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I went to Guanajuato for the first time 18 years ago. It was intended to be the first stop on a wider tour of Mexico, but I loved it so much I stayed put and spent the rest of my trip there. I’ve gone back almost every year ever since. It is a welcome respite where I always feel the warmth of friendly, proud locals and the buzz that emanates from a town with a lively university atmosphere.
During this workshop we’ll spend time in Guanajuato as well as the surrounding villages of Santa Ana, Santa Rosa, and San Martin de Terreros, exploring the architecture, beauty and culture of the region. I’ll show you the places I keep going back to, and my assistant, Dylan Williams—who’s native to the region and paints it every chance he gets—will be our insider guide.
Abundant silver and gold deposits led to the settlement of Guanajuato in the 1500s. Located in central Mexico, the city is known for its silver mining history and colonial architecture.
In 1988, Guanajuato was named a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The town’s Baroque and neoclassical architecture reflect its history of prosperity, and its churches are said to be some of the most beautiful in Central and South America. Pink, green, ocher, and red buildings line the slopes of surrounding hills, and cobblestone streets connect museums, beautiful theaters and markets. A sudden turn will find you in long, dark, subterranean tunnels, formerly rivers.
What I want for this workshop is to help you find your voice. How do you make a photo your own? It’s more than composition—it’s as much about seeing as it is about shooting. We’ll move beyond taking snapshots, and I’ll help you cultivate your perspective so your photos tell a story. They’ll have your mark.
And you’ll get to see different approaches to the same subjects. Seeing others’ visual language and interpretation will help you define your own.
You’ll come away with a body of original work that expresses your own narrative, different from the predictable and different from the next person’s.
I promise that the terrain, color, history, and depth of Guanajuato and its nearby locales will inspire you. I’ll be there to work with you as much or little as you want, and you’ll have the camaraderie of your workshop mates to be inspired by.
We’ll go off of the well-traveled path and enjoy food and music created by locals. Chances are good we’ll be fairly bonded by the time the workshop is over.
The general format of every workshop is consistent. We’ll travel the region. We’ll shoot and edit every day. We’ll eat, drink, and see the sights.We’ll talk about the experience and I’ll review everyone’s work as a group, reflecting on the day and preparing for the next.
We have a home base with snacks and drinks provided throughout the day.
Regardless of the level of photographic skills, all participants are expected to have a working knowledge of a laptop computer, digital workflow, and image editing software (ideally Adobe Lightroom).

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Isabelle signed limited edition print by French figurative artist Claude Gaveau.
Claude Gaveau was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on December 5, 1940.Claude Gaveau is an internationally acclaimed master celebrated for his nudes and still life compositions. His works are harmonious with a brilliant palette of vibrant colors that seem to be overlaid with silk giving a soft and subtle result. Gaveau’s art has been described by many critics and fellow artists as “Symphonic” orchestrating the elements to create perfectly balanced compositions that are withdrawn from reality yet not quite abstract offering a sense of mystery rather than a clear definition. His works capture the beauty and innocence of flowers and the female form he paints with his brush. Gaveau has created a style all his own that is immediately identifiable and enjoyable.

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Every year Ontario government publishes its annual Sunshine List of public sector servants, which includes nurses, teachers, police officers, and firefighters, with six-figure salaries. In Ontario Financing Authority / Office ontarien de financement, 85 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $12,199,783.25 in 2017.
Topping the list for Ontario Financing Authority / Office ontarien de financement was Chief Executive Officer / Directeur général Gadi Mayman who brought home $640,021.37 in 2017.
Following Gadi Mayman was Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer / Directeur général et agent en chef des placements Michael Manning, who had annual earnings of $437,773.00. Director, Debt Management / Directeur, gestion de la dette David Peters made $321,458.07, Director, Funding / Directeur, financement James Devine made $321,428.56 and Chief Financial and Risk Officer / Directeur général des finances et directeur des risques Ken Kandeepan round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $229,847.87 for the Ontario Financing Authority / Office ontarien de financement 2018 Sunshine List.
Among the 85 Ontario Financing Authority / Office ontarien de financement's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 30 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 38 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 5 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 8 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 4 received over $300,000 at Ontario Financing Authority / Office ontarien de financement.

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Bed linen and towels are provided and inclusive but the beds will not be made up prior to your arrival.
The nearest beach is Rosevine, a five minute drive, with an expanse of flat sand at low tide. St Mawes has two beaches on either side of the harbour, a small selection of shops, pubs and restaurants, a passenger ferry operating to Falmouth, and the 16th century St Mawes Castle. The coastal footpath nearby leads down to the picturesque church set in magnificent semi tropical gardens and St Just Pool.
On the ground floor the front door opens into a wide hallway with a wing to the right containing a bathroom W.C. with hand basin and shower over the bath and two bedrooms; a twin bedded room and one which has a double bed. On the extended side of the house is an enlarged sitting / dining room with large picture windows and patio doors to the garden and a fitted kitchen, all with lovely water views.
Open tread stairs lead directly from the sitting / dining room up to the spacious, gallery style, open plan master bedroom with two single beds that can be joined together to make a king size and a small en-suite shower room W.C. with hand basin. A large window makes it possible to enjoy the view without getting out of bed and a glazed door opens to a roof terrace overlooking St Just Creek with a glass balustrade.
The garden is bounded bv a waist high stone wall and although the grass itself is level the sloping site gives a considerable drop on one side of the wall - not for adventurous toddlers. There is on-site parking for two cars.

