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A woman whose marriage had broken down threatened to kill her husband's new partner when she turned up drunk at the family home near Grantham.
Nasreen Knight had also lunged at her husband Julian Knight with a seven-inch knife and smashed his glasses when he returned from a medical appointment in London.
Moments later, the 37-year-old went on to attack her husband in the laundry room of their Lincolnshire farmhouse by punching and kicking him - leaving him shaken.
The hedge fund trader, of Hough Road, Frieston, was jailed for 15 months at Lincoln Crown Court yesterday, Friday, March 23.
The court heard Mrs Knight also rammed her husband's Land Rover Defender with her Nissan, and when Mr Knight's new partner, Erika Hillyer turned up, she was also attacked.
Mrs Knight was arrested and charged following the incident in January but bailed on condition she did not return to the house.
But eight days later, she was back at the property demanding her husband drop the charges as she feared it would prevent her taking up a position with Bloomberg, the court heard.
Mark Achurch, prosecuting, said this time Mrs Knight - a mother - armed herself with a seven-inch bladed knife, and after a struggle with her husband , who was left "bleeding profusely", ran through the house shouting she was going to kill Ms Hillyer.
From her hiding place under the stairs, Ms Hillyer was able to call police.
Mr Achurch told the court: "On January 11, Mr Knight had been in London having an MRI scan on his heart. Ms Hillyer dropped him off at a house in his village and he walked home.
"As he was doing so, he received a message from the defendant saying she was at the family home.
"When he arrived, the defendant was there demanding to know where he had spent the previous night.
"She lunged at him trying to grab his telephone - no doubt to try and gain information about the relationship. She grabbed his glasses. The force was such that the lens popped out.
"Mr Knight took the decision to leave the home. She told him that if he left she would follow in her car. There was a further incident when she tried to grab his phone again. She hit him with her fist to the left side of his head. That shook him.
"About 10 minutes after that, he was in the laundry room. He was kneeling on the floor in front of one of the machines.
"She attacked him punching him to the torso, kicking him to the right thigh and was kicking him to the right side of the face. She was wearing sturdy outdoor-style boots. That kick knocked his glasses off. She then kicked him to the left knee."
Later when Mr Knight attempted to drive away, her Nissan collided with the rear of his vehicle. It was then that Miss Hillyer arrived.
Mr Achurch said: "The defendant lunged out at her throwing punches and pulling her hair. Mr Knight tried to intervene but the defendant kicked out.
"The defendant then continued. She grabbed Ms Hillyer by the ponytail. She pulled it so hard that Erika Hillyer thought her hair may come out of her head. She caused Erika Hillyer's head to bang against the car.
"Ms Hillyer suffered a sore head and lumps as well as scratches to her face. Mr Knight drove off followed by the defendant who drove her car into the rear of his. The defendant was arrested shortly afterwards."
Mrs Knight was charged following the incident and bailed by magistrates not to contact Mr Knight or go to his address.
Mr Achurch said that eight days later Mr Knight discovered his wife in his kitchen in breach of her bail conditions.
"She asked him to drop the charges. She said she wouldn't be able to get a job with Bloomberg if she had those charges hanging over her," he said.
Mrs Knight left but was back four hours later having apparently been involved in a road accident during the interim period.
Mr Achurch added: "Mr Knight saw her staggering back towards the property from the gate where she had been dropped off.
"She had facial injuries and was carrying a bottle of vodka. Because she was injured, he decided to let her in to give her treatment. She was lying down incomprehensible either through drink or the accident or both.
"The defendant grabbed a kitchen knife from the drawer where it was kept. She lunged out at him holding the knife in a dagger style position. He grappled with her. In the course of that struggle his finger was cut and it bled fairly profusely. He was able to get the knife off her.
"She was shouting 'Where is Erika? I want to kill her'."
"There was a further struggle. She punched Mr Knight to the face, bit him to the right shoulder and pulled his hair.
"She was able to knock him to the floor and grabbed the knife for a second time. She then ran around the house with the knife looking for Erika. She was shouting: 'You can't hide. I'm going to get you'.
"Erika was hiding in an under stairs type area. Having heard the shouting Ms Hillyer called the police. She says in her victim personal statement just how terrified she was. The police arrived and arrested the defendant. They describe her as being drunk."
Mr Achurch said: "Mr Knight describes the incident as leaving him nervous about leaving his house. He has been having nightmares about the incident and has been on edge."
Nasreen Knight admitted two charges of assault by beating and a further charge of criminal damage arising from the incident on January 11.
She admitted affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm on January 19. She was jailed for 15 months.
Judge Simon Hirst rejected a defence plea that her jail sentence should be suspended.
He said: "You are a highly educated woman. You speak five languages and you were a hedge fund trader in London.
"These offences occurred at a very difficult time during the breakdown of your marriage. There was a degree of goading.
"I'm afraid the level of violence, the use of a weapon and the persistent nature of the offending on two separate days means this is so serious that there must be an immediate custodial sentence."
Clarkson Baptiste, in mitigation, said: "She is of previous good character. She is very sorry for what she has done.
"Her whole life had been turned upside down. She feels that she had been usurped by another.
"She realises that the relationship with her ex partner is over."


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Kelly Raso has been a member of the Alloy Silverstein Group since 1986 and is currently an Associate Partner at Alloy Silverstein. She is certified in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and represents various clientele, including real estate developers, service industries, professional practices, agriculture and non-profit organizations.
For years Kelly has taken an active role in helping local small businesses. She is currently serving as President of the Board for the Greater Hammonton Chamber of Commerce. Kelly attended Rider University and lives with her family in Hammonton, New Jersey.
Read how Kelly took the stress out of seasonal hiring for Charlie Tomasello and his award-winning Tomasello Winery.
Kelly is a member of the American Payroll Association. Abacus Payroll, Inc. is a member of the Independent Payroll Providers Association.

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Forthcoming, “Here is a good boke to lerne“: Practical Books, the Coming of the Press, and the Search for Knowledge, ca. 1400–1560,” Journal of British Studies (2019).
“But Does it Work? Playful Magic and the Question of a Recipe’s Purpose,” The Recipes Project. 24 January 2019. recipes.hypotheses.org.
Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) in Past Tense: Graduate Review of History 3 (Spring 2015), 79–81.

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Last year we undertook our first crack at branding, and designing a retail Christmas event for McArthurGlen Designer Outlets. So we were delighted to build on last years success and make Christmas 2016 bigger and better. After the disappointment of Trump and Brexit, we thought we would end the year on a high!
For the East Midlands Designer Outlet, we created a new theme, named the event and created an identity – ‘The Winter Woodland’. In which we installed a ‘Grill in the Woods’, private heated ‘snugs’ outdoor seating, Santa’s grotto and obviously a snow covered magical woodland.
Also capitalising on the success of Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet’s Christmas event, we were commissioned to reuse last years concept of ‘Apres Shop’ and make better use of the space.
We made more undercover seating, as this was the only downfall with last years terrible weather. So we extended the ‘Apres Bar’ with bench seating, doubling the capacity and included 4 heated ‘snugs’ with blankets, faux furs and cushions for people to take a rest from the chaos of Christmas shopping.


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Why did you decide to go on the Yanayacu Research Trip? My professor knew the group was coming and he could send one student and he asked me to go.
What was the most important thing you learned? How the forest works. Everything is necessary. Everything is interconnected. One thing leads to another.
How has this experience changed you? It has allowed me to see how much I like field biology. Talking to people at the station, volunteering, it makes me know what I want to do and start doing it.
What are your plans for the future? I want to keep learning! It is the most important think I have learned. Maybe volunteer at the University Museum to work with the birds and to learn more.
What advice would you give a young scientist? Observe!


