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Cupping is one of the oldest methods of traditional Chinese medicine. Today acupuncturists use cups made of thick glass, plastic or bamboo. Glass cups are the preferred method of delivery, because they do not break as easily and they allow the acupuncturist to see the skin and evaluate the effects of treatment.
In a typical cupping session, glass cups are warmed using a cotton ball or other flammable substance, which is soaked in alcohol, lit, and then placed, inside the cup. Burning a substance inside the cup removes all the oxygen, which creates a vacuum.
As the substance burns, the cup is turned upside-down so that the practitioner can place the cup over a specific area. The vacuum created by the lack of oxygen anchors the cup to the skin and pulls it upward on the inside of the glass as the air inside the jar cools. Drawing up the skin is believed to open up the skin’s pores, which helps to stimulate the flow of blood, balances and realigns the flow of Qi breaks up obstructions, and creates an avenue for toxins to be drawn out of the body.
Depending on the condition being treated, the cups will be left in place from 5 to 10 minutes. Several cups may be placed on a patient’s body at the same time. Some cupping treatments will also include small amounts of medicated or herbal oils being applied to the skin just before the cupping procedure, which lets the cups move up and down particular acupoints or meridians after they have been applied.
What conditions does Cupping treat?
Cupping can be used for a variety of conditions but is mainly used for muscular-skeletal pain, cold and flu’s and cold syndromes. It is very beneficial in the treatment of pain.


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Rachel is a Marine Ecologist, Master Scuba Instructor, and USCG 100-ton licensed Captain. She grew up homeschooled on an alpaca farm in Upstate NY, where her passion for the outdoors was initially cultivated. After attending a marine science summer camp in her teenage years, she fell in love with the ocean, and went on to earn degrees in Ecology and Marine Biology. She spent time in Florida at MOTE Marine Laboratory researching coral disease ecology but found herself drawn into Eco Tourism as a way to more directly be involved in educating the public about our marine resources. Working with Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic has given her the perfect balance between exploring, science, oceans, and mountains, while seamlessly providing her with an outlet for sharing her knowledge and passions in a meaningful and fulfilling way.
She is just as happy camping and hiking as she is snorkeling and diving. This has instilled a desire to explore, live, and work in places all over the globe. She has backpacked through Central America, spent several seasons land-based in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, snorkeled with humpback whales in Newfoundland, Canada, planted corals in the Florida Keys, and taken adaptive divers on trips to Cozumel, Mexico. When she is not on a Lindblad Expedition, she can be found in the Florida Keys at ocean orientated nonprofits that promote coral conservation, adaptive scuba diving, and citizen science.

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Morson international is recruiting for a Rolling stock Testing Support Project Manager the role is to support the CCOS Testing & Commissioning in London plus interfacing with testing in Derby and Melton Mowbray.
Work collaboratively and robustly with other teams and suppliers to develop and deliver the integrated testing and commissioning plan for the CCOS.
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If you have sent emails to TrueScale and have not gotten an answer, please send it again.
A quote from one of my favorite movies, which made me think. So… I quit my current job (for a new one) to get busy living and I’m feeling better! Maybe interest and enthusiasm will return.
I’ve read a few comments that TrueScale is “out of business.” It’s not!
I have a few ideas on how to market TrueScale bodies in a way that wouldn’t be too much trouble or bother for me.
While I am still taking a much needed break, I feel thankful for all TSP customers and apologize for any disappointment or frustration caused by the shortage of True Scale bodies. I am considering trying to provide them by other means to where it will fit my schedule.
I have been shipping some orders and special requests.
My personal situations have been taking all my time. I really do miss working on molds and bodies!
My Dad introduced me to Model Cars and Slot Cars in the 60’s.
I’ve had a lot going on for a few years and struggled to find an interest in my lifetime hobby and making bodies.
I’m very sorry! I do hope to get through life’s ups and downs and return soon.
Thank you to all TSP customers and friends for your patience and understanding.
I have begun to consider taking a break from accepting body orders.
Most of you know that long delays in order processing is normal for TrueScale. Something I’m not happy about.
I have little time anymore to produce bodies and fill orders and I need to devote my time elsewhere and try to find a way to provide better service in the future.
I am still completing and shipping orders I have.
Why doesn’t TSP sell to Slot Car Distributors like Eagle and others so my raceway can order from you?
I cannot possibly fill orders from distributors. They order large quantities. As an example it takes me about 4 hours to make, package and pack 35 Retro TI-22 bodies. As it is now I only have Saturdays and some Sundays to work on orders.
Why have you stopped filling my orders as a Dealer of your TrueScale Retro bodies?
1. Charging your customers more than the retail price.
2. Your interactions with TSP have been unfavorable or untruthful.
3. You are selling on eBay.
4. Or by not following other agreements, if any.
Why have you stopped answering my calls and won’t take my order for bodies?
Most likely you’ve felt the need to be rude in your phone calls or email.
A PC Hard Drive crash has caused all past emails to get lost. This issue has cause long delays as well, while trying to repair the PC.
If you sent one and didn’t get a reply, please send an email again by using the TSP contact page.
TrueScale Products will offline for the Holidays.
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One of the key elements of OneKirk that we hope will shape its future, and indeed the Church of Scotland as a whole, is inclusivity: the broad welcome that Christ exhibited to those whom everyone else wanted to ignore. The extraordinary ability to gather in the lost that Jesus spoke and preached about is a message of gracious inclusiveness—there is no body who is outside the realm of God’s grace.
In his latest book, The Secret Message of Jesus, the prolific American writer Brian McLaren draws on many modern theologians from Dallas Willard to Walter Wink, N.T. Wright and John Howard Yoder to Tony Campolo. In an attractively written and engaging book, McLaren argues that for too long the “secret message” of Jesus has been lost amidst the cultural issues of the day.
By exploring Jesus’ use of parable as a form of teaching that by its nature separated those who “had ears to hear” from those who could not move from their exclusive view of God, McLaren uncovers how Jesus preached a radical and inclusive message that turned the thinking of the day upside down. But one had to have “ears to hear” what Jesus was saying.
Jesus wasn’t preaching a message of domineering power or aggressive conquest. The Kingdom of God that Jesus tells us about is a Kingdom of compassion and kindness, of healing and peace, of empowerment for the weak, of sanity in an insane world, and of freedom.
This Kingdom of God should not be confused with a “heavenly” Kingdom “up there”, somewhere. This is the Kingdom of here and now, this is the Kingdom for which we pray daily: “on earth as it is in heaven”.
While nothing of what McLaren is saying is new, his readable exploration draws you in. As one reads, exclamations of “Yes, of course!” to the points made are frequent. This book makes so much sense of the “big picture” of Jesus’ message.
It can be easy for us to slip into tried and tested ways of thinking about Jesus’ message: to try to tame the radical edge, to soften the blow of the Sermon on the Mount. We can be guilty of domesticating Jesus.
What of the inclusiveness of Christ? McLaren notes that inclusivity itself has a sharp edge. It is not simply about being nice to people, even those we disagree with. There are limits.
Using the example of a hospital, McLaren describes the inclusivity that welcomes all who are sick, the doctors, nurses and family members. And yet, a hospital cannot inclusively welcome the child-snatcher or the poisoner. Those who would seek to destroy inclusivity must be resisted.
To jump for a moment to C.S. Lewis, just as Aslan was not a tame lion, so the secret message of Jesus is not tame, but rather wild, infectious and joyous for those with “ears to hear”.

