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Netwatch is a custom cctv security system tailored to meet the needs of our clients. To assess cost involved we ask that you avail of a free site survey. This free site survey will give you a breakdown of the relative costs involved in effectively securing your business.
Can the Netwatch security system use the cameras I have already have?
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The Corolle Vanilla Blonde Toddler Doll has a huggable soft body, moving eyes, and long silky blonde hair that can be brushed and styled. Vanilla Blonde has an adorable pink and white dress with a pretty bow at the waist and a pink checked bodice, and wears cute Mary Janes and anklet socks. Her blue eyes open and close. Suitable for ages 3 and up.
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Paper Mario, known in Japan as Mario Story (マリオストーリー or Mario Sutōrī), is a console role-playing game video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 game console. It was first released in Japan on August 11, 2000, in North America on February 5, 2001, and in Europe and Australia on October 5, 2001. Paper Mario was re-released for Nintendo's Virtual Console in 2007.
Paper Mario is set in the Mushroom Kingdom as the protagonist Mario tries to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser. To do so, he must locate seven "Star Spirits" to negate the effects of the captured Star Rod, which grants invincibility to Bowser. The player controls Mario and a number of partners to solve puzzles in the game's overworld and defeat enemies in a turn-based battle system. The battles are unique in that the player can influence the effectiveness of attacks by performing required controller inputs known as "action commands."
Paper Mario is the first installment for the Mario role-playing games Paper Mario series and is the predecessor to the GameCube game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and the Wii game Super Paper Mario. The game received a positive reaction from the media, attaining an aggregate score of 88% from Game Rankings and 93% from Metacritic.It was rated the 63rd best game made on a Nintendo system in Nintendo Power's "Top 200 Games" list in 2006.
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If you thought the 100 Layers Challenge was a waste of perfectly good beauty product, the internet is here to tell you that it can only get worse. Putting their own twist on the viral trend of cutting things in half with a scorching-hot knife, Jeffree Star and his BFF Manny Gutierrez teamed up to destroy a ton of your favorite beauty products.
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TQ Travel and Services proudly organizes inbound and outbound tours for FIT or GIT between Asia countries and North America, as well as offers various destinations for seat-in-coach tours.
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The Bout of Books Read-A-Thon is hosted by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal!!
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The character I would choose to make over is Kramisha from the House of Night series. Why? Because I think if I ever saw her in real life, I might go blind. Her outfits are so colorful, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but she only wears one solid color. Like the time she wore all yellow. EVERYTHING was YELLOW. As you can probably tell, yellow isn't my favorite color, LOL. I don't mind her colorful outfits, but it would be nice if every article of clothing in the outfit wasn't the same color.
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Custom built Contemporary Cape home located right next to the bike path and 2 miles to popular Ridgevale Beach. This beautifully built 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath home features an open concept living room with cathedral ceiling, large and comfortable kitchen with granite counters and recessing lighting, a first floor master bedroom with private bath, three season porch, loft providing room for sleeping space/office, and first floor laundry room. Extremely energy efficient with natural gas heat, central air conditioning, on demand hot water, heated tile floors, and energy efficient foam insulation. Plenty of closet space, a two car garage and easy maintenance yard.
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Halifax, Mass. – Homeowners in Halifax Estates Mobile Home Park (www.halifaxestates.coop) have made history, closing on the largest-ever limited equity manufactured home cooperative purchase while helping secure the financial futures of the 700 retirement-age residents who live there.
While the $27 million purchase is certainly a milestone in the cooperative and manufactured housing sectors, the impact is life changing for the people who live in the 430 homes in Halifax Estates.
Nancy Froio, president of the residents association that purchased Halifax Estates, and her husband downsized into Halifax more than 12 years ago and fell in love with the community. A widow for nine years now, Froio is thankful that her neighborhood won't be sold again now that she and her neighbors own it.
"I'm so excited about this, it means the world to me because it's the best thing for the residents," said Froio, a retired printing company employee in her 70s. "With so many of our residents retired and on fixed incomes, knowing we're going to own it and run it the way we want to run it is such a relief. Now everyone is going to have a say."
Iris Perkoski, secretary on the nine-woman Board of Directors, said she and her neighbors chose resident ownership over selling to a commercial owner and are ready to work to maintain and improve their community.
"It is wonderful to know that we, the residents are taking charge of our homestead," Perkoski said. "This ensures continuity and stability and a quality of life we originally were looking for when we first moved to Halifax Estates."
Froio touted several reasons why the homeowners are working to keep their community such a terrific place to live in retirement. She pointed to a robust community workshop, where residents can work and borrow all sorts of woodworking tools, a clubhouse with billiards, table tennis, exercise equipment, an impressive library, bingo setup and more. Residents also enjoy shuffleboard, bocce (outdoors and, in winter, indoors), monthly bus trips, card clubs, a community garden and crafting groups.
The Helping Hands Committee holds fundraisers to support those in Halifax Estates who are struggling, including paying for heating fuel, fixing leaky roofs, mowing lawns, as well as providing transportation to and from medical appointments. All work is carried out anonymously.
Halifax Estates residents also give back to their greater community. The Singing Seniors perform at the clubhouse and take the show on the road to perform at nursing homes and other local institutions. The annual craft fair raises money that residents use to shop for needy children during the holidays.
"We always have a wrapping party and tell folks to show up with scissors and tape," Froio said. "This year we'll sponsor 12 kids."
The resident association has purchased the community for $27 million with assistance from Cooperative Development Institute. CDI is a certified technical assistance provider with ROC USA® Network. ROC USA is a non-profit that works nationally through a network of nine such technical assistance providers to assist residents of for-sale mobile home parks form resident corporations and buy their communities cooperatively. Technical assistance will continue to be provided by CDI to the association for the length of the mortgage — a minimum of 10 years.
