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Montreal Biodome, Montreal, Quebec
4777 Pierre-de-Coubertin Ave., Montreal, Quebec H1V 1| Map |
The word Biodome comes from the Greek words ''Bios'' or ''Life,'' and ''Domos'' or ''House.'' Certainly, the Montreal Biodome lives up to its name, as it has recreated some of the most diverse, life-sustaining ecosystems in the Americas. Guests can visit the Tropical Rainforest, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Sub-Antarctic Islands without the jet lag, because stepping inside the Biodome means traveling the world. Various animals as well as plants can be viewed, which should entertain even the smallest members of the party. If kids are somehow bored by watching penguins play, the Biodome has workbooks for children to fill out during their visit, keeping them focused and supplied with constant fun. Day camps are also offered for the little ones, making the Montreal Biodome a great place for children to learn about mother earth and all her complexities.
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Kids' workbooks can be downloaded online in preparation for the visit.
Address: 4777 Pierre-de-Coubertin Ave., Montreal, Quebec H1V 1| Map
Phone: 514-868-3000
URL: http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/biodome/site/site.php?langue=en
Hours: Summer: Mon-Sun 9 am - 6 pm; Spring break: Mon-Sun 9 am - 8:30 pm; Rest of year: Mon-Sun 9 am - 5 pm. Closed on many Mondays and Sundays. Check schedule. More Info
Price: Adults (18-64): C$16.50; Seniors (65+): C$12.50; Student (18+ w/ID): C$12.50; Child (5-12): C$8.25; Children (2-4): C$2.50; Children under 2: Free More Info
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This is a must-do in Montreal with kids. Housed in a former Olympic facility, the Biodome allows visitors to walk through a variety of climates and to experience the plant and animal life native to that region (Canadian woods, polar/arctic, rainforest, etc). Penguins and puffins, lynx, otters, monkeys, water fowl, and more can be seen along the way. You can easily spend a full morning or afternoon here. You can buy ticket packages for the Biodome along with the Montreal Insectarium, Montreal Botanical Garden, and Montreal Planetarium for a reduced cost. However, if you're looking to kill some time on a rainy day in Montreal with kids or if you're in the city during the winter when visiting the Botanical Garden isn't possible, definitely visit the Biodome by itself and/or along with the Insectarium for some indoor fun. Kids will especially enjoy the on-site aquarium, especially the piranhas!
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Parking isn't exactly obvious when you get there, so be sure to look at a map of the facilities before you leave to get a sense of where you should go. If you happen to enter the wrong parking area, don't worry - the toll collectors are very helpful and will point you in the right direction. If your child needs a snack break, head downstairs by the bathrooms. You may want to carry rather than check your coats, as there will be at least one chilly section to walk through.
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We stayed at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, but I think it's better for older kids. It's connected to the Underground and has a nice pool area, but the rooms are small and a bit cramped. If you have little kids, go for a suite-style hotel with an in-room kitchen. One plus if you do stay there with little kids is that the pool area has a separate smaller pool for the little ones.
Suggestions for nearby family-friendly restaurants
After the Biodome, we headed to Areperas de Plateau for Venezuelan areperas (gluten-free pocket sandwiches stuffed with slow-roasted shredded meats and/or veggies). It was fantastic! Kids and adults alike will love the sandwiches, and they juice tropical fruits (soursop, passion fruit, tamarind, etc) on the premises. Highly recommmended!
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South Orange, New Jersey
- Visited: June 2012
- Submitted: Apr 16, 2013
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The Biodome de Montreal is a must for any family traveling to Montreal.Flag review
A visit here will take you through 4 different Ecosystems (Tropical Rainforest, Laurentian Maple Forest, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Sub-Polar regions). Over 4,800 animals from 230 different species and 750 plant types co-exist in this space, making for a unique, fun and very educational experience.
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Within the same compound and a short walk away are the Insectarium, the Botanical Garden, and the Olympic Park with the Montreal Tower.
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Efficient (foaled 23 August 2003) is a grey Thoroughbred racehorse gelding, bred in New Zealand, who won the 2007 Melbourne Cup and the 2006 Victoria Derby, both times ridden by Michael Rodd.
Efficient was by the outstanding sire Zabeel from the mare Refused The Dance by Defensive Play (USA). He is a half brother to Guillotine, winner of the 2008 MVRC Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes.
In his first campaign in the spring of 2006 he put together five consecutive wins including the Group 2 Aami Vase at Moonee Valley and ending with a win in the VRC Derby by 2½ lengths. Following his Derby win Efficient was entered into the Melbourne Cup field, run three days later. However, he did not pull up well enough and so was scratched from the race and spelled instead.
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In the comparison of various statistical procedures, efficiency is a measure of the optimality of an estimator, of an experimental design, or of a hypothesis testing procedure. Essentially, a more efficient estimator, experiment, or test needs fewer observations than a less efficient one to achieve a given performance. This article primarily deals with efficiency of estimators.
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DelVal students apply real-world training at North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge
May 03, 2016
Delaware Valley University participated in the 15th Annual North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) held April 7 through April 9 in Liverpool, New York. In total, 247 students from 39 colleges across the U.S. and Canada attended this educational event. These students are training for careers in the dairy industry as farmers, researchers, educators, financial analysts, nutritionists, farm service providers and veterinarians.
DelVal's team included: Noah Gesford '16, Clarissa Fuoss Reed '16, Olivia Bingeman '16, and Rose Guerrette '16. Dr. Bruce Richards, assistant professor of animal science, coached the team.
Dairy Challenge is an innovative two-day competition for students representing dairy science programs at North American universities. It enables students to apply theory and learning to a real-world dairy, while working as part of a four-person team. In its 15-year history, Dairy Challenge has helped train more than 5,000 students through the national contest, Dairy Challenge Academy and four regional contests conducted annually.
Collegiate participants visited six dairy farms in New York, as part of their training to help farmers evaluate and adapt management to optimize success and animal care. Also, industry professionals presented cutting-edge research, new programs and career opportunities to students.
Each contest team received information from an area dairy, including production and farm management data. After an in-person inspection of the dairy, students interviewed the herd owners. Each team developed a farm analysis and recommendations for nutrition, reproduction, milking procedures, animal health, housing and financial management.
The event culminated with team members presenting recommendations and then fielding questions from a panel of judges. These official judges included dairy producers and industry experts in dairy finances, reproduction, nutrition and animal health. Presentations were evaluated for accuracy of analysis and recommendations, with awards presented at a final banquet.
The Dairy Challenge Academy was developed in 2013 to expand this educational and networking event to more college students. Academy student-participants also analyzed and developed recommendations for operating dairies; however, the Academy was organized in mixed-university teams with two Advisors to help coach these younger students.
Academy participants from Delaware Valley University included Matt Ringer '18, Matt Driscoll '18, Bridget McConn '17 and Tess Stahl '17.
