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Theodore E. Gildred III
Theodore E. Gildred III, a long-time member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Americas (IOA), was appointed as the President of the IOA on November 15, 2018. Mr. Gildred is also the President and CEO of The Lomas Santa Fe Group, a commercial real estate development company based in San Diego and Bon Vivant Resorts, LLC, (BVR) a hospitality development company with projects in the US, Mexico and the Marshall Islands. Mr. Gildred has over 30 years' experience working in Latin America in the real estate and finance sectors. Early in his career, Mr. Gildred worked as an investment banker in Sao Paulo at Banco de Boston, and later in the Latin American Corporate Finance Group at ING Barings in New York and finally at Morgan Stanley in London as a member of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund (MSREF) where he worked on equity investments in Latin America and Europe. Mr. Gildred has extensive experience living and working in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile. Mr. Gildred is also a partner at North of Now, a film production company based in Los Angeles.
Mr. Gildred holds a BA in History from Stanford University and an MBA in International Finance from Columbia University and has studied at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil. Mr. Gildred served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and was based in the U.S. and Japan.
Mr. Gildred has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Americas for nearly 20 years as well as the Board of the San Diego Air and Space Museum and is a member of Young President's Organization (YPO). Mr. Gildred is conversant in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and some Japanese. Mr. Gildred is a pilot and an outdoors man and enjoys skiing, surfing and automobiles.


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Continuing our series of profiles on some of our Dataplan Heroes we meet Carol Ellis, a Senior Manager in our Corporate Team.
Carol started her payroll career in the Weekly Wages Department of a local Construction Company on 1 April 1986, she always wonders if it was actually an April fool which kicked off her love of Payroll. After 26 years of dealing with Payroll, PAYE Dispensations and Staff Expenses procedures, when redundancy was threatened she joined Dataplan in April 2012.
How has Dataplan changed since you joined?
I've seen Dataplan expand and become more efficient over the years. Moving to a larger, more modern building allowed us to accommodate our ever growing teams and set up departments dedicated to Pensions, Special Projects and IT Development which are necessary to keep up with the ever changing payroll world.
What's the best thing about working in payroll?
I love the fast paced environment and problem solving. I particularly enjoy guiding clients through the tricky world of payroll.
And the worst?
Deadlines can be tight and we can all feel the pressure from time to time. As we have a strong work ethic and talented people here at Dataplan, even on the worst days we step up to the challenges thrown at us because we love payroll and the customers we have great relationships with.
If you could have anyone on your payroll, whom would it be?
It would have to be the Hull City football team ;-) I would like to see if the strikers get a Goal Bonus and if PILON is paid for rapid exits!!
What do you think payroll will be like in 50 years' time?
Good question – I think the main difference will be technology. We have been able to use so many new interfaces and delivery systems in the past few years it's impossible to imagine 50 years advancement.
What is your worst food?
I think it would have to be tomatoes, although I am known for my lack of love for fruit and LOVE of chocolate.
What do you think of HMRC?
I think everyone makes HMRC a scapegoat for a multitude of errors – not always of their making. The thing I would say frustrates me the most is their lack of urgency.
Who or what makes you laugh?
I like silly humour – the sillier the better. My favourite sitcom is Benidorm.
Your most used phrase?
I am known for saying 'You don't know what you don't know' - said in my Yorkshire'ish accent!
What is your biggest work challenge?
The main challenge is getting the right temperature for all 30 bodies in the Corporate office!


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By Chuck Tidmore
Sports Information Assistant
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Huntingdon women's lacrosse team lost to USA South opponent Piedmont College 15-6 on Saturday in Samford Stadium.
Before the game, head coach Julia Steier honored the eight seniors who have been with the program for the first four years of existence.
Shannen O'Leary scored the Lady Hawks first goal 3:01 into the game to tie the score 1-1. Piedmont used a six goal run to pull ahead 7-1 before a Jade Paul goal with 15 seconds left in the first half made the score 7-2.
Jen Price scored her first of four goals 1:33 into the second half. The Lions outscored Huntingdon (5-8, 1-4 USA South) 7-3 in the final 26:54 of play.
The Lady Hawks travel to play rival Birmingham-Southern on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
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An Efficiency Optimization Scheme for Bidirectional Inductive Power Transfer Systems
Nguyen, Bac Xuan
Vilathgamuwa, D. Mahinda
Foo, Gilbert
Wang, Peng
Ong, Andrew
Madawala, Udaya K.
Nguyen, Trong Duy
Date of Issue2014
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Accepted version
Unidirectional inductive power transfer (UIPT) systems allow loads to consume power while bidirectional IPT (BIPT) systems are more suitable for loads requiring two way power flow such as vehicle to grid (V2G) applications with electric vehicles (EVs). Many attempts have been made to improve the performance of BIPT systems. In a typical BIPT system, the output power is control using the pickup converter phase shift angle (PSA) while the primary converter regulates the input current. This paper proposes an optimized phase shift modulation strategy to minimize the coil losses of a series – series (SS) compensated BIPT system. In addition, a comprehensive study on the impact of power converters on the overall efficiency of the system is also presented. A closed loop controller is proposed to optimize the overall efficiency of the BIPT system. Theoretical results are presented in comparison to both simulations and measurements of a 0.5 kW prototype to show the benefits of the proposed concept. Results convincingly demonstrate the applicability of the proposed system offering high efficiency over a wide range of output power.
Bidirectional inductive power transfer (BIPT)
Efficiency optimization
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IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
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David & Krista are proud to introduce the newest member of the family, who for now is known simply as Little Nugget:
Took him to PetCo today and we were impressed with his uncanny ability to draw attention…heh.
Here's a little Q&A:
Q: What is he?
A: Half poodle, half chihuahua. In other words, a poo-wa-wa. Or chi-poo.
Q: How old is he?
A: Seven weeks old today.
Q: Where did you get him?
A: PetCetera on 10th Avenue South. He has three siblings that (as of yesterday) are still looking for loving homes.
Q: Where is he from?
A: He was born in Lewistown, Montana. That is why one of the names under consideration is Fergus (as in Fergus County).
Q: What other names are you considering?
A: Kozmo, Komet, Turbo, Killian, Nugget, Mojo.


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CBI files supplementary charge sheet against Jagan
In the first charge sheet, the CBI, which named Jagan and 12 individuals and firms Trident Life Sciences, Aurobindo Pharma and Hetero Drugs as accused, alleged that the YSR Congress Party chief got investments of several crores from firms into his business as part of quid-pro-quo when his late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was the chief minister during 2004-09.
Ravindra Nath said an additional Rs 5.25 crore which came into Jagan`s firms has been identified by the probing agency as bribe amount for the favours done to `some` persons. He said the agency filed supplementary charge sheet today adding Section 9 of Prevention of Corruption Act (taking gratification, for exercise of personal influence with public servant) against the accused. Jagan was arrested by the CBI on May 27 before being questioned for two days.
The CBI registered the FIR against Jaganmohan Reddy and 74 others in the case on August 17, 2011 in the case of illegal assets and alleged flow of illegal investments into his business empire. It registered cases under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal breach of trust) and 477A (falsification of accounts) of the Indian Penal Code, besides Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act.


