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Tracey A. Ignatowski, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, has developed a treatment for chronic pain that could have an impact in dealing with the opioid crisis.
David Dietz, PhD, associate professor and chair of pharmacology and toxicology, is senior author on a pair of papers dealing with the study of drug relapse.
The nation's first Opioid Intervention Court (OIC) was established in Buffalo in 2017 after — in a single week — three traditional drug-treatment court defendants fatally overdosed on opioids before their second court appearance.
Two Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences' researchers studying how to develop novel, non-addicting painkillers have each been issued awards by the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative, a prestigious and highly competitive program from the National Institutes of Health.
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences continues to be at the forefront in combating the opioid overdose crisis.
A program developed by emergency medicine physicians at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to expedite patient access to comprehensive and effective opioid use disorder treatment is expanding statewide.
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and UB's Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions (CRIA) played host to a prestigious Fulbright Enrichment Seminar on the opioid epidemic that brought 79 Fulbright Foreign Students from 51 countries to downtown Buffalo.
Medical student Esha Chebolu has been selected to participate in a yearlong residential program that trains the next generation of clinician-scientists and biomedical researchers on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
Andrew H. Talal, MD — who pioneered the use of telemedicine to treat patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in opioid treatment programs — has shared the successes of this approach with the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Two institutions within the University at Buffalo have joined the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic.
Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, is being recognized by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) with the inaugural JH Woods Early Career Award in Behavioral Pharmacology.
Researchers in the Department of Emergency Medicine are the first to clinically assess and validate a rule regarding the length of observation time necessary before opioid overdose patients can be safely discharged from an emergency department (ED).
Kenneth E. Leonard, PhD, professor of psychiatry and director of the UB Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions (CRIA), and Peter L. Elkin, MD, professor and chair of biomedical informatics, have been awarded a two-year, $386,013 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to assess what risks may occur for people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) who use prescription painkillers.
Jennifer A. Martin, a doctoral student in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, has received a prestigious Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
An innovative, cost-effective program at more than a dozen hospitals in Western New York provides medication-assisted treatment to opioid use disorder patients in emergency departments (EDs) and rapidly transitions them into long-term treatment at a community clinic, all within about 48 hours.
Interprofessional collaboration is a key component in addressing the nation's opioid epidemic, students from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and other UB schools were told during the third annual forum on the topic.
UB's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has awarded new grants that support promising translational research projects in Western New York.
Research led by senior author David Dietz, PhD, has revealed that in certain types of brain cells, drug-induced plasticity can work to reduce motivation for heroin.
A total of 37 original research projects from aspiring physician-scientists were on display at the 2018 Medical Student Research Forum.
The Western New York community has enlisted experts from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to help combat the national opioid epidemic, which has reached crisis proportions.


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I mentioned in a previous post that providing awesome content doesn't just help your audience, it's key to your success. As a small business owner or entrepreneur, creating valuable content for your audience builds trust in you and your brand, and trust leads to sales. However, sometimes you just don't know what to create! Let's face it, we all get stuck every now and then. Whether you are writing a blog, creating videos, a podcast, or infographics, sometimes you just don't know where to start.
This happened to me last weekend. I sat down in front of my computer Sunday morning ready to write my next blog post and just stared at a blank white screen. I had no idea what to write about. So I started checking email, Facebook, Google+, etc. and ended up dorking around for a while, never writing a word. I knew I had to do something to break the spell, so I headed to the gym for a swim. For me, getting away from the computer and going for a run or a swim works wonders. Exercise gets my blood and adrenaline flowing and it opens my mind to possibilities I might not be aware of when I'm just sitting there trying to be creative. For me, creativity doesn't always happen on cue, sometimes it needs room to blossom.
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At some point during those 40 laps in the pool I had my "aha" moment and the idea for my blog post came to me – If I'm struggling with coming up with something to write about, chances are others are experiencing this too. I should share my ideas for getting unstuck! And so "5 Quick Tips to Help Get Your Creative Juices Flowing" was born.
Here are 5 quick tips to help get your creative juices flowing when you get stuck
1. Brainstorm
Brainstorming is a great way to get ideas out of your head and onto a page. I use Evernote to capture all of my ideas. I use it on my iPhone, iPad, and my computer, so it's available no matter where I am. Mind mapping is another great way to diagram your ideas, and there are some awesome programs out there like Coggle or XMind that makes this very easy to do. The important thing to remember when brainstorming is to get everything onto the page. No matter how stupid or irrelevant it sounds, just write it all down. You will inevitably uncover something that inspires you to create.
2. Search for ideas
Seeing what others are creating always sparks something in me. I go to Google or Twitter and search for topics I might want to write about to see how others are doing it. I can usually find something that inspires me. I did this on an epic scale recently. I wanted to come up with 50 potential blog post titles, so I sat down and searched through the interwebs for ideas. It took a couple of hours, but I was able to write down 50 ideas for blog posts. Now I have ideas for the rest of this year and beyond!
3. Listen to the pros
I read a lot of books about business, marketing, and entrepreneurship. I also listen to business and marketing podcasts whenever I am in the car. I get a ton of great ideas from reading or hearing about how others have become successful in their businesses. Whether you like to read, listen while you're working out, or watch videos on YouTube, the important thing is to find the pros in your field and start paying attention to them. This has been a huge source of inspiration for me in my business.
4. Ask your audience
Want to know the best way to get ideas for creating valuable content that your audience will love? Ask them! I send out an email every now and then asking people what they are struggling with or what they would like to know more about. It's really as simple as that! One of my most popular posts – How to Get People to Open (and Actually Read) Your Emails came about by just sending an email to my audience asking what I should write about.
5. Step away from the computer
My preferred method for getting the creative juices flowing is to step away from the computer. Go for a walk, take a hike, play with your kids outside, whatever works for you. I go for a run, hit the gym, or swim laps in the pool. This gets me out of my head and focused on something else for a while. I always come up with great ideas while working out and I feel much better about myself in the process. It's a win-win.
Take action
What would you add to this list? What helps get your creative juices flowing? Take a minute and share your thoughts on the subject in the comments. Get involved in the discussion!


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Nephron Function
Amruta Deshpande
Apr 17, 2019
Nephron functions primarily involve filtration and re-absorption of water and various solutes. Read on to know more about this.
Kidneys are the vital organs of the human body, responsible for a multitude of important functions. These bean-shaped organs are a part of the urinary system and play a key role in eliminating the harmful waste, toxins, and excess water from the body.
They also help in maintaining fluid balance within the body. Nephron function as the structural and functional units of the kidney, and are involved in almost all its activities. Each kidney contains approximately one million nephrons.
Nephrons are thin, long, tubular structures present in the kidneys. They are made of intricately-woven thin capillaries and drainage canals to filter toxic wastes and ions from the blood into the urine. Each nephron contains two main parts, the renal tubule and the renal corpuscle.
