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Pittsburgh's newest dance troupe, Geeksdanz, "is on a mission is to introduce dance to audiences that would not normally be drawn to it," says founder/artistic director Ellen Deutsch. For the group's first full-length production, Challenge Mode, Deutsch and company aim to bring dance to those with an interest in video-gaming. A humorous celebration of gamers and gaming, Challenge Mode explores the notion of becoming so immersed in a video game that you no longer see yourself as a player but, rather, as a character in the game. Set to video-game music remixed by the independent composers at OverClocked ReMix, the hour-long work is delivered in a series of short vignettes referencing well-known video games like Tetris, Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy and the Mario franchise. It's also a game itself where six competitors vie for a 100 Percent Completion bonus. Deutsch, a Squirrel Hill native who studied dance at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says the troupe's name is about her being a "geek" for dance. Says Deutsch: "We all express ourselves in ways that are most natural to us. A gamer might express their excitement over a game in a certain way; we just happen to be dancers who also like video games." Steve Sucato 6:30 p.m. Fri., April 19. Pittsburgh Dance Center, 4765 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $5. The production will also be streamed live at www.geeksdanz.org.
Follow this thread: Tonight is opening night for the 2013 Fiberart International. The triennial exhibition, presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, features 81 works by 64 artists at two big galleries: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Society for Contemporary Craft. There are twin receptions at the venues, so if you're up for crossing town, weave them together. On Saturday, at SCC, there's a day-long Fiberarts Forum, featuring a dialogue with the artists. BO PCA: 5:30-9 p.m. (6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside; $5; www.pittsburgharts.org). SCC: 5:30-9 p.m. (2100 Smallman St., Strip District; free; www.contemporarycraft.org). Exhibit continues through Aug. 18.
Ambitious small theater company Bricolage launches its first In the Raw Festival. A national call for entries has yielded three new plays; each playwright gets a week-long workshop with a director, a dramaturg and professional actors, followed by two public readings. Tonight and tomorrow, it's Ganglia: Instructions for the Symbiogenesis, Cleveland-based playwright Peter J. Roth's science-fiction work about a friendly couple who arrive in their new neighborhood complete with an alien parasite instructing them to conquer the world. BO 7 p.m. Also 7 p.m. Mon., April 22. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Admission is give-what-you-can. Reservations suggested at inthera@bricolage.org.

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When you think of luxury holiday apartments, Liverpool probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind. In fact, when you think of holidays in general Liverpool probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind, but Liverpool is an incredibly popular city and those that do chose to holiday there like to do it in style.
Yes you can book a week in one of the many city centre hotels and yes you can have a perfectly nice experience. But do you really want to eat breakfast at a specific time, eat dinner at a specific time and have the people in the next room, or the room above, keep you awake most of the night? No, of course you don’t, and this is where the luxury holiday apartments at Liverpool Albert Docks come in.
Holiday apartments, Liverpool based or not, have a very homely feel. They are more than just a room with a bed and an en-suite bathroom as you would get in your city centre hotel. They have a sitting area for relaxing and watching TV, they have a dining area and a fully equipped kitchen, they have a full sized bathroom and they have a separate bedroom (or two) for privacy.
This said they also have the security of a city centre hotel, a manned reception for information and enquiries, a secure car parking area and even a housekeeping service if required. You can cook for yourself and eat in or eat out in any of the restaurants nearby, and you can get to the main attractions of Liverpool within a few minutes, even if walking.
Okay, this is all well and good you’re probably saying, but what about the price?
Well if you research the prices of other UK luxury holiday apartments, Liverpool really isn’t that expensive. The apartments are also very competitively priced when compared to luxury hotels in the city centre. Plus, if you book last minute or well in advance you can often get a discount on the price…which actually makes them very similar in cost to a hotel room.

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You may grumble about paying $5 for a latte. But the coffee supply chain has increasingly come under scrutiny for its questionable ethics—even fair-trade-certified beans have been called into question for their potentially negative impact on small coffee farmers in developing nations. With Queen City Collective Coffee’s “farm-to-cup” mantra, however, Denverites can be sure that their morning java habit is benefitting—not disenfranchising—small bean producers around the world.
The two-year-old company, which already sells its coffee wholesale to accounts around town (including Crema Coffee House and Old Major), opened its first cafe in June in the Baker neighborhood. There, a series of rotating brews and espressos showcase coffees from six countries around the world, imported from producers whom Colorado Springs-born brothers and co-owners Scott, Luke, and Eric Byington know personally. “Our goal is to source beans directly from farmers who we know and trust and create sustainable rural livelihoods through coffee,” Scott says.
Queen City was born from the Elias Fund, a development nonprofit that Scott and Eric ran from 2005 to 2012. The organization was a collaboration with the band Dispatch—personal friends of the brothers—and was named for a farmer that member Chad Urmston met during a trip to Zimbabwe (and later wrote a song about).
What began as a fundraiser for Elias’ children’s education warped into a full-blown grassroots organization with medical, economic, and educational development projects throughout southern and central Africa. After seven successful years, however, the brothers realized that making a long-term impact would require straying from the non-profit model; they decided to temporarily shutter the nonprofit to focus on building a sustainable business. “As much as commerce and capitalism had been a negative thing for rural communities, if it’s done right it’s the only way we could see some long-term, sustainable change,” Scott says.
At the coffee bar, located next to Novel Strand Brewing off First Avenue, the brothers keep things simple with a menu of drip coffee, espresso, and cappuccinos and lattes flavored with house-made syrups. While customers won’t find Frappuccino’s or nitro cold brews, they will find friendly baristas who know their name and order. “The shop is meant to be very simplistic and approachable, not to have people feel overwhelmed by the specialty coffee ego that exists in other shops,” Scott says. To better connect customers to the story behind their java, they company has also rolled out new packaging. Each retail bag will come with the story of the farm where it’s from and a label—gold for single origin, red for double origin, and green for “made by her” for their women-produced beans—an ode to the colors of Zimbabwe, where the Elias Fund had its roots.
Beyond providing income for the famers they work with, Scott says a major goal of Queen City is to eventually realize a nonprofit arm that would provide additional funding for projects, such as community centers and seasonal vocational training in their producers’ hometowns. For now, though, Scott says, the objective is simple: “We just want to get our farmers’ coffee to as many people as possible.” Your latte may still cost more than a breakfast burrito, but at least you’ll know it truly benefitted the farmers who produced the beans.
If you go: Queen City Collective Coffee is open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. 305 W. First Ave.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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I am a master tactician. I've directed all my soldiers into the perfect positions.
Sergeant Toussaint L'Overture is huddled behind a beaten-up taxi. Corporal Betsy Ross is watching over him from the rooftops. Corporal Henry David Thoreau is safely holed up inside a nearby shop. The rookie, Susan B. Anthony, is watching the rear. It's perfect.
Ross is the first to go. She's spotted from an adjacent rooftop and catches a hot slug of plasma to the face. I grit my teeth.
Thoreau dies when the entire storefront explodes in a giant fireball. L'Overture was in overwatch, so when an alien sprints out from cover he gets to take a few shots. Misses them all. I massage my temples. The alien shoots L'Overture point blank, taking him out.
Susan B. Anthony survives long enough to get poisoned, slowly dying over the next three turns. Mission failed. All team members dead.
I shout expletives. I pound my fist into my desk.
XCOM: Enemy Within is a significant expansion to one of last year's best games, XCOM: Enemy Unknown—itself a resurrection of the classic strategy series from the 90s.
The Council has waited for your return.
Like developer Firaxis's expansions for its Civilization series, Enemy Within is basically a replacement for Enemy Unknown. Your old save games are useless here, because the new content in Enemy Within is tied right into the campaign. The campaign’s not entirely overhauled, but there are a few new (excellent) missions thrown into the fray and, more importantly, some pretty huge mechanical changes from last year’s game.
There are two main additions to Enemy Within: Exalt and Meld.
Exalt is that group of humans you see in every alien invasion film, standing on the street corner with signs that say, “Judgment is nigh!” and “The aliens are here to save us!” Only evidently Exalt skipped the buy-markers-and-make-signs step and went straight to the buy-guns-and-commit-global-acts-of-terrorism step.
Exalt causes chaos and steals XCOM’s lunch money. Once you’ve been introduced to Exalt (four or five missions into the game) you’ll have to keep an eye out for both alien and human threats. They're terrorists. They want you to lose so the aliens take over the Earth.
Fail to take care of Exalt and they’ll make you pay for it. You could theoretically ignore Exalt and still win, but if you’re able to accomplish that then you’re a much better XCOM player than I.
Before you take down an Exalt terrorist cell there’s an “infiltration” aspect where you send a team member undercover. Unfortunately while it sounds cool, you don’t actually play that part of the scenario—you play the aftermath, when you’re trying to extract your agent and kill the Exalt cell. The undercover aspect is just a timer that shows how long your agent is inaccessible. As a result, Exalt missions are fairly similar to standard anti-alien XCOM missions, only with human characters and human weapons. It’s an interesting story wrinkle in a game light on story, but not a sweeping change.
Meld, on the other hand, can (and probably will) drastically affect the way you play XCOM.
Meld is a new resource, of alien origin. Once you locate some tasty Meld your advisors will bug you to build one of two new facilities back at XCOM headquarters: the Cybernetics Lab or the Genetics Lab.
Meld allows for either genetic or cybernetic enhancements.
In the Cybernetics Lab your soldiers chop off their legs and arms and replace them with bionic limbs, turning into mechs. They’re basically a head in a big metal body, and thus have a fair amount of firepower and armor.
The Genetics Lab is much more refined, but similarly inhuman—you’ll augment your soldier’s genes and turn them into demi-aliens. The upside is your half-alien soldiers will get some great perks, like immunity to panic and the ability to camouflage skin to surroundings.
Build the Genetics Lab and you can splice alien DNA into your soldiers.
The Cybernetics and Genetics Labs are intriguing additions, allowing for a greater breadth of play styles and more team customization.
But I could never adapt to the way Meld is collected, and it led to me feeling angry at Enemy Within (or, honestly, my own skills) more often than I was having fun.
Most maps in Enemy Within are constructed with two Meld canisters—one close to the drop point, and one further away. The canisters are set to self-destruct after a certain number of turns. The easy-to-gather containers seemed to be set around five turns, while the harder containers had (I assume) ten turns.
Enemy Unknown trained me to be careful. Move forward in short bursts. Use Overwatch. Cover each other. Stay safe.
The ever-present clock on those Meld containers changes the game. It makes for riskier play, pushing soldiers forward as fast as possible to hit those canisters.
Meld changes the entire dynamic of how XCOM plays.
And then dying. Because XCOM is much harder when played quickly, and punishes you for overreaching. It makes sense—big risks get big rewards, and those mechs are a pretty big reward. Still, I couldn’t help feeling frustrated every time my entire team died trying to secure some precious Meld, or I saw the counter flip to zero and the canister exploded unopened.
The game hands you enough Meld on a silver platter that you’ll still get to play around with the new tech—those canisters near the start of the level are typically really easy to secure. For a certain type of player, however, the lure of those harder Meld canisters is going to be too tempting to forgo, and only frustration lies down that path (especially in the mid-game where one downed soldier can make the difference between a successful or failed mission).
Who needs arms when you can have robot arms?
The late-game upgrades are also way more expensive, but each recovered canister keeps popping out the same ten Meld. When you’ve got upgrades that cost 70-100 Meld, you’re looking at a lot of grinding for rather incremental rewards. If you’re already an XCOM pro, you probably won’t even bother with those upgrades because you’ll be able to finish the campaign without.
XCOM: Enemy Within is exactly what people who loved Enemy Unknown need: more XCOM, but with just enough of a twist to make things interesting again. Meld and Exalt shake up the formula enough that Enemy Unknown devotees will need to rethink old strategies and take more risks. If your main complaint with Enemy Unknown was that it encouraged a slow, plodding pace, you're going to love how frantic Enemy Within feels.
But me? I’d rather play Enemy Unknown some more. I never even mastered that entry, and as someone who both takes his time in turn-based maneuvering and also feels a need to snag every collectible item on a map, Meld made me frustrated more than it added to my play through. Something to consider.
XCOM: Enemy Within is an incremental update to last year’s fantastic Enemy Unknown that will please those who feel like they mastered the last entry and need a bigger challenge.

