly delighted about the new hybrid cars, which is another clear demonstration of the IOC’s commitment towards sustainability.” Read the full press release here.
The President had a meeting with International Fencing Federation President Alisher Usmanov, and spoke with him about the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and the Olympic Channel.
With Morinari Watanabe, the newly elected President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), who will take office next January, the President discussed relations between the two organisations, the recent opening of the FIG’s new headquarters in Lausanne and the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
President Thomas Bach met with Jan Dijkema, who was elected President of the International Skating Union (ISU) in June 2016. They discussed preparations for the skating events at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 as well as the McLaren report.
Sabatino Aracu, the President of the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS), spoke to the IOC President about the addition of skateboarding to the Olympic programme for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, following the approval of its inclusion at the 129th IOC Session in Rio in August.
With Francesco Ricci Bitti, President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), the discussions were about the excellent cooperation with ASOIF, the reforms of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the preparations for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as well as the question of good governance in the IFs.
A meeting was held with Raffaele Chiulli, the President of the Association of IOC-Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF) with whom the excellent cooperation with ARISF and the Olympic programme were highlighted.
At a meeting with Isidoros Kouvelos, the President of the International Olympic Academy (IOA), the President underscored the key role played by sport in education and the cooperation between the IOC and the IOA in this area.
At their meeting, President Bach and IOC Executive Board Member Ching-Kuo Wu, also President of the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), discussed various subjects including good governance, the fight against doping and the Olympic Games Rio 2016.
With IOC Member Mario Pescante, the President discussed the United Nations (UN) Resolution on Sport as a Means to Promote Education, Health, Development and Peace, adopted by the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly. Mr Pescante, who is also the IOC’s Permanent Observer at the UN, represented the IOC at the General Assembly.
Attending a farewell reception held in honour of Wilfried Lemke, the UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, President Bach thanked Mr Lemke for the important role he has played and the efforts he has invested in making sport an integral part of the work carried out by the United Nations in a large number of areas. Held in Geneva (Switzerland), the reception was organised by Ambassador Hans-Joachim Daerr, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the Office of the United Nations and to Other International Organisations in Geneva.
The President also met Dennis Jönsson, the President and CEO of Tetra Pak, whose head office is situated next to the IOC’s in Pully. The two leaders discussed the UN’s Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which both their organisations support.
On 15 December, the IOC, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and NBCUniversal (NBCU) announced that they have entered into a comprehensive Olympic Channel content and distribution partnership in the United States. In the second half of 2017, the partnership will launch a new U.S. television network under the “Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA” brand. The network will offer fans Olympic-sport programming from around the world 365 days a year, with content focusing on their favourite American athletes and teams. Read the news: here.
Broadcast on the Olympic Channel, Camps to Champs is an inspirational and moving new series in which Olympic athletes meet refugees and displaced people and show viewers how sport can change lives for the good. Each of the four episodes that make up the series is filmed in a different refugee camp and narrated by an Olympic athlete, who explains the impact of outreach programmes and grassroots sports activities. The four-episode docu-series is available exclusively on the Olympic Channel digital platform. Read the news here.
It was with great pleasure that The Olympic Museum took receipt of South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh’s kit (pictured). Van der Burgh won Olympic gold in the 100m breaststroke at London 2012 and silver in the same event in Rio four years later; and his kit now forms part of the Museum’s collections.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has revealed the names of its first Integrity Ambassadors, whose job it will be to promote clean, fair and honourable sport. The five ambassadors in question are all leading players: Christinna Pedersen and Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, India’s Saina Nehwal – an IOC Athletes’ Commission member – and Japanese women’s double pair Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi (all pictured above). The quintet were presented to the media by BWF Deputy President Gustavo Salazar Delgado on the eve of the World Superseries Finals in Dubai (UAE). The launch of the Integrity Ambassadors’ campaign is the latest step in the BWF’s integrity programme, i am badminton, which was launched last season. The five ambassadors will represent and promote the campaign’s values, serving as role models for the badminton world on and off the court. More ambassadors will be announced in 2017. Read the news here.