Renal Corpuscle
Renal corpuscle is the initial filtering component of the nephron, composed of two structures, a glomerulus and the Bowman's capsule. Glomerulus is a small intertwined group of thin blood vessels that receives blood from the renal circulation.
The blood pressure in the glomerulus provides the driving force for solutes to be filtered into the space made by Bowman's capsule. Damage to the glomerulus can result in a condition known as glomerulonephritis. The Bowman's capsule is a cup-shaped, double membrane that surrounds the glomerulus.
Also known as the glomerular capsule, the Bowman's capsule is composed of a thin visceral layer made of specialized cells called podocytes and a parietal outer layer made of simple squamous epithelium.
Renal Tubule
They are the ducts that begin from Bowman's capsule in the cortex, loop through the renal
medulla, then return to cortex and connect to collecting duct system. Each renal tubule is further divided into a proximal tubule, loop of Henle and distal convoluted tubule. Proximal tubule has microvilli, a brush border, which increases surface area for absorption.
Nephrons are classified into 2 classes - cortical and juxtamedullary, based on location of the renal corpuscles associated with them. Renal corpuscles of the former are present in the superficial renal cortex, whereas, those of latter lie near the renal medulla. Any damage to these nephrons can affect their function and result in serious kidney diseases.
The function in the kidney is mainly concerned with filtration, reabsorption, and secretion of various solutes, carbohydrates, and glutamate. The blood that enters the glomerulus is separated by the space in the Bowman's capsule by two cell layers and a basement membrane. The basement membrane is composed of glycoprotein and collagen fibers.
Mesh-like structure of the collagen fibers filters the blood by a process known as ultrafiltration. Most of the small molecules in blood can pass through the membrane, however, it prevents large molecules such as proteins and blood cells from passing through. About 70% of water and solutes are removed from blood plasma when it passes through glomerulus.
Many useful substances, like glucose and amino acids are also filtered by this process. Now, these molecules are absorbed back in the body by a process known as selective reabsorption to maintain the electrolyte levels of the body.
The filtered fluid enters the proximal tubule, and is reabsorbed in the peritubular capillaries. All the essential substances, including glucose, vitamins, amino acids and ions are actively transported back into the blood. The microvilli provide a large surface area, and thus facilitate effective absorption.
Now, the solute concentration of the blood in the capillaries surrounding the nephrons increases, as these substances are added back to them. To balance the electrolyte levels, a large amount of water passes back into the blood in the proximal tubule by a process known as osmosis.
The function of the loop of Henle is to concentrate the salts that will be excreted in the urine. It creates an area of high solute concentrate in the medulla. The limbs of the loop of Henle are permeable to certain ions, and solutes and water is reabsorbed from the collecting ducts that pass through this area.
The ascending limb is more permeable to salts as compared to water, and the active absorption of salts causes more water to be pushed out through the descending limb, resulting in the formation of concentrated urine. It is drained into the distal convoluted tubule, which maintains the pH levels of urine and blood.
The fluid is then passed into the collecting duct where ultrafiltration takes place again. It is then passed to the ureters and bladder to be eliminated out of the body.
This was all about nephron function in the kidney. These tiny tubules are capable of performing complex functions of the body to keep it running smoothly. Damage to any of these structures can result in various renal diseases.
This is for informative purposes only, and should not be used as a replacement for expert medical advice.
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In my last post, I categorized automated regression tests into two broad categories – UI and headless. I placed SysTest tests in the headless category since the framework can't test UI by design. In this post, I'm going to discuss different types of headless tests – particularly in relation to unit testing.
In Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the SysTest framework is introduced in a section in Chapter 3 titled "Unit Test Tool". The section refers to unit testing throughout. It stands to reason that any test that you write with SysTest must be a unit test…
Before I continue, I do realize that I'm entering into a debate that can become religious for some developers. Nevertheless, I will continue…
One of my favorite definitions of unit tests comes from Michael Feathers, author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, offers these Unit Test Rulz:
A test is not a unit test if:
1. It talks to the database
2. It communicates across the network
3. It touches the file system
4. It can't run correctly at the same time as any of your other unit tests
5. You have to do special things to your environment (such as editing config files) to run it.
Another very good source for unit testing is a blog post written by Steve Sanderson title "Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practices". From a unit test definition point, I like the continuum between two Sweet Spots: True Unit Tests and Integration Tests. In between these Sweet Spots is what Steve calls Dirty Hybrids.
Hmm… a developer would need to do a whole lot of mocking to meet either of these definitions of "true unit tests" in AX. It seems that most SysTest test cases will not meet these definitions.
So if most test cases written with SysTest in AX don't meet the rigorous definition of a unit test, what good is the framework? Both sources actually explain that to us. Feathers immediately follows his 'rulz' with the following comment:
"Tests that do these things aren't bad. Often they are worth writing, and they can be written in a unit test harness."
Sanderson explains that Sweet Spot B, Integration Tests, are the most valuable tests for detecting regressions in the product. When written correctly, these are black box tests that require limited maintenance.
To answer the question in the post title – no, not all SysTests are unit tests. If you use a rigorous definition of unit tests, the vast majority would not be considered true unit tests.
But that doesn't mean tests created with SysTests won't be valuable to your organization. As I noted in my last post, headless tests are more reliable, higher performing, and more maintainable than UI tests. Here's the guidance that I would suggest:
1. Creating tests near the True Unit Tests Sweet Spot as suggested by Sanderson is a valuable practice for developers. Realize that it will take some effort to build up the necessary mocking tools to be True Unit Tests.
2. Creating tests near the Integration Tests Sweet Spot as suggested by Sanderson can be very valuable for finding regressions and is likely the best starting point for automated testing. Make these tests as black box as possible and focus on the business logic that you are developing. A key challenge is to keep the business logic contained in Classes and Tables, away from Forms since SysTest can't access Form logic.


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23 area baseball players earned Mid Penn all-star nods
Franklin County baseball players walked away with nearly two dozen Mid Penn Conference all-star honors, including seven first-team nods in the Mid Penn Colonial Division.
Waynesboro, Greencaslte-Antrim and James Buchanan each received a pair of first-team honors in the Colonial Division, while Shippensburg's Nate Holt was the lone Greyhound named to the first team.
Jerrett Biesecker and Clay Wolfe represent the Indians on the first team, while Nathan Starliper and Caleb Schaeffer earned first-team nods for Greencaslte.
Remi Spoonhour and Jared Pine were both named Mid Penn Colonial Division first-teamers after leading the Rockets to one of their best seasons in program history.
In the Commonwealth Division, Kaden Hoover of Chambersburg earned second-team recognition, while Austin Kopp was named a Trojan honorable mention.
Shippensburg's Aaron Ross and Colton Zeigler earned Colonial Division second-team honors, along with Tanner Rock and Noah Brown of Greencastle and Kyle Hoffman and Hunter Clever from Waynesboro.
Waynesboro received three honorable mentions in Cole Reed, Cal Davis and Derek Buhrman, along with Greencastle's Evan Maun and Cade Bender. Shippensburg's Brady Kuhn and Ethan Stouffer also received honorable mentions, while James Buchanan's Jakob Dorty was the lone Rocket to be named honorable mention.