Halifax Estates is the 18th Massachusetts community supported by ROC USA Network and the 210th nationwide. In all, the nine technical assistance providers in ROC USA Network work with 13,500 households in 14 states. In these democratic resident-owned communities (ROCs), homeowners each buy one low-cost membership interest. Each household has one vote on matters of the community. The members elect a Board of Directors to act on day-to-day issues and vote as a membership on larger matters like the annual budget, bylaws and community rules.
Financing for the project came from ROC USA® Capital in collaboration from TD Bank, Bank of America, Boston Community Capital and Leviticus 25:23 Alternative Fund. ROC USA Capital is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ROC USA and a U.S. Department of Treasury-certified Community Development Financial Institution.
ROC USA Capital Managing Director Michael Sloss said this model for preserving homes as permanently affordable continues to be unique in that it is unsubsidized, cost efficient, and achieves long-term security as a homeownership model.
"The residents association is purchasing the community for $27 million and preserving 430 home sites," Sloss said. "In contrast, a colleague in the multifamily apartment finance world said that if he financed 430 apartment units in one property it would come out to an $80 million transaction. Residents of such an apartment may only have the security of a one-year lease and no opportunity to build wealth through homeownership."
ROC USA Capital increased its credit line with Bank of America to $24 million to quickly accommodate the acquisition financing.
"Our purpose is to provide capital to organizations like ROC USA, preserving homeownership and expanding economic opportunities for homeowners," said Amy Brusiloff, Bank of America Senior CDFI Client Manager. "We've supported ROC USA since its inception, and we understand the value they bring, increasing housing stability and economic security by creating resident-owned communities."
TD Bank will provide $20 million in long-term permanent financing soon after the purchase is finalized.
"We're excited to partner with ROC USA Capital in such a groundbreaking purchase," said Thomas Potter, Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager at TD Bank. "TD has made similar loans working alongside the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund for years, but this is the Bank's first time working with ROC USA on a national scope. We've seen firsthand the difference resident ownership makes in manufactured home communities in New Hampshire and I'm excited ROC USA will provide the opportunity for tenant home buyers on a national scale."
Boston Community Capital and Leviticus 25:23 Alternative Fund are also participants in ROC USA's subordinate loan.
Andy Danforth, Director of CDI's New England Resident Owned Communities (NEROC) Program, said "We're proud to be able to assist the residents with the purchase, and now operation, of their community. They join more than 30 other communities we have assisted in the last seven years to secure their homesteads, control rents and vital services within democratic cooperatives."
ROC USA President Paul Bradley praised the Halifax Board and CDI for leading the community through the purchase process. He said the size of this purchase demonstrates not only the motivation of homeowners to gain ownership of the land as a group but also the expanding capacity of the nonprofits that support them.
"Over time there have been lots of owners of large properties who have called and really wanted to sell their communities to the residents – their longtime customers – but assumed there wasn't enough capacity in the nonprofit sector to do so," Bradley said. "We are showing with our affiliates and with the leadership of homeowners that larger and increasingly more expensive properties are strong candidates for resident ownership. It's where we've needed to be, and now we're there!"
Froio said the community leaders will pause to celebrate the purchase with an open-house party, but then will get right to work managing their cooperative business.
"We want to tweak the community rules and work on improving access to the clubhouse for our residents who have trouble getting around," she said. "We have some tree work and other routine maintenance issues, but we're getting more people involved and we'll get it taken care of quickly."
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Cooperative ownership of mobile home parks as a way of preserving affordable communities is a priority for several national non-profit organizations that in 2008 formed ROC USA to make resident-owned communities viable nationwide. ROC USA is sponsored by the Ford Foundation, NeighborWorks® America, Capital Impact Partners, Prosperity Now, and the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund.
ROC USA is a non-profit organization with a national network of nine organizations such as CDI and a national financing source for resident-owned communities. ROC USA Network affiliates have helped 210 communities preserve nearly 13,500 homes in 14 states. www.rocusa.org
The Cooperative Development Institute is a regional cooperative development center, founded in 1994, which has assisted dozens of new and existing cooperatives throughout New England and New York. It is involved in cooperative housing as well as agriculture, consumer, worker-owner, energy, and fishing cooperatives. For rural senior co-op development, CDI received support from the Cooperative Development Foundation. www.cdi.coop


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DescriptionLike the first two entries in the Shin Megami Tensei series, the spin-off with the mysterious title If... got its own remake. As in the other two cases, the graphics of the remade version have been redone from scratch, to match the 2D standard of 32-bit generation consoles. Interior locations are much more detailed, with visible furniture and other items in rooms that were empty or contains just a few objects in the original version.
The 3D dungeons can now be navigated with smooth scrolling, unlike the "jumping" navigation of the earlier versions. The remake also has an additional difficulty level, dubbed "normal"; the original difficulty level is called "hard". The easier difficulty level also reduces the amount of random battles. Story, dialogues, layout of locations, and general gameplay remain unchanged in this version.
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TriviaThere is a special Playstation release of the game entitled "50th Anniversary Pack". It is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Karukosaka High School, the one the events of the game take place. The game comes in a large box that contains the following: the game itself (no changes were made to the game), a Karukosaka High School pen, and a Karukosaka High School 2003 year calendar.
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Truck Mount Silencer- 3" Male Pipe
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Stoddard Silencers, Inc. has been manufacturing industrial grade silencers and intake air filters and filter silencers since 1975; however, our lineage goes further back.
