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There was a time – before the tedious responsibilities of paying for things like houses and electricity – that the sniff of a big title fight would make my wallet drool like Pete Doherty over another serving of hash browns.
Lewis vs. Holyfield? Couldn't get my credit card out quickly enough. But then there was the 'Fight of the Century'.
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather spent 36 largely dull minutes dancing around each other and my pay-per-view bubble largely burst.
So it's been like driving past a farmer's field with the windows down for veterans of big fight dramas this week as 'THE MATCH' – capital letters compulsory – was officially unveiled for Thanksgiving weekend.
There's the distinct whiff of something in the air.
Tiger vs Phil. Over 18 holes of matchplay at Shadow Creek, in Las Vegas. With $9 million of, presumably, our money on the line and the contest funded through PPV.
I don't want to be a complete killjoy. This spectacle, and let's not kid ourselves as to what it is, was definitely worth watching once.
It was around 2005.
That was when the pair felt a genuine enmity towards each other – when the simple act of pairing them together in a Ryder Cup had been the catalyst for a record defeat for the United States.
That was when it was "anytime I can beat that guy" for Woods.
Now with the former rivals so loved up they're playing practice rounds together, it's just two middle-aged athletes pretending to slug it out in a stage-managed piece of theatre that would make WWE blush.
All it needs is one of them gatecrashing RAW and powerbombing the other through a table.
Phil finally dived into the Twitter universe this week – what a coincidence – and got so carried away he even followed 'Phil Mickelson's Ego' and 'Phil Mickelson's Thumb'. The man is following his own parody accounts.
Anyway, here was surely a chance to for him to engage in the kind of 'smack talk' for which he is renowned on the PGA Tour.
I bet you think this is the easiest $9M you will ever make?
— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) August 22, 2018
Tiger must have needed a night in A&E after that burn.
Then the GOAT waded back in and the man who could once crush a journalist's spirit with simply a stare sounded like how my granddad chided his chums in their pre-round betting bluster.
Think you will earn some bragging rights? ?
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) August 22, 2018
It made me cringe then and this does now.
Yet we're going to be expected to shell out for a whole evening of it – of fake trash talk and side-bets over nearest the pins on longest drives?
This is supposed to be elite sport not the kind of competition you'd see on a team day down at the club – although I bet they'll get more than an umbrella for stiffing it on a par 3.
And given that the mere suggestion that something might not be 'free' – along with the handing over of PayPal details – caused a meltdown for Eleven Sports during the PGA Championship, is there really a market for pay-per-view TV when it comes to golf?
We're about to find out but I suspect the answer in the UK is 'no'.
What came loud and clear from the howls on social media during the PGA is that people expect their golf to be in one place and part of what they are already paying.
They've got their Sky and just let anyone try and persuade them to hand out any more money elsewhere.
Now I don't follow that mantra. I think TV watching – as we know it – will soon be as defunct as the old analogue aerials we used to view it on.
The rights will be spread far and wide and, ultimately, we'll pick and choose the sports we want to watch and the amounts we pay.
I've no issue with that. I've got my Sky subscription, but I've also got my Amazon and Netflix add-ons. And I watch YouTube far more than I tune into the BBC.
But if I'm going to pay I want that investment to be worth it. The sport I watch has to mean something.
I don't really want to make two very rich men a little bit richer in a glorified exhibition.
So pay to watch Tiger and Phil? I'll leave it thanks.


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Hey guys, Judd again!
I know, you're like, "holy crap dude, give it a rest." But guess what, I'm not gonna. I'm gonna do you like Ferris did Cameron! ONE MORE DAY TO SIGN UP.
If you're still on the fence about going to MAN CAMP, let's consider some crappy things you could do with your weekend, instead of being awesome with a bunch of dudes in the woods and hanging out with Jesus.
I'm on a roll with all these lists, so here's another one. Here are 15 worse ways to spend a weekend than going to MAN CAMP.
Remember that time you went to bed early? I DIDN'T THINK SO. Sleep when you're dead. Come to MAN CAMP and make a memory.
Did you know nature is an actual drug? I bet you didn't. Sitting outside your tent, nursing a fire back to life while you have your morning coffee is glorious. Sitting on your couch, flipping through whatever ridiculous feed serves as your connection to the world sucks. Get outside and feel something real. Even if that's a cold morning drizzle.
I get it, your kids are great. And that thing they do on Saturdays is the most important thing in their whole tiny lives. Guess what, you being a better man is WAY more important than that. Especially if you sign up to go to something for somebody else's kid. Abraham Lincoln said that if you gave him six hours to cut down a tree, he'd spend the first four sharpening his axe. IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO SHARPEN YOUR AXE. (If you don't have kids, you probably have some similar falsely important thing you will end up doing.)
Look at you, mister OT King. If your boss thinks you need another 16 hours on the clock instead of 30 hours in the woods, YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG BOSS. When you spend the weekend working on YOU instead of working on whatever crap you typically work on, you'll end up being way better at working on that crap. Trust me. Go tell your boss you're gonna increase your productivity a brazillion times and tell him he's gonna pay for it! (Shoot, why not try it?)
That's actually a pretty great way to spend a weekend. But MAN CAMP is at least 8% better. No matter how many times you see that glorious brilliant sonofagun slip out of some sticky situation, you won't get any smarter. In fact, you'll actually get dumber. Come to MAN CAMP and meet some real-life guys who can show you how to do some actual man stuff.
Ugh, I got depressed just typing that. Try something NEW, for crying out loud. Riblets are great and that brutus beer makes you feel like a man but that stuff is killing you, man. Like literally lowering your life expectancy. If you're having dinner somewhere with a laminated menu, just go home. You need to get a taste of life roasted over a campfire and smoked (with actual smoke) until it's dripping goodness. If you've never had a can of vienna sausages heated to 1,000 degrees over an actual campfire, you haven't lived!
This is the one true skill of the modern man. This is my wheelhouse. I love turds almost as much as I love sitting on my rear doing nothing. It's great. But you know what, nothing good comes from being a lazy turd. You can kid yourself into thinking, "I deserve a few minutes of kicking back," or "my week was so tough, I need to decompress". Turns out, that's ridiculous. Get up and get moving. Spend a weekend making yourself better. There'll be plenty of time to be a lazy turd later.
Taxes are due before MAN CAMP anyway, so just forget it.
Quit it. Just stop. THIS is the only listicle you should ever read. Mostly because it's written by someone who actually cares about you, instead of caring about how many clicks they can generate by posting a picture of boobies at the top of their listicle. (Boobies drive a lot of clicks.) Instead of scrolling your way through your weekend, take action. Make a bold move. Actually DO something. Then maybe write a listicle about what happened (without boobies).
I love guns. I've been known to shoot them occasionally (it helps to be built like a sandbag). But what do you think isolating yourself in a cave throwing lead down range is actually doing to you? Man, if there is a better way to tell others to leave you the hell alone, I'm not sure what it is.
Dogs are great. But a whole weekend? Weird. Don't do that.
