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Hi there, we are Creative971, the number 1 Shopify E-Commerce Agency in the UAE and GCC. Our custom solutions on Shopify speak for themselves, helping our clients to bring their visions to life. We apply high standards and professionalism in order to be one step ahead.
Speak in your own language to us, apart from English, we communicate in native spoken German & Arabic.
Marhaba! Hello there! Guten Tag!
Learn more about us and visit our website.
We are not only the Experts in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and UAE we support and share our knowledge within the GCC countries and beyond. If you need your store in English/Arabic and from right to left we can help you out.
We had a really positive impression since the beginning: really helpful staff. They guided us thru the whole process of constructing a new website, giving us their support and advice. Our working experience with Creative971 is undoubtedly more than satisfactory.
We worked with Creative 971 on developing our first e-commerce website sidenote.ae. They were extremely helpful, provided excellent customer service and delivered in a timely manner. The website was well aligned with our vision for the brand thanks to the team at Creative 971.
This is the second ecommerce project we did with Creative971 and again they show the professionalism and experience that we expected. the most factor that we choose Creative971 as our Shopify partner is their knowledge of the platform and how they fulfill all our business needs in professional and high level standard of quality. Thank you Creative 971 to help OUD MILANO success in the digital market.
We had an excellent experience with Creative971 in building our Shopify websites, they built two brilliant websites for us (jaheeez.com & atnafas.com), looking at their professional experience from all aspects: Creative971 was always on time in delivering the service with high-quality standards.
In addition to the above, Creative971 always has valid suggestions and recommendations to enhance the performance of the website as well as the business itself. Not to forget the flexible support and follow up with their awesome account managers, which Creative provide to achieve the best results timely.
Herewith, we highly recommend Creative971 to build Shopify platforms in any business.
We are grateful to be working with Creative971 on American Rag Cie. This project is unique and required an extensive understanding in terms of Design & Development. It is great to see how successfully all was achieved and once again Creative971 prooved their knowledge about Shopify. We can only continue to confidently say, that our work with Creative971 and relationship is growing and we’d like to say thank you for their hard work and commitment towards our guidelines.
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It was a lovely experience working with Creative971. The team is very efficient, knowledgeable, patient, professional and their work is very thorough. Building a website requires lots of effort and in-depth knowledge. With many changes occurring down the line, Creative971 was very adaptive and responsive to our changes and made our journey a very smooth one. Highly recommended.
Creative971 were extremely helpful and supportive throughout the whole process of creating our online shop. They were always rechable for questions, guided us very promptly and gave us excellent advice. The handover training was also very good. They explained everything in detail and answered all the questions we had, being extremely time efficient as well. Working with Creative971 has been a pleasure and we are more than pleased with the results.
Creative971 truly helped us set up the shopify store and they went beyond that.
Great team of shopify experts! handled my project with professionalism, gave me different ideas on how to make it more effective, plus gave me around the clock support.
Thank you for the time spent on my website and until we meet again hopefully on newer projects!.
an avid for perfection, everything had to be just right. And indeed, creative 971 team have delivered the site with flying colors and to my exact requirements and far exceeded my expectation.
Nico and Julia are the most amazing people I have ever dealt with. Their in-depth knowledge of E-commerce business and how the consumers react during online shopping is vast, they know exactly what the consumer wants and they guide you not of how you feel it should work, but rather how your customers would react, as a result they deliver a product that is professional, beautiful looking, inspire confidence and most importantly, a very easy online user experience that would eventually increase your online sales.
Thank you Creative 971 Team, Thank you Julia and Nico, you made my dream come true.
Creative971 is one of, if not, the most professional company we have dealt with in the UAE. They were thorough in their analysis of our needs and went the extra mile to propose many different solutions to any problems we had. They were punctual to every meeting, had great attention to detail and were just generally, top people! They also have a very balanced team with the right amount of vision, creativity and technical know how. We couldn’t recommend them enough. Thanks Creative971!
With the creation of the helmii brand I knew I wanted to work with the shopify system so to find a team that could build a website and have complete understanding of shopify was very important. The helmii website created by the team is way in excess of what I could have wished for and throughout the Creative971 team have been a joy to work with. Their understanding and knowledge of shopify and the final implementation is second to none. They are professional, efficient, knowledgable and to a complete novice more importantly patient and guide you all the way through the entire process. I would highly recommend Creative971 to anyone looking to build and implement a website.
I had a custom online store that I wanted to transfer to Shopify. I was unable to recreate the product structure/bundles I had in my custom shop. Creative971 came up with a solution to give my Shopify exactly the same functionality like my old custom store. Everything is still very simple to use like any Shopify store. They also updated the shop's design, which I think turned out very nicely. The support was great, they were very responsive and paid attention to all the details. Also very easy to work with, Nico picked up all the information he needed immediately and worked very independently. I had absolutely no stress, it felt like they took care of everything on their own. My shop was handed over within the agreed time and with a large manual with step by step instructions and pictures. I love the end result and feel sure I can rely on Creative971 for future support. Thank you!
Nico, Julia and the whole team at Creative971 have been a tremendous business partners for us.
After launching a call for tender and shortlisting multiple regional agencies for an internal project Createive971 won the project opportunity due to their agile approach, strong technical understand of the complex requirements (even with limited details) and general value add.
Most importantly they were also able to deliver the project as per agreed timeline and budget. The final output of the project was one that was technically functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Working with Creative971 was efficient and professional.
Their knowledge about Shopify is extensive and had brought us a slick and storytelling web experience for Georg Jensen Middle East.
We will continue to work with Creative971 and we'd like to say thank you for their hard work and commitment towards our guidelines and international guidelines of the brand.
Creative971 team was unbelievably creative, efficient and helpful, not only to build our e-commerce website but also to support our entire business.
We absolutely loved our experience working and collaborating with Nico and Julia. I could not recommend them enough!
I have been working with agencies across the GCC for over 14 years, yet I have never met a team so dedicated to their work and clients needs as Creative971, for many reasons.
And most important of all, they will go above and beyond to meet their clients needs and achieve targets and given deadlines.
If anyone had the opportunity to launch an E-commerce business, do not hesitate for a moment, I would choose Creative971 any day.
Nico was helpful and very quick to respond to any queries I had. The site was updated very quickly whenever new content was provided and I felt like they really wanted to help me make a success of my new business.
Nico was great help with some updates and fixes to our shopify website. Fast to respond and very professional. Highly recommended.
Both Nico and Julia were very helpful and fully responsive all the time. Really impressed with the approach of work done by them. They provided us with some very useful ideas on how to manage our online business. Also, the Shopify Dashboard is user-friendly for new users. We highly recommend them and will do so to others.
I was dreading redoing our website, however working with Creative971 made it a painless experience throughout the entire process. As well as being quick and cost effective, they were on hand at all times to help me with any issues that I had in fulfilling my side of the set-up. As a result we had a fully functional e-commerce site set up in record time. I've been really impressed with them and would have no hesitation in recommending their services to businesses of any size and I look forward to working with them more in the future.
Both Nico and Julia were very helpful and were pivotal in launching my new brand, will definitely be recommending them to my other business associates.
Very Professional, Understand process flow & fully responsive all the time. They were able to understand our vision & delivered exactly what we were looking for. We spoke with couple of shopify company they said we cannot do with Shopify but Nico & Julia achieved what we were looking for. Also, Nico identified few issues from himself & fixed it. Really impressed with the approach of work done by them. We'll be using them in the future for sure!
I would recommend them to anyone who is looking to set up an online business here in the GCC.
I have nothing but praises for Creative971 and the thorough work they have done to get the our site steered to our unique vision. The whole site from start to finish was effortless, professional and the whole team overcame any challenges that arose during the process. I would recommend their company to anyone who wishes to initiate any project and I look forward to completing more work with them in the future.
It was great working with Nico and his partner! Very knowledgeable and explained things in great detail! They both have an approachable manner and are very supportive in working with small business, by helping them understand how to maximize plug-ins and utilize everything their theme/store has to offer!
Would highly recommend the team at Creative971!
Working with the Creative 971 team has been exceptional from start to finish. They have been totally professional and fully responsive at all times. They were able to hold my vision and worked continuously to meet it with clear communication of information at all times . As well as the high level of professional conduct they have a very personable and human approach which has been a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend them and will do so to others.
Had a super useful session with Creative971. Not only they helped us to fix things that we asked for but also had some very refreshing and professional suggestions. We'll be using them in the future for sure!
I met with Nico and Julia today and they are both very approachable people and were very helpful. They provided me with some very useful ideas on how to manage my online business. I was also very grateful for the list of recommended Aps they sent. I hope to work with them in the future.
I would recommend them and Shopify to anyone looking to set up an online business here in the UAE.
Nico and Julia provide a service above and beyond expectations. They are very reliable, hard working, knowledgeable and innovative. Its a real pleasure working with them and our company will continue to cooperations.
Professional, diligent, supportive and outstanding service! It's been a great experience working with Creative971. Definitely the best choice. Thanks Nico and Julia!
Absolutely great!! Consistently deliver on time every time! Love working with these guys!!
Great team, great work! Couldn't ask for more! I am grateful to have chosen Creative971! Efficiency in all way.
It was a pleasure working with Nico and Julia, going beyond my expectations not only building my website, they were answering every question, supporting and advising me how to enter the E-Commerce business in UAE. Now i know why Germany is having Mercedes!