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What is it like for a Black American to visit Africa?
I can still remember the first time I stepped off the plane in Africa: it felt like walking into an oven.
I visited Nigeria and it was an emotional experience for me as a young teenager growing up in America. Most of my knowledge about Africa came from television where you get a distorted view of the continent.
African people are very kind people but they often experience crippling poverty in the most extreme ways.
I visited traditional African huts where I had to craw on my hands and knees to enter the house.
I ate at restaurants where the only food being served was chicken and fish.
I witnessed impoverished people with common ailments & problems that western countries could easily solve and/or cure if the people had access to healthcare.
I fell in love every 10 seconds as I watch beautiful African girls prance around town like little angels.
Many African people wanted to desperately travel outside of Africa to seek employment opportunities because high paying jobs are scarce in Sub-Sahara Africa.
No matter what struggles the people are dealing with, I was touched by the courage and heart of the people. They had very little yet walked with such pride I cannot see in some of the richest people on earth.
African Americans shouldn’t be afraid to visit Africa because you will surely get the experience of a lifetime.
If you want to see the true beauty of the motherland, then I recommend visiting a developed country in Africa like Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, or Morocco for your first trip.
Last month, I went to ZA for spring break and it was probably the 2nd best vacation I’ve had. My parents and I visited Johannesburg, Sun City, Kruger Nat’l Park, the Panorama, Germiston, and Soweto (both Germiston and Soweto are in Joburg). If we had more time to be down there, I know it would’ve been the best trip yet. Being an African American in Africa was somewhat emotional for me because for the 1st time in my life, I was in my earthly homeland (Heaven is my true homeland). If you’re African American, PLEASE GO SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA! You’ll never be the same.
Africa is the truth. I went to Ghana in 2015 and it was fascinating. every person of African descent needs to go Alkebulan(Africa).

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Originally known as the Lyran Commonwealth, House Steiner’s Lyran Alliance is widely recognized as a nation of merchants and industrialists first, and warriors a distant second. Settled and dominated by predominantly Germanic and Scottish cultures, and ruled by the Steiner family through a combination of political intrigue and brute economic force, the Lyran state is united in the pursuit of status and wealth.
Often on the defensive in the Succession Wars, House Steiner’s peace initiatives sparked the creation of the Federated Commonwealth, but when the Clans invaded, the Lyran half of that alliance suffered the bulk of their assault. The strain of this event and others led to the sundering of the Federated Commonwealth, the birth of the Lyran Alliance, and the eruption of the FedCom Civil War. In the wake of that conflict, the battered Alliance hoped to reclaim its lost glories under a new Archon, only to see the start of the Word of Blake Jihad firsthand with a surprise assault on their own capital world of Tharkad.
Like the Federated Suns, the Lyran state enjoys an open market economy that boasts centuries of stability and success, boosted by the presence of some of the Inner Sphere’s most industrialized worlds. Although the reforms of the Federated Commonwealth era improved Lyran martial prowess, the influence of the socalled “social generals” and widespread confidence in “bigger equals better” firepower has returned House Steiner’s realm to a time when it was widely seen as militarily inept. Indeed, the Lyran solution to most problems is typically negotiation, barter, or covert action—but with their resources and wealth, the armies of House Steiner can often field heavier and more numerous forces than their enemies, producing a virtual wall of steel against an enemy advance.
During the long history of House Steiner many interesting and unique individuals have made the Lyran Alliance what it is today. Below are just a few of the movers and shakers who have had an influence on the Alliance’s character.
Not many Inner Sphere rulers can boast that they were once the subject of an animated propaganda vid series, but Adam Steiner is certainly amongst their number. First rising to prominence during the early days of the Clan invasion, Adam hails from a distant branch of the Steiner dynasty and called the far-off world of Somerset home. After his successes in the war, he steadily rose through the ranks until he was appointed General of the Armies just before the outbreak of the Word of Blake Jihad.
Those who would dismiss Melissa Steiner-Davion as nothing more than a political pawn in the alliance between the Commonwealth and the Federated Suns don’t know her very well. Though her marriage to First Prince Hanse Davion began as a political alliance, it quickly became just as much a union of love as dynastic maneuvering. Already beloved by her own Lyran people as the only child of Archon Katrina, Melissa soon endeared herself to the people of the Federated Suns as well and often functioned as a compassionate leavening to her husband’s plans.
Melissa gave birth to five children who would grow up to have major impact on the Inner Sphere: Victor, Katherine, Peter, Arthur and Yvonne. Tragically, Melissa fell victim to her own daughter Katherine’s ambitions and died by an assassin’s hand.
Seizing the throne from her unpopular uncle Alessandro, Katrina Steiner set out to strengthen the Lyran nation by any means necessary. Her 3022 Peace Proposal set the stage for the marriage of her daughter Melissa and the Federated Suns’ Hanse Davion, which in turn led to the Fourth Succession War. As a result of this war, her economically powerful realm became joined to the military might of the Davions and the Federated Commonwealth reshaped the map.
Katrina never remarried after the death of her beloved husband in 3010 and, tired of war and suffering from cancer, she retired just before the 3039 conflict with the Draconis Combine to spend time with her grandchildren. She died peacefully in her sleep a year later, one of the most beloved Archons to ever reign over the Lyran people.
Archon Viola inherited the throne from her mother Tracial just in time to sign the Star League Accords and bring her nation into the new alliance. Though she had enjoyed a promising career in the LCAF, Viola found herself initially opposed to war on the Periphery States, only gradually coming around to see the benefits of the conflict. Once the war began, she took direct command of her troops and personally led them against Rim Worlds Republic forces. Unfortunately, her long absences from Tharkad led to political instability in her realm and her heavy-handed methods of dealing with the issue caused much resentment among the people and her own family. Viola died in the field on the Republic capital world of Apollo, exposing herself to the same risks she asked of every one of her soldiers.
The strength of a nation can be measured in the quality of its military and the men and women of the Lyran Alliance Armed Forces are one of House Steiner’s most important assets. Below are just a few of the iconic units that have defended the Alliance from its enemies for centuries.
The Lyran Guards are the heart of the Steiner military. The best of the best were handselected for this elite group of units, and only the best commanders were allowed to take them to battle. Only those loyal to the state could hope to find a place in their ranks. Unfortunately for the Alliance, the Guards have seen more battles than they could take.
The Donegal Guards, like no other arm of the Steiner military, stand for loyalty to the Archon. So when the FedCom Civil War began, they all sided with Katherine Steiner- Davion—and paid dearly. The Jihad began before they were able to finish rebuilding efforts, and the Donegal Guards found themselves in the middle of war again.
The Seventh Donegal took part in the very successful attack on Coventry to liberate the world from the Word of Blake. The campaign ended in only four days, and the Guards took minor casualties. Since that time, they have guarded the world in anticipation of further attacks by the Word.
The Arcturan Guards have a proud history, and they are as old as the Lyran Commonwealth itself. Founded when Arcturus was still was the capital of the Lyran Commonwealth, the Guards fought in almost every major campaign in which the Commonwealth was ever involved.
The Twentieth Arcturan was heavily involved in the offensive that finally liberated Tharkad. The campaign was successful, Tharkad was free again, and the Twentieth sent to Atocongo to rest and regenerate. Unfortunately for them, the Word of Blake was out for revenge and sent a Shadow Division after them. When the Fiftieth Shadow retreated, the Twentieth were all but wiped out, with more than seventy-five percent losses in equipment and more than half of the men dead.
To support its policies and goals, the Lyran Alliance relies on a network of corporations to manufacture everything from consumer goods to computer equipment to military hardware. Below are just a few of the industrial leaders that create the infrastructure of Lyran society.
Defiance finds itself in a situation it has never had to deal with: rebuilding. Attacks on Hesperus II have damaged parts of the massive complex of factories there, even shutting down entire lines, but never has it been under enemy control. The liberation of Hesperus resulted in immense damage, and spoiler attacks by the fleeing Blakist forces only exacerbated the situation, levying an economic toll. The biggest question about Defiance’s long-term prospects is a question of ownership. While the Brewers will undoubtedly be in charge, the fluctuation in stock prices might change the makeup of the board and the various alliances that keep Defiance going.
No other major corporation in the Alliance has as many questions as Coventry Metal Works. Formerly the number two producer of BattleMechs in the Alliance, they felt sure they would emerge from the shadow of Defiance Industries when the Blakists conquered Hesperus II . However, perhaps their advertising campaign celebrating their new status as “Number One” should have been rethought, as karma brought them to the reality of the Jihad when Blakist forces invaded Coventry. While other companies limped along, CMW saw their headquarters turn into a Blakist staging area, their lines producing ’Mechs for an enemy that occupied their facility, while their cash reserves evaporated since they had no other facilities to provide cash flow.
Ask a Lyran soldier what the biggest company in the Lyran Alliance is and he’d probably guess Defiance. He’d be wrong, by a long shot. Nashan is to Defiance what the Lyran Alliance is to the Marian Hegemony. With a multitude of divisions, this conglomerate has their fingers in almost every industry. The recent occupation of Lyran planets by foreign armies has impacted their sales somewhat, as has cutting off certain markets, but Nashan has managed to ride out the troubled times better than most other companies. CEO Margaret Doons has moved resources around and pumped cash into other ventures, and her company’s stock price has actually increased.