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In recent years, biochar has been discussed as an opportunity for carbon sequestration in arable soils. Field experiments under realistic conditions investigating the CO2 emission from soil after biochar combined with fertilizer additions are scarce. Therefore, we investigated the CO2 emission and its 13C signature after addition of compost, biogas digestate (originating from C4 feedstock) and mineral fertilizer with and without biochar (0, 3, 10, 40 Mg biochar/ha) to a sandy Cambisol in Northern Germany. Biomass residues were pyrolized at ~650°C to obtain biochar with C3 signature. Gas samples were taken biweekly during the growing season using static chambers three years after biochar substrate addition. The CO2 concentration and its δ13C isotope signature were measured using a gas chromatograph coupled to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Results showed increased CO2 emission (30%–60%) when high biochar amount (40 Mg/ha) was applied three years ago together with mineral fertilizer and biogas digestate. On average, 59% of the emitted CO2 had a C3 signature (thus, deriving from biochar and/or soil organic matter), independent of the amount of biochar added. In addition, our results clearly demonstrated that only a small amount of released CO2 derived from biochar. The results of this field experiment suggest that biochar most likely stimulates microbial activity in soil leading to increased CO2 emissions derived from soil organic matter and fertilizers mineralization rather than from biochar. Nevertheless, compared to the amount of carbon added by biochar, additional CO2 emission is marginal corroborating the C sequestration potential of biochar.
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On Reverse Wizardry
January 25, 2011
Image by SonOfJordan on Flickr.
Through a recommendation (I shall restrain myself so as to not bore you with the details — so do not tempt me) I was introduced to Nietzsche through his collection of aphorisms in "Human, All Too Human". I found a copy in the university library — admittedly, there were numerous copies, but since I only had use for one, that is what I borrowed. The book has been my companion on my long commutes since.
Ah, indeed, I do realise that makes me appear a slow reader, if I divulge that I have had it for three weeks, which translates to 30 hours of train rides — but, to my defence, every morning and every evening I travel through rather mundane British countryside; which never the less manages to be among the most beautiful scenery I have ever beheld. Half my time on the train is thus dedicated to pressing my nose against the glass of the window, studying the hills and fields that I know so very well — almost by heart — as if I seek some deeper truth I hope thusly shall be revealed.
So, shall the time I spent reading the work be summarised, it is probably closer to 15 hours, which I believe a more accurate estimation. And, Nietzsche himself stated in a version of the preface that "I betray the fact that this book is hard to understand –that it stimulates confusion." I cannot say it stimulated confusion, but the act of understanding someone else's thoughts has always been a laborious one.
Never the less, this afternoon, not long after I had departed London, I could close the book and declare myself done; I had read and considered the last set of aphorisms, and I could turn to the — perhaps paramount — task of understanding them fully; at least to the best of my ability.
One of the last aphorisms is #627: Living and Experiencing:
[W]e are finally tempted to divide humanity into a minority (a minimality) of those who understand how to make a great deal out of very little and a majority of those who understand how to make very little out of a great deal; indeed, we encounter those reverse wizards who, instead of creating the world out of nothing, create a nothing out of the world.
Yes, admittedly, Nietzsche was an existentialist, and a pondering such as this is not at all unexpected. What caught my eye, however, was that it rang so true in its appeal; the irony in the observation being that although it is within human ability to see beauty wherever one turns, it is also human to fail to hone this ability — this talent.
Maybe — I am merely philosophising on my own, inadequate level here — the ability to see the world as a beautiful place (to be a wizard) is innate, only that it is lost as the human creatures outgrow their childhood to be lost in the present, too occupied with the mundane to realise that beauty is plentiful therein.
I am the eldest of a cinquain of sisters, and have thusly been blessed in appreciating the vastness of the infant mind, despite my own tender age, as I have seen my sisters grow up alongside myself. In regards to one's own view of the world it is simple — too simple — to grow forgetful, and it is near impossible to remain objective. But in regards to the world-view of others it is easier to avoid subjectivity.
When I think of my sisters as they outgrew their infancies, I think of smiling faces with glittering eyes; the sparkle therein being the fire of wonder. And sometimes, as I recall this imagery, I think that a mature mind in a baby's all-seeing apparition would go mad with the stream of influence to which it is exposed — for a child sees everything that the world offers. They are purely objective.
A young child does not pay much attention to the constructs of the world; what they see is the world as it is. They can crawl in what seems the most insignificant of spaces only to return with a treasure which is trash to everyone else. But to the child whose treasure it is, it is a part of the world into which they have been brought; their infantile minds believing that it is utter and complete truth, having no opinion about the worth — or lack thereof — of existence. If something is, then it is; a child's world is not more complicated that so.
Many people fail to hone this ability to see the little within the large as they mature and grow up. They no longer see the innate beauty of things, but pass judgement upon it instead; they reverse the wizardry with which their childhood was endowed. Maybe that is why I am the only one on the train who childishly presses her nose against the glass as we fly across the countryside; I see such beauty in a world that others consider perfectly mundane, somehow, perhaps, who knows, having escaped the reversal that defines the adult mind.
Yes, to the defence of the native Britons, I am an infant in their corner of the world; but as a person, I have grown and matured into adulthood. In that sense, I am them. And still, they bury their faces in the blotted ink of the newspaper, whilst I breathe silver upon the glass of the carriage. My mind still retains the infancy theirs have suppressed; the reversal robbing them of the ability to see the beauty of it all.
I think this is very much at the world's loss, and I believe there would be such benefit if "mature minds" could only kneel like wizards in the grass once in a while, having found a hidden treasure that although being worth noting, still manages to be worth the world.
Although I readily admit this is a liberal interpretation, I think this is what Nietzsche meant~.
Little Things
January 22, 2011
It's the little things in life that bring the most prodigious joy.
Browsing the supermarket aisles one rainy morning, I came across a crate of sun-eggs, each and every one lovingly picked with a few, green leaves still attached.
Finding this brought me the greatest delight; for I find that the small details of the little things in life are what bring the most joy — and such things being plentiful means one is guaranteed to find happiness wherever one looks.
In Sweden there once lived a woman called Elsa Beskow, who was an author and illustrator. She wrote the most magnificent of stories for the young at heart — be they little or not — and they all linger in my mind, their beauty too great to ever fade. In addition to her own works, she illustrated the stories of others. One such story is the story about the orange a child lost in the woods, and which the creatures of the forest believed was an egg of the sun.
Springtime Promenade
June 13, 2010
Bluebell Beeches
One morning in late May I caught the first train to the rural outskirts of London and was rewarded with the most beautiful of springtime sights.
Hilltop Town
It did not take me long to wander downhill from the station and through the old town that resides in the valley beneath the modern settlement. Before the first half an hour had passed I could overlook the western part of the town of the hilltop which I had climbed.
Keeping Gate
Having cleared the town and its outskirts, I found myself passing through the barrier that separated the urban and the rural countryside: a charming gate blushing with rust.
Dust Road
The first field put me in a feeling of sheer delight, the rolling slopes encouraging me to believe I was one with the sky as the wind played with my long skirt. Eventually, I reached a dust road that promised to carry me as far as I wished.
Dandelion Hill
My springtime walk took place late in May, and I found the first generation of dandelions had allowed their sparkling gold to fade to the hue of cotton-like copper I so adore.
Bluebell Forest
I shall always with fondness remember my first visit to a forest whose atmosphere was adorned with the sweet, perfumed scent of bluebell hyacinths.
Power Line
Although I had walked for almost five consecutive hours, it was still bitter-sweet to know I had reached my final destination and my springtime walk had come to an end. Never the less, my first introduction to the British countryside did nothing but cement my affection and enamour me yet more.
[This post features pictures taken during the walk detailed in Weightless Adventures.]
Thank you Vil for helping upload these pictures when my Internet connection laughed at me!
Weightless Adventures
May 24, 2010
Image by lone snapper.
It was a wonderful morning as she awoke, the sun tickling her face as it was filtered through the curtains she had drawn the evening before. A whisper of a breeze floated through a window, only barely open. Even before she opened her eyes, she knew an amazing day was to mature from the fairytale morning.
An impromptu vase stood on her windowsill as she went downstairs, the plastic cup filled with flowers that had spread their lovely scent overnight; the sophisticated jasmine with its sweet tones, the heavenly blue forget-me-nots that twinkled in the morning light. There were the vanilla notes of the cow's parsley and the precious, barely distinguishable whisper of the pink clematis.
Running to the train station to catch the first train of the morning, the air played with her golden hair and long skirt — in her mind she was the essence of times past, and nothing could delight her more.
Travelling thorough landscapes she knew she would never tire of, she all but flew out of the front carriage of the train, floating down the swindling road on the hill that climaxed in a valley with the town above her and the rolling hills before her mesmerised eyes.
Her path led her through the oldest parts of the town, the small houses crooked and aged, their lacquered doors however smiling kindly at her as she passed, the lace curtains modest eyelids concealing the lives of those who lived within.
Eventually, she found herself by the edge of a field, its rolling expanse a terrestrial wave frozen in its ascent, the height swindling and exhilarating from where she stood; the queen of the richness of the grassy sea.
In the sunlight, the grass shone with the fresh vigour of spring, as if it was the scalp of a creature so modest about its beauty it had hidden from sight under ground. As the wind played with the grassy curls, she, who stood in the midst of the ocean, would not have been surprised had a ship sailed past in the distance.
Eventually, the path upon which she travelled led her into the depths of a forest, the beeches embracing her with their grand architecture; their canopies a fair peridot ceiling, their silver stems the pillars of nature's grand halls.
The floor of that ball room was covered with music, the light — all but heavenly — lavender blue bells softly dancing where they stood, gilding the atmosphere with their melodious, scented notes.
For a while, she stood, mesmerised, the sight before her so foreign, so beautiful. In her native lands, those she adored with all of her heart, the forest floors were adorned with the white stellar sparkles of windflowers, their fresh, musky scent a stark contrast to the sweetness that for the moment tickled her senses.
The metallic field of dandelions past the height of their bloom followed, the silver seeds filling the air as the heavens breathed, the copper of their stems a reddish hue adorning the grass, the few flower heads that remained a treasured sparkle of gold.
Walking upon the small lane that carried her across such fields, past farmhouses and small cottages, the sunshine kept her company, caressing her face and arms with its gilding warmth.
For a while, the hum of electricity through cables suspended above her head was all that interrupted the calm indifference of the eternity in which she had found herself, the modern reminder however soon again replaced with the twitter of blackbirds and robins in the canopies above, their duets only occasionally joined by a pigeon's deep, velvety coo.
In the little village she thereafter reached, she realised her lovely adventure had come to an end. No matter how much she desired to spend the rest of her life suspended in the weightlessness nature's freedom offered, she knew she had to return to the life that had granted her this dream-like escape.
Once back at home, with her remaining exam pocking for her attention, she looked out through her window into the sunny, all but Mediterranean afternoon, knowing her wonderful experience on the countryside of the land she so adored would remain with her forever; it having been validation of the enamoured beliefs which once had brought her there.
[Pictures taken during the adventure can be found here: Springtime Promenade.]
Cotton Rain
December 16, 2009
I woke up before my time today. In the early morning I opened my eyes, as if I had escaped a dream, being unable to return to the sleep that had been chased away. I rose and wandered out into the lavender light reflecting off the white façades of the town houses, steering my steps towards the large open area just nearby.
The parkland stretches for as far as the eye can see, and had it been more densely vegetated it would have been a forest — in the very heart of this large city. The grassy expanse was covered with frost, and as it was gently caressed by the first yawns of a newborn sun, mists started to rise into the peach atmosphere that warmed the frosted mint below. In ages past they said the fairies danced, and indeed, swirling mists and joysome dances can during serene morning hours be one and the same.
The sun rose as a great ruby over the eastern treetops, those leafless towers and pinnacles that towered in the distance, their silhouettes softened by the evaporating frost. Swans were lining the edge of the great pond, their white dresses a hint of what was to come.
Once the sun had risen and lost its blush the skies clouded over. The air was still sharp and nipped noses and cheeks of those who wandered towards their destinations. In the afternoon the purpose of the day was revealed as large, cotton-like raindrops swirled from the skies. As they touched the ground, they melted to water.
They say it rarely snows in London, and so it was appropriate for this fair snowfall to melt as soon as it had settled; it did not snow; it rained cotton balls.
A Shard of Eternity
July 14, 2009
In summer I travel to the most pleasing of places; a tongue of land in the vast sea upon which the winds are allowed to roam as freely as they desire, chasing the clouds away with their gentle whispers. The sun always shines in the paradise of my summers; a sparkling orb upon a cornflower blue sky, the sea applauding its daily performance from below.
As I wander barefoot by the velvet water's edge my feet are kissed by the white-lipped waves, my song having broken the silence that has reigned for so long. Gazing into to hazy distance, above which cotton-clouds are floating past, I can see a hint of land by the horizon, and when darkness falls the shimmer of a city aglow can only barely be perceived. My summer's paradise allows one to escape civilisation and reality to simply live and be alive by the ocean's edge.
The beach is scattered with limestone, its tint blue, as if it paid tribute to the sky that warms it, and the ocean which has birthed it. As my bare feet, one after another, slowly are placed upon the surface of the smooth stones, they sing melodiously, their structure so fine, so fair! Sometimes, when the winds play with my long hair and the ocean sprinkles my face, I believe that I can fly.
One day, as I wandered upon my own horizon, my gaze wandered to the surface which supported me. My eyes' journey was rewarded by the most beautiful of blessings; a shard of time itself. A stone in the shape of a shell lay before my feet, its organic origin now mineralised into limestone. It laid warm and smooth upon the palm of my hand.
My treasure and forever companion ever since is half a billion years of age, spared from the tooth of time for an eternity, it seems. What a fortunate cosmic coincidence it was that allowed me to encounter this treasure by chance alone!
This small piece of eternity is now mine to always caress.
The First Day of Spring
April 1, 2009
The first day of spring is a magnificent day; the day the world so eagerly awaits; the sole reason for why winter is painfully endured. It is the day when one realises winter is as far away as it can possibly be, all because spring finally has won the epic battle of the elements: spring – with its freshly melodious name – is the season victorious and a time of plenty is about to begin.
The first day of spring is a very special day, and fact is that it only occurs once every year. Commonly, it arrives most unexpectedly – one day being winter, the following spring – and does one blink, one risks to be blind to its brief moment of glory, destined to for an entire year regret now having paid attention to such an important shift of power. For, it is one thing to be there when a change comes about, and wholly another to be present whilst the rewards are reaped.
This year I was almost premature in welcoming spring and I was very close to celebrating the wrong day. So eager were I to greet my favourite season that I almost missed it. Yesterday was a windy day and though the breezes played with my hair, my ears were spared – bare, but not nibbled upon, exposed, but not turned red by the cold. The sun shone and the breezes were smooth upon my face; warmed by the sun which shone from a blue sky. I believed that to be a sign that the first day of spring had arrived, and I wished to tell the world.
I sat down with a pen in my hand – papers before me – eager to make a delighted note mentioning that the miracle of spring had come to grace the lands anew for the first time this year; that spring had come to stay. But I did not, for it did not feel right. Something, deep within told me that to do such a thing would be to do a thing rushed. And so I did not.
I am glad I did not speak before the time had come.
Today, when I walked upon brown fields scarred by the rage of winter's snow and cast a long shadow due to the sun yet having to rise it highest in the skies, I realised that the first day of spring had arrived. Its arrival did not occur yesterday, nor would it tomorrow, for today was the first day of spring; today was the day I had awaited for so long.
Kneeling in the withered grass I removed the gloves I had used to shield my hands from the winds. Though the sun gilded my hair the winds were cool – not nibbling on my ears – numbing my fingers. That it was rosy appendages I used to pick the gold did however not matter; I found that the reddish hue enriched the yellow, making the small flower now in my hand glow yet more strongly; it was a shard of the sun and spring itself which had fallen from the skies and landed in the winter-brown grass; the first coltsfoot of the year was the whisper I had remained silent to hear: "The first day of spring has arrived."
Like a young child I skittered home over the fields, the weights winter had placed upon my shoulders had been blown away by the faint breath that vocalised the whisper; the first day of spring had arrived and it had to celebrated. And so the coltsfoot, the smiling flower face in the shape of the sun, was gently placed in a small glass; the golden rim a symbol of the tribute I pay spring every year.
It is time to remove the cloaks which have shielded our faces and painted our eyes grey. It is time to breathe once more, time to smile and time to live, for spring is here and winter is at its farthest away:
The first day of spring has finally arrived!