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2G AstroTurf sports pitches in Lisburn BT67 0 are basically a second generation artificial grass designed to be infilled with sand or dressed with silica sand. The 2G surfacing is used widely across the UK as a multi use games area artificial turf pitch (ATP) which can be used for almost any sport including football, rugby, tennis, netball and hockey. The carpet is made up of vertical fibres and yarns of synthetic turf filled or dressed with sand creating usual pile height of about 22-24 mm high. Although this surface is ideal for the use of hockey, it is often installed in ATPs, MUGAs and STPs as it is a surface which can lend itself to many sports. The 2G astro turf pitches are commonly fitted with surrounding rebound fencing and floodlighting meaning that the surfaces can be utilised in almost any conditions, all year round.
We can also install various other surfaces including 3G and 4G. If you require details on 4G surfacing, please click here http://artificialturfpitchreplacement.co.uk/new-surfacing/4g-astroturf-surfaces/lisburn/ Our team can install surfaces from second generation to fourth generation, so please let us know if you require pitch replacement. If you'd like more information on nearby 2G astroturf surfaces, please complete our contact form and we will get back to you straight away with all the information you need regarding sand filled and sand dressed surfaces.
We can carry out the entire installation process for you from start to finish, disposing of any old synthetic turf or natural grass. Since we have worked in the surfacing industry for many years, we are highly qualified professionals and our installations are completed to a very high standard. To learn more about our professional team, please click here http://artificialturfpitchreplacement.co.uk/lisburn/ If you wish to have a 2G pitch installed, please speak to a member of our team regarding costs and prices for the installation by simply filling in our contact form. Once we receive your enquiry we will respond with all the information you need along with a free quotation for installations and resurfaces.
The rip up, recycling and replacement of 2G surfaces may be required in order to refurbish old Astro grass multisport flooring that needs resurfacing or upgrading to a 3G rubber infilled football, rugby or hockey surface. For more details on renovating sports pitches, have a look at this http://artificialturfpitchreplacement.co.uk/upgrade-facility/renovation-sports-fencing/lisburn/ If the primary sport is still likely to be hockey, an organisation may decide to rip up the worn 2G surfacing and replace it with some new second generation sand-dressed or sand-filled artificial grass surfaces.
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For Professionals: Always disconnect battery before repair?
I've been fixing iPhone for a couple of years now and I always shut the phone down before repair but I usually never disconnect the battery. Would it be smart to disconnect it before every screen replacement?
I've never had any issue, and I've been doing it for years. I've even done it a fair few times forgetting to power the device off and it's been fine.
absolutely 100% yes. no doubt about it.
I would second disconnecting the battery. While you will probably be fine in most cases, do you really want to risk damaging the device, by skipping a step that takes a few seconds.
AppleCrack zal eeuwig dankbaar zijn.

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The blog has been a little empty lately and your shopping carts may be too full, so I thought I would share some songs you might like that you’ve probably never heard before. Consider it my gift to you.
Here is a live version from a club concert in the early 90s. I’m not sure which version I enjoy more.
This Tiny Desk Concert by Lucius is also pretty amazing. I especially enjoy around the 12 minute mark when they are asked if they would play one more song and they then scavenge through the desks to find items to use for percussion while playing Genevieve.
These aren’t quite Matt’s punk or heavy metal covers, but I hope you enjoy them anyway.
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The handicapping process does not end when the bets are made; it ends by reviewing the results of the races that were bet and analyzing the handicapping process to determine if anything was missed. After taking a day to recover, I looked back at the 2011 Breeders’ Cup results and came up with the top four things to take away from the last Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs.
Every horseplayer has watched or bet a race that was won by a horse that appeared to have no chance of winning. The horse may have appeared to be too slow, was running at the wrong distance or had not run well in months or years. The horse triggers large payouts and causes great frustration. After reviewing the past performances nothing points to the horse as a winner. The result is still implausible but that is perfectly acceptable. Horse races are run by living breathing animals and ridden and trained by humans. The horses are not machines and the jockeys and trainers are imperfect so it is inevitable that from time to time a race will produce an un-explainable result. This scenario occurred not once but twice on Breeders’ Cup Saturday.
The first impossible to come up with horse was Afleet Again in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon. Afleet Again was the least likely winner of the Breeders’ Cup Marathon after a subpar 2011 that saw him go winless in eight starts including two losses in allowance races. Afleet Again was also unproven at the distance and based on speed figures was the slowest horse in the race. Despite all of these negative factors Afleet Again won the Breeders’ Cup Marathon by a comfortable 2 ¼ lengths at odds of 41 /1.
The second improbable winner was Court Vision in the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Court Vision was the least likely winner in the Breeders’ Cup Mile after a lackluster 2011 season. Similar to Afleet Again Court Vision was winless in 2011 and based on speed figures was the slowest horse in the race. Court Vision was coming off a mediocre seventh place finish in the Woodbine Mile yet he managed to blow past three-time defending champion Goldikova and hold off Turallure (winner of the aforementioned Woodbine Mile) to post the biggest upset in the twenty seven year history of the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Even after the race was run it was impossible to make a case for Court Vision.
After reviewing the past performance of each horse and knowing they had won their respective races I still could not find a reason to bet either one of them but guess what? That was perfectly fine.
Some horses prefer one track over all others or in extreme cases only run well at one particular track. These horses are often referred to as a “horse for the course.” This angle plays out everyday at tracks across the country.
This year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint was won by Regally Ready, a Churchill Downs “horse for the course,” who was two for two in turf sprints at Churchill Downs prior to the race. The “Horse for Course Angle” has become a potent handicapping factor for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprints as it has produced all four winners of the race [through 2011]. Chamberlain Bridge won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint after compiling a record of three wins and a second from four turf sprints at Churchill Downs. California Flag won the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Santa Anita’s downhill turf course and had previously won two of four starts over the course. Desert Code, who I mentioned in my post about multi-ticket betting strategy, won the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on the same downhill turf course and had won three of five turf sprints at Santa Anita.
The Breeders’ Cup returns to Santa Anita in 2012 and once again the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint will be run on the unique downhill turf course. The downhill turf course is notorious for producing “horse for the course” winners so it will pay to give special consideration to horses that have won or performed well over the course in the past.
Betting a horse “turning-back” in distance is one of the oldest angles in the book. To fit the angle a horse simply needs to be running in a race at a shorter distance than its previous race. The most common example is a horse going from a route to a sprint, such as from 1 1/16 miles to seven furlongs, but the angle also works for horses “turning-back” in distance from a route to a shorter route .
Caleb’s Posse, Shackleford and Tres Borrachos completed the trifecta in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile this year. All three fit the “tum-back angle.” Caleb’s Posse and Shackleford were exiting the 1 1/16 miles Indiana Derby and Tres Borrachos prepped for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in the 1 1/8 miles Goodwood.
The “Turn-back Angle” has become quite possibly the most important handicapping factor for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile as it has produced the winner of all five runnings of the race [through 2011]. Dakota Phone won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile after running in the 1 1/8 miles Goodwood. Furthest Land won the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile after prepping in the 1 1/8 miles Kentucky Cup Classic. Albertus Maximus won the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile after running in the 1 1/8 miles Goodwood. Corinthian won the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile after competing in the 1 1/8 miles Woodward. One day a horse may win the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile after running in a sprint race but until the trend is reversed it pays to give preference to horses “turning-back” in distance.
Favorites in horse racing are normally associated with unexciting payoffs, however when combined with a few upsets they can produce massive payouts. The six Breeders’ Cup races on Friday (2011) made up the Pick 6. Three of those races were won by the post time favorite (Secret Circle in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint, My Miss Aurelia in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and Royal Delta in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff), the other three were won by 6/1 Stephanie’s Kitten (Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf), 20/1 Musical Romance (Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint) and 27/1 Perfect Shirl (Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf) resulting in a Pick 6 payout of $444, 571. The last four Breeders’ Cup races made up the Pick 4. Two favorites (My Miss Aurelia and Royal Delta) combined with the aforementioned 20/1 Musical Romance and 27/1 Perfect Shirl produced a Pick 4 payout of $23,428 . In both sequences favorites won half of the races which proved that it is not necessary to beat the favorite in every race to win a substantial amount of money.
Although these points relate directly to the Breeders’ Cup each can be applied to everyday handicapping. The most important lesson however is that just like horses are not machines handicappers should not bet like machines. Automatic bets should not be placed on horses that meet the criteria outlined above; they should be one factor to consider in the handicapping process. Sound handicapping involves evaluating all of the available information and using that information to bet the horse that figures to win the race at hand.
While the Classic, Distaff, Mile and Turf will rightfully garner the majority of the Saturday headlines, the other five Breeders’ Cup races will be filled the very best equine talent, with several championships lying in the balance.
The Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf, run at 1 3/8 miles, is expected to be led by Peter Brant’s divisional leader SISTERCHARLIE (IRE), who qualified for the race when she won Arlington Park’s “Win and You’re In” Beverly D. (GI) August 11 for trainer Chad Brown, who could also start FOURSTAR CROOK and SANTA MONICA (GB). Sunderland Holdings’ SEA OF CLASS (IRE) won the “Win and You’re In” Darley Yorkshire Oaks (GI) August 23 at York to gain an entry for trainer William Haggas and rates the best of a European contingent that could also include EZIYRA (IRE), MAGIC WAND (IRE) and WILD ILLUSION (GB).
The one-turn Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile is shaping up as a tremendous race, as Hronis Racing’s CATALINA CRUISER, who earned a berth into the race when he won Del Mar’s “Win and You’re In” Pat O’Brien (GII) August 25 for trainer John Sadler and has won his four career starts by 18 ½ lengths, rates as one of the most talented horses in training. Waiting in the wings is multiple Grade I winner CITY OF LIGHT and the undefeated ARMY MULE, on the comeback trail after suffering a minor injury shortly after winning Aqueduct’s Carter (GI) by 6 ¼ lengths April 7. Defending Dirt Mile winner BATTLE OF MIDWAY made his return from retirement and was second in the Pat O’Brien and is also pointing to the race.
The six-furlong TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint is expected to be led by Ray Mamone’s IMPERIAL HINT, who aired in Saratoga’s Alfred Vanderbilt (GI) July 28 for trainer Luis Carvajal, while LIMOUSINE LIBERAL and RANSOM THE MOON qualified for the race with wins in this summer’s “Win and You’re In” Belmont Sprint Championship (GII) and “Win and You’re In” Del Mar’s Bing Crosby (GI), respectively. Defending Sprint winner ROY H is also expected, as are Grade I winners PROMISES FULFILLED and WHITMORE and multiple graded stakes winner X Y JET.
The Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, run at seven furlongs, looks to have a solid favorite in Cicero Farm’s MARLEY’S FREEDOM, who earned a berth into the race with her win in Saratoga’s “Win and You’re In” Ballerina (GI) August 25 for trainer Bob Baffert. STORMY EMBRACE earned a berth into the race in the “Win and You’re In” Princess Rooney (GII) in June, while multiple graded stakes winners AMERICAN GAL, FINLEY’SLUCKYCHARM, LEWIS BAY and MIA MISCHIEF are also pointing to the race.
The Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, run at five furlongs, is expected to draw a deep field, with Patricia Generazio’s homebred DISCO PARTNER, who qualified for the race when he won Belmont’s “Win and You’re In” Jaipur (GII) in June for trainer Christophe Clement, looking to better his third-place run in last year’s renewal at Del Mar. Defending champion STORMY LIBERAL headlines the rest of an American contingent that could also include BELVOIR BAY (GB), BUCCHERO, LADY ALEXANDRA, PURE SENSATION, and VISION PERFECT, while the Europeans could send BLUE POINT (IRE), CORINTHIAN KNIGHT (IRE), EL ASTRONAUTE (IRE).