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Atmos is a company that manufactures vaporizers, various attachments and mods as well as e-liquids.
Atmos products are manufactured using in-house engineering methods, combined with attention to detail. The result is products that are of very high quality, and a customer base with numerous positive testimonials. The high attention paid to quality control also ensures that not a single Atmos product will end up being defective or not offer the utmost customer satisfaction. Atmos uses the latest manufacturing technology to produce highly portable vape pens and batteries without sacrificing quality. The warranty and comprehensive service offered by the company is testimony to their confidence in the quality of their engineering.
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The official Android 5.1.1 Lollipop finally rolled-out for the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with the model number SM-N910T. This latest Android OS firmware update is now available via OTA bearing build number N910T3UVU1DOFC that contains key security enhancements like a fix for the Stagefright vulnerability.
So if you have T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 and wish to install Android 5.1.1 Lollipop via OTA then navigate to “Settings” and tap on “About phone” and then check the firmware availability by tapping the “Software Update”. But those users who have not yet received an OTA notification and don’t want to wait for the official release to arrive on their Galaxy Note 4 devices then we have a step-by-step guide on how to install Android 5.1.1 Lollipop build N910T3UVU1DOFC on T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4.
This guide containing the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop firmware and instructions can be used only with the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910T. Do not try to install this firmware on any other device or incorrect variant. Check the model number of your phone before proceeding the installation guide.
AndroidBlog.gs will not be held responsible for any kind of damage occurred to your Galaxy Note 4 N910T during or after the installation process of Android 5.1.1 Lollipop N910T3UVU1DOFC. Proceed at your own risk.
Take a proper backup of all your personal data on the device.
Download and install USB Drivers for Galaxy Note 4 in your PC.
Enable USB debugging option, go to Menu > Settings > Developer Options and check the USB Debugging option.
The battery level of your Galaxy Note 4 should be at least about 70% to avoid unexpected shutdowns while installation.
2:- Now extract the firmware .zip file to get a tar.md5 file.
3:- Turn OFF the Galaxy Galaxy Note 4 in order to boot into Download Mode.
4:- Next, turn ON the phone by pressing and holding Home + Power + Volume Down buttons at the same time.
5:- Run Odin3 v3.10.6 on the PC (as Administrator).
6:- While the Galaxy Note 4 is in Download Mode, connect it with PC and wait for a while till Odin detects it. If the drivers are installed correctly then the ID: COM box will turn light blue in Odin after phone is connected successfully and you will get a message in Odin saying Added!!
10:- Once the flashing process is finished, the Galaxy Note 4 will be automatically rebooted.
Done! You’ve installed the N910T3UVU1DOFC Android 5.1.1 Lollipop stock build on the Galaxy Note 4 successfully.

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Are you on the fence about ramping up your blogging efforts? Don’t be. We were not on the fence. But kind of like the shoemaker who wears shoes with holes, we were so busy helping clients we were not going to the next level with our own blog. That all changed last month when HubSpot trainer, Chris Johnson, challenged us to double our efforts. The results exceeded our expectations. Here is the 1-2-3-4 of what we did and how the effort moved some important stats for us in a big way –as much as triple digits in one category!
In 2013, we have regularly blogged roughly once a week. In May, we made the commitment to double that frequency for the month of June, to see if it really made the difference that HubSpot so passionately preaches.
We mapped out a blogging calendar that increased the variety of topics we discussed. We put together a mix of stats-driven blogs with thought pieces and analysis. We shared our insider wisdom about important aspects of engaging with prospects. We introduced new voices to provide a variety of styles to connect with prospects.
A variety of styles and voices can bring a blog to life especially if your company provides a wide variety of services. However, consistency is important too. Our agency owner Anne Marsden oversaw the campaign to make sure our blogs wove a pleasing tapestry delivering meaningful help to clients and prospects.
We made sure each blog had a clear call-to-action for readers that offered a downloadable asset and/or a contact form for readers who wanted more information to quickly engage with us.
Each blog was shared across all networks and appropriate groups. Our posting frequency doubled compared to June because we produced more original content to share across our networks, particularly using Twitter. As a result, our visits from social media increased an incredible 333 percent!
Now comes the fun part. Social media visits were not the only way we gained ground. We increased engagement by a substantial percentage in three other areas.
Conversion rate from landing pages to submissions went up a whopping 51.8 percent!
We received phone calls and comments on particular topics from existing clients and prospects.
We signed two new clients this month.
Several of the blog posts sparked internal conversations that led to an expanded list of topics.
Success energizes. When you see the needle move it is a giant boost to your team.
Are we going to continue? You bet.
Like these stats? Then you'll love the real results from 4,000 businesses that regularly produced content. Download our eBook, "More Content Equals More Leads" and get ready to be inspired.


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: For in-stock items, your order will be shipped the same or next business day if the order is placed before 12pm PST (Mon. - Fri. excluding holidays) and if the payment is cleared. How soon you receive the product from our warehouse (Southern California) depends on the level of service you select from the shipping choices.
For 'Ground Shipping' Transit Times: Click here.
For out-of-stock items, we will call or email you the status of your order and when we will have the items in stock.
: Please call 1-562-690-3888 or e-mail sales@rima.com to cancel an order or make any changes in your order. Once your item has shipped, the return policy will apply.
: Sales tax is only charged on orders that are delivered to California addresses.
: We do not accept international orders at this time.
: Domestically we use UPS/FedEx/USPS. For APO/FPO destinations we use the United States Postal Service.
: For in-stock items, your order will be shipped the same business day if the order is placed before 1PM PST (Mon. - Fri. excluding holidays) and if the payment is cleared.
For out-of-stock items, we will call or email you the status of your order and when we will have the items in-stock.
Can I ship to a different address than the address listed on my credit card?
: If your shipping address is different from your billing address, you must list the shipping address as an alternate address on your credit card account. You can contact your credit card company to initiate this common procedure by calling the toll-free number on the back of your credit card.
If you have already placed an order and have added your alternate shipping address to your credit card, please email sales@rima.com to expedite the processing of your order.
Why can't I get tracking information from UPS/USPS on my order?
: On rare occasions UPS/USPS does not have tracking information or displays this message: "UPS/USPS has received shipper's billing information electronically. Billing information received does not indicate shipment pickup or drop-off. Please contact the shipper for more details." There are a couple of reasons why UPS/USPS does not have the tracking information on their website. Sometimes UPS/USPS scans the tracking number onto their website after we have given our customers their tracking number. Other times UPS/USPS does not update their system fast enough with the current information.
: "Three days" means three business days. Please note that the UPS/FedEx Service Guarantee applies only to business days, and excludes weekends, holidays, and other events that may occur.
What are the restrictions on the FREE shipping promotion?
For a limited time, get free ground shipping on select items. Items that qualify for free ground shipping are indicated on the products' page.
Free Ground Shipping applies to the 48 contiguous United States only.
If you choose a different shipping method, shipping charges will apply.
If your order contains one or more ineligible items, you'll be charged shipping fees for those ineligible items.
This offer is good on products that are in-stock during the 'free shipping' promotional period.
Rima.com reserves the right to end or change this offer at any time.
UPS 'Ground Shipping' Transit Time Map.
: Rima.com accepts VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER and PAYPAL. We do NOT accept credit cards issued from non U.S. banks. Payment on all orders are to be pre-paid prior to shipping. Also, if you are paying with a debit card, please verify with your bank if there are limitations pertaining to daily withdrawals on your card. Rima.com reserves the right to request additional identification. If this is needed, we will contact you by e-mail or phone.
: Only orders that are shipped to addresses in California are subject to a state sales tax.
How do I make payments with a money order or cashier's check?
: Enter the items you want into the shopping basket then go to the check out page and enter in your address. Continue on through two more pages where you will get the total including shipping cost. Then print this page, and mail it along with a cashier check or money order made out for the total amount on the printed page. Make the cashier check or money order payable to Rima.com and mail it to 511 S. Harbor Blvd Unit C, La Habra, CA 90631.
: During the check out process, simply choose 'PayPal check out' as your payment option. By following the prompts you will be automatically linked to the PayPal site.
What is the procedure if I received the wrong product?
Who pays for the shipping on a return item?
: The customer returns the product to us 'freight pre-paid'. Rima will pay for shipping back to the customer in the case of an exchange for the same or similar item, and quantity.
: Once we have received your Authorized Return, it will take 2-3 business days for us to process your return. At that point we will either issue you a refund or re-ship a new product.
How do I return a defective Primera product?
: Primera Technologies - handles the replacement of defective products directly. They can be reached by email at support@primera.com or by telephone at 763-475-6669.
What is the Rima.com Return Policy?
: Any products to be authorized by us for return must be processed within 30 days from the date of the invoice.
Non-defective returns for credit are subject to shipping charges and a 15% restocking fee.
Shipping and credit card processing charges are not refundable.
Returns must be sent to us freight pre-paid.
Exchanges can only be made for the same item.
Before returning any product, please fill out RA form to receive a Return Authorization (RA) number. We will not accept any returns without an RA number. The RA number is only valid for 15 days after it has been issued and must be clearly displayed on the shipping label.
Products must be returned 100% complete, unused, and in the original packaging. Products must be accompanied by any manuals, accessories, or spare parts that originally shipped with the product.
Products being returned should be packaged with the utmost care and with sufficient padding to secure its safe return.
Some items might have to be returned to the manufacturer for warranty issues. We will inform you in that case.
Products designated as "all sales final", "no return" or similar language may not be returned.
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: This past June, JVC/Taiyo Yuden made the announcement that they will be stopping production of all optical media products at the end of 2015 and making a complete withdrawal from the market. JVC/TY’s withdrawal left a huge void in the professional media market and CMC quickly seized the opportunity to purchase the technology and fill that void. CMC has committed to produce all current JVC skus and maintain the unmatched quality and consistency the professional market demands. With the help of Taiyo Yuden engineers, CMC has built specialized, dedicated production lines using the exact same processes, raw materials and strict quality control measures to ensure the TY quality is maintained. JVC/Taiyo Yuden blank media has been the exclusive choice of professionals since optical media first came to market. In today’s high volume CD Recordable environments, professional users need the assurance that their choice of media will provide high performance, compatibility, and long term data integrity. CMC’s committment to upholding TY’s unmatched quality allows professionals to once again have access to blank media with the lowest failure rate, highest playback compatibility and superior printable surfaces. CMC Pro offers a wide variety of printable surfaces and has an option for virtually every type of duplication and printing equipment on the market.


