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Historically, mountain bikes had wheels that were 26 inches in diameter - it was the standard wheel/tyre size for all off-road bicycles. Then people started to experiment with wheel sizes and it was found that larger wheel sizes 9 up to 29 inches in diameter, actually performed better in some circumstances - although a little heavier and less responsive, they provide better traction and speed. Downhill racers will usually prefer the smaller wheel option, as the shorter wheelbase and smaller wheels make the bike easier to handle in those conditions. Several other options halfway between the two are also on offer and can make a good all-round mountain bike suitable for different conditions.
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Most Metal Phone App You Will Ever See
As I mentioned the other day, there is a Metal Archives Android app in development. However you probably weren't able to get into the beta, and that's because the app was already on it's way to the marketplace by the time we picked up on the story. It is not officially available.
The app is extremely slick and responsive. The simple UI allows you to search via Band, Album, or Song. And gives you access to all the bands information which is available on the archives. Including reviews if you find yourself at a record shop with an unknown band that caught your eye. It's also great for settling debates between your friends.
Metal Archives Android Application
Everyones favorite Heavy Metal site (besides Metalscape of course), Metal Archives, could soon have it's very own Android application.
The application is being developed by a fan of the site and is not directly supported by the site, so don't go asking them any technical questions. But they do support his efforts.
Beta testers are currently needed for the application, if you're interested fill out this form if you'd like to participate.
As a proud owner of a new Nexus One, I thoroughly support this idea. Man, my new phone just keeps getting better and better.


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Lead glass is used in the manufacture of optical glass, electric vacuum glass, low temperature sealing glass, radiation protection glass, lead crystal glass, flint optical glass, low melting glass, delay line glass, high refractive microbead glass, and art glassware.
In addition to glass-forming materials such as silicon dioxide and boron trioxide, glass containing a large amount of lead oxide is contained.
The compositional formula of lead glass is: RmOn-PbO-SiO2 (B2O3). In the formula, SiO2 (B2O3), ie, silicon oxide (boron oxide), is referred to as a network former and is a basic unit constituting a glass network structure. RmOn, representing metal oxides of alkalis, alkaline earths, and rare earth metals, is a network modification that changes the structure of the glass network and achieves tuning properties. PbO, lead oxide, is a characteristic component that imparts basic properties to glass. With the increase of PbO content, the glass's density, refractive index, dispersion, dielectric constant, X-ray and γ-ray absorption coefficient and other performance index values increased; its hardness, high temperature viscosity, softening temperature, chemical stability and other index values decreased; As a result, the glass molding material becomes longer, the color of the colorant is brighter, the surface gloss is increased, and the knocking sound is crisp.


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This build has been designed for the following use:
Use Assassin's Promise for energy management and the hard hitting single-target abilities of Air Magic or the AoE shutdown of Earth Magic. Works equally well in Hero/Hench teams and full human teams.
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<pvxbig> [build prof=E/A Deadly=12 Energy=3+1][Assassin's Promise]["You Move Like a Dwarf!"][Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support]["Finish Him!"][Optional][Optional][Glyph of Lesser Energy][Optional][/build]
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- [[Energy Blast@8] good damage if you decide put some more points in ES
- [[Glyph of Sacrifice@12] elite skill negates the downside of this
- [[Enduring Toxin@12] for a quick-casting cover hex
- [[Ebon Battle Standard of Honor@10] over "YMLaD!" or "Finish Him!" When using Earth spells to increase AoE damage considerably.
Equipment Edit
- Either Radiant or Survivor Insignias.
- Vitae or Attunement runes, with the best vigor rune affordable.
- New users might find energy to be more beneficial than hp. However, with experience, the energy is no longer an issue.
- Half Skill Recharge is unnecessary on mods, however half-cast time is desirable.
- Ideal would be an Adept (air or earth) Staff of Fortitude with Aptitude Not Attitude inscription.
Usage Edit
- Maintain Air/Earth Attunement when possible.
- Use Glyph of Lesser Energy as often as necessary.
- Use Assassin's Promise on called target when health begins to drop.
- Remember that shouts can be used during the cast of other spells, and use them accordingly.
- Due to the nature of the Earth variant, cast AP only when the foe has dropped past 50% health, lower or when you see their death in 6 seconds being imminent (i.e. no enemy healers left).
- For the earth variant, use Churning Earth before Eruption to help prevent scatter.
- A very common and effective opening sequence would be to target the healer in the group and the following sequence.
- Glyph of Lesser Energy
- Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support
- Lightning Orb or Churning Earth and use YMLAD during the cast
- The target should be under half health, so Assassin's Promise, "Finish Him!", and Chain Lightning or Eruption. The target is likely dead.
- All skills are recharged through AP, so reuse the glyph if needed, and repeat the damage.
Counters Edit
- Hex Removal of AP.
- Failure to kill AP marked targets.
- Vocal Minority prevents shouts. Consider other PvE-only skills in areas where this may be a problem.
See Also Edit
- Build:Me/A Assassin's Promise Spiker - Mesmer concept of Assassin's Promise build.
- Build:N/A Mark of Pain Nuker - Necro variation of the Assassin's Promise build for pve physical damage teams.
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Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species-the first catalogue of its kind-covers all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012, comprising 3,509 living and 274 extinct species allocated to 539 living and 112 extinct genera. Also included are 54 genera and 302 species that are dubious or invalid, resulting in recognition of 705 genera and 4,085 species.The data on type specimens includes museum and catalog number, length and sex, and collector and date. The listed type localities include restrictions and corrections. The bibliography provides complete citations of all references cited in the text and appendix, and taxonomic comments are given in the remarks sections. This standard reference supplies a scientific, academic, and professional treatment of snakes-appealing to conservationists and herpetologists as well as zoologists, naturalists, hobbyists, researchers, and teachers.
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The "Watchmaker argument"
Two hundred years ago a bishop, by the name of William Paley, wrote a book in which he used a watch to illustrate how clear it was that God is real. He pointed out how many intricate parts a watch had; and how only a skilled watchmaker could put these parts together. He described how the watch was designed so that each small part had a purpose. He then argued that the watch, because it had so many parts, had to have a planner and that, because the watch had a purpose – to tell time – it had to be an intelligent planner.
And then Bishop Paley also pointed out that there were many creatures much more complex and wonderful than the watch.
Consider the woodpecker
One of these creatures is the woodpecker — a bright, feathered hammerhead, whom we often nickname Woody. And if we look at the complex, awesome parts of the woodpecker, we cannot help but stand in awe of our Creator.
1. Shock-absorbing beak
The woodpecker, is a marvelous bird and far from ordinary. Take his bill, for example. Isn't it amazing how he can ram it into a tree thousands of times a minute without having to replace it or getting a terrific headache? Well, his head is equipped with shock absorbers. And these shock absorbers cushion the blows so that the skull and brain of the woodpecker do not suffer.
2. Feet that grip
Now consider his feet. Have you ever wondered how this bird could stand sideways against the tree for such a long time without slipping off? Well, God equipped the woodpecker with very stiff tail feathers with which he can brace himself. Also, his feet have four claw-like toes. Two toes point up and two point down — so that he can get a good grip on bark.
3. Glue the grips
Now, once he's drilled his little hole, how does he manage to reach inside the tree for his supper? Again, our God and his Creator has equipped him well. The woodpecker has a wonderful tongue. It's long, with special glands on it which secrete a substance that bugs stick to like glue. When the woodpecker pulls his tongue out of the drilled hole it's covered with a smorgasbord of insects.
4. Tongue that curls
The woodpecker's tongue is worth even closer scrutiny. Most birds have tongues that are fastened to the back of their beak. The woodpecker would choke if this was the case because his tongue is far too long. So do you know where God fastened it? In his right nostril. Yes, when the woodpecker is not using his tongue, he rolls it up and stores it in his nose. Coming from the right nostril, the tongue divides into two halves. Each half passes over each side of the skull, (under the skin), comes around and up underneath the beak and enters the beak through a hole. And at this point the two halves combine and come out of his mouth. You have to agree that the woodpecker's tongue is a most intricate and complicated piece of equipment.
Blind to the wonder
Not everyone believes that God created "every winged bird according to its kind." (Genesis 1:21b) Some evolutionists believe that birds were first reptiles. A 1980 Science Yearbook states that
"paleontologists assume that the bird's ancestors learned to climb trees to escape from predators and to seek insect food. Once the 'bird' was in a tree, feathers and wings evolved (grew) to aid in guiding from branch to branch."
Isn't it funny to think of so-called scientific men who believe this? If evolution were really true, why don't we see lizards sitting in trees today sprouting little feathers? Doesn't the thought alone make you chuckle? Actually, some evolutionists themselves are even aware that this is not really true. In 1985 an evolutionist named Feduccia said, "Feathers are features unique to birds, and there are no known intermediate structures between reptilian scales and feather."
So why do people continue to believe and teach evolution? Romans 1:18-20 tells us why. Some people choose to suppress the truth. They have no faith in God's marvelous creation, even though it is all around them, and these people are "without excuse" (v. 20) before God.
No, we are wise to stick to our faith in Scripture. The complexity of birds, certainly including the woodpecker, point to an intelligent Creator. And Bishop Paley's argument is good because today, 200 years later, we can point to many other living creatures also, (even tiny microscopic forms of life are infinitely complex), who could never have come about by any chance process of evolution. We praise and thank God for His marvelous creation. With the four and twenty elders of Revelations 4:11 we can say:
"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being."
Christine Farenhorst is the author of many books, including her new historical fiction novel, Katharina, Katharina, about the times of Martin Luther. This article first appeared in the February 1991 issue of Reformed Perspective.
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Great article explaining the concept of the "Watchmaker Argument."
However what you left out is the response that most non-believers make to this. If a woodpecker or for that matter a watch, is so complex that it needed a maker, How much more complex is the maker, and who made the maker?
I'm afraid that when we get into discussions of the like and we pull out a pseudo-logical example or line of reasoning like that of the watchmaker, we only end up with egg on our face. That line of reasoning should be able to, not only explain our thesis, but be able to respond to all challenges. Scientists and non-believers are comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. We as Christians should be the same. When we don't know an answer, we are better to say that we don't know exactly, rather than try to come up with some kind of lame pseudo-scientific response that makes us look like idiots in the end.
I don't know who the imaginary referee keeping score in your game is, but you proved absolutely nothing. You score a point when you convince the other side, not yourself. I'm afraid you didn't even convince me as a Christian. Nothing you said is convincing proof, only things that satisfy your limited intellectual requirements are from your mono-sourced reference book.
My point is that the bible is not a science book. It is a book written by fallible men trying to communicate an infallible spiritual message. Now because they were fallible and living in the times they did, scientific knowledge was much less than today and technology and customs were different. That's why we get God's law about selling daughters into slavery and outright mistakes like bats being birds. We should be comfortable saying, "we don't know." Just like they do.
Evolutionists have a much more credible scientific theory and proof about why a woodpecker is the way he is than creationists who think the world was created in six days and that plants were created before the sun. Saying woodpeckers were "Zapped" into being in a perfect state by a creator that you cannot convincingly prove even exists. Convincing proof generally causes the other party to concede. Remember, non-believers seek the evidence-based truth. Believers seek to prove that their particular "book" is true. Sometimes using circular reasoning and sometimes on flimsy, distorted or totally innacurate scientific evidence. Just admit, that just like them, there are things we do not know for sure yet. Focus on the Spirit of the message, not the details because we will constantly get tripped up.
You can fantasize all you want that you're winning, but the real game, the one that Jesus asked us to play and that is to convince them and bring then into the Word. As long as you bring that type of flimsy argument above, you will be constantly striking out in the game is tracked by souls saved!
Of course, science books need to be updated regularly because newfound evidence constantly confirms or generates new knowledge that causes science to upgrade beliefs and provide us with new avenues of investigation to seek ultimate truth. A simple google search about errors and contradictions in your so called "unerring" Word will burst your delusional bubble that there are no errors or mistakes in the Bible. Do rabbits chew cud (Deuteronomy 14:6-7)? Was the universe was created in six 24-hour days? Can you can sell your daughter into slavery (Exodus 21:7-11)? Is a bat a bird (Leviticus 11:13-19 and Deuteronomy 14:11-17)? Is it even possible to survive 3 days after being swallowed by a fish?
Remember the point I made in my previous comment, the bible is not a science book. It is a book written by fallible men trying to communicate an infallible spiritual message. Do these things really negate the spiritual truths by which we are saved or the glory of God? I think not!
Your illogical, narrow-minded and flawed reasoning is the exact reason that many young people and "thinking" people are leaving the church.
Don't bring in morality here. It's arrogant to believe that Christians base their actions on biblically-inspired morality, or that Christians are the only ones who have morals. Federal Bureau of Prison statistics show that 74% of the prison population is made up of Christians. 7.3% Muslims, 1.8% Jewish, 1.2 % Buddhist, 0.2% Atheist, 0.16% Buddhist. According to the Pew Research Center (https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/) 70.6% of the US population identify as Christian or a believer in Christ. 5.9% self-identify as Non-Christian and 22.8% identify as Atheist, Agnostic or no religion at all. So, if non-Christians have no morality, why don't they make up the overwhelming majority of prisoners. Of course, it intellectually dishonest so conclude that religious affiliation is the only factor that causes people to go to jail. Factors like income, addiction, mental illness and other factors contribute to the causes of incarceration but it does cause us to question why our jails are filled with people who identify as Christians.
Don't bring Hitler into this either. Hitler justified his genocide of the Jews using Biblical "Morality." Martin Luther would probably have applauded him because, as you probably know, he was a rabid anti-Semite. Non-theistic societies like China and Russia and Non-Christian societies all have laws forbidding many of the practices we forbid in Western cultures like murder, theft and dishonesty. So stop invoking the Holier-than-thou concept that only Christians have morality. It is a social construct of what we call being civilized. I can also quote plenty of rather barbaric practices in the "unerring" word and condoning of immoral practices such as slavery, infanticide (Deuteronomy 21:18–21), should we avoid touching women who are having their periods? (Leviticus 15: 19-20) All these can be found in the "Good" Book. And don't try to use the "That was the Old Testament" cop-out, Jesus said that He did not come to change one iota of the law.
Responsibility – You knock "Sam Harris, and other atheists like him," but look at the life of Jesus. Didn't He hang out with sinners and forgive those that repented. Isn't the purpose of our penal system to rehabilitate and not to punish?
Where do you pull out outrageous statements like, "the biblical worldview fits with the evidence – with what we know to be true – in a way the naturalist worldview doesn't." Are you serious?
Let me give you an example: It reminds me of a time when I invited a work colleague to attend our Sunday worship. I'm sure you've heard this in a congregational prayer/world view before, "we pray for Brother or Sister X who is undergoing triple bypass surgery next week. May God guide the hands of the surgeons because, as we all know, He is the Great Physician after all. It is not the surgeons but God who is really heals and is in control! Dear Lord, show your great power that your Glory will be manifest to all!" And then he added in a rather submissive demeanour, "but in all this Your Will be done!" and so on and so on… We all should get this drift which is very consistent with Reformed world view expressed in Lord's Day 1 of the Heidelberg Catechism.
After the service, my colleague questioned me on that and asked if God was really in control, why would you not put your money where your mouth is and just pray for healing directly from God and receive it? Why would God expose Brother or Sister X to all that trauma and stress of surgery? If God is really guiding the surgeon's hands, would he also guide an auto mechanic if he stepped in and did the surgery? He had a good laugh at our expense, and I was at a loss, because we have this obsession to make (automatic and un-reflected) statements to re-affirm (or perhaps reinforce) our beliefs and world view and temper our expectations, but at the same time we provide fodder to skeptics and unbelievers.
So, if I use your Reformed world-view, how do I respond to my friend (naturalistic) challenges?
• If God is in control, why don't you walk that talk and make it easier by avoiding the middle-man (the surgeon) and seek God's direct intervention through prayer? That would surely convince people like me! After all, "Seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened…" "If God clothes and feeds the birds of the fields, how much more will he do for you…"
• If God is in control, why did Brother or Sister X get sick in the first place?
Well, I kind of copped out and asked him to ask the minister, that he would gladly be able to explain it to him? And much to my horror, my friend did just that! Well he got a response that included:
• Well, who do you think provided the surgeons and gave them the intelligence and knowledge to do the surgery? Then, much to my chagrin, the minister went on to tell the story of the guy on a roof who was drowning in a flood and praying to God for help, and two boats came along and he refused because the drowning man trusted in the Lord. Then when, after all this he actually DID drown, and appeared before God he asked, "Why didn't you save me from drowning?" God responded, "Who do you think sent the two boats?"
• Then he went on to quote Jesus when he was tempted by Satan. (He actually brought the devil into this. It was going to be hard enough to get my colleague to believe in God, now we're asking him to believe in the devil!) Jesus responded to the devil with something like, "do not put the Lord your God to the test!" to which my friend responded, "Why is that not permissible when even when one of His own disciples, Thomas did the same? Ouch!
• Then my friend challenged the minister about he devil's power by quoting Lord's Day 1, which we had also touched on that Sunday. He asked something like, "If I understand your teachings today correctly, didn't Jesus fully satisfy the penalty for my sins with his perfect sacrifice and deliver me from all the power/tyranny of the devil? Didn't you say that thing not a hair can fall from my head without the will of God? Now if God has got the power over hair loss, wouldn't He also have power over the cardio-vascular system? So, in effect, it's not the Devil doing this, because Jesus delivered us from the devil's tyranny, but God allowing this." "Oh boy, where is the minister going to go with this?" I asked myself. However, much to my delight, I thought the minister did a good job of this. He said something like, "Well, we humans cannot predict the future, so our faith helps us to trust that God does all things to bring about His overall Plan for the salvation of his children." I was relieved that he may have implied Proverbs 3:5-7, but he didn't come outright and quote it.
Origin of Life – I don't know what kind of scientific knowledge you may have, but if you actually took any of these subjects in school, you should apply for a refund! More importantly the scientific method teaches us how to answer questions based on evidence and not circular reasoning. Respectfully I say to you that it seems to me that you refrain from any real intellectual reasoning by saying that the Bible is true because it says it is true, and try to force-fit any question into the limited arguments of fallible men thousands of years ago. Scientists NEVER claimed to be able to explain everything. They seek empirical and evidence-based knowledge that is provable. That very same knowledge is responsible for tremendous technological, social and medical advances we have made as a species. It is also responsible for some of the major problems we are dealing with today such as climate change, pollution, and modern warfare. As I have consistently said in all the responses that I have made, which you seem to ignore, they are comfortable saying, "while we have a very good idea how complex amino acids were formed on the early earth, and even how they combined to form more complex molecules, we still have not figured out (yet) how life originated." However, you are comfortable saying, "The answer to any difficult question is, God did it!" We look absurd and irrelevant to non-believers and that is the greatest crime of all, because we are charged with bringing those non-believers to the Word.
As a Christian, I understand that the Word is divinely inspired. However fallible men wrote it and infused it with all sorts of error. And fallible men cherry-picked which ones of these writings would comprise the Bible. God didn't just give us the book in its present state. Read Jesus's Parable of the Pearl in (Matthew 13:44-46). Seek the truth of God amid the chaff and dirt put in there by fallible men and focus on that Spiritual Truth! Don't try to justify everything as the Word of God. Because if you do you will be committing the same heresies that David Koresh, Adolf Hitler, Jim Jones, Jim Bakker, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart and the like have done over the years. And be intellectually honest enough to admit, as the naturalists do, that we can't explain everything (yet) but that we are led by what the Spirit of the Word tells us.


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Ok so 4 days is never enough of bar girls thanks.. Somene said to me. Or maybe it is enough. either way I am relaxed and well sorted. Thanks 2 number 2 girl .
No thanks to miss Baan Pulu
1 Past girl showed me I mean nothing to her after proffesing her love for me 1 minute , happy about a visa to visit me in Aus. and then 2 days later Not a peep out if her. Video call rejected,Voice call rejected, I can smell something off here, She puts a picture up at the airport with a famous Thai siNger. ( couldnt help it I guess), Show off to her friends. Not to be with him as she is unwanted by Thai culture not mine and knows it. but to go on holiday with a bloke Same 1st name as me I know their history as we spent good times together which confuses the hell outa me now
So the end result for her is no FB friend now, no visa , no nothing, See if the the other Terry will be the guy But I doubt it.
So now I know my worth to her and others like her. basically its this. Less than the shit stuck t their shoes. They would rather lay down and take the money short term.
Oh I am not angry with her but this will finaly be the the end after 4yrs .
Now on to number 2 girl Who is now zero girl to visit as well.
A very slim 40yr old, except this visit . Her belly looked a little bit rounded hmmm I didnt say much as she is suposed to be goiNg to europe to be with a guy so if she was pregnant Good luck to them faithfull she definately isnt but I dont judge Thai hostess girls the same as western women aNyway. Now I normaly ruBer up for obvious reasons but We hadnt ben together for a while. and shit happened. Quik draw all ok i guessed.
Next night same but no excuse for no ruBber.
3rd night change of girl. covered up 😁
last night no cover 😁 and she locks me in. Crap What the
I didnt discuss it at the time and thought about the Pharmacy for a pill for her. but didNt get around to it as she was in the bathroom , After. 4 nights. Cant be much left in the tank. Good luck Mr Euro guy.
I like regular women that insist on cover. Was Born with 2 heads Only eniugh blood to feed 1 at a time ha ha.
no advice needed
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Concept Framework is the name I have given to approaches that focus on how best to communicate a game concept and the methods that support this (e.g. guidelines, templates, presentations, or rules).
As a game design tool, a concept framework helps formulate tangible ideas, which allows others to evaluate them easier. A concept framework works best as a tool for the concept phase of the game design process, but can also be used as a way to later evaluate your design during the design and tuning phases to determine how much as changed since the original idea. Because most game development is dependent on a concept being accepted by a publisher, a developer, a producer, a development team, a commissioner, crowd sourcing, etc. it is important to be able to communicate it in the best possible way. Having a framework helps provide some standards in what and how a concept is communicated.
(1) High vs. Low
A concept framework may focus on helping the designer communicate a high-level (brief) or low-level (detailed) game concept. During the process a designer can move from high-level to low-level with any concept. The advantage of high-level concepts is that you can potentially create several in a short period of time, while low-level concepts require more time cover the details about the game development (e.g. game-play, narrative, tech issues, etc.).
(2) Pitches or Documentation
Some concept frameworks focus on documentation or presentations. In general, the guidelines provided by these approaches provide the essentials for communicating the game concept. Documentation can range from single pitch sentence to 4-5 page concept document.


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With the changes in our social structures and systems through the agrarian revolution to the industrial revolution and the information revolution, many of us are now able to live affluent lives. During such changing times, some disappeared or are disappearing, and others emerged or are emerging.
However, trading never disappears, even if its form or methods have changed, and lasts forever while influencing people's lives in every aspect.
To harmonize these three points, we named the company Sanwa (harmony of 3(San)), where the above three points are adopted as action guidelines for the employees. We would like to endeavor to enrich people's lives through ideal trading.
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Students develop app for paralysed patients
American University of Sharjah students develop award-winning app to help paralysed patients
Students from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) College of Engineering have developed a mobile application that can help paralysed patients communicate.
The smart phone app, which is called iConnect, which recently won first place at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2014 UAE, can determine the patients' thoughts and feelings by reading brain signals.
"Our app will enable the voice of silenced patients to be heard by their guardians and improve the quality of their life. It feels great to win the Imagine Cup competition, especially after a year of hard work, on such an important project," said Ali, a member of the student team. "Since we are graduating soon, this competition will lead us to our future career and will help us in choosing which field to work on. We will do our best in representing AUS in semifinals in Qatar and proceed to finals."
The AUS student team, Nada Ali Obaid, Aya Belal Ali, Rana Omer Mahmoud and Mohammed Al Nabtiti, interviewed doctors and the director of Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services, in order to develop a set of commands that allowed patients to convey hunger, thirst, pain and the need for basic motion. Prerecorded EEG neural signals were taken as a base to analyse motor signals and develop accurate classifiers.
In the next stage, a real-time brain signal interface was achieved using EEG sensors and developed models were tested. The team extended the scope of the project to link the monitoring and classification system to a mobile app so that a doctor or a guardian could monitor a patient's feelings of hunger or pain via their smartphones.
The app can also send signals to machines such as wheel chairs to help the patient move.
"This humanitarian project has shown that AUS engineering students are able to use technology to serve people in need and contribute to create a better society," said Dr Aydin Yesildirek, associate professor in Electrical Engineering and the adviser for the project.
The AUS team beat 16 other projects from seven universities in the UAE. They will now participate in the Pan Arab semi-finals in Qatar 31 May-4 June, 2014. The winning team will proceed to the global finals in the US, which will take place in July.


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'Juvenile literature is an important resource for considering constructions of masculinity. The closeness with which society monitors what it tells its children and the pedagogical intent of children's book dictate that they reflect society's ideals, particularly clearly.
'Changing constructions of manliness are evident in the changing fictional depiction of the idealised Australian public schoolboy between the 1870s and the 1910s. Robert Richardson's stories, written in the 1870s, attempted to counter the allegedly brutalising influences of masculinity by constructing an effeminate and religious manliness through academic and pious male heroes open to feminine influences.
'By the 1910s, however, Mary Grant Bruce and Lillian Pyke, responding to new national mythologies, needs and dangers, constructed heroes who were muscular, athletic and patriotic, and placed little emphasis upon religion and academic achievement, they also removed feminine influences from the boy. An effeminate construct in the 1870s, the ideal public schoolboy of the 1910s was a much more masculine and anti-feminine creation.' Source: Martin Crotty.


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The third eye is our ability to see what might be, to see potential.
Everyone has access to his or her third eye. For example, when you have a hunch and act on it, you've used your third eye. But that's only the beginning. Your third eye is a sense, one you can develop to be more refined and accurate than just being a hunch.
What is the Third Eye?
The third eye is rooted in the pineal gland. While the pineal gland might be the focal point for the sixth sense, the third eye is actually much more than just training yourself to connect to the pineal gland.
The Third Eye is a natural part of every person. One way to think of it is as a "meta" organ that consists of your mind and all of your senses working together as a larger, more powerful sensory organ that the pineal gland then acts as a focal point to create a vision. The Third Eye is a very clever bit of natural evolution that allows you to see the patterns in your life. Even more amazing, your third eye can reveal these patterns to you by overlaying this information on top of your other senses.
As a sense, your third eye can be used in many different ways. Seers use their third eye to understand hidden connections and answer questions. Energy workers 'feel' the energies around them and to then consciously manipulate that energy. And every time you have empathy, you are using your third eye to touch and feel the emotions of others. Many other examples exist for how people use the Third Eye.
One outside resource to consider is this book: Third Eye: Third Eye, Mind Power, Intuition & Psychic Awareness: Spiritual Enlightenment
Seeing with the Third Eye
To understand how the third eye works, let's look at how it is possible to use the Third Eye to sense and visually interpret energy around us. It's possible to see Motion (for example a car moving), Activity (you driving the car) and Exchange of Energy (burning the gas). Add in our capacity of sensing & projecting potential (being able to predict where the car goes based on the roads and knowing the driver), in other words seeing where energy, motion, and activities will flow to over time. Add all this together into an internal visual map, and you have just expanded how you see Energy playing out (the results of using the car/gasoline/intention to drive you up the hill). By seeing energy as a mental overlay rather than just an abstract concept, it becomes a tangible property of life that we can learn how to sense and interact within a deeper manner.
Is it possible to really 'see' energy? Not directly. While our eyes can see the results of energy in action, seeing energy directly is another thing altogether. Our eyes only 'see' what they are designed to see, light. What our third eye does is process information and then overlay that information over our other senses in such a way we can then interpret and interact with energy in a more precise manner. In this way, we can understand where the energy is, and we can 'see' it.
This makes sense, if you think about it. The mind has figured something out and wants to tell us. The easiest way for it to do this is to use what it already has access to: our five normal senses.
This 45 minute general introduction to the third eye talks about:
(1) What is Potential?
(2) What is the Third Eye Physically?
(3) How does the Third Eye Manifest Itself?
(4) Is the Third Eye Something to Fear?
(5) More About Fear and the Third Eye.
(6) Am I Crazy?
(7) How to Express Your Third Eye Visions.
(8) Picking a Third Eye Practice and Community
(9) Learning How to Optimize Our Visions.
(10) Can You Manifest Real Things with the Third Eye?
(11) Can You Travel to Different Worlds with the Third eye?
(12) Can I Share What I See?
(13) How to Develop Your Skills in the Third Eye.
(14) An Example of Using the Third Eye
(15) Practice Interpreting Your Visions.
People will make the ability appear as a mystical power being able to "see" or "predict" processes, events, potentials which are not physically present. But it's a very real and tangible skill.
Because so much depends on your ability to interpret results, there is a lot of room for mistranslation between the "facts" and what your third eye returns to you. Also, because each of us sees things differently, it can be problematic to share what we see with others. For example, when we hear the word 'cup', each of us may visualize a completely different cup. What one person will sense is different from another.
Of course, commonalities exist. We are human and our form, our nature help push us towards common baselines of experience. However, the unique nature of each person also ensures that each of us sees the world from a different angle.
It shouldn't be surprising, then, that there are so many different mystical practices to explore all the different perceptions of the world we hold.
Lets use Aura's as an example.
Consider a person who sees auras or light. Auras are in fact such an information overlay. Your brain has the ability to process visual information, but the image it creates for you is not limited to what comes from your eyes. Consider what you see on this page as you read it. You aren't seeing black lines. You are seeing words and then concepts and ideas overlaid on top of them.
Now envision yourself looking at another person. You don't just see what he or she is wearing. Your whole neural network, mind and sense organs form a larger more sensitive antenna that picks up on energy and patterns before you. There are so many clues in front of you that tell you about the person's emotional state, well-being, level of distraction, and so many other factors. Your third eye has a lot to share with you and so it puts this information into what you see by adding an aura. In reality what you are seeing is slightly different over what is happening: but your mind is always altering your experience to give you extra information to work with. If you look at the scientific research you will discover the mind is constantly editing our perception. So the third eye uses this natural mental capacity to alter our perception to add in extra data more than we realize.
Seeing auras, chakras or energy can appear as a mystical power, depending upon a person's level of skill. But it is just that: a very real and tangible skill, one that can be taught. A person can even be taught how to view auras in a standard way.
Reaching Out with My Sixth Sense
People make a mistake to think that the third eye is an active process. In fact, a common question is:
"What does the Third Eye DO?"
The third eye is a sense. Senses do nothing directly other than relay information to you.
What do your eyes actively do? Nothing, you can't shoot lasers or heat vision from your eyes. Your eyes instead return visual information.
What does your hearing actively do? Nothing, you don't consciously create noise out from your ears. Your ears instead return auditory information.
The third eye is a sense. It returns information about potentials and energetic state. Potentials represent what might be, and Energetic state is about how something is being held.
The action, or DO is how you use the information you gain from your senses.
So many people if they only listen and then acted upon what they heard, wouldn't get into so much trouble. Likewise in vision, so many people don't truly "look" and miss opportunities as they rush past things.
The third eye is a sense, it returns information on what might be and also energetic states. With it you can sense another person's emotions: that's empathy. The third eye you can let you feel how a person is doing. It can show you how a person's life story is flowing. With the third eye, you can get inklings of what might be ahead, behind or out of sight.
Your Third Eye Could Already Be Open.
Many times the trick isn't opening the third eye but to recognize we see more than we realize. For many people, it's already open (most people only squint through the third eye). The real problem is most people unconsciously ignore it altogether. For others, it's something to fear so many people actively look away when it is trying to show you something.
Opening the third eye means practicing using your sixth sense. The trick is learning how to accept it is there and then interpret what you are sensing over time. The bigger problem is all too many people force the process and then get overwhelmed by stories, yes stories! More interestingly, the third eye is the only sense that shows us stories. We are human; to be human is to live with our stories; we do have senses to navigate those stories. The sixth sense is our prime sense we use to follow a story and predict where a story is going towards.
Because we use stories to create a map of how to navigate the world, Our mind creates mental stories for us in the form of visions that the third eye stirs up to use as mini maps. In part to get in touch with the third eye is to become a storyteller, to see a story and then use it to help move more gracefully in life.
Extreme events like a midlife crisis, trauma, or other life-changing moments can force a person's third eye open. Any situation that dramatically changes a person's experience of the world can be the catalyst for changing how they see potential.
Most people either don't listen to their third eye, so they work a bit harder to move thru life. Or all too many people over embellish and then make the third eye story larger than life, which doesn't help a person much either.
While people can sense energetic manifestations, potential never leaves behind direct physical representations. It's no different than seeing Jesus in a slice of toast. Jesus is not in the toast; rather the brain is interpreting the toast in a Jesus like fashion OR are often man-made artifacts. The biggest trap in training your sixth sense is to self-create and add in artifacts to information being relayed back by the third eye and then accidentally tricking ourselves into believing something beyond what we were sensing.
Opening the Third Eye
Because the third eye doesn't often map to concrete physical artifacts, it's all too easy to deny it and then let it languish to fade away.
So what you can do with the third eye depends on you.
It all hinges on
(1) How you first decide to pay attention to what it's connecting to
(2) Learn to interpret what you sense.
(3) Finally act upon what you are connecting to.
Taoist and Shamanic practices have developed extensive training techniques for using and working with your third eye. It's a real sense, but it's a "meta" sense, and it must be "used and tuned" to be developed fully. It isn't something that just works out of the box from birth.
A great way to start using and tuning this sense is to connect to a power animal or learn shamanic journeying. A shamanic practitioner can assist you through a power animal retrieval or by guiding you on a shamanic journey.
As a Taoist, I have been developing my third eye since I was five years old and had my first vision. When I shared my first vision with others, I discover immediately that most people don't see the world in this fashion. Unfortunately, I was also persecuted by others. Being so young, I quickly learned to keep my ability to myself and explore it silently and patiently on my own terms. I have spent more than 40 years exploring my third eye, reviewing materials and using my background in both Taoism and the sciences to understand it. During this time, I have developed a way to describe the third eye in terms that are acceptable to most everyone. So hence, I am now sharing it in my teachings.
Many people naturally suppress this ability, often to prevent others from making fun of them or labeling them as crazy. And, with enough suppression, any ability withers and goes away. You must use your third eye for it work. Also, how you use it shapes what it will be able to sense.
For all of these reasons and others, the Third Eye remains a mysterious ability.
Different cultures use many varied techniques to develop this skill. Taoists, for example, are very patient, taking decades to define and refine this ability to help them become a Sage / Seer with the extra information they can see. The nature of the interpretive aspects of this ability means experience helps improve its capabilities and accuracy. As a consequence, it is a slow process to master.
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5 Lessons for Opening the Third Eye
Overall the first step is patience, awareness, and practice. It's best to work with Yoga, Qi Gong, Meditation, Dance or Tai Chi for a few years to just practice sensing your body and mind. Each of these practices will help begin hooking your mind and body closer together with spirit. Spirit represents the movement of your life. Seeing how movement stirs up potential is all part of learning how to use your third eye. Each of these practices will help a person begin to connect to the third eye. At first, you don't do anything other than accept the occasional vision you may have. You practice sensing your body; you practice feeling your energetic state, you get in better shape to remove extraneous physical distractions of poorer health.
Lesson One:
Pause. That's right the first step to learning how to use the third eye is simply to pause. You cannot listen to your heart if you cannot pause. The third eye requires centering and patience. Without pause, you will not truly connect to any deeper third eye experience. Yes, you may have visions or have intuitive hints, but you will miss most of the full experience without pausing into your heart.
Lesson Two:
Don't make a vision bigger than life. All too many people blow out of proportion a vision they experience. Be Calm!
Lesson Three:
Practice just watching life flow around you. The third eye reveals patterns of the world unfolding around you. As a result, the more you understand the patterns of nature, the easier it is to understand what a vision can represent.
We can spot Trends, and often our mind will clue us into a trend with simple insights and flashes of inspiration. So many third eye experiences can just represent a simple pattern unfolding. To force a vision to mean more than it does will sidetrack a person from the simple pattern you just saw being revealed.
So keep the interpretations as simple as possible and then grow out expanding the meaning as you get better at interpreting your third eye experiences.
Lesson Four:
Back to Pause.
You pause when receiving an intuition. The third eye isn't using the logical thinking part of the mind. As a result, if you begin to think the moment you get a vision it disrupts the third eye process. So you pause to stop the rest of your mind from ruining the third eye moment.
Lesson Five:
The third eye is a beautiful sense; it expands how a person connects to the world, adds another dimension to how we connect to everything. But it's only one of many senses. People tend to focus a bit too much only on one sense, and that limits a person quite a bit then. So you have to be patient and learn to use all of the senses together, or you are missing the larger world.
After you get a vision with the third eye you check all your other senses, even use your logic, you poke about and add in other pieces of information to create an even more complete picture if possible.
When your other senses return contradictory information, then you slow down. Remember to allow your intuition to tell you when to slow down to pause and look again at everything around you. If other information extends and validates what you sense, then you move ahead with a bit more surety.
Managing and Closing the Third Eye
To learn how to better control your third eye you can purchase the following Third Eye video.
The video will go over:
- An introduction to the nature of the third eye.
- How to work with the third eye to moderate visions.
- How to release the third eye to close it.
- How to work more efficiently with your senses.
- How to dispel visions.
- How to redirect visions.
- An introduction to protective shields.
- Using mantras to balance out your visions.
- To dispel shadow visions.
- Advice to redirect and heal from what you see from the third eye.
- Understanding and redirecting a Psychic attack.
- Tricks for protecting yourself from visions.
This video will be useful for anyone who is curious about the third eye. In addition, if you want manage or close your third eye this video will help you.
The terms opening the third eye and closing the third eye aren't technically correct.
The third eye is a natural sense we all possess. The third eye is a sense to detect "what might be" or our sense of potential. To open the third eye means to further develop that sense to the point of being aware and conscious of the sense.
Once the third eye is opened, it doesn't come with an eyelid that we can just shut. It's more like our ear, always on. The problem is this: some people get overwhelmed by their senses.
For example, PTSD is an excellent example of an ailment for a person overly sensitized to information their senses provides to them. Some people can be traumatized by seeing too much!
Learning how to "close the third eye" is learning how to either manage the third eye sense and how to ignore it once again.
If you want to close your third eye, then one approach you can take is making your life mundane, predictable and mainstream. Let's face it modern culture does an amazing job of shutting people's vision of potential down. People are too busy trying to consume other people's vision.
Working with Your Senses
You can choose not to listen.
For example: just because people can hear, doesn't mean most people listen! Likewise you can teach yourself to ignore your own visions and your mind will just learn automatically skip past the visions.
If you don't listen to the third eye, the lack of use itself dampens down the third eye.
Judgment is the opposite of potential, and it always will shut down the third eye.
If you don't want the third eye: then judge it as being impossible or talk to enough people who don't believe in it. Facing and accepting other people's judgement will quickly limit you and the third eye will go away quickly in response.
The Third Eye and Energy Work
How do I use the third eye to work with energy?
A brief overview is that you use the third eye in energy work to perceive energy. However to modify energy is another set of processes. You can use breath, motion and other active processes to shape energy. Qi Gong is perfect examples of this, where you use breath to work with your Chi / Qi or in Kundalini Yoga where you use chanting to work with Kundalini energy.
There are many other active techniques to work and modify energy, but I will stress that the third eye is the sense used to visualize that energy. We work with energy with actions and our sixth sense helps us guide those actions.
Teaching the Third Eye
Julie and I teach others how to access the third eye, but be aware this ability isn't rushed but rather grown into over time. Julie and I will teach you how to grow patiently and fully into this skill.
If you are interested in learning more the best place to start would be in a experiential manner. We would either assist you through a power animal retrieval or by guiding you on a shamanic journey. Each of these experiences would be a path of directly using the third eye to connect to the spiritual side of life. Spirit represents the motion and connections to everything around us.
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Foreclosure is what occurs when a buyer can no longer afford to pay on their dwelling mortgage. Additionally, if you are only pre-qualified, the mortgage amount is somewhat versatile, but in case you are actually pre-approved for a certain dollar figure, do not home shop over that determine, as a result of the lender will probably not improve the mortgage they're willing to make and you will have to make up the difference in cash paid as down fee.
An added advantage of using lawyers and surveyors known to the agent is that they'll are likely to overlook problems with properties to allow gross sales to undergo. In case you are not familiar with the whole course of, it's best that you simply rent an actual property agent to guide you alongside the way.
Just like again dwelling, the first thing to consider about shopping for a house exterior United States is: "what does the true estate market have to offer?" And an different question may be: "Is the actual market a buyers market, or is it currently a sellers market?" The place do you look to seek out that special deal?
There are a number of reasons an agent would possibly attempt to block us from shopping for a property. "Actual estate is the safest and quickest strategy to generate profits, right this moment," the professional will inform you. Few things are needed to be taken in thought before making a alternative to buy home , homes, issues like location, worth, future price and and so forth.
From a buyer's perspective, neither a traditional contract nor an as-is contract will guarantee that I've a perfect house or that the vendor will repair everything. Builders, Real Property folks and Sellers alike need to know this system and the impression that this program can have on the stock that they have simply sitting round.


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Rules on the trip
Travellers are required to follow all instructions of the dive instructor during the scuba diving trip in Bali.
Consumption of alcohol and drugs is strictly prohibited during the trip.
Travellers are requested to treat the local culture with respect and avoid littering, defacing property and monuments and causing general disturbance.
Please allow 12 hours between the end of your diving session and your return flight to allow your body to recover.
Cancellation policy
For cancellations made 30 days or more before departure of the Bali scuba diving trip: 50% refund.
For cancellations made less than 30 days before departure of the Bali scuba diving trip: no refund.
In case of no show: no refund.
All refunds will be processed after deducting any international payment transfer fees. Please check with us what these charges will be for this scuba trip in Bali.
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Travellers are required to be certified PADI Open Water Divers to be eligible for booking this scuba diving trip in Bali.
Travellers must agree to discontinue diving if respiratory congestion or a head cold or any other medical condition occurs before or during the course.
The tour operator reserves the right to change or cancel the itinerary of this scuba diving trip in Bali due to bad weather conditions to ensure maximum safety of divers and staff.
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At Cortera, we get a lot of questions surrounding portfolio monitoring, like "why do I need a monitoring system?" or, "which accounts should I be monitoring?" or even, "what data should I use?". When you drill down to it, no matter what industry the business is in or how large they are, the answers are usually the same.
Organizations typically spend most of their time and energy monitoring their largest accounts. There's certainly merit to that, since resources are limited and surprises with your largest customers tend to leave the biggest bruises. But when you have thousands of customers, your exposure to risk increases across a much larger range of accounts. Your days of having only a handful of customers producing the majority of sales are likely a part of the past.
Now that you have hundreds or even thousands of customers spending large sums with you, it's hard to maintain a close relationship with them all. That's challenging enough, but what makes the stakes even higher is that over 600,000 US businesses close their doors each year. That averages down to 2,000 companies closing each day, some of which could be your customers.
Leveraging Tools to Monitor Your Entire Customer Base
Remember this: you do not work for tools, tools work for you. An emerging best practice for monitoring your entire customer base is to break it up into two segments: individual accounts and the overall portfolio.
Leading companies are evaluating changes in every customer; large and small. They're most likely to follow up on the alerts in different ways based on factors such as the size of the customer balance and their payment activity, but they are also able to identify the useful nuggets pertaining to important customers that may have small current balances. Leading companies are also saving the history of alerts to support future credit decisions. Many of today's small accounts become tomorrow's large ones, and the alert history can provide valuable insight for that future credit risk management.
Aggregating the individual account monitoring to an overall portfolio level is also providing companies with insights that help them improve risk management. Just looking at trends and benchmarks for the largest accounts in the portfolio can be misleading. It's not uncommon, for example, for smaller customers as a group to have a higher risk exposure than larger customers as a group. Monitoring each segment separately and against the customer base as a whole can help avoid missing negative trends while providing a more balanced and complete view of the company's credit policy performance.
How Often Should You Monitor?
Many companies are inconsistent in how often they monitor information about their customers (and prospects and suppliers). Typically, the more informal the monitoring process, the more the variation in the frequency and timeliness of alerts. If your monitoring entails reading the weekly industry publication for news on customer events, you're probably not doing that the moment the publication arrives. You're getting to it as quickly as possible, but there are often other priorities to be completed first. Plus, the more layers that exist in the process of the monitoring, the longer it takes for the information to get to you. By the time a bankruptcy filing or news article announcing a plant closing is picked up by the publications you read, days or weeks may have passed.
Companies that are most on top of monitoring strive to gather information as close to the source of the data and as close to real-time as possible. This provides the timeliest delivery of insights so that they can be the first to know about customer changes and react, if necessary. Not all alerts need to be followed up immediately, but receiving the information as quickly as possible puts the decision power for follow up in the hands of the users. Leading companies are using this time advantage as triggers to be the first mover to tighten or loosen credit limits and to pursue collections of late paying customers.
Which Data Sources Should You Use?
Historically, monitoring bankruptcy filings, reading as many industry publications as possible and quarterly review of portfolios were the accepted methods of avoiding risk. Receiving timely information on risk signs such as bankruptcy filings and payment score declines has been helpful but these conditions are typically lagging indicators of increasing risk exposure. With more and more data available electronically, there's a wealth of new information available. The decreasing costs and increasing power of computing are helping to create new analytic insights previously hidden in the raw data.
Many companies are now incorporating new data sources into their risk monitoring to provide leading indicators about companies such as:
- Purchase Trends
- Investments
- Sales Trends
- Hiring Trends
- Acquisitions
- Organizational Changes
- Other Business Events
Changes in these areas can often provide signals, even months in advance, of a significant financial stress situation like a bankruptcy filing or severe delinquency. As an example, identifying significant, persistent declines over time in a customer's largest expenditures may signal declining sales and production which can tip off their future ability to pay you. On the other hand, increased hiring, spending and opening of new locations could be cause for an evaluation of a proactive credit limit increase.
Key Takeaways
For too long, the commercial credit world has been too complex and too costly. The goal is to simplify your processes down to these 5 things: monitoring all of your customers, receiving daily alerts, using automation tools, setting up workflow processes, and establishing formal follow up procedures.


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If you own residential or commercial rental properties, you will benefit from our full-service property management team. At Utopia Management, we create personalized management plans that are designed to help you achieve great success on the 95611 rental market. Our plans include:
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The choice of Dan Bylsma as coach of the United States men's hockey team at the Sochi Olympics in February — which will be announced on Saturday — comes as no great surprise, despite his lack of international experience. But it is also notable for what it says about John Tortorella, once thought to be the favorite for the job, and how he harmed his chance to coach the American team.
USA Hockey will announce the appointment of Bylsma, the 42-year-old coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, at a news conference in Manhattan on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, an agreement to send N.H.L. players to Sochi still has not been reached. On Thursday, Commissioner Gary Bettman said the league, the Players' Association, the International Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation would meet Monday to try to complete an agreement.
On Friday, USA Hockey announced that the general manager of the men's Olympic team will be David Poile, the general manager of the Nashville Predators since 1998 and a longtime fixture in the national team program. Ray Shero, the Penguins' general manager, was named associate general manager.
Brian Burke will be the team's director of player personnel. Burke was general manager of the American team at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, which began only a week after his son Brendan was killed in an automobile accident. Burke's perseverance through his grief helped inspire the United States team, which reached overtime of the Olympic final before falling to Canada on Sidney Crosby's gold-medal-winning goal.
USA Hockey officials said that Bylsma's assistant coaches would not be announced Saturday.
During the 2012 playoffs, Tortorella, then the Rangers coach, was thought to be the front-runner for the Olympic coaching position. His team had finished first in the Eastern Conference and was scrapping its way to the conference finals; the young American stars Ryan Callahan, the Rangers captain; forward Derek Stepan; and defenseman Ryan McDonagh were thriving under Tortorella's direction.
But at the same time, Tortorella's surliness toward the news media was exposed to a wider audience under the bright Stanley Cup spotlight.
Tortorella's inability to curb his temper during the playoffs likely led to doubt that he could handle a role as ambassador for USA Hockey in front of an international audience.
Like Tortorella, who won a Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay in 2004, Bylsma won a Cup in 2009, his first season with the Penguins.
But there was a problem: unlike Tortorella and another top candidate for the Olympic job, Peter Laviolette of the Philadelphia Flyers, Bylsma had no coaching experience with the United States national team. That was seen as a negative for him.
Tortorella was an assistant under Ron Wilson with the 2010 team that won silver at the Vancouver Games. He was also the Americans' head coach at the 2008 I.I.H.F. world championship tournament. Laviolette coached the United States at the 2006 Olympics and at the 2004 and 2005 world championships.
USA Hockey officials' concern over Bylsma's lack of international experience was demonstrated last year, when they sent him to the I.I.H.F. world championship tournament as an observer.
Last month, Tortorella was fired as Rangers coach, but he was hired last week as coach of the Vancouver Canucks.
Both in the news conference introducing him as Canucks coach and in subsequent interviews, Tortorella acknowledged his problems communicating with the news media and with his own players.
"I think it's come to the point with me where I'm kind of being defined as 'that lunatic,' not only on the bench, but also after games with media," he said in an interview posted on the Canucks' Web site. "I don't want to be defined that way, but I do make my own bed in that type of situation, and I need to make some corrections."
Bylsma is comfortable with the role of being the face of American hockey. He has excelled as coach of the Penguins, winning 201 of 319 regular-season games. He is the fastest in league history to reach 200 victories, and many of those wins have come with the stars Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin, or both, out of the lineup because of injuries.
Bylsma was in danger of losing his job last month after the Penguins, with both players in the lineup, were swept from the Eastern Conference finals by the Boston Bruins. It was the fourth straight year that the Penguins failed to return to the finals under Bylsma.
But his contract was renewed by Shero, who would later help select him for the Olympic job.


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Data Warehouse And Data Mining By Kumar Kishan Chandra
Unit- 1 Introduction and Data Processing Introduction Of Data Mining There is a huge amount of data available in the Information Industry. This data is of no use until it is converted into useful information. It is necessary to analyze this huge amount of data and extract useful information from it. Extraction of information is not the only process we need to perform; data mining also involves other processes such as Data Cleaning, Data Integration, Data Transformation, Data Mining, Pattern Evaluation and Data Presentation. Once all these processes are over, we would be able to use this information in many applications such as Fraud Detection, Market Analysis, Production Control, Science Exploration, etc. Data mining integrates approaches and techniques from various disciplines such as machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, neural networks, database management, data warehousing, data visualization, spatial data analysis, probability graph theory etc. In short, data mining is a multi-disciplinary field.
Definition of Data Mining Data Mining is defined as extracting information from huge sets of data. In other words, we can say that data mining is the procedure of mining knowledge from data. The information or knowledge extracted so can be used for any of the following applications − Market Analysis Fraud Detection Customer Retention Production Control Science Exploration Data Mining Applications Data mining is highly useful in the following domains − Market Analysis and Management Corporate Analysis & Risk Management Fraud Detection Apart from these, data mining can also be used in the areas of production control, customer retention, science exploration, sports, astrology, and Internet Web Surf-Aid Market Analysis and Management Listed below are the various fields of market where data mining is used − Customer Profiling − Data mining helps determine what kind of people buy what kind of products. Identifying Customer Requirements − Data mining helps in identifying the best products for different customers. It uses prediction to find the factors that may attract new customers. Cross Market Analysis − Data mining performs Association/correlations between product sales. Target Marketing − Data mining helps to find clusters of model customers who share the same characteristics such as interests, spending habits, income, etc. Determining Customer purchasing pattern − Data mining helps in determining customer purchasing pattern. Providing Summary Information − Data mining provides us various multidimensional summary reports.
Corporate Analysis and Risk Management Data mining is used in the following fields of the Corporate Sector − Finance Planning and Asset Evaluation − It involves cash flow analysis and prediction, contingent claim analysis to evaluate assets. Resource Planning − It involves summarizing and comparing the resources and spending. Competition − It involves monitoring competitors and market directions. Fraud Detection Data mining is also used in the fields of credit card services and telecommunication to detect frauds. In fraud telephone calls, it helps to find the destination of the call, duration of the call, time of the day or week, etc. It also analyzes the patterns that deviate from expected norms. Data Preprocessing & form of data preprocessing Data preprocessing is a data mining technique that involves transforming raw data into an understandable format. Real-world data is often incomplete, inconsistent, and/or lacking in certain behaviors or trends, and is likely to contain many errors. Data preprocessing is a proven method of resolving such issues. Data preprocessing prepares raw data for further processing. Data preprocessing is used database-driven applications such as customer relationship management and rule-based applications (like neural networks). Data goes through a series of steps during preprocessing: Data Cleaning: Data is cleansed through processes such as filling in missing values, smoothing the noisy data, or resolving the inconsistencies in the data. Data Integration: Data with different representations are put together and conflicts within the data are resolved. Data Transformation: Data is normalized, aggregated and generalized. Data Reduction: This step aims to present a reduced representation of the data in a data warehouse. Data Discretization: Involves the reduction of a number of values of a continuous attribute by dividing the range of attribute intervals User interface User interface is the module of data mining system that helps the communication between users and the data mining system. User Interface allows the following functionalities − Interact with the system by specifying a data mining query task. Providing information to help focus the search. Mining based on the intermediate data mining results.


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Is it a Verruca or a Corn?
This is one of the most common questions we get asked in clinic by our new patients.
Our Podiatrists and Foot Health Practitioners see hundreds of both corns and verrucae every year and can easily diagnose what they are and how best to treat them… However, as a simple rule of thumb…
Corns are compacted dead skin cells, mostly round in shape and can form a cone or plug of hard skin that will hurt when pressed. Corns tend to appear on areas of the foot where there is friction, pressure and where there may be a build-up of callus.
Common areas of the foot where corns may build-up are:
- the tops of the toes – especially on clawed toes or the little toe where there is rubbing and pressure from the shoe upper, hard corns (Heloma Durum) can form
- in-between the toes are common sites for interdigital soft corns (Heloma Molle), especially between the 4th and 5th toes
- on the balls of the feet, especially on the metatarsal heads (at the toe joints), where there is overloading of pressure on the skin between the toe joints and the ground. Hard corns (Heloma Durum) can if left without treatment turn into Neurovascular Corns at these pressure points.
Corns are generally caused by rubbing shoes, excess pressure and friction from ill-fitting shoes. Overloading a toe joints with pressure, often through wearing high heels for too long or being overweight can cause corns to develop.
Sensible, well fitting shoes with plenty of supportive cushioned heel and forefoot sole are recommended. Supportive orthotic insoles can help effectively distribute weight and off-load pressure hot-spots, minimising the risk of corns developing. Moisturising your feet with a good foot cream such as Flexitol or LCN Urea creams will keep your skin soft and supple, which will also help prevent corns forming.
Verrucae are warts on the feet (plantar-warts) and are passed on from person-to-person through the various strains of the Human Papiloma Virus (HPV). Swimming pools and gyms are often places where the virus is contracted from other human contact, contaminated floors and shower areas. Family members sharing shower/bathing areas, bath mats etc are also known to be sources of infection.
A Verruca can appear anywhere on the foot and in multiple locations. They may appear to resemble the head of a cauliflower, with small black spots. These black spots are the dried blood capillaries that emanate through the wart. Multiple verruca may join together to form a larger Mosaic Verruca
When a verruca is on a non-weight-bearing area of the foot, the wart may sit proud of the skin surface. However, if the verruca is on a weight-bearing area, such as on the ball of the foot, then the verruca will be pushed into the foot, but will usually have a build-up of callus around and over the verruca itself.
Verrucae can grow quickly and spread easily. Generally, verrucae do not hurt when pressed. However, when squeezed, severe discomfort may be felt. Because verrucae erupt through the skin, the striations (lines on the skin surface like fingerprints) will be forced around a verruca point of eruption.
Verrucae are contagious, whereas corns are compacted build-up of skin cells. Both can be painful and will require professional treatment by your Podiatrist or Foot Health Practitioner.
At We Fix Feet in Beeston, Ilkeston and Sheffield we offer safe and effective Verruca treatments such as Cryosurgery or Swift Microwave Therapy and Corns and Callus treatments.


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