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The Figurative fifties : New York figurative expressionism organized by Paul Schimmel and Judith Stein ; essayists, Klaus Kertess ... [et al.].
Paul Schimmel; Judith E Stein; Newport Harbor Art Museum.
Newport Beach, Calif. : Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988.
Figurative expressionism -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions.
Painting, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
New York school of art -- Exhibitions.
Bob Thompson / Judith Wilson.
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busywait consumes 10% of the available CPU time.
corresponds to a previous EVENT_WRITE_EOP.
the sort of interface we want.
existing busywait mechanism if a timeout is provided.
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Which CPU is faster, 3.2 GHz Nehalem W5580 or 2.6 GHz Istanbul?
Yes this is a loaded question. The context I use is a very simple double precision floating point loop, with the interior re-written to use SSE2. The idea is, if we run the identical program on the same machine, running one core, doing little else but double precision FP operations (in this case, computing the Riemann Zeta Function), with very little to no memory traffic … which CPU core will win on this very simple sprint?
The larger picture context of this is a set of reports we were hired to generate. Unfortunately, its looking like the business side of things (for the reports) is falling through so there is little I can do relative to this. We can’t/won’t work for free (we have enough people trying to get us to do free consulting for them as it is).
Here is the Nehalem 3.2 GHz machine (running at full clock speed, I turned off the speed/power governor, and determined that it was off from /proc/cpuinfo). CPU and motherboard loaned to us by our friends at Intel for other purposes, but its there, so we ran it.
The core loop is running on this machine in 3.44 seconds.
The core loop is running on this machine in 3.27 seconds.
The Istanbul is, from what I can see, a formidable computational competitor to Nehalem. Dismissing it out of hand (as I have seen many do based upon Shanghai, Barcelona, and other performance metrics) would not be in anyone's interests as users and consumers of high performance computing gear.
Its unfortunate that it does not look like the reports will be able to be generated though, as we will have to give up access to the Istanbul soon. I would have liked to have seen what it can do.
I’m sad you won’t be able to expand the results. This is a good data point, but unfortunately it doesn’t really establish much in terms of either processor’s appropriateness for a given task, right? Most applications need access to memory, and eventually to disk. This is reminiscent of the Advanced Clustering Technologies benchmarks pitting AMDs against Intels for different tasks, with the winner varying depending upon what part of the system mattered (Nehalem faster for memory bound computations, etc.).
We have some data, but it doesn’t look like we are going to be able to do anything with it. I agree, it is interesting. I agree, I’d like to see it expanded.
The Advanced Clustering benchmarks weren’t (for the most part) application level benchmarks (stream?). The LAMMPS benchmark was real, but not conclusive, and was used to draw general conclusions where it probably should not have been. There are many different operations in MD codes, and some will do better on some processors than others. You want to (generally) test multiple related code paths.
I do agree that all applications need memory and disk. My arguments won out on the former, but lost out on the latter. Hence the test cases were already restricted.


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text: The chemical composition of the plumes of seagoing ships was measured during a two week long measurement campaign in the port of Rotterdam, Hoek van Holland The Netherlands, in September 2009. Altogether, 497 ships were monitored and a statistical evaluation of emission factors (g kg(-1) fuel) was provided. The concerned main atmospheric components were SO2, NO2, NOx and the aerosol particle number. In addition, the elemental and water-soluble ionic composition of the emitted particulate matter was determined. Emission factors were expressed as a function of ship type, power and crankshaft rotational speed. The average SO2 emission factor was found to be roughly half of what is allowed in sulphur emission control areas (16 vs. 30 g kg(-1) fuel), and exceedances of this limit were rarely registered. A significant linear relationship was observed between the SO2 and particle number emission factors. The intercept of the regression line, 4.8 x 10(15) (kg fuel)(-1), gives the average number of particles formed during the burning of 1 kg zero sulphur content fuel, while the slope, 2 x 10(18), provides the average number of particles formed with 1 kg sulphur burnt with the fuel. Water-soluble ionic composition analysis of the aerosol samples from the plumes showed that similar to 144 g of particulate sulphate was emitted from 1 kg sulphur burnt with the fuel. The mass median diameter of sulphate particles estimated from the measurements was similar to 42 nm.

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Seven men came out on this pleasant Spring Morning for a midweek beat down. Unfortunately, the Skywalker Q schedule is looking very lame this month and today was another Peoples’ Q. The clipboard will be coming out Friday, so hopefully we’ll get the schedule filled up. The People stepped up today and we had a great beat down.
Thanks Greek (you’re not allowed to participate in Peoples’ Q anymore).
Now that we’ve smoked the chest, it’s time to smoke the abs.
Since we already hit the abs pretty good, Pony Boy led us in some much needed stretching.
Come out Friday for Grinder’s Birthday Beat Down. You don’t want to miss this since it only comes around every several years.
Sign up to Q. It’s easy, fun, and fulfilling.
Let’s get some of our fair weather brothers back out now that Spring has arrived.

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Running successful, effective paid media strategies across Paid Search (Google/Bing), Paid Social (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, etc), and online display can be a challenging task for anyone, even marketers with tons of time. For marketers tasked with dozens of items, it becomes exponentially more difficult even for the most savvy and experienced digital marketer to keep up. Using marketing automation to enhance digital paid media campaigns can create new layers of efficiency and create a more integrated strategic approach. Here are four tricks for how you can leverage marketing automation to improve your paid media campaigns.
Whether you are advertising on Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook (or many other channels really), marketing lists are a significant benefit to creating a cohesive strategy. If you have an email list, how you segment this list can help you create a focused campaign audience. How can you use marketing lists to enhance your campaigns?
Create a segmented list of people that have registered for a whitepaper or newsletter (or whatever “free” content you offer) but have not taken any additional steps in your defined buying journey. I.e., they haven’t scheduled a demo or requested a sales contact. You can use this list of “cold leads” to create a campaign designed to drive further interest in your product or service.
If you run an ecommerce business, you could create a running list of people that have not purchased a product in the last 90 days (or whatever makes sense). With this list, launch a “re-purchase” campaign that is designed to bring previous customers back to purchase another product from your store.
With Google, you have to have a steady advertising history in order to use customer lists as an audience layer. You also need to have a large enough list (minimum of 1000 matched customers) in order to run these types of campaigns on Google.
With LinkedIn and Facebook, the match requirements are less, but there is still a requirement to have at least 300 matched customers.
Landing pages and conversion rate optimization are a key factor in successful digital media campaigns. Driving traffic means little if you aren’t optimizing your landing pages for conversions, you are basically giving money away! Marketing automation software like the emfluence Marketing Platform offer landing page generators that allow you to create customized pages for campaigns of all types.
We generally recommend ongoing A/B testing with your paid media campaigns so that you can continually strive for ongoing conversion improvements. You can do this by creating multiple landing pages within your marketing automation platform, or you could also consider adding a dynamic landing page optimizer (i.e., Optimizely or Google Optimize) to allow you to create experiments dynamically.
Paid media is a great way to generate a large volume of leads quickly, but if you don’t have a good nurture campaign built and ready to go, it may be a fruitless effort. Nurturing your leads allows you to identify customers that are truly engaged with your brand and your messages and those that may have just signed up for a free whitepaper or newsletter or whatever the case may be. By creating these lead nurture workflows, you can quickly segment these customers based on their activity.
Lead scoring is a part of this. With lead scoring, you can develop a model that attributes value for every action a contact in your list completes. Once they’ve achieved a pre-defined lead score, you can move them through the funnel to the next stage of the communications (whether that is more mid-funnel nurturing or a call from sales).
You could also further this lead nurturing campaign by creating a customer segment list (as described earlier). You can create a customized campaign with unique messaging for this segment that is specifically focused on promoting a new product, promotion, or sales opportunity.
One last thing we can do to ensure our paid search strategy is well-integrated with marketing automation is to continually monitor high value keywords. If we find that there are high value search queries driving new leads, try to ensure those are included in all other aspects of your campaign assets – from ads and landing pages to email communications and social media messaging (and all things in between). This can lead to a more effective communications strategy in the long run.
Additionally, using consistent messaging across ads, landing pages, social media, and nurture campaigns can drive home a key message relatively quickly. Your future customers are engaged across all of these channels and will benefit from a consistent message. Note: consistent does not mean identical. There are many ways to communicate your core message effectively.
Use your customer/contact lists to create focused target audiences for paid search, social, and media campaigns.
Create custom landing pages for your media campaigns that use consistent messaging.
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Pity, 220MHz in the UK was issued to DAB radio, so we will never know how good this band is? However this radio and its variants are again something exciting from China.
Does the radio have a data port?
The programming/data port is on the front, and the external speaker jack is in the rear.
What about the radio’s front-end? Is it just a UV-5R in a box with better tx or something else? Is it usable at all in rural areas with RF polution? Thanks.
I’m debating on adding one of these to my JT-6188. There isn’t any 220mhz activity around here so that band would be useless to me. Does this offer any upgrades compared to the UV-2501?
BTW, does anybody know where PDOAC is?
I didn’t think there was 220MHz activity around here either until I got on and found I have 5 within 30 miles.
My 2501+220 has all the new features of my 2501. I’m quite pleased with mine. No ‘bugs’ to be found in mine.
Thanks for the great product review!
Thank you for a great review… There are some variants of this little radio. Can you please make a comparison sometime in near future?
So is there something really special?