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Anti-HCV is detected by enzyme immunoassay (EIA). The third-generation test (EIA-3) used today is more sensitive and specific than previous ones. However, as with all enzyme immunoassays, false-positive results are occasionally a problem with the EIA-3. Additional or confirmatory testing is often helpful.
The best approach to confirm the diagnosis of hepatitis C is to test for HCV RNA using a sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. The presence of HCV RNA in serum indicates an active infection. Testing for HCV RNA is also helpful in patients in whom EIA tests for anti-HCV are unreliable. For instance, immunocompromised patients may test negative for anti-HCV despite having HCV infection because they may not produce enough antibodies for detection with EIA. Likewise, patients with acute hepatitis may test negative for anti-HCV when the physician first tests. Antibody is present in almost all patients by 1 month after onset of acute illness; thus, patients with acute hepatitis who initially test negative may need followup testing. In these situations, HCV RNA is usually present and confirms the diagnosis.
Immunoblot assays are used to confirm anti-HCV reactivity, too. These tests are also called "Western blots"; serum is incubated on nitrocellulose strips on which four recombinant viral proteins are blotted. Color changes indicate that antibodies are adhering to the proteins. An immunoblot is considered positive if two or more proteins react and is considered indeterminate if only one positive band is detected. In some clinical situations, confirmatory testing by immunoblotting is helpful, such as for the person with anti-HCV detected by EIA who tests negative for HCV RNA. The EIA anti-HCV reactivity could represent a false-positive reaction, recovery from hepatitis C, or continued virus infection with levels of virus too low to be detected (the last occurs only rarely when sensitive PCR assays are used). If the immunoblot test for anti-HCV is positive, the patient has most likely recovered from hepatitis C and has persistent antibody without virus. If the immunoblot test is negative, the EIA result was probably a false positive.
Immunoblot tests are routine in blood banks when an anti-HCV-positive sample is found by EIA. Immunoblot assays are highly specific and valuable in verifying anti-HCV reactivity. Indeterminate tests require further followup testing, including attempts to confirm the specificity by repeat testing for HCV RNA.
PCR amplification can detect low levels of HCV RNA in serum. Testing for HCV RNA is a reliable way of demonstrating that hepatitis C infection is present and is the most specific test for infection.
Testing for HCV RNA by PCR is particularly useful when aminotransferases are normal or only slightly elevated, when anti-HCV is not present, orwhen several causes of liver disease are possible. This method also helps diagnose hepatitis C in people who are immunosuppressed, have recently had an organ transplant, or have chronic renal failure. At present, however, there are no PCR assays approved by the Food and Drug Administration for general use, although commercial test systems are available. Many commercial laboratories offer their own PCR assays, which are not subject to strict independent quality controls. Thus, the reliability and specificity of the PCR technique are not standardized. In addition, it is expensive and prone to technical or laboratory error. When ordering HCV RNA testing by PCR, the physician should use a high-quality laboratory willing to document standardization of the test.
In chronic hepatitis C, increases in the alanine and aspartate aminotransferases range from 0 to 20 times (but usually less than 5 times) the upper limit of normal.
Alanine aminotransferase levels are usually higher than aspartate aminotransferase levels, but that finding may be reversed in patients who have cirrhosis.
Alkaline phosphatase and gamma glutamyl transpeptidase are usually normal. If elevated, they may indicate cirrhosis.
Rheumatoid factor and low platelet and white blood cell counts are frequent in patients with cirrhosis, providing clues to the presence of advanced disease.
The enzymes lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase are usually normal.
Albumin levels and prothrombin time are normal until late-stage disease.
Iron and ferritin levels may be slightly elevated.
Several methods are available for measuring the titer or level of virus in serum, which is an indirect assessment of viral load. These methods include a quantitative PCR and a branched DNA (bDNA) test. Unfortunately, these assays are not standardized, and different methods from different laboratories can provide different results on the same specimen. In addition, serum levels of HCV RNA can vary spontaneously by 3- to 10-fold over time. Nevertheless, when performed carefully, quantitative assays provide important insights into the nature of hepatitis C. Viral load does not correlate with the severity of the hepatitis or with a poor prognosis (as it seems to in HIV infection); but viral load does correlate with the likelihood of a response to antiviral therapy. Rates of response to a course of alpha interferon and ribavirin are higher in patients with low levels of HCV RNA. There are several definitions of a "low level" of HCV RNA, but the usual definition is below 2 million copies per milliliter (mL).
In addition, monitoring viral load during the early phases of treatment may provide early information on the likelihood of a response. Yet because of the shortcomings of the current assays for HCV RNA level, these tests are not reliable guides to therapy. More sensitive and reliable methods of quantitating HCV RNA in serum are needed. Until that time, these tests should not be routinely used in practice.
There are 6 known genotypes and more than 50 subtypes of hepatitis C. The genotype of infection is helpful in defining the epidemiology of hepatitis C. Knowing the genotype or serotype (genotype-specific antibodies) of HCV is helpful in making recommendations and counseling regarding therapy.
Patients with genotypes 2 and 3 are almost three times more likely to respond to therapy with alpha interferon or the combination of alpha interferon and ribavirin. Furthermore, when using combination therapy, the recommended duration of treatment depends on the genotype. For patients with genotypes 2 and 3, a 24-week course of combination treatment is adequate, whereas for patients with genotype 1, a 48-week course is recommended. For these reasons, testing for HCV genotype is often clinically helpful. Once the genotype is identified, it need not be tested again; genotypes do not change during the course of infection.
Some patients with chronic hepatitis C have normal serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, even when tested on multiple occasions. In this and other situations in which the diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C may be questioned, the diagnosis should be confirmed by testing for HCV RNA. The presence of HCV RNA indicates that the patient has ongoing viral infection despite normal ALT levels.
Liver biopsy is not necessary for diagnosis but is helpful for grading the severity of disease and staging the degree of fibrosis and permanent architectural damage. Hematoxylin and eosin stains and Masson's trichrome stain are used to grade the amount of necrosis and inflammation and to stage the degree of fibrosis. Specific immunohistochemical stains for HCV have not been developed for routine use. Liver biopsy is also helpful in ruling out other causes of liver disease, such as alcoholic liver injury or iron overload.
Necrosis and inflammation around the portal areas, so-called "piecemeal necrosis" or "interface hepatitis."
Necrosis of hepatocytes and focal inflammation in the liver parenchyma.
Inflammatory cells in the portal areas ("portal inflammation").
Fibrosis, with early stages being confined to the portal tracts, intermediate stages being expansion of the portal tracts and bridging between portal areas or to the central area, and late stages being frank cirrhosis characterized by architectural disruption of the liver with fibrosis and regeneration.
Grading and staging of hepatitis by assigning scores for severity are helpful in managing patients with chronic hepatitis. The degree of inflammation and necrosis can be assessed as none, minimal, mild, moderate, or severe. The degree of fibrosis can be similarly assessed. Scoring systems are particularly helpful in clinical studies on chronic hepatitis.
Immunostaining using polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies to detect HCV antigens in the liver has been reported to be useful. However, these tests are not commercially available, and, even in the hands of research investigators, immunostaining detects HCV antigens in liver tissue in only 60 to 70 percent of patients with chronic hepatitis C--largely in those with high levels of HCV in serum. This test also requires special handling of liver tissue and thus is not appropriate fo routine clinical use.

