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About Running Boards & Side Steps Lexus RX350 running boards are a great addition to your vehicle for easy entry and exit. These running boards are made of rugged materials that will last for years. They install easily and ship quickly to your door. NAPA Online is here to help you find the perfect set of Lexus RX350 running boards for your needs.

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QUETTA - The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in a special session here on Thursday lauded the efforts of Balochistan government and civil administration to implement the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for containing the COVID-19 pandemic in the province. The NCOC special meeting chaired by Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar, was attended by Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Jam Kamal and Chief Secretary ?Fazeel Asghar as host. Rest of the provincial chief secretaries participated through video link. Chief Minister Jam Kamal appreciated the NCOC for holding its sessions in the provincial capitals for better coordination and understanding of issues being faced by the provinces. He said: “The NCOC has played a vital role in inter-provincial coordination, and healthcare capacity and resource building through cannelizing critical medical equipment.” The NCOC deliberated on the management of cattle markets being established in the wake of forthcoming on Eid-ul-Azha and Eid prayers. The participants noted that the decision making based on information and reliable data at the NCOC was a new normal. The practice of data collection, correlation, collation and informed decision making helped in efforts to contain the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 caseload in Pakistan had reached 269,190 with 1,763 new cases reported during last 24 hours, an official of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Coronavirus said on Thursday. Sharing the data, he said that total 5,709 deaths had been reported from the disease with 32 reported during last 24 hours. He said that 213,175 patients had been recovered. He added total 1,799,290 tests had been conducted while in last 24 hours 22,408 tests were conducted. He said 115,213 cases were reported from Sindh, 91,129 from Punjab, 32,753 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 14,722 from Islamabad, 1,896 from Gilgit Baltistan, 11,517 from Balochistan and 1,961 from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). He said that so far 16,927 active cases were reported from Sindh, 22,227 from Punjab, 5,882 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2,537 from Islamabad, 353 from Gilgit Baltistan, 1,796 from Balochistan and 585 from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). He said that 2,060 deaths had been reported from Sindh, 2,100 from Punjab, 1,158 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 162 from Islamabad, 45 from Gilgit Baltistan, 136 from Balochistan and 48 deaths were reported from AJK. He said that 96,226 patients had recovered in Sindh, 66,802 in Punjab, 25,713 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 12,023 in Islamabad, 1,498 Gilgit Baltistan, 9,585 in Balochistan and 1,328 in AJK.

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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted persistent dry atmosphere and dust haze condition for Monday. NiMet’s weather outlook on Sunday in Abuja predicted dust haze with visibility of 2km to 5km to prevail over northern states with day and night temperatures of 30 to 36 degree Celsius and 9 to 16 degree Celsius, respectively. “For central states, dust haze with visibility range of 2km to 5km is expected over the region throughout the forecast period with day and night temperatures of 25 to 35 degree Celsius and 9 to 20 degree Celsius, respectively. “For southern states, dust haze with visibility of 3km to 5km is expected over the inland cities, while hazy conditions are expected over the coastal cities throughout the forecast period. “Day and Night temperature of the region are expected to be 32 to 37 degree Celsius and 14 to 21 degree Celsius,” the agency said.(NAN)

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Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is an isomer of linoleic acid (LA). The predominant dietary CLA is cis-9, trans-11-CLA (c-9, t-11-CLA), which constitutes up to ~ 90% of total CLA and is thought to be responsible for the positive health benefits associated with CLA. However, the effects of c-9, t-11-CLA on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain to be elucidated. In this study, we investigated the effect of dietary intake of c-9, t-11-CLA on the pathogenesis of an AD mouse model. We found that c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice significantly exhibited (1) a decrease in amyloid-β protein (Aβ) levels in the hippocampus, (2) an increase in the number of microglia, and (3) an increase in the number of astrocytes expressing the anti-inflammatory cytokines, interleukin-10 and 19 (IL-10, IL-19), with no change in the total number of astrocytes. In addition, liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) and gas chromatographic analysis revealed that the levels of lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) containing c-9, t-11-CLA (CLA-LPC) and free c-9, t-11-CLA were significantly increased in the brain of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice. Thus, dietary c-9, t-11-CLA entered the brain and appeared to exhibit beneficial effects on AD, including a decrease in Aβ levels and suppression of inflammation. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of memory and cognitive dysfunction, and has risen in prevalence to an estimated 40 million patients worldwide1,2. The pathological hallmarks of AD are extracellular senile plaques, which are composed of amyloid-β protein (Aβ), and neurofibrillary tangles1,2. Aβ is generated from amyloid precursor protein (APP) through sequential cleavage by two proteases called β- and γ-secretases1,2. The two most common isoforms of Aβ are 40 and 42 residues in length, depending on the site of γ-secretase cleavage1. Although secreted Aβ40 is much more abundant than Aβ42, Aβ42 is considered to be the causative molecule for triggering the onset of AD because it is more prone to aggregation, more neurotoxic, and the major component in senile plaques3,4. Neurofibrillary tangles, which are composed of hyperphosphorylated and aggregated tau in neurons, are another hallmark of AD; however, they are thought to be secondary to amyloid pathology1,2. Although many clinical trials have focused on inhibition of Aβ generation, Aβ toxicity, etc., effective treatments to prevent the development of AD have not been firmly established yet1,2. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is an isomer of linoleic acid (LA), which is an essential unsaturated fatty acid5,6. CLA is normally generated by symbiotic bacteria in the stomach of ruminant animals7. The predominant isomer in dietary sources is cis-9, trans-11-CLA (c-9, t-11-CLA), which constitutes up to ~ 90% of total CLA, and is present at relatively higher levels in the meat and milk fat of ruminant animals6,7. Trans-10, cis-12-CLA (t-10, c-12-CLA) is another common isomer that accounts for 1–10% of total CLA in dietary sources6,7. Recent studies using animal models or cultured cells have reported that CLA has beneficial effects on health, including effects on atherosclerosis8,9, colitis10, metabolic syndrome9, rheumatoid arthritis11, carcinogenesis 9,12, and immune cell function13,14. However, most of the published studies used a mixture of the two major CLA isomers, and which isomer is responsible for these functions is not clear. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that c-9, t-11-CLA has benefits associated with CLA, whereas t-10, c-12-CLA is associated with the anti-obesity effects seen with CLA5,6. In addition, in vitro studies using c-9, t-11-CLA have shown several biological effects on neurons, including promotion of proliferation of neuronal progenitor cells15 and protection from glutamate-induced or Aβ-induced neuronal cell death16,17, suggesting beneficial effects of c-9, t-11-CLA on neurodegenerative disorders including AD. However, the effects of CLA on AD remain unknown. Therefore, in this study, we focused on c-9, t-11-CLA and investigated the effects of a c-9, t-11-CLA diet on AD pathology using AD model mice. Our results indicated that dietary c-9, t-11-CLA indeed entered the brain and exhibited beneficial effects on AD, including a decrease in Aβ accumulation and an enhanced anti-inflammatory effect. A c-9, t-11-CLA diet influenced the pathogenesis of AD model mice, including Aβ accumulation Aβ is thought to be a major pathogenesis factor in AD. Therefore, we first investigated whether dietary c-9, t-11-CLA supplementation affects Aβ accumulation in the brain of AD model mice. For this purpose, we measured Aβ levels in the brain using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). We found that Aβ42 and Aβ40 levels in the hippocampus of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice were significantly lower than those of control mice, but levels were not significantly different in the cortex (Fig. 2A). We further conducted thioflavin-S staining to detect Aβ deposition in the brain. As shown in Fig. 2B, C, the number of thioflavin-S-positive plaques tended to decrease in the hippocampus in c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice, although thioflavin-S-positive plaques were rarely detected in the cortex. Because hyperphosphorylated tau is another hallmark of AD, we next performed immunostaining with anti-AT100 antibody (anti-phosphorylated tau antibody). As shown in Fig. 2D, E, AT100-positive signals also tended to decrease in the hippocampus of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice, but they did not change in the cortex. Taken together, feeding the c-9, t-11-CLA diet reduced the Aβ level in the hippocampus of AD model mice, and this reduction is likely to decrease Aβ deposition and tau phosphorylation. The c-9, t-11-CLA diet increased the number of microglia, including CD45+ and CD206+ microglia, in the cortex and hippocampus of AD model mice, but not the number of astrocytes Astrocytes and microglia are thought to be involved in Aβ clearance in the brain18,19. Therefore, we next investigated whether feeding the c-9, t-11-CLA diet affects the number of astrocytes and microglia in the brain of AD model mice. We conducted immunostaining of brain sections with anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) (astrocyte marker) and anti-ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule 1 (IBA-1) (microglia marker) antibodies. We found that IBA-1-positive signals were significantly increased in the cortex and hippocampus of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice, but GFAP-positive signals did not change (Fig. 3A, B). These results suggest that the c-9, t-11-CLA diet increased the number of microglia in the brain of AD model mice but did not affect the number of astrocytes. We next determined the subpopulations of microglia that are increased by a c-9, t-11-CLA-diet, because microglia are not homogeneous and several subpopulations have been identified as disease-associated microglia (DAM)20, or inflammatory or anti-inflammatory phenotypes21. For this purpose, we performed immunostaining of microglia with antibodies for CD45 (a transmembrane protein tyrosine phosphatase for a microglia subtype), CD86 (surface antigen cluster of differentiation 86 for M1 marker activated by pathogens or pro-inflammatory factors), and CD206 (a mannose receptor for M2 marker activated by anti-inflammatory factors such as IL-10)21. We first found that CD45-positive (CD45+) cells were only observed in AD model mice (supplemental Fig. 1), which is consistent with the notion that CD45+ microglia are associated with AD pathology20. We also confirmed that CD45+ cells are all stained with anti-IBA (microglia marker) antibodies, showing that CD45+ cells are microglia (as shown in Fig. 4A). Therefore, we next determined with double staining of anti-CD45 and anti-IBA antibodies whether CD45+ microglia are increased by the c-9, t-11-CLA diet. The results showed that CD45- and IBA-positive microglia were increased by c-9, t-11-CLA feeding (Fig. 4A, B). However, CD86-positive cells (for the M1 phenotype marker) were not found in either c-9, t-11-CLA-fed or control-fed mouse brains (data not shown). We also found that CD206- and IBA-positive microglia were increased in c-9, t-11-CLA-fed AD mice (Fig. 4C, D). We also noted that CD45+ microglia and CD206+ microglia existed in Aβ deposits (Fig. 4E). CD45 is associated with AD pathology and appears to play a role in the clearance of oligomeric Aβ22, and CD206+ microglia are likely to be involved in anti-inflammation21. The number of astrocytes expressing interleukin (IL)-10 or IL-19 was increased in the hippocampus of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice As c-9, t-11-CLA treatment was previously shown to enhance the expression levels of the anti-inflammatory cytokine, IL-1023, we next examined whether the c-9, t-11-CLA diet affects the expression of IL-10 in the brain. We first performed immunostaining of wild-type and AD mouse model brain sections with an anti-IL-10 antibody. IL-10-positive signals were clearly detected in the hippocampus of the brain of AD model mice, but not in wild-type mouse brain (Fig. 5A), indicating that IL-10 expression was upregulated in the brain of AD model mice. We then compared the number of IL-10-positive signals in the brain of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed and control diet-fed AD model mice. The number of IL-10-positive signals was significantly increased in the hippocampus of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice, although they were rarely detected in the cortex (Fig. 5B, C). Because IL-10 is expressed in astrocytes and microglia in the brain24, we next performed double immunostaining with anti-IL-10 antibodies and anti-GFAP and anti-IBA-1 to determine which cell type, astrocytes or microglia, showed upregulated IL-10 expression. As shown in Fig. 5D, some GFAP-positive signals in the hippocampus clearly overlapped with IL-10-positive signals, but IBA-1-positive signals did not overlap with IL-10. These results indicate that IL-10 was expressed in a portion of astrocytes, but not in microglia, and that the c-9, t-11-CLA diet increased the number of astrocytes expressing IL-10. We also found that the c-9, t-11-CLA diet increased the number of astrocytes expressing IL-19, which is another anti-inflammatory cytokine24 (Fig. 5C and supplemental Fig. 2). In addition, we attempted to immunodetect other inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)α, but they were all below the level of detection in the AD model mice used in our study (data not shown). The c-9, t-11-CLA diet increased the levels of c-9, t-11-CLA-lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and free c-9, t-11-CLA in the brain We finally determined whether dietary c-9, t-11-CLA entered the brain. Plasma fatty acids, especially docosahexaenoic acid, are transported into the brain in the form of LPC by the Mfsd2a transporter25,26. Therefore, we first examined the level of LPC containing c-9, t-11-CLA (c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC) in the brain. To detect and quantify c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC, we used a reverse-phase liquid chromatography (LC) method for separating the LPC structural isomer, LA-LPC, and c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC. To identify the peak chromatogram of c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC, we performed LC–MS/MS analysis of synthetic c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC. As shown in Fig. 6, synthetic sn-1-CLA-LPC corresponded completely to the extra peak with a delayed retention time following the two peaks of LA-LPC (sn-1-LA and sn-2-LA. See27), which was previously suggested to be that of c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC (Hata et al., submitted elsewhere; https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.09.13.295642v1), whereas the peak of sn-2-CLA-LPC corresponded to that of sn-1-LA-LPC. We then determined whether the peaks of CLA-LPC were increased in the brain of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice. As shown in Fig. 7, we found that the sn-1-CLA-LPC level was increased by approximately twofold in the brain of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice, including the cortex (P = 0.0006), hippocampus (P = 0.09), cerebellum (P = 0.0017), brain stem (P = 0.015), and olfactory bulb (P = 0.04), as well as in the liver (P = 0.0025), whereas no change in sn-2-LPC-LA was observed with c-9, t-11-CLA feeding. We also noted that the relative abundance of sn-1-CLA-LPC in the hippocampus and brain stem was much higher than that in the other brain regions, including the cortex, and in the liver (Fig. 7, left panels). However, a significant increase in the level of sn-1-LA-LPC including sn-2-CLA-LPC, in c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice was not observed except for in the liver, although the level tended to be increased. Other lysophospholipids containing c-9, t-11-CLA, including lysophosphatidylserine etc., were below the level of detection. Therefore, dietary c-9, t-11-CLA appeared to form c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC and then enter the brain. We then performed gas chromatographic analysis to determine whether the level of free c-9, t-11-CLA was increased in c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice. As shown in Fig. 8, the level of free c-9, t-11-CLA was significantly increased by approximately twofold, and the total level of c-9, t-11-CLA was also increased by approximately fourfold in c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice. Thus, dietary c-9, t-11-CLA clearly entered the brain, possibly mediated by c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC, thereby increasing the level of free c-9, t-11-CLA in the brain. In the present study, we determined the effect of dietary c-9, t-11-CLA on the pathogenesis of AD using AD model mice. The major dietary sources of c-9, t-11-CLA are dairy products and ruminant meat, whereas those of t-10, c-12-CLA are partially hydrogenated vegetable oils from margarines and shortenings5,6. A growing number of studies has demonstrated that c-9, t-11-CLA is responsible for the positive health benefits associated with CLA, whereas t-10, c-12-CLA is associated with the anti-obesity effects seen with CLA5. However, the effect of dietary CLA on AD pathogenesis is not known. Therefore, we determined the effect of a c-9, t-11-CLA diet on AD pathology. We first found that dietary intake of c-9, t-11-CLA reduced Aβ42 and Aβ40 accumulation in the hippocampus. However, Aβ deposits and tau phosphorylation tended to decrease, but did not significantly change. For the formation of Aβ deposits or tau phosphorylation, the ratio of Aβ42 versus Aβ40 is thought to be crucial, because Aβ42 is much more prone to aggregation than Aβ40 and thereby forms the seed of Aβ deposition3,4,5. The decreases in Aβ deposition and tau phosphorylation were not drastic despite the decrease in the Aβ level by c-9, t-11-CLA feeding, probably because the Aβ level is decreased without changing the ratio of Aβ42 versus Aβ40. Interestingly, we found that the decrease in Aβ accumulation was accompanied by upregulation of the anti-inflammatory cytokines, IL-10 and IL-19. We also found that c-9, t-11 CLA feeding increased the number of microglia in both the cortex and hippocampus. In general, microglia are involved in the elimination of unnecessary substances such as amyloid plaques and apoptotic cells in the brain2,19,22. Therefore, our results suggest that increasing the number of microglia by c-9, t-11-CLA may promote Aβ clearance. In fact, we found that CD45+ microglia, which could be involved in Aβ clearance22, were increased by c-9, t-11 CLA feeding as will be described later, strongly suggesting that c-9, t-11-CLA may promote microglia-mediated Aβ clearance. We also demonstrated that astrocytes expressing IL-10 were significantly increased in the hippocampus following c-9, t-11-CLA feeding. Astrocytes are also involved in Aβ clearance, including engulfment of Aβ and secretion of the protease for Aβ degradation28,29. Although it is not exactly known why the levels of Aβ40 and Aβ42 in the cortex were not significantly decreased in c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice, we assumed that astrocytes expressing IL-10 either alone or together with increased microglia could be involved in reducing the Aβ level in their hippocampi. As the relative abundance of c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC in the hippocampus was approximately 100-fold higher than that in the cortex (Fig. 7, left panel), this may be related to the stronger effects of c-9, t-11-CLA feeding on AD pathology in the hippocampus than in the cortex. Because we also showed that treatment with c-9, t-11-CLA reduces Aβ production in vitro (Hata et al., submitted elsewhere; https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.09.13.295642v1), another possibility is that c-9, t-11-CLA directly decreased Aβ generation in neurons. There appear to be several mechanisms underlying the reduction of Aβ levels by the c-9, t-11-CLA diet, including a reduction in Aβ generation and the promotion of Aβ clearance. We also found that CD45+ microglia and CD206+ microglia were increased by c-9, t-11-CLA feeding, while CD86-positive cells were not found in either c-9, t-11-CLA-fed or control-fed mouse brains. CD45+ microglia are thought to be DAM and have been found to be associated with AD. A study using CD45-deficient mice has demonstrated CD45-mediated microglial clearance of oligomeric Aβ22. Therefore, the reduction in Aβ levels by c-9, t-11-CLA feeding may occur by promoting differentiation into CD45+ microglia. We also found that CD206+ microglia, which appear to play a role in anti-inflammation, were increased by c-9, t-11-CLA. CD206+ microglia are thought to have the M2 phenotype, which can shut down ongoing inflammation and promote recovery21. M2 activation is induced by the presence of anti-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-10. We assume that an increase in the number of astrocytes expressing IL-10 or IL-19 by c-9, t-11-CLA feeding may lead to the induction of CD206+ microglia. However, CD86-positive microglia, which are activated by inflammation and exhibit the M1 phenotype for inflammation, were not found in our study (data not shown). At present, it is not known whether c-9, t-11-CLA feeding increased microglia derived from brain cells or from peripheral immune cells, because it is still controversial whether DAM are all derived from brain microglia or peripheral immune cells20. However, a recent study strongly suggested that DAM all come from brain microglia30. Further studies will be needed to see how c-9, t-11-CLA leads to an increase in the number of some subpopulations of microglia. Our results also showed that the number of IL-10- or IL-19-expressing cells increased in the hippocampus of c-9, t-11-CLA-fed AD model mice. IL-10 and IL-19 were expressed in astrocytes but not in microglia in our AD model mice. Astrocytes have neuroprotective functions by secreting anti-inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-10, IL-19, and transforming growth factor-β, and repairing the blood–brain barrier (BBB) to restrict the migration of leukocytes caused by the inflammation12. Thus, our results suggest that c-9, t-11-CLA feeding increases the number of IL-10- or IL-19-expressing astrocytes, resulting in suppression of inflammation in the AD brain. We also attempted to detect inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β, IL-6, and TNFα in the brain, but they were all below the level of detection in the AD model mice used in this study (data not shown), which appears to be consistent with the lack of inflammatory CD86-positive microglia. As IL-10 is induced even in control diet-fed AD model mice, upregulated IL-10 or IL-19 could suppress the expression of inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF. As previously reported, the treatment of dendritic cells with c-9, t-11-CLA induces IL-10 production in vitro23, and we also examined whether treatment of primary glial cells and glial cell lines with c-9, t-11-CLA induces IL-10 production. However, we failed to detect an increase in the levels of IL-10 in primary cultured glial cells by c-9, t-11-CLA treatment (data not shown). Therefore, the upregulation of IL-10 in astrocytes in the brain of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice appears to be due to secondary effects of c-9, t-11-CLA or to metabolites derived from c-9, t-11-CLA, such as lysophospholipids or diacyl phospholipids, as described below. c-9, t-11-CLA can activate, one of the nuclear transcription factors, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ), the ligand-dependent activation of which dramatically inhibits the cellular immune response and production of inflammatory mediators31. Therefore, dietary intake of c-9, t-11-CLA might only regulate the inflammatory response, although at present it is not known whether it also affects the functions of microglia and astrocytes in wild-type mice. The neuroinflammation caused by Aβ accumulation is thought to be crucial for the loss of memory in AD32. In this regard, dietary c-9, t-11-CLA supplementation will be useful for preventing AD progression, because dietary c-9, t-11-CLA upregulated anti-inflammatory cytokines in the brain, and also possibly inhibited neuroinflammation through the activation of PPARγ. We also note that dietary c-9, t-11-CLA may affect peripheral immune cells, thereby promoting anti-inflammation in the brain, since peripheral immune cells such as macrophages or T-cells are also associated with neuroinflammation33,34. Recently, knockout of the IL-10 gene in mice has been found to promote Aβ clearance35, while IL-10-overexpression mice have increased Aβ deposits36, suggesting an adverse role of IL-10 in amyloid clearance. These results disagree with our results showing an Aβ decrease by c-9, t-11-CLA feeding, which is accompanied by the upregulation of IL-10. In this regard, we assume that the decrease in Aβ levels by c-9, t-11-CLA feeding may occur independently from IL-10 expression, while IL-10 expression is involved in the beneficial effects on anti-inflammation. Alternatively, since the previous studies are based on IL-10 gene-knockout mice35 or IL-10-overexpressing mice36, the conditions are unusual in that IL-10 is knocked out even in cells where a certain amount of IL-10 expression is needed, or there is constant overexpression of IL-10 in all cells. We assume that the effects of IL-10 under physiological conditions, where its expression is only induced in the right cells and within optimal levels, may be different from those in IL-10-deficient mice or mice overexpressing IL-10. Indeed, our results showed that Aβ levels are reduced by an increase in astrocytes expressing IL-10. Further study will be needed to establish the role of IL-10 in AD pathology in c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice. We next determined whether dietary c-9, t-11-CLA enters the brain. A recent study reported that docosahexaenoic acid and also other plasma free fatty acids cross the BBB through Msd2a transporters in the form of LPC25. As expected, our results showed that the sn-1-c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC level was increased in the brain of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mice, including the cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum, brain stem, and olfactory bulb, as well as the liver, whereas no significant change in the LA-LPC level was observed. These results clearly indicated that dietary c-9, t-11-CLA crosses the BBB, most likely via the Mfsd2a transporter, and enters the brain in the form of c-9, t-11-CLA incorporated into LPC25. Interestingly, the relative abundance of c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC in the hippocampus or brain stem was much higher than that in the cortex or cerebellum. This may explain the different effects of c-9, t-11-CLA feeding on Aβ accumulation between the hippocampus and the cortex as mentioned before. At present, whether sn-2-c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC was also increased by the c-9, t-11-CLA diet is unclear, because the peak position of sn-2-c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC in LC–MS/MS overlapped with that of sn-1-LA-LPC, the level of which may be more abundant than that of sn-2-c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC. In addition, we found that the levels of free c-9, t-11-CLA and total c-9, t-11-CLA were significantly increased in c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed mouse brains. The level of total c-9, t-11-CLA was ~ fivefold higher than that of free c-9, t-11-CLA, suggesting that dietary c-9, t-11-CLA was incorporated into various lipids including lysophospholipids. Therefore, c-9, t-11-CLA itself or lipids containing c-9, t-11-CLA including c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC or both are likely to be involved in Aβ reduction or the anti-inflammatory response in the brain of c-9, t-11-CLA diet-fed AD model mice. Recently, it was reported that oral administration of water containing a nanodroplet of pomegranate seed oil comprising large levels of punicic acid reduces Aβ accumulation and prevents cognitive decline in AD model mice, most likely through c-9, t-11-CLA, because the administered punicic acid is rapidly metabolized into c-9, t-11-CLA in the liver, and c-9, t-11-CLA was also detected in the brain of mice given a nanodroplet of pomegranate seed oil37. This study also supports our results showing the beneficial effects of dietary c-9, t-11-CLA on AD pathogenesis. In addition, the study strongly suggested that c-9, t-11-CLA confers neuroprotection in an AD mouse model by calpain inhibition37. Therefore, dietary c-9, t-11-CLA likely provides beneficial effects on AD pathogenesis through several pathways, including anti-inflammation, Aβ generation, or Aβ clearance and neuroprotection, possibly by calpain inhibition. In addition, the dietary intake of butter enriched in cis-9, trans-11 CLA has been shown to cause memory enhancement through upregulating the expression of phospholipase A2 in rat brain tissue, as assessed by increased latency in the step-down inhibitory avoidance task38, and the administration of Nano-PSO has also been reported to prevent cognitive decline in 5XFAD mice37. Therefore, it is possible that the dietary intake of cis-9, trans-11 CLA improves memory performance. In this study, we showed that dietary c-9, t-11-CLA reduces Aβ accumulation accompanied by upregulation of anti-inflammatory cytokines in AD model mice. In addition, we clearly demonstrated that intake of dietary c-9, t-11-CLA leads to an increase in the levels of free c-9, t-11-CLA and c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC in the brain. Thus, intake of dietary c-9, t-11-CLA will be effective for the prevention of AD progression by decreasing Aβ levels and enhancing anti-inflammatory effects. Further studies on the effects of c-9, t-11-CLA on memory loss in AD and the biological action of various lipids containing c-9, t-11-CLA including c-9, t-11-CLA-LPC will be needed to firmly establish the beneficial effects of prevention of AD progression or inflammation. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. c-9, t-11-CLA feeding of AD model mice AD model mice expressing hAPP and bearing the Swedish and Indiana mutations (hAPPSwInd, J20) under the control of the human platelet-derived growth factor beta polypeptide promoter were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME, USA). C57/BL6 (wild-type) mice were obtained from Charles River (Yokohama, Japan). hAPPSwInd mice were fed 0.4% c-9, t-11-CLA (Abcam Inc.), 2.0% sunflower oil (FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Co.), and 97.6% rodent diet CE-2 (CLEA Japan Inc.) from 6 to 14 months old for the c-9, t-11-CLA diet, and hAPPSwInd mice were fed 2.4% sunflower oil and 97.6% rodent diet CE-2 for the control diet according to the method of a previous report39. We provided the necessary amount of food for one week, calculated as an intake of approximately 4 g food/day/mouse every week after confirming the food intake. Mice were sacrificed via carbon dioxide asphyxiation. The left hemisphere of the brain was fixed in 4% buffered paraformaldehyde solution at 4 °C and was cut into 30-μm thick sections using a cryomicrotome for immunohistochemical analysis, as previously reported40. Brain regions (cortex, hippocampus) were dissected from the right hemisphere and used for Aβ ELISA. All animal studies were conducted in compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines (approved # P-01-070 by the Ethics Committee for Animal Research of Iwate Medical University). Animals were used under the Guidelines for the Animal Experiments of Iwate Medical University and the Act on Welfare and Management of Animals of Japan. All experimental protocols were evaluated and approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Research of Iwate Medical University (approval number: P-01-070). Mice were housed in a 12-h light/dark cycle with food and water. We used 6 month-old C57BL/6 J (wild-type) and AD model mice. Mouse anti-phosphorylated tau antibody (AT100) was purchased from Thermo Scientific (Carlsbad, CA, USA). Chicken anti-GFAP antibody and goat anti-IBA-1 antibody were purchased from Abcam (Tokyo, Japan). Rabbit anti-IL-10 antibody was purchased from GeneTex (Alton, CA, USA). Rat anti-CD45 antibody was purchased from BioLegend (San Diego, CA, USA). Mouse anti-CD206 antibody was purchased from R&D systems (Minneapolis, MN, USA). Mouse anti-Aβ antibody (6E10) was purchased from BioLegend (San Diego, CA, USA). Rat anti-CD86 was purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Tokyo, Japan). The cortex and hippocampus were lysed on ice in guanidine hydrochloride buffer (5 M guanidine hydrochloride, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.8). Aβ40 and Aβ2 in the cortex and hippocampus were measured using a sandwich ELISA kit (Wako, Osaka, Japan). The levels of Aβ40 and Aβ42 were normalized based on the weight of the brain. All samples were measured in duplicate. Immunohistochemistry was performed as previously described40. Immunostaining of phosphorylated tau was performed using a Vectastain ABC Kit (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA). For immunofluorescence, brain sections were incubated with primary antibody overnight at 4 °C, and then visualized with Alexa Fluor488- and Alexa Fluor594-tagged secondary antibodies (Life Technologies-Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA; Abcam). Thioflavin-S staining was performed as previously described40. Images of the brain sections were captured under light microscopy or fluorescence microscopy. Synthesis of CLA-LPC Synthesis of CLA-LPC was carried out by NARD Institute, Ltd. Briefly, sn-1-CLA-LPC and sn-2-CLA-LPC were synthesized by esterification of glycerophosphocholine with c-9, t-11-CLA prepared as previously reported41. The end products were confirmed by 1H NMR and LC-MS. The purities of sn-1-CLA-LPC and sn-2-CLA-LPC were estimated to be approximately 88% and 77%, respectively, by high-performance liquid chromatography analysis. LC–MS/MS analysis of brain lipids For LC–MS/MS analysis, brains from wild-type mice fed c-9, t-11-CLA (0.4% c-9, t-11-CLA, 2.0% sunflower oil, and 97.6% rodent diet CE-2) from 6 to 10 months old, and wild-type mice fed the control diet (2.4% sunflower oil, 97.6% rodent diet CE-2) from 6 to 10 months old were used. The brains were frozen in liquid N2 and homogenized in methanol (pH 4.0) containing an internal standard of 1 µM 17:0-LPC and 100 nM 17:0-LPA, as previously described27. After centrifugation, the supernatants were filtered and analyzed. LC–MS/MS analysis was performed as previously described with some modifications27. Briefly, we used an LC–MS/MS system that consisted of a Vanquish UHPLC and TSQ Altis triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific). LC was performed using a reverse phase column [CAPCELL PAK C18 (1.5 mm I.D. × 250 mm, particle size 3 µm)] with a gradient elution of solvent A [5 mM ammonium formate in 95% (v/v) water, pH 4.0] and solvent B [5 mM ammonium formate in 95% (v/v) acetonitrile, pH 4.0] at 150 µl/min. Gradient conditions were as follows: hold 50% B for 0.5 min, followed by a linear gradient to 100% B over 18 min; hold 100% B for 7 min; return to the initial condition over 0.5 min; and maintain for 3 min until the end of the run. LPC was detected with multiple reactive monitoring in positive mode. Gas chromatographic analysis of brain lipids Distilled water (1 ml) was added to 250 mg frozen brain tissue and homogenized until uniform. Lipids were extracted from the samples using 5 ml chloroform/methanol/1.5% KCl (2:2:1, by volume) according to the Bligh-Dyer method. The solvent was removed from the sample using a rotary evaporator. For free fatty acid analysis, 1 mg extracted lipid was methylated with 2 ml methanol, 3 ml benzene, and 0.15 ml 1% trimethylsilyl diazomethane and incubated at room temperature for 30 min. For total fatty acid analysis, 1 mg extracted lipid was first saponified with 0.2 ml 0.5 M KOH in methanol at 100 °C for 10 min. The sample was then methylated with 2 ml 4% methanolic HCl and 1 ml dichloromethane and incubated at 50 °C for 20 min. n-heptadecanoic acid (0.01 mg) was used as the internal standard. After methylation, the fatty acid methyl esters were quantitatively determined with a Shimadzu GC-2010 gas chromatograph equipped with a flame-ionization detector and a split-less injection system and fitted with a capillary column (TC-70; 60 m long × 0.25 mm i.d.; GL Sciences Inc., Tokyo, Japan). Fatty acids were identified by comparing retention times to known standards. The amount of CLA was calculated using the internal standard. Statistical analyses were conducted using t-tests. 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Report: Decker absent from OTAs in protest of Fitzpatrick situation Jets wide receiver Eric Decker has been absent from the team’s organized team activity (OTA) practices this week, and Brian Costello of the New York Post reported Wednesday night that Decker’s absence is related to the team’s ongoing contract standoff with free agent quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. Citing a source, Costello reported that Decker stayed away from the practices because he’s upset with the organization that Fitzpatrick remains unsigned. The dots there are pretty easy to connect, though there are many reasons players miss OTA practices. With the quarterback market seemingly stagnant, it does seem time that the Jets and Fitzpatrick just do a deal. Whether or not Decker’s reported protest could impact that, we probably won’t ever know. We do know that Decker had a big season with Fitzpatrick throwing to him in 2015, and that Fitzpatrick has said he’d like to get a deal done to return. These things happen -- these absences and these negotiations -- and at this point it seems like the Jets and Fitzpatrick will eventually get a deal done. Decker isn’t required to attend OTAs, and the front office obviously has its reasons and its stance in this matter.

