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Following yesterday's UN resolution authorizing the implementation of a no-fly zone over Libya, complete with possible airstrikes, France and the U.K. are reportedly planning for airstrikes. Italy, with a strong post-colonial trading relationship with Libya, will be participating, Germany sitting out but voicing moral support ("our abstention should not be confused with neutrality," Angela Merkel clarified), while other countries contribute planes here and there.
But what are Libya's neighbors up to? There has been particular talk of how Egypt and Tunisia, having sparked the Libyan protests with their own unrest, will react, though eyes are also turned to the authoritarian regimes that remain in place throughout the region. Buried in the text of the UN's resolution is a recognition of the importance of other countries in the region, mentioning the Arab League by name.
African Union: Talking The BBC reports at 16:49 GMT that "the African Union is sending a delegation of five heads of state, including Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, to Tripoli to talk to Col Gaddafi," as planned prior to the UN resolution.
Tunisia: Staying out of the action. Taking part in military intervention, government spokesman Taieb Bakouch says, according to the BBC, "is out of the question."
Jordan: Supportive from a distance According to Al-Arabiya's Twitter feed, the country "backs" the UN resolution "but will not take part in possible airstrikes."
Lebanon: The one thing Lebanon can agree upon The Guardian's James Denselow pointed out Wednesday that Lebanon, which remains "deeply divided" over its own government, has come out strongly in support of international action against Libya. Why? The Lebanese still want to know what happened to Imam Musa al-Sadr, "a hugely influential Shia cleric who disappeared [in Libya] in 1978. Last month a former colonel in Gaddafi's army said Libyan agents had assassinated Sadr and buried him in the southern city of Sabha." Yet at the same time, "a Libyan opposition activist ... claimed Sadr was still alive," while Sadr's son believes he is "being held captive."
Egypt: 100% there, secretly The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night that Egypt's military is now arming Libyan rebels, shipping "mostly small arms such as assault rifles and ammunition" in the "first confirmed case of an outside government arming the rebel fighters." The Journal's Charles Levinson and Matthew Rosenberg also called the shipments "the strongest indication to date that some Arab countries are heeding Western calls to take a lead in efforts to intervene on behalf of pro-democracy rebels." That said, the same report cited an unnamed U.S. official saying "Egypt wanted to keep the shipments covert," appearing in public to be neutral--the Journal report, presumably, wasn't exactly in keeping with this plan.
Arab League: An early no-fly vote That came last week, and, as the Journal also notes, "provided critical political cover to Western powers wary of intervening militarily without broad regional and international mandate."
Syria, Algeria, Mauritania: Count us out The Ahul Bayt News Agency, a Shia news source, was one of several to report that, even at the time of the Arab League resolution, Syria's ambassador to the Arab League, Yousef Ahmad, voiced strong objection, after the vote going so far as to declare that Syra was not a part of the resolutuion. "Following the announcement of the Syrian stance, Algeria's Foreign minister and head of the Mauritanian delegation asked for their countries' stances to be registered against the content of the resolution" as well.


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In the heavily populated city of Copenhagen, backyards just aren’t an option for most occupants. The solution? Build a backyard/playground on your roof! JDS Architects created this rooftop play area to include a grassy hill and fence. It provides the kids a place to play in the daytime and stunning views of the city in the evening.
Topping the fancy Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore is an infinity pool that you won’t want to swim off the edge of—considering that it is 55 stories up. While the pool is impressive, it is only a small part of the hotel’s rooftop attractions. There are restaurants, viewpoints and trees that patrons can bask under depending on their taste.
Topping the Grand Daddy Hotel in Cape Town is an Airstream lover’s dream. Known as the Airstream Penthouse Park, this collection of trailers was lifted to the top of the hotel where local artists/designers worked their magic on them. Each trailer is a suite at the hotel and go for about $90 per night.
A small extrusion on one of the most recognizable buildings in the world, this tennis court is not for the faint of heart. While tennis balls often fall off of the platform, the key if you’re playing on this court is to make sure that you don’t run too quickly to return a shot or you may just find yourself floating down to the ground below!
Topping a department store in Japan, this coaster can be seen for miles around. While it may look like a fun ride, this roller coaster actually never opened because engineers feared that the lateral forces exerted from running the coaster would cause the building to collapse.
At 63 floors up, this open-air bar is sure to leave an impression. Not only do you get to enjoy an excellent experience outside, the bar offers unparalleled views of Bangkok and the nearby Chao Phraya River. Offering the world’s finest drinks and an ambiance unmatched by most other bars, the next time you’re in Bangkok, take your date here for an unforgettable experience.
Coupling the experience of outdoor movies with grand rooftop views, this theater will leave you wondering if you should watch the movie or the surrounding scenery. This theater serves alcohol during the film along with the usual movie theater sides and shows a variety of films. If you like classic, current and art-house films, drop in to this theater next time you’re down under.
This office is actually an addition onto an old building that features extremely modern, sweeping architecture to make the board room and offices absolutely unique. It is the work of Wolf Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky who designed the addition for a law firm looking to expand their company’s conference room space.
In order to make their food more natural, owners of the Uncommon Ground restaurant in Chicago decided to build a rooftop farm to grow and harvest organic food for their diners. Besides their commercial agendas, the restaurant also hopes to educate the community about the benefits of having urban farms.

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A few blogs ago, I mentioned that I traveled to Batangas for my friend’s mother’s 60th birthday. Well, I forgot to pack my makeup kit! Thankfully, we dropped by the local mall before heading home. One of the items I picked up is a pen liner by Maybelline. It’s called the Hyper Impact Liner and it’s amazeballs.
The Maybelline Hyper Impact Liner is a precision liner designed for beginners. It comes with an intense jet black formula to highlight the eyes! With just a single pass, I knew this liner is so much better than the K-Palette 24 hour liner.
Equipped with genius technology – jet black ink, 1.5X heavier for utmost stability and flexi cushion tip for easy application.Hyper Impact can create impactful eyeliners for instantly bigger, darker and deeper eyes!
This pen eyeliner is fitted with a cushiony felt tip, not a brush tip. With a flick of the wrist, you can go heavy on the liner for dramz or go thin for a sweet, demure look. Not playing, I go heavy on the liner because I’m mono-lidded. And yes, I line my eyes every day because that’s what Asians do!
You know what, it’s exactly how Maybelline described this liner to be. The formula is beautiful. The ink is black as sin. You don’t need to layer the product several times to get an even line. And once it sets, it stays put for hours on end.
During the party, I wore this liner for 10 hours in an extremely humid room and the liner stayed intact. That said, the product was breaking down a bit on outer corners of my eyes because these areas were oiling up. On normal days, I wear this liner for 4 to 6 hours and the liner stays pristine… like it’s freshly applied.
The ink is not 100% matte. The finish has a slight sheen to it, almost imperceptible unless you look too closely. I suggest packing inky black eyeshadow on top of the product to get an intense matte.
The liner is so easy to use. It’s really one of those fool-proof pen liners that yield an even line. The felt tip is slightly stiff but it follows the contours of the lids, creating a precise line. Removing the liner is easy with micellar water although you gotta wipe several times to get it off.
If there’s one thing that I’m having problems with this product, the felt tip is prone to skipping on the skin. This could create a jagged, uneven line that’s hard to correct. But as long as you are careful as you line your eyes, you should have no problems using this liner at all.
Compared to K-Palette’s black liner, this is so much better as far as application, finish, and staying power goes. And it only costs a fraction of the price! The K-Palette’s black liner retails for PhP700+ while the Hyper Impact Liner is only PhP400+. A great deal, indeed!
My sister played with my Coastal Scents palette and here’s the final look. Very dramatic, no? I especially love the catseye liner and wish I could duplicate this look by myself, hihihihihi! Also, try the MAC Studio Tech foundie. Lawrd, it blurs out pores like nothing else! That’s why my fezlak looked airbrushed.
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The Telegram channel makes it possible to integrate the messenger into the Pyrus workflow. In addition to e-mail and other conventional channels, you can reach your customers through Telegram without leaving Pyrus.
How Does It Work? A bot converts your Telegram conversations into Pyrus tasks and allows you to manage them just like regular tasks.
Employees will be able to reply to customers from Pyrus directly in Telegram, complete tasks, add participants to conversations and use any other Pyrus features.
To convert customer Telegram messages into Pyrus tasks, connect the Telegram bot to a new or existing form.
In the form list, go to form settings.
In the Integrations section, click on Set Up next to Telegram Messenger.
In the add bot window, fill in the API-token field and click Save. Where to get an API token?
After saving the bot, a window with its settings will open. If necessary, enter a welcome message: the customers will receive it when they contact you for the first time on Telegram. Click Save.
Description is the second and subsequent lines of the message. If there are none, the field will be empty.
In the Status line, switch the toggle button to Online.
Note: one Telegram bot can only be connected to one Pyrus form.
If you want to pause the bot, switch the toggle in the Status line to Offline. Now, the customer's messages sent to the bot via Telegram will not reach Pyrus.
To disconnect the bot, click Disconnect in the Pyrus settings tab.
Note: Bot settings are reset after disconnection. This action cannot be cancelled, but you can reconnect this or another bot at any moment.
To install the Telegram channel, you will need to create a new bot or connect an existing one using the API token.
Each bot is given a unique authentication token when it is created. A token is needed to identify the bot.
The token looks something like 123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11.
Log in to Telegram Web-version.
Go to @BotFather in Telegram and hit Start.
Create a new bot with him. To do this use the newbot command inside @BotFather. If you already have a bot, but don’t remember API token use the token command to generate a new one.
Copy the API token that @BotFather will give you and paste it when connecting the Telegram channel in Pyrus.
You can also create a new bot from the Telegram mobile app.
You can autocomplete form fields for tickets received via Telegram. For example, Pyrus can automatically change ticket category to Telegram for further analysis from a dashboard.
To do this, open form settings and click on Telegram Messenger in the Integrations section.
In the Automatically change these fields section, click on Add field. Set a form field and value that Pyrus will automatically add to every ticket received via Telegram.
Note: automatic changing works with the Multiple choice and Catalog fields.