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Hungarian Grand Prix tickets can be roughly divided into 3 main categories of Gold, Silver and Bronze which reflect the various price bands. Other grandstands are the Super Gold main grandstand, the Red Bull stand and general admission. Its also possible to buy combination tickets that allow you to experience a different grandstand on each of the three days.
With the exception of Bronze grandstands which are available only as a 3 day ticket, all other grandstands and general admission can be bought for the whole race weekend or for just Sunday.
Great news for families is that children are entitled to free entry for all areas (see below for details).
Where to Buy Hungarian Grand Prix Tickets?
Single day tickets for Sunday are available for all but the Bronze grandstands.
Yes. At the Hungaroring all grandstand tickets have the option to attend Friday through Sunday.
Yes. There are 3-corner packages that afford fans a reserved seat in multiple grandstands over the weekend.
Is there a free to roam day at the Hungarian Grand Prix?
No. Currently there are not plans to have a roving day at the event. The best way to experience multiple vantage points are to purchase a 3-corner combination package.
There are no packages tailored for families but children are entitled to free entry.
All children under 14 on the day of attendance are entitled to free access to all grandstands and general admission areas. They must be with a full adult ticket holder and its advised that you bring photo ID as proof of age. It will be necessary to order the free children’s tickets when you make your purchase.
Will there be a free pitwalk at the Hungaroring?
There is a free pitwalk at the Hungarian Grand Prix, scheduled to take place on Thursday afternoon. Any 3 day ticket holders are entitled to attend. This will be confirmed nearer the time.
What does the Super Gold ticket include?
For every 4 tickets purchased (not including children’s) you are entitled to free parking at the circuit. You can also make use of a priority driving lane on your way to and from the circuit.

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distinct boolean No false Whether to add the DISTINCT keyword to your SELECT clause. CFWheels will, when necessary, add this automatically (when using pagination and a hasMany association is used in the include argument, to name one example).
maxRows numeric No -1 Maximum number of records to retrieve. Passed on to the maxRows cfquery attribute. The default, -1, means that all records will be retrieved.
page numeric No 0 If you want to paginate records, you can do so by specifying a page number here. For example, getting records 11-20 would be page number 2 when perPage is kept at the default setting (10 records per page). The default, 0, means that records won't be paginated and that the perPage and count arguments will be ignored.
perPage numeric No 10 When using pagination, you can specify how many records you want to fetch per page here. This argument is only used when the page argument has been passed in.
count numeric No 0 When using pagination and you know in advance how many records you want to paginate through, you can pass in that value here. Doing so will prevent CFWheels from running a COUNT query to get this value. This argument is only used when the page argument has been passed in.
handle string No query Handle to use for the query. This is used when you're paginating multiple queries and need to reference them individually in the paginationLinks() function. It's also used to set the name of the query in the debug output (which otherwise defaults to userFindAllQuery for example).
returnAs string No query Set to objects to return an array of objects, set to structs to return an array of structs, or set to query to return a query result set.
returnIncluded boolean No true When returnAs is set to objects, you can set this argument to false to prevent returning objects fetched from associations specified in the include argument. This is useful when you only need to include associations for use in the WHERE clause only and want to avoid the performance hit that comes with object creation.


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The 131 hand-crafted scarecrows planted at the Atlanta Botanical Garden this Halloween season include fairy godmothers, mermaids and a purple people eater.
One scarecrow, though, has a distinct public health message.
"Edgar Allan Crow'' is the work of the TB Elimination Team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he is "a-ravin" against tuberculosis.
The disease remains a massive killer worldwide, accounting for more than a million deaths annually. And though the U.S. rate is declining, nearly 10,000 cases were reported in the country last year.
The Botanical Garden has hosted the scarecrows exhibition for 11 years, and Edgar Allan Crow took first prize in this year's "non-professional category."
Edgar Allan Poe and his family were greatly affected by tuberculosis. When the future literary giant was a young child, his mother died from TB. Years later, his wife, Virginia, died of the disease.
The Poe scarecrow was created by staff at the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. They met together during non-working hours to build the scarecrow and write the poem that borrows from Poe's "The Raven" to proclaim its anti-TB message.
Last year's CDC entry invoked the image of "Gone with the Wind" character Scarlett O'Hara. She was portrayed in the classic 1939 movie by actress Vivien Leigh, who died of TB in 1967.
• Georgia Health News (georgiahealthnews.com) is an independent news organization devoted to covering health care in the state.


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Gene Shepherd tackles this all-important step in learning how to hook rugs: picking the right hook. Follow along with him as he helps you select the right tools for getting started. Pencil hook or ball hook? Straight shaft or bent shaft? Gene gives you the information you need to make your decision.
Thanks for explaining, great advice. All I have seen in UK are same size hooks so I need to research more.
Great explanation of relationship of hook shank size to size of cut. I have experimented with different hook shapes, but not size. As for the bent shank, great advice. I used to work as an ergonomist and our guideline was to take the angle of the wrist when using a tool and put the angle in the tool instead. Great advice. I bought a Menno hook a while back for its bent shaft, but the tip is rough and splits the backing when I pull it through. I'll try smoothing it with steel wool as you suggested. Thanks.
So glad I watched this before beginning a project. Loved Mr Shepards no nonsense approach to picking a hook.

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Items where Author is "McMahon, Margery A."
McMahon, Margery A. (2000) Changing relations: Russia's relations with Ukraine and Belarus. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
This list was generated on Sun Apr 21 01:55:30 2019 BST.

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Teodoro Olazaran Larrinaga was born in Durango, Spain, on April 28, 1902, one of two sons and three daughters of Juan Olazaran and Maria de Larrinaga. He was received into the novitiate on September 16, 1917 and professed simple vows on September 18, 1918 for the Province of Castille. He made solemn profession on October 14, 1923, and was ordained to the priesthood on August 21, 1926, in Leon, Spain.
Father Teodoro served as musical director and organist in various communities in Spain. In September 1931 he departed for missionary work in Puerto Rico, and in December 1931, was assigned as an assistant at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, South Philadelphia. In May 1933, he was designated an assistant at the mission church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church, Philadelphia, and in January 1935, was transferred to Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Dobbs Ferry, New York. Among his labors in each of the parishes where he ministered, was his service as an accomplished musician and choir director.
On February 11, 1955, he was assigned to Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Parish, Philadelphia. Three days later he died suddenly from a fall from the roof of the friary, which doctors at Saint Agnes Hospital judged was the result of a heart attack.
Father Teodoro was buried on February 17, 1955, in the community cemetery at Villanova according to the wishes of the then Commissary Provincial, Father Henry Greenlee, O.S.A.
Newer Post Joseph F. Laverty, O.S.A.
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You know from reading my blog on household energy consumption that heating and air conditioning make up almost 50% of your energy usage. And once you know that, it is fairly obvious that outside air temperature would be the biggest influence on how long you have your air conditioner or heat on. But wouldn't it be nice to see the actual data that backs this up?
Luckily, you can do that! Well, as long as you have some method for knowing how much energy you use each day and what the average temperature outside is each day.
The method I have used for my comparison is the TED 5000 and the Footprints software that comes with it. The software enables you to pull history data showing how much energy (and much more information) that you used each day (it even goes down to hours and minutes). For my comparison I chose to pull the energy consumption for the entire month of August.
Once you can get your energy data, you need to find the outside temperature data for where you live. Lucky for you, I have made this easy to find with the blog I wrote on finding your city's temperature history data yesterday. The temperature data is courtesy of Weather Underground. I found this site when I was researching degree days and found the site degreedays.net who use weather underground for their data. That blog on degree days will be coming in the near future.
Once you have your energy data and temperature data, you are ready to combine them in an a spreadsheet (I used Excel) and make some graphs to really compare how outside air temperature impacts your energy consumption.
And without further adieu, here is my graph of temperature and energy consumption for each day in August 2009 (the Excel file used to generate the graph is found at the end of this post).
The actual data is a little scattered for many reasons. The peaks are probably due to days we did laundry (the dryer consumes a huge amount of electricity) and the lows are probably due to days we weren't in the house much (like weekends and late work nights). This is why it is necessary to add in the trendlines to get an overview of the relationship in temperature and energy consumption.
The hardest part about making the graph from the Excel data was remembering how to display the data using two y axes. To do this you have to right click on one of the data series, then select "format data series". In the window that pops up select the "Axis" tab, then select the radio button for "Secondary axis".
Keep in mind that this is only one month displayed, so I will do this in another few months (once Autumn kicks in) so I will have a larger sample size to show the relationship a little bit clearer and over several months.
Overall you can see that as the average daily temperature decreased over the month of August, the energy consumption declined as well; which is exactly what we all would predict to happen. Sometimes it's just nice to be constantly reminded of this fact so we all can continue to take efforts adjusting our thermostats, insulating our houses, and being vigilant to reduce energy consumption so we can improve our environment and save money!
mapawatt_blog_temperature_energy_data_091309 : Excel file used to generate above graph.