Edgar S. Stoddard - founder and President of Stoddard Silencers - began his work in the industrial silencer field with Burgess Manning. He was co-founder of Universal Silencers and served as Vice President of Engineering and President until beginning Stoddard Silencers in 1975. Recognizing the importance of continuity, Mr. Stoddard has passed along the accumulated knowledge of silencer design and application to the staff which he has assembled at Stoddard Silencers, Inc.
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Our only care home in Staffordshire, is situated in the peaceful village of Hilderstone, near to the city of Stoke-on-Trent. This wonderful grade 2 listed building is surrounded by beautifully landscaped gardens that residents can relax in during the summer months with their family and friends, as well as boasting a lake at the end of the garden. Our dedicated and friendly teams of carers and nursing professionals provide first class care to all the people we support, including outstanding dementia care in our exclusive 'Memory Lane' community.
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Though they hail from Columbia, the Unawares sound more like an act that would come out of the indie rock mecca of Chapel Hill, N.C. There's a late '90s feel to the guitars which vacillate between prickly post-punk and crunchy slatherings of distortion. The hard-charging rhythms possess a herky-jerky wobble that evokes the Minutemen at times. But make no mistake, the Unawares have crafted a bruising, muscular sound. Like the Minutemen, there's very little filler. Only rarely do songs extend more than a few seconds beyond the three-minute mark. The power trio debuted with 2006's Hey Zeus, and continued to hone their brand of garage-punk with 2009's Pinkie Greene and 2011's When the Trees Are Empty. Trees offers their most keenly crafted and eclectic batch of songs, finding a way to work with more moderate tempos and volumes while sharpening the hooks. It's a more straightforward album than their knottier, psych-tinged follow-up, Absinthe Acres, which explores the band's dreamier, pastoral side on tracks like "Half the Day" and the Meat Puppets-ish "Be a Farmer." Other tracks bring out a slinky power pop vibe ("Barfighting Nothings") and punchy art-punk that sounds like early Mission of Burma ("Extract Lover"). The Unawares are truly one of South Carolina's most unsung talents. —Chris Parker
If you're looking for someplace to get your inner rasta on, then head out Friday to the Music Farm and listen to some of the deffest tunes in town at the Fall Reggae Jam. The jam features three bands, International Morality, Mystic Vibrations, and the Dubplates, and proceeds from the show will go to the Montego Bay Animal Haven, a nonprofit organization raising awareness about the plight of animals in Jamaica. Montego Bay has rescued cats, dogs, goats, and horses. "There's a lot of issues that need more attention," sys Ric Williams, the lead guitarist and vocalist for Mystic Vibrations. "We're not in it for the money. We try to lead by example. I know there's people hanging around with extra dollars in their pocket, and we could all do a little more to help." We don't think there's any faster way to build up your karma than to lend a helping hand. So if you're seeking redemption, want to help out some Jamaican animals, or just want to hear some rockin' reggae tunes, head out to the Music Farm to get your fix. —Stephen Pappas
Brittany "Diamond" Howard of Alabama Shakes has gone from being a full-time mail carrier to full-time musician. Before the success of their Boys and Girls album, the members of Alabama Shakes were doing what most small-time bands do to get by — they were working jobs, scrounging pennies for recording time, and trying to play live as much as possible. "I think if you've seen what has happened, it's been pretty incredible. We have played all over the United States and the rest of the world. It's pretty surreal when I think back on it," Howard says. The Athens, Ala.-based group skyrocketed to stardom with their hit song "Hold On," which mixes ghostly grit and laid-back instrumentation for a track that sounds like the Stones combined with Mumford and a splash of Amy Winehouse. Meanwhile, the seductive "Goin' to the Party" uses simple guitar chords to highlight Howard's sultry vocals, while the keyboard-driven "Be Mine" draws you in with its rough roots and an intoxicating combo of gripping guitar and sexy-slow bass. When asked to describe her band's sound, Howard keeps it simple: "We describe it as rock 'n' roll music."—Kalyn Oyer
Imagine drinking the finest beers from your city in a scenic Awendaw barn and listening to great music with a hundred of your closest friends. It sounds like a down-home dream, right? On Sept. 21 Awendaw Green will host the Rhythm and Brewfest with beer supplied by Palmetto, Westbrook, Holy City, and COAST breweries. Not only is this a place for beer lovers to shine, but there will be an impressive sampling of some of the best bluegrass and roots acts from the region. The lineup includes Merri Creek Pickers, the Bent Strings, Simple Syrup with Doug Jones and Charles Hedgepath, the Train Wrecks, and Flatt City. The Bent String vocalist and banjo player William Rose says, "We can't wait to play for this audience. They're a unique crowd and are really accepting of all different genres." The first 250 people at the door will get a T-shirt and an 8-oz. mug with eight beer tickets. All ages are welcome, and plenty of family-friendly activities will be going on, including a bonfire and disc golf. There will also be wood-fired pizza and a full grill. —Tamara Younkins


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Might Squadron was a starfighter squadron of the Thyferran Home Defense Corps that served under the government instituted by Xucphra Corporation and headed by former Imperial Intelligence chief Ysanne Isard, flying TIE/in starfighters. A green unit by the standards set by former Rogue Squadron pilot and Imperial agent Erisi Dlarit, the squadron's name became the subject of many jokes within the THDC, the popular refrain being that their name was the answer to the question "Will they fight?"
During the Battle of Thyferra, that marked both the climax and resolution of the Bacta War, Might Squadron was annihilated down to the last starfighter by Dlrit's former unit, the Rogues.


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FROM JASON'S 42-INCH PLASMA — My wife hates cartoons. Can't stand them. Thinks they're worthless, for kids. Immature.
Honey, I love you. But you're an idiot.
(She really liked that line, looking over my shoulder in bed.)
