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Facebook for Business- Part 1. This class is for anyone who does not yet have a Facebook Business page. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop/mobile device, but it is not required.
Learn the basics of creating a Facebook Business page - how to add your contact information, uploading photos, creating a post, and adjusting your security & privacy settings.
$35.00 fee includes light refreshments and a step-by-step handout.
(near Sheridan Dr., across the street from Pep Boys).
* Please note that you must have a personal Facebook account set up prior to taking this class. Please Contact Us if you need assistance.
Wednesday, April 24th from 10:00am-11:00am. Class fee includes light refreshments and a detailed step-by-step handout for you to keep. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop/mobile device, but it is not required.


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> From The Land>Vegetables Preserves>Fried Tomato Sauce Mata 370 grs.
It’s a completely natural and nutritionally unique product, with no thickeners, preservatives or artificial colours, with an amazing flavour of real and very ripe and concentrated tomatoes, with a great slight aroma and a perfect texture, which proves its sensory, organoleptic and gastronomic quality and is a reflection of the excellence of this hundred-year-old trademark.
Extra Quality, contains only tomato sauce with olive oil and natural spices. Made with the recipe from “Grandma”, a connoisseur of natural things . MATA follows in this line , selecting all products for their incorporated Natural Quality . Mata was the first brand of precooked dishes in Spain more than 70 years ago.
Tomate Frito (Spanish for fried tomato) is a pureed tomato sauce with a hint of onion and garlic, that can be used as a base ingredient or enjoyed simply for its own flavour. It is distinct from most tomato sauces because the tomatoes have been gently fried in quality olive oil.
It is the most common tomato ingredient of Spanish cuisine other than fresh tomatoes, and is sold under many brand names. When made by first low frying garlic and onion pieces in oil with spices and then adding the tomato puree it is known as Sofrito.
In south eastern Spain, it is frequently spread on toasted baguette and eaten as a breakfast dish. This is sometimes referred to as ‘Pan Catalan’.
Tomato Frito was popularised in the United Kingdom as a short-cut ingredient by Delia Smith, featuring it in books and her website recipes.
The fried tomato frito is a absolutely unique product , almost comparable to tomato cooked at home.

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The Ullal Town Municipal Council, with a population of about 54,000 is Mangalore sub-district’s most populous town municipal council located in Mangalore sub district of Dakshina Kannada district in the state Karnataka in India. The total geographical area of Ullal town municipal council is 11 km2 and it is the smallest city by area in the sub district. Population density of the city is 4840 persons per km2. There are 27 wards in the city, among them Ullal Ward No 1, 8 and 27 are high-risk zones affected by Coastal Erosion and they are among the most populous wards after Ward 13 with a population of 3497. Ullal Ward No 21 is the least populous ward with population of 769.
On 09-12-2014, Ullal City Municipal Council was formed. The Town Municipal Council (TMC) Ullal was constituted in 2006. It is situated about 12 km away from Mangalore. Ullal is located at 12°-48° N latitude and 74°-51° E longitude. It comprises two revenue villages Ullal and Parmannur. It has population of 53808 as per 2011 Census. The CMC has 27 wards and equal number of councilors. Ullal CMC stretches to an area of 11.8 Sq Km. The Bajpe International Airport is 34 km away from Ullal. Ullal City is one of the oldest cities in India. In the fifteenth century, the city came under the rule of the Portuguese. Still, the remains of its glorious history can be seen on the beaches and other parts of Ullal.
It is very famous for historic locations like Sayyed Mohammed Shareeful Madani Darga, Sri Cheerumba Bhagavathi Temple, Someshwara Temple, Someshwar Beach, Kadapara jara Darga, Summer Sands Beach Resort, K Pandyarajah Ballal Institutes and college of nursing, St Sebastian Church Permannur, Sayyed Madani Institutions, Fish Meal & Oil Plant, and Queen Abbakka’s Jain temple at Melangadi.
The demographic profile of Ullal CMC indicates (2011 Census) Muslims 56.10%, Hindus 34.48% and Christians 9.34%. Ullal has a great history of communal harmony. People from all communities participate in the in the ‘Uroose’ festival celebrated with fanfare once in five years in the Sayyed Madani Durga. But it is also a matter of worry that the inclusive fabric of the city is also under pressure due to the sporadic instances of flash points along communal lines. This city is an important trading center for fish and fish manure. Fishing and Beedi rolling are the main occupations of the residents of this city.
The history of Ullal changed with the due course of time along with socio, political, and cultural issues that reflect the failure of the administrative system to provide security to public in view of the coastal hazards that the region faces like the current issue of Coastal Erosion.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Triple Crown-winning jockey Mike Smith will be honored by the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters with the Mr. Fitz Award.
The Hall of Fame rider will receive the award, named for longtime trainer "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, for typifying the spirit of racing at the group's 59th annual awards dinner on Oct. 31 in Louisville.
Smith rode Justify to a sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont this spring for horse racing's second Triple Crown in four years. The 53-year-old Hall of Famer will be in Louisville to compete in the Breeders' Cup world championships at Churchill Downs. Smith is the all-time leading rider in Cup history with 26 wins and nearly $36 million in purse earnings.
Others to be honored at the NTWB dinner are former jockey Donna Barton Brothers, who will receive the Jim McKay Award for excellence in broadcasting; publicist Jim Gluckson, with the Joe Palmer Award for meritorious service to racing; and Daily Racing Form writer Marty McGee, with the Walter Haight Award for career excellence in turf writing.

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text: Greene, J., & Batts, K. (2009). Fathers' Alcohol Use and Substance Use among Adolescents. SAMHSA Short Reports.

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text: Puntini means "polka dot" in Italian. These delightful little treats have been known for their polka dot wrappers for generations. Inside each wrapper is an Italian gourmet jujube with a cinnamon and spice flavor, and a chewy, tender texture. Ideal for bulk bins, edible basket filler, or even repackaged in your own bags and boxes.

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Boldstone Sculpture works with its clients in three different ways.
1) We have a Standard Range of designs each made to specific dimensions. These sculptures are made to order but there is no variation from the standard designs and sizes. This Standard Range is available in white and in a number of other finishes at additional cost. We add new designs to our Standard Range from time to time. You can see some examples of our Standard Range in the sculptures section of this website. Our full range is available in our brochure.
2) We also produce the designs of our Standard Range in non-standard sizes. Typically this involves making larger versions of our Standard Range of designs, sometimes also with variation to their proportions. We refer to these as ‘Custom Made’ sculptures.
3) Finally we make individual ‘Commissions’. These are individually conceived sculptures, or sculpture series, often of a large size. They are designed to suit the specific context in which they will be installed and may act, for instance, as the focal point of a building entrance, the centrepiece of a garden wall or the artwork for a design-led restaurant or hotel. Most of our Commission work is based on concepts drawn from nature similar to those used in our Standard Range and Custom Made designs. Using those concepts we work with our clients to design entirely original sculpture works that suit their particular project. Having developed and agreed the design with our client we then sculpt and produce the final work of art.
For more detail of bespoke orders see the Custom Made and Commission pages. For more standard designs please order our brochure.