North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge was established as a management contest to incorporate all phases of a specific dairy business. Its mission is to develop tomorrow's dairy leaders and enhance progress of the dairy industry, by providing education, communication and networking among students, producers, and agribusiness and university personnel. NAIDC is supported completely through generous donations by 120 agribusinesses and dairy producers, and programs are coordinated by a volunteer board of directors.
Ashley Mohn '16 was selected to represent the University on the media and communications team at the Dairy Challenge® preparing pictures, videos, and updates for social media outlets throughout the event.
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Dillon Fence was one of the most popular Southeast club acts in the '90s.
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"In my life, music has been something that's helped me to transcend my problems," says Humphreys, sitting in the shade of his back porch on a sticky summer afternoon. "Part of what I wanted to do with Hobex was to show that live musicians can still deliver that transcendent night of fun where you come and you just shake it all night."
He laments the current state of alternative rock and hip-hop ("a lot of it seems to be focused on the darker side of human nature") and delights in the fact that Hobex and its sunny-side-up soul music are completely out of step with the times. "When I look at the people in 20th-century music who made a difference or made music that lasts--Louis Armstrong or Bob Dylan or Hank Williams--they were communicating something about human nature. What Hobex is trying to do is not all dark and it's not all light--it's a little bit of both. It's human."
Humphreys grew up in Winston-Salem and later moved to Chapel Hill to attend UNC. His father, whom Humphreys describes as "an unfulfilled guitar player," died when he was 50. Greg was just 22, and it's clear from talking to him that he feels he's carrying out his father's legacy. "A lot of my good memories growing up were with him. He was a fan of music. He had a big record collection, and he always recognized really great songs."
His father's death tempered the joy he should have felt when his pop band Dillon Fence, "a weekend thing" he'd started with college pals Kent Alphin and Chris Goode, took off. The band would become one of the most popular Southeast club acts of the early '90s. "The only problem for me," recalls Humphreys, "was that it was almost like we had a sell-by date. I really wanted to be a professional musician, but Chris and Kent had other plans besides traveling around in a van for the rest of their lives. I can't blame them, because if you don't have that irrational love of playing music onstage, you probably won't be doing it for long."
He acknowledges that after an early creative blossoming, the band's sound became "a little formulaic. We were trying to do different things, but our record company and our fans wanted the old band and the old songs. Do you know how hard that can be when you're pushing 30, and you're playing songs you wrote when you were 18 years old?"
Despite being wildly popular with the college kids, the lush pop of Dillon Fence didn't really fit in with the Chapel Hill noise-rock renaissance. "I felt like an outcast," Humphreys says frankly. "The Island of Misfit Toys? Absolutely. But feeling that way kind of released me from peer pressure. I knew that no matter what I did it wouldn't be accepted, so I was free to do whatever the hell I wanted."
The two biggest breaks came to Dillon Fence near the end, after Alphin and Goode had quit. First, the group was asked to open for the Black Crowes on a 30-city European tour. They played a packed 10,000-seat stadium in Rotterdam and got to hobnob with Jimmy Page after a show in Paris. "He apologized for missing our set," Humphreys says with amazement. "We were like, 'OK, you're sorry you missed our set, Jimmy Page!'"
Soon after, some old pals from the Southeast college circuit--Hootie and the Blowfish--offered up the opening slot on their tour. (The two bands knew each other so well that guitarist Mark Bryan once admitted to Humphreys that the Hootie chart-topper "I Only Wanna Be With You" was lifted from the Dillon Fence song "Sad Inheritance.")
Hootie had just graduated to multi-platinum status, and Humphreys knew they were delighted to put their old friends in front of huge crowds every night. "I must say that getting up on stage with them and playing a song ('Hold My Hand') that I'd thought was kind of corny and hearing 20,000 people singing was a really good feeling."
To Humphrey's surprise, Dillon Fence fans didn't exactly flock to see Hobex when it debuted in spring 1996. "When a lot of them realized that it wasn't the old band--that it was something new--they were disappointed. So it really was starting from scratch. It was very humbling. But that's fine because it kind of focused me and reminded me that I'm doing this for music."
In bassist and long-time friend Andy Ware, Humphreys found a perfect sidekick. "He's a very melodic bass player and a great singer," Humphreys says of Ware, whose style effortlessly mixes British Invasion with funk and soul influences. Drummer Steve Hill filled out the original lineup but had to retire due to recurrent back troubles.
As part of Humphreys' grand vision, Hobex has evolved from power trio to full-on soul revue with new drummer Dustin Clifford, keyboardist Kai Alexander, percussionist Herb Kendrick and a rotating cast of horn players. And Humphreys' true voice--both as a songwriter and a genuine soul-singer--has emerged. "I was trying to get to that musical place with Hobex. I was just kind of rocked out. I love rock 'n' roll but it's just not the only music out there. I just had to break out and open the windows."
"I think Greg is a real soul singer," says Jimbo Mathus, founder of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Humphreys' bandmate in the Jas. Mathus Knock Down Society. The two met during a tubing trip on the Yadkin River several years ago, and spent a couple evenings playing old gospel and bluegrass songs together. "He's a great white soul singer, and I say that because it's mostly a black man's field. It's a sympathetic, intuitive thing. Greg doesn't have to try to be a soul singer, he just is. He has a great gift, and a style that's unique--poppy but real soulful. His songs have that timeless feel to them."
While Humphreys' songs may be timeless, so too are many of the challenges he's had to face. "Being a musician is like the second-oldest profession in the world," he says knowingly. Getting screwed may be part of the job description in the oldest profession, but in the second-oldest, history has shown it's often a sad inevitability. If the musician is the hooker with the heart of gold, his record label can seem like both pimp and john.
Humphreys called the Hobex debut the Payback EP, a reference to coming up against "the real, exploitative face of the music industry." In his mind, that face looks a lot like Jay Faires, the former head of Mammoth Records who years ago persuaded Dillon Fence to lend its name-recognition and credibility to his startup record label. Later, after Mammoth had become successful, Humphreys says Faires was quick to put the bottom line before friendship and trust. "I told him I thought we were in this together. Jay Faires is a jackass, and you can quote me on that."
Hobex self-released its first two albums, then cautiously began fielding overtures from labels. The winning suitor was London Records, which bypassed any honeymoon period and quickly made Hobex, in Humphrey's words, "a pawn in a corporate game." The game began with a Canadian whisky company playing Ms. Pac-Man with a massive media conglomerate. That this should have any impact on a North Carolina soul combo is obviously somewhat Fellini-esque. In short, the soul combo "parted ways" (that's lawyer talk) with the massive media conglomerate and is in legal proceedings to pry its Back in the '90s record from the clutches of the whisky people.