If you think the bloviating personality on the other end of that microphone cares about you, you've been snookered. Look, I'm not political but I know better than to think a guy that has never met me has my best interest at heart. Heck, some people that KNOW me don't have my best interest at heart. Voluntarily submitting yourself to whatever propaganda machine is currently broadcasting at you is likely the reason you're angry all the time. Why don't you come out and hear someone that is really interested in you tell you about Jesus (who freaking loves you)?
You know what I'm talking about. Go to Home Depot. Maybe Bed Bath & Beyond. I mean, if you have time. You have 51 other chances to have an average weekend this year. DO MAN CAMP. DO THIS.
I don't care if you found a great new selvedge store or you're due for a new pair of dad jeans. Patch up the hole in the crotch, and go to MAN CAMP. You just bought yourself an extra six months of denim, right there. YOU'RE WELCOME.
It is happening to all of us but we can fight it. The best way to keep father time from kicking your butt is to stay in motion. None of the stuff above does that, but MAN CAMP will keep you moving.

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A New Parent's Primer on Basic Baby Care
Caring for a newborn is one of life's biggest challenges. You will probably feel overwhelmed at first, but trust your instincts and use these tips to help you get to know your baby.
Holding Your Baby
Always support your newborn's head and neck – a baby cannot hold his head up. There are several comfortable ways to carry a baby:
• Lay the baby across one arm with his head in the crook of your elbow and his bottom in your hand. Your other arm is now free to offer support.
• Nestle the baby at your neck. One hand should support the head and neck, and the other should support the baby's bottom.
Try the following methods to determine which works best for your baby:
• Hold the baby upright with her head against your shoulder and gently pat her back with your other hand.
• Sit the baby upright on your lap, support her chest and head and pat her back.
• Lay the baby on your lap face down, and gently pat her back.
Newborns usually eat every three to four hours, although some feed as often as every two hours.
• Breast-fed babies feed more frequently than bottle-fed infants because breast milk is easier to digest.
• As your baby grows, he will go longer between feedings and feed for a longer time.
• Your baby will let you know when he has had enough, usually by turning away from the nipple or bottle.
• Healthy infants rarely become dehydrated, so it's unnecessary to give them supplemental feedings of juice or water.
Changing Diapers
Newborns may wet up to a dozen diapers per day. Urine should be light or dark yellow. A dark amber color means the urine is highly concentrated, a concern only if it persists. Babies will have their first bowel movement in the first few days after birth; it will be thick and dark green or black. Subsequently, breastfed babies' stools will be a light mustard color and runny. Formula-fed babies' stools will be tan or yellow, firmer and smellier.
• Never leave a baby unattended on a changing table.
• Have your diapering supplies within easy reach.
• Clean the baby with a damp cloth or alcohol-free wipe.
Dressing Your Baby
Unless the temperature is over 75° F, it's a good idea to dress babies in one more layer of clothing than you are comfortable wearing.
• Always keep one hand on the baby when dressing her.
• Use a changing surface high enough so that you don't have to bend over.
• Stretch necklines wide so that they don't catch on your baby's ears or nose.
• Get your baby's arms into sleeves by putting your fingers through the wrist opening, reaching up through the sleeve, grabbing your baby's hand and gently pulling it through.
Putting Your Baby to Sleep
Infants sleep between 10 and 21 hours daily. Most do not sleep through the night until they are about 4 months old. To teach newborns that daytime is for playing and nighttime is for sleeping:
• Avoid turning up the lights or prolonging nighttime diaper changes.
• Put the baby right back down after feeding and changing him at night.
• If the baby naps longer than three or four hours during the day, wake him up and play with him.
Caution: Putting infants to sleep on soft, puffy bedding increases the risk of death due to suffocation. Be sure to place your baby on a firm, flat mattress. Do not put soft, fluffy items like pillows, comforters or sheepskins under babies while they sleep. Put healthy infants to sleep on their backs.
Calming a Crying Baby
If you have changed and fed your baby and she is still crying, here are a few things you can try:
• Burp your baby frequently, even if she shows no discomfort. If you're nursing, burp her when you switch breasts. If bottle-feeding, burp her after every two or three ounces. If she fusses, stop the feeding.
• Rock or sway your baby in your arms from side to side.
• Gently pat her back.
• Wrap your baby snugly in a receiving blanket.
• Play music, sing or talk to your baby.
• Take her for a ride in the car.
• Put him in the stroller and go for a walk.
• Give your baby a warm bath.
• Turn on a fan, radio or washing machine.
Newborns need only two or three baths a week. However, be sure to wash your baby's face every day and the diaper area at each change. Follow these tips:
• Don't use a portable infant tub until the umbilical cord has fallen off (usually in the first week). Give sponge baths instead.
• If you sponge your baby on a surface that is above the floor, use a safety strap or keep one hand on the baby at all times.
• Set your hot water heater no higher than 120° F.
• When your infant is ready for a baby tub, fill it with about 2 inches of warm – not hot – water. Have a few washcloths and a hooded infant towel on hand.
• Wash the face first, using a damp cloth. Then wash the rest of your baby's body and diaper area.
Caution: Never leave a baby alone during a bath, not even for a second. If you forget something or the phone rings, wrap the baby in a towel and bring him with you.
Cord Care
• Clean the umbilical cord by dabbing it a few times a day with a cotton ball dipped in rubbing alcohol. Continue this until a few days after it has dropped off. To protect the navel, fold down the top of the diaper.
• Redness around the navel, swelling or foul-smelling discharge around the base of the stump, and fever are all signs of infection. Call your baby's doctor.
Circumcision Care
If you've chosen to have your baby circumcised, here's how to care for his healing penis:
• A dressing with petroleum jelly is put over the site. For the first week or so, while the penis heals, follow your pediatrician's advice on changing the dressing.
• Change the baby's diaper often during that first week. Wash the penis carefully.
• Don't worry if the tip of the penis is a bit red, or if there's yellow crust. These are signs of normal healing. Call the pediatrician if redness persists or if you see swelling.
Caring for an Uncircumcised Penis
• Gently washing your baby's genital area during bath time is sufficient to keep an uncircumcised penis clean.
• The foreskin does not fully retract for several years and should never be forced.
• Make sure the hole in the foreskin is large enough to allow normal urination. If there's only a trickle, or if your baby seems uncomfortable while urinating, consult your pediatrician.
• Contact your pediatrician immediately if you notice swelling or discharge.
Getting Rid of Rashes
• Treat a diaper rash with a cream or ointment containing zinc oxide. Call your pediatrician if it persists beyond a few days.
• Rashes from spit-up, hot weather or clothes that chafe are very common, as are milia, tiny white dots on a baby's face. Call your pediatrician only if it doesn't clear up after a few weeks.
Cradle Cap
Cradle cap, a type of dermatitis of the scalp, is common in young infants and occasionally can persist through the first year. Try:
• Lightly massaging the area with mineral oil or petroleum jelly.
• Thoroughly shampooing to remove the oil.
