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This flexible, yet rugged Mac hard drive comes with all the features you'd want in a Mac backup drive. It's fast and capacious enough for most mobile (and sedentary) power users. A rich feature set and long warranty combine to give the eGo BlackBelt an Editors' Choice award for Mac hard drives.
The Iomega eGo BlackBelt Mac Edition ($199.99 list) is a large capacity 1TB portable hard drive for Mac laptops and desktops. It's Time Machine-compatible, so it works right out of the box. It comes with USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 ports (and a FireWire 400 adapter), plus enough space to back up any MacBook or MacBook Pro twice over. Rugged construction, flexible interfaces, good bang for the buck, long 3-year warranty, and speedy performance all combine to give the eGo Blackbelt a very good score and our Editors' Choice award for Mac hard drives.
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The eGo BlackBelt looks like all of its Iomega eGo siblings, except that the black and silver drive has a pair of FireWire 800 ports in addition to the USB 2.0 mini-jack. The FireWire ports are pass through, so they allow you to daisy chain FireWire devices together to share a single FireWire 800 port on your Mac. The BlackBelt nomenclature refers to the drive's removable black Power Grip band, which helps the eGo BlackBelt gain almost three feet of drop protection compared to the stock eGo drives. Stock eGo drives are rated for about a 4.25 feet drop, while the Blackbelt is rated for a 7-foot drop without damage. The Power Grip band also had an extra benefit: It helps prevent the eGo from sliding around on your work surface. As on previous eGo models, the eGo BlackBelt does attract its share of fingerprints.
The eGo BlackBelt is operable solely from its FireWire or USB connections, so you don't need to carry around an external AC adapter. The Y-shaped USB cable has two USB connectors, so you can plug into an extra USB connection for power if need be. These days, you really shouldn't have to carry around an AC adapter for a portable drive.
The drive is ready for Time Machine out of the box, just plug the eGo into your Mac's FireWire 800 or USB port, and once you go through the one-click setup procedure, you're backing up your new Mac. Note: this only works on Macs running Leopard (OS 10.5) or Snow Leopard (OS 10.6). For older Macs and PCs, you'll have download the free copy Retrospect from Iomega's website (all you need is your drive's serial number to get the software from the site). The eGo is pre-formatted for HFS+, the Mac's native file format. If you want to use the drive on a Windows PC, you can reformat it for FAT32 (Windows only) or NTFS (Windows and Mac-compatible).
If possible, we recommend using the drive's FireWire 800 port. Just about all currently shipping desktops and portable Macs come with a FireWire 800 port, notable exceptions being the MacBook and MacBook Air ($1,199 direct, 3.5 stars). Transferring our 1.22GB Drag and Drop test folder to the eGo BlackBelt was completed in a fast 22 seconds under FireWire 800 and 35 seconds under USB 2.0. The Mac version of the eGo BlackBelt isn't USB 3.0 compliant, but it will work on systems with USB 3.0 ports (just at USB 2.0 speeds). That said, recent USB 3.0 drives like the HP Portable External Hard Drive (1TB) ($169.99 direct, 4 stars) took only 19 seconds to transfer the same folder. Note: we didn't run our Windows-based PCMark05 tests on the unit, since the drive came Mac-formatted and is designed for Mac users. You can of course reformat the drive for Windows PCs, but Iomega sells a less expensive eGo Blackbelt without FireWire for Windows users.
At list price, the eGo Blackbelt is a smidge higher than average on the dollar per GB ratio: $0.20 per GB. Street prices at the time of this review are a little closer to the average for other portable drives around $0.16-0.17 per GB. Regardless, the price premium is justified, since the FireWire 800 interface provides a lot more utility for Mac users. Our previous Editors' Choice for Mac drives was the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive Mac Edition (500GB) ($150 list, 4 stars). The Iomega eGo BlackBelt Mac Edition improves upon the older edition with much better protection, a higher capacity, and a FireWire 800 pass through port (the previous eGo had a single FireWire 400 port and a single FireWire 800 port). The larger drive is also better on a dollar per GB ratio, plus it's not too much more in total price. You may or may not need quite so much storage or speed, but if you're a Mac power user, the Iomega eGo Blackbelt should be on the top of your shopping list.
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In the US we see plenty of attack ads and battles going on between companies. Most recently we saw this from Samsung and there attack on almost anyone who has made a tablet. China is apparently no different, they have companies that fight it out in public to win the support of consumers just like we do. One example of such, is a rivalry that seems to date back about a year between Xiaomi, and Huawei.
It all started back when Xiaomi entered the low-end device market in July of 2013. Xiaomi released a device known as Hongmi. However, though the price of the device was what Chinese consumers were used to seeing on low-end devices, the Hongmi had mid-range specs, almost carving out their own category of devices. The Hongmi did very well in sales, and why wouldn't it, with mid-range specs at low-end pricing, the device was made to sell like hot cakes.
Seeing that success, Huawei wondered why they didn't think of doing something like Xiaomi did with the Hongmi. In December of 2013, Huawei released not just one, but two devices that had mid-range specs at low-end prices. These devices were additions to an already popular Huawei line-up called Honor, the Honor 3X and 3C. People quickly figured out that the additions to the Honor line were meant to directly compete with Xiaomi and the Hongmi device. The Honor 3X had higher specs than the Hongmi did, however, exceeded the price point a bit. While the 3C matched the specs of the Hongmi as well as the price point.
Now, the fight continues, with the Xiaomi release of the Hongmi Note, which has similar specs to the earlier released Honor 3X. Though the Hongmi Note matches the specs of the Honor 3X, the price point is still lower. The Hongmi Note will launch at 999 yuan, with a lower end model around 799 yuan. Of course, it wouldn't be a battle if Huawei didn't do something in direct response of this news.
Huawei did just that, and they didn't even wait a full day, with the announcement of a device that is essentially the Honor 3X. The difference is that the new Huawei device is marked at 998 yuan, awfully close in price to Xiaomi's Hongmi Note. The best part about this announcement by Huawei, is that they really didn't change much from the original Honor 3X. The biggest change was just the processor, with a bit of a downgrade to a 1.4Ghz CPU.
Unfortunately for those of us in the US, we will never see these devices, or any of the attack ads that are sure to come with it. However, we can read about it, and it does feel good to know that other countries like to play dirty as well.

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The investigation, such that it was, turned out to be somewhat disappointing. The winbaric had walked down to an empty room, stayed for some time, and then left. As a room it was not different from any other room in the station; it was in the main trunk of the station, and was just a small box with the usual pastel walls. Very puzzling.
She then met up with Kubiri for lunch with the Taladac delegation. Their ship looked almost identical to the one in which she and Kubiri had arrived at the station, although the color scheme was slightly different. As on the charter, they were served by a robotic steward, a little machine with arms. Much of the food was very strangely spiced and not very palatable; Katja wondered whether Kubiri had perhaps tweaked the system aboard their own ship to make it render food more edible for Syylven. The conversation, which was, of course, in Simplified Samar, was also extraordinarily dull, in part because the Ylfae liked to give long speeches before every course, and extraordinarily irritating, in part because they continued to try to talk only to Kubiri. The two sides, dull and irritating, fused when they did so, because they continually sprinkled their conversation with elaborate compliments and perorations on the excellence of the Samar. It was so over the top that Katja wondered after a while what Kubiri might have said to them to make them so intent on flattery. Nonetheless, parts of the conversation were of some interest. According to the delegates, the entire Ylfae civilization was embarked on a massive set of construction projects in response to an Oracle of the Tanaver. The project consisted of vast ships capable of jumping from galaxy to galaxy without a Portal and of carrying tens of thousands of people and sustaining them indefinitely without outside supplies.
"A strange request, and it is a difficult problem to make such large ships Portal-independent," said one of the delegates in his slow, over-precise Simplified Samar, "but, adding to this, some of the specifications are unusually difficult. We have had to make several major scientific advances simply in order to approximate them. The Tanaver were quite specific and precise about what was required. These ships need to be able to endure extreme conditions, even to the point of being able to withstand massive explosions."