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5 Easy Indoor Garden Kits: Green Thumb or Not!
Whether you want to grow indoor plants for food or for aesthetics (or both), there are many benefits to adding plants to your home space. Enter: the indoor garden kit.
While the research isn’t in complete agreement on just how beneficial indoor plants can be for purifying air (a 1989 NASA study showed massive positive results, while later studies weren’t as overwhelming and are probably more in line with everyday effects), most studies agree that there is some benefit in reducing the impact of poor indoor air quality.
That’s not to mention the positive effects that plants can have on improving our mood and sense of wellbeing. For example, a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology showed that adding plants to the workplace can improve concentration and productivity. If plants can make work better, they most certainly can improve our home life. And when you decide to grow food-producing plants, you can add even more health benefits to the list of positive impacts plants deliver.
But what to do if you aren’t imbued with a green thumb? The abundance of easy indoor garden kits completely nullifies your ineptitude when it comes to plants. Think of these kits in terms of how easy and successful meal delivery kits are for those who don’t cook!
The Click & Grow Wall Farm is an indoor vertical garden on which you can grow herbs, salad greens, herbal tea plants, and even flowers. It doesn’t get much more local than in your kitchen. Sign up for a monthly subscription and choose between the salad, herb, flower, or tea kit. This system is also aesthetically pleasing!
Another type of year-round indoor gardening system is this hydroponic recirculating system. One pod will hold one large plant or four smaller plants -- and it’s even possible to grow a tomato plant indoors with this hydroponic system. Its simple design is also unobtrusive enough to have in your living space.
If you are ready to dive in completely with indoor gardening of food plants, this urban homesteading kit might be the thing for you. Bring the whole garden inside with a mini-aquaponics ecosystem, cherry tomatoes, gourmet mushrooms, and fresh herbs.
On the other hand, if you are looking for something a little less intensive, consider going with a countertop solution. Grow up to six plants hydroponically with ease, including herbs, vegetables, salad greens, and flowers.
Taco Tuesday is about to get better with this indoor garden kit just for taco lovers. Grow all the greens needed for a tasty and healthier taco, including cilantro, scallions, three types of radish, arugula, and mustard greens. This kit also claims to be “black thumb” proof. Where do I sign up?

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The Droid X 2.2.1 (system 2.3.340) update is ready for all users to pull! All you have to do is hit Settings>About Phone>System Updates and your phone will grab it, download it and install it for you. Get ready to enjoy a bunch of Exchange enchancements and…Madden 2011 on Android!
Oh, and this is NOT Gingerbread. The 2.3.340 you keep seeing is just the Blur version.
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Not a lot of people truly know about LSD. They’ve heard of it, or they simply know that it has potentially serious negative effects on the person taking it. This latest stage show looks to use dark comedy to truly demonstrate the impact of LSD, both in a positive light while the user is on a “trip”, and on occasion the genuine downsides that can lead to health problems and even death.
The cast consists of four performers, each of whom plays a variety of roles, and all of whom shine in their own way. Annie Fitzmaurice is writing up a story about LSD but ends up indulging and explaining her history of using all sorts of drugs in a light-hearted manner. Sophie Mercell serves as a doctor, albeit one who dabbles herself with LSD at times. George Potts has the greatest contrast between roles, at times believing that he is a famous figure (such as Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States) and at other moments being a highly-serious CIA agent, on occasion being a daft and likeable fool, and during one scene, playing it totally serious as he brushes with death due to overusage of LSD. Finally, we have Jack Hunter, who emits the biggest laughs for suddenly switching accents, hamming up his personas to the max, and generally demonstrating his talents, both when acting completely whacky and when speaking with genuine emotion to the audience.
The show itself doesn’t necessarily have a true narrative thread. At times, it feels like a history of LSD, but the timeline changes throughout (midway through, we get a brief – and authentic – impersonation of The Beatles, but right before the end we’re transported into the opening scene of the very first episode of Doctor Who, broadcast in 1963), and although we revisit characters and situations, it feels like there is no true beginning, middle or end. But I must stress that the performers themselves emphasise this: the show often breaks the fourth wall in an attempt to provide humour that you wouldn’t see in any other show, which can be hit and miss.
The show plays up the positive vibes that one feels when they are truly tripping with LSD, hence why moments play out that otherwise would make no sense. In the mind of the user, it makes perfect sense, whether it be the environment around them changing into a mini-slide, strange music, psychedelic lights, or believing that they have encountered some wonderfully odd people from the other side of the world. Props are used and referred to with varying degrees of success (Annie repeatedly reminding us that she had to buy Lurpak instead of butter being one example), and there are other unique tools used to garner laughs. One of the funniest moments came when Annie and George essentially played out the same scene three times in a row, with each re-do getting more and more laughs.
We learn, via Jack’s personal monologue to the audience, that the story seems to have been written back in February 2017, with the writer – played here by Jack, but really referring to the actual scriptwriter Leo Butler – coming up with the story either under the influence or as a response to the usage of LSD. It serves to be an education about how LSD came to be and its genuine effects, positive or negative, as well as a dark-humour parody of what life is like when reliant on the drug, but also an eye-opener to those who automatically assume doom and gloom when they think about LSD, such as emphasising its medical roots and noting on a chart at the end that it has been responsible for far fewer deaths than other drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
Presented by Told By An Idiot and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, All You Need Is LSD is certainly a unique show. It’s hard to pin down a true purpose in terms of a message, because I wouldn’t say that this is promoting LSD usage by any means. I would say that it lampoons the trips that LSD users encounter, bringing to life imaginative situations that normally exist only in the minds of users and ramping them up for maximum comedy impact, while also trying to be genuinely insightful and, where appropriate, honest about the impact it can have. It did have one of my bug bears with theatre shows, that being the frequent usage of big words and medical terms to try and garner chuckles. It took a while to get going, and I felt that it wasn’t quite as laugh-out-loud as one may believe when watching this show amongst other attendees (some of whom may have even dabbled with LSD themselves, who knows?).
But it’s definitely something original, something different, and though the situations may sound baffling when described on paper, in practice they make sense as a collection of bizarre, unconnected scenes that come to life in the mind purely through using LSD. It was emphasised that the show only gives teasers about certain scenes; nobody ever says “I am doing this because I’m using LSD”, nor does somebody say “This is where we are and this is what I’m doing”. Context is kept to a minimum wherever possible, letting the audience decide for themselves what is happening and what the messages are, thus ensuring that everybody has their own way of viewing this show and their own thoughts about the production when they leave the auditorium.
Overall, All You Need Is LSD is an education, a parody and an extended PSA using dark humour. It is at times amusing, fascinating, informative, serious, weird, illogical and incoherent, but all of these are intentional, and they all come together to form the identity of the show. It’s a show that is worth checking out if you’re interested in the subject matter; I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it for being a non-stop laughter ride, but I can definitely say that if you do go to see All You Need Is LSD, it’s an experience that you won’t soon forget. Also, the performances by each actor are all excellent, so it’s a chance to see four very different characters, with varying backgrounds and levels of experience, give it their all in an environment that they have never inhabited before. It may or may not change your views on LSD, but the topic serves as the basis for a truly unique and memorable show.

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text: When bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake went into the studio to record as a duo in 2000, they weren't quite yet established as a rhythm section for the ages (although they had worked together in Peter Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog quartet). Piercing the Veil was among the first of a remarkable run of releases that continues to this day, making every Parker/Drake project an event. A couple of days prior to the Piercing the Veil session, they set up in "AUM HQ (AUM Fidelity label president Steven Joerg's Brooklyn apartment) in front of an audience of around 80 for a quasi-rehearsal/dry run. Called First Communion, the complete 88-minute concert has been paired with the seminal studio CD in a sort of 'Deluxe Edition'. Parker and Drake kick off with percussion: frame drum, tabla, slit drum and dumbek. In Part II, Parker switches to Japanese wooden flute and builds momentum until he's scream-singing into its blowhole. Part III delivers 50+ minutes of uncommonly captivating and varied bass-drum interplay. When the applause finally comes up, you know you've had a rare experience. First Communion is a spontaneously creative and intimate epic. Parker and Drake may call the contrabass and trap drums their primary instruments, but 2001's Piercing the Veil offered the full range of the duo's musical vocabulary, including a showcase for Parker's affection for exotic double-reeds. It was also subtitled Volume 1 and six years later, we have the much- anticipated Volume 2: Summer Snow. This time out, the duo seems more under Drake's influence, as Parker puts aside the buzzing bombard (save for 30 seconds) in favor of tinkling doson'ngoni and whirring water bowls. Volume 1 was tighter, shorter and more emphatic; Volume 2 is more peaceful, patient and meditative, drawing heavily on Drake's hypnotic percussion work with Adam Rudolph in Hu Vibrational and his annual winter solstice performances in Chicago with Michael Zerang. The pace picks up for the drum 'n' bass workouts of "Anaya Dancing and "Konte , but they're almost out of place. Overall, Summer Snow is an example of two masters reaching toward serenity by making music.


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Fire and smoke damage can ruin everything from personal items to the structure of your home or business. Fire damage restoration involves removing and replacing damaged materials and reconstructing your space to return it to pre-fire condition. Pillar Construction organizes all these services at your location in Columbus, MN, without exceeding the budget of your fire damage insurance claim.
Severe home damage may require re-construction of the walls, roof, or entire structure of your home or commercial building in Columbus, MN. From flooring services to roofing construction, our restoration experts will coordinate and manage your project, rebuilding your space to its pre-damage condition.
If you’ve sustained hail or wind damage to shingles and siding or need tree removal and storm damage cleanup, Pillar Construction is your restoration contractor. We replace and repair siding, roofs, windows, and doors for homeowners and businesses in Columbus, MN affected by storm, fire, and water damage.

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Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan….the Three Stripes of Boston. This is what I learned as a little kid in Boston Public Schools and its the reason I wear only Adidas to this day.
Throw up those Threes Dot Rats!