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Mary Vena was a loving wife, cherished mother and beloved grandmother. She entered the Gates of Heaven on April 5, 2019. She was born on November 18, 1928, in Los Angeles, California, to Natale and Luisa Gazano.
Mary grew up in Los Angeles where she also attended Roosevelt High School. She met her husband, Louie, through family friends and they wed on August 22, 1948. The couple settled first in Los Angeles where they had their three children, Kathleen, Diane, and James. Her young family later moved and settled in Whittier. Mary was a dedicated homemaker to her family for over 32 years.
After being widowed, Mary returned to school and became a bank teller until her retirement. After retiring she became very involved in the senior clubs of Parnell Park and also at St. Gregory’s Catholic Church, here in Whittier. It was through her participation that she gained many lasting friendships and engaged in hobbies such as, knitting/crocheting, bingo, gambling, and traveling. But most especially, she enjoyed going out for Taco Tuesday on a regular basis.
Mary is survived by her brother, John Gazano and his spouse Bette; loving children, Kathleen, Diane, and James Vena; grandchildren, Ashlee Merriwether and her spouse Stephen Merriwether, Valiree Vena and her fiancé Taylor Bennett.
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For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 our data controller is Stradbrook Implants.
This policy was first written in March 2010 and then revised in September 2010.

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Instant fitting of smooth melting texture.
Gives skin an elegant glow.
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As a company with a global reach in the dentistry field, Richmond Dental and Medical stays up-to-date on the issues and trends that define the foreign markets in the dental sphere. Perhaps the biggest event to shake up many commercial sectors in the last few years is Brexit, the media term for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. Dentistry will be no exception to this Brexit-triggered shakeup. So just what will be the Brexit effect on the future of dentistry in the UK?
While attending one of the largest international trade shows for the industry, IDS Cologne, the Richmond team met with the British consulate in Germany. Mr. Rafe Courage, Consul General at the consulate based in Dusseldorf, explained his country’s desired goals of Brexit to those gathered in attendance.
First, the government wants to reflect the will of the British people, who voted by referendum to leave Europe. While the British people favor a European exit, both with the European Union and the Customs Union, they still desire a flourishing relationship post-exit. Furthermore, the UK government would like to see a continued “soft,” peaceful border between Northern Ireland, which is part of the exiting UK, and the Republic of Ireland, which will remain in the EU.
While the government would like to see its former EU partners remain strong and united, its position remains to push a final negotiated Brexit plan through Parliament by March 29. If this negotiated exit, fails to materialize (and is currently in jeopardy at the time of this writing), the exit will be automatic and aligned to established World Trade Organization rules. It’s critical on a number of fronts that Brexit is allowed to happen in the best interests of all parties, as the EU accounts for 50 percent of British trade, while Germany is the UK’s second-largest trade partner after the United States.
According to an article in Dental Tribune, Brexit—if implemented—will bring about multiple changes—some subtle and other far-reaching in impact. From a financial standpoint, leaving the bureaucracy would free up about 350 million pounds per week for increased funding for the UK’s National Health Service, and the country would have greater control over having to use value-added taxation rates on dental services.
It’s also expected that the hiring of non-UK dentists, which has already decreased, will continue to fall in the wake of Brexit. However, the current shortage of dentists may mean a less protectionist stance in dentist recruiting to the island nation, in order to preserve access to good dental care nationwide.
Easier to Do Business with Hospitals and Clinics?
From an ease-of-doing business standpoint, NHS and other contracts will have far less scrutiny and less complex processes for vendors. The UK dental community may suffer as outsiders with regard to the EU, as it will lack access to EU-wide agencies and funding for resources like the European Medicines Agency.
While neutral on the issue of Brexit, the British Dental Association points out many of these same issues, as well as the prospect of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland—a steadfast EU member—and the nation of Northern Ireland. The BDA illustrates that the current open border for the two current EU states means a flow of dental workforce in both directions. All of the complications associated with Brexit—the potential for border checks, the need for visas, and increased, differing regulations could have negative impacts on patients, dental professionals, the provision of service, and the availability of medicines and supplies.
A Mass Exodus of Dentists?
Finally, the British publication, Dentistry, reports that the human impact could be more extreme than previously thought. In a January article, Seb Evans shares results from a recent General Dental Council survey. In the survey, a third of UK dentists reveal that they are considering leaving the country in the next few years, directly due to concerns they have over Brexit. These concerns include the potential reluctance of British regulatory agencies to recognize credentials earned in foreign countries, as well as the burden of negotiating and renewing immigration status under a new regime.
A staggering 84 percent think that Brexit is already causing dentists to leave. Even if that’s not the reality, this perception could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
With the uncertainty over whether Brexit will actually happen (as of this writing, there is no approved plan certified by the House of Commons, as required by UK law), the British dental community, like virtually every other industry, is roiled with negativity right now. Assuming the Commons actually facilitates a full or nearly full EU withdrawal (varying degrees have been debated), there will be no maintenance of the status quo. Instead, we should see several good results, as well as the rise of more than a few obstacles to the industry’s sustained success. Thus, the future of dentistry in the UK is perhaps at its most uncertain period in quite some time.