"We have speculated that they are supposed to be anti-piracy ships capable of withstanding any attack," said the second; "that is why they need to be Portal-independent and so strong."
"Piracy is difficult to root out, because space is so vast that pirates can easily hide. Thus it would make sense to have a fleet of ships capable of long searches and enduring attack."
"Have you thought of asking the Tanaver?" Katja asked.
They did not deign to look at her, but, addressing themselves to Kubiri, they answered the question nonetheless. "They would not respond to such questions. But at the same time, one does not refuse a Tanaver request; and in the course of fulfilling it we have learned much."
Every galaxy in the Ylfae Commonwealth was involved in the project. "Each one is trying to build a ship to the proper specifications before the others; there would be much prestige in being able to complete it to specification early. We were doing well, one of the best, despite not being a wholly Ylfae galaxy. And we are very close, we think. But we have recently stalled. We have begun to experience shortages, which have greatly increased the expense. We are in very short supply of many elements that are necessary to complete the systems; 31, 39, 41, 46, 79, 111, 118, and many others. Our systems are not very rich in many of these, some are necessarily synthetic, and everything has to be tested until we can get the proper specifications. In principle we could gather it all together, but the expense is already well in excess of what we hoped, and will only become more expensive."
"It is interesting you should say that," Katja replied. "This system happens to be very rich in at least some of these elements. Perhaps at some point you could help the Syylven to build up a mining system for them." For the first time they were actually looking at her. "If you would give us a list of the elements in which you are interested, I can send you copies of the reports from the original Winbaric surveys. And the Sylven Commissioners are still in negotiation with some of your tribes over various trade treaties; I have no doubt that they would be interested in adding the question to those discussions."
"We will certainly send you the list," said one of the delegates.
The conversation passed to some light chit-chat, but Katja noticed that while they still primarily directed their attention to Kubiri, they now included her in the conversation. Kubiri, who was magnificently adept at directing the conversation where he wanted it to go, brought it to the subject of the Winbaric behavior. The Taladac agreed that the Winbaric were acting strangely.
"But," said one of the Taladac, putting his fingers near his face in what was perhaps the Ylfae equivalent of a shrug, "they are Tura, and this is not unexpected with Tura. They are a selfish and self-centered tribe, always concerned more with their own feelings and opinions than with understanding the greater scheme of things. It is difficult to reason with them on the best of days."
"And their sense of symbolism is defective, too," said the other. "Inconsistent and simplistic. They are erratic dreamers. They do not have discipline, but act only on impulse and their unruly passions."
That was all they said about the Winbaric, because they immediately started branching off into all the faults of all the non-Taladac tribes of Ylfae (the excessive sensitivity of the Talvati, the practical uselessness of the Remoal, the arrogance of the Sima, and so forth) and the superiority of the Taladac to them all. This they attributed to the superiority of their progenitors, which then led immediately to an arcane discussion of the finer points of Ylfae sacred progonology and a vivacious argument between the two of them over whether it was better to trace the various relevant genealogies matrilineally or patrilineally. This was difficult to break into, but Kubiri managed to get himself and Katja out of the discussion and out of the ship before it had advanced too far.
As they walked back to command control, Kubiri looked at Katja appraisingly. "I take it," he said, "that when the Taladac receive the reports, they will find that the system is indeed rich in some of the elements they mentioned."
"Well," said Katja, somewhat embarrassed. "I had only seen the report for element 41, and it did say that there was an unusual quantity of it in the system. It seemed it was worth a try."
"It was a reasonable move. At the very least it will raise the question for them whether they want the system developed by the Syylven, who will give good prices for trade concessions, or if they want to give it to the Winbaric, who seem unwilling to commit much to the system and are often antagonistic to the Taladac majority in this galaxy."
"Half of diplomacy is showing that doing the right thing is more pleasant than it appears."
Kubiri thrust out his lips in a Samar smile. "Truly. And we have confirmation that the Winbaric are not approaching this negotiation normally."
Katja told him about the result of her investigation. "But I've been thinking," she said, "that perhaps there is more there than meets the eye. Perhaps there is a special compartment or--" she thought about the room a moment then said, "or the ventilation shaft."
The Samar stopped and hummed. Then he said, "There are only three obvious reasons to put something in a ventilation shaft: to hide something, to spy on someone, or to harm someone. Perhaps there are others, but we cannot assume any of them until we have ruled out mischief. I will go find 'Herri' and meet you there."
They split up and Katja returned to the small room. Sure enough, there was a ventilation shaft in the corner. The grate covering it seemed loose; she was easily able to remove it. It was low and broad, and since it was large enough for her to fit inside, she put her hand in and looked around. It was dark, but when she pushed in a bit, small lights lit along the edges, no doubt originally designed for maintenance. She wiggled even farther inside.
She had once gone spelunking, and this was much like it, but with a smoother path and more shoulder-room. Before long she had managed to get quite far. It was quite cool, like Sylvenian spring, and she found it pleasantly refreshing. The air was blowing, very lightly, from behind her: the shaft was not an outflowing shaft but an inflowing shaft, and seemed to be primarily for the purpose of keeping air circulating rather than for any vigorous form of climate control.
The Wenbaric have been attempting to leave the station, a calm, cool, powerful voice said right next to her, causing her to jump, or, at least, jump as much as one can in a ventilator shaft. It was a familiar voice and it was perhaps not quite accurate to say that it was beside her, rather than just inside her skull.
"Herri?" she said. "Can you hear me?"
I do not need to hear you, he replied with amusement. Then: Kubiri says that they have been working since this morning on circumventing the security protocols in place and are beginning to override his current attempts to keep them docked the station. He has instituted countermeasures, but they know the system better than he does, and he does not know how much longer he can keep them.
"I think I see something ahead," said Katja. It was just beyond a juncture in the ducts; three joined together and just beyond them the whole thing ended in a screen, slightly dusty by now. Beside this screen was something on wheels, with lots of wires. "It is some sort of device," she said, as she wriggled closer.
She stopped. "Can you see it somehow?"
Of course; I can see some of what you see. The optimal predator is the one who knows something of what it is like to be the prey.
"That is a bit disturbing," she replied. She moved closer to the device. "I have no idea what this is," she said. "Do you?"
Of course, Herri said, the voice in her head as cool and calm and sarcastically amused as ever. It is a bomb.


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The first and foremost among heart health tips is that better lifestyle habits can help you reduce your risk for heart attack. In order to be free from constant food cravings, it is essential to eat three proper meals a day and in case one is looking for a snack, one can go for fresh fruit juice or salads. Drink a full glass of water when you feel hungry to avoid overeating. Cutting carbs, eating more protein, and eating plenty of fiber are all excellent ways to get rid of belly fat ( 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 ).\n\nThe easiest way to take care of your over-all healthiness and beauty is by having water everyday. If you ate fairly healthy food, you would probably get between 600-1000 mg of sodium a day. Get your sleep – Not getting enough sleep can lead to eating high sugar foods for energy and result in sedentary days because you are so tired.\n\nYour teeth and gums and other nutrients that come from healthy foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables. Weight loss should follow as a natural side effect of better food choices and improved metabolic health. Having a varied diet with many different types of fruits and vegetables will supply your body with a range of vitamins that it needs to stay healthy.\n\nMoreover, patients must avoid processed or commercial foods as well as meat, dairy products, and egg among others because these foods increase the estrogen level therefore making the fibroids grow. It prevents inflammation in the arteries, which helps us head off heart disease.\n\nLearn to say no politely to healthy eating saboteurs who come in all shapes and sizes. Increase your nutrition knowledge – You don't need to be a nutritionist, but understanding the positives and negatives of different foods is an important part of living healthy on the road.…
With dating apps, social media groups, and public forums, meeting someone online is no longer considered taboo. Instead, almost every internet browser will meet someone in real-life from their online world at least once in their lifetime. With that said, while the subject is no longer scary, the experience shouldn't be taken lightly. There are still safety precautions that you need to take to protect yourself when meeting someone from online.