What she just doesn't understand is that cartoons are just a medium, like paintings, friezes, sculptures, sitcoms, musicals, or ink drawings. There are vapid hour-long dramas on television; there are comic book literary masterpieces; there are ingenious marionette plays; there are worthless 1,000-page epics.
Just like any other medium, there are trashy pulp cartoons and amazing works that can stand with Candide or Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
This is the argument the wife and I waged Saturday night as I tuned into Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) on Cartoon Network. Her verdict: Stupid comic book animations with no scholarly value. But if she had bothered to look beyond the pretty colors and the usually-for-kids channel on which they appeared, she would have seen a surprisingly thoughtful story.
This is a tale that starts with a third-person suicide and a point-blank wartime killing in silhouette. It's grim-edged throughout, exploring justifications for revenge slayings by rape victims, nationalist jingoism, government intrusion on individual rights, space-bound nuclear ethics, profound self-esteem issues, McCarthyism, and the tension between pacifistic and survivalist ideals.
None of these topics get a Boston Legal-level analysis. But they are used to exact a wide range of pressures that drive the protagonists to act as heroes, far more than any of the superpowers that have been thrust upon them. A web of origin stories show why J'onn J'onzz decides to help Earthlings, how Hal Jordan's resolute pacifism allowed him to wield the unimaginable power of the ring, and how Barry Allen came to terms with his role as a "lesser" hero.
These are Kennedy-era heroes facing Cold War problems with a modern perspective. And they're coated with an Art Deco face that is as much Mad Men retro cool as it is Andy Warhol-ish. The animation style is at once Golden Age in its optimism and Silver Age in its pesimism.
These are all very familiar hallmarks of the animated DC Universe, and for good reason. The man driving the action is Bruce Timm, creator of Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and Justice League. The New Frontier takes Timm's progressive darkness to a new intensity, and a marked plateau in terms of talent. No sci-fi production is complete without the help of Keith David, and TNF also makes use of David "Angel" Boreanaz, geek hero Neil Patrick Harris, Lucy "Xena" Lawless, Kyra Sedgewick, Brook Shields, John Heard (you'd recognize him if you saw him), and Kyle MacLachlan (think Twin Peaks).
Luckily, this iteration of the Justice League of America lays off the attention to Superman and Batman, opting instead to probe the motivations of "second tier" characters. And it uses the threat posed by a malevolent, Cthulu-esque, psychic, flying island that spawns prehistoric monsters (The Centre) as a plot-driving device and characterization catalyst rather than the focus of the story.
It's worth a watch, scoring a respectably modest 7.3 on IMDB.


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A life lived without purpose or value, the kind in which one doesn't know the reason why one was born, is joyless and lackluster. To just live eat and die without real sense of purpose surely represents a life pervaded by the world of Animality. On the other hand, to do, create or contribute something that benefits others and to dedicate ourselves as long as we live up to that challenge – that is a life of true satisfaction, a life of value. It is a humanistic and lofty way to live.
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It's a terrible shame that hawker centers are disappearing, along with
their master chefs. The appropriate Ministry should designate some of
these guys as National Living Treasures (like in Japan, for artisans)
and efforts should be made to preserve their cooking styles and secret
recipes. I'm not kidding! The concept of eating such cheap, wonderful
meals outdoors is a uniquely Singapore (or S.E. Asian) one, irreplicable
elsewhere in the world where customs and climates do not permit. Any
Singaporean living abroad for long periods of time would understand what
I'm lamenting about! In the United States, the only "hawker centers" of
any credibility were the old Mexican open air night markets, popular in
the early 20th century in Texas (which sports warm weather and proximity
to the Mexcian border). These markets were set up in the town square
together with farmers' trucks wholesaling fresh produce to greengrocers;
Mexican mariachi bands would play under the stars. The night market's
homemade taco stands, run by itinerant hawkers, represents the only
cooking style in America that reminds me of Singapore's hawker culture.
Unfortunately, such nostalgic times have long been driven to extinction
in America; Singapore should not follow suit! The shopping center food
court, ubiquitous in America and Singapore, is a lame substitute for the
thrill of flames and clanking woks of hawker centers. Is eating "siew
yeh" (supper) under a balmy night sky after a late movie a thing of the
past? I hope enough young Singaporeans would understand what we're
about to lose, and strive to preserve it!
Cuppage was dark, dank, stank of belacan and burnt oil, and was always 10
degrees hotter than the temperature outside, even more on the hottest days.
It was either way too crowded, making it impossible to get the plate of
hainanese beef noodles you really wanted, or utterly desolate. My
``respectable'' friends (I'm a US cookery journalist) refused to set foot in
the place--or in Ellenborough, or in the Chinatown Centre, for that matter.
But it was Singapore for real, and I find myself missing it terribly: it
would be a crime against culture of the highest degree if the hawker centres
were all replaced by sterile, air-conditioned food courts . . . fight the
good fight.
what i like about hawker centres :-
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Morning fatigue is an unusually low energy level in the mornings. People with morning fatigue are not necessarily drowsy or tired, and sleeping will not help them feel better. They can wake up feeling fatigued, or rapidly develop fatigue in the mornings. Since energy levels are usually high when people wake up, morning fatigue can be a cause for concern. There are a number of reasons for people to develop fatigue in the mornings and these can be considered during a medical evaluation.
A common cause is disordered sleeping. People with sleep disorders like apnea and insomnia can be fatigued in the morning, as can people doing shift work or changing their sleeping schedules. Another cause can be depression, in which case energy levels may remain low throughout the day. The fatigue in people with depression can be accompanied by generally depressed feelings and unhappiness.