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There has been a few month absence in the blog. It’s been hard to find time to write and quite frankly, the end of 2014 just really sucked dog-wise, January was all about recovery and February was about…rebirth. Despite the ice storm today, March is here and I’m starting to breathe a little bit again – happy spring is around the corner and it’s hard to hate March – it is, after all, my birthday month!
So what happened? Why the long absence? And now the “rebirth?” On December 23, Emily, who I have written about before went to the rainbow bridge. She was my parent’s dog and my “sister” who had health problems the last few months at age 13. That previous weekend, my husband Jason and I, along with Tucker went up for the Christmas holiday. Jason and I had to travel to Indiana for his family’s Christmas and my parents were going to watch Tucker until we flew back on Christmas night. When we touched down on Christmas night, my parents met us with Tucker. Sadly, Emily had been having some episodes after we left, and they made the agonizing decision that no one ever wants to make. It was peaceful they said, and my parents were grateful that Tucker was there to be with them and their other golden Spenser. I was devastated but I knew that Emily had lived the best possible life. The vet told us it was likely she had a tumor or cancer and that there wasn’t much my parents could have done. We were pleased that she left us with little pain. Still, we had a good Christmas and we were happy that Tucker had done well at my parents house despite the circumstances. On December 27, we were spending our last day in PA, getting ready to head back to Northern Virginia to continue the rest of our Christmas vacation. One of my parent’s neighbor’s had gotten a puppy a few months before and we went outside to see it, leaving Tucker and Spenser inside to play. We were gone less than 5 minutes and when we came back, I noticed Tucker was playing keep away with something he had grabbed. I couldn’t see what it was, but as I moved forward, all of a sudden it was gone and I went into panic mode. I searched all around, and all I could see is that there was one less mitten on a bench. He couldn’t have swallowed that everyone said…I still called our local vet, who said to either get him to an emergency vet or if we weren’t sure, feed him bread to help him get whatever went in, out. I really couldn’t say for sure he had gotten the mitten, it was so large and even though I couldn’t find one, it could have dropped somewhere outside. So, we fed him some bread..nothing came out and he continued to act normally eat, play and potty absolutely normally. I began to think that maybe he hadn’t really gotten anything. On December 30, we went to the vet for his annual exam and shots. The vet saw him, felt him, said he had no gas or stomach pains that he could see and just to monitor him, but he certainly wasn’t acting like a dog who had gotten something. At 3 AM on December 31, I woke up to Tucker trying to throw up- he threw up dinner but nothing else. I took him outside and he pooped but everything was normal. He kept trying to throw up further and rested off and on. I was fully panicked.
As soon as the vet’s office opened, I called and we got him in right away. They thought maybe it was a reaction to shots but he had never had reactions. I knew. Something was in there. They X-rayed him there and they could see the glove in the stomach. Because our vet’s office didn’t have surgery hours, we had to go to the animal hospital. We got there as quick as possible, but still had to wait hours to be seen because we weren’t a regular appointment and Tucker didn’t seem to be in distress (he had stopped vomiting). When they saw us and reviewed the X-Rays, they were hopeful they could either bring it up via making him vomit again or endoscopy. Neither worked unfortunately. They had the glove during the endoscopy but they were nervous about pulling it through the endoscope. Off to surgery, he went. I was a wreck. The only thing getting me through was that my brother’s golden had gone through the same thing after he ate a pacifier, so I knew what to expect. Tucker sailed through the surgery, and stayed overnight (Happy New Years Eve, right?) The next day we were able to pick him up and he’s stomach was shaved and he had a big scar in his abdomen but he was doing well. The next few weeks were all about recovery. I plan to write a full post on the surgery and recovery period separately, because I think that would really help people going through the same things, but I was so glad when after 10 days, he was able to get the staples out.
The guilt though was there for me. I felt like such a horrible dog mom. How could this have happened? Nothing I read and nothing anyone said could make me feel better. The vets even said he had no symptoms and that it was likely the glove would have had to come out surgically whether we rushed him to the vet the day I thought he may have eaten something or when it actually happened. Nothing helped me calm down. We were lucky that nothing more serious happened to Tucker and I just kept thinking, I can’t lose my boy. Forgiveness of myself came in time and as Tucker healed, so did I. He certainly didn’t hold it against me and his opinion was all that mattered to me in the end. I wish I could say that Tucker has learned his lesson and hasn’t eaten things since, but sticks on walks, napkins, etc., are hard to ignore for him. We are just super vigilant on walks and also make sure nothing is where he can get it in the apartment.
As I said in the beginning, February began re-birth. Tucker was feeling better and at my parents house, they were looking at getting another dog. They rescued a 4-year-old golden retriever from Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue named Oliver. Oliver is an amazing dog and we were so happy to meet him a few weeks back. After a few minutes of greeting, Tucker and Oliver were off running around the dining room table and wrestling like old pals. They love each other dearly.
So this leads us to March. I’ve been asked to blog about dogs for a local dog magazine and I am super excited about that. I am in the process of redesigning this blog and I would appreciate any feedback you have for me.
I’ve been absent for a few months but the blog is coming back with a vengeance! Stay tuned for new stuff!

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AsiaBusiness is commited to being a responsible corporate citizen to creat a positive impact and value in the community, focusing on the social contribution through charity networks in recent years. In September 2011, AsiaBusiness had developed a volunteery team to participate various charitable activities and programmes in a regular basis, for example fundraising events, elder-care, Hong Kong Marathon Charity Programmes, emergency relief, visiting underprivileged urbans in China and etc.
"No Child Without Life's Essential"
Established in 2002, Yellow House is a registered charity organisation in Hong Kong. We provide various services for poor rural people of Mainland China as well as self-development programmes for Hong Kong younsters.
Hopes and resources for people without life's essentials.
Registered in Hong Kong in 1992 as a non-lucrative charity organization having no religious or political affinity. The significance of its name is, while seeds and seedlings that need to be sown and nurtured refer to children, sowers naturally refer to those who sow the seeds and nurture the seedlings by providing them with assistance. Through concrete action, such as financing the re-construction of dangerous school buildings and planning the upgrade of teachers’ quality and ability, the sowers endeavor to help children of China’s impoverished mountainous regions to resume schooling by creating for them a save environment for studying.