Public, familiar, and comfortable are the three most important elements to meeting someone that you've be talking to via the interwebs. Why? There's strength in numbers. The more people that see you and surround you, the better. And, if you are comfortable and familiar, the meeting experience will be less awkward in the long run. Example? If you and your prospective honey love sports, opt to meet for a game at a Palm Springs golf course.
Google is free and background checks can be run for a small fee. If you're serious about meeting someone from the interwebs, especially if that person is a possible romantic interest, take the time to shell out for a quick background check. Or, simply run their name through search engine databases. It's okay to play detective when your safety is on the line.
Some dating apps are specifically for quick one-night stands or hook-ups within hours of matching with someone. Avoid these. Sure, it could be fun, but it's also dangerous on so many levels. Instead, talk to someone extensively for several weeks, or even months, before you decide to meet up. Get to know someone through conversation first. And video-chat on occasion to make sure you're talking to who you think you're talking to.
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Alcohol and drugs will impair your judgments and make you more susceptible to bad ideas and crude suggestions. Avoid these. You want to stay clear-headed, strong-minded, and altogether in good health to ensure your safety.
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Most golf courses attract thousands of visitors each year and provide a peaceful environment where guests can play a few rounds during the day. Its level of appeal and environment determines the success of the golf course. When you want to maintain your golf course and keep it looking beautiful, there are a few essential steps to take to attract more business.
Anticipate changes that occur with the weather to adjust how much water is provided to the grass. Working around the weather conditions will reduce the risk of dry spots that form on the lawn. You'll need to hire a professional to inspect the irrigation system to ensure that it's working correctly and that there aren't any leaks present.
You'll need to use professional equipment to keep the grass mowed and maintained. Look for used golf course mowers for sale to ensure that you can cover more area quickly. Test the mower out to ensure that it cuts cleanly while raising the cut and mow as little as possible.
You'll also want to trim the trees and improve the landscaping near the entrance of the golf course to create a beautiful and attractive setting that looks high-end.
Make it easy for your visitors to spend more time at the golf course by revamping your bar and grill to make it trendy and luxe. Install new lighting and make the space look contemporary, which will allow your golfers to feel more comfortable taking a break from their game and enjoying a bite to eat. Creating an environment where your guests can socialize will allow them to have more fun on the grounds and return for more games.
It's important to interact with your customers and create a community where everyone knows each other at the golf course. Walk the grounds and check to see that each person is having a good time. Make it a point to welcome each person to the facility and ask them about their life. You can share your passion for golf and allow them to have a great experience with each visit.
Running a successful golf course doesn't have to be tedious or challenging. With the right steps taken, you can enjoy showing off the grounds to your guests and attracting more business due to the high level of appeal of the setting.…
Crucial to caring for patients, every doctor, clinic, or other types of medical facility uses different kinds of medical equipment. Each one needs to perform well and be free of any sharp edges that might harm a patient. Malfunctioning equipment can also cause shocks to both the provider using the equipment and to the patient being examined.
Repairing equipment should be an aspect of ongoing an regular maintenance. When regular checks are made, problems with equipment are often spotted before a patient might experience a problem because of the equipment's issue. These checks should include visual ones as well as any notations of problems arising during current use.
All pieces of equipment that are used to examine patients should be examined before and after each use, and this is particularly true when it involves invasive pieces. Endoscopic devices are used to view a patient from the inside, requiring their insertion into different body cavities. Endoscope repairs can keep patients safe and comfortable.
Another aspect that should keep even the most inexperienced medical personnel in tune with equipment that might malfunction is the very real possibility of legal lawsuits. Injured patients can severely damage a practitioner's ability to continue their career, their reputation, and also their malpractice insurance rates, depending on the facts of each individual case.
When investigations disclose that it was simple maintenance, or actually a lack of it, that caused a patient great injury, even medical licenses and certificates can end up forfeit. It is always much better to ensure that anything that might touch a patient in the performance of medical care and other related duties holds no possibility of malfunction. Relying on those of lower rank and responsibility does not absolve higher level practitioners of any responsibility, either.
Medical boards can also impose their own sanctions on members who are believed to have been negligent when it came to patient care. Rescinding certificates and other credentials can impose financial hardships involving repayment of loans and medical organization membership dues.
All this can be avoided through simple maintenance of medical equipment. It really does matter, and protects your patients, too.…
Over the past few months, the proposed healthcare reform has been the subject of much discussion and the healthcare industry has come under intense scrutiny as a result of the administration's efforts to curtail the increasing cost of healthcare. It is no longer the case that a single health plan can offer full, comprehensive coverage at a competitive price because health care costs are out of control. Individual health insurance plans are made particularly for students. These pressures are leading more independent hospitals to join health systems and more physicians to move out of private practice and become salaried employees of hospitals.\n\nThough it is necessary for a student to have a insurance, but it is not an easy task to get hold of an affordable health coverage plans. But to argue that ERs are costly compared with other treatment options, hospitals need to claim expenses well beyond the marginal (or incremental) cost of serving ER patients.\n\nThe success of healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and other affiliations is predicated in part on available capital, and the need for and sources of funding are considerations present throughout the partnering process, from choosing a partner to evaluating an arrangement's capital needs to selecting an integration model to finding the right money source to finance the deal.\n\nThese will likely include a major government investment to promote digitization of patient health records, an effort to collect information on best clinical practices, and changes in the way providers are paid, to better reward quality and deter wasteful spending.\n\nAnd although Medicare has experimented with new reimbursement approaches to drive better results, no centralized reimbursement system can be supple enough to address the many variables affecting the patient experience. To choose from, there are two types of student health coverage plans available – Managed Care Plans and Fee For Service Plan (FFS).…
Sprue, swollen gums, bad breath, or cavities are some examples of poor dental health. In fact, the problem of teeth or gums is not always just make it difficult to eat or talk. A study found that poor oral hygiene can lead to a variety of dangerous disease complications.
Therefore, here are some useful tips for maintaining healthy teeth and mouth.
One purpose of the toothbrush is to remove dental plaque. However, if you brush too hard, the friction can tear the gums and erode the relatively thin enamel. As a result, your teeth become more sensitive. In addition, the incorrect way toothbrushes can cause dental plaques to even accumulate and harden which can result in gingivitis (gum inflammation).
Brushing your teeth should be done gently with circular movements and massaging teeth. Usually, the duration of effective duration for the toothbrush is about two minutes.
You must know if you are advised to brush your teeth at least twice a day: get up early and before going to bed.
Toothbrush before bed can actually remove germs and plaque on your teeth that accumulate long throughout the day. In addition to brushing your teeth, you are also encouraged to brush the tongue for the sake of removing germs or plaque attached to the tongue.
Fluoride is a natural element that can be found in many ways. Such as drinking water and food you consume. Fluoride is absorbed by the body to strengthen tooth enamel. Fluoride is also a major defense against tooth decay that works by fighting germs. And provide a natural protection for your teeth. Therefore, use a fluoride-containing toothpaste.
You may often hear the advice, "Do not eat a lot of sugary foods, will teeth perforated". Apparently, we really should not haphazardly denied the advice of parents. Sour and sour foods will be converted to acids by bacteria in the mouth which can then gnaw your tooth enamel. This acid that causes your teeth quickly hollow.
No need to stop consuming sugar at all to maintain oral health, you just need to limit consumption.
Similar to water, eating nutritious foods is also good for your dental and oral health. Eating nutritious foods including whole grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables, and dairy products can provide all the nutrients you need. In fact, a study found that omega-3s are a type of healthy fats in seafood that can reduce the risk of inflammation. So it can reduce the risk of gum disease.…
Sometimes humans often forget to care for eye health. Though we know the eye is actually including the five most important senses in the human body. Just imagine without the eyes, of course, humans can not see the beauty of the world and also the faces of the people closest to us. In order for the eye can continue to function optimally, it is definitely we have to keep his health. Therefore the following easy way to maintain eye health that you can apply.