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Skip to 0 minutes and 11 secondsI am Rick Dunn, I am one of the lead trainers on this MOOC and this is our Q and A session, so you have sent in a whole range of different questions and comments We are going to talk about some of those questions and give some more information on that. Before we do there have been a lots of interesting comments which all the educators have enjoyed reading those, so thank you very much for being interactive during the course, we do appreciate that because we do understand some of the difficulties within the course. One person commented that they have enjoyed the course although it seemed to be designed for active metabolomics researchers.
Skip to 0 minutes and 50 secondsThat is true when we first developed the course that was the goal but we have been really delighted to see that people who are not directly applying metabolomics are also taking part and finishing the course as well. So we thank you very much for that and we do enjoy your comments about how we can improve the course as well. So please do keep those coming in so that we can make it even better for the general population.
Skip to 1 minute and 14 secondsBefore we start looking at the questions, one general comment we have had from a number of you is that the volume of data we collect and the amount of time that it takes to process that data and analyse that data, and that is true. It might take us 1, 2, 3 or weeks to collect and then it might take weeks or even months to be able to process and analyse that data and derive some biological knowledge from it and that is the same for all big data omics, whether we are looking at genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics or metabolomics, its exactly the same.
Skip to 1 minute and 49 secondsSo typically for example in the Phenome Centre here a project would typically take about 6 months to complete from sample preparation all the way through to biological interpretation. So lets get into some of the questions, there has been a whole range of questions and we have chosen some of these. The first couple are from Bev Burden thanks you very much for your questions. So Bev has asked I would like to know if an individual metabolic phenotype exists among humans.
Skip to 2 minutes and 17 secondsI read an article entitled Evidence of differences in metabolic phenotypes in humans which was in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA, in 2007 and Bev is wondering if this is now a reality Well we know from more and more research that has been performed here in Birmingham and across the globe as well, that each of us are different metabolically. Some of us are very similar metabolically and its very difficult just by measuring metabolites just to define differences between two individuals that are the same age, gender, ethnicity, work and live in the same environment etc. within there.
Skip to 2 minutes and 54 secondsBut we can clearly see differences that are related to age, gender, BMI and ethnicity across different populations on a global/ large scale population. And one project that was mentioned in the course was the Huserment project and this showed differences related to age, gender, BMI. We have a lot of data now looking at differences as to whether people respond or do not respond to treatments and the metabolic influence of that. So we can all be seen and I certainly view every individual as having a different metabolic phenotype within there. A second question from Bev was, so Bev is a registered nurse with a background in cardiovascular clinical outcomes management.
Skip to 3 minutes and 37 secondsShe is interested in learning more about how metabolic variables affect risk factors and individual patient response to medications. So some of the metabolic parameters that we have probably not talked about in the MOOC but things like your cholesterol your VLDL etc within there. They have an important role to play in health and disease, not necessarily how medication is absorbed into the body and metabolized in the body but more on metabolic health overall.
Skip to 4 minutes and 3 secondsThere are some for example, p450 enzymes which are more active or less active for example in individuals, there is a whole range of p450 enzymes within there These metabolise drugs or are involved in the metabolism of drugs and if they are more active or less active, that can influence how quickly a drug is absorbed into the body, how quickly it is metabolized and how quickly it is excreted, you have different pharmacokinetic curves in how you respond to that drug as well. Though we are all individual within that as well. So thanks Bev for your questions on that. Another question from Alexandra Iakab, so Alexandra is curious about mass spectral imaging experiments and whether you can re-use one frozen tissue.
Skip to 4 minutes and 52 secondsWell you can in a way. So normally you would thinly slice each tissue into very thin slices and you would place them onto a plate and then you would perform mass spectral imaging on that. You would not normally apply multiple different experiments on that unless you were doing some very specific experiments But normally you would take different sections and if you wanted to you could then reuse that tissue again and again, because you might get 20 or 30 sections from that tissue within there. Lexandra has also asked what happens if you change the ambient temperature of the tissue and the tissue suffers different cycles of freezing and un-freezing.
Skip to 5 minutes and 33 secondsWell ideally you would not be doing that because we know and we have shown in the MOOC that if tissues are basically frozen and then brought back up to room temperature you have the opportunity for metabolic activity to reoccur to start up again at room temperature and therefore change the metabolic composition of that tissue So in all of that sample preparation you will keep your sample cold. From Gamal Akabani I hope I have pronounced your name right there. He has asked a couple of questions about quality control and quality control samples.
Skip to 6 minutes and 8 secondsThe first one is are there different stages of the quality control process so can you have a quality control of the system versus the quality control of the system versus the samples. You can in a way there are some papers that have been published now that have indicated specific metabolites or changes in metabolites which are indicators of a high quality or poor quality sample in itself. So there are examples of where we can use those especially blood and if blood has not been processed properly into serum or plasma.
Skip to 6 minutes and 38 secondsTypically we apply a pooled QC sample and we use that to assess the quality control process or to apply the quality control process both both for the instrument and for the sample together and that is a normal process. We are using the quality control, we want to show, demonstrate the quality of the data across all of those processes. Gamal has also talked about different types of QC samples and the ideal QC sample is a pooled QC sample why a mixture of all samples? Well there is a very good reason for that.
Skip to 7 minutes and 16 secondsSo if we have got a hundred blood samples for example, plasma or serum samples and we want to be able to, that QC, that pooled QC sample, we want it to be as identical as we can to all of the biological samples that we are going to analyse. Both in the metabolites that are present in the pooled QC sample, their concentrations, we want that to be the median or the mean of all the concentrations across all of the biological samples and we want the sample matrix to be very similar or identical.
Skip to 7 minutes and 45 secondsthat is why we take all of those samples, we take a small aliquot of all of those samples and pull that together, rather than picking one or two samples and using a much larger volume of that for the QC sample. If we only take one or two samples then it is not representative of all of the biological samples that we will analyse. So that is why the pooled QC sample is out there. And keep an eye out in the literature there will be a publication published later this year that will talk much more about quality control samples and the quality control processes. The second question was are there different quality control standards for different systems and sample types.
Skip to 8 minutes and 22 secondsWell probably the best examples of where there is, so standard reference materials are reference materials which you can purchase for examples from NIST in the USA and they will be specific for example a specific sample type or can be specific to a certain disease as well. This is now being considered and discussed across the metabolomics community within there as well. So the most common one used at the moment is SRM1950 which is a plasma standard and there has been some papers published on that within there.
Skip to 8 minutes and 54 secondsSo there are different quality control standards, we do for example use some of those for long term assessment of our data over many weeks, months or years, and you can use it to assess data from different laboratories in inter laboratory comparisons as well. Another question from Gamal, can we carry out a real time metabolomics analysis of a live sample. Yes you can. There are a number of ways to be able to do that so if you are looking at humans you can for example look at breath and monitor that online in real time to define what is changing within the body.
Skip to 9 minutes and 32 secondsAnother example is the iKnife where for example in surgery the iKnife is basically measuring the plume of metabolites which are released as you perform the surgery. That is taken into a mass spectrometer and measured so you can actually measure changes in the tissue as you cut in real time and surgeons can use that to make sure they remove for example all of a cancer tumor within that operation. So there are a number and there are a number of other applications for example tracer analysis and flux analysis can also do that mainly in microbial systems. Another question, so do we use MS MS systems in metabolomics research.
Skip to 10 minutes and 14 secondsSo MS MS systems are tandem mass spectrometry so for example using triple quadrupole mass spectrometers and yes we do. So the targeted assays that we have talked about during the MOOC we would apply a triple quadrupole MS MS approach to be able to quantify metabolites in that system. We also use MS MS for gas phase fragmentation of metabolites to be able to identify metabolites as well. So MS MS has a number of really important applications within metabolomics. One final questions. So we have issues of accuracy and precision with mass spectrometry accuracy is related resolution, what about precision. So this question is really talking about mass accuracy and mass precision within there.
Skip to 11 minutes and 9 secondsNow mass accuracy, a general rule of thumb is the higher mass resolution the higher the mass accuracy that you can achieve within there. And the reason for that is the higher the mass resolution the narrower the mass peak is or the mass-to-charge ratio peak is and therefore the more accurately you can define the peak apex which is used to determine the mass-to-charge for that, and that is a rule of thumb within there. Mass accuracy is always dependent on the mass calibration that you perform, you can have high mass resolution but low mass accuracy if the mass calibration that you perform on the instrument is not appropriate and does not provide an accurate mass calibration within there.
Skip to 11 minutes and 49 secondsMass precision is not really talked about a lot, but typically on mass spectrometry once calibrated the precision of that mass ie, if you perform 20 different measurements of the mass the precision will be very high, the relative standard deviation for that mass error will be very low because mass spectrometers can operate in a very stable way to ensure that the mass calibration is stable within there. So one final comment rather than a question from Alexandra Iakab again. If we remove the peaks present in the blank sample could not we accidentally remove information that might be a possible metabolite with a same mass-to-charge ratio as the blank.
Skip to 12 minutes and 32 secondsVery unlikely, because if we are using, specially liquid chromatography mass spectrometry we are using both the accurate mass and the retention time and the possibility of there being a blank contaminant that has the same accurate mass and has the same retention time is very low. And how do we know whether is related to the sample or the blank, the whole reason for analyzing a blank sample is to ensure that we remove any features, any peaks, any signals that are related to or potentially related to a blank sample.
Skip to 13 minutes and 3 secondsSo in a one in a million chance in might be related to a metabolite but we have still removed that to ensure that we have got this high quality data that we can trust and if we make biological conclusions from that data we have high confidence in those. So thank you very much for registering and continuing onto the course.
Skip to 13 minutes and 25 secondsWe know some of you are still working through the steps, especially for week 4, continue doing that, continue asking questions online and we will continue to answer them and continue to interact with all the other learners as well within there So thank you very much for taking part in the course, we hope that you have enjoyed it and we hope to see you at a future course at the Birmingham Metabolomics Training Centre, thank you.
Course Q & A
Dr Warwick Dunn answers your questions from the course.
© University of Birmingham and the Birmingham Metabolomics Training Centre


