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As U.S. importers, we live in interesting times. It can seem overwhelming just to keep up with what’s changing in tariffs, let alone know the full impact of those changes on your business. This quick summary brings you up to date on what’s happened in U.S. tariffs this year so far. It also provides ideas that can help you manage potential disruptions to your supply chain as developments continue to unfold.
Section 201 safeguard tariffs went into effect February 7 against any country importing solar cell/modules and large residential washing machines and parts into the United States.
Section 232 national security tariffs added 25% tariffs on steel and 10% tariffs on aluminum imports from all nonexempt countries; they went into effect March 23.
There were also Section 301 unfair trade practice tariffs against China.
List 2 tariffs on $16 billion of products went into effect on August 23.
List 3 tariffs on $200 billion of products at 10% duty went into effect on September 24, 2018 and scheduled to increase to 25% duty January 1, 2019.
On December 2, 2018, U.S. and China leaders met at the G-20 summit and agreed to a 90-day hold on the List 3 increase for January 1. If no deal is reached between the U.S. and China within 90 days, then tariffs could increase to 25% around March 1, 2019.
Beyond knowing what’s changing, companies are wondering how their current customs clearance programs ought to change to fit the new realities. There are things your company can do now to stay agile and keep up with changing times.
Look carefully at product classifications.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be looking for misclassification and valuation issues, and you can expect increased oversight. Utilizing a Customs professional with classification expertise may assist in determining if product is properly classified and actually subject to safeguard duties.Once you have determined you have the proper tariff classification, you will want to review and understand your potential exposure to these tariffs. Look at both direct impact—what you, as an importer, pay to CBP on these tariffs, easily tracked in your ACE reports or your broker report—as well as indirect impacts. Indirect impacts include goods you buy domestically or have imported by another U.S. party that could be subject to safeguard tariffs.
Avoid potential delays in the import process.Delays can be expensive, with shipments accruing demurrage, non-clearance due to insufficient bond values, and more examinations by CBP.Ensure you have provided proper classifications, any exclusion or exemption information, and proper country of origin to your customs broker. Review your current Customs bond amount and estimated duties for the next year based on the safeguard duties, and ensure your bond is current.You can attend a webinar on Wednesday, December 12, at 3 p.m. EST to learn how to assess whether your bond is sufficient.If the safeguard tariffs impact any of your product, CBP may require an increase in bond amount, and the surety may require collateral as part of that required increase. Getting bond amounts increased can take longer than normal–sureties are requesting financial statements and in some cases collateral based on the increased exposure of high bond amounts.
Strengthen your trade and customs compliance programs and practices.Go to CBP’s website to read guidance on the Customs audit/survey, Centers of Excellence (CEE), Customs valuation encyclopedia, tariff classification, Section 201, 232 and 301 tariffs, and how to receive and respond to CBP Forms 28 (request for information) and 29 (Notice of Action) in ACE.Keep your personnel trained in changes to regulations.Many companies offer full-day seminars to help you stay abreast of the latest information.The information offered here is broad in nature, and is not meant to cover every aspect and provision of the above topics. Be sure to discuss your specific questions with your customs broker, legal counsel, and/or CBP.Finally, stay up to date with changes. One way to do this is to sign up for our free Client Advisories, and we’ll automatically notify you as future developments occur. You can also get answers to your questions and explore specific strategies with our Trusted Advisor® experts in trade compliance to help maximize compliance and reduce costs.
Monica joined C. H. Robinson in 1998 and became a Licensed Customs House Broker in 2001. She has been an active participant in the local Detroit Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association (DCBFA) serving as an officer for many years and President for the past two years. Monica also serves on the Customs Committee Co-Chair for the Northern Border Customs Brokers Association (NBCBA) and participates at a national level with the National Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA). Monica has consulted clients on a number of import compliance matters including tariff classification, bond sufficiency and valuation matters. Monica is located in our Southfield, MI, Detroit Global Forwarding office.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


text: These bold, beautifully hand crafted baskets, that are coiling its way into your heart is the classic Ugandan basket! The basket is a perfect gift which can be highly functional or purely decorative. Most of the baskets are made from a local fiber taken from a type of palm leaf called raffia which is wrapped around long strips of banana leaf stems. No basket are alike and they are deeply rooted in tradition.

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an agreement to come to peace and end conflict (between governments, countries, etc).
The bridge separating South Sudan and Uganda where refugees cross.
Just because a peace treaty has been signed does not suddenly make everything better. It does not immediately stop the fighting. It is simply one step in the process of restoring stability.
The country of South Sudan still doesn’t have resources set up for its citizens. It is difficult to restore infrastructure so that people have access to food and medical care.
The rebels are still fighting the government. Since the rebels and the government soldiers don’t get paid, they loot from the villages which continues to drive people into the bush the or across the border. Up until now, there are still people coming across the border every day for this very reason. They have to leave everything they know behind in hopes of having some semblance of normal.
Also, the villages were ravaged; crops and houses were burned. Some refugees don’t have a home to go home to. Seeing as the average refugee spends 21 years in a resettlement camp, for some, the camp is the only home they have ever known. They would have to start from scratch if they returned.
So, the refugees will keep coming to Uganda until the area is stabilized. They know that as a refugee in Uganda, they are entitled to food, shelter, and medical care, which is more than what they get as a citizen of their own country. This is why our work is so important.
Overall, it may be said that just because there is a treaty, it doesn’t mean that refugees will stop coming or that our work is done.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Everybody's working for the weekend and what a weekend it was! Loverboy + the Ryman Auditorium... what can ya' say??? It was perfect! They were perfect and the venue, well lets just say I went to church. It was simply amazing! The show was kicked off with an energetic performance of Notorious and then they continued to dazzle the fans for the entire evening. Front man Mike Reno exudes star quality. He is charming, witty and exceptionally talented. Band mates Paul Dean, Matt Frenette, Doug Johnson and Ken "Spider" Sinneave have that “it” factor as well. You can’t quite put your finger on it but whatever it is, it works and it works well.
It's funny how the fans age, the musicians age, but the music is timeless. Thr truth is no matter the age there wasn’t a single person in the Ryman Auditorium that wasn't singing along to the parade of non-stop hits.
Notorious, Lucky Ones, Queen of the Broken Hearts, Take Me to the Top, (With "Riders On The Storm"), It's Your Life, Almost Paradise (with Catherine St Germain), The Kid Is Hot Tonite, When It's Over, Hot Girls in Love, (Drummer/Bassist Intros and solos), Turn Me Loose, Working for the Weekend with a rousing encore ... a definite fan favorite, Lovin' Every Minute of It.
Mike Reno carried the crowd with ease. His energy was contagious, his vocal range was impressive and the band was spot on. These guys just know how to do it! They are consistently amazing! It was a very special evening and I loved every minute of it! (no pun intended).
Seeing Loverboy in concert is always a new and exciting experience each and every time! Would I recommend a Loverboy show....Hell Yeah!
The only thing left to say is...OH WHAT A SHOW!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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The board of trustees of the Erie Canal Museum recently elected officers for 2018, and elected three new trustees to two-year terms.
Patrick J. Griffin, Associate Relationship Manager at M&T Bank, was elected president of the board. Sarah Tietje-Mietz, Academic Coordinator Counselor at the HEOP/Center for Teaching and Learning at Cazenovia College, was elected vice president. Michael P. Goetz, CPA, Manager at Firley, Moran, Freer and Eassa, CPA, P.C., was elected treasurer. Blaine T. Bettinger, Associate at Bond, Schoeneck and King Attorneys, was elected secretary. Steven H. Kelly, Associate Treasurer at Syracuse University, was elected chair of the board.
Michael Harriff, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at WCNY, Tia A. Jones, Complex Accounts and Dealers Specialist at Rapid Response Monitoring Services, and Brett A. Mosier, Adult Educator at the Syracuse City School District, were elected to the board. They will each serve two-year terms.
The board is responsible for financial oversight, overall planning, resource development, and participation in and periodic review of the mission of the Erie Canal Museum, a non-profit educational organization in Syracuse, New York. The Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5. The Museum is partially funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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A Chinese Twitter user posted what they claim are images of Samsung’s Project V, a cancelled attempt at a foldable smartphone.
The images show a device with two separate displays connected by a folding hinge.
Samsung may have shut down development of this device, but rumors claim the company is still working on a foldable phone.
Rumors continue to swirl on the internet that Samsung plans to release a foldable phone with a flexible display sometime in the near future. This weekend, we may have received a glimpse of a previous attempt to create a Samsung foldable phone, but one with two separate displays.
The images come from a Chinese Twitter user (via Slashleaks), who claims that this is the Samsung foldable phone known by the codename Project V, also known as Project Valley. Rumors about this phone started around 2015, claiming that the company would actually launch it in 2016, but that never happened. The same post says the model number for this cancelled phone is SM-G929F.
The images of the alleged Samsung foldable phone definitely look like a device that the smartphone maker would have designed back in 2015. The main phone display is also very thick compared to its second foldable screen. In that respect, it’s very similar to the ZTE Axon M, the two-screen foldable phone which launched in late 2017.
Keep in mind that we don’t have any confirmation that these images are of real prototypes for Samsung’s Project V foldable phone, so take them with a grain of salt. As we have reported, the company is still rumored to be developing some kind of foldable smartphone, but one with a flexible display, and with the new code name Winner.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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The Lolesa Pendant Light shade is entwined with beautiful abaca webbing over a durable iron frame in light brown coating.
Wiring included; black 1.5 meter cord with silver coloured ceiling cap.
We recommend installation by qualified electrician.