Some vitamins C and E, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, and lutein may help avoid age-related eye problems such as cataracts and macular degeneration of the eye. The content can be obtained from green leafy vegetables, salmon, tuna, eggs, beans, blueberries, blackberries, and oranges. If you eat these foods regularly, can help maintain eye health.
How to maintain eye health can also be done by doing sports. With exercise is believed to reduce the risk of vision loss caused by chronic diseases.
It is recommended for people who are elderly and young, should routinely check the eye to an ophthalmologist. At least every 2 years so that vision is always healthy and protected. Actually, an eye health examination should since you were a child. An eye health examination can begin at an age between 6-12 months. For people who are over 40 years of age, it is recommended to check their eyes once a year. This examination aims to prevent eye diseases associated with the addition of age, such as cataracts and glaucoma.
As a result of staring at the computer screen for too long can cause dry eyes and tense, the view becomes blurred, it is difficult to focus staring at a distance. If you work in front of the computer all day, it is recommended every 20 minutes to take your eyes off. Divert the view as far as 6 meters for 20 seconds to reduce eye strain. Or can also rest the eyes for 15 minutes every 2 hours. And if your eyes feel dry, wink often.
As an additional tip, how to maintain eye health can also be done by not ignoring the various problems in the eye. If the eyes feel itchy or turn red, cope with eye drops or compress with cold water. And if you feel like there are grains of sand in the eyes, then rinse with clean water.
In addition, also need to find out about the eye health history of your family. This is important because many diseases or eye problems are inherited from parents to children. By doing eye health checks, there are diseases that can be detected by eye examination, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. When performing routine checks, various eye diseases and symptoms can be detected earlier. The treatment will certainly be easier.…


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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
- noun A silver coin of modern Greece, struck in 1828 by President Capo d' Istria. Its value is rather less than that of a lira.
- noun A southern constellation formed by Theo-dori below Cetus (though the Sculptor now intervenes). It is bounded by Eridanus on the west, by Toucan on the south, and by Eridanus on the east. Its brightest star is of magnitude 2½.
- noun In anc. Oriental myth., a wonderful bird of great beauty, which, after living 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, the only one of its kind, built for itself a funeral pile of spices and aromatic gums, lighted the pile with the fanning of its wings, and was burned upon it, but from its ashes revived in the freshness of youth.
- noun A person of unique excellence; one of singular distinction or peerless beauty; a paragon.
- noun In entomology, the geometrid moth Cidaria ribesiaria, whose larva feeds on the currant and gooseberry: a collectors' name in England. The small phenix is
- noun A genus of palms, constituting the tribe Phœniceæ, characterized by the three distinct carpels (only one of which matures), containing a single erect cylindrical seed with a deep longitudinal groove, and having the embryo near the base or on the back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
- noun (Bot.) A genus of palms including the date tree.
- noun (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.
- noun (Astron.) A southern constellation.
- noun rare A marvelous person or thing.
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I think she should forget about Harry and do a prequal series about the orginal order of the phenix and voldemorts rise to power
The most frequently cited example in these discussions in the thirteenth century was the sophisma omnis phenix est (˜Every phoenix is™).
From these seeds in springtime, as out of the ashes of the phenix, will come forth living things, stalks bearing fruits, "earth's treasures."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
In the land of the phenix there is neither rain, nor cold, nor too great heat, nor steep mountains, nor wild dales; there are no cares, and no sorrows.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
Not that mirth and folly are in any degree synonymous, as of old; for the merry fool, too scarce, alas! even in the times when Jacke of Dover hunted for him in the highways, has since then grown to be rarer than a phenix.
Without a blush she seeks a phenix guest [a bachelor]
Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
When her children in exile, like the despised man of Galilee, will find no continual habitation, when they shall have been convinced of the love of a mother and shall return home, Africa, phenix-like, will arise from her long slumber and become the scene of indescribable glory and power.
And the woman he had loved for an hour with youthful passion, and had dared to dream of casting aside in boyish insolence, had risen like a phenix and soared high and triumphant to the very sun itself.
He is said "to have been a thirteen-months 'child, to have had the dragon face and the phenix eye, an enormous chest, large ears, and a voice like the tone of the largest bell."
More invention there may be in the late Hugh Conway's tale and in Mr. Haggard's startling narrative of the phenix-female; but it is invention that we discover in their strange stories rather than imagination.


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[Long overdue for a by-law change, the lovely park has had more than it's fair share of problems with owners of dogs who fail to control their pets. Our family has had more than one encounter with aggressive dogs, and owners, over the years at this park. In contrast, the leash free park off Dundurn South in Hamilton is a fenced in area whereas Warren Park is a natural setting amidst the Dundas Conservation Authority trail system, and does not lend itself to a happy and safe segregated use between hikers and nature lovers, and dogs running loose. Foxes, yes, deer, sure, but dogs, no. Hopefully a resolution is found to amend the leash-free designation here. Good bit of first-hand reporting by Mr. Campbell
Park neighbours want city to enforce rules
Warren Park leash-free designation contravenes 2003 selection criteria
Craig Campbell, Dundas Star News Staff, Published on Jan 21, 2010
Neighbours of Warren Park off Tally Ho Drive feel unwelcome in the neighborhood park and are calling for a city review of the leash-free zone that breaks the city's own rules.
Warren Park's free running area has existed for 23 years, but has apparently never undergone the required site evaluation introduced in 2003 when the City of Hamilton created a policy for leash free parks.
Selection criteria
The continuation of Warren Park's leash-free designation does contradict the city's site selection criteria because the site falls within an Environmental Significant Area and the city policy does not permit free running areas within ESAs.
City staff was not available to comment this week on the Warren Park leash free zone.
Phone calls with specific questions were not returned before deadline.
More than a dozen park neighbours gathered at a Tally Ho Drive home last weekend to share some of their own concerns. Several said they no longer feel comfortable walking in the park because of threats posed by aggressive dogs and some aggressive dog owners. They are often confronted by dogs digging, or defecating, on their private property.
Concerns over Warren Park's leash free designation were raised last summer by the Hamilton Conservation Authority, which connects directly to the park.
Bruce Mackenzie, the HCA director of customer services and operations, told the Dundas Star News during the summer leash free dogs are not permitted on conservation lands –but there were ongoing problems enforcing that rule.
"We do have a problem, particularly with our trails adjacent to Warren Park," Mackenzie said.
The HCA put up signs between the municipal leash-free park and its own land reminding dog owners to leash their pets. But members of the group calling themselves Warren Park For Everyone pointed out people have written the word, "Nope," on a sign advising dog owners to leash their pets.
The residents say many of them are dog owners themselve and have nothing against the pets or their use of the park. But they argue Warren Park is unsuitable for leash-free dogs and doesn't meet the city criteria for such a designation.
They said the opportunity to unleash dogs in a natural area has brought people from a wide area outside Dundas to the local park, which is part of a significant natural area stretching from Ogilvie Street to Sulphur Springs Road.
While individual dog owners may only let their pet run loose for an hour or less then leave the area, it becomes a 24-hour a day, seven day a week issue for the community that surrounds the park. They say it causes noise, personal property damage, threatens children and the elderly and also creates significant parking problems.
Warren Park is not leash free during the summer months, but neighbours say some dog owners ignore the restriction –in contravention of city policy.
Last Saturday afternoon, when a reporter visited the park, a loose dog walked onto Tally Ho Drive in front of an oncoming vehicle. A teenage girl struggled to control and leash the dog.
During a 20-minute walk through the park, several violations of the city's policy were noted –including examples of dog owners who had not cleaned up after their pets. One dog charged at the reporter during the visit and the owner made no attempt to leash the pet, as required under the city policy.


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Google launched its own ambitious wireless network primarily in the U.S. on Wednesday in partnership with Sprint and T-Mobile.
Telstra plans to add more than 1500 hotspots to the rollout of its national Wi-Fi network, the telco said today.
Wireless vendors are pushing the 802.11ac standard because it offers the fastest Wi-Fi speeds yet, but most Australian businesses can afford to wait another year before upgrading their Wi-Fi networks, according to analysts.