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After releasing an open letter to fans, in which Ryan Tedder reveals that he nearly suffered a nervous breakdown and pulled the plug on the band, he informed fans that OneRepublic were changing!
From now on, the band are planning to release new music as and whenever they can – no album cycles, just new music! This is a refreshing outlook for a band and means that they won’t be bound by recording albums in the same way any more.
As such, the first single the band have released (after pretty much abandoning promotion of the uber diverse record, Oh My My) is their new track, ‘No Vacancy’ and my word is it a summer banger!
The track has hints at the current tropical house trend yet still retains that iconic OneRepublic sound – the track is an instant hit and just reinforces the golden nuggets they can produce!
No music video’s been released but the lyric video is below – check it out!
What are your thoughts on OneRepublic’s latest single? Got a #FeelGoodFriday track to recommend us? Please leave your thoughts or song suggestions in a comment or via social media.
Seems a lot of pop-rock bands are incorporating hip hop and house elements into their recent music (Foster the People, Maroon 5 and Katy Perry to name just a few). I’ve been a fan of OneRepublic from day one, but this is the first time I’ve heard ‘No Vacancy.’ I like it, though not as well as some of their previous hits. I’m sure it’ll grow on me.


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Experience over-the-top blockbuster action in Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death on PC.
A new breed of warrior has emerged, committed to destroying the enemies of freedom. A no-nonsense hero, Marlow Briggs never shies away from danger or trouble. He now faces his ultimate challenge when he blasts into Central America to defeat an industrial evil and rescue his kidnapped girlfriend, all while bound to a talking Mayan death mask who has been lonely for 2000 years.

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When you are looking for someone to do a few little jobs around the house, you should get in touch with our local handyman Islington. We have expert handyman teams all over N1 region that are able to come and sort out all your jobs at a time to suit you. Our cheap handyman services are available all over NW1 region and beyond so you are never far away from the help you need. Whether its pictures that need hanging or a sink that need unblocking, they can be relied upon to do a good and very professional job.
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How many times have you needed set-up your phone or tablet to take a photo or video and have had no good solution? How many group photos have just never happened because there was no way to take the photo? The AirTurn Digit III is distinguished by its multi-functionality and ability to complete many different tasks, but more than that, its ability to complete tasks like taking photos and videos exceptionally well.
Think back to all the times you’ve had to stop someone for a group photo of your friends and the stranger aimlessly takes a photo and it ends up looking awful. Or even worse, when there is no one else around to take a group photo and someone has to sacrifice themselves to take it for the group. With the Digit III you never have to worry about leaving someone out of a group photo. Get the exact shot that you want every time and you can even be discrete about the Digit III so it doesn’t show up in the photo!
With devices like the Digit III, the do-it-yourself artists are able to take their creations to a new level of production. Making a music video for yourself has never been so easy. Set up your device in a few unique locations, capture yourself playing with the Digit III, then share it online!
For those who like to get out and hike and adventure solo, the Digit III can be the ultimate photography companion. The Digit III stays connected and works even from several feet away. This allows you to set up your phone, walk across a stream, and take a photo from the other side to better capture your journey!
Have you ever wondered how famous YouTuber’s always get their compositions looking so perfect? We found that constantly getting up to start, stop, and check recordings takes away from developing a great composition. The Digit III allows you to stay in the frame and adjust your composition and do all your recording without having to get up. The Digit III makes Vlogging easy!
Recording lectures is necessary for online teaching professionals and can be a great tool for self-evaluation. Using the Digit III to conveniently record lectures allows for you to stay fully focused on your class and content.
With the help of your goSTAND, BOOM, and MANOS, you can take your mobile video and photo to new heights. Get amazing panning shots by recording with your Digit III and moving your device with the end of your BOOM stand. Your followers won’t believe you took the video on your iPad!
Even try detaching your BOOM and MANOS and using them as a selfie stick! Capture any moment, and do it without using a self timer by using the Digit III to trigger the camera.


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I was getting dressed in our bedroom, which has a connected bathroom, from which Jared was doing the sitting version of using the potty. Under that setting, he shouted to me that he couldn't beat "Sir Red Beard" on "Super Power Island" of the online game Poptropica. Coincidentally, my brother, Jordan, who is the lead creator of the game, had just arrived at our home (and Jared didn't yet know this). So I responded saying, "Guess what? uncle Jordan is upstairs RIGHT NOW. You could ask him for some secrets!"
After a momentary pause Jared skeptically asked, "Why would it help to ask Jordan with no pants or underwear on?"


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"The Effects of a 15-Week Physical Activity Class on Health-Related Phy" by C E. Erickson, W S. Dubiel et al.
Erickson, C E.; Dubiel, W S.; Orkin, S M.; and Bopp, C M. (2015) "The Effects of a 15-Week Physical Activity Class on Health-Related Physical Fitness," International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings: Vol. 9 : Iss. 3 , Article 30.


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Just when we thought we couldn’t further complicate the debate on healthcare policy in America any further, the government is preparing to amplify its voice to a level previously unattained. According to the New York Times, the White House is reviewing the text of a final rule to impose listing drug costs in TV ads, contending that the disclosures “will provide manufacturers with an incentive to reduce their list prices by exposing overly costly drugs to public scrutiny.” What’s most interesting is the phrase “overly costly,” which implies an ideal value in mind. No one really knows what these numbers should be. So how can both the industry and the regulatory authorities be certain they have hit the goal? Since people need these brands either to manage symptoms or extend life, doctors and patients will determine the cost of need: how to weigh treatment strategies against the price of wellness. This should be interesting.
Other industries have routinely listed their prices in TV ads. Car dealerships promote the monthly cost of leases. Bob’s discount furniture proudly proclaims what they offer for a bedroom set. And supermarkets inform us about what’s on sale in the produce department. Price is definitely a key factor here. Consumers are well informed by past experience to evaluate these purchase decisions accordingly. But the complexities of prescription drug pricing may make advertising Rx products impossible to accurately quantify. That is, will the new rules be able to achieve the stated goal of getting prices lowered?
The first question is what number do you promote? There’s the list price set by healthcare manufacturers. Then there’s the negotiated price with different insurance providers. Then there’s the different co-pay rules that vary depending on which plan you have. Add all this to the industry practice of offering rebates, and you see the problem.
Not surprisingly—given their position as an industry leader—Johnson & Johnson is the first to experiment with disclosed pricing to get ahead of the pending action. According to Fox News, Scott White, company chair for Jannsen’s North American pharmaceutical business, which makes Xarelto as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, says “When this debate first started around the inclusion of price, we made a decision to conduct wide-spanned research into understanding what information is going to be most meaningful for the patients and consumers.” However, J&J has gone down a route that illustrates the abovementioned pricing dynamic. Its Xarelto ad says, most users will pay between $0 and $47 a month. A little less noticeable is the monthly list price: $448. I think this qualifies as compliance. But how should patients react to such information? They would have to call their insurance company to see how much their plan covers—an action they could do regardless of the government’s proposed regulation.
The second question is: What’s the competitive landscape look like? If you have psoriasis and view the ads for the bioengineered brands that treat it, then you can compare pricing between Humira, Stellara, Talz, Enbrel, Cosentyx, Otezla, and Simponi. However, when price shopping for, say, a monthly lease on a new Audi, there are many other factors to consider. The same is the case for the drugs listed above. What data do they have? What’s the route of administration? How often does one take it? Are there value-added services, such as a patient support program, the worth of which is in the eye of the beholder?
But what about drugs with no competitors? In the category of osteoporosis, the FDA just approved a new drug, romosozumab (brand name Evenity), developed by Amgen in collaboration with the Belgian drug company UCB, that restores bone without breaking it down, according to the findings of two large clinical trials. No other brand does this. How do you compare pricing when there’s only one option? Does the decision then become “buy it or get a less effective alternative?” How is advertising drug pricing in this example expected to get Amgen, in this case, to lower its costs?
Further, Evenity has a black box warning—a designation by the FDA for a safety profile that could be very dangerous. Evenity’s warning is that it may increase the incidence of heart attack, stroke and sudden death. The numbers are scary. There is a 2.5% incidence of these events, which means that for every 200 people that take Evenity, five will suffer them—and that’s not even counting patients who have a family history of, or a predisposition for these risks. How does one weigh the costs of solving one problem when causing another, more serious problem?
As you can see, doctor and patient conversations will divert from discussing symptoms and conditions to laying out the price associated with each drug selection. Doctors—who are squeezed by time—spend an average of five-to-eight minutes per patient. Will they welcome the prospect of doubling that to venture into a subject for which they didn’t go to school?
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not against cost transparency in the drug industry. But it seems like no one will be able to practically use the information in determining which choice—if any—will be optimal. Advocacy groups are pressuring the government to do something about high drug prices, so they must do something. And when it comes to money, the Congress and our President seek popular answers to stubborn problems. Doing something doesn’t mean solving something. What’s the old saying: if you ask a committee to design a horse, you’ll get a camel. Clearly what we have here is a camel.