As major-label bad dreams recede on the horizon, Hobex is getting back to basics. It will self-release its new record, Wisteria, in late October and hand it off to the trusted locals at Redeye Distribution, which has quickly built a reputation for possessing a rare understanding of both art and commerce.
Wisteria was not made in an expensive studio but in the homes and attics of friends. Ben Folds Five bassist Robert Sledge recorded three songs with the full Hobex lineup and Mathus recorded six "back-porch" acoustic numbers, including an aching cover of Sam Cooke's "That's Where It's At."
Before August sweats to a close, the recently renovated Hobex Web site (www.hobex.com) will make available MP3 versions of some of the new songs, as well as tracks from some recent live shows. And Humphreys is promising yet another new record next spring. Why? Because he can. "We're just gonna try to make it about writing and playing music. All this new technology is opening up doors for people to follow their musical urges and not tailor what they do to a system that's built around one album every two years."
Despite all his travails, Humphreys won't waver from his desire to make music his living as well as his life. "I haven't made a whole lot of money as a professional musician, but I have made a whole lot of music. I haven't just played the same 10 songs over and over, I've written dozens of them. I've jammed with so many different players and been to so many different places, and that's what it's all about to me. I feel like music is its own reward."
And then he drops a little hard-won science, the kind worthy of a 100-year-old bluesman. "The difference between being content and being miserable is the difference between what you expect and what you get. And if you can just be comfortable with what you get and not expect anything, you'll be fine."


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Everything about these tiny cabins is perfect, from the comfy beds, to the well equipped kitchens, and spacious feel of the well built cabins. Past guests have nothing but good things to say about these tiny cabins from nice breakfasts with fruit smoothies, sliced fruit, meats and cheeses, hot bread and jam and butter. The tiny cabins are within walking distance of the town, ore can take some bikes that are well maintained. The bed in the living room is easy to pull out and make each evening. The island has plenty of activities to enjoy while you are there, from hiring a private guide with a car, horseback riding to the highest point on the island and more.
Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, the nearest inhabited land is Pitcairn Island, which is 1,289 miles away, and the nearest town with a population of over 500 is Rikitea, on the island of Mangareva, which is 1,619 miles away. The nearest continental point is in central Chile, 3,512 which is 2,182 miles away. Easter Island is a volcanic high island, which consists mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes to include Terevaka and forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give Easter island its roughly triangular shape. Lesser cones and other volcanic features include the crater Rano Raraku, the cinder cone Puna Pau and many volcanic caves including lava tubes. Poike used to be a separate island until volcanic material from Terevaka united it to the larger whole. Easter island is dominated by hawaiite and basalt flows which are rich in iron and show affinity with igneous rocks found in the Galápagos Islands.
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CARLISLE, Pa. – McDaniel plated a ninth-inning run to top Dickinson 1-0 in Centennial Conference (CC) baseball action on Tuesday.
Antonio Rosanova (Laurel, Md./DeMatha) led the Green Terror (7-10, 1-6 CC) with a hit and two stolen bases. His two steals were the 58th and 59th of his career, setting a new program record in that category. Robbie Mays (Parkton, Md./Hereford) led the way on the mound, fanning eight and allowing just four hits in eight innings for the win.
Billy O'Neil matched Mays to lead the Red Devils (6-15 3-4 CC) in a pitchers' duel, fanning four and allowing just seven hits.
After the two pitchers posted dueling shutouts through eight innings, Rosanova led off the ninth with a single. After a fielder's choice and DJ Biscoe (Millersville, Md./Old Mill) single, Ryan Downes (Hagerstown, Md./St. Maria Goretti) singled home Kasey Nelson (St. Pete's Beach, Fla./St. Michaels [Md.]) for the game's lone run.
Jordan Rhodes (Fawn Grove, Pa./McDonogh [Md.]) threw a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth for his first save of the year.
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After the success of last weeks parkrun, me and the hubby pulled our running things on and headed out to try a new one. Unlike last weeks which was off road and a circular lap this one was along
the esplanade and back and I soon realised that it was quite a monotonous course I know a lot of people will say that I am lucky to live on the south coast but I really did find it hard not to feel despondent with the scenery by the half way point.
I focused on my running because I was thoroughly enjoying the mild weather and it picked me back up again. Me and my hubby had agreed to run our own race and he soon left me behind very early on but I had every intention to run to 28 minutes then walk to the end.
I ditched Laura last week because the music is absolutely awful so I was measuring my times on my Soleus running watch. I checked my timer to see how I was doing and I was already at the 28 minute mark so slowed to a walk but I realised I could now see the end and really felt that I could finish so I went for it and ran until the end!
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2017 Elbow Room Café: The Musical
Zee Zee Theatre (Vancouver) YORK THEATRE | 639 COMMERCIAL DR. | [map link]
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This show is from our 16/17 season and has now ended.
If you are looking for Holiday at the Elbow Room Café (DEC 10–29, 2019) CLICK HERE!
A candid look inside Vancouver's most iconic eatery: home of raucous service, celebrity sightings, and hearts of gold. Dave Deveau (My Funny Valentine) and Anton Lipovetsky (Broken Sex Doll) sink their teeth into the whimsy and heart of real life café owners Patrice and Bryan and explore how we age together in a Technicolour world.
THE DRAW: East Van Panto's Allan Zinyk leads a cast of campy misfits, drag queens, and the perpetually hung over!
Contains mature content
Get 15% off your food bill at the real Elbow Room Café (560 Davie St) when you show your Elbow Room Café: The Musical ticket stub!
Underneath the belly laughs and social commentary, this love letter to Vancouver is full of heart" – Carly Whetter, Vancouver Magazine
This is vintage Vancouver victuals for folks hungry to see the lighter sides of our robust gay culture." – Baird Blackstone, Broken Leg Reviews
It is tough not to adore this heartfelt tribute." – Mark Robins, Vancouver Presents
It's a play that is endearing, heartwarming, uproariously funny, sweet, sassy and just plain fun!" – Entertainment Vancouver
Mar 1, 8PM: Preview
Mar 2, 8PM: Opening Night
Mar 3 – 4, 7 – 11: 8PM
Mar 4, 5, 11, 12: 2PM
Artist Talkbacks:
Mar 3 & 7: 8PM
Mar 5: 2PM
Running Time: 120 minutes, plus an intermission
Book & Lyrics by Dave Deveau
Music & Lyrics by Anton Lipovetsky
Directed by Cameron Mackenzie
Musical Direction by Clare Wyatt
Choreography by Jessica Hickman
Set & Costume Design by Marina Szijarto
Lighting Design by Kyla Gardiner
Technical Directed by Stephen Beaver
Stage Managed by Jillian Perry
Assistant Stage Managed by Hannah Case
Assistant Directed by Bronwyn Carradine
Costume Construction by Darryl Milot
Props Design by Jenn Stewart
Sound Design by Kyra Soko
Set & Costume Design Assistance by Alannah Korf
Lighting Design Assistance by Taylor Janzen
CAST (in order of appearance)
Steven Greenfield as Tim
Emma Slipp as Tabby
Justin Lapeña as Chiffon/ Nelson
David M. Adams as Bryan
Allan Zinyk as Patrice
Christine Quintana as Jackie
Nathan Kay as Stephen
Stephanie Wong as Beth
Synthia Yusuf as Amanda
Olivia Hutt as Jill
Sally Zori, Percussion
Clare Wyatt, Keyboard
Molly MacKinnon, Violin


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MGI JETvarnish 3D is Revolutionizing Digital Spot UV Coating—Again
MGI's (Booth 3213) JETvarnish 3D builds on the worldwide commercial success of the JETvarnish inkjet spot UV coater, giving graphics professionals a dual set of digital tools to maximize profitability and differentiate from their peers—traditional spot UV coating and new 3D raised effects, together for the first time in one production unit.