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Beijing, China: Chinese electronics giant Suning said it will take a majority stake in Italy's Inter Milan on Monday, making the three-time European champions the most high-profile acquisition yet by investors from China.
Suning will pay 270 million euros ($306 million) for about 70 percent of the northern Italian team, one of the biggest clubs in European football which is now entirely in foreign hands for the first time.
"Buying Inter Milan is part of Suning's overall layout in the sports industry," Suning Holdings Group chairman Zhang Jindong said at a press briefing. "It is an important part of Suning's international development."
Suning promised to inject funds to take Inter, who finished fourth in this season's Serie A, back into the top 10 of European clubs by consistently qualifying for the Champions League.
"Suning will inject a steady stream of capital investment in Inter Milan, which will help it attract more talented players worldwide to once again win glory with strong backing," said Zhang.
Inter's great cross-town rivals AC Milan, with whom they share the city's iconic San Siro stadium, are also in talks with Chinese investors over a possible sale following 30 years under the control of former Italy prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Inter, who are 18-time Italian champions, have been under foreign control since 2013, when Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir took a 70 percent stake.
Under the new deal, Thohir's International Sports Capital becomes the sole minority shareholder and Thohir retains his position as club president.
Massimo Moratti, Inter's former president who oversaw a period of success including Italy's first league, Cup and Champions League treble in 2010, departs the club.
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Inter now becomes the biggest acquisition yet in what has been a spending spree by Chinese investors, spurred by President Xi Jinping's ambitions to import talent and expertise that can turn China into a global football power.
Last December, state-backed China Media Capital snapped up a 13 percent stake in Manchester City for $400 million, and real estate powerhouse Dalian Wanda owns 20 percent of Spain's Atletico Madrid.
In January, Chinese model car-maker Rastar completed a 54 percent acquisition of Spain's Espanyol, and last month Aston Villa accepted an $87 million offer from Chinese businessman Tony Xia.
Suning also owns Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning, which twice broke the Asian transfer record this year to sign Ramires from Chelsea for 28 million euros and Shakhtar Donetsk's Alex Teixeira for 50 million euros.
President Xi is a known football fan and in 2011 -- when he was then vice president -- he laid out three hopes for China's soccer future: to qualify for another World Cup, to host a World Cup and to win a World Cup.
Sport planners hope to turn China into a "world football superpower" by 2050, with a target of 50 million people playing the game by 2020, according to a plan published by the Chinese Football Association in April.
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Kristen on Confronting Ariana
Kristen dishes on breaking down in front of Ariana and learning to pick her battles with Tom the hard way.
Gay Pride is one of my favorite days of the year. It's like Christmas or Halloween when you live in West Hollywood. Everyone is celebratory and the energy is positive. If I volunteered to not be on the float at the parade, it meant I could actually go to the parade before work.
I may have had to leave early, but I got to rally with my G.B.F. (gay best friend) and support the LGBT community without wearing white spandex. Score. I also knew that it might add to the positive accord I was trying to build with Lisa if I sucked it up and came to work early. I made money and still had fun, so why not?
I wasn't initially aware that Ariana would be working at SUR after the Pride parade. I don't know if I actually thought I would get answers out of her, but if I wanted the rumors to stop, I felt I had to cut around all of the B.S. and just ask. Her theory on how the rumor got started is delusional. She also isn't in a position to be casting stones, but you'll just have to keep watching to find that out. . .
The text conversations between Tom and Ariana were upsetting to me because one of the rumors I had heard was that they had done something at Coachella. I thought it was ridiculous and didn't really entertain it, but when they were (in my opinion) flirting via text and talking about Coachella, it just made my mind reconsider that rumor.
Watching back, of course I felt extremely stupid and even humiliated breaking down in front of her the way that I did. It had been two years of brushing rumors and my gut feeling about the two of them under the rug. I wanted so badly for it not to be true that I finally just snapped.
Tom is my best friend and the love of my life -- the thought of him being with someone else physically or emotionally pained me more than I can articulate. Of course I didn't want to break up, I wanted him to tell me that it wasn't worth breaking up over. It was passive aggressive and I know he doesn't respond well to that kind of behavior. . .I just didn't know what else to do at that point.
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Necrosis of the nipple-areolar complex (NAC) is a devastating complication of reconstructive breast surgery. Noncontact, Light-emitting diode (LED) phototherapy is an attractive therapy that promotes wound healing by stimulating the fibroblasts and increasing cell activities of the wound bed. We investigated the clinical efficacy of LED phototherapy to minimize nipple-areolar complex necrosis after nipple-sparing mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction.
Then patients received LED phototherapy. OMEGA Light® (Esmedi global, Seoul, Korea) has 4 different wavelengths that ranged from 423 nm to 640 nm. A 640 nm LED red light source was used. Patients received LED phototherapy for 20 minutes, twice a day, until postoperative week one. To reduce bacterial contamination and promote quick granulation and reepithelization, wound dressings were changed twice a day after phototherapy.
Patients at risk of NAC ischemia showed clinical signs, including discoloration, edema of the nipple, and altered capillary refilling within the first 24 hours. Although NAC appeared to be ischemic and started to demarcate in the early postoperative period, there were no significant tissue loss. All ischemic NACs healed by secondary intention. Despite the presence of some demarcated areas in the early postoperative period, natural-looking NACs were restored in all breasts.
The use of LED inducing a photobiomodulative reaction to ischemic NACs after breast reconstruction can be effective in reducing postoperative NAC full thickness necrosis and improving wound healing.
Breast cancer is second only to skin cancer as the most common cancer in women. Each year, approximately 215,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer and tens of thousands of women undergo mastectomy for primary treatment.1 The resulting psychological disturbances in affected patients after mastectomy have been well-established. Breast reconstruction has been shown to help restore positive self-image and psychological well-being. Recently, autologous or implant-based breast reconstruction after mastectomy has been increasingly preferred worldwide as a breast cancer treatment option.2–6 In 2011, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, nearly 100,000 women underwent postmastectomy breast reconstruction.7
Recently, skin-sparing mastectomy has been performed frequently in breast cancer surgery. Also, in cases where breast cancer size is relatively small and distant from the nipple, there is a case of mastectomy for preserving the nipple. However, in these cases, skin necrosis may occur according to the thickness of the skin flap and the degree of preservation of the skin vascular lesion. Particularly, skin necrosis can occur frequently, if the nipple-areolar complex (NAC) is preserved. Resecting the tissue located below the NAC causes injury to local perforators and leads to a risk of ischemia in the NAC.8,9 There is a risk of delayed healing of the wound, transforming of the NAC complex and infrequently, infection of secondary pathogens.
In the immediate breast reconstruction, partial necrosis of the NAC is distressing. In order to prevent this, careful attention is paid to the preservation of the skin blood circulation, and it is important to protect the protruding nipples by non compressive dressing. In order to prevent such complication, we applied OMEGA light-emitting diode (LED) to patients who underwent necrotic change of NAC after nipple sparing mastectomy (NSM).
A retrospective cohort study was performed on 10 patients who underwent post NSM breast reconstruction from January of 2015 to December of 2016. All patients included in the study had impending necrosis in the NAC. Patients with contraindication of nipple sparing were excluded, and additional procedures such as augmentation and reduction were also excluded.
Mastectomy was performed by three breast surgeons with periareolar incision and reconstruction was performed by single plastic surgeon. Reconstruction was performed mainly with latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap and implant insertion. 10 patients underwent LED after surgery. Unlike the existing LED equipment, it does not have a pedestal and it is convenient to lie on the bed (Fig. 1). OMEGA Light® (Esmedi global, Seoul, Korea) has 4 different wavelengths ranging from 423 nm to 640 nm. A 640-nm LED red light source was used. The purpose of the LED is to improve vascular circulation to the NAC and promote wound healing. Patients received a LED phototherapy for 20 minutes twice a day until a week postoperatively. To reduce bacterial contamination and promote quick granulation and reepithelization, wound dressings were changed twice a day after phototherapy.