At its extraordinary meeting on 19 December in Montreux (Switzerland), the AIBA Executive Committee, chaired by Ching-Kuo Wu, unanimously agreed upon technical and AOB (AIBA Open Boxing) rules, financial updates and the calendar for the new Olympic cycle to Tokyo 2020 (see photo above). The meeting was the first step on the road to Tokyo 2020, and the decisions approved will be adopted by the Continental Championships held between June and July next year and the 2017 Men’s World Championships in Hamburg (Germany). The coming 12 months will also see the continuation of the HeadsUp initiative and a broad education programme of training and workshops for referees, judges and coaches, as well as the 2017 Year of Africa. Read the full press release here.
The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) was named International Sports Federation of the Year for 2016 at the International Sports Convention (ISC) in Geneva on 8 December. Recognising the work carried out by the FEI, particularly the integrity and quality of the governance it provides, the award rounded off a successful year for the body, which was praised for the initiatives forming part of its “#TwoHearts: Billy to Rio” Olympic campaign, and the video Hoofloose. Info at: www.fei.org.
The International Judo Federation (IJF) has just published a series of new regulations that will be applied during the next Olympic cycle. The goal is to simplify and promote the rules of judo and make them easier to understand. A final document will be prepared and circulated before the end of the year. Read the news here.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that Great Britain’s Andy Murray and Germany’s Angelique Kerber are the 2016 ITF World Champions, a first for both players. Murray won nine titles in 2016, among them the men’s singles title at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, while Kerber lifted two Grand Slams and won silver in the women’s singles at the Rio Games. Click here for the winners in the other categories: doubles, wheelchair and juniors (men’s and women’s). The winners will receive their awards at the 2017 ITF World Champions Dinner on Tuesday 6 June, in Paris, during the French Open.
Back in 1999, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) launched a development programme called Dream Building, the aim of which was to make the world a better place through table tennis. Click on this video link to find out more about a programme that has had a positive impact on the lives of many people, helping communities deal with the effects of war, poverty and natural disaster through education and community engagement, and using table tennis as a vehicle for promoting peace and other values. Info at: www.ittf.com.
The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has named Edmonton as the host city for the ITU World Championships Grand Final in 2020. This will be the third time that Canada has hosted the World Championships, with Edmonton having organised them in 2001 and 2014. The 2017 World Championships will be held in Rotterdam (NED), with Gold Coast (AUS) and Lausanne (SUI) respectively hosting the 2018 and 2019 editions. Read the news: here.
Following its decision to move its 2017 World Championships from Sochi (RUS), the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) selected the German resort Königssee as the new host of the competition which will be held from 13 to 26 February. Read the news here.
On 16 December, the World Curling Federation (WCF) and the Chinese Curling Association signed an MoU that will see the two organisations work together in developing the sport in the People’s Republic of China and across the world. Their partnership will play an important role in preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Read the news here. The WCF has also unveiled new trophies for its World Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships. The trophies will be contested for the first time at the World Men’s Curling Championship 2017 in Edmonton (CAN) from 1 to 9 April and at the World Women’s Curling Championship 2017 in Beijing from 18 to 26 March 2017. Read the news here.
As part of World Snow Day 2017, the International Ski Federation (FIS) has released a promotional trailer that will be shown during FIS World Cup broadcasts. World Snow Day is the second phase of the FIS’s Bring Children to the Snow campaign. The first phase, entitled SnowKidz, was launched in 2009 with the aim of encouraging the FIS’s national member associations to promote snow sports in their respective countries. Watch the trailer: here. The trailer is available in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese. Info at: www.fis-ski.com.
The NOC of Albania organised a ceremony to mark the agreement between the Albanian Skiing Federation (ASF) and three Olympic scholarship-holders, Erjon Tola, Suela Mëhilli and Marsel Biçoku (see photo above). For the NOC President, Viron Bezhani, this high-level collaboration with the ASF will follow the preparation for the qualification cycle of these athletes for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Over the years, the participating team has grown from one at the Olympic Winter Games Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010 to two in Sochi 2014. For PyeongChang 2018, the ASF is expecting three or more athletes to qualify. The programme will be operational from 1 November 2016 to 28 February 2018. More info on www.nocalbania.org.al.