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Baroness Blackstone: That is because the content board is concerned with issues that particularly affect the interests stated in the Bill.
Lord Thomson of Monifieth: I am sorry to persist, but what about Sky, for example? Does it not make programmes and so raise exactly the same issues of conflict?
in the Bill. However, the broader issues of telecommunications are not relevant, or are much less relevant, to the content board.
Lord McNally: Fully in line with the Peyton doctrine, subsection (8) can be subsumed by subsection (9). The Minister would do far better to look at strengthening subsection (9) rather than leaving subsection (8) with what seem some arbitrarily chosen organisations when, as my noble friend points out, many organisations could be put into the list. Instead of having a long list in subsection (8), a redrawn and tightened subsection (9) might do the job.
Baroness Blackstone: I have been reminded that other commercial interests are covered as well. I could write to the Members of the Committee who have raised the points and set out rather more clearly how we see them being resolved.
Amendments Nos. 43A and 44 would remove a simple and standard provision similar to ones already in the Broadcasting Act 1990, to ensure that the decisions of the content board are not invalidated by a simple procedural error in appointment. I shall respond to the noble Lord, Lord Brooke, and say that that safeguard will protect the validity of the proceedings of the content board, so that a simple defect in procedure does not invalidate what could be a number of decisions.
There is a similar provision in the Office of Communications Act 2002, as well as in many other Acts. I assure the noble Lord that such a standard provision is in no way intended to provide an excuse for deliberately evading the requirements of the legislation for proper representation. Without the provision, there could be serious consequences for the whole operation of the regime governing content standards.
I shall deal with Amendment No. 44. The content board will have the principal function of ensuring that the public interest in the nature and quality of television and radio programmes is sufficiently represented within Ofcom's overall structure. To do that, it will have to be representative of many different aspects of the public interest, including different political, cultural and religious attitudes. Members will need to be able to respond effectively and convincingly to many matters to which Ofcom is to have regard as set out in Clause 3, so far as they are relevant to their work.
Our first objection to the amendment is that the content board is not intended to be a balance of different interests. Each member has a responsibility to represent the wider public interest rather than a narrow sectional interest. The risk of a provision of such a nature is that, first, the content board would end up becoming simply a board representing the noisiest interest groups, and, secondly, any excluded group would challenge its validity. I am sure that Members of the Committee will see the sense in what I say.
Amendment No. 60 focuses on a particular bureaucratic solution to ensure that the interests of certain groups are taken into account. The key point is that the Bill establishes the various interests that Ofcom has to take into account, including, for example, the needs of persons with disabilities. The content board is part of OfcomI keep having to repeat thatso that applies to it as well, so far as is relevant to the functions that Ofcom gives it. How that is done is up to Ofcom and the content board to decide. For example, it could be done through advisory committees of the content board, through its relationship with the consumer panel or other committees, or through membership of the content board itself.
The amendment is unnecessary. However, I can tell the noble Lord, Lord Addington, that I of course very much welcome the appointment of Kevin Carey to the content board. That is one way in which it can be said that it will fully discharge Ofcom's duties in favour of people with disabilities. We must leave exactly how Ofcom wants to follow that upfor example, perhaps through separate advisory committeesto it.
Amendments Nos. 53 and 58 assume a particular relationship between the Ofcom board and the content board, and then seek to intervene in it. Ofcom has a broad obligation under Clause 3 to balance a number of factors, including its duty to promote competition. Its arrangements for the work of the content board must not upset that balance.
If Ofcom felt that it needed the content board to advise on the effect of its activities on competitiveness, the board could do so, but that again has to remain Ofcom's decision, with regard to obligations placed on it in other parts of the Bill. However, it seems more likely that Ofcom, two of whose non-executive members are currently on the shadow content board, will want to take their views of any risks to competitiveness which might arise in determining the extent of the discretion allowed to the content board. To ensure that there is no uncertainty once Ofcom assumes its powers, we expect it to provide a clear statement or memorandum setting out in detail the extent of the functions of the content board, giving its members, the public and the communications industry proper clarity about its role.
Amendments Nos. 47 and 49 are in a similar vein, and seek to ensure that the content board undertakes Ofcom's function to promote media literacy under Clause 10. Ofcom is currently developing the precise remit of the content board and its relationship with the main board. We made clear in Clause 12(2) that, whatever functions Ofcom devolves to the content board, they must include the contents of material broadcast or otherwise transmitted by means of electronic communications networks, and with the promotion of public understanding or awareness.
entirely responsible for the function. We should not, for example, preclude in the legislation the establishment within Ofcom of a separate media literacy committee at some point in the future.
The matters referred to in Amendment No. 52 fall, with one exception, within the description of functions in Clause 12(2) that Ofcom must confer on the board, to such extent and subject to such restrictions and approvals as Ofcom may determine. The exception is the reference in the amendment to Schedule 8. That schedule does not confer any function on Ofcom, but simply identifies various decisionsalbeit that such decisions may be made in pursuit of Ofcom functionswhich are not subject to appeal.
Amendment No. 50 is also directed towards specifying more closely the relationship between the content board and the main Ofcom board; in this case, by ensuring that Ofcom and its content board do not undertake the same function. I recognise the risks of the possibility of double jeopardy occurring, where a business could be overseen by Ofcom and the content board; that was discussed in another place. Our position remains that despite its superficial appeal, the amendment could unhelpfully restrict the way in which Ofcom undertakes its functions. It may be the case, for example, that Ofcom wants to give the content board a function, while reserving for the main board decisions which relate to that same function, but which have an impact beyond a particular financial threshold. That should remain possible.
We have placed on Ofcom a responsibility to have regard to good regulatory practice, including transparency. We anticipate that Ofcom will therefore be aware of the potential for double jeopardy and of course seek to preclude it wherever possible.
On Amendment No. 57, although it may be appropriate at times for the content board to publish information, it would be undesirable for the legislation to place that discretion with the content board itself. I must repeatin particular to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchesterthat Ofcom remains responsible and accountable for the work and decisions of the content board. The work of the content board must fit in with Ofcom's overall strategy. Therefore, it should be for Ofcom to decide when and what to publish.
I hope I have explained fully why the Government, while sympathetic to many of the views that noble Lords have put forward in speaking to the amendments, believe that it would be wrong to include them on the face of the Bill. The Government will consider Amendment No. 43 further, but I ask the noble Baroness to withdraw it.
Finally, I turn briefly to Amendment No. 44A. The amendment simply corrects an earlier drafting error in order to make clear that paragraph 14(3) lies in the Schedule to the Office of Communications Act 2002. The earlier drafting omitted the word "schedule". I commend the amendment to the Committee.
precisely what the Minister said about Amendment No. 43A. However, it appears to me that if Ofcom or the content board were to fail to fulfil any of the Bill's provisionsI am not suggesting that they would be perversethe wording of the amendment would offer them an amulet against judicial review. That seems curiously comprehensive, but I totally understand that the Government are trying to protect them against a simple slip of procedure.

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Full-service agency: branding, marketing, content, creative, digital and social media, public relations, issues and crisis management.
ReviveHealth, a Weber Shandwick company, is a full-service agency focused on the intersection of healthcare delivery, finance, and innovation. Clients include healthcare companies reaching across the provider, payor, service, and technology landscape. ReviveHealthâ€™s work and culture are perennially recognized by its peers and industry leaders, including 2017 Crisis Communications Agency of the Year (Black Book), 2016 Small Agency of the Year finalist (PRWeek), 2016 Boutique Agency of the Year and Best Agency to Work For (The Holmes Report). ReviveHealth has more than 80 employees operating out of four offices, with headquarters in Nashville. Explore and follow ReviveHealth at thinkrevivehealth.com and on Twitter at @ThinkRevive.


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Carpenter Davies Partnerships Ltd. are qualified to carry out BREEAM Education and Higher Education Assessments.
We have worked on many education and higher education projects and have the experience and capabilities to provide the appropriate advice. BRE's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is one way of measuring the sustainability score for new and refurbished education buildings.
As our core discipline is building services engineering consultants, we have found this to be invaluable as so much emphasis (BREEAM ‘weighting’) is placed on ‘Energy’ and associated credits within BREEAM.
Assessments can be carried out on both new and existing refurbished education buildings.

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text: Just returned from seeing RUSH at the Halifax Metro Center on Sunday, July 14th. This was the best rock show I have ever seen! These guys are true rock legends, and professionals. Their playing is flawless, energetic, and epic. Each one is a master of their respective instruments, and “The Professor” Peart will blow your mind with his “Non-Human” drum playing. This all accented with an awesome stage lighting/show/pyrotechnics. These guys are one for the books! Love these Canadian Rockers!

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Q & A with Carol Dunne, Northern Stage’s Artistic Director. Ms. Dunne recently helmed Our Town, the inaugural production in the new Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction, VT.
It is an incredible privilege to reexamine and re-imagine this American classic as we open the doors to the beautiful Barrette Center for the Arts. We have an incredible company of 26 actors and musicians coming together to retell this story in a way that will change us all. Our production allows for surprise, is filled with music, and will feel absolutely appropriate to the 21st century. It is really an Our Town for our town!
What kind of theatre excites you?
Theater that changes peoples’ lives, that makes them see the world in a new way.
What was your first encounter with this play?
In grammar school. I saw a high school production and wanted to play Emily when I grew up.
Because our world is too fast. Wilder’s words are so timely. The play is a miracle in its honesty, in its laser focus on the human experience. If Wilder felt people did not take the time to look at each other when the play was written, what would he say now? Our audiences are hungry for a contemplative and hopeful theater experience. Our Town is food for the mind and heart.
Since Our Town opened on Broadway in 1938, Grover’s Corners has been an international address. How do you see this play and your production in context of the cosmos?
Our production speaks to 2015 and the need for community as the very notion of community is altered irrevocably by the internet and technology. We honor Wilder’s brilliant construct while adding some modern gestures that subtly lead our audiences to the realization that Our Town is as potent not as ever before.
CAROL DUNNE (Director) is excited to lead Northern Stage for her third season as Artistic Director. She brings a wealth of experience from her former position as Producing Artistic Director of the New London Barn Playhouse and as an award winning Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. At Northern Stage, Carol has directed the acclaimed productions of Into the Woods, Good People, White Christmas, The Importance of Being Earnest, and most recently Songs for a New World, in which she also performed. Under Carol’s leadership, Northern Stage has successfully launched a new works festival whose first play, Orwell in America, will transfer Off-Broadway in the Fall of 2016. She directed an industry reading of the musical A Legendary Romance in London’s West End in the Spring of 2015. Carol has also forged an official partnership with Dartmouth College, offering a groundbreaking collaborative program called Shakespeare in the Schools to enhance the lives of area schoolchildren, and created an Experiential Term for Dartmouth theater students. Under Carol and Managing Director Eric Bunge’s leadership, the Campaign for Northern Stage was launched, and the theater’s new home, the $7.5 million dollar Barrette Center for the Arts, was built on time and under budget. At Dartmouth College, Carol introduced musical theater into the curriculum and has directed Hair, The Rocky Horror Show, Eurydice, Hairspray, and Angels in America. In 2010 she received the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the College. Carol has worked professionally as an actress and director at the Tony Award-winning Cleveland Play House (as a member of the company for ten years), The Great Lakes Theater Festival, and here at Northern Stage where she appeared in productions of Cats (Grizabella), Dancing At Lughnasa (Agnes), Private Lives (Amanda), and Lend Me A Tenor (Diana.) Other awards and honors include the New Hampshire Professional Theater Award for Best Director of a Musical for Pirates of Penzance. Carol lives in Etna with husband Peter Hackett and children Ellie and Jamie.