The JETvarnish 3D received the prestigious 2013 InterTech Technology Award from the Printing Industries of America, recognized as a truly innovative product expected to advance the performance of the graphic communications industry.
With a maximum sheet size of 20×42″, the JETvarnish 3D is ideal for shops with offset, digital, or screen presses and features spot UV coating as thin as three microns at speeds up to 3,000 20×29″ sheets per hour, plus new 3D raised effects up to 100 microns in thickness. These beautiful, tactile effects allow end users to differentiate their brands and add a new dimension of visual appeal to a wide range of projects, such as book covers, brochures, business cards, pocket folders, postcards, packaging, photo books, greeting cards, announcements, and more.
The JETvarnish 3D's 100% digital process requires no plates, screens, or expensive makeready. For the first time, graphics professionals can provide proofs with spot UV or 3D effects to their clients, and if changes are required, it's as easy as a click of the mouse. MGI's integrated software suite includes SpotVarnish Editor, which allows the operator to edit the spot UV mask on-the-fly and eliminates wasted time going back to prepress to make simple changes. The Job Cost Calculator is a powerful tool that can estimate coating consumption for each job down to the microliter, resulting in accurate cost estimates before printing the first sheet.
Variable data capabilities (via the optional RIP) make the JETvarnish 3D the perfect complement for personalized marketing campaigns, giving digital jobs the additional WOW factor. MGI's dual ARC camera system ensures precise registration on printed sheets down to the pixel, so all jobs will have maximum marketing impact.
As today's run lengths continue to shrink and digital print volumes continue to increase, the JETvarnish 3D offers projects and budgets of all sizes the opportunity to receive the premium finishing techniques once reserved for long runs on offset or screen presses. Clients receive visually stunning pieces that elevate their brand to a new level—in quantities of one, 10, 100, or 5,000+.
The ability to offer spot UV and 3D effects with no minimum quantity opens up a new profit center for JETvarnish 3D users. In today's print market, the ability to differentiate from the competition is what leads to success and this is exactly what the JETvarnish 3D delivers—not just for a company's internal work, but as a new source of trade revenue. MGI customers have found that not only does the JETvarnish 3D deliver a new revenue stream (in some cases, tripling within the first year and running on multiple shifts), but it also delivers new business to their other services, such as traditional printing.
At PRINT 13, MGI will showcase the JETvarnish 3D in full production in Booth 3213 and will present two new options.
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Improving science education in high school and beyond
New research grants to investigate barriers on the path to becoming a scientist
The National Science Foundation has awarded two new grants to investigators in Temple University's colleges of Education, Liberal Arts and Science and Technology to help strengthen the supply of future scientists.
These awards come at a time when it is critical to support U.S. productivity and advancement in today's global economy by building scientific talent and knowledge.
"Fewer American students are finishing bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)," said principal investigator, Jennifer Cromley, an assistant professor of educational psychology in the College of Education. "We are trying to figure out why, in order to meet the need for trained scientists, inventors and technical personnel in the United States."
The grants, for approximately $1 million each, cover three years and focus on science education at both the high school and college levels.
The first grant seeks to understand why some students who start out as STEM majors change majors, whether it's after one course or after completing almost all of the work. Nationally, only a small portion of students who begin as life sciences majors as freshmen graduate with degrees in the life sciences. Ultimately, the goal is to create intervention programs to retain more students in the sciences in order to build a larger pool of scientists.
The researchers will follow about 600 freshmen taking chemistry and biology courses in each year of the grant and will look at both students' abilities and their perceptions of whether their abilities can grow. Previous research suggests that students who believe they can become more able — that is, students who believe their abilities are more malleable — put more effort into courses, are less afraid to seek help and perform better academically. Additionally, such students are more resilient after an academic setback, attribute their successes more to their own effort, and are more focused on understanding material as opposed to focusing solely on grades.
Cromley's co-principal investigators reach across disciplines and include Erin Horvat, associate professor of urban education at the College of Education; and Jacqueline Tanaka, associate professor of biology, and John Mitchel, general chemistry coordinator, at the College of Science and Technology.
Through the second of the two grants, researchers will teach high school students how to understand the diagrams in their science textbooks.
For the study, researchers will provide high school biology teachers with four different techniques to boost students' ability to understand diagrams. Additionally, researchers will use eye-tracking data to determine how students reason through and understand the information in the illustrations. For some, making sense of diagrams is difficult; Cromley's previous studies revealed that many students skip right over diagrams as they read through textbook content.
As with the first grant, the goal here is to ultimately increase the retention of students studying science, thereby increasing the numbers of qualified scientists in future generations. But with this grant, goals will be achieved through better understanding about biology learning at the high school level.
Cromley also serves as a principal investigator on this study, along with Nora Newcombe, professor of psychology, and Thomas F. Shipley, associate professor of psychology, both at the College of Liberal Arts; and Jacqueline Tanaka, associate professor of biology at the College of Science and Technology.
These grants are just two of several research initiatives now underway at Temple that are designed to increase the STEM skills and knowledge of students at all age levels and to keep interested students on the path to STEM careers.


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Lace Up
Step Back Think's Lace Up campaign raises awareness about social violence by encouraging Australian sporting clubs of all codes, levels and ages to show their commitment to ending social violence by wearing orange laces during Lace Up Week and participating in an education program.
Stamp Out Violence
On the first weekend of Summer, December 2016, thousands of nightclub patrons wore a stamp on their fists to honour Joshua Hardy, killed in an act of social violence at the age of 21. The stamp served as a powerful reminder that #aFistLikeThis can destroy lives.