Trimming Nails
A newborn's fingernails grow quickly and may require weekly trimming. Toenails will probably need trimming once a month.
• Use baby nail clippers or an emery board.
• Trim nails when the baby is asleep or after a bath.
Taking Your Baby's Temperature
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises parents not to use traditional glass thermometers due to possible exposure to mercury. Other types of thermometers are safer and have been found to be just as accurate in young children.
Your best bet is to use a digital thermometer that can be used to take temperature readings rectally or in the baby's armpit. Taking a rectal temperature gives the most accurate reading of body temperature in infants. Taking the temperature in the armpit is the next best choice.
Once your child is older than 3 months, a tympanic (ear) thermometer may also be used, although they tend to give falsely low readings in young children and are not recommended by the AAP for young infants. Likewise, temperature strips, which are placed on the forehead to give a reading, have been found to be poor indicators of body temperature in children.
Giving Medicine
Consult with your pediatrician before giving your baby medicine.
• Use a medicine dropper to squirt liquid on the inside of the baby's cheek.
• Mix medicine with food to improve the taste.
• Ask if the medicine is available in a more concentrated form so that you can give less.
Relieving Teething Pain
Children begin teething around 4 to 7 months of age. Symptoms include excessive drooling, swollen gums, loss of appetite, cranky behavior, crying and waking several times during the night.
To ease your child's discomfort:
• Gently massage his gums with your finger.
• Offer a teething ring or frozen bagel.
• Use a cool compress to soothe swelling.
• If your child has a fever, consult your doctor about the appropriate dosage of acetaminophen.
• Offer cool, soft food, such as applesauce, on a cool spoon.
Clean your baby's teeth with a washcloth after every feeding. Don't put your baby to sleep with a bottle filled with milk, formula or fruit juice; use water instead.
Watch for ...
Jaundice is a yellowing of the skin resulting from the immature liver's inability to flush bilirubin out of the baby's blood. Jaundice is fairly common in newborns and is usually harmless, though serious cases can result in brain damage.
Jaundice is most serious in the infant's first days of life, but it can be detected any time in the first few weeks. Signs that treatment might be necessary include lethargy, loss of appetite, inability to wake the baby, persistent yellow coloring all over the baby's body and dehydration.
Don't Worry If ...
While you should contact your pediatrician about any conditions that worry you, don't be overly concerned if:
• You notice bruises on your newborn. These are often a result of the trauma of birth and will disappear in a few days.
• Your baby loses weight in his first days. Newborns typically lose up to 10 percent of their weight after delivery, then start gaining it back at the end of their first week.
• Your newborn sneezes. Newborns often sneeze to clear mucous from their noses.
• Your baby has swollen breasts. Because of maternal hormones, babies of both sexes might have somewhat swollen breasts as well as a slight milky discharge from their nipples. Similarly, baby girls might have a slight bloody discharge (known as pseudo-menses) from their vaginas. Both conditions are normal and should pass by 3 weeks of age.
• Your baby is hairier than expected. Most of the hair on your child's back, shoulders, ears and cheeks will disappear in a few weeks.


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Murder mars a young New Yorker's Caribbean getaway.
Emily Harrington has so looked forward to a prenuptial vacation with her fiance, Michael. But when a tricky business deal lures him to London, Emily decides that even on her own, sunny Aruba beats snowy Manhattan hands down. So she starts off for Island Bluffs by herself, hoping Michael will catch up in a day or two. Her first day is a knockout. Island Bluffs owners Martin and Anne Maitland take her under their wing, and soon, she finds herself seated at dinner with the Maitlands; socialite Marietta St. John; her companion, Nora; powerful restaurant critic Roger Stirhew; and his lovely young wife, Jessica. The next day, the Maitlands' daughter Sarah takes Emily to see her craft co-op in Oranjestad and then to lunch at her fiance's upscale bistro. In the afternoon, handsome, unattached Nick Marino takes her windsurfing. Aruba is perfect—if only Michael would shake loose of his business obligations so she could show it to him! As the week wears on, however, Emily begins to fret, not only about Michael's continuing absence, but about Roger the self-centered food critic's increasing boorishness. He picks fights with his wife, badgers his hosts and threatens other guests, until at long last, someone shoots him in the head. Since Emily's the one who finds his body, she has to endure endless interviews with the ultrapersistent Inspector Thomas Moller, who's determined to find Roger's killer before he or she can strike again.
You know there's trouble in paradise when the heroine's fiance doesn't even have a last name. Romance lovers will be intrigued; mystery buffs may want to steer clear.


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Roadster Celebrates Three Years!
When you think about the word 'roadster', what comes to your mind? An open-top car or a convertible for two (We'll be very happy if you thought of Roadster, the apparel brand). But did you know that it also signifies a bicycle designed for use on the road, or a horse for riding on the road? When Henry Ford started selling cars, he realized that the functional aspect was taken care of, but the element of fun was missing. So the term 'roadster' came into parlance and it was meant to signify speed or fast racing.
Similar is the life-story of Roadster, Myntra's first in-house brand. Modeled on an outdoor lifestyle with a definite edge of living life to the fullest, Roadster is designed to inspire the aspirational youth of India. The key thought process behind launching the Myntra Fashion Brands was that these will not be mere in-house brands, but brands in their own right with an individual identity. With Roadster, Myntra decided to capture the ever popular denim wear category in fashion.
Today, it's been three years of this successful brand and within a short span, Roadster is the No.1 Casual Wear brand on Myntra. On its third anniversary, we caught up with the Designer for Roadster, Sankarshan Majhi, who has seen the brand evolve from the time of its inception to this date when it's become one of the leading brands on Myntra. It was, in fact, a labour of love for him, as he came to think of the brand as his own baby.
Here are some excerpts from our meeting with Sankar on his journey with Roadster.
Q1. What were the initial days of designing for Roadster like?
A1: I joined about three months before the launch of the brand, and we took a lot of pain initially to build it. It was like our baby. In fact, I remember that the first catalogue shoot for the brand did not turn out to be so good. We wanted it to be clearly differentiated, so we scrapped the whole first shoot and did it again because we wanted to be top notch. We never wanted to be mediocre compared to any other brand.
Q2: One of Roadster's Latest collection is Machinist, tell us more about it.
A2: Machinist is a purely design led collection. The concept behind Machinist is that it's not merely stitched, but built. The collection is about a guy in his garage building things. Instead of just sewing a denim, designers have put in a lot of thought and craft behind building this collection. We created a video which expresses the ethos of the brand.
Watch the Machinist video here.
Q3: How do you keep up with fashion trends?
A3: We always follow global trends and have an eagle's eye view of what is happening in different genres. We also do extensive research and a lot of group discussions, wardrobe inspections etc. We speak to customers and get their feedback on the products. The Italian design agency we have collaborated with, Parabellum, does its research too.
Once the research is complete, we do a brainstorming session where we decide what is relevant to the brand and then we take only those elements. For example, floral prints in denim are in fashion, but it doesn't go with the brand identity, so we don't implement such elements.
Q4. How would you say Roadster has evolved over time?