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We examine every suspicious advert and email reported to us.
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We recommend using different passwords for your One Race account, email account and other online accounts. Never tell anyone your username or password - they're the key to your account.

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With the readily available information now available at our fingertips, we are privy to a fountain of knowledge. Knowledge that was not available...or at least, not as conveniently available...to our mothers, grandmothers and our foremothers.
Now we are realizing that when it comes to pregnancy & childbirth, we have options. No longer do we have to do what has always been done, without question.
And with the realization of this revelation comes the research backing up each of our available options.
But with great knowledge comes great responsibility.
And that can be a scary thing.
Sometimes it takes strength & courage to go against the grain & choose a birth plan that bucks years of tradition.
Sometimes people get angry at you for sharing your knowledge.
Why they get angry is beyond me. The only reason I can fathom is that the person is feeling guilty & so they lash out at the message bearer.
I recently lost my supposed best friend of 15 years due to my posting anti-circumcision literature on my personal FaceBook page. I even backed my opinion with a doctor's statement on how, up until recently, the medical community has lied about many aspects of circumcision, including how it is, in fact, extremely painful for the baby.

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The Honeywell 6150 Keypad is our standard keypad.
The Honeywell 6460S Keypad is a higher-end keypad featuring a Custom English Display. Each zone on your home alarm can be given a custom name.
The Honeywell Tuxedo Touch keypad is the top of the line option. When you want all the bells and whistles, this is the keypad for you. This keypad is also perfect for customers looking at home automation.
The Honeywell CEY3 remotes are a standard feature of our security system packages. The remotes will arm/disarm your system, have a built-in panic option, and will operate your overhead garage doors.
The Honeywell 7845GSMV-4G Cellular Communicator is a perfect option for customers who prefer not to have a home phone line, or anyone looking for added security. It utilizes cellular towers to transmit your alarm signals.
The Honeywell IS2500 Motion Detector is a standard feature of our security system packages. It utilizes passive-infrared technology, and is pet immune up to 80 lbs. We do offer other options for customers with larger animals.
The Honeywell 5193SD Smoke Detector is a standard feature of our security system packages. It is a Photoelectric smoke detector.
First Priority Alarm Systems, Inc.
Serving all of Oklahoma including the Oklahoma City Metro and Tulsa.

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NACM is an approved credit reporting agency that meets the criteria listed in 61G4-12.011(12), Florida Administrative Code, NACM South Atlantic is one of the very few who actually maintain our own commercial credit reporting database, aiding in complete simplification of this process.
Don’t risk having your contractor license credit report being delayed by going anywhere else. Come to the experts in credit and rely on NACM!
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Geneuity brings expertise and experience to support companion diagnostic development and validation for regulatory approval.
Companion Diagnostic development often demands a three way partnership. Between drug development, companion diagnostic manufacturer, and the clinical testing laboratory. What is common between all three is clinical utility, regulatory approval, time to market, and costs.
Clinical utility must be proven in a prospective, hypothesis-driven clinical trial that includes both drug and diagnostic, typically a pivotal / Phase III trial. Early stratification changing ways to enroll patients now include biomarker assessment for trial recruitment to Phase II and Phase III drug trials.
The regulatory approval pathway considers premarket approval versus laboratory developed test, whether to sell a diagnostic kit or to sell a laboratory service. Further analyte specific reagents are exempt from pre-market notification enabling early adoption of technology. A global perspective and strategy is necessary to account for both FDA, EMA, and other countries regulatory approval process and timeline. The FDA and EU have been working to harmonize drug approval timelines and processes, however approval of medical devices is often sought first through EU clinical trials and CE mark obtained prior to US FDA submission due to process timelines. Advice from the FDA can be sought proactively during pre-investigational device exemption (IDE) session, or using the Voluntary Exploratory Data Submission (VXDS) process that involves providing exploratory genomic data.