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Pertronix Ignitor Electronic Ignition has been proven in applications ranging from tractors to race cars. The dependable, self-contained Ignitor replaces breaker points and troublesome stock ignitions. It's been called the "stealth" ignition due to a nearly undetectable presence under the distributor cap. Ignitor Systems install quickly, and there's no "black box" to clutter the engine compartment.
Does Pertronix 1847V fit your vehicle?
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Jasonpp30 from 73 VW Bug ignition The instructions and installation was easy and quick and fired up perfect the first time. Great product.
Rated 3 out of 5 by JcM1 from Easy installation Bought this to replace points, stranded three times it’s out. Great customer service Just bad luck.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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Regarding the second insightful editor's choice: I've long felt there should be a rule in the US government that any bill should be public for a minimum amount of time based on its length before it's voted on. That would effectively prohibit the thousand-page bills that tend to be all too common in Congress where only lobbyists know what's in them. It wouldn't ensure the people putting their names to a bill would have actually read them, but it would ensure someone did, or at least had the chance to.
If you want a completely unmoderated free-for-all, check out 4chan. I think most people have good reasons not to want their discussion areas to be like that.
Re: The EU ends The Open Internet, but for a Deeper Reason?
I knew when this comment adopted a solemn tone with regards to the increasing restrictions on the open internet and the "deeper reason" behind it, and when it twice used the grammatically incorrect phrase "millions of opposition", it was going to lead to some bonkers conspiracy theory. But even after mentioning the US military situation in Syria and North Korea, I wasn't prepared for it to jump all the way to "the world's governments are planning World War III and trying to shut down the Internet so we don't know about it until they actually launch the nukes and wipe out mankind". Presumably the reason why all these governments are planning World War III at the same time with no one knowing about it, despite the fact that they too would perish as part of "mankind", is because they're actually lizard people that would survive a nuclear war to become the new dominant species on Earth, and my questioning of this narrative is just because I've let their chemtrails infect my mind and prevent me from seeing The Truth(tm) because I don't wear a tinfoil hat like this one guy that has alone stumbled onto their plot to start World War III by locking down the Internet and wake up sheeple.
on What If Google And Facebook Admitted That All This Ad Targeting Really Doesn't Work That Well?
Known Google shill Mike Masnick continues to stick up for them with an article that (checks notes) questions their current business model and suggests that the aggressive, invasive targeting they've been engaged in doesn't actually work.
Britain should tell the EU: We'll hold a new Brexit referendum and potentially stay in the EU after all, but only if you make yourselves actually democratic, not have all laws he proposed by an undemocratic commission in the pocket of big business and have them unable to be repealed, only overridden.
Known Google shill Mike Masnick with an article about how checks notes a bill he vehemently opposes will entrench Google's supremacy.
Forget Axel Voss, I wonder what mental gymnastics a certain class of troll right here would use to write this off.
Oh, Voss perfectly understands copyright law, or at least what his masters want it to be. Basically everything published by big corporations with the money to bully everyone else is covered under copyright. Everything else is probably using images or concepts or words that appear in an actually copyrighted work and needs to be sued out of existence so that the major publishers can reclaim their rightful place as the only locuses of human creativity.
Interesting, but the rest of that sentence is important: building web pages completely independently from centralized platforms would realistically involve paying for a domain (relatively cheap but hardly free) and hosting (which often comes with the domain or vice-versa, but if you don't want to be entangled with particular companies you probably want it separate from the domain, and that's significantly more expensive). That effectively raises the barrier to entry and makes it the province of the relatively well-off. Is it possible to create something that people of all means can use to quickly and easily create an online presence using whatever protocols and standards they wish that gives the user complete control of their data and presence? More realistic is probably incorporating decentralized protocols in a number of blog platforms and free host sites, and making it as easy as possible to port from one to another.
Neither this article nor the linked one points to anything specific the Bundesliga is actually doing that they aren't already doing, other than recognizing that this is the way it is.
Reminds me of Steven Pemberton's vision of "Web 3.0" I encountered ten years ago: http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/01-15-steven-website/ In his eyes, the next evolution of the Web should have been built around individual web sites with machine-readable data that could be scooped up by individual apps. Realistically, it would have been near-impossible to get millions of people to start their own web pages from scratch that weren't themselves built on centralized platforms like Tumblr or Facebook (which is why to the extent his vision came to pass it was limited to aggregating large corporate sites like in the Google and Apple News apps), but the more general notion of decentralizing the web was and remains a valid one, and you're getting at what may be a more practical approach to it.
I do have a couple of concerns, however: first, since Usenet eventually dwindled away to irrelevance, how do you ensure the new "protocols" wouldn't similarly be abandoned in favor of new "platforms"? Second, and this may be something you've addressed in previous posts, some sites could be "protocol-ized" more easily than others. It's easy to see how, say, Twitter could be protocol-ized, harder with something like Amazon. But what about something like Google? I don't see room for a middle ground between everyone at least relying on Google's search algorithm and creating full-on competitors that have nothing to do with it.
I still believe one of these days copyright will be restored to sane terms that it would have without the excessive lobbying by the entrenched industries and, while we might not have everything enter the public domain at once, we should at least have a phased freeing of content so everything that should be in the public domain becomes so over the course of a handful of decades.
Instead, there’s just an incentive to start a clock for however many years it takes after the death of the creator for the copyright to expire. Once they’ve been dead for longer than Walt Disney, you’re in the clear!
That Justice didn’t do a good job of making the case against the merger is because they only went after it in the first place because Trump hates CNN. Any merger not involving TimeWarner or Comcast/NBCUniversal, especially Disney/Fox, Justice wouldn’t go after at all.
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Danny Hylton has scored 16 goals for Oxford United this season.
Oxford United striker Danny Hylton says a mid-table finish or lower next season will not be acceptable for the League Two club.
"We know that, the gaffer knows that and we want to achieve something next season," Hylton told BBC Radio Oxford.
"I don't think mid-table will be good enough. We want to be right up there."
The 26-year-old arrived at the club last summer and has scored 16 goals in 48 appearances.
As well as winning the club's golden boot, his performances led to him being named supporters and players' player of the year at the end of season awards.
And despite a season of underachievement, he believes Oxford are ending the season in a positive manner.
"When I joined I had visions that we would be up there and challenging, but it wasn't to be," he said.
"A little while ago everyone was talking about relegation and it was doom and gloom, but there is a much better feel about the place.
"Our finish has showed we can achieve good things next season. The gaffer showed us a few bits and bobs that will be going on next season and the season after and it's exciting times and I'm sure with the players we have there will be."
Hylton, who began his career at Aldershot, also hailed the team spirit among the players.
"We work hard, we might have a moan up at each other and might dig someone out one day," he added.
"We are all tight knit, sit down have a cuddle and a cup of tea after training."

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"Small subway station. Fast paced action both inside and out."
Underground is a mid-sized map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It takes place in a sub-surface London Underground station.
Underground is set in a London Underground station. It consists of two main areas, the station itself and some walkways around the tracks. The tracks are covered with demolished trains, which can be climbed on and walked through. The main spawn points are at either end of the map, one at the main road and the other at the station's 'Way Out'. The main station has glass roofs, so air support can reach there.
In Survival Mode, Underground is a Tier 1 map and has the difficulty of Easy. The player starts with the Five Seven, two Frag Grenades, two Flash Grenades, a Self Revive, and 250 Armor. The hostiles include Bomb Squads, Attack Dogs, Choppers, and Juggernauts.
The players start on the north side of the map. The equipment armory is located there as well. The Weapons armory is located in south side of the central building, just beside the main stairs. The Air Support armory is located on the south most area.
"Fight through the trainyard as enemies attempt to stop you."
Underground is one of the four maps available in Chaos Mode.
Underground info from DewXP promotion.
An overview of the map.
President plays Spec Ops Easter Egg.
Gameplay in Special Ops Chaos.
There are several advertisements around the platforms, advertising game shows, local train routes and the Museum of History.
The trains out of the map have destination Westminster, and the trains inside the map have destination Middleton. Only one train breaks this rule. Under the bridge near the B Bomb, one train has its destination as Westminster.
The train destinations for Middleton are in fact just placed over the original Westminster destination.
There are departure boards which show the next trains to leave from the station. The destinations are Preston, Liverpool Lime Street, Milton Keynes Central, Watford Junction, Manchester Piccadilly, and Aberdeen.
There are newspaper stands in the station concourse that include a picture of Robert Bowling and the title "Man with beard invents time travel."
The map styled after the famous Tube map has multiple puns and references to the Call of Duty series and the companies involved in developing.
There is a wall clock on the map that says the time is 10:10, but the station clock time is 5:13:07, and also the first train is meant to leave at 20:25 although there are already trains docked in the station.
In the Multiplayer reveal trailer, the two factions fighting are Inner Circle and Delta Force, but this was eventually changed to the Spetsnaz and S.A.S.
If one flies under the map via spectator mode or noclip the player can see what appears to be an image of the River Thames.
There is a magazine that says "President plays Spec Ops. His State of the Union advises America to play it".
Beside the magazine stand next to the stairs leading into the central building of the map, there are two stands, each having a small sign on the very top of them that read "SHG Editions D'art". This is a reference to Sledgehammer Games, one of MW3's developers.
If the player enters the two double-decker buses via spectator mode, they can find magazines on the floors and seats reading "IW Mutant Buffalo Returns!"
In a stall in the station, there are two different colored packs of sweets (brown and yellow) that resemble M&M's but say "CofD's", a reference to Call of Duty.
When playing Infected, attempting to camp on the balcony and signpost beside the office will automatically kill the player. This was done to stop players from hiding there indefinitely.
Outside the station there is a parked taxi. The registration on the cab is LT09 XJP. However, if the taxi is blown up, the registration is IW52 LSA.

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Warm yellow blends beautifully with gray, adding warm shades to it. This palette is appropriate for decoration of a living room or a hallway. In general, if you use gray for furniture (might be steel legs), beige throughout the interior, and red for accents, you will be able to create a unique and relaxing interior.
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A new and very insidious form of graft has arisen in Maine — the exploitation of Maine’s elderly. If you or an elderly person you know is transferring property and money to seemingly “helpful” family members or other acquaintance, there may very well be a problem. Regardless of whether the perpetrator purports to have a valid power or attorney or is simply forcing transfers, improvident transfers, as they are known, are an epidemic that we have experience in setting right. Our Maine elder law attorneys will work hard to have property and money returned to their rightful owners by those seeking to convert their assets for their own personal gain.
The actual transfer of money and property from an elderly person by and to a questionable recipient is, unfortunately, only one variant in the game of graft undertaken by unscrupulous and self-serving “family and friends” of an elder. The other manner consists of directing the elder person to rearrange their estate planning for the sole benefit of the conniving family member or friend. We see it all too often when the family member or friend resurfaces following the death of your loved one with a will or other such writing purporting to leave all of the estate to them alone.
Conversely, our experience in dealing with those who unilaterally deem themselves entitled to the estate of a decedent also informs our approach to estate planning for those who want to make sure their estate planning is iron clad and can rebut an attack after their passing. If you are seeking to disinherit an undeserving family member you will want our wise counsel in making sure that your wishes are upheld and honored.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Pick any music writer or performer who was active in the last 50 years, then pick a musical genre from before that time that you think they might get into if they were sent back in a time machine.
As before: don't worry about giving any reasoning. Doesn't have to be from the link above.
Reason: Miles 'inverted' in Jazz (Kind of Blue, So What?) the move from modal composition to four-part-harmony that Bach popularized during Baroque, so that alone is fitting. And Boy, would Mr. Cool have had a blast being there during Europe's most creative period in composition technique and music theory.
Bipolar musical genius with double-jointed thumbs and notoriety for over-playing - where else would one put Mr. Wait-this-is-supposed-to-be-an-accompanying-instrument? than right next to Wolfgang Amadeus?