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This bird and bird cage are almost as lovely as the real thing! Hang it in your child's room or on the porch.
Dip a few feet of string or yarn into the flour-water glue, and wrap it around the balloon.
Repeat until you have wrapped enough yarn around the balloon to look like a cage.
Allow the balloon to dry.
Pop the balloon and throw it away.
Attach string to the cage to use as a hanger.
Print out a bird template or draw your own bird.
Cut a few inches of string, and tape one end to the bird's neck.
Hang the bird inside the cage.
Admire your intricate bird cage!


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Think about who you want to see, engage and enjoy your content.
Deciding when you will best appeal to your audience is a tough ask. Each business and organization will have its own schedules which work best for them, and as such there is no set rule.
Think about who you want to see, engage and enjoy your content. A nightclub will be appealing to different users entirely to an accounting firm, for example.
When will they be online? Young people and working professionals won't be checking their timeline or news feed at 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon, so there's no point wasting content by putting it out at that time. Equally, retired citizens won't be logging on at 11pm.
It doesn't matter if it's a sales post or not, your business or organization will want to get something across from their post. If it's a corporate or B2B style message, then it's unlikely that the people you are trying to reach will want to engage with you on their Saturday afternoons as they take a break from life in the office.
If you are a global company, time zones can make a huge difference. Whilst it might be 8pm and the perfect time to reach out to your audience in New York, in Europe it's 2am and your message is going to waste.
Balancing time zones can be hard, but adapt your content to match. If you have certain products or services available only in one part of the world, of if there's a regional event or trend like Thanksgiving or the soccer European Championships, then play to those in the relevant time zones.
Using Socialnk, you can ensure that you have your timeline always full to the rim with exciting content. You can see exactly what you have planned for the coming days, weeks or even months and that means that your fans and followers won't forget who you are.
Not only does scheduling tweets save you a huge amount of time and is a lot more practical, but it helps you to get better results in the long run. Minimizing costs and increasing returns, it's the ideal solution and you can achieve it with Socialnk.
Blog When should I schedule my tweets?


text: ERCP What is ERCP? Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, or ERCP, is a specialized technique used to study the bile ducts, pancreatic duct and gallbladder. Ducts are drainage routes; the drainage channels from the liver are called bile or biliary ducts. The pancreatic duct is the drainage channel from the pancreas.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


text: A.S. BEDARRIDES TIR A.S.T. AVIGNON C.T. DE PERTUIS S.T.A.V.


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I learned the most important lesson of my life at age 12: that I could change myself to become better. Up until then I had no friends, and was actively hated and outcast everywhere I went. I thought I was just bad, dumb, and broken. Then one day in my 7th grade English class, a popular girl decided to take me under her wing and teach me how to “be cool”. I discovered that I could take and implement feedback from others to become more of the person I want to be.
We all have blind spots. Things in our life we can’t see. We all have talents or skills we take for granted that could be better used with some intention. I’ve found this is especially true for people with Autism. Our blindspots and our talents can be massive, and with a small amount of guidance we can blossom quickly.
After that middle school discovery, I continued to seek out every growth opportunity I could find. I studied Dialectical Behavioral Therepy, Nonviolent Communication, Mindfulness Practice of Thich Nhat Hanh, dating coaching with David Wygant, and the Landmark Forum. I became a men’s work facilitator with the ManKind Project, a sponsor in my 12-Step Program, and a body awareness certified Coach with OneTaste. I have over 1000 hours coaching, teaching, and facilitating, and I love to connect with other Aspies and help them grow.
I am not a therapist. Therapists are medical professionals, they help people heal from wounds. I am super grateful to all the therapists I’ve had and I highly recommend their healing work. I am a coach. I help you build your muscles to play better in the game. My job isn’t to make you more comfortable, it’s to intuitionally push your comfort zones so you can grow and progress.
Coaching is not meant to be permanent. Much like one might hire a coach to help them train for a marathon, you could work with me for a short period of time to master specific aspects of your life.
It works differently for every person. So it starts with a free consultation where I can learn more about your strengths and growth areas and help you determine your right next steps.
I love meeting other Aspies and Aspie-supporters, please complete the form below.


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Etsy Inc's cash flow for dividends for the three months ended in Dec. 2018 was $0.0 Mil. Its cash flow for dividends for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2018 was $0.0 Mil.
Note: A negative number here means the payment of dividends. When pays more dividends, the absolute value gets bigger.
Cash Flow for Dividends for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2018 was 0 (Mar. 2018 ) + 0 (Jun. 2018 ) + 0 (Sep. 2018 ) + 0 (Dec. 2018 ) = $0.0 Mil.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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I have updated my scheduling script for GenCon 2014. I had originally not expected to have to make any changes to the code, but GenCon this year moved the location of their event catalog files, and decided to only release the event catalogs in xlsx format instead of csv. While you can still use last year's version of my scheduler by manually downloading and converting the catalog files, I've modified my code to use a converter utility to do the conversion.
The latest version of it can be found here.
In order to use this, you will need to install Python 2.7. You will also need to install this xlsx to csv converter code. After installing xlsx2csv, you'll have to copy the xlsx2csv.py file from the install directory into the same directory that the schedule solver python file is located.
The GenCon event registration system is also limiting event wish lists to 50 items this year, so the wishlist generator will limit itself to that number of wishlist items.
As before, this is an experimental and somewhat crude schedule optimization utility. It allows you to search the event catalog with a text-based interface, add events to your wishlist with assigned priorities, and then generates an optimal schedule for you, as well as a wishlist to enter into the GenCon registration system.
I don't know why specifically you'd be getting that error if you're using the same xlsx2csv code, since I took the keyword arguments straight from their code, but I've uploaded a new version of the code that omits those arguments (as they don't seem to do anything) and has a few other tweaks. Try downloading it again and trying it.
Getting this error when trying to use the scheduler for 2016. Any chances of you updating this again?
I have an updated copy at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ulypjnj53mwbmpx/schedule%20solver%202016.py?dl=0 which seems to work with this year's data.
However, I'm a bit surprised anyone is still using this archaic script, since there are far better options available for doing event search available now.


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A glance at a clothing boutique, a brisk walk down city streets, or an earful of automated customer service messages is proof positive that we live in an ethnic melting pot. Our world has stretched its borders and every person wanting to take advantage of that shift needs to know how to speak English. If you want to be the person that teaches them, you need the TESOL. Knowing how to read, write, and speak another language is no longer a trend of the future but a way of life for the present. The knowledge of another language and culture is a powerful leveraging tool in every sector of society, and that means there are huge opportunities for English teachers overseas.
But even beyond the career potential, the TESOL can open your eyes to other cultures. Studies show that children who are multilingual grasp concepts more quickly, and even the elderly are increasing their very quality and span of life by using natural forms of medicine that hail from continents beyond North America. Given the impact that world customs are making within our borders, the TESOL exam comes to the fore in preparing for a career teaching English overseas, locally, or just to retain a global outlook on life. While foreign speakers can access self-help curricula, it is helpful to have an instructor, because a person-to-person guide makes the language come to life in a way that far exceeds the textbook experience. The question arises about the need to take the TESOL exam.
Here are some things to ponder: To Thine Own Self Be True. Taking the test is a sound tool to assess your actual level of linguistic competency. Once you have this knowledge, you will know your strengths and weaknesses with respect to the language. Talk the Talk, make the coin.
Taking the TESOL will equip you to effectively teach a world that wants to speak English, leading you to a career that can take you through Asia, the Middle East, Europe and beyond. Many of these nations can be places you earn a lot more money than you're used to at home. Taking Care of Business! Gone are the days of only conducting business on the West Coast and East Coast. The real movers and shakers see as many possibilities in India as they do in Indiana. Making a mark in the marketplace can be done as people expand the scope and breadth of their linguistic skills.
While training others to speak a native language and embracing world culture is favorable, there is another consideration to be made. As the test is administered and the vast majority becomes multilingual, more competition may arise in the marketplace. Those who were once seen as a "cut above the rest" - based on their command of several languages - may now be deemed average. There is also the possibility that the mixing of ethnicities may cause the discrete differences to be lost in a sea of cultural compromise. Nonetheless, it is difficult to ignore the truth that stares us square in the face. This truth is that our world has now become our next-door neighbor.
The choice is up to us. Only we can decide whether to open the door or to remain behind closed doors. It's that decision that will dictate whether we make the grade and ultimately pass the test.
The bottom line is simple: Millions of people need to learn to speak English. They'll pay you to teach them. And the TESOL is the first step to making that happen.
For Free TESOL information please visit http://www.ezenglishonline.com. You can also email Andra Molnar at ezenglishonline@hotmail.com.