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How can you step in your customer’s shoes? We’d like to tell you a story on how to understand your customer’s needs, identify development opportunities and as a result increase your company’s income by creating a Customer Journey Map.
Success of every company is based on sales growth for products and services together with creating a positive image of the brand. Companies put a lot of effort into gaining new customers and building lasting relationships with them. They compete in enhancing their products, spend fortune on advertising and loyalty programs. But sometimes, as an old saying goes, the devil is in the detail. Today I will tell you something about these details, their importance in building positive relationships with your clients and simply (!) in building a positive customer experience.
So ask yourself a few questions – How many times did you become prejudiced about a service, product or even a brand because of a “small thing”? Did it ever happen to you that you changed your mobile service provider because once when you wanted to verify your billing details you couldn’t find the necessary information at the invoice and when you run out of internet transfer during your holiday you couldn’t renew it because the helpline was busy? How many stores did you stop visiting because they don’t offer discounts or don’t accept returns or you were just treated in an impolite way there?
At the same time how many times were you surprised by a nice gesture or encouraged to using a given service once again? Do you like the idea of cinema compartments or a free wi-fi on trains? Do you know these shops that have this nice smell of perfume while shopping or a coffee shop where friendly staff members remember your name?
In our everyday choices between products and services each one of us is motivated by impressions and experiences we have with places, products and brands. The experience we gain as customers is often related to context, the situation we’re in. The example with running out of the internet transfer that was mentioned above will have a different effect on a teenager who is addicted to online gaming, downloading music and scrolling Facebook than on a businessman who cares about being in touch with his clients or a young mother who is strolling with her baby. So how can you use such situations to positively surprise your clients and invite them to use your offer?
A very useful service design tool which enables us to discover how to improve customer experience is Customer Journey Map.
What is a Customer Journey Map and what is it about?
specifying a context and a situation in which the client decides to use company’s offer, determining the main need and aim of the client.
Let’s see how a Customer Journey Map should be created by looking at examples below.
We’ll check what is the experience of a client of a travel agency. I think that planning a family trip is close to all of us.
You should start with defining a typical customer. Choose a representative of a typical client, give him or her a name, establish his or her aim, mission and imagine the context of a situation he or she is in (this is persona). More info you can find in our text – How to create a persona.
In below examples we’ll find a mum who wants to organise a summer holiday trip for her family. Using your close surrounding add more details e.g. age, number of family members, interests etc. This will enable you to understand your customers and take a look at their needs with empathy.
Looking from persona’s perspective – here it will be a mother chosen by us above – describe stages and steps that she has to take from the very beginning – the idea about the holiday trip – to its implementation – coming back from the trip. At this stage it’s important to look at a situation from a broad perspective. We should take a look at the whole context here: decision about going on a trip, gathering destination ideas for a trip, discussing with family etc. up to the return from the trip. This approach enables us to realise the whole spectrum of customer experience and understand possible obstacles. It depends on you how much you’ll go into detail while identifying these stages. Detailed approach is important but you should’t exaggerate with the number of stages.
After describing stages of customer experience in detail we should establish the touchpoints our customer will have with our service. These touchpoints can be: a smartphone with an app for our service, computer and a website, employee of a travel agency, newsletter, leaflet distributed at the street, press, TV or Internet ads, friends’ recommendation. Every opportunity when our customer can get to know our service or use it (note: this step is skipped in the table but it’s helpful in selecting touchpoints which can be improved).
We describe activities and needs of the customer at each stage e.g.. discussing a trip with family, going through magazines, searching for inspiration online, the need for help in choosing a destination or means of transport etc.
Then, we identify customer’s expectations towards a travel agency at each stage. For example the mum would like to compare offers to choose the most attractive trip for adults and children. She would also like to make sure that the hotel will offer e.g.. vegetarian cuisine. Of course everything should be in best price.
Finally it’s a time to answer the key question – what experience would our customer gain during his journey using our service? This evaluation and analysis should be approached honestly. Using the experience evaluation (we can use a three- or a five-level scale) we will get to know which stages of service use can be improved and how can we make our service more convenient and tailored to customers needs, attractive and encouraging for further use. Writing these ideas down is the last – 7th Step in creating a Customer Journey Map.
You can come back to this map whenever further project decisions are taken. It’s also worth to create new maps individually or with a team. Often after a while we start to see different details and discover other possibilities.
I hope you liked this tool. In next blog entry we’ll present 10 best Customer Journey Maps in our opinion. We’ll also show you how differently they can be shaped.

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Yes, Lou was there with Barb!!!
singing skills and impromptu comedy.
Jaime, Nancy and Big Lou will entertain you with romantic Oldies from their newly released CD, “Echoes of Harlem” and much more. Enjoy the humor of yesteryear as these 3 lovable entertainers reminisce about the origins of their musical history together, Jaime and Big Lou’s acapella roots as teenagers singing under the street lamps of Harlem, and Nancy’s magical ear for background harmonies.


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Our state-of-the-art vessels allow complete control of, and support for, a wide range of subsea project and field activities. The vessels can execute subsea pipelay, diving and construction activities, and have connected assets like Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), construction and diving equipment, and mobile lay systems.
Our fleet management center of excellence has the resources and expertise to execute safe, reliable and cost-effective operations for our clients. In fact, we lead the industry in delivering global operations.
Our vessels are kept in prime working condition. Our experts ensure our fleet is fit-for-purpose and built to perform by conducting major overhaul, dry docks, upgrades and conversions to support subsea projects. Our reliable fleet are purpose-built and have a strong track record of executing subsea pipelay, diving and construction activities.
Our expertise ranges from offshore marine and construction personnel to onshore technical and support teams. Whatever the job, we have the drive and experience to deliver seamless execution of all our clients’ projects.
At TechnipFMC we are proud of our client services and the collaboration between all of our stakeholders, contributing to the success of every project.
A high quality, cost-effective DP3 diving and light construction vessel with in-built saturation and air diving capabilities.
The Deep Orient is a DP2 medium construction vessel, ideal for subsea construction and flexible pipelay projects. The vessel joined the fleet in 2013 and works predominantly in the Asia-Pacific market.
Purpose-designed and built diving support and heavy construction vessel, the Deep Arctic is suited for demanding environments like the North Sea and can work throughout the year in virtually all sea and weather conditions.
Built in 2016 with a large deck area, working moonpool, accommodations for approximately 150 people, and an offshore crane, the Deep Explorer is arguably the most advanced DSV in the world.
The Global 1200 is a rigid pipe S-lay and heavy lift DP2 construction vessel designed for work in both deep and shallow water, and is designed to handle large diameter pipelay projects. The vessel's crane is suitable for platform topside installation/removal works; and its deepwater lowering system can operate in water depths of up to 3,000 m.
The Global 1201 is a multipurpose DP2 heavy lift and pipelay vessel suitable for deep and shallow water projects with a state-of-the-art pipelay system, DP capability and conventional mooring systems.
The North Sea Atlantic can accommodate an Openable Vertical Lay System for pipelay of flexibles and umbilicals, and its design specification meets the highest requirements for subsea work and is also suited for deepwater operations worldwide.
The North Sea Giant is amongst the largest and most advanced offshore construction vessels ever built. The vessel is a DP3 class multi-purpose vessel with supreme deck and crane capacity.
The Apache II is one of the most reliable pipelay vessels available with an impressive track record. The vessel's speciality is laying reeled rigid pipe up to 16” diameter, in water depths to 1,500 m, and a range of pipe-in-pipe and Electrically Trace Heated PiP products. It regularly deploys flexible and umbilical products and can install piggyback lines thanks to a secondary reel.
The Deep Blue utilizes the reel-lay and J-lay pipelay methods to install all types of flexible and rigid pipe and umbilicals, and can lay umbilicals and flexibles from below-deck carousels. This flagship vessel has an excellent track record including many industry firsts.
Constructed in 2013, Deep Energy is one of the largest pipelay vessels ever built with the capacity to install rigid pipe, flexible pipe and umbilicals in water depths up to 3,000 m via the reel-lay method. With a fast transit speed of 19.5 knots, high product storage capacity and an abandonment and recovery system rated to 500 Te, it can operate on North Sea and on Intercontinental projects.
Skandi Açu is an environmentally friendly vessel in all aspects, designed for subsea construction and pipe laying, IRM and ROV services up to 3000 m depth. It was built in 2016, in partnership with DOF, and it is Skandi Buzios sistership.
Skandi Buzios is an environmentally friendly vessel in all aspects, designed for subsea construction and pipe laying, IRM and ROV services up to 3000 m depth. It was built in 2016, in partnership with DOF, and it is Skandi Açu sistership.
Skandi Niterói is a Brazilian-flagged class leading pipe laying support vessel, built in 2011 in partnership with DOF, ideally suited to perform subsea operations across a wide range of water depths and environmental conditions.
Brazilian-flagged vessel under construction. Skandi Olinda will be a complex and highly specialized pipe laying support vessel, supplied with sophisticated equipment and systems. It is being built at the Vard Promar shipyard, in Pernambuco, and will have the capacity to launch 300 tons on up to 3,000m deep water.
The newest Brazilian-flagged vessel of the TechnipFMC fleet in Brazil. Skandi Recife is a complex and highly specialized pipe laying support vessel, supplied with sophisticated equipment and systems. It was built at the Vard Promar shipyard, in Pernambuco, and has the capacity to launch 300 tons on up to 3,000m deep water.
Skandi Vitória is a Brazilian-flagged STX OSCV 06 design vessel, measures 142.2m, 27m of breadth. It was built in 2010 in partnership with DOF. It’s a pipe laying support vessel ideally suited to perform subsea operations across a wide range of water depths and environmental conditions.
The TOP vessels is at the forefront of subsea construction in South America, operating two multi-purpose DP2 sister vessels, TOP Coral do Atlantico and TOP Estrela do Mar. The vessels are designed with leading-edge equipment for subsea pipelay of flexibles and umbilicals, and its specifications are fully compliant with the most stringent requirements for deepwater operations.