We reviewed preoperative and postoperative photographs, office charts, and hospital records retrospectively. Physical examination and photograph review were performed on the day after surgery (T0), one week (T1), and three weeks (T2) after surgery. We evaluated the capillary refill, color, temperature and skin turgor of the wound at three period evaluations after the surgery. And we applied the grading system based on postoperative photo. Grade 0 for normal skin and grade 1 for partial thickness ischemic appearance requiring local wound care. And grade 2 was defined as progression of necrosis with full thickness and was assessed only if a surgical procedure was required (Fig. 2). Grade evaluation included ischemia of nipple, areolar and incision site.
Seven patients (70%) were treated with latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap and implant insertion, and 3 patients (30%) were treated with only latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap. All patients underwent LED phototherapy. Partial thickness necrotic changes were observed in NAC and incision sites before LED treatment.
When follow up was performed 1 week after surgery, 4 cases who were evaluated as grade 1 were normalized. And after 3 weeks follow up, wound healing was completed with grade 0 in all cases. Table 1 summarizes about results.
There were no other major complications such as wound infection and NAC malposition. Patients receiving LED phototherapy experienced a minimization in the incidence of full thickness necrosis of the nipple. And we received favorable responses about additional effects such as pain relief.
A 48-year-old female patient underwent NSM by the breast surgeon for left breast cancer and performed latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap and implant insertion by plastic surgeon. Patient received a LED phototherapy for 20 minutes twice a day until a week postoperatively. Physical examination and photograph review were performed on the day after surgery, one week, and three weeks after surgery. NAC and incision site, which were evaluated as grade 1 before LED treatment, were normalized to grade 0 after LED treatment. Wound color and viability were recovered (Fig. 3). The remaining scar was treated with laser treatment.
Several oncological studies have established that NSM is associated with a reduced risk of local recurrence.10,11 Many studies have recommended that NSM only be performed in patients with peripheral tumors located no closer than 5 cm to the NAC.2 Several studies have described NAC necrosis after NSM. The reported incidence of NAC necrosis has been reported to range from 0% to 48%.3,4,12,13
As a result of this study, it is thought that the application of LED for minimization of NAC necrosis provides successful management. It has been found that LEDs promote wound healing, and red light having a wavelength of 640 nm has a high permeability up to 6 mm from the skin surface, thus promoting migration and proliferation of the fibroblast. It also affects the reepithelization of the wound and increasing of the blood flow. So we were able to prevent full thickness necrosis.
Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is a laser with an output power of less than 1 W (watt). This laser, when calculated from the concept of energy including the laser irradiation time, shows a proper irritating effect without destroying the cells within the range of about 0.05 to 10J. The low power laser does not generate heat and transmits only the light energy to the inside of the body through the surface of the skin without any other damage. In addition, the body cells that absorb the laser beam convert the light energy into chemical energy that can heal the damage of the cell and use it for the healing and pain relief of the damaged area. This phenomenon is called the phtobio-stimulation effect. The mechanism of promoting wound healing is known to be mitochondrial activation, ATP synthesis, promotion of DNA & RNA synthesis, promotion of protein synthesis, regulation of enzyme reaction, pH control inside and outside cells, and activation of cell metabolism.
In addition, it is known that the degree of increase of DNA synthesis rate in vivo by laser wavelength is different, and cell activation is promoted in blue wavelength of 404 nm and 454 nm, red wavelength of 620 nm, and infrared wavelength of 760 nm and 830 nm. And even if you use a different type of light than a laser, the same results can be obtained if the light has the same wavelength as that of the low-power laser. The result of this result is that it is possible to use various light sources. This suggests that the clinical effect of low power laser therapy is not due to the characteristics of the laser itself, but rather the wavelength of the laser itself. Therefore, it can be useful to increase the cell activity if the light source of the laser does not have the disadvantage, which usually the lasers have, and the wavelength is well absorbed by the cell. A representative example is a light emitting diode (LED). LED is a semiconductor element that emits light when a voltage is applied in the forward direction. In recent years, medical devices using LED as light sources instead of conventional low power laser devices have been increasingly used for medical purposes. Compared to conventional low-power lasers, LED phototherapy can be applied more easily to a large surface area treatment, shortening the procedure time, and emitting light with a wider range of wavelengths. LED has panels of various wavelengths (blue light, yellow light, green light, red light, infrared light, red light + infrared light) that can be mounted on the main body. Among them, red (635 nm) and infrared light sources (830 nm) are used for fibroblast proliferation, substrate synthesis, and stimulation of angiogenesis to improve wound healing. Omega light can also be used in four different wavelengths (red, blue, green, yellow) to solve various skin problems, as well as relieve pain and promote wound healing.
This study was limited to selective inclusion criteria and retrospective review. Mastectomy was performed by three general surgeons and the NAC necrosis was evaluated by subjective analysis so bias intervention is possible. In addition, according to the incision method, the viability of NAC may be affected, and we did not consider factors related to vascular circulation such as smoking history. In addition, the number of patients is small, so further study will be needed.
With a meticulous design, planning, and execution, 100% prevention of NAC ischemia and necrosis is not possible. Although the operative technique is considered more important, the use of LED inducing a photobiomodulative reaction to ischemic NACs after breast reconstruction can be effective to minimize postoperative NAC full thickness necrosis and improve wound healing. Moreoever, patients received additional benefits such as pain relief.


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Monday, May 13, 2013
Instant Mold continues to rule!
Heres my current WIP:
Keep in mind the clay, yes clay, is still wet so I haven't had a chance to clean the flash or tidy things up. Its still looking pretty good, I'd say!
The casting material? Simple, air-drying clay. I plan to fill gaps with epoxy and PVA, then spray with a solid matte varnish or two call it complete. Woohoo, cheapness!
All told: I probably spent a few cents worth of clay on these casts. So wrong yet so right!
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Nice going, Blaster! Man, you can't help but love Instant Mold!!ReplyDeleteReplies
It really is like the adorable puppy of modeling supplies :)Delete
Instant mold? Looks interesting. I hadn´t heard of it and now I´ve looked it up it Looks very easy to use and Price wise not bad either.ReplyDeleteReplies
Its pretty economical, yeah. I plan to use it to help me cast non-bendy swords and things for 1/72 as well as for textured shields.Delete
Hi, I may ask how "agressive" is that insttamold to pieces ? I meant, pouring silicone sure is a mess but won't apply almost any pressure to the model. That matters when you own an original piece made by you and it may be fragile (and unique).ReplyDelete
So would you tell how soft is it when workable ? I'm a bit affraid of buying/using it yet...Replies
The hotter you get the mold, the easier it is to work. You don't want to overheat it of course (I've done that on accident), just get it hot enough to be extremely pliable. I use a heatlamp because it saves me the trouble of boiling water over and over. If you get the mold hot as hell you could easily cast a fragile miniature I'd say.Delete
I vote you buy it and give it a whirl. I'm pretty sure everyone can find a use for this stuff. Its also reusable so thats a huge plus!
Hey thanks... will give it a try then... at least might prove useful for casting weapons so I save sculpting them each time...Delete
I'm impressed. I've had good luck using IM to duplicate low-relief textures etc. But the most 3-D thing I've ever duped was a half a barrel in 15mm. Doing an entire figure, even in parts, looks challenging.Delete
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(edited for typo) Remember that Oyumaru and Instant mold are the same thing. Oyumaru is often cheaper, depending on where you live.ReplyDelete


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Mesa, AZ - The Mesa Thunderbirds women's basketball team defeated the Snow College Badgers Friday night, 49-46, at Theo Heap Gym.
Solid showings in the third and fourth quarter propelled the lady T-Birds to its fifth win of the season, a win also against a DI opponent which have been hard to come by this year.
Mesa freshman Jacey Salabiye lead all scorers on the night with 17 points, connecting on 50 percent (7-14) of her shots. Overall on the night, the T-Birds shot 31.5 percent (17-54) while making 10-14 free-throws (71.4%).