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“I am writing to let you know how impressed I was with the employees of Wallin & Klarich. From my initial phone call to your law firm, throughout both the civil and criminal trials, and a follow-up call to see how my son was doing after the verdict, your employees remained consistent in their ability to provide outstanding client support. Our assigned Wallin & Klarich attorney represented your firm with a professional and caring attitude. The attorney was always accessible, and he would always respond promptly to all of my questions and concerns.
As a parent going through such an emotional turmoil with my son and the domestic violence charges against him, I cant tell you how comforting it was to have a Wallin & Klarich staff member on the other end of the phone. At a time when both my son and I were confused and under great stress our Wallin & Klarich attorney was always extremely helpful. He kept us going and thinking positively. He always reassured me that the Wallin & Klarich law firm was on our side and was there for us.
Matt – thank you, thank you, thank you!
I hired Matt Wallin to represent me in an alleged domestic violence charge. From the very first conversation, Matt put my mind at ease with his counsel and advice. He understood how important it was for me to fight for my kids safety due to the long history of drug and alcohol abuse my ex had and he monitored my case from the beginning staying in close contact with the DA and me.
Im pleased to share, I learned the DA will not be pursuing charges and I can now focus on fighting for full custody of my children. Once again a big thank you to Matt Wallin for his counsel.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Industrial production jumped up pretty dramatically in April, which is a good sign for manufacturing. Industrial production numbers are more timely (reported monthly) than GDP numbers (reported quarterly) and better counted, meaning subject to fewer revisions. However, they are also more volatile (i.e. more “head fakes”) and less representative of economies to the extent those economies are serviced-based. Not surprisingly then, industrial production numbers are a better proxy for the overall economies in countries that are more manufacturing/industrial based, like many emerging market economies, than in economies that are more service-based, like the US. An old economist’s trick is to look in the back of the Economist magazine for monthly industrial production growth numbers for the world’s major developed and emerging economies, which gives you a quick global snapshot of how things are looking (quarterly GDP growth is also reported). Also reported there are weekly and year-to-date equity market performance of many of those economies. It is very instructive to see how these two numbers often diverge: Industrial production, GDP, etc., is quantity data, which is gathered with a lag and subject to revision. Equity market data, on the other hand, is price data and more forward-looking in general. Prices lead quantities.
An interesting fact: Some years ago, a big story was that the number of mutual funds had actually exceeded the number of publically traded stocks. Recently, the number of “stock index funds” (indices based upon a variety of criteria, e.g. high dividends, emerging markets, etc.) has exceeded the number of publically traded stocks. And this from Christian Ledoux, our Director of Equity Research: In 2015 the top ten stocks of the US market (S&P 500) were up double-digits, while the other 490 stocks were actually negative on average. In fact, by the February 11th low of last year (2016), theaverage stock was down 26.7% from its 52-week high. But since the S&P 500 is cap-weighted (larger companies get a bigger weighting), the official index was down only 15% from its high. So the majority of stocks in the S&P 500 have already been through a “stealth bear market” (i.e. down more than 20%).
Antitrust: President Trump’s nomination to head the US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Makan Delhrahim (confirmation hearings held May 10), is considered pretty hands-off or permissive when it comes to antitrust enforcement. The impact of antitrust actions on the stock market is pretty under-studied, which I find surprising. George Bittlingmayer of the University of Kansas has probably done and published the most work in this area, though his work is somewhat dated. For example, back in the 1980s his research corroborated the view of economist Irving Fisher, which stressed the importance of antitrust restraint for the stock market boom that occurred during the 1920s. In fact, Bittlengmayer argued that the threat of antitrust enforcement gave rise to the financial panics in the early twentieth century. He would look at the relationship between the number of antitrust case filings on the one hand, and stock market declines (reactions) on the other. A paper of his in 1993 argued that antitrust explains ten to twenty percent of annual stock returns, and later work (2000) suggested that actions filed against Microsoft hurt computer industry firms in general. It would be nice if there was more peer-reviewed research to balance out Bittlingmayer’s views, but I don’t come across much. The point is that his research suggests that Delhrahim’s appointment would be a tailwind for the market.
Finally, economist William Baumol passed away last week at the age of 95 (WSJ), which is an end-of-an-era event for professional economists. Baumol published in just about every field of economics, but I was most familiar with his textbook on Economic Theory and Operations Analysis. Operations research, or “OR,” has had several false starts in economics, not unlike game theory or even behavioral economics (more on that next week). It involves mathematical optimization techniques, many of which evolved from military research. Back in the 1960s there was great enthusiasm for applying these techniques to solve business problems, and many large firms established operations research teams. But by the 1970s the limitations of mathematization of business problems became obvious, and most of those programs were scrapped (they had broad success in physical applications, like refinery operations). I see a resurgence of sorts now in the field of business analytics, a product of the data generated through the use of information technology. [Aside: typically OR has fallen into one of two groups. The first, characterized by the late Gene Woolsey at the Colorado School of Mines (with whom I studied), asserts that you can only understand a process or operation by actually working every stage of it, from operating the cash register to driving the truck (so to speak). The second, characterized by Eliyahu Goldratt and the Theory of Constraints (TOC), places more emphasis on applying theoretical concepts, in this case finding the constraint(s) in the system and applying resources to that constraint (1920s scholars, long forgotten, called it “finding the neck in the bottle”). I think both are viable ways to skin the cat].


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On Monday, Live Nation announced the hardworking comic would no longer be performing her Australian shows this month — which included stops in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth!
Unreal Photos Taken Before the Most Tragic Moments in History. Tragic September 13, 2016. Titanic Disaster. This is the last photo taken of the doomed luxury liner Titanic before she sank in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. More than 1500 people perished in the horrifying maritime accident. PREV.
The amazing Ariana! Cant wait for her Christmas songs!! Shes awesome!! The amazing Ariana! Cant wait for her Christmas songs!! Shes awesome!!
The Big Hollywood Weight Loss Miracles Stefany B Published on November 18, 2017 _____ ADVERTISEMENT _____ The battle to stay in shape is a constant battle for most individuals, including celebrities. For the celebrities living in the constant limelight it can be even harder to let a few pounds find their way onto their body.


text: The 30th annual Suntrust Dickens of a Christmas will continue on December 14th beginning at 6pm! The second night of this Downtown tradition features everyone’s favorite Haley Toyota’s City of Roanoke Christmas Parade! The parade will start at 6:30pm at the intersection of Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street and will travel the same route as previous years on Jefferson, then turning onto Campbell Avenue, past Market Square. Downtown streets will be transformed into a magical space filled with costumed characters, horse drawn carriages, strolling carolers, marching bands, jugglers, and numerous community groups all highlighting various holiday traditions. Want to become a part of the magic? Participants must pre-register at no cost, and can find the parade entry form at Downtown Roanoke, Inc.’s website. Don't miss this wonderful, "outside the ordinary" holiday parade!

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Ultrasonic soldering systems offer the advantage of the fluxless soldering of many metals in common use as well as previously difficult to solder materials such as aluminium, ceramics, glass and silicon’s used in microelectronic applications.
The unit consists of the soldering iron itself, which is rated at 80W and can reach temperatures of up to 450°C, and is fitted with interchangeable screw in copper bits. The ultrasonic transducer is built into the soldering iron handle and the need to prevent this unit being overheated necessitates the continuous use of a cooling air supply.
The 40 kHz standard ultrasonic generators are separately housed in a sheet metal case with carrying handle and with soldering iron rest attached to one side. The generator has five levels of power plus a zero power level that allows the soldering iron to be used in the conventional manner. The ultrasonic power is applied to the iron as required by means of a footswitch.
We can test for free, and give a lot of the best solution, including the production, secondary production, assembly line, and the optimized revamping existing production lines.


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The World Cup is upon us, Russia will be hosting the tournament in a matter of months now. In case you have not planned your flight yet, the Flock Aviation Directory team is here to make sure all your Russia operations planning go smoothly.
Slots are a requirement at all the airports in the host cities – availability of GA parking options will also be limited and is according to slot approval.
There needs to be a minimum 30-day window in the submission of slot requests to the Russian Civil Aviation Authority. Albeit confirmation not being official until up to 3 weeks before the tournament begins, the CAA is encouraging all operators to submit their requests as soon as possible.
Parking is also dependent on obtaining slot approval. In the host airports, you will most likely be permitted two hours on the ground at max (if you’re lucky), and in the case you would require overnight parking – you would definitely need to find an alternative airport.
NOTAMs have yet to be published for this event, however, you can be stay updated through this link.
The World Cup games will be played in 11 different cities across Russia, each providing at least a single primary airport.
However, we acknowledge the fact that traffic would be extremely high in those airports, we have compiled a list of alternatives to each for your convenience.
Chelyabinsk Balandino Airport (IATA: CEK, ICAO: USCC) *201km from SVX.
Roshchino International Airport (IATA: TJM, ICAO: USTR) *328km from SVX.
Learn more about operating flights in Russia by visiting this blog post.
You can also learn more about applying to landing permits in Russia by reading more about it here.

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


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Travel MUST HAVE: Captain's Package From Only $19!
Secure yourself with an exclusive Captain’s Package & Price Drop Protection at the Flight Centre! Travel with peace of mind!


text: On the following pages, we present to you parts of the expected high level of ALPINA quality. Just like our automobiles. You may also download our current Parts Catalogues.