Chronic conditions including low blood pressure, thyroid problems, anemia, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome are also linked with morning fatigue. In addition, certain medications can tire people out; cancer therapy is a common cause of fatigue, for example. A differential diagnosis and evaluation can be used to determine whether a patient has an underlying medical problem. Patients with known medical conditions who notice a change in status like the sudden development of fatigue may consider reevaluation to see if something about the condition has changed.
Some causes of morning fatigue can be treated, resolving low energy levels in the morning and helping patients resume normal levels of activity. Others cannot be treated, but may be managed with medical care. Budgeting energy usage can be helpful for patients, as can having assistance during periods of high fatigue. For example, parents of young children who have difficulty helping their children in the mornings could receive help from a partner or childcare provider.
Sudden changes in energy levels at any time of the day can be an indicator of a developing medical problem. Everyone has occasional off days, but if fatigue and other symptoms persist for several days, grow worse, or are accompanied with symptoms like feeling fuzzyheaded, being sleepy, or feeling unbalanced, a patient may have a serious medical problem. Evaluating a patient fully for all possible causes can take several weeks and may include extensive diagnostic testing including medical imaging, taking blood samples, and conducting patient interviews to learn more about a patient's lifestyle, usual energy level, and potential risk factors for disease.
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@cardsfan27 - That is interesting, because I used to have the same problem. With me, it didn't happen too much when I slept in my bed, but if I ever fell asleep on the couch, I would wake up feeling like that. I never did figure out what it was, and I couldn't find any good information on the internet, either, even though I found several people with similar problems.
When it was happening to me, it was during the summer, so the best explanation I had was that I wasn't getting enough water. On a related note, I could see that being another way to fight fatigue. I have always found skipping breakfast to be morning fatigue cause for
me. By the time I eat supper, I can't make it to lunch the next day unless I eat something for breakfast. If you don't want to make breakfast or don't have time in the morning, just eating something like a granola bar or some fruit should help.
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@jcraig - JimmyT had some good suggestions. Something else that is good to do is exercise in the morning. If you normally exercise in the evening, maybe move it to the morning if possible. If you don't exercise at all, starting might help. I don't know the science behind it, but somehow exercise releases hormones in your body that make you feel more alert. You didn't mention drinking coffee, but I wouldn't start doing that, since that will usually just lead to a crash later in the day.
I am not having any problems anymore, but a few years ago, I was waking up in the mornings with a headache and nausea. I am curious if anyone has ever experienced this and if that might have been a kind of morning fatigue. I never really felt tired, though, just kind of "fuzzy."
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@jcraig - That is really only something a doctor could determine for sure, but there are a couple other things you can try.
First of all, how much sleep are you getting in general? Most adults need 6 1/2 to 8 hours every night, and that number mostly depends on the person and how much energy you need for the day. Maybe try going to sleep a little bit earlier. Believe it or not, too much sleep can also cause you to be drowsy in the morning. If you're currently getting 9 or more hours every night, maybe you should try getting a little less sleep.
Besides that, maybe it is just that you aren't stimulated enough in the morning, and it takes that extra time to get the juices flowing. Maybe before you go to work, do a crossword puzzle or some other stimulating activity for 30 or so minutes. That might help to jumpstart things.
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I have recently been feeling tired when I go into work. It has been like this for at least a couple of years, so I have never really thought anything about it until a coworker was telling me that I might have morning fatigue. Sometimes I have trouble getting out of bed, but usually I can force myself to get up. Whenever I get to work, though, I am not very functional or productive for a couple of hours. After that I don't really feel all that tired. Is this normal or could I have morning fatigue?
What are some of the other causes and symptoms of morning fatigue. I go to sleep at about the same time every
night, so I don't have insomnia, and I'm pretty sure I don't have sleep apnea. I don't have any of the other possible causes that were mentioned like anemia or low blood pressure. I don't really notice any other symptoms, either. Just the tiredness for the first few hours after I get up and go to work.
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Economists and psychologists, for their part, did an end run around the issue with the convenient assumption that their job was to study the human mind stripped of culture. The human brain is genetically comparable around the globe, it was agreed, so human hardwiring for much behavior, perception, and cognition should be similarly universal. No need, in that case, to look beyond the convenient population of undergraduates for test subjects. A 2008 survey of the top six psychology journals dramatically shows how common that assumption was: more than 96 percent of the subjects tested in psychological studies from 2003 to 2007 were Westerners—with nearly 70 percent from the United States alone. Put another way: 96 percent of human subjects in these studies came from countries that represent only 12 percent of the world's population.
Henrich's work with the ultimatum game was an example of a small but growing countertrend in the social sciences, one in which researchers look straight at the question of how deeply culture shapes human cognition. His new colleagues in the psychology department, Heine and Norenzayan, were also part of this trend. Heine focused on the different ways people in Western and Eastern cultures perceived the world, reasoned, and understood themselves in relationship to others. Norenzayan's research focused on the ways religious belief influenced bonding and behavior. The three began to compile examples of cross-cultural research that, like Henrich's work with the Machiguenga, challenged long-held assumptions of human psychological universality.
from the Pacific Standard, via my cousin Peter on the Facebook.
Read the whole thing, it's an excellent introduction to the research that led to the hypothesis that most psych studies are carried out on a WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) population, and that people growing up in WEIRD societies may have drastically different understandings of the world. The discovery that many things we thought were hardwired into humans are actually strongly affected by culture has shaped conversations across psychology in the last few years, and the article has many examples of both small and large cultural differences that shape human behavior.
Crossmodel perceptual illusions and effects are long-established, but they usually involve the relationship between vision and audition (like in the McGurk effect).
I've seen more of these involving other modalities lately, though. Last year's Best Illusion of the Year winner was a vision/proprioception illusion:
And a recent paper in J Neuroscience uses olfaction to affect binocular rivalry.