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Are you thinking about giving some upholstery projects a go? Whether it’s a new set of curtains, freshening up a worn piece of furniture, or restoring something which was destined for landfill, upholstery projects can be a lot of fun. And not only that, they can save you a lot of money too!
But most upholstery projects involve using thicker fabrics than you might normally be used to, and which your regular sewing machine may struggle to handle. Investing in a heavy duty machine could save you a lot of grief in the long run. With the right sewing machine you’ll be able to take on wingback chairs, sofas, curtains, and even leather upholstery like car seats! The sky’s the limit!
I have put together this page to give you some tips of what to look out for when shopping for a sewing machine suitable for upholstery! The machines I recommend are shown in the table below, but keep reading for some tips and more detailed explanations!
One of the most important features we will want for our upholstery sewing machine is a powerful motor. Whilst more basic sewing machines will probably be able to handle lighter upholstery fabrics when a suitable needle is selected, they are unlikely to be able to get through multiple layers and heavier fabrics, and you risk breaking many a needle. Or worse, damaging your machine!
The additional motor strength that heavy duty machines have will help you get through those layers with much less effort.
Heavy duty sewing machines have the advantage of being less affected by overheating issues, which is handy if you a planning a long and intense sewing session. Your machine will be able to keep up!
It is probably best to avoid any sewing machines described as lightweight and portable. These often have many plastic components and tend to be flimsy. We’re after a stable, robust machine that can take whatever we throw at it!
We want our finished product to look amazing, and any mistakes will be difficult to hide. So high stitch quality and consistency are definitely a must for any upholstery project where your work will be on display at all times! Being able to have fine control over thread tension will help here.
Although the accessories you will need will vary greatly depending on the type of project you will need, two presser feet which are commonly used for upholstery projects are the cording foot and a walking foot.
Many furniture upholstery projects will involve welting (also known as cording and piping), which is decorative cord covered in fabric, attached for example to the seams of cushions or furniture. To make your own cording you will need a cording foot, or a zipper foot, which will allow you to sew right up against the cording.
If you find yourself working with many layers, and are having trouble feeding the fabric through the machine, consider investing in a walking foot (if you don’t have one already), which will make the whole process a lot smoother.
Selecting the correct needle is of the utmost importance, and can make or break a project! If you were recently working on a project with satin with using an 11/80 needle, and forget to change the needle before moving on to a thick upholstery fabric, you won’t get very far! If your machine is skipping stitches, take another look to make sure your needle is suitable. Likewise if you’re working with leather or even faux leather it makes sense to use a needle for leather. I’ve written about this extensively in my guide to sewing machines for leather.
You can read more about different needle types in this post from Sew Essential.
Also don’t forget to change your needle when necessary. I am guilty of trying to get too much mileage out of one needle – but it can be a risky game!
If your stitches don’t look right but you are confident your needle is fine, your thread tension may need some fine tuning.
The thread type you are using is also very important. Don’t just reach for your go-to thread if you normally work with lighter materials. You may need upholstery thread, or something even more heavy duty.
Planning ahead is always an important step for all sewing projects, but can be vitally important for upholstery projects where there is less room for error, especially when working with leather, where any mistakes can cost you the piece of leather you are working on, due to the permanent hole left in leather by your needle.
Other things to consider include placing your pins in such a way that they will be easy to remove whilst you are sewing.
And remember, many of the heavy duty sewing machines can sew at blistering paces, typically over 1000 stitches per minute. This may be faster than you are used to, so pay close attention to the pressure you are applying to the foot pedal and take your time to avoid making mistakes.
The range of heavy duty sewing which pack that extra punch and are available in the UK are fairly limited. I have recommended the 5 options below.
Probably my favourite of these machines, the Singer Heavy Duty 4411 is one heck of a machine, and is surprisingly good value. With a 105 W motor, it will definitely provide the power we need. It offers 11 in-built stitches (6 basic, 4 decorative, 1 buttonhole), and can manage up to a whopping 1100 stitches per minute.
A dependable and stocky machine which produces high quality stitching which is ideal for upholstery, it still shouldn’t be too heavy for you to move it to and from the kitchen table whenever you fancy a quick sewing session. For more information, check out my detailed review of the 4411 machine.
The Singer Heavy Duty 4423 is similar to the 4411 model, but offers 32 stitches (6 basic, 4 stretch, 12 decorative and 1 buttonhole). As well as the additional stitches, it has a 1 step buttonhole rather than the 4 step buttonhole offered by the 4411, and is equipped with an auto needle threader.
There is a third Singer Heavy Duty model, the 4432. I discuss more about the differences between the machines on this page: Differences Between the Singer Heavy Duty 4411, 4423 and 4432 Models. All three models are available for purchase in the UK. There is also the Singer Heavy Duty Studio 5532, but it is more difficult to get your hands on the in UK.
The Janome HD2200 is a workhorse of a machine. It has a heavy duty aluminium frame, which gives it a solid, sturdy feel, and makes it perfect for demanding projects. It offers a total of 23 stitches, including satin and stretch stitches and a 1-step buttonhole. It maxes out at 750 stitches per minute, so it is not quite as fast as the Singer machines.
Janome machines are well known for their quality, and the HD2200 is no different!
The Toyota company has a long history in the textile industry, and in fact started life as Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, which produced looms for weaving cloth. As such Toyota’s sewing machine heritage is very strong.
The Toyota Super Jeans 34 is decent machine for upholstery projects. It doesn’t quite have the power of the Singer Heavy Duty machines, with its 65W motor, but it offers 34 stitches and it comes with a special gliding foot, which will allow you to tackle multiple layers with additional ease! It isn’t the most robust machine, but should still be able to handle whatever you throw at it.
This is the next level up, but if your budget can stretch that far the Janome Memory Craft 6600P is one hell of a machine. An advanced computerised sewing machine, it has 400 built-in stitches and can manage up to 1000 stitches per minute. This machine is versatile so may be suitable if you want something that you can take on any number of projects with, including more heavy duty ones such as re-upholstery.
It comes with a wide range of presser feet, and has a dual lighting system among countless other features. It is also pretty heavy, weighing in at over 11kg.
If you intend to make some monster projects and have the space, you may want to consider investing in a second hand industrial walking foot machine from Juki, Pfaff or similar.
So there you have it! If upholstery projects tickle your fancy, investing in a heavy duty machine could save you a lot of grief in the long run!
I wanted to ask if i could use a thick upholstery thread in the singer machines to sew faux leather, what would you advice?
Most upholstery sewing only requires straight stitch so I’d suggest the very best machines are probably a vintage cast iron machine (assuming you don’t need to move it regularly) for a fraction of the cost. They’ll last far longer than any modern machine and have superior stitch quality too. With so many vintage groups and forums about there’s lots of advice on buying and maintenance including repairs.

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IBM and Xilinx, Inc., announced November 16 a multi-year strategic collaboration to enable higher performance and energy-efficient data center applications through Xilinx FPGA-enabled workload acceleration on IBM POWER-based systems.
The two companies are teaming to develop open acceleration infrastructures, software and middleware to address emerging applications such as machine learning, network functions virtualization (NFV), genomics, high performance computing (HPC) and big data analytics through a private signed agreement and collaboration through the OpenPOWER Foundation.
This collaboration will see IBM Systems Group developers creating solution stacks for POWER-based servers, storage and middleware systems with Xilinx FPGA accelerators for data center architectures such as OpenStack, Docker, and Spark.
IBM will also develop and qualify Xilinx accelerator boards into IBM Power Systems servers. Xilinx is developing and will release POWER-based versions of its leading software defined SDAccel™ Development Environment and libraries for the OpenPOWER developer community.
Both companies will continue to further utilize IBM’s Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) to deliver accelerated computing value to its clients. CAPI, a unique feature built into the POWER architecture, provides Xilinx and the technology industry at large with the ability to build tightly integrated, coherent solutions right on top of the POWER architecture. For example, independent software vendors are already leveraging IBM Flash Storage attached to CAPI to create very large memory spaces for in memory processing of analytics, enabling the same query workloads to run with 1/24 the number of servers compared to commodity x86 solutions.
“The combination of IBM and Xilinx provides our clients not only with a new level of accelerated computing made possible by the tight integration between IBM POWER processors and Xilinx FPGAs, but also gives them the ability to benefit directly from the constant stream of innovation being delivered by the rapidly expanding OpenPOWER ecosystem,” said Ken King, General Manager, OpenPOWER, IBM, in a prepared statement.