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Many doctors these days are now including 3D printing as part of their many surgical procedures. Dr. Jamie Levine from NYU Langone noted that there is a paradigm shift when it comes to doing surgical procedure in terms of using and relying on 3D printing. A lot of hospitals all over the United States have already embraced 3D printing to create tools, models or craft tissues used for surgery. One of the hospitals that are leading the paradigm shift is the Institute for Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone. The surgeons from NYU Langone use special printers to create tools and 3D models that can save doctors from performing long and expensive surgeries. In fact, the hospital is able to save $20,000 to $30,000 for every reconstruction that the do. The use of 3D printing in medical technology is very promising. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration has already approved the creation of 3D printed pills and vertebrae. There are also many researchers all over the world working with 3D printed organs to be used in organ transplantation. Although medical-grade 3D printers still remain expensive, they can make infinite types of objects like surgical tools, anatomical models and other devices. Fortunately, there are now many companies that are developing cost-effective printers thus the cost is targeted to go down in the future. There is a wide potential for innovation when it comes to using the 3D printing technology. With this technology, it is no wonder if many hospitals all over the world will rely on 3D printing technology to treat different diseases.
Surgery on the anterior crucial ligament (ACL) is difficult. The standard surgical procedure involves drilling a tunnel on the tibia to remove the ligament and reconstructing it by using transplanted graft. In most cases, the affected area that has been treated has a good chance of re-tearing after being repaired. However, this technique has many limitations such as entering the knee through the tibia can make it difficult to reattach the ligament to the original attachment point. Having said this, Dr. Dana Piasecki and the other orthopedic surgeons from the OrthoCarolina Sports Medicine came up with a solution by creating their own 3D printed surgical tool which allows them to drill and follow the normal path of the ligament and attach to the femur. This new tool mimics the natural positioning of the ACL. The doctors turned to 3D printing to create a complicated tool but save costs on the production. The tool was made from a strong biocompatible metal to accommodate different knee sizes of different patients. The tool was finally manufactured by Stratasys Direct Manufacturing. The final tool is a low-cost device that is finally registered by the FDA as a Class 1 medical device. Currently, the new medical tool dubbed as Pathfinder has 95% success rate when it comes to anchoring grafts to the original ligament. This also made it easier for doctors to carry out ACL surgery. With this tool, many orthopedic patients in need of ACL surgery will have new hope that they will get the best possible treatment that medical science can provide.
Creating multicellular structures is a delicate procedure. For instance, the human heart is comprised of more than 2 billions of muscle cells that should be aligned and interact with one another to work properly. While 3D Bioprinting is a promising technology that allows scientists to create biological tissues, the problem remains—there is no single method available that uses a high level of precision to create multicellular structures that are functional, viable, and has good integrity. Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon, Penn State as well as MIT have developed the acoustic tweezers technology which is a technique that utilizes sound waves to trap as well as manipulate individual cells. This technology is also used to align, transport, separate, and pattern individual cells without causing any cellular damages. The acoustic tweezers created by the researchers come with a microfluidic device that uses sound wave generators to create sound waves along the edge of the device. The design of the device allows the researchers to manipulate and capture single cells. The device provides a precise level of control when manipulating cells in terms of their spacing and geometry thus allowing scientists to explore the creation of tissues with complex geometries and patterns. The results of the study provide a novel way for scientists to manipulate live cells in 3D without any invasive contact or biochemical labeling. This leaves the biological state during the manipulation in its original and unadulterated state. This can lead to new possibilities in research applications in fields like neuroscience, regenerative medicine, biomanufacturing, tissue engineering and cancer treatment.
A kidney transplant is a very sensitive operation and patients need to be compatible so that the organ recipient will not reject the donor organ. 3D printing paved the way for surgeons to be able to transplant an adult kidney to a toddler recipient. In Northern Ireland, a 3-year old toddler is the first child in the world to survive a kidney transplant using adult kidneys. The toddler suffered from heart failure which had dire consequences on her kidneys as they were robbed of oxygen. Instead of settling with regular kidney dialysis, her parents decided to have her undergo a kidney transplant. As stated by Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation, the kidney transplant was the first of its kind as it uses 3D printing to aid the transplant. The doctors used 3D printing technology to create a model of the patient’s abdomen. They also created a model of the donor’s kidney –the patient’s father –to see how everything fits. This minimizes the risks involved in the transplant. Transplant specialist Pankaj Chandak noted that the surgery is quite complex thus the use of 3D printing technology helped surgeons plan ahead of time to increase the success of the operation and minimize the risk to the patient and donor during the surgery. The operation was a complete success and doctors are excited to use this technology to treat different conditions, as well as help doctors, plan their course of action before the actual surgery. 3D printing has definitely made its way to mainstream medicine.
3D bioprinters are able to print living tissues for medical transplants and testing to name a few. However, recreating human tissues require a combination of human cells, biogels as well as different types of bioink materials aside from the nutrients and oxygen needed by the cells to survive. Specialized 3D bioprinters do not come cheap and they can cost between $100,000 and a million dollars depending on their specifications. With the aim of developing an affordable 3D bioprinter, inventors Jemma Redmond and Stephen Gray combined their expertise on nano-bioscience and biochemistry to create an innovative bioprinter. The result of their hard work is the Ourobotics Revolution 3D bioprinter which is a low-cost device that can print using 10 materials in the same device. The printer also has a heated enclosure to provide ambient temperature to the growing tissue. To date, no 3D bioprinter has the ability to print 10 materials in a single bioprinted structure. However, the inventors of this bioprinter said that they can add more materials in the future. What makes the bioprinter astounding is that it can retool itself; thus it can be used from laser and UV projectors to 3D printers. It can also handle different materials like gelatin, collagen, chitosan and alginates to name a few. With the features of this new 3D bioprinter, you can build complicated tissues, create custom pills or combine inorganic and organic materials. This 3D printer will no longer be limited to creating prosthetics, customized medical tools as well as medical models as it can be used to print live tissues for transplant.
3D printing is becoming an important feature in the field of medical science and its wide recognition in improving medical technology made it possible for many doctors all over the world to come up with innovations in treating their patients. Speaking of innovation, the Collegiate Inventors Competition encourages students to use 3D printing in redefining the way scientists use this technology. The recent competition was attended by 14 finalist teams from all over the United States. One of the finalists that caught the attention of the judges is the group of students from the University of Pennsylvania who created the 3D printed eyelids that are driven by small motors. This invention will be implanted on patients who are unable to blink such as those suffering from dry eye disease. To create the synthetic eyelids, the students used plastic chips with microfluidic channels to stimulate the growth of human cells. Jeongyun Seo, one of the proponents of the study, noted that they created this technology without the need for animal or human models. For now, the proponents see the need for the blinking 3D printed human lid as an accurate model that can be used in medicine, academe and even in the cosmetic industry. Although they did not win the competition, the team was ecstatic to receive the recognition for the first organ-on-a-chip technology that they were able to develop. This innovation created a leverage in biomicroengineering thus it is possible in the future to completely remove animals as human surrogates for clinical testing.
3D printing technology is becoming mainstream in many first world countries. Unfortunately, poor countries are not able to benefit from this innovation. 3D printing is a technology that could have benefited many patients from poor countries especially those who are in need of quality prosthetics.
London-based 3D printing company 3D LifePrints was able to provide 3D prosthetics to amputee patients from poor and developing countries. It was estimated that more than 15 million amputees from the poorer regions in the planet do not have access to sufficient medical care thus, this humanitarian act provides relief for a lot of patients. To provide many amputees with 3D prosthetics, 3D LifePrints has been relying on the generosity of a pool of medical experts, technologists, social entrepreneurs, and academic researchers to raise funds and at the same time do more research on developing better 3D prosthetics. The 3D prosthetics provided by the company are deemed very helpful for all amputees, but there are several problems encountered by the company. To date, the main supplier of prosthetics is the International Committee of the Red Cross, but they are still expensive that even ordinary people cannot afford it. The challenge by 3D LifePrints is to make prosthetics that are cheaper, more comfortable as well as more functional than they used to be. Making 3D prosthetics available to poor patients in the third world countries can help not only improve their lives but also uplift their morality as it gives them the chance to be able to live normal lives.
Taiwanese surgeons have been using the 3D printing technology to perform complex surgical procedures in order to reduce the surgery time as well as its risks. One of the complex surgical procedures that 3D printing technology was used on is the complex orthognathic procedure which is a corrective jaw or cheek reduction surgery. Conventional surgery is an arduous task not only for the surgeons but also to the patients. In this case, patients who undergo facial skeletal surgery may develop skeletal or even dental irregularities. Moreover, it can also lead to permanent facial paralysis if not performed properly considering that the face has a lot of delicate nerves that can accidentally be severed during the operation. However, with the use of 3D printing technology, surgeons were able to create a model of the patient’s skull so that they have more time to assess and plan their strategies before the operation. Surgeons Jiang Hou Ren and Xie MingJi developed a technique using 3D printing technology to create an actual model of the patient’s skull by using images obtained from CT scan and X-rays. Surprisingly, the new strategy resulted to better and faster recovery time without any risks at all.
3D printing used in cosmetic surgery can help optimize the facial features of the patients and also help doctors carry out the surgical procedure more effectively. With this technology, doctors will be able to provide better healthcare to its patients. With this procedure, doctors can also perform other surgical procedures on the face to improve the aesthetics as well as the function of the patient’s facial features.
Researches have been made on advancing the applications of 3D bioprinting. Thru this healthcare professionals are able to address complicated injuries and illnesses.
The process of 3D bioprinting is utilized to generate tissues or living cells that help sustain growth and cell function within the printed cell or tissue. Patent on bioprinting was filed last 2003 and by 2006, it was then approved. It paved the way to more researches and encouraged hospitals and other research groups to continue experimenting on this type of process. Positive feedback are being received and it is a promising method to aid in reconstructive surgery and medical testing. 3D bioprinting started in different areas, however, Baltimore Maryland is now being seen as a hub for this type of method. This is due to a breakthrough research done at Johns Hopkins University’s Grayson Lab. Apart from that, it is also in Baltimore where you can find the world’s first 3D printing lab, called BUGSS or Baltimore Underground Science Space. It was created in 2012, by and for professional, citizen and amateur scientists and artists. This lab is their space and for them to further explore as well as learn more about the biotechnology world. The BUGSS have three 3D bioprinters. They make use of live stem cells from plants on their experiments and researches. Ryan Hoover, an artist and faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art is responsible for taking care of the lab and maintaining on-site bioprinters.
Hoover is also using 3D bioprinters to experiment on plant material in order to create solutions wherein plant cells are able to recognize and merge into living tissues.
The experiments and researches on bioprinting done at BUGSS are positive occurrences that will encourage forward the technological world of 3D bioprinting.
A lot of people have heart problems and there is a long list of those seeking transplant because unlike other parts of the body, tissues of the heart do not repair or regenerate on its own. Fixing heart ailments often requires surgical procedures and these surgeries are often difficult and risky. There may be an answer to these challenges thru a process known as 3D bioprinting. This method has been advocated to remedy the need for transplanting of tissues and organs. The process on 3D bioprinting makes use of self-supporting materials for regeneration of the nerves to create a 3D heart in preparation for surgery. In a delicate process such as 3D bioprinting, it also involves some challenges when using soft tissues since these replicated tissues are not being supported by the other layers of tissues. However, a team known as the Regenerative Biomaterials and Therapeutics Group discovered the use fibrin and collagen in bioprinting of coronary arteries and hearts. These groups are led by Adam Feinberg who is an associate professor of Carnegie Mellon University on Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. The team of Professor Adam Feinberg discovered the use of open-sourced software and hardware making 3D printers affordable on a consumer-level. The technique they are using requires printing a gel inside another gel. This approach is known as Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels or FRESH. According to Feinberg, gels collapse just like any Jell-o; therefore they developed a technique of printing one gel inside of another gel to provide support. In this manner, they are able to position precisely the soft material as they undergo the process of 3D printing on a layer per layer basis. In order to create the printed designs of the artery tissues and heart, MRI images are taken then through the 3D printer, layers of the second gel are injected inside the translucent support gel. When you submerge the support gel in a body-temperature medium like the human body, it melts but it leaves the bioprinted living cells undamaged and intact. After which, heart cells are integrated into that printed form to assist in the creation of the contractile muscle.
The creation of stem cells using 3D printers can bring a lot of changes in the world particularly in the field of medicine. One important application for stem cells is drug testing. Millions of laboratory animals will be spared if 3D printing can create stem cells. Collaboration between the researchers from Tsinghua University in China and Drexel University in Philadelphia developed a way of growing embryonic stem cell structures. To create the stem cell structures, researchers used an extrusion technology to create grid-like structures that encourage the growth of the stem cells. The cell structures were able to divide and organize into living tissues but the viability of the tissue is only up to a week. Researchers were astonished that the new embryonic cell structures were able to last for a week. Liliang Ouyang, one of the proponents of the study, noted that the embryoid body is homogenous and can be a good starting point for tissue growth. While the common method of printing cells is using suspension method, it does not result to cell uniformity thus cells become viable for up to a few days. The new method that the researchers developed is capable of becoming into different cell types of the body. The researchers are hopeful that the new technique can quickly proliferate into different embryoid bodies so that they can be used for tissue regeneration and drug testing on living tissues. For now, the researchers are finding ways on how they can change the size of the embryoid bodies so that they can create different cell types.
The 3D printing technology has proven itself a very useful innovation in the field of medical technology. In fact, this technology is no longer restricted to making medical models to help surgeons plan their operation but progress has been made such that construction of delicate tissues is now possible. One of the most intriguing things that can be created with 3D printers is the knee cartilage. Scientists from the Texas Tech University and Texas A&M University were able to develop a way to create knee cartilage from a 3D bioprinter. Led by Dr. Jingjin Qiu, the 3D printed cartilage can be used to repair the injured meniscus among patients suffering from arthritis and mechanical damage caused by injuries and sports. The cartilage of the knees protects the connecting bones of the legs against friction as well as absorbs shock when you engage in extreme activities. However, the cartilage can break down and become inflamed, thus patients are required to undergo surgery called meniscectomy to repair the meniscus. To create the 3D printed meniscus, researchers used hydrogels but added a gel-like substance called alginate. The addition of the alginate to the hydrogel increases the viscosity of the bio-ink. The material also restricts the cartilage from pulling out under stress. The problem with conventional meniscectomy is that the removal of the meniscus can result to the risk of osteoarthritis later in life. Moreover, transplanting knee cartilage from a donor can also bring up a host of complexities including rejection and biocompatibility issues. The development of the 3D printed meniscus removes all these complexities thus it can help many people suffering from a lot of knee problems.