In their main experiment, Zhou and colleagues showed people rival pictures of a rose and a banana at the same time. While doing this, they gave their volunteers the smell of a rose, and people became more likely to see the image of the rose.
When they gave them the smell of the banana, they were more likely to see the banana.
From NeuroDojo.
The consistently-fascinating Mind Hacks has a story today about a really pretty sketchy study from 1938, in which researchers were trying to measure some aspects of student conversation without inducing any reactivity.
In order not to introduce artifacts into the conversations, the investigators took special precautions to keep the subjects ignorant of the fact that their remarks were being recorded. To this end they concealed themselves under beds in students' rooms where tea parties were being held, eavesdropped in dormitory smoking-rooms and dormitory wash-rooms, and listened to telephone conversations.
The rest of his write-up is here.
Do y'all remember, from earlier this summer, the outrage that was arising in the pro tennis world over grunting? Pro-grunting players argue that producing such a sound when hitting the ball is a completely reasonable technique to get as much power as possible, while anti-grunting players argue that "excessive" noises are cheating, by preventing the opponent from hearing the sound of the ball hitting the racket, and are distracting to boot.
A PLoS ONE paper that just came out looked at precisely this question. Well, sorta this question. A laboratory approximation of this question, in which undergraduate students (none with "more than recreational tennis experience," they reassure us) watched clips of a tennis ball being hit and had to say where it landed.
They had "a professional tennis player" (no discussion of the gender or skill level of this player) hit forehand or backhand shots down a court towards a video camera centered on the far baseline, and collected clips of shots that landed in a 2 x 2 meter square at the corner of the sideline and the baseline. They counterbalanced their collection so that they had equivalent numbers of forehand and backhand shots going to each side, and then they showed each clip four times: twice with a simulated grunt (500 ms of white noise) and twice without; of these, each was shown once with the clip ending immediately upon the ball's landing, and once with the clip playing for 100 ms longer. (The instant-cutoff made the judgment task harder; the longer time to process the visual was easier. Maybe grunts only matter for hard-to-perceive things.) They asked the students who watched these clips to determine if the ball landed to the left or the right of the camera.
And what did they find?
Here we see reaction time (so, lower is faster/better); dark bars are when the video was shown with a grunt, white bars are clips shown in silence. The hard judgements (when the clip ended exactly as the ball landed) are clearly made more slowly than the easy judgements – that's not surprising. More impressive is that the simulated grunt clearly slows people down (their ANOVA found no interaction between decision difficulty and sound; that is, the grunt had the same effect on easy-decision trials and hard-decision trials). People are 20 – 30 ms slower when they hear the noise at the same time as the player hits the ball.
Same pattern for accuracy – people make fewer errors on easy trials than on hard ones, and fewer errors when the grunt is played than without. It's a difference of 3-4 %, but that's non-trivial in professional tennis!
This is a very pretty set of data – they've got a clean-cut effect, that's significant when measured in both error/accuracy and in reaction time – I'm jealous. My data should be this pretty.
My questions for these guys are about the validity of their task. In particular, they're showing people monocular stimuli - a video on a computer screen isn't going to give you the three-dimensionality that you get when viewing stimuli with two eyes in the real world.
They also used a 500 ms burst of white noise for the simulated grunt – how does the length of that compare to the actual tennis grunts that are the source of such controversy?
Finally, how precise was the timing of that burst of noise? They only say "during the shot" – we know from work on the bouncing/streaming illusion that the timing of sounds played during visual perception can have huge effects on how we perceive objects to be moving.
Sinnett S., & Kingstone A. (2010). A preliminary investigation regarding the effect of tennis grunting: Does white noise during a tennis shot have a negative impact on shot perception? PLoS ONE 5(10): e13148. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013148
The [emotional importance of authenticity also] applies to brands. Although we outgrow stuffed animals, we never get beyond the irrational logic of authenticity and essentialism. There are certain things whose value depends largely on their legitimacy. While I might listen to bootleg music on my iPhone, I want the phone to be genuine. I want that Apple logo to be real. Why? Because the brand has effectively woven itself into my emotional brain.* Because when I see that logo, I don't see a functional object. Instead, I've learned to respond to everything that isn't functional, all those subtle connotations conveyed in the glossy ads. There are many blankets in the world. But there is only one blankie. The best brands are blankies.
This study, led by Bernd Figner at Columbia, used TMS to disrupt the lateral prefrontal cortex while people were debating whether or not to delay for a larger reward. The end result was that people became much more impulsive: when the massive beam of electromagnetism was aimed at our forehead, we found it harder to delay gratification, and became significantly more likely to choose $20 right now, instead of $25 next month.
An attorney in NY is pushing to use fMRI evidence to demonstrate that a witness is telling the truth. While there are some studies showing differences in activation between deception and truth-telling, there's broad doubt that these findings are replicable in real-life settings, where the stakes are higher and the task is less constrained. And then there's the problem of asking juries to assess this evidence.
Juries tend to be overly credulous about any evidence offered as forensic or scientific evidence. And other studies show that imaging studies generate an extra layer of overcredulousness. (On those, see Dave Munger and Jonah Lehrer.) So when an 'expert' shows a jury a bunch of brain images and says he's certain the images say a person is lying (or not), the jury will led this evidence far more weight than it deserves.
Neuron Culture: Who
you gonna believe, me — or my lyin' fMRI?
In the Chronicle:
Foerde and her colleagues argue that when the subjects were
distracted, they learned the weather rules through a half-conscious
system of "habit memory," and that when they were undistracted, they
encoded the weather rules through what is known as the
declarative-memory system. (Indeed, brain imaging suggested that
different areas of the subjects' brains were activated during the two
That distinction is an important one for educators, Foerde says,
because information that is encoded in declarative memory is more
flexible—that is, people are more likely to be able to draw analogies
and extrapolate from it.