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I have a TMaxx with the stock radio, and a roll cage. After several rolls (thank goodness for the cage ) the wire hanging out of the tube has been cut from being against the roll cage while sliding across concrete. I'd say that now there's maybe 2-3" of antenna wire hanging loose from the cap at the top. Probably about 4" got cut off.
How much does this matter? It can't be good for very long range reception... Can the wire be replaced? If so, how long should it be?
I would replace it if i were you, it could make quite a difference to your long range signal. You can replace the wire easy enough, you just have to be careful, take the reciever apart and de-solder the old wire from the board. Re-solder a new one on and you are set (thats what I would do any way). I have a feeling they are about 750mm long...but i dont have one here to measure, maybe someone will do it for you.
Basically the wire is a specific length due to the wavelength of the signal it recieves, by shortening it you lose some of the signal.
Is antenna wire something my LHS carries, or can I use any old wire? Is there a specific gauge?
so, you mean that only 4" got cut off the end of the wire? If so then simply range test your radio. Is it good to go? Then don't fret about it.
That's not a good idea... Don't just range test it. Your receiver is still subject to RF propogation principles. Bad advice.
The antenna must be a particular length based on the wavelength of the input rf signal. Otherwise the receiver will start having phase problems and a potential runaway could insue.
NEVER just leave a broken antenna wire and keep running. If so, it's at your risk! Don't say we didn't warn you.
Take the receiver out, and solder off the old wire. Take the wire- the piece you just removed and the broken piece, and measure the length end to end. Take the measurement and a piece of the wire to your local radio shack. They should be able to get you the correct AWG wire (probably 24 ga or so). You cut the piece to the measured length and carefully resolder it on. Finally, maybe find a way to reroute the wire so it doesn't happen again.
Thanks for the ideas everyone. The only problem is that I don't have the piece that came off, so I'm not sure exactly how long it is supposed to be. I'll look around the radio forum and see if there if I can find any info on the length/frequency relation.
They are all the same length. Just ask someone to measure theirs....anyone reading this care to oblige? Sure someone must be able to...i would but i dont have a radio here with me!
I read somewhere that info from Traxxas rep said to use 24 gauge 24 inches long.I just changed my beat up antenna on my T-Maxx and used what the rep said exept I used 22 gauge instead of 24.
I had to use A 5\64 drill bit with my fingers to slightly enlarge the pass through hole on the receiver board and the cover,then I just soldered the wire on. I Purchased A 4 foot peice of antenna tubing from my hobby shop,measured and cut off A 1 foot piece (stock size).It is by far more flexible then the Traxxas tubing was and the 22 gauge fit perfectly inside,then I just coiled the rest of wire around the tubing.
All is well ,new antenna works great!I just found out that if you take apart an old network cable ,the wires inside are the perfect size and braid.
I know traxxas recommends to coil it ,who knows...I have never had A problem coiling the excess wire.Anyone else??


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The New Hartlepool MS Support Group was formed in 2009 by Lindsay Moore, an MS sufferer, who struggled to find a local support Group after being diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS.
The group was set up with the help of the Hartlepool Voluntary Development Agency and gained charitable status in 2013.
On this website you can find various information regarding MS and information about the Support Group. We regularly arrange support meetings and have social events at various local restaurants that are suitable for wheelchair access. A monthly newsletter is also sent out to every member, containing news of latest treatments, helpful advice and Group news.
We hope you find our website informative, and comments and suggestions for content are always welcome. You can find various methods for getting in contact with us on our Contact page.


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In a letter dated, September 21st , 2015, Dr. Mark Kao, president of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA), a Taiwanese‑American grassroots organization that promotes freedom, human rights and democracy for the people in Taiwan, calls upon President Obama to stand by Taiwan during his upcoming meeting with President of China Xi Jinping.
Meanwhile, On Friday, September 25th 2015, from noon – 2:00pm, a broad coalition of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Chinese human rights activists and Taiwanese Americans will hold a rally in front of the White House at Lafayette Square during Xi’s White House visit to protest Chinese repression in China, Tibet, and East Turkestan, and its aggressive stance against Taiwan.
As the president of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA), a Taiwanese‑American grassroots organization that promotes freedom, human rights and democracy for the people in Taiwan, I write to you today to relay to you the concerns of Taiwanese-Americans.
As you prepare to welcome China’s President Xi Jinping to the White House, we appeal to you to reaffirm America’s support for freedom, democracy and human rights in Taiwan.
We understand that the United States needs to engage China. However, such engagement should not come at the expense of America’s core values -‑ freedom, democracy and human rights, as embodied in the country of our birth, Taiwan.
As you know, the people of Taiwan have developed a vibrant democracy, and the country is now looking forward to presidential and legislative elections in January 2016, which will in all likelihood bring the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to power.
During the past months, the PRC has threatened of “consequences” if the DPP wins. We believe this is an unwarranted interference in Taiwan’s internal affairs, and urge you to prevail on President Xi to accept Taiwan as a friendly neighbor and move towards normalization of relations with its democratically- elected government.
We ask that you remind Mr. Xi that it is a core interest of the United States that the future of Taiwan be resolved peacefully and with the express consent of the people of Taiwan. We also urge you to refrain from proffering U.S. respect for China’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity” as China lays unjustified claims to sovereignty over Taiwan.
We also ask that you impress upon Mr. Xi that China dismantle its 1,600 missiles targeted at Taiwan and renounce the use of force against Taiwan. To safeguard Taiwan is to embrace freedom, democracy and human rights. This is the best way to maintain peace and stability in Asia and is consistent with the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.
Lastly, it is essential that China end Taiwan’s international political isolation. Taiwan is a peace‑loving country that is able and willing to carry out United Nations Charter obligations. Taiwan deserves an equal place in the international family of nations, and its people should be fully represented in international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization and others.
Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you on these matters that are so important to our Taiwanese-American community.

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Does this qualify as Spam? Did I overreact?
She wanted $5 for 1000 words and I agreed to do it ONCE as a new customer discount (I’m just starting out and trying to get reviews!) I thought she understood I would do it as a one time offer but when I sent the custom order through she said “no this is ongoing”. Her English was broken so I tried to explain to her that I would only do this once because it is much lower than my standard rates. Then she messaged me from a second account and kept saying “im waiting for your offer on my second account” even after I explained to her we werent seeing eye to eye and even after I repeated I can’t deliver daily scripts of 1000 words for $5 -that I would only do it once as a first time customer discount. It was like talking to a wall.
Fiverr doesn’t allow you to have 2 accounts. If you reported her then most likely she will be blocked.
Don’t worry about it and move on.
I understand you wish to get more reviews, but this is not a discount. 20-40% is a discount.
The first thing you should do is to read Fiverr’s Terms of Service, so you know what’s allowed and what isn’t. That way you’ll avoid breaking the rules, plus you’ll know when the buyer is violating them (for example, having more than one account is strictly forbidden, so you were right to block her and report her).
As for discounts, those who ask for discounts when they first order will typically expect you to give them discounts (and super-fast delivery, and unlimited revisions, and…) whenever they order from you, now and forever. They don’t seem to get “just this once” (some say that they do understand, but will ask for a discount the next time, anyway).
And finally, when a buyer is pushing you to do something that you don’t want to do, whether it’s because of a language barrier or any other reason, you have every right to refuse to work with them.
Hey thanks. And I actually don’t offer that my offer is 150 words for $5 but she PMed me and after negotiating back and forth for a little I caved. You’re right though, I shouldn’t do that.
Anyone with two accounts is someone not to try to work with. Also don’t be that desperate that you will do that much above and beyond what you are offering usually. You will attract bad buyers who take advantage of you and give you a hard time.
I see your a fellow VO. I will tell you from experience that buyers requests are a breeding ground for preditors. I’ve had buyers respond with the same language days, or maybe a week later using a different account. With respect to the respectful video animators, the worst offenders are in this category for Vo’s. There aim is to get the voice over for a dime. You can’t blame them for this however some set up multiple accounts in order to separate the buying aspect. They almost always are sellers. They will always want free revisions. When I started they tried some of this on me, but I’m not afraid to report anyone for TOS violations. DONT be taken advantage of. There is a so called “right of passage” on Fiverr. But what sellers don’t tell you to often is that simple patients and fine tuning is the key on Fiverr. “If you build it they will come” ie well defined gigs and respectful buyers. Buyers requests is a swamp Fiverr needs to drain. If you don’t get reviews from this kind of job it’s self defeating. And this type of buyer won’t most likely.