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The Eastern Valley Bowling Association represents 9 Clubs in the Borough of Torfaen.
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These Clubs compete in the Eastern Valley and Monmouthshire Bowling Association leagues.
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Large financial institutions, insurance companies, and government agencies certainly need to process huge volumes of paperwork. Insurance claims, medical forms, employee records, and compliance sheets are just some of the more common documents that need to be processed through data entry, auditing, or regulatory filing.
As a result, back office operations are heavy and digitizing the process of handling emails, understanding context, and taking action can radically change back office workflow and increase efficiency and accuracy. A combination of RPA and cognitive science can help achieve this goal.
There is a lot of manual activity in post trade functions such as trade validation, confirmation, settlement, position reconciliation, and fails management. Our solutions apply cognitive robotics to integrate with disparate trade back-office systems and work with unstructured data from counterparty communications to help to reduce the trade lifecycle and ensure regulatory compliance.
Multi=step processes can be misconstrued as cognitive when they are actually complex decision trees. How do you decide which processes are cognitive?

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I’m working on a side project, machine learning with neural networks.
My goal with this is getting 3D information out of 2D video – but that’s a super difficult problem so I’ve been trying out different techniques on simpler problems such as generating faces. Yes, generating photos of people that never existed is a – relatively – simple problem.
Above are a selection of random faces slowly being changed into a different set of faces, as generated by my code and neural network.
Each face is generated from just 100 numbers. Altering one number will make a subtle or not so subtle change to the resulting image. Altering twenty will completely change the face (that’s how many are being altered above).
There are more impressive results out there, such as the BEGAN network (image above) that’s generating faces indistinguishable from real photos at a larger size. There’s the neural network that’s using a photo of a dress to generate a photo of a model wearing the dress. There’s a lot going on.
For anyone interested, here are some of the details about the coding, data and training I’ve used for the above.
I modified a version of this script to download enough images from Google image search, then went through and removed as many bad images as I could find. As there were around fifty thousand this took a while and was imperfect, but the results aren’t bad considering. Here, “bad images” means ones that weren’t faces, or faces that were blurry or obscured in some way.
I trained the NN on a laptop with an Nvidia 970m graphics card for several days to get to the point I could make the image at the top.
I used a WGAN, a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) with wasserstein loss, which has been much more stable than my previous attempts with simpler techniques.
I wrote the program in python using keras with a tensorflow backend.
I’m currently working on a program to sort images into groups or categories by ‘similarity’ – here meaning that they have certain features in common. I decide which features by dragging each image into a category, the program then works out what makes them ‘similar’ and can filter the entire dataset based on that.
Once I’ve got that working I should be able to improve the quality of my training data and therefore the results I get at the end.
There’s room for huge improvement just by throwing better hardware at the problem. The latest Nvidia cards would allow larger images of higher quality to be processed at a similar rate to what I’m getting now, due to having approximately four times the memory and three times the number of processing units.
For a very long time I’ve been having problems with the fading feet in Touch of Darkness flickering as they fade. I’ve only just worked out why, and it’s not obvious so I’m posting here in case it helps anyone else with the same problem.
The issue was simple but only became obvious when at one point every foot flickered in sync (I think this was due to changing the fade algorithm).
I was using Create Dynamic Material Instance with an existing Dynamic Material Instance as input, when what I should have been doing was using a new Material.
Even though it allows a Dynamic Material Instance as an input to the node it appears to just use the exact same instance and apply it to the mesh.
Just use the Get Base Material node and use the output from that instead.
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Here’s me being interviewed by @Clubit at Gamayo 10 last month.
Somehow they managed to make me not look or sound like a complete idiot so well done to them!
As Touch of Darkness is taking somewhat longer than expected to complete I’m having to do one or two smaller projects to get something out. The joys of having to pay for your own time, you know.
As such I’m working on a a simple puzzle game, Shuttorscape.
I’m going to be exhibiting at Gamayo 10 in Leeds on Thursday 21st April demoing Touch of Darkness!
If you’re there stop by and have a try, or a chat, or both!
A lot of people seem to think I make Unreal4AR. To be clear, I am just a user of Unreal4AR, I do not produce or provide it.
Here’s how to set up Unreal4AR from scratch (the documentation gets you to copy an existing small project in and I know some people like to start with a blank canvas).
In World Settings (Windows->World Settings, this appears in the right hand panel), set the Game Mode to Mouse_GameMode.
Drag an ARToolkitBaseAdvanced into the level (it should appear as a camera with a large square plane in front of it, the camera is the Virtual part of the AR view, the plane uses the BaseFeedScreenNoShadow material to display the real-world/video part of the AR view).
With the ARToolkitBaseAdvanced selected, in the Details panel change the “Auto Activate for Player” from Disabled to “Player 0“.
The important parts of the Level Blueprint are “Transform Camera”, “Actor Visibility”, and “Offset for NFT Marker” (assuming you’re using NFT markers – I am).
Be aware I’m also not using non-NFT markers so I’ve removed the relevant nodes for those.
I think that’s everything I did to get it working, let me know if I’ve missed anything. Helpful images below.
The ARToolkitBaseAdvanced Settings panel on the right showing the Auto Player Activation set to Player 0.
The level screen, showing the World Settings panel on the right with the Mouse_GameMode, HUD_Custom and Mouse_PlayerController.
Now I’m past the worst of the coding (fingers crossed) I’m making steady progress on level building. After a handful of levels built comes the testing and feedback cycle. It’s good to be moving forward.
Edit: to make the role of working on low hanging fruit clearer. Also to mention the affect of isolation.
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a struggle with making any progress on ToD. This is about why and how that ended, in the hope of helping others avoid and/or get out of it when it happens to them.
To begin with I started losing momentum on progress – a couple of large issues came up that were hard to fix (including a bug that wouldn’t occur if the debugger was attached). It all slowed down. The lack of progress became disheartening, which in turn made everything seem that much harder. I knew I had to get these things fixed or there would be no game. Somehow, where I thought I was fairly close to having most of the main features of the game complete only a week or two before there were uncountable major issues that were going to take an incalculable amount of time to fix before I could even begin to make real progress rather than just make broken things work.
In the middle of this I was turned down for the EGX Leftfield collection which was disappointing – though being a bit down from the previous it was more of a knock than it should have been, especially when I was fully aware that competition for a place was fierce and ToD wasn’t even in alpha at that point, so it was hardly surprising.
Eventually I decided to temporarily ignore the big issues and move on to some of the ‘easy’ stuff so I could make progress – stuff that I would need to do further down the line but really wasn’t a priority. I spent a few days making some simple models, putting together the “picking things up” animation and the like – the low hanging fruit that’s easily dealt with. This allowed me to make obvious progress, which meant I felt like I was making progress, which improved my state of mind so I could think more clearly.
Two days later I came to realise that the ‘big’ problems of the past few weeks weren’t big, most of them were trivial and the largest was fairly simple – and I’d already mostly fixed it anyway.
I’m now back on track and progress is being made.
I hot desk in an office with a number of other developers – this allows me to get out of the house and see people a few days a week. It also lets me discuss ideas and get feedback. I can work on my own but after a lot of time in isolation it can become hard to keep going – socialising helps recharge me mentally and the moral support from others is invaluable. Part of the problem I had above was that I’d decided I was going to fix this major bug before I went back into the office. Obviously it took a long time and I deprived myself of my own support network at a time I needed it most, which made it even harder to get out of it.
In my head I’d felt that I couldn’t go in until I’d fixed it, I didn’t want to see the other developers in the office until I was making progress again. It was the same day I went into the office for the first time that I decided to do the easy work and started to actually make progress again.