The Argentinean NOC has held its traditional awards ceremony, paying tribute to individuals and institutions for their engagement and work for sport and the principles of the Olympic Movement. During the ceremony, NOC President and IOC Member Gerardo Werthein presented the “Women and Sport” award to Alicia Masoni de Morea, in recognition of her contribution to sport (photo above). She holds numerous positions, being NOC First Vice-President and a member of the IOC’s Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission, the ANOC International Relations Commission, the WADA Education Committee and the International Tennis Federation’s Olympic Committee. The prizes for the 34th edition of the national drawing and literature contest were also presented. This contest is aimed at promoting the Olympic values among school pupils and students aged from 6 to 19. More details here.
After being awarded an Olympic Solidarity grant, Special Olympics Cyprus joined forces with the Cyprus National Olympic Committee and the Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture in organising a Sport For All seminar entitled “Unified Sports – Inclusion Seminar” (photo above). More than 120 physical education teachers, coaches, students and volunteers attended the seminar, which sought to promote the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in Cyprus. It is hoped that the teachers who took part in the seminar will now be better equipped to create unified teams in a range of sports, such as basketball, volleyball, handball and football, and thereby promote social inclusion, acceptance and respect for intellectually disabled students in schools. Info at: www.olympic.org.cy.
Bogota provided the venue for Colombia’s Olympic Sport Gala on 12 December (photo above), with the Colombian National Olympic Committee and Coldeportes presenting the Altius Awards to 47 sportspersons representing the national federations affiliated to the NOC. NOC President Baltazar Medina conducted the gala and was joined by his Executive Board. Also in attendance were Coldeportes CEO Clara Luz Roldán, the heads of the country’s national sports federations and the Colombian Olympic Academy, representatives of the NOC’s leading sponsors and a number of journalists. Seven of Colombia’s eight medallists at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 were also present. Read the news here. In other news, Caterine Ibargüen, who won gold in the women’s triple jump at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, was voted Athlete of the Year by the newspaper El Espectador, her fourth such award of the year. Read the news here.
Organised by the El Salvador Olympic Committee (COES), with the support of the IOC, the latest workshop in the national athlete career monitoring programme was held at the Corinto Club on Lake Ilopango. The opening of the event was attended by COES President Eduardo Palomo; Mónica del Real, a member of the Mexican NOC’s Athletes’ Commission: and Carlos Santiago, the Chairman of the Puerto Rican NOC’s Athletes’ Commission. Taking part in the workshop were nearly 15 athletes from a number of sports federations and the El Salvador University Sports Association (ADUSAL) (photo above). Info at: www.teamesa.org.
Jointly organised by the Nepalese government and a number of non-governmental stakeholders, the 2nd Sports Congress was held in Kathmandu on 16 and 17 December (photo above). Following a programme put together and developed by the Nepal Olympic Committee, the event sought to create a sports development synergy with the Olympic Movement, with the participation and support of the Nepalese government. Opened by NOC President Jeevan Ram Shrestha, the Congress ended with its more than 150 participants adopting a declaration.
Anton Siekel was elected President of the Slovakia Olympic Committee (SOC) at its 51st elective general assembly on 26 November. The 47-year-old Siekel is the Honorary President of the Slovak Judo Federation and the President of the SOC’s Foundation. The assembly also elected new members of the SOC Executive Committee, of which IOC Member Danka Bartekova, and Matej Toth, the new Chairman of the SOC’s Athletes’ Commission, are ex officio members. For his part, two-time Olympic canoe slalom champion Michal Martikan was elected as an individual member of the SOC. Elected Honorary President of the SOC, Frantisek Chmelar joined Anton Siekel in paying a visit to IOC Honorary Member and Honorary SOC President Vladimir Cernusak on the occasion of his 95th birthday. Pictured from left to right above: Chmelar, Cernusak and Siekel. Info at www.olympic.sk.
On 8 December the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee and the Mongolian Olympic Committee signed a bilateral cooperation agreement in Taipei. The agreement was signed by the respective presidents of the two NOCs: Hong-Dow Lin and Demchigjav Zagdsuren (photo above). The two nations’ NOCs first began cooperating in 1994 and entered into their maiden bilateral cooperation agreement in 2001, which was followed by further agreements in 2003 and 2006. In renewing their ties, the two NOCs intend to send athletes to each other’s countries for training in sports in which they are strong, such as wrestling, judo, taekwondo, archery and cycling. The agreement is designed to provide a framework for the organisation of joint national-team training sessions and exchange visits between NOC officials and staff, and to also encourage cooperation in medicine and anti-doping, to name but two areas. Info at: www.tpenoc.net.