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Baseball All-Stars
First team — Zeb Stough, Red Land; Beck Way, Cumberland Valley; Isaac Maclay, Mifflin County; Mitch Hoon, Cumberland Valley; Adam Overcash, Cumberland Valley; Justin Williams, Cumberland Valley; Braydon Parr, Central Dauphin; Matt Tomczuk, State College; Tyler Berkheimer, Carlisle. Second team — Luke McNamara, Central Dauphin; Drew Baughman, Cumberland Valley; Ross Underhill, Mifflin County; Eric Harris, Carlisle; Kaden Hoover, Chambersburg; Jake Deibert, Central Dauphin; Josh Snyder, Red Land; Jimmy Lash, Cedar Cliff; Ben Green, Red Land. Honorable mention — Taylor Zampelli, Cumberland Valley; Ty Badtorf, Mifflin County; Austin Kopp, Chambersburg; Hunter Swartz, Carlisle; Garrett Foster, Central Dauphin; Carson Beleski, Central Dauphin; Luke Wagner, Red Land; Liam Clarke, State College, Bobby Whalen, Cedar Cliff; Tommy Savastio, Cedar Cliff.
Co-Players of the Year: Dalton Oates, Central Dauphin; Grant Brenneman, Cedar Cliff
Coach of the Year: Nate Ebbert, Red Land
First team — Jarrett Biesecker, Waynesboro; Clay Wolfe, Waynesboro; Kollin Henneman, Big Spring; Nathan Starliper, Greencastle; Caleb Schaeffer, Greencastle; Nate Holt, Shippensburg; Tayven Kelley, Boiling Springs; Remi Spoonhour, James Buchanan; Jared Pine, James Buchanan. Second team — AJ Farling, Big Spring; Aaron Ross, Shippensburg; Colton Zeigler, Shippensburg; Tanner Rock, Greencastle; Noah Brown, Greencastle; Kyle Hoffman, Waynesboro; Seth Keiter, Big Spring; Hunter Clever, Waynesboro, Braden Petty. Honorable mention — Jakob Dorty, James Buchanan; Cole Reed, Waynesboro; Cal Davis, Waynesboro; Derek Buhrman, Waynesboro; Zach Vonstein, Boiling Springs; Evan Maun, Greencastle; Cade Bender, Greencastle; Brady Kuhn, Shippensburg; Ethan Stouffer, Shippensburg.
Co-Players of the Year: Cross Copenhaver, Big Spring; Jaret Petty, Big Spring
Coach of the Year: Josh Petty, Big Spring
First team — Michael Mattes, Middletown; Brady Madden, East Pennsboro; Dalton Miller, East Pennsboro; Chris Horst, East Pennsboro; Nick Embleton, East Pennsboro; Drew Farling, East Pennsboro; Scotty Messner, West Perry; Logan Mann, West Perry; Scott Leithof, Nothern; Owen McKeever, Northern. Second team — Noah Zimmerman, Middletown; Johan Sanchez-Padilla, Middletown; Nic Nugent, East Pennsboro; Cody Smith, West Perry; Nolan Olszenski, West Perry; Michael Chiccini, West Perry; Jared Sutch, Northern; Lou Peifer, Northern. Honorable mention — Cameron May, West Perryl Blake Jacoby, Middletown; Connor Barber, East Pennsboro; Jake Sacoman, Northern; Chad Speiser, Nothern; Lockette, Steel High; J. Hayes, Milton Hershey; Quinn Buffingtown, Camp Hill; Velly Bartow, Trinity; Wyatt Beddow, Camp Hill.
Co-Players of the Year: Trent Culver, Northern; Curtis Robison, Northern
Coach of the Year: Brian Robinson, Northern
First team — Mike Cross, Bishop McDevitt; Tommy Bramley, Lower Dauphin; Hunter Paul, CD East; Dezhaney Amey, Harrisburg; Derek Wyld, Lower Dauphin; Caleb Vargo, Bishop McDevitt; Nick Laman, Hershey; Kris Kremer, Hershey; Owen Deflitch, Hershey; Isaac Blatt, Palmyra. Second team — Mike Geesaman, Lower Dauphin; Jake Leibig Bishop McDevitt; Joe Pensiero, Bishop McDevitt; Carl Reigle, Palmyra; Kyle Lebo, Mechanicsburg; Ryan Kutz, Lower Dauphin; Grant Santangelo, Hershey; Jared Dunkle, Lower Dauphin; Pat Blackall, Hershey; Jamie Weable, Bishop McDevitt; Christian Corado, Hershey. Honorable mention — Adrion Meyers, CD East; Clay Spencer, Lower Dauphin; Timmy Townsend, Lower Dauphin; Joel Warner, Mechanicsburg; Cam Athey, Mechanicsburg; Treystan Housman; Nick Fisher; James Matte; Nekie Rogers; Brian Coburn, Palmyra; Kenny Runkle, Susquehanna Township; Steve Solt, Hershey.
Player of the Year: Will Manley, Lower Dauphin
Coach of the Year: Ken Kulina, Lower Dauphin


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Fall is my favourite time of year. It's usually nice and warm, there's usually combines circling the fields, there's usually beautiful colours everywhere... Early October and it's just been the last two weeks or so that we've seen the combines and the warm weather (off and on), but the colours were great.
We had to make use of some of the beautiful trees in our neighbourhood, so we snapped a few photos, playing in the leaves.
Who needs a tripod? A stroller works just fine for a family photo. If only, Gracie would look at the camera :)
Our kids.....
Numero Uno (aka. the one who has become the centre of everything)
And, some nice rusty red fall leaves


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Lowongan Kerja Bank Muamalat Cab Matraman Juli 2012
Sejak Tahun 2014, Ujian CPNS dilaksanakan secara online dengan sistem Computer Assisted Test (CAT).
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Loker Bank Muamalat
PT Bank Muamalat Indonesia Tbk is one of the top Islamic Syariah banking company in Indonesia. The Bank was established in 1991 by local and foreign investors. Currently Islamic Development Bank owns 32.82% of the bank's share, 24.94 % owned by Boubyan Bank Kuwait, Atwill Holdings Limited holds 17.95% shares and public trades the rest 5%. The Company's head office located in Jakarya and as of December 2011, supported by 360 branch offices and 475 units of ATM Muamalat all over Indonesia. The Company in 2011 also recorded Rp32.48 trillion in total assets, grew by 51.77%, while net profit increased by 60.07% compared to 2010. Bank Muamalat launched of Shar-E Gold Debit Visa Card that can be used for transaction at all Visa's merchant in Indonesia and abroad.