The T-Birds went down by nine with 4:11 to play in the second quarter but they were able to cut the deficit to three heading into halftime. The T-Birds didn't take a lead until the 4:49 mark of the third quarter when Iris Domebo connected on a three-pointer to make it a 31-30 game.
Mesa moves its overall record to 5-8. The lady T-Birds won't be back in action til the Bill Culver Classic at Scottsdale Community College, which begins Friday, December 28th.


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The main exhibition of the 11th Kaunas Biennial was opened on September 15th; in fact, one could say the biennial opened Kaunas. The feeling intensified through the weekend, while following the discussions held in Vytautas Magnus university and, later on Saturday, attending three exhibitions of the biennial opened at the Kaunas picture gallery. In fact, the biennial opened a new angle to look at history of Lithuania and the way it has been written. Will all of this be closed on November 30th? We highly doubt it.
This year, the title of the biennial and the main exhibition is HERE AND NOT HERE. One of the most important contemporary art events in the Baltics seeks to oppose the populist practice of removing/erecting and the conservative traditionalism prevalent in monument discourse in Lithuania, and to stimulate and legitimise radically new, contemporary, conceptual, relevant ideas and forms of commemoration, inviting us to look back at removed monuments, rethink existing monuments, and imagine new monuments. The curator of the biennial and two of its exhibitions is Paulina Pukytė, a Lithuanian writer sharing her time between here and UK. She did her best to attract a diverse crowd of international artists that all spent a significant time in Kaunas to create the site-specific works for the main exhibition.
While the three exhibitions at Kaunas picture gallery will perfectly fill a rainy afternoon, we advise you take your time and plan a thorough weekend-long walk (or drive, actually!) through the 24 works of the main exhibition. You can pick up the free map of it at the biennial's HQ which are located at the picture gallery or check it online here. We also recommend joining a guided tour (check the times here) as most of the works are site-specific and some background knowledge of the history of Kaunas would be a big bonus. Here's a handful of the works we've discovered so far. Can't wait to see and contemplate them all!
Vienybės square
The Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi is renowned for his exceptional public art projects in which he merges the boundaries between the public and the private. Paradoxically, he achieves this by constructing temporary living or hotel rooms around the monuments of the world's great cities including a living room for the Christopher Columbus statue in New York and a hotel room for the monument of Queen Victoria in Liverpool. In Kaunas, too! In the context of the biennial, Nishi quite controversially constructed a Soviet kitchen around the Freedom monument built in 1922 ant rebuilt in 1990. You can visit the statue every day from 11AM to 7PM.
300 000
Sound installation
Programming: Laimonas Janutėnas, sound: Vytenis Gudliauskas
Kaunas Railway Station, Platform 1
Konstantinas Bogdanas (Jr.) (b. 1961, Vilnius) is a conceptual artist. In his practice he combines different media such as objects, installations, performance and photographs. Most important to him however is language, both its text and its context. Bogdanas questions abstract notions such as art, identity and perception as well as self-concept. This is often achieved through the act of negation, through employing the absurdity of a situation and by a demand for self-determination. The contrast between minimalist expression and depth of content is what makes his works effective. The key words in Bogdanas' work are (non)coincidence, (in)adequacy, (un)necessity, (non)fruition, (un)usefulness, (non)understanding, (in)capability. An element of humour is present, although it always gives way to existential doubt. (based on: Monika Krikštopaitytė, Nacionalinė Dailės Galerija Art Information Centre)
300,000 is a number. It is also the number of Lithuanians uprooted and deported to Siberia by the Soviet regime. Statistical numbers are difficult to comprehend. The larger the number the more removed it feels from a real person and what that person lived through. By counting from one to 300,000 Kostas Bogdanas stretches this number in time, turning statistics into a sum of individuals. It takes over 200 hours to count. Counting out loud as a meditative act here is also an act of remembrance and an invitation to grasp the scale of the crime. On the other hand, the computerised nature of the counting questions how honest and sincere we are today when commemorating events important to our nation.
"Gdziež jestem?" ("Where am I?"). Adam Mickewicz
Neon light
A. Mickevičiaus g. 56
Jonas Oškinis (b. 1973, Kaunas) studied sociology and history and works with projects related to the city's cultural history. Raimundas Krukonis (b. 1975, Jankai) studied glass and sculpture.
"Where am I?", in his poem "Konrad Wallenrod" asked the great Polish-Lithuanian (or Lithuanian-Polish?) romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), who lived in Kaunas for several years in a house that once stood on this spot. During the interwar period, Mickiewicz's old cottage was still here, stuck at an angle on the increasingly rectilinear street grid in Kaunas' city centre – a 19th century invasion into the 20th century modernist city. The problem was solved during Communist times – from then until now, a socialist dwelling house of improved design stands here. And only 100 m away from this spot is Daržų Street where Lithuanian Intelligence dug up the Polska Organizacja Wojskowa archive and thus Pilsudki's plans for a federation in 1920's came to an abrupt end.
"Our Mickiewicz has seen a large wooden model for a Mickiewicz monument in interwar Vilnius that was destroyed by the spring floods, he has seen a pensive Mickiewicz made of granite next to St. Anne's Church, and a pile of the "Dziady" reliefs to be installed in the base of another Mickiewicz monument – in the same place where bronze Chernyakhovsky was later erected and now stands a monument to Kudirka. Our Mickiewicz has also been to the Neon Museum in Warsaw. Our Mickiewicz is a 20th century neon invasion into the 21st century Kaunas. Does he know where he is? You are here", state the authors. By the way, another version of Mickiewicz, a street art installation, can be visited just a hundred meters away from the neon one, on the facade of Vingiu Dubingiu pub. More on it here.
George Maciunas. Music for Everyman
Sound installation; sound files, sensors, speakers, text.
State Social Insurance Office, main waiting area on the left, A. Mickevičiaus g. 42
Anton Lukoszevieze (b. 1965, UK) is a British musician and artist of Lithuanian descent. His practice moves between disciplines, through performance, composition, graphic work, photography, film and video. He is known for his performances and music encapsulating avant-garde and experimental work. He is also the founder and director of the award-winning group Apartment House. He has been researching and performing experimental compositions by a range of composers and artists, such as John Cage, Philip Corner, Christian Wolf, Louise Bourgeois, and George Maciunas. His particular interest in Maciunas culminated in 2014 with a release of the first ever Maciunas CD, performed by Apartment House.
This installation is a homage to the Kaunas-born Lithuanian-American artist and the co-founder of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas (1931-1978). His Music for Everyman (1961) consists of a musical score as a catalogue of possible sounds and actions. The choice of sounds, their duration and frequency, as well as the implements and body parts used to perform them, are up to the performer.
A number of seats in the Kaunas Social Insurance Office waiting area have been installed with pressure sensitive pads. When a visitor sits on the seat, a pre-recorded sound is activated. Thus Lukoszevieze causes the general public to unintentionally perform Music For Everyman. The location of the Social Insurance Office for this "monument" is not accidental: everyone comes here, and it is due to the perpetual stream of visitors that this monument to Maciunas exists – always, but only when there is someone there to create and perceive it at the same time.
There's a Maciunas square in Kaunas, too, and it's absolutely brilliant. More on it here.
Recycled Memory
Photographs mounted on aluminium, wooden cases
Sąjungos square
Horst Hoheisel (b. 1944, Poznan, Poland) & Andreas Knitz (b. 1963, Ravensburg, Germany) have worked together since 1994 on many memorial projects known as counter-monuments or negative monuments. They are searching for new contemporary forms of commemoration of the victims of mass murder and dictatorships, mainly in Germany, but also in South America, Armenia, Cambodia and elsewhere. Instead of repairing the irreparable, their goal is to make the absence of murdered people visible and felt. The most notable of their projects is the memorial in Buchenwald – a steel plate on the ground of the former concentration camp that always retains the temperature of a human body, day and night, in summer and in winter. Hoheisel also made the most radical proposal to the 1995 competition for the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Rather than suggesting another edifice to fill a void and allow everyone to forget it, he proposed instead, to create a void – to destroy a monument to German power, the Brandenburg Gate.