"If you just look at performance on the main task, you might not see
these differences," Foerde says. "But when you're teaching, you would
like to see more than simple retention of the information that you're
providing people. You'd like to see some evidence that they can use
their information in new ways."
via marbury
This is one of the sanest reviews I've seen of what we know about multitasking, attention, and learning. No flailing about how the Internet is destroying civilization, but some real concerns about the compatibility of multitasking and specific tasks.
When the philosopher A.C Grayling (who seemed to be giving an impression of a philosopher rather than actually being one) came to speak, he peered out at the audience over his horn-rimmed glasses and said something like, "I don't expect there are any dualists here, and there certainly aren't on this panel". His point being that the old Cartesian idea that there are minds and bodies and never-shall-the-twain-meet has been decimated in recent decades, as a respectable intellectual position, by the amazing discoveries of scientists studying the brain.
And yet elsewhere this assumption lives on. In this otherwise very good piece in yesterday's Times on chronic fatigue syndrome, everyone, from the writer to the experts to the sufferers, frames the question of the condition's causes as if we were still living in a dualist world. To take one example:
Stephen Holgate, professor of immunopharmacology at the University of
Southampton, chairs the Medical Research Council's expert group on CFS/ME.
"As a clinician who sees patients with this group of diseases I recognise
there's a real thing here, it's not all psychiatric or psychological," he
The Mind Hacks article he links to is also excellent.


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Beta85x HD - Self Destruct Recap
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So here is a quick recap of everything that got burned in the infamous BetaFPV 85x 4s meltdown... despite being the updated V2 that is '4s compatible'...
Anyways, BetaFPV support was pretty good and they are sending me new components. Surprised they didn't just send a whole new quad sense they are replacing ESC, a motor, flight controller, receiver, video transmitter, Caddx Turtle camera...
BetaFPV 85x - Fire on 4s STILL??
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It was so young </3 Good-bye Beta85x HD
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Well yesterday I was enjoying getting smoother and more controlled footage with my Beta85x when it decided to smoke on me... Not really sure what happened actually, at first I thought my negative power lead came off and shorted to the FC but it actually appears that another short occurred first, causing the negative lead to melt off the board!!
Attached are some photos. Posted below is my description to Tech Support (so I don't have to retype it all) and I will report back what they say. Hopefully they resolve the issue, this is the v2 board and 5000kv motor version so it shouldn't have burned out!
...However today I was flying when suddenly I lost video and found that the quad was dead on the ground, and the negative power lead had come off! Upon closer inspection, the lead didn't just fall off but MELTED off! It appears that something in the quad burned out, causing the power lead to melt off and also burned out part of the ESC board and the FC is also burned out now, you can see it burned around the USB connector. Further the VTx wires are also burnt, it appears that everything on the quad shorted out!!!
This makes me really sad because it was working so well before, then it just randomly burned out.
This is the v2 quad with the 5000kv motors. I am running a 450 4s and have had no problems until this!
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Late to the Game - BetaFPV 85x HD
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So yeah... I'm a bit late to the mini-quad game. Last time I was really building multirotors, the standard size was a 450mm quad...
Anyways, I snagged this little guy to get in some practice before I attempt to destroy my Gopro Hero 7 on a quad that I can't really handle
And man, this thing is FUN! People told me these micro 'CineWhoops' were underpowered, so I can't imagine what a proper 3" freestyle setup is going to be like because this thing blew me away! Plenty of power for me right now and my twitchy thumbs. Only problem I have noticed thus far is in dives I do regularly get washout, causing the quad to suddenly yaw-spin when I pull out of the dive. I suppose that is just a limitation of these little beasts, so I will learn to fly around it.
Here is a (mostly) raw clip at the end of my first day flying an FPV quad. I am hooked
End of the Beginning // Beta85x HD CineWhoop
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P.S. Follow me on Instagram to see edited clips and more info on my adventures
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B-Wing Mk.2 - Hyperstalling FIXED!
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Disappointed that some hyperstall/microstall tendencies persisted in the B-Wing mk.2, I was about ready to hack off the leading edge of the wing to give it a sharper profile. In fact, I even ran some quick CFD tests of different leading edge designs to see if my extra-round leading edge was causing premature flow separation or other problems.
Quick KFm2 Leading Edge CFD test
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While those simulations were running I decided to go out to my secret test location and run a few other scenarios with the Mk.2 to see if I could reduce the microstalling further.
First Flight:
removed the AA battery that was taped on for nose weight (24 grams).
Hyperstalling immediately exaggerated and a new 'diving' or 'tucking' tendency arose making it impossible to fly straight and level
Second Flight:
added back the AA battery and added a second battery (total 48 grams) for nose weight.
Microstalling 99% eliminated! No more tucking and no more bobbing in regular turns (only in very hard, high-g loaded maneuvers which is somewhat expected)
---------Flight Video---------
So for now, I suppose that ends the B-Wing microstalling/hyperstalling mystery... sort of. By changing from a
KFm-2 Airfoil
to a
I saw a large improvement in flight performance. And then by
dialing in the CG
I was able to eliminate 99% of the remaining issues. The aircraft still doesn't fly perfectly, but that is something that can be tuned in over time (I can live with this considering it has been over 3 years since I built a plane!).