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Now here's a game that went TOTALLY under my radar back in the day. I've been confused about this one since first hearing about it on the net only just a few years ago (at the time of this writing)!
Namely: why didn't I SEE, much less play this game *ANYWHERE*? I can't believe I never saw this one, even though it's categorized as to supposedly getting a "wide release" back then, according to its entry in its Killer List of Video Games page. I could understand if I lived in a small town that never had an arcade, but I lived in freakin' HOUSTON, for God's sake! The fourth largest city in the country! Memorial City Mall, at one point, I do believe had literally *five* game rooms at one time, with Kyptar's and Celebrity Cafe having several dozen games apiece!
Well, whatever happened with this game, it was a ROM hack with just different-looking levels than the original, but its gameplay was left pretty much intact. A few interesting notes include Level 12 looking almost exactly like 13 from the original (plus level 11 is a more "bumpy" version of the original level 11), whereas levels five and nine not only takes up only the right half of the screen, but they're so hard to see what the hell's going on you have to turn your head to the side, since everything's squished to the left side! So you have to tilt your head to the left to try to view it better (and then on top of THAT, level 10 is also tilted at a freakin' angle to boot! Whee!)!
The graphics and sounds are the exact same as the original, and the gameplay is mostly the same, there's just a few play mechanics that have slightly changed due to funky level design (like the ones with the "dead ends" that I mentioned). I assume the control was the exact same as the original's, having the spinner and all, but I can't say for sure since I never saw or played this one in an arcade, so I'm leaving that blank in the ratings column.
This really isn't that much of an upgrade from the original, and due to some levels being nearly impossible to tell what's going on at times, isn't quite as fun. It's just pretty much for bragging rights saying that you've got this in your game room/collection, for those that have a Tempest machine with this ROM installed (I've seen listings for such a thing on an arcade mailing list I'm on). Other than that, it doesn't really do much for the original. Heck, I couldn't even think of many sarcastic things to say with this one.
Oh, I know! Why did the Tempest fan cross the road? To try to find an arcade that had Tempest (Tubes) in it!
But are the look is the same for Tempest Tubes.

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Immigration has dominated the news headlines since Inauguration Day.
First there was President Trump's executive order "protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry in to the United States."
Then came the protests at airports nationwide as travelers from the countries banned under the executive action arrived in the U.S.
Following on from that, the legal fight to suspend the travel ban, which found its way to the 9th circuit appeals court.
There's more. Against this backdrop, the detention of 600 people across the United States -- 160 in Southern California -- following a series of raids by U.S. Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) last week.
What does all of this mean for a state with the nation's largest number of immigrants, both with and without legal documentation?
Take Two's A Martinez and Dorian Merina discussed California's place in the immigration debate at the University of Redlands.
"California, like any other state, can not have laws that directly impact the admission or the deportation of non citizens ... but we have various laws that protect or provide financial aid to undocumented students or DACAmented students who are going to the Cal State or the community colleges or the UCs. So there is an extensive body of law at the state level in California that is more welcoming than alot of other states"
"Our policy says we will not stop anybody for the sole purpose of determining their immigration status. We do have a caveat in our policy, that allows, if an officer has somebody detained for a legitimate reason ... and there is a question as to whether that person is in violation of federal law, you can hold the person just long enough to contact immigration officials and see if they want that person. That's contained in the policy. I can't tell you the last time that's ever actually happened."
"At four-years-old I didn't ask my parents to bring me here, and I think it's important to note that I've been trying in all of the smalls ways that I can to remedy that. I've had an application in to become a citizen since before I got here. I now have DACA ... I have employment authorization. I go to school here with that DACA and I also have an application for political asylum, because as a queer person, it's not safe to be in Mexico and be out in the ways that I feel like I need to be in order to be myself."
"The polarized political environment we're in is challenging in the classroom, because there are boundary lines that one runs in to while teaching that are difficult to navigate. Part of being at a liberal arts institution is questioning those fundamental assumptions with which you've been raised, but this environment is one that's not always conducive to that. "
"The system is broken, that's the fact that we start from, and all of the different aspects of it are broken. For refugee applicants, we have to remember they're fleeing from war and conflict and a lack of basic stability in their lives ...To go from uncertainly and instability into uncertainty and instability in the United States is a sad state to be in."
To listen to edited highlights of the conversation, click on the blue media player above.

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It’s an old and simple joke, but it points to an important reason why people are drawn to cities. Why do people move to Hollywood? They want to be in movies. Why do they move to Wall Street? They want to be in finance. In the best cases, cities enable citizens to pursue their aspirations.
By the year 2050, it is estimated that two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in urban settlements, in part for that same reason: Cities enable people to pursue their hopes and dreams, and they do it more effectively and efficiently—in terms of time, resources, and capital—than other alternatives.
As the world urbanizes, significant debates arise as to what the future of cities should look like, how cities should be planned and organized, and how cities can help improve the quality of life for new residents. These discussions expand on and often challenge theories from the past century, a period that fostered significant changes in approaches to urban planning and the subsequent cities that emerged.
But unlike other forms of human invention, cities are unique in that newer versions don’t necessarily invalidate older versions. People in the Middle East inhabit parts of cities that were founded over 2,000 years ago. People in Europe inhabit parts of cities that are around 1,000 years old, and people in older U.S. cities, such as Boston and Philadelphia, live in neighborhoods that have been around for hundreds of years.
The History of Cities Repeats Itself. Living in a time-tested neighborhood, with all sorts of locational and functional advantages, more than compensates for the limitations of living in a centuries-old building. For the future of cities to thrive, people need to re-examine and evaluate the benefits of such advantages.
In the 20th century, urban theorists were certain that the conditions of modern times—replete with telephones, cars, and other inventions—were dramatically different than anything that had come before. They rejected existing standards and practices, many of which had been honed through centuries of experience and trial-and-error. Instead of building mixed-used neighborhoods (with houses close to shops, schools, civic centers, and workplaces), planners at the time used zoning to separate functions, which in turn increased traffic congestion.
Technologies change quickly; people change more slowly. The things that attracted people to cities in Renaissance Italy, Reformation Holland, and Industrial England still tend to attract people today: jobs, opportunities, companionship, excitement, and a sense of independence and freedom. In an era that seems to constantly strive for the new and the novel, cities remind society of certain fundamental aspects of humanity.
If the 20th century was the age of the automobile, the 21st century will be the age of IT. If the car was an agent of dispersal, computer technology is even more ephemeral. Yet why are so many leaders of this technology—the Googles, the Twitters—moving into city centers? Because their employees want to live there, not in a hermetic spaceship somewhere in suburbia, not in the car for a two-hour commute, not in a remote location connected only by technology.
Save Time and Money With Mixed-Use Cities. People want to be together with easy access to family, friends, and companions; they want places to shop, places for recreation, places to eat and drink. Even in the age of ubiquitous social media, people still want accessible community, and that’s what cities can be great at providing—as long as it’s a primary motivation behind city plans and designs.
The role of infrastructure, ultimately, is to help support the desires and aspirations of the people who live in a community. Twentieth-century city planning often made it seem that infrastructure, itself, was the goal, when historically and today, it’s essentially a means. People want access. They don’t necessarily insist on ubiquitous mobility, and they certainly don’t demand multilane congested highways.
In the right plan, a bike lane or a sidewalk might be more than enough to meet their needs. This is what many cities, particularly in Europe and certain parts of the U.S., are rediscovering. Mobility, in and of itself, only becomes a primary focus when the fundamental functions of everyday life are fragmented and spread apart, which was the 20th-century model.
In the end, the integrated mixed-use city is simply more efficient than one where things are compartmentalized and spread out. Time spent driving can be spent on leisure activities. Energy used to move tons of steel and plastic to and from far-flung developments can be used to provide much-needed services. And money spent on highways can be spent on other ways of enriching the lives of residents.
Moving forward, this sort of redirection will be essential because, as the world’s population continues to urbanize, the quality of life for people moving into cities must improve and the total and per-capita ecological footprint must go down. Key to achieving this goal are cities: diverse, integrated, walkable, bikeable, multimodal, and built on the lessons people have learned over thousands of years.
Twentieth-century theories suggested that each new technological advance will have radical and significant impacts on the planning, design, and operation of cities, and each new generation will demand new and different city forms. History suggests the opposite. Time-tested, tried-and-true patterns and approaches have an amazing capacity to absorb new technologies and still address the fundamental reasons why people move to cities: They provide people with places to live, work, and play and the means to pursue their individual and collective goals.