If you start feeling overwhelmed by things, progress will slow and it’ll all seem worse which can spiral out of control. Backing off and chilling can help but won’t make you feel like you’re getting anywhere, the big problems will still be there when you come back – pick something easy to work on, make some quick wins and get back to a good place where everything seems that much more manageable.
I appreciate this won’t work for everyone and all circumstances, but thought it was worth putting it out there in case it helps anyone.
A large, particularly difficult problem arose that set me back and couldn’t be fixed by anything other than calculated guess work and a problem-solving equivalent of flailing around.
It got me into a place where somehow every single problem seemed like a major issue that I would be unable to fix.
This spiralled and became overwhelming, making everything seem even more intractable.
I was turned down for Leftfield, which was more than the disappointing it should have been.
Eventually I side-stepped it, moved onto easy stuff, made progress and within 2 days had a more positive view of everything, then managed to fix the largest remaining issue in an hour.
A couple of hard problems blew up out of proportion, I became overwhelmed, I temporarily moved on to easy stuff to make progress and suddenly everything was back into proportion and progress was made. Yay.
A quick update, I’m working towards getting the last major bugs sorted and then I can get to the real work of level design.
I spent a few days last week tracking down a crash bug that wouldn’t occur if the debugger was attached. It’s painful but the only way to deal with those is work systematically through everything that could be wrong and fix it (there was no way to get output around the bug so even printing info to the screen didn’t help much). Bright side – I probably fixed a few things that would’ve blown up later anyway, so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.
The voice acting is mostly done now, I’ve been wanting to show that off in a short video clip but for some reason nothing seems to be able to record the audio on my machine – I’m guessing something’s got exclusive use of the output so nothing else can grab it, though it used to work, I don’t think I changed anything and I can’t get it to work after hours of trying. I’ll try again later.
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I’ve finally got the intro for Touch of Darkness finished and uploaded to youtube.
It shows heat sense, air flow, audio visuals, touch, texture, directional sense and more.
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To Love Somebody by Hank Williams Jr.
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from How Old Are You?
B side to Do You Think About Us?
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Setting sail along the beautiful Halong Bay, Paragon Cruise features luxury facilities like a boutique hotel on sea and beautifully decorated furnished cabins offering sea views as well as canoeing and kayaking activities to bring you an utmost comfortable and a memorial stay.
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It’s tough writing about someone’s origin story when they were created as a blaxpoitation character and you don’t want to offend anyone. So you tell the story and you try your best not to offend anyone.
First debuting in 1972, Luke Cage is one of the most famous African-American superheroes ever created. But while he may enjoy fame today, his road has been arduous. Fire up the TARDIS* folks, ‘cause it’s time for a history lesson.
In the early 70’s, Luke Cage was created in order to cash in on the popular ‘blaxploitation’ films of the time. This was readily apparent by his afro, ‘inner city’ dialect, and usage of slang. This included his famous catchphrase: Sweet Christmas.** Once the blaxploitation fad passed, the writers quickly got rid of most of the more stereotypical elements.
Born Carl Lucas, Luke was a gang member who tried to escape the lifestyle and was framed for drug possession. While in prison, he was a frequent victim of police brutality from a sadistic guard. The guard was demoted for this and blamed Luke. Luke was recruited for an experiment on cell regeneration and offered a chance at parole if he participated. The guard sabotaged the experiment, hoping it would kill Luke. But because these are superheroes, a sabotaged experiment is a great way to get superpowers, not die painfully. Luke attacked the guard and escaped. Worried that he’d lose parole for assaulting the guard, Luke fled to New York where he now survives as a Hero for Hire. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Luke Cage!
Luke realized that he could use his newfound powers to earn a living and set up shop as a Hero for Hire. While he’s basically a mercenary, he takes time to help out the little guy between jobs. On various cases, he worked with other superheroes from the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man to Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter in the Netflix series) and the X-Men.
During one case, he learned that a supervillain named Bushmaster had kidnapped several friends of his, including his girlfriend, Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson in Marvel’s Netflix shows). Bushmaster blackmailed Luke into an assassination attempt on a detective named Misty Knight (Simone Missick), even offering to give Luke proof that he had been framed. Luke wound up fighting Misty’s boyfriend, Iron Fist, who offered his help once he learned why Luke was targeting her. Iron Fist helped Luke defeat Bushmaster, free the hostages, and even retrieve the proof.
Realizing that they made a good team, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, (played by Finn Jones in the upcoming, eponymous show) decide to officially become Heroes For Hire. They go from being just a pair of street-level heroes to international fame and even Avengers.
Luke’s life took a strange turn when he ran into his old friend, Jewel, more commonly known as Jessica Jones. She was an emotional wreck after escaping Zebediah Killgrave’s (David Tennant) mind control. The two of them started a relationship and stopped Killgrave, who had returned to try and take control of Jessica again. Jessica revealed that she was pregnant and they married, although we haven’t seen that on the screen yet.
When the Superhero Registration Act passed, Luke refused to comply. He thought the Act was too similar to the Jim Crow Laws***. Luke sends Jessica and their daughter to Canada so they will be safe and joins the Anti-Registration team, even becoming the leader after Captain America is assassinated. He eventually resigns from the Avengers to ensure his family’s safety.
When Luke debuted in the 70’s, he was a standard blaxploitation hero. He quickly lost most of those trappings once the fad ran its course. He’s still aware of the many stereotypes surrounding “angry black men” and sometimes uses that to his advantage. Luke can be very boisterous, but is usually the one keeping other heroes focused even amidst the many crises the Avengers tackle.
The experiment he took part in was a super-soldier project similar to the one that gave Captain America his powers. Luke gained super strength and virtually unbreakable skin. Depending on who is writing the story, Luke might be able to punch Hulk hard enough for the big green guy to feel it or might be capped at Spider-Man’s level of strength. His skin shrugs off bullets, acid, extreme temperatures, and a plethora of other things, making Luke nearly invulnerable. He is a skilled street fighter and has studied martial arts under Iron Fist.
Luke is not invincible. He can be beaten by people with comparable strength and usually can’t do more than slow Hulk down. His skin can be pierced by weapons made of adamantium and, depending on the writer, his internal organs might not be as invulnerable as his skin. Towards the finale of the first season of Jessica Jones, Jessica was able to beat Luke by shooting him point-blank with a shotgun. The concussive force of the blast damaged his internal organs and nearly killed him.
Luke Cage has accomplished some amazing feats. He’s helped Jessica defeat Killgrave, was one of the first picks for the New Avengers, and led the Anti-Registration forces after Captain America’s assassination. But his most impressive feat was early in his career. Doctor Doom had hired him to find and destroy several robots that had fled from Doom’s country, Latveria. Luke completed the mission and returned to the Latverian embassy, only to find that Doom had welched on the deal and returned to his country.
An enraged Luke borrowed a jet from the Fantastic Four, flew to Latveria, and fought his way through the Latverian army to confront Doom. Doctor Doom was flabbergasted that Luke had done all this for a paltry $200, but then realized the point was making sure no one else would try to get out of paying him. Luke Cage left with the money and something far more valuable, Doctor Doom’s respect.
Luke Cage was played by Mike Colter in Jessica Jones, but that wasn’t the first time the character had been adapted. He was played by rapper and stand up comedian Lil’ JJ in Super Hero Squad Show and Christopher B. Duncan in The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes . He is a main character in Ultimate Spider-Man voiced by Ogie Banks. And finally, he appears in the anime Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers where he is voiced by Ryokan Koyanagi.
A wannabe crook who wound up being one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
** He used that phrase because he’d promised his grandma he wouldn’t swear.
*** For those of you who aren’t aware, the Jim Crow Laws were laws that dealt with racial segregation. It’s where the phrase “Separate, but equal” comes from. Spoilers, it often wasn’t.