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An elite public high school in Northern Virginia discriminated against Asian American families when it overhauled its admissions policies amid a push to increase Black and Hispanic representation at the school, lawyers argued Tuesday. A federal judge in Alexandria heard arguments on whether the new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology discriminates against Asian Americans, or simply tries to level the playing field so that other minorities can gain admission. The case has garnered significant attention in part because of the school's prestigious status: it was ranked the best public high school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Large numbers of graduates are routinely accepted to Ivy League schools, and parents in the region jockey to get their kids admitted. But Black and Hispanic students have been woefully underrepresented in the student body for decades. In 2020, as the debate over racial equity intensified nationwide, the Fairfax County School Board significantly revised the admissions policy. Standardized tests that had been the key factor in admissions were scrapped, and a $100 application fee was eliminated. We're making it easier for you to find stories that matter with our new newsletter — The 4Front. Sign up here and get news that is important for you to your inbox. Instead, the school board switched to a policy that guarantees admission to the top students at each of the county's middle schools. It also takes into account factors like whether the child is eligible for free or reduced-price lunches because of his or her family's income. Chris Kiesar — an attorney for the The Coalition for TJ, which filed the lawsuit — said the geographic quotas are merely a proxy for racial quotas, and that the school board's intent all along was to increase Black and Hispanic representation at the expense of Asian American families. He said the school board was successful in doing so: in the first year that the new admissions policy took effect, Asian representation decreased from 73% to 54%. The percentage of Black students increased from 1% last year to 7%. Hispanic representation increased from 3% to 11% and white representation increased from 18% to 22%. Northern Virginia news, events and updates “Racial balancing was always at the forefront of what was going here,” he said. He cited comments made by school board members throughout the debate over changing the policy, which he said were always focused on racial composition. In court papers, lawyers for the coalition also cited text exchanges between board members in which one member says “there has been an anti asian feel underlying some of this, hate to say.” Sona Rewari, an attorney for the school board, said there is nothing discriminatory about the new policy and that it is merely designed “to give top students from every part of Fairfax County a meaningful opportunity to attend TJ.” She also argued that if the plaintiffs' legal arguments were adopted, any effort to level the playing field to address past wrongs would automatically be unconstitutional, because increases for Black and Hispanic students would necessarily come at the expense of Asian students who make up a clear majority of the student body. The proper standard, she said, is to determine whether the board acted with a desire to harm Asian Americans, and she said no evidence of that exists. The case in Alexandria is being heard while the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to hear a similar case filed by Asian families against Harvard University over its admissions policies. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton gave no indication at Tuesday's hearing of how he might rule, but he said he sees no reason to hold a trial on the matter. That means his ruling will decide the case, though either side will be free to appeal.

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NCAER and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) organised an in-person panel discussion on the IMF’s latest Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and Pacific on 31 October 2022, at the Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Dr Krishna Srinivasan, Director of the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department, made a presentation on the latest assessment for the region focusing on large medium-term output losses, which could be 9 per cent of GDP for the region, and the need to build greater resilience in the region. He highlighted the need for fiscal consolidation in view of elevated public debt levels and cautioned that elevated corporate debt has increased scarring risks. He noted, “While there is no panacea for productivity losses due to pandemic scarring, digital technologies can increase efficiency, deepen financial inclusion, and open new markets.” He also added that fragmentation can affect trade and slowdown growth. The other members of the panel included: Dr Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India; Dr Rakesh Mohan, President and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP); Dr Poonam Gupta, Director General, NCAER; Ms Sonal Varma, Chief Economist (India and Asia ex-Japan), Nomura; and Dr Mridul Saggar, IEPF Chair Professor, NCAER, who moderated the discussion. The Chief Economic Adviser, Dr Anantha Nageswaran said that “India is expected to clock better growth than IMF’s projections next year aided by enhanced capital formation.” He added that fiscal consolidation is needed to bring inflation down, and said, “Asset monetisation receipts could be used to lower government debt, which would be the best stimulus for the economy”. He also maintained that the debt-to-GDP ratio did not pose any sustainability concern and could come down due to asset monetisation. Dr Rakesh Mohan, President and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), cautioned that while we were on the right track in reducing debt levels, we should not be complacent about financial repression. He emphasised the need for keeping inflation expectations anchored, pointing out that though in the U.S., inflation was high, inflation expectations remained hinged. Highlighting the need for fiscal adjustment, the NCAER Director General, Dr Poonam Gupta pointed out that fiscal outcomes have been sticky and mentioned, “Debt may decline very slowly over the next five years and macro shocks can change the trajectory.” She also advocated the central bank swap lines amongst the G20 countries to be extended to all economies during the pandemic. Ms Sonal Varma, Chief Economist (India and Asia ex-Japan), Nomura, raised risks of stagflation and pointed out that “central banks will bring down inflation even if it leads to recession but Asia is relatively better placed than other economies. As far as India is concerned, an export slowdown will lead to moderation in demand.” Summing up the discussion at the seminar, Dr Mridul Saggar noted, “It is common economic sophism that fiscal policy can be assigned to prop up growth while monetary policy is assigned to bringing inflation under control. Instead, gradual fiscal consolidation is needed to moderate demand.” He also highlighted the need to address climate risks faced by small island economies.

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The main charities and government programs to try are below. Note that is often also a waiting list in place for any funding. Charities and churches for rent help in Panama City area Catholic Social Services - Main address is 3128 E 11th Street, Panama City, Florida 32401. The hours for any emergency rent assistance applications are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday from 8-4 and Friday from 8 to noon. Most of the financial aid is for pregnant women, immigrants or single moms. Some emergency rent help may be offered along with counseling and guidance from the church. Call 850-763-0475. Family Services Agency is a non-profit that administers a number of assistance programs. Everything from housing to job placement, grants to pay past due rental costs, and landlord mediation services from the office at 114 E 9th Street, Panama City, Florida 32401. Phone: 850-785-1721. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Share Ministry helps the less fortunate, homeless and elderly, among others. Some limited, short term housing resources are offered. Office address - 5610 Boat Race Rd, Panama City, FL 32404. Dial (850) 871-0081 for hours. If this faith based group can’t help with housing costs, find other churches that help with rent payments. Salvation Army Of Bay County is a Christian faith based group with an address of 1824 W 15th Street Panama City, FL 32401. The intake number is 850-769-5259. Referrals may be given to shelters, transitional housing, and financial aid programs for paying rent. Any money available (which is rare) is for a crisis only, and will only be if the family proves the ability to pay for energy costs and rent on their own. They also have housing placement and free motel or hotel voucher programs in Panama City. Beach Care Services is at 9128 Front Beach Rd, Panama City Beach, FL 32407. They only support Panama City. Phone - 850-235-3002. Financial help for paying rental costs is for Panama City Beach families only. Family of God Baptist Church - East Campus address is 901 East Highway 98, Panama City, Florida 32401. The housing expense that might be paid is utility bills. There will be up to $25 available when funding allows it. They also offer guidance and case management services to single parents or the homeless. Call Main Phone – 850-769-4021. Grace Presbyterian Church may have limited financial help, mostly for electric bills. But the funds (which are not paid to the applicant but th the vendor) may be used to stop an eviction for a renter. The parish is at 1415 Airport Rd, Panama City, Florida 32405. Call (850) 769-4000 American Red Cross of the Central Panhandle – Bay County covers military members. Members of the armed forces only and their families can apply for emergency rent or deposit assistance. They also offer counseling, information on VA benefits, food, and help for moving. The office is at 430 East 15th Street, Panama City, Florida 32405. Call 877-272-7337. Legal Services of North Florida - Address: 211 E 11th St., Panama City, FL 32401. Clients, including the elderly and indigent, can get legal aid to stop evictions and address housing issues, such as discrimination or landlords not making repairs. There are attorneys who provide free eviction defense help in Bay County. Call Phone: (850) 769-3581. BASIC NWFL, Inc. is at 432 Magnolia Ave, Panama City, FL 32401. Call 850-785-1088. HIV patients or those with AIDs can get utility deposit help, grants for mortgages or rent, shelter, and even placement into local Bay County transitional housing programs. Panama City Housing Authority - Main office is at 804 E 15th St, Panama City, Florida 32405. Phone number : (850) 769-2358. They process applications for section 8 HUD vouchers and provide self-sufficiency too. Some people, such as elderly or disabled, can apply for emergency HUD section 8. Air Force Aid Society - Members of the Air Force (and their families) can apply for interest free loans for paying bills, rent, and other crisis aid. Or get help with VA benefits, government housing and other support. Location is 45 MSS/DPF, 721 Suwannee Road, Building 745. Call 850-283-4204 Bay County Council on Aging - Senior citizens and the disabled (regardless of their income) can get support. Referrals are available for as bills or supportive housing. Clients can also be referred to rent or medical care services. Location is 1116 Frankford Avenue, Panama City, Florida, 32401. Dial 850-769-3468. Panama City Rescue Mission There are multiple sites. Emergency homeless shelters, meals, clothes, and other basic needs. Everything from meals to blankets, referrals, and clothing is offered from the shelter. - Women shelter is at 1313 11th Street, Panama City, Florida, 32402 – Phone 850-769-0783 - Mens shelter is at 609 Allen Avenue, Panama City, FL, 32402. Phone 850-769-0783

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Gorkha District (Nepali: गोरखा जिल्ला ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the 77 districts of Nepal, which is the fourth largest district (by area) of Nepal and connected historically with the creation of the modern Nepal and the name of the legendary Gurkha soldiers. The district, with Gorkha Municipality (previously known as Prithivi Narayan Nagarpalika) as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,610 km2 (1,390 sq mi) and has a population of 271,061 according to the 2011 Census of Nepal. Gorkha district is the site of the Manakamana Temple. The temples of Gorakh Nath and Gorakh Kali are found in the district. Several major rivers—the Chepe, Daraudi, Marsyangdi, Budi Gandaki, and Trishuli—run through the district.

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THUNDER BAY: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, on behalf of the NAN Executive Council, congratulates Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers serving NAN First Nations who were among those honoured at the Ontario Provincial Police awards ceremony in Thunder Bay this week. NAPS Constable Waylon Linklater was recognized for his life-saving actions rescuing a man from a burning building while off duty in Moosonee on May 16, 2012. Weagamow Lake Constables Stacey Gordon and David Laviolette and OPP Provincial Constable Jean Duguay were recognized for responding to several emergencies in North Caribou Lake First Nation between September 2011 and August 2012 involving numerous life-threatening injuries. Pikangikum Constables Jonathan Schmidt and Louis Taylor were recognized for their life-saving search and rescue of a missing woman found hypothermic in the snow near Pikangikum First Nation on February 27, 2013. “It is my pleasure to congratulate these officers for their outstanding achievements above and beyond the call of duty while protecting the health and safety of our First Nation members,” said NAN Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, who holds the justice portfolio at NAN. “NAPS and OPP officers face tremendous challenges in the performance of their duties in our communities and the professionalism and dedication of these officers deserves our gratitude and recognition.”

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In the box you’ll discover a twist-grip throttle which you’ll need to install on your own if you really want a sheer electrical mode where you may power the bike without pedalling. This isn’t legal to make use of on the road in the UK or even Europe which is why it’s not put in due to the manufacturing plant. You can easily use it off road, as well as fitting it takes all around 15 minutes. The guidelines remain in reasonably unsatisfactory English as well as it’s simple to skip the component which reveals that you need to press the ‘-‘ button on the console until all the help lightings have actually gone out. Only after that will certainly the throttle work. To suit it, a shorter handlebar grip is actually provided and you’ll must unscrew the electric battery positioning plate coming from the down cylinder as well as the black box of cords which dangles responsible for the seat post. And if you lavish a little extra speed, you can disconnect the white colored cable which limits the motor to the EU-regulated 15.5 miles per hour. This gives you a couple of added miles per hour that’ll allow you navigate at a relaxed 20mph. In regards to specs, the 250W electric motor is actually one of the most highly effective you may possess under present legislation and also it’s powered by a 36V 8AH electric battery. This suffices for 15-30 kilometers relying on the temperature level, wind disorders and also terrain. The bike itself has entry-level Shimano gear wheels (21-speed) with 3 chainrings at the front end as well as 7 gears at the rear. This is in comparison along with various other layouts our company’ve found which possess simply one chainring and also more gears at the rear end. The Ancheer’s gearing is actually also fairly reduced, so it isn’t really feasible to go much faster than 20-25mph. You receive disk brakes, both front end as well as rear. They are actually technical as opposed to gas, yet they still carry out a good task of bringing you promptly to a stop. The front shock is actually unbranded and also isn’t changeable. It’s pretty challenging, however that’s more effective given the lack of modification or even lock-out. The bike possesses a stand pre-fitted and a rear reflector however, oddly, no rear LED lighting. Like the Volt Alpine, which additionally possesses a 250W motor, the Ancheer will certainly make it simple to climb up mountains. The very first time you make an effort the ‘High’ support mode you’ll laugh aloud at how little bit of initiative is required to pedal up even extreme hills. Ancheer Official Site And also if you want to ensure you save some electric battery electrical power you can easily press the ‘-‘ switch until all the help illuminations are out as well as use without any assistance coming from the motor at all. The only issue using this is that it takes more initiative to use without the motor than a regular bike as you’re lugging an additional 10kg or two of weight: the Ancheer has a weight of practically 23kg. I must accept, I possessed some instead adverse preconceptions about this bike. Fortunately they were proved wrong, and in this Ancheer electricity bike assessment I will examine the advantages and disadvantages of this great market value e-bike. Similar to the majority of bikes sent out via the packet network, this got here part-assembled in a large package. Getting this bike prepared for the road is straightforward sufficient (there is a small toolkit consisted of). The seating message, handlebars, pedals and also frontal wheel needed to have proper. If you are not comfortable carrying out the setting up your own self, after that I would advise taking it to your neighborhood bike store to be put together. You will certainly need to have to be sure the brakes are actually appropriately readjusted, as well as the equipments index accurately before use. Ancheer Official Site

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Lookinf doe Ancheer Under Desk Folding Treadmill?…The Ancheer is actually excellent value if you are actually keen to acquire your 1st e-bike. It is actually developed to a rate, thus don’t anticipate premium parts. It is actually just as effective as extra pricey electric bikes and also the electric battery possesses enough energy for a 30-mile ride thus long as it is actually a cozy time as well as not very uneven. Is Ancheer a good brand? Out on the road, I was actually pleasantly surprised. The sleek 250w tailored rear center motor is definitely effective enough to aid get you up those mountains! The tempo -located pedal assist is actually really general and works similar to an on/off button. When you begin pedalling the electric motor provides instant electrical power. Yet another great component using this bike is actually that it could be pedalled simply with the power switched off. As I have actually earlier mentioned, I located this bike a little too small for me, but the saddle really felt comfortable sufficient for shorter experiences. The control board does not have an LCD show, but at this price it should not be an issue. There are three methods to select from– reduced, high as well as mid. These electrical power modes are altered utilizing the + and– keys on the keyboard, along with the on/off switch in between. There is additionally a five-bar LED electric battery indication. Couple of electricity bikes yet possess their electric batteries as well as electrical wiring concealed inside the frame, but although the Ancheer isn’t the sleekest with all its wires on screen, the removable electric battery implies you can easily uncover it with the trick and also take it inside your home to ask for (which takes 4-6 hours). The bike happens to some extent disassembled for shipping, thus you’ll must connect the handlebars, pedals, front lighting, quick-release seat and also front steering wheel. With all, it’ll take you around thirty minutes featuring taking out all the cable connections and packing. The resources to accomplish this are actually featured, however you may prefer you use your very own screwdriver as well as spanners as the provided resources are poor quality. What is the best electric bicycle? Ancheer Under Desk Folding Treadmill Keep in mind that unlike the saddle, the front end and also back tires are not quick release: they demand a 15mm monkey wrench. Left wing edge of the handlebars is actually a basic control board with switches for energy as well as improving or reducing the aid amount. LEDs light up for low, medium as well as extreme levels, and there’s an electric battery gauge as well. Listed below this is a change for the main lighting and also a horn button. In the box you’ll discover a twist-grip throttle which you’ll need to mount your own self if you wish a pure power setting where you can easily power the bike without pedalling. This isn’t lawful to utilize on the road in the UK or even Europe which is actually why it’s not installed due to the manufacturing facility. Yet you may use it off roadway, and fitting it takes around 15 moments. The guidelines are in fairly inadequate English and it’s very easy to miss out on the component which discusses that you need to press the ‘-‘ switch on the console until all the support illuminations have actually died out. Simply at that point will the throttle work. To accommodate it, a much shorter handlebar grip is supplied and you’ll have to unscrew the electric battery positioning platter coming from the down cylinder and the black box of wires which puts up behind the place post. And also if you expensive a little bit of additional speed, you may unplug the white colored wire which restricts the electric motor to the EU-regulated 15.5 mph. This provides you a couple of added miles per hour that’ll permit you navigate at a relaxed 20mph. In terms of specifications, the 250W electric motor is the absolute most powerful you may have under current law and it’s powered by a 36V 8AH electric battery. This is enough for 15-30 kilometers depending upon the temperature, wind health conditions and also surface. The bike itself has entry-level Shimano gear wheels (21-speed) with 3 chainrings at the front and 7 gears at the back. This resides in comparison along with other concepts our experts’ve viewed which possess merely one chainring and also even more equipments at the back. The Ancheer’s gearing is likewise fairly low, so it isn’t actually possible to go much faster than 20-25mph. You get disk brakes, both front and rear end. They are actually mechanical as opposed to hydraulic, but they still carry out a nice task of bringing you swiftly to a halt. The front surprise is unbranded as well as isn’t modifiable. It’s pretty difficult, yet that is actually more effective offered the shortage of correction or lock-out. The bike comes with a position pre-fitted as well as a rear reflector yet, strangely, no back LED light. Like the Volt Alpine, which likewise possesses a 250W electric motor, the Ancheer is going to make it effortless to go up hills. The first time you attempt the ‘High’ aid method you’ll laugh out loud at exactly how little bit of attempt is actually needed to pedal up also stiff hillsides. Ancheer Under Desk Folding Treadmill And also if you desire to be sure you conserve some battery energy you can easily push the ‘-‘ key up until all the support illuminations are actually out as well as use without assistance from the electric motor in all. The only trouble using this is actually that it takes even more initiative to use without the electric motor than a conventional bike as you are actually carrying an additional 10kg or so of weight: the Ancheer weighs nearly 23kg. I have to accept, I had some rather adverse prejudgments regarding this bike. Fortunately they were proved wrong, and also in this particular Ancheer electrical bike review I will definitely review the advantages and disadvantages of this terrific worth e-bike. Similar to many bikes sent by means of the packet system, this got there part-assembled in a sizable package. Getting this bike all set for the street is straightforward enough (there is actually a tiny toolkit featured). The seat article, handlebars, pedals as well as frontal tire needed to have proper. If you are not comfy carrying out the assembly on your own, at that point I would recommend taking it to your regional bike outlet to become assembled. You will certainly require to ensure the brakes are appropriately adjusted, as well as the gears index correctly before use. Ancheer Under Desk Folding Treadmill

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Luxurious serviced apartment for a romantic city break… In this suite pale tones of turquoise and charcoal-grey bask in warm natural light entering the room through the large windows that face a private balcony with Jacuzzi hot tub. It is the most luxurious serviced apartment in Neve Tzedek. In a heritage landmark from the White City of Tel Aviv period, Molcho Neve Tzedek Rooftop Suite with Balcony and Hot Tub is a sophisticated destination for a romantic stay. It flaunts a generous terrace, elegantly fitted with outdoor rattan furniture and potted palms for a plus of exoticism. The hot tub is just what you need to relax after a day exploring the most fashionable neighbourhood of the city. The views from the terrace enhance this casual urban experience. The suite is well-equipped for a long stay. It offers an open-plan kitchen with all the necessities that allow guests to cater for themselves. There’s a living area with a dining table that sits four, and, for more relaxed assemblies or for a timeout in front of the TV, the seating area with double sofa offers a plus of comfort and ease. There’s also a 43″ HDTV with international channels in the bedroom, where the chic double bed covered in delicately textured premium linen is perfect for a good night sleep. Finally, the high-end marble bathroom with a step-in shower is appointed with high-quality, ultra-absorbent cotton towels and complimentary body and hair care products from L’Occitane en Provence. - safety deposit box - air conditioning units - coffee machine with selected coffee blends - kettle and toaster - quality towels - complimentary body and hair care toiletries - premium linen with extra pillows - ironing facilities that include a press for your trousers - large 43″ Smart TV with unlimited international channels - working area with lamp and high-speed Internet access - complimentary access to the washing machine and dryer outside the room, in the common area - 24/7 Guest Services & Concierge - Public parking lots in the are

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BEST MURRIETA FLEXIBILITY TRAINING New Found Strength Fitness and Nutrition provides the best Murrieta flexibility training program. What is flexibility and why is maintaining it important for you and your body? The ability of your joints and body parts to execute their full range of motion is called flexibility. It allows you to perform well, not only in sports but in the very activities that you often just take for granted like lifting things, bending over, tying your shoes, and even just walking. Flexibility is what allows you to move. In order to maintain flexibility, it is important to keep moving, as well. Including flexibility exercises in your workout regimen is crucial to maintain the body’s ability to have full range of motion New Found Strength Fitness and Nutrition offers the best Murrieta flexibility training. I design a personal custom program for you that will address your specific needs using several stretching techniques. The Benefits of Flexibility Training Flexibility is something you took as a given when you were younger. However, over the years, muscles slowly lose their full range of motion through bad posture habits, inactivity or sometimes, injuries. Here are the main benefits of incorporating flexibility training in your exercise program: Improves or restores full range of motion. Muscles that are well stretched achieve full range of motion and allows your body to move better. Improves balance. Stiff and weak muscles affect how we keep our balance. Prevents injury and pain. Muscles that are well stretched make you less susceptible to injuries and back pain. Gets you off to a good start or relaxes you after a long day. A good stretch can jump start your day or can help you wind down at the end of the day. There are several stretching techniques used in improving flexibility: Static Stretching. The most basic of all techniques, it is a great introduction to stretching and prepares you for more challenging stretches as your program (and your body) progresses. Static Stretching involves holding a position for approximately 15-30 seconds at a time. Passive Stretching. This stretch is achieved through the help of some outside assistance either through a strap, a stretching device, another person and even your own body weight. With this technique, the target muscle is relaxed while relying on the external force to move and hold you into position. Active (Isolated) Stretching: This stretch involves a target muscle and an active muscle. The target of the stretch is referred to as the target muscle. The active muscle on the other hand, is contracted in opposition to the target muscle. This technique is different from the above as it does not use any external device or force. Dynamic Stretching: As the name implies, this technique involves movements that aim to increase range of motion at a specific joint. These movements mimic sports movement or a specific activity. With this technique, stretch is achieved by repeatedly going through a challenging, but comfortable range of motion. Usually it is done through 10 to 12 repetitions. Resistance Stretching: Resistance stretching involves contracting the muscles while simultaneously lengthening them. It is considered the most effective and safe way to gain muscle flexibility as it is based on the natural way muscles stretch. New Found Strength specializes in resistance stretching. As an expert in this field, Robert Lamb ensures your safety by providing the best Murrieta flexibility training. PNF Stretching: Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, better known as PNF stretching, is a technique that uses contract and relax actions combined with Active Isolated Stretches. My role as your coach is to provide resistance as you also resist for 10 seconds. Self-Myofascial Release: Adhesions in the fascia cause pain and discomfort. Self-myofascial release or SMR help alleviate symptoms by helping the muscles work efficiently using specific pressure techniques using foam rollers. The Benefits of New Found Strength for Flexibility and Mobility Robert Lamb of New Found Strength Fitness & Nutrition is an expert in the field of professional stretching and Corrective Exercise. I teach you proper techniques to help you lead a pain-free life. I offer the best Murrieta Flexibility training. I offer you 3 unique sessions that you can choose from to suit your needs and requirements: Small group Mobility Class teaches you how to perform stretching and SMR with maximal results. With a small class you get to interact with a group of people while enjoying supervision as you go through your flexibility training. One-on-one Mobility Class offers the safest training because each routine is specifically designed to address your unique needs. Table Sessions of Resistance and PNF Stretching which are known for profound changes in a person's ability to move and live pain-free. Reach Out to Me Today If you’re looking to improve your quality of life, health, flexibility, mobility, eliminate joint pain, headaches and more, call me, the best Murrieta flexibility training provider, at 951-901-8348. Call today to be Pain Free now. Tags: best Murrieta flexibility training, flexibility, mobility, corrective exercise, personal trainer, fitness trainer, Murrieta, resistance stretching, foam rolling, SMR, small group fitness classes, PNF stretching

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What are the Three Main Causes of Flat Feet? While we may not realize it, a person’s feet are just as unique as their hands or any other part of their body. Every individual’s feet will have characteristics that set them apart from others. Flat feet are often wider than normal, making one’s footprint resemble a pancake. In healthy feet, there is a small arch in the midsection between the heel and the ball. In cases where the arch is overly shallow or nonexistent, the condition is known as flat feet. While this condition isn’t necessarily painful, it can cause pain in the feet and lead to issues in other areas of the body, such as the ankles, knees, hips, and back. Understanding the causes of this condition can help patients and their families be aware of them, ensuring that they can walk comfortably for years to come. We have compiled a list of issues here to look out for. While you may not realize it, babies are usually born with flat feet. However, as they grow up and their bodies develop more, most children’s feet develop arches and have proper function. Unfortunately, there are some who never experience proper development and have flat feet for life. Injuries to the Tendons While we often hear about broken bones and pulled muscles, the tendons rarely get the attention they deserve. The Achilles tendon and posterior tibial tendon are responsible for connecting the ankle to the bottom of the foot and the plantar fascia ligament network. Chronic inflammation, tears, and any other kind of injury to these tendons can cause the arches to fall. Taking care while walking, running, and doing any other activity involving the feet is a good way to prevent tendon damage. Broken bones are obviously not fun. While they often heal on their own by simply wearing a cast and keeping weight off the area, broken bones can also lead to problems in other areas. When bones in the foot are broken, it can lead to issues in the posterior tibial tendon, causing the arches to fall. The bones and tissue in our feet make up a complex system that enables movement and gives support to the rest of the body. Injuries to any area of the foot and ankle can lead to these problems. Other Potential Causes Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that affects the patient’s cartilage, ligaments, and the synovial lining in their joints. This may include some of the 30 joints located in each of their feet. Rheumatoid arthritis is known to cause pain, swelling, and stiffness, but few are aware of the fact that it can also change the shape of one’s feet, resulting in flat feet. It isn’t uncommon for diabetes patients to develop nerve damage in their feet. This condition causes one to lose sensation in their feet, resulting in arch collapse. This condition is often referred to as Charcot's foot. As this process progresses, the feet in the patient’s bones are put into serious jeopardy, increasing the likelihood of developing flat feet. What is the Takeaway? Flat feet can have multiple causes. Being aware of what they are can help patients recognize them early on and take preventative measures. Patients who are experiencing any issues in their feet (especially pain) should refer to a licensed podiatrist for a checkup. Getting a professional diagnosis is always better than trying to figure things out on your own.