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Change is coming to Atlanta, and we’re going to be ready for it. Projections suggest that we could triple in population within the next couple of decades. It’s no longer a question of do we want to grow but rather how will we use growth to shape the city we want to become. Over a period of 18 months, we crafted The Atlanta City Design: Aspiring to the Beloved Community to be the city’s guiding design. Its purpose is to articulate an aspiration for the future city that Atlantans can fall in love with, knowing that if people love their city, they will make better decisions about it. These decisions will then be reflected in all the plans, policies, and investments the city makes, allowing Dr. King’s concept of the beloved community to guide growth and transform Atlanta into the best possible version of itself.
Our design is rooted in one of the most defining points in our city’s history: Atlanta’s outsized role shaping the Civil Rights Movement. In 1959, Dr. King described the outcome of the Movement as the beloved community. Far from a utopian fantasy, Dr. King saw the beloved community as a realistic and achievable goal – an actual community of people made possible by the Movement. As we prepare for the unprecedented growth ahead, the city must ensure that it also becomes more equitable, more resilient, and more committed than ever to welcoming everyone.
The Atlanta City Design is the framework for inclusive growth that Atlanta has been missing. We didn’t create a plan with policy and regulatory recommendations for the next 10 years. We created an ambitious design that will perpetually challenge us to live up to our five core values of equity, progress, ambition, access, and nature in the hard work that lies ahead. Our physical design for the city reflects its physical form: not the sprawling highways that defines us now but our entire evolution beginning with our natural state as a verdant forest in the Appalachian Piedmont. This struggle between preservation of our natural condition and our drive towards urbanization is the basis for our design concept that designs for people, nature, and people in ature.
We’re committed to the Atlanta City Design and building the beloved community. In December 2017, we amended our charter to recognize the Atlanta City Design as the design of the city. It is already strategically realigning the city’s myriad plans, projects, policies, and priorities. These are the critical next steps of developing and detailing our design and include the city’s urban ecology framework, new mobility plan, zoning ordinance re-write, historic preservation strategy, and housing strategy. The Atlanta City Design is drawing these plans together with clarity and common purpose in way that has not happened before in the city’s history. It has also inspired a collaboration with the public school system to create an eighth-grade school curriculum in the Atlanta Public School System that is now being taught to over 2,000 students.
The Atlanta City Design is NOT a plan. Planning does a lot of very specific things. It manages the process of planning the city, including the development and enforcement of policies related to land use, transportation, and zoning. It reviews and permits the construction of buildings and other projects. It assists people on all kinds of technical issues and initiatives related to housing, urban design, and preservation. Most often, it’s deep in the weeds, sorting through a lot of details.
The Atlanta City Design is our opportunity to step out of the weeds and consider the city as a whole – to dream about a future Atlanta that we want, and then design our approach to achieve it. This work is fun, but it is also essential, because when we look at the tremendous growth and change that is coming, we see that not changing is not really an option.
This is why we created the Atlanta City Design. Our intention is to reveal the city’s physical identity as a basis for the design of our future, and then propose ways to improve and accentuate Atlanta’s authentic character in a form that can accommodate a much larger population. Envisioning what that looks like – how Atlanta can become a better place to live and do business while doubling, or even tripling, our population is essential.
Not since Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago in 1909, has a city truly undertaken a long-term design vision fueled by fast-paced growth. Burnham designed the relationship between people and the public realm, proposed a physical form to bring form to formlessness, and led to the development of a public school curriculum to ensure engagement and endurance. Like the Atlanta City Design, the Plan of Chicago is aspirational. Over 100 years later, it continues to shape Chicago’s physical form.
The Atlanta City Design: Aspiring to the Beloved Community is the first step in a design process. Think of it as our concept design for the city. It describes who we are and how, based on that identity, we can leverage the change we see coming to create a dimensional, tangible, and aspirational form that will enable us to become a better version of ourselves. Following through on this aspiration is the next phase: the design development. This phase involves drawings the city’s myriad plans, projects, policies, and plans together with clarity and common purpose in service to the concept. Finally, over the next generation, we will operationalize the design’s actions and ideas through the actual construction of projects that shape the city. This will require the work of the Department of City Planning, the mayor and city council, other divisions of city hall, and many external partners, including everyday citizens.
The Atlanta City Design is capturing the city’s imagination, mobilizing its residents to action, and instilling a sense of accountability to its future. We are building the beloved community. When built, this design will enable a new generation of growth to create an even better Atlanta for everyone.


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Erasmus Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) trained as a physician and wrote extensively on the subjects of medicine and botany. In addition, he was known to compose poetry. He lived in Lichfield and Derby, England. He was one of the founder members of the Lunar Society, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He was a member of the Darwin — Wedgwood family, most famously including his grandson, Charles Darwin.
Darwin was born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, the youngest of four sons of Robert Darwin of Elston (1682-1754), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill (1702-1797). His brothers were William Alvey Darwin (1726-1783), Robert Waring Darwin (1724-1816) and John Darwin, rector of Elston.
He was educated at Chesterfield School then later at St John's College, Cambridge. He obtained his degree at Edinburgh Medical School. He settled in 1756 as a physician at Nottingham, but meeting with little success he moved in the following year to Lichfield. He practised medicine in Lichfield in Staffordshire for twenty years; George III invited him to be Royal Physician but he declined.
Darwin married twice and had 14 children, including 2 illegitimate daughters by a mistress, and at least one further illegitimate daughter is suspected.
Elizabeth Darwin (1763), survived 4 months.
William Alvey Darwin (1767), survived 19 days.
Susanna and Mary Jr later established a school. In 1782 Mary Sr married Joseph Day (1745–1811), a Birmingham merchant and moved away.
Meanwhile, Lucy, daughter of Lucy Swift was born in 1771, and was christened a daughter of William and Lucy Swift, but she may have been Erasmus Darwin's daughter . Lucy jr married John Hardcastle in Derby in 1792 and their daughter Mary married Francis Boott, the physician.
Henry Darwin (1789-1790), died in infancy.
Darwin died suddenly on the 18 April 1802, weeks after having moved to Breadsall Priory just north of Derby. He is buried in All Saints Church, Breadsall.
Erasmus Darwin is commemorated on one of the Moonstones; a series of monuments in Birmingham.
Would it be too bold to imagine that, in the great length of time since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions and associations, and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!
Erasmus Darwin was familiar with the earlier evolutionary thinking of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo and cited him in his 1803 work Temple of Nature.
Another of his grandsons was Francis Galton (see family tree below).
In addition to the Lunar Society, Erasmus Darwin belonged to the influential Derby Philosophical Society, as did his brother-in-law Samuel Fox (see family tree below). He experimented with the use of air and gases to alleviate infections and cancers in patients. A Pneumatic Institution was established at Clifton in 1799 for clinically testing these ideas. He conducted research into the formation of clouds, on which he published in 1788. He also inspired Robert Weldon's Somerset Coal Canal caisson lock.
Darwin's experiments in galvanism were an important source of inspiration for Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. His poetry was admired by Coleridge and Wordsworth. It often made reference to his interests in science; for example botany and steam engines. His most famous work of poetry was The Botanic Garden.
Darwin was the inventor of several devices, though he did not patent any. He believed this would damage his reputation as a doctor, and encouraged his friends to patent their own modifications of his designs.
A horizontal windmill, which he designed for Josiah Wedgwood (who would be Charles Darwin's other grandfather, see family tree below).
A carriage that would not tip over (1766).
A speaking machine (at Clifton in 1799).
A canal lift for barges.
A variety of weather monitoring machines.
In notes dating 1779, a sketch of a simple liquid-fuel rocket engine or ramjet can be found, with hydrogen and oxygen tanks connected by plumbing and pumps to an elongated combustion chamber and expansion nozzle, a concept not to be seen again until one century later.
For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity of power to cause the causes of effects, than to cause the effects themselves. This idea is analogous to the improving excellence observable in every part of the creation; such as in the progressive increase of the solid or habitable parts of the earth from water; and in the progressive increase of the wisdom and happiness of its inhabitants; and is consonant to the idea of our present situation being a state of probation, which by our exertion we may improve, and are consequently responsible for our actions.