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OUR LOCAL OFFER FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES.
How does Little Doves Christian Pre-school know if a child needs extra help and what should I do if I think my child may have special educational needs or disabilities?
At Little Doves Christian Pre-school each child has a designated key person. Their role is to develop a trusting, sensitive relationship with the parents/carers and the child to enable a respectful sharing of information. If you have any concerns about your child's development, you can discuss these with your key person or our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCO).
Ongoing observations are made of every child at Little Doves Christian Pre-School and these are linked to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Development Matters 2014 ages and stages of development. This, in some cases, identifies individual needs and if concerns are highlighted, they will be discussed with the SENDCO. If your child's key person has identified a possible individual need, they will discuss this with you and plan, with your support, your child's learning and development.
Our SENDCO will offer support and advice to your child's key person and other staff within the setting. They will also liaise with other professionals and seek advice in identifying individual needs if necessary. With your permission they will ask the Area SENDCO to visit to ensure that we are meeting your child's needs and refer to other specialists if necessary.
Reports from other health care professionals, such as speech and language therapists and health visitors will help to identify your child's individual needs. We welcome parents/carers and professionals to share these reports with the key person/SENDCO in order to plan appropriately to meet these needs.
How will you as a setting support my child?
Before your child starts at Little Doves Christian Pre-School, you and your child will be asked to come in for a build up session. You will be able to stay with your child and talk to your child's key person about any concerns you might have. This is part of our 'settling in' process and has proved to be highly successful. Parents/carers and children can find the transition to pre-school very daunting and it can be reassuring if you can get to know the staff and the setting first. This session also helps the staff build up a picture and gain information about your child.
You will be asked to fill in an 'Initial Child Profile' form about your child which will be placed in their Learning Journal. This information about your child's strengths and needs helps the staff to settle them quickly and plan for their likes and dislikes.
We will listen to any concerns you may have about your child and support you both. Our SENDCO will explain how children's individual needs can be met with SEND support in the Early Years. We focus greatly on the partnership with parents/carers, you and your child will be consulted in any planning and decision making about all aspects of your child's SEND. In Essex this person centred approach is known as 'One Planning'.
Observations, assessments and evaluations all contribute towards SEND support in the Early Years and your child's key person will oversee these aspirations with the help of the SENDCO. Together they will, with your approval, identify needs and plan for SMART outcomes for your child. (S: Specific, M: Measurable, A: Achievable, R: Relevant, T: Time-bound). These will consider both what is important to your child and what is important for their development. Your child's learning style, interests and stage of development will be used to support their SMART outcomes. With your approval, the SENDCO will access additional support from other professionals, including the Area SENDCO who will support our SENDCO to ensure that everything possible is being done for your child. These reports are always available for you to look at and are securely locked away after each session.
The manager of the pre-school will maintain an overview of the progress and achievements of your child and the SENDCO will work with all staff to ensure that we are providing the relevant and appropriate support.
Your child's key person/SENDCO will work in partnership with you, reviewing current aspirations, SMART outcomes and planning new ones together. Any information/ideas that you can give to your child's key person/SENDCO from what you witness at home are of great value to us. We will also give the child a voice in their planning and will ensure that the SEND support is child friendly.
How will Little Doves Christian Pre-School create learning and development opportunities for individual children with SEND?
We will know about your child from the build-up session, the 'Initial Child Profile' and through ongoing observations once they have started. Targets linked to the EYFS Development Matters 2014 will be set each week in their 'Next Steps'. This enables planning for individual needs and learning goals. In addition your child will also have a learning journal; this contains written observations, photographs and samples of your child's work. This supports staff in assessing and planning to help your child progress in their 'Next Steps'. You can ask to see the learning journal at any time.
Your child's key person and the SENDCO will work together to make sure that the environment, routines and activities on offer support your child's needs. They will communicate with the rest of the staff to provide consistency and understanding within the team at Little Doves Christian Pre-School.
The manager will monitor and analyse progress of all children within the setting to address any areas of weakness. This information will be used to focus on specific areas and adapt areas that are not meeting a child's needs.
Within Little Doves Christian Pre-school, the children's learning styles and interests are recognised and used to promote achievements and development. All children are involved in the planning and selection of activities.
Your child's key person/SENDCO will ask for copies of assessments from other professionals before your child starts or when you receive them after they start, which will include any helpful tips to their aspirations (such as speech therapy sheets). If your child's key person/SENDCO feels that more advice is necessary they will ask for your permission to contact individuals or the Area SENDCO.
How does Little Doves Christian Pre-School work in partnership with parents/carers?
Assessment systems, such as the 2 Year Progress Check, are in place and together with the stages of development in the EYFS Development Matters 2014 an 'Individual Next Steps Plan' is formulated each term for every child. This informs you how your child is progressing in their 'Next Steps' and includes a section explaining what you can do at home to help your child.
Parent/carer helper sessions are available every day and allow you to stay and witness how your child is developing within the pre-school.
Little Doves Christian Pre-School is a very happy, welcoming setting which has an Open Door policy. You can talk to your child's key person, the manager, the SENDCO or any other member of staff with whom your child has a good relationship, either in the morning before the session starts or at the end of the session. We pride ourselves on our excellent relationships with both our children and our parents/carers and believe that the opportunities we have to communicate freely with them are a great benefit to all the children.
We have termly newsletters that are either given out on paper or are sent by email. A wealth of information is displayed in the pre-school foyer and on the pre-school website. Our interest topics for the term are displayed in the foyer so that you can talk about these things with your child at home. At the end of each session a white board is displayed to give you an insight into what has happened during our day. This allows you to talk to your child about their day in greater detail and enable you to support their learning even further.
If your child is collected by a grandparent or child minder, we can relay information via them, with your permission, through the 'Contact book' you will have been given when your child starts at the pre-school. Your key person will start the 'Contact book' with a photo or comment about your child and you can then complete more information about their achievements at home, exciting moments and important milestones. This gives us a window into your child's life at home and is really important to monitor progress accurately.
We will work with you every step of the way to assist your child; you will be included in the planning of their SEND support and we will work together to ensure that there is a continuum of care.
If you are a parent/carer whose first language is not English, you can nominate a representative who speaks English, or if possible, we can arrange for an external interpreter.
Our staff are friendly and welcoming, providing an inclusive and positive approach. They provide good role models for positive behaviour and are consistent in their approach in the day to day care of all the children. We are flexible in our routines to provide a positive environment for your child's needs and provide personal care such as changing nappies.
Personal Health Care Plans can be adopted if necessary and staff will be trained in giving the appropriate medication for your child if required. Should your child require regular prescribed medication then you will be asked to complete and sign a Medication Permission form. You will be informed of the administration of the medicine and be asked to sign a form in accordance with Little Doves Christian Pre-School's Health and Hygiene Policy.
Most of our staff are trained in First Aid and are able to complete accident forms if necessary. Our staff are vetted and a vigorous recruitment process is in place. The manager is our designated safeguarding person and all other staff are trained to the required safeguarding level.
All our policies and procedures are updated regularly and available for all parents/carers to read in our Policies and Procedures File on the sign-in table in the main hall and copies can be provided upon request. Please ask a member of staff.
Activities can be adapted to ensure that your child is able to interact fully within the environment. Visual strategies, such as visual time tables, are used to help them understand the pre-school's routines. Our quiet corner is welcoming and provides a space to read or rest should your child require a retreat.
The children's views are always taken into account and your child's key person will have a good understanding of their likes and dislikes. Every week all staff help to fill out future planning ideas based on their key children's requests.
What staff training and experience in supporting young children with SEND is available at Little Doves Christian Pre-School?
All staff are experienced in working with the Early Years age and have a good understanding of child development. The majority of our staff have Level 2 or 3 in Children & Young People’s Workforce or an equivalent qualification. One member of staff is a play worker. We have 3 Appointed First Aiders present at each session who are trained in Paediatric First Aid.
Two members staff have completed a course in the Makaton language programme.
All our staff are encouraged to attend extra CPD and relevant courses. If any additional training is required to meet a child's individual needs, then this is organised and cascaded down to all staff.
We will work alongside the specialist services involved with your child and they are welcome to visit Little Doves Christian Pre-School or speak to us on the telephone. Working closely with you and your child will enable us to build strong relationships and understanding and therefore supporting your child's needs better. We can also sign post ways of getting support through the local children's centres, for example, speech and language drop in sessions.
giving direction for further training.
Parental/carer agreement is always obtained before the Area SENDCO becomes involved with any individual child. The Area SENDCO will support the setting in working together with other agencies that may already be involved with the child.
Our SENDCO has attended courses in Behaviour Management, A Focus on SEND, One Planning, the Role of the SENDCO and Autism and has worked closely with children on the autistic spectrum. She has worked with children with speech and language difficulties and has attended speech and language sessions with some of our children and completes their sheets with them at the session. She also has experience with children with Cystic Fibrosis, Fragile X and those with Global Delay.
The pre-school is always looking to extend its knowledge of SEND by staff attending further training courses and cascading information to other staff within the setting.
We have experience of working with children with English as an additional language and who seek bilingual support (see our ENCO policy). Visual supports are given, such as communication books, photos and visual time tables.
Little Doves Christian Pre-School has links with St Paul's Bentley Church and although we are a Christian pre-school, holding those values as core in how we run the pre-school, we welcome children from all cultures and religions.
We have a Positive Behaviour Practitioner and can help with advice and strategies to cope with undesirable behaviour.
What specialist services and expertise can you inform me about?
Health Professionals: Paediatricians, Health Visitors, Clinical Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Specialist Nursery Nurses.
Education Professionals: Area SENDCO, Specialist Teachers, Specialists Key Persons, Educational Psychologists.
Social Services Professionals: Social Workers, Family Care Workers.
A list explaining the role of each of these professionals is available in our SEND policy.
How will my child be included in activities outside Little Doves Christian Pre-School including trips?
All our trips and visits are planned to include every child in the pre-school setting and all parents/carers are invited to attend trips. We will endeavour to include parents/carers in the planning of the visits off-site, to identify the needs of your child.
A detailed risk assessment will be carried out before the trip by the manager/trip organiser.
We would take any aids or medication needed by your child on the trip.
See Little Doves Christian Pre-School Outings Policy.
How accessible is the pre-school environment?
The main access into the single storey building is flat, suitable for wheelchair use. The pre-school is in the main hall and an adjacent smaller room with easy access and movability between both rooms. There is double door access to an outside play area.
We have one disabled toilet with a dedicated changing facility in the ladies' toilets.
Disabled parking is available at the front of the main entrance to the building with unloading space.
Additional funding may be obtained to help us meet your child's needs.
Signs and posters are displayed around the setting helping children to identify the equipment and play areas.
Multi-sensory activities are always part of our planning and we will always endeavour to seek out the best and most suitable equipment / facilities to support the child with special educational needs.
Risk assessments are carried out daily before the session begins and at the end of the session. All staff are trained to Level 1 in Health and Safety and we have a dedicated Health and Safety Officer.
How will Little Doves Christian Pre-School prepare and support my child to join the setting/transfer to school?
Little Doves Christian Pre-School offers Introductory Sessions that you can attend with your child (as explained in question 2.) Our Settling-in Policy builds firm relationships between the child, parents/carers and staff members. We know that every child and indeed parent/carer is an individual with their own needs and we are therefore very flexible about the length of time that it takes to settle a child. We work very closely with each parent to ensure that their child settles in well.
When transferring to another setting or moving on to school, Little Doves Christian Pre-School will invite the key person/SENDCO of the new setting to visit your child in our setting. This helps them to become familiar with that person in our setting and allows us to discuss your child's strengths and needs. The key person or the SENDCO from Little Doves Christian Pre-School may also visit the other setting to discuss your child.
We have a very good relationship with all the schools within our area and they often provide us with books about their school to show to the children, or with a visit to talk to the parents/carers of the children going to the school.
Your child's Learning Journal and Development Matters are given to you when they leave. It is up to you to decide if you wish to pass this on to the new setting. Most new settings would like to have a look at these, to give them an insight into your child's likes and dislikes and current stage of development.
If the Area SENDCO has been involved with your child they will also aid us on his/her transition. Our SENDCO will produce a special 'Passport' for your child to take with them to school. This is written with the child and includes all their favourite and least favourite things to do. It also includes strategies on how they work best and a list of all the specialists involved with them.
How are Little Doves Christian Pre-School resources allocated and matched to children's special educational needs or disabilities?
If required, additional funding can be sought to support your child within our setting.
A dedicated Little Doves Christian Pre-school budget is available for staff training, which will include up to date training on SEND.
There are lending libraries that can supply us with toys, sensory equipment and topic boxes. We already have some excellent toys and resources for children with SEND. Most of our current resources can be moved to allow better access, for example, toy cars moved from the floor to the table for children in wheelchairs.
How does Little Doves Christian Pre-School decide on appropriate support for young children with SEND?
Little Doves Christian Pre-School SENDCO will identify what support is required through observations linked to the 2 Year Progress Check and the developmental stages of the EYFS Development Matters 2014 and in discussion with you and your child's key person.
A 'SEND support in the Early Years' report will be put in place. This will be done in partnership with you, your child and their key person. A graduated approach is then put in place where the SENDCO and key person will assess your child and develop a plan for your child. A review, usually termly, will then take place with you and the key person where the SENDCO will adapt the plan or leave it in place if good progress is being made.
If 'SEND support in the Early Years' is thought to be ineffective the SENDCO will ask for your permission to involve the Area SENDCO who will come and observe your child. They may decide that your child should stay on 'SEND support in the Early Years' and offer suggestions as to how it could be more affective. Alternatively the Area SENDCO can help us in implementing a 'Personalised Plan' for your child. This will involve assessments from other professionals and their reports will be used to help plan for your child within the setting.
The ongoing partnership with you and other professionals will help us to create a 'Provision Map' which will identify our aspirations for your child and the SMART outcomes that we hope they will achieve. A time frame will be put in place for these aspirations and regular observations will help us ensure that the best possible progress is being made by your child.
Regular staff meetings will ensure that all staff are aware of your child's strengths and needs, and how to support them. If your child requires further help an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Needs Assessment can be requested. This is where your child is referred to the Local Education Authority (LEA) for assessment. Reports and evidence from all the agencies involved with your child will be looked at and the LEA may or may not issue an EHC Plan.
How do we involve all parents/carers in our setting?
We value the parents/carers within our setting and have excellent relationships with them. We are aware of the fact that no one knows your child better than you do, if we want to get to know them well, we need your help. We have an open door policy and parents/carers are always welcome to talk to any member of staff before and after the session. We can also arrange for a place to talk in private if you need to discuss sensitive matters.
We have a lending library in the lobby from which you are welcome to select books to help with a range of topics from tantrums, bed wetting, starting school and fussy eaters.
Parents/carers are always involved in identifying needs, information sharing, identifying targets and 'Next Steps' to focus on at home. You will be involved in reviewing the progress towards the targets. Within your child’s Contact Book, your child’s key person/SENDCO will give you ‘How can you help me with my learning’ sheets to give you ideas of how you can help your child at home.
All parents/carers are encouraged to help out in a session, so that they can gain a true understanding of life at our pre-school.
Parents/carers can become involved in fund raising for the pre-school and we try to hold coffee mornings to help new parents/carers mix when their child first starts.
We provide newsletters to keep parents/carers updated with life at Little Doves and children and parents/carers are invited to come to other events held by St Paul's Bentley Church.
Please visit the website www.littledovescp.org.uk or contact the manager, Pam Biddulph via email: manager@littledovescp.org.uk or call 07756 029105 Tuesday to Friday, during term time, regarding any further inquiries.