The Togo National Olympic Committee (CNOT) organised the second Avé Track and Field Meet in the town of Kévé. Held on 8 and 9 December, the competition saw an equal number of boys and girls from 20 high schools and sixth-form colleges in the Avé prefecture take part in a number of track and field events (photo above). The events were supervised and monitored by officials from the Togolese Athletics Federation and the Red Cross. The meet gave the Federation the opportunity to identify talented young athletes and arrange for them to be monitored and receive support. The youngsters showed plenty of enthusiasm and commitment, and there are plans to expand the event to other prefectures. Read the news here.
In the framework of the IOC Athletes’ Career Programme, the NOC of Uruguay and Adecco Uruguay have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement aims to address the needs of the athletes during their transition from sporting life to professional life. Adecco Uruguay will provide them with training sessions to facilitate access to employment as well as their integration into the work environment. Leading sports authorities were at the ceremony, including the NOC President, Julio César Maglione, who is also an IOC Honorary Member (centre of photo), and the athletes who took part in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. More info on www.cou.org.uy.
The Gangneung Ice Arena was officially opened ahead of the ISU Short Track World Cup event held from 16 to 18 December, which also doubled up as a test event for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Among those attending the opening of the venue was Gunilla Lindberg, the Chair of the IOC’s PyeongChang 2018 Coordination Commission (photo above). In addition to short track, the 12,000-seater arena, which took two-and-a-half years to complete, will also host the figure skating competitions at the 2018 Games. Located in Gangneung Olympic Park, the Ice Arena is one of the six new venues built for PyeongChang 2018. It is the first ice venue to be completed at Gangneung, with three more due for completion in the city by the end of 2016. Read the news here.
A ceremony was held in Tokyo on 11 December to mark the start of construction of the new National Stadium. Among those in attendance were the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and the Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike (photo above). The stadium will be the main venue for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The launch ceremony ended with a video revealing how the stadium will look on completion in November 2019. The stadium will host both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2020 Games and the athletics events. Read the news here.
The second Four-Party Political Working Group meeting took place in Tokyo on 21 December. The meeting confirmed that volleyball would be held at the Ariake Arena, as originally planned, with a new legacy concept for the entire region supporting the development of the venue. When added to the revised venue designs that were agreed for Sea Forest and the Aquatics Centre at the first Working Group meeting in November, an additional amount of around USD 400 million in savings has been made to the revised construction budget. This comes on top of the approximately USD 1.8 billion saved last year following the extensive masterplan review. During the Working Group meeting, Tokyo 2020 also presented the first versions of the OCOG and Other Entities budgets. The four parties - the IOC, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Government of Japan and Tokyo 2020 – committed to working towards optimising the budgets even further. Tokyo 2020's commitment to deliver Games at the highest level, on schedule, and with the best experience for athletes and fans alike, remains at the forefront of all decisions made in relation to the budgets for the Games. Read the Tokyo 2020 news release here.
Marking the first anniversary of the UN Security Council’s resolution 2250, Generations For Peace has reaffirmed its support for the resolution, which is designed to give young people more of a voice in decision-making at all levels, the idea being to counter violent extremism and build peaceful communities around the world. On 21 November, Generations For Peace was accepted as an associate of the UN Department of Public Information. NGOs play a key role in achieving the UN’s goals, and contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of agendas agreed by its 193 member states. Read the news here.
On their recent visit to Birmingham, Alabama (USA), IOC Member and International World Games Association (IWGA) President José Perurena and IWGA CEO Joachim Gossow met representatives of the Birmingham Local Organising Committee for the World Games 2021 and Chester Wheeler, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC)’s Head of Marketing and Media. Together they drew up the framework for close cooperation in the lead-up to the Games. In a separate meeting with the Mayor of Birmingham, William A. Bell, the IWGA President discussed the city’s involvement in the preparation and staging of the Games. Read the news here.
A special issue of Olympic Highlights will appear at the end of 2016. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday season.


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