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An interesting headline in yesteday’s Standard. Something tells me they haven’t quite got the hang of this internet thing.
The huge and hostile $44bn bid Microsoft has planned for Yahoo! will doubtless fuel the ongoing religious debate between the brands.
Google of course has come out with a statement that it has ‘serious concerns’ about the deal.
Bear in mind that this is the company that has been buying everything from video sharing sites to mobile phone companies, that is bidding for a chunk of the radio spectrum in the states, and recently bought one of the internet’s biggest advertising solution providers.
And yet, everything that Google does is met with blithe indifference, while Microsoft is accused of witchcraft and human sacrifice every time they so much as spend a billion pounds.
Doesn’t all of this make us think of what Hugh MacLeod is trying to do with the Blue Monster, allowing the 1,000s of Microsoft staff who – believe it or not – turn up for work everyday full of positive intent to tell their own stories rather than being at the mercy of their detractors and the press.


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Yes. Logo design is a passion of ours and we have talented designers ready to create/update your brand cornerstone. Logo design is not part of the website development price and must be agreed upon before any project is commenced.
For most businesses, images play a very important role in the overall presentation of their site. In some cases, stock images suffice, in others, high-quality images from a local professional photographer may be the best route in providing images that will be used on your website. We do not provide on-site photography services but can help direct you to resources such as Unsplash.
Do you build search engine optimization (SEO) into the websites you create?
Both the websites that we create and Content Management System (CMS) we use are SEO friendly. Meaning that, though we do not offer a full SEO agency services at this time, basic SEO elements are included in the development of your website to help you rank higher on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).
We love the intricacies of building websites and understand that most businesses would rather stand out from the crowd instead of presenting a 'canned' image online. It is for that reason we custom design our sites to meet the specifications of our clients.
Vidalyon Studios is not a domain registrar. Any registration or management of client domains will be done at cost of the domain itself (GoDaddy) and hourly rate as it applies to work preformed.
Yes. The Content Management System (CMS) that we use integrates with many of the most popular merchants available. We can develop a fully designed shopping cart experience on your site with products, catalogs, shipping options and tax codes.
Website pricing is based on the development package a clients decides on. After launching your site, any updates or additional work we preform is then based on our prorated hourly rate of $35 per hour.
The number of pages on your site will vary based on the development package of your choosing, though adding pages after launch is not limited. You can have as many pages as you like on your site as long as your disk usage allows it.
How much input will I have with my website design?
Over the years, we've had some clients be very specific on what they are looking for on their site. Other times we've been given full creative liberty to produce an online presence for a business. We love for our clients to be involved at the level they feel comfortable at but require a realistic understanding that as professionals, we may not always agree on design elements' placement and function.
We've learned that content is the one ingredient that cannot be missing before going live on a site. It is crucial for our clients to provide textual information that will be placed on their website as early as possible in the process.
What if I already have an established brand, will my website provide a consistent look?
Yes. Consistent presentation of an established brand is vital for business success. We will ensure your business website matches both the look and voice of your established brand.
We offer business website design, development, hosting and maintenance. Our services include branded email, a Content Management System (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), an e-commerce platform, email marketing and reports. Each of these features are built on Adobe Systems technology specifically designed for business websites.
Yes! Once we've set up your account and agreed on layout, we will send you a temporary working domain where you can view the progress on your site as we build it.
Absolutely! As your business grows, our Content Management System allows for additional pages and features to be added. We will work with your business to make sure your online presence is consistently matching the growth and direction of your brick-and-mortar location(s).
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Getting Referrals But Need More Patients?
How can doctors compete in this crazy fast-paced information age?
“72% of internet users said they looked online for health information within the past year.” Source: 2013 Pew Research Center Report.
“41% of people would choose a healthcare provider based on their social media reputation.”Source: DC Interactive Group’s Rising Use of Social Media and Mobile in Healthcare Infographic.
Remember the days when small town doctors grew their practice by face to face referrals only. Jim, the local barber would tell Mary at the diner and so forth. Well, those days are quickly fading behind us.
Welcome to the information age where every doctor needs to have a multi-tiered marketing strategy with a heavy dose of social media.
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In today’s environment, your success, let alone your survival, depends on a well thought out marketing strategy. Every marketing strategy has to start with the goals for your campaign. Usually, the goals include generating awareness and buzz for your practice which will lead to an increase your clientele. The campaign goals for your practice can include educating the community, building a good reputation and promoting new services.
Next, it is important to determine the demographics and size of your target market. Who is the target market for your services and does this market change if you offer new services? Is your target market local or is it regional or even national? How are you going to reach your target(s)?
Have a well-organized and clean layout with aesthetically pleasing images and color schemes. Your online presence and especially your website is the first thing that potential patients will see if your and your practice and are an avatar and direct reflection of your image. You wouldn’t go on a date or meet your patients wearing old, rumpled, stained clothes and your web presence should reflect on your practice professionally.
The two things that are most likely to convert a potential client online are testimonials, and video when done properly. The video needs to be short, directly related to and placed next to the product or service mentioned. Websites absolutely should also have a contact form to capture future patient information which can then be added to your Customer Resource Management (CRM) software or which can be sent directly to your in box for a response.
– Dr. Shore Armani. McLean, Va.
Your website could have all of the above but there is still a catch. Remember the phrase all “dressed up and nowhere to go?” What good is a compelling website if nobody knows that it exists. The majority of online health seekers began their sessions using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo. It is important to get these search engines working for you by ranking you at the top for medical search results.
Augur Marketing provides medical practices with patient development services.
Perform a simple check on your practice by typing the type of practice or specialty and then the city name into Google. For instance internist tysons corner va. If you do not see your practice in the top few results then you are automatically losing customers to your competition, those practices listed in that specific search result.
Every marketing strategy should also include engaging social media marketing and cater to mobile users. Social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube are critical in creating a dialogue with patients or promoting your expertise. The conversation about your practice is happening online and it is better if you are a part of it.
Paid social media advertising through Google Adwords, LinkedIn Ads, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads and YouTube video ads are time-saving and cost-effective ways to raise awareness and recognition for your practice. Remember to always focus on your target market who are becoming more tech savvy and are depending more on their mobile devices for their medical information. If your practice is in a large metropolitan area like Washington, DC or New York then you can reach thousands of locals by city, zip code, lifestyle, gender, age, and interests for a fraction of the cost of advertising on cable television.
A social media strategy is critical for your success but you should never forget traditional marketing avenues. Patients still use both online and offline sources for the medical information. Per a 2012 Google/Compete Hospital Study, 32% of patients use TV for research, 20% use magazines for research and 18% use newspapers for research.
You should also consider email blasts as part of your marketing strategy. Targeted email marketing campaigns are very effecting at generating more referrals. Per MedData Medical Technology Marketing Industry Trends Report, for every $1 spent, $44.25 is the average return on email marketing investment.
This article was published by Augur Marketing based in Washington, DC. Augur specializes in marketing campaign management which include the most effective combination of website development, search optimization (SEO), social media campaigns video production, and radio and television. Please let us know if you have any questions concerning your marketing strategy or need any advice.
Our expert team includes social media analysts, bloggers, web designers, and search optimization specialists and will handle all of your marketing needs in a combined campaign and a simple single monthly payment. We will provide you with everything that you need to grow your practice. Services can include blogging and content, paid advertisements online, search engine optimization (SEO), direct mailing, and even video and promotional events. We use the latest in techniques and technology to create a sales funnel for you which increases your brand awareness and value proposition and captures new patient information for easy follow up and call back.
Augur is a local firm based in the Washington, DC Metro area and we pride ourselves on excellent customer service and for offering an exceptional value and solutions that work to increase sales.