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Institute of Cancer Research Repository - BRAF mutations are detectable in conjunctival but not uveal melanomas.
BRAF mutations are detectable in conjunctival but not uveal melanomas.
BRAF mutations are detectable in conjunctival but not uveal melanomas Activating mutations in exon 15 of BRAF have been detected in a high proportion of cutaneous melanomas. To determine whether such mutations are a feature of conjunctival or uveal melanomas, we screened DNA from these tumours. Twenty-one conjunctival and 88 uveal tumours were included in the study. Mutation analysis of BRAF exons 11 and 15 was undertaken using a combination of conformationally sensitive gel electrophoresis and direct sequencing. Mutations in exon 15 were detected in three of the conjunctival tumours (two V599E and one E585 K). None of the uveal tumours possessed a BRAF mutation in either exon 15 or 11. We conclude that uveal melanomas arise independently of oncogenic BRAF mutations, but the development of a proportion of conjunctival tumours involves mutation of this gene. (C) 2004 Lippincott Williams Wilkins.
Spendlove, H. E., Damato, B. E., Humphreys, J., Barker, K. T., Hiscott, P. S., Houlston, R. S.

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Yall know how this goes by now.
Congregate in Montgomery, AL (or well, just a little east of it) on the 26th, head out to the drag strip weather permitting around 5:30pm (for a 6pm arrival time at the track), ball till you fall, dyno day and shenanigans saturday going into saturday night, GTFO on sunday.
Bring enough stuff to cover your goals, and bring (or have) more money than you think you'll need, just in case. We like to keep murphy at bay whenever possible.
the track is $15 to watch, $20 to run (well, at least last time I checked). It's very laid back, if you come down you should run, regardless of how slow or how new you are to the "sport". It is more fun with a faster car, but it's not a bad time all around.
those coming in from ATL going to the house, probably fastest to get off the new pike road exit. everyone else, it's a toss up between taylor road and mytelene(sp) exits.
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Plan on being there in my wagon, it needs some dyno time.
In. Maybe in a Volvo!.....?
Im not taking the wagon as my daily if I go down there plus I make money when I get mileage from driving the prius.
I'll bring my TDi, we can do a 'slowest 1/4 mile time' race.
Should be in...maybe even in the grey car with new motor and turbo.
How many hamsters is that?
Are you commuting with the tractor?
Who am I kidding, that would break down halfway to work too.


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We humans love to make plans. We sift, sort, categorize, computate and collate.
Funny thing, this life; life is full of plans that go awry. Most people, at some point and for whatever reason find themselves falling off the earth for a while.
Manifesting is my ‘superpower’. I’ll show you how easy it is, and exactly how I do it in eight easy lessons.
Fun might be equally essential to our well-being.
What are the symptoms of a fun deficiency? Boredom, lack of curiosity, illness, fatigue, talking about your mutual funds when in social situations.
We live in a world that doesn’t stop for anything. Grief is often relegated to a weekend, as if that is all the slack we are allowed to get over a devastating loss.
Cravings and what did Dr. Jekyll eat for supper?
Cravings and food allergies go hand in hand. You probably don’t’ think too much about what you put in your mouth or how it affects your emotions.


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James Funderburgh, Andrew Hertsenberg, Martha Funderburgh, Kira Lathrop, Yiqin Du; CXCR4 Expression Marks Cells in Limbal Stroma with the Potential to Differentiate to Keratocytes. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):3228.
Purpose: Mesenchymal cells from limbal stroma exhibit stem cell properties and can regenerate stroma in vivo and vitro. Recent publications showed stromal cells associating with limbal epithelial cells to express the chemokine receptor CXCR4. The study examined the hypothesis that stromal CXCR4 expression allows selection of stromal stem cells with a high potential for corneal regeneration.
Methods: Limbal stromal cells were recovered from human corneal rims by collagenase digestion and expanded in culture at clonal density in a low-serum medium containing cholera toxin (PMID:22078813). Gene expression patterns were determined by qPCR. Protein expression was assayed by flow cytometry. CXCR4+ cells were isolated with MACS immunoadsorption or by FACS. Keratocyte phenotype was determined by gene and extracellular matrix expression after culture on collagen or aligned nanofiber substrata. Immunostaining was carried out on tissue wholemounts and sections using immunofluorescent detection with confocal microscopy.
Results: Strong staining for CXCR4 protein was limited to small populations of limbal cells subjacent to the epithelial basement membrane. In uncultured digests and primary cultures, CXCR4 positive cells amounted to one third of limbal cells in flow cytometry, but in central stroma less than 1% total cells were CXCR4+. After passage, the proportion of CXCR4+ in cultured limbal cells decreased, particularly in confluent cultures. Separated CXCR4+ cells expressed pluripotent markers Oct4, SOX2, NANOG, and neural crest marker p75NTR. Under differentiation conditions, CXCR4+ cells exhibited enhanced expression of keratocyte genes and matrix compared to CXCR4- cells.
Conclusions: CXCR4 is a cell surface protein the abundance of which correlates well with the potential of cells to differentiation to keratocytes in vitro. This correlation differs from other widely known mesenchymal stem cell markers and thereby provides a novel and useful tool in isolating and enriching populations of stromal stem cells for use in corneal bioengineering and direct-cell based corneal therapy.