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Cynthia Brooks, 55, of Springfield, MO was arrested on warrants for traffic violations.
Matthew Crane, 32, of Bolivar, MO was arrested on a warrant for domestic assault.
Jennifer Litton, 35, of Springfield, MO was arrested on a warrant for a traffic violation.
A report of tampering was made on Highway T, Bolivar, MO.

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In recent years SQUID based measuring systems have been successfully introduced into geophysical exploration community. Both groundbased EM receivers as well as airborne full tensor magnetic gradiometer systems have received increased levels of attention fostered by the findings of major ore deposits with SQUIDs. Ultimate sensitivity and highest dynamic range are amongst the most prominent advantages over conventional sensors. It translates into higher depths of exploration, shorter duration of measuring campaigns and completely new types of information. IPHT and Supracon jointly develop geophysical measuring systems for the application in natural resources exploration, archaeology and the evaluation of building ground.
SQUID systems are being applied in medical diagnostics to detect and analyse very weak local magnetic fields originating from living organisms and organs. The method delivers functional and tomographic recordings with the highest temporal and very good spatial resolution for instance from human heart acitivity. The method operates non-invasively without touching the body and is without risk and pain for the patient. Functional Heart Tomography is on the brink of clinical application and acceptance within the medical community. Supracon and its partner network support this promising application.
SQUIDs are the sensors of choice whenever measuring tasks require ultimate sensitivity.
Supracon supports a highly diverse range of research and development applications of SQUIDs. Custom tailored SQUID systems, sub-systems or components are developed and manufactured at Supracon. In addition Supracon can contribute to a successful project realisation by the help of its expertise and experiences in SQUID based measurements as well as with a close-knit network of expert partners. Supracon can act as a subcontractor or cooperation partner in such projects.
For education purposes such as in practical training in the University Supracon offers an easily controlled SQUID system. It may help understanding practical use of superconductivity, training the operation of measuring devices, and introducing the use of cooling liquids.

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Philip K. Oldenburg is Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His research focuses primarily on Indian politics, and in particular local government and elections. The editor or co-editor of ten volumes in The Asia Society’s India Briefing series, and most recently India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths, his current project is tentatively called The Indian Politician.
Associate Editor Sarah Poff sat down to talk with Oldenburg on his research and teaching. The following transcript, compiled by Poff, has been sparingly edited for clarity.
Could you tell me about your recent research interests and what sparked them?
Since I am basically now retired, I have started a long term project which has a working title of The Indian Politician. My reason behind doing it is that there has not been a book on this topic of Indian politicians, which to me is amazing. It’s an interesting topic—why hasn’t anybody written it? That said, I have begun working on it.
Over the years, my research on other topics has led me to meet with many politicians in India. I have come to realize they differ immensely from the politicians depicted in the cartoons and newspaper clippings, which are generally very unflattering. The politicians that I’ve met have been extraordinarily hardworking: they don’t sleep at night because people knock on their doors at five in the morning until midnight on a day-to-day basis. I was very impressed by the stamina of these guys; I wanted to find out more about them.
Since you are in the early stages of this long term project, could you tell me about some of your objectives for The Indian Politician?
There many full-time politicians on every level in India, many of whom don’t even make a living out of politics. Thinking about all these people, I wanted to create a picture of what the characteristics of the Indian politician looks like. For example, to what extent is the Indian politician a man? A woman? I want to create a more rounded picture to replace the cartoon character that most people think of as the Indian politician. This was the idea.
Could you talk about the methodology you plan to use?
How does one go about studying this Indian politician? I’ve started by looking at where politicians emerge.
I will be spending four to five months in India for the next five years, observing elections and talking to politicians. So far I have been been clipping newspapers and articles and reading autobiographies, which has proven to be very interesting. I am yet to identify the questions that need to be solved for this book.
I am planning on interviewing politicians on every level. I am interested in asking essay questions with some sort of a sampling. The bottom line is that it is impossible to do the whole of India. I am confining myself to Hindi and Urdu speaking areas, which is around three-fourths of the population. I chose these regions because I plan to conduct all of my interviews myself, and I can speak and understand both of these languages. I will be confining myself to regions I am familiar with. Other people I plan to speak with are local journalists and swingers. These people know the politics of their particular neighborhood and should be able to identify who the politicians are.
Have you faced any challenges in your research thus far?
It will be a challenge to find out who the politicians are, and how I will gather a representative sample. Since India is so large and diverse even within regions, how does one sample all these different types of politicians, as well as the informal local representatives who are involved in politics full-time as middle men? How do I find these people will be a challenge.
Do you have any expectations for what the average Indian politician may look like?
It will be interesting to see what the most important characteristics are: for example, age, education, caste, or other work in civil society. I’ve met politicians of every variety so I don’t know. Ultimately, I cannot hope to believe I will have nailed it in the end. But I hope to raise the issues and make a portrait of what the Indian politician looks like. For example, to be able to say something like, “He is male ninety percent of the time, female ten percent of the time.” I suspect that certain characteristics will be prominent throughout as basic qualifications for being a politician, like stamina, intelligence, comparative wealth, gift of the gab. What else might emerge: that’s what I want to find out. Empathy? Ability to work with the opposition? Both may be valued in different places and different ways. Talking to journalists and interviewing politicians, I hope to get some sense of it.
How many of the classes that you teach are based on your past research?
A lot. Right after college I went to India and since then I have been studying the politics, language, and culture in different regions of the country. I wrote articles on elections and got interested in development research on the grassroots level. I’ve been teaching the course Political Systems in South Asia ever since. The other courses I taught were Contemporary Civilization, Political Change in the Third World, and Ethnicity in Politics in South and Southeast Asia. What I teach in my classes is based of of the work I have done in regards to my Indian and Southeast Asian research, and many of the people on our syllabus are people that I know well.
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One of the great strengths of Marti Noxon as a TV writer/producer — for shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and UnREAL — has been her ability to inhabit heightened environments and still pull real and recognizable emotions from them. Noxon was a major force behind the scenes during Buffy‘s polarizing sixth season as Buffy dealt with what now seems very clearly to be thinly-veiled depression (in the world of the show, she was just brought back from the dead in a most traumatizing way). And as uneven as UnREAL has been over its two seasons, at its best, Noxon has been able to infuse the heightened and salacious world of reality TV with some genuine emotional crises.
Genuine crisis is what sits at the center of To the Bone, Noxon’s feature film debut (she has writing credits on the films I Am Number Four and Fright Night, but she’s the sole writer/director on this one). When To the Bone debuted at Sundance in January, it was among the better reviewed films at the festival, with star Lily Collins singled out for particular praise. The word was strong enough that Netflix snatched the film up for a reported $8 million. Now that the film is set to debut on the streaming platform on July 14th comes the task of convincing audiences to choose to watch a 105-minute film in which Collins plays an anorexic young woman named Ellen, whose struggles to get better are, by design, incredibly frustrating and difficult to watch. It would be a worse film if they weren’t.
Collins — an actress I’ve never warmed to in her roles in Mirror, Mirror or the Golden Globe-nominated Rules Don’t Apply — is quite fantastic here, managing to deliver both the spark in Ellen that we most want to see ignited as well as the absence of that spark. In a family therapy scene after she’s entered inpatient treatment (her fourth such stint), Ellen watches silently as her parental figures (her father is nowhere to be found) snipe at each other, and as the half-sister she’s actually close to describes how her life has been made worse by Ellen’s disease, and there are reams of dialogue that flash unspoken across her face.
Ellen’s time in the group home takes on the familiar beats of the addiction/asylum/group home drama. You’ll get flashes of Girl, Interrupted and 28 Days and TV’s The Fosters — not cribbing from trash by any means, but hitting the familiar beats. Each patient at the facility has their thing. Leslie Bibb’s character is trying to hang on to a pregnancy she didn’t think was possible. Other patients banter about their treatment plans with the casual vocabulary of the girls who have been here a while. The movie most comes alive in a few distinct contexts: Ellen interacting with her sister; Ellen interacting with Dr. Beckham; and Ellen getting to know the group home’s sole male patient, Luke, played with what I’m just going to come right out and call a star-making supporting turn by Tony-winner Alex Sharp. Luke’s eating disorder grew out of a leg injury which derailed his dance career. He’s chatty and irreverent, partly as a defense mechanism and partly because it’s a part of him he can’t keep tamped down. His scenes with Ellen sometimes read courtship and sometimes more casual. The narrative is sometimes tempted to make him a too-perfect guardian-angel (these are the moments you’re certain as a viewer that the movie is going to kill him off, a realization that will make the breath freeze in your throat), but he’s mostly just a bright light in a dark place that Ellen might be able to use to ignite her own light again. There’s a scene a good ways into the movie where the patients go on a field trip to a rain room where Luke gets to show off his dancing talent, and while the film can’t resist pressing its thumb down on the soundtrack volume, it’s still a breathtakingly beautiful moment for both character and actor.
To the Bone is difficult, and it doesn’t always hit the mark, but it’s got an intelligence and humanity to it that pulls it through its rougher patches. It’s tough, but it’s worth the struggle.
Stream To the Bone on Netflix beginning July 14th.