Next Step:
Get my FPV pod v2 finished up and go for an FPV maiden
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B-Wing Mk.2 Maiden - Hyperstalling continues
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So yesterday I took the B-Wing mk.2 out for her maiden voyage, and the initial flights went well. Fairly well balanced, and CG seemed to be close. However, the 'hyperstalling' issues seen on the mk.1 continued to plague the mk.2
If you haven't ready the mk.1 blog posts, here is a summary: under high-loading maneuvers, the aircraft will bob its nose in a 'hyperstall' like attitude in which the plane stalls and recovers quickly in somewhat rapid succession. This makes the plane difficult to fly and, ultimately, a very poor low and tight FPV platform like it is supposed to be
The mk.2 doesn't exhibit hyperstall to the extent the mk.1 did (where it was basically unflyable) although it is still present and annoying. Overall however, the mk.2 with the KFm-4 wing flies much better than the KFm-2 on the mk.1.
As usual, for more build details check out my 'Stories Collections' on Instagram where I log the builds and such
Quick maiden flight video (courtesy of my lovely wife):
After some quick research, it seems that hyperstalling is largely caused by a nose-heavy plane, especially on low sweep angle wings (
). Before I hack up the leading edge on the B-Wing mk.2, I will do some more flight testing with the battery moved further aft and see how that effects the flight performance. According to the standard wing CG calculator (see attached image)
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B-Wing Mk.1 [continued]
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Quick clip showing bobbing:
Quick clip showing bobbing
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Okay, here are some things I tried to remove that bobbing:
1) Change CG. Moved it way forward, way back, not much difference in the 'bobbing' behavior
2) Extend elevons. I thought perhaps the elevons were being blanked out at higher angles of attack as the flow separates/KF airfoil vortex sheds from behind the step. However, this seemed to make the behavior WORSE
3) Stiffen control linkages. This involved moving control horns to top, increasing torque and resolution of servo by adjusting linkage position, firming up the elevon hinge, etc. Didn't make much difference
4) Fly upsdide down.
And #4 is what made the difference. The wing flew a bit better upside down! For some reason, my KFm-2 wing wants to become a KFm-1 wing... and under loading (hard turns etc) this tendency flairs up and causes the bobbing behavior seen in the video.
Why does this happen??
Honestly I'm not sure, and being an aerospace engineer, it is killing me not being able to figure it out
Sometimes when I am flying straight and level a gust of wind will come and make the plane take a hard nose dive... which means that in 'level' flight the wing is on the verge of creating 'negative lift', or swapping the high and low pressure regions of the wing... very odd, haven't seen that before.
All in all, it was a great learning experience (although frustrating) and revealed some good and bad points of
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B-Wing Mk.1
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I present to you, the B-Wing...
This is my 1st design in my "get back into FPV" project series. It's called the "B-Wing" because it's designed to be a [B]asher wing, meaning it is cheap and fast to build so I can focus on hitting various tree gaps and improving my FPV skills. Also, because
it's not designed to have the highest performance but rather be quick and cheap to build with adequate performance for it's intended use
(i.e. it isn't an "A" level perform but a "B" level). This wing will utilize my 3d printed Caddx Turtle v2 swappable FPV pod so I can move it between various planes as I test different designs. This wing has a
KFm-4 airfoil, and I plan to make a version 2 with a KFm-2 airfoil for comparison.
So, turns out I am really distracted and accidentally glued the two wing steps together, making a KFm-2 instead of a KFm-4
Anyways, with the plane built up it was time to go test!
To keep this post short and sweet, I will summarize the maiden results
1) It flies... technically. But it doesn't fly well
2) Alot of 'bobbing' and flutter in the wing under loading (i.e. pull-up, turns, etc)
3) Tested various CG positions, found that the plane was close to spot-on or maybe a bit nose heavy for this airfoil
So feeling a bit disappointed but curious as to what was causing this 'bobbing' action, I went home to do some research and change a few things.
Recap video:
Side note: you can follow my Instagram to see my flight log videos (in my stories collections) for all my designs:
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Fit Matters
The right solution for every application
An optimized car setup begins with the perfect wheel and tire fitment. Without model-specific attention to each wheels specifications, maximum performance is compromised. Each size was selected to find the right balance between a clean fit and the most grip possible. Each wheel combines many great features to meet the different brake caliper, strut, and fender clearance needs of modern Camaros.
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More than just a pretty face
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Race wheels can't just be light, they need to function in a high-performance environment. Unlike the narrow lug recesses of most other wheels, the ARC-8 wheel features a wide open hub center that easily accommodates large race lugs. This allows for quick and easy wheel changes and prevents chips and scratches from tools.
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We break a lot of wheels
Computer simulated stress tests are no match for real world testing when designing a light-weight wheel that will see extreme loads. All APEX wheels are crush and load tested to exceed JWL standards and those results are independently tested in Japan by the 3rd party government agency known as the VIA. Countless wheel companies falsely claim they are tested and certified by the VIA, and so they lack the certificates to prove it. We test and certify each and every design, diameter, width, and offset, separately. We publicly list all our VIA registration numbers which are on file with the VIA for confirmation. Don't trust brands that claim testing, but can't provide verifiable registration numbers.
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It's all in the details
We're taking more time than ever before on this step, revising and iterating our design to reduce weight as much as possible. We're on this step right now and we're still shaving off a fraction of a pound at a time. After many months of BMW-specific optimizations, we've minimized weight while maximizing strength. 19" wheels typically have less tire protecting them from the imperfections in the road, and that calls for load ratings that are 10% above the JWL/VIA's standard. The result is a lightweight wheel with extra strength in all the right places. Use the ARC-8 with confidence on both street and track.
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The ARC-8 wheel is available in multiple finishes, in addition to exclusive finishes available only through select dealers. All APEX wheels are finished using a comprehensive multi-stage liquid paint system over a powder coated base coat. Standard finishes include gloss metallic finishes, and semi-gloss or matte finishes. Hyper finishes include an additional coating of a premium liquid-like metallic silver to create a uniquely bright finish that can only be achieved through misting liquid paint.
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