Blessing Makwera is the Zimbabwean man who was the recipient of Operation Hope, a California organization that offers surgical care and procedures to individuals in developing nations. Makwera was only 15 years old when he figured in a tragic accident that left his upper and lower jaws severely disfigured due to an exploding land mine. Although he survived the accident, he had to live with his misshapen face for eight years before becoming the happy recipient of the Operation Hope. Makwera needed several surgeries through the collaboration of Dr. Joel Berger who was a maxillofacial and oral specialist and 3D systems that was there to help in visually mapping out the surgical procedure via their Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP) services. The man behind 3D systems VPS services was Mike Rensberger. Makwera needed a fibula free flap operation which comprises of taking vessels, tissues, and bone from the fibula (a bone in the lower leg), and then restructuring as well as re-configuring these to form jaw bones that are linked to the neck’s blood vessels. Rensberger commented that although they have experience dealing with the same surgery, but the time-sensitive operation was placing a huge challenge for the team. They only had four days to prepare before the surgery. Eventually, Rensberger’s team was able to create two sets of maxillae and mandibles to be used as a time saving replica in the operating room and the other set as a reference point in the actual operation. The models helped the surgeons to familiarize themselves with the unique anatomy of the patient and fortunately for Makwera, all the needed jaw composition for the operation arrived on time. The surgery took 12 hours to perform and it was a success, thanks to the power of 3D printing.
Canadian Surgeon Dr. Ivar Mendez is the head of surgery at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Mendez reported that he always prepares before a brain surgery via the use of computer simulations. Given the fact that brain surgery is a very sensitive operation wherein it involves opening the skull and toe brain folds are inserted with electrodes. A miscalculation on the part of the surgeon can cause irreversible damage depending on the specific part of the brain involved. That’s why the meticulous doctor always studied the patient’s brain and the targets he needed to access. Now, Dr. Mendez wanted to try out 3D printing the patient’s brain as a model instead of using computer simulations. It took 7-months and several experts from neuropsychologists, MRI specialists, radiologist, and engineers to create the first rubber prototype. However, Dr. Mendez was not satisfied with the model because it did not display the important and smaller features of the brain. Now, the team and Dr. Mendez have a more detailed and larger brain model wherein the Dr. Mendez can actually practice the surgery. Dr. Mendez was more than satisfied with the brain replica because it mimics the consistency of an actual brain. He further elaborated on the possibilities of 3D printed medical innovations like the same principles can be applied on creating 3D brain models of patients with brain tumor, helping neurosurgeons to better grasp the extent of the effects of the tumor or lesion removal. And this is something that cannot be easily seen with the use of digital models.
Surgical transplantation procedures such as heart transplants can be very difficult to work with and this is the reason why patients have to join a long waitlist, along with other patients, in the hopes of getting a transplant. However, researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University want to improve the chances of getting a transplant early by developing a method for 3D bioprinting soft tissues. Currently, the 3D printing technology uses materials like titanium and silicone to create flexible plastic models used only for surgical planning. Unfortunately, replicating soft tissues can be difficult until today. The research is led by associate professor Adam Feinberg and it aims to demonstrate a new method of creating synthetic hearts and arteries using natural materials like fibrin and collagen. With their years of extensive research, they were able to accomplish printing soft tissues using a consumer-level 3D printer. The technique of creating soft tissues was called Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) which involves printing gel in gel. This allowed the researchers to position the soft materials precisely inside the gel so that they can create it layer by layer. To create anatomically correct heart and artery tissues, researchers rely on MRI images of patients. The printer then uses a small syringe to inject the layers of the second gel inside the transparent support gel. The support gel serves as the scaffold of the soft tissues. The support gel then melts away when immersed in ambient-temperature water, thus, leaving behind the living cells intact. Now, the researchers need to perfect the next step which is to incorporate the printed tissues in vivo.
The 3D printing technology provides revolutionary roles in the fast evolving field of medical technology. China-based company, Revotek, announced their custom-made 3D bioprinter that can print real blood vessels and other multiple layers of cells. What makes this news truly revolutionary is that no other commercially available 3D bioprinters have done this before. Yang Keng, Revotek’s chairman, noted that the company’s new 3D bioprinting system includes bio inks, medical imaging cloud platform, a 3D bioprinter, and a post processing system. With this new 3D printing system, it will now be easier to rebuild organs from scratch in the future. The heart of this new technology is the stem cell culture system called the Biosynsphere biological bricks that are developed to create personalized cells. It contains seed cells as well as bio inks to create layered cell structures with defined physiological functions. The new 3D printer works by alternately extruding bio inks, thus, it can create 10cm-long blood vessels under two minutes. The bio ink, on the other hand, is kept under special biological and environmental conditions so that the printer does not only make blood vessels but also various types of cells as well. But perhaps the most important component of this new 3D bioprinting system is the medical imaging cloud platform which will be available to all hospitals in China. This makes it easier for doctors and medical researchers to deal with bottleneck problems when it comes to treating different conditions using 3D bioprinted organs. With this new revolution, 3D printing can pave the way for better medical procedures for patients who require organ transplants.
3D bioprinting has a lot of applications in the field of medicine. Innovators are making significant contributions to the development of the said technology. Aside from prosthetics, researchers can now use 3D bioprinting for stem cell research. Researchers from the Heriot-Watt University in Scotland was the first group to 3D print stem cells using the valve-based technique. Dr. Will Shu, the lead researcher of the experiment, wants to use 3D printing technology for patient-specific drug treatments. With the ethical issues behind animal drug testing, this technology is very beneficial to test different types of drugs. The problem with using stem cells for drug-specific treatment is that the live cultures are sensitive thus the cells may end up dying even before testing can begin. The new technique developed by the researchers may end animal testing altogether. The team was able to print 3D printed stem cells by creating their own hardware to handle the fragile nature of the stem cells. Starting with small batches of 3D printed cells, the team was able to use the bioprinted materials to test drugs. This allowed the doctors to find out which doses provide fewer side effects but better benefits to patients. Dr. Jason King from Roslin Cellab was tapped by the researchers from Scotland to assist in developing products for the commercial stem cell sector. With the vast horizon for 3D printing, scientists are discovering complex processes that they can utilize 3D printing to help ease different problems in the field of medical science.
3D printing provides a variety of applications for the field of medicine including cosmetic surgery. Currently, leading 3D printing technology 3D Systems partnered with a New York-based company to make cosmetic surgery experience more efficient for both client and surgeons. Dr. Carrie Stern from the New York-based company MirrorMe3D noted that the use of 3D printing technology can help patients by creating before and after colored models of the parts that the patients need work on; for patients, seeing the before and after images provide a big relief on what they can expect for the surgical procedure. This will also help patients decide whether they will go ahead with the procedure or not. Dr. Glenn Jelks from the NYU Medical Center acknowledges that 3D printing is indeed a game changer in the field of cosmetic surgery. Aside from the benefit it gives patients, doctors are also provided with a lot of information on how they will go about with the procedure to achieve maximum results. The company 3D Systems is working on developing new software to help create the models for cosmetic surgery. The company is planning on using a specialized 3D printer called ProJet 660 color printer to create realistic before and after models of patients; thus patients have this weird but interesting experience of holding their new selves at the palm of their hands. The thing is that 3D printing technology really provides insightful innovations for both patients and doctors so that they can enjoy the experience cosmetic surgery provides.
3D bioprinting is an important innovation in medical science. Through this wonderful innovation, researchers were able to make important applications. In fact, it is now possible for researchers to create organs like human ears; however this technology finds it difficult to create soft structures that have minute internal support. Unfortunately, 3D bioprinting still cannot print small structures like the veins or small organs because they have the tendency to collapse even before they can become viable. A team of researcher from the University of Florida acknowledges this problem, thus, they developed a process that allows small structures to be printed out without even collapsing. The process involves injecting inks that are loaded with special gels that will hold the organs together. What makes this particular 3D bioprinting innovation possible is the use of a hydrogel called Carbopol gel made from very small particles. This gel acts as both the liquid and solid scaffold that shears the stress applied directly on the structure. This property of the gel allows the printer to deposit the gel on the printing medium without disrupting or destroying the entire structure. The researchers were able to create different complex shapes using the 3D bioprinter and this hydrogel. Thomas Angelini, researcher from the University of Florida, noted that the 3D bioprinting is no longer used to print solid organs. With the help of this new gel, it is now possible for doctors and medical researchers to create extensive microscopic soft tissues that can be used in transplanting different organs.
3D printing is widely used in the medical industry to create a wide array of innovations to help different patients suffering from various maladies. Currently, all eyes are at Croatia as researchers were able to perform a successful operation on a patient suffering from spinal tumor. It is not common to hear innovations on treating spinal maladies using 3D printing, but what makes this particular operation innovative was that it is the first one to use all 3D-printed acrylic vertebra–the first of its kind! Doctors from the Neurosurgical Clinic in Rijeka noted that the 3D printed acrylic vertebra that was used to replace the patient’s metastasized vertebra is that it is affordable and easy to work with. His doctor noted that unlike pre-manufactured designs, the 3D printed vertebra makes the surgery convenient and the patient’s recovery faster. Instead of using the standard material–titanium mixed with acrylic–the patient was able to afford the surgery. Moreover, the doctors were also able to conduct the operation within a short period of time. For the medical researchers to create the customized vertebra, they used the patient’s imaging tests to create a perfect replacement. In a country like Croatia, patients cannot readily afford 3D printing technology as their best surgical option. This is the reason why they opt for conventional treatments. What makes conventional treatments challenging is that they are not always effective when it comes to treating rare and difficult conditions. With this new 3D printing innovation, patients now have access to cheap yet effective treatments.
The 3D printing technology is constantly being innovated by dedicated scientists and researchers to improve its many applications in the field of engineering, manufacturing and medicine. The research center of the National University of La Plata in Argentina, LIFIA, created a special 3D printer head that has the ability to control two syringes thus allowing medical researcher to print biopolymers with complicated geometric patterns. This new innovation won an award and received funding for further development from the Ministry of Science and Technology in Argentina. Lead researcher, Sergio Katz, noted that the idea of developing a special printer head came from the need to design a system that can control the layering of biopolymers. With the new printer head, the biopolymers create a new hydrocolloidal matrix which makes it easier for the polymers to align. This technology, if perfected, can be used in various applications in the field of medicine and these include customized drug administration. Currently, this printer head is able to create bioprinted patches that can be easily attached to specific organs for better drug administration. The patches can also be used in nanotechnology and biotechnology. The new 3D printer comes with dual extruders that are attached to a motor and movable support. As the motor rotates, a contraption moves up and down in order to control the plunger of the syringe. A silicone tube is found at the end of each syringe that carries the liquid directly to the head. With this new technology, this new printer head will definitely revolutionize 3D medical printing in the future.
3D printing has become an indispensable tool in the medical industry. It has encompassed numerous applications from creating simple customized medical tools, surgical models, implants, to orthopedic casts. This technology continues to expand as researchers develop many intriguing yet effective devices using a simple 3D printer. One such innovation introduced to the world recently was the 3D printed braces intended for patients with scoliosis. 3D Systems, the South Carolina-based company, released their prototype for back braces to correct the abnormal curvature of the spine among patients with severe scoliosis. The braces are customized to fit the shape of the patient’s body. The braces also have corrective features so that patients can be comfortable but experience improvement while wearing the braces. This technology was adopted by Chinese medical researchers from the National Rehabilitation Aids Research in Beijing to treat patients suffering from mild to moderate scoliosis. The Chinese researchers worked with orthopedic surgeons from Germany led by Dr. Hans-Rudolf Weiss. Conventional braces are very difficult to wear as they are chunky and provide a lot of discomfort to patients. Moreover, it is also embarrassing for most people to wear conventional braces because they look like alien contraptions stuck in their bodies. The researchers developed customizable braces that slimly fit the body of patients and it comes with a lot of patterns to improve the air flow thus decreasing discomfort and build up of heat. The new braces are made from thermoplastics thus they are very light but strong enough to support and re-align the problematic back. This innovation will surely help a lot of patients suffering from scoliosis all over the world.
The 3D printing technology provides the medical industry with viable solutions for complicated medical procedures. Today, 3D printing is no longer used in creating prosthetics but also in synthetically creating natural-occurring cells and tissues. Fabricating cells and tissues using 3D printing technology is a complex method. However, researchers were able to create breast cancer tissues and gland tissues to study disease progression and also drug testing. The key to the success of printing cells and tissues lies on Bio-Ink which is a material that serves as the structural scaffold for the tissues. While the current bio-ink used in 3D bioprinting is already effective, researchers want to improve this technology further. Recently, a study published in the journal ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering demonstrated the new material for bioprinting. Called Polyol-Silk Bioink, it uses silk solutions called non-toxic polyols (sugar alcohol) in creating self-curing features that allow structural support and less processing. With this new material, tissue engineering will be less complicated. Developed by David L. Kaplan and his team of researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Department of Tufts University, the new silk biogel is clear as well as flexible. It is also stable in water and superior to other materials like gelatin, collagen, and silicone. This material can also withstand high temperature and pH changes. This latest bio-ink provides a possible answer to solving the many challenges encountered in the bioprinting arena. With this new innovation, it is now possible for researchers to create tissues faster and more stable than conventional methods.
As 3D printing technology has gained traction in the medical field, researchers were able to use the said technology to develop groundbreaking techniques to regenerate nerves for both motor and sensory functions.
Regenerating nerves is a complicated process thus people with injuries involving nerves suffer from permanent damage. With the new technique, scientists hope to help more than hundreds of thousands of patients suffering from nerve diseases. To regenerate nerves using the 3D printing technology, researchers used 3D imaging to create custom silicone guides that are implanted with biochemical compounds to encourage regeneration of complex nerves. The silicone guides were first tested in laboratory rats and scientists were able to regenerate the Y-shaped sciatic nerve with motor and sensory branches. Within 10 to 12 weeks, the rats were able to walk again. Professor Michael McAlpine from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota noted that this technology can be used to regenerate nerve tissues among human patients in the future. He also added that a library of scanned nerves should also be created for nerves that are unavailable for scanning. This is very important among patients whose nerves are difficult to scan due to extensive or increasing damage. With the library of scanned nerves available to the medical researchers, hospitals can create matched 3D printed guides for patients. 3D printing technology provides a lot of innovations in the field of medicine and with the newly developed technology, people suffering from nerve damage can now become hopeful that they can once again improve the quality of their lives.
Cancer research is very important in helping many people who are battling with cancer. However, the difficulty with cancer research is that it is challenging to test drugs while using live human tissues. A recent breakthrough done by the University of San Francisco had led to the development of a new technique called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells. Postdoctoral fellow Alex Hughes explained that the technique is all about creating biological equivalents of the LEGO bricks which can grow cells even in a simple petri dish. The 3D bioprinted cells can be used to study cancer drug screening. Medical researchers can build models of mammary glands to study the progression of cancer cells on human breasts. Unlike organoids, the 3D bioprinted human cells can be programmed into any cell type based on the spatial and environmental cues applied on it. It can also be used to create 3D printed organs in the future. If the technique can be perfected, it can be used to create thousands of cells within hours. The team behind this innovation relies on DNA to engineer the human tissues. The 3D printing of the cells occur in layers and with each layer, it is designed to stick to its cell partners. This is a promising technology that can pave the way for many developments in cancer research as well as synthetic organ production. Researchers hope that they can use the technology in the future to study more complex cellular structures and network in the hopes of fully understanding the human body.