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Certainly one of probably the most frequent electrical wiring inquiries is regarding how to wire a change. Although utilizing switches in your house is quite uncomplicated, wiring one particular may well not be that simple for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is actually quite simple to wire. You will find several types of switches, but for this instance, let us say that you are installing a single-pole toggle switch, an exceptionally common swap (and also the most straightforward).
There are three colours of wires within a normal single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and green. Splice the black wire in two and connect them to the terminal screws - just one on top as well as the other within the bottom screw on the swap. The white wire serves as a supply of uninterrupted electrical power and it is typically connected to a mild colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Hook up the eco-friendly wire into the ground screw of your swap.
These techniques would frequently be sufficient to create a standard switch operate without a difficulty. However, when you are certainly not assured you can execute the endeavor properly and properly you superior permit the professionals get it done rather. Soon after all, there is a motive why this undertaking is probably the commonest electrical wiring concerns asked by most of the people.
For a few motive, tips on how to wire a ceiling fan is also considered one of one of the most prevalent electrical wiring questions. To simplify this task, you should use one swap for the single ceiling fan. To wire the fan, it can be just a matter of connecting the black wire of the ceiling fan to the black wire of your change. If there is a light, the blue wire need to be linked to the black wire in the change as well.
You can find reasons why these are generally essentially the most frequently requested electrical wiring questions. One particular, a lot of believe it's uncomplicated to carry out, and two, these are definitely the prevalent electrical tasks in your house. But you then must not place your security at risk in your purpose to economize. The stakes could even be substantially higher in case you try to cut costs and do an electrical wiring position with no ample understanding or working experience.

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As the Catholic Church prepares to celebrate the Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants on June 17, Parliament is considering new immigration legislation which proposes mandatory detention for groups of asylum seekers.
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand says we need to heed the warning of Australian Bishops that such detention is ‘deeply destructive of human dignity’.
The Immigration Amendment Bill would allow the detention under a ‘mass arrival warrant’ of groups of 11 or more asylum seekers arriving together. Detention would be for an initial period of six months, which could be renewed for ongoing periods of 28 days. At present in New Zealand, most asylum seekers who claim refugee status live in the community while their claims are assessed, unless there are specific security concerns.
Because of our geographic isolation, few asylum seekers reach New Zealand shores. Most New Zealanders are more familiar – and comfortable – with the concept of resettling refugees from the countries where they first seek asylum.
However, the primary purpose of the Refugee Convention, to which New Zealand is a signatory, is to provide for the ability of people fleeing persecution to cross borders to ask for help.
Both resettled refugees coming under New Zealand’s refugee quota, and asylum seekers arriving to ask for refuge are Convention refugees. However, the political debate around the Immigration Amendment Bill is labelling asylum-seeking refugees as ‘queue-jumpers’, ‘illegal migrants’ and ‘people-smugglers’.
None of these descriptions is true of the vast majority of people seeking refuge from violence and persecution.
Australia’s Catholic Bishops have objected to the mandatory detention of refugees in Australia for more than a decade. Detention beyond the minimum time necessary to carry out security and identity checks is ‘gravely injurious’ and unjustifiable, they say.
Submissions close on 8 June 2012. For more on this visit www.caritas.org.nz.

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Palmar hyperhidrosis or sweaty hands can be treated with natural ingredients available at home. Herbs and vitamins present in food items are very effective in treating sweaty hands. Epsom salt present at home can be used effectively to treat sweaty hands. Proper diet is another important remedy which you should never ignore.
You can drink sage tea to reduce sweating of your hand. Some food items must be avoided such as beef, onion, liver etc to remove sweat from your palms permanently. Soaking hands in tea solution is also effective. You can now know about the various home remedies for sweaty hands in detail from the below mentioned points.
Sometimes, medicines cannot cure many such diseases which can easily be cured by the home remedies. However, many a time we ignore such remedies. One of the most effective home remedies of sweat hand is soaking them in a tea solution. This process must be continued for a period of 20 to 30 minutes in a day and this should be done on a regular basis without failure. The best time to carry out this procedure is just before going to bed.
Many a time due to the excessive body heat the palms sweat profusely. Keep the palms in front of a fan or an air conditioner. This cools off the sweat totally. Then sprinkle some amount of talcum powder on the palms to absorb the sweat temporarily. Also, this removes any unwanted smell from the palms imparting a wonderful odor to the hands. Practicing this several times in a day can help a lot to get rid of the sweaty hands.
Epsom salt is a traditional ingredient available at home. It is popularly used for salt bath. And it is highly effective as a home remedy for sweaty hands. For this, you have to mix two to three tablespoon of such salt in the glass of warm water. The water should not be very hot such that it does not burn your skin. But, it should also be sufficient to dissolve the salts inside water. Then, you must soak your hands in the solution.
Tomato acts as a wonderful home remedy for sweaty hands. The juice extracted from the tomatoes is extremely helpful for the skin. Tomato juice is a rich source of vitamins and minerals.
And deficiency of these nutrients is the major cause of sweaty hands. Thus, in order to get rid of the sweaty hands, tomato juice is extremely beneficial and is an effective home remedy.
Boric powder is very commonly found at home. You can easily sprinkle an amount of boric powder on your hands where sweat droplets get accumulated. This prevents the sweat droplets from getting accumulated. This must be applied at night before going to sleep. And it is highly important to carry out this exercise regularly without failing even for a single day in order to get effective results.
It might take some time to get cured. However, this is definitely an important remedy for sweaty hands. Home remedies are very effective to cure the severe problem of sweaty hands. You must try the above mentioned remedies that suit your condition the best.


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Sometime soon, Shkodra will have its own touristic brand.
The Regional Program for Local Democracy in the Western Balkans funded by the European Union and implemented by the Albanian government and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is working to finalize the brand of Shkodra municipality, which will be beautiful surprise on the eve of the tourist season.
This program aims to establish a partnership between municipalities and civil society organizations in order to provide better services to the citizens.
The program is working with a group of craftsmen from Shkodra, producing various clay objects with traditional motifs of Shkodra, aiming to revive a long tradition of these areas, which are a precious asset and a rare attraction for tourists and visitors.
The project is working to create the brand of Shkodra, which will be an added value for the development of the tourism of the area , increasing of revenues and the history of Shkodra families.