PT Bank Muamalat Indonesia Tbk invites the best candidates to join as following position
- Male, max age 25 years old and not married
- Islamic commitment, well behaved and never break the law
- Education D3/S1 all majors with GPA min 2.75 (PTN) and min 3.00 (PTS)
- Fluent English skills both oral and writtenComputer literate min. MS Office
- Good looking, with height min170 cm
- Physically and mentally healthy
- Preferred experienced
- Highly motivated
- Has no family relationship with the employee and the Board of Directors of Bank Muamalat
Relationship Manager (RM) Funding
- Male, with age max. 30 years old
- S1 from any discipline, with GPA min. 2.75 (PTN) and 3.00 (PTS)
- Having years of experience in the field of Marketing min.2 years
- Able to work independently and target oriented
- Have a wide networkingHave the English proficiency of spoken and written
- Have good communication skills
- Dynamic, creative and innovative
- Has no family relationship with the employee and the Board of Directors of Bank Muamalat
Should you interested, please submit your complete application to :
PT Bank Muamalat Indonesia Tbk
Ruko Mitra Matraman Blok A1 No. 1 – 2 Jl. Matraman Raya 148 Matraman, Jaktim 13150
Closing date 13 July 2012. Only short listed candidate will be contacted.


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Holidaycottages.co.uk offer over 40 cottages across Staffordshire. Sleeping from 2-12 guests, we offer a variety of places to stay. From luxury cottages to rural retreats, cottages for all the family and Shepard's huts just for two, we're sure to have just what you're looking for.
Each of our properties has been personally inspected and chosen for its quality, location and comfort, so you can be assured an unforgettable holiday. Packed with finishing touches such as pretty gardens and roaring open fires, our cottages offer a warm welcome, whether you're looking to escape as a couple, family or group of friends. Many of our cottages also welcome dogs, and many also offer ground-floor accommodation suitable for the less mobile.
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Johnny Whites Fish and Chips
Welcome to the Johnny Whites Fish and Chips. Ballyclare's most tasty fish and chip café and takeaway.
Open seven days a week from 11.30am, we offer extensive sit-in and takeway menus, with 98% of our food coming from MSC-accredited stocks, all freshly cooked.
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New habits + an unusual problem….
May 7, 2010 at 4:10 am 3 comments
Hey guys!! I'm baaackk 🙂
Did you miss me? 😉
I've decided to resume regular blogging since I think I've successfully made it "back on track". I'm very happy with my lifestyle at the moment, and let me tell you.. There have been some major changes!!
Where to begin…!?!
Well firstly, I have taken up JuJitsu. This may be a surprise for some of you, but throughout my entire life I've had something of a fascination with Martial Arts and I've always wanted to try it, but somehow have never found the courage to be proactive about it. Body Combat was a start for me but I still wanted to take things further. So when I discovered that they now hold JuJitsu classes twice a week at my gym, I was ecstatic and came along to the next class to check it out.
It. Was. AWESOME!
It was a whole new world of exercise and empowerment. There is something so uplifting about knowing you have the ability to flip someone on their back no matter how big or small they are.
I've been to 2 classes so far and I'm already hooked. I'm bruised everywhere in places I've never been bruised before, but it's worth it 🙂
Last night I went the extra mile and at 5pm I went to JuJitsu for an hour, then at 6 I headed to Body Combat from 6.15-7.15pm! I was sooo stuffed! It felt great though 🙂 and it's very satisfying to know that I gave it %100.
I'm definitely going to keep JuJitsu up, it helped me to be so calm and relaxed after a particularly bad day at school. I think that if I keep this up I'll be able to get through the year maintaining a calm, relaxed mindset 🙂
There are 2 classes a week that I can attend and I plan to go to both, but obviously one of the classes are on the same night as Body Combat. I can make it to both classes if I skip the conditioning for Jujitsu. I'll be super stuffed by the time I come home from it all but hey, I think it'll be worth it 🙂 If it's too much then I'll drop body combat. I have to pay for that class each week, whereas I can go to Jujitsu whenever for free with my gym membership.
I also went to Zumba on Monday night again! hahaha. I'm sorry, but that class just does not do it for me eh. I tried to like it but it's just not happening. Think I'll stick to my usual cardio training on Monday nights 🙂
After the first JuJitsu class I attended my knee's felt really REALLY bad. I had to take extremely strong pain killers and use a ton of anti-flamme, just to be able to sit down and stand back up again. I concentrated on my technique last night to see if I could alter it slightly in a way that meant less pressure on my knees and I think it worked. They felt heaps better after class last night.
Anyway, in other news…
I have an unusual problem at the moment…
My problem is that in the last 1-2 weeks, I've developed a horrible tendency to be insanely fussy with my food. It's crazy, for example, Feijoas I have loved all my life, and then now I hate them. I can't stand the smell or the taste, even looking at them turns my stomach! This is so weird!! I can't understand how I can go from loving something, to hating it virtually overnight!
Other examples are things like waking up in the morning, starving and usually I'll be craving something and know exactly what I want. But now when I wake up, nothing appeals to me. I'm hungry but I don't want anything to eat.
I've been having this same problem coming home from the gym. I'll want something to eat but there's nothing appealing so I won't eat at all.
I've been skipping meals due to this problem and it's BAD!
Does anyone have any advice on how to counter this? Or help me love food again?!?
That's all for now folks 🙂 If you have any advice, please feel free to leave a comment in the comments section. I welcome ALL (positive) comments 🙂
I shall leave you with some photos. I'm off to the gym soon for an easy 40 minute cardio sesh before kicking back tonight, watching the new season of America's Next Top Model and pulling my Bass guitar out of retirement to see if I can remember any old favourites. Have a fabulous Friday night!
Entry filed under: Fitness, Health, Injury, Nutrition, photography. Tags: body combat, Food, fussy, jujitsu, martial arts, Nutrition, photography, travelling.
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I just usually don't feel hungry in the morning. But my mom forces me to eat anyway, so my advice is to eat something small, like a fig newton or pita chips. b/c if you don't you will probably pass out. I've done it before, and sometimes it's quite embarrasing. (swim team picture day. Let's just say I wasn't in that shot..)
Maybe you're pregnant?
Worth checking it out, just in case…
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Telephone Etiquette
Answering the Phone
When answering the telephone, many people say 'Hello'. It is better to identify yourself by your phone number, or by your phone number and your name, e.g. '55 2211, Mrs Smith speaking'. This saves time in the case of a wrong number.
In business you would say, 'Good morning, Microsoft and Sons. Can I help you ?', and really mean it. Be as helpful as you can.
If the caller asks for someone who is not in or unavailable, take a message, and ask for the caller's name and telephone number, in case it is necessary to call him back. Have a pad and pencil handy so that you do not have to ask the caller to wait while you hunt around for something to write on. If you have to leave the caller, keep him fully informed about what you are doing. Minutes of silent waiting on the telephone can seem like hours and, in any case, the caller may prefer to ring back later.
A housekeeper or any staff in the house would answer the telephone by saying, 'Mrs Smith's residence', or 'Mr Smith's residence', whichever the case might be.
Ringing Up
When your call is social, and another member of the family whom you know answers, the greeting would be: 'Mrs Smith, this is John Brown speaking. May I speak to Mandy, please.'