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London, June 4: Former England captain Michael Vaughan expressed his disappointment over Jack Leach's omission from The Ashes series against Australia, saying that the sport is cruel at times and he not being in the squad is a big blow to England.England spinner Jack Leach has been ruled out of the Men's Ashes series after suffering from a low back stress fracture on Sunday as announced by The England and Wales Cricket Board. Leach has become a "pivotal figure" under the leadership of skipper Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum. "Gutted for Jack leach .. Sport is cruel at times .. he has become a pivotal figure for England under Ben and Baz .. !! This is a big blow to England's chances as Jack has become very good at holding an end whilst the seamers rotate and getting key wickets .. !! #Ashes," tweeted Vaughan. The 31-year-old Somerset slow-left-armer developed low back symptoms during England's Test victory over Ireland on Saturday. A stress fracture was discovered during a scan on Sunday in London, ruling him out of the upcoming Ashes Test series, which begins on Friday, June 16 at Edgbaston. England will announce a replacement for the Ashes series in due course. England had announced the 16-member squad for the first two matches of the Ashes series on Saturday. The spinner's unavailability could be concerning as English fast bowler Ben Stokes did not make it to the Ashes squad due to his knee injury. Updated England squad Ben Stokes (c), Ollie Pope, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Joe Root, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Harry Brook, Ben Duckett, Zak Crawley, Matthew Potts, Ollie Robinson, Dan Lawrence, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Josh Tongue. (ANI | Posted on 05 June 2023, 1695709522 44O192O254O173)

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FOR NEARLY 11 MONTHS OF THE YEAR, New Mexico’s seasons march along with the ordered serenity of cloistered nuns in procession, but in October their progress becomes a “revel of frenzied Bacchantes.” Hills and mountains, tiring of the monotony of summer verdure, deck themselves in glowing, golden raiment. Lower slopes and canyon walls wear rose and flaming red and deep maroon. The skies are lapis lazuli and mountain lakes are ultramarine. Rivers run with a dancing tempo; even the air is intoxicating. Then it is the gold leaf trail that calls, and only a clod could fail to respond. Traced on the map, the gold leaf trail looks like a toy balloon with a dangling string, which means that you may cut them apart and content yourself with either the balloon or the string. If you have a few extra hours, don’t deny yourself the pleasure of enjoying both. The point where the string ties is Taos. Then, starting out to the right, or southeast, the road bears the numbers 64, 38, 3, and 64. It sounds like a football signal, and it holds as much promise of thrilling excitement. On 3, the trail, or string, leads southeasterly to Las Vegas, and down it you ride abreast with beauty, history, and romance. Legend, rumor, and historical fact hover in the air above this part of New Mexico like the great cumulus clouds that float about Mount Wheeler’s summit. You may not notice them, but knowing they’re there adds much to the trip. … Follow the trail through Taos Canyon and you hear, in fancy, the rattle of covered wagons starting the trek to faraway Missouri, laden with pelts of beaver, marten, and otter from New Mexico’s mountains and streams. You hear too, the creak of wooden wheels as a Mexican carreta bumps along the rough road over which you are now spinning in comfort. You may turn aside to let a band of phantom trappers clatter by, their voices raised in lusty song as they near civilization after long, lonely months of isolation. Not a word of all this will the chipmunks that dart across the path, or the large jays that scold from the tall pines, or the deer that peer through the thicket tell you. They are accustomed to the company of shades [spirits] whose presence they would never think of revealing. If you are lucky, a breathtaking sight awaits you [in the Moreno Valley]. Acres and acres of fringed gentians of a blue so rich and vivid that it has long been the delight and the despair of artists stretch like a wondrous carpet at the foot of a sloping curve. Seeing the gentians is like being kissed by the fairies in your cradle—it is a very special gift from a kindly fate. The season must be exactly right, or the gentians simply don’t bloom. But though the gentians may be lacking, there is still color in abundance. Oak, sumac, and wild cherry glow in their autumnal foliage, and here and there, like red beads sewed upon nature’s dress are the bright hips of the wild rose. Farther along the road you encounter real ghosts, for at Elizabethtown and neighboring spots are buried the hopes and dreams that died when the mines were closed. Skeletons of machines that roared when placer mining flourished are now gaunt and grisly reminders that men once labored and laughed as they searched for the gold that was to make them rich. Fires burned and candles twinkled and children prattled behind windows that now stare blankly at passersby. There is nothing quite so desolate as a ghost town. It is a very real man and not a specter, however, that stands on the gravelly bottom of the streambed. He is panning for gold as men did 50 years ago. Verily, the prospector is the perennial optimist! You turn once more to the beauties of the trail that continues to play hide-and-seek with the Carson National Forest. You have passed the azure expanse of Eagle Nest Lake, where, no doubt, the fishermen in the party threatened to desert. To the west you have seen Taos Cone, at whose feet nestles Blue Lake, more than 11,000 feet above the seas. The mysterious rites of the Taos tribe were held here recently. Now there is no sign of life on the steep mountain slopes except where shy conies [rabbits] dart in and out among the rocks. There is no sound but that of marmots whistling saucily, if somewhat eerily, in the vibrant air. There’s never a dull moment on gold leaf trail, for, like a giant roller-coaster, it is a series of ups and downs. The ascent of Red River Pass is as gorgeous as a triumphal procession. You arrive at the top, the blood singing in your veins. You will want to take a few minutes out here just to stand in a field of trailing arbutus and convince yourself that its dark green glossy leaves and glowing red berries are real. There are huckleberry bushes, too, and while you look a dusky grouse whirrs up from them in startled flight. On the Cover “Roads to Romance,” by H. Armstrong Roberts It is here that the road leaves the old Spanish grant, through which you have been riding for miles, and starts its breathtaking descent. When you feel that nothing but a miracle can save you from shooting out into space, a sudden sharp turn takes you safely onward. This happens again and again; but fortunately, there are thrills and chills but no spills on this trail. Can you imagine how a tiny bug might feel when it stands at the top of a wall tapestry and starts the crawl to the floor? You’ll know after this ride! For the canyon walls are tapestries of incomparable beauty. Evergreen conifers form the background of varying verdure upon which sumac, canyon maple, and oaks embroider patterns of scarlet. Quaking aspens prick out designs of purest gold. As you pass, they toss their leaves like ancient Roman coins in your path where they lie tarnishing under passing wheels. Filtering sunlight turns the dull rose of the wild cherry’s foliage to Tyrian purple. Color combinations wrought only by a season gone berserk imprint themselves upon your mind. Incredulous, you turn for another look. But the scene has changed; receding wall and distant peak now seem richly overlaid with gold leaf, as if Old World artisans, having completed their mediaeval cathedrals, were laboring with loving skill upon our “templed hills.” Read more: From The Trembling Of Aspen Gold In The Tusas Mountains To A Riot Of Red, Orange, And Yellow In The Gila National Forest, The Wonders Of Autumn In New Mexico Spark A Desire To Get Out And Explore. Such a riot of color leaves a feeling of stimulation which lasts until long after the little town of Questa is passed. There is gold, gold everywhere, a veritable treasure vault of nature. You are grateful for the quietude of Taos. After a rest, however, you are ready for the trip down the string of the balloon—Highway 3, which joins 85 a few miles from Las Vegas. Leading southward, the road crosses a tiny stream with an impressively long name, Río de Don Fernando de Taos, and swings on through old Ranchos de Taos. It pauses before the ancient church. Who that comes to New Mexico would think of leaving without seeing this venerable edifice? It is true that modernity with its ruinous touch has invaded even these sacred precincts, and many of the original features have been removed or overlaid with garish things of recent manufacture. But, due to the influence of one very wise man, the old altar remains behind the new main altar, and someday it may emerge from its temporary obscurity and take the high place among Southwestern art treasures which it so richly deserves. You tread the wooden floor softly, for beneath it lie the bodies of many early communicants, and you look with appreciation at the ancient walls. They [the artworks] were brought from Spain or from Mexico for the worshippers in this little New Mexico settlement. But October days are too golden to be spent indoors, and the road is calling. It seems in a hurry to reach the first slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Despite its urging, you tarry along the Río Pueblo. The stream is gentle, playful, invitational. Its water is so clear that the pebbles on the bottom look like golden nuggets under crystal. A plump little gray bird, its wings outspread, skims the surface with a funny combination of flying in the water and swimming in the air. It is all as colorful and fanciful as a Disney color cartoon, and you half expect to see a fuzzy green caterpillar stand on its tail at the end of a red leaf and sway to music. But the dipper, or water ouzel, continues to bathe without temptation from the bank, and the car leaves Tres Ritos and begins to climb. Upward you go through avenues of trees that might have grown on King Midas’s estate, so golden are they. Beneath them lies an occasional bronze feather, for here wild turkeys feed. Brown bears, too, make this forest their home, and your coming may startle one as he goes about the business of overturning stones with his great strong claws to see if, maybe, some big black ants or fat grubs will reward his efforts. Color! Color! Every tone in the chromatic scale is here. And then, before you are ready, you have crossed the divide and are dropping down on the other side. A beautiful spiral turn, a small stream and you are passing through the old town of Holman. Beside the gate before an adobe casita stands a tiny girl in blue-striped overalls. She smiles at you shyly and buries her face in the fur of a gray kitten that nestles in the curve of her throat and, just as you pass from sight, she gives you a farewell wave. Farms flash by. You have a blurred impression of shocks of golden grain, and you are puzzled by the fact that these fields, like those near Taos, are divided into long narrow strips definitely marked by hedge-like rows of standing grain or tall grass. You are really reading a record of births or deaths as accurate as if written in the family Bible. For the entire place was originally owned by one man, perhaps an old Spanish grant, more probably by homestead or purchase right. At his death the land was divided among his children—four children, four smaller fields. Later these were in turn divided for younger heirs, until now many of the fields look like long narrow aisles. There are not many houses, and you wonder idly where so many owners might dwell. Occasionally you see a brown adobe home sprawling lazily in the autumn sunshine. On its flat roof are piles of squash and melons, pumpkins and beans, ripening and drying for the winter’s food. At another place the squash and melons have been cut into long strips and flung across the clothesline to dry. Here, too, are pieces of fresh meat which the dry air and sun turn into flint-like “jerky.” This, with frijoles seasoned with a pod of chile from the numerous strings that cascade like strands of rubies from the housetop, will make a dish fit for a king. The air is full of the humming of drowsy bumblebees. You hear the querulous call of sheep and see the black-and-white flash of magpies. You sink back luxuriously and are quite prepared for Mora with its shady retreats and its cross riding to the bluest of skies. It was over 100 years ago that men first came to this spot to work the deposits of mica that still abound. Later, Father Salpointe, a French missionary, came with cross and book; nearly 74 years ago, a tiny schoolhouse was built. The schools are still under the guidance of the Sisters, although a man has charge of the manual arts, and many lovely and authentic copies of early Spanish chairs, tables, and beds are created in the small shop. The girls card wool, tinted with old vegetable dyes, and weave coverlets just as those first settlers did when the bell called them to worship in the chapel of Saint Gertrude. An atmosphere of antiquity pervades the place. Soft-voiced nuns sit in the shade of a venerable linden tree or walk the quartz-bordered path that leads to the shadowy grotto wherein stands a statue of Saint Joseph holding in his arms the Holy Infant. Birds nest atop that first small adobe building which still stands sturdily and serves as a garage and washroom. A short distance from the school is what was once the Watson Hotel, built on a part of the old Mora grant. It is still a hostelry. In the low-ceilinged front room stands an old black square piano brought by oxen across the plains in the 1860s. Here, too, is a gilt-framed mirror that has reflected the daily happenings about it for more than two centuries. Below it is an onyx-topped table with a frame of solid brass and a pair of old majolica vases. The 1938 calendar is a rude intrusion, but it serves to remind you that time passes. Reluctantly, you leave. The road dips and turns; it carries you somewhat hastily across the Cebolla and the Sapello; it brings you at last to Las Vegas. From here the roads, like those ancient ones which all led to Rome, lead back to the workaday world. Gradually the gold leaf trail descends, slowly flattens out and becomes just a highway with a number. But now, golden memories go with you. OCTOBER 1938 CALENDAR Annual Navajo Indian Fair, Shiprock Navajo Indian Agency 10/1 & 2 Bi-state Fair, Draft Horse and Mule Show, Clovis 10/3 & 4 Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi Annual Fiesta and Dance, Nambe Pueblo Football, UNM vs. Colorado College, Albuquerque NM Normal College vs. Ft. Lewis School, Las Vegas New Mexico State Fair, Albuquerque 10/21 & 22 Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Roswell

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SEC Obtains Emergency Asset Freeze, Charges Actor with Operating a $690 Million Ponzi Scheme The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it obtained an asset freeze and other emergency relief in an emergency enforcement action against Los Angeles-based actor Zachary Horwitz and his company, 1inMM (one in a million) Capital, LLC in connection with an alleged Ponzi scheme that raised over $690 million. Horwitz and 1inMM allegedly told investors that they were buying film rights, purportedly to resell them to Netflix and HBO; in fact, 1inMM actually had no business relationship with either company. According to the SEC’s complaint, Horwitz falsely claimed to have a track record of successfully selling movie rights to Netflix and HBO when, in fact, neither Horwitz nor 1inMM had ever sold any movie rights to, or done any business with, HBO or Netflix. Horwitz allegedly showed investors fabricated agreements and emails regarding the purported deals with HBO and Netflix. The complaint alleges that Horwitz and 1inMM promised investors returns in excess of 35%, and for many years paid supposed returns on earlier investments using funds from new investments. The complaint further alleges that Horwitz misappropriated investor funds for his personal use, including the purchase of his multi-million dollar home, trips to Las Vegas, and to pay a celebrity interior designer. “We allege that Horwitz promised extremely high returns and made them seem plausible by invoking the names of two well-known entertainment companies and fabricating documents,” said Michele Wein Layne, Director of the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office. “We obtained an asset freeze on an emergency basis to secure for the benefit of investors what remains of the money raised by Horwitz.” The SEC’s complaint charges Horwitz and 1inMM with violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. In addition to the asset freeze and other emergency relief granted by the Court, the complaint also seeks a permanent injunction, disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties against Horwitz and 1inMM. The Court set a hearing for April 19, 2021, to determine if the asset freeze should remain in force for the duration of the litigation. The SEC’s investigation was conducted by Lance Jasper and Lorraine Pearson and supervised by Spencer Bendell. The SEC’s litigation will be led by Kathryn Wanner and supervised by Amy Longo. The SEC acknowledges the assistance of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Get updates delivered to you daily. Free and customizable. Police investigating Queens shooting that left 1 dead, 1 injured Police are investigating a double shooting in Queens that occurred Saturday night, leaving one dead and another injured. At around 9:30 p.m., officers responded to a 911 call about a person who had been shot inside of a residence on Pineville Lane in Saint Albans. Upon arrival, police found two victims who had been shot several times. Both were transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where one victim, 25-year-old Chevaughn Millings, was pronounced dead. The other victim, a 20-year-old woman, is in stable condition. The suspect fled the scene in a white vehicle. Police sources say a family member is sought in connection to the shooting. No arrests have been made. An investigation is ongoing. ---------- * More Queens news * Send us a news tip * Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts * Follow us on YouTube Submit a tip or story idea to Eyewitness News

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BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE A UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) student was on Friday arraigned before Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga charged with fraud after he allegedly duped other students who intended to switch their programmes at the institution. Kundai Teswa (24) was remanded on $5 000 bail to August 23. The State alleged that on December 9 last year at the South African embassy in Harare, Teswa connived with his suspected accomplice Peace Chipere, who appeared in court on Saturday, and masqueraded as Ephraim Anesu Gandanzara. The duo allegedly misrepresented through a WhatsApp group that they were UZ employees who could facilitate change of programmes for students. Acting on the misrepresentation, the unsuspecting complainant engaged Teswa and Chipere, and he was made to send US$100 through the Mukuru money transfer facility to Gandanzara. The complainant later made his own investigations with officials from the UZ, and he discovered that he had been duped. UZ officials then made investigations with the assistance of Mukuru officials. - Chamisa under fire over US$120K donation - Mavhunga puts DeMbare into Chibuku quarterfinals - Pension funds bet on Cabora Bassa oilfields - Councils defy govt fire tender directive They discovered that the accused person and his accomplice withdrew money at a Mukuru branch at Groombrige Spar in Mount Pleasant, Harare, on July 23, 2021. On July 28, 2021, the accused was arrested at the same Mukuru branch while attempting to withdraw US$$100 sent by another victim identified as Daniel Nembaware. Upon arrest, Teswa was allegedly found in possession of a national identity card in the name of Gandanzara, and a cellphone with an Econet line containing the messages which confirmed various amounts sent to the account by different victims through the Mukuru facility. Follow Desmond on Twitter @DChingarande1

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Ratings agency ICRA on Wednesday said that domestic air passenger traffic in the country grew by 20 per cent in June 2017. According to ICRA, on a year-on-year (Y-o-Y) basis the domestic air passenger traffic increased to 18.9 million compared with June 2016 figures. “The domestic air passenger traffic in the country has continued to maintain an upward growth momentum since April 2017, buoyed by the commencement of the tourist season in the country,” said Harsh Jagnani, Vice President and Sector Head for Corporate Ratings, ICRA. “The 20 per cent Y-o-Y growth rate reported in June 2017 marks the first instance of such growth since January 2017.” According to the ICRA note, the growth remained broad-based with 18 out of the top 20 airports exhibiting double-digit Y-o-Y increase in passenger traffic in June 2017.

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Red tide in Chile – level 3 It’s believed to be one of the Chile’s worst environmental crises in recent years. This is the horrifying effect of a “red tide”, an outbreak of a deadly algal bloom. It’s a naturally recurring phenomenon in southern Chile, turning sea water red and making seafood toxic, but the extent of this outbreak is unprecedented. Scientists say the El Nino weather pattern is a likely key factor, warming the ocean and creating bloom-friendly conditions. This expert says it’s been called the Godzilla el Nino in the United States because it’s thought to be one of the most intense in the last 100 years. He said we had an intense el Nino in 1982, ’97, and in 2015, but this most recent one is more intense than its predecessors. The “red tide” has paralysed the local fishing industry, an important source of income for many coastal communities, and has sparked angry protests by fishermen who say the government hasn’t provided enough compensation. Some are blaming the local salmon farming industry for exacerbating the problem, citing the dumping of dead fish by farmers in March. The government and salmon producers deny the link, but if the cause of the latest bloom is in dispute, the solution is even less obvious and environmental campaigners say the situation is not expected to get better any time soon. Difficult words: algal bloom (a rapid growth of microscopic algae – a simple aquatic plant), phenomenon (something which happens in nature), unprecedented (not seen before), predecessor (something coming before), spark (to cause suddenly), compensation (help or money), exacerbate (to make a problem worse). LEARN 3000 WORDS with NEWS IN LEVELS News in Levels is designed to teach you 3000 words in English. Please follow the instructions How to improve your English with News in Levels: - Do the test at Test Languages. - Go to your level. Go to Level 1 if you know 1-1000 words. Go to Level 2 if you know 1000-2000 words. Go to Level 3 if you know 2000-3000 words. - Read two news articles every day. - Read the news articles from the day before and check if you remember all new words. - Listen to the news from today and read the text at the same time. - Listen to the news from today without reading the text. - Answer the question under today’s news and write the answer in the comments.

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The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational and research institute and museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by endowments, contributions, and revenues from its retail stores and publications. Most of its facilities are located in Washington, D.C., including the National Zoo, but its 19 museums and eight research centers include sites in New York City, Maryland, Virginia, Panama, and elsewhere. The Smithsonian's popular Air and Space Museum houses the most historic artifacts from the age of flight, including the iconic Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer and the landing module from the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon. In all the Smithsonian has over 140 million items in its collections. It receives thirty million visitors annually, and access to the institution's museums and galleries are free and open to the public. The Smithsonian has been criticized for its copyright restrictions, limiting of public access to some holdings, and, along with other museums, its acquisition and retention of Native American remains. Regardless of these disputes, the Smithsonian Institution works across a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary sciences as a leading research center and innovative public education resource to deepen our understanding and appreciation of the natural world and its diverse human cultures. The history of the Smithsonian Institution is as complex as the organization itself. In 1826, the British scientist James Smithson created his last will and testament in which he stated that should his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, die without heirs, the Smithson estate would go to the United States of America for creating an "Establishment for the increase & diffusion of Knowledge among men." The exact reason for this request is unknown, for Smithson never visited America nor did he seem to have any ties to the country. Nonetheless, after his nephew died without heirs in 1835, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the bequest, which amounted to 104,960 gold sovereigns, or $500,000 U.S. dollars. Given the questionable intent of Smithson in making this bequest, Congress debated extensively regarding the nature of the institution. Proposals included a national university, museum, library, observatory, research institute, and an institute to promote science. Finally, in 1846, Congress passed an act establishing the Smithsonian Institution, a hybrid public/private partnership, and the act was signed into law on August 10, 1846, by James K. Polk. Physicist Joseph Henry was selected as the first Secretary of the institution. He envisioned it as a scientific research institute, carrying out programs of weather observation and instituting the International Exchange Service whereby scientists could gain access to scholarly publications from around the world. Since the institution was created with the requirement that the public have access, Henry conducted a series of public lectures as well as inviting other prominent speakers. In 1855, the Smithsonian Institution Building on the National Mall, designed by architect James Renwick, Jr., was completed. Its crenellated architecture has made it known informally as "The Castle." It housed laboratories, a science museum, art gallery, lecture hall, office, and living quarters for resident scientists. When meteorologists received word of impending storms they signaled from the tower. Henry was careful to keep the institution separate from politics, flying no flag during the American Civil War. Many of the other buildings of the institution are historical and architectural landmarks. Detroit philanthropist Charles Lang Freer's donation of his private collection for the Freer Gallery, and funds to build the museum, was among the Smithsonian's first major donations from a private individual. Development of collections Although the Smithsonian's first secretary, Joseph Henry, wanted the Institution to be a center for scientific research, before long it became the depository for various Washington and U.S. government collections. The voyages of the U.S. Navy had circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842, and the United States Exploring Expedition amassed thousands of animal specimens, an herbarium of 50,000 examples, shells and minerals, tropical birds, and jars of sea water and ethnographic specimens from the South Pacific. These specimens and artifacts became part of the Smithsonian collections, as did those collected by the military and civilian surveys in the American West, such as the Mexican Boundary Survey and Pacific Railroad Surveys, which assembled many Native American artifacts as well as natural history specimens. The Institution became a magnet for natural scientists from 1857 to 1866, who formed a group called the Megatherium Club. Such expeditions added to the Smithsonian collection, but it also relied heavily on donations of private collections, particularly with regard to works of art. By the beginning of the twentieth century, American involvement in global affairs led the acquisition of specimens, particularly those of anthropological nature, at an ever increasing rate. At the same time, the Smithsonian became a growing repository for national treasures, such as the Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer and the 1969 Apollo Moon Lander, as well as presidential artifacts not held by private presidential libraries. Cooperation with other institutions around the world led to trading and purchasing of works of art and specimens. Along with the recognition of the history of African and Native Americans in the U.S., diversification of the collection led to sub-divisions within the Smithsonian that created separate institutions focused on the display of particular collections. Despite its large size and complexity, the Smithsonian Institution is guided by the same principles and vision as most of the museums and research facilities around the world. Through research in nearly every humanistic and scientific discipline, the Smithsonian strives to gather a complete vision of the world and its people. The accumulation of such knowledge is first and foremost for the dissemination to the public; the Smithsonian Institution is a public organization and therefore believes it is responsible for sharing its information firstly to the American public, but also to the world at large. The Smithsonian thus has several museums that display specimens and offer interactive exhibits, publishes research and magazines, and engages the educational system with learning opportunities. Over the course of its history, the Smithsonian has realized the need not just for study but also preservation. Whether it be wildlife, the environment, artifacts, or culture, the Institution now devotes many resources to safe-guarding, as well as studying, the world and its people. The Smithsonian Institution was established as a trust instrumentality by act of Congress, and it is functionally and legally a body of the federal government. More than two-thirds of the Smithsonian's workforce of some 6,300 persons are employees of the federal government. The Smithsonian is represented by attorneys from the United States Department of Justice in litigation, and money judgments against the Smithsonian are also paid out of the federal treasury. The nominal head of the Institution is the Chancellor, an office which has always been held by the current Chief Justice of the United States. The affairs of the Smithsonian are conducted by its 17-member board of regents, eight members of which constitute a quorum for the conduct of business. Eight of the regents are United States officials: The Vice President (one of his few official legal duties) and the Chief Justice of the United States, three United States Senators appointed by the Vice President in his capacity as President of the Senate, and three Members of the U.S. House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House. The remaining nine regents are "persons other than Members of Congress," who are appointed by joint resolution of Congress. Regents are allowed reimbursement for their expenses in connection with attendance at meetings, but their service as regents is uncompensated. The day-to-day operations of the Smithsonian are supervised by a salaried "Secretary" chosen by the board of regents. There are numerous museums, galleries, and other public facilities that are either a part of or associated with the Smithsonian Institution. Below is a list of the major individual facilities. - Anacostia Community Museum: Beginning as a museum on the local history of the Anacostia community, the museum now is dedicated to the history and culture of the African American experience. Features an on-line interactive educational database. - Freer and Sackler Gallery: Named after Arthur M. Sackler the medical doctor that donated his collection of art to Smithsonian upon his death, and for Charles Lang Freer who donated his collection to the Smithsonian, the museum houses a large collection of Asian artwork. - Arts and Industries Building: The original building of the National Museum. - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Smithsonian's museum dedicated solely to contemporary and modern artwork. - National Air and Space Museum: Perhaps the most famous of all Smithsonian museums, the institution specializes in the history of aviation and space exploration, and houses such famous aircraft as The Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo landing capsules. - National Museum of African American History and Culture: A new museum solely dedicated to the complex experiences of African Americans since slavery. It brings to life the vibrant cultural contributions African Americans have made to every facet of American life. - National Museum of African Art: Art museum exhibiting the wide-ranging artwork of the African continent. - National Museum of American History: One of the largest of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is dedicated to the history and many cultures of America from the Colonial period to the present. - National Museum of the American Indian: Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the cultures of Native Americans. - National Museum of Natural History: Devoted to the natural history and evolution of the world. Special exhibits include the Hope Diamond. - National Portrait Gallery: Exhibits portraits by famous American artists, as well as portraits of famous Americans. Outside of the White House it is the only building to house a complete collection of Presidential Portraits. - National Postal Museum: Depicts the history of the Postal system in America. - S. Dillon Ripley Center: The center houses the International Gallery and Smithsonian Travel exhibits which continually change as well as the Smithsonian Associate center. - Smithsonian American Art Museum: Exhibits artwork of America throughout the country's history. - Smithsonian Institution Building: Nicknamed "The Castle," it was the first building in the Smithsonian complex and now houses the Smithsonian administration offices and information center. - Smithsonian National Zoological Park: Commonly rated as one of the world's best zoos, the National Zoo exhibits over two-thousand animals and is one of the few zoos in North America to house giant pandas. It also runs various conservation projects around the world. - Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: Only institution in America dedicated to the history of and contemporary progress in the field of designing. - The George Gustav Heye Center: Dedicated to the history and culture of Native Americans, featuring permanent and temporary collections. - National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: The companion site to the National Air and Space Museum, the center is a large facility that exhibits aircraft not able to be shown in the Mall museum. Smithsonian research centers The following is a list of Smithsonian research centers. - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: In corporation with the Harvard College Observatory, the program focuses on the cosmology of the universe. - Carrie Bow Marine Field Station: Located at the Natural History Museum, this project was originally established as a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the eco-system of coral reefs. However, the project now also promotes the conservation of coral reefs. - Center For Earth and Planetary Studies: Located at the Air and Space Museum, the center is dedicated to the study of space. - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: The center is committed to the study and preservation of the environment. - Marine Station at Fort Pierce: Affiliated with the Museum of Natural History, the project focuses on the bio-diversity and preservation of the marine environments of Florida. - Museum Conservation Institute: The institute is devoted to educating other institutions on the proper procedures for preserving artifacts and specimens. - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Located in Panama, the project enables researchers to study the bio-diversity of the rainforest. - Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Catalogs and archives all research and knowledge gained throughout the Smithsonian organizations, as well as collects materials to supplement its collection. - Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Devoted to the study and preservation of American folk culture. Like similar institutions, the Smithsonian has been subject to criticism. Since it is a government establishment, some have questioned the justification for using public taxes to pay for the institution. Others have criticized the bureaucracy of the institution and motives of the Secretaries. The Institution has also been criticized for politicized decisions relating to climate change, exhibitions of American history, and the controversy over Intelligent Design. There are those who have claimed that the Smithsonian Institution' strong copyright restrictions imposed on its image collections which overwhelmingly consist of public domain content dating to the nineteenth century deter access and use of information that is suppose to be for the public. Re-repatriation has been an issue, not just for the Smithsonian but also all museums that possess Native American remains and artifacts. Despite these criticisms the vast majority of its work and holdings remain a treasured knowledge resource. All of its museums and other facilities are free to the public, as it tries to remain true to its founding vision of protecting and sharing knowledge. - Heather Ewing, The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian (Bloomsbury, 2007, ISBN 9780747576532). - International Directory of Company Histories, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 22, 2007. - Nina Burleigh, Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum, The Smithsonian (HarperCollins, 2003, ISBN 0060002417). - Smithsonian Institution, About the Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 8, 2007. - Smithsonian Institute, Smithsonian Images-Copyright. Retrieved August 23, 2007. ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees - Burleigh, Nina. Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum, The Smithsonian. HarperCollins, 2003. ISBN 0060002417 - Ewing, Heather. The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian. Bloomsbury, 2007. ISBN 9780747576532. - Karp I. Museums and Communities. Smithsonian, 1992. ISBN 156098189X - Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 0520209664 - Lavine, Steven D. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Smithsonian, 1991. ISBN 1560980214 All links retrieved January 30, 2023. - Smithsonian Institution Official website. - Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection - The Smithsonian Scientific Series, a publicly accessible digital resource intended to enlighten and interest the general reader. It does not represent an attempt to summarize all science, or even all branches of science on which the Smithsonian can speak with authority. It will, however, acquaint the reader with the organization, history, and activities of the scientific institution which has grown up with the nation and fostered the nation's scientific activities. It is an introduction to the workings and achievements of the scientific method over a large field, and may open doors to some branches of science. New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards. This article abides by terms of the Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 License (CC-by-sa), which may be used and disseminated with proper attribution. Credit is due under the terms of this license that can reference both the New World Encyclopedia contributors and the selfless volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Foundation. 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Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper both support a proposal to separate NSA from CYBERCOM. Talk of separating the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command continues to pop up, as officials discuss the best path forward for agencies with different but related missions. NBC News Sept. 9 reported Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper both support a proposal to separate NSA from CYBERCOM, but both declined to comment for the record. The agencies currently share the same leader, Adm. Mike Rogers, and headquarters space at Fort Meade, Maryland. But their missions differ: NSA focuses on intelligence while CYBERCOM conducts military cyberspace operations. » Get the best federal technology news and ideas delivered right to your inbox. Sign up here. “While USCYBERCOM resides with NSA, the two organizations are distinct entities with separate missions, authorities and resource streams," said Rogers in written testimony for an April 5 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "Neither is an arm of the other, and both perform vital tasks on behalf of our nation.” Rogers at the hearing said he supported elevating CYBERCOM to a unified combatant command, which “would allow us to be faster, which would generate better mission outcomes.” He, however, warned against taking control of CYBERCOM away from the NSA chief at this time, in part because of the command’s reliance on NSA systems. Senior military leaders have served as NSA director since the agency’s founding in 1952. According to NBC News, future directors would be four-star generals or the equivalent, a higher rank than currently leads the agency. An earlier Reuters report said future directors could be civilians to show NSA doesn’t report to CYBERCOM. This isn’t the first time officials have considered dividing the agencies’ leadership nor considered civilian leadership. The White House in 2013 opted to keep the role as-is after an interagency review in the wake of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaked information. “Following a thorough interagency review, the administration has decided that keeping the positions of NSA director and Cyber Command commander together as one, dual-hatted position is the most effective approach to accomplishing both agencies’ missions,” White House’s National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.

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MS International Gold Rush 6" x 24" Ledger Panel Model: LPNLSGLDRUS624 ROCKMOUNT Product DescriptionGet the MS International LPNLSGLDRUS624 GOLD RUSH Gold Rush 6" x 24" Ledger Panel to bring an everlasting magical effect to your home. This natural stone ledger panel is shaded in exquisite gold that doesn't fail to impress. Ideal for interior as well as exterior applications, the MS International LPNLSGLDRUS624 GOLD RUSH Gold Rush 6" x 24" Ledger Panel transforms any place. - Each panel comes with the dimensions 6" x 24" - Shaded in gold, it is sure to transform rooms with its simplicity - Made with natural stones, this ledger does not pose any health hazard - Due to lighting and monitor differences, actual colors and finishes may vary slightly from what appears online Appearance Stone Look Brand MS International Product Size 6" x 24" Color Shade Dark Sq. Ft. per Carton 6.00 Tile Size 6" X 24" Tile Use Wall Water Durability Water Resistant Where To Install Any Level Product Color Gold Rush Crated Height 6.000 inches Crated Length 24.000 inches Crated Width 6.000 inches Dimensions and Weight Depth 24.000 inches Width 6.000 inches Weight 45.00 lbs

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Some years ago, a carpet given as a present to Pope Francis by the UAE was sold off as an NFT. Whereas the genuine is kept in the Vatican, a virtual replica has been utilized to raise money for Afghanistan. Sale of the NFT of a Historical Carpet For 25 Ethereum Sheikh Mohamad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan presented Pope Francis with the Pontifex carpet throughout a trip to Vatican City. They both met in September 2016 for the purpose of discussing the enhancement of UAE-Vatican diplomatic ties and the cultivation of inter-faith goodwill. According to Khaleej Times, an NFT representing the carpet was traded for 25 Ethereum, or around $82K. The proceeds from the sale would be utilized to assist disadvantaged Afghan households throughout the chilly winter season. The pope would keep the actual form of the carpet that the Afghan women made. The NFT purchaser would get a scaled-down reproduction of the item manufactured by Zuleya, FBMI’s retail arm. The program began in 2010 with the aim of improving the daily life of Afghanistan’s kids and women. FBMI funds medical, schooling, and numerous other humanitarian and financial improvements. It also offers careers in the arts, handicrafts, and agriculture. The NFT transaction, according to FBMI CEO Maywand Jabarkhyl, is a “critical step ahead” for the effort. He explained that it’d allow the company’s designers to display their work to a worldwide reach while providing new cash sources for Afghan craftsmen. This is likely the much more iconic NFT to be traded in the Middle Eastern region, Musafir Khawaja, co-founder of Nftone, a Dubai International Financial Centre-based marketplace that offered the NFT, stated. Along with an exquisite gold frame featured on a 165 cm digitized painting with the NFTs stored on it, the buyer would receive a tangible reproduction of the carpet, he stated. According to the source, the token is one of six pieces featured on virtual paintings at the Abu Dhabi Art fair, among some of the most incredible modern art in the world. In collaboration with the Morrow Collective NFT platform, Zuleya reproduced the carpet as an NFT. Growth of NFTs NFTs have been around for a while, but their reputation started to expand in 2020. NFTs are a novel means to recreate digital items such as images, movies, and audio and get them stored on a blockchain for establishing validity and rights. According to the latest Reuters study, NFT sales would exceed $25B in 2021. NFTMetaverseFinance is not responsible for the content, accuracy, quality, advertising, products or any other content posted on the site. Some of the content on this site (namely Branded Voices content) is paid content that is not written by our authors and the views expressed do not reflect the views of this website. Any disputes you may have with brands or companies mentioned in our content will need to be taken care of directly with the specific brands and companies. The responsibility of our readers who may click links in our content and ultimately sign up for that product or service is their own. Cryptocurrencies, NFTs and Crypto Tokens are all a high-risk asset, investing in them can lead to losses. Readers should do their own research before taking any action.

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Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Second Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Media Council, the #Dubai_Destinations campaign is launched today in its new summer season, organized by Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Dubai Government Media Office, to provide citizens, residents and visitors with information that enables them to start a holiday A unique summer in Dubai. The campaign seeks to introduce the important attractions in Dubai and the events and activities it includes during the summer season, with the aim of informing the Dubai community and visitors from inside and outside the country about the various places and destinations that can be visited during the next few months, through interactive and attractive stories that shed more light on the most prominent Attractions in the emirate during the summer holidays. The current season of #Dubai_Destinations, which will continue until the end of next August, provides an opportunity to learn about the best experiences in Dubai in the summer and its distinctive destinations, which range from beach destinations, exciting water parks and swimming pools with its various views, in addition to the many activities held in covered places. across Dubai. The best city On the occasion of the start of the summer season of the campaign, Mona Ghanem Al-Marri, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Dubai Media Council, Director General of the Dubai Government Media Office, said: “Inspired by the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him. To transform the emirate into the best city in the world to live and visit, the #DubaiDestination campaign continues to highlight Dubai’s diverse options and exceptional experiences for its visitors from within the country and from around the world. Through creative interactive content, the campaign highlights the destinations that attract visitors during the summer, and the various tourist facilities and activities they offer that suit all family members, to meet their aspirations for a distinguished vacation. For her part, Shaima Al Suwaidi, Brand Dubai Manager, said: The #DubaiDestination campaign is an invitation to residents and visitors to explore the most attractive summer destinations in Dubai. We thank the Brand Dubai partners for the success of the successive versions of the campaign, whether from government agencies or the private sector, and we also do not fail to thank all media professionals and content makers who share our goal of highlighting the various options that Dubai offers to its residents and visitors from around the world to spend a happy and special summer vacation. Regarding the content of the campaign, Shaima Al-Suwaidi explained that “Dubai’s destinations” this summer are characterized by diversity in terms of the content provided and the means of presenting it through many ways that ensure that it reaches the largest possible segment of the emirate’s residents and visitors, including a series of interactive guides and video clips that highlight The various summer attractions in Dubai, which are broadcasted through various social media platforms, as well as through outdoor advertisements in various regions and neighborhoods of Dubai, especially those that witness a large number of visitors, to ensure that they are widely spread in society. The interactive guides issued by Brand Dubai within the framework of the campaign provide valuable information about the distinguished summer experiences in Dubai, starting from summer camps for children and passing through various activities and water games that suit all age groups, as well as various and attractive accommodation options, and the latest recreational attractions, and what is meant Explore the best destinations in Dubai during the summer season. The campaign also includes introducing the covered destinations and the services they provide, such as shopping centers, restaurants, game areas, indoor sports activities, and amusement parks, in addition to highlighting the most famous local restaurants in Dubai from members of the “With Proud of Dubai” initiative, which was launched by Brand Dubai to stimulate leadership. Business and encourage small and emerging projects to grow, by introducing the distinguished products they offer, and seeking to include them in the major events hosted by Dubai throughout the year. The content of the “Dubai Destinations” campaign is prepared through cooperation with a number of the most distinguished creators in Dubai, including influencers, photographers and digital content makers, in order to provide attractive and useful content about the many entertainment destinations that make Dubai the most suitable choice for an unforgettable summer vacation.

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With the good tidings of the seventh day of Dhul-Hijjah, the first trips of the Holy Mashaer Train for the Hajj season of 1444 began, and it will last for seven days, during which the pilgrims of the Sacred House of God will be transported via the Holy Mashaer Train between its nine stations in Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah. Over the past months, the Al-Mashaer train has witnessed heavy maintenance work for all 17 trains, and the development of all operational systems, whether for trains or signaling and communication systems, and the systems used in the operation and control center. This was followed by conducting the two phases of pre-trial and experimental operation, to ensure the readiness of the trains. stations that lasted 90 days. Al Mashaer Train has contracted with more than 7,500 seasonal employees to manage the crowds inside the train stations, including speakers of several languages, including: (English, Urdu, Turkish, Nigerian, Indonesian), in addition to the Arabic language. The Director General of Operations at the Holy Sites Train, Eng. Musa Al-Zahrani, affirmed the pride of the employees of the Holy Sites Train in the role that SAR plays in serving the guests of Rahman, and their full awareness of the great duty it performs to serve them, by harnessing all material and human capabilities. To facilitate the journey of pilgrims to the Sacred House of God and facilitate their movements while performing their rituals with all security and reassurance.

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Silver Rope Chain - Rope Chain in Stainless Steel - Lobster Clasp Closure - Model is wearing 24 inch chain - Chain width: 4mm - Product Code: MNEC_123 A dash of effortless luxury, this chain is crafted from strong stainless steel. The thin, twisted shape of the chain makes it perfect for layering. Wear it daily to elevate casual looks! United States Domestic Shipping USPS First Class Package (Up to 5 Business Days): Free on orders $199+ USPS First Class Package (Up to 5 Business Days): Rate calculated at checkout USPS Priority Mail (Up to 2 Business Days): Rate calculated at checkout FedEx Overnight Shipping (1 Business Day): $29.90 For more details on our international shipping rates and options please visit our Shipping FAQs page.

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WEATHER & CLIMATE WHAT IS CLIMATE? Climate is the behaviour of the weather over a long period of time. If you were going to describe the 'climate' of a place, the easiest way is to see what the weather patterns or seasons are over a longer period of time. WHAT IS WEATHER? Some days when we look out it is rainy, dark and gloomy. Other days it looks sunny and bright and we are excited to go outside. What we see when we look out the window at any given time is the weather. The weather is what we see happening in the atmosphere outside at a point in time. HOW ABOUT SEASONS? So we've learnt that what we see when we look at the atmosphere outside is the weather. The word seasons describes the weather over a period of time. When the weather has the same pattern happening again and again, year after year, after year, then we call that period a season. In some countries you learn about Spring, Summer, Fall/Autumn and Winter, each of these is a season, made up of very different types of periods of weather. In Nigeria there are two types of weather pattern, two seasons called the dry season and the wet season and now we are going to look at what happens each time we have a season. A big part of the reason we have these seasons in Nigeria is the winds. The winds that criss-cross Nigeria are known as the Trade Winds and there are two sets of them: 1 - the North East Trade Winds also known as the Tropical Continental Air Mass or Harmattan, that blow down from the dry and hot Sahara desert and through Niger Republic across Nigeria from the North; and 2 - the South West Trade Winds also known as the Tropical Maritime Air Mass, that blow across Nigeria and bring humid air and a lot of rain from the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Nigeria. This is the coldest time of the year in Nigeria. It is also the dustiest because the north east trade winds from the Sahara carry sands which travel through the country. This time of year the pattern of the weather changes, it is usually hazy and cooler than normal. The dry season can start in October and end in April, depending on where you live in Nigeria. This is the rainiest time of the year with heavy storms coming down from the moist air that has been pulled over Nigeria from the Atlantic. It is most commonly known as "rainy season" The wet season can start in May and end in September, depending on where you live in Nigeria. WHAT DO THE SEASONS FEEL LIKE? While the seasons vary in much the same way across Nigeria, the extent to which you feel them may depend on where you live. For example for kids living in the North, when it is hot and hazy during the dry season, it would be even hotter and hazier for them because they are closer to the desert and so feel the North East Trade Winds blowing across more than kids in the south of Nigeria. Meanwhile for kids living by the ocean's coast in the south when it is rainy season the rain may be much heavier for them than it is in the north because they are closer to the Atlantic Ocean where the moisture is coming from. So even though the dry season and wet season take place across Nigeria, they take place slightly differently. In Northern Nigeria you have a very cool/very hazy/very dusty dry season and an extremely hot, moderately rainy wet season In southern Nigeria you have a slightly cooler/moderately hazy/moderately dusty dry season and an extremely rainy wet season

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Nightingales Kalamunda offers an extensive range of Newsagency products for all of your office or schoolwork needs. Our Newsagency plays host to an exciting Giftware section, with everything you will need for that special present; no matter what the occassion. Our selection ranges from Christening and Religious gifts to quirky conversation peices to luxury scarves and perfume, and everything inbetween! This section is constantly evolving and changing as new items come in, so you'll have to be quick if you've seen something you like! No Newsagency would be complete without magazines, newspapers, and cards. Luckily, we have plenty of each to go around. The latest issues of all major magazines can always be found at Nightingales Kalamunda, and you will never go wanting for the perfect card to send. We offer so much more in-store and invite you to come in and have a look for yourself! We also offer a wide range of helpful services including: LotteryWest Agent (tickets available for purchase every day) Kodak Digital Kiosk FREE Gift Wrapping Parcel Point Agent Postage Stamps & Envelopes Our giftware section is plentiful, with something for absolutely everyone. Our giftware range includes: An instant hit and consistent favourite for anyone looking for a little treat. Everyone here has their favourite. Come in and find yours today! Gloriously decadant and brought in straight from the Swan Valley. Treat yourself, or that special someone, as only locally-made chocolate allows. We have a wide selection to suit anyone's taste, so come in see what all the fuss is about for yourself. Organically grown, sustainable and extremely comfortable clothing made to last. Everyone who wears BOODY says the same thing about it. Find out what that is at Nightingales Kalamunda! (Trust us, it's a good 'thing') Would you like to know more about anything above? Send us a message below.

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Fruit, Stone and Dung So the question here is How do you find them? Well the answer is simple, either walk, run or use a vehicle to find them on the ground. They only appear when you are close to them and spawns are seemingly random. There are four different types of fruit Fruit can be used in conjunction with sweetstuff (a mined energy matter or enmatter for short) to feed pets with. As well as in certain Blueprints If you refine 1x Fruit and 1x Vibrant Sweat you will get a Fruit Seed Fruit Seeds are used for housing plot on Calypso at the moment the farming process has no real purpose Below you will find what each one looks like on the ground

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Die Themen der kommenden Jahre: - Heritage of Networks, Routes and Connections 7./8. September 2024 Society is built on networks that have allowed for exchanges in trade, religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, technological innovations, and shared cultural and artistic practices. Ancient routes, cities or villages, business establishments, religious buildings, post houses, towers, fortifications, and many other elements of our built environment are evidence of these exchanges. This theme is an opportunity to again travel these roads, routes and paths of history to discover what we can learn from them today. It is a chance to explore how our local heritage is connected to a wide variety of influences. - Architectural heritage 13./14. September 2025

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Well since we are back on the topic of heart disease, since it is the number one killer of mankind in the world, I thought it might be beneficial if I shared some important information about heart disease and cardiomyopthy. What is Cardiomyopathy? It is called by most ” heart muscle disease ” but can be related to any disease of the heart. As a rule of thumb it is usually referred to as ” severe myocardial disease “. It means your heart muscle is not pumping as it should be due to both internal and external forces. What are some of these external and internal forces that bring it about you may ask? Good Question. Here are some causes of Heart Disease. Alcoholism or severe use of alcohol, prescription drugs as well as other drugs and smoking are three of the largest external forces that are causes of heart disease. On the other hand the most common cause of heart failure internally speaking is ischemia. What is that you may ask? It is a restriction of blood supply to the heart. Yes the heart muscle is the strongest muscle in the human body, but it needs fuel as all other muscles do. A lack of blood supply leads to a lack of oxygen, glucose and other blood fuels needed to fuel the pumping action of the heart. If you dont put gas in your car its simple the car wont go anywhere, will it? The same is with the Heart Muscle, it needs fuel. The following is a list of internal variables that may cause Cardiomyopathy. Some causes of Cardiomyopathy are: Atherosclerosis: which are lipid-laden plaques obstructing the lumen of the arteries. Hypoglycemia: which is a lower than normal level of glucose. Tachycardia: which is an abnormal rapid beating of the heart. Hypotension: low blood pressure, e.g. in septic shock, heart failure. Thromboembolism: which are blood clots. Now I want to talk about a trace mineral that is very important to start getting into your diet and that is Selenium. Selenium is one of the most important trace minerals needed for the heart, to keep it pumping properly and well fed so that you may live an active life to be free of a Heart Attack, prevent heart disease and heal from a Stroke. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine published 2006,” it was hypothesized that low selenium concentrations are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and that selenium supplements help prevent coronary heart disease.” Have you suffered from a Stroke? Then please just continue to read on. Now I want to get off topic for a moment and give some interesting case studies to bring home the importance of selenium in your diet. I dont know if you have ever heard of a man named Stewart Berger. In regards to health and nutrition he wrote 5 best selling books on diet and nutrition. He got his degree from Tuft Medical School in Boston and he is most noted for ” The Southhampton Diet for Weight Loss “, ” Forever Young”, ” 20 Years Younger in 20 Weeks” and ” How to be your own Nutritionist ” and guess what. He died at the age of 40 of Cardiomyopathy. What was he lacking in his diet? Selenium, that is what he was deficient in.

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The Great City has fallen, and you find yourself clinging to a piece of driftwood in the aftermath. A new nation, Atla, has risen from the ashes. You are tasked with a crucial mission: to fill the Fountain of Absence using the Ark of the Covenant. The fate of the nation rests on your shoulders, as quenching the fountain is the only way to avert a cyclical catastrophe that occurs every 29 days. Explore an open-ended world where you are free to go where you please, but be warned: the journey will not be easy. You must upgrade your stats, conjure items and magic, and survive the colorful 3D world of mysticism and danger on the Nintendo Switch™. Will you be able to uncover the source of the catastrophe and save Atla? The choice is yours. Software description provided by the publisher. Supported play modes Digital best sellers WARNING: If you have epilepsy or have had seizures or other unusual reactions to flashing lights or patterns, consult a doctor before playing video games. All users should read the Health and Safety Information available in the system settings before using this software. A Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) is required for Save Data Cloud backup. Published by Elushis Music & Gaming/Ilya Chkoliar 2023 ©Ilya Chkoliar

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We’ve had a few interesting responses to the Paterno Sculpture Quiz but nothing definitive. As I mentioned before, I don’t have the answers and so far neither does anybody else. Mike of Black Shoe Diaries recently published the quiz in his blog, so you might want to keep an eye on it to see if any insights emerge there. In the meanwhile, I have a little more sculpture information for you here. While the names of the players and the reason they were chosen remain open questions, I shall now provide answers to the other question on my original quiz, to wit: Where else on campus is there a similar bronze statue by the same sculptor and who or what is it depicting? The other bronze statue by sculptor Angelo di Maria is located in the lobby of the All-Sports Museum, under the south stands at Beaver Stadium. It is a larger-than-life representation of our Nittany Lion mascot—the human one, not the feline one. He’s posed about the same as Joe, holding up a “We’re Number One” finger. Click on the thumbnail at left to see a larger picture. ??? ??? ????? ?? ???? A couple of gratuitous extras are in store for those who have read this far. Since I did such a great photojournalistic job capturing the essence of the Paterno sculpture, I though I would share a couple additional photos with you. ??? ????? ?? ??????? We all know about Joe’s black shoes and rolled up khakis, and sculptor di Maria did a great job of preserving that look for posterity, up to and including the brand name on the shoes, alas. (Nike, if you’re too lazy to look at the big picture.) And I think he’s even got some gum on the heel of his left shoe. As usual, click on the thumbnail for a larger photo. Finally, I shall present some facial detail. ???? ??????? ??? ??? How gay does Joe look? In the 42 years I’ve been looking at Paterno’s face, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a facial expression like this. It appears as if an Alfred E. Neuman smile—albeit lacking the missing tooth—has been grafted onto Joe’s face. And those glasses! A couple of years ago the original eyeglasses were stolen from Paterno’s sculpted visage. I’m not sure but I think that the crack PSU purchasing department must have bought the replacement spectacles from a low bidder that turned out to be the late, great Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray’s estate sale. Click on the thumbnail if you dare to be haunted by Joe’s odd smile.

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Welcome to you! Please select the category which is relevant for you and then actively participate in the discussions. Welcome! Lets discuss personal development and how together we can help each other to grow and achieve success.3 Questions & Answers Get answers and share knowledge.0 Welcome! Please join this side of the HEG community as we explore issues relevant to our consulting practice. Enjoy!1

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While some individuals could also be ashamed of masturbating, studies show that this needn’t be so. It is because masturbation has a number of benefits most of which assist a person to not only take pleasure in higher sex but additionally higher well being. We are transforming health care methods to enhance the health of people and our community. Beverly Shenkman comes to the Higher Health Advisory team after 35 years of expertise in healthcare. You might wish to start to include the advantages of pure well being into your everyday life by stocking your medication cupboard with herbal treatments, replacing non-pure model-title products. Some research even suggest that, along with providing speedy reduction, regular respiratory exercises can make folks less susceptible to emphasize, by permanently modifying mind circuits. We work in any respect ranges inside the system - from strengthening the standard of main well being care services in rural areas to the development of proof-primarily based insurance policies, plans and budgets at national level. Our bodies have been designed to maneuver and be active, and I will do my greatest to help you make better choices with regard to what you do in the course of the day, the actions you take part in, and how you can train simply and successfully on your method towards higher well being. A spotlight was meeting the UN Particular Rapporteur on the Right to Care, Dainius PÅ«rus , who gave us his perspective on the most important world points going through health care as we speak. Everyone is aware of that exercising burns energy but what people do not realize is that train does far more than simply burn calories whilst you’re exercising. Suggestions To Higher Health Insurance coverage Better health is what you need to intention for. The Plan makes a renewed dedication that mental health providers will grow faster than the general NHS price range, with funding for children and young people’s mental well being services growing quicker still. Being embedded in one of the largest hospitals in Ontario offers thrilling opportunities to test solutions that may be adapted …

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Headie One and Tion Wayne were reportedly involved in a clash onboard a plane in Dubai. A video posted on Twitter shows the two rappers, who were both wearing facemasks, being held back by other passengers and shouting at each other. One of the men who tried to intervene is thought to be British rapper Morrison – who is seen wearing a blue shirt in the left of the shot. It was subsequently claimed that both men were arrested in the wake of the incident, but Wayne has denied the claims. “Ain’t no one been arrested, stop listening to lies,” he wrote on Instagram. Lmaoo nah Tion Wayne & Headie one are they not embarrassed 🙆🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ pic.twitter.com/yM4w5bH2dx — ️ (@Soundclashfever) November 17, 2020 The cause of the clash remains unclear, but representatives for Wayne and Headie One have both been contacted for comment by NME. It comes a month after Headie One released his chart-topping debut album ‘Edna’, named after his late mother. In a four-star review, NME wrote: “Headie One is the kind of MC who can compare himself to Filipino boxer and politician Manny Pacquiao one minute, and slip into slinky R&B on ‘You Me’ with Mahalia the next. ‘Edna’ is proof that he’s the unmistakeable, global ‘King of drill’, and much more besides.” Wayne, meanwhile, scored a top 10 hit with ‘I Dunno’, alongside Dutchavelli and Stormzy.

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Pittsboro, North Carolina based Norm’s Farms is the first US-based, vertically integrated company specializing in making great tasting and great-for-you foods and supplements featuring the American elderberry grown sustainably on our network of family farms. Functional Foods and Supplements Made With Pure Simple Ingredients Elderberry has been used by traditional cultures around the world for a millennium because of its immune system boosting and antiviral properties. Norm’s Farms shook up the elderberry product world by being the first to market with elderberries grown sustainably in the US, without harmful pesticides or herbicides, on small family farms. We were also the first to create and bring great tasting elderberry supplements to the market, believing that taste should never get in the way of taking health-promoting supplements for you or your family. Our collection of products includes 4 different jams and 4 different nutritional supplements made with our farm-grown elderberries and a line of cocktail and soda mixers featuring the alluring flavor of elderflower. All our products are packaged in 100% recyclable and reusable glass and are made with whole fruit or flowers and a short list of simple, high quality, real food ingredients. Norm’s Farms is proud to offer our customers a line of products verified without genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as it reflects our bottom-line commitment to creating the highest quality products possible.

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By Jennifer Fernandez As high school sophomores last school year, Sarah Pazokian and Farah Rosaleen started a nonprofit to take on period poverty by helping fellow students with a basic need. Every day at Cary’s Green Hope High School, they saw what various research has shown about what’s being called “period poverty” — that people who menstruate but don’t have access to period products are more likely to miss work or school. It’s a more widespread problem than commonly known. In the United States, one in four teens has missed class due to the lack of period products such as tampons or pads, according to Alliance for Period Supplies. And two in five women struggle to buy period products due to lack of income, the nonprofit said. “Our take is that period supplies are school supplies, and nobody should have to choose between going to class and having their period,” said Michelle Old, founder and CEO of Diaper Bank of North Carolina. A growing need The Diaper Bank has seen an 800 percent increase in requests for period products since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and “it has not slowed down at all,” Old said. In 2021, the General Assembly approved giving $250,000 to schools to spend on period products. Schools then inundated the Feminine Hygiene Products Grant Program with requests, and it took less than a week for the money to run out, according to a report to the legislature from the state Department of Public Instruction. “Many of the awardees indicated that some students rely on their school to provide the feminine hygiene products they need, as their families may not have the financial means to purchase the products,” the report noted in the introduction. The 66 grants ranged from $500 to $5,000 and went to districts large and small, urban and rural. Along with tampons and pads, schools planned to use the money for other items, such as soap, underwear and even educational materials. Burke County Public Schools in northwest North Carolina said in its grant request that it spends about $2,000 annually on feminine hygiene products for students. “We are a rural area with a great deal of poverty,” the district of about 11,200 students wrote in its application for a grant. “These products are very expensive. Students would be able to remain at school and continue learning if we receive this grant.” The district received $5,000, which it said it planned to use to buy tampons and pads. Roanoke Rapids Graded School District planned to spend its $5,000 on tampons, pads and puberty education materials. In its application, the tiny district of about 2,600 students in the northeast corner of the state described how an inability to pay for feminine hygiene products affected students. “Some students are missing school, are using toilet paper for pads, and are soiling their clothes due to no available hygiene products,” the district wrote. “Some students are also afraid to attend school when on their period because they are afraid of being bullied due to soiled clothes from lack of female hygiene products.” In the 2022-23 budget, legislators approved a second round of money for the grant program, requiring a report on how the money was spent be submitted no later than March 15, 2023. The report will highlight information on which schools and districts received funding, what they bought and the impact on student health and well-being, Lillian Pinto, a reproductive health consultant with the schools department, said in an email. Feminine hygiene bills Last year, the General Assembly agreed to make the period products grant permanent, although legislators did not set a recurring amount. That second round ended up doling out another $250,000, according to bill sponsor Sen. Natasha Marcus’s office. It focused on schools not served the first time. Marcus (D-Davidson) said she’d like to see the amount increased to $500,000 or more. She was among sponsors in 2021 of a bill that eventually led to the initial grant program. She also has filed bills seeking to end taxes on period products. So far, the sales tax bills haven’t gotten past committee. As of September 2022, North Carolina remains one of 22 states that tax period products, according to Alliance for Period Supplies. The organization said that these states view period products as a “luxury item” instead of a basic necessity such as food or medicine, which either aren’t taxed or are taxed at a lower rate. North Carolina’s general state sales tax is 4.75 percent, which doesn’t include local taxes. For example, residents in the state’s two most populous counties — Wake and Mecklenburg — pay a total of 7.25 percent when local taxes are added. Federal assistance programs, such as food benefits and Medicaid, cannot be used for period products, which advocates such as Old say leaves the most vulnerable sometimes unable to afford basic hygiene items. In North Carolina, legislators are trying again this session to address period poverty, Marcus said. The bill is still in the works, so she doesn’t know yet if increasing the grant program and making the tax change will be in one bill or two. Marcus said the General Assembly is often talking about how to cut the tax burden. “Seems to me,” she said, “this is a no-brainer.” More Children’s health stories She would also like to see the new grant program increased to more than $500,000. “It’s a monthly occurrence,” Marcus said. “So, if you’re out of school every time you have your period, you’re missing a lot of school.” From diapers to pads The Diaper Bank of North Carolina launched in 2013 with a focus on helping families get diapers. They expanded to working with moms on other needs and then added period products after hearing from teachers about students missing class because they didn’t have access to pads or tampons, Old said. “It was something talked about in [developing] countries happening, but not here in our communities,” Old said. Now called “Period Power,” the program gives out around 750,000 period products a year. About half of recipients are schools, and the rest are homeless shelters, food banks and mobile distributions throughout the state where the Diaper Bank doesn’t have an established warehouse. The nonprofit’s four warehouses — in Durham, Wilmington, Winston-Salem and now Charlotte — serve multiple counties around them. A new federal grant allowed Period Power to expand to 13 counties not served by one of the warehouses, Old said. The program serves students in 278 schools in the state. “Our goal is to have period products in every single public school in North Carolina,” she said. Students step up As part of Period Project NC, the organization created by students Pazokian and Rosaleen, a second school in Cary offered free pads to students. Earlier this year, student-ambassadors set up dispensers in the girls bathrooms at Green Hope. Then there was a trial phase at Panther Creek High School, and two more schools are looking to add them. Pazokian said she and Rosaleen wanted to make it easier for students to get period products at school if they didn’t have access to them at home. And at some schools, students have to go to the front of the class to ask to go to the front office if they need to get a period product, Pazokian said. That can be embarrassing and shameful for the student, she said. But at Period Project NC schools, every girls bathroom has a dispenser. While the dispensers have so far only gone to schools in the Wake County Public School System, Pazokian said there is interest and support across the state. The program has about 95 student-ambassadors in 21 schools, she said. They help raise money, awareness and interest in bringing the program to their schools. “So far students have been really excited to get involved, and they’ve really loved it,” said Pazokian, 16, now a junior. “There’s been a lot of positive feedback, and they help us get our foot in the door at their schools.” At schools with dispensers, Period Project NC tasks the student ambassadors with making sure the devices get restocked. So far the group has just focused on high schools because of practicality issues, but Pazokian said it certainly is something that affects middle school and even some elementary school students. She said they’re “working to diminish menstrual inequity at least at the school level.”

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Walleye anglers today have a vast number of choices in the fishing lines they use, and while some types are best suited to certain situations and presentations, Team Northland‘s Tony Roach says braided line fills the bill for most of his fishing needs. “To be frank,” he says, “I use Northland braid most of the time, with most presentations,” he says. “A braided line’s sensitivity is foremost, so whether I’m casting long distances, or pitching-and-ripping a jig, I like how it transmits everything to the rod-tip. I can easily feel every rock, weed tip, or strike, and because of its low stretch, the hook set is instantaneous.” He always employs a fluorocarbon leader, attached to the mainline with a double-uni knot, for a couple of reasons. First, because it’s less visible and won’t spook wary fish in clear water, but also because it’s easier to break off if the jig becomes snagged. Another “must” is a fast-tip fishing rod. “You need something with a little give,” he says. “You don’t want to use a pool cue, otherwise you can rip the hook right out of the fish’s mouth.” A 6-pound braid mainline, with a 10- to 12-pound fluoro leader is Roach’s standard set-up. “In lakes that are infested with zebra mussels, though, I upsize to the 8-pound braided line and up to a 14-pound leader,” he says. “It stands up much better to the abuse.” Monofilament isn’t completely off the angler’s radar screen, however. “I like monofilament line when I’m fishing a slip bobber because it slides through the float so much easier,” he says. “It’s also the way to go when you’re pulling spinners and have the rods in holders. When a walleye strikes, mono allows the rod to load up more.” Mono also outperforms braid in shallow water, or when walleyes tend to slash at a bait, he says. Its stretchability offers some forgiveness when the fish are non-committal.

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If your idea of a dream retirement is filled with visions of traveling the world, you’re not alone. The 2022 Northwestern Mutual Great Realization survey, found that of people who are planning a major life change in the next two years, 11 percent said they wanted to retire early and 30 percent said they want to travel for an extended period of time. of people want to retire early. want to travel for an extended period. As the pandemic has fundamentally shifted the way we live and work, some people have gotten creative about fulfilling their post-retirement travel dreams by not retiring at all — or even unretiring — in order to return to work in a travel-related field for perks like airline miles or hotel rewards. We spoke to three people who have taken this idea a step further by unretiring to launch travel-related endeavors that fund their desires to explore the globe on their terms. We hope their stories will help to inspire you, as well as give you some ideas about what you should consider if you’re interested in traveling well into your golden years. How 3 people 'unretired' to fund their travel dreams Became a travel agent Early in her career, Vicki Lopez, 63, who lives in the Atlanta area, left the legal field to work as a flight attendant for a legacy airline, where she stayed for 26 years to reap the travel benefits. But she still craved more adventure. “My family — husband and two daughters — were able to fly pretty much anywhere in the world,” she says. “But the girls had school, I only had so much vacation and my husband commuted out of state for work. We traveled whenever we could coordinate all of our schedules but there was never enough time and money to do it all.” When COVID-19 hit, she accepted a severance package with medical benefits that were too good to pass up, even though she had five working years left. But three months later, she realized she needed to continue working in order to fulfill her travel dreams. “I was trying to decide which path to take and considered finding a part time job, maybe at a hotel so I would have those benefits to go with my flight benefits,” she says. “But I didn’t want to be tied down to specific hours and days to work. I decided I was going to help other people create and live their dreams, all while being able to support ours.” Lopez launched Gotta Luv Travel, a travel business that allows her to work from anywhere, travel (for free in many cases and with perks) and earn a paycheck. She researches, plans and books trips for clients, focusing on Europe, river cruises, Mediterranean and Caribbean cruises, and all-inclusive resorts. “I had to be patient, knowing that it takes several years for a business to become profitable,” she says. “But I quickly learned that I love helping others create their dream vacations even more than I loved my job as a flight attendant.” Transitioned to freelance travel writing After focusing on nutrition and food writing for most of her career, Donna Shields, 68, a registered dietician and cookbook author, made the transition to travel writing in order to continue to fund her passion for exploring the globe. Before heading out on a trip, Shields often pitches article ideas to her editors about her travels. For instance, she recently returned from a 10,000 mile motorcycle ride through Mexico, visiting 30 towns, cities and villages over three months with her partner. International Living published her story about their ride as well as another she wrote about traveling in Mexico. Building on that success, she launched Open Mind Adventure where she blogs about various travel destinations and shares her knowledge of home exchanges and international living. “We have been doing home exchanges and pet sitting as a means to no-cost lodging in some fabulous locations,” she says. “I've done month-long home exchanges in Paris, rural Denmark, Alaska and more recently, a back-to-back exchange on the Amalfi coast and Barcelona.” By spending time out of the United States, where the cost of living is often cheaper, doing home exchanges when possible and earning income through writing, Shields is able to continue traveling without stretching herself thin financially. Launched a luggage company For 40 years, Bernadine Cruz, 70, worked as a full-time companion animal veterinarian in California. She also worked as a sled dog trail vet for the Iditarod and Yukon Quest races throughout the United States and Canada and as an international speaker on veterinary practice management. Before retiring in May 2021, Cruz started working on a concept for a carry-on travel bag with the idea to start a luggage company in her retirement. "After all my years of traveling for business and pleasure, I could never find a carry-on bag that met my needs," she says. Plus, she knew a sedentary retirement wasn’t for her. “I am like a Border Collie — I need a job,” she says. “I need a focus to my life.” Cruz formally launched her company, CONMIGO, in August 2022 after she researched the competition, tinkered with designs and sewed her first prototypes on her own sewing machine. She created her bags with comfort and convenience in mind, including an adjustable crossbody design, lots of handy pockets and bright lining to help people find the items they’ve packed. While she says that brand recognition has been a slow process, the tax benefits of owning a travel company and the ability to promote the bag as she travels around the world make it all worthwhile. “Being the CEO of CONMIGO is exhilarating,” she says. “I actually did it! Being semi-retired gives me some 'play money,' provides professional stimulation and gives me the luxury of time to pursue new adventures.” Cruz recently visited Madrid, Morocco and London to advance her brand awareness. “I envisioned retirement to be slow-paced and a bit boring, but I am busier than ever,” she says. “I now describe myself as an emeritus veterinarian, business owner, gardener and a person with more time for friends who is seriously racking up the frequent flier miles — and I’m much happier.” 3 Financial Considerations of ‘Unretiring’ If you’re thinking about unretiring in order to travel — or for any other reason — Andrew Weber, Senior Director of Planning Philosophy, Research and Guidance at Northwestern Mutual says it’s important to keep these three considerations in mind: 1. Social Security When to collect Social Security is an important consideration as you reach retirement age so you can reap the most possible benefits. “Since the ‘unretiree’ has income, it could be a good idea to delay claiming benefits as long as possible,” Weber says. “Depending on how long someone lives, you can get more out of your benefit by delaying payments until age 70.” In addition, if you’re under full retirement age (between 66 and 67, depending on when you were born) and you work while collecting Social Security, your benefit may be reduced depending on how much income you earn. 2. Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) in your retirement accounts Money cannot sit in your retirement accounts indefinitely — in fact, the IRS outlines at what age you have to start taking withdrawals from your traditional IRA and 401(k) retirement plan accounts. “The good news about RMDs is that although you may be required to take money from your IRA, you can still contribute that amount or up to the limits within your retirement account at work,” Weber says. “So you could refill the retirement account with the taxable amount you withdrew, and get an offsetting tax deduction — or more — for any contribution.” 3. Overall financial goals According to Weber, unretiring gives you extra time to think through important retirement considerations, including health care coverage, long-term care, estate planning and paying off lingering debts. It’s also a great opportunity for funding goals and passions, like travel. “The biggest financial consideration for someone who is unretiring is to evaluate if their goals are aligned to their money,” he says. “Going back to work means that there will be an increase in income, potentially more than needed to fund their lifestyle — so this is a good time to think about what other goals their money can help them achieve.” As with any major lifestyle change, consulting with a financial advisor can help you ensure you are taking advantage of all the opportunities available to enhance your personal financial plan. Want more? Get financial tips, tools, and more with our monthly newsletter.

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Virginia Notary Stamp Pre-inked - Slim Rectangular Shipping And Delivery Orders placed before noon CST during our normal business hours will ship on the next business day provided that there are no problems with your order (such as missing order information). Need it faster? Please call our Customer Service Department at 713-644-2299. Delivery Cost & Times You May Also Like Virginia Notary Stamp Pre-inked - Slim Round$34.95 Virginia Notary Stamp Heavy Duty$49.95 Virginia Notary Seal Embosser - E-Z Style$37.95 Virginia Notary Record Book (Journal) - 242 entries with thumbprint space$15.95 Virginia Notary Wall Sign$28.95 Virginia Notary Public Decals$7.95 Pre-inked Virginia Notary Stamp Refills Ink Bottles$14.99 Virginia Notary Stamp - Shiny S844$26.95 Virginia Notary Stamp - Limited Edition Neon$29.95 Virginia Notary Stamp - Trodat 4913$26.95 Virginia Notary Supplies Basic Package$48.95 Virginia Notary Stamp Pre-inked - Round$34.95 Virginia Pocket Notary Stamp$23.95 Mark Maker Virginia Notary Seal Embosser$49.95 Notary bonds and errors and omissions insurance policies provided by this insurance agency, American Association of Notaries, Inc., are underwritten by Western Surety Company, Universal Surety of America, or Surety Bonding Company of America, which are subsidiaries of CNA Surety.

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Nottingham Forest could finally get their hands on Che Adams this summer, almost 10 years after Fawaz Al Hasawi snubbed him. Following relegation, Southampton are now preparing to accept offers for their versatile forward, with the Reds keen. The Athletic claims that it could take between £6 million and £8 million to sign Adams. If Forest do get their man during the summer transfer window, the deal will be one that has been in the making for nine years! Back in 2014, Stuart Pearce recommended Adams to Al Hasawi who was owning the club at the time. Much to the manager’s dismay, he wouldn’t sanction a deal for the player who was with non-league outfit Ilkeston Town at the time. Forest’s loss was Sheffield United’s gain. They picked up the player for a very small fee and he soon started to perform on the professional stage. He also turned out for Birmingham before signing for Southampton. Despite a drab season for the Saints, Adams wasn’t in bad form. He scored 10 goals during 2022/23 but three of those did come in the Carabao Cup against far weaker opposition. MORE FOREST STORIES Still, Forest will be in the market for some more firepower this summer. Taiwo Awoniyi top scored last season with 11 goals in all competitions but in terms of strikers, there isn’t much else. Forest could finally sign Adams To spend the money being quoted on a backup striker wouldn’t be too bad. Adams has just a year to run on his contract and they’re under pressure to sell him this summer. Adams would likely welcome a return to the East Midlands. The Leicester-born player would surely jump at the chance to stay in the Premier League and he could be useful for Forest. The 26-year-old is at a decent age and he’s relatively versatile too. He spent the majority of last season playing as a centre-forward but he’s not averse to playing out wide too. Adams might have welcomed a move to Forest back in 2014. If he signs for the club this summer, he could really make a mockery of Al Hasawi’s decision not to sign him back then.

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CLICK ON IMAGES TO ACCESS VIMEO LINKS Rheya wants to make sure that her mom, who is a Personal Chef, won't use her pet goats for a new recipe. NOVA is a short Sci-Fi film investigates the building of genetically modified and scientifically improved human and its ethical impact. Jin, an ailing old geneticist and biochemist, created the heroin of the story Nova to serve his personal need, a daughter to love him. A recently discharged soldier struggling to make the adjustment to civilian life by supporting her family as a tow truck driver. One night, after helping out at a horrible accident, she encounters a States Attorney, on the side of the road after he has hit a beautiful dog. When Red tries to ask him to take responsibility for his actions she is confronted with death yet again. A mother says goodbye to her adopted Asian daughter who is leaving on a journey to find her maternal mother. As the daughter leaving becomes a reality, the mother learns that the right thing to do is send her daughter on her way with total support instead of holding her back. ARITHMETIC LESSON takes a hard look at the often oversimplified phenomenon of child abuse as it tells the story of a seven-year-old Chinese American girl’s sexually and physical abuse by her live-in maid. A young child does not know the harm or implications of sexual and physical abuse, and to Gracie, Ah-San gives the attention her parents are unable to provide. There is no simple way to explain the effects that sexual and physical abuse have on a vulnerable young child. Ah San’s presence in Gracie’s life is a confused blend of pain, shame, and companionship. WONTON is a story about a young Chinese woman and her witty escape during an Immigration Customs Enforcement raid of the US restaurant where she is illegally employed. Not only does Grace get away, she helps Armando, an underage Salvadorian dishwasher, to avoid the fate of the other undocumented workers, who are subjected to humiliating treatment, capture, and possible deportation. The film gives a glimpse into the microcosm of life in a Chinese restaurant in US, and through a simple story, magnifies the need for human beings to have the right to pursue a better life. FUNG TSAO THEORIES is a funny and loving film about the filmmaker’s Chinese mother’s philosophy of life. In making this film, Wenhwa attempted to preserve the memories of her family, who live over 10,000 miles away, on film. All footage was shot in Taiwan with super-8mm reversal film then transferred and edited on video. PEI PEI’S WEDDING is a home-style documentary film about the filmmaker’s sister Pei Pei on the day before, the day of her wedding and the associated ritual. Pei Pei lives in Taiwan. She is very happy with her life. She has no problem with a woman’s role in society there, which is very different than Pei Pei’s filmmaker sister’s point of view. It is a film about trans-culture, the blend and separation of East and West which, at times, may evoke laughter. Rich with lots of interesting rituals and food in the film, this film satisfies both mind and spirit. EXERCISE WITH CHING YUNG is an experimental documentary film that presents the filmmaker’s retired father who likes to exhibit his own creation of Tai Chi in public and sings Karaoke with his friends. This film explores the internal struggle of being the daughter of an old-fashioned Chinese father, whose lifelong wish has been to have a son to carry on his family name. The film examines the father-daughter relationship and investigates the daughter’s struggle with whether and how to fulfill her father’s expectations. AGAINST FILIAL PIETY ponders one of the oldest Chinese beliefs; the gravest offense of filial piety is not to have offspring to carry on the family name and blood. The film also relates to feelings of failure in not being able to fulfill the filial responsibility. This five minute, single framed, 16mm experimental film includes the word “barren” from 34 different written languages, which were extracted from dictionaries. The individual word or symbol disintegrates as it being enlarged to resemble landscapes or graphic shapes. The colorful technical drawings of human anatomy and the cycle of childbirth are combined and contrasted against the monotone enlargement of Xerox copies of the word “barren” which breaks up and converges throughout the progression of film. DISUNION WITH THE UNION OF SUFFERING illustrates and applauds the complex design of the human form – from cells to flesh – and celebrates the amazing cognitive ability each human possesses to transfer perceptions. Using images of cells, anatomy, and butterfly metamorphosis, the film creates an atlas of the subconscious mind. The vivacious score and staccato rhythm of vibrant, single-frame images alert us to the working of our own eyes and ears.

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This TURDS (Nerds) pet bandana collar puts a fun spin on the standard, single file plain collar. It just feels... Sweeter. FACT: Our pets get more likes than us. Pets in cute punny outfits get the most likes. People who's outfits match their pets are sure to get the highest engagement of all. SO we've made little matchy matchy bandana collars to compliment our top designs. Grab a few and match your pooch's stats Like for cute fluffy stolen Like We use superior printing equipment and the highest quality inks to ensure the bold yellow neon font looks as close to a dodgy strip club Neon sign as possible….. Because authenticity matters. This design is exclusive to noveltyfoodgifts.com and has been created by our in-house designer Sarah. Having "over researched" this project, Sarah will be at the dentist until further notice. If you love this design, or want to match more often with your pooch, check out our whole matchy matchy pet collar range. If there's a collar, you can bet there's a shirt, hoodie & blanket to match. .: Durable fabric / Machine Washable .: Adjustable black collar with plastic buckle .: One-sided all over print - Unique Designs .: 3 sizes available - suitable for all pets |Bandana width, in||6.93||9.13||12.01| |Bandana height, in||3.50||5.51||6.50| |Collar circumference, in||7.87 - 11.81||10.24 - 17.32||12.60 - 19.69| |Collar width, in||0.39||0.57||0.79| |Bandana width, cm||17.60||23.20||30.50| |Bandana height, cm||8.90||14.00||16.50| |Collar circumference, cm||20.00 - 30.00||26.00 - 44.00||32.00 - 50.00| |Collar width, cm||1.00||1.45||2.00| We value your business as much as our planet, and for this reason we avoid Fast Fashion & take a slower, more sustainable approach. This means we print each piece you order, within a day or two of you ordering it. Most orders land within a week of ordering, but please allow up to 3 weeks for our printers and delivery drivers to work their magic. We have a 99% perfect quality control rating, but if your item falls into the 1% of damaged, faulty or missing orders, please send us an email at [email protected] and we'll sort it out for you faster than the glaze can crust on a Krispy Kreme. Unfortunately because we print each item to order, we don't refund for change of mind or incorrect sizing so please double check your sizing on the above sizing charts.

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Diever ZandvlietPhotography, Film & the Digital Breda In een ogenblik + In ander licht ‘In ander licht’ is an installation that continuously transforms the shapes on the canvas. Through this I want to evoke the viewers imagination, as how a child can look at the clouds and see different figures moving in them. The projected image is created using a pinhole camera, a primitive ‘eye’ that allowed me to observe and re-capture my everyday surroundings with a different outlook. I wanted to be able to wonder at my immediate surroundings again, that’s why I started to take a picture every day. I came across things such as a dead bird and a special incidence of light. ‘In een ogenblik’ is a publication of snapshots taken with an iPhone. The pages of the publication can be unfolded in multiple ways, presenting a new image with each unfolding.

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We thoroughly evaluate every product we recommend. If you make a purchase through our links, we may receive a commission. Learn more about our policy here. Find out the pros, cons, and all details in this TestRX review. Find out if this testosterone supplement could help you. The feeling of being incompetent, weak, and out of place is something that I have struggled with for a long time. Moving forward was difficult with my patchy confidence and thoughts running around, constantly worrying whether my performance and image were “manly” enough. Despite not being able to do something about it alone, I knew that I had to start treading forward if I were to climb this road at all. Who would have thought that TestRX has always been there to lend a hand? Looking back at how my physiology was failing me before, I cannot help but imagine how great this would have helped me in my past endeavors and challenges. From strength to vitality, it seems like it is reading me like a book by how game-changing this would have been for my health, confidence, and image. TestRX Review Summary TestRX is a supplement carefully formulated to address problems caused by an imbalance in a person’s hormones, specifically testosterone. It is designed to help you gain muscle, boost sexual and physical performance, aid in weight loss, hasten recovery, and regulate sleep patterns – all by utilizing the perfect blend of ingredients that “encourages” the body to produce higher testosterone levels. The packages being offered vary on the number of pills included and on the availability of their free global shipping promo. This is further supported by a 67-day quality guarantee, promising a refund in cases where the user is not satisfied, making this transaction as reliable as it can get for an online brand-new product that you are planning to try. A deeper look at these features is provided in the summarized list below: - Mainly made from natural sources and vitamins - Holistic improvement from muscle strength to vitality and sleep patterns - Free global shipping for their 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month packages - Manufactured in a cGMP-compliant facility - Prices are discounted at higher packages, making savings even higher for bigger purchases - Discreet billing statements - Prices are relatively higher - Guarantee is strictly restricted to 67 days Pass or Fail? TestRX shines brightly in testosterone-boosting formulations by mainly elevating the respective ingredients involved in the production of this overall effect. It is designed to provide greater physical improvements in men and likewise stimulate their sexual function for greater holistic performance. With free global shipping available, it caters to a massive market that could include you and your location as well. Although its “customer satisfaction” perks, such as its guarantee and pricing, are not up to par with the previous qualities mentioned, it is still an up-and-running option for an optimal starting place that you could consider for your next regimen. Use coupon code SAVE10 to save an extra 10%! Is TestRX for You? Sexual and physical underperformance is pretty scarring for a person’s confidence, especially when these thoughts have already been running in their mind in the first place. As such, TestRX aims to hit these two birds at once with its product and customer service features. TestRX is ideal for users looking for an effective product that will help them build muscle, relieve stress, or improve their sexual prowess. These benefits are provided on top of various discretionary measures, such as having a relatively discreet name in their billing statements. If you are looking for an option that will satisfy your need for enhancement and concealment, this might be the bulls-eye option for you. On the other hand, it would be harder to pinpoint its compatibility without looking at your complete medical history and having a thorough physical examination for underlying conditions and illnesses. Due to this, if you are still grasping at straws as to whether another factor causes your current sensations or not, it might be better to consult your doctor first before jumping into any regimen at all. However, if you have a clear history with no suspicious concurrent medications, it might be worth giving TestRX a casual try. Do take note that TestRX does not promise any fast-acting or instantaneous results after taking two or three pills of their product. If you are searching for instant muscle enhancers or sexual boosters that you can just pop right before intercourse, then perhaps you are searching in the forest when you were supposed to look in the indoor garden. It takes around a month or three of consistent intake before results become more evident – making it a more attractive option for those who are looking for steady and slow-paced improvements. Nevertheless, slow results are still results, and it will depend solely on you if this is perfectly seasoned to your liking. To sum it all up, the following describes the key points that you should consider when assessing the product’s compatibility with your lifestyle: - Other conditions or illnesses that might be causing your symptoms - Your doctor’s recommendation - Other medications that you are currently taking - The level of “discrete” service that you are looking for TestRX Features and Benefits Lower testosterone levels are often associated with various symptoms such as decreased libido, lack of energy, and weight gain – most often seen in aging men but are now also being observed in younger and innately imbalanced males . Medical professionals usually diagnose this condition through a series of physical exams and blood work, all of which are relatively invasive when examined from a patient’s perspective . This is also on top of the commonly suggested treatment regimen of testosterone therapy to increase the levels within the body – which is seemingly daunting for many to consider. TestRX is a supplement that aims to aid the development or encourage the body to produce more testosterone to address and resolve the symptoms accompanying these decreased levels. It is mainly composed of 8 various natural ingredients that each play a respective role in promoting testosterone level enhancement within the user’s system. The inclusion of ZMA or Zinc Monomethionine Aspartate and Vitamin D3 increases testosterone and aids in muscle growth. The Fenugreek seed extract helps cut down fat for a leaner build, and the Vitamin K2 helps reduce bone loss and stabilize the increased levels of testosterone in the body. In addition to that, Vitamin B6 influences other hormones related to testosterone; magnesium increases your body’s energy and physical strength, Zinc preserves the testosterone levels being elevated, and D-Aspartic Acid boosts this elevation even more. 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It offers a 24/7 customer service system that will assist you whenever you have a particular concern with the product you have purchased. Regarding complaints and concerns, the products also come with a 67-day guarantee which provides you with a hassle-free refund of your orders if you are convinced that the product is not compatible with you, your lifestyle, or your general physiology. Sealing the deal with their discrete services, even in terms of billing statements, TestRX provides a well-rounded experience for their users in terms of their reliable products and excellent service alike. What are the packages being offered by TestRX? Test Rx offers four different packages depending on the number of capsules included in the selected set. Furthermore, they also offer free global shipping for the 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month supply packages for an even higher value for your money’s worth. 1-month supply at $69.99 3-month supply at $179.99 6-month supply at $349.99 12-month supply at $649.99 How discrete is the “discreet” billing system of TestRX? Testosterone issues are often construed as an embarrassing issue for many, and TestRX acknowledges it through its discreet credit statement label. Charges to your credit account will appear as “leadinghealth.com” or “www.leminternet.com” to provide a sense of privacy when it comes to your TestRX purchases. How fast is their shipping service? Testosterone issues are often construed as an embarrassing issue for many, and TestRX acknowledges it through its discrete credit statement label. Charges to your credit account will appear as “leadinghealth.com” or “www.leminternet.com” to provide a sense of privacy when it comes to your TestRX purchases. How is it different from steroids or other bodybuilding supplements? Steroids are a class of drugs that imitates the function of testosterone in the body. However, it is most often than not illegal to use them for muscle growth apart from certain medical necessities that would require the administration of such. Other bodybuilding supplements, such as creatinine, on the other hand, fall far from the category of steroids but are not aimed toward testosterone development. The basic logic here is that testosterone equals muscles, which is the very concept that TestRX idealized. TestRX encourages your body to produce more testosterone to consequently reap the benefits of elevated testosterone levels, such as increased protein synthesis, muscle growth, heightened libido, and boosted physical energy. It also utilizes natural ingredients to create a clinically studied formulation that provides precisely what the user needs. TestRX Review – January 24, 2023 This absolutely works! Nothing ever worked for me before, but when I took TestRX, it seemed like I received an upgrade, and I was able to log more hours in the gym. Review submitted by Harry TestRX Review – December 30, 2022 I am one of those people that always ignored online supplements until I tried TestRX. It was recommended to me by a friend, and after a few months, it helped me out greatly, and it gave me a power boost. I am happy, my wife’s happy – I think I made an excellent choice by starting to use TestRX. Review submitted by William TestRX Review – January 17, 2023 It definitely takes a while for it to produce results, but it is mind-blowing how awesome the feeling is when you hit that point where it starts to make you feel more energized. I struggled with weight gain in the past year, but now my metabolism seems faster than ever. I will definitely recommend this to my other friends. Review submitted by Percy TestRX Review – March 7, 2022 Perhaps I should preface this by saying that this worked wonders for me when nothing ever did. My only problem is that it takes forever for it to be shipped to our country, and I must order another set a few weeks before my stock runs out just for it to be on time. The shipping is a minor struggle for me, but it is still manageable, and most importantly, it works. Everything else is perfect, and I couldn’t wait for improvements on their shipping system. Review submitted by Alan TestRX Review – February 14, 2022 I can’t even begin to describe how TestRX changed my life forever. Not only am I happy with my confidence and body image, but my family is happy for me too with my newly found appreciation for myself. Absolutely fantastic, and will definitely keep on using it for a while! Review submitted by Charlie TestRX Review – July 22, 2022 The prices are a little higher than what I would have expected, but it definitely delivers. Totally worth the extra few bucks and would probably buy the larger packages instead to save more. I mean, I’m sure that I’ll be using it for more than a year, so why not? Review submitted by Wayne - Cohen, J., Nassau, D., Patel, P., and Ramasamy, R. (2020). Low Testosterone in Adolescents & Young Adults. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 10: 916. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00916 - Harvard Medical School. (2019). Treating low testosterone levels. Harvard Health Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/treating-low-testosterone-levels

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May 23, 2018 Dan Ashe is Back You may remember Dan Ashe. He was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director during the Obama administration. He issued a last-minute order banning traditional ammunition for hunting on federal lands without scientific input or comment as the Obama administration was leaving office. The move ran counter to all norms of rule-making, even for Washington D.C. these days. The National Shooting Sports Foundation called foul on the ban and new Secretary of the Department of Interior Ryan Zinke rolled it back on his first day on the job. A Congressional investigation said the edict was politically-driven and did not serve any conservation-ended purpose. Leader of the Pack Well, Dan Ashe is at it again and this time he’s leading a small posse of like-minded outdoor writers. He recently put his name as the top signer on an “open letter” to the liberal Huffington Post with a 10-point gun control plan he said all true hunters can get behind. Except, like his last-minute order, it’s a mistaken pursuit. Ashe et al propose gun bans for young adults, diminishing due-rights processes, prohibiting sales of semiautomatic firearms, banning the transfer of firearms between even family members and, of course universal background checks (without defining what that is) and repealing the Dickey Amendment. He and the writers claim this is all necessary to preserve hunting traditions because hunting is on the decline, and according to him, gun ownership in America is on the brink. Encouraging New Hunters Ashe should know that if he’s worried about growing the next generation of hunters, denying them Constitutionally-protected rights and placing barriers between them and elder mentors to take them into the woods and fields isn’t the answer. Instead, we need to reduce barriers to hunting, and that means empowering parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles to teach the next generation proper marksmanship, woods craft and conservation. That doesn’t happen by requiring background checks when a father hands a rifle to his daughter. Ashe should know, too, that banning semiautomatic firearms isn’t going to earn him an invite to duck blind. Semiautomatic firearm technology is more than 100 years old and is preferred by many hunters to allow for quick follow-up, ensuring ethical harvest and no loss of game. Certainly, he’s not purposely conflating automatic with semiautomatic. That’s not knowing your target and hunters don’t do that. It’s the Cartridge, not the Rifle And Ashe and company clearly don’t care to understand modern sporting rifles in all their variations. These firearms can be chambered for calibers well suited for hunting everything from squirrels to elk. But Ashe, being a hunter, certainly knows that it’s the cartridge that’s matched to the game you hunt. The rifle platform comes down to hunter preference, and more hunters are choosing the ergonomic features and utility of the modern sporting rifle. And, once again, Ashe skimped a bit on his research. If he was correct about gun violence studies, then the Centers for Disease Control has been breaking the law. Except he didn’t read the rule correctly. CDC has been allowed this research all along. Even Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y. admitted as much. Even he didn’t have to hunt for that answer.

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Calculous disease of the biliary tract is the general term applied to diseases of the gallbladder and biliary tree that are a direct result of gallstones. Gallstone disease is the most common disorder affecting the biliary system. In the United States, approximately 10–15% of the adult population has gallstones, with approximately one million cases presenting each year. Gallstones are the most common gastrointestinal disorder requiring hospitalization. The annual cost of gallstones in the United States is estimated at 5 billion dollars¹. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is often used for the initial treatment of most bile duct stones, with more than 1 million people worldwide undergoing ERCP procedures annually. While stones can be removed with standard ERCP techniques, approximately 10%-15% are considered difficult and cannot be treated effectively². Electrohydraulic Lithotripsy (EHL) is one option to remove difficult stones. The American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy finds EHL not only to be effective, “but relatively inexpensive” compared to other modalities, such as laser lithotripsy³. The EHL probe must be passed through a cholangioscope for direct visualization and treatment enabling an increased stone clearance success rate in a single session¹. Chen YK, Parsi MA, Binmoeller KF, et al. Single-operator cholangioscopy in patients requiring evaluation of bile duct disease or therapy of biliary stones (with videos). Gastrointest Endosc. 2011;74(4):805-814. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Biliary and pancreatic lithotripsy devices, ASGE technology status evaluation report. 2007.

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If you join an Azure VM to Azure AD without enabling it from the portal you won’t be able to login to the VM without modifying your RDP connection. This blog post will show you how to configure your RDP connection file and connect and log in successfully to a VM using your Azure AD credentials. Before you set up, up the connection, make sure you copy the IP Address of your Azure VM and paste it into the configuration file (IPADDRESS). Also make sure you add your Azure AD UPN username after the \AzureAD\ in the username section. RDP Configuration File (.rdp) Copy the code below, change the IPADDRESS and UPN and save as an .RDP file. Full address:s:IPADDRESS:3389 prompt for credentials:i:0 authentication level:i:2 enablecredsspsupport:i:0 username:s:\AzureAD\[email protected] domain:s:AzureAD Once the file is saved double click on it and enter your Azure AD password to login to the VM.

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833315 has 16 divisors (see below), whose sum is σ = 1183680. Its totient is φ = 551040. The previous prime is 833309. The next prime is 833347. The reversal of 833315 is 513338. It is not a de Polignac number, because 833315 - 24 = 833299 is a prime. It is an unprimeable number. It is a pernicious number, because its binary representation contains a prime number (11) of ones. It is a polite number, since it can be written in 15 ways as a sum of consecutive naturals, for example, 605 + ... + 1425. It is an arithmetic number, because the mean of its divisors is an integer number (73980). 2833315 is an apocalyptic number. 833315 is a deficient number, since it is larger than the sum of its proper divisors (350365). 833315 is a wasteful number, since it uses less digits than its factorization. 833315 is an odious number, because the sum of its binary digits is odd. The sum of its prime factors is 862. The product of its digits is 1080, while the sum is 23. The square root of 833315 is about 912.8608875398. The cubic root of 833315 is about 94.1029127900. Adding to 833315 its sum of digits (23), we get a palindrome (833338). The spelling of 833315 in words is "eight hundred thirty-three thousand, three hundred fifteen".

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Can You Have More Than One ISA? There’s no limit to the number of ISAs you can have. However, but you can only subscribe to one of each type of ISA each tax year. There could be advantages to having multiple ISAs. So, let’s take a look at some scenarios. First, a reminder. The individual savings account, or ISA, is a great incentive for eligible UK residents to save and invest money for their future while reducing the tax they pay – as any interest earned on a cash ISA or returns generated from a stocks and shares ISA are exempt from UK income or capital gains tax. However, ISAs have evolved since they were first introduced in 1999 and there are rules set by HMRC that are important to keep in mind. The two main ones are: How Much Can You Invest in an ISA Per Year? (2022/23) - You are only allowed to put £20,000 per tax year into ISAs. This is also referred to as ‘ISA wrapped’. - You are only able to contribute to one of each type of ISA in a tax year. There are four main types of ISA you can use: cash, stocks and shares, Lifetime and Innovative Finance. In addition, you may have heard of Junior ISAs, which can be set up for a child and have a separate allowance of £9,000 per tax year. What’s the benefit of having more than one ISA? With the tax benefits of an ISA, understandably, a common question among savers and investors is: “How many ISAs can I have?” The answer looks simple enough: Every tax year you can open one new ISA of each type, but you can’t put money into more than one of the same types of ISA in the same tax year. (However, this rule does not apply for JISAs. There the answer is “only one cash and only one stocks and shares throughout the child’s life”.) So, it is perhaps reasonable to assume that you can have four ISAs – one of each type. However, this doesn’t take into account previous ISAs from previous tax years. Let’s look at an example. Bob is a 35-year–old hypothetical saver and investor. We will follow his fictional ISA journey for a few tax years and try to clarify the answer to our “How many ISAs can I have?” question. Our main assumption is that the annual allowance will be £20,000 every tax year, and there will not be any negative or positive surprises from HMRC, and that Bob has decided how to split his ISA allowance to suit his circumstances. Tax year 2020/21 Bob gets a £10,000 bonus and opens a cash ISA with Bank A, where he deposits the £10,000. Although this is only half his ISA allowance for this tax year, he cannot rollover the unused allocation to another tax year – there’s no £30,000 ISA allowance next year! Tax year 2021/22 Bob wants to start investing and, after doing his research with the help of our ISA calculator and FAQs, he decides to open a stocks and shares ISA with Nutmeg. He chooses to invest £15,000, which leaves £5,000 of his £20,000 annual allowance for the 2021/22 tax year. What should he do? His options are: - go back to Bank A and put the £5,000 in the same cash ISA he holds from last tax year or - take advantage of a better interest rate by opening a new cash ISA with Bank B. Bob decides to open a Cash ISA with Bank B and deposits the £5,000. What he cannot do: he cannot split the £5,000 between two different cash ISAs in the same tax year. That is against HMRC rules. Tax year 2022/23 Bob wants to become a homeowner one day (who doesn’t?), so he looks at Nutmeg’s Lifetime ISA (LISA). LISAs are an ISA option for those aged between 18 and 39 with the specific goal of saving or investing for a first home or putting money aside for retirement. The incentive is Bob’s investment, up to a £4,000 per tax year limit, will be boosted by the 25% government bonus. So, he deposits £4,000 into a Nutmeg Lifetime ISA and the government add £1,000 (25%). It’s worth noting that while Bob has £5,000 in his Lifetime ISA – his £4,000 contribution and the £1,000 government bonus – he has only contributed £4,000, so he still has £16,000 of his annual ISA allowance left. He adds £10,000 to his Nutmeg stocks and shares ISA and has £6,000 left, which he definitely wants to put into a cash ISA to give him cash liquidity. Who will get the £6,000 Bob has left? Is it Bank A? Is it Bank B? Could it be a new entrant Bank C? Bob can only choose one, as he can only contribute to one cash ISA in a tax year. He decides to open a new cash ISA with Bank C, remembering that Bank C must get the full £6,000. Tax year 2023/24 Bob is ready to dip his toes in the world of Innovative Finance ISAs. Just a little though. He decides to open an Innovative Finance ISA with a peer-to-peer investing platform that allows him to lend to a property developer. He deposits £1,000, leaving him with £19,000 of his annual ISA allowance. Still determined to get a foot on the property ladder, Bob adds £4,000 to his Nutmeg LISA. The dream house is £5,000 closer – remember the government will add £1,000 to Bob’s £4,000 contribution. He still wants to invest £10,000 in a stocks and shares ISA. He thinks hard about his options: - He can open a stocks and shares ISA with one of Nutmeg’s competitors. If he does, he will have to deposit the full £10,000 with them as he can only deposit with one provider (for a particular ISA type) each tax year. He can’t decide to add £1,000 to experiment with this new provider and put £9,000 with Nutmeg. - He can continue and contribute the full £10,000 to Nutmeg for the tax year. Bob decides to add the full £10,000 to his Nutmeg stocks and shares ISA. For his cash ISAs he has £5,000 left. He is free to do whatever he wants, as long as he sticks to the ’one type of ISA per tax year provider’ rule. Bob decides to add it to his cash ISA with Bank C. Tax year 2024/25 Welcome Ella, Bob’s new baby daughter! As she is under 18, she has her own tax-free annual allowance of £9,000 for a Junior ISA (JISA) that Bob decides to open with Nutmeg. This £9,000 is separate to Bob’s £20,000 allowance and belongs to Ella. The rules about JISAs are a little more straightforward than adult ISAs: each child can have one cash Junior ISA and one stocks and shares Junior ISA throughout their life. So, as Bob has decided to open a stocks and shares JISA for Ella with Nutmeg, if he wishes to have a different stocks and shares JISA in a different tax year he must transfer the existing Nutmeg JISA to the new provider. If he chooses to also open a cash JISA for Ella, the total amount contributed to her JISA in a tax year must not exceed the £9,000 annual allowance. So, how many ISAs can you have? A lot! In just five tax tears Bob has set up: - Three cash ISAs - One stocks and shares ISA - One Lifetime ISA - One Innovative Finance ISA - Plus one Junior ISA for Ella Depending on your timeframe as an investor the number could reach triple digits. Let’s do the maths for an 18-year old who invests over 30 years: - 30 cash ISAs: one every tax year - 30 stocks and shares ISAs: one every tax year - 21 Lifetime ISAs, one every tax year (up to the age of 40) - 30 Innovative Finance ISAs That’s a lot of ISAs, in fact 111, to be precise! As with all investing, your capital is at risk. The value of your portfolio with Nutmeg can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you invest. A stocks and shares ISA may not be right for everyone and tax rules may change in the future. If you are unsure if an ISA is the right choice for you, please seek financial advice.

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Some people use supplements and fermented foods containing probiotics-beneficial bacteria and yeasts-in an effort to improve health. But, is there good science behind them? Probiotic experts help clear up six common myths. As the popular depiction of leaky gut goes, damage to the lining of the small intestine can release undigested food particles, bacteria and toxins into your bloodstream. And, that can potentially spur a myriad of health problems ranging from digestive issues to joint pain. Without a doubt, this description is oversimplified and misleading. But, its worth looking at whether leaky gut-or more precisely, increased intestinal permeability-is a legitimate concern. With the holidays approaching, a new study in PLOS One reinforces the importance of staying a good distance away from festive food tables to help avoid overeating. Tea (from the Camellia sinensis plant) is a rich source of flavonoid phytonutrients, which function as antioxidants. The amount and relative proportion of these compounds in tea leaves depends on a variety of factors, including growing conditions, post-harvest processing (including the fermentation that converts green tea to oolong and black teas) and storage time before brewing. The form of tea, whether as loose leaf or the broken leaf (pekoe) and even smaller particles (fannings or dust) in bags, is not a clear determinant of its antioxidant capacity. Q. Is it a good idea to soak raw nuts before eating them? Q. How do heating and freezing affect antioxidant levels in food? Q. Does it matter when I eat fruit? Should I eat fresh fruit before lunch and before dinner or after lunch and after dinner? Q. How long can you store tea before it starts to lose its taste and nutritional benefits? While both a Mediterranean-style diet and the DASH eating plan are associated with brain benefits, a hybrid dietary pattern that combines the best of both with the latest cognitive research may protect memory and thinking even better. A new study reports that the MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) diet was associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline-equivalent to 7.5 years of younger age. Those with the highest MIND diet scores were 53% less likely to develop Alzheimers disease than those with the lowest scores. Chocolate lovers are turning their candy wrappers into celebratory confetti over recent headlines (The More Chocolate, the Better) linking chocolate consumption to lower risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. While previous studies have suggested the flavonoid compounds in dark chocolate might have heart benefits, the findings also associated milk-chocolate consumption with reduced risk.However, this result is not unexpected, says Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, director of Tufts HNRCA Antioxidants Research Laboratory, because milk chocolate does contain flavonoids (about 75 milligrams per 100 grams)-more than found in a comparable amount of red wine or tea, though less than dark chocolate (170 milligrams per 100 grams). Flavonoids in milk versus dark chocolate vary markedly by brand, however; these values are averages.

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Buying own space to live in is one of the common dreams of every person. But every time, buying a home is not workable. The prices are unaffordable at this time. In this scenario, renting a home is the best option for an ordinary person. If you are shifting to a new home, ensure you go through the advantages of renting an apartment. Today homeownership costs more than renting an apartment. Our ancestors always said that one should have his roof. But today, it is not easily possible. Following are some advantages of renting an apartment that may help you rethink the traditional thinking of homeownership. No Repair Expenses Suppose you are renting an apartment and suppose your roof leaks. You do not even have to find a plumber. Call your landlord, and he will fix it for you. It is one of the essential benefits of renting a home. Free Access To Amenities You do not have to pay for installing or maintaining the amenities. Your landlord will look into it. Everything you can do with the amenities available in the building is to use will whenever you want. Stress-Free From Real Estate Taxes While renting an apartment, real estate or other taxes may not affect your budget. You do not have to adjust your budget according to any new real estate taxes introduced by the government. Only Security Deposit If you are considering owning a house, you need detailed financial planning. The down payment is one of the enormous expenses you must do at once. Instead of renting a home, the security deposit is the only advance payment you need to make. The security deposit is only an amount equal to one month’s rent. Flexibility In Choosing The Location Land prices change according to the area. Hence, it affects the people that want to become homeowners. In comparison, it does not affect the people renting the house. No Stress About Decreasing Property Value The property value affects the homeowners much. The property will not have much value after depreciation. Whereas if you rent the home, these up and downs of property value will not affect you. Budget-Friendly Way Of Living Being an average person, you may be planning a monthly budget. If you live on rent, the rent value will remain the same for the agreed time. If the landlord wants to increase the rent, he will first give you notice about it. It will help you plan your monthly budget accordingly.

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Do-It-Yourself Pavement Installation: A Comprehensive Guide While renovating your home, you may be advised to leave specific tasks to professionals. However, if you’re comfortable following a guide and don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you can install your pavement yourself. You can save money by tackling the project independently with the right tools and materials. Here, we provide a step-by-step guide to proper pavement installation. Select the Ideal Paver Choosing suitable paver material is crucial for enhancing curb appeal and minimizing the need for frequent pavement reconstruction. Opt for a material that can withstand harsh weather conditions and constant traffic. You can choose from clay, concrete, or flagstone pavers. Clay pavers come in various colors, shapes, and textures and are suitable for driveways, sidewalks, and pool surroundings. However, they tend to be fragile and require more maintenance. Flagstone pavers can be shaped to your preference and used for gardens, patios, or pool decks. Concrete pavers are long-lasting, versatile, and suitable for various applications, offering easy maintenance and resistance to harsh weather conditions. Prepare the Ground Proper ground preparation is essential for a successful paving project. The preparation process differs depending on the paver material. For example, clay pavers require a different ground depth than gravel pavement. Inadequate ground preparation can result in potholes, ruts, loose bricks, or sagging pavement. Dig up the area, remove any loose plant materials, and compact the ground to prevent the pavement from sinking over time. Ensure the earth is inclined so water flows away from your home. Lay the Base Material and Pavers Different pavers need different base materials. A sand base is sufficient for brick tiles, while flagstones require a 10 cm thick cement bed. Ensure the ground is compact to prevent pavers from sinking. However, do not compact the base material itself. Sometimes, you may need to use a geotextile to stabilize the sub-base. When laying the pavers, choose a pattern that appeals to you. Place the pavers as closely as possible for a stable and firm finish. Use a screwdriver to measure the distance between tiles and maintain a neat appearance during installation. Grout the Pavers Grouting locks the pavers in place. For most materials, use a dry grout mixture of cement and sand. Pour the mixture onto the joints to fill them. For commercial pavements or parking lots, paint and mark the area for easier use. Finally, apply a seal coating to protect the pavement from the effects of weather changes in your area. Pavement installation is not as daunting as it may seem. To prolong the life of your pavement, perform routine maintenance at least once a year. Remove weeds, repair cracks, seal the pavement, and repaint if necessary. Replace any broken tiles to prevent potholes from forming and damaging your vehicle’s wheels. Now that you’ve got the basics for installing your pavement, let’s dive into a few extra tips and tricks to make the whole process even more of a breeze. Remember, it’s all about having fun while doing it yourself! Grab a Buddy or Two Although you can do this independently, having a friend or family member help you out can make the job go by faster and more enjoyable. Plus, they can double-check your work and lend a hand when things get a bit tricky. Take Your Time Hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day! When you’re working on your pavement project, could you not rush through it? Be patient and make sure everything is aligned correctly and leveled. Trust us; taking your time now will save you from headaches later. Keep Safety in Mind When working with tools and heavy materials, prioritizing safety is essential. Wear gloves, protective eyewear, and closed-toe shoes while working. And hey, don’t forget to take breaks when needed and stay hydrated, especially on those hot sunny days. Customize Your Pavement One of the most incredible things about DIY projects is the opportunity to put your personal touch on them. So, don’t be afraid to get creative with your pavement! Mix and match paver colors and shapes, or even create a unique pattern that’ll make your neighbors go, “Wow!” Clean Up as You Go We know leaving the mess for later is tempting, but trust us, cleaning up as you will make your life much easier. Sweep away debris, keep your tools organized, and dispose of waste properly. A tidy workspace is a happy workspace! Celebrate Your Success Once you’ve finished your pavement masterpiece, it’s time to celebrate! Grab a cold drink, snap a few pictures to show off your hard work, and enjoy the satisfaction of a well-done job. You’ve just made your home even more beautiful and did it all by yourself! So there you have a bunch of handy tips to make your pavement installation project a total success. Just remember to have fun, stay safe, and don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty. Happy paving!

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Students will be introduced to hazards related to working with electrical systems aboard vessels and will learn common industry best practices for identifying components of electrical systems. Students will learn to use meters to test marine electrical systems and will design, build, and test real-world electrical systems, including both DC and AC components. Students will learn about shore power components and real-life safety issues. If you wonder whether the class is right for you, feel free to contact instructor Kevin Ritz at [email protected] or (503) 709-5649. The school provides tools and components for demonstrations and hands-on practice. Students will learn using a marine electrical systems simulator and will build a marine electrical board with multiple components. Students will also learn how to use digital voltmeters, clamp meters, wire termination tools, and other test equipment. The Marine Systems Intensives provide both conceptual and hands-on instruction. Students will handle system components, watch demonstrations, learn to describe a system’s components and how they function, and will be able to perform specific tasks using industry best practices Students learn how to: - Describe fundamentals of electrical basics including Ohm’s Law and the Power Equations. - Differentiate appropriate uses of series and parallel circuits.Draw circuits using basic electrical symbols. - Calculate wire size, including ampacity and voltage drop, over current protection size and location, proper wire routing, support, and chaff protection. - Describe recommended practices for standards-based color coding for DC and AC wiring aboard vessels. - Use testing equipment properly, including digital voltmeters, clamp meters, circuit analyzers, and other specialized meters. If minimum enrollment is not met our policy is to cancel a class 14 days before the start date. A full refund will be given in the event a workshop is cancelled by the school. Please keep this policy in mind when making your travel arrangements. Intensives Cancellation Policy by Student: A student may cancel enrollment without cause. The cancellation notice must be in writing. If a student cancels prior to the start of the course, the school may retain a registration fee of $100. If the student cancels during the course, the following refund schedule will apply: |If the student completes this amount of training:||The School will keep this percentage of the tuition:| |One day or up to 10%, whichever is less;||10% Retained| |More than one day (or 10%), whichever is less, but less than 25%;||25% Retained| |25% through 50%;||50% Retained| |More than 50%;||100% Retained| Before your intensive start date, you will receive an email with additional information about the course, including where to meet, what to bring, what to wear, and local lunch options. Please be aware that a negative covid test and masking may be required for your course. More details will be shared as your course date approaches

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Black Monogrammed Personalised Sport Bottles Personalized Sports Bottles are a great gift for the “modern” man – perfect for the groomsmen in your bridal party or as a birthday or holiday gift for the man in your life! These glossy black Sports bottles are personalized with a monogram or custom name in white vinyl. Sports Bottles are made of a co-polyester material and are BPA free. Max Characters for Custom Name: 12 HAND WASH ONLY NOT microwave or dishwasher safe. Height x Width: 10″ x 2.9″ Volume: 24 oz.

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Fr. Berard Dudek, OFM Conv. On a brilliantly clear, crisp March morning, I could not imagine the day would get any brighter until I met, for the first time, Friar Berard, the subject of this article. He was born in Baltimore, August 31, 1927, the last of Martin & Catherine Dudek’s four boys, in a modest and established Baltimore family. His grandparents were immigrants, of Russian and Polish descent. He is now the only surviving son. He appears much younger than his 88 years with a broad smile and kind, affable nature. He is on in-home hospice at this stage of his life, but seems as happy and content as one might imagine a much younger, healthier man. He was diagnosed with an incurable breathing disorder about four years ago. His daily life is now confined by the limits of his lifeline; an oxygen compressor and tubing. This, however, does not confine his spirit. He refers to the oxygen tubing as his “Angel Line,” knowing that when he no longer needs it, he will be with the Angels. The conversation began with a litany of his long career, almost too much to list, so I will give you the highlighted version here. His first schooling was at St. Casimir Parish’s School (one of our many province pastoral and parochial school ministries), where he later became Assistant Pastor (1971) and then, after three more pastoral assignments and several education and leadership positions, he served the people of St. Casimir Parish as Pastor (1996). At the age of 14, he was off to St. Francis High School (one of our province high school ministries), in Athol Springs, New York, which was then an all-boys boarding school and still ministers as a “Roman Catholic, Franciscan, college preparatory school that serves young men of diverse faiths and backgrounds from throughout Western New York.” His tuition for the year, including room & board was $300.00! He became a novice at St. Lawrence Novitiate in Becket, Massachusetts in 1945, at the age of 18. His education consisted of the years he spent at St. Bonaventure University in Olean, New York, St. Joseph Cupertino in Ellicott City, Maryland, and St. Hyacinth College and Seminary in Granby, Massachusetts. He went on to graduate studies at the University of Buffalo and Laval University in Quebec. He was ordained on June 24, 1954 at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Most Reverend Christopher Weldon, Bishop of Springfield. When asked when or how he knew he wanted to be a member of the Religious Order, he has no “come to Jesus” moment. He does recall a conversation his mother had when he was in the third grade. A Franciscan Sister of St. Joseph at the school felt he had a calling. From that point it seemed to be a gradual acceptance and understanding of the path he should follow. Following Ordination, he taught at Bishop Ryan High School in Buffalo New York (1954), serving as the last principal before the school closed in 1971. At various times he served as a teacher, Parochial Vicar, Associate Pastor, or Pastor at numerous and diverse parishes, mainly in the northeast. From 1982-1984, he was Associate Pastor at The Basilica of The Assumption in Baltimore, the first Catholic Cathedral in America. He has also been chaplain to the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph in Hamburg, New York. Add to that, time spent as Vicar Provincial, Definitor, Senior Friars Commission and Franciscan Discipleship Commission Member for St. Anthony of Padua Province (now in union with Immaculate Conception Province, creating our current Our Lady of the Angels Province) and member of the Priests Council of Rochester, New York. At one point, he actually taught his current Guardian of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer Friary, Fr. Vincent Gluc, OFM Conv.! In 1995, he took a five-week sabbatical to study in Italy and trace the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi. He returned to ten more years of parish work before coming home to Baltimore and semi-retirement in June 2005 at St. Clement Mary Hofbauer Parish, where he currently resides. When asked which assignment he liked the best, his eyes just sparkle as he says he could not choose. He says they are like colors of the rainbow, all different. His activities are limited by his lack of mobility and the oxygen tether. He has left the residence just four times in the past four months for medical appointments. He attends Mass daily at the residence. Visiting medical professionals call on him every other day to assure his care is on target. The normal tasks and activities of daily living that are usually taken for granted, take considerable time for Friar Berard to complete. He gets out of breath, even with the “Angel Line,” just walking across the room. It takes about an hour to get up and dressed in the morning, all of which he does with a smile. He is in no pain, other than the sometimes frightening discomfort of not being able to catch his breath. He eats well and looks great! Friar Berard has many visitors; family and otherwise. Some still come for confession. His one brother had 12 children, one of which is a niece who aspires to be a nun. If you visit, be prepared to have your picture taken, as he is very adept with his iPad and his memory is on point. He does paintings on glass, which resemble stained glass (as exampled by the one featured here). He takes many phone calls, answers e-mail, and snail mail. As our time spent together ended and a fatherly embrace was shared, I left with two blessings–a personally blessed Rosary that will be cherished for life, and the blessing of sharing the morning with this holy and wonderful Franciscan Friar. ~ by Mr. Rick Sipes, Assistant in the Our Lady of the Angels Province Healthcare Ministry Office

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OLMEC - Texas Latina/o Brain and Spine Organization of Texas OLMEC is an organization of Latinos/as who have had a brain and/or spinal cord injury, to connect the latino community with resources and support in Texas. Each week we offer several ways to promote our mission. We meet virtually, participate in various adaptive sports, learn about each other, and share education on various social media platforms. OLMEC's priority is to strengthen the community while working together to heal and grow.

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This project has the advantage of reconnecting the extraordinary experience of a family of painters and sculptors of the Genoese seventeenth century with its own territory. The Carlone family, originally from the Canton of Ticino, residing in Parodi Ligure for a length of time, so long that they gave the name to a locality of the municipality: LA CARLONA. They consolidated their ties with these places, marrying women from Voltaggio. Giovanni Carlone painted works preserved in the Abbey of San Remigio in Parodi Ligure, of which his brother was parish priest, while the other brother, Giovanni Battista, bought a house in Parodi Ligure, where his children grew up, including the youngest, the great artist Andrea. The works of the Carlones are preserved in the churches and oratories of the Oltregiogo. The authors are Taddeo Carlone and his sons, Giovanni and Giovanni Battista, his grandson Andrea and, amongst these Giovanni Battista had the greatest ties to Parodi Ligure. Some works by the Carlones were part of the collection of the Dukes of Norfolk in London and many are preserved in museums all over the world, including that of New York. The Exhibition was set up at the Abbey of San Remigio in Parodi Ligure with works of painting and sculpture coming from important Genoese institutions such as the Strada Nuova Museums, the Linguistic Academy, the Carige Bank and numerous private collectors. Some of which were works that had never been presented to the public before: there were 25 works including marbles and paintings. The Exhibition was open from 30th June to 1st September 2019 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and saw the participation of more than 1,500 visitors, having great success with the critics: it saw the participation of important museum directors, amongst whom the Director of the Museum of New York, where some works of the Carlones are housed. The exhibition was curated by Dr. Maurizio Romanengo and an interesting 120-page catalogue published by SAGEP was compiled, which is on sale for €19.00. An OLTREGIOGO APP has been created in Italian, English and Russian with paths dedicated to visiting the churches and oratories of the Oltregiogo where the works of the Carlone and Baroque painters are conserved. In parallel with the Exhibition, numerous events were organized in the months of July, August and September 2019 in the various locations of the Oltregiogo (Historic Center, Churches, Manor Villas, Castles), connected to the opening of the Oratories and Churches that allowed tourists to participate in the events, but also to see our architectural beauties and our artistic works. These events were attended by artists of great caliber such as: ANDREA SCANZI E FILIPPO GRAZIANI MASSIMO COTTO E PIETRO SIDOTI ORCHESTRA CLASSICA DI ALESSANDRIA TEATRO DEL RIMBOMBO Which attracted both the inhabitants of the Oltregiogo and many tourists from Piedmont, Liguria and Lombardy.

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Repairs and maintenance (inc dampness/improvements and alterations eg central heating. double glazing) Hafod Housing Association Mr T complained that Hafod Housing Association had failed to resolve his complaint about housing repair issues. The Housing Association said it was awaiting completion of the repair works before issuing its complaint response. The Housing Association said that repair works have now been undertaken to the rainwater downpipe and rainwater gullet. The Ombudsman noted the Housing Association had taken some action, but considered it would be helpful for Mr T to receive a complaint response. She decided to settle the complaint without an investigation. The Ombudsman sought and gained the Housing Association’s agreement to apologise to Mr T, provide an explanation for the failure to provide a complaint response, and to issue a complaint response within 2 weeks.

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Comprehensive Health Management With the right treatment, you can actually reverse the signs and symptoms of aging. Restorative or age management medicine is a proactive, approach to healthcare for people at any age that focuses on preservation of optimal human function. We strive to improve your quality of life by making every effort to correct the process of aging before to the onset of degenerative disease. By optimizing function in these five main areas mind, body hormones, nutrition and toxin removal, many disease states improve and can actually reverse making you feel and look better. Any imbalance in these key areas can cause many common symptoms and diseases. An imbalance is defined as being out of optimal range. Therefore, we look beyond “normal ranges” for interpretations in all of our testing. Benefits of Restorative Medicine - Increased Energy - Increased Lean Muscle Mass - Reduced Body Fat - Increased Libido - Improved Cholesterol - Stronger Immune System - Lifted Moods - Better Overall Health - Better Stress Management - Sharper Mental Acuity - Better Sleep Habits - Improved Nutrition Optimizing Health in All 5 Areas Initial Consultation $2,500 Before your initial consultation, you will have comprehensive lab work completed and analyzed so that your physician can review the results with you and use the information to help customize a treatment plan including Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy if medically indicated. During your first appointment, you will spend up to five hours with your physician. You will discuss any symptoms you are experiencing, your medical, family and personal history. This first appointment will also include: - A Full Medical Exam - A Baseline Bone Mineral Density Test using a DEXA scan - Body Composition Analysis using a DEXA scan - Exercise & Fitness Testing including VO2 Max Fitness Test - Lifestyle Assessment - Cognitive Evaluation - In-depth questionnaires - Resting EKG - Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (CIMT) Test - Cardiac and Stroke Assessment - A personalized treatment plan exploring all medical options including topicals, injections or pellets Monthly Membership $350 Your monthly membership allows you prompt access to your physician including appointments, emails and phone calls and - Comprehensive health monitoring - Customized fitness & nutrition plans - Access to a personal trainer - Industry leading age management tests and technologies - Highly qualified physicians that partner with you and focus on your total body health - Access to nutritional and other age management supplements and resources Monthly membership does not cover the cost of prescriptions, labs, or procedures.Please Note: Optimal Medical group does not accept any medical insurance. We are a private pay Medical Office. Getting ketamine therapy is an effective way to reduce the symptoms of depression. Research shows that this therapy can help patients with treatment-resistant depression. This could bring them new hope and a better quality of life. Here are the three top benefits that this therapy can bring for depression.Research reveals that ketamine can help enhance… Ketamine therapy is a versatile treatment. But many doctors consider it for severe or treatment-resistant mental disorders. Understanding this treatment better can help you prepare for your next appointment. Here are some FAQs on ketamine therapy that you can ask your doctor.Research shows that Wayne State University’s chemistry professor created ketamine back in 1962. It… Research shows that ketamine therapy is becoming popular in recent years. This drug-assisted treatment for mental disorders can provide quick relief. Many patients gain many benefits from this therapy. That is why finding out if you qualify for it is crucial. Here are ways to find out if you are a good candidate for ketamine… Ketamine therapy can provide fast and lasting effects. Seeing your current doctor about it may be necessary if your symptoms are not improving with traditional treatments. Knowing more about ketamine for depression can help you set your appointment right away. Here are some ketamine therapy questions to ask your doctor on your next visit for… Ketamine therapy uses a drug that can sedate both pets and humans. The drug is also common among people who enjoy partying with psychedelic sensations. In mental health, ketamine can provide effective relief from treatment-resistant depression. Here are important points to consider about ketamine therapy for depression.Many medical scientists have studied the use of ketamine…

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What do you need to be aware of about free spins at casinos Casino free spins provide a great way for you to be able to play with real money and try out new slots. These bonuses are handed out on a regular basis and there is no deposit required to receive them. When you sign up, however, it is important to thoroughly research the games offered by the casino. Some casinos also provide mobile-specific games, which paciencia spider on line means you might not find your favorite slot. If you’re a new player, you can avail the free spins to try out various types of slots. There are a few things you need to be aware of regarding casino free spins. First, you must be aware of the time-limit. The majority of free spins are offered to new players within three days of signing up and the wagering requirements for each bonus is different. In certain cases the free spins may expire after a certain period. To ensure that you don’t miss any exciting opportunities it’s a good idea to read the terms and conditions. Always verify the wagering requirements for a casino’s free spins prior to making use of them. These are the numbers of times that you must play your winnings until the bonus expires. Some casinos also offer you a set amount of time to meet these conditions. It is best to adhere to these restrictions and stay clear of them if you can. These bonuses may not be restricted by certain casinos, so be sure to check before you begin playing. Before you deposit any money, you should read the casino’s wagering requirements. Free spins require an initial wagering requirement of twenty times. The maximum requirement is eighty. The maximum bet is generally 40 times, but this is contingent on the casino. You should always go through the terms and conditions carefully before deciding on which bonus to sign up for. The wagering requirements for bonus spins are the most crucial aspect to be aware of when signing up for the bonus. Free spins come with some requirements. Generally, you will need to bet the money you win from free spins 50 times before you can withdraw the winnings. If you’re a frequent player, you should sign up for free slots with a lower wagering requirement. This increases your chances of winning as well as your enjoyment. You can play for real money while also earning bonus spins. While it’s tempting to claim a free spins bonus when you first sign up, you must take note of the terms and conditions attached to the offer. Some offers require a minimum deposit of PS5 while other offers require a higher amount. To learn more about what you can do with the free spider solitaire free spins you get, make sure you read the conditions. It is not advisable to accept a bonus offer that requires a small deposit. Before you accept a bonus, make sure to read all the conditions and terms. The benefits of casino free spins are obvious: they are a great way to try a brand new slot game. Most sites offer a range of free slots and you can play a few of the most popular ones and determine which one is best for you. The majority of the time you don’t need to pay any money for the bonus. But it’s still a great way to earn real money and meet the wagering requirements. Many online casinos offer free spins to attract new players as well as keep existing ones. Free spins are available for a variety of games at casinos. While some might be more appealing than others, it’s important to know the rules and the benefits associated with each one. You can get one free spin if you’re new to the game. Some casinos require wagering in addition to the free casino spins. Some casinos have the maximum cash-out limit of $25k and the maximum withdrawal limit is only available to those who make a deposit. It’s a great bonus to test new casinos without having to make an investment of significant size. You can also deposit money to get free spins. This bonus is available to new players.

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5 Digital Trends For 2014 It’s December, and 2013 is fast coming to a close. If you haven’t started thinking about 2014, it’s time. Next year is going to be another big one for digital marketing, with big, fast changes in the way people use and interact with the Internet. But don’t fret, we have you covered: #1. Converging Boundaries The web is no longer a separate entity. It is ubiquitous—existing in every pore of our daily lives—from the moment we wake up to the moment we close our eyes and enter the world of dreams it is there. The digital world and the physical world are converging. Customers, users, people expect a seamless uniformity between the services offered online and those offered in the physical world. This convergence is creating a surge of new user experiences: In-store shopping buddies on your mobile device, digital coupons that are beamed directly to the user when they walk in the store, augmented reality tools that direct users around real-life experiences, wearable tech that keeps track of your heart rate, and so much more. In 2014, it’s time to focus on integrating your brand’s digital experiences with the third dimension. #2. Great Digital Experiences It is not enough to simply have a digital experience. It must be great. Users are coming to expect a high-level engagement with the companies they choose to interact with. Your website, app, social media channels, ads, and every digital touchpoint must be great. Your users have had a taste, and now they want more. Take care of your digital properties and users will help take care of you. #3. You Are What You Actually Do What your brand truly-deeply stands for—and not what is said—will be the deciding factor for increased loyalty and sales. Your customer is increasingly turning toward the values and beliefs of your company. Social responsibility is a big deal. Show your customers a triple bottom line and show them how much you care. Follow through on your ideas/ideals and wear your heart on your sleeve. #4. Social Media Is No Longer the New Kid on the Block Social media is not an optional acquaintance or a one-night stand—social media is here, and she is not going away. If your company is not already engaged, you should be. Nearly ¼ of the global population is using social media. They are looking for you on social media. They expect you to be there and to interact with them. Social media is no longer a novelty, it is a powerful tool for communicating with you audience. #5. Embrace Mobile Now For 18-35-year-olds mobile is #1. They are checking their email, reading blog posts, seeing what the weather is like, searching for a place to have dinner, trying to find a better price on the product they are thinking about buying—all day, every day. And sales on Cyber Monday via smartphones and tablets set a new record in 2013 . But mobile shopping and e-commerce is not just a special event. Not hardly. For advertisers, mobile is the only advertising medium available continuously throughout the day. If you are not giving your mobile experience as much focus (or more) than your other advertising mediums in 2014, you are missing out. What do you think is the next breakthrough change? What are you doing to embrace it? We’re listening. And stay tuned for our next installment in this two-part series: “5 More Digital Trends for 2014.”

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Ford government making life easier for LTC operators Posted: July 9, 2020 (July 8, 2020) By: Keith Leslie, The Hamilton Spectator COVID-19 devastated long-term-care homes in Ontario, but it also helped LTC operators get rid of some regulations, at least temporarily, that they’ve lobbied for years to have eliminated. Last year, under the guise of “flexibility,” LTC homes asked to use less qualified staff to address a shortage of registered nurses and personal support workers, which they helped create. The staffing shortage quickly became a crisis when COVID-19 hit, so the Ford government gave LTC homes what they’d been asking for, hopefully just for the duration of the pandemic. The Ontario Long Term Care Association said homes shouldn’t be required to have at least one RN on duty 24-7, claiming a registered practical nurse could do the job, and also wanted to use untrained staff to do work done by college-trained PSWs. The province approved both changes in the pandemic Emergency Act, allowing LTC homes to use any staff, or even volunteers, to do the “direct care and comfort” work of PSWs. Premier Doug Ford this week denied cabinet had rejected two requests from Long Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton for extra funding for LTC staff. There was no money for more staff, but immediate regulation changes to allow LTC homes to use cheaper, untrained labour. LTC homes call it a “human resources emergency,” but nowhere in their nine-page submission to the government’s red tape commission in 2019 do they admit that precarious employment is a key cause of the problem. They claim the “greatest challenge” to hiring staff is a “high administrative workload,” and a “punitive culture” created by regulations and inspections. In reality, too many LTC staff are hired on a part-time, temporary or contract basis, without benefits, and work at two or three homes, or take agency work, to make ends meet. Ontario was also slower than other provinces to tell staff to work in just one LTC home after COVID-19 hit, which forced some homes to rely more on agency staff, punching more holes in Ford’s promised “iron ring” of protection for 78,000 LTC residents. When COVID-19 also ravaged short-staffed LTC homes in Quebec, that province quickly offered people three months training as a PSW at $21 an hour, with a guaranteed job at $26.89 an hour. Ontario has done little on the LTC job front beyond offering a temporary, $4-an-hour pandemic premium for front-line health care workers. The Ontario Health Coalition and other advocacy groups say it’s hard to determine LTC staffing levels because of changing job definitions and weak compliance with reporting, especially from private homes. Public health advocates and unions use freedom of information to get the data, which are often incomplete, making comparisons difficult. LTC homes also wanted fewer inspections, especially surprise resident quality inspections that take can days or weeks, and that each home was supposed to get once a year. The Health Coalition says it’s misleading for the government to claim complaint- and critical incident-based inspections are equal to an annual RQI. Only nine of 623 homes received a full RQI in 2019, the year before the pandemic killed more than 1,700 residents and seven LTC staff in Ontario. Let that sink in. Could the death toll in LTC have been reduced? That question may not be addressed by Ford’s promised inquiry into the long term care system’s pathetic response to COVID-19, but it could be answered in court if any of several proposed class action suits are certified. The emergency deregulation measures for LTC homes must not become permanent. It would be heartless and dangerous to further reduce standards of care and protections for vulnerable LTC residents, especially after the horror show of the pandemic.

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Finland is within the European Union. If you are travelling from the UK, you are entitled to buy fragrance, skincare, cosmetics, Champagne, wine, selected spirits, fashion accessories, gifts and souvenirs all at tax-free equivalent prices. If you are travelling from within the EU, there is no limit on the amount or value of goods you may import, providing your goods are for personal consumption. However, if you are importing alcohol, you must be able to show it is for personal use when amounts exceed the following: - 20L of alcoholic drinks up to 22% volume - 90L of wine (including a maximum of 60L of sparkling wine) - 110L of beer - 10L of alcoholic drinks over 22% volume If you are arriving from a non-EU country, the following goods may be imported into Finland without incurring customs duty: - 200 cigarettes or 100 cigarillos or 50 cigars or 250g of tobacco - 4L of wine and 16L of beer and 1L of spirits over 22% volume or 2L of alcoholic beverages less than 22% volume - Other goods up to the value of €430 for air and sea travellers and €300 for other travellers Alcohol limits apply to travellers aged 20 and over for spirits and aged 18 and over for other alcoholic drinks. Tobacco allowances apply to travellers aged 18 and over. Passengers importing tobacco products from inside or outside the EU must ensure each unit has a health warning printed on it in Finnish and in Swedish as well as the tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide quantities; passengers may only import 200 cigarettes, 100 cigarillos, 50 cigars and 250g of tobacco not labelled in this way. The following are banned from being imported into Finland: Electric-shock batons, radar detectors, knuckle dusters, stiletto blades, endangered plant species (unless licensed in certain cases), pirated goods and certain plants from Russia (e.g. apple and pear trees). Restricted imports include narcotics, firearms and ammunition, pets, pot plants and nursery plants, and endangered animal species.

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This is the Linux app named Nextcloud Talk whose latest release can be downloaded as v17.1.0.zip. It can be run online in the free hosting provider OnWorks for workstations. Download and run online this app named Nextcloud Talk with OnWorks for free. Follow these instructions in order to run this app: - 1. Downloaded this application in your PC. - 2. Enter in our file manager https://www.onworks.net/myfiles.php?username=XXXXX with the username that you want. - 3. Upload this application in such filemanager. - 4. Start the OnWorks Linux online or Windows online emulator or MACOS online emulator from this website. - 5. From the OnWorks Linux OS you have just started, goto our file manager https://www.onworks.net/myfiles.php?username=XXXXX with the username that you want. - 6. Download the application, install it and run it. Nextcloud Talk is the official chat, video and audio conferencing app for Nextcloud that allows users to chat, call and screenshare with multiple other users. Nextcloud offers better protection for your communication as it provides end-to-end encryption and keeps even metadata from leaking. You can have private, group, public or password protected calls by simply inviting one person, a whole group, or sending a public link as an invitation to a call. It is also conveniently integrated with other Nextcloud apps like Files and Contacts, so you can share and edit documents, link with calendars, tasks and other resources while in a chat room. - Chat Integration - allows file sharing and mentioning of participants - Every Kind of Call - be it a private, public, group or even password-protected call, you can make it. - Screen Sharing - share your screen with other participants (available only with recent versions of Firefox, Chrome and Edge) - Integration with Other Nextcloud Apps - for even better collaboration - Solid Foundation - based on the simpleWebRTC library This is an application that can also be fetched from https://sourceforge.net/projects/nextcloud-talk.mirror/. It has been hosted in OnWorks in order to be run online in an easiest way from one of our free Operative Systems.

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Ø40mm Telescopic Articulated Inspection Mirror SKU: AK652 Category: Tool Accessories - One of a comprehensive range of Premier Hand Tools, suitable for daily professional use. - Chromed metal body with pocket-clip for safe storage. - Ø40mm Inspection mirror mounted on ball joint permitting full 360° rotation. - Minimum/Maximum Length: 125/690mm. Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.

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"...I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a more hopeful America."Senator Obama sincerely believes in his vision of a better country, a more hopeful and decent place. But as we checked through the reviews of his announcement, we were filled not with hope, but with concern. In today's political arena, hope and decency will get you slaughtered. The forces that will line up against the Democratic nominee in 2008 will not be playing a hopeful and decent game - it will be a battle to the death with a neo-conservative, corporatist, authoritarian movement that has spent billions of dollars seizing power over the last forty years. The $mear machine is already directing its guns at Senator Obama with nasty whisper campaigns, racial insinuations, etc. So would a President Obama be able to work with them, and get them to compromise and put the interests of the country before those of the conservative movement? No. (This has been another episode of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.) As the old saying goes, "It takes two to tango," and the right isn't in a dancing mood. If we're going to get anything done for the good of the country we, as Digby says, need to drive a stake through the heart of the authoritarian right. Destroy them and then you can rebuild with hope. But have no doubt, you must destroy them first. Here are a few highlights of the recent tactics of this authoritarian-right strategy in action. Hope doesn't have a chance. As Digby wrote, This is an issue with which every American, regardless of party, should be concerned. The founders knew that relying on the good will of men in power is stupid and we are seeing their predictions come true before our very eyes. The modern Republican leadership may currently have a monopoly on authoritarian impulses, but they are by no means the only people in this country who could be seduced by this Republican notion of executive authority. The constitution is what protects all Americans from the dark side of human nature when it has power over others, regardless of party or political philosophy. Those of us who worry about this usurpation of the constitution and degradation of the Bill of Rights know that this is not a passing fashion that will easily be tucked back into its former shape. Once you allow powerful men to seize power it's awfully hard to persuade their successors to give it back. John McCain in South Carolina in 2000. Robocalls were used against John McCain by Bush operatives in which South Carolina voters were asked if they really wanted to vote for a man with a 'n-word' baby. (Senator McCain has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh.) Whisper campaigns spread even worse things about him. Max Cleland, severely wounded serving his country in Vietnam, was $meared as unpatriotic in Georgia in 2002. Saxby Chamblis, who deferred out of Vietnam with a bad knee, ran ads showing pictures of him with pictures of Osama Bin Laden while Max was being attacked for being soft on national security. If he had lost his one remaining limb, would that have been enough sacrifice? No, and they continue to $mear him. Ambassador Joe Wilson in 2003. Perhaps Senator Obama should take a moment to understand the lessons of the current trial of "Scooter" Libby. The White House, in order to justify a war that will cost $500 billion and thousands of American lies, attacked Joe Wilson (who told the truth) by revealing that his wife was a CIA agent (whose job,by the way, was tracking down terrorists who were attempting to obtain weapons of mass destruction) and didn't bat an eye doing it. John Kerry in 2004. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were funded largely by three men who gave almost $10 million to pay veterans - veterans who never served with John Kerry - to lie and create doubt about his three Purple Hearts and medals for heroism. The key "Swiftboater" John O'Neill had first been used as a 'counterfoil' to John Kerry by Richard Nixon. How about the Republican Party running an operation to jam Democratic Party phones during the 2002 election in New Hampshire? Racist ads. Racist robocalls in Virginia. Is Senate buddy John McCain ready to be fair and "decent," Senator? A clue may be found from his hiring a campaign manager known for using racist tactics. You can't beat this with hope, Senator Obama. Hope and decency and belief on fundamental fairness doesn't make you President - touch base with Al Gore about that. Strength beats strength. A degree of evil is required to overcome pure evil. Anything else is not hopeful, but naive - just as Neville Chamberlain discovered when he tried to negotiate peace with the devil. You can have all the hope in the world, Senator Obama, but you better remember to at least bring a gun to a gun fight. Dave Johnson, Seeing the Forest

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At the 35th annual Irish Software Association's (ISA) awards, Openet, the network transaction management software provider, won the Outstanding Company of the Year Award, while the Person of the Year Award was shared by Bill Liao and James Whelton of youth programming camps CoderDojo. Other winners included a Partnership of the Year Award for FeedHenry, Technical Innovation of the Year Award for The Now Factory and the Multinational Corporation Initiative of the Year Award for SAP. The Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year Award went to Barry Smyth, UCD. The themes addressed at this year's awards were those of "Innovating, Transforming, Scaling" for Irish companies. In his speech, Karl Flannery, chairman, ISA, said that innovation, hard work, leadership and creativity were important contributors to the nation's economic recovery. "Our future as an industry is all about international scaling, and it is being written in software by the companies represented by ISA," said Flannery. "We represent a community of category-winning scaling companies that want to transform, or even disrupt, the markets in which they operate to create the industries of the future." Flannery made reference to Central Bank figures that said the amount of lending to Irish technology companies has dropped by 24% in the year to June. This contrasts with data from the latest NCB Services Index showing that companies in the telecoms, media and technology sectors experienced the largest monthly increase in business activity since February 2007. "In parallel with this, we have had a major surge in the number of start-ups in Ireland. The Irish Venture Capital Association estimates that there is a capital requirement to fund these companies of €1.5 billion or €300 million per annum over the next five years. Depending on your point of view, you may see this a significant investment opportunity. However, unless action is taken, we could see a capital funding cliff as these companies seek further funding in order to maintain their growth trajectory," said Flannery. In the next year, said Flannery, the ISA will work with all the relevant funding stakeholders, including Enterprise Ireland and the investment and banking community, to promote the development of a coordinated menu of funding options to close that gap. "The arrival of specialist lenders such as Silicon Valley Bank in Ireland will help to accelerate the growth of our indigenous technology sector," he said. Initiatives such as Open Ireland's Technology Visa programme, Enterprise Ireland's IT's Happening Here, Career Zoo and Smart Futures are helping to avert a talent shortage in our growing technology sector. "Developing a distinct identity and brand promise for the indigenous technology sector is critical. We need to see our technology professionals not just move from multinational to another or from one start-up to another but moving between companies of different scale and in different technologies and verticals," said Flannery. The indigenous software technology sector has over 600 companies, employing more than 10,000 people, with combined sales of €1.4 billion.

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Orderhive Inc. is a SaaS-based ecommerce automation software development company based out of California. Orderhive is their flagship product which enables wholesalers and retailers to efficiently manage their inventory, orders, product listings, shipping, warehouse, returns management and much more. Challenges of Orderhive Lack Of domain expertise Collaborate with the right technology partner to create the desired product Necessity of a scalable product that can integrate various features High operational cost Build the team by keeping the development cost low Delay in product launch Swift, time bound product development and MVP launch Lack of product ownership Requirement of a team that could take complete responsibility of product operations and team creation Want to read the detailed case study? 360° solution by OpenXcell SaaS-based eCommerce automation software - 99% uptime - 300+ integrations - 300+ integrations Team creation with domain specific profiles - Headcount planning - Recruitment of new resources - Training and On-boarding - Team expansion - Payroll Management Ease of business with OpenXcell's prompt and strategic actions - 24/7 customer service - On-demand deliverables - Product Marketing - IT infrastructure - Acquisition Handling Multimillion dollar company in 5 years Orderhive has gained exponential revenue growth with remarkable success of its first ecommerce-automation project delivered by OpenXcell Acquisition by Cin7 in 2021 Cin7 acquired Orderhive along with its off-shore dedicated team to add value to the product and diversify its reach Our happy client The Orderhive system has become a critical component of our e-commerce success. I can’t say enough about the system and customer service - we are beyond pleased with the easy setup, ease of use, amazing features, and customer service...these guys will EARN your business, they go above and beyond to make sure you're totally satisfied. It's very rare to have a product or service that under-promises and over-delivers...don't waste your time and money with other solutions like we did, do it right the first time and hire OpenXcell! Checkout our full case study!

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Dr. Milena Cervo Sulzbach has recently joined the ORIGENAL project as a post-doctoral researcher. Milena obtained her Bachelor’s Diploma in Physics in 2014 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. During her undergraduate studies, she has been granted an internship in the Magnetism Laboratory for 3.5 years, to participate in projects on magnetic spin-valve memory devices. In 2017, Milena concluded her Master’s Degree in Physics at the same university. In her Master’s thesis, she fabricated and characterized the structure and electrical properties of TiO2 resistive-memory devices, using mainly, ion-beam analysis techniques to understand the oxygen and metal diffusion as a mechanism for resistive switching in ReRAM devices. In the same year, she won an INPhINIT fellowship to pursue her Ph.D. in Physics at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB – CSIC), where she graduated in May 2021 with a thesis on ferroelectric- and resistive-switching phenomena on Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 ferroelectric tunnel junctions. Milena has now joined the ORIGENAL team at the University of Wuppertal, where she will contribute to the electrical characterization and optimization of neuromorphic devices. “We are extremely happy to have won such a strong and motivated team member as Milena”, says the project coordinator Prof. Daniel Neumeier. “I’m looking forward to start working together!”

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Thank you for your interest in Orlowsky Law. Please complete the form below to speak to a staff member or attorney regarding your important matter. 7777 Bonhomme Ave, Suite 1910, St. Louis (Clayton), MO 63105 REQUEST A FREE CONSULTATION Fill out the form below to recieve a free and confidential intial consultation.

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Injection Therapy into Joints Our practice specializes in the administration of joint injections. For example, an interarticular infiltration therapy (injections) can be applied to the affected joint for the treatment of arthrosis. In doing so, the damaged cartilage can be regenerated, and the joint can once again be made painless and stress-resistant. A distinctive feature of my practice is a special form of local icing that I use before injecting a joint. This can make the injection into a joint virtually painless.

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The inspector-general of police, IGP Usman Baba, has ordered police officers to stop use of unapproved uniforms or clothing while on routine operations. The IGP expressed dismay at the flagrant violation of the approved Nigeria Police Force dress code by officers on patrol and guard, stop and search, and other routine police operations, who have formed the habit of wearing T-shirts and face caps with inscriptions like “Special Forces”, “Commando”, “Gallant MOPOL”, “Scorpion”, and others while on duty. The IGP also described as unacceptable, the use of unapproved apparels, noting that uniform, which is a means of identification, has been abused by these officers who engage in improper dressing. Read Also Don’t Pay For Posting, Relocation, NYSC Tells Corps Members He equally said he fears what the unwholesome practice might creates in the minds of innocent Nigerians. The police PRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the IGP also ordered that henceforth, all police officers detailed for patrol, stop and search, checkpoint, and other routine operational duties must be in approved uniforms for easy identification. Consequently, the IGP has ordered that all Police disciplinary units particularly the Force Provost Marshal, the IGP X-Squad and Monitoring Unit to ensure the strict enforcement of the directive with severe sanctions for erring officers. The IGP has equally warned that all supervisory officers would be held vicariously liable in the event that personnel under their command violate the order.

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Just a mini DBR this evening since I didn't get around to doing one today. I wanted to make sure everyone remembered about the MBB game tonight at 7:05 against a much improved Oklahoma team. - BaylorBears.com has a preview of the game available with TV listings for Texas and out-of-market areas. BIG 12 NETWORK CLEARANCES Central Texas Listings: CWTX / The CW (SD: Time Warner 165, Grande 15; HD: Time Warner 1008, Grande 815), KBTX Other Texas Markets: Abilene / Sweetwater (KIDZ-LP); Amarillo (KCPN); Austin (KBVO); Beaumont / Port Arthur (KUIL-LD); Corpus Christi (KIII-D2); Dallas / Fort Worth (KTXA); Houston (KUBE); Lubbock (KJTV-DT2); Odessa / Midland (KOCB); San Angelo (KIDY); San Antonio (KCWX); Sherman / Ada, Okla. (KXII-DT2); Tyler / Longview / Lufkin / Nacogdoches (KFXK / KLPN) Out-of-Texas Markets: Cedar Rapids / Waterloo / Dubuque, Iowa (KCRG 9.2); Columbia / Jefferson City, Mo. (KZOU); Denver (Altitude); Kansas City, Mo. (KMCI); La Crosse / Eau Claire, Wis. (KQEG); Little Rock / Pine Bluff, Ark. (KARZ); Meridian, Miss. (WTOK-DT2); New York (YES); Oklahoma City (KOCB); Omaha, Neb. (KPTM-DT2); St. Louis (KPLR 11.2); Springfield, Mo. (KOZL); Topeka, Kan. (KSNT-DT); Tulsa (KTUL-DT); Wichita / Hutchinson, Kan. (KMTW); Yuma / El Centro, Ariz. (KSWT-DT2) Also available on ESPN3 and ESPN Full Court - ESPN previews the game, as well, and if you didn't look directly above this line, the game WILL be shown on ESPN3 if you have that available. That's good news for me, at least. ESPN also covered the game in their "What 2 Watch 4" segment, and there is a video online. - A little snippet from SBNation Dallas that might be worth a look. Pretty well covers the bases on why Baylor really, really, really needs to win tonight. - The guys at CBSSports put together a video preview of the game for those that don't like to read. I suppose I can embed it myself since it's from Youtube... 7 Baylor vs. Oklahoma preview (via CBSSports) - The Chicago Tribune also weighs in with their thoughts. Is it me or are we getting more national print articles written about us every year? We have to be, right? I think that's it for now. Look for the GDT to go up for the game 30 minutes beforehand, as always, and I hope to see everyone there!

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A steamy, but breezy, Sunday afternoon saw the Baylor Bears put down the Huskies of Houston Baptist. Although the teams played out to a scoreless draw this spring, there was really only one team in the game this go-round. Much like Friday's victory over Rice, the first half possession and shots favored Baylor (~60% and 8-0, respectively), yet neither team was able to break through on goal. A good three-quarters of the half was spent in HBU's half; Baylor simply would not let the Huskies into their half of the pitch. Because they had the majority of the possession, the Bears also had many more chances to put the ball on goal. Probably three or four of the shots in the first half could have been solid shots on goal if a Huskies defender had not got a foot in at the last moment. Forward Sarah Moghadas went down with an injury late in the half, but she was able to walk off under her own power and would return to the pitch later in the match. The second half started off with a bang as forward Justine Hovden burst past the Houston Baptist defense and beat the keeper in a 1-on-1 situation to give Baylor the lead. Hovden was very good at powering her way down the flanks in the film I watched for the season preview and she certainly is maintaining her reputation with her play through these first two games. Baylor continued to hold possession and control the game throughout the rest of the half. Sara Martinson, the back-up-but-still-plays-good-minutes keeper came in and was very vocal and commanding, which, as a former keeper, I love to see. Bri Campos nearly gave the Bears the clinching goal from almost thirty yards out about two-thirds of the way through the half, but she missed just left. As time was winding down, Sarah Moghadas pulled a nasty move on the touchline to nutmeg the defender, allowing her to put the ball across the net, where it eventually fell to forward Natalie Huggins, who chipped it in from Klose range. Huggins' goal was her first of the season and put the game to bed, despite HBU throwing numbers forward in an attempt to equalize. #DefenseU showed up strong today as Houston Baptist did not even register a shot until there were three minutes left in the game. The Bears now have two shutouts in as many games. Even when HBU was pushing forward, the wall held strong. On the offensive side, Baylor produced numerous chances, though only two found the back of the net - credit to HBU for that. Although there were a few crosses that could have been turned into goal if someone had got to the back post in time. But I'm nitpicking here; it was a great all-around win and should give the Bears momentum as they head off to Utah next weekend. Player of the Game: Justine Hovden. In addition to scoring the game-winning goal, she was hustling all over the pitch and played really well on the flanks today. Baylor heads to Utah this weekend to face Utah Valley on Friday and BYU on Sunday.

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With all the Position Previews done and preparation for SMU kicking off tomorrow, I wanted to wrap things up a bit this evening by looking at the biggest question marks for Baylor's team at this point in time. Some will relate to positions where battles remain, others where injuries have made things a little bit tougher. The point is to get one last look at How Things Are for Baylor Football seven days out from SMU. 5. Injuries at Wide Receiver Excitement over their recruitment (and awesome nickname) aside, had I told you in the summer that Baylor might be seriously considering playing all of the Four Horsemen (2014 WR recruits K.D. Cannon, Ishmael Zamora, Davion Hall, and Chris Platt) this season, you would have thought I was crazy. I would have thought I was crazy. I've said for a while that I thought Cannon and Hall would play, but a Clay Fuller broken clavicle and nagging hamstring injuries for Corey Coleman and Jay Lee have apparently opened things up for all four. No matter how talented our four freshmen are, that fact alone shows that injuries are a bit of a problem. Even if we just play two of them, that's two more than we probably hoped. With Antwan Goodley, Levi Norwood, Coleman, Fuller, and Lee all back, as well as guys like Quan Jones and Lynx Hawthorne waiting in the wings, redshirting all four would probably have been ideal. But assuming Fuller, Coleman, and Lee are all out at this point, Baylor is missing our #3, 4, and 5 returning receivers. That's 1348 out of 3457 returning receiving yards (from WRs), or more than a third. The good news is that even if you assume those three are out right now, injuries heal. At some point, Fuller, Coleman, and Lee will all return -- Lee probably first -- and our opponents will witness the firepower of a fully armed and operational Baylor offense. 4. A "Rebuilt" Offensive Line I put "rebuilt" in quotation marks because that's the word we keep hearing about Baylor's offense line going into 2014. I don't personally believe it's appropriate, but that's what's being said about a group looking to replace All-American Cyril Richardson at left guard and longtime contributor Stefan Huber at center. We're also welcoming back three-year starter Spencer Drango at left tackle. He missed the last 4 games of the season last year after his back injury against Texas Tech, and the offense clearly suffered. I've made no secret of my belief that Baylor's offense line will be at least good, possibly excellent, this season with Drango and Troy Baker at the tackles, Desmine Hilliard at right guard, Kyle Fuller taking over at center, and either Blake Muir or LaQuan McGowan at right tackle. That's a lot of experience returning on the edges to protect Bryce Petty, incredible size across the board, and only one position that is even somewhat in contention. Still, the offensive line is always a concern, even when you don't have to replace your All-American left guard. How this unit gels, and who actually starts in McGowan's stead, are questions in need of answers. 3. Replacing Experienced Linebackers After what seemed like a decade in the green and gold, Sam Holl finally exhausted his eligibility in 2013. Eddie Lackey, here for only a blink by comparison, did, too. That leaves Baylor looking to fill holes at two of the three linebacker spots on the team. At Lackey's spot, last year's backup Aiavion Edwards steps in for his sophomore year with redshirt freshman Taylor Young backing/pushing him in practice. At Holl's, senior Collin Brence emerged from the fray to claim a spot and a scholarship, fending off sophomore Patrick Levels and redshirt freshman Travon Blanchard. Interestingly, the two starters bring completely different attributes to their spots; where Edwards is lauded for his sheer athleticism, you hear constantly about Brence's maturity, intellect, and awareness. With Bryce Hager manning the middle for Baylor as essentially another coach on the field, I can't say that linebacker is a huge position of worry. But until we see how Brence and Edwards react when the metaphorical bullets fly, it is a question. Lackey and Holl were so good last year, and the defense as a whole fed off their experience (from Holl) and playmaking (Lackey). Can Edwards and Brence replicate those things? 2. A Young Secondary You probably thought this would be #1 until you looked ahead and realized #1 isn't specific to any one position. Read or listen to just about any preview of Baylor for this coming season, and you'll see or hear so much about Baylor's secondary that you might start thinking we're pulling guys off the street. A bit of that is easy overreaction, but a lot is genuine concern; Baylor has to replace its top 3 corners in Demetri Goodson, K.J. Morton, and Joe Williams, and a tremendous emotional and play-making leader in Ahmad Dixon. Baylor took a huge step forward on defense last year, and those four guys were all big reasons why. This is, without a doubt, the biggest positional concern on Baylor's 2014 team. We're asking a lot of sophomores Xavien Howard and Terrence Singleton, to say nothing of Ryan Reid, Chris Sanders, and Tion Wright, to step in and start at corner after having never done it before. We're in a bit of a better spot at safety with Orion Stewart, since he: A) started two games last year, and B) gets Terrell Burt to play next to him, but the overall point remains. My confidence in them aside, Baylor is extremely young in the secondary for 2014. 1. Heightened Expectations The successes of the 2013 season have changed things for Baylor and her fans. Where once a Big 12 Championship stood as the goal to which we aspired, now that's not enough. In 2014, Baylor will look go further, repeating as champions of what should be a better conference overall and making the first CFB Playoff ever. Baylor and its fans have to realize that even with all of our talent coming back, what looks to be another record-setting offense ready to go, and plenty of reason for optimism with young guys and on the defensive line, CFB is a nasty business. Our schedule puts a lot of pressure on us to win every single game. That's not going to be easy, but trying should be a lot of fun. There they are, my five biggest questions for 2014 as of this moment. Things I didn't mention but that could probably be here: special teams, always an adventure with Art Briles teams; running back, where we lost Lache Seastrunk and Glasco Martin but returned Rashodrick Linwood and Devin Chafin; and tight end, the new domain of uberfreak Tre'Von Armstead and pass-catcher Gus Penning. In the comments, give me your take as we line up to get ready for SMU in just one short week.

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Before your child’s first visit to the dentist, all they know about the art of teeth-cleaning is what you’ve told them. They doesn&;t have a reason to think a trip to the dentist is anything other than a blast, and you probably want to do what you can to keep it that way. It’s recommended that children have a dentist’s appointment before their first birthday, so it’s possible that you’ve already introduced Baby to the dentist. If it didn’t go perfectly, don’t worry. Although it is Baby‘s first encounter, it won’t be a lasting memory. It’s not going to scar them for life or make them love or hate the dentist forever; it’s more of a building block for immediate future visits. Is my child going to hate the dentist? Get ready for what might be the most annoying answer to any parenting question: it depends! Some children love going to the dentist. They think the toys that are usually in the waiting area are really cool, they like the paper bibs they get, and they consider the toothbrush and tiny toothpaste they get at the end to be really cool little treasures. It’s also easier to love the dentist when you don’t have to undergo any harsh scraping or lectures about flossing, so children who enjoy going to the dentist are often the children with the best dental care habits. (Having a parent with a dentist-positive attitude doesn’t hurt either.) When children don’t like the dentist, it can be for a number of reasons. Medical-looking things might freak them out, which is a valid reaction. The instruments dentists use to clean teeth can look scary, and being in an unfamiliar setting with bright lights and masks can be overwhelming. A child might also dislike the feeling of someone poking around in their mouth or using a weird flavor of toothpaste. At the end of the day, it’s unlikely that Baby would have an unreasonable dislike of the dentist, but there are things you can do to make their experience the best it can be. How do I make the dentist more fun? The first trick is that Baby‘s first several visits probably won’t be the dentist’s visits that you’re used to having. Instead, they’ll be set up to help your little one to get acquainted with the dentist, experience being in the office, and learn that they probably getts a cool gift from a prize box at the end of a visit. It’s also helpful for the dentist because they get to have your child on file in case of a dental emergency, and gives them the background if your family has a history of dental issues like weak enamel. You will also benefit from these visits – the dentist can help walk you through the best strategies for brushing teeth and keeping Baby‘s dental hygiene in tip-top shape. What you can do is help create positive energy in your home surrounding the dentist and dental appointments. Express some excitement when you go to the dentist for your appointments, and make sure Baby knows that you brush your teeth just like they do! Make sure that Baby‘s teeth are brushed at least once a day (nighttime is best if you’re picking one time of day) to help prevent cavities, and therefore help prevent unpleasant dental procedures. Let Baby know that you’re so proud that they are a big kid old enough to go to the dentist. You can also try to create some exciting post-dentist activity that Baby knows they can look forward to after every appointment. Maybe you play a special song on the way home, take a trip to the park, or eat a special (non-sugary, you just went to the dentist!) snack. The dentist is just one stop in a special bonding session with you and Baby! And again, if the first (or first several) appointments don’t go well, try not to force it. Your dentist or pediatrician should be able to do a general check of Baby‘s teeth without being too invasive, and you can try to come back for an appointment another time if Baby is too freaked out. The most important thing is that you’re easing Baby into the world of dentist appointments and that you’re up to date on their oral health. And, of course, that you’re stocking up on cool prizes from the prize box. - “Frequently Asked Questions.” America’s Pediatric Dentists. American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Accessed June 2, 2017. http://www.aapd.org/resources/frequently_asked_questions/

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Summer Frame Sale BUY ONE GET ONE HALF OFF 3 PACK PROMO It's time to put your FAVORITE PICTURES in the FRAMES you have always wanted! What We Are All About "At Oxford Design we pride ourselves on our high quality handmade items and sustainably sourced materials.We strive to minimize our impact on the environment and our picture frames are made from reclaimed redwood boards" Shop now to receive our special offers, Buy One Frame Get One Half Off or our 3 Pack Promo!

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- Mar 9, 2019 - 7:30 pm - 25 to $60. - Musco Center for the Arts, Orange Bach & Vivaldi For tickets, contact Musco Center for the Arts (844-OC-MUSCO). Tickets range from $25 to $60. It’s an evening of Baroque brilliance as Pacific Chorale returns to Chapman’s Musco Center to perform Bach’s “Magnificat” and Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” joined by the authentic period instrumentals of Musica Angelica.

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9298 University Crescent, Burnaby, B.C. Apartment - Burnaby B.C. Large 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom in the heart of the “University” campus. Located centrally in the lower mainland. Minutes walk away from SFU campus or 45 min commute to downtown Vancouver by Bus/Skytrain. SFU is a growing family community with a daycare, elementary school (pre-school programs available). SFU library; fitness centre (available to residents). Nearby grocery and restaurants on the mountain. Unit features include: 2 parking spots Large Balcony with spectacular view of the North Shore Amenities: full fitness gym, common room for parties, visitor parking, bike storage. Building is well maintained by Strata. Garbage and recycling service weekly. This unit is ideal for a young family, working couple, or single professional. No Pets. Smoking Free Building. Tenants insurance is mandatory Credit checks must be available upon request This unit is professionally managed by PacificWest Property Management Ltd. - 2 bed - 2 bath - Remote Garage - Secure Parking

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Whenever you open a guide to Mallorca, whether it is offline or online, you will definitely find there in lame letters some objectives that you should not miss. These are Formentor Lighthouse, Sa Calobra and Port de Soller with its train. Now, of course, we couldn’t miss such places either, since generations of tourists have praised them so much. So we set off on a route that follows the northwestern coast of the island through the famous Sierra Tramuntana. Here is our route. In the first part, we bypassed Pollenca Bay with the aim of reaching on foot, if possible, the famous Formentor Lighthouse, displayed in a place of honor on the “cover” of the island. The golf course has nothing special to mention, the beautiful landscapes starting with the serpentines at the exit from the city. The road climbs in a few tight curves up to the plateau of Cap Formentor . The road continues through a forest to the famous Formentor Beach. Here we were greeted by a poster as big as the house, as if further traffic would not be allowed. We followed the others and continued on our way, with the idea of following the road as far as possible, and then go on foot. The landscape is beautiful, and at one point you reach a beautiful viewpoint called Panoramica al Cap de Formentor. Here are some pictures taken from there. The view really takes your breath away. Next, the road continues to the Formentor Lighthouse, so we continued to climb the series of serpentines that climbs almost close to the mountain slope. After a spectacular tunnel that crosses the western slope and two more curves, I had a surprise. The road ahead was unfortunately closed to cars. We left the car and continued on our way, with our backpacks on our backs. On the left hand side I had a beautiful view of Cala Figuera Beach, a secluded beach that is difficult to reach on a path through the forest. We continued our way and to our surprise, but also to the dozens of cyclists and hikers, after a few curves, we met a “cerberus” that was sitting under an umbrella at the end of the road stopping any access to the lighthouse. Even on foot. I couldn’t help but think of the disappointment of the people who left Formentor Beach on foot and who arrived here after two hours of walking without even being able to reach the final goal: Formentor Lighthouse. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t understand the motivation of the person in question, a wheel in the system of the local town hall, but since we couldn’t do anything, we were satisfied with a few pictures with the lighthouse from where I could climb and we made our way back. We went on to our ultimate goal, Sa Calobra. After descending from Pollenca Bay, the road climbs steeply through the Sierra de Tramuntana. It must be said that the landscape is truly unique. This is thanks to the geological specificity of the mountain ridge you are crossing. Due to the erosion of the rocks, they have acquired all some vertical striations that are unique. Here are some pictures below. We also passed by the road to the Lluc sanctuary, in fact a monastery founded in the 13th century, a place of pilgrimage, considered the holiest place on the island. Honestly Lluc was the second disappointment on the route. At the entrance you are greeted by a large parking lot, probably tailored for swarms of believers who probably are visiting the monastery at events from their religious calendar. We quietly parked our car in the parking lot, and, like any Romanian, with respect for the saints, be they Catholics we headed to the information point to find out what and how to pay for parking. There’s the surprise! With our eyes on the clock, about 10 minutes passed in which the lady at the counter spoke over our heads with a local policeman. Although we asked her to give us some attention, nothing, she continued her discussion. Seeing that we had no chance, we left and noticing that we had lost our patience, he finally took us into account. With an indifference worthy of better causes, he provided us with the few explanations and a leaflet, after which she tactfully continued her conversation with his fellow policeman. I think that from all the experiences so far, the girl from the monastery broke the record, being surpassed maybe only by the waiters from the cafes in Paris. It is another effect of mass tourism. The monastery is modest and apart from an altar with a virgin carved in black wood, considered to be part of its founding legend, it has little to offer. We encountered the same air of “let me leave you”, with people bored to give you explanations, so we hurried on to Escorca, the town from which I knew we would go on a spectacular road to Sa Calobra . And this time Mother Nature has washed away the sins of the locals, because the road from Escorca to Sa Calobra is without a doubt the most spectacular in Mallorca . The road from Escorca to Sa Calobra has a total of 9.5 km and contains no less than 26 serpentines in a hairpin. With an average ramp of 6.8%, it includes some portions where the ramp is 11%. From the top of the Ma-10 road to the Colls del Rais pass are about 2.5 km, the rest of the road descending in tight serpentines to the village of Sa Calobra . The last 3 km are the most dangerous, lacking protective parapets. The road was designed by engineer Antoni Paretti and was built by hand, being put into operation in 1932 . It is a very narrow road and therefore quite dangerous. You need to pay close attention to the curves, especially if you come across other cars coming from the opposite direction. At the peak of the season, when the traffic is maximum, I think it can be an ordeal to drive on this part. There are no shelters and you have to be careful with the horns, because the buses honk in time, like on the Amalfi Coast, to stop and make room for them to pass. Especially when they come from around the corner and you don’t see them from distance. We tried to capture in a movie the most important moments of the descent to Sa Calobra. Here’s what came out. Sa Calobra means snake in Catalan. Hence the name of the snake road for the road that descends into the village. Once here, you can park in a parking lot located at the entrance to the village and after a few hundred meters you reach Sa Calobra Port. Here, unfortunately, you find again the unmistakable signs of mass tourism. “Self service” restaurants, dirty tables, noise and absurd prices. As it was already lunch time, we made the mistake of entering the only pub titled “a la carte service” in the hope of a special experience due to the beautiful panorama of the bay. What a disappointment… It was probably the most miserable and expensive meal I had on the island. That is why I do not recommend you to enter a restaurant in the port. Admire the nature, take a run to Sa Calobra Beach and make your way back. There are enough restaurants on the Ma-10 road or in the localities on the main road. So we took it to Plaja Sa Calobra, on the road that winds through the port, on the right side of the valley. The access to the beach is made through a tunnel dug by hand in the rock, from where you can see superb panoramas of the bay. I tried a video of the access through the tunnel and here is what came out: Sa Calobra Beach is actually the end from the sea of a torrent called Torrent de Pareis, which starts in the mountains, somewhere above the town of Escorca and flows into the sea through the narrow opening that forms the “beach”. I put the necessary quotes because, as you can see from the movie, the place is far from a beach. The whole area is covered with round stones brought by the torrent from the mountain and piled up along the stream to the bay. If you are not careful, you easily twist a leg until you get a bath. However, filled of commercials and images from perfect angles with the beach, a lot of people come here and try to lie on those rocks. I understand that in the peak months, you have no place to put a needle on the whole beach. I said to myself, “Your garden is great, my God”, and I marveled at the ease with which people is taking one after another, falling in love with a picture, even though they are sitting on boulders on an island with hundreds of fine sand beaches. The grandiose landscape, however, fully rewarded us for the road made so far, despite the not very pleasant experience with the locals. Torrent de Pareis is a temporary stream of water, which flows during rainy periods, taking over the water tank from S’Enterforc. From what I understand, the descent on the torrent from Escorca is possible, but it requires mountain boots and a good physical condition, because the road, although dry during the summer, is sprinkled with large boulders that you have to cross. It is a route of about 6 hours that I put on the list for a later hike. Conclusions and recommendations After the experiences of the road through the Sierra Tramontana I can say with my heart that the area is certainly the most spectacular on the island. The landscape is fabulous, and the winding roads take your breath away. Unfortunately, the public services from the objectives we visited do not rise to the heights of the beauties of nature. It seemed to me that the people who serve you are actually fed up with so many tourists, hence the feeling of disgust that can be read on their faces. However, the prices are quite high, in fact adapted to the income of Teutonic tourists, present everywhere on the island. Therefore, I recommend you to avoid the places where many tourists are crowded, praised by leaflets, in order to save you and enjoy the splendid nature of the area. Good luck! Last modified: 23 June 2022

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22 Sep Some Important Facts About Vertebral Compression Fracture Vertebral compression fracture is mostly dangerous for old people and people having some kind of bone related disease. The blocks of the vertebral column get compressed causing immense pain and immobility. The causes of spine compression fracture are many.Some of them are discussed below: Main causes of vertebral compression Fracture - Trauma or accidents- Generally old people, if they have an accident like falling from a great height, are likely to suffer from vertebral compression fractures. That is why you should take good care of your loved ones all the more when you are driving. Car accidents have also said to be the cause of such misfortunes. - Osteoporosis- It is a bone disease, generally of the aged people, where the bones get brittle giving rise to such unfortunate circumstances. Women generally suffer from the disease after their menopause. Osteoporosis is one of the most important reasons why vertebral compression failure occurs. - Pathological disorders- If someone has a history of bone cancer or related disorder, the chances for vertebral compression fracture increases. Cancers have the reputation of traveling inside your body and if they reach your bones, vertebral compression failure is one of the most common problems that can occur to you. How will you know that you may have vertebral compression fracture? The most common symptoms of vertebral compression fracture has been jotted below: - No doubt, the first of all symptoms will be pain. Generally your lower backside experiences the pain but it can also be sensed in your hips, thighs or abdomen if the condition becomes more serious. Some patients have also reported to a neck pain due to vertebral compression fracture. - The patient will face difficulties to urinate or pass stool. Pain will follow and urination can stop altogether. This is an emergency condition which has to be treated immediately. Again sometimes, they also may not be very able to control urine or stool. Simply put, anomalies will occur, although it will be perceived differently in different people. - If the nervous system is affected you may feel numbness around the fractured area. There are other symptoms as well but the most common ones are mentioned above. In all cases, you have to visit a qualified and experienced orthopedist if the problem persists for sometime. A few more essential facts about vertebral compression fracture - People in their old ages are more prone to compression fractures. So, take care of your loved ones when they grow old. Do not let them lift up heavy objects or bend low to pick something fallen at their feet. However, if the chronic back pain is already there, it is best to visit a reputed orthopedists for check up. - Many people do not seem to take care of their back pains that persists over a long time. Sometimes, they are not just some old age sign but vertebral compression fractures that should be taken care of immediately. So, whether you are having a back pain or vertebral compression fracture, let the doctors be the judge of it. All you have to do is go to a reputed pain management clinic and get yourselves thoroughly checked.

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|On this Monday afternoon, the Lackawanna Limited speeding along at 70 MPH to make up twenty minutes of lost time, sideswiped a switcher freight engine that had not fully cleared the main line. There were more than 500 passengers aboard the 11-car train. The track-side signals and cab signals indicated clear. The engineer of the switcher thought he had time to finish his chores and was moving along the siding. The engineer of the express noticed the moving switcher on the siding and assumed it would stop; when he realized it was not, he applied the emergency brakes, but too late to avoid the ensuring collision. The Limited’s locomotive sliced off the front end of the switcher and split its boiler, derailing itself and several following cars. Every window in the express was shattered and scalding water burst from the broken boiler of the switcher flooded the windowless Nickel plate coach which had stopped by the switcher. Twenty-six passengers in that car were killed from the scalding water and steam. Riding in the cab of the Limited was F. H. Meincke, DL&W’s superintendent of locomotives. He jumped from the cab and was killed when the engine toppled on him; the engineer and fireman was not injured. Two other passengers died later. About four months later, an inquest was held which, although declaring “negligence of employees and failure of officials of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad to provide adequate safety facilities”, the coroner concluded that no useful purpose would be served by recommending criminal action. At The Wayland Hospital At Bath Memorial Hospital At Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester All died of steam burns except Fred Henry Meincke. |No newspaper name, 03 Sep 1943, 28 Dead, 110 Injured in Wreck at Wayland Clayton L. Roloson, of Bath and Mrs. Francis Ripley, of Painted Post, Among Those Who Lost Thier Lives. Mrs. Francis Ripley mentioned in this article is Mrs. Judson Ripley, nee Frances Ferris. |The two girls are my girl fiend Edith Schemalleck and myself. Julia Richmond (at the time) It was taken when we were patients in Bath Memorial Hospital. When we had recovered enough they let us go out during the day and the people were so nice in Bath. We were in the hospital for 2 weeks. I was severly burned and Edith had cut all the veins in her right wrist and has never really had the good use of that arm. She had run into the bathroom which was right by our seat and when the steam entered the coach, she panicked and broke the window with her fist instead of taking off her shoe and almost cut her wrist off. It was a miracle that we got out of that alive. There were about 18 in our group (called the land army) going to salvage the crops. If I remember correctly, only four of us survived in that group. I don't know who the rest of the passengers in that coach were., but that was the coach where all the ones who perished were. ................from Julia Richmond Taylor November 9, 2009 Julia died 9 Dec 2013 and is buried in Hillcrest Abbey West Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia |ICC Report DL&W Wayland NY 08-30-1943.pdf| If you have anything of genealogical or historical interest to add to this site, or if you are interested in becoming a member of the Painted Hills Genealogy Society, please contact us at: This page is maintained by the PHGS Last Update 5 September 2022

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We understand what brings you to our team: drywall damage. And if you are indeed in need of drywall repair in Pickering, Ontario, our company is the perfect choice for the job. Why is that, you are asking? We’ll tell you. You see, at Painter Pickering, we work with drywall for years. Most – if not all – interior painting services involve painting drywall – hence, fixing drywall dents. There are always some dents. Sometimes, they are quite serious and there’s a need for drywall patching. Since not all problems are the same, we are fully prepared to handle them all. And whether there’s a need for some drywall repairs, patching, or the panel’s removal, the job required is done and is carried out to a T. See? We are the right team to contact when you face drywall damage. Call now for drywall repair in Pickering If there’s damage and thus, a need for drywall repair, Pickering residents can book the service in an easy and fast manner. All you need to do is message or call our company. Just to be clear, you don’t have to book a painting job to have your drywall fixed. But you can be sure that when drywall is repaired, it’s also painted. Your place is left neat and the drywall panel looks at its best. Since not all dents are the same, drywall repair contractors are sent to check and make a note of the extent of damage. For example, large holes and soaked panels may need a different approach. In some cases, the panel must be removed just to be sure of the structural integrity. Other times, there’s a need for drywall patching. When there are only a few cracks and small holes, these are easily filled. The point is that you don’t have to worry about your drywall panels anymore. No matter what’s needed, it’s done – from drywall installation to patching and repairs. From drywall patching to drywall installation, full services Be sure that when you turn to us, you actually put your trust in the hands of experienced drywall installation contractors and repair experts. Not only do you get the perfect solution to your drywall problem but also the service carried out as soon as possible and in an expert manner. Whether the pros must fix drywall bruises, fill cracks, patch holes, or install a new panel, they start and complete the job to perfection. Tell us if you seek a drywall contractor in Pickering right now. Why delay a service needed, especially if there’s some serious damage that must be fixed shortly? Let us start with the obvious – that’s to send a pro to check the drywall damage, define the seriousness of the problem, offer you solutions, and provide an estimate. Let’s do all that so that you will know all things you need to know about the service and actually get the needed in Pickering drywall repair in a timely fashion.

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Why visit d’Arenberg? - You want the ultimate wine tasting experience in South Australia - You appreciate art and architecture - You long for a wine tasting experience showcasing variety - You’re in search of the best views in McLaren Vale and/or some Instagrammable scenes - You want to be wowed d’Arenberg -The Winery Established in 1912, d’Arenberg has always been a pioneering force amidst the McLaren Vale wine scene. The winery’s origins can be traced back to some seriously successful horse bets, a failed attempt at a medical degree, and a generous father. The short of it goes a little something like this – Frank Osborn gets sick during university and fails to obtain his medical degree. Frank’s dad, Joseph Osborn, is balling out following significant success at the horse race track. He decides to purchase the d’Arenberg property, then known as Bundarra, and encourages his son to take up the land. The family soon plants the first vineyards – 8 acres of Shiraz, of course! Frank’s first vintage yields 100 tons which sell for an ‘outrageous’ price (ha!) of 20£ per ton. Frank eventually marries Helena d’Arenberg and, after much encouraging, his wine industry mentor/brother-in-law convinces Frank to start making wine and build a winery of his own. In 1928, Frank begins sales with a dry red table wine and a port style wine intended for the export market. The business continues to grow over the next 15 years. When Frank never fully recovers his health following the Great War his son, Francis d’Arenberg Osborn, a.k.a. d’Arry, leaves school at the age of 16 to work at the winery full time. Decades later, d’Arry launches his own wine label under the name d’Arenberg with the winery’s signature red stripe inspired by his school uniform from Prince Alfred College. Today, current winemaker and 4th generation vintner Chester Osborn (d’Arry’s son) continues the family affair producing interesting Australian wines under traditional, labor-intensive methods. d’Arenberg produces a massive range of wines from Riesling to Rhône, Bordeaux, Spanish, and even some Italian varieties. Over the years, the wines have received international recognition and awards. The winery is one of few in Australia to find success in exports to the European market. For more on the d’Arenberg story or the numerous accolades the wine, restaurants, and the Cube have garnered, click here. Standing as a beacon for the South Australian wine industry and South Australian tourism in general, the Cube offers a wine oriented experience unlike any other. The Cube itself is a multi-level, multi-function building set amongst the d’Arenberg vineyards. You can literally spot it from a mile away beckoning you to come play. The experience begins upon approaching the Cube’s entrance as ambient, sonic-sounding music floats up from the surrounding vines. After being warmly greeted by staff and paying the $10 entrance fee, you are escorted into the sensory room. The walls of this room are dreamily covered in beautiful faux flowers setting an enchanting mood. Glass jugs attached to the walls of the room are filled with different scents of specific aromas you are likely to discover in wine. Guests squeeze the rubber ball to emit the aroma from a small horn attached to the top of the jugs. Then smell aromas of currants, coffee, lemon, vanilla, violets, plum, etc. The first floor also houses the Alternate Realities museum and a 360 degree video viewing room that details the history of d’Arenberg with some eccentric twists. The other Cube experiences are just a short elevator ride away. The second floor houses the winery offices, function spaces, and is currently home to an authentic Salvador Dali sculptural art exhibit for a limited time. On the third floor you’ll find the d’Arenberg Cube Restaurant which sort of has this cubic, minimalist vibe that flows with the venue’s other design elements. Michelin starred chefs and husband-wife duo Brendan Wessels and Lindsay Durr have created an exquisite nine or five course degustation menu. Guests can also opt for a more intimate dining experience at the chef’s table. The cellar door tops the Cube on the fourth floor. Guests are invited to choose from an expansive tasting list of 30+ wines while bellying up to the wrap around bar in the center of the room. And when I say expansive, I mean expansive. Think Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier, Chardonnay, Riesling, Mencía, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sagrantino, Cinsault, and more! Not to mention dessert and fortified wines. Decorated with whimsical artwork and topped by a screen with moving imagery, this is no regular bar. And not your average tasting list to match. The best part of the Cube’s cellar door are the views! Stepping out onto the balcony on the west side of the building gives the ultimate photo-op with a gorgeous view from d’Arenberg’s estate vineyards all the way to the sea. A second balcony on the opposite side of the Cube provides just as gorgeous views of McLaren Vale’s surrounding vineyards. Even without going outside, you can take in the views through the artistically cut windows while sipping on your vino. In addition to tastings at the bar, the Cube has a lovely area reserved for seated tastings and a private tasting room for their premium wine flights. The design is definitely unique and I enjoyed spotting all the details. I especially loved how the elevator doors were framed by an arch of colorful winery pump hoses reminiscent of a rainbow. The Cube is quite the experience and definitely a must see when visiting South Australia. The eccentric and quirky elements give the venue a unique personality that begs to be experienced. I can’t say I have ever been to a winery quite like this one. Tasting & Dining Experiences The d’Arenberg Cube Entrance & Tasting – $10 per person. Explore all the Cube has to offer and enjoy a tasting with panoramic views in the cellar door. Premium Wine Flights – $40 per person. Discover the range of d’Arenberg’s premium wines and explore regional terroir and winemaking techniques in a private hosted tasting. The Blending Bench – $90 per person. Become a winemaker for a day with this hands on experience where you create your own blend. Then take home a bottle of your favorite creation. The Dead Arm Shiraz Vertical Masterclass – $200 per person. Explore six vintages of d’Arenberg’s flagship wine paired with a cheese plate. Take home a bottle of the current vintage release. Varietal Discovery Masterclass – $75 per person. Learn how to taste and identify classic grape varieties while enjoying a selection of cheeses. The d’Arenberg Cube Restaurant Degustation Dining – Open for lunch Thursday – Sunday. $210 per person for the seasonally changing degustation menu. Optional wine pairings available for $95. Extensive wine list features a selection of imported wines along with d’Arenberg’s current vintage and museum releases. The d’Arenberg Restaurant Chef’s Table – Enquire for Pricing. Offers an extended tasting menu and dedicated sommelier. Enjoy exclusive views into the dynamic, state of the art kitchen. Room for up to six guests. d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant – Open for lunch daily. Draws inspiration from local and seasonal produce to complement d’Arenberg’s award winning wines and a selection of international treats. Polly’s Wine Lounge – Open daily 11am-4pm. No bookings required. Located in the same 19th century homestead housing d’Arry’s Verandah. Enjoy made-to-order platters alongside wines by the glass or bottle. Soak in the views of McLaren Vale from the deck or lawn, or cozy up by the fire. For more on McLaren Vale, click here.

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A payroll account is a type of account used specifically for employee compensation, whether it’s to do with salary, wage, or bonuses. These accounts act as hubs for all factors concerning payroll transactions. When it’s time to pay employees, organizations draw directly from these accounts to ensure a streamlined payroll process. Payroll accounts’ main benefits include keeping payroll transactions secure, while ensuring easy tracking and auditing of transaction history. They’re usually offered by traditional financial institutions, as well as payroll service providers. Comparing bank payroll accounts and E-wallets Payroll accounts are offered by both traditional financial institutions and fintechs. Banks’ payroll accounts tend to be more trusted due to regulatory and security reasons. Another reason may be that the organization in question is already using other services by the FI – adding another layer of familiarity. With that being said, banks’ payroll accounts are often more expensive and may involve a slower bureaucratic p[process when opening the payroll account or requesting any changes. On the opposite end are E-wallets, which tend to come with fewer fees, more digital capabilities, and flexibility. A couple of big concerns that still linger when it comes to E-wallets have to do with security factors and lack of a regulatory framework. Using payroll accounts for global workforce compensation Employee compensation gets vastly more complicated on a global scale. While a bank payroll account may seem like the safer choice, for example, it can come with its downslides for global workforce compensation, including a slower transfer process, time zone issues, regulatory hurdles, transaction errors, and data inaccuracies. E-wallets, in this case, can come in handy. They can answer the need for speed and accuracy. As well as that, lots of providers allow for opening multiple E-wallets, making cross-currency conversion less of a problem. With that, it’s important to ensure that the e-wallets of your choice are as or even more secure than bank payroll accounts.

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Wearing a face mask in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic is about protecting yourself and those around you in the workplace, restaurants, stores, and in the community as a whole. Unfortunately, wearing a face mask the wrong way does not provide protection. It may even create a false sense of safety that puts others at risk. Paragon Global Supply stocks disposable, 3-ply face masks with 99% bacterial filtration efficiency. These are superior to cloth face masks as they offer a complete fit around the face, eliminating gaps found in cloth masks that allow the virus to be expelled from the edges of the cloth mask through coughing and sneezing. Tips for Putting On and Removing the Mask Putting on the mask is a simple procedure. The 3-ply masks at Paragon Global Supply are designed with elastic ear loops that slip over the ears and secure the mask comfortably in place. Before putting on your mask, start by washing your hands. Lather for at least twenty seconds, then rinse and dry your hands. Pick up the mask by the ear loop on one side, ensuring the darker outer layer is facing away. Check to make sure the wider edge of the mask is at the top, as this area contains a flexible wire to shape the mask to fit the nose and cheek area. Place the ear loop on one ear and then the other. Use the thumb and index finger to gently push the top edge of the mask to conform to the bridge of your nose and the cheek. The mask should fit against your cheeks and not gap or push open at the sides. Holding the mask in place with your thumb and forefinger on the bridge of your nose, pull the mask downward gently to extend the pleats and allow the lower edge of the mask to rest under your chin. To remove the mask, grab the ear loops and pull out and away from the face. Avoid touching the inside of the mask and throw it away immediately. Follow up by washing your hands. Mistakes to Avoid No matter how effective a mask is at filtering out bacteria, viruses, and airborne droplets, if it is not worn the right way, it will not be effective. Too often, people wear masks incorrectly, which not only creates a false sense of safety, but it puts others at greater risk. We’ve all seen it; people may be wearing a mask but it’s below their nose, doesn’t cover their chin, or most commonly the sides are wide open. Here are some tips on what to avoid: - Not covering the nose – failing to cover the nose means that airborne droplets from sneezing or even heavy exhalation through the nostrils will travel as far as 8 meters from the body. Even wearing a superior mask, like Paragon’s, that offers 99% bacterial filtration efficiency only counts if the nose and mouth are covered and the mask is fitted correctly. - Not adjusting the wire to fit the bridge of the nose – failing to pinch the mask over the bridge of the nose creates a gap for droplets to escape the mask filter. In addition, failing to adjust the bridge of the nose of the mask allows the mask to move around and make it less comfortable to wear. - Not covering the chin – this is the same issue, just at the bottom of the mask rather than the top. When the mask conforms to the bridge of the nose and is under the chin, it is held in place and is easier to wear, even for a long period of time. - Taking off the mask – taking off the mask by pulling it under the chin or unhooking one ear, or taking any other type of “mask break” creates two risks. One risk is the higher likelihood of touching the mouth or nose with the hands, which can transmit COVID-19 or other diseases. The second is contaminating the inside of the mask. Keeping the mask in place eliminates these issues. Finally, avoid wearing disposable masks more than one time. The disposable, 3-ply masks at Paragon Global Supply are very cost-effective, offer 99% filtration efficiency, and also provide a comfortable way to keep everyone safe. To get your own 3-ply mask today visit our online store at https://shop.paragonglobalsupply.com/ Be Safe, Feel Comfortable, Breathe Freely. 3-Ply Disposable Face Masks (50-pack) Starting at $12.99

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Management consulting firm Accenture has released a new report focused on the digital performance of the post and parcel industry. The report found that while the majority of delivery firms are good at planning digital strategies, there was a distinct lack of investment when it came to putting them into action. The report, titled The Value Game-Changer: Digital Performance in the Post and Parcel Industry, examined the digital performance of 31 post and parcel organizations to understand how digital technologies could help generate revenue in conjunction with a booming e-commerce market. Using its Digital Performance Index, Accenture quantitatively assessed the level of digital investment and progress across four business functions plan (digital strategy); make (digital production and delivery); sell (digital customer experience) and manage (digital corporate culture and operations). The assessment entailed evaluating 42 business activities, including customer service, sales, operations and the supply chain. The results showed that while e-commerce is driving a very different digital experience in retail, the shipping and delivery of goods purchased online is not nearly as digitally enabled as in other industries (electronics, communications, retail, banking and utilities) and lacks the investment required to keep up with changing consumer habits. Brody Buhler, who leads Accenture’s global post and parcel business, said, “As the pace of digital change is accelerating, daily, last-mile delivery companies will need to leverage digital solutions to remain relevant and competitive in a fast-changing market. E-commerce growth is enticing new entrants and investment. This growth and competition will force post and parcel organizations to digitize to create the agility and flexibility they will need. And those same digital capabilities will be essential to creating the growth they’ll need to achieve high performance.” The report revealed that the post and parcel industry, like many of the world’s leading companies, is not translating digital investments into better financial performance. For example, only 6% of all companies studied, as well as 6% of post and parcel organizations, are considered “Digital High Performers”, which combine strong digital performance with strong financial performance. The report also found that while the post and parcel industry has 44% more “Business Leaders” than other industries assessed, only 10% of post and parcel companies are considered “Digital Leaders”. Post and parcel organizations also score better at planning for digital than executing those plans, according to the report, which calls for additional action to assess and improve results of digital investments and to create a culture that takes full advantage of digital. While 90% of posts focus on digital capabilities such as data analytics and predictive modeling in their business strategies, and more than 70% have a social media presence for customer interaction, less than 30% have a dedicated budget for digital programs. The report shows that digital strategies are just beginning to evolve in the post and parcel industry but predicted that these will become increasingly important over the next few years. To read more from the report, click here. April 18, 2017

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Click here to download or play the mp3 audio file. Top Do's and Don'ts for Parenting Children with Health Issues and Other Special Needs This free audio is a recording of child psychiatrist Foster Cline MD's keynote lecture at the Cystic Fibrosis Research Inc’s 19th Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA. The information presented is essential for parents and caregivers of children with any health issue or special need. You will learn the answers to these questions and more: - What is the one thing parents should never do when a child is resistant to medical treatments, medications or dietary restrictions? - What does parenting a child with special needs and leadership have in common? - How can parental love for a child make the situation worse? - How can parents raise children who are respectful, responsible and have high coping skills? - Why is it dangerous when a parent “needs to be needed"? - What is life’s biggest problem for a parent whose child has a special need? - How do kids really learn how to take good care of their bodies? Hint: It’s not nagging or lecturing… Many thanks to Carroll Jenkins of CFRI for donating this recording to us. We also thank Philip Howell and Scott Wakefield for recording the event. See www.cfri.org for more information about cystic fibrosis. If you are a medical or mental health professional and would like to order a free hard copy CD, please click here. Copyright 2006- 2016 by Epic LLC, Foster W. Cline, MD, Lisa C. Greene, MA, CFLE and/or individual authors where specifically indicated. All rights reserved. For permission to reprint, please contact us via the contact page of this webite or at 2620 Bellevue Way NE #146, Bellevue, WA 98004. The information published on this website or in any connected material -- downloads, emails, message boards, books, CDs, DVDs, videos, conferences -- or any other derivative information is the opinion of Epic, LLC only and is not meant to supplant or replace professional medical or mental health care. Medically-based reasons for behavioral problems should always be considered first. Persons should seek the advice of a medical professional when making decisions about personal healthcare or treatment. Epic LLC is not responsible for any situation or outcome as a result of the personal use of the information published on this website or connected materials. Love and Logic is a registered trademark of The Institute for Professional Development, Ltd., Cline/Fay Institute, Inc., The Love and Logic Institute, Inc., and/or The Love and Logic Press, Inc. This website is not associated with or sponsored by The Institute for Professional Development Ltd. and its affiliates except for a publisher/author relationship with The Love and Logic Press. All materials including graphics, print, audio, video and any other media contained in this website, the book Parenting Children with Health Issues and derivatives are copyrighted by Foster W. Cline MD (co-founder of Love and Logic) and/or Lisa C. Greene unless otherwise noted. Website graphics designed by Pneuma Books, LLC.

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