A4: There has been a lot of change from the time we started. We collaborated with an Italian design agency called Parabellum and soon launched a premium line RDSTR. Over time we have evolved with the trends in keeping with the design identity of the brand. We just don't replicate what is trending globally, we try and build our own perspective into it.
Roadster brings to the table more variety as opposed to what international brands bring to the Indian market. Currently, we are focusing on keeping the brand updated in a fast changing environment.
Sankarshan is overwhelmed with Roadster's popularity and desires many people to experience the collection and be a part of the Roadster life.
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What's a "Job Family" and How Can it Help Me Prioritize My Sourcing?
A sourcer's job is simple. Build quality pipeline, right?
Well, sort of. The verb "to source" typically evokes images of LinkedIn searches, Github X-ray strings, and all manner of clever backdoor methods to find someone's email address. But according to Michelle and Kim, Recruiting & Sourcing Specialists over at Edwards Lifesciences, that's not the half of it.
In addition to the more traditional sourcing responsibilities, these two have added live events and employee referrals to their repertoire. While the candidates these channels yield would fairly qualify as generated pipeline, they more often seem to fall under the purview of recruiters, hiring managers, or that delightful overlap of the venn diagram, recruiting managers. In any case, Michelle and Kim joined your favorite recruiting podcast to explain exactly how they came to claim ownership of additional hiring channels.
And that's not all. For all you talent acquisition pros out there at enterprise sized orgs, staring down the barrel of dozens of open reqs, this episode is for you. We discuss the organization of open reqs into "Job Families", the key to how Edwards prioritizes hiring, when it has just so darn much of it do.
You can stream the full episode below, and don't forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, or anywhere else fine podcasts are streamed.


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The purpose of the short term trips to Guatemala are often medical in nature. We are primarily looking for medical professionals to join us to minister to those in need in the rural areas of the country. That usually makes up about one third of the people who travel. The rest of the team are people young and old who want to experience a new culture, give up some of themselves and to serve others. Even though they aren't the focus of the trip they ARE critical to the trip. They assist the medical team members with translation services, supporting in a variety of ways, moving equipment, registering patients and making sure that things are running smoothly.
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After over a decade of traveling the state to bring unique lab experiences to students and the community, the mobile lab buses have retired! However, students can receive a similar lab experience in their school.
MPSC's Morehead in Motion: Lab to Life program is a selection of hands-on, narrative-driven lessons for middle and high school students. Students will take on the role of a scientist performing an everyday task or investigation that they might do as part of their job. Through these chemistry or biology-focused labs, students will have a chance to experience what it would be like to work in a variety of STEM careers and see the direct application of the skills and standards they are learning in their classes. Lab to Life curricula strive to cover the diversity of STEM itself and includes both laboratory work and field work. You can choose to have your students use gel electrophoresis for molecular analysis or use trigonometry and forester's tools to determine the carbon sequestered in trees on your school's campus, just to name a few of our offerings.
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- 3 sessions per day, maximum of 30 students per session (depends on class and equipment needs). Sessions are 75-90 minutes, with a minimum of 15 minutes between sessions to reset the lab stations.
- The earliest time class can start is 8:30 A.M. This is due to the amount of time it takes to initially set up the lab stations, which can be up to 90 minutes.
- Labs are led by the Morehead educator. Teacher must be present during labs.
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Biological Bodyguards (ELISA Test) Recommended for Biology, Applied Science, Anatomy and Physiology, Allied Health, or 7th and 8th grade science. Students will use an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) to test for a simulated antigen with real antibodies. This lab can be used to model how those in science and medical careers use this process to screen hypothetical patients for disease, test water samples for toxins, or another narrative that you request.
Treegonometry (Field Study) Recommended for Biology, Earth/Environmental Science, Forestry courses, Trigonometry, Geometry, or 6th, 7th, or 8th grade science. Investigate complex relationships between organisms and the physical and biological environment, as well as the movement of energy and materials within an ecosystem. Employ various environmental sampling technologies to determine the disposition of both biotic and abiotic factors within an assigned study site. Students can also use and learn forestry techniques and tools to measure the size, weight, and carbon content of trees.
NOTE: This lab is conducted outside. As such, it is weather-dependent and is only offered in September, October, late March, April, and May.
Deep Sea Detectives (DNA Fingerprinting) Recommended for Biology, Forensics, or Oceanography courses. Become an oceanographer and use gel electrophoresis (aka DNA restriction analysis) to analyze simulated seawater samples to detect environmental DNA in order to search for and document new species that call the ocean's mysterious twilight zone home.
Mystery of the Crooked Cell (Gel Electrophoresis) Recommended for Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, Allied health. Discover the molecular basis of sickle cell disease and use gel electrophoresis as a diagnostic tool to differentiate wild-type hemoglobin from mutated hemoglobin found in individuals with sickle cell disease. Module developed by Boston University School of Medicine CityLab.
#yesfilter (Water Treatment) Recommended for Chemistry, Earth/Environmental Science, Biology, engineering courses, or 7th or 8th grade Science. Investigate water chemistry and purity in this lab. We'll discuss pH to see the connections between water, acid/base chemistry, and life. Then, we'll simulate part of the water treatment process by creating a custom filter to clean a sample of polluted water.
Hydroelectric Engineering Challenge Recommended for Physics, Earth/Environmental Science, Physical Science, Biology, or 6th, 7th, or 8th grade science. Learn the fundamentals of all of our electrical power generation by researching the relationship between electricity and magnetism, and how this led to the development of the electric motor. We'll discuss renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, and engage in the engineering cycle to create a prototype hydroelectric turbine.


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MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has become a widely used tool for the classification of biological samples. The complex chemical composition of pollen grains leads to highly specific, fingerprint-like mass spectra, with respect to the pollen species. Beyond the species-specific composition, the variances in pollen chemistry can be hierarchically structured, including the level of different populations, of environmental conditions or different genotypes. We demonstrate here the sensitivity of MALDI-TOF MS regarding the adaption of the chemical composition of three Poaceae (grass) pollen for different populations of parent plants by analyzing the mass spectra with partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and principal component analysis (PCA). Thereby, variances in species, population and specific growth conditions of the plants were observed simultaneously. In particular, the chemical pattern revealed by the MALDI spectra enabled discrimination of the different populations of one species. Specifically, the role of environmental changes and their effect on the pollen chemistry of three different grass species is discussed. Analysis of the Group formation within the respective populations showed a varying influence of plant genotype on the classification, depending on the species, and permits conclusions regarding the respective rigidity or plasticity towards environmental changes.