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It goes without saying that the quicker you can recover a capsize, the less chance you have of the boat completely inverting. Knowing what to do is really important, as well as practicing at least once per season.
The first step is to release the control line from the cleat on the high hull, and then lengthen the shroud to this hull so that the hull moves from overhanging to lying back.
This means shortening the shroud to the hull in the water until the blocks are close or touching.
Jon's preferred technique is to steady your foot against the front cross beam bracket whilst floating in the water.
"This gives you some purchase to enable the mast heel lines to be un-cleated. Firmly hold the mast heel line close to where it exits the triple block, so when releasing the line from the cleats you have full control.
Pull the control line until the triple blocks nearest to you in the water meet, then the mast should be fully to one side of the boat."
George below left (at Rutland in Force 7 gusts) has achieved this, and (below left) is climbing the slope of the trampoline. Jon preferred to stand on the hull just forward of the front cross beam and gently pull the boat back upright, just by leaning a little inboard.
As Jon comments. "All that�s left to do then is adjust the mast heel lines to centre the mast, figure out which way the next mark is, then continue sailing!"
"If the boat turns completely mast down, it is still possible to recover the capsize. Swim to the triple blocks on either side of the boat. Pull the mast heel control lines to shorten the triple block nearest to you. Mast buoyancy will start to lift the hull nearest to you � but it will take a little time for the water to drain from the hull beam.
Be patient and if you have sufficient personal buoyancy to enable you to help lift, so much the better.
Once the hull is airborne, it is necessary to move the mast heel control lines fully through the system, so the mast is canted to the other side of the boat. The helm can then climb onto the hull and use weight to right the boat, as described earlier.
Safety note � With an inverted mast and a lumpy sea, the mast ball can be jerked out of its seating. It is therefore important to tie the mast to the cross beam."
John Montgomery (designer of Catapult) summed this up: The shock of discovering you have a leaky mast is bad news. The answer is to make sure you fully invert the mast at the start of the sailing season. A tremendous amount of water pressure is trying to get past the seals, so it�s a job to be taken seriously. Testing is not simple so it may be best to form a plan with other CCA members so several test at the same time and a rescue boat is around should anyone get into trouble. Some coaching could also be provided from those who have done the process before!
The original round masts were sealed with cork. Topper used Polythene foam. Anodised aluminium doesn�t give sealants much of a chance to key to the surface and the odd failure has been known.
I think that top mast seals would give trouble first. My plan would be to strip out old seals and replace with 12mm thick marine ply interference-fit plugs, with sealant for added security.
Below: The aftermath of Alastair�s capsize and failed righting efforts at (Bewl, April 2015.) He has had time to think of the lessons, while drifting to shore and getting safety boat assistance.
-- Tie the mast foot tightly down into the socket; the strong forces with the mast fully canted while capsized eventually flipped it out.
-- Ensure that the topmast is fully watertight; in the slow recovery, the mast leaked, and finished any possibility of recovery.
-- Know the righting sequence so well that it can be done quickly when upside down, and in the water.This means knowing the overall plan, the exact ropes to access, and where they will be with the boat over or on its side.
Jon Montgomery: Too tight and line doesn�t move easily between the four triple blocks and two turning blocks and freeing the control line jam cleats can be tricky. Too loose and line can loop aft and get caught in feet when tacking which may trigger the cleats to release. This is annoying as the mast will heel rapidly until one side�s triple blocks meet. Extra slack and the mast will heel to a dangerous angle and risk the mast ball levering out of its seating.
The forestay bridle with its block and soft line allows slack into the system whilst heeling the mast to port or starboard (but notice that when the mast is heeled towards its maximum, the system tightens up again). The length between the block stops determines the amount of introduced slack when heeling the mast and a distance of 480 mm is recommended.
A good way to assess how much slack you have in your system is to set the mast upright, with the shrouds cleated as though you were sailing. The amount of slack in the system can then be measured by stretching a light line across the deck from cleat to cleat. This gives a reference point to measure slack in the mast heel control lines. Measure how far aft the control line stretches. About 550mm aft slack is about maximum. Remember that a wet line may stretch a bit.
Incidentally, when the mast is heeled to the maximum, the dimension of the extended triple block should be 1.25m, giving a mast heel of 40 degrees. You will notice that the top of the mast ball has around 3mm clearance to the cup � so any additional mast heel will lever the mast ball out of the cup!


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RYM Award 2014 goes to Professor Kirsti Lonka | Urban Mill – Building IntenCity!
Kirsti Lonka, Professor of Educational Psychology at University of Helsinki, was the recipient of the RYM Award 2014. She and her research team have introduced world-class behavioral science and pedagogical expertise into the development and planning of different learning environments.
– We understand learning environments broadly since learning should take place everywhere: in schools and universities as well as workplaces, public facilities and homes. Yet, learning is first and foremost a state of mind. Physical spaces, in turn, must be such that they inspire people to learn, understand and internalize new things, Kirsti Lonka emphasizes.
According to Ilari Aho, Chairman of the Board at RYM Oy, the multidisciplinary expertise of Lonka and her research team has opened a completely new way of thinking in the development of the built environment. We are gradually shifting from the traditional minimizing of problems to maximizing value added.
Lonka has noted that RYM Oy’s Indoor Environment Program has provided behavioral research a suitable platform to test the performance of various learning methods and tools as well as spatial solutions in practice. – While new things are designed and built, theories are also developed. This Design Based Research approach benefits all, both researchers and users of spaces, Lonka concludes.
As an example of an agile Living Lab she mentions the modern, interactive teaching facilities built in just one summer at the Minerva learning center in Kruunuhaka, Helsinki. They adapt flexibly to many different uses and allow utilizing and experimenting with various intelligent learning technologies.
– There is room for improvement in learning environments. The pleasantness of schools has deteriorated much more than the results of PISA studies. However, by combining pedagogic expertise, multidisciplinary research and user-oriented spatial design, we can convert Finnish learning environments that hook students into an export product, Lonka believes. Her research team has a worldwide cooperation network that has also been utilized in many ways in RYM research.
The RYM Award was presented at a meeting of the consultative committee of RYM Oy. The previous recipients of the award are Granlund Oy’s former Managing Director Reijo Hänninen and Jukka Heinonen, currently a professor at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
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Only those people achieve something significant in life who think big and devote all their energy and time to fulfil their dreams. They do not allow themselves to be carried away by negative thoughts as they may prove detrimental to their march on the path of success. They believe in changing the great thoughts into reality. They act and never rest because they know the worth of time and action. In the words of William Hazlitt—“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.” Therefore, lift yourself high by thinking big and always aim to reach the top in whatever area you choose for yourself. If you are sincere and hard-working, nothing can stop you from reaching the top. Your success will be an inspiration for others as well. Your strength acts as the moral strength for others and they emulate you.
In fact, the great English poet, William Shakespeare also believed in the immense capability of man. He once wrote – “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Your success depends on your capability to use your strength to the full. If you think positively and lay out a detailed plan for accomplishing your task, you can certainly become successful. The progress you make en route to your success is the result of your will and self-confidence and success is the fruit of your sincere and continuous efforts. Without self-confidence, you cannot dream of success. Self-realisation encourages you to act single-mindedly banking on your own strengths and never allows any negative thought to creep in your mind. Good thoughts breed confidence, whereas negative thoughts hold you back.
Self-realisation is the state of mind which encourages one to act with determination and freely expand one’s intellectual horizon. It makes the mind free and you can be in complete control of your thoughts. No man is free who is not a master of himself. If you have got the power of exercising control over your thought, you are bound to succeed. You will at once be able to choose between not only the good and the bad, but also between the good and the best.
Ideas are undoubtedly the root of creation. But nothing big can be thought of without making a right choice. For example, if you have an inclination towards sports and feel like excelling in the area, you should work ceaselessly to hone your skill under a good coach; if you want to crack a competitive examination you should prepare properly mastering the syllabus by diligent study. There is no short cut to success. All the great scientists, business leaders, scholars, leaders were like us in the beginning. They made the right choice, started making efforts in the right direction, knew pros and cons of their trade and eventually succeeded. “He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.” Well begun is half done. You can think of marching in the right direction if you have a well-laid-out plan. You are advised to make right choices, know the pros and cons of your assignment and take charge of the best.


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The site‐specific delivery of the drugs to the target sites has the potential to reduce the side effects and improved the pharmacological response. The colon drug targeting is also exploited for systemic delivery of active drugs. For colonic drug delivery, many physiological barriers must be overcome, the major one being absorption or degradation of the active drugs in the upper part of the GIT‐Tract. Natural polymers particularly in the form of microspheres, have an important role in the before they will have widespread use in clinical situations. Among these issues are better understanding of the kinetics of drug release; more effective ways to control burst phenomena; greater understanding of drug‐polymer interactions and their effect on shelf life stability; additional animal studies to determine local tissue response, biodegradation rates, and metabolic rate. Well‐designed Clinical studies to assess efficacy in relation to current therapies.
Mohit Khandelwal*, Ankit Ahlawat and Ram Singh. Polysaccharides and Natural Gums for Colon Drug Delivery.. 2012; 1(1): 09-13.