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Thinking all London tours are much the same, is a common mistake, as is the belief that some of the cheaper tours are better value.
The reality is that there is a huge difference between what is and what is not included and this is worth looking closely at when booking.
The more expensive all inclusive tours generally offer the best value and are far cheaper than trying to go alone and paying separately at each location.
That’s a total of £122.25 before other attractions are included, a tour guide and transport.
If you look around it is possible to find a tour that includes all the above for half that price.


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A 2006 Gallup Poll found that chiropractic rated dead last among health professions with regard to ethics and honesty.1 Why? People are curious about the poor reputation of chiropractic,2 and confused about the nature of chiropractic.3 Often inspired by their own negative experiences, they ask me what I think. This article is a survey of chiropractic controversies and issues that I think patients should be aware of.
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The first thing one wants to know about any treatment — alternative or otherwise — is whether it works. Until that is decided, all talk of qualifications, regulation, and so on is just vacuous bureaucratese.
Most people just want to know if it will help them. But “chiropractic” is many things. What kind of chiropractic treatment? Does it work for what? How much of it? For which kinds of patients? Just asking if “chiropractic works” is not specific enough to have a meaningful answer. It is not really a fair question to ask of chiropractic as a whole. But it is nevertheless the question that people actually ask, and so we have to deal with it as well as we can.
I believe it’s obvious that some chiropractic therapy does “work” in certain ways, for some people, some of the time. The most important factor in the usefulness of chiropractic therapy is not the nature of chiropractic as a profession, but the skill and good sense of the chiropractor whose hands are on your neck. Ethical, intelligent practitioners of any helping profession will always deliver better care than less competent members of their own or any other profession.
Consumers need to be aware of the issues to help them choose a good chiropractor. Or choose none, if they prefer!
Chiropractic is so controversial that this article attracts a lot of shooting-the-messenger hate mail. I am not expressing my opinions about chiropractic here: I am reporting and explaining concerns that the experts have been debating ad nauseum for decades, quoting their opinions, and citing some of the same scientific evidence that they do.
The best consumer guide to chiropractic therapy available, written by a chiropractor & America’s leading expert on pseudoscientific health care. If you want to know if chiropractic therapy “works,” stop reading my article & go get this book.
What experts? Progressive chiropractors and critics from within the profession like Dr. Samuel Homola,5 Dr. Bruce Walker,6 Dr. Donald Murphy,7 and Dr. Preston Long8; relatively progressive chiropractic regulatory agencies9; activist physicians like Dr. Stephen Barrett,10 Dr. Stephen Novella,11 or the especially credible Dr. Edzard Ernst12 (who has such great experience with both medical science and alternative therapies); and science journalists like Simon Singh,13 who was in the news because he was sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association for comments he wrote in a column in The Guardian in 2005, in connection with his book, Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine .14 The lawsuit failed, and the misguided attempt did serious harm to the reputation of chiropractic.
The fact that patients swear by us does not mean we are actually helping them. Satisfaction is not the same thing as effectiveness.
There is an undeniable history of scientific and ethical controversies swirling around the profession, from its earliest days to the present. What are those controversies? Why is chiropractic perpetually contentious?
Chiropractic often involves many expensive but quick treatments,1516 and marketing and sales tactics that many people consider to be aggressive and distasteful, if not downright unethical, especially pre-paid treatment packages,17 and the hawking of many other services and products that are much more blatant quackery,18 like applied kinesiology,19 and ear infection treatment. A 2016 federal (US) audit concluded that more than 80% Medicare payments to chiropractors were for medically unnecessary procedures, and 100% of treatments were unnecessary after the first thirty.20 In a 2018 crackdown in British Columbia, Canada (my home), many dozens of chiropractors were forced to remove unscientific claims from their websites, like anti-vaccination propaganda and claims of autism cures.21 Do chiropractors sell too hard?
An example of the diversity of conditions that chiropractors claim that they can treat, from an advertisement.
3. The risks: what could possibly go wrong?
Spinal adjustment for acute low back pain has long been regarded as the best example of evidence-based care routinely offered by chiropractors. Nevertheless, some critics have pointed out that even this technique has been damned with overly faint praise — “positive” results so trivial that they actual prove there is no meaningful benefit. A major, credible 2012 science review supports that view with a completely negative conclusion.30 Is chiropractic actually useful for acute back pain? If there’s any real doubt about even this, what does it suggest about the rest of chiropractic care?
The best single example of aggressive marketing is so important that it constitutes an independent controversy: many chiropractors recommend regular treatments for children and even babies (and maybe they break their necks31). Critics say this is a worrisome extreme of dangerous conduct in chiropractic: an intervention with higher risks and even more dubious benefits. Do children really need chiropractic adjustment?
Chiropractic is usually packaged with other sketchy treatment ideas and beliefs about medicine, exemplified by anti-vaccination rhetoric. You would hope that such a belief would be rare among educated professionals, but it actually permeates the profession to the point where even chiropractic regulators are anti-vaxxers — the people who should be disciplining other chiropractors for espousing the same belief. No matter what spinal manipulation does or does not do for back pain, how much can you trust a healthcare professional who has embraced one of the most extreme anti-medical beliefs possible, the medical equivalent of believing that the Earth is flat? What else do they believe?
I’m not answering any of these questions posed above — I’m asking them. And I’m pointing out that they have been asked (and answered) for decades. Many credible critics rule against chiropractic on all of these issues and several others.
And so one of the most important things to understand about chiropractic is that it is a divided profession: there is significant controversy within the profession itself.
I was the first to adjust the cause of disease .... The man who had the intellectual capacity to comprehend the displacement of the vertebrae; the mental ability to grasp the significance of nerve impingement; the power to conceive and discriminate between normal and abnormal positions; the foresight and wisdom to discern the outcome; the genius of originality to create such a unique science; the judgement needed for the occasion; the brain caliber of reasoning on this heretofore perplexing question — the cause of disease; the sense of touch required to discover a racked vertebra and the skill and tact to replace it, was the one destined to discover and develop the science which he named chiropractic.
Wow! Clearly, DD’s arrogance was dialed up to 11. According to Palmer, “A subluxated vertebra … is the cause of 95 percent of all diseases.”34 Those were big words, and indeed they have been called the “big idea” in chiropractic ever since. In 1966, a group of physicians damningly wrote, “In all the years that they have been talking about them, chiropractors have never been able to furnish proof of these mysterious subluxations which they alone are able to see. They may convince their clients, but never have they provided proof of their pretensions to men of science.”35 Even 53 years ago the absence of persuasive evidence was already a concern for many experts.
Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is based on the theory that misaligned spinal bones produce nerve interference that causes disease. Many chiropractors claim that correcting these misalignments (“subluxations”) can restore health and that regular spinal adjustments are essential to maintain it.
The chiropractic profession has little tolerance for dissension. Its nonsense remains unchallenged by its leaders and has not been denounced in its journals. In fact, many chiropractic journals continue to publish articles that attempt to justify subluxation theory. Although progress has been made, the profession still has one foot lightly planted in science and the other firmly rooted in cultism. Without appropriate criticism, the good in chiropractic will never be sifted out, and competent chiropractors will not receive the recognition they deserve.
This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify its scientific basis. If you are contemplating or receiving chiropractic care, it might help protect both your pocketbook and your health.
the whole rationale for chiropractic collapses, leaving chiropractors no justifiable place in modern medical care except as competitors of physical therapists in providing treatment of certain musculoskeletal conditions.
Whatever the fate of the profession, you’d probably like to know what kind of a chiropractor is treating you today, a “straight” or a “mixer,” regardless of which you’d prefer. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible for patients to tell which is which! And that is a serious problem for all chiropractors.
Even if the original idea significance of subluxation as a cause of disease is discarded, is there a more ordinary justification for manipulating the spine for the treatment of pain? Chiropractic is the profession most obsessed with the generally shabby idea that anatomical alignment is a key factor in chronic pain problems of all kinds (not just spinal pain). “Adjusting” the spine refers to many different manual therapies that wiggle, pop and otherwise manipulate spinal joints, with the general goal of “straightening” patients or restoring normal motion. The correct umbrella term for these treatments is “spinal manipulative therapy” or SMT. Expert opinions on SMT range widely, with some prominent medical scientists expressing strong concerns, primarily because its provenance in chiropractic subluxation theory is dubious, but also because whatever benefits it has are clearly not major, and there are serious risks, even including paralysis and death in the case of SMT for the joints of the neck.
For more information about the risks of treating the neck, see What Happened To My Barber?
Thus, SMT fails the “impress me” test — if it’s working any miracles, they must be rare and small ones.
And yet spinal joint popping in particular is something that people crave, and most clinicians — including myself, and including skeptics like Dr. Homola — believe that some forms of SMT can be helpful to some of their patients, some of the time. There seems to be almost no doubt that there is something of therapeutic interest going on in SMT in some cases.