Separation and quantification of silver nanoparticles and silver ions using reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in combination with isotope dilution analysis (2016)
A reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography coupled to an inductively coupled Plasma mass spectrometer (HPLC–ICP-MS) approach in combination with isotope dilution analysis (IDA) for the separation and parallel quantification of nanostructured and ionic silver (Ag) is presented. The main Focus of this work was the determination of the ionic Ag concentration. For a sufficient stabilization of the Ions without dissolving the nanoparticles (NPs), the eluent had to be initially optimized. The determined Ag ion concentration was in a good agreement with results obtained using ultrafiltration. Further, the mechanism of the NP separation in the HPLC column was investigated. Typical size exclusion effects were found by comparing results from columns with different pore sizes. Since the recovery rates decreased with increasing Ag NP size and large Ag NPs did not elute from the column, additional interactions of the particles with the stationary phase were assumed. Our results reveal that the presented method is not only applicable to Ag NPs, but also to gold and polystyrene NPs. Finally, IDA-HPLC-ICP-MS experiments in single particle mode were performed to determine the particle cut-off size. The comparison with conventional spICP-MS experiments resulted in a similar diameter and particle size distribution.


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A history of conservative politics since 1830
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With their fundamental distrust of change, how is it that the Conservatives have managed to cope with change relatively successfully? John Charmley has written an entertaining but fair account of one of the principal forces in modern British political history, illuminated throughout by a concentration upon the men, and the woman, who charted the party through a century of warfare and welfare. The second edition of this successful text is thoroughly updated to take into account the latest scholarship, and now has an earlier starting date to make sense of the importance of the Home Rule issue in defining late nineteenth-century Toryism. Charmley takes the story through the recent "wilderness years" following the 1997 election fiasco.
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Day 2 of the 31 Day Film Challenge: Least Favourite Film.
There are many films that I don't particularly care for but one that stands out is M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004). Why this one? Because unlike the cookie cutter Hollywood fluff that one expects to be bad, this film should have been good. It has an interesting premise, a strong cast, and a creepy looking setting—all the makings for a really good horror film. But then someone thought he'd be clever and give the story a twist and the film goes roaring down the road of ridiculousness and never stops. The result is a break in viewers' suspension of disbelief, something that helps when watching horror, and a realization that The Sixth Sense was a fluke and M. Night Shyamalan doesn't really know how to tell a story. I'm not the only one who was displeased with the film. The wonderful Roger Ebert wrote about its secret: "To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes." You said it, Roger.
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DNA, the molecular organizer of life, is the storyteller of our time. In the hands of a modern criminalist, DNA can tell a tale of rape or hate or murder, or it can shrug its shoulders and say, "It wasn't him."
Patrick O'Donnell, who runs the DNA crime lab on the sixth floor of the San Diego Police Department's 14th and Broadway station, looks like a cop, but in truth he's a scientist. The morning I met him, a tech was going through the personal effects of a recent murder victim. The victim's bloody gold pants lay on a counter, an elaborate western belt buckle (silver with gold star and spurs), attached to a leather belt, personalizing the gore. The tech worked with rubber gloves on the dead man's belongings: California driver's license, what looked like immigration papers, a wallet.
Everything was tinged with blood. He stopped his work to tell me about processing loads (about three murders per week) and the present rate of business (slow). Open shelves behind him held slots for nine bodies, each capable of storing a body-sized amount of evidence, but no bodies are brought here.
In the anteroom, large sheets of butcher paper covered linoleum counters (bloody clothing has to be dried or it molds). Cardboard boxes piled in stacks of two waited to be processed. The atmosphere, made clinical by the grey-blue cabinets, gave off the comforting vibe of reverence.
I was transfixed by the photo on the driver's license; my mind raced to put clues of the man's identity together. Hispanic male, cowboy buckle, immigration papers, CDL — maybe a ranch worker? A drunken party fight? A passion play? A stabbing or shooting? My wallet matched the dead cowboy's, and I shuddered as I looked out the sixth-floor window at the storm-agitated clouds to the south. If I were murdered, I thought, my effects would come through this room.
Heading out of the evidence-processing suite, O'Donnell stopped to glance into the photo studio. Suspects are brought here, their pictures taken against a floor-to-ceiling screen. Overhead, high-powered lights on a tic-tac-toe grid bisect the ceiling. A technician worked with a high-resolution camera to photograph and magnify evidence.
Next up was the fingerprint recovery lab. More butcher paper lined the counters along with dishes of ultra-fine black powder, brushed onto objects for study. Though there wasn't any evidence on the counters, O'Donnell warned me not to touch anything, so I placed my hands behind my back and leaned forward. My eyes were pulled to the ventilation hood with a 15-gallon fish tank inside. The tank's sides were a bluish white, the aftermath of Super-Glue. Cyanoacrylate fumes expose certain types of fingerprints. Criminalists often release a giant packet of the glue inside a car to search for latent prints. The process destroys the car's interior, but you figure, if a murderer or rapist's prints are inside, it's all part of the job.
Next to the tank, another drying hood held newspapers hung out like clothes in a closet. This technique, O'Donnell explained, allows fingerprints to be pulled off newsprint. Fingerprints retain an amino acid that can be tested for, allowing criminalists to reconstruct the print. Fingerprints lifted from newspapers — even Hollywood hasn't thought of that yet.
Fingerprints are the primary way suspects are identified. As O'Donnell shows me the latent-fingerprint lab, Ed Palma, who works there, overhears and begins ribbing O'Donnell, suggesting that the next time someone wants to tour the DNA lab, he'll do it. Palma takes over, explaining how each fingerprint contains a reservoir of information, which is digitized by marking down the junctions between the ridges on each finger. This data is then fed into the computer that searches relevant databases and prints out a ranked list of possible matches, finger by finger. The fingerprints are then entered into another computer database that can search locally, statewide, en interstate. The amount of concordance is displayed as a number — in the thousands if it's close, in the hundreds if it's not so close.
Early on in the 12-year-old fingerprinting program. Palma says, suspects would give different aliases every time they were fingerprinted. The computer might then find matches for multiple individuals. Fingerprints matching "different" individuals usually means bogus names were given.
Palma says his system is better than what the FBI presently uses. Before the Feds will bet taxpayer bucks on new technology, they want to see how the industry sorts itself; they don't want to buy the next Sony Betamax. (Japan was the first country to successfully implement this kind of fingerprint-matching technology.) Palma says the system can match latent fingerprints something like 15 percent of the time.
O'Donnell takes me past the polygraph department. He steps in, thinks better of it, and leads me to the handwriting lab. The analyst there, Randy Gibson, is working on a note left on a mirror, written in soap. Whether the murdered or the murderer wrote, "Joe is trying to kill me," is not clear. Gibson claims that if he has enough evidence, identification is 100 percent accurate.
We move onto O'Donnell's lab. He's got a quick meeting at 10:00, so he hands me off to Steve Cordes, who prepares evidence for analysis. Cordes looks like a short Dan Akroyd; he even has that bemused smile Akroyd wears when he misunderstands something. Garbed in white lab coat, Cordes is working on the sexual assault of a five-year-old. The boy was grabbed off his bike at gunpoint, pulled into the suspect's vehicle, and repeatedly violated. Cordes opens a manila envelope with the swabs collected from the victim. Each cotton swab is inside a glass tube, sealed off from contaminants. One is a little brown, one has some blood on it, the other two don't show anything to the naked eye. Cordes also has a shopping bag containing some of the boy's clothes. He'll put them under different light spectrums to check for fluids.