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Within the lighting of the small theoretical knowledge, it is feasible to anticipate modifications within the conceptual equipment of sociological concept, caution of the present types of sociology like a technology as well as the introduction of fresh types, trained from the procedure for rise of current knowledge. Based on inside the construction of theoretical understanding, met sociology and the concept are known. Of course, if the item of technology that is sociological is sociable actuality within its manifestation’s entire number, then your item of met sociology is sociology itself, the regulations of improvement and its intellectual options.
Sociological knowledge is as near as you are able to towards the actuality that is interpersonal that it has learning. Within this respect, we are able to state that in sociology understanding that is theoretical is ambiguous as in sciences that are additional: ideas and generalizations of technology that is sociological are variable whilst the sociable actuality itself is adjustable. Theoretical understanding in sociology’s flexibility, associated with reality’s character, is a lot greater than in the balance of regulations, laws set in reality, and also additional cultural sciences, the larger the slower the reality encompassing the individual. Improvement of sociology like a science’s speed is straight proportional towards improvement of interpersonal actuality that will be definitely varied, adjustable, challenging to predict price.
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Scientific studies at acquiring just scientific info aimed, based on the understanding which sociology is ripe, are now actually kept exceptionally seldom. It ought to be taken into consideration that in sociology, as in just about any additional technology, the near link of theoretical understanding using the scientific not just improves the standing of sociology itself, getting it towards the degree of met sociology, but additionally provides it a simple standing this is the way basic sociology is shaped.


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The Glover Park post office at 2336 Wisconsin Ave. is not receiving mail when it should. Last Friday, January 11th, 2019, it did not receive any, according to Ms. Akiko, who staffs it. Neither did it on Monday, January 14th.
The signs above the mail boxes all say that patrons can pick up their mail at 11:00 a.m., though this past Tuesday was the first day in over a week when that was possible. For the past month the delivery has very seldom arrived at the post office before 11:00 a.m. if at all, Akiko has told at least one patron.
In spite of the fact that the Glover Park post office received no mail on Friday or Monday and is never open on Saturday, the on-time Tuesday delivery according to Akiko was very small. The afternoon delivery was normal, she said.
The office of the District Postmaster has been informed of the problem.


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Ample Parking. Valet Available. There is a north and south parking garage available to park at and walk toward the center of Town Square.
Went here for Easter dinner with my family 😀food was excellent👍 waitress was great 😀pricing was good & we had a great time!
Great food and service for a large group. The acoustics of the restaurant makes it VERY noisy, but otherwise, a definite place to put on your list.
We sat out on the patio for Easter Sunday brunch. Received Impeccable service and good food. There were not a lot of choices on the brunch menu however, so that was my only complaint.
Great place to celebrate my birthday.
Waiter was great. Very quick service. Food quality and temperature just right. Thank you.
Great sera d great waiters! Loved every minute!
Bad experience ... we will not go back there ... in the place there are at least 10 better restaurants: Tony Bahamas, California, Texas Brazil. Do not waste your time in this restaurant.
Came here for my mother’s 60th birthday surprise dinner and it was a complete success! No one in my family has been here before, but now that we all have together we surely will be coming back. Service was phenomenal for the 16 of us that came, the food is priced very well, and the atmosphere is dimly lit and inviting. If you have a large party do yourself a favor and book whatever occasion you’re having here!
The food was amazing! I enjoyed the atmosphere. Everything was great. The only thing was service. At first service was great. But once we got our meal, we didn’t see our server again until our meals were done. We were so thirsty for water throughout the meal no one came for refills.
Server was awesome and food was fast.
Oh my gosh! Go to this restaurant. We were a party of 13 and every meal was delicious. The service was outstanding by Trina and she accommodated all our special orders and gave us individual bills as well. She was welcoming and gracious.
A memorable meal and outstanding service.
Delicious Italian food and a diverse menu! I highly recommend BRIO!
I went with my family to celebrate my daughter's birthday. I wrote in the reservation that we were celebrating and reminded the waiter as well but no one came to sing to her. I ordered steak and it was dry and came with potatoes that were equally dry and tough as the steak. They completely lathered pesto on my potatoes and it left a strong garlic taste which I was not fond of. Also, even though I had a reservation, my family and I had to wait 20-30 minutes in the lobby, while people with no reservations walked in ahead of us. Very disappointed.
Great Italian regatta cheesecake. I'll go there all the time for coffer - cake.
The restaurant was very busy (prom night). Our waiter was great, service was good , food was good. Can't wait to go back.
Great service and very good food. The main dish was not as hot as it should have been. We needed to get to a show and we couldn’t wait to send it back for reheating.
Had a nice get together with family and friends. Food was good and the service was even better. Very cool place to have a nice meal!
SO SO good!! We came to Vegas for my 21st birthday and had searched for GOOD Italian food. My friend who lives there recommended you guys and we were not disappointed!! Great food, great service, great atmosphere! ALL of our table of 7's food was so good and our drinks were bomb. They even heard it was my birthday and gave me a 15$ off coupon and a hand written birthday card which was so sweet and unexpected!
Was better in prior years. Cappuccino a huge disappointment. Very weak, mostly milk. Food presentation and restroom cleanliness could be improved.
service was very good. we had a party of 8 and some of the entrees did not come out hot.
food was delicious. Shrimp and eggplant appetizer was great! not crazy about the crackers instead of real Italian bread.
Our Server Matt was very attentive and knows the menu inside and out. He answered the questions we had about the different menu items. The food was great and I love the atmosphere of Brio’s, it’s just a great place to spend time with friends. I love Brio’s!
Excellent food!!! Our server Jessica was amazing, so attentive to our needs during the meal.
Our server pretty much ignored us unless we flagged him down. We had to ask for bread, ask for refills on our drinks; and got the wrong dressing on one of our salads.
Danielle is the bomb bartender. If you put the burger back on happy hour you’d be perfect.
Be aware that the restaurant is on the glide path or the take off path for the jets. Very noisy especially if you sit outside. Food was good but the service was lacking. Took 3 requests to the server before he brought Splenda for the iced tea. After the food was delivered, we did not see him again until he brought the bill. Lobster and shrimp pasta was good but the lobster, what little of it there was, was chewy. We have had much better meals and better service at Brio on prior visits.
The spaghetti bolognese and the steak salad were quite good, the shrimp and lobster fettuccine was rather tasteless.
One pat of butter for five people? Yes, we asked for more and got it, but wow, only after getting some nasty comments from the waitress.
This was not my first visit to Brio, but it will likely be my last. The service was beyond poor, to the point where I did not even want to leave a tip. I did, but very reluctantly. One person in our party never even got a table setting nor a napkin, and yes, w3 asked several times. Our waitress had an attitudinal problem - we obviously were a bother and it was not because the restaurant was busy. It was not. There were many open tables.
Very accommodating when we were seated inside and we changed our mind to be seated outside.
I comet to Vegas I meet my girlfriends here a few times a year. This was the best of all visits. We nearly always order the same things - ravioli, flatbread, salad, and spaghetti. The ravioli with creamy tomato sauce is outstanding. Two people sharing a flatbread and salad is ample for both. Try the white sangria.
What made our visit even better this time was the outstanding service!
We went to Brio for our anniversary.We were very disappointed with the food and the price. I ordered steak medallions which only came with 1/2 dollar size medallions for $27 which is outrageous. my husband ordered lamb chops, which he got three tiny lamp chops for $37 we are very very disappointed with the pricing on the food in the quantity that we received.
Needless to say I don’t think will ever be dining at Brio’s again.
We had a party of ten for a Birthday celebration. The staff was wonderful!! Great food and great service. Our waitress even took the cake that we brought in and sliced it and served it to all of our guests!! We will definitely be returning!!


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Discount supermarket giant Aldi have finally submitted a planning application for a store in Stapleford.
The company want to build a new store on the Pinfold Trading Estate in Nottingham Road.
Last month it was asked to look at two different sites by Broxtowe Borough Council, including the former police station in Toton Lane.
The store would is expected to create 40 jobs and have 121 parking spaces.
The submission of the proposal, comes after the retailer had been consulting with the public on the scheme since September 2014.
Chairman of Stapleford Community Group, Richard MacRae, has contacted Aldi about the possibility or organising a recruitment fair once the store is built to offer ‘local jobs to local people’ as this is something the group are very keen to see happen.
He said: “Aldi have at last submitted planning application details to build a store on the Pinfold Industrial Site . This is good news for Stapleford as following a public consultation carried out by Aldi last year saw the majority of responses to the consultation in favour of the new store on the site.
“This will bring jobs to Stapleford and bring in people from other areas who will no doubt enjoy the many shops on the high street.
If approved, it would be open from 8am-10pm from Mondays to Saturdays and from 10am-4pm on Sundays. It would consist of 1,254 sq metres of floor space.
The supermarket chain, which has enjoyed huge success in the last few years, will open 70 new stores across the country this year.
For information on recruitment visit aldirecruitment.co.uk.