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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There is no doubt that good health is more than eating well and exercising. Good health includes good sleep. Getting both quantity and quality sleep affects how you look and feel. Getting not enough sleep and you could wake up feeling irritable and groggy. You are by no means refreshed and ready to start your day. Getting enough healthy sleep will help avoid getting fine lines on your face and dark circles under your eyes. Over time, experts claim, lack of sleep could increase your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and more.
Even if you don't have SWSD, people who regularly lack enough quality sleep are at higher risk for other health problems such as heart disease, ulcers, and metabolic syndrome. Getting better sleep is a major health priority for shift workers.
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industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Thom said: The Marantz PM8003 is a fine amplifier! It has all the inputs and outputs you could want, and delivered sound as good as anything I’ve heard for the price.
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My question is, what type of urethane or rubber is used to make indoor and outdoor inline speed skating wheels? Are they the same? Any info on this would be greatly appreciated. Names of the products would be great!
This information is hard to find and rather proprietary. Companies don't generaly share this information especially for indoor wheels.
Sometimes you can find this info at the US patent office website.
But yes, good luck getting any info from wheel makers.
We can't even get real pics of new wheels.
I would assume it has to do with being softer on the inside for indoor, or being more dense for outdoor. My indoor inline wheels are 91 a but have super grip, my outdoor are 85a and they are stiffer.
Indoor and outdoor wheels are completely different compounds for most companies. They grip by different means. Outdoor wheels work more by abrasion where indoor wheels are more of a surface tension crated by the way the urethane sticks to the floor coating.
I can't get any info from any wheel company, understandable. The only company that even would pour for me was MPC, but I had to have over 1000 cores, I don't have that many. I've got the cores, prototype molds for the banded section and the outer wheel prototype mold completed. I just need some idea of what is used . My goal is to make a set of custom wheels for myself with the flex band specified for my weight to maximize rebound. Just think, custom wheel flex based off your weight, power transfer to the floor and preference.
Any info would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
to illustrate, imagine trying to mix a cocktail with the only measuring equipment being your cupped hand. mixing a single drink to exact measurements (2:1, 3:1 etc) would be impossible. mixing 1000 drinks into a large container and dividing them out would be much more accurate. its not the best example, but that's all i got.
Thank you for all this information. does anybody know what they are mixing the urethane with? I know its a blend of something, but I'm not sure what the compounds are.
It is a question like "I know Coca - Cola a blend of something, but I'm not sure what the compounds are".
Coca-Cola company will disclose the secret to you?
Who offers you recipe without any compensation?
The urethane blending method is the know-how of each company.
Also, blending is important, but work standards are also important.
Do you know about urethane phase change? Crystal of the tissue.
The urethane formulation is not all of the wheel production.
You will not try to get it for free.
It is important to learn and research, and to create very unique knowledge.
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I detect a note of frustration in that last comment. I'm sorry if it bothers you for me to ask question online about wheel compounds. No worries though, I have learned and have a entire chemistry lab at my disposal with highly qualified instructors to help me at the university I work at. So, no worries, I'll have the information very soon.
Oh yeah, thank you for the offer you made to me in your PM but I think, at this time, I am going to have to decline.
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Last week, BIGSSS PhD fellow Janosch Kullenberg presented a paper at a workshop on gender and peacekeeping jointly organized by the German Association for the United Nations (DGVN) and the “grassroots think tank” Polis 180.
In his presentation, Janosch analyzed overlapping UN policy agendas and their consequences for the provision of protection against conflict-related sexual violence. Two other presentations by a gender-trainer (Nicola Popovic) and former captain of the German armed Forces (Marie Kemnitz) were about prevention of sexual violence and abuse inside the UN and gender and sexual violence in the force.
Subsequently, participants discussed the topics and formulated policy recommendations which will be reworked and forwarded to the Foreign Ministry (AA) as Germany is co-heading (with Peru) the UN Security Council’s Work on “Women, Peace and Security” during the next two years.
In addition, Janosch will submit his academic paper as part of a special issue on “the Politics of Interventions against (Conflict-Related) Sexual and Gender-Based Violence” in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding organized by InIIS colleague Alex Veit.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Dimapur, October 15: In order to have better and similar administration of different villages in Dimapur, Dimapur District Village Council Chairman Association was formally launched today here at Chumukedima Town Council Hall attended by DC Dimapur Sushil Kumar Patel as one of the guests.
Speaking on the occasion, Patel said that village councils are the local government at grassroots level and therefore the villages should learn from each other and do case studies of villages that are making progress.
Appreciating the community support among Nagas, he said that only if the village councils implement the schemes correctly, there will be development and therefore they must use the funds made available to them judiciously in such a manner that unavailability of funds in future should have not much impact.
In his speech he also asked the people to tolerate the inconvenience they are facing due to construction of roads.
Besides the objective of bringing coordination among different villages, the association will also approach the government to request remunerations for the chairmen who till now get no monetary support for their support and thus there is always a chance of corruption.
“Remuneration will end the scope of corruption,” said S. Toiho Yeptho, Chairman of Chekiye Village as well as one of the advisors of DDVCCA.
Talking to the media, Yeptho said that the association will also facilitate the grassroots level opinion to come out and in the days to come, the association will spearhead the formation of a state level village council association.
Khekuto Yeptho has been selected as the president of DDVCCA while Kiron Yimchunger is the vice president of the association. The other officials of the association include Vitho Zao, general secretary, Pukha Khamnok, asst. general secretary, Tokheli Kikon, treasurer, Razouvotho Chatsu, advisor and S. Toiho Yeptho, advisor. More members will be inducted later.


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Dimethylsulphide (DMS) and methylated amines (such as trimethylamine, TMA) are climate active trace gases emitted from the oceans. Unlike greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, DMS and TMA are important in aerosol formation, subsequent formation of cloud condensation nuclei and cloud droplets in the remote marine atmosphere, therefore potentially acting as climate cooling gases.
Surface oceanic waters are the major sink of marine trace gases before they can reach the atmosphere. Microorganisms inhabiting the surface oceans can utilize these compounds as carbon/nitrogen/sulfur sources, thereby affecting their biogeochemical cycles in the marine environment. However, little is known of the marine microbes involved in these biogeochemical cycles, let alone the regulation of metabolism of these climate-active trace gases.
Using a model marine bacterium, Ruegeria pomeroyi, we have recently revealed the presence of a unique antisense RNA in the regulation of DMS/TMA metabolism in this bacterium (Lidbury et al 2016). R. pomeroyi can utilize TMA as a sole nitrogen source. It can also oxidise DMS, but only if TMA is present. This regulation is achieved through a non-coding RNA (also known as genetic dark matter), fmoR, encoded in the antisense strand of the flavin-containing TMA monooxygenase (Tmm), which was previously characterized by our groups. This dual regulation of DMS co-metabolism by TMA and fmoR has important environmental significance since both DMS and TMA are common metabolites resulting from degradation of osmolytes in a wide range of marine phytoplankton, providing an essential link between marine productivity and marine trace gas emission through ecologically important marine heterotrophs (such as Ruegeria pomeroyi). Unlike many other non-coding RNAs in bacterial genomes whose biological functionality remains difficult to ascertain, this project provides a unique opportunity to investigate the role of fmoR in regulating the co-metabolism of two globally important oceanic climate active gases.
Figure 1 top left: amaZon liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Top right: ion-exchange chromatography. Bottom left: gas chromatography. Bottom right: Ruegeria pomeroyi under phase-contrast microscope.
The overall aim of this project is therefore to understand the regulation of TMA/DMS co-metabolism by fmoR in order to establish a comprehensive model of the role of fmoR in regulating trace gas metabolism in R. pomeroyi.
Growth of R. pomeroyi will be achieved using both defined synthetic medium as well as nutrient broth. DMS/TMA will be quantified by gas chromatography and ion-exchange chromatography respectively. Metabolites of DMS/TMA catabolism will be identified and quantified using LC/MS.
The project is based on our recent published observation of a novel antisense RNA in a model marine bacterium which can co-metabolize both DMA and TMA (Lidbury et al 2016), therefore providing a unique opportunity to use contemporary bioinformatics with biology.
This exciting project provides cutting-edge training on genome-wide bioinformatic identification of novel regulatory RNAs. It will also provide excellent training in wider aspects of marine microbiology, biogeochemistry and molecular biology using cutting edge biochemical, molecular and ‘omic approaches’, as well as in a variety of analytical techniques currently available in the Chen/Schäfer group, including gas chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Year 1: Identification and bioinformatics characterization of the antisense RNA. fmoR mapping by 5’ and 3’ rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). Training on analytic methods including gas chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography and mass spectrometry.
Year 3: Establishment of a comprehensive model of regulation through antisense RNA and transcriptional regulators in TMA/DMS cometabolism.
The Chen and Schäfer groups at Warwick have pioneered research of microbial-mediated climate-active gas cycles in the marine environment, particularly DMS and methylated amines. Current research in the groups is funded by NERC, BBSRC and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Lidbury et al (2014) 'Trimethylamine N-oxide metabolism by abundant marine heterotrophic bacteria', Proceedings of The National Academy Of Sciences, 111 (7), 2710 – 2715.
Lidbury et al (2016) A mechanism for bacterial transformation of dimethylsulfide to dimethylsulfoxide: a missing link in the marine organic sulfur cycle. Environmental Microbiology 8: 2754–2766.
Schäfer et al (2010) 'Microbial degradation of dimethylsulfide and related C1-sulfur compounds: organisms and pathways controlling fluxes of sulfur in the biosphere', Journal Of Experimental Botany, 61 (2), 315 – 334.