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The only person in a child’s universe who looms larger than a parent is an absent one. While the former tenders a daily diet of love and mercy, the latter caters a bottomless buffet of wonder and strife. After all, few mysteries are as haunting as the mystery of inheritance. It’s a tragic irony that a deadbeat dad can destroy a life without ever having nurtured it.
But a recent ex-con does precisely that in Jordan Harper’s debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, when he kidnaps his daughter—a gifted middle-schooler with “gunfighter eyes” named Polly—and not because he misses her. The problem, which drives this outlaw fable to its grisly finale, is that he brings his sins with him and the penance is steep.
When you practice the craft and sullen art of armed robbery, as Nate does, danger is an occupational hazard, yet it’s never followed him home. That changes, though, when Nate and Polly are thrust into a violent game of tag with the toughest white boys in California.
Turns out, Nate declined an offer to work for this band of bigots by killing his prospective manager; an email wouldn’t suffice. Now the Aryan Steel wants to pulverize Nate’s broken family, and few gangs are as proactive in curbing defiance. One of its henchman has already murdered Polly’s mother and stepdad, and its various divisions are so ubiquitous they seem to have colonized the Golden State. It’s like a nightmarish episode of “Sons of Anarchy” or, perhaps, a faithful portrait of modern America.
She Rides Shotgun might sound like a morality tale in which a troubled man becomes a proper father—except Nate will never change. His world doesn’t value redemption, only strength. Its ebb and flow is determined by obsessive men who follow arbitrary codes. Lucky for us, the pages of this book don’t so much turn as blow over as Nate struggles to counter their brutality—to save his daughter, sure, but also himself.
It is, however, an odyssey of sorts through the “dirty white boy” underworld of California, stained with humanity, told in tabloid prose shaved to the bone with no razor bumps. Transgressive, feverish and expertly crafted, She Rides Shotgun is also the most stylish crime novel of 2017.
Nate is one of those guys born under a bad sign who broke the social contract before he popped his first pimple. His muscles are so defined “it’s like he’s missing his skin.” And his only role model—an older brother—perished in a motorcycle chase on the six o’clock news. It’s no surprise he lets Polly and her teddy bear join him on a series of suicide missions designed to hit 2 the Steel where it hurts—its wallet—and hopefully clear their names. What is surprising is that Polly clings to this role like bark to a tree.
As a wordsmith, Harper excels when his leads are busy ransacking nightclubs, chop shops and stash houses. The pair is “like something from a country song,” one man marvels; the vibe, however, is strictly Wu-Tang. Readers will be reminded of Captain America cracking Hitler on the jaw as Nate and Polly whip so many pasty posteriors red. We also learn how to clean bullet wounds, taste the purest dope and send mail on “kites.” Dense with minutiae, She Rides Shotgun is a nerd’s paradise, if you’re a crime fiction nerd.
What’s most impressive about this novel, though, is not its structure, in which chapters (and bodies) fall like dominoes, or its small yet fierce heroine, whose guile disarms even the most vicious hellhounds on her trail. Instead, its lasting achievement is how deftly its author manages to elude cliche, for Harper is traveling a well-trodden path.
The story is a modern update of Lone Wolf and Cub, the Japanese comic series about a disgraced samurai and his son exacting revenge on a pack of crooked lords. It’s a premise that anchors so many films—such as “Road to Perdition,” “Leon,” and most famously “Paper Moon”—it’s practically a genre. Though Harper has served hard time in network television, he shuns its banalities by sampling his influences freely, cackling as his characters plunge into a Tarantino script they’re unlikely to survive. The wrinkles he tattoos into this stock narrative are dark and forbidding: reunions pass in hot-wired cars; a hands-on tutorial in grappling counts as fatherly advice; and when the smoke settles it’s difficult to say if anyone’s station has improved.
In She Rides Shotgun, as in the work of Camus and Cain and Ellroy, where sentences aren’t exactly hardboiled but baked to a crisp, their edges seared off, everybody gets burned. What matters, as Bukowski said, is how well you walk through the fire.
While some fare better than others, it’s fun watching all of them squirm. After things get so desperate Polly is the one pulling the trigger, Nate decides to end their crusade. He cuts a deal with the Mexican Mafia to kill a cop so dirty he’d make Harvey Keitel’s “Bad Lieutenant” blush; in exchange, they’ll extinguish the green light trained on Nate’s family. It’s a terrible deal, yet Nate heads to the border anyway—with Polly in pursuit.
Maybe Nate will ride off into the sunset. Maybe he’ll make it to that “outlaw resort” where he hopes to retire. We’ll never really know, and I’m not sure it matters.
There’s a reason we respect legends—and why they persist. Their influence thrives on ambiguity. And they can come for us when we least expect it, telling us to hop in.
Craig Dowd‘s writing has recently appeared in The Galway Review and Unbroken Journal. Previously, he was a longtime jazz columnist for the triCityNews, a weekly newspaper. Born and raised in New Jersey, he now lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY.

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In 2016, an impressive 30.9 million people attended gigs and festivals in the UK. This was a 12% rise on 2015’s figure of 27.7m, according to a survey by UK Music. Of this 30.9 million figure, it claims four million people specifically attended festivals.
It's no surprise that brands have had a very active role in festivals, traditionally focusing on sponsorship as the primary method of engagement. But, we have also seen a rise of brands owning their festivals or taking over a stage and creating the experience from scratch.
We previously discussed how brands can evolve their festival activations by focussing on creating an experience and being part of the event narrative.
Corona Sunsets is defined as a "Global music festival series celebrating the transformational power of sunset in the worlds most iconic beaches, mountains, and city centers."
SunSets aims to turn urban city environments into a tropical beach environment. Previous UK iterations, for example, have turned the Greenwich Peninsula into a beach using 400 tonnes of sand.
Aina Fuller, UK marketing manager for the AB InBev-owned Mexican beer brand, says 67% of Corona SunSets’ attendees are 25 to 34 years old, with the brand selling 34,100 bottles of the beer since the festival’s inception in Summer 2014.
Innocent has launched several now-defunct music festivals over the years from Fruitstock to Village Fete. Its most recent stab at the festival scene was Un:plugged, which during 2015 and 2016 included celebrities such as Mr. Motivator, attracted 4,000 attendees and had a total PR value of over £1m from a spend of just £30,000.
Another interesting example of an owned festival by a brand is Big Burn which has now booked the most credible artists in electronic music. What has made this especially unique is that Burn also manage another asset called the Burn Residency where they give emerging DJ's the chance to perform at leading clubs and gain mentorship from the best artists around. The festival platform then gives them another way to support their "residents" and ties into a unique event strategy that they own.
Creating own festival can help establish brand message, especially if tied into wider activity such as the Big Burn & Burn Residency approach.

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ISIS killers have urged fighters to turn holiday hot-spots in Egypt into bloodbaths by murdering “Christian” tourists.
Fanatics also called on jihadists to kidnap foreign travellers to embarrass the government and damage the valuable tourist economy.
UK tour operators stopped flying to the popular resort of Sharm el Sheikh after the downing of a Russian holiday jet in 2015 – killing all 224 people on board.
But now the terror group – which controls areas of the Sinai region to the north of the Red Sea resort – is demanding attacks to destabilise the Egyptian government ahead of elections in late March.
An editorial in the ISIS weekly Al-Naba, which was released online, explicitly threatens attacks.
It tells ISIS operatives to intensify their attacks against “belligerent” Christians and tourists in the country.
“Operations targeting the Christians and seizing their property will embarrass the regime and show it up more than targeting the military and police.
Despite the lifting of the travel to the Red Sea region, the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office is still advising that terror attack in the country are “very likely”.
The latest FCO guidelines – calling ISIS groups in the area Daesh-Sinai – state: “Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Egypt.


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Generally speaking, there are two types of legalised translations. Those that are normal translations using legalised language, such as property purchase contracts to be translated from Spanish to Russian, rental agreements, etc... that are not to be used in court, generally for informative purposes only. These are classed as specialised or technical translations due to the specific type of content. If the texts need to be presented to a court, government, or any official body, then the legalised translation required would likely be a sworn (or certified) translation and the translation from Spanish to Russian must be performed by a registered, official translator.
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Note that Manchester Translation also provides legalised translation services from Russian to Spanish.