Occasionally, believe it or not, I recommended chiropractic therapy to my own massage therapy patients. Sometimes I believed they needed more skilful and direct stimulation of spinal joints than I could provide myself, and I believed that the scientific evidence then showed that appropriate spinal manipulation had the potential to help back pain in this way, with acceptable risks.
Many of them reported this kind of positive result from chiropractic treatment. I have experienced it myself on many occasions, and I have also observed many clients expressing relief and pleasure in response to incidental spinal “adjustments” — joint pops that occur in the course of doing massage therapy, little explosions as I slide up the spine.
Many people seem to feel that a happy spinal adjustment feels like “scratching an itch you can’t reach.” Why might that be?
Whatever you have been told before, and despite the availability of many explanations on the internet, the nature of joint popping is not well understood.43 It is firmly in that category of trivial mysteries for which there is simply no research funding, and as such it will probably remain unexplained for some time to come. We simply do not know.
Whatever a joint pop really is, it probably provides a novel sensory experience: a little blast of proprioceptive stimulation.44 Since all living systems seem to thrive on sensory input, and generally suffer without it, I speculate that a joint crack essentially feels like getting “unstuck,” and is analogous to finally getting to stretch your legs after getting off a long flight — which is not intended to trivialize it.
The strength of this idea is that it just isn’t claiming much: it both accounts for the extremely satisfying feeling that many people report, but without promising the moon. Indeed, it also seems consistent with another widely reported feature of SMT: the benefits often don’t last long! Soon the “itch” needs to be “scratched” again. It also could explain why the benefits of SMT are so variable and uncertain: it is highly dependent on many factors. For instance, whether a joint crack feels “refreshing” to you depends on how you feel about the whole idea of joint cracking.
Unfortunately, many people are not comfortable with having their spinal joints “cracked” or manipulated.
This is one of those “there are two kinds of people in the world” things: some people crave spinal joint cracking, expertly applied or otherwise, and to others it seems like fingernails on a chalkboard. My wife, for instance, wants at least one spine-cracking hug per day, and clearly becomes impatient when it has been too long since the last one! Other people would view such a hug as an alarming assault — people with such anxiety about spinal joint popping typically have never been to chiropractor and never will, or they take a dim view of what happened to them when they reluctantly tried it.
Clearly, those who find joint cracking to be unpleasant are not good candidates for “scratching the itch” with a nice round of lumbar facet joint explosions! You know who you are, and you don’t really need to be reading this: chiropractic is certainly not going to work for you!
This is a painstakingly prepared list. My daring plan was to make this the best such list I could find, which I assumed would be difficult or impossible. Surely there are excellent compilations of this sort already? But it’s actually pretty thin pickings: I’m surprised how little I found, and how much of what I found was rather shabby. Not that my own effort here is perfect or complete, of course, but I did really work hard on it — many, many hours. You can really sink oodles of time into wrangling not only a bunch of links, but all the reading required to describe them well. This would have been completely impossible if I hadn’t already been reading on this topic for many years.
I originally wrote it with great earnestsness for ScienceBasedMedicine.org’s Chiropractic Reference Page, in my capacity as SBM’s Assistant editor, and I’ve adapted it a little for use here — just a little lighter.
Of course, ScienceBasedMedicine.org itself is one of the premier sources of analysis and criticism of chiropractic, and their reference page also includes links to dozens of posts there, many of which have attracted hundreds of thousands of readers over the years.
The National Council Against Health Fraud is another project of the prolific Dr. Barrett. See the NCAHF Position Paper on Chiropractic and the NCAHF Fact Sheet on Chiropractic.
The Chiropractic Stroke Awareness group and Neck911.com are both devoted to raising awareness about the risk of stroke and death from manipulation of the cervical spine, and offer resources for people who believe they have been injured by neck manipulation. Neck911’s Statement of Concern from Canadian Neurologists is a good topic summary. Neither website seems to be well-maintained, unfortunately, but their existence and purpose is noteworthy.
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe 5×5 Podcast, an early spinoff project of the very popular SGU, covered chiropractic in three parts in 2010: episode 91, episode 92, episode 93.
The Skeptic’s Dictionary has a substantial chiropractic entry.
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine , a book by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst. amazon.com ❐ A thorough examination and judgement of more than thirty of the most popular “alternative” treatments, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic and herbal medicine. The ultimate verdict on alternative medicine is delivered for the first time with clarity, rigour and authority. A thorough examination and judgement of more than thirty of the most popular “alternative” treatments. Although this book covers much more subject matter than chiropractic, it’s historically significant to chiropractic because of its role in Simon Singh’s famous conflict with the British Chiropractic Association. See SBM’s review.
Chiropractic:The Victim’s Perspective, by George Magner (1995).
British science writer Simon Singh was sued in 2008 by the British Chiropractic Association for criticizing spinal adjustment for children with conditions like asthma and ear infections, calling it “bogus” and pointing out the lack of evidence. The BCA withdrew its lawsuit two years later, having suffered a public relations disaster. See my summary of the Singh case.
2016 — Editing and reorganization of the introduction, a new summary of the main controversies, and a significant new reference about Medicare billing.
2016 — Cited Bruce Walker’s “aberrant practices that cause significant reputational damage to the profession” (Walker).
Samuel Homola, Doctor of Chiropractic, is a second-generation chiropractor who has dedicated himself to defining the proper limits on chiropractic and to educating consumers and professionals about the field. He is hardly the only critic of his own profession, but he is probably the most famous and widely read. His 1963 book, Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism , supported the appropriate use of spinal manipulation to treat some spinal pain but renounced the common chiropractic dogma that spinal adjustment is a panacea. I strongly recommend his 1999 book Inside Chiropractic: A patient’s guide . It provides an incisive look at chiropractic’s history, benefits, and shortcomings.
Dr. Steve Novella is an academic neurologist on full-time faculty at Yale University School of Medicine. That in itself would be career enough for me, but Dr. Novella is almost frighteningly productive above and beyond his professional duties at Yale. He is the co-founder and President of the New England Skeptical Society, Associate Editor of The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine , a contributing editor of QuackWatch, author and contributor to numerous columns, blogs and podcasts, most notably the popular podcast Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, which has many tens of thousands of listeners and is my own favourite podcast.
Dr. Edzard Ernst possesses a rare mixture of significant expertise and experience with both scientific and so-called “alternative” medicine, and consequently has become one of the most interesting and credible experts on the subject. He qualified as a physician in Germany in 1978 where he also completed his MD and PhD theses, but has also received training in acupuncture, homeopathy, massage therapy and spinal manipulation. His experience and research have made him one the most credible and interesting critics of alternative medicine in general, and chiropractic in particular, along with science journalist co-author Simon Singh (see below). His 2008 interview in New Scientist is an interesting introduction (see Interview). Dr. Ernst has published more than 40 books — including the current book Trick or Treatment , and last year (right up my alley) Complementary Therapies for Pain Management — and in excess of 1000 articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature and has been given visiting professorships in Canada and the US. His work has been awarded with 13 scientific prizes.
ChiroBase.org [Internet]. Barrett S. Don't Pay or Contract in Advance for Chiropractic Visits at a "Discount" Price; 2009 Mar 9 [cited 12 Mar 9].
ScienceBasedMedicine.org [Internet]. Homola S. Chiropractic gimmickry; 2012 Oct 2 [cited 12 Oct 4].
An good overview of dubious practices in chiropractic care other the standard chiropractic treatment.
No supportive evidence is found for the chiropractic subluxation being associated with any disease process or of creating suboptimal health conditions requiring intervention. Regardless of popular appeal this leaves the subluxation construct in the realm of unsupported speculation.
And yet it’s been there for more than a century, I’d like to add.
Dr. Harriet Hall explained the significance of the paper in an article for ScienceBasedMedicine.org, The End of Chiropractic.
Despite all of these genuinely progressive steps, the chiropractic profession here in North America may be slipping backwards. I perceive that we are at risk of returning to the antiscientific and dogmatic traditions that we have worked so hard to shake off during the past several decades. This apparently unrecognized reversion to the uncritical and unskeptical tendencies of early day chiropractic has everything to do with politics and economics and nothing to do with science. For more than a century chiropractors have fended off the efforts of organized, political medicine to ‘contain and eliminate’ this profession. In the process, deep rifts have formed among chiropractors. I’m not speaking here merely of the well-known division between ‘straights’ and ‘mixers,’ but more importantly about the chasm between those who would see chiropractic progress as a scientific healing art and those who are committed to old-time biotheology and ‘phoooolosophy.’ Today, chiropractors are hungry, one might even say desperate, for unity. It is this deeply felt yearning for unity, I believe, which places the scientific integrity of the profession at risk. We are at risk of accepting dogma and pseudoscience and ambiguous platitudes in order to come together.
NCCAM, the biggest pro-alternative-medicine institution in history, publishes this page to summarize homeopathic issues and science, but admits that “there is little evidence to support homeopathy,” despite their extremely well-funded mandate to produce that evidence over many years.