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Information: This early Fowler design formed the basis of many subsequent Class 4 designs that were to follow, through to the final British Railway’s Standard Class 4MT design of 1951.
Details: Between 1927 and 1934 the London Midland Railway built a total of 125 Class 4 tank engines with the intent purpose of suburban traffic working and empty stock shunting in larger urban areas through-out the region. Production was all completed at Derby Locomotive Works with construction being split into six orders.
The 2-6-4 wheel arrangement locomotive was fitted with two outside cylinders. The open side cab was a vestige to past designs. Subsequent builds by Stanier, Fairburn, and Riddles all featured closed cabs for improved crew comfort.
Originally the locomotives were out-shopped in full LMS passenger livery and looked smart indeed. In service the livery quickly gave way to basic black. Subsequent repaints in later years did not change the black scheme although many were treated to mixed traffic lining in British Railway’s days.
Although newer designs added to the roosters the earliest design locomotives worked alongside later builds until the end of steam in many areas. Unlike later designs none were preserved.

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December 17 1908 -- Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar Straus has made public remarks to the effect that the Chinese should be allowed to immigrate to the United States, in essence thumbing his nose at the Chinese Exclusion Act, which severely restricts such immigration.
In what has to be Herriman's most racist cartoon at the Examiner, he not only comes out on the very, very wrong side of this issue, but applies a racist stereotype to the Chinese, draws the Jewish Straus with a big hawk nose, and even sideswipes him for his important work with the Arab nations when he was the ambassador to Turkey.
Not a great day for Herriman, the Examiner, or the people of California.
This postcard is from T.P. & Company, whose logo is a stag in a crest. It says it is Series 803, and seems to date to around 1911 or so. T.P. & Co. also produced this card in a cheapo version with no color, as Series 738, with the caption changed to just "The Hypnotist."
I don't know if T.P. & Co. licensed a bunch of images from the humor magazine Judge, or if this is a one-off. Postcard experts, are you out there?
Well, what I do know is that this is an example of James Montgomery Flagg doing his best to imitate Charles Dana Gibson. That was one of his early specialties, and he was pretty darn good at it.
Charles Dana Gibson couldn't resist tossing out a gooey scene of young rich lovers getting a visit from Dan Cupid somewhere, usually the centerpage of the famed cartoon & humor magazine, LIFE. Their major competitor was Judge, who had Flagg on their side as the antimatter version of CDG.
JUDGE was involved in lots of licensing of their cartoons, I've seen them as art prints, calendars and playing cards, and this post card could have originally been a cover or centerpage of a Judge issue.
Like many of the leading Ashcan School artists, Walt Kuhn made more of a living as a cartoonist than as a painter early in his career. He did so mostly in the humor magazines, but he also did create a Sunday series for Pulitzer's New York World in 1909.
The series was titled Whisk, an odd choice of name for the star of his show, a little elf. The series began on Valentine's Day, February 14, with an epic storyline (well, epic for 1909) in which Whisk is commanded by the Elf King to go forth and find a poor lost sunbeam. The key to finding the sunbeam, he is told, is that it will be shining on someone who is totally and completely happy. A series of adventures ensues in which Whisk seems certain to have found someone who is just that over-the-top happy, but it always turns out that there is a little trouble in paradise. Kuhn writes the episodes as if he's telling one long continuous story, ending each episode with a cut in mid-sentence (see top two samples). Dickensian cliff-hangers they ain't, and the conceit comes off more as bad writing than anything else.
Finally in the May 16 episode Whisk does locate the lost sunbeam, shining down on a mother and her baby (all together now --- awwwww). The sunbeam is presented to the Elf King, who is so impressed with the job Whisk did that he presents him with a magic wand charged up with thousands of magic sunbeams. Whisk's new task is to go forth once again, find unhappiness and correct it with a barrage of sunbeam bullets.
The tone is thus set for the rest of the series, wherein Whisk finds unhappy creatures and gives them a jolt of joy-juice. Unfortunately, the series which was thus far written in straight if rather flowery prose, eventually changes to (shudder) really bad rhyme. As you may know, my tolerance for bad poetry is exhausted half-way through a haiku, and finally I think I have found fellow doggerel-haters in the editorial offices of the New York World. Whisk had usually been featured in full 4-color glory on an outer page of the World's Sunday sections, but once this darn poetry reared it's ugly self, the strip was almost invariably consigned to the 1- or 2-color interior ghetto. Maybe it was coincidence, but I like to think otherwise.
You'll find quite a few references saying that Whisk ran until October 1910, but that's not the case. I believe that error traces back to a typo in Ken Barker's New York World index in Stripscene magazine. Actually, the series ended on February 27 1910, which would seem to indicate that Kuhn was given a contract for one year's worth of strips, and the World passed on any more after that.
Edward Scott “Ted” Brown was born in Stillwater, Minnesota, on September 14, 1876. Brown’s full name and birth date were on his World War I draft card. The birthplace was recorded his his Social Security application. The 1880 U.S. Federal Census said Brown was the youngest of three children born to lumberman George and Ida. They resided in Stillwater on Second Street.
The Literary Digest, October 14, 1933, profiled Brown and told how he got into art.
Edward S. (Ted) Brown — Born September 14, 1876, at Stillwater, Minnesota. High-school education — Minneapolis. Went to Klondike rush in ’98. Spent three winters and four summers knocking around mining camps of Alaska. Worked in mines, drove dog teams. Carried chain on the preliminary survey of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad. Also cooked for stripping crew of same outfit.
Commercial drawing in St. Louis advertising agency; same thing, Minneapolis Advertising Service Co.; ditto, Chicago. Comic strips on Chicago Daily News. Editorial cartoons on Chicago Daily News. Editorial cartoons on New York Herald Tribune.
Brown was counted twice in the 1900 census. He was a member of the family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at 3207 4th Avenue. Brown actually lived in Porcupine, Alaska, with seven other people. He worked in mining.
American Newspaper Comics (2012) said Brown created over two dozen strips, including The Inventor, from 1904 to 1914, for the Chicago Daily News. Brown also contributed to four series by other cartoonists.
According to the 1910 census, newspaper artist Brown as a resident of Proviso, Illinois. He and his wife lived at 718 4th Avenue. The Indiana Marriage Index, at Ancestry.com, said Brown married Amelia Otis on October 12, 1905 in Lake County. The couple had two sons, three-year-old son, Edward Jr. and eleven-month-old Phil.
Moving Picture World, December 1, 1917, said Universal Current Events, filmed 39 cartoonists, including Brown.
During World War I, the Editor & Publisher, May 4, 1918, reported Brown’s award-winning cartoon (above). Brown signed his draft card September 12, 1918. His address was 59 West Stone Avenue, La Grange, Illinois. The Daily News cartoonist was described as medium height and build with brown eyes and dark hair.
Brown’s address was unchanged in the 1920 census. The family included a third son, Gordon. In 1925, Brown joined the staff of the New York Herald-Tribune.
A 1927 Norwalk, Connecticut, City Directory listed Brown at 35 East Avenue which was the address in the 1930 census. The census said Brown’s household included his mother-in-law, Julie Otis, and adopted daughter Claire who was a year-and-a-half.
Brown has not been found in the 1940 census. His home address did not change according to a 1941 city directory.
Brown passed away December 28, 1942, in Norwalk. Many newspapers, including the Boston Traveler (Massachusetts), December 28, 1942, published the Associated Press report.
Norwalk, Ct., Dec. 28 (AP) — Edward Scott “Ted” Brown, 66, of this city, cartoonist for the New York Herald-Tribune since 1925, died today at Norwalk Hospital after a brief illness. He came to the Herald-Tribune in 1925, after 17 years with the Chicago Daily News.
Born in Stillwater, Minn., Brown went to Alaska in the gold rush when he was a young man and was a member of the Arctic Brotherhood of Alaska and the Adventurers Club of Chicago.
Mr. Brown leaves his widow, Mrs. Amelia O. Brown, three sons, Edward S., Jr., Philip R. and Gordon G. Brown, and a daughter, Miss Claire Ellen Brown, all of Norwalk.
The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), December 29, 1942, printed this article.
Norwalk, Conn. — Edward Scott (Ted) Brown, an editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune for 17 years, died yesterday in the Norwalk Hospital after a brief illness. He was 66 years old. Mr. Brown joined the staff of Tribune in 1925, after 21 [sic] years with the Chicago Daily News. His cartoons, supplementing those of Jay N. (Ding) Darling in the Herald Tribune and papers subscribing to the New York Tribune Syndicate, appeared at frequent intervals until last June, when poor health reduced his work.
I've written about the pioneering daily comics page of the Chicago Daily News several times here on the blog, so I'll just quickly remind you that they were syndicating an almost full page of comics, panel cartoons and text gags well over a decade before Hearst and Pulitzer got on board.
The Daily News comics page lost much of its vigor in the 1910s. Two factors were to blame. First, obviously their product was no longer unique and had to compete in quality with very good daily comics from the big syndicates. Secondly, the News' strips were now syndicated through the Associated Newspapers co-op, rather than the News' own syndication efforts, and the profit motive had been substantially muted. No longer was there constant experimentation on the back page of the News, instead there was now a short list of much longer-running strips that inevitably outlived their potential for humor. The cartoonists in the News bullpen were bred for experimentation, and now were yoked to the same old plough every day, and it didn't suit them.
One of the great cartoonists at the Daily News was Ted Brown, who started signing his first name only to back page series in 1905. He was incredibly prolific, as were many in the News bullpen, and he stuck around until the page had been pretty thoroughly usurped by syndicated material from elsewhere in the mid-1910s.
His last new series for the Daily News was The Inventor, which started on July 22 1914. It was not a true daily, but came closer to that standard than anything he'd done before. It was a very repetitive strip (as was true of many Daily News series). but Brown has to be given kudos for coming up with an endless series of new inventions that backfire in one way or another. At the rate of one strip every few days, I can see readers finding it quite entertaining.
Tracking The Inventor becomes difficult because, in a move that would become increasingly common in the newspaper world later on, the Chicago Daily News quit running the strip but continued having it produced. Associated Newspapers offered so much material that the Daily News ended up running outside series more than its own.
In the Boston Globe, which liked The Inventor well enough to feature it regularly, the strip became a true daily starting September 1915. They too tired of the strip, though, and I have to track it to 1917 through the less reliable source of the Columbus Monitor, which began running it that year. By then, though, Ted Brown was gone, and it was being produced by Austin C. Williams. The series came to an end in the Monitor on June 30 1917.
Universal Current Events Claims to Have Captured Thirty-nine Funny Men.
W. A. Rogers, New York Herald; W. C. Morris, New York Evening Mail; Robert Carter, Philadelphia Press; Charles Henry Sykes, Philadelphia Evening Ledger; R. K. Chamberlain, Philadelphia Evening Telegraph; F. T. Richards, Philadelphia North American; John L. DeMar, Philadelphia Record; Fred Morgan, Philadelphia Inquirer; Nelson Harding, Brooklyn, N. Y.. Eagle; Ted Brown, Chicago Daily News; “Cy” Hungerford, Pittsburgh Sun; Bert Link. Pittsburgh Press; Elmer Donnell, St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Claude Shafer, Cincinnati Post; W. A. Ireland, Columbus Evening Dispatch; Harry J. Westerman, Ohio State Journal; Harry Keys, Columbus Citizen; J. H. Donahey, Cleveland Plain Dealer; James Lavery, Cleveland Press; Fred O. Seibel, Albany Knickerbocker Press; Wm. A. McKenna, Albany Evening Journal; W. K. Patrick, New Orleans Times-Picayune; Lute Rease, Newark Evening News; Alfred W. Browerton [sic], Atlanta Journal; Lewis C. Gregg, Atlanta Constitution; “Cad” Brand, Milwaukee; Sentinel; Gaar Williams, Indianapolis News; Cornelius J. Kennedy (“Ken”), Buffalo Evening News; R. O. Evans, Baltimore American; G. R. Spencer, Omaha World-Herald; J. P. Alley, Memphis Commercial Appeal; Paul B. Fung, Seattle Post-Intelligencer; John F. Knott, Dallas News; James J. Lynch, Denver Rocky Mountain News; Paul A. Plaschke, Louisville Times; McKee Barclay, Baltimore Sun; Walter Blackman, Birmingham Age Herald; A. J. Taylor, Los Angeles Times; Roy Aymond, New Orleans Daily States.