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We have Support Circle running on Tuesday 11th September from 7.55-9:30pm. Mod to be confirmed.
For anyone who doesn't know, a support circle chat follows the same basic structure as a standard support chat session - opening round, support time, and closing round. Everyone that signs up will have their own time to chat and be heard by the group, and have their chance to listen and support others.
Why go to Support Circle?
It's a great space for people who find it difficult to get their voices heard in regular support chat and/or are keen to listen and support others in a more structured environment. We have places for both people who want to come and get support or be listeners and support others.
Sign up using this form and we will contact you via private message to confirm your place.
Some places still up for grabs - sign up if you'd like to come along.
Did I sign up for this one too? I can't remember.
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We've got 2 spaces left for support circle tonight. We've also got lots of spaces left if anyone wants to come along as a listener.
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text: Set along the banks of the Garonne River, Hôtel Pier is just 150 metres from Palais de Justice Metro Station and next to a tram stop servicing Toulouse Blagnac Airport. It offers a terrace, free WiFi access and rooms with free bottles of mineral water. The rooms at Hôtel Pier are decorated in a contemporary style and also have a minibar. While all of them have a flat-screen TV, some of them also have views of the river, a Nespresso coffee machine or a balcony. A buffet breakfast is served every morning at the hotel and local restaurants can be found just 500 metres away. Other onsite facilities include luggage storage and private parking, available with an extra cost. This property is just opposite the Garonne River and a 15-minute walk from Place Esquirol. Toulouse Exhibition Centre is 750 metres away and Toulouse Stadium is 1.5 km from the hotel.

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Hostel Radenci is a part of untouched nature, among the fields on the left side of the Mura River and the winergrowing area.
Youth hostel Radenci is in the spa Radenci, near the bus station. There are the supermarket, the post and the bank nearby. Near the hostel there are sport and recreation facilities and walking paths.
YH Radenci is a part of SŠGT Radenci, which educates students for jobs in catering and tourism that's why we also accept bigger groups and organise the trips for them.
YH Radenci is a part of untouched nature, among the fields on the left side of the Mura river and the winegrowing area on the right side of the Mura river.
The guests can use: fitness, multimedia classrooms for bigger and smaller groups and the hall with the stage.
There is also free internet access in the rooms.
Food is delicious and is available from Monday to Friday and on request. It is partly selfservice restaurant (soop and salads).
You can go rafting on Mura and using canoe or kayak. You can also visit many learning paths. There are also many riding ways. For people who like riding horses there is an equestrian club (2 km far from Radenci).
There is the Landscape Park Goričko near Radenci. All kinds of tourism are developed in this area.
There are indoor and outdoor swimming pools with the termal water and more kinds of sauna in the Health Resort Radenci.
Health Resort Bad Radkersburg in Austria is 6 km far from Radenci.
Famous Lake Balaton is 142 km far from Radenci.
Bus station 50m from the hostel.


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Bring your ‘ukulele or borrow one of ours! Learn some new techniques or just enjoy the music with the members of the ʻUkulele Guild of Hawaiʻi while they kanikapila (jam).
The book used in this program is He Mele Aloha: A Hawaiian Songbook and can be purchased in the Shop Pacifica.
Taste of Paradise presents their first annual Hawaiiʻs Foodie Fest, which was created for Hawaii’s growing “foodie” demographic, promoting new and established restaurants/chefs by creating a dynamic atmosphere for an inclusive community. Attendees can expect to experience delightful offerings from Hawaii’s top restaurants gathered under the stars for one night. Bishop Museum is recognized as the primary beneficiary of this event and a portion of the proceeds will go directly back to supporting our mission to inspire our community and visitors through the exploration, celebration and perpetuation of the extraordinary history, culture, and environment of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.
2019thu11apr(apr 11)9:00 amfri12(apr 12)5:00 pmEvent OverFeaturedSurrounded By Science: Intersections of Science and Our Museums - Members Section9:00 am - 5:00 pm (12) Atherton Hālau, 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817 Event Organized By: Hawaii Museums Association Time has ran out! Better luck next time!
In this sub-track, we’ll explore how our institutions share science with visitors, including stories of climate resiliency, climate awareness, observations of the physical world and sustainable resource management.
In this sub-track, we’ll explore how our institutions create engaging, enriching, and educational programs informed by science and research. Presenters will share their knowledge on program and exhibit development, STEAM, educational standards, and building partnerships between our institutions, teachers, principals and the Department of Education.
In this sub-track, we’ll explore back-of-house sciences necessary for preserving our treasured resources. encourages proposals Presentations will help us consider the sciences of resource management, disaster preparedness, pest management, traditional care and the latest technology used in the stewardship of cultural materials.
In this sub-track, we’ll explore the science of business. Sessions will include topics on writing a grant, managing a non-profit, economic sustainability, cultivating donor relationships, human resources, and public relations.
4:30 pm 5x104:30 pm - 5:30 pmBrief Presentations by 10 Hawaii museum professionals Interested in presenting a 5-minute talk? Register here!
Sponsored by University of Hawai‘i Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program"
2019thu11apr(apr 11)9:00 amfri12(apr 12)5:00 pmEvent OverFeaturedSurrounded By Science: Intersections of Science and Our Museums - NonMembers Section9:00 am - 5:00 pm (12) Atherton Hālau, 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817 Event Organized By: Hawaii Museums Association Time has ran out! Better luck next time!
The museum will be closing its doors at 4:00pm, both days.
Bishop Museum is a NON Smoking venue.
The festival is all ages. Age 5 & under are free.
Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site & Archive, April 27, 1-4 p.m.
Please consider joining us on Saturday, April 27, for an object interpretation workshop at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site & Archive. The workshop will address the ways that objects tell histories and the relationships between historical narratives and objects.
Dr. Karen Kosasa will introduce the “new/old museology,” two ground-breaking exhibitions, an innovative college program, and the “rights” of objects. Halena Kapuni-Reynolds will discuss how objects tell stories about relationships between people.
The second portion will include hands-on exercises with selected objects from the Hawaiian Mission Houses Collection.
If you are interested in attending, rsvp to Ami Mulligan, amimalie@hawaii.edu, by April 25, 2019.
Light refreshments to be provided. The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site is located at 553 S. King Street, Honolulu 96813, tel (808) 447-3910. Street parking is available near the Hawaiian Mission Houses. Garage parking is available at the Frank F. Fasi Municipal Building, located at 1100 Alapai st., Honolulu, HI 96813.


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College can be difficult for every student when they’re first starting out. For many, it is the first time you experience what it’s like to be responsible for every aspect of your life. It can be as exciting as it is terrifying. In addition to the sudden rush into independence, if you have learning difficulties like dyslexia or processing issues, it can be hard to keep up with the rest of your class.
Khan Academy is a great free learning app that has modules for math, science, computer programming, history, art and economics. It is a video library that not only teaches you all the things you forgot in high school (you can start at any level from kindergarten to calculus), but goes deeper and explains why answers are correct.
Each video has multiple examples, and the steps are explained in a way that the learning process becomes intuitive. In terms of accessibility, nearly all the videos are presented on a black background with examples written in contrasting colors. Within each video, different units or concepts are also written in different colors to help you visualize the solution. All videos are subtitled and use simple language except when using a term specific to that subject. Any such words are explained so you can gain a better understanding of what they mean.
Khan Academy also has a gaming feature where you get points to earn badges. This makes the learning process fun and creates a sense of desire to learn more. The best part is, if you didn’t understand something the first time, you can always replay the video, or try their practice exercises.
Another great app to use is Class Buddy Pro. If you have processing issues, your mind can become foggy and easily overloaded, causing you to forget things. Everything from simple tasks such as “finish this email to the professor” to big ones like “do your 20-page paper” can be forgotten.
Class Buddy syncs every assignment, class task, meeting, exam, final, and anything else to your Google Calendar which will send reminders before anything is due. This app can replace your traditional paper schedule, and will make sure that nothing ever goes undone.
These apps and others like them can help a person with a disability immensely in college. Forgetting a heavily weighted assignment can be the difference between passing or failing an entire class. The feeling of always having to play “catch-up” because the class moves too quickly can be overwhelming for anyone. With a little help from these apps, many of those issues go away.