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Pre Teen & Teen Programs
With the growing pressures on young people, the MetroWest YMCA provides a safe and positive atmosphere for youth to have independence, learn the values of respect, responsibility, caring and honesty.
Leaders Club
YMCA Teen Leaders Club
GRADES 6-8, Thursdays 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Thursdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Do more, be more! Come check out the MetroWest Family Outdoor Center's Leaders Clubs! Leaders is a nationwide YMCA program that teach teens leadership skills through community service, volunteerism, and personal growth. Teens have the opportunity to create strong and positive relationships, make connections in their community, and meet other teens across the New England Area. Jr. Leaders for grades 6-8. Leaders Clubs for grades 9-12. Open to all teens in the MetroWest community. The cost of these clubs are FREE FOR ALL! Weekly meetings are held at the Family Outdoor Center in Hopkinton, MA
LEAP Grades 6th-8th Thursdays, 2-6pm,
Leap into the MetroWest Family Outdoor Center's new Leadership, Education, & Adventure Program! LEAP is an after school program every Thursday for teens to gain leadership skills through adventurebased activities; including indoor rock climbing, ar- chery, high and low ropes course elements, hiking, snowshoeing, boating, and more! Teens will partici- pate in homework help, a healthy snack, an adven- ture activity, and a leadership activity each week. Transportation provided for Adams, Ashland, and Holliston Middle School students. $133/member per 6 week session, $199/non-member per 6 week session
For more information about either of these clubs, please contact:
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Teen Nights
Throughout the school year the MetroWest YMCA hosts teen activities on Friday and Saturday Nights. Programs like, Holliston Fridays, Y-Night at the Framingham Branch, and Teen Night in Hopkinton/Ashland/Keefe Tech (rotating weekends)
- Y NIGHT @ FRAMINGHAM BRANCH Grades 5-8, Saturdays 7-9:45pm Saturday Nights throughout the School year the MetroWest YMCA hosts Y-Night! Come hangout with old friends and make new friends! Play a game of basketball, or swim in our heated swimming pool! This program is available to all students in grades 5 through 8 and runs from 7:00pm through 9:45pm. The program is free for members of the Framingham YMCA and is $7 for non-members.
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- Leaders In Training – LIT
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Hundreds of brave souls took an icy plunge at Boxing Day dips throughout the North East.
Young and old took to the North Sea at Newbiggin, in Northumberland, Whitley Bay, South Shields and Seaburn, to raise money for charity.
And at South Shields dippers were in for a surprise when Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall turned-up to offer support.
The singer was on hand to start proceedings as she celebrated her 21st birthday.
The popstar had been due to take part in the dip but decided at last minute to stay on dry land for fears of catching a cold.
Jade, who attended the dip on Little Haven Beach with her mum and boyfriend Sam Craske, said: "I wouldn't want to be anywhere else on Boxing Day.
"It has been a lovely day so far. I wish I had gone in, I'm a bit gutted I didn't. I was going to my mam 'Let us go in' but she was like 'no, you don't want to be ill for your birthday party'. I'm definitely doing it next year, though.
"I love the spirit of it all, everyone getting together and just having a laugh."
Some of those taking the plunge this year included members of the Black Sheep Fitness Academy, based in South Shields.
Head of the business Lee Tiffin, 32, from South Shields, said the company was doing it in aid of local charity Cancer Connections.
He said: "This is the first time any of us have done it.
"The business has been doing lots for charity this year, we've raised £20,000, in fact.
"We thought the dip would finish the year off. We were all really nervous and it was freezing. I had to get completely in because I'd been sponsored a bit more to dunk my head in."
It was a family affair for grandmother Audrey Hodgson, 62, who was braving the cold alongside daughter Andrea Scott, 39, son-in-law Simon Scott, 41, and grandchildren Rebekah, 12, and Daniel, 10.
Mrs Hodgson, from Hetton-le-Hole, said: "This is our first time doing it and it's in aid of Cancer Connections, which is a great charity.
"My daughter has cancer and I've had cancer before and they were a great support so we're giving something back.
"We've dressed in onesies and our pyjamas to get into the spirit. My son-in-law has even put on his best dress and wig!
"We weren't nervous at all, just excited. It was cold but it was worth it.
"I couldn't wait to get in and get wet.
"It's fabulous to do something like this and it's for charity."