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Featured artwork, En Sof, by brothers Fabio Lastrucci and Paolo Lastrucci.
In Burbank we shared a zip code with the quality in Toluca Lake where movie stars lived, Bob Hope and the man who invented Musak. Pop would write Toluca Lake as our return town. At night I'd sneak into the country club lit by the industrial neon of all that is fantastical about this country, Universal Studio and its parking lot flood lights. My rubber Zories squished grass made spongy by man's design to turn desert into golf course, cool and dewy. Once a squat man, a mole man, leaned against a shadow holding onto a tree. (The man leaned, the shadow clutched the tree.) His blue jeans were baggy like a movie farm-hand's and held up with rope. His face misunderstood. My rubber feet winged it home, where Mom sat reading up on Transcendental coping with Mortal Mind. My father slept rough in his dreams. In some, his brothers scratched “90027” on blue envelopes to be carried, like a lame prince, from New York to California.
There are reasons you sign on for years of adult learning and continuing ed sections. The fool's at it again the registrar snickers as a victimy organ near your heart thumps. It thinks it's a rabbit's foot. Think again, unlucky thumper. This life — thing is slimy. Hard to get a grip on which does what, Free Will being watermelon seedy as whim skittering between thumb and forefinger. Once, you raced to pay a bill by deadline. Needed polychrome Her. Touchstone. Safe mother. Locked doors opened and when he came to mop, man, did that Brother jolt. You were accepting of signs. So what if they laugh. Each generation gets hoary and stupid, wants its blunders pyre-worthy. Wants the fledglings to learn, lucky thumpers.
Sarah Sarai's poems are in Barrow Street, Ethel, Boston Review and other journals. Her second poetry collection will be published in 2020.