If the person whom you are calling is out, it is very bad manners not to leave your name. You should ask when it would be convenient for you to call again.
Points to Remember
- Check the number before dialing.
- When you ring socially and are answered by a stranger, you give your name as 'Miss Mandy Smith'. Otherwise, you say, 'Mandy Smith speaking'.
- When ringing professional or business people, you would say, 'Miss Smith speaking'.
- Let the person who calls be the first one to end the conversation but if you are unable to stay and chat, tell the caller why and politely ask to be excused.
- Take as much trouble over the way you telephone as over the way you dress or compose your letters, for the simple reason that you will be judged as much by your telephone manner as by your dress, your letters, or your behavior over a luncheon or a conference table.
- Observe the common courtesies. A 'Please' or 'Thank you' in the appropriate place is a reflection of your own personality. Never try to match rudeness with rudeness.
- The close of a telephone conversation is as important as its beginning. Abrupt endings give wrong impressions.
- Close with a happy ending.
- Let the caller hang up first,
- Replace the receiver gently if it's a non-mobile phone, otherwise it's like slamming the door after the interview is over.
Avoid at all Costs
- Never be guilty of ringing someone and saying, 'Guess who's speaking?' People like this deserve to have their call ignored, and the receiver put down smartly! A man
- I know rang a girl and when she answered the phone and asked 'Who's speaking?' he said, 'Who is the handsomest man you know ?' He got what he deserved, for she said, 'I don't happen to know any handsome men!'
- If possible, do not ring at meal-times. If there are babies in the house, friends should find out the most convenient time to ring.
- If you are called in error, an answer along the lines of 'I'm sorry, but you have the wrong number' is far better than a blunt 'Wrong number'.
I had phone etiquette drummed into me in my first job in Market Research. Being polite costs nothing. Great hub, Myn. You can write serious as well as funny hubs! Cheers!
Another very good hub. I'm already aware of phone etiquette, but still enjoyed your hub. I spent 15 years in retail and my parents taught me how to answer a phone when I was a teenager. Just to let you know...I am 41 years old now. And, to answer your question you asked when you became my fan...Yes I am man. Thank you very much for showing this to others. Hopefully some of people will find your hub and learn. :)
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Many people may wonder if weight gain is a possible side effect of Yasmin. Although it is thought that birth control pills cause women to gain weight, clinical trials have shown that this is not a common side effect of Yasmin. However, if weight gain becomes a problem while you are taking this birth control pill, talk to your healthcare provider about possible treatment options.
Does Yasmin Cause Weight Gain?Yasmin® (drospirenone/ethinyl estradiol) is a prescription birth control pill. Weight gain was not reported as a common side effect of the drug during clinical trials. Common side effects are classified as those that occur in more than 1 percent of people.
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It has long been thought that birth control pills cause women to gain weight. Many women will not take them because they are afraid they will gain weight. However, recent data suggests that birth control pills probably do not cause weight gain.
Although women taking birth control pills often gain weight, this is probably not caused by birth control pills. In studies, there were no significant differences in weight gain between women who took birth control pills and those who did not. It seems that the weight gain that some women experience while taking birth control pills is probably completely unrelated to the medication.
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- Limit your intake of alcohol.
- Participate in regular physical activity for at least 30 minutes a day on most days of the week.
Also, if you are taking Yasmin and notice you are gaining weight, talk to your healthcare provider. He or she can give you other suggestions for dealing with any weight gain. Your healthcare provider may also look for other causes of weight gain, such as certain medical conditions. If the weight gain continues, he or she may also recommend other lifestyle changes or suggest another method of birth control.
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Palace of Pranks is a store owned by Frank. It sells various gags and pranks. It first appears in the episode "Pranks a Lot" and later appears in the video game Nicktoons MLB.
Palace of Pranks is a big purple shell with a tall clown in front of it. In between, its feet are two doors that lead into the store. The clown has orange hair and wears a party hat and green pants with red polka dots on them. He also wears a purple shirt and tie, a white suit, and big brown boots. The clown is holding a yellowish-orange sign with the store's name in purple letters.
Inside the store, there are many rows of items with signs. There is a desk where Frank, the store owner, sits and where the customers pay.
Role in episode
SpongeBob and Patrick visit this store to buy a gag toy after the former introduces it to the latter and tells him he bought his gag Seanut Brittle can from the place. The two then enter the store and Patrick is desperate to taste of Seanut Brittle, only for him to get fooled by the purple snakes inside each can, to SpongeBob's laughter.
SpongeBob introduces Patrick to the store owner, Frank, and the two command him to offer them the funniest novelty item in stock. Upon showing disinterest in most of the items suggested by Frank, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to buy a can of Invisible Spray to prank every citizen of Bikini Bottom.
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It is easy to become uninspired by your surroundings as a photographer. We tend to start to reserve our cameras for only big epic travel adventures. But, it is important to keep our skills sharp. This is why I am always searching for photos.
Lately I have been running a lot in the evening. But have noticed some amazing scenes while out along the canals. As soon as we had a nice evening I grabbed my cameras and headed off to take the shot. This was my journey.
In this video you will see (part one of two) the thought process behind shooting the images. I show you what to look for and work through the process of capturing as much data as possible. The more data the more post-production options we have. Check it out below!
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Love this shot :)
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I absolutely love this, I'm just curious as to whether or not there was photoshopping in this! Cause that storm looks mean!
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Benifits of Looking for Double Stars
Searching for double stars has a benefit…….. it teaches you something about resolving power which is the ability of your telescope to give you a detailed image of an object. When you look at a double star in your telescope, you are going to find out quickly how your telescope will handle two objects which are closely spaced together in the sky.
By looking at double or triple star systems you also can develop your skill in determining the stellar magnitude of these stars. As the pair of stars in a double star system will most likely differ greatly in magnitude, you should be able to quickly tell which of the two is the brightest. Then before long you can look at the stars and visually notice that a star may just have gone from magnitude 2 to 3 for example…. which means that the star is now 2.5 times fainter than it was before.
Observing double stars will also show you how stars appear in different conditions….. and is therefore a good way to determine seeing conditions for the night.If you are looking at these double stars and you can see them twinkle, then you have what is known as stellar scintillation where you are viewing the stars through thick layers of turbulent moving air in the Earth's atmosphere.
In these poor seeing conditions, planets would twinkle like the stars do except that the planets are close enough and big enough to not be noticeable.
When the light of the star hits for example a pocket of either hot or cold air in the atmosphere, the light will be bent or refracted several times in random directions.When the light bends like this the star appears to wink out briefly and our eyes interpret that as twinkling. Seeing conditions when stars are twinkling are not good and would be comparable to looking at stars near the horizon where the light has to go through more air and is susceptible to refraction.


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Many things are rotten in the state of tech. From Susan Fowler's essay on the toxic culture at Uber, to reports that 60% of women in tech have received unwanted sexual advances, it's clear that these workplaces aren't quite the bastions of equality and progressive values that their marketing departments would have us believe.