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"The same flame was kindled in Gateshead Fell, while I was opening and applying these words, 'Everyone that hath this hope in Him, purifieth himself even as he is pure." Wesley's Journal, 19th May, 1761.
"About three I preached at Gateshead Fell; about 5 at Garth Heads; at each place to a larger congregation than I ever saw there before. What a change is wrought in this whole country! And will it not be wrought in the whole country!" Wesley's Journal, 14th June, 1761.
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Solange posed in a dazzle of retro color last night at the “Girls” Season 2 premiere at NYU. The style Diva rocks a boldly busy printed two piece pants suit from the Cavalli pre-fall 2013 collection.
Not a huge fan of all that busy-ness going on, but we're thinking only Solange can do this look justice.
However that afro Solange is glaming is so right and on point with the fit only for Solange wear... Afro Diva!
@BaddieBey styled in a leather and fur Céline sweatshirt. Bey paired her sweatshirt with skinny jeans and Alexander McQueen loafers.
Definitely sisters from the same mother!
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After a boxed and viewing the poster session at University House, AUF buses took participant to a choice of three excursions. I chose to go to the Behind the Scenes at the UA Museum of the North. This museum has a focus on research and student training. We were taken on a guided back room tour, which began with the loading dock. One might not think of this as the first place that you would show guests, but when you are dealing with collections that include dinosaur skeletons and sleds, getting artifacts in and out of the building is important. From there we went down into the research and collections area. We viewed various freezer and specimen preparation areas. We passed through the large compact storage shelves full of artifacts of all sorts –mammoth tusks, historical field gear and indigenous tools and goods. At the end of the collections tour we were able to examine a number of artifacts by hand. These included seal skin mittens, a mammoth tooth, an Eskimo yoyo and several bird skins There were many students around, some packing up goods to head out into the field. In one of the labs, students prepared bird skins for storage. The final lab we visited was the cryo lab, where biological samples, including DNA are stored in liquid nitrogen.
After the museum tour, the group joined the other tours at the Rasmuson Library to view the collection of polar maps that Katherine Arndt and Rose Speranza had prepared for us to examine. It is always a a thrill to see the rare maps. The afternoon finished up with refreshments in the Library.


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QUEEN MARY'S COLLEGE, Chennai- November 2013 Semester Exam Results for UG, PG & M.Phil Courses.
SSLC Examination Results - April 2013 .
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3. The Applications will be sold from May 30, 2011 and the duly filled-in applications have to be submitted by June 3, 2011.
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Geraldine “Gerry” Harrington, age 83, passed away Sunday, July 29, 2018 at Regent Care Nursing Center in League City, Texas. Funeral arrangemGeraldine Ann "Gerry" Smith Harrington went to be with the Lord on July 29, 2018. She was born December 11, 1934 in Oklahoma City, OK to Charles and Angelina Smith and lived most of her life in Galveston, Texas.
Gerry was preceded in death by her husband Walter "Skip" Harrington; her parents Angelina Farine Smith and Charles B. Smith, Sr., and her brother, Charles B. Smith, Jr.
She is survived by her children: Dennis L. Harrington and wife Lydia of Friendswood; Lisa Anne Harrington-Kleyweg and husband Jim Kleyweg of San Diego, CA; Kevin D. Harrington and wife Edie of Galveston and David A. Harrington of Galveston; grandchildren Madeline Harrington, Paul Harrington, Lisa Renee Harrington, Alexandra Harrington and Kevin W. Harrington. Also surviving are her twin brother Gerald Smith and sister Connie Smith Schulz as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
After admirably raising her four children, Gerry worked as a kindergarten aide at Island/Parker Elementary for many years. Then after being a devoted parishioner at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, she became an employee, where she was beloved by many. She also volunteered for several local charities including "Meals on Wheels". She was an honoree at Mercy Park Association of Galveston's "2014 Yellow Rose Celebration" for her many humanitarian efforts.
Earlier in life she enjoyed taking her family to the beach, playing tennis, playing cards with her girlfriends, attending her sons’ baseball games, watching her daughter cheer at football games and square dancing with Skip. Later in life she enjoyed keeping up with the successes of her cherished grandchildren and watching A & M football.
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Gerry will be held on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10 a.m. at J. Levy & Termini Funeral Home. Visitation will be held prior to service time beginning at 9 a.m.
The family thanks Gerry's many friends for their love, their visits and their prayers. Special thanks to Nina Jo Serio and special friends from the Ursuline Academy Class of 1953, as well as her dear friends from St. Patrick’s, Jo Jeffries and Jintana Palomo. We also thank the staff of Harborview and Regent Care Center for their compassionate care, especially Tony Ngaruiya, Charlotte Arevalo, Kathy Anderson, and the entire team that cared for her.
Memorials may be made to the Galveston Island Meals on Wheels, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, or charity of your choice.ents are pending.
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To celebrate this year’s Parade of Homes, Newland Communities will host a treasure hunt experience supported by geocaching to help visitors truly experience our communities and explore our 35 model homes. Residents are welcome to play along, as well.
To participate in the geocaching treasure hunt, players use specific GPS coordinates and/or clues to discover items hidden within each Newland community. Players pick up a tip sheet at any community Welcome Center and also have the option to download a free geocaching phone application to receive additional tips and coordinate information. The first player to find all of the treasures in all three communities wins a $200 gift card. Up to 10 second place winners will win $100 gift cards. Other prizes can be earned at each community.
This special event takes place April 11 thru May 1, so hurry in and join the fun!


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Pwn2Own is a computer hacking contest held annually and this year hackers discovered vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Tesla Model 3 and earned earned $510,000 in this contest.
At Pwn2Own annual hacking competition where hackers demonstrated new zero-day bugs and awarded by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).
The first day of contest started with the team Fluoroacetate (Amat Cama and Richard Zhu) exploiting Apple Safari browser. They were successfully able to exploit the browser and escaped the sandbox by using integer overflow in safari and heap overflow to escape the sandbox. They used a brute force technique during sandbox escape which took the entire allocated time the code would fail then try again until it succeeded. This earned them $55,000 USD and 5 points.
The Fluoroacetate duo returned targeting Oracle VirtualBox. Although their first attempt failed, the second attempt successfully aligned which earned them $35,000 USD and 3 more points.
In their final entry for the first day, The Fluoroacetate also targeted VMware Workstation which got them $70,000 USD and 7 additional points. This result for the total of $160,000 and 15 points.
anhdaden from STAR Labs also targeted Oracle VirtualBox. His first foray into Pwn2own netted him $35,000 USD and 3 points.
The final team phoenhex & qwerty (@_niklasb @qwertyoruiopz and @bkth_) exploited Apple Safari with kernel elevation. Browsing to their website, they triggered a JIT Bug followed by a heap out of bounds (OOB) read – used twice – then pivoted from root to kernel via a Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) bug. Unfortunately, it was only a partial win since Apple already know of one of the bugs used in the demo. Still, they earned themselves $45,000 USD and 4 points towards Master of Pwn.
The second day began with Fluoroacetate duo of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu exploiting Mozilla Firefox web browser. They leveraged a JIT bug in the browser, then used an out-of-bounds write in the Windows kernel to effectively take over the system. They were able to execute code at SYSTEM level just by using Firefox to visit their specially crafted website. The effort earned them another $50,000 and five more points towards Master of Pwn.