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It’s wedding bell blues and disaster when murder comes to the Paulmona Winery and Villa. Mystery author and part time snoop, Lilly Millenovanovich is the unlucky bride-to-be, but she gladly exchanges her wedding dress for gumshoes and brushes off her bag of spy tricks to solve the crime. After all, family obligation takes priority. Lilly and her zany trio of elderly aunties, must do their part to prove Cousin Mona didn’t kill groomsman Lenny Brioli with a corkscrew wine opener. Trouble is, the evidence keeps pointing in one direction with Mona as murder suspect number one. Detective Grezzo has his sleuthing hands full while handling the case on his own. Jake Kline, Lilly’s fiancé, obviously can’t work the case since Lenny is his best friend. That is, until Lilly convinces him to join her and snoop on the sly. Mona’s life and happiness depends on it. Will it be happily never after for the unlucky couple? Or can Lilly save the date and her wedding dress for another day? It’s a murderous and crazy adventure in this fourth and final episode of the Lilly M Mysteries.
Kathryn Long’s passion is writing mysteries, creating the intricate details and weaving them together into the clues which the reader will enjoy collecting to solve the crime. Many of her works include Native American elements and hints of the paranormal. She loves a scary ghost story!
Her writing inspiration began with reading about Nancy Drew and the heroines of romantic suspense authors such as Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart. Her first creations were short stories meant to entertain anyone who’d listen or read. Playing the guitar led to song lyrics, which she insists taught her the rhythm and pace of writing prose.
Writing took a serious turn several years ago when she had her first book published. To date readers can find her self-published cozy Lilly M Mysteries, and her traditionally published work: paranormal mystery, Dying to Dream, and latest, a romantic suspense, A Deadly Deed Grows at online retailers and in bookstores.
When writing and the creative muse take a break, this author loves to travel, watch Castle, and of course, read mysteries. Oh, and there’s always an author event or two she will attend in order to – you got it – talk about mystery. Kathryn lives in the City of Green located in northeast Ohio with her husband and little pooch, Max.

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text: More than 1,500,000 Purple Hearts have been awarded to American servicemen and - women since World War Two. The medals are among the military's top honors and are usually found proudly displayed on uniforms, resting places or in family homes. They're not the kind of items you'd expect to find in a thrift shop-and when one recently was, it sparked a cross-country effort. Gene Dobos was browsing through a secondhand store in California when he came across a worn, heart-shaped medal mixed in with the knickknacks. It was a Purple Heart bearing the name "Frank N. Smith." Purple Hearts are awarded to American soldiers who are wounded by the enemy and to the next of kin of soldiers killed in action or who die from wounds received in battle. Dobos, who understood the significance of the medal, purchased it from the shop and helped set off a national search for its owner. Dobos contacted the Military Order of the Purple Heart-an organization of combat veterans who work to honor the medal and its recipients. They call themselves the "Keepers of the Medal." Ray Funderburk, the group's public relations chief-who is a Vietnam veteran with two Purple Hearts himself-researched the medal and eventually found that Frank N. Smith was a private in the U.S. Army who died in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago. Smith, who was 20 at the time, was in a convoy that was ambushed on December 17, 1968-just two weeks before he was scheduled to return to his home state of Ohio for good. After learning Smith's story, Funderburk turned to an Ohio genealogist for help in tracking down Smith's resting place and surviving family. "It looks as if the medal has been handled many times," said Funderburk. "I envisioned his mom and dad taking the medal out and holding it in their hands, thinking of their son." Eventually, Smith's grave was found in a cemetery not far from his childhood home in Ohio. His parents had died, but his siblings were found using e-mails they had sent memorializing their brother at an online registry for fallen Vietnam War troops. They did not know the medal had gone missing and were "overwhelmed" that a group of strangers had worked so hard to return it to them. Frank N. Smith was married and had a child shortly before shipping off to Vietnam (he enlisted voluntarily). After his death, his widow and daughter moved west, presumably taking the Purple Heart with them. It is not known how the medal landed in a thrift shop. For Smith's sister Jonna, the return of the medal brought with it a flood of emotions-and she was not alone in her reaction. Funderburk, of the Purple Heart Order, was so inspired by the number of people who came together to return the medal to Smith's family that he penned a poem. His son-in-law helped him set the words to music and a CD was created that is being sold. Proceeds help pay for a scholarship program that joins young people with veterans who are bedridden and living in Veteran Affairs facilities. The song's chorus reads: Purple Hearts are won in battle; grenades explode, machine guns rattle; a soldier dies, a mother cries; that's how Purple Hearts are won. The Order and Smith's family planned a small ceremony to be held in the cemetery. The Purple Heart will be encased in glass and attached to Smith's headstone. Private First Class Frank N. Smith's legacy will be seen in every VA hospital in America as young people move among the veterans and tell the story of a young man who left Seneca County, Ohio to defend freedom-and who finally got his medal.