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We got to see a sneak preview of the upcoming Golden Compass movie today - six days before it opens nationwide in cinemas. The movie is certainly beautiful to watch - the renditions of some of the technological marvels of that other universe are elaborate and impressive. And the acting isn't bad either. However, the shape-shifting of the kids' dæmons was quite disappointing (they shift so fast that you don't get to see any nice CGI-transitions at all). And the story has been brutally mangled as it was turned into a screenplay: important aspects of character-development are missing, entire sections of certain chapters are missing (e.g. the ambassador of the witches), the sequence of events has been overturned (e.g. Bolvangar vs. fight of the bears for the throne), and the end has been turned from a breath-taking, earth-shattering, and tearing-the-sky-open cliff-hanger into a mediocre happy ending, Hollywood-style.
Furthermore it appears that the Authority still has a strong grip on affairs in our universe: the movie doesn't dare to criticize the Church and only calls it the "Magisterium" and even the church buildings in the movie have only a fleeting resemblance to cathedrals and look more like a cross between Metropolis and greenhouses.
I really like that tiger - I think I'm going to keep my dæmon.
So what it all boils down to is this: I recently read the entire His Dark Materials trilogy on the Sony Reader (a few months before the Kindle came out) and the Golden Compass book is just so much better than the movie. If you haven't read it yet, do yourself a favor and get the book before you watch the movie!
What if.... Google turned evil?
Oh, wait. Isn't Google already cooperating with the Chinese government today?
See also Cory's related posting on Boing Boing.