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Tax deductions and credits can substantially lower your business tax liability. The hard part is determining which ones you can take -- and which ones you can't. We have you covered with advice about several common (and not so common) deductions and credits.
Hiring Workers under the W.I.N. Program - Thanks to the Workforce Investment Act, there are Workforce Investment Network (WIN) job centers that make it easier to find and hire employees.
Tax Deductions - Entrepreneurs and small businesses owners should know that the tax code allows you to deduct costs of doing business from your gross income. Therefore, the value that is left after that is what is called your net business profit. This is the amount that gets taxed. Thus, knowing how to maximize the deductible business expenses will definitely lower your taxable profit, which is a good thing for your business.
Tax Angles for Small Business Owners - Looking for tax angles for small business owners? Tax-deductible business expenses can help improve your bottomline. Make sure you understand these tax tips for small business owners.
Writing Off Bad Debts - As you finalize your business' year-end books, pay close attention to outstanding debts. They could offer a tax break.
Tax Deductions for Home-Based Business Owners - Running a home-based business entitles you to a number of income tax deductions. In this article, writer Amy Derby offers some exellent income tax advice for home businesses.
Deducting Travel Expenses - If you're a road warrior for your small business, then you should fully understand the nuances of deducting travel expenses. Here's everything you need to know.
Small Business Charitable Giving - Looking for small business tax deductions? Small business charitable giving makes a valuable contribution to our quality of life and deducting donations is simply smart business.
Home Office Deductions - Is claiming a deduction for my home office legit? It sure is. The home office deduction is one of the better small business tax deductions. Just make sure your really qualify.
Section 179 Tax Deduction - Looking for small business tax advice? Section 179 tax deductions are probably the best small business tax deductions around. If you want to lower your taxes this year, this article is definitely worth reading.
Deducting Business-Related Legal Expenses - Are legal fees tax deductible? Absolutely. But of course there are a few exceptions on tax deductions for business-related legal expenses.
Section 1224 Elections - If you qualify for a Section 1244 deduction, you can deduct between $50,000 or $100,000 from your income and pay less in taxes. What's a Section 1244 deduction? We explain this entrepreneur-friendly tax deduction in simple, easy to understand language.
Made in USA Tax Deductions - A sometimes overlooked tax break is one that took effect in 2005 and is designed to reward companies that follow the "Made in the U.S.A" motto. Eligible U.S.-based businesses can claim a deduction for manufacturing products domestically rather than sending the work overseas.
Are Parking Tickets Tax Deductible? - Can parking tickets be tax deductible? No. Parking tickets cannot be deducted as a business expense. We explain why parking tickets cannot be used to get a tax deduction.
Charitable Business Contributions - It's great to do good and do well at the same time. By making charitable donations you can help a good cause and lower your taxes at the same time.
Deductible Business Expenses - If you own a business, you can claim deductions for your business expenses and pay less in taxes. We've got the scoop on what business expenses are deductible.
Tax Deductions for Cost of Goods Sold - When calculating business taxes, make sure you correctly deduct the cost of goods sold from your gross receipts to figure your gross profit for the year. Simple, right? Maybe not!
Deducting Business Start-Up Expenses - Entrepreneurs play an extremely important role in the U.S. economy. To reward the entrepreneurial spirit, the IRS allows for the deductibility of most business start-up expenses.
Deducting Business Equipment Expenses - At some point, it will be time to hit the market for new business equipment. When that day arrives, you'll want to do it in a way that keeps your business tax obligation as low as possible.
Small Business Health Tax Credit - If you have no more than 25 employees, each earning an average annual pay of no more than $50,000, you may be entitled to cash in the form of a small business health tax credit.
Deducting Business Entertainment Expenses - Entertainment expenses are always deductible on your business' income tax return, right? Not necessarily â€" and even the ones that are may be subject to deductibility limits.
Deducting Car Expenses - For some businesses, car and auto income tax expenses can really add up. But car expenses may be subject to special circumstances that can limit the amount or your deduction.

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text: A total of 33 crude and cloned Trypanosoma rangeli stocks found as natural infections in human from Panama and other endemic areas of Central and South America were evaluated as producers of sialidase (SA) activity through the MU-NANA fluorescence test. Negative results were observed in 6 of the isolates: Panama (4), Honduras (1), and Brazil (1). In addition, an immunoblotting analysis confirm the presence of the SA antigen in these stocks without enzymatic activity. These findings must be considered in the interpretation of the biological significance of T. rangeli SA and in the proper characterization and identification of this parasite.

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1. Select Family secrets / Liz Byrski.
Sydney, N.S.W. : Pan, 2015.
398 pages : genealogical chart ; 20 cm.


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This weekend, a musical composition about the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers will premiere in Philadelphia, evoking both the movement of their currents, and their economic ebb and flow.
“RIVERS,” for prepared piano and prepared cello, was written to accompany dancers and a projected film. While the Brooks-Delaney Duo (Bethany Brooks and Daniel Delaney) perform, three dancers will perform manipulations on the strings of the instruments, choreographed by Lea Fulton. The instruments are not prepared in advance of the show, but during.
Stamper is at work on a series of compositions focused on the four elements — earth, wind, fire, and water — and how those are present in Philadelphia. “RIVERS” is the first.
The shimmery sounds of strings manipulated by foreign objects — at one point, a dancer rakes a braided fishing line through the piano strings — ripple on top of the piano and cello duet, like light on water. This piece, however, is not just water-meeting-water harmonies.
One of the major obstructions to Philadelphia’s rivers is Philadelphia itself, a city of industry that has been exploiting both rivers for centuries.
The relationship between Philadelphia and its waterways brings the tension in the third movement of the work.
The dance and music are designed to work in concert with the third element of the evening Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Trinity Center for Urban Life near Rittenhouse Square: a film of poetic imagery and dance by Ben Stamper, the brother of the composer.


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First of all, I have downloaded and fully installed the POS software. It looks very nice and it is very easy to work with.
However, I have the following questions and would like to get the answer before doing the purchase.
1.Inventory: Let’s say that I have 10 bottles of Absolute Vodka. Each bottle containing 100cl. In our bar we sell the following: 1 glass of Vodka containing 5cl, and 1 Whole bottle with Mix(containing 100cl Vodka).
How do I setup the inventory so it automatically reduce the quantities after each sell?
And what do we use the “Inventory Categories” to?
2.Kitchen Order: How can the system print item separators? For example, our guests like to order different kind of items from the menu and they sometimes want to receive the food as starters and main courses, but not always at the same time. Now how can we make the system print separators which is normally available on other systems?
I have tried to add the following buttons: “1st”, “2nd” and “3rd” So that the kitchen know what food item to start with. However, when printing, the printer does not print out the same order like it looks in the Order Screen. How can we make this working?? If you not understand, please get back to me.
3.Payment Options: Is it possible to speed up the order process by having “Cash” as default payment method? I think that would be great!
4. Security? Why cant I setup so the staff can delete the order before they sent it but not delete it after they have sent the order?? That is a very important. Othervise I have to be available and login and delete it when they have mistyped the order.
Answer to question3: Go to Configuration and choose Payment method, choose the preferred method (eg Cash in your case) and Cliick 'Set Active' button. It will default to your preferred method everytime you put an order.
Oh Thanks alot for your answers Elie!
Did you get any answers concerning the cash drawer reconcilation?
I did not get any answers concerning the cash drawer reconciliation. It is bit difficult to get a reply in this forum.
Many customers asked us about it in private emails. So we explain about 1.Inventory question here.
Go to menu Configuration - Menu Items.
Go to Inventory tab for this item.
Go to Ingredients tab for "Absolute Vodka glass" menu item.
Item Name: "Absolute Vodka 100cl bottle"
Now you have to add 10 bottles of Vodka into stock.
You may see that there is Physical Inventory window where you can adjust quantities of stock. But you cannot do that for items "without purchase history". This is because two major attributes of stock: quantity AND cost. All further calculations and reports (for example, Profit Margin reports) are based on these attributes. You cannot calculate profit margin is cost of stock is zero.
Thus is order to add 10 bottles of Vodka to stock you should use menu Purchasing - Receive Vouchers.
after closing this receive voucher you will have 10 bottles of Vodka in the stock.
That's all needed to do.
Now you may sell "Absolute Vodka glass" menu item (0.05 will be diminished from 10 in stock).
Or you may sell "Absolute Vodka 100cl bottle" menu item (1 will be diminished from 10 in stock).
I hope it's clear now how to use inventory.


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Bisphenol A (BPA) in high quantity can harm people, just like almost anything. BPA has been labeled a concern by some because of its ability to be an endocrine disruptor that hijacks the normal responses of hormones.
While toxicology studies have shown that only very high doses of this chemical affect exposed animals — doses as high as 50 mg/kg/day - by focusing on numerous endpoints a new review says it can find effects not detected in peer-reviewed toxicology studies. The authors of a new paper conclude that endocrine disruptors need to be studied at much lower doses.
To revise the threat risk for BPA, the group looked at hundreds of recent studies and added their own integrative biological approach to scrutinize low dose effects of BPA at multiple levels of biological organization: on cells, animals and human populations. After looking at "low dose" literature, they say they can find reproducible effects in animals after exposure to incredibly low doses of BPA - ten to forty times lower than the doses identified in toxicology studies. Several dozen of the "low dose" studies they found claim effects of BPA at doses that humans are thought to encounter in their everyday lives.
They say that BPA exposure, both in vitro and in vivo, contributes to a large range of health problems in humans, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, immune response to allergens, behavioral problems and decreased fertility. The effects on wildlife were also widespread in their review.
Will it hold up? BPA is certainly at DDT and alar levels of hysteria - and reviews are only as good as the material being reviewed. The authors went out of their way to review studies finding problems with BPA, which lacks a valid null hypothesis, and it's published in Endocrine Disruptors. Their confidence notwithstanding, BPA needs to be examined carefully before it is vilified more.