The content of the rape kit seems puny compared to the horror of the crime. This case will get worked on quickly; they have a suspect and it may well go to trial. Working priorities for the department are court first, homicides second, sexual assaults third. Anything that isn't tied to an arrest comes last. "We'd love to be able to work on 'em all," Cordes says, "...if we had enough personnel or money."
Serologists, those criminalists who match blood at the crime scene with blood from the suspect, used to be able to remove some of the doubt as to who did what to whom. Criminalists still do this kind of testing, but it's not as powerful as DNA evidence. The most common DNA test, the PCR — polymerase chain reaction — makes the odds of a suspect randomly (wrongly) being accused 1 in 2000, leaving a 1999-out-of-2000 chance that the match between the suspect's blood and the blood at the crime scene is accidental. That, Cordes points out, is devastating evidence.
A PCR test is essentially a copy machine. It takes a small piece of the suspect's DNA (from a hair or some sperm or some blood cells) and copies a section of the DNA sequence, which is unique to each individual. Then it makes millions of identical copies. It's not a perfect system, but it's more precise than relying on blood types.
Cordes tells me about one case where the murderer used a kitchen knife without tangs (the prongs that, on a hunting knife, limit how far the blade can enter the wound). When the murderer's hand slid up the blade as he stabbed, his blood was mixed with the victim's (he bled all over the kitchen, too). In the past, bloodmixing would have made the evidence sketchy, now it all but ends the case before it's started. "So, how did your blood get inside the victim's body, eh?"
Proving that a certain person's fluids weren't left behind — known as "exclusions" — is much of what DNA-identity work is used for. A classic example is the Nordstrom case, where a woman claimed she was assaulted in a dressing room of the Fashion Valley store. The case was unraveled by DNA evidence. Cordes is proud of what the lab brought to bear in that case. After the DNA evidence contradicted the woman's story, it was easy to ask her, as Cordes puts it, "Excuse me, but would you like to change your story?"
Cordes is the first screen; he identifies areas on the suspect where cells might be available for a PCR test. Semen (as long as it has sperm), saliva, blood, hair, skin — all offer the promise of DNA. And Cordes is looking for DNA.
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a sequence of amino acids that organizes the proteins that make up each individual. Except in cases of identical twins, everybody's DNA is different. The cells of our body — blood, bones, hair, sperm — each have DNA inside their walls, in effect marking everyone with an identifiable code.
Curious about his career decision, I asked Cordes if he ever thought he'd be doing this.
"No, I never thought I'd be looking at dirty panties for a living."
The microbiology degree Cordes got from San Diego State opened doors, but mostly in hospital labs, and that got old fast. Without an M.A. or a Ph.D., research seemed out of the question. A forensic alcohol job beckoned, but then he became an evidence technician. If the police department requires his expertise, he still gets called to do "the less pleasant ones" — multiple homicides or a crime scene with lots of blood but no body.
"Sometimes you can tell what happened [when the body's missing]. String a line back and calculate the blood-splatter angles. There's a whole [science) called forensic bloodstain pattern interpretation. You go out and look at patterns, come back and use geometry, and then refute things the suspect says — claims about it being self-defense or such.
"People don't realize that when they're hitting somebody, blood transfers onto whatever they're using — not the first time, but by the time you come back like this" — he mimes a baseball bat coming down on a skull — "you get castoff, and it gives you a nice line. You can see the arc where the person came back to do it a second time."
Cordes recounts a case where the castoff marked lines on the ceiling, telling the whole nasty story. Baseball bats leave plenty of evidence — wood in the skull, for one.
Not everything under the criminalist's purview is based on organic matter. Non-DNA fibers often reveal secrets to the scanning electron microscope. Car paint, usually left behind in hit-and-run crimes, can be narrowed down to make, year, and model. The microscope is the most expensive piece of technology in the lab, used primarily to detect gunpowder residue. Even more interesting is the ballistics lab, housing some of that cruise-missile, terrain-hugging technology that matches shell-casings spent from assorted firearms. Eighteen hundred guns reside in there, along with Rush Limbaugh on the radio.
The rape kit for the boy's attack contained a penile shaft swab, a rectal swab, a swab from his throat, and one from the buccal area. By using a black light, investigators fluoresced a place on the child's thigh that might have been touched by the perpetrator's fluids. They took a swab of that, too.
Looking for semen is central to sex crimes. If Cordes finds some, he'll fill out a DNA request and then one of three DNA testers takes over. Cordes has many ways to find the stuff; one method is using the Alternate Light Source, an adjustable illumination device. Wearing red goggles, he'll look at the boy's clothes at about 430 to 485 nanometers (bluish-purple light). The fluids he's looking for will give off a yellowish-green florescence under those conditions. (Florescence is just a fancy term for using light — black light in this case — to make dried-up liquids shine.) He can then mark off the area on the clothing and use a chemical test.
Another method of identification is an amylase test. Amylase is an enzyme found in saliva. Saliva has cells, and cells are what DNA criminalists want.
"Just had a case like that — robbery suspects. They had bandanas on. In order to find [someplace on the bandana] that might be tested for DNA, we had to find the area where their saliva was. So we map it out on plates, you make a map of the amylase, and where the starch is missing it shows you where the amylase actually is, because it digests starch."
Looking back at the rape kit, I wonder how the constant reminders of man's inhumanity play out in the minds of these scientists. I asked Cordes how he stayed imaginative.
"You have to keep an open mind, because the absence of something can be indicative of what did or didn't take place. Anytime you have a transfer between two people, or between one person and an item, you expect to find traces of one on the other. If you're getting a complete absence, then it might lend credence to the story that it didn't happen. You're looking for traces...you re looking for other debris that might be indicative of someone else.
"While you're trying to be meticulous about what you re doing, at the same time you're looking for something out of the ordinary— the lack of something you'd expect to find. And you annotate that in your notes so you can testify to the full questions."
I imagine criminals must be getting hip to these methods of evidence-gathering. "Are we educating the criminals with this new knowledge?" I ask.
"We're educating people who do sexual assault that they wear a condom," Cordes answers, "and they don't just throw it down, they take it with them."
The used condom has all the evidence a criminalist needs to link the rapist to the assault. It can't prove consent, but that's another story.
"Once they've gone through the system once, they learn what not to leave at a crime scene. They become educated very rapidly."
O'Donnell returns. He points out that perpetrators are in an intense emotional state when they commit crimes, often too involved to cover their tracks. They tend to leave their own genetic calling cards. "Fifty percent of our homicides involve narcotics," he explains. "Either the person was using narcotics, buying narcotics, or was on narcotics. Maybe a former husband comes back, pissed off, stabs her, stabs her roommate, totally out of control....
"We hear what the scenario is...because in a lot of cases it leads you to areas you might not look for what happened," adds Cordes. "If the person's been sodomized you're going to spend more time looking at the back of their clothes.
"You'll hear a story — and I think everybody is guilty of this — and you kinda get an idea of how the thing is going, and (then] you get surprised...occasionally."