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In now unknown times, there was a tribe, the Waheebi. They had many leaders, good and bad. Once they had a leader that hated the tribe’s ways. It was after an era of bad feeling that they elected Bullock O’llama. In the first place, translated from Waheebi, Bullock O’llama means; fuzzy cow hiney that puts holes in canoe, destroys healthcare, hates industriousness, promotes racial tension and uses tiny pink dumbbells. But the restless Waheebians ignored all of the signs and promises of destruction in hope of change.
You must first know; the Waheebi did everything by canoe and they even used them to get their water. Many did not like that and thought they should simply settle with the water nearest them instead of working hard. The Waheebi faced in two directions to travel; some sat looking toward and some away. Those that were not looking to the leader and were focused on themselves were the Demobacks. The Waheebi that stared at the leader for direction and call on the canoes were the Rebuttlekins.
The Rebuttlekins could never unite on ideas, because some looked to progress and some looked to preserve and some simply faced their direction but were really a Demoback in disguise. A group of Rebuttlekins began yelling, “he’s putting holes in our canoes!” They were laughed at. Even when ‘Fuzzy Cow Hiney’ admitted he was going to put holes in the canoes, it was ignored.


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Five days have passed since the world was introduced to “Fat Betty” Francis on Mad Men. Who knew a prosthetic stomach and some fake jowls on the comely January Jones would create such an Internet firestorm? (There’s even a Twitter account, run by Vulture contributor Jon DeFreest, called @FatBettyFrancis.) Though there is some dissent, the general consensus among critics is that this plot twist is unbearably cruel to both the actress and the character. It’s acknowledged by most that Betty was the least sympathetic character on Mad Men even before this weight-gain plot, and others have written rousing defenses of her. But this breaking plot twist for the former Mrs. Draper actually gives viewers new reasons to love Betty and care about her plight.
Betty has always been the living embodiment of the Feminine Mystique: an unhappy housewife trapped in a gilded cage. But the loss of her looks really spotlights how horribly unfair the culture of the fifties and sixties was to a woman like her. She’s probably been told her entire life that her looks were the only thing that mattered. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr, but she was only ever encouraged professionally to be a model. Her relationship with Don was certainly based on the whole package she presented — he wanted to create the perfect life with the beautiful wife at home in his well-appointed Westchester abode. Lots of commentators have looked down on Betty for her response to finding out that she didn’t have cancer in Sunday’s episode: “It’s nice to be put through the wringer to find out I’m just fat.” But that’s an understandable response from someone who has lost the one thing they felt was valuable for them as a person.
For years we’ve heard about what a vicious, terrible mother Betty is. I’m not going to defend her mothering — she’s about as warm and sensitive as one of Harry Harlow’s wire monkeys — but as others have pointed out, the cancer scare nudged her toward realizing what a blessing her children are; Slate’s Julia Turner notes that she seemed to gain some awareness of her failings toward her family. Hopefully during her real-life-pregnancy-abbreviated screen time this season she’ll grapple with that more than we’ve seen in the past. There’s some evidence that it might happen. In the preview for this Sunday’s episode, we see Sally yelling into a phone, “I hate her.” Granted, with this show’s impressionistic, willfully noncontextual promos, it’s not entirely certain whom she’s talking about (could be Megan, could be a teacher, could be Lady Bird Johnson), but it certainly seems like something she’d be saying about her mother. Sally’s resentment could be growing, and now that she’s getting older — and as January Jones has said, the daughter takes after her father — Betty may be forced to confront her shortcomings head-on. When they were younger, the children were more easily controlled, and when they did talk back, Betty just lashed out and shut them up quickly. Sally, who already ran away from home to be with Don last season, is only going to get more rebellious. She’s going to be a more legitimate adversary now, one who can’t just be put in a pinafore without putting up a fight.
Until this season, I did not much care for January Jones’s acting. I thought she was wooden, and as New York’s TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz put it, limited. Her acting abilities have really taken a critical drubbing in the past three years, particularly in her disastrous extracurricular performances on Saturday Night Live and in X-Men: First Class (of the latter, Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof famously tweeted, “Emma Frost’s THREE mutant powers: Telepathy, Transformation to Solid Diamond and last but not least, Sucking at Acting”). Following Betty’s increasingly unpleasant behavior in season four, these low points led to fans turning on the character in droves. But she really impressed me this week. Jones showed a physical subtlety in handling her prosthesis; she moved differently, but not in a showy way. There were small gestures throughout the episode — smelling her toddler son’s hair, gingerly picking at a parfait, reacting to a vision of her death in her dream — that moved me in a way her performance never has before. Furthermore, Jones really sold those cancer scenes: The doctor’s office realization could have drifted into maudlin territory, but Jones played it with believable restraint and even a bit of maturity. Before, you could make the case that January Jones was only good in the role because she was perfectly cast as an icy, Grace Kelly doppelgänger, and she acted the part. But that she’s been able to embody Betty’s changing physical self, while also selling Betty’s shifting emotional self, is worth praising.
And speaking of that shifting emotional self, many of the biggest Betty haters despise the character because they think she behaves like a child, but there are signs emerging that she might be taking a bit of agency in her life. Though her mother-in-law — and society — think she should get hopped up on diet pills and shed all those pounds, she dug into her daughter’s parfait at the end of last episode. Maybe she’s ready for choices that society won’t exactly approve of. She’s not exactly ready for the consciousness-raising circle, but it’s a start.


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The visitor registration display profile hold shared settings for the kiosks you use.
Which buttons should be visible, and which should be shown as 'primary' (colored) button.
This way you are also able to specify an extra kiosk just for signing out, if this would fit your needs.
How the visitors should sign out at kiosk (via the qr-code on the badge, or by name).


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How to clear bandits camps in Horizon Zero Dawn?
In the chapter below you can find many useful information that makes a confrontation with bandits easier and allows you to free all camps that are taken by them.
Each camp is described in its own section.
A note on camps appears after you leave Embrace. A green exclamation mark will appear on the map. After speaking with Nil, a new note in a separate category is added to your journal. The man asks you for your help in eliminating bandits. Join him in the appointed place to continue the quest.
During the conversation you can decide whether you want to kill them with his help or face the bandits alone. Here, everything depends on Aloy's level that she has during this quest. Nil takes a few experience points from you by killing some enemies but he is an actual support during this quest.
During this mission the biggest threat are bandits with clubs. They deal a lot of damage so equip yourself with an outfit that grants you a bit of physical defense. Also, remember that being discovered raises the alarm. Look behind you because this is where additional groups of bandits will appear.
With the death of the last bandit the quest is updated Speak with Nil to finish the quest.
Reward - 5,000 experience points.
The mission to free the camp appears in your journal when you get closer to it. The goal is the same as before - eliminate all bandits in the camp. If you manage to do it and you are not discovered then the quest should go smoothly.
However, getting to the camp unnoticed is rather difficult because there are not many bushes in which you can hide. It should be noted that one of the bandits uses heavy rocket launcher and can be a real threat.
Don't stop, even for a moment, and focus your fire on the strongest enemy. When he is dead, no one will pick up the heavy weapon. This makes the task easier. With the death of the last bandit the quest is finished.
Reward - 7,500 experience points.
In this case, the camp is rather large but thanks to that you shouldn't have any problems with finding bushes. One of the enemies carries a rocket launcher. Try to eliminate him fast and then take care of others.
Restrain yourself from open conflicts because in this camp there are numerous bandits which makes this whole task more difficult. With the death of the last bandit the quest is finished and the rightful owners of camp are back.
Reward - 10,000 experience points.
Here, the camp's entrance is not very well guarded and if you approach from Meridian's side then you can easily take over the bridge connecting two parts of the camp. The bandits don't have heavy armors and weapons. Make sure that enemies won't raise the alarm which makes the battle much easier.
When you get closer to the camp you notice an exclamation mark that will appear on the map. Speak with Nil, he can be found near the mark. Just like in the last mission with Nil, he will offer his help.
Taking the camp with him should not be very difficult. The big hindrance is that near the camp's entrance you can find heavy armored bandits. If you haven't unlock a particular ability then simply luring them into bushes won't be enough. When the alarm is raised, keep an eye on the main gate because a group of heavy armored bandits can come from that direction. Remember that the best solution against them is to use shock bombs. Look out for the bandit with a rocket launcher.
After taking the camp, speak with Nil. You can find him in the same spot as when you started the quest.
Reward - 15,000 experience points.
Without a doubt, this is the hardest camp to take. A good solution is to sneak into it from the left side. When you do that you can, after jumping over the fence, quickly destroy the alarm.
In this camp there are many enemies that will simply charge at you. You can set traps in passages and shoot shock bombs from your slingshot. Approach this camp with a stock of potions and herbs.
When the last camp is liberated, a new side quest connected with Nil will appear in your journal (you have already met him during two battles for the camps). The walkthrough for Cause for Concern - Farewell quest can be found in the dedicated chapter.

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Reasons: This species is endemic to a narrow strip along the Arizona-Utah border where it is ecologically restricted to a specific gypsum and salt-rich soil. The Bureau of Land Management, Arizona Strip District, has documented the plants on 17,000 ha of land. In most cases individual plants are widely separated, but the survey did find three dense populations. Fairly heavy off-road vehicle use has adversely impacted some populations. Other threats include grazing, uranium mining, and long-term drought. Many populations in the Kanab area are in sharp decline in recent years due to drought and herbivory.
Range Extent Comments: Scattered areas along the Utah-Arizona border from the vicinity of Fredonia, Coconino County, Arizona, to an area south and southeast of St. George, Utah in Mohave County, Arizona and at a few places in Washington County, Utah. The distirbution was quantified in USFWS 2008: "southeast of Fredonia, extreme northwestern Coconino County, Arizona, west for about 70 air miles in north-central Mohave County, Arizona; it also includes about 3 miles of southern Utah in Washington and Kane Counties".
Number of Occurrences Comments: BLM has documented approximately 22 occurrences in Arizona, and populations in the Kanab and St. George areas of Utah. In the NatureServe central database, there are approximately 25 extant occurrences (EO data in the NatureServe central database as of August 2013).
Population Size Comments: Several 100, possibly 10,000 or even more plants. In 2006, BLM estimated there were over 10,000 individuals (BLM 2006 cited by USFWS 2008).
Overall Threat Impact Comments: Threatened by ORVs, grazing, uranium mining, and long-term drought (USFWS 2008). Unauthorized collection is not known to be a threat (USFWS 2008). "Almost certainly this species, along with its habitat, will be affected in some manner by climate change; the magnitude and extent of the change cannot be quantified at this time (USFWS 2008). Other possible future threats include gypsum mining, oil and gas production, a proposed water pipeline, and increased urban development in Utah (USFWS 2008).
Short-term Trend Comments: Many populations in the Kanab area in sharp decline in recent years due to drought and herbivory (Laurenzi and Spence 2012).
Intrinsic Vulnerability Comments: Stems tend to develop a basal thatch of spines that anchor it to the fine, gypsum-rich soil.
Environmental Specificity Comments: Grows on rounded hills in gypsum clay and sandy soils of Moenkopi Formation, in Great Basin desert scrub community.
Global Range: Scattered areas along the Utah-Arizona border from the vicinity of Fredonia, Coconino County, Arizona, to an area south and southeast of St. George, Utah in Mohave County, Arizona and at a few places in Washington County, Utah. The distirbution was quantified in USFWS 2008: "southeast of Fredonia, extreme northwestern Coconino County, Arizona, west for about 70 air miles in north-central Mohave County, Arizona; it also includes about 3 miles of southern Utah in Washington and Kane Counties".
Basic Description: A spiny succulent with a single, round or oval stem, 5-13 cm tall. Flowers are yellow to maroon in color. Blooms April-mid May.
Habitat Comments: Soils derived from the Moenkopi Formation, high in gypsum and soluble salts. In these soils, the species is found in a variety of plant communities from low elevation (about 850 m) Mohave Desert scrub up to conifer woodlands and grasslands at 1650 m elevation.
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Congratulations to all the Mylnyhurst Cross Country runners who were recognised for their achievements and commitment to Primary Cross Country running at the Annual Sheffield Federation for School Sport Awards Ceremony. Mrs Goodhill attended the event with pupils, past and present, to receive the award on behalf of the school.
Congratulations to all of our athletes on receiving this wonderful accolade.

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