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After five exhilerating and exhausting days in history, art and culture rich London, my daughters and I hopped on a non-stop 2 hour train to York and then Manchester for the more relaxing part of the trip. We still managed to pack in plenty of sites, but weren't quite as overwhelmed as we were in London. York is a beautiful walled city originally founded by Romans with many ancient Roman sites still evident in the town structure. It was here that Constantine was named Emperor – I sometimes forget how far north the Roman Empire extended. It is also home to York Minster, a glorious gothic style cathedral famous for its facade as well as the stained glass windows, artwork, and crypt. Visiting a church built atop an older church is haunting as well as historic, and going down below to see the original structure is a thrill. The deep relief carving (here on the left) is one of the artifacts that remains from the orginal structure, a Norman Church built around 1080 AD.
In addition to York Minster, there are countless stunning sights in this northern English town. A walk on top of the wall itself is marvelous, offering what feels like secret views into gardens, homes, restaurants, courtyards, parks, and over bridges and rivers. Voted the most picturesque street in Britain, The Shambles,
is thought to be one of the oldest, best preserved medival streets in England. It's timber overhangs make the already narrow street feel even more intimate and is filled with alluring shops and restaurants. Chocolate shops are a common sight in York, as the town has a long chocolate making history. It is no wonder I felt immediately drawn to the place! Confectionary window displays all over town are like exquisitely designed jewels…works of art, really. Other beautiful sites that contribute to York's allure include the outstanding York Castle Museum with multiple exhibits and an excellent tour of the former prison, Clifford's Tower with its expansive views, and the gleaming two rivers: the Ouse and the Foss. These rivers were an essential component for York's earliest settlers, perhaps even Celtic tribes before the Romans arrived. One of our favorite sights was the botanic York Museum Gardens which include Roman ruins and the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey where Turner famously worked.
One day we ventured into the countryside. Hoping to explore the seaside town of Whitby, we were cut short due to inclement (worse than usual) weather so we decided to tour Castle Howard instead, which is about a 30 minute drive from York's city center. Even in the rain, Castle Howard was stunning. The artwork and sculpture, both inside and out, was quite overwhelming. This is a good place to explore and get lost.
After four days of the most heavenly pastries, coffees, and chocolates on earth, we sadly departed York and headed for Manchester, where we would spend one final day before returning to the United States. We didn't quite know what to expect of the industrial soccer crazed city, but the food and art did not disappoint. After tracking down ancient Roman ruins at Castlefield, we headed to the Manchester Art Gallery. Much to my surprise, we were all three more interested in the "Vogue 100: A Century of Style" exhibit than I would have expected. I suppose, after seeing the exhibit "Shaping the Body: 400 Years of Fashion, Food and Life" so recently in York, we were primed to appreciate the nuanced Vogue display where art dominated practicality most of the time.
Another visual treat at the Manchester Art Gallery was the exhibit by Boris Nzebo. The artist's large bold paintings explore the relationship between humans and their urban environments. As an artist thinking about how to convey and how to integrate people with place, I admire the method and style Nzebo uses to enmesh the person with his or her surroundings. It is the opposite of my approach which attempts to blend the figure with surrounding space. Nzebo uses crisp graphics, patterns, and shapes – his large faces are filled with and defined by architectural lines and urban objects. In one way, his paintings are filled with multiple layers as objects and people fit within other objects and people. On the other hand, the hard-edged lines and patterns flatten the space which unifies the people and the urban elements.
After lunch in the up-and-coming northern quarter of town, we sought respite at a beautiful little cathedral known as "The Hidden Gem" on our way to the John Rylands Library. The is a bibliophile's nirvana. The collection includes treasures such as John Wesley's 16th Century Hebrew Bible, notes and letters by Chemist John Dalton, a Gutenberg Bible, and many first editions such as Ulysses by James Joyce. The most famous artifact in the collection is known as Papyrus 52, or the Fragment of the Gospel of John, which is thought to be the earliest portion of any New Testament writing ever found. To read more about the history of the library and its' special collections, visit: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/search-resources/guide-to-special-collections/.
Our grand finale was an evening event, Summer Garden Party, at the Whitworth Museum. We had dinner overlooking a lush garden with live music. There was a perfume station set up for sampling, botanical cocktails, a drama performance about modern isolation – not to mention the exhibits themselves. The Whitworth is home to a renowned sculpture collection, print collection, portrait collection and wallpaper collection. I surprised myself by being most drawn to the textile collection; perhaps due to a recent surge of contemporary artists who incorporate fabric and thread into their mixed media creations which exemplifies the blending of fine art and craft that is so hotly discussed these days.
During our final walk in the rain to the regal Midland Hotel, my younger daughter hailed herself a cab and insisted we were finished with the walking part of the trip. I think the little one had no more steps in her so it was time for our adventure to end. A mere 8 hours of flight time and we were transported to another world, where the modern and the ancient coexist. In all of our travels, it was the art and architecture that provided the clearest insight to the enduring truth of a people and place. I'm deeply grateful to our friends who hosted us during parts of the trip and to my family who dug deep to cooperate with a mom who loves to explore and find the art of a place.
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Today, two-thirds of U.S. adults and nearly one in three children struggle because they are overweight or have obesity. The effects of the nation's obesity epidemic are immense: taxpayers, businesses, communities and individuals spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year due to obesity, including an estimated $168 billion in medical costs. In fact, because of skyrocketing rates of obesity, the current generation of U.S. children are – for the first time ever – projected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
The Campaign to End Obesity Action Fund advocates for changes in federal policy that will enable more Americans to eat healthy and be active, as well as those that provide appropriate medical treatment for patients. In its work, the Campaign to End Obesity Action Fund convenes leaders from across industry, academia, patient and disease communities and public health to speak with one voice for measures to reverse the obesity epidemic and promote healthy weight in children and adults.

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January 2017
Scott Goudeseune, President and CEO of the American Council on Exercise, Appointed New Board Chairman
January 2016
Campaign to End Obesity Action Fund Statement on Chronic Care Working Group Policy Options Paper
December 2015
Senate Finance Chronic Care Working Group Policy Options Paper
November 2015
Long-Term SCORE Act Introduced in the Senate (S. 2260)
June 2015
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Aden Kai leads the powerful Arrow Squad into stewarding the Psy race's shift into emotional freedom, but as he convinces the only woman he wants to stand by his side, malevolent forces attempt to destabilize a fledgling coalition working to forge unity.