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Imagine a world which is constantly under surveillance. Cameras are at every road, junction, and store or shop entrance. You may feel that your personal rights are being violated by having constant surveillance in place everywhere you go, but the benefits greatly outnumber the risk. By having more and better security systems in place, we are better positioned to catch events as they happen, and we will be more easily able to prevent them. Video management systems are quickly changing the way that we think about security, and they make our lives easier in so many ways. See below for some of the many benefits that these systems have for us.
One of the great things about using a video management system is that the cost associated with setting up and installing a security camera system is lowered immensely. Instead of having numerous standard definition format cameras in place around an area, fewer cameras can be utilized since a VMS makes use of high definition resolution quality in recording. This means that less will be spent on purchasing initial cameras, and less will be used as well when shelling out for technician repair services and replacements.Since recordings are saved on online servers rather than locally, less will be spent on maintenance.
A video management system allows the user to quickly and easily view past and present footage gathered from multiple cameras. At a glance, you can see how many people have entered a certain area, and most VMS's include advanced features such as license-plate recognition, zoom/wide-shot modes, etc. You may also view recorded content while on the move, such as if travelling overseas or domestically. All that is needed is an internet-connected device such as PC or iPhone, and security can easily be checked on no matter where you are.
Using a video management system such as Qognify's allows for greater tracking of information from an analytics standpoint. Special software is included which can even perform motion and facial recognition, do headcounts, and more. Most influential and famous companies such as Apple and Nike use this technology at their headquarters in California and Oregon respectively. Having more sensible and powerful analytics decreases overall time spent in tracking, and increases productivity.
As mentioned earlier, camera systems that are backed up by video management systems end up having a boost in resolution. A 2 MP (megapixel) camera would instantly be upgraded to at least 10 MP (megapixel) by the software enhancements. This results in a decrease in need for numerous amounts of cameras, as a less amount of HD cameras will provide the same results at a lesser cost.
In summary, if your company or business is expanding and creating new facilities, video management systems are definitely to be considered as the future of security. Jump on the bandwagon and take advantage of the benefits which technology in our day and age is providing to us. We promise you won't be disappointed!