Course-correcting these issues has become big business. How big? Take a look at this excerpt from an article published in The Atlantic last year, titled "Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?":
In January 2015, in a keynote speech at the International Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, Brian Krzanich, the CEO of Intel, announced that his company would devote $300 million to diversity efforts over the next five years. Two months later, Apple pledged $50 million to partner with nonprofits that work to improve the pipeline of women and minorities going into tech, and that spring Google announced that it would increase its annual budget for promoting diversity from $115 million to $150 million.
Unfortunately, to date these investments haven't substantially moved the needle when it comes to who gets hired at big companies like Apple, Google, or Facebook.
But instead of getting on a soap box to propose solutions (whose merits, as a straight, cis-gendered white dude, I feel entirely unqualified to judge), I'd like to take an opportunity to try to dig into some of the problems and explore them systematically. More specifically, I'd like to talk about some models of group interaction that can yield stark differences in how much harassment people receive. At the center of it all is a term called the Petrie multiplier, named after computer scientist Karen Petrie, who first came up with the idea behind the original model. If you've heard of the multiplier before, it's likely due to a 2013 blog post by Ian Gent which gained relatively wide exposure.
In what follows, I'd like to discuss the original model, offer up a few different spins on it, and then frame some common efforts by big companies to tackle harassment in terms of these models.
As discussed in Gent's post, the Petrie multiplier argues that when one group of people outnumbers another in a community, the underrepresented group will receive a disproportionate share of harassment, even if everyone in the group is equally likely to harass.
In fact, the argument gets even more quantitative. Let's imagine a community consisting only of people with blue eyes and people with green eyes. Let's further suppose that green-eyed people outnumber blue-eyed people by a 2:1 ratio. In this case, Petrie argues that blue-eyed people will experience four times as much harassment as green-eyed people, assuming that people harass one another at equal rates regardless of group affiliation.
If the greens outnumber the blues by a 3:1 ratio, blues will experience nine times as much harassment. More generally, if there are m times as many greens, blues should experience m × m times as much harassment.
The reason for this is relatively straightforward. Since there are m times as many greens, we should expect the blues to receive m times as much harassment in total over time. But this means they should receive m × m times as much harassment as the greens on average, since there are m times fewer blue-eyed people than green-eyed people.
Gent describes a model of this effect in his blog, which roughly works as follows: a person is selected at random to harass, and they randomly harasses someone who is not a part of that person's group. The simulation clearly demonstrates the Petrie multiplier, but there are a couple of common critiques of the approach. One is that the model described there has a fixed amount of harassment (say, 70 statements) that then get distributed among the population. In other words, once a person gets chosen, they go out into the world looking for someone to harass, which may not be the most realistic.
Another critique is that the harassment in this model is always overt. Person A goes to person B, says something awful, and then retreats. While this type of harassment certainly exists, the model isn't quite able to capture the kinds of "locker room talk" that happens between members of one group at the expense of members of another group.
To that end, I cooked up a simulation that tries to address some of these concerns.
Here's how it works. As before, imagine you have a population with two groups of people: folks with green eyes and folks with blue eyes. When the simulation starts, each person will move through the space, colliding at random with other people in the space. You can think of each collision as representing an interaction or a brief conversation between the two people.
When two people interact, there's some small probability (currently set at 5%) that one of them will say something offensive about the other group. It could be overtly offensive, or unintentionally so. Most importantly, the remark may not be directed at someone from the opposite group. For instance, if two greens collide, it's possible that one of them will say something harmful about blue-eyed people during the exchange, even though no blue-eyed people were part of the conversation.
However, in this model, as in real life, sound travels. If someone from the other group hears an offensive remark, that remark will be tallied. Over time, the simulation records how many offensive remarks about a group are heard by members of that group. To me, this seems like a reasonable model: if we've learned anything over the past few years, it's that CEOs of giant tech companies have a history of their dirty laundry getting aired publicly eventually.
So let's explore. The simulation starts with 20 green-eyed people and 10 blue-eyed people, but you can adjust those parameters as you like. Once you're satisfied, start the simulation and watch the population evolve.
Number of Green-eyed People: 20
Number of Blue-eyed People: 10
If you pressed for time, let me give you an idea of what will happen. I kept the population at 20 green and 10 blue and ran the simulation for five minutes. At the end of that time, blue-eyed people had observed 175 incidents of harassment, compared to only 84 for green-eyed people. This aligns pretty closely to the 2:1 ratio that the Petrie multiplier predicts.
Remember that in the original multiplier argument, we pass from a 2:1 ratio to a 4:1 ratio by dividing the total amount of harassment each group received by the size of the group. However, such an approach doesn't make as much sense here, because in our case, it's possible for one offensive remark to be heard by multiple people. This wasn't the case in the original article posed by Gent, and so it doesn't make sense to consider a similar average here.
Put more succinctly, while the Petrie effect still holds in this simulation, it's important not to misinterpret the multiplier in this setting.
Another sticking point for me in the original argument is that part of the premise that seems a little hard to believe. In reality, I don't know that we can assume both groups in a community are equally likely to say offensive things. In my mind, what seems more likely is that the smaller group would be less likely to say offensive things, if for no other reason than the fact that there's safety in numbers.
If you're part of a 90% majority and harass a member of the other 10%, what's the likelihood that you'll face consequences? Unless the harassment is particularly egregious, probably not much: the other members of the group may not even view the incident as a big deal. But if you're a member of the 10% and harass a member of the 90%, the majority group is much more likely to take offense, followed by action.
Current tech culture bears this hypothesis out. According to The Elephant in the Valley, a survey of over 200+ women in tech with at least 10 years of experience, 90% reported witnessing "sexist behavior at company offsites and/or industry conferences." I can't imagine that 90% of men would say the same way about their female colleagues' behavior.
So, let's change up the model a bit by acknowledging that it's unlikely that both groups harass at equal rates. In fact, even within a group, rates of harassment are likely to differ based on who you're talking to: green-eyed people may feel more comfortable making an off-color remark when they interact with another green-eyed person, for instance, and may have the self-awareness to try to keep themselves more in check when interacting with a blue-eyed person.
Here's a simulation that tries to account for this by breaking apart the probabilities. Now you can adjust the likelihood that a person from either group (blue or green) will say something off-color when interacting with a person from either group (blue or green). I'd argue that people from both groups will tend to be more relaxed about what they say when speaking to someone from their own group, and that people from the larger group will tend to be more careless when speaking to someone in the smaller group. But if you disagree, you can adjust the parameters accordingly.
Number of Green-eyed People: 20
5% chance of harassment with Green
5% chance of harassment with Blue
Number of Blue-eyed People: 10
5% chance of harassment with Blue
5% chance of harassment with Green
Take a look at what happens if you make it so that people are guarded around members of the opposite group and will never say anything offensive directly to them. In this scenario, things actually get much worse for the underrepresented group in terms of how much harassment they hear compared to the overrepresented group, simply because two people from the smaller group are less likely to interact. This numbers in this case align more closely to Petrie's original multiplier.