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The Great Lakes is a fantastic place to observe the annual whale migration. The humpback whales migrate north past the Great Lakes from mid May to the end of July and then return home again past us from mid September to late November, many with calves in tow.
The Great Lakes offers some amazing viewing opportunities. Simply grab a pair of binoculars & look for the 'blow' at one of the many easily accessible viewing points. Or give yourself a real treat and get an even closer look by hopping on board one of our special Whale/Dolphin Watching Cruise Boats.
The Great Lakes is also home to more dolphins than anywhere else on the East Coast.

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Carry garden twine easily, without any danger of its rolling away and unraveling.
Buy a clean paint can, slightly larger than your roll of string, at a home-supply store.
Make a hole in the center of the lid with a 1/4-inch drill bit.
Place the twine inside, and thread the end through the hole; close the lid.


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Gravity MS CLMP 34 Handheld Wireless Microphone Clip. Price per piece.
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Today didn’t go to plan. I went to work thinking I would be caring for patients but instead I was the one lying down getting my obs taken after seeing stars and nearly hitting the deck halfway during a procedure. They hadn’t even got to the gory part yet! Turns out I had a fever and was coming down with something – no fun.
I have to be practically dead to loose my appetite completely so I wanted something that was going to be good for my body for dinner and that required minimal energy cook. Grocery shopping was out of the question so I adapted Stephen’s Healthy Lentil Bowl by (NeverHome)Maker to what I had in the cupboards. The result was a simple and satisfying one-dish dinner in half an hour. The list of spices is long but the taste was more subtle than overbearing, perfect for an unhappy tummy.
1. Simmer lentils in water until softened (~8minutes). They will still be in quite a bit of liquid.
2. Sauté onions in canola oil until translucent.
3. Add spices to onions and sauté a further minute.
4. Add lentils and chickpeas and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring frequently so the mixture does not stick to the pan.
5. Add spinach and milk. Cook, stirring often, until spinach is wilted and heated through. The lentils will partially dissolve, making the mixture thick and creamy.
6. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with bread to dunk.
Don’t be put off by the long list of spices for this recipe. Although there are lots are ingredients, it is still a quick and easy dinner to throw together on a weeknight. I use the half hour the recipe takes to simmer to tidy the kitchen, make my lunch or prepare some dessert. I used canned lentils because that is what I had in my cupboard but you could most definitely use dried lentils and it wouldn’t take much, if any, longer to prepare. You would just need to increase the amount of stock so the lentils have enough moisture to absorb.
I just had this plain but plain yogurt and some coriander leaves on top would have just made it. The flavour is quite ‘tomato-ey’ and has a just a little heat. It’s definitely not authentic Indian by any stretch of the imagination but still yummy.

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We offer a very popular injured worker forum, which includes a section specifically for injured Louisiana workers. Share your experiences with other injured workers, and get their suggestions for improving your medical, personal and spiritual wellbeing.
Hundreds of injured workers have shared with us their experiences with the worker's compensation system. Visit the collection of injured worker stories, including those by injured Louisiana workers. Learn from workers who have been through this before you.
We offer an extensive collection of workers compensation links to valuable online resources. Visit our links organized by state, by topic, and links to resources for Louisiana injured workers.


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Thanks for all the lovely comments about my tidy sewing room, it feels really good to hear that I've inspired and motivated some of you to tidy up your crafty space as well.
So today, I'm continuing with the tidy theme, this time my 'shop space'. When the lease ended for the shop front last year, it was a little bit of a challenge to absorb all of the shop fittings into our home. Some of the shelving went into Emma's room and the sewing room, other bits into the shed, but my favourite piece, a vintage Danish style wall unit fit perfectly into an empty space in the dining room.
This is where I keep all the bits and pieces that are stocked online, just like a mini shop. It's also where I pack up all of your orders whilst Emma napping or watching Play School. The photo above I took last week after the photographer left, the ones below were taken a few months back for Little Red Bus, that's why the lighting seems a little different.


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United States Credit Cards directory is a free web directory of Finance web sites of United States.
Credit Cards category provides web listings of useful websites of United States. If you have US Finance website that is relevant to this category of our Credit Cards directory of United States, you are welcome to submit it. In order to add your website to Credit Cards category, click on "Add URL" and fill out the site description form.

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Joey Meek Jr., who harbored suspected shooter Dylann Roof in the weeks before nine people were killed at a church, has been arrested by the FBI.
Dylann Roof is awaiting trial in the killing of nine people in a church back in June. Now the FBI is targeting Roof's friends.
According to a local paper, federal authorities arrested 21-year-old Joey Meek Jr. Thursday. The FBI previously told Meek he was suspected of concealing information and making false statements relating to the investigation of the shooting.
Meek, who lives with his family in a trailer, offered Roof a place to stay in the weeks before the shooting. He told authorities Roof didn't give him any indication he was planning a massacre — except for one drunken night.
Meek told NBC, "He said that he wanted segregation between the whites and the blacks. He said he wanted to do something crazy, he just didn't say he wanted to go out and kill a bunch of innocent black people in a church."
Roof is currently facing federal hate crime charges and nine counts of murder. Authorities have not brought any charges against Meek yet.

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The Interagency Learning Initiative on Community-based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems and the Community Child Protection Exchange presented a webinar with Mike Wessells, Kathleen Kostelny and Ken Ondoro to discuss recent research and what we are learning about community-based child protection mechanisms in three rural and urban areas in Kenya. The presenters also discussed how these mechanisms link to more formal child protection systems.
Human trafficking: "Few victims go to court because we don't protect them enough"


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Narasinghpur College, Cuttack, Orissa is located in a scenic location away from the hub dub of the city life. It provides the perfect ambience and a positive learning environment. There was a need of the region and inhabitants of the state of an educational institute providing with higher education. This led to the inception of this college. The institute is known for its good results and academic achievements. The dedicated staff is definitely an asset of the college. The institute also aims to inculcate in the students leadership qualities along with academic advancement which will go a long way in their success and growth rate.
Airport: The college is at a distance of 102 km from the Bhubaneshwar airport. It is reachable by hired taxi or cab.
Railway Station: The college is 101 km from the Cuttack Railway station. It is accessible by cab or auto.
Bus stand: The college is at a distance of 6.5 km from the Sagar Bus stand, Odisha. It is reachable by hired taxi or auto.
Scholarships: The institute provides scholarships to the deserving students on the basis of merit and percentage. It also provides the same for the backward class of students. This provides the students with requisite aid and encourages them to fulfill their dreams.
Faculty: The college faculty has good experience. They have been selected in accordance with the norms and rules. The teaching fraternity always encourages the students as well.
Alumni: The alumni association functions like an advisory board. They also organize meet and conferences which then aid the welfare of the college.


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I've seen this game in motion on the Wii and I thought it looked really good. These screens don't show that and kinda makes the game look boring, with flat graphics. We'll have to wait and see what develops with it in the future.
I bet it will be classic ps2 port with motion.
Im very sceptic but let it be released first to judge.
Yes I understand that it's a port (again) but like I said before I saw in motion in a gameplay video and thought it looked very good. I guess I could be wrong since I haven't played it for myself and the screens don't look too good either.
Being a little optimistic never hurt anyone.
Another ps2 game for the wii can t wait.
It's a port, but it's a port nobody played, so this might be a good chance for the game to shine on the Wii. Besides, how many of us played The Godfather: Blackhand Edition and never complained with the way it used the controls?

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NT Long and HA Huy and TQ Tuan and OK Le and VV Hoang and NH Giang, JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, 487, 87-95 (2018).
Crystallization under isothermal condition of supercooled liquid and amorphous silicene (a-silicene) models has been studied via molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with Stillinger-Weber (SW) interaction potential. Supercooled liquid and a-silicene models containing 10(4) atoms are obtained via the rapid solidification process from the melt. At each given temperature below and above T-g, models are annealed from 5 ns up to 8 ns in order to investigate aging effect on two-dimensional structural arrangement of disordered Si-atoms. Time dependence of thermodynamic and structural quantities is analyzed including potential energy, radial distribution function (RDF), coordination number, buckling degree, ring and bond-angle distribution. We find that 2D- crystallization of supercooled liquid and a-silicene exhibits a first- order behavior. Time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagram exhibits a commonly nose-shape by analyzing a wide temperature range from supercooled liquid to amorphous state. High critical cooling rates of a-silicene are found indicating low glass-formation ability of the system. Thermodynamic properties of crystallization of silicenes attained after-aging are studied in details and we clarify a novel scenario of crystallization. A homogenous tendency of natural quenched- in nucleation atoms aggregate into larger dusters in 2D Si supercooled liquid sheet. Consequently, a polycrystalline layer of silicene is developed with decent low-numbered chain defects as grain boundary. In contrast, crystallization of a-silicene shows a partial crystallization behavior. Crystal clusters are found to exhibit a heterogeneous growth in models obtained below T-g. Crystal formed from a-silicene is a quasi- equilibrium state with a large number of defects still existed in models after a long relaxing time.