After a century of forcibly suppressed emotions, a new era has dawned for the Psy. The Arrows, a fiercely trained Black Ops team who did the bidding of the fallen Psy Council, have been cut loose, and their de facto leader, Aden, is looking to position his squad of soldiers as guardians of what he sees as a more healthy existence for all Psy but especially the brutally trained Arrows, whose own emotions were so savagely squelched that it's no wonder they're ambivalent toward the new policies. Zaira Neve has been Aden's secret passion since they were children, long before he knew what passion was, but now that the door has opened for him to truly discover what it feels like to feel, he's determined to start with her. When the two are kidnapped by shadowy forces that seem intent on creating trouble among world leaders who are only just beginning to trust one another, Aden and Zaira must not only escape their dangerous captivity, but also start connecting dots and strengthening allies in order to aid the emerging collaborative leadership. Zaira knows they share a powerful bond and wants nothing more than to be Aden's mate, but she worries that her emotional instability will hinder him. However, as she and Aden attempt to create safe havens for the Arrow community, and especially the children, she realizes that beneath her troubling past exists a nurturing heart, and maybe that's enough to create a future full of love and hope. Singh's Psy-Changeling series remains among the best of the paranormal romance subgenre. Her alpha heroes and the women who claim them are sweepingly romantic and sizzlingly sensual, while the social and political tapestries she weaves are sophisticated, elaborate, and compelling.
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From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US hotel results for week ending 29 April
The U.S. hotel industry reported positive results in the three key performance metrics during the week of 23-29 April 2017, according to data from STR.
In comparison with the week of 24-30 April 2016, the industry reported the following:
• Occupancy: +3.7% to 70.3%
• Average daily rate (ADR): +5.1% to US$127.50
• Revenue per available room (RevPAR): +8.9% to US$89.65
STR analysts attribute the level of performance growth to a comparison with Passover week last year.
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The following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occupancy rate using the four week average.
The red line is for 2017, dashed is 2015, blue is the median, and black is for 2009 – the worst year since the Great Depression for hotels.
2015 was the best year on record for hotels.
For hotels, occupancy will now move mostly sideways until the summer travel season.
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Video assistance at the push of a button: data glasses make maintenance easy.
Vienna, March 12, 2018 – Tools and molds for beverage crates, storage and logistics containers, pallets, pallet boxes, containers for valuables, and automotive parts – all this and more is produced at HAIDLMAIR in the Austrian town of Nußbach. At some point further on in the production process, it's certainly possible that one of HAIDLMAIR's customers' needs servicing or repair tasks done which can't be completed
This is now a thing of the past. The Graz-based company EVOLARIS, in which Kapsch BusinessCom is a stakeholder, developed the digital assistance system EVOCALL, and the HAIDLMAIR International service team has recently started using it. "The possibility of setting up a live video transmission to involve a specialist who can guide and accompany the service processes saves valuable time and avoids high additional costs. This is why EVOCALL makes every day work easier for our service team while also increasing the system availability and product quality," explains Christian Eckhart, Manager of International Service at HAIDLMAIR.
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Friday, September 23, 2011
A man decide to go fishing. He gathered all his fishing gear. Rod and reel, net to scoop up the fish he hoped to catch, a couple of sandwiches and something to drink. He had on his lucky fishing hat with all the fish hooks and lucky doo dads in place. He even had a tube of sun screen. He was well prepared. He was ready for a day of fishing. He was on the way to the lake where he kept a small row boat. He hoped there would not be a lot of people ahead of him. He was early. Lately water skiing was popular. He hoped for a quiet day fishing. He arrived at lake side and parked his car, gathered all his gear and stepped Into the boat. He checked his oars. He slipped on his life jacket. He rowed out onto the lake. He fished about an hour and caught a couple of fish. He threw one back because it was too small. It was getting a little warm so he applied a little sun screen on his arms. He put bait on his hook and threw it into the water. Then he heard the noise. It was a motor boat. Here it came shooting across the lake with a man on skis gliding on the water behind the boat. It came near him between his fishing spot and the shore. The huge waves created by the motor boat pushed him out onto the lake. He rowed as fast as he could row trying to get closer to the shore. He heard the motor boat again. It was coming back for another run. This time it was on the other side and the waves gave him a big push. He was back to his original spot. They waved at him and he returned a wave of thanks. All was good again. He was happy.
Sometimes that is how it is with God. He allows things to come into our lives that are not so pleasant. Sickness in the family, problems at work or some other circumstance that upsets our plans. These things bring us closer to Him. These things encourage us to have our minds on things above, not on things here on earth. We sometimes drift away from Him. God uses these things to get us back on the right course. How are you responding to life's difficulties?
4 comments:
- The Old Professor said...
Very well said and well used as an illustration. We readers have once again profited from this gentleman's writings.
- September 23, 2011 at 5:42 PM
- JT said...
Thanks for your comments Professor.
- September 23, 2011 at 10:53 PM
- Star-chuu said...
It is really true. However, some people doesn't see the beauty in having problems and challenges because they sometimes lack faith in God or maybe drawn too much by their problems and by other worldly matters. Thanks for sharing JT your wonderful thoughts and spiritual teachings. God bless.
- September 25, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- JT said...
Thanks for your comment Star.
- September 25, 2011 at 8:15 PM
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Loose Women star Coleen Nolan bags a £300,000 pantomime deal to play the Fairy Godmother for just EIGHT weeks
Celebrity Big Brother champ signed up for the plum role in January and is scheduled to appear in 70 shows in Bradford
LOOSE Women star Coleen Nolan has bagged a massive panto pay deal of £300,000 for just eight weeks' work.
She will earn the cash for her brief run as the Fairy Godmother in Bradford Alhambra Theatre's production of Cinderella.
Coleen, 52, signed up for the plum role shortly after being crowned the winner on her second stint on Celebrity Big Brother in January this year.
She is scheduled to appear in 70 shows.
A source said: "If you are a big star then panto always pays well but this is one of the biggest fees people have heard of.
"Producers Qdos really believe Coleen is a big name and will get bums on seats so they consider the money well spent.
"It's six weeks of performances and two of rehearsal but her co-stars are likely to be earning only £700 a week.
"She will be earning roughly £4,000 per show but that cost is covered if producers fill ten per cent of the 1,400-capacity theatre every time."
EastEnders star Steve McFadden was panto's biggest earner in 2011 with a £200,000 fee for taking on the role of Captain Hook in Peter Pan.
But Dame Joan Collins, playing Queen Rat in Dick Whittington in 2010, is said to have got £40,000 a week.
It is thought Coleen, who will star alongside her son Shane Nolan and Northern comedian Billy Pearce, will limit her appearances on Loose Women during the run.
Last week Coleen revealed her devastation at sister Linda's incurable cancer diagnosis during an episode of ITV afternoon chat show Loose Women.
Qdos and Coleen Nolan declined to comment.


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Is David Cameron the Jackson Pollock of British politics? Pollock threw and flicked paint into the air and somehow it landed on his canvases in ways that are authoritative and convincing. Cameron seems to throw policies, opinions and loyalties around with the same abandon and again, the results look authoritative – in his case to voters.
The surprise of the recent polls was how well the Conservatives did, as well as their success in getting the referendum result they wanted. It is now impossible to ignore the truth that Cameron is the most effective politician to emerge in Britain since early Blair. But can modern art offer a way to understand his appeal?