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One of the most famous quotations of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is that “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency involved.” In fact, the US economy is in a downward spiral of debt deflation despite the bold actions of the federal government and of the US Federal Reserve taken in response to the financial crisis that began in 2008 and the associated recession. Although the vicious circle of debt deflation is not widely recognized, precisely what von Mises described is happening before our eyes.
A variety of positive economic data has been reported in recent months. Retail sales rose 0.4% in April 2010 as consumer spending rose and the US gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a rate of 3%. In May 2010, home sales rose to a five-month high and consumer confidence rose 17% (from 57.7 to 63.3). Industrial production rose 0.8% and durable goods orders rose 2.9%, more than had been forecast. However, the modest gains reported represent the continuing adaptation of economic activity at dramatically lower levels compared to the pre-recession period and most of the reported gains have been substantially manufactured by massive government deficit spending.
Despite the widely reported green shoots, in May, the unemployment rate rose to 9.9% while paychecks in the private sector shrank to historic lows as a percentage of personal income, and personal bankruptcies rose. Roughly 14% of US mortgages are delinquent or in foreclosure, credit card defaults are rising and consumer spending hit 7 month lows. To make matters worse, the reported increase in consumer credit, in fact, points to a further deterioration because consumers appear to be borrowing to service existing debt. Outside of the federal government, which is borrowing at record levels and expanding as a percentage of GDP, and outside of the bailed out financial sector, debt deflation has continued unabated since 2008.
A contraction of the broad money supply is taking place because the influx of money into the US economy, i.e., lending to consumers and non financial businesses, has fallen below the rate at which money is flowing out of general circulation as a function of debt service (interest and principle payments on existing debt), thus a net drain of money from the broad US economy is taking place. As a result, additional borrowing, as consumer spending falls, appears to be servicing existing debt in a pattern that is clearly unsustainable and that signals a further rise in debt defaults in coming months.
The estimate of the broad money supply (the Federal Reserve’s M3 monetary aggregate) is crashing and the Federal Reserve’s M1 Money Multiplier, a measure of how much new money is created through lending activity, fell off of a cliff in 2008, and remains practically flat-lined.
The contraction of the broad money supply points to a potential slowing of economic activity and indicates that consumers and non financial businesses will be less able to service existing debt. Despite easing somewhat in March 2010, credit card losses are expected to remain near 10% over the next year and mortgage delinquencies, are currently at a record highs, and these dismal predictions implicitly assume a stable or growing money supply.
A tsunami of eventual mortgage defaults seems to be building and loan modifications have been a failure thus far. There have been only a small number of permanent loan modifications (295,348) under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) in 2009, out of 3.3 million eligible (60 days delinquent) loans and more than half of modified loans default.
Although it has been reported that American consumers are saving at a rate of 3.4%, the contraction of the broad money supply suggests savings liquidation. Given a contracting money supply, ongoing debt defaults and declining consumer spending, the increase in non-mortgage consumer loans indicates that consumers are borrowing where possible to consolidate debts, cover debt service, or borrowing to continue operating financially as their total debt grows, thus as they approach insolvency.
The increase in non-mortgage consumer loans has not prevented an overall decline in total household debt attributed to ongoing deleveraging by consumers. While deleveraging (paying down debt) has been interpreted as caution on the part of consumers, or as low consumer confidence, the decline in outstanding credit reflects a reduced ability to borrow, i.e., to service additional debt. This suggests that the recovery of the US economy may be illusory and that the economy is likely to contract further in coming months.
Commercial borrowing has declined more sharply than household debt suggesting that the nominal return to growth estimated at 3% has not been matched by debt financed expansion in the private sector.
The broad US money supply is no longer being maintained or expanded by normal lending activity. If federal government deficit spending ($1.5 trillion annually), debt monetization and emergency actions by the Federal Reserve (totaling an estimated $1.5 trillion since 2008) to recapitalize banks are considered separately, there remains a net drain effect on the broad money supply. The scarcity of money hampers economic activity, i.e., money is less available for investment, and directly exacerbates debt defaults as consumers and businesses experience cash shortfalls, while at the same time being less able to borrow. Since unemployment is a key indicator of recession, then if the US economy were contracting, it would be evident in unemployment statistics.
Unemployment and labor force data suggest that the US labor market is in a structural decline, i.e., millions of jobs have been and are being permanently eliminated, perhaps as a long term consequence of offshoring, outsourcing to other countries and the ongoing deindustrialization of the United States. However, the immediate meaning of the term “structural” has to with the fact that jobs created or sustained during the unprecedented expansion of debt leading to the financial crisis that began in 2008, e.g., a substantial portion of service sector jobs created in the past two decades now appear not to be viable outside of a credit expansion.
Officially, the US unemployment rate rose to 9.9% in April 2010, which represents the percentage of workers claiming unemployment benefits. However, the total number of unemployed or underemployed persons, including so-called “discouraged workers” (Bureau of Labor Statistics U-6), rose to 17.1%. Using the same methods that the BLS had used prior to the Clinton administration, U-6 would be approximately 22%, rather than the official 17.1% statistic.
With official U-6 unemployment of 17.1% and a workforce of 154.1 million there are roughly 26,197,000 people officially out of work. Using the pre-Clinton U-6 unemployment calculation of approximately 22%, there would be 33.9 million unemployed. If the average US household consists of 2.6 persons and if 33% of the unemployed are sole wage earners, then 55.5 million US citizens currently have no means of financial support (17.9% of the population).
While it has been reported that the labor force is shrinking, the characterization of workers permanently exiting the workforce by choice may be inaccurate. While a shrinking workforce could reflect demographic changes, the rate of change suggests that tens of millions of Americans are simply unemployed.
Setting aside the question of whether or not those “not in the workforce” are, in fact, permanently unemployed, the workforce, as a percentage of the total US population, is currently at 1970s levels. Since many more households today depend on two incomes to meet their obligations, compared to the 1970s, a marked drop in the percentage of the population in the workforce points to a decline in the labor market more significant than official unemployment statistics suggest. What is more important, however, is that structural unemployment suggests structural government deficits, e.g., unemployment benefits, welfare, food stamps, etc. Since more than 2/3 of US GDP (roughly 70%) consists of consumer spending, a sustainable recovery from recession seems improbable if unemployment is worsening or if the labor force is in a structural decline, since that would imply unsustainable government deficits, whether or not they are masked by nominal GDP gains thanks to economic stimulus measures.
The US federal government is a growing portion of GDP, thus reported GDP growth is largely a byproduct of government deficit spending and stimulus measures, i.e., reported GDP growth is unsustainable. Total government spending at the local, state and federal levels accounts for as much as 45% of GDP, thus nominal gains would be expected when government deficit spending increases. According to some measures, reported gains in GDP are a byproduct of relatively new statistical methods and, using earlier methods of calculation, GDP remains negative.
Government borrowing and spending may have offset declines in the private sector but only to a degree and only temporarily. The resulting growth in US public debt has an eventual mathematical limit: insolvency. Of course, the actual limit to US borrowing remains unknown. The continuing solvency of the US depends on the ability and willingness of governments, banks and investors around the world to lend to the US, which in turn depends on the tolerance of lenders for the US government’s profligacy and money printing by the Federal Reserve, e.g., quantitative easing and exchanging new cash for worthless bank assets. US Treasury bond auctions will fail if lenders conclude that a sufficiently large portion of their investment will be diluted into oblivion by proverbial money printing. In that event, the US dollar will surely plummet, despite deflationary pressures within the domestic US economy, and the cost of foreign goods, e.g., oil, will rise causing high inflation or triggering hyperinflation.
According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the federal budget deficit increased from 3.1% of GDP in 2007 to 9.2% in 2010. Rather than being the result of one-time expenses, such as temporary stimulus measures, much of the deficit represents permanent increases in government spending, e.g., due to the growing number of federal employees. If increased government spending is removed, GDP appears to be declining significantly.
Of course, sustainability has more to do with total debt than with deficit spending because a deficit assumes that there is an underlying capacity to service additional debt.
While asset prices have declined, e.g., real estate and equities, debt levels have remained high due to the federal government’s policy of preserving bank balance sheets, which had ballooned prior to the financial crisis to the point that overall debt in the US economy reached unsustainable levels.
The absolute debt to GDP ratio of the US economy peaked in 2007 when debt levels exceeded the ability of the economy to service debt from income based on production, even at low interest rates. Although US GDP began to decline prior to the advent of the global financial crisis, debt coverage had been in decline approximately since the 1970s, coincidentally, around the time that the US dollar was decoupled from gold.
In a growing economy, additional debt can result in a net gain in GDP because the money supply grows and economic activity is stimulated by transactions that flow through the economy as a result. The debt saturation hypothesis is that, as debt levels rise, additional debt has less impact on GDP until a point is reached where new debt causes GDP to decline, i.e., the capacity of the economy to service debt has been exceeded and, not only is it impossible for the economy to grow at a rate sufficient to service existing debt (since interest compounds), but economic activity actually declines further as a function of additional debt.
The process of debt deflation is straightforward. New lending at levels that would maintain or expand the broad money supply is impossible for two reasons: (1) asset values and incomes have fallen and millions remain unemployed; and (2) debt levels remain excessive compared to GDP, i.e., real economic activity (outside of the government and financial services industry) cannot service additional debt. The inability to lend, actually the result of prior excess lending, results in a net drain of money from the economy. The drain effect, in turn, leads to further defaults as cash strapped consumers and businesses fail to service existing debt, and as debt defaults impact bank balance sheets, putting a damper on new lending and completing the cycle of debt deflation.
Keynesian economic policies, i.e., government deficit spending, are irrelevant vis-à-vis excessive debt levels in the economy and bailing out banks is not a solution since it cannot stop the deterioration of their balance sheets. The process is self-perpetuating and cannot be stopped by any government or monetary policy because it is not a matter of policy, but rather one of mathematics.
Since the presence of excess debt (beyond what can be supported by a stable GDP, or by sustainable GDP growth) impacts the broad money supply, efforts to preserve bank balance sheets, i.e., to keep otherwise bad loans on the books of banks at full value, will ultimately cause bank balance sheets to deteriorate more than they would have otherwise. The fact that US banks issued trillions in bad loans cannot be corrected by changing accounting rules, nor can the consequences be avoided by government deficit spending or by unlimited bailouts, and the problem cannot be papered over by dropping freshly printed money from helicopters flying over Wall Street. The major problems facing the US economy today—a tsunami or debt defaults, structural unemployment, massive government budget deficits, a contraction of the broad money supply outside of the federal government and the financial system, and a lack of sustainable growth—cannot be addressed as long as excess debt levels are maintained. As von Mises clearly understood, sound economic conditions cannot be restored unless and until the excess debt, which resulted from a boom brought about by credit expansion, is purged from the system. The alternative, and the current policy of the United States, is a downward spiral into a bottomless economic abyss.


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I recently bought an iPod Touch to replace my old HP iPAQ that had given up the ghost (phrase) after about six years. I use a pocket sized computer (PDA) mainly to read ebooks and listen to BBC podcasts when I can’t sleep (thinking about an early wakeup to do flyers). I also use it to listen to music on the train and very occasionally watch a movie, mainly on long journeys.
I had never thought much of using a PDA for email or surfing the web, but my research into a replacement “toy” led me to the conclusion that being able to connect to the web away from my home or my school may be useful. Hence my decision to go Apple and buy an iPod Touch (it is rather chic to look at, and seems to offer a lot).
So I did some further research: the availability of free Wi-Fi (wireless internet transmission as opposed to 3G transmission used by mobile phones) in Japan is very limited compared to many other countries. So after some more looking on the web,I found FON. If one is willing to share part of ones broadband internet service by installing one of their very clever wireless routers (one of those boxes with a little antenna that you use at home for your wireless network), you then have free access to to Wi-Fi using every other “FON spot” in the world. Their router, called La Fonera 2 (the company is Spanish), is very clever indeed. When you connect it to your internet service, it provides a secure (password protected) wireless connection for your personal use, and a public connection for the use of FON members. Non members can buy We-Fi time and if one uses your service yau can receive half of what they pay.
I installed a FON router at my school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 and found that it worked really well. In addition you can “personalise” the service to show your name and web address to anyone using your service. You information also appears on the map of “FON spots”. So it is a useful way to promote your business.
And remember, most notebook computers and webbooks (called Mini’s in Japan) can receive Wi-Fi signals.
I was so happy with the service I installed at my school that I have installed one at home.
I am also having great fun with my iPod Touch.
Seems like a really great system, encouraging a bit of community with wi-fi users. Is there a way to advertise that your school offers wi-fi? Will this encourage people to stand in front of your school and connect to the net? If this happens, offer them free tea, and next time they do it, give them Smith’s shirts….
You do get some stickers to publicise that you are a FON spot, so if your school has street access or signage you could put your sticker there. Also on the map of FON spot locations you can name your spot and display your web site address (which I have done).