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- Previous episode: Finding Healing from Sexual Abuse, an interview with Randy Boyd who shares his story about healing from the trauma of sexual abuse.
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Mario Bros Nes review by Bosley
More information on Mario Brothers for the nes can be found here.
This game has pretty memorable graphics that was still in other versions(like SMB DX for GBC, and Super Mario Bros for GBA)and will still be remembered.
The gameplay that spawned Mario\'s popularity.Without this game,Mario wouldn\'t be as popular.So,the gameplay spread to others like Super Mario Bros 3,Super Mario Land 1 and 2 etc.
The music in this are very memorable espically in some of the levels was popular like music in 1-1,1-2 etc.
It had secret blocks(contains multiple coins, mushrooms,flowers,stars,and a beanstalk)and 3 powerups. Mushroom=Mario ---> Super Mario Flower =Super Mario ---> Super Fire Mario Star =Invincibility for a little while.
The game was polished by coins,8 worlds,4 lvs each,the 3 powerups and the secret passages.This game was good even for a early NES game.
This game was good,it even was remaded 2 times so far(SMB DX 1999 GBC,SMB 2003 GBA)and it's gameplay was spreaded to others(SMB 3,SML 1 and 2 etc) and was maded a NEW SMB for DS in 2006.This game was it's main man of Mario. Additonal Comments are: SMB is one of the best games


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Hawthorne Christian Academy organizes a biennial retreat for High School students to build class unity and facilitate spiritual growth. These retreats center around challenging Biblical messages, small group discussions, and personal reflection. Retreats also offer free time for fun activities to build relationships.
High School students experience spiritual emphasis days on campus biennially.
Middle school students participate in a spiritual emphasis program each year. They spend a few days hearing from a dynamic guest speaker, broken up by small group discussions, team building activities, and opportunities for personal reflection.


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Acne is a skin condition which is common in teens and also occurs in a few of the adult population. Acne problem is not restricted to the face area alone. It could transpire on any part of the body. Acne on the back is often referred to as bacne. Bacne is brought on in exactly the same way as face acne; sebaceous glands under the skin produce too much oil and this gets mixed with dead skin cells plugs the skin pores, resulting in acne infections. Home cures for acne are popular and most of them involve some simple household ingredients.
A person with tinnitus hears unique and unusual sounds within their ears which are irritating and distracting. There are several types of tinnitus; one is where a person hears the rhythm of their own heart beat. This type is known as pulsating tinnitus or pulsatile tinnitus. With this type a person experiences sensations or hears noises in their ear in tempo with their heartbeat. Pulsating tinnitus is usually uncommon but is caused by an alteration of blood flow in large arteries and veins in the neck, base of the skull or tiny blood vessels inside the ear. This type of tinnitus does not occur often but can be associated with some major disorders and aliments, and should be checked by a medical professional for proper diagnosis. If you are experiencing pulsating tinnitus you should visit a doctor immediately.
One of the biggest problems most of today's young and old person is the problem of belly fat this phenomenon can also be related to excess fat. The major reason for this can be pinned upon the fast paced life every one follows where work is given priority over health. The most crucial factor in anyones life should always be health but this aspect is definitely being neglected resulting in so many people being unfit. Though belly fat can be a menace in itself one can also get rid of it quite easily via proper diet along with regular exercise.
Congested sinuses are very exasperating and one looks for nothing but remedies for clearing sinuses. One can neither sleep nor eat well in this debilitating condition. It becomes very difficult to breathe and can also be accompanied by severe headaches, pain, sore throat, cough and fever. Natural home remedies are easy, effective, can be used as often as required and help relieve symptoms without causing any side effects. Below are a few natural home remedies for clearing sinuses:
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An annoying cough that won't go away Canadian Lung Association: take our online test to learn if you need to get that cough checked out! January 30, 2012 – Cough is one of the top reasons why people visit their family
The following medications and home remedies have no known harmful effects during pregnancy Robitussin DM, Trind-DM, Vicks Cough Syrup, Romilar, Halls* *Do not take "SA" (sustained action) forms of these drugs or the and other annoying symptoms of pregnancy,
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Miserable as you cough and sneeze and blow your nose, and you know you're in for some cost you money, cause annoying side effects and possibly even increase your risk number of family cures and remedies that may or may not help physically or mentally. And there is always chicken soup,


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Florida is one of the few states that allows the awarding of permanent spousal support as part of a divorce settlement. The court does not give it to just anyone, though. Who can get permanent alimony? How is the amount determined?
Permanent alimony is for those individuals who were in long-term marriages and require support coming out of them. The amount awarded depends on a number of factors. What factors will the court look at to determine if permanent alimony is appropriate and how much to award if it is?
Alimony factors
Before a judge decides to award alimony, the court will first look at the length of the marriage. To achieve permanent alimony, the couple must have been in a marriage for at least 17 years. After that, the judge will look at:
- The standard of living during the marriage
- The education of both spouses
- The earnings of both spouses
- The ages of each party
- The physical and emotional health of each party
- The roles each party played during the marriage — such as homemaker or breadwinner
If the marriage lasted long enough and a judge agrees that one spouse requires support, the amount awarded may be in one lump sum or in monthly installments until the receiving party remarries or passes away.
Is the support amount adjustable?
Like any other alimony order, it is possible to seek an adjustment if you feel it's necessary to do so. The payer may seek a reduction if he or she experiences financial troubles or a reduction in income. The payee may seek an increase if he or she finds the amount awarded insufficient to meet his or her needs.
If you are preparing to go through the divorce process in the state of Florida and you have questions about alimony — permanent or any other type — an experienced family law attorney will be able to answer your questions. At the end of the day, alimony, in any of its forms, is not something a judge will grant just because one party requested it.
If you feel you've earned alimony, you will need to prove that in court. On the flip side, if you feel your spouse should not receive it, you need to explain why. Legal counsel can assist you in seeking a fair alimony settlement, regardless of which side of the table you are on.