In theory, a lot of things Cameron does ought to make him look incompetent to the public. I am not trundling out a dogmatic list of leftwing criticisms here – what would be the point, right now? – but instead refer the reader to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph this week:
"The country doesn't want a love-in, it wants competence. This is being delivered only fitfully, for Downing Street still has not adapted fully to the new politics. The prime minister has work to do to ensure that not only his office but also his deputy's work more efficiently."
The most spectacular example of incompetence has been the casual attempt to tear apart the NHS, although if Keynesian economists are right, the true mistake will prove to be economic policy. So why is Cameron so popular? Could Jackson Pollock offer an answer?
Pollock denied there was "chaos" in his art but its excitement comes from his flirtation with failure, his daring the random. In his great works, there is a grace and playfulness of colour and line that defies disaster and soars with a unique sense of freedom. It offers a joy different from that which a conventional, carefully drawn painting might give. In other words, Pollock is an improviser, and great improvisation has a magic that more orderly, planned art cannot match – it communicates freedom, life, and naturalness.
You can extend this to other arts. Pollock saw the connection between his own art and the improvisations of jazz musicians. Similarly in the world of film, Marlon Brando's improvising naturalness has a mystique that nothing else approaches.
I think it helps to understand Cameron if we see him as an improviser like Pollock and his peers in other fields. The virtue of improvisation in art or politics is that it makes you seem – because you are – more natural, direct, vital. In this art, mistakes are not all bad – they can become virtues because they enhance the spontaneity. "To err is human ..." If people really are responding to Cameron like an audience dazzled and charmed by a virtuoso improviser, this is a major problem for his opponents, because his readiness to concede errors adds to the performance, as – bizarrely – do the errors themselves.
Politicians are widely seen as remote, baffling, inhuman figures and the one who can break that image and come across as an actual person is marked out as a big winner. Cameron's comedy of errors offers no solace for his enemies, as he spins out a curling midair line of blue paint that lands, hey presto, just where he needs it to be in a new political landscape that is getting less abstract all the time.


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Finland's Juhana Helmenkalastaja - 2011 Winner of Dali moustache - Photo by Banjo Media
Germany's Dieter Besuch - 2011 Winner of the Partial Beard Freestyle - Photo by Gregory Fett
But some of the best pictures of these hirsute gentlemen were taken by Matt Rainwaters at the 2009 competition in Anchorage, Alaska. Scroll and enjoy these images from his series Beardfolio.
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Steven Raspa and his beard Prepostero
San Franciscan Jack Passion placed third this year (2011) with his long, red natural beard.


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There is a flower in the meadow,
Jesus, my Lord,
In Him do I have my joy,
Would gladly be with Him.
I shall encompass Him within my heart,
And keep Him there forever;
(part of a hymn from the "Schwenkfelder Hymnbook", 1762)
Ach, mogte doch mein Herz allein
Ein Busch von tausend Rosen seyn
Und mein Gemuth ein Lilien-Feld
Ja, ein Granaten-Blumen-Zelt.
O, might my heart only be,
A bush of a thousand roses;
And my mind a field of lilies,
Yes a tent of pomegranate flowers.
((The Dunker's "Das Kleine Davidische Psalterspiel" hymnal printed by Christopher Sauer printed in 1744, hymn #18, verses 4)
Two major symbols of the Pennsylvania Germans were the blooming heart and the vase of blooming flowers. Although both carry the same basic meaning and are used interchangeably, and often side by side on Fraktur and other Pennsylvania German art, they have different histories and treatment in Pennsylvania German writings.
The Blooming Heart
The blooming heart is a combination of the heart and the lily-tulip and/or Rose of Sharon. As seen in the verses above, the Pennsylvania Germans liked to write about, and envision, their hearts being the home of, and blooming with, the faith and belief in Christ the bringer of a promise of life after death, the lily and the rose. Like the heart alone, the blooming heart appears frequently on Fraktur and other Pennsylvania German arts and crafts.
Many gravestones of the Pennsylvania Germans have hearts blooming with just lilies, sometimes in sets of three, or a combination of lilies, roses and other flowers that are not always identifiable. Unlike Fraktur, where hearts usually bloomed from the top, gravestone hearts could also be shown turned upside down and blooming from the bottom.
Blooming hearts went out use by the 1820s, although there is one example of a stylized blooming heart in this collection from the 1890s.
The Vase of Blooming Flowers
The vases of blooming flowers had the same meaning as the blooming hearts, only here the heart was replaced with a vase. This symbol shows up on all different aspects of Pennsylvania arts and crafts but rarely, if ever, is referred to specifically in their writings. To understand its usage we need to look at its possible origins in the religous art of late medieval and renaissance periods in Europe. For 300 years, until the 1800s, churches, religous books and alters throughout Europe often portrayed lilies growing in a vase as a primary symbol of the Annunciation scene, symbolizing Mary the pure (symbolized as lilies) vessel (the vase) about to becoming the bearer of Christ. The vase shown in these scenes usually had two curving handles, was footed, with a round full body, the pregnant female shape, like many of those seen in Pennsylvania German gravestone art. After the Reformation in the 1500s, the worship of Mary was discouraged and the Annunciation scene was dropped as a religous subject in areas no longer under the influence of the Catholic Church. The vase of flowers then shows up in paintings popular in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds in both Protestant and Catholic Europe called Vanitas. Here it is used to signify the brevity of life taking on the meaning of flowers in general. It is possible that this symbol of the Annunciation, the beginning of the Christ story as told in the book of Luke, chapter one, became a folk art motif and shorthand method of recalling the promise of the angel to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, who would become the redeemer of man from sin, thus enabling eternal life, later becoming a metaphor for any person with the belief and faith in Christ growing in them. This would then make the usage of the vase of flowers understandable and very pertinent as a life after death motif which would have multiple layers of meaning when combined with the traditions of flowers in general, which represented the brevity of life.
Most of the vase of flowers gravestones in this collection have lilies as the the prominent flower with roses and other flowers blooming beneath, although a number show only lilies. There are two stones at Cherryville that could be a vase of blooming flowers type which have a carnation like flower as the top element. This flower type is usually seen in Schwenkfelder fraktur art as the top element of their vase of blooming flowers motif, with lilies appearing as a secondary flower. It is hard to tell if these stones are vase-of-flowers stones since their bottom halves are buried.
Like the blooming hearts, the use of vases of blooming flowers as a gravestone decoration died out in the 1820s, but reemerged in the 1850s as realistic bouquets of flowers, a mourning symbol for the shortness of life.


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At only two years of age, Copper has earned 8 titles in two sports.