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The largest ski area in Karuizawa, an upmarket mountain resort in Nagano Prefeture, is operated by the Prince Snow Resort. With its snow machine, the season can start as early as mid-October, thus one of the earliest resort (in Japan) to open for the season.
Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Resort is just an hour away from central Tokyo via bullet train making it the perfect winter destination for weekends or extended holidays. It has 9 lifts and 10 ski trails covering Mt. Yagasaki with the longest run of about 1.2 kilometers and steepest slope of about 30 degrees. The courses are geared mostly towards beginner and intermediate skiers but there are also several terrain with variety of features suitable for expert and freestyle riders.
*Night Skiing is not available on Tues, Wed, & Thurs, except during New Year’s holidays (Dec. 30 – Jan. 1) and Feb 11.
– Children 12 years of age and under ski free of charge.
The resort also offers the latest ski and snowboard gears for rent.
The resort is also a perfect destination for the family with child-friendly setting and activities. There are 2 Kids Park areas in the resort, one is at the bottom of the Mominoki course and the other is by the Kurinoki course. Entrance fee to the snow park is ¥1,300 for the day but is free for lift ticket holders.


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It is amazing to think that it took three bored art-school dropouts — suburban middle-class white boys from Surrey — to rekindle the flames of desire for the introverted music we now as the demon-ridden Delta blues.
That was back in the mid 1960s and their reinterpretations have lived on. Inspiring a whole new and exciting genre. The sound we now know to be Blues Rock.
It is even more extraordinary to think that it takes a relatively young native of New York — born the same year that Elvis died and the Pistols created Anarchy — to reminds us of the astonishing legacy we inherited from that Surrey Delta trio.
Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page provided us with a rock heritage that reverberates still. In fact, Blues Rock is not only living & breathing, but the sound also crosses boundaries and genres and has influenced the worlds of heavy metal, folk, grunge-rock and even prog.
JOE BONAMASSA’S father exposed the young guitar prodigy to those British Blues Invasion sounds from a very early age; In particular, the young guitar-man recalls being shown a video of Cream’s Farewell Concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. He says that this show made quite an impression on him and survives as a major inspiration.
“If it wasn’t for certain British musicians of the early 1960s, the Blues may well never have exploded into Rock music as we know it today, and indeed may have passed into history.” Said Bonamassa.
The inventive and evocative English interpretation of the blues has constantly inspired the Grammy nominated guitarist, singer and composer.
So much so that he decided to take a new show on the road: A SALUTE TO THE BRITISH BLUES EXPLOSION. Played at some superb locations in Britain it is designed to demonstrate that there is still a lot to love and to learn from the British blues movement of the 1960s.
We saw Joe Bonamassa’s show at the LONDON GREENWICH MUSIC TIME FESTIVAL on 7th JULY 2016.
The open-air concert in front of almost 5,000 began with quick castanet rhythms and military quickstep beats laid down by Anton Fig [known as David Letterman’s drummer] before the seductive charm of the inter-twisting guitar-notes became prominent fibres on the “Bolero”.
Jeff Beck’s Latin-laced influences radiated out across the tidy gardens of the Old Royal Naval College as Joe used his bottleneck almost immediately. The Mediterranean temperament was soon drowned out by the characteristically heavy chops of “Rice Pudding” and the first of several exciting riff-variants which were to be enjoyed during the evening.
“Mainline Florida” had dulcet harmonies and some super-slippery organ notes. This is actually a ‘newer’ song from Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard songbook. At Greenwich we could hear the evocatively captured sea-spray and the golden richesse evoked by this George Terry number.
Bonamassa took center stage at Greenwich, with four of “the greatest musicians in the world…” As well as Fig on drums we were also blessed with some exemplary bass-play from Nashville’s Michael Rhodes, astonishing musicality from multi-instrumentalist [keys and guitars] Russ Irwin [introduced as Joe’s next-door neighbour]. Plus superior organ and grand piano from the notable rock ‘n’ roll hall of fame inductee and Double-Trouble keyboards player Reese Wynans.
Wynans played a trill and tingling woogie on “Boogie With Stu” – the Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin number that probably originated long before the original recording was laid-down in 1971. This song was a curious choice for the set, exhibiting proud percussion and clever keys, but was not an obvious guitar number.
“This has been a tough show for us to learn and play ...” Bonamassa admitted.
And it’s easy to see why. For example, who but Joe would dare to cover the 1967 Cream number “SWLABR” based on Pete Brown’s psychedelic & eccentric poetry.
But the show wasn’t full of art and fartery … There was also some authentic twelve-bar blues numbers to make our mouth’s water. Such as Willie Dixon’s “I Can’t Quit You Baby” magnificently relaunched by Led Zeppelin and illuminated by Page, in 1969.
So the Yardbird heroes were properly saluted: “If it wasn’t for those three guitar heroes, Beck, Clapton and Page, I would probably have become as vacuum cleaner salesman...” Bonamassa told the chuckling crowd.
But Beck, Page and Clapton were his guys … we have to acknowledge that. His superior interpretations of their works wasn’t just about commending and honouring their contribution either … No, it was also about making the sounds pass on to new cohorts — to the Millennials and beyond — because the blue devils still breathe. The poetry and the pain still motivates.


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Right now, a British company named Oxitec is planning to release genetically modified mosquitoes into the fragile enviroment of the Florida Keys and Texas. The company wants to use the Florida Keys and Texas as a testing ground for these mutant bugs. Even though the local community in the Florida Keys has spoken -- we even passed an ordinance demanding more testing -- First , Oxitec is trying to use a loophole by applying to the FDA for an "animal bug" patent. Now, the hot potato has passed to the EPA and Oxitec is at it again. This profit driven biotech company wants to release more than 50 million GMO mosquitoes per week into Florida and Texas. These GMO mosquitoes could pose major risks to fragile ecosystems like the Florida Keys and Texas and may pose risks to public health and safety.
Once again, Oxitec wants to treat people like human experiments. Even though the EPA doesn’t have enough information about the environmental, health and even indirect economic impacts of these insects, it might give Oxitec the green light.
Over the past several years, we all raised our voices to help stop what would’ve been the first release of millions of GMO mosquitoes in the U.S. Now, we need to stop this non-consensual experiment again!
“We do not consent to being a human experiment and we do not want GMO mosquitoes"
Over 30 local physicians, have created a petition to ask for more evaluation of the risk of this GMO mosquito antibiotic dependency mosquitoes and the possible development of antibiotic resistance risks as result of this experiment. This GMO Mosquitoes are created with E-Coli bacteria, herpes-simplex virus and other ingredients. This is very premature technology with very little information, a lot of questions need to be answer.
The Center for Disease Control notes that Oxitec’s trials are not set up to test for disease reduction. If the experiments goes forward, there would still be enough non-GMO mosquitoes in the environment, including in peoples’ homes and backyards, to spread disease.
Even the head of Cayman Islands, which recently rejected GMO mosquitoes, has said that GMO mosquitoes will not be a solution for Zika and Dengue Fever. This is a medical intervention without consent. We need real solutions, not GMO mosquitoes.
Oxitec applied to the FDA as an animal drug it took years to decide and now a huge overwhelm opposition to pass the “hot potato” to the EPA. Now, Oxitec applied the mosquitoes as a pesticide with very little information on the release to the public and to the scientist for doing a proper evaluation.
British Biotech Oxitec has not been very transparent and demonstrate desprecua? In the data, including reduction of percentage of mosquitoes, survival rates, life span and more females per percentage.
This is very concerning because in this new experiment we are talking over 50 Million of mosquitoes per week, 7 days a week which will equal to billions of GM mosquitoes between Florida and Harris County, Texas.
The data of the government of Cayman where this GMO mosquitoes has been released twice, is very different thank what Oxitec has been claiming.
A lot of questions need to be answered including the solid evidence of the environmental effect inn ature, public health and safety.
We need to stop the experiment and say NO to releasing GMO mosquitoes!
Please help my family and my community, residents of Harris County (Texas) and everyone of us to protect our environment, our health, and to focus on real solutions.
This could mean these mutant mosquitoes could be released at any point against the wishes of locals and the scientific community. We need to make sure the EPA does not approve Oxitec's patent. Nearly all experiments with genetically-modified crops have eventually resulted in unintended consequences: superweeds more resistant to herbicides, mutated and resistant insects also collateral damage to ecosystems. A recent news story reported that the monarch butterfly population is down by half in areas where Roundup Ready GM crops are doused with ultra-high levels of herbicides that wipe out the monarch's favorite milkweed plant. What about our native species of Florida Keys Bats. Are there any studies being conducted to see if these mosquitoes will harm the native bat population? Why would we not expect GM (genetically modified) insects, especially those that bite humans, to have similar unintended negative consequences? Will the more virulent Asian tiger mosquito that also carries dengue fill the void left by reductions in A. aegypti? Will the dengue virus mutate (think antibiotic resistant MRSA) and become even more dangerous? There are more questions than answers and we need more testing to be done. Will the public be able to stop this program from happening if we don't want it? We were told that "public opinion would be taken into account." Dengue fever has been absent from the Florida Keys for years, which indicates the current methods of control and public education are working. What's the rush for this radical approach? Where is the third-party, peer-reviewed research on effectiveness and safety of GM mosquitoes other than Oxitec's own claims of success? There is other alternatives more natural, no risk, faster and cheaper. Don't let Oxitec bully our community! We say no to genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys and Texas.
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It's the first of our Fashion 101 series and let's talk about the Antwerp Six.
It was 1986 and Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp travelled across Europe all the way to the British Designer Show in London in a van.
The six presented their collection on the top floor of a building and found that no buyers were going to them because all the bigger designers were showing on the first floor.
The next day, they then started to distribute flyers to promote themselves, and it was the third day they had all the buyers and press in the showroom and made their collection to Barney's and Liberty.
That was the beginning of the Antwerp Six.
Now, even 30 years later, people still couldn't stop reminiscing about the legendary six who brought Belgian-root fashion to global fame and how they trailblazed the way for their junior designers like Raf Simons, Haider Ackerman, Kris Van Assche and Demna Gvasalia.
The six were given the title 'Antwerp Six' at the British Designer Show in 1986 because the press had had a hard time pronouncing their name.
Martin Margiela is the unofficial member of the group, and people call them as the Antwerp Six + 1; Margiela didn't follow the group to London at the time but he is still the key member of the graduating class with the rest.
Walter Van Beirendonck was invited to teach at his alma mater four years after graduating. The guru has personally taught Raf Simons and Kris Van Assche during their time at the academy.
Dries Van Noten's eponymous brand had been completely independent for 30 years (until last June 2018, where he sold major stakes to Puig, a Spanish luxury group) with over than 100 women's and men's collections.
Ann Demeulemeester wears only what she designs, except a pair of Levi's 501s that she wears for her gardening session.
The other half of the six chose to continue their talent and passion outside the spotlight due to their resistance to the fashion (business) system.
Dirk Bikkembergs is running his label with women's, men's and kids collection, Dirk Van Saene just held an exhibition of his ceramic works last year in Vienna, while Marina Yee expands her talent to theatre costume design.