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Those who have recently bought some items from Asda and Waitrose have been urged to return certain items.
Shoppers at the two chain stores could have been affected by this week’s product recalls, the Birmingham Mail reports .
Other supermarkets other than Asda and Waitrose have also sold items affected by the recalls too.

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With showrunner Jason Katims' raw storytelling and the passion and dedication of young actor Max Burkholder, the NBC drama has depicted a journey never before seen on network television, shedding light on life on the spectrum.
In a series that has depicted teenage pregnancy, abortion, alcoholism, a breast cancer battle, and a young war veteran’s PTSD, one of the most emotional, and painful, scenes to watch on NBC’s critically acclaimed Parenthood came when Max Braverman (Max Burkholder) went on his first unsupervised school field trip in Season 5. A few hours in, he is so tormented by his classmates, he throws a tantrum and has to be picked up by his parents. In the car ride home, after two hours of silence, Max begins to tell them how one of his peers peed in his canteen. “Why do all the other kids hate me?” Max asks. “Is it because I’m weird?” His parents, Kristina (Monica Potter) and Adam (Peter Krause), are speechless, but Max is overwhelmingly honest. It’s a moment that showcases a realistic situation many people on the autism spectrum, like Max, and the families of those people unfortunately deal with regularly.
Katims went back and forth about including Max in his loose television adaptation and even wrote two outlines for the show, one with the character and one without. But, by the time he wrote the pilot, he had decided that Parenthood was going to move forward with Max. “I wanted to honor a kid like Max. And I wanted to be as brutally honest as you could do on a network television show,” he said.
Burkholder, who’s now 16 and knew “just the basics about autism” when he was cast, was determined to fully commit himself to the part from the get-go. Right after he was cast, he started researching the disorder, reading books, speaking with activists, getting involved with the advocacy organization Autism Speaks, and generally gaining a better understanding of what it means to be on the spectrum.
Since Asperger’s is a mental, not physical, disorder, Burkholder was tasked with portraying a condition that’s invisible to the eye. “If you line up five people with autism against a wall and five people without autism against a wall, you’re not going to really be able to pick one out,” Matt Asner — the Los Angeles executive director of Autism Speaks, a parent of a child on the spectrum, and an avid watcher of Parenthood — told BuzzFeed News. Today, 1 in 68 children is diagnosed as being on the spectrum, but Asperger’s is a type of autism that many people are still completely unfamiliar with. The syndrome was only added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1994 and about 1 in 500 people lives with it. It is commonly identified by an inability to make eye contact and show emotional connections, missing certain social cues, resisting physical contact, and a fixation on specific topics or eating habits.
And what’s made Burkholder’s Max earn the favor of the largely underrepresented autism community, in addition to his standout performance, is the actor’s approach to the character, as being someone who’s more than his disorder. “Once I got the general idea of what Asperger’s is down, I sort of stopped thinking of Max so much as a kid with Asperger’s, rather more as just the character himself,” Burkholder said.
Just before Parenthood writer Bridget Carpenter put together that episode, Katims’ wife had given a speech about her personal experience telling their son he has Asperger’s at an event that honored the couple for their work with the autism community. Carpenter asked for a copy of the speech to help recreate those emotions for Adam and Kristina. “One of the questions as a parent of a child with anything, but particularly with autism, is: When is the right time to tell them? Everybody has a different answer to that. This was something my wife and I went through. Everybody has dealt with it in their own way and different ways,” Katims said.
While a therapist has been on the Parenthood set over the years to explain how a person with Asperger’s would behave in certain situations, Burkholder is now able to recognize and adjust when the script calls for Max to do something that he feels isn’t characteristic. For instance, in one Season 5 scene, Max and his older cousin Amber (Mae Whitman) are bonding over their terrible middle school experiences and the script direction noted Max should look Amber directly in the eye. “I was like, ‘No!’ Whether or not this is a big emotional moment, that’s not going to happen,” Burkholder remembered thinking when he read the script.
In a scene with Potter and Krause in the new, partially completed Chambers Academy, Burkholder’s character doesn’t want to attend the school his parents co-founded and the three of them argue about him continuing home-schooling. The actor later explained that what was most upsetting to Max is that the school offers three electives and not one of them is photography, a passion the character’s developed with the help of his Aunt Sarah’s (Lauren Graham) boyfriend Hank Rizzoli (Ray Romano), who’s also been portrayed as possibly being on the spectrum. “I’m sure I have a complete grasp on Max and how I’m going to handle each scene,” Burkholder said. During one of the last takes of the scene, the actor added a line, asking where the nails are to accompany the hammer he’d been tossing around in his hand. Then, he abruptly walked away searching. It may seem like a slight addition, but it’s comments like that that are quintessential to Burkholder’s character, who was clearly done paying attention to the conversation he was being forced to have with his parents. It was a strategic move and spoke directly to Max’s Asperger’s: When you become disinterested in what you’re doing, you go do something else. And Burkholder added just that with a mere question.


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The university offers several undergraduate majors, as well as a master’s degree program, in Slavic and Eurasian Studies.
Sanford scholarship focused on the region includes that of James R. Shepley Professor Emerita Ellen Mickiewicz, a leading expert on Russia and the media. She interviewed more than 100 Russian college students for her 2014 book No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders.
The school also offers a public policy program in partnership with the Kazakhstan Academy of Public Administration. The three-month program is held annually. In 2015 graduates included officials from Kazakhstan’s Agency for Civil Service Affairs and Anti-Corruption, the Ministry of Culture and Sport, and the Ministry of Investment and Development. Kairat Umarov, Kazakhstan’s ambassador to the United States, underlines the program’s importance to his country’s government employees.
Sanford School Professor Emeritus Ellen Mickiewicz is joining the board of directors of the American Committee for East-West Accord.