Sąjungos (Union) Square lies next to Vilijampolė – the old Jewish quarter of Kaunas that was turned into the Kaunas Ghetto between 1941 and 1944 during the Nazi Germany occupation. Almost 30,000 inhabitants of the Ghetto were murdered in that period, their houses destroyed and burned. In 1979, during the Soviet occupation, a monument to young communists who fought for the installation of the Soviet government was built on this site. In 1991, after Independence, the bronze reliefs of the monument were removed. Since then, only the dilapidated architecture of the former monument remains. In Vilijampolė there is no sign commemorating its murdered inhabitants. Hoheisel made the most radical proposal to the 1995 competition for the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Rather than suggesting another edifice to fill a void and allow everyone to forget it, he proposed instead, to create a void – to destroy a monument to German power, the Brandenburg Gate. Twenty-two years after this unrealisable proposal and a suggestion that perhaps only perpetual irresolution of commemoration can keep the memory alive, Hoheisel and Knitz now ask in Kaunas: has the removal of a monument here made us remember or forget? Has it changed our thinking? Does it mean destruction cannot happen here again?
Confluence. A Monument to Emma Goldman
Light installation and website project
Programming and electronic design: Marek Korzeniowski
Confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers
Karolina Freino (b. 1978, Poznań, Poland) studied Sculpture and Public Art & New Artistic Strategies. Freino's artistic practice is based on working with a specific site, its physical, political, social and mental emanations, as well as its memory. She uses these local contexts to make a broader commentary on contemporary socio-political issues. Freino works at the junction of different media, predominantly in the public sphere. While her projects often resemble conceptual riddles, they are also visually appealing, as she aims to compel viewers to participate in constructing the meaning of the work, to make them think.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) – the iconic figure of the fight for women's rights and social justice, as well as of the anarchist movement – was born in Kaunas, in a Jewish family. It is said that her farther hoped desperately for a son; for him a daughter would be a sign of failure. She spent the first seven years of her life in Lithuania and emigrated to the United States in 1885, where she became a political activist and writer, devoting her life to the fight for freedom in its different aspects.
Freino located her Monument to Emma Goldman at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers in Kaunas – the site relates to the power of unity and solidarity that was one of the key aspects of Goldman's ideas. It is in the form of a buoy with a beacon that continuously flashes out Living My Life – the autobiography by Goldman, translated into Morse code. The live process of the translation, letter by letter, is visible online at www.goldman.bienale.lt. The monument's ephemeral, somehow distanced appearance relates to Goldman's meagre presence in contemporary Lithuanian public sphere, although its form – relating to a navigating function – indicates a potential for discovering some guidance in her thoughts.
Descriptions of works and biographies of artists taken from www.bienale.lt


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On the second Daze of Christmas,
Paul Heatley gives to us. . .
Paul Heatley gives to us. . .
Candy Cane by Paul Heatley
It's Christmas Eve and after tonight Chris is out of work. He'll pass the year all right, pick up some hours at his brother's garage or down at the docks. The Santa Claus gig is a solid month, sometimes two, of steady pay. He's been doing it a long time now. A fat ass like his, stick it in a red suit and hat, and presto. Used to be they had to stick a fake beard on him, but now he's older and he's got a real beard.
He's still almost in uniform. The jacket is draped over the stool beside him. The hat sits next to his drink on top of the wet bar.
Behind him, the club isn't exactly lively. Two girls are up on stage while most of the guys in the joint look miserable as all hell, staring into their drinks, probably pondering their absent families.
With their audience distracted, the girls don't put much heart into their performance. They go through the motions, killing time until they can leave. One of them is, or was, dressed like Mrs. Claus. The other is down to her tinsel-wrapped suspenders, wearing a pair of flashing reindeer antlers. There are a couple of sad-looking trees half-heartedly decorated on either side of the stage, brown and shedding.
"Merry Christmas, Santa Claus."
Chris looks.
A girl leans against the bar next to him. She half-smiles with narrowed eyes while sucking on a red and green candy cane. Her bra has baubles hanging where her nipples live. Around her waist, covering her ass and crotch, is a short green-velvet skirt bordered with white.
A girl leans against the bar next to him. She half-smiles with narrowed eyes while sucking on a red and green candy cane. Her bra has baubles hanging where her nipples live. Around her waist, covering her ass and crotch, is a short green-velvet skirt bordered with white.
"What're you supposed to be?" he says.
"I'm an elf," she says. "One of your little helpers. Shouldn't you be getting back to the North Pole soon? There's gonna be a lot of unhappy boys and girls if you don't hurry."
Chris jabs a thumb at Mrs. Claus. "Just waiting on my wife."
The elf looks, still sucking on her cane. The stripes are fading from it. "She looks like she's gonna be busy a while longer. How about you and I head in a booth, pass some time 'til she's done?"
Chris takes a drink. "Sounds like a hell of an idea, but I'm tapped."
Her cheeks are drawn in from sucking the candy cane. Her eyes are locked on his. "Let's make it a freebie."
"It's a Christmas miracle, Mister Claus."
The elf takes him by the hand, leads him into a booth, and pushes him down into a chair. "Let me ask you something," she says, one hand on his shoulder, the other still wrapped round the hook of her candy cane. Her hips sway. "How long you been doing the Santa gig?"
"Shit," Chris says. "Long time." He reaches out, puts his hands over her stockings . She doesn't seem to mind, so he squeezes.
"Ten years?"
"You like it?"
"It has its perks."
She turns, lets him raise her skirt to see the G-string and her ass. "When I was a kid growing up in the home, we all used to love Christmas."
"You an orphan?"
She turns. "Maybe. Dumped on a doorstep. Anyway, Christmas, Santa came to visit us. Let us know he hadn't forgotten about the kids without parents. You ever do that?"
"Yeah, used to. While back."
"You recognise me?"
"Can't say I do, darlin'.
"One year, a Santa came and took a real shine to me. Let me sit on his lap for a long time. Took me on his sleigh, too, after all the other kids had gone back to their rooms."
Chris straightens. He studies her face.
"I look familiar now?" She pulls the candy cane from her mouth. She's sucked it to a sharpened point.
She jabs the cane into his left eye. As he starts to scream, she sticks it in the other and leaves it there.


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Luisa and Jose
I loved staying in Holland and of course in Monnickendam. Thank you very much. Everything was perfect.
I will never forget the experience of being here.
Brian and Madi
Thank you very much!!!
We loved staying here and we will look you up again in the future!
Diana (California) and dave (South Africa
Thank you so much for a lovely stay. Although it was only one night. The room is beautiful and had everything we wanted. Thank you as well for the wine. You'r very kind and i'll recommand your place to all my friends.
Danielle and Jess
Thank You so much for letting us stay in this wonderfull apartment. Monnickendam is beautiful!
We have had a *** time and sad to go home. We will definately be back again.
Dave and Jane South Bucks , England
Thank you very much for a comfortable stay. We looking down at the habour ! Thank you for loan of your bikes. We cycles te Marken, caught the ferry tot Volendam, cycles on to Edam, then back to Monnickendam. It was all lovely! Keukenhof Garten were beautiful and worth the Visit.
Thank you !
Geisa and Donole Italy
Monnickendam, Volendam, Marken, Enkhuizen, Alkmaar are nice! Restaurant "de Waegh"; the diner was super !
At Monday we went tot Amsterdam bij ferry( at Ondinaweg )had a sweet applepie and looked the Panorama at the top floor of the new Libery... we drank bier in an old tipicall pub.... was the best!! birthday!!! I ever had!
Beth and Colin Guildford ( UK )
Panorama room
a Wonderful four days here. Whilst there were floods Storms in England, we has Queens Weather Three days to explore Waterland, Amsterdam Further. The ferry to Amsterdam is brilliant and worked for us.
The most surprising was Waterland itself. I read Peter Spies The Cow who fell into the Canal to mij 4 jear old grand daughter and here was the story, all come to life. For the boat-lover in mij life, the vieuw every morning has been a delight.
There is so much more to do, we must return.