Four weeks after adoption, Copper earned her Novice & Intermediate trick dog titles. She began performing with Dash just a few months after adoption, and earned the then-highest AKC trick title "Trick Dog Performer" just six months post-adoption. The same month, she put on a trick show at the Eukanuba Performance Games in Ohio.
Copper went on to perform at the AKC National Championship dog show in Orlando, Florida just a day after she turned 18 months old! When the AKC added the "Elite Trick Dog Performer" title, Copper earned that just a couple weeks after turning two. Dash and Copper were two of the first 50 dogs in the world to earn this elite title.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 29, 2008 (HealthDay News) -- Canadian researchers are challenging the widely held belief that flu shots help protect older people from potentially deadly diseases such as pneumonia.
While the researchers say the vaccine does protect against certain strains of influenza, its overall benefit seems to have been exaggerated by so-called observational studies that found a big reduction in "all-cause mortality" among older patients who'd gotten a flu shot.
The new research was expected to be published in the first September issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society.
For the new study, the researchers included more than 700 "matched" people 65 and older, half of whom had received a flu shot and half who had not. After compensating for a variety of factors that the researchers said weren't considered or available in the earlier studies, the study authors concluded that any "all-cause mortality" benefit "if present at all, was very small and statistically non-significant and may simply be a healthy-user artifact that they were unable to identify."
"While such a reduction in all-cause mortality would have been impressive, these mortality benefits are likely implausible. Previous studies were likely measuring a benefit not directly attributable to the vaccine itself, but something specific to the individuals who were vaccinated -- a healthy-user benefit or frailty bias," Dean T. Eurich, a clinical epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health, said in a university news release.
Added the study's principal investigator, Dr. Sumit Majumdar, an associate professor in the faculty of medicine and dentistry at the University of Alberta: "The healthy-user effect is seen in what doctors often refer to as their 'good' patients -- patients who are well-informed about their health, who exercise regularly, do not smoke or have quit, drink only in moderation, watch what they eat, come in regularly for health maintenance visits and disease screenings, take their medications exactly as prescribed and quite religiously get vaccinated each year so as to stay healthy. Such attributes are almost impossible to capture in large scale studies using administrative databases."
The Canadian researchers said their study has wide-ranging implications.
For instance, because the earlier studies showing mortality reductions were erroneous, "this may have stifled efforts at developing newer and better vaccines, especially for use in the elderly," the study authors said.
And for policy makers, efforts directed at "improving quality of care are better directed at where the evidence is, such as hand-washing, vaccinating children and vaccinating health-care workers," the authors concluded.
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Four years ago, back in 2012, it was brought home to me just how important it is to know what medical procedures really entail and what the possible risks are. I'd foolishly thought the warning at the end of the TRUS Biopsy consent form that I was about to sign was just a standard thing that had to be there so I didn't pay it much attention, but I found out different when infection from the biopsies led to my first bout of sepsis. Ever since I've made a point of reading up and asking questions whenever I'm about to have something done to me and, generally, I take medical matters much more seriously.
So by the time I started my first cycle of chemo a couple of weeks ago I thought I was prepared, but I wasn't. The speed with which the side effects started and their intensity were a complete surprise to me. I'd expected a slow onset followed by a gradual build up whereas the reality was the exact opposite.
From the little bit of personal knowledge of chemo that I've now got, and bearing in mind that we're all different and I'm only an expert on me, it seems that the whole chemo side effect thing is even more of a lottery than those side effects that happen due to surgery, radiotherapy and hormone therapy, all of which I have first hand knowledge. There are lots of possible chemo side effects, the list is extensive, looks scary and can vary depending which chemo drug you're on. Each one is like a number on a Lotto Lucky Dip ticket in that you know what they could be because you've seen the list, but you only find out what ones you've actually got after you've parted with your money or, in this case, had the chemo put into your body.
My side effects included hoarseness, hiccups, extreme change in taste, sore mouth, muddy feeling mouth, blood at the start of every pee, constipation, diarrhoea, sore skin, fatigue, feeling weak, a sickly feeling in the mornings, very weird dreams and, the worst of all, severe pain in every bone, joint and muscle. Some side effects, like the blood in the urine, only lasted for a few days, while others have come, gone, then come back again.
Certain side effects happen to everyone, although to different degrees, so can be planned for and prevented. Sickness falls into that category and I was given steroids to deal with that, starting with intravenous ones and followed up with pills and so far, although I've felt a bit sick most mornings, I haven't thrown up.
Other side effects, like hoarseness, are rare and might not happen at all so it's a case of having to deal with them as they hit you. I dealt with hoarseness with a special mouthwash from the GP and gargling with bicarbonate of soda. They both really helped but because the onset had been so quick – within two hours of having the chemo – I wasn't even sure it was a side effect and wondered if I'd caught a cold, but my chemo nurse said that it could be the start of oral thrush, a more common chemo side effect.
Another thing I didn't have ready was effective pain relief because there was no saying I'd have any pain at all. As a result, by Day 3 I was really suffering and by Day 4 I was becoming less able to do anything because of the debilitating effect of not being able to sleep and not being able to move. I could hardly get out of bed and was feeling very down.
I tried "baby-dose" painkillers, the sort that most of us have handy at home, but they did nothing to alleviate the shooting pains in all my bones and joints, even my fingers and toes. I'd got to the point where I was having trouble walking, sitting, standing, laying down and just about every other activity and I felt as though every nerve was trapped and that I'd aged 20 years overnight.
As soon as I told my oncologist and my Macmillan nurse just how bad I felt I was immediately prescribed Co-codamol 30/500 (not baby-dose ones) and Ibuprofen 400mg. I could have got even stronger ones if I'd needed them, but luckily I haven't so far. Once my pain was brought under control I managed to get some sleep again and was then able to do almost everything I wanted to with a bit of effort. Such was my confidence that on Day 9 I tried doing without my painkillers but soon found that I had tried too soon. Within a few hours I restarted them and began to feel much better. They work so well that later that same day, and the next, I was able to go for a couple of long-ish (very slow) walks. On both days the weather was too good to waste looking out of the window so it was good to be able to enjoy it. The walks knocked me out in a nice way, but relaxed me and helped me sleep like a log.
I'm now about half-way through the first chemo cycle, the point when my body should start to recover in preparation for it all to start again with cycle 2. Now that the pain is being managed I am pretty sure I can get through all the chemo but if you'd asked me a week ago before I had the right painkillers I'd have been very unsure. I was definitely faltering and had told my partner that if I said I was going to stop treatment that he was to talk me round using every reason he could think of. Whereas all the other side effects on their own were things I could have just put up with, the pain would have been the thing that mucked it all up. I'm really glad that's not now going to be the case because it's still my aim to live to be a cranky, cantankerous 90 year old and I stand more chance of achieving that aim with chemo than without it. Ask my partner and he'll tell you, based on the last ten days alone, all I'm missing is the birthdays.