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Rich Communications Services (RCS) is the future of messaging on mobile. AT&T and T-Mobile already use RCS for their own messaging services, and recently, Google and a bunch of global carriers have announced to combine resources and create a standard RCS client on Android. By implication, Android will soon get a new and freshly built messaging app.
According to Droid-Life, with RCS, you get features like "group chat, high-res photo sharing, read receipts, and more," which really just means that old school, feature-less SMS text messaging will be put to bed, finally.
Google, along with América Móvil, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, KPN, Millicom, MTN, Orange, PLAY, Smart Communications, Sprint, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, Telstra, TIM, Turkcell, VimpelCom, Vodafone, the GSMA, have announced an agreement that will make RCS adoption more important today than ever and that they plan to accelerate the availability of it using a universal client.
Google will build the Android RCS client, which will allow for a "consistent and interoperable messaging experience between all Android devices and across all operators worldwide, as well as ease interoperability testing between networks and significantly reduce time to market."
The announcement didn't include a specific time frame, but it sounds like it'll happen sooner than later.


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Short Term Rental Insurance: Questions to Ask
Short term rentals are rental properties that you would stay in while vacationing or visiting a new area for a shorter period of time. When you rent an apartment, you usually sign a one year lease and you stay there for an extended period. You make it your home. With a short term rental, you generally stay a couple of nights to a couple of weeks and then leave. This is a place that you are not permanent with, it does not become a legal address and you're just passing through the area and need somewhere to stay during that time.
If you want to insure yourself during the time you're staying in one of these rentals, then it is important to get the right rental insurance. It is different from home insurance and it is also different from renters insurance. Both of those coverages were made for longer-term solutions and those moving to the areas with an intent to stay there for a longer period of time. In order to have the appropriate cover, it is important to think about short term rental insurance and what comes with it.
What should short term vacation rental insurance cover?
When you go shopping for a short term vacation rental, it is important to think about the insurance that you get and what it should cover. You cannot use insurance that is not going to cover much, since why would you purchase it in the first place?
Some insurance policies will give you a bit of one thing and not much of another, which is why it is important to really look at the policy to find out what it is able to provide you with. You might be surprised to find that it is a beneficial policy to have.
When you go to choose a short term rental insurance policy, make sure that the policy covers:
- Contents of the property, including your own personal property
- Damage to any part of the property
- Individual health coverage and accidental coverage
- Faults of both yours and the owners, to cover any accidents that happen
- Coverage on the property itself if you have an accident and something happens to it
Choosing the right short term home insurance for your rental business
There are so many insurance companies to choose from, so it is important that you want to make sure that there are no legal issues that might come with short term rentals in the area. When it comes to having the coverage, it should also be a suitable choice for the business and those renting from them. Additionally, it has to have enough coverage to cover the entire cost of the rental itself. You want to make sure that all of the coverages provided are going to do the job that needs to be done in case something does happen.
Another recommendation for those managing short-term rentals is to request a damage deposit for anything that might become damaged during their stay. This will deter those guests that might be untrustworthy and might just break some items or do some damage inside the property. In order to cut back on them, this deposit can help do so.
Having the proper insurance in place on your end is something that can help you overcome those situations where you have damage and you are unsure of what is going to cover the costs of cleaning up the damages and replacing what was lost. This insurance coverage is what bridges the gap and makes sure that the coverage provides the necessary help that is needed. Sometimes guests will come with their own rental insurance that can also cover anything that might happen, especially accidents where they might be at fault due to them. You can feel much more confident about being able to move forward with them and all that comes with them in the end with the right insurance policy that covers everyone and provides that peace of mind.


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What to Expect
Considering a visit to White Bluff Chapel? Here's what you can expect…
Remembering what it's like to be new, we'd like to ease the anxiety of venturing into a place with no idea of what to expect. So come along with us, and get a preview of what it's like to attend White Bluff Chapel on a Sunday morning.
About 180 – 200 people attend Chapel service on any given Sunday morning, with holiday services expanding to over 300. You will see people who span a range of ages and backgrounds, from young families to grandparents. Since we are located within White Bluff Resort, you will see that most of the men enjoying early retirement have traded in their suits and ties for golf course casual, while the women prefer slightly dressier attire. And visiting families tend toward very casual wear. In other words, at White Bluff Chapel, anything goes and anyone is welcome!
We are an interdenominational church, with fifteen different denominations represented in our congregation. We worship together, enriched by the contributions and traditions that each brings to our service, blending together, all the while honoring and respecting our differences.
In our Sunday one-hour service you can expect
- A classic worship style
- Prayer throughout
- Scriptures read in chorus by the congregation
- Traditional hymns with piano and organ accompaniment
- Excellence in choral performance of classic and folk selections
- Sermons delivered with animation, humor and passion
- Communion on the first Sunday of the month
- Autonomy to worship and observe without being introduced as a visitor
- Greetings of newcomers with only physical contact being a hand-shake
Our sound technicians record audio CDs and video DVDs of every worship service. Should you desire one, you can come to the Chapel Office and Glenna will make a copy for you. If you cannot get out to come to the office, contact Glenna and she will make arrangements for someone to deliver it to you.
Two or three times a year, a new members' function is held to provide them with an Orientation (given by the pastor) and to give established members of the congregation an opportunity to officially welcome the new arrivals. We hope you will choose to be a part of that.
You can go to our Sunday Service page to get more details on what to expect on a Sunday morning.
We hope you'll come visit us some Sunday soon!


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Bird's Head Plate
The Bird's Head Plate is a minor tectonic plate incorporating the Bird's Head Peninsula, at the western end of the island of New Guinea. Hillis and Müller consider it to be moving in unison with the Pacific Plate.[1] Bird considers it to be unconnected to the Pacific Plate.[2]
|Bird's Head Plate
|Bird's Head Peninsula, Pacific Ocean
|1Relative to the African Plate
The plate is separating from the Australian Plate and the small Maoke Plate along a divergent boundary to the southeast. Convergent boundaries exist along the north, between the Bird's Head and the Caroline Plate, the Philippine Sea Plate and the Halmahera Plate to the northwest. A transform boundary exists between the Bird's Head and the Molucca Sea Collision Zone to the southwest. Another convergent boundary exists between the Bird's Head and the Banda Sea Plate to the south.[3]
- ^ Hillis, R. R.; Müller, R. D. (2003). Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America. p. 363. ISBN 0-8137-2372-8.
- ^ Bird, P. (2003). "An updated digital model of plate boundaries". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4 (3): 1027. doi:10.1029/2001GC000252. http://peterbird.name/publications/2003_PB2002/2003_PB2002.htm.
- ^ ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/maps/sigeqs/20041126/20041126.pdf USGS: Papua, Indonesia Earthquake of 26 November 2004
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The Alpha Phi sorority claimed victory Sunday at the Watermelon Fest Olympics, an annual two-day competition that collects non-perishable food and money for charity. Eight sororities participated this year.
The Olympics, held on the Quad at noon, consisted of eight events including a melon toss, honeydew bowling and a watermelon seed-spitting contest. Each team earned points for the place they finished in each race as well as for donating canned food to charity.
"As soon as we found out about the event, we started working (to win)," Alphi Phi member Lauren Davis said.
Alphi Phi won a trophy and a dinner cooked by members of Lambda Chi Alpha, the fraternity that organized the event.
The Watemelon Fest is a tradition among Lambda Chi Alpha chapters throughout the country. GW has held five competitions since 1998, said Josh Lurie, philanthropy chair for GW's chapter. The fraternity supplied two captains to each sorority team to train and encourage members.
"I think it's kind of nice that they have members of Lambda Chi participating," said Stephanie Lee, a member of Phi Sigma Sigma, which came in second place after winning the lip sync contest held in the Mitchell Hall theater Saturday night. The lip sync was held as part of the Watermelon Fest.
The team won the contest with a medley of Michael Jackson songs.
Lambda Chi Alpha collected entrance fees of $60 per group and hundreds of cans from the sororities, and more than 5,000 meal point donations from students, totaling the equivalent of 25,000 pounds of food, according to Philip Ng, social chair of the fraternity. All GW Students were able to donate their meal points at Provisions April 2-4.
The champion, Alpha Phi, brought a garbage bag full of canned food to the Olympics.
"We cleared out Provisions in terms of cans," Davis said.
Although some sorority members said winning the Watermelon Fest can bring prestige and pride to a sorority, Alpha Phi member Jess Altschul, a sophomore, said charity was the main goal and that "winning is secondary."
The money, canned food and meal points collected for the Watermelon Fest will be donated to the D.C. Capital Area Food Bank.
This article appeared in the April 8, 2002 issue of the Hatchet.