I find these sorts of simulations interesting as thought experiments, but it's worth considering how much bearing they have on reality. Unfortunately, there isn't a ton of data (that I know of) that can be used to check against different permutations of the model. And while the model itself suggests a couple of approaches to combat harassment -- namely, hiring more people from underrepresented groups, or sensitivity training for people in overrepresented groups -- neither of these solutions is new or groundbreaking. And in practice, both have their own implementation challenges (check out the previously linked article from The Atlantic for more on this).
Still, the models suggest interesting questions that could potentially be answered with data. And while we're discussing some common sense solutions, I'd like to use the model to examine one more.
Below, I've got one final copy of the simulation, but this time we'll count a bit more diligently. Not only will we keep track of every time an offensive comment is heard by a member of the opposite group, we'll also keep track of every time an offensive comment is not heard by a member of the opposite group.
Start the simulation and see how the tallies change compared to the previous simulations. To get an even clearer sense of the difference, try making one group much larger than the other.
Number of Green-eyed People: 20
5% chance of harassment with Green
5% chance of harassment with Blue
Number of Blue-eyed People: 10
5% chance of harassment with Blue
5% chance of harassment with Green
When we keep track of all kinds of harassment, not just harassment that's received by the opposite group, another dimension of the story presents itself. For instance, I tried running the simulation with a group of 20 greens and 4 blues, leaving all of the probabilities at 5%.
With such a large disparity, it should come as no surprise that the most frequent offensive remark is one said by green and heard by blue. I stopped the simulation after blue-eyed people had heard 100 offensive things from green-eyed people, and here were the tallies:
|Group (20 green, 4 blue total)
|Heard only by blue, said by blue
|Heard by blue, said by green
|Heard by green, said by blue
|Heard by green, said only by green
I then bumped up blue's numbers to 10 and ran the simulation again. Here's what I got:
|Group (20 green, 10 blue total)
|Heard only by blue, said by blue
|Heard by blue, said by green
|Heard by green, said by blue
|Heard by green, said only by green
These tables highlight an important point. When one group is significantly outnumbered by another (as in the first table), the model predicts that most of the harassment the majority group hears will come from within the majority group itself. In cases like this, while bringing in more people from underrepresented groups is a nice idea, as is helping teach people not to be overt jerks, it's just as important (if not more so) to encourage people in the majority group to speak up about what other people are saying, especially if they're saying hurtful things about a group that isn't in the room. Put another way, "don't be evil" seems woefully inadequate. "Be kind," while also overly broad, may offer a step in the right direction.
No model is perfect, this one included. For instance, there's no way to model a "few bad apples theory," which might suggest that a majority of the harassment experienced in a group is because of a small number of people. Instead, all of the models here distribute impulses to offend equally among the population. If you're curious about other variations on the model, you can check out the resources at the end.
But all models simplify reality, this one included. That doesn't mean there can't be interesting takeaways. It's important to try to understand communities that are lopsided in their distribution, because so many of our communities are. And the idea that people from underrepresented groups will have a disproportionately poor experience, even in the ideal scenario where everyone is equally sensitive (or insensitive) to others, is absolutely one worth considering.
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Good morning friends! Can you believe we're less than one week away from Christmas? Aidan keeps saying he can't wait for Christmas to get here and I keep telling him that it's only X days away and will be here soon. So we've spent a lot of this week handing out gifts to neighbors, coworkers, and teachers to let them know how much we appreciate all they do all year long. The last group of people we have gifts for is Aidan's Tae Kwon Do instructors. No only does Aidan take classes everyday but he's also in their before and after school care programs so they spend a lot of time together. So for these gifts I decided to turn to My Digital Studio 2 and made these super simple and cute boxes and tags. I used the Savor the Season content disc which is awesome it has the box templates, that you can fill with any designer paper you want, the box bands, even the tags that fit perfectly with the decorative label punch. I changed up the stamp greetings in the tags and did use the new color tool to color in the stamps with different colors. I even made some of the tags to have birthday greetings so when I had them printed I would have some for different occasions. A couple of the tags are matted on silver glimmer paper that I cut out with the apothocary labels framelits and the Big Shot. Then all I had to do was fill some cello bags with candy and tie them with ribbon and everything coordinates perfectly, in a snap.
I love how MDS2 makes it so easy to make cards, decor, and gifts that anyone will love and you don't have to spend hours on them. There's still time to take care of those last minute gifts on your list so if you don't own MDS2 remember you can download a 30 day trial version of the software to try it out and make all the projects you want, even have them printed, awesome!
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TORONTO - Kyle Lowry dabbed Polysporin on the open wounds on his hands in the locker-room after Wednesday's game, court burn caused by a spectacular and gutsy slide to corral a loose ball.
Lowry's hustle, Lou Williams' hot hand, and a tiebreaking jump shot from DeMar DeRozan gave Toronto a 95-93 victory over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday, sending the Raptors into the NBA all-star break with a franchise-best record.
Showing the form that made him an all-star, Lowry was in a footrace with Wizards star John Wall to a loose ball with about three minutes left to play when he dove to the court, sliding on his belly about 15 feet to beat Wall.
"Calculated risk, baby, calculated risk," Lowry said, with a wide grin. "I'm pretty smart when it comes to that type of stuff."
Williams topped Toronto (36-17) with 27 points, while DeRozan scored 23 points, including his jumper with 13 seconds to sealed the victory. Lowry, voted a starter for the Eastern Conference team in Sunday's all-star game, added 13, while Greivis Vasquez finished with 11.
Coaches are always concerned about the final game before the break, but Wednesday's certainly didn't lack for effort or intensity in a battle between two of the best teams in the East.
The Wizards clutched a 76-75 lead going into the fourth quarter in front of a soldout crowd of 19,800 fans at Air Canada Centre that included Ndamukong Suh of the Detroit Lions, who autographed footballs and chucked them up into the crowd.
A three-pointer by Williams and free throw by Amir Johnson put Toronto up by four with just under three minutes to play. Neither team scored until 13 seconds to go, when DeRozan stepped back to drain a jump shot in the face of Paul Pierce — sweet revenge coming against the former Brooklyn Net who blocked Lowry's shot on the final play of Game 7 in last year's playoffs.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah," DeRozan said, smiling. "I'll put that one in my archives and get back at it a long time from now."
John Wall would miss on a long jumper to send the ACC fans home happy.
Wall, who will play alongside Lowry on the East squad, led the Wizards (33-21) with 21 points.
The Raptors go into the season's unofficial halfway point boasting a franchise-record 36 wins. Their previous record at this point of the season was 29 — in 2002, '07 and '10.
It's just the latest milestone Toronto has knocked down in the team's finest season in its 20-year history. But Raptors coach Dwane Casey isn't satisfied.