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It’s no secret in domestic cricket circles that Eden Park’s Outer Oval is one of the best facilities on the circuit, a fact recently recognised at New Zealand Cricket’s (NZC) Pitch of the Year Awards.
Eden Park’s Turf Management Team scooped the ‘Domestic Pitch of the Year’ award, the third year in a row they’ve been acknowledged by NZC, and just reward for the time and effort the ‘groundies’ put in over the 2016/17 season.
The Outer Oval received a “very good” rating from players and umpires for every fixture played last season, while also receiving high praise for its training facilities.
“Overall in terms of the way the surfaces are rated they couldn’t have been any better really,” says Assistant Turf Manager Adam Hansen.
Hansen says the Turf Team take pride in their work considering both the home and away sides in the preparation process.
Eden Park’s surfaces have a Patumahoe clay base, and while Hansen says it’s a great clay for consistency, especially in short form cricket, it makes producing competitive four day tracks more of a challenge.
With preparation already underway for next season’s wicket blocks, Hansen is also excited about the prospect of potentially preparing a test match pitch once again.
“Producing test match wickets is an exciting time and potentially being under lights with a pink ball for the first time in New Zealand would be a highlight for sure,” he says.
If the awards now stacking up in the ‘groundies’ shed are anything to go by, the pitch for a possible pink ball fixture couldn’t be in safer hands.