"You need to know something about what went on," O'Donnell says. "Certain questions are important — to know where the victim was...to know whether she had sex in the last 48 hours.... At the same time, you don't want to frame it. For example, in a lot of homicides we're starting to do the analysis, and we'll [DNA-identify] the evidence, then we'll go back and type the references, and lo and behold we get this strange DNA type on the victim's reference blood sample. Then we call up the detective and it turns out this guy was shot and was given ten units of blood at the hospital.
"Now we're looking at a reference blood sample that was taken at the morgue after this guy died, after going through the emergency room and receiving 12 units. We're looking at the donor's DNA type. At that point, we need other blood samples."
While discussing certain cases, O'Donnell and Cordes avoid specifics, letting words like "stuff" and "things" and "it" and "evidence" stand in for the gory details. (I notice the pronoun "he" is generic for perpetrator.) And the work they do is not just for the prosecution. O'Donnell says he searches for the truth of his science, not just to identify bad guys for the cops.
"In general, 20 percent of the tests run are exclusionary. We're viewed as a prosecution tool because we work at the police department. But one in five DNA tests we run, we arrive in court and say, 'This person could not have contributed to the body fluid.' "
"Do defense attorneys come to you?" I ask. "Do they say, 'I want this done'?"
"Either it's driven by the detective down at homicide or sex crimes or an attorney over at the district attorney's office," says O'Donnell.
"The defense has a right to part of the sample," says O'Donnell. "If I have a quarter-sized blood stain, and they push the issue, that blood stain will be split. We'll get half to screen, and they'll get the other half and go to these other labs and perform the test."
Cordes mentions another type of DNA testing, which virtually eliminates the possibility of a chance agreement. It's called RFLP, which stands for restriction fragment length polymorphism. It doesn't copy a little piece of the DNA, it uses all the DNA from the actual sample. (PCR tests a piece of the bar code, while RFLP tests the whole code.) Since a much bigger strand of DNA is used, the odds that the DNA randomly matches another person on the planet increases by a factor of 10,000. In other words, the odds that two different people will show a matching RFLP test are 1 in at least 20 million.
It takes a few months to get RFLP results back, while the PCR test is much quicker, maybe four or five days. Another downside to RFLP is that you need a good-sized glob of blood to do it, whereas a PCR test can be done with an infinitesimal amount of material.
Either way, O'Donnell feels strongly about the quantum leap DNA offers in accountability, demonstrated in gang-rape cases.
"I've handled a couple of (them), one in particular where three suspects were involved. Using traditional [blood typing], it would have been impossible |to go to trial]. You've got the victim's secretions and potentially three others' secretions all mixing together — and you're gonna try to resolve whether there is Type A present? Hopeless.
"The suspects were arrested shortly after the incident, and they hadn't showered, [so we took] penile swabs from all three of them. Most people [think] we're going to get sperm. (But] we do the other thing — we look for her type on their swabs; we look at [her cells] first.
"What if you're looking at number one in a gang rape?" O'Donnell asks me, pop-quizzing like a teacher. "You're only gonna have one sperm on the penile swab. Number two and number three — what are they gonna have?"
"They're gonna have the other guys," I suggest. "Then you can sequence them."
"That's exactly what happened," O'Donnell says. "[We] looked at two of the people, and they definitely had sperm types that were not consistent."
In this case, all three suspects pleaded guilty to attempted rape. There were, O'Donnell says, some "mitigating circumstances" because the woman was intoxicated. "But if you had this case five years ago, these guys would've walked, no question. Because there would have been no physical evidence to resort to."
PCR testing is adequate for most cases — it has to be; the more powerful RFLP requires much more DNA. "We're hoping to purchase [updated PCR] technology over the next six months," O'Donnell reports. When they do, the SDPD crime lab will be the first in the state to have such technology.
I conclude my tour of the crime lab by talking to an old veteran of the evidence game. Larry Turner's been working as a criminalist for a long time; he was spending his last day working in the DNA crime lab when we met. Turner worked on the Cleophus Prince case, which shook this city. But the case that remains in his memory is the first crime scene he worked, a multiple murder that took place in Mississippi. "I remember it just like it was yesterday," Turner says.
The killer was the mentally unstable half-son of a wealthy man. Unable to frighten his father into giving him money, the son took the father into a secluded wood and shot him in the head. Turner found the sisters. The older one, about 14, had been raped, then shot. The younger one was curled into a fetal position, eyes still open, hands covering her head. Turner remembers those eyes, fixed in death. "It was like she was saying, 'Why me? What did I do?' "
Turner doesn't have to go out to crime scenes anymore. And every time he takes a shower, he remembers how Cleophus Prince sneaked into the unlocked homes of his female victims while they showered. Larry makes sure to lock his bathroom doors now, and the outside door as well.
Solving sexual assault cases — positively identifying potential suspects — is what drives DNA use. The San Diego Police Department's DNA lab, in operation since 1992, is largely Patrick O'Donnell's scientific creation. He's glad to put his knowledge to practical use, though sometimes he thinks about moving into the private sector. But O'Donnell enjoys applying science rather than theorizing about it. And besides, as colleague Turner points out, once you start speculating about why a particular crime happened, once the "what ifs" start, you're already deeply involved.
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No more DRM in public library audio books (now if they'd also remove it from their ebooks..)
These folks claim to be signing up more kids to learn to code than are signing up for Facebook at any given day.
Aaaand, the tech ctte is voting on systemd at last, so it will soon be OVER. .... right? coughGR
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You take the win where you can. The vendors for the most part really don't want to sell to libraries in this fashion and want to go direct-to-consumer. Overdrive fights a messy fight down in Cleveland's suburbs to make anything available at all. I still focus on purchasing physical copies whenever possible to sidestep the whole mess.
Alternatively, someone said "MP3s have DRM" on twitter w/o really understanding 2 of the 3 words.
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Take it where you can, but don't let its significance be exaggerated. Nobody should have to use proprietary software of any kind to check something out of a library.
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The Best Time Take Your Romance To The Next Level
Overall, this year seems to be good for romance and sexual happiness as is predicted in your Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019.Those who are already in a relationship will get closer to their partner during 2019, and you will also be able to take your romance to the next level. According to the Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019, your partner will enjoy the sex and romance and both of you will feel satisfied by providing adequate love to each other. Your romantic life will be very colorful during this year as is foreseen in your Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019.
Cancer natives will enjoy a happy and joyful romance and sex life as per Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019. You can go on dates or even travel to a different place to spend more time with your partner. This will create more closeness and love between both of you. This period might be very fruitful for romance as sex as well. You can develop closeness and intimacy with your partner this year. You might even have plans of getting hitched. Married couples can do their family planning this year and plan for a new member too.
Stay Away From Extramarital Affairs
Further, you will transform your romance life into a marriage by the year-end. Both of you will be able to share the best feelings with each other during this period. Those whose romance life is already strained or ones who have been separated from each other for any reason will now be able to revive the relationship as is seen in your Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019.