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Yes, we do! We add a shipping charge for international orders – $8 (plus $2 per additional item) for orders being shipped to Canada or Mexico and $12 (plus $2 per additional item) for orders being shipped anywhere else. This is for first class international shipping, which does not include tracking and does not guarantee delivery.
Most of the time, your medal will arrive safe and sound, but some countries have notoriously poor postal services and there is a chance your medal will not arrive. If you would like to add insurance and/or a signature confirmation to your order, please contact us with your shipping address and we will be able to give you an exact quote and send you an invoice for the difference if you would like to add this to your order.


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When it comes time for surgery, you want to know that your doctors are using the latest materials and techniques to ensure the best outcome possible. At Virginia Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates, Melissa L. Gulosh, DPM, and Joseph R. Disabato, DPM, operate a center of excellence in microsurgery and Orthoplastics. To get the best in surgical care, call one of the two locations in Charlottesville or Culpeper, Virginia, or fill out the online form to request a consultation.
If you need a joint replacement, or your doctor is using an implant for limb salvage to restore function to your foot or ankle, you want to know that the materials they're using are the best tools for the job. At Virginia Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates, the doctors turn to implants made by Orthoplastics™, a company devoted to the highest quality ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE).
Implants made with UHMWPE are used in a wide range of orthopedic implants and devices for applications in hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, ankles, and fingers. The materials are designed to provide superior stability and to last longer.
As a practice devoted to feet and ankles, the doctors at Virginia Foot & Ankle turn to Orthoplastics for total ankle replacement and any other procedure that requires the use of an implant.
Microsurgery is a technique that allows the surgeons at Virginia Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates to perform incredibly complex procedures on tiny, intricate structures, such as your blood vessels or nerves.
Using microscopes and specialized tools, the surgeons are able to restore both form and function to your surgical site, and it's their technique of choice when it comes to diabetic limb salvage. From tissue and bone grafting to reattachment, microsurgery plays a valuable role in your successful outcome.
As a practice that specializes in simple and complex deformity management, medical and surgical intervention of traumatic injuries, microsurgical procedures, total ankle replacement surgery, and preventive and interventional management of diabetic foot, ankle, and leg complications, you're in capable hands at Virginia Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates.
The teams at both locations educate you well in advance so you know what to expect and they make sure you have complete after-care instructions, which greatly facilitate your recovery process.
From prescription medications to physical therapy, the doctors arm you with everything you need to better navigate your surgical experience. The goal at Virginia Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates is to relieve your pain and discomfort and restore your function, and they do everything in their power to help you succeed on both counts.
To learn more about the surgical services at Virginia Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates, including Orthoplastics and microsurgery, call or use the online scheduling tool.


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Located on East 2nd Street is the Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary. The space originally started as an exotic zoo until a concerned group took action and took over the space, founding the Beartooth Nature Center in 1987. Their mission is now to "provide lifelong sanctuary to non-releasable native wildlife and share a message of conservation and education" (yellowstonewildlifesanctuary.org).
The sanctuary is home to a wide variety of wild animals native to Montana. All of these animals are unable to be reintroduced to the wild for various reason–many because of human interference whether they were attempted to be kept as exotic pets or taken out of the wild and acclimated to human interaction. Each animal has a unique story and circumstance.
The staff and volunteers at the sanctuary not only maintain the animals and their habitats, but work to educate the public about these animals and the importance of conservation. The sanctuary runs a variety of camps and other educational activities for the youth and people of all ages.
The areas surrounding the different habitats feature beautiful gardens and grassy areas, and even a designated picnic area for guests. The sanctuary while maybe not the ideal outcome for any wild animal, is realistically the best case scenario for the ones that ended up here. The staff is friendly and the area pretty and well maintained. It is definitely worth the stop to see some beautiful animals and get educated about them in this area located in the gateway to Yellowstone.


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|Above: Design with secondary PLA prior to super gluing
Background: While the student involved in the creation of this project is nine years old and has only been working with the 3D Printers in a classroom context for a relatively short time frame this student has demonstrated creative flair and understanding of what is required. As such when discussing this brief with her we were looking to challenge her specifically to include storage in her design, which she did by considerably hollowing out the base of the design, designing a separate draw to be inserted into the design, complete with a handle. The student worked on a number of concept models with this project before she was happy to run the design.
|Above: Storage with drawer side by side
Level of Difficulty: High. This is about as challenging as it gets for a nine year old with regards to 3D Printing. The storage base shown in the photography needs to work in conjunction with a drawer that has to be a perfect fit to allow storage to be used. The student has to ensure the draw takes into account the perfect size to work in conjunction with the base. The student has not completed this design to date, as she has had to revise the design, shape and design of the drawer. In the original shown above the entire base of the draw was hollowed out, on revision three quarters would have been more suitable. In addition to the above challenges, the last aspect of the design would be to mount a horse on the base of the design immediately above the base.
Time frame: There was essentially four prints working in conjunction here. The first was the base, the draw insert was then developed on the basis of the size of the base. The third was the blue PLA/ design featuring the name and the horseshoe. The fourth part of the design was the animal (which in this case is going to be a horse) which is going to be the featured animal/main design for the storage. The times for the various component pieces are twelve hours for the base, six hours for the draw, one hour for the lettering and the horseshoe and it would anticipate five to six hours with a total time in the range of twenty five hours.
Size: The base of the design measured 100mm across, was 20mm high, and was 130mm long. The block at the back was 110mm high, 10mm wide and deep and 100mm across. The draw that was designed to fit inside was 120mm long and 90mm wide. It was between 10mm-20mm thick in places. While the horse has yet to be designed and printed, it will fit within the dimensions of the base of the storage item.
What we would do differently: The design has proven to be challenging for the student. As an entire project, to get everything right (which the student has yet to do) there are some notable parts that need to work in conjunction. This has proven to be a design that has taken several days for the student to work on (please note the student is creating this design in their own time in the majority of the cases, they are not creating and designing as such in class time). This print when finished will feature inter-connected parts, a variety of prints, personalised with the students name and storage that is not apparent when the design is first viewed.
Next steps for student: The student needs to redesign the draw so that it fits in conjunction with the base. It has been discussed with the student for the introduction of a hidden storage component or a second draw in the base of the design. This print will be updated when it is in its final state.