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We were just a bunch of kids. A bunch of kids standing in the pre-dawn darkness, talking about hating cancer and wondering aloud how we ended up on bicycles in a grade school parking lot in Hill Country, Texas. The short version is we took a long bus ride there. We were all invited to participate in a weekend-long celebration by the Livestrong Foundation as their top fundraisers. Mark Garza, Flatwater Foundation’s founder and CEO, was straddling his road bike, waiting for the ride to start. CJ was right next to him, on a beach cruiser, somehow already dripping in Mardi Gras beads before the sun had even risen. As we traded fundraising tips and our personal connection to cancer, we realized how similar our goals were. We knew the difficulties of navigating a cancer diagnosis. We knew how hard it was on the patient, and we also knew how much havoc cancer wreaks on the family and how important mental health was in the process.
When the Flatwater Foundation was founded in 2010, Mark had just recently dealt with the cancer diagnosis of his own father. Seeking support, he was shocked by the cost of therapy and realized there was a lack of care for thousands of people that were going through similar experiences. Through his experience, Mark learned about the benefits therapy could provide during such an emotionally and financially trying time, and he knew that something needed to be done to help others access care.
What started as a simple thought soon took off. The initial Flatwater Foundation ‘Dam That Cancer’ Fundraiser (a 21-mile stand-up paddle board event on Lake Austin) took place that same year. By 2011 the Flatwater Foundation’s therapy network had been established. Fast forward to 2016 and over $1 million of therapy had been provided to those dealing with a cancer diagnosis. To date there have been over 1,700 program participants and over 23,000 therapy sessions covered. The impact is staggering.
Back in that parking lot in 2010, none of us had any real idea how things would pan out. Mark and Flatwater were just getting started. Team I Hate Cancer was still “The Walsh Bros present I Hate Cancer Ride & Run 2010” (not our best decision). What we did know was that we wanted to make an immediate difference in the cancer community. We wanted the dollars that we raised to reach someone coping with cancer as quickly as possible. There are organizations that address every type of cancer and do a wonderful job. But where is the help right now? Where can we go to fill those gaps in cancer care that insurance shrugs off? Where can we make the biggest impact with your generous donations?
In 2016, Team I Hate Cancer met with the Flatwater Foundation in their Austin offices and decided to partner together moving forward. It was clear that we were on the same page and we began searching for ways to make bigger waves. So once again we’ll be hopping on our bikes, except this time we’re riding from Philly to Maine with a goal of raising over $50,000 and generating awareness for the mental health side of a cancer diagnosis.
To date, Team I Hate Cancer has provided access to hundreds of hours of therapy for families in need, coping with cancer through the Flatwater Foundation. With the efforts of the Lobster Roll and your generous support, we look to help more families get the care they need and to spread the mission of the Flatwater Foundation into new markets, touching more lives.


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What happens if no more entrants join in?
Then everyone already joined will get through!
also, I've had to stall things temporarily, a bunch of stuff has been happening lately.
That I don't have a record of your entry fee.
Hey Lion, do you care if I change my first color choice to black and white? I think it would make it easier for others to get their choices they want that way since no one has chosen it so far.
That's very nice of ya, I'll go ahead and change it up now.
quick question! for the compition pictues do we have to do callabs or just each a single picture?
It's just you drawing but you have to draw both jousters and horses.
It's no big, seriously. I can't wait to see the second!
It's okay, you're down as Pending.
Did... did you use glitter for the sparkles?
That is awesome, I never thought it would show up so well!
Here is my horse and rider in training.
So I'm rethinking my rider choice. Would it be at all possible to switch her out?
Yep, you can switch out right up until your training pic is in.
I may actually switch out my horse too if that's ok?
Yep, that's fine. Just let me know who's coming in!
I'd really like to use this gal, but I have to wait to see if I won her adoption on the 17th. Or do you need something decided by today?
I think it'll be up tonight. I'm on a roll!
Sweet can't wait for my match up!
If there's one more participant you can enter a second horse/rider pair.
ooh sweet ill note you then! ^^ Ill advertise for your show too to help maybe get some jousters!


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Acts Chapter 7 Star Chart: "So Abram (Castor) departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot (Pollux) went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram (Pollux) took Sarai (Castor) his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their (lunar) substance that they had gathered, and the (Big Dog & Little Dog) souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came." (Gen. 12:4-5) (1937 BC).
Then clockwise from when "Sarah (lunar eye ball) saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian" (Ishmael -- Coma) "mocking" a (lunar) five-year-old Isaac (Gen. 21:8-9) in 1846 BC till "there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a (solar) flame of fire in a (Scorpio) bush" (Acts 7:30) in 1446 BC were 400° or "four hundred years" (7:6). Overlapping this 400°-year period were "forty years" (7:23) and "forty years" (7:30) of Moses' life. Clockwise from when "Moses was born" (7:20) (1526 BC) till he (Centaur) "smote the (Victim) Egyptian" (7:24,28) (1486 BC) were 40° or "forty years" (7:23). Then clockwise from when he (Centaur) "smote the (Victim) Egyptian" (7:24,28) (1486 BC) till "there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a (solar) flame of fire in a (Scorpio) bush" (Acts 7:30) in 1446 BC is "forty years" (7:30). Clockwise from 1446 BC we go 40° more plus four laps which bring us to 33 AD in Sagittarius for Stephen's martyrdom. But who do the constellations really throw their lunar and solar stones at? They throw lunar or solar stones at Cepheus the King when they throw stones at Stephen who was probably placed against a wall. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these MY BRETHREN, ye have done it unto ME" (Matt. 25:40) and after Saul had persecuted Jesus' DISCIPLES, Jesus said to him, "Saul, Saul,why persecutest thou ME?" (Acts 9:4).
Not recorded in Genesis, but implied by Hebrews 11:8; Ge 15:7 and Ne 9:7. No known date but 231° months? before 1937 BC.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he (Pollux) removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
"Abram was seventy and five years old when he (Castor with Pollux Lot or Sarah) departed out of Haran" (12:4) in 1937 B.C.
8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat (Aquarius) Isaac, and (lunar) circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
23 And when he was full forty years old (1486 BC), it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
What date did this happen? In 1446 B.C. since "he was full forty years old" (Acts 7:23) in 1486 B.C. when he fled from Pharaoh (Ex. 2:15) and "when forty years were expired, there appeared to him ... an angel ... in a flame of fire in a bush" (Acts 7:30) making Moses "fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh" (Ex. 7:7) in 1446 B.C.
33 Then said the (solar) Lord to him (Ophiuchus), Put off thy (Ophiuchus) (lunar crescent) shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my (Auriga, Orion and Gemini) people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35 This Moses whom THEY REFUSED, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the (solar burning) bush.
36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and (Zodiac) signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in (lunar) heart and (lunar) ears, YE DO ALWAYS RESIST the Holy Ghost (Spirit): as your fathers did, so do ye.
54 When they (lunar) heard these things, they were (red radius) cut to the (lunar) heart, and they gnashed on him with their (lunar) teeth.
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man (Ophiuchus) standing on the right hand of (solar) God.
58 And cast him out of the city, and (lunar) stoned him: and the (Gemini) witnesses laid down their (lunar white) clothes at a young (Auriga) man's feet, whose name was Saul.
60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud (red radius) voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.


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I was working as a production assistant on “Destination Stardom” in Los Angeles and I was sent to pick up Al. I thought I would have to drive a limo or black Lincoln Town Car to pick him up at LAX. I ended up picking him up in my 1997 Jeep Wrangler where the radio did not work.
He extended his hand and with a firm handshake the first thing he said was “Call me Al”. He made me feel more at ease. I guess he could see I was nervous. He actually complimented me on my Jeep. He told me how there are a lot of them in Hawaii and he likes his SUV.
He asked me more questions about myself than I did about him. He asked about my career, how I liked my Jeep, do I take the top down a lot and go to the beach, etc. After his visit I took him to the airport (back in my Jeep). He said I will see you soon, we have a new show to work on. He extended his hand with another firm handshake and said, “Thank for the ride Marcos.” A true gentlemen! I will never forget that.
There are not many men in the entertainment industry like him. Thanks Al! You taught me a great lesson on how to be a gentlemen.


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