Your partner may contact you between mid-July to August and October. However, the matter of caution for married ones is that during this year, you may possibly start an extra-marital affair. Hence, you should control yourself; otherwise, it can cause problems in your marital life. Don't do anything that can destroy everything in a second. If your partner gets to know about your affair, you might end up in a bad situation warns your Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019.
The Positive and the Negative Periods in 2019:
Sex horoscope for Cancer shows how to get away from negatives
1. As per your Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019, it is advised that you stay away from extramarital affairs; it might put you in a terrible situation that you wouldn't be able to rewind.
2. This period can be very dangerous for you and might even lead to a divorce.
Romance horoscope for Cancer shows how to make the best use of the positivity
1. The time period Mid-July to August and October are favorable. This is the time you have to work on making your relationship stronger.
2. Try and understand what your partner is upset about and according to Cancer Sex and Romance Horoscope 2019 things will work out for you pretty well.
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First, a panic is whipped up. Then there are denials that a decision has been taken. The dodgy dossier comes next. Later, the long-made decision is announced. Then we discover there was no reason to panic. Then we find ourselves in a mess. No, not the Iraq war, but nuclear power.
The prime minister has launched an energy review, to be completed by next summer. But it seems he and his advisers have already decided what it will discover. We know this because Blair's team have been saying so to anyone who would listen for weeks. Hence the need for the dodgy dossier - sorry, energy review - with which to confuse the public and browbeat Labour MPs.
As it happens, just such an exhaustive energy review is being conducted in the open by Parliament's environmental audit committee. Its chairman, Peter Ainsworth, asks each witness what has changed since the energy white paper was published in 2003. The answer, from everyone but the nuclear industry, has been "nothing".
Unfortunately, as with the Iraq war, the right answer for Blair will be the wrong answer for the country. New nuclear power stations cannot help us with either energy security or a stable climate.
More than half the gas we use is for heating and cooking in our homes. Nuclear power can do nothing to meet this need. We cannot build new nuclear power stations in time to replace our existing stations without bending the safety and environmental rules by which they are approved. Never mind, the rules of the game can be changed.
Nothing prevents anyone who wants to build a new nuclear power station from ordering one tomorrow. Indeed, ministers have repeatedly pointed this out. However, the private sector knows they are a very bad investment without considerable government support.
Since Gordon Brown will not pay for them, the government is planning to use stealth support. This will take many forms. First, the electricity market will be rigged for the next 30 years to guarantee a return for nuclear investors. To avoid making direct subsidies, the government will force consumers to pay more than they should for their electricity.
Next, the government will cap the investors' liabilities for the cost of radioactive waste management and decommissioning. The taxpayer will then be forced to make up the shortfall.
There are very few things on which all protagonists agree. One is that there are no silver bullets. Another is that government is very bad at picking technology winners. So why is Blair, from the comfort of his sofa, trying to pick a winning silver bullet?
· Tom Burke is a visiting professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London, and a co-founder of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism


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Balls refuses to rule out SNP deal
Ed Balls has repeatedly refused to rule out Labour striking a post-election coalition deal with the SNP.
The shadow chancellor said the Opposition has "no plans, no need, no desire" for a pact with the SNP.
Mr Balls insisted he did not want to get involved in speculation about post-election deals after appearing to have eight opportunities to rule out a Labour-SNP agreement on the Andrew Marr Show.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said Labour is fighting for a majority
Opinion polls suggest the SNP are set to make huge gains north of the border, which could influence the future of a Westminster government.
Speaking on the BBC One programme, Mr Balls said parties who ignore the need to tackle the country's deficit are "completely wrong" and "irresponsible".
He went on: "We have no plans, no need, no desire to have any deal with the SNP.
"This is a party which wants to break up the United Kingdom. They're not going to be able to stand up for the whole of the UK."
Told by Mr Marr to say the words "I rule it out", Mr Balls replied: "Ed Miliband said it's nonsense. It's not part of our plans.
"You know Andrew, you've been covering politics for 30 years, parties, large parties at this stage say we're fighting for a majority and we are. I'm not going to get involved in speculation about post-election deals.
"We're fighting for a majority."
Mr Balls said he did not think the speculation over a potential deal was damaging to Labour's election prospects, as he sought to turn attention on to reports on the potential of a Ukip-Tory pact.
Told there must be a reason he could not rule out an SNP pact, Mr Balls replied: "What I will not do at this stage is say anything other than we're fighting for a majority."
He added the Tories were now vulnerable over the issue of deals, adding: "We don't want any deal with the SNP. It's not part of our plans. It's nonsense. It's not something we want."
Mr Marr encouraged Mr Balls to say "and we won't do it".
The Labour MP repeated he would not get involved in speculation while the party is fighting for a majority.
Told the speculation goes on, Mr Balls said: "I think it's the Tories and Ukip who are doing the deal and it's probably happening in (Conservative Chief Whip Michael Gove's) kitchen."
Asked how many kitchens he has, Mr Balls failed to answer - instead suggesting people around the kitchen tables of the country were debating the dangers of the Tories rather than how many "kitchen tables David Cameron has got".
The question emerged after Labour leader Ed Miliband was filmed drinking tea in a modest kitchen but it later emerged that it was "the small one". Mr Miliband was dubbed "Two Kitchens" by political opponents - a reference to former deputy prime minister John Prescott's nickname of "Two Jags".
Speaking on Murnaghan on Sky News, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: "Maybe this is an old-fashioned view but I think it's arrogant for any political right now to start second-guessing the public and be thinking what they're going to decide before they've even voted.
"I'm a football man and I'm in the middle of a match right now and I'm playing to win. In those circumstances, I don't start saying what do we do if we draw.
"We're out there playing to win."
He added: "The message that should go out from all Labour spokespeople now is to say we go out there and we fight to win because the people in places like Leigh need a Labour government and they need one pretty urgently."
Caroline Flint defended Labour's claims that the Conservatives would strip public spending back to 1930s levels.
Asked if the party was scaremongering, the shadow energy secretary told BBC One's Sunday Politics: "I think it is only right to paint the picture of what the offer from the Tories really means."
But Ms Flint was unable to say what spending levels were in the 1930s.
"Well it's a lot less than is being spent today," she said.
Told it was £83 billion in today's money, well short of the £731 billion being spent currently, she said: "The health service we need today and also the education that we need today, the challenges we face but also what we need to keep people healthy, is way different from what it was in the 1930s."
Jack McConnell, a former first minister of Scotland, said he did not believe Labour's current stance on coalition deals was having a direct effect on voters.
The Labour peer told Murnaghan: "I can completely understand why leaders of both main parties have said they will not rule out any options at least, in terms of the outcome after the election.
"I led the election campaign in Scotland in 2003, we were going from one coalition into another likely coalition, and there were two reasons why I wouldn't rule out options.
"One was you want to fight to win so you don't want to admit you're not going to win outright.
"And the other is you have to keep your negotiating hand because no matter who you're planning to work with afterwards you need to keep some pressure on them to make sure you maximise your influence over the final agreement."
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