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A special thank you to https://bighairbigambitions.wordpress.com/ for nominating me for the prestigious “The Creative Blogger Award”.
I shall supply my nominations and five random facts about me after I calm down.
I like this idea. We used to call this a “chain letter” and I remember answering a couple of them back in the day. I never got anything out of it. I thought I was going to get postcards and gifts from around the world. Turns out they were illegal – and me … a mailman’s son!!
Anyway, thanks for reading and keeping democracy in rude health. Viva la bloggers!


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Covering Kentucky basketball for 41 years has produced so many memorable moments from national championship seasons to spectacular individual performances to dynamic personalities.
That’s why when Cameron Mills, one of the players I thoroughly enjoyed watching play and getting to know, asked me to write about some of those memories, I thought why not. Then when I realized how hard it would be to narrow that list to 10 like Mills wanted, I understood just how special the last 41 years had been for me.
So in no particular order, here are my top memories based purely on my own emotion and perspective among the hundreds I could have picked.
— 1977-78 national championship season.
That team was expected to be special, and was. The Wildcats went 30-2 under coach Joe Hall and beat Duke 94-88 in the national title game. What made that game even more special was the 41-point performance by Jack “Goose” Givens. He was 18 of 27 from the field and no one in St. Louis that night could ever forget that performance or adjustment by Hall that got Givens free time after time in the Duke defense.
That team was beloved by UK fans starting with point guard Kyle Macy along with Givens and James Lee, a pair of Lexington players. Rick Robey and Mike Phillips gave UK the “Twin Towers” that frustrated opponents and led then LSU coach Dale Brown to accuse UK of using a “karate” defense.
Hall said the “season was without celebration” before the title game but that team — that also included Truman Claytor, Jay Shilder, Fred Cowan, Dwane Casey and others — certainly knew how to have fun off the court and perhaps is still my favorite all-time team.
— Jodie Meeks’ 54-point game at Tennessee.
This might have been the biggest highlight of the Billy Gillispie coaching era when the Cats stunned No. 24 Tennessee 90-72 in 2009. Meeks, a junior guard, had the best offensive individual performance in UK history.
He made a school-record 10 3-point goals and was a perfect 14 of 14 at the foul line. He broke the 53-point scoring mark Dan Issel set 39 years earlier. The Vols had no answer for Meeks as coach Bruce Pearl tried every defender he had.
Meeks earlier had a 46-point game against Appalachian State.
— Getting to go in LSU locker room and listen to coach Dale Brown’s final pregame speech at his final SEC tournament game in 1997.
This might not exactly fit the mold for a UK beat writer, but my job enabled me to become friends with the legendary coach who Kentucky fans once hated but now mainly love because of his respect and admiration for UK basketball.
There were so many great stories with him during his 25 years at LSU, but when he invited me into the dressing room to hear what turned out to be his final presume speech before the Tigers lost to Georgia in Memphis was something I’ll never forget. After that game, a friend, Joe Hafley, and I went back to Brown’s hotel room and sat up most of the night as he reminisced about his career.
Today I am still proud to call him a friend — as is Kentucky coach John Calipari. Brown even says Calipari reminds him a lot of himself by the way he thinks with his heart, not his head, when it comes to his players.
— Rick Pitino telling me he was going to add Bernadette Locke to his coaching staff.
He kept insisting he was going to do this and even gave me her phone number. Of course, he did hire her and I got to break the story about Kentucky having the first woman as a full-time staff member for a men’s basketball team at a Division I school. That was back in 1990.
She coached four years with Pitino and then became the UK women’s head coach before eventually landing in the WNBA.
This was a team that was impossible not to love because of the way it played and managed to win so often after falling behind — which led to the name Comeback Cats. Remember this was a team that lost in Rupp Arena to Ole Miss on Valentine’s Day and was booed by some UK fans. Coach Tubby Smith’s Cats never lost again as they won their final 13 games to finish 35-4.
Kentucky had to beat Duke in the NCAA regional final and overcome a 17-point deficit thanks in part to huge 3-point shots late by Cameron Mills and Scott Padgett. At the Final Four, UK fell behind by 10 points to Stanford but won in overtime. Against Utah in the title game, Kentucky was again down by 10 points at halftime — I remember telling then WHAS Radio sports director Tony Cruise that Tubby had Utah right where he wanted them — and came back to win for the 10th time when trailing at halftime that season.
Wayne Turner, Heshimu Evans, Allen Edwards, Nazr Mohammed and Jamal Magloire were some of the other players I remember best from that team.
I’m not sure there has ever been a Kentucky team more loved by UK fans than the 1991-92 Unforgettables that finished 29-7. Three in-state seniors — Richie Farmer, John Pelphrey and Deron Feldhaus — had been with the team through probation and the arrival of Rick Pitino along with fellow senior Sean Woods. The team’s star was Jamal Mashburn, who took a huge chance on Pitino and UK by coming when the program was near rock bottom.
I’ll never forget Pitino telling me that when UK got off the probation he inherited from Eddie Sutton that UK could win the national title … and he almost did.
Kentucky lost in the East Region final to Duke in what many still consider the best college basketball game ever. Sean Woods hit a shot to put UK ahead with 2.1 seconds left in overtime before Christian Laettner hit the shot that broke UK hearts then and still does today.
I remember the stunned look Pitino and his players had after the game and how Duke players almost felt the same way.
But this was not a team UK lost. Duke just won. The teams combined to shoot 61 percent from the field.
It was not the way UK fans wanted the season to end, but it was a remarkable season for so many reasons.
— Little League Recognition Days.
There was a time when UK basketball players were allowed to make offseason appearances and no one benefitted more than the Danville-Boyle County Little League Recognition Days. A long list of players that included Macy, Robey, Givens, Lee, Kenny Walker, Sam Bowie, Melvin Turpin, Jim Master, Dwan Casey, Fred Cowan and many more came to Danville for a Sunday program that drew 2,000 to 3,000 Little League players and their families.
I can remember Walker being unable to resist the urge to dunk a few times for the kids or how patient all the players were signing autographs and taking pictures. I also remember not just the basketball stories, but the life stories they shared with youngsters.
It’s too bad today that young UK fans don’t get the same opportunity, but it’s also too bad the players don’t get the same chance to experience the feeling so many former Wildcats did.
— Watching Marta McMackin cry as she helped Joe Hall clean out his desk.
She was the UK administrative assistant under Hall, Smith, Eddie Sutton and Pitino. Every media member knew her and she knew almost everything about Kentucky basketball. If you had a question, she could answer.
After Joe Hall announced his retirement, I just happened to be in Memorial Colisuem as she was boxing up things in Hall’s desk for him to take home. She was alternating packing and crying. Sure, she was going to miss him. But she also understood what UK basketball meant to him and how hard walking away would be for him.
It was perhaps the most touching moment I can remember and I just stood and watched for several minutes before slowly walking away.
— DeMarcus Cousins having my back at NCAA Tournament in New Orleans.
Calipari’s first season was remarkable in so many ways with John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe on the team. Kentucky went 35-3 and likely had the nation’s best team even though it lost to West Virginia in the East Region final.
However, I’ll never forget a playful incident with Cousins in New Orleans during the first round of the tourney. Teams have open locker rooms for media interviews that last 30 minutes and for a team like Kentucky, the room is normally filled with media members. I needed a Wall interview and was standing elbow to elbow with a lot of reporters when a TV camera guy kept bumping and hitting me with his camera. We eventually exchanged a few words since I would not give ground to let him get closer.
I turned around and there was Cousins watching and laughing.
“Don’t worry Mr. Vaught. I had your back. You are too old for him to use that camera on you,” Cousins laughed and said.
— Victory Tour in 2012 by Calipari with the NCAA championship trophy.
This was Calipari at his best with Kentucky fans sharing the championship moment. Not only did he take the trophy across the state, but what impressed me even more is that he made sure every fan got a picture with him and the trophy. Sure, that sometimes involved group photos, but no one left without the picture he or she wanted.
And he did that by touching thousands of fans with his Victory Tour.
— Bill Keightley, Cawood Ledford and Oscar Combs.
I know this makes 11 top 10 memories, but I did save the best for life. These three men all had a great influence on my University of Kentucky sports reporting.
I’ll admit I was stunned when Combs offered a small-town guy from Danville a chance to write a weekly column for The Cats’ Pause. At that time with no internet, that was my way to introduce myself to many UK fans. Combs was a great mentor and friend who stood behind his writers. I’m proud to still count him as a friend and feel lucky to still call on him for advice as I recently did.
Ledford was already a legend when I started covering UK. Or at least he was to me. But he treated me like gold. He never failed to speak or answer questions if I had them. He shared insights, stories and much more. For reasons I’ll never understand, he treated me like a peer and I certainly was not. However, I liked the way he looked for the best in athletes, coaches and fans. I never forgot that lesson.
Keightley was unique. Obviously, UK fans and players loved him. I’ll share a secret — so did most media members. I thought I understood the passion for UK basketball when I started the Kentucky beat. But Keightley helped educate me on just how passionate UK fans are. He also helped me understand the intense pressure even back in 1976 that being a Kentucky basketball player put on youngsters. Many, many times I went to press conferences early just to stop by and see him. Those visits also often included his favorite goodies from Burke’s Bakery in Danville.
These memories could go on and on. Maybe if I wrote the same column tomorrow I might come up with a whole new list because for 41 years, just about everything about covering UK basketball has been that memorable.