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Since the invention of television transmission in the 1930s, the assumption has been that in order to deliver something better or in a more efficient way new decoding hardware was always required.
This assumption has been holding back revolution in the industry ever since. Today this has never been more true, each new standard has required much more complex devices for both encoding and decoding, this has meant that the only time a new more efficient CODEC has been widely adopted has been when there has been another factor that required new decoding devices anyway, e.g. the move from SD to HD and HD to UHD.
Today a large portion of the digital video that is viewed around the world is still in MPEG2, despite the fact that h.264 services have been around for over 13 years and HEVC for 4! The economic case just doesn’t exist for replacing existing decoding devices, even if they are a minority of the total population of receiving devices.
But what if we didn’t have to replace said legacy devices?
With each new generation of CODEC formats, the massive increase in processing power required to encode has meant that it is often difficult to get much of an improvement in bitrate in live situations. This might be acceptable for some offline encodes, but with a significant increase in costs.
We at V-Nova believe that real-time performance – e.g. live encoding, which is important also to VOD services such as catch up TV, network PVR, etc. – is what is important to the industry, so we added some additional constraints.
Must be encodable with software updates to existing live and VOD encoders.
Must not increase the encoder processing load, and should ideally reduce it.
Must not increase the decoder power consumption, and should ideally reduce it.
The current wisdom is that each new CODEC format needs new hardware acceleration to decode it, but what if we looked at it from the other way around, e.g. “what could we get the existing hardware to decode?”.
Our starting point was our PERSEUS Pro CODEC format, which is a hierarchal fully parallel CODEC that offers industry leading performance for lossless and visually lossless Intra Only production and contribution use cases and runs entirely in software on CPUs or GPUs. But how could we translate these benefits to the constraints of what is now a 14 year-old Set Top Box chipset and compete with the power consumption of a ‘hardware’ h.264 decoder?
I had spent most of my career looking at problems from the other way. At Argonaut we had come up with the idea of creating what would now be called the world’s first GPU (the Super FX chip of the Nintendo Super NES) in order to deliver 3D games on a games console that only had a character mapped screen. I had then gone on as founder and CTO of ARC cores to create a processing architecture for solving just this kind of problem when building chips. I also knew that a lot of the MPEG2 chips had been build using the ARC as the ‘master controller’ of ‘hardware’ MPEG2 decoders, and had worked with other companies building h.264 decoders that were all effectively a collection of hardware accelerators connected to an efficient processor.
Had I already invented the answer to the problem two decades earlier?
It turns out that all the ‘hardware’ video decoders that we have looked at are a collection of hardware blocks controlled by some form of ‘master controller’, or to put it another way software with hardware assist.
So if we could create a CODEC format that could use some of the hardware blocks with software, we would be able to run on existing chipsets and massively improve the bitrate while not increasing the power consumption of the device. Many people seem to talk about hardware decoding being some magic function that consumes no power: this is not of course the case, as power is consumed by transistors switching, the number of them and the frequency at which they switch is what consumes the power, by creating the most efficient mix of hardware and software you get the best power efficiency.
For various IP reasons I can’t tell you which hardware blocks we used to create the first version of PERSEUS Plus, but the principle is that we use a PERSEUS format ‘plus’ (i.e., in combination with) a CODEC format, which for the first deployments has been h.264 but could also be MPEG2, HEVC, VP9 or even AV1 in the future. During the encode process we generate extra data that is then combined using a mixture of hardware (where available) and software on the decoder to reconstruct the full image, but at a much lower bitrate than just using the CODEC format after the ‘plus’ (a.k.a., ‘base CODEC format’).
Although PERSEUS Plus was original created for 14 years old chips using a mixture of hardware and software available in the device, we can run purely in software in current generation mobile phone chips and not consume any more power than the ‘hardware’ versions in the devices. We can of course also still use hardware blocks to further reduce power consumption.
On the encoder side we created an ‘Encoder Plug In’ that can be easily integrated by encoder vendors into their existing software encoder platforms and that will generate streams using the ‘base’ CODEC with Perseus added as extra metadata or as a separate TS PID depending on the application. Using the ‘base’ CODEC at a lower resolution translates into strong reductions of required encoding processing power, maintained even after accounting for the (inherently fast and parallel) PERSEUS part. The output stream is encapsulated in compliance with the ‘base’ CODEC standard, and the ‘base’ CODEC encode is decodable by any decoder that can decode that CODEC: if the media player is not aware of PERSEUS, the decoded video will be at a lower resolution and quality, but it will still play. This approach means at the same time that Perseus has no negative impact (reducing bitrate is positive!) on the rest of the delivery infrastructure, e.g. DRM, CDNs, Origin Servers, packaging, metadata management, ad insertion, etc.
This ‘Plus’ approach also means that operators can do risk-free phased rollouts where customers who have PERSEUS enabled decoders see the higher resolution better quality video, while the decoders unaware of PERSEUS still see video as before. This is especially useful in the common scenario where customers are using PERSEUS to upgrade customers from SD to HD while not increasing (often reducing) the total bitrate: PERSEUS enables them to charge a premium and deliver a better Quality of Experience while reducing their delivery costs.
10 Mbps, for scalable DTH/Cable/Fibre UHD sports services.
One of the great things about the PERSEUS CODEC format is that its relative efficiency increases even more as the resolution goes up. We can already deliver stunning results with UHD for live sports at 10 mbps, using standard, low cost and compact encoding hardware: this will enable UHD to become a commercial realty.
PERSEUS Plus h.264 already delivers on the quality/bitrate promises of next generation CODEC formats but does it on today’s hardware using less encoder and decoder power than h.264.
As HEVC, VP9 or AV1 get traction, PERSEUS Plus can be used in combination with even more efficient ‘base’ codecs, providing even more compression advantages. At the same time, also the efficiency of PERSEUS Plus encoders will keep improving, as we add several additional optimizations in the coming months.
In short, PERSEUS Plus can work on top of any CODEC format and can always stay ahead of current and future CODECS.


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Oh, the revelry of New Year’s Eve: the drinking, the debauchery, the first kiss of the new year. Perfect for kids, right? Not so much.
It’s a beautiful time of year to be a family and celebrate being together. Grandparents come over, cousins reunite, aunts pinch kids’ cheeks.


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Abundantly produced, glowing reddish-orange flowers, blotched dark orange and with orange-yellow veins, produced in May or early June.
Moist, well drained humus rich acid soil. Best in full sun.
Knap Hill hybrid of Rh. calendulaceum.

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Assistant instructor of tai chi and praying mantis kung fu.
Chief Operations Officer of Caffeinated Press.
Editor in Chief of The 3288 Review.
For my day job, I build web apps.

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Report of the Chief Engineer of East River bridge, on prices of materials and estimated cost of the structure: June 28, 1872.
Variant Title: Report of W.A. Roebling, C.E. to the N.Y. Bridge Co. on the East River Bridge.
Publisher: [New York? : s.n.].
Description: 15 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject: Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--Costs.


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EmergencyMedJC: Trial of Pregabalin for Acute and Chronic Sciatica… Show me the money!
Trial of Pregabalin for Acute and Chronic Sciatica… Show me the money!
It seems half of the patients I see in the ED are taking Lyrica (pregabalin). Therefore, it was no surprise to me to see it at number 13 on the list of the biggest blockbuster drugs of 2015 making billions of dollars for Pfizer.
But I was equally surprised to see a negative high quality RCT of pregabalin published in the highest impact journal on the planet!
Surely Pfizer was crazy when they funded and performed this study? Well… of course they weren’t… it was some other crazy authors.
This Australian NHMRC funded double-blind controlled trial randomized 209 participants to either pregabalin or placebo. The primary outcome was a leg-pain intensity score at the 8 week mark.
How much did the pregabalin help?
There was no statistical improvement in the primary or any of the secondary outcomes. About the only thing we are sure of is the incidence of adverse events was significantly higher in the pregabalin group.
Although this was a small study (i.e. risk for Type II error), it probably had adequate power to detect a clinically meaningful difference in pain scores. And the results trended a favour towards placebo anyway.
Of course, no study is perfect. If I was working for Pfizer, I would point out that only a minority of the participants were likely to have neuropathic pain as measured on the PainDETECT score. So of course my drug wouldn’t work… while I sit on my horse made of gold.
So what’s the take home message for the emergency docs?
Pregabalin probably does not help sciatica. But I would also be sceptical as to the benefits in a wide range of other indications… Especially with industry sponsored research.
Mathieson S, Chiro M, Maher C, et al. Trial of Pregabalin for Acute and Chronic Sciatica. N Engl J Med 2017;376:1111-20.