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I’m a fan of minimalist living. Less is more. Truly.
Clutter of the mind is just as bad as clutter on a tabletop. Lately, I’ve been struggling with all the cluttering writing tasks that have been consuming my time when I should be writing and publishing books instead.
In particular, I’ve been struggling in trying to maintain two blogs that are quite similar in content. As a result, I’ve decided to merge my Only for the Brave blog—this one—with my Behind the Scenes blog. Both are about writing.
My goal is to still communicate with you, to share what I know, and what I’ve learned as I journey through my writing career. Now, though, that sharing will be more efficient and more effective.
So, for the rest of this year, I will be moving (reposting) those posts from Only for the Brave to my Behind the Scenes blog, in addition to adding new posts that are still timely and worth sharing again.
For those of you who have faithfully followed me here, I invite you to go follow my Behind the Scenes blog so that you’ll continue to receive the same quality material you’ve received here.
Please, click here to go to my Behind the Scenes blog, and click the FOLLOW button there to subscribe if you haven’t already.
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Please find below a call for submissions for next year’s issue of the journal TransCanadiana on the EMiC. The call is available on the website of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies: http://www.ptbk.org.pl/Aktualnosci,5.html. Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2011. Submission of articles: 31 December 2011.
Yes you guessed it. This was my first year of workshops. I probably looked like my twelve- year-old self who arrived in Canada in 1998, two weeks into the start of a school year, spoke no English, and wore funny clothes: lost. You know that feeling like you’re watching a foreign movie with no subtitles? That’s how I felt in 1998, and that how I felt again when I first started the fundamentals workshop this year. But the similarity between this foreign experience and that other earlier one soon faded, as (to stick to my movie analogy) the cast and crew of DHSI and EMiC all stepped out of the screen and gave me a big digital/human hug. It was just code; nothing to be scared of.
I’m like you. Writing codes and learning entire languages to represent, analyze, and access information is not what I do on a daily basis. Not yet anyway, though, I have to say after my experience at this camp I’m not at all opposed to the idea. In my real life now I read books, I write papers (or poems), I bake bread, I blog, bike, and water my herbs. The reason I ended up in this amazing program was mainly my thesis adviser’s affiliation and involvement with EMiC, but I have to say, since I came back I have a wonderful feeling like I’m in on an awesome secret.
The secret is that the humanities and the digital world can be friends. That means my Dad (the software engineer) and I (the poet) are closer than we think. It means when my cyber-savvy younger sister says Twitter, my brain doesn’t have to auto-correct it to Twain. When you reduce the units of our currency to layers of ideas, lines, words, and characters, it all begins to come together. The most pleasurable part of the experience for me has been the realization that what I have started to learn systematically, has been practically in my life all along. I was already analyzing trends in literature, I was already blogging and tweeting and networking. Only now I have a really neat way of understanding the complex and exciting ways in which the information that goes through my life is connected to the processes that help it move along effectively. I can only hope to have a hand in these processes soon. A few more workshops and I don’t see what not.
Currently celebrating its twenty-fifth year, the Two Days of Canada conference is one of Canada’s outstanding gatherings of scholars and students sharing interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of Canada. Each year, academic researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, and community members representing a wide range of disciplines and interests meet to share knowledge and expertise about matters of importance to Canadians. We are marking the 25th anniversary with a call for papers on the state of Canadian perspectives and Canadian scholarship within and beyond Canadian Studies. The theme for Two Days of Canada 2011 is ‘Canadian Studies, Canadian Stories: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Pedagogies.’ The conference will be held at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, on November 3&4, 2011.
• The future of Canadian Studies; interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary?
500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1.
All submissions must be received by August 19, 2011.
My recent participation at DHSI and DEMiC was not only preparation for my upcoming MA studies, but an attempt to throw myself into a group of interested scholars, programmers, humanists and other like-minded individuals. I attended the week’s events as part of the EMiC project and I am entirely grateful that the EMiCites have taken me into their fold. Together we shared an extraordinary week of intensive learning and community building.
The focus of my academic work rests on an unpublished manuscript by bill bissett and Milton Acorn entitled I want to tell you love. The aim is to analyze and eventually produce a digital scholarly edition of the text. DHSI was the perfect place for me to begin collecting the tools and skills I need to complete the task. I enrolled in “TEI Fundamentals and their Application” which was taught by Julia Flanders, Doug Knox, and Melanie Chernyk. They were a dream to learn from. Flanders et al. taught clearly and overall the course was fun and informative. The trio made it easy for me to connect to a field with which I had no previous knowledge. Kudos to them! After the first day, my thinking of text and reading had completely changed. Not only am I now thinking about these ideas in a traditional analytical sense, but now I am considering how these ideas can be connected and then translated into a digital environment.
Admittedly, the first couple days of TEI were frustrating. This isn’t because its an incredibly difficult language to learn. It is because in the beginning stages you can’t see what you’re working towards. For a beginner like me, I had no idea what my mark-up might look like by the end. As I’m working I want to be able to ensure that I want to tell you love, as an edition, will be as aesthetically appealing as it is intellectually appealing. In order to see the end product of your encoding the text has to go through several other layers, layers which were not really addressed in our week’s agenda. A brief tutorial in CSS basics alleviated some of this anxiety, but I still possess a knowledge gap. Of course I realize that one week to learn TEI is probably not enough, other courses and more advanced learning is required. This is a responsibility I will own up to. I’m not disappointed to say that I’ll probably have to return to DHSI to build on and complete the skill set I desire.
The benefits of the TEI course do trump the drawbacks. On the other side, TEI is incredibly useful because of its ability to digitally connect interesting points, names, dates, themes, idiosyncrasies and other important pieces of information. This will be especially useful to my own project. For example, I want to tell you love is arguably a witness to the early stages of bissett’s unique orthography (an aspect of bissett’s poetry that has been of particular interest to bissett scholars for decades). One of the arguments I have developed from this point is that the manuscript marks bissett’s transition from Modernist modes of writing to Post-Modernist. His movement from a more conventional orthography to a personal, phonetic orthography is an evidence of this transition. TEI will allow me to track and take note of this transition as it occurs in the manuscript. In addition, TEI is not only a way of rendering data in a new, relevant format, but it frees the data to newer forms of analyses which consequently can open new doors for scholarship. TEI’s potential to develop new scholarship is especially important when addressing someone like Milton Acorn, co-author of I want to tell you love, whose legacy is sadly receiving less and less attention. It was at this moment of realization that EMiC’s mandate became clear. TEI and other digital tools can work to revive interest in Modernists and their writing. That’s incredible, yes?
All in all, DEMiC was a tremendous experience. The tools and skills I gained are invaluable. They will be built upon and put to good use.
This year I took the workshop on XSMLT. It was probably the most useful of the three workshops which I have so far taken at DHSI but by far the most frustrating — one might almost say agonizing. Since returning from DHSI I have been generating, through XSLT, exactly the HTML files based on TEI-conformant transcriptions of some very complicated revised manuscripts. Though I am sure my coding will increase in efficiency and elegance as time passes, I really am fully confident for the first time that I have exactly what I need for my project — and that I have the wherewithal to explain my needs to the research assistants who will be encoding texts for me. I therefore would strongly urge anyone who is going to be involved in digital editing to take this course — even if they entirely lack a programming background, which I do . You may end up hiring someone to design your XSLT stylesheets, but even so, it is very important that you have some sense of exactly what it is you want them to do.
The experience, however, was definitely not fun. In fact, you might characterize it at times (and with a bit of exaggeration) as agony. This had nothing to do with how the course was actually designed and taught. What it did have to with was the fact that people taking the course came from very different backgrounds, with varying degrees of programming skills. As one of the least skilful people in the course, I found the going very rough. I have written a detailed assessment of the workshop from this point of view for its two instructors, Martin Holmes and Syd Bauman — who did an absolutely first-rate job — and I hope that some of my comments might help future instructors make the workshop less stressful and more appealing to people without backgrounds and programming — but I thought it might be a good idea, in any case, to share my experiences with other EMICites. My aim is both to encourage people to take the course, and to give them some sense of its challenges and how they might prepare for them.
The workshop was billed as being about XSLT, but in fact, virtually all of it was about XPath, for reasons I will explain in a moment. An XSLT file instructs your computer to go to a particular point in your XML file and to do something to it. I use XSLT exclusively for presentation purposes. That is, I may want it to present revisions in a certain colour, to centre headings, to indent the final couplet of a sonnet, or whatever. To do this you need to put directions in your XSLT file so that it will know where to go on the XML “tree” to find the part of the file you want it to transform. XPath is the language you used to do this, using terms like siblings, descendants, ancestors, parents, etc., informing you how to get where you want to go. I had no problem with the principles of XPath which are very simple, but I don’t think like a programmer (and I have a terrible sense of direction, which didn’t help) so I quickly found myself getting lost in the maze of any but the simplest XPath paths. I simply did not have the time to absorb and retain all the details of XPath syntax, even though I worked away in my room like a demon after classes, making this the least sociable DHSI I have attended. The difficulties were all the greater because by the end of the week Syd and Martin — and a number of the more advanced students in the class — were performing all kinds of magic tricks with their documents, which seemed to me totally irrelevant to anything I would ever want to do with mine.
What made the workshop extremely useful though, was 1) the very lucid account we were given of the basic principles of XSMLT/XPath and 2) the very very valuable hands on help I got from both instructors, not only with details of XPath that I had failed to grasp in class, but also with my attempts to work with a TEI text I had prepared in anticipation of the workshop. After talking to the two of them about these matters, I was encouraged that two of the most knowledgeable experts on TEI thought my approach to encoding my project, though not particularly sophisticated, was fully adequate to my needs and perfectly kosher TEI, without any need for “tag-abuse” or re-configuring the TEI schemata for my own purposes. Syd suggested a somewhat different kind of approach which would be somewhat more flexible but considerably more complex, and we agreed to continue discussions about it. But I was left with a strong sense that the choices that I had made early on in my project were reasonable and justifiable. By the end of the course I had accomplished what I had hoped for and I was kind of ecstatic.
1.	If you happen to be one of those rare but not quite extinct DHSI birds who uses a PC, practice on a Mac before you start your class. I know this sounds trivial, but I wasted a huge amount of my time, as well as the time of my fellow students and my instructors, trying to figure out how to find my way around the Mac.
2.	We used Oxygen for editing our files. Oxygen is a wonderful program and very easy to use. But you still need to learn how to use it. The instructors provided good instructions, in the course material and in their presentations, but with so much else to absorb I kept getting snarled up in technicalities until well into the 3rd day. Another enormous source of frustration.
3.	Do some preparatory work before the workshop. Syd and Martin provided useful slides but they would have been vastly more useful if I had had access to them before the class. I suggested to them that they send a list of materials online, as well as of books, to all of the students enrolled in the course a few weeks ahead of time. With some of this behind you, you will be able to take full advantage of the many examples, exercises, quizzes, and discussions of basic principles that went on all week and which were received with great enthusiasm for those who were prepared, by their past experience, to fully appreciate them.
If this course is offered again, I think I may take it. With more experience I am sure I will have a much better time and learn a lot of things that were over my head this time around. — and I fully expect the ratio of agony to ecstasy to shift in my favour.
This June marked my third time attending the DHSI (aka DEMiC) since I became a graduate fellow. My how we have grown! We may not fit on the Smuggler’s Cove balcony without violating fire safety regulations, but Victoria is starting to feel like a home away from home one week a year.
The strong sense of community generated by EMiC was enhanced this year by the Digital Editions course, run by Meagan Timney and Matt Bouchard. Instead of reflecting directly on this course, however, and all I learned from it (which was a LOT), I’m going to use this forum to share a few thoughts on the digital humanities in general.
I still recall the heady feeling of euphoria that filled me at my first DHSI. There is something utopian about the digital humanities, a foward-looking approach that makes the future seem bright and shiny no matter how fraught the present moment might be. Digital humanists seem to always have their eyes on the innovative interdisciplinary transnational horizon.
A few things have happened since that first year to temper that euphoria, however. I have experienced the gap between the ideal and the real when struggling to work with exciting visualization tools that have no instructions. I’ve realized how hard it is going to be for the academy to go digital when trying to encourage busy academics to contribute to a public forum, which still feels to many like a chore rather than a natural part of the academic workflow. I’ve had to think much more practically about strategies for making space for DH in the institution when co-writing a report on sustainability in digital scholarship.
As Brandon McFarlane mentioned in a previous post, the divide between my DH interests and my “day job” as a “vanilla” scholar (talking about the politics of that terminology would take a whole ‘nother post) often leaves me feeling like I have multiple, conflicting identities. But the solution, I’m beginning to expect, cannot be an all-or-nothing approach. The world is going digital, and scholarship is inevitably going with it, but it seems more likely to be little by little before it’s all at once (to clumsily paraphrase Blanchot). Instead of thinking of myself as divided between two worlds, then, I’m trying to think of myself as a bridge. I can talk to DH-wary scholars about how the incorporation of digital tools might make our research more theoretically rigorous, but I can also bring my non-digital theory training to bear on a rigorous critique of the blind spots in DH. I can talk to the contemporary CanLit crowd about data mining and visualization without having to play the part of a DH evangelist. I might even be able to incorporate a ripple of DH into my vanilla dissertation… and if not, I will sure as heck tweet about it.
What about the rest of you? Have you experienced a disjunction between DH and the day-to-day world of the Canadian academy? Are you finding ways to overcome this disjunction? What other strategies might we adopt to find productive dialogues between our different research worlds?
At our DEMiC 2011 orientation session, I had a chance to welcome 30 EMiC participants to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. Or, rather, 31 including myself. A long month of EMiCites. This is our largest contingent so far, and DHSI itself has grown to host over 200 participants attending 10 different courses. The EMiC community is represented at DEMiC by 13 partner institutions. EMiC has people enrolled in 7 of the 10 offered courses. But what really makes DEMiC 2011 different from previous years is that EMiC is offering its own DHSI course.
If you’re already dizzied by the acronyms, this is how I parse them: DHSI is the institute in its entirety, and DEMiC is our project’s digital training initiative that allows our participants to take any of the institute’s course offerings. With the introduction of EMiC’s own course, DEMiC has transformed itself. EMiC’s Digital Editions course draws upon the specializations of multiple DHSI course offerings, from Text Encoding Fundamentals to Issues in Large Project Management.
The course has been in the making for roughly six years, beginning with the pilot course in editing and publishing that Meagan and I first offered at Dalhousie in 2006-07. This course was not offered as part of my home department’s standard curriculum, which actually proved advantageous because it gave us the freedom to develop an experiential-learning class without harbouring anxieties about how to make the work of editing in print and digital media align with a traditional literary-studies environment. In other words, we started to develop a new kind of pedagogy for the university classroom in line with the kinds of training that takes place at digital-humanities workshops, seminars, and institutes. To put it even more plainly: we wanted to import pieces of DHSI to the Maritimes. That was pre-EMiC.
With EMiC’s start-up in 2008, we began flying out faculty, students, and postdocs to DHSI. After two years (2009, 2010) of taking various DH courses at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels, we consulted with the EMiC participants to initiate the process of designing our own DHSI course. Meagan and I worked together on the curriculum, and Matt Huculak consulted with both of us as he surveyed the various options available to us to serve as an interface and repository for the production of EMiC digital editions at DHSI. After six months of trial and error, weekly skype meetings with about a dozen different collaborators, three different servers, and two virtual machines, we installed Islandora with its book ingest solution pack. That’s what we’re testing out in Digital Editions, keeping detailed logs of error messages and bugs.
I would like to thank the many people and institutional partners who have come together to make possible the first version of Digital Editions. This course is the product of an extensive collaborative network: Mark Leggott’s Islandora team at the University of Prince Edward Island (Alan Stanley, Alexander O’Neill, Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Joe Veladium, and Donald Moses), Susan Brown’s CWRCers at the University of Alberta (Peter Binkley, Mariana Paredes, and Jeff Antoniuk), Paul Hjartarson’s EMiC group at the UofA (Harvey Quamen and Matt Bouchard), EMiC postdoc Meagan Timney at UVic’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, Image Markup Tool developer Martin Holmes at UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and EMiC postdoc Matt Huculak at Dalhousie.
As I write this at the back of a computer lab at UVic, fifteen EMiC participants enrolled in Digital Editions are listening to Meagan, Matt Bouchard, and Alan walk them through the Islandora workflow, filling out MODS forms, testing out the book ingest script with automated OCR, and editing transcriptions in the web-based TEI editor. Some people are waiting patiently for the server to process their ingested texts. We’re witnessing the first stages of EMiC digital editions of manifestos and magazines, poems and novels, letters and short stories. We ingested texts by Crawley, Livesay, Garner, Smart, Page, Scott, Sui Sin Far, Watson, and Wilkinson. And we’re working alongside an international community, too: our newly born repository is also populated with editions of D.G. Rossetti, Marianne Moore, Tato Riviera, Hope Mirrlees, Catherine Sedgwick, and James Joyce.
This afternoon the server at UPEI processed 20 different texts. Hello world. Welcome to Day 1 of the EMiC Commons.


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Support a major commercial property development firm in their business development and expansion strategy as they launch in Europe. Working closely with the Partner from a specialist real estate consultancy and the European Head of Development from the property company, you will conduct research and analysis to inform the business cases and proposals for client pitches.
An excellent interim role for an independent strategy consultant looking to gain experience in a strategic business development function and make an impact on the growth of an international business.