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Nico Hulkenberg is a 31 year old driver from Germany, for 2013 he is competing in Formula One with Alfa Romeo Racing and sits 10th in the standings after 19 races.
Hulkenberg has proved to be a consistent top ten finisher with 10 finishes from the 19 races and will be desperately trying to make it upto the podium for the first time this season. With only one non-finish this season, Hulkenberg has done a good job keeping the car out of trouble.


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Safe Information Handling is a foundation level e-learning module to support all NHSScotland staff in this important part of their work. The assessed module is designed to assist clinicians, managers, administrators, support staff and others in understanding requirements for data sharing and confidentiality. The short module provides simple information about basic principles of data protection, guidance on good practice and sources of advice and further information.
Safe Information Handling is a foundation level learning resource for all NHSScotland staff, designed to support clinicians, managers, administrators, support staff and others in understanding requirements for data sharing and confidentiality. The short module provides simple information about basic principles of data protection, guidance on good practice and sources of advice and further information. All learners are offered a pre-module assessment, which will exempt them from the module if they achieve the required pass standard.
Safe Information Handling is accompanied by an intermediate module Information Handling in Practice for staff with more in-depth learning needs in this area of practice.
This course is provided to NHS Health Boards through learnPro and other learning management systems. Further information about registration and access can be found at our learnPro information page.
Training on data protection and confidentiality is mandatory for all NHSScotland staff. Safe Information Handling and its companion module, Information Handling in Practice provide mandatory training options for health and social care staff and employers seeking training solutions in this area. The module includes content about health records and patient confidentiality, but emphasises the need for good information governance in all areas of the service including finance, human resources and other non-clinical departments.
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Boskalis makes targeted investments to maintain or expand our strong market position. Over the past few years we have invested in the fleet across the breadth of the group. Furthermore, we have expanded our fleet for offshore transport and installation through the acquisition and integration of SMIT, Dockwise, Fairmount and VBMS. We also design and convert our own vessels. These new vessels incorporate innovative technologies and meet the most stringent demands with respect to efficiency and energy consumption. We will continue to selectively invest in our fleet in line with our strategy.
•	In 2018 Boskalis took the Bokalift 1 into service: a conversion of semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Finesse into a self-propelled crane vessel, including a 3,000 mt revolving crane. It can execute transportation as well as installation or decommissioning services. Due to its DP-2 capabilities there is no loss time for anchor spread deployment. The vessel can accommodate 150 persons and has a helicopter deck for offshore transfers. A firm decision on the conversion of another vessel into a crane vessel and determining the exact specifications is expected to take place in the course of 2018.
•	Self-propelled megacutter Helios - Boskalis has designed and built a new self-propelled mega cutter suction dredger, with a total installed power of 23,700 kW and a pump ashore capacity of 15,600 kW. Delivered in July 2017. A sister vessel for the Helios has been ordered, commissioning expected in 2020.
Cutter suction dredger Helios is one of the most powerful dredgers, developed to work in extremely hard ground. Its impressive cutter ladder weighs 2,060 tons, making it the world’s heaviest.
Jumbo backhoe dredger Magnor, with a bucket capacity of up to 40 m3.
Water injection dredger Terra Plana.
Boskalis converted semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Finesse into a self-propelled crane vessel, including a 3,000 mt revolving crane. The vessel is ideally suited for oil and gas platform installation, decommissioning and wind turbine foundation installation.
Giant 5, 6 and 7 barges. The Giant 7 has been converted into a self-propelled construction vessel with accommodation and a crane with a lift capacity of 600 tons.

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There is a huge difference between dropping a plate by accident (even through carelessness) and smashing it against the wall out of anger. The effect on the plate is the same; is not the karmic effect tied to intention in this instance?
That's my understanding. Karmas tend to be repaid with similar intentions. An accidental killing, if karmic, tends to be repaid by another accidental killing (or by the killer saving the victim from an accident in the following lifetime). Also, where there is little emotional force behind a karma, it's easier to neutralize on the astral plane through grace because there's not much that needs to be learned, other than, as Mary Lou points out, to be more careful.
Not all killings are karmic. A soldier fighting in a war authorized by the society who kills in the line of duty is not usually under the need to repay that same souls killed, although he may tend to be more frequently a victim of war later.
Until the Karmic monad is completed, i.e., it has been created AND repaid, it cannot be "mastered."
Michael teaches that we can complete the physical plane without ever waking up spiritually. We can create and repay karmas, monads, agreements, etc. on automatic pilot, passing through each level of the soul ages, occasionally stubbing our toes and running into walls.
Mastery suggests becoming conscious of our choices and making those that smooth our way, acting from love and minimizing damage. This is "growing through joy" rather than through pain.
For example, if someone killed you in a past life, you can kill him and the debt is paid, OR you can set it up for him to joyously save your life instead.
It often happens that a killing repays a karma, but those on the receiving end don't know that consciously, so they seek revenge and form another karma, ad nauseum. Thus, the "karmic wheel"--it doesn't stop until someone steps off it and decides to act from love. This is what Jesus meant by turning the other cheek.
Is forgiveness part of mastering karma? I can sincerely forgive anything, but it does not mean I will trust again that person or want the friendship back.
Forgiveness is a core part of it. It means releasing the charge and seeing the humanity of the other party. When we truly understand, that includes forgiveness but is greater than it. Part of understanding is honestly exploring and owning our own part in co-creating the situation, harvesting the lessons, and forgiving ourselves, as well as compassionately understanding the other person's dynamics. Forgiveness includes recognizing that we all see through a glass darkly to some degree. It is often hard to forgive until we understand.
There are rare instances in which we are the victim of karma simply because we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, self-exploration is valuable: Did we fail to heed our intuition? Did we hold a belief that attracted us to a negative experience? Etc.


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Dominica's island long Waitukubuli trail has opened. You can literally hike the entire length of this nature island from Scott's Head to Cabrits. The nature race group, "Leave a Footprint" just sponsored their first Forest run on the Nature Island.Dominica's Atlantic coast is also emerging as a serious surfing location:http://www.dominica-weekly.com/surfing-competition-in-dominica/Dominica was just rated a top nature location by National Geographic.
Despite being one of the oldest civilisations in the world, Greece is anything but old-fashioned. The country is a haven for beautiful sparkling waters, awe-inspiring natural and historical relics, and savoury delights, all of which come together as fascinating experiences of ecotourism in Greece.


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At your first appointment, we will discuss your health concerns, and what you hope to gain from acupuncture. I will then perform an extensive interview of your medical history, observe your tongue, and feel your pulse. These are important components of Chinese medicine that allow insight into the internal workings of your body. Once I have gathered this information, I will design a specific treatment that will address both the symptoms, and the underlying causes of illness. I will explain each procedure prior to treatment and discuss your prognosis and expected outcomes. In general, chronic conditions and elderly patients have a slower response to treatment than younger patients and they will therefore require a longer course of treatment.
The initial appointment generally takes 1.5 hours with follow up appointments taking 45 minutes to 1 hour. Is recommended that you wear comfortable clothing to your appointment, making sure that your arms, legs, and the abdomen are accessible.
Acupuncture needles are solid, thin, sterile, and single-use, which means they are used on one patient only, and are then discarded. This eliminates the transmission of infectious diseases. Most patients find the needles relatively painless and feel quite relaxed during, and after treatments.
Your first appointment will take about 1.5 hours. I will go over your paper work, and the risks and benefits of acupuncture. We will discuss your health concerns and you will have the opportunity to ask questions you may have about acupuncture. I will conduct an extensive interview, observe your tongue, and feel your pulse, followed by a specific treatment for your condition. Body, scalp and auricular points may be used, and the needles are retained for 20 minutes.
It is best to have the paper work completed prior to the initial appointment.
Follow up visits take 45 minutes to 1 hour. We will spend 10 to 15 minutes discussing your progress and your concerns and I will observe your tongue and feel your pulse. A treatment will follow, taking into account the changes that have taken place since the last treatment.
A facial acupuncture treatment takes 1.5 hours. We will discuss your aesthetic concerns as well as the risks of facial acupuncture. At your first treatment, I will determine your constitution to determine the acupuncture points that will be used. A treatment will follow using points on the body, scalp, and face. The needles are very thin and are coated in silicone to minimize discomfort. The treatment will be followed by neck and facial massage to facilitate lymph drainage, and muscle relaxation.


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Advocacy Without Borders: The Arc: "It Takes a Team"
The Arc: "It Takes a Team"
It might "take a village" to raise a child. But for an adult, it "takes a team."
Purple Day (for Epilepsy Awareness)!
A Spotlight on the community every WEdnesday!
"Empowering children to be who they are."
The End of Ryan White Part D?
HIV Community Defeats Big Business!
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I am lucky that Little Miss is such a good girl (most of the time!). It makes military life go so much smoother since she is so easy going. She is okay if we hanging out at home or if we are out & about running errands. As long I keep her fed and dry, she's good to go!
I am delighted to be in talks about hosting my first blog giveaway! I was contacted and we are working out the details.
I am ecstatic about the surprise gift I'm making my Hubs to help him during the first few weeks of his deployment. I hope he likes it as much as I've enjoyed making it!
I get to see the Hubs tomorrow and maybe for one day of the weekend, it makes me giggly every time I think about seeing him!
I am joyed at all the new babies that made their appearance in the last few weeks! The most recent one happened today.