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Sallie Green serves as our office manager, but more importantly, is often the first point of communication with our clients. Her administrative responsibilities include report preparation, document management, and billing. Her positive attitude and willingness to wear many hats are keys to keeping the firm efficient.
Sallie is originally from California but lived in the Washington DC area before moving to Louisville. She and her husband have been married for 34 years and have two children in college. They enjoy traveling to new and exciting places when not working. Sallie loves to bake and often shares treats with the office and our clients.


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A nursing mother and her child were among those who lost their lives during a torrential down pour which lasted for hours on Saturday in Kontogora local government area of Niger state, the State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) confirmed on Wednesday.
The woman who is believed to be of Fulani extraction died with her son strapped to her back, Director General of NSEMA, Malam Ahmed Ibrahim Inga disclosed.
“We could not ascertain her identity and where she came from as nobody seems to have known her,” Malam Inga said.
He said among the dead was also a four year-old girl, Ummi Khaira who lost her live when a mud building where she ran for shelter along with other children collapsed on them in Rigasa area.
Also confirmed to have died was a young man who has just had written his UMTE examination two days earlier for admission into a University.
He was said to be playing football with other youngsters and was running for shelter when the rain intensified and he died in the flood.
The remains of a father of eight, 47 year-old Umar Gaya of Ungwar Gwari was also said to have been recovered on Tuesday.
Malam Inga said the flood washed away the Kontagora-Makera highway at a point in Rafin Gora, leading to the temporary suspension of vehicular movement on the road especially trucks by the state government.
“Niger State Government is working frantically to provide a diversion to enable motorists to ply the road.
“However all heavy trucks are banned from passing through that route to avoid further deterioration of the road. They are therefore advised to re route their movements from Mokwa to Makera to Tegina to Kontagora,” Alhaji Danjuma Sallau, Commissioner of Information and strategy said in a statement.


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Rainer Westermann specializes in Reputation Management, Crisis Communication and Litigation PR. He advised and represented many national as well as international clients through legal disputes, reputation risks as well as acute crisis situations. In 2012, he founded Westermann Advisors GmbH, a consultancy for management and communication.
Rainer has many years of experience as a consultant, entrepreneur and corporate officer. He founded and managed Fleishman-Hillard Germany. Later he moved to Canada with his family, where he built a successful corporate communications and investor relations practice for Fleishman-Hillard Canada. After that, he became a Member of the Management Board of LHS Group, a software company based in Atlanta, USA, (NASDAQ: LHSG, Neuer Markt: LHI). Returning from the USA after LHS was sold, he took on the role of CEO Germany for Burson-Marsteller. In 2004, he was named head of global communications for Infineon Technologies, a German DAX 30 corporation.
Rainer serves on the Executive Education Board of the Executive Education Center at the TUM School of Management and continues to teach as a lecturer at the TU Munich.

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High purity (99.9%) heat resistant graphite crucibles with flat bottom. good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metal casting. Volume: 75ml.
Graphite, often called black lead, can tolerate thermal shock and withstands constant working temperature up to 1500°C or 3600°C (vacuum condition). They are the best electrical conductive material known to man, 4 times of steel, 5 times of copper and 100 times of non-metallic materials. They also have higher thermal conductivity than steel, iron and lead, plus resistant to acid, alkali and organic solvent.
High purity (99.9%) heat resistant graphite crucibles with flat bottom. good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metals casting. Volume: 150ml.
High purity (99.9%) heat resistant graphite crucible with flat bottom. Maximum casting capacity: 22 Lb, good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metals casting. Compatible with 15kW low-frequency induction heaters for melting manufactured by Across International.
High purity (99%) heat resistant graphite crucible with flat bottom. Maximum casting capacity: 44 Lb, good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metals casting. Compatible with 25kW low-frequency induction heaters for melting manufactured by Across International.
High purity (99%) heat resistant graphite crucible with flat bottom. Maximum casting capacity: 88 Lb, good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metals casting. Compatible with 35kW low-frequency induction heaters for melting manufactured by Across International.
High purity (99.9%) heat resistant graphite crucibles with flat bottom. Good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metals casting. Comes with a silicon dioxide (SiO2) jacket to prevent melting material leaking in case the graphite crucible breaks. Volume: 75ml, compatible induction coil: 60mm ID vertical coils.
High purity (99.9%) heat resistant graphite crucibles with flat bottom. Good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metals casting. Comes with a silicon dioxide (SiO2) jacket to prevent melting material leaking in case the graphite crucible breaks. Volume: 150ml. Compatible induction coils: 75mm ID coils.
High purity (99.9%) heat resistant graphite crucibles with flat bottom. good for use with induction heating, recommended for precious metals casting. Comes with a silicon dioxide (SiO2) jacket to prevent melting material leaking in case the graphite crucible breaks.
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) crucible with half-cover lid, withstand temperature up to 3632°F or 2000°C. They are good for precious metal casting, including gold, silver and platium. Volume: 120ml.
Important: slow heat the crucible at low temperature to prevent cracking.

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Chris Hart IV, who last was with Florida TaxWatch, will be the next CEO of the statewide Florida Court Clerks & Comptrollers association, according to a Friday press release. He starts Dec. 4.
Hart “will provide strong leadership to our association,” said Marcia M. Johnson, Franklin County Clerk and Comptroller and 2017-18 Board President, in a statement.
“He brings extensive knowledge of the legislative process, which will be critical as we work together with lawmakers to establish sustainable funding for our offices,” she said.
Hart served in the Florida House of Representatives for Hillsborough County’s District 57 in 1998-2002. He later was president and CEO of CareerSource Florida, the state’s employment services operation, from 2007-17.
He left that position to become CEO of Enterprise Florida (EFI), but stepped down after less than three months on the job.
He then joined TaxWatch as the organization’s executive vice president.
Florida Court Clerks & Comptrollers represents the interests of Florida’s 67 elected Clerks of the Circuit Court and one independently elected County Comptroller.
“Our association can achieve great things with a sharpened focus on our vision and mission,” Hart said in a statement.
He also has been interim director of the now-defunct Governor’s Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development under both Scott and Gov. Charlie Crist.
Hart was appointed by Crist in 2010 to chair the Governor’s Gulf Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force, responsible for coordinating state efforts in response to the Deepwater Horizon spill.
He received an MBA from the University of South Florida and an undergraduate degree in political science from Florida State University. Hart and his wife Amy reside in Tallahassee and have two adult children.

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Ingredients: Organic Corn, Organic Wheat Middlings, Organic Whole Grain Barley, Organic Roasted Soybeans, Organic Cane Molasses, Organic Soybean Meal, Calcium Carbonate, Organic Soybean Oil, DiCalcium Phosphate, Salt, Magnesium Oxide, Organic Yeast (YeaSacc1026), Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Vitamin E Supplement, Selenium Yeast, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Hydroxychloride, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Basic Copper Chloride, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Carbonate, Biotin, Calcium Iodate..
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Always feed with high quality forages.

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