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Mohammad Islam, Racquel Bracken, Julie Grant, and Dan Estes are among Silicon Valley's top young venture capitalists investing in biotech.
Putting millions of dollars into bold new technologies can be a delicate business when lives hang in the balance. But every day some of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley make big bets on tools and techniques that promise to cure disease, help fix the food system, and even prolong life.
Biotech is one of the hottest sectors for venture-capital funds right now.
In January, startup accelerator Y Combinator announced details of its plan to launch a new biotech track focused on advances in the life sciences. Some of the biggest recent buzz in the sector has centered on new ways of tackling cancer using patients' own immune systems, fresh therapies built on gene-editing tools like CRISPR, and potentially revolutionary techniques for making meat without factory farming.
"We like to back things that are unlike anything we've ever seen before," said Mohammad Islam, a principal at VC firm DFJ, which recently invested in Memphis Meats — one of the startups aiming to make real meat from animal cells.
Laura Deming, one of the youngest fund managers in the US, wants to create an antidote to aging.
Laura Deming has defied the limits of age from the time she was 12. That's when she moved halfway around the world to study under Cynthia Kenyon, a renowned molecular biologist who specializes in the genetics of aging.
Deming began her college education at MIT at age 14. The prodigy dropped out to pursue a career developing antiaging technology through Peter Thiel's fellowship program.
Now, Deming has founded her own $22 million venture firm, the Longevity Fund, as well as a startup accelerator in an effort to spur entrepreneurs hunting down treatments for aging-related diseases. Among the fund's investments are Alexo Therapeutics, a startup developing cancer therapies, and Unity Biotechnology, an antiaging drug company.
An engineer by training, Mohammad Islam left a job with the CIA to fund big ideas "unlike anything we've seen before."
Before becoming a principal at the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm DFJ, Mohammad Islam used his background in engineering to work on the technical team of In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC arm.
At DFJ, Islam focuses on "frontier technologies" like machine intelligence and biotechnology — arenas where startups would essentially be creating brand-new markets for their goods.
He's especially excited about companies like Memphis Meats, which aims to get its first cell-based duck and chicken products in restaurants by year's end, and Zymergen, a robot-powered factory that turns bacteria into new materials.
Blake Byers is an engineer, scientist, and entrepreneur who has been leading investments at Alphabet's venture arm GV since 2010.
Blake Byers, the son of famed venture capitalist Brook Byers, started doing biomedical research as a high-school student at Stanford University. His research spanned biomedical engineering, stem cells, Parkinson's disease modeling, and more, resulting in multiple journal papers and patents.
Byers continued running research projects throughout his academic training and his early years working at GV (formerly Google Ventures).
As an investor, Byers partners with founders of life science and digital health companies — such as Collective Health, a startup offering tech-savvy tools for managing health benefits, and genetics-testing company 23andMe — to create a global health impact.
He also helped incubate a new cell-therapy company, Pact Pharma, which is working on technology that reprograms a cancer patient's immune system cells to attack the disease. Byers has raised over $125 million for the company while serving as interim CEO. Pact will announce a new CEO later this year.
Julie Grant is a triple threat in business and science, with degrees from Stanford, Cambridge, and Yale. She uses her academic expertise to help startups translate concepts into real products.
Julie Grant got her start in the life sciences during her freshman year in college while interning in a professor's organic chemistry lab. Since then, she's nabbed degrees in science and business from Stanford, Cambridge, and Yale. Grant also spent six years at pharmaceutical giant Genentech, where she worked on a pancreatic-cancer drug and learned the ropes of the federal drug-approval process.
"I love being able to take blue sky, completely novel research from universities and translate that into something that could be useful for society. That's my true north," Grant told Business Insider.
Since joining health and technology venture-capital firm Canaan as a partner in 2013, Grant has backed promising startups including Protagonist Therapeutics, which aims to create new drugs for autoimmune disorders like inflammatory bowel disease, as well as Bridge Vision and Cellular Research. Grant also served on the boards of several companies including that of Glooko, which makes an app to help manage diabetes.
An engineering junkie from his early days, Benjamin Tseng raised $60 million for a startup and now links investors with pioneering companies in China.
Benjamin Tseng is a principal at venture-capital firm 1955 Capital, where he focuses on advanced technologies in energy, healthcare, food, agriculture, and new manufacturing models.
Tseng got into venture somewhat accidentally, when what he thought was an informational interview with international venture fund DCM turned out to be a real one.
"I convinced DCM to take a chance on me," Tseng told Business Insider.
Tseng spent four years at the firm before joining a messaging startup he helped seed called Yik Yak, which raised more than $60 million in VC funding under his helm.
Tseng is interested in the potential for emerging technologies to help feed the planet and spot disease early. He's also focused on healthcare and renewable energy.
His firm has a particular emphasis on connecting startups in North America and Europe with market opportunities in China, which has some of the largest global demand for new products focused on health and clean tech.
Dylan Morris takes his experience with his own diagnostic startup and applies it to support other companies attempting to cure disease.
When he graduated from Harvard with a degree in computer science, Dylan Morris was looking for a place to have an influence on the world. Shortly after starting graduate school at Caltech, he found venture capital.
His VC career started at Innovation Endeavors, a tech-centric firm that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cofounded in 2010. But two years later, when George Zachary, a partner at venture-capital firm CRV, had a scare with cancer, he picked Morris to head up the firm's leap into bioengineering.
Morris believes we can use what we've learned about cancer to treat — and eventually cure — a handful of other diseases, including those that occur when the body's immune system begins attacking itself or other parts of the body, also known as autoimmune diseases.
"Taking what we've learned about cancer and applying it to autoimmune, neurodegenerative, and infectious diseases — that's where we're headed," Morris told Business Insider. "Our immune system is the center in our bodies that keeps disease at bay and what we're learning about it is too exciting for words."
A chemist by training with two successful biotech startups under her belt, Megan Blewett is betting on tools like CRISPR to revolutionize research and how we treat disease.
Shortly after Megan Blewett earned her doctorate in chemistry at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, her research project turned into a startup. Called Vividrion, the company has since received $101 million from pharmaceutical giant Celgene to create drugs for hard-to-treat diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. Later, Blewett founded a medical analytics company called VoxHealth.
Despite her prolific research background, Blewett felt like she could have more of an impact from the finance side. Last year, she joined heavy-hitting venture-capital firm Venrock to focus on biotech and pharma startups.
"In a Ph.D. lab you talk to the same people over and over again. On this side of things, you're learning about a new topic every single day," Blewett told Business Insider.
Blewett is interested in the opportunities that new tools like CRISPR are opening up for basic research and tackling disease.
John Melas-Kyriazi is helping one of the top investment firms in Silicon Valley make winning bets in the biotech sphere.
With a portfolio that includes Twitter, Slack, Cruise, and Oculus VR, Spark Capital has earned its reputation for taking risks on product visionaries. Tech investing wunderkind John Melas-Kyriazi leads the firm's investments in companies using life sciences and software to tackle biotech-adjacent problems like food security and climate change.
He works closely with the founding teams at Full Harvest, a platform that connects food and beverage companies with farms to buy surplus and imperfect produce, and Wild Type, which is working on technologies that would allow any meat to be cultured in a lab.
Melas-Kyriazi, who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Stanford University before dropping out as a doctoral candidate, was previously one of the first employees at StartX, a startup accelerator for entrepreneurs affiliated with the top-ranked university.
Racquel Bracken deferred med school for a drug-development consulting gig. Now she's backing companies that use the body to heal itself.
After working in a molecular biology lab at Harvard, the Texas native Racquel Bracken met a fork in the road. She could either go to medical school, as many of her colleagues did, or she could explore the business side of the medical system. She opted for the latter, and has never looked back.
As a vice president at Venrock, Bracken sits on the board of Cyteir Therapeutics, which aims to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases using emerging science on how DNA repairs itself. She's also a board observer at Inscripta, a gene-editing company that recently nabbed its first patent for a CRISPR protein, which can be used to tweak genes within the cells of mammals and microbes.
Dan Estes, another individual on this list, says Bracken is "one of the most energetic, thoughtful, and insightful VCs around."
When deciding whether to back a startup, "I consider whether your therapeutic can have a large, demonstrable effect on the population," Bracken told Business Insider. "Can you be best in class? First in class? Those are fundamental tenets that I look for."
Michael Dixon supports entrepreneurs bringing together the field of medicine and enterprise software to make healthcare less messy.
Michael Dixon is interested in what he calls the "big, tectonic plate shifts" happening in the commercialization of healthcare.
He works with companies at the intersection of healthcare and enterprise software, including AirStrip Technologies, a medical software company that delivers real-time, critical patient data to their mobile devices, and Clover Health, a new kind of insurance provider that's focused on driving down costs and improving outcomes for elderly and low-income patients.
Dixon also sits on the boards of Comprehend, Cortexyme, Health Catalyst, Implantable Provider Group (IPG), Percolate, and Stemcentrx.
Before joining Sequoia, Dixon earned his degree in finance and accounting from Boston College and worked as an associate at Fidelity Management & Research Co.
Renata Quintini invests in ambitious startups that aim to help us to not only live longer but live well.
Renata Quintini believes in leveraging technology to improve quality of life. She partners with entrepreneurs whose ideas aim to transform the future of humanity.
"Technology has been giving humans superpowers," Quintini told Business Insider. "As we continue to better understanding (through gene sequencing and other diagnostics), modify (through gene editing), and create biology (through synthetic bio), we are unlocking these superpowers and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, both in terms of our life span and quality of life."
At Lux Capital, she's invested in a brain-nutrition company that's still in stealth, as well as RDMD, which is accelerating treatments for patients with rare disease.
Before becoming a venture capitalist, Quintini left her hometown of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to earn her business degree at Stanford University. She also worked as an investment manager at Stanford's endowment, which invests in dozens of private equity and venture funds.
Francisco Gimenez uses his background in medicine and data to get us closer to a future in which drugs are living entities.
Francisco Gimenez, a principal at venture-capital firm 8VC, made his first moves in the industry by showing up to meetings he wasn't invited to.
A recent Stanford grad, Gimenez had already amassed a few years' venture experience at San Francisco-based VC firm Formation 8 when he jumped to another firm called 8VC, which put nearly a third of its funds into biotech. As it began to take shape, Gimenez made an effort to learn as much as he could as quickly as possible — starting with showing up to random internal gatherings where he could learn what the firm needed.
Today, Gimenez focuses on the firm's investments in biotech and artificial intelligence.
He's particularly excited about a handful of portfolio startups, including Synthego, which sells CRISPR kits for scientists experimenting with the tool; Hexagon, a drug-discovery company; and Senti, which is focused on creating programmable seek-and-destroy cells that could help treat disease.
"So far we've been using chemistry to hijack the mechanisms of biology," Gimenez told Business Insider. "But soon, ideally, we should be using living entities to modulate our internal living organism."
A partner at one of Silicon Valley's leading biotech hubs, Jun Axup picks the startups that get $250,000 and four months of hands-on training from accelerator IndieBio.
Armed with doctorate degrees in chemical biology and immuno-oncology (a research approach that aims to use the body's own immune system to fight cancer), Jun Axup built two of her own startups — MYi Diagnostics and Biochemies — and worked as a scientist in several others. She left that side of the startup world to help others succeed.
She's now a partner at leading biotech hub IndieBio, which provides funding and resources to biotech startups working on everything from cultured meat to non-opioid painkillers.
Axup has her eye on two main industries: food and disease diagnosis.
"We've come so far in our understanding of the molecular makeup of foods and how we can use that to address global problems like climate change," Axup told Business Insider.
Graham Walmsley signed one of the largest Series A financing deals in biotech history.
Less than six months into his career at San Francisco-based venture firm Versant, Graham Walmsley signed off on one of the largest Series A financing deals in biotech history. That deal, completed in 2016, launched BlueRock Therapeutics, a cell-therapy company formed in partnership with pharmaceutical giant Bayer.
Today, Walmsley is a principal at Versant, where he specializes in healthcare and biotech investing. He recently led the firm's investment in a clinical-stage therapeutics company focused on treating non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is poised to be a significant burden on the US healthcare system due to the growing number of patients with the disease.
Walmsley is also the head of business development at two other therapeutics companies in Versant's portfolio, both of which are based in San Diego — Jecure, which uses traditional drug development approaches to treat NASH, and Pipeline, which aims to treat Multiple Sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases by rebuilding the protective sheaths surrounding the nerves in the brain and spinal cord.
Jennifer Kaehms, who earned her degree in bioengineering, helps recruit college students to become the top VCs of tomorrow.
At Canvas Ventures, Jennifer Kaehms finds ambitious companies focused on digital health, as well as software, artificial intelligence, and consumer tech.
But it's other activities that make Kaehms a standout venture capitalist. She oversees the firm's liaison programs at Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. Students at these top-ranked colleges sit in on partner meetings, organize events for the firm, and develop thesis areas around tech investing — an unparalleled opportunity.
Participants often go on to work at venture-capital firms or startups, according to Kaehms.
After earning her degree in bioengineering from University of California, San Diego, she moved to Silicon Valley to set up a hacker house focused on artificial intelligence and hardware companies. There she learned how to build companies.
On a whim, she sent a cold email to Rebecca Lynn, a former chemical engineer and cofounder of Canvas Ventures, and wound up with a job.
Zal Bilimoria spent 10 years as a product manager at Microsoft, Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn before launching his own venture fund.
Zal Bilimoria may be one of the most qualified operators in Silicon Valley. The Wharton School graduate spent 10 years building features and products at Microsoft, Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, before joining top venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.
As a partner who helped launch the firm's Bio Fund, one of the first specialized funds to emerge from Andreessen, Bilimoria sourced deals at the intersection of biology and engineering. He doubled down on his investment thesis with the creation of a new firm, called Refactor Capital, which backs founders solving "fundamental human problems."
"Marc Andreessen said in 2011 that 'software is eating the world.' We believe 'biology is eating the world'; as in, literally everything around us is being re-thought and re-engineered using biology instead of pure chemistry," Bilimoria told Business Insider.
He said he's most excited about the "tremendous" opportunity for biotech to transform consumer and industrial applications outside healthcare — spanning the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and "the ingredients in almost every physical product we touch."
Among Refractor's investments are PathAI, an AI platform that aids doctors with cancer diagnostics and treatments, and Checkerspot, which uses fatty acids from algae to create outdoor recreation products like moisture-wicking fabrics and other materials.
Dan Estes is an adviser to therapeutics companies, and has his eye on startups creating treatments he can clearly envision in the clinic.
Dan Estes has spent nearly a decade at healthcare and pharmaceutical venture firm Frazier Healthcare Partners, where he focuses on backing drug companies that treat everything from cancer and rare diseases to skin conditions.
Racquel Bracken, who nominated Estes, said he's "a true partner to his teams and fellow investors — always adding value and providing helpful and strategic perspectives. He's not afraid to roll up his sleeves and partner with the entrepreneurs he backs."
At Frazier, Estes serves on the boards of four pharmaceutical startups, including Cirius Therapeutics, which is focused on tweaking the human metabolism to NASH, and Sierra Oncology, a cancer therapeutics company. He also recently led one of the earliest-stage investments ever signed at Frazier with a company that remains in stealth mode but aims to have a drug in the clinic within the next two years.
"The best investments are the ones where you can very clearly see where a physician would use this drug. Where you can answer the following questions: How would it help patients? What would that look like?" Frazier told Business Insider.
Vineeta Agarwala is a physician, scientist, and GV investor who helped lead product management at buzzy startup Flatiron Health.
Vineeta Agarwala's résumé reads as if it belongs to someone who's been in the workforce longer than she's been alive. For a time, Agarwala juggled two jobs as a venture partner at GV, Alphabet's venture arm, and director of product management at Flatiron Health.
The cancer-technology company collects clinical data from cancer patients, like medications patients have taken and how they responded to them, to aid understanding of how cancer drugs work in the "real world." Agarwala led the development of national databases that combine data for drug development and oncology research.
Agarwala stepped out of her role at Flatiron Health to focus on her medical residency at Stanford University, alongside tech investing.
Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Agarwala worked as an early data scientist at health-tech startup Kyruus in Boston and a consultant for biotech clients at McKinsey & Co. in New York. She kicked off her career with degrees from Stanford, Harvard Medical School, and MIT, where she studied the genetic basis of disease.