"No, we're not done yet," the coach said. "I've won 60 games before and won a championship (with Dallas), and I know what it takes. A lot of false things can mask mistakes. There is another level we can get to on offence and defence.
"There were stretches tonight when you might think we already left for vacation, but what I liked is they kept grinding. We're not going to out-talent anybody, we've got to do it collectively. If we don't grind it, get on the floor for loose balls — like when Kyle dove on the floor . . .and hurt his hand, those are the plays we need to make."
The Raptors are second in the Eastern Conference and 3-0 against the Wizards, one of the teams that is hot on Toronto's heels.
The NBA doubled the days off this year to a minimum eight days. The Raptors don't play again until Feb. 20 at Atlanta, giving them nine days off. It's the first of six games in eight days, a gruelling stretch that sees them play five teams with winning records.
"We've just got to go out there and keep continuing to get better," Lowry said. "I want guys to shut their minds off on basketball this whole week and enjoy their break and then come back ready to work, and I think that's what the mindset's going to be."
The game was a fierce fight from the opening whistle with the lead changing hands six times in an opening quarter that saw Toronto take a 27-25 edge into the second.
Three consecutive three-pointers by Toronto gave the Raptors a nine-point lead early in the second, but the Wizards replied with a 13-1 run to go up by three. The Raptors led 49-47 at halftime.
The Wizards took their biggest lead of the game when Wall found Otto Porter for an alley-oop dunk that had Washington up 73-63 with just under three minutes to go in the third. The Raptors closed the quarter with a 12-3 run to trail by one.


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Frustration. That's all I can say. I reached a point where I technically should have been a few weeks ago and the build up was frustrating in every sense of the word. Nonetheless, I've managed to fine tune my IDS to work in cooperation with my networking environment which will allow me to get the logs that I need. I've started documentation for the hopefully forthcoming publication that my cohort and I will be submitting to in the next few weeks. If all goes well, we should have a decent publication submitted to IEEE and a few other conferences for review.
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Conscious capitalism seems to be gaining more and more attention lately and that is wonderful. A group of like-minded business leaders met for the 10th annual Conscious Capitalist Summit in Austin, Texas, a couple of months ago. This annual meeting brings together those people who believe that the bottom line isn't the end of the line.
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After working in many fields, Maggie Meredith landed a job as a photo stylist in a commercial photographer's studio in New York City. She met her husband, Stan Meredith, who had flown four-engine planes during the war. Having bought a plane of his own, they shortly moved to a house on Nantucket. It was here that Maggie Meredith's personal art became public. Maggie mounted her first show at the Nantucket Artists Association's Little Gallery on the advice of the gallery director. She was later represented by George Vigouroux's Lobster Pot Gallery, Reggie Levine's Main Street Gallery, and Carolyn Walsh's Sailors Valentine Gallery until finally, she decided to open a studio in her home. Maggie's style evolved into primitive but precisely drafted contemporary imagery where assembled objects narrated the content.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Congratulations to Ryan Shaw and his co-principal investigator, Kris Hauser, Electrical Engineering-Pratt School of Engineering, who have received an award for their National Science Foundation proposal entitled "Customizing Semi-Autonomous Nursing Robots using Human Expertise." This award is for a three year period, awarded September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2021. This project was awarded at $962,572 for the three-year project period.
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Here's something I've lifted from my own personal blog that I want to share with you.
It's a letter Patton Oswalt wrote for Comedians & the Executives (aka the Gatekeepers). I read them and I totally get it.
I've spent most of my life finding my way, learning and working to be an accomplished Actor and along the way, I realised, I needed to be a Producer too. Reading Patton's letter to 'Comedians' really rang true to me. Just replace all the 'comedian' references to 'actor' and it felt like he was talking to me!
His letter also issues a challenge to the execs which pretty much sums up what I want to achieve as a Producer. It's awesome.
If you have some time, take 10 mins to read the full letters. Otherwise, you can check out my little summary below.
Here are some excerpts:
"…"lucky" and "given." Those are two very very dangerous words for a comedian. Those two words can put you to sleep, especially once you get a taste of both being "lucky" and being "given." The days about luck and being given are about to end. They're about to go away."
"What I mean is: Not being lucky and not being given are no longer going to define your career as a comedian and as an artist."
Patton invested and executed a project called "The Comedians of Comedy". At the end of it, he was, in his own words, "I was exhausted, I was in debt, and I wound up with a wider fanbase of the kind of people I always dreamed of having as fans. And I built that from the ground up, friends and people I respected and was a fan of."
As an Actor, I've done my fair share of moaning and complaining. I am no saint. But hey, I gave up that shit a long time ago. I've been fairly lucky as some opportunities have been given to me. However, the day I decided to rely less on luck being given to me and went out making up my own luck – things got infinitely better.
And here's the challenge he posed to the Execs (aka, the Gatekeepers):
"I want you, all of the gatekeepers, to become fans. I want you to become true enthusiasts like me. I want you to become thrill-seekers.…This isn't a threat, this is an offer. We like to create. We're the ones who love to make shit all the time. You're the ones who like to discover it and patronize it support it and nurture it and broadcast it. Just get out of our way when we do it.…"
In Malaysia, being a kick-ass actor/writer/etc is not enough. Because then you are still relying a lot on being given opportunities. Another major problem is : we don't have enough Execs / Gatekeepers willing to take the chance on being true fans and trusting the talents they hire themselves!
I want to be that Producer who is a fan of the talents I work with. I'll help make their visions come true because they are the ones who like to create and make shit all the time. I want to be that guy who gets to be a part of something friggin' awesome by setting up a platform of opportunities. Then I just get out of the way and let them do their thing.
Drop me a message if you have a friggin' awesome film project you want to make. 'Cause if you read all the way to here, I'm pretty sure you could be someone I'd want to work with.


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3Little Wolves Film Festival
The festival aims to situate children's cultures in the wider society; discuss
the role of children and youth in society; empower their active participation; promote dialogue across generations. We are interested in the films that provide us with the insight into children's lives and various childhood experiences.
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The bad news is that, it's been broken for so long that the system was sending out messages from 2012. We did keep resetting it but didn't realize the backlog was there and would overwhelm the system again and shut it down.
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Using congestion pricing to encourage cargo owners to move shipments during off-peak hours, PierPass claims to have eliminated costly bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It says it has also helped reduce gridlock on area freeways and improve air quality by reducing truck idle times.
While PierPass was celebrating its achievement, a Drewry Shipping Consultants report indicated on-time performance for ocean carriers has dropped. Fewer than 50% of container ships arrive on time, according to Drewry's "Container Shipper Insight" survey. The 46% on-time performance in the latest quarter compares with 57% in the fist two months of 2006.
The survey indicated 23% of ships arrived one day late, 11% were two days late, and 6% were three days late. Only 8% were five or more days late. Drewry also considers early arrival at variance with on-time, but only 1% of ships arrived two days ahead of schedule.
Drewry records data on 20 trade routes worldwide for the survey, covering 2,144 